Strong Quake Strikes Japan

Quake hits pandas

at the interface between biology, biochemistry and physics raised concerns that the slicing up of the organisation into disciplines might discourage such interdisciplinary work and make it harder to obtain funding for it. SLR cofounder and spokesman Alain Trautmann, head of the department of cellular biology at the Institut Cochin at Paris, expressed doubts that the plans will really amount to ...

Environmental Health Insights into the 2011 Tōhoku Japan Earth quake Disaster

Quake warnings, seismic culture.

ince 1990, nearly one million people have died from the impacts of earthquakes. Reducing those impacts requires building a local seismic culture in which residents are aware of earthquake risks and value efforts to mitigate harm. Such efforts include earthquake early warning (EEW) systems that provide seconds to minutes notice of pending shaking. Recent events in Mexico provide an opportunity t...

T-QUAKE Quantum Mechanical Microchip

Delivering quantum-encoded secret keys is known as Quantum Key Distribution, or QKD; in essence it involves transmitting a series of randomly generated, quantum-encoded bits of information between a sender and a receiver, Alice and Bob, over a distance. This string of bits, called qubits, becomes the secret key Alice and Bob use to interpret encoded messages sent over less-secure channels. In t...

Awareness Tools : Lessons from Quake-Like

This paper presents a study that aims to review the awareness tools provided by video games to support team-play and team collaboration/communication. It also focuses on the use of these tools in groupware. A content analysis of gamers interview, the games observation and the game guides reading have revealed that, awareness tools used in games, support mainly location, presence, identity, acti...