#This vaccine could help block HIV WASHINGTON: Scientists have designed a new experimental HIV vaccine that may stimulate the immune system to block infection from the deadly virus. New research led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI),
The balloon collects solar energy and transports it to the ground via a cable, while the batteries store surplus energy and take over the power supply at night,
The balloon collects solar energy and transports it to the ground via a cable, while the batteries store surplus energy and take over the power supply at night,
passive glucose transporters membrane proteins known as GLUTS were known to be the primary method used by the body to deliver glucose to tumours.
Researchers at UCLA will next begin a clinical study to further investigate the importance of sodium-dependent glucose transporters in glucose delivery.
The results of a pilot clinical study, carried out at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine under the supervision of Professor Peter Grant,
The results of a pilot clinical study, carried out at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine under the supervision of Professor Peter Grant,
where wading through flooded roads has typically been at the root of outbreaks. In July, leptospirosis came out of nowhere to kill 16 people in two weeks.
#Audi unveils virtual cockpit piloted driving system at CES Introducing a new wave of avant-garde automotive technology Audi has unveiled its virtual cockpit
and piloted driving system at the Consumer electronics Show (CES) in Las vegas. The virtual cockpit unveiled by Audi at the CES is based on the Android platform;
The virtual cockpit features Google earth street views and cloud music services; and boasts integration with high speed LED data.
All the functions of the virtual cockpit are controllable by voice commands. With regard to the virtual cockpit which was showcased in Q7 Audi said that the Q7 will be the first-of its-kind car that will continue to increase its knowledge;
thanks to its permanent connectivity to the cloud for receiving updated information on a regular basis. Announcing its piloted driving system at the CES event Audi said that it is tantalizingly close to bringing its piloted car to the market.
#Britain's Transport Department has given go-ahead to test driverless cars on public roads According to a statement released by Britain's Department for Transport (Dft),
the government has given the requisite go-ahead for the testing of driverless vehicles on public roads. As a result, driverless vehicle testing will begin in Britain from next summer.
The testing of driverless vehicles on public roads in Britain has been approved by the government after a review carried out into driverless cars revealed that there were no legal barriers with regard to the testing of the technology in the country.
About the government approval to testing of driverless vehicles, Britain Transport Minister Claire Perry said:""I want Britain to be at the forefront of this exciting new development,
to embrace a technology that could transform our roads and open up a brand new route for global investment
#Japan to invest $21 million in developing 3d printed human organs Could 3d printable human organ transplants become a reality in the coming years?
2015 By Simonwhile wee seen a wide range of applications for 3d printing including using the technology to create ready-made helicopter and racecar parts to computer housings and more,
the design also causes less wear on the roadways, too.""Nodes are the key building block we developed to build cars.
this is an exciting time for the near-future of transportation
#MASSIVIT 3d shows off GDP Gel Dispensing 3d printing technology by printing a Strati car Jun 26, 2015 By Alecgenerally speaking,
which will be on display at Ecomotion, a gathering of people from the Smart Transportation industry. Lior Zeno, community manager of Ecomotion, told reporters that innovations like this are exactly
The collaboration between Local Motors and Autodesk shows the huge possibilities for the smart transportation community in Israel.
#Byxee, first smart safety device for bike is brought to life thanks to Kentstrapper Volta 3d printer Jun 29,
2015 By Simonalthough many cyclists may think that they can spot road hazards with enough time to stop before them,
Now, a new device from Pesaro, Italy is bringing some of those smart technologies into a portable solution that can be strapped to any existing bicycle-rather than some of the futuristic (and likely very expensive) concepts that we have been seeing.
anything that measures more than 3 inches/76 mm) the cyclist is alerted via an audio alert.
This process of scanning the road in front of the bicycle happens hundreds of times per second at distances of up to 80 feet (25 m)- meaning that the alerts are highly-responsive to any number of potential hazards ranging from pedestrians to cars and flying
which is capable of producing printed solar cells that are both flexible and inexpensive to transport,
"We hope our work will open up a route to manufacture novel fibre structures in silica and other glasses for a wide range of applications, covering telecommunications, sensing, lab-in-a-fibre, metamaterial fibre,
and a high degree of protein activity could be measured up to day 9. This suggests that bioprinting is a viable route to the production of mechanically strong constructs for bone repair under mild conditions
#British scientists develop self-healing aircraft wing technology Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a new technology that will allow aircraft wings
and fuselage to recover themselves during flight, in the event of any undetectable cracks. The team has been working on the technology over the past three years in partnership with aerospace engineers.
because you don't want an aeroplane wing with a big red splodge on it showing that it's been damaged."
