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- Printing issues - neowin.net
- Science prof chosen for Unesco award in the life sciences - Philippine Star Online
- Faculty of 1000: Redefining Obesity's Health Risks - PR-USA.net
- New TIHAN Director of Education and Community Relations Announced ... - Tucson Citizen
- How Hearing Works - Med India
| Posted: 24 Oct 2009 09:21 AM PDT Ok so my girlfriend is taking this Biology class where, during her lab practicums (which are like hands-on tests), she has to identify wtf she's looking at. The teacher posts a bunch of pictures online of possible things that might be on the test and since my girl is a nerd she prints everyone of those pictures and studies them. I found that the quickest way to print them is to download them all into a folder, select them all, and just right-click on one and go to print. Windows then asks you what size/how many per page and you're done. Anyways, long story short. When I did this in XP prints came out fine, but I have Windows 7 now and the pictures are coming out washed out. I have a Canon iP1700 and I went to their site and they actually have Windows 7 drivers, but it still prints them out like that. Also I moved some pictures into Microsoft Word and printed them out that way and they came out just fine. I don't get it? Could it have anything to do with my monitor? What do you think? Thanks. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. | ||
| Science prof chosen for Unesco award in the life sciences - Philippine Star Online Posted: 24 Oct 2009 09:21 AM PDT
| MANILA, Philippines - A Filipino professor who discovered the use of snail toxins to study brain functions is one of the five exceptional women scientists in the world to be awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on March 4, 2010 in Paris, France. Lourdes Cruz, a professor at the Marine Science Institute at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City is one of the recipients of the 2010 L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards in the Life Sciences, the Science Education Institute reported yesterday. Cruz, who is also a recipient of the Order of National Scientist, is the first Filipino woman to receive the award. Cruz is recognized "for her discovery of marine snail toxins that can serve as powerful tools to study brain function." The other laureates are Rashika El Ridi, Elaine Fuchs, Anne Dejean-Assémat, and Alejandra Bravo. Rashika, a professor at Cairo University in Egypt, is recognized "for paving the way towards the development of a vaccine against the tropical disease Schistomiasis/Bilharzia." A professor at the Rockefeller University in the United States, Fuchs is honored "for her contributions to our knowledge of skin biology and skin stem cells." Dejean-Assémat, a professor at the Pasteur Institute in France, is recognized "for her contributions to our understanding of leukemia and liver cancers." Bravo, professor at the Institute of Molecular Micro-biology of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma in Mexico, is honored "for her work on a bacterial toxin that acts as a powerful insecticide." Established in 1997, the award, given annually by the L'Oréal Corporate Foundation and UNESCO, honors women in the world "who are making contributions to the future of humankind." Each laureate will receive $100,000 "in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of science." An international network of nearly 1,000 scientists nominates the candidates for each year's awards. The five laureates were selected at a meeting of the jury presided by Pr. Günter Blobel, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine in 1999. The award aims to promote women scientists who are devoting their lives, with strength and passion, to finding solutions to tomorrow's challenges. In 12 years, the program has recognized 62 laureates, 150 international fellows, and 700 national fellows. Established in 2007, the L'Oréal Corporate Foundation is the second-largest corporate foundation in France and is committed to promoting scientific research in the fundamental and human sciences, supporting education, and helping individuals made vulnerable by alternations to their appearance to reclaim their rightful place in society. UNESCO aims to reinforce international cooperation in the basic sciences among its 192 member-states, and promotes ethical norms in science. The organization is also dedicated to eliminating all forms of discrimination and promoting gender equality. View previous articles from this author. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. | |
| Faculty of 1000: Redefining Obesity's Health Risks - PR-USA.net Posted: 24 Oct 2009 06:29 AM PDT Scientists make the case for new body fat assessment. | The body mass index (BMI) has long been the yardstick in deciding who is at risk because of their weight. BMI is essentially a measure of density, identifying 'under-' and 'over-weight' risk groups. Recent studies however point towards a more sophisticated approach to the issue. In a recent article for F1000 Biology Reports, Manfred J Müller and colleagues at the University of Kiel in Germany explain how 'functional' body composition analysis (BCA) measures more of the variables that determine whether or not obesity is 'benign'. Recent studies using similar analysis suggest that up to 30% of obese people do not in fact require medical treatment. Widespread adoption of BCA could significantly improve the targeting of limited healthcare resources in the context of one of modern society's global killers. Thanks to advances in imaging technology, variables - such as the body's fat proportion, location and distribution and the size of fat cells and fat droplets within these cells – can now be factored into the health risk assessment. Coupled with a better understanding of the interrelation between genes, environment, hormone levels and metabolism, BCA gives clinicians a clearer picture of the specific health risks to an individual. In light of the growing evidence in favour of functional BCA, the authors conclude that "the definitions of both 'overweight' and 'malnutrition' should be reconsidered" by clinicians and researchers. Evidently, size does still matter but it's what you do with it that really counts. ### Notes to editors 1 Manfred J Müller, Advisory Board Member for Diabetes & Endocrinology in Faculty of 1000 Medicine, is Professor of Nutritional Science at Kiel University (http://f1000medicine.com/reports/advisoryboard) This content has passed through fivefilters.org. | |
| New TIHAN Director of Education and Community Relations Announced ... - Tucson Citizen Posted: 24 Oct 2009 07:12 AM PDT TUCSON (Observer Update) – The Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network (TIHAN) is pleased to announce the addition of staff member Natalie Brown, who will be serving as its Director of Education and Community Relations. Natalie is a University of Arizona graduate with a degree in molecular and cellular biology. She has a passion for public health and has been involved in AIDS education efforts in the United States, Mexico, and anzania, as a volunteer with Support for International Change and the United Methodist Church. She currently serves on the United Methodist Church's Desert Southwest AIDS Task Force and assists with Strength for the Journey, a retreat for individuals living with HIV and their care givers. Natalie is thrilled to make the transition from TIHAN volunteer to staff member and is excited to work more closely with TIHAN's wonderful education volunteers. In her role as Director of Education and Community Relations, Natalie coordinates HIV/AIDS awareness and education programs, including developing HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention materials for faith communities, trainings for volunteers, working closely with liaisons and congregations, and building relationships with other agencies, service providers, and the general community. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. | ||
| Posted: 24 Oct 2009 07:40 AM PDT Now, reporting on rat experiments in the October 22 issue of Nature, a Johns Hopkins team says it has for what is believed to be the first time managed to measure and record the elusive electrical activity of the type II neurons in the snail-shell-like structure called the cochlea. And it turns out the cells do indeed carry signals from the ear to the brain, and the sounds they likely respond to would need to be loud, such as sirens or alarms that might be even be described as painful or traumatic. The researchers say they've also discovered that these sensory cells get the job done by responding to glutamate released from sensory hair cells of the inner ear. Glutamate is a workhorse neurotransmitter throughout the nervous system and it excites the cochlear neurons to carry acoustic information to the brain. "No one thought recording them was even possible," says Paul A. Fuchs, Ph.D., the John E. Bordley Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and co-director of the Center for Sensory Biology in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a co-author of the report. "We knew the type II neurons were there and now at last we know something about what they do and how they do it." This content has passed through fivefilters.org. | ||
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