The Carlsbad Department of Development (CDOD) recently honored several leaders in the community at their annual dinner. Businesses were recognized in several areas, including housing development, retail impact, volunteerism, and education. Stan Power of Tessenderlo Kerley Services, Inc. (TKS) received the Corporate Investment Award for keeping his business in Carlsbad. At one point recently, TKS was faced with the prospect of leaving Carlsbad due to insufficient operating space. The CDOD, in conjunction with the City of Carlsbad, set out to assist Power with this problem. ...

Offering Low T treatments for San Diego men living with low testosterone, ENERGENEX (http://www.energenex.com/) has launched a new website to help more men experiencing a decrease in libido and sex drive. The new website offers expanded information on today's latest treatments for Low T and HGH levels. "We're excited to launch a clean, updated site with the latest information on Low T treatment options," says John T. Alexander II, M.D., J.D., F.A.C.S., head of ENERGENEX in San Diego. "Different sections on Low T treatment and HGH therapy offer comprehensive ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration may soon take action against commercial trucking carriers known as "chameleon" or "reincarnated" carriers. These carriers are able to disassociate themselves from their poor safety records and even avoid paying penalties simply by changing their company names. To become a "reincarnated" carrier, a company closes shop and then reincorporates as a different legal entity, with only superficial changes to the actual business. In many cases, the purpose is to avoid public safety supervision and ...

Not many people casually mention the term "antitrust law" as an ice breaker for business conversations, but maybe they should. Antitrust law is relevant at virtually every level of business, including manufacturing, transportation, distribution and even marketing. The presence of antitrust laws in the American business market helps to promote competition in the marketplace. This niche of law prohibits a variety of practices that could lead to monopolies or otherwise restrain trade. It fosters the competition that benefits consumers by leading to lower prices ...

Public and scientific criticism is growing that governmental oversight of medical devices being implanted in Americans is insufficient, often allowing downright dangerous devices to harm patients. Medical-device safety is imperative because some like defibrillators, pacemakers and heart valve rings are literally life sustaining. Even if a device does not directly prolong life, if it does not safely, reliably and effectively perform its intended function, a patient may be catastrophically injured, sometimes permanently. Recent controversial medical devices known to have ...

According to a study recently published in Science Translational Medicine, football players and soldiers are likely to experience the same serious brain condition, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when they are struck in the head. What is CTE? Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) occurs when patients suffer from repetitive mild traumas to the head. Often seen in boxers and other professional athletes, CTE can result in neurological problems, memory loss, dementia and depression. Symptoms of CTE include irritability, headaches and problems with sleep. Recent ...

At a certain age, planning for the disposition of your property after you're gone is more than just the responsible thing to do; it is absolutely essential to protect your family. The most thorough, smoothly functioning estate plans take advantage of the right legal instruments for your unique circumstances. Likely, you have a basic understanding of a will and what it does. But what about a revocable living trust? Given the right situation, a living trust can offer the kind of control you want now as well as the swift and easy distribution of your assets when you are ...

Rollover accidents pose the greatest risk of injury to drivers and occupants of trucks and SUVs. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) the number of serious injuries increases 33 percent when a car rolls over in a crash. When this happens, tremendous pressure is forced on passengers' heads and necks, thereby causing debilitating injuries. The NHTSA reports that 280,000 rollover accidents occur each year, and that 10,000 people die in these crashes annually. Rollover accidents are most common in sport utility vehicles and other ...

An artificial hip replacement consists of a prosthetic ball attached to the top of the femur which fits inside a socket implanted into the hip bone. While both the ball and socket can be composed of several materials, in artificial hips implanted into more than half a million Americans, both components are made out of metal. Metal-on-metal hip implants have caused a variety of problems for patients. Yet, despite the proliferation of products liability lawsuits and even recalls of certain devices -- including DePuy brand artificial hips that had been implanted in patients ...

We all trust airplane pilots, semi-truck drivers, subway operators and ship crews to be hyper-vigilant while flying, driving or sailing. To ensure their safety and ours, these "safety-sensitive workers" are federally required to submit to random drug and alcohol tests. The goal is to keep them sober and alert, while keeping everyone else around them alive. Unfortunately, a new study shows an increase in illegal drug use among these workers, putting the rest of us in danger for truck accidents and other serious crashes. Drug Use Up Based on a review of ...

Emirates Tours, specialists in tailor-made luxury holidays, has launched a photo competition in conjunction with leading camera manufacturer Nikon, offering entrants the chance to win a luxury holiday for two to Oman and a host of other prizes. From the glistening atolls of the Maldives to close-up shots of wildlife on safari, Emirates Tours is looking for the most authentic photographs taken in any one of its six holiday regions. The photographer of the best overall image will win a five night holiday for two to the five-star Six Senses Zighy Bay resort in Oman ...