#Aerojet Rocketdyne trials power system for solar electric propulsion spacecraft Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed tests on a prototype Powertrain system designed to improve power capabilities of solar electric propulsion (SEP) spacecraft.
"For high-power SEP modules such as those that Nasa envisions for transporting cargo to Mars, it will be critical to efficiently process
the Powertrain SEP system is said to be compatible with the existing and future Hall propulsion systems.
#Raytheon acquires Tucson-based Sensintel Inc. Raytheon has acquired privately-held Sensintel, Inc.,a leading provider of unmanned aircraft systems solutions to the intelligence and special operations markets.
Terms of the agreement were disclosed not. ensintel expertise in unmanned aircraft systems solutions makes it a natural fit with Raytheon Advanced Missile Systems product line,
The Planetary Society is planning a second, full solar sailing demonstration flight for 2016. NASA selected Lightsail as part of the agency Cubesat Launch Initiative,
a double star system in the plane of our galaxy containing a neutron star, the dense remnant of a massive star pulverized in a supernova explosion.
Circinus X-1 is also the source of a surprisingly powerful jet of high-energy particles. t really hard to get accurate distance measurements in astronomy
The researchers also determined that the speed of the jet of high-energy particles produced by the system is at least 99.9%of the speed of light.
This extreme velocity is associated usually with jets produced by a black hole. ircinus X-1 acts in some ways like a neutron star
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra science and flight operations a
#4d printing: A Process of Transformation in Structures The research team can now turn 3d printed objects into dynamic structures,
what if a terrorist hijack a plane using this 4d printing since objects can be changed into any shape.
Interesting things started to happen when such a droplet'train, 'flowing in oil of one type, was injected into a channel filled with another oil immiscible with the other two fluids,
A promising area of use seems to be the transport of drugs to specific areas of the body.
which limits their ability to transport electricity.""With activated carbon, there's no way to control pore connectivity,
"Supercapacitors are used energy storage devices widely in transportation and electronics because of their ultra-fast charging and discharging capability,
and Technology to tap into organic chemistry and conducting polymers to fabricate a three-dimensional (3-D) polypyrrole (PPY) aerogel-based electromagnetic absorber.
In terms of applications, based on the combination of low adjunction and a ideeffective bandwidth, the researchers expect to see their 3-D PPY aerogel used in surface coatings for aircraft.
but the lost hours or days spent identifying the exact pathogen can make the road to recovery that much steeper.
Smartphones, DVRS, airplanes, the Internet without a clock, none of these could operate without frequent and serious complications.
Researchers are trying to learn how the placenta manages all this traffic, transporting some substances and blocking others.
For those reasons, previous studies on placental transport have relied largely on animal models and on laboratory-grown human cells.
such as regenerative braking in trains and buses, elevators and cranes. They are used also in flashes in mobile phones and as a complementary technology to batteries in order to boost performance.
such as when overtaking another car, with the battery providing the steady power for highway driving. upercapacitors perform a similar function to batteries
Three of these drugs get into the interior of the parasite cells via the trypanosome's transport proteins that normally supply the parasite with nutrients,
and drug resistance is caused by mutations that cripple these transporters. Jose Garcia-Salcedo, from the Instituto de Investigacion Biosanitaria in Granada, Spain,
most importantly, circumvents drug resistance in a cell line that is resistant as a result of mutations in the transporter that mediates drug uptake.
and circumventing resistance mechanisms caused by mutations in surface transporters.""The implication of this proof-of-concept study of a novel technology for reversing transporter-related drug resistance,
they say, "is limited not to a single nanobody used to demonstrate the technology, nor to a single drug, nor indeed to trypanosomiasis.""
#Nanotechnology Drug in Droplets for Painless Treatment of Secondary Blindness The Mexican company"Medical and Surgical Center for Retina"created a way to transport drugs,
including droplets and jets. This ability to control fluid structures at such small scales can be used potentially to devise new ways that improve the delivery and the effectiveness of drugs,
to tailor the formation of drops, jets and streams of a few nanometres in size. Prof Ignacio Pagonabarraga, from the University of Barcelona, said:
"Through phonon oscillations--vibrations of water-carrying nanotubes--water transport can be enhanced, and sanitation and desalination improved.
however, we witnessed three times the efficiency of water transport, and, of course, a great deal of energy saved."
