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Why IBM Thinks Quantum Computers Will Boost Machine Learning

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Danzig

IBM figured out how to use a quantum computer to make machine learning algorithms better than ever before. But no quantum computer is good enough yet.

Quantum Leap

When full-scale quantum computers finally arrive, they could give machine learning algorithms a major boost, letting the AI systems find hidden patterns in data that today’s best technology has no hope of spotting.

At least, that’s the gist of research by IBM scientists, first shared online last year that was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday — findings that could help make much more powerful AI without requiring fundamentally-new algorithms.

Connect The Dots

This quantum AI would excel at what’s called feature mapping — breaking down the data into its core components to figure out everything about it. For example, a machine learning algorithm trained to analyze images could analyze the color of every single pixel in the image, looking for patterns that might reveal what the picture depicts.

Modern machine learning systems running on a classical computer are already pretty good at that. But according to the new research, a quantum computer could give the AI such a boost that it would be able to look for subtler patterns within huge datasets, according to an IBM-published blog.

That may mean finding new trends within troves of data from medical research or new insights into climate change. But Antonio Córcoles, an IBM quantum computing scientist, told Futurism that he has a hard time predicting how these systems may be used, since scientists aren’t aware of the patterns and discoveries that they don’t know to look for.

Stepping On Toes

But this quantum-boosted AI isn’t about to solve any scientific mysteries just yet. The IBM scientists concede that even their best quantum computer isn’t nearly sophisticated enough to outperform a classical computer at machine learning tasks.

Rather, the team figured out how such a could enhance machine learning, should the researchers working on the hardware side of the problem figure out how to catch up.

Córcoles told Futurism that he thinks quantum computer research will get there in about five years, but it will take a community effort as scientists in more fields find ways that the devices will be able to help them crack problems previously thought unsolvable.

READ MORE: Researchers Put Machine Learning on the Path to Quantum Advantage [IBM Newsroom]

More on quantum computers: Scientists Are Building a Quantum Computer That “Acts Like a Brain”

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This Guy is Hacking Printers to Warn About Job-Stealing AI

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Danzig

Beware of Bots is a new marketing campaign that hacked printers to send out a warning about automation, urging people to switch careers.

Viral Marketing

If you work in finance, your printer may have recently spewed out a bizarre warning about the future of your industry.

The warning, which took the form of a glitchy-looking letter conveyed the warning that 94 percent of finance professionals could be replaced by AI by 2024. It’s been sent to over 623,000 printers with publicly-accessible ports, according to its creators — an ambitious piece of futuristic protest art for the era of automation.

“It’s 94% likely that by 2024 I will replace millions of accountants, auditors and financial analysts, no matter how experienced or talented ‘they’ may be,” the letter reads, maintaining the voice of an AI narrator. “The same fate will befall all professions based on structured and algorithmic processes.”

Cyber-Nagging

The project, called Beware of Bots, is the brainchild of Vlad Sitnikov, the same guy who told Futurism he wanted to launch giant billboards into space.

This time, his advertising has gone hyperlocal — in the philosophical opposite of that annoying “learn to code” movement, he urges people to pivot to graphic design and other creative fields that artificial intelligence is less likely to automate.

“I will not be able to replace creative professions in the near future,” the letter reads, still in the voice of the AI. “Only 8% of graphic designwork will be replaced by bots by 2024.”

Sitnikov could stand to profit from the hack: the letter he sent to thousands of hacked printers contains a coupon for a design course by author Michael Janda, with whom Sitnikov collaborated, and he was working on behalf of Skillbox, the online learning platform hosting Janda’s courses.

Singles In Your Area

To reach the finance bros’ printers, Sitnikov built a bot that accessed what’s called port 9100, through which many printers send and receive data. It’s not uncommon for hackers to exploit these publicly-accessible ports, so the hack itself isn’t all that revolutionary.

Accessing internet-connected printers by exploiting port 9100 is technically illegal, though most exploits tend to be harmless pranks. However,others have previously exploited port 9100 to commit hate crimes or send spam.

What is new, however, is using the vulnerability for a viral marketing campaign. While this ad comes under the guise of benevolence, Sitnikov’s campaign could open the doors to all sorts of advertisements churning out of your printer.

READ MORE: Bot Hacks Printers Worldwide to Warn Humans That Their Jobs Are at Risk from AI [Little Black Book]

More on viral marketing: The British Army Has an Official Viral Content Division

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Mayor Announces $10 Billion Plan to Save NYC From Rising Seas

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Danzig

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a plan to

Climate Proof

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has a plan to “climate-proof” his city.

In an op-ed published in New York Magazine on Wednesday, de Blasio detailed his $10 billion plan to protect Manhattan from the coming rising sea levels and powerful storms that seem almost inevitable in the face of climate change.

“It will be one of the most complex environmental and engineering challenges our city has ever undertaken,” de Blasio wrote, “and it will, literally, alter the shape of the island of Manhattan.”

$10 Billion Buffer

To fortify most of Lower Manhattan, de Blasio’s plan allocates $500 million toward the creation of grassy stationary barriers in parks and removable barriers that the city can deploy just prior to a storm.

But those types of barriers won’t work to protect the eastern edge of Lower Manhattan, which de Blasio noted is just 8 feet above sea level — and tightly packed with vulnerable utilities, sewer systems, and subway lines.

The only option then, according to de Blasio, is to build more land — by pushing the coastline of Lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Battery up to 500 feet into the East River.

“When we complete the coastal extension, which could cost $10 billion, Lower Manhattan will be secure from rising seas through 2100,” de Blasio wrote.

National Security

Ninety thousand people call Lower Manhattan home, but the need to protect the area is about far more than the local population. Lower Manhattan is also home to New York’s Financial District, which includes the United States’ — and, arguably, the world’s — economic center: Wall Street.

According to de Blasio, climate-proofing this area “should be as much a national priority as a local one — protecting the global center of commerce, the Federal Reserve, the home to a sector of our economy that touches every town and region in America.”

But the threat of climate change isn’t limited to New York — as de Blasio noted, other coastal cities, including Miami, Houston, and Charleston, are also staring down the same alarming fate.

