Carnegie Mellon researchers say use of switchgrass could solve energy woes
...st. American automakers already sell flexible-fuel vehicles (that can run on ethanol or gasoline) that can be purchased in the U.S. Much of the discussions today about alternatives to gasoline, such as hydrogen, have similar issues related to infrastructure. "Unfortunately, most of the ...Finding a better way to quiet noisy environments
...echnology that most consumers aren't aware of, but vehicles made by BMW, Mercedes, Honda, and other companies are now using it," said Raymond de Callafon, co-author of the paper and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. "Our new technique should greatly ex...New family of biodegradable polymers shows promise for intracellular drug delivery
...The problem with using polyesters as drug delivery vehicles is that most of the illnesses being treated are chronic diseases requiring weekly injections, yet polyesters take months to degrade," he noted. "Polyketals hydrolyze in a week, diffuse out of the cell and are then excreted outside of the cell." Resea...Tool to reduce elderly driving deaths nationwide
Departments of motor vehicles nationwide will soon have a way to objectively assess the driving skills of older adults, thanks to an agreement between a national expert on elderly drivers and one of the nation's leading manufacturers of driving simulators. Eastern Virginia Medic...Smoking cessation delivered at-home proves effective
... a trusting bond with their patients and are ideal vehicles to promote health behaviors," says Mary Linn Hamilton, CEO of the Visiting Nurses Association of Rhode Island. "By capitalizing on a teachable moment induced by the medical visit, the nurses found patients to be receptive to the counseling." The aut...SUVs no safer than passenger cars for children, new study finds
...ercent. "SUVs are becoming more popular as family vehicles because they can accommodate multiple child safety...within each vehicle classification, larger heavier vehicles are generally safer. For instance, of all passenger car classifications, large and luxury cars featu...Diagnostic images show go-carts cause serious injuries to children
... experience or maturity are permitted to use these vehicles without adult supervision and safety equipment," Relyea-Chew said. The primary cause of go-cart injuries among children is loss of control resulting in collisions with moving or stationary objects or ejection from the vehicle, according to Relyea-Che...Study reveals severity of go-cart injuries
...lt of collisions with stationary objects or moving vehicles or losing control of the go-cart and rolling over....standing on the vehicle," said Cline. He said the vehicles pose a variety of dangers, such as exposed gas tanks, machinery and engines and no protection for th...HIV inserts into human genome using a DNA-associated protein
...ld of gene therapy. Controlling where gene-therapy vehicles insert in the human genome could help make the delivery of new therapeutic sequences safer. The new findings about LEDGF suggest that engineered tethering interactions might some day allow control over integration site selection during gene therapy. ...NSF grant to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia bridges academic research, child safety innovation
...ATCH): LATCH systems anchor child safety seats in vehicles without the need for seat belts. A recent safety ...ter understand why children die in crashes and how vehicles and restraints can be improved to prevent these deaths. Cervical Spine Injuries: Children are par...Sports utility vehicles should carry health warnings, say experts
Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) should carry health warnings to raise awareness of the increased risk to pedestrians compared with ordinary cars, argue researchers in this week's BMJ. They believe that this should form part of an integrated approach from public health, trans...Air pollution found to pose greater danger to health than earlier thought
...an do anything to make tailpipe emissions from all vehicles less harmful to health."...Researchers link childhood asthma to exposure to traffic-related pollution
...ld's home from local freeways, as well as how many vehicles traveled within 150 meters (about 164 yards) of the child's home. Finally, they estimated traffic-related air pollution levels at each child's home using models that take weather conditions, vehicle counts and other important factors into account. ...'Apollo Program' for hydrogen energy needed, Stanford researcher says
What if all the vehicles now on the road in the United States were suddenly...d TradeCenter attacks. "Converting all the current vehicles to fuel cell vehicles powered by windwould save 3,000 to 6,000 lives in the United States annually, ...More exhaust inhaled by kids inside school buses than by others in the area, says new UC study
...us on controlling the amount of exhaust emitted by vehicles and other sources, knowing how much of a pollutant... the cabin were affected by the emissions of other vehicles on the road, our tracer gas measurements revealed that a significant amount of the pollutants found ...