Ashan Warnakulasuriya

  Handbook of Biomedical Instrumentation - Technology and Applications written by R.S. Khandpur is essentially a handbook for Biomedical Engineers and Clinical Engineers. Follow the link given below to download the second edition of the book. (No advertisements, No pop ups) Read, Improve Knowledge and Share! Click Here to Download

Discrete-time Signal Processing is a book written by Alan V. Oppenheim and Ronald W. Schafer which is essentially the handbook of Digital Signal Processing. Follow this link to download the 3rd edition of the book free. (No advertiesements, no pop ups) Click Here to Download

If you are trying to open newly installed software after the year 2015 you might have encountered the api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing error and crashing of the program on the startup. You might have tried reinstalling the software all over again without any luck. I personally encountered the issue when I was trying to install Solidworks 2016 and pyhton 3.6.1 Turns out the errors lies in the Universal C runtime in Windows. It is a component that ensures proper functionality in the operating system. Precisely, the error is encountered in devices built using Visual Studio 2015 or above, which relies on sections of the Universal C Runtime in Windows. Some versions of Windows do not contain the necessary sections of the Universal C Runtime, or contain the wrong version for Visual Studio 2015. This happens most commonly on Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems, but has been seen on Windows Embedded 7 systems as well. When this

There has been lot happening in the torrent scene in the last few months. With the (brief)  closure of PirateBay , the shutdown of a popular TV show aggregator, and  more ISP’s around the world  being ordered to block anything related to torrents, downloading through torrents is scrutinized and often associated with piracy. If you are lucky your ISP may not have blocked torrents, but it may throttle the speed to a point where you might give up using them. This is bad news for the honest-torrent-user (yes they exist!!). For these folks and others who are behind a college or workplace  firewall , cloud torrent is the alternative way.  Cloud Torrent, while not a new concept, is becoming popular due to the above reasons and today there are many websites which provide this service.  If you want a simple cloud torrent service, look no further than seedr.  The speed is amazing and fetching a torrent is just a two-step process. A free account gives you 2 GB of free space and there are no

There is nothing in Einstein’s theories of  relativity  to rule out time travel, although the very notion of traveling to the past violates one of the most fundamental premises of physics, that of causality. With the laws of cause and effect out the window, there naturally arises a number of inconsistencies associated with time travel, and listed here are some of those paradoxes which have given both scientist and time travel  movie  buffs alike more than a few sleepless nights over the years. The Time travel paradoxes which follow fall into two broad categories, namely 1) Closed Causal Loops, such as the Predestination Paradox and the Bootstrap Paradox, which involve a self-existing time loop in which cause and effect run in a repeating circle, but is also internally consistent with the timeline’s history, and 2) Consistency Paradoxes, such as the Grandfather Paradox and other similar variants such as The Hitler paradox, and Polchinski’s Paradox, which generate a number of timeline

In the first half of the 20 th  Century, a whole new theory of physics was developed, which has superseded everything we know about classical physics, and even the Theory of Relativity, which is still a classical model at heart.  Quantum theory  or  quantum mechanics  is now recognized as the most correct and accurate model of the universe, particularly at sub-atomic scales, although for large objects classical Newtonian and relativistic physics work adequately. If the concepts and predictions of relativity (see the section on  Relativistic Time ) are often considered difficult and counter-intuitive, many of the basic tenets and implications of quantum mechanics may appear absolutely bizarre and inconceivable, but they have been repeatedly proven to be true, and it is now one of the most rigorously tested physical models of all time. Max Planck is sometimes considered the father of quantum theory Quanta One of the implications of quantum mechanics is that certain aspects

Arguably, we are always travelling though time, as we move from the past into the future. But  time travel  usually refers to the possibility of changing the rate at which we travel into the future, or completely reversing it so that we travel into the past. Although a plot device in fiction since the 19 th Century (see the section on  Time in Literature ), time travel has never been practically demonstrated or verified, and may still be impossible. Time travel is not possible in Newtonian  absolute time  (we move deterministically and linearly forward into the future). Neither is it possible according to special relativity (we are constrained by our light cones). But  general relativity  does raises the prospect (at least theoretically) of travel through time, i.e. the possibility of movement backwards and/or forwards in time, independently of the normal flow of time we observe on Earth, in much the same way as we can move between different points in space. Time travel is usual

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When his twin brother is killed, disabled ex-Marine Jake Sully is recruited to aid a mining expedition on the distant jungle moon of Pandora as only his DNA will bond with the alien hybrid body, known as an Avatar, that allows humans to breathe the toxic air. With orders to infiltrate the Na’vi, Jake finds himself falling in love with native girl, Neytiri, and complications soon ensue… Avatar is unequivocally, completely, 100% the film that has been percolating in James Cameron’s head for the last fourteen years. It is not, in all probability, the film that you had in yours when you first heard that the man who directed Aliens and The Terminator was returning to sci-fi with a movie so ambitious that he had to build the technology to make it happen. If you can let go of your version and embrace Cameron’s – if you’re not, in other words, one of those splenetic internet fanboy types who’ve apparently made their minds up about Avatar before seeing it – then Avatar is a hugely rewar