“Preparing for climate change has to be a national priority, backed by tens of billions in federal investment,” de Blasio wrote. “Lives are on the line.”

READ MORE: My New Plan to Climate-Proof Lower Manhattan [New York Magazine]

More on climate change: Why Sea Levels Along the US East Coast Are Rising at Different Rates

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Facebook Had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Danzig

Facebook and Instagram users across the globe experienced outages for most of Wednesday starting around 1 pm EST and ending late Wednesday night. But why?

You Had a Bad Day

Facebook just had a very bad day.

Facebook, including Messenger, and Instagram users across North America experienced outages for most of Wednesday, starting in the afternoon and ending late the same night. Third party outage sites suggested it affected users across the entire globe.

The media reported it was perhaps the longest interruption ever experienced by two of the largest social networks in the world. But nobody really knows what specifically caused the outage — beyond a tweet today blaming the outage on a “server configuration change.”

“We’ve now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering,” read the tweet. “We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone’s patience.”

Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services. We've now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone’s patience.
— Facebook (@facebook) March 14, 2019

“Server Configuration Change”

Theories swirled on Twitter about what could have caused the massive outage on Facebook, which didn’t respond to questions from Futurism. Facebook quickly ruled out one of the most popular theories via a tweet: it wasn’t a denial-of-service attack (DDoS) — an attack that involves countless infected computers being leveraged to attack a single target system.

It was an outage that didn’t just enrage individual users: Facebook likely felt the pressure from countless ad partners and businesses that relied on the network.

Founder and CEO of free encrypted messaging app Telegram announced that the service signed up three million new users on the day of Facebook’s outage.

Break ‘Em Up

The outage came days after senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren announced a bold plan Friday to break up tech giants Amazon, Facebook, and Google.

“Unwinding these mergers will promote healthy competition in the market — which will put pressure on big tech companies to be more responsive to user concerns, including about privacy,” Warren wrote in a Medium post.

To make Facebook’s terrible day even worse, the company was hit with a criminal investigation by New York prosecutors about data deals Facebook struck with other tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Sony.

A grand jury in New York requested records from two device makers who had active partnerships with Facebook, the New York Times reported yesterday. The exact focus of the investigation isn’t yet clear.

READ MORE: Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation [The New York Times]

More on Facebook: Elizabeth Warren Shares Plan to Break up Facebook, Google, Amazon

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This Autonomous Robot Arm Feeds People Who Can’t Feed Themselves

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Danzig

Mealtime Tech

An estimated one million Americans can’t feed themselves. That leaves them little choice but to rely on another person at mealtime, which can be both awkward and time-consuming.

But now, researchers from the University of Washington have built Assistive Dexterous Arm (ADA), an artificially intelligent robot arm capable of using a fork to move food from a person’s plate to their mouth — another encouraging example of how AI and robotics can help people with disabilities live more independent lives.

Food for Bot

In a pair of recently published papers, the UW team describes how a pair of algorithms give ADA the ability to feed a person.

The first algorithm, RetinaNet, is an object-detection system. It scans a plate to determine the types of food on it, placing a “frame” around each item.

The second algorithm, SPNet, analyzes the food in a frame and sends instructions to the robot arm that let it know how to skewer the food in a way that’ll be easy for a person to eat — it might instruct the bot to stab a piece of banana in its center, for example, but a carrot near one end.

Giving the system the contextual knowledge that not all food should be treated the same way was a key part of ADA’s development process, according to researcher Siddhartha Srinivasa.

“If we don’t take into account how easy it is for a person to take a bite, then people might not be able to use our system,” he said in a press release. “There’s a universe of types of food out there, so our biggest challenge is to develop strategies that can deal with all of them.”

Team Effort

Once the robotic arm, which attaches to a wheelchair, receives its instructions from the algorithm, it relies on a system of sensors and cameras to skewer each piece of food with a 3D-printed fork and move it to a person’s mouth so they can eat it.

While Srinivasa is hopeful that ADA will provide people who have trouble feeding themselves with a new level of independence, he doesn’t see envision the system eliminating the need for human help altogether.

“Ultimately our goal is for our robot to help people have their lunch or dinner on their own,” he said in the press release. “But the point is not to replace caregivers: We want to empower them. With a robot to help, the caregiver can set up the plate, and then do something else while the person eats.”

READ MORE: Food-Focused Autonomous Robot Arm Knows How to Use the Forks [New Atlas]

More on AI: New Google App Describes Objects to Blind People

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DARPA Is Building an Open Source Voting Machine

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Danzig

DARPA is developing technology that could finally lead to secure voting machines. It plans to have experts from professors to hackers kick the tires.

Cracking Down

Voting booths are notoriously buggy. Whether they’ve been actively hacked or just improperly calibrated, every election season is rife with complaints that machines misrecorded ballots or that an election has been compromised by hackers.

To prevent us from having to take a technological step backwards to paper ballots, U.S. Department of Defense’s research division DARPA is working with cybersecurity firm Galois to develop open source voting machine technology that would let people verify that their votes were tallied correctly, according to Motherboard.

Open Source

The ultimate goal isn’t to sell machines, but to develop tech that would beef up existing voting machine vendors’ security.

“We will not have a voting system that we can deploy. That’s not what we do,” Linton Salmon, the DARPA scientist managing the project, told Motherboard. “We will show a methodology that could be used by others to build a voting system that is completely secure.”

Kicking The Tires

To make sure that any new voting machines built with DARPA software are actually better than today’s, the plan is to invite experts ranging from academic computer scientists to hackers to test it out and search for vulnerabilities, according to Motherboard.

One way that the new system might improve upon others is by printing out a sheet showing a voter’s selections so that they can look it over before feeding it into a separate machine that will actually record the vote.

“That receipt does not permit you to prove anything about how you voted, but does permit you to prove that the system accurately captured your intent and your vote is in the final tally,” Galois principal scientist Joe Kiniry told Motherboard.

READ MORE: DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System [Motherboard]

More on election security: Could Digital Voting Create a Society That Is Truly Governed by the People?

