The biggest takeaway from the tweets is the mention of a"market pilot re-route,
The speed of transport through the system, from muscular ripples along the intestines called peristalsis can vary widely from person to person;
when a patient carries a heavy suitcase through an airport, she said r
#lipperysteel provides both durability and antifouling Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS) have developed a new coating for steel,
This increased the efficiency of both photon absorption and electron transport. It was found that as well as increasing the transport of electrons by creating efectsin the bismuth vanadate,
the nitrogen also lowered the energy needed to kick electrons into the state in which they were available to split water.
Dai added that lithium batteries could o off in an unpredictable mannerand cited a ban by US airlines Delta
and United on bulk shipments on passenger planes. And the new design could be used to store renewable energy of the electrical grid, the researchers suggested.
shopping, but this extends to maps, flights and news), to issues with Google scraping and fencing of datasets, often exclusively and at unmatched scale.
#Can the internet of things save us from traffic jams? Traffic is getting worse. It doesn just feel that way,
the stats prove it: commuters in 2014 spent an average 66 more hours stuck in traffic than they did in 2013, according to navigation tech firm Tomtom.
So when internet of things technology is disrupting every part of our lives, when will traffic lights be rebuilt rethought and?
Well, the traffic light revolution is already underway. It is all part of the promise of connected and self-driving cars,
which allow data about individual journeys, routes and vehicles to be monitored centrally, controlled and systematised.
Autonomous intersection management Once computers are in full control of our cars, do need we even traffic lights at intersections?
That the idea behind AIM autonomous intersection management at the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.
But it won be fainthearted for the at least not until passengers have learnt to entirely trust their automated pilots:
For the idea to work, it would require roads to be mostly full of autonomous cars, says project leader Professor Peter Stone
The researchers compared AIM to heavy traffic on a major road, saying it would reduce delay by as much as 100 times though that only at intersections, not total driving time.
but also used anonymised data from third party navigation apps, including smartphone maps. e have agreements with a number of smartphone manufacturers,
says Nick Cohn, senior traffic expert at Tomtom. It also gathers data from telematics units installed in fleet vehicles as well as in-dash systems
and for deciding whether they need to switch to a different traffic signal scheme, Cohn says.
not only GPS from cars and timings from traffic lights, but also air quality sensor data and images from cameras. n its own, each is of low value,
he says. t might be to turn some traffic lights green quicker or send a text message to a car,
Highways England used to simply warn there were ueues ahead but now tells drivers it will be 17 minutes to their junction, points out Giles Perkins, business development director for intelligent transport at Mouchel,
which runs the National Traffic information service. ore data in and more data out can only be a good thing.
Unintended consequences Though traffic data makes it possible to see the movement of traffic in real time,
and traffic lights themselves are operated algorithmically, it is still not possible to engineer a way of turning the lights green as you pull up. t easy to change the traffic lights, ssays IBM Standford-Clark. ut...
you get this terrible interconnection of unintended consequences. Your main route into a city may be clear,
but every road feeding into it would be gridlocked. t not a trivial thing to do.
One way self-driving vehicles may be introduced is latooning with a lead car in control of a train or group of followers, handy for giving lorry drivers a break.
chief scientist and research director at transport firm TRL. ither the platoon could signal that it cleared the intersection
There, traffic lights are alkingto motorists, sending messages to a device in car about obstacles or delays ahead,
if they travel at 24 miles an hour they will hit the next four sets of traffic lights on green,
says Newcastle University professor of intelligent transport systems Phil Blyte, announcing the project. n more congested areas or particularly busy times of the day,
then vehicles on key roads might be given priority in order to keep the traffic flowing. The system also gives priority to non-emergency vehicles,
So far, 20 traffic lights are using the system in Newcastle city centre. Zombies ahead and cyclists As with any tech innovation, one of the biggest challenges is security.
The best example so far is hacked surely construction signs in the US with attackers warning of zombies ahead,
roads aren used only by cars. What about the bicycles, scooters and pedestrians hoping to cross the street?
