Jumeirah Brand Ambassador Wins His First US Open Title
2011-06-30
Jumeirah Group, the Dubai-based luxury hotel group and member of Dubai Holding, has celebrated the victory of its global brands ambassador, golfer Rory Mcllory, in the US Open at the Congressional Country Club, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Rory McIlroy, 22, led the tournament from start to finish, a feat which had not been achieved since Tiger Woods in 2000. McIlroy finished with a score of 268 which is the lowest score in US Open history and a massive 16 under par.
Executive chairman of Jumeirah Group, Gerald Lawless said: "Rory is truly an inspiration. Since his ...
Scientists study earthquake triggers in Pacific Ocean
2011-06-30
Puntarenas, Costa Rica – New samples of rock and sediment from the depths of the eastern Pacific Ocean may help explain the cause of large, destructive earthquakes similar to the Tohoku Earthquake that struck Japan in mid-March.
Nearly 1500 meters (almost one mile) of core collected from the ocean floor near the coast of Costa Rica reveal detailed records of approximately 2 million years of tectonic activity along a seismic plate boundary.
The samples were retrieved with the scientific drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution during the recent month-long Integrated Ocean ...
Debenhams Launches Lightest Ever Bra
2011-06-30
Debenhams has launched its lightest ever t-shirt bra, weighing in at just 48g, as the answer to the perfect everyday bra.
Debenhams head of lingerie buying and design, Sharon Webb commented: "Many women find that the search for a bra that fits, flatters, is comfortable and functional, is as hard as finding the right man.
"Our research showed that many traditional t-shirt bras were quite heavy due to their dense foam structure, which is required to give an invisible fit."
Over 90% of women in wearer trials agreed that the bra felt like a second skin.
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Heavy metal meets hard rock: Battling through the ocean crust's hardest rocks
2011-06-30
Panama City, Panama – Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 335 Superfast Spreading Rate Crust 4 recently completed operations in Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Hole 1256D, a deep scientific borehole that extends more than 1500 meters below the seafloor into the Pacific Ocean's igneous crust – rocks that formed through the cooling and crystallization of magma, and form the basement of the ocean floor.
An international team of scientists led by co-chief scientists Damon Teagle (National Oceanographic Center Southampton, University of Southampton in the UK) ...
Debenhams Reveals British Tourists are Marking Their Territory on the Beach
2011-06-30
Debenhams, the high street store, has revealed that super-sized beach towels, able to occupy extra room on crowded shores and sun loungers are soaring in popularity.
Customers are using them to mark out more territory during holidays, providing a better defence against incursions from rival tourists fighting for space in the most popular resorts.
The new towels are up to 65 per cent bigger than normal, and designed using distinctive, bold, bright colours, making it obvious that the space is already occupied, even when the owner isn't there.
Debenhams spokeswoman, ...
Russell Investments Launches New Online Information Suite
2011-06-30
Russell Investments has launched a new dedicated website specifically for retail financial advisers.
The new online portal, available direct from the Russell Investments UK homepage, brings together the most relevant investment information from Russell's extensive range of detailed and unbiased industry analysis and allows financial advisers to cut through the noise to hone in on the topics which are important to them.
Alongside this, advisers will be able to quickly navigate through Russell's tools and investment services which can help them get under the bonnet ...
Antivenom against lethal snake gives hope to developing countries
2011-06-30
Researchers from the Australian Venom Research Unit (AVRU) at the University of Melbourne have collaborated with scientists from the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of Costa Rica, to develop new antivenom against the lethal Papuan taipan.
The preclinical studies of this antivenom have been published in the international journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Around 750 people are bitten in PNG each year. PhD candidate David Williams from AVRU, who coordinated the project in PNG, said snakebite is a neglected public health problem compounded by antivenom ...
Prudential Reveals Retirement Income Gender Gap is GBP6,500 a Year
2011-06-30
Prudential has announced that men retiring in 2011 expect to receive 50 per cent more pension income than women, according to new Prudential's Class of 2011 research.
Prudential's Class of 2011 research surveyed people planning to retire this year and found that the retirement income gender gap is GBP6,500. The average woman retiring this year expects an annual income of GBP12,900 compared with an average expected male income of GBP19,400.
There is some good news for women though as the retirement income gender gap has shrunk since last year when Prudential's study ...
