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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Kessler researchers link left-sided brain injury with greater risk for hospital-acquired infections

Public release date: 28-Feb-2013
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Findings published in March Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation have implications for translational research into brain-mediated immune defenses, infection control practices and cognitive rehabilitation strategies after stroke and brain injury

West Orange, NJ. February 28, 2013. The March 2013 issue of Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the medical journal of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, features an article by Kessler researchers Pasquale Frisina, PhD, Ann Kutlik, BA, and A.M. Barrett, MD. Left-sided brain injury associated with more hospital-acquired infections during inpatient rehabilitation (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2012.10.012) has implications for further research into brain-mediated immune defenses, infection control practices and cognitive rehabilitation strategies to improve outcomes after stroke and traumatic brain injury. The study was supported by Kessler Foundation and the National Institutes of Health (grant nos. R01NS055808, K24HD062647).

The authors, a team of stroke specialists from Kessler Foundation and Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, report findings of a retrospective study of 2236 inpatients with brain lesions caused by traumatic brain injury or stroke. Hospital-acquired infection (HAI), a common complication that adversely affects outcomes and costs, was defined as infection diagnosed within 48 to 72 hours of admission. Of the 163 patients identified as having hospital-acquired infections, 60.1% had left-sided lesions. This finding was consistent with the hypothesis that a left-dominant brain immune network (LD-BIN) may influence the occurrence of HAI during inpatient rehabilitation for stroke and TBI.

These findings may help healthcare providers predict who is most susceptible to HAI, according to lead author Pasquale Frisina, PhD, which could help reduce mortality rates, control costs of care and improve outcomes. "The study indicates that antisepsis may not be the best or sole method to manage infection risk after stroke and brain injury," said Dr. Frisina. "Future research should focus on ways to optimize the LD-BIN to improve health. These may include brain stimulation techniques such as direct electrical stimulation of the prefrontal brain or behavioral techniques such as mental/cognitive exercise." He added that this investigative approach might lead to novel interventions aimed at increasing infection resistance, rather than on reducing or eradicating pathogens.

"Clinicians rarely think about the brain and immunity," noted A.M. Barrett, MD, "but the balance between left and right brain activity is known to affect our infection resistance. I'm proud to be part of scientific activities that ask these kinds of innovative questions, and get answers that become the basis for new, improved processes for clinical care."

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About the Authors

Pasquale Frisina, PhD, is director of quality management at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, NJ, and assistant professor in the department of geriatrics and adult development at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Ann Kutlik, BA, is research and outcomes coordinator at Kessler Institute. A.M. Barrett, MD, is Director, Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation and Chief, Neurorehabilitation Program Innovation, Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation in West Orange. Dr. Barrett is also professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Medical School, in Newark, N.J.

About Kessler Institute

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, a division of Select Medical, provides comprehensive care and specialized treatment to address the complex needs of individuals with spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, amputation, neurological diseases, cardiac recovery and orthopedic/musculoskeletal conditions. Kessler is one of only eight federally designated Model Systems in the nation for the treatment and research of both traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries. Ranked as one of the top two rehabilitation hospitals in the nation and the best in the East by U.S. News & World Report, Kessler has three hospital campuses in West Orange, Saddle Brook and Chester, N.J., and more than 80 outpatient centers throughout the state.

About Kessler Foundation

Kessler Foundation, a major nonprofit organization in the field of disability, is a global leader in rehabilitation research that seeks to improve cognition, mobility and long-term outcomes, including employment, for people with neurological disabilities caused by diseases and injuries of the brain and spinal cord. Kessler Foundation leads the nation in funding innovative programs that expand opportunities for employment for people with disabilities.

About the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

The Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation advances the art and science of interdisciplinary rehabilitation, and is the premier source for researchers and clinicians to obtain authoritative information on the therapeutic utilization of physical, behavioral, and pharmaceutical agents in providing comprehensive care for individuals with chronic illness and disabilities. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed articles that report on important trends and developments in physical medicine and rehabilitation and are relevant to all members of medical rehabilitation teams, including physicians, nurses, counselors, therapists and case managers. Archives began publication in 1920; it publishes monthly, and is the official journal of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. Archives is the most highly cited journal in Rehabilitation, has the highest Eigenfactor in the category, and has an Impact Factor that has increased eight of the past nine years. (2011 Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters). In 2009, the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation was identified by the Special Libraries Association as one of the 100 most influential journals of Biology & Medicine over the last 100 years. www.archives-pmr.org

About the ACRM | American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine

ACRM serves a global community of researchers and clinicians striving to deliver evidence-based rehabilitation interventions to people with disabling conditions, such as traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, and neurological disorders, such as multiple sclerosis. ACRM is committed to the dissemination of research and educating providers while supporting advocacy efforts to ensure adequate public funding of research endeavors. www.acrm.org

Kessler Foundation: Carolann Murphy, PA; 973.324.8382; CMurphy@KesslerFoundation.org

Kessler Institute: Gail Solomon, 973.243.6879 (office), 973.567.1327 (cell) or GSolomon@Kessler-Rehab.com

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Kessler researchers link left-sided brain injury with greater risk for hospital-acquired infections

Public release date: 28-Feb-2013
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Findings published in March Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation have implications for translational research into brain-mediated immune defenses, infection control practices and cognitive rehabilitation strategies after stroke and brain injury

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About the Authors

About Kessler Institute

About Kessler Foundation

About the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

About the ACRM | American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine

Kessler Foundation: Carolann Murphy, PA; 973.324.8382; CMurphy@KesslerFoundation.org

Kessler Institute: Gail Solomon, 973.243.6879 (office), 973.567.1327 (cell) or GSolomon@Kessler-Rehab.com

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River regulation influences land-living animals

Feb. 28, 2013 ? Forest-living insects and spiders become less abundant and birds are adversely affected along regulated rivers. Three different studies by ecologists at Ume? University in Sweden show that river regulation has a negative effect also on land-living animals.

