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 ...

Estate Planning May Save Your Family More Than Just Taxes The death of a loved one is hopefully a time when family members draw closer together and celebrate their dear one's life and the bonds of family unity. Unfortunately, a family member's passing often becomes a time of disagreement and bickering over how the loved one's assets will be divided. Decades-old sibling rivalries, perceived offenses and hard feelings too often boil to the surface when money is involved and can leave scars that last a lifetime. From the outside, the disagreement may seem ridiculous; ...

NTSB: Expand breath testing to reduce drunk driving deaths Drunk driving is one of the biggest threats to highway safety in the United States. According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 9,878 people died in drunk driving accidents in 2011 -- an average of one DUI fatality every 53 minutes. NHTSA also determined that, on average, alcohol-related crashes injure one person every 90 seconds in the United States. In Illinois, drunk driving accidents claimed the lives of 297 people in 2010. Even though 2010's numbers represented a nearly ...

Is your trademark protected overseas? If your trademark is protected in the United States, this does not ensure its safety in other countries. Before the Internet, national protections seemed to suffice. However, today, someone in another country could be using your trademark. A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol or design, or a combination of these, which provides branding for a company. A business that thinks that its brand equity could potentially expand to other countries should consider filing a trademark to protect its brand rights. Due to the proliferation ...

Unpaid child support payments leaving an $11 billion hole in the Texas economy Texas parents are struggling with the effects of prolonged unemployment and other economic pressures by missing child support payments in record numbers, leaving a gaping, multi-billion-dollar hole in the state's economy. The huge deficit doesn't just apply to missed payments, though; more parents than ever before are also seeking downward modifications of existing orders, most often to account for a loss in income for the paying parent. On the flip side, parents who aren't receiving much-needed ...

Advances in technology can enhance the health care industry, providing various improvements and benefits. However, such developments can also create new opportunities for injury. The Economic Cycle Research Institute, a nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, recently released a report entitled "The Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2013." The institute intends to use the report to raise awareness of the potential dangers associated with the use of particular medical systems and devices. The list is updated ...

It's not unheard of for prescription drug use to get out of hand. When you are suffering from a serious medical condition, the right pills can manage a great deal of pain, suffering and discomfort; when the medical condition begins to improve, it is not always easy to stop taking the pills you have come to depend on. But when does prescription drug use cross the line? Under Oregon and federal law, you can be found guilty of a drug crime by misusing or overusing prescription medication; and drivers of motor vehicles need to be aware that even if you are within your prescription, ...

LA JOLLA, CA – December 23, 2012 – The mysterious inner workings of Chang Shan—a Chinese herbal medicine used for thousands of years to treat fevers associated with malaria—have been uncovered thanks to a high-resolution structure solved at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI). Described in the journal Nature this week, the structure shows in atomic detail how a two-headed compound derived from the active ingredient in Chang Shan works. Scientists have known that this compound, called halofuginone (a derivative of the febrifugine), can suppress parts of the immune system—but ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—In a discovery that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea level rise, a new study finds that the western part of the ice sheet is experiencing nearly twice as much warming as previously thought. The temperature record from Byrd Station, a scientific outpost in the center of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), demonstrates a marked increase of 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4 degrees Celsius) in average annual temperature since 1958—that is, three times faster than the average temperature rise around the globe. This temperature ...

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified two molecules that play an important role in the survival and production of nerve cells in the brain, including nerve cells that produce dopamine. The discovery, which is published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, may be significant in the long term for the treatment of several diseases, such as Parkinson's disease. The same scientists have previously shown that receptors known as "liver X receptors" or LXR, are necessary for the production of different types of nerve cells, or neurons, in the developing ...