Songs that present a positive and life-affirming spiritual perspective.
Book Excerpt: Music in My Soul
A CD with songs that encourage a positive spiritual perspective. This song by Sandi Kimmel and Beddy Sinkoff focuses on the joys of the moment.
Precision breast panel analysis with the Ventana VIAS Image System
Ventana
Medical Systems, Inc., the leading provider of automated image analysis tools
for breast panel interpretation, recently announced that the CAP HQIP-B 2009
Survey for laboratory proficiency testing of HER2/neu showed the Ventana VIAS
image analysis system as the first choice of labs around the country. In the
recent CAP survey the VIAS was used for automated image analysis of HER2/neu by
46% of laboratory sites using automated analysis.
As
pathologists become more involved in generating information that directly
impacts treatment decisions as part of the personalized medicine model, there
is an increasing need for advanced laboratory tools that go beyond traditional
methods and diagnostics. The VIAS system is an automated system that can assist
the pathologist in the assessment of breast cancer protein markers such as HER-
2/neu, ER, PR, p-53, and Ki67. After the primary diagnosis is made, the
pathologist can choose to utilize the VIAS system to quantify the level of
estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor or HER2 protein objectively via
computerized algorithms rather than relying solely on subjective assessment,
which can vary between observers of different skill levels.
Ventana
Medical Systems is committed to providing innovative solutions for digital
pathology and image analysis as part of their product offering for hospitals
and laboratories throughout the country. The Sierra Medical Center in El Paso,
Texas started utilizing the image analysis system in 2008, and has seen its
tremendous value for the past couple of years in allowing pathologists to
detect and classify cancerous cells more quickly. “The VIAS image analysis
system improves the accuracy of immunohistochemistry testing and provides
reproducible results when interrupting breast cancer cases,” says pathologist
Dr. Judith Pester, Pathologist at Sierra Medical Center. “VIAS has been
instrumental in providing us with more accurate test results and ensuring that
patients receive appropriate treatment of their breast carcinoma.”
About
CAP Proficiency Testing
The
College of American Pathologists (CAP) Surveys program is the largest external
quality assessment program in the world. As such, it provides an unparalleled
selection of challenges and offers the largest database in existence for
interlaboratory comparison. The CAP has accumulated significant experience in
managing this type of program and is knowledgeable in its uses and limitations.
http://www.cap.org
About
Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.
Ventana
develops, manufactures, and markets instrument/reagent systems that automate
tissue preparation and slide staining in clinical histology and drug discovery
laboratories worldwide. The Company's clinical systems are important tools used
in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. Ventana drug
discovery systems are used to accelerate the discovery of new drug targets and
evaluate the safety of new drug compounds. In addition, the Company offers
premier workflow solutions designed to improve laboratory efficiency, providing
safeguards to enhance the quality of healthcare. Ventana is a wholly owned
member of the Roche Group. For more information on Ventana Medical Systems,
Inc. visit http://www.ventanamed.com.
Contact: Alana Bolton, Phone:
520.229.4164 / e-mail: alana.bolton@ventana.roche.com
Congrats to two award-winning Discover Mag bloggers! | Bad Astronomy
Two of my Hive Overmind Discover Magazine co-bloggers took home the top two awards from Three Quark Daily’s science blogging contest: Carl Zimmer of The Loom, and our new blogger Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science. They both wrote about interbreeding of sorts, clearly pandering to the judge, squishy science advocate Richard Dawkins.
OK, seriously, this is very cool. It’s nice to see science blogging get recognized (some major web awards still don’t have a science category), very nice to see good science blogging get recognized, and very very nice that two of the three awards went to folks here at Discover.
When I first moved my blog to Discover a couple of years ago now, I wasn’t sure how it would go, but I trusted the brand and the people at the magazine. This was clearly a good decision — I’m happy here, and I’m really proud of Carl and Ed. They deserved those awards… and I bet we’ll be seeing a few more coming this way over time. We have an excellent group of writers here, and I suspect Discover Magazine will be a force among online science journalism and opinion writing for a long, long time to come.
