September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...those from traditional surveys using mailed survey instruments to a larger population, 2) the timeliness of respo... Vinson, M.D., M.S.P.H., et al Two brief screening instruments for problem drinking, the CAGE questions and a single-question screening tool are equally comfortabl...Texas universities expanding new information network
...ata collections, databases, large-scale scientific instruments and sensor networks will all be available and linked by TIGRE over LEARN. TIGRE access to the state's rich set of distributed resources will enable Texas researchers, educators and industrial partners to address the most challenging and important p...Neurosurgeons identify growth of new adult brain cells, possible treatment for epilepsy
...eurosurgical techniques, exhibits about the newest instruments and technology in the neurosurgical community, and examples of clinical and laboratory advances in neurological surgery....Neurosurgeons looking at stem cells from skin to fight brain tumors
...eurosurgical techniques, exhibits about the newest instruments and technology in the neurosurgical community, and examples of clinical and laboratory advances in neurological surgery....Three years of Proba, the 'smart' satellite that runs itself
...seful as a 'bridge' between results from satellite instruments such as Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) and aerial photography. CHRIS data are being used to increase the accuracy of wetland monitoring as part of ESA's Globwetland project, supplying information on the environmental condi...A $2 Million NSF grant brings technology and biology together at UC Riverside
...omplexity project designed to develop the kinds of instruments that can monitor the soil environment in real time...d, is to design new instruments, and make existing instruments smaller and cheaper, so researchers can monitor actual soil processes related to California agricult...NJIT physicists expect new super lens to reveal first light by early 2006
... because advances in technology enable us to build instruments that would have been only dreams a few years ago," said lead researcher Philip Goode, PhD, distinguished professor of physics at NJIT and director of Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO), California, where the telescope will be installed. NJIT has ope...Argo robotic instrument network now covers most of the globe
...ional effort to deploy a global network of robotic instruments to monitor and investigate important changes in th...er global-observing system." With the number of instruments crossing the midpoint, the information being beamed back from the floats is increasingly being used ...Researchers discover direct link between agricultural runoff and massive algal blooms in the sea
...FS, which is equipped with special light-sensitive instruments that can detect phytoplankton floating near the surface of the sea. "These instruments measure the level of greenness in the water," explained Kevin R. Arrigo, an associate professor of g...Injectable gel could speed repair of torn cartilage
... potentially can be used with arthroscopic surgery instruments for a less invasive procedure, Burdick says, adding that the material will likely work best for repairing small, localized cartilage defects and injuries. As torn cartilage often accompanies damaged ligaments, the technique also could be used to impr...NASA's aura satellite sheds new light on air quality and ozone hole
...ddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Aura's instruments study tropospheric chemistry and will provide daily, global monitoring of air pollution. The complexity of pollution transport makes it difficult to quantify how much industry and cars contribute to poor local air quality. Also, the presence of strat...ESA's Huygens begins its final journey into the unknown
...d deploy booms to collect the scientific data. All instruments will have direct access to the atmosphere to condu...surface for as long as the batteries can power the instruments and the Cassini orbiter is visible over the horizon at the landing site, i.e. not more than 130 minu...Development of portable infectious disease detector
...eady making rapid progress on prototyping portable instruments for clinical diagnosis and biodefense." "Today the treatment for AIDS is very expensive and there is always a question about when to start and stop anti-retroviral therapy," says Pria's Chief Technology Officer Jason Pyle. "We are developing a device...First x-ray laser gets funding
...ginning research and development and design on the instruments using $1.5 million of additional new funding provided by the Department of Energy. The main campus, in close cooperation with SLAC and SSRL, is preparing to take advantage of the unique research capabilities of LCLS with a new center for ultrafast sc...Sinking coastlines may precede large subduction zone quakes
...ld look to see where the land has subsided and put instruments there to monitor it," said Jere Lipps, a UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology and study coauthor. "If the land continues to subside instead of relaxing back to normal, it could indicate a big earthquake and a tsunami might occur some time in ...Yellowstone microbes fueled by hydrogen, according to U. of Colorado study
...ings, and now we do," Pace said. A novel suite of instruments was used to gather data, some of which had never before been collected. "No one had measured the concentration of hydrogen in the hot springs before because the technology didn't exist until about seven years ago. Now we can detect very low-level c...Grid expectations for networked computing: From global Earth monitoring to black hole detection
... a 'virtual sky' that merges inputs from different instruments at different wavelengths at different times. Benvenuti added that Grid use is set to further increase in future with the launch of ESA's Planck spacecraft to measure the cosmic background radiation and the Gaia mission to create a three-dimensional ...... manual process to a highly automated one. Robotic instruments rapidly clone, express, purify, crystallize, and analyze many proteins simultaneously, cutting the time it takes to determine a single protein structure from months to days. For example, a robotic arm drops protein solution into thousands of tiny wel...USGS featured at AAAS - Nation's largest science meeting
...hers seek to take advantage of new dense arrays of instruments being deployed in high-risk regions around the world and other exciting new tools. This renewed interest raises questions on how scientists should evaluate such predictions and how emergency managers, policy-makers and the public should react....Technological revolutions in sensors, robotics, and telecommunications allow new views of ocean
...se new power outlets in the sea will allow complex instruments and robotic vehicles to stay in the water and "plug in" sending data back to shore in real time without being connected to the surface. Scientists and engineers hope that this new technology will allow us to wire the entire ocean basins in the futu...