the laser can deter the threat with an effect known as optical"dazzling.""This nonlethal option which amounts to a very bright glare is meant to serve as a warning,
But, if a threat keeps coming, sailors aboard the Ponce can increase the strength of the laser's highly concentrated beam,
making it capable of destroying the threat altogether. In recent tests, Laws successfully hit targets aboard a small boat that was speeding toward the Navy ship.
Plans are for Sierra to be the exclusive domain of The National Nuclear Security Administration,
which will use its new super-toy for ensuring"the safety, security and effectiveness of the nation nuclear deterrent without testing,"
The new money will go to vaccination programmes, better disease surveillance and research on new vaccines.
and so risk undoing the progress already made. The existence of residual pockets of infection is the main reason why the drive to completely erase the disease has failed so far,
whether the FDA has the necessary expertise to evaluate the environmental risks posed by transgenic animals,
"says Paul Nelson at the Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute of Texas A&m University in College Station.
The risks involved with a bone-marrow transplant far outweigh those that come with years of antiretroviral drug therapy
The government agencies Environment Canada and Health Canada will use the data to make risk assessments for the materials
reported in July 2008 that very little information existed about the risks associated with nanomaterials."
Any federal reliance on cloud computing, for example, will have to be evaluated in the light of security requirements.
"And risks always exist when it comes to a new finding in science, and the investment on the research and development has been made based on the estimation of such risks.
Moreover, Lee adds, "we are willing to take risks, and need to innovate to survive o
#Ceramics surprise with durable dryness Coatings that repel water are found in myriad applications#they keep car windscreens clear in storms, for example,
she felt particularly vulnerable to the threat of ES-cell funding being stopped. So she switched to ips cells in 2010,
a vaccinologist at THE WHO. But it carries no risk of causing polio. By giving children an inactivated vaccine that protects against all three subtypes of polio,
the threat alone achieved some of its intended effect#to instil enough uncertainty to keep some researchers from entering the field e
while shifting focus to prevention in patients at risk of a heart attack.""We can t just assume that modifying the risk factor is modifying risk,
says Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at Yale university in New haven, Connecticut.""We ve been burned so many times in the past decade by that assumption.
Clinical trials have shown repeatedly that statins reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, but lowering LDL with other medications does not work as well.
including fighting inflammation, another risk factor for heart disease. Krumholz s scepticism is rooted in experience. In 2008 and 2010, the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) clinical trial challenged dogma
when it reported that lowering blood pressure or blood sugar to prespecified targets did not reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke.
In the case of blood sugar, the risks were worsened. The trial demonstrated the folly of assuming that risk factors must have a causal role in disease,
says Robert Vogel, a cardiologist at the University of Colorado, Denver.""Short people have a higher risk of heart disease,
he says.""But wearing high heels does not lower your risk. Jay Cohn, a cardiologist at the University of Minnesota Medical school in Minneapolis, also worries that the focus on LDL levels offers up the wrong patients for statin therapy.
Most of those who have a heart attack do not have high LDL, he notes. Cohn advocates treating patients with statins based on the state of health of their arteries,
as revealed by noninvasive tests such as ultrasound.""If your arteries and heart are healthy, I don t care
"We can t just assume that modifying the risk factor is modifying risk. Not all cardiologists want to abolish LDL targets.
A comparison with traditional surveillance data showed that Google Flu Trends, which estimates prevalence from flu-related Internet searches,
but not substitute for, traditional epidemiological surveillance networks.""It is hard to think today that one can provide disease surveillance without existing systems,
says Alain-Jacques Valleron, an epidemiologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris,
With its creation of the Sentinelles network in 1984, France was the first country to computerize its surveillance.
