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At Exhibitor Show 99, February 15, Research Triangle Institute (RTI) will debut virtual humans who perform as sales staff in trade show booths. This new product is an interactive kiosk that provides electronic staffing for tradeshows and other promotional events.
Two new medications, naltrexone and acamprosate, show promise in treating alcoholism, according to a new evidence report, summarized in the April 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In the automotive industry alone, estimates a just-released study commissioned by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), "interoperability problems" when sharing product and engineering data impose annual costs totaling about $1 billion.
Society has enjoyed important benefits from mathematical models developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology that simulate the performance of electronic components called insulated-gate bipolar transistors. The payoff to U.S. industry has been estimated at $23 benefits generated for every $1 spent.
Using the first statistically valid method to do surveys on the Web, an independent research Institute finds that health and aging issues strongly influence voters' candidate preferences, especially among retired people.
A new report from the RTI/UNC Evidence-Based Practice Center reveals that certain drug therapies and diagnostic tools can have a positive outcome on the treatment of preterm labor.
New thermoelectric materials could make a life-or-death difference for the next generation of microprocessors, enable fiber optic switches 100 times faster than current ones, and even turn a car's waste heat into electricity for the air conditioner.
Topics include substance abuse prevention and treatment, epidemiology and costs of diabetes, disease prevention, tobacco control, health care costs, safe-schools policies, race differences in health care and disease prevention, and methods such as web-enabled surveys, audio computer-assisted self-interviewing, and GIS.
Fueled by the growing tuberculosis epidemic, the market for drugs to treat TB will approach $700M by 2010. Tuberculosis infects a third of the world's population and is increasingly resistant to existing drugs. The report advocates partnerships to link investors and laboratories to commercialize new drugs.
A new study by North Carolina researchers has led the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to recommend strongly that clinicians talk about the benefits and dangers of using aspirin to prevent heart attacks with healthy patients at increased risk of cardiovascular problems.
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