Kaj Designs, one of Trinidad and Tobago's premier fashion houses, will lead the Caribbean as it unveils its latest resort collection, Tribu Sauvage, at the international fashion tradeshow, BLUEPRINT, in Singapore. From May 16 to 19, 2013, Kaj will join Asia's finest as the first Caribbean brand to exhibit and show at the core of Singapore's fashion week, Asia Fashion Exchange (AFX). www.kajdesigns.net Kaj's newest collection marries luxury with the appeal of simple designs that jet set from a relaxing resort setting to fast-paced city life. For the discerning woman, ...

Quinn Lemley "Delivers the goods!" - Vanity Fair with one explosive show stopping number after another with hit songs, "She's A Lady", "Bang Bang", "Boom Boom", "Let Me Entertain You" and many others. A kind of musical feast spanning decades from Cole Porter to Paul Anka. You could say it's the ultimate celebration of the icons who went from Burlesque to Broadway and beyond, such as; Gypsy Rose Lee, Mae West and Sally Rand. The influence of these amazing women is undeniable. Look at Bette Midler, Cher and even Lady Gaga. ...

Prices on items online can rapidly change and sometimes change with wild swings of over 80% in one day. Myshopbase.com, based in Campbell California, recently launched its price comparison and tracking application to help online shoppers understand price trends and make more informed purchase decisions. Myshopbase.com is a free analytic tool where shoppers can select items or favorite categories and get price alerts when prices change. Shoppers can also compare prices and find deals across major internet retailers such as Amazon.com, Best Buy, Ebay Inc., Edmunds.com and ...

Thai Domain Hosting, one of Thailand's most established quality web hosting service providers and domain registration company with hosting servers in Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, US and UK celebrates its 5th anniversary this coming May as a web hosting provider in Thailand. With special offers and discounts available on all Thai Domain Hosting plan, these new promotions invite existing and new customers to participate in their 5th year anniversary celebration. "It is our 5th anniversary and we want to celebrate this milestone with the people who mean the most ...

In his recently released book, management and innovation expert David Silverstein explores why collecting the dots--the information that is all around us--is key to solving problems, and developing innovative strategies and breakthrough ideas. Through real-world examples of some of today's leading companies, the book explores how dot collection can lead you to be more creative and stay ahead of your competitors. You can view the In One Dot, Two Dots, Get Some New Dots, readers will discover: - Why collecting lots of information is so important. - How to accelerate ...

Famed interior designer and author of "my Sicilian kitchen" cookbook, Linda Bilo-Brechtel will host an official appearance and book signing at Rolling Greens inside of SOCO in Costa Mesa, California on Saturday April 13th, 2013 between 11am and 1pm. Guests will be able to meet the author personally as well as ask any questions they may have in regards to the coveted Bilo family Sicilian recipes in an open Q&A forum. Copies of "my Sicilian kitchen" cookbook will be available for purchase, with each copy to be signed and personalized for each guest ...

Several dozen world class producers are engaged in the event, including, among others, Orpalis, Aurora 3D Software, S2 Solutions, UAB 'Prewise', Ashampoo and Mariner Software, offering their most popular applications from many categories. The multiplicity of the prizes enables the users to choose exactly the programs which interest them. You can receive an invitation for the event by registering on the website: http://softfinder.com/software-hunt-giveaway-a Lukasz Kwiatkowski, the Product Manager, says how to achieve this and what is so unique about the event: "The ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – When companies put a human face on their brand, the public usually responds positively. This advertising approach has brought us alarm clocks with sleepy faces and color-coated chocolate candies with legs and arms. But a new study, published online ahead of print in the Journal of Marketing, finds there is a greater backlash by the public when a product branded with human characteristics fails. Lead author Marina Puzakova, an assistant professor of marketing at Oregon State University, said even though consumers can tell a camera designed with human ...

The term 'living fossil' has a controversial history. For decades, scientists have argued about its usefulness as it appears to suggest that some organisms have stopped evolving. New research has now investigated the origin of tadpole shrimps, a group commonly regarded as 'living fossils' which includes the familiar Triops. The research reveals that living species of tadpole shrimp are much younger than the fossils they so much resemble, calling into question the term 'living fossil'. Darwin informally introduced the term 'living fossil' in On the Origin of Species when ...

Tonsillectomy may result in fewer severe sore throats and could benefit some adult patients, according to a randomized trial published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Recurrent severe sore throats result in lost work or school days and frequent use of antibiotics. Researchers from Finland conducted a randomized open trial to determine whether tonsillectomy reduced episodes of severe sore throats (pharyngitis). The trial involved 86 patients, 46 of whom had the procedure and 40 who did not. The primary outcome was the difference in the number of patients ...

Organ donation in Ontario is significantly less common at large general hospitals than at hospitals with clinical programs for transplant recipients, which points to missed opportunities to optimize organ donation, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). To understand whether organ donation rates differed between hospitals that treat transplant recipients and those that do not, researchers looked at all patients (adults and children) who died from catastrophic brain injury in Ontario between 1994 and 2011. After excluding small hospitals ...

DNA, siRNA and miRNA can reprogram cancer cells – that is, if these nucleic acids could cross through the cell membrane. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Therapeutic Delivery shows that cholesterol "rafts" can shepherd genetic payloads into cancer cells. "There are many promising therapeutic applications for nucleic acids, but because they can't diffuse across cell membranes on their own, delivery to cancer cells has been a major challenge. Our method is a promising way to get these drugs inside cancer cells where they can do ...

