Leader in digital and printed outdoor mapping products, TrakMaps, is pleased to announce the launch of Marine 9 for Garmin & Lowrance GPS units. Outdoor enthusiasts can now navigate in confidence on an expanded list of lakes, rivers and waterways in real time. Featuring thousands of points of interest, fishing spots and marinas, users can plan out trips safely and easily. "We are excited to offer the latest and most reliable digital marine charts and we are committed to providing the best and safest experience on the water for all," said Faraj Nakhleh, ...

The photo booth will never be the same again now that TapSnap has arrived in southern Alberta. Launched this April at various locations across North America, TapSnap is the special event photo booth reinvented as an open-concept, high-tech phototainment system that is instantly connected to social media. "TapSnap is not just another photo booth," said franchisee Kirk Allison, who lives in Lethbridge, Alberta. "It really stands out because it's open-concept and more people can get involved. You have room to move and strike a pose. There's less restrictions ...

The Radisson Blu Grand Hotel in Sofia has opened its new Zig Zag Brasserie & Bar. The hotel in Sofia now offers travellers to the city a new venue for food and relaxation in modern surroundings. Cosmopolitan in style, Zig Zag aims to offer visitors the chance to enjoy delicious food or just get a drink, see people and be seen. The menu features a well-balanced selection of Mediterranean and international cuisine with modern twists, complemented with seasonal offers and chef's signature dishes. Quality ingredients, fine meat, home-made pasta, seafood and tempting ...

npower has launched its fifth annual hunt for the country's top students who have the passion needed to help tackle an environmental issue in their local area and inspire people to live more sustainable lives. With eight spaces available, the winning university teams will be joined by volunteers from npower on the trip of a lifetime to the Amazon Rainforest where they will experience the effects of climate change first hand and gain insight into the environment, resources and nature around them by living with an indigenous tribe for a week. npower is also offering ...

Tour operator Kuoni has launched its first ever campaign dedicated to wildlife, with a hand-picked selection of itineraries around the globe. The campaign will feature wildlife breaks in locations around the world, such as holidays in the Maldives that take in the sea-life of the Indian Ocean, and trips to India that offer travellers the chance to enjoy some of the country's natural highlights. Customers can swim with manta rays in the waters of the Indian Ocean or travel to Sri Lanka to see the island's unique wilderness or journey to Antarctica to witness penguins, ...

The Macsata-Kornegay Group, Inc. (TMKG) today announced that the Ron Meyer for Congress campaign committee has retained the firm to manage his national fundraising efforts, including outreach to political action committees. In that capacity, Amanda Kornegay will serve as Finance Director for the campaign. "Ron's youth and fiscally-responsible generational message are the way that we can not only revitalize the Republican Party and its brand, but also a promising opportunity to get fatigued donors excited about the 2014 midterm election," said Amanda Kornegay, ...

PersonalLoansForBadCredit.org shares details of a fast way for consumers to apply to lenders through its site and stand the chance of getting approved for a loan payable within a day. The site launches its next-day payout comparison and application platform in order to assist individuals with bad credit with the search for cash loans online. By completing the dynamic online application form, users can be assured that the most appropriate lenders will review and consider their applications, maximizing the chances of a successful loan match. Until recently, consumers with ...

People with disabilities, particularly children, have long struggled for inclusion and equality. The Special Olympics has found that kids with disabilities are bullied fifty percent more than any other group. Rossi believes that more books for children and adolescents should feature characters with disabilities. It will help people to understand and accept those with special needs as normal people and to look beyond their disabilities, seeing them for who they truly are. Felini the Flea features the remarkable drawings of award-winning Illustrator, Lizette Duvenage and ...

CyberlinkASP, the leader in hosted virtual desktop and private cloud solutions, today announced the completion of the company's migration to solid state drives across its hosted virtual desktop network. In January CyberlinkASP began methodically converting provisioning servers and disk cache arrays in its Dallas facility to SSD. "This has been a major initiative for us the past few months as more and more companies adopt our cloud based Citrix technologies," said Mason Cooper, Vice President of Information Technology, CyberlinkASP. "Customer demand and ...

PHILADELPHIA - Though the toll of sepsis is known to be enormous – it is estimated to cost the U.S. health care system $24.3 billion each year, and is the nation's third-leading killer, behind heart disease and cancer – the true magnitude of incidence of and death from the illness remains unknown. There is substantial variability in these numbers, depending on the method used to identify the condition in patients treated at hospital across the United States, according to a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The authors say ...

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- A costly and widely used mammography add-on increases detection of noninvasive and early-stage invasive breast cancer but also makes more mistakes than mammography alone, researchers from UC Davis and the University of Washington have found. Published in the April 16 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, the study of women enrolled in Medicare is the largest comparison of clinical outcomes of routine screening mammography with and without computer-assisted detection (CAD) -- software developed to enhance the detection of breast cancer during ...

PHILADELPHIA - A study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University School of Medicine has found that nearly one quarter of patients may return to the emergency department within 30 days of being discharged from a hospitalization. None of these emergency room visits that do not lead to subsequent admission are included in calculating hospital readmission rates, which are a key focus of health care cost containment and quality improvement efforts. The findings are published in Annals of Emergency Medicine. The ...

