2015年ESL之餐饮娱乐 08 Experiencing Virtual Reality

Experiencing Virtual Reality Tatiana: Why are you wearing those funny goggles? Moustafa: Im trying out a new kind of virtual reality. Tatiana: You mean like flight simulators? Moustafa: This is much more sophisticated. This system creates a complete

Business News 05 – Virtual Meetings

How do you conduct your meetings? Face-to-face, on the phone, by videoconference or maybe even using VOIP/Skype? Well, now there is a new way virtual meetings, or meetings where participants are represented by computer generated characters. Listen to

Virtual Reality Goggles May Be Next Must-Have

Virtual Reality Goggles May Be Next Must-Have The real-time counter on the GSMA Intelligence website shows the constant rise of mobile phone subscribers worldwide. The market is huge and there's plenty of money to be made, but there's a design challe

美国国家公共电台 NPR Adult ADHD Can't Be Diagnosed With A Simple Screening Test, Doctors Warn

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The World Health Organization has endorsed a six-question screening test for ADHD in adults. Now, this is catching a lot of people's attention because, with symptoms like distractedness and disorganization, it can be pretty tempti

Rare but Deadly

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CNN 2010-11-17

Airline passengers have learned to live with a lot of security rules over the years. Empty your pockets, remove your belt, take off your shoes, one cork size plastic bag, no more than three ounces of liquid per container, you get the picture. But, fu

英语小达人 120 Virtual Adventure

Virtual Adventure 第24单元 虚拟冒险 Sacks has the best job in the world, or at least he thinks so! He tests virtual reality video games. Every morning he gets up at 7 a.m., has a shower, reads the paper on the subway and arrives at the office

Take Away English-Virtual Worlds 虚拟世界

Online gamers enjoy a concert on the BBC's virtual island The line between the real world and online virtual worlds is becoming increasingly blurred with gamers spending real money to buy virtual commodities and even real estate in digital worlds. W

Virtual Learning

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 30, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Many people remember the day in school when they had to 1)cut up a dead frog. Students

Virtual Reality: Digital Treatment for Real Pain

Amanda Greene lives with pain. Greene says her pain comes from lupus, an autoimmune disease that attacks her organs and tissues. If I don't have nerve pain, I might have joint pain. If I'm not having joint pain, I might have headaches. She tried taki

VOA标准英语2011--Study Supports Breast Cancer Screening Every Two Years

Study Supports Breast Cancer Screening Every Two Years A new study finds that women who have a mammogram every other year are less likely to get a suspicious result requiring additional testing as compared to women who have the breast cancer screenin

VOA标准英语2011--Experts Recommend Screening Newborns for

Experts Recommend Screening Newborns for Heart Defects One of the scariest things a new parent can hear is, your baby has a birth defect. But some of the most dangerous birth defects are are invisible ones, such as deformities in the baby's tiny hear

美国国家公共电台 NPR Lawmakers Weigh Pros And Cons Of Mandatory Screening For Postpartum Depression

NOEL KING, HOST: Lawmakers in California are about to start debating a bill that would make doctors screen pregnant women and new mothers for mental health problems. Many doctors do not like this idea. From member station KQED in San Francisco, April

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Task Force Softens Opposition To Routine Prostate Cancer Screening

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's big news today about one of the most common forms of cancer. An influential federal task force now says patients and doctors should discuss screenings for prostate cancer. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein has more. ROB

Scottish bowel screening trial succeeds

BEIJING, Nov. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Routine bowel screening can cut deaths from bowel cancer by 27 percent, a latest Scottish study finds. The result was presented at the National Cancer Research Institute's (NCRI) conference in Liverpool. Funded by the S

英国小镇建3D街道 逛街如行走未来世界

According to the Daily Mail of October 12, fake facades have been put up in 18 shops in Britain's Redcar street, along with one virtual house。 Shoppers are getting a vision of the future in one town and are walking in a virtual world。 Shops such

学个词Learn a Word 第1368期　virtual

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2006年VOA标准英语-Study: Screening of Young Athletes Can Reduce R

By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 05 October 2006 watch Athletes Heart Risk One of the leading causes of death among young athletes on the playing field or court is a heart condition called Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. But the results of a 25-year stu

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Fewer men are being screened for prostate cancer, and fewer early-stage cases are being detected, according to two studies published Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. 11月17日发表在《美国医学协会杂志》(Journal

VOA标准英语2010-Doctors Debate Benefits, Risks of Virtual

Scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration disagree about the risks from CT scans given during virtual colonoscopies. Doctors who favor the procedure say it is less invasive and more cost effective than a conventional colonoscopy. Those agai