Batting blight with big data
As Midwestern Rust Belt cities grapple with painful economic transitions, housing blight threatens to choke out once-thriving urban centers.
Economics & Business
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Visualizing scientific big data in informative and interactive ways
Humans are visual creatures: our brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text, and 90 percent of information sent to the brain is visual. Visualization is becoming increasingly useful in the era of big data, in which ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 3, 2017
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Statistician Nate Silversays conventional wisdom, not data, killed 2016 election forecasts
Democrats and Republicans in recent years haven't seemed able to agree on the time of day, but there is one assertion on which they've found common ground: Polling and data analytics took a spectacular face-plant in the 2016 ...
Mathematics
Mar 31, 2017
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New deep learning techniques analyze athletes' decision-making
Sports analytics is routinely used to assign values to such things as shots taken or to compare player performance, but a new automated method based on deep learning techniques - developed by researchers at Disney Research, ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 6, 2017
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Technique to measure oxidative stress in blood samples offers potential aid in schizophrenia diagnosis
Researchers from the University of Maryland College Park (UMD) and Baltimore (UMB) campuses have developed a blood test that could help doctors more quickly diagnose schizophrenia and other disorders. Their study, "Redox ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 9, 2017
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Detecting early onset of metastatic disease using FAST disc
A new research, affiliated with UNIST has been highlighted on the front cover of the January 2017 issue of the prestigious journal Analytical Chemistry. The key finding of this study is the development of a new technique ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 7, 2017
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Study finds links between swearing and honesty
It's long been associated with anger and coarseness but profanity can have another, more positive connotation. Psychologists have learned that people who frequently curse are being more honest. Writing in the journal Social ...
Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2017
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Biosensor to detect tumors at early stages
Before a malignant tumor develops, the immune system tries to fight against its altered proteins by producing certain cancer antibodies. A biosensor developed by scientists from the Complutense University of Madrid is able ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 12, 2017
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Assessing the amount, quality, and risk of microplastic contaminants in aquatic ecosystems
Since the first reports on a dramatic increase in microplastic contamination in the sea twenty years ago, research efforts have intensified worldwide. A review in the journal Angewandte Chemie has critically evaluated these ...
Biochemistry
Jan 5, 2017
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Nanoarray sniffs out and distinguishes multiple diseases
Before modern medical lab techniques became available, doctors diagnosed some diseases by smelling a patient's breath. Scientists have been working for years to develop analytical instruments that can mimic this sniff-and-diagnose ...
Bio & Medicine
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