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Vashi Electricals: One step solutions
Tags: Design, Manufacturing, Control, Design Thinking, Process

Vashi Electricals is one step solutions for -

1. POWER TRANSMISSION

2. ENERGY MONITORING

3. MACHINE & PROCESS AUTOMATION

4. LIGHTING & SOLAR SOLUTIONS

5. ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION

6. PROJECT MANAGEMENT

7. PNEUMATICS

PROCESS AUTOMATION:

Automation is basically a process of delegating Human control Function to control technical equipment.

PROCESS AUTOMATION

It uses PLC as the brain of the process to control and monitor all equipment in the field. This is then connected to a SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) to give a graphical view of the plant and all its equipment.

Features:

Monitoring of Process: All equipment connected to the PLC can be monitored on SCADA. Control of Process: All equipment that are connected to the PLC can be controlled via fed logic in the PLC. Simple or complex logic can be written in Different Languages including Ladder, SFC, FBD, ST. Alarm Generations: Alarms can be generated for the process readings at given set points with various seventies which can help in understanding the deviations in process to improve the quality of the final product. Report Generations: All types of report including Shift reports, batch reports, daily report and general reports can be generated once data is logged in a central locations. Traditional paper used to write down the process readings manually can be eliminated thereby reducing manual errors.

MACHINE AUTOMATION

Why Machine Automation:

With progress in automation technology, enterprises are replacing labor-intensive manual operations with Machine automation control systems in the production process to improve productivity and yield rates. Today, the economic benefits and technological developments that machine automation brings have become key factors for creating corporate value and enhancing industrial competitiveness.

About Us

For Machine Automation applications, VASHI Electricals Pvt. Ltd. demonstrates professional experience in industrial automation control machinery and electronics to provide high efficiency, high precision and high reliability products, systems and solutions.
prototyping, are we there yet?
By: Alexandra Gerome
Tags: Prototyping, Process, Review

ASK is a [microsite] for [friends of young adults, ages 12–24, with Asperger’s Syndrome] so that they may (a) learn to [empathetically communicate] with the target demographic and (b) [do not feel alone] in their struggles to do so.

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This week as we prepare for faculty reviews, I set out on the adventure of prototyping. That is, starting to take my very much imperfect (but getting there) wireframes into prototyping software (After Effects? XD? InVision? who knows..) to help faculty reviewers better understand the concepts that I am presenting to them. I specifically want them to be able to identify with my vision of the interactive elements of the site, such as (but not yet limited to):

the single, home page scroll

a rotational ‘pebble’ movement, with mouse (this makes more sense in context)

a ‘scribble on’ with vertical scroll

individual color fills– includes pebbles, number fade-in’s and underline call-outs

letter tracking with horizontal scrolling

vertical scroll, grey background ‘box’ movement (indicating current ‘section’/ position on the page)

horizontal, scrolling text

I would additionally like them to be able to comment on the home page visuals (colors, visual identity, text layout, content management, design elements, etc.). I will explain the concept behind ASK itself, as well as the paramount design elements to them to help ground them in their understanding of the site and my decisions (all of which will be housed on the ‘about’ page, not yet created). I hope to get a lot from the reviews!

As I am now, I have ventured through InVision, XD and Sketch– ruling them each out for their simplicity; they will not work for the complex animations I aim to created on my site. Therefore, I will be (and have begun) prototyping in Adobe After Effects. Hopefully this will allow users to better understand the interactions of the site, even if they cannot perform the interactions themselves (something I am unhappy with, but will have to settle for).

I additionally went back through my wireframes and made minor changes in regards to the ‘scribble,’ rounding the edges to mimic the current lines involved in the pebbles, as well as massaged the type rags. I feel that the home page wireframe(s) are in a good place for prototyping.
Case study: From idea to design system
By: Vitaly Afanasiev
Tags: Teamwork, Branding Strategy, Process, Visual Identity

Secondly, the shopping mall itself will be located underground, and the entrance areas under the glass canopies that resemble lakes from a bird’s-eye view will fit neatly into the overall surface landscape.

The roof structure has a non-standard oval shape that looks like hovering above the ground. Such a design creates a recognizable project and solves lighting issues adding a feeling of greater space to the shopping mall.

Third, Paveletskaya Plaza has a rather difficult task of combining passenger flows from different metro stations and Paveletsky Railway Station. The shopping mall plays the role of a kind of transition from travel to urban space.

Defining the target audience

Due to its location in the city center and the purpose of combining passenger flows, the audience of Paveletskaya Plaza is quite diverse. First of all, these are residents of Moscow and Moscow adjacent areas who go to shopping malls for shopping or active leisure with their families. For them, Paveletskaya Plaza project is a breath of fresh air in a stuffy metropolis.