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New Research: People Who Get Defeated By AI Feel Horrible

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Danzig

According to a new experiment, people find losing to robots and AI particularly demoralizing, which could have implications for our automated workplaces.

Rigged Game

Whether it’s chess, Go, or Starcraft II, computer scientists are getting pretty good at building artificial intelligence that excels at games once dominated by people.

For the hapless humans who are left eating the pro-gamer AI’s dust, coming second to the bots again and again has a noticeable demoralizing effect, according to a study presented at a recent conference on human-robot interaction. While the psychological effects of playing games against a robot may not be groundbreaking, the study has dire implications for people who see more and more of their co-workers replaced by robots and AI — in other words, as we all start to lose at the game of work.

On Your Mark

In the study, human participants competed against an algorithm in a letter-counting task. Presented with a random string of letters, people had to count the amount of times the letter “G” appeared and drag a block on a computer screen to a space corresponding with the right answer. A correct answer earned them a point, while an incorrect answer froze their screen for ten seconds.

Earning more points than the AI competitor within a two-minute span would earn the participant the chance to win a cash prize, which the experimenters tweaked every now and then to see how it affected people’s motivation.

Throwing in The Towel

It turns out that people weren’t motivated by a higher pot on its own, but the extent to which they were discouraged by a superior AI increased when the prize value grew.

“I felt very stressed competing with the robot,” one participant is quoted in the research paper. “In some rounds, I kept seeing the robot’s score increasing out of the corner of my eye, which was extremely nerve-racking.”

READ MORE: Here’s what robots destroy when they compete with humans [MarketWatch]

More on automation: North America Put More Robots to Work in 2018 Than Ever Before

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See the Most Breathtaking Views of the Martian Surface Yet

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Danzig

Mars in Stereo

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, which launched in 2016, just sent back some spectacular images of the Martian surface.

The orbiter is equipped to take images of the Martian surface in glorious 3D. The picture below shows the Columbus Crater on Mars’ southern hemisphere — which NASA discovered that sulfate particles contain hydrated minerals.

Peekaboo, InSight

Another amazing shot: a pic of NASA’s InSight lander hammering away at the Martian surface earlier this month. It’s the first time a European orbiter has taken a picture of InSight — though NASA’s own Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted InSight from orbit in December.

InSight’s heat shield, landing parachutes protective shell can also be seen as small dots.

Martian Dust Devils

A stereoscopic image shows dust devil streaks, in blue, on the edge of a massive crater. Throw on a pair of basic 3D glasses to appreciate the full effect.

The following images shows the edge of the Burroughs crater roughly 120 miles northwest of Mars’ northern polar ice cap. Some of the northernmost mounds are thought to be completely made up of “nearly pure water ice.”

READ MORE: InSight lander among latest ExoMars image bounty [ESA]

More on InSight: NASA’s InSight Mars Rover Runs Into Trouble Digging a Hole

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Scientists Create Material That Blocks Sound, but Not Air or Light

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Danzig

Listen Up

By combining math with 3D printing, researchers from Boston University have created a new material that seemingly defies logic: light and air have no trouble passing through it — but sound cannot.

“The idea is that we can now mathematically design an object that can block the sounds of anything,” researcher Xin Zhang said in a press release — meaning the future could be far quieter than the present.

Silent Treatment

In a paper published in the journal Physical Review B , the researchers describe the work that went into creating what they call their “acoustic metamaterial.”

They started by calculating the dimensions and specification a material would need to have to be able to reflect incoming sound waves back to their source without blocking air or light. Then they 3D printed the material into a donut shape and attached it to one end of a PVC pipe, the other end of which they attached to a loudspeaker.

When they blasted a high-pitched note from the loudspeaker, they found that the shape blocked 94 percent of the sound coming through the pipe.

“The moment we first placed and removed the silencer…was literally night and day,” researcher Jacob Nikolajczyk said in the press release. “We had been seeing these sorts of results in our computer modeling for months — but it is one thing to see modeled sound pressure levels on a computer, and another to hear its impact yourself.”

A Quiet Place

The researchers envision many applications for their acoustic metamaterial, which they claim isn’t limited to the donut shape demonstrated by their research.

“Our structure is super lightweight, open, and beautiful,” Zhang and her fellow researcher Reza Ghaffarivardavagh said in the press release. “Each piece could be used as a tile or brick to scale up and build a sound-canceling, permeable wall.”

They also note the potential to use the material to dampen the sound of drones, HVAC systems, or even MRI machines — seemingly anything that makes noise could make less noise with the addition of this new material.

More on acoustics: MIT Used a Laser to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person’s Ear

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Transtopian Round-Up! February 2019 Edition – Transformers

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Danzig

Where oh where did February go...oh well, with the end of one month, that means another round up of fantastic work from our Transtopian Forums, the creative heart of Seibertron.com!

Fan FictionHome to the creative authors of Seibertron.com's Transtopia

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"And I think that it is it for any of our troops arriving here by foot, Scorponok." Blight said to his comrade who nodded in agreement.

"I think you're right, though I would prefer not to leave the others out there. But we wont be able to hold this location forever."

"I would not worry about such details, Scorponok. Our Lord already has something planned to ensure our brethren make it safely aboard. It is one of the reasons he chose this ship as a target of interest." the other Predacon replied before looking behind him at both Arcee and Jack who were on their knees and surrounded by Terracons.

"The quicker this ship is taken, the faster we can get these two into the brig." he added, gaining a knowing look from Scorponok.

"Well, Lord Galvatron and Laserback did take half of my troops with them to secure the CIC and the Engineering decks, I am sure we will hear something soon."

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And that's it for the month folks! Like what you see or read? Be sure to leave a comment and let our creators know! Looking to share your own creations? Please do! We'll be back in a months time for the next round up from our Transtopia forums!

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Quantum technology – Wikipedia

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Danzig

Quantum technology is a new field of physics and engineering, which is about creating practical applications -- such as quantum computing, quantum sensors, quantum cryptography, quantum simulation, quantum metrology and quantum imaging -- based on properties of quantum mechanics, especially quantum entanglement, quantum superposition and quantum tunnelling.

