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...PA and the U.S. Public Health Service, conducted a remote sensing and mineralogical study of the dust deposited in lower Manhattan around the WTC. View the full report at http://geology.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-01-0429/. Photos and captions are available at http://www.usgs.gov/features/scien...Sensing tanks, as well as cancer
What does remote sensing for camouflaged enemy ground vehicles have...search's newly developed 200 channel hyperspectral remote sensing capability -- modeled on the human visual/brain "unsupervised" learning system that can dist...Newer design of close-up computer monitors increases ease of use
...usiness and industry. "From a remote location, a warehouse worker stocking orders can use a wearable display to look up accounts," he said. "A traveling salesperson can pull up email messages, addresses and other vital informat...Evidence suggests that standard smallpox vaccine offers long-term immunity
...e than 35 years is very low in individuals with a remote history of vaccination compared to recently vaccinated individuals," the authors wrote. Quantitatively, 4.8 percent of CD8 cells in individuals vaccinated more than 35 years ago reacted to vaccinia by producing interferon-gamma, compared to 6.5 perce...Dinosaur discoveries in Montana
...A helicopter will airlift these specimens from the remote excavation sites to the team's base camp on Saturd... specimens so they could be transported out of the remote site. Check out the daily web journal kept by the Smithsonian field team at http://www.nmnh.si.edu...Tropical forests under surveillance
...itted from initial efforts to monitor land use via remote sensing devices and satellite technology. Howeve...pdating computing and telephone systems to connect remote field sites and facilitate access to the most recent data generated by staff scientists and guest re...First ever census of jaguars completed
...d's first jaguar reserve in 1986. Using a grid of remote camera traps set along game trails, the team followed a rigid statistical analysis to determine population density. They now estimate that 14 jaguars live in a 55-square-mile area a density of big cats comparable to some of the most productive tige...Ocean aquaculture: Technology, business practices, policies & caviar
... of the Gulf aquaculture cage is a newly installed remote camera, or "Cage Cam," operating 24/7 from an adjacent Chevron gas platform. The camera allows for constant monitoring of the cage, the sea and weather conditions. Other automated innovations, such as a satellite tracking system that notifies resear...Telemedicine link with South Pole allows remote knee surgery
...the long austral winter at one of the world's most remote scientific stations. "The health and safety of our people comes first and I'm grateful that the skills of all concerned could be combined so effectively with 21st century technology to meet this challenge," said Karl Erb, who heads NSF's Office of P...Amazonian devastation: Common sense quantified to predict disaster
... of the basin, greatly increasing accessibility to remote frontier areas. However, the article emphasizes "...the potentially dire losses of Amazonian forests projected by recent studies are not yet a fait accompli. Pressure from the international community and from foreign investors (which provide signifi...African predator rediscovered in Tanzania
...rvey in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park using remote camera traps. "We now hope to find out more about the animal and thus help ensure its survival." Lowe's servaline genet was first described by, and subsequently name after, British explorer and naturalist Willoughby Lowe. Lowe's description of the...Aborigine study suggests body mass index guidelines should be lower to block diabetes
...with information gathered from 2,626 aborigines in remote parts of Australia, the study also suggests doctor... Darwin. They examined Australian aborigines in 15 remote settlements since diabetes and the impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) that precedes it have grown as h...The greening of the North: real, and caused by climate change
..., a young scientist at PIK with close links to the remote sensing community - in which month by month climate observations from across the entire boreal zone were used to drive the LPJ model. It was found that the expected changes in leaf area index during each growing season and (most importantly) from sea...Expeditions find no evidence of ivory-billed woodpecker
...ted that a few could have lingered undetected in a remote part of Louisiana. Analysis of more than 4,000 hours of digital data captured by 12 acoustic recording units (ARUs), developed by the Cornell lab's team of bioacoustics engineers, have shown no indication of the species' presence. "As you can imagi...Botanists discover new conifer species in Vietnam
An unusual conifer found in a remote area of northern Vietnam has been identified as a genus and species previously unknown to science. The limestone ridges where the tree grows are among the most botanically rich areas in Vietnam, said Daniel Harder, director of the University of Cali...Los Alamos researcher conducts volcanic voyeurism
...he triumphs and tribulations associated with using remote sensing techniques to study volcanic gases during ...ises, as well as some pitfalls associated with our remote sensing techniques," said Love. "In order to get accurate measurements and trends, you need to take...UF researchers discover blood stem cells
...ls. We now know blood vessels can be formed from a remote locationthey're not just repaired at the site of injury," Scott said. "That means we can now explore how to block that from happening to try to prevent things like diabetic retinopathy or enhance that activity to promote new blood vessel formation or...Archaeological journey reveals new information on chimpanzee stone tool technology
...GTON, D.C. AND LEIPZIG, GERMANY - Chimpanzees in a remote West African rainforest use stones and branches as hammers to crack open different types of nuts when foraging. While the nuts they crack are available throughout tropical Africa, this nut-cracking behavior has been documented only among chimpanzees...New research questions evidence for earliest life on earth
...found. The rocks examined are located on Akilia, a remote island off the coast of southwest Greenland, about 18 miles (30 kilometers) south of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland. Earlier reports claimed that a peculiar green-and-white layered rock found there, formed as a Banded Iron Formation (BIF), a ty...Story tips from the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2002
...te sectors to provide state-of-the-art sensors and remote telemetry at some of the 30,000 existing cellular ...ospace applications and to generate electricity in remote locations. Other advantages of the engine include increased reliability, 25 percent greater fuel eff...