The team new LAM-awaresystem maps out its environment while it collects information about objects from multiple viewpoints.
By comparison, SLAM-oblivious systems have far greater difficulty recognizing multiple objects in a cluttered environment than the SLAM-aware system.
Two years later, the company is continuing to repurpose fabric to offer solutions in health, tech and even citywide pollution.
In learning of the daily pollution problem, it became apparent that the suit should double as solution for cleaner air.
#At $50, Earthquake Early Warning device Could Ease Lives of Billions Startup Grillo wants everyone, especillay developing nations,
to have earthquake early warning-systems systems for increased public safetyan earthquake measuring device is priced at about $20,
The dream is to allow even developing nations affordable early warning devices that can warn against the destructive power of earthquakes.
there is no effective way to predict an earthquake hours earlier. Japan, the only country in the world with a nationwide advanced early warning system
can only send alerts mere seconds before an earthquake can happen. But this crucial warning has proven itself a lifesaver.
when the most powerful earthquake Japan has seen ever rocked the nation, early warning systems halted trains and is believed to have minimized significantly damage to both infrastructure and the number of casualties.
Expert seismologists will place the sensors for better chances of coming across the early stages of an earthquake.
and Deutsche bank in delivering important projects to earthquake-ravished Haiti in 2011. Grillo i
#ATM Technology Gets Applied to Kenyan Water Access It comes to no surprise that water is a scarce, precious and too-often polluted resource for people living in many developing nations,
This is Grundfosfirst foray into a more urban environment. So far, they have not reported whether urban problems like theft and overcrowding have impacted negatively the project.
These solutions can be harmful to both people and the environment. The SALT (Sustainable Alternative Lighting) lamp offers a healthier solution with a saltwater-powered battery.
This is for areas that experience natural disasters and are need in of aid. Electricity is difficult to use in these situations
battery recycling will increase throughout Canada.''The true winners out of this new partnership are Canadians,
and an improved overall battery recycling experience,'says Joe Zenobio, executive director of Call2recycle Canada.''With more sites, a focus on education,
you're able to replace function by the new mind-controlled prosthetics-the next step might be to get sensing from the environment
Another of his tele-robotic controlled hands was created with dangerous environments in mind where humanlike robots could be sent to allow people to monitor situations
so that electricity flowing in one direction experiences a different environment than electricity flowing in the other direction.
the scientists focused on developing an asymmetry in the environment around the molecular junction. They surrounded the active molecule (oligomer of thiophene-1,
The researchers have shown that acoustic vortices act like tornados of sound, causing microparticles to rotate
Like a tornado, what happens to the particles depends strongly on their size. Bruce Drinkwater, Professor of Ultrasonics in the Department of Mechanical engineering and one of the authors of the study
Computation used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by NSF grant OCI-1053575,
They can even perform computations based on changes in the environment or movement, and respond to human vital signs.
what going on in the surrounding environment, similar to how sensors in driverless cars create an impression of the pathways and obstacles around them.
having the ability to navigate environments on their own ensures they can travel greater distances and cover more land.
because the technology could eventually have a practical use too-in areas where natural disasters have occurred
#The Pope confirms that the Catholic church wants action on climate change Science and religion rarely get along.
"If the simple fact of being human moves people to care for the environment of which they are a part, Christians in their turn ealise that their responsibility within creation,
"With this encyclical, Francis is starting to build a bridge between science and religion on the traditional wedge issue of climate change.
"If we are concerned truly to develop an ecology capable of remedying the damage we have done,
it would have gigantic impacts for battling climate change. That would be a game changer for climate scientists and activists
#This new technology lets you change the channel with your mind The BBC is testing a new type of headset that can read a user brainwaves
the Caltech toilet not only recycles the organic waste that runs through it; the team has integrated also a function that can turn the byproducts of the water sterilising process into useable hydrogen and fertiliser.
