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Indonesia Now Using MegaMatcher Biometric Technology in Integrated Passport Issuance System

... biometric matching system that delivers fast and accurate processing of passport information. ... they were able to implement a reliable, fast and fault tolerant system." The Indonesia ... two technologies to work together to provide very fast 1:N (1 to many) matching with higher reliability ...

IUPUI study finds living near fast food outlet not a weighty problem for kids

... the conventional wisdom that living near a fast food outlet increases weight in children and that ... near the children's residences. Living near a fast food outlet had little effect on weight and ... change, for example the closing of a fast food establishment or installation of a baseball ...

Healing wounds with lasers, vehicles that drive themselves, other cutting-edge optics

... burst. The switching speed, about 1 MHz, isn't fast compared to today's quickest data transmissions. ... is a device for displaying signals that are too fast to be seen by the human eye. Typically the signal ... ordinary oscilloscopes and televisions aren't fast enough, and the deflection of a beam used to ...

Eat, drink and be merry?

... fast food and soft drinks may be making children ... little is known about the relationship between fast food and soft drink consumption and children's ... In particular, they studied the effects of fast food and soft drink consumption on children's ...

Study unravels why certain fishes went extinct 65 million years ago

... Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last ... data showed that if you were a big fish with a fast bite you were toast," he said. Ironically, today's large fishes with fast bites evolved relatively shortly after the ...

Tiny but toxic: MBL researchers discover a mechanism of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

... connects to its target. "Disruptions in the fast axonal transport system are probably key elements ... the disease. But we do know that changes in the fast axonal transport system are sufficient to cause ... enzyme, GSK3, in Alzheimer's also disrupts the fast axonal transport system. It may therefore be ...

Optimum running speed is stride toward understanding human body form

... is telling you that your pace feels a little too fast or a little too slow, it may be right. A new ... Metabolic energy costs increased at both fast and slow speeds and revealed an intermediate pace ... running. For example, she points out, both a very fast walk and a very slow run can feel physically ...

Turning sunlight into liquid fuels

... both efficient in its use of solar photons and fast enough to keep up with solar flux in order to ... we found that iridium oxide was efficient and fast enough to do the job, but iridium is the least ... the particles were inefficient and not nearly fast enough to serve as photocatalysts. However, when ...

Fast-food diet cancels out benefits of breastfeeding in preventing asthma

... of Alberta professor has found that eating fast food more than once or twice a week negated the ... to their conclusion showing links between fast food and asthma, breastfeeding and asthma, and ... was only seen in children who did not consume fast food, or only occasionally ...

Young adults need to make more time for healthy meals

... to higher consumption of unhealthy items like fast foods and lower consumption of many healthful ... and soft drinks, as well as their consumption of fast food in the past week. The results suggest ... associated with higher intakes of soft drinks, fast food and fat, and with lower intake of several ...

News from the December 2008 Journal of the American Dietetic Association

... habits of consumers. Researchers look at why fast foods continue to be a popular meal choice and ... cited quickness as the top reason they eat fast food. Eighty percent said it was because the ... health strategies to either reduce consumption of fast food or improve food choices at fast-food ...

Streamlining brain signals for speed and efficacy

... are relayed in a linear fashion no matter how fast the neurons are firing. "Most of what we know ... Since the VOR operates accurately no matter how fast we move our head, scientists long expected that ... in the VOR circuit, they found that no matter how fast the sensory neuron was firing, the same amount of ...

Clear(R) Secures $44.4 Million in Venture Funding

... NEW YORK, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear(R), the fast pass for airport security, has secured $44.4 ... and will also expand its signature fast lanes this fall and beyond with airport ... images, receive a card that allows access to fast security lanes nationwide. Clear members' ...

European light research opens door for optical storage and computing

... research into the mysterious properties of fast and slow light. The long term aim is to boost ... lower energy consumption. The phenomenon of fast and slow light arises from the dispersion of ... There were two remarkable highlights: slow and fast light research has immense potential in ...

MIT applies engineering approach to studying biological pathways

... he said. Comparing the response when you shake it fast to when you shake it slowly reveals important ... of the kinase Hog1, and two feedbacks (one fast and one slow) that are controlled by Hog1. The fast feedbacks prevent the yeast cell from shriveling ...

People who skip meals: are they better off?

... Scientific Sessions 2007. People who fast seem to receive a heart-protective benefit, and ... appeared to also hold true in non-LDS people who fast as part of a health-conscious lifestyle, said ... or greater blockage) than those who did not fast (67 percent had 70 percent or greater blockage). ...

Mice roar message: genetic change happens fast

... report that what's most revealing to them is how fast both genes and morphology can change. Oliver ... "It was surprising to us to see how fast genetic and physical change could occur even in ... Pergams said a lesson of the surprisingly fast replacement of the mouse types is not to assume ...

Saved by junk DNA

... which in turn alters gene activity. In this way, unstable junk DNA allows fast shifts in gene activity, which may allow organisms to tune the activity of ... activity of this gene. However, when the repeat region was removed, this fast evolution was impossible. 'If this was the real world' the researchers say ...

DOE to establish Energy Frontier Research Center at PNNL

... than a slow one -- and fuel cells for vehicles need to release energy as fast as the explosions in a gasoline engine do. In previous work, PNNL scientists copied a feature called a "proton relay" from fast and efficient enzyme catalysts found in nature. The proton relay gave ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 22, 2009

... Netherlands Email: A.A.Broekhuis@rug.nl ARTICLE #4 Presto! fast color-changing material may lead to improved sunglasses Journal of the ... and remarkable stabilities," the article notes. - MTS ARTICLE #4 "A fast Photochromic Molecule That Colors Only under UV Light" DOWNLOAD FULL ...

