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Drivers bombarded with phone calls, e-mails and other distractions are more likely to make mistakes. That's no big surprise, but it's been confirmed by an ORNL study in which several drivers missed turns, ran stop signs and sometimes crashed while using in-vehicle information systems and devices. Fo...
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Air travel could become even safer in the future because of work being done by researchers at ORNL and the National Transportation Research Center. In one project, researchers are applying work done to make the nuclear industry safer to identifying precursors to airline accidents. By studying and co...
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) could get a beneficial jolt because of an ORNL study that has produced some startling results. Researchers found that the direction and magnitude of the flow depends upon the frequency of the forcing function. During CPR, it's not known whether the heart acts as a...
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Robert L. Siegrist, a researcher in the Environmental Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been appointed to a two-year fellowship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).Siegrist, who holds a joint appointment with ORNL and the ...
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David E. Reichle, associate director for Life Sciences and Environmental Technologies at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been named to the Research Coordination Council of the Gas Research Institute (GRI).The GRI is a not-for-profit scientific research org...
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Lockheed Martin Energy Systems has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the American Public Works Association (APWA) to increase communications between the two organizations that may lead to improving infrastructures in municipalities across the United States. Lockheed Martin Energy Systems mana...
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An entry submitted by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) won a first-in-class award during the 1995 International Metallographic Contest in Albuquerque, N.M.The entry, titled "Martensitic Transformation in an Austenitic Stainless Steel Single Crystal," won in the ...
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A robotic arm developed at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) makes it possible for soldiers to go to war with a safer, more effective, automated cannon.Using a new Crusader system, soldiers on the battlefield will be able to reload a self-propelled howitzer-a can...
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Dr. Anthony V. Palumbo, group leader for microbial interactions in the Environmental Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was invited by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to participate in the review of the 1995 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I proposals on biotechnical, biophysical and macromolecular systems.
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Dr. Steven E. Lindberg, a senior research scientist in the Environmental Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been recognized by two magazines, Science Watch and Current Contents, as the author of one of the most widely cited papers publish...