Empowerhouse Director Birgitte Jallov is internationally recognized for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in the use of communication for development and empowerment. Through her desire and determination to give a voice to those most in need in developing countries, Ms. Jallov established Empowerhouse "to meet the needs in and around development of sustainable community radio." For the last decade, she has served as the director of this communication for development initiative, providing solutions through the strategic and effective use of media ...

Pousada de Mong-Ha Director Helena Lo has been recognized for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in hospitality services. With an impressive 10 years of practiced experience in her field, Dr. Lo is uniquely positioned to oversee a wide range of tasks on behalf of Pousada de Mong-Ha - one of the training units of the Institute for Tourism Studies Macau, which provides hospitality services and training for future tourism professionals. Over the past two years, in her position as director, she has overseen the operations of the educational hotel and its development ...

Roger L. Miller, Director of Global Strategic Account Development and OEM Strategic Alliances, Sales & Marketing for Covidien, has been named a Worldwide Branding Professional of the Year in OEM Sales & Licensing. While inclusion in Worldwide Branding is an honor, only a small selection of members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, years of service, and the credentials they have provided in association with their Worldwide ...

Gutter Helmet(R) by Harry Helmet(TM) , an installer of the most popular gutter protection system in North America, Gutter Helmet(R) , is encouraging homeowners to take proactive steps to reduce their heating bills this winter. "This winter season has seen over a thousand snowfall marks get shattered and more than four thousand daily record low temperatures set," says Del Thebaud, President and Owner of Gutter Helmet by Harry Helmet . "That means that people are making their home heating systems work harder and longer. So it's imperative that they make ...

American Total Protection (ATP Alarms) and Arbor Energy are excited to announce a strategic partnership between the two companies. Over the past three months executives from ATP Alarms and Arbor Energy have been working on ways to better serve their existing and future customer bases. As Rence Coassin from ATP Alarms explains, "Arbor Energy is much like our company American Total Protection in the sense that we are both family owned and headquarters in New Haven County with clients throughout the state. In addition, each company strives to separate itself from their ...

As today's business executives strive to manage vast amounts of electronic, scanned and faxed documents, mostly in the form of unstructured, text-based data, and resolve compliance, retention, security, fraud detection and other business issues faster, and with higher quality than ever before, Haystac, Inc. announces Haystac UIG360(TM). A highly flexible content intelligence software platform, UIG360(TM) can be quickly adapted to the way enterprise business managers, at all levels, manage, classify, analyze vast amounts of documents, emails and other, text-based content ...

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. offers crude oil testing that complies with the new standards of the DOT for crude oil transported by rail car in the U.S. As provided by the Department of Transportation in the Amended and Restated Emergency Restrictions/Prohibition Order issued on March 6, 2014 (Docket No. DOT-OST-2014-0025), shippers of crude oil in tank cars by rail are required to meet the stricter standards of testing and classification of hazardous materials. Effective immediately, the new analysis will ensure proper classification of crude oil and that the ...

Lemondo Entertainment, a premium apps and games development company, is pleased to announce the launch of its newest game, Pixel Hunter. The game features a hunter who must retrieve his weapons, which have been stolen by different animals. The main objective is to travel through different worlds such as Forest, Mountain, Arctic, Volcano and Beach and triumph over the Bosses. There are enemies within every adventure: animals, birds, amphibians and fish. At the end of each level the players must fight with a Boss who can return one of the stolen weapons. "Our ...

Durable truck boxes are a necessary investment for truck owners who want to prevent their gear from being stolen or damaged, and BackAlley Accessories demonstrated it has big plans for its patented load-and-lock system by introducing the Sidekick Line, a new line of truck boxes that sets the standard for quality and ease of use. With two seven-inch, durable, non-marring rubber wheels, the Sidekick Line truck boxes are a triumph of ergonomics, as they can be wheeled around easily with minimal effort. In addition, BackAlley's boxes attach to truck beds via a self-aligning, ...

Ensil's team of researchers, scientists and engineers have ventured into developing a new medical device for those at risk of cardiac arrest. This device, known as Flexusys, would utilize proprietary patented technologies and algorithms developed by Ensil Canada to detect, monitor and alert the patient and emergency health care providers of an imminent cardiac arrest. Unlike other devices that are implanted subcutaneously, Ensil's device is a wearable technology. It removes the need for complicated medical procedures, thus reducing health risks and costs to patients, ...

A new clinical study has found that erlotinib, a targeted antitumor agent, has promising potential to improve treatment for cervical cancer. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results indicate that larger trials are warranted to determine whether the drug should become part of standard therapy for women with the disease. Nearly half a million new cases of cervical cancer are reported worldwide each year, making it the third most common cancer among females. Despite the widespread use of screening programs and ...

(March 10, 2014) The gut microbiota contains a vast number of microorganisms from all three domains of life, including bacteria, archaea and fungi, as well as viruses. These interact in a complex way to contribute towards both health and the development of disease — interactions that are only now being elucidated thanks to the application of advanced DNA sequencing technology in this field. "Using novel metagenomic approaches, scientists are at last beginning to characterize the taxonomic abundance and community relationships not only of bacteria, but also the other ...

