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Newswise:Video Embedded ai-powered-surgical-training-program-provides-real-time-feedback-and-instruction
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Released: 26-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
AI-Powered Surgical Training Program Provides Real-Time Feedback and Instruction
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Practice makes perfect, and a new system being tested and perfected that enables surgical trainees to obtain cutting-edge instruction in real-time, all through a new artificial intelligence program. As medical students conduct surgical exercises, the AI software scans a live video feed and provides immediate, personalized feedback.The solution is among the first generation of AI teachers giving real-time feedback and may pioneer the use of similar instructional technology in other industries, including additional areas of healthcare and medicine.

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Released: 23-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
NJIT Marketing Experts Measure Brain Waves and Skin Current to Predict Emotions
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Machines still can’t think, but now they can validate your feelings, based on new research from New Jersey Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Jorge Fresneda.

     
Released: 13-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
NJIT Researchers Unveil Method to Detect 'Forever Chemicals' in Under 3 Minutes
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Researchers report one of the fastest and most sensitive approaches yet for detecting toxic per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) accumulating in the environment, which are linked to health risks ranging from cancers to birth defects.

Released: 25-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Researchers establish brain pathway linking motivation, addiction and disease
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

New findings published in the journal Nature Neuroscience have shed light on a mysterious pathway between the reward center of the brain that is key to how we form habits, known as the basal ganglia, and another anatomically distinct region where nearly three-quarters of the brain’s neurons reside and assist in motor learning, known as the cerebellum.

Newswise: Researchers capture first images of a radio 'ring of fire' solar eclipse
Released: 23-Oct-2023 5:05 PM EDT
Researchers capture first images of a radio 'ring of fire' solar eclipse
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have captured the Oct. 14 solar eclipse in a way never seen before — recording the first radio images of an annular eclipse’s famous “ring of fire” effect.

Newswise: Forest resilience linked with higher mortality risk in western US, study finds
Released: 5-Dec-2022 7:25 PM EST
Forest resilience linked with higher mortality risk in western US, study finds
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

A forest’s resilience, or ability to absorb environmental disturbances, has long been thought to be a boost for its odds of survival against the looming threat of climate change.

Newswise: Mixed Reality Could Be the Future of High-Tech Coaching in Team Sports
Released: 16-Jun-2022 5:25 PM EDT
Mixed Reality Could Be the Future of High-Tech Coaching in Team Sports
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Every pitcher believes he has enough gas for one more strike-out, but an invention from NJIT Associate Professor Tao Han might forever change that old stare-down between players and coaches on the mound.

Released: 1-Jun-2021 2:40 PM EDT
Duetting songbirds 'mute' the musical mind of their partner to stay in sync
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Art Garfunkel once described his legendary musical chemistry with Paul Simon, "We meet somewhere in the air through the vocal cords ... ." But a new study of duetting songbirds from Ecuador, the plain-tail wren (Pheugopedius euophrys), has offered another tune explaining the mysterious connection between successful performing duos.

Released: 9-Dec-2020 4:10 PM EST
'Spooky Interactions', shocking adaptations discovered in electric fish of Brazil's Amazon
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

A study of weakly electric fishes from a remote area of the Brazilian Amazon Basin has not only offered a unique window into how an incredibly rare fish has adapted to life in caves over tens of thousands of years, it has also revealed for the first time that electric fish are able to interact with each other over longer distances than known possible in a way similar to AM radio.

Released: 19-Apr-2016 1:05 PM EDT
NJIT High-Resolution Images Capture a Solar Flare as It Unfolds
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Scientists at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have captured unprecedented images of a recent solar flare, including bright flare ribbons seen crossing a sunspot followed by "coronal rain," plasma that condenses in the cooling phase shortly after the flare, showering the visible surface of the Sun where it lands in brilliant explosions.

Released: 16-Feb-2016 1:05 PM EST
Social Media Face Threats Affect Relationships; Communication Helps
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Impression management refers to an individual's deliberate efforts to control or influence other people's perceptions. Sometimes impression management occurs in reaction to face threats: unfavorable incidents that undercut a person's ability to cultivate and maintain a desirable self-image on social networking sites (SNSs).

Released: 24-Nov-2015 12:05 PM EST
Army Ants Build Bridges to Shorten Journeys Through the Rainforest
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Army ants construct complex bridges from their own bodies to span gaps and create shortcuts in the floor of the tropical forests of Central America, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


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