• Science researchers will have ham radio along when they simulate life in a Martian habitat. (arrl.org)
  • His research is still in a very preliminary phase, and complete Martian conditions have yet to be simulated by researchers attempting to grow food. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • To know for sure if it's feasible to grow crops on Mars, as in the book and movie The Martian, researchers will need to simulate conditions more like those seen on the red planet. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The chemical class is created on Earth by certain industrial activities, but researchers haven't yet been able to replicate it accurately in the simulated Martian soil. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • And the SpiNNaker project is going to attempt to build a supercomputer cluster with 1 million processors to simulate the activities of around 1 billion neurons. (theregister.com)
  • Supercomputer software has helped by simulating the exchange of signals between neurons, but even the best software run on the fastest supercomputers to date can only simulate 1% of the human brain. (phys.org)
  • The researchers compared the accuracy, speed and energy efficiency of SpiNNaker with that of NEST-a specialist supercomputer software currently in use for brain neuron-signaling research. (phys.org)
  • As Furber and Brown explain in their paper (PDF) describing the SpiNNaker project, they hope that by creating a silicon analog, they can simulate a more sophisticated neural network (including the spiking behavior that gets neurons to cause other neurons to fire and thus performing the data storage and data processing inside our heads) and get a better sense of how the brain really works. (theregister.com)
  • While everyone in the IT racket is trying to figure out how many Intel Xeon and Atom chips can be replaced by ARM processors, Steve Furber, the main designer of the 32-bit ARM RISC processor at Acorn in the 1980s and now the ICL professor of engineering at the University of Manchester, is asking a different question, and that is: how many neurons can an ARM chip simulate? (theregister.com)
  • The answer, according to Furber's SpiNNaker project, which is being done in conjunction with Andrew Brown of the University of Southampton, is that an ARM core can simulate the activities of around 1,000 spiking neurons. (theregister.com)
  • There is some speculation that data is encoded in the order in which populations of neurons fire, and this, among other things, is what the researchers hope to put to the test as they simulate a 1/100th scale human brain on a million ARM cores. (theregister.com)
  • The statistical results of this article show that BLS price measures are accurately simulated by statistically backing-out each index from its respective supply-chain counterparts. (bls.gov)
  • So even with the impressive million-core SpiNNaker machine, Furber and Brown are only going to be able to simulate about 1 per cent of the complexity inherent in the human brain. (theregister.com)
  • But given their inherent quantum-ness, quantum computers should be able to simulate these properties exactly. (aps.org)
  • New York University researchers have developed a model of the intra-cellular mammalian biological clock that reveals how the rapid interaction of molecules with DNA produces reliable 24-hour rhythms. (scienceagogo.com)
  • The researchers also found that having more molecules in the cell does not necessarily lead to more accurate timekeeping. (scienceagogo.com)
  • Researchers say that quantum computers promise an exponential increase in speed for a subset of computational chores like prime number factorization or exact simulations of organic molecules. (aps.org)
  • Currently, classical computers must make approximations to simulate quantum properties of molecules. (aps.org)
  • Today's supercomputers require several minutes to simulate one second of real time, so studies on processes like learning, which take hours and days in real time are currently out of reach. (phys.org)
  • Astronomers simulate these processes in order to understand them better. (lu.se)
  • Researchers have proposed quantum error correction algorithms, but the Google computer won't use them yet. (aps.org)
  • Even so, researchers think that quantum computers of this scale will be capable of specific tasks, particularly for chemistry problems. (aps.org)
  • To try to do that, the University of Maryland biologist and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University used a reversible technique to simulate blindness by keeping mice with normal vision and normal hearing in complete darkness for a week. (voanews.com)
  • Simulated patients have been successfully utilized for education, evaluation of health care professionals, as well as basic, applied, and translational medical research. (wikipedia.org)
  • Simulated patients (SP) are extensively used in medical and nursing education to allow students to practice and improve their clinical and conversational skills for an actual patient encounter. (wikipedia.org)
  • The use of simulated patients has several advantages.Effectiveness: a SP with extensive clinical out-patient experience, would have first-hand knowledge and experience with the clinical out-patient environment, which should have an advantage over a professional actor who has to learn how to "play the part" of a clinical patient. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study used actors trained to simulate real patients in 400 visits to a wide range of physician practices in Chicago and Milwaukee, including several VA sites. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Unlike real patients, the actors, or "unannounced standardized patients," consistently adhere to a script, enabling researchers to make comparisons of physicians' performance across the visits, said co-author Alan Schwartz, a methodologist and UIC associate professor of clinical decision-making. (sciencedaily.com)
