a streetscape lined with them could power all the nearby streetlights or a small apartment building. aking use of the slightest breeze,
Also on the drawing board is oliagethat can be installed on rooftops and balconies and along roadsides to power variable-message signs.
Ruti also considers that it could help develop a market in climate information services globally, building on existing WMO services in developing countries.
#Factories of the future: assembly-line machines do their own'thinking'A major consumer of time and money in the manufacturing of aircraft, motor vehicles,
Each machine in a factory needs to be equipped with specific instructions a sort of recipe to carry out a certain task in a certain way.
By designing assembly-line machines so they can perform on command not unlike robots that can follow verbal instructions factories can meet the rapidly changing needs of consumers and industrial customers
you have to programme the machine in the factory accordingly. With XPRESS, the manufactrons receive information to drill a hole,
and that the new XPRESS technology can be woven into existing factories and machines. e have managed, for the first time,
Pooling their expertise, the group developed materials, software and procedures for building custom-made, biocompatible prosthetics using small-scale manufacturing techniques.
is expected to enable construction workers and surveyors to test for the mineral's presence in building and demolition sites.
ALERT project coordinator Alan Archer says the tool is expected to instantly give potentially lifesaving information about the levels of asbestos to people working on building and demolition sites
often leaving those working in asbestos-laden buildings at risk of exposure. Archer is currently working with third parties to develop new prototypes capable of addressing specific market sectors such as demolition
emergency services, asbestos removal and hazardous waste sites. ith ALERT tool, we can give 30 million European workers a means of detecting asbestos the moment it is disturbed,
and construction industries can be both time-consuming and dangerous, which is why an EU project is developing robots that are a cost-effective way to get the job done without exposing workers to potential harm.
and can be scaled easily up from very small versions for room-sized jobs to a gigantic configuration for large structures. he uniqueness of almost any large-scale product has,
and will also introduce automation in life-cycle applications in the construction industry. Large-scale benefits The use of expensive state-of-the-art automation in both of these sectors has,
In Europe's sunnier parts, stopping buildings from soaking up the rays is usually the bigger challenge.
COOL-Coverings focused on the so-called building envelope the outer part of the building that protects it from wind and weather and houses the interior environment and the construction components that shape it.
ceramic tiles, acrylic paints and roof membranes, Guaita explains, adding that the project managed to double the reflectance for darker colours.
where they were used on the boiling roofs and façades of one-room units equipped to simulate the thermal behaviour of larger buildings.
This rigorous testing confirmed the outstanding performance of COOL-Coveringstiles, paints and membranes. How much energy can they help save?
re-tiling or repainting sunbaked buildings using COOL-Coverings materials that replicate the original colour.
just by applying a layer of innovation to the building outer shell. No changes to the actual construction are required.
Kelvin Hall, founder and managing director of Enviro-Cool Ltd (UK), who owns the patents, says:
COGS coordinator Professor Per Hall from the Karolinska Institutet says:''COGS is the largest genotyping project in the world targeting identification of genetic changes that influence the risk of common cancers.
So when the surge comes through it means the walls can get over-topped, and potentially could fail.
"The Nozzleinspect robot can identify any cracks, porous walls or other defaults inside the material to a greater degree (30%more precise than any other technology),
"If you would talk to people on the street, many would say that they lack confidence in our ability to manage natural resources
powered by a solar cell located on the flat top of the container. A fibre-optic grid monitors any deformations in the bag (signs of tearing
reducing resource waste Building up instead of cutting out: reducing resource waste The production of advanced high-tech components for aircraft
A critical aspect of Avantium's R&d was the development of bio-based replacement of the building block of the PET bottle.
Professor George Lomonossoff of the John Innes Centre in the UK, the new technique turns the host plants into'mini-factories,
HWT boasts more than 180 customers ranging from the healthcare and elderly care domains to hotels penal institutes swimming pools spas and cooling towers.
Firefighters will be able to use mobile devices to detect potential hazards before they enter buildings. Police can drive through cities and search for"meth labs"and marijuana operations.
