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 ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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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

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

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.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The perils of drunken walking

(Medical Xpress) -- Drinking and driving is a much-publicized, dangerous combination, but is walking after drinking any safer?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 14

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, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 7


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