And it could help to greatly reduce cooling costs and the environmental impact of air-conditioning. The roofing material is made from stacked polymers on top of a thin silver film,
"Cool roofing reduces the severity of the urban heat island problem in towns and cities and helps eliminate peak power demand problems from the operation of many air conditioners,
the project backers claim theyl be able to deliver produce rom farm to fork in under four hours and all without the usual environmental impact of truck-based food transportation across England motorways.
and a waste of resources for the doctors, who could have been cultivating healthier embryos for her."
it thought that exosomes play a role in a whole bunch of biological processes such as coagulation, communication between cells, and waste management.
no one going to use it no matter how much better for the environment it is. Their challenge now is to figure out how to increase the yield of their gallium phosphide grids
and creates a harsh environment for sensitive primary cells. This makes it nearly impossible for researchers to study the cells naturally,
"Non-destructive manipulation of cells over time and in the correct environment is a key enabling technology highly needed within the biology and medical research communities,
and creates an environment that enables innovation write Victor J. Dzau M d. of the Institute of Medicine Washington D c. and Harvey V. Fineberg M d. Ph d. of the University of California San francisco in an accompanying editorial.
This will be said the next industrial revolution Aloimonos We will have smart manufacturing environments and completely automated warehouses. It would be great to use autonomous robots for dangerous work--to defuse bombs
and clean up nuclear disasters such as the Fukushima event. We have demonstrated that it is possible for humanoid robots to do our human jobs.
or elements and becomes more efficiently deposited in the environment.""To understand how mercury gets deposited we need to understand its atmospheric chemistry,
"The U s. EPA Mercury and Air Toxics Standards and the International Minamata Convention on Mercury, have focused on limiting the emissions of toxic air pollutants,
or respond to their environment. This novel insight about the role of phospholipid metabolism in photoreceptor biology paves the way for new sight-saving treatments.
and their relatively static environments to make object recognition easier by imaging objects from multiple perspectives before making judgments about their identity.
Then the volume flow in the plant can be doubled utilization of carbon from biomass will increase to nearly 100%and a large amount of usable waste heat will be produced by the catalyst (Ptg operation.
and Built environment Division of KIT and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the European KIC Innoenergy says.
The research also suggests that Graphexeter could extend the lifetime of displays such as TV screens located in highly humid environments including kitchens.
Having a metallic conductor stable at temperatures above 600c that is also optically transparent and flexible can truly enable novel technologies for space applications and harsh environments such as nuclear power centrals.
But this comfort comes with a considerable environmental cost--it's responsible for up to a third of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions.
Similarly the production of pellets is of better quality a situation that makes the recycling process more profitable.
Marco Adame commented that during their participation in the Cleantech Challenge Mexico a contest to promote the development of green companies he had contact with the ALINSA group which is engaged in the manufacture of environmentally friendly cleaning products using biodegradable chemicals.
After the competition the two companies started talking and joined efforts with the aim of integrating the ecological washing machine system using degradable plastic substances in less than 28 days without affecting the environment hence replacing lye
Now if the oxide surface says'I wish I had more negative charge'instead of the oxide gathering ions from the environment
Usually I tend to study the overall microbial ecology of extreme environments but this particular bacterium has caught my attention Mormile says.
Mormile an expert in the microbial ecology of extreme environments wasn't searching for a bacterium that could produce hydrogen
Instead she first became interested in bacteria that could help clean up the environment especially looking at the extremophiles found in Soap Lake.
Living in such a hostile environment Halanaerobium hydrogeninformans has metabolic capabilities under conditions that occur at some contaminated waste sites.
Recent findings showed stromal cells in the tumor environment secrete jagged ligands. The Rice researchers found cancer cells hijack nearby stromal cells
Since the waste in the wastewater (organic material) is consumed and thus removed, the water itself becomes purified,
The global PV market has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to renewable energy targets and CO2 EMISSION controls.
The research by the team from the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) based at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall is published in the journal Solar energy Materials & Solar cells.
they were carbonized in the Mount vesuvius volcanic eruption of A d. 79 and later discovered as charred clumps in the Villa of the Papyri in the ancient Italian city of Herculaneum beginning in 1752.
and Virtual Environments and collaborating with Delattre in France as well as Roger Macfarlane a researcher at Brigham Young University.
#Antibiotics bacteria resistance genes found in dust from feedlots The study was published online in the National Institutes of Environmental science's peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
and how it moves in the environment. This is an attempt to provide better clarity on that issue.
