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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Dish tops rival Sprint's bid for Clearwire
(Reuters) - Dish Network Corp raised its buyout offer for Clearwire Corp to $4.40 per share, valuing the wireless service provider at $6.5 billion and topping a rival bid by Sprint Nextel Corp bid by nearly 30 percent.
Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider, already owns just over 50 percent of Clearwire's shares and had increased its offer to $3.40 per share last week under pressure from activist shareholders.
Dish, which is also locked in a battle with Japan's SoftBank Corp to acquire Sprint, raised its bid just two days before the Sprint offer goes to a vote.
"The Clearwire spectrum portfolio has always been a key component to implementing our wireless plans of delivering a superior product and service offering to customers," Charlie Ergen, Dish chairman and co-founder of Dish, said in a statement.
Dish's offer values Clearwire at $6.47 billion, according to its shares outstanding as of May 29.
Clearwire shares were trading up 23 percent at $4.23 after-hours on Wednesday after closing at $3.43. Sprint was up less than one percent, and Dish stock fell 2 percent to $39.25 in after-hours trade.
A spokesperson for Clearwire said the company's special committee would review Dish's revised bid, and had not made any determination to change its recommendation of the current Sprint transaction.
A Softbank spokesman was not immediately available to comment, while a Sprint spokesman declined comment
(Reporting by Garima Goel in Bangalore; Additional reporting by Zeba Siddiqui in Bangalore and Sinead Carew in New York; Editing by Richard Pullin)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dish-tops-rival-sprints-bid-clearwire-011104992.html
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
El Paso loses money for UTEP, Texas Tech campus projects
Texas Tech's Health Sciences Center at El Paso.
AUSTIN -- Billions in construction funding for Texas universities died Monday in a dispute between the two chambers of the Texas Legislature.
If the House version of the bill had prevailed, El Paso would have gotten between $88 million and $166 million for a new building at the University of Texas at El Paso and $78 million for a new building for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
If the House and Senate had been able to agree, it would have been the first time the Legislature approved so-called "tuition-revenue bonds" since 2006. Legislators said the bonds were needed because Texas is growing rapidly and its universities are bursting at the seams.
UTEP Executive Vice President Richard Adauto on Monday
said there is no plan B to fund a $110 million, 250,000-square-foot interdisciplinary research building at the intersection of Sun Bowl Drive and University Avenue."There really is no other kind of funding," he said Monday morning. "We'll have to go back to the Legislature."
The funding fell victim to a dispute between the Texas House, which wanted to issue $2.7 billion worth of tuition revenue bonds, and the Texas Senate, which wanted to issue $2.4 billion.
The House, which wanted to give UTEP $40 million more than the Senate did, refused to appoint negotiators to a conference committee aimed at resolving differences between the two chambers. It was saying, in effect, that the Senate had to adopt its version of the
funding bill.State Sen. Jos? Rodr?guez, D-El Paso, said the Senate did not respond well to such an ultimatum from the House.
"The House expected the Senate to simply go along with their version," Rodr?guez said.
State Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, said he and his House colleagues were convinced theirs was the better version of the bill.
But Rodr?guez said the Senate worked with the Higher Education Coordinating Board to use a process to determine how to grant funding.
He said the House decisions were more arbitrary.Even so, Rodr?guez said, he tried to convince his colleagues to accept the deal.
"Border institutions like ours have been neglected for years," he said.
In the end, senators arguing that it would set a bad precedent to cave in to the House prevailed, and the bill died despite early-morning attempts to save it.
Also among senators' worries was that in order to OK the House version, they would have to approve a $300 million "technical correction" to the bill.
"They were worried that the voters wouldn't see that as a technical correction," Rodr?guez said.
Gov. Rick Perry is expected to call a special legislative session in the coming days. An early press release listed legislative redistricting as the only item on the agenda.
But Rodr?guez said that Perry added items to the agenda as the last special session went on. Lawmakers are said to be pressing the governor to add tuition revenue bonds to the special session agenda.
Marty Schladen may be reached at mschlade@elpasotimes.com; 512-479-6606.
Source: http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_23333909/el-paso-loses-money-campus-projects?source=rss_viewed
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
This Is NASA's Solar Propulsion Engine of the Future
This Tron-esque glowing blue ring isn't the latest designer lamp. In fact, it's NASA's cutting-edge solar-electric propulsion thruster, being tested in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
Backlight-Illuminated Literature For $80 Is Your Deal Of The Day
Best Buy's deal of the day is Barnes and Noble's NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight for only $80. That's $30 off the next best offer and perhaps more importantly, $40 less than Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite (with ads).
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Oil falls below $94 a barrel amid high supplies
The price of oil slipped below $94 a barrel Thursday as traders digested discouraging economic data from the United States and Europe and U.S. oil supplies remained high.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for June delivery was down 37 cents to $93.93 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 9 cents on Wednesday.
Applications for U.S. unemployment aid rose last week by 32,000 to a seasonally adjusted 360,000, the highest in 6 weeks, the Labor Department said.
On Wednesday, new figures showed that the 17-country eurozone's economy contracted for a sixth consecutive quarter in January-March as Germany, the bloc's biggest market, grew by a mere 0.1 percent and France fell into recession.
