#The Garbage Manin December 2001 American environmental activist Jim Puckett traveled to the town of Guiyu in southeast China to look for old computers.
In a village dedicated to plastics recycling Puckett found young women sitting on a concrete floor bashing computer housing to pieces with hatchets.
While a small percentage of mixed plastics were cycled down from high-end products like computers to low-end goods like flowerpots
Biddle could take the plastic from say a laptop reduce it to its purest form
and sell it back to a computer company to make another laptop. What s more at his facility in Richmond California Biddle could produce recycled plastic with as little as 10 percent of the energy required to make virgin.
Biddle could take the plastic from say a laptop reduce it to its purest form
and sell it back to a company to make another laptop. You want to see a car get shredded in 20 seconds?
In 1992 the American Plastics Council funded him to research the recycling of computer plastics.
Was it more efficient to separate bulky computer components from one another or was it better to shred everything first?
Today that s all done by computer. An architect designs a building using 3-D Autocad software
It was tethered to a six-foot-tall computer rack crammed full of high-voltage amplifiers and data-acquisition equipment.
or clips an obstacle its computer detects the discrepancy between its current position and its programmed flight path
and computer memory. Cellulose could come from a variety of biological sources including trees plants algae ocean-dwelling organisms called tunicates
The cooperative ISI-MIP process systematically compares the results of the various computer simulations to see where they agree
#Assessing the impact of climate change on a global scalethirty research teams in 12 different countries have compared systematically state-of-the-art computer simulations of climate change impact to assess how climate change might influence global drought water scarcity
while being based on a comprehensive set of computer simulations both for climate change and for the impacts it is causing.
Computer simulations at Rice determined that fuel with 5 percent or less ethanol content does not rise to the level of concern
From computer models we knew that the bedrock should rebound as the weight of ice on top of it goes away Wilson said.
We're witnessing expected movements being reversed so we know we really need computer models that can take lateral changes in mantle properties into account.
without computer access his questions came from the wildlife around him. Both teen scientists recommend teens should try doing a science fair project on a problem that matters to them.
and its use of sophisticated computer models to conduct a detailed acre-by-acre analysis of the entire forested landscape of Massachusetts over 50 years.
and computer engineering and of physics and astronomy and of materials science and nanoengineering. The Department of energy the National Science Foundation and the Robert A. Welch Foundation supported the research.
Using computer models to examine flower colors as bees would see them the team addressed how pollinator vision had shaped flower evolution.
Now the same team has combined the field findings with new computer models of rabies transmission and data from infection studies using captive vampire bats to show that culling has minimal effect on containing the virus
Thousands of computer simulations were run and the most successful models demonstrated that a single isolated vampire bat colony cannot maintain the rabies virus over time Frequent movement of infectious bats between colonies is needed to keep the rabies virus at levels consistent with the field observations.
Nordlander used computer simulations to investigate the discrepancies between classical electromagnetics and quantum mechanics and precisely where the two theories diverge in both gold and aluminum nanomatryushkas.
What would have taken a single computer 15 years to perform was completed in a matter of days using Google earth Engine computing.
Researchers at the University of Exeter and Colorado State university used a computer model to demonstrate that providing forest conservation measures are in place the Amazon rainforest may be more able to withstand periods of drought than has been estimated by other climate models.
#Meteor Raspberry Pi cluster used to teach parallel computingresearchers at the San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San diego have built a Linux cluster using 16 Raspberry Pi computers as part of a program to teach children
and adults the basics of parallel computing using a simple model that demonstrates how computers leverage their capacity when working together.
and adults about parallel computing by providing an easy-to understand tangible model of how computers can work together said Rick Wagner SDSC's manager for high-performance computing (HPC).
and configuring computers to work in concert; and as data networks become faster multi-core processors become the norm
and photo gallery 2. The Meteor project complements other educational programs at UC San diego using Raspberry Pi computers.
and a cognitive science doctoral candidate at UC San diego. Alexandre began tinkering with Raspberry Pis a computer that can fit in one's hand
and computer animation a new study conducted by Carole Gee at the University of Bonn Germany demonstrates the visualization of fossils without destroying the material.
