#Behavior Modification Qatar

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Psychologist in Qatar: Finding the Right Mental Health Support

If you are looking for a psychologist in Qatar, the Mind Institute is an excellent place to start. They offer comprehensive mental health services provided by experienced professionals who are dedicated to helping you achieve your mental health goals. Their team of psychologists is well-equipped to handle a wide range of mental health issues and is committed to providing the highest quality of care.

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Family Counseling in Qatar: A Comprehensive Guide

The family is the nucleus of society and the foundation of its stability. Due to its complexities and diverse challenges, many individuals in Qatar resort to seeking family counseling to obtain support and guidance. In this topic, we provide you with a comprehensive guide on what family counseling is in Qatar, the most important institutions that provide it, its benefits, its areas of focus, the steps to obtain it, and finally some tips for families considering seeking counseling.

What is family counseling?

It is a service provided by specialized therapists that aims to help family members solve problems, improve their relationships, and strengthen communication among them. Family counseling is offered in Qatar in various languages, including Arabic and English.

The most important institutions that provide family counseling in Qatar:

Wifaq Center for Family Counseling: A non-profit organization that provides individual and group family counseling services, in addition to training programs and workshops.

"Wated" Service for Counseling, Marital and Family Therapy, and Educational Counseling: Provided by the Ministry of Social Development and Family, and includes individual and group counseling and psychological therapy for children.

Na'raakum for Family Counseling and Behavior Modification: A center that provides family counseling and therapeutic services, in addition to psychological, marital and educational counseling.

Private psychological clinics: There are many private psychological clinics in Qatar that provide family counseling services, at varying prices.

Read More: Divorce law for harm in Qatar

Benefits of family counseling:

Improving communication: Counseling helps improve communication skills between family members, and better understand each other's feelings and needs.

Problem-solving: Counseling provides effective tools and solutions to solve family problems, such as marital disputes, child misbehavior, and communication difficulties.

Strengthening relationships: Counseling contributes to strengthening family relationships and building stronger bonds between family members.

Prevention of problems: Family counseling helps to acquire skills to prevent family problems in the future.

Read More: How long does a divorce case take to recover?

Areas of focus of family counseling:

Marital conflicts: Marital counseling provides assistance to couples in resolving their problems and improving their relationship.

Child rearing: Educational counseling helps parents raise their children in a sound and effective manner.

Dealing with adolescents: Counseling provides support and guidance to parents in dealing with the challenges they face with their teenage children.

Coping with change: Family counseling helps families cope with changes they face, such as divorce or the death of a family member.

Addiction: Counseling provides support for families suffering from addiction problems among one of their members.

Domestic violence: Counseling helps to stop domestic violence and protect family members from harm.

Read More: Divorce procedures in Qatar

Steps to obtain family counseling in Qatar:

Search for a specialized therapist: Therapists specializing in family counseling can be searched for online or by asking trusted friends or family members.

Choosing the right therapist: It is important to make sure that the therapist is licensed and has experience in providing family counseling.

Booking an appointment: An appointment can be booked with the therapist by phone or email.

Attending sessions: It is important to attend all counseling sessions regularly and actively participate in the discussions.

Tips for families considering seeking counseling:

Don't hesitate to seek help: Family counseling is not a sign of weakness, but rather a sign of strength and a desire to improve the family situation.

Choose the right time: The best time to seek counseling is when the family is facing a crisis or when there are ongoing problems that cannot be resolved on their own.

Be open and honest: It is important to be open and honest with the therapist in order to get the most out of counseling.

Be committed to change: Counseling is a process that requires commitment and effort from all family members.

Conclusion:

Family counseling is a valuable tool that can help families improve their relationships, solve problems, and build a stronger and happier family unit. If you are considering seeking family counseling in Qatar, we encourage you to do your research and find a qualified therapist who can help you achieve your goals.

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Road Tagger, or, AI from above

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, January 23, 2020

Contact: Abby Abazorius, MIT News Office abbya@mit.edu; 617.253.2709

Using artificial intelligence to enrich digital maps

Model tags road features based on satellite images, to improve GPS navigation in places with limited map data.

http://news.mit.edu/2020/artificial-intelligence-digital-maps-0123

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A model invented by researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps could help improve GPS navigation.  

Showing drivers more details about their routes can often help them navigate in unfamiliar locations. Lane counts, for instance, can enable a GPS system to warn drivers of diverging or merging lanes. Incorporating information about parking spots can help drivers plan ahead, while mapping bicycle lanes can help cyclists negotiate busy city streets. Providing updated information on road conditions can also improve planning for disaster relief.

But creating detailed maps is an expensive, time-consuming process done mostly by big companies, such as Google, which sends vehicles around with cameras strapped to their hoods to capture video and images of an area’s roads. Combining that with other data can create accurate, up-to-date maps. Because this process is expensive, however, some parts of the world are ignored.

A solution is to unleash machine-learning models on satellite images — which are easier to obtain and updated fairly regularly — to automatically tag road features. But roads can be occluded by, say, trees and buildings, making it a challenging task. In a paper being presented at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference, the MIT and QCRI researchers describe “RoadTagger,” which uses a combination of neural network architectures to automatically predict the number of lanes and road types (residential or highway) behind obstructions.

In testing RoadTagger on occluded roads from digital maps of 20 U.S. cities, the model counted lane numbers with 77 percent accuracy and inferred road types with 93 percent accuracy. The researchers are also planning to enable RoadTagger to predict other features, such as parking spots and bike lanes.

“Most updated digital maps are from places that big companies care the most about. If you’re in places they don’t care about much, you’re at a disadvantage with respect to the quality of map,” says co-author Sam Madden, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a researcher in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). “Our goal is to automate the process of generating high-quality digital maps, so they can be available in any country.”

The paper’s co-authors are CSAIL graduate students Songtao He, Favyen Bastani, and Edward Park; EECS undergraduate student Satvat Jagwani; CSAIL professors Mohammad Alizadeh and Hari Balakrishnan; and QCRI researchers Sanjay Chawla, Sofiane Abbar, and Mohammad Amin Sadeghi.