"With recovery optimists so dependent on the occasional glimpse of sunlight from Germany, their miss was particularly disappointing," said Toby Morris, senior sales trader at CMC Markets, in an email commentary.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve said factory output dropped 0.4 percent in April, the third decline in four months.
Ample U.S. supplies of crude and gasoline also weighed on prices.
The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said U.S. stockpiles of crude oil remained near all-time highs last week despite dipping by 624,000 barrels to 395.9 million barrels. Gasoline stocks, which had been expected to fall, rose by 2.58 million barrels.
Brent crude, a benchmark for many international oil varieties, was up 39 cents to $103.89 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
? Wholesale gasoline fell 0.6 cent to $2.854 a gallon.
? Heating oil added 1.54 cents to $2.8955 a gallon.
? Natural gas lost 0.4 cent to $4.066 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/oil-falls-below-94-barrel-amid-high-supplies-124941598.html
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Unlikely Big 3 has Memphis in 1st Western finals
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ? The Miami Heat have LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. The Spurs have dominated for years with the trio of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili.
Now the Memphis Grizzlies, who traded their leading scorer in January, have surged into their first Western Conference finals behind a very unlikely Big Three of their own.
Marc Gasol still is Pau's little brother to some. Memphis thought about trading guard Mike Conley, the son of a track star, early in his career. And Memphis is Zach Randolph's fourth NBA team.
Conley said Friday the three all worked harder after Rudy Gay was traded, knowing they had to step up to get to where they wanted.
The Grizzlies play the Spurs in Game 1 on Sunday in San Antonio.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/unlikely-big-3-memphis-1st-western-finals-203509580.html
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Climate change may have little impact on tropical lizards
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Dartmouth study contradicts predictions of widespread extinction
A new Dartmouth College study finds human-caused climate change may have little impact on many species of tropical lizards, contradicting a host of recent studies that predict their widespread extinction in a rapidly warming planet.
The findings, which appear in the journal Global Change Biology, offer new hope for survival of a creature thought to be doomed: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12253/abstract
Most predictions that tropical cold-blooded animals, especially forest lizards, will be hard hit by climate change are based on global-scale measurements of environmental temperatures, which miss much of the fine-scale variation in temperature that individual animals experience on the ground, said the article's lead author, Michael Logan, a Ph.D. student in ecology and evolutionary biology.
To address this disconnect, the Dartmouth researchers measured environmental temperatures at extremely high resolution and used those measurements to project the effects of climate change on the running abilities of four populations of lizard from the Bay Islands of Honduras. Field tests on the captured lizards, which were released unharmed, were conducted between 2008 and 2012.
Previous studies have suggested that open-habitat tropical lizard species are likely to invade forest habitat and drive forest species to extinction, but the Dartmouth research suggests that the open-habitat populations will not invade forest habitat and may actually benefit from predicted warming for many decades. Conversely, one of the forest species studied should experience reduced activity time as a result of warming, while two others are unlikely to experience a significant decline in performance.
The overall results suggest that global-scale predictions generated using low-resolution temperature data may overestimate the vulnerability of many tropical lizards to climate change.
"Whereas studies conducted to date have made uniformly bleak predictions for the survival of tropical forest lizards around the globe, our data show that four similar species, occurring in the same geographic region, differ markedly in their vulnerabilities to climate warming," the authors wrote. "Moreover, none appear to be on the brink of extinction. Considering that these populations occur over extremely small geographic ranges, it is possible that many tropical forest lizards, which range over much wider areas, may have even greater opportunity to escape warming."
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Dartmouth study contradicts predictions of widespread extinction
A new Dartmouth College study finds human-caused climate change may have little impact on many species of tropical lizards, contradicting a host of recent studies that predict their widespread extinction in a rapidly warming planet.
The findings, which appear in the journal Global Change Biology, offer new hope for survival of a creature thought to be doomed: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12253/abstract
Most predictions that tropical cold-blooded animals, especially forest lizards, will be hard hit by climate change are based on global-scale measurements of environmental temperatures, which miss much of the fine-scale variation in temperature that individual animals experience on the ground, said the article's lead author, Michael Logan, a Ph.D. student in ecology and evolutionary biology.
To address this disconnect, the Dartmouth researchers measured environmental temperatures at extremely high resolution and used those measurements to project the effects of climate change on the running abilities of four populations of lizard from the Bay Islands of Honduras. Field tests on the captured lizards, which were released unharmed, were conducted between 2008 and 2012.
Previous studies have suggested that open-habitat tropical lizard species are likely to invade forest habitat and drive forest species to extinction, but the Dartmouth research suggests that the open-habitat populations will not invade forest habitat and may actually benefit from predicted warming for many decades. Conversely, one of the forest species studied should experience reduced activity time as a result of warming, while two others are unlikely to experience a significant decline in performance.
The overall results suggest that global-scale predictions generated using low-resolution temperature data may overestimate the vulnerability of many tropical lizards to climate change.
"Whereas studies conducted to date have made uniformly bleak predictions for the survival of tropical forest lizards around the globe, our data show that four similar species, occurring in the same geographic region, differ markedly in their vulnerabilities to climate warming," the authors wrote. "Moreover, none appear to be on the brink of extinction. Considering that these populations occur over extremely small geographic ranges, it is possible that many tropical forest lizards, which range over much wider areas, may have even greater opportunity to escape warming."
