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Congratulations!Carmem Pfeifer, PhD was recognized as OHSU's New Inventor of the Year at the 2015 Technology Transfer and Business Development Awards ceremony on October 19th. This is a tremendous honor, and was awarded to Dr. Pfeifer based on her work to develop new biologically stable monomer systems and strength enhancing additives for dental composites, adhesives and cements.
Luiz Bertassoni, PhD, published a new book, with co-author Paolo Coehlo from NYU, entitled Engineering Materialized and Load Bearing Tissues, by Springer. This book offers a comprehensive overview of current challenges and strategies to regenerate load-bearing and calcified human tissues, including bone, cartilage, tendon, ligaments and dental structures (dentin, enamel, cementum and periodontal ligament). The publication represents a lot of work on Dr. Bertassoni's part, but it has resulted in a great contribution to biomedical engineering.
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Shahnaz Bebal's Group
Shahnaz is a seamstress. In order to support her family financially, she stitches clothes for her neighboring customers. She has operated this business for many years and is well known in her community for the quality of her work. Her husband, B., is a loader by profession. He loads different items such as fruits, vegetables and construction materials (such as bricks and cement) on his donkey cart and delivers them to their destinations.
Shahnaz is the mother of three sons and two daughters. She only managed to provide education to her eldest son who is in 5th standard. She has applied for a loan from Kiva partner, Asasah, for her brother-in-law who operates a fruit-selling business in the market. With the loan, he will purchase fresh seasonal fruits in bulk (to minimize the purchase cost) in order to fulfill customer orders on a timely basis. Shahnaz's brother-in-law has operated this business for 15 years and Shahnaz is hopeful that an investment will bring even more profits to him. She is a new loan user of Asasah and this is her first loan application.
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In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Regardless of your looking to get away from tape, you still need a way to send your backups away. A NAS or SAN is nice, if you can afford the entry costs, and the associated administrative headaches of setting up all the clients.
However, there is a major problem with a SAN for an enterprise: Common location physical disaster, almost a (albeit large) single point of failure. If tapes or remote backup or something of that ilk are NOT used, then a fire, building collapse, hurricane, civil society disruption, localized blackout or any number of area covering disasters will take you down entirely. In this case, your backup media will be affected just like your prime site. Tapes, blue-ray dvd's, removable disk packs, *anything* that can go off site to a nice safe cave or such is much to be desired.
The last company I worked with had their remote replication backup over redundant OC-nn dedicated fiber. The primary site was well out of the flood plain and in a building without windows to the data spaces, and hardened to withstand an old standard rated F4 tornado. (don't want to bother looking it up the new eF scale..)
The concern that some of raised was the backup site was still within 20 km of the primary business location. A little too close for some DRP types.
Bottom line: NAS ok for local user recovery, but don't bet yor job or your Disaster Recovery Plan on it.
The regulatory bottom line is also if HIPPA or SarBox or other such standards apply to your company, then I would not want to justify an onsite NAS to a regulator or auditor.
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If you don't agree then you're not a true ( insert religion here)
Ali, Mommy of Taelyn Clare, Verity Frank, and Axton Cody Lee.
I take comparisons to cave parents about as seriously as I take comparisons to French parents. (RVC)
This fits with so many more things than just religion. I am personally all about self assessment when it comes to things like this. I am not interested in giving others labels or whatever... maybe I am just too self absorbed.
No...it sounds judgemental rude...follow your heart :-)
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity! - Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one knows what is in my heart.
I take comparisons to cave parents about as seriously as I take comparisons to French parents. (RVC)
No, they have no right to judge you. Just because you have your own beliefs does not mean your way of thinking is incorrect. I believe there are many pathways to God and there is not one ultimate and true religion that leads you to God. Keep finding your own way and relationship with God, and be comfortable with your own beliefs. If they make you feel less than they are in the wrong and need to evaluate their own beliefs and not you.
Let's evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
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How do you decide which parts of the bible to follow? I'm an Atheist and I kind of agree with the extremely religious. At least they follow it completely, they don't pick and choose what to believe and then call it the truth.
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Wonderful new cfw. got everything up and running in about 10 minutes on my old PSP fat. Cheers to devos, I couldn't live without playing my motorstorm from my ms.
Wonderful new cfw. got everything up and running in about 10 minutes on my old PSP fat. Cheers to devos, I couldn't live without playing my motorstorm from my ms.
For the PSP 2000 with TA-088v3 motherboard and the PSP 3000 owners some good news: there's also an update coming for their Custom Firmware. Custom Firmware 5.03 GEN-B is coming on 31'st of October and will have these new functions (simular to 5.50 GEN-D2).
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- PS1 games compatibility
- Protected UMD/backup compatibility
- 5.55 + UMD/backups compatibility.
- GEN VSH MENU available
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I had problems updating from genb but updating to genb2 allowed me to go to gend then d2 without any problems.. psp works great!
i hate to say it but im sticking with 5.00 M33-6. the gen fw bricked my psp horribly, i have a post somewhere around here describing my gen fw mis-adventures, i'd rather just patch my iso's and keep my sanity.
I have gen 5.50-B but when i try to update to gen 5.50-d it loads to black screen and stops... any ideas. I need to update to be able to run gen 5.50-d2
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This boxing film based on an true story etches forth some grace in the difficult twists and turns that are experienced by these central characters in there struggles with fame and the twists and turns of personal fortune.