Combining CNN and GNN

Qatar, where QCRI is based, is “not a priority for the large companies building digital maps,” Madden says. Yet, it’s constantly building new roads and improving old ones, especially in preparation for hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

“While visiting Qatar, we’ve had experiences where our Uber driver can’t figure out how to get where he’s going, because the map is so off,” Madden says. “If navigation apps don’t have the right information, for things such as lane merging, this could be frustrating or worse.”

RoadTagger relies on a novel combination of a convolutional neural network (CNN) — commonly used for images-processing tasks — and a graph neural network (GNN). GNNs model relationships between connected nodes in a graph and have become popular for analyzing things like social networks and molecular dynamics. The model is “end-to-end,” meaning it’s fed only raw data and automatically produces output, without human intervention.

The CNN takes as input raw satellite images of target roads. The GNN breaks the road into roughly 20-meter segments, or “tiles.” Each tile is a separate graph node, connected by lines along the road. For each node, the CNN extracts road features and shares that information with its immediate neighbors. Road information propagates along the whole graph, with each node receiving some information about road attributes in every other node. If a certain tile is occluded in an image, RoadTagger uses information from all tiles along the road to predict what’s behind the occlusion.

This combined architecture represents a more human-like intuition, the researchers say. Say part of a four-lane road is occluded by trees, so certain tiles show only two lanes. Humans can easily surmise that a couple lanes are hidden behind the trees. Traditional machine-learning models — say, just a CNN — extract features only of individual tiles and most likely predict the occluded tile is a two-lane road.

“Humans can use information from adjacent tiles to guess the number of lanes in the occluded tiles, but networks can’t do that,” He says. “Our approach tries to mimic the natural behavior of humans, where we capture local information from the CNN and global information from the GNN to make better predictions.”

Learning weights    

To train and test RoadTagger, the researchers used a real-world map dataset, called OpenStreetMap, which lets users edit and curate digital maps around the globe. From that dataset, they collected confirmed road attributes from 688 square kilometers of maps of 20 U.S. cities — including Boston, Chicago, Washington, and Seattle. Then, they gathered the corresponding satellite images from a Google Maps dataset.

In training, RoadTagger learns weights — which assign varying degrees of importance to features and node connections — of the CNN and GNN. The CNN extracts features from pixel patterns of tiles and the GNN propagates the learned features along the graph. From randomly selected subgraphs of the road, the system learns to predict the road features at each tile. In doing so, it automatically learns which image features are useful and how to propagate those features along the graph. For instance, if a target tile has unclear lane markings, but its neighbor tile has four lanes with clear lane markings and shares the same road width, then the target tile is likely to also have four lanes. In this case, the model automatically learns that the road width is a useful image feature, so if two adjacent tiles share the same road width, they’re likely to have the same lane count.

Given a road not seen in training from OpenStreetMap, the model breaks the road into tiles and uses its learned weights to make predictions. Tasked with predicting a number of lanes in an occluded tile, the model notes that neighboring tiles have matching pixel patterns and, therefore, a high likelihood to share information. So, if those tiles have four lanes, the occluded tile must also have four.

In another result, RoadTagger accurately predicted lane numbers in a dataset of synthesized, highly challenging road disruptions. As one example, an overpass with two lanes covered a few tiles of a target road with four lanes. The model detected mismatched pixel patterns of the overpass, so it ignored the two lanes over the covered tiles, accurately predicting four lanes were underneath.

The researchers hope to use RoadTagger to help humans rapidly validate and approve continuous modifications to infrastructure in datasets such as OpenStreetMap, where many maps don’t contain lane counts or other details. A specific area of interest is Thailand, Bastani says, where roads are constantly changing, but there are few if any updates in the dataset.

“Roads that were once labeled as dirt roads have been paved over so are better to drive on, and some intersections have been completely built over. There are changes every year, but digital maps are out of date,” he says. “We want to constantly update such road attributes based on the most recent imagery.”

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Written by Rob Matheson, MIT News Office

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Benefits of ISO 27001 Certification

ISO 27001 Certification in Saudi Arabia is a set of documents that can be generated and it enhances the overall website security and network of the consumers. Information is crucial for continuous business development. Information security management gives details regarding aspects of securing the business details such as consumer behavior, consumer details, business details, upcoming projects, confidential details of the investors, and various other details regarding the business. Companies need to be aware of information security practices and prevent data breaches, malware, phishing, virus attacks, and cyber threats.

Companies prefer to deal with ISO 27001 Certified organizations as it is a symbol of authority and trust. The role of ISO is to issue guidance for companies for the wellness and growth of the organization. ISO 27001 auditor gives assistance to the companies to improve the areas where cyber security is needed. The overall potential of the company grows as a result of ISO 27001 implementation as it is a well know organization and assists the growth of the company. 

ISO 27001 Certification in Qatar gives three main areas to focus such as Information confidentiality, availability, and modification as many companies prefer confidential data to be non-accessible to unauthorized personnel. This can be fatal for the business. Companies need ISO 27001 Certified organization as it is a contractual requirement and gain access to the various business processes. Trust of the audience can be obtained as a result of ISO 27001  accreditation. As technology has advanced most daily activities such as shopping, learning, recreation, news, meeting, and recruitment. Companies need ISO 27001 certification to improve their overall performance and improvise their sales. 

Cyber attacks are on the rise and organizations' data such as human resource data, company details, technology data, copyrights information, and various other details get into unauthorized hands. SSL certificates and firewalls protect the website from hackers. VAPT test needs to be conducted regularly so that the organization’s application and website are secure.

Gap assessment is a procedure during ISO 27001 implementation that assists the companies to check the current practices so that the organization can assess whether it is following the rules and guidelines to secure the website. 

