Scientific Conferences

Video Workouts: Turns Out They're Not So Sweaty

By getting gamers up on their two feet, Nintendo's Wii workouts are a healthier take on video games than anything that came before (and the cost of the console is dropping). Yes—and no. As it turns out, the Wii offers the real...

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Local Sci-Fi Group Holds Its 74th Annual Convention

Posted: Friday, 20 November 2009 2:45PM Local Sci-Fi Group Holds Annual Convention in Cherry Hill by KYW's Michelle Durham A large science fiction and horror conference is under way in South Jersey, and organizers say it has...

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Effect of real-time CPR feedback reported at resuscitation science symposium

November 20, 2009Emergency medical service (EMS) providers in the United States assess an estimated 350,000 cardiac arrests each year. Only 5 to 10 percent of people who have sudden cardiac arrest survive. Better quality...

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Telephone-Delivered Care For Treating Depression After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery...

Patients who received telephone-delivered collaborative care for treatment of depression after coronary artery bypass graft surgery reported greater improvement in measures of quality of life, physical functioning and mood than...

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Muslim academics and students are turning against Darwin's theory

Muslims in many countries are increasingly rejecting Darwin’s theory of evolution, under the influence of conservative elements in Islam, a science conference was told yesterday. Nidhal Guessoum, Professor of Physics and...

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S4 Preview: An Analysis of White Listing Security Solutions and Their Applicability In Control...

I will be previewing some of the papers and presentations in this year’s S4 over the next few weeks. Digital Bond’s 4th Annual SCADA Security Scientific Symposium [S4] is being held January 20 – 21 in warm and sunny Miami...

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First Kenneth L. Weik Undergraduate Life Sciences Research Symposium a success

The Kenneth L. Weik Undergraduate Life Sciences Research Symposium was a brand new event this year, and proved to be very interesting. Put on by the national biological society Beta Beta Beta, President Clare Conlisk said it...

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Vicor Technologies' PD2i nonlinear algorithm and software: a promising diagnostic for in-field...

David H. Fater, CEO of Vicor Technologies, Inc., today announced that Andriy Batchinsky, MD, a researcher with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR), identified Vicor's proprietary PD2i® nonlinear algorithm and...

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EKG Readings Can be Wrong

Measurements on the electrocardiogram (EKG) can often mislead physicians into diagnosing the heart condition left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), requiring further screening tests before a definitive conclusion can be reached.

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Hospital report cards do not appear to result in significant improvements

EUREKALERT Contact: Deborah Creatura deborah.creatura@ices.on.ca An analysis of quality of cardiac care following the public release of data on measures of care at hospitals in Ontario, Canada, did not result in significant...

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