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A silly implementation of a workable premise is saved by loads of terrific, snappy one-liners in "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past." Matthew McConaughey, aided by a hip and catchy Michael Douglas, manages to deliver a performance so immersed in funny lines that you can stay with the film just anticipating what he's going to say next. The concept of a promiscuously womanizing Vanity Fair photographer, whose only dedication is dumping women after he's convinced them that love is on the way, is in itself ultimately fertile in bringing up many issues of the deeper meanings of a married life versus lifetime bachelorhood.
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The Scariest Ghost Movies of All Time
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Stories of ghosts and their misdeeds have been around since the beginning of time. Of course, they make the perfect subject for horror movies. Here is a list of some of the scariest ghost movies of all time-tune up your HD TV and turn off the lights as you prepare to be scared.
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Best Movie Posters of 2010
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Movie poster plays an important role in attracting audience for a new film because it makes balance between advertising and art. Suppose that you accidentally go to the cinema with your friends and don't know which is attracting among a series of movies. In this case, one detailed and well-designed poster may lead you to right decisions. For example, if you like horror films, an image of terrible and bloody ghosts showing on the poster can interest you. Now, let take a look at the list of ten best movie posters in 2010 including: Buried, The Expendables, I'm Still Here, Joan Rivers, Toy Story 3, For Colored Girls, Carlos, The Social Network, From Paris With Love and Inception.
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The 37-year-old is back to Bollywood after a long time with Ghost movie. Shiney Ahuja has come up with a horror movie with all nerve chilling effects and scenes, making you bite your nails. The movie is directed by Puja Jatiner Bedi and produced by Bharat Shah. The main protagonists of the movie are Shiney Ahuja and Sayali Bhagat.
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The Yes Movie
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The YES Movie by Louis Lautman is a collection of interviews of dozens of young Millionaires and well-seasoned mentors, holding their feet to the fire and digging deep for insider answers on how to start AND sustain a successful business.
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The Tempest Movie 2010 Review Online
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For those of you not in the know, here's the plot: Prospero (Plummer), the rightful Duke of Milan, was banished to a mysterious island along with his comely daughter Miranda (Trish Lindström). During his 12-year exile, Prospero's become a formidable sorcerer. When a shipload of his enemies, including Alonso the King of Naples (Peter Hutt), sail near the island, Prospero uses his magical spirit Ariel (Julyana Soelistyo) to conjure up a storm to deliver his former tormentors into his power.
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Ghost: Paranoid Trail of Murders
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Once again the Bollywood industry welcomes Shiney Ahuja for his acting ability. His comeback is featured on screen in the forthcoming Ghost movie. His appearance on the silver screen is vanished after his maid made a serious rape accusation on him.
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Miral Movie Review
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The "Miral" is a 2010 biographical political movie directed by Julian Schnabel. The screenplay went written by Rula Jebreal, built-up on her novel. The film was released on 3 September at the 2010 Venice Film Festival and on 15 September 2010 in France. The film is set for release on 3 December 2010 in the United Kingdom and on 25 March 2011 in the United States.
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Story is called as Kahaani in Hindi, Kahaani is an excellent move directed by Sujoy Ghosh, and he has conceptualized and executed the movie very well, once again hats off to the director. Vidya Balan, a Bengali who has created a sensational in Hindi movies, wants to see her self in different characters all the time. Now, she has turned into pregnant women.
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Movie Poster Design
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What would movies be without movie posters? Movie posters are great promotional materials and contribute significantly to box office sales. Movie poster prints as large, graphic formats serve as the earliest form of teasers and trailers. Over the years, aesthetic styles and direction of movie posters have changed to reflect artistic genres and artists', directors' and moviegoers' preferences. The course of these creative changes has produced some of the greatest and most memorable posters of all time.
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Every time that you are going to come across a famous Greek figurine lying on a broken piece of porcelain, and a warrior who is equipped with not only a helmet and a breastplate but also a short steel sword in his hands, is a spitting an image of the famous Spartan sword and the respective warrior then comes to one's mind.
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MAKScientific, a company focused on therapeutics that modulate cannabinoid pathways, entered into an exclusive, worldwide option and collaboration agreement with Biogen Idec in multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases. Biogen Idec will receive an option for an exclusive license to select discovery-stage MAKScientific drug candidates for all indications worldwide.
Upon Biogen Idec's exercise of the option, MAKScientific will receive an exercise fee of up to $3 million and up to an additional $31 million in milestone payments associated with the clinical development of the drug candidates. In addition, MAKScientific will be eligible to royalties on net sales worldwide.
The company says that its technology provides a way to create medications without the undesirable psychotropic side effects associated with cannabis. It has designed and synthesized compounds that are in advanced preclinical development for the treatment of obesity and metabolic disorders, neuropathic and inflammatory pain, addiction, and neurodegenerative diseases. The firm holds an extensive library of over 12,000 druggable compounds covering the key therapeutic areas it is pursuing.
The human body produces endogenous cannabinoids called endocannabinoids, a family of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators. A major role of the endocannabinoid system is to protect brain cells from neuronal damage. This is accomplished by releasing endocannabinoids that are subsequently deactivated by special enzymes, the most promising of which is fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH). Compounds capable of selectively inhibiting this enzyme can produce increased levels of endocannabinoids capable of neuroprotective action.
For this reason, FAAH inhibitors can serve as medications for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis as well as Parkinson and Alzheimer disease. MAKScientific says that it has developed FAAH inhibitors with demonstrated potent neuroprotective properties and excellent safety profiles. Of these, MAK5206 is being explored as a medication for multiple sclerosis.
Biogen Idec's MS pipeline comprises Peg IFN, BG-12, and daclizumab, all of which are in Phase III for relapsing forms. Anti-Lingo is being investigated in Phase I. The company's approved portfolio of MS medications include Avonex (relapsing remitting), Tysabri (relapsing remitting), and Ampyra (to improve walking). All approved candidates are being further studied in other types of MS as well as in different formulations.
