Young children whose families immigrate to Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States are as prepared and capable of starting school as their native-born counterparts, with one exception—vocabulary and language development. That's the finding of a new study published in the September/October 2012 issue of the journal Child Development in a special section on the children of immigrants. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Bristol, Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, the University of New ...

Health is an important part of development, with links to how children do cognitively and academically, and it's a strong predictor of adult health and productivity. A new study of low-income families in the United States has found that children's health and access to health care services differ according to the immigrant status of their parents. The study, by researchers at Cornell University and the University of Chicago, is published in the journal Child Development, whose September/October 2012 issue has a special section on the children of immigrants. Although ...

San Diego, CA, September 11, 2012 – The World Health Organization recently recognized environmental noise as harmful pollution, with adverse psychosocial and physiological effects on public health. A new study of noise pollution in Fulton County, Georgia, suggests that many residents are exposed to high noise levels that put them at risk of annoyance or sleep disturbance, which can have serious health consequences. The research is published in the October issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine. "Our research estimated that the percentage of the overall populations ...

A new high-throughput screening technique developed by researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) has been used to uncover five novel immune-priming compounds in Arabidopsis plants. Discovery of the compounds, which enhance disease resistance without impacting plant growth or crop yield, establishes the new technique as a powerful asset in the battle to protect crops from damaging pathogens. Plant activators, compounds that activate a plant's immune system in response to invasion by pathogens, play a crucial role in crop survival by triggering a range of immune ...

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have published a study describing the greater difficulty in finding matched, unrelated donors for non-Caucasian patients who are candidates for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). The study appeared in the August issue of Bone Marrow Transplantation. The success of HCT depends on finding cell donors who are closely matched genetically; as the degree of mismatching increases, the success of unrelated donor HCT falls accordingly. A patient's ideal donor is a genetically matched sibling. The search for a perfectly ...

Kloverpoint Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce the release of a feature that will automatically save the content that is being composed through its content publishing web service. Kloverpoint is a tool that gives small businesses, organizations, and personal users the ability to quickly and easily create social sites to publish their content and connect with others through social networking and social collaboration. Since Kloverpoint is a web service and no content is actually stored on the user's computer system, any kind of Internet interruption or navigation ...

Kelsey McBride PR, an up-and-coming Los Angeles based public relations agency, today announced the company is now offering music publicity services to musicians in all genres. Kelsey McBride PR offers various packages and services at a reasonable rate to assist musicians in reaching out to new audiences as well as existing fans. Services include securing press placements, coordinating interviews and reviews, social media management, and press release distribution. Packages range from $300 - $500 per month. Kelsey McBride PR focuses on carrying out effective PR campaigns ...

Polymet Corporation, a leading producer of hardfacing wire, welding wire and thermal spray wire, has approved plans and began work to significantly increase its specialty wire rolling and drawing capacity. Currently Polymet uses very specialized rolling and drawing techniques to produce high quality wire used in applications like aerospace and industrial gas turbines, nuclear power plants and sulfuric acid plants. Polymet's proprietary cleaning techniques and specialty processing have been incorporated into the specifications of many gas turbine and nuclear applications ...

The new online platform offers increased functionality to clients including an online weekly news monitor, trial and milestone trackers, a conference tracker, an interactive heatmap and other customized analytics. Company President, Bruno Larvol will also present at the conference, exploring the role that secondary sources play in advanced monitoring of news, conferences, analyst reports, trials and product milestones for the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Larvol commented, "Pharma CI has always been an excellent opportunity for The Larvol Group to share recent product ...

According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), four million animals died last year in the U.S. as part of its dairy and beef production. This represents many billions of dollars in economic losses each year for both U.S. dairy and beef producers in terms of lost revenue, rendering fees, and unrewarded expenses, like feed costs. On an average dairy operation, 8% of all producing will die; and on an average feedlot operation, where animals may only spend approximately 180 days, 3% will die. Many times more frequent, however, are animals that get sick but do not ...

In a bid to tackle enduring recession, New Zealand's Bay of Plenty is heavily promoting new business development and skilled migrants are being encouraged to contribute their skills, optimism and positivity on the path to economic growth. Anglo Pacific, the UK's largest shipper of personal and household effects to New Zealand, is lending its support to the campaign. Jason Diggs, Anglo Pacific's Sales Director, says, "We're working in close collaboration with Priority One, an economic development organisation in the Bay of Plenty. It was established over a decade ...

Brookfield Homes took the top spot as #1 New Home Builder in "San Diego's Best" U-T Readers Poll 2012. Brookfield's Sago community in Carlsbad was named #1 New Home Community in the poll. This is the second year in a row Brookfield Homes was voted #1 New Home Builder and had the #1 New Home Community. "Our team is beyond excited. Being named the top builder in the region is an honor," says Debby Marshall King, director of marketing for Brookfield Homes. "And having Sago voted #1 puts us over the moon. It's our newest community and we're thrilled ...

The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera) continues the season, A Year of Love, Tragedy, and Suicide, with a grand performance of Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Verismo Opera will present this touching, tragic love story of a young geisha and an American sailor set in Japan on Sunday, October 7, 3:00 p.m., at the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), 30 North Van Brunt Street, in Englewood, New Jersey. Under Artistic Director Lucine Amara, one of the Metropolitan Opera's luminary performers, Verismo Opera will perform this tragic love story ...

