SFU Researcher Finds Low Cost Solution To High Auto Emissions
...t additional cost, as companies try tobecome fully compliant with new environmental regulations set to take effect inthe U.S. and Canada next year. "There is a flurry of activity among car manufacturers to fully complywith the new legislation, which calls for all new cars built after 1998 to havethe in...New Biomaterial May Replace Arteries, Knee Cartilage
...an adjust its mechanical strength as needed; it is compliant like normal bodytissue; and it is made from an organic polymer, rather than silicone. Researchers have completed initial laboratory testing, secured investorsfor a private start-up company to produce and market the biomaterial, and arenow beg......ful outcome of some of the males. All men who were compliant with their testosterone replacement attained a final penile length within the normal range." The research team collected birth and adult genitalia measurements from 13 men and 5 women, all born with a micropenis. The researchers surveyed the indiv...New nutrition guidelines for diabetics promote emphasis on high-monounsaturated fat diet
...hich they are more likely to stick to and are more compliant with, Garg said.,p>The guidelines include several new recommendations for treating the disease that affects some 16 million Americans. The recommendations indicate that: Foods containing carbohydrates from whole grains, fruits, vegetables and ...Human running on surfaces of different stiffnesses
...nning shoes. Subjects ran for five minutes on each compliant track platforms in a mirrored fashion (running on ...ed in two separate trials so that they ran on each compliant surface four times. Averages were taken on each day and then averaged together for all variables mea...New indicators for predicting hypertension in African-American males
.... Essentially, the African American group had less compliant vessels, a decreased ability to sense blood pressure changes, and were less able to lower their heart rates. Conclusions This investigation increases our understanding of possible predictors of hypertension - that the establishment of clinical dise...Tomorrow's super robots may owe their mobility to a cockroachs legs today
...his new class of robots will be substantially more compliant and stable than current robots, and will take adva...ing without breaking" and employs tissues that are compliant and viscoelastic rather than stiff, homogeneous, and isotropic. In addition, local variations in bio...Patient compliance influences pediatric transplant recommendations
... they cannot know for certain who will actually be compliant after the transplant. "Any physician or family concerns about ability to comply with post-transplant treatment regimens should be discussed openly to overcome potential barriers to kidney transplantation," she said. For their study, the Johns Hopk...Newer drugs more effective at curing strep throat than penicillin
... data from only studies in which the children were compliant in using the antibiotics, our findings were the same cephalosporin drugs are more effective."...5AM Solutions releases Microarray Enterprise Manage(TM) Software
... Information About a Microarray Experiment (MIAME) compliant and verifiable data, a significant achievement." MEM contains multiple components that ensure the highest quality project design, management, data annotation, and dissemination. Web lectures, online help, and example projects represent the educationa......we can ask questions like, 'What if you had a more compliant leg? What if you had two joints in that leg, what does that give you versus one joint?' We can start putting artificial muscles in. Of course, that will make a better robot, but that is not the goal of this program." Full has studied animal lo...