Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
...igh-resolution satellite images provide up-to-date maps of buildings, roads and railways for planning responses to a disaster and carrying out rapid damage assessment. The EURATECH 2005 exercise begins on 10 April, with the two-day simulated disaster officially commencing on the morning of 12 April. Part...Specific behaviors seen in infants can predict autism, new research shows
...m Observation Scale for Infants (AOSI). The scale maps the development of infants as young as six months against 16 specific risk markers for autism, including such behaviors such as not smiling in response to the smiles of others or not responding when one's name is called. ...Loyola employs high-tech software to target irregular heartbeat more accurately
...raphy (CT) scan images onto 3-D electro-anatomical maps to achieve a more realistic picture of the heart's anatomy and electrical activities. "We're using the new technology to improve further the precision of catheter ablation, a non-surgical procedure that destroys tissues that generate abnormal electr...Johns Hopkins scientists use gene therapy to prevent heart arrhythmias from stem cell transplants
... by two-thirds. Computer printouts of the optical maps showed a spiral-wave pattern, the most common kind of arrhythmia. Four different mixtures of muscle stem cells were used, with the highest concentrations of stem cells, 20 percent and 50 percent, producing spiral-wave electrical patterns in all cul...4D proton therapy, radiation-resistant tumors, interpreting medical images
...of Chicago, the researchers create these important maps of oxygen levels by magnetically manipulating the ...R methodology will obtain submillimeter-resolution maps and also be scaled up to human dimensions. A potential long-term benefit of EPR imaging should be i...Sunshine mapping from space means brighter solar energy future
...ergy utilities, and time series services including maps and statistics of irradiance, its direct and diffu...onditions. Medical researchers are using sunshine maps to investigate links between sunlight and health. The International Agency of Research on Cancer (IA...Envisat monitoring China floods as part of Dragon Programme
...re processed and disseminated on 6 June. The flood maps and images were sent to our Chinese colleagues at the IWHR as well as the National Disaster Reduction Centre of China (NDRCC) at the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other partners of the Flood Dragon project. "Then at the end of June came a major floo...Polar explorer delivers rare snow-depth data to ESA for CryoSat validation
...th information holds the key to producing accurate maps of ice-thickness change over time with CryoSat, th... activities, CryoSat is expected to produce global maps of ice thickness change with unprecedented accuracy. The planned 1,000 km expedition was unfortunat...Homing in on blood pressure genes may lead to targeted therapy
...owed that high blood pressure in African Americans maps to this exact same chromosome region. Taken together, "the studies show that there is a strong likelihood that this region on the short arm of chromosome 2 may contain the gene or genes responsible for a salt-sensitive form of hypertension that is u...UCSD leads team to build Geographic Information System to assess toxic hazards from Katrina
...pi and Alabama. The GIS will contain these aerial maps along with layers of data including the locations...cilities, toxic release inventory data as well as maps and satellite images of schools, neighborhoods and medical facilities. The information will then be...Tracking desertification with satellites highlighted at UNCCD COP
...ch products include national and sub-national risk maps plus severity/recovery maps, pressure indicators and state indicators. The intention is to create a means of authoritatively assessing and monitoring desertification and its trends over time. ESA is manning an exhibit throughout the UNCCD COP, and ...Heart mapping technique safely guides catheter repair of arrhythmia
... arrhythmia are known to occur. Three-dimensional maps of the hearts, made shortly before the procedure, ...edure, analysis of heart tissue showed that the 3D maps worked very well and were extremely precise and safe, Dickfeld says. The range of errors in pinpoin...Population-level bioethics: Mapping a new agenda
...g and often involve higher stakes. This conference maps a new departure for bioethics and initiates its exploration. Dates: Thursday, November 17, 2005 - Friday, November 18, 2005 Location: The New Research Building at Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts Registration...Brain activity related to processing faces is similar in people with, without autism
...rchers then can quantify these signals to generate maps of various brain functions. "The brain regions 'specialized' for face processing, the fusiform gyrus, activated almost identically in our autistic study participants and the control group of individuals without autism. This is one very simple and...The British National Space Centre and DMC join the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters'
...gencies and non-governmental organisations as base maps for assessing damage to infrastructures; for measuring the extent of landslides; and for selecting localities where emergency aid was most needed. The Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) was designed as a proof of concept constellation, which is...ESA participating in UN's Montreal summit working for a better atmosphere
... produce forest maps, land use and land use change maps covering 1990, 1997 and 2002 across 200 234 square kilometres of European territory, working with national end-users responsible for Kyoto reporting in Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. This three-year project has just concluded, but th...Two pathways found that lead to Alzheimer's disease
...gy. Using a new imaging procedure that creates 3-D maps of the brain, researchers determined specific areas that had degenerated in people with MCI. Depending on the person's symptoms, more tissue was lost in the hippocampus, a brain area critical for memory and one of the earliest to change in Alzheimer'...Fitness counteracts cognitive decline from hormone-replacement therapy
...articipants' brains were taken, segmented into 3-D maps and analyzed by VBM, which allows for high spatial resolution of the volume of gray and white matter. The women also were screened for duration of hormone use, aerobic fitness levels, age, education, socioeconomic status, age at menopause and for dem...Course of bipolar disorder in youths described for the first time
...ts, according to a study that, for the first time, maps the clinical progression of each of the three sub-types of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. The findings were published today by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the February issue of Archives of Genera......e shoved under the desk or put on hold because the maps show in color the disparities that children in the Deep South face every day."...