It is already well known that river regulation influences salmon migration, aquatic insects and streamside vegetation, but effects on land-living animals have been poorly studied.

When free-flowing rivers become regulated, there is a reduction in the number of aquatic insects that, during spring and summer, emerge and fly onto land where they become food for land-living animals.

"Our studies show that the number of flying insects is lower along regulated rivers than along free-flowing rivers. This results in fewer forest-living insects and spiders along regulated rivers, as the resource they feed upon -- emergent aquatic insects -- is reduced," says ecologist Micael Jonsson, the lead author on two of the articles.

Together with a group of researchers, he has compared the abundance of insect-feeding animals along similar river stretches at four regulated and four free-flowing large rivers in northern Sweden and the Finnish Kemi River. Along these rivers, flying and ground-dwelling insects were caught. The flying insects were caught with a net mounted on the top of a moving car, and the ground-dwelling insects and spiders were caught in pitfall traps.

The research team also shows that birds are adversely affected by river regulation. Besides a standardised bird survey, nest boxes were used to investigate breeding success of insectivorous birds. The study species, the Pied Flycatcher, is a relatively common species and prefers to use nest boxes.

The results show that adult Pied Flycatchers breeding along regulated rivers lost more weight after their eggs were hatched and fewer of the chicks survived, because their food resource -- the insects -- was less abundant. Along one of the regulated rivers, the survival of the chicks was even lower than what is required for the species to persist.

There were also signs of whole bird communities being impacted by river regulation. Aquatic insect emerge and fly onto land before terrestrial insects peak in numbers. The aquatic insects are therefore an important food resource for birds early in the season, while, normally, birds are seen foraging away from aquatic systems later in the season.

"We could see that such seasonal movements of whole bird communities differed between regulated and free-flowing rivers," says Micael Jonsson.

That the effects are still visible half a century after regulation of these rivers was initiated clearly indicates that the changes are permanent. The studies also highlight the fact that different types of ecosystems influence each other via resource flows, and that changes in one ecosystem therefore affect plant and animals in nearby ecosystems.

"Therefore, there are even stronger reasons to question the use of biological insecticides to reduce the numbers of mosquitoes along rivers in central Sweden and elsewhere in the world, because it most likely results in poorer living conditions for a range of land-living animals."

The studies are published in the international journals River Research and Applications, Ibis, and Ecological Research.

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M. Jonsson, P. Deleu, B. Malmqvist. PERSISTING EFFECTS OF RIVER REGULATION ON EMERGENT AQUATIC INSECTS AND TERRESTRIAL INVERTEBRATES IN UPLAND FORESTS. River Research and Applications, 2012; DOI: 10.1002/rra.2559
Darius Strasevicius, Micael Jonsson, Erik Nyholm, Bj?rn Malmqvist. Reduced breeding success of Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca along regulated rivers. Ibis, 2013 DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12024
Micael Jonsson, Darius Strasevicius, Bj?rn Malmqvist. Influences of river regulation and environmental variables on upland bird assemblages in northern Sweden. Ecological Research, 2012. 27: 945-954

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Metal Wall Sconces Best For Home Improvement And Security

February 27, 2013

You cannot wait to have the improvement you want for your home. ?It is like making the best out of something that you value most. ?Of course, your home is your sanctuary and your family adds to the?fulfillment?you have in your life. And improving your sanctuary is one of your priorities because nothing feels good than to have the perfect place for you, your spouse and children. ?There are many home improvements you can have right now but you have to focus on the improvements with greater value. ?It is important that you take small improvements but the developments are very rewarding.

Enhancement materials are available in the market. ?It is up to you to choose the best options which will give greater value at a very low price. ?It is impractical to buy expensive enhancements when you have the option to choose the materials with lesser cost but the output is still the same. That is why, take into account the improvement you want for your living room. ?You don't have to buy expensive ornaments, instead the glass sconces will be the best alternative for you since it will make your living room more attractive while it gives warm glow to the entire room.

Furthermore, if you want to have changes for the better, you can use the contemporary wall sconces [click here]. ?It is the best choice for you because the contemporary wall sconces gives many advantages to you in the sense that you will make your dull wall elegant. ?You will also provide your respective rooms in your house enough light to?brighten?up the entire house. ?If you have proper lighting inside your house, you and your family members will feel secured and protected.

Lastly, if you want to even give your home better security, you can use a unique metal wall sconces outside your house. ?You can install it in your veranda or balcony to have enough light during the night. Since you will have some moment with your family in your balcony during the night, the metal wall sconces will definitely keep the place warm and perfect for family bonding. ?Thus, this type of improvement is the best option for you because it will surely give the output you look forward to.

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The Corsair : Fashionable Oscars

Women look the costumes of the movie 'End of Watch' in the "Art of Motion Picture Costume Design" exhibition on February 22, 2013 at FIDM Museum & Galleries in Los Angeles, California. (Photo By HaJung Shin)

Eva Underwood
February 26, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment

The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising is celebrating its 21st annual ?Art of Motion Picture Costume Design? exhibition, which features costumes from films that have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

The exhibition has been open since Feb. 12, and has already seen visitors from all over Southern California, as well as from places such as Mexico, Brazil and Japan, according to FIDM alumni fashion designer and ?Project Runway? star Nick Verreos.

