News articles tagged with 'algorithm' (Page 2)
Significant variations found among medical centres regarding bloodstream infections surveillance
— 10 Nov 2010 14:46 | HealthThe quality of public reporting of bloodstream infection rates among hospitals may be effected by the variation in surveillance methods, according to a study in the November 10 issue…
Carnegie Mellon researchers break speed barrier in solving important class of linear systems
— 22 Oct 2010 19:01 | TechnologyComputer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have devised an innovative and elegantly concise algorithm that can efficiently solve systems of linear equations that are critical…
New search method tracks down influential ideas
— 22 Oct 2010 14:58 | TechnologyPrinceton computer scientists have developed a new way of tracing the origins and spread of ideas, a technique that could make it easier to gauge the influence of notable scholarly…
MRI zooms in on microscopic flow
— 8 Oct 2010 14:09 | Health'Better and faster results!' is the clarion call for scientists and engineers to continually strive to improve their research tools. Of the tools used to study material structures at…
New computer-tomography method visualises nano-structure of bones
— 23 Sep 2010 10:15 | HealthA novel nano-tomography method developed by a team of researchers from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, the Paul Scherrer Institute and the ETH-Zurich opens the door to computed…
Researchers give robots the capability for deceptive behaviour
— 10 Sep 2010 11:52 | TechnologyA robot deceives an enemy soldier by creating a false trail and hiding so that it will not be caught. While this sounds like a scene from one of the Terminator movies, it's actually…
Most influential tweeters of all
— 10 Sep 2010 10:58 | TechnologyTweet this, Ashton Kutcher, Lady Gaga and Britney Spears. Just because you have a ton of followers on Twitter doesn't necessarily mean you're among the most influential people in the…
Microsoft Excel-based algorithm predicts cancer prognosis
— 2 Sep 2010 15:22 | HealthUsing readily available computer programs, researchers have developed a system to identify genes that will be useful in the classification of breast cancer. The algorithm, described…
New view of tectonic plates
— 28 Aug 2010 09:43 | Geology and palaeontologyComputational scientists and geophysicists at the University of Texas at Austin and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed new computer algorithms that for…
EEG predicts response to medication for schizophrenia
— 5 Aug 2010 10:04 | HealthA commonplace electroencephalography (EEG) test may hold the key to predicting whether a person will respond to certain prescribed drugs, particularly those related to psychiatric conditions…