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Technology, Engineering, and Computer Science
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| (University of Texas at Arlington) UT Arlington electrical engineers have patented an innovative method that improves a controller's ability to make real-time decisions. |
| UT Arlington patent allows real-time learning based on previous decisions |
| (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) At the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in September, members of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology and their colleagues will describe an experiment conducted over six days at a large public garden in Singapore, in which self-driving golf carts ferried 500 tourists around winding paths trafficked by pedestrians, bicyclists, and the occasional monitor lizard. |
| Self-driving golf carts |
| (Office of Naval Research) Technology to impact future amphibious naval operations was in the spotlight Aug. 27, as senior leaders from the Navy and Marine Corps spoke to a packed house at the Office of Naval Research on the topic of 'Expeditionary and Irregular Warfare: The Amphibious High Water Speed Challenge.' |
| Wave of the future: ONR forum looks at amphibious operations |
| (University of Texas at Arlington) A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington has developed a computer program to automatically create a working app from an artist's concepts. The product, called PixeltoApp, may soon enter the marketplace, aided by a National Science Foundation I-Corps grant. |
| New UT Arlington-developed product could help concepts become working apps |
| (DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) This tip sheet includes ORNL lamp simulates sun in tests for NASA; ORNL model examines diabetes progression; Hybrid lubricant holds great promise for engine efficiency; ORNL, partners score success with wireless charging demo; New software helps in design of quantum computers, batteries |
| Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2015 |
| (The Translational Genomics Research Institute) In a first-of-its-kind exploratory study, the Translational Genomics Research Institute has identified a potential gene associated with the initiation of the most common cause of liver damage. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common cause of liver damage. In this study, published in the September edition of Translational Research, TGen scientists sequenced microRNAs from liver biopsies, spelling out their biochemical molecules to identify several potential gene targets associated with NAFLD-related liver damage. |
| TGen study identifies potential genes associated with the most common form of liver damage |
| (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Fred was a hurricane on August 31 and weakened to a tropical storm on September 1 after moving through the Cape Verde Islands and the storm faces more obstacles in the coming days. Visible imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite on September 1 showed a less organized storm than on the previous day. |
| NASA-NOAA satellite shows fred facing a fizzling future |
Education
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| (Association for Psychological Science) People who are born premature tend to accumulate less wealth as adults, and a new study suggests that this may be due to lower mathematics abilities. The findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, show that preterm birth is associated with lower academic abilities in childhood, and lower educational attainment and less wealth in adulthood. |
| Preterm birth linked with lower math abilities and less wealth |
| (Michigan State University) The simple parenting strategy of helping toddlers understand emotion may reduce behavioral problems later on, finds a federally funded study led by a Michigan State University researcher. |
| Helping toddlers understand emotion key to development |
| (University of Alberta) The University of Alberta Faculty of Science continues its leadership in the field of digital learning with the launch of its first electronic textbook this fall. Available as an app through iTunes and Google Play, the textbook is based on the content from the U of A's extremely successful Dino 101 Massive Open Online Course, an introduction to dinosaur paleobiology. |
| There's an app for that |
| (University of Michigan) Daily marijuana use among the nation's college students is on the rise, surpassing daily cigarette smoking for the first time in 2014. |
| Daily marijuana use among US college students highest since 1980 |
| (BMJ) Over 80 percent of medical students with mental health issues feel they receive poor or only moderately adequate support from their medical schools, finds a small online survey published in Student BMJ today. |
| Medical students with mental health problems do not feel adequately supported |
| (American Chemical Society) It's the most important meal of the day. Or is it? Breakfast has been the topic of much debate. For years, we were told to eat a complete breakfast. But what does that even mean? Should a complete breakfast include eggs, or should you avoid them altogether? Does any of this apply to brunch? We settle all of your breakfast concerns in our latest Reactions video. Fire up the toaster, and watch it here: https://youtu.be/837yGlLsHVY. |
| What is a 'complete breakfast'? (video) |
| (Columbia University Medical Center) Vision researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have discovered a gene that causes myopia, but only in people who spend a lot of time in childhood reading or doing other 'nearwork.' |
| Gene leads to nearsightedness when kids read |
Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Sciences
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| (University of Texas at Arlington) UT Arlington electrical engineers have patented an innovative method that improves a controller's ability to make real-time decisions. |
| UT Arlington patent allows real-time learning based on previous decisions |
| (American Geosciences Institute) 2015 represents the bicentenary of the William Smith Map, one of the most important geologic maps ever created and the first national geologic map ever produced. To celebrate, GeoRef, the world's largest geoscience reference database is adding approximately 25,000 map references. |
| GeoRef celebrates the year of the map |
| (DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) This tip sheet includes ORNL lamp simulates sun in tests for NASA; ORNL model examines diabetes progression; Hybrid lubricant holds great promise for engine efficiency; ORNL, partners score success with wireless charging demo; New software helps in design of quantum computers, batteries |
| Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2015 |
| (University of California - Santa Barbara) Medical research has yet to discover an Alzheimer's treatment that effectively slows the disease's progression, but neuroscientists at UC Santa Barbara may have uncovered a mechanism by which onset can be delayed by as much as 10 years. |
| Studying the outliers |
| (eLife ) Scientists developed a new way to produce images from echolocation, uncovering a new set of cues available to bats and a new phenomenon of 'acoustic camouflage' available to prey. |
| First imagery from echolocation reveals new signals for hunting bats |
| (University of California - San Diego) An international research team, headed by Joseph Vinetz, MD, professor of medicine at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and director of the UC San Diego Center for Tropical Medicine and Travelers Health, has been awarded a 5-year, $1.89 million cooperative agreement to carry out transnational research studies of leptospirosis, an infectious and sometimes fatal bacterial disease endemic in much of the world. |
| UC San Diego scientists investigate global hemorrhagic fever bacterial disease |
| (Bielefeld University) Light-absorbing films can be found in many everyday applications such as solar cells or sensors. Although such 'absorber' films are applied widely, scientists still do not know which mechanism permits the most efficient absorption of light. A team of physicists at Bielefeld University, the University of Kaiserslautern, and the University of Würzburg have now proved that the very efficient scattering of light in ultra-thin rough films traps light until it is absorbed completely. |
| Hot electrons point the way to perfect light absorption |
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