Immunosuppression for immunodeficiency: Getting smarter

UQ RoboRoos 2004: Getting Smarter

This paper describes the University of Queensland’s robot soccer team, the RoboRoos, that placed second at RoboCup 2003. This paper describes the mechanical systems, including the omni-directional drive system, the crossbow kicker and the dribbling mechanism, and briefly describes the electrical and electronic systems. The paper explains the new software systems of the RoboRoos, which were the ...

Drug delivery systems in urology--getting "smarter".

“ Living rooms getting smarter with multimodal and multichannel signal processing

Nobody can predict with 100% accuracy what the future will bring for us, so we won't pretend we have all of the answers. However, we do know that technology use in the living room is closely related to the future of the Internet, affecting how we consume media, how we communicate with friends, how we play games, and how we shop. In this context, it is a given fact that platforms that bring the ...

Getting smarter--the toxicity of undertreated HIV infection.

Soon after the benefits of potent combination antiretroviral therapy were recognized in the late 1990s,1 clinicians understood that patients would need to be highly adherent to antiretroviral therapy and treated continuously with combination regimens. If this mark were not met, there was a real likelihood that a resistant virus would emerge. As experience with combination regimens expanded, dat...

Getting It Right: Being Smarter about Clinical Trials

June 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 6 | e144 Concerns about adverse events, including deaths, in recent large clinical trials, both publicly and privately sponsored, prompted Elias A. Zerhouni, Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH) to convene a meeting at the NIH on January 11–12, 2005, to discuss “Moving from Observational Studies to Clinical Trials: Why Do We Sometimes Get It Wrong?” (a deta...