Construction Digital, the top digital media source for global construction news and information, investigates the latest trend in green architecture--biomimicry. Biomimicry is a relatively new term for a fundamentally old concept--taking inspiration from nature to design innovative, sustainable buildings. While many architects and engineers work within the parameters of the latest green building techniques, they need only look to a shell, termite mound or lotus flower to solve common design challenges. After all, nature is an accomplished architect in her own right. From ...

Everyone pledges allegiance to their favorite brands, but some brands give consumers an extra push with brand loyalty incentives. Sir Richard Branson's airline Virgin Atlantic is one of those brands, offering a Gold Card membership to its frequent flyers and the promise of an extra-luxurious airport stay and transatlantic flight. But the true experience of being a Gold Card holder can hardly be described unless you've had the pleasure yourself. In Exec Digital's April issue, Founder and CEO Glen White discusses his first-hand experience with the Virgin Atlantic Gold ...

The 1st International Congress on Allergology and Immunology will look at the latest findings within each field and feature leading experts who will be sharing their knowledge and insights into related subjects. The convention will be divided into six core sessions which will analyse topics such as whether allergic diseases can be prevented, current conditions related to asthma and the increases in food allergies. Speakers at the event will be a selection of professors from different countries including the USA, UK, Germany and Italy to provide a rounded perspective ...

Continuing the expansion course it has begun in the most dynamic cities of France, the French hotel brand Book Inn France has inaugurated in April 2011 two new hotels in Perpignan Saint-Assiscle TGV Station neighborhood. Currently in the process of receiving three and four star approvals, these 46 and 55 rooms hotels under Choice brand names Comfort and Quality are part of a business hub that includes a shopping center, office buildings and associated parking lots plus a state-of-the-art fitness center. The Centre del Mon project with 13,000 sq m. of commercial premises ...

Nameans may be the world's first name translation specialist service. This service checks out all the meanings of names in foreign languages, whether it be a baby name, a product name, or even a company name. When an applicant wants to know the meanings of a word in other languages and submits a name, native speakers registered with Nameans in every language search for words with the same or similar pronunciations. Their responses are compiled by Nameans staff and sent to the applicant in PDF format. Examples of How Nameans is Used Nameans is mainly use for ...

Dr. Hamon and Dr. De Buyl of Hamon, De Buyl and Associates, dentists in Katy, are pleased to announce that patients can now interact with them more closely through the launch of the practice's social media channels, Facebook and Twitter. With the introduction of these social media websites, patients can now access more personalized information, as well as learn more about other patient's experiences with this dentist in Katy, TX. Patients can easily join this Katy cosmetic dentist's Facebook and Twitter pages by visiting the practice's website. Once a patient is in the ...

Premier Provo dentist, Dr. Huang of Ninth East Dental, generates new educational resources for enhanced patient knowledge via the practice's website. Patients can now visit this dentist in Provo's website to access the patient education library, full of an array of dental health care information. The patient education library was created to further engage and inform patients on various dental procedures and treatments. Serving patients in the Provo area, Dr. Adrian Huang and his experienced dental staff believe that educated patients make better, informed decisions ...

In the summer of 2003, recent NYU grad Eugene Katchalov had aspirations of becoming a Wall Street day trader. The 29-year-old Ukranian-born Brooklyn native knew little if anything about poker, much less online poker. Even as he gradually honed his skills in $10 home games, he still didn't see poker as much more than a hobby. Today, he's the newest member of Team PokerStars Pro, has over $6.1 million in career poker tournament earnings and travels the world playing events with buy-ins up to $100k. As for the trading? "I still dabble in trading a little, and ...

Fast Track Your Options Trading Webinar The goal of this Webinar is to teach you how to select stocks for Options Trading using MetaStock Charting software with TechniTrader Fast Track Options Tools that streamline the options selection process. The webinar will take place Tuesday, April 19, 2011 6:00 PM EDT When: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 6:00 PM EDT Description: Are you less than 75% successful trading options? Are you frustrated with your lack of options profits? Do you want to learn options but find all those Greeks, Implied Volatility, Chains, and Strategies ...

Conveyors are designed to fit into extremely tight spaces. But cantilever stand mounts from Dorner Manufacturing can help open them up. Cantilever stands support the conveyor from only one side, which opens the other side up for easy access and quick belt changes. This feature is ideal when conveyors are placed it tight locations or for applications that require a higher number than normal belt changes. Standard conveyor stands often have to be removed to facilitate a belt change; cantilever stands allow the belt to slide right off without removing stands, and by only ...

Contact: Erik Lykke Mortensen, M.Sc. elme@sund.ku.dk 45-3532-7839 (Denmark) University of Copenhagen Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research Population-based study confirms parental alcoholism carries risk for offspring to develop the same Researchers know that there is a strong link between parental alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and the risk for developing an AUD among their offspring. This study looked at the risk of AUDs in the offspring of a large population-based sample of Danish parents. Findings confirmed that parental AUDs were associated with ...

Contact: Eric D. Claus, Ph.D. eclaus@mrn.org 505-925-4742 The Mind Research Network Daniel W. Hommer, M.D. danh@mail.nih.gov 301-402-6094 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research Researchers link alcohol-dependence impulsivity to brain anomalies Alcohol dependence (AD) is strongly associated with impaired impulse control. A new study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine impulsive choices among people with a range of alcohol use disorders (AUDs). Findings suggest that impulsive ...

