Penn researchers calculate how much the eye tells the brain
...ison, an Ethernet can transmit information between computers at speeds of 10 to 100 million bits per second. The retina is actually a piece of the brain that has grown into the eye and processes neural signals when it detects light. Ganglion cells carry information from the retina to the higher brain center...Google-like process for mammogram images speeds up computer's second opinions
To help computers provide faster "second opinions" on mammogram imag...cists in Medicine in Orlando, the approach enabled computers to maintain their high level of accuracy while performing faster analysis. Such speed and efficienc...Study identifies best online learning approaches for cancer patients
...tients learn online, the researchers provided free computers and Internet access to 286 lower income women recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Participants were also provided access to an integrated computer-based health education and support system called the Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support Syste...New long-distance wireless networking developed at UC Berkeley brings eye care to India
... allows anyone with about $800 for a pair of small computers with directional antennas to network with another location within 50 miles and in line of sight. If there happens to be a hill in the way, no problem: A couple more antennas at the high spot can relay the signal between stations. "If they can find a...New GI technologies improve internal organ visualization
... represents an exciting breakthrough in the use of computers to properly administer and monitor sedation in patients undergoing a variety of procedures," said Daniel Pambianco, M.D., Charlottesville Medical Research and lead study author. "When used with a trained anesthesiologist, this device may help manage...M. D. Anderson: Setting the benchmark in brain tumor treatment
...luding stereotactic image-guided surgery that uses computers to help surgeons navigate in the brain, a robotic microscope called the SurgiScope and a plethora of imaging tools, such as functional magnetic resonance (fMRI), to identify areas in the brain to avoid. Sawaya adds that another advance is in store. ...12-Qubits reached in quantum information quest
...w modes of information processing such as quantum computers with an ability to solve certain types of incredib... can approach. The basic principles behind today's computers and other information processing devices (known as "classical" systems) were developed in the 1930s....Nanotechnology expert analysis: Huge impacts from tiny tech
... with molecular manufacturing."Like electricity or computers before it, nanotechnology will bring greatly improved efficiency and productivity in many areas of human endeavor. In its mature form, known as molecular manufacturing, it will have significant impact on almost all industries and all parts of society...During April, computers in the UK have been working overtime in the fight ...an flu. As part of an international collaboration, computers at eleven UK universities and research labs have put in one hundred thousand hours of time searching...Medical journals should ban drug adverts, say researchers
...re less compromising. "Why not run ads for cars, computers or other consumer products that doctors would buy for themselves?" says Fugh-Berman, who also pointed out that pharmaceutical adverts in journals are third-party adverts--a doctor whose prescribing is swayed by a drug advert isn't paying for the prod...Pitt study offers new hope for people trying to quit smoking
...1 mg patches) or a placebo patch. Using hand-held computers as electronic diaries, the 324 participants recorded exactly when they were craving a cigarette and if and when they lapsed and smoked one. The resulting data showed that people who wore the active patch after lapsing were 4 to 6 times less likely to...Rutgers College of Nursing Professor premieres video to reduce HIV risk
...s, will premiere her video vignettes for hand-held computers aimed at reducing young women's HIV sexual risk be... Jones plans to pilot test the videos on hand-held computers with women, between 18 and 29 years old, in Newark and Jersey City in May. In the final phase of th...Forearm supports reduce upper body pain linked to computer use
...loyers should consider providing employees who use computers with appropriate forearm support," said lead autho...er ergonomic-specific tasks that employees who use computers can do to relieve pain on their own. They suggest employees take scheduled breaks, maintain an erect...The $6 billion (hu)man is becoming reality, as bionics restores or expands humans' abilities
...ending slopes and stairs, the embedded sensors and computers in the robotic legs function like an extension of his or her own nervous system, gathering information on the direction being moved and continually redistributing the weight to make it feel like a barely perceptible burden. BLEEX created a sensation ...Innovative approach affords Binghamton University researchers clearer view of autism
...urized psychophysiological monitoring and multiple computers for high-speed processing, Romancyzk and his team ... face, the eyes are located in the video image and computers record further eye movement. This allows the team to see where and for exactly how long and where th...Let me hear your body talk: UH scientists mine biomedical data
...ive University of Houston researchers are teaching computers how to listen when your body talks. Thanks to a ... a new widespread preventive medicine paradigm for computers to one day monitor the actual health of their users during computer use. Vilalta, whose research i...Mayo Clinic obesity researchers test 'classroom of the future'
...the future, Apple provided iBook wireless notebook computers and iPods that play video, and America on the Move...ations Wireless technology Personalized laptop computers A novel earpiece that measures physical activity of the student Vertical magnetic work spaces th...Technology helps disabled kids find their voice
Laptop computers that combine features from popular toys with innovative technology have rapidly accelerated the learning and communication ability of disabled children, Penn State researchers say. The technology could in the future be adapted to victims of major acc...Stroke patients regain ability to communicate through use of speech generating device
...lly heals itself from injury. But research, using computers to do extended therapy, now indicates that these p... weeks. Speech generating devices are specialized computers that produce audible speech from words and images. The Lingraphica uses graphic icons to represent w...... increase in the amount of heat they generate. And computers aren't the only devices that generate heat. "Even the circuitry in your cell phone operates at about 125 degrees Centigrade," Anderson said, "and over six months' use, that can mean several hundred hours of high temperatures. If you drop it now, the ...