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Software may speed journey from catwalk to consumer

Software may speed journey from catwalk to consumer

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest fashions could find their way from catwalk to consumers faster in the future, thanks to the work of a student at The University of Manchester.





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Toward long-range beach forecasts on bacterial contamination

Toward long-range beach forecasts on bacterial contamination

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Long-range forecasts of beach bacterial contamination are inching closer to reality because of a new water quality prediction method scheduled for publication in the July 15 issue of the ACS' Environmental Sc ...


Engineers to create parts of virtual crash test dummy

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

You really can learn a lot from a dummy. For decades, automakers have been crashing test dummies to gain insight to how various auto safety systems protect – or fail to protect – people during car accidents. But those dummies ...


Building real security with virtual worlds

Building real security with virtual worlds

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore ...


Study simulated car crashes involving pregnant women

Study simulated car crashes involving pregnant women

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although states are not required to report fetal deaths in accident data, between 300 and 1,000 unborn babies die in car accidents each year. This accident fatality rate is about four times the rate for victims ...


Violent computer games have role in fire safety

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The software code underlying violent computer games can be used to train people in fire safety, new academic research has found.


IBM Accelerates Virtual Desktop With Breakthrough Solution

Technology / Other

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 1

IBM today announced a powerful new solution to help organizations slash virtual desktop infrastructure storage requirements by up to 80 percent, allowing them to take advantage of new cloud computing models at significantly ...


Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Machinists, NC programmers or mechatronics engineers -- trainees in engineering jobs often have to master complex equipment. In the future, trainees will practice and learn milling, turning, drilling and programming ...


New research may save lives in suicide bombings

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Florida Institute of Technology researchers have determined that where a person is standing in a room or other location during a suicide terrorist attack can have a great bearing on survival and injuries.


Assembling the virtual human

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It could mean the end of animal testing and eventually even clinical patient drug trials. The Virtual Physiological Human is a 21st century pan-European project that's gaining momentum and takes a major step forward this ...


Researchers develop virtual streams to help restore real ones

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a unique new computer model called the Virtual StreamLab, designed to help restore real streams to a healthier state. The Virtual StreamLab, which demonstrates the ...



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