• Thus, the faith has nothing to fear from what atomic physicists have been discovering since the turn of the 20th century. (remnantnewspaper.com)
  • Researchers in a U.S. consortium led by the Department of Energy's Fermilab , in Chicago, say they are moving closer to solving one of the biggest challenges posed by quantum computing: the "error factor. (fiberguide.net)
  • A federal grant of $115 million is funding work at Fermilab - a leading player in research on the peculiar behavior of qubits as a computational resource - and the other institutions in the consortium, called the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, or SQMSC, to advance quantum computing. (fiberguide.net)
  • Carnegie Mellon University researchers Alessandro Oltramari and Christian Lebiere have developed computerized surveillance software that could replace humans monitoring camera feeds for signs of suspicious behavior and predict what people will do. (acm.org)
  • Economists can predict business cycles more accurately than applied physicists can predict the stuff we really care about, like weather and earthquakes and tsunamis. (themoneyillusion.com)
  • For example, research on slime molds (one celled amoeba known as physarum polycephalum) has shown brainless entities can make decisions, remember, change their behavior patterns in light of changing stimuli and even solve the armed bandit problem (Reid, MacDonald et al. (articlebiz.com)
  • Single genes or gene complexes are frequently 'associated' with mental health diagnoses, personality traits, or behavior patterns. (tripod.com)
  • While the existing infrastructure did not permit the production of nuclear weapons, the possibility of using it for defense purposes was privately acknowledged and informed the plans. (tripod.com)
  • Nuclear technology promised both energy for development and powerful weapons for defense. (tripod.com)
  • RFE/RL correspondent Jeremy Bransten spoke with British nuclear physicist Frank Barnaby, who explains the science of Tehran's nuclear programs. (rferl.org)
  • said American physicist Richard Feynman before computer scientists at a conference in 1981 . (purdue.edu)
  • This hurdle is holding back scientists from not only better understanding caffeine's behavior, but also from more efficiently solving problems in drug research, encryption and cybersecurity, financial services, data analysis and supply chain logistics. (purdue.edu)
  • Scientists and engineers employ fracture mechanics principles to unravel the factors influencing the initiation, propagation, and ultimate failure of cracks. (factsnfun.com)
  • THE NEW FORMULA HELMET BUILT FROM THE INSIDE OUT The Formula's Adaptive Impact System (AIS) is the result of years of collaborated research and design with industry leading doctors, scientists, and physicists from around the world. (wps-inc.com)
  • MEET THE DOCTORS, AND SCIENTISTS DON MORGAN Physicist Don Morgan is the inventor of Conehead technology. (wps-inc.com)
  • Fractures unveil a fascinating narrative of material behavior under stress, unveiling intricate stories written in the language of stress intensity factors, fracture toughness, and crack propagation. (factsnfun.com)
  • The researchers presented a paper at the recent Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security conference saying the system's goal is "to approximate human visual intelligence in making effective and consistent detections. (acm.org)
  • Each of these areas would be significantly enhanced if computers could factor in more variables and process them at the same time. (purdue.edu)
  • Irregularities or stress concentrations in a material can significantly impact its fracture behavior. (factsnfun.com)
  • This article discusses a possible aspect of the natural world that transcends the functions of brain and mind, facilitates decision making and intelligent behavior and operates according to electro-information principles. (articlebiz.com)
  • You'll become acquainted with the physicists who defined the "Urbana spirit" while making seminal discoveries that changed the world. (illinois.edu)
  • On July 4, 2012, physicists around the world celebrate the announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson-the quantum excitation of the Higgs field that is the linchpin of the standard model of particle physics. (illinois.edu)
  • Two prominent physicists, Richard Garwin, the former director of IBM's Thomas J. Watson research lab, and William Happer, a senior member of the Princeton Plasma Physics lab and a former director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, wrote to Science editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy and tried to convince him not to publish the paper. (newenergytimes.com)
  • Illinois Physics Professors Robert G. Leigh and Philip Phillips along with postdoctoral fellow Mohammad Edalati and graduate student Ka Wai Lo show how charged black holes can be used to model the behavior of interacting electrons in unconventional superconductors, using string theory. (illinois.edu)
  • The American physicist Robert L. Parker wrote in Nature [3], in a worst-case scenario involving the crash of a Boeing 747, that about 250,000 people would run health risks (or near-poisoning) as a result of inhalation or swallowing of uranium oxide particles. (ratical.org)
  • This social knowledge begins to develop in infancy, and guides human beliefs about others and social behavior. (ucla.edu)
  • Taylor is also among the founders of health psychology and is renowned for her contributions on how stress affects health and how social factors are able to buffer this effect. (ucla.edu)
  • Her "tend-and-befriend" model posits that people, especially women, respond to stress by protecting or nurturing others and seeking out members of their social group for mutual defense. (ucla.edu)
  • A corollary to this issue, that is also often asked about, is how is it that Man has advanced technology and physical science, yet at this same time, his collective behavior is still so barbaric? (blogspot.com)
  • The increased residence time inside the passed-through nucleons (with their inherently ultrafast quark motions) reduces the equivalence time by a factor of perhaps 1.000 to the order of 1 day. (lifeboat.com)