MEDISCO is also proving its worth in tests at a dairy factory in Marrakech, Morocco.
or slam into an oil rig, lighthouse or other structure. Supported by an EU grant of#1. 1 million, the Shiparrestor team has developed a three-part system to improve rescue operations.
directly addresses the three cornerstone issues of transportation: environment, safety and congestion. With the vehicles drafting a few metres behind each other, SARTRE short for"Safe Road trains for the Environment"can cut fuel consumption by up to 20%.
A production line has already been set up at the Aquaszero factory in Thessalonika with an initial capacity of 1, 200 Kgs per day
mass production of high-manganese steel grades is possible using either the blast furnace-basic oxygen converter route or the electric arc furnace route.
bridges-which literally span gaps and traverse barriers-represent that privilege. Yet their construction in particular is notorious for taking years.
By combining steel and concrete in prefabricated composite structures with reinforced concrete slabs, the European union (EU)- funded Preco-Beam project found a way to shave months off construction times
Already now eight new railway bridges using Preco-Beam have been built in Germany, Austria and Poland."
"is the way the steel connects to concrete, by a structure known as the composite dowel."
which connects steel and concrete: namely an I-section which can be divided into two steel T-beams by one simple cut."
"Through this new system we can make much slenderer bridges than was previously possible, which require 40 percent less steel,
it also means we now only need days rather than months on site to erect the bridge."
"For instance, when the 140-year-old railway overpass'Simmerbach',located in Germany, was rebuilt using Preco-Beam technology,
Composite structures-in which different building materials are combined-gained prominence in Europe because of their high resource efficiency and low maintenance requirement.
showed that using Preco-Beam in its bridges could have cut expenses by approximately 40 percent.
and there are plans to use Preco-Beam for buildings. Meanwhile, European citizens may be more likely to enjoy the benefits of their infrastructure,
but factories really need more flexible, reliable and cost-efficient ways of building all the tools
and parts that go into our aircraft, cars, machine parts, says project coordinator Jan Willem Gunnink of UK-based Delcam.
which helps factories deal with common problems like friction and backlash (a small amount of movement in the robot joints that reduce accuracy).
Established in 2010 and due to continue until2014 the project is focused on developing ahighly integrated multipurpose refinery.
Theproject will provide an efficient bridge betweenthe agriculture and chemical industries byintegrating the entire biomass chain in asingle concept adaptable for use in a rangeof locations.
This has been repurposed for mosquito control using the netting coated with insecticide at one end of tubes that are placed in the walls of the households.
The tubes are to be inserted into the walls under a building roof, its eaves, so they are called'eave tubes'.
'Hungry malaria mosquitoes looking to feed on blood tend to enter such openings, naturally following the scent of humans
They better prevent mosquitoes from entering a house. For indoor spraying to work, mosquitoes must first enter a house
and land on a wall covered with insecticide, leaving them time to infect a person. ith these tubes,
insecticide is applied only to a small area the netting, he explains. his means a major reduction in insecticide use, by about 95,
In November 2013, MCD outfitted 20 houses with eave tubes in Igombati, a small Tanzanian village.
Recently the team has started to modify another 1 100 houses with eave tubes as part of a larger test.
The researchers have developed also an alternative to the eave tubes the'eave brick, 'where the plastic with the insecticide-coated netting replaces a brick removed from a wall.
The team calculates a typical household would spend about#1 per person per year over three years for the'eave tubes or bricks'.
'ee close to becoming competitive with bednets, especially when taking into consideration that eave tubes protect everyone in the house and not just those sleeping under a net,
Knols adds. Smart patches Moreover, MCD has developed also the mart patchfor bednets. The team research found that a mosquito first point of contact on a bednet is usually just above the head and torso of a sleeping person.
and bricks on up to 7 000 houses one that would yield solid scientific evidence that these tools can be deployed broadly to reduce the burden of malaria.
#Biofuels to be processed by oil refineries EU research seeks to run yesterday's refineries on next-gen fuels.
%and cannot be refined in conventional refinery units. The de-oxygenation processes currently employed are expensive due to their high hydrogen consumption and costs.
and food from existing industries and the processing of upgraded biomass-derived liquids in existing mineral oil refineries.
pointing out that at least in the initial stage the printer will be targeted mostly at professional kitchen users,
"There is room for innovation, "Howard says, "for offering a very different experience.""Read: What cities would look like
Getting room on retail shelves. As you go down the list, it becomes such a formidable task."