Quantum superposition states can be very sensitive to a number of external effects, such as electric, magnetic and gravitational fields; rotation, acceleration and time, and therefore can be used to make very accurate sensors. There are many experimental demonstrations of quantum sensing devices, such as the experiments carried out by the Nobel laureate William D. Phillips on using cold atom interferometer systems to measure gravity and the atomic clock which is used by many national standards agencies around the world to define the second.

Recent efforts are being made to engineer quantum sensing devices, so that they are cheaper, easier to use, more portable, lighter and consume less power. It is believed that if these efforts are successful, it will lead to multiple commercial markets, such as for the monitoring of oil and gas deposits, or in construction.

Quantum secure communication are methods which are expected to be 'quantum safe' in the advent of a quantum computing systems that could break current cryptography systems. One significant component of a quantum secure communication systems is expected to be Quantum key distribution, or 'QKD': a method of transmitting information using entangled light in a way that makes any interception of the transmission obvious to the user.

Quantum computers are the ultimate quantum network, combining 'quantum bits' or 'qubit' which are devices that can store and process quantum data (as opposed to binary data) with links that can transfer quantum information between qubits. In doing this, quantum computers are predicted to calculate certain algorithms significantly faster than even the largest classical computer available today.

Quantum computers are expected to have a number of significant uses in computing fields such as optimization and machine learning. They are famous for their expected ability to carry out 'Shor's Algorithm', which can be used to factorise large numbers which are mathematically important to secure data transmission.

There are many devices available today which are fundamentally reliant on the effects of quantum mechanics. These include: laser systems, transistors and semi-conductor devices and other devices, such as MRI imagers. These devices are often referred to belonging to the 'first quantum revolution'; the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) grouped these devices as 'quantum 1.0',[1] that is devices which rely on the effects of quantum mechanics. Quantum technologies are often described as the 'second quantum revolution' or 'quantum 2.0'. These are generally regarded as a class of device that actively create, manipulate and read out quantum states of matter, often using the quantum effects of superposition and entanglement.

The field of quantum technology was first outlined in a 1997 book by Gerard J. Milburn,[2] which was then followed by a 2003 article by Jonathan P. Dowling and Gerard J. Milburn,[3][4] as well as a 2003 article by David Deutsch.[5] The field of quantum technology has benefited immensely from the influx of new ideas from the field of quantum information processing, particularly quantum computing. Disparate areas of quantum physics, such as quantum optics, atom optics, quantum electronics, and quantum nanomechanical devices, have been unified under the search for a quantum computer and given a common language, that of quantum information theory.

The Quantum Manifesto was signed by 3,400 scientists and officially released at the 2016 Quantum Europe Conference, calling for a quantum technology initiative to coordinate between academia and industry, to move quantum technologies from the laboratory to industry, and to educate quantum technology professionals in a combination of science, engineering, and business.[6][7][8][9][10]

The European Commission responded to that manifesto with the Quantum Technology Flagship [11][12], a 1 Billion, 10-year-long megaproject, similar in size to earlier European Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship projects such as the Graphene Flagship and Human Brain Project.[8][13] China is building the world's largest quantum research facility with a planned investment of 76 Billion Yuan (approx. 10 Billion).[14] The USA are preparing a national initiative.[15][16]

From 2010 onwards, multiple governments have established programmes to explore quantum technologies [17], such as the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme, which created four quantum 'hubs', the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore, and QuTech a Dutch centre to develop a topological quantum computer.[18] On 22 December 2018, Donald Trump signed into law the US National Quantum Initiative Act, with a billion dollar a year budget, which is widely viewed as a response to gains in QuTech by the Chinese particularly the recent launch of the Chinese Quantum Satellite.

In the private sector, there have been multiple investments into quantum technologies made by large companies. Examples include Google's partnership with the John Martinis group at UCSB,[19] multiple partnerships with the Canadian quantum computing company D-wave systems, and investment by many UK companies within the UK quantum technologies programme.

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National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA) – Yahoo Finance

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Danzig

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National Storage Affiliates Trust NYSE:NSAView full report here! Summary * ETFs holding this stock are seeing positive inflows * Bearish sentiment is low * Economic output in this company's sector is expanding Bearish sentimentShort interest | PositiveShort interest is low for NSA with fewer than 5% of shares on loan. The last change in the short interest score occurred more than 1 month ago and implies that there has been little change in sentiment among investors who seek to profit from falling equity prices. Money flowETF/Index ownership | PositiveETF activity is positive. Over the last month, ETFs holding NSA are favorable, with net inflows of $2.47 billion. Additionally, the rate of inflows is increasing. Economic sentimentPMI by IHS Markit | PositiveAccording to the latest IHS Markit Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) data, output in the Financials sector is rising. The rate of growth is strong relative to the trend shown over the past year. Credit worthinessCredit default swapCDS data is not available for this security.Please send all inquiries related to the report to score@ihsmarkit.com.Charts and report PDFs will only be available for 30 days after publishing.This document has been produced for information purposes only and is not to be relied upon or as construed as investment advice. To the fullest extent permitted by law, IHS Markit disclaims any responsibility or liability, whether in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence), equity or otherwise, for any loss or damage arising from any reliance on or the use of this material in any way. Please view the full legal disclaimer and methodology information on pages 2-3 of the full report.

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TMS Motor Spares Ltd

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Danzig

07/09/2018 - Important announcement - Investing in our team - TMS - your partner in business

We are delighted to tell you that the team at TMS Motor Spares have taken the decision to become part of Alliance Automotive Group.This enhancement is being carried out with our customers in mind.. You will still speak and see all the team that youve worked with through the years.. We will invest in the business, adding to our team, stocking the leading brands and enhancing the range and quantity of stock held.. We will increase the number of delivery vans as we build the business. All these investments will ensure you will continue to receive the very best service that TMS have been famous for.A solid foundationAlliance Automotive is a leading distributor of automotive and commercial vehicle parts and accessories, supplying car parts and accessories across Europe. With one of the largest centralised purchasing structures in the UK, we can fulfil orders speedily, with knowledge and accuracy and within a competitive pricing structure.In the coming weeks there will be a few changes in supplier brands including the introduction of more original equipment quality suppliers, this will include Bosch, Delphi, Delco Remy, LUK and OE engine management products.

