Transformers convert the standard voltage from the wall outlet into the lower voltages required by electronic devices.
Timo Cuntz and other members of the Mannheim project group will be present at the combined Compamed (Hall 08a, Booth K38) and Medica (Hall 10, Booth G05) trade shows
the microcamera is now impervious to vibrations on uneven street surfaces.""Our system can not only be used to detect traffic signs.
but it got Das thinking about a more specific target--bacteria in the nasal passages."
Habitat and eroded coastline are recovering at an astonishing pace only one year after the demolition of two dams freed the river,
when exposed to peanut proteins through breast milk or in house dust but this current study adds skin exposure to the list of culprits that make a child allergic by the first time they taste a peanut.
causing blood to flow backward into the left atrium and lungs. The Mitraclip is, literally,
doing calisthenics in his room after his TAVR procedure. Werner Dyer, who is had now 92
"This concrete, atomic resolution picture of what the pre-fusion machinery looks like and where these antibodies bind provides an important step forward to understanding HIV's biology,
and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have discovered a small molecule that blocks a form of cell death that triggers inflammation opening the door for potential new treatments for inflammatory disease such as rheumatoid arthritis Crohn's disease
Building a single device can often require multiple iterations each of which can take up to two weeks and several thousand dollars to manufacture.
and define walls between neighboring cells--a functional compartmentalization that serves many physiological processes protecting genetic material regulating
The resolution was so fine that it allowed the researchers to see the secondary structure--the set of basic building blocks which combine to form every protein.
#Researchers develop harder ceramic for armor windows The Department of defense needs materials for armor windows that provide essential protection for both personnel
This harder spinel offers the potential for better armor windows in military vehicles which would give personnel and equipment such as sensors improved protection along with other benefits.
which is important for high window lifetimes. The Hall-Petch relationship has been used to describe the phenomenon where a material's strength
and hardness can be increased by decreasing the average crystallite grain size. However prior experimental work had shown a breakdown in this relationship (where hardness starts reducing with decreasing grain size) for certain ceramics at 130 nanometers.
Remarkably the NRL researchers have disproved that a breakdown in the Hall-Perch effect exists at these nanoscale grain sizes by measuring an increasing hardness down to at least a 28 nanometer crystallite grain size.
In current applications spinel and sapphire (which is also very hard) are used to create materials for military armor windows.
A drawback with sapphire is that it is expensive to make into windows. By increasing the hardness of spinel even further NRL researchers can make a material harder than sapphire
and possibly replace sapphire windows with windows made out of nanocrystalline spinel. Also harder nanocrystalline spinel windows can be made thinner and still meet the current military specifications.
This thinness translates to weight savings on the vehicle. So the NRL-developed nanocrystalline spinel brings improvements in hardness window thickness and weight and cost.
A final benefit is that the NRL-developed nanocrystalline spinel is highly transparent making it useful in UV visible and infrared optics.
A single window that could be produced using the NRL-developed nanocrystalline spinel would be transparent across many technologically important wavelengths easing design
Beyond the use for a harder spinel in armor windows there could be other potential Dod and civilian applications in better/stronger office windows smartphones and tablets screens military/civilian vehicles
and accurately place reconstruction screws in the narrow bony corridors of the spine avoiding nerves blood vessels and other critical structures.
& Melinda Gates Foundation has the capability of heating human waste to a high enough temperature to sterilize human waste
and create biochar a highly porous charcoal said project principal investigator Karl Linden professor of environmental engineering.
The project is part of the Gates Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge an effort to develop a next-generation toilet that can be used to disinfect liquid and solid waste
Since the 2012 grant Linden and his CU-Boulder team have received an additional $1 million from the Gates Foundation for the project
According to the Gates Foundation the awards recognize researchers who are developing ways to manage human waste that will help improve the health and lives of people around the world.
Linden's team is one of 16 around the world funded by the Gates Reinvent the Toilet Challenge since 2011.
