This year Trabasack, the innovative wheelchair lap tray and bag can be found exhibiting and promoting their products at Naidex South International Trade show at the London Excel Centre. Wednesday 19th Oct:10.00am - 05.00pm and Thursday 20th Oct:10.00am - 04.00pm. Naidex South is the major disability, homecare, and rehabilitation exhibition for London and the South East. Trabasack is an award winning design concept which is both a bag and a tray. It's firm tray surface is fantastic for use as a table on the move whether you're eating, drinking or working and it's underneath ...

The Manchester-based company has topped a shortlist of some of the UK's most disruptive and innovative businesses to walk away with Smarta's Special Award for Technology. Contested by the nation's most technologically-savvy companies, the award shows how quickly the online-business has come in just over one year of trading. Of the award, Dragon's Den star Deborah Meaden commented "The Smarta Awards get bigger and better every year. The quality of the applications in 2011 gives me great hope for the state of entrepreneurship in the UK." In the same week, the ...

Following the success of the first e-Tourism seminar in Athens, AbouTourism and E-tourism Frontiers, leading experts in Online Tourism, present the next seminar of the E-Tourism Seminars Roadshow to take place in Greece, this time in Heraklion, Crete on 22 & 23rd November 2011, at the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce & Industry, room "Kastelaki", 9 Koronaiou Str. This two-day seminar is brought to you by the Municipality of Hersonissos, with the support of the Heraklion Hotels Association. IT support by EyeWide e-solutions. This practical and informative ...

In a time when people are tightening their purse strings you will often see trends starting to emerge as people seriously consider their expenditure. Gatwick airport hotels have seen such a trend from those fortunate enough to be holidaying this year. Gatwick airport is the UK's 2nd largest airport and caters for flights you won't always be able to get from a more local airport. Due to this people travel from far and wide to fly from Gatwick. Usually the typical family would travel by car 5 hours before their flight to allow for traffic and check in times and park ...

Using brain-imaging technology for the first time with people experiencing mathematics anxiety, University of Chicago scientists have gained new insights into how some students are able to overcome their fears and succeed in math. For the highly math anxious, researchers found a strong link between math success and activity in a network of brain areas in the frontal and parietal lobes involved in controlling attention and regulating negative emotional reactions. This response kicked in at the very mention of having to solve a mathematics problem. Teachers as well ...

PASADENA, Calif. (October 20, 2012) – African American women who develop gestational diabetes mellitus during pregnancy face a 52 percent increased risk of developing diabetes in the future compared to white women who develop GDM during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the journal Diabetologia. African American women are less likely to develop GDM during pregnancy. But for those who were diagnosed of having GDM, their future overt diabetes risk is the greatest among all race/ethnic groups. Although Asian/Pacific Islander women are ...

Researchers at Boston University have made discoveries that provide the foundation towards novel approaches to control insects that transmit deadly diseases such as dengue fever and malaria through their study of the Wolbachia bacteria. Their findings have been published in the current issue of Science Express, an online publication of selected papers in advance of the print edition of Science, the main journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). "Wolbachia are widespread, maternally-transmitted intracellular bacteria that infect most insect ...

Post-menopausal women with high levels of hormones such as estrogen or testosterone are known to have a higher risk of breast cancer. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research looked at eight different sex and growth hormones and found that the risk of breast cancer increased with the number of elevated hormones - each additional elevated hormone level increased risk by 16%. Researchers from the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School used blood samples collected from nurses up to nine years before health information, ...

The condition tuberous sclerosis, due to mutation in one of two tumor suppressor genes, TSC1 or TSC2, causes the growth of non-malignant tumors throughout the body and skin. These tumors can be unsightly and cause serious damage to organs. Growth of tumors in the brain may cause seizures and in the kidney, liver or heart, tumors can disrupt normal function, to the extent of causing the organ to fail. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Cell and Bioscience shows that the growth of glucose-dependent TSC-related tumors can be restricted by 2-deoxyglucose, ...

NOAA scientists have found that pressure from increasing coastal populations, ship and boat groundings, marine debris, poaching, and climate change are critically threatening the health of the Florida Keys ecosystem. Many historically abundant marine resources such as green sea turtles and coral habitat continue to be at risk with low rates of recovery. The findings were released today in the Condition Report 2011 for Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, describing the status and trends of the sanctuary's water quality, habitats, and marine and cultural resources, ...

DALLAS – Oct. 20, 2011 – A recent UT Southwestern Medical Center study found that estrogen regulates energy expenditure, appetite and body weight, while insufficient estrogen receptors in specific parts of the brain may lead to obesity. "Estrogen has a profound effect on metabolism," said Dr. Deborah Clegg, associate professor of internal medicine and senior author of the study published Oct. 5 in Cell Metabolism. "We hadn't previously thought of sex hormones as being critical regulators of food intake and body weight." The mouse study is the first to show that estrogen, ...

Dodo has become a major player in the Australian home services market, delivering internet, phone, and electricity to more than 300,000 households Australia wide. "In ten short years Dodo has transitioned from an innovative start-up ISP, to an Australian household name known for introducing affordable internet and telecommunications services at a time when it was very expensive," said Larry Kestelman, Founder and CEO of Dodo Australia Pty Ltd. Dodo is the largest privately owned telecommunications company in Australia and since its inception in 2001 it ...

Theoretical chemists at Emory University have solved an important mystery about the rates of chemical reactions and the so-called Polanyi rules. The findings, published in the journal Science, reveal why a reaction involving methane does not conform to the known rules, a problem that has baffled physical chemists in recent years. "We showed that a pre-reactive, long-range force can align the reaction of a chorine atom with methane, or natural gas, in a way that actually inhibits the reaction," says Joel Bowman, a professor of theoretical chemistry at Emory and the ...

