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Improving Your Fitness And Environmental Impact With Support And Encouragement From Your Cell Phone

Planning on gobbling a few extra treats this holiday season? Soon, your cell phone may be able to help you maintain your exercise routine and keep the pounds off over winter months, without your having to lift a finger to keep track. Researchers at the University of Washington and Intel have created two new cell phone applications, dubbed UbiFit and UbiGreen, to automatically track workouts and green transportation.
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11/20/2008 | Environment - IT / Internet / E-mail | Trackback | Comments Off

Program Created To Calculate Body Shape

Imagine you are a police detective trying to identify a suspect wearing a trench coat, baggy pants and a baseball cap pulled low. Or imagine you are a fashion industry executive who wants to market virtual clothing that customers of all shapes and sizes can try online before they purchase. Perhaps you want to create the next generation of "Guitar Hero" in which the user, not some character, is pumping out the licks.
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10/28/2008 | Fitness - IT / Internet / E-mail | Trackback | Comments Off

Urban Dwellers’ Vulnerability To Heat In Face Of Climate Changes

Sophisticated climate and environmental data will be combined with social science knowledge by a team of Arizona State University researchers investigating human vulnerability to deadly heat exposure.
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10/27/2008 | Environment - IT / Internet / E-mail | Trackback | Comments Off

NCAR Launches Intensive Study Into Future Hurricane Risk

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), working with federal agencies and universities as well as the insurance and energy industries, has launched an intensive study to examine how global warming will influence hurricanes in the next few decades. The goal of the project is to better inform coastal communities, offshore drilling operations, and other interests that could be affected by changes in hurricanes.
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10/11/2008 | Environment - IT / Internet / E-mail | Trackback | Comments Off

Ecological Experiment Simulates Conditions In 2100

A new experiment to find out how British plant ecosystems may be affected by future changes to climate and biodiversity is underway at Imperial College London. The experiment will simulate predicted future rainfall patterns in a semi-natural grassland at Imperial's Silwood Park campus in Berkshire, and scientists will assess how differing levels of plant diversity affect the ecosystem's response to climate stress.
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09/29/2008 | Environment - IT / Internet / E-mail | Trackback | Comments Off

Better Best Before Dates

Advances in sensing technology will help to reduce the wastage from 'farm to fork' that's contributing to the UK's £10 billion food wastage bill, according to the UK's Sensors & Instrumentation Knowledge Transfer Network. Sensors can detect early indicators of food spoilage before visual signs are apparent, identify toxins and monitor water and nutrient concentration within the soil to improve irrigation efficiency.
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09/24/2008 | Environment - IT / Internet / E-mail | Trackback | Comments Off

Explaining Fast Water Transport In Nanotubes With The Help Of Simulations

By discovering the physical mechanism behind the rapid transport of water in carbon nanotubes, scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to ultra-efficient, next-generation nanofluidic devices for drug delivery, water purification and nano-manufacturing. "Extraordinarily fast transport of water in carbon nanotubes has generally been attributed to the smoothness of the nanotube walls and their hydrophobic, or water-hating surfaces," said Narayana R.
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09/18/2008 | Environment - IT / Internet / E-mail | Trackback | Comments Off

Hotline To The Cowshed

A wireless measuring system, consisting of sensors and transmission units, helps to keep livestock healthier with a minimum use of resources. Gone are the good old days when farmers knew all their cows by name. There is little time left for the animals in today's dairy industry. And it is easy to overlook the first signs of disease. This situation can now be remedied by a tiny sensor in the cow's rumen, which monitors the animal's state of health and raises the alarm in good time.
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09/09/2008 | Environment - IT / Internet / E-mail | Trackback | Comments Off

Using Mathematics To Show How Environmental Change Affects Populations

Populations of wild animals face the challenge of surviving in a changing climate. Researchers at Imperial College London and Universite Claude Bernard Lyon have shown how a sheep population on a remote island off the west coast of Scotland responds to two consequences of climate change: altered food availability and the unpredictability of winter storms. Dr.
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09/08/2008 | Environment - IT / Internet / E-mail | Trackback | Comments Off

NSF Funds 3-Year Study Of Weather, Climate Change Computation In Collaboration With NCAR, COLA And UC-Berkeley

The development of powerful supercomputers capable of analyzing decades of data in the blink of an eye mark a technological milestone capable of bringing comprehensive changes to science, medicine, engineering, and business worldwide.
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09/06/2008 | Environment - IT / Internet / E-mail | Trackback | Comments Off

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