Feb. 27, 2013 ? Two X-ray space observatories, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times that of our sun.
The supermassive black hole lies at the dust- and gas-filled heart of a galaxy called NGC 1365, and it is spinning almost as fast as Einstein's theory of gravity will allow. The findings, which appear in a new study in the journal Nature, resolve a long-standing debate about similar measurements in other black holes and will lead to a better understanding of how black holes and galaxies evolve.
"This is hugely important to the field of black hole science," said Lou Kaluzienski, a NuSTAR program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
The observations also are a powerful test of Einstein's theory of general relativity, which says gravity can bend space-time, the fabric that shapes our universe, and the light that travels through it.
"We can trace matter as it swirls into a black hole using X-rays emitted from regions very close to the black hole," said the coauthor of a new study, NuSTAR principal investigator Fiona Harrison of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "The radiation we see is warped and distorted by the motions of particles and the black hole's incredibly strong gravity."
NuSTAR, an Explorer-class mission launched in June 2012, is designed to detect the highest-energy X-ray light in great detail. It complements telescopes that observe lower-energy X-ray light, such as XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Scientists use these and other telescopes to estimate the rates at which black holes spin.
Until now, these measurements were not certain because clouds of gas could have been obscuring the black holes and confusing the results. With help from XMM-Newton, NuSTAR was able to see a broader range of X-ray energies and penetrate deeper into the region around the black hole. The new data demonstrate that X-rays are not being warped by the clouds, but by the tremendous gravity of the black hole. This proves that spin rates of supermassive black holes can be determined conclusively.
"If I could have added one instrument to XMM-Newton, it would have been a telescope like NuSTAR," said Norbert Schartel, XMM-Newton Project Scientist at the European Space Astronomy Center in Madrid. "The high-energy X-rays provided an essential missing puzzle piece for solving this problem."
Measuring the spin of a supermassive black hole is fundamental to understanding its past history and that of its host galaxy.
"These monsters, with masses from millions to billions of times that of the sun, are formed as small seeds in the early universe and grow by swallowing stars and gas in their host galaxies, merging with other giant black holes when galaxies collide, or both," said the study's lead author, Guido Risaliti of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics.
Supermassive black holes are surrounded by pancake-like accretion disks, formed as their gravity pulls matter inward. Einstein's theory predicts the faster a black hole spins, the closer the accretion disk lies to the black hole. The closer the accretion disk is, the more gravity from the black hole will warp X-ray light streaming off the disk.
Astronomers look for these warping effects by analyzing X-ray light emitted by iron circulating in the accretion disk. In the new study, they used both XMM-Newton and NuSTAR to simultaneously observe the black hole in NGC 1365. While XMM-Newton revealed that light from the iron was being warped, NuSTAR proved that this distortion was coming from the gravity of the black hole and not gas clouds in the vicinity. NuSTAR's higher-energy X-ray data showed that the iron was so close to the black hole that its gravity must be causing the warping effects.
With the possibility of obscuring clouds ruled out, scientists can now use the distortions in the iron signature to measure the black hole's spin rate. The findings apply to several other black holes as well, removing the uncertainty in the previously measured spin rates.
For more information on NASA's NuSTAR mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nustar .
For more information on ESA's XMM-Newton mission, visit: http://go.nasa.gov/YUYpI6 .
The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.
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CHICAGO (AP) ? Advanced breast cancer has increased slightly among young women, a 34-year analysis suggests. The disease is still uncommon among women younger than 40, and the small change has experts scratching their heads about possible reasons.
The results are potentially worrisome because young women's tumors tend to be more aggressive than older women's, and they're much less likely to get routine screening for the disease.
Still, that doesn't explain why there'd be an increase in advanced cases and the researchers and other experts say more work is needed to find answers.
It's likely that the increase has more than one cause, said Dr. Rebecca Johnson, the study's lead author and medical director of a teen and young adult cancer program at Seattle Children's Hospital.
"The change might be due to some sort of modifiable risk factor, like a lifestyle change" or exposure to some sort of cancer-linked substance, she said.
Johnson said the results translate to about 250 advanced cases diagnosed in women younger than 40 in the mid-1970s versus more than 800 in 2009. During those years, the number of women nationwide in that age range went from about 22 million to closer to 30 million ? an increase that explains part of the study trend "but definitely not all of it," Johnson said.
