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Resources and Guidance Abound With 'Accredited Online College Degrees' New Website

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:03:13 EST
Pittsburgh, PA - With unemployment at a continuing high, Americans are turning to higher levels of education to ease their job-seeking difficulties.  College and graduate degrees often come with unique difficulties, however, including relocati...

Case Study of Student Credit Cards in Extra Cash For Spring Break

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:55:56 EST
MIAMI, Feb. 22, 2012  --  Michael Germanovsky - editor-in-chief of Credit-Land.com unveiled a final result of a Credit Land's survey of student credit cards case studies. At a center of the research was a top choice card to get the best deals on

ATI Schools & Colleges Announces Campus Consolidation -

Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:27:22 EST
North Richland Hills, TX – March 8, 2012 – Today ATI Schools & Colleges announces the wind-down of operations at the Dallas Maple Avenue, Lewisville, Richardson and Waco campus locations.  Specifically, ATI will no longer enroll

Abba Health Care Training announces it is accepting students for a Certified Nursing Assistant class in Miami

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:25:01 EST
Miami, FL -- Abba Health Care (abbahealthcaretraining.com) offers convenient classes, experienced teachers, and an astounding 95 percent first-time passing rate for the CNA test. Abba is one of the best nursing schools Miami, and its students' su

Beauty Care Services Industry Booming in 2012 with Demand for Licensed Professionals at All-Time Peak

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:30:49 EST
In 2005, Occupational Outlook Handbook reported that that there were 60,000 licensed nail technicians in the United States alone.  NailTechnicianSchools.Org estimates that this figure has increased substantially. - - A spokesperson from NailTechni

Anxiety and Depression Support at New Social Network

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:29:12 EST
Anxiety is a widespread problem that prevents people from adequately socializing with the people around them. Excessive fears of being judged prevent people from sharing their own feelings or ideas with most people thus closing them off to the world.

Renowned Laboratory Identifies Flesh Eating Bacteria

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:36:55 EST
EMSL Analytical offers environmental testing services to identify bacteria known to cause necrotizing fasciitis. -   - Cinnaminson, NJ, June 8th, 2012 -   - In the last several months, millions of Americans have become familiar with the term fl

Environmental Sampling Identifies Illicit Drugs, including Cocaine

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:57:53 EST
EMSL Analytical provides environmental and industrial hygiene drug testing services to identify the presence of illegal drugs.   -   - Cinnaminson, NJ, July 17th, 2012 - - For over a thousand years indigenous people from South America have che

UNHCR issues guidelines on protection of male rape victims

Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:45:00 EST
GENEVA, Switzerland, (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has for the first time issued guidelines for UNHCR staff and other aid workers on how to identify and support male victims of rape and other sexual...

Ricoh And Cal Poly Debut First-Ever Digital Literacy Curriculum For Commercial Printing

Mon, 8 Oct 2012 10:15:42 EST
Online, workshop and hybrid learning modules to elevate skills of franchise, commercial and student print enterprise - - Chicago, IL - High-end digital production printing systems have become more powe...

The Royal Society and Wellcome Trust name first Sir Henry Dale Fellows

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:22:18 EST
The Royal Society and the Wellcome Trust, two of the world's most influential scientific organisations, today announce the inaugural recipients of a joint new fellowship scheme that aims to nurture fu...

Thirty-eight CYBF volunteers to be awarded with Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:35:24 EST
Medal recipients announced during Small Business Week® as part of CYBF's Chairman's Awards for Outstanding Volunteers - - TORONTO, ON – The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) will present thirty...

Supporting Independence Fund projects receive council backing

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:05:07 EST
A series of projects aimed at helping adults with disabilities and older people live more independently have successfully bid for more than £162,000 from the council's Supporting Independence Fund. - T...

Mapping the global burden of sickle cell anaemia

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:18:30 EST
The first rigorous study to assess the global burden of sickle cell anaemia in recent times is reported today in the 'Lancet', giving an up-to-date view of the distribution of the disease. Accurate es...

Group Senior Scientists: Top researchers and scientific experts

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:42:59 EST
New Award at LANXESS - - Leverkusen, Germany - 'Group Senior Scientists': LANXESS has created a new award to honor top researchers and scientific experts for their achievements, to generate motivation ...

Arctic sealife under threat amid record levels of litter

Thu, 1 Nov 2012 12:32:57 EST
One of the world's most pristine seabeds is becoming contaminated with litter which has doubled in quantity in a decade, researchers have warned. - - Photographs have revealed that in 2011 twice as muc...

