Katerina Baitinger, Ph.D., is wrapping up the preliminary work before launching her new company in New York, Assessment Plus, Higher Education Consulting Services. The company is an Assessment Consulting Company, and Katerina Baitinger wants it to further her goal of improving higher education in the United States. The State of New York Department of Education recently approved Katerina Baitinger's plans, paving the way for Assessment Plus, Higher Education Consulting Services. Since completing her own undergraduate and post-graduate work, Katerina Baitinger has devoted ...

Harish Hosalkar, a highly lauded surgeon in the orthopedics community, was a major figure in the opening of the Center for Hip Preservation and Children's Orthopaedics in San Diego in 2013. As the Center's current Director, Hosalkar provides a bottomless resource of orthopaedic knowledge and experience. His hip preservation and pediatric orthopaedic experience and expertise make him a valuable leader and guide. With 14 years in the orthopaedic field, Dr. Harish Hosalkar has helped orthopaedics make substantial progress. His orthopaedic contributions have been large and ...

There are many professional accounting students at Fairfield University, though not perhaps as dedicated or as hard-working as Albert Cyprys. He continues to show a determined resolve to achieve his professional accounting degree, as well as to make a name for himself in the professional accounting field. Albert Cyprys understands that professional accounting is a demanding occupation that requires a unique skill set and dedication to work in order to succeed. There are many certified public accountants in New York City, and the competition for work is steep and difficult. ...

There are many real estate firms within the Washington D.C. area, but none are perhaps as reputable or as successful as Luke Buchanan's. Employed with the top-rated firm in the city, Luke Buchanan continues to tout the firm's success. He is highly pleased to play a role in the success of a business that has far surpassed the competition. Nine of Buchanan's colleagues received high rankings on the America's Best Real Estate Agents list of 2013. This list tracks the most successful and best producing agents from regions all over the country, and is compiled and published ...

New technologies pop up every day, yet many don't have the capability the change the way we develop and use energy. Stephen Crivillaro, a professional consultant, has been providing consulting support to a green energy project for years; a project that, if successful, could have far-reaching global impacts, both economic and environmental. Stephen Crivillaro has announced the development of a product that could revolutionize the world. Energy is generally derived from fossil fuels like coal and oil, and has proven to have an incredibly negative impact of the health of ...

Copper Canyon Academy is a residential treatment school that provides a positive and nurturing environment for adolescent girls who suffer from maladies such as eating disorders and substance abuse problems. To provide a holistic healing environment for adolescent girls struggling with these issues, Copper Canyon Academy provides a variety of extracurricular activities that individuals can be involved in. This is why Copper Canyon Academy is pleased to announce that many Copper Canyon Academy students are participating in the Adopt-a-Highway Program. The Adopt-a-Highway ...

Sebastian Wolters, an Atlanta based Web Designer whose work has been admired and utilized by individuals and agencies throughout the world, will soon kick-off the re-launch of his self-titled website, SebastianWolters.com. Having years of experience in the areas of website creation, his famously elegant style has garnered attention from a rapidly growing base of followers'. Sebastian Wolters will introduce some of his latest work to his sites portfolio, some of which can now only be viewed on his personal Facebook page. With extensive experience in Search Engine Optimization, ...

Marco Macari of Arbroath is more than just a local business leader. A successful restaurateur, Marco has also become a valuable and indispensable member of the community, and has made significant efforts to improve the quality of his area and promote progress throughout Arbroath. As a local businessman, Marco Macari of Arbroath is an advocate for improvement. He has provided valuable insight, input and investment into projects that have helped restore and rejuvenate the local area. The new Arbroath Harbour Visitor Center, for example, may not have been possible without ...

The Comfort Inn & Conference Center Northeast, a top north Atlanta hotel near Doraville, GA, offers affordable lodging to dealers and guests attending the Eastman Gun Show in Atlanta. The event will be held at the North Atlanta Trade Center April 5-6, 2014. Eastman Gun Shows are among the largest in Georgia, with merchandise for first time buyers, avid hunters, and collectors. Hundreds of dealers will offer new and used fire arms, ammunition, holsters, gun cases, accessories, and knives. Admission is $10 for adults. Children ages 12 and younger are admitted free. "We ...

AmeriQuest Business Services, a business process outsourcing company headquartered in Cherry Hill, NJ, has released a new video documenting the AmeriQuest Symposium, its three-day conference of top executives, experts, and visionaries. The AmeriQuest Symposium brings together the brightest minds from a diverse group of industries and enterprises to network and share insights that will impact how companies do business today and into the future. This year's topics included cybersecurity, changing technologies, generational differences and strengths, and the economy. The ...

Pay N Show, based in Championsgate, Florida, is raising funds for its ultra-cool and unique application called Pay N Show using the crowd-funding platform, Indiegogo.com. Pay N Show promises to be the next big thing according to teenagers and young adults. Pay N Show's novel approach to capturing and sharing pictures of what people buy anywhere makes sharing pictures automated and almost like second nature. Receipts are also automatically saved and stored and with no scanning needed. "Have you ever wanted to share a picture of what you just bought with friends and family, ...

Vienna, Austria: A new genetic "signature" to identify prostate cancer patients who are at high risk of their cancer recurring after surgery or radiotherapy has been developed by researchers in Canada, the 33rd conference of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO33) in Vienna will hear today (Saturday). Professor Robert Bristow will tell the conference that although surgery and precision radiotherapy are the mainstays of treatment for cancer that is confined to the prostate, the cancer will return in between 30-50% of patients due to spread of the disease ...

