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IMAGE: The sustainability of buildings as an independent scientific discipline: The Stones and Ceramics Association supports the endowed professorship Sustainable Building at the TU Graz. view more
Credit: Lunghammer - TU Graz
Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the Austrian Association for Building Materials and Ceramic Industries (Stones and ceramics association) have contractually agreed on the establishment of an endowed professorship for sustainable construction. The association will fund the professorship according to Section 99 of the University Act for a period of three years, with the option of an extension. TU Graz will contribute scientific positions, administrative support and infrastructure for research and teaching.
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Suche öffnen We Won’t Get Around a Serious Lockdown
A Third Wave Washes over Germany as Vaccination Campaign Mounts
Medical professionals and virologists in Germany have been clear in their message: The third wave of the coronavirus must be stemmed through tough measures, otherwise the consequences will be dramatic. So, why are Angela Merkel and her state governors stalling?
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Police and pedestrians on Cologne last Tuesday: I guess everyone is doing what they want.
Foto: IC.HARDT / SNAPSHOT-PHOTOGRAPHY
These days, Germany seems to be staggering like a boxer battered by endless blows on the verge of a knockout. There’s the weakened chancellor, who is unable to get her way. There are everyday Germans, who are tired of the coronavirus and staring in horror at the politicians’ muddled, directionless leadership. There is the vaccination campaign, once again shaken by problems with AstraZeneca. And there are the rising and seemingly unstoppa
Layered materials grant sight to electronic chips
Chip based on layered materials classifies images a thousand times faster than conventional machine-vision systems
April 1, 2021 EP&T Magazine
Researchers at Graphene Flagship partner, the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, has reported an image sensor with an integrated artificial neural network (ANN) capable of learning and classifying images within nanoseconds. The chip is a thousand times faster and uses much less power than conventional vision technologies.
The image sensor can simultaneously capture and process images, making object recognition many orders of magnitude faster. The device does not consume any electrical power when it is operating, since the photons themselves provide the energy for the electric current. The sensor is complemented by an ANN, a man-made system inspired by our brain. In an ANN, components dubbed “neurons” are fed data and cooperate to tackle a problem. In this case, recognizing
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IMAGE: Tamara Weiss, PhD, and Sabine Taschner-Mandl, PhD, discover that the uncontrolled growth of neuroblastomas (green tumor cells) is stopped by a signal molecule produced by Schwann cells (magenta). view more
Credit: Photo: Sabine Taschner-Mandl, PhD, and Tamara Weiss, PhD
Copyright: St. Anna Children s Cancer Research Institute
Image: Immunofluorescence image of Schwann cells (magenta) and neuroblastoma cells (green)
Copyright: Weiss T, Taschner-Mandl S et al.,.
A factor that turns malignant tumors into benign ones? - That is exactly what scientists at St. Anna Children s Cancer Research Institute have discovered. Together with colleagues from the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna (Faculty of Chemistry), they studied tumors of the peripheral nervous system in children, namely neuroblastomas. The scientists discovered that the uncontrolled growth of benign neuroblastomas is stopped by a signal molecule produced by Schwann cells