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Medicine: How active ingredients reach the brain better
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is the physiological barrier between the fluid spaces of the bloodstream and the central nervous system. It regulates the supply of nutrients such as glucose to our brain, but also protects it from pathogens [...] substances intended for the brain actually reach it. For patients suffering from diseases of the nervous system - such as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer's disease - this can mean that therapies are [...] into the human brain. Success would bring a breakthrough in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system. AIT part of an international research project As part of the IM2PACT project, Winfried Neuhaus from
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Social Distancing
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reinstated." Center for Mobility Systems, DTS,Metro, Ubahn, Wien, Menschen Further information SIMULATE explanatory video Solution SIMULATE Research Field “Integrated Mobility Systems” Schönbrunn Visitor Management [...] 2020 By simulating the flow of people in public spaces, the effects of access restrictions, one-way systems or the relocation of sidewalks can be analyzed. This also makes it possible to ensure that the minimum [...] the available spatial capacities" explains Stefan Seer, researcher at the AIT Center for Mobility Systems. While it is not easy to change the structural design, it is possible to shape the use of buildings
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Quantum technology based on Nobel Prize-worthy knowledge
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cybersecurity system based on quantum encryption is being developed. The unlimited coverage provided by satellites will make it possible to overcome the current limitations of fiber-based QKD systems - with [...] technologies are being used to advance the miniaturization of quantum applications in the direction of system-on-chip solutions. The "CiViQ" (Continuous Variable Quantum Communications) project focuses on the [...] leading telecoms, integrators and developers of QKD, are working on flexible and cost-effective systems for quantum key distribution. AIT is developing QKD prototypes and specialized software for field
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Urban planning 2.0: Corona crisis shows how cooperation f
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planning scenarios or make changes to plans on interactive projection screens and 3D models. The system then calculates the effects within a short time, within a few minutes, and displays them clearly
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Blog
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chatbot is a text-based dialog system that enables chatting with a technical system. It has an area for text input and output. This allows communication with the system behind it via natural language. [...] Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to systems with "intelligent" behavior that analyze their environment and act autonomously to a certain degree. AI-based systems include voice assistants, image analysis [...] telehealth system for people in quarantine 24.02.2021 Individuals in domestic quarantine due to the Corona virus can receive ongoing care from healthcare professionals through a new telehealth system. This
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Harnessing the infinite potential of the sun
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excellently equipped laboratories. One focus here is on the quality assurance of PV modules and systems, including performance monitoring, yield forecasts and efficiency optimization. Test-Research, such
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Wanted: Antibodies against the coronavirus
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Sure, it would be a fine thing to know if one has already undergone an infection and our immune system has already produced antibodies against the invader. These antibodies recognize the virus very s [...] Mount Sinai in New York. "We have modified the concept somewhat and adapted it to our expression systems," says Reingard Grabherr, head of the Department of Biotechnology at BOKU. The antigens used are [...] Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics. This provides a much more complete picture of how the immune system defends itself against infection. On the other hand, the multiplex test provides quantitative in
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Smart grids at risk
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this, the entire system is constantly monitored by sensors - the data traffic in the network as well as the system behavior and the physical processes. "So-called intrusion detection systems are designed to [...] events, you also want to prevent too many false alarms. To optimize the system, the relationships between the different detection systems are modeled and the relationships between events in the physical domain [...] events in the cyber domain are analyzed in detail. In this way, the intrusion detection systems learn how the overall system normally behaves and can distinguish between random commonalities and causal relationships
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Smart textiles as an opportunity for the textile industry
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still in their infancy," says project manager Beatrix Wepner from the AIT Center for Innovation Systems & Policy. On the other hand, know-how needs to be built up in a completely different area. So far
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A new look at the increasingly complex world
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complex systems through political decisions," Androsch said. "We therefore urgently need new methods to be able to grasp and analyze complex systems." Methods for the study of complex systems This is the [...] vulnerable this system is: as soon as there is a problem at one point, this disruption can cascade throughout the entire network and paralyze the production of entire sectors of the economy. Systemic crises "It [...] that influence each other on many levels, all these systems exhibit complex behavior: They exhibit reactions that one would not expect. Complex systems, for example, exhibit tipping points at which they
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Wanted: Ways to more sustainability