Its estimates have matched almost exactly the CDC s own surveillance data over time ###and it delivers them several days faster than the CDC can.
and has been extended to include surveillance for a second disease, dengue. Sources: Google Flu Trends (www. google. org/flutrends;
During a visit to Argonne National Laboratory, he will call for $2-billion energy security trust fund dedicated to research to boost automobile efficiency,
Obama had mentioned briefly the idea of an energy security trust in his State of the Union address in January,
which restricts trade in species not at immediate risk of extinction but in need of protection.
and can therefore be offered to those suffering from paraplegia without exposing them to any particular medical risks
#Tau Associated MAPT Gene Increases Risk for Alzheimer's disease A international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California,
San diego School of medicine, has identified the microtubule associated-protein protein tau (MAPT) gene as increasing the risk for developing Alzheimer disease (AD).
have suggested that MAPT is associated with increased risk for AD, other studies have found no association.
they found that carriers of the deleterious MAPT allele (an alternative form of the gene) are increased at risk for developing AD
Thanks to our collaborators from the Consortium, the International Parkinson Disease Genetics Consortium, the Genetic and Environmental Risk in Alzheimer Disease, the Cohorts for Heart and Aging research in Genomic Epidemiology, decode Genetics and the Demgene cohort,
Until this year no one had shown convincingly that the MAPT (tau) gene altered the risk of AD and this,
The recent association of genetic variation in the MAPT gene with AD risk and the emerging availability of tau imaging are now leading to a recognition that perhaps tau changes are key in the pathophysiologic pathway of AD
"In addition to tighter lab security and tougher laws, the trio called for yeast strains to be engineered to produce drugs with limited street value,
Scientists are also investigating the risk of earthquake -and landslide-triggered tsunamis in Alpine lakes.
Credit card security breaches are becoming more and more common, and customers'personal information is being exposed. Could biometric payment methods replace credit cards altogether?
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Tzekwan technology, a financial security protection firm, have announced the first ATM that works with facial recognition capabilities, reports the South China Morning Post.
prompting clerics to urge those at risk of heatstroke not to fast. Doctor Qaiser Sajjad of the Pakistan Medical Association in Karachi said that a lack of understanding of heatstroke among the public how to spot symptoms
and added that here a very heavy security feature to our business. Manufacturing these structures is part of an elaborate process that involves breaking down the nanopore structures into niform-sized particlesthat are fabricated ompletely
but people health is put at risk. Imagine someone being treated for diabetes. You want to make sure they have the right medication. n an interconnected world where smartphones
that the tags are tarting to get adoptedand that a lot of the company ustomers are oriented very security.
and 27"other contacts"are under medical surveillance. None of those quarantined or under surveillance in Hong kong and China have showed any signs of illness so far.
With reporting by Dennis Normile in Tokyo o
#New test could reveal every virus that's ever infected you Can remember every viral infection youe ever had?
We could also use other sensors to assess methane outgassing levels and explosion risk. Initially the firm plans to use information collected by European space agency satellites
Such dependence inherently carries risk. Given Russia's democratic government though (democratic only if you squinted hard
when looking at it) it seemed a reasonable risk. Enter the egotistic ambitious and maybe ruthless Putin.
Then there is the risk that the net will run into operational satellites. The engineers also worry that the debris they are fighting could fight back.
There is a growing trend for organisations to put forward a concept for a debris removal device without considering fully the potential risks involved in deploying
and dimensions as Cygnus to avoid putting the real thing at risk. About 10 minutes into the mission the Cygnus dummy successfully separated from the rocket
and security have profound implications for the future. To make those choices well it is imperative that they be made with a sense of
Engineering is vital to understanding the architectural dynamics of the digital systems in which risk occurs.
Developing a more formal understanding of the security behavior of large-scale systems is a crucial foundation for sound public policy.
How policymakers should address security risks to personal health information; How financial institutions can reduce risk by sharing threat intelligence;
Developing cybersecurity policy frameworks for autonomous vehicles like drones and self-driving cars; andhow to achieve regional and even global agreements on both privacy and security norms in online environments.