Other experts said women delaying pregnancy might be a factor, partly because getting pregnant at an older age might cause an already growing tumor to spread more quickly in response to pregnancy hormones.
Obesity and having at least a drink or two daily have both been linked with breast cancer but research is inconclusive on other possible risk factors, including tobacco and chemicals in the environment. Whether any of these explains the slight increase in advanced disease in young women is unknown.
There was no increase in cancer at other stages in young women. There also was no increase in advanced disease among women older than 40.
Overall U.S. breast cancer rates have mostly fallen in more recent years, although there are signs they may have plateaued.
Some 17 years ago, Johnson was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer at age 27, and that influenced her career choice to focus on the disease in younger women.
"Young women and their doctors need to understand that it can happen in young women," and get checked if symptoms appear, said Johnson, now 44. "People shouldn't just watch and wait."
The authors reviewed a U.S. government database of cancer cases from 1976 to 2009. They found that among women aged 25 to 39, breast cancer that has spread to distant parts of the body ? advanced disease ? increased from between 1 and 2 cases per 100,000 women to about 3 cases per 100,000 during that time span.
The study was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
About one in 8 women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, but only 1 in 173 will develop it by age 40. Risks increase with age and certain gene variations can raise the odds.
Routine screening with mammograms is recommended for older women but not those younger than 40.
Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, the American Cancer Society's deputy chief medical officer, said the results support anecdotal reports but that there's no reason to start screening all younger women since breast cancer is still so uncommon for them.
He said the study "is solid and interesting and certainly does raise questions as to why this is being observed." One of the most likely reasons is probably related to changes in childbearing practices, he said, adding that the trend "is clearly something to be followed."
Dr. Ann Partridge, chair of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's advisory committee on breast cancer in young women, agreed but said it's also possible that doctors look harder for advanced disease in younger women than in older patients. More research is needed to make sure the phenomenon is real, said Partridge, director of a program for young women with breast cancer at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The study shouldn't cause alarm, she said. Still, Partridge said young women should be familiar with their breasts and see the doctor if they notice any lumps or other changes.
Software engineer Stephanie Carson discovered a large breast tumor that had already spread to her lungs; that diagnosis in 2003 was a huge shock.
"I was so clueless," she said. "I was just 29 and that was the last thing on my mind."
Carson, who lives near St. Louis, had a mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments and she frequently has to try new drugs to keep the cancer at bay.
Because most breast cancer is diagnosed in early stages, there's a misconception that women are treated, and then get on with their lives, Carson said. She and her husband had to abandon hopes of having children, and she's on medical leave from her job.
"It changed the complete course of my life," she said. "But it's still a good life."
By the editors of the Christian Science Sentinel / February 25, 2013
At sunrise one morning, a tall vase of hydrangeas in a west-facing Victorian parlor caught shafts of light that brought out all the colors and threw entrancing shadows across a cherry-wood table.
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Later that day, the top of a cypress in a planter facing east in a row of elegant brownstone houses that the sun had long since left, glowed gold ? revealing what looked suspiciously like a smile.
Reflection from high windows opposite those grateful recipients had transformed their appearance, along with those of other windows all the way down that avenue to the house where the founder of the Monitor, Mary Baker Eddy, taught many classes. For those windows, sunrise and sunset had momentarily been reversed ? freed of the restraints of time ? confirming that there are no holds on beauty or goodness! City canyons that normally would never see the sun glowed in reflected light.
Humanly speaking, clouds and the revolution of the earth would sometimes interrupt such activity, but those remarkable moments do point us toward deeper consideration of the role of reflection ? not sun-made or man-made, but God-made. At any time we are flawless reflectors, inseparable from our source, divine light, Truth. As the Apostle Paul wrote in the eighth chapter of his Epistle to the Romans: ?Nothing in all creation can separate us from God?s love for us? (verse 39, Contemporary English Version).
Mrs. Eddy explained further: ?Few there are who comprehend what Christian Science means by the word reflection. God is seen only in that which reflects good, Life, Truth, Love ? yea, which manifests all His attributes and power, even as the human likeness thrown upon the mirror repeats precisely the looks and actions of the object in front of it? (?Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896,? p. 23).
