Dr. Bret Gilsdorf, dentist in Manhattan, KS, is happy to be offering a clear way to straighten patient's teeth. Invisible braces have increased in popularity because there are no wires or brackets and they can be removed when eating, brushing or flossing. Patients do not have to hide their smile while straightening their teeth. "I am glad that our practice is able to offer Invisalign as a braces alternative. This product is perfect for adults and teens who want to be about discreet about straightening their teeth. We are always trying to be as patient-friendly ...

Missouri legislature proposes new texting and driving law Over the past couple of years, the nation has been taking steps to combat the issue of distracted driving. With the proliferation of sophisticated cellphones and other wireless devices, the problem appears to be most prevalent among technology-dependant teenage motorists. In fact, many states, such as Missouri, have specific laws that do not permit novice, young drivers from texting while driving. However, safety advocates are now wondering if the problem is a habit among not only teen motorists, but also older, ...

Contractors are generally familiar with "AIA Document A-401: Standard Form of Agreement between Contractor and Subcontractor." If left unaltered, Article 1 of AIA-401 contains what is known as an "incorporation clause." By way of specific reference to the prime contract between the owner and general contractor, all of the terms and conditions contained in the prime contract are made "fully a part of the subcontract as if attached to" the A-401 itself. Given such language, contractors might assume that the indemnification and insurance requirements ...

A 22-year-old woman took what her family believed was a routine prescription pain medication. The drug, a generic form of Darvocet, was supposed to help relieve pain before the woman had knee surgery. Instead, it killed her. The young woman was found dead in her apartment eight days after taking the drug. The cause of her death was acute cardiac failure with evidence of pulmonary edema, also known as fluid buildup in her lungs. According to her parents, she had taken the medication as prescribed and had no history of heart problems or other medical troubles. Darvocet ...

30a TV's ( www.30a.tv ) new channel on Roku Web TV boxes is already proving popular with new found viewers. The Hangout Festival Promo video was the most watched on the network since the channel launched March 20th. Even though The Hangout Festival is not until May, its garnering great interest on the 30a TV Roku Channel. With the help of the fast pace on The Hangout video, 30a TV is set to break through 3 terabytes of video view traffic in the first month, quite significant for a hyper-local channel. "We are so excited to be on the Roku Web TV box right ...

As the popularity of EverydayActors.com continues to grow so too do the successful placements of its actor members in roles in TV, Film and Video. Casting agencies and video production houses have come to rely on EverydayActors.com for cost-effective actors and extras to fill a variety of roles. For the agency, the website is a free tool that allows them to search the database, retrieve matches, negotiate direct and hire accordingly. EverydayActors.com does not take a cut in any deals made on the site, making this far less expensive and less time consuming than dealing ...

Toronto Web Design Company Addrenaline is excited to announce it will be designing and developing the ClassickBand.com brand and web platform. Owner Kyle Hosick states "We are thrilled to work on a project of this scope and look forward to building a winning platform to expose the music of this great Canadian band." Classick's release Gamble will be appearing in April 2013 and the website will be an integral part of marketing this great Canadian rock hit.For more details on the project, or to have a web site designed for you, visit www.Addrenaline.ca ...

TORONTO, March 28, 2013—Ice hockey accounts for nearly half of all traumatic brain injuries among children and youth participating in organized sports who required a trip to an emergency department in Canada, according to a new study out of St. Michael's Hospital. The results are part of a first-of-its-kind study led by Dr. Michael Cusimano that looked at causes of sports-related brain injuries in Canadian youth and also uncovered some prevention tactics that could be immediately implemented to make sports safer for kids. "Unless we understand how children are getting ...

African forest elephants are being poached out of existence. A study just published in the online journal PLOS ONE and supported in part by San Diego Zoo Global shows that a staggering 62% of all forest elephants have been killed across their range in central Africa, for their ivory over the past decade. The severe decline indicates what researchers fear is the eminent extinction of this species. "Saving the species requires a coordinated global effort in the countries where elephants occur, all along the ivory smuggling routes and at the final destination in the Far ...

PASADENA, Calif.—Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory believe they can now explain one of the remaining mysteries of photosynthesis, the chemical process by which plants convert sunlight into usable energy and generate the oxygen that we breathe. The finding suggests a new way of approaching the design of catalysts that drive the water-splitting reactions of artificial photosynthesis. "If we want to make systems that can do artificial photosynthesis, it's important that we understand how the system ...

Bacteria appear to speed up their evolution by positioning specific genes along the route of expected traffic jams in DNA encoding. Certain genes are in prime collision paths for the moving molecular machineries that read the DNA code, as University of Washington scientists explain in this week's edition of Nature. The spatial-organization tactics their model organism, Bacillus subtilis, takes to evolve and adapt might be imitated in other related Gram-positive bacteria, including harmful, ever-changing germs like staph, strep, and listeria, to strengthen their virulence ...

A team of researchers, led by a University of California, Davis, plant scientist, has identified a lettuce gene and related enzyme that put the brakes on germination during hot weather — a discovery that could lead to lettuces that can sprout year-round, even at high temperatures. The study also included researchers from Arcadia Biosciences and Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, India. The finding is particularly important to the nearly $2 billion lettuce industries of California and Arizona, which together produce more than 90 percent of the nation's lettuce. ...

A new study from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) has pieced together the last 150 years of history for one of the state's most interesting denizens: the black bear. The study, which looked at everything from historic newspaper articles to more recent scientific studies, indicates that black bears in Nevada were once distributed throughout the state but subsequently vanished in the early 1900s. Today, the bear population is increasing and rapidly reoccupying its former range due in part to the conservation and management ...

