Atlanta pest control experts, North Fulton Pest Solutions, point out that keeping gutters clean is necessary for more than preventing clogging and the subsequent overflow of rainwater. When leaves and other debris build up in the gutters they provide a hospitable environment for unwanted bugs, rodents, and birds. It is then easy for these pests to make their way inside! The Importance of Keeping Pests and Animals out of Gutters In Atlanta, wildlife control is important for homeowners. A gutter filled with damp dirt, debris, and leaves provides an inviting home for ...

Stork Nest provides a selection of reliable, well-known diaper brands, such as Fisher-Price and Fitti, at affordable prices for moms and dads. Their online collection includes a large number of potty training essentials--all those you could need--such as training pants and youth pants, at discount prices. The Fitti brand is known for making economical diapers without sacrificing the expected high quality of their brand to sell them. Stork Nest offers affordable packages of Fitti training pants in sizes ranging from 2T to 5T. In addition, Stork Nest regularly provides ...

There was a slight decline in the bankruptcy filings between the month of April 2013 and March. Knoxville bankruptcies in March totaled 497, while April's figures showed 426 filings. March is often the highest month for filings nationally. Knoxville bankruptcies are declining slowly but overall Tennessee still has the highest fling rates in the nation. Two options to be considered when filing for bankruptcy would be: - Chapter 13 - a restructuring of debt to be paid over time - Chapter 7 - assets are sold to satisfy the debtors The decision on which form of ...

We all know that sleep is important to functioning well and being a happy, healthy person--but did you know it can also be vital if you want to lose weight? The creators of Healthe Trim, a supplement for weight loss, want to discuss new evidence that sleep deprivation is directly linked with an increased consumption of food. A new study from Uppsala University has proven a link between sleep deprivation and eating more calories. The study had a group of men pick their ideal serving sizes for meals and snacks after a good night's sleep and again after a night where they ...

As business technology advances, the way business was done in the past becomes more and more obsolete. Business owners have long been done with pagers, filing cabinets and messenger services; having replaced them with Smartphones, network servers, and Doc-u-sign. The most recent expense business owners are finding they can not only do without, but can also save money by doing without, is the use of an in-house bookkeeper. "Society as a whole has become much more computer savvy. Bookkeeping software has made it very easy for people to run their own books" says ...

Pine trees and red ants have something in common: Both use alkaloids to banish enemies. These organic ingredients are more and more in demand because of their environmental friendliness and safety. The problem is that they are only present in minimal amounts in natural form. Chemical synthesis in turn is complicated and expensive. Researchers at the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) and at the University of Graz led by Prof. Wolfgang Kroutil have now developed a new key technology to produce a promising alkaloid variety much easier than ever using biocatalysis. So ...

MobileSmith, a leading provider of mobile software solutions for enterprise customers, announced that it entered into a distribution partnership with The Center For Innovation Commercialization LLC (CICL), a firm that identifies, represents, and helps to increase sales and global distribution of cutting edge innovative technology solutions. "We are thrilled to partner with CICL, known for helping large multinational companies to re-innovate, by helping them to access the most innovative solutions," said Robert Hancock, MobileSmith VP of Sales. "This partnership ...

Parents and teachers like to tell children they can be whatever they want to be when they grow up. But are there inaccurate stereotypes in the media that nudge them away from certain careers? University of Washington psychologist Sapna Cheryan wanted to know if gendered stereotypes had any effect on young women's interest in becoming computer scientists. Specifically, she and colleagues studied whether the stereotypical view of the geeky male nerd so often portrayed in the media, most recently in CBS's "The Big Bang Theory," discouraged women from pursuing computer science ...

Cooperation is essential in any successful romantic relationship, but how men and women experience cooperation emotionally may be quite different, according to new research conducted at the University of Arizona. Ashley Randall, a post-doctoral research associate in the UA's John & Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences and the UA's department of psychiatry, has been interested for some time in how romantic partners' emotions become coordinated with one another. For example, if someone comes home from work in a bad mood we know their partner's mood might plummet ...

A CSIRO radio telescope has detected the raw material for making the first stars in galaxies that formed when the Universe was just three billion years old — less than a quarter of its current age. This opens the way to studying how these early galaxies make their first stars. The telescope is CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array telescope near Narrabri, NSW. "It one of very few telescopes in the world that can do such difficult work, because it is both extremely sensitive and can receive radio waves of the right wavelengths," says CSIRO astronomer Professor Ron ...

Further evidence of climate change shifting atmospheric circulation in the southern Australian-New Zealand region has been identified in a new study. The study, in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, demonstrates that mid-latitude high pressure zones (30oS-45oS) are being pushed further into the Southern Ocean by rising global temperatures associated with greenhouse warming. This is despite more frequent occurrences of strong El Niños in recent decades, which should have drawn the high pressure zones in the opposite direction toward the equator. "What we are seeing," ...

Our present understanding of thermodynamics is fundamentally incorrect if applied to small systems and needs to be modified, according to new research from University College London (UCL) and the University of Gdańsk. The work establishes new laws in the rapidly emerging field of quantum thermodynamics. The findings, published today in Nature Communications, have wide applications in small systems, from nanoscale engines and quantum technologies, to biological motors and systems found in the body. The laws of thermodynamics govern much of the world around us – ...

