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According to the official website, parks, playgrounds, sports fields, allotments and cemeteries will be connected to form a network,
medical clinics#and sound the alarm to stop violence from reaching certain levels of severity.#
Last year saw the lowest number of deaths and people affected by disasters for a decade, according to the 2013 World Disasters Report from the International Federation of Red cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
an information service which enabled citizens to anonymously report incidents of violence via text, twitter, phone or email, during Kenya 2007-2008 post-election violence.
Distress alert During the Westgate siege, Hersman and I texted multiple times as he searched for his business partner wife and children,
and has launched since several successful gaming start-ups, including Na3m Games. Now many like him, western-educated and exposed to entrepreneurial cultures like Silicon valley, are returning and ringing tons of innovation creating culturally relevant startups solving local problems It may not be the local problems the government
which can mean anything from the poor street lighting to badly marked crosswalks to high crime.
Instead they are about finding local solutions to social problems, such as poor access to clean water, the high costs of joint replacement surgery and slow responses to natural disasters.
Most of these were designed to solve social problems especially those related to health and the environment.""Necessity is the mother of invention,
they are also backing novel solutions to social problems more directly. The Philippines is hailed as the"text messaging capital#of the world.
which can in turn can help solve social problems. Whether this happens depends how the spoils of economic progress are distributed.
Instead they are about finding local solutions to social problems, such as poor access to clean water, the high costs of joint replacement surgery and slow responses to natural disasters.
Most of these were designed to solve social problems especially those related to health and the environment.""Necessity is the mother of invention,
they are also backing novel solutions to social problems more directly. The Philippines is hailed as the"text messaging capital#of the world.
which can in turn can help solve social problems. Whether this happens depends how the spoils of economic progress are distributed.
says Sangeeta Gupta, senior vice-president of industry body the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom)."
After years of helping to solve the nation's major security threats, the challenges of gaming and mobile apps pale by comparison,
New missions hunting for alien worlds As mountains go, Cerro Armazones may not be much to look at.
Thankfully, more planet-hunting missions are on the way, which will continue and even extend upon their legacy.
"It's like trying to see the light from a feeble little LED 10cm away from a stadium floodlight,
along with Ben-Shahar, presented some of his findings at April's Association for Chemoreception Sciences meeting in Huntington beach,
#Unmasking organised crime networks with data Military software engineers have developed a program that can predict the social structures of street gangs.
Philip Ball explains how it could help fight crime. One of the big challenges in fighting organised crime is precisely that it is organised.
It is run a bit like a business, with chains of command and responsibility, different specialised epartments recruitment initiatives and opportunities for collaboration and trade.
Their structures often make crime syndicates and gangs more able to evade attempts by law enforcers to disrupt their activities.
then any associations he has with other individuals can be used to calculate a probable egree of membership The program can also identify onnectorswho are trusted by different gangs to mediate liaisons between them;
which unfolds in a complex netherworld of organised crime gangs, will also take an interest n
Partly spurred by the death of his uncle, 16-year-old scientist and researcher Jack Andraka vowed to find a quick and cheap way to test for signs of the disease.
Sub-saharan africa has the fastest-growing mobile market in the world, increasing at an average of 44%annually since 2000, according to the worldwide mobile communications industry association GSMA.
"We found a significant association between variants of COMT and TPH-2 with PTSD symptoms, suggesting that these genes contribute to the onset
"The team used the most recent PTSD criteria from the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual to measure genes'role in predisposing someone to the disorder.
highlighting the need for an approved drug that can be taken after radiation exposure to protect against organ injury and death.
which can cause cell death and organ injury due to DNA damage. Although some agents tested by the military can provide some protection against radiation sickness when taken prior to radiation exposure,
activates the LPA2 receptor to protect against radiation-induced cell death. The researchers also previously identified an LPA-like compound that protected mice from radiation-induced death
but it did not specifically target the LPA2 receptor or possess the desired drug-like potency required for clinical use.
and has been shown to be a central regulator of cell proliferation, growth, and death. It is of such widespread and fundamental importance that animals cannot live without it.
