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  Changes Proposed to New Orleans Area Levee Systems

  July 24, 2013 — Less may mean more when it comes to the levee systems designed to protect New Orleans from hurricanes. That's the conclusion of a new study led by the co-developer of the authoritative computer model ... > full story
• Brain Injury
  Neuroscience
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  Computer Modeling
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Psychology
   

  Neural Simulations Hint at the Origin of Brain Waves

  July 24, 2013 — Computer models of individual neurons are being assembled into neural circuits that produce actual electrical signals akin to brain waves. The results are helping solve the mystery of how and why ... > full story
• Autism
  Child Development
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  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Novel Technology Seen as New, More Accurate Way to Diagnose and Treat Autism

  July 24, 2013 — Researchers have developed a new screening and tracking tool for diagnosing autism. The method holds promise as a method to introduce ... > full story
• Technology
  Spintronics
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  A Magnetic Pen for Smartphones Adds Another Level of Conveniences

  July 24, 2013 — Scientists have developed a magnetically driven pen interface that works both on and around mobile devices. This interface, called the MagPen, can be used for any type of smartphones and tablet ... > full story
• Social Psychology
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  Facebook Infidelity Examined in New Research

  July 24, 2013 — Researchers looked at instances of infidelity occurring through Facebook interactions to develop a process model for the stages of coping with knowledge of the ... > full story
• Perception
  Intelligence
  Psychology
  Brain Injury
  Social Psychology
  Neuroscience
   
  

  Face Identification Accuracy Is in the Eye (and Brain) of the Beholder

  July 24, 2013 — Though humans generally have a tendency to look at a region just below the eyes and above the nose toward the midline when first identifying another person, a small subset of people tend to look ... > full story
• Nervous System
  Brain Injury
  Brain Tumor
  Intelligence
  Neuroscience
  Psychology Research
   

  Embedded Nerve Cells Hold the Key to Brain Activity

  July 24, 2013 — Understanding complex systems such as the brain of mammals: Dr. Arvind Kumar and colleagues from the Bernstein Center and the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools at the University of Freiburg ... > full story
• Computer Science
  Computers and Internet
  Computer Modeling
  Computer Graphics
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  Computer Programming
   
  

  Perfecting Digital Imaging

  July 23, 2013 — Computer graphics and digital video lag behind reality; despite advances, the best software and video cameras still cannot seem to get computer-generated images and digital film to look exactly the ... > full story
• Computers and Internet
  Computer Science
  Information Technology
  Computer Modeling
  Distributed Computing
  Computer Programming
   

  Six Months of Computing Time Generates Detailed Portrait of Cloth Behavior

  July 23, 2013 — It would be impossible to compute all of the ways a piece of cloth might shift, fold and drape over a moving human figure. But after six months of computation, researchers are pretty sure they've ... > full story
• Hearing Impairment
  Perception
  Language Acquisition
  Child Development
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  Brain Picks out Salient Sounds from Background Noise by Tracking Frequency and Time, Study Finds

  July 23, 2013 — New research reveals how our brains are able to pick out important sounds from the noisy world around us. The study could lead to new diagnostic tests for hearing ... > full story

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