Posted on May 29th, 2010 in Research News
A total of 35 nominations from 17 countries compete for the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2010, which held next week in Oviedo and last year was awarded to American scientists Martin Cooper and Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, parents mobile phone and email, respectively.
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Posted on May 29th, 2010 in Engineering
Take for example the engine that drives only one wheel, and connected directly to it. One of the advantages of these motors is that manufacturers can use for other things the space occupied by the conventional engine as these engines are coupled directly to the wheels of the vehicle. This opens a wealth of opportunities for automotive designers face when designing a new vehicle. As a bonus, the power to dispense with the transmission and differential losses are reduced driving force and the level of mechanical wear. Moreover, the direct and individual drive of each wheel can improve vehicle response
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Posted on May 29th, 2010 in Science
The Braille system uses a series of raised dots to represent letters and numbers, so that the blind can read. The new system being developed by the team of Neil Peichun Yang Di Spigno and State University North Carolina, also translate images to a tactile format, exposing the surface of effective reading a pixel map, so that all Braille display images represented as sets of raised dots.
The mechanism used by the system is made of an electro active polymer very resistant and low cost compared with current technologies employed in Braille lines.
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Posted on May 28th, 2010 in Information Technology
Abstract Presentation March 20, 2007 at the Second Annual Conference "Business Process Management at the enterprise: integrating into corporate systems" Organized by the Agency of corporate communications OSP-Con and the magazine" Open Systems ". Continue reading...
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Posted on May 27th, 2010 in Aerospace
Data from an ongoing survey by NASA's Swift satellite have helped astronomers solve a decades-long mystery about why a small percentage of black holes emit vast amounts of energy.
Only about one percent of supermassive black holes exhibit this behavior. The new findings confirm that black holes "light up" when galaxies collide, and the data may offer insight into the future behavior of the black hole in our own Milky Way galaxy. The study will appear in the June 20 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The intense emission from galaxy centers, or nuclei, arises near a supermassive black hole containing between
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Posted on May 27th, 2010 in Aerospace
NASA engineers have begun building hardware for a new Landsat satellite instrument that helps monitor water consumption — an important capability in the U.S. West where precipitation is sparse and water rights are allocated — now that they have passed an independent review of the instrument's design and integration and testing methods.
"Having received the green light on our design during NASA's Critical Design Review, we are moving out on full implementation of our instrument," said Cathy Richardson, the instrument manager of the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS), which will be built at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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Posted on May 27th, 2010 in Medical Technology
In a major cancer-research breakthrough, researchers at the McGill University, Department of Biochemistry have discovered that a small segment of a protein that interacts with RNA can control the normal expression of genes – including those that are active in cancer.
The research, published online on May 26, 2010 by the prestigious journal Nature, has important immediate applications for laboratory research and is another step toward the kind of individualized cancer therapies researchers are pursuing vigorously around the world.
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Posted on May 26th, 2010 in Robotics
The robots that can do things like assemble car parts have been around for decades. The robot that folds towels, however, does something very new, as underlined by the development team members, including Jeremy want to set-Shepard Matins and Pieter Abbeel. The kind robots that assemble parts of cars are designed to work very well structured environments, allowing them to perform repetitive tasks with high precision, but only in carefully controlled environments. Out of such scenarios, their capabilities are much more limited.
The automation of household tasks like folding clothes is harder than it may seem. In the case of folding
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Posted on May 26th, 2010 in Signal Processing
Research shows that an early warning system can help mitigate the risk of accident and the deaths and serious injuries when such accidents occur.
Shai Avidan Professor, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tel Aviv, is currently collaborating with researchers at General Motors Research in Israel to keep the cars on the road and people outside hospitals. Avidan's team is working to develop advanced algorithms that will help the cameras mounted in cars from General Motors to detect threats, to help drivers make the right decisions in a split second.
The challenge is to develop a system that can recognize pedestrians,
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Posted on May 25th, 2010 in Science
A research group from Spain and Germany, the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Spain, working towards the goal of verifying quantum properties of objects composed of a number of atoms order of a billion, possibly including influenza virus. In his recent work, this team has designed and described the construction of an experiment to verify the superposition states in these larger objects.
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