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IUP Biochemistry Major Discusses Research and Undergraduate Scholars Forum – Video

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Estefania Alba, a Biochemistry Major at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), discusses her research kidney regeneration. Estefania will present her research at the 2015 Undergraduate Scholars...

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‘Furious 7’ | Anatomy of a Scene w/ Director James Wan | The New York Times – Video

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Canada is not a Christian country

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In a letter to the editor (The NEWS,March 17) it was stated that Canada was a Christian nation. Canada is a democracy, and all forms of religion, including both atheism and agnosticism, can be freely practised here.

There are more than a dozen forms of Christian religion recognized in Canada. They include the Red Cross, which is known for providing aid to victims of natural or man-made disaster. Most groups have their own rites and dogmas, but all believe in a Creator with whom mankind has some type of relationship.

Science is based on facts and on occasions these contradict points of dogma. If the facts are sufficiently persuasive it is the dogma which has to change. For example, during the Middle Ages you could be burned alive for questioning any part of the Bible. Recently, the Pope indicated that the Catholic Church may be prepared to accept scientific explanations of both homosexuality and evolution.

There are two ongoing science studies which may bear on religious dogmas. The fossil record shows that evolution is a fact, but does not explain how life began. The indications are that the earliest life consisted of simple single-celled animals, and these are not preserved as fossils. Scientists already have data to show that these animals could have formed naturally, and in the near future may be able to produce synthetic forms of life.

Recent astronomical observations have determined that many stars have planets, and that at least some have Earth-like orbits and significant amounts of water. It follows that life probably developed quite widely in the universe.

There is a saying that there are no atheists in fox-holes. Scientists tend to feel the same way when they consider the awesome complexity of the Earth and of space. Science can generally analyze the how but never the why of natural phenomena. Such questions involve faith, and are best left to religions.

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Students that qualify for the state competition on May 1 and 2 at Southern Illinois University are:

Adam Brown in Behavioral Science, with his Color Me Confised experiment: Concordia Lutheran

Baylee Johnson in Earth Science, with her Effect of Water on Landslides experiment: Knoxville Jr. High School

Brianna Honeycutt in Earth Science, with her Effect of Water on Landslides experiment: Knoxville Jr. High School

Hannah Jones in Biochemistry, with her Got Milk, Plastic experiment: Knoxville Jr. High School

Deora Inniss in Environmental Science, with her Soil Acidity design: Knoxville Jr. High School

Prescott Jeckel in Botany, with his Got the Drift? experiment: Delavan CUSD 703

Brenna McConnell in Consumer Science, with her What Soda Makes the Highest Fountain? experiment: Illini Bluffs Middle School

Ethan Gillis in Physics, with his Why so tense? experiment: Concordia Lutheran

GraceThompson in Behavioral Science, with her Stroop Effect...myth/fact experiment: Concordia Lutheran

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Quartet Health Closes $7M Series A Financing Led By Oak HC/FT

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New York, NY (PRWEB) April 02, 2015

Quartet Health Inc., a New York-based technology company, has raised $7 million in new funding. The investment was led by Annie Lamont at Oak HC/FT with participation from Shulman Ventures, Fidelity Biosciences, Polaris Partners and a number of leading current and former industry CEOs who are serving as advisors to the company.

Annie Lamont, Managing Partner at Oak HC/FT, joins Steve Shulman, former CEO of Magellan Health and Prudential Healthcare, and Quartet Healths CEO, Arun Gupta, on the Board of Directors. Annie is ranked the number one healthcare investor on the Forbes Midas List and has previously backed companies such as Castlight Health (IPO 2014), Benefitfocus (IPO 2013), and Athenahealth (IPO 2007).

Quartet Health was launched in 2014 by Arun Gupta and Steve Shulman. The company has developed a secure, cloud-based technology platform that addresses the problem of access to behavioral health care resources. Quartets platform allows medical and behavioral health clinicians to work collaboratively on shared treatment goals, while giving patients access to technology-enabled care. The platform is backed by sophisticated data science tools that give health insurers and provider systems population health insight on gaps in care, provider network quality, and utilization patterns driven by behavioral/medical comorbidities.

