News tagged with signal processing

NVIDIA dresses up CUDA parallel computing platform

(PhysOrg.com) -- This week’s NVIDIA announcement of a dressed up version of its CUDA parallel computing platform is targeted as a good news message for engineers, biologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Sony develops next-generation back-illuminated CMOS image sensor

Sony today announced that it has developed a new next-generation back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which embodies the continuous evolution of the camera. This image sensor layers the pixel section containing ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers devise new means for creating elastic conductors

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which will contribute to large-scale production of the material for use ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sony develops new 'RGBW coding' and 'HDR movie' functions

Sony Corporation today announced the development of two CMOS image sensor models designed for use in smartphones and other devices. They are equipped with Sony's unique “RGBW Coding” function which ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New research to enhance speech recognition technology

New research is hoping to understand how the human brain hears sound to help develop improved hearing aids and automatic speech recognition systems.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

High-speed CMOS sensors provide better images

Conventional CMOS image sensors are not suitable for low-light applications such as fluorescence, since large pixels arranged in a matrix do not support high readout speeds. A new optoelectronic component ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New device could bring optical information processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists elevate little-studied cellular mechanism to potential drug target

For years, science has generally considered the phosphorylation of proteins -- the insertion of a phosphorous group into a protein that turns it on or off -- as perhaps the factor regulating a range of cellular processes ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Oxidative stress: Less harmful than suspected?

Arterial calcification and coronary heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, cancer and even the aging process itself are suspected to be partially caused or accelerated ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A computer system allows a machine to recognize a person's emotional state

The system created by these researchers can be used to automatically adapt the dialogue to the user's situation, so that the machine's response is adequate to the person's emotional state. "Thanks to this ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Study explains how heart attack can lead to heart rupture

For people who initially survive a heart attack, a significant cause of death in the next few days is cardiac rupture -- literally, bursting of the heart wall.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microfabrication breakthrough could set piezoelectric material applications in motion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Possible treatment target found for main cause of severe liver disease in kids

Unexpected discovery of a new molecular signature for a destructive and often lethal pediatric liver disease may lead to a new therapeutic target for the hard-to-treat condition.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The architects of the brain: Scientists decipher the role of calcium signals

German neurobiologists have found that certain receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate determine the architecture of nerve cells in the developing brain. Individual receptor variants lead to especially long and branched ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Antineoplastic agents associated with thyroid dysfunction

Antineoplastic agents such as immunotherapies and targeted therapies that specifically target signaling pathways in cancer cells are associated with thyroid dysfunction in 20%-50% of cancer patients taking them, which can ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0