The gyroscopes are under full computer control; no driver input required. The company says it is confident that the C-1 will stay upright
with one seat and a large bank of computer processors taking up most of the internal space, but the final design calls for two seats, one behind the other."
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#New designs to breathe life back into our cities By the middle of this century,
and we are likely to see a change in our experience of cities thanks to augmented realities a new way of seeing via our smart phones and Google glasses.
I founded the Avatar (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) group in 2004 to explore how the rapidly changing technologies would affect architecture.
and using 3d desktop printers to mix chemistries as a form of wet fabrication, which is a very flexible material.
people are exploring technologies that could transform one group of substances into another on a building site.
In each store, owners are given an Android-powered tablet with software that allows them quickly and easily order inventory all at the touch of a button.
Weather stations are equipped with small sim cards that wirelessly transmit data every five minutes to a cloud-based server.
At the end of the season, this data is aggregated and coupled with satellite data, and used to map out rain patterns.
Kilimo Salama then works with agronomists to calculate the index and find where the rain was too much, too little,
Sub-saharan africa has the fastest-growing mobile market in the world, increasing at an average of 44%annually since 2000, according to the worldwide mobile communications industry association GSMA.
ow, with information via mobiles, farmers are better able to bargain prices against middlemen, and can in some cases increase 25-35%of their profits.
and operating and application software for automated execution of user-selected protocols. The System will provide a flexible small scale process suitable for GMP manufacturing of autologous and other patient-specific products where small scale is full scale,
resulting in more aggressive cells that can spread to other sites or cause regrowth of primary tumors.
thereby allowing the tumor to spread to a new organ site. They used a large screening approach
and does synthesis at the inert C-H sites.""We had demonstrated already that we have a tool box of reagents
and catalysts that allow us to control which sites in a molecule will undergo C-H functionalization,
"Davies says.""Novartis wanted to explore whether this chemistry was robust enough to be carried out on really complex compounds like alkaloids."
The results outlined in the paper demonstrate the efficiency of rhodium catalysts to selectively install a new carbon-carbon bond into complex alkaloids in a highly controlled manner.
Protein kinase c (PKC) is a group of enzymes that act as catalysts for a host of cellular functions, among
tumor growth in a mouse model was reduced, demonstrating that normal PKC activity inhibits cancer. One possible explanation, said the researchers,
In models of tumor promotion, a sub-threshold dose of a carcinogen is painted on mouse skin,
Co-first author Alice Eunjung Lee, Phd, from the lab of Peter Park, Phd, at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical school, developed the study's retrotransposon analysis tool,
which detects somatic retrotransposon mutations in single-cell sequencing data. Mirroring these findings, study published by Walsh's lab in 2014 used single-neuron sequencing to detect copy number variants--another type of mutation affecting the number of copies of chromosomes or chromosome fragments.
Mitchell believes the technique will be transformative in providing improved cancer diagnostics that can both predict treatment outcomes and monitor patient responses to therapy.
""Based on the reported data and work in progress, I believe the'liquid biopsy'will revolutionize cancer diagnostics,
Robust mutation panels vastly improve monitoring since cancer cells are constantly deleting chromosomal DNA and liquid biopsies with only one or two mutations will allow cancer cell escape variants to go undetected,
Epub 2014 Nov 14. In the interaction between gum disease and HIV, five SCFA byproducts from two prevalent oral bacteria--Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) and Fusobacterium nucleatum (Fn)--are involved in activating resting immune T-cells carrying latent (inactive
#UCSD Study Shows Why Protein Mutations Lead to Familial Form of Parkinson Disease Researchers at the San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San diego, have shown for the first time why protein mutations
Using SDSC data-intensive Gordon supercomputer to find hidden rules of the conformational changes of asyn
Through computer modeling, researchers showed that asyn mostly can bind the membrane with four main sites, or zones.
While binding was shown to be superficial by three of the sites, one site Zone 2 had a particular affinity for the membrane.
Researchers found that asyn contacting the neuron membrane in that site immediately and deeply penetrated it,
which led to the creation of ring oligomers in the membrane, and eventually opened pores that allowed an uncontrolled influx of ions that ultimately killed the cell.