A data breach can collapse the whole business model to collapse. So ISO 27001 Certification can give access to various certifications. ISO 27001 Certification is recognized worldwide and it is easy to get recognition throughout the world. Top multinational companies have contractual guidelines and do business with ISO 27001 accredited organizations.

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Epigenetics Market: Size, Share, Business Growth, Industry Trends, Top Key Players and Forecast

According to the latest report by IMARC Group, titled “Epigenetics Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2021-2026,” the global epigenetics market size exhibited strong growth during 2015-2020. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to grow at a CAGR of around 16% during 2021-2026. Epigenetics refers to the study of the variations that occur in cellular and physiological traits without any change in the DNA sequence. It aids researchers in studying the impact of an individual’s behavior and environment, including age, diet, environmental pollutants, psychological stress and obesity, on their genes. Consequently, numerous academic and research institutes, pharmaceutical organizations, and biotechnology companies utilize epigenetics for research, diagnosis and treatment purposes.

As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis takes over the world, we are continuously tracking the changes in the markets, as well as the purchase behaviors of the consumers globally-our estimates about the latest market trends and forecast values after considering the impact of this pandemic.

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Market Trends:

The global market is primarily driven by the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases across the globe. Additionally, continual technological advancements in the healthcare industry are providing an impetus to the market growth. For instance, the introduction of the Epi proLung test to detect the presence of lung cancer that is based on the combination of epigenomics’ proprietary DNA methylation biomarkers is creating a positive outlook for the market. Some of the other factors contributing to the market growth include the significant increase in investments by public and private agencies for upgrading the existing healthcare infrastructure and extensive research and development (R&D) activities conducted in biotechnology.

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Competitive Landscape with Key Player:

Abcam plc

Active Motif Inc

Agilent Technologies Inc

Diagenode Diagnostics (Hologic Inc)

Illumina Inc

Merck KGaA

PerkinElmer Inc

Roche Holding AG

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Zymo Research Corporation

Breakup by Product:

Reagents

Kits

Instruments

Enzymes

Services

Chip Sequencing Kit

Whole Genomic Amplification Kit

Bisulfite Conversion Kit

RNA Sequencing Kit

Others

Breakup by Technology:

DNA Methylation

Histone Methylation

Histone Acetylation

Large Non-Coding RNA

MicroRNA Modification

Chromatin Structures

Breakup by Application:

Oncology

Non-Oncology

Solid Tumors

Liquid Tumors

Inflammatory Diseases

Metabolic Diseases

Infectious Diseases

Cardiovascular Diseases

Others

Breakup by Region:

North America (United States, Canada)

Europe (Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Others)

Asia Pacific (China, Japan, India, Australia, Indonesia, Korea, Others)

Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Others)

Middle East and Africa (United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Other)

Key Highlights of the Report:

Market Performance (2015-2020)

Market Outlook (2021-2026)

Porter’s Five Forces Analysis

Market Drivers and Success Factors

SWOT Analysis

Value Chain

Comprehensive Mapping of the Competitive Landscape

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‘Distance education causing stress for students, parents’

Call for ‘blended learning’

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 31: The Ministry of Education has put students and their parents in a state of stress and psychological conflict due to the adoption of “distance education” without preparing the two parties for this new stage, reports Al-Qabas daily. Psychological and social experts and educational specialists have unanimously agreed on the tremendous pressure that falls on the family, and the suffering of parents because of remote (online) form of study. They stressed that this system imposed by the Ministry of Education as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has created problems, and psychologically impacted homes, adding that it has transformed the homes from a place of comfort and tranquility to an arena for fights between parents and children, which led some of them to suffer from a psychological breakdown.

They said, “e-learning is a successful global system, but it failed locally due to the great deficiencies that accompanied its launch. Therefore, it is time to gradually return to study inside schools either in full or through “blended education” which combines the traditional and electronic systems”.

A professor of Sociology at Kuwait University Dr. Jamil Al-Marri affirmed that the forced application of technology in education was not carried out in a positive way due to the many errors and problems as well as the psychological and social effects that this system has on parents. A psychological consultant specialized in behavioral modification Dr. Ahmed Al-Gohary said, “The adoption of the idea of studying online has a negative impact on psychological and social development, such as weak social relations with others”. In addition, educational expert Ahmed Al-Ghareeb said, “Many of the neighboring countries have recently adopted the blended education system such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and the Sultanate of Oman.

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Choosing Best Cheap Car Rental Services In Dubai:

How to Get Affordable Car Rental services in Dubai:

Most professional Dubai rent a car company are offering cheap car rental  Dubai services to their valued customers. Whether you need to rent a car for visiting different tourist destinations or for a business meeting, you can effortlessly select rent a car service from a professional car rental company in Dubai.Given the outstanding features and stunning, Dubai has a vitality break the world record in essence, it seems, did not like from the other countries in the world. Visitors and people come to visit the dazzling brilliance of this fairway. Dubai brings people from all over the world to come and claim to be there with family and close friends. They basically need to compile a summary of open training. They must engineer a rental vehicle in Dubaifor nervous and transportation transport.

To develop our second point, the UAE is home to various types of certain world record that has not been beaten by many countries to date on the best and highest. Without a doubt, the UAE has more than 170 world records, and all were different from those who are not likely to be missed and admire the inspiring, similar to the best mosaic Dallah espresso brown and most notably, in the bottom right. as beautiful as the most important basis of the structure and specialty bounce the highest on earth. One good structure is the direct property Dubai from all over the world.

Cheap car rental services in Dubai:

Most professional Dubai rent a car company are offering   it is necessary for you to select a Dubai car rental company that has significant years of experience in the related field. Only then, you will be able to enjoy a luxurious traveling experience and fulfill their transportation needs.Do you understand that there are 72 full shopping center in Dubai? With eight more in the planning stages and improvements. There are more than enough shopping malls as we expect to pick the ten best places to visit during our stay here. With so much retail space, food, and disturbances, do not be surprised if Dubai is one of the best tourist destinations in the world that is perfect for shopping until you drop points. Check outlets to boutiques, manufacturers of luxury brands, you will find everything in a strip shopping center Dubai. And all modifications in size and plan. From small and smart Mercato Mall to the magnificent and modern city center Dubai Mall in Dubai.