This study along with computer animations and detailed figures presenting microct imaging is freely available for viewing in the November issue of Applications in Plant sciences.
Yong Guan an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and his students have devised a system that offers anonymity for honest users and accountability for dishonest users.
or sign a message without the source's signing key it would have to solve a problem that is incredibly difficult even for the fastest computers.
Researchers then compared their measurements to those gathered by professional foresters using handheld computers. The results showed strikingly similar results between community members and professional foresters across countries and forest types.
While much of Rehan's work involves behavioral observation of bees native to the northeast of North america this research taps the computer-heavy bioinformatics side of her research assembling genomic data to elucidate similarities and differences among the various species
and linked wirelessly to computers for example growers may control the precise moisture of blocks of land based on target goals said Vinay Pagay who helped develop the chip as a doctoral student in Lakso's lab. Ernest
Computer modelling was used to explore the relationship (in both those with and without diabetes) of mortality with the following risk factors:
They set out to detail carbyne with computer models using first-principle rules to determine the energetic interactions of atoms Artyukhov said.
By creating a computer model of that microstructure and studying its response to various conditions We found that there is a mechanism that can in principle close cracks under any applied stress Demkowicz says.
A computer simulation of the molecular stucture of a metal alloy showing the boundaries between microcystalline grains (white lines forming hexagons) shows a small crack (dark horizontal bar just right of bottom center) that mends itself as the metal is put under stress.
A computer algorithm the team developed identified which compounds are predicted not only to be strong repellents but also found naturally in fruits plants or animals.
With most of its sensors still working it utilizes computer power that's dwarfed by today's smartphones to send sometimes surprising data packets back to Earth-first recording them on its ancient 8-track digital tape machines before assembling them
and their owners from which the researchers built a computer simulation which modelled the speed at
Computer models that calculate the global balance of atmospheric carbon dioxide also must factor in sinks that offset carbon such as tropical forests.
It consists of climate change projections based off computer modeling of photos and Quickbird satellite images of remote Cloud Forests in Peru's protected Manu National park and unprotected surrounding areas.
They used computer models to analyze the temperature and precipitation requirements of the trees at different life stages and also considered factors like reproductive dependence of young and adult trees.
and 217 leopards living in four distinct populations in the 17375-mile Satpura-Maikal region of central India then used computer modeling to compare contemporary and historical gene flow among the region's tiger
Participants in the treatment group completed a computer-assisted program with tailored feedback received a print manual met for 15-30 minutes with a counselor
and the computer-assisted intervention was repeated at three and six months post-hospitalization to support participants through the process of quitting smoking.
A copy of the computer printout was mailed to patients'outpatient providers. A key aspect of the intervention is did that we not assume all patients were ready to quit Prochaska said.
and Oak ridge National Laboratory analyzed variations of a model molecule 4#-methyl-2#nitroacetanilide (MNA) and compared the results with computer-generated and XRD models.
The team then fed the various readings into complex computer models to calculate the global effect of extreme weather on the carbon balance.
A modeled futuresmith and his former research assistant Andrew Mizrahi used a PNNL computer model the Global Change Assessment Model
PNNL's computer model used in this research GCAM is supported by the Department of energy. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
When asked obese girls were more likely than any other group to use a computer.
and less fatty foods plus reducing time spent in front of computer and video game screens. Story Source:
and computer modeling capabilities to work. They are grappling with what the future landscape of fire will look like in the American West.
The first Landfire maps took five years of on-the-ground fieldwork computer modeling and poring over satellite data to complete.
But in computer models simulating a world of continued CFC use the researchers found that the hydrological changes in the decade ahead 2020-2029 would have been twice as severe as they are expected now to be.
Alex Feldwinn a computer technician in the Life science Computing Group at UCSB said It really smells like a dead animal--not just a dead animal but a rotting one.