Researchers with the Institute of Urologic Oncology and the Department of Urology at UCLA have classified kidney cancer into several unique subtypes, a finding that will help physicians tailor treatment to individual patients and that moves cancer care one step closer to personalized medicine. The finding is the result of 10 years of UCLA researchers studying kidney cancers at the genetic and molecular levels, conducting chromosomal analyses in an effort to identify what mutations may be causing and affecting the behavior of the malignancies. Thousands of tumors removed ...

Charlottesville, VA (April 16, 2013). In July 2010, the Society of Neurological Surgeons initiated nationwide boot camp courses designed to teach incoming postgraduate Year 1 (PGY1) trainees fundamental skills related to the field of neurosurgery. According to a new paper in the Journal of Neurosurgery, follow-up tests and surveys returned from course attendees 6 months after completion of the courses show that the first-year residents retained the knowledge and skills they had learned and found the courses relevant and beneficial to their residency experiences and to patient ...

Boston, MA – A parasitic worm may hold the answer to keeping skin grafts firmly in place over wounds, according to a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). The study will be published in the April 16, 2013 issue of Nature Communications. The research team, led by Jeffrey Karp, PhD, BWH Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, senior study author, invented a microneedle inspired by Pomphorhynchus laevis, a spiny-headed worm that lives in the intestines of its hosts, in this case fish. The worm securely attaches to the host's ...

AURORA, Colo. (April 16, 2013) – A new study shows that neither criminal background checks nor pre-admission screening questions accurately predict students likely to commit crime on college campuses. "In an effort to reduce campus crime, more than half of all American colleges ask applicants about their criminal histories or require criminal background checks," said study author Carol Runyan , Ph.D., MPH, and professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health. "But there is no real evidence to show this reduces campus crime." Colleges across the U.S. ...

A team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops. Y.H. Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering, led a team of researchers in the project that could help feed a growing global population that is estimated to swell to 9 billion by 2050. Starch is one of the most important components of ...

Thinking about death can cause us to feel a sort of existential angst that isn't attributable to a specific source. Now, new research suggests that acetaminophen, an over-the-counter pain medication, may help to reduce this existential pain. The research is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. According to lead researcher Daniel Randles and colleagues at the University of British Columbia, the new findings suggest that Tylenol may have more profound psychological effects than previously thought: "Pain extends ...

PHOENIX, Ariz. — April 16, 2013 — Male circumcision reduces the abundance of bacteria living on the penis and might help explain why circumcision offers men some protection against HIV, according to a study led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). Removing the foreskin caused a significant shift in the bacterial community or microbiome of the penis, according to a study published today by the online journal mBio. This international collaboration focused on 156 men in Rakai, Uganda — part of the world's largest randomized-controlled trial on male ...

People given large servings of food eat more than those given smaller servings, even after they have been taught about the impact of portion size on consumption, research from the University of New South Wales shows. Learning how to engage in mindful - rather than mindless – eating also did not decrease food intake by a significant amount in those given large servings. The study, published in the Journal of Health Psychology, highlights the need to find new ways to reduce the effect of portion size on overeating. "If no effective approaches are found, it may be necessary ...

University of British Columbia researchers have found a new potential use for the over-the-counter pain drug Tylenol. Typically known to relieve physical pain, the study suggests the drug may also reduce the psychological effects of fear and anxiety over the human condition, or existential dread. Published in the Association for Psychological Science journal Psychological Science, the study advances our understanding of how the human brain processes different kinds of pain. "Pain exists in many forms, including the distress that people feel when exposed to thoughts ...

The climate governs the seasonal activity of vegetation; humankind influences it. In the humid mid-latitudes, temperature is the largest influencing factor for plant growth. In predominantly dry areas, however, it is the availability of water and in the high latitudes incident solar radiation. Without a doubt, humankind also has a modifying impact on the ecosystem. Satellites have been recording how the vegetation on the Earth's surface is changing since the 1980s. Within the last thirty years, for instance, vegetation activity has increased in the northern hemisphere but ...

This press release is available in German. A new study on extinction risk has shown that proportions of plant and animal species being classified as threatened on national Red Lists are more closely related to socioeconomic pressure levels from the beginning than from the end of the 20th century. Stefan Dullinger of the University of Vienna and Franz Essl from the Austrian Environment Agency together with an international group of researchers reports this new finding in the current issue of PNAS. It is well understood that the survival of a substantial and increasing ...

Philadelphia, PA, April 16, 2013 – Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths globally. Unfortunately smoking cessation is difficult, with more than 90% of attempts to quit resulting in relapse. There are a growing number of available methods that can be tried in the effort to reduce smoking, including medications, behavioral therapies, hypnosis, and even acupuncture. All attempt to alter brain function or behavior in some way. A new study published in Biological Psychiatry now reports that a single 15-minute session of high frequency transcranial ...

Plant components that bend, roll or twist in response to external stimuli such as temperature or moisture are fairly commonplace in nature and often play a role in the dispersal of seeds. Pine cones, for instance, close their scales when wet and open them again once they have dried out. André Studart, a professor of complex materials at ETH Zurich's Department of Materials, and his group have now applied the knowledge of how these movements come about to produce synthetically a composite material with comparable properties. The secret of the pine cone Studart and co-workers ...