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New Light Sensor Mimicks Eye for Superior Camera Performance

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2008-08-06 20:35:35 by Michael in Medgadget
...Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed technology that allows for building curved sensors and accompanying electronics. The technology one day might come in handy for developing artificial retinas or next generation endoscopic devices From a NSF press release: The technology breakthrough is a...
 
Tags: eye, light, pixels, light-sensitive pixels, camera, electronic eye systems, northwestern university, university, adjacent pixels
 
 
 
 
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BehindTheMedspeak: The smell of danger

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2008-06-07 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Northwestern University used odor molecules that have the same chemical formula but are structured to be mirror opposites, like left and right hands. Such molecules ordinarily smell identical to people. But after getting zapped with mild electrical shocks when exposed to one molecule but not sniffing the other, volunteers rapidly learned to...
 
Tags: aversive, aversive experience, enhances perceptual acuity, enhances perceptual, predictive cues, danger, piriform, induces piriform plasticity, ensemble activity patterns
 
 
 
 
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Generation Text: Emailing on the Go

2008-07-25 16:04:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Northwestern Memorial Hospital's emergency room has been ground zero in Chicago for texting goofs. Located downtown near shopper-clogged Michigan Avenue, the emergency room is also close to the exceptionally busy lakefront path, where pedestrians and joggers share a lane with bikers James Adams, Northwestern's chairman of emergency medicine,...
 
Tags: errant texters, texters, mobile texters, blackberry, blackberry pearl, text message, bryan fuhr, busy lakefront path, northwestern
 
 
 
 
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'When Trust In An Expert Is Unwise'

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2008-01-23 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Northwestern University professor who has also studied the economics of reputation, put it. Its a lot easier to get objective measures of peoples cars Yet by studying a fairly narrow question, Mr. Schneider discovered a larger truth: the expert service problem really does appear to be a serious one. It isnt that reputation is irrelevant. Very...
 
Tags: bad expert service, expert service, expert, service, car, ordinary car owner, car business, automotive service excellence, study
 
 
 
 
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Nokia finds Romania's hidden labor force

2008-01-26 14:03:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...northwestern Romania, which will host a new factory making Nokia mobile phones, currently earns its livelihood from farming vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes and eggplants. It doesn't have a full-time doctor, a school-house or indoor toilets. Some 60 houses don't have running water. But it does -- still -- have relatively cheap labor. A
 
Tags: romania, nokia mobile phones, northwestern romania, full-time doctor, indoor toilets, cheap labor, tiny village, jucu, cluj
 
 
 
 
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Experts' Experts: How does a snow fence work?

2008-01-29 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
 
...northwestern Montana. Not only do snow fences improve safety for drivers, they can save money as well. It is estimated that a properly-installed fence costs 100 times less than mechanical snow removal (plowing, sanding and salting Natural snow fences, such as trees, shrubs and even corn stalks, can also reduce drifting across roadways
 
Tags: snow fences reduce, snow fences, natural snow fences, weather guys blog, weather guys, reduce, snow fence, mechanical snow removal, corn stalks
 
 
 
 
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Meet Beelzebufo 'The frog from hell'

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2008-02-20 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...northwestern Madagascar of a bulky amphibian dubbed the "devil frog" that lived 65 million to 70 million years ago and was so nasty it may have eaten newborn dinosaurs This brute was larger than any frog living today and may be the biggest frog ever to have existed, according to paleontologist David Krause of Stony Brook University in Stony...
 
Tags: frog, beelzebufo, formidable frog, goliath frog, giant frog, modern frog, lived, beelzebufo lived, prehistoric frog
 
 
 
 
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Ericsson and Boston University School of Management tap brainpower of 'Digital Natives'

2008-03-19 10:18:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Northwestern University; Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; London Business School; McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin; Queens School of Business, Ontario, Canada; Seoul National University, Korea; Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (the...
 
Tags: school, university, boston university school, sloan school, iese business school, northwestern university, seoul national university, hong kong university, stockholm school
 
 
 
 
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Artificial Membrane Sacks as Mini Stem Cell Labs

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2008-03-27 20:28:17 by Michael in Medgadget
...Northwestern University researchers discovered an interesting relationship between two molecules, in which their interaction forms a solid membrane that seems to be quite suited for creation of small sacs to host all kinds of cells in biological solutions, including possibly stem cells. The material might also have wider medical applications:...
 
Tags: stem cells, possibly stem cells, human stem cells, cells, sacs, molecules, sacs form instantly, solid membrane, biopolymer hyaluronic acid