Contact: Marjolein de Wit, M.D., M.S. mdewit@mcvh-vcu.edu 804-828-9071 Virginia Commonwealth University Claudia D. Spies, M.D. claudia.spies@charite.de 49-30-450-551002 (Germany) Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research Health care-associated infections are exacerbated by alcohol use disorders Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are infections that patients acquire during their hospitalization and that were not present at the time of admission to the hospital. A new study has found that people with ...

Contact: Cecile A. Marczinski, Ph.D. marczinskc1@nku.edu 859-572-1438 Northern Kentucky University Amelia M. Arria, Ph.D. aarria@umd.edu 301-405-9795 University of Maryland School of Public Health Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research Drinking energy beverages mixed with alcohol may be riskier than drinking alcohol alone A new laboratory study compares the effects of alcohol alone versus alcohol mixed with an energy drink on a cognitive task, as well as participants' reports of feelings of intoxication. Results show that energy drinks can ...

DETROIT – Non-cardiac surgery can be performed safely in patients with a heart device typically implanted into patients waiting for a transplant, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a mechanical pump implanted in the chest to help a weakened heart pump blood. The devices are increasingly used in the United States, where heart failure affects five million people, but there are less than 3,000 donor organs available annually worldwide. Last year, nearly 2500 patients were implanted with the device in the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 14, 2011 – Novocure today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the NovoTTF-100A System (NovoTTF) for the treatment of adult patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) brain tumors, following tumor recurrence after receiving chemotherapy. The portable, wearable device delivers an anti-mitotic, anti-cancer therapy as patients maintain their normal daily activities. The NovoTTF is a novel, first-in-class treatment option for patients and physicians battling glioblastoma. "Our device provides patients and physicians ...

Adam Acar and Yuya Muraki of the Kobe City University of Foreign Studies surveyed and questioned Twitter users and tracked updates from people in the disaster-struck area on the social media site two weeks after the Tohoku earthquake and devastating tsunami of March 11. They hoped to determine what benefits such a system can bring to people involved in a disaster and to those hoping to hear news. The researchers found that people in directly affected areas tended to tweet about their unsafe and uncertain situation while people in remote areas posted messages to let their ...

A new paper appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggests that people, governments, and institutions that shape the way people interact may be just as important for determining environmental conditions as the environmental processes themselves. "Tipping points," qualitative changes in an ecosystem that often result in reduced ecosystem health and are difficult and costly to reverse increasingly concern environmental scientists. The prevailing assumption among scientists has been that tipping points are fixed values. However, a unique ...

Today, scientists from the XENON collaboration announced the result from their search for the elusive component of our universe known as dark matter. After analyzing one hundred days of data taken with the XENON100 experiment, they see no evidence for the existence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), the leading candidates for the mysterious dark matter. The XENON100 experiment is operated deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the Italian National Institute for Physics (INFN). While the group observed three candidate events, two had been ...

PHILADELPHIA – (April 15, 2011) – The proteins that provide cells with a sense of personal space could lead to a therapeutic target for Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2), an inherited cancer disorder, according to researchers at The Wistar Institute. Their findings, which appear in the April 12 issue of the journal Cancer Cell, could have profound implications for NF2 and related cancers, such as mesothelioma. The researchers describe, for the first time, that Merlin, the protein encoded within the NF2 gene interacts with a protein called angiomotin. This connection between ...

Tips to reduce your carbon footprint frequently include buying compact florescent light bulbs, taking your own bag to the grocery store or buying local produce. But how much difference do these actions make? A new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that who you are and where you live make a big difference in which activities have the largest impact. "Everyone has a unique carbon footprint," says Christopher M. Jones, lead author of the study and a researcher in UC Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL). "There ...

In Massachusetts, workers' compensation benefits are available to those who suffer injury in the course of employment. The amount of weekly benefits an injured worker will receive is determined by the average weekly wage calculation, which is the average weekly earnings the employee took home for the year prior to the date of his or her injury. While this calculation may seem rather straightforward, it can be more complex and nuanced than one might anticipate. Many injured workers are surprised to learn that benefits that their employers paid prior to the injury, such ...

In a recent decision by the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, an employee who suffered serious injuries in a motor vehicle accident on his way to work was denied workers' compensation benefits after a judge found that the accident was caused by the employee's willful misconduct. The employee in the case flew from his home in Florida to work as a welder at his employer's facility in Massachusetts, an incinerator in Haverhill. The morning after he arrived, he was unable to locate a supervisor, so he assumed he would be working the day shift beginning the ...

Colorado distracted driving accidents can result from many types of negligent behavior. Using cell phones and other handheld electronic devices, eating, applying makeup, and talking to passengers are among the most common reasons for a driver to forget about the road for only a second or two. Just a moment's inattention is enough for a speeding vehicle to run a red light, rear-end another vehicle, miss a curve or drift over the center line into oncoming traffic. Colorado law prohibits texting by all drivers and bans cell phone use by drivers under the age of 18, and ...

Eurostar has revealed it will be changing its branding and introducing new service enhancements for its customers, with Eurostar wishing to reflect its plans and ambitions for the business in the future. Over the last few years Eurostar has seen a big increase in the number of passengers choosing to connect through Lille, Brussels and Paris Gare du Nord to other destinations. This has been driven by shorter journey times and the growing desire among customers to travel in an environmentally responsible, sustainable way. Whereas in the past Eurostar was an unincorporated ...