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Educational home visits can improve asthma in children, study suggests

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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A few home visits by a health care specialist to educate children with asthma about basic strategies for earlier symptom recognition and improving medication use can lead to fewer flare-ups and less frequent trips to the ...


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Google adds automatic captions to YouTube

Technology / Internet

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google, in a significant development for the deaf, announced on Thursday it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube.


Switching cell phones takes emotional toll

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

She's gone. We were the best of friends, constant companions -- literally, because I carried her day and night in the left-front pocket of my jeans. For five years we roamed the world together, or at least the United States, ...


Swirl uses algorithms, metadata, and facial recognition software to distinguish digital images

Google image search gets a 'swirl'

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Google Labs on Tuesday brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a "Swirl" tool that automatically groups similar images into categories presented on results pages.


Shape perception in brain develops by itself

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Despite minimal exposure to the regular geometric objects found in developed countries, African tribal people perceive shapes as well as westerners, according to a new study.


New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 5

(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 Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | 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 ...


Improving security with face recognition technology

Improving security with face recognition technology

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. ...


Turn On, Tune In, Develop?

Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...


NIST test proves 'the eyes have it' for ID verification

NIST test proves 'the eyes have it' for ID verification

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The eyes may be the mirror to the soul, but the iris reveals a person's true identity—its intricate structure constitutes a powerful biometric. A new report by computer scientists at the National Institute ...


Brain maps help guide you through large-scale space, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Lost? Not sure how to get home? Trying to find your way through the mall or an airport? Help is on the way, thanks to a stack of cells, or neurons, in your head. They're mostly on the left side of the brain in males, on the ...


Google's voice search tool now understands Chinese

Google voice search learns Chinese

Technology / Internet

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

Google's voice search tool now understands Chinese. The Internet giant announced on Monday that users of Nokia S60 series mobile phones could now search the Internet using voice commands in Mandarin Chinese.


Listen, watch, read -- computers search for meaning

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created the first integrated semantic search platform that integrates text, video and audio. The system can 'watch' films, 'listen' to audio and 'read' text to find relevant responses ...


Intelligent system to help autistic children recognize emotions

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are working on the development of an efficient and intelligent facial expression recognition system. The system is capable of locating the face region ...


FBI delves into DMV photos in search for fugitives (AP)

FBI delves into DMV photos in search for fugitives

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of ...