The walls are lined with vision boards, black boards with sketches of clothing a character should wear, color swatches, textures for the clothes, and other details. Each board has fabric scraps to help bring these ideas to life, along with a complete final sketch and a computer-generated picture of the characters in the Oscar-nominated films.

?We had a lot of connections with the Costume Guild and Costume Design and we thought, why not showcase the costumes of the films that are released every year?? Verreos says. ?It was the perfect marriage, and so here we are, 21 years later.?

According to Verreos, deciding which movies will be showcased is a process that is done by chance.

?It?s mostly having a pretty good guess which movies will be nominated,? he says.

Verreos says the costumes are brought in ?literally a week after they?ve been nominated.?

?I have a feeling that somebody?s telling them secrets behind the scenes,? he says.

Several of the costume designers were at last week?s opening night gala for the exhibition, according to Verreos. He also says that FIDM tries to showcase clothing designs from alumni.

?We always like to make sure we feature designers who came from FIDM,? he says.

Verreos also describes which costumes catch his eye.

?I really love the fantasy ones, like ?Snow White and the Huntsman,?? he says. ?It really almost represents runway couture. When we see those costumes Charlize Theron wore as the queen, they?re very Alexander McQueen, and I?m drawn to that as a fashion designer myself.?

Aramis Richards, who is studying fashion design at Los Angeles Trade Tech college, is a fan of the late Eiko Ishioka, who worked on the film ?Mirror Mirror.?

Richards likes how Ishioka was able to ?use all of the colors of the color palette and the phenomenal way her choice of colors brings everything together?.

Richards also feels costume designer Paco Delgado did a brilliant job with his work in ?Les Miserables.?

?[Delgado] really kept true to the traditional time period, but added just enough color to not have the costumes be too dark,? he says.

FIDM museum and gallery is open and free to the public Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is located at 919 South Grand Ave., in downtown Los Angeles, just blocks away from the world famous Staples Center and L.A. Live.

The exhibition will be on display until April 27.

Source: http://www.thecorsaironline.com/arts-entertainment/2013/02/26/fashionable-oscars/

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Online Poker Forums: Winding through the Maze | Poker Player ...

By Wendeen H. Eolis

The history of Internet-based poker forums is as instructive as it is colorful, from its raw roots in the late 1980?s at?a forum dominated by zealous blackjack counters and systematic craps players to the latest debates by legal experts fueled by Howard Lederer?s storytelling about the rise and fall of his Full Tilt Poker site in interviews and follow-up full of fanfare.

Poker Forums: The world at large!

Today the lives and lifestyle of poker players and poker businesses are chronicled and?dissected.?They are subjected?to all manner of online scrutiny, chatter, and commentary?to the delight and chagrin of the industry?s inhabitants, part-time warriors, devoted enthusiasts, dedicated personnel and visionary entrepreneurs--around the world.

Increasingly poker forum participants are the first to shed light on a crisis or breaking news in the industry. Some ignite raging flame wars for sport, while others provide intellectual food for thought, and a few visionaries test their brainstorms and solicit feedback on their grand?plans at their favorite forums.???

The expanding breadth and depth of content has also attracted attention far beyond the community it was designed to serve, including investigators associated with federal and state government agencies, ?the judiciary in developing opinions for court decisions, and legislative bodies responsible for making laws to govern gambling activity. ?

These days, poker forums provide regular reading for Congressional staff and legislators across the country, according to a survey recently conducted by Eolis International Group which has submitted a white paper to a law firm that advises the executive branch of federal government on online, commercial and tribal gaming matters.

At the end of the day, however, no one is consistently more interested in or intrigued by online poker forums than the poker world itself. From the early years of Wild West acceptance of ?anything goes? to their emergence as hubs for research as well as sophisticated discourse and problem solving, these sites typically appeal to posters and lurkers?with a zest for gamesmanship, confidence in their gambling skills, and an insatiable thirst for information on? happenings inside the perimeter of the poker universe. Today?s poker forums showcase the power, peril, and evolution of free speech in an Internet driven world.

A Big Choice Awaits the Forum Enthusiast

In this two part article we look at the anatomy of poker forums and shine a light on a small sample of them. RGP is highlighted as an originator; BARGE is spotlighted for its expanded appeal; twoplustwo demonstrates the results of harnessing a significant audience through the use of moderators; Wednesday Poker Discussion Group showcases the ability? of a forum to be combined with live events to enhance communication within a city and beyond it; and finally we get insights from pocketfives.com which focused from the beginning on making?sense of? forum contributors as much as the contributions; chasing down? ?Who ?s Who? among the most avid anonymous posters around the globe.
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Who are the key players? Who are the moderators? Do moderated forums stymie free speech? Do they enhance civil discourse? Should anonymous posters be taken seriously? How do you follow a thread? How have poker forums affected industry movers and shakers?positively or negatively? Do flamers succeed in trouncing their prey? How does one counteract a smear campaign? Will the Internet veer toward lawlessness?or more conventional rules applied to libel in the foreseeable future? Who's posts should? you trust? ?And, most important of all---how can you figure out who and what is reliable when you find the information at an online poker forum. ?

These are questions that have been asked and answered across the country in a six month nationwide probe into the world of poker forums?including conversations with founders of sites, well-known posters, moderators and lesser known participants as well as a world of savvy lurkers that rarely express their views for public consumption.