  • My husband IS a physicist and he spent some time working for a DOD contractor in the U.S. before 9/11 subsequent to which we decided to leave the U.S. He has looked long and carefully at all the evidence and has some thoughts about it. (cassiopaea.org)
  • showed that we would see a factor of five or more performance improvement over conventional silicon devices. (acm.org)
  • Fracture mechanics introduces the concept of critical stress intensity factor (KIC), a parameter crucial for predicting when a crack in a material will propagate. (factsnfun.com)
  • By scrutinizing the behavior of fractures on a geological scale, physicists contribute to our comprehension of Earth's dynamic processes. (factsnfun.com)
  • A review of the factors that contribute to such a potentially insecure environment, together with the identification of the vulnerabilities, is important for understanding why these vulnerabilities persist and what the solution space should look like. (dovepress.com)
  • In recent years, physicists including those in Ketterle's group have developed magnetic and laser-based techniques to bring atoms down to ultracold temperatures. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The retort is that applied physicists are good at predicting stuff we don't care about, like the orbits of Jupiter's moons. (themoneyillusion.com)
  • Socio-demographic, behavioral, and psychological factors sway a person's overall adaptation of good practices. (bvsalud.org)
  • In their experiments, the physicists observed this effect in a cloud of lithium atoms. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Ruben Navarrette was outraged by the behavior of some people in the wake of the massacre of schoolchildren in Connecticut. (blogspot.com)
  • Coping with the odd behavior of qubits is the key to future applications of powerful quantum computing, including military defense, secure messaging and bank transactions, even for deciphering dark matter. (fiberguide.net)
  • In 1964, the great Alaskan earthquake focused attention on Alaska and was a major factor in the establishment of the concept of subduction in the early days of plate tectonics. (press-news.org)
  • The son of assassinated RFK, he held a position as the lead lawyer for the National Resource Defense Council and served as a professor at Pace University when he found out about the major problems with vaccines. (wanttoknow.info)
  • Background Personal Hygiene behavior and practices play a major role in health promotion and disease prevention. (bvsalud.org)
  • This Supplement will collect data on the three major risk factors for coronary heart disease -- high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure and cigarette smoking. (cdc.gov)
  • The proposed questions comprise the Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Supplement (Attachment A). This supplement will collect data on the prevalence of cigarette smoking and awareness and treatment of the two other major cardiovascular disease risk factors (high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure). (cdc.gov)
  • A structured questionnaire containing close-ended questions was used for data collection regarding personal hygiene behavior and practices. (bvsalud.org)
  • 2. These data will support the three risk factor education programs administered by the Office of Prevention, Education, and Control of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. (cdc.gov)
  • Using 2019 data, we compared patient demographic and lifestyle risk factors using 2 test for biologic prescriptions and corticosteroids with or without biologics prescriptions. (cdc.gov)
  • These two factors, along with its rapidly scaling miniaturization and low energy consumption, led to the MOSFET becoming the most widely used type of transistor in IC chips. (wikipedia.org)
  • Little did he know that a fudge factor he inserted to make the math work actually expressed a universal constant in a nature according to which radiant energy is emitted as discrete packets-quanta-rather than a smooth continuum. (remnantnewspaper.com)
  • However, in the case of the WTC towers there are several factors that point to something other than standard technology being used to demolish towers. (cassiopaea.org)
  • To account for this increased susceptibility, ATSDR applies age-dependent adjustment factors (ADAFs) to its cancer risk equation for these contaminants. (cdc.gov)
  • SPECIAL NOTE OMB Supporting Statement OMB SUPPORTING STATEMENT This statement is submitted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), in support of a Cardiovascular Risk Factor Supplement to be added to the Current Population Survey (CPS). (cdc.gov)
  • The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Department of Health and Human Services is requesting that a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Supplement be added to the September 1989 and 1990 Current Population Survey. (cdc.gov)
  • The proposed supplement will be the first collection on the CPS of detailed information regarding the other risk factors of coronary heart disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Create solutions to problems by identifying and applying human factors in design. (teachengineering.org)
  • Surely all it would take is a qualified physicist to explain to Tarpley the physical impossibility of such weaponry? (cassiopaea.org)
  • Understanding how materials behave under dynamic loading is crucial for applications like impact resistance in materials used in aerospace or defense. (factsnfun.com)
  • Quite the contrary, what they have found has vindicated the Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics of matter and form in a way that honest physicists have come to acknowledge, as I discuss below. (remnantnewspaper.com)
  • The route of exposure, type, and form of a substance, among other factors, influence how much of a substance is absorbed into the bloodstream. (cdc.gov)
  • From 2000 to 2005, INTERPHONE interviewed 14,000 adults about their cell phone use, other exposures to RF radiation, and other factors conceivably related to brain cancer. (cdc.gov)
  • To designate a pattern of behavior as a mental health disorder is a value judgment, or at best a statistical observation. (tripod.com)
  • Linear regression modeling revealed that the inorganic N species (particularly NO3), and inherent edaphic factors were the key determinants of high (de)nitrification rates, hence warn of accelerated N losses in these ecosystems. (bvsalud.org)