White Digital Media, the leading digital business news source for C-level executives across the globe, announced today the promotion of Robert Rosales, former Social Media Coordinator, to Marketing Coordinator. After tremendous success in managing the social media channels for each of White Digital Media's brands, Rosales proved that he was ready to take on greater responsibility within the Marketing department and within the company as a whole. "I am proud to have contributed to the success of our growing company," said Rosales. "I welcome the opportunity ...

In an interview with Business Review Canada, Ken George, CEO of York Care Center discusses how the facility built a reputation in aging care by focusing on education, knowledge transfer and character. By operating under the principle that this sector of the industry deserves more consideration, York Care Centre demonstrates excellence and has followed the lead of other health care organizations that have been credentialed as Magnet organizations. "We believe that it's time to breathe some life into this business. These folks deserve better than what's left over ...

Bethesda, Md. (May 26, 2011)—For many years doctors believed the estrogen women consumed in the form of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) pills was good for their patients' hearts. Recent studies however have shown that long-term exposure to estrogen can be a danger to women as it has been associated with high blood pressure, a key link to heart- and brain-attacks (strokes). Although the process by which estrogen induces high blood pressure in females is unclear, Michigan State University (MSU) researchers have found that long-term estrogen exposure ...

This release is available in German. Stress promotes neuropathological changes that are also seen in Alzheimer's disease. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have discovered that the increased release of stress hormones in rats leads to generation of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein in the brain and ultimately, memory loss. Protein deposits in nerve cells are a typical feature of Alzheimer's disease: the excessive alteration of the tau protein through the addition of phosphate groups – a process known as hyperphosphorylation – causes ...

A drug that has been on the market for decades to treat leukemia and skin disorders such as acne and psoriasis may be a possible therapy for vascular diseases, including atherosclerosis and hypertension, which can lead to heart attack or stroke. Previously, researchers discovered that retinoids – commonly used natural or man-made drugs related to vitamin A – blunted experimental vascular disease by spurring into action a very particular segment of a gene known for its ability to curb cancer cell growth. The gene, usually shut off or silenced in cancer cells, enabling ...

Boulder, CO, USA - Locations studied include Alligator Point, Cat Island, Bahamas; Rice Lake, Ontario, Canada; Liverpool Land, east Greenland; Mount Rainier, Washington, USA; the Yangtze Gorges area, South China; the Moresby Seamount detachment, Woodlark Basin (east of Papua New Guinea); Hilo Ridge, Hawaii, USA; the Isua supracrustal belt, southern West Greenland; the northern Bohemian Massif; the Lonar crater, Deccan traps, India; the Rhone Glacier; and the Mersa/Wadi Gawasis along the Egyptian Red Sea coast. Keywords: Jurassic Tank, Cat Island, sediment transfer, ground-based ...

In an interview with Business Review USA, Bob Jones, General Manager of Augustine Casino discusses how the facility has grown in its community and integrated green initiatives with exceptional service. Augustine Casino is truly "a locals' casino" and prides itself on the tremendous job it has done to grow over the years. "We've really made a focused effort to ensure that when a guest comes to our property that they can have great food at a reasonable price, slot machines with the loosest pay tables in the area, table games with fair, player-friendly rules ...

Unlocking the mechanisms that cause neurodegenerative prion diseases may require a genetic key, suggest new findings reported by University of Illinois at Chicago distinguished professor of biological sciences Susan Liebman. Prions can turn a normal protein into a misfolded form. One prion in mammals promotes progressive neurodegenerative disorders like "mad cow" disease that often prove fatal. But how this process happens remains an open question for scientists. Prions have been found to exist in a wide range of organisms. Those in brewer's yeast, which researchers ...

AMES, Iowa – The long, slow decay of carbon-14 allows archaeologists to accurately date the relics of history back to 60,000 years. And while the carbon dating technique is well known and understood (the ratio of carbon-14 to other carbon isotopes is measured to determine the age of objects containing the remnants of any living thing), the reason for carbon-14's slow decay has not been understood. Why, exactly, does carbon-14 have a half-life of nearly 6,000 years while other light atomic nuclei have half-lives of minutes or seconds? (Half-life is the time it takes for ...

Students who struggle to learn mathematics may have a neurocognitive disorder that inhibits the acquisition of basic numerical and arithmetic concepts, according to a new paper by University of Minnesota and British researchers. Called developmental dyscalculia, the disorder affects roughly the same number of people as dyslexia but has received much less attention (and research funding). The paper by University of Minnesota Educational Psychology assistant professor Sashank Varma and his British colleagues that shines a light on the causes of and interventions for dyscalculia ...

A University of Toronto study shows that when formerly depressed people experience mild states of sadness, their brain's response can predict if they will become depressed again. "Part of what makes depression such a devastating disease is the high rate of relapse," says Norman Farb, a PhD psychology student and lead author of the study. "However, the fact that some patients are able to fully maintain their recovery suggests the possibility that different responses to the type of emotional challenges encountered in everyday life could reduce the chance of relapse." Farb ...

Business Review Australia takes a look at Fronius Australia. Austrian-based Fronius International has been developing and manufacturing welding equipment and battery technology for over half a century. Since 1995, Fronius expanded its operations to include solar power electronics. With operations spanning the globe, Fronius inverters have been available to the Australian market since 1992. Fronius International realized the growing potential of the Australian solar power market and opened a solar electronics division in Melbourne in October 2010. Fronius Australia now ...

