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First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Learn electrical safety to avoid shocking encounters

You likely do a lot in the name of safety.Ideally, you wear seat belts and bike helmets. You might learn to swim. You obey the speed limit and look both ways before crossing the street, just to name a few.In many cases, those safety habits are second ... [Published Scranton Times-Tribune - 10 hours ago]

Entities: PPL Electric Utilities Corp, Electric current, Property

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Nutrients

'Shock treatment' boosts math skills

India May 18(IM):It is an electric idea. By zapping the brain during mathematical lessons, scientists have improved students' numerical skills by a third. The participants to the study also learned arithmetic up to five times faster.The researchers carried ... [Published Indian Mirror - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Electric current, Arithmetic, Nutrients, Biology, Oxygen

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Estimating Internal Air Cooling Temperature Reduction in a Closed Box Utilizing Thermoelectrically Enhanced Heat Rejection

An earlier article in this column considered the problem of cooling electronic components in a closed box [1]. In outdoor applications for example, it may be necessary to totally seal the box to prevent exposure to airborne particulates, water droplets ... [Published Electronics Cooling - May 18 2013]

Entities: Heatsink, Electric current, Vector

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

University of British Columbia

Cognitive enhancement in the future: electric brain stimulation plus cognitive training?

Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps People Learn Math Faster (Wired): “…scientists stimulated volunteers’ brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based on made-up symbols. People who received brain stimulation ... [Published SharpBrains - May 17 2013]

Entities: Arithmetic, Neuroscience, Dyscalculia, Electric current, University of British Columbia

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

University of Oxford

Study: Electric Shocks Improve Math Scores/ Learning

BYHOT TOPICS Posted:Updated:Friday, May 17, 2013 6:29 AM ESTZzzzap! Researchers at Oxford University say a little electricity may help students improve their math scores. According to the Daily Mail, the scientists hooked students up to a device that ... [Published MyFox Orlando - May 17 2013]

Entities: Electric current, University of Oxford

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Excess Body Fat Hardens Arteries

There are all sorts of good reasons to avoid becoming fat. Excess fat tissue is linked to an increased risk of all the common diseases of aging , and correlates well with a shorter life expectancy and higher lifetime medical expenditures . Fat tissue ... [Published Fight Aging! - May 16 2013]

Entities: Artery, Vessel, Aorta, Obesity

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Increasing body fat after middle age makes arteries stiffer, new study reveals

Having too much body fat makes arteries become stiff after middle age, a new study has revealed.In young people, blood vessels appear to be able to compensate for the effects of obesity. But after middle age, this adaptability is lost, and arteries become ... [Published News-Medical.Net - May 15 2013]

Entities: Artery, Aorta, Vessel, Obesity

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Artificial Skin May Help Heart Patients

For a true cybernetic limb to work well, the wearer has to be able to feel objects when they touch them. And if robots are going to learn how to grab an egg without crushing it, for instance, they need a more sophisticated way of figuring out how much ... [Published Tech News Daily - May 14 2013]

Entities: Patient, Polymer, Germanium, Electric current

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

How Does Electricity Move From the Wind Turbine to the Businesses and Communities That Buy It?

Power lines transport electricity from wind turbines to consumers.Jupiterimages/liquidlibrary/Electricity produced in wind turbines is transported to the consumer via a series of transmission and distribution networks. Each component of the network changes ... [Published Opposing Views - May 14 2013]

Entities: Wind Turbine, Communities, Power Grid, Electrical Power, Energy Information Association

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Stop Shocks and Electric Fires Before They Start

(NAPSI)-Give your home a safety checkup. Just as regular wellness checkups are critical for maintaining your health, routine safety checkups are critical for the safety of your home.The DangerAn average of 51,000 electrical home structure fires occur ... [Published Picket News - May 14 2013]

Entities: Electrician, US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Electric current, Can Do Co Ltd

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Police commissioner argues in favour of Tasers

THE Police and Crime Commissioner has called for Tasers to be carried by more Surrey officers.The weapons are carried by the emergency response teams covering the county but Kevin Hurley said he wanted more officers to have access to them.Used to incapacitate ... [Published Get Surrey - May 14 2013]

Entities: UK Home Office, Involuntary muscle, Electric current, George Orwell, PCC Police & Crime Commissioner

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Graphene joins race to redefine standard unit of electric current

A new joint innovation by the University of Cambridge and the National Physical Laboratory, the UK's National Measurement Institute, could pave the way for redefining the ampere in terms of fundamental constants of physics. ... [Published Energy Harvesting Journal - May 14 2013]

Entities: Standard Unit, Electric current, Graphene

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...iversity's department of experimental psychology, said the team were attempting to find a way of helping people with limited mathematical abilities. "The study suggests a safe and cheap way we can improve people's maths with limited intervention. It worked on university students, so now we need to look at whether it is effective on the wider population" said Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh. The research, has been published in the journal Current Biology...

'Shock treatment' boosts math skills [Published Indian Mirror - 20 hours ago]

"We don't know for sure how body fat makes arteries stiffer, but we do know that certain metabolic products in the blood may progressively damage the elastic fibers in our blood vessels. Understanding these processes might help us to prevent the harmful effects of obesity" said O'Regan in a college news release

Age Amplifies Damage From Obesity, Study Finds [Published Health Finder - May 17 2013]

The team is now busy looking at how imperfections (such as atomic defects) in such 2D semiconductors affect their photoluminescence. "We are also trying to create new TMDC materials with unusual physical properties" revealed Tongay

Making 2D semiconductors emit more light [Published nanotechweb.org - May 17 2013]

B Corden et al. "Body Fat Is Associated With Reduced Aortic Stiffness Until Middle Age Hypertension. 2013; 61: 1322-1327. DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.113.01177"

Body fat hardens arteries after middle age [Published Brightsurf Science News - May 16 2013]

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NIST team boosts performance of solar-powered h... [Published Green Car Congress - May 17 2013] Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a significant improvement in the performance of solar-powered hydrogen generation by employing a metal–insulator–semiconductor (MIS) photoelectrode architecture ...
NIST team boosts performance of solar-powered h... [Published Green Car Congress - May 17 2013] Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a significant improvement in the performance of solar-powered hydrogen generation by employing a metal–insulator–semiconductor (MIS) photoelectrode architecture ...
Cognitive enhancement in the future: electric b... [Published SharpBrains - May 17 2013] Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps People Learn Math Faster (Wired): “…scientists stimulated volunteers’ brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based on made-up symbols. People who received brain stimulation ...
Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps People Learn... [Published Wired Science Blog - May 16 2013] Studying and practicing math is so difficult and boring that very few people do it. A new study suggest there may be an easier way. Scientists stimulated volunteers' brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based ...
Excess Body Fat Hardens Arteries [Published Fight Aging! - May 16 2013] There are all sorts of good reasons to avoid becoming fat. Excess fat tissue is linked to an increased risk of all the common diseases of aging , and correlates well with a shorter life expectancy and higher lifetime medical expenditures . Fat tissue ...

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