This web site will be updated in due course with all the relevant information including supplier updates and value added services the Alliance Automotive Group & Group Auto have to offer.

Thank you for your custom and long may it continue.

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Nanoengineering | Grad Apply

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Danzig

The NanoEngineering graduate degree program prepares students to enter the Nanotechnology workforce, as well as prepare students to enter a wider variety of engineering, science and/or medical career paths. It is clear that Nanotechnology-based industries will play a major role in the future economy. Our proposed curriculum is specifically intended to develop graduate students to be team leaders and innovators in corporations that have nanotechnology-centric applications, where our graduates will play the critical role to integrate across the varied disciplines involved, and help overcome the inherent challenges of engineering at the nanoscale. Their unique training in NanoEngineering will enable them to naturally become these leaders.

GRE General is required.

(international applicants only)

A test of English language proficiency is required for international applicants whose native language is not English and who have not studied full-time for one uninterrupted academic year at a university-level institution in which English is the language of instruction and in a country where English is a dominant language.

The following test(s) are accepted by this department:

TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)IELTS (International English Language Testing System)PTE (Pearson Test of English)

Minimum of 3 recommendations required.

If an application has fewer than three letters, it will not be reviewed.

Required

Online Statement of Purpose, only. 2500 word limit.

Include the following information in your statement:

Recommended

GRE General is required.

(international applicants only)

The following test(s) are accepted by this department:

TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)IELTS (International English Language Testing System)PTE (Pearson Test of English)

Minimum of 3 recommendations required.

If an application has fewer than three letters, it will not be reviewed.

Required

Online Statement of Purpose, only. 2500 word limit.

Include the following information in your statement:

Recommended

GRE General is required.

(international applicants only)

The following test(s) are accepted by this department:

TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)IELTS (International English Language Testing System)PTE (Pearson Test of English)

Minimum of 3 recommendations required.

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Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH Buyers Wont Give Up Easily …

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Danzig

Ethereum price is setting up for the next break against the US Dollar and bitcoin. ETH/USD buyers remain in action above $133 and they could attempt to push the price above $136 and $138.

After a sharp decline, ETH price bounced back from the $130 support level against the US Dollar. The ETH/USD pair recovered nicely and climbed back above the $134 level. It retested the $138 resistance levels, where sellers emerged. Later, the price started a downside correction and traded below the $136 level. There was a break below the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the recent wave from the $130 swing low to $138 high. Besides, there was a break below the $135 level and the 100 hourly simple moving average.

However, the $133-134 support area acted as a solid buy zone and prevented further losses. Moreover, the 50% Fib retracement level of the recent wave from the $130 swing low to $138 high acted as a support. At the moment, the price is trading higher and it recently surpassed the $135 level and the 100 hourly SMA. On the upside, there are many hurdles near the $136, $138 and $140 resistance levels. There is also a major bearish trend line formed with resistance at $136 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD.

If there is a successful break above the trend line and $136, the price could test the $138 or $140 resistance levels. Having said that, the price must clear the $140 barrier for more gains in the near term. On the other hand, if there is a bearish reaction, the price may slide towards the $131 level.

Looking at the chart, ETH price is trading in a range between $133 and $136. The next move could be either above the $136 resistance or below the $133 level. Having said that, buyers are likely to defend losses near the $134, $133 or $131 support level and buying dips might be considered as long as the price is above $129.

Hourly MACD The MACD for ETH/USD is gaining strength in the bullish zone.

Hourly RSI The RSI for ETH/USD is rising higher and it is still placed above the 50 level.

Major Support Level $133

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Create a cryptocurrency contract in Ethereum

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Danzig

The Coin

We are going to create a digital token. Tokens in the Ethereum ecosystem can represent any fungible tradable good: coins, loyalty points, gold certificates, IOUs, in-game items, etc. Since all tokens implement some basic features in a standard way, this also means that your token will be instantly compatible with the Ethereum wallet and any other client or contract that uses the same standards.

The standard token contract can be quite complex. But in essence a very basic token boils down to this:

But if you just want to copy paste a more complete code, then use this:

So let's start with the basics. Open the Wallet app, go to the Contracts tab and then Deploy New Contract. On the Solidity Contract Source code text field, type the code below:

A mapping means an associative array, where you associate addresses with balances. The addresses are in the basic hexadecimal Ethereum format, while the balances are integers, ranging from 0 to 115 quattuorvigintillion. If you don't know how much a quattuorvigintillion is, it's many vigintillions more than anything you are planning to use your tokens for. The public keyword, means that this variable will be accessible by anyone on the blockchain, meaning all balances are public (as they need to be, in order for clients to display them).

If you published your contract right away, it would work but wouldn't be very useful: it would be a contract that could query the balance of your coin for any addressbut since you never created a single coin, every one of them would return 0. So we are going to create a few tokens on startup. Add this code before the last closing bracket, just under the mapping.. line.

Notice that the function MyToken has the same name as the contract MyToken. This is very important and if you rename one, you have to rename the other too: this is a special, startup function that runs only once and once only when the contract is first uploaded to the network. This function will set the balance of msg.sender, the user which deployed the contract, with a balance of 21 million.

The choice of 21 million was rather arbitrary, and you can change it to anything you want in the code, but there's a better way: instead, supply it as a parameter for the function, like this:

Take a look at the right column beside the contract and you'll see a drop-down list, written pick a contract. Select the "MyToken" contract and you'll see that now it shows a section called Constructor parameters. These are changeable parameters for your token, so you can reuse the same code and only change these variables in the future.

Right now you have a functional contract that created balances of tokens but since there isn't any function to move it, all it does is stay on the same account. So we are going to implement that now. Write the following code before the last bracket.

This is a very straightforward function: it has a recipient and a value as the parameter and whenever someone calls it, it will subtract the _value from their balance and add it to the _to balance. Right away there's an obvious problem: what happens if the person wants to send more than it owns? Since we don't want to handle debt in this particular contract, we are simply going to make a quick check and if the sender doesn't have enough funds the contract execution will simply stop. It's also to check for overflows, to avoid having a number so big that it becomes zero again.

