COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Drinking enough alcohol to become intoxicated increases aggression significantly in people who have one particular personality trait, according to new research. But people without that trait don't get any more aggressive when drunk than they would when they're sober. That trait is the ability to consider the future consequences of current actions. "People who focus on the here and now, without thinking about the impact on the future, are more aggressive than others when they are sober, but the effect is magnified greatly when they're drunk," said ...

Ohio Attorneys John Sherrod and W. Mark Jump, of Jump Legal Group, have filed a class action lawsuit against Bank of America on behalf of Ohio homeowners who have been wrongfully foreclosed on by Bank of America despite never missing a single payment. The suit alleges Bank of American improperly diverted homeowners' trial loan modification payments (watch video). The initiation of the class action lawsuit came after Bank of American foreclosed on a Canal Winchester, Ohio, couple who were shocked when a process server appeared at their door with foreclosure papers. Attorney ...

BOSTON – In a new study, researchers have found a 44 percent increase since 2001 in the number of hospitals that offer definitive emergency care to patients with heart attack, but only a 1 percent increase in access to that care. The study, led by Thomas W. Concannon, PhD, Assistant Professor Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, will be published January 1, 2012 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association. Patients with heart attacks caused by arterial blockages require emergency care to restore ...

As a woman ages, her chances of being diagnosed with a lower-risk breast tumor increase, according to a novel study led by UCSF which found that for women over 50, a substantial number of cancers detected by mammograms have good prognoses. The study provides the first molecular evidence of an increase in low- or ultra-low-risk cancers in the tumors when detected by screening mammography. And it provides a basis for integrating molecular profiling at the time of diagnosis to help avoid overtreatment. In their research, the UCSF scientists at the forefront of breast ...

Quantum computing -- considered the powerhouse of computational tasks -- may have applications in areas outside of pure electronics, according to a University of Pittsburgh researcher and his collaborators. Working at the interface of quantum measurement and nanotechnology, Gurudev Dutt, assistant professor in Pitt's Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, and his colleagues report their findings in a paper published online Dec. 18 in Nature Nanotechnology. The paper documents important progress towards realizing a ...

Employee theft has unfortunately reached an all-time high with over $40 billion lost per year, and Phenix Investigations, a leader in corporate investigative services, has seen a sharp increase in cases involving scrap metal and raw material theft. To combat employee theft and decrease losses in the retail sector, which average around 1.6% of yearly sales, Phenix Investigations has formed a specialized team of professional investigators with the experience and resources to identify employee theft, organized retail crime and vendor fraud. Additionally, the team has expertise ...

The poll by YouGov on behalf of the Sunday Times found that far from not featuring high on consumers' list of priority, climate change and environmental issues are still very much supported by the majority of the public. Of 1696 people who responded to the poll, 56% wanted to see more wind energy capacity in the UK while 74% wanted to see solar energy capacity increased. Only 19% of survey respondents wanted to see less emphasis on wind power, which dropped to 12% for solar panels. The encouraging news comes in the wake of high profile stories in the media criticizing ...

The 12th annual Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon is slated to commence on Friday, January 27, 2012. The event will include the main marathon, scheduled to begin at 7:00 am, the 10K road race at 7:15 am and the 3K Fun Run at 10:30 am. All three races will start at the same location in downtown Dubai. The start gantry will be just outside the Pavilion at the Burj Khalifa. The races will finish at the finish gantry located on the opposite side of the street. The 2012 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon marks the first marathon in the Middle East to be awarded Gold Label ...

On top of the Himalayan Mountains, Hunza people enjoys the best glacier water that nature offers. Captain Water researchers discovered that this glacier water is formed of perfectly structured water molecules. This means it can actually be fully absorbed to support the body instead of just going through the system and mainly being flushed out. "Most people are not aware that up to 80% of tap water and bottled water that they consume actually may not get absorbed, because it isn't structured at the molecular level properly. Our water ionizer technology directly ...

Chestnut Hill, MA – Armed with insider knowledge, managers of share-restricted hedge funds sell off their own holdings ahead of their investors in order to avoid low returns produced by an outflow of shareholder dollars, according to a new study by researchers from Boston College and EDHEC Business School in France. The practice, known as front running, pits the interests of managers against those of investors in hedge funds where shareholder actions are limited by contract and there is scant disclosure of fund details. Managers act in advance on the information they ...

Designer Fitness is hosting an Open House on January 6, 2012, to celebrate the opening of its new studio. Started by Darla O'Brien in 1989, Designer Fitness moved to 32 S. Osprey Avenue, Suite 204, from its former location on Palm Avenue. The Open House, scheduled from 5:30 to 8 pm, has a 50th Anniversary of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" theme, complete with an Audrey Hepburn look-alike contest. Designer Fitness has a unique approach to fitness training called Motion Empowered, or the ME System . Created by O'Brien and drawing from her more than 25 years of ...

Fifteen years ago, textbooks on human development stated that babies 6 months of age or younger had no sense of "object permanence" – the psychological term that describes an infant's belief that an object still exists even when it is out of sight. That meant that if mom or dad wasn't in the same room with junior, junior didn't have the sense that his parents were still in the world. These days, psychologists know that isn't true: for young babies, out of sight doesn't automatically mean out of mind. But how much do babies remember about the world around them, and what ...

