Sentences with phrase «of scanning machine»

fMRI (for functional magnetic resonance imaging) A special type of scanning machine used to study brain activity.

I had one person say it could be that it's not all legal (i.e. a concern for counterfeit currency)-- in that case shouldn't it be the stores responsibility to purchase one of those scanning machines?

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ut the company — whose machines are designed to supplement rather than supplant human security guards, and take care of monotonous tasks like scanning license plates in a parking lot — also has a closer view than most of the emerging and unpredictable world of robot - people interactions.

And that's where the next clever step comes in - to scan the retina without the use of a huge machine, the app uses a simple 3D - printed lens that concentrates light from the smartphone camera flash on the back of the eye.

Based on a 3D image such as an MRI scan, Aspect's machine builds relatively complex organic structures out of a «hydrogel» embedded within cells taken from the body and grown in a cell culture.

Providers and regulators can also use social media data to monitor performance in real time, using natural language processing and machine learning to scan consumers» text reviews for keywords of interest related to patient safety.

Michigan does not have an audit system, but it's important to note that the state's residents vote on optical scan machines, a type of machine that's considered less vulnerable to hacking than the paperless, touchscreen machines used in some other states.

Lovsin not only donated 15 acres of land to build a hospital, he bought a CAT scan machine for it when it was built.

It is no fluke that in the days after Carlisle's report was broadcast, the AFL dished out a spin - laden press release detailing their plans to screen and scan the brains of retired players in their much - vaunted MRI machine.

If the price of proprietary machine parts is high, cash poor precincts might be more liable to delay necessary maintenance, leaving a dried - up slippery roller in an optical scan box.

But what we need to do is to deploy technology and I must commend the effort of UK Department of Crime, they have just donated another scanning machine to us.

At some polling sites, local elected officials reported that all of the old - school levered voting machines — which were revived this year because of concerns with new electronic scanning machines — were down, forcing voters to cast affidavit ballots instead.

Problems included a lack of ramps and wheelchair - accessible doorways at polling sites and a dearth of accessible ballot marking devices (BMDs), which offer an alternative way to mark a paper ballot to then scan into the new optical scanning voting machines.

One of three ballot - scanning machines was out of service at the church in Mount Kisco where the Democratic candidate for governor, Andrew Cuomo, voted Tuesday morning.

A Faso spokesman says that according to the state Board of Elections, voters in Columbia County were instructed to place their ballots into a separate slot on the scanning machine for provisional ballots and that replacement ballots were to be at all polling places no later than 4 p.m.

«This multi-million naira project which was financed by the European Union (EU) and executed by UNODC, ably supported by Federal Government of Nigeria, comprises 30 pieces of Computer, Scanning Machine, Photocopiers, cooling system, furniture, Internet facilities and other highly sophisticated equipment.

Voters in the 62nd Assembly District who are also voting in either of the presidential primaries must fill out two separate ballots and submit them to separate scanning machines, a process the Board of Elections is confident it can undertake.

At his party last night, Diaz suggested his opponents in the gay community might try to use the State's new voting system — a scanning machine that debuted yesterday, to a fair amount of complications — as a reason to dispute his victory.

Democrats will ask the state's highest court to reverse two lower - court rulings and order a lengthy hand recount of some 85,000 paper ballots that were fed into new optical scanning voting machines in the contest between incumbent Nassau Sen. Craig Johnson, a Democrat, and Mineola Mayor Jack Martins, the GOP challenger, who has been officially certified as having won by 451 votes.

The Board of Elections will cause the optical scan voting machines to alert voters when they have double - voted.

That's because hospitals are equipped with powerful new scanning machines primarily used to identify tumors, ballooning blood vessels, bone fractures, and a wide range of disorders in people.

Diebold's Mark Radke points out that during the recall election for the governor of California last year, fewer than 1 percent of the voters that used Diebold machines submitted blank ballots — a rate well below that for optical - scan cards (2.7 percent) and punch cards (6.3 percent).

Using a functional MRI machine, or fMRI, the researchers scanned the brains of 42 people with OCD, ages 18 to 60, before and after four weeks of intensive, daily cognitive behavioral therapy.

