MIAMI BEACH, FL (October 5, 2011)––Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the United States, as well as the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in this population. Many of these patients undergo surgical removal of their prostate, followed by radiation therapy applied to their prostate bed — the space where the prostate was once situated. The most common technique of post-prostatectomy radiation is Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), in which radiation beams closely conform to the area of interest while sparing normal adjacent healthy ...

Dr. Rajiv Motwani, Bradenton dentist, is pleased to offer new patients the opportunity to download and print new patient forms via the practice website prior to their initial visits at West Shore Dentistry. With just the click of the mouse, patients can easily download, print and fill-out new patient forms for an expedited first visit to Dr. Motwani. "I want my patients' first visits to be easy and comfortable. This is why I have offered downloadable new patient forms to help expedite their first visit. By completing the patient forms in advance of their appointment, ...

Closures of hospital trauma centers are disproportionately affecting poor, uninsured and African American populations, and nearly a fourth of Americans are now forced to travel farther than they once did. In a new study led by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), researchers examined changes in driving time to trauma centers, which have increasingly been shuttered in recent years. They found that by 2007, 69 million Americans – nearly one in four – had to travel farther to the nearest trauma center than they traveled in 2001. Most affected by the closures ...

PASADENA, Calif.—For the first time, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in collaboration with a team from the University of Vienna, have managed to cool a miniature mechanical object to its lowest possible energy state using laser light. The achievement paves the way for the development of exquisitely sensitive detectors as well as for quantum experiments that scientists have long dreamed of conducting. "We've taken a solid mechanical system—one made up of billions of atoms—and used optical light to put it into a state in which it behaves ...

Leading Buffalo cosmetic dentist, Dr. Robert LaCarrubba of Dr. Bob's Dental Care, is pleased to offer his patients a discounted dental plan for affordable dental care. Patients can visit the practice's website for more information on current dental plans available and to see which plan would work best for them. Dr. Bob's dental plan is a comprehensive dental plan that provides members with significant savings on dental services in all of Dr. Bob's Dental Care locations. It is an easily accessible plan that offers a complete package of reduced fees for virtually every ...

Leading Bowie Dentist, Dr. Siamak Aalemansour, announces the recent addition of online contact forms via the practice's interactive website. Patients can easily access these contact forms from the homepage Omni Dental Group's website. The contact forms were added in order to increase communication between the practice and patients more conveniently outside of office hours. Patients are encouraged to contact Dr. Siamak Aalemansour, Bowie, MD dentist, and his staff at Omni Dental Group whenever they have an interest or concern about dentistry procedure such as porcelain ...

A team at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) has studied the marriage strategies of immigrants in order to determine the nature of endogamic (between people of the same nationality) and exogamic partnerships (between people of different nationalities) in Spain. The preliminary results indicate that, unlike Spanish men, Spanish women prefer immigrants with more qualifications. "It caught our attention that human capital was more important in determining outmarriage amongst Spanish women but this is not the case in Spanish men. In other words, it seems that Spanish ...

2011 AAII Investor Conference, Las Vegas Join TechniTrader in Las Vegas for the 2011 AAII Investor Conference. There's something for everyone at the conference-from fine-tuning your strategies and mastering the latest concepts to simply learning more about investing from some of the best names in the industry. When and Where: November 10th - November 12th 2011, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (Booths 115 and 117) More information: http://www.aaii.com/conference/ http://technitrader.com/get-connected/#2011-11-10-aaii-vegasTechniTrader is a stock market educational ...

Aspiring furniture makers, bookbinders, jewelry makers, carpenters, violin makers - and those merely curious about the process of making exquisite things by hand - are invited to a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at one of the America's oldest schools of craftsmanship during a special open house at the North Bennet Street School (www.nbss.edu) in Boston's historic North End. The event is on Friday, November 4, 10am to 2pm and Saturday, November 5, 10am to 3pm. Admission is free. Visitors are invited to watch and interact with students and instructors at work ...

Thanks to a new form of trust anchor, this will be simpler and more economical in the future. Researchers will present this process at it-sa, the IT security trade fair held October 11-13 in Nuremberg (Hall 12, Stand 461). Imagine you live in Germany and want to take a few days of vacation in the French Alps. You have booked a hotel. To find it without having to thumb through road maps in hard copy, the navigation system must be retrofitted with French maps. To accomplish this, you either have to take a trip to the garage before setting out on the long journey, or you ...

New research by scientists at the University of Southampton has shown how London's trees can improve air quality by filtering out pollution particulates, which are damaging to human health. A paper published this month in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning indicates that the urban trees of the Greater London Authority (GLA) area remove somewhere between 850 and 2000 tonnes of particulate pollution (PM10) from the air every year. An important development in this research, carried out by Dr Matthew Tallis, is that the methodology allows the prediction of how much ...

Millimeter by millimeter, the polisher uses grinding stones and polishing pastes to polish the surface of a metal mold, working at a rate of some ten minutes per square centimeter. This activity is time-consuming and hence incurs a significant cost. What is more, many companies are struggling to find new recruits for such a challenging yet monotonous task. But the era of laborious hand polishing could soon be over: In collaboration with the companies Maschinenfabrik Arnold and S&F Systemtechnik, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT have developed ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University and IBM have developed a new, experimental technique to better protect sensitive information in cloud computing – without significantly affecting the system's overall performance. Under the cloud-computing paradigm, the computational power and storage of multiple computers is pooled, and can be shared by multiple users. Hypervisors are programs that create the virtual workspace that allows different operating systems to run in isolation from one another – even though each of these systems is using computing power and storage ...

