Most synthetic chemical products used in consumer goods end up unchanged in the environment. Given the risks this could pose for the environment and human health, researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have developed a new tool to effectively predict what will happen to current and future pharmaceutical products. Thousands of pharmaceutical products, which are increasingly diverse and increasingly used, are "partially" metabolised by the human body. Those that remain unchanged pass into the waste water treated at sewage plants, which are not always ...

A young commis chef, trained and working in Scotland, has been chosen by a panel of judges led by Heston Blumenthal as the Young Chef of the Year at the Academy of Culinary Arts (ACA) Annual Awards of Excellence 2011 held in London. Dimitar Angelkovski, a trainee chef at the world famous Turnberry Resort, fought off competition from some of the most admired chefs in the business from restaurants such as Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, The London Ritz and Claridges. The ten kitchen finalists also included Turnberry Sous Chef Ryan Murphy, and a senior chef from the Royal ...

Carlo A. Basile, a veteran aerospace and automotive industry engineer, has joined Lighthouse for the Blind-St. Louis as Interim Director of New Business Development with responsibility for customer relations, sales management support, new product development support, quality documentation, plus additional productivity and customer-directed quality initiatives. A U.S. Navy Viet Nam era veteran, Mr. Basile's professional expertise includes process engineering, productivity improvement, project management and manufacturing engineering management roles with Boeing, Ford ...

Laxenburg, Austria – 28 July 2011 -- Future trends in global population growth could be significantly affected by improvements in both the quality and quantity of education, particularly female education. Projections of future population trends that do not explicitly include education in their analysis may be flawed, according to research published today in the journal Science (July 29 2011). The study uses a novel "multi-state" population modeling approach to incorporate education attainment level, along with age and sex. The integration of education in the analyses ...

Forty years ago, Americans could expect to live slightly longer than Europeans. This has since reversed: in spite of similar levels of economic development, Americans now live about a year-and-a-half less, on average, than their Western European counterparts, and also less than people in most other developed nations. How did Americans fall behind? A study in the July 2011 issue of Social Science & Medicine is the first to calculate the fiscal consequences of the growing life expectancy gap over the next few decades. The study also pinpoints the crucial age at which U.S. ...

When you run a small business on your own, time becomes the most precious commodity. That's according to one Solo-E.com Certified Expert Paula Eder who is using "Simplify Your Life Week" to make more time in her business and helping other solo professionals do the same. Observed during the first week of August, "Simplify Your Life Week" calls attention to ways to reduce clutter and stress to add more valuable time to one's life. "The question for any business owner is: Do you want a business you work on or work in?" explains the Time ...

Cava varies in type according to the amount of sugar added with the expedition liqueur after secondary fermentation (which produces carbonic gas). Therefore it is useful to know the exact amount of sugar added, since this is what determines the type of cava which will be produced. The resulting classifications are: Brut Nature ( END ...

Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world's first 'printed' aircraft, which could revolutionise the economics of aircraft design. The SULSA (Southampton University Laser Sintered Aircraft) plane is an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) whose entire structure has been printed, including wings, integral control surfaces and access hatches. It was printed on an EOS EOSINT P730 nylon laser sintering machine, which fabricates plastic or metal objects, building up the item layer by layer. No fasteners were used and all equipment was attached using ...

Umbrella Development LLC proudly announces the introduction of its one stop shop for all IT consulting services for the Greater St. Louis area including many surrounding cities in Missouri and Illinois. Umbrella Development covers all IT needs for website development and hosting, network management and security, internet marketing solutions and VoIP solutions. CEO of Umbrella Development says, "Even in this age when everything is going global, there are many local businesses that do not market on a global scale. These businesses still need the technology and services ...

When normal proteins form protein clumps in the body, then alarm bells start ringing. Such clumps, called "amyloids," are closely associated with Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes, formerly called adult-onset diabetes. If doctors knew how these proteins form clumps, then they might be able to treat such diseases more efficiently. The physicist Adrian Keller and his colleagues at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and the university in Aarhus, Denmark, have succeeded in taking a major step in that direction. The cell surface assumes a major role in this ...

Emile Pandolfi is America's most-loved pianist. He's been recording music since 1991, and has released more than 20 albums. He has sold over two and a quarter million copies of his albums all over the US, and it seems that he's set to sell millions of copies more. In the past, you have to "chance upon" his music in order for you to know who he is. It's not an uncommon occurrence for a person to encounter his music in a hidden gift shop as it's playing in the background. This often led to the customer asking who the pianist is. The customer is enchanted with ...

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VIDEO: GOES-13 data was compiled into an animation by the NASA GOES Project at NASA Goddard that shows the development of Tropical Storm Don in the southern Gulf of Mexico, west... Click here for more information. Tropical Storm Don formed at 5 p.m. EDT last night, July 27, in the southern Gulf of Mexico and appears to be a small storm on GOES-13 satellite imagery. NASA compiled two days of GOES-13 imagery in a 30 second movie that shows how and where Don formed. GOES-13, ...

With 20 years experience at the cutting edge of Leadership Training, Sales Management Training and Sales Training, TLSA offer tailored, accountable and measurable solutions to the management challenges that face today's business leaders. TLSA is an ISMM (Institute of Sales and Marketing Management) Endorsed Training Centre. The main objective of the ISMM is to promote standards of excellence and ethics in sales and to raise the status of sales as a profession. ISMM endorsement is the benchmark for recognising high quality sales and sales management training programmes. The ...