Last year Tysabri's revenues increased 20% year-over-year to $1.1 billion. Avonex revenues increased 7% year-over-year to $2.7 billion. And Ampyra, which began selling in 2011, logged about $13.57 million in 2011.
One theory for explaining "success," put forward by Amy Chua Jed Rubenfeld, posits cultural traits such as a superiority complex, personal insecurity and impulse control. Union College professors Joshua Hart and Christopher Chabris counter that intelligence, conscientiousness, and economic advantage are the most likely elements of success, regardless of ethnicity. Do you think that Hart-Chabris make a better argument for achieving success than the Chua-Rubenfeld theory?
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Irish Dominate With 42 Top-Five Finishes At The Polytan Invitational
Margaret Bamgbose led all roster members with three event victories.
Irish To Be Represented In Three Meets This Week
Notre Dame Travels to California and Bloomington, Ind.
Irish Pick Up Six Second-Place Finishes At The Spartan Invitational
Nevada Sorenson sets the second-best time in the BIG EAST in the 100mH.
Track And Field Set For This Weekend's Spartan Invitational
The two-day meet gets underway Friday afternoon.
Irish Track And Field Opens Outdoor Season In Houston
Notre Dame is set to compete in the 31st annual Victor Lopez Invitational.
AS A SENIOR:Saw action in 11 meets during the indoor/outdoor track & field season, competing exclusively in the weight throw (indoor) and hammer throw (outdoor) ... recorded a season-best mark in the weight throw (18.88m) during a fifth place finish at the ACC Indoor Championships ... concluded season and collegiate career with a 10th place finish (52.28m) in the hammer throw at the ACC Outdoor Championships ... earned a fifth place finish (18.36m) in the weight throw at the Meyo Invitational ... earned a monogram.
AS A JUNIOR: Competed in 12 meets during the indoor and outdoor track & field season ... participated in the shot put, hammer throw and weight throw ... finished third in the shot put (13.91m) and third in the hammer throw (52.76m) at the Polytan Invitational ... finished fourth in the weight throw (18.09m) at the Alex Wilson Invitational ... placed second in the weight thrown at indoor Blue & Gold Invitational ... achieved personal best hammer throw (54.71m) at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championship ... named to the Dean's List following the fall 2012 semester ... earned a monogram.
AS A SOPHOMORE: Competed in 11 meets during the indoor and outdoor track & field seasons ... participated in the shot put, hammer and weight throw ... finished fifth at the BIG EAST Indoor Track & field Championships in the weight throw (18.30m) ... placed third at the Notre Dame Blue & Gold Invitational in weight throw (16.63m) ... had three sixth place finishes ... named a BIG EAST Academic All-Star ... ... named to the Dean's List following both semesters ... earned a monogram.
AS A FRESHMAN: Did not compete with the Irish during the track & field season.
HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Two-time letterwinner in track & field and football at St. Charles Prep (Ohio) ... went undefeated in football during freshman season ... conference champion in track & field during junior and senior campaigns ... team captain for the track & field team senior season ... all-conference selection junior and senior years in track & field ... held the school shot put record of 50'11" at time of graduation ... National Honor Society vice president ... member of student council ... born in Columbus, Ohio ... son of Jim and Shelli ... father played basketball at Bethany College ... has two siblings ... enrolled in the College of Science and is majoring in science business with a minor in science, technology and values.


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ROCK THE HOUSE — Shorty Fest, which features a range of professional and student talent, benefits the Trombone Shorty Foundation's music education programs. The concert took place Thursday (April 28) at the House of Blues in New Orleans.
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|Summer Lyric's GiveNOLA Day Cabaret
|"Merry as the Day Is Long": Shakespeare's Hand in New Orleans Exhibition
|Wave Goodbye
|Newcomb-Tulane College Senior Awards Ceremony
|Unified Commencement Ceremony
|Sonnets in the Gallery
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In Cabinet Picks, Loyalty Counts ; as Bush Assembles His Team, Trust and Personal Ties Are Proving to Be Paramount. Is It Too Much of a Good Thing?
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Loyalty. It's an epoxy-like ethic that binds together a team, a cause, a political party, or a nation.
For a new president assembling his team, it can be an important factor - a lesson Bill Clinton learned the hard way, as internal dissent led to battles between aides and a raft of kiss-and-tell books.
But for George W. Bush, it's more than a consideration. Indeed, as his Cabinet takes shape, loyalty is emerging as an overarching principle in the president elect's picks. As much as issues, or even ideas, a kind of fraternal code - albeit one that includes women and minorities - may guide his administration, much as it did his father's.
So far, Mr. Bush has chosen people he implicitly trusts - most have ties to the Bush family or Dick Cheney. And he has pushed them, even warned them, to stay loyal.
Yet some analysts warn that, in this case, it's possible to have too much of a good thing. Absolute loyalty in the West Wing can bring too many "yes sirs," as opposed to honest advice. In the past, it has led to stagnation, or even scandal (think Watergate).
"In the context of all the kiss-and-tell books from Clinton staffers, Bush would be foolish not to think about loyalty," says Richard Harwood, president of the Harwood Institute in Bethesda, Md. But, he adds, the question for Bush - and any leader - is: "When does making people prove their loyalty undermine the advice you need to get from them?"
Ultimately, he says, much depends on how Bush defines loyalty. Is someone loyal if they're "providing good and sound information that lets him make a solid decision" - or does loyalty mean kowtowing to Bush and his top staff's opinions?