Our inseparability from our divine source was further clarified when Mrs. Eddy wrote that as images of Love we have not ?a single quality underived from Deity? and possess ?no life, intelligence, nor creative power of [our] own,? but reflect ?spiritually all that belongs to [our] Maker? (?Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,? p. 475). And this, we learn, includes good health, harmonious relationships, and peace of mind.
It doesn?t matter where and when the sun rises and sets, or whether clouds blow our way or not. God remains the source of our light and life, and our ability to reflect His goodness cannot be impaired or interrupted. All we need are open arms, a clear surface, stillness, and the wisdom to look in the right direction to become aware of it. As willing reflectors, we are reached by the light wherever we are.
Given the richness and abundance of God?s resources, just think of the scope we all have to live lives that stretch way beyond that analogy of sunlight on tall buildings. It?s our union with the Christ ? ?the spiritual idea of divine Love? (Science and Health, p. 38) ? that makes the difference. It allows us to mentally step inside God?s embrace and draw all those around us into the warmth and security of a permanently sunlit place.
From an editorial in the Christian Science Sentinel.
Feb. 24, 2013 ? Bottles, packaging, furniture, car parts... all made of plastic. Today we find it difficult to imagine our lives without this key material that revolutionized technology over the last century. There is wide-spread optimism in the scientific community that graphene will provide similar paradigm shifting advances in the decades to come. Mobile phones that fold, transparent and flexible solar panels, extra thin computers... the list of potential applications is endless.
The most recent discovery published in Nature Physics and made by researchers at the Institute of Photonic Science (ICFO), in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany, and Graphenea S.L. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, demonstrate that graphene is able to convert a single photon that it absorbs into multiple electrons that could drive electric current (excited electrons) -- a very promising discovery that makes graphene an important alternative material for light detection and harvesting technologies, now based on conventional semiconductors like silicon.
"In most materials, one absorbed photon generates one electron, but in the case of graphene, we have seen that one absorbed photon is able to produce many excited electrons, and therefore generate larger electrical signals" explains Frank Koppens, group leader at ICFO. This feature makes graphene an ideal building block for any device that relies on converting light into electricity. In particular, it enables efficient light detectors and potentially also solar cells that can harvest light energy from the full solar spectrum with lower loss.
The experiment consisted in sending a known number of photons with different energies (different colors) onto a monolayer of graphene. "We have seen that high energy photons (e.g. violet) are converted into a larger number of excited electrons than low energy photons (e.g. infrared). The observed relation between the photon energy and the number of generated excited electrons shows that graphene converts light into electricity with very high efficiency. Even though it was already speculated that graphene holds potential for light-to-electricity conversion, it now turns out that it is even more suitable than expected!" explains Tielrooij, researcher at ICFO.
Although there are some issues for direct applications, such as graphene's low absorption, graphene holds the potential to cause radical changes in many technologies that are currently based on conventional semiconductors. "It was known that graphene is able to absorb a very large spectrum of light colors. However now we know that once the material has absorbed light, the energy conversion efficiency is very high. Our next challenge will be to find ways of extracting the electrical current and enhance the absorption of graphene. Then we will be able to design graphene devices that detect light more efficiently and could potentially even lead to more efficient solar cells." concludes Koppens.
Scientists, industries and the European Commission are so convinced of the potential of graphene to revolutionize the world economy that they promise an injection of ?1.000 million in graphene research.
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Have one of those 7 million jailbroken iDevices? Like it that way? Then wait, stop, don't touch anything. iOS 6.1.3 is poised to ruin your day, and there might not be any going back. More »
Sure, there's a second screen these days. But it's not the one you might think. The second screen is the TV, where the decaying rules remain in force as network comedies atrophy and the fall season is rife with cancellation. The first screen is the mini, managing the push notification appointment calendar and relationships of the binge viewers as they kibitz, joke, and narrate the stream economy.
An absolutely fantastic racing game called Slingshot Racing hit Android today, and I couldn't wait until our next Apps of the Week to tell you guys about it. Players are thrust into steampunk-style world where, for some reason or another, bobsled racing is a big thing. Instead of manually steering as one usually does in racing games, players have to instead tap, hold, and release the screen to deploy grappling hooks to the nearest spinning pivot point and slingshot around the bend. Timing is critical, and with competitors muscling for rank, it can get pretty intense. The best part about the control scheme is that it enables four people to play locally on the same device, which is a ton of fun.
