News tagged with analysis tools

13,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Cache in Colorado Shows Evidence of Camel, Horse Butchering

(PhysOrg.com) -- A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Boulder, Colo., indicates some of the implements were used to butcher ice-age camels and ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Explained: Regression analysis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Regression analysis. It sounds like a part of Freudian psychology. In reality, a regression is a seemingly ubiquitous statistical tool appearing in legions of scientific papers, and regression ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Untangling a protein's influences

Most proteins have multiple moving parts that rearrange into different conformations to execute particular functions. Such changes may be induced by molecules in the immediate environment, including water ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Improved method for protein sequence comparisons is faster, more accurate, sensitive

Lightning fast and yet highly sensitive: HHblits is a new software tool for protein research which promises to significantly improve the functional analysis of proteins. A team of computational biologists led by Dr. Johannes ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Less is more in the fight against terrorism

Terrorist networks are complex. Now, a mathematical analysis of their properties published this month in the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, suggests that the best way to fight them is to iso ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

New strategy could lead to dose reduction in X-ray imaging

For more than a century, the use of X-rays has been a prime diagnostic tool when it comes to human health. As it turns out, X-rays also are a crucial component for studying and understanding molecules, and a new approach ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

HealthMap surveillance efforts illustrate global epidemiology of H1N1 spread

As H1N1 began to emerge in April 2009, HealthMap - an automated online disease tracking and mapping tool created by researchers in the Informatics Program at Children's Hospital Boston - was already collecting information ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research improves diagnosis and treatment of bleeding disorder

A rare bleeding disorder that can lead to life-threatening bleeding episodes is misdiagnosed in 15 per cent of cases according to findings from a new international research project led by a Queen's professor.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google Analytics inventor moving concept to physical stores with Euclid

Startup Euclid Dynamics' co-founder, Scott Crosby, the guy who built the technology behind Google Analytics while with Urchin Corp, (since purchased by Google) has been hard at work moving the concept to real world business ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Malware rebirthing suites intensify security arms race

New breeds of malware could leave computer systems and even critical infrastructure defenseless to attack from cyber criminals or foreign governments.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1