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Pet Wearable Market to Make Great Impact in Near Future by 2025

The pet wearable industry has revealed hefty expansion owing to the increasing awareness among the pet owners about pet comfort. Moreover, increasing attachment of pet owners with their pets for companionship, entertainment, fitness and mental wellbeing has resulted in more spending by them on their companion than earlier which is anticipated to further boost the market growth. Global Pet Wearable Market: Key Players The worldwide pet wearable market is envisioned to honor Whistle Labs Inc., PetPace Ltd., Nedap N.V., Loc8tor Ltd., and DeLaval Inc. as key players. In order to cash in on industry gains, players could take to strategic expansion as a powerful business strategy. Qualified Analyst Investigate the Market to Technology and Application. In terms of application, identification and tracking currently accounts for a leading share in the demand for pet wearables.

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The Report employs comprehensive and constant analysis methodology focused on minimizing aberrance in order to provide the most accurate and simplified estimates and forecast possible. The company utilizes a combination of bottom-up and top-down approaches for segmenting and estimating quantitative aspects of the market. “There are a lot of challenges with dogs at the moment,” says Andrew Nowell, one of the founders of PitPat, who previously worked on wearable tech for humans.  About xx million of the UK’s xx million dogs are burluy, and about 25% are left home alone. So in terms of pet care, it’s deteriorating. Hence this creates an urge of awareness for safety, fitness and health. Further rise of wearable technology has added fuel to Growth of this market. World Pet wearable market is further carved into Identification and Tracking (On the basis of application) which could account for a colossal share. However, this segment is projected to eyewitness a slight downturn in the coming decade. This could be because of the oppurtunity of alternate products with more refined and advanced features. The demand for medical diagnosis devices is forecast to hike due to the swelling awareness about pet fitness and health among owners, mainly in Europe and North America. Medical diagnosis and treatment coupled with abetment, safety, and security could account for more than a xx % of the market by 2025. Global Pet Wearable Market: Geological Reasoning Europe and North America are portened to brandish an aggregate share of close to a xx % between 2018 and 2025. These major regions of the international pet wearable market could experience a high sewage of products in the formable future. This could be due to rigid animal treatment standards and higher purchasing power of consumers therein. Severe regulations have constrained pet owners to buy products such as behavior modification devices and bark collars. The adoption of such devices could be organised by the presence of telecommunication technologies and advanced wireless infrastructure. Asia Pacific is expected to amass a decent growth in the international pet wearable market owing to a high demand for radio-frequency identification (RFID) and global positioning system (GPS)-based control, behavior monitoring, tracking, and identification. The regional market could expand at a quick pace during the course of the forecast period.

Global Pet Wearable Market (By Technology):

GPS RFID Sensors Global Pet Wearable Market (By Application): Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Behavior Monitoring and Control Facilitation Safety and Security Identification and Tracking Global Pet Wearable Market (By Geography): North America U.S. Rest of North America Europe U.K Germany,France Rest of Europe Asia Pacific (APAC) Japan India China Rest of APAC Middle East and Africa (MEA) U.A.E. Qatar South Africa Rest of MEA Latin America Brazil Argentina Rest of Latin America

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Piping Design Services / Pipe Stress Analysis Consultancy Services

Pipe stress analysis is concerned with the prevention of overstressing pipes, skids, vessels, flanges, bolting, gaskets, valves, relief devices, fittings, hangers and supports. Pipe stress analysis is an analytical method to determine how a piping system behaves based on its material, pressure, temperature, fluid, and support. Pipe stress analysis is not an accurate depiction of the piping behavior, but it is a good approximation.

Typical Pipe Stress Analysis Problem Areas

·         Pipe hanger/support failure

·         Equipment support structure failure

·         Verification of unfired pressure vessel design

·         Blast resistance

·         Pressure surge damage

We perform pipe stress analysis on new and existing piping systems to accomplish the following:

·         Verify that piping stresses are below code allowable values (ASME B31.1, ASME B31.3, CSA Z662, etc)

·         Verify that piping loads on rotating equipment are below industry standards (API-610, NEMA SM23, etc.)

·         Verify that piping loads on vessels, tanks, heaters, etc, are below code allowable values (ASME Section VIII, API, etc.)

·         Design spring supports

·         Design rigid pipe supports and restraints

·         Calculate forces and moments for failure analysis

·         Calculate thermal movements

If piping stresses and/or loads on connected equipment exceed their respective allowable values, we make recommendations to reduce the overloaded component/s to acceptable values.

APPLICATIONS

·         New Designs

·         Peer Review of Designs by Others

·         Existing Systems Being Modified

·         Existing Systems with Maintenance Problems

·         Analyzing Piping Failures

INDICATIONS OF PIPING PROBLEMS

·         Excessive Pipe Sag

·         Broken Supports or Restraints

·         Bottomed or Topped Out Spring Supports

·         Unexplained Rotating Equipment Vibrations

·         Damaged Foundations of Connected Equipment and Vessels

·         Flange Alignment Problems

·         Leaking Flanges

·         Shaking or Vibrating Piping

·         Squirming or Leaking Expansion Joints

PIPE STRESS ANALYSIS DETAILS

Accuracy and a high level of detail are needed for the analysis to accurately predict piping stresses and piping loads onto connected equipment. Little P.Eng. for Engineering Services in this area. Our experience collecting data, field checking piping drawings against as-built systems, knowing what data is needed, detailed modeling techniques, and pipe modeling experience, allows us to quickly and accurately model piping systems.

PROBLEM SOLVING

Little P.Eng. for Engineering Services in solving piping problems. Our experience solving piping problems of all kinds, allows us to quickly recognize problems and develop solutions that work, are practical, and economical. Quite often piping problems are identified during our field visits collecting data. When this occurs, we sketch details needed for recommendations during our preliminary visits, thus, solutions are provided sooner, and the results of the modifications have been previously used and are known to be successful.