How does it get from where the drugs are used into the human environment and natural environment? Smith said scientists collected air samples upwind and downwind of each feedlot.
and how we understand the Mars environment surrounding the rover.""Onsight will use real rover data
and extend the Curiosity mission's existing planning tools by creating a 3-D simulation of the Martian environment where scientists around the world can meet.
The tool will assist researchers in better understanding the environment and workspace of robotic spacecraft--something that can be quite challenging with their traditional suite of tools.
creating an environment that supports normal function. The integrity of the cells and vital metabolic activity is sustained for eventual transplantation of the organ."
Our study suggests that increasing the bioavailability of CYCLIC GMP might be beneficial in ameliorating the inflammation associated with sepsis Dr. Billiar said.
and in field environments here On earth,"said lead author Dr. F. Scott Anderson.""Furthermore, in addition to obtaining dates,
present findings in an intuitive manner and avoid the use of ionizing radiation or a specialized imaging environment, such as MRI machines.
and also perform as a cleaning agent to the environment thus improve the development of the agricultural industry y
#Volcanic eruption on Cape verde Island A team from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is currently conducting research to support local partners
and Information system) the GFZ has started to observe the volcano eruption and to provide support on data acquisition and interpretation.
Thomas Walter. On one hand we are analysing data from the newest remote sensing satellites to develop models of the magma ascent path.
The satellite data which is acquired by the European space agency's Sentinel-1 satellite enables the measurement of ground movements associated with the volcano eruption.
and following the path of the magma from depth to its point of eruption. As a result the location of the ascent paths at depth explains well why the eruption site is off-centered with respect to the volcano summit.
which allows for regular updates on the ground movement and the magma ascent path beneath.
The magma's eruption rate has decreased but concerns have arisen about a recent increase of the explosive character of the eruption and related ash dispersion.
#Environment not genes dictates human immune variation study finds A study of twins conducted by Stanford university School of medicine investigators shows that our environment more than our heredity plays the starring role in determining the state of our immune system the body's primary defense against disease.
or no genetic influence at work and most likely the environment and your exposure to innumerable microbes is the major driver.
Because both types of twins share the same environment in utero and usually share the same environment in childhood they make excellent subjects for contrasting hereditary versus environmental influence.
About two decades ago study co-author Gary Swan Phd who was then at SRI Inc
Arraythe company Tomra AS is known best for plastic recycling and bottle recognition, but it also has extensive experience with x-ray applications in the mining industry.
Clinical samples are complex environments in which it is difficult to detect signals. The authors used the transcriptor's amplification abilities to detect disease markers,
There is also a growing body of evidence showing that environmental changes affecting circadian rhythms including shift work and jet lag,
Computation used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by NSF grant OCI-1053575,
This study was conducted at GREEN as a part of the MEXT-commissioned project titled"Development of environmental technology using nanotechnology."
health, security and the environment. Currently, optical efficiency drops dramatically for studies on areas smaller than 10 nm.
Coupled with the unique properties of hard x-rays, namely penetration of complex environments and operation in electric and magnetic fields, such optics will enable highest-resolution imaging of systems under in-situ and in-operando conditions,
The researchers postulate that the innovative mechanism in which two components of the innate immune system collaborate effectively in the epithelial cells may have developed in the course of evolution as a secondary line of immune defense in an environment in
"The cloaking suit could be used to blend into a variety of environments, such as in the wild.
Kerkhof said it's still a mystery how the reduced uranium produced by this microorganism ultimately behaves in the subsurface environment."
What Kerkhof is optimistic about is the potential for these bacteria to mitigate the specific groundwater pollution problem in Rifle.
The research was conducted as part of the Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study (COGS), launched in 2009 with the goal of determining risks of breast, ovarian and prostate cancer.'
enabling to measure Raman spectra under real-world conditions even in highly fluorescent environments and when exposed to daylight.
