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Home pregnancy tests can lead to better prenatal care
The simple intervention of providing women who are having unprotected sex with a home pregnancy test could have a substantial impact on the health of potential newborns, according to a Michigan State University study. view more (2009-02-11)
Faces and Race: A New Tool to Blunt Racial Bias
There may be a simple way to address racial bias: Help people improve their ability to distinguish between faces of individuals of a different race. view more (2009-01-21)
Well-fed robins could be lonely at Christmas
The North Wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor robin do then, Poor thing? (Anon) He may starve or freeze to death if he has not managed to find enough food before the snow falls. Small birds such as robins need to carry fat reserves to keep them warm. They face a dilemma each winter, as they need to spend... view more... (2002-12-09)
The future voice of speech-driven interfaces
With speech recognition databases spanning 24 languages, SpeeCon is helping organisations throughout Europe create linguistically diverse voice-driven applications capable of recognising commands in different languages and operating in diverse acoustic conditions. view more (2004-09-28)
Facial Transplantation May Be a Safer Option, Study Shows
Researchers in Cincinnati and Louisville report that immunosuppressive risks associated with facial transplantation may be lower than thought, possibly making the procedure a safer option for people who have suffered severe facial injuries. view more (2007-08-29)
OCR for Basque
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the computer-recognition of printed or written characters. This means that when we scan a book, each character is interpreted as an image. Subsequently, this scanned image is analysed and the character converted into an ordinary code, such as, for example, into ASCII code. Most OCRs used today use a Spanish... view more... (2003-04-11)
Hard to keep a straight face
It's hard to keep a straight face, and especially difficult if you meet someone who looks angry or happy. This the conclusion drawn from experiments carried out by Ulf Dimberg, professor of psychology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and his associates. The results, which are presented in the journal Cognition and Emotion, show that we are not in... view more... (2002-10-22)
Monkeys' calls - the beginnings of human language?
Rhesus macaques communicate between themselves using a complex series of sounds that can signify things as distinct as the presence of danger, particular social relationships, emotions or food alerts. Now scientists in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, while analyzing the brain... view more... (2004-12-17)
First live 'cloning' of faces challenges assumptions about human behavior
Computer scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have developed a new way of cloning facial expressions during live conversations to help us better understand what influences our behaviour when we communicate with others. view more (2009-06-01)
Virtual world offers new locale for problem solving
Second Life, a virtual world created in 2003, currently boasts more than 12 million users worldwide who go there for everything from college recruiting to shopping. Now, Penn State researchers are investigating how virtual teams can better solve real world problems by collaborating in Second Life. view more (2008-09-30)
Teens' mental health affects how long they stay in school, new study shows
Queen's University researcher Steven Lehrer has won a prestigious international award in recognition of his contributions to health economics. view more (2009-11-13)
Family therapy helps get young ME sufferers back to school
Family therapy seems to help get young sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME) back to school, suggests research in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. ME is characterised by physical and mental fatigue. In children, symptoms include muscle pain, headache, sore throat and sleepiness. And specialist treatment often requires long periods away... view more... (2002-01-23)
Carnegie Mellon study offers new clues about memory
A study conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh involving an amnesia-inducing drug has shed light on how we form new memories. view more (2006-07-19)
Memory function varies after damage to key area of the brain
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered dramatic differences in the memory performance of patients with damage to the hippocampus, an area of the human brain key to memory. view more (2008-10-23)
Female mice can identify inbred males by their scent
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that female mice avoid mating with inbred males by 'sensing' the diversity of a protein type in their urine. view more (2008-04-21)
Fraunhofer inducted into Hall of Fame
Digital radio ensures interference-free radio reception in CD quality. To achieve digital-radio standards nevertheless requires a great deal of development work since the transmitter and receiver systems greatly differ from conventional, analog devices. During the conception phase of the XM Satellite Radio project, a Fraunhofer team convincingly... view more... (2002-06-07)
Caltech and UNC research finds further evidence for genetic contribution to autism
Some parents of children with autism evaluate facial expressions differently than the rest of us--and in a way that is strikingly similar to autistic patients themselves, according to new research by neuroscientist Ralph Adolphs of the California Institute of Technology and psychiatrist Joe Piven at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. view more (2008-07-16)
Household insecticides associated with increased risk of childhood leukaemia
Household insecticides may increase the risk of childhood leukaemia, suggests French research in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. view more (2006-01-17)
Loss of a universal tRNA feature reported
Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) report in the Journal of Bacteriology that two alphaproteobacteria lack the universal extra guanylate nucleotide typically found in the transfer RNA molecule tRNAHis. tRNAs are the molecules responsible for decoding sequence information specified by messenger RNA molecules, information... view more... (2007-02-08)
Machine vision can assist
Machine vision provides a unique capability for understanding human actions. Based on a passive sensing technology, it allows for the coverage of large areas with a single sensor, without need for physical contact. Professor Matti Pietik'¤inen is in charge of the machine vision research team whose aim it is to equip the environment with several... view more... (2005-04-07)
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