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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 close 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 home with one of the five top honors winners were crowned for the top i.t. project the leading innovation for helping society as a. competitors
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police say. evildoers. sniffer dogs have been used for this purpose. but they have. a dog. rest.
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only. a dog. can only signal that something is there. to the explosive. very often putting their own lives at risk. every dog is different.
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in the. field spectrometers can identify what. compounds the ones in the system so far have been selected for their usefulness in the field of both of us here. can add. many of those have one significant. tradition the. same principle in mind but then thought.
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any kind of substance actually. functionalities. to use it effectively in the failed. so far. more than two hundred. interior ministry. clear orders from the country's biggest security agencies could. potential terrorists only think we ought to worry about but in reality the most dangerous things might be hiding in the. region to take a look at the makeup of the. state physics scientists have. technology.
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some of the. secrets and discovering. that we were looking. now in theory there's a wide array of potential. expensive . spectrometry carries a pretty hefty price. spectroscope expensive complex. excludes samples. and require extensive training. spectroscopy is the best.
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school contains a coloring agent whose luminescence spectrum is too intense for us to observe any individual molecule 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 was less than successful doesn't mean that the inspector are five thirty two as it's called on the market can't perform a litany of other tests to help massage my wounded pride maksim here show that a soda free from colorings heals the results we were looking for the three main peaks correspond to water sugar and set your acid thank you. well this device can be used for nonscientific purposes that is 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
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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 robin 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 a microscope. with a resolution of around one micro you can obtain an individual spectrum every square
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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. but only devices such as ours 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 make a laser that emits a five hundred thirty two nanometer wavelength the c.c.d. sensor is designed to work at room temperature and has been specially designed to suppress other physical processes like scattering that can interfere. 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 at places as idyllic as moscow's
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patriarch's pond there are hidden dangers all around and the first that for protecting yourself is knowing the potential risks. to the plane actually radioactive particles everywhere they come from the sun space. occurring objects to drive the point home. showed elevated radioactivity from a simple. we can measure the radiation background radiation is pretty close ciro point zero eight but it will gradually go up. the ideal for that extremely compact . was spurred on by the nuclear disaster in fukushima japan while the immediate threats to those in the vicinity were clear right away the experience has left many people concerned about extraordinary and every day radiation. looking for a way to give people more peace of mind this moscow based innovator got to work
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designing his own smartphone powered. the device can help people better understand the risks that simply aren't visible for example the paint used in this old compass is still radioactive particles that are easily measurable but the right equipment. we already have a whole line of software products and devices for various smart phones. laptops books with varying levels of complexity on the market from simpler and less expensive models to more sophisticated versions. but of course the idea of checking radiation levels is far from a new one ever since people understood the risk of radioactivity there's been the trusty but often cumbersome geiger counter to measure it the device is characteristic clicking sound has long let the user know if the plate of food in
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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. which we're calling dr 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 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
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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 global demand here and again this is according to the marketing research report would likely be around ten to fifteen million devices. and as
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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. they played a family jazz band together. played hijacked a plane together. most of them from music to tara.
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twenty five years old questions still remain. just bad hijack. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images her world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all day.
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sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is. welcome to the big picture.
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plugins. welcome back to technology update identifying external threats is one thing but no profession is more to gain by piri beneath the surface than medicine with each new advance scientists are leveling the playing field against seemingly unseeable foes
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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 m.d.'s now have a greater arsenal at their disposal. for 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
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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 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 increase the quantity as well as the quality of diagnoses we perform. and in russia the first word x. ray technology. 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
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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. by a team of engineers responsible for the first camera developed in the soviet union over the years and decades elect their own 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 clearly the most important which requires electrons to take certain precautions. so. 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
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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 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 it allows easier scanning 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
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scanning the patient's body to produce demographic images all slices of specific areas of the body then these individuals are 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 a full picture of the patient's condition but getting that three d. computer. image isn't so easy the circular scan 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.
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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 it to as much as fifty percent. in other words we're gradually replacing foreign components with. more than five hundred. the country. exports. which takes us to physical. the nuclear physicist.
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researchers. in physics. to the days of peter the great. is work on a revolutionary kind of. the structures of. electromagnetic radiation. hydrogen. and. what we do here is considered a priority for the limited physical. currently the biggest medical project being developed by the russian academy of sciences.
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wanted by the ministry of industry and trade. provided a grant to stimulate and implement this project. around the. field makes the hole in. just. such a construction. for one thing by cutting prices.
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significantly reducing it these are much cheaper to operate. around twenty five dollars per liter which adds seventy five to one hundred thousand dollars to the initial price. making the. fact that monitoring and maintaining. this kind of m.r.i. machine is very small and hardly any just little. space to install it's all a big m.r.i. can take up to forty. thousand clinics this is important to totally reconfigure a launch area. is currently about halfway to the cutting edge.
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they've already finished.
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some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and passed down from generation. to the told destruction of the culture of new mexico by telling them i mean this this is not going to impact on any mexico whatever happens here. we're. in the in the open a can of. genetically engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. a clear image of iraq after inflation. twenty day trucks a trip through the country. the roads full of danger.
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clear evidence from north to south. the route of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. talks e t.
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a few. a french soldier stabbed in the neck in an attack that draws comparisons with a recent beat heading of a u.k. trooper in watch authorities investigating any possible links between the two savage crimes and. oh yea two thousand joined worldwide protest against genetically modified foods made fears for consumer health and the impact one company's having on farmers across the globe. russia's southern republican dagestan again the scene of a deadly terror attack one person killed fourteen injured in a suicide blast that rocked the capital.

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