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Indeed, too much loyalty can lead to "a lack of honesty - and even a stale and uncreative … regime," says Professor Barber.
So far, Bush has enlisted a group likely to be quite loyal. His expected naming of longtime friend and Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson (R) as secretary of Health and Human Services, and chief campaign strategist Karl Rove to a top White House post, would continue that trend. But the effort to find a suitable Democrat in the name of bipartisanship is perhaps being flummoxed by loyalty considerations.
Past presidents have used the loyalties of different factions of aides in constructive ways. Franklin Roosevelt's staff, for instance, was known to be intensely loyal - and would go the direction he was leaning on an issue, says Christopher Arterton, a political scientist at George Washington University here.
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How To Talk Politics Among Polite Company Without Being An Asshole
Let me start off by saying this: there is a time and a place for raging and screaming about your political beliefs — when your rights are being trampled upon, for example, or when you're at a rally, or when you're speaking in front of a group of activists.
These are times to really let fly with your anger because these are times that you might actually be able to make a difference.
And that's wonderful. You should want to make a difference. But you should also know when raging about your politics will be less likely to affect change, and more likely to make you an asshole – and that time is when you're among polite company that's just trying to have a good time. After all, it's unlikely that any conversation you have at a dinner party will result in media coverage, but it is likely that if you start screaming about how people who like Obamacare are fucking morons that you're going to come across in a less than favorable light.
It is, therefore, from this angle that I'd like to approach the topic of how to talk about politics without being an asshole; from the angle, that is, of knowing when you really can have an effect, and when you are just exchanging ideas, agreeing or disagreeing, making some points, and then eating dessert. So here it is, the definitive list of friendly-politics-talking pointers:
1. Approach the conversation with an open mind. It may be true that if you love Rick Santorum and someone else believes that Rick Santorum is the devil in a sweater vest, you're probably never going to agree. But that doesn't mean you can't learn from each other — if nothing else, understanding other people's opinions when you disagree with them helps to strengthen your own point of view and get to know yourself better, in addition to making you a better person because your worldview has just become less narrow.
2. Don't be in it to win it. Of course you want to emerge the victor of your impromptu debate, but here's the big secret: no one is going to win. You're not being televised, you're not trying to generate votes, no one is waiting with a giant check at the end of the hour. And as much as you might like lobbing statistics out there to prove how right you are, that's called being an intellectual bully, and surprisingly it does not make you likable.
3. Have a sense of humor. You know who the most awesome person in the room always is? The one who has enough self-assuredness to laugh it off instead of becoming increasingly rabid when political debates get awkwardly intense. Think about how much you like the guy who's able to diffuse that situation. Think about how much you respect that guy. Now, try to be that guy.
4. Don't be an asshole. Here are some ways to tell if you're being an asshole:
?You snort out a condescending little laugh in response to something someone says.
?You try to rope the whole room into agreeing that someone is wrong.
?You make a face that looks anything like a face that George W. Bush ever made, ever.
?You start accusingly asking about someone's personal involvement with the topic at hand – i.e.: "Have YOU ever applied for food stamps?" "Did YOU ever go down to Occupy and TALK to them?"
5. Don't interrupt. It's just a dick move. Unless someone has displayed the behavior listed above, and you're interrupting them to let them know that you will now be exiting the conversation, let them finish their points. You won't die and neither will your cause.
In short, keep in mind that being an asshole serves no one. But more than that, sometimes being an asshole among polite company when talking politics has an even worse effect – it gets confused with actually doing something about politics, the same way that people feel as though they've contributed to a cause by saying what color bra they wear on Facebook. Rather than ostracize a group of strangers at your colleague's karaoke birthday party, you'd be better off to save up that irate energy and go volunteer somewhere.
In other words, put your asshole inclinations to good use. At parties, just have fun.
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The 26-year-old quarterback went down in the first quarter against the Browns on Saturday after taking a hit from Cleveland defensive lineman Armonty Bryant. Bradford was clutching his left knee as he went down, the same knee that he had ACL surgery on last season.
Bradford missed nine games last season after tearing his ACL in Week 7. The Rams quarterback also missed six games in 2011 with a variety of injuries, including a high ankle sprain.
After suffering the injury against Cleveland, Bradford actually walked off the field on his own power. He even told teammate Brian Quick that he thought he was OK. "I was a little nervous about it, but everything is all right. Sam told me that he's OK," Quick said after the game.
Bradford was 4 of 9 for 77 yards against the Browns before he went down with the injury.
With Bradford now out for the year, that means the reins to the St. Louis offense will be handed to backup quarterback Shaun Hill. Hill is entering his 13th year in the league and signed with the Rams after stints in Minnesota (2002-05), San Francisco (2006-09) and Detroit (2010-13).
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Students will be matched with local businesses to work on real life projects throughout the year, such as marketing or advertising campaigns, which they can add to a skills "portfolio" to show future employers.
The move comes as employers are becoming increasingly anxious about the number of graduates entering the world of work with little or no "employability skills".
Last week it emerged a growing number of A-level students were choosing to undertake apprenticeships with employers to improve their skill set, bypassing university amid fears of student debt and a tough jobs market.
However, Hilary Duckett, associate dean of teaching at Plymouth's School of Management, insisted regular periods of work experience built into the university's business degree course would help students secure the job they wanted by developing the skills that employers actually value.
She said: "In the past, business courses have tended to be quite theoretical and backwards looking by their very nature. Our approach will provide the opportunity to record workplace learning and higher level skills developed as part of higher education programmes."
Local businesses offering work experience to the students include Devonport Redevelopment Centre, disability advice organisation Plymouth Guild and KPMG.