The second group is tourists. For them, the shopping mall is the hallmark of the city, the first thing they see after they get off the train. It is also a place of return departure that fix the impression of the trip, as well as helps people to have fun while waiting for their trip home.

The third group is residents of the district who are going to have dinner in a decent restaurant, go to the cinema or just take a walk in the evening in Moscow.

Office employees are the fourth auditory segment. It is important for them to leave an office, change the location, and spend their lunchtime in a pleasant venue.

Also, several large universities are located in the accessibility zone of the shopping mall, so the fifth target audience can be identified as students who go to Paveletskaya Plaza to have fun or just take a walk.

Creating a design idea

The agency had a task to develop a corporate identity concept for an innovative space on the historic square near the Paveletsky Railway Station. It was important for us to emphasize the value of this place for each of the designated audience groups. The solution should be up-to-date, modern, but simple and clear.

When developing the concept, we were inspired by the bird’s-eye view of the glass roof architecture that was simplified to classic geometric shapes.
*Probably* Everything you need to know about Elixir's GenServer
By: João Augusto Perin
Tags: Programming, Elixir, Process, Concurrency, Genserver

Elixir is certainly one of my favorite languages (if not the one). But I agree (and suffered a lot) with the difficulty of learning it, it is damn hard.

One of the most important topics of getting started with Elixir, is managing to get started with GenServer. Now GenServer is nothing but an abstraction of Agents, and if you want to know more about Elixir's Agentes, please check here.

That being said, let's jump right into the content.

Setup

This is a basic setup to a GenServer-based module:

This way, GenServer manages to:

Wrap all the methods and states declared on the module (in this case, GenServerBasics).

Starts a detached process, which will manage to execute all of the callbacks (we'll see it right on the next section) to get to communicate with it's parent module.

A little Caveat…

Remember that I said most call the start_link function on the parent module (e.g GenServerBasics module) just "init"?

That is because, under the hood, GenServer will call a function init when the start_link is executed, so if you want to, for instance, modify, every possible input from initial state that gets passed to a GenServer in particular, you can just override the init funcion (but remember you have the obligation of return a tuple with {:ok, <YOUR-INITIAL-STATE>}).
Why Taking Time Off Is GOOD For Your Biz
By: Selina Johnson
Tags: Virtual Assistant, Planning, Process, Support, Business

In today’s business world, we’re constantly being told we should be hustling harder, working longer, grinding more.

But I’ve found things to be a bit different.

You don’t need to work the longest hours to make your business a success. In fact, I actively discourage it.

Last week was a school break and I decided to take the week off work so I could spend time with my girls.

We went out for lunch, enjoyed the remarkably great weather the UK is having and created memories that will last a lifetime. And now that I’m back at work? I’m refreshed, there’s a spring in my step and I’m energised to give my all.

Go back even just a few years, and I wouldn’t have been able to say the same. I was drained, working long hours and fast approaching burnout.

And while burnout was one of the best things to happen to my biz… you don’t have to reach that stage before you make changes to your biz and your work schedule.

Even during lockdown, while the temptation has been to work more, it’s important you take time to do non-work things.

But HOW? (I hear you ask!)

One of the side-effects of being a successful entrepreneur is that you’re so busy, right?

Wrong!

If you’re too busy to take the time off you and your biz needs? Something isn’t working ⛔

Here are the three things you need to have in place to be able to take time off from your biz:

🌟 Planning 🌟

Plan scheduled time off into your business calendar. If you know you want to have two launches throughout the year, make sure you also book the time off in advance too.

Not only does this allow you to get the much-needed time off, but it makes great business sense.

You have a solid plan of what’s launching, when it’s happening and you can organise all the moving parts around it. And you have no more scrambling at the last minute!

🌟 Processes 🌟

Everything you do in your biz has a process.

And the slicker these processes are, the better an experience your clients have but also the better things are for you!

Lead-gen

Sales

Onboarding

Customer Management

Retention

Offboarding

These can (and should) all have robust processes that take the guesswork out of your customer journey and mean you can start automating.

🌟 A solid support system 🌟

Whether this is a dedicated team of employees, contractors or virtual assistants, being able to leave your business for a few days/weeks requires a solid team who know exactly what they should be doing, and how they should do it.

Planning and processes play a massive role in this, but getting the right people in place can be the difference between a blissful break or more stress when you take time away.

If you’re ready to start reaping the benefits of your successful business but can’t risk stepping away for a break? Perhaps it’s time to get that solid team on board? 🔥

Hop on a FREE clarity call with me and we can chat about the next best move for you.
Concepting Periodical
By: Norm O'Hagan
Tags: Composer, Design, Role Definition, Concepting, Process

Welcome to the world of Concept Composing.

Adventure Poem for our first Periodical

Heyo! I’m Norm, a Concept Composer building a nascent Concepting function at Plaid. You’ve found our even more nascent Periodical series, where I’ll be discussing our explorations and learnings as the function evolves. What’s that composer role you mentioned? Great question!