#Researchers Advance Ability to Control and Harness Power of Light on the Nanoscale When a duck paddles across a pond or a supersonic plane flies through the sky, it leaves a wake in its path.
Wakes occur whenever something is traveling through a medium faster than the waves it creates--in the duck's case water waves, in the plane's case shock waves,
Some vertical markets of interest include Retail, Healthcare, Transportation, Insurance, Financial services and Telecommunications. Some technology areas of interest include:
but that isn't enough to understand the complexities of RNA transport and localization within a cell.
the scientists explain how they used Sticky-flares to quantify ß-actin mrna in Hela cells (the oldest and most commonly used human cell line) as well as to follow the real-time transport of ß-actin mrna in mouse embryonic
that far down the road, but this paper offers a really exciting opportunity to crack a problem that is persistently present,
The-bag an application for tablet computers that makes it easy for users to show their tickets on buses and trains,
and Two Tap two leading companies in the mobile commerce space to ensure a seamless purchasing
and Two Tap to create one of the simplest mobile engagement options available today. Firemotion ads can seamlessly connect to a universal shopping cart Passbook Google Wallet or Payments.
and Two Tap is excited very to power e-commerce interactions on the new platform#said Raz Roman cofounder Two Tap.#
Youngbull envisions use of the device in homeland security, mass transit, public spaces, hospitals, schools, food production and combat theater analytics.
An early pilot led by UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom, for example, would use some of the technology developed in QOSMOS to access TV white spaces,
or contact wires of trains: Even at a speed of around 300 km h, the sensor could provide razor-sharp images with a resolution of up to 0. 4 mm and,
where mock weapons and explosives were smuggled through airports, undetected in 95%of cases. It may also prove useful in discovering concealed goods in the retail industry or for non-destructive monitoring, for example quality control in drugs or food.
and security applications, including airborne and ground-based surveillance, condition monitoring, research and development, manufacturing process control, search and rescue, drug interdiction, navigation, transportation safety, border
AIS's portfolio of Smart HMI solutions are deployed currently in IIOT, Smart cities, Smart Transportation, Smart Factories, Smart Buildings and Digital Oil fields.
transportation, and retail, among others. Various technology and related trends are expected to be IIOT enablers,
In the summer of 2013, a plane carried Tan over the Straits of Malacca to Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province, the largest palm-oil production region in Indonesia.
at a roadside café flanked by oil palm trees. Tarsedi told me that oil palm is the crop of choice for Bungaraya farmers
But sometimes, even helicopters are powerless to stop the burning, he added. nd during the really bad fires,
#Sweet source for aviation biofuel Researchers have identified a new way to produce aviation fuel from sugarcane biomass that could deliver substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Biofuel sweetspot"We've identified a new route of chemistry with its source from sugars in sugarcane plus some of the so-called waste material called bagasse"
The development of a reliable biofuel that can be scaled up to a level that be used by the world's commercial airlines has proved somewhat elusive.
and as space on an aircraft is at a premium, and you'd like to pack in as much energy in the form of burnable fuel as possible,
temperatures around the aircraft are around-40c(-40f) or-50c, so you do not want your fuel gelling up on you."
If air travel continues to grow at the predicted rate, it could contribute a considerably higher proportion by 2050.
The search for aviation biofuels broke on to the public stage in the late 2000s
when there were a number of test flights using a blend of conventional fuel and biofuel. In February 2008, the first commercial flight partly powered by biofuel (derived from a mixture of babassu nuts
and coconuts) took off from London's Heathrow airport. After a lengthy review by aircraft makers, engine manufacturers and fuel producers, biofuels were approved for commercial use in 2011.
Prof Bell said the team were hopeful that their findings would ultimately be adopted by commercial fuel producers."
"Prof Bell said that the process to make the aviation biofuel outlined in his team's paper would use waste biomass to generate the energy required operate the refinery,
The deal was announced at the Paris Airshow. The multi-billion-dollar Oneweb constellation will dwarf any previous commercial network in the sky by a factor of 10.