It looks like 2013 will be a thrilling season for baseball fans as four of the six divisions can be expected to deliver tight races, says baseball guru NJIT Associate Professor and Associate Dean Bruce Bukiet. Over the years, Bukiet has applied mathematical analysis to compute the number of regular season games each Major League Baseball team should win. Though his expertise is in mathematical modeling, his projections have compared well with those of so-called experts. The numbers indicate that only one game might separate the first and second place teams in both ...

PHILADELPHIA — A new diagnostic test that uses a scientific technique known as metabolomic analysis may be a safe and easy screening method that could improve the prognosis of patients with pancreatic cancer through earlier detection. Researchers examined the utility of metabolomic analysis as a diagnostic method for pancreatic cancer and then validated the new approach, according to study results published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. "Although surgical resection can be a curative treatment ...

Los Angeles, CA (March 28, 2013) While compared to men, women continue to be underrepresented in math and science courses and careers, is this disparity a true reflection of male and female student ability? According to a study to be released tomorrow in Psychology of Women Quarterly, a SAGE journal, male and female students earn similar grades in math and science while Asian American students of both genders outperform all other races. Researchers Nicole Else-Quest, Concetta Mineo and Ashley Higgins studied 367 White, African American, Latino/Latina, and Asian American ...

The Gastropoda, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large group of animals within the phylum Mollusca. Gastropоds species are extremely diverse in forms and sizes, ranging from microscopic to large. About 50 species of snails are currently considered to inhabit Skadar Lake, the largest on the Balkan Peninsula. The Bojana River connects the lake with the Adriatic Sea, and the Drin River provides a link with the Ohrid Lake. Scientists Vladimir Pešić from the University of Montenegro and Peter Glöer from the Biodiversity Research Laboratory have ...

A specially-adapted 'tactile helmet', developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield, could provide fire-fighters operating in challenging conditions with vital clues about their surroundings. The helmet is fitted with a number of ultrasound sensors that are used to detect the distances between the helmet and nearby walls or other obstacles. These signals are transmitted to vibration pads that are attached to the inside of the helmet, touching the wearer's forehead. Rescue workers, such as fire-fighters, who might be working in dark conditions or in buildings ...

A research coordinated by the scientists at SISSA of Trieste has now developed and studied a numeric model of the chromosome that supports the experimental data and provides a hypothesis on the bundle's function. A chromosome spends most of its life "diluted" in the nuclear cytoplasm. To the untrained eye it may look like a randomly entangled thread, yet biologists claim the opposite: although a chaotic component does exist in the bundle, experimental measurements have identified regions that tend to contain specific genes. Thanks to such measurements, researchers have ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Students perform better when their instructors use hand gestures – a simple teaching tool that could yield benefits in higher-level math such as algebra. A study published in Child Development, the top-ranked educational psychology journal, provides some of the strongest evidence yet that gesturing may have a unique effect on learning. Teachers in the United States tend to use gestures less than teachers in other countries. "Gesturing can be a very beneficial tool that is completely free and easily employed in classrooms," said Kimberly Fenn, study ...

The sooner a person smokes a cigarette upon waking in the morning, the more likely he or she is to acquire lung or oral cancer, according to Penn State researchers. "We found that smokers who consume cigarettes immediately after waking have higher levels of NNAL -- a metabolite of the tobacco-specific carcinogen NNK -- in their blood than smokers who refrain from smoking a half hour or more after waking, regardless of how many cigarettes they smoke per day," said Steven Branstetter, assistant professor of biobehavioral health. According to Branstetter, other research ...

Canola oil and high-oleic canola oils can lower abdominal fat when used in place of other selected oil blends, according to a team of American and Canadian researchers. The researchers also found that consuming certain vegetable oils may be a simple way of reducing the risk of metabolic syndrome, which affects about one in three U.S. adults and one in five Canadian adults. "The monounsaturated fats in these vegetable oils appear to reduce abdominal fat, which in turn may decrease metabolic syndrome risk factors," said Penny Kris-Etherton, Distinguished Professor of Nutrition, ...

VIDEO: Comet ISON is now approaching the inner solar system. Discovered last year, the comet remains unusually active for its distance from the sun. If current trends continue, ISON could rank... Click here for more information. Astronomers from the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) and Lowell Observatory have used NASA's Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), which may become one of the most dazzling in decades when it rounds the sun later this ...

Performing surgery on a pregnant patient is a delicate matter. Risks to both mother and baby must be carefully weighed in every decision a surgeon makes. Recently, at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, a surgeon performed a groundbreaking robotic laparoscopic procedure on a 35-year-old pregnant patient whose cervix was too short to sustain a pregnancy. VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtvVARBoxFw. PATIENT FEATURE STORY: http://www.utmb.edu/newsroom/article8400.aspx. Dr. Sami Kilic, chief of minimally invasive gynecology and research at UTMB, ...

Boulder, Colo., USA - The April 2013 issue of Lithosphere is now available. Four classic research papers cover the Saint Elias Mountains of Yukon and British Columbia, Canada; the Nacimiento fault near San Simeon, California, USA; the western Alps; and the Caledonides in Scandinavia. An invited review relays the significance of dynamic topography to long-term sea level change. This month's research focus article, which is open access online, discusses the revolution in remote sensing-LiDAR-laser altimetry swath mapping. Abstracts are online at http://lithosphere.gsapubs.org/content/current. ...