Following the tremendous success of the Pets in the Classroom Grant Program to date and numerous requests from teachers of 7th & 8th grade classes to be eligible for funding, the Pet Care Trust Board has agreed to expand the program's reach to those grades beginning in 2012. Established by the Pet Care Trust in 2009, Pets in the Classroom has provided grants to Pre-Kindergarten through Sixth grade teachers to purchase or adopt a new pet and required equipment or to support existing classroom pets. The Pets in the Classroom program has seen over 7,000 grant requests ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. —New guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology will help physicians better choose seizure drugs for people on HIV/AIDS medication, avoiding deadly drug interactions and preventing critical anti-HIV drugs from becoming less effective, possibly leading to a more virulent strain of the disease. Michigan State University's Gretchen Birbeck – who spends several months each year in the sub-Sahara African nation of Zambia researching epilepsy, HIV /AIDS and cerebral malaria – is the lead author of the medical guideline, which was co-developed with ...

William Peace University (http://www.peace.edu), a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that the university will sponsor the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce's Chamber Executive Women's Luncheon on Thursday, Jan. 12 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, located at 201 Harrison Oaks Blvd. in Cary, N.C. from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. The luncheon will cover the topic of "Women in Politics: Heeding the Call of Public Service." A panel of elected female officials will provide personal and professional insights into the political arena ...

Advanced miniature refrigeration and environmental control technology developer and manufacturer Aspen Systems, Inc. has launched a new website designed to help companies and government agencies find specialized cooling solutions for advanced commercial, industrial and military applications. According to Aspen Systems Vice President Glenn Deming, the new website comes as part of an integrated business development effort aimed at expanding further into military and commercial markets, in addition to gaining increased awareness of the companies capabilities as a supplier ...

An exact determination of expected body weight for adolescents based on age, height and gender is critical for diagnosis and management of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia. However, there are no clear guidelines regarding the appropriate method for calculating this weight in children with such disorders. In a study to be published online Jan. 4, 2012, in the journal Pediatrics, researchers from the University of Chicago, the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Rochester Medical Center compared three common methods for calculating ...

Leaping lizards have a message for robots: Get a tail! University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers including undergraduate and graduate students studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, and found that swinging the tail upward is the key to preventing a forward pitch that could send them head-over-heels into a tree. The scientists subsequently added a tail to a robotic car they named Tailbot and discovered that it's not as simple as throwing your tail in the air. Robots and lizards have to adjust the angle of ...

Rachel Kendall, broker and team leader of The Rachel Kendall Team of Keller Williams Realty (http://www.rachelkendall.com), a full-service real estate firm, has announced that Angie Cole has joined the organization as a buyer's specialist. In her position, Cole will assist clients with the home buying process by posting company listings online for review, setting appointments to show properties and conduct home inspections, assisting in completing necessary paperwork during closings, and providing support as needed for an efficient sales process. Cole has more than four ...

Prasad Cosmetic Surgery and Medi-Spa, a boutique medical practice specializing in facial rejuvenation, body enhancements, hair loss solutions and aesthetic skin care, is the first practice in the New York City and Long Island area to offer the Vampire Facelift , a non-surgical facial enhancement treatment that uses the patient's own growth factors in their blood to enhance areas on the face. Unlike a traditional facelift, which requires surgery and a considerable recovery period, the Vampire Facelift improves facial volume and appearance the same day with no downtime. ...

A new image of the Omega Nebula, captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), is one of the sharpest of this object ever taken from the ground. It shows the dusty, rose-coloured central parts of this famous stellar nursery and reveals extraordinary detail in the cosmic landscape of gas clouds, dust and newborn stars. The colourful gas and dark dust in the Omega Nebula serve as the raw materials for creating the next generation of stars. In this particular section of the nebula, the newest stars on the scene — dazzlingly bright and shining blue-white — light up the whole ...

SmallScaleBusiness.com is pleased to announce that they currently have over 660 small business ideas with plans to expand this to 1000 by the end of 2012. More and more people are making the decision to start their own small business due to layoffs and other financial problems. Most of these are looking for ideas for businesses they can start with little up front investment. This website was established in May 2005 with the goal of providing individuals with workable ideas for starting their own small businesses. Most of the ideas can be started as home-based businesses ...

WF Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of the all-new look of their Famous Scientists website (http://www.FamousScientists.org). The resource is the biggest educational resource on the internet about famous scientists, providing comprehensive and premium articles about famous scientists and inventors that revolutionized the world, their detailed biographies, and other details and facts. The resource is interesting and informative for students, researchers, teachers and the general public alike. What makes FamousScientists.org better than other portals is its huge ...

DURHAM, N.C -- Warming in the North Atlantic over the last 32 years has significantly reduced winter sea ice cover in harp seal breeding grounds, resulting in sharply higher death rates among seal pups in recent years, according to a new Duke University-led study. "The kind of mortality we're seeing in eastern Canada is dramatic. Entire year-classes may be disappearing from the population in low ice years – essentially all of the pups die," said David W. Johnston, research scientist at the Duke University Marine Lab. "It calls into question the resilience of the population." The ...

MEDIA AVAILABILITY Experimental vaccine partially protects monkeys from HIV-like Infection: Study reveals factors associated with prevention, control of HIV infection WHAT: New vaccine research in monkeys suggests that scientists are homing in on the critical ingredients of a protective HIV vaccine and identifies new HIV vaccine candidates to test in human clinical trials. The research, which appears online in Nature on Jan. 4, was co-funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. In the study, ...

