Chalk it up to the oil boom. As America seeks to produce more of its own energy, a dominant technology has emerged in an effort to extract oil and gas from our existing plays, like the Eagle Ford Shale and Barnett Shale oil fields in Texas, and both landowners and oil companies (and oil and gas workers) see that there is money to be made. "Hydrofracking," short for hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which drillers combine water and sand and chemicals to fracture tough shale rock layers, getting those fossil fuels to flow. As Matthew Tresaugue and ...

The Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Airport Hotel (North, I-85) offers nearby lodging to parents and guests attending Georgia State University's Spring 2012 Commencement Ceremony. The Bachelor, Master, and Specialist Commencement Ceremony will take place at 2:00pm on Sunday, May 6 at Georgia Dome. Vicki B. Escarra, President and CEO of Feeding America, will serve as Georgia State University's spring commencement keynote speaker. Feeding America is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, which provides food to Americans in need through a network of more ...

The Hilton Garden Inn Hotel in Columbia SC (Northeast) offers convenient accommodations to parents and guests attending University of South Carolina's spring 2012 Commencement Ceremonies. The Baccalaureate, Master's and Professional Commencement Exercises will take place at 3:00pm on May 4 and 9:30am and 3:00pm on May 5. All ceremonies will take place on at Colonial Life Arena, located on the University of South Carolina campus. General admission is free; doors open two hours prior to the start of the ceremony. Spring commencement is a special annual event for University ...

With the incredibly mild winter the metro Atlanta area had this year, mosquitoes got a head start on expanding their numbers, and they're ready to make going outside a miserable experience well before summer. Atlanta exterminator North Fulton Pest Solutions recommends that Atlanta homeowners receive professional mosquito treatments before populations grow out of control. During a normal winter, mosquitoes are forced to stay close to the ground, go into a suspended state to survive, and many adult mosquitoes are unable to withstand the cold temperatures. However, during ...

Agile Project Management for Dummies, by Mark C. Layton, Certified Scrum Trainer, is the first book to provide a simple, step-by-step guide to agile project management approaches, tools, and techniques. Agile project management is one of the fastest-growing management techniques in business today. As mobile and web technologies continue to evolve rapidly, there is added pressure to develop and implement software projects in days and weeks instead of months and years. Over the past decade Mark has trained and coached Global 1000 companies, regional leaders and aggressive ...

California State Sen. Alex Padilla is one step closer to having California begin to test autonomous vehicles to help reduce the number if accidents on state roads, but a legal referral network says that regardless of the bill's fate, accidents will still happen. "When accidents do happen, our expert team of attorneys can help," said James Logan, marketing coordinator for CaliforniaCarAccidentLaw.com, a website that was built and developed to provide legal help for car accident victims. Logan explained that the website provides accident victims with a variety ...

Utility, Inc., a provider of technology and services that allow first responders and utilities to more effectively command, control and support mobile field operations, announced today the addition of Jason Blair as a Senior Member of the Utility Executive Team. Blair has taken the role of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer leading the Finance, Accounting, Human Resources and Administration functions for Utility. Jason Blair is a senior financial executive with 15+ years experience providing financial, operational and managerial expertise for small to mid-sized ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of Accounts Payable outsourcing solutions, today announced they will be co-hosting a 90-minute educational Webinar event with the Institute of Finance Operations (IOFO). The Webinar, titled "AP Outlook: The Top 5 Changes Coming to Accounts Payable," will reveal how implementing AP automation and zero touch processes is enabling AP departments to become more strategic within their organizations by achieving heightened levels of visibility, accelerated cycle times, and cost-savings to their payables processes. This Webinar will take ...

Hydro Alternative Energy, Inc. ("HAE" or the "Company"), an emerging independent power provider, announced today that it has executed a memorandum of understanding ("MOU") with Energreen, SA de C.V ("Energreen") of Mexico, a renewable energy and environmental improvement projects company. Energreen is part of the Desus Group of Mexico, an integrated series of companies with each focused on a specific area of sustainable development. The intent of the MOU is for HAE and Energreen to partner with each other for the purpose of developing ...

The creators of "Newborn Care 101 - What Parents Need To Know", have recently announced their 50,000th visitor on their free newborn care information website www.newborncare101.com offering a wide variety of information for new parents including SIDS risk and prevention, feeding, vaccinations, colic as well as a popular Frequently Asked Questions section. There is also a downloadable list of what to bring to the hospital when having a newborn and what to have at home for your newborn's arrival. "With so many visitors to our newborn site, it is very rewarding ...

International Logistic Solutions (ILS) was recently certified as an Indirect Air Carrier by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). As an Indirect Air Carrier, ILS may now contract directly for the freight services of passenger air carriers. Third party logistic companies and freight forwarders that are not in possession of such certification may only ship using passenger air carriers through companies with IAC approval from the TSA. International Logistic Solutions was able to attain this certification due to its successful adoption of a security program that ...

Having unfiled tax returns is a situation not only incredibly common, but incredibly resolvable. Mark (Panama City, FL) came to Blue Tax with the news that the IRS was reporting he was missing business returns for the years of 2007-2009. The issue was that Mark's company in question was dissolved in mid 2008. Blue Tax needed to make sure that Mark was protected from any collections, file the missing tax returns, and establish a resolution. The Blue Tax team got on the case, working quickly to ensure Mark was protected from any collections, while filing the missing tax ...

