This important environmental conference will examine the link between forests and wetlands and integrated biodiversity conservation. The year 2011 is the United Nations International Year of Forests. The Symposium organisers include the Sabah State government, together with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Malaysia and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The organisers are keen that representatives of both governmental and non-governmental organisations should attend, as well as students, environmentalists, and businesses. The intense, ...

Survey results released by eLearners.com today indicate that two-thirds of prospective online learners that work full-time are not taking advantage of workplace tuition reimbursement programs available to them. Among the survey respondents, 55 percent replied that they plan to rely on government loans to pay for school, 45 percent plan to use funds they have earned or have saved for their education and 40 percent will seek grants through the government. The aggregated results come from the June Aslanian eLearning Poll, which asked participants about their motivations for ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment for registered nurses will grow by 22 percent between 2008 and 2018 and by 21 percent for licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses in the same timeframe. Health Education Solutions, a leading provider of ACLS training and emergency pediatric nursing education via PALS, today released a new "Nursing" Special Section to help professionals in this growing field learn more about career development and training options. This series of articles is available in Health Education Solutions' online research ...

Chiro 8000, a subsidiary of Forte Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of a award-winning medical patient relationship and practice management software programs for the chiropractic field has announced plans to expand its direct sales and IT departments to accommodate increased customer demand tied to its recent full accreditation as a certified Electronic Health Records (EHR) provider. Chiro8000, says Forte Systems President, Anthony Schwartz, is expanding its sales and IT force by four fulltime employees in order to meet an uptick in demand for its products and services ...

ABC's Good Morning America and Ark Music Factory's teen protege Lexi St.George, who GMA launched on its "One Week to Hit it Big: Pop Star" series, has landed her first commercial deal. The Palmdale, CA teen will appear in TV ads for WowWee's Paper Jamz Pro Jam Series Microphone. The ads feature Lexi and her debut single and video "Dancing to the Rhythm." "We were impressed by Lexi's talent, her sincerity, innocence and her fresh, wholesome approach as she's been catapulted up the star ladder," says Marc Rosenberg, Spokesman of WowWee USA, ...

Hamilton Equipment is the exclusive distributor of the full line of Tanco Autowrap products including Tanco Bale Wrappers, Bale Shears and Tanco parts. For Tanco wholegood sales in the United States, call Hamilton Equipment at 800-733-0275 and ask for Jan, our Tanco Sales Manager. Tanco is recognized as the top choice for agricultural bale wrapping machines and bale shears for farmers and contractors around the world. We stock the following units, and parts for, D70 Tanco Round Bale Stacker D80 Tanco Square Bale Stacker 170 Tanco Bale Shear (Less Brackets) 1080A ...

To stay competitive, manufacturing companies have sharpened their use of analytics to help them harness today's torrents of information, new benchmark research from Ventana Research finds. The research for the first time quantifies the extent to which analytics enable them to operate more efficiently, improve business visibility and support faster, more effective decision-making. For these businesses the most important categories of metrics are financial (identified by 68% of participants), cost (67%) and operational (57%). However, priorities varied by line of business: ...

Enterprise Asia is a non-governmental organisation with a mission to champion entrepreneurship across Asia and strive to cultivate a culture of honesty, fairness and responsible entrepreneurship. One of their initiatives is the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award (APEA), a regional award that recognises entrepreneurs for their entrepreneurial excellence to spur greater innovation, fair practices and growth in entrepreneurship. In the awards this year, Ee Chee Koon, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Asia Charts was awarded the prestigious" Most Promising ...

The Crianza 2008 from PROTOS is the new Ribera del Duero wine, with more success among the most demanding palates than almost any other wine, as shown by the recent Gold Medal at the Concours Mondialle in Brussels. It's a wine that has been made with 100% Tempranillo grapes, which have slowly reached optimum ripeness as a consequence of the special metereological conditions of the vintage, then been subject to careful selection, processing and ageing at the new Protos facilities. As a novelty, it's hitting the market in two new formats. Apart from its traditional ...

Cornwall will be the latest county to have the privilege of hosting the official Glenn Miller Orchestra UK next month.   The group are due to perform at Truro's Hall for Cornwall on Thursday August 18th, offering an evening of music that invokes the bygone age of the 1940s.   Led by Ray McVay, the orchestra will play a number of tributes to legendary bandleader Ted Heath, as well as a host of Glenn Miller musical staples.   The concert is set to provide wistful nostalgia for those who remember Miller's USAAF band and the concerts he played across Europe during the ...

Energetic funnyman Lee Evans is set to bring his inimitable brand of comedy to Bournemouth this summer. Evans's new live show Roadrunner will be showcased at the Bournemouth International Centre's Windsor Hall from Wednesday August 24th to Monday August 29th. In his most ambitious tour to date, the performer is set to play more than 50 nights in some of the biggest arenas across the country. He has built up a reputation for intense physical slapstick comedy - a style that has become his trademark. Although best known for his stand-up routines, Evans has ...

Hong Kong's arts scene has been injected with renewed vibrancy by the International Arts Carnival 2011, which kicked off on Friday July 8th and will run until Sunday August 14th.   For over a month, the city will host a veritable smorgasbord of events, performances and treats for all the family. Tourists will be able to enjoy the cultural events and sample the very best Hong Kong has to offer.   As well as traditional Asian events, there will be a chance for festival-goers to enjoy artistic traditions from countries all over the world, including Denmark, Canada, Australia, ...

