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...activities, those who used SenseCam, which has a wide-angle lens and takes impromptu rather than staged pictures, found their recall to be greatly enhanced. "This isn't rocket science and the device is quite simple but there's something about its spontaneous, wide-angle photographs that seem to mimic the brain's own episodic memory," says Emma Berry, a neuropsychologist working on the project. In the past few years, several studies conducted at the hospital have shown that, after reviewing the photographs for an hour every other day for two weeks, dementia patients are able to recall photographed activity...
...Draper’s biomedical engineering group. The small tattoos could replace the often painful finger-pricks that diabetics endure up to twelve times a day to monitor their blood glucose levels. The ink is composed of a glucose-detecting molecule, a color changing dye, and a molecule that mimics glucose, all of which float in spherical polymer bead. When a glucose-detecting molecule approaches the edge of the bead, it should latch onto either a glucose molecule or the glucose-like molecule. If glucose levels are high, the detecting molecule should attach to glucose in the bead, making...
...onlooker she assigns the reader force an examination of the relationship between spectator and spectacle. Smith engages the question of how this relationship might shape the reader’s identity. Does the mere act of observing become a part of our experience? Can a narrative strategy effectively mimic such an experience?In posing these questions, Smith weaves together her collection of stories with an appeal to her readers’ common experiences. Exploring a compilation of everyday occurrences—from small conversations with someone sitting next to us to a misdelivered package on our doorstep—Smith?...
...ground to drink where no one sees.” These elements fail to indicate any deeper, more enlightening reading of the story, and since they are not sufficiently integrated into the plot, they stand out glaringly. And, for a novel following in Faulkner’s footsteps to mimic the human mind as closely as possible, such flat goodwill and deeply poetic style undermines Phillips’ very premise. It stands, not as an exposition on the human psyche, but one of human ideals. And this isn’t anything new.—Staff writer Rebecca...
...Medeiros. “No inter-house, no guests. Just Adams House people,” she said. As part of the effort to foster a sense of community, the first Adams-only dinner tonight will include a reintroduction of the House tutors, Corriel said. The Adams community nights mimic similar restrictions in place at Quincy House, which has long held Quincy-only community nights every Thursday. The House chose Wednesday for the Adams-only dinners to coincide with weekly “Carvery Nights,” which feature a carving station in addition to normal HUDS offerings...