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Business Intelligence Startup RJMetrics Raises $6.25M From Trinity ...
In the big new world of business intelligence, RJMetrics has found a market helping e-commerce companies easily analyze operations data and make smarter decisions as a result. Big startups have signed on, including Fab, Bonobos, Threadless and thousands of smaller businesses. Today, the momentum has landed the Philadelphia enterprise startup a $6.5 million first venture round led by Trinity Ventures.
SaaS BI, as online business analysis software is called within the industry, is full of competitors. Tableau Software, which is planning to IPO, along with GoodData, Domo and others have been successfully selling to big companies that need complex integrations to best analyze their own data. On the low end, Datahero and Chartio provide quick and inexpensive ways for a small business to get some quality integrations.
RJMetrics has focused on what e-commerce companies need, Moore explains, although he notes that its clients range from online gaming companies to nonprofits. The secret isn?t some magical new type of BI software, but a better focus on lucrative online transactions businesses. If an online retailer wants to analyze how colors of different types of hats are selling against each other, for example, a non-technical sales analyst at the company could go into RJMetrics and quickly create a visual explaining what?s happening.
The company promises to replicate client data to hosted, secure servers and optimize it for analysis within seven days, versus the months required for more complex products, with a set of APIs developed around systems that e-commerce companies are already using. Then it makes a dashboard of data visuals available to the company, including key stats for transaction businesses, such as customer lifetime value, repeat purchase probability, and cohort analysis?on database segments. This lets a company answer questions like which types of customers are likely to regularly buy red fedora hats.?For clients with technical staffers, it provides access for them to run their own queries on more complex data sets hosted on its own servers.?Prices for the basic version of the online service start at $500 per month.
Fab cofounder Jason Goldberg has written effusively about his experience with RJMetrics, and how its analysis helped him prove Fab?s worth to investors when it raised $40 million in 2011.
From a fundraising standpoint, providing access to the RJ data basically said to the VC?s, ?here we are, here?s the data, we?ve got nothing to hide, take a look and decide for yourself if you want to pursue investing in Fab.? Effectively, we turned the pitching on its head. Since the RJ data updates several times per day directly from our database, it was many times more powerful than providing powerpoints and excel spreadsheets. This was the real stuff, auto-updating! And, since RJ enables all the data to be downloaded into excel, the analysts at the VC firms were able to do all of their own analysis on the front end of the investment process.
The core RJMetrics product grew out of Moore?s?own data analysis work (which has separately resulted in some great guest posts for TechCrunch, like this formative 2009 analysis of Twitter user behavior). The new funding round, which includes participation from existing investor SoftTech VC, will go towards sales and marketing. With the overall growth in the Saas BI industry, Moore says it?s time to focus on the e-commerce part of it.
RJMetrics develops business intelligence software delivered as a service over the internet. RJMetrics was founded by two colleagues at a private equity and venture capital firm that focused on the software and Internet spaces. The RJMetrics business intelligence dashboard grew out of the analyses performed during due diligence and value-add work for the portfolio companies.
? Learn moreFounded in 1986, Trinity Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with passionate entrepreneurs to transform revolutionary ideas into reality. With over $1 billion under management, Trinity Ventures believes in personal engagement, mutual respect and goal alignment with the entrepreneurs. Trinity focuses on early stage and seed technology investments with particular emphasis on social commerce and entertainment, digital media, Saas, and cloud and infrastructure. Trinity Ventures has invested in such leading companies as Aruba Networks,...
? Learn moreRobert J. Moore is the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, a on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup that helps online businesses measure, manage, and monetize better. He was previously a venture capital analyst and currently serves as an advisor to several New York startups. Robert blogs at The Metric System and can be followed on Twitter at @RJMetrics.
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Samsung's Galaxy S 4 gets 'blue arctic' paint-job for NTT DoCoMo
Samsung can add "mist" and "frost" to its color names, but deep down we know the Galaxy S 4 only comes in black or white. That is, unless you're one of NTT DoCoMo's customers, who can expect the Korean flagship to arrive in blue arctic as well. A leaked pamphlet reveals that the third shade will be announced when the quad-core handset is announced on May 15th -- confirming once and for all that Japanese mobile users get all the fun.
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Water on moon, Earth came from same primitive meteorites
Sunday, May 12, 2013
The water found on the moon, like that on Earth, came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed, researchers from Brown and Case Western Reserve universities and Carnegie Institution of Washington have found.
Evidence discovered within samples of moon dust returned by lunar crews of Apollo 15 and 17 dispels the theory that comets delivered the molecules.
The research is published online in Science Express today.
The discovery's telltale sign is found in the ratio of an isotopic form of hydrogen, called deuterium, to standard hydrogen. The ratio in the Earth's water and in water from specks of volcanic glass trapped in crystals within moon dust match the ratio found in the chondrites. The proportions are far different from those in comet water.
The moon is thought to have formed from a disc of debris left when a giant object hit the Earth 4.5 billion years ago, very early in Earth's history. Scientists have long assumed that the heat from an impact of that size would cause hydrogen and other volatile elements to boil off into space, meaning the moon must have started off completely dry. But recently, NASA spacecraft and new research on samples from the Apollo missions have shown that the moon actually has water, both on and beneath its surface.
