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is what makes children more flexible learnersre they just free from the preconceptions that adults have,

But improved performance is just a start for the new quantum dot-based solar cell architecture. The powerful little dots could be mixed into inks

However Pint points out that there have not been any reports in the technical literature of tests performed on structural energy storage materials that show how they function under realistic mechanical loads.

while others have difficulty recognizing members of their own family. For the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences researchers studied 198 families with a single autistic child

because these families are known to show a wide range of variability in facial recognition skills. Two-thirds of the families were from the United kingdom and the remainder from Finland.

Researchers had previously found the oxytocin receptor is essential for olfactory-based social recognition in rodents like mice

and voles and wondered whether the same gene could also be involved in human face recognition. They examined the influence of subtle differences in oxytocin receptor gene structure on face memory competence in the parents non-autistic siblings

and autistic child and discovered a single change in the DNA of the oxytocin receptor had a big impact on face memory skills in the families.

This suggests an ancient conservation in genetic and neural architectures involved in social information processing that transcends the sensory modalities used from mouse to man.

which was funded by grants from the US National institute of mental health and the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs as well as the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation and National Alliance for Autism Research.

and use statistical or probabilistic types of computations. he nature of these computations is different from the traditional computations where you need a precise answersays Srimat Chakradhar department head for Computing systems Architecture at NEC Laboratories America

Various new types of transistor architecture using materials other than the standard silicon are being studied to overcome the power consumption challenge. his transistor has previously been developed in our lab to replace MOSFET transistors for logic applications

In this recent work Mirkin an experimentalist and professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences teamed up with Monica Olvera de la Cruz a theoretician

says Olvera de la Cruz who also is a professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts

But NEIL also makes associations between these things to obtain common sense information that people just seem to know without ever saying##that cars often are found on roads that buildings tend to be vertical

It has connected the dots to learn 2500 associations from thousands of instances. One motivation for the NEIL project is to create the world s largest visual structured knowledge base where objects scenes actions attributes

As its search proceeds NEIL develops subcategories of objects tricycles can be for kids for adults

And it begins to notice associations##that zebras tend to be found in savannahs for instance

Jenniskens calculates the object may have come from the Flora asteroid family in the asteroid belt but the chunk that hit the Chelyabinsk area was broken apparently not up in the asteroid belt itself.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan found that the rock had been exposed to cosmic rays for only about 1. 2 million years unusually short for rocks originating in the Flora family.

and another three weeks for the new workers to emerge as adults. This reduces the workforce

The theoretical calculations pointed to new families of materials where this often mutually exclusive combination of properties could in fact be stabilized. his structure is something known as a perovskite crystal.

and cost of the solar cell. he family of materials we've made with the bulk photovoltaic effect goes through the entire solar spectrumrappe says. o we could grow one material

This family of materialsspanier says s all the more remarkable because it is comprised of inexpensive nontoxic and earth-abundant elements unlike compound semiconductor materials currently used in efficient thin-film solar cell technology. he research was supported by the Energy Commercialization Institute of Ben Franklin Technology Partners the Department of energy's Office of Basic Sciences

of early childhood development functioning neurons can self-adjust and return to their set-point average firing ratehengen says.

and the projectâ#lead researcher. aking this information available to anyone with a smartphone or computer especially when a tsunami or other type of disaster occurs could help save lives. elodia will present his paper at the Association for Computing Machineryâ

About 200 million years ago GD 61 entered its death throes and became a white dwarf yet parts of its planetary system survived.

#Lava pillars in Iceland may have formed without a boom University at Buffalo rightoriginal Studyposted by Charlotte Hsu-Buffalo on October 9 2013land-based lava pillars in Iceland may have formed through an unusual reaction typically seen

That finding is more likely than the one that suggests the rocky pillars dotting Icelandâ#Skaelingar valley were tossed projectiles into the fields by warring trollsâ##a theory University at Buffalo geologist Tracy Gregg heard from a tour guide and local hiker.