Now, a 3d printed estate featuring a swimming pool, jacuzzi, car port and 2, 400 square foot house could be coming to a sleepy plot of land in upstate New york. The ambitious project is being undertaken by New york city architect Adam Kushner,
alongside partners including 3d printing pioneer Enrico Dini and his D-Shape firm. Kushner told CNN that surveying has begun already with excavation work also set to commence soon.
The swimming pool and jacuzzi are penciled in to be completed by December 2015 while construction of the house is expected to continue until the end of 2017,
he says. But the project hinges on getting the giant 3d printer, which will be used to produce the digitally designed building blocks of the estate on-site, into the country.
The device is currently in Italy after it was originally being built for a project partly funded by the Italian defense agencies.
and mixing them with a magnesium-based binding agent to produce the 3d printed building blocks required to piece the estate together.
"If we can build a simple pool house, I can print thousands of refugee housings.
If I can build a pool, I can print underwater reefs (which he says D-Shape has done already before) to repair bridges, piers and infrastructures."
"Integrating progressively more advanced 3d printing methods into the construction industry has been a topic that has generated many eye-catching headlines in recent years.
The process of contour crafting--where large 3d printers are assembled on a building site (much like what will happen on Kushner's estate)
and programmed to construct pre-designed concrete structures and their relevant sub-components--was put forward by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California as far back as 2009.
when they claimed to have 3d printed a mansion and six-story tower block in the city of Suzhou, eastern China earlier this year.
however are more cautious about the immediate potential of 3d printing technology in the construction industry. In an interview with CNN in 2014
Dr. Phil Reeves, managing director of UK-based 3d printing consultancy and research firm Econolyst, described 3d printing a house on site like that planned by DUS as counter to existing building techniques
which entails manufacturing components in a factory before transporting and rapidly piecing them together on a building site.
#Researchers create guilt-free superfood that tastes like bacon As will be familiar to anyone miserably chewing through leaf after leaf of kale in a beleaguered attempt to shed a few pounds,
The company ultimately intends to make it the cornerstone of its strategy for making all of its household appliances connectable to the nternet of Thingsin due course.
as well as some music-industry heavyweights, including superstar DJS Tiësto and Swedish House Mafia Steve Angello;
In the 1970s, few buildings installed aerators or similar devices to restrict the amount of water released from faucets.
But, if it another very dry year, things could get very serious for the state businesses, commercial buildings, and residents.
#Factory Dairy farms on the Rise in Asia The expansion of industrial dairy farms in Asia could lead to severe consequences for the environment, public health, animal welfare and rural economies, according to a policy paper by Brighter Green.
known as CAFOS or factory farms are being set up across Asia. While factory farms are an efficient way to produce large amounts of animal products in a short time frame
they also create high levels of waste and pollution, according to the paper. Factory farms can contaminate local soil
and water supplies and produce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, the paper says. Brighter Green, the organization behind the paper, wants policymakers to take notice of the consequences of dairy CAFOS
and Senate and House majority and minority leaders. Many of the signatory companies have set their own renewable energy and energy efficiency goals.
#Levi s M&s Other Brands Pledge Zero-Deforestation Fashion LLEVI Strauss & Co.,Marks & spencer, Portico Brands and ASOS have joined Canopy Fashion Loved by Forests initiative,
Canopy research has found that ancient and endangered forests are increasingly making their way into clothing.
Transforming New york city Buildings for a Low-Carbon Future plan. A sweeping ten-year plan aimed at retrofitting New york public and private buildings
in order to dramatically reduce the city contributions to climate change, while spurring major cost savings and creating thousands of new jobs for those who need them most.
cool and power its buildings. In particular, New york is poised to make direct investments to increase the efficiency of every single city-owned building,
including schools and public housing, with any significant energy use which amounts to approximately 3, 000 buildings.
They will be retrofitted by or before the year 2025, with interim goals along the way.
This should lead to retrofits of tens of thousands of privately owned buildings. The plan is herewith not so much focused on the city large real estate owners and management companies, who already now
but rather on the numerous smaller building owners who need to be encouraged to embark on the retrofit journey.
