Atlanta Phone Repair Experts, LifeLine, Provide iPhone 5 Screen Repair for Just $139.99
2013-05-31
The Atlanta phone repair firm, Lifeline, would like to take a moment to discuss the screen repair service they offer to iPhone 5 owners. The Apple iPhone product line has exploded in recent years; they continue to release stylish smartphones that are equipped with a wealth of features. Sleek, stylish and powerful, there is little wonder why the iPhone has become a household name.
The only downside to these products, however, is the price tag they bear. The Atlanta phone repair company notes that the price of these phones ranges from $650 to $850, depending on the hard ...
Atlanta Plumbing Company, Plumb Xpress, Notes Old Sewer Lines Are a Ticking Time Bomb
2013-05-31
Your house is your haven. Taking care of it properly not only protects your investment, it also secures your home from unexpected and unpleasant emergencies that may damage your house or disrupt your life.
Your sewer system is probably something you don't give a lot of thought to when considering which maintenance services you may need to schedule regularly for your house. And yet, a sewer line emergency can be a nerve-wracking experience. You want a knowledgeable Atlanta plumber who can get the job done right as quickly as possible. Plumb Xpress is just the company ...
Prompt Proofing Says: Plan Before You Write!
2013-05-31
How do you write? Say you have a press release, blog post, or business report to do for the next day. Do you just sit down, throw your thoughts out into your Word document and hope for the best?
Planning is essential for high-quality, ordered writing. You CAN just throw down your thoughts, but then it's best to pay an editor to shape those thoughts into something professional looking, easy to read and more presentable (that's what we're here for - click here to send us your draft for editing!).
However, if you're looking to create an effective and successful piece ...
ALPLA Joins The Coca-Cola Company and Danone in Avantium's PEF Bottle Development
2013-05-31
Avantium, a renewable chemicals company, and ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH, one of the world's leading plastic converters, today announced their Joint Development Agreement for the development of PEF bottles. After The Coca-Cola Company and Danone, ALPLA is the third company to collaborate with Avantium on PEF, a bioplastic based on Avantium's proprietary YXY technology. The goal of these collaborations is to bring 100% biobased PEF bottles to the market by 2016.
"Avantium is very excited to have ALPLA enter the Joint Development Platform for PEF bottles," ...
New Automatic Chicken Waterer Nipples Now Available From Meck Products
2013-05-31
Meck Product has released a new automatic chicken waterer nipple that allows for clean water to be delivered to chickens or other poultry without hassle. The new chicken waterers simply screw into a bucket, pail or PVC pipe to create a hands off chicken watering system.
Many people raising chickens or other poultry have struggled to find a way to deliver clean water to their chickens on demand and without hassle. The new chicken nipples solve this problem by providing water to chickens whenever they want it.
The chicken drinkers create a homemade chicken watering ...
Bathing Assistance for People with a Disability: Caregiver Half Height Doors
2013-05-31
Taking a shower or bath is a time of relaxation and cleansing for most of us and we couldn't imagine not having this luxury. For those who are disabled or aging, however bathing can be a time of anxiety.
Bathtubs and showers can be slippery environments with hard surfaces and sharp corners. For those in wheelchairs, the transfer process can be difficult and has the potential for falls and other injuries.
United Disabilities Services is now offering a Caregiver Half Height Door for showers that allows a caregiver to assist the user in showering or bathing, while controlling ...
New 'Executive Education Program' Warns Global Leaders There are Only Two Options: "Armageddon or Evolution"
2013-05-31
Lies, cheat, deceit, distortion, games, hype, empty promises, a blind pursuit of profit at any price and a complete neglect of all negative externalities has poisoned the planet and humanity. The destruction of the planet, its ecosystems and the alienation of human's from their soul and genuine inner human needs and the ongoing exponential increase of pollution, contamination, climate change, poverty, unemployment, social unrest, economic instability as well as regional conflicts and war has taken over. Leaders around the world have failed. The so-called globalization and ...
MRSA study slashes deadly infections in sickest hospital patients
2013-05-30
Using germ-killing soap and ointment on all intensive-care unit (ICU) patients can reduce bloodstream infections by up to 44 percent and significantly reduce the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in ICUs. A new Department of Health and Human Services-funded study released today tested three MRSA prevention strategies and found that using germ-killing soap and ointment on all ICU patients was more effective than other strategies.