To address these issues CPI will not only bring to bear different disciplines from across MIT from computer science to management to political science
#Underwater robot for port security Last week at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems MIT researchers unveiled an oval-shaped submersible robot a little smaller than a football with a flattened
It s very expensive for port security to use traditional robots for every small boat coming into the port says Sampriti Bhattacharyya a graduate student in mechanical engineering who designed the robot together with her advisor Ford Professor of Engineering
The research was funded by the National institutes of health the Defense Threat Reduction Agency the U s army Research Laboratory the U s army Research Office the Office of Naval Research and the Ellison Medical Foundation n
If a company decides to use a surveillance drone for crop management, for instance, it can easily add software that stitches together different images to determine which areas of a field are overwatered
At the time, drones were used primarily for military surveillance, powered by a lack boxthat could essentially fly the drones and control the camera.
and take the risk. Mint launched in 2009 with an initial concept design for Medeye.
limiting the risk of lead contamination of the environment. When the panels are retired eventually, the lead can simply be recycled into new solar panels. he process to encapsulate them will be the same as for polymer cells today,
You know that the killer has admitted his guilt because there surveillance footage of his potato chip bag vibrating.
Since 2004 Ted Stanley and his late wife Vada Stanley have been instrumental to the progress made thus far in identifying the genetic risk factors for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and the initiation of therapeutic efforts based on those discoveries.
Yet in the past few years scientists have begun to find genes that shape the risk of schizophrenia bipolar disorder and other illnesses thanks in large part to Stanley s support.
but the National security agency isn t the only organization that collects information about people s online behavior.
At the IEEE s Conference on Privacy Security and Trust in July Oshani Seneviratne an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and Lalana Kagal a principal research scientist at CSAIL will present a paper
Because the BAT is advanced an aerostat platform Glass says customers can use it to lift additional payloads such as weather monitoring and surveillance equipment.
which is already familiar from airport security checkpoints has a number of other promising applications from explosives detection to collision avoidance in cars.
Some of these differences have been linked with cancer vulnerability; for example, a genetic defect in a type of DNA repair called nucleotide excision repair often leads to a condition called xeroderma pigmentosum, in
allowing researchers to identify people who are at higher risk and potentially enabling prevention or earlier diagnosis of diseases linked to DNA repair.
and food can pose safety risks and cost governments and private companies hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
and commercializing software called Ksplice that automatically applies patches (security updates or bug fixes) to an operating system on the fly without requiring a reboot.
and risk of error Arnold says. The aim is to allow administrators the benefit of the update
Although today s computer technology risks becoming obsolete within a few years Ksplice (now 5 years old) is still a novel product says Daher who was Ksplice s chief operations officer.
The source of Kspliceksplice s roots trace back to 2006 when Arnold was charged with implementing a security update for MIT s Student Information Processing Board that arrived on a weekday.
and they don have the tools we have to deal with risk, Suri says. hey also don have government programs like unemployment insurance or health insurance,
and use those contacts as part of their risk-sharing networks. But that proximity means that the same environmental
A global agreement on carbon emissions would be most effective at reducing the risks of climate change
but also with code that actually performs vital security checks. At the ACM Symposium on Operating systems Principles in November, MIT researchers will present a new system
And sometimes, that can mean dispensing with a security check that guarantees the program proper execution.
Such a system could be used to monitor patients who are at high risk for blood clots says Sangeeta Bhatia senior author of the paper and the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical engineering and Computer science.
Some patients are at more risk for clotting but existing blood tests are not consistently able to detect the formation of new clots says Bhatia who is also a senior associate member of the Broad Institute and a member of MIT s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Another application is monitoring patients who are at high risk for a clot for example people who have to spend a lot of time in bed recovering from surgery.
If a patient is at risk for thrombosis you could send them home with a 10-pack of these sticks
making it hard to predict the risk of a vaso-occlusive crisis, Dao says. He and his colleagues designed their microfluidic device to mimic the conditions inside a blood vessel as oxygen leaves the Blood cells flow through a narrow channel that wraps around a compartment containing oxygen.
Analyzing risk Using this device to measure blood samples from 25 sickle cell disease patients, the researchers were able to determine how deoxygenation affects red blood cellssickling rates;
minimizing the risks of leaving toxic secondary products to persist in, say, a body of water. nce they switch to this macro situation where theye big clumps,
This enhanced resolution at the diffraction limit of light is critical for data storage digital imaging and security applications.
but it does not contain toxic metals such as cadmium that are known to pose potential risks
The new tool could be used as a high-throughput screening platform to identify patients at risk of developing the urologic condition.
risk for consumers as well. In this study researchers exposed cultured laboratory mouse cells resembling the arterial wall cells to NPS of silicon dioxide
The aims of our study were to gain additional insight into the cardiovascular risk associated with silicon dioxide nanoparticle exposure
A recent update from the American Heart Association also suggested that fine particles in air pollution leads to elevated risk for cardiovascular diseases.
