Digital Learning Now! (DLN) today released "Funding the Shift to Digital Learning: Three Strategies for Funding Sustainable High-Access Environments," the first in the DLN Smart Series of interactive papers that provide specific guidance regarding adoption of Common Core Standards and the shift to personal digital learning. In the last decade, Americans have increasingly embraced mobile technology - smartphones, tablets, laptops, netbooks, and more - for personal use. In the classroom, these tools can be leveraged for content creation, online assessment, collaboration, ...

The Inn at Honey Run has enhanced its already stunning grounds by extending its hiking trails and adding a new native prairie installation. Both are designed to improve guest experience. The new Purple Trail gives visitors the opportunity to walk around a pond and see native ducks in their natural habitat. The Inn's new Ohio Prairie Installation, expected to be mature by next summer, adds more bird and butterfly habitat, as well as increasing the natural beauty of the inn and giving guests yet another natural spot where they can experience indigenous flora and fauna. Reservations ...

Women may have new hope when intimacy feels more like a chore with a possible increased libido and drive. Some women experience a lack of libido ranging from diet and exercise to eating unhealthy, smoking and even depression or child birth. Intimacy is important for women to make their partner happy and contented. It can be due to menopause, weight fluctuations and hormonal imbalances. The good news though is that there may be a natural way to promote intimacy and libido performance enhancement through an all-natural supplement called Libidra. Since it has been introduced ...

An App Accessory is an accessory that is designed to work seamlessly with Apps for your iPad or iPad 2, iPod touch or iPhone, enabling you to interact with technology like never before. The App Accessory connects to your iPhone, iPad and iPod and enriches the features of the App giving your mobile device capabilities it doesn't have on its own. Simply download the App that is compatible with the App Accessory you want and attach your App Accessory to your phone or tablet. Mophie Juice Pack Reserve - GBP29.95 With a lightweight and compact design, the Mophie Juice ...

Yat Wong Jones, buyer for small electrical appliances at John Lewis, selects her top five coffee makers for Christmas 2012: DeLonghi Icona Vintage Coffee Machine in Green - GBP189.95 - Available from October 2012. This gorgeous, high gloss coffee machine can be used to prepare espressos, cappuccinos, caffelattes as well as your favourite milk drinks, thanks to a traditional milk frother. A professional two in one filter holder allows you to use ground coffee or Easy Serving Espresso pods. Other features include a 15 bar pump pressure and a cup warmer to ensure optimum ...

Direct connect capabilities from your favorite social sites makes it easy to convert images to canvas with the click of a mouse. Although the social connect is a great feature that the new M9Canvas.com site offers, it is just the tip of the iceberg for artist, families and other image and art based projects that can be converted to canvas prints. Multi panel printing is another option for decor and panoramic artistic visions are easily selected and made available to the general public, artist and designers with ease and affordability yet to be seen available to the ...

A PawnUp.com online pawn shop newsletter subscription allows potential and existing customers to learn about various exclusive offers without the need to apply first. Any visitor to their online pawnshop can now subscribe for free and benefit from monthly offers like "0% interest on their pawn loans for the first month" or "$50 cash bonus" (offers are subject to the Terms and Conditions of PawnUp.com). This free subscription service was created due to the increasing demand for pawn loans PawnUp.com has been receiving over the last few months. It aims ...

Today, SpiritCube Inc. has reached a milestone and is near completion of its Re-Engineered version of the company website and interface www.spiritcube.com. The company announced that it has been working with a development team from i-Tul.com and is ready to release and launch the newly redesigned site on schedule. "Phase Two" includes the complete redevelopment of the internally developed company website. The substance of the site is to offer users a website link to develop their own Tribute or Memorial sites. In short, the interface allows for images, music and ...

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (August 23, 2012) – University of Minnesota Medical School and Masonic Cancer Center researchers have partnered with geneticists from Genentech, Inc., to discover how some proteins may cause the development of some forms of colon cancers. The proteins – part of R-spondin family – normally help activate cell proliferation during embryonic development. Now, University of Minnesota researchers have discovered that when two types of R-spondins – RSPO2 and RSPO 3 – are reactivated in adults through certain gene mutations, they can signal cells to restart ...

When it comes to applications like standoff sensing — using lasers to detect gas, explosives, or other materials from a safe distance — the laser's strength is of the utmost importance. A stronger and purer beam means devices can sense danger more accurately from a greater distance, which translates into safer workers, soldiers, and police officers. Northwestern University researchers have developed a new resonator that creates the purest, brightest, and most powerful single-mode quantum cascade lasers yet at the 8-12 micron range, a wavelength of great interest for both ...

The worst drought to hit the United States in at least 50 years does have one benefit: it has created the smallest "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico in years, says a Texas A&M University researcher who has just returned from gulf waters. Oceanography professor Steve DiMarco, one of the world's leading authorities on the dead zone, says he and other Texas A&M researchers and graduate students analyzed the Gulf Aug. 15-21 and covered more than 1,200 miles of cruise track, from Texas to Louisiana. The team found no hypoxia off the Texas coast while only finding hypoxia near ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., August 23, 2012 — Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team, including Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, squeezed in a little extra target practice after zapping the first fist-sized rock that was placed in the laser's crosshairs last weekend. Much to the delight of the scientific team, the laser instrument has fired nearly 500 shots so far that have produced strong, clear data about the composition of the Martian surface. "The spectrum we have received back from Curiosity is as good as anything we looked at on Earth," ...

