Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second Signals. The procedure was tested last week in home calls by nurses from the Alexandria, Va., Health Department carrying a nine-pound portable cardiograph, the size and shape of a small tape recorder. After a routine check on the patient's health, the nurse pulls four wires out of the Honeywell Cardioview box, and tapes the attached electrodes to the patient's arms and legs. Next, she picks up the patient's phone and dials a number. When she hears an answering signal, she gives the department's code number for this patient. Without another...
...minute electrical currents in the patient's skin, reflecting the motions of his heart, are picked up by the cardiograph. In the Dataphone they are amplified and converted into high-frequency signals for clear transmission. At the other end of the line, in an engineer ing laboratory at George Washington University, a receiver automatically switches on a tape recorder when the nurse's call comes in. The recorder dutifully notes the squeaky sounds it receives as the nurse transmits a ten-second signal from each of the cardiograph leads...
...reason the obese subjects did not respond normally and automatically to the stomach's signals, say the psychiatrists, could probably be traced to deep emotional problems. Eating had become, for them, "a matter of conscious and desperate choice at meal after meal." Many admitted that it had been years since they could trust their senses as to how much to eat. So they ate heavily and did not know when to stop. All of which points up a new problem: how to retrain these fat people to eat on signal-and only on signal...
...ballasted to sink until they reach water of a selected density. Crammed with apparatus that reports its observations with sonic pings, the buoys can be followed accurately through the depths. They can communicate with each other and measure their distance apart; they can be instructed by a coded sonic signal and told when to drop ballast, rise to the surface, and call by radio for pickup...
Watch It, Jack. Avis has actually become No. 1 in such scattered spots as Indianapolis, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Wichita Falls, Texas-and it has turned success into another ad. It views with alarm what it considers the inevitable fruits of being first: a burned-out signal light that went unnoticed at its Poughkeepsie place. "A few more complaints," says the ad, "and we may have to put in someone a little less complacent. So watch it, Jack...