MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/02/2012) —Plants' ability to absorb increased levels of carbon dioxide in the air may have been overestimated, a new University of Minnesota study shows. The study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that even though plants absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide and actually can benefit from higher levels of it, they may not get enough of the nutrients they need from typical soils to absorb as much CO2 as scientists had previously estimated. Carbon dioxide absorption is an important factor in mitigating fossil-fuel ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A technique that uses acoustic waves to sort cells on a chip may create miniature medical analytic devices that could make Star Trek's tricorder seem a bit bulky in comparison, according to a team of researchers. The device uses two beams of acoustic -- or sound -- waves to act as acoustic tweezers and sort a continuous flow of cells on a dime-sized chip, said Tony Jun Huang, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics, Penn State. By changing the frequency of the acoustic waves, researchers can easily alter the paths of the cells. Huang ...

A study of widely used complimentary offers at Atlantic City casinos finds that common giveaways such as free rooms and dining credits are less profitable – and lead to unhealthy competition among casinos – than alternative comps such as free travel and parking. The research, co-authored by Seul Ki Lee, an assistant professor at Temple University's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, analyzed monthly promotional allowance and expenditure data from 11 casinos in the Atlantic City market from 2008 to 2010. Atlantic City is the second largest gaming market in ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Despite a shared Latino heritage, there are significant differences in the overall health and the use of health-care services among Cuban-Americans, Mexican-Americans and Puerto Rican-Americans — even between men and women in the same subgroup — according to two recently published studies by Florida State University researchers. The authors, led by College of Social Work Professor and Associate Dean Amy L. Ai, evaluated the physical and behavioral health, as well as the health care service usage, of all three major Latino subgroups in the United States. ...

LOS ANGELES (Oct. 2, 2012) – Researchers at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have found that a blood vessel-building gene boosts the ability of human bone marrow stem cells to sustain pancreatic recovery in a laboratory mouse model of insulin-dependent diabetes. The findings, published in a PLOS ONE article of the Public Library of Science, offer new insights on mechanisms involved in regeneration of insulin-producing cells and provide new evidence that a diabetic's own bone marrow one day may be a source of treatment. Scientists began studying ...

Infrared NASA satellite imagery revealed that the strongest thunderstorms within Tropical Storm Gaemi in the western North Pacific Ocean were located around the storm's center and in a band of thunderstorms east of the center. On Oct. 2, 2012 at 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT) Tropical Storm Gaemi had maximum sustained winds near 40 knots (46 mph/74 kph). It was located about 515 nautical miles (592 miles/954 km) east of Hue, Vietnam, near 15.3 North latitude and 116.7 East longitude. Gaemi is moving to the southeast at 9 knots (10 mph/16.6 kph). Infrared imagery from the AIRS ...

Wind shear is pushing the heaviest rainfall within Tropical Storm Maliksi east of the storm's center, and NASA's TRMM satellite captured it on Oct. 2 as it passed overhead from space. When NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed over Tropical Storm Maliksi on Oct. 2 at 1206 UTC (8:06 a.m. EDT), the precipitation radar instrument detected light rainfall occurring over most of the storm. The heaviest rainfall was moderate was falling east of the center at a rate between .78 to 1.57 inches/20 to 40 mm per hour. There was a small area of heavy rainfall ...

Forecasters know that Tropical Storm Nadine is a fighter as it continues to stay alive in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Even satellite imagery shows Nadine's fighting spirit, because although Nadine is now a tropical storm, infrared data clearly shows that Nadine maintained an eye early on Oct. 2. At 11 a.m. EDT on Oct. 2, Nadine remains a tropical storm and appears to be weakening. Nadine's maximum sustained winds were near 65 mph (100 kph). The center of Tropical Storm Nadine was located near latitude 34.2 north and longitude 37.5 west. Nadine is moving toward the east-southeast ...

