Project will deliver good practice guidelines and reference artefacts.
Protein mit doppeltem Lichtschalter
Ein neues fluoreszentes Markerprotein haben Forscher um Professor Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus vom KIT entwickelt: Bei dem photoaktivierbaren Protein 'mIrisF'" laesst sich sowohl das Fluoreszenzlicht ein- und ausschalten als auch die Farbe des Lichts von Guen nach Rot veraendern.
New silver nanocoatings are strong against bacteria yet body tissue-compatible
Empa researchers have demonstrated how they can adjust process conditions to influence the properties of novel plasma polymer coatings containing silver nanoparticles.
The power of nanotechnology: Manufacturing Digital focuses on the nanoscale
Manufacturing Digital's July issue offers a window into the nanoscale. With comments from Russell Cowburn, Professor of nanotechnology at Imperial College London, and Piet Christof Woelcken, nanotechnology expert at the Airbus Airframe and Architecture and Integration Department, Manufacturing Digital discovers the real power of nanotechnology.
Researchers use super-high pressures to create super battery
Using super-high pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet, Washington State University researchers have created a compact, never-before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy.
Nanotechnology webinar series on regulatory issues
Building on last year's popular webinars on the regulation of nanotechnology, Keller and Heckman and NanoReg are pleased to announce Nanotechnology Today 2010, a series of four new webinars designed to address important regulatory issues and the challenges associated with the safe development of nano-enhanced products.
Euspen Challenge 2010 for students in micro-, nanotechnology and precision engineering
Carl Zeiss hosts the international competition for upcoming engineers.
Thermal-powered, insectlike robot crawls into microrobot contenders’ ring
Researchers have built a thermal-powered insectlike robot with hundreds of tiny legs.
Shrink Nanotechnologies Enters into Technology Integration and Development Agreement With Lydall, Inc. for Solupore Plastic Membrane
Collaboration seeks to produce effective and low cost single molecule detection sensors for infectious diseases and environmental hazards using Shrink's NanoPetal nanostructure technology.
Jason Carlson Named President and CEO of QD Vision
QD Vision, developer of Quantum Light nanotechnology-based products for solid state lighting and displays, announced that Jason Carlson has been named President and CEO.
Nanomachines in the powerhouse of the cell
Scientists of the University of Freiburg and the University of Frankfurt have elucidated the architecture of the largest protein complex of the cellular respiratory chain. They discovered an unknown mechanism of energy conversion in this molecular complex. The mechanism is required to utilize the energy contained in food.
Understanding complex emulsions
New work from the Institute of Food Research has shown how sugar beet pectin acts as an efficient emulsifier, using a technique that could be used to unravel in the finest detail how such important food ingredients work.
Nanomaschinen in den Kraftwerken der Zelle
Wissenschaftler der Universitaeten Freiburg und Frankfurt haben die Architektur des groessten Proteinkomplexes der zellulaeren Atmungskette aufgeklaert. Sie entdeckten einen bisher unbekannten Mechanismus der Energieumwandlung in diesem molekularen Komplex.
Search for the bridge to the quantum world
Science fiction has nothing over quantum physics when it comes to presenting us with a labyrinthine world that can twist your mind into knots when you try to make sense of it. A team of Arizona State University researchers, however, believe they've opened a door to a clearer view of how the common, everyday world we experience through our senses emerges from the ethereal quantum world.
Carving up water
Single water molecules can now be sliced into different atomic components, thanks to the electronic properties of ultrathin oxide films.
NEXX Systems Ships 50th Stratus Electrochemical Deposition System to a Taiwan Foundry
The Stratus S300 tools are used for production of multiple advanced packaging technologies enabling the foundry to deliver high volume, high performance, and low cost of ownership for next generation bumping solutions to its customers as well as to enable further collaboration with NEXX on development of future advanced packaging applications.
Touchdown Technologies Introduces Single-Touchdown, Full-Wafer Probe Card for Advanced DRAM Testing
Industry's lowest force probe card protects devices-under-test from potentially damaging stresses.
