Communication

Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication

Elephants learn to imitate sounds that are not typical of their species, the first known example after humans of vocal learning in a non-primate terrestrial mammal. The discovery, reported in today's Nature, further supports the idea that vocal learning is important for maintaining individual social relationships among animals that separate and reunite over time, like dolphins and whales, some bi...

Sequencing of marine bacterium will help study of cell communication

The opportunity to annotate the genome of the glow-in-the-dark bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, which lives in symbiotic harmony within the light organ of the bobtail squid, has helped a Virginia Tech microbiologist advance her research on quorum sensing, or how cells communicate and function as a community. Researchers studying the newly sequenced genome of the marine bacterium V. fischeri, d...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

It's a cloudless July afternoon in Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, and ecologist Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell is scanning the horizon for elephants. "It's so fantastic here," she says. "We're constantly seeing elephants, rhinos, zebras, ostriches--it's the Garden of Eden." A research associate in the Stanford University School of Medicine, O'Connell-Rodwell has come to one of Afric...

'Underground' tunnels discovered as means for communication between immune system cells

University of Pittsburgh researchers first to report function of tunneling nanotubules Immune system cells are connected to each other by an extensive network of tiny tunnels that, like a building's hidden pneumatic tube system, are used to shoot signals to distant cells. This surprising discovery, being reported by two University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers in the Septem...

Carnegie Mellon U. transforms DNA microarrays with standard Internet communications tool

A standard Internet protocol that checks errors made during email transmissions has now inspired a revolutionary method to transform DNA microarray analysis, a common technology used to understand gene activation. The new method, which blends experiment and computation, strengthens DNA microarray analysis, according to its Carnegie Mellon University inventor, who is publishing his findings in the...

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Funds will support public safety communications interoperabilty

The funds will be used to implement a regional public safety mobile radio plan for the 16-county group, and purchase equipment that will ena...

DEMO 2003 Closes with Focus on Collaboration and Communication

Scottsdale, AZ - DEMO 2003 continued to buzz with innovation and excitement on its closing day, focusing on a myriad of new technologies that included timely next-generation systems designed to protect and defend the national IT infrastructure as well as collaboration tools and evolving email services. In addition to an array of new product demonstrations, technology leaders discussed the possibi...

Small Tree Communications awarded $2.85M defense contract

This funding, part of the FY 2007 defense appropriations bill, was awarded through a competitive award process. It will enable the company t...

Sale of Norlight Telecommunications is finalized

The sale, subject to federal and state regulatory approvals, is expected to take four to six months to complete.<b...

Journal to sell Norlight Telecommunications

Q-Comm and Journal Communications have signed a definiti...

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Improved parent-physician communication to prevent hospitalizations for childhood asthma

Asthma is one of the most common breathing problems encountered by many in day-to-day life. In the recent years, there has been a considerable increase in the incidence of the disease, particularly among children. // It has been estimated that nearly 196,000 children are hospitalized in the United States every year with asthma attacks. A considerable amount is being spent on the health...

Physician and Patient relationship strained due to non-verbal communications

Actions speak hundred words, these non-verbal communications is also found in between patient and doctor relationship which as also been a major cause of distress and may lead to improper treatment. // Professor Richard Frankel, Indiana University School of Medicine along with his colleagues from Indianapolis VA Medical Center and Johns Hopkins and Fetzer Institute as reported in the Journal of G...

Better Communication With FDA Could Speed Up Approval Of New Drugs

A new report commissioned by the Food and Drug Administration has found that newer medicines could hit the markets sooner if regulators met with the drug makers and apprised them of their concerns regarding that particular// medication before it went into the final phase of human testing. The report by consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, on behalf of the FDA said that 53 percent of dru...

Doctoral communication gets wired badge: wireless communication.

The time is not fat when doctors would sport gadgets like those in star wars. Moving in that direction Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has started using cutting edge technology to stay in touch.// This is the first time in the UK that this tech is being tested, which allows staff in different locations to talk over a wireless network. They use badges which are hands free de...

Lack Of Communication Between Brain Areas Can Cause Autism

According to researchers from the University of London, the cause of autism may now be explained due t the poor communication between brain areas//. And the reason for them not interacting well with other people. Weak links between brain areas may mean that people with Autism do not benefit from social situations as well as other people. The study compared brain scans of 32 people. 1...

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Clinical Trial Excellence: Shaping Markets Through Early Communication of Clinical Trial Data

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., May 25, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- With enormousinvestments and the success of a pharmaceutical product at play,pharmaceutical firms need to develop effective strategies forcommunicating clinical trial results early. Companies that mastertheir communication planning and execution will gain a significantadvantage in the marketplace. According to research and consulting...

Fragile X, Down Syndromes Linked to Faulty Brain Communication, Stanford Researcher Finds

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 10, 2007 - The two mostprevalent forms of genetic mental retardation, Fragile X and Downsyndromes, may share a common cause, according to researchers atStanford University School of Medicine. The problem, a crippledcommunication network in the brain, may also be associated withautism. Although the genetics of the disorders are very different, theend...