Saksi: Umano’y lider ng grupong hinihinalang nasa likod ng ilang jewelry store robbery, arestado – Video

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NASA's X-Ray Of The Sun Is A Stunner

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Provided by IBT US Sun Shines in NuSTAR High-Energy X-rays

The sun dazzled like a Christmas tree in hues of reds, greens and blues in its first-ever portrait taken in high-energy X-rays this week. NASAs Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, wasbuilt in 2012, chiefly to observe distant high-energy phenomena like supernovas and black holes. But the extraordinary image released by the space agency on Monday proved the supersensitive telescope can also capture our home star and could potentially solve a long-standing mystery.

"At first I thought the whole idea was crazy," Fiona Harrison, NuSTARs lead scientist, said in a statement this week. "Why would we have the most sensitive high-energy X-ray telescope ever built, designed to peer deep into the universe, look at something in our own back yard?"

The sun is too bright for other telescopes, like NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory. But NuSTARs mirrors and detectors block out much of the glare. This is the first solar portrait ever taken by NuSTAR, according to a press release from NASA. Its just a fluke that because of the way that NuSTAR is designed it is able to look at the sun without damaging it, Harrison of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena told the Los Angeles Times.

The different colors in the solar portrait reveal the varying high-energy emissions detected by the supersensitive telescope, though NuSTAR can detect up to 79 kiloelectron volts. The green shades depict energies between 2 and 3 kiloelectron volts, while the blues show energies between 3 and 5 kilo electron volts. These high-energy X-rays that stream off the sun come from gas heated to above 3 million degrees.

The red represents ultraviolet light and lower-temperature material at 1 million degrees captured by NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory. The NuSTARs green and blue image was then overlaid onto the Solar Dynamics Observatorys red, according to NASA. Thats what resulted in this really beautiful image, which I think Im going to make on my Christmas card next year, Harrison told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.

The space telescopes high-energy views could finally determine how the suns corona the thin, pearly atmosphere that surrounds the star somehow heats to an average of 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit, while the suns surfaceheats to amere 10,800 degrees. Scientists suspect tiny solar flares or nanoflares jumping off the suns surface could be the reason, according to research by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. NuSTAR could help get to the bottom of this so-called coronal heating problem and other mysteries which have baffled scientists, like dark matter, according to NASA.

"NuSTAR will be exquisitely sensitive to the faintest X-ray activity happening in the solar atmosphere, and that includes possible nanoflares," David Smith, solar physicist and member of the NuSTAR team, said in a statement this week.

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Microscopy Market Hit to $5,756.0 Million by 2019 – New Research Report by MarketsandMarkets

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(PRWEB) December 26, 2014

The microscopy market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 7.2% to reach $5,756.0 million by 2019. Optical microscopy is the largest segment of the microscopy market. The electron microscopes product segment is expected to show the fastest growth during the forecast period.

Rising focus on nanotechnology, technological advancements, and increasing federal support to drive growth of the microscopy market.

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Developing markets such as the Middle East, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, China, and India are lucrative markets for microscopy, owing to favorable government incentives and corporate funding.

The report segments the global microscopy market by product, application, end user, and geography. The optical microscopy segment accounted for the largest share of the global microscopy market, by product. However, the electron microscopes segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR in the forecast period. Super-resolution microscopes are the key playing field in the microscopy product market, owing to ongoing technological advancements in this segment.

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On the basis of applications, the microscopy market is categorized into semiconductors, life sciences, nanotechnology, and material science. Nanotechnology is expected to be the new revenue pocket in the application market. Rising focus on nanotechnology, favourable government and corporate funding, and technological advancements are propelling the growth of these segments.

Academic institutes are the major end user of the microscopy market, followed by industries. The large share of this segment can be attributed to increase in research activities and favourable government funding.

New and innovative product launches was the dominant strategy adopted by key industry participants to increase their market share and cater to unmet needs.

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Researchers Sue Brigham, Med School for Alleged Misconduct Investigation

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Two stem cell researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital have filed a lawsuit against the hospital and Harvard Medical School alleging that an investigation into the researchers practices by the Medical School and the Brigham is unlawful and damaging to their reputations.

Piero Anversa and Annarosa Leri, a professor and associate professor at the Medical School, respectively, who also work at the Brigham, filed the suit against the hospital and the Medical School in federal court on Dec. 16. The researchers alleged that an investigation into their findings on stem cells is damaging to them and should be aimed at their collaborator, Jan Kajstura, formerly an associate professor at the Medical School.

The lawsuit also names Brigham president Elizabeth G. Nabel and Medical School Dean for Faculty and Research Integrity Gretchen A. Brodnicki as defendants in the case.