Update on Rules for Telemedicine Privileges
In the midst of The Joint Commission’s revisions to its telemedicine privileges standards, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a proposed rule in May that would revise the current conditions of participation (“CoPs”) for both hospitals and critical access hospitals regarding telemedicine services.
The Joint Commission (“TJC”) had previously issued new changes to TJC Standards MS.13.01.01 (Telemedicine) and LD.04.03.09 (Oversight of Care, Treatment and Services Provided Through Contractual Agreement) that were to become effective July 15, 2010, for Medicare-participating hospitals. However, after CMS issued its proposed rule, TJC on June 9, 2010, announced the effective date of these changes was being delayed until March 2011.
CMS regulations currently require hospitals and critical access hospitals to privilege practitioners providing telemedicine services as if the practitioner were on-site. In the present CoPs there is no mechanism for “privileging by proxy,” such as is permitted by the TJC telemedicine standard. In the preamble to the newly proposed regulations, CMS notes that, “One TJC policy that has been in direct conflict with the CoPs has been TJC’s practice of permitting ‘privileging by proxy’ … In short, TJC privileging by proxy standards allowed for one TJC-accredited facility to accept the privileging decisions of another TJC-accredited facility.
Hospitals that have used this method to privilege distant-site medical staff technically did not meet CMS requirements that applied to other hospitals even though they were TJC-accredited.” The proposed rule would address this issue by making changes to 42 CFR 482.12 and 42 CFR 482.221 that would make it permissible for the medical staff to “rely upon information furnished by the distant-site hospital when making recommendations on privileges” for individual distant-site practitioners providing telemedicine services if:
- The distant-site is a Medicare participating hospital.
- The practitioner has privileges at the distant-site hospital and the distant-site provides a current list of the practitioner’s privileges to the originating-site.
- The practitioner holds an appropriate state license in the state of the originating-site hospital.
- The originating-site hospital conducts reviews of the practitioner’s performance in the exercise of telemedicine privileges and sends the distant-site hospital such performance information for use in the periodic appraisal of the practitioner. At a minimum, this information must include all adverse events that result from the telemedicine services provided by the practitioner to patients at the originating-site and all complaints received by the originating-site about the practitioner.
Additionally, for the forgoing to apply under the proposed rule, the telemedicine services would need to be furnished under an agreement with a Medicare-certified hospital and that agreement must specify that it is the distant-site hospital’s responsibility to conduct credentialing of the telemedicine practitioners in accordance with the CoPs.
It should be noted that unlike the TJC standards, CMS makes no distinction between telemedicine and tele- interpretive services. Also, note that the rule only permits the use of information from Medicare-certified hospitals, it does not permit hospitals to rely on information from non-hospital entities, such as teleradiology companies. However, the proposed CMS rule does not appear to affect the ability to use a credentialing verification organization when appropriate. The new rule is still only proposed, but if it is finalized Medicare- participating hospitals will be required to follow this rule.
Charles Saatchi gives art collection to Britain
LONDON — Less than a month after his 67th birthday, the British advertising magnate and gallery owner Charles Saatchi announced on Thursday that when he retires he intends to give the nation his art gallery here — a 70,000-square-foot space in Chelsea — along with artworks valued at more than $37.5 million.
But the building, in a former military complex known as the Duke of York’s Headquarters near Sloane Square, does not belong to Mr. Saatchi. He rents it from Cadogan Estates, a London developer. (Cadogan Estates said in a statement that it hoped the government would keep the gallery there.) And the British government has not yet accepted the gift, although discussions are in progress, said Ruth Cairns, a spokeswoman for the Saatchi Gallery, who added that she had no timetable for a final decision. Also unclear is when Mr. Saatchi plans to retire, which Ms. Cairns said had not yet been determined. A statement from the two-year-old gallery also said that Mr. Saatchi would receive no tax benefits from the gift.
But if all goes as Mr. Saatchi hopes, the Saatchi Gallery would be renamed the Museum of Contemporary Art, London. And the art, which will include more than 200 works by popular British names like Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry and the brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman, would be given to the government in the care of a foundation that would own the works on behalf of the nation and oversee the gallery in much the same way it has been run.
The aim is to keep the space free to the public, with operating funds coming from individual and corporate sponsorship along with revenue from its restaurant, bookshop and rentals for outside events held there.