To stop a contract execution mid-execution you can either return or throw The former will cost less gas but it can be more headache as any changes you did to the contract so far will be kept. In the other hand, 'throw' will cancel all contract execution, revert any changes that transaction could have made and the sender will lose all Ether he sent for gas. But since the Wallet can detect that a contract will throw, it always shows an alert, therefore preventing any Ether to be spent at all.

Now all that is missing is having some basic information about the contract. In the near future this can be handled by a token registry, but for now we'll add them directly to the contract:

And now we update the constructor function to allow all those variables to be set up at the start:

Finally, we now need something called Events. These are special, empty functions that you call to help clients like the Ethereum Wallet keep track of activities happening in the contract. Events should start with a capital letter. Add this line at the beginning of the contract to declare the event:

And then you just need to add these two lines inside the "transfer" function:

And now your token is ready!

What are those @notice and @param comments, you might ask? That's Natspec an emerging standard for a natural language specification, which allows wallets to show the user a natural language description of what the contract is about to do. While not currently supported by many wallets, this will change in the future, so it's nice to be prepared.

If you aren't there already, open the Ethereum Wallet, go to the contracts tab and then click "deploy new contract".

Now get the token source from above and paste it into the "Solidity source field". If the code compiles without any error, you should see a "pick a contract" drop-down list on the right. Get it and select the "MyToken" contract. On the right column, you'll see all the parameters you need to personalize your own token. You can tweak them as you please, but for the purpose of this tutorial we recommend you to pick these parameters: 10,000 as the supply, any name you want, "%" for a symbol and 2 decimal places. Your app should be looking like this:

Scroll to the end of the page and you'll see an estimate of the computation cost of that contract and you can select a fee on how much Ether you are willing to pay for it. Any excess Ether you don't spend will be returned to you so you can leave the default settings if you wish. Press "deploy", type your account password and wait a few seconds for your transaction to be picked up.

You'll be redirected to the front page where you can see your transaction waiting for confirmations. Click the account named "Etherbase" (your main account) and after no more than a minute you should see that your account will show that you have 100% of the shares you just created. To send some to a few friends: select "send", and then choose which currency you want to send (Ether or your newly created share), paste your friend's address on the "to" field and press "send".

If you send it to a friend, they will not see anything in their wallet yet. This is because the wallet only tracks tokens it knows about, and you have to add these manually. Now go to the "Contracts" tab and you should see a link to your newly created contract. Click on it to go to its page. Since this is a very simple contract page there isn't much to do here, just click "copy address" and paste the contract address into a text editor, you'll need it shortly.

To add a token to watch, go to the contracts page and then click "Watch Token". A pop-up will appear and you only need to paste the contract address. The token name, symbol and decimal number should be automatically filled but if it's not you can put anything you want (it will only affect how it displays on your wallet). Once you do this, you'll automatically be shown any balance you have of that token and you'll be able to send it to anyone else.

And now you have your own crypto token! Tokens by themselves can be useful as value exchange on local communities, ways to keep track of worked hours or other loyalty programs. But can we make a currency have an intrinsic value by making it useful?

You can deploy your whole crypto token without ever touching a line of code, but the real magic happens when you start customizing it. The following sections will be suggestions on functions you can add to your token to make it fit your needs more.

You'll notice that there are some more functions in your basic token contract, like approve, sendFrom and others.These functions are there for your token to interact with other contracts: if you want to, say, sell tokens to a decentralized exchange, just sending them to an address will not be enough as the exchange will not be aware of the new tokens or who sent them, because contracts aren't able to subscribe to Events only to function calls. So for contracts, you should first approve an amount of tokens they can move from your account and then ping them to let them know they should do their thing - or do the two actions in one, with approveAndCall.

Because many of these functions are having to reimplement the transferring of tokens, it makes sense to change them to an internal function, which can only be called by the contract itself:

Now all your functions that result in the transfer of coins, can do their own checks and then call transfer with the correct parameters. Notice that this function will move coins from any account to any other, without requiring anyone's permission to do so: that's why it's an internal function, only called by the contract: if you add any function calling it, make sure it properly verifies if the caller should be have permission to move those.

All dapps are fully decentralized by default, but that doesn't mean they can't have some sort of central manager, if you want them to. Maybe you want the ability to mint more coins, maybe you want to ban some people from using your currency. You can add any of those features, but the catch is that you can only add them at the beginning, so all the token holders will always know exactly the rules of the game before they decide to own one.

For that to happen, you need a central controller of currency. This could be a simple account, but could also be a contract and therefore the decision on creating more tokens will depend on the contract: if it's a democratic organization that can be up to vote, or maybe it can be just a way to limit the power of the token owner.

In order to do that we'll learn a very useful property of contracts: inheritance. Inheritance allows a contract to acquire properties of a parent contract, without having to redefine all of them. This makes the code cleaner and easier to reuse. Add this code to the first line of your code, before contract MyToken {.

This creates a very basic contract that doesn't do anything except define some generic functions about a contract that can be "owned". Now the next step is just to add the text is owned to your contract:

This means that all the functions inside MyToken now can access the variable owner and the modifier onlyOwner. The contract also gets a function to transfer ownership. Since it might be interesting to set the owner of the contract at startup, you can also add this to the constructor function:

Suppose you want the amount of coins in circulation to change. This is the case when your tokens actually represent an off blockchain asset (like gold certificates or government currencies) and you want the virtual inventory to reflect the real one. This might also be the case when the currency holders expect some control of the price of the token, and want to issue or remove tokens from circulation.

First, we need to add a variable to store the totalSupply and assign it to our constructor function.

Now let's add a new function finally that will enable the owner to create new tokens:

Notice the modifier onlyOwner on the end of the function name. This means that this function will be rewritten at compilation to inherit the code from the modifier onlyOwner we had defined before. This function's code will be inserted where there's an underline on the modifier function, meaning that this particular function can only be called by the account that is set as the owner. Just add this to a contract with an owner modifier and you'll be able to create more coins.