(March 10, 2014) Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) belongs to the most widespread diseases in Western countries, causing up to sixty per cent of the workload of gastrointestinal physicians. One of the most frequent symptoms of IBS is bloating, which reduces quality of life considerably as patients perceive it as particularly bothersome. For quite a long time, IBS was believed to be a primarily psychological condition. "Contrary to this view, recent findings suggest that IBS is linked to clearly detectable gut microbiota alterations. Additionally, bloating can be related ...

CHESTNUT HILL, MA (March 10, 2014) – In a relatively recently discovered class of materials, known as spin-orbit Mott insulators, theorists have predicted the emergence of new properties at points just beyond the insulating state, when electronic manipulation can transform these compounds into conducting metals. A better understanding of electrons near this transition, theorists have predicted, could allow these new Mott insulators to pave the way to discoveries in superconductivity, new topological phases of matter, and new forms of unusual magnetism. What scientists ...

Farmed salmon show full reproductive potential to invade wild gene pools and should be sterilised - according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). Findings published today reveal that, while farmed salmon are genetically different to their wild counterparts, they are just as fertile. This is important information because millions of farmed salmon escape into the wild – posing threats to wild gene pools. Lead Researcher Prof Matt Gage from UEA's school of Biological Sciences said: "Around 95 per cent of all salmon in existence are farmed, and domestication ...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have identified four new man-made gases in the atmosphere – all of which are contributing to the destruction of the ozone layer. New research published today in the journal Nature Geoscience reveals that more than 74,000 tonnes of three new chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and one new hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) have been released into the atmosphere. Scientists made the discovery by comparing today's air samples with air trapped in polar firn snow – which provides a century-old natural archive of the atmosphere. They also looked ...

VIDEO: Howard J. Federoff, M.D., Ph.D., of Georgetown University Medical Center, explains a new blood test that can predict onset of MCI or Alzheimer's. Click here for more information. WASHINGTON — Researchers have discovered and validated a blood test that can predict with greater than 90 percent accuracy if a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease within three years. Described in Nature Medicine published online today, the study heralds ...

Mutations in a gene associated with leukaemia cause a newly described condition that affects growth and intellectual development in children, new research reports. A study led by scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, identified mutations in the DNA methyltransferase gene, DNMT3A, in 13 children. All the children were taller than usual for their age, shared similar facial features and had intellectual disabilities. The mutations were not present in their parents, nor in 1,000 controls from the UK population. The new condition has been called 'DNMT3A ...

The evolution of the first animals may have oxygenated the earth's oceans – contrary to the traditional view that a rise in oxygen triggered their development. New research led by the University of Exeter contests the long held belief that oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans was a pre-requisite for the evolution of complex life forms. The study, published today in the leading journal Nature Geoscience, builds on the recent work of scientists in Denmark who found that sponges – the first animals to evolve – require only small amounts of oxygen. Professor Tim ...

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland – A comparative study of grasslands on six continents suggests there may be a way to counteract the human-made overdose of fertilizer that threatens to permanently alter the biodiversity of the world's native prairies. The solution is one that nature devised: let grazing animals crop the excess growth of fast growing grasses that can out-compete native plants in an over-fertilized world. And grazing works in a way that is also natural and simple. The herbivores, or grazing and browsing animals, feed on tall grasses that block sunlight from reaching ...

ZENBU, a new, freely available bioinformatics tool developed at the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technology in Japan, enables researchers to quickly and easily integrate, visualize and compare large amounts of genomic information resulting from large-scale, next-generation sequencing experiments. Next-generation sequencing has revolutionized functional genomics, with protocols such as RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and CAGE being used widely around the world. The power of these techniques lies in the fact that they enable the genome-wide discovery of transcripts and transcription ...

Changes in the sun's energy output may have led to marked natural climate change in Europe over the last 1000 years, according to researchers at Cardiff University. Scientists studied seafloor sediments to determine how the temperature of the North Atlantic and its localised atmospheric circulation had altered. Warm surface waters flowing across the North Atlantic, an extension of the Gulf Stream, and warm westerly winds are responsible for the relatively mild climate of Europe, especially in winter. Slight changes in the transport of heat associated with these systems ...

The system that allows the sharing of genetic material between bacteria – and therefore the spread of antibiotic resistance – has been uncovered by a team of scientists at Birkbeck, University of London and UCL. The study, published today in Nature, reveals the mechanism of bacterial type IV secretion, which bacteria use to move substances across their cell wall. As type IV secretion can distribute genetic material between bacteria, notably antibiotic resistance genes, the mechanism is directly responsible for the spread of antibiotic resistance in hospital settings. ...

It does not get any thinner than this: The novel material graphene consists of only one atomic layer of carbon atoms and exhibits very special electronic properties. As it turns out, there are other materials too, which can open up intriguing new technological possibilities if they are arranged in just one or very few atomic layers. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have now succeeded for the first time in creating a diode made of tungsten diselenide. Experiments show that this material may be used to create ultrathin flexible solar cells. Even flexible ...

Two wrongs may not make a right. But when it comes to grassland plant species diversity, it just might. Two impacts often controlled by humans — being fertilized and being eaten — can combine to the benefit of biodiversity, according to an innovative international study led by U of M researchers Elizabeth Borer and Eric Seabloom. The findings, published March 9 in the online edition of Nature in advance of print publication, are important in a world where humans are changing both herbivore distribution and the supply of nutrients like nitrogen or phosphorus, and where ...