News tagged with congestion
Intelligent Traffic System Predicts Future Traffic Flow on Multiple Roads
(PhysOrg.com) -- In urban areas, there’s almost always more than one way to get somewhere, but often it’s difficult to predict which road will be fastest. In an attempt to improve traffic flow and decrease ...
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Pasta-shaped radio waves beamed across Venice
A group of Italian and Swedish researchers appears to have solved the problem of radio congestion by cleverly twisting radio waves into the shape of fusilli pasta, allowing a potentially infinite number of channels to be ...
Mar 02, 2012 |
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A strategy to fix a broken heart (w/ Video)
These days people usually don't die from a heart attack. But the damage to heart muscle is irreversible, and most patients eventually succumb to congestive heart failure, the most common cause of death in ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 09, 2010 |
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Two new studies suggest ways of improving traffic flow
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two studies have just been published that may help improve traffic flows. The first, presented as a Santa Fe Institute working paper for September, concluded that if traffic lights responded ...
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Canadian company planning micro-satellite network
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Canadian company is planning to launch a network of small satellites into a low orbit to improve Internet access in remote and rural areas and to help relieve network congestion caused by ...
Jan 20, 2011 |
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Study links gridlock to slow job growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Commuters well versed in the physical and psychological tolls of traffic congestion can now add an economic effect to the list. A new UC Irvine study found that places with sluggish commutes ...
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Waist size predictor of heart failure in men and women
(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding to the growing evidence that a person’s waist size is an important indicator of heart health, a study led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has found ...
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Air pollution from freeway extends further than previously thought
Environmental health researchers from UCLA, the University of Southern California and the California Air Resources Board have found that during the hours before sunrise, freeway air pollution extends much further than previously ...
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Link found between depression, early stages of chronic kidney disease
One in five patients with chronic kidney disease is depressed, even before beginning long-term dialysis therapy or developing end-stage renal disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Popular diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of heart failure and death
Sulphonylureas, a type of drug widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, carries a greater risk of heart failure and death compared with metformin, another popular antidiabetes drug.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Safety of biologic treatment for arthritis depends on the drug
Some biologic drugs may be safer than others according to a new systematic review by Cochrane researchers. Biologics are a broad class of drugs based on biological molecules. The drugs are used to reduce inflammation in diseases ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Chronic sinusitis patients experience improved quality of life after endoscopic sinus surgery
Upwards of 76 percent of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) experienced significant quality of life (QOL) improvements after undergoing endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS), according to new research in the January 2010 ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 01, 2010 |
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A change of heart keeps bears healthy while hibernating
Hibernating, it turns out, is much more complicated than one might think.
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Anemia associated with greater risk of death in heart disease patients
May 28, 2009 - A new study appearing in Congestive Heart Failure has found that the presence of anemia in patients with chronic heart failure is associated with a significantly increased risk of death. The findings also s ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 28, 2009 |
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Chronic kidney disease profoundly impacts quality of life
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) can significantly lessen patients' quality of life, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). Certain types of pati ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 30, 2009 |
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