AScribe Business & Economics News Service articles from July 2004

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New Names, New Outlook: Babson Executive Conference Center, Babson Executive Education Reflect Recent Expansion, Recognition.
July 1, 2004... Byline: Babson College WELLESLEY, Mass., July 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new name - Babson Executive Education (BEE)- has emerged from the existing Babson School of Executive Education. The updated name signifies a new phase for Babson's...

Notices for Runway Closures, Other Restrictions Confuse Pilots, University of Central Florida Study Shows.
July 1, 2004... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, July 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Eighty-three people died in 2000 when an airplane crashed into concrete barriers and construction equipment on a Taiwan runway. Investigators concluded that the...

Pediatricians Are Plentiful, New Study Finds, But Not in Poorer States; Number of Children's Doctors For Every 100,000 Kids Has Doubled Since 1978, But Distribution Uneven.
July 2, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- America's children have many more pediatricians available to treat them today than they did 25 years ago, a new study finds, but the doctors aren't...

Noble Foundation and Amaethon Establish Intellectual Property Marketing Relationship.
July 2, 2004... Byline: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation ARDMORE, Okla., July 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce the formation of a multi-year relationship with Amaethon Limited, a UK-based...

University of Virginia Scientists Discover Amorphous Steel; Material Is Three Times Stronger Than Conventional Steel and Non-Magnetic.
July 6, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the University of Virginia have announced the discovery of a non-magnetic amorphous material that is three times stronger than conventional...

Wistar-Discovered Antibody Will Help Diagnose Appendicitis: FDA Approval of NeutroSpec Reflects Philadelphia's Biomedical R&D Strengths.
July 6, 2004... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- NeutroSpec, a new imaging agent approved by the Food and Drug Administration for detecting certain difficult-to-diagnose cases of appendicitis quickly and accurately,...

Convio Closes Additional $15 Million in Financing to Drive Continuing Growth; Funding Follows Five Consecutive Quarters of Record Sales; Supports Ongoing Product Development and Services Expansion, Propels Company Toward Profitability.
July 6, 2004... Byline: Convio AUSTIN, Texas, July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Convio, Inc. -- the leading provider of software and services to help nonprofits and higher education institutions use the Internet for fundraising, marketing, advocacy and other...

New Health Affairs Study Shows Long Working Hours for Nurses Lead to Medical Errors.
July 7, 2004... Byline: Burness Communications BETHESDA, Md., July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Medical errors and near errors are more likely to occur in hospitals when staff nurses routinely work long and unpredictable hours, an increasingly common practice...

New Health Affairs Study Shows Malpractice Pressures Dampening Physician Satisfaction, Hurting Patient Care.
July 7, 2004... Byline: Burness Communications BETHESDA, Md., July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- With about two-thirds of the United States facing what some experts describe as a medical malpractice crisis, a pair of studies in the July/August issue of the...

Tipsheet: North Korea 10 Years After Kim Il Sung.
July 7, 2004... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Thursday (July 8) marks the 10th anniversary of the death of North Korean President Kim Il Sung, the first leader in the history of that country. The...

ASTHO Applauds Leadership of Sens. Hagel and Durbin; New Workforce Development Act Will Help Eliminate Public Health Personnel Shortages.
July 7, 2004... Byline: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials WASHINGTON, July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- U.S. Senators Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) today introduced the Public Health Preparedness Workforce Development Act of...

University of Wisconsin-Madison Launches Business News Wire.
July 7, 2004... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Wisconsin-Madison has launched the "UW Business News Wire" to distribute news and other information from the university that would be...

Increase in Published Tuition Price at Private Colleges, Universities for 2004-05 Holds Steady at 6 Percent; Campus Affordability, Cost Control Initiatives Help Temper Growth in Actual Student Out-of-Pocket Costs.
July 8, 2004... Byline: National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities WASHINGTON, July 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The lingering fallout from the economic recession on endowment returns and institutional fund raising have contributed to a...