A Concept Composer is someone who explores the form of an idea. They wade between exploring and documenting; composing into the unknown, and making sense of new ideas. The role was discovered by myself and Yatú as part of our research as Teal Process & Company. We like to think of the role as a combination of an artist, theorist, and designer.

The Concepting function at Plaid is a home to grow Concept Composers. Plaid’s provided a wonderful environment to explore ambiguity since I joined as a design intern in 2017. So while discovering this new role, I was always thinking about how it could be applied at Plaid.

I chatted with designers, design managers, and researchers on the team to understand how the role could best support the organization. Where we landed is the creation of a Concepting function that sits alongside our Research & Insights function. Here’s the initial primer I presented to the org!

In an organization like Plaid we’ve found two primary benefits of building a Concepting function.

To enable product teams by helping accelerate the development and testing of new ideas. To conduct research on how we explore, and build infrastructure to support exploration improvements.

Cones of Potential Value

As we’re less than a year in, there’s much more to discover. A sentiment I try to repeat is that the act of concepting happens all across an organization every day. Creating a Concepting function just provides attention to think more deeply about how an organization generates ideas.

If you’ve started exploring a similar role or function, I’d love to chat!

Til yonder times,

Norm & Co.
A Changing of Jobs
By: Vinayak Ganguly
Tags: Market Value, Process, Learning, Interview, Preparation

“…unfortunately we will not be …”, “..we are delighted to…” are a couple of common phrases which will set you on a wild rollercoaster ride when you’re between jobs. Well, that’s what happened to me lately. This wasn’t the first time and yet each time was unique and the experiences distinctly fresh.

Recently, I made a career move, changed jobs and had a few small epiphanies in this course, small but powerful. They now make me look at the entire job change process with much newfound perspective. As I explain kindly bear in mind that I work in tech so a few points may sound specific, however, fundamentally everything is domain & role agnostic.

The Preparation

Numerous people believe that you shouldn’t have to prepare for a job interview, I disagree. Most roles do not require people to use all the skills or tradecraft they possess, these unused skills gather dust over time. Simply put — you tend to be good at the limited things you repeat often. Practise, isn't it?

You invest time & prepare to dust off these market-relevant unused skills and sharpen the abilities you exercise often. In due course, you’re back on top of your well-rounded game; ready to be interviewed. Quite pleasantly, once this state is reached an obvious yet unintended effect becomes apparent — you may begin to do well, really well at your current job. You begin to look at & do regular things differently, your thoughts are upgraded & output enhanced. Revisiting the unused skills adds new perspectives to your job and makes you better at what you do.

Preparation is vital, it places you in the ‘back to the basics’ phase. Not only does it ready you to face interviews, but you also get better at your current role. Win-win yea?
What you can learn from Elon Musk if you want to accelerate.
By: Jorn De Vreede
Tags: Strategy, Engineering, Company Culture, Process, Elon Musk

As a kid I was really into space. The unknown, exploring this, rockets. LEGO made a fortune on my enthousiasm, that’s for sure. I’m still very grateful that my parents were able to find the sets I wanted for birthdays in the pre-internet era ;)

This enthousiasm never died. I read a lot of books about rockets, NASA, the space shuttle etc. in those days. The sheer engineering and ingenuity was mindboggling and inspirational to me.

When you say space, Elon Musk is the one you look at now. You have got to admire his vision, boldness and risktaking when it comes to SpaceX. His reusable rockets made it economically viable to go to space.

A few weeks ago, Tim Dodd “the Everyday astronaut” launched a 3 part video serie where Elon gives him a tour on Starbase, and they discuss rockets. Besides the mindblowing amount of knowledge Elon has himself, one part of the video really stood out to me.

A Starship grid-fin. Or as Elon calls it: “a Dinosaur bear-trap”

Elon discusses his 5 step process in engineering new products. It gives great insight how his companies are able to move as fast as they do. For me, they also conveyed exactly what Governments, other institutes and risk avoiding companies (I call them slow-movers) can change to keep up:
Privacy … NOW!. Your pragmatic field manual to privacy…
By: Alex Rabke
Tags: Privacy, Encryption, Security, Cryptocurrency, Technology

Privacy … NOW!

The Problem

I had a conversation recently with a very intelligent person whom I respect greatly and has deep knowledge of encryption and privacy-enhancing technology (PETs). We were discussing the idea of digital privacy in the modern age during a dinner meeting and she stated sardonically, “Privacy’s dead.” I tended to agree.

Over the past few weeks as I have socialized in my industry, continued to study and research the various topics I am interested in, and walked around conferences throughout the country, I gave deeper thought to this topic. Perhaps it was inspired by conversations with industry friends about the notion, or perhaps it was inspired by my listening to Bitcoin Privacy & OpSec, or perhaps it was inspired by the small army of large-font-imprinted-on-plain-black-hat clad evangelists wandering around at crypto conferences, or perhaps a combination of the above.