John Underwood's FUNKY-CHIC and Industrial Designs John Underwood is a Phuket institution. He has been so well documented and written about here that we, at think design, have resisted the urge to do one more comparative piece on his talents. One day last year, someone even advised me not to do another glory piece on Underwood, this being their business advice for advancing our magazine. Right now, we finally have our perfect opportunity for delving into the talent of john Underwood with the opening of his new brush restaurant in Kalim. I spent some time there admiring ...

Montreal, July 28, 2011 – The findings of a Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) study published in the scientific journal Cardiology suggest that ivabradine, a heart rate reduction medication, is also effective in reducing the risk of diastolic heart failure (left ventricular insufficiency) and cardiac fibrosis. The benefits of slower heart rate on mortality and morbidity associated with cardiovascular disease no longer need to be demonstrated. In this study, titled "Heart Rate Reduction by Ivabradine Reduces Diastolic Dysfunction and Cardiac Fibrosis," researchers sought ...

New research from the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) highlights the need to make prisoners more aware of voluntary organisations that could help them towards resettlement. The report shows that despite the relatively high number of third sector organisations working within prisons, many are not known by prisoners. TSRC researchers from the University of Southampton conducted a survey across eight prisons nationally to investigate prisoners' experiences of third sector organisations (TSOs). The number of TSOs that each prison claimed was active in their establishment ...

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) are truly talented multi-taskers. They can reproduce almost all cell types and thus offer great hope in the fight against diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. However, it would appear that their use is not entirely without risk: during the reprogramming of body cells into iPS cells, disease-causing mutations can creep into the genetic material. The genome of the mitochondria – the cell's protein factories – is particularly vulnerable to such changes. This phenomenon has been discovered by researchers at the Max Planck Institute ...

Ottolenghi Media has added social commerce to its public relations, marketing and advertising services for businesses and professionals in northern Palm Beach County. "Social media is rapidly evolving into a way to generate new revenue," says company president Hugo H. Ottolenghi. "Smart companies are cashing in on their online efforts." Social commerce is the newest and most dynamic growth area of the Internet today. Sales through social commerce are expected to grow in the United States from $1 billion this year to $14 billion in 2015, according ...

"We're on the move... Be part of our growth in Texas" touts the premium deli cafe's Facebook page. Texan's can rest assure the company is growing more than just their new Facebook and Twitter pages, but is also swiftly working to secure A+ retail spaces for soon-to-be store openings. Working with SRS Real Estate Partners, San Francisco Style Sourdough Eatery's Texas area developers will soon be announcing the site for their first location. It is the perfect time to connect with San Francisco Style Sourdough Eatery on their social media sites http://www.facebook.com/SFSETexas ...

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but clueless copycatting comes at a cost. As anyone who has been subjected to the mocking playground game knows, parroting can be annoying. Yet gentle mimicry can act as a kind of "social glue" in human relationships. It fosters rapport and trust. It signals cohesion. Two people who like each other will often unconsciously mirror each other's mannerisms in subtle ways – leaning forward in close synchrony, for example – and that strengthens their bond. The benefits of body-language mimicry have been confirmed by numerous ...

Ten daypacks featuring CORDURA fabric take center stage in the Eastern Mountain Sports Back-to-School Facebook promotion, which takes place July 29 - Aug. 10. The Eastern Mountain Sports daypack giveaway* allows anyone to vote for his or her favorite daypack on Eastern Mountain Sports' Facebook page. At the completion of the contest, 10 Back-to School Eastern Mountain Sports brand daypacks built with CORDURA fabric will be given away. The daypack giveaway is a prelude to Eastern Mountain Sports' Back-to-School sale in its stores - Aug. 10-23. The durable daypacks ...

A new University of Minnesota discovery may help bone cancer patients fight their disease more effectively, according to new research published in the September issue of Bone. Bone cancer typically affects children; the course and aggressiveness of the disease can vary from patient to patient and is very difficult to predict. Some patients respond remarkably well to conventional therapies. Their disease shows less aggressive behavior and they can survive for decades without recurrence. Others respond poorly to treatment or their disease comes back rapidly. Often, these ...

Surfactants, which are wetting agents that lower a liquid's surface tension, have a long list of uses, from detergents and cosmetics to paints and pesticides. Most surfactants are petroleum-based. But in Peoria, Ill., a team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists has focused their attention on sophorolipids, surfactant-like molecules produced by naturally occurring yeasts. Microbiologist Cletus Kurtzman is spearheading the studies at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR), operated in Peoria by the Agricultural Research Service ...

arara inc. (Minato-ku Tokyo CEO Yosuke Iwai) announces that our smartphone application "ARAPPLI" is used for the world's first AR greeting card by Nihon Hallmark K.K. (CEO Noriko Azechi). AR greeting card "Smaho de Anime" (525 yen) has seven kinds and they are on sale from August 1st. The Hallmark's original popular characters such as "Yum Yums", "Bear's Wish", and "hoops & yoyo" appears as 3DCG and everyone from children to adults can enjoy. AR is downloaded by reading QRAR mark on greeting cards and displays ...