News tagged with electronic surveillance


P2P traffic control

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Could a concept from information technology familiar to online file sharers be exploited to reduce road congestion and even traffic accidents? That is the question answered in the affirmative by researchers in California, ...





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Nation's only citywide electronic health information exchange: Improving health and lowering costs

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Across the nation concerns about health-care quality and costs are growing. For the first time, both candidates aspiring to the nation's highest office are looking to greater reliance on electronic medical records as critical ...


Crawling the Internet to track infectious disease outbreaks

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Could Internet discussion forums, listservs, and online news outlets be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks? A team of researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School thinks so, ...


RFID as Electronic Surveillance: Technology Performs Well in Feasibility Study

Technology / Other

created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Despite modern surveillance technology, retail outlets continue to be plagued by theft. Shoplifters have discovered various methods to deceive or elude electronic-surveillance systems.


We can have ‘win-win’ on security vs. privacy

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 26, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

People think there has to be a choice between privacy and security; that increased security means more collection and processing of personal private information. However, in a challenging report to be published on Monday ...


New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance

New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A recent AFOSR-funded technology should enable the Air Force to achieve advances in object and target detection technology by using sophisticated algebraic theories called groups, rings and fields.


Electronic health records may lower malpractice settlements

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Use of electronic health records (EHRs) may help reduce paid malpractice settlements for physicians, according to a new study. The study, which appeared in the November 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, showed a tren ...


GAO: FDA yet to make safety changes post-Vioxx

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration still hasn't restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, more than three years after experts recommended key changes in the wake of the Vioxx scandal.


Penn medicine draws road map for elimination of central line-associated bloodstream infections

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) fell by more than 90 percent during the past three years at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania due to a multi-pronged approach combining leadership initiatives, ...


Highlight: Exploiting strain fields

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic devices of the future may benefit from a fundamental discovery that allows researchers to customize the electronic properties of complex materials such as single-crystal thin-film structures.


USAF Awards Raytheon $752M Contract For Taiwan Early Warning Radar

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created Jun 24, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Raytheon has been awarded a not-to-exceed $752 million contract by the U.S. Air Force, Air Force Material Command, Electronic Systems Center (ESC), Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., to provide Taiwan with an Early Warning Surveillance ...



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