Regardless, I came to the firm realization that Privacy is NOT dead …

It’s just unreasonably difficult to ensure internet privacy for the average person.

And now, I realize, that my very intelligent and knowledgeable colleague is more ‘complacent’ than ‘right’ when it comes to this assertion. Though I don’t blame her. Maintaining any substantial degree of privacy whether it be digital or not, is a difficult, inconvenient, time consuming and often expensive task.

“Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world” — A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto

The Good News:

The notion of data self-sovereignty and digital privacy have become mainstream discourse in many circles due to the increasing awareness for encryption-based technologies over the past several decades. Most notably, this ethos was brought to mainstream awareness over time by the Cypherpunk community and memorialized by Eric Hughes’ A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto. So much so, that there are now broad communities, mature projects, dedicated teams and noble companies committed to helping individuals (re)claim some degree of privacy (this is a good thing!).
AES Java Encryption Performance Benchmarks
By: Gerrit Jansen Van Vuuren
Tags: Encryption, Security, Clojure, Java

AES CBC+HMAC and GCM performance benchmarks for Java JCE, Bouncy Castle, Commons Crypto and Clojure Buddy.

Overview

When considering which encryption scheme and library to use, ‘correctness’ is always the most important factor. The next important factor is performance.

Why should we care about performance? encryption is slow anyhow right, but how slow? And how much is due to just library implementation decisions? A slow library doesn’t make the encryption scheme more secure.

Performance is important. So much that there even exists special processor instructions for it on some platforms¹-². Using a slow library or too slow a scheme will cause unnecessary response delays, require a higher hardware investment. and may just be impractical on some systems.

Native processor support can make a big difference in numbers, and libraries that use them, and when available, can show huge performance boosts over other libraries that do not. The most common of these instruction sets is Intel’s AES-NI. Java’s JCE providers make use of AES-NI when available since java 1.8⁵. For GCM PCLMULQDQ¹¹ instruction support was added in java 1.9¹²

For this exercise I wanted to run a series of benchmarks for the most common Java encryption libraries (and I sneaked one in from the Clojure community), and see how they perform with a practical configuration.

I used authenticated encryption only, so for AES CBC this means CBC+HMAC and GCM is already authenticated so is used as is.

Enough talking, show me the numbers:

Benchmark Results
Using vim editor in linux to encrypt and decrypt files
By: Chinthaka Weerakkody
Tags: Decryption, Linux, Encryption, Ubuntu, Vim

Most linux users recognize vim [1] as a text editor. In this article we are going to explore on how we can use vim editor to encrypt and decrypt text files.

When you have a text file and if you need to keep the contents of the text file private regardless of the privileges of the user on the system, you can use encryption.

One of the methods of achieving this is using the built in support of vim editor. Encryption with vim editor requires a secret key where the same will have to be provided if the file needs to be decrypted properly. Hence you have to remember the secret key you enter during encryption process.

Let’s get the hands on experience on this. To begin with let’s assume we have a file named ‘secret-stuff’ with following content.

$ head secret-stuff

This content is confidential. Access to this information should be restricted to other users. So we need to protect this document with a secret key

Now assuming the given file contains sensitive information where the users in the system don’t need to have access to, we can use one of the following two approaches to encrypt the file with vim editor.

Passing encryption switch while opening the file with vim

We can use vim with it’s -x(encryption) switch to encrypt the file. We have to open the file with the -x switch.

$ vim -x secret-stuff

When you enter the above command it will immediately prompt the user to enter an encryption key(secret key). Once you provide the encryption key and press enter,it will request the user to enter the same secret key again.

Enter encryption key: ********

Enter same key again: ********

After successfully providing the same secret key for the second time, the file will be opened and the original text of the file will be visible. Now if you wish to edit the content of the file, you can continue to do so.

Saving the file is mandatory for the encryption process to be effected. You have to press Esc key once and then press :wq to save the file and exit.

:wq

2. Encrypt file after opening the file with vim

In this approach we first open the file using vim editor.

$ vim secret-stuff

Now the file will be opened in the view mode. You can edit the file if you need and then switch back to the view mode by pressing Esc button once. To entrypt the file you have to type below command in view mode and press enter.

:X

This will request you to provide a secret key. After providing the secret key press enter. Then again it will ask you to enter the same secret key again.

Enter encryption key: ********

Enter same key again: ********

After providing the secret key in the above steps press enter. You will be switched back to the view mode of the file. Now you have to save the file for the encryption process to be effected. Press :wq to save the file and exit.
Safe way to store SQL query in database column
By: Ankit Sharma
Tags: Encryption, Sqli, Sql

There are many instances where we have to store SQL Queries in database.

