Dozens of giant tortoises of a species believed extinct for 150 years may still be living at a remote location in the Galápagos Islands, a genetic analysis conducted by Yale University researchers reveals. The analysis, published Jan. 9 in the journal Current Biology, suggests that direct descendants of at least 38 purebred individuals of Chelonoidis elephantopus live on the volcanic slopes of the northern shore of Isabela Island — 200 miles from their ancestral home of Floreana Island, where they disappeared after being hunted by whalers. "This is not just an academic ...

Cosmetology students at ITS Academy of Beauty, 750 Sunland Park Drive in Sunland Park Mall in El Paso are ambassadors of beauty and savings by offering perms and hair relaxer treatments at deeply discounted prices now through Feb. 29. Perm services will be 50% off the regular price and all relaxer services will be 40% the school's already reduced prices. Services are performed by cosmetology students under the supervision of a licensed cosmetology instructor. "A new year is a great time to change your look and with discounts of 40% off relaxer services and 50% ...

Boston, MA – Nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs) designed to help people stop smoking, specifically nicotine patches and nicotine gum, do not appear to be effective in helping smokers quit long-term, even when combined with smoking cessation counseling, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of Massachusetts Boston. The study appears January 9, 2012 in an advance online edition of Tobacco Control and will appear in a later print issue. "What this study shows is the need for the Food and Drug Administration, ...

Internet marketing expert Malia Smith will share her expert tips on how to effectively use the Internet to market your business at the Sales, Profit & Marketing Summit, (spmsummit.com) Feb. 9 to 10, 2012, in Phoenix, AZ. Smith will host Using FREE Organic Marketing to Grow Your Sales on Feb. 9 from 10:30 p.m. to Noon. On The Cutting Edge Malia Smith has been involved in Internet marketing for six years. Her experience began with search engine optimization and eventually expanded into social media and local search engine marketing. Smith has worked with several ...

A registry -which includes every patient in Sweden having percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for the treatment of acute and stable coronary artery disease- has found that PCI implantations using a new generation of drug-eluting stents is associated with lower rates of relapse (restenosis), stent thrombosis and subsequent mortality than older generation drug-eluting stents and bare-metal stents.(1) The findings, from the Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry (SCAAR), reported in the European Heart Journal, represent the outcome of treatment in a large ...

Representatives of a giant tortoise species that had apparently been driven to extinction by humans more than 150 years ago must be alive today, if in very small numbers. Researchers reporting in the January 10 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have come to this conclusion based on the "genetic footprints" of the long-lost species Chelonoidis elephantopus in the DNA of their hybrid sons and daughters. "To our knowledge, this is the first report of the rediscovery of a species by way of tracking the genetic footprints left in the genomes of its hybrid ...

University of British Columbia and University of Edinburgh astronomers have mapped dark matter on the largest scale ever observed, according to results released today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas. The findings, presented by Dr Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Associate Professor Ludovic Van Waerbeke of UBC, reveal a Universe comprised of an intricate cosmic web of dark matter and galaxies that spans more than one billion light years. An international team of researchers lead by Van Waerbeke and Heymans ...

Founder Captain Brad White said, "It makes sense for us to expand into the Florida market as many of our Northeast and Midwest snowbird clients flock to the warm weather for most of the year and some permanently. They may eventually want to come home to their final resting place up north but we need an active program in Florida to handle today's growing sea burial needs there." NEBAS is the best known company in the USA for sea burials and it uses only properly insured and current U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) licensed captains who are Sea Burial Certified by NEBAS. ...

Android users around the world can now follow their favorite football club in a new and exciting way. Vubooo virtual stadium brings the pitch to fans' phones and tablets, and unites them in football fandom. Real time alerts, messaging and on-line integration with other social networks means fans can interact as the action unfolds. Vubooo is a must have app for football fans everywhere. "While there are tens of thousands of football fans in the stands, there are hundreds of millions around the world who wish they were in the stadium. Vubooo is a virtual stadium that ...

The novel, while being a love story, has been used by him as a vehicle to raise public awareness against the pitfalls of drug dependency in general & methamphetamine in particular. It is a tale about Arush and Trisha, who though they love each other, fall victim to the snares of the 'Meth'. He wishes to suggest that the bond of love may be as strong as they wish it to be, but nothing or no one can withstand the buffeting of the craving for the drug. It is a fact that nobody will deny. It has been the ruination of innumerable lives and continues to be. Most live in ...

Perspective Magazine ( http://perspectivemagazine.com ) has released the details of the Day One sessions scheduled for February 1st, 2012 during the Global Networking Expo GNEX 2012 - The Global Meeting of Minds at the Ritz Carlton Cancun in Cancun, Mexico. The day will begin with a Welcome Address from Juan Carlos Gonzalez Hernandez, Tourism Secretary for the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The program then proceeds with a presentation from Craig Morganson, CEO, Holiday Systems International who has been working tirelessly in efforts to lift the Travel Warning issued ...

A 'LIVE' online marketplace allowing permitted skip suppliers to 'bid' to win business is launching this month, giving skip hire companies free unlimited access to millions of potential customers providing them with a new channel to help streamline their sales and marketing. SkipTrips aims to drive business to skip companies and connect them with customers who have a defined need for waste management. According to SkipTrips, it is a safe and reliable platform allowing waste managers and customers to interact and negotiate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Skip ...