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Link ID: 21469 - Posted: 10.03.2015
James Hamblin Mental exercises to build (or rebuild) attention span have shown promise recently as adjuncts or alternatives to amphetamines in addressing symptoms common to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Building cognitive control, to be better able to focus on just one thing, or single-task, might involve regular practice with a specialized video game that reinforces "top-down" cognitive modulation, as was the case in a popular paper in Nature last year. Cool but still notional. More insipid but also more clearly critical to addressing what's being called the ADHD epidemic is plain old physical activity. This morning the medical journal Pediatrics published research that found kids who took part in a regular physical activity program showed important enhancement of cognitive performance and brain function. The findings, according to University of Illinois professor Charles Hillman and colleagues, "demonstrate a causal effect of a physical program on executive control, and provide support for physical activity for improving childhood cognition and brain health." If it seems odd that this is something that still needs support, that's because it is odd, yes. Physical activity is clearly a high, high-yield investment for all kids, but especially those attentive or hyperactive. This brand of research is still published and written about as though it were a novel finding, in part because exercise programs for kids remain underfunded and underprioritized in many school curricula, even though exercise is clearly integral to maximizing the utility of time spent in class.
Erin Wayman Priya Rajasethupathy's research has been called groundbreaking, compelling and beautifully executed. It's also memorable. Rajasethupathy, a neuroscientist at Stanford University, investigates how the brain remembers. Her work probes the molecular machinery that governs memories. Her most startling — and controversial — finding: Enduring memories may leave lasting marks on DNA. Being a scientist wasn't her first career choice. Although Rajasethupathy inherited a love of computation from her computer scientist dad, she enrolled in Cornell University as a pre-med student. After graduating in three years, she took a year off to volunteer in India, helping people with mental illness. During that year she also did neuroscience research at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore. While there, she began to wonder whether microRNAs, tiny molecules that put protein production on pause, could play a role in regulating memory. She pursued that question as an M.D. and Ph.D. student at Columbia University (while intending, at least initially, to become a physician). She found some answers in the California sea slug (Aplysia californica). In 2009, she and colleagues discovered a microRNA in the slug's nerve cells that helps orchestrate the formation of memories that linger for at least 24 hours. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2015.
Keyword: Learning & Memory
Link ID: 21434 - Posted: 09.23.2015
Rachel Ehrenberg If not for a broken piece of lab equipment and a college crush, Steve Ramirez might never have gone into neuroscience. As an undergraduate at Boston University his interests were all over the place: He was taking a humanities course and classes in philosophy and biochemistry while working several hours a week in a biology lab. When the lab's centrifuge, a device that spins liquids, broke, Ramirez had to use one in another lab. "I was trying to make small talk with this girl who was using the centrifuge, 'What's your major?' kind of thing," Ramirez recalls. Hearing of his myriad interests, the student suggested that Ramirez talk with neuroscientist Paul Lipton. That led to a conversation with Howard Eichenbaum, a leading memory researcher. Eichenbaum told him that everything Ramirez was interested in was about the brain. "Everything from the pyramids to putting a man on the moon, it's all the product of the human brain, which is kind of crazy when you think about it," Ramirez says. Studying "the most interdisciplinary organ in existence," as Ramirez calls it, was a natural fit. While working in Eichenbaum's lab, Ramirez got turned on to how the brain forms memories. Those explorations led to a Ph.D. program at MIT in the lab of Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa, where Ramirez focused on the individual brain cells that hold specific memories. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2015.
Keyword: Emotions; Learning & Memory
Link ID: 21433 - Posted: 09.23.2015
By Michael Balter Are some animals smarter than others? It's hard to say, because you can't sit a chimpanzee or a mouse down at a table for an IQ test. But a new study, in which scientists tested wild robins on a variety of skills, concludes that they do differ in the kind of "general intelligence" that IQ tests are supposed to measure. General intelligence is usually defined as the ability to do well on multiple cognitive tasks, from math skills to problem solving. For years, researchers have questioned whether measurable differences exist in humans and nonhumans alike. In humans, factors like education and socioeconomic status can affect performance. When it comes to animals, the problem is compounded for two main reasons: First, it is very difficult to design and administer tests that pick up on overall smarts instead of specific skills, such as the keen memories of food-hoarding birds or the fine motor skills of chimpanzees that make tools for finding insects in trees. Second, differences in animal test scores can depend on how motivated they are to perform. Because most experiments award would-be test-takers with food, an empty (or a full) stomach might be all it takes to skew the results. Thus, even studies that suggest variations in intelligence among mice, birds, and apes all carry the caveat that alternative explanations could be at play. To get around some of these limitations, a team led by Rachael Shaw, an animal behavior researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, turned to a population of New Zealand North Island robins for a new round of experiments. The robins live at the Zealandia wildlife sanctuary, a 225-hectare nature paradise in Wellington where more than 700 of the birds live wild and protected from predators in the middle of the city. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Intelligence; Evolution
Link ID: 21424 - Posted: 09.20.2015
We all have our favourite movie moments, ones we love to watch again from time to time. Now it seems chimpanzees and bonobos, too, have the nous to recall thrilling scenes in movies they have previously seen and anticipate when they are about to come up. The results suggest apes can readily recall and anticipate significant recent events, just by watching those events once. Rather than use hidden food as a memory test, Japanese researchers made short movies and showed them to apes on two consecutive days. "We showed a movie instead, and asked whether they remember it when they only watch an event once, and an event totally new to them," says Fumihiro Kano of Kyoto University in Japan. "Their anticipatory glances told us that they did." Plot moment Kano and his colleague Satoshi Hirata made and starred in two short films. Another of the characters was a human dressed up as an ape in a King Kong costume who carried out attacks on people, providing the key plot moment in the first movie (see video). Both films were designed to contain memorable dramatic events, and the researchers deployed laser eye-tracking technology to see if the animals preferentially noticed and remembered these moments. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Learning & Memory