All sorts of game modes are available, including the standard time trial, another where you have to collect cogs, and one where you have to flee for as long as possible from a nasty chomper. The graphics in Slingshot Racing are full of character, and there's no shortage of replayability. Pick this one up for a mere $0.99 - trust me.
High school basketball players from East, Central Tech, and Strong Vincent had the once in a lifetime chance to be coached and mentored by former Knicks stars Allan Houston and Larry Johnson. The special mentoring event took place at the Erie Insurance Arena early Saturday afternoon.
Houston is the
BayHawks general manager and used to play with Johnson. Johnson is in town for
Affiliate Night at the arena. The BayHawks are an affiliate of the New York Knicks. Johnson was the first overall pick in the NBA
draft back in 1991.
Both Houston and Johnson say it was great to come mentor
these young athletes. In their mentoring session, the former NBA stars stressed
how important it is for the young athletes to stay focused, and to work their
hardest in all that they do, both on and off the court.
Confidential documents obtained by CBC News show that when Chinese military spies hacked into the control systems of Canadian pipelines and power grids last fall, this country?s official cyber-response agency sprang into action ? exactly 10 days later.
On Sept. 10, 2012, Calgary-based Telvent advised its customers that hackers had managed to penetrate the computers at both the high-tech firm and many of its clients, including huge energy companies and public utilities across North America.
But no one, apparently, told the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre, the federal agency set up to respond to cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.
Documents indicate the first the agency even heard about the attack was a news report 10 days later, saying a ?Canadian energy company? had been hacked.
Even then, it took the organization more than 24 hours to determine the Canadian company hit was Telvent.
The 2012 cyberattack successfully breached a Calgary-based supplier of control systems for electrical power grids, municipal water systems, public transit operations, and most of Canada?s major oil and gas pipelines.(Canadian Press)
Part of the problem was the federal response centre wasn?t open to respond to anything on weekends. In fact, it was only staffed during banker?s hours ? eight hours a day, five days a week.
Whatever the cause, the Telvent embarrassment was hardly an anomaly.
Hundreds of pages of the agency?s internal emails and cyber ?incident reports? paint an organization unable to deal with an almost constant hail of cyberattacks on government and industry.
The documents show the government was consistently slow to respond to what would become Canada?s worst cyberattack in the fall of 2010.
China-based hackers broke into the computer systems of at least three federal departments, seven Bay Street law firms, and two multinational corporations ? all involved in the ultimately unsuccessful corporate takeover of Saskatchewan?s Potash Corporation.
Documents show warning signs of a cyberattack throughout the fall of 2010, but no evidence of a co-ordinated response to it.
In mid-January 2011, all hell began to break loose with attack alerts pouring in daily.
Emails on Jan. 31 indicated the Finance Department and Treasury Board were both being slammed with severe cyberattacks, including significant volumes of sensitive government data being stolen by computers in China.
U.S. offers help after massive cyberattack
But it wasn?t until three days later ? and many meetings and a mountain of emails ? that all of the computers at Finance, Treasury Board and Defence Research, also hit, were finally disconnected from the internet to prevent further loss of data.
Two weeks later, the first media reports about the massive cyberattack prompted the U.S. cyber response agency to offer ?help and resources,? to its Canadian counterpart, and to inquire if there were ways to mitigate the damage.
In an extraordinary exchange of emails, top officials at the Canadian cyber agency spent an entire day debating whether to share information with the Americans offering to help.
Meanwhile, the attacks were far from over.
Documents show six weeks after the three departments were unplugged from the internet, another federal agency was ?severely impacted by a cyber incident.?
On May 1, five more were hit, including the Privy Council, the prime minister?s department.
Documents show the attacks continued on an almost daily basis through the rest of 2011 and all of 2012.
Experts say most of the attacks on the federal government over the past two years were likely the work of hundreds of different hackers from various countries with a variety of reasons for causing mayhem.
For its part, the Cyber Response Centre issued an unusual report to government a year ago, all but pleading for help.
While the Harper government has long boasted about its ?cyber strategy,? the report suggests those who had to implement it were not impressed.