Poker Forums: Poker Strategy

?Let us begin the journey with a tip of the hat to all of the forums that offer strategy discussions, coaching, and training and related videos as well as poker book reviews, general gambling advice, reliable referrals to accounting and legal services etc. All of the sites in our sample are known for these discussions, but for the most part we point the laser beam on participant involvement and commitment to inform, debate, advocate, and challenge poker businesses and poker?poker players.?As one sage poker forum poster quipped, "Beyond the insular community of my poker friends,?I am? caught up in daily discussions?about matters of money, reputation, and stature." And so it is on poker forums!??
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The analysis of gossip and news on these forums is variably illuminating,??often transmitted from behind a curtain of hidden identity, rarely mistake-free, and too frequently?presented as gospel?at least until the first vociferous critic takes the stage. But there is no denying that?forums?present myriad opportunities and used artfully have an abundance of merit.

PokerStars Respects the Online Poker Community

PokerStars is a prime example of a company that has taken advantage of the benefits.?A uniquely enlightened small company, in its earliest days, Poker Stars saw the wisdom of following the conversations at the?emerging poker forums, taking note of articulate and sound thinkers for roles in their nascent operations, including the company's top executive in marketing.?
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Some ten years later,?in a splashy brochure for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, the Company cited the importance of feedback it received over the years and personnel selections it made from the this community. And?even while in?the midst of its feud with the US Department of Justice last year,??the Company? green lighted (quietly) the sponsorship of a lavish banquet? for online forum enthusiasts who had taken to a land-based??casino to party and talk poker,?signaling its continued support of a vibrant interactive poker community far beyond its immediate market.?

History of Poker Forums

Now, let us turn back the clock of time to trace a bit of history in the world of online poker discussion groups.?? Rec.gambling. was established in 1989; it notably attracted?hard core gamblers fixated on the development of winning systems. In the early 90?s it attracted to its ranks card aficionados beyond blackjack counters and?gamers skillful at bankroll management.?The poker players?soon overtook part of the discussions, demanding?a sub-set? which came to be known?as rec.gambling.poker?around 1995.

In 1991, however, the first BARGE event was established?before it became known either as the Big August (or Annual) Rec(reational) Gambling Excursion. The excursions of? online forum members?to brick and mortar casinos?were an immediate success. BARGE has not only survived to become the poker forum with perhaps the broadest intellectual exchanges, but also it has spawned many regional members to plan special live events around the country with other ?ARG? gatherings?annually over the years.

By most accounts, however, it was poker author and theorist, Mason Malmuth who most effectively harnessed broqad scale interest?in moderated online poker discussions. He has grown the twoplustwo poker forum into a must read site for movers and shakers of the poker world, devotees of the game, mainstream media focused on the business of poker, and? government officials tasked with poker-based investigations.
While ?RGP? posters may have gotten ?their biggest publicity boost from a trio of cheaters who long monopolized the forum with criticism of casinos and players they themselves had taken to the cleaners, other forums gained steam with less volatile fare. Some emerged as great strategy discussion sites,others served special interests of an online poker gaming site to build a customer base.?Others? have had more pointed appeal?such as the Wednesday Poker Discussion Group which got its start in Atlantic City but later?took up?residence in the City of Las Vegas with a welcoming forum and land-based- events for its cultivated membership and guests from around the world.? ?

And?the initiative of a couple of other curious poker players interested in learning who was who?among their forum??brethren on poker forums, opened up pocketfives.com? with a dogged determination to?build a loyal client base not just with interesting topics for discussion , but with more knowledge as to?identity of? major contributors in the online poker forum world.

Next PPN Tips Off Readers on the Ins and Outs of Poker Forums

The value in a poker?forum ?lies in understanding its mission, its population, its most prolific speakers,??its controls and the quality of a given contribution. The devil is in the details!? Part 2 of this article? addresses these issues in the next edition of? PPN.

Editor?s Note: Wendeen H. Eolis is CEO of Eolis International Group, an internationally recognized legal consultancy?legal consultancy. Ms. Eolis has?also?served as first assistant/ senior advisor to NY Governor George E. Pataki. Her responsibilities included gaming affairs and an initiative to legalize gambling. A proponent of poker as a game of skill, Ms. Eolis has to her credit 10 record-setting performances for a woman in major tournament competition including? first woman to cash at the WSOP main event? (and first to do so twice) and winner?of the European Open. This article and related research is part of material planned for use in connection with other writings of the author. She can be reached at?eolis@eolis.com?and at the website?www.eolis.com?you can also find her on?Facebook?and?LinkedIn.

Source: http://www.pokerplayernewspaper.com/content/online-poker-forums-winding-through-maze-12582

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Mac Miller Was 'Skeptical' About Doing 'Most Dope' TV Show

'To see my life as an MTV Show is kind of weird, but it's gonna be tight,' Mac says of his reality TV debut Tuesday on MTV2.
By Nadeska Alexis, with reporting by Steven Roberts

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Blueprint for an artificial brain

Public release date: 26-Feb-2013
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Bielefeld physicist Andy Thomas takes nature as his model

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Scientists have long been dreaming about building a computer that would work like a brain. This is because a brain is far more energy-saving than a computer, it can learn by itself, and it doesn't need any programming. Privatdozent [senior lecturer] Dr. Andy Thomas from Bielefeld University's Faculty of Physics is experimenting with memristors electronic microcomponents that imitate natural nerves. Thomas and his colleagues proved that they could do this a year ago. They constructed a memristor that is capable of learning. Andy Thomas is now using his memristors as key components in a blueprint for an artificial brain. He will be presenting his results at the beginning of March in the print edition of the prestigious Journal of Physics published by the Institute of Physics in London.

Memristors are made of fine nanolayers and can be used to connect electric circuits. For several years now, the memristor has been considered to be the electronic equivalent of the synapse. Synapses are, so to speak, the bridges across which nerve cells (neurons) contact each other. Their connections increase in strength the more often they are used. Usually, one nerve cell is connected to other nerve cells across thousands of synapses.

