Applause For The SmartHand: Human-machine Interface Is Essential Link In Groundbreaking Prosthetic Hand Nov 6, 2009
"We've built in tactile sensors too, so the information transfer goes two ways. These allow Ekenstam to do difficult tasks like eating and writing.". Complexity of a challenging magnitude. (Science Daily)
Denial of service denial Oct 1, 2009
One potential drawback of the added layer of information transfer required for checking user requests is that it could add to the resources needed by the server ... They found that the server suffers little degradation, negligible added information transfer delay (latency) and minimal extra processor usage even when the 10 Gbps pipe to the authentication server is filled with DoS packets. (EurekAlert!)
UBS to tell Americans if they are on IRS list Sep 23, 2009
The information transfer is part of an agreement last month that ended a long dispute between the two countries over wealthy Americans hiding money at the bank. Switzerland and UBS have so far refused refused to name the individuals in public. (MSNBC -- Business)
Letter: Superintendent Jacobs made right call on speech Sep 19, 2009
There are sound reasons for disallowing an unfiltered conduit of information transfer into the classroom, regardless of origin and good intentions. Here are three of them. (Georgetown Record, MA)
Bertha McCutcheon picks up mail at a post offfice box in Sahuarita. Congress has been asked to cut a day of mail delivery. Ellen Sussman, special to the Green Valley News Aug 25, 2009
C. Gordon wrote on Aug 24, 2009 12:33 PM:" Reducing the delivery days only makes sense. Why not go to three days a week, Mon-Wed-Fri while they're at it. Once people got used to only having to go to the mailbox three days a week, it would seem very sensible. Even those of us in the Baby Boomer generation are using electronic methods for information transfer more than paper. If we can do it, anybody can. This is one place where we as individual citizens can expect our voices to be heard and... (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Synthetic Protein Thwarts HIV Infection in Lab Aug 19, 2009
"There's a lot of information transfer that occurs when proteins come together, and one would often like to block that information flow," Samuel Gellman, a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in a news release from the school. Past attempts to prevent infection by selectively interfering with protein interactions have had limited success, he said. (MEDLINEplus)
Engineered Protein-like Molecule Protects Cells Against HIV Infection Aug 19, 2009
"There's a lot of information transfer that occurs when proteins come together, and one would often like to block that information flow," says Samuel Gellman, a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a fundamental study of how to control protein shape, Gellman's UW-Madison research team, including former postdoctoral fellow W. Seth Horne, now at the University of Pittsburgh, and graduate student Lisa Johnson, created a set of peptide-like molecules that successfully... (Science Daily)
Boeing to upgrade Navy warships for $14.6M Aug 18, 2009
6 million contract to produce the information transfer system for guided missile destroyers as part of the Navy s efforts to modernize warships. The equipment will be retrofitted on the USS Barry, USS Stout, USS Benfold and three foreign navy vessels. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
Boeing scores $14M Navy contract Aug 18, 2009
6 million contract to produce the information transfer system that "controls mission-critical capabilities" on guided missile destroyers ... "This equipment represents the most current version of the information transfer system Boeing has been providing to the Navy for many years," said Jay Nieto, GEDMS program manager for Chicago-based Boeing (NYSE: BA). (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Marquette professors win $1.4M grant Jul 29, 2009
In particular, they are interested in the regulation of a specific chemical neurotransmitter known as glutamate that mediates information transfer between neurons. We expect to develop novel chemical entities that are both potent and effective in targeting these specific chemical exchanges in the brain, Baker said in a statement. (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
School Districts Reminded: Parents Can Withhold Kids' Info From Military Recruiters Jul 21, 2009
Even though schools must comply with No Child Left Behind, parents still have the right to opt out of the information transfer, said ACLU Nebraska Legal Director Amy Miller. The schools have an obligation to alert parents to their privacy rights, since many families have a serious objection to receiving military recruitment calls. (Nebraska Statepaper)
Africa: Call to Govts to Help Small Farmers Jun 19, 2009
Idit Miller, managing director and vice president of EMRC, emphasised the need to invest in skills development, access to capital, information transfer, access to markets, infrastructure development, agricultural infrastructure, technology development and transfer, entrepreneurial training and development in order to scale up agricultural initiatives in Africa. EMRC is a non-profit international association set up in Belgium and comprising a network of entrepreneurs, financiers, consultants and... (allAfrica.com)
Shia LaBeouf spills Transformers secrets Jun 6, 2009
While at school, Sam starts seeing symbols through epileptic seizure-type fits of information transfer, LaBeouf said. He just becomes a factual volcano. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Shia Beaten Into Pulp Jun 6, 2009
While at school, Sam starts seeing symbols through "epileptic seizure-type fits of information transfer," LaBeouf said. "He just becomes a factual volcano." The symbols form a map to an energy source the robots need to control sentient beings, LaBeouf said. (Fox News)
Readers Respond on "A Sunshade for Planet Earth" Mar 20, 2009
Comprehension is not a passive information transfer; it involves the active construction of meaning: the contents to be learned have to be assimilated by the learner, reflected on, and linked to that person's personal store of knowledge and experiences. Having the text of an F-15 aircraft manual in one's brain would provide no advantage at all over reading it the old-fashioned way. (Scientific American)
Repackaging NPP: A Road Map? Mar 5, 2009
Communication is not only a message delivery or an information transfer. In fact, one of the effective ways of communication is when the message is wrapped in the package of strategic control. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Finesse Announces TruTorr(TM) Single-Use Pressure Sensor Feb 28, 2009
California-based Finesse Solutions, LLC, leads the way in developing new measurement and control technologies, in order to enable the transition to single-use systems, bring new capabilities to existing bioreactor platforms, and harmonize global bio-process information transfer. Our current product family provides comprehensive measurement and control solutions for upstream processes in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. (PR Newswire)
Spotify opens doors to UK as record industry slams them shut Feb 12, 2009
information transfer (it) or r.f. systems. required. (guardian.co.uk)
Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job Feb 11, 2009
It was not his job, as he explained later, to rank their skills for future employers, or train them to be information transfer machines, regurgitating facts on demand. Released from the pressure to ace the test, they would become scientists, not automatons, he reasoned. (Globe and Mail)