By showing that water on the moon and Earth came from the same source, this new study offers yet more evidence that the moon's water has been there all along, or nearly so.
"The simplest explanation for what we found is that there was water on the proto-Earth at the time of the giant impact," said Alberto Saal, a geochemist at Brown University and the study's lead author. "Some of that water survived the impact, and that's what we see in the moon."
Or, the proto-moon and proto-Earth were showered by the same family of carbonaceous chondrites soon after they separated, said James Van Orman, professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Case Western Reserve, and a co-author.
The other authors are Erik Hauri, of the Carnegie Institution, and Malcolm Rutherford, from Brown.
To find the origin of the moon's water, the researchers looked at the trapped volcanic glass, referred to as a melt inclusion. The surrounding olivine crystals prevent water form escaping during an eruption, providing researchers an idea of what the inside of the moon is like.
Research from 2011, led by Hauri, found that the melt inclusions have plenty of water?as much water, in fact, as lavas forming on the Earth's ocean floor. This study aimed to find the origin of that water. To do that, Saal and his colleagues looked at the isotopic composition of the hydrogen trapped in the inclusions.
Using a Cameca NanoSIMS 50L multicollector ion microprobe at Carnegie, the researchers measured the amount of deuterium in the samples compared to the amount of regular hydrogen. Deuterium has an extra neutron.
Water molecules originating from different places in the solar system have different amounts of deuterium. In general, things formed closer to the sun have less deuterium than things formed further out.
The investigators found that the deuterium/hydrogen ratio in the melt inclusions was relatively low and matched the ratio found in carbonaceous chondrites. These meteorites originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter and are thought to be among the oldest objects in the solar system. That means the source of the water on the moon is primitive meteorites.
Comets, like meteorites, are known to carry water and other volatiles. But most comets were formed in the icy Oort Cloud, more than 1,000 times more distant than Neptune. Because comets formed so far from the sun, they tend to have high deuterium/hydrogen ratios?much higher ratios than in the moon's interior, where the samples in this study originated.
"The measurements themselves were very difficult," Hauri said, "but the new data provide the best evidence yet that the carbon-bearing chondrites were a common source for the volatiles in the Earth and moon, and perhaps the entire inner solar system."
To determine the ratios that would currently be found deep in the moon's interior, Van Orman and Saal modeled the loss of gasses from inside melt inclusions and the influence of degassing on the deuterium. The researchers also had to take into account the impact of cosmic rays?high-energy rays that carry charged particles?on the water trapped inside the inclusions. The interaction produces more deuterium than hydrogen. In total, the effects proved to be small for the melt inclusions, and the ratios remained consistent with the those of the chondrites.
Recent research, Saal said, has found that as much as 98 percent of the water on Earth also comes from primitive meteorites, suggesting a common source for water on Earth and the moon. The easiest way to explain that, Saal said, is that the water was already present on the early Earth and was transferred to the moon.
The finding is not necessarily inconsistent with the idea that the moon was formed by a giant impact with the early Earth, but presents a problem. If the moon is made from material that came from the Earth, it makes sense that the water in both would share a common source, Saal said. However, there's still the question of how that water was able to survive such a violent collision.
"Our work suggests that even highly volatile elements may not be lost completely during a giant impact," said Van Orman. "We need to go back to the drawing board and discover more about what giant impacts do, and we also need a better handle on volatile inventories in the moon."
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Some hospitals charge vastly more for same care
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Hospitals within the same city sometimes charge tens of thousands of dollars more for the same procedures, according to figures the government released for the first time Wednesday. The federal list sheds new light on the mystery of just how high a hospital bill might go ? and whether it's cheaper to get the care somewhere else.
There are vast disparities nationally. The average charges for joint replacement range from about $5,300 at an Ada, Okla., hospital to $223,000 in Monterey Park, Calif.
It's not just national or even regional geography. Hospitals within the same city also vary wildly. In Jackson, Miss., average inpatient charges for services that may be provided to treat heart failure range from $9,000 to $51,000, the Department of Health and Human Services said.
Hospitals usually receive less money than they charge, however. Their charges are akin to a car dealership's "list price." Most patients won't be hit with these bills, because they are paid by private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid. The government and insurance companies routinely negotiate lower payments with hospitals.
"These charges really don't have a direct relationship with the price for the average person," said Chapin White of the nonprofit Center for Studying Health System Change. "I think the point is to shame hospitals."
But the charges do show up on the bills of people without medical coverage, many of whom try to negotiate smaller fees for themselves. And they could affect people paying for care that is outside their insurance company's network. Hospitals say they frequently give the uninsured discounts.
Some people still pay full price, or try to, because they don't know they can bargain for a discount, White said.
For them, "this is the opening bid in the hospital's attempt to get as much money as possible out of you," he said.
The department released a list of the average charges at 3,300 hospitals for each of the 100 most common Medicare inpatient services. The prices, from 2011, represent about 60 percent of Medicare inpatient cases.
The Obama administration says consumers and businesses can use the information to make better choices and pressure hospitals to set reasonable prices. Hospital charges are typically confusing and unpredictable.
