For a growing immigrant community in the United States, setting up shop means blending tools of the trade from home with discoveries made in the new country, and there's a strategy that's threading through an array of small businesses. Leila Rodriguez a University of Cincinnati assistant professor of anthropology, presents her research, "Traces of Home, Legacies of Culture: Business Development Among Nigerian Immigrants in New York City." The study will be highlighted Nov. 20 at the 110th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Montreal. Rodriguez ...

Washington — Scientists presented new research today demonstrating the impact life experiences can have on genes and behavior. The studies examine how such environmental information can be transmitted from one generation to the next — a phenomenon known as epigenetics. This new knowledge could ultimately improve understanding of brain plasticity, the cognitive benefits of motherhood, and how a parent's exposure to drugs, alcohol, and stress can alter brain development and behavior in their offspring. The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2011, the annual meeting ...

Total Web Design is an innovative marketing firm based in Sydney Australia with a special knack for turning existing marketing collateral into online lead generating tools. Their most recent idea put travel brochure designs online in order to attract future leads for the travel company. The travel industry has leveraged the Internet for advertising and reservations for decades. Each year the price of travel rises with each bump in fuel prices. People are shopping for and dreaming about exotic vacations, but they often don't have money available for an immediate booking. ...

New research from the University of Cincinnati brings into focus the connection between routine, police station mug shots and the marketing-savvy snapshots captured by the fashion police. Stephanie Sadre-Orafai, a University of Cincinnati assistant professor and socio-cultural anthropologist, suggests so in the presentation of her research, "Beyond Types: Animating Evidence and Potential in Booking Photographs." The Nov. 17 presentation is part of the session, "Unsettling Accounts – Photographs, Traces and Evidence" – at the 110th annual meeting of the American Anthropological ...

More than 1,800 visitors can move smoothly through the Georgia Aquarium's new AT&T Dolphin Tales exhibit, entering and leaving through the same set of doors. Their experience is not by accident though -- before the exhibit opened, logistics experts at the Georgia Institute of Technology carefully studied how guests would move and recommended ways to improve their experiences while minimizing congestion. "We offered Georgia Aquarium leaders accurate predictions on how the new AT&T Dolphin Tales exhibit would impact guest flow within the aquarium and how to optimize the ...

Don McCauley of the Free Publicity Focus Group and Danielle Hampson of eBroadcastMedia.com, founders of Book Marketing, announced today The Authors Show radio and TV weekly broadcast schedule. Book Marketing, branded as 'The Authors Marketing Powerhouse', allows authors and publishers the opportunity to upload photos, bios, book covers, video and book trailers. The site also offers discussion forums, segmented special interest groups and allows for event listings. Each author can develop a personalized page. In addition the site allows for integration with Facebook and ...

BOSTON (November 14, 2011) -- Feeding older mice a lower glycemic index (GI) diet consisting of slowly-digested carbohydrates delays the onset of age-related, sight-threatening retinal lesions, according to a new study from the Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University. The researchers studied middle-aged and older mice that consumed either a higher or lower GI diet. Mice fed the lower GI diet developed fewer and less-severe age-related lesions in the retina than the mice ...

An estimated 24 million Americans now have diabetes, with the number expected to grow at least 5 percent annually in future years. One serious consequence of the disease can be vision loss or blindness. The earlier diabetes is caught and appropriate lifestyle changes and treatment begin, the better the chance of avoiding vision loss and other health consequences. "Too often, people are not aware of any vision problems." said Dr. Binh Q. Nguyen "Effective treatments, including annual eye exams, can reduce severe vision loss in diabetics significantly." In ...

Led by Professor Dr. Martin Bentz, Bonn archeologists began un¬earthing one of Greek antiquity's largest craftsmen's quarters in the Greek colonial city of Selinunte (7th-3rd century B.C.) on the island of Sicily during two excavation campaigns in September 2010 and in the fall of 2011. The project is conducted in collaboration with the Italian authorities and the German Archaeological Institute. Its goal is to study an area of daily life in ancient cities that has hitherto re¬ceived little attention. "To what extent the ancient Greeks already had something like "commercial ...

Boston, MA – The use of specific medications following a heart attack has been shown to reduce cardiovascular events and mortality, however; while highly effective, the rate of adherence to these medications is poor. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) evaluated whether eliminating co-payments for these medications would increase adherence and improve outcomes in patients who have had a heart attack. The findings will be presented as a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions on November 14 and simultaneously published ...

Axceleon presents at HP-CAST 17 (Hewlett-Packard Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical computing users group) in Seattle, Washington, on November 10th-11th. HP-CAST is being held in conjunction with the SC2011 supercomputing show also being held in Seattle. The topic of the Axceleon presentation is "Opportunities and Challenges for Image Processing on the Cloud". Cloud based computing has been used in many industries over the years and is now rapidly expanding to the 3D Animation Industry. "We are very pleased to be invited for a third time ...

The heated debate surrounding the German "state Trojan" software for the online monitoring of telecommunication between citizens shows that the concealed observation of our private decisions provokes public disapproval. However, as a recent experimental study has revealed, observing and being observed are integral components of our social repertoire. Human beings show a preference for social partners whose altruistic behaviour they have been able to confirm for themselves. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön and the University of Cologne ...

Bon Vivant is a concierge & lifestyle management service with an emphasis on providing great personal service. They specialise in every travel, leisure and lifestyle need that you don't have the time, inclination or expertise to do yourself so you can maximise your free time. Whilst catering to London's elite, time-poor professionals and prestigious companies with ongoing support on a membership basis, Bon Vivant is delighted to announce that they now offer bespoke concierge and lifestyle management services on an ad hoc basis and to temporary visitors to London, ...

