| What's Brewin: Unfinished Business
I don't know about anyone else, but before I go on Thanksgiving holiday, I take care of unfinished business. Not Congress, even though it had some real serious business to handle before it went on vacation, such as passing a $179 billion 2008 Defense Department war supplemental funding bill. Yes, I know the congressional Democratic leadership has accused the White House of using "scare tactics" to get the supplemental passed -- even though the bill passed by the House last week, which provides $50 billion in funding, also includes an unrealistic deadline to bring all the troops home from Iraq by next Christmas. In this case I tend to side with Defense spokesman Geoff Morrell, who told reporters last week that the Pentagon plan to furlough up to 200,000 civilian personnel is not a tactic in a high level game of chicken, but grim fiscal reality.
Safer, More Accurate Radiation Therapy For Expecting Mothers
Developing fetuses are extremely sensitive to radiation, which poses an impossible dilemma for expecting mothers in need of screening or treatment for cancer. Now researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new set of modeling tools that could enable safer, more accurate, and more effective radiation therapy and nuclear medicine imaging procedures for pregnant women.
Radiation is a doubled-edged sword: It holds the power to cure cancer, but if used improperly it can also cause serious damage to the human body. The situation is even more critical with pregnant females, as any errant radiation could severely harm and impede the growth of the fetus.
"The human body is a particular challenge to model because of its wide variety of organs, each with a complex and unique shape," said X.
SMB - Mobile systems management maturing fast
Getting more bang for the buck out of your mobile devicesIn addition to allowing IT managers to give their workers more flexibility and the chance to respond to emerging problems faster, the mobile support technologies are also giving companies the ability to draw greater value from the handheld devices that they've already passed out to employees, Rove officials contend. "We know the BlackBerry is primarily seen as an e-mail device, but this is a clear-cut opportunity for companies to defend their investments in mobile technologies by adding value in the IT department, one of the biggest cost centers today," said Paul Dumais, founder and vice president of product development at Rove. "From large enterprises that want to un-tether IT workers from their desks to small companies that may only have a handful of support professionals, we're hearing that it hasn't been hard for people to defend the investment, especially as they hand out greater numbers of smartphone devices to their workers," he said.
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