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children imitate what they see and every t.v. channel and in many video games kids are going to see a lot of guns in fact the boy at that moment was admirably pretending to be just like his father a us marine you know guns kind of come with that job description rather than complain you all again about the obvious idiocy of zero tolerance policies against children playing let me give one suggestion to actually help fix the problem there are so many teachers and school administrators across america that i bet many of you know one of them try talking them about the madness of zero tolerance a lot of people do things just because they were told to or they never thought about it before so please dear friends try to get teachers you know to actually think about it i can complain on t.v. all day long but one conversation from a friend or relative really could change many people's minds maybe but that's just my opinion.
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hello and welcome to technology update despite our five senses not everything is quite what meets the eye this episode looks to shed some light on devices they give us a glimpse i was hiding just out of sight. remember the earth was the center of the universe until copernicus and galileo came along man's origins were unknown before darwin changed everything and the notion that there was something smaller than an atom was nearly unthinkable until ernest rutherford. even today the quest to gaze beneath the surface just goes on and on. recently we took a peek through the glass walls of school cause hypercube where many of russia's up and coming innovators had gathered to attend the annual prize award ceremony the competition sifted through roughly fifteen hundred clever ideas all looking to come
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home with one of the five top honors winners were crowned for the top i.t. project the leading innovation for helping society as well as a trio for best idea project and production ready invention but in addition to the award ceremony there was plenty of other innovation minded activity going on the previous finalists and runners up were also invited to show off the latest developments on their path to a full fledged startup when a few government officials were on hand to get an up close and personal view of the country's leading young minds and while the winners may have taken home to glory one of the top competitors from a past study can price. in the time since the competition these developers have. electronic.
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device can help police save lives. just. for the. equipment. to get such machinery out into the field to. evildoers. sniffer dogs have been used for this purpose for
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a long time. they're great at explosive detection but they have one major disadvantage a dog is really only able to work a maximum of thirty minutes before needing a rest they can resume work only after six to eight hours with a dog isn't able to tell you the exact substance it's found it can only signal that something is there by raising a poor or giving some other sign but then it's up to the explosive. very often putting their own lives at risk to do so also every dog is different simply. in contrast detectors will work exactly. according to the. competitors.
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field spectrometers can identify what. compounds. so far have been selected for their usefulness in the field. and. can add. one significant. active substance.
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but. actually. functionality. failed. so far. more than two hundred. clear orders from the country's biggest security agencies could. potential terrorist. only think we ought to worry about but in reality the most dangerous things might be hiding in the food and drinks we put in our own bodies so with that in mind we've come to this region institute to take
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a closer look at the molecular makeup of things not obvious to the naked eye. here at the institute of solid state physics scientists have developed a compact that we hear a technology update hope would help us get to the bottom of some of the longest running popular soda brands now it's got to admit that i had delusions of unlocking secrets and discovering. to my apparently untrained mind. spectroscope developed here was the best way to get the answers that we were looking for. now in theory there's a wide array of potential methods of analysis each possessing its own benefits and shortcomings for example. exceptionally precise. and expensive and there's mass spectrometry which also carries a pretty hefty price tag. spectroscope can be less expensive complex sample prep work excludes gas samples then there are traditional chemical analyses applications
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of which are more limited and require extensive training in many cases though spectroscopy is the best just not for investigating dark colored. coloring agent whose luminescence spectrum is too intense for us to observe any individual molecules vibrations that we would usually need to register in order to identify the composition of the substance in question in short the spectrum of the coloring agent makes it impossible to observe any spectra of the combinational scattering which would be otherwise visible. but just because our idea. doesn't mean that there inspector are five thirty two on the market can't perform a litany of other tests to help. show that a soda free from colorings yields the results we were looking for the three main peaks correspond to water sugar and acid thank you. the voice can be used for
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nonscientific purposes but he's for practical tasks as for example in the analysis of gemstones it's always interesting to know what impurities the gemstone has because they help us to find out more about the stone itself to identify its origin . it sheaves this by creating and investigating what's called the scattering correctly to the laser beam hits the molecules they become excited and begin to vibrate that scatters or refracts the laser light had a slightly altered wavelength the devices internal c.c.d. sensor measures the shift of the wavelength those alterations are then compared against the system's database of rom and shifts in terms of jim it allows anyone operating the inspector five thirty two to tell if they're looking at a fake or something much more precious. one of the achievements that we take pride in is the high spatial resolution of devices. this becomes especially apparent when the device is attached to
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a microscope. with a resolution of around one. you can obtain an individual ion spectrum every square my current of the surface. this enables us to present as a major player on the serious scientific research device market. one of our latest achievements is measuring graphing. only devices such as our can identify a layer of graphing which is this thin as one atom grows on the substrate material . the inspector team manages all this by employing a thirty made laser that emits a five hundred thirty two meter wavelength the c.c.d. sensor is designed to work at room temperature and has been specially designed to suppress other physical processes like raleigh scatter. and that can interfere.