The agency complained of ?ambiguity of roles in an emergency,? and how it is ?difficult to prioritize clients and services without clearly defined mission and mandate.?
It complained about an ?aging? laboratory, and the high turnover of staff at the agency.
Last fall, Auditor General Michael Ferguson hammered the government for its much-touted cyber strategy.
Among many pages of scathing commentary, the federal spending watchdog found that over the past decade, successive governments have promised a lot more in cyber security than they have delivered.
Auditor general critical of federal cyber strategy
Most of the time, he said, the government did not seem to know how much money was available for cyber security, nor what it was being spent on.
The Cyber Response Centre, he concluded, was underfunded and otherwise ill-equipped to do its job.
All of which clearly frustrates security experts such as Canada?s former head of intelligence and counter-terrorism , Ray Boisvert.
In an interview with CBC, the recently retired CSIS boss says the growing cyber threats are ?as important if not more important than terrorism now.?
He says the Cyber Response Centre is ?a good start,? but the federal government will ?have to do far more than that.?
?This government has invested some time and some money in this issue of late and I think it?s all very helpful.
?But we cannot be the soft underbelly of North America.?
Rafal Rohozinski of the SecDev Group is one of Canada?s leading cyber experts.
'I think frankly that it requires co-ordination at the upper levels of political authority.'?Rafal Rohozinski of the SecDev Group
He says Canada is lagging behind its allies in making cyber security a co-ordinated effort among all government agencies and the private sector.
?I think frankly that it requires co-ordination at the upper levels of political authority. There has to be a decision made by the Prime Minister's Office that cyber security matters.
?There has to be a national security advisory team that deals with this just like they deal with any other aspect of national security.?
Rohozinski says the Chinese attack on Telvent and its big utility customers is another wakeup call for Canada, and a reminder of what?s at stake in securing cyberspace.
?It certainly puts us in the position of military potential vulnerability if some of our core assets are penetrated ? by a foreign power or entity that can sidestep the securities that we have built within them.?
Since the auditor general?s scathing report last year, the Harper government has increased funding for the Cyber Response Centre, at least enough to operate 15 hours a day, seven days a week.?
This week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper seemed to say all?s well in cyberspace.
Asked for his reaction to this week?s report fingering the Chinese for the cyberattack on Telvent, the PM said: ?We are certainly aware of these kinds of security threats and risks that exist.
?We have professionals who constantly evaluate them and work with partners on addressing them.?
When it comes to raising money to help overcome educational budget cuts, there are the old, reliable methods, like the silent auction or a fancy gala, and then there?s the racy route.
In Montserrat, Spain, 10 mothers are showing some serious skin in a sexy calendar being sold to raise money in the face of Spain's austerity measures. The proceeds are being used to restore a reduction in bus service for 600 elementary school students.
Some of the women are topless, some almost bottomless in the calendar that so far, has raised enough money to cover the $4,100 monthly tab for the bus, the driver and a monitor through the end of the school year in June, according to an Associated Press report.
The moms hope to sell all 3,000 of the calendars by the end of the month, and then start anew for next year.
What would you do (or take off) to raise money for your child?s school?
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Existing Journals The Radiographer and Shadows combine to make new journal
Hoboken, N.J., February 22, 2013. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the launch of Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences (JMRS), combining The Radiographer (now in its 60th volume) from the Australian Institute of Radiography (AIR) and Shadows (in its 56th Volume) from the New Zealand Institute of Medical Radiation Technology (NZIMRT). The new, combined journal joins Wiley as part of the Wiley Open Access program. Wiley will also publish AIR's monthly newsletter, Spectrum.
JMRS is an international and multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that accepts manuscripts related to medical imaging / diagnostic radiography, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine, medical ultrasound / sonography, and the complementary disciplines of medical physics, radiology, radiation oncology, nursing, psychology and sociology. The combined editorial boards have come together under the leadership of the Editor-in-Chief, Cherry Agustin, Radiation Therapist Educator at The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre Westmead, Sydney, and the deputy editors Dr Ann Poulos (Adjunct Associate Professor, Discipline of Medical Radiation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney) and Hannah Thompson (Senior Clinical Tutor, Radiation Therapist, Midcentral Health Ltd. Palmerston North, New Zealand) to bring this publication to the professions worldwide.
