Month: September 2010
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Sensors Developed to Measure Flood Damage to Bridges
Floods have caused more than 60 percent of all bridge failures in the U.S. in the past 30 years, more than all other causes combined. Yet up to now, there have been no systematic ways of measuring the damage caused by floods on the bridge supports at the river bottom. Xiong “Bill” Yu, assistant professor…
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Health Informatics Group to Build International Presence
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in Bethesda, Maryland, has started a subsidiary called the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) to encourage collaborative initiatives on health informatics. GHIP aims to form grassroots networks of health informatics advocates and professionals to build health informatics capacity in low-resource settings, primarily in South America, Africa, and Asia. According…