Link ID: 21421 - Posted: 09.20.2015
By AMY HARMON Some neuroscientists believe it may be possible, within a century or so, for our minds to continue to function after death — in a computer or some other kind of simulation. Others say it's theoretically impossible, or impossibly far off in the future. A lot of pieces have to fall into place before we can even begin to start thinking about testing the idea. But new high-tech efforts to understand the brain are also generating methods that make those pieces seem, if not exactly imminent, then at least a bit more plausible. Here's a look at how close, and far, we are to some requirements for this version of "mind uploading." The hope of mind uploading rests on the premise that much of the key information about who we are is stored in the unique pattern of connections between our neurons, the cells that carry electrical and chemical signals through living brains. You wouldn't know it from the outside, but there are more of those connections — individually called synapses, collectively known as the connectome — in a cubic centimeter of the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The basic blueprint is dictated by our genes, but everything we do and experience alters it, creating a physical record of all the things that make us US — our habits, tastes, memories, and so on. It is exceedingly tricky to transition that pattern of connections, known as the connectome, into a state where it is both safe from decay and can be verified as intact. But in recent months, two sets of scientists said they had devised separate ways to do that for the brains of smaller mammals. If either is scaled up to work for human brains — still a big if — then theoretically your brain could sit on a shelf or in a freezer for centuries while scientists work on the rest of these steps. © 2015 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Learning & Memory; Consciousness
Link ID: 21407 - Posted: 09.14.2015
Mo Costandi In an infamous set of experiments performed in the 1960s, psychologist Walter Mischel sat pre-school kids at a table, one by one, and placed a sweet treat – a small marshmallow, a biscuit, or a pretzel – in front of them. Each of the young participants was told that they would be left alone in the room, and that if they could resist the temptation to eat the sweet on the table in front of them, they would be rewarded with more sweets when the experimenter returned. The so-called Marshmallow Test was designed to test self-control and delayed gratification. Mischel and his colleagues tracked some of the children as they grew up, and then claimed that those who managed to hold out for longer in the original experiment performed better at school, and went on to become more successful in life, than those who couldn't resist the temptation to eat the treat before the researcher returned to the room. The ability to exercise willpower and inhibit impulsive behaviours is considered to be a core feature of the brain's executive functions, a set of neural processes - including attention, reasoning, and working memory - which regulate our behaviour and thoughts, and enable us to adapt them according to the changing demands of the task at hand. Executive function is a rather vague term, and we still don't know much about its underlying bran mechanisms, or about how different components of this control system are related to one another. New research shows that self-control and memory share, and compete with each other for, the same brain mechanisms, such that exercising willpower saps these common resources and impairs our ability to encode memories. © 2015 Guardian News and Media Limited
Keyword: Attention; Learning & Memory
Link ID: 21386 - Posted: 09.08.2015
Aftab Ali People who were born prematurely are less intelligent later on in life and earn less money as a result, according to a new study by the University of Warwick. Researchers at the Coventry-based institution said they found a link which connects pre-term birth with low reading and, in particular, maths skills which affect the amount of wealth accumulated as adults. Funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the researchers examined data from two other large studies, following children born more than a decade apart, with one group from 1958 and the other from 1970. In total, more than 15,000 individuals were surveyed – which recruited all children born in a single week in England, Scotland, and Wales. Data were examined for all individuals who were born at between 28 and 42 weeks gestational age, and who had available wealth information at the age of 42. Those participants who were born pre-term – at less than 37 weeks – were compared with those who were born full-term to find both groups' mathematical ability in childhood had a direct effect on how much they earned as an adult, regardless of later educational qualifications. In order to measure adult wealth, the researchers looked at factors including: family income and social class, housing and employment status, and their own perceptions of their financial situation. In regards to academic abilities, they examined: validated measures for mathematics, reading, and intelligence, along with ratings from teachers and parents. © independent.co.uk
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Intelligence
Link ID: 21375 - Posted: 09.02.2015
By Gretchen Reynolds At the age of 93, Olga Kotelko — one of the most successful and acclaimed nonagenarian track-and-field athletes in history — traveled to the University of Illinois to let scientists study her brain. Ms. Kotelko held a number of world records and had won hundreds of gold medals in masters events. But she was of particular interest to the scientific community because she hadn't begun serious athletic training until age 77. So scanning her brain could potentially show scientists what late-life exercise might do for brains. Ms. Kotelko died last year at the age of 95, but the results of that summer brain scan were published last month in Neurocase. And indeed, Ms. Kotelko's brain looked quite different from those of other volunteers aged 90-plus who participated in the study, the scans showed. The white matter of her brain — the cells that connect neurons and help to transmit messages from one part of the brain to another — showed fewer abnormalities than the brains of other people her age. And her hippocampus, a portion of the brain involved in memory, was larger than that of similarly aged volunteers (although it was somewhat shrunken in comparison to the brains of volunteers decades younger than her). Over all, her brain seemed younger than her age. But because the scientists didn't have a scan showing Ms. Kotelko's brain before she began training, it's impossible to know whether becoming an athlete late in life improved her brain's health or whether her naturally healthy brain allowed her to become a stellar masters athlete. © 2015 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Learning & Memory; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 21372 - Posted: 09.02.2015