Audio Review: Camaradas
Sacred songs that touch the heart and heal with perfect harmonies.
Daily Data Dump – Tuesday | Gene Expression
Sexual urges overcome cultural taboo. So it turns out that the female children of immigrants from conservative societies (South Asian and Islamic) are paying for hymen restoration surgeries. The more interesting question would be if these children become sexually conservative themselves, perpetuating the life history trajectory so that their own children have to go through these sorts of reconstructions.
Vitamin D Deficiency Due To Genetic Variants. Vitamin D supplementation is all the rage right now. What if its efficacy and necessity is conditional on genetic background?
Is the “missing heritability” right under our noses? The issue may have to do with the exigencies of research programs, not a deep scientific mystery.
A Singular Kind of Eugenics. It seems “privilege” is the new hot-button for Lefties who are skeptical of assisted reproductive technologies and genetic modifications. I suspect it’s a Left-wing buzzword which is equivalent to Righties who bring up “dignity” or the “wisdom of repugnance.” Much easier than having to generate clear prose and understand the complex motives which underpin an issue. Buying really expensive smartphones and pure entertainment machines like iPads also are manifestations of privilege. So what distinguishes X from Y? Not the commonality, privilege, but perhaps the same gut intuitions which Right bioconservatives are willing to man up to, repugnance. Some privileges are repugnant (biological interventions) and some frivolous (iPad). Also, when did discourse replace discussion and privilege replace class?
Saltie Makes a Sandwich Almost Entirely Out of Lettuce. There is nothing magical about meat; it’s all about the flavor.
AD4HERE: Digital License Plate Ads May Come to California | Discoblog
What’s a quick way to make some cash? Sell advertising space on anything you’ve got. That’s what a proposed bill suggests to put a dent in California’s $19 billion deficit. If the bill gets passed, the state will roll out digital car license plate ads for traveling promotion.
While the car is in motion, the plates will display the driver’s standard license plate number, but four seconds after stopping the magic happens. The plates will then flash ads alongside the number until the car starts to move again.
This bill was the bright idea of Curren Price, a democratic state senator from Los Angeles, who told the AP:
“We’re just trying to find creative ways of generating additional revenues,” he said. “It’s an exciting marriage of technology with need, and an opportunity to keep California in the forefront.”
By forefront, Price implies that other states are also considering digital license plate technology–which he says wouldn’t only drum up advertising revenue, but would also cut costs associated with the traditional ways states distribute and activate license plates.
A San Francisco-based company called Smart Plate is working on this technology, but chief executive M. Conrad Jordan says the product isn’t ready for the assembly line yet. According to the AP, Jordan also sees the plates as a way to show off college or company affiliations–the next step in custom plates.
Given that researchers have recently found ways to hack a car itself, hacking a digital license plate seems relatively easy. One wonders if the DMV, expected to weigh in on the bill in 2013, will consider not just the possible distractions to drivers, but also what it might be like to drive off into the California sunset with IAMDUM on your bumper.
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Image: flickr / gruntzooki
Audio Review: One Voice
A spiritual CD with ballads, devotional songs, and tributes to women.
Book Excerpt: One Voice
A spiritual CD with ballads, devotional songs, and tributes to women. This song by Sara Thomsen salutes the unity of women.
Submersible Pump Installation
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Hutchison Supports Glenn Comments on Shuttle
Hutchison Strongly Supports John Glenn Statement on NASA
"We need time to assess the station's equipment needs from now until commercial cargo capabilities come on line to ensure the station's survivability and full utilization, both in the short run and until 2020," Senator Hutchison said. "I have proposed several options to extend the space shuttle, some of which do not require additional flights. Unfortunately, the Administration has given no indication that it understands how the President's proposal changes assumptions and plans regarding the space station, or that it is willing to discuss options to extend the availability of the space shuttle. I hope that Senator Glenn adding his voice to those of other space luminaries like Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan, and Jim Lovell will result in a new direction for our discussion and our nation's vaunted space program."
