Above are the deaths and hospitalizations that have already occured in the USA. A normal US flu season kills 36,000 people each year. Flu season in the USA is from September to about March the next year. Up to half of the population of the U.S. could come down with the swine flu and 90,000 …
Microstructure of passive and active F-actin solutions and networksvisualized by electron microscopy (A–C) and fluorescence microscopy (A–CInsets, E, and F). (A) Passive solutions are isotropic, homogeneous, and unbundled.(B) Active solutions ([myosin]/[actin] 0.02 and 5 mMATP) are still homogeneous(Inset), but the myosin locally aligns and bundles the actin filaments. (C)Active networks ([FLNa]/[actin] 0.005, [myosin]/[actin] …
William J. Dally Chief scientist, Nvidia Corp predicts Nvidia GPUs in 2015 will be implemented on 11 nm process technology that feature roughly 5,000 cores and 20 teraflops of performance. Throughput processors have hundreds of cores today and will have thousands of cores by 2015. Performance scaling of single-thread processors stopped in 2002, Dally said, …
The helicopter flight was not successful in maintaining constant tension or position for hanging the 1 kilometer long tether for the space elevator games. This resulted in a safety device dropping the line – which means we’ll have to do this yet again, until we get it right, and so the games cannot proceed as …
The figure below shows the architecture of the new VectorWise engine. Theleft part shows the system architecture (“X100” execution engine andColumnBM buffer manager) and how it maps on the computer resources(CPU cache, RAM and disk). The right part shows a query in action, havingbeen decomposed into so-called relational operators (Aggregate, Project,Select and Scan) and execution …
Shown in the image are depictions of (top) a conventionally calcined c-oriented silicalite-1 zeolite membrane and (bottom) an identically oriented membrane that has undergone rapid thermal processing (RTP). Red and green regions in the 3D schematics are indicative of zeolite crystal grains and defects/grain boundaries, respectively. A scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of the membrane …
Rod Adams at Atomic Insights talks about the joint venture between China and South Africa to develop pebble bed reactor technology China has started construction of the first of many 210 MWe high temperature reactors which they are targeting to complete in 2013. The first commercial-scale plant (HTR-PM) in China will make use of indirect …
Two thirds of the temperature warming of the Atlantic is because of less dust from Volcanoes over the last thirty years. This also means the ideas of adding volcanic dust into the air would work for cooling the climate if necessary. Researchers have calculated how much of the Atlantic Oceans warming observed during the last …
Alberta has several large scale pilot projects to perform many more oil refining and combustion steps underground and coal gasification underground. The advantages can be significantly lower costs and improved environmental effects. This site has covered the work of Petrobank to develop the THAI (Toe-to-Heel Air Injection)and CAPRI processes for upgrading oilsand bitumen underground for …
Biofeedback Method to Put Oneself into Memorize ModeWhen the medial temporal lobe, a region of the brain associated with memory formation, is active you will be able memorize what is happening and when it is not then you will forget it. An iPhone could be connected to a magnetoencephalograph to read theta waves and biofeedback …
Caustic Graphics Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.) is a startup company that claims to have made a breakthrough in the hardware acceleration of ray-traced graphics. Caustic claims a 20 times speedup for better graphics algorithms hardcoded into silicon now and 200 times faster for next generation in 2010. Caustic said it’s first-generation technology will deliver an …