"Patients in the ICU are already very sick, and the last thing they need to deal with is a preventable infection," ...
Small dams on Chinese river harm environment more than expected, study finds
2013-05-30
A fresh look at the environmental impacts of dams on an ecologically diverse and partially protected river in China found that small dams can pose a greater threat to ecosystems and natural landscape than large dams. Although large dams are generally considered more harmful than their smaller counterparts, the research team's surveys of habitat loss and damage at several dam sites on the Nu River and its tributaries in Yunnan Province revealed that, watt-for-watt, the environmental harm from small dams was often greater—sometimes by several orders of magnitude—than from ...
Forest and soil carbon is important but does not offset fossil fuel emissions
2013-05-30
Leading world climate change experts have thrown cold water on the idea that planting trees can offset carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.
Professor Brendan Mackey of Griffith University Climate Change Response Program is the lead author of an international study involving researchers from Australia and the U.K. Their findings are reported in "Untangling the confusion around land carbon science and climate change mitigation policy", published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change.
"While protecting and restoring natural forests is part of the solution, ...
Brain makes its own version of Valium, Stanford scientists discover
2013-05-30
STANFORD, Calif. — Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that a naturally occurring protein secreted only in discrete areas of the mammalian brain may act as a Valium-like brake on certain types of epileptic seizures.
The protein is known as diazepam binding inhibitor, or DBI. It calms the rhythms of a key brain circuit and so could prove valuable in developing novel, less side-effect-prone therapies not only for epilepsy but possibly for anxiety and sleep disorders, too. The researchers' discoveries will be published May 30 in Neuron.
"This ...
How the turtles got their shells
2013-05-30
Through careful study of an ancient ancestor of modern turtles, researchers now have a clearer picture of how the turtles' most unusual shell came to be. The findings, reported on May 30 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, help to fill a 30- to 55-million-year gap in the turtle fossil record through study of an extinct South African reptile known as Eunotosaurus.
"The turtle shell is a complex structure whose initial transformations started over 260 million years ago in the Permian period," says Tyler Lyson of Yale University and the Smithsonian. "Like other ...
Big feet preference in rural Indonesia defies one-size-fits-all theory of attractiveness
2013-05-30
People in most cultures view women with small feet as attractive. Like smooth skin or an hourglass figure, petite feet signal a potential mate's youth and fertility.
Because they signal reproductive potential, a preference for mates with these qualities may have evolved in the brains of our Pleistocene ancestors and are viewed by evolutionary psychologists as evidence that the preference is hard-wired into our genetic makeup.
But in new research published May 30 in the journal Human Nature, Geoff Kushnick, a University of Washington anthropologist, reports that the ...
93 percent of homicides of US law enforcement officers result from firearms
2013-05-30
While occupational homicides continue to decline in the U.S., law enforcement remains one of the deadliest jobs in America. A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The report found documents that 93 percent of homicides of law enforcement officers between 1996 and 2010 were committed with firearms. Among those homicides, 10 percent were committed using the officer's own service weapon. The findings, published May 30 by the journal BMJ Injury Prevention, could help develop new procedures to reduce risk to officers.
"Law enforcement ...
Scientists discover that turtles began living in shells much earlier than once thought
2013-05-30
Unique among Earth's creatures, turtles are the only animals to form a shell on the outside of their bodies through a fusion of modified ribs, vertebrae and shoulder girdle bones. The turtle shell is a unique modification, and how and when it originated has fascinated and confounded biologists for more than two centuries. A Smithsonian scientist and colleagues recently discovered that the beginnings of the turtle shell started 40 million years earlier than previously thought. The team's research is published in the May 30 issue of Current Biology.
The oldest known fossil ...
Epigenetic biomarkers may predict if a specific diet and exercise regimen will work
2013-05-30
Bethesda, MD—Would you be more likely to try a diet and exercise regimen if you knew in advance if it would actually help you lose weight? Thanks to a new report published in the June 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal, this could become a reality. In the report, scientists identify five epigenetic biomarkers in adolescents that were associated with a better weight loss at the beginning of a weight loss program. Not only could this could ultimately help predict an individual's response to weight loss intervention, but it may offer therapeutic targets for enhancing a weight ...
Computer simulations help scientists understand HIV-1 infection
2013-05-30
Scientists have long been unable to fully explain how infections attack the body, but now a team of researchers, including one from the University of Central Florida, has taken a step closer to understanding how the process works in HIV-1. The results mean that one day that knowledge may prevent infection.
