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Researchers from the Smart Management of Infrastructure Laboratory (SMILab), located in the Center for Advanced Research Computing at The University of New Mexico, have developed a new strain sensor as a part of the Low-Cost Efficient Wireless Intelligent Sensors (LEWIS) project. The new sensor, called the LEWIS-S, is easy to use, wireless, and can be offered at about 5% of the cost of standard commercial strain sensing equipment.
SMILab director and assistant professor Fernando Moreu noted, “Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has been receiving significant attention in the community as a means to quantify the different levels of performance and safety of structural systems, communities, and emergency responses. Strain sensors can measure the stresses of structures in normal loads or extreme loads and report [to] owners or communities about their condition. One of the cores of sensor systems are the data acquisition systems that enable collecting data of interest for planners, man
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by Stephen Chapman
A £3.8m supercomputer has arrived at Durham University to accelerate research and development projects.
The high performance computing platform (HPC) known as Bede, has been made by the N8 Research Partnership and its technology is already being user to better understand Covid-19 and how to recover from the pandemic.
“The launch of Bede marks a significant milestone for the research and academic communities across the North and indeed the wider UK and beyond. It will help our researchers to undertake work that incorporates experimental activities underpinned by large data or modelling situations which are unable to be replicated in standard experiments,” explained Dr Annette Bramley, Director of the N8 Research Partnership.
Daryl Domman, assistant professor at The University of New Mexico Center for Global Health, and Darrell Dinwiddie, assistant professor in the UNM Department of Pediatrics, have discovered a novel variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus among COVID-19-positive samples in New Mexico.
The two have been working with the New Mexico Department of Health and other health officials to sequence the genomes of coronavirus samples from across the state, as well as those from other regions of the Rocky Mountains. A new variant named the “Pelican Lineage” has been observed in New Mexican samples dating back to December 2020.
Health scientists around the world have been coordinating their efforts to understand the coronavirus by uploading the genomic data they collect to an online platform called GISAID. After noticing an unfamiliar mutation at the 677P site of the genetic sequence in several of his SARS-CoV-2 samples, Domman turned to GISAID to see if anyone else had found a similar variant.