Access to high-quality behavioral healthcare is a profoundly important issue and Im excited to support a company that is leading the charge toward a better model, said Lamont. There is a huge opportunity for innovation in this space, and better integration of behavioral and medical health will benefit health plans, providers, and most importantly the patient.

The financing will enable Quartet to expand its product offering as well as add key healthcare operators, technologists, and behavioral health thought leaders to its team.

About Quartet Health Quartet Health is a behavioral health technology company. Our suite of products enables a proven model that integrates care for patients with chronic medical and behavioral health conditions. By aligning a quartet of key stakeholders patients, behavioral health clinicians, medical providers, and payors we are delivering improved outcomes that also lower total cost of care. We are committed to a clinician-led quality improvement effort that makes healthcare work better.

About Oak HC/FT Partners Oak HC/FT (http://oakhcft.com/) is the premier venture growth-equity fund investing in Healthcare Information & Services (HC) and Financial Services Technology (FT). We are focused on driving transformation in these industries by providing entrepreneurs and companies with strategic counsel, board-level participation, business plan execution and access to our extensive network of industry leaders. Oak HC/FT is led by the Healthcare and FinTech team of Oak Investment Partners as part of Oaks strategy to develop sector-specific funds and continue its legacy of building best-in-class businesses.

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Bungie Used Science to Hook Players on Destiny

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There's a purely scientific reason why people keep taking their Guardians back into the world of Destiny.

Speaking at GDC 2015, Bungie's John Hopson discussed how the developer so carefully created a game meant to hook players and keep them coming back time after time. The answer? Behavioral game design, the study of linking behavioral psychology to the tasks and rewards in game and observing a person's reactions and behaviors once faced with them.

Three years before Destiny's release, Bungie began testing it with a large group of people. After hours of play and data collection, the developer discovered there were five different player types in Destiny:

Known for being the ones who would dabble in all types of content, Bungie focused on appealing to the so-called "omnivores" of the group.

GamesRadar reports that during this test, players were told to provide contextual feedback by using specially-mapped buttons assigned to different emotions. Players within the testing group had the option of admitting they were confused, frustrated, or happy, depending on how the last encounter had made them feel.

Using his expertise in Behavioral Psychology, Hopson played a role in helping the team create something that would provide players with satisfying rewards after taking so many risks.

It turned out to be a successful approach for Bungie, as Destiny was one of the best-selling games of last year and the average player's time spent in-game comes out to about 77 hours.

To learn more, check out IGN's Destiny review or the Fireteam Chat podcast.

Cassidee is a freelance writer for various outlets around the web. You can chat with her about all things geeky onTwitter.

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LUTRONIC's Innovative Aesthetic and Medical Products Featured at the 13th Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress

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Fremont, CA (PRWEB) April 02, 2015

Lutronic, a leading innovator of aesthetic and medical technology, announced today that it expands its portfolio of innovative medical solutions in Europe with ACTION II Petit Lady at the 13th Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress (AMWC) in Monte-Carlo, Monaco, from March 26-28, 2015. ACTION II is a device that provides a new dimension in Er:YAG laser technology applied for both gynecological and aesthetic indications. It received CE mark clearance for treatment of vaginal relaxation syndrome (VRS) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in June 2014, which expands its clinical applications and builds on the success of the original ACTION II device which primarily focused on aesthetic treatments.

I have seen that ACTION II Petit Lady increases the elasticity of the vaginal wall with a significantly short downtime. Patients suffering from vaginal relaxation syndrome are very satisfied with Petit Lady because this 15-minute non-surgical treatment successfully rejuvenates the vagina and enhances sexual gratification, said Dr Fabio Marini, a surgeon at the Skin Laser Clinic, in Italy. Dr Marini was presenting on the Petit Lady system at a special dinner Symposium during the AMWC, Symposia L, hosted by Lutronic. Dr Marini also presented his one year clinical study on ACTION II Petit Lady for vaginal atrophy and vaginal relaxation syndrome, which showed significant improvements in both sets of patients.