CiCi's Pizza has introduced the newest pizza on its custom buffet, The Meltdown, made with Parmesan, Romano and mozzarella cheeses with signature Italiano sauce topped with an oregano seasoning blend on a thin, crisp Italiano crust. The delicious new pizza is the third in CiCi's Italiano line, joining the Pepperoni & Sausage Italiano and the Veggie Italiano in the permanent CiCi's buffet rotation. It is being rolled out with a national advertising campaign featuring the tagline "So good it makes grown men cry." "The Meltdown was well received by ...

Environmental vibrations induced by urban railway traffic are mainly generated from uneven wheel–rail contact in the short wavelength range, according to a study in the 4th issue of SCIENCE CHINA Technological Sciences, 2012. The introduction of urban railways is one of the most effective ways to deal with traffic problems in large cities. However, in the vicinity of railways, day-by-day vibrations from trains may cause discomfort to people, the malfunctioning of sensitive equipment, and even damage to old buildings, and railways therefore have serious environmental ...

Aging may seem unavoidable, but that's not necessarily so when it comes to the brain. So say researchers in the April 27th issue of the Cell Press journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences explaining that it is what you do in old age that matters more when it comes to maintaining a youthful brain not what you did earlier in life. "Although some memory functions do tend to decline as we get older, several elderly show well preserved functioning and this is related to a well-preserved, youth-like brain," says Lars Nyberg of Umeå University in Sweden. Education won't save ...

HONOLULU – April 25, 2012 -- Many shark populations have plummeted in the past three decades as a result of excessive harvesting – for their fins, as an incidental catch of fisheries targeting other species, and in recreational fisheries. This is particularly true for oceanic species. However, until now, a lack of data prevented scientists from properly quantifying the status of Pacific reef sharks at a large geographic scale. In a study published online April 27 in the journal Conservation Biology, an international team of marine scientists provide the first estimates ...

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that mice and rats have evolved to gnaw with their front teeth and chew with their back teeth more successfully than rodents that 'specialise' in one or other of these biting mechanisms. Researchers designed a computer model to simulate the bite of rats to understand whether their skull shape or muscle arrangement was a major factor in their evolutionary success and global dominance, making them one of the most common pest species in the world. Research has already shown that rats and mice can both chew and gnaw, ...

(Toronto) - Researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) led a study discovering a gene for a new form of intellectual disability, as well as how it likely affects cognitive development by disrupting neuron functioning. CAMH Senior Scientist Dr. John Vincent and his team found a mutation in the gene NSUN2 among three sisters with intellectual disability, a finding to be published in the May issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics. The discovery was made after mapping genes in a Pakistani family, in which three of seven siblings had intellectual ...

Like a lead actress on the red carpet, nanowires—those superstars of nanotechnology—can be enhanced by a little jewelry, too. Not the diamonds and pearls variety, but the sort formed of sinuous chains of metal oxide or noble metal nanoparticles. Though science has known for some time that such ornamentation can greatly increase the surface area and alter the surface chemistry of nanowires, engineers at Stanford University have found a novel and more effective method of "decorating" nanowires that is simpler and faster than previous techniques. The results of their study ...

Claudia Bieber from the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology (FIWI) of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, and fellow scientists analysed a capture-recapture data set on common dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius) to investigate the life-history strategy of this species. These small rodents are about the size and weight of a wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus), but, unlike their rodent cousins, they hibernate – usually from late September/October to April/May. This is reflected in rather different life history strategies: While wood mice may reproduce any time between ...

China's economic growth will continue to be energy-intensive and highly polluting for the foreseeable future with emissions and efficiency far below capital growth on the agenda, according to a study published in the International Journal of Global Energy Issues. Economist Yanqing Xia of Dongbei University of Finance and Economics and the Northeast Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Liaoning has looked at almost a decade's worth of data from 30 Chinese provinces to build a comprehensive model of pollution, energy consumption and economic growth. The model offers ...

Our genes control many aspects of who we are — from the colour of our hair to our vulnerability to certain diseases — but how are the genes, and consequently the proteins they make themselves controlled? Researchers have discovered a new group of molecules which control some of the fundamental processes behind memory function and may hold the key to developing new therapies for treating neurodegenerative diseases. The research, led by academics from the University of Bristol's Schools of Clinical Sciences, Biochemistry and Physiology and Pharmacology and published ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Obese drivers are far less likely to wear seatbelts than are drivers of normal weight, a new University at Buffalo study has found, a behavior that puts them at greater risk of severe injury or death during motor vehicle crashes. The UB study found that normal weight drivers are 67 percent more likely to wear a seatbelt than morbidly obese drivers. Drivers were considered overweight or obese if they had a BMI (body mass index) of 25 or more, according to the World Health Organization definition of obesity, with 25-30 defined as overweight, 30-35 slightly ...

In a new study, scientists at the University of Copenhagen show that a specific type of carbohydrate plays an important role in the intercellular signalling that controls the growth and development of the nervous system. In particular, defects in that carbohydrate may result in the uninhibited cell growth that characterizes the genetic disease neurofibromatosis and certain types of cancer. The results have just been published in the well-reputed journal PNAS. Scientists from The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen have put a special ...

This press release is available in German. In particle physics, the baryon family refers to particles that are made up of three quarks. Quarks form a group of six particles that differ in their masses and charges. The two lightest quarks, the so-called "up" and "down" quarks, form the two atomic components, protons and neutrons. All baryons that are composed of the three lightest quarks ("up", "down" and "strange" quarks) are known. Only very few baryons with heavy quarks have been observed to date. They can only be generated artificially in particle accelerators as ...