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Center for Innovation Systems & Policy of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, describing the motivation for bringing a scientific conference on the topic to Vienna. Systemic approach is necessary [...] contradict each other, at least superficially. Rather, a systemic approach is needed to enable change. "We see an urgent need to develop system innovations, finding solutions that can also resolve perceived [...] initiative in the UK more than a decade ago, and she knows well the resistance to systemic change. Contributions dealing with systemic change from other angles will come from the other two keynote speakers: Koen
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Light metals for more climate protection
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built up into a complex 3D component using material-specific process control, a multi-axis robotic system and state-of-the-art torch technologies," explains Martin Schnall, process engineer in the Additive [...] Days, for example, experts from the LKR will be presenting a new aluminum alloy - an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu system - which can even be used to manufacture structural components of an aircraft fuselage with the aid
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Research for a more livable city
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energy savings," explains Anita Graser, researcher at the Competence Unit "Dynamic Transportation Systems" at AIT. The AIT's City Intelligence Lab can be used, among other things, to simulate the changes
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Where and how innovations are created
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technological developments and innovations. Increasing complexity of innovation systems In recent years, such innovation systems have become more complex, as the networks supporting them have grown not only [...] depict the different facets and impact mechanisms of innovation systems. In order to be able to grasp and control these increasingly complex systems, new methods are needed for their analysis and for policy [...] 06.10.2020 Innovation systems are becoming increasingly complex: Research institutes around the world are cooperating more and more closely with each other, which often results in a shift in the "hot spots"
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When complexity leads to human overload and uncertainty
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intended to provide insight into how the system arrives at a particular decision. This is also essential for the question of who is responsible for a technical system's failure. In some areas, answers are [...] people to deal with technology - both in everyday life and when operating machines. Using technical systems is often difficult for us humans - for example, if we don't know them, if we don't immediately understand [...] perceive and comprehend objects in their environment. "Humans cannot immediately grasp and interpret a system made up of many individual parts with many links and a ramified structure," says the researcher.
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High-tech in the fight against fake news
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similar can be applied to videos. In the "face swapping" process, an AI system learns to reconstruct the face of person A. Another system analyzes movement patterns of person B. In the next step, A's face is [...] 05.11.2020 A software system is being developed at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology that bundles indications of fake texts, images, audio signals and videos and uses them to produce an overall [...] faked images are so-called "Generative Adversorial Networks" (GAN). These are two deep-learning systems coupled together: a "generator" artificially creates images, and a "discriminator" tries to classify
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"We need a fast track for innovation"
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Energy, outlined the two most important directions in which research must go: "The future energy system will be based on the two energy carriers electricity and hydrogen". On the one hand, he said, the [...] of "green" hydrogen, and on the other hand, on the integration of these technologies into energy systems in order to be able to exploit all the potential for the interaction of the different sectors. At [...] problems in the discussion " Cybersecurity in the Digital Age." "We're building more and more complex systems, we're connecting everything to everything else. This creates new threats - and we therefore need
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Learning together from the COVID crisis
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light many weaknesses in our economic and social system. For example, we have had to recognize that our social life is being affected and health systems are being overstretched, that supply chains have [...] four topics that have emerged in the crisis as particularly relevant for our economic and social system and that are closely interlinked: In addition to the area of "Distancing," these are the topics of [...] gained in the course of the Corona crisis about the high relevance of an intact and agile healthcare system. Meanwhile, the sector is facing a digital transformation, and this is forcing stakeholders to rethink
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How older people benefit from self-driving cars
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could come up short in highly automated traffic systems. This must be prevented by thoughtful design of the systems. Getty Images Automated transport systems can improve mobility, autonomy and quality of [...] of the systems From the requirements and acceptance analyses, the AIT researchers deduce that the special needs of older people must be taken into account when designing transportation systems and, in [...] groceries home to wheelchairs with emergency assistants and walkers with intelligent navigation systems. But how do those affected see it? Do older people view these innovations as positively as many experts
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Training for the defense against cyber attacks
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doesn't matter whether we're talking about companies, IT systems, production facilities, traffic systems or power plants: All systems are becoming increasingly complex as a result of ongoing digitization [...] Institute of Technology. Therefore, a so-called "cyberrange" was developed, in which a real system (e.g. an IT system in a factory or in a nuclear power plant) is simulated and in which processes and actions [...] 18.01.2021 Modern simulation systems enable realistic testing of measures against cyberattacks. Often, it is not until you play through a situation that you realize which skills are still missing. It doesn't
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