The result of the team's work appears in the May 30 online edition of Nature.
Peijun Zhang, an associate professor in the department of Structural Biology at the University of Pittsburgh led the team. Others are: Gongpu Zhao, Xin Meng, Jiying Nig, Jinwoo Ahn and ...
NTU invention allows clear photos in dim light
2013-05-30
Cameras fitted with a new revolutionary sensor will soon be able to take clear and sharp photos in dim conditions, thanks to a new image sensor invented at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
The new sensor made from graphene, is believed to be the first to be able to detect broad spectrum light, from the visible to mid-infrared, with high photoresponse or sensitivity. This means it is suitable for use in all types of cameras, including infrared cameras, traffic speed cameras, satellite imaging and more.
Not only is the graphene sensor 1,000 times more sensitive ...
Parent input ignored in school closings
2013-05-30
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Officials who close neighborhood schools in poor, urban areas often ignore parents' input, which only reinforces the "institutionalized racism that plagues U.S. schools," a Michigan State University scholar argues.
From Michigan to Texas, superintendents and school boards are closing dozens of urban schools based strictly on data such as low test scores and graduation rates and poor student attendance, Muhammad Khalifa, assistant professor of educational administration, found in his latest research.
What the officials fail to take into account ...
New mathematical model links space-time theories
2013-05-30
Researchers at the University of Southampton have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our Universe.
Professor Kostas Skenderis, Chair in Mathematical Physics at the University, comments: "One of the main recent advances in theoretical physics is the holographic principle. According to this idea, our Universe may be thought of as a hologram and we would like to understand how to formulate the laws of physics for such a holographic Universe."
A new paper released by Professor Skenderis and Dr Marco Caldarelli from the University ...
Stretchable, transparent graphene-metal nanowire electrode
2013-05-30
Ulsan, South Korea, May 30, 2013 — A hybrid transparent and stretchable electrode could open the new way for flexible displays, solar cells, and even electronic devices fitted on a curvature substrate such as soft eye contact lenses, by the UNIST(Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) research team.
Transparent electrodes are in and of themselves nothing all that new – they have been widely used in things like touch screens, flat-screen TVs, solar cells and light-emitting devices. Currently transparent electrodes are commonly made from a material known as ...
Ancient Egyptians accessorized with meteorites
2013-05-30
Researchers at The Open University (OU) and The University of Manchester have found conclusive proof that Ancient Egyptians used meteorites to make symbolic accessories.
The evidence comes from strings of iron beads which were excavated in 1911 at the Gerzeh cemetery, a burial site approximately 70km south of Cairo. Dating from 3350 to 3600BC, thousands of years before Egypt's Iron Age, the bead analysed was originally assumed to be from a meteorite owing to its composition of nickel-rich iron. But this hypothesis was challenged in the 1980s when academics proposed that ...
Going home
2013-05-30
Worldwide, over 15,000 species are threatened by extinction, and the loggerhead sea turtle is no exception. Once the mysteries surrounding some of the species behavior are resolved, more effective conservation programs can be developed to facilitate their protection. The case of the loggerhead sea turtle is particularly interesting: Why do they migrate for several thousands of kilometers to eventually come back to their place of birth for reproduction after roughly 25 years?
To address this question, a group of evolutionary biologists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for ...
Report shows billions worldwide suffer from major tooth decay
2013-05-30
Billions of people across the globe are suffering from major untreated dental problems, according to a new report led by Professor Wagner Marcenes of Queen Mary, University of London, published in the Journal of Dental Research.
Professor Marcenes of the Institute of Dentistry at Queen Mary led an international research team investigating oral health as part of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 study.
The report shows that oral conditions affect as many as 3.9bn people worldwide – over half the total population. Untreated tooth decay or cavities in permanent teeth ...
Mystery solved: Why people on dialysis have increased risk of heart attack
2013-05-30
Bethesda, MD—Patients with advanced kidney disease who are undergoing hemodialysis are known to be highly susceptible to heart attacks and other cardiovascular complications, and now scientists likely know why. New research findings published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology show that uremic toxins, which are not removed by hemodialysis, increase heart attack risk. The same scientists also have found what can reduce this risk: an oral adsorbent called "AST-120."
"Treatment with AST-120, an oral adsorbent, will not only delay the progression of kidney disease, ...
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