Science Letter articles from July 2008

Science Letter archives from July 2008

First American Human Development Report Introduces New Measurement of Americans' Well-Being.(Report)
July 29, 2008... A new report released by the American Human Development Project introduces the American Human Development Index, a single measure of well-being for all Americans based on indicators in three key areas: health, education and income. "The Measure...

America's Favorite Architecture: the Movie Version.
July 29, 2008... Like any good novel or play immortalized on film, The American Institute of Architects (AIA) takes a page out of Hollywood's playbook. The AIA announces Shape of America -- a series of web-based short movies starring some of the 150 structures...

'Can You Imagine': Author Shares His Life Stories Through New Inspirational Poetry.
July 29, 2008... Short stories and poems encourage the reader to imagine the possibilities for their life in Kelly K. Owens' new book "Can You Imagine" (published by AuthorHouse - http://www.authorhouse.com/). Within the 340 pages, Owens shares the knowledge...

North Carolina Marketing Firm MicroMass Named One of Top 60 Healthcare Agencies in U.S.
July 29, 2008... MicroMass Communications, Inc., a leader in behavioral science-based relationship marketing, is ranked one of the nation's top 60 healthcare firms in Medical Marketing & Media's annual "Agency Issue" review, published this month (see also...

With the S&P 500 Having Gone Nowhere in 9 Years, CornerCap's Chief Investment Officer Offers Comments to Answer the 'What Next' Question.
July 29, 2008... Some remember the 1970s when the stock market index was flat for an entire decade. Due to the OPEC oil cartel driving energy prices way up while inflation was simultaneously ratcheting up, the market went sideways (see also CornerCap Investment...

CTG Named to Healthcare Informatics Annual Ranking of the Top 100 Healthcare IT Providers.
July 29, 2008... CTG (NASDAQ:CTGX), an international information technology (IT) solutions and services company, announced that it was named by Healthcare Informatics to its annual ranking of the 100 largest healthcare IT providers, the Healthcare Informatics...

Popular Orthopedics Medical Handbook Now Available in Portuguese.
July 29, 2008... Due to high demand in Brazil, a popular medical handbook, Fracture Classifications in Clinical Practice (ISBN-10: 1846280257; ISBN-13: 978-184-628-0252), has recently been published in Portuguese by DiLivros Publishing company. Authored by Dr....

International Branding Expert Discusses Logo Design Trends, Business and the Evolution of Branding.
July 29, 2008... Bill Gardner, president of Gardner Design (http://www.gardnerdesign.com/) here, has a front-row seat when it comes to branding trends in the US and abroad. Gardner's fourth book in his best selling LogoLounge series has been published. And he...

Hadera Paper Ltd. - Results of a Public Offering in Israel of Two New Series of Debentures.
July 29, 2008... Hadera Paper Ltd. (formerly American Israeli Paper Mills Ltd.) (AMEX:AIP) announces the results of a public offering in Israel of two new series of debentures pursuant to the report filed with the Israeli Securities Authority on July 14,...

Hadera Paper Ltd. Contemplated Public Offering in Israel of Two New Series of Debentures.
July 29, 2008... Hadera Paper Ltd. (formerly, American Israeli Paper Mills Ltd.) (AMEX:AIP) filed with the Israeli Securities Authority a report with respect to a contemplated public offering in Israel pursuant to the shelf prospectus published by the...

Hadera Paper Ltd. Israeli Institutional Investors Pre-Offer Undertakings.
July 29, 2008... Hadera Paper Ltd. (the "Company", formerly, American Israeli Paper Mills Ltd.) (AMEX:AIP) held on July 10, 2008, an auction for Israeli institutional investors, as part of the contemplated public offering in Israel of two new series of...

Hilltop Community Bancorp Reports 52.1% Earnings Increase for the Second Quarter.(Financial report)
July 29, 2008... Hilltop Community Bancorp, Inc. (the Corporation) (BULLETIN BOARD: HTBC) , the holding company for Hilltop Community Bank (the Bank) reported an earnings improvement of 52.1% for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008 as compared to the prior...