3. Hold New york city buildings to the highest energy performance standards; 4. Ensure benefits are shared by New yorkers in every neighborhood;
Last year Johnson & johnson launched a recycling campaign on Tumblr with the goal of encouraging consumers to recycle bathroom products instead of throwing them in the trash h
The city of San jos has installed a sensor demonstration platform using Intel Gateway Solutions for the Internet of things with an Intel Quark processor and third-party sensors.
Each gateway incorporates Wind River Intelligent Device Platform software with Mcafee security features connected to Intel s Hadoop distribution in the cloud.
and pushing their way through the wall of an artificial vessel lined with human endothelial cells the kind that line human blood vessels.
The inventors have captured already detailed images of a cancer cell finding a weak spot in a vessel wall exerting pressure
The researchers were also able to unravel the exact mechanism of action discovering that copsin can bind to lipid II an essential building block for the cell wall of bacteria.
Scientists have taken a key step toward realizing the goal of building programmable biocomputers that could detect
These components are key building blocks for constructing precisely functioning and programmable biocomputers. The circuit controls the activity of individual sensor components using an internal timer.
This scarring can harden the walls of the heart and lessen its ability to pump blood throughout the body.
"We believe our platform provides the recipe for building small devices that can be powered wirelessly
I were talking in the hallway one day and we figured that his expertise in pneumatics was perfect for the MRI environment
and health camps in rural areas by empanelled hospitals which helped screen patients for tertiary care and transport them to hospitals in urban centers.##
##The bones of mice people and all land animals are not only necessary for strength and structure but also as warehouses for calcium.
##Before a new building is constructed the roads have to be in place so that the materials and equipment can be brought in##says Cao.##
and PDGF-BB are to bone building which is information we can use in designing future studies.##
and comfortable much like skin itself says Yonggang Huang professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University.
The device is very practical says Yihui Zhang co-first author and research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.
when the cellular structural building blocks are fairly basic even when the nucleus is absent.####The results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
CIRM BRIDGES fellowships through California State university Fullerton and Pasadena City College; and the James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund.
New research offers a detailed analysis of the microbes that live in houses and apartments. The results published in Science shed light on the complicated interaction between humans
They also sampled surfaces in the house including doorknobs light switches floors and countertops. Then the samples came to Argonne where researchers performed DNA analyses to characterize the different species of microbes in each sample.
We wanted to know how much people affected the microbial community on a house s surfaces
when three of the families moved it took less than a day for the new house to look just like the old one microbially speaking.
and soil bacteria in houses with indoor-outdoor dogs or cats. In at least one case the researchers tracked a potentially pathogenic strain of bacteria called Enterobacter
which first appeared on one person s hands then the kitchen counter and then another person s hands.
when a person (and their microbes) leaves a house the microbial community shifts noticeably in a matter of days.
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of the intestinal wall. The syndrome occurs in up to 10 percent of premature infants and is fatal 25 to 35 percent of the time.
perhaps we have a window of opportunity to treat it more effectively and potentially change the trajectory of the illness
Using the fly ear structure as a model, Neal Hall, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin,
Hall says. This technology may be a boon for people who are hearing impaired in the future. Currently, only two percent of Americans wear hearing aids,
Hall says. any believe that the major reason for this gap is patient dissatisfaction, Hall adds. urning up the volume to hear someone across from you also amplifies all of the surrounding background noiseesembling the sound of a cocktail party.
PINPOINT SOUND Humans and other mammals have the ability to pinpoint sound sources because of the finite speed of sound combined with the separation between our ears.
Hall credits the pioneering work of Ronald Miles at Binghamton University and Ronald Hoy at Cornell University,
When the scientists disrupted passage through that pore in cell cultures the parasite stopped growing
Beck notes that researchers at the Burnet Institute neutralized the parasite in a similar fashion by disabling another protein thought to be involved in the passage of proteins through this pore. hat suggests there are multiple components of the process that we may be able to target with drugs
The adolescent trial enrolled 32 participants, ages 12 to 20, attending a camp for young people with type 1 diabetes,
and provide a bridge to the often-promised but still elusive cure for type 1 diabetes.
and Camp Joslin in central Massachusetts, will enroll children ages 6 to 11 and is currently enrolling participants already registered at the camps.
