Training could remove racial bias from police reactions
...ence finds that extensive training with a computer simulation where the race of a suspect is unrelated to the presence of a weapon can eliminate racial bias. Fifty police officers from Florida with two to thirty years of experience participated in one hundred and sixty test trials. The earlier trials revealed...Researchers model brain's electrical storm during a seizure
...r desirable through direct observation, a computer simulation of a brain during a seizure could potentially provide a fuller picture of how and why electrical signals misfire. "This model could provide insight into the pathophysiology of the spread of a seizure," said Kirsch. "Further down the line, this could...National Academies news: Academy honors 17 for major contributions to science
...his many innovations in the modeling and numerical simulation offlows, and his pioneering contributions to physically based computergraphics." The award, presented since 1981, was established by AT&TBell Laboratories in honor of William O. Baker. NAS AWARD IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - a medal and a prize of $25,00...More efficient ways of managing patient flow may benefit Los Angeles County/USC hospital
...ase two of the study, Dessouky, who specializes in simulation and modeling, will develop a testbed to connect all patient flow activities together and gather data for analysis. Using this data, he and his colleagues plan to develop new patient flow models and data management tools. Processes that will be model...Information fusion research simulates disasters to manage emergency response
...mation fusion coupled with design of a large-scale simulation of a disaster modeled after the 1994 Northridge ea..." explained Scott. "Based on those parameters, the simulation determines the number of casualties created as an immediate consequence of the primary shake and the...Computer simulation shows how fibrils form
... a graduate student in Hall's lab, used a computer simulation technique, discontinuous molecular dynamics, to vi...s of small proteins called peptides. Movies of the simulation show that 96 randomly placed peptides spontaneously aggregate into what Hall calls a "sandwich" of l...Cancer researchers seek to predict tumor growth
...sed in-silico, that is, in or by means of computer simulation to better understand and predict the dynamics of the cancer process. MMR defective cells cause hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC), an inherited disorder, also called Lynch syndrome, that often leads to colon cancer and other types of cancer...Longterm immune memory cells cells do not develop during chronic viral infections
...ls a rest by terminating exposure to viral antigen simulation following the acute phase of infection seems to be necessary if T cells are to differentiate into long-term antigen-independent memory T cells," Dr. Ahmed says. "Therapeutic vaccine approaches that provide antigen re-stimulation during persistent in...Scientists identify key mechanism in estrogen's role in preventing bone loss
...ould lead us to inhibition of T-cell activation or simulation of TGFB signaling as new therapeutic approaches for preventing bone loss." Other authors included Wei-Ping Qian, Kimberly Dark, Gianluca Toraldo, and M. Neale Weitzmann from Emory School of Medicine; Angela S.P. Lin and Robert E. Guldberg from the Ge...Studies examine risk factors and potential consequences associated with prehypertension
...ANES) Epidemiological Followup Study, to develop a simulation model to estimate the effects of prehypertension a...internmed.com ) Editor's Note: Development of the simulation model used for this study was supported in part by grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research an...Lifesaving potential of mammograms lost due to underuse
...ancer and socioeconomic status and used a computer simulation model of breast cancer to estimate the health consequences of various usages of screening. Overall, only 6 percent of women utilized ten mammograms. The median number of mammograms received was only five. More important, an analysis based on age, rac...Patient safety gets boost with $10 million grant
... a hub for the generation of new interdisciplinary simulation curricula and technologies, with the ultimate goal...the center will focus on designing and testing new simulation technologies with the assistance of students and faculty at the engineering school as well as resear...Malaria: Plasmodium togetherness a strategy for breeding success
...rom humans to the vector. They used a computerized simulation model (the individual based model) of gametocyte behaviour in human blood circulation and at the moment of ingestion by the mosquitoes, aiming to find an explanation for this heterogeneity and its role in the parasite's reproduction. In the microfil...Merging hearing technologies sounds good to researcher
...mplants, which work by providing direct electrical simulation to the auditory nerve. The microphone, speech processor and transmitter are placed on the outside of the ear similar to a hearing aid. The microphone picks up sounds from the environment so the speech processor can process and encode the incoming sig...Targeted antiviral prophylaxis of flu case contacts could successfully contain pandemic influenza
...4. The Emory scientists used a dynamic stochastic simulation model of an influenza pandemic or bioterrorist attack for an agent similar to influenza A(H2N2), which caused the Asian influenza pandemic of 1957-58 and resulted in approximately 70,000 deaths in the U.S. (A stochastic model includes elements of cha...Standardizing disaster models to help first responders
Computer modeling and simulation programs that depict predisaster site conditions, ...nology (NIST) is working to make such modeling and simulation programs readily accessible to emergency response decision-makers. NIST is identifying the needs of...Forensic radiology makes virtual autopsy a reality
...virtual model of an injury with the 3-D image of a simulation created by using a similar-type weapon. "It's then possible to merge all of this information from the body's inside and outside into one data set on the computer," Dr. Thali said. "We now have 3-D, non-subjective information that can easily be presen...Natural scenes calm drivers more than city views, study finds
...ollow-up experiment in which participants will use simulation software that will provide a more realistic driving experience. "The fact that we got results even with this simple study suggests their may be real effects," he said. "These results go along with other studies that show people prefer natural scener...Cancer risk calculated with Pap test every 3 years; found comparable to male breast cancer
...hree years. The researchers then used a validated simulation model to predict the chance that an individual woman would develop cancer over a three-year period if she were screened annually for three years compared to once three years later. The risk associated with being screened annually was 1 to 2 per 100,0...Patient simulator improves performance of clinical trial coordinators
...ncreased from 6.17 to 8.03. "We fully believe that simulation training could be the wave of the future, especially after seeing the results of this study," Taekman said. "The current approach to training coordinators fails to take advantage of adult learning theory, which has shown that interactivity is a super...