However more research was needed to examine the role of ultrafine particles (which are much smaller than fine particles) on atherosclerosis development and cardiovascular risk.
and there is a risk that some of this heritage will be lost within the next 100 years if effective solutions are not found.
or holography Yang said. 3d security elements that are difficult to replicate and which offer different levels of authentication could also be generated for anti-counterfeiting and anti-forgery technologies.
which pose the risk of flowing to other parts of the body and forming unintended and potentially harmful clot formations,
The way traditional science works is to map out all the possible risks demonstrate you've accounted for them
or airport scanners used to sense explosives or chemical threats. Zang says scanners with the new technology"could be used by the military police,
This excess oxygen leached at faster and faster rates over time actually contributes to the risk of failure and acts as fuel for a potential fire.
But that temperature threshold dropped for a highly charged battery suggesting that operating at full energy capacity accelerates structural degradation and vulnerability.
even though pristine and uncharged NCA samples remained stable up to 400 degrees Celsius charging introduced the usual decomposition and vulnerabilities.
while minimizing the risk of complications, "Masson said. Another benefit, and a considerable one:""While traditional equipment requires an investment of around $100, 000,
and dedication in their fields and are meant to encourage beneficiaries to freely explore their interests without fear of risk-taking.
This will allow us to take more risks in our research since there are no'milestones'we have to meet he says referring to a frequent requirement of many funders.
because other patterning techniques have the risk of damaging the crystal structure and orientation and thus influence the properties of the material.
The results indicate little risk to humans ingesting the particles through drinking water say scientists at Duke's Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT.
and national security since an electron beam is a critical component in generating X-rays. While carbon nanotube cathodes have been studied extensively in academia Fermilab is the first facility to test the technology within a full-scale setting.
The researchers said their invention could serve as a full-thickness patch to repair defects due to Tetralogy of fallot atrial and ventricular septal defects and other defects without the risk of inducing abnormal cardiac rhythms.
#Graphene sensor tracks down cancer biomarkers An ultrasensitive biosensor made from the wonder material graphene has been used to detect molecules that indicate an increased risk of developing cancer.
and in elevated levels has been linked to an increased risk of developing several cancers. However 8-OHDG is typically present at very low concentrations in urine so is very difficult to detect using conventional detection assays known as enzyme-linked immunobsorbant assays (ELISAS.
Generic epitaxial graphene biosensors of ultrasensitive detection of cancer risk biomarker Z Tehrani et al 2014 2d Mater. 1 025004. iopscience. iop. org/2053
night vision and security. The light we see illuminating everyday objects is actually only a very narrow band of wavelengths and frequencies.
and security industries since they are cost-effective compared to optical detection procedures. Such biosensors allow for scalability
carefully constructed cluster that the immune system perceives as a threat, prompting it to release large amounts of antibodies that can attack
"Besides the evident application in replacing the typical'rainbow holograms'of credit cards and other security items,
and telecommunications medical devices and security he says. If these could be made flexible they could be integrated in clothes rolled up
robust and reusable will allow for simple monitoring of high-risk individuals in any environment, particularly in the developing world.
thus providing a direct assessment of the risk for the patient to develop a cancer.
but if those nanoparticles cannot be digested effectively they can accumulate in the liver creating a risk of secondary poisoning especially among patients who are already at risk of liver failure.
Since 2006 to protect against the threat of those explosives people traveling by air in America have been limited to one#quart-sized bag for liquids each#in a container no larger than 3. 4 ounces.
The research is supported by the Department of Homeland security and it's easy to see how an airport security checkpoint in the future could employ a#liquid-scanning device like the Magray.
The device has been in development since#at least 2007 but#it still may be a few years before Magrays can scan Thanksgiving travelers'homemade gravy
The Open source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world.
