If you are in the healthcare industry in Atlanta, then you know how vital it is to destroy sensitive patient documents and data. Not only is this in the patient's best interests, it is also in your best interests as well since it is legally required. A Shred Ahead encourages all healthcare organizations to remain compliant with legal regulations through using its shredding services in Atlanta. Since 1995, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has required all healthcare organizations in the United States to destroy all "individually identifiable ...

Quality faux wood plantation shutters have a number of advantages over their real wood counterparts. A big asset is that they never have to be painted or sanded. Eclipse Shutters makes their interior faux plantation shutters with lightweight, durable Polyresin-3 Vinyl. They come in four neutral colors: cotton, pearl, vanilla and sandstone. Customers can choose a color to match their moldings, or select the one that goes best with their walls or furnishings. More Advantages of Faux Plantation Shutters There are many more advantages to quality faux plantation shutters. ...

TRC Staffing Services, Inc., a top Atlanta staffing agency, offers numerous job search resources for candidates seeking employment in a variety of fields. One of their best tools for seeking competitive job openings is their Facebook page, where they regularly announce new employment listings. When you become a fan of their Atlanta staffing agency on Facebook, you are able to stay current on the latest job openings, hiring trends, and career advice from the seasoned employment professionals at TRC Staffing Services, Inc. You can also interact with recruiters and account ...

Sunny's Hair & Wigs, a retailer of wigs and virgin hair extensions, is pleased to have a new shipment of lace front u-part wigs available for purchase online and in-store. The hair extension experts at Sunny's Hair & Wigs believe that the Lace U-Part wig is an essential accessory for any woman who likes to enhance her beauty with hair styling. The wig is made from 100% virgin Indian hair, which is known throughout the industry to be the finest, highest-quality human hair available. Thanks to the high quality virgin Indian hair it is made from, the wig can last ...

People planning to buy a piece of equipment today can use the web to take a virtual test drive or to see it in action. One hundred years ago, the travelling sales forces of America's equipment manufacturers enlivened sales talks with finely made, fully-functional scale models. DFW Elite Toy Museum owns a variety of these sales demonstration models, including a model of a J.D. Adams & Co Road King road grader that was appraised on Antique Road Show in 2005. This model was the first to use tilted wheel technology to level roads cut into hillsides. "Salesman's ...

Inovatec is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of negotiations with its first Licensee Partner in Brazil. As a result, factory setup activities are on track to open the company's first manufacturing facility to fulfill the demand for affordable housing of the Brazilian Government's "Minha Casa Minha Vida" program. The state-of-art facility is scheduled to commence operation in Q1 2014 and it will be the company's first fully automated continuous production line in the world. Inovatec System strives to be the premier global provider of Reinforced ...

Laura Wellington, author of "The Four-Star Diet: Based Upon The Wisdom Of General Colin Powell & Other Ridiculously Brilliant Leaders" will begin hosting a new and highly interactive food series on Mom TV called "Four Star Family Recipes". This new series is designed to take recipe-swapping between moms to a whole new level while expanding families' regular menus quickly and deliciously with recipes that are mom tested, mom approved! It's "Real" cooking, not restaurant cooking - featuring healthy, simple and affordable recipes that ...

University and NASA researchers predict that the severity of the 2013 fire season will be considerably higher than in 2011 and 2012 for many Amazon forests in the Southern Hemisphere. The outlook is based on a fire severity model that produced a successful first forecast in 2012. The model, produced by a group led by Jim Randerson of the University of California, Irvine, considers historical fire data from NASA's Terra satellite, along with sea surface temperature data from NOAA. Previous research has shown that sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic ...

Because of the combination of environmental change and economic and social development, there are new pressures on the development and use of water resources. After 5 years of innovative research, Professor WANG Jianhua and his group, from the State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of the Water Cycle in River Basins of the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, have developed a new coupled numerical hydrodynamic water quality model of the river environment. The model has been applied in the Luan River Basin where the model parameters were ...

TORONTO, ON – Many plants are self-fertilizing, meaning they act as both mother and father to their own seeds. This strategy – known as selfing – guarantees reproduction but, over time, leads to reduced diversity and the accumulation of harmful mutations. A new study published in the scientific journal Nature Genetics shows that these negative consequences are apparent across a selfing plant's genome, and can arise more rapidly than previously thought. In the study, an international consortium led by Stephen Wright in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ...

Columbia Psychiatry researchers have identified what they think may be a mechanism underlying the development of compulsive behaviors. The finding suggests possible approaches to treating or preventing certain characteristics of OCD. OCD consists of obsessions, which are recurrent intrusive thoughts, and compulsions, which are repetitive behaviors that patients perform to reduce the severe anxiety associated with the obsessions. The disorder affects 2 percent of people worldwide and is an important cause of illness-related disability, according to the World Health Organization. Using ...

DNA altering enzyme is essential for blood cell development The expression of specific genes is partially dictated by the way the DNA is packed into chromatin, a tightly packed combination of DNA and proteins known as histones. HDAC3 is a chromatin-modifying enzyme that regulates gene expression, chromatin structure, and genome instability and it has previously been shown to associate with the oncoproteins that drive leukemia and lymphoma. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Scott Hiebert and colleagues at Vanderbilt University examined the role of ...

