Each year during the Spring Maintenance Managers Meeting, NationaLease recognizes member companies who in the past year have provided excellent, consistent reciprocal service as voted on by maintenance managers and acknowledged for helping to make high-quality service the hallmark of the NationaLease brand. During the meeting's Awards Dinner on Thursday, May 16, in Schaumburg, IL, NationaLease presented 15 members with the 2013 Exceptional Service Award. Platinum Award Winners: - Advantage NationaLease, Lititz, PA - Aim NationaLease, Girard, OH - Fox & James NationaLease, ...

"If future hair salon owners learned how to think like CEOs in high school, more would thrive instead of struggle with their businesses," said author and consultant Veronica Woods. Woods, CEO of My Salon Scoop Consulting, will raise money for the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) New York Metro and celebrate the launch of her new book, "The A-List Salon: Insider Secrets of How Profitable Salons Wow Their Clients Every Day," at a private book launch event on Monday, June 10, 2013 at Hair Rules Salon in New York City. In her new book, The ...

Socialpoint, Inc. announced today that its social media management tool, www.SocialPoint.Me will now include your Klout rating among its offerings. "SocialPoint.Me is all about enhancing your social media life to make it easier, more convenient and more entertaining," said Chris Burnett, SocialPoint, Inc's Vice President of Marketing. "Klout is a natural fit for our clients who are using multiple social media sites." SocialPoint. Me enables its users to aggregate and customize all their social media newsfeeds from one App or site. SocialPoint.Me ...

According to Dormont Borough's public records, Jason Cohen, as of May 30, 2013, owns the most buildings in the area, with a total of 11. Cohen has a history of total community and residential renovations and flips, performing over 100 in the Pittsburgh area in his decade of real estate entrepreneurship. The most recent purchase includes: -2 duplexes -1 triplex -1 apartment building Cohen purchased the properties from the same owner in a $360,000 deal. This follows his career-long tactic of hunting commercial properties not yet on the multilist (MLS) and ...

The government has announced that it will give electric car drivers a 75% subsidy for the cost of installing charging point. This also applies to garages meaning they will only be expected to cover the remaining 25% of installation costs. (1) A growing number of car manufacturers recognise that motorists want more fuel efficient and cost effective cars, which is why more and more, are developing electric and hybrid vehicles. As a result, more electric charging points will be needed and the government is trying to encourage this by offering a subsidy. There are ...

Garcinia Cambogia Select the latest and most exciting breakthrough in weight loss as called by health experts, has gained a significant popularity among customers for its lots of health benefits and weight loss abilities. The product actually contains a high concentration of a powerful compound called HCA (Hydroxycitric Acid) which has great health beneficial abilities and it helps to shed extra pounds naturally with no negative effects on health. Along with a natural weight loss, the compound has lots of other health benefits too and helps to promote a healthy well being. ...

A new analysis led by the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station encourages resource managers to consider a broadened view of forests as consumers of water. A shift in thinking toward reducing the risk of water stress to vegetation can help forests maintain their resilience and health in a changing climate, according to a paper published online in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. "Our work emphasizes how forests primarily need and consume water, and so managing forest health requires thinking about how much water is available ...

In a pair of distinct but complementary papers, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues illuminate the functional importance of a relatively new class of RNA molecules. The work, published online this week in the journal Nature, suggests modulation of "enhancer-directed RNAs" or "eRNAs" could provide a new way to alter gene expression in living cells, perhaps affecting the development or pathology of many diseases. Enhancers are sequences in the genome that act to boost or "enhance" the activity or expression of nearby ...

The genetic malady known as Fragile X syndrome is the most common cause of inherited autism and intellectual disability. Brain scientists know the gene defect that causes the syndrome and understand the damage it does in misshaping the brain's synapses — the connections between neurons. But how this abnormal shaping of synapses translates into abnormal behavior is unclear. Now, researchers at UCLA believe they know. Using a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome (FXS), they recorded the activity of networks of neurons in a living mouse brain while the animal was awake and ...

CSIRO scientists have developed a test to identify unsafe stem cells. It is the first safety test specifically for human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) – as published today in the international journal Stem Cells. The breakthrough is a significant step in improving the quality of iPS cells and identifying unwanted cells that can form tumours. The test also determines how stable iPS cells are when grown in the lab. Dr Andrew Laslett and his team have spent the last five years working on the project. The research has focused on comparing different types of iPS cells ...

SYDNEY: Catching the attention of females in a darkened rainforest amid a blur of windblown vegetation is no easy task. But male Anolis lizards on the island of Jamaica have evolved an ideal visual technique - very rapid extension and retraction of a large, coloured pouch under their throats, combined with quick bobbing of their heads to warn off any other rival suitors. Now the mystery of why their close relatives on the neighbouring island of Puerto Rico do not adopt the same strategy to advertise their ownership of a territory has been solved. The study, led by UNSW's ...

VIDEO: The article as it appears in JoVE Behavior. Click here for more information. Fear is one of the most primal feelings known to man and beast. As we develop in society and learn, fear is hard coded into our neural circuitry through the amygdala, a small, almond-shaped nuclei of neurons within the medial temporal lobe of the brain. For psychologists and neurologists, the amygdala is a particularly interesting region of the brain because it plays a role in emotional learning ...