What is Closing Circle? Closing Circle (www.closingcircle.com) is a B2B social network dedicated to Investment and M&A firms and professionals to facilitate networking and dealmaking. An exclusive, innovative, and international community, Closing Circle is a powerful platform for dealmakers to expand reach and increase visibility. A two-fold innovation: - Drawing inspiration from social networks like Facebook and Linkedin, Closing Circle is a new generation of sector-focused B2B network designed for dealmakers - Revolutionizing the Investment and M&A market ...

Men and women have large differences in personality, according to a new study published Jan. 4 in the online journal PLoS ONE. The existence of such differences, and their extent, has been a subject of much debate, but the authors of the new report, led by Marco Del Giudice of the University of Turin in Italy, describe a new method for measuring and analyzing personality differences that they argue is more accurate than previous methods. The researchers used personality measurements from more than 10,000 people, approximately half men and half women. The personality test ...

(SILVER SPRING, MD)—Results from a recent study show that novel vaccine combinations can provide partial protection against infection by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) in rhesus monkeys. In addition, in the animals that became infected, the optimal vaccine combinations also substantially reduced the amount of virus in the blood. Results from the studies were published online today in the journal Nature. This proof-of-concept study, which tested MVA, Ad26, and Ad35 vector-based vaccines, is the first to show partial vaccine protection in the stringent animal model ...

Venus Ramos, MD, to launch SeXercise on the hit syndicated talk show "The Doctors." The segment will air on January 5th, 2012 - (http://thedoctorstv.com/main/show_page/D4075) - check your TV guide for local station and time slot in your area. Dr. Venus Ramos, an expert in physical training and rehabilitation medicine, and also a practicing physician in Los Angeles, demonstrates the moves which will keep you fit as well as boost your love life in the bedroom. Dr. Ramos, a graduate of the University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL is an Assistant Clinical ...

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, www.eol.org) continues to expand at a record pace with the addition of new content and partners. At the start of 2012, EOL provides data on nearly half of all described species, with new content in Spanish, rich information about conservation issues from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and NatureServe, and more images and videos than ever before. In the four years since its first release, EOL has grown from 30,000 pages with content to more than 900,000, a 2,900% increase, and from a dozen content partners ...

Wildize Foundation is celebrating its tenth anniversary and on this special occasion it is giving exclusive membership offers to the new members as well as to the existing ones. This Aspen-based non-profit foundation which supports projects in Africa that are meant for African Community development and African wildlife conservation, has received love and support of people from different countries. The Founder and President of Wildize, Eli Weiss, said that she was extremely grateful to the supporters and members of the foundation without whom it would not had been possible ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an intriguing, alien world that's covered in a thick atmosphere with abundant methane. With an average surface temperature of a brisk -297 degrees Fahrenheit (about 90 kelvins) and a diameter just less than half of Earth's, Titan boasts methane clouds and fog, as well as rainstorms and plentiful lakes of liquid methane. It's the only place in the solar system, other than Earth, that has large bodies of liquid on its surface. The origins of many of these features, however, remain puzzling to scientists. Now, researchers ...

In fourteen short months "Gusfirefly" OnlineAuction.com's FIRST Seller of the Month in 2012 has received over ten thousand (10,000) positive feedbacks from members of OnlineAuction.com. Sharon and Joel Hellmann, a.k.a. "Gusfirefly", started selling online about 15 years ago as a natural expansion of their mall store. "Having thousands of additional shoppers helped us to move inventory." "It's also really fun! Putting an item on a shelf with a price tag is fine, but putting a starting price, picture, and description online and ...

Confronting an abusive boss is easier said than done: employees coping with the stress of abusive treatment prefer to avoid direct communication even though it would be the most effective tactic in terms of emotional well-being. This has been shown in a new study from the University of Haifa, published in the International Journal of Stress Management (American Psychological Association). "Abusive supervision is highly distressing for employees. Our study shows that the strategies being used by employees to cope with the stress caused by such behavior do not lead to the ...

Metcalf & Associates, a leading management, consulting and coaching firm, today was selected by TechColumbus as a semi-finalist for the 'Women in Technology' Innovation Award. Metcalf's recently published book, "Innovative Leadership Fieldbook", synthesizes well researched theories and business case studies and provides leaders with a thoughtful six-step process to develop innovative leadership qualities. "It is an honor to be selected by TechColumbus as a semi-finalist and to be recognized for innovative work as a part of my recently published book," ...

The open-access journal PhytoKeys – known for applying cutting edge technologies in publishing and dissemination to accelerate biodiversity research – is pioneering an electronic-only publishing workflow in a series of papers published over the course of the first week of January 2012 (see related press release). As of the 1st of January 2012, extensive new changes took effect to the way plant scientists name new plants, algae, and fungi. Traditionally, the publication of new plant names, which is governed by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN), has ...

"At Eyecare Medical Group in Portland, Maine, January represents the time we pay particular attention to getting the word out reminding patients to take advantage of the advances in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma as this sight stealing eye disease is a leading cause of preventable blindness," commented Clement Berry, Chief Executive Officer of Eyecare Medical Group. Prevent Blindness America has designated January as National Glaucoma Awareness Month. In African-American and Hispanic populations, Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness. "The ...