NIST 'pins' down imaging system for the blind
...sually impaired in the same way that Braille makes words readable. The new imaging device was developed at NIST by the same research team that recently created an electronic Braille reader. The reader translates text from sources such as electronic books into Braille. According to its designers, the protot...Brains of elderly can compensate to remain sharp, study indicates
...they were asked to remember the second of pairs of words memorized before the test; and -- A source recogni...n test, in which they were asked to recall whether words presented earlier were heard or read. Cabeza and his colleagues chose the two kinds of tests because...Aging lowers activity in brain's language areas; performance unaffected
... pronunciation task that involved reading pairs of words and deciding whether the word pair was a homonym, ...a word meaning task that involved reading pairs of words and deciding whether each word pair was a synonym, e.g., "boat" and "ship." Brain activity during t...Keen ER identification could avert future strokes
...ially involve only a few simple recommendations or words of advice from a health professional." Interactive computer programs and Internet-based patient education programs also have shown promise, he notes. The number of patients with AF is expected to rise from the current estimate of 2.2 million indivi...Re-emerging field contributes to 10,000 patents yearly
...otes. "What is striking is the extent to which the words optimization and simulation were used," says Frede...ment, Temple University. "Two of the most defining words for our technologies have entered the mainstream." He also concludes that the study of waiting line...Powerful burn-prevention video wins national award
...treatment, and lets them tell viewers in their own words what they have gone through physically and psychologically. The children's stories are interspersed with footage of the different stages of burn treatment, and interviews with fire fighters who have risked their lives in fires caused by accidents or...Physics tip sheet #19 June 26, 2002
...o words, such as "actor" and "universe" by linking words via a thesaurus, how many steps would it take? An analysis of a thesaurus containing over 30,000 words, each of which is linked to about 60 others shows that the shortest path from one word to another is surprisingly small at just over three steps. L...Do stroke therapies really work?
...le who have had strokes were better able to recall words after they silenced parts of the brain that therapies stimulate. Stroke is caused when a clot forms or a blood vessel ruptures in the brain, cutting off the blood supply and killing neurons within minutes. Although the dead cells are not replaced, p...New hearing test simulates noise of real world
...d by a semicircle of loudspeakers. They listen for words that match pictures on the screen. Sometimes, they might hear only one voice asking them to point to a particular object. Other times, they might hear several voices coming from either the same location or from different ones. Yet, every time only on...Improving accuracy of cross-cultural neuropsychological testing
... reading test that asked participants to pronounce words of increasing difficulty from a list. Participants who hada better quality of education were better able to pronounce the more uncommon words. On average, African Americans in the study population scored worse than whites on the reading tests becaus...Applied Biosystems introduces next generation production level DNA analysis systems
...se may be identified by the use of forward-looking words or phrases such as "expect," "potential," "could," and "believe" among others. These forward-looking statements are based on Applera Corporation's current expectations. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe harbor" for...Kaleidescope eyes: the secrets of a novel gift
...mmon form of synaesthesia where digits, letters or words elicit specific colors when they are seen or heard. "The condition doesn't interfere with color vision. Few people describe the colors they see as 'out there' in space. Most describe it as being in the mind's eye as a distinct form of mental imager...Teaching computers to replace lost sounds
...most instantly, the computer would reconstruct the words to ensure safe communication between the airport and the airliner. Hearing aids could connect to a chip and work in the same fashion. Savic envisions that the technology would be useful to historians as well and would not be relegated to sound analy......esthesia the perception that numbers, letters and words have distinct colors has confirmed these earlier ...childhood. WO sees letters, numbers and individual words printed in black-and-white in vivid color. If the characters are printed in different colored ink, h...Training can improve age-related memory decline in elderly
...periments in which subjects were asked to remember words presented to them while in the fMRI machine. In th...dy, the younger and older adults were simply shown words and asked to intentionally try to remember them later. "As previous studies had shown, we confirmed...Researchers find correlation between older adults' use of speech and the ability to gesture
...age age of 74), researchers reported that the more words subjects spoke while attempting to pantomime perfo...ed not to speak, they spoke an average of about 45 words while performing the pantomime. The more subjects spoke, the lower their scores on the pantomime ta...Researchers recommend community advisory boards to prevent lapses in informed consent
... in a United Kingdom study were confused about the words random and placebo. Health workers told HIV-positive subjects in a Ugandan tuberculosis study that they would be treated with a placebo drug, although placebos are chosen so as not to produce any physiologic effect. A woman in an Ivory Coast study th...Science, engineering and technology news tips -- August 2001
...nsciously. The subjects were presented subliminal words such as "love" and "support" within a computerized word-relation test. They then were asked to evaluate people within their own religious group, ethnic background and gender as well as "outsiders" who were Arabs or Russian immigrants. Shaver and Miku...Poor reading skills have both physical, environmental causes
...o pronounce unfamiliar words, to determine missing words in a paragraph and to reorder nonsense syllables into words. The researchers aren't sure why brain symmetry interferes with the development of reading skills. "One possibility is that larger right hemisphere structures might interfere with left hemi...Failure at nonconscious goals explains negative 'mystery moods'
... had to rearrange a series of words to make a sentence. In some cases, the students we... "primed" to have a success goal by using words like "strive," "achieve," and "succeed." Other students were given neutral word...