Chimps Kill for Land–but Does That Shed Light on Human Warfare? | 80beats
Chimps kill chimps. And according to a 10-year study of Ngogo chimps in Uganda, they do it to defend and extend their territory. John Mitani documented 21 chimp-on-chimp killings during the study, 18 of which they witnessed. And when the chimps kill another, they take over its land.
Because of the 1 percent difference of DNA between us and our ape cousins, it can be irresistible to anthropomorphize them, referring to their deadly attacks upon each other with terms like “murder” or “crime.” And given the murders over territory that litter human history books, it’s hard not to see echoes of our ourselves in chimp “warfare.”
Chimpanzee warfare is of particular interest because of the possibility that both humans and chimps inherited an instinct for aggressive territoriality from their joint ancestor who lived some five million years ago. Only two previous cases of chimp warfare have been recorded, neither as clear-cut as the Ngogo case [The New York Times].
But not so fast, says DISCOVER’s own award-winning blogger Ed Yong. He contacted chimp expert Frans de Waal, who would like to dissent:
“There are many problems with this idea, not the least of which is that firm archaeological evidence for human warfare goes back only about 10-15 thousand years. And apart from chimpanzees, we have an equally close relative, the bonobo, that is remarkably peaceful… The present study provides us with a very critical piece of information of what chimpanzees may gain from attacking neighbours. How this connects with human warfare is a different story” [Not Exactly Rocket Science].
For much more, check out Yong’s full post on the study.
Related Content:
Not Exactly Rocket Science: Chimpanzees Murder for Land
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DISCOVER: Chimps Show Altruistic Streak
Image: John Mitani
Did Michelangelo Hide a Brain Drawing in a Sistine Chapel Fresco? | Discoblog
What do you see in this detail from the Sistine Chapel frescos?
We’ll give you a hint: Look at God’s neck.
Still can’t see it? Take a look in a May issue of the journal Neurosurgery. What do a medical illustrator and a neurosurgeon see when they look at a Michelangelo masterpiece?
We propose that in the Separation of Light From Darkness, Michelangelo drew into God’s neck a ventral view of the brainstem as well as the perisellar and chiasmatic regions.
Though finding this hidden drawing seems to take a lot of squinting and genuine imagination, the article’s authors claim that their beliefs have historical and artistic groundings. For one, Michelangelo was a master at dissecting cadavers, a hobby he started at age 17, the authors told NPR. They also point to the lighting, God’s trimmed beard, and the fact that, as a neck, it isn’t anatomically correct. For a brainstem, the authors think, it’s just right.
Some art historians aren’t convinced. Brian A. Curran, an associate professor of art history at Pennsylvania State University told The New York Times:
“I think this may be another case of the authors looking too hard for something they want to find. . . I don’t want to discourage people from looking. But sometimes a neck is just a neck.”
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DISCOVER: Visual Science The Achilles Heel on Michelangelo’s David: His Shin
Images: Wikimedia, Ian Suk and Rafael Tamargo / Neurosurgery
DC Motor Causing Serious Interference?
I have an inline inspection (DVT) that spits out corrupt data once the DC motor on the machine is running. Any idea to what to do? Can a motor be shielded, and how, or what?
Thank you
The future of fertility; more kids please | Gene Expression
After my post yesterday on Bryan Caplan’s argument for having more children, I was curious as to what the public perceptions of the ideal number of children was in the General Social Survey. There’s a variable with large N’s which is already in there: CHLDIDEL. It asks:
What do you think is the ideal number of children for a
family to have?
Curiously I noticed a bounce back in terms of ideal numbers in the 2000s plotting CHLDIDEL by year, YEAR. This could be just due to demographic changes (a larger proportion of pro-natalist immigrants after 1965), so I sliced the sample in a few different ways. More specifically, I focused on women aged 18-40, since these are presumably the ones who are the ultimate agents in terms of family size, and combined years by decade to increase sample size for the demographic slices.