Cambridge, Mass. – August 23, 2012 – Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without imparting the distortions of conventional lenses. At a mere 60 nanometers thick, the flat lens is essentially two-dimensional, yet its focusing power approaches the ultimate physical limit set by the laws of diffraction. Operating at telecom wavelengths (i.e., the range commonly used in fiber-optic communications), the new device is completely scalable, from near-infrared to terahertz ...

Singapore, August 24, 2012 – Using a mixture of gold, copper and platinum nanoparticles, IBN researchers have developed a more powerful and longer lasting fuel cell material. This breakthrough was published recently in leading journal, Energy and Environmental Science. Fuel cells are a promising technology for use as a source of electricity to power electronic devices, vehicles, military aircraft and equipment. A fuel cell converts the chemical energy from hydrogen (fuel) into electricity through a chemical reaction with oxygen. A fuel cell can produce electricity continuously ...

Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father's age but not the mother's, researchers have found in the largest study of human genetic mutations to date. The study, based on the DNA of around 85,000 Icelanders, also calculates the rate of human mutation at high resolution, providing estimates of when human ancestors diverged from nonhuman primates. It is one of two papers published this week by the journal Nature Genetics as well as one published at Nature that shed dramatic ...

LOS ANGELES (Embargoed until 10 a.m. EDT on Aug. 24, 2012) – When aggressive, malignant tumors appear in more than one location in the brain, patient survival tends to be significantly shorter than when the disease starts as a single tumor, even though patients in both groups undergo virtually identical treatments, according to research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Research Institute. "We've known that certain independent factors, such as age at diagnosis, amount of residual tumor after surgery, and the patient's functional status are useful ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- A long-standing mystery in biology about the longer lifespans of bigger creatures may be explained by the application of a physical law called the Constructal Law (www.constructal.org). What this law proposes is that anything that flows -- a river, bloodstream or highway network -- will evolve toward the same basic configuration out of a need to be more efficient. And, as it turns out, that same basic law applies to all bodies in motion, be they animals or tanker trucks, says Adrian Bejan, the J.A. Jones Professor of mechanical engineering at Duke and ...

For biology researchers, the complex world of molecular proteins – where tens of thousands of atoms can comprise a single protein – may be getting clearer with the help of a new soft, transparent, and squishy silicone model they can hold in their hands. Its advantage over traditional computer and solid models is that it is mostly transparent and easy to manipulate, which will help researchers more intuitively understand protein structures, positions, and interactions. The models will enable researchers to quickly and collaboratively see, touch, and test ideas about molecular ...

Cancer metastasis, the escape and spread of primary tumor cells, is a common cause of cancer-related deaths. But metastasis remains poorly understood. Studies indicate that when a primary tumor breaks through a blood vessel wall, blood's "stickiness" tears off tumor cells the way a piece of tape tears wrapping paper. Until now, no one knew the physical forces involved in this process, the first step in metastasis. Using a statistical technique employed by animators, scientists created a new computer simulation that reveals how cancer cells enter the bloodstream. The researchers ...

There are many reasons why it is important to be able to identify farm animals, horses and small companion animals. Unique identification marks are essential for ensuring the correctness of breeding programmes, for preventing the spread of disease and for eliminating the possibility of deceit in competitions or when animals are sold. The traditional method of marking larger farm animals relies on branding with hot irons or on ear-tagging but this is deemed inappropriate for use on dogs and cats, which are identified by the implant of a microchip transponder. Until recently, ...

Astrocytes are cells that have many functions in the central nervous system, such as the control of neuronal synapses, blood flow, or the brain's response to neurotrauma or stroke. Reduces brain tissue damage Prof. Pekny's laboratory together with collaborators have earlier demonstrated that astrocytes reduce the brain tissue damage after stroke and that the integration of transplanted neural stem cells can be largely improved by modulating the activity of astrocytes. Generation of new neurons In their current study, the Sahlgrenska Academy researchers show how astrocytes ...

This press release is available in Spanish. Researchers headed by Maria Macias an ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and Joan Massagué, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, have identified a new molecular mechanism that plays a crucial role in the control of the activation of certain genes associated with cancer. Through detailed structural and biochemical studies, the researchers identified a key domain present in a family of proteins called Smads, whose ...

Physicists from the University of Southampton were among the first researchers to use the new high magnetic-field beamline at Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility, to search for 'hidden magnetic states'. If found, they will provide important confirmation of a theoretical model, which could have important applications in magnetic data storage. Diamond's new I10 Beamline for Advanced Dichroism Experiments (BLADE) beamline, which has 300,000 times the strength of the earth's magnetic field, is providing them with the tools for the search. The beamline ...

A study enjoying Spanish participation has analysed the theatre demand of society according to the socioeconomic status of the different types of the viewing public. The results were that the theatre is not just enjoyed by the intellectual classes. While they do prefer drama, the working class opts for comedy and the wealthier are swayed by reviews. Theatre arts are loss-making services that require subsidies to stay afloat. This type of practice has frequently come under fire as it is thought that theatre is consumed mainly by society's economic elite. A study published ...

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, known as TRMM has been monitoring the rainfall rates within Tropical Storm Isaac as the storm entered the eastern Caribbean Sea. After becoming a tropical storm in the central Atlantic on August 21, Isaac continued tracking westward and entered the eastern Caribbean early on the evening of Aug. 22 with the ill-defined center passing just south of Guadeloupe in the Leeward Islands. Since becoming a tropical storm, Isaac has shown little change in intensity, but the National Hurricane Center expects that to change ...