Posts Tagged ‘Applied’

Washington, April 1 (ANI): Scientists at Newcastle University, UK, have worked out a mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be. The research, led by Newcastle University's Professor Robin Johnson, was prompted by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami disaster which devastated coastal communities in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. ... Full story

Washington, March 20 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to realising higher speed electronics and higher performance electrical and optical integrated circuits, for they have successfully created a microwave signal ... Full story

Washington, March 3 (ANI): Optical techniques developed by Northwestern University researchers has shown further promise in detecting the presence of pancreatic cancer through analysis of neighbouring tissue in the duodenum, part of the small intestine neighbouring the pancreas. Vadim Backman, professor of biomedical engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern, has revealed that the new technology has shown some promise ... Full story

Washington, Feb 27 (ANI): People who covered their notepads with scribbles may not have had entirely wasted the goal behind attending a dull meeting, suggests a new study, which found that doodling while listening can help with remembering details. As per the study, which has been published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, subjects given a doodling task while listening to a dull phone message had ... Full story

Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): A new study, conducted on mice, has shown that a drug used in a type of hereditary metabolic disorder could improve the memory of people suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Researchers of the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA) of the University of Navarra have shown that the drug sodium phenylbutyrate, prescribed until now for patients with alterations in the urea cycle, eases ... Full story

Washington, Feb 18 (ANI): Dogs owned by people who use confrontational or aversive methods to train their violent pets will continue to remain aggressive, unless training techniques are modified, according to a new survey. Researchers at University of Pennsylvania conducted a year-long survey of dog owners, which also ... Full story

Washington, February 14 (ANI): Scientists have finally turned to the Internet to study why people create and maintain social networks, as it has made it possible to research such issues on a large scale basis. It is said that people form associations because they get something from the interaction, or the person is nearby or is close to them in proximity, age or gender. Noshir Contractor, ... Full story