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- Scanning babies' fingerprints could save lives through vaccination tracking
- New technology may lead to prolonged power in mobile devices
- Can cartoons be used to teach machines to understand the visual world?
- Conflictive animations support the development of programming skills
- Computational model: Ebola could infect more than 1.4 million people by end of January 2015
| Scanning babies' fingerprints could save lives through vaccination tracking Posted: 26 Sep 2014 11:10 AM PDT Each year 2.5 million children die worldwide because they do not receive life-saving vaccinations at the appropriate time. Now researchers are developing a fingerprint-based recognition method to track vaccination schedules for infants and toddlers, which will increase immunization coverage and save lives. |
| New technology may lead to prolonged power in mobile devices Posted: 26 Sep 2014 08:20 AM PDT Researchers have created technology that could be the first step toward wearable computers with self-contained power sources or, more immediately, a smartphone that doesn't die after a few hours of heavy use. |
| Can cartoons be used to teach machines to understand the visual world? Posted: 26 Sep 2014 07:09 AM PDT An enormous gap exists between human abilities and machine performance when it comes to understanding the visual world from images and videos. Humans are still way out in front. |
| Conflictive animations support the development of programming skills Posted: 26 Sep 2014 05:56 AM PDT Traditional educational tools present information to students in a conventional way: what they present is true and students are expected to learn what is presented. Educators have now developed a tool that tricks students during their learning process. They use "conflictive animations" to teach computer programming, which is a very challenging topic for students due to its abstract nature. |
| Computational model: Ebola could infect more than 1.4 million people by end of January 2015 Posted: 26 Sep 2014 05:55 AM PDT The Ebola epidemic could claim hundreds of thousands of lives and infect more than 1.4 million people by the end of January, according to a statistical forecast released this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC forecast supports the drastically higher projections released earlier by a group of scientists, including epidemiologists with the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, who modeled the Ebola spread as part of a National Institutes of Health-sponsored project called Midas, short for Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study. |
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