Our Expertise

Little P.Eng. for Engineering Services offers a complete range of piping, skid, pressure vessel and tank storage engineering services. We specialize in mechanical detail design of piping, skids, pressure vessels, shell and tube heat exchangers, including the supply of detail drawings for fabrication.

Pipe Stress Analysis Services

Little P.Eng. for Engineering Services offers pipe stress capability for onshore and offshore installations complying with international codes (e.g. ASME B31.3, ASME B31.4, ASME B31.8, DNV2000), services include:

·         Static design (operating, wind, seismic analyses and fatigue evaluation)

·         Dynamic design (modal time history and harmonic analyses)

·         Blast resistance design (using state-of the-art tools to design piping for blast resistance)

·         Little P.Eng. for Engineering Services can also assist clients in carrying out fire and explosion studies and quantitative risk analysis, which are pre-requisites for a comprehensive blast design

·         Assessment of acoustically induced vibration (AIV) effects and fatigue life evaluation of piping, to internationally acceptable practices

Software to be chosen in consultation with clients (options include Caesar II or Autopipe).

Pipe Support Engineering

Little P.Eng. for Engineering Services offers a complete pipe support design service. Little P.Eng. for Engineering Services can develop pipe support standards that address clients' needs, using the clients' basis of design, early in the project. Little P.Eng. for Engineering Services will assist clients in selecting the most economical pipe support and spring hanger systems and advise on component material usage to minimize weight. Little P.Eng. for Engineering Services can also provide factory supervision during fabrication and installation.

Pressure Vessel Design Consultants and Storage Tank Engineering Consultants

·         Basic pressure vessel design to ASME Section VIII and AS1210

·         Basic tank design to API 650

·         Localized nozzle loading assessment for pressure vessels and tanks

·         Design services as regards components of complicated configuration

·         Assessment of fatigue life and life extension possibilities for existing equipment

·         Design services for modification and retrofitting of existing vessels for new duties or services

·         Installation, commissioning and maintenance support

·         Internal inspection and reporting

·         Design documentation for submission to statutory approving/verifying bodies

Because Meena Development LTD. offers an array of multidisciplinary services (Pipe Stress Analysis and Structural Engineering), we can provide solutions across a multitude of industries. The listing below indicates a few of Meena Development’s most commonly served industries.

1.    Steel and Metals Industry

2.    Energy and Power Generation Industry

3.    Water and Wastewater Industry

4.    Oil & Gas Industry

5.    Chemicals and Plastics Industry

6.    Pulp & Paper Industry

7.    Facility Services

8.    Residential Buildings Sector

9.    Hospitality and Hotel Sector

10.  Commercial Buildings Sectors

11.  Sports and Stadia Buildings Sector

12.  Education Buildings Sector

13.  Government Buildings Sector

Our professional piping stress engineers have a bachelor's and Masters degree in mechanical / structural engineering and province license (P.Eng.) in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Ontario. We review, validate, certify and stamp piping and structural packages. Also check Industries We Serve.

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Using artificial intelligence to enrich digital maps

A model invented by researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps could help improve GPS navigation.  

Showing drivers more details about their routes can often help them navigate in unfamiliar locations. Lane counts, for instance, can enable a GPS system to warn drivers of diverging or merging lanes. Incorporating information about parking spots can help drivers plan ahead, while mapping bicycle lanes can help cyclists negotiate busy city streets. Providing updated information on road conditions can also improve planning for disaster relief.

But creating detailed maps is an expensive, time-consuming process done mostly by big companies, such as Google, which sends vehicles around with cameras strapped to their hoods to capture video and images of an area’s roads. Combining that with other data can create accurate, up-to-date maps. Because this process is expensive, however, some parts of the world are ignored.

A solution is to unleash machine-learning models on satellite images — which are easier to obtain and updated fairly regularly — to automatically tag road features. But roads can be occluded by, say, trees and buildings, making it a challenging task. In a paper being presented at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference, the MIT and QCRI researchers describe “RoadTagger,” which uses a combination of neural network architectures to automatically predict the number of lanes and road types (residential or highway) behind obstructions.

In testing RoadTagger on occluded roads from digital maps of 20 U.S. cities, the model counted lane numbers with 77 percent accuracy and inferred road types with 93 percent accuracy. The researchers are also planning to enable RoadTagger to predict other features, such as parking spots and bike lanes.

“Most updated digital maps are from places that big companies care the most about. If you’re in places they don’t care about much, you’re at a disadvantage with respect to the quality of map,” says co-author Sam Madden, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a researcher in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). “Our goal is to automate the process of generating high-quality digital maps, so they can be available in any country.”

The paper’s co-authors are CSAIL graduate students Songtao He, Favyen Bastani, and Edward Park; EECS undergraduate student Satvat Jagwani; CSAIL professors Mohammad Alizadeh and Hari Balakrishnan; and QCRI researchers Sanjay Chawla, Sofiane Abbar, and Mohammad Amin Sadeghi.

Combining CNN and GNN

Quatar, where QCRI is based, is “not a priority for the large companies building digital maps,” Madden says. Yet, it’s constantly building new roads and improving old ones, especially in preparation for hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

“While visiting Qatar, we’ve had experiences where our Uber driver can’t figure out how to get where he’s going, because the map is so off,” Madden says. “If navigation apps don’t have the right information, for things such as lane merging, this could be frustrating or worse.”

RoadTagger relies on a novel combination of a convolutional neural network (CNN) — commonly used for images-processing tasks — and a graph neural network (GNN). GNNs model relationships between connected nodes in a graph and have become popular for analyzing things like social networks and molecular dynamics. The model is “end-to-end,” meaning it’s fed only raw data and automatically produces output, without human intervention.