Like synapses, memristors learn from earlier impulses. In their case, these are electrical impulses that (as yet) do not come from nerve cells but from the electric circuits to which they are connected. The amount of current a memristor allows to pass depends on how strong the current was that flowed through it in the past and how long it was exposed to it.

Andy Thomas explains that because of their similarity to synapses, memristors are particularly suitable for building an artificial brain a new generation of computers. 'They allow us to construct extremely energy-efficient and robust processors that are able to learn by themselves.' Based on his own experiments and research findings from biology and physics, his article is the first to summarize which principles taken from nature need to be transferred to technological systems if such a neuromorphic (nerve like) computer is to function. Such principles are that memristors, just like synapses, have to 'note' earlier impulses, and that neurons react to an impulse only when it passes a certain threshold.

Thanks to these properties, synapses can be used to reconstruct the brain process responsible for learning, says Andy Thomas. He takes the classic psychological experiment with Pavlov's dog as an example. The experiment shows how you can link the natural reaction to a stimulus that elicits a reflex response with what is initially a neutral stimulus this is how learning takes place. If the dog sees food, it reacts by salivating. If the dog hears a bell ring every time it sees food, this neutral stimulus will become linked to the stimulus eliciting a reflex response. As a result, the dog will also salivate when it hears only the bell ringing and no food is in sight. The reason for this is that the nerve cells in the brain that transport the stimulus eliciting a reflex response have strong synaptic links with the nerve cells that trigger the reaction.

If the neutral bell-ringing stimulus is introduced at the same time as the food stimulus, the dog will learn. The control mechanism in the brain now assumes that the nerve cells transporting the neutral stimulus (bell ringing) are also responsible for the reaction the link between the actually 'neutral' nerve cell and the 'salivation' nerve cell also becomes stronger. This link can be trained by repeatedly bringing together the stimulus eliciting a reflex response and the neutral stimulus. 'You can also construct such a circuit with memristors this is a first step towards a neuromorphic processor,' says Andy Thomas.

'This is all possible because a memristor can store information more precisely than the bits on which previous computer processors have been based,' says Thomas. Both a memristor and a bit work with electrical impulses. However, a bit does not allow any fine adjustment it can only work with 'on' and 'off'. In contrast, a memristor can raise or lower its resistance continuously. 'This is how memristors deliver a basis for the gradual learning and forgetting of an artificial brain,' explains Thomas.

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Andy Thomas, 'Memristor-based neural networks', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/46/9/093001, released online on 5 February 2013, published in print on 6 March 2013.

For further information in the Internet, go to: www.spinelectronics.de.

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Blueprint for an artificial brain

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Bielefeld physicist Andy Thomas takes nature as his model

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Monday, February 25, 2013

General mechanism that accelerates tumor development discovered

Feb. 24, 2013 ? Cancer is characterized by uncontrolled cell division and growth. In order to identify new therapeutic targets through which to tackle the disease, scientists seek to clarify the mechanisms that control the expression of genes that favor the development of tumors, in processes such as uncontrolled cell division. Nature has just published a paper by the lab headed by Ra?l M?ndez, ICREA professor at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). The study describes a mechanism controlled by the CPEB1 protein that affects more than 200 genes related to cell proliferation and tumor progression. The mechanism, which was discovered using Hodgkin lymphoma cells, has been proposed as a general regulatory system that enhances the spread of cancer.

The researchers describe that CPEB1 shortens a highly specific region of RNAs (RNAs are the molecules that carry gene information for protein synthesis). This region holds most of the signals that determine whether an RNA molecule is made into a protein or not. "CPEB1 "takes off the brakes" for hundreds of RNAs that stimulate cell desdifferentiation and proliferation, allowing them to be made into proteins; however, in addition to removing the brakes in the nucleus, this protein accompanies RNA to the cytoplasm, where it speeds up the production of these proteins," explains the senior author of the paper Ra?l M?ndez, head of the "Translational control of cell cycle and differentiation" group at IRB Barcelona.

Ra?l M?ndez is an expert on the CPBE protein family, a type of RNA-binding protein that has a positive and crucial role in early embryo development. "CPEB proteins are necessary during development and also during tissue regeneration via stem cells in adults, but if the programme governed by CPEBs is continually switched on, cells divide when they are not supposed to and form a tumor," explains M?ndez. The CPEB family comprises four proteins, which compensate each other's normal function but which have specific activities in diseased states. "This finding is positive from a therapeutic viewpoint because it means that if you remove CPEB1 from healthy cells, its function can be taken over by any other CPEB protein. In contrast, in tumors only CPEB1 has the capacity to shorten these regions, thus affecting only tumor cells," states Italian researcher Felice Alessio Bava, first author of the paper, and post-doctoral fellow with M?ndez's group who, this year, has obtained his doctorate degree through the "la Caixa" International Fellowship Programme. This study provides further evidence of the potential of CPEB proteins as therapeutic targets. In 2011, in a study published in Nature Medicine, M?ndez identified that CPEB4 "switches on" hundreds of genes linked to tumor growth. This new study explains that the overexpression of CPEB4 in tumors is because CPEB1 has also "released its brakes." "The fact that these proteins control each other is also advantageous from a therapeutic point of view," asserts M?ndez, "because partial inhibition, by a drug, would be amplified, thus allowing tumor cell reprogramming. The amplification should make it easier to find a viable compound."

The lab has developed a system to screen therapeutic molecules for a drug that can inhibit the action of CPEB in tumors while having few secondary effects on healthy cells. "There is no drug currently available that influences the regulation of gene expression at this level. Our findings open up a pioneering therapeutic window. We are optimistic about the potential of CPEB proteins as targets," says M?ndez.