Spun-sugar fibers spawn sweet technique for nerve repair

... grown on top of the Schwann cells. This alignment is critical for the fast growth of nerves, Shi said. Nerve cells grew not only inside the hollow ... the axon, a long fiber attached to the cell body that transmits signals. fast regeneration is essential to prevent the atrophy of muscles and organs ...

Eating eggs when pregnant affects breast cancer in offspring

... tumors while daughters of mothers that had no choline during pregnancy had fast growing tumors. "Our study provides additional support for the notion ... breast cancers of women who are considered to have a good prognosis. The fast growing tumors in mice had a pattern of genetic changes similar to those ...

Bee smart, bee healthy

... Bumblebee colonies which are fast learners are also better able to fight off infection, according to ... performance and their immune response, as Dr Raine explains: "Bees from fast learning colonies are not only the best nectar collectors, but also better ...

Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes

... delivery, water purification and nano-manufacturing. "Extraordinarily fast transport of water in carbon nanotubes has generally been attributed to ... science and engineering at the U. of I. "We can now show that the fast transport can be enhanced by orienting water molecules in a nanotube," ...

Bad sign for global warming: Thawing permafrost holds vast carbon pool

... of carbon from thawing permafrost in these remote regions." How fast the permafrost would release its carbon is a hugely important question. ... 1.5 billion tons per year. How much permafrost will add will depend on how fast it thaws, but Schuur said his research indicates the figure could approach ...

Chips are down as Manchester makes protein scanning breakthrough

... Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new and fast method for making biological 'chips' technology that could lead to quick testing for serious diseases, fast detection of MRSA infections and rapid discovery of new drugs. ...

Scientists learn how food affects the brain

... fats adversely affect cognition, studies indicate. Junk food and fast food negatively affect the brain's synapses, said Gmez-Pinilla, who eats fast food less often since conducting this research. Brain synapses and several ...

Livermore researchers use carbon nanotubes for molecular transport

... the LLNL team found that water molecules in a carbon nanotube move fast and do not stick to the nanotube's super smooth surface, much like water ... LLNL postdoctoral researcher, team member and the study's first author fast flow through carbon nanotube pores makes nanotube membranes more permeable ...

Platinum Solutions, Inc. Teams with Lockheed Martin on Federal Bureau of Investigation's Next Generation Identification Program

... category. In addition, we placed 10th among Washington Technology's 2006 fast 50 Government Contractors, and landed 1st place in the fast 50 Systems Integration category in 2005. We were also named as one of ...

Shrimps see beyond the rainbow

... and a capability that humanity has only achieved in the last decade using fast computer technology. The findings are published in the journal PLoS ONE. ... strong claws and are very aggressive! Most animals can tell how fast the electric field in a light wave is oscillating, which is perceived as ...

Neurotechnology Announces MegaMatcher 2.1 SDK for Development of Large-scale AFIS and Multi-biometric Face-Fingerprint Identification Systems

... that allows the two technologies to work together to provide very fast 1:N (1 to many) matching with even higher reliability than AFIS or facial ... control systems and even credit card transactions where the need for both fast and accurate identification is paramount. The fused face/fingerprint ...

Fast AFM probes measure multiple properties of biomolecules or materials simultaneously

... atomic force microscopy (AFM) cantilevers for applications such as fast topographic imaging, quantitative material characterization and single ... each probe can move independently. One application of such an array is fast parallel measurements of forces between biological molecules. In ...

Language of a fly proves surprising

... a predator or chasing another fly. The mechanism can spin extremely fast and change velocities quickly. A fly in the mechanism sees changes in the ... encode it well. However, if you put an organism in an environment with fast and naturally changing velocity profiles, the fly starts using all the ...

Where does stored nuclear waste go?

... of the site, where these nuclear wastes migrate, their composition and how fast they are traveling are of vital importance to both people and the ... studies will characterize the extent of contaminant plumes, determine how fast or slow they are migrating and evaluate remediation solutions. ...

Traffic control systems

... time explodes. Even for normal-sized cities, super computers are just not fast enough to compute all of the different options that exist for controlling ... however, locally programmed lights did not clear traffic off of side roads fast enough and led to back-ups at other intersections. Professor Helbing ...

NIH awards UC $9 million grant to improve patient point-of-care technologies

... improve the care and health of the neurologic patient by providing fast and reliable information about the biological events occurring in this ... Some of the factors that these new technologies will address include fast results in a package that is size-appropriate for the location. For ...

Drawing nanoscale features the fast and easy way

... have developed a new technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used in a range of environments including air ... one that can stick to other molecules. The technique is extremely fast and can write at speeds faster than millimeters per second. Thats orders ...

Discovery may help defang viruses

... to molecular biologists who say the discovery could pave the way for a fast and cheap method of making vaccines. "We have successfully tested this ... and then break out of the cell to infect more cells. This calls for fast and efficient multiplication. Viruses do this with the help of an enzyme ...

T. rex quicker than Becks, say scientists

... has relied on data from extant bipedal models to provide clues as to how fast dinosaurs could run, said Dr Sellers, who is based in Manchesters Faculty ... The figures we have produced are the best estimate to date as to how fast these prehistoric animals could run, said collaborator Dr Manning, a ...

Understanding how weeds are resistant to herbicides

... pyrosequencing machine emits a light signal that's captured every time a nucleotide is incorporated into a growing DNA strand. "The reason it's so fast is that it's done in parallel," said Tranel. "The plate has thousands of tiny wells, and a sequencing reaction going on in every one of them ...