American Dental Hygienists' Association Adopts Official Policy to Address U.S. Oral Health Disparities.
July 8, 2004... Byline: American Dental Hygienists' Association CHICAGO, July 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an effort to address the severe oral health disparities plaguing millions across the United States, the American Dental Hygienists' Association adopted...

Succeeding As Entrepreneurs: Barnard College Helps Summer Interns Get in Touch With Their Inner Bosses; Internships Give 'an Understanding That You Are Capable of Being in Charge,' Says Student Nachama Rosen.
July 9, 2004... Byline: Barnard College NEW YORK, July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Barnard College is launching an entrepreneurial initiative that combines summer internships anywhere in the world with independent study and workshops during the academic year...

News Tip From 2004, XV International Conference on AIDS, July 11-16, Bangkok, Thailand; Up-Front Cost for Treating HIV-Infected Patient in Africa Is $30 USD Per Visit.
July 11, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BANGKOK, Thailand, July 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, have determined that the actual average...

Council for Advancement and Support of Education Announces New Board Leadership; Officers, Trustees Elected at Assembly in San Diego.
July 12, 2004... Byline: Council for Advancement & Support of Education SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Members of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education on July 11 elected two officers to serve on the Board of Trustees. The...

Will the Insured Sacrifice to Help Cover the Uninsured? Study Suggests the Answer May Be Yes.
July 13, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- One of the biggest questions facing Americans as the 2004 elections approach involves a tradeoff: Will those who currently have health insurance be...

Environmental Activists 'Grill' Wells Fargo for Not Getting on the Wagon; Eco-Chefs Serve Up Tofu, Tough Questions at Summertime Sidewalk 'Cook-In' in San Francisco's Financial District.
July 13, 2004... Byline: Rainforest Action Network SAN FRANCISCO, July 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today at lunchtime in San Francisco's financial district, Rainforest Action Network will launch "BBQ the Banks," a national summertime campaign to turn up the...

'Virtual Clay' Brings Act of Sculpting to Virtual World; New Technology Developed by University at Buffalo Engineers Can Be Used in Product Design.
July 13, 2004... Byline: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y., July 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the Virtual Reality Lab at the University at Buffalo have developed a new tool for transmitting physical touch to the virtual world. Their...

Corporate Giving Can Encourage Customers to Give Too, University of Colorado Study Says.
July 13, 2004... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., July 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The old business adage that a company does well by doing good needs adjusting, according to new research led by a University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds...

UC Berkeley's New Xlab Research Facility Tests Social Science Theories to Help Real World Business Problems.
July 13, 2004... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., July 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- XLab, a new research facility at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, is helping to lead a scientific revolution by...

University of Florida Sources Available to Comment on Pending Federal Drug Trade Agreement.
July 14, 2004... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Congress is considering a wide-ranging international trade agreement allowing pharmaceutical companies to prevent the import of prescription drugs to the United...

Report Identifies Widespread Practices That May Lead to Environmental Accounting Fraud; Strategies, Tactics, Companies Identified in Report to Congressional Symposium on Investor Risk of Environmental Liabilities: Expensive Global Warming, Asbestos, Toxic Liabilities Highlighted.
July 15, 2004... Byline: As You Sow WASHINGTON, July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new report, "Fooling Investors and Fooling Themselves" identifies aggressive accounting and asset management tactics that can lead to environmental accounting fraud. The...

June CPI Indicates Fed Can Stick to Plan; Former Fed Economist Comments on June Results.
July 16, 2004... Byline: Hamilton College CLINTON, N.Y., July 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Today's Consumer Price Index (CPI) release indicates that inflation in June was running at a 3.3 percent annual rate. Core CPI inflation, however, (inflation excluding...

Going Digital: Paper Trail Stops, Mayo Clinic Rochester Moves to Electronic Medical Records.
July 16, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., July 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The paper trail is stopping for outpatients at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. From now on, all medical records will be created and stored electronically for nearly 1.5 million...