The CNN takes as input raw satellite images of target roads. The GNN breaks the road into roughly 20-meter segments, or “tiles.” Each tile is a separate graph node, connected by lines along the road. For each node, the CNN extracts road features and shares that information with its immediate neighbors. Road information propagates along the whole graph, with each node receiving some information about road attributes in every other node. If a certain tile is occluded in an image, RoadTagger uses information from all tiles along the road to predict what’s behind the occlusion.

This combined architecture represents a more human-like intuition, the researchers say. Say part of a four-lane road is occluded by trees, so certain tiles show only two lanes. Humans can easily surmise that a couple lanes are hidden behind the trees. Traditional machine-learning models — say, just a CNN — extract features only of individual tiles and most likely predict the occluded tile is a two-lane road.

“Humans can use information from adjacent tiles to guess the number of lanes in the occluded tiles, but networks can’t do that,” He says. “Our approach tries to mimic the natural behavior of humans, where we capture local information from the CNN and global information from the GNN to make better predictions.”

Learning weights   

To train and test RoadTagger, the researchers used a real-world map dataset, called OpenStreetMap, which lets users edit and curate digital maps around the globe. From that dataset, they collected confirmed road attributes from 688 square kilometers of maps of 20 U.S. cities — including Boston, Chicago, Washington, and Seattle. Then, they gathered the corresponding satellite images from a Google Maps dataset.

In training, RoadTagger learns weights — which assign varying degrees of importance to features and node connections — of the CNN and GNN. The CNN extracts features from pixel patterns of tiles and the GNN propagates the learned features along the graph. From randomly selected subgraphs of the road, the system learns to predict the road features at each tile. In doing so, it automatically learns which image features are useful and how to propagate those features along the graph. For instance, if a target tile has unclear lane markings, but its neighbor tile has four lanes with clear lane markings and shares the same road width, then the target tile is likely to also have four lanes. In this case, the model automatically learns that the road width is a useful image feature, so if two adjacent tiles share the same road width, they’re likely to have the same lane count.

Given a road not seen in training from OpenStreetMap, the model breaks the road into tiles and uses its learned weights to make predictions. Tasked with predicting a number of lanes in an occluded tile, the model notes that neighboring tiles have matching pixel patterns and, therefore, a high likelihood to share information. So, if those tiles have four lanes, the occluded tile must also have four.

In another result, RoadTagger accurately predicted lane numbers in a dataset of synthesized, highly challenging road disruptions. As one example, an overpass with two lanes covered a few tiles of a target road with four lanes. The model detected mismatched pixel patterns of the overpass, so it ignored the two lanes over the covered tiles, accurately predicting four lanes were underneath.

The researchers hope to use RoadTagger to help humans rapidly validate and approve continuous modifications to infrastructure in datasets such as OpenStreetMap, where many maps don’t contain lane counts or other details. A specific area of interest is Thailand, Bastani says, where roads are constantly changing, but there are few if any updates in the dataset.

“Roads that were once labeled as dirt roads have been paved over so are better to drive on, and some intersections have been completely built over. There are changes every year, but digital maps are out of date,” he says. “We want to constantly update such road attributes based on the most recent imagery.”

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The Power of Mindfulness: Finding Peace in the Present

In today's busy world, mindfulness offers a refuge from the chaos, providing a path to inner peace and clarity. By simply being present in the moment, without judgment or attachment, we can cultivate a sense of calm and resilience in the face of life's challenges.

Through mindfulness, we learn to observe our thoughts and emotions with curiosity and compassion, allowing us to respond to life's ups and downs with greater ease and understanding. By anchoring ourselves in the present moment, we can find solace from the worries of the past and the anxieties of the future.

Incorporating mindfulness into our daily lives doesn't have to be complicated. It can be as simple as taking a few deep breaths, pausing to notice the sensations around us, or fully engaging in the activities we are doing.

As we cultivate mindfulness, we may find that we are better able to cope with stress, manage our emotions, and navigate the complexities of life with greater resilience and grace. The beauty of mindfulness lies in its simplicity – by embracing the present moment, we can find peace and contentment wherever we are.

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Doctors warn the GCC! Obesity and an unhealthy lifestyle is adding to infertility

According to specialists of a leading fertility treatments clinic in the Middle East – IVI Fertility, Abu Dhabi, Vitamin D deficiency, Consanguinity and Obesity (caused by poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle) have emerged as the major reasons that the region’s rate of infertility is higher than that of the West. It comes as no surprise that there is a high prevalence of obesity particularly in the GCC including Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, which has arisen from rapid regional economic advancement resulting in increased food access, consumption, and lifestyle changes, sedentary lifestyle, family history, urbanization, and high-calorie diets. “Today, infertility is globally acknowledged to be a major health problem but its causes here are really very specific. I believe that if you address the root cause, your chances of treating the problem successfully are much higher," said Prof Dr. Human Fatemi, Medical Director of IVI Middle East Fertility Clinic. The clinic is part of the largest global institution for infertility treatments with over 70 clinics and 160,000 babies born worldwide. The clinic not just helps couples overcome infertility in the geographies it operates in, it is also responsible for furthering and advancing the science with innovative groundbreaking research and treatments which the world follows. Check: Fertility clinic Abu Dhabi

“It is estimated that infertility affects 15 percent of the global population of reproductive age, but this percentage is even higher in the GCC," added Dr. Laura Vidales, IVF Specialist, IVI Fertility, Abu Dhabi clinic.Prof Fatemi’s clinic collaborated with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece on a study of fertility in the Gulf, which was published in the international journal Fertility and Sterility.The study aims to bring to light the region-specific causes of this growing medical condition we term infertility and how obesity, vitamin D and marriage within the family, affects fertility. The study clearly highlighted that hormonal abnormalities and ovulation dysfunction were associated with obesity.“Our lifestyle has changed completely in this part of the world in the past 30 to 40 years. Fifty years ago, there was no air conditioning and now people are inside all the time,” said Prof Dr. Fatemi on why obesity is increasing at such an alarming rate in the Middle East. He also informed that if one’s body mass index (BMI) is higher than 29, the receptivity of the uterus declines, the chromosomal formation of the eggs also decline.