The researchers found that hormone therapy plus radiation reduced cancer deaths by nearly 50 percent in men aged 76 to 85 compared to men who only received hormone therapy.
and cause cancer deaths. Hormone therapy lowers or blocks the levels of testosterone and other androgens (male hormones) that feed prostate cancer tumors.
Among men age 65 to 75 years old radiation plus hormone therapy was associated with a reduction in prostate cancer deaths of 57 percent relative to hormone therapy alone
Similarly among men age 76 to 85 years old radiation plus hormone therapy was associated with a reduction in prostate cancer deaths of 49 percent relative to hormone therapy alone
In both groups radiation plus hormone therapy was associated also with about one-third fewer deaths from any cause.
Employees of sports outfitter Burton love the snow, as you expect from a company that was an early snowboarding pioneer.
Apparently, the devastating ISIS linked suicide attacks and PKK-linked assassinations of Turkish policemen last week have changed Ankara attitude.
Over the near-term Turkey will face an expanded domestic threat from both ISIS and PKK militancy in the form of persistent violence against the Turkish state.
suicide bombers, and legitimacy as a global caliphate l
#The International Brigade to Be activated in Poland This Year Defence Ministers of of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine have agreed to establish an international brigade manned with units from the three armies,
what is known as the alley of death, where efficient, low-cost capital is simply not available from institutional investors
Besides the Cadillac ELR technology, other nominees for the award included the Acura Sport Hybrid SH-AWD powertrain;
trade associations and international regulatory authorities to bring solutions to a more complex global supply chain.
being responsible for 10 000 deaths per year in Europe, and it is the most common indication for cardiac transplantation in adolescents and adults.
Exposure from legacy asbestos products like insulation is the leading cause of work related deaths worldwide,
Maybe soon I can engage in some kind of voluntary work, maybe when time goes I can engage in some voluntary work with other patients who are in a similar situation, maybe
I can support them. Things like that Project details Project acronym: TBICARE Participants: Finland (Coordinator), France, Lithuania, UK Project Reference N°270259 Total cost:#
the SME association of Catalonia that represents over a 100,000 Spanish companies. The project ran from November 2008 to October 2011 and received an EU grant of#2. 8 million.
#Developing new weapons in the fight against cancer Cancer causes some 13%of deaths worldwide.
Of these deaths some 90%are caused not by the original cancer but by its spread to other parts of the body.
sports gear maker Nike has been collecting used sneakers for some time. The soles of these old sneakers are recycled under the label'Nike Grind
He found that some activity during the disease compensated for cell death at the hippocampus,
Behind the development is led by a consortium Loufakis Chemicals SA in association with three SMES involved in water engineering,
Meanwhile the proceeds of counterfeitinggo to feed organised crime possibly eventerrorism and result in huge costs in the formof lost tax revenues.
-safeguarding human health and finallyputting an end to a crime which in thepharmaceutical industry alone is estimatedby the World Health Organisation to cost theworld more than 12 billion a year e
In Italy alone, landslides have caused over 5000 deaths and displaced more than 150 000 people during the last 50 years, at an estimated economic cost of#2 billion annually.
This wearable technology will be of great benefit to the sports industry. The biochemical engineers are now looking at integrating their prototype into A t-shirt together with other sensors,
therefore be used against sports doping, or for physiotherapists and trainers to observe the physical state of their athletes.
#The eaves of death for malaria mosquitoes EU-funded researchers have developed three new tools to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Many large studies have failed to detect an association between cell phone use and brain tumors. One study of nearly 360,000 adults in Denmark did not find an increase in the number of brain tumors even among those who had been using a cell phone for at least 13 years.
The study found no association between cell phone use and glioma rates except in the group of participants who reported using their cell phone for at least 1, 640 hours in their lifetime without a headset.
but it was challenged by the CTIA-The Wireless Association, a wireless industry trade group. The city eventually reversed it.