Diese Pressemitteilung ist verfügbar auf Englisch. Die weltweiten Kohlenstoffvorräte in den Böden übersteigen jene aus Pflanzen und Atmosphäre um das Dreifache. Organische Bodensubstanzen wie beispielsweise Humus spielen beim globalen Kohlenstoffkreislauf eine zentrale Rolle, da sie riesige Mengen an Kohlenstoff speichern und so der Klimaerwärmung entgegenwirken. Das Kyoto-Protokoll gestattet daher den unterzeichnenden Ländern, Böden und Wälder als sogenannte Kohlenstoffsenken an die Treibhausgas-Emissionen anzurechnen. Doch es ist weitgehend unbekannt, weshalb gewisse ...

Soils store three times as much carbon as plants and the atmosphere. Soil organic matter such as humus plays a key role in the global carbon cycle as it stores huge amounts of carbon and thus counters global warming. Consequently, the Kyoto Protocol permits the signatory countries to count soils and forests against greenhouse gas emissions as so-called carbon sinks. Exactly why some soil organic matter remains stable for thousands of years while other soil organic matter degrades quickly and releases carbon, however, is largely unknown. The explanatory models used thus ...

A team of researchers from the Capital Normal University in Beijing (China) and the Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences in Vladivostok (Russia) has discovered a remarkable silky lacewing insect from the Mesozoic of China. The study has been published recently in the open access journal ZooKeys and is available for free download. The extant silky lacewings (the family Psychopsidae) may be recognized by their broad wing shape, dense venation, spectacularly patterned and hairy wings. Today, this family is very small, restricted only to southern Africa, southeastern Asia ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—Few people have ever claimed to see three rainbows arcing through the sky at once. In fact, scientific reports of these phenomena, called tertiary rainbows, were so rare—only five in 250 years—that until now many scientists believed sightings were as fanciful as Leprechaun's gold at a rainbow's end. These legendary optical rarities, caused by three reflections of each light ray within a raindrop, have finally been confirmed, thanks to photographic perseverance and a new meteorological model that provides the scientific underpinnings to find them. The ...

BaseKit, the online website builder, has been selected as a firm of the future and listed in the Red Bull Future 50 - a list of the most groundbreaking British firms that are less than four years old. The list serves as a guide to the UK's most creative, stylish, visionary and disruptive brands. The nationwide search began in June and final selections for the Red Bull Future 50 were made by a panel of judges including: Nigel Trood, MD of Red Bull UK; Madeleine Milne, MD of Emusic; and Jos White, investor and co-founder of MessageLabs. The full list is currently viewable ...

The anaerobic oxidation of ammonia (anammox) is an important pathway in the nitrogen cycle that was only discovered in the 1980s. Currently, scientists estimate that about 50 percent of the nitrogen in the atmosphere is forged by this process. A group of specialized bacteria perform the anammox reaction, but so far scientists have been in the dark about how these bacteria could convert ammonia to nitrogen in the complete absence of oxygen. Now, 25 years after its discovery, they finally solved the molecular mechanism of anammox. Anammox bacteria are very unusual because ...

The National Football League (NFL) has teamed up with Bud Light to launch the NFL Hispanic Heritage Leadership Awards. This Sunday, October 9, the NFL is celebrating 2011 Hispanic Heritage Day. As part of the celebration, each of the 32 football teams is recognizing one member of the community for his or her positive impact on the local Hispanic population. The Hispanic Heritage Awards honor notable Latinos who have not only distinguished themselves in their field, but have also made an impact on America. The Houston Texans have chosen to honor attorney Benny Agosto ...

The examination of insects in Burmese amber by researchers at the University of Cologne, Germany and National Museums Scotland revealed a new genus of caddisfly, which has been named Palerasnitsynus. The discovery, based on two specimens, constitute the first record of the living family Psychomyiidae in Burmese amber and the oldest known member of this family in the fossil record. Burmese amber is 100 million years old, from the Cretaceous Period, so this discovery adds to our understanding of the caddisfly fauna in that part of the world at that time.INFORMATION: Original ...

As of early August, Wisconsin's 2011 boating season reached a sad milestone: the number of boating deaths for the summer of 2011 had already equaled the total number of boating deaths in 2010. And, with approximately a month left of summer, Wisconsin's boating season may be in its waning moments, but there is plenty of beautiful weather left for boating, and the potential for more accidents. Numbers released by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources state that, as of early August, 18 people lost their lives in boating accidents on Wisconsin's rivers and lakes. ...

In a study recently published in European Physical Journal E (EPJE), a German scientist constructed a theoretical model to understand how to best avoid jamming of soft matter that can be applied in food and cosmetics production. Thomas Voigtmann, a researcher at the Institute for Material Physics in Space in Cologne, Germany, evaluated the internal friction force, or yield stress, to be overcome before a solid material made of a metallic melt with a glass structure can flow and thus prevent jamming. These materials have an apparent viscosity that drops if they are ...

The exceptional strength of certain biological materials is due principally to their complex structure. Long bones, for instance, consist of a compact, solid outer casing filled with spongy tissue, which makes them particularly strong and resilient. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institutes for Mechanics of Materials IWM and for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT are collaborating on a project entitled "Bionic Manufacturing", which aims to develop products that are lightweight but strong and economic in their use of materials – imitating the perfected ...

A growing number of pregnant American women and delivery doctors are choosing Cesarean sections (C-sections) before their babies reach full term (39 weeks) instead of vaginal birth for the delivery of babies. According to recent studies, the number of C-sections performed in the United States has risen to more than 36 percent. Driving the increase are both mothers and their physicians. According to a study conducted by Yale researchers, women often choose Cesarean birth for convenience and for cosmetic reasons. Further, Dr. Uma M. Reddy, National Institute of Child ...