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Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes

... Center in the Sloan School. This center helps MIT students and professors bridge the gap between an intriguing idea or technology and a commercially viable concept. Recognizing Scenes The IEEE paper describes how the team "showed" the model randomly selected images so that it could "learn" to identif...

Imaging pinpoints brain regions that 'see the future'

...to capture patterns of brain activation as college students were given 10 seconds to develop a vivid mental image of themselves or a famous celebrity participating in a range of common life experiences. Presented with a series of memory cues, such as getting lost, spending time with a friend or attending a...

Eating with our eyes: Why people eat less at unbused tables

...rceptual and Motor Skills. It included 50 graduate students at a sports bar where an open buffet featured chicken wings during the Super Bowl; some tables were bused and some were left unbused. To use environmental cues to curb overeating and overdrinking, Wansink suggested that college parties could encour...

Action video games sharpen vision 20 percent

...er and graduate student Shawn Green tested college students who had played few, if any, video games in the las...mpus plays video games." At the outset, the students were given a crowding test, which measured how well they could discern the orientation of a "T" with...

BMI not accurate indicator of body fat

...iversity measured the BMI of more than 400 college students ?some of whom were athletes and some not ?and found that in most cases the student's BMI did not accurately reflect his or her percentage of body fat. The research is published in the March issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Medicine, the...

Bones in motion: Brown scientists to create new 3-D X-ray system

...tantial software development. Brown faculty and students are already at work on pilot projects to visualize pigs walking, birds flying and frogs jumping, using seed funds from Brown's Office of the Vice President for Research and the National Science Foundation. Software will be rolled out in phases, Brain...

Genome sequencing reveals key to viable ethanol production

...on." This research, also authored by Wu’s graduate students Michael Newcomb and Chun-Yu Chen, is funded by the U. S. Department of Energy....

Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

... (1eID1). On Tuesday morning, June 5, sixth-grade students will experience hands-on demonstrations of acousti...a will discuss the latest ideas for teaching voice students to improve their singing. California-based master voice instructor Lisa Popeil ( lisa@popeil.com ) ...

The longest carbon nanotubes you've ever seen

...ed with post-doctoral researcher Yun Yeo Heung and students to develop the technique. The researchers partnered with First Nano, a division of CVD Equipment Corp. of Ronkonkoma, N.Y., to use their laboratory and a specialized furnace called the EasyTube 3000. With the equipment, the researchers were able t...

Students invent protective pouch to enhance cell therapy

... is needed ?a ‘yearly refill,?for example ?and the students have provided an ideal environment in which the en...nsulin and other proteins that the body needs. The students have built a housing in which the bio-reactor can operate. I’m pretty optimistic that it will work i...

An 'elegant' idea proves its worth 25 years later

...e prompt treatment. "We’re teaching all medical students at Hopkins to consider hyperammonemia and immediately do blood tests when they see a combative, lethargic or comatose newborn or child," she says. "The longer the hyperammonemia lasts, the higher the risk for brain damage." "This is a happy story,...

College students who pull 'all-nighters' and get no sleep more likely to have a lower GPA

A common practice among many college students involves "pulling all-nighters", or a single night...ssional Sleep Societies (APSS). "Sleep in college students is generally inadequate, irregular and of poor quality. As sleep quality and quantity decrease, aca...

Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing

... really like working with our undergraduate honors students – they are so bright.” Pierce, age 22, has been working as a researcher in Schneider’s lab for the past two years through a UNC Charlotte Honors College program that fosters research experiences for undergraduates. Using an ingeniously design...

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