Linden is working closely with project co-investigators Professor R. Scott Summers of environmental engineering and Professor Alan Weimer chemical and biological engineering and a team of postdoctoral fellows professionals graduate students undergraduates
While the current toilet has been created to serve four to six people a day a larger facility that could serve several households simultaneously is under design with the target of meeting a cost level of five cents a day per user set by the Gates Foundation.
The great thing about the Gates Foundation is that they provide all of the teams with the resources they need Linden said.
and energy on our team and the Gates Foundation values that Linden said. It is one thing to do research another to screw on nuts and bolts
The CU-Boulder team is now applying for phase two of the Gates Foundation Reinvent the Toilet grant to develop a field-worthy system to deploy in a developing country based on their current design
It came in ballast water no question Kerfoot said. Like many aquatic invasive species it was transplanted by ships loading ballast in one part of the world and dumping it in another in this case the Great lakes.
Since Bythotrephes needs cool conditions it has gained not a footing in more southerly waters. But it is having a field day in a band of inland lakes stretching from eastern Ontario to northern Minnesota and in the cooler Great lakes.
The spine can poke right through the wall of the stomach. Right now there's no way to get Bythotrephes out of infested lakes.
Drain all water from bilge live wells ballast tanks etc. before leaving. Dry everything thoroughly before you put your gear in another lake.
The primary highway for invasive aquatic species the ballast tanks of oceangoing vessels entering the Great lakes is still open.
since the St lawrence Seaway opened in 1959 many freighters still release contaminated ballast water into the system.
or a house without any input from a human operator Lee next began to teach the robot to paint lines
Rus says. he current grasping formation may not allow room for a new robot or sensor to join the team.
Friction is all around us, working against the motion of tires on pavement, the scrawl of a pen across paper,
much like two complementary Lego bricks. The team observed that when atoms are spaced so that each occupies a trough in the optical lattice,
Vuletic says. here force building up, and then there suddenly a catastrophic release of energy. he group continued to stretch
and demonstrates building blocks for synchronous logic gates, feedback and cascadability hallmarks of scalable computation. A simple-state machine including 1-bit memory storage (known as lip-flop is demonstrated also using the above basic building blocks.
A new way to manipulate matter The current chips are about half the size of a postage stamp,
to enable everyone to design new circuits based on building blocks we describe in this paper or discover new blocks.
thanks to a moisture mill a turbine engine driven by water evaporating from wet paper strips lining its walls.
Building on last year findings, Sahin and his Columbia colleagues sought to build actual devices that could be powered by such energy.
is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units. With traditional lithium-ion production
For example, although both forms of amino acid molecules the building blocks of life itself can be made in the laboratory,
said Scott Kitchen, the study lead author and a member of the Broad Stem Cell Research center. e also think this approach could possibly be extended to other diseases.
Kitchen also is a member of the UCLA AIDS Institute and an associate professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology at the David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA. Kitchen and his colleagues were the first to report the use of an engineered molecule called a chimeric antigen receptor,
or CAR, in blood-forming stem cells. Blood-forming stem cells are capable of turning into any type of blood cell,
Previous studies by Kitchen and Zack demonstrated similar results with other T cell receptors, although it is known that HIV could mutate away from those receptors.
Kitchen said the CAR approach is more flexible and potentially more effective because it could theoretically be employed in anyone.
The materials in most of today residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
To capture energy from sunlight, conventional rooftop solar cells use silicon, a fairly expensive material. There is currently a big push to make lower-cost solar cells using plastics
who was involved not in the research. f you take the normal conventional civil engineering or chemical engineering approach to treating it, it just won touch it.
Sometimes you can buy tickets at a kiosk other times you have to buy from a driver.
subway or train and another at a kiosk to pay for their pass or put more funds on the card.
their smartphone is the kiosk. So far, the partners have announced only their joint work in Athens. On its own,
pave roads with solar panels that could eventually provide power for street lights and traffic controls, and maybe even homes and electric vehicles.
