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More accurate FEMA flood maps could help avoid significant damages and losses

WASHINGTON -- Significant loss of life, destroyed property and businesses, and repairs to infrastructure could be avoided by replacing Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps with ones that contain high-accuracy and high-resolution land surface elevation data, says a new report from the Nat...

New test promises quicker, more accurate evaluation for cystic fibrosis patients

Researchers at National Jewish Health have identified a simple gene-based blood test that more accurately and quickly measures cystic fibrosis patients' response to therapy than current tests. The test, a measure of inflammatory gene expression, could improve patient care and help clear a backlog ...

Pictometry and First American Combine Accurate Parcel Addressing With 3-D Like Intelligent Images(TM)

Unprecedented accuracy and oblique imagery offer new possibilities for Insurance, Utilities, Real Estate and Mortgage/Banking Industries ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Pictometry International Corp., a leading provider of geo-referenced aerial image libraries whose proprietary tech...

Immune system protein accurate predictor of survival in pediatric septic shock

CINCINNATI About 4,000 children in the United States die every year from uncontrolled infections of the body known as septic shock, and researchers are pushing the boundaries of molecular science to find new therapies that can stem the condition. But a simple measure of an immune system protein w...

Rainfall and river networks prove accurate predictors of fish biodiversity

Princeton researchers have invented a method for turning simple data about rainfall and river networks into accurate assessments of fish biodiversity, allowing better prediction of the effects of climate change and the ecological impact of man-made structures like dams. The mathematics behind t...

'Swish-and-spit' test accurate for cancer

A morning gargle could someday be more than a breath freshener it could spot head and neck cancer, say scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Their new study of a mouth rinse that captures genetic signatures common to the disease holds promise for screening those at high risk, inc...

Safer, more accurate radiation therapy for expecting mothers

Troy, N.Y. Developing fetuses are extremely sensitive to radiation, which poses an impossible dilemma for expecting mothers in need of screening or treatment for cancer. Now researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new set of modeling tools that could enable safer, more ...

Voice Biometrics Gains Traction as Most Accurate and Convenient Technology to Secure Customer Privacy

Largest Consumer Deployment Reaches 275,000 Enrollment Milestone NEW YORK, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- This week at SpeechTEK, the voice solutions showcase, PerSay, the leader in voice biometrics, will demonstrate how its VocalPassword technology powers Bell's Voice Identification Service. Bel...

M2SYS Partners With Gnosis Medical Services to Provide Accurate Patient Identification in Developing Countries Through Innovative Biometrics Solution

Biometric Fingerprint Technology used to Identify Patients and Retrieve Crucial Medical Records ATLANTA, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- M2SYS Technology, an award-winning biometric technology research and development firm, announced today that they have partnered with Gnosis Me...

Soil and sediment contamination assessment more accurate

The effects of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PACs) on terrestrial and benthic invertebrates are used to estimate the risks of soil and sediment contamination. Effects are assessed exposing the organisms to PACs in life cycle tests. In seventy percent of cases this results in highly predictable ef...

First at-home test for vasectomized men proves to be safe, accurate

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (November 13, 2008) In a report now available online and scheduled to be the cover story of the December 2008 issue of the Journal of Urology, University of Virginia Health System researcher John C. Herr, PhD and his colleagues have confirmed the accuracy and reliability of ...

BMI not accurate indicator of body fat

Body mass index, or BMI, long considered the standard for measuring the amount of fat in a person's body, may not be as accurate as originally thought, according to new research. A research team from Michigan State University and Saginaw Valley State University measured the BMI of more than 400 c...

Faster, more accurate tuberculosis test developed

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Imperial College London, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, in Lima, Peru, and other institutions have developed a simple and rapid new tuberculosis (TB) test. The test, called microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility o...

Robot assisted surgery more accurate than conventional surgery

A new study from Imperial College London shows that robot assisted knee surgery is significantly more accurate than conventional surgery. The team of surgeons tested whether Acrobot, a robotic assistant, could improve surgical outcomes for patients undergoing partial knee replacement. Acrobot wor...

Researchers develop portable 'vein finder' for faster, more accurate injections

When medics are treating trauma patients, every second counts. Yet bruises, burns, and other physical conditions often make it difficult to locate veins and administer lifesaving drugs or solutions. In response, a team of Georgia Institute of Technology researchers is developing an inexpensive, h...

Mary had a lot of lambs: Researchers identify way to accelerate sheep breeding

...d in many animals. The change in the DNA sequence of the M allele does not change the amino acid sequence of the protein. This means that it may be an accurate indicator for the phenotype of breeding out of season, though it's uncertain whether the gene actually impacts how the sheep's body reacts to melatoni...

New hope for fisheries

...h stocks and communities were based on catch records for lack of a better alternative. Results were controversial because catch trends may not give an accurate picture of the trends in fish abundance," explains Ana Parma of Centro Nacional Patagnico in Argentina. "This is the first exhaustive attempt to assem...

August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...the arid lands of northern China. However, scientists know little about the accurate source regions and the role of anthropogenic activities in the production o... represent the first mechanistic understanding of avulsions that allows for accurate prediction of their location. Mapping potentially asbestos-bearing...

Douglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change

.... And that's important because it is allowing us to go back and create more accurate models of sea surface temperatures and at time scales more than twice the l... 'perspective' of past climate, such that their combination provides a more accurate account," Black added. Results of the study are being published in the p...

Reducing risk of hospitalization in the elderly

...e of how much fat compared to lean tissue there is in the muscle, is a more accurate gauge of a person's risk of hospitalization than muscle mass or size. The ...asuring walking speed are much easier and cheaper to do, and are even more accurate in determining a person's risk of future hospitalization. This gives us the...

