AUSTIN, Texas — Landscapes with large amounts of paved roads and impervious construction have lower numbers of ground-nesting bumblebees, which are important native pollinators, a study from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Berkeley shows. The study suggests that management strategies that reduce the local use of pavement and increase natural habitat within the landscape could improve nesting opportunities for wild bees and help protect food supplies around the word. The study also suggests that increasing the number of species-rich ...

New York University biologists have identified how a vital protein is loaded by others into the centromere, the part of the chromosome that plays a significant role in cell division. Their findings shed new light on genome replication and may offer insights into the factors behind the production of abnormal numbers of chromosomes. Their findings appear in the latest issue of the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers focused on the organization and functioning of the centromere, which is responsible for chromosome segregation—a ...

An international team, headed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has identified a key enzyme in the reprogramming process that promotes malignant stem cell cloning and the growth of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a cancer of the blood and marrow that experts say is increasing in prevalence. The findings are published in the Dec. 24 online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Despite the emergence of new therapies, such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors, CML and other leukemias remain problematic ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — When heart attack patients present in the emergency department with some degree of anemia, or anemic patients have a heart attack, physicians have a tendency, but not much guidance, about whether to provide a blood transfusion. The idea is that a transfusion could help more oxygen get to the heart. Recent national guidelines suggested that there simply isn't good evidence to encourage or discourage the common practice, but a new meta-analysis of 10 studies involving more than 203,000 such patients comes down on the side of it increasing ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A series of rapid environmental changes in East Africa roughly 2 million years ago may be responsible for driving human evolution, according to researchers at Penn State and Rutgers University. "The landscape early humans were inhabiting transitioned rapidly back and forth between a closed woodland and an open grassland about five to six times during a period of 200,000 years," said Clayton Magill, graduate student in geosciences at Penn State. "These changes happened very abruptly, with each transition occurring over hundreds to just a few thousand ...

AMHERST, Mass. – An international team of microbiologists led by Klaus Nüsslein of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found that a troubling net loss in diversity among the microbial organisms responsible for a functioning ecosystem is accompanying deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Nüsslein, an expert in tropical rain forest microbial soil communities, says, "We found that after rainforest conversion to agricultural pastures, bacterial communities were significantly different from those of forest soils. Not only did the pasture soils show increased species ...

CHICAGO – Elevated levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammatory disease, appear to be associated with increased risk of psychological distress and depression in the general population of adults in Denmark, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA Network publication. Depression is one of the leading causes of disability and previous studies suggest that low-grade systemic inflammation may contribute to the development of depression. C-reactive protein (CRP) is a commonly used marker of inflammation, and inflammatory ...

CHICAGO – A meta-analysis of 10 studies suggests that receipt of a blood transfusion among patients with myocardial infarction (heart attack) was associated with increased all-cause mortality compared with not receiving a blood transfusion during heart attack, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. Therapeutic measures including anticoagulation and antiplatelet drugs have "revolutionized" the approach to acute coronary syndrome and improved clinical outcomes. However, some of these therapies may also ...

CHICAGO – An analysis of nationally representative survey data found significant improvement in the delivery of underused care, but more limited changes in the reduction of inappropriate care in ambulatory health care settings between 1998 and 2009, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. "Given the rising costs of health care, policymakers are increasingly interested in identifying the inefficiencies in our health care system," the authors write as background. "The objective of this study was to determine ...

CHICAGO – Children with chronic conditions increasingly used more resources in a group of children's hospitals compared with patients without a chronic condition, according to a report that analyzed data from 28 U.S. children's hospitals between 2004 and 2009, and is being published Online First by Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. To compare inpatient resource use trends for healthy children and children with chronic health conditions of varying degrees of medical complexity, Jay G. Berry, M.D., M.P.H., with Children's Hospital ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Even on the evolutionary time scale of tens of millions of years there is such a thing as being in the right shape at the right time. An anatomical difference in the ability to seize the moment, according to a study led by Brown University biologists, explains why more species in one broad group, or clade, of grasses evolved a more efficient means of photosynthesis than species in another clade did. Their findings appear this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Biologists refer to the grasses that have evolved ...

Research from an international team of microbiologists has revealed a new concern about deforestation in the Amazon rainforest – a troubling net loss in the diversity among the microbial organisms responsible for a functioning ecosystem. The group, which includes professors from The University of Texas at Arlington, University of Oregon, University of Massachusetts, Michigan State University and University of Sao Paulo, sampled a 100 square kilometer area, about 38 square miles, in the Fazenda Nova Vida site in Rondônia, Brazil, a location where rainforest has been converted ...

The Grauer School will host the film screening and post-film discussion of "Miss Representation" on Thursday, January 17, 2013, at 6:00 pm in the Great Hall on the school campus located at 1500 S. El Camino Real in Encinitas. Writtten and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the 90-minute inspiring documentary priemered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and reveals how all forms of media (television, feature films and the internet) contribute to the under-representation of women in American leadership positions and an over-emphasis on youth and beauty. Stories ...

The West Sacramento Chamber of Commerce will be holding it's 66th annual awards dinner in January and will be presenting an award to the Hampton Inn & Suites West Sacramento hotel. On Thursday, January 17th, the West Sacramento Chamber of Commerce will award Ambassador of the Year to Maria Ramos, the director of sales at the Hampton Inn & Suites West Sacramento hotel. The awards ceremony will be held in the Galleria at West Sacramento City Hall with cocktails at 5:30pm, dinner at 7:00pm, and the awards presentation will follow the meal. For more information, ...