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An elevated BMI can cause hormonal abnormalities, ovulation dysfunction, menstrual irregularities, anovulation, and low conception rates. Also overweight women have an increased chance of a cesarean section for delivery.

In men, obesity is associated with low testosterone levels. In severely obese man, reduced sperm production (spermatogenesis) related with severe hypotestosteronemia (Low abnormal concentration of testosterone) may favor infertility. Moreover, the occurrence of erectile dysfunction increases with increasing BMI.

Experts suggest that overweight women undergoing IVF treatment are significantly more likely to respond inadequately to controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) and to fail in achieving pregnancy compared with non-obese women. Increased BMI is also associated with a greater need for fertility hormones such as gonadotropins, lower pregnancy rates (PRs), fewer eggs, and higher miscarriage rates amongst women undergoing assisted reproductive technique (ART). A reduction in endometrial (uterine lining) quality represents a further outcome which can compound the effect of obesity on fertility.

The foremost treatments for obesity and weight-loss are regular exercise and dieting. These help restore ovulatory function and reduce the rate of miscarriage in obese women who are facing infertility. A multidisciplinary approach to weight management is important. This includes the initial assessment of infertility and BMI, emphasis on the importance of lifestyle change, education about proper diet, exercise and behavior modification. A more holistic approach to obesity and reproductive health may help increase the chance of conception. Read More: IVF clinic Muscat

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We need to accept one actual reality. Children currently in grade school will definitely mature in cultures filled with outdated individuals. Allow me point out that certainly not all resign having said that, lots of folks continue in their decided on sport until whatever age they think that as well as even more electrical power to those that perform.

Personnel need to assess exactly how their pupils find out about choice production through older adults and also their family members or even caregivers about treatment just before, in the course of as well as complying with lifestyle shifts. A latest document through Generations United, In Nurturing Upper arms, explains the protective function from grandparents and also various other relatives rearing youngsters revealed to injury. While it's optimal to produce a room that demonstrates the enthusiasms from your children, their tastes will, inevitably, modification in time. Even with Social Surveillance as well as Health insurance, the grown-up children from the elderly usually have their parents right into their properties or give all of them with economic aid (Foner, 2000).

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Trump Mulling Camp David-Style Summit to Confront Islamic Extremism

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by Deborah Danan25 Jun 20170

25 Jun, 201725 Jun, 2017

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is considering a Camp David-style summit in an effort to resolve tensions between U.S. allies in the Arab world. Trump also intends to use the summit to renew his call for the Arab world to confront the “crisis of Islamic extremism,” Fox News reported.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt and five other Muslim countries that have cut ties with Qatar would be in attendance, the report said. The tiny Gulf nation has been accused of funding terrorism, including the Islamic State, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and cooperating with Iran in the latter’s quest for regional hegemony.

The White House has looked into holding a summit similar to the one held at Camp David in 1978, which led to the signing of a peace accord between Israel and Egypt the following year.

“It’s a Camp David moment. We’ve seen nothing like this in 40 years, and now the president wants to follow through,” a senior White House official told Fox News.

According to the report, the move may be seen as a warning for other countries in the region to pursue “behavior modification.”

“The president now wants to bring all the key players to Washington,” the official said. “They need to disavow groups like the [Muslim] Brotherhood for the stability of the Middle East at large. It’s not just about Qatari elements funding the Brotherhood but disavowing support for extremism in general.”

Qatar, a U.S. ally, has denied allegations of supporting terrorism.

The senior White House official would not confirm a date for such a summit, but did say it would happen in the near future while the “iron is still hot” following the president’s harsh condemnation of Islamist extremism while in Riyadh last month.

“It’s a choice between two futures and its a choice America cannot make for you. A better future is only possible if your nations drive out the terrorists and drive out the extremists,” Trump told the leaders of 55 Muslim nations in his now famous address.

“Drive them out! Drive them out of your places of worship. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy land and drive them out of this earth,” he said.

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Has Islam Liberated Women?

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Has Islam Liberated Women?

By Aisha Stacey

Words like “beaten,” “repressed” and “oppressed” are bandied about by the Western media in a desperate attempt to convince the readers that women in Islam have no rights.

For centuries, Muslim women in all corners of the world have been aware of the liberation that is achieved by adhering to the concept of hijab.  Current world events have once again brought the issue of women’s liberation in Islam to the forefront of people’s minds.

Can a Woman Who Adheres to Hijab Be Liberated?

Can a religion that considers morality to be a part of faith clearly define the equality of men and women and their rights and responsibilities?  The answer is a resounding “yes.”  In a day and age when the basic tenets of Islam are being questioned by Muslim and non-Muslim alike, we must be cautious when evaluating Islam.

The general picture that is painted by the media is biased and unsubstantiated.  The impression that some Muslims give to the world is often not a true reflection of the religion, one that is the completion of all religions.  Islam, the religion for all people in all places and times, which takes the equality of men and women very seriously.  It sees the liberation of women as essential and considers modesty, good character, and manners to be the way to achieve such liberation.

Too often, the image of a covered woman is used to represent what much of the world views as oppression.  Her very existence is described in terms that convey ignorance and unhappiness.  Words like “beaten,” “repressed” and “oppressed” are bandied about by the Western media in a desperate attempt to convince the readers that women in Islam have no rights.  Descriptive and intrinsically oppressive terms such as “shrouded” and “shackled” are used to portray an image of women who have no minds and who are the slaves or possessions of their husbands and fathers.  In the 19th century, T. E. Lawrence described women in Arabia as “death taking a walk,” and from that time forward, the true status of women in Islam has been shrouded by misunderstanding.  The truth about women and Islam is far from this melodramatic portrayal.

Over 1,400 years ago, Islam raised the status of women from a position of oppression to one of liberation and equality. In an era when women were considered possessions, Islam restored women to a position of dignity.