Many a mickle makes a muckle: How changes in animals' size and shape arise
2011-06-30
The transcription of genes is tightly controlled, with a bewildering array of regulatory DNA sequences interacting with a similarly large number of proteins and other factors to determine which genes are active when and where. Understanding how it all works has challenged countless molecular biologists over the past decades but we are now starting to make significant progress. Even so, we have scarcely begun to understand how the entire complexity evolves to give differences in the size and shape of organisms. Exciting new findings are now reported by the group of David ...
elephant.co.uk Reveals Young Men Have More Expensive Car Crashes
2011-06-30
elephant.co.uk has revealed that while many men like to think they are the superior gender when it comes to driving, new research from the car insurance specialist shows men have bigger crashes that cost more money than women.
elephant.co.uk looked at more than 200,000 claims and found young men in particular have more expensive crashes. Accidents involving men aged under 25 cost on average 15% more than those involving women of the same age. In fact, the cost of accidents involving male drivers of all ages is 6% higher than accidents involving women.
To help improve ...
Using DNA in fight against illegal logging
2011-06-30
Advances in DNA 'fingerprinting' and other genetic techniques led by Adelaide researchers are making it harder for illegal loggers to get away with destroying protected rainforests.
DNA fingerprinting for timber products has grown in international recognition due to research led by the University of Adelaide that traces individual logs or wood products back to the forests where they came from.
Professor Andrew Lowe, Director of the University's Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and Dr Hugh Cross, Molecular Biologist at the State Herbarium ...
British Airways Launches New Flights to Faro and Malaga Direct from London City
2011-06-30
British Airways has announced the launch of two new routes to Faro and Malaga and added more frequency to the popular destinations of Nice, Palma and Ibiza. This means that British Airways now offers 39 leisure flights per week for this summer from London City Airport to top sun destinations at the height of the season.
The four times a week flights to Faro and the three times a week flights to Malaga are now both in operation and will operate year round.
The existing Nice service has been increased to double daily flights from May until September, and from July to ...
TV food advertising increases children's preference for unhealthy foods
2011-06-30
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have found that children who watch adverts for unhealthy food on television are more likely to want to eat high-fat and high-sugar foods.
The study by researchers in the Institute of Psychology, Health and Society examined the food preferences of a group of 281 children aged six to 13 years old from the North West of England.
The children were shown an episode of a popular cartoon before being shown it again two weeks later. In each case, the cartoon was preceded by five minutes of commercials – one set showing toy adverts ...
New tasks attributed to Aurora proteins in cell division
2011-06-30
When a cell divides, the genetic information in the chromosomes must be passed on error-free to the daughter cells. Researchers at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen are studying this process using fission yeast as a model organism. In cooperation with researchers at the University of Tübingen, they succeeded in attributing additional tasks to the Aurora enzymes, which were already recognized as important cellular tools for the reliable transmission of genetic information. Because uncontrolled cell division is a feature of tumours, Aurora enzyme inhibitors are ...
Canada Celebrates Year of the Entrepreneur
2011-06-30
Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper declares that "after all their economy has gone through, Canada's entrepreneurs have consistently driven economic growth. Therefore, when Canadians celebrate their country and all its achievements, they can do the same to honor their entrepreneurs."
There are a number of reasons to celebrate Canadian entrepreneurship. For one, small and medium-sized businesses contribute to Canada's ongoing economic success. Resilient and innovative Canadian entrepreneurs help create jobs, strengthen communities and encourage competitiveness.
There ...
Upside Software Cited as a Leader in the Latest Contract Management Lifecycle Report by an Independent Research Firm
2011-06-30
Upside Software Inc. announced it has been recognized as a leader amongst Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software providers in the report "The Forrester Wave: Contract Life-Cycle Management, Q2 2011" Forrester Research, Inc., June 2011. Vendors were evaluated on 113 criteria that examined each step of the contract life cycle and measured how each vendor performed against key determining factors.
The report states "Upside Software provides an all-around excellent solution. Upside Software had the highest overall score in the evaluation with deep functionality ...
Genome analysis will reveal how bacteria in our guts make themselves at home
2011-06-30
Researchers from the Institute of Food Research and The Genome Analysis Centre have published the genome sequence of a gut bacterium, to help understand how these organisms evolved their symbiotic relationships with their hosts.
