Any drop to drink? Nov 14, 2009
The investigators, led by Anthony Colaprete of NASA s Ames Research Centre in California, were unable to explain the spectral lines in question by any other combination of plausible chemicals, so are pretty sure that water is what they have found. That finding is reinforced by a second set of lines, in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, which indicate the presence in the plume of hydroxyl radicals. (The Economist)
Yoga improves heart health Nov 10, 2009
The spectral analysis of HRV is, the team says, an important tool in exploring heart health and the mechanisms of heart rate regulation. The power represented by various spectral bands in short-term HRV are indicative of how well the heart responds to changes in the body controlled by the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems. (India Times, India)
Beyond the Multiplex Nov 7, 2009
One last big dose of love for Fessenden, who directed this atmospheric Alaska-set eco-catastrophe thriller that channels, or so he claims, both John Carpenter's "The Thing" and Kurosawa's "Dersu Uzala." Frankly, Larry, the big spectral secret revealed at the end of the movie is pretty goofy, but that's made up for by the tense, near-future setting in which an isolated oil-field crew is drilling through the melting Alaska permafrost -- and things are starting to go very wrong. And that last shot,... (Salon)
Sensing Disasters From Space: 'Earth Binoculars' See Our Planet Through An Astral Lens Oct 25, 2009
New Tel Aviv University technology combines sophisticated sensors in orbit with sensors on the ground and in the air to create a "Hyperspectral Remote Sensor" (HRS) ... The HRS simultaneously acquires hundreds of optical images, each from a different frequency, that enable a "spectral assessment" from distances high in the air via airplanes and in orbit using satellites ... An image from TAU's orbiting Hyperspectral Remote Sensor (HRS). (Science Daily)
Camille Paglia Oct 23, 2009
A death panel not only has the power of life and death but is itself a symptom of a Kafkaesque brave new world where authority has become remote, arbitrary and spectral. And as in the Spanish Inquisition, dissidence is heresy, persecuted and punished. (Salon)
Weekend News Roundup Oct 20, 2009
"It's a matter of analyzing it now ; you have to be careful because you're looking for small [spectral] signatures." Colaprete expects results out of the analyzed data by mid-November. (Source: ). (IGN Gear)
A Contemporary Art 'Field of Dreams' Appears in Texas Oct 20, 2009
There are massive glass vitrines, erotic bound prosthetics, gaily dressed baby dolls wearing spectral paper masks, ethereal portraits, neon enhanced paintings, majestic bronze Creator and infant sculptures, even an authentic boxing ring containing a crucified Christ in tattered pugilist regalia. "Werrick Armstrong's preference to work in obscurity, his untrained, unchained artistic passion, and his belief in the spiritual nature of his talent make him a true Outsider," Spector states. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Boris Johnson on Blair as Europe president Oct 6, 2009
" Silly, silly Boris. Whether or not the government chooses to ratify the Lisbon Treaty is entirely a sovereign matter. To infer that the Irish 'yes' somehow validates the treaty's wholesale ratification (with poor old Blighty as nowt but an innocent victim of Gordon McNasty and nefarious Tony Boneheads sinister plans to hand the reins over to the fourth reich) is rather specious - and, I might add, rather unfair. We were allowed to vote simply because our written constitution requires a... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Alcoholism's effect on sleep persists during long periods of sobriety Oct 1, 2009
Data were collected from multiple scalp sights and subjected to power spectral analysis. Sleep architecture and electroencephalogram (EEG) spectral power measures were evaluated for the effects of alcoholism diagnosis and sex using age as a covariate ... Spectral analysis revealed that alcoholics had significantly reduced levels of slow wave activity during NREM sleep but not during REM sleep, showing that the reduction in slow wave activity in alcoholism is sleep-state specific. (EurekAlert!)
Hello, I must be going Sep 30, 2009
The second column explained: "In truth, Groucho is a heroic figure who defied any form of convention and redefined humour. It is with respect for this (and a fondness for cigars, not always reciprocated by the cigars themselves) that has led me to adopt the Marx moniker."Moreover (I had to get it in), not only does Groucho - a deceased column named after a long-dead Marx brother - live again, he appears in spectral, online-only form on a website named after a newspaper that itself died 23 years... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
New device finds early signs of eye disease in preemies Sep 22, 2009
The technology, developed in part by Duke biomedical engineers, uses spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD OCT) to create a 3-D picture of the back of the eye. "This new tool is changing the way we identify eye conditions in infants," says Cynthia Toth, MD, an ophthalmologist at the Duke Eye Center, who is leading the study that appears online this month in the journal Ophthalmology. (EurekAlert!)