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that means the resulting analysis is just as accurate as anything else out there on the market and does it in a matter of seconds and it's automatic recognition software alerts us to what's right in front of our noses but a knowable without specialized equipment even a place of the. patriarchs there are hidden dangers all around and the first set to protecting yourself. to the plane. particles everywhere they come from the. naturally occurring objects to drive the point home. showed elevated radioactivity. we can measure the radiation. pretty ciro point zero eight but it will gradually go up. extremely compact. by the nuclear disaster in fukushima japan while the immediate threats to those in the vicinity were clear right away the experience
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has left many people concerned about extraordinary and every day radiation. looking for a way to get people. to work designing. the device can help people better understand the risks that simply aren't visible. particles that are easily measurable but the right equipment. right now we already have a whole line of software products and devices for various smartphones. cell phones laptops books all with varying levels of complexity. from simpler and less expensive models to more sophisticated versions. but of course the idea of checking radiation levels is far from
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a new one ever since people understood the risk of radioactivity there's been the trusty but often cumbersome a geiger counter to measure it the device is characteristic clicking sound has long let the user know if the plate of food in front of him or her is safe to eat each audible click is an incoming radioactive particle being. since its introduction models have become more portable and simply taking that tradition into the future. the next version of meter. which we're calling conductor version. we're also working on a totally new generation of the device which will employ. at the moment though those plans are just that plans on paper to make the technological leap the company needs new investments which could be coming in the very near future. the company expects to hear back from. a sizable grant that could
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give them the resources they need to move those next generation radiation detectors from paper to the production line. the company is anxious to get that going because according to certain estimations there could be a major. we can see fairly high demand across the world. especially in southeast asia and japan recently we ordered a marketing research report from a japanese company basically based on very calculations they believe that if these devices were launched on the japanese market today in the first month we would sell around forty to fifty thousand of them and over the course of a year sales would total some five hundred thousand. from that point the market would stabilize and show its true capacity. overall. the japanese market is. ready to accept some three to six million devices per year. well annual
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global demand here and again this is according to the marketing research report would likely be around ten to fifteen million devices. and as a wise man once said knowing is half the battle. enables users to note on a unified map where they found increased levels of radiation that could then in theory be used to inform government agencies or interested citizens with a handful of accidents ingrained in our collective memories that information is of concern to people all over the globe presently there are some one hundred seventy five million living within seventy five kilometers of major nuclear reactors of course everyone's hoping for fully safe operations but now your own dosimeter is never more than an arm's length away.