Ipswitch Positioned in Research Firm's Visionaries Quadrant in Managed File Transfer Magic Quadrant.(Report)
July 29, 2008... Ipswitch, Inc. File Transfer Division, a leading provider of secure and managed file transfer solutions, announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries Quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant for Managed File Transfer" Report...

Jaffe Associates Publishes Definitive Guide to PR 2.0 for Law Firms.
July 29, 2008... Jaffe Associates, the leading public relations firm serving the legal industry in North America and Europe, has published a white paper to provide guidance to law firms seeking to understand what Web 2.0 means for their public relations and...

Security Threats Loom Over Unified Communications, Report Finds.
July 29, 2008... The potential for major security breaches of unified communications (UC) systems is escalating, and the biggest problems are arising from the improper or incomplete use of security features by business and enterprise users, according to the...

LTC Financial Partners Named as Long Term Care Insurance Source by Kiplinger's 2nd Year in a Row.
July 29, 2008... Kiplinger's Retirement Planning 2008, published in the Fall issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance, includes this advice for seekers of long term care insurance: "TIP // For help finding a policy, check out LTC Financial Partners...

Connecticut Manufacturers Report 1.3% Employment Loss According to State Industrial Directory.(Directory)
July 29, 2008... Manufacturers' News, Inc. -- Industrial employment in Connecticut dropped 1.3% over the past 12 months according to the 2009 Connecticut Manufacturers Register, a compilation of state industry published annually by Manufacturers' News, Inc....

Maryland Industrial Directory Reports State Manufacturing Jobs Down Half Percent.
July 29, 2008... Manufacturers' News, Inc. -- Industrial employment in Maryland dropped a half percent over the past 12 months according to the 2009 Maryland/DC Manufacturers Directory, a compilation of state industry published annually by Manufacturers' News,...

Morton's the Steakhouse Announces Prime Recipe Contest Winner.
July 29, 2008... Morton's The Steakhouse, home of the "Best Steak Anywhere," announced that Sarah Moise Young of San Francisco is the winner of its first Morton's Guest Prime Recipe Contest. Mrs. Young's recipe for Grilled Grouper Chimichurri will have the...

NASA Spacecraft Shows Diverse, Wet Environments on Ancient Mars.
July 29, 2008... Two studies based on data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life (see also NASA). One...

Packaging and Labels Equipment Suppliers Will Find All They Need With the Self-adhesive Label Market in Central / Eastern Europe Report.
July 29, 2008... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/42060e/the_selfadhesive) has announced the addition of the "The Self-adhesive Label Market in Central / Eastern Europe" report to their offering (see also Research and Markets)....

Comprehensive Evaluation of the Office Supplies Market in the UK Out Now.
July 29, 2008... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/65b954/office_supplies_u) has announced the addition of the "Office Supplies (UK) - Portfolio Analysis" report to their offering (see also Research and Markets Ltd.). The...

Office Furniture Retailers & Distributors UK - Portfolio Analysis Is Out Now.
July 29, 2008... Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b8b054/office_furniture_r) has announced the addition of the "Office Furniture Retailers & Distributors (UK) - Portfolio Analysis" report to their offering (see also...

Rep Uno, S.A. de C.V. Terminations Tender Offer for Indebtedness of SANLUIS Co-Inter.
July 29, 2008... Rep Uno, S.A. de C.V. ("Rep Uno"), a subsidiary of SANLUIS Corporacion, S.A.B. de C.V., announced that it is terminating its offer to purchase for cash any and all outstanding 8.00% Guaranteed Notes due 2010 (the "SISA Notes") issued by SANLUIS...

The 2008 SB20: World's Top Sustainable Stocks.
July 29, 2008... SustainableBusiness.com announced its 2008 Sustainable Business 20 (SB20) List: The World's Top Sustainable Stocks (see also SustainableBusiness.com). The SB20 list, in its seventh year, consists of 20 public companies that are leading the...