The resulting compound, called DBIBB, protected mouse embryonic skin cells from radiation-induced DNA damage and enhanced the survival of radiation-exposed blood cells, intestinal cells,
#Wearable sensor clears path to long-term EKG EMG monitoring Researchers from North carolina State university have developed a new, wearable sensor that uses silver nanowires to monitor electrophysiological signals, such as electrocardiography
Her study is published in the Advance Online Publication (AOP) on Nature Photonics's website on January 19, 2015."
even delivering neurons that flash as they fire in the living brain. Yet imaging techniques that can capture these dizzying dynamic processes have lagged behind.
Hillman and her collaborators have used already the system to observe firing in 3d neuronal dendritic trees in superficial layers of the mouse brain.
And now for a closer look at the Asian markets Katie Sargent joins us he is on the telephone from Singapore.
A few thoughts here for the same Zales comes on the heels of Movado and Tiffany which both some good outlook.
Great outlook there. So we've already seen Zales on the upside as well. And Heinz we've already got the glimpse from at the CEO yesterday just talking about emerging markets and growth there for the catsup company.
and we're looking at lot of economic data that's going to becoming out today including this should be interesting the second reading on growth for the second quarter.
Apple was awarded just over $1 billion last week after a California jury found that Samsung had copied critical features of the iphone and the ipad.
Apple now seeking to have pulled eight devices from U s. store shelves including the very popular very very popular galaxy smart phones.
A lot of people actually like those smart phones but this was such Connell such a big you know victory for Apple.
and collects data on each as they interact with each other, the researchers have learned already more about how T cells major players in the immune response become activated during infection.
an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), in 2009. His team used that earlier version to fuse adult cells with embryonic stem cells,
This technique allows the researchers to follow hundreds of cell pairs over time and monitor
The Penn-led study examined radiation treatment and hormone therapy in the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Medicare database.
SEER collects data from population-based cancer registries that cover 26 percent of the U s. population and Medicare
Bekelman team utilized specialized analysis techniques to mimic randomized clinical trials in data from routine care
In 2012, Saitou team reported in Science creating mouse pups from oocytes created by turning back the clock on adult skin cells.
and Azim Surani of the University of Cambridge reported they had replicated the in vitro part of Saitou mouse work.
Other groups have found the transition from mouse to human cells difficult. One reason: standard mouse embryonic stem (ES) and ips cells are aïve, unlike standard human ES and ips cells,
more responsive to attempts to differentiate into any number of mature cells. But Hanna had created some of the first naïve human ES cells in a Nature study published in 2013.
One key difference between the mouse and human work: in human cells, a protein called SOX17 performed critical tasks that in mice are performed by SOX2. t will be interesting to test in the future a variety of conditions
the surgeon excises additional tissue from the surgical site to ensure that no additional cancer cells remain. he greatest benefit of Marginprobe is that we can perform this additional tissue removal during a patient initial surgery,
According to the Census data, Clifton says, there are around 400,000 new business each year, but 470,000 are closing.
After two years of trial, Adobe recently launched Kickbox, a program to help encourage innovation.
likes it so much theye made it available as a free download under a Creative Commons license.
As the technology that enables virtualization becomes more sophisticated, activity outside of traditional (and often urban) innovation centers will increaseike Fruitworks,
Software company Fullcontact really wants its employees to take a break. Pushing back against today 24-7 workaholic society
which repairs broken phones and sells phones, offers a full menu of perks: meals, choose your own hardware,
field tripsnd a company yacht. Watertown, Massachusetts-based UX design outfit Fresh Tilled Soil sends employees to envy-inducing places
so they can refresh and have some fun while working and it fully covered by the company.
it no longer enough to have just a website, no matter how informative it may be. Today, companies are fielding their own mobile apps
so that customers can have constant connection. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2016, use of mobile apps will exceed Internet access to domain names.
Unlike complex on-premise systems that are costly and disruptive to upgrade, cloud solutions are updated typically on a frequent basis. As report formats change
Chemical companies are hungry for the fast insights they can get from big data, Iot (Internet of things), predictive analytics,
and in-memory databases. As technology advances companies are using more data sources to help hone their predictions.
Plants monitor production in real time using sensors that feed quality and performance data to dashboards in real time.
