Free arthritis medicine software for linux

Balazar Brother is an amazing libre 3D puzzle game, realized by Jiba and Nekeme Prod.

A 3D platform universe, two characters and two keys, one for each character, and at the end of the road two princesses to free. Just press a key and the corresponding character will jump on the next platform in front of him.

Simple ? Yes ! Easy ? Not sure ! Because nothing will be spared to you : moving platforms, dangerous monsters, vicious traps... will you manage to find your way trough mad levels and free the princesses ? You can count only on your agility, your guile... and the unforgettable acrobatics of the Balazar Brothers !

Aspirin is not included ! (another game coded by pharmacists to sell their medicine, would say the bad tongues...

Balazar Brothers developpers and users can be found on the #nekeme and #soya IRC channel of Freenode.

openDICOM.NET software implements a new approach towards DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) libraries. DICOM is a worldwide standard in Medical IT and is provided by the National Electrical Manufacturers Assocation (NEMA). This standard specifies the way medical images and meta data like study or patient related data is stored and communicated over different digital medias. Thus, DICOM is a binary protocol and data format.

The openDICOM# Class Libary, main part of the openDICOM.NET project, provides an API to DICOM in C# for Mono and the .NET Framework. It is a completely new implementation of DICOM. In contrast to other similar libraries the intention of this implementation is to provide a clean classification with support of unidirectional DICOM data streaming. Another implemented goal is the support of DICOM as XML. This is not standard conform but very use- and powerful within software development, storage and manipulation. Currently, full read support of DICOM output stream and full write support to XML is supposed to be provided. The entire DICOM content can be accessed as sequence or as tree of class instances. Latter is the default representation of DICOM content by the library.

The openDICOM.NET Utils are a collection of console tools for working with the needed data dictionaries in different data formats (binary and textual), query of ACR-NEMA (prior DICOM standard) and DICOM files and transcoding them into image formats like JPEG and XML files. These utils are written in C# for Mono and the .NET Framework and are using the openDICOM# API for processing.

Last but not least, the openDICOM.NET Navigator recapitulates the openDICOM.NET Utils in form of a GTK# GUI. It provides different views with focus on DICOM data sets and visualization. Connectivity to GIMP is also given for image processing purpose as well as the possibility to run through multi-frame images like a movie.

ITK is an open-source software system to support the Visible Human Project. ITK is also known as National Library of Medicine Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit. Currently under active development, ITK employs leading-edge segmentation and registration algorithms in two, three, and more dimensions.
The Insight Toolkit was developed by six principal organizations, three commercial (Kitware, GE Corporate R&D, and Insightful) and three academic (UNC Chapel Hill, University of Utah, and University of Pennsylvania).
Additional team members include Harvard Brigham & Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University. The funding for the project is from the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. NLM in turn was supported by member institutions of NI
Here are some goals of "ITK":
- Support the Visible Human Project.
- Establish a foundation for future research.
- Create a repository of fundamental algorithms.
- Develop a platform for advanced product development.
- Support commercial application of the technology.
- Create conventions for future work.
- Grow a self-sustaining community of software users and developers.

sinntp is a tiny NNTP client. sinntp virtually lacks any user interface: news messages are downloaded from a remote server and put into a local mailbox file.
About NNTP:
The Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles, as well as transferring news among news servers. Brian Kantor of the University of California, San Diego and Phil Lapsley of the University of California, Berkeley completed RFC 977, the specification for the Network News Transfer Protocol, in March 1986. Other contributors included Stan Barber from the Baylor College of Medicine and Erik Fair of Apple Computer.
Usenet was originally designed around the UUCP network, with most article transfers taking place over direct computer-to-computer telephone links. Readers and posters would log into the same computers that hosted the servers, reading the articles directly from the local disk.
As local area networks and the Internet became more commonly used, it became desirable to allow newsreaders to be run on personal computers, and a means of employing the Internet to handle article transfers was desired. Because networked Internet-compatible filesystems were not yet widely available, it was decided to develop a new protocol that resembled SMTP, but was tailored for reading newsgroups.
The well-known TCP port 119 is reserved for NNTP. When clients connect to a news server with SSL, TCP port 563 is used. This is sometimes referred to as NNTPS.
The protocol remains in widespread use, and as of 2005 efforts are underway to produce an updated standard. The IMAP protocol can also be used for reading newsgroups.
Enhancements:
- Reading messages is not stopped if reading a message failed.