OTTAWA, Canada—June 26, 2013—Until now, there has been no research dedicated to the importance of Vitamin D supplementation in children with congenital heart disease (CHD). However, over the past few years, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute and Cardiovascular Surgery Program teamed with the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group to understand the impact of cardiac surgery on the Vitamin D status of infants and children, to be printed next month in Anesthesiology. "The importance of Vitamin D levels and supplementation in ...

ANNAPOLIS, MD (June 26, 2013)—A new report on sea level rise recommends that the State of Maryland should plan for a rise in sea level of as much as 2 feet by 2050. Led by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, the report was prepared by a panel of scientific experts in response to Governor Martin O'Malley's Executive Order on Climate Change and "Coast Smart" Construction. The projections are based on an assessment of the latest climate change science and federal guidelines. "The State of Maryland is committed to taking the necessary actions to ...

Boston, MA, June 26, 2013 – Nausea is one of the most debilitating symptoms of migraine and affects 80 percent of migraine suffers in the United States. Leading headache physician, Dr. Zoltan Medgyessy of the Berolina Clinic in Lohne, Germany demonstrated in a trial that pressure to the P6 antiemetic point on the inner wrist with an acupressure wristband is an effective and quick therapy for relieving nausea of migraine sufferers. He will be presenting his findings to the U.S. for the first time at the International Headache Congress in Boston, MA on June 27 – 30, 2013. Migraine ...

Athens, Greece 26 June 2013. Two important studies were released at the Late Breaking Clinical Trials session II at EHRA EUROPACE 2013. The PREFER AF study2 found that Oral anticoagulation is now used in over 85% of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) eligible for therapy. And ISSUE (the International Study on Syncope of Uncertain Aetiology) determined that cardiac pacing is more effective in patients with presumed neurally mediated syncope (NMS) and asystolic episodes in which tilt table testing proves negative (TT-), than in patients in which the tilt table testing ...

The assessment of risk in patients who go on to die by suicide or commit homicide is often poor, a new study has found. A report by The University of Manchester's National Confidential Inquiry (NCI) into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness out today has raised concerns about the way that risk is assessed and led to criticism of the tick-box approach to clinical practice. Researchers looked at a sample of 81 cases where risk had been judged to be low, but seven days or less after the assessment the patient died by suicide or committed homicide, to retrospectively ...

The UK chemical industry requires 'an urgent and radical rethink' into how it produces chemicals if it is to play its part in meeting Government's stringent greenhouse gas emission reduction targets of 80% plus by 2050. That is one of the conclusions of a major new report issued today by the University of Manchester's Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Entitled 'Can the UK afford (not) to produce chemicals in 2050?' the report was generated in collaboration with the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) following investigations into chemical sector greenhouse ...

Exaggeration, exaggeration, exaggeration: parties over-egg claims on education Both major political parties have overstated their claims and counter-claims on education, according to an independent review of Labour's record in office. The report, led by Professor Anthony Heath from The University of Manchester, says governments mostly fail to introduce policies which can be rigorously evaluated. The report, published this month in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, praises Labour 's policy on further education and Education Maintenance Allowance. The Blair and ...

Down syndrome, more commonly known as "trisomy 21" is very often accompanied by pathologies found in the general population: Alzheimer's disease, leukemia, or cardiac deficiency. In a study conducted by Professor Stylianos Antonarakis' group from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva (UNIGE), researchers have identified the genomic variations associated with trisomy 21, determining the risk of congenital heart disease in people with Down syndrome. The targeted and specific study of chromosome 21 revealed two genomic variations, which, in combination, are the ...

For the first time, researchers have restored significant bladder function through nerve regeneration in rats with the most severe spinal cord injuries (SCI). The breakthrough paired a traditional nerve bridge graft with a novel combination of scar degrading and growth factor treatments to grow new nerve cells from the thoracic level to the lower spinal cord region. Details of the discovery appear in the June 26 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic built a regeneration bridge ...

We constantly grow new skin and slough off the old. Until now, scientists have never agreed on exactly how this works, but new research from the University of Sheffield may provide the answer. Engineers and biologists at the University of Sheffield have shown how a recent theory-- that skin has 'sleeping' stem cells which can be woken up when required-- best explains how our skin constantly regrows. The research-- conducted in collaboration with The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), makers of Olay, and published in Nature Scientific Reports-- has implications for combating ...

Being in good physical shape at 18 years of age can be linked with a reduced risk of attempted suicide later in life. So says a study of over one million Swedish men conducted by researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. A new, extensive report from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare on child and adolescent health shows that teenagers and young adults in Sweden have worse mental health than their age cohorts in other western countries. Another report that is part of a new social welfare study shows that the number of serious ...

The knees are the body part that is injured the most by dinghy sailors. The injuries are primarily due to overstrain and most often occur during physical training. This was shown in a study at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. "Studies have been made on the risk of injury for many sports, but not for dinghy sailing. With more knowledge, we can create recommendations that will prevent sailors from getting injured," says Lena Bøymo-Having, who conducted the study at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. During the study, researchers followed ...

Having a job helps women with HIV manage their illnesses, according to researchers from Case Western Reserve University and the University of California at San Francisco. The routine of a work schedule, plus the job-related money and benefits, provides extra emotional support for these women, said Allison Webel, assistant professor of nursing at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and the study's lead author. Findings in the National Institutes of Health-supported study were published this month in Social Science & Medicine. The ...