They have smartphones, so there otential to do something with that, said Tomtom Cohn. think it be great as a pedestrian and a cyclist if
I didn have to push a button to cross and I didn have to wait, that
or route when I walking or cycling. That raises a question: what the goal of Iot-connected traffic lights?
don think the main reason is going to be racing people through intersections, it going to be said safety applications
boost public transport or improve safety, or is there some other goal we haven thought of yet? here a whole bunch of optimisation goals which may not be the ones you first thing of,
The best way to achieve it may not be via smart, reactive traffic lights, but by sending messages to drivers in cars,
and nudging them into better routes. t probably easier to change driver behaviour than it is to change the traffic lights.
and is experimenting with a high-speed public transport system called Hyperloop. Musk also unveiled a larger owerpack a 100kwh battery block to help utilities smooth out their supply of wind and solar energy
An avid cyclist who wore padding when using BMX bikes, he wanted to create more flexible protection than stiff sportswear
which typically involves foam and a rigid plastic protector to cover body parts. hen you put on the sportswear,
The technology allows for what the scientists call ontainerless transportation which could find uses in applications where material is dangerous to handle,
twisters or bottles emerge as the optimum mechanisms for tractor beams or containerless transportation. Here's how Bristol University explains one goes about making acoustic pincers:
A first SLS launch with a crew is possible by 2022 sending two astronauts around the moon
According to Cisco, about half (46 percent) of total mobile data traffic was offloaded through Wi-fi in 2014,
if 90 percent of traffic went over Wi-fi instead of cellular, it could save consumers $700 billion each year.
Arbor networks said the attack had traffic of up to 334 Gbps, accounting for tens of thousands of connections, targeting one Asian network operator.
or company with a flood of traffic, bringing their systems to a halt. But it's rare to see an attack driving so much traffic.
These attacks leverage a technique that amplifies the traffic attackers generate through hijacking computers'bandwidth,
It will help us make parts that are stronger lighter and function better for more energy-efficient transportation and energy production applications such as cars and wind turbines.
The study--authored by scientists from the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory Stony Brook University Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
and expertise said study coauthor Bruce Stillman of Cold Spring Harbor. Imperial College and Cold Spring Harbor handled the challenging material preparation
and functional characterization while Brookhaven and Stony Brook led the sophisticated molecular imaging and three-dimensional image reconstruction.
Most were discovered by the traditional transit method which measures the decrease in brightness when a planet orbiting a distant star transits that luminous body moving directly between the Earth
and the star This provides information about the planet's size but not its mass.
We will look at the thousands of potential exoplanets identified by the Kepler satellite telescope by the transit method.
Condo towers crowding city skylines seem to reflect builders'hopes that the grey set will head to urban centres for increased services and better transit options.
In a study recently published in the Journal of Transport Geography Zachary Patterson uses census data to map seniors'moving habits.
and public transit infrastructure they will not suffer so much from the loss of automobility. The proof is in the population These findings are based on micro census data pulled from Canada's six largest metropolitan areas:
because that's where the infrastructure is already in place for a better quality of life for people with limited mobility options says Patterson who holds a Canada Research Chair Transportation and Land use Linkages for Regional Sustainability.
The issue is important for planning future transportation systems as well as for its implications on the future welfare of the large baby-boom generation now starting to enter retirement.
Research for this project was conducted at ORNL's National Transportation Research center and Manufacturing Demonstration Facility DOE user facilities with funding from DOE's Office of Energy efficiency and Renewable energy.
or is being ejected in the form of a jet. The character of the substructure seems to be random
Vale received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in 2012 for his discovery of molecular motors that ferry cargo around within cells.
and measured adds co-senior author Eleftheria Maratos-Flier MD HMS Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC.
Maratos-Flier has been studying the FGF21 hormone for almost a decade and previously found that in both humans
and that Chrebp can regulate FGF21 expression suggested to Maratos-Flier and Herman the intriguing hypothesis that fructose ingestion might stimulate production of circulating FGF21 in people.
This tells us that fructose actively regulates FGF21 in humans says Maratos-Flier. The hormone-like response of FGF21 to fructose ingestion suggests that FGF21 might play an unanticipated role in regulating fructose metabolism.
The research team will now carry out further studies in which the mechanisms behind the transport of the harmful protein will be examined in detail.
