One drawback of the approach is that it only targets tumors researchers can see on a scan.
You can see the brain scan images for yourself in Figure 1 on page 141 of the PDF of this article.
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People with mild memory loss will get a brain scan to see if plaques are present.
"When you see a face, you scan it, identify if it's friend or foe and make a decision about whether to move forward or avoid it, " said Dr. Barry Kosofsky, chief of neurology at Cornell Medical Center, who was not affiliated with the study.
Job seekers can alternatively choose to scan their network to see if anyone they know can offer a referral.
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Your mail-handling software would scan each message to see if either the sender's name could be found in your personal directory or a magic word could be found in the subject field.
McDonald's and Macy's are both integrating QR codes into their hiring ads, so that job seekers or customers can walk into a store, scan the code they see on a poster, and be sent directly to the openings available at that location.
Without those rookie sessions, Manning doesn't scan the field, see a Cover-2 defense, recognize that the Patriots jammed his top two receivers on the right, look off New England's safeties, slide up in the pocket and thread the ball 38 yards into the teeniest of windows for Mario Manningham for the game's biggest play.
Inspectors can then scan logs at random to see if they match their description in the database.
Some things he would like to see built out are the ability to scan and set privacy for photos and wall posts.
"Alex receives a CT scan every three months now to see what the tumour is doing, " says Linda.
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In addition to straight arithmetic errors, the IRS can scan tax returns early on to see if there are any mismatches on filers' names, Social Security numbers and other data they can correct.
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If he loses his collar, rescue organizations will scan the back of his neck, see his personal identification number, and contact you.
Today at DEMO Mobile SF, we finally got to see a prototype unit for ourselves and watch it scan someone's head in real-time.
Each week at Forbes we scan our database of corporate insiders to see who got richer from the action in the stock market.
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If I type in Eric Savitz, our San Francisco bureau chief who frequently writes about Apple, I can click to his search page results and see his photo, latest post, follow him and scan all his headlines.
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S. hospitals develop a fee schedule for 20, 000 or more items from the cost of Tylenol tablets to the price of getting a basic chemistry panel to the cost of an x-ray or a CAT scan or an MRI and you can see the problem.
She notes that she and others have seen shoppers scan the bar codes of merchandise onto their smartphones to see if they can find the items for a cheaper price online.
Compuware APM launched its free application monitoring service Tuesday, allowing any company to scan its mobile apps within 15 or 20 minutes to see what user actions and code bottlenecks could be slowing an app down and deterring users from making a possible purchase.
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Computer geeks call it war-driving or Net stumbling: roving around with a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop to scan for nearby Wi-Fi access points, then trying to see if they can use them for free.
These security questions are a joke with the answers easily discoverable with a quick scan of a social network profile or using sites like Pipl.com (see my how-to guide for cyber-stalking).
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If you scan for the negative first, your brain literally has no resources left over to see the things you are grateful for or the meaning embedded in your work.
Several companies in America scan their employees' e-mail for unpleasant or disloyal material, or test them to see if they have been taking drugs.
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