What the engineers came up with was a system of prefabricated concrete covered by solar panels
and provide electricity for the grid or street lights. The netherlands is not a top producer of solar power,
and NBC News. And even after giving the housing away, the state still saves $8, 000 per year per formerly homeless person.
because they don have housing. This 2001 study inspired Utah efforts. The study tracked 4, 000 people in New york city for four years--two years living on streets,
two years in housing provided by the city. While homeless, they cost the city more than $40
000 for shelter, jail and hospital services. That same amount of money could provide them more permanent housing, comprehensive health care and employment services."
"A considerable amount of public dollars is spent essentially maintaining people in a state of homelessness,"Dennis Culhane,
the study lead author, wrote at the time. The idea is the homeless don end up in jail because theye bad people per se.
when the homeless have to prove theye gotten help before they get housing. Housing comes firstutah housed 17 people in the first year of its program.
The state program is called Housing First --and the fact that housing does come first appears to be a main reason why the initiative is so successful.
Other cities and states provide housing, but no area has come close to Utah success rate.
Today, there are so few chronically homeless people in Utah that the state knows the names and stories of each one.
and slept on the floor the first few weeks she was in her new house.
She had lived with so much disruption that it took that long for her to grasp that the house really was hers.
New york began giving housing to the mentally ill in 1990, but there was some concern the program,
This fourth phase, called NY/NY IV, will create 5, 000 new supportive housing units,
nearly doubling the housing available in the first 25 years of the program. Still, homeless advocates say that well short of the 30,000 units that are needed there.
Washington, D c.,meanwhile, began providing housing to the chronically homeless in 2008 and was on track to essentially end homelessness by next year.
Gimme shelter, please! The homeless challenge cities facehow technology is helping cities help their homelessdata sharing helps NYC improve health and human services deliver d
where to find the talent to manage the technologies that make smart cities possible. Johannesburg South africa's largest city--recently unveiled its approach,
The program is a big part of the early phase of its smart city plan, and is expected to train 1,
The need for IT professionals in the futureand nowcity officials recognize the need for professionals with the right technological capabilities to help make the smart city plan a reality.
Students selected for the program will have the opportunity to see smart cities connectivity in action in other countries.
"Related articlesant to get smart about smart cities? Check a university course catalogmicrosoft targets TV white spaces to improve education in Afric n
#Asia smart cities: Are they doing it right? In the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco city in Tianjin, China, Itron deployed one network that runs three meters--water, electricity and gas.
While India's goal of 100 smart cities typically comes to mind first when one thinks of Asian smart city initiatives,
the country is not alone in its efforts. Seoul, South korea's capital city is regarded by many as the"smartest"and best-connected city in the world, according to an Eco-Business article.
And China has aggressive strategies in place to build smart cities across the country. Council Lead Partners IBM Microsoft, andcisco and Associate Partner Siemens have been working with Chinese companies on national information security as well as technologies
and solutions to support the growth of smart cities there. Council Lead Partner Itron, meanwhile, completed installation of smart water, heat and gas meters and communication modules as well as its fixed network for Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco city in Tianjin, China.
The need is certainly realone of the primary drivers for smart city upgrades throughout the world has been an influx of people from rural and outlying areas
Navigant Research expects investments in smart city information and communications technology (ICT) will reach $63. 4 billion in the Asia Pacific region between 2014 and 2023.
"Rolling out smart cities is need a pressing across Asia. Leaders in developing Asia must cope with urbanization on an unprecedented scale,
what makes smart cities work, some experts in the field question"smart"technology as a universal fix-all."
Biswas also is among those who question the focus of India's smart cities program.""We are talking about 600 million people who do not have 24-hour access to electricity.
livable smart city is possible for both developed and developing cities, and that differences in needs can be accommodated with the right operating
Developed in the suburbs of Buenos aires by INTA's rural engineering division, the yellow and white robot resembles a child's Tonka truck (the chassis) with a lighthouse (the sprayer) strapped to the top.
This action-oriented site helps apartment owners and renters implement energy efficiency in their shared property with templates
to gain insight into community-style apartments, and the needs and expectations of owners and managers.
With a dig once approach, the executive order also aims to help carriers conduct broadband deployments in conjunction with other road construction projects.
Sue Spradley, the executive director of U s. Ignite confirmed in a conference call yesterday that the organization is working closely with the new Gigabit Neighborhood Gateway Program to engage additional high-speed communities.
