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Brush fire in Mission Viejo prompts warning about titanium golf clubs
When news broke about a brush fire that started in Mission Viejo earlier this week, it came as a bit of deja vu for UC Irvine Professor James Earthman. "I was a bit disappointed that this was still occurring, particularly at a golf course that a fire had already occurred." Two years ago we interviewed Professor Earthman about a study he had done that found titanium clubs could spark brush fires in just that way and one of the cases cited came from that very same golf course in Mission Viejo.
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Blood Test Might Diagnose Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The test tracks changes in the electrical pattern of a person's cells, and it accurately flagged all CFS patients in a small group of 40 people, researchers report. "When we stress the cells, we can easily differentiate them based on the signal they are showing," said lead author Rahim Esfandyarpour. "It's a huge difference." [Rahim] Esfandyarpour worked on the test with a team while at Stanford University in California. He's now an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Irvine.
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Building An Alternative to GPS
"There is an urgent need to find an alternative robust and accurate navigation system to GPS," says Zak Kassas, an associate professor [of engineering and ICS] at University of California, Irvine, and Director of US Department Transportation Center for Automated Vehicles Research with Multimodal AssurEd Navigation (CARMEN). "We are over-relying on these systems, despite their known limitations." Fortunately, Kassas and his colleagues have devised a novel substitute for GPS. Read More
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Better camouflage is needed to hide from new electronic sensors
A team at the University of California, Irvine is designing infrared camouflage by embedding tiny metal flakes into thin sheets of rubber. These sheets can then be incorporated into clothing. … Both designs would add but a trivial amount of weight to military fatigues, notes Alon Gorodetsky, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Irvine, who leads the project. The technology, he says, could be ready within a few years. Such materials, he adds, might also be used as insulation for the better control of heat flows in electronics.
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Biocompatible sensor implant conforms to organ growth
“Advanced electronics have been in development for several decades now, so there is a large repository of available circuit designs. The problem is that most of these transistor and amplifier technologies are not compatible with our physiology,” said co-author Dion Khodagholy, Henry Samueli Faculty Excellence Professor in UC Irvine’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.