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...anges to group elements into objects. "People can compute changes in the direction of movement of many disti...els from therest. This ability implies that we can compute changes in direction in themovement of many distinct parts of a scene and then identify the boundari...Atmospheric aerosols impact on smog formation being reassessed
... at two stations in Riverside and Mount Wilson, to compute the atmosphere's total optical depth. As a measure of the transparency of the atmosphere to the penetration of sunlight, optical depth is very influential in determining solar flux. Using a mathematical method called principal component analysis, the...Supercomputing center partners with Institute for Systems Biology
...ands of miles between Fairbanks and Seattle, and compute as though they were located next-door. Thus, both centers will be able to easily share unique knowledge of their respective fields. "This affiliation will allow UAF scientists and students to become involved in the exciting fields of systems ...Electronic tags reveal transatlantic migrations and breeding grounds of Atlantic bluefin tuna
...se and sunset data with sea surface temperature to compute a daily location, yielding tens of thousands of data points. More than 15,000 days of archival data have been collected in the past five years, and records on individual fish span as much as 3.6 years. Previously, the longest duration scientists ha...UB biophysicists discover high-speed motility in cells in response to voltage changes
...so allowed the researchers, for the first time, to compute the charge that is bound to the inner surface of a cell membrane. The discovery of this basic property of cells, irrespective of their sophistication, came somewhat serendipitously. Sachs and colleagues had been trying to measure the motion of sing......on (1,000,000,000,000) such computers co-exist and compute in parallel, in a drop the size of 1/10 of a milliliter of watery solution held at room temperature. Collectively, the computers perform a billion operations per second with greater than 99.8% accuracy per operation while requiring less than a bill...University of Chicago chosen as Sun Microsystems Center of Excellence
...nment and Sun TM Grid Engine software to aggregate compute power and control, and manage the usage of computational resources over several concurrent projects. The deployment of Sun hardware on the campus includes a large Sun FireTM 6800 enterprise server with 4.6 terabytes of storage housed in Sun StorEdg...Rice building Texas' fastest academic supercomputer
...cal problems that would require weeks or months to compute on existing machines. For example, to precisely map the movements of every atom in a large molecule, researchers need to develop a complex mathematical model that contains thousands of variables. Such models are useful for drug designers and biomedic...Birds and humans have similar 'shopping' habits
... time. "Until now experts thought that birds would compute which source of food was going to provide them with the maximum amount of energy, taking variables such as volume and concentration into consideration, but our research suggests that, like humans, hummingbirds can be influenced by the range of option...Some 400 'fragile regions' of genome more vulnerable to evolutionary breaks
...cember 2002, that comparison led the scientists to compute 281 large blocks (of one million 'letters' or more, out of roughly three billion letters in the mammalian genome), and 245 major rearrangements since the two species evolved from a common ancestor 75 million years ago. "Like the ancient super-contine...The area where carcinogens settle may be a key factor in developing lung cancer
... Study A new study uses a fluid dynamics model to compute local deposition patterns in central human airway bifurcations, quantify their inconsistencies at the cellular level, and point to the possible consequences of the inhomogeneity regarding the effects of inhaled aerosols. The investigators believed t...Wanted: Innovations to feed the hungry
...s, using recently-developed measurement methods to compute what each innovation is really worth. Professor Masters' proposal is motivated by the magnitude and nature of global hunger. Because the poorest people are farmers, one of the most effective tools in the historical fight against malnutrition has be...Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prizes 2004
...m called GADGET, which uses a simulation method to compute the formation of galaxies. This new method of calculation is not only significantly faster than previous simulations, it also takes into consideration such factors as galactic winds and the formation of stars. GADGET is now used for a wide variety of...Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
...ormation of the arterial wall will be developed to compute the distribution of stresses along the aneurysm's wall to provide information on the possible location of rupturing and a quantification of the risk of rupture. BIOENGINEERING Robert Sah, Professor "In Vivo Efficacy of Stratified Cartilage Tissue" ...Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...ide real-time software as well as high-performance compute and storage capacity," said OptIPuter and Cal-(IT) director Larry Smarr, who is co-PI on LOOKING and a professor of computer science and engineering at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. "The dedicated lightpaths will also permit super-fast, intera...