Researchers in Argentina report that women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who undergo assisted reproduction technology (ART) infertility treatment are at risk for increased disease activity. Study findings published in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, suggest reproductive hormones contribute to regulation of immune responses in autoimmune diseases such as MS. According to a 2006 report from the World Health Organization (WHO), MS affects 2.5 million individuals worldwide and is more common among women ...

NEW YORK (Oct. 1, 2012) -- Parents should not worry that proposed changes to the medical criteria redefining a diagnosis of autism will leave their children excluded and deemed ineligible for psychiatric and medical care, says a team of researchers led by psychologists at Weill Cornell Medical College. Their new study, published in the October 1 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, is the largest to date that has tried to unpack the differences between the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Genetics may make some women more vulnerable to the pressure of being thin, a study led by Michigan State University researchers has found. From size-zero models to airbrushed film stars, thinness is portrayed as equaling beauty across Western culture, and it's an ideal often cited as a cause of eating disorder symptoms in young women. The researchers focused on the potential psychological impact of women buying into this perceived ideal of thinness, which they call thin-ideal internalization. Changes in self-perception and behavior, caused by ...

Malaria-drug monitoring over the past 30 years has shown that malaria parasites develop resistance to medicine, and the first signs of resistance to the newest drugs have just been observed. At the same time, resistance monitoring at the University of Copenhagen shows that the previously efficacious drug chloroquine is once again beginning to work against malaria. In time that will ensure cheaper treatment for the world's poor. Scientists and healthcare personnel the world over fear that the malaria parasite will develop resistance to the current frontline treatment against ...

Boston, Mass.—Surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital have successfully implanted a modified version of an expandable prosthetic heart valve in several children with mitral valve disease. Unlike traditional prosthetic valves that have a fixed diameter, the expandable valve can be enlarged as a child grows, thus potentially avoiding the repeat valve replacement surgeries that are commonly required in a growing child. The new paradigm of expandable mitral valve replacement has potential to revolutionize care for infants and children with complex mitral valve disease. The ...

Disaster Recovery for the Australian clubs and pub industry now has a new option in the fight against IT outages. Through NSW based IT services provider Secom Technology, and backed by exclusive Quorum distribution agent Facilitate Distribution, Australian clubs and pubs are now being offered the appliance based disaster recovery solution onQ by Quorum. The appliance has been well received at the Sydney AGE Gaming Show and with Riverwood based Clubs Rivers already on-board more are sure to follow. The onQ solution by US based Quorum is the manufacturer of onQ, 1RU and ...

Just a week after BookWhirl.com announced that they are already venturing into publishing, the company introduces their line-up of specialty publishing packages. Introduced as Wordsmith and Artist, each service package caters to specific needs and audience. In addition, its book production is handled according to expertise. BookWhirl.com hopes that the specialty publishing packages will be able to help aspiring authors in pursuing their dreams in becoming self-published. "BookWhirl.com publishing does not merely exist to fulfill its role in the industry. Because ...

One year after launching its unique online recruitment marketplace and video interview platform, RecruitLoop (www.recruitloop.com.au), has won the Award for Best Use of Technology at the 2012 ActionCOACH MyBusiness Awards. Recorded video interviews are a powerful tool built into RecruitLoop' s offering to clients. It's not a 'live' video-capability like Skype, but an automated one that records candidate responses to customised written questions, via their webcam. 'We see video interviews as a game-changing innovation in the recruitment process', explains Michael Overell, ...

The Puccini Foundation, located in New York City, seeks to explain what Comparative Oncology is, and how it can help us develop treatments and cures that can benefit people, as well as animals. Many of the same cancers that affect people also occur in pets, including melanoma, lymphoma, bone cancer, breast cancer, and more. "I created the Puccini Foundation in 2007 after my cocker spaniel, Puccini, was stricken with melanoma," said Linda Cohen Wassong, founder at Puccini Foundation. "Puccini participated in clinical trials in 2006 as part of a unique partnership ...