Death of a Poet Sep 19, 2009
Tall, slim, athletic, pale, and spectral as many ex-junkies are, Jim was a vivid presence in any setting. He was a classic and now vanishing New York type: the smart (and smartass) Irish kid with style, street savvy, and whatever the Gaelic word for chutzpah is. (Slate)
Invention Can Turn Red Wine By-products Into Yoghurt, Chocolates, Creams And More Sep 19, 2009
One of the friends was Bernd Diehl, the 48-year-old co-owner of a German chemical analysis company called Spectral Service ... As a relatively small company, Spectral decided to partner with the larger Technologie-Transfer-Zentrum (TTZ), German specialists in product development, and the pair successfully applied to carry out their research as a EUREKA project ... They delivered the material to TTZ whose team carried out drying experiments, producing different powders, which were sent to... (Science Daily)
Virtual reality used for blind to map real world Sep 18, 2009
"Essentially the games work by interpreting information generated by spectral sounds like footsteps and door knocks," said Lotfi B. Merabet, Ph. D of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School and co-author of "AER Journal: Research and Practice in Visual Impairment and Blindness.". (MSNBC -- Technology)
High In Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors Sep 12, 2009
Sodium radiates approximately 99 percent of its visible light in two shades of orange, which scientists have termed the "D" spectral lines. Sodium-like tungsten ions emit intense light in analogous "D" spectral lines, but they are at far higher energy levels than sodium, and so are shifted out of the visible spectrum to the extreme ultraviolet. (Science Daily)
A busker finds his niche in Boston Sep 6, 2009
He was lithe and not particularly tall and looked rather spectral. I stopped in midstride, as did many others, to catch his instrumental of House of the Rising Sun, on his guitar, a Godin out of Quebec. (Boston Globe)
Up-scale: Frequency Converter Enables Ultra-high Sensitivity Infrared Spectrometry Sep 2, 2009
According to Tang, the new system enables the measurement of spectra with sensitivity of more than 1,000 times that of common commercial optical spectral instruments. Our key achievement here was to reduce the noise, but our success would not have been possible without the many years of work by others in this field, says Tang. (Science Daily)
Icon Announces Exploration Progress at Its Hog Ranch Epithermal Project, Nevada, USA Aug 22, 2009
Sampling for assessment of hydrothermal alteration patterns utilizing a Terraspec analytical spectral device was completed during the mapping program across the property to assess patterns in hydrothermal alteration that can identify potential areas which may be underlain by upflow zones that occur above vein systems at depth. Although much of the previous diamond drill core and reverse circulation (RC) chips from previous drill campaigns is no longer available or is lost, drill core and RC... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
CU gets $711M for sponsored research Aug 7, 2009
The lab will build the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor, or TSIS, to fly on one of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System satellites that have been planned for 15 years. All told, NASA provided the Boulder campus with a total of $75 million for the fiscal year, up from $56 million the previous year, CU-Boulder said. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Eyeing P-town’s place in American art Aug 5, 2009
It s as if we re seeing two iterations of the plant - one spectral, the other all gaudy color. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Who ya gonna call? Aug 4, 2009
The Ghostbusters are doing good business in these peaceful times, but a mysterious psychic shockwave soon throws New York into spectral chaos ... I was a co-star in a Ghostbusters film, kicking spectral butt alongside the original Ghostbusters crew, and it was awesome. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Technology)
US aims for Afghanistan Jul 24, 2009
I was reminded of those spectral images of denuded forests from World War I. The bodies of young Taliban fighters lay amid the rubble, stiffening in the dry, crisp air. That was seven years ago. (BBC News -- Americas)
Biomarker of breathing control abnormality associated with hypertension and stroke Jul 1, 2009
The spectrogram is automated, objective, and capable of mapping the spectral dispersion of low-frequency, coupled cardiopulmonary oscillations; therefore, it could be a more accurate marker of periodic breathing and could provide insights into sleep physiology and pathology. The authors claim that there is an increased prevalence of periodic breathing following ischemic cerebrovascular disease, which is one way by which strokes may cause an increase in the biomarker. (EurekAlert!)
