Computer scientists from the University of Bonn have developed a new robot whose source code and design plan is publicly accessible. It is intended to facilitate the entry into research on humanoids, in particular, the TeenSize Class of the RoboCup. The scientists recently introduced the new robot at the IROS Conference (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in Portugal. With its white head and black body, "NimbRo-OP" looks almost human. After all, at a height of 95 centimeters, it is almost the size of a small child. Among soccer robots, it counts ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University and IBM Research have developed a new natural language processing tool that businesses or other customers can use to ensure that software developers have a clear idea of the security policies to be incorporated into new software products. Specifically, the research focuses on access control policies (ACPs), which are the security requirements that software developers need to bear in mind when developing new software. For example, an ACP for a university grading program needs to allow professors to give grades to students, ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- In today's globalized economy, a large percentage of apparel products are multinational products as raw materials are produced, transported and assembled in different countries. However, consumers have little information about where and to what extent their apparel is produced domestically or overseas. Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that American consumers place a much higher value on apparel produced entirely in the US with US raw materials as opposed to products produced partially or entirely overseas. The value is so high, in fact, ...

Eliminating bacteria's DNA and boosting antimicrobial proteins that already exist may help prevent middle ear infections from reoccurring. These are the findings from a Nationwide Children's Hospital study that examined how an immune defense protein common in the middle ear interacts with a structure meant to protect a colony of bacteria. The bacterium nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) causes a wide range of diseases of both the lower and upper airways, including middle ear infection. NTHI, like most other bacteria, can form a biofilm, a robust community of ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found a way to create three-dimensional maps of the stress that circulating blood places on the developing heart in an animal model – a key to understanding triggers of heart defects. The team has begun testing the technology to uncover how alcohol, drugs and other factors set off events that result in defects found in newborn humans. Passing blood cells drag on the endothelial cells that line the growing heart, a phenomenon called shear stress, which has been linked to changes in gene expression that results in defects, ...

Using a new method for precisely controlling the deposition of carbon, researchers have demonstrated a technique for connecting multi-walled carbon nanotubes to the metallic pads of integrated circuits without the high interface resistance produced by traditional fabrication techniques. Based on electron beam-induced deposition (EBID), the work is believed to be the first to connect multiple shells of a multi-walled carbon nanotube to metal terminals on a semiconducting substrate, which is relevant to integrated circuit fabrication. Using this three-dimensional fabrication ...

HUNTSVILLE, TX (10/30/12) -- Childhood bullying can lead to long term health consequences, including general and mental health issues, behavioral problems, eating disorders, smoking, alcohol use, and homelessness, a study by the Crime Victims' Institute at Sam Houston State University found. "What is apparent from these results is that bullying victimization that occurs early in life may have significant and substantial consequences for those victims later in life," said Leana Bouffard, Director of the Crime Victims' Institute. "Thus, the adverse health consequences of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (October 29, 2012)—A new analysis of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trials show that women who had metabolic syndrome before they started hormone therapy had a greatly increased risk of heart attack or dying of heart disease. Women who didn't have metabolic syndrome beforehand showed no increased risk. The study was published this month online in Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society. "Our findings emphasize the importance of assessing cardiovascular disease risk status when hormone therapy is considered for relief of menopausal ...

Tropical Storm 02B was renamed Tropical Cyclone Nilam when NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of the storm soaking Sri Lanka on its crawl to a landfall in southern India. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Tropical Cyclone Nilam on Oct. 29 at 2029 4:29 p.m. EDT. At the time of the AIRS image, the strongest storms with coldest cloud top temperatures were covering Sri Lanka and stretched into the open waters of the Northern Indian Ocean. Cloud top temperatures in those areas were ...

NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image Sandy's massive circulation. Sandy covers 1.8 million square miles, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley, into Canada and New England. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image Sandy's massive circulation on October 29 at 18:20 UTC (2:20 p.m. EDT). Sandy covered 1.8 million square miles, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley, into Canada and New England. Sandy made landfall hours after the MODIS image was taken. Sandy was still a hurricane ...

The seventeenth tropical depression of the eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season formed early on October 30 and quickly strengthened into Tropical Storm Rosa. Infrared data from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed strong convection in the storm's center, hinting at that intensification. When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Depression 17E at 5:41 a.m. EDT (0951 UTC) on Tuesday, October 30, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument took an infrared picture of the storm. The AIRS data showed a large, circular area of very strong convection (rising air that ...

New research reports that women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a two-fold increase in risk of preeclampsia—a dangerous condition in which pregnant women develop high blood pressure (hypertension) and protein in their urine (proteinuria) after 20 weeks of gestation. According to the findings published in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), use of Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) during pregnancy was rare in the study population, but women who did use these medications show a statistically non-significant ...

Animals use their noses to focus their sense of smell, much the same way that humans focus their eyes, new research at the University of Chicago shows. A research team studying rats found that animals adjust their sense of smell through sniffing techniques that bring scents to receptors in different parts of the nose. The sniffing patterns changed according to what kind of substance the rats were attempting to detect. The sense of smell is particularly important for many animals, as they need it to detect predators and to search out food. "Dogs, for instance, are quite ...

