CHICAGO (January 6, 2011) – According to a report published in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, surgery residents improved their knowledge of health care business concepts and principles with the use of a Web-based curriculum. The expectation is for residents to "demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, as well as the ability to call effectively on other resources in the system to provide optimal health care." However, consensus from residents is that they lack instruction and ...

Queen's University Classics professor emeritus Ross Kilpatrick believes the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, incorporates images inspired by the Roman poet Horace and Florentine poet Petrarch. The technique of taking a passage from literature and incorporating it into a work of art is known as 'invention' and was used by many Renaissance artists. "The composition of the Mona Lisa is striking. Why does Leonardo have an attractive woman sitting on a balcony, while in the background there is an entirely different world that is vast and barren?" says Dr. Kilpatrick. ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida study following the evolution of lice shows modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, a technology which enabled them to successfully migrate out of Africa. Principal investigator David Reed, associate curator of mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus, studies lice in modern humans to better understand human evolution and migration patterns. His latest five-year study used DNA sequencing to calculate when clothing lice first began to diverge genetically from human head lice. ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — January 6, 2011 — Pharmaceutical companies and generic drug manufacturers have long been at odds over regulations about "data exclusivity," the period of time before generic manufacturers can make use of valuable clinical trial data. A new study in the January 2011 issue of Health Affairs is the first to calculate the financial and social costs of limiting access to trial data — and finds that extending the term of exclusive access will lead to higher drug costs in the short term but also to more than 200 extra drug approvals and to greater life ...

One of the most enduring mysteries in solar physics is why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface. Now scientists believe they have discovered a major source of hot gas that replenishes the corona: jets of plasma shooting up from just above the Sun's surface. The finding addresses a fundamental question in astrophysics: how energy is moved from the Sun's interior to create its hot outer atmosphere. "It's always been quite a puzzle to figure out why the Sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface," says Scott McIntosh, ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Developing biofuel from native perennials instead of corn in the Midwest's rolling grasslands would better protect threatened bird populations, Michigan State University research suggests. Federal mandates and market forces both are expected to promote rising biofuel production, MSU biologist Bruce Robertson says, but the environmental consequences of turning more acreage over to row crops for fuel are a serious concern. Ethanol in America is chiefly made from corn, but research is focusing on how to cost-effectively process cellulosic sources ...

FORENSICS -- The telltale bone Technology developed more than 100 years ago to wirelessly transmit electricity is being adapted to locate clandestine graves. Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Charles Van Neste and colleagues are transmitting electromagnetic waves to penetrate the ground and set up a resonance in buried bones. "The system consists of a transmitter and a receiver that collects the surface waves and passively integrates them through resonance over time," Van Neste said. He and colleagues Arpad Vass, Marc Wise and Lee Hively have discovered that human bone ...

Collaborating with an international research team, an economic geologist from The University of Western Ontario has discovered how gold-rich magma is produced, unveiling an all-important step in the formation of gold mines. The findings were published in the December issue of Nature Geoscience. Robert Linnen, the Robert Hodder Chair in Economic Geology in Western's Department of Earth Sciences conducts research near Kirkland Lake, Ontario and says the results of the study could lead to a breakthrough in choosing geographic targets for gold exploration and making exploration ...

PITTSBURGH—Microbloggers may think they're interacting in one big Twitterverse, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science find that regional slang and dialects are as evident in tweets as they are in everyday conversations. Postings on Twitter reflect some well-known regionalisms, such as Southerners' "y'all," and Pittsburghers' "yinz," and the usual regional divides in references to soda, pop and Coke. But Jacob Eisenstein, a post-doctoral fellow in CMU's Machine Learning Department, said the automated method he and his colleagues have ...

GREENBELT, Md. -- Observations from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Japanese satellite Hinode show that some gas in the giant, fountain-like jets in the sun's atmosphere known as spicules can reach temperatures of millions of degrees. The finding offers a possible new framework for how the sun's high atmosphere gets so much hotter than the surface of the sun. What makes the high atmosphere, or corona, so hot – over a million degrees, compared to the sun surface's 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit -- remains a poorly understood aspect of the sun's complicated space ...

A study that relates global energy use to economic growth, published in the January issue of BioScience, finds strong correlations between these two measures both among countries and within countries over time. The research leads the study's authors to infer that energy use limits economic activity directly. They conclude that an "enormous" increase in energy supply will be required to meet the demands of projected world population growth and lift the developing world out of poverty without jeopardizing standards of living in most developed countries. The study, which ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Many prescriptions for the top-selling class of drugs, known as atypical antipsychotic medications, lack strong evidence that the drugs will actually help, a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and University of Chicago has found. Yet, drugs in this class may cause such serious effects as weight gain, diabetes and heart disease, and cost Americans billions of dollars. "Because these drugs have safety issues, physicians should prescribe them only when they are sure patients will get substantial benefits," said Randall Stafford, ...

Madison, WI December 23, 2010 – Scientists at Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom, in collaboration with the International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria have developed a method of accounting for spatial trend in single crop field trials. Spatial trend refers to the variations in crop yield and other characteristics observed when repeating this single crop field trial. Usually plant breeders will grow several replicate plots to assess the breed line in different environments and then compare the results to commercial or standard varieties ...

