Realcomm Conference Group, LLC, a global leader in providing technology education and networking opportunities for the commercial, corporate, government and institutional real estate industry, announced today its plans to showcase the Shanghai Tower, designed by Gensler and under construction in China, as part of the joint Realcomm | IBcon opening General Session on June 18 at the LVH Hotel. A presentation about the Tower, which has created a new global benchmark for super structures, will be showcased by Ben Tranel, an architect with Gensler. "I'm excited to present ...

Brushing and flossing teeth and gums are critical to maintaining good oral health. Preventative care is common knowledge, but many people still don't maintain good oral hygiene practices. Tooth decay and unhealthy gum tissue aren't the only factors to cause dental issues. Dental trauma can also occur, causing oral health to decline. To combat decay, dentists offer preventative care that includes a dental exam, professional cleaning and fluoride treatment. "Without proper dental care, an increasing number of patients are being treated for tooth decay, gingivitis ...

Orthodontic devices are intended to treat malocclusion. And there are a number of devices employed to effectively shift teeth into proper alignment. At Family Smiles Dental, Dr. Matievich utilizes traditional and modern methods of orthodontics. From traditional, metal braces to modern aligners, a patient can express their dental needs, and Dr. Matievich will advise on the best possible treatment for each case. Treatment plans and the duration of wearing an orthodontic device depends on the severity of the malocclusion. Although orthodontic work differs for each patient, ...

Are you ready for a bright summer? Do you want your teeth to shine just as bright? The quickest and most effective way to do that is by getting in-office whitening treatment. It's a surefire way to get pearly, white teeth. At Santa Rosa Dental Care, Dr. Jeffrey Elliott and his dental team handle a number of different dental cases, including cosmetic ones. Procedures for esthetic purposes are in high demand at the moment, and it seems to be a demand that won't fade away at Santa Rosa Dental Care. "Truthfully, tooth whitening treatment is one of the best ways ...

Although pets can't talk, these days they are itching to, literally. The spring and summer months are among the worst times for pets because fleas and ticks are in abundance, and they are looking for something to chew on-pets. According to the FDA, a single flea can bite a host (dog or cat) more than 400 times. Imagine more than one flea residing on a pet's coat. Constant scratching can irritate a pet's skin, and sometimes a cat or dog can have an allergic reaction called, allergy dermatitis. This happens when a flea's saliva irritates the skin after a bite. Fleas ...

The McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI) today named Alexandra Villoch as president and publisher of the Miami Herald Media Company, which publishes the Miami Herald and the Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald newspapers and their affiliated print and digital products. Villoch has been the senior vice president for advertising and marketing at the Miami Herald Media Company since 2005. She replaces David Landsberg, who previously announced his departure to become president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of South Florida. Villoch begins her new role April 14. "We couldn't be ...

CIC, a nationwide leader in tenant screening, is proud announce to the industry that through their partnership with the National Consumer Reporting Association (NCRA), an FCRA certification test specifically designed to educate those in the multifamily housing industry, is now available. The test is completely free to clients, and is offered to multifamily housing employees and staff at all levels who process and analyze credit reports and background checks, and who are responsible for dealing with consumers and making rental decisions. The Fair Credit Reporting Act ...

Stuck for marketing ideas for your small business or start-up? Your competition, especially your successful competition, may be your best source. Check out the most successful of your competitors; go to their websites - what do you see? How is the site organized? Do they have a regular blog? Is there a clear call to action? Is the site user friendly? If they really are successful then they're doing something right and the chances are that the answer to all of the questions above will be "Yes!". Do a little detective work to find out what other marketing methods they ...

Sound Physicians' leaders were selected to present a case study on an innovative process to improve clinical care and outcomes, "The Impact of RN and MD Rounds on Patient Experience," at the 2014 Beryl Institute's Patient Experience Conference. Sound Physicians is a leading hospitalist organization focused on driving improvements in quality, satisfaction and efficiency of inpatient health care delivery. Sound Physicians' clinical and performance management leaders, Marina Farah, MD, Senior Director, Performance Improvement; Kristi Frantz, MSS, VP Performance Improvement; ...

This news release is available in German. Apoptosis is used by cells that are changed by disease or are simply not needed any longer to eliminate themselves before they become a hazard to the body—on a cellular level, death is part of life. Disruption of this process can lead to cancer or immunodeficiencies, but also to autoimmune diseases, in which cells attack their own body. HZI scientist Prof Ingo Schmitz and his team investigate the regulation of apoptosis in the immune system. In collaboration with researchers of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg ...

London, United Kingdom, Friday 11 April 2014: New research announced at the International Liver CongressTM 2014 today provides new hope for the notoriously difficult-to-treat population of liver transplant patients with recurring hepatitis C (HCV). As part of a compassionate use program, 104 post-liver transplant patients with recurring HCV who had exhausted all treatment options and had poor clinical prognoses, received sofosbuvir (SOF) and ribavirin (RBV) with pegylated interferon (PEG) included at the physicians’ discretion for up to 48 weeks. Among patients whose ...

London, UK, Friday 11 April 2014: Mortality from viral hepatitis is significantly higher than from HIV/AIDS across EU countries, according to results from The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) which was announced for the first time today at the International Liver CongressTM 2014(1). GBD 2010 is the most recent version of a large epidemiological study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and coordinated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. In the EU, in 2010, there were more than 10 times ...