In order to gain a true insight into the real and lasting liberation that Islam guarantees women, we must first examine the concept of liberation as viewed by the West.  In Western countries where liberation encompasses unlimited freedom, many women are actually finding themselves living lives that are unsatisfying and meaningless.  In their quest for liberation, they have abandoned the ideals of morality and stability and found themselves in marriages and families that bear little resemblance to real life.

What is liberating about working all day and coming home at night to the housework? What is liberating about having babies who, at six weeks old can be deposited in childcare centers to learn their behavior and morality from strangers?  Girls as young as 6 years old have been diagnosed with eating disorders, teenage pregnancy is rampant, and women who choose to stay at home to raise their families are viewed as old fashioned or unemployable.

Women in the West are liberated: liberated to the point that they are no longer free to choose the life that is natural for them.  They are free only to choose from the selection of consumer goods offered to them by their masters.  The so-called liberated women of the West have become slaves.  Slaves to the economic system, slaves to the fashion and beauty industries, and slaves to a society that views them as brainless machines, taught to look desirable, earn money, and shop.  Even the career woman who has managed to push her way through the glass ceiling is a slave to the consumer society, which requires her to reside in a spacious house, wear only the latest designer clothes, drive a luxurious car, and educate her children at the most exclusive and expensive schools.

Is This Liberation?

The natural inclination of women is to please, comfort, and support their men: their husbands, fathers, brothers, or sons.  The natural inclination of men is to protect, support, and provide for the women lawfully in their lives: wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters.  Islam, the only true religion and infallible guide to life, requires that we follow such natural inclinations.  It allows us to abandon ideas that are intrinsically foreign to human nature and supports us in developing and sustaining natural family relationships that spread out to form part of the wider Muslim community.

A Muslim woman knows her place in society and knows her place in the family infrastructure.  Her religion is her first priority; therefore, her role is clear-cut and defined.  A Muslim woman, far from being oppressed, is a woman who is liberated in the true sense of the word.  She is a slave to no man or to any economic system; rather, she is the slave of God.  Islam clearly defines women’s rights and responsibilities spiritually, socially, and economically.  Islam’s clear-cut guidelines are empowering; they raise women to a natural and revered position.

Women in Islam have no need to protest and demonstrate for equal rights.  They have no need to live their lives aimlessly acquiring possessions and money.  With the perfection of Islam as the natural and only true religion came the undeniable fact that women and men are equal, partners and protectors of one another.

“So their Lord accepted from them; Never will I allow to be lost the work of any of you, be they male or female. You are of one another; so those who emigrated or were driven out from their homes, who suffered harm in My cause, and fought and were killed, I will verily expiate from them their evil deeds and admit them into gardens under which rivers flow: a reward from God; and with God is the best rewards.” (Al `Imran 3:195)

“And whoever does righteous good deeds, male or female, and is a true believer in the Oneness of Allah, such will enter paradise; and not the least injustice, even to the size of a speck on the back of a date stone, will be done to them.” (An-Nisa’ 4:124)

Women in Islam have the right to own property, to control their own money or money that they earn, to buy and sell, and to give gifts and charity.  They have formal rights of inheritance.  They have the right to an education; seeking and acquiring knowledge is an obligation on all Muslims, male or female.  Married Muslim women are completely free from the obligation of supporting and maintaining the family, yet may work if they wish too.

They are in no way forced into marriage, but have the right to accept or refuse a proposal as they see fit.  Women in Islam have the right to seek divorce if it becomes necessary, as they also have the right to save their marriages.

Islam teaches that the family is the core of society.  In Western cultures, the fabric of society is being torn apart by the breakdown of the family unit.  It is in these crumbling communities that the call for the liberation of women arises.  It seems to be a misguided and feeble attempt to find a path of security and safety.  Such security is available only when the human being turns back to God and accepts the role for which he or she was created.

Liberation means freedom, but not the freedom to do as one pleases.  Freedom must never be at the expense of oneself or of the wider community.  When a woman fulfills the role for which she was created, not only is she liberated but she is empowered.

The modestly dressed or covered woman you see in the street is liberated.  She is liberated from the shackles that have tied the feet of her Western counterparts.  She is liberated from the economic slavery of the West, and she is liberated from the necessity of managing a house and family without the support of her husband or the help of a wider community.  She lives her life based on divine guidelines; her life is filled with peace, happiness, and strength.  She is not afraid of the world, but rather embraces its tests and trials with patience and fortitude, secure in the fact that true liberation is only achieved by full and willing submission to the natural order of the universe.

Oppression is not defined by a piece of material, but rather by a sickening of the heart and a weakening of the mind.  Oppression grows in a society that is crumbling because its members have lost sight of the true purpose of their existence.  Liberation arises and takes root in a society that is just, cohesive, and based on natural order and divine guidelines.  Islam is such a society, and this is what makes a Muslim woman is liberated.

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Taken with slight editorial modifications from islamreligion.com.

Aisha Stacey is an Australian revert to Islam. She currently spends her time between Australia and Qatar. Aisha works as a writer at the Fanar Cultural Islamic Centre in Doha, Qatar while studying for an Arts/Psychology degree.

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The Power of Mindfulness: Finding Peace in the Present

In today's busy world, mindfulness offers a refuge from the chaos, providing a path to inner peace and clarity. By simply being present in the moment, without judgment or attachment, we can cultivate a sense of calm and resilience in the face of life's challenges.

Through mindfulness, we learn to observe our thoughts and emotions with curiosity and compassion, allowing us to respond to life's ups and downs with greater ease and understanding. By anchoring ourselves in the present moment, we can find solace from the worries of the past and the anxieties of the future.

Incorporating mindfulness into our daily lives doesn't have to be complicated. It can be as simple as taking a few deep breaths, pausing to notice the sensations around us, or fully engaging in the activities we are doing.

As we cultivate mindfulness, we may find that we are better able to cope with stress, manage our emotions, and navigate the complexities of life with greater resilience and grace. The beauty of mindfulness lies in its simplicity – by embracing the present moment, we can find peace and contentment wherever we are.