Depending on your use case, you might need to have some regulatory hurdles on who can and cannot use your tokens. For that to happen, you can add a parameter that enables the contract owner to freeze or unfreeze assets.

Add this variable and function anywhere inside the contract. You can put them anywhere but for good practice we recommend you put the mappings with the other mappings and events with the other events.

With this code, all accounts are unfrozen by default but the owner can set any of them into a freeze state by calling Freeze Account. Freezing does not yet have a practical effect because we haven't added anything to the transfer function. We are changing that now:

Now any account that is frozen will still have their funds intact, but won't be able to move them. Alternatively, you can also create a whitelist where all accounts are frozen by default and each account needs to be manually approved. Just rename frozenAccount into approvedAccount and change the last line to:

So far, you've relied on utility and trust to value your token. But if you want you can make the token's value be backed by Ether (or other tokens) by creating a fund that automatically sells and buys them at market value.

First, let's set the price for buying and selling:

This is acceptable for a price that doesn't change very often, as every new price change will require you to execute a transaction and spend a bit of Ether. If you want to have a constant floating price we recommend investigating standard data feeds

The next step is making the buy and sell functions:

Notice that this will not create new tokens but change the balance the contract owns. The contract can hold both its own tokens and Ether and the owner of the contract, while it can set prices or in some cases create new tokens (if applicable) it cannot touch the bank's tokens or Ether. The only way this contract can move funds is by selling and buying them.

Note Buy and sell "prices" are not set in Ether, but in wei the minimum currency of the system (equivalent to the cent in the Euro and Dollar, or the Satoshi in Bitcoin). One Ether is 1000000000000000000 wei. So when setting prices for your token in Ether, add 18 zeros at the end.

When creating the contract, send enough Ether to it so that it can buy back all the tokens on the market otherwise your contract will be insolvent and your users won't be able to sell their tokens.

The previous examples, of course, describe a contract with a single central buyer and seller, a much more interesting contract would allow a market where anyone can bid different prices, or maybe it would load the prices directly from an external source.

Everytime, you make a transaction on Ethereum you need to pay a fee to the miner of the block that will calculate the result of your smart contract. While this might change in the future, for the moment fees can only be paid in Ether and therefore all users of your tokens need it. Tokens in accounts with a balance smaller than the fee are stuck until the owner can pay for the necessary fee. But in some use cases, you might not want your users to think about Ethereum, blockchain or how to obtain Ether, so one possible approach would have your coin automatically refill the user balance as soon as it detects the balance is dangerously low.

In order to do that, first you need to create a variable that will hold the threshold amount and a function to change it. If you don't know any value, set it to 5 finney (0.005 Ether).

Then, add this line to the transfer function so that the sender is refunded:

You can also instead change it so that the fee is paid forward to the receiver by the sender:

This will ensure that no account receiving the token has less than the necessary Ether to pay the fees.

There are some ways to tie your coin supply to a mathematical formula. One of the simplest ways would be to make it a "merged mining" with Ether, meaning that anyone who finds a block on Ethereum would also get a reward from your coin, given that anyone calls the reward function on that block. You can do it using the special keyword coinbase that refers to the miner who finds the block.

It's also possible to add a mathematical formula, so that anyone who can do math can win a reward. On this next example you have to calculate the cubic root of the current challenge gets a point and the right to set the next challenge:

Of course, while calculating cubic roots can be hard for someone to do on their heads, they are very easy with a calculator, so this game could be easily broken by a computer. Also since the last winner can choose the next challenge, they could pick something they know and therefore would not be a very fair game to other players. There are tasks that are easy for humans but hard for computers but they are usually very hard to code in simple scripts like these. Instead, a fairer system should be one that is very hard for a computer to do, but isn't very hard for a computer to verify. A great candidate would be to create a hash challenge where the challenger has to generate hashes from multiple numbers until they find one that is lower than a given difficulty.

This process was first proposed by Adam Back in 1997 as Hashcash and then was implemented in Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto as Proof of work in 2008. Ethereum was launched using such system for its security model, but is planning to move from a Proof of Work security model into a mixed proof of stake and betting system called Casper.

But if you like Hashing as a form of random issuance of coins, you can still create your own Ethereum based currency that has a proof of work issuance:

Also change the Constructor function (the one that has the same name as the contract, which is called at first upload) to add this line, so the difficulty adjustment will not go crazy:

Once the contract is online, select the function "Proof of work", add your favorite number on the nonce field and try to execute it. If the confirmation window gives a red warning saying "Data can't be execute" go back and pick another number until you find one that allows the transaction to go forward: this process is random. If you find one you will be awarded 1 token for every minute that has passed since the last reward was given, and then the challenge difficulty will be adjusted up or down to target an average of 10 minutes per reward.

This process of trying to find the number that will give you a reward is what is called mining: if difficulty rises it can be very hard to find a lucky number, but it will always be easy to verify that you found one.

If you add all the advanced options, this is how the final code should look like:

Scroll down and you'll see an estimated cost for deployment. If you want you can change the slider to set a smaller fee, but if the price is too below the average market rate your transaction might take longer to pick up. Click Deploy and type your password. After a few seconds you'll be redirected to the dashboard and under Latest transactions you'll see a line saying "creating contract". Wait for a few seconds for someone to pick your transaction and then you'll see a slow blue rectangle representing how many other nodes have seen your transaction and confirmed them. The more confirmations you have, the more assurance you have that your code has been deployed.

Click on the link that says Admin page and you'll be taken the simplest central bank dashboard in the world, where you can do anything you want with your newly created currency.

On the left side under Read from contract you have all the options and functions you can use to read information from the contract, for free. If your token has an owner, it will display its address here. Copy that address and paste it into Balance of and it will show you the balance of any account (the balance is also automatically shown on any account page that has tokens).

On the right side, under Write to Contract you'll see all the functions you can use to alter or change the blockchain in any way. These will cost gas. If you created a contract that allows you to mint new coins, you should have a function called "Mint Token". Select it.