By SINDYA N. BHANOO The human eye has a blind spot, though few of us realize it. Now, a new study suggests that it is possible to reduce the spot with training. The optic nerve, which carries visual signals to the brain, passes through the retina, a light-sensitive layer of tissue. There are no so-called photoreceptors at the point where the optic nerve intersects the retina. The right eye generally compensates for the left eye's blind spot and vice versa, so the spot is hardly noticed. Researchers trained 10 people using a computer monitor and an eye patch. The participants were shown a waveform in the visual field of their blind spot day after day. After 20 days of this repeated stimulation, the blind spot shrunk by about 10 percent. The researchers believe that neurons at the periphery of the blind spot became more responsive, effectively reducing the extent of functional blindness. The findings add to a growing body of research suggesting that the human eye can be trained, said Paul Miller, a psychologist at the University of Queensland in Australia and an author of the study, which appeared in the journal Current Biology. This kind of training may help researchers develop better treatments for visual impairments like macular degeneration. "This is the leading cause of blindness in the western world," Mr. Miller said. © 2015 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision; Learning & Memory
Link ID: 21367 - Posted: 09.01.2015
We all have days when we feel like our brain is going at a snail's pace, when our neurons forgot to get out of bed. And psychologists have shown that IQ can fluctuate day to day. So if we're in good health and don't have a sleep deficit from last night's shenanigans to blame, what's the explanation? Sophie von Stumm, a psychologist at Goldsmiths University, London, set about finding out. In particular, she wanted to know whether mood might explain the brain's dimmer switch. Although it seems intuitively obvious that feeling low could compromise intellectual performance, von Stumm says research to date has been inconclusive, with some studies finding an effect and others not. "On bad mood days, we tend to feel that our brains are lame and work or study is particularly challenging. But scientists still don't really know if our brains work better when we are happy compared to when we are sad." To see if she could pin down mood's effect on IQ more convincingly, von Stumm recruited 98 participants. Over five consecutive days they completed questionnaires to assess their mood, as well as tests to measure cognitive functions, such as short-term memory, working memory and processing speed. Surprisingly, being in a bad mood didn't translate into worse cognitive performance. However, when people reported feeling positive, von Stumm saw a modest boost in their processing speed. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Depression; Intelligence
Link ID: 21359 - Posted: 08.29.2015
By Laura Sanders By tweaking a single gene, scientists have turned average mice into supersmart daredevils. The findings are preliminary but hint at therapies that may one day ease the symptoms of such disorders as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia, scientists report August 14 in Neuropsychopharmacology. The altered gene provides instructions for a protein called phosphodiesterase-4B, or PDE4B, which has been implicated in schizophrenia. It's too early to say whether PDE4B will turn out to be a useful target for drugs that treat these disorders, cautions pharmacologist Ernesto Fedele of the University of Genoa in Italy. Nonetheless, the protein certainly deserves further investigation, he says. The genetic change interfered with PDE4B's ability to do its job breaking down a molecular messenger called cAMP. Mice designed to have this disabled form of PDE4B showed a suite of curious behaviors, including signs of smarts, says study coauthor Alexander McGirr of the University of British Columbia. Compared with normal mice, these mice more quickly learned which objects in a cage had been moved to a new location, for instance, and could better recognize a familiar mouse after 24 hours. "The system is primed and ready to learn, and it doesn't require the same kind of input as a normal mouse," McGirr says. These mice also spent more time than usual exploring brightly lit spaces, spots that normal mice avoid. But this devil-may-care attitude sometimes made the "smart" mice blind to risky situations. The mice were happy to spend time poking around an area that had been sprinkled with bobcat urine. "Not being afraid of cat urine is not a good thing for a mouse," McGirr says. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2015
Keyword: Learning & Memory; Schizophrenia
Link ID: 21338 - Posted: 08.26.2015
By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News More than 200 academics have signed an open letter criticising controversial new research suggesting a link between violent video games and aggression. The findings were released by the American Psychological Association. It set up a taskforce that reviewed hundreds of studies and papers published between 2005 and 2013. The American Psychological Association concluded while there was "no single risk factor" to blame for aggression, violent video games did contribute. "The research demonstrates a consistent relation between violent video game use and increases in aggressive behaviour, aggressive cognitions and aggressive affect, and decreases in pro-social behaviour, empathy and sensitivity to aggression," said the report. "It is the accumulation of risk factors that tends to lead to aggressive or violent behaviour. The research reviewed here demonstrates that violent video game use is one such risk factor." However, a large group of academics said they felt the methodology of the research was deeply flawed as a significant part of material included in the study had not been subjected to peer review. "I fully acknowledge that exposure to repeated violence may have short-term effects - you would be a fool to deny that - but the long-term consequences of crime and actual violent behaviour, there is just no evidence linking violent video games with that," Dr Mark Coulson, associate professor of psychology at Middlesex University and one of the signatories of the letter told the BBC. "If you play three hours of Call of Duty you might feel a little bit pumped, but you are not going to go out and mug someone." © 2015 BBC
Keyword: Aggression
Link ID: 21310 - Posted: 08.19.2015
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have genetically modified mice to be super-intelligent and found they are also less anxious, a discovery that may help the search for treatments for disorders such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Researchers from Britain and Canada found that altering a single gene to block the phosphodiesterase-4B (PDE4B) enzyme, which is found in many organs including the brain, made mice cleverer and at the same time less fearful. "Our work using mice has identified phosphodiesterase-4B as a promising target for potential new treatments," said Steve Clapcote, a lecturer in pharmacology at Britain's Leeds University, who led the study. He said his team is now working on developing drugs that will specifically inhibit PDE4B. The drugs will be tested first in animals to see whether any of them might be suitable to go forward into clinical trials in humans. In the experiments, published on Friday in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, the scientists ran a series of behavioral tests on the PDE4B-inhibited mice and found they tended to learn faster, remember events longer and solve complex problems better than normal mice. The "brainy" mice were better at recognizing a mouse they had seen the previous day, the researchers said, and were also quicker at learning the location of a hidden escape platform.
