Study Says Machine Sensors Applicable To Human Ills
...study the possibility thattechnology developed for machine maintenance could be used to maintain humanhealth. The team is one of eight assembled by Sandia National Laboratoryunder the sponsorship of the Koop Foundation and the Defense Advanced ResearchProjects Agency. Hansen and Dr. David Hall, professor of ...... The procedure relies on a Siemens open MRI machine coupled with a high-resolution, shielded LCD monit...s group has rewritten the software that drives the machine so it can make images more rapidly. As a result, the image acquisition rate has risen from one frame...MIT Solution To Math Problem Could Lead To Better Dental Implants, More Resistance To Missiles
... The work has since led to patents on a new machine for testing gradedmaterials and for the software t... The researchers have since found that the new machine coupled with thenew theory has industrial applications. For example, it could speed thequality-contr...Procter & Gamble Supports Yale University Collaboration For Public Health Training Throughout China
... of industrial waste, such as used cars and machine parts, which generate contaminants such as PCBs and asbestos. Yale first collaborated with Union School in 1996 when the RockefellerFoundation asked Yale faculty to help develop a new curriculum in public healthlaw for China. The curriculum ...DFG To Fund Four New Research Units
... the recruitment of external labour and inter-farm machine use. This is the issue to be tackled by the interdisciplinary research unit "Information system for small-scale farm management - Drnast" at Munich's Technical University and Ludwig Maximilian University. At the Drnast experimental farm the unit will...Electronic Nose Inspects Cheese, Hints At Human Sense Of Smell
...ar theyhave observed in the machine a situation analogous to the wayin which humans experience a scent -- in stages. "A good human sensory panel will pick up what they call top notes, middle notes, and bottom notes. When peo...A Trip To The Dentist Could Cause Symptoms In Asthmatic Kids
... airways. Each child blew into a spirometer, a machine used to measure the volume of air in a lung. The researchers took spirometer readings before, immediately after and 30 minutes after dental treatment. They also recorded any asthma-related symptoms that occurred before, during or after ...MIT Touch Lab Research Explores The Hand
...describes all aspects of hands and how they work), machine haptics(robotic devices), and computer haptics (th...f these areas as roughly analogous tohuman vision, machine vision, and computer graphics," Dr. Srinivasan said. Projects in human haptics range from de...Nonintrusive Imaging Technique Useful For Identifying Language Regions In Kids' Brains
...ealthy children for time spent in the fMRIscanning machine with pizza parties and money and also strove to make them feelcomfortable with the study process. "We took a great deal of care talking tothem before the study and explaining what would happen, sometimes even doing atrial run so they knew exactly wha......od pressure. CPAP is a breathing maskattached to a machine and is used during sleep to keep the airways open. Dr. Sullivan noted that pre-eclampsia occurs in nearly 10% of all normalpregnancies, and is the major cause of admission to the hospital duringpregnancy and the major cause of infant admi......e she needs a Caesarean section, and theanesthesia machine in the local hospital doesn't work properly or because theone qualified surgeon has never learned the necessary procedure. Or a woman maydie on the way to a distant city hospital because her local hospital is not openwhen she becomes ill. Dr...New Procedure Makes A Successful Transplant Possible
...smapheresis. They were connectedfor two hours to a machine that removed their blood, separated out the bloodserum that contained the rejection antibodies, and returned their red and whiteblood cells and platelets. Their serum was replaced by a protein solution. Eight patients had this procedure six times ove...Kidney Transplants From Living Donors Reduce Long-Term Costs Of Care
...re morecostly than kidney transplants. A dialysis machine takes over the main job ofthe kidney, filtering the body's fluids. But the machine can't filter as well orperform the organ's other functions, so patients become weak and susceptible ...Computer matches CT scans to disease database
...works through the synergy of human interaction and machine learningand computer vision algorithms," says Brodley, an assistant professor in thePurdue School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Sophisticated software enables the user to carry out a visual sort ofkeyword search, a method referred to as...UMass researchers teaching computers to interpret MRIs
...computer must beextremely precise in order for the machine to be able to use it. "The machinedoes not like am...on with a computerized"pen." This would enable the machine to focus on the area of particular concern,and break it up into lesion and non-lesion regions, witho...... percent of the cases. The gamma knife, a special machine that focuses high intensity radiationprecisely into the brain, offers an alternative to neurosurgery for many braindisorders. Because gamma knife radiosurgery is brain surgery without a scalpel,patients who undergo the procedure are able to return t...Workplace environment can improve eating habits
...ber, and better labeling of the content of vending machine snacks. "American cancer control programs have been criticized for focusing almostexclusively on changing individual health behaviors and neglecting opportunitiesto involve the physical and social environments of the work site," said LoisBiener, PhD,...Obesity drugs not a quick fix for achieving weight loss
... computer all day, takes the elevator to the snack machine a fewtimes each day and drives to the pizza place or hamburger joint for dinner andmaybe a few beers is a good candidate for weight problems. Unless thosebehaviors change, he says, all the diet drugs in the world won't make thatperson thin....Implanted defibrillators and anti-theft systems appear safe under normal circumstances
...ly, but in each case the individual lingeredin the machine and in at least one instance the patient was holding on to thetransmitter pole. Previous studies were either too problematic or too small to clearly saywhether the theft detectors were harmful or safe, according to Zipes. Researche...Study shows benefit of pioneering U-M program for newborns at risk of hearing impairment
...pes; use of an antibiotic,respirator or heart-lung machine after birth; and abnormalities of the head,face or neck. The test, called auditory brainstem response or ABR, plays clicksinto the ear and measures the response through electrodes on the head. The study showed that 137 babies, or 6.4 percent of the e...