Now, UCLA researchers have developed a way to use brain scans and machine learning — a form of artificial intelligence — to predict whether people with OCD will benefit from cognitive behavior therapy.

The scans, which were accurate to a twentieth of a millimeter, were used to generate virtual models that could be examined from any angle, allowing for highly precise machining — and a very close fit.

Google research scientist Lily Peng, a physician, led a team that developed a machine learning algorithm to diagnose a patient's risk of diabetic retinopathy from a retinal scan.

Brain - scanning machines may soon be capable of discerning rudimentary thoughts and separating fact from fiction

Sook - Lei Liew and her colleagues from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, asked eight adults to watch a circle on a screen while an fMRI machine scanned their brain.

One day last year, cognitive scientists Joshua Greene and Fiery Cushman, who designed the study, pulled up a series of brain scans taken as volunteers resolved the dilemma while inside an MRI machine.

The idea is to link up every data - making system and machine in a hospital to a central service which can deliver a patient's collated records — from historical medical files to X-ray and MRI scans — at the touch of a doctor's iPad.

In a 2005 Harvard University functional imaging study of working memory — that short - term memory we use to carry on conversations or remember telephone numbers — a group of volunteers were given verbal attention tasks while inside the scanning machine.

Using two data sets of functional MRI brain scans from more than 350 adult and child siblings during resting state, Fair and colleagues applied an innovative technique to characterize functional connectivity and machine learning to successfully identify siblings based on their connectotype.

Users are also asked to turn their head as they scan so the phone's machine - learning algorithm can measure the face from several angles and create a more detailed 3 - D map of their features.

Scientists already employ fMRI, which uses changes in blood flow as a proxy for brain activity, to scan the brains of restrained monkeys, but Berns wanted to train dogs to willingly enter the machine and learn simple things, such as associating a hand signal with a reward of a hot dog, all the while staying still enough to collect interpretable brain scans.

So Jason Wright at Pennsylvania State University is scanning the galaxies for waste heat given off by the machines of...

In states such as Maryland, where Democratic Governor Martin O'Malley has proposed spending $ 6.8 million to buy new optical - scan machines to improve the accuracy of that state's elections, the technology will not be ready to go until 2010.

Loeb and colleagues scanned both types of tissue with a powerful 11.7 Tesla magnetic resonance spectroscopy machine at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Looking to confirm and build on some recent insights into the Antikythera machine's function, Edmunds and his colleagues collaborated with the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Hewlett - Packard Laboratories and other institutions to scan the fragments using two new methods.

Malamud's microfluidic machine uses four microscopic channels to simultaneously scan a sample: The first looks for human antibodies to the infectious agent, the second for an antigen on the surface of the pathogen, and the third and fourth amplify viral RNA or bacterial DNA.

The machine can repeat this scanning motion for many minutes, and it scans quickly enough to follow the motions of live cells in a free - range environment.

«The technology has the potential to extend the life of MRI imaging machines but more importantly, it will make the scan quicker, more accurate and safer to patients.

And follow - up scans using the American Museum of Natural History's more powerful CT machine have shown that some wrappings enclose as many as 20 tightly - packed shrews — hardly a way for priests to economize.

These machines had many of the same problems associated with their larger cousins that scanned checked baggage.

They scanned seven minke whale heads in CT and MRI machines, created computer models of the ears and surrounding soft tissue, and dissected the whale noggins to reveal ear fat running from blubber just under the skin to the ear bones.

Intellifit Corporation has a «virtual fitting room» in West Chester, Pa., where a millimeter - wave machine scans customers to determine sizing, and salespeople give advice about the perfect fit of clothing, such as blue jeans, sold by several national brands.

Joshua Greene and colleagues at Princeton University asked people to make a number of decisions while their brains were being scanned by an MRI machine.

Every few minutes the machine's electric eye scans a digital image of a stamp - size glass plate.

Using one of the strongest MRI machines available, with a field strength three to six times that of typical clinical scanners, the researchers produced brain scans that resolved millimeter - scale networks for the first time.

Patients often become claustrophobic while in the tube of an MRI machine, where they are told not to move, and the scans can last 30 to 60 minutes.

Already, x-ray machines form the core of checked baggage security, peering inside suitcases much as doctors peer inside bodies using CAT scans.