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A study carried out by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland indicates that extreme weather conditions cost EU transport system at least €15 billion a year. Currently, the greatest costs incurred are from road accidents, with the associated material damage and psychological suffering. However, costs arising from accidents are expected to decrease in volume, though time-related costs attributable to delays are projected to increase. In part, this is due to climate change, whose impact on extreme weather phenomena was addressed in the study, and because of consequent costs. In ...

This press release is available in German. Max Planck scientists have found out that the olfactory system in hermit crabs is still underdeveloped in comparison to that of vinegar flies. While flies have a very sensitive sense of smell and are able to identify various odor molecules in the air, crabs recognize only a few odors, such as the smell of organic acids, amines, aldehydes, or seawater. Humidity significantly enhanced electrical signals induced in their antennal neurons as well as the corresponding behavioral responses to the odorants. The olfactory sense of vinegar ...

Reprogramming asthma-promoting immune cells in mice diminishes airway damage and inflammation, and could potentially lead to new treatments for people with asthma, researchers have found. The researchers were able to reprogram the asthma-promoting cells (called Th2 (T-helper 2) cells) after identifying an enzyme that modifies the DNA of these cells. The enzyme could be a target for the development of new treatments for chronic inflammatory diseases, in particular allergic asthma, caused by an excess of Th2 cells. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researcher Dr Rhys Allan ...

A professor from the University of Southampton has called on doctors around the world to give patients with persistent dizziness a booklet of simple exercises, after new research has shown that it is a very cost effective treatment for common causes of the condition. Lucy Yardley, who has been researching dizziness for many years, will urge GPs at the international WONCA conference today (5 July) to ensure that the booklet is translated so that patients of all nationalities can benefit. Professor Yardley's urgent appeal comes after her study, funded by the National ...

One bit of digital information stored on a hard disk currently consists of about 3 million magnetic atoms. Researchers from Karlsruhe, Strasbourg, and Japan have now developed a mag-netic memory with one bit per molecule. By an electric pulse, the metal-organic molecule can be switched reliably between a conductive, magnetic state and a low-conductive, non-magnetic state. This novel correlation for molecules is now reported in the Nature Communications journal. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms1940) "The superparamagnetic effect prevents smaller bit sizes from being reached in a ...

International university students and water experts have converged at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to form the backbone of an intellectual and research community on a scarce natural resource -- water. NTU hosted 24 international students from 10 countries in the last fortnight as they attended the inaugural GlobalTech Summer Camp to learn about Singapore's water story. Last week, the university also hosted the 4th GlobalTech Workshop gathering the top water experts to share and discuss this global problem. In addition, NTU's Nanyang Environment & Water Research ...

Selfish behaviour is a threat to successful coexistence and mutual cooperation. In many cases this human cooperation is based on punishing those who do not cooperate. There can be two different forms of punishment here: direct punishment by peers and institutionalised punishment by institutions like the police. Arne Traulsen, Torsten Röhl and Manfred Milinski from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön conducted a behavioural experiment to study what form of punishment people prefer under which conditions. The scientists have demonstrated that people ...

In the prestigious international journal Religion, the Islamicist Stefan Reichmuth and the Latinist Reinhold Glei have published a joint paper on the concept of religion in the Koran. The RUB researchers show how, in Latin translations of the Koran, the religious notion changes – from "law" to "religion". The surprising finding: since the Middle Ages, the confrontation with the Islamic religious notion has constantly accompanied and possibly even promoted this change in Europe. Double meaning In their detailed philological study, the two scientists started by examining ...

In addition to previous studies, this research is also based on an experiment carried out by the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) at the Universidad de Zaragoza, together with the Fundación Ibercivis and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the largest study of its kind to date in real time regarding cooperation in society. It was carried out during this past December, with 1,200 Aragon secondary students participating, who interacted electronically in real time via a social conflict prototype known as the "Prisoner's Dilemma". This ...

Strawberries, the traditional summer treat associated with Wimbledon could be serving up some unexpected health benefits. Scientists at the University of Warwick have been studying the beneficial effects of strawberries on our cardiovascular health, particularly around how they prevent the development of heart disease and diabetes. Professor Paul Thornalley from Warwick Medical School heads the team that discovered extracts from strawberries positively activate a protein in our bodies called 'Nrf2' which is shown to increase antioxidant and other protective activities. ...

A*STAR scientists from the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and the Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC) have discovered a new signalling pathway that controls both obesity and atherosclerosis. The team demonstrated, for the first time, that mice deficient in the Wip1 gene were resistant to weight gain and atherosclerosis via regulation of the Ataxia telangiectasia mutated gene (ATM) and its downstream signalling molecule mTor. These groundbreaking findings were published in the journal Cell Metabolism on 3rd July and may provide significant new avenues ...

July 5, 2012, Shenzhen, China – An international team, led by Lanzhou University, comprising BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, Institute of Kunming Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences as well as the other 12 institutes, has completed the genomic sequence and analyses of a female domestic yak, which provides important insights into understanding mammalian divergence and adaptation at high altitude. This study was recently published online in Nature Genetics. Scienceshot made a timely comment on yak genome themed "What gets yak high ?" As an iconic symbol ...