Too many cooks in the kitchen: Lots of different states, municipalities, and companies have control and regulation over the way the electrical grid works across the U s,
there was a line of over 100 people waiting to get through security at the White house's Eisenhower Building.
and that means increased density, urbanism, walkability and everything else required to bring our way of life in line with planetary boundaries.
Gen Y housing preferences are the subject of at least two panels at this week s convention.
they like Facebook more than having a big back yard! --it's worth recognizing that the ability to maintain our always-on connectivity,
and wind farms to retailers turning to rooftop solar and biogas to power their big box stores and distribution centers,
when the first solar arrays went up on its store roofs in California, the installed costs of Wal-mart Stores Inc. s solar systems have dropped from $6
SWING BIG the same effort it takes to do something small is the same raw effort it take to do something revolutionary You ve done a wonderful building and helping a community
or seek out other established solar panel makers to establish factories there. Photo: Flickr user zigbphotography, CC 2. 0 Related:
An inventory of apartments and rooms that travelers can rent as an alternative to hotels s
#Why teaching toddlers Mandarin chinese is a smart investment Now that China is the world s second largest economy,
which is precisely after the natural window of opportunity to learn a language closes. Every human brain has the capacity to learn a language the same way we learn our native tongue.
they aren't just for big houses and cars anymore. Increasingly, Sarah Goodyear reports for The Atlantic cities, suburbs throughout the United states are investing in bicycle infrastructure.
and could be embedded in surfaces ranging from car dashboards to household floors to kitchen countertops.
the technology might even help reduce production costs for large appliances like kitchen refrigerators, Fransen says.
and streets was-1. 4 percent in February 2013 compared to one year earlier. Meanwhile, in 2012, U s. GDP increased 2. 2 percent
The new plastic is made from mushrooms Poking around in my mom s attic recently, I was reminded that I still have the shipping box from my Macintosh SE,
We re also doing building materials as well--replacing foam insulation. It would mostly be commercial. The question is what s the best way to do it.
#Google maps goes underground"in Japan's radioactive zone"This is not a place you'd want to hang around for too long Google is producing underground street maps of Japan's nuclear exclusion zone.
Google has catalogued also the interiors of over 70 flood-damaged buildings in the region. The panoramic images are an update to ones taken shortly after the disaster.
Algae technology cleans up fracking Flushing toilets could heat future buildings The lost pets of Fukushima Radiation loving algae comes to Japan s rescu
and It'll Heal Your Wounds in 15 Seconds Flat Bloomberg News reports on an incredible new invention that astounding people across the world and across the web.
the solar panels on the smart highway cover about 75 yards of roadway which is slightly more than you can fit on a roof.
Dexcom own Windows software was pulling data in this way, and fortunately, Dexcom supplied an API (application programming interface) library as part of its software installation.
scientists have developed early warning-systems systems that give people precious seconds to run out of buildings or take cover.
Zizmos asks for volunteers to donate a tiny bit of interior wall space and a power outlet to host a sensor package,
calls sound as if everybody in the same room; you can even hear soft background sounds,
when individual molecules would serve as the basic building blocks for electronics. That day has moved a bit closer thanks to research out of the Columbia University School of engineering and Applied science.
or to govern the processing of crude oil in a refinery. Haidar group is one of a number of academic and corporate teams vying to create a closed-loop system for an artificial pancreas. ach patient is represented by a set of differential equations,
and ensure that most of the heat is emitted out into the room rather than simply heating up the wall behind the heater. hile graphene does offer some attractive properties for reducing wasted energy,
The researchers connected cables to the pedestals, bringing the neural signals to a computer that analyzed them and sent commands to the robot arm.
as if it hitting a flat surface instead of something three-dimensional. The cloak is very thinnly about a tenth the size of the wavelength of the photons it scatteringnd lossless
if it were bouncing off a flat surface. Despite the effect of those height differences, the thicknesses involved are so tiny that the researchers consider this a two-dimensional metasurface,
though the team is working on building a physical version, Kante says. It was designed for the microwave range
For instance, it could shield antennas in cell towers from each other, lowering crosstalk. Or it could make better solar concentrators,
. or the nanowires we needed ten thousand times less precious Gap material than in cells with a flat surface.