It could be anything of the below or even some other usecase:

A job to be run on a query.

Store query to be referenced later.

A custom query from an engineer to help them automate task based on query.

or something else.

The problem with storing a query inside a column is SQL Injection or SQLi. As this time we purposely want to store a query inside a query that too coming from someone who knows how to form queries.

But how?

Imagine you have table future_jobs_data and one of the column as backup_sql which will hold the query and will be used to run some jobs in future. The easiest way to furm such query is:

INSERT INTO future_jobs_data

(job_name, backup_sql, run_date, run_time)

VALUES

("Job-1", "select * from abc", "12-3-2022", "12:00");

Now imagine some user entering backup_sql as

"); DROP DATABASE db_name; --

Now put this in your query:

INSERT INTO future_jobs_data

(job_name, backup_sql, run_date, run_time)

VALUES

("Job-1", ""); DROP DATABASE db_name; -- ", "12-3-2022", "12:00");

This will result in breaking your query into 2 queries and one comment. where 2nd query is the malicious one.

How to avoid it?

Best way is to store any query after encryting it. Do not give raw query inside a column.

Assume this to be your server code which receives the input and form a query:

let query = "INSERT INTO future_jobs_data

(job_name, backup_sql, run_date, run_time)

VALUES

(

${job_name},

${backup_sql},

${run_date},

${run_time}

);" db.insert(query);

Here just encrypt the backup_sql or even other variables before inserting into the table.

let query = "INSERT INTO future_jobs_data

(job_name, backup_sql, run_date, run_time)

VALUES

(

${job_name},

${encryptWithKey(backup_sql)},

${run_date},

${run_time}

);" db.insert(query);

Also after fetching the data decrypt with the same key and perform the action with the query.
How we leveraged AWS features to secure user sensitive data
By: Nguyen Anh Tuan
Tags: Encryption, AWS, SaaS, Security

Reflect back on Microsoft's CosmosDB incident, I worry more about what will turn out for Microsoft on the next government cloud infrastructure contract bid than getting scared of using cloud service providers altogether. After all, we small developers are now dependent on cloud infrastructure more than ever, it is almost a religion and we scream “all hail the cloud”.

The benefit of using clouds just outweighs rarely occurring potential security risks. Most of the time, it’s safer than reinventing and trying to set up our infrastructure from scratch. So instead of worrying too much, we just need to be mindful that the cloud is not absolute, while reaping all of the benefits it provides.

One week has passed since the public announcement of our new B2B application. Customer registration for the beta is increasing. I feel it’s also time to have some retrospectives on what we have done to protect our valued customer data, until now and in the future. We by all mean are no expert on security, so we tried to got advised, had the web pen-tested by a security company. And, since our application is AWS-based, we leveraged the many security features that it provides.

What

Just for some context, our application is a Saas Management Platform, which means we collect and store data from a vast number of SaaS with the goal of enabling SaaS discovery, visibility and automation for organizations. Because the data contains sensitive information from the organization, it’s crucial that we keep the data safe.

Safe from what?

External threat: hackers, cloud provider incidents

Internal threat: unintentional leakage of data (like copy paste), also people, since people are easily hacked than machines.

Some terminologies in this article

Organization: an entity that represents a company/team that uses our application. Each organization has many workspaces.

Workspace: represent organization data on each SaaS. If I were to link with GitHub, then all of the GitHub organization data will be collected and saved inside our application as the workspace data.

How

We tried to secure the data from these three layers. The operation layer is merely about rules and guidelines so I won't talk about it here.

Application layers

Data encryption with AWS KMS

It's important that customer's sensitive data remains safe even if the database is compromised. We will never know it. Data encryption also somewhat protects us from those internal threats. But doing encryption means you have to keep the encryption key safe, and that is where KMS comes in.

I will not try to explain what KMS is, you can read about it in more detail here.

There is also this good article that explains in simple terms what KMS does (in Japanese).
Improving Mexico’s International Presence and Collaboration for Economic Development
By: Antonio Aranda Eggermont
Tags: Sre, Machine Learning, Economic Development, Mexico

Improving Mexico’s International Presence and Collaboration for Economic Development with Recommendation Systems

Mexico is a developing country part of North America with a developing market based economy. It is the 15th largest economy in the world in nominal terms and the 11th largest by purchasing power parity. Mexico has the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs ( Spanish: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, SRE) and is the government department that is responsible for Mexico’s foreign affairs.

The current administration of President Manuel Lopez Obrador has not given significant priority to international affairs giving as a result a lack of Mexico’s international presence in the world. Although in recent years, the Mexican economy has enjoyed macroeconomic stability, Mexico has significant gaps between the urban and rural population with a digital divide between the rich and poor, and a lack of economic development with cooperation with the international community. The SRE hosts a Website which publishes topics regarding promoting international and national development. However, the Website organization and layout make it difficult to find and browse relevant information on this topic and it is complex to read for most ordinary people, not to mention international audiences. In addition, the site does not provide any interactivity or rich features that promote effective learning and exchange of ideas.

