Wind tunnel tests could lead to healthier towns and cities
...ocess. This process depends on street layout, wind speed and other factors, and understanding it is vital to taking effective action to improve urban climate and air quality. The project will centre on wind tunnel tests that simulate airflow in urban areas. Cube and bar shapes representing a variety of ur...Electrical stimulation in patients with paralysis and spinal cord injury
...t elbow angles, along with the number of times and speed in moving an object to different positions in a workspace. Elbow extension neuroprostheses provided statistically significant increases in the ability of an individual to successfully reach and move an object, and significantly decreased the time req...Faulty wiring in the brain may cause early-onset schizophrenia
...e focused in production of therapeutic agents that speed up or restart the myelination process," she said. Co-authoring the study with Drs. Ashtari and Kumra are Marjorie McMeniman, Ph. D., Joshua Vogel, Alan Sloan Diamond, M.D., and Philip Szeszko, Ph.D....U.S. is poorly prepared for influenza pandemic, St. Jude experts warn
...vaccines that should help us balance the needs for speed and vaccine safety in the event of a pandemic." Such an outbreak could be significantly worse than those previously caused by SARS and West Nile virus. An important factor driving the evolution of influenza viruses is the ongoing mixing of human and...Physical activity in later years helps women preserve functional abilities
...hysical activity in 1985 was predictive of walking speed in 1999. They also found that the consistency of physical activity from 1985 to 1995 was related to functional status in 1999. Women who were always active had the best functional status and women who were always inactive had the worst functional s...Physical activity key to maintaining independence say University of Pittsburgh researchers
..., pick up a penny, turn 360 degrees and walk. Gait speed was analyzed using an instrumented walkway. Findings were consistent for all three tests gait speed, PPT and self-reported activities of daily living function over 14 years, physical activity was directly related to improved functional status. Thos...Binghamton University, RPI and Infotonics Center team up to form national packaging power
...te, and the Infotonics Technology Center will help speed the commercialization of next-generation microsystems by focusing on electronics packaging research. Binghamton's Integrated Electronics Engineering Center will bring to the alliance its world-class expertise in mechanics, thermal management and reli...Caterpillar Inc. bolsters Southern Community study with $1 million gift
... will fuel quicker enrollment. That, in turn, will speed epidemiologic analysis and follow-up, the lead investigators say.For more information about the SCCS, visit www.southerncommunitystudy.org . Oberhelman, along with Caterpillar Financial Products Division Vice President Jim Beard, recently visited Va...A heart-strengthening pace: brisk but comfortable
... walk in an average of 18.7 minutes, at an average speed of 3.2 miles per hour. During the self-paced walk...ests showed that when participants self-selected a speed that was comfortable but brisk, their heart rate and level of exertion was in a safe range but high ...Heal thyself: Patients' bone marrow cells restore failing hearts
...le's circumference to 14 percent. The contraction speed of the heart went from 1.5 centimeters per second (cm/s) in the treated group to 3.3 cm/s. The fraction of blood ejected by the heart rose from 55 percent to 65 percent. Ten patients had a test that measures the average glucose uptake, which indicat...Brain signals from the paralyzed or injured captured by computer
...e embedded in muscle fibers measure the length and speed of muscle stretch, while other sensors in the skin...al control of a movement signal with precision and speed comparable to that achieved in monkeys by invasive BCIs. This remarkable control by a non-invasive B...AIDS epidemic should be treated as a disaster
...ergency in a country plagued by HIV and AIDS could speed up the response. It would overcome barriers to co-operation and facilitate access to cheaper drugs. Resources could also be better co-ordinated, eliminating duplication and ensuring everyone is working to the same goal. However, declaring a state of ...Enormous X-ray solar flare seen by SOHO
...cond (7.5 million km/h), as compared to a 'normal' speed for these events of 400 kilometres per second (1.5 million km/h). This is a very fast one! This image is from SOHO's LASCO coronagraph, a telescope that uses a disc to block the Sun's bright surface, revealing the faint solar corona, stars, planets...Georgetown University receives $6.5 million grant to enhance emergency preparedness in Washington
...nt of Health, the systems will greatly improve the speed with which a threat can be assessed and communicated to the public. Without such a system, physicians and public health officers have been frustrated by their inability to share information electronically and to communicate effectively with regional ...Hopkins' Peter Agre receives 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry
...ished that milestone in just 12 years. That's warp speed in molecular chemistry and it could never have happened as fast as it did without the wonderful resources and collaborators available at Johns Hopkins. This is an honor for the entire Hopkins family." "This is a great day for the school of medicine ...Driving performance declines with dementia and age
...uld raise concern include an inability to maintain speed or to stay in one lane while driving, hesitating at turns or becoming lost, particularly in familiar areas. "One of the features of dementia is that individuals lose insight and may not recognize that they are becoming unsafe," Morris explains. "We ...High blood pressure does not accelerate age-related cognitive decline
...od pressure on cognition tests, as measured by the speed of mental processing, attention, and memory tasks. However, unlike the new Duke study, which was performed in a laboratory setting, previous studies have been unable to tease out relationships between elevated blood pressures and age on specific cogn...NIAID awards $81 million for HIV vaccine development
...auci, M.D., NIAID director. "These new awards will speed the development of promising HIV vaccine candidates that are based on recent advances in HIV vaccine design and on the latest discoveries in HIV virology and immunology." The four research organizations that have received awards and summaries of thei...Guideline: Early treatment for Guillain-Barr syndrome may speed recovery
...AUL, MN Treating Guillain-Barr syndrome early may speed up the recovery time, according to a guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology. The guideline is published in the September 23 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Treatment should begin with......recommending early treatment of Guillain-Barre' to speed recovery, neurologists developed a summary of the guideline for patients and caregivers. Contact AAN Media Relations staff for a copy. Watch for a Mayo Clinic video news release on Guillain-Barre'. Also visit the Mayo Clinic's consumer website at ht...