HOUSTON - MET protein levels correlate strongly with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) phenotype, a treatment-resistant type of colorectal cancer and may be used as a surrogate biomarker, according to new research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The study results, which compared MET protein expression with protein/gene expression of EMT markers and evaluated impact on survival, were released today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. "When the epithelial cells that line the colon become cancerous, some of them ...

New research provides critical insights into how normal breast precursor cells may be genetically vulnerable to develop into cancer. The research is published June 4th in the inaugural issue of Stem Cell Reports, an open-access journal from the International Society of Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) published by Cell Press. Scientists discovered that a particular class of normal breast precursor cells have extremely short chromosome ends (known as telomeres). As a result, these cells would be expected to be prone to acquiring mutations that lead to cancer if they managed to ...

Boston, Mass..— According to researchers at Boston Children's Hospital, stem cells that strongly express a gene called WNT3 are biased to develop into cells and tissues including pancreas, liver and bladder. This discovery suggests that other genes may serve as biomarkers for selecting stem cells with a preference for turning into different tissue types. Such markers would make it easier for stem cell scientists to choose the right cell line to start with when generating specific tissues for study. The researchers, led by Wei Jiang, PhD, and Yi Zhang, PhD, of the Program ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (June 4, 2013) – More evidence has surfaced that supports the war on smoking, especially if smokers have an infant in their household. A study published today in the June issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), found that infants with a family history of allergic disease with lower respiratory tract infections, who are exposed to secondhand smoke are at risk for longer hospital stays. An estimated 20 to 30 percent of otherwise healthy infants develop ...

Stanford University scientists have dramatically improved the performance of lithium-ion batteries by creating novel electrodes made of silicon and conducting polymer hydrogel, a spongy material similar to that used in contact lenses and other household products. Writing in the June 4 edition of the journal Nature Communications, the scientists describe a new technique for producing low-cost, silicon-based batteries with potential applications for a wide range of electrical devices. "Developing rechargeable lithium-ion batteries with high energy density and long cycle ...

The chemical secrets of a concrete Roman breakwater that has spent the last 2,000 years submerged in the Mediterranean Sea have been uncovered by an international team of researchers led by Paulo Monteiro of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Analysis of samples provided by team member Marie Jackson pinpointed why the best Roman concrete was superior to most modern concrete in durability, why its manufacture was less environmentally ...

Despite the clear arguments for controlling parasitic infections, we know surprisingly little about the developmental processes in parasitic nematodes. A good model system for research is provided by Oesophagostomum dentatum, a roundworm which infects the large intestines of pigs, slowing the animals' growth and leading to significant economic losses. A number of chemicals are available to help keep the parasite in check but the worms are growing increasingly resistant to their use and so there is a substantial need for new methods of treatment. From eggs to parasites The ...

The moth genus Monema is represented by medium-sized yellowish species. The genus belongs to the Limacodidae family also known as the slug moths due to the distinct resemblance of their caterpillars to some slug species. Some people know this family as the cup moths, the name derived from the peculiar looking, hard shell cocoon they form. A recent study of the representatives of the Monema genus in China records 4 species and a subspecies present in the country, one of which is newly described to science. The new species has the characteristic yellow coloration for ...

A research team from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the University of Edinburgh and IBM's TJ Watson Research Center has revealed a major breakthrough in the modelling of water that could shed light on its mysterious properties. Water is one of the most common and extensively studied substances on earth. It is vital for all known forms of life but its unique behaviour has yet to be explained in terms of the properties of individual molecules. Water derives many of its signature features from a combination of properties at the molecular level such as high polarizability, ...

The development of structured synthetic materials with unusual electromagnetic properties, so-called metamaterials, promises to provide access to special physical effects of great technological interest. Metamaterials have already been fabricated that have a negative refractive index for electromagnetic waves – bending them in the opposite sense to light waves entering water, for instance – which opens up completely novel opportunities for the manipulation of light. One of these makes it possible, in principle, to create cloaking devices that seem to make objects disappear. ...

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have found a more efficient way to dry products for food manufacture, using tiny, hot bubbles. Instead of boiling a product to evaporate water - the most common technique used by industry - the Sheffield team injected hot microbubbles through the liquid, causing the water to evaporate without boiling. Professor Will Zimmerman, who led the study, explains: "We've applied this principle, called 'cold boiling' to separate water from methanol. Although conventional bubbles have been used in evaporation processes before, they still ...

In animal cells, DNA molecules are normally restricted to the cell nucleus and the mitochondria. When DNA appears outside these organelles – in the so-called cytosol - it most probably originates from a bacterial pathogen or a DNA virus. This is why cytosolic DNA triggers a strong response by the innate immune system. However, various types of insult can also lead to the release into the cytosol of the cell's own DNA. In this case, the resulting immune response may precipitate an autoimmune disease. The innate immune system is the body's first line of defense against ...

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have found that a lake on an island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, has been relatively untouched by changes in climate for the past 7000 years, and has so far also resisted the impact of humans. Blue Lake, one of the largest lakes on North Stradbroke Island, southeast of Brisbane, has been the focus of research examining the lake's response to environmental change over time. Researchers studied the lake's water discharge, water quality and comparisons of historical photos over the past 117 years, as well as fossil pollen ...