SAN ANTONIO (May 26, 2011) — Community-acquired pneumonia is the leading cause of infectious death among the elderly. Newly published research from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio suggests why older people are vulnerable and offers a possible defense. The researchers found that when it comes to aging and pneumonia, one bad apple can ruin the barrel. Lung cells that were supposed to die due to DNA damage — but didn't — were 5 to 15 times more susceptible to invasion by pneumonia-causing bacteria. These bad apples also increased the susceptibility ...

PHOENIX, Ariz. — May 26, 2011 — A family of naturally occurring plant compounds could help prevent or delay memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). Beta-carboline alkaloids could potentially be used in therapeutic drugs to stop, or at least slow down, the progressively debilitating effects of Alzheimer's, according to the study published recently in the scientific journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) One. One of these alkaloids, called harmine, inhibits a protein known as ...

Tacrolimus, a drug that is commonly used to prevent organ transplantation rejection, inhibits breast cancer growth in pre-clinical studies. The finding from UNC scientists was reported in the May 26th PLoS ONE. Nancy Klauber-DeMore, MD, associate professor of surgery, said, " We now have a rationale for performing human clinical trials to determine if Tacrolimus reduces breast cancer growth in humans. Since Tacrolimus is already an FDA-approved drug, the safety and toxicity profile is known, which means that Tacrolimus could potentially go directly into a later stage ...

Leading law firm, Marks & Sokolov, is pleased to announce Managing Director, Bruce S. Marks, will moderate a prestigious panel at the 3rd US Russia Business Council Legal Forum. A world leader in US, Russian and Ukrainian law and litigation, Bruce S. Marks brings a unique and important perspective to the forum. Taking place in London on June 9th, 2011, the forum will gather the world's leading practitioners in US Russian commercial legal matters. Bruce S. Marks will moderate a panel entitled 'Legal Reform and the Courts in Russia'. It's more than two years since ...

WASHINGTON — Despite being used for several decades, test-based incentives have not consistently generated positive effects on student achievement, says a new report from the National Research Council. The report examines evidence on incentive programs, which impose sanctions or offer rewards for students, teachers, or schools on the basis of students' test performance. Federal and state governments have increasingly relied on incentives in recent decades as a way to raise accountability in public education and in the hope of driving improvements in achievement. School-level ...

People suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD — a severe mental illness characterized by debilitating misperceptions that one appears disfigured and ugly — process visual information abnormally, even when looking at inanimate objects, according to a new UCLA study. First author Dr. Jamie Feusner, a UCLA assistant professor of psychiatry, and colleagues found that patients with the disorder have less brain activity when processing holistic visual elements that provide the "big picture," regardless of whether that picture is a face or an object. The research ...

Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people realize. Space age advancements from point-of-care health technologies like telemedicine to medical robots performing surgery are fast becoming commonplace in many hospitals. What's next? Ask NJIT Distinguished Professor Atam Dhawan, an electrical engineer and associate dean of the NJIT Albert Dorman Honors College, chair of the the IEEE emerging technology committee, and workshop chair for the upcoming 33rd IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Annual International ...

Market reports May 24 showed that gold and silver had regained their standing as 'safe haven' investments, with gold remaining comfortably above the $1500 an ounce benchmark, closing the day at $1523, the highest price for three weeks. Silver has also bounced back to close, May 24, at $36.12. Mounting concerns over European debt following rumors of a Greek default helped drive investors back toward the 'safety net' of precious metals. The UK, Italy, Spain and Portugal were causing concern as they faced reduced credit ratings and, in the case of Spain, a change of government. ...

TEMPE, Ariz.- A Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing low-cost, renewable biofuels from bacteria. The team has reprogrammed photosynthetic microbes to secrete high-energy fats, making byproduct recovery and conversion to biofuels easier and potentially more commercially viable. "The real costs involved in any biofuel production are harvesting the goodies and turning them into fuel," said Roy Curtiss, of the Institute's Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology and professor ...

Liverpool welcomes An Evening with the Legendary John Cleese to the Empire Theatre at the end of the month. Few comedians can claim to have had such a huge impact on the British canon of comedy as Cleese, who made his name in Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers. With scenes like the 'Dead Parrot Sketch' and his hilarious silly walks, the 71-year-old has become a national treasure. People heading to the show in Liverpool on May 31st can expect to enjoy his trademark sense of humour combined with insight into his long and successful career. Speaking ...

PHILADELPHIA— Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have shed new light on the longstanding conundrum about what makes a tumor grow—and how to make it stop. Interestingly, cancer cells accelerate the aging of nearby connective tissue cells to cause inflammation, which ultimately provides "fuel" for the tumor to grow and even metastasize. This revealing symbiotic process, which is similar to how muscle and brain cells communicate with the body, could prove useful for developing new drugs to prevent and treat cancers. In this simple model, our bodies provide ...

TEMPE, Ariz. – A newly announced NASA mission to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth will include an instrument built at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE). The ASU instrument will analyze long-wavelength infrared light emitted from the asteroid to map the minerals on its surface. The device is a modified version of the highly successful miniature infrared spectrometers carried on Spirit and Opportunity, NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers. The new asteroid sample-return mission is called OSIRIS-REx, an acronym standing ...

The Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville will stage a production of Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo this summer. It will be performed four times between June 24th and July 3rd with musical accompaniment by the Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla. The powerful story, which paints Spain's Phillip II as a cruel tyrant, is one of the composer's most acclaimed pieces. In Seville, Pedro Halffter takes on directorial duties, while the cast is led by Fiorenza Cedolins, Dolora Zajick and Walter Fraccaro as the titular character. The plot revolves around Don Carlo's wife-to-be ...