Carnegie Mellon Organizes Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition Where More Than 30 Teams Will Vie to Assemble, Sell Computers for Maximum Profit.
July 16, 2004... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, July 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Computer agents developed by 32 teams from around the world will come together next week at Columbia University in New York City and vie to surpass each other at...

Purdue to Present WMD Terrorism Simulation, Speakers, Discussions.
July 16, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University's Homeland Security Institute will present a supercomputer-based simulation of a domestic terror incident to give local, state and federal...

Stanford Business School Study Finds Virtual Teammates Fear Their Own Obsolescence.
July 19, 2004... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- As we have seen with the recent hoopla over outsourcing, advances in information technology make it easier to disseminate information within an...

Washington State University Researchers Find Prisons Offer Few Economic Benefits to Small Towns.
July 19, 2004... Byline: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash., July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Throughout a boom in correctional facility construction that has spanned the past three decades, many of the nation's most depressed rural communities have...

Back to School to Do Some Good: Social Benefit Entrepreneurs From Around World, United States Come to Santa Clara University to Learn How to Grow Their Businesses.
July 19, 2004... Byline: Santa Clara University SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Entrepreneurs and technology innovators from around the world will be coming to Santa Clara University (SCU) on July 26 to participate in a two-week incubator...

Female and Black Legislators More Likely Than Others to Prioritize Children's Health, University of Michigan Study Finds.
July 20, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- When it comes to new proposals to protect children's health at the state level, women and African Americans serving in legislatures are far more...

Nation's Largest Health Coalition Calls for Sweeping Changes in Health Care System.
July 20, 2004... Byline: Burness Communications WASHINGTON, July 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Alarmed at what it terms "a deepening health care crisis" and dissatisfied with the status quo, the nation's largest, most broadly representative alliance of...

Building a Better Hospital: Just What the Doctor Ordered for Patients, Staff.
July 20, 2004... Byline: Texas A&M University COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hospitals are unnecessarily risky and stressful places, but a number of improvements to the design of hospital facilities could reduce stress and risk for...

Quantum Computing, Secure Communications Closer to Being Reality; UCLA Scientists Control Single Electron's Spin.
July 21, 2004... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, July 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Quantum computing, which holds the promise of nearly unlimited processing power, secure communications and the ability to decode encrypted conversations by terrorists and others, is a...

Duke University, Frankfurt University Sign Pact to Create Dual-Degree Executive MBA Program.
July 21, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., July 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Frankfurt University's Goethe Business School have completed a memorandum of understanding that establishes a dual-degree,...

Organic Farming Research Foundation Releases Complete Results of Fourth National Organic Farmers' Survey; Detailed Data Set Highlights Organic Farmer Perspectives on Organic Marketplace.
July 21, 2004... Byline: Organic Farming Research Foundation SANTA CRUZ, Calif., July 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Organic Farming Research Foundation today released the complete results of the Fourth National Organic Farmers' Survey: Sustaining Organic...

AstraZeneca Urges FDA to Dismiss Public Citizen Petition on Crestor; Company Response Finds Petition Inaccurate and Misleading.
July 22, 2004... Byline: Edelman Public Relations WILMINGTON, Del., July 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a comprehensive, 30-page response sent Wednesday (July 21) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), AstraZeneca stated that Public Citizen's Health...

University of Georgia Study Shows Job Prospects Remain Bleak for 2003 Journalism Grads.
July 22, 2004... Byline: University of Georgia ATHENS, Ga., July 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a year of grim employment news, the prospects for graduates of journalism and mass communications programs remained slightly worse than the national average,...

Goodwill Industries Reaffirms Commitment to Fiscal Responsibility, Presents Views to Senate Roundtable on Charitable Governance.
July 22, 2004... Byline: Goodwill Industries International ROCKVILLE, Md., July 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- As a steward of public and private resources for more than a century, Goodwill Industries International endorses a move toward greater fiscal oversight...