DETROIT - Waiting too long after a hysterectomy to begin radiation therapy may increase the risk of uterine cancer recurrence, according to a new study from researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The study shows that for patients with uterine cancer not receiving chemotherapy, tumors were more likely to return if radiation therapy was delayed nine weeks or longer following surgery, with only 43 percent having relapse-free survival after five years. By comparison, patients starting radiation treatment soon after surgery had a five-year relapse-free survival ...

BOSTON – Elevated risk of miscarriage, preterm birth, neonatal health complications and possible longer term neurobehavioral abnormalities, including autism, suggest that a class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) should only be prescribed with great caution and with full counseling for women experiencing depression and attempting to get pregnant, say researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Tufts Medical Center and MetroWest Medical Center. "Depression and infertility are two complicated conditions that more often than ...

The risk of maternal complications and preterm deliveries is significantly higher for women undergoing their fifth or more caesarean section, finds a new study published today (31 October) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The study explored the incidence of UK women having Multiple Repeat Caesarean Sections (MRCS), defined as five or more, and the outcomes for them and their babies compared to women having their second to fourth caesarean section. The researchers, from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the University of Oxford ...

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Adiant is offering their CrowdCloud real-time reporting tool for free to assist local communities in sharing potentially life-saving information for the Sandy Superstorm. CrowdCloud's patent pending technology blends the social web with real time local reporting to let you always know what is going on within your community at a hyper-local level. "Our usage statistics have gone though the roof within the last 36 hours," stated Ash Nashed, CEO for Adiant. "The ability to report or learn about flooding water, downed power lines and other events at an extremely ...

The Grauer School will host an Open House event for prospective students and their parents on Saturday, November 3, 2012, on the campus located at 1500 S. El Camino Real in Encinitas from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. Tours will be conducted every 20 minutes and families are encourged to attend to meet with faculty and visit classrooms. The Grauer School is a 6-12 grade college preparatory school that is the regional leader in the small schools movement. The serene campus setting is peaceful and green due to its placement alongside a nature preserve, while having ready access and ...

Capriotti's Sandwich Shop is celebrating this Thanksgiving by giving away ten of their finest 25 pound turkeys, the same turkeys used to make their award-winning subs. Famous for their subs, made with whole roasted turkey, Capriotti's is now giving fans a chance to win a turkey of their own this Thanksgiving with the "Capsgiving" sweepstakes. Beginning today and running through November 10th, fans can enter to win one of ten all natural Butterball turkeys on Capriotti's Facebook page or website. Continuing the Capsgiving spirit, participating Las Vegas area Capriotti's ...

The holidays are coming! Not only is the weather giving clues as to the changing of seasons, but retail establishments are already displaying Christmas decorations, pictures, and singing snowmen. Though it may not be time to deck your halls or to start humming carols, it is the perfect time to begin thinking about making gift lists. GiftWorksPlus, a leading Midwest custom picture frame company, offers meaningful, one-of-a-kind, engraved picture frames, and customized gifts. When selecting holiday presents for friends and loved ones, consider engraved wooden frames that ...

The University of Houston (UH) has invited best-selling author Gustavo Arellano, whose work includes the nationally syndicated column "¡Ask a Mexican!," to launch this year's Food for Thought Lecture Series at 5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15 at the Roy G. Cullen Building, Room 104. The event is free and open to the public. Arellano will discuss his new book, "Taco, USA. How Mexican Food Conquered America," which details why the U.S. loves all things folded in a tortilla, when salsa overtook ketchup as the country's favorite condiment in the 1990s, nachos ...

Interactive Biosoftware (IBS), developer of Alamut, the world's original mutation interpretation software, will showcase its groundbreaking Alamut 2.2 software at the internationally acclaimed American Society of Human Genetics Conference in San Francisco, CA from November 6th to November 10th. The new Alamut 2.2 upgrade is especially useful for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) analysis. "The ASHG annual meeting will give us an opportunity to reveal some of the lesser known, yet valuable features of Alamut 2.2," said Andre Blavier, Founder and CEO of Interactive ...

The Contractor Connection recognizes the top performers in their national contractor network in response to outstanding dedication to quality and excellence in service. This overall excellence award is measured by estimate upload TIP, customer service scores, professionalism in communication, cooperation, and overall POMS scores among others. All winners of this award are provided special recognition among their peers and clients at the 2012 Contractor Connection conference in Nashville, TN. At the conference Cleanrite-Buildrite will receive a special ribbon and a "Golden ...

During a joint meeting, the boards of directors of the Habitat for Humanity affiliates of Seattle/South King County and East King County unanimously voted to merge into a single affiliate serving all of King County. Articles of the Merger have been filed with the Washington Secretary of State in Olympia. The new affiliate will be known as Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King County. The non-profit organization will continue to focus on building and renovating homes to provide affordable housing opportunities for low-income, working families. The merged affiliate will be ...