Weather patterns or politics on the other side of the world may affect demand for products,
and chemical companies are tapping into both structured and unstructured data for insight. Trends like mass customization and ot size 1have also reached the chemical industry
New populations, new tools, new culture, new outlooks, new roles for recruiters. Those who acquire
Psychology at the core of recruiting. Ie known some top recruiters who even at the peak of the powers remain deeply empathetic,
That people-centric radar has to be recalibrated to work across an interconnected range of social media channels and multiple platforms,
#Big data Knows When You're Going to Quit Your Job Before You Do good bosses have an uncanny ability to sense
which makes software for human resources departments. The system delivers notifications about when employees might be getting ready to quit,
changes in the industry and other data to make its predictions. The recommendations can improve over time as employers train the system."
"We've had some great results to date with the data, Amy Gannaway, VMWARE senior director for worldwide human resources information systems, said at a Workday conference in September.
The tool gave VMWARE"a very high percentage"of accurate predictions for which employees would leave the company,
because the technology underpinning it is based on machine learning bag of advanced statistical techniques that lets companies lay out complex problems,
Machine learning has been available in one form or another for decades, but its commercial uses have traditionally been the exclusive domain of the richest,
data-stuffed companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix. Finally, younger tech companies, including Airbnb,
"In the past five years, because of the steady advance of computers and storage and so on, everybody has sufficient data,
we all have the same magic that Google has.""Box, a file storage provider that's expected to go public next year,
Box has been testing this with the company's own legal department to figure out which files may contain confidential information that would require extra precautions with how they're stored and shared.
Similar to the Workday system, Box legal team had to train the DLOOP software to improve the recommendations.
"As more and more data goes into our platform, we can produce important and useful insights to customers around how their data is being shared,
who can be seeing what kinds of content, where are potential security anomalies, or how can we dramatically accelerate a business process by connecting the dots for you,
Computer predictions aren just about making office life a little more pleasant. Airbnb uses a variation of these algorithms to predict which renters
and guests would be the best fit. The room-rental site says the technology has improved matches by 4 percent.
Airbnb is currently developing a system to look at the photos of homes uploaded to the site
and figure out how ttractivethey are to customers. e are trying to promote listings with more attractive images,
The company bought Identified in February after getting a demonstration of the startup data-powered crystal ball.
Mohammad Sabah, who was the chief data officer at Identified, had joined the startup from Netflix and Facebook.
Sabah had discovered that the same techniques Netflix uses to recommend movies with the familiarity you'd expect from a clued-in friend could be used to determine what going on inside of a company."
but the techniques and the algorithms and the tools are general, Sabah says. By combining company data on employee hiring, promotions, relocations, compensation, employee satisfaction surveys, managerial decisions and job cuts with public data sets like the standard of living in the region
and workforce demand for certain skills, Workday can spot patterns. Businesses can input decades of historical staff data into Workday to inform
and customize the system recommendations. In one case, Workday analyzed more than 1 million data points for 100,000 employees across 25 years to come up with employment suggestions.
To train the software companies must look back on worker-retention predictions and give the software an electronic pat on the head for ones it got it right
and a virtual swat with a newspaper for those it got wrong. The system learns over time how each company works and,
Bob Pasker, a technologist who helped define how the computer industry architects the modern cloud, expects these kinds of machine-learning applications to soon become ubiquitous.
"This is what the computer industry does, "Pasker says.""We take hard problems that have been solved by scientists and turn them into tools for regular human beings. t
algorithms. The U k. government has overhauled the way it teaches computing to the country's children by adding mandatory programming classes.
After taking advice from the likes of Microsoft and Google, officials were convinced that the state-school curriculum was out of step with modern-day technical standards.
The old system emphasized word processing and spreadsheets, but not much else. The government now wants the nation's kids to not only consume technology
but to build it instead of just playing computer games, they might create them one day. To prevent the youngest pupils from turning into zombies in front of screens
much of the initial learning takes place outside of the computer lab. Five-year-olds will play abstract games
and complete puzzles to familiarize themselves with the concept of algorithms without the complexity. By the time they hit 14,
teachers will guide them on how to use two or more programming languages. All of this is compulsory.
That makes the U k. the first G20 nation to put computer science at the heart of its curriculum."
"These are certainly the biggest changes that have been made to the way the subject has been taught, says John Partridge, a computing teacher in Nottinghamshire, U k. specially for the younger children."
"The U s. has managed to cultivate a tech mecca in Silicon valley in spite of its public-school system. Because the country invented many of the technologies that are the foundation for today's hottest industry,
it's a magnet for the world's sharpest and most ambitious. But the popularity of computing at U s. high schools has been on the slide in recent years.