Undocked working dogs in Scotland are at greatest risk of tail injuries, indicates a survey of their owners, published in this week's Veterinary Record. Of 2860 working dogs, 13.5% sustained at least one tail injury during the 2010/11 shooting season. But undocked spaniels (56.6%) and hunt point retrievers (38.5%) were at greatest risk. To ward off one tail injury during one shooting season would require between two and 18 spaniels or hunt point retrievers to be docked as puppies, say the authors, who conclude that docking the tails of these breeds by one-third would ...

Vienna, Austria: The use of permanent brachytherapy, a procedure where radioactive sources are placed inside the prostate, into or near to the tumour, preserves erectile function in approximately 50% of patients with prostate cancer, a researcher will tell the ESTRO 33 congress today (Saturday). Brachytherapy works by giving a high dose of radiotherapy directly to the tumour, but only a very low dose to the surrounding normal tissues. Since erectile dysfunction (ED) can occur in up to 68% of patients who receive external beam radiotherapy for the condition, this is a ...

In captivity, grey parrots are often kept in social isolation, which can have detrimental effects on their health and wellbeing. So far there have not been any studies on the effects of long term social isolation from conspecifics on cellular aging. Telomeres shorten with each cell division, and once a critical length is reached, cells are unable to divide further (a stage known as 'replicative senescence'). Although cellular senescence is a useful mechanism to eliminate worn-out cells, it appears to contribute to aging and mortality. Several studies suggest that telomere ...

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in Journal of the National Cancer Institute (with related research being presented this weekend at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Conference 2014) details the discovery of a new genetic driver of bladder cancer: silencing of the gene AGL. "We tend to think of cancer resulting from mutations that let genes make things they shouldn't or turn on when they should be quiet. But cancer can also result from loss of gene function. Some genes suppress cancer. When you turn off these suppressors, ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A research team led by a cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside has generated a 3D model of the human malaria parasite genome at three different stages in the parasite's life cycle — the first time such 3D architecture has been generated during the progression of the life cycle of a parasite. The parasite that causes malaria in humans is Plasmodium falciparum. The female Anopheles mosquito transmits P. falciparum from an infected human to healthy individuals, spreading malaria in the process. According to the World Health Organization, ...

Death is not distributed equally around the world. In high-income countries, people typically die in old age of chronic diseases such as cancer or cardiovascular problems. In low-income countries, death comes primarily from infectious and perinatal diseases, and strikes at a young age. But despite massive international efforts to improve global health, a new analysis of nearly 4 million scientific articles finds that research is disproportionately focused on diseases that primarily afflict wealthy countries. Correspondingly, less research attention is given to diseases ...

(Lebanon, NH, 04/04/14) — More than 15 years ago, many states and tobacco manufacturers established restrictions to prevent youth exposure to the marketing of nicotine products. This follows regulations imposed 50 years ago that banned cigarette ads from TV. Despite these continued efforts, a new study by Dartmouth researchers reveals that not only are young people exposed to tobacco marketing, they are influenced by it. According to a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, exposure to "direct marketing" is associated with increased use of tobacco. "For ...

A new UCLA psychology study provides evidence that being overweight makes people tired and sedentary — not the other way around. Life scientists led by UCLA's Aaron Blaisdell placed 32 female rats on one of two diets for six months. The first, a standard rat's diet, consisted of relatively unprocessed foods like ground corn and fish meal. The ingredients in the second were highly processed, of lower quality and included substantially more sugar — a proxy for a junk food diet. After just three months, the researchers observed a significant difference in the amount ...

If you are a middle-aged African-American or Asian woman, your social class may play a significant role in how likely you are to suffer bone fractures, a UCLA-led study suggests. The study, published in the current issue of Osteoporosis International, is unique in that it followed Asian, African-American and white women for a period of nine years during mid-life; most previous studies on socioeconomic status and osteoporosis risk had focused solely on older white women and often had not collected information on fractures over time. The new findings help shed ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Effects of Aspirin in Gestation and Reproduction (EAGeR) medical trial has found that, in general, low-dose aspirin is not beneficial for future pregnancy outcomes in women with prior pregnancy loss. However, in women with one pregnancy loss within the previous 12 months, there did appear to be a benefit. Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health in the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the University at Buffalo, is a principal investigator of the Buffalo EAGeR trial and co-author ...

SAN DIEGO — Obese male mice and normal weight female mice produce female pups that are overweight at birth and in childhood, and have increased number of "terminal end buds" in their breast tissue — the site where cancer often develops in rodents. The findings, presented by a Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher at the AACR Annual Meeting 2014, come from one of the first animal studies to examine the impact of paternal obesity on future generations' cancer risk. In addition, the researchers say they've found evidence that obesity could change the ...

PHILADELPHIA—(April 4, 2014)— Colorectal cancer develops in what is probably the most complex environment in the human body, a place where human cells cohabitate with a colony of approximately 10 trillion bacteria, most of which are unknown. At the 2014 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in San Diego, researchers from The Wistar Institute will present findings that suggest the colon "microbiome" of gut bacteria can change the tumor microenvironment in a way that promotes the growth and spread of tumors. Their results suggest that bacterial virulence ...

The horseshoe worm is a worm-like marine invertebrate inhabiting both hard and soft substrates such as rock, bivalve shells, and sandy bottom. The name "horseshoe" refers to the U-shaped crown of tentacles which is called "lophophore." Horseshoe worms comprise a small phylum Phoronida, which contains only ten species decorating the bottom of the oceans. The new species Phoronis emigi, the eleventh member of the group described in the open access journal ZooKeys, comes after a long 62 year gap of new discoveries in the phylum. It is unique in the number and arrangement ...