"Fish gills are in direct contact with their environment and are the first line of defence in the animal's immune response,
#Risk of hepatitis E outbreak'very high'in earthquake-ravaged Nepal During the coming monsoon season, survivors of the recent earthquake that destroyed parts of Nepal face a"very high
which is primarily spread from feces to mouth via contaminated water. The researchers say that 500 pregnant women could die from the virus in the coming months
"Earthquake-affected areas are faced with a'perfect storm'of risk factors: large displaced populations with limited access to clean drinking water, lack of sanitary facilities, the approaching monsoon, overburdened healthcare infrastructure, large amounts of circulating HEV,
Previous research by UT Southwestern scientists revealed that it is oxygenated the highly environment of the heart that prevents most heart muscle cells from dividing.
a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming. As an alternative, scientists have been trying to develop a cheap and efficient way to extract pure hydrogen from water.
'green'approach that substantially reduces both cost and environmental impact.""Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts,
which make environmental remediation expensive and challenging. This newly described process allows for the manufacturing of quantum dots using an environmentally benign process and at a fraction of the cost.
or chemical environment to provide unique functionality in a wide range of applications from energy to medicine.
and also report on their environment. The movement in these hybrid materials can be controlled in several different ways,
as well as their interactions with environmental cues. One canonical example is the ABE fermentation by Clostridium acetobutylicum, during
and environmental cues during clostridial ABE fermentation,"Lu said.""It also provides a quantitative tool for generating new hypotheses
and can perform computations based on changes in the environment or movement, and potentially even respond to human vital signs.
"Breaking the chain of infection, from an infected patient, to the environment, to new patient, is vitally important,
We chose Kenall because of its extensive experience in providing lighting for the most challenging healthcare environments where infection prevention is a key consideration."
while current methods of disinfecting the healthcare environment are effective, the methods are episodic and results are short-lived as bacteria immediately re-populate the space.
game-changing tool to ensure the safest and best environment for their patients, "said Hawkins
Electrons, by contrast, are affected profoundly by their environment. We chose to try to show that electrons can be entangled through their spin, a property that is relatively stable."
as it is relatively free from the environment and lasts comparatively long. It could be combined with photons,
PLA degrades after a number of years in certain environments. If it is collected and sorted correctly,
we produce more PLA with less waste and without using metals. In addition, the production process is cheaper,
simple answers that appear on test paper indicating the presence of infection or contamination in people, food or the environment t
In addition, the DCRS works at a low magnetic field environment. Based on the magnetic flux shielding technology developed by the research team,
amplifying itself as the surrounding environment manipulates the physical properties of its wave energy. The researchers took advantage of this by creating an artificial material in
Because nitric oxide interacts with its environment so quickly and is active for only a few seconds,
#First-of-its-kind tornado panels installed in Montgomery Home in June, UAB's tornado panels designed to protect against flying debris were installed as an integral component of a safe room in a new construction home in the Montgomery, Alabama area.
Uday Vaidya, Ph d.,professor and chair of UAB's Department of Materials science and engineering, worked with Storm Resistant Systems
The UAB panels were approved by the National Storm Shelter Association to hold up against an EF5 tornado."
"This installation comes after four years of research, testing, approvals and manufacturing, following the 2011 Alabama tornado outbreak.
we saw had a lot of applications for tornado-related activities, "Vaidya said.""During a tornado or hurricane, you get a lot of two-by-fours flying in a home;
a lot of debris is picked up, and it can actually penetrate inside a house. People die from the debris that comes through the walls or other things,
"With an average of more than 1, 000 tornadoes recorded in the U s. each year, it was crucial that something be done to make homes more safe,
"Those tornadoes result in approximately 80 deaths and 1, 500 injuries each year. Our goal was to develop new technology that would help protect individuals against the impact of debris during natural disasters,
and I think with these panels, we've done just that.""The panels leave the assembly line looking like typical interior walls;
Recycled materials used in the experimental phase kept thousands of pounds of waste from landfills.
The finding means metal foams hold promise for use in nuclear safety, space exploration and medical technology applications."
The experimentalists were puzzled also to find that humid environments were causing the friction coefficient to shoot up to levels that were nearly 100 times greater than measured in dry environments.
While this greatly limits the hybrid material's potential applications, its ability to maintain superlubricity in dry environments is a significant breakthrough in itself.
which could potentially be used for applications in dry environments, such as computer hard drives, wind turbine gears, and mechanical rotating seals for microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems.
the graphene nanoscrolls could potentially work in humid environments as well.""Arraythe team's groundbreaking nanoscroll discovery would not have been possible without a supercomputer like Mira.
