Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...re spatial resolution and depicts movements with a precision of one centimetre across the entire area of interest. The second is the Displacement Monitoring Service. Updated more regularly than the Landslide Motion Survey, it has a maximum spatial resolution of five metres and measures ground movement on a sc...Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
...ated measurement methods are well standardized and precision excellent. There is little information on the vari...ea of ongoing intense interest. Improvement of the precision of "inflammation testing" by exploring even newer biomarkers or using combinations of tests is a rip...Newly discovered pathway might help in design of cancer drugs
...plained. "What we did was more like carrying out a precision attack. It let us get a closer look."...Computational tool predicts how drugs work in cells, advancing efforts to design better medicines
...r efficient. The BU research team sought to bring precision and efficiency to this discovery process. The team used a combination of computational and experimental methods to build and verify their tool, first using a reverse-engineering approach to decipher the multitude of regulatory networks operating amo...New imaging technologies can enhance orthopaedic outcomes
...accuracy, but also to determine with unprecedented precision whether clinical recovery from bone, joint or tendon damage is actually complete and not simply a "placebo effect." Radiologists examining patients with damaged tissue are increasingly using ultrasound and specialized MRI techniques that allow exami...The Lancet calls for the creation of a world institute for risk evaluation
...ut a given risk, the likely size of that risk, the precision of such an estimate, areas of uncertainty that required resolution, and data supporting interventions to limit the effects of that risk. WIRE would set the global agenda on threats to human survival. It would aggregate the evidence and make its concl...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
... monitoring to the next level, that is helping the precision of the tool and helping people who use it to make better clinical decisions," Dr. Devoe says. Part of that help comes in an intense learning and certification process to ensure that investigators studying it and one day any doctor using it are get...Exploring the brain's internal stopwatch
...earchers. They concluded, thus "that this temporal precision can be achieved explicitly, by measuring the duration of a time interval, and implicitly, by keeping track of the distance a target has traveled," the wrote. They also wrote that their findings contradict other studies suggesting that visually gui...New sampling method to track HIV-risk behavior
... unbiased population estimates and measures of the precision of those estimates," explains Douglas Heckathorn, professor of sociology at Cornell. He developed RDS in 1997 for a National Institute on Drug Abuse HIV-prevention research project targeting drug users in several Connecticut cities. "When applied in ...No increase in deaths for heart failure patients with pulmonary artery catheter
...of the study was to evaluate whether the increased precision that a PAC offers regarding heart and lung pressur...of circulation and blood flow at a higher level of precision than has been available from other tests. The device was quickly embraced by the medical community ...100,000 excess civilian deaths after Iraq invasion
...ave included more clusters would have improved the precision of their findings, but at an enormous and unacceptable risk to the team of interviewers who gathered the primary data. Despite these unusual challenges, the central observation - namely, that civilian mortality since the war has risen due to the ef...U.Va. Health System adds new cancer treatment center
...nd treatment. This technology allows us to deliver precision radiation therapy and will have tremendous positive impact for our patients." As radiation is delivered by a beam in a helical pattern, from any point in a 360-degree rotation, the beam moves a predetermined distance along the length of the pati...Coast-mapping satellites will follow the tides
... imagery, together with SPOT 5 optical imagery for precision mapping. The coastline is defined as the precise shoreline at the time of high water. This being so, the partner hydrographic organisations are supplying tidal data enabling satellite acquisitions to be planned to coincide with local high tides. For...Stereotactic body radiation therapy conference
...l body motion (including breathings) to ensure the precision of radiation beams aimed at the tumor. The results of the initial phase of the study were published in the November 2003 journal Chest. Forty-seven patients were treated and Dr. Timmerman and his colleagues reported that high doses of radiation were ...Insights from intravascular ultrasound explore treatment benefits
...-off of 0.3mm MIT may be too close to the limit of precision of this technique (0.2mm). Furthermore, 0.3mm MIT is sometimes observed in the donor heart early after transplantation." The value of IVUS end-points as a valid surrogate in the context of a therapeutic intervention was also debated. While most pane...Time-reversal acoustics research promises medical breakthroughs
...sules would be correlated to ambient pressure. The precision of the TRA system would allow highly accurate focusing in one area of the heart, meanwhile the nonlinear acoustic technique would give a diagnostician information about pressure changes as the heart pumps. A different application would involve the ab...Nanotech imaging, molecular fingerprints and signatures hold promise for cancer
...millimeter lymph nodes, a 100-fold increase in the precision of detecting tumors than possible with existing conventional lymph node imaging technology. The resolution of this imaging technology distinguished both lymph nodes and ducts, which no other currently used method can discern. Furthermore, the technol...Cardiac MRI detects thinned heart muscle previously deemed unsalvageable
... allows them to visualize the beating heart with a precision and specificity that conventional methods cannot match. Although their study was based on a small sample of heart patients seen at Duke University and Northwestern University, Chicago, the researchers believe that as cardiac MRI is used more routinel...Procedure cures atrial fibrillation
...deliver the radiofrequency pulses with painstaking precision in patterns that resemble dotted lines and circles. Then, they remove the catheter from the body, and monitor the patient overnight. Recently, Oral says, the technique has been greatly enhanced by the development of new ablation strategies, and the a...Stereotactic lung cancer study produces positive initial results
...ight body frame that limits mobility to ensure the precision of photon beams aimed at the tumor. "The results of the first phase were very encouraging and somewhat surprising," Dr. Timmerman said. "We thought patients would only tolerate lower doses of radiation since they were frail to begin with. To our del...