Word: scanners
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...features a room for stacks, a Lamont-like reading room, two group-study rooms, wireless internet, and a circulation and reserves desk. The reading room includes a variety of study spaces, including sofa chairs, work spaces, power outlets, and adjustable lighting. The library also has a self-service scanner that allows students to scan documents and save them to a USB flash drive or e-mail them for free. Additional changes include shorter hours, a smaller book collection, and a reduced staff. According to Emily H. Kelly, evening coordinator of the Quad Library, these changes reflect a shift...
...scanner's computer reconstructs the spiral slices into hundreds of 2-D images, much like slices from a loaf of bread...
...table slides the patient into the scanner as the X-ray tube circles the body...
...touch on the high side, he had never experienced any chest pains and had just passed a stress test with flying colors. So last November, when a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Hospital asked the then 49-year-old registered nurse to help demonstrate an experimental new cardiac scanner, neither the physician nor Fackelmann expected to see anything out of the ordinary. The idea was simply to slide Fackelmann through the machine and show what finely detailed images of the heart it could produce...
...This was a scanner program that "primed the pump," according to a former government network analyst who has helped track Titan Rain, by searching vast military networks for single computers with vulnerabilities that the attackers could exploit later. As with many of their tools, this was a simple program, but one that had been cleverly modified to fit their needs, and then used with ruthless efficiency against a vast array of U.S. networks. After performing the scans, the source says, it's a virtual certainty that the attackers returned within a day or two and, as they had on dozens...