Ready or Not

TERS — Ready or Not ?

microscopy (SPM) for nano-scale imaging with confocal Raman spectroscopy for chemical characterization. Challenges with tip quality, optical alignment, consistency and speed, however, have made the technique difficult and complex. New instrumentation is addressing these challenges, allowing TERS to migrate from pure research to routine laboratory analysis. These systems provide correlated nano-...

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Annual universal influenza vaccination: ready or not?

Influenza causes annual worldwide epidemics of respiratory disease. Currently, the United States and many other countries recommend influenza vaccination for persons who are at high risk for influenza-related complications. This commentary explores the potential benefits of a policy advocating universal annual influenza vaccination and outlines obstacles that need to be overcome to make such a ...

Here they come, ready or not.

The District also could adopt the idea of police mini-stations and youth safe havens, which share the same space and have worked well in places as diverse as Columbia, S.C., New Hampshire and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Police in these ministations become an integral part of the inner-city community and function as mentors for young people as well as law officers. The safe havens, run by civilian no...

Ready or Not, Here I Come

We have been trying to explore embodied cognition by putting computational cognitive models on physical robots. We believe that there are three primary advantages to doing so: 1. Algorithms written for traditional real-time robotic systems tend to use efficient mathematical representations such as matrices, which may not be natural for people to use. People seem to use a combination of spatial ...