Keyword: Learning & Memory; Genes & Behavior
Link ID: 21306 - Posted: 08.18.2015
Alison Abbott The octopus genome offers clues to how cephalopods evolved intelligence to rival the craftiest vertebrates. With its eight prehensile arms lined with suckers, camera-like eyes, elaborate repertoire of camouflage tricks and spooky intelligence, the octopus is like no other creature on Earth. Added to those distinctions is an unusually large genome, described in Nature1 on 12 August, that helps to explain how a mere mollusc evolved into an otherworldly being. "It's the first sequenced genome from something like an alien," jokes neurobiologist Clifton Ragsdale of the University of Chicago in Illinois, who co-led the genetic analysis of the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides). The work was carried out by researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Heidelberg in Germany and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. The scientists also investigated gene expression in twelve different types of octopus tissue. "It's important for us to know the genome, because it gives us insights into how the sophisticated cognitive skills of octopuses evolved," says neurobiologist Benny Hochner at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, who has studied octopus neurophysiology for 20 years. Researchers want to understand how the cephalopods, a class of free-floating molluscs, produced a creature that is clever enough to navigate highly complex mazes and open jars filled with tasty crabs. © 2015 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Intelligence; Genes & Behavior
Link ID: 21295 - Posted: 08.13.2015
Ashley Yeager A mouse scurries across a round table rimmed with Dixie cup–sized holes. Without much hesitation, the rodent heads straight for the hole that drops it into a box lined with cage litter. Any other hole would have led to a quick fall to the floor. But this mouse was more than lucky. It had an advantage — human glial cells were growing in its brain. Glia are thought of as the support staff for the brain's nerve cells, or neurons, which transmit and receive the brain's electrical and chemical signals. Named for the Greek term for "glue," glia have been known for nearly 170 years as the cells that hold the brain's bits together. Some glial cells help feed neurons. Other glia insulate nerve cell branches with myelin. Still others attack brain invaders responsible for infection or injury. Glial cells perform many of the brain's most important maintenance jobs. But recent studies suggest they do a lot more. Glia can shape the conversation between neurons, speeding or slowing the electrical signals and strengthening neuron-to-neuron connections. When scientists coaxed human glia to grow in the brains of baby mice, the mice grew up to be supersmart, navigating tabletops full of holes and mastering other tasks much faster than normal mice. This experiment and others suggest that glia may actually orchestrate learning and memory, says neuroscientist R. Douglas Fields. "Glia aren't doing vibrato. That's for the neurons," says Fields, of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md. "Glia are the conductors." © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2015
Keyword: Learning & Memory; Glia
Link ID: 21289 - Posted: 08.12.2015
Could taking iodine pills in pregnancy help to raise children's IQ? Some researchers suggest women in the UK should take such supplements, but others say the evidence is unclear, and that it could even harm development. Iodine is found in dairy foods and fish, and is used in the body to make thyroid hormone, which is vital for brain development in the womb. In some parts of the world, such as inland areas where little fish is consumed or the soil is low in iodine, severe deficiencies can markedly lower intelligence in some people. In most affected areas, iodine is now added to salt. The UK was not thought to need this step, but in 2013 a large study of urine samples from pregnant women found that about two-thirds had mild iodine deficiency, and that the children of those with the lowest levels had the lowest IQs. Now another team has combined data from this study with other data to calculate that if all women in the UK were given iodine supplements from three months before pregnancy until they finished breastfeeding, average IQ would increase by 1.2 points per child. And the children of mothers who were most iodine deficient would probably benefit more, says Kate Jolly of the University of Birmingham, who was involved in the study. "We are talking about very small differences but on a population basis it could mean quite a lot," she says. The team calculated that providing these iodine supplements would be worth the cost to the UK's National Health Service because it would boost the country's productivity. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Intelligence
Link ID: 21286 - Posted: 08.12.2015
April Dembosky Developers of a new video game for your brain say theirs is more than just another get-smarter-quick scheme. Akili, a Northern California startup, insists on taking the game through a full battery of clinical trials so it can get approval from the Food and Drug Administration — a process that will take lots of money and several years. So why would a game designer go to all that trouble when there's already a robust market of consumers ready to buy games that claim to make you smarter and improve your memory? Think about all the ads you've heard for brain games. Maybe you've even passed a store selling them. There's one at the mall in downtown San Francisco — just past the cream puff stand and across from Jamba Juice — staffed on my visit by a guy named Dominic Firpo. "I'm a brain coach here at Marbles: The Brain Store," he says. Brain coach? "Sounds better than sales person," Firpo explains. "We have to learn all 200 games in here and become great sales people so we can help enrich peoples' minds." He heads to the "Word and Memory" section of the store and points to one product that says it will improve your focus and reduce stress in just three minutes a day. "We sold out of it within the first month of when we got it," Firpo says. The market for these "brain fitness" games is worth about $1 billion and is expected to grow to $6 billion in the next five years. Game makers appeal to both the young and the older with the common claim that if you exercise your memory, you'll be able to think faster and be less forgetful. Maybe bump up your IQ a few points. "That's absurd," says psychology professor Randall Engle from the Georgia Institute of Technology. © 2015 NPR
Keyword: ADHD; Intelligence
Link ID: 21278 - Posted: 08.10.2015


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