Earlier this week 57 global companies funds and associations including Unilever Ikea Royal dutch shell and Coca-cola Enterprises signed a letter to support a#robust#2030 energy
and contribute to 56000 to 71000 hospitalizations and 570 to 800 deaths mostly in young children and older adults.
which leads to more than 90 percent of cancer deaths. The work is published in the journal Cancer Research.
Previous studies have uncovered links in adults between shorter telomeres and premature death more frequent infections and chronic diseases.
If cancer markers are found in a cell the circuit could for example activate a cellular suicide program.
which was recognized in humans in 1967 and implicated in the death of a Ugandan health worker this month.
Heart disease accounts for one in four deaths every year.####Scientists have thought that fibroblasts are differentiated terminally meaning they can t adopt the fate of other kinds of cells;
##because it causes damaged out of control cells to commit suicide or apoptosis which reduces the likelihood that they will go on to form tumors.##
##The American Heart Association and the National institutes of health funded the work. Source: UNC-Chapel Hillyou are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license h
##Rates of early death and illness from chronic conditionsâ##such as heart disease and cancerâ##have increased dramatically in India in the past few decades putting the poor at high risk of not having access to services they need
##and carries significant risks that include death so it is not a realistic solution for most patients.##
Their discovery makes it likely that similar drug-related deaths can be prevented in the future. In 1997 troglitazone was approved for use in the United states as one of the first drugs designed to treat type 2 diabetes.
The researchers cite the accumulation of bile acids substances produced by the liver that promote digestion and aid in the absorption of fats as the most likely suspect in the deaths.
If they accumulate in the liver they can cause cell death. Increased bile acid concentrations in the liver may lead to liver damage.
The National Science Foundation the American Heart Association the National Heart Lung & Blood Institute and the National Eye Institute provided financial support for the work.
#Fake platelets could keep you from bleeding to death Emory University Georgia Institute of technology rightoriginal Studyposted by John Toon-Georgia Tech on September 9 2014a new class of synthetic platelet
or by medics in the military we expect this technology could reduce the number of deaths from excessive bleeding##says Ashley Brown a research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technologyâ
and then go specifically to the site of a serious injury they could help decrease the number of deaths associated with serious injuries.##
The National institutes of health the US Department of defense and the American Heart Association funded the research. Source: Georgia Techyou are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license C
Researchers from Johns Hopkins and the National Institute on Alcohol abuse and Alcoholism participated in the study.
As many as 70 percent of urinary tract infections in these patients may be preventable using infection control measures such as removing no longer needed catheters resulting in up to 380000 fewer infections and 9000 fewer deaths each year.##
##Fewer catheters means fewer infections fewer days in the hospital and even fewer deaths. Not to mention the dollars saved by the health system in general.##
##Armed with the knowledge of what occurs in the digestive systems of preemies in a controlled environment the researchers next aim to discern what happens in the systems of preemies who don t fare as well particularly those suffering from necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). NEC is a devastating disorder in premature infants that causes tissue death in the lining
and the American Diabetes Association supported the research
#See into living brain with lasers and nanotubes By injecting carbon nanotubes into the bloodstream, scientists can use near-infrared lasers to see blood flow in a living animal brain.
Fifth Edition (DSM-V). This manual contains the American Psychiatric Association most up-to-date official guidelines for diagnosing
which would keep it from tapping into resources from surrounding cells and cause its death.
an estimated 207 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, leading to 627,000 deaths, according to the World health organization.
including high blood pressure and even early death, research suggests. n the initial few months after a separation,
The ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research, the National Institute on Alcohol abuse and Alcoholism, and the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at the University of Texas at Austin provided funding for the study.
A recent study found a 24 percent overall decline in first time strokes in each of the last two decades and a 20 percent overall drop per decade in deaths after stroke.
the drop in stroke-related deaths was primarily found among those under age 65, with mortality rates holding firm in older people. e can congratulate ourselves that we are doing well,
but stroke is still the No. 4 cause of death in the United states, says coauthor Josef Coresh,
For the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers used data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study,
The research team looked for all stroke hospitalizations and deaths from then to the end of 2011.
and by the end of the study in 2011.800,000 STROKES A YEAR Each decade, the number of deaths occurring within 10 years of a stroke was reduced by roughly eight deaths per 100 cases.