AIR President, Bruce Harvey, commented, "Imaging and treatment equipment in Australia and New Zealand is state of the art, and the specialist practitioners must constantly keep up-to-date by researching and communicating their findings to their colleagues. The peak professional associations for radiographers, sonographers and radiation therapists in Australia and New Zealand have therefore joined their peer reviewed journals into one new international publication, the Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences to enable faster communication and greater collaboration between the countries and specialties."
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences is the latest addition to Wiley's portfolio of Radiography, Radiology & Imaging journals and will benefit from relationships with widely respected titles including the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology and Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
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Contact: Ben Norman sciencenewsroom@wiley.com 44-012-437-70375 Wiley
Existing Journals The Radiographer and Shadows combine to make new journal
Hoboken, N.J., February 22, 2013. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the launch of Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences (JMRS), combining The Radiographer (now in its 60th volume) from the Australian Institute of Radiography (AIR) and Shadows (in its 56th Volume) from the New Zealand Institute of Medical Radiation Technology (NZIMRT). The new, combined journal joins Wiley as part of the Wiley Open Access program. Wiley will also publish AIR's monthly newsletter, Spectrum.
JMRS is an international and multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that accepts manuscripts related to medical imaging / diagnostic radiography, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine, medical ultrasound / sonography, and the complementary disciplines of medical physics, radiology, radiation oncology, nursing, psychology and sociology. The combined editorial boards have come together under the leadership of the Editor-in-Chief, Cherry Agustin, Radiation Therapist Educator at The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre Westmead, Sydney, and the deputy editors Dr Ann Poulos (Adjunct Associate Professor, Discipline of Medical Radiation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney) and Hannah Thompson (Senior Clinical Tutor, Radiation Therapist, Midcentral Health Ltd. Palmerston North, New Zealand) to bring this publication to the professions worldwide.
AIR President, Bruce Harvey, commented, "Imaging and treatment equipment in Australia and New Zealand is state of the art, and the specialist practitioners must constantly keep up-to-date by researching and communicating their findings to their colleagues. The peak professional associations for radiographers, sonographers and radiation therapists in Australia and New Zealand have therefore joined their peer reviewed journals into one new international publication, the Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences to enable faster communication and greater collaboration between the countries and specialties."
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences is the latest addition to Wiley's portfolio of Radiography, Radiology & Imaging journals and will benefit from relationships with widely respected titles including the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology and Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
"It's terrific to be starting a working relationship with AIR and NZIMRT in publishing the Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences in a new open access model, and again with AIR on their monthly magazine Spectrum," said Mark Robertson, Wiley's VP and Publishing Director, Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly, Asia-Pacific, and Executive Director of Wiley Australia.
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Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences is open to submissions now. Please visit the journal's website www.jmrsjournal.com for further information and future updates.
About the Australian Institute of Radiography (AIR)
The Australian Institute of Radiography is the peak body representing radiographers, radiation therapists and sonographers in Australia.
Our aims are to promote, encourage, cultivate and maintain the highest principles of practice and proficiency in respect of Medical Radiation Science. The AIR facilitates educational activities, discussion and consultation among members and others. We set standards of competency in practice and encourage scholarship and continuing professional development.
About the New Zealand Institute of Medical Radiation Technologists (NZIMRT)
The NZIMRT is the recognised representative of the profession, both nationally and internationally. We encompass Diagnostic, Therapy, Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound, Mammography, CT, MRI. We have representatives on the International Society of Radiographers & Radiological Technicians (ISSRT), and on Advisory Committees for those Institutes offering education in the Medical Radiation Technology Sciences where applicable and the 'Allied Health Professional Forum Associations' Forum.
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Feb. 22, 2013 ? The parasites that cause schistosomiasis, one of the most common parasitic infections in the world, are notoriously long-lived. Researchers have now found stem cells inside the parasite that can regenerate worn-down organs, which may help explain how they can live for years or even decades inside their host.
Schistosomiasis is acquired when people come into contact with water infested with the larval form of the parasitic worm Schistosoma, known as schistosomes. Schistosomes mature in the body and lay eggs that cause inflammation and chronic illness. Schistosomes typically live for five to six years, but there have been reports of patients who still harbor parasites decades after infection.
