National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...ility must be shared by artificial agents, such as mobile robots, if they are to operate flexibly in similar...ation, and computational methods from the study of mobile robots. All of these systems provide experimentally tractable test-beds for studying real-time deci...Setbacks To Health Progress In Central America
... ElSalvador we also have a very good experience in mobile surgery," she said. "There are chronic patients, people with AIDS, elderly people, and pregnantwomen who fear being abandoned in emergencies. The epidemics take the entirestage, and it is difficult to perceive the psychological crises and acute ment...Study finds concussions affect brain behavior in hockey players
... The two-hour tests, conducted in a mobile testing unit set upoutside local rinks, include an electroencephalogram, or EEG, which measureselectrical activity in the brain. Players conduct a range of tasks -- from simplypushing a button to keeping a running mental count of words presented on a...... research and patient care. Thecenter is home to a mobile stroke team available 24 hours a day to treat patients at fivePortland-area hospitals in the critical early stages of a stroke. Providence St. Vincent Hospital,Providence Portland Hospital, Legacy Emanuel Hospital, Portland VA Medical Center and OHSU...Jefferson scientists hope to perfect gene therapy without viruses
...NA. They have used a "transposon," or a naturally mobile piece of DNA, from the E. coli bacterium as a gene delivery vehicle, inserting a gene for antibiotic resistance into a segment of DNA. "This is the first time it [gene therapy] was done this way," says Dr. Wickstrom, who is also a member of Jefferson...Most child care is provided by 'informal' providers, study finds
...ng workshops, kits for activities and home safety, mobile resources and consultation. A $300,000 fund to test these strategies in Seattle and King County will be announced today by the Project Lift-Off Opportunity Fund, a public-private funding partnership for children. The money will allow six organizati...Doctors investigating one stop shop radiotherapy at time of surgery
...re the tumour occurred. The Milan Institute used a mobile linear accelerator with a robotic arm to deliver electron beams through a Perspex applicator to the area around the bed of the tumour. The cosmetic effect was very good and there have been no relapses within the 1 to 2 year follow up period of the ea...Pfizers 'tune-up for life' (TM) identifies heart disease risks among race fans
... 19 states in 2001, Tune-Up-for-Life is an ongoing mobile screening program offering free information and health screenings for blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose and erectile dysfunction (ED). Screenings of 24,000 people revealed that 56 percent of men and 40 percent of women had not seen their doctor i...Definitive CWRU study says exercise, no smoking leads to longer life in adults over 75
...tirees who exercised were not only physically more mobile but mentally healthier with less depression and more exuberance for life. They also continued to set goals and found meaning in their lives. The researchers looked at self-motivated healthy behaviors that not only included exercising and smok...... doing the dirty work. Now imagine this network as mobile made ready in a matter of minutes and modified f...stored sensory information, distributed computing, mobile internetworking and wireless communication, monitor and control, variance in available bandwidth, ha...U-M artificial lung showing promise, as need grows
...lly help lung transplant candidates stay alive and mobile for six months or more, outside the hospital, and allow them to stay healthy enough to remain at the top of the transplant list. It may also prove suitable for burn and smoke inhalation patients, victims of near-drowning, and those with traumatic inj...Needle-exchange program found to reduce emergency room visits among intravenous drug users
...dy in the New Haven, Connecticut area found that a mobile needle exchange program reduced emergency department use among out-of-treatment injection drug users (IDUs). Dr. Harold A. Pollack, University of Michigan, Dr. Frederick L. Altice, Yale University School of Medicine, and colleagues from Yale Univer...The Lancet Neurology press release
Is mobile phone use a health risk? Mobile phone ("cell pho...emain over its safety. Potential health effects of mobile phones range from headache, sleep disturbance, and increased blood pressure, to cancer of the brain-...Real time health records reduce clinical errors, enhance time with patients
...North America that all components of the wireless, mobile technology have been brought together into one, integrated system. Combined with existing technology (hand-held computers, bar codes and wireless networks), the new software allows patients' "real time" health records to travel with them as they proc...For the blind, a computer navigation system with its own map
...ted this project, we were looking for a compelling mobile application of wearable computing that would be no...on numerous hardware and software components, both mobile and fixed. In addition to the headset, a blind person using the system carries a commercially avail...Virtual friend helps young asthma sufferers
...chers this week's BMJ. Doctors in Tayside set up a mobile phone text message service combining reminders to use an inhaler with sport news, celebrity gossip, and horoscopes. The messages were sent by a "virtual friend with asthma" to 30 young asthma sufferers. Focus groups before and after the study found t...NHLBI funds new heart-health education projects in high-risk communities
... the Omaha metropolitan area. This EDUC will run a mobile education and screening unit, sponsor heart fairs and nutrition education seminars, and employ community heath advocates to conduct a comprehensive awareness campaign to increase the adoption of heart-healthy lifestyles. The Penrose-St. Francis Hea...Obesity study focuses on after-school hours
...ody fat as well," Dr. Yin said, with the help of a mobile van equipped with a machine using low-dose radiation to accurately measure percentage of body fat compared to muscle and bone. They'll also keep records of what children eat and psychosocial issues such as their confidence in doing physical activity......nts of the San Jose syringe exchange, which used a mobile van to visit five sites frequented by injecting drug users. The new study builds on a July 2001 UC Davis study, also lead by Gibson, which reviewed 42 studies on syringe-exchange programs from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Net......ndon and Charles Kolb, of Aerodyne Research used a mobile step van laboratory with fast response laser sensors that provided emission results every second. The laser sensors generated a low-power light beam that measured pollutant levels in samples of the target vehicle's exhaust plumes drawn into the van a...