Strange bedfellows Chemists at Ludwig-Maximilias-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have synthesized a ferromagnetic superconducting compound that is amenable to chemical modification opening the route to detailed studies of this rare combination of physical properties.
The new technology is designed for conventional lithium-ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones laptops and other electronic devices as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.
In 2013 the Boeing aircraft company temporarily grounded its new 787 Dreamliner fleet after battery packs in two airplanes caught fire.
and we start to replace onboard electronics on airplanes this will become a much larger problem Zhuo said.
-In cooperation with the industry partner the scientists built a second pilot plant at Wonosari hospital.
The Experiment In the case of coherent light, a coordinated train of waves approach a baffle with two openings (figure, top.
DL is like a taxi in the bloodstream; it takes the LDL cholesterol out of the blood
Also a growing labor force has to be provided with costly capital such as factories office buildings transportation and housing said UC Berkeley demographer Ronald Lee an author of the far-reaching study to be published Oct 10 in the journal Science.
and treat it before it has started travelling down different evolutionary routes we could make a real difference in helping more people survive the disease.
The force required to deflect the tip is transmitted by a wire mechanism known as a Bowden cable (similar to a bicycle brake cable.
when facing a potential car accident: A brief moment of distraction, overtiredness or inattention--there are several reasons why the number of accidents in Germany is high, on the autobahns most of all.
The advantage for traffic signal detection: The data volumes to be transmitted and processed turn out to be much less--by many times over.
Since the detection of all signals can be adapted to all traffic signs that are typical of the country,
mounted on the dashboard, the miniature system could monitor the cabin of vehicles and send an alarm for microsleep.
Managers must plan to turn on the taps when ecosystems can capitalize on the flow, lest water releases do more harm than good.
He has a physically challenging job as a truck driver in northern Sweden, and since the surgery he has experienced that he can cope with all the situations he faces;
or shoot down enemy planes in a game. Spreading out your fingers magnifies a section of a map or scrolls the page of a book forwards.
Puzzled by the high rate of T. gondii infection in sea otters and other marine mammals the researchers set out to track the route of transmission.
But by combining the element-identifying capability of the SEM with time-of-flight mass spectrometry,
Analysis showed that the Al species in the plume'fly'further than those of Mg because of their higher transport rates in the hot near-field region.
"Our chemical analysis of the transport rates and distribution of vaporized species in the plume offers improved understanding of critical laser processes, including those used in additive manufacturing,
The tread may show individual wear marks from a bicycle pedal for example a type of detail that could link a specific shoe to a crime scene.
The difference is that its transport is very fast, even faster than that of its endogenous ligand, the small molecules that travel regularly along the neuron and keep the neuron healthy."
"Faster than a speeding train To track the rabies virus in the nervous system, the researchers grew mouse sensory neurons in an observation chamber
The researchers"saw"the virus hijack the"train"transporting cell components along a neuron and drove it straight into the spinal cord.
Once in the spinal cord, the virus caught the first available train to the brain, where it wrought havoc before speeding through the rest of the body,
A long protrusion called an axon extends from the cell body to another nerve cell or organ along a specific transmission route.
"Axonal transport is a delicate and crucial process for neuronal survival, and when disrupted it can lead to neurodegenerative diseases,
By shedding light on how the virus hijacks the transport system in nerve cells to reach its target organ with maximal speed and efficiency,
the researchers hope their findings will allow scientists to control the neuronal transport machinery to treat rabies and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Disruptions of the neuron train system also contribute to neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS.
According to Dr. Perlson,"An improved understanding of how the neuron train works could lead to new treatments for these disorders as well
The Cedars-Sinai surgeons highlight the advantages of a spinal navigation technique that uses high-speed computerized tomography (CT) imaging to navigate in and around the spinal column from different angles.
Computer-guided surgical navigation technology delivers on quality and safety said J. Patrick Johnson MD a neurosurgery spine specialist and director of Spine Education and the Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship program in the Department of Neurosurgery.
The computerized navigation system uses a mobile CT SCANNER to take cross-sectional images of the spine while a patient is in surgery.
