Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
... of the building and the physical condition of the buildings interior and exterior, as well as the condition of the furnishings in the building. Neighborhoods were rated based on noise, air quality and the conditions of houses, streets, yards and sidewalks. Broken windows, bad siding on homes, cracks in the s...WPI wins $1M to develop system to locate and monitor emergency workers in buildings
...and track the movement of emergency workers inside buildings and also monitor their health and physiological st.... 1) and getting lost, trapped, or disabled inside buildings (No. 3). The DHS funds will augment the more than $3 million in funding the research team has alread...Worcester Polytechnic Institute to host national forum on locating first responders inside buildings
...ted that getting lost, trapped, or disabled inside buildings is the third leading cause of firefighter fatalities. There is also a critical need for indoor location and tracking technology by public safety departments, the military, the mining industry, and other fields where people can become lost or trapped ...Landmark study finds adult Delawareans with disabilities in only 'fair' to 'poor' health
... transportation (16 percent), difficulty accessing buildings where health care is provided (11 percent), cost (10 percent), access to health-care equipment (9 percent) and unavailability of health-care services (6 percent). A large majority of respondents (80 percent) indicated they are "very satisfied" or "...New study could bring relief to sweltering city slickers
...ll as increasing levels of human comfort, adapting buildings will also help reduce harmful carbon emissions. ... and human comfort vulnerability index for typical buildings and their surroundings. This would help identify areas of a city that might become most uncomfortabl...Smoking, growing private hospital care for poor and US flu vaccine policies
...igh, note the researchers. More private apartment buildings are enforcing smoking bans and public housing is considering adopting them. Although these policies raise difficult ethical issues, this study provides additional support for aggressively promoting smoke free homes, said lead author Donna Shelley of ...Study details catastrophic impact of nuclear attack on US cities
...e debris tens of feet thick in downtown areas with buildings 10-stories or higher. Roughly half of the populati... explosion would superheat the blast zone, causing buildings to spontaneously combust. Mass fires would consume cities, reaching out nearly four miles (6.3 km) i...MIT graduate student wins $30,000 Lemelson-MIT student prize for life-saving inventions
...ass. (February 14, 2007) The ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound used to be the stuff of comic-book fantasy. Nathan Ball, a 23-year-old graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and this years winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, has invented a device that makes t...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 31, 2007
...and brakes to damping technology to help stabilize buildings against earthquakes. ER and MR fluids change instantly and reversibly from a free-flowing liquid to a semi-solid with controllable strength in response to an electric or magnetic field, respectively. PR fluids are designed to accomplish the same...Woodruff Foundation gives major boost to Emory University's strategic plan
...e Emory Clinic is part of a complex of health care buildings on Emory's Clifton Road health sciences campus sup...s and Joseph B. Whitehead Foundations. Those other buildings include the Winship Cancer Institute, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, the Whitehead Bio...Sound understanding of indoor acoustics could make hearing easier
...under development - and could improve acoustics in buildings ranging from concert halls to railway stations. The potential impact of the technique, which could also assist in the development of more effective hearing aids, will be described at this year's BA Festival of Science in Norwich. The technique is...New device may improve vision and mobility for people with tunnel vision
... trip over obstacles. "Navigating city streets or buildings can be quite challenging," says Dr. Gang Luo, the study's first author, adding that for a person with tunnel vision, finding a misplaced item is like searching for a key in a dark room using a tiny flashlight. Luo is a senior research associate at Sc...Forest fires a huge cost to health
...ravaged 116,000 hectares of forest land and burned buildings in and around the town, researchers used satellite...illion loss of bridge infrastructure, losses of 75 buildings including 21 homes (that were not economically assessed in the Chisholm fire report), and $1 million...World Trade Center dust cuts lung function capability in rescue workers
...o dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings experienced a decrease in lung function capability equal to 12 years of age-related decline during the year following the 9/11 disaster. The results of a large-scale study outlining this reduction appear in the first issue for August 2006 of the Am...Virtual realities against pain
...king a flight, driving, downhill skiing, exploring buildings and many more activities. In this study, peer-reviewed publications on ADTs and pain have been reviewed to determine the clinical effectiveness and importance of using these techniques as analgesic. The results suggest that the ADTs can significan...$20 million gift to Rush University Medical Center kicks-off campus redevelopment
...08. Renovations on the existing Atrium and Kellogg buildings will follow. In addition to the gifts from the Herb Family, John and Mary Jo Boler, and the McCormick Tribune Foundation, Rush has received the following major gift or pledges for the current campaign: $13 million in unrestricted support from an anon...How to cut energy waste in China, India, Brazil said crucial to forestalling climate change
...rojects. "Improving energy efficiency for existing buildings and other infrastructure could cut current energy consumption by 25% or more in India, China and Brazil, amounting to millions of tonnes in reduced greenhouse gas emissions and hundreds of millions of dollars in energy savings," says Robert Taylor, a...MIT 'seeing machine' offers hope to blind
..., view the face of a friend, "previsit" unfamiliar buildings and more. Recently the machine received positive f... raising the potential for "previewing" unfamiliar buildings a person wants to visit. Goldring explained that visually challenged people are often terrified of ...Children's emotional distress after hurricane linked with parents' stress levels
...ices. "Scrapes and bruises heal fairly quickly and buildings can be repaired, but underlying anxieties that are...ath and injury and who are still living in damaged buildings should be a priority target for mental health services."...MSKCC received record gift of $100 million from Mortimer B. Zuckerman for cancer research facility
...ent, it is expected to be among the first research buildings in the country to receive certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, a benchmarking standard developed by the U.S. Green Building Council that evaluates the environmental performance of b...