The pillars hollow and made from basalt likely formed in a surprising reaction where lava met water without any explosion occurring. sually

This has implications for the way we view volcanic risk. eep-sea basalt pillars form

when columns of super-heated water rise between pillows of lava on the ocean floor cooling the molten rock into hollow pipe-like minarets.

and Geothermal Research the scientists propose that the same phenomenon sculpted the land-based lava pillars in Iceland.

Each of these distinctive characteristics is also prevalent in deep ocean pillars says Gregg. knew as soon as I saw them what they were.

'n the future Gregg says scientists could hunt for land-based lava pillars near oceans to learn about the height of ancient seas

It causes more than 600000 deaths a year from cryptococcal pneumonia and meningoencephalitis accounting for a third of all AIDS-related deaths.

Researchers have been interested in the sexual cycle of Cryptococcus because it is the only way this fungal pathogen can produce spores to infect its host.

##and manmade products constructed from similar materials has to do with the hierarchical architecture of the biological materialsâ##the way the silica-based skeletons are built up from different structural elements some

Julia R. Greer professor of materials science and mechanics at the California Institute of technology (Caltech) says the work was inspired by earlier work to fabricate extremely lightweight microtrusses. e designed architectures with building blocks that are less than five microns

long meaning that they are not resolvable by the human eye. onstructing these architectures out of materials with nanometer dimensions has enabled us to decouple the materials strength from their density

not only the individual unit cells but also the complete architecture can be endowed with unusually high strength depending on the material

Then I can design the optimal architecture with the optimal material at the relevant size

or atomic configurations. unding from the Dow-Resnick Innovation Fund at Caltech DARPA s Materials with Controlled Microstructural Architecture program

or motions to the user to guide a child s hand as they play computer games designed to help writing.

As the child plays the games the robots arm helps them learn the correct movements by pushing

and Liam Hill at the University of Leeds in partnership with the Bradford Institute for Health Research and colleagues at the University of Indiana. n trying to support a child with handwriting

Mycorrhiza for instance is a fungus capable of forming an association with the vast majority of land plants.

The association also helps activate genes and physiological changes in the plant to help them survive drought conditions Beattie says.

In a series of experiments using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana researchers discovered a key regulator S3h that acts as a brake on the process of leaf death

In addition to affecting the timing of leaf death it also affects its rate: While normal plants take more than nine days for a leaf to progress from living green to yellow plants without the gene yellowed in fewer than three days.

What we have found is the convergence point between the slow and fast death systems Gan says.

NOTTINGHAM (UK)# Scientists have identified the genetic mutation responsible for the first blue chicken eggs in South american Mapuche fowl and their European descendants Araucana 200 to 500 years ago.

While only 15 of the 40 known imprinted human genes were identified in this set their expression bias was identical to that of humans indicating a highly conserved function for these genes between the horse family and humans.

The Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics Zweig Memorial Fund and Morris Animal Foundation funded the research h

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Neumann says. e needed to create a system that could handle the waste of a family of four with just two treatments per week,

but it a matter of life and death for 2. 5 billion people, Halas says. or this to really work,

when to self-destruct Brown University rightoriginal Studyposted by David Orenstein-Brown on June 20 2013brown (US)# New research identifies genes that may control the death of pollen tubes during plant reproduction.##

##Pollination essential to much of life On earth requires the explosive death of the male pollen tube in the female ovule.

but a dialogue that ends in death#Leydon says.##It s a really well-controlled cell death situation.#

#Agricultural applications? Future work Johnson says will include tracking down the relevant genes more fully

assistant professor of social and decision sciences and lead author of the study. t could be used to assess an individual emotional response to almost any kind of stimulus, for example, a flag, a brand name,

More ticks were found on younger otters than adults. Scientists reason that this is likely due to younger otters tending to spend more time in the holt (an otter den.

The findings showed for the first time how the extraordinarily stable compound#calcium-aluminum-silicate-hydrate (C-a-S-H)# binds the material used to build some of the most enduring structures in Western civilization.

As a woman who finds almost all of the smart watches on the market today to be too large

and work much in the way that a home pregnancy test does they are not nearly as sensitive

Early detection is helpful for instance in pregnant women; the sooner they start taking antiretroviral meds the less likely they are to pass the disease to their babies.