This approach represents a major leap forward for instrumented spine surgery said Terrence T. Kim MD an orthopedic spine surgeon in the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center and expert in the computer-guided navigation field.
Another study found that the computerized navigation system and the mobile CT SCANNER allowed for more accurate surgical placement even within the narrowest parts of the thoracic spine particularly challenging regions in women
and the potential future use of robotic spine surgery with computer navigation. The special issue of the journal can be accessed at:
The techniques are straightforward and familiar similar to the ones used against other aquatic hitchhikers like the VHS virus which threatened trout populations:
Some states such as Minnesota have launched Stop Hitchhikers campaigns to raise awareness and have installed spray units at public boat launches where boaters can clean their vessels and bait buckets.
Once people get behind an effort to stop hitchhikers it's really effective Kerfoot said. People do care.
Unfortunately that doesn't stop the odd Typhoid Mary. In some places along Highway 41 in Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula every lake we tested with a boat ramp had Bythotrephes.
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.
At the Wake Forest Medical center doctors use replica bodies to help train surgeons to use the Da vinci system Lee said.
and less expensive method for developing cell-based therapies for patients. own the road, you could potentially get enough cells from just a normal syringe-based blood draw,
Courtesy of the researchersthe researchers also tested the viability of their algorithm by using it to guide a crew of three robots in the assembly of a chair. ee really excited about the idea of using robots in more extensive ways in manufacturing,
Smartphones, DVRS, airplanes, the Internet without a clock, none of these could operate without frequent and serious complications.
A second stage of the grant will help bring a pilot to India this summer.
that far down the road, but this paper offers a really exciting opportunity to crack a problem that is persistently present,
an international team of astronomers has discovered jets of material ejected by still-forming young brown dwarfs,
and found that four of them have the type of jets emitted by more-massive stars during their formation.
The jets were detected by radio observations with the VLA. The scientists also observed the brown dwarfs with the Spitzer
and Herschel space telescopes to confirm their status as very young objects. his is the first time that such jets have been found coming from brown dwarfs at such an early stage of their formation,
In the early stages of star formation, jets of material are propelled outward from the poles of the disk.
No such jets mark planet formation, however. Previous evidence strongly suggested that brown dwarfs shared the same formation mechanism as their larger siblings
but detecting the telltale jets is an important confirmation. Based on this discovery, e conclude that the formation of brown dwarfs is scaled a-down version of the process that forms larger stars,
No problem for transit riders in Athens The primary goal of a transit system has been to get a rider from point A to point B. Collecting fares has typically been an afterthought,
which is why that process is usually set up for the transit system convenience not the rider.
when using transit. Masabi is known for its comprehensive mobile ticketing platform already in use by 22 transit agencies worldwide.
The partnership with Mastercard will make it even easier for transit customers to pay. Not only are the days of fumbling around for cash over
A transit overhaul in Athens The first city to benefit from the partnership is Athens, Greece,
which has a busy transit system used by 1 million people each day, but does not have a user friendly reputation.
The Mastercard/Masabi partnership allows riders to buy their tickets with a quick tap on their smartphone.
With rare exception, the contactless cards are tied to one particular transit system. Creating a regional card can be challenging
The rechargeable contactless cards used by many transit systems also create two lines: one to get on the bus,
subway or train and another at a kiosk to pay for their pass or put more funds on the card.
and the transit systems in Boston and San diego, among others m
#IBM Smarter Cities Challenge is back: Could your city use some pro bono problem solvers?
transportation, public safety or economic development. Team members meet in person with dozens of members of the local government, citizen, business,
Dutch solar bike path performs better than expected We told you last fall about a bike path near Amsterdam referred to as Solaroad.
pave roads with solar panels that could eventually provide power for street lights and traffic controls, and maybe even homes and electric vehicles.
Sustainable Business reports the short stretch of bike path has produced already more power than anticipated. The 230-foot stretch has produced 3, 000 kilowatt-hours of power,
The project developers believe about 20%of the country roads would be suitable for solar panel installations.
A somewhat different approach in the U s. Idaho-based Solar Roadways has been working on a similar goal paving roads and other surfaces with solar panels.
