Pub Date : 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1109/mpuls.2024.3354588
Nyi Nyi Tun, Antony M. Gitau, Tony Adel Fawzy
For an IEEE society, the IEEE EMBS SAC mainly functions with five main portfolios according to the new organized organogram of Team 2023 [1] . They are the Student Representation Portfolio, the Technical Activities Portfolio, the Professional Development Portfolio, the Public Relations Portfolio, and the Administrative Portfolio. Under five main portfolios, the team is now shaping five main initiatives, such as the Student Mentoring Program (SMP), International Student Conference (ISC), Student Leadership Programs, Student Professional Development, and Summer Camps, respectively [2] , [3] . Among them, the SMP is one of the flagship programs of the EMBS SAC under the Professional Development Portfolio and has been successfully running since 2021 [4] . It is organized and run by a chairperson, who is supported by a team of ambassadors. The chairperson is usually a member of the SAC lead team.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1109/mpuls.2023.3344056
Arthur T. Johnson
The late physicist and Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling once said. “The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” And, that also implies that, of the many ideas generated in one’s head, a lot of them would not be classified as “good”; not all of our ideas are worth the calories they take to develop them.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1109/mpuls.2023.3344055
Leslie Mertz
Sepsis is one of the largest health crises of our time, and an ideal group to fight it are the innovators who comprise IEEE. That is the assessment of Timothy G. Buchman ( Figure 1 ), Ph.D., M.D., an expert on the infection-triggered condition that each year claims the lives of more than 11 million people worldwide, including more than 350,000 [1] in the United States. “IEEE is a wonderful catalytic environment for biomedical specialists, engineers, computational scientists, epidemiologists—lots of people in different disciplines—to say, ‘What can we do today?’ The next breakthrough technology is already on somebody’s lab bench. It just hasn’t been connected to the problem,” he remarked.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1109/mpuls.2023.3344081
Summer Allen
Across the world, people are living longer. This phenomenon is creating a demographic shift: by 2050, the number of people aged 60 and older is expected to double and the number of people older than 80 is expected to triple [1] . A growing elderly population also means an increase in age-related health concerns. In particular, with age comes normal memory decline as well as an increased risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias. All this means that now more than ever the world needs interventions to support memory. From developing memory protheses to improving memory consolidation during sleep, neurostimulation is one particularly promising type of intervention for enhancing memory.
{"title":"Harnessing Brain Stimulation to Enhance Memory","authors":"Summer Allen","doi":"10.1109/mpuls.2023.3344081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mpuls.2023.3344081","url":null,"abstract":"Across the world, people are living longer. This phenomenon is creating a demographic shift: by 2050, the number of people aged 60 and older is expected to double and the number of people older than 80 is expected to triple <xref ref-type=\"bibr\" r xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">[1]</xref>\u0000. A growing elderly population also means an increase in age-related health concerns. In particular, with age comes normal memory decline as well as an increased risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias. All this means that now more than ever the world needs interventions to support memory. From developing memory protheses to improving memory consolidation during sleep, neurostimulation is one particularly promising type of intervention for enhancing memory.","PeriodicalId":49065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Pulse","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139662147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1109/mpuls.2023.3324229
Leslie Mertz
As antibacterial resistance increases—now thought responsible for an estimated 5 million deaths worldwide each year [1] —scientists are investigating two distinct approaches to combating this deadly problem: Develop new antibiotics that defy pathogen resistance or design methods that hone antibiotic selection and fight individual infections better.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1109/mpuls.2023.3324225
Paul H. King
This text, Digital Human Modeling and Medicine, is a comprehensive overview in 32 chapters distributed within six sections of the state-of-the-art and applications of the field of human modeling and applications in medicine. The 32 chapters were contributed by a total of about 89 contributors. The following topics are presented: modelling methods; organs; foot digital twin and in silico clinical applications; medical devices, and medical applications. Given the above range of topics, the text has an appeal to a wide range of relevant readers, from engineers to surgeons involved in interactions with the human body biomechanically or surgically. It is comprehensive, professionally written, referenced, and illustrated, and, through examples, of value to newcomers to the field.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1109/mpuls.2023.3324224
Arthur T. Johnson
The Famous Engineer Henry Petroski once wrote about one of his students who asked, “Why do engineering students feel superior to those of us studying in nontechnical fields?” [2] . Petroski answered the question like this: “Engineers are recognized as the creative people who bring us innovations like the smart phone, the personal computer, the Internet, and the World Wide Web, all of which have revolutionized the way we live, work, and play.” He concluded that engineers are considered superior because of their knowledge and creativity. I’m not sure that he came to the correct conclusion.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1109/mpuls.2023.3324228
Zara Abrams
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a grand challenge. It’s common, affecting about 10% of the population; it’s expensive, costing the nation nearly ${$}$ 350 billion in 2023; and it often causes years of suffering for patients and their loved ones [1] . Other age-related neurodegenerative conditions, such as vascular dementia and Parkinson’s disease, also continue to pose problems, both for patients and society as a whole.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1109/mpuls.2023.3324236
Leslie Mertz
We are Out of time. New, effective antibiotics are required to face the real and growing global threat from resistant and too often deadly bacterial infections. According to the World Health Organization, “Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels in all parts of the world. New resistance mechanisms are emerging and spreading globally, threatening our ability to treat common infectious diseases.” The organization adds, “A growing list of infections, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, blood poisoning, gonorrhea, and foodborne diseases, are becoming harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat as antibiotics become less effective” [1] .
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