September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...complete questionnaires administered on pen-tablet computers and that they required little training on the use of the device. The authors conclude this novel, easy-to-use technology has the potential to increase patient involvement in practice-based research. How and Why to Study the Practice Content of a P...MIT: Recycling of scrapped electronics studied
...onsume new materials. Almost a billion obsolete computers and other electronic devices are scrapped each year, and four out of five of them end up in basements or on sidewalks rather than in recycling facilities. But the electronics recycling business is expected to grow quickly. Regulations on handling lar...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...ch. (Paper 1eID1) THE ACOUSTICS OF EMOTION As computers improve their ability to both recognize and mimic human speech, researchers are beginning to explore such new realms as "automatic emotion recognition" and "emotional speech synthesis," in which machines would respectively recognize human emotion and...Technology award presented to Weizmann Institute scientist
...rug molecules in response. Though cancer-detecting computers are still in the very early stages, and can thus far only function in test tubes, Shapiro and his research team envision future biomolecular devices that may be injected directly into the human body to detect and prevent or cure disease. Award winne...UF scientist: 'Brain' in a dish acts as autopilot, living computer
...able to accomplish, but in fact it can't." While computers are very fast at processing some kinds of information, they can't approach the flexibility of the human brain, DeMarse said. In particular, brains can easily make certain kinds of computations such as recognizing an unfamiliar piece of furniture as ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...nologies and off-the-shelf dual-processor personal computers connected by a high-speed network to drive 27 projectors. The result is a scalable high-resolution (35 megapixels) graphics imaging cluster that is removing boundaries and helping scientists see their research in a new light. Funding is provided by t...Automated scans let scientists track drugs' broad effects on cells
... method dubbed "cytological profiling" that trains computers to recognize cell status and health from cellular images, virtually automating microscopic scanning for various types of abnormalities. "The resulting profiles of cellular changes wrought by drugs at various dosages provide information on drug mech...A $2 Million NSF grant brings technology and biology together at UC Riverside
...ks track weather data on habitat microclimates and computers map out the potential damage from wildfires. This program will be shown at other dates and times during the month. Find out more at www.uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=8384 ...Computer analysis shows scientists could reconstruct the genome of the mammalian common ancestor
...ss, a team of scientists has now demonstrated that computers could be used to reconstruct with 98 percent accuracy the DNA of a creature that lived at the time of the dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago--a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental mammals, including human...US researchers warn of possible fertility risk to men using laptop computers on their laps
...to consider limiting the time that they use laptop computers positioned on their laps, as long-term use may aff...rtility. The increasing popularity of laptop computers (LC), coupled with existing evidence that elevated scrotal temperature can result in sperm damage, p...Inexpensive, mass-produced genes at core of synthetic biology advances at UH
...size of a pager now have greater capabilities than computers that once occupied an entire room. Similar advances are being made in the emerging field of synthetic biology at the University of Houston, now allowing researchers to inexpensively program the chemical synthesis of entire genes on a single microchi...$6.7 million for bionic war on disabilities
...ive method of allowing paralyzed people to control computers or other devices by reading brain signals using 64...eir activity, allowing paralyzed people to control computers or their own limbs much more quickly, Normann says....Flame retardant exposure linked to house dust
...anging from carpeting and cushions to televisions, computers and coffee makers. In recent years, however, concerns have grown with evidence that PBDE concentrations are increasing rapidly both in the environment and in human tissues and body fluids. Toxicological data on PBDEs is still limited, but the compoun...MSI releases 'moleculizer' - a new approach to simulation of intracellular biochemical networks
...eriod of time, by taking advantage of the power of computers to generate the thousands of potential protein complexes and reactions that cells are able to generate. The Molecular Sciences Institute is an independent nonprofit research laboratory that combines genomic experimentation with computer modeling. Wor...EB and IUPS - Where cures of tomorrow can be seen in the science of today
...arch programs. Teaching poster sessions include computers in research and teaching and teaching, learning and testing in the biological and biomedical sciences. In addition, each society offers programs on attracting and preparing the next generation of scientists, with special attention to women and minori...Research may speed development of new oral drugs for fertility treatments
...ction patterns that result are then analyzed using computers to deduce the structure of the molecule under study. Producing the crystals was a considerable challenge, said Hendrickson, in part because FSH and its receptor are glycoproteins with numerous sugar molecules attached to the protein backbone. The pre...Study in Royal Society journal on sense of fairness in chimpanzees
... enzymes, are able to produce small bubbles. Using computers it is possible to simulate their evolution at different temperatures. At very low ones the small bubbles remain stationary, but at higher ones they start to move, without loosing their form. Our conjecture is that the small moving bubbles can merge t...Grid expectations for networked computing: From global Earth monitoring to black hole detection
...le enough: anything one computer can do, a pool of computers can do faster and better. These machines do not ha...raphically dispersed or 'distributed' network of computers has the potential to provide users with access to advanced computing services, processing power or m...Brain region learns to anticipate risk, provides early warnings. suggests new study in Science
...eory is accurate." During the last two decades, as computers have become much more powerful, computer modeling has become an increasingly powerful tool for understanding the brain, said Brown, noting that findings from this study offer a nice example of how computer models of the brain can lead to new discover...California researchers help map human genetic variation across populations
...00 CPU hours. But we were able to use a cluster of computers from Calit2's OptIPuter project, and that allowed us to perform our final entire analysis in less than 12 hours." Until now, due to the high cost of sequencing technology, disease association studies have traditionally been performed over short genom...