Most industry executives, military planners, research managers or venture capitalists charged with assessing the potential of an R&D project probably are familiar with the wry twist on Arthur C. Clarke's third law*: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." After serving for five years as independent evaluators of emerging military technologies nurtured by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shares critical "lessons learned" that can help businesses ...

DIG Coaching Practice presents Attention Talk Radio on the topic of ADHD and college placement. Host Jeff Copper interviews ADHD coach Keith Kosierowski, founder and CEO of Kosierowski Education Group (KEG), who discusses college placement for the teenager with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Kosierowski is a certified school counselor with eleven years of experience in both local public and foreign-based schools and has worked at both the American Nicaraguan School and the American International School of Rotterdam as a middle and high school counselor ...

When taken with higher doses of aspirin (more than 300 milligrams), the experimental antiplatelet drug ticagrelor was associated with worse outcomes than the standard drug, clopidogrel, but the opposite was true with lower doses of aspirin. The study is a secondary analysis of a clinical trial that compared the two drugs and found ticagrelor to be less effective in North America than in other countries. Researchers suggest the aspirin dose in combination with anti-clotting medicine may alter ticagrelor's effectiveness. The experimental antiplatelet drug ticagrelor ...

A Clockman Vision Productions is currently packaging O.G. FUNK: TRAINING CAMP. Exec. Producer Kenny Ortega will be presenting the dance-oriented feature drama based on a story by Thomas Guzman Sanchez (urban street dancer/choreographer and film maker). An International search for cast members is now being launched. Using computer technology, anyone can audition in the comfort of their own home for this worldwide search for actors, dancers and skateboarders. Robert Kubilos will handle directing duties on the screenplay scribed by Guzman Sanchez along with Kubilos. "Kenny ...

For the first time, blood vessels created in the lab from donor skin cells were successfully implanted in patients. Functioning blood vessels that aren't rejected by the immune system could be used to make durable shunts for kidney dialysis, and potentially to improve treatment for children with heart defects and adults needing coronary or other bypass graft surgery. For the first time, human blood vessels grown in a laboratory from donor skin cells have been successfully implanted into patients, according to new research presented in the American Heart Association's ...

A team of Yale Cancer Center researchers has confirmed that between 10-20% of breast cancers classified as Estrogen Receptor (ER) negative are really positive. Understanding when and why breast cancers may be misclassified has important implications for treatment and outcomes for women diagnosed with breast cancer. Its findings are published online in the June 28 Journal of Clinical Oncology. A woman diagnosed with breast cancer can be tested by immunohistochemistry (IHC), a process that detects the presence of specific proteins in cancer tissue. Those who test positive ...

There is a 17% greater risk of dying after a heart attack if you are treated in a hospital located in a U.S. territory—i.e. the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands—rather than in a hospital in the mainland United States, according to new findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study by Yale School of Medicine researchers shows that many U.S. citizens who call the U.S. territories home, are at a major healthcare disadvantage. Led by Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D., assistant professor at Yale School ...

TURAN SAHINKAYA has joined the board of directors of ReputationDesigner.com, bringing more than twenty years of experience in the technology industry. Turan Sahinkaya has experience in business technology, telecom, internet and marketing and comes with the opinion that people have the right to control and protect their reputation and privacy. Turan Sahinkaya has worked for some of the world's most recognized industry leaders, as well as several Fortune 100 companies. Turan Sahinkaya is a graduate of University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor's Degree in ...

Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that a clinical trial of the epilepsy drug gabapentin may have been a "seeding trial" used by a pharmaceutical company to promote the drug and increase prescriptions, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. As described in the study by Yale assistant professor of medicine Joseph Ross, M.D., and his colleagues, a seeding trial is a clinical trial conducted primarily for marketing purposes and intended to promote the drug and increase prescribing by exposing ...

HOUSTON – Forty-five percent of women with advanced breast cancer in the U.S. did not receive postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) despite the publication of evidence-based guidelines outlining PMRT as a potentially lifesaving treatment, according to new research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The study, published in the July issue of Cancer, found that PMRT use rates for women with advanced breast cancer have remained static since 1999. According to the research, of the nearly 5,000 women diagnosed with high-risk breast cancer between 1999 ...

Tutors International announces that the recent story in the international press claiming that Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have hired a private tutor from Tutors International to tutor their children is false. The story, reported initially in one of the UK tabloids was quickly spread through the national press and then featured on news networks around the world, naming Tutors International as the chosen private tutoring company, without any of the reporters in question confirming its truth with the company. For more information, visit http://www.tutors-international.com ...

Most parents are unaware of the risks their teenagers face in the workplace and could do more to help them understand and prepare for those hazards, according to a new study. Previous findings have shown that about 80 percent of teens are employed during their high school years. But the study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Injury Prevention Research Center and North Carolina State University highlights the role parents play in helping their children get those jobs, and making good decisions about workplace safety and health. The paper will be ...

NEW YORK (June 27, 2011) – A new survey conducted by WCS scientists, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), reveals that large mammals, including Asiatic black bears, gray wolves, markhor goats, and leopard cats are surviving in parts of Afghanistan after years of conflict. The field team used camera-trap surveys, transect surveys, and DNA identification of scat samples in the first wildlife update in the conflict-plagued eastern province of Nuristan since 1977. The surveys, conducted between 2006 and 2009 covering an area ...