Join Kate McGuinness, author of the legal thriller, Terminal Ambition: A Maggie Mahoney Novel, as she tours the blogosphere August 13 - November 16, 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! Terminal Ambition is part of a huge Kindle Fire promotional giveaway. Not only can you win a Kindle Fire for your very own but you can also win $50 by following the authors' tour and leaving comments. See details below. Appleton, WI - August 2012 - Kate McGuinness will be touring with Pump Up Your Book to help promote her legal thriller 'Terminal Ambition'! Maggie ...

A reality game show based on his hypnosis skills is in the works for comedy hypnotist Don Barnhart as the comedy Hypnotist brings his hypnosis skills to television in a new reality game show. Barnhart has just signed a deal with a production company and network to develop and shoot a reality based, comedy game show based on his popular stage hypnosis tour. Due to a non-discloser agreement, Barnhart isn't allowed to reveal the details of the show or which network is backing it but claims, "It's one of the most popular networks right now and they've really expanded ...

Payroll accounting software developer Halfpricesoft.com released the new version of ezCheckPrinting software which can support more date formats. EzCheckPrinting developing team hopes US firms with special date format needs and foreign users can benefit from this new improvement. ¡°Meeting the specific needs of our customers is an important part of our business model,¡± said Halfpricesoft.com founder Dr. Ge. ¡°We believe small business owners should focus their time and energy on running their businesses, not trying to figure out how to run the software. We wanted to ...

British based company Muchoedz (www.MUCHOEDZ.com), headed by games industry veteran Nigel Speight, announces the release of the first in a trilogy of 'Sam Swipe' games - Samurai Zombies for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android devices. With striking graphics, challenging gaming and atmospheric audio, Samurai Zombies can be downloaded from the Apple App Store, Google Play, SamsungApps, SlideMe and various other Android stores. An ingenious platformer that's easy to learn but difficult to master. Test your Skills and Stamina to the edge. Perplexing Puzzles to Solve and ...

Introducing JOLIE the world's luxury handbag on wheels; where style meets function. Designed by Ivy Chen, a young Canadian entrepreneur, JOLIE is a brand new luxury handbag line that places an emphasis on glamour, corporate style and accessibility. The collection draws its inspiration from the fast pace of a modern day woman's life, and whether it is at home, work or play, she is able to have all of her essentials close by in one bag. That is what JOLIE handbags were created for - to give these busy women some elegance and convenience on wheels that simplifies their non-stop ...

Keating Law Offices, a Chicago-based personal injury firm that devotes part of its practice to representing victims of bicycle accidents and publishers of the weblog the Illinois Bicycle Lawyers, have announced they have entered into an agreement to be the exclusive law firm sponsors of the Chicago Cyclocross Cup. The Chicago Cyclocross Cup was started in 2004 by a group of Chicago-area bicyclists who wanted an organized series of cyclocross races. Cyclocross is a rapidly growing sport that involves racing bicycles over rough terrain. The races often require the racers ...

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"Axor, the designer brand of Hansgrohe, is pleased to participate in Design Camp Austin. We welcome the opportunity to liaise with designers in a unique and meaningful way and expand our reach in the Austin area. To add fuel to the already hot campfire, we will offer attendees a bathroom design CEU session by one of our dynamic team members, showcase our latest collection, Axor Bouroullec designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and host fun product giveaways. We pride ourselves on our strong ties to designers the world over and we look forward to continuing our tradition ...

Long Island attorney Elliott M. Portman of the law firm Roe Taroff Taitz & Portman, LLP has been selected as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. Mr. Portman is a Partner in the firm's Creditors Rights Department and currently serves as Chair of the Creditors Rights Law Committee of the Suffolk County Bar Association and Vice President of the Commercial Lawyers Conference of New York, the State's leading bar association for creditor's rights attorneys. His concentration of practice is in federal and state litigation, particularly in the area of creditor's ...

The Los Angeles Agile Project Leadership Network (LAAPLN) is holding its quarterly networking event on September 26, 2012, which includes wine/hors d'oeuvres as well as a presentation by Mark C. Layton of Platinum Edge, Inc. Mr. Layton will be speaking about how business analysts fit into successful agile project teams, including ways business analysts can support or become product owners. Attendees will also have the opportunity to learn how documentation, especially requirements, is different for agile projects. Date & Time: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 ...

Cosmeticare (http://www.cosmeticare.com) has again earned a spot on the list of best cosmetic surgery centers, according to the most recent Best of Orange County awards from The Orange County Register. The plastic surgery clinic comprises a multi-disciplinary team of surgeons and nurses, led by Dr. Michael Niccole, who has been offering exceptional aesthetic care to clients since 1982. The Best of Orange County awards are chosen by readers in different fields, with cosmetic surgery centers being one. CosmetiCare has been named to the list for calendar years 2009, 2010 ...

Testosterone therapy offers a new ray of hope for obese patients looking for effective weight reduction, according to a recently completed five-year study conducted by researchers in Germany. Doctors at ENERGENEX (http://energenex.com), a Low T treatment clinic in San Diego, say weight reduction appears to be one of the many positive outcomes of male hormone replacement therapy. "Weight loss is certainly one of the positive outcomes I have seen at my practice," says John T. Alexander, II M.D., J.D., F.A.C.S., whose ENERGENEX clinic offers effective Low T treatment ...