Sprinklers shown effective in slowing dorm fires
An automatic sprinkler system significantly increases a person's chances of surviving a dormitory fire, according to a report issued recently by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Three NIST experiments,* supported by a U.S. Fire Administr...Hearing aid signal not clear? Then switch frequency to FM, finds UCI study
...tly boost the performance of many hearing aids and automatic speech recognition devices by separating and blocking out background noise and increasing tonal recognition, which is essential to hearing music and certain spoken languages. Study results appear this week in the early online edition of Proceedings o...Brain activity reflects complexity of responses to other-race faces
...ion than white faces. "These results suggest that automatic and controlled evaluative processes may be more co...uals, early perceptual processing may result in an automatic emotional response that may direct attention toward people of stigmatized social groups. Yet, with t...Good intentions versus bad habits: Why the old ways win out
...me more influential. With control weakened, those automatic responses such as eating a cookie or smoking a cigarette can override our new good intentions. Aging can also erode aspects of memory that require control while leaving more automatic, learned behavior preserved. The new research suggests that ...New magnetic percutaneous system navigates vessels
...agnet in the tip of the interventional device. An automatic advancement system controls the catheter advancement and retraction. Kleiman said the magnetic system is useful in patients with difficult lesions who are undergoing a coronary intervention, such as balloon angioplasty. He said the more tortuous the...News briefs from the Journal CHEST, November 2004
...inte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. Researchers implemented automatic asthma education center (AEC) referrals for asthma patients presenting to the ED for asthma at nine acute care centers. In the first four months of the program, 1,104 asthma patients were referred to an AEC, compared to 110 patients in the same peri...Loyola warns lower temps mean greater risk of fire from space heaters
...l-fired heaters. Portable heaters should have an automatic shut-off. Never keep flammable liquids near a space heater. Mobile homes should use only vented fuel-fired or electric heaters....Exercise for special populations, sensory research, factors impacting rehabilitation top issues
...c procedures to use for best results. Users of automatic speech recognition lukewarm about system performance, pg 739 This study explores how well automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems meet the needs of users with physical disabilities. The top reason ...Technologies companies at NJIT receive $500,000 in funding from state
...rextruder.com uses a core technology enabling the automatic conversions of 2D facial images (such as a passport photos) to life-like biometrically and forensically accurate 3D models of the subjects' faces or heads. The technology has applications in the entertainment and security industries. Noble Device ...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for July 6, 2004
...hol-based hand-rub solutions must become a ritual, automatic behavior" and alcohol hand-rub solution dispensers must be put "on every doorpost in every health care facility." 3. ACP Updates Guidelines for Treating Chronic Stable Angina...New research shows reasons for smoking vary
...erienced smokers were more influenced by cravings, automatic smoking, the need to smoke even when knowing the n...The motives most connected to smoking relapse were automatic smoking, smoking to enhance mental activity, smoking to alleviate distress, and being in a smoking e...'Considerable reductions' in radiation exposure possible with 16-MDCT scanner on body applications
...-sized patients, even without the incorporation of automatic exposure control software. "Much of this is due to the better geometric and detector efficiency of the 16-slice CT units, which is expected to continue with the further improvement in efficiency with the coming 32 to 64slice units," said Aart J. van...Evidence suggests that the brain can switch to 'automatic pilot' during learning
...that humans might prefer to switch their brains to automatic pilot whenever possible to conserve their cogitati...cuting a response," he said. Such learning becomes automatic "such that at some point, you're just retrieving responses from memory; you're not actually performi...Are our brains wired for race or gender bias?
...s indicated that many white Americans exhibited an automatic preference for whites over blacks. "Biases are more pervasive than we thought," Banaji observed. However, her research suggests that biases often occur unconsciously, outside the realm of self-knowledge or introspection. "These biases often stand...Patients recovering from depression with talk therapy show a 'distinct' pattern of brain changes
... They are taught cognitive strategies for reducing automatic reactivity to negative thoughts. Using positron emission tomography (PET) -- multi-colored imaging that pinpoints where maximum changes in brain metabolism occur -- Dr. Mayberg's team, led by CBT expert Zindel Segal, PhD, and graduate student Kimberl......ired heaters. Portable heaters should have an automatic shut-off. Never keep flammable liquids near a space heater. Mobile homes should use only vented fuel-fired or electric heaters. Tips for electrical lights, trees include: Inspect all lights before plugging them in; even if they are ne...Low infection rate in Arrow Lionheart* European trial
...ent can be weaned from the heart-lung machine. The automatic control system is switched on and the pump completely turned on takes over operation of the patient's left ventricle creating a physiologically normal pumping heart. In February 2001, Arrow announced that the device received FDA approval under the In...Rejection really hurts, UCLA psychologists find
...hat would indicate that we're being excluded. This automatic alarm may be a signal for us to reestablish social bonds before harm befalls us." "These findings show how deeply rooted our need is for social connection," Eisenberger said. "There's something about exclusion from others that is perceived as being a...Deep brain stimulation offers benefits against Parkinson's
...mic nucleus is part of the group that co-ordinates automatic movements. Between 1996 and 2001, Lang and his colleagues followed 25 patients who had electrodes implanted into the region of the subthalamic nucleus on both sides of the brain; the electrodes were wired under the skin to pacemaker-like devices. The...Even health professionals who treat obesity are biased against overweight patients
...ic characteristics. The IAT is a timed measure of automatic associations. It was used in this study to assess overall implicit weight bias, associating "obese people" with "bad" and "thin people" with "good," as well as three ranges of stereotypes: lazy-motivated, smart-stupid, and valuable worthless. The que...