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Carnegie Mellon researchers study harmful particulates
02-26-2007 · EurekAlert!Reducing barnyard emissions is one way to help reduce the harmful effects of tiny atmospheric air particles that can cause severe asthma in children, and lung cancer and heart attacks in some adults.
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- Study by Children's Hospital and Carnegie Mellon explains crucial deficit in children with autism
10-11-2006 · EurekAlert!
Young children with autism appear to be delayed in their ability to categorize objects and, in particular, to distinguish between living and nonliving things, according to a breakthrough study by researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.
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- Carnegie Mellon study identifies where thoughts of familiar objects occur inside the human brain
01-02-2008 · EurekAlert!
Carnegie Mellon University researchers, using machine learning and brain imaging, have found a way to identify where people's thoughts and perceptions of familiar objects originate in the brain by identifying the patterns of brain activity associated with the objects.
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- Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Team to study psychosocial stress
10-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, led by Pitt psychology professor Thomas Kamarck, are studying the effectiveness of a wrist-mounted instrument for measuring psychosocial stress exposure during the course of daily life.
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- Databases must balance privacy, utility, says Carnegie Mellon statistics professor
08-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
Agencies like the US Census Bureau produce a voluminous amount of data, much of which is of tremendous value to researchers. But the data also includes personal information that could be harmful were it to fall into the wrong hands. Thus, organizations that maintain such databases need to devise ways to protect individuals' privacy while preserving the value of the information to researchers, writes Carnegie Mellon University Statistics Professor George Duncan in a commentary in the Aug. 31 edition of the journal Science.
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- Researchers use brain scans to predict when people will buy products
01-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
For the first time, researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine what parts of the brain are active when people consider whether to purchase a product and to predict whether or not they ultimately choose to buy the product. The study appears in the journal Neuron and was co-authored by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University and the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- MIT: Prenatal arsenic exposure detected in newborns
11-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
MIT researchers have found that the children of mothers whose water supplies were contaminated with arsenic during their pregnancies harbored gene expression changes that may lead to cancer and other diseases later in life. In addition to establishing the potential harmful effects of these prenatal exposures, the new study also provides a possible method for screening populations to detect signs of arsenic contamination.
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- Smithsonian researcher probes Hope Diamond's fiery red glow
01-08-2008 · EurekAlert!
A study released in the January 2008 edition of the journal Geology proves that a blue diamond's rare appeal goes far beyond its beauty. The study was conducted by Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem Collection and mineralogist, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Post and six other researchers probed the mysterious phosphorescence of the Hope Diamond and other natural blue diamonds and discovered a way to "fingerprint" individual blue diamonds.
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- Carnegie Mellon professors question advice for nuclear attacks
04-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
In the current Fox television adventure series, "24," a terrorist explodes a small nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. In a May 2007 issue of the journal Health Physics, Carnegie Mellon researchers offer simple advice that ordinary citizens can use when faced with such threats.
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- Carnegie Mellon University-led team conducts most detailed cosmological simulation to date
06-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
Using a new computer model of galaxy formation, researchers have shown that growing black holes release a blast of energy that fundamentally regulates galaxy evolution and black hole growth itself. The model explains for the first time observed phenomena and promises to deliver deeper insights into our understanding of galaxy formation and the role of black holes throughout cosmic history. The results were generated by an international team of investigators.
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- Carnegie Mellon system makes any digital camera take multibillion-pixel shots
09-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and NASA have built a low-cost robotic device that enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel panoramas called GigaPans.
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