Toronto, Ontario -- Dragon Eye System Company ("DESC") is pleased to announce that its innovative Query Interview communication portal: worldinterview.net is officially launched. Wolrdinterview.net is embedded with an innovative Query Interview (QI) communication tool and can create word or pdf document. For customer in recruiting industry, interviewer can schedule interview to interviewees. Interviewee can response interview anywhere anytime online. The content of the interview can be text, audio or video. This will totally reduce the time and financial cost ...

Hybrid Creative Studio Crafts Powerful Promos For Popular Shows "American Chopper," now in its ninth season on the Discovery Channel, remains one of cable's most popular reality shows. When the network needed to promote the much-awaited new season it turned to frequent collaborator IKA Collective, the creative strategy, production, post hybrid studio led by Ian Karr. The conceptual spot, directed by Chris Stifel, centers on the rift between father and son and the rebuilding of their relationship. Over at sister network, Investigation Discovery, Karr himself ...

AcaiBerry.org recently announced a new update to its popular website. The website, a leading resource on all things related to the acai berry, just released a new review of the popular supplement Garcinia Max. Garcinia Max is a fat burning supplement that features acai berry in its primary active ingredients. "At AcaiBerry.org, we are committed to providing our visitors with the web's best resource on all things related to the acai berry," said Tom Sanford, PR Director at AcaiBerry.org. "In this case, that means providing our visitors with an honest, unbiased ...

Crossroads brings together celebrated scientists and thinkers Amit Goswami, Neale Donald Walsch, Elisabet Sahtouris, Bruce Lipton, Peter Joseph, Nicholas Christakis, James Fowler, Michael Laitman, Ervin Laszlo, Dean Radin and more to weave together multidisciplinary insights and findings in order to reveal the inner workings of the human experience in the 21st century. "The film reveals the inner workings of the human experience in the 21st century, urging viewers to step out of the box and challenge their own assumptions about who we really are, and why we do what ...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a multi-organ disease characterized by defective insulin action in the liver, adipose tissue and skeletal muscle and a relative impairment of insulin secretion capacity. At diagnosis, subjects with T2DM have only 50% of their beta-cell function remaining and with progressing disease patients become profoundly insulin deficient requiring insulin therapy to restore glycaemic control. In addition, a blunted secretion and/or action of incretin hormones glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) from the gastro-intestinal ...

QR-Codes.com recently acquired QRCodesCreator.com with the intention of merging the two sites to improve user experience. Aric Boyles, founder of QR-Codes.com will be incorporating content from QRCodesCreator.com into QR-Codes.com to make the site more useful and informative, and will adapt an enhanced, user-friendly QR Code generator from QRCodeCreator.com. QR-Codes.com will maintain its current look and design. QR Codes, or Quick Response Codes, are two-dimensional barcodes that are popular for the efficiency with which they can store and transmit large amounts of ...

Crystal Flash Energy has joined the Alliance AutoGas network as its exclusive dealer in Michigan. The Grand Rapids-based energy distribution company will provide a complete program to help regional fleets to switch to propane autogas, a fuel that is nearly as efficient and powerful as gasoline or diesel - but with virtually no tailpipe emissions. Engines that use autogas, which is growing in popularity in Europe as a green alternative fuel, run cleaner, cost less to run and require less maintenance. As a new partner in the international Alliance AutoGas network, ...

DTR Inc.'s CEO Jay Goldberg, who developed a work readiness training program called the best work readiness certification program in the United States by a member of the National Skills Standard Board in 2003, has completed the second book in his new four module work readiness certification program. The four modules, each with its own textbook, are Workplace Basics, Workplace Skills, People Skills, and Customer Service. At the end of each book are two workplace scenarios where things go right and things go wrong. There will be online certification tests for each module ...

On December 20, 2012, the Free Publicity Focus Group, a top ranked marketing and publicity firm, published an article detailing some of the best book marketing strategies for the year 2013. While many authors believe advertising, media pitches, social media and other forms of outbound marketing strategies can drive sales, this is not always the case. Inbound Internet marketing strategies are, and will continue to be the key drivers of sales. "Many books fail in the marketplace today," Don McCauley stated, "not because they are poorly written or because ...

Payroll tax records are essential to any businesses. Payroll tax software solution provider Halfpricesoft.com reminds ezPaycheck small business payroll software users to backup data in time. The latest EzPaycheck payroll system comes with the new data-backup and restoration features. EzPaycheck users can click the top menu ¡°Company-_Backup Current Company¡± to back up data in a few clicks. Halfpricesoft.com suggest users to put the back-up file on a USB flash drive, external drive, optical media disc (CD or DVD), or on a remote server, including web-based data-storage ...

Preferred Market Solutions, LLC., developers of Preferred Patron Loyalty Marketing Software with Integrated Email (http://www.preferredpatron.com), announced today they have received accreditation from SuretyMail, an Email Accreditation service of ISIPP (http://www.isipp.com). "SuretyMail is happy to welcome Preferred Market Solutions as its newest member", says Shannon Kellogg, Customer Service Manager at ISIPP. Preferred Market Solutions is a loyalty rewards program software provider. "Our Preferred Patron Loyalty Marketing solution gives businesses ...