Brain Can 'See' Objects Through Touch
Tactile input plays a key role in visualization, study finds THURSDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- Touch alone can activate areas of the brain triggered when people look at objects, a finding that shows that these regions process information about objects using different types of sensor...Pro-Life Spokeswoman Objects to FDA Approval of 'Morning-After Pill' for Minors Without Prescription
WASHINGTON, April 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced late on April 22 that it has expanded over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill, Levonorgestrel or "Plan B," for 17-year-old minors as well as to adults. Deirdre McQuade, Assistant Director...Intelligent Medical Objects Announces ICD-10 Extensions to Terminology Products
Intelligent Medical Objects Adds ICD-10-WHO and ICD-10-CA Extensions to Their Clinical Interface Terminology Products NORTHBROOK, Ill., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO(R)) announces the general availability of ICD-10-WHO(1) and ICD-10-CA(2) extensions to their market...Brain Slow to Judge Fast-Moving Objects Head-On
It builds a statistical model based on what is, in fact, a very unhurried world, study says WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News) -- If you are not experienced at dodging flying or speeding objects, your best bet may be to just get out of the way, a new study says. People's visual syst...Carnegie Mellon study identifies where thoughts of familiar objects occur inside the human brain
PITTSBURGH A team of Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists and cognitive neuroscientists, combining methods of machine learning and brain imaging, have found a way to identify where peoples thoughts and perceptions of familiar objects originate in the brain by identifying the patterns of ...Study Confirms Effectiveness of Innovative Prism Glasses For Hemianopia Patients
...nnot see and frequently bump into walls, trip over objects or walk into people on the side where the visual f...sual field to the other side and alert patients to objects and obstacles not otherwise visible to them. Alert...lly adapted (remapped), perceive quickly where the objects are and automatically avoid them without turning t...Fifth U.S. Hand Transplant Patient Heads Home to NY
...s new right hand, shaking hands in greeting, opening a door, writing with a pen, grasping a water bottle, throwing and bouncing a ball, and picking up objects three inches wide. He can lift a bucket weighing 12 pounds with his right hand and a 20 pound crate with two hands." Hondusky will continue therapy t...Soft Contact Lenses Do Not Lead to 'Myopic Creep' in Children, Study Shows
...ies such as Singapore and China. It typically develops around 8 years of age and worsens until age 15 or 16. A nearsighted child has difficulty seeing objects clearly at a distance, like a blackboard, but can see clearly up-close, such as when reading a book. Myopia can be corrected with glasses, contact len...Prism Glasses Expand the View for Patients with Hemianopia
...in damage from tumors or trauma. A patient with this condition may be unaware of what he or she cannot see and frequently bumps into walls, trips over objects or walks into people on the side where the visual field is missing. Peli's goal was to find a way to expand the visual field. He did this by attachi...Molnlycke Drives 'Home' the Fight Against Staph and Other MRSA Infections
...and locker rooms. It's easy to see how MRSA is now making its way into American households." MRSA can survive for prolonged periods of time on common objects and surfaces, increasing the chances of cross-contamination and allowing it to be easily passed on to friends and family members. For example, MRSA ca...Tek-Clear™ Accommodating Intraocular Lens (IOL)
Description:... in the natural lens of the eye as a person ages, making the lens harder and less elastic. With less elasticity, the eye has a harder time focusing on objects up close. The Accommodating Intraocular Lens is implanted after removing the presbyopic lens....Cardiff Pediatric Contrast Test
Description:... enlargement of tasks he or she sees large faint objects well. A child with an equivalent acuity but with...not get the same benefit from enlargement. Large objects as well as small objects are difficult to see. So a measurement of contra...Cryostasis (clathrate hydrates)
...resent, there is no any effective reversible cryopreservation procedure for live humans and mammals. The new technology of cryostasis for biological objects using clathrate forming substances under high pressure can be promissing. [1] [2] Living tissues cooled below the freezing point of water are...Research yields new clues to how we locate objects in space