This is why HIV screening is common in all pregnant woman across the US. The CDC reports that the risk of transmission to the fetus can be reduced to 1 percent

#It has huge implications#Karen Lightman executive director of the trade association MEMS Industry Group told me.#

whereby a small number of skilled geneticists is able to remove the nucleus of a donor woman egg (the part that plays host to some 25,

but yet the biological child of the parents. OHSU The resulting egg can then be fertilized with the intended father sperm using traditional in vitro fertilization,

and an embryo is born. o then the child born will have 99.9 percent DNA from the parents,

and those will come from another woman, Mitalipov said. hat where the term 3-parent baby comes from.

or personality traits of a child those reside in the nucleus, which still belongs wholly to the intended mother.

causing a wide range of problems that include extreme fatigue, dementia, stunted growth, deafness, blindness, multi-organ failure, and even death.

but would permit clinics to begin offering a risky and experimental fertility procedure. Mitalipov counters that the UK vote to permit select clinics to offer the procedure is in reality a clinical trial

Additionally it was presented at the United nations during a meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO

An all-weather foldout ragtop roof is also available for commuting in the rain. Team Building With much of the interest in the Humancar focusing on the environmental and physical health advantages of the car,

I can help imagining arguments emanating from the back seats on family outings with one sibling blaming another for not pulling their weight but maybe that just my family.

#Researchers create living human gut-on-a-Chip in an effort to provide a more accurate alternative to conventional cell culture and animal models,

"This is as true for individuals with private collections as it is for libraries, museums and other public institutions.

and 8 mm films at high-definition resolutions with sound, the Kinograph makes preserving our cultural heritage much more affordable.

#NASA probe will reveal 3d architecture of forests from space NASA is developing a laser-based instrument for deployment on the International space station that will probe the depths of Earth's forests from space in a bid to reveal more about their role in the planet's carbon cycle.

GEDI's 3d maps could be combined with maps from other satellites to examine the role forest architecture plays in biodiversity and land use,

It has been created as an easily reconfigurable platform using a modular system architecture that may be programmed easily to govern robots with a varied array of configurations.

and develop an easily-programmable and extensible system architecture to control robots a wide variety of configurations."

"The architecture is built on Ethernet computer networking technology, "said Choset.""Ethernet doesn't require that the computers connected to it be of a specific type,

The interfaces used in the modular architecture allow robot designers to focus on specific capabilities without having to worry about detailed systems issues

#Freedom Driver allows man with artificial heart to await transplant at home Heart failure patients awaiting organ transplants normally find themselves anchored to the hospital bed by a washing machine-sized device that keeps blood pumping through their veins.

and associations will help safely integrate unmanned newsgathering technology and operating procedures into the National airspace system.""While the development will be welcome news for CNN

#8 ways the Oculus Rift could (eventually) transcend gaming Gamers have been buzzing about the Oculus Rift for a couple of years already

But in the long run we believe the product has the potential to transcend gaming. Let's take a look at eight future uses for the best virtual reality headset.

The Oculus Rift could ultimately transform movies at least as much as it does gaming. Some of the clips in Oculus'demo from CES gave us a glimpse of the jaw-dropping immersiveness that could come from a new VR-focused Hollywood:

Similarly VR could transform the way we watch sports. Imagine the 2016 NBA Finals with 360-degree cameras placed at various points courtside (or even hanging above the court or on the backboards.

or family members who live on the other side of the world. Each person would be sitting in their own living room

We could pretend like virtual reality will only be used for PG family-friendly uses but who would we be kidding?

with the World Health Organisation warning of an impending"post-antibiotic era"where common infections will once again pose the risk of death,

or even to promote energy savings in the household. A paper describing the advance appears on the journal Nature Communications l

so if you want really big 3d effects for a sports stadium or a billboard.

such as those used at the cinema where only two different pictures are projected, one for each eye,

"Today 3d cinema movies can be converted into our 3d format, but we expect that new footage will be created especially for our displays perhaps with a much larger number of cameras,

and local police will no longer be able to use a federal law that allowed the seizure of assets of people for only believing a crime was committed.

if they so much as believe that property was used in the commission of a crime not after a successful conviction.