Purdue University, Regenstrief Foundation Establish Center to Re-Engineer Health-Care Delivery.
July 22, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University is establishing a center to apply the principles of engineering, management, science and information technology to improve the delivery of...

Student Investments Beat the Street.
July 22, 2004... Byline: SMU Cox School of Business DALLAS, July 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- While most mutual funds are barely turning a profit, one group of MBA students is continuously beating the street. MBA students at the SMU Cox School of Business in...

Family Caregiver Alliance Issues Urgent Call for National Leadership in 2004 Campaign to Address Family Caregiving, Long-Term Care.
July 23, 2004... Byline: Family Caregiver Alliance SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Center on Caregiving at Family Caregiver Alliance has issued a new policy brief, "A Call for National Leadership in the 2004 Campaign: Family...

Georgia Tech Researchers Get $5 Million to Smooth Out Kinks in Electromagnetic Propulsion.
July 23, 2004... Byline: Georgia Institute of Technology ATLANTA, July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- (July 23, 2004-When electromagnetic propulsion was first demonstrated more than a century ago, it inspired science fiction dreams of rocket-less space launches,...

Stanford Business School Study Finds MBA Graduates Want to Work for Caring, Ethical Employers.
July 26, 2004... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The fall of WorldCom, Enron and Arthur Andersen, and the public humiliation of Kenneth Lay, Dennis Kozlowski and Richard Grasso have caused the...

Deployed at Democratic Convention; Commanders' Radio Interface Allows Emergency Responders to Better Communicate.
July 26, 2004... Byline: The National Technology Transfer Center WHEELING, W.Va., July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- A communication transmission technology, the Incident Commanders' Radio Interface (ICRI), allows emergency personnel from different responding...

Chemical-Detection Technology to Be Put to Use by U.S. State Department.
July 26, 2004... Byline: The National Technology Transfer Center BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Safety Solutions, Inc. in Boynton Beach, Fla., reports that the United States Department of State has ordered 3,000 of its HazMat...

Tuck School Professor Predicts Olympic Medal Totals.
July 26, 2004... Byline: Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth HANOVER, N.H., July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Olympics have not yet started, but Professor Andrew Bernard already knows which countries will win. He says the U.S. will leave with 93 medals, 37 of...

American Dental Association, National Association of Dental Plans Agree on Licensing Arrangement for Dental Benefits Code.
July 26, 2004... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Dental Association (ADA) and the National Association of Dental Plans (NADP) have agreed that NADP will administer licensing of the ADA's Code on...

New Soy-Based Adhesive Offers Earth-Friendly Alternative for Bonding Wood.
July 29, 2004... Byline: USDA Forest Service - Forest Products Laboratory MADISON, Wis., July 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A wood adhesive that contains up to 75 percent soy has been developed at the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) in Madison. Researchers...

Under State Budget Deal, University of California Will Offer Freshman Admission to Eligible Students Referred to Community Colleges.
July 29, 2004... Byline: University of California OAKLAND, Calif., July 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California will offer freshman admission to UC-eligible applicants who initially were referred to community colleges this year, thanks to a...

After Late 1990s Boom, American Earnings Are 'Going Nowhere'; New Reality Check From The Century Foundation.
July 30, 2004... Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the late 1990s, there were hopeful signs that we had finally broken free of the slow income growth that had bogged down the American middle class for more than two...

Office of Management and Budget Mid-Session Review Confirms Worsening Deficits, Lowest Revenue in 45 Years.
July 30, 2004... Byline: OMB Watch WASHINGTON, July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The White House's Office of Management and Budget today belatedly released its annual budgetary "Mid-Session Review," which attempts to put a positive spin on massive and...

Why American Families Are Borrowing to the Hilt: A New Reality Check From The Century Foundation Series.
July 30, 2004... Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Household debt and personal bankruptcies are reaching record highs despite low interest rates and rising real estate values. Median mortgage debt for low-income families...