The expression of specific genes is partially dictated by the way the DNA is packed into chromatin, a tightly packed combination of DNA and proteins known as histones. HDAC3 is a chromatin-modifying enzyme that regulates gene expression, chromatin structure, and genome instability and it has previously been shown to associate with the oncoproteins that drive leukemia and lymphoma. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Scott Hiebert and colleagues at Vanderbilt University examined the role of HDAC3 in the development of blood cells (hematopoiesis) by disrupting ...

The accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients is known to be associated with memory loss and neuronal degeneration, but the mechanism of Aβ pathogenesis is not fully understood. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Yong-Keun Jung at Seoul National University demonstrate that Aβ binds to a cellular protein known as FCγRIIb. Greater levels of FCγRIIb were detected in the brains of AD patients. Binding of Aβ to FCγRIIb activated cell stress and death pathways. ...

Agri-environment schemes aimed to promote biodiversity on farmland have positive effects on wild bees, hoverflies and butterflies. Effects on diversity and abundance were strongest when agri-environment schemes prescribed sowing wild-flowers, the more flowering species the better. Organic farms, set-aside land or fields receiving reduced amounts of fertilizer and pesticides generally hosted more wild pollinators than conventionally farmed land. Jeroen Scheper of Alterra Research Institute and colleagues demonstrated this by analysing the results of 71 studies that had looked ...

Lone people standing in a ballroom don't tend to move a lot. It's only when they find a suitable dance partner that rapid motion sets in. Atoms on iron-oxide surfaces behave in a similar way: Only with the right molecular partner do they dance across the surface. Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have now filmed the atoms, proving that carbon monoxide is the partner responsible for the quick motion. Their movies show that the motion leads directly to clustering – an effect that can do great harm in catalysts. The findings have now been published in the journal ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In India most people who are HIV positive don't know it, yet testing and treatment are relatively cheap and available. It would therefore meet international standards of cost-effectiveness — and save millions of lives for decades — to test every person in the billion-plus population every five years according to a new study published in the journal PLoS One. The findings are based on a careful analysis of India's HIV epidemic using the Cost-Effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications (CEPAC) International model, a sophisticated ...

African medicinal plants contain chemicals that may be able to stop the spread of cancer cells. This is the conclusion of researchers following laboratory experiments conducted at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). The plant materials will now undergo further analysis in order to evaluate their therapeutic potential. "The active substances present in African medicinal plants may be capable of killing off tumor cells that are resistant to more than one drug. They thus represent an excellent starting point for the development of new therapeutic treatments for cancers ...

Butterflies are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature and new research has revealed that when summer weather turns bad the silver-spotted skipper battles for survival. The butterfly, which previously faced extinction from habitat loss, is recovering following conservation efforts but the recent cool wet summers in England have almost stalled its progress. A 27 year study by researchers at the University of Exeter in collaboration with the University of York, the University of Liverpool, Sussex Wildlife Trust, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the charity Butterfly ...

The research team demonstrated a novel method to epitaxially synthesize structurally and compositionally homogeneous and spatially uniform ternary InAsyP1-y nanowire on Si at wafer-scale using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The high quality of the nanowires is reflected in the remarkably narrow PL and X-ray peak width and extremely low ideality factor in the InAsyP1-y nanowire/Si diode. A nanowire is a nanostructure with a diameter of the order of a nanometer (10-9 meters). Alternatively, nanowires can be defined as structures that have a thickness or ...

A landmark study of the Swedish population has given a clearer picture of important risk factors for suicide. The study, a collaboration between Lund University in Sweden and Stanford University, showed that the rate of suicide among men is almost three times that of women. Being young, single and having a low level of education were stronger risk factors for suicide among men, while mental illness was a stronger risk factor among women. Unemployment was the strongest social risk factor among women, whereas being single was the strongest among men. Because the study ...

A single cell in our body is composed of thousands of millions of different biomolecules that work together in an extremely well-coordinated way. Likewise, many biological and biochemical reactions occur only if molecules are present at very high concentrations. Understanding how all these molecules interact with each other is key to advancing our knowledge in molecular and cell biology. This knowledge is of central and fundamental importance in the quest for the detection of the earliest stages of many human diseases. As such, one of ultimate goals in Life Sciences and ...

When carbon is emitted by human activities into the atmosphere it is generally thought that about half remains in the atmosphere and the remainder is stored in the oceans and on land. New research suggests that human activity could be increasing the movement of carbon from land to rivers, estuaries and the coastal zone indicating that large quantities of anthropogenic carbon may be hidden in regions not previously considered. The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Exeter, Laboratoire ...

Nanotechnologies require a detailed knowledge of the molecular state. For instance, it is useful to know when and how a generic polymer, a long chain of polymers (chain of beads), knots. The study of molecular entanglement is an important field of study as the presence of knots affects its physical properties, for instance the resistence to traction. Previous studies had mainly obtained "static" data on the knotting probability of such molecules. In other words, they focused on the likelihood that a polymer may knot. The novelty of the study carried out by Micheletti ...

The predominant cause of death in cancer patients is metastasis, the formation of secondary tumors in other organs like the brain, liver, and lungs. Cancer cells detach from the original primary tumor and reach a single cell or group of cells in another organ. The cells of the body normally remain in place through adhering to an extracellular substance. However, cancer cells learn how to release themselves from these bonds and invade surrounding tissues, blood, and the lymphatic system. The transformation of sedentary, specialized cells into wandering, invasive, and ...