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New system can improve video-sharing Web sites like YouTube

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As video sharing websites like YouTube continue to grow in popularity, so do challenges around proper labeling of videos and monitoring for copyright infractions.


2 Dutch researchers analyze striking behavior of Web surfers

Technology / Internet

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

What behaviour do website visitors exhibit? Do they buy a specific product mainly on Mondays? Do they always return at a certain time of day? Being able to recognise and make use of such patterns is lucrative business for ...





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A motley collection of boneworms

A motley collection of boneworms (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 3 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like a classic horror story -- eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green "roots" to devour their bones. In fact, such worms do exist ...


Researchers Study Effect of Cinnamon Compounds on Brain Cells

Researchers Study Effect of Cinnamon Compounds on Brain Cells

Medicine & Health / Research

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cell-culture studies looking into how compounds in cinnamon extract affect brain cells are being conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. The researchers have reported ...


1 in 4 hospitalized heart failure patients with Medicare back in hospital within a month

Medicine & Health / Health

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Almost a quarter of heart failure patients with Medicare are back in the hospital within a month after discharge, researchers report in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association.


New fossil plant discovery links Patagonia to New Guinea in a warmer past

New fossil plant discovery links Patagonia to New Guinea in a warmer past

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Fossil plants are windows to the past, providing us with clues as to what our planet looked like millions of years ago. Not only do fossils tell us which species were present before human-recorded history, ...


NHLBI publishes new heart healthy cookbook

Medicine & Health / Health

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The health of your heart has a lot to do with the foods you eat. To help busy people and families shop for, prepare, and serve healthy meals, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes ...


New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 5 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...


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Skunk's Strategy Not Just Black and White

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 5 hours ago | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Predators with experience of skunks avoid them both because of their black-and-white coloration and their distinctive body shape, according to UC Davis wildlife researcher Jennifer Hunter. The study was published ...


Noise Evidence Could Expand Hurricane Record

Noise Evidence Could Expand Hurricane Record

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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As sea-surface temperatures rise across the globe, some scientists believe that hurricane frequency and intensity may increase. A fresh technique offers promise to generate new data from long-dead storms, ...


Ionic Liquid's Makeup Measurably Non-Uniform at the Nanoscale

Physics / Condensed Matter

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Texas Tech University, Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, the University of Rome and the National Research Council in Italy recently made a discovery about the non-uniform chemical compositions ...


Sculptured materials allow multiple channel plasmonic sensors

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sensors, communications devices and imaging equipment that use a prism and a special form of light -- a surface plasmon-polariton -- may incorporate multiple channels or redundant applications if manufacturers ...



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