Envisat Symposium report day 3: Satellites supporting Kyoto - our future is in our forests
...ectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument to track trace gases in the atmosphere and produce daily global maps of atmospheric methane. Carbon dioxide is the best known greenhouse gas, but methane is able to trap more than 21 times more heat per molecule. "Accurately characterising methane s...Taking apart a hurricane: Multi-sensor Envisat sees through Frances
...'thermometer' takes Frances' temperature Another instrument aboard Envisat is being used to take the temperatu..." Radar altimeters, such as the Radar Altimeter-2 instrument on Envisat, fire hundreds of radar pulses down to Earth every second, and by timing their return dow...Envisat witnesses return of the South Polar ozone hole
...ERS-2, monitored the process. "Envisat carries an instrument called the Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectromete...heric Cartography (SCIAMACHY), based on a previous instrument flown aboard ERS-2, called the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME)," said Henk Eskes of the Ro...Envisat's rainbow vision detects ground moving at pace fingernails grow
...cludes an Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument designed to acquire radar images of the Earth's surface. Part of Envisat's assigned 'background mission' as it orbits the world every 100 minutes is to prioritise ASAR acquisitions over the seismic belts that cover 15% of the land surface. "By the t...Tufts professor launches program to mentor deaf students in state-of-the-art physics research
...all the classroom lessons and the group laboratory instrument training sessions. "Professor Cebe is an expert in this field, and we are proud that she is dedicated to advancing these exceptional students in science," said Susan Ernst, dean of Tufts' School of Arts and Sciences. "Cebe's passion for research and ...Laser surgery offers advantages for voice disorders
...in the future in other areas you can reach with an instrument from the outside," said Jamie Koufman, M.D., the director of the Center for Voice and Swallowing Disorders and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "We are already using it in the trachea and upper lung. We are looking at other applications...New era of colon screening emerging
...osts for equipment repair and the need to push the instrument from outside the patient to advance in the colon. ...een procedures while at the same time reducing the instrument downtime and possibly the risk of infection. The equipment also uses integrated LED (light emitting...Botulinum toxin can help musicians with dystonia
...ilar between the groups, regardless of the type of instrument played. The musicians had injections, on average, once every four months. The most common injection sites were the forearm flexor muscles. In a related study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that evaluated the effectiveness of botulinum tox...Future blood tests may use tiny bar-codes to speed disease diagnosis
... bio-bar-codes. The tags can then be scanned by an instrument to identify diseases ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's, or identify exposure to bioterror agents such as anthrax and smallpox, they say. Details about the analytical test, which appears promising in experimental studies, are scheduled to appear in t...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...will discuss the resurgence of the harpsichord, an instrument that was almost abandoned by musicians at the end of the 19th century as it was considered obsolete next to the piano (4pMU7). EAREDNESS: EVIDENCE FOR A PREFERRED EAR Humans generally write with a preferred hand, and they read with a dominant eye...Botox injections restore voices, confidence to voice disorder patients
...d Paul Kileny, Ph.D. The development of the V-RQOL instrument used U-M funding in the 1990s; the current research was funded internally. None of the authors has any financial interest in Botox or its manufacturers....Making music could be bad for your skin
Playing a musical instrument increases your risk of suffering from a variety of...erforming there is a permanent contact between the instrument and the musician's skin of varying intensity. Apart from aggravating previous skin conditions, speci...Detection at a distance for more sensitive MRI
... and detection -- normally carried out in the same instrument -- in order to customize each step for the best results. Using laser-polarized xenon gas as the medium for "remembering" the encoded information and carrying it to the remote detection site, Pines and his group have achieved orders-of-magnitude impro...New flu vaccine provides insight into immunity development
...t pathogen that could be a target for misuse as an instrument of bioterrorism. In fact, the vaccine study was funded by a National Institutes of Health bioterrorism grant. "Understanding respiratory tract immunity has great relevance for biodefense in that the general mechanisms involved can be applied to other...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2004 class of inventors
...ut Coulter's invention of the Coulter Counter. An instrument for counting blood cells, the device was based on the Coulter Principle, a methodology for counting, measuring, and evaluating particles suspended in a fluid. Coulter received numerous honors and was awarded 74 patents for his work in hematology. R...UCSF physicians publish groundbreaking book on medical mistakes
...hich a Canadian woman had a crowbar-sized surgical instrument left in her abdomen. Internal Bleeding also includes a dozen other cases gathered from around the country and presented anonymously. They include the patient who received another patient's heart surgery because of a name mix-up, the ICU patient who h...Surgical technique may reduce pain after tonsillectomy
...chnique involving the microdissection needle -- an instrument that uses less energy than the standard approach electrocautery (which controls bleeding by heating tissues) during surgical removal of the tonsils may reduce the amount of pain experienced after tonsillectomy, according to an article in the Decembe...WHO accused of huge HIV blunder
...these studies are questionable. For instance, the instrument used to collect samples in the South African study was not approved by the FDA for use on children, he says. Schmid is now helping to design a follow-up study. Whatever its results, there is little likelihood of the argument being resolved. Drucker...Neutron detector under development to monitor spacecraft radiation
...s no compact, portable, real-time neutron detector instrument available for use inside a spacecraft or on planetary surfaces. "These types of measurements would be crucial for exploration missions outside Earth's orbit where there is no protection from Earth's magnetic field," Maurer said. Primary radiation par...Universal bone marrow cell spurs growth of vessels and heart muscle
... echocardiography and by a pressure transducer, an instrument at the tip of a tiny catheter that is threaded through an artery into the heart to measure blood pressure and heart function. Heart function after 28 days was better in rats that received the hBMSC than in the rats that received total bone marrow cel...