Edward Knightly, Rice university Sending wireless data through this 400 megahertz to 700 MHZ slice of spectrum is referred often to as uper Wi-Fibecause of its ability to penetrate through buildings and travel long distances.
TV towers occupy a whole channel no matter how many viewers are watching at a given time,
the researchers see an opportunity to push ahead the state-of-the-art in spintronics. ee just taken ferromagnetism off its pedestal,
On the other side of the fence, ALPS began as brick-and-mortar schools, but some are moving into a hybrid format.
just ask a few of the 20-somethings in your office about how much space they have in their apartments.
Shopify and ebay can use space to both warehouse their goods and then deliver them in urban areas.
the next busker you meet may be able to truly SHRED a little Stairway next to the Cold Stone using electronic effects and an old Fender e
Mobile phone sales overall were 456 million completely flat on Q3 2013. Within the smartphone space, China Xiaomi made its way into the top five for the first time with a sharp rise over a year ago,
while Windows, Blackberry and ther OS? s all continue their declines. In real terms, Windows sales were nearly flat over a year ago on 9 million units.
It very hard to think of how Microsoft will manage to turn this around, and you do have to wonder
but history shows that tech that doesn play well with others gets left behind as collaborative innovation happens outside its walls.
including Alpha House, Betas, Transparent, The After, Bosch, Mozart in the Jungle, Tumble Leaf, Annebots, Creative Galaxy, Hand of God (2015),
I moved to a new house this week and opted for streaming video only with Prime,
and sends the data back to your home office via Wi-fi. It is powered self and can be removed in minutes.
#Microsoft Begins Accepting Bitcoin For Windows Windows phone And Xbox Purchases If you want further proof that Microsoft is going through a transformative phase,
and other digital content on its Windows, Windows phone and Xbox platforms, as the folks at Coindesk noticed today.
And now Sidecar a perhaps lesser mentioned competitor in the taxis-that-aren-actuallyaxis arena that wee come to call idesharingfollows suit.
In short but not-so-simple terms, qualifying businesses are required to a) measure total energy consumption, accounting for 90 percent of usage across all buildings, transport and industrial activities;
allowing IT administrators to manage large groups of Windows-based computer systems, SCCM lacks the capability to provide the accuracy the ESOS audits will require.
and have reported substantial savings from implementing measures as simple as installing motion-sensor lights in hallways and stairwells.
which early in November announced plans to sink $1 billion in building online video content,
By leveraging low-power wireless bands and building a highly distributed network of ultra-affordable base stations (or Helium bridges), it could receive
who are limited often to a small window of financing. All loans are put on Insikt balance sheet for the first few months of their existence,
which means Didi Dache will have far greater resources in China to cement its already strong lead over the U s. firm.
Therefore you d be forgiven for thinking there s little room left for a new enterprise messaging entrant.
An alternative to simply shuttering the windows, though, is to experiment with new technologies to integrate the showroom, the storefront,
and bring the convenience and personalization of online shopping to the brick and mortar space.
and then walk away to enjoy a drink while a store associate curates their personalized fitting room.
she enters a fitting room, equipped with another interactive mirror that allows her to summon the associate for new sizes
A customer can also save her fitting room session. It another function translated from online shopping specifically the online shopping cart.
and it has become an important building block in extending the network into the operating system. Open source projects have performed also significant work on open protocols,
configuring and maintaining it themselves in-house. The goal of this new approach is to put the buying decision into the hands of business units,
Indeed, this is a big step ahead for Bittorrent and another significant step away from its older reputation as a den of unlicensed,
with Marco Weber (Igby goes Down, Unthinkable, The 13th Floor) and Jeff Stockwell (Bridge to Terabithea,
#Apple Will Spend $848 Million Building A Massive Solar Farm In Monterey Tim cook dropped a bit of news in a conversation at the Goldman sachs Technology and Internet conference today:
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