  • They also evaluated total time spent with the simulated patients. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Overall, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) was preferred when compared to sleeve gastrectomy or medical therapy in patients with severe obesity and type 2 diabetes of varying severity, an economic modeling study has found. (medscape.com)
  • The simulated patients were a mean age of 55, 62% were women, and 65% were non-Hispanic White. (medscape.com)
  • Only 14.9% of dentists agreed to treat the simulated HIV-positive patients, 78.5% referred and 6.6% rejected them. (who.int)
  • RÉSUMÉ Il est possible que l'attitude autodéclarée des dentistes vis-à-vis des patients atteints du VIH/sida ne corresponde pas à leur comportement en situation réelle. (who.int)
  • One form of instruction is where a medical professional, a preceptor, teaches the medical student how to perform the examination using a simulated patient as the model. (wikipedia.org)
  • Of greatest interest in this work is, of course, the fundamental question of how concurrency is exploited in the biology that we are trying to model," the two researchers write. (theregister.com)
  • The researchers constructed a model to simulate nationally representative cohorts of US adults with severe obesity and type 2 diabetes, using 1999-2018 cycles of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data. (medscape.com)
  • In health care, a simulated patient (SP), also known as a standardized patient, sample patient, or patient instructor, is an individual trained to act as a real patient in order to simulate a set of symptoms or problems. (wikipedia.org)
  • The researchers studied birds given a simulated bacterial infection in order to stimulate their immune system. (lu.se)
  • Along with Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia , Assistant Professor at UT Austin, and her team, Dr. Jadaun has designed and simulated the first artificial neuron (a cell in the brain) whose functioning can be regulated, realizing neuromodulation. (utexas.edu)
  • We evaluated the stability of Ebola virus on surfaces and in fluids under simulated environmental conditions for the climate of West Africa and for climate-controlled hospitals. (cdc.gov)
  • These experiments were conducted in 2 environmental conditions, 21°C, 40% RH, and 27°C, 80% RH, to simulate a climate-controlled hospital and the environment in West Africa, respectively. (cdc.gov)
  • They are also employed as field researchers on health informatics projects. (wikipedia.org)
  • While simulating the PER2 mutation, they found that circadian oscillations could only be sustained in the presence of molecular noise. (scienceagogo.com)
  • At his Dutch research lab at Wageningen University, two small worms were recently born from a colony living in soil created by NASA to simulate the dirt found on Mars. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The researchers input data for weight loss and regain, diabetes remission, surgical complications, survival, direct medical costs, and quality of life with these three treatments based on previous studies and databases such as STAMPEDE and the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network Bariatric Study. (medscape.com)
  • In my experience, the high-interaction honeypot is the most beneficial because it can completely simulate the production environment. (networkworld.com)
  • The team has used this neuron to simulate diagnosis of breast cancer and shown that it performs the diagnosis with higher accuracy than current AI, while using much lesser energy, smaller area and needing smaller amounts of data. (utexas.edu)
  • This SP simulated the history and examination findings of a paraplegic multiple sclerosis patient. (wikipedia.org)
  • For teaching future healthcare professionals how to perform intimate examinations, a specially trained simulated patient may be used. (wikipedia.org)
  • While working on the organization's Vegetable Production System (Veggie for short), Smith helped create a type of soil called Mars 1A-from which the soil used by researchers like Wamelink is derived. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • On the other end is a low-interaction honeypot that simulates specific functions of a production system. (networkworld.com)
  • Additionally, Michael Havlin introduces some additional methods showing that the CPI for completed vehicles can be simulated with an input price index that includes dealership markups. (bls.gov)
  • The search continues today, with researchers using next-generation instruments and analytical methods to find the "needle in the cosmic haystack. (universetoday.com)
  • This article uses novel statistical methods that simulate these BLS price measures along the gasoline supply chain to demonstrate their internal statistical consistency and to better understand the impact of gas station markups on gasoline inflation. (bls.gov)
  • To simulate the random nature of the biochemical interactions of the mammalian circadian clock, Forger and Peskin tracked the changes in the integer numbers of each type of molecule of the system as these biochemical reactions occur. (scienceagogo.com)
  • Previously, researchers assumed that effects from a compromised immune system only take a day or two to resolve. (lu.se)
  • This was the purpose behind A Sign in Space , a revolutionary art project designed to simulate a First Contact scenario. (universetoday.com)
  • Bright and early on the first day of the 2017 APS March Meeting in New Orleans, researchers from Google, Microsoft, and Harvard University discussed their recent successes and their near-term plans for this nascent technology to a room crammed full of physicists. (aps.org)
  • Together with a team of international experts, including SETI researchers, space scientists, and artists, de Paulis created this campaign to engage the global SETI community and the general public about the possibility of First Contact. (universetoday.com)