New benchmark research from Ventana Research finds that consumer goods businesses are beginning to mature their competencies in the key areas of people, processes and information and technology, but need more business attention to improve significantly. Business employees, managers, and executives, under mounting pressure to operate more efficiently and make better decisions, are always looking for improved ways to analyze information in order to predict future outcomes and identify how to best take advantage of them. This new benchmark research from Ventana Research, ...

Financial trading website www.Spread-Betting.org has launched a brand new section on gold spread betting. Gold is typically seen as a safe haven for investors. During times of economic uncertainty, traders often flock to gold as it is seen as a hedge against inflation. For this very reason, the past few years have seen the price of gold rise significantly, which is what has made it such a popular commodity to spread bet on. That is why financial trading website Spread-Betting.org has launched a brand new trading guide which focuses on the yellow metal. "Commodities ...

America's Home Program, as the nation's solution for transforming distressed REOs & Non Performing Notes from the Government, Banks & Hedge Funds; in conjunction with lending from FHA, into performing assets, invites you to attend Realty 411's Event and join in on our informative and ground breaking training session. America's Home Program will show you how utilizing our Unique Program not only places American families into homes; it provides a proven solution for Immediate Home Ownership, as opposed to traditional landlord-tenant management, all while paying ...

Second Chance Health & Wellness, Inc. announces the launch of its newest dietary supplement, MODER8 Stress Relief Formula. Manufactured by the same people that make MODER8-Balance for a Better Life alcohol control formula, MODER8 Stress Relief specifically targets feelings of stress and anxiety, and helps to produce a calm, peaceful feeling in 15-20 minutes. Made from all naturally occurring ingredients, either in your own body or in the foods you eat, MODER8 Stress Relief also helps to reduce appetite and cravings. For the month of October 2011, MODER8 Stress Relief ...

The earth is shaking, buildings are collapsing, power and utility lines as well asroads are destroyed. A disaster can have many causes, but usually the outcome is the same: chaos, panic and dedicated but overtaxed first responders. The people lying buried under the rubble hold hopes for a speedy rescue, but sometimes it takes hours or even days to work through an entire area. To make matters worse, the work of rescue personnel can become extremely dangerous. Because every minute counts when the work of saving lives is concerned, robot-supported systems are increasingly ...

Like all galaxies, our Milky Way is home to a strange substance called dark matter. Dark matter is invisible, betraying its presence only through its gravitational pull. Without dark matter holding them together, our galaxy's speedy stars would fly off in all directions. The nature of dark matter is a mystery -- a mystery that a new study has only deepened. "After completing this study, we know less about dark matter than we did before," said lead author Matt Walker, a Hubble Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The standard cosmological model ...

Researchers will showcase these and other combinations of cleaning methods and equipment at the parts2clean trade fair, October 25-27, 2011, in Stuttgart (Hall 1, Stand F 610 / G 707). Sitting in a cozy French sidewalk cafe, watching passersby and enjoying a chocolate-cream éclair – for many of us, this is a portrait of a relaxed summer vacation. For the bakers who make the éclairs out of pastry dough, though, the entire procedure is far less relaxing: they make the dough using a special machine that they operate by hand. Once made, the dough must be processed at once ...

A new study by a Temple University Fox School of Business professor finds those who view their car as an extension of themselves have stronger aggressive driving tendencies. The study, "Aggressive Driving: A Consumption Experience," is thought to be the first to comprehensively examine how personality, attitude and values contribute to aggressive driving behaviors. Driving is one of the most common consumptive behaviors, and aggressive driving causes a third of all accidents that involve personal injuries and two thirds of all fatal accidents in the United States. "It ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have characterized the molecular mechanism behind some plants' ability to resist rice blast, a fungal disease that affects cereal grain crops such as rice, wheat, rye and barley and can cause yield losses of up to 30 percent. The fungus has been found in 85 countries worldwide, including the United States. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathologist Yulin Jia at the agency's Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center in Stuttgart, Ark., determined how those molecular mechanisms work and how resistance genes evolved. ...

This two-year project was completed on July 30, 2011, and the demonstrator vehicles they came up with were showcased at the final event in Papenburg, Germany, on September 2, 2011, on the ATP test track. In the future, it will be whisper-quiet on road because in the long run electric cars will replace the internal combustion engine. But there are still some unanswered questions. For instance, how do you store the electricity in cars? Or what power networks do you need? And anyway, how do you pay for charging your battery? Two years ago, researchers from 33 Fraunhofer institutes ...

Superenalotto lottery game was started at 1997 at Italy. Ever since, the game became to be one of the most popular lottery games in the whole world. There are a few reason that make Superenalotto to be such a popular game: 1. You can now play it all around the world, buy tickets online and win the big jackpot. 2. Superenalotto is one of the leading lottery games in the world and shares very high jackpots with its winners. 3. Unlike other lotteries around the world, Superenalotto has no pot limit. The SuperEnalotto lottery game takes place in Italy 3 times a ...

The AutoTram® is as long as a streetcar and as maneuverable as a bus. It doesn't need rails or overhead lines because the "BusBahn" rolls on rubber tires and simply follows white lines on the street. Another plus is the fact that people waiting at stops will not have to smell exhaust fumes in the future when a bus stops and starts again because tomorrow's means of transport will be using electricity, hydrogen or a combination of various regenerative drives. In "Fraunhofer's System Research for Electromobility" the AutoTram® was used as an experimental platform. It was ...