Reduce Data Center Carbon Footprint With 5-step Process.
July 29, 2008... TeamQuest Corporation, the global leader in IT Service Optimization software, explains how IT and business leaders can understand and implement green IT solutions for quick wins in the data center (see also TeamQuest Corporation). To help...

New applied microbiology study findings have been reported by scientists at University of Paris.
July 29, 2008... In this recently published article, scientists in France conducted a study "To isolate viruses of specific heterotrophic bacterial strains from marine environments using a host addition/virus amplification protocol (HAVAP) for use in...

Research from F. Cus and co-authors reveals new findings on applied microbiology.
July 29, 2008... According to a study from Ljubljana, Slovenia, "The toxicity of the fungicide pyrimethanil on the growth of wine yeasts was evaluated using in vivo and in vitro experimentation. The effect of pyrimethanil in the must was studied during the...

Research from G.E.O. Midorikawa and colleagues provide new insights into applied microbiology.(Report)
July 29, 2008... "The aim of this study was to determine the genetic variability in Aspergillus flavus populations from Brazil nut and cashew and develop a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection method. Chomatography analysis of 48 isolates identified 36 as...

Research in the area of applied microbiology reported from C.K. Marston and colleagues.
July 29, 2008... In this recent study, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To evaluate two selective media, polymyxin, lysozyme, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, thallium acetate (PLET) agar and R&F Anthracis chromogenic agar (ChrA), for the...

Scientists at University of Essex publish research in applied microbiology.
July 29, 2008... In this recent report published in the journal Letters in Applied Microbiology, researchers in Colchester, the United Kingdom conducted a study "To isolate benzene-degrading strains from neutral and alkaline groundwaters contaminated by...

Study results from Chungnam National University, Medical Department provide new insights into applied microbiology.
July 29, 2008... In this recent study, researchers in South Korea conducted a study "To investigate the microbicidal mechanisms of high-power microwave (2.0 kW) irradiation on Bacillus subtilis and to determine the effect of this procedure on the ultrastructure...

Study results from National Autonomous University in the area of applied microbiology published.
July 29, 2008... In this recent report, researchers in Mexico conducted a study "To evaluate the effect of the extrusion-cooking process with the addition of different acids concentration on the stability of B-aflatoxins in sorghum. Experimental units (EU) of...

Data from A.P. Fortis and colleagues advance knowledge in arthroscopy.
July 29, 2008... In this recent article published in the Arthroscopy - the Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, scientists in Athens, Greece conducted a study "To evaluate the functional outcomes and complications after endoscopically assisted...

Findings from University of Saarland in arthroscopy reported.
July 29, 2008... According to a study from Homburg, Germany, "The objective of this investigation was to evaluate the possibility of locating and reproducing the tibial insertion areas of the anterior and posterior horns of the medial meniscus on preoperative...

Research results from D.B. Smith and colleagues update understanding of arthroscopy.(Report)
July 29, 2008... According to recent research published in the Arthroscopy - the Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, "The purpose of this study was to prospectively evaluate the midterm results (beyond 2 years) of thermal shrinkage on both lax native...

Studies from J.J. Irrgang and co-researchers update current data on arthroscopy.(Clinical report)
July 29, 2008... "In order to measure and report clinical research results, we require the ability to measure our results, and we label our measurement tools ''outcome measures.'' Options are many and include clinician-reported and patient-reported measures....

New findings from University of Queensland describe advances in biochemistry.
July 29, 2008... According to recent research from Brisbane, Australia, "Although the first members of the Schlafen gene family were first described almost 10 years ago, the precise molecular/biochemical functions of the proteins they encode still remain...

Research conducted at Vrije University Amsterdam has provided new information about biochemistry.
July 29, 2008... "A BDI-based continuous-time modelling approach for intracellular dynamics is presented. It is shown how temporalised BDI-models make it possible to model intracellular biochemical processes as decision processes," scientists in Netherlands...

Scientists at Aligarh Muslim University publish new data on biological macromolecules.
July 29, 2008... "This is the first report on the identification and partial characterization of phospholipase D (EC 3.1.4.4) from Allium sativum (garlic) bulbs (PLDGB). The enzyme shares the phenomenon of interfacial activation with other lipolytic enzymes,...

