News tagged with strategy
Intelligent Traffic System Predicts Future Traffic Flow on Multiple Roads
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In urban areas, there’s almost always more than one way to get somewhere, but often it’s difficult to predict which road will be fastest. In an attempt to improve traffic flow and decrease ...
Researchers use drug-radiation combo to eradicate lung cancer
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have eliminated non-small cell lung (NSCL) cancer in mice by using an investigative drug called BEZ235 in combination with low-dose radiation.
Sony chief executive outlines turnaround plan
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sony said it aims to be profitable in gaming and flat-panel TVs by the fiscal year ending March 2011, pushing 3-D technology as a way to showcase its strength in entertainment and surface from deep ...
Faithful males do not bring flowers
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fairy-wrens are notorious for their infidelity: despite living in seemingly harmonious monogamous pairs, females produce mostly illegitimate young, and males spend more time courting other ...
Microsoft raises cloud computing concerns
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Packaged software powerhouse Microsoft on Thursday released a paper outlining privacy concerns businesses should consider prior to leaping into the computing "cloud."
New immunization strategy could halve the doses for stopping computer virus spreading
Aug 18, 2008 |
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Researchers have developed a new immunization strategy that requires up to 50% fewer immunization doses compared with the current most efficient strategy. The new strategy could be used to prevent the spread of human epidemics ...
Game theory and machine learning offer better bidding strategies
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining techniques from game theory and artificial intelligence, computer scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a better way to find the best bidding strategy in a simulated auction ...
Gestures lend a hand in learning mathematics
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Gesturing helps students develop new ways of understanding mathematics, according to research at the University of Chicago.
Researchers study the human factor in spread of pandemic illness
May 12, 2009 |
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Industrial engineers Sandra Garrett of Clemson University and Barrett Caldwell of Purdue University have proposed a new system to warn of an impending pandemic by monitoring signals in human behavior. The system could result ...
Probing Question: How do Ponzi Schemes work?
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Imagine the shock, the horror, and the sheer panic that would come with learning that the financial plan you’d sunk your life savings into was a sham, the financial experts you trusted were crooks, and all your money was ...
HIV dearms protective protein in cells
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 15, 2009 |
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The AIDS-causing HIV specifically counteracts the mechanisms of human cells that protect these against viral infections - a special viral protein marks protective cellular proteins for their rapid destruction and thus diminishes ...
New screening halves the number of children born with Down syndrome
Nov 28, 2008 |
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A new national screening strategy in Denmark has halved the number of infants born with Down's syndrome and increased the number of infants diagnosed before birth by 30%, according to a study published on bmj.com today.
Birds' strategic mobbing fends off parasitic invaders
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Jan 29, 2009 |
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Reed warblers use mobbing as a front line of nest defense against parasitic cuckoos, according to a new report published online on January 29th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Cuckoos act as parasites by lay ...
Variety trade newspaper to charge for online site
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ending a three-year flirtation with free online content, Variety newspaper plans to put some of its Web site content behind a "pay wall" that will require a paid annual subscription, its publisher ...
Analysts pleased with Microsoft's Windows strategy
Jun 28, 2009 |
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Shares of Microsoft Corp. fell more than 1 percent Friday, a day after the software giant announced price cuts will be offered as part of its impending release of a new version of Windows.