We did this by applying a series of computer models and using data from Jatropha curcas plantations in Egypt India
Revisiting this classic planetary science scenario with new computer modeling the astronomers found a lower thermal radiation threshold for the runaway greenhouse process meaning that stage may be easier to initiate than had been thought previously.
because their computer modeling was done in a single-column clear-sky model or a one-dimensional measure averaged around a planetary sphere that does not account for the atmospheric effect of clouds.
Data from the sensors were transmitted wirelessly to a computer on the sideline and processed to measure both the linear and rotational head acceleration caused by each impact.
Those studies however were based on theoretical computer modeling. Brosi and Briggs were curious whether this theoretical resilience would hold up in real-life scenarios.
For those two key crops a computer model could predict crop failures three months in advance for about 20 percent of global cropland according to the study published July 21 in Nature Climate Change.
Halas Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering professor of physics professor of chemistry and professor of biomedical engineering is one of the world's most-cited chemists.
experts saythe U s. Department of energy has announced that it wants to establish minimum energy efficiency standards for all computers
Other ways to avoid wasting electricity include faster computers that pay for themselves fairly quickly and using flash memory on the motherboard instead of hard disks.
and computer engineering and of physics and astronomy. Many animals and insects can see polarized light
and Drug Administration Hollister and Green used computer-guided lasers to print stack and fuse thin layers of plastic to make up Kaiba's splint.
and elsewhere around the world Keenan and Richardson found increases in efficiency larger than those predicted by even the most state-of-the-art computer models The research which was done in collaboration with researchers from the Harvard's Department of Earth
and other Terrasar-X satellite data in computer simulations using which they are able to model the break and flow mechanisms of the ice masses.
Douglas Natelson a professor of physics and astronomy and of electrical and computer engineering and Krishna Palem the Ken and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computer science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor of statistics.
From the very last 45 minutes of the hatching process two videos were produced using the real-time MRI technology termed FLASH 2 and powerful graphics processing computers.
Junichiro Kono a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of physics and astronomy; and Matteo Pasquali a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of chemistry.
A highly sophisticated computer algorithm aligns the images and classifies them in subcategories. If you have enough of them you can actually reconstruct
A highly sophisticated computer algorithm aligns the images and classifies them in subcategories. If you have enough of them you can actually reconstruct
Better batteries are desired greatly by everyone who carries a cellphone or computer or drives an electric car.
Co-authors of the paper are Rice graduate students Zhiwei Peng Changsheng Xiang Gedeng Ruan and Zheng Yan and Douglas Natelson a Rice professor of physics and astronomy and of electrical and computer engineering.
Computer models showed that refuges should be especially good for delaying resistance when inheritance of resistance in the pest is explained recessive Carriã re.
The team built computer simulations based on crop data from the nation's top 10 corn-producing states--Iowa Illinois Nebraska Minnesota Indiana Ohio South dakota Wisconsin Missouri
We had to customise computers and rewrite many of the computer programmes used in similar studies
'A number of practical hurdles however are preventing the use of BPMR in computer hard disks.
Lin and co-workers used computer simulations to theoretically analyze the optimum number of the synchronization sectors.
Scientists use incredibly complex computer simulations called Earth system models to predict the interactions between climate change and ecosystems such as boreal forests.
and pseudochromosomal molecules are reassembled using powerful computers and algorithms. Wheat has the largest genome among crop plants
This technique for studying the stars--sometimes called astronomy in the lab--gives scientists information that cannot be obtained by the traditional techniques of astronomy such as telescope observations or computer modeling.
and Josh Stolaroff of LLNL and Professor Berend Smit researchers Jihan Kim and Li-Chiang Lin at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab performed systematic computer
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Using lab experiments computer simulations and analysis of published experimental data the new results help explain why one major pest has started to become resistant faster than anticipated.
Dr Huntingford and colleagues used computer simulations with 22 climate models to explore the response of tropical forests in The americas Africa and Asia to greenhouse-gas-induced climate change.
and lemonsa computer recognition system that is 99%accurate can identify different fruits and vegetables even the particular strain of apples or plums for instance.