Mixed Martial Arts, (MMA), is a combative sport in which competitors use striking, takedowns and submissions to defeat their opponent. MMA can be traces back to many events in Japan and Europe throughout the early 1900s. The modern version of the sport began in the United States in the early 1990s, when the Ultimate Fighting Championship was founded. With the tremendous growth and popularity of the sport has come both the opening of training facilities which offer "Ultimate Fighting" instruction as well as more traditional and established schools changing their ...

VIDEO: Brown University evolutionary biologist Nicolai Konow led a team that has teased out the difference in chewing between fish and mammals. Now, the question is where, and with which species,... Click here for more information. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Evolution has made its mark — large and small — in innumerable patterns of life. New research from Brown University shows chewing has evolved too. Researchers looked at muscles that control the movement ...

Simply-Bookkeeping, a Houston, TX based Accounting and Bookkeeping Company; today announced the signing of its newest client, Rodrigo Cigars, a manufacturer of the finest ultra premium Dominican Republic Cigars. Rodrigo Cigar's will retain Simply-Bookkeeping services to optimize and manage the company's financial back-office accounting operations. "We are very excited about beginning this partnership with Rodrigo Cigars," said Reanna Q Hong, Managing Partner of Simply-Bookkeeping. "Their dedication to the art of crafting the finest cigars is extremely ...

Irvine, Calif., June 27, 2011 – UC Irvine and French researchers have identified a central switch responsible for the transformation of healthy brain cells into epileptic ones, opening the way to both treat and prevent temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy affects 1 to 2 percent of the world's population, and TLE is the most common form of the disorder in adults. Among adult neurologic conditions, only migraine headaches are more prevalent. TLE is resistant to treatment in 30 percent of cases. UCI neurologist and neuroscientist Dr. Tallie Z. Baram and her colleagues found ...

Known as one of the "elite" authors in the true crime genre, and recently for MOMMY'S LITTLE GIRL, recounting the true story of the life and death of 2 year old, Caylee Anthony, Diane Fanning's fourth book in her crime mystery series, TWISTED REASON, is scheduled to be released in trade paperback July 1, 2011. The Lucinda Pierce Mystery series debuted in 2008 with the release of THE TROPHY EXCHANGE and features Virginia Homicide Detective Lucinda Pierce as she follows the evidence and investigates murders. TWISTED REASON follows Lucinda Pierce as she works ...

New Rochelle, NY, June 27, 2011—The nature of cell phone communication between a parent and adolescent child can affect the quality of their relationship, and much depends on who initiates the call and the purpose and tone of the conversation, according to an illuminating study reported online in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (www.liebertpub.com). The article is available free online at http://www.liebertpub.com/cyber Robert Weisskirch, MSW, PhD, California State University, Monterey Bay ...

Military personnel, their parents, siblings and children can receive 50% off of any service and 20% off Peter Hantz, Asazi, eXo and Madrid's products July 1st and 2nd at ITS Academy of Beauty, 750 Sunland Park Drive in El Paso. To participate in the career college's Patriotic Beauty campaign, patrons must show military I.D. or some sort of physical proof such as an email, letter or photograph to prove their spouse, son or daughter or sibling is serving in the U.S. military. "We really wanted to do something special to honor our troops, as well as the families ...

Alzheimer's, the degenerative brain disorder that disrupts memory, thought and behavior, is devastating to both patients and loved ones. According to the Alzheimer's Association, one in eight Americans over the age of 65 suffers from the disease. Now Tel Aviv University has discovered that an everyday spice in your kitchen cupboard could hold the key to Alzheimer's prevention. An extract found in cinnamon bark, called CEppt, contains properties that can inhibit the development of the disease, according to Prof. Michael Ovadia of the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv ...

Author Peter Thomas Senese is pleased to announce his international espionage thriller titled The Den Of The Assassin will be released in e-book worldwide on July 14th, 2011 and will be available on all e-book platforms. Critics have praised The Den Of The Assassin as an international financial espionage thriller steeped in the modern-day realities of our world, providing the story a visceral prescience teeming with realism and frightful possibilities of global terrorism, and Senese as a masterful writer of international intrigue. Peter Thomas Senese commented, ...

It's considered a rite of passage among young people – acting out their independence through heavy, episodic drinking. But a new University of Cincinnati study, the first of its kind nationally, is showing how binge drinking among adolescents and young adults could be causing serious damage to a brain that's still under development at this age. Researcher Tim McQueeny, a doctoral student in the UC Department of Psychology, is presenting the findings this week at the 34th annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism in Atlanta. High-resolution brain scans on ...

Citypadz, one of the north east's leading property letting agents, has revamped its online marketing strategy. The new marketing strategy has been as part of a strategic move to raise their profile with audiences across the region and in the rest of the UK. The agency's revitalised marketing approach has seen it redesign its website to improve reader experience and included the development of a presence across social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. These changes reflect the organic growth of the company over the last year, which has seen it expand its ...

New software allows wireless sensor networks to run at much lower energy, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Sensor Networks. The technology could improve efficiency for hurricane and other natural disaster warning systems. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are used to monitor ecosystems, wild and urban environments. They have been vital in predicting events that threaten species and environments, including gathering information from animal habitats, in volcanic activity monitoring, flash-flood alerts and environmental monitoring. Wireless ...