I propose the creation of a digital virtual assistant which can be available in smartphones and tablets that can be used as a tool to aid both Mexicans small start ups and individuals as well as international audiences to exchange ideas and creativity to improve economic development in local communities.

The main goal would be to attract the international community to explore and learn about real issues and potential developments in Mexico and available resources in direct collaboration with local citizens and small businesses from Mexico. The mobile virtual assistant serves as a virtual ambassador that can speak a common language for both international audiences and Mexican audiences employing a powered Machine Learning recommendation system that can act as a framework for initial cultural unification and integration. The data is collected from different sources such as government data relating to local infrastructure for travel and trade, student population, industrial main sectors, etc. Individuals and local startups can contribute freely without any government intervention in terms of sharing ideological and cultural ideas, potential solutions to infrastructure issues, and also exploring international collaboration for development of small projects that can benefit local economies development.

Distributed data platform with Mobile UI and virtual assistants for data exploration

UX/UI High Level Design
Medical Equipment Rental Market Size Worth $64.07 Billion by 2025
By: Gaurav Shah
Tags: China, Germany, Medical Devices, Mexico, Brazil

The global medical equipment rental market size is expected to reach USD 64.07 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc., progressing at a CAGR of 4.4% during the forecast period. Expanding base of geriatric and disabled population coupled with rising need for home healthcare products is propelling the market.

Rising demand for technologically advanced clinical devices and increasing healthcare expenditure is encouraging R&D activities in the medical devices industry are resulting in launch of expensive variants of medical products. This is anticipated to positively influence the growth of the medical equipment rental market.

Dominance of durable medical equipment (DME) can be attributed to increasing adoption of personal mobility and assist aids by disabled individuals. In addition, surging demand for monitoring and therapeutic instruments owing to increasing patient pool and continuous technological upgradation in these devices are spurring the growth of the DME rental market.

Emergence of financial services for leasing healthcare apparatus in the past few years has emerged to be a boon for hospitals, institutes, and other healthcare providers. Moreover, renting equipment confers cost benefits to end users, as it reduces ownership costs and in turn allows these players to adopt advanced product modules.

Rising concerns regarding palliative care coupled with regulatory transformations for the same are poised to augment the market. Regulatory transformation or programs adopted by hospitals for palliative care are resulting in increased demand for rental equipment.

Click the link below:

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/medical-equipment-rental-market

Further key findings from the report suggest:
Latin America Ostomy Care Bags Market Worth $377.98 Million By 2025
By: Gaurav Shah
Tags: Medical Devices, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil

The Latin America ostomy care bags market size is expected to reach USD 377.98 million by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc., registering a 6.6% CAGR during the forecast period. Increase in prevalence of chronic diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, colorectal cancer, bladder cancer, and fecal and urinary continence, is one of the major factors driving the Latin America ostomy care bags market. Furthermore, rise in geriatric population in most Latin American countries is anticipated to propel market growth.

Increase in new product launches and growing investment by key market players to develop advanced products are among factors that are likely to positively influence the market. For instance, Coloplast Group launched SenSura Mio Concave in April 2018, a new range of ostomy products. These products have an elastic adhesive and star-shaped base plate, allowing them to comfortably fit curved body profiles.

Growing demand for one piece ostomy pouches is expected to boost the market. These products are known for being low profile, which means they are nearly invisible under the clothes. Furthermore, these pouches are more cost effective as compared to others and the flanges attached with them are more secure.

Click the link below:

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/latin-america-ostomy-care-bags-market

Further key findings from the report suggest:
UPDATE: Mexican journalist abducted in Morelos is rescued by state and federal authorities
By: Knight Center For Journalism In The Americas
Tags: Mexico, Journalism

UPDATE: Mexican journalist abducted in Morelos is rescued by state and federal authorities

UPDATE (Published Feb. 20, 2020): A magazine director in the state of Morelos was rescued in an operation by state and federal authorities on Feb. 20 after being abducted by armed men the previous day.

Adrián Fernández Guerra, businessman and general director of Revista Perfil, was abducted by armed men from a bar where he was celebrating his brithday around 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 19.

The next evening, the Attorney General of the State of Morelos reported via Facebook that a businessman and journalist identified as Adrian “N” was rescued from a security house guarded by armed men in the municipality of Jiutepec. Ten alleged abductors were arrested, it added.

Revista Perfil confirmed news of the rescue operation through a video posted to Facebook of Fernández being reunited with his family.

Original: Adrián Fernández Guerra, businessman and general director of Revista Perfil, was abducted from the bar México Lindo around 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 19 while celebrating his birthday, according to SinEmbargo.