New bone marrow transplantation research from C.N. Duncan and colleagues discussed.
July 29, 2008... According to recent research from the United States, "Bronchiolitis obliterans (BrOb) is a well-recognized complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). It is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality in...

New findings from University of Bari in the area of bone marrow transplantation described.(Report)
July 29, 2008... "This study aimed to identify which graft product subset of CD34+ cells might be the most predictive of early hematopoietic recovery following allogeneic peripheral SCT (allo-PBSCT)," investigators in Bari, Italy report (see also Bone Marrow...

Research from M. Miano and co-researchers in the area of bone marrow transplantation published.
July 29, 2008... "Early complications can be defined as those occurring within 100 days after transplant. Both epithelial and endothelial damage represent the pathogenetic basis for the onset of the most frequent complications," scientists in Genoa, Italy...

Research from S. Corbacioglu and co-researchers in the area of bone marrow transplantation described.
July 29, 2008... "In contrast to adults, 50% or more of medicines used in children have never been actually studied in the paediatric population in the European Union community (EU). Under the impression that compliance with good clinical practice (GCP)...

Research on bone marrow transplantation discussed by scientists at Karolinska University.(Report)
July 29, 2008... According to a study from Stockholm, Sweden, "Recent studies have pointed towards an association between certain single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the NOD2/CARD15 gene, and negative outcome of Allo-SCT. In this study, 198 patients and...

Research reports on bone marrow transplantation from University of Padua provide new insights.
July 29, 2008... According to recent research from Padua, Italy, "GvHD remains a source of significant morbidity and mortality in the setting of allogeneic haematopoietic SCT." "Improving outcomes in stem cell transplant recipients requires additional...

Studies from J. Wachowiak et al provide new data on bone marrow transplantation.
July 29, 2008... According to recent research from Poznan, Poland, "The paediatric population of 19 eastern European countries amounts to approximately 80 million children. Between 1985 and 2004, the number of centres performing haematopoietic stem cell...

Study results from Children's Hospital update understanding of bone marrow transplantation.(Clinical report)
July 29, 2008... "The definition of indications for allogeneic SCT in children with high-risk (HR) ALL in the first remission or after the first or subsequent relapse depends on biological features, response to treatment and survival after chemotherapy alone....

University of Helsinki reports research in bone marrow transplantation.
July 29, 2008... "Myeloablative conditioning continues to be employed in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation among patients with pediatric transplant indications," scientists writing in the journal Bone Marrow Transplantation report (see also Bone Marrow...

Data on cell biology reported by A. Schenck and co-researchers.(Report)
July 29, 2008... According to a study from Dresden, Germany, "During development of multicellular organisms, cells respond to extracellular cues through nonlinear signal transduction cascades whose principal components have been identified. Nevertheless, the...

Data on cell biology reported by F. Melander and co-researchers.
July 29, 2008... According to a study from Copenhagen, Denmark, "DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) trigger accumulation of the MRE11-RAD50-Nijmegen breakage syndrome 1 (NBS1 [MRN]) complex, whose retention on the DSB-flanking chromatin facilitates survival....

Investigators at Stanford University target cell biology.
July 29, 2008... According to recent research from the United States, "Dynamic turnover of the spindle is a driving force for chromosome congression and segregation in mitosis. Through a functional genomic analysis, we identify DDA3 as a previously unknown...

New cell biology findings from California Institute of Technology described.
July 29, 2008... "Astrocytes constitute the most abundant cell type in the central nervous system (CNS) and play diverse functional roles, but the ontogenetic origins of this phenotypic diversity are poorly understood. We have investigated whether positional...

New cell biology findings from Massachusetts General Hospital described.
July 29, 2008... According to recent research published in the Journal of Cell Biology, "Extensive alterations in cellular organization are known to accompany the responses of sensitized T cells to target cells presenting an antigen of interest." "Now,...

New cell biology research from University of Pennsylvania outlined.
July 29, 2008... "Immune homeostasis is essential for the normal functioning of the immune system, and its breakdown leads to fatal inflammatory diseases. We report here the identification of a member of the tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induced protein-8...

