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Ohio 'paper' vote system debuting with flaws, researchers say
Mar 03, 2008 |
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The new voting system that Cleveland and its suburbs will use in tomorrow's primary election has serious flaws that risk greater voter error, say members of a research team from the Universities of Maryland, Rochester and ...
Protect your vote -- avoid election machine errors
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Of all the conceivable problems that could lead to a miscount Election Day, there's one possibility that voters can do something about – avoid making election machine-related errors, says a University of Maryland ...
Arrival method, slow response often delay stroke care
Aug 08, 2008 |
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Most stroke patients can't recall when their symptoms started or do not arrive at the hospital in a timely manner, so they cannot be considered for time-dependent therapies such as the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen ...
Tell them where it hurts
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 18, 2008 |
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For statues, stress injuries come from standing in place for hundreds of years. Using a novel technique, researchers have now developed a way to predict such fracturing, applying the procedure to Michelangelo's ...
Help! How to avoid fast-moving computer worm
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Since early January, a worm that has been referred to by several names, including "Downadup," "Kido" and "Conficker," has been infecting millions of computers around the world. The worm exploits a previously discovered vulnerability ...
Structured reporting software creates less complete and accurate radiology reports than free text
Nov 16, 2009 |
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As many software companies work to create programs that will give uniform structure to the way radiological test results are reported, a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that such ...
Voters respond favorably to touch screen voting equipment
Jan 14, 2008 |
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Voters have more confidence in paperless, touch screen systems to record their votes accurately than they do any other systems, including ones that use paper ballots, a new study says.
Rapid, high-resolution 3-D images of the retina
May 02, 2007 |
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In efforts that may improve diagnoses of many eye diseases, researchers will introduce a new type of laser for providing high-resolution 3-D images of the retina, the part of the eye that converts light to electrical signals ...
EKG can show false positive readings for diagnosing heart condition
Nov 16, 2009 |
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The electrical measurements on the electrocardiogram can often mislead physicians in diagnosing the heart condition left ventricular hypertrophy, causing other screening tests to be ordered before a definitive conclusion ...
Search for life in space getting closer
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Scientists in Britain say they are making remarkable advances in the search for life in other solar systems, though results are more than a decade off.
Repeat negative CT scan for lung cancer does not encourage ex-smokers to resume the habit
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Assurance of a cancer-free status did not prompt people participating in a long-term computerized tomography (CT) lung-cancer screening program to pick up their cigarettes again, researchers wrote in a study published in ...
Cryptographic voting debuts
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT’s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor ...
40 years ago, UW researcher changed our view of the world
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 26, 2006 |
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Forty years ago this month, thanks to an inventive University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist, our view of the world was changed forever.
Spy software used in call centers
Oct 18, 2006 |
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Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass., said sales of "emotion detection" technology to corporate call centers has reached $400 million annually.
ACID Scans Web for Pirated Multimedia
Apr 05, 2007 |
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The Virage division of Autonomy has developed search technology that can scan the Web for pirated video and multimedia clips.