New computer simulation helps explain folding in important cellular protein

...plex problems with multiple variables, and though they often require considerable computer "brain power," they are able to give scientists startlingly accurate predictions of how biological processes work. In the current paper, the research team developed a two-step Monte Carlo procedure to investigate, fo...

Indonesia Now Using MegaMatcher Biometric Technology in Integrated Passport Issuance System

... local passport applications. Data from the local offices is automatically forwarded to a centralized biometric matching system that delivers fast and accurate processing of passport information. Neurotechnology's MegaMatcher provided the best combination of high degree of accuracy, identification of duplicat...

Researchers develop 'brain-reading' methods

...alifornia, Los Angeles who have developed a highly accurate way to peer into the brain to uncover a person's m...o are provided with the means of developing a more accurate model of the inner functions of the brain. As r...pattern of neural connections also provides a more accurate direction for mapping the effective connectivity o...

Ants more rational than humans

... very similar advantages. What the authors found is that in collective decision-making in ants, the lack of individual options translated into more accurate outcomes by minimizing the chances for individuals to make mistakes. A "wisdom of crowds" approach emerges, Pratt believes. "Rationality in this ca...

Newly discovered gene fusion may lead to improved prostate cancer diagnosis

...hly expressed in a subset of prostate cancers. The results may lead to more accurate prostate cancer testing and new targets for potential treatments. Experts b...cal College. "Currently, PSA testing is the standard of care, yet it is not accurate enough to predict prostate cancer, because many men may have an elevated PS...

The value of variation: Ecologists consider the causes and consequences

...known about how niche variation affects the ecological dynamics of a species or a community, and yet it is important to understand it in order to make accurate predictions about a population," he said. In order to make effective management decisions, for example, conservation biologists need to know under ...

Warming climate threatens California fruit and nut production

...there will be sufficient winter chill in the future to support the same tree varieties throughout their producing lifetime," Zhang said. To provide accurate projections of winter chill, the researchers used hourly and daily temperature records from 1950 and 2000, as well as 18 climate scenarios projected f...

When children have breathing problems

...h in Leipzig, concentrated on three courses of analysis: "Firstly," says Leipzig-based biologist Andrea Mller, "we used measurement techniques to draw accurate conclusions about the actual pollution of breathing air. We filtered out particulate matter of different grain sizes, polycyclic aromatic compounds, s...

Overfishing and evolution

...ns that therefore "such methods may not provide an accurate picture of the actual diversity and abundance of f...searchers about local ecological changes. However, accurate monitoring of fish populations in other parts of t...fi in a recent article in Faculty of 1000 Reports. accurate assessment of changes to fish populations depends ...

New theory gives more precise estimates of large-scale biodiversity

...ota at very large spatial scales, such as in the Amazon," said Harte, UC Berkeley professor of energy and resources. "This theory provides a much more accurate means of doing that." The method, derived from the field of information theory, will affect not only conservation efforts to save species facing ha...

Ozone, nitrogen change the way rising CO2 affects Earth's water

...fewer droughts than predicted for some areas and more water available for human consumption and farming. Either way, water resource managers need more accurate runoff estimates to plan better for the changes." Felzer and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the M...

Army study improves ability to predict drinking water needs

...nal of Applied Physiology may now provide them an accurate answer. The study substantially improves a wate...e study produced formulations that are 58-65% more accurate than the Shapiro equation, at least in the laborat...ng outdoors refined, to make the predictions more accurate In this study, the researchers collected data ...

Hurricane Katrina: Phone home

...the specific and fluctuating atmospheric moisture around cell phone towers throughout America, we can cheaply, effectively and reliably provide a more accurate 'critical moisture distribution' level for fine-tuning model predictions of big floods," says Prof. Pinhas Alpert, a geophysicist and head of Tel Avi...

Double success for Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia scientists working on chromosome segregation

...y cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in Nature Cell Biology and a p... Medicine, provides new insights into the scaffold of proteins that ensures accurate segregation of chromosomes during cell division - a fundamental step to ens...

Genetically engineered mice yield clues to 'knocking out' cancer

...asize the role of DNA repair in preventing carcinogenesis. The work may lead to the development of new measurement methods and reference materials for accurate and reproducible assessments of DNA damage and repair and contribute to understanding the role of oxidatively induced DNA damage and its repair in car...

NIST issues human milk and blood serum SRMs for contaminant measurements

...tions found in the U.S. population. NIST SRMs have been rigorously tested and certified as having specific properties that researchers can trust as accurate within stated levels of uncertainty. The values stated on the certificates for these SRMs were measured by NIST and the CDC using a number of differen...

New test can detect both genetic and chromosomal abnormalities in embryos

...This demonstrates that karyomapping, following genome-wide analysis of a single cell biopsied from embryos at the blastocyst stage, can provide highly accurate analysis for cystic fibrosis, combined with the detection of chromosomal aneuploidy. Now that vitrification [an improved method of embryo freezing] ha...

New biomarker method could increase the number of diagnostic tests for cancer

...The biomarkers that are actually valid -- that is, true biomarkers -- must be culled from lengthy lists of candidates, a time-consuming and not always accurate process. The CPTAC center network study demonstrates that new applications of existing proteomic techniques show promise of greater accuracy. The ...

New, less invasive genetic test greatly improves pregnancy rates in older women with poor prognosis

...re not affected by the presence of chromosomal mosaicism (the presence of two populations of cells with different genotypes) and therefore may be more accurate than conventional methods based upon screening of cells removed from embryos. The scientists examined 400 fertilised eggs generated by women with a...

ESHRE launches international study of polar body screening

...an early stage of egg development, the researchers believe that not only are they using a less invasive method of chromosome analysis, but also a more accurate one. "A biopsied blastomere, or very early embryo, is not a true representation of the other cells in that same embryo," said Professor Geraedts. "Thi...