Wanted: 40,000 More Health IT Professionals
16:49 18-04-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
If the US healthcare system moves toward wider adoption of advanced information technology systems to control health care costs, reduce medical errors and improve patient care, it will need at least 40,000 additional health IT professionals -- or almost 40 percent more than US hospitals now are estimated to employ.
What Happens When You Pop A Quantum Balloon?
16:49 18-04-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
When a tiny, quantum-scale, hypothetical balloon is popped in a vacuum, do the particles inside spread out all over the place as predicted by classical mechanics? A Nature paper answers the question, which is deceptively complex and bears on quantum computing and information theory.
Computer Game Helps COPD Patients Breathe Better, Study Shows
16:49 18-04-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may gain better control over their breathing and breathe more efficiently by using their breath to play a computer game, according to new research.
Graphene Used To Create World's Smallest Transistor
16:49 18-04-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide. The smaller the size of their transistors the better they perform, say the Manchester researchers.
A Better Fog And Smoke Machine From Computer Scientists
16:49 18-04-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Computer scientists have created a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from a lighthouse piercing thick fog. By cutting the computing costs, the computer scientists are helping to pull cutting edge graphics techniques out of research labs and into movies and eventually video games and beyond.
Music Has Its Own Geometry, Researchers Find
16:49 18-04-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Three music professors have devised a new way of analyzing and categorizing music that takes advantage of the deep, complex mathematics they see enmeshed in its very fabric. Writing in Science, they have outlined a method called "geometrical music theory" that translates the language of musical theory into that of contemporary geometry.
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