Information on both of those trials and on the overall project is available at http://www. bionicpancreas. org/.
and exciting to uncover this hidden gateway, a neural circuit that can directly instruct the stem cells to make more immature neurons,
Kuo says. s it some kind of factory taking orders? Postdoctoral fellow Brent Asrican made a key observation that orders from the novel Chat+neurons were heard clearly by SVZ stem cells.
and punches its way into cells Researchers have discovered how the deadly Ebola virus disease that many fear may be used for bioterrorismmashes its way into healthy cells and turns them into virus factories.
where it can effectively turn the cell into a factory for virus production. HAVOC IN CELLS f it stayed in the vesicle,
A reliable tool to determine which patients can safely be treated beyond that window would allow more patients to be helped. f we are able to replicate our findings in more patients,
The blood-brain barrier limits the passage of molecules from the bloodstream into the brain. Without it
Most stroke patients, Leigh notes, don get to a hospital within the window for optimal tpa use
when we broadcast signals from giant radio towers, cook in microwave ovens, or use an electric toothbrush that recharges wirelessly in a special cradle next to the bathroom sink.
Before Poon discovery, there was a clear divide between the two main types of electromagnetic waves in everyday use,
like those broadcast from radio towers, can travel over long distances. But when they encounter biological tissue,
professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University. t is as soft as human skin
or NS2, in epithelial cells, causing the cells to shed from the airway lining and into the airway lumen.
The findings are the first roof of principlethat 3d MRI technology accurately measures tumor viability and death.
The researchers were also able to unravel the exact mechanism of action discovering that copsin can bind to lipid II an essential building block for the cell wall of bacteria. uilding the cell wall is the Achilles heel of bacteriaexplains Essig.
Molybdenum disulfide isn t quite as flat as graphene the atom-thick form of pure carbon
In the right order the charged amino acids crosslink into what Hartgerink calls axial salt bridges non-covalent bonds that hold the helices together with the help of stabilizing hydrogen bonds. ost of the work we ve
Scientists have taken a key step toward realizing the goal of building programmable biocomputers that could detect
These components are key building blocks for constructing precisely functioning and programmable biocomputers. The circuit controls the activity of individual sensor components using an internal imer.
The researchers reached data transmission rates of 32 gigabits per second across 2. 5 meters of free space in a basement lab at the University of Southern California.
The molecule they compressed is benzene a flat ring containing six carbon atoms and six hydrogen atoms.
However many experiments in quantum information make use of just such identically prepared qubits making the technique potentially very useful. his work sheds light on some of the striking differences between information in the classical and quantum worlds.
which are the building blocks of proteins. The discovery reported in the journal Science lends weight to the idea that biologically crucial molecules like amino acids that are commonly found in meteorites are produced early in the process of star formation even before planets such as Earth are formed.
When the device turns color the wearer knows something is awry. ur device is mechanically invisible it is ultrathin and comfortable much like skin itselfsays Yonggang Huang professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University.
and research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. hen your skin is stretched compressed or twisted the device stretches compresses
Hans Jurgen Herrmann a professor at the Institute for Building materials says solar flares were not the original focus of the work.
to make clay soils drain faster and sandy soils drain slower. As more gardeners and farmers add ground charcoal
In the new study biogeochemists at Rice conducted side-by-side tests of the water-holding ability of three soil types#sand clay and topsoil#both with and without added biochar.
When biochar is added to clay it makes the soil less dense and it increases hydraulic conductivity
The fibers serve as a pathway to allow electrons to travel to the electrodes on the sides of the solar cell. t s like you re generating a street
and somebody that s traveling along the street can find a way to go from this end to anotheryu explains.
or a brick) that contains about 99.9 percent air yet is incredibly strong and that can recover its original shape after being smashed by more than 50 percent. eramics have always been thought to be heavy
(i e. aluminum oxide) producing hollow-tube alumina structures with walls ranging in thickness from 5 to 60 nanometers and tubes from 450 to 1380 nanometers in diameter.
They found that the alumina structures with a wall thickness of 50 nanometers and a tube diameter of about 1 micron shattered when compressed.
However compressing lattices with a lower ratio of wall thickness to tube diameter#where the wall thickness was only 10 nanometers#produced a very different result. ou deform it
when you reduce these structures down to the point where individual walls are only 10 nanometers thick both the number of flaws
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