Two mechanisms have been commonly described which allow us to locate objects in space. Direct perception occurs when we see, hear or feel an object; by directly looking at an object, for example, we can easily describe its size, shape and where it is located in space. However, when an object is no...Lead-flapping objects experience less wind resistance than their trailing counterparts
It is commonly known that racing cars and bicyclists can reduce air resistance by following closely behind a leader, but researchers from New York University and Cornell University have found the opposite is true with flapping objects, such as flags. Their study, published in the most recent issue...How we see objects in depth: The brain's code for 3-D structure
A team of Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists has discovered patterns of brain activity that may underlie our remarkable ability to see and understand the three-dimensional structure of objects. Computers can beat us at math and chess, but humans are the experts at object vision. (That's w...Robot fetches objects with just a point and a click
ATLANTA (March 19, 2008) — Robots are fluent in their native language of 1 and 0 absolutes but struggle to grasp the nuances and imprecise nature of human language. While scientists are making slow, incremental progress in their quest to create a robot that responds to speech, gestures and body la...Contrary to common wisdom, scientist discovers some mammals can smell objects under water
A Vanderbilt researcher has discovered that some stealthy mammals have been doing something heretofore thought impossible -- using the sense of smell under water. The results of the research by Vanderbilt's Kenneth Catania, assistant professor of biology, were reported Dec. 21 in the science jour...Six previously blind patients detect light, motion, identify objects with retinal prostheses
Researchers from the University of Southern California and the Doheny Eye Institute's Doheny Retina Institute will be presenting data on the first six patients implanted with an intraocular retinal prosthesis-more popularly referred to as an artificial retina-developed and manufactured in partnersh...Business Objects to acquire La Crosse-based Firstlogic
Business Objects has agreed to buy La Crosse-based data quality firm Firstlogic for about $69 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter. Firstlogic is a privately held firm that provides software, services, education and consulting to help businesses make sure thei...Firstlogic partners with Business Objects
LA CROSSE -- Business Objects and Firstlogic have announced an OEM agreement to embed Firstlogic 's data-checking software into Business Objects ' new data integration platform. Data Integrator 6.5 will include name and address data cleansing. "Data credibility has become extremely important a...Model predicts evolution of Mediterranean landscape following fires
...niversity in the United States, tells SINC. 'Cellular automata' are mathematical tools used in artificial intelligence to track the movement of linked objects within a grid (in this case a map). Millington says this model is able to represent landscapes over areas in excess of 1,000 hectares on a map with...NYU physicists find way to explore microscopic systems through holographic video
...mages provided a different set of challenges. To do so, the researchers based their work on a quantitative theory explaining the pattern of light that objects scatter. The theory, Lorenz-Mie theory, maintains that the way light is scattered can reveal the size and composition of the object that is scattering...Nano measurement in the third dimension
...ro and nano coordinate measuring instrument. This now allows dimensional quantities with nanometer resolution also to be measured on three-dimensional objects in an extraordinarily large measurement range of 25 mm x 25 mm x 5 mm. The new device is already extensively being used at PTB - to a large part for c...NIST's LIDAR may offer peerless precision in remote measurements
... frequency comb, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a laser ranging system that can pinpoint multiple objects with nanometer precision over distances up to 100 kilometers. The novel LIDAR ("light detection and ranging") system could have applications from prec...COPAS 500 from Union Biometrica
Description:...ate much larger objects, up to 1500 microns. Such objects include small model organisms (e.g. C. elegans, Dr...es a 500 micron flow cell and is optimized to sort objects from 120 to 300 microns. This is one of our most ...live organisms without affecting their viability. objects are then dispensed into most multiwell plate forma...ImageXpress 5000A from Molecular Devices
Description:...ing, data storage and analysis. Powerful visualization tools are included that link the extracted data in spreadsheets and custom graphs to the actual objects in images for quality control. Our software engineers have built a system with features every bit as impressive as the hardware: powerful, intuitive...