BiCOM Inc. home of Glaucoma Eye Test Diat throug the eylid supports National Glaucoma Awareness Month this January. It is imperative to get regular eye pressure (IOP) test. Vision loss caused by Glaucoma can be slowed or halted with the proper medication. Getting an eye pressure screening has never been easier or safer with painless, hand-held through the eyelid Tonometer Diaton aka Glaucoma Eye Test. The start of a new year signifies a new beginning to most, many people making resolutions to better their lives. Improving health is usually a top priority - but, visual ...

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Last month, a brand-new high class dating service WantsMillionaire.com, which caters for those singles who are still trying online dating with the aim of finding serious and successful mates and life-time relationship partners, was lunched. Unlike other dating services, this Wants Millionaire dating club pursues successful dating and relationships for high class singles including CEOs, investors, entrepreneurs, beauty queens, fitness models and Hollywood celebrities, to name a few. Hookers, players, other gold diggers can hardly be approved on this website. With a short ...

Doremisoft Studio announced the release of Doremisoft PDF to Word Converter for Windows OS 4.1.1, which makes PDF owners easily acheive the PDF editing job, Just save PDF to Word and edit PDF content as you do in MS Word document. About PDF: PDF (Portable Document Format) creates a static image, tables, images, and other elements and well retain the original layout. Due to its versatility, PDF file can be created to take notes, highlights, annotate, etc with Adobe Acrobat. Have to say, PDF format is a great ebook format for viewing online or print. How about MS Word ...

Premium experience brand CM4 unveiled their premium Nintendo 3DS Case, the Catalyst Slim Cover, today as part of the 2011 CES conference in Las Vegas, NV. The product is an extension to their existing Catalyst line of premium gaming cases. Designed for the consumer on the go, CM4's product line ensures your devices travel safely with an allure of sophistication. The Catalyst Slim Cover for Nintendo 3DS enhances comfort, grip, and style while you indulge in 3D games and 3D movies wherever life takes you. The Catalyst line by CM4 is a soft case platform for controllers ...

Makia Creations will be offering a professional development meeting with all of its Craft Group Leaders around the country. This will be a unique experience for Makia Creations members as everything will be done through an interactive online interface. The webinar is scheduled for January 11th at 8 pm MST. Topics to be covered include announcements of new and exciting changes to Makia Creations, specialized training to help group leaders grow their business and recognition of exemplary leaders. Attendees around the country are excited to meet Alison Prince, the CEO ...

Program Development Associates has launched Training Diversity .com, a diversity resources online store for forward thinking businesses with diverse workplaces. The store features an array of DVDs, texts, and other materials ideal for building comprehensive internal programs to teach organizations to value diversity among both employees and the general public. PDA launched the Training Diversity online store in December, just in time for the 2011 calendar year. Along with industry leading diversity training resources, the online store also offers a blog to visitors, ...

Dentist Marketers, a dental web design company, announces the release of its new do-it-yourself dental web design and hosting plan at DentistMarketers.com. "The plan allows dentists with little or no web design experience to build and host their own dental websites," said Erik Cunningham, company Founder. "Our goal is to make dental web design as easy and affordable as possible by providing dentists with access to simple online web design tools, step-by-step instructions, no setup fees and nothing to download." Dentists can try the online web design tools before subscribing ...

When a female entrepreneur sets out to get to know her ideal customer, and therefore increase sales and develop customer loyalty, she will achieve greater success (and shorten her learning curve) by following simple, yet effective guidelines. Best of the Janes: Gaining a Deeper Understanding of Your Ideal Customer is the latest article by professional marketing researcher and entrepreneurial expert Michele DeKinder-Smith. The article reveals five important guidelines female entrepreneurs can follow when striving to increase sales and create customer loyalty by truly ...

FmPro Migrator Developer Edition 5.97 Enhances Automated FoxPro to Servoy Conversion Service The Visual FoxPro Conversion Service built into in FmPro Migrator Developer Edition enables Visual FoxPro developers to automate the conversion of Windows-only FoxPro solutions into platform independent, scalable, Servoy SaaS solutions. This feature quickly and efficiently converts FoxPro relationships, forms, reports/labels, PRG code, and static ComboBox/ListBox value lists into Servoy Eclipse IDE project files. Using the main project/sub-project functionality of the Servoy ...

Capitol Lighting, one of the nation's leading retailers of name-brand lighting with eight showrooms in New Jersey and Florida, has added new videos to its site http://www.1-800lighting.com with more than 300 helpful videos about remodeling and lighting projects. Capitol Lighting's new video page includes channels where viewers can watch the best videos for helpful and how-to topics such as LED Energy Savings, Outdoor Lights, Lighting Tips & Tricks -" Designer Help, Ceiling Fans, Ceiling Lights, Table Lamps and Wall Lights. "Our instructive and entertaining videos ...

Paratus Rentals' new alliance also includes a new phone number: 1-623-Be-Ready (623-237-3239). While the company will continue it's commitment to providing efficient, flexible, cost-effective and on-time rental energy and temperature solutions to its clients, it will now utilize the full range of world-class Trane and Ingersoll Rand products. Paratus Rentals will market Trane Rental Services' portable diesel generators to 1450kW, air and water cooled chillers to 1,000 tons, portable air-conditioners to 50 tons, oil free air compressors, transformers, air-handlers and all ...