Women who have suffered a still birth or have medical conditions including varicose veins, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or heart disease are at greater risk of developing dangerous blood clots after giving birth, a study has revealed. The research, led by academics at The University of Nottingham, found that being obese, suffering bleeding during pregnancy or labour and having a premature birth or delivery via caesarean section also increased the risk of a venous thromboembolism (VTE). Their findings, published in the American Society of Hematology journal Blood, ...

Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disorder, affecting about one-third of older adults, and currently there is no cure. A study published by Cell Press April 2nd in the Biophysical Journal reveals how the nanoscale biomechanical properties of cartilage at joints change at the earliest stages of osteoarthritis, making the tissue more prone to damage during fast physical activities. The findings could improve early detection of the disease as well as tissue engineering strategies to repair damaged cartilage in patients. "Our techniques enable detection of the earliest ...

VIDEO: This video transitions to where it goes inside the eyeball and scans the retina. The white/yellow circle is the optic nerve and the yellowish egg yolk colored deposits are the... Click here for more information. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in older Americans. Much-needed prevention and treatment strategies for this pervasive disease may soon be on the way, thanks to findings published by Cell Press on April 2nd in the journal Cell Metabolism. ...

New findings in mitochondrial biology thoroughly change the idea scientists had for 20 years on the role and importance of the protein MTERF1. For the first time, Max Planck researcher Mügen Terzioglu and her colleagues in Germany and Sweden investigated in vivo what was up to now only explored in cell culture. Using the mouse as a model organism, she made a surprising discovery: MTERF1 does after all not play the key role in mitochondrial transcription and translation that was hitherto ascribed to it. Dr Terzioglu's findings will change the way we look at the regulation ...

Jose Ramon Sarasua and Aitor Larrañaga, researchers in the materials engineering department of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, have been studying new materials or implants that are of interest in medicine and in helping to mend bones, in particular. They have in fact measured the effect that the bioglass has on the thermal degradation of polymers currently used in medicine. The results have been published in the journal Polymer Degradation and Stability. Bones are capable of regenerating themselves if they suffer slight damage. But if the damage is above ...

VIDEO: This is video of an examination of the retina of a patient with age-related macular degeneration. The light-colored flecks are cholesterol-rich deposits that have built up under the retina.... Click here for more information. A new study raises the intriguing possibility that drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol may be effective against macular degeneration, a blinding eye disease. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found ...

NEW YORK, NY (March 25, 2013) – A team of researchers at The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute led by Scott Noggle, PhD, Director of the NYSCF Laboratory and the NYSCF – Charles Evans Senior Research Fellow for Alzheimer's Disease, and Michael W. Nestor, PhD, a NYSCF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, has developed a technique to produce three-dimensional cultures of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells called embryoid bodies, amenable to live cell imaging and to electrical activity measurement. As reported in their Stem Cell Research study, these cell aggregates ...

A study by the universities of Manchester and Liverpool observing monkeys has found that those in the middle hierarchy suffer the most social stress. Their work suggests that the source of this stress is social conflict and may help explain studies in humans that have found that middle managers suffer the most stress at work. Katie Edwards from Liverpool's Institute of Integrative Biology spent nearly 600 hours watching female Barbary macaques at Trentham Monkey Forest in Staffordshire. Her research involved monitoring a single female over one day, recording all incidences ...

A study has been able to accurately determine the age of the Neanderthal remains found in the El Sidrón cave (Asturias, Spain) for which previous studies had provided inexact measurements. The application of a pre-treatment to reduce contamination by modern carbon has managed to lower the margin of error from 40,000 to just 3,200 years. El Sidrón cave in Asturias (northern Spain) is one of the westernmost Neanderthal sites on the Iberian Peninsula and contains a large amount of this type of remains in addition to the flint tools they used. Now, thanks to the development ...

VIDEO: There are new clues in the search to rediscover the mysterious Maya Blue formula. Click here for more information. The recipe and process for preparing Maya Blue, a highly-resistant pigment used for centuries in Mesoamerica, were lost. We know that the ingredients are a plant dye, indigo, and a type of clay known as palygorskite, but scientists do not know how they were 'cooked' and combined together. Now, a team of chemists from the University of Valencia and the Polythecnic ...

New Orleans, LA – Research led by David H. Martin, MD, Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has found that a common sexually transmitted infection-causing parasite "cultivates" bacteria beneficial to it, changing thinking about which comes first–infection or bacteria. The researchers also discovered a previously unknown species of these bacteria. The research was published ahead of print online in Advance Access in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, and was published online April 2, 2013 in Research Highlights in Nature ...

Cambridge, UK, April 2, 2013 – Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) technologies allow identification of genetic disorders in human preimplantation embryos after in vitro fertilization (IVF) and before the embryo is transferred back to the patient. This technique allows couples with a high-risk of passing on inherited diseases, to increase their chances of having a healthy baby. Despite the theoretical benefits of PGD, clinical outcomes using these technologies vary, possibly because of the need to remove one or more cells from the embryo using biopsy. In a recent ...

Situated at the foothills of the Western Tian-Shan, Kyrgyzstan is home to a diverse range of vascular plants, many of which are endemic and can only be found in very narrowly circumscribed areas. Such is the case for the onion species Allium spathulatum that had long remained undetected in spite of living within the famous Sary-Chelek Nature Reserve. Even in close proximity to the headquarters it remained unnoticed until it was finally described in 1998. The species occurs in the low-altitude forest zone, between 1600 and 1700 m a.s.l., dwelling in river valleys, on open ...