Indie pop band Two Door Cinema Club are set to perform live in Singapore next month.   The three-piece group, who hail from County Down in Northern Ireland, will take to the stage at the Esplanade Concert Hall on Thursday August 11th at 19:30 local time.   Two Door Cinema Club, which is comprised of Sam Halliday (lead guitar and backing vocals), Alex Trimble (vocals, rhythm guitar, beats and synths) and Kevin Baird (bass and backing vocals), have been likened to musical outfits such as Death Cab for Cutie and Broken Social Scene.   Despite these comparisons, the band ...

Thousands of visitors flock to the north German city of Hanover every year to see this splendid event, which takes place in the Herrenhausen Gardens. The August date is just one of five such occasions in the city calendar. The aim of these shows is to allow five different countries to compete for the honour of producing the best fireworks display. Scheduled spectacles include music performances. The Baroque beauty of the Herrenhausen Gardens, sometimes referred to as 'The Royal Gardens,' provides a beautiful backdrop for the display. The whole area is transformed into ...

MARK IV Builders (http://www.markivbuilders.com/), a Bethesda design build firm, is proud to announce that their Production Manager, Andrew Hannan, has contributed an expert opinion column to the June 2011 issue of Remodeling Magazine, published by Hanley Wood. His latest column for Remodeling Magazine is entitled "Laptop Benefits," and discusses his experience using a laptop in the field and what kind of positive impact it had upon the day-to-day work at various remodeling sites. In his column, Hannan explains "During the nine months that he [MARK IV ...

Today, Neptune has arrived at the same location in space where it was discovered nearly 165 years ago. To commemorate the event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken these "anniversary pictures" of the blue-green giant planet. Neptune is the most distant major planet in our solar system. German astronomer Johann Galle discovered the planet on September 23, 1846. At the time, the discovery doubled the size of the known solar system. The planet is 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers) from the Sun, 30 times farther than Earth. Under the Sun's weak pull at that distance, ...

Research has shown that light is the key to getting our 'body clocks' back in sync and now a new study exploring the resynchronisation mechanism in insects has discovered a molecule essential to the process. Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London looked at the impact of light on the circadian clocks (commonly known as 'body clocks') of fruit flies. They identified a novel molecule, QUASIMODO (QSM), which was intrinsically involved in relaying light-information to the flies' inner clocks. Ralf Stanewsky, Professor of Neurobiology at Queen Mary's School of ...

BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL, July 13, 2011 – A new system using video and computer software to monitor a baby that could be used to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), as well as for telemedicine applications, has been developed by two students at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). The new system called "BabyBeat" was developed by students in the BGU Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. It uses computer algorithms to convert video footage to pulses that represent a baby's heartbeat and skin tone. In the event that the system detects an ...

New York, NY, July 12, 2011 – A study published in the July issue of The American Journal of Medicine, reports that among hypertensive patients with coronary artery disease, chronic self-reported use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was associated with an increased risk of adverse events during long-term follow-up. Long-term NSAIDs use is common for treatment of chronic pain. Researchers from the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, College of Medicine and the Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, College of Pharmacy, University of ...

Describing the correlation of a reservoir and earthquake slip remains a great challenge. Professor SHI Yaolin and his group at the Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the College of Science of the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are attempting to solve this problem. On the basis of the laboratory's parallel central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware platform, the micro FDPNC model for UTP conditions was established and the ECFS criteria and anisotropic porosity and permeability ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Improving and maintaining health factors not traditionally associated with dementia, such as denture fit, vision and hearing, may lower a person's risk for developing dementia, according to a new study published in the July 13, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "Our study suggests that rather than just paying attention to already known risk factors for dementia, such as diabetes or heart disease, keeping up with your general health may help reduce the risk for dementia," said study author Kenneth ...

The limited time offer runs until 14th July and is available to new and existing customers who purchase standard, one man delivery items, and includes a wide range of branded ladies' fashion, homewares and electricals. Home shopping brand, isme.com is flying the flag for mature style-savvy shoppers. Aiming to redefine the shopping experience for Britain's mature female customer, isme.com is dedicated to delivering fashion that empowers, gives confidence and captures the key trends of the season with a style and fit created for today's mature woman. Isme.com carries ...

PHILADELPHIA — Stem cell therapy may restore cognition in patients with brain cancer who experience functional learning and memory loss often associated with radiation treatment, according to a laboratory study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Charles Limoli, Ph.D., a professor in the department of radiation oncology at the University of California, Irvine, said radiation therapy is the standard of care for most brain cancers, but the side effects can be devastating. "In almost every instance, people experience ...

Philadelphia — Short-term hormone therapy (androgen deprivation therapy: ADT) given in combination with radiation therapy for men with early-stage prostate cancer increases their chance of living longer and not dying from the disease, compared with that of those who receive the same radiation therapy alone, according to a Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) study published in the July 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. This largest randomized trial of its kind enrolled nearly 2,000 men at low and intermediate risk of prostate cancer progression and followed ...

BOSTON – Placebos are "dummy pills" often used in research trials to test new drug therapies and the "placebo effect" is the benefit patients receive from a treatment that has no active ingredients. Many claim that the placebo effect is a critical component of clinical practice. But whether or not placebos can actually influence objective measures of disease has been unclear. Now a study of asthma patients examining the impact of two different placebo treatments versus standard medical treatment with an albuterol bronchodilator has reached two important conclusions: while ...