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welcome back to technology update identifying external threats is one thing but no profession is more to gain by peer even with the surface than medicine with each new advance scientists are leveling the playing field against seemingly unseeable foes since we can really only observe the consequences or symptoms of most illnesses doctors have always had to rely on reading between the lines they can often only narrow in on our ailments by process of elimination on the back of many giant leaps forward in the past century now have a greater arsenal at their disposal. for
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example they can bombard our bodies with harmless ultrasonic waves showing the image in real time of their high frequency poses are good for monitoring pregnancies as well as blood flow in their radioactive isotopes which allow doctors to target specific organs often to check for cancer magnetic fields have also been mastered to keep an eye on soft tissues like the brain injured tendons but the granddaddy of them all is the x. ray which has been giving doctors a glimpse into our bones and lungs for more than one hundred years. the technique discovered merely by accident has highlighted how gaining new insight into what was previously out of reach these major dividends the technique revolutionized many diagnoses processes with oversize film images becoming a standard sight in hospitals everywhere but that's all in the past digital is the name of the game now armed with nearly instantaneous results doctors can see right away if they successfully snap the needed pic properly. more flexible apparatus
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make modern day technicians work almost as effortless as clicking a mouse. if we compare the latest x. ray equipment with previous models but of course the first big difference is the ability to refine and archive the images digitally. additionally it's increased the quantity as well as the quality of diagnoses we perform. and in russia the first word x. ray technology. expo in moscow recently they showed off their latest wares they produced a range of high tech equipment all of it focused on getting past the barriers that nature's created. based in st petersburg the company is certainly no newcomer to the russian medical tech scene it was started in the late one nine hundred eighty s. engineers responsible for the first camera developed in the soviet union over the years
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and decades electron has slowly but surely improved and expanded the products it offers to the medical profession by the company's calculations it currently accounts for about twenty five percent of the markets in which it operates. at this point one of its main offerings is an entire set of x. ray machinery for doctors that need to get a peek on the inside accuracy in which clarity most important which requires electrons to take certain precautions. so obviously. these are a whole number of tests objects that allow us to evaluate farias image parameters like this one which shows us the resolution that is the smallest objects you can see in a human body for example this test object is a specially made lead plate and has pairs of lines a different intervals within the space of one millimeter judging by how many line pairs we see we can figure out what the smallest element we can x. ray in the human body is there are also these objects that have varying densities
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which we used to conduct contrast sensitivity checks and there exists a great variety of. such tests. in addition to offering traditional simple static snapshots these are equipped with a linear x. ray technology that allows easy of nobility impaired patients and also enables technicians to focus in on one spot in particular by moving the detector along with the x. ray tube linear x. rays minimize background image interference the next generation of technology that's been adopted the world over including a lot of russian hospitals that use it as well is computed tomography it involves scanning the patient's body to produce some graphic images or slices of specific areas of the body then these individuals put together and could be looked at from any number of angles and certain parameters could be measured these cross-sectional images are used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes so that the doctor can get
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a full picture of the patient's condition but getting that three d. computer. image isn't so easy circular only captures an area about twenty five millimeters wide so if the doc needs to check on a large section of the body it can take dozens of spins around the. world over there are really only a handful of companies that are capable of producing equipment like this given the complexity and cost to develop it it should be no great surprise that here electro has teamed up with philips. this is the first full cycle innovative partnership of its kind in russia and the russian side provided some fifteen percent of the components for the most part this included things like service aleutians and associated software. but today a contribution has risen to thirty percent and we are in the process of increasing
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it to as much as fifty percent. in other words. around the country. which takes us. to the days of peter the great. work.
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the structures. and. what we do here is considered a priority for the limited physical. currently. being developed an academy of sciences. supported by the ministry of industry and trade. provided a grant to stimulate and implement this project. around
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the. field makes the hole in. the primary. just. such a construction. for one thing by cutting pricey helium out of the equation significantly reducing it these images are much cheaper to operate. around twenty five dollars per liter which adds seventy five to one hundred thousand dollars to the initial price.
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making the. fact that monitoring and maintaining. the complex. benefit of this kind of m.r.i. machine is very small and hardly come by. the space to install it while a big m.r.i. can take up to. the hospitals and clinics this is important because it's difficult to totally reconfigure a launch area. currently about halfway to the cutting edge. they've already finished. with that. the team's effort has been focused on getting a full body. scanner ready for production. they should have completed in about two to three years' time. the whole.
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