News tagged with emergency brake
Put on the brakes after foot or ankle surgery
Patients recovering from a right foot injury or surgery should think twice about how soon they want to begin driving again. According to a new study from the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS), it takes much longer ...
Dec 15, 2010 |
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One-third of car fuel consumption is due to friction loss
No less than one third of a car's fuel consumption is spent in overcoming friction, and this friction loss has a direct impact on both fuel consumption and emissions. However, new technology can reduce friction by anything ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 12, 2012 |
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America hits the brakes on health care spending
Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation's economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday.
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Study finds drunken people aware of poor decisioins
A new study says that people who commit blunders while under the influence of alcohol know they're doing it; they just don't care.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 03, 2012 |
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Positive feedback and tumorigenesis: A vicious circle that promotes cell proliferation
Cancer cells are essentially immortal. The acquisition of an unlimited capacity to divide the process of immortalization - is a central event in the genesis of tumors. Normally, cells are subject to stringent mechanisms ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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The perils of drunken walking
(Medical Xpress) -- Drinking and driving is a much-publicized, dangerous combination, but is walking after drinking any safer?
Dec 09, 2011 |
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UMD poll: Egyptians see military putting brake on revolution 2:1
A new University of Maryland public opinion poll finds Egyptians harboring serious doubts about their military's commitment to the revolution that ousted the Mubarak regime last spring.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Will Red Planet rover send groundbreaking data over?
One of the most sophisticated space vehicles ever made inches along the rocky landscape, aluminum wheels grinding like a spoon in a garbage disposal.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Health check on the road
Safety in traffic depends on a number of factors. One decisive aspect is how fit the driver is. A research team at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), in collaboration with researchers at the BMW Group, ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Before the G20 summit in Cannes: IZA researchers propose concept for a global debt brake
A few days before the G20 summit in Cannes, economists from the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, have proposed a global consolidation strategy of public finances. In a new IZA Policy Paper entitled ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Extreme melting on Greenland ice sheet, team reports
The Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don't hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2011 |
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