April Maxina launches a one-of-a-kind Kickstarter campaign on October 9, 2012 to raise $7,000.00 in 30 days for her photography book. The Book Of WRONG is the first and only book to literally take photographs that go from the stand up routine to the person underneath. Maxina has developed an idea, never seen before, to incorporate stand up routines from some of the most significant voices in entertainment into photographs. The Book Of WRONG is a collection of 20 conceptual photographs and 70 portraits featuring stand up comedians as the models. The photographs in this ...

Intouch Real Estate is launching a brand new sales and marketing model called Liveoffer that creates a platform for private house sales and will allow Australian vendors to sell their homes online for the first time. Liveoffer works by giving the vendor control of the sales process by allowing him/her to set either a reserve price or a selling price and then inviting buyers to make their offers online and in real time. Paul Ryan, CEO of the Intouch Group, says the model has been designed to save vendors thousands of dollars in commission fees, provide transparency ...

After a successful summer camp, award-winning actress Nikki Young is returning to The Rose Theatre Company to help teach actors the skills they need in the fast-paced entertainment industry. WHO: The Rose Theatre Company & Nikki Young WHAT: Act Fast!: On-Camera Acting Workshop WHEN: Saturday, October 13, 2012 9am-2pm WHERE: The Rose Theatre Company 11838 Wurzbach Road San Antonio, TX 78230 After a successful summer camp, award-winning actress Nikki Young is returning to The Rose Theatre Company to help teach actors the skills they need in the fast-paced ...

Seattle-based BadCreditLoans.com, one of the leading companies in providing short-term loans to consumers with poor credit, is actively involved in helping meet the needs of organizations in Seattle. Bad Credit Loans helps consumers obtain many different types of loans, including personal loans, auto loans and home loans, but the company is becoming well known for supporting charitable causes. Bad Credit Loans has supported LUNGevity's Breathe Deep Seattle, a 5k to raise funds for lung cancer research, and Ginger's Pet Rescue, a nonprofit operation that specializes in ...

Ohio Court Rules 2013 is a two volume set consisting of Practice & Procedure and Government of Bench & Bar. Ohio Court Rules Practice & Procedure contains all of the procedural rules you need for the daily practice of law in Ohio; Rules of Civil, Criminal, Appellate and Juvenile Procedure, Rules of Evidence, Traffic Rules, Rules of Superintendence for the Courts of Ohio, Supreme Court Rules of Practice, Rules of the Court of Claims of Ohio, Local Rules of the Court of Claims of Ohio, Rules of the Court of Claims--Victims of Crime Compensation Section and Mayor's ...

Baja California Governor Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millán honored 15 American expatriates as part of a Foreign Resident Appreciation event on Sept. 27 (World Tourism Day) at the Autonomous University of Baja California. Governor Osuna awarded a select group of foreign residents for their exceptional contributions to the Baja California region at 10 a.m. in the Ruben Vizcaíno Valencia theatre, at the University Campus. The award recipients are a group of expatriates who for the past year have become positive ambassadors for the region, as members of the "Baja California ...

We recently hit 6,000 fans on Facebook! In honor of this milestone, Zephyr will be giving away 6 Element Grills by Fuego over the next six weeks. Want to win one? It's easy, just "like" us on Facebook. We will select one winner per week starting on September 28th, 2012! In addition to holding contests, engaging with fellow kitchen aficionados and fans is one of the best parts of our day, and we are very proud that we have such an active fan base on Facebook. If you haven't checked out our page, we encourage you to do so. Great kitchen design, great product ...

Nagoya University and North Carolina State University have agreed to renew their Industry-University Collaboration Agreement for an additional five years. This announcement comes in advance of the third annual NU Tech technology roundtable, a cooperative event hosted by the Technology Partnership of Nagoya University in partnership with North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest University. This year's event will take place at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park on October 4. It will feature ...