"Currently, consumers don't know what a hospital is charging them or their insurance company for a given procedure, like a knee replacement, or how much of a price difference there is at different hospitals, even within the same city," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The list will help fill that gap, she said.
The department also is making $87 million in federal money available as grants to states to improve their hospital rate review programs and get more information about health care charges to patients.
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Graphene quantum dots may someday tell if it will rain on Mars
May 8, 2013 ? The latest research from a Kansas State University chemical engineer may help improve humidity and pressure sensors, particularly those used in outer space.
Vikas Berry, William H. Honstead professor of chemical engineering, and his research team are using graphene quantum dots to improve sensing devices in a twofold project. The first part involves producing the graphene quantum dots, which are ultrasmall pieces of graphene. Graphene is a single-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms and has superior electrical, mechanical and optical properties. The second part of the project involves incorporating these quantum dots into electron-tunneling based sensing devices.
To create the graphene quantum dots, the researchers used nanoscale cutting of graphite to produce graphene nanoribbons. T.S. Sreeprasad, a postdoctoral researcher in Berry's group, chemically cleaved these ribbons into 100 nanometers lateral dimensions.
The scientists assembled the quantum dots into a network on a hydroscopic microfiber that was attached to electrodes on its two sides. They placed the assembled quantum dots less than a nanometer apart so they were not completely connected. The assembling of dots is similar to a corn on the cob structure -- the corn kernels are nanoscale quantum dots and the cob is the microfiber.
Several researchers -- including four 2012 alumni in chemical engineering: Augustus Graham, Alfredo A. Rodriguez, Jonathan Colston and Evgeniy Shishkin -- applied a potential across the fiber and controlled the distance between the quantum dots by adjusting the local humidity, which changes the current flowing through the dots.
"If you reduce the humidity around this device, the water held by this fiber is lost," Berry said. "As a result, the fiber shrinks and the graphenic components residing atop come close to one another in nanometer scale. This increases the electron transport from one dot to the next. Just by reading the currents one can tell the humidity in the environment."
Decreasing the distance between the graphene quantum dots by 0.35 nanometers increased the device's conductivity by 43-fold, Berry said. Furthermore, because air contains water, reducing air pressure decreased its water content and caused the graphene quantum dots to get closer together, which increased conductivity. Quantum mechanics suggests that electrons have a finite probability to tunnel from an electrode to a nonconnected electrode, Berry said. This probability is inversely and exponentially proportional to the tunneling distance, or the gap between the electrodes.
The research has numerous applications, particularly in improving sensors for humidity, pressure or temperature.
"These devices are unique because, unlike most humidity sensors, these are more responsive in vacuum," Berry said. "For example, these devices can be incorporated into space shuttles, where low humidity measurements are required. These sensors might also be able to detect trace amounts of water on Mars, which has 1/100th of Earth's atmospheric pressure. This is because the device measures humidity at a much higher resolution in vacuum."
While the heart of the device is the modulation of electron tunneling, the response of the device is through the polymer microfiber, Berry said. His team also is looking at changing the polymer to find other applications for this research.
"If you replace this polymer with a polymer that is responsive to other stimuli, you can make a different kind of sensor," Berry said. "I envision this project to have a broad impact on sensing."
The research is supported by Berry's five-year, $400,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award. The research results appear in a recent issue of the journal Nano Letters in an article titled "Electron-tunneling modulation in percolating-network of graphene quantum dots: fabrication, phenomenological understanding, and humidity/pressure sensing applications."
The research is dedicated to Vasanta Pallem, a postdoctoral researcher who was involved in the work and died in a recent apartment fire.
Berry's research team also is studying molecular machines interfaced with graphene. In this work, the researchers are able to mechanically actuate the molecules, which undergo a change in the electric field around them and influence the carrier density of the interfaced graphene. This work will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Small in an article titled "Covalent functionalization of dipole-modulating molecules on trilayer graphene: an avenue for graphene-interfaced molecular machines."
The researchers have found that graphene responds sensitively to molecular motion. Phong Nguyen, a doctoral student in chemical engineering and lead author of the work, tethered actuating molecules on graphene and measured the device's response.
"The next phase of science beyond nanotechnology will be molecular technology," Berry said. "We are working on developing routes to incorporate molecular machines into devices."
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
U.S. sues owner of nation's biggest for-profit hospice chain
May 1 (Reuters) - Post position for Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after Wednesday's draw (listed as barrier, HORSE, jockey, trainer) 1. BLACK ONYX, Joe Bravo, Kelly Breen 2. OXBOW, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas 3. REVOLUTIONARY, Calvin Borel, Todd Pletcher 4. GOLDEN SOUL, Robby Albarado, Dallas Stewart 5. NORMANDY INVASION, Javier Castellano, Chad Brown 6. MYLUTE, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss 7. GIANT FINISH, Jose Espinoza, Tony Dutrow 8. GOLDENCENTS, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill 9. OVERANALYZE, Rafael Bejarano, Todd Pletcher 10. PALACE MALICE, Mike Smith, Todd Pletcher 11. ...
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Friday, May 3, 2013
Gene mutations associated with nearsightedness identified
May 2, 2013 ? People have long taken for granted that glasses and contact lenses improve vision for nearsightedness, but the genetic factors behind the common condition have remained blurry. Now researchers at Duke Medicine are closer to clearing this up.
