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North Korea vowed to wage a "merciless, sacred war" against the United States on Thursday, days before the launch of annual joint South Korea-US military exercises that have incensed Pyongyang.
"Nuclear weapons are not a monopoly of the US," the ruling party's official newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, warned in an editorial carried by the state KCNA news agency.
"The US is seriously mistaken if it thinks its mainland is safe," the editorial added.
North Korea "will wage a merciless sacred war against the US now that the latter has chosen confrontation", the Rodong Sinmun said.
North Korea regularly ramps up the bellicose rhetoric before the start of the annual joint military exercises that always see a sharp surge in tensions on the divided peninsula.
Seoul and Washington insist they are defensive in nature, but they are condemned by Pyongyang as provocative rehearsals for invasion.
North Korea had offered a moratorium on nuclear testing if this year's joint drills were cancelled -- a proposal rejected by Washington as an "implicit threat" to carry out a fourth nuclear test.
The editorial came as South Korea and the United States conducted a joint naval drill Friday, involving 10 South Korean warships and a US Aegis destroyer.
The drill was a prelude to the eight-week Foal Eagle exercise which kicks off Monday and involves air, ground and naval field training, with around 200,000 Korean and 3,700 US troops.
A week-long, largely computer-simulated joint drill, Key Resolve, also gets underway Monday.
North Korea has made threats against the US mainland before, although it has never demonstrated a missile strike capability of that range.
Although its nuclear program remains shrouded in uncertainty, Pyongyang is currently believed to have a stockpile of some 10 to 16 nuclear weapons fashioned from either plutonium or weapons-grade uranium.
A new research report by US experts published this week estimated that North Korea could be on track to have an arsenal of 100 nuclear weapons by 2020.
Global Medical Sensors Market Research and Forecast 2018-2023
by lisaomr · November 19, 2018
Medical sensors: an imminent of healthcare industry
A broad intersection of the biotechnology and information technology sector have led to the introduction of sensors in the medical field. Electronic systems used in medical field such as equipment, probes, and devices rely on signals sent by sensors for various control activities, treatment, and accurate diagnosis. Sensors are increasingly being used in medical devices with the aim of making safer and effective medical solutions. Sensors are incorporated into medical devices such as lenses, blood monitoring devices, and medical implants, for the detection of chemical, physical, and biological signals radiated by the human body. Global medical sensors market includes some of the leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry players such as Bayer AG, Philips Healthcare, GE Healthcare, and Abbott Laboratories, among others. These players have started the development of portable ECG devices for cardiac patients, which avails the facility of home use to the patients.
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The sensors exhibit the role of monitor, detector, and recorder for the activities performed by the human being. It monitors various physical properties of the body, which includes pressure, temperature, sound level, vibration, and flow rate of liquids and gases, among others. Sensors converts the electronics-based signal received from medical equipment to various forms of stimuli and back to electrical signals for the disease analysis. The researchers are rigorously developing thin sensors for the global medical sensors market. A sensor sizing 50 times thinner than a human hair has enabled doctors and patients to manage and control chronic diseases such as diabetes. These thin medical sensors can accurately measure small concentration of gases known as metabolites, which are generally discharged through skin or breadth, and assists in the monitoring of the patient鈥檚 health. Researchers of Australian National University (ANU) have developed tiny optical sensors that can be used in wearable medical devices, which in turn, assists doctors in the diagnosis of patient鈥檚 health in real-time. Moreover, the smart watches and bracelets can detect the number of steps taken by an individual in a day along with the monitoring of heart rates.
Recent innovations in the medical sensors market
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