And then the onus is on the owners of the property to prove in court that it wasn used for crime,

and prevent brain cell death if administered immediately after a stroke.##It is crucial to treat ischemic strokes within three hours to improve the chances of recovery.

domestic violence campaigners have warned. Helplines and women refuge charities have reported a dramatic rise in the use of spyware apps to eavesdrop on the victims of domestic violence via their mobiles and other electronic devices,

enabling abusers clandestinely to read texts, record calls and view or listen in on victims in real time without their knowledge.

A survey by Women Aid, the domestic violence charity, found that 41 per cent of domestic violence victims it helped had been tracked

The Independent has been told of a case where a woman had a conversation she had held with a friend on her mobile played back to her by her partner,

making it exceedingly difficult for their man to know theye being cuckoldedwomen are much more capable of looking you straight in the eye and lying.

Victims of domestic violence routinely have calls and texts secretly read Victims of domestic violence routinely have calls

and texts secretly read (Rex) It adds: lexispy lets you conduct pycalls remotely activating the phone microphone to listen in on its surroundings.

reveals that the number of college-educated young adults (ages 25 to 34) living within three miles of city centers has risen 37 percent since the millennium.

Adjusted for population growth, total miles driven has fallen for nine straight years. And yet, transit ridership per capita is virtually the same now as it was in 1975.

The great outward migration of jobs, deftly chronicled by Kenneth T. Jackson in rabgrass Frontier,

In response, cities have dished out corporate welfare with abandon. There are anecdotal signs that some jobs will indeed return:

and urban employment is a new culture of city life, where leisure is king and work outside of restaurants,

stores and bars is nowhere to be seen. This shift is particularly evident in formerly mixed-use neighborhoods

diminish quality of life and do not sufficiently quell pain. The most successful pharmacological approaches for the treatment of chronic pain rely on certain athways circuits involving opioid, adrenergic, and calcium channels.

could also revolutionize everything from advertising to architecture. A team at the University of Bristol in Great britain worked on the project,

such as feeling the differences between materials in a CT SCAN or understanding the shapes of artifacts in a museum.

out of their homes and diagnosedto help families adjust and give patients higher chance of being taken care of at home.

And a government dementia database allows families to register relatives and receive iron-on identification numbers.

Citizens encountering wanderers with dementia report their numbers to officials, who contact families. To finance this, South korea created a long-term-care insurance system,

socially and economically. t least one family member has to give up workto provide caregiving, said Kwak Young-soon, social welfare director for Mapo District, one of Seoul 25 geographic districts.

families may also lose dementia sufferersincomes. Most families no longer have generations living together to help with caregiving,

and some facilities have long waiting lists, but e can keep building nursing homes, Mr. Kwak said. e call it a ghost.

disease of knowledge and the brain which makes adults become babies. But South korea low birth rate will make family caregiving tougher. feel

as if a tsunami coming, said Lee Sung-hee, the South korean Alzheimer Association president, who trains nursing home staff members,

but also thousands who regularly interact with the elderly: bus drivers, tellers, hairstylists, postal workers. ometimes I think I want to run away,

she told 200 senior citizens interested in nursing home jobs or family caregiving advice. If patients say, good at making soy soup,

At a Dementia March outside the World cup Soccer Stadium, children carried signs promoting Dr. Yang Mapo district center:

Cha Kyong-ho family was wary of getting him tested. ementia was a subject to hide,

which is run by Mrs. Lee, the Alzheimer Association president, for women without sons to care for them.

She said social workers suggested being less effusive to patients so the girlsleaving would be less traumatic:

nontraditional students who can not travel to colleges because of jobs and family. But the same technologies of istance learningare now finding their way onto brick-and-mortar campuses,

families paying $53, 000 a year demand low student-faculty ratios. Colleges and universities that have plunged into the online field,

said Dan Jaffe, an executive vice president of the Association of National Advertisers, a trade group that represents marketers like Kraft foods and Campbell soup.