Mutations in a gene that helps regulate copper and oxygen levels in eye tissue are associated with a severe form of nearsightedness, according to a study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics on May 2, 2013.
Nearsightedness -- also known as myopia -- is the most common human eye disease in the world. It occurs if the eye is too long or the cornea has too much curvature, which keeps light entering the eye from focusing correctly.
High-grade myopia, a more severe form of nearsightedness, affects up to two percent of Americans and is especially common in Asian populations. Individuals with high-grade myopia are at an increased risk for other serious eye problems, including retinal detachment, cataracts and glaucoma.
Studies suggest that myopia is caused by a combination of environmental factors, such as large amounts of reading, and genetics. Nearsightedness runs in families, but little is understood about genetic factors that cause it.
In recent years, researchers have reported several genes or locations of genes associated with myopia, and have continued to search for additional clues.
"This is the first time a gene mutation for autosomal dominant nonsyndromic high-grade myopia in Caucasians has been discovered," said senior author Terri Young, M.D., MBA, professor of ophthalmology, pediatrics and medicine at the Duke Eye Center, Duke Center for Human Genetics and the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS). "Our findings reflect the hard work and collaboration of our international research team."
In this study, Young and her colleagues sought to identify these genetic factors by studying families with high-grade myopia. They performed next-generation deep sequencing on four relatives from an 11-member American family of European descent.
Analyzing DNA extracted from blood and saliva, the researchers identified mutations in the SCO2 gene in common among family members with high-grade myopia, but absent in those family members with no myopia. They confirmed four mutations in the SCO2 gene in an additional 140 people with high-grade myopia.
Once the researchers identified the mutations in DNA samples, they turned to human eye tissue and verified that the SCO2 gene was expressed in areas of the eye connected to nearsightedness.
To further support their findings, they performed an experiment in which mice were made nearsighted in one eye by wearing a strong lens. Collaborators at Duke-NUS, the Singapore Eye Research Institute and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore found that SCO2 gene expression decreased in the nearsighted eye, suggesting that SCO2 may play a role in the development of nearsightedness.
In the body, the SCO2 gene helps metabolize copper, an element important for regulating oxygen levels in eye tissue. Increased stress brought on by too much oxygen may alter the eye's development and function.
Dennis J. Thiele, PhD, George Barth Geller Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke, said the finding suggests that different kinds of mutations in the SCO2 gene result in different diseases. Thiele, an expert in copper metabolism who was not involved in the research, noted that another SCO2 gene mutation is responsible for a lethal form of cardiomyopathy.
"This is a fascinating finding, and it points to the relevance of copper metabolism to a spectrum of different human diseases," Thiele said.
Since normal copper metabolism is important for eye health, future research may focus on whether copper deficiency could place someone at higher risk for nearsightedness.
"Our findings, plus information from the literature, suggest that copper deficiency could predispose people to develop myopia," Young said. "While this wasn't directly tested in this study, it's possible that our diets -- which are deficient in a number of minerals and vitamins -- play a role, and it may be something as easy as taking a supplement with copper that helps thwart the development of myopia."
Young noted that multiple factors are likely responsible for developing nearsightedness, and this warrants additional research. She hopes to continue by studying animal models with SCO2 mutations to better understand the gene's connection with nearsightedness.
In addition to Young, coauthors include Khanh-Nhat Tran-Viet, Caldwell Powell and Erica Nading of Duke; Yi-Ju Li of Duke, Duke-NUS and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS); Steve Rozen and Thomas Klemm of Duke-NUS; Veluchamy A. Barathi of Duke-NUS, Singapore Eye Research Institute and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS; Candace Ho of the Singapore Eye Research Institute; Sebastian Maurer-Stroh of the Agency for Science Technology and Research and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore; Vincent Soler of the Universit? Paul Sabatier in France; Tammy Yanovitch of the University of Oklahoma/Dean McGee Eye Institute; Georg Schneider of the Agency for Science Technology and Research in Singapore and Institute of Science and Technology Austria; Ravikanth Metlapally of the University of California, Berkeley; Seang-Mei Saw of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS; and Liang Goh of Duke-NUS and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS.
The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01 EY014685), the Lew Wasserman Award from Research to Prevent Blindness Inc., a Duke-NUS core grant, the Toulouse Hospital Young Researcher Fellowship, the Fondation pour la Recherche M?dicale, Fondation de France and the National Medical Research Council of Singapore.
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Alyssa Milano: Our Bodies Are Not Made for Bikinis
"Our bodies are not made to look good in a string bikini!" the Mistresses star says. 
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Slayer guitarist dies: Jeff Hanneman co-founded Slayer
Jeff Hanneman, guitarist and founder of Slayer, one of the 'Big Four' thrash metal bands of the 1980s, was reported dead by the Slayer website.
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EnlargeU.S. guitarist Jeff Hanneman, a co-founder of the seminal heavy metal band Slayer, died in Southern California on Thursday, the band said in a statement posted on their website. He was 49.
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Hanneman founded Slayer with fellow guitarist Kerry King in the early 1980s in suburban Los Angeles. The band was known as one of the "big four" thrash metal groups of the 1980s, along with Anthrax, Megadeth, and Metallica.
