Showing posts with label researchers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label researchers. Show all posts

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Simulating The Red Planet, On The Pale Blue Dot | Synopsis

Simulating The Red Planet, On The Pale Blue Dot

... inner-tube space station
... inner-tube space station by x-ray delta one
License (according to Flickr): Attribution-ShareAlike License
Excerpt:

What's it like to live—and cook—on Mars? To find out, researchers are simulating Mars missions in Russia, and on the slopes of a Hawaiian volcano. Kim Binsted talks about her study to whip up tastier space food. Porcini mushroom risotto, anyone? And sleep expert Charles Czeisler talks about how humans adapt to the 24. 65-hour Martian day.

People:

Kim Binsted

Overall Sentiment: 0.0372375

Relevance: 0.915616

Charles Czeisler

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.566072

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Company: Twitter

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.631556

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Country: Russia

Overall Sentiment: -0.15654

Relevance: 0.557002

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Huge asteroid set to buzz Earth | Reduction

Huge asteroid set to buzz Earth

International Space Station
International Space Station by pauly...
License (according to Flickr): Attribution-ShareAlike License
Excerpt:

A giant asteroid will make a flyby of Earth over the next few days, and armchair astronomers can watch the action live on their computers. The near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis, which is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) wide, will zoom within 4. 3 million miles (7 million kilometers) of Earth during its closest approach early Wednesday morning. That's too far away to pose any impact threat on this pass, but close enough to put on a pretty good show through top-notch telescopes, researchers say. And some of those scopes will be tracking Toutatis' movements for the benefit of skywatchers around the world. The online Slooh Space Camera and Virtual Telescope Project, for example, will both stream live, free footage of the asteroid from professional-quality observatories. Space news from NBCNews.

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Toutatis

Overall Sentiment: 0.146169

Relevance: 0.9076

Berman

Overall Sentiment: 0.236008

Relevance: 0.87455

SentimentQuote
0.107603"Slooh technical staff will let the public follow this fast-moving asteroid in two different ways. In one view, the background stars will be tracked at their own rate and the asteroid will appear as an obvious streak or a moving time-lapse dot across the starry field," Berman said ...
0.105438"In a second view, Toutatis itself will be tracked and held steady as a tiny pointlike object, while Earth's spin makes the background stars whiz by as streaks," Berman added. ...
0.0713837"In a second view, Toutatis itself will be tracked and held steady as a tiny pointlike object, while Earth's spin makes the background stars whiz by as streaks," Berman added. "Both methods will make the asteroid's speedy orbital motion obvious as it passes us in space."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.2844247
  • Mean: 0.094808233333333
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Alan Boyle

Overall Sentiment: 0.0298234

Relevance: 0.564734

Patrick Paolucci

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.537936

Bob Berman.

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.454538

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

Facility: International Space Station

Overall Sentiment: 0.0298234

Relevance: 0.690974

GeographicFeature: Mount Everest

Overall Sentiment: 0.0673639

Relevance: 0.648872

GeographicFeature: Canary Islands

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.595536

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StateOrCounty: Arizona

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.546288

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Continent: Africa

Overall Sentiment: -0.0357379

Relevance: 0.530499

Company: Slooh

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.59012

PrintMedia: Astronomy Magazine

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.529329

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Paralyzed woman controls robotic arm with her mind | Synopsis

Paralyzed woman controls robotic arm with her mind

HOW DOES THE BRAIN WORK - VIA - PASSING SIGNALS - ITS CALELD SYNAPSE - BETWEEN AXON AND DENDRRON - FROM SENORY TO MOTOR NERVE - PARSE, PROCESS - TRANSMIT SIGNAL TO TELL WHAT AND HOW TO REACT GIVEN A STIMULI
HOW DOES THE BRAIN WORK - VIA - PASSING SIGNALS - ITS CALELD SYNAPSE - BETWEEN AXON AND DENDRRON - FROM SENORY TO MOTOR NERVE - PARSE, PROCESS - TRANSMIT SIGNAL TO TELL WHAT AND HOW TO REACT GIVEN A STIMULI by lednichenkoolga
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License
Excerpt:

A woman paralyzed from the neck down is now able to use a robot arm to give high fives and help her eat chocolate, representing what may be the most advanced mind-controlled prosthetic hand developed for humans yet, researchers said. Although scientists had worked on robotic limbs that monkeys could move with their minds, these new results mark the first time a person could steer thought-controlled prosthetics better than monkeys have, investigators added. "This is a spectacular leap toward greater function and independence for people who are unable to move their own arms," said researcher Andrew Schwartz at the University of Pittsburgh. "This technology, which interprets brain signals to guide a robot arm, has enormous potential that we are continuing to explore.""As we move forward, we might find this is applicable to other types of traumatic brain injury," researcher Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara at the University of Pittsburgh told LiveScience.

People:

Jan Scheuermann

Overall Sentiment: 0.122813

Relevance: 0.866417

SentimentQuote
0.453289"I can't even shrug my shoulders," Scheuermann said. ...
0.190304"I can't even shrug my shoulders," Scheuermann said. "But I have come to the conclusion that worrying about something is experiencing it twice. I try to dwell on the good things that I have."
0.239531"Wow, it's so neat that he can do that," Scheuermann recalled ...
0.232127"Wow, it's so neat that he can do that," Scheuermann recalled thinking as she watched Hemmes. "I wish I could do something like that."
0.0463701She had her attendant call the researchers and say, "I'm a quadriplegic. Hook me up, sign me up! I want to do that!"
-0.0824997"What we did in the first week they thought we'd be stuck on for a month," Scheuermann said. ...
0"I would definitely do this again," Scheuermann told ...
0.170718"I would definitely do this again," Scheuermann told LiveScience. "I think I am very blessed for this coming into my life."
0Scheuermann had told the research team, "I'm going to feed myself chocolate before this is over."
-0.0109563"One small nibble for a woman, one giant bite for BCI (brain-control interfaces)," Scheuermann said. ...
0"This is the ride of my life," Scheuermann said. ...
0.0232851"This is the ride of my life," Scheuermann said. "This is the roller coaster. This is skydiving. It's just fabulous, and I'm enjoying every second of it."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 12
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 1.2621682
  • Mean: 0.10518068333333
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Andrew Schwartz

Overall Sentiment: 0.203049

Relevance: 0.41555

SentimentQuote
0.213126"The prosthetic arm we used was very sophisticated, with many of the same arm and hand segments as that of its human counterpart," Schwartz told ...
0.50096"The result is a prosthetic hand, which can be moved far more accurately and naturalistically than previous efforts," Schwartz said. ...
0.16218"We can and have applied for an extension, which was approved and are currently assessing whether to continue beyond the date that was originally planned," Schwartz said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.876266
  • Mean: 0.29208866666667
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Tim Hemmes

Overall Sentiment: 0.0842076

Relevance: 0.274931

Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara

Overall Sentiment: -0.195282

Relevance: 0.261611

Michael Boninger

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.223459

Jennifer Collinger

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.210042

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Overall Sentiment: -0.0535625

Relevance: 0.457314

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