Towards Batteryless Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices – The Swiss Way

Energy harvesting devices are widely discussed as an alternative power source for todays active implantable medical devices. Repeated battery replacement procedures can be avoided by extending the implants life span, which is the goal of energy harvesting concepts. This reduces the risk of complications for the patient and may even reduce device size. The continuous and powerful contractions of a human heart ideally qualify as a battery substitute. In particular, devices in close proximity to the heart such as pacemakers, defibrillators or bio signal (ECG) recorders would benefit from this alternative energy source. The clockwork of an automatic wristwatch was used to transform the hearts kinetic energy into electrical energy. In order to qualify as a continuous energy supply for the consuming device, the mechanism needs to demonstrate its harvesting capability under various conditions. Several in-vivo recorded heart motions were used as input of a mathematical model to optimize the clockworks original conversion efficiency with respect to myocardial contractions. The resulting design was implemented and tested during in-vitro and in-vivo experiments, which demonstrated the superior sensitivity of the new design for all tested heart motions.

On the importance of an early correct education of children : embracing the mutual obligations and duties of parent and child ; and also the qualifications and discipline of teachers, with their emolument ; and a plan suggested whereby all our common schools can advantageously be made free ; the whole interspersed with several amusing, chaste anecdotes growing out of the domestic and scolastic circle ; to which is subjoined by way of appendix, the Declaration of Independence ... ; the Constitution of the United States ; with that of the state of New York as lately adopted /

Bound in green cloth; stamped in gold and blind.

The present method of inoculating for the small-pox : to which are added, some experiments, instituted with a view to discover the effects of a similar treatment in the natural small-pox /

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The present method of inoculating for the small-pox : to which are added, some experiments, instituted with a view to discover the effects of a similar treatment in the natural small-pox /

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A natural history of birds : most of which have not been figured or described, and others very little known, from obscure ... : containing the figures of sixty-one birds and two quadrupedes ...: to wich is added, an appendix, by way of illustration : part II /

Forma parte de la obra completa: "A natural history of uncommon birds, and of some other rare and undescribed animals ..."

An account of some experiments and observations on Tar-Water : : wherein is shown the quantity of tar that is therein, which was read before the Royal Society /

A letter from Mr. Reid to Dr. Hales concerning the nature of Tar and a method of obtainig it's Medical Virtues, free from it's hurtful Oils: Whereby also the strength of each dose may be the better ascertained.

Elements of mathematics : containing geometry, conic sections, trigonometry ... : to which is prefixed the first principles of algebra, by way of introduction for the use of the Royal Academy of Artillery at Woolwich : vol. I and II /

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Navigation or, the Art of Sailing upon the sea : containing a demonstration of the Fundamental principles of this art together with all the practical rules of computing a ship's way both by plain sailing, mercator, and Middel Latitude founded upon the foregoing principles with many other useful things hereto belonging to which are added several necessary tables.

A journal of a voyage in the sweepstakes from the Lizard las 49 55 N. Lon. 12 56 to Jamaica Lat. 180 N Long. 3017 in the year 1754, p. 131-216 ; A table of Logarithmic sines, cosines, tangents and cotangents, [120] p.

Seneca's morals by way of abstract : to which is added, a discourse, under the title of An after thought /

Of benefits -- Of a happy life -- Of anger -- Epistles -- Postscript -- An after-thought.

Register of officers and agents, civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States, on the ... : showing the state or territory from which each person was appointed to office, the state or country in which he was born, and the compensation, pay, and emoluments allowed to each; together with the names and compensation of all printers in any way employed by Congress, or any department or officer of the government.

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Remarks on canal navigation : illustrative of the advantages of the use of steam, as a moving power on canals : With an appendix, containing a series of experiments, tables, &c. on which a number of proposed improvements are founded : Also, plans and descriptions of certain classes of steam boats, intended for the navigation of canals, and the adjoining branches of the sea /

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The new practical navigator : being a complete epitome of navigation, to which are added all the tables requisite for determining the latitude and longitude at sea, containing the different kinds of sailing and necessary corrections for lee-way, variation, &c. exemplified in a journal at sea.

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The force of the mother's imagination upon her foetus in utero, still farther considered : in the way of a reply to Dr. Blondel's last book, entitled, The power of the mother's imagination over the foetus examined : to which is added, the twelfth chapter of the first part of a treatise De morbis cutaneis, as it was printed therein many years past : in a letter to Dr. Blondel /

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The form of process, before the Lords of Council and Session, observed in advocations, ordinary actions, suspensions : shewing also, the manner of making protestations for remedy in law, and how summons thereon was brought before the Parliament of Scotland : and the way how, since the union, such process is laid before the House of Peers : with the form of process before the Lords of Session, as commissioners appointed by Parliament, for plantation of kirks, valuation and sale of tythes : to all which is prefix'd the present state of the College of Justice, giving an account of the members thereof, and of the order observed by the Lords of Session in judging causes : with the fees and prices of writs paid to the several offices and members of the session : written for the use of students in Spotiswood's College of Law /

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The Newtonian system of the world, the best model of government: an allegorical poem. With a plain and intelligible account of the system of the world, by way of annotations ... To which is added, Cambria's complaint against the intercalary day in the leap-year.

Tributes to George II and Queen Caroline.