Replicating the experimental setup required simulating up to 1. 2 million atoms for dry environments and up to 10 million atoms for humid environments.
The medical device encloses the liver in a sterile environment, circulating oxygenated blood and nutrients into the liver at body temperature, allowing it to improve
#Farming Now Worse for Climate Than Clearing Forests Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.
Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.
particularly in Brazil, helped reduce deforestation annual toll on the climate by nearly a quarter between the 1990s and 2010.
A new study describes how this trend has seen agriculture overtake deforestation as the leading source of land-based greenhouse gas pollution during the past decade.
the researchers note that delegates to the talks ignore similar opportunities to reform farming. he decline in deforestation over the past decade
The deforestation slowdown has, n large part, he said, been driven by new forestry rules in Brazil, by the U n. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation (REDD) program,
which funds forest conservation, and similar policies elsewhere. The new study, led by the U n. Food and agriculture organization
quantifies the reductions in climate pollution from the degradation and clearcutting of forests. Clearcutting most often clears space for agriculture,
suggesting agriculture indirect climate impacts surpass the impacts of deforestation for timber and other commodities. The researchers aim to tally those indirect impacts later this year.
The study is also a reminder that the burning of fossil fuels remains the main cause of global warming.
Burning fuel produces about four times more climate pollution every year than forestry and agriculture combined figure that is growing.
Agricultural climate pollution is caused mostly by livestock. Cows and buffalo are the worst offendersheir ruminating guts
and decomposing waste produce a lot of methane. They produce so much methane, and eat so much fertilized feed,
that livestock are blamed for two-thirds of agriculture climate pollution every year. ee seeing an expansion of agricultural lands in some areas because of the growing global population,
Although annual climate pollution from deforestation is declining, experts warn that recent gains could quickly be reversed.
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest spiked recently following nearly a decade of declines, for example, as farmers and loggers rushed to exploit loopholes in forest protection laws.
Some parts of Central africa are seeing deforestation in areas where it was not previously a problem.
The researchers drew on three global datasets to try to hone in on land changing contribution to global warming.
Such impacts are harder to quantify accurately than are the pollution impacts of burning fuel.
and reporting complex climate indicators for deforestation and agricultural activity than is the case for the energy sector.
The paper noted a gulf between global efforts to reduce the climate impacts of deforestation, and the dearth of a global response to the climate impacts of food production.
REDD is a major focus of U n. climate negotiations but agriculture is discussed barely during the talks. here been a lot of discussion back and forth,
and perhaps a good deal of polemic, about REDD, Steve Schwartzman, director of tropical forest policy at the Environmental defense Fund, said. ut, over time,
I think all the major actors have come to the conclusion that reducing emissions from deforestation is a key piece of solving the climate change puzzle.
and just impose reductions in food production to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets, Schwartzman said. Doug Boucher, the director of climate research at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says agriculture climate impacts could be reduced without taking food off tables.
Reducing the overuse of fertilizers, protecting the organic content of soils by changing farming practices,
The biggest opportunities for reforming agriculture climate impacts can sometimes be found miles from where any food is grown.
Reducing waste where food is sold, prepared, eaten and, in many cases, partly tossed in the trash as uneaten leftovers
and reducing waste of meat in particular, are what seem to have the biggest potential, Boucher said.
whether climate change can be blamed for California's drought, a recent National oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA) reportfound climate change was not the cause.
Global warming has caused excessive heat that may have worsened the drought's effects, but it isn't necessarily to blame for the lack of rain.
It's true that recent years have yielded much less rain and snow than previous times in history,
but that's just a result of"natural variance"and not necessarily because of man-made pollution.
The state's"water czar,"Felicia Marcus, continues to crack down on water waste, and creative ad campaigns are finding varying degrees of success. The state has cut deliveries of water to farmers through the state and federal aqueduct systems,
To the extent that climate change exacerbates the drought California's efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions may eventually help.
In 2006 the state passed a law mandating that it buy less coal fired energy. The Los angeles Department of Water and Power is now also selling its stake in the Navajo Generating station to invest in clean energy alternatives,
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