NEW YORK – October 17, 2011 – A study conducted by Columbia Business School's Prof. Jonah Rockoff, Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business, Finance and Economics, and Cecilia Speroni, a doctoral student at Teachers College, set to estimate whether subjective evaluations of teacher effectiveness have predictive power for the achievement gains made by teachers' future students. The study, which was recently published in Labour Economics, found that subjective evaluations are comparable with and complementary to objective measures of teacher effectiveness taken from ...

A protein that promotes the growth of neurons and blood vessels appears to stop the progression of a genetic disease that causes degeneration of the cerebellum, according to new preclinical Northwestern Medicine research published in Nature Medicine. The disease, spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, typically strikes people in their 30s and 40s and causes degeneration of the cerebellum, the part of the brain that helps coordinate movement. As the disease progresses over 10 to 20 years, patients eventually die from aspiration or infectious pneumonia. The disease is caused ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. – A protein critical to development appears to have a grave impact on lungs exposed to smoking and air pollution, researchers report. Blocking that protein, called calpain, in the lungs may prove an effective way to avoid narrow, scarred blood vessels and pulmonary hypertension, said Dr. Yunchao Su, pharmacologist at Georgia Health Sciences University. "Calpain enables the bad behavior that occurs in pulmonary hypertension," said Su, corresponding author of the study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Pulmonary hypertension is an often ...

Dr. Bateman, South Charlotte, NC dentist, of Bateman Family Dentistry is pleased to invite patients to leave reviews of their time spent at Bateman Family Dental on various search engines, including Google, and Yahoo! The reviews are easily accessible via any of the available search engines and allow patients to view how other patients' experiences at Bateman Family Dentistry were. Patients can visit Google, and Yahoo! to read reviews from previous patients who have received treatment from Dr. Richard Bateman, South Charlotte dentist. "It is important for me to ...

A new wireless device to help victims of spinal cord injury is receiving attention in the research community. Mesut Sahin, PhD, associate professor, in the department of biomedical engineering at NJIT, recently has published and presented news of his findings to develop micro-electrical stimulators for individuals with spinal cord injuries. The work, now in its third year of support from a four-year, $1.4 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, has resulted in the development and testing of a technology known by its acronym, FLAMES (floating light activated ...

As the leaves begin to change colors for the fall, Dr. Kevin Kiley, Palm Harbor dentist, celebrates 25 years in dentistry. During the month of October, Dr. Kevin Kiley's staff encourages patients to celebrate Dr. Kiley's 25th year in dentistry in North Pinellas County. "It is a privilege to be celebrating 25 years in dentistry. I am honored to continue to serve my patients and I look forward to many more years of making my patients smile bigger and brighter," said Dr. Kevin Kiley, dentist in Palm Harbor, FL. Dr. Kevin Kiley graduated from Northwestern ...

A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management provides a review of cereal leaf beetle biology, past and present management practices, and current research being conducted. Cereal leaf beetle, Oulema melanopus L., is an introduced insect pest of small grains first recorded in the United States in the early 1960s. Since its introduction from Europe or Asia into Michigan, cereal leaf beetle has rapidly spread and can now be found in most states. Cereal leaf beetle feeds on numerous species of grasses and is considered a major pest of oats, barley, ...

A new, open-access article (http://tinyurl.com/5voksnc) in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management examines the Pecan Pest Information Platform for Extension and education (PIPE), a program that provides a new informatics resource that targets 5,000 pecan stakeholders located primarily in the southern tier of the United States. Pecan scientists and producers working with information technology experts have developed and delivered this program via the Internet since 2009. Stakeholder participation in and adoption of this resource has grown since inception and is expected ...

Leading Toms River cosmetic dentist, Dr. Stan Mahan, is pleased to offer new patients free whitening for life when scheduling an appointment. All new patients can now receive free whitening for life when they schedule a new patient exam with full mouth x-ray and prophy. When new patients make their appointment with Dr. Stan Mahan, emergency dentist in Toms River, they can mention the online coupon to receive their free whitening for life. This special is not to be combined with any other coupon. "I want my patients to smile longer and brighter than they have ...

Edmonton, AB - A report just released by the Alberta Diabetes Surveillance System (ADSS) shows a need for more teamwork among patients and their health-care providers and more effective use of medical records to aid Albertans with getting the laboratory tests necessary to help manage and prevent long-term complications of the disease. This is the first time that the Alberta Diabetes Atlas has included additional sources of data. With this enhancement it has become a vital tool for front line health-care providers and policy makers. According to the Atlas, many Albertans ...

BOSTON¬—Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute have found strikingly high levels of a bacterium in colorectal cancers, a sign that it might contribute to the disease and potentially be a key to diagnosing, preventing, and treating it. In a study published online in the journal Genome Research, investigators report the discovery of an abnormally large number of Fusobacterium cells in nine colorectal tumor samples. While the spike does not necessarily mean the bacterium helps cause colorectal cancer, it offers an enticing lead for further research, ...

Dr. H. Robert Stender, Pasadena cosmetic dentist, is pleased to announce the recent addition of informative articles and testimonials of his practice to Facebook and Twitter. Patients are encouraged to become fans of Dr. Stender's Facebook and to "follow" him on Twitter, as well, for frequent updates. "Facebook and Twitter are quickly becoming more popular as technology quickly advances. A majority of my patients actively utilize the benefits of the Internet through social media sites, making the decision to launch my own a necessity. With the launch of ...

A new study is the first to examine the effectiveness of a widely used counseling approach to treating substance abuse among African-Americans. The study found that African-American women were more likely than men to continue a counseling approach to treating substance abuse, but their substance-abuse issues continued. The study led by LaTrice Montgomery, a doctoral student in the University of Cincinnati Department of Psychology, is published this month in "Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology," a journal of the American Psychological Association. The study ...