New cell biology study findings recently were reported by researchers at Anderson University, Medical Department.
July 29, 2008... "Calcium/calmodulin (Ca2+/CaM)-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) couples increases in cellular Ca2+ to fundamental responses in excitable cells. CaMKII was identified over 20 years ago by activation dependence on Ca2+/CaM, but recent...

New findings from R. Lister and co-authors describe advances in cell biology.
July 29, 2008... According to recent research published in the journal Cell, "Deciphering the multiple layers of epigenetic regulation that control transcription is critical to understanding how plants develop and respond to their environment. Using...

Reports on cell biology findings from University of Massachusetts provide new insights.
July 29, 2008... "The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein GT1 (UDP-glucose: glycoprotein glucosyltransferase) is the central enzyme that modifies N-linked carbohydrates based upon the properties of the polypeptide backbone of the maturing substrate. GT1 adds...

Reports on cell biology findings from Yale University, Medical Department provide new insights.
July 29, 2008... "The adaptive immune response is initiated by the presentation of peptides bound to major histocompatibility complex molecules on dendritic cells (DCs) to antigen-specific T lymphocytes at a junction termed the immunological synapse. Although...

Research from Johns Hopkins University has provided new information about cell biology.
July 29, 2008... "Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) is a molecular sensor of noxious heat and capsaicin. Its channel activity can be modulated by several mechanisms," researchers in the United States report (see also Cell Biology). "Here we...

Research from National Institutes of Health reveals new findings on cell biology.
July 29, 2008... "Proteins with death effector domains (DED) are key signal transducers involved in cell death and inflammation," scientists writing in the journal Cell report (see also Cell Biology). "In this issue of Cell, Sun et al. (2008) describe...

Research from R.A. Saleem and co-authors in the area of cell biology published.(Report)
July 29, 2008... "Reversible phosphorylation is the most common posttranslational modi. cation used in the regulation of cellular processes. This study of phosphatases and kinases required for peroxisome biogenesis is the first genome-wide analysis of...

Research from Rockefeller University provides new data about cell biology.
July 29, 2008... "A cell regulates the number, size, and kind of each organelle it possesses in response to its particular role in an environment or tissue," researchers in the United States report (see also Cell Biology). "Yet we still know little about...

Research in the area of cell biology reported from C. Ciferri and colleagues.
July 29, 2008... According to recent research from Milan, Italy, "Kinetochores are proteinaceous assemblies that mediate the interaction of chromosomes with the mitotic spindle. The 180 kDa Ndc80 complex is a direct point of contact between kinetochores and...

Research in the area of cell biology reported from Thomas Jefferson University.(Report)
July 29, 2008... According to recent research published in the Journal of Cell Biology, "Perlecan's developmental functions are difficult to dissect in placental animals because perlecan disruption is embryonic lethal. In contrast to mammals, cardiovascular...

Researchers from University of Geneva publish findings in cell biology.
July 29, 2008... According to recent research published in the journal Cell, "SRP is essential for targeting nascent chains to the endoplasmic reticulum, and it delays nascent chain elongation in cell-free translation systems. However, the significance of this...

Studies from J. Yamauchi et al add new findings in the area of cell biology.
July 29, 2008... According to recent research from Tokyo, Japan, "The cellular events that precede myelination in the peripheral nervous system require rapid and dynamic morphological changes in the Schwann cell. These events are thought to be mainly controlled...

Study results from University of California update understanding of cell biology.
July 29, 2008... According to a study from the United States, "The protein kinase Akt occupies a central position in multiple signaling pathways." "Although numerous Akt substrates have been identified, less is known about the factors that regulate...

New demographics study findings have been reported by researchers at Roskilde University.
July 29, 2008... "Contraceptive technologies and the knowledges that are constructed around them are simultaneously global and local. Family planning methods in the context of international development interventions are interpreted and understood as part of the...