When did the shuttle program become relevant to anyone but the US Department of Espionage?
It's possible enhancing the biochemical events that lead to growth in the brain would cause issues elsewhere in the body like potentially raising the risk of cancer.
and putting the animal at a higher risk of being detected. We know that sharks hunt using their extremely sensitive sense of smell as well â
When health-care providers in the developing world can afford only drugs that don't have a built-in security network,
and nullify the risks associated with smoking. Stole this from yahoo answers By the truth...
The Washington monument and New orleans are not knock on wood under threat in the same way as the Bamiyan Buddhas
Lee told Popular Science that an international panel helps us set up criteria for evaluation sites looking at risk facing the sites significance of the sites and technical benefits of the sites.
In the demonstration the Navy boats first escorted a high value unit simulating a ring of robotic bodyguards around a vessel in a narrow part of the sea.
They can perform more patrols since unmanned swarms of up to 20 boats can be controlled by one sailor at a time.
round-the-clock patrols only require one new sailor at the controls every few hours instead of 50 sailors out in the water every time.
More patrols with small ships surrounding big ones will make larger vessels safer as well. Multiple times during the media call Klunder and Brizzolara mentioned Al qaeda s suicide bombing attack on the destroyer USS Cole in October 2000.
For lenders interested in making sure loan repayments happen on schedule moving collateral can present an investment risk.
Recently Popular Science reported on how in an effort to mitigate this risk repo men are scanning billions of license plates putting drivers'privacy at risk
In addition to seeking out threats like that the LRV as requested will go farther than current Humvees protect against some blasts work in all weather and with degraded visibility and defeat outdated tanks.
If the hit put the player at risk of a concussion the information is sent to a handheld device that alerts the trainer on the sidelines.#
The potential robustness of these robots could mean they can take risks traditional robots might not dare#you could roll them off the edges of cliffs
#The Rise Of The Crypto Phone Between revelations of NSA spying and a sense that marketers and hackers are picking our digital pockets we re all getting a little edgy about cellular security.
##$40 hidecell. compros Storing your phone in a metal-lined bag will eliminate surveillance possibilities by blocking cell-tower signals along with your Wi-fi GPS and Bluetooth connections.
the Advanced High performance Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft (AHRLAC) looks like an alternate history version of a World war i fighter.
The result of a collaboration between South africa's Aerosud aviation firm and the Paramount Group, the AHRLAC is designed as a cheap alternative to the big name in military surveillance right now:
These range from surveillance to light attack, which could make it a useful tool for border patrol, some forms of counterinsurgency warfare,
The pusher propeller design--in which the propellers are mounted behind their respective engines--helps the plane fly slowly, an important task for surveillance aircraft.
It's made to carry everything from surveillance cameras and radar to rockets, flares, and some missiles.
#Japan's Military Will Patrol Earth's Orbitals Japan's military plans to take defense to the heavens in 2019.
and Automation Index ROBO-STOX licenses their proprietary index to ETF Securities to provide European investors with highly diversified access to a new age of growth in robotics and automation.
ETF Securities is the first to license the ROBO-STOX Global Robotics and Automation UCITS Index for use in an exchange traded fund (ETF) that is listed on the London Stock exchange.
Covering manufacturing agriculture health transport civil security and households the initiative#calledâ SPARCÂ#is the EU#s industrial policy effort to strengthen Europe#s position in the global
and World cup Football Packbots will be deployed in Brazil during the 2014â World cup Soccerâ season to bring a high-tech approach to security.
The robots will be stationed throughout Brazilâ#12 host cities during the soccer matches to boost security
Factory-in-a-Day aims to develop a system that can be purposed easily re for new product lines  by reducing the system integration time to a single day the project hopes to minimize investment risk for SMES.
#Honda automatic driverless valet parking system Honda has developed a low-cost automatic valet parking system that uses parking lot surveillance cameras to help park cars automatically.
Vision from the rear camera is supplemented with that from surveillance cameras to create a system that can see more around the car. he information that used to move the cars such as white lines is sent to the cars as maps.
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