London, England, Friday 11 April 2014 Significant new data presented today at the International Liver Congress™ 2014 indicate that liver cancer (Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)) may be treated by adoptive T-cell therapy. This new therapeutic approach in the treatment of HCC could be very important as without treatment the 5 year survival rate is just 5%. Globally, HCC accounts for 746,000 deaths, and in the UK alone is responsible for over 4,000 deaths per year. Glypican-3 (GPC3) is a tumour associated antigen expressed in up to 70% of HCC but not in healthy human tissue. ...

Tamiflu (the antiviral drug oseltamivir) shortens symptoms of influenza by half a day, but there is no good evidence to support claims that it reduces admissions to hospital or complications of influenza. This is according to the updated Cochrane evidence review, published today by The Cochrane Collaboration, the independent, global healthcare research network and The BMJ. Evidence from treatment trials confirms increased risk of suffering from nausea and vomiting. And when Tamiflu was used in prevention trials there was an increased risk of headaches, psychiatric disturbances, ...

VIDEO: On April 9, NASA's TRMM saw powerful storms in Ita's eye wall reached heights of over 14 km/8.7 miles. The tallest thunderstorm towers reached heights of over 16 km/9.9 miles... Click here for more information. Tropical Cyclone Ita has been strengthening over the last two days and by April 10, Ita had become a major hurricane in the Coral Sea when NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead. Ita's maximum sustained winds were near 115 knots/132 mph/213 kph on April 10 at 0900 ...

First spotted in 1885, silvery blue clouds sometimes hover in the night sky near the poles, appearing to give off their own glowing light. Known as noctilucent clouds, this phenomenon began to be sighted at lower and lower latitudes -- between the 40th and 50th parallel -- during the 20th century, causing scientists to wonder if the region these clouds inhabit had indeed changed -- information that would tie in with understanding the weather and climate of all Earth. A NASA mission called Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, was launched in 2007 to observe noctilucent ...

Outdoor enthusiasts in Colorado's Front Range are occasionally rewarded with remarkable visibility brought about by dry, clear air and wind. But it's what people in the mountainous U.S. West can't see in conditions like this – ozone plunging down to the ground from high in the stratosphere, the second layer of the atmosphere – that has attracted the interest of NASA scientists, university scientists and air quality managers. Ozone in the stratosphere, located on average 10 to 48 kilometers (6 to 30 miles) above the ground, typically stays in the stratosphere. Not on days ...

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers now can precisely measure the distance of stars up to 10,000 light-years away -- 10 times farther than previously possible. Astronomers have developed yet another novel way to use the 24-year-old space telescope by employing a technique called spatial scanning, which dramatically improves Hubble's accuracy for making angular measurements. The technique, when applied to the age-old method for gauging distances called astronomical parallax, extends Hubble's tape measure 10 times farther into space. "This new capability ...

Physicist Richard Schnee hopes to find traces of dark matter by studying particles with low masses and interaction rates, some of which have never been probed before. The ongoing search for invisible dark matter is the subject of a recent article involving physicists from Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences. Research by Richard Schnee, assistant professor of physics, is referenced in Symmetry magazine, a joint publication of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto, Calif., and Fermilab in Batavia, Ill. "Scientists looking for dark matter ...

Earth scientists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences have determined that the Tibetan Plateau—the world's largest, highest, and flattest plateau—had a larger initial extent than previously documented. Their discovery is the subject of an article in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters (Elsevier, 2014). Gregory Hoke, assistant professor of Earth sciences, and Gregory Wissink, a Ph.D. student in his lab, have co-authored the article with Jing Liu-Zeng, director of the Division of Neotectonics and Geomorphology at the Institute for Geology, ...

Physicists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences have helped confirm the existence of exotic hadrons—a type of matter that cannot be classified within the traditional quark model. Their finding is the subject of a forthcoming article, prepared by the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) Collaboration at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. (LHCb is a multinational experiment, designed to identify new forces and particles in the universe.) Tomasz Skwarnicki, professor of physics, is one of the paper's lead authors. "We've confirmed the unambiguous observation ...

April 10, 2014 -- A new policy paper from the American College of Physicians (ACP) offers nine strategies to address the societal, health care, and regulatory barriers to reducing firearms-related violence, injuries, and deaths in the United States. Reducing Firearm-Related Injuries and Deaths in the United States is published today in the peer-reviewed medical journal, Annals of Internal Medicine. Principal among ACP's nine strategic imperatives is the recommendation to approach firearm safety as a public health issue so that policy decisions are based on scientific ...

MADISON, Wis. – When the Earned Income Tax Credit was expanded in 1993, supporters hoped it would reward poor parents for working while critics feared that it might discourage single mothers from marrying or incentivize women to have more children to boost their tax refund. A new collaborative study done by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cornell University reveals the EITC has helped the working poor but hasn't affected personal choices. Sarah Halpern-Meekin, assistant professor of human development and family studies and affiliate of the Institute for Research ...

Due to its well-studied genome and small size, the humble fruit fly has been used as a model to study hundreds of human health issues ranging from Alzheimer's to obesity. However, Michael Dickinson, Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering at Caltech, is more interested in the flies themselves—and how such tiny insects are capable of something we humans can only dream of: autonomous flight. In a report on a recent study that combined bursts of air, digital video cameras, and a variety of software and sensors, Dickinson and his team explain a mechanism for ...

In experiments with mice, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have identified an enzyme involved in the regulation of immune system T cells that could be a useful target in treating asthma and boosting the effects of certain cancer therapies. In research described online April 6 in Nature Immunology, the investigators show that mice without the enzyme SKG1 were resistant to dust mite-induced asthma. And mice with melanoma and missing the enzyme, developed far fewer lung tumors—less than half as many—than mice with SKG1. "If we can develop a drug that blocks ...