Macquarie University Delivers Enhanced Student Collaboration and Services with Avaya Networking Solutions

Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:14:46 EST
• Innovative network architecture to deliver faster, simpler, more reliable fixed and wireless access to information and learning tools - • Avaya solutions help increase available network bandwidth...

Agilent Technologies Introduces SureSelect Human All-Exon UTRs for Next-Generation Sequencing

Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:18:26 EST
Products Provide Exceptional Efficiency; Exome Samples Ready for Sequencing the Next Day - - SANTA CLARA, Calif. - - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced SureSelect Human All-Exon V5 and...

Expert Can Answer Food-Safety Questions For Thanksgiving

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:17:08 EST
Food safety isn't simple and at Thanksgiving, mistakes in the kitchen can lead to foodborne illness. Dr. Ben Chapman, food-safety specialist and assistant professor of family and consumer sciences at ...

Tesco opens Skills Foundation to support garment workers in Bangladesh

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:11:39 EST
Tesco today announced the launch an Apparel Skills Foundation to support the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry. The Skills Foundation's objective is to equip the industry with training, expertise...

Student Teams to Build and Fly Rockets With Onboard Payloads for NASA Rocketry Challenge

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:29:13 EST
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Organizers of the NASA Student Launch Projects have announced the 57 student teams whose inventive creations will soar skyward in April during the space agency's 2012-13 rocketry ch...

On the hunt for rare cancer cells

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:14:53 EST
Jellyfish-inspired device that rapidly and efficiently captures cancer cells from blood samples could enable better patient monitoring. - - Tumor cells circulating in a patient's bloodstream can yield ...

International Team Sequences Wheat Genome

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:12:42 EST
National Science Foundation-funded researchers help reveal exceptionally complex genome - - Scientists from the United States, United Kingdom and Germany recently completed the first analysis of the br...

Meeting of Unescos High Panel on Peace and Dialogue among Cultures

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:23:23 EST
UNESCO's High Panel on Peace and Dialogue among Cultures will meet at UNESCO Headquarters on 19 November to explore ways of strengthening UNESCO's activities promote dialogue among cultures and the pu...

Prize-winning net offers young fish an emergency exit

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:55:23 EST
A trawler net that contains an innovative 'emergency exit' for juvenile fish should get its first sea trials early next year after winning a prestigious award. - - Dan Watson, an engineer, won the £10,...

Up to three-quarters of ocean creatures still to be discovered

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:31:34 EST
Up to three-quarters of the world's marine animals and plants are yet to be described by scientists, according to the first official register of what lives in the oceans. - - Researchers estimate that ...

Air Traffic Control for the Ocean

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:34:15 EST
At a given time, our air is filled with thousands of planes intersecting each other's flight paths in a coordinated fashion. The same is true for our ocean and its industries – and a new map shows jus...

Genes link growth in the womb with adult metabolism and disease

Mon, 3 Dec 2012 03:12:23 EST
Researchers have identified four new genetic regions that influence birth weight, providing further evidence that genes as well as maternal nutrition are important for growth in the womb. Three of the...

Massage Masters School Announces Massage Mastery Certification programs

Mon, 3 Dec 2012 15:42:01 EST
Massage Masters School (MMS) introduces its Massage Mastery Certification program, a 100-hour course, which upon successful completion will enable students to become fully certified, recognised and legally accredited massage therapists.   - - Mass

Where Have Our Winters Gone?

Tue, 4 Dec 2012 03:01:01 EST
Changes in winter hydrology, ecology and biogeochemistry are focus of session at American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference - - - If you're planning to skate on a frozen lake or river this winter, ski...

Discovery of genes linked to red blood cell biology gives insight into anaemia

Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:46:32 EST
A genetic study published today reveals new insights into how red blood cells are made and how the body regulates the amount of oxygen-carrying haemoglobin they carry at any time. The findings lay the...

CareerBuilder and EMSI Release Top Jobs for 2013

Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:56:52 EST
CHICAGO – Is finding a job on your list of New Year's resolutions? CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists (EMSI) have released the best bachelor degree jobs for 2013 based on occupations with...

Antibiotic-eating bug unearthed in soil

Fri, 7 Dec 2012 03:14:48 EST
A newly discovered bacterium degrades an antibiotic both to protect itself and get nutrition - - It's well known how bacteria exposed to antibiotics for long periods will find ways to resist the drugs—...