Select the address where those new currencies will be created and then the amount (if you have decimals set at 2, then add 2 zeros after the amount, to create the correct quantity). On Execute from select the account that set as owner, leave the Ether amount at zero and then press execute.

After a few confirmations, the recipient balance will be updated to reflect the new amount. But your recipient wallet might not show it automatically: in order to be aware of custom tokens, the wallet must add them manually to a watch list. Copy your token address (at the admin page, press copy address) and send that to your recipient. If they haven't already they should go to the contracts tab, press Watch Token and then add the address there. Name, symbols and decimal amounts displayed can be customized by the end user, especially if they have other tokens with similar (or the same) name. The main icon is not changeable and users should pay attention to them when sending and receiving tokens to ensure they are dealing with the real deal and not some copycat token.

Once you've deployed your tokens, they will be added to your list of watched tokens, and the total balance will be shown on your account. In order to send tokens, just go to the Send tab and select an account that contains tokens. The tokens the account has will be listed just under Ether. Select them and then type the amount of tokens you want to send.

If you want to add someone else's token, just go to the Contracts tab and click Watch token. For example, to add the Unicorn () token to your watch list, just add the address 0x89205A3A3b2A69De6Dbf7f01ED13B2108B2c43e7 and the remaining information will be loaded automatically. Click Ok and your token will be added.

Unicorn tokens are memorabilia created exclusively for those who have donated to the address 0xfB6916095ca1df60bB79Ce92cE3Ea74c37c5d359 that is controlled by the Ethereum Foundation. For more information about them read it here

You just learned how you can use Ethereum to issue a token, that can represent anything you want. But what can you do with the tokens? You can use, for instance, the tokens to represent a share in a company or you can use a central committee to vote on when to issue new coins to control inflation. You can also use them to raise money for a cause, via a crowdsale. What will you build next?

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Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH Remains Sell Near $128, Target …

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Danzig

Ethereum price started a major decline against the US Dollar and bitcoin. ETH/USD is following a downtrend and it could continue to move down towards the $120 and $118 levels.

Recently, we saw a downside extension below the $130 support in ETH price against the US Dollar. The ETH/USD pair gained bearish momentum and broke the $126 and $125 support levels. It even traded below the $124 level and settled well below the 100 hourly simple moving average. A new monthly low was formed near $122 and the price is currently consolidating losses. It recovered above the $124 level and the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the recent drop from the $135 swing high to $122 swing low.

However, the previous support at $127 is acting as a solid resistance. Above $127, the $128 and $129 levels are waiting to prevent gains. There is also a crucial bearish trend line in place with resistance at $130 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD. Below the trend line, the 50% Fib retracement level of the recent drop from the $135 swing high to $122 swing low is near $129. Finally, the 100 hourly simple moving average is positioned near the $131 level.

Therefore, there are many resistances on the upside, starting with $127 and ending near $131. If the price corrects higher, it is likely to find a strong selling interest near $127 and $128. Once the current consolidation/correction pattern is complete, the price may resume its decline below $124. The next key support is positioned near the $120 level. If sellers remain in action, the price could even test the $118 level in the near term.

Looking at the chart, ETH price is trading heavily in the bearish zone below the $131 resistance. There could be short-term corrective moves, but upsides remain capped below $130 and $131. On the downside, buyers are likely to take a stand near the $120 and $118 levels in the coming sessions.

Hourly MACD The MACD for ETH/USD is about to move back in the bearish zone.

Hourly RSI The RSI for ETH/USD is slowly recovering, but it is still well below the 50 and 45 levels.

Major Support Level $120

Major Resistance Level $130

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Stem Cells in MS : National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Danzig

There is exciting and innovative research and progress occurring related to the potential of many types of stem cells for slowing MS disease activity and for repairing damage to the nervous system. In light of the urgent need for more effective treatments for MS, particularly for those with more progressive forms of the disease, we believe that the potential of all types of cell therapies must be explored.

Stem cell therapy is any treatment that uses or targets stem cells, which are the types of cells that differntiate into many different specialized cells in our bodies. Stem cells are found in both embryos and adults.

Many types of stem cells are being explored for their potential benefits for treating multiple sclerosis. Only when the results of these and subsequent clinical trials are available will it be possible to determine what the optimal cells, delivery methods, safety and actual effectiveness of these current experimental therapies might be for people with MS.

Although cell based therapy has generated a great deal of interest and holds promise, the field is in its infancy and much more research is needed before cell based therapies become a MS treatment option.

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Cell Therapy | Infusio.org

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Danzig

Infusio uses various forms of stem cell-based therapies. One of the most advanced forms of regenerative medicine is called Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF). This complex combination of mesenchymal and blood stem cells, exosomes, and transcription factors plays a vital role in combating chronic degenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis, diabetes, COPD, neurological disorders, and autoimmune diseases.

The process involves the removal of approximately 50ccs of a patients own fat tissue. Impurities are removed and the highly concentrated serum is then prepared and re-introduced intravenously causing a systemic response.

The stem cells and supportive cells contained in SVF are able to regulate the immune response, counteract inflammation, and even repair organ and nerve damage. SVF can also be administered via injection to target specific joint damage and rebuild cartilage in a particular area. This one-two punch of tissue regeneration and immune recalibration is one of the most powerful treatments Infusio offers.

As a follow up therapy, we often use PBMC an auto-cyto immunotherapy (ACT) which utilizes specific immune cells that are extracted from your blood and reintroduced to strengthen the immune response in the ongoing recovery.

The most recent development in Infusios cell therapy research is exosome therapy. This form of cell therapy uses stem cell messengers which are part of the so-called stem cell secrotomes. Exosomes are derived from placental mesenchymal stem cells the youngest form of stem cell lines available. They carry important anti-inflammatory proteins and so called genetic blueprints which they can insert into cells and thereby cause a regenerative effect. This advanced therapy may be recommended for patients that are severely immune deficient and want to avoid the liposuction procedure.

Regardless what form of cell therapy you receive, Infusio ensures an ideal foundation for healing by applying the Five Steps to Health and optimizing your body in advance, for the most effective impact of your cell therapy.

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