The thrash metal genre was distinct for its extremely fast tempo, big double-bass drums, and dark themes, often dealing with Satanism, war, and serial killers.
Music website Allmusic.com said the band's trademark "full-throttle velocity, wildly chaotic guitar solos, and powerful musical chops paint an effectively chilling sonic background for their obsessive chronicling of the dark side."
Hanneman is best known as a writer of the songs "Raining Blood" and "Angel of Death" from the 1986 album "Reign of Blood," which is considered a landmark of the genre.
Hanneman is survived by his wife and three siblings.
(Editing by Paul Simao)
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Maternal and Child Health Measurement Research ... - Grants.gov
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The purpose of the Maternal and Child Health Measurement Research Network (MCH-MRN) is to support a forum that will create a national agenda for health measurement research by producing an evolving compendium of available high quality measures of maternal and child health, and by identifying gaps in existing measures for future development purposes.? The MCH-MRN will thus provide national leadership in enhancing and developing a set of culturally competent health measures for: MCH programmatic planning; screening; service provision; interventions that promote physical and psychosocial health and well-being; and clinical decision-making for primary and secondary prevention of disease, injury, and behavioral issues among at-risk mothers, children (including children with special healthcare needs), adolescents, and families.? The MCH-MRN will address health measurement research for at-risk mothers, children (including children with special health care needs), adolescents, and families, with a focus on programmatic applications.? The MCH-MRN will have a strategic focus on health measurements among at-risk MCH populations, which will complement existing investments by other HHS agencies, such as NIH and AHRQ.? The goals of the research network are as follows: 1)????? To establish a Research Network comprised of interdisciplinary experts who represent the MCH lifespan and who are active in the measurement of health and well-being of at-risk MCH populations;? ? 2)????? To formulate a national research agenda with regard to existing and needed health measurements for MCH populations with high relevance to MCHB programs; 3)????? To collaborate in the development, validation and implementation of new MCH health measures that address identified gaps, using external public and private funding sources; 4)????? To translate and apply Network findings into a variety of practices, policies, and processes, such as Title V programs; home visiting programs; Healthy Start Programs; services for children with special health care needs; services that promote child, adolescent, and family health; state and local health departments; community safety net programs; and other public health programs serving MCH populations, particularly those that represent underserved communities, such as low socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic minorities, and rural communities.? ?? Some possible tasks to be achieved during this project period include: 1)????? Identifying national priorities for health measurement research in MCH populations; 2)????? Collaborating synergistically with other Federal investments in measurement research to ensure the inclusion of MCH populations and underserved communities; 3)????? Compiling and evaluating the quality of existing health measures for MCH populations in general and with a special emphasis on at-risk MCH populations, to be disseminated to the public via website, which will serve as a portal of a comprehensive, dynamic electronic compendium of measures.? Attention should be paid to the measurement?s purpose,? psychometric quality, targeted population, setting or conditions (e.g, clinical versus public health, stages of lifespan, health conditions, special populations, Title V performance measures); 4)????? Fostering and implementing the translation of knowledge into practice in order to provide MCH populations, researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders with useful clinical and public health information; 5)????? Contributing to the scientific literature and disseminating Network findings through development of a website, peer-reviewed publications (2-3 publications per year), webinars, meetings, and other related activities that will facilitate the transfer of Network findings broadly; 6)????? Providing an electronic copy of any products supported by award funds including guidelines, publications, books, pamphlets, slide sets, CD-ROMS, curricula, assessment tools, videos, etc., to be made available to the general public and to? the MCH Research Program; 7)????? Building the capacity to advance and implement critical research that will address the gaps and promote the research agenda identified by the Network, through both MCHB and other funding sources;? 8)????? Accelerating the impact of measurement research into programs, policies, and processes for the reduction of health disparities among at-risk MCH populations. 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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Lindsay Lohan takes 270 outfits to 90-day rehab
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Actress Lindsay Lohan will begin a 90-day rehab stint on Thursday.
It looks like Lindsay Lohan is planning to dress for success for her sixth stint in rehab. The troubled actress, who will start her court-mandated 90-day rehab sentence on Thursday at the Morningside Recovery Center in Newport Beach, Calif., won't be traveling lightly. On Tuesday night, she posted a photo on her Instagram account of herself surrounded by luggage and clothing, along with the caption "90 days and 270 looks."
Lohan's rehab wardrobe, which would give her three separate outfits per day, will be put to good use at the rehab facility, which boasts group activities such as bowling, sporting events and even supervised barbecues on the beach.
An abundance of clothing isn't the only thing that Lohan will be bringing to the rehab facility. The actress will also have a hefty supply of cigarettes. Morningside, unlike Lohan's first choice of rehab, the Seafield Center in New York, allows its residents to smoke in designated areas, prompting Lohan to change her rehab plans and fly west.
Lohan's latest rehab sentence comes after she pleaded no contest in March to charges of lying to a police officer and reckless driving from a June 2012 car crash. In addition to her mandatory stay in a locked rehab facility, the actress must also complete 30 days of community labor, pay fines and restitution to her victim, and attend psychological counseling sessions.
