Processing in Biological News

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

... and power plants to chemical and petrochemical processing equipment. The Artificial Retina Project see ... temperatures. The PulseForge and Pulse Thermal processing systems provide a thousand-fold increase in the ... to the surface of the processed part - cutting processing times to fractions of a second. (Jointly with ...

New Report Just Published: World Solid-State, Fiber, Gas and Dye Lasers Market Report

... I-4 End-Use I-4 Industrial Material processing I-4 Medical Applications I-4 ... Applications II-28 Industrial Material processing II-29 Select Industrial Laser Applications ... II-30 Table 11: Worldwide Industrial Material processing Lasers Market (2006 & 2007): Percentage ...

NEWSLETTER: Antibody Fragment Production Breakthrough with 2nd Generation EBA

... The simplified process is less likely to cause processing problems.  The processing time to take product from homogenate to ... in the CMO market. The Rhobust® universal processing platform from Upfront Chromatography enables ...

Image processing and mathematical morphology in new text by NJIT professor

... Image processing and Mathematical Morphology: Fundamentals and ... Several other articles by him in Image processing and Signal processing , also IEEE publications, were innovations to ...

Image processing and mathematical morphology in new text by NJIT prof

... Image processing and Mathematical Morphology: Fundamentals and ... Several other articles by him in Image processing and Signal processing , also IEEE publications, were innovations to ...

Collaboration leads to success: Most powerful computer of its kind in western N.Y. available worldwide

... at UB's North Campus which consists of graphics processing units typically reserved for high-end gaming ... exceeding this machine. In particular, Graphics processing Unit (GPU)-based systems are affordable by many research groups and departments offering processing capabilities thousands of times faster than ...

Musicians have biological advantage in identifying emotion in sound

... Efficiency: Effects of Training on Subcortical processing of Vocal Expressions in Emotion." The study, ... The Northwestern researchers measured brainstem processing of three acoustic correlates (pitch, timing and ... be a leap to suggest that children with language processing disorders may benefit from musical experience," ...

New models question old assumptions about how many molecules it takes to control cell division

... flaws in two accepted notions about information processing in single cells: about the numbers of messenger ... of decision making in a single cell. "Information processing is done by a molecular network consisting of ... wires and servomotors -- except that information processing in cells is unique in two ways. First, the cell ...

Cells with double vision

... wider field of vision. This results in a robust processing of information. Nature Neuroscience , February ... cell groups, each of which is responsible for the processing of certain patterns of movement. A group of ten ... we can hopefully also comprehend human visual processing - right down to the single nerve cell. ...

SVOX Acquires Speech Processing Unit of Siemens AG, Expands Into Speech Recognition and Speech Dialog

... the acquisition of the Professional Speech processing Group of Siemens AG, according to SVOX CEO Volker ... families. The majority of the Professional Speech processing Group's employees will be integrated into SVOX ... said "The transfer of the Professional Speech processing Group to SVOX is clearly a positive development ...

CIC Teams With Industry Leader iPipeline to Provide Electronic Signature Platform to the Nation's Top Insurance Carriers

... software that supports marketing, selling, and processing solutions for the nation's top insurance ... time savings realized through straight through processing are significant. CIC's electronic ... the goal of which is to enable straight through processing of electronic forms and the ultimate objective of ...

Caltech-led researchers find negative cues from appearance alone matter for real elections

... in key brain areas known to be important for processing emotion. This was true when volunteers simply ... via negative motives, and by means of brain processing contributing to such negative evaluations," says ... known as the insula, is known to be important in processing both negative and positive emotional evaluations. ...

Major source of radon exposure overlooked at former Ohio uranium-processing plant

... a recent scientific study of a now-closed uranium processing plant near Cincinnati has identified a second, ... side of the U.S. Department of Energy Uranium processing Plant in Fernald. "Our original intention was ... records, 7,143 people worked at the uranium processing plant between 1952 and the plant's closing in ...

AVS 55th International Symposium & Exhibition, Oct. 19-24

... ... Over the last 30 years the cleaning and processing of vacuum components at Daresbury Laboratory has ... characteristics. Her talk, "Nanostructure processing of Advanced Catalysts and Biomaterials" will be ... short courses in areas such as Vacuum processing design, operation, and maintenance; ...

Multithreaded supercomputer seeks software for data-intensive computing

... processors" that enable multiple, simultaneous processing compared with the linear and slower approach of ... a novel way. In traditional supercomputers, each processing chip gets a dollop of memory to use for its ... the data, assigning parcels of data to individual processing units. For example, a supercomputer trying to ...

A green solution to biofuel production

... has expertise in the development of economic processing techniques, have designed processing strategies which allow multiple products to be ... in maize seed. By carefully designing the processing chain, from a single crop of maize we can deliver ...

New UGA invention effectively kills foodborne pathogens in minutes

... for the produce, poultry, meat and egg processing industries, is available for licensing from the ... is effective, safe for consumers and food processing plant workers, and does not affect the appearance ... antibacterial make it applicable not only at food processing facilities, but also at points-of-sale and at ...

Pitt faculty receive awards to explore next-generation technologies

... will address the difficulty many systems have in processing texts from such specialized domains as business ... texts in specialized domains. Better language processing for a wide range of texts could allow for such ... proactively scheduling workloads among different processing coreswhich perform specific tasks within a ...

European light research opens door for optical storage and computing

... The goal of replacing electronics with optics for processing data in computers is coming closer through ... and slow light. The long term aim is to boost processing speeds and data storage densities by several ... slow light is likely to come from the ability in processing ultrawide band microwave signals, for radio ...

NYU scientists set stage for understanding how color vision is processed

... eye on the retina is then transferred to brain processing centers. Both retina and brain processing centers have specialized morphology and function ... tasks. In this study, the researchers studied processing of color vision, which requires comparison ...