One impediment to even more widespread use has been the cost of filament says Pearce an associate professor of materials science and engineering and electrical and computer engineering.
With more experimentation the results would be even better he says. 3d printing is where computers were in the 1970s.
Using computer models Moreira found that from 1975 to 2007 ethanol production from sugar cane in Brazil resulted in a net-negative capture of 1. 5 metric tons of CO2 per cubic meter of ethanol produced.
Calculating an area of 50 pixels can take nearly a full day on a state-of-the-art desktop computer says Lippincott-Schwartz.
allowing massive computing tasks to be distributed over banks of computers. To make PALM more practical for use in biomedical research the team wrote a computer script that allows any biologist to upload
and process PALM images using Amazon Cloud. As a demonstration Cang Lippincott-Schwartz and postdoctoral researcher Ying Hu reconstructed the images of podosomes
Using computer model simulations the scientists led by Jian Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Bin Wang (International Pacific Research center University of Hawaii at Manoa) showed that global rainfall has increased less over the present-day warming period than during the Medieval Warm Period
That's the point of the study--and the beauty of using computer models. You can isolate the phenomenon that you wish to explore in this case irrigation versus no irrigation.
Predictive simulations--advanced computer models--aid in such designs. These complex simulations allow scientists to peer inside
This new research will be used to improve the accuracy of computer models that are essential to predict future ice loss in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its likely contribution to global sea-level rise.
Computers are finally powerful enough to process vast amounts of data and Landsat data is now available free of charge.
Not that long ago the size of an individual Landsat scene would have crippled most desk top computers says Doug Morton a physical scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. who uses Landsat
The researchers used computer modeling to show that in western forests such a compensatory response provides potent water quality protection against the adverse effects of nitrates
and computer engineering said The research showed that the electrical conductivity of the fibers could be tuned
but even tweets that person's Twitter account to publicly shame them if they stray uses a Raspberry Pi--a tiny single-board computer.
Raspberry Pi and Piface an add-on which powers real-life applications are the simplest and most user-friendly ways for computers to interface with the world
and are being used by University of Manchester scientists to inspire the next generation of computer whizzkids.
The credit-card sized computers have a vast range of potential applications that will get young people fired up for computing.
With the Pi they have all the capabilities of a computer but are more flexible and can be embedded in the real world--costing as little as £40 per kit.
and hobbyists challenging entrants to create useful gadgets to change the world using Raspberry Pi computers.
The five teams used different computer models that had been developed independently. Their computer models included not just energy use and production but also the broader economy and the climate system.
These integrated assessment models accounted for energy use the economy and climate and the way these different systems interact with one another.
Postdoctoral researcher Menno Veldhorst lead author on the paper reporting the artificial atom qubit says It is really amazing that we can make such an accurate qubit using pretty much the same devices as we have in our laptops and phones.
Using his computer mouse and some free software Kucharski tugged flattened and pinched a digital ball of clay into the desired shapes:
Computer-assisted self-interviews were used to ascertain self-reported tobacco use and sexual behaviors. Selfâ reported tobacco use for the past 5 days included any nicotineâ containing product.
and combined the genetic variations with computer modeling techniques to map how important genes differ within balsam poplar
In a new study a team led by Stanford climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh used a novel combination of computer simulations
The holy grail of wireless communications is to go both fast and far said lead researcher Edward Knightly professor and chair of Rice's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
In fact 2-D phosphorus has more in common with three-dimensional silicon the most common element in semiconducting electronics like computer chips.
or two even with high-performance computers explains Dr Thorsten Wiegand of the UFZ. The recently published research findings are part of the Spatiodiversity project.
Andreas Huth have spent the last five years using computer models to analyse ecosystems to explore the composition and dynamics of species-rich communities in tropical rainforests.
A computer model used by researchers calculated ozone levels during crop growing seasons that were more than 40 to 50 parts per billion over most of the country.