New electron microscopy study findings recently were published by researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology.
July 29, 2008... "A key to understandings control over mineral formation in mollusk shells is the microenvironment inside the pre-formed 3-dimensional organic matrix framework where mineral forms. Much of what is known about nacre formation is from observations...

Reports from L.C. Straker and colleagues advance knowledge in electron microscopy.(Report)
July 29, 2008... According to a study from Brazil, "The importance of feathers for the avian group has made them one of the most studied epidermal structures both from the morphological and evolutionary point of view." "Surprisingly, our observations by...

Studies from L.F. Estrozi et al further understanding of electron microscopy.
July 29, 2008... "A new FFT-accelerated projection matching method is presented and tested," scientists in Grenoble, France report (see also Electron Microscopy). "The electron microscopy images are represented by their Fourier - Bessel transforms and the...

Data on ethnology published by researchers at Tel-Aviv University.
July 29, 2008... "In this article, I ethnographically trace how Arab, mainly Palestinian, poets have modernized their literary tradition during the last seven decades. Shortly after the 1948 Israeli occupation of Palestine, the reign of the classical Arabic ode...

New findings from Northwestern University in the area of ethnology published.
July 29, 2008... "In this article, I interrogate the iconic Mexican mother-wife image and practices of feminism of primarily U. S.-born, Mexicanas-Chicanas (MeXicanas)," scientists in the United States report (see also Ethnology). "I anchor disempowering...

Princeton University, Whitman College reports research in ethnology.
July 29, 2008... "In this article, I examine the codification of an Italian work-related illness caused by mobbing, a type of psychological harassment that emerged at the moment neoliberal policies transformed Italy's historically protectionist labor market,"...

Research results from Australian National University update knowledge of ethnology.
July 29, 2008... "In this article, I analyze the social processes of performance audits in a variety of cases in China, other postsocialist nations, and a U.S. workplace with Chinese immigrant employees. Although the processes share many commonalities, the...

Research results from University of Cambridge update understanding of ethnology.
July 29, 2008... According to a study from Cambridge, the United Kingdom, "In this article, I examine the role of show trials in 1930s socialist Mongolia as a precursor to state violence. I argue that the show trial I focus on here, held in October 1937, paved...

Scientists at Hamilton College release new data on ethnology.
July 29, 2008... According to a study from the United States, "In the neoliberal imaginary of contemporary capitalism, workers' employment value depends on their skills. Skills terms, especially communication, team, and leadership, formulate aspects of...

Scientists at University of Manchester target ethnology.
July 29, 2008... "In this article, I provide an ethnographic exploration of some of the terms for imagining knowledge in today's ''knowledge society,'' and I attempt to situate the kind of ''sociology of knowledge'' behind this imagination. In particular, I am...

Scientists at West Virginia University publish research in genome research.
July 29, 2008... "DNA transposons, or class 2 transposable elements, have successfully propagated in a wide variety of genomes. However, it is widely believed that DNA transposon activity has ceased in mammalian genomes for at least the last 40 million years,"...

Study data from Brock University update understanding of human movement science.(Report)
July 29, 2008... According to recent research from Canada, "We examined the effectiveness of a teacher-based rating scale called the teacher estimation of activity form (TEAF) to screen for developmental coordination disorder (DCD) in children. A random...

Data on life sciences reported by J.C. Andrewshanna and co-researchers.
July 29, 2008... "The most prominent feature on the surface of Mars is the near-hemispheric dichotomy between the southern highlands and northern lowlands. The root of this dichotomy is a change in crustal thickness along an apparently irregular boundary, which...

Findings in life sciences reported from City University of Hong Kong.(Report)
July 29, 2008... "This article discusses self-censorship in the Hong Kong media. After a brief overview of the problem, the study specifically examines the factors underlying professional journalists' perceptions of self-censorship," scientists in Hong Kong,...

Investigators at Keio University zero in on life sciences.
July 29, 2008... "On the basis of a study on the enantioselective version of the oxidation-reduction hydration catalyzed by bis(1,3-diketonato)cobalt complexes, the highly enantioselective borohydride reduction of carbonyl compounds was developed in the...