Solar Roadways secured an $850, 000 Federal Highway Administration grant for a pilot project and it managed to raise $2. 2 million in a crowdfunding effort last year.
Solar Roadways developed its first road panel in 2009 and with the help of additional grants, finished up an experimental solar-paneled parking lot last year.
almost every city of scale is deploying smart technologies in transport, resources management and services, from Busan to Shanghai, Tokyo to Manila,
You just have to lay out the route one time and the robot follows it. It's very low cost
or change the route whenever you like. And there no danger of electrocution or electric shock because only a very low voltage passes through it,
The task force turned to crowdsourcing to develop a design for the memorial to the passengers and crew of Flight 93.
#Where the bio-rubber meets the road My posts about biotechnology as it relates to agriculture tend to draw impassioned naysayers,
Tap tech: Use information technology to infuse intelligence and visibility into the power grid. This will enable utilities to better monitor
It's like trying to repair an airplane while it's in the middle of a cross-continental flight.
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,
Who will pay to maintain the Internet as traffic continues to surge? What about razor-thin margins in Europe?
Fundamentally, the Internet is the world's first global infrastructure problem, no different than a city's public transit system or a nation's network of highways:
The idea is to help urban shoppers avoid having to lug heavy purchases on subways.
But young people aren't simply swapping cars for buses or bikes; they are choosing to own
while travelling by bus, train or as a passenger in a car, only 10 per cent of them said they did so
Now think about where mass transit works best--where young people, retirees and even families are able to simply abolish their use of cars.
As young people turn away from cars--a phenomenon so powerful that it has had the marketing departments of car companies running scared for years--they are left with no other option than mass transit,
Currently, there are about 13,000 open APIS businesses can tap into, and millions more being created internally within enterprises.
The cost of new oil supply Saudi arabia taps China for nuclea a
#Why share and share alike makes a great business model SAN FRANCISCO-The quintessential example of how sharing an asset can be at the center of a business is probably the Zipcar car sharing organization,
I think that the reason Zipcar is winning is that they are in the business of information, not transport,
but the most compelling is parent recognition that it will help their children down the road.
Increasingly, Sarah Goodyear reports for The Atlantic cities, suburbs throughout the United states are investing in bicycle infrastructure.
The latest clue comes from the annual designation of Bicycle Friendly Communities by the League of American Bicyclists, a four-tier rating system that ranks communities from bronze to platinum based on everything from bike infrastructure
to laws protecting cyclists. This year many of the 32 communities to make the list for the first time are suburbs, from Montclair
S uburban leaders are seeking out a bicycle friendly designation because they think it makes their communities more attractive to new businesses and residents.
Amenities like good bike infrastructure can help set a suburb or small city apart from its sprawling counterparts.
Clearly, driving continues to trend downward--travel on all roads and streets was-1. 4 percent in February 2013 compared to one year earlier.
states making it difficult to get a driver's license; young people living near transit, in denser communities;
and technology lessening the need for a car. So is this a trend we can expect to continue?
But if this material gets put in your garden or on the side of the road, it starts breaking down like a seed husk within three months to a year.
and are greater than those of all cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide.""The program is in testing right now,
1. The intercity bus was the sole major long-distance passenger transportation mode that grew appreciably in 2011.
a 32.1%increase. 3. Passenger traffic on curbside operators grew by approximately 30%.%In absolute terms, we believe this represents the largest expansion of passenger traffic on curbside operators
since the sector emerged as a significant transportation mode in 2006.4. Evidence suggests that the two largest Megabus. com hubs,
Chicago and New york, are now profitable, indicating that the core business model is financially sustainable. This is a significant rise.
and more intercity routes people are taking more trips, period. The interesting thing we need to note as Felix Salmon in Reuters notes here,
Bolt Bus and Limoliner have jumped into the market offering cheap routes, Wi-fi, higher safety standards,
More traffic in existing hubs in New york, Chicago and Philadelphia is also bolstering growth, said Bryony Chamberlain,
and brings the long-distance, intercity buses to a new market, Chamberlain said in a telephone interview. t much nicer to be sitting there being driven somewhere than sitting in traffic.
As Salmon notes in his piece the travel industry has to improve current Wi-fi access in hotels, planes,
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