Gnaural is a multi-platform programmable binaural-beat generator, implementing the principles described in October 1973 Scientific American, Gerald Oster, "Auditory Beats in the Brain."

There has been considerable research done on the subject since that publication, and Gnaurals Windows-based predecessor, WinAural, has been used as the audio stimulus in at least one published study, "The Induced Rhythmic Oscillations of Neural Activity in the Human Brain", D. Cvetkovic, D. Djuwari, I. Cosic (Australia), from Proceeding (417) Biomedical Engineering - 2004.

The central finding of Osters article: brain activity can be entrained to the auditory beat frequencies created when each ear is presented simultaneously with tones of slightly offset in frequency. My interest has been exploring how this effect (known as "frequency following response" or "brainwave entrainment") can be used to explore mental states, ranging from profoundly meditative to highly alert.

What are auditory binaural beats?

In 1839, German experimenter Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered that playing two tones simultaneously, one in to each ear, induced the perception of a "beat frequency" when the tones were of slightly differing frequency (generally less than 100 Hz apart).

While an acoustic mixing of the two tones will also produce a beat frequency, what is notable about auditory binaural beats is that there is no acoustic mixing of the tones: the beats exist solely within the auditory system. Some researchers believe that they are an artifact of the "neural wiring" used to spatially determine the origins of sounds in our environment.

Gerald Osters breakthrough in 1973 was to observe that the neural processing associated with binaural beats can induce an overall entrainment of brainwave activity (essentially, an oscillation between the two hemispheres in sync with the beat frequency). The neurology of this phenomenon is, according to Oster, tied to the contralateral integration of auditory input taking place in the superior olivary nucleus in the brainstem.

My main interest in the principle has been the possibility that brainwave entrainment can be used to target specific mental states. Gnaural has a long lineage, starting with a DOS program in the mid 1990s, progressing to WinAural for Windows and (in the hope a making a cross-platform solution) BrainJav for Java, and finally the truly cross-platform solution in Gnaural. In over a decade of experience with the technique, I have mainly found it useful for slowing-down brain activity. In that capacity, it has served me in areas ranging from stress reduction, sleep make-up, and particularly as a sort of "poor mans meditation", requiring almost no effort to achieve states of mind that I usually have found rather hard to achieve with real meditation.

But these are strictly my observations, and I make no guarantees about what the technique can do for anyone else. Some of the more unusual applications Ive heard about for my software include sustaining a heightened mental focus for online tournament gaming, and enhancing flotation-tank and related sensory deprivation environments. Many people also apparently use the technique to study more effectively.

One of the stranger facts regarding binaural beats is their seeming ability to be equally-at-home in the laboratory setting as in "grass roots" contexts (such as alternative medicine and the New Age phenomenon). That there is a grass-roots enthusiasm (easily demonstrated by googling binaural beats) is probably related to the sense of promise inherent in an easy-to-implement technique offering the possibility of direct influence of brain behavior. But from a scientific standpoint, there is a big gap between claims (of what binaural beats can do) and corroboration (by scientific method), which has led to a sense in many that the actual subject of binaural beats is "controversial." But this is an irrational response, given that the actual scientific/laboratory basis of binaural beats has remained an established part of the scientific literature for over 30 years.

One of my goals in writing Gnaural was to implement the binaural beat principle within the bounds of my understanding of the established scientific facts regarding the subject. To some extent, this has meant leaving-out many of the "bells and whistles" prevailent in other implementations. That my software has been used for at least one published "hard-science" study suggests that it has been somewhat successful. However, I also hope that Gnaural proves useful for people who wish to explore subjective areas unfettered by scientific rigor. In a subject dealing with matters of the mind, I see both sides -- "grass-roots empiricism" and "scientific empiricism" -- as being complementary halves of a complete investigation of the possibilities, and ultimately, Id hope to see the two sides of our culture be catalysts for each other, rather than inhibited by a mutual antagonism.