News tagged with monitoring
Smart clothes for better healthcare (w/ Video)
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Comfortable smart clothes that monitor the wearer’s heart, breathing and body temperature promise to revolutionise healthcare by reducing hospital visits and allowing patients to lead more ...
The minerals on Mars influence the measuring of its temperature
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 14, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the CSIC-INTA Astrobiology Centre in Madrid has confirmed that the type of mineralogical composition on the surface of Mars influences the measuring of its temperature. The study ...
New net timer could save sea turtles from drowning
Jun 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Fishery managers trying to protect rare sea turtles from dying in fishing nets have tapped a Cape Cod company to build a device they think can help balance turtle protection with profitable fishing.
Google to step up anti-porn efforts in China
Jun 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. said Friday that it was working to block pornography reaching users of its Chinese service after a mainland watchdog found the search engine turned up large numbers of links to obscene ...
New system monitors fetal heartbeat: Noninvasive technique could prevent complications
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny fluctuations in a fetus’s heartbeat can indicate distress, but currently there is no way to detect such subtle variations except during labor, when it could be too late to prevent serious or even fatal ...
ID-theft ruling: Set your own fraud alerts
May 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Companies that sell "identity-theft protection" present an alluring but questionable proposition.
Women with chest pain less likely then men to get proper treatment from paramedics
May 15, 2009 |
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Women with chest pain are less likely than male patients to receive recommended, proven therapies while en route to the hospital, according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Despite evidence ...
Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense
May 13, 2009 |
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One of the major sources of drinking water for south-east Queensland is now under the watchful eye of Australia's largest integrated intelligent wireless sensor network.
Scientists cable seafloor seismometer into California's earthquake network
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2009 |
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A newly-laid, 32-mile underwater cable finally links the state's only seafloor seismic station with the University of California, Berkeley's seismic network, merging real-time data from west of the San Andreas fault with ...
Peer-to-peer heart monitoring
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 09, 2009 |
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The possibility of remote monitoring for chronically ill patients will soon become a reality. Now, researchers in South Africa and Australia have devised a decentralized system to avoid medical data overload. They describe ...
Using wireless sensors to monitor bridge safety
Feb 23, 2009 |
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University of Texas (UT) professor, Dean Neikirk, will be field-testing a new bridge monitoring system within the year. The project is a collaboration between industry, government, and academia that will provide ...
Arsenic and Old Toenails: New research highlights environmental exposure to toxin
Feb 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Leicester and Nottingham have devised a method for identifying levels of exposure to environmental arsenic - by testing toenail clippings.
NO help: Nitric oxide monitoring does not help most children with asthma
Jan 07, 2009 |
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The level of nitric oxide (NO) in an asthmatic's exhaled breath can portend worsening asthma symptoms, and may even signify an imminent attack linked to underlying airway inflammation. This has made the monitoring of NO levels, ...
Researchers illuminate mechanisms that regulate DNA damage control and replication
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Jan 05, 2009 |
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Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have demonstrated important new roles for the protein kinase complex Cdc7/Dbf4 or Cdc7/Drf1 (Ddk) in monitoring damage control during DNA replication and reinitiating ...
Sensor in artery measures blood pressure
Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- High blood pressure can be a trial of patience for doctors and for sufferers, whose blood pressure often has to be monitored over a long time until it can be regulated. This will now be made ...
