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3-D Ultrasound Increases Accuracy of Surgical Robots (Oct 31 2006 08:57 GMT) - Interesting research out of Duke University utilizes real time 3D ultrasound to drastically increase the accuracy of surgical robots. Duke University engineers have shown that a three-dimensional ultrasound scanner they developed can successfully guide a surgical robot. The scanner could find application in various medical settings, according to the researchers. They said the scanner ultimately might enable surgeries to be performed without surgeons, a capability that could prove valuable in space stations or other remote locations. "It's the first time, to our knowledge, that anyone has used the information in a 3-D ultrasound scan to actually guide a robot," said Stephen Smith, professor of biomedical engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. |
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Human Rights Watch: Abortion Regulations Undermine Women's Right to Choose (Oct 31 2006 08:55 GMT) - Human Rights Watch: Abortion Regulations Undermine Women’s Right to ChooseSome States Place ‘Undue’ Burden on Access to Abortion(New York, October 30, 2006) – Several U.S. state laws and regulations on abortion chip away at every woman’s right to have a safe and legal abortion, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today. The mounting obstacles to abortion services include in some states a legal requirement to provide medically inaccurate information as part of obligatory pre-abortion counseling. |
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U.S. Trade Officials Claim Moscow, Washington Close to WTO Deal (Oct 31 2006 08:55 GMT) - The United States and Russia are close to a reaching a deal on Moscow's 13-year-old attempt to join the World Trade Organization, U.S. trade officials said on Monday. The talk in Moscow, however, is that Russia may suspend all WTO accession talks until after 2008 unless a deal is reached very soon. |
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Western European process manufacturers to increase IT spending by 5.9% (Oct 31 2006 08:54 GMT) - Packaged software continues to be the fastest growing segment in Western European process manufacturing IT spending YTY, with a CAGR over the forecast period of 5.9%. IT services is the biggest segment, with a market value of $16.8 bln in 2006, and offers good growth, mainly driven by operations management services. Overall hardware growth is [... |
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Online Yellow Pages shares: Yahoo! - 23.9%, Verizon - 20.1% (Oct 31 2006 08:54 GMT) - 68 mln of US Internet users performed an yellow pages search online in July 2006. This represents a 46% increase versus year ago. When analyzing the total share of yellow pages searches, which by their nature have local intent, comScore’s data reveals that Yahoo! Sites and Verizon SuperPages garnered the largest share, with 23. |
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Top sites in Europe in August 2006: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! (Oct 31 2006 08:54 GMT) - Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! sites ranked as the top 3 spots among European Internet users, with each remaining relatively flat versus July. Of the top 10 European sites, Wikipedia saw the greatest gain during August, growing 9% to 50.9 mln visitors. Top sites in Europe |
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Virtual tape libraries to generate $1.4 bln by 2011 (Oct 31 2006 08:54 GMT) - The worldwide VTL market will double in value over the next five years, reaching $1.4 bln by 2011, while the market terabytes will increase at a rapid 47.4% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) over the same period, IDC predicted. |
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US newspaper circulation down 2.8% (Oct 31 2006 08:54 GMT) - Newspaper Association of America (NAA) analysis of data on 770 newspapers released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations found that average daily circulation of US newspapers fell 2.8% to about 43.8 mln copies for the six months ended Sept. 30, 2006. |
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Personal income up 0.5% in September 2006 (Oct 31 2006 08:54 GMT) - Personal income in September 2006 rose at an annual rate of 0.5%, seasonally adjusted; the figure for August 2006 was 0.4%. Personal consumption spending, on the other hand, was essentially flat, rising at an annual rate of only 0. |
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Top news sites in September 2006: Yahoo! News, MSNBC, CNN (Oct 31 2006 08:54 GMT) - Nearly each of the top 10 general news Web sites experienced gains in September 2006 as Americans reflected on the events of September 11th five years ago. Yahoo! News led the pack with 35.8 mln visitors, followed by MSNBC with 27.3 mln visitors and CNN with 24. |
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Age demographics of MySpace visitors (Oct 31 2006 08:54 GMT) - An analysis of visitors to MySpace.com shows that as the site has experienced dramatic visitor growth, it has become more popular among older Internet users. The most significant shift has occurred among teens 12-17, who accounted for 24.7% of the MySpace audience in August 2005, but today represent a much lower 11.9% of the site’s [... |
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"Light Bandage" for Skin Cancer (Oct 31 2006 08:54 GMT) - Professor Ifor Samuel, a physicist from St Andrews University, along with Dr. James Ferguson, head of photobiology at Ninewells Hospital, have teamed up to develop a new way to treat skin cancer. A new light-emitting 'sticking plaster', which will revolutionise the treatment of skin cancer, has been developed by researchers at the University of St Andrews and Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. The new device, which builds on established photodynamic therapy treatment (PDT) methods, not only reduces pain but has the potential to be used by patients in their own home. The breakthrough, a portable lightweight light source powered by a pocket-sized battery, is the brainchild of St Andrews' physicist Professor Ifor Samuel, and dermatology consultant Professor James Ferguson, head of the photobiology unit at Ninewells Hospital Dundee. |
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New Hybrid Microscope Probes Nano-Electronics (Oct 31 2006 08:54 GMT) - New Hybrid Microscope Probes Nano-ElectronicsA new form of scanning microscopy that simultaneously reveals physical and electronic profiles of metal nanostructures has been demonstrated at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado at Boulder. The new instrument is expected to be particularly useful for analyzing the make-up and properties of nanoscale electronics and nanoparticles.Scanning photoionization microscopy (SPIM), described in a new paper,* combines the high spatial resolution of optical microscopy with the high sensitivity to subtle electrical activity made possible by detecting the low-energy electrons emitted by a material as it is illuminated with laser pulses. The technique potentially could be used to make pictures of both electronic and physical patterns in devices such as nanostructured transistors or electrode sensors, or to identify chemicals or even elements in such structures. |
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Development, casinos key to Dist. 1 campaign (Oct 31 2006 08:54 GMT) - years over regulation. Now, he said he hopes to tax casino boat proceeds and block the expansion of gambling. Scott said the gambling boats should instead be charged a passenger boarding fee, which operators had agreed to when Scott ran against Worley in |
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Scientists Convert Modern Enzyme into its Hypothesized Ancestor (Oct 31 2006 08:52 GMT) - Scientists Convert Modern Enzyme into its Hypothesized AncestorSingle amino acid substitution supports theory of common origin some 2.5 billion years agoOctober 30, 2006 -- UPTON, NY - By making a single substitution in the amino acid sequence of a modern enzyme, scientists have changed its function into that of a theoretical distant ancestor, providing the first experimental evidence for the common origin of the two distinct enzyme types. The research, conducted by a team that includes scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, will be published online the week of October 30, 2006, by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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