Children Become Gorillas In VR Zoo
...ng firsthand how apes interact in the wild,through virtual reality. The experience is part of a unique educa...emonstrated what they believe is the world's first virtual realitygorilla exhibit. Local schoolchildren were on hand to try out the virtual realitysystem, whi...World's Experts Plan Global Locator Service For Environmental Information
...ed on the Internet. This lays the foundation for a virtual library of environmental data and information that will be easily accessible on global networks. "An information locator service is useful wherever people communicate, but there is a special urgency to the worldwide sharing of environmenta...Ozone 'Chat Room' Provides Real-Time Air-Quality Research
...y of the OTAG operation is that we can establish a virtual community of interacting people without having to be at a specific place," Husar says. "This is a dream come true for an environmental engineer -- to express your viewpoints and research and participate in something that has substantial meaning for ...Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
...w biomedical engineering courses and an associated virtual imaging laboratory. The courses and laboratory will develop virtual imaging systems that will be available to students and researchers worldwide through the Internet. ...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
...rcome this difficulty, we have created a prototype virtual tape measure (VTM) for the operating microscope, b...s, on the other hand, a unique measuring tool, the virtual tape measure, has been created. Under the favorable measuring conditions of the experiment reported ...Despite Odds, Little Known Grauer's Gorillas Persist In Central Africa
...on Hall who ledthe survey team for WCS, "Given the virtual collapse of the economy, the need for local peopleto rely on bushmeat, and general state of anarchy that has persisted for the last several years, weexpected to find that many populations to be wiped out. While this has happened in areasadjacent to l...New Machine Slashes Time, Cost To Make Unique Lenses
...eyond the consumer realm, aspheresare also used in virtual reality helmets, professional-qualitymovie cameras, surgical lasers, bar-code laser scanners, and inendoscopes to see inside the body. The new machine might alsoprovide a cheaper way to produce aspheric elements that are foundin the $500,000 lenses n...Computers, GIS Help Prevent Ground Water Contamination
...for highly cost-effective use of resources and the virtual elimination of nonpoint source pollution of surface and ground water," wrote Alfred Krause and Michael Bland in a letter supporting Engel's nomination for the Purdue award. Krause is the national expert for water conservation for the U.S. Environment...Mr. Ples Throws Scientists Into A Tizzy
... scientists had made a real 3-D model as well as a virtual model fromConroy's data. Their calculations -- and the simple act of measuring how muchwater the plasticine model could displace -- matched those of Conroy. Mr. Ples'skull had a capacity of about 515 cc, the collaborators concluded. To confirmthis re...NCI Awards Hopkins $3.8 Million For Cancer Genetics Network
... NCI is calling these networks the largest virtual collaborative effortdedicated to the study of cancer genetics. "These cancer genetics networks willcreate a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborative structure thatwill enable the participating institutions to draw upon each other and to......e not sure that what youdo is reality and not just virtual reality," Schulten said. "But by havingsufficient biological data, you can know that you are modeling correctly. Inour case, the data without modeling could not be interpreted, but with themodeling we could complete a clear and correct structure of...Largest Acoustics Meeting In History Expected
... in Finland ( Tapio.Lokki@hut.fi ) will describe a virtual reality system in which a musical band with four animated musicians is controlled by a pair of users. One person moves a baton which controls the tempo of the band's music, and another controls the viewpoint of the audience (1pSP1). --- Acousti...Procedure, new apparatus may allow relief from incontinence
...ltchildbirth," Gregorcyk said. "Some people become virtual prisoners in theirhomes. They become terrified of going outside; they have to wear diapers. It'ssomething people are embarrassed to talk about." Childbirth in the past also has been the most common cause of repairable analinjury. It can result from a...Unique web site provides live access to laboratory research
...se they like theability to interact in actual, not virtual experiments," Hoffman said. "Bylinking our NMR spectrometer to the Internet, we have put this $300,000instrument on the desk of everyone who needs to access this technology." Although the system is located in UF's department of microbiology and cells...Media Advisory: The Geological Society of America 1999 Annual Meeting
... adaptation of geology laboratory exercises; useof virtual field trips; tactile materials for sight-impaired students; andteaching students with developmental disabilities. "CROSSING THE GREATEST DIVIDE: THE EARTH SCIENCES, THE HUMANITIES, AND THE NEEDSOF SOCIETY" CCC A111, Wednesday, October 27, 8:00 a....Hurricane Hugo serves as living laboratory for Clemson University forest scientists
...e winds and saltwater subsided, researchers noteda virtual absence of insects and wildlife in the surge-affected forest. Flyinginsects and birds were the first to return; but six months after Hugo, thenumber of reptiles and amphibians remained significantly lower than before thestorm. One of the har...Virtual reality training tool pits emergency rescue teams against computerized terrorist attack
...able topractice responding to such attacks using a virtual reality (VR) training toolunder development at the...a computer scientists have combined seven years of virtual reality researchinto BioSimMER, a VR application that immerses first responders in a 3-Dcomputer-sim...Researchers say hormones are key to evolution of insect metamorphosis
... unique larval stage, an innovation that allowed a virtual population explosionamong these species in the last 250 million years. "Metamorphosis really opened up niches that weren't available to insects beforethat," said UW zoologist James Truman, who along with UW zoologist LynnRiddiford published their fin...New dinosaurs appear to be oldest yet, as reported in the 22 October issue of Science
...n contrast, the newly discovered fossils provide a virtual "Who's Who" of theMiddle-Late Triassic animals in Madagascar. To begin with, the research teamfound two new dinosaurs that appear to be older than Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor , the current record-holders for dinosaur seniority. The newdinosaurs wer....... We foresee new types of business models such as virtual medicalrecords warehousing or insurance products through the Internet," says DavidChin, M.D., principal-in-charge, PricewaterhouseCoopers' Boston Health andWelfare Practice. For example, 35 percent of U.S. respondents thought that by2010 individuals...