Daniel Strã mbom of Uppsala University and colleagues then used data from these devices together with computer simulations to develop a mathematical shepherding model.
and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community
when wildland fires will be forecast using computer models just as accurately as we now can forecast the next day's weather.
) In a computer model we are using very small volumes of space on the order of one cubic millimeter on one end to a cubic meter on the other end he says.
Shrubs burned in controlled settings are being compared to computer modeled shrub fires to assess predictive qualities.
Once the images are uploaded to a computer Easy Leaf Area can process hundreds of images and save the results to a spreadsheet-ready CSV file.
so that leaf area measurements can be made on the fly without a PC. He also plans to add handwriting recognition
This computer-based technique is used widely to code policy positions of party manifestos and lobbyists but it is thought to be the first time it has been applied to measure the effects of different lobby groups on tobacco control.
Their computer simulations may lead to new strategies to stop influenza perhaps even a one-size-fits-all vaccine.
Atmospheres is based on a three-dimensional computer model simulation of the impacts of biomass burning. His findings indicate that burning biomass is playing a much bigger role in climate change
and some others--plus the warming caused by black and brown carbon will yield a planetary warming effect of 2 degrees Celsius over the 20-year period simulated by the computer.
Lobell and Tebaldi used computer models of global climate as well as data about weather and crops to calculate the chances that climatic trends would have a negative effect of 10 percent on yields of corn and wheat in the next
Vikyath Rao a graduate student in the laboratory of U. of I. physics professor Nigel Goldenfeld analyzed the data using a computer model Rao and Goldenfeld developed.
and computer models researchers learned that ozone trapped different amounts of heat in Earth's atmosphere depending on its geographic location.
and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community
The model which requires intense computer calculations is described inâ Nature Communications. If our goal is to preserve the tree of life
and overlapping sequences were stitched together with computer software. The chromosome-based daft sequence the critical step before the full wheat genome is sequenced Akhunov said.
and the University of Cologne who simulated ecological and social factors in a computer model. The negative effects of climate change can to a certain extent be offset by an increased herd mobility write the researchers in a recent issue of the journal Global Environmental Change.
Using computer modeling techniques they identified a surface area in Alt a 1 susceptible to interact with the defense protein.
#Silicon oxide for better computer memory: Use of porous silicon oxide reduces forming voltage, improves manufacturabilityrice University's breakthrough silicon oxide technology for high-density next-generation computer memory is one step closer to mass production thanks to a refinement that will allow manufacturers to fabricate devices at room temperature with conventional
production methods. First discovered five years ago Rice's silicon oxide memories are a type of two-terminal resistive random-access memory (RRAM) technology.
Each has its own sensor run by an embedded computer. We envision dozens of SPOTS on a space habitat said Dane Larsen who is working on a master's degree on computer science.
The study published in the Bulletin of Entomological Research has been developed in the laboratories of the Mediterranean Agroforestal Institute (IAM in Spanish) in collaboration with the Department of Computer Engineering (DISCA in Spanish) of the UPV.
The work team analysed the insect behaviour with a camera fitted with a flight mill connected to a computer.
The estimates were done using the Lives Saved Tool (List) a computer-based tool developed by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health researchers that allows users to set up
but instead test it by plugging information into computer models. Because of tools like Plantseed plant scientists will eventually be able to do the same he said.
Another important finding Richardson said is that the research identifies a significant source of error in existing computer models of how forest ecosystems work.
The computers in the drones are similar to those used in smartphones. The Phantom which cost about $500 was a ready-to fly model equipped with a mount for a Gopro camera.
When the Phantom is turned on its computer starts the GPS and the flight control system runs through a one-to two-minute process of locating
After collecting the results Professor Dunstan teamed up with Dr Hodgson to statistically analyse the data from his 2001 experiment using computer simulations to see
In the computer model each of the snails were created as objects set up with a number of different properties
The researchers were able to intervene in the computer model at certain times and change different parameters.
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