An employee of the bar who was killed was attempting to block the abduction, the publication added.

State and federal authorities were adopting security protocols and mechanisms of protection in the area to rescue Fernández, according to the State Government of Morelos.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF, for its acronym in French) urged state and federal authorities to use all resources to find the director.

Likewise, Article 19 Mexico called for the implementation of the Approved Protocol for Search for Missing Persons.

On its Facebook page, Revista Perfil posted, “We demand that you return safe and sound!”
Cut #4: My Internalized US Customs and Border Patrol, June 16, 2019
By: Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro
Tags: Microaggressions, Borders, Mexico, Racism, Travel

The day after I submitted my grades for the term, I got to the airport unprecedentedly early.

I was getting the fuck out.

Only for two weeks, sure, but out.

It was a trip I’d promised to myself for months — a promise that had, in fact, been part of what helped me get on the plane and come back to the US for the start of the semester.

I was getting out to a place where my body — in the spaces it found itself by choice or necessity — was not an enigma, a problem, a question. Where no one would say “You don’t look like a professor.” Where no one would need to know that I even was a professor — because nothing in my presence in any space I might be, by choice or necessity, would require explanation.

The relief started before I’d even left the country. As I boarded the plane to a place where my skin color and height were pretty much the boring average, the flight attendants spoke to me in Spanish without really looking at me.

Immediately, I felt the weight of American racism begin to lift from my shoulders. Not that things were just peachy where I was going — indeed, as a (rich) outsider, I’m shielded from most of the caste/race/class dynamics here — but my body was unremarkable. It belonged.
5G and Multiplatform Devices Interdependence
By: Gabrielė Činikaitė
Tags: Multiplatform, 5g, Network, Streaming, Reactseals

The next-generation mobile network sometimes referred to as 5G, is rolling out faster than previous wireless generations and is expected to be a revolutionary technology in major industries.

5G will be faster than current LTE networks, meaning, that the increase in speed will allow IoT devices to communicate and share data faster than ever.

Business Insider report presents the ways of how 5G will strengthen IoT:

Higher data speeds. 5G can reach speeds up to 10 times faster than its predecessor 4G in some cases.

Lower latency. 5G will eventually cut latency in communications to as low as 1 millisecond, down from about 50ms on 4G.

Greater bandwidth. 5G networks possess a tenfold advantage over 4G in terms of the number of connected devices a network can support.

Industries that are affected

These changes will affect major industries, such as telecommunications, enterprises, consumerism. The rise of 5G will bring up the need and desire for users to have more devices and reach different content-types through them.

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Companies, who have products such as streaming platforms, games, should think of ways to optimize their application delivery time and do that in the shortest way possible.

Fasten up end-to-end project delivery

That’s why ReactSeals is all about solutions, which helps to adapt to a changing environment with the latest technology and innovative solutions.

Our platform fastens up the end-to-end delivery of any complex application and eases the work that it takes to make adjustments on every platform. If you want to know more about the technology we work with — send us an email at info@reactseals.com!
Complexity and Life
By: Futuro Possível
Tags: Change, Future, Complexity, Complex Systems, Network

Por Danilo Oliveira Vaz

Pesquisador de Redes e Complexidade. Animador em Emergir.

Taken scientifically, the term Complexity embodies a set of premises and concepts that not only add new flavors and textures to sciences as usual, but actually provide a distinct way to make sense and contextualize many phenomena in the world. In this way, Complexity is understood as a New Kind of Science, where the focus point of study is no longer just on some particular points, but also on the dynamic relationships between said points. And, more importantly, on what is born (what emerges) through the establishment and maintenance of such connections.

More broadly, Complexity can be understood as a set of lenses, which allows whomever wears it to see things in a very unique way. That is, to experience how things are interconnected and what that means to dynamics that span through space and time. For example, Complexity allows us to expand our understanding of causation, equipping us to make sense of how certain actions and decisions spread non-linearly in time to effect other actions and decisions and to feed back the initial ones, reenergizing this dynamic.2

The amazing thing about wearing such lenses is that it literally makes us contemplate life itself in a completely new fashion. And this is meant not only in a metaphorical way. There are, of course, a myriad of unknowns around what is life and how it came to be. However, it’s undeniable that life and complex phenomena are very intimate, sometimes indistinguishable.

If we consider the work of Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, for example, we’ll learn about the concept of Autopoiesis, which describes a common dynamic to any system that have a metabolism (is alive): self-generating networks made up of components whose function is to transform and replace other components. This way, the entire network continuously generate itself.3

Such a networked dynamic characterizes that which lives and that which is complex. In this way, the concept of autopoiesis can be abstracted away from biology, and applied to other complexity-abundant domains, such as social systems. The only thing one needs to note is that the networks in these domains are distinct. For example, the networks making up social systems are immaterial, they are Networks of Communication.

