• In popular culture, augmentative/alternative communication (AAC) is often depicted as a speech-generating device or computer, such as the model used by famous theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking. (indiana.edu)
  • Mark, of WeAreChange Boston, recently met with world renowned theoretical physicist and author, Dr. Michio Kaku. (911blogger.com)
  • In a recent study , Brooks and other researchers found that most women (85.9 per cent) would accept an increase in screening frequency if they were at higher risk, but fewer (49.3 per cent) would agree to a reduction in screening frequency if they were at lower risk. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Although Lawrence was interested in the practical applications of his invention in medicine and biology, the cyclotron also was applied to a variety of experiments in a subfield of physics called "high-energy physics. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Some of the radiation can be stopped by using a lead or concrete shield around the computer or placing it underground like physicists do with other experiments that are sensitive to cosmic rays. (newscientist.com)
  • The synchrocyclotron is a large electromagnetic apparatus designed to accelerate atomic and subatomic particles at high energies. (wikisummaries.org)
  • By the early 1920's, the experimental work of physicists such as Ernest Rutherford Rutherford, Ernest and George Gamow Gamow, George demanded that an artificial means be developed to generate streams of atomic and subatomic particles at energies much greater than those occurring naturally. (wikisummaries.org)
  • By the end of the war, increases in the public and private funding of scientific research and a demand for even higher energy particles created a situation in which this plan looked as if it would become reality, were it not for an inherent limit in the physics of cyclotron operation. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Haiyan Gao (Chinese: 高海燕) is a Chinese-American nuclear physicist whose research concerns the structure of nucleons, quantum chromodynamics, and low-energy fundamental symmetries and symmetry violations, and has included accurate measurements of the size of protons. (wikipedia.org)
  • Undergraduate physicists are more often introduced to quarks as objects with flavour quantum numbers that build up mesons and baryons in bound states of twos and threes. (cerncourier.com)
  • That radiation isn't a problem for quantum computers yet because there are other sources of noise that are more prevalent, they say, but as quantum computers get better over the next decade, it could be a limiting factor. (newscientist.com)
  • Gao grew up in Shanghai, and was encouraged to go into science by her father and by a female high school physics teacher. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the end of the interview, Feldman points to Japan and China where some of the most interesting high energy physics is happening, and he notes the value that particle physics is contributing to deep learning and artificial neural nets. (aip.org)
  • The three-day meeting, held in a 19th century building of the German Physical Society , brought together physicists, astronomers, and computer scientists for the purpose of identifying "a common set of needs," says meeting organizer Karl Mannheim, an astrophysicist from the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany. (aps.org)
  • Radiation Exposure and Contamination Ionizing radiation injures tissues variably, depending on factors such as radiation dose, rate of exposure, type of radiation, and part of the body exposed. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The equivalent dose is the absorbed dose multiplied by a radiation weighting factor that adjusts for tissue effects based on the type of radiation delivered (eg, x-rays, gamma rays, electrons). (msdmanuals.com)
  • For x-rays, including CT, the radiation weighting factor is 1. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Radiation may be harmful if the total accumulated dose for a person is high, as when multiple CT scans are done, because CT scans require a higher doses than most other imaging studies. (msdmanuals.com)
  • These programs provide resources and information about minimizing radiation exposure to radiologists, medical physicists, other imaging practitioners, and patients. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Estimated risk of cancer due to radiation exposure in diagnostic imaging has been extrapolated from studies of people exposed to very high radiation doses (eg, survivors of the atomic bomb explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Space tornadoes are rotating plasmas of hot, ionized gas flowing at speeds of more than a million miles per hour, far faster than the 200 m.p.h. winds of terrestrial tornadoes, according to Andreas Keiling, a research space physicist at the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory. (universetoday.com)
  • Feldman discusses his postgraduate research at SLAC where he worked closely with Roy Schwitters in Burt Richter's group measuring the form factors of baryons and pions. (aip.org)
  • We are predicting a range of inexpensive, abundant, non-toxic materials in which the band structure can be widely tuned for maximal thermoelectric efficiency," says Junqiao Wu, a physicist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a professor with UC Berkeley's Department of Materials Science and Engineering who led this research. (lbl.gov)
  • Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) , Manhattan Project refers specifically to the period of the project from 1941-1946 under the control of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The shortage of tenure-track positions (only about 14%-23% of PhD level biologists, chemists, or physicists hold tenure-track positions after five years) leads to a fierce competition between scientists for those jobs. (phys.org)
  • Breast cancer risk is based on family history, genetic makeup, personal and medical history and lifestyle factors, says the PERSPECTIVE I&I material I received. (healthydebate.ca)