For her part, Lohan seems to be taking her rehab sentence in stride. In addition to posting the funny photo (which she later deleted from her Instagram account), Lohan told David Letterman last month that she is happy to be going to a treatment center.
"I don't think it's a bad thing," she told the late-night host in April. "I think it's a blessing...and not a curse."
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Fujitsu in talks to sell car chip business to Spansion: sources
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fujitsu Ltd is in late-stage talks to sell its microcontroller chip business to Spansion Inc -- a deal that will broaden the U.S. semiconductor company product line-up so it can better cater to automotive clients, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
Terms of the deal, which will include Fujitsu's microcontroller design and development business as well as a Japanese plant, could not be obtained.
Microcontrollers, chips used widely in cars, are seen as a high growth area and Spansion, a joint venture set up in 2003 between Fujitsu and Advanced Micro Devices Inc that specializes in flash memory, has trying to diversify its product range.
While semiconductors were once a key business for Fujitsu, it and other Japanese chipmakers have failed to keep up with rivals like Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. Fujitsu also plans to merge its LSI chip business with that of Panasonic Corp this fiscal year.
A Fujitsu spokesman said nothing had been decided with regards to its microcontroller chip business. The news was also reported by Japanese media, including the Nikkei business daily.
Microcontrollers are part of Fujitsu's device solutions business, which also includes LSI chips. The division logged 585 billion yen ($6 billion) in sales in the year ended March 2012, accounting for 12 percent of Fujitsu's total revenue.
Japan's Renesas, the world's leading maker of microcontroller chips, secured a $1.8 billion government-led bailout last year after slashing jobs and deciding to close eight out of its 18 domestic plants.
($1 = 98.1500 Japanese yen)
(Reporting by Maki Shiraki; Writing by Mari Saito; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
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Militants try to shape Pakistani election with bombs
The wave of political violence has killed at least 60 people in recent weeks, and many of the attacks have been directed at candidates from secular parties opposed to the Taliban.
Taliban bombs targeting politicians in northwestern?Pakistan?on Sunday killed 11 people, the latest in a series of attacks meant to disrupt next month's parliamentary election, police said.
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The wave of political violence has killed at least 60 people in recent weeks, and many of the attacks have been directed at candidates from secular parties opposed to the Taliban. That has raised concern the violence could benefit hard-line Islamic candidates and others who are more sympathetic to the Taliban because they are able to campaign more freely without fear of being of being attacked.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility for the three attacks, plus two others against secular parties in the southern port city of Karachi on Saturday that killed four people and wounded over 40.
"We are against all politicians who are going to become part of any secular, democratic government," Ahsan told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location.
The first bomb on Sunday ripped through the campaign office of Syed Noor Akbar on the outskirts of Kohat city, killing six people and wounding 10, police officer Mujtaba Hussain said.
A second bomb targeted the office of another candidate, Nasir Khan Afridi, in the suburbs of Peshawar city. That attack killed three people and wounded 12, police officer Saifur Rehman said.
The politicians were not in their offices at the time of the blasts. They are both running as independent candidates for parliament to represent constituencies in?Pakistan's?rugged tribal region along the Afghan border, the main sanctuary for Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in the country.
Many politicians running in the May 11 election from the tribal region have their offices located elsewhere and find it hard to campaign in their constituencies because of the danger. The two who were attacked Sunday are considered to hold relatively progressive views compared to the deeply conservative Islamic beliefs of many in the tribal region.
The third attack occurred in the town of Swabi, where a bomb went off during a small rally held by the Awami National Party, which has been repeatedly targeted by the Taliban. The blast killed two people and wounded five, said police officer Farooq Khan. The two candidates targeted in the attack, Ameer Rehman and Haji Rehman, were not hurt.
The Pakistani Taliban have been waging a bloody insurgency against the government for years that has killed thousands of civilians and security personnel. The group's goal is to oust?Pakistan's?democratic government and implement a system based on Islamic law.
In mid-March, the Taliban threatened attacks against three secular parties that have earned the militants' ire by supporting military operations against them in the northwest: the Awami National Party, the Muttahida Quami Movement, and the?Pakistan?People's Party. The Taliban have carried out at least 20 attacks against politicians and campaign workers since then, mostly from these three parties.
The violence has forced the parties to close dozens of campaign offices and has prevented them from holding large political rallies that are normally the hallmark of Pakistani elections. Many of the candidates have had to find ways to campaign from a distance, relying more on social media, advertisements and even short documentaries to rally support.
That has put these candidates at a disadvantage, and many have complained the militant violence amounts to vote rigging.
Candidates from Islamic parties and others who have advocated negotiating peace with the militants rather than fighting them have been able to campaign with much less fear of being attacked.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, head of the?Pakistan?Muslim League-N party, held a rally with several thousand people in the northern town of Murree on Sunday without incident. Many analysts predict Sharif's party will come out on top in the parliamentary election.
The Taliban issued a statement earlier this year requesting that Sharif and the heads of the country's two largest Islamic parties mediate peace negotiations. Sharif declined but said he was a supporter of the talks.
The parties that have been targeted by the Taliban also support peace negotiations with the militants, but only if they lay down their weapons and accept the constitution first ??conditions the militant group has rejected.
* Associated Press Writers Riaz Khan and Rasool Dawar in Peshawar contributed to this report.
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