The gift would also include artworks that could be sold to acquire other art so that the museum could remain a showcase for the latest works.
Mr. Saatchi did not return a phone call requesting comment. But the gallery said in a statement that he felt it was “vital for the museum to always be able to display a living and evolving collection of work, rather than an archive of art history.”
He began collecting and showing Young British Artists — among them, Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Marc Quinn, Rachel Whiteread, Jenny Saville and Ms. Emin — years before they became popular. Mr. Saatchi is also known for buying and selling the work of young artists in bulk, causing the prices of their other works to rise quickly when he buys and fall as quickly when he sells. In 2003 he sold about a dozen of Mr. Hirst’s works back to the artist and his dealer, Jay Jopling, in a deal that was said to be worth around $15 million.
An advertising impresario with a keen eye, Mr. Saatchi has also reached out beyond his gallery to help heighten public awareness of many of his artists. His collection is well known to American museumgoers who saw the traveling exhibition “Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection” at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999. That’s when Rudolph W. Giuliani, mayor of New York at the time, called the exhibition “sick stuff” and threatened to cut city subsidies because Mr. Ofili’s painting of the Virgin Mary included clumps of elephant dung.
Beyond exhibitions at his gallery, Mr. Saatchi has also built a Web site that receives millions of hits a year. Besides showing off his collection, it allows artists who register to post their work and sell it without having to pay a fee to a gallery or dealer. (About 140,000 artists have contributed.) It also has a social-networking component, allowing art students to talk to one another and post their work.
Ms. Cairns said the site would continue under its existing management and that once Mr. Saatchi retired, he would no longer be involved with it.
For years now Mr. Saatchi has had a contentious relationship with the Tate. On Thursday the Tate issued a statement saying it “welcomes the news that the national collection of contemporary art promises to be enhanced in this way.” The statement continued, “We look forward to contributing to discussions about how the collection will be used by the nation in the long term.”
Thanatopolis, Alternative Artist-Created Memorial Park/Space, Call for Works, Deadline July 12
The seed for Thanatopolis was planted in 1983. It was an emotional response to the frustration of I-Park’s founder with the available options offered by the cemetery, funeral home and monument dealer upon the death of a loved one. There had to be a more fulfilling way to honor a special individual in one’s life upon their passing. And, it was felt, there needed to be a greater role for creativity and personalization in this process.
--Why Thanatopolis?, http://www.i-park.org/WhyThanatopolis.htmlWhat is Thanatopolis?
• a special space for creating serious, fitting, moving memorials to individuals from all levels of society, a place where the longing to create and do something meaningful for the deceased can be satisfied
• a physical place, a concept and appropriate imagery for attenuating memory
• a harness/focal point for the agony and creativity unleashed by death
• a natural setting for experimentation in the rituals of interment and memorialization
• a new home for the ‘living memorial’ idea...
--Thanatopolis at I-Park, http://www.i-park.org/Events.html
This just in: A call for artworks from I-Park Arts towards the creation of "Thanatopolis," an alternative, artist-imaged memorial park/space seeking to fill the gap left by empty and irrelevant contemporary memorial practice. Work is sought from visual artists, landscape artists, performance artists and more. Full call for works with all relevant links below; Submission deadline is July 12th.
Thanatopolis at I-Park
I-Park’s major inter-disciplinary project for 2010 is Thanatopolis, an alternative memorial park/space in the advanced conceptual stage of development. I-Park is soliciting memorial-themed proposals in the following fields:Music Composition/Sound Sculpture
Visual Arts/Environmental Sculpture
Theater/Choreography/Performance Art
Landscape/Garden Design
Architecture
Landscape ArchitectureSelected projects will be presented at the Thanatopolis Exhibition on October 2, 2010.
Submission deadline is July 12, 2010.
For a copy of the general Call for Proposals, click here.
For the specialized Call for Entries in the field of Music, click here.
For the specialized Call for Entries in the field of
Performance, click here.
For context, click here for ‘Why Thanatopolis?’
For complete program information, click here.
Image: St. Michael's Cemetary: Foundation of Pensacola.