  • In particular, in the 2003 heatwave, which affected most of Europe, the average temperature was 3°C more than the normal value for the summers from 1961 to 1990 with the most significant increases being in central France, Switzerland, northern Italy and southern Germany", stressed Marco Cony, co-author of the study and physicist at the UCM. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A study published in PLOS Biology that investigates what factors scientists reputations are judged on gave a clue as to why this problem exists. (phys.org)
  • The strong correlation between a journal's impact factor and the number of papers it retracts, found in a study in 2011 , supports the notion that scientists are more likely to take risks and forget scientific vigor in order to publish in high impact journals. (phys.org)
  • When interviewing PERSPECTIVE I&I co-investigator Jennifer Brooks for this article, I disclosed I'm in her study and that's how I found out I'm high risk. (healthydebate.ca)
  • 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)
  • The decrease in days of extreme cold and increase in days of extreme heat are due to both local and global factors, according to the scientists. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Gymnasts are tasked to perform more spectacular routines at every competition, while scientists are expected to publish several high impact papers a year. (phys.org)
  • Most scientists agree that impact factors are an imperfect measure of quality, but they are an easy metric. (phys.org)
  • Employing some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shown that mismatched alloys are a good match for the future development of high performance thermoelectric devices. (lbl.gov)
  • Elastic scattering by the point-like electrons revealed the spatial distribution of the proton's charge, and cross sections had to be modified by form-factors as a result. (cerncourier.com)
  • And the main way scientific success is judged in job or grant applications is the number of high impact publications an investigator has authored. (phys.org)
  • Junqiao Wu, a Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley physicist, used a NERSC supercomputer to show that the thermoelectric performance of highly mismatched alloys can be substantially enhanced by the introduction of oxygen impurities. (lbl.gov)
  • Oxygen atoms (dark blue) are surrounded by high electronic density regions. (lbl.gov)
  • Studies of scattering at ever higher and lower scales continue to bear fruit to this day. (cerncourier.com)
  • In 1821, the German-Estonian physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck observed that a temperature difference between two ends of a metal bar created an electrical current in between, with the voltage being directly proportional to the temperature difference. (lbl.gov)
  • With HL-LHC-as the luminosity boost is called-the number of computing tasks is expected to jump by a factor of 50 to 100, which is beyond the current capacity of the LHC grid. (aps.org)
  • Current technology uses high-speed centrifuges. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • By return mail I was told I was at "high risk" for breast cancer. (healthydebate.ca)
  • If the new risk-assessment tool can identify women at higher or lower risk for breast cancer, it might be possible for them to be screened more or less, based on their risk. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Someone who is high risk, like me, has a greater estimated lifetime risk of developing breast cancer (up to 85 per cent) than the general population (10 to 12 per cent). (healthydebate.ca)
  • High-risk candidates are referred for MRI, which addresses some of the screening limitations of mammography for women at high risk, Cancer Care Ontario tells health-care providers on its website. (healthydebate.ca)
  • To account for this increased susceptibility, ATSDR applies age-dependent adjustment factors (ADAFs) to its cancer risk equation for these contaminants. (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)
  • The theory of the bomb was worked out by physicists mobilized primarily under the authority of the US army. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • When designing qubits, one of the most important factors is the coherence time, which is the amount of time a qubit can remain in a particular state . (newscientist.com)
  • This is one important factor in explaining her longevity as chancellor. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • No, low, and high-tech devices may also be used in combination with each other, especially in cases where it might be impractical to use a high-tech AAC device, such as in a swimming pool. (indiana.edu)
  • The results were comparable to reward-based responses normally seen in the context of money, leading the authors to dub impact factors the "currency of science. (phys.org)
  • She had consistently high personal ratings, even if her party did not. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • Experts warn that excessive heat can cause stress, worsening of diseases and even death, such as in the summer of 2003, when over 30,000 people died throughout Europe from the high temperatures. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The effective dose is higher in young people. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Impact factors of journals are one popular measure in use. (phys.org)
  • Publishing in high impact journals has disproportional advantages for the authors, compared to publishing the same data in a "lesser" journal. (phys.org)
  • To avoid that storage nightmare, the SKA collaboration plans to reduce the data-through processing-by about a factor of 1000. (aps.org)
  • In 2026, the LHC plans to boost its luminosity by a factor of 10, which will mean tripling the amount of data stored each year. (aps.org)
  • For example, an adult with mild expressive aphasia (an acquired language disorder), may primarily use no-tech or low-tech strategies, such as gesturing, writing, or drawing, while a child with cerebral palsy (a congenital motor disorder), may opt for a high-tech, speech-generating device with a key guard, allowing for greater fine motor control when pressing on the screen (Figure 1). (indiana.edu)