Search results for control theory:
New approach eliminates software deadlocks using discrete control theory
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Software deadlocks are the Catch-22s of the computer world. These common bugs can freeze the machine when different parts of a program end up in an endless cycle of waiting for one another as they access ...
The paradox of temptation
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 30, 2009 |
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Does the mere availability of something tempting weaken the will to resist? The answer is of more than theoretical interest to public health experts, and the problem goes far beyond serious addictive disorders. Just think ...
New theory may help design tomorrow's sustainable polymer
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Tomorrow's specialty plastics may be produced more precisely and cheaply thanks to the apparently tight merger of a theory by a University of Oregon chemist and years of unexplained data from real world experiments involving ...
Antioxidants are unlikely to prevent aging, study suggests
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Diets and beauty products which claim to have anti-oxidant properties are unlikely to prevent ageing, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. Researchers at the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL (University College ...
Neuroimaging suggests that truthfulness requires no act of will for honest people
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 13, 2009 |
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A new study of the cognitive processes involved with honesty suggests that truthfulness depends more on absence of temptation than active resistance to temptation.
Grouping muscles to make controlling limbs easier
Apr 20, 2009 |
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With more than 30 muscles in your arm, controlling movement -- whether it's grasping a glass or throwing a baseball -- is a complex task that potentially takes into account thousands of variables.
Study confirms classic theory on the origins of biodiversity
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell study on the diversity of milkweed plants has used new techniques to prove an old theory that explains how the arms race between attacking insects and defended plants led to great ...
Physicists make discovery in quantum mechanics
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in quantum mechanics using a superconducting electrical circuit. The finding is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature.
Foresight Institute Announces Feynman Prize Winners
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.
Frequent sex and masturbation in 20s and 30s linked to higher prostate cancer risk
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Men who are very sexually active in their twenties and thirties are more likely to develop prostate cancer, especially if they masturbate frequently, according to a study of more than 800 men published in the January issue ...
Consciousness is the brain's Wi-Fi, resolving competing requests, study suggests
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Your fingers start to burn after picking up a hot plate. Should you drop the plate or save your meal? New research suggests that it is your consciousness that resolves these dilemmas by serving as the brain's ...
Stopping diabetes damage with vitamin C
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center have found a way to stop the damage caused by Type 1 diabetes with the combination of insulin and a common vitamin found in most medicine cabinets.
Exerting better control over matter waves
Mar 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “The concept of matter waves is at the heart of quantum mechanics,” Oliver Morsch tells PhysOrg.com. “At the beginning of the last century, scientists discovered that solid particles could exhibit proper ...
Vaccine and drug research aimed at ticks and mosquitoes to prevent disease transmission
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Most successful vaccines and drugs rely on protecting humans or animals by blocking certain bacteria from growing in their systems. But, a new theory actually hopes to take stopping infectious diseases such as West Nile ...
Video shows nanotube spins as it grows (w/ Videos)
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New video showing the atom-by-atom growth of carbon nanotubes reveals they rotate as they grow, much like the halting motion of a mechanical clock's second hand. Published online this month ...
