Mapping the air to safeguard your looks, the environment and planes in flight
...ut realistic doses, as well as fine-tune the doses simulated in laboratory tests." From autumn next year L'Oreal will receive regularly updated high-resolution maps of global UV doses and pollution levels, as part of a wide-ranging ESA Data User Programme project called Tropospheric Emission Monitoring Inte...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, August 19, 2003
...ls at night than normal-weight men in a study that simulated a rapid ascent to an altitude of 12,000 feet (Arti...and much lower blood oxygen levels during sleep at simulated high altitude. Obese people traveling to high altitudes should follow standard guidelines to ensure ...Cranberries may help reduce stroke damage
...e. In lab studies using rat brain cells exposed to simulated stroke conditions, a concentrated cranberry extrac...h varying concentrations of cranberry juice. Under simulated conditions of stroke, exposure to cranberry juice was found to have a statistically significant effe...Technique reduces time spent on radiation doses
...alculating 100 million particles to come up with a simulated dose. Wickerhauser and Deasy have used wavelets to speed the calculation up to where only one to four million particles are needed to come up with the simulation. The technique of simulating radiation dose distributions has long been a mainstay in ...HFES Annual Meeting papers feature work on critical health and safety issues
...its effects on human performance in the lab and in simulated and operational driving conditions. This work builds on previous research with drowsy drivers and identifies an appropriate design for a drowsy driver detection interface with user-centered design principles central to the development. The researche...Bone cement only controls bacteria for a few days after the operation
...riks investigated the release of antibiotics under simulated real-life conditions. He first of all investigated the antibiotic concentration in the cavity between the surface of the bone and the bone cement. In the human body this cavity is about 0.2 mm wide. The antibiotic concentrations in the cavity were fo...Patient simulator improves performance of clinical trial coordinators
.... The researchers can control the reactions of the simulated patients to allow learners to experience a variety of situations that may occur. "While traditional methods of teaching new material involve reading and lectures, the simulator provides a hands-on experience that greatly improves the learning experie...Researchers fly away from gravity on the 35th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign
...ness. Bubbles in blood How do bubbles form in simulated human blood? A Belgian group from the University of Brussels is linking up with investigators from the Universities of Thessaloniki and Thessaly in Greece to find out. "We use a tiny quarter-millimetre heater to produce the bubbles in the liquid," ex...Sound helps augment poor vision for some tasks
...addition of sound. But when they wore goggles that simulated nearsightedness, the sound dramatically improved their performance."When they wore goggles, the participants' ability to locate the light declined," said Wallace. "But when sound was added, they were just as good as when they had normal vision." Wall...UCF research could help airport security screeners become more efficient
... more likely to identify a threatening object in a simulated suitcase if they were first shown the object in an...tating images learned better with the mostly full simulated suitcases, while others learned better when the suitcases showed only the threatening object. Fiore ...New standard proposed for coronary artery calcium screening
...y." Using specially developed testing software and simulated human chests and hearts with fixed amounts of calcium, the researchers were able to generate a more accurate, calibrated result, independent of the scanner being used or the patient's size. The new standards also include recommendations that allow f...Study suggests driving restrictions are not necessary for users of methadone, buprenorphine and LAAM
...e of Drug and Alcohol Dependence indicates similar simulated driving results in controls and clients stabilized on pharmacotherapy for heroin dependence. Michael Lenne, Greg Rumbold, Jenny Redman, and Tom J Triggs from Monash University, Victoria, Australia and Paul Dietze from Turning Point Alcohol and Dru...At AAAS: Biocomplexity panel on human-nature interactions
...sions,"the researchers said, "is how agents (i.e., simulated households)learn from past experience and adapt these experiences to futureland-use decisions." The $2.7 million, 5-year project began in2001. "Human Ecodynamics in the Hawaiian Ecosystem, 1200-200 YearsBefore the Present" presented by Patrick Kirch...Virtual play boosts disabled children's self-image
...earchers conducting follow-up interviews found the simulated games had a positive impact on the children's belief in their abilities. "They would say that it didn't matter whether they could do this activity like their able-bodied peers in real life, they could do it their own way in the virtual environment,"...ISS to receive experimental figurehead during spacewalk
... it after the famous Russian matrioshka dolls. The simulated human element of the experiment is called the Phan...he lungs. These 'tissue' layers are covered with a simulated skin layer. The Phantom is itself housed in an external container, which represents a spacesuit. Ra...Targeted antiviral prophylaxis of flu case contacts could successfully contain pandemic influenza
...pulation consisted of people whose characteristics simulated the age distribution and approximate household siz...the U.S. 2000 Census. The spread of influenza was simulated through measuring typical numbers of close and casual contacts during the course of a day. Althoug...New insights into devastating basketball foot injury
...ame: landing on one foot following a jump during a simulated lay-up, changing direction 180 degrees during a side-to-side shuffle, and pivoting 180 degrees during a forward sprint. Detailed measurements of maximum forces, work and time elapsed were taken while players wore their normal shoes and also in shoes ...Creators of robot for the elderly to demonstrate technologies at Future of Aging Services Conference
... 'observe' where the participant goes--either to a simulated kitchen on one side of the booth or a simulated bathroom (for taking medicine) on the other--and provide reminders accordingly." Pollack's recent ...Teen-rated video games loaded with violence
...hese games provide incentives to players to commit simulated acts of violence. They urge parents to judge for themselves the appropriateness of game content, both by using the ESRB rating information and by experiencing the game with their child. "We see the convergence of media and cross-marketing issues as p......ive treatments, 99.9 percent of the mercury in the simulated waste water was captured reducing levels from 145.8 parts per million to 0.04 parts per million. This is below the EPA's discharge limit of 0.2 parts per million. The mercury-laden SAMMS also passed Washington State's Dangerous Waste regulatory lim...