The action of CPEB proteins should be considered in the design of other therapeutic strategies

The study published in Nature includes a meticulous genomic analysis of RNA molecules that are processed in different ways depending on whether CPBE1 is present. The study provides a list of between 200 and 300 of such genes, that is to say, those that would have the region holding regulatory signals removed. This is precisely the region where microRNAs -- small molecules regulating the translation of this RNA to protein -- bind. "Many antitumor therapies attempt to interfere with microRNA binding, but we have now revealed that CPEB proteins remove these regions beforehand. The pharmaceutical companies that are developing such compounds will be able to predict whether their targets are suitable approaches or not," explains the scientist.

The study has involved the collaboration of the group led by Juan Valc?rcel at the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), an expert in RNA nuclear processing, and that of Roderic Guig?, an expert in biostatistics and also at CRG. This study received funding from the Consolider RNAreg consortium of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competition and the Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of Catalonia).

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Moderate climate warming could melt permafrost

Ancient cave formations in Siberia reveal effects of warmer past on frozen ground

Ancient cave formations in Siberia reveal effects of warmer past on frozen ground

By Puneet Kollipara

Web edition: February 25, 2013

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A researcher works in Ledyanaya Lenskaya Cave, in northern Siberia. The cave is in an area where the soil is frozen year-round.

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A stalagmite?s past may help reveal Earth?s future. By studying Siberian cave formations as old as 500,000 years, researchers have found that even moderate climate warming may set off significant thawing of permafrost.

If such extensive thawing of frozen soil occurred today, it could trigger a massive release of greenhouse gases, scientists report online February 21 in Science. Permafrost locks in huge amounts of carbon, so if the frozen ground thaws, much of the carbon could convert to carbon dioxide and methane and boost global warming.

During an era with average temperatures just 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than preindustrial times, permafrost melted in areas that today are frozen year-round, the researchers report. Alarmingly, this melting came with a change in climate less than the 2 degrees that the United Nations has set as a target for averting catastrophic effects of warming, says Ted Schuur of the University of Florida, Gainesville, who was not involved in the study.

The new research, he says, is the first to shed light on permafrost from hundreds of thousands of years ago. ?It's nice to look back in the past and see what's already happened on the Earth, and that gives us some confidence about our future predictions,? Schuur says.

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Mineral deposits in Siberian caves add layers much like trees add rings. Researchers searched in the formations for clues on permafrost?s history and found that just a 1.5? Celsius rise could thaw permafrost in areas that are completely frozen now.

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Researchers can use soil and ice to calculate the age of existing ? but not past ? permafrost.

Anton Vaks of the University of Oxford and an international team probed what happened to permafrost in warmer climates long ago by studying speleothems, ancient cave formations that include stalactites on cave ceilings and stalagmites on cave floors. These formations grow as mineral-laden water seeps into caves. In areas with permafrost, that only happens when the climate is warm enough to cause thawing, the researchers say. So determining the age of speleothem layers gave the researchers an indirect way to study ancient thawing permafrost.

Vaks and his team sampled speleothems from six caves along a path from northern Siberia south to the Gobi Desert. They dated layers going back 500,000 years by measuring the amounts of certain radioactive elements within the layers.

In nearly all of the warm periods studied, layers grew on speleothems in areas that today have partial permafrost cover, the researchers found. During the warmest period studied, some 400,000 years ago, global temperature was 1.5 degrees higher than in preindustrial times. Only during that period did speleothems grow in the cave farthest to the north.

That suggests that 1.5 degrees of warming was enough to thaw permafrost even in areas that are fully covered today. And the finding implies the same could happen in the future, says George Kling of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ?Our challenge is to predict how much and how fast the carbon currently frozen in permafrost will enter the atmosphere,? he says.

Vladimir Romanovsky of the University of Alaska Fairbanks praises the study but warns against generalizing its findings to permafrost in other regions of the globe, noting that the method has some uncertainty. ?Permafrost could be only one of the possible causes of growing or not growing of speleothems.? One possibility is that fractures in still-frozen permafrost could allow water to seep through, he says.

Another concern is that the method the researchers used might not detect partial thawing. If that had happened, water may not have reached caves, and speleothems would not have grown, Romanovsky says. But even partial thawing could change the climate, he warns, by turning previously locked-up carbon into greenhouse gases.

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Samsung confirms Galaxy S IV launch on March 14th in NYC

It was true. And then it wasn't. Now, here at MWC in Barcelona, Samsung has finally confirmed its rumored March 14th launch event for the much-anticipated Galaxy S IV. The smartphone giant's latest flagship is set to debut in New York City, apparently by popular demand. "We introduced the Galaxy S III in London last year," Samsung Electronics' mobile division chief JK Shin told Edaily news. "This time we changed the Venue (to New York)... as we were bombarded with requests from US mobile carriers to unveil the Galaxy S IV in the country." As with any such announcement, details are sparse at best, so we'll need to wait a few more weeks before confirming specs and appearance for the Galaxy S III successor. But, as always, you're welcome to shout out your best guesses in the comments.

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Network Infrastructure Company BTI Systems Raises $10M From Bain Capital And Others

Enterprise network infrastructure company BTI Systems has raised $10 million in new capital led by Bain Capital Ventures and including existing investors BDC, Covington Capital and GrowthWorks. The company has raised more than $33 million since 2011.

