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iPad / iPhone – App for Mobile Signal Processing and Imaging based on Ultrasound Raw Data

Today mobile computing is gaining more importance in medical imaging. Existing solutions provide image display based on DICOM image data but the Fraunhofer…

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MediTRUST – TPM-based VPNs for Confidential Medial Communication

Virtual Private Networks (VPN’s) are a state-of-the-art means to provide privacy during transmission of personal medical data or other critical information. Protection in VPN’s is based on encryption of all IP packages to be transmitted. In case of highly sensible (i.e. medical) content special hardware appliances (VPN-Routers) are used to protect the used cryptographical keys from being recovered by spyware or other malware….

Physics & Astronomy

Nanowires From Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: New Insights

The team, led by Anirudha Sumant, a materials scientist at ANL, will present their research during AVS' 58th International Symposium & Exhibition, held Oct. 30…

Life & Chemistry

In-Vitro Diagnostics: Mobile Systems for Patient-Near Testing

Hence, complicated patient-near sampling and testing can be performed. Via the use of information and communication technologies the system is mobile and can…

Health & Medicine

Body Weight, Sleep-Disordered Breathing, and Child Cognition

“The intricate interdependencies between BMI, SDB and cognition shown in our study are of particular importance in children, as their brains are still rapidly…

Health & Medicine

Low Vitamin D Levels Not Linked to COPD Risk: Study Findings

In the study, a secondary analysis of data from a randomized, controlled trial of the effects of azithromycin on the frequency of AECOPD, no relationship was…

Life & Chemistry

Boosting Inland Fisheries: The Role of Ecolabeling Initiatives

Sustainable seafood initiatives, including certification and ecolabeling and awareness schemes, could be extended to more effectively cover inland, freshwater…

Technology Offerings

Indexed Reversible Transformation (IRT) – Direct editing of compressed data

Many modern computer applications use data compression methods like bzip2 or gzip. Those algorithms do not allow the processing of data in its compressed form,…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Fly Intestine Insights: Clues to Slowing Aging

Long-lived fruit flies offer Salk scientists clues to slowing human aging and fighting diseaseOne of the few reliable ways to extend an organism's lifespan, be…

Health & Medicine

Unsaturated Fat Breakdown Complicates Acute Pancreatitis Risk

Doctors have observed that obese people are at greater risk for adverse outcomes after trauma, severe burns, critical illnesses and acute pancreatitis, which…

Environmental Conservation

New study reveals coral reefs may support much more biodiversity than previously thought

At depths of 26 to 39 feet, the scientists collected dead coral from five different locations. At two sites where removing coral is prohibited, the scientists…

Earth Sciences

Texas A&M professor helping to unravel causes of Ice Age extinctions

Scientists have for years debated the reasons behind the Ice Age mass extinctions, which caused the loss of a third of the large mammals in Eurasia and two…

Life & Chemistry

NIH Scientists Share Progress on Epstein-Barr Virus Vaccine

WHAT: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects nine out of ten people worldwide at some point during their lifetimes. Infections in early childhood often cause no…

Business and Finance

KfW Financing Sees Strong Demand in Q3 2023

In the first nine months of 2011, KfW Bankengruppe made commitments totalling EUR 52.9 billion, confirming the long-term trend of high and rising demand for…

Physics & Astronomy

UCSB physicists identify room temperature quantum bits in widely used semiconductor

The research team discovered that silicon carbide contains crystal imperfections that can be controlled at a quantum mechanical level. The finding is published…

Information Technology

Breakthrough Boosts Software Reliability and Security

Anyone who uses multithreaded computer programs — and that's all of us, as these are the programs that power nearly all software applications including…

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