In order to develop glass with new characteristics, experts select about ten compounds from potential elements, mix them and then heat the powder. They heat it in a furnace until it is soft, then they pour it into a mould and let it cool slowly and in a controlled fashion, down to room temperature. During that process small samples from the viscous glass are taken to test it: how viscous is it? How well does it wet metals? How does it crystallize out? To produce the glass samples by hand and to test them requires a lot of time: one employee needs approximately two weeks ...

Medical Associates of Monroe County in East Stroudsburg, Pa., chose the DigiView PACS and Structured Reporting System for their cardiovascular studies. The Digisonics PACS and structured reporting system will provide users with access to high performance image review, professional reporting capabilities and a single clinical database for all cardiovascular modalities. Users will also have full remote reading capabilities via DigiNet Pro, a web-based application that provides secure access to the entire cardiovascular PACS and structured reporting system. Additional ...

Women with the deadliest and rarest form of breast cancer now have a chance of treatment where once their options were severely limited, thanks to a new discovery by George Mason University researchers. This aggressive cancer, called "inflammatory breast cancer," kills about half the women who have it within five years; patients live on average a mere 18 months after diagnosis. About 10,000 women are diagnosed each year with inflammatory breast cancer, according to U.S. government statistics. In a recent study, Mason scientists pinpointed a key driver in the cancer ...

URALCHEM OJSC announces operating results for the first nine months of 2011. The production volume of URALCHEM Holding's enterprises during the first nine months of 2011 increased by 6% compared to the same period in 2010, amounting to a total of 3.815 million tonnes. The production of ammonium nitrate increased by 7%. Due to market conditions, the production of DAP and NPS 14:34:8 has been reduced to zero in favor of increasing the production of more marketable MAP and NPK fertilisers. Their output increased by 63% and 18% respectively. The production of other types of ...

Sonar and ultrasound, which use sound as a navigational device and to paint accurate pictures of an environment, are the basis of countless technologies, including medical ultrasound machines and submarine navigation systems. But when it comes to more accurate sonar and ultrasound, animals' "biosonar" capabilities still have the human race beat. But not for long. In a new project that studies bats, dolphins, and mole rats, Prof. Nathan Intrator of Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik School of Computer Science, in collaboration with Brown University's Prof. Jim Simmons, is ...

HOUSTON -- (Nov. 14, 2011) -- To protect Houston and Galveston from future hurricanes, a Rice University-led team of experts recommends building a floodgate across the Houston Ship Channel adding new levees to protect densely populated areas on Galveston Island and the developed west side of Galveston Bay. The team also recommends creating a 130-mile-long coastal recreation area to sustainably use wetlands that act as a natural flood barrier. The recommendations appear in a new report this month from Rice University's Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation ...

Fans of the Hong Kong musician Jacky Cheung will be flocking to Kuala Lumpur this December for a much-anticipated series of concerts by the superstar.   The singer is visiting the Malaysian capital as part of his 1/2 Century Tour, which is the first major tour he has embarked upon in three years.   Known popularly as the "God of Songs" due to his melodious singing voice, demand for Cheung's Kuala Lumpur performances has been extremely high, prompting promoter UnUsUaL Productions to offer expanded seating and an extra tour date.   The run of concerts will ...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A research network led by a Mayo Clinic physician found that stem cells obtained from bone marrow delivered two to three weeks after a person has a heart attack did not improve heart function. This is the first study to systematically examine the timing and method of stem cell delivery and provides vital information for the field of cell therapy. The results were presented this morning at the 2011 Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association Meeting in Orlando, Fla. They also will be published online in JAMA to coincide with the presentation. "Some ...

Visitors to Malaysia will be able to relive the glory days of one of Britain's greatest bands thanks to A Fab Christmas with the Mersey Beatles, a celebratory concert taking place at Resorts World Genting.   The venue will play host to a festive concert by the renowned Fab Four soundalikes, who are the official Beatles tribute act of Liverpool and the Cavern Club's resident band since 2001.   Performing on December 25th and 26th, Mark Bloor, David Howard, Steven Howard and Brian Ambrose will don authentic costumes and take to the stage as John, George, Paul and Ringo, ...

A century after the valves that link the lymphatic and blood systems were first described, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have detailed how those valves form and identified a gene that is critical to the process. The gene is Prox1. Earlier work led by Guillermo Oliver, Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Genetics, showed Prox1 was essential for formation and maintenance of the entire lymphatic vasculature. The lymphatic vasculature is the network of vessels and ducts that help maintain the body's fluid balance and serves as a highway along ...

(ORLANDO) -- Physicians may be making premature predictions about which patients are not likely to survive following cardiac arrest – and even withdrawing care -- before the window in which comatose patients who have received therapeutic hypothermia are most likely to wake up, according to two new studies from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The research helps to better define the proper timeframe and manner in which doctors may be able to predict which patients will regain consciousness after the use of therapeutic hypothermia, which ...

DURHAM, N.C. – In a finding that confirms what many obstetricians and gynecologists suspected, Duke University researchers report that younger women who undergo hysterectomies face a nearly two-fold increased risk for developing menopause early. The study, published in the December issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, is the largest analysis to track over time the actual hormonal impact of woman who had hysterectomies and compare them to women whose uteruses remained intact. "Hysterectomy is a common treatment for many conditions, including fibroids and excessive ...