Scott Faber, a vice president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a group that represents food makers,

The 13-page report describes initiatives ranging from the high-tech (500 officers have received Samsung Rugby smartphones equipped to deliver real-time crime data) to the bureaucratic (new guidelines for recruiting

and maps where crimes occur. The system is already at police headquarters, and will soon be in each precinct and command around the city.

may have been involved in a crime, or have outstanding infractions. The data is stored for an indefinite period,

Besides getting officers to crime scenes, Mr. del Pozo said, a police cruiser should give officers information that helps them make better decisions in the field.##

although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011.

a National Venture capital Association and Dow jones press release predicts that 2014 will bring further good news for entrepreneurs across several fronts,

though, starts with a man sitting on a couch. His phone rings. It s a telemarketer for a home security service.##

##The man on the couch tries to claim he s busy, but the telemarketer parries,##I know you re busy,

While the man on the couch might was just sitting there talking, the Avatar agent would have been sitting in the Filipino city of#Jaro Iloilo, staring at an interface.

Only a middle-aged woman named Kimberly, who always wore long-sleeved, cream-colored blouses, managed to sell anything.

More than 4 percent of households have photovoltaics. Hawaii last year led the nation in the portion of its electricity that comes from solar, with 2. 6 percent.

and the District of columbia##lets households with renewable energy earn bill credits for surplus power delivered to the grid.

this issue was about the death of obscurity. Any gay person in the homophobic Islamic Republic of Iran who makes their sexuality clear online has forfeited already their own privacy,

and whether they have entered ever a search term that raises a red flag. Anyone up to three degrees of separation from a##person of interest##potentially hundreds of thousands of people per target is open to surveillance.

two out of three adults haven t gotten the equivalent of a high school education. But IBM believes the classrooms of the future will give educators the tools to learn about every student,

##If a child has extraordinary abilities, they can be recognized. With 30 kids in a class, a teacher cannot do it themselves.

Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is justified not, and they should be avoided##The evidence also has implications for research.

#Munjal Shah, entrepreneur in residence at Charles river Ventures,#surveyed a thousand peopleabout what super powers they would acquire

and later several sculptures. He admits they re not perfect; he says he could have used more-complicated optics.

and the Solar energy Industries Association (SEIA)# on the state of the solar power market in the U s..#Without a doubt,

decorated with Star wars and Pac-Man murals and lines of code running off wall-mounted screens that show the hacking taking place live.

where a drone drops off a package in a family s suburban driveway.####I think from both a tech

since the first man got bored in class and folded his paper into aerodynamic forms.

Once#in space, TUI s Trusselator, the first step in the Spiderfab architecture, would use 3-D printing techniques

As a result it has managed to identify 1, 500 objects in half a million images and 1, 200 scenes in hundreds of thousands of images as well as making 2, 500 associations.

In addition to gaming applications, such a device could also allow you to taste dishes on a cooking show.

#The death of coal in America Train carrying coal to a power plant. The Great Energy Shift is happening in spurts

stick it to consumers and bolster its bottom line,##Rhone Resch, chief executive of the Solar energy Industries Association,

especially when it comes to mobile gaming. Thanks to the success of#Rovio#and its#Angry Birds#empire,

##Everyone knows that gaming is actually good for neurology and the brain, ##Stubb says.####Long gone are the days where parents tell you to stop.

We re really excited about how the gaming community has taken off here and you can expect more from Finland very soon.##

##The semantics of the architecture and visual cues indicate that the back of the seat belongs to the passenger facing it,

Seymourpowell offers up the example of a couple traveling with a child. The father, presumably larger than the rest of the family, could take 20 inches,

the mother keeps the standard 18 inches, and the child takes 16 inches. This simple adjustment gives the father more lateral space than almost#any major airline would offer in economy

at no extra expense to the family. With some economy airlines charging significantly more to sit in an exit row or close to the front of the plane,

it s easy to envisage the second scenario Seymourpowell offers up becoming a reality. Morph s design allows for the central seat to be made as small as 10 inches wide.

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