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Software Development Kit helps integrate autonomous driving apps
Medical Design Technology - 13 Nov 2019 17:19
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) unveiled Connext Drive - a complete solution that provides automotive manufacturers with the software and tools they need to build highly autonomous vehicles and fleets. Now, autonomous vehicl...
Regular use of prescription drugs for pain and sleep increases frailty risk by 95 percent
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(Oregon Research Institute) Regular use of prescription drugs for pain and sleep increases frailty risk by 95 percent among older adults. The possible implications of these research findings are especially serious given ...
Testers boost throughput, operational efficiency of PCB assembly manufacturing
Medical Design Technology - 13 Nov 2019 17:40
The i3070 Series 6 In-Circuit Test (ICT) suite of solutions enables electronics manufacturers to improve test throughput and the operational efficiency of their printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) manufacturing. Electr...
Wireless comm ICs cover UHF, ISM bands for smart meter, gas/fire alarm, security system apps
Medical Design Technology - 13 Nov 2019 17:30
Rohm Group company LAPIS Semiconductor recently announced the availability of a multiband (sub-1GHz/2.4GHz) wireless communication LSI, ML7421, optimized for applications requiring low power consumption over relatively l...
Ultra-high performance heat sinks include active models with integral blowers
Medical Design Technology - 13 Nov 2019 17:14
Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc, ATS, now provides a family of ultra-high performance heat sinks for cooling high powered CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and AI processors. This ultra-cool family includes active heat sinks with integr...
32-bit ARM Cortex-M0+ Core MCU optimized with speech synthesis and audio processing capabilities
Medical Design Technology - 13 Nov 2019 17:09
Epson introduced a new 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0+ Core microcontroller (MCU) - the Epson S1C31D50 with speech synthesis and audio processing capabilities. This MCU is ideal for human machine interface (HMI) applications requi...
Automotive-qualified 16-nm FPGAs target ADAS, AD applications
Medical Design Technology - 13 Nov 2019 16:42
Xilinx, Inc. announced the expansion of its automotive-qualified 16 nanometer (nm) family with two new devices - the Xilinx Automotive (XA) Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC 7EV and 11EG. These two new parts deliver the highest pro...
SATA SSDs incorporate sophisticated power-loss protection
Medical Design Technology - 13 Nov 2019 16:37
ATP Electronics unveils its next-generation A600Si and A600Sc Serial ATA solid state drives (SATA SSDs) featuring a completely new design of the power loss protection (PLP) array, which utilizes a new power management IC...
Power supplies optimized for hyper loaded computing machine apps
Medical Design Technology - 13 Nov 2019 16:30
Powerbox has announced the release of the OFI600A12 power supplies for immerged applications such as hyper loaded computing machines. The OFI600A12 is the first commercial power supply designed to meet immerged applicati...
Discovery: New biomarker for cancer stem cells
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of Houston) A University of Houston College of Pharmacy associate professor has discovered a new biomarker in cancer stem cells that govern cancer survival and spread, and it's raising hope that drug discover...
At what point does click-bait susceptibility become a mental health disorder?
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(Elsevier) A new study in Comprehensive Psychiatry, published by Elsevier, found that one third of a group of patients seeking treatment for buying-shopping disorder (BSD) also reported symptoms of addictive online shopp...
Driver found for more deadly prostate cancer
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) A transcription factor that aids neuron function also appears to enable a cell conversion in the prostate gland that can make an already recurrent cancer even more deadl...
Diet trials often amend their outcome measures as they go
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(Boston Children's Hospital) A study published today in JAMA Network Open concludes that 86 percent of diet trials amended their desired study outcomes along the way. That raises the possibility of bias, say researchers ...
Artificial intelligence tool predicts life expectancy in heart failure patients
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, as well as a diverse team of cardiologists and physicists, developed a machine learning algorithm to predict th...
Aging experts advocate global effort to ensure health spans match life spans
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(The Gerontological Society of America) Across the world, more people are living longer. But 'whether the extra years will be good ones -- and whether societies and economies will benefit as a result -- depends on the ac...
High rates of vaccine-preventable infections in pediatric transplant patients
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) University of Colorado researchers have found lower vaccination rates among children who receive liver transplants, increasing the risk of sickness for those children, who...
Cholesterol, fat profiles at birth linked to psychological health at age 5
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(Association for Psychological Science) Babies born with high levels of bad cholesterol and a certain type of fat may face a heightened risk for social and psychological problems in childhood, according to new scientific...
High expression of apoptosis protein (Api-5) in chemoresistant triple-negative breast cancers
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(Impact Journals LLC) 78 TNBC biopsies from patients with different responses to chemotherapy were analysed for API-5 expression before any treatment.Further studies on API-5 expression and inhibition were performed on p...
How giant kelp may respond to climate change
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of California - Davis) Like someone from Minnesota being dropped into an Arizona heat wave, giant kelp living in cooler, high-latitude waters were more vulnerable to excessive heat than kelp already living in...
How self-reactive immune cells are allowed to develop
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(Lund University) A research team at Lund University in Sweden has found the mechanism that controls the growth of B1-cells in mice. The findings, which may lead to a deeper understanding of certain forms of cancer and a...
Improving trauma pain outcomes
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) A 7-year prospective cohort study from the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center (CMCVAMC), University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing), and the Per...
Inhaled immunosuppressant may increase survival, pulmonary function after lung transplant
EurekAlert! - 13 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of Maryland Medical Center) University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers found that lung transplant recipients who had early signs of organ rejection could increase their chances of survival by inhal...