Big Impact From Tiny Semiconductor Lasers Jul 1, 2009
There are many semiconductor lasers and many application fields, but certainly for lasers in the spectral range between 355nm up to 1060nm, Brighter has developed state-of-the-art technology and become one of the leaders in the field, he adds. Vast range. (Science Daily)
From The Glass To The Brain In Six Minutes Jun 27, 2009
ScienceDaily (June 26, 2009) Just one drink can quickly go to your head. Researchers in Heidelberg tested this well-known adage. (Science Daily)
New Nanoparticles Could Revolutionize Therapeutic Drug Discovery Jun 26, 2009
Advantages of SMALPs over traditional ways to solubilise proteins such as detergents include enhanced stability, activity and spectral quality of the protein membranes. Dr Tim Dafforn who jointly ran the study, said: "In the past, studies have concentrated largely on soluble proteins as membrane proteins are so difficult to make. However, the discovery of the SAMLPs removes this barrier and opens up access to membrane proteins - this has exciting clinical implications as it may enable drug... (Science Daily)
Bats recognize the individual voices of other bats Jun 5, 2009
Analysis of the model suggests that the spectral energy distribution in the signals contains individual-specific information that allows one bat to recognize another. Animals must recognize each other in order to engage in social behaviour. (EurekAlert!)
Hawaii company refines miniature ID tag technology May 27, 2009
The company said its licensed technology and is developing applications for tiny identification tags made of silica that carry a custom-manufactured spectral signature. As such a worker using a reader could determine fake goods from authentic ones carrying the tags. (Honolulu Advertiser)
'Five Dimensional' Discs: Huge Storage Capacity May 21, 2009
Discs currently have three spatial dimensions, but using nanoparticles the Swinburne researchers were able to introduce a spectral or colour dimension as well as a polarisation dimension. These extra dimensions are the key to creating ultra-high capacity discs, Gu said. (Science Daily)
First Fully Automated Pipeline For Multiprotein Complex Production May 8, 2009
24, 2008) Anovel method of using normalized spectral counts derived from a series of affinity purifications analyzed by mass spectrometry to generate a probabilistic measure of the preference of proteins to. . (Science Daily)
Tiny Lasers Plug The 'Green Gap' May 4, 2009
Combining this with our established frequency conversion modules we can finally plug the spectral niche between green and red. We can now supply spectroscopists with diode-based single frequency, fixed frequency and tunable lasers from 375 to 3000 nanometres. (Science Daily)
Dinosaur-Bird Link: Ancient Proteins Preserved In Soft Tissue From 80 Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur May 2, 2009
"The sequences displayed high spectral quality and the interpretations were of high confidence." ... The end result was a total of eight collagen peptides and 149 amino acids from four different samples, sequences that held up when multiple validation steps were performed, including comparisons with synthetic peptides using a spectral comparison algorithm and statistical evaluation. (Science Daily)
Researchers Unravel Role Of Priming In Plant Immunity Apr 11, 2009
" The other authors of the Science paper, titled "Priming in Systemic Plant Immunity," played critical roles in the research, Greenberg said. Ho Won Jung, the lead author and a post-doctoral scholar in molecular genetics and cell biology at the University of Chicago, optimized a method of extracting active exudates, or plant sap. Collaborator Timothy Tschaplinski of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory then analyzed plant metabolites in the sap. It was Tschaplinski who kept... (Science Daily)
John Lahr: Moisés Kaufman and Noël Coward summon up the past. Mar 17, 2009
Soulful, nostalgic, tender, Beethoven s final variation moves from a fugue to a minuet, marked grazioso e dolce, a spectral ending to a journey that begins as a beerhall waltz and concludes as an immanence of the sacred. In a startling and strangely moving stage image, the present and the past are brought together as the actors dance until Beethoven and Brandt finally stand alone before us, as if they were about to begin their discussions in earnest, the stage direction reads. (New Yorker)
UConn chemists find secret to increasing luminescence efficiency of carbon nanotubes Mar 7, 2009
Carbon nanotube emissions are not only extremely sharp, but they also appear in a spectral region where minimal absorption or scattering takes place by soft tissue. Moreover, carbon nanotubes display superb photo bleaching stability and are ideally suited for near-infrared emitters, making them appropriate for applications in medicine and homeland security as bio-reporting agents and nano-sized beacons. (EurekAlert!)
Privilege, promise, and pain Feb 15, 2009
At his worst, he was considered a shallow playboy relying on the Kennedy name,a green understudy for his spectral brothers. His legendary personal problems were so public that they were reduced to shorthand: Chappaquiddick, Georgetown, Palm Beach. (Boston Globe)
Uranium Poisoning Treatment Developed Feb 14, 2009
The resolution of the spectral fingerprint becomes sharper as the temperature falls. . (Science Daily)
Artificial Vision Used To Improve Recycling Of Electronic Scrap Metal Feb 13, 2009
12, 2009) TECNALIA Technological Corporation is studying an innovative method based on multispectral artificial vision systems to enhance the value of electronic scrap which currently represent 4% of urban waste in Europe ... The aim of this project, known as SORMEN, is to develop a technology for the separation of scrap metal from electronic waste based on a system of multispectral vision and incorporate it into the process of a recycling plant ... Multispectral identification. (Science Daily)