In 2009, only 19 percent of students graduated with credits in computer science, down from 25 percent in 1990, according to a report from the U s. Department of education.
Like many developed nations the U k. is facing a tech-talent crunch, and the radical retooling of its educational system is a recognition that the problem is likely to persist for many years.
Custom websites and mobile apps are now a must-have for companies in virtually every sector,
while research firm Gartner projects there will be 30 times as many physical devices connected to the Internet by 2020."
"Programming is infiltrating loads of different traditional areas, says Rachel Swidenbank, Codecademy's head of U k. operations."
which, following a review of computing in its schools around the turn of the century, developed one of the world most rigorous computer-science curricula for high schoolers.
The U k. commitment to teaching the basics of programming from a young age is bold,
Or perhaps the nine years of force-fed algorithms and coding will scare them away forever."
whether the changes to the curriculum will enhance the attractiveness of a career in computing to children,
Israeli Arabs have a higher dropout rate, according to government data. Those who do attend university favor professions such as medicine, pharmacy, nursing and teaching,
Arab-speaking Internet market, Peres said in an e-mailed statement. Takwin's investments will focus on mobile, Internet and media technologies,
where t is easy to accelerate a startup from zero to impressive in a year to a year
Arabic-language users are the sixth largest community on the Internet and could move into fourth place as early as next year,
There are more than 350 million Arabic-speaking mobile users and more than 120 million Internet users in 22 countries
#Bloomberg the Company Daniela Perdomo credits the absence of basic communication services after superstorm Sandy for inspiring Gotenna Inc. a do-it-yourself wireless network that can carry text
messages to Androids and Apple iphones. Perdomo 29 a Sao paulo native and Tufts University grad started Gotenna in Williamsburg Brooklyn with her brother Jorge in March 2013.
She spent the months after the storm bouncing her idea for a low-fi communications network off telecom
That led to a prototype cigar-sized antenna that connects phones via public unlicensed airwaves.
and the service operates independently from cellular or Wi-fi networks. The signal range is anywhere from 50 miles to several blocks depending on interference.``
Some of the uses for the point-to-point communication include outdoor adventurers who travel beyond the reach of cellular networks concertgoers who want to coordinate locations
``If you put enough of those niche users together you could get to a critical mass in a city''O'Donnell said.``
According to a study listed in the Federal reserve website, at the end of 2011, roughly 62 percent of U s. hundred dollar bills were in circulation outside the United states
The panel allocated 49 million shekels ($14 million) a year to execute the program.""China is Israel largest trading partner in Asia,
Starting this month the South korean giant will begin to supply 30000 mobile devices to Switzerland's state-owned rail company.
Shortly after Apple introduced ios 6 in September 2012 with a redesigned clock app on the ipad SBB said the software infringed a trademarked design created in 1944.
By the time ios 7 came out in 2013 The swiss clock was gone. The history wasn't mentioned in Samsung's press release
A new trial kicked off on March 31 in Silicon valley where Apple is accusing Samsung of copying its designs for the iphone and ipad.
Designed for use on PCS or mobile devices, 4ltr Press Online is built around student"learnflow,"the workflow behind learning, according to information released by the company."
"4ltr Press Online uses a two-pathway approach to learning to include the pedagogy of a printed textbook and the concept mapping and functionality of an Internet search engine,"according to a news release."
"The second pathway attempts to discourage student use of search engines, which can point them to inaccurate resources,
and indexing learning resources to mimic search engine results, allowing students to find related content aligned with course goals.
#UCLA Researchers Develop Device To Turn Smartphones into Fluorescence Microscopes Researchers at the University of California,
lightweight device that allows users to turn a smartphone into a fluorescence microscope capable of imaging objects 1, 000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
a miniature dovetail stage and a laser diode that excites the fluorescently labeled DNA molecules"for the demonstration.
An app connects the phone to the university's servers to measure the molecules which are labeled
The results can be seen on both the smartphone and external computers connected to the UCLA servers.
The device was developed by team led by Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the Henry Samueli School of engineering and Applied science and director of the California Nanosystems Institute."
#Microsoft Open Tech Integrates Office 365 Moodle Moodle partner Remote-Learner. net has teamed up with Microsoft Open Technologies to integrate Office 365 with Moodle.
in addition to other workflow improvements for education institutions and other Moodle users,"according to a news release. As a result of the integration, single sign-on will be easier for institutions using both Moodle
The integration will also allow"instructors to easily embed interactive online lessons created in Powerpoint with Office Mix through an open format standard,"according to information released by the companies."