This kind of an abstraction can be a powerful tool for interactions with social systems, because they can guide new courses of action. For example, Maturana & Varela describe that a living system couples to its environment structurally through recurrent interactions, each of which triggers structural changes in the system. Meaning that the “natural” way to bring about change to a living system is through “environmental disturbances”, as opposed to direct interventions into the system. With that, one can consider changing they engagement with living and complex systems, understanding that they have fluid dynamics that require new ways of seeing and acting.
NETWORK COMMANDS IN LINUX
By: Gokhan Kosem
Tags: Network Engineering, Linux, Network, Linux Tutorial, Ccna

Linux is very important for Network World. In many operations Linux is usually used by Network Engineers. So, A networkm engineer should know Linux, espeacialy Network Commands in Linux. In this article, we will focus on these Linux commands related with Network World.

Network Commands in Linux

There are many usefull Linux Commands but some of them are more important in Networking. What are these commands? Below, you can find the Top 35 Linux Network Commands!

arp command arpwatch command bmon command curl command dhclient command dig command dstat command ethtool command ftp command host command ifstat command ip addr command iptables command iftop command ifup/ifdown command iwconfig command netstat command nload command nmap command nslookup command ping command route command scp command sftp command ss command ssh command tshark command hping3 command tcpdump command telnet command tracepath command traceroute command w command wget command whois command

Now let’s start to talk about these protocols one by one.

arp command

arp command is used to view ARP Table of your Linux Server. You can use various parametersof arp command to get information about these tables and table entries. For example, you can use arp -e to reach the default Linux ARP Table.

Below, you can find an example for Linux arp command:

$ arp -e

Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface

192.168.2.1 ether bb:12:cc:24:10:18 C eth0

192.168.3.1 ether 11:87:2c:88:ab:c1 C eth0

arpwatch command

arpwatch command is the Linux commanf that is use to view Ethernet activity, Ethernet/IP pairs. There are diffferent parameters of arpwatch command. If you would like to use this command for a specific interface, you can use arpwatch -i command with related interface.

$ sudo arpwatch

$ sudo arpwatch –i eth0

You can read the full article below:

Specically, you can reach Linux Ping command options below:

Ping Command options in Windows:
vodafone may shut down in india
By: Sreeram Kj
Tags: India, Android, Smartphone, Network, News

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Supreme court’s rule on Rs 1.47 lakh crore worth of AGR dues has sparked rumors about this so-called imminent closure of two of India’s largest telecommunication corporations Vodafone thought and Airtel. As a matter of fact, WhatsApp forwards saying readers of these two telcos should move their delivery provider have been making these rounds. Airtel is decidedly not closing down. The telecommunication operator’s representative confirmed to BusinessToday.ln that, it can give the weight quantity after completing the activity of calculating (AGR) dues across 22 rounds which can go at least a week to ten days. This organization added that it shall get this cost before the following month of Supreme court’s (SC ) hearing which is on March 17.

The telecommunications commission has said that the decision will be made by June 15. The company has also stated that it will take into account the costs of its own services and other expenses of the service provider. It has also said that they will pay for their own services and other expenses of the service provider. It has also said that they will not charge any fees from customers or other parties. The company has also said that it will not charge any taxes from customers or other parties in the service provider. The company has also said that it will not charge any tax from customers or other parties in the service provider. This is a very good news for all those who are concerned about the future of vodafone’s business. It is also a good news for the people who have using these Network providers.

Vodafone idea’s president Kumar Mangalam Birla had told in December last year that this company could not place great money after badly and closed work if the government did not make relief to the company. He echoed Vodafone Global CEO Nick Read who had told Vodafone mind could be for elimination if the administration did not give assistance to the telcos. It will be done by the end of April.

In Oct 2016, Vodafone was fined the record £4.6m by Ofcom for “ severe “ breaches of user security regulations. (BBC information. 26 Oct 2016.) In April 2017, Vodafone continued to take great issues with customer service, with this CEO Nick Jeffery tempting clients with unresolved charges to e-mail him immediately. (26 Apr 2017.)

On 31 Aug 2018, Vodafone India unified with thought Cellular, and was renamed as Vodafone mind express. Nevertheless, the integrated entity keeps using both this Idea and Vodafone brand. Presently, the Vodafone Group holds the 45.1 percent share in this one entity, the Aditya Birla Group holds 26% and the remaining shares can be held by the people. Kumar Mangalam Birla leads the unified corporation as the president and Balesh Sharma employed to be the CEO. After the fall in share value of Vodafone Idea by 80 percent on NSE, Balesh Sharma resigned citing individual reasons.

Moreover, the company needs their existence by a very dangerous position and Vodafone may be shut down their company. Let’s see what happens.

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