The investigation against the plaintiffs, conducted by the Brigham and the Medical School and led by Nabel, picked up in early April after Anversas 2011 paper on the regenerative potential of heart stem cells published in journal The Lancet came under fire for alleged scientific misconduct. Since then, two of his papers have come under heavy scrutiny. One, published by Circulation in 2012, has been retracted. Another, published by the Lancet in 2011, was flagged this spring by the journals editors when the Medical School disclosed the launch of the investigation.

According to their complaint, Anversa and Leri claim that the Brigham and the Medical Schools investigation into their research was not impartial and unbiased, took place with undue delay, and negatively reflected on the researchers careers.

[The defendants] have caused and are causing ongoing harm to Plaintiffs Dr. Piero Anversa and Dr. Annarosa Leris...reputations and careers by conducting a procedurally and legally flawed investigation into alleged research misconduct at a Brigham laboratory, the complaint says.

The complaint presents what the plaintiffs claim is evidence of misconduct by their collaborator Kajstura, who they allege is solely responsible for problems with data included in their research. Specifically, the complaint accuses Kajstura of doctoring spreadsheet data and altering images in the published papers and claims that neither Anversa nor Leri saw the raw data that ultimately informed the 2012 Circulation paper.

The lawsuit, among other points, also alleges that the investigation into the researchers work is itself unlawful. According to the complaint, after finding substantial evidence that Kajstura alone may have been responsible for research misconduct, the inquiry panel recommended to continue the investigation on the theory that Dr. Anversa should be held responsible for arguably negligent failure to investigate Dr. Kajsturas research misconduct.

The complaint argues that such a recommendation is contrary to law because research misconduct must be be committed intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly according to federal law.

Harvard has not yet responded publicly to the lawsuit. But in an emailed statement, Medical School spokesperson David J. Cameron wrote that the Medical School is fully committed to upholding the highest standards of ethics and to the integrity of our research, and we have full confidence in the rigor of the review process conducted in accordance with applicable regulations and policies.

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Groups try to cure state's physician shortage

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State university officials and medical organizations say they have a plan that's just what the doctor ordered to cure Indiana's physician shortage.

They hope to introduce legislation next year to increase the number of medical residencies, or graduate training positions, across the state. Indiana, like much of the country, faces a deficit of physicians in the coming years because of the aging population and increase in demand created by the Affordable Care Act.

While there are currently 1,500 medical residencies in Indiana, most are in Indianapolis. Advocates for the expansion note that doctors tend to stay in the area where they did their training, which would help overcome the dearth of physicians in urban and rural areas alike.

"Indiana is way behind other states in terms of residency positions," said Pat Bankston, associate dean of the medical school at Indiana University Northwest in Gary. "Indiana is deficient compared to the rest of the nation, and Northwest Indiana is deficient compared to the rest of the state."

If a medical student who was raised and educated in Indiana does her residency in the state, she is 20 percent more likely to stay here to practice, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Indiana ranks among the bottom third of states in the number of active physicians per 100,000 population. The state is said to need thousands of additional primary care doctors over the next few years to meet the growing demand for services.

To take on the physician shortage, IU recently increased the class sizes at its medical schools and Marian University in Indianapolis established an osteopathic-medicine college. But there soon won't be enough residency slots in the state for all the new graduates.According to IU, the state will be short 500 such slots by 2020.

Paul Evans, dean of the college of osteopathic medicine at Marian University, calls the situation a "train wreck moving slowly down the tracks."The elderly population is expected to double by 2020. Obesity and diabetes are at historically high rates. The Affordable Care Act is adding tens of millions of Americans to the insurance rolls.

WhileIU and Marian University project to have about 500 medical school graduates a year, there are less than 400 first-year residency slots available in the state, Evans noted.

"So what does that mean?" he asked. "It means IU and Marian are going to be training doctors for Ohio and Illinois and Michigan and New York because there aren't enough residency spots to keep the doctors in Indiana."

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Ex-Dividend Reminder: BancFirst, Liberty Property Trust and Lexington Realty Trust

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Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 12/29/14, BancFirst Corp. (NASD: BANF), Liberty Property Trust (NYSE: LPT), and Lexington Realty Trust (NYSE: LXP) will all trade ex-dividend for their respective upcoming dividends. BancFirst Corp. will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.34 on 1/15/15, Liberty Property Trust will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.475 on 1/15/15, and Lexington Realty Trust will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.17 on 1/15/15.

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As a percentage of BANFs recent stock price of $64.25, this dividend works out to approximately 0.53%, so look for shares of BancFirst Corp. to trade 0.53% lower all else being equal when BANF shares open for trading on 12/29/14. Similarly, investors should look for LPT to open 1.24% lower in price and for LXP to open 1.50% lower, all else being equal.

Below are dividend history charts for BANF, LPT, and LXP, showing historical dividends prior to the most recent ones declared.

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