Tom Elbert is pleased with the success of his business center in Little Falls, MN. Currently, he is hosting 14 businesses and is one-year ahead of schedule with his plans to fill up his business development space. Furthermore, this success has allowed him to accelerate payment of the Community Development loan he received in 2011. Tom Elbert purchased vacant manufacturing buildings on January 3, 2011 with the help of Carol Anderson at Community Development of Morrison County. Tom has high praise for Carol Anderson and Community Development's ability to assist with project: "Carol ...

A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says Durdu Guney, make ultra-high-resolution microscopes as commonplace as cameras in our cell phones. No one has yet made a superlens, also known as a perfect lens, though people are trying. Optical lenses are limited by the nature of light, the so-called diffraction limit, so even the best won't usually let us see objects smaller than 200 nanometers across, about the size of the smallest bacterium. Scanning electron microscopes can capture objects ...

Cheim & Read Gallery, hosts Christopher Flach's artwork in the 14th Annual Edge Benefit for Visual Aids. Featuring artworks by Christopher Flach, Donald Baechler, Marilyn Minter, Barry McGee, Ed Ruscha, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Kiki Smith, John Baldessari, Ross Bleckner, Yoko Ono, Marcel Dzama, Jeff Koons, John Waters, William Wegman, Jack Pierson, and Pat Steir. Postcards From the Edge is a Visual Aids benefit show and sale of original, artworks by established and emerging artists, to support HIV prevention and AIDS awareness.Cheim & Read 547 West 25th ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) -- A University of California, Riverside engineering professor and a team of researchers have made a breakthrough discovery with graphene, a material that could play a major role in keeping laptops and other electronic devices from overheating. Alexander Balandin, a professor of electrical engineering at the UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering, and researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at Dallas and Xiamen University in China, have shown that the thermal properties of isotopically engineered ...

Females influence the gender of their offspring so they inherit either their mother's or grandfather's qualities. 'High-quality' females – those which produce more offspring – are more likely to have daughters. Weaker females, whose own fathers were stronger and more successful, produce more sons. The study, by scientists at the University of Exeter (UK), Okayama University and Kyushu University (Japan), is published today (9 January) in the journal Ecology Letters. It shows for the first time that females are able to manipulate the sex of their offspring to compensate ...

Access Technology Solution's (ATS) high-touch, low-cost shipping and logistics services are now available to U.S. direct-to-consumer brands interested in boosting trade with China. ATS' China lane now joins its Japan, Indonesia, Australia and Taiwan lanes as fast-growing Asia/Pacific Rim shipping channels for express and freight shipments for ATS' U.S. clients. The dedicated Chinese lane will significantly speed the delivery of products to warehouses and/or residential destinations throughout China. Equally important, the costs to ship products from the U.S. to China ...

Researchers have found clear associations between marijuana use in young males and cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS), where patients experience episodes of vomiting separated by symptom free intervals. The study, published in the January issue of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, looked at 226 patients seen at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, New York, USA, over a 13-year period. These were broken into three groups. Eighty-two patients with CVS were randomly matched with 82 patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) based on age, gender and geographic referral region. ...

"Today, about 90% of organized terrorism on the Internet is being carried out through the social media. By using these tools, the organizations are able to be active in recruiting new friends without geographical limitations," says Prof. Weimann. Over the past ten years, Prof. Weimann has been conducting a study of encoded and public Internet sites of international terror organizations, groups supporting these organizations, forums, video clips, and whatever information relating to global terrorism is running through the network. According to Prof. Weimann, the shift ...

Nexen Group, Inc. introduces their latest precision motion control brochure: Spring-Engaged Brakes for Rotary and Linear Applications. This product and application guide is now available for complimentary download at the company's website. The ten-page brochure, complete with application examples, highlights Nexen's extensive product offering, providing an essential resource for engineers designing systems and applications where safety is a concern, as well as power-off and redundant braking systems. An introduction to spring-engaged brakes section details Nexen's dependable ...

Washington D.C., January 9, 2012 - While pharmacologic agents have a demonstrated efficacy in children with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), some children have suboptimal response to a single pharmacologic agent. A recent study by Dr. Timothy E. Wilens and colleagues, published in the January 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), is the first randomized placebo-controlled trial designed to assess efficacy and safety of guanfacine extended release (GXR) as an adjunct to psychostimulants in children ...

Thermonuclear fusion promises to be a possible solution to the current energy crisis. It is produced when two atomic nuclei of light elements combine to produce heavier elements, which give off a huge quantity of energy. So that this reaction can occur, it is necessary to supply an enormous amount of energy, so that temperatures of many millions of degrees can be reached, allowing the nuclei to come close enough to overcome their natural repulsion and become condensed in a plasma state. "This plasma, which reaches temperatures near that of the stars, around 100 million ...

As an embryo develops, different genes are turned on in different cells, to form muscles, neurons and other bodily parts. Inside each cell's nucleus, genetic sequences known as enhancers act like remote controls, switching genes on and off. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, can now see – and predict – exactly when each remote control is itself activated, in a real embryo. Their work is published today in Nature Genetics. Stefan Bonn, Robert Zinzen and Charles Girardot, all in Eileen Furlong's lab at EMBL, found that ...

RealCapitalMarkets.com, LLC (RCM1), the leading provider of a leading provider of marketing and transaction management software for commercial property and note sales, announces updates to the RCM1 platform designed to extend client control, enhance mobile support, and expand data integration with client customer relationship management (CRM) systems. "We are consistently developing new tools to allow our clients to more efficiently sell commercial real estate assets and stay ahead of their competition," said Tina Lichens, RCM1's COO. "This release is ...