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This is where many traders go wrong - they put on individual positions and do not understand how they affect your overall portfolio. You'll discover why diversification in time frames, prices and strategies is a key to making money. This is simply fundamental to being a good investor. 5. THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE ThinkorSwim (TOS), in my opinion is the best broker and has the best trading platform available. If you had to pay separately for the kind of analysis tools they give you as an account holder it would cost you many hundreds of dollars a month in fees - with TOS they're free. I take you inside the TOS platform and help you access the power you have at your finger tips. (There are other programs/software that you can use to analyze your trades, but TOS is also free when you open an account.) 6. PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT BY THE GREEKS, ADJUSTMENTS, VIX and More... Now that we have built our portfolio, how do we manage it by the numbers? We learned the greeks, so now it's time to put them into action. The key to success is knowing how to look at the numbers and know, without a doubt, what they mean and what to do with them if anything. This module includes 5 killer videos with real life examples as I manage a portfolio. 7. THE ART OF ADJUSTMENTS - THE SECRET KEY What happens when our numbers don't look good? This is where 99% of all traders get killed in the market... they have no clue what to do when a position goes against them and they lose money. It's too bad because most trades can be saved to make a profit! Imagine making one small change to your position and increasing your odds of making a profit by 80%! That's what adjusting can do for you! In Trading As A Business, we KNOW what to do. We trade with confidence. We know and understand that when a trade goes against us it's an OPPORTUNITY to add to our portfolio by adjusting. I call it Smart Allocation of Capital. The art of adjustments is the missing link in trading options and stocks that almost no one teaches. 8. CLOSING POSITIONS How and when to close positions, and how to close them for maximum profits. The risks of holding positions into expiration week. When and how to 'buy' short-term insurance to protect your profits and increase your wealth in expiration week. How to close positions and get free trades left over that, although small, have a chance of DOUBLING our profits. This module contains 5 videos, and the key theme here is MAXIMIZING our profits! 9. THE BIG PICTURE - TECHNICAL ANALYSIS What kinds of technical analysis help us in our business? There are only a few key analysis tools that can help you determine the probabilities of market direction and I tell you exactly what those are. I'll give you insights into why the market moves the way it does. I'll also give you a historical perspective on market movements going back to 1900 and give you a realistic plan of attack for determining future market direction based on factual evidence. In the 2nd video, I dive into short-term indicators that can sharpen your edge in the markets to better time your trades. Then I tell you about an indicator I stumbled on, that predicts short-term and opening market direction with an amazing degree of accuracy close to 95% of the time as well as how to determine intra-day movements and how to tell whether money is flowing into or out of stocks and what it means for intra-day price trends. This module contains well over 3 hours of solid teaching. 10. ADVANCED TECHNIQUES AND EXPLOSIVE WEALTH BUILDING STRATEGIES Not even one of these strategies requires any knowledge of 'technical analysis' - it can help, but it's not required. These make money whether the market goes up or down. These are strategies you can manage based on 'the numbers'. One important thing I should mention: There are ways to make money that are NOT obvious. For example, Strategy #1 is something I have been studying for years, and it works every time and cannot fail to work. ? 11. Explosive Strategy #1 Using this one method I turned a $14,000 trade into a $75,000 profit in just 8 months. The most money at risk? Just $650. That was the total amount that was at risk when this position was initiated and NO more money was ever put into the position. Amazing profit/loss ratio. And it doesn't matter if the stock goes up or down but does require an longer time frame- 6 to 8 months. It is not uncommon for these trades to create the profits you can brag about. Want to make a killing in the market? It doesn't get any better than this. 12. Explosive Strategy #2 Another method I call "Flipping Stocks" let's me buy stocks cheaper than anyone else and if the market does not cooperate with my plan - I get paid lots of money for waiting until it does! This is for bigger players with more capital... but when you have $15k or more to put to work, these longer term trades generate explosive profits. I teach it to you in a nice 52 minute video 13. Explosive Strategy #3 This new strategy that has unlimited upside or downside potential and only $50 or so of risk! This strategy is extremely powerful and one of the biggest real 'secrets' that no one has ever discussed that I know of. Wait till you see the power of this strategy. You can make $1000's with a total risk of $50 or so. It's extremely powerful. Think there's no free-lunch on Wall Street? This isn't one either but it's as close as it gets to one! This is the perfect strategy for playing earnings reports, takeover news stocks and any stock you think will move big in any direction with little risk. 14. Explosive Strategy #4 If you want to be more active in stocks but hate the risk, you'll love this. Day trade without the risk normally associated with day trading. Can be setup to be an 'semi-automated' trading system. Very powerful and again another low risk, high earning strategy for more active participants. This strategy includes 9 videos, and I take you through some real life trades over the course of 7 days and show you exactly how I make thousands of dollars with these trades. I've also included 3 worksheets (Excel spreadsheets) for your convenience! 