The well-attended symposium, which was moderated by Dr R Glen Calderhead, VP Medicoscientific Affairs for Lutronic, also featured Dr. Matteo Tretti Clementoni, a plastic surgeon at Skin House in Italy Dr Clementoni, a world-renowned physician, shared his knowledge of the INFINI for treating neck and low face laxity with its High Intensity Focused RF. "The device is very easy to use, and it is possible to perform full face and neck treatment in less than 15 minutes. With varying energy, pulse duration, depth of needles penetration and number of passages, it is possible to customize the treatment for the specific skin needs of each patient on an individual basis. Finally, we have a device/treatment that really allows us to obtain good results on the lower 1/3 of the face and the neck, he added. Another presenter of INFINI, Dr Harryono Judodihardjo, a dermatologist from the Cellite Clinic, UK also shared his clinical experiences with the title, How to Smooth Out Accordion Lines (Smile Lines).

Another star speaker was Dr Christine Dierickx, a world-wide respected dermatologist from Skinperium, Belgium, who presented on the Q-switched Nd:YAG-based multiplatform, SPECTRA XT, which is the latest edition of the cutting-edge SPECTRA family of lasers, already best-known and appreciated for its versatility and reliability.

The symposium was a great success, judging from the many favorable comments from the attendees who were most impressed by the practical and solid nature of the presentations and the range of topics covered by the well-appreciated presenters. This symposium built on the success of the similar event at last years AMWC, and many of those present stated that they would definitely be looking to attend again next year, hoping that it will become a tradition to be established by Lutronic at subsequent AMWC meetings.

About ACTION II Petit Lady The Lutronic ACTION Petit Lady is a 360 solution for cosmetic gynecology. The treatment is gentle, simple and fast. The ACTION II Petit Lady 360 handpiece is specially designed for VRS. It delivers multiple micropulses to the vaginal mucosa to stimulate collagen remodeling and tighten the vaginal canal. The ACTION II Petit Lady 90 handpiece is intended for SUI, providing an enhanced thermal and shrinkage effect in the endopelvic fascia, ligaments, and mucosal tissue of the anterior vaginal canal.

To learn more about the ACTION II Petit Lady, please visit: http://www.petitlady.net/

About LUTRONIC Lutronic, a leading innovator in advanced aesthetic and medical laser and related technology, was established over 18 years ago to bring intuitive, robust, versatile devices that are affordable and efficacious to the worldwide medical community. Committed to improving medicine, Lutronic partners with key opinion leaders to advance science and ensure the efficacy of its systems. All systems are versatile and offer multiple setting and treatment options for customized treatments, which optimize outcomes for a wide variety of conditions and treatments including melasma, tattoo removal, soft tissue incision, vascular lesions, hair removal, wrinkle reduction, skin resurfacing, body/facial contouring, chronic pain and more.

With a focus on physician needs and patient outcomes, Lutronic dedicates time and funding toward the development of devices that offer features and improvements not found in todays market. Devoting more than 20% of revenues to R&D, Lutronic holds more than 240 intellectual properties including current and pending patents worldwide. With more than 250 employees worldwide, Lutronic has offices in the US, Korea, China, Japan, and Europe, a worldwide network of distributors, and is ever expanding.

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SXSWs Hugh Forrest credits Dell Medical School as a catalyst for MedTech growth in Austin, TX – Video

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SXSWs Hugh Forrest credits Dell Medical School as a catalyst for MedTech growth in Austin, TX
The Dell Medical School is Live at South by Southwest. Hugh Forrest, Director of the SXSW Interactive festival, came by to talk with the school #39;s associate director of communications, Steve...

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Vice Dean Mini Kahlon explains how the Dell Medical School is driving a new vision for Austin – Video

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The Dell Medical School is Live at South by Southwest. Mini Kahlon, Vice Dean of Strategy Partnerships, talks with Jay Boisseau, CEO and Co-founder of Vizias. The duo discusses the Dell Medical...

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PuppetShow: The Price Of Immortality – Part 13 Let’s Play Walkthrough BONUS – PuppetShow 7 – Video

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PuppetShow 7 The Price Of Immortality Walkthrough / Let #39;s Play Puppetshow Price of Immortality Gameplay Commentary Playlist: ...

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