Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 2 February 2010 at 03:46:00 New platform will offer Google Apps extensions Google is reportedly preparing a new service to allow third-party developers to sell plug-ins for the Google Apps platform and other web-based services….
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Google poised to sell enterprise apps
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 2 February 2010 at 03:45:00 Holiday deal comes to an end in the US Google has ended its programme to provide free Wi-Fi in US airports, and will pull the plug on nearly all of the 54 wireless networks it was sponsoring as well…
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 2 February 2010 at 03:44:00 Electronic Frontier Foundation urges vendors to come clean on business in China The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pressing seven major technology companies to stop working on China’s web monitoring and censorship systems….
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Activists call out Great Firewall tech partners
Decreased muscle strength is associated with difficulty in performing functional activities such as stooping, crouching, or kneeling (SCK) in older adults, according to an observational study published in the January issue of Physical Therapy (PTJ), the scientific journal of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).
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Decreased muscle strength predicts functional impairments in older adults
Potentially beneficial brain changes (an increase in the volume of an area known as the hippocampus) occur in response to exercise both in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. The findings suggest that the brain retains some plasticity, or ability to adapt, even in those with psychotic disorders.
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Exercise may increase volume in certain brain areas of patients with schizophrenia
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 2 February 2010 at 02:03:00 National intelligence services or anti-green forces responsible, says former UK chief scientist The UK government’s former chief scientist, Sir David King, has claimed that the hacking of climate research emails was planned either by a government agency or by lobbyists hoping to…
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Climate email hack ‘a professional job’
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 2 February 2010 at 01:29:00 But industry well positioned for growth in 2010 Global chip sales fell nine per cent during 2009 but are on track to increase this year, according to new data from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)….
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Global chip sales down nine per cent over 2009
He might not be using sophisticated technology in his weather forecasts, but famous groundhog prognosticator Punxsutawney Phil will take a step into the 21st century Tuesday morning when he sends his annual prediction by text.
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This Groundhog Day, Punxsutawney Phil Goes High-Tech
Nobody worried about cold-weather performance of electric vehicle battery packs when it was warm outside, but now that Old Man Winter has descended, the problem is beginning to surface. When cars have a range of no more than 100 miles, the loss of 20 to 30 percent of that is a very big issue indeed.
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In winter’s chill, cold batteries mean trouble for plug-in cars
Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (February 1, 2010) – Through the use of instructional DVDs, parents of children with autism can learn how to teach their child to communicate and improve their behavior, according to research published in the January 2010 issue of The Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions.
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Distance education for parents of children with autism found effective
Addition of the contrast agent gadolinium during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for primary tumor assessment improved accuracy for detecting lymph node metastases, according to a new study published online February 1 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Gadolinium-enhanced MRI is primarily used to visualize primary tumors, highlight tumor vascularity, and increasingly to detect and evaluate lymph node metastases. In light of this systematic review, the authors recommend that contrast highlighting be included as a malignancy criterion when this agent is used for primary tumor visualization.
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Contrast agent with MRI improves detection of lymph nodes metastases
Individuals at extremely high risk of developing psychosis appear less likely to develop psychotic disorders following a 12-week course of fish oil capsules containing long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
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Fish oil may reduce the risk of psychotic disorders in high-risk individuals
New Mexico is known for amazing local cuisine, Aztec ruins and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In the January issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, paleontologists Thomas Williamson of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Thomas Carr of Carthage College bring a new superstar to the state.
The search for new drug compounds is probably worse than looking for a needle in a haystack because scientists are limited in the size of the haystacks they can rummage through -time and money make it virtually impossible to screen or search through super-large libraries of potential compounds. This is a serious problem, because there is enormous interest in identifying synthetic molecules that bind to proteins for applications in drug discovery, biology, and proteomics, and larger libraries should mean higher odds of success.
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Scientists create new way to screen libraries of 10 million or more compounds
Everyone checks themselves in the mirror now and then, but that experience can be horrifying for individuals suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD, a psychiatric condition that causes them to believe, wrongly, that they appear disfigured and ugly. These people tend to fixate on minute details – every tiny blemish looms huge – rather than viewing their face as a whole.
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Why the mirror lies: Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder see their own faces differently
A new study weighs in on the controversy over sex education, finding that an abstinence-only intervention for pre-teens was more successful in delaying the onset of sexual activity than a health-promotion control intervention. After two years, one-third of the abstinence-only group reported having sex, compared to one-half of the control group.
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Tweens sexual activity delayed by theory-based abstinence-only program
Single mutations in genes involved with nerve cell formation and growth appear to be associated with the risk of attempting suicide among individuals with depression, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the April print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Genetic mutations associated with suicide risk among patients with depression
Patients who received the antidepressant escitalopram following a stroke appeared to recover more of their thinking, learning and memory skills than those taking placebo or participating in problem-solving therapy, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
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Antidepressant may result in improved cognitive function after stroke
New research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine may help more smokers keep their New Year’s resolution by helping them quit smoking. Extended use of a nicotine patch – 24 weeks versus the standard eight weeks recommended by manufacturers – boosts the number of smokers who maintain their cigarette abstinence and helps more of those who backslide into the habit while wearing the patch, according to a study which will be published in the February 2 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
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More smokers kick the habit with extended nicotine patch therapy, research shows
Print Anomalies In a previous blog, we reported a black background being displayed on transparent picture controls using an HP Color LaserJet 4700n PCL5 driver. We’ve continued to see a similar anomaly presented in the Pivot Chart printed output…( read more )
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Microsoft Access 2010 ATS-IF Updates