Decreases in stroke incidence and mortality are partly due to more successful control of risk factors such as blood pressure or smoking and to the wide use of statin medications to control cholesterol.
and reduce deaths in those over 65. Nearly 800,000 Americans suffer strokes each year; of those, about 600,000 are first time strokes.
PAY ATTENTION TO SUBGROUPS troke is not only one of the main causes of death, but a leading cause of long-term disability in adults.
The number of US death certificates listing stroke as the underlying cause of death has decreased for a long time.
#Depression can be deadly for older Americans Older adults in the US who suffer from major depression face a 43 percent increased risk of death, especially from cardiovascular disease or cancer, according to a new study. here a major link
and mortality, says Jarron M. Saint Onge. here something that leading to early death. And that taking out smoking, taking out exercise, all these behavioral factors that would explain it.
Saint Onge a University of Kansas assistant professor of sociology and the study lead author, says the study findings are significant
and chronic conditions, they still found an independent association among major depression and increased risk of non-suicide mortality among the age group.
but it also socially important to think of depression as a risk factor for death as well,
For the mortality data, researchers examined the 1999 National Health Interview Study linked to the 2006 National Death Index,
162 have died from non-suicide or accident related deaths. To measure major depression, they used data derived from the World health organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short-Form,
white men older than 65 represent a group with one of the highest suicide rates.
because there are highly publicized suicide rates among 20-year-olds, Saint Onge says. ut increasing rates of depression among the elderly pose continued health risks, beyond suicide.
He says people who suffer from major depression often turn to unhealthy habitsike smoking or binge drinkingn addition to social withdrawal
000 deaths each year. The study appears online in Cell Host & Microbe. University of Queensland Professor Mark Walker, in collaboration with Emory University and University of California, San diego, are working on additional preclinical testing of the modified vaccine.
which are essential for the cell natural death. In addition, consistent with past studies, AAV2-infected cancer cells produced more Ki-67, an immunity system activating protein and c-Myc,
areas of cell death were visible and all AAV2 treated mice survived through the study,
The associations were stronger when the exposures occurred during the second and third trimesters of the women s pregnancies.
The large multisite California-based study examined associations between specific classes of pesticides including organophosphates pyrethroids
##This study validates the results of earlier research that has reported associations between having a child with autism
Some associations were greater among mothers living closer to application sites and lower as residential proximity to the application sites decreased the researchers found.
Haller presented his findings this month at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San francisco. PROFOUND RESULTS Conventional diabetes wisdom says that within just a few months of the onset of Type 1 diabetes,
Although the study failed to find any association between sperm morphology and other common lifestyle factors, such as cigarette smoking or alcohol consumption,
and sometimes death. But doctors haven known with any precision which patients are likely to suffer a drug-related bleed.
including suicide. hese pilot study results give us preliminary proof of the concept that we can detect mood states in regular phone calls by analyzing broad features and properties of speech,
#Treatment cuts H1n1 flu deaths in mice A new study reveals that a drug that inhibits a molecule called prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) increases survival rates in mice infected with a lethal dose
of the H1n1 flu virus. Flu epidemics cause up to half a million deaths each year, and emerging strains continually threaten to spread to humans and cause even deadlier pandemics.
and that could lead to death. According to Molenaar, a person blood glucose levels fluctuate in response to his or her insulin dose, meal intake, physical activity, and emotional state.
The findings are the first roof of principlethat 3d MRI technology accurately measures tumor viability and death.
where it is among the top-three causes of cancer death in the world. ur high-precision 3d images of tumors provide better information to patients about
the 3d technology distinguishes between dead and live tissue, giving an accurate assessment of tumor cell death.
If cancer markers are found in a cell the circuit could for example activate a cellular suicide program.
Foley and the students are working with the Association Of late Deafened Adults in Atlanta to improve the program.