Roche reports positive studies of MabThera given by subcutaneous injection

Sun, 9 Dec 2012 15:13:37 EST
Pivotal study data presented at ASH shows that subcutaneous administration enables the delivery of MabThera over approximately 5 minutes without compromising MabThera's proven efficacy and safety - - R...

Brain study shows how people decide whether they have made the right choice

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 03:03:52 EST
Researchers supported by the Wellcome Trust have discovered how the brain assesses confidence in its decisions. The findings explain why some people have better insight into their choices than others....

Bowie State University Launches Energy Conservation and Awareness Campaign

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:45:56 EST
$25,000 Verizon Foundation Grant to Support University's Sustainability Initiatives - - BOWIE, Md. - - Bowie State University will launch an advocacy campaign to engage students, faculty and staff in a ...

Conference Press Release: Millions of Patients Still Waiting for Medical Breakthroughs Against Neglected Diseases

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:41:31 EST
Analysis of Health R&D Pipeline Shows Important Progress, but Significant Gaps in Innovation Remain - - NEW YORK, NY, — Despite important progress in research and development (R&D) for global health ov...

New Study Shows Promising Results For Tests That Can Help Doctors Better Evaluate Potential Heart Attacks

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:08:10 EST
- Studies have found new diagnostic tests in development for heart conditions are expected to help clinicians reduce time to heart attack treatment and potentially improve the way heart attacks are di...

Scientists discover gene linked to breast and ovarian cancer

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:34:49 EST
The study suggests that around one in five women with PPM1D mutations will develop breast or ovarian cancer in the course of their lifetime, almost double the breast cancer risk and more than ten time...

Historians to study Siemens development over three decades

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:45:51 EST
Munich, Germany - - Siemens AG is commissioning an independent academic study of the company's development from 1981 to 2011. The project is to be undertaken by the economic and company historian Hartm...

New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosis

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:02:28 EST
Nanoparticles amplify tumor signals, making them much easier to detect in the urine. - - Finding ways to diagnose cancer earlier could greatly improve the chances of survival for many patients. One way...

Berkeley Lab Scientists Developing Quick Way to ID People Exposed to Ionizing Radiation

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:07:17 EST
Research could lead to a blood test that triages victims after a radiation-related incident - - There's a reason emergency personnel train for the aftermath of a dirty bomb or an explosion at a nuclear...

Queensland Emory Alliance aims to boost drug and vaccine development

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:21:56 EST
A biomedical research and development alliance among Emory University and two institutions in Queensland, Australia aims to accelerate the development of new drugs and vaccines for cancer and infectio...

Panasonics Joint Research Paper Receives IET Nanobiotechnology Premium Award

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:57:44 EST
Ryo Hamada of Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd. published a paper in collaboration with professors from Kyushu University and the Nippon Dental University. Their joint research paper titled "Development ...

Evolution: Its all in how you splice it

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:41:10 EST
MIT biologists find that alternative splicing of RNA rewires signaling in different tissues and may often contribute to species differences. - - When genes were first discovered, the canonical view was...

Oh, Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree: A nano end for Christmas tree needles

Wed, 2 Jan 2013 14:39:35 EST
Olney, UK - - Chemist Poushpi Dwivedi of MNNIT in Allahabad, India, and colleagues explain that one of the most troubling problems in biomedicine is bacterial infection at the site of implanted medical...

Cooking Up Clean Air in Africa

Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:54:33 EST
Reducing air pollution and meningitis risk in Ghana - - The following is part eight in a series on the National Science Foundation's Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) investm...

Baby Smiles Provide Clues to Healthy Development

Mon, 7 Jan 2013 08:23:44 EST
Analyzing babies' expressions could help children at risk for developmental disorders - - Parents and babies smile, laugh and coo at each other, but scientists still have a lot of questions about how t...

SAS Retail Analytics a good fit for global logistics students at North Carolina community college

Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:51:42 EST
Wake Tech to meet analytics talent demands of state's many retail distribution centers - - CARY, NC – Graduates of Wake Technical Community College's Global Logistics program will wield analytics to st...

HP Vertica Introduces Big Data Solutions Certification Program

Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:54:18 EST
HP ExpertOne program empowers channel partners, IT professionals to monetize structured, semistructured, unstructured data - - PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced the first Big Data Solutions traini...