It does seem that there was a broad societal shift among women of child-bearing age to prefer larger families in the 2000s in relation to the previous decade. Below the fold I have some charts with the means (the small dots) by decade as well as the 95% confidence interval for various demographics.
One of the two reasons that Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo were wrong about the future economic equilibrium, at least over the medium term, is that in the 19th century industrializing nations began to go through demographic transitions. But there is no reason that this need to persist eternally, and one presumes that over time there will be some shift back toward pro-natalism because by tautology those who are by disposition or ideology toward favoring procreation will propagate their genes and memes to a greater extent into the future.
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Power Plant
wether gas based power plants are called as Thermal power plant ?
Water on Mars: Ten Years Ago on NASA Watch
Making a Splash With a Hint of Mars Water, Science, 30 June 2000
"Opening the press conference, planetary geologist Michael Malin of Malin Space Science Systems Inc. (MSSS) in San Diego warned that "the actual science may pale before the science fiction that has been written." The fiction grew out of an accurate, if vague, item on the independent watchdog Web site, NASA Watch (www.nasawatch.com), late afternoon on 19 June. It reported, apparently from sources in the astrobiology community, that NASA had briefed the White House (presidential science adviser Neal Lane, as it turned out) on a major discovery involving water on Mars. Other Web sites added details through Tuesday, 20 June; USA Today put a Web-sourced story at the top of its front page Wednesday morning. The information gleaned anonymously from NASA headquarters personnel and researchers around the country ranged from on target--signs of recent spring activity--to unlikely: ponds and even the possibility of geysers. Although no reporters appeared to have seen the paper (by Malin and his MSSS colleague Kenneth Edgett), Science decided to stem the flow of misinformation by releasing it."
How America Sees The Future | The Intersection
No, I'm not just talking about the economy. The Pew Organization and Smithsonian teamed up to poll us about where we think technology will take us, and I'm struck by the results:
Large majorities expect that computers will be able to carry on conversations (81% say this definitely or probably will happen) and that there will be a cure for cancer (71%). About two-thirds (66%) say that artificial arms and legs will outperform real limbs while 53% envision ordinary people traveling in space.
At the same time, most say that war, terrorism and environmental catastrophes are at least probable by the year 2050. Nearly six-in-ten (58%) see another world war as definite or probable; 53% say the same about the prospect for a major terrorist attack on the United States involving nuclear weapons. An even higher percentage (72%) anticipates that the world will face a major energy crisis in the next 40 years.
The public is evenly divided over whether the quality of the earth’s environment will improve over the next 40 years; as many say the environment is not likely to improve (50%) as say it is (47%). There continues to be a widespread belief that the earth will get warmer in ...
Solar Music
Click here to view the embedded video.
I spotted this right after piano practice this morning. The video is pretty short and still long enough (just like my practice haha).   I like the idea, it’s quite innovative. Maybe they are on the way to finding out for sure why the corona is actually hotter than the surface.
From the University of Sheffield:
Musical sounds created by longitudinal vibrations within the Sun’s atmosphere, have been recorded and accurately studied for the first time by experts at the University of Sheffield, shedding light on the Sun’s magnetic atmosphere.
Using state-of-the-art mathematical theory combined with satellite observations, a team of solar physicists from the University have captured the music on tape and revealed the harmonious sounds are caused by the movement of giant magnetic loops in the solar corona – the outermost, mysterious, and least understood layer of the Sun’s atmosphere. Most importantly, the team studied how this sound is decaying, giving an unprecedented insight into the physics of the solar corona.
High-resolution images taken by a number of satellites show that the solar corona is filled with large banana-shaped magnetic structures known as coronal loops. It is thought that these giant magnetic loops, some of them over a few 100,000 km long, play a fundamental role in governing the physics of the corona and are responsible for huge atmospheric explosions that occur in the atmosphere, known as solar flares.