DNA ANALYSIS: A new and astonishing chapter has been added to North American prehistory in regards to the first hunters and their hunt for the now extinct giant mammoth-like creatures – the mastodons. Professor Eske Willerslev's team from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, has in collaboration with Michael Waters' team at the Center for the Study of the First Americans, University of Texas A&M, shown that the hunt for large mammals occurred at least 1,000 years before previously assumed. This new study concludes that the first-known hunters in North ...

Singapore is to play host to some of the most popular musicians in east Asia next month when the Sundown Festival 2011 takes place at Marina Promenade.   The annual event returns for the third year on November 26th and will once again feature some of Japan and Korea's most sought-after acts, while also introducing Taiwanese acts for the first time.   This year's roster will include top talents from Taiwan such as superstar Mandopop performer Show Luo and Hebe Tien of girl group SHE, as well as the award-winning Zhang Yun Jing, the former winner of the talent show Super ...

The Cheerleading World Championships are returning to Hong Kong next month and will see teams from around the world competing in exuberant displays of athleticism and choreography. To be held at the Hong Kong Coliseum, the event represents the sixth edition of a competition that has grown considerably since its inauguration in 2001, with past contests taking place in Japan, Finland, Germany and the UK. Whereas only eight countries took part in the maiden event, the 2011 championships are expected to welcome 70 teams from 40 different nations, with brackets available ...

LA JOLLA, CA, October 20, 2011 – A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has identified a new metabolic pathway for controlling brain inflammation, suggesting strategies for treating it. The new report, which appears in the October 20, 2011 edition of Science Express, focuses on the type of inflammation normally treatable with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as aspirin or ibuprofen. The study shows this type of inflammation is controlled by different enzymes in different parts of the body. "Our findings open up the possibility ...

Visitors to Pattaya next month will be able to enjoy a wild night out when the Amazone Night Beach Party takes place.   It comes as part of the G Session series of monthly beach parties, which are organised on the first Saturday of each month by hotel and resort chain Pullman.   The next event is to take place on November 5th from 19:00 local time until the early hours and offers an exotic Brazilian theme, with exuberant dancers set to impress audiences with their physicality.   Live music will be provided by the likes of DJ Funky Wax from Brazil, DJ Solo from Belgium ...

VIDEO: Researchers warn of a looming health crisis in the wake of rising mortgage delinquencies and home foreclosures. In this video report, Dawn E. Alley, Ph.D, assistant professor of epidemiology and... Click here for more information. Baltimore, MD – Oct. 20, 2011. Researchers warn of a looming health crisis in the wake of rising mortgage delinquencies and home foreclosures. The study, released today in the American Journal of Public Health, is the first long-term survey ...

Visitors to Seoul still have time to catch My Way, an exhibition of art by Jean-Michel Othoniel that is currently taking place at the Plateau art gallery.   The exhibition has been organised with support from the Centre Pompidou and Institut Francais and began in September 2011, with visitors able to see the show until November 27th.   My Way is a mid-career retrospective to the leading French artist, whose work includes sculptures and installations created using glass and other materials.   His art has explored a diverse range of different topics over the years, ...

BOSTON, MA (October 20, 2011) – Results from a comprehensive multi-site clinical trial demonstrated that the use of antimicrobial copper surfaces in intensive care unit rooms reduced the amount of bacteria in the rooms by 97 percent and resulted in a 41 percent reduction in the hospital acquired infection rate. According to researchers, this study is one of the first to demonstrate the value of a passive infection control intervention, one that does not rely on staff or patients remembering to take action. The results will be presented on Friday, October 21 at the 2011 ...

New research suggests that hitch-hiking, once believed to be the exclusive domain of beat poets and wanderers, is in fact an activity that daring members of the animal kingdom engage in. And it may lead to a serious ecological problem. Dr David Chapple, Dr Bob Wong and Sarah Simmonds from Monash University's School of Biological Sciences, have published two complementary studies on invasive species, which are taking the opportunity to jump on board freight and cargo transports to explore, and settle, new lands. The researchers found that particular personality traits ...

There is no link between long-term use of mobile phones and tumours of the brain or central nervous system, finds new research published on bmj.com today. In what is described as the largest study on the subject to date, Danish researchers found no evidence that the risk of brain tumours was raised among 358,403 mobile phone subscribers over an 18-year period. The number of people using mobile phones is constantly rising with more than five billion subscriptions worldwide in 2010. This has led to concerns about potential adverse health effects, particularly tumours ...

Studies of ant populations in Borneo reveal an unexpected resilience to areas of rainforest degraded by repeated intensive logging, a finding which conservationists hope will lead governments to conserve these areas rather than allow them to be cleared and used for cash crop plantations. Leaf litter ants are often used to measure the overall ecological health of an area because of the large number of species present and because the health of the leaf litter is a good indication of the overall health of the forest. It is commonly assumed that repeated logging of rainforests ...

Visitors to Puchong in Malaysia this November will have the opportunity to participate in the IOI Community Run 2011, an exciting charity race event. To be held on November 20th, the race sees families and friends banding together on a fun-filled Sunday morning to take part in a physically demanding run through Puchong in order to help raise money for charity. Partners of the IOI Community Run 2011 include relief charity World Vision Malaysia, the SSL Stroke and Welfare Development Foundation and local foster home Rumah Shalom. Those participating will be able ...