Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers and Editage unveil services

New Rochelle, NY, November 9, 2020–Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, a leading international publisher of cutting-edge peer-reviewed journals, and Editage, the flagship brand of Cactus Communications (CACTUS), a technology company accelerating scientific advancement, have announced the author services being offered…

Tiny device enables new record in super-fast quantum light detection

Researchers have developed a tiny device that paves the way for higher performance quantum computers and quantum communications, making them significantly faster than the current state-of-the-art.

Mathematical modeling of processes in neurons to assist the treatment of epilepsy and depression

Mathematical modeling of electro-mechanical processes in neurons to assist the treatment of epilepsy and chronic depression by focused ultrasound

Researchers take a stand on algorithm design for job centers: Landing a job isn’t always the right goal

Imagine that you are a job consultant. You are sitting across from your client, an unemployed individual. After locating them in the system, up pops the following text on the computer screen; ‘increased risk of long-term unemployment’. Such assessments are…

Research lowers errors for using brain signals to control a robot arm

By measuring brain signals and implementing a clever feedback scheme, researchers from India and the UK have reduced the positional error in brain-controlled robot arms by a factor of 10, paving the way to greatly enhancing the quality of life…

CAMERA awarded £10 million for interactive and visual computing research

The University of Bath is thrilled to announce that CAMERA, the Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications , has been awarded over £10m to fund its research in Intelligent Interactive and Visual Computing until 2026. Support…

Cloud-based framework leads to improved efficiency in disaster-area management

For the first time, researchers have implemented a cloud-based, highly efficient control system to aid first responders in disaster-area management. When disaster strikes, nothing is certain. From hazardous chemical leaks to destroyed communications infrastructure, the terrain encountered by first responders…

National Science Foundation establishes a partnership to advance throughput computing

MADISON — Recognizing the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s leadership role in research computing, the National Science Foundation announced this month that the Madison campus will be home to a five-year, $22.5 million initiative to advance high-throughput computing. The Partnership to Advance…

Hazumi datasets for dialogue systems that recognize human sentiment released

A group of researchers from Osaka University has released multimodal human-system dialogue corpora Hazumi on the Informatics Research Data Depository of the National Institute of Informatics (NII). Currently, two datasets in Japanese are available for research and development (R&D) purposes…

Player behavior in the online game EVE Online may reflect real world country

Virtual worlds may reflect social and economic behavior in the real world, according to a study published October 21, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andres M. Belaza and colleagues from Ghent University, Belgium. People around the world…

Examining CBD use for conditions with proven therapies

What The Study Did: Testimonials posted on a social media site were analyzed to examine whether individuals are using the cannabis-derived chemical compound cannabidiol (CBD) in an attempt to treat diagnosable conditions that have evidence-based therapies. Authors: John W. Ayers,…

New discovery opens for breakthrough in laser technology

Aarhus University has received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to investigate nonlinear effects in semiconductor lasers — a stepping-stone to enable next generation higher-order modulation in fiber optic networks

Fellow at Sandia Labs appointed to National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Fellow Gil Herrera has been appointed to the newly established U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee. Herrera is one of two committee members representing the Department of Energy national laboratories. He joins 20 others…

Wearable IT devices: Dyeing process gives textiles electronic properties

Computer scientists at Saarland University show how these special textiles can be produced in a comparatively easy way, thus opening up new use cases. “Our goal was to integrate interactive functionalities directly into the fibers of textiles instead of just…

Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum – Experiment to Experience

Over the past week, the diverse program of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) materialized one session at a time. Many aspects of the actual Forum were mirrored and though replicating the depth of in-person exchanges is impossible, compelling alternatives…

Putting virtual rehab for stroke patients to the test

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have been putting virtual reality rehabilitation for stroke survivors to the test. They have created a new gaming platform which uses low cost videogame technology to improve the lives of stroke patients suffering…

Web resources bring new insight into COVID-19

Researchers around the world are a step closer to a better understanding of the intricacies of COVID-19 thanks to two new web resources developed by investigators at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of California San Diego. The resources…

Telehealth scales up during the pandemic to offer patient care in the safety of the home

The Medical University of South Carolina rapidly adapted telehealth technologies to meet the needs of its patients during the pandemic, report researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Bio-based resin invented by Lithuanian researchers: A breakthrough in rapid prototyping

Lithuanian researchers from Kaunas University of Technology and Vilnius University synthesised and tested a bio-based resin for optical 3D printing; the bio-based resin made from renewable raw materials proved to be universal for multi-scale 3D printing