News tagged with fuzzy logic

Fuzzy thinking could spot heart disease risk

A new approach to evaluating a person's risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, high blood pressure, or heart failure is reported this month in the International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management. The techni ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fuzzy logic predicts cell aging

The process of aging disturbs a broad range of cellular mechanisms in a complex fashion and is not well understood. Computer models using fuzzy logic might help to unravel these complexities and predict how aging progresses ...

Biology / Other

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

'Fuzzy logic' reveals cells' inner workings

(PhysOrg.com) -- Living cells are bombarded with messages from the outside world -- hormones and other chemicals tell them to grow, migrate, die or do nothing. Inside the cell, complex signaling networks interpret these cues ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2




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Detecting malaria early to save lives: New optical technique promises rapid and accurate diagnosis

Correctly and quickly diagnosing malaria is essential for effective and life-saving treatment. But rapid detection, particularly in remote areas, is not always possible because current methods are time-consuming ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The 'twilight zone' of traffic costs lives at stoplight intersections

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hundreds of lives are being lost each year in the United States because of mistakes made in what engineers call the "dilemma zone" – that area before a stoplight intersection where the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (5) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

New mathematical model to enable web searches for meaning

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new theory of meaning has the potential to revolutionise many artificial intelligence technologies and enable web searches that interpret the meaning of queries, according to its developer, a computer scientist ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Worldwide map identifies important coral reefs exposed to stress

Marine researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups have created a map of the world's corals and their exposure to stress factors, including high temperatures, ultra-violet radiation, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Aviation safety: New computer tool forecasts icing hazards

Aircraft safety is getting a boost from a new computer-generated forecast that provides pilots with critical weather information on the likelihood of encountering dangerous in-flight icing conditions.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study estimates land available for biofuel crops

Using detailed land analysis, Illinois researchers have found that biofuel crops cultivated on available land could produce up to half of the world's current fuel consumption – without affecting food crops or pastureland.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Natural-disaster mathematical aid systems are presented to NGOs

A team of mathematicians from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) has developed a computer application that estimates the magnitude of natural disasters and helps NGOs in the decision making process. ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Soft intelligence for hard decisions

An approach to decision making based on soft metrics could allow problems to be solved where no definitive "yes-no" answer is possible in fields as diverse as healthcare, defense, economics, engineering, public utilities ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Fuzzy logic water quality

A fuzzy logic approach to analyzing water quality could help reduce the number of people in the developing world forced to drink polluted and diseased water for survival. Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Jo ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 17, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Robotic minds think alike?

Most schoolchildren struggle to learn geometry, but they are still able to catch a ball without first calculating its parabola. Why should robots be any different? A team of European researchers have developed ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 27, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 0


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