WASHINGTON — A number of health and environmental issues and related risks need to be addressed when considering whether to lift the almost 30-year moratorium on uranium mining in Virginia, says a new report from the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. "Internationally accepted best practices, which include timely and meaningful public participation, are available to mitigate some of the risks involved," said Paul Locke, chair of the committee that wrote the report and associate professor, ...

Facts of "Hot Coffee" Case Show True Role of Personal Injury Litigation Urban myths often do not correspond to the truth. In fact, they can be downright false -- perpetuating half-truths and outright lies. Such is the case with the infamous McDonald's "hot coffee" case, involving a woman who sought compensation for injuries caused by excessively hot coffee served in a flimsy cup at McDonald's. After the woman obtained substantial compensation in her personal injury case, critics of America's legal system tried to portray it as an example of an ...

(Chicago, IL) - Location and other geographical factors play an important role in supporting economic growth and development in emerging markets, a new study from the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty has found. The study, which examines growth in the Thai economy between 1986 and 1996, shows that a high concentration of enterprise in an area predicts high subsequent growth in and around that area. Entrepreneurial activity decreases virtually by the mile the further away one gets from centers of economic concentration. In addition, other geographic conditions, ...

Recent findings in mice suggest that blocking the production of small molecules produced in the body, known as epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), may represent a novel strategy for treating cancer by eliminating the blood vessels that feed cancer tumors. This research is the first to show that EETs work in concert with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a protein known to induce blood vessel growth. Together, EETs and VEGF promote metastasis, or the spread of cancer, by encouraging the growth of blood vessels that supply nutrients to cancer cells. The research ...

Brooklyn has seen more than its fair share of construction projects in recent years. While the scope of these developments varies in size from small restoration and maintenance projects costing only thousands of dollars to the multibillion-dollar Atlantic Yards project in Prospect Heights, they all involve the potential for scaffolding accidents or ladder falls that may cause serious injury to those working on site. At Simon Eisenberg & Baum, our Brooklyn construction accident lawyers help injured construction workers and families obtain compensation for damages ...

Washington, DC — Acupuncture significantly reduces levels of a protein in rats linked to chronic stress, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have found. They say their animal study may help explain the sense of well-being that many people receive from this ancient Chinese therapy. Published online in December in Experimental Biology and Medicine, the researchers say that if their findings are replicated in human studies, acupuncture would offer a proven therapy for stress, which is often difficult to treat. "It has long been thought that acupuncture ...

The Nile crocodile is a species that was identified by ancient Egyptians. Genetic analysis done by a group of geneticists using samples taken from species throughout the animal's range and including DNA from mummified crocodile remains indicates that more than one species is known by this name. "This paper provides a remarkable surprise: the Nile crocodile is not a single species, as previously thought, but instead demonstrates two species - living side-by side - constitute what has been called the Nile croc." Said Marlys Houck, geneticist with San Diego Zoo Global's ...

It started out like any other Christmas Eve, but before the night was over, things would never be the same for Santa Claus and the reindeer. For the first time, the story of the Elves daring rescue of Santa Claus is revealed on a new free website, The Santa Claus Sleigh. For years the number of good little girls and boys had been growing and growing, so the number of toys to deliver was through the roof. But Santa Claus was still using the same little red sleigh to deliver the toys. So every year, it took more and more trips back to the North Pole to reload the sleigh. ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – When a plant encounters drought, it does its best to cope with this stress by activating a set of protein molecules called receptors. These receptors, once activated, turn on processes that help the plant survive the stress. A team of plant cell biologists has discovered how to rewire this cellular machinery to heighten the plants' stress response – a finding that can be used to engineer crops to give them a better shot at surviving and displaying increased yield under drought conditions. The discovery, made in the laboratory of Sean Cutler, an ...

Athens, Ga. – Networking within an organization and having a mentor are widely thought to promote career success, but a new University of Georgia study finds that African-American men don't receive the same measurable benefits from these professional connections that Caucasians do. Study co-author Lillian Eby, a professor in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, said the finding shouldn't discourage African Americans from seeking mentoring and networking opportunities. Rather, it emphasizes the need for women ...

Tampa, Fla. (Dec, 19 2011) – A team of researchers grafting human spinal stem cells into rats modeled with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease," a degenerative, lethal, neuromuscular disease, have tested four different immunosuppressive protocols aimed at determining which regimen improved long-term therapeutic effects. Their study demonstrated that a combined, systematically delivered immunosuppression regimen of two drugs significantly improved the survival of the human spinal stem cells. Their results are published in the current ...

Testing the effectiveness of new pharmaceuticals may get faster thanks to a new technique incorporating quantum dots developed at the University of Central Florida. Some drug testing can take a decade or more, but UCF associate professor Swadeshmukul Santra and his team have created an electronic quantum dots (Qdots) probe that "lights up" when a drug it is delivering attaches to cancer cells. The research appears online in this month's Biomaterials. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961211012841#FCANote A researcher can use a microscope to see ...

Tampa, Fla. (Dec, 19 2011) – Bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMDCs) have been recognized as a source for transplantation because they can contribute to different cell populations in a variety of organs under both normal and pathological conditions. Many BMDC studies have been aimed at repairing damaged brain tissue or helping to restore lost neural function, with much research focused on BMDC transplants to the cerebellum at the back of the brain. In a recent study, a research team from Spain has found that BMDCs, can contribute to a variety of neural cell types in other ...