The team will present its research at the Association for Computing Machinery s International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous computing this month in Seattle.
the Ministry of Education Culture Sports Science and Technology-Japan; and the Murata Science Foundation supported the research.
what Wi-fi typically requires. he researchers will publish their results at the Association for Computing Machinery s Special interest Group on Data communication s annual conference this month in Chicago.
and social problems associated with hunger and malnutrition. Now with the completely sequenced African rice genome scientists
The researchers found a significant positive association between the presence of black queen cell virus
and K-wing. nterestingly the only clinical symptom previously associated with black queen cell virus is death of honey bee broodssays Ostiguy.
In addition the scientists found a significant negative association between black queen cell virus and deformed wing virus. The results of the study appear in PLOS ONE. his result is interesting as we do not see the same negative association between these two viruses in colonies infested with Varroa destructorsays Ostiguy. n colonies with Varroa
destructor frequently there is a positive association between the two viruses and co-infection in the same bee is common. ccording to Ostiguy the team will continue to investigate the relationships between various pathogens
and parasites of honey bees along with various stressors such as pesticide exposure with the goal of providing information to help keep honey bees healthy. ur ability to find European honey bee populations free of invasive
But NEIL also makes associations between these things to obtain common sense information that people just seem to know without ever saying##that cars often are found on roads that buildings tend to be vertical
It has connected the dots to learn 2500 associations from thousands of instances. One motivation for the NEIL project is to create the world s largest visual structured knowledge base where objects scenes actions attributes
And it begins to notice associations##that zebras tend to be found in savannahs for instance
and the projectâ#lead researcher. aking this information available to anyone with a smartphone or computer especially when a tsunami or other type of disaster occurs could help save lives. elodia will present his paper at the Association for Computing Machineryâ
About 200 million years ago GD 61 entered its death throes and became a white dwarf yet parts of its planetary system survived.
It causes more than 600000 deaths a year from cryptococcal pneumonia and meningoencephalitis accounting for a third of all AIDS-related deaths.
Researchers have been interested in the sexual cycle of Cryptococcus because it is the only way this fungal pathogen can produce spores to infect its host.
Mycorrhiza for instance is a fungus capable of forming an association with the vast majority of land plants.
The association also helps activate genes and physiological changes in the plant to help them survive drought conditions Beattie says.
In a series of experiments using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana researchers discovered a key regulator S3h that acts as a brake on the process of leaf death
In addition to affecting the timing of leaf death it also affects its rate: While normal plants take more than nine days for a leaf to progress from living green to yellow plants without the gene yellowed in fewer than three days.
What we have found is the convergence point between the slow and fast death systems Gan says.
but it a matter of life and death for 2. 5 billion people, Halas says. or this to really work,
when to self-destruct Brown University rightoriginal Studyposted by David Orenstein-Brown on June 20 2013brown (US)# New research identifies genes that may control the death of pollen tubes during plant reproduction.##
##Pollination essential to much of life On earth requires the explosive death of the male pollen tube in the female ovule.
but a dialogue that ends in death#Leydon says.##It s a really well-controlled cell death situation.#
#Agricultural applications? Future work Johnson says will include tracking down the relevant genes more fully
#It has huge implications#Karen Lightman executive director of the trade association MEMS Industry Group told me.#
causing a wide range of problems that include extreme fatigue, dementia, stunted growth, deafness, blindness, multi-organ failure, and even death.
and associations will help safely integrate unmanned newsgathering technology and operating procedures into the National airspace system.""While the development will be welcome news for CNN
#8 ways the Oculus Rift could (eventually) transcend gaming Gamers have been buzzing about the Oculus Rift for a couple of years already
But in the long run we believe the product has the potential to transcend gaming. Let's take a look at eight future uses for the best virtual reality headset.
The Oculus Rift could ultimately transform movies at least as much as it does gaming. Some of the clips in Oculus'demo from CES gave us a glimpse of the jaw-dropping immersiveness that could come from a new VR-focused Hollywood:
Similarly VR could transform the way we watch sports. Imagine the 2016 NBA Finals with 360-degree cameras placed at various points courtside (or even hanging above the court or on the backboards.
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