Carbon capture strategy could lead to emission-free cars

... the carbon emission in the vehicle for later processing at a fueling station. The carbon would then be shuttled back to a processing plant where it could be transformed into liquid ... Georgia Tech researchers are developing a fuel processing device to separate the carbon and store it in the ...

A pilot program for harvesting Kodiak rockfish

... 5,000 metric tons (mt) and delivered just as the processing sector was gearing up for the busy salmon season. ... of the RPP was to help stabilize the residential processing workforce by shifting this harvest to times of the year with low processing volumes such as May and June. Under the ...

Raydiance collaborates with Rutgers, MTF to develop innovative tissue processing approaches

... as the center for developing innovative tissue processing approaches and Raydiance as the core laser ... be able to disrupt and reinvent dermal tissue processing as we know it. This is great news for burn ... on demonstrating the feasibility of USP laser processing of donor skin in the following areas: ...

Hearing changes how we perceive gender

... Northwestern University focuses on the brains processing of such sensory information about anothers gender ... to provocative evidence about multi-sensory processing of our world that has been emerging in recent ... the brain does vision and another does auditory processing and that the two really dont communicate with ...

Aware, Inc. Introduces Biometrics Software for Tenprint Autocapture

... family of software kits applies advanced image processing technology to the difficult challenge of rapidly ... emerging requirement and poses a difficult image processing challenge. CaptureSuite was developed to address ... to have the opportunity to apply our deep image processing expertise to this increasingly important ...

Indonesia Now Using MegaMatcher Biometric Technology in Integrated Passport Issuance System

... to a centralized biometric matching system that delivers fast and accurate processing of passport information. Neurotechnology's MegaMatcher provided the best ... from years of academic research in the fields of neuroinformatics, image processing and pattern recognition, Neurotechnology was founded in 1990 in Vilnius, ...

Researchers develop 'brain-reading' methods

... analysis of global brain activity, the researchers found that different processing tasks have their own distinct pattern of neural connections stretching ... connections, you can predict with a high degree of accuracy what mental processing task a person is doing." The findings open up the possibility of ...

Single women gaze longer

... differences in reproductive strategies that may act early in the cognitive processing of potential partners and contribute to sex differences in sexual ... the possibility that sexual partner status impacts women's cognitive processing of novel male faces but not necessarily their conscious subjective ...

Flow of potassium into cells implicated in schizophrenia

... "We found schizophrenia-like effects in brain circuitry and mental processing in perfectly healthy people who carry the risk-associated version of this ... Performed significantly worse-than-normal on measures of IQ and mental processing speed. Previous studies have linked similar performance with genetic risk ...

Searching for pollution in the Caribbean

... 12 Caribbean countries in core sample collection and over 20 more in data processing and interpretation," she said. This core of well-trained scientists ... IAEA. One is a technical document that serves as guide for the collection, processing and analysis of samples. Another is a guide on sediment dating based on ...

Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading

... This finding challenges the conventional view of a temporally serial processing sequence for reading in which letter forms are initially decoded, interact ... the researchers were primarily interested in the highly automatized processing of words, they used an implicit task that required participants to monitor ...

6 young ASU faculty earn NSF Career awards

... typically store highly organized raw data optimized for efficient processing by the database designer. This optimization can make the data difficult ... Baoxin Li is working in the areas of computer vision, multimedia processing and statistical methods in visual computing. His Career award provides ...

Lehigh researcher awarded $1.8 million NIH grant

... to further explore how the inhibitory components of the circuit influence processing in each brain area involved in computing sound source location. Burger ... that travels from the higher regions of the brain back to lower processing centers. Burger says that current prosthetic devices don't take into ...

MIT: Using touch to help deaf people

... the user's hand or worn around the back of the neck, but once the acoustic processing software is developed, it could be easily incorporated into existing smart ... the MIT team hopes to improve the devices by refining the acoustic signal processing systems to provide tactile cues that are tailored to boost lip-reading ...

A new gene silencing platform -- silence is golden

... version of this older method and instead targets the 3' end processing step. U1 Adaptors have high activity when used alone and are synergistic ... occurs during the biosynthesis of mRNA at the near universal 3' end processing step. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this technology is that U1 ...

High Performance, Low-Cost VoIP Chips Address Critical Performance Issues Such as Echo, Latency, and Packet Loss

... a leading provider of telecom and Voice over IP (VoIP) digital signal processing (DSP) software solutions and voice quality enhancing algorithms, today ... rich VoIP chips include all of the telephony, signaling, tone and voice processing (codecs) necessary to each VoIP application, enabling equipment ...

Rice University psychologist finds women's brains recognize, encode smell of male sexual sweat

... The research showed that several parts of the brain are involved in processing the emotional value of the olfactory information. These include the right ... socioemotional information. Distinctive neural mechanisms underlie the processing of emotions in facial and vocal expressions. The findings help explain the ...

Neural mechanisms of value bias in the human visual cortex

... have suggested that value also influences areas of the brain involved in processing sensory input, many questions remain. "Little is known about how value ... suggest that these brain regions may provide signals to bias visual processing in favor of more valuable stimuli, perhaps so that valuable objects are ...

Tufts University Prof. Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos named as AAAS Fellow

... with water to produce carbon dioxide and hydrogen, is a key step in fuel processing hydrogen. Catalysts, such as metal oxides prepared with precious metals ... reactions, including sulfur removal reactions. The aim is to benefit fuel processing overall at all scalesfrom providing power to a laptop or cell phone to ...

2009 DOE INCITE projects allocated at ORNL

... Since a processor hour is equivalent to one hour on one processing core, a single hour using all of Jaguar's 181,000 processing cores is equivalent to 181,000 processor hours. Located within ORNL's ...