Airbus would not give a formal interview at the airshow but issued a statement from its head of space systems. his partnership is a fantastic new chapter in our space story,
The plan envisages 20 planes of low-orbiting satellites connecting to small user terminals on the ground.
"Once that route for the DNA strand has been plotted, the shape needs"staples"."Each staple is a short piece of DNA,
#Plane wings could'heal themselves'Self-healing aeroplane wings could be introduced in the next five to 10 years,
"which are interspersed in the aeroplane wing itself. The spheres burst when damaged, releasing the liquid,
"The technology could also be applied to other products made of carbon composite materials-including bicycle frames and wind turbines,
"Composite materials are used increasingly in modern airlines, military aircraft and wind turbines. They are very stiff and strong but very light."
"The"healed"aircraft wings were often as strong as they had been said originally Prof Wass, who is working with aerospace engineer colleagues on the research project."
"We are talking about aeroplane wings here-the most demanding application because of the safety aspect,
Google announced last month that its prototype self-driving cars would take to the public roads this summer around its headquarters in Mountain view, California a
Can you print a plane? The new Airbus a350 XWB that is flying daily displays at the Paris Air Show can claim several engineering firsts.
One of these is that it has more 3d printed components than any other aircraft, about 1,
000 on a plane that has gone only just into service. Meanwhile, Raytheon has 3d parts on its missiles,
where the aerospace giant makes aircraft wings.""These components contribute a huge amount to the manufacturing process.
Mr Risk doubts there will ever be a machine big enough to turn out a whole airframe."
In our digitally connected world, a machine could be programmed to start printing even before the aircraft lands.
so it's only a matter of time before a tipping point is reached. 3d parts reduce weight on aircraft,
about 40-50%of aircraft components will use printed materials. It's about 4%now.
As with 3d components used in civil aircraft, they have to go through rigorous regulatory approval.
"It's kind of like a parking lot where you want to move one of the cars, but they are jammed all in,
#A microtubule'roadway'in the retina helps provide energy for vision Fluorescently labeled microtubules extend from the tips of the dendrites (top) into the axon and down into the giant synaptic terminal (bottom) of a single isolated goldfish retinal
Researchers have discovered a thick band of microtubules in certain neurons in the retina that they believe acts as a transport road for mitochondria that help provide energy required for visual processing.
When the researchers administered drugs to inhibit the movement of certain"motor"proteins that transport mitochondria and other cargo within the cell by traveling along microtubules
The findings suggest that these previously unknown microtubule structures provide a"roadway"for the transport of mitochondria crucial to maintain energy supplies into the synaptic terminals of these highly active neurons associated with vision.
and the bug's entry route has been traced to specialized liver cells called Kupffer cells. But exactly how the parasite traverses these cells is not clear.
all cellular traffic passes through the cell membrane, and likely interacts with the proteins embedded there, such as neurotransmitter and hormone receptors.
and realize that nucleoporins are more than just transport proteins. Nucleoporinsf which there are about 30 versionsre typically part of nuclear pore complexes,
researchers have assumed the mutations led to disease by altering the transport of proteins in and out of a cell nucleus. ow,
and glucose-sensing enzymes that rapidly release their cargo when blood sugar levels get too high.
The research shows the parasite Leishmania which infects 12 million people worldwide often harbors a virus that helps the parasite survive treatments.
She taps the phone's screen in a certain pattern, records a spoken phrase and walks a short distance while the phone's motion sensors measure her gait."
#Disabled People Pilot A Robot Remotely With Their Thoughts, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Study Disabled People Pilot A Robot Remotely With Their Thoughts Using a telepresence system developed at EPFL,
while displaying the face of the remote pilot via Skype. The person at the controls,
the pilot can also take a break from giving indications. If it doesn receive more indications,
and the computer, allowing the pilot to rest while navigating. No difference between healthy and disabled subjects In the end
the tests revealed no difference in piloting ability between healthy and disabled subjects. In the second part of the tests, the disabled people with residual mobility were asked to pilot the robot with the movements they were still capable of doing,
when theye ready to harvest again is about $53 million. eople have been flying overhead to look over the damage with helicopters,
#Flight Flies on 100 Percent Biofuels This week saw the first-ever completely biofuel-powered flight take place.