The relationship between gut bacteria and the gastrointestinal tract is one of IFR's main research areas. Key to understanding the role of bacteria in establishing and maintaining gut health is knowledge of how the very close relationship between the bacteria and their hosts has evolved to be mutually beneficial to both.
One bacterial species, ...
Adult stem cells carry their own baggage: Epigenetics guides stem cell fate
2011-06-30
Bethesda, MD—Adult stem cells and progenitor cells may not come with a clean genetic slate after all. That's because a new report in the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) shows that adult stem or progenitor cells have their own unique "epigenetic signatures," which change once a cell differentiates. This is important because epigenetic changes do not affect the actual make up in a cell's DNA, but rather, how that DNA functions. Epigenetic changes have been shown to play a role in a wide range of diseases, including obesity, and have been shown to be heritable from mother ...
Mark Systems Named One of Homebuilding's Top 50 Technology Companies
2011-06-30
For the third straight year, MARK SYSTEMS has been named as one of the most influential technology providers in the residential construction marketplace.
Mark Systems was included as one of the Constructech 50, the third year in a row that the Constructech Magazine has selected the company. Companies are judged on a variety of criteria , including having a strong product/service aimed at the construction industry, ongoing customer satisfaction and growth, as well as outreach and educational efforts for the construction industry, among others.
According to the editors ...
Your brain on nicotine: Nicotine receptors affect social behavior
2011-06-30
Bethesda, MD—If you think nicotine receptors are only important to smokers trying to kick the tobacco habit, think again. New research published in the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests that these receptors also play an important role in social interaction and the ability to choose between competing motivations. Specifically, scientists from France show that the nicotinic receptors in the prefrontal cortex are essential for social interaction in mice and that this area of the brain is necessary for adapted and balanced social interactions to occur. This new ...
Mobile phone derived electromagnetic fields can disturb learning
2011-06-30
High frequency non-ionizing radiation, emitted by mobile phones, is redundantly matter of discussions. The effects of high frequency electromagnetic fields (HEFs) derived from mobile phones have been discussed since the 1950's. Neuroscientists from Bochum were now able to elucidate this question. For the first time, they provide proof that extremely high-powered electromagnetic fields (EMFs) indeed influence learning processes on the synaptic level within the brain, independent from other factors like stress. "For this effect, very high values are necessary. These do not ...
More than bacon: Genetic alterations in pig tissue may allow for human transplantation
2011-06-30
Bethesda, MD—A sizzling genetic discovery by Chinese scientists may one day allow pig tissue to be transplanted successfully into humans. Their research presented in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology (http://www.jleukbio.org) represents a major step forward toward filling the shortage of vital organs for human transplantation. At the core of their work, they showed that altering or overexpressing the human programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) molecule in the endothelial cells of pig arteries reduces the conditions that lead to rejection. This strongly suggests that humans could ...
Climate change increases the risk of ozone damage to plants
2011-06-30
Ground-level ozone is an air pollutant that harms humans and plants. Both climate and weather play a major role in ozone damage to plants. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now shown that climate change has the potential to significantly increase the risk of ozone damage to plants in northern and central Europe by the end of this century.
"The increased risk of ozone damage to vegetation is mainly due to rising ozone concentrations and higher temperatures in the future," says Jenny Klingberg at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Plant ...
harlequins enigma Toss Their Wizard Robes with the Release of Dance Album Octagon Volume 2 -- Night Pulse and the Silhouette of Dr. Voodoo - Out on CDBaby Now
2011-06-30
harlequins enigma toss their wizard robes with the release of dance album Octagon Volume 2 -- Night Pulse and the silhouette of Dr. Voodoo - out on CDBaby now. The album has been worked on mainly in harlequins enigma's home studio, but they used a helping hand on a difficult track. Guest starring artists on Octagon Version 2 is: Jean Michel Jarre, DJ Tiesto, Emma Watson, Katie Leung, Sara Jensen, Stale Riisnes, Jan reidar riisnes, svein tore hindenes & elin berge. full track index will be put up on our homepage asap.
The full distribution package means the album ...
New clues to the cause of Alzheimer's disease
2011-06-30
Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, have identified a series of novel proteins in human cerebrospinal fluid. The proteins, which carry specific sugar molecules, are found in greater concentrations in patients with dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease than in patients with dementia caused by other diseases. This gives hope for new forms of treatment in the future.
Göran Larson is a professor at the Sahlgrenska Academy and one of the authors of the article published in the revered journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA ...
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