""We are thrilled to be able to work with Microsoft to integrate Moodle with the Office 365 platform.
With the Office 365 plugins for Moodle, Microsoft continues to demonstrate its commitment to open source software
Moodle administrators can deploy these new features knowing they have the support of both Microsoft and the Moodle Partner community
#Marist Beefs Up Cloud and Virtualization Tools in SDN Lab Clooud Computinga New york college that runs a testing lab for cloud computing will be adding new technology from two private partners to expand
which runs the New york state Cloud computing and Analytics Center, is teaming up with IBM and Brocade to add computing capabilities in its Software Defined Networking Innovation Lab. The lab works on projects that enable data center operators to control operations more efficiently between the physical and virtual networks.
The college is bringing in IBM's Cloud Orchestrator an interface that reduces the work involved in managing public, private and hybrid clouds in the areas of configuration, provisioning and deployment of services.
IBM is a sponsor for the SDN lab at Marist. The institution is also adding Brocade's Vyatta 5400 vrouter,
a virtual router that provides routing and security functionality for physical, virtual and cloud networking environments."
"Partnering with Brocade and IBM gives students an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research and learn how the rise of cloud computing is changing
what is happening on the network, "said Robert Cannistra, a Marist lecturer of computer science and IT."
"The network is critical to the cloud. We are ensuring the proficiency of students by providing them access to the latest networking technology skills due to the rise of cloud models,
and at the same time, are advancing our program as a center of technological innovation.""IBM noted that as clients"embrace cloud computing,
"they're using software defined networking and virtualization of network functions to"lower their networking costs,
improve agility and offer differentiated services.""By training Marist students"on the latest in networking and architectures,
we will help provide a strong career path, "said Marisa Viveros, vice president in IBM's global telecommunications industry division.
The collaboration, she said in a prepared statement, "exemplifies the unlimited possibilities of cloud computing and the importance of the development of students on cutting-edge technology
#A Bio Sensing Helmet Would Take control When the Pilot Can Elbit Systems is developing new applications for smart helmets for pilots that will be able to sense life-threatening developments during flight.
The helmet is fitted with unique biosensors that measure physiological life signs. Monitoring the pilot heartbeat, blood flow and oxygen level in the blood stream.
For this application Elbit Systems adapted a commercial sensor developed by Lifebeam, an Israeli start-up company that developed such a sensor to monitor peak performance for extreme sportsathletes such as marathon runners, bicyclists and mountain climbers.
collecting data in flight, and providing sound physiological data that will be able to support further decisions and advanced applications in the future, Kranz noted.
We discovered that hypoxia can develop in different conditions. In non-pressurized cockpits, for example, when flying helicopters over high mountain ranges, hypoxia can develop slowly over the course of an hour.
Printing Missiles Researchers at Raytheon Missile Systems say they have created already nearly every component of a guided weapon using additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3-D printing.
With commercially available high-end equipment and specially modified versions of low-cost 3-D printers, company researchers have created nearly every component of a guided weapon using 3-D printing,
The user could print on demand. That the vision. he progress is part of a company wide push into additive manufacturing and 3-D printing
including projects meant to supplement traditional manufacturing processes. Engineers are exploring the use of 3-D printing to lay down conductive materials for electrical circuits,
who is researching future uses of additive manufacturing and 3-D printing. ee trying new designs for thermal improvements and lightweight structures,
things we couldn achieve with any other manufacturing method. ne of the new areas in weapon 3d printing is warhead design and manufacturing.
printed energetics and other materials, layered onto substrates into the components that comprise an nitiation trainin explosive warheads. ou can vastly simplify the manufacturing of energetic materials by printing them,
and wash away everything we don need. ircuits can already be printed with inkjet printers. The goal is to print more complicated circuits in three dimensions, with the very high resolution and performance of silicon. here currently a hierarchy in our manufacturing.
said Mccarroll. hat we see in the near future is printing the electronics and printing the structures,
and the plastic connectors, the semiconductors for processors, and the energetics and propulsion systems. The hard part is then making the connections between these components,
and interconnect them with printing. Or, in the future, maybe youl just print them.?We are printing demos of many of the seeker components.
what would go into a missilesaid Danforth. 3d printing of missiles and warheads will allow engineers to utilize complex geometries
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