The National Research Council of Canada conducted the first flight on 100 percent renewable, drop in biofuel on its Falcon 20 jet, according to oilprice. com, marking a huge milestone for the aviation and renewable energy industries.
Oilseed crops commercialized by Agrisoma were used as a feedstock and transformed by Applied Research Associates into a complete replacement fuel for conventional jet fuel.
Previously, flights on biofuels had been limited to a 50 percent blend with petroleum making this a major breakthrough.
Progress in biofuel-powered flights and the Navy continued pursuit of alternative energy are great steps to help the United states build a biobased economy
Mastercard is launching a small pilot programme involving 500 people that uses fingerprints -but also facial scans to verify online transactions,'CNN Money'reported.
which route to take. The company, which was founded by two 28-year-old former journalists Blankesteijn
and The New york times, have gone down the paywall route. Others, including The Guardian and Mail Online, are sticking to advertising-funded free content.
The plan is to spend $300 million to help train more female engineers and computer scientists,
A graph appears showing average traffic for every hour of the day. For example, the feature shows that the Shake Shack location in Madison Square Park which is one of the busiest locations in New york city has peak traffic on Wednesdays around 7 p m.
Saturdays around 3 p m, . and Sundays around 2 p m."Do you ever find yourself trying to avoid long lines
and the full parliament, would allow Internet providers to use"reasonable"measures to manage online traffic,
Commuting apps, smart cars and smarter parking New apps and other technologies are improving the urban traffic experience.
will have on the future of traffic over the next decade or two. Applications that may make the most difference come from networking data and people.
or where there are bicycles to share may be relatively simple, but she says they offer the biggest opportunity.
Irving advocates an integrated platform that brings together automobiles, public transit, cycling and walking, with incentives to drive behaviour,
which foresees a transport network connecting vehicles, transport infrastructure and individual mobile devices. That strategy takes advantage of new-generation cars as rolling collections of sensors
Todd Litman of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute think tank expects those and other technologies, like smart parking
and implementing systems with apps that drivers can use to find out about available parking spots nearby and, in some cases,
and sensors to speed up the parking once they get there. In congested downtowns, drivers looking for parking account for up to a third of the automobile traffic.
Commuters in hundreds of cities can use apps to get real-time arrival information for public transit stops,
and data shows a modest increase in riders because of those apps. A City College of New york study of the New york city system found a two per cent increase in bus ridership through 2013
with much of that increase on the most-travelled routes. While Litman says these technologies will produce incremental improvements,"Every city
I know of is doing something to improve their walking, cycling and public transit, "which he says is the long-term solution to traffic congestion.
When it comes to decisions about roads and expressways, those cities have to consider a difficult-to-discern future.
Nonetheless, the average American spends over 40 hours per year stuck in traffic, it found. A study published this month in the Journal of the American Planning Association found that between 1995 and 2009,
because if we're directing our growth to places people don't have access to by public transit,
we're simply adding more drivers to an already overloaded road system, "Keesmaat says. For her, public transit, not cars, is where technology could have a transformative role.
She notes that increasing vehicle occupancy helps, but, for example, with 69 per cent of the people coming into downtown Toronto taking public transit,"At the end of the day,
the significant changes in urban mobility really have to do with the growing sophistication of public transit."
"The Toronto Transit Commission will be rolling out automatic train control in 2017. Keesmaat says that could produce as much as a 20 per cent capacity increase by allowing trains to operate closely together,
while eventually saving money on salaries through the driverless trains. When he was recently in Istanbul to do a workshop for transit planners,
Litman learned that city is buying a fleet of 400 new buses, all with onboard Wi-fi, USB ports at every seat and bike racks.
He says the incremental costs are tiny for new bus fleets but these features could attract 20 to 40 per cent of people who would otherwise drive.
From San francisco Jeff Wood monitors developments in urban transport technology at The Direct Transfer website. While he says"transit agencies are pretty far behind the times
when it comes to tech, "he adds that interesting new things are happening all over the place, from driverless trolleys and subway trains in Copenhagen, Vancouver and elsewhere,
to various systems for powering buses, including rapidly charging the batteries of electric buses at their route stops.
Wood says increasing the frequency of buses and trains is key, but"the network is the biggest thing:"
"public transit integrated with car sharing, bikesharing, Uber, Lyft, and similar services, and eventually autonomous vehicles a
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