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Infants
who use pacifiers during sleep time have
almost a two-thirds reduction in the
risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome,
compared to infants who did not
use a
pacifier. Dr. John Kattwinkel, head of
U.Va.’s neonatology division at
the U.Va. Children’s Hospital and
the father of the “Back
to Sleep” campaign for the prevention
of SIDS, presented this and other new
findings and policy changes to the American
Academy
of Pediatrics’ position on SIDS
at its national conference in Washington,
D.C., on Oct. 10. SIDS is the cause of
the sudden and unexplained death of
an otherwise apparently normal baby that
usually occurs after the child has fallen
to sleep. Full
story.
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A
team of graduate
students in U.Va.’s Charles L. Brown
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering — from left (seated), Mircea
Stan, Garrett Rose, Adam Cabe,
and
(standing) Wei Huang,
Zhenyu
Qi, Yan Zhang, Wenqian Wu
— won first place
in
phase one of an annual
contest
to improve
the design of integrated computer circuits.
Thirty-nine teams from 27 universities,
including Harvard, entered the SRC/SoC
Design Challenge, which encourages
university
faculty and students to create novel,
low-power designs for highly integrated
circuits, packing as much performance
as possible onto circuit boards. Full
story.
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