15. Explosive Strategy #5 If you liked the idea of the monthly income trades but were wondering how to 'turbo charge' them to make a fortune, then you will love THIS. Instead of $1000-$2000 a month you could start generating an income in the $5,000 to $40,000 a month range after learning this and with a lot less stress while trading as 'big' as you want. This last strategy is the 'icing' on the cake... the peak moment in all your hard study and will be worth 100 times what you paid for this course - maybe even more. Why didn't I reveal this until the very end of the course? Simple: You would not be able to use this strategy without a good foundation that was laid out in the earlier Modules. Everything we have learned thus far has been leading up to these explosive strategies. This Course Contains Over 40 Videos... Totaling Over 24 HOURS Of Me Teaching! The videos and modules are very well organized in an easy-to-navigate membership area, and they are sequenced in a perfectly logical order so that you can learn the system one step at a time. As I mentioned previously, you will not find this material anywhere else. The course will be delivered to you 100% online. I'M INCLUDING TWO FORMATS FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE: 1) Online Streaming. You can stream the videos directly in your browser (Flash videos, which are compatible with virtually all browsers), so you don't have to download anything if you don't want to. 2) Downloadable. You can also download the full resolution videos? directly to your computer. This allows us to provide you with the highest quality and clearest videos for you to watch. You may make one copy of these videos on a storage device (CD, DVD or external drive) but may not allow anyone else to view, copy or share them. They are for your use only. (with the exception of your spouse)?. So... what's the price? I've made this incredibly affordable so you can learn it without any serious financial stress. As I mentioned I have been to seminars for $3,000 and $5,000 and you will get much more from this course than both of those combined. I've also seen one trading course that charges $7,500 just for online access to learn the basics of options! So right there, you can see that the VALUE of this course is easily in the thousands. But I'm not done adding value yet :-) If you join today, you'll also receive these FOUR fast action bonuses... FAST ACTION BONUS #1 Inside Days Strategy Video (69 minutes) + Ebook $147.00 Value - Yours free when you join today! I created this mini-course to teach a very powerful indicator in the market, which can show you how to set yourself up for explosive profits. I use this strategy to rake in the profits time and time again. FAST ACTION BONUS #2 "Xtreme Trading" Video (50 minutes) $97.00 Value - Yours free when you join today! As you may have noticed, while I do cover some day trading in the main course, it is is NOT a "day trading course". However, I am able to apply my principles to a certain type of day trading, and I use this powerful strategy to grab profits on demand. This 50 minute video will show you exactly how I do it. FAST ACTION BONUS #3 58 Free Back Editions of the Daily Market Review $197.00 Value - Yours free when you join today! Each of these reviews is a downloadable video, so you'll be getting many extra hours of my top notch content. As if you're not already getting enough! (this is in addition to the 24 hours of videos you're already getting...). FAST ACTION BONUS #4 Monthly Trader Alerts $150.00 Value - Yours free when you join today! Each month I will email you a special trader alert with information about a trade I'm making, or other "inside info" to help you profit from the CURRENT market conditions, whatever they may be. You're just seconds away from getting full access to the complete course. Sign up now and you'll be on your way to trading success! Okay, so now I've just added $591.00 worth of bonuses onto the course. Considering that the course itself is easily worth thousands, and even the bonuses are worth over $500, I decided to price the course at $1000.00. I hope you will agree that it's a very fair and reasonable price for the entire package. However, I know that the economy has dealt a hard blow to many of the people who need this information the most. Therefore, I want to make it as easy as possible for you to become a member today. Instead of the normal price of $1000.00, I'm slashing the price like a crazed ninja! If you join today, you can have complete access to the entire program for... $1,000.00 $497.00 Only $97 Today! NO UPSELLS ?and? No "One Time Offers" But this is a limited time offer. As I will explain below, I really need to limit the number of members I allow into the program, and if I sell it too cheap for too long, it will fill up too quickly and I'll be swamped with questions from new customers. Therefore, I'm setting a strict limit, and if we don't completely sell out, the price will continue to go up! That's not a misprint. I'm going to give you FULL access to this potentially life-changing program for only one payment of? $397 Only $97 Today! You don't have to get all the material. You will get the entire thing INSTANTLY when you join today. Also, I want to let you know that there are NO UPSELLS. There are No "One Time Offers", or anything else that you just have to buy to complete the course. You are getting the FULL course. Initially I had considered breaking it into pieces and charging extra for the super-powerful strategies contained toward the end of the course, but I decided that you should have the ENTIRE thing, and I'm going to give it ALL to you in one membership. Remember, you're getting... MORE THAN 40 VIDEOS IN THE COURSE (Plus 60 Bonus Videos) OVER 24 HOURS OF TEACHING! (Plus more in the bonus videos) Most of the other (not mine) online "educational" products out there for "learning how to trade" consist of cheesy ebooks, with little or no helpful content. So please don't go wasting another $97 (or whatever) on yet another ebook that won't help you get to where you want to be! Instead, invest in this course which will truly put the knowledge into your hands and into your mind. My course has everything needed to teach you how to make money like a pro with stocks and options. But you'll need to act fast. I want to ensure an optimal quality experience for each and every one of my customers, which means I can not sell too many memberships. For one thing, I want to make sure I'm able to answer as many of your questions as possible, and that won't be possible if I allow too many people to join. Second, I'm going to make sure that the membership area does not get bogged down by too many members. I insist that the downloads are nice and fast, so I will need to limit the membership. The doors may be closing at any time, so please grab your spot now if this is something you would like to be a part of. ? Are you ready to start making a killing from the market, regardless of whether it's going up or down? Yes, I want to make money with stocks and options! Yes, I want to grab a spot in this very limited membership! Yes, I want instant access to the entire program + bonuses. Yes, I want it now before the price goes up! (This offer is ending soon) ? 1 PAYMENT OF ONLY $97 TODAY! (With no more payments ever.) INSTANT ACCESS! ? Trade with confidence! ? Bauser Moretti Questions? Email us at: support@tornadotradingsystem.com P.S.-? You could attempt to learn this by trial and error on your own, but I assure you it will be a MUCH more costly "education" than the one I'm offering you today for a very reasonable price. It cost me years of frustration, bad trades, and huge financial losses before I figured out the "secret" system. I've watched too many smart yet "uneducated" people lose their shirts in the stock market, and I don't want to see that happen to you. PLEASE... if you're going to invest your money anywhere, get my course so you can avoid the pain. I'll show you how to trade the low-risk, profitable way that will bring you profits regardless of whether the stock market is going up or down :-) ? ? ? EARNINGS DISCLAIMER EVERY EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO ACCURATELY REPRESENT THIS PRODUCT AND ITS POTENTIAL. 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