AASM to school-bound: Sleep is the right ingredient for academic success
...oom quiet, dark and a little bit cool. Also, keep computers and TVs out of the bedroom. Get up at the same time every morning. Parents who suspect that their child might be suffering from a sleep disorder are encouraged to consult with their childs pediatrician or a sleep specialist. ...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...same kind of technology as flat-panel monitors for computers except they detect (x-ray) photons rather than give off visible light. Because of the small size of their detection elements, these panels have the capacity for extraordinarily high resolution in all directions. The researchers compare images fr...Paying taxes, according to the brain, can bring satisfaction
...d magnet, carefully tuned radio waves and powerful computers to calculate what parts of the brain were active as subjects saw their money go to the food bank and made yes or no decisions on additional giving. Researchers found that two evolutionarily ancient regions deep in the brain the caudate nucleus and...E/Tablet technology may provide benefits to patients, researchers
...laced by wireless, handheld notebook-and-pen-style computers called E/Tablets. Patients in some community cancer clinics have been using E/Tablets for several years, but a new study by Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers shows that E/Tablets may also be useful in busy, academic medical se...Plasmonics book gives overview of technology that could revolutionize computing
...ved computing speeds. This offers the promise of computers that are much more efficient than today's machines, which have developed rapidly as microchips have been made smaller. But this process is due to end shortly because the laws of nature create a natural limit to electronics. The book, the product of...20-year study shows significant rise in childhood obesity, especially among girls
...t they spend more time in front of televisions and computers and tend to do less physical education at school than before" says Dr Holmback, who is also a visiting research fellow at the University of Chicago, USA. "As societies become more technological, various aspects of everyday life demand less and les...Obesity and environmental chemicals -- New research probes potential link
...found in foam furniture, carpeting, microwaves and computers might be related to the climbing rate of obesity i...er products like carpeting, upholstered furniture, computers and hair dryers, where they retard the combustibility of these products. Its estimated that American...Picture this: FSU professor's research could lead to vastly improved medical imaging
...antum computing, which has the potential to create computers that are exponentially faster and more powerful than the ones in use today, he said. Despite the promising results suggested by the team's research, Dalal admitted that there still are some hurdles to overcome before Fe8 becomes a viable MRI option...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2007 inductees
...ention of Ethernet, Metcalfe created a way to link computers to one another and to the Internet. Ethernet is the most widely used local area network, or LAN. Arthur Nobile (1920-2004) Prednisone Nobile's discovery of the steroids prednisone and prednisolone was a significant advance in medicine. The high...Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes
...s new approach. "People have been talking about computers imitating the brain for a long time," said Poggio, who is also the Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the co-director of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT. "That was Alan Turing'...Pharmacists likely to play direct role in future diabetes management
...s during the day. The metres are attached to their computers and a special software program is used to chart changes in glucose levels. Half the study participants will take this information to their pharmacists who can advise on lifestyle changes to help moderate their blood glucose levels and prevent them be...Computer scientists unravel 'language of surgery'
... or too time-consuming. But to get to that point, computers first must become fluent in the "language" of surgery. This will require computers to absorb data concerning the best ways to complete surgical tasks. As a first step, the researchers...New family health history projects focus on Alaska Native, Appalachian communities
...s Web-based, which allows it to be operated on all computers with Internet access running any of several standard browsers, regardless of the computer's operating system. All personal information entered into the program resides on the user's computer only. No information is available to the federal government...DNA computing targets West Nile Virus, other deadly diseases
...licon chips. "The study shows that large-scale DNA computers are possible." "These DNA computers won't compete with silicon computing in terms of speed, but their advantage is that they can be used...Human brain region functions like digital computer, says CU-Boulder professor
...ertain respect they are like computers." Digital computers operate by turning electrical signals into binary "on and off states" and flexibly manipulating these states by using switches. O'Reilly found the same operating principles in the brain. "The neurons in the prefrontal cortex are binary -- they hav...NJIT offers new certificate to fight digital and physical terrorism
...ics, obtaining and analyzing digital evidence from computers and networks that have been used to plan or commit terrorist attacks or any other illegal actions known as computer crime. Students are taught how to preserve material to be used as evidence in civil, criminal, or administrative cases. Counter-T...Kids need more time than adults give them, study finds
... to be adult-like, because of their proficiency on computers or because they display adult-like speech," he says, "so we give them instructions and get impatient when they can't understand what we tell them the first time. Children learn through repetition, at a pace suitable to the child, not to the curriculu...College women at risk for eating disorder may benefit from online intervention
...In addition, women with restricted or no access to computers would not be able to benefit from an online intervention program. However, the authors conclude that such Internet-based programs may be a good first step in a diligent program designed to screen women for potential eating disorder risks. ...BIDMC's Shapiro Simulation and Skills Center receives American College of Surgeons accreditation
... different operating room endosuites. It also uses computers for specialized educational and instructional content that includes tutorials for basic suturing, the Virtual Patient Program, and access to a comprehensive video library. SASC co-directors David M. Feinstein, MD and Daniel B. Jones, MD, FACS, brin...Carefully mixed radiation cocktail reduces breast cancer treatment's collateral damage to skin
...w a desired trajectory. Therefore, Li and Ma use computers to simulate billions of trips of each beam to the unique landscape of each tumor. Gathering the statistics from these billions of trials, they determine the best beam properties and mixtures. The computer simulations helped oncologists send accur...