According to new research from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Phillip Newmark, collections of stem cells that can help repair the worms? bodies as they age could explain how the worms survive for so many years. The new findings were published online on February 20, 2013, in the journal Nature.
The stem cells that Newmark?s team found closely resemble stem cells in planaria, free-living relatives of the parasitic worms. Planaria rely on these cells, called neoblasts, to regenerate lost body parts. Whereas most adult stem cells in mammals have a limited set of possible fates?blood stem cells can give rise only to various types of blood cells, for example ?planarian neoblasts can turn into any cell in the worm?s body under the right circumstances.
Newmark?s lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has spent years focused on planaria, so they knew many details about planarian neoblasts ?what they look like, what genes they express, and how they proliferate. They also knew that in uninjured planarians, neoblasts maintain tissues that undergo normal wear and tear over the worm?s lifetime.
?We began to wonder whether schistosomes have equivalent cells and whether such cells could be partially responsible for their longevity,? says Newmark.
Following this hunch, and using what they knew about planarian neoblasts, post-doctoral fellow Jim Collins, Newmark, and their colleagues hunted for similar cells in Schistosoma mansoni, the most widespread species of human-infecting schistosomes.
Their first step was to look for actively dividing cells in the parasites. To do this, they grew worms in culture and added tags that would label newly replicated DNA as cells prepare to divide; this label could later be visualized by fluorescence. Following this fluorescent tag, they saw a collection of proliferating cells inside the worm?s body, separate from any organs.
The researchers isolated those cells from the schistosomes and studied them individually. They looked like typical stem cells, filled with a large nucleus and a small amount of cytoplasm that left little room for any cell-type-specific functionality. Newmark?s lab observed the cells and found that they often divided to give rise to two different cells: one cell that continued dividing, and another cell that did not.
?One feature of stem cells,? says Newmark, ?is that they make more stem cells; furthermore, many stem cells undergo asymmetric division.? The schistosomes cells were behaving like stem cells in these respects. The other characteristic of stem cells is that they can differentiate into other cell types.
To find out whether the schistosome cells could give rise to multiple types of cells, Newmark?s team added the label for dividing cells to mice infected with schistosomes, waited a week, and then harvested the parasites to see where the tag ended up. They could detect labeled cells in the intestines and muscles of the schistosomes, suggesting that stem cells incorporating the labels had developed into both intestinal and muscle cells.
Years of previous study on planarians by many groups paved the way for this type of work on schistosomes, Newmark says.
?The cells we found in the schistosome look remarkably like planarian neoblasts. They aren?t associated with any one organ, but can give rise to multiple cell types. People often wonder why we study the ?lowly? planarian, but this work provides an example of how basic biology can lead you, in unanticipated and exciting ways, to findings that are directly relevant to important public health problems.?
Newmark says the stem cells aren?t necessarily the sole reason schistosome parasites survive for so many years, but their ability to replenish multiple cell types likely plays a role. More research is needed to find out how the cells truly affect lifespan, as well as what factors in the mouse or human host spur the parasite?s stem cells to divide, and whether the parasites maintain similar stem cells during other stages of their life cycle.
The researchers hope that with more work, scientists will be able to pinpoint a way to kill off the schistosome stem cells, potentially shortening the worm?s lifespan and treating schistosome infections in people.
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James J. Collins III, Bo Wang, Bramwell G. Lambrus, Marla E. Tharp, Harini Iyer, Phillip A. Newmark. Adult somatic stem cells in the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni. Nature, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nature11924
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TV actors Ankita Lokhande and Sushant Singh Rajput have been dating since four years now. Singh, who is now all set to make his movie debut with the movie ?Kai Po Che? said that he and his girlfriend are not yet married.
For a long time there have been rumours that the two have already tied the knot. Singh explained that there is no reason, the two would hide about their wedding. The actor added that they would let the world know when it happens.
The marriage might not be on the cards, but seems like the couple has already planned for the future. Singh revealed that they would host about three receptions, one in Patna, one in Indoor and one in Mumbai. Ankita and Sushant met on the sets of the popular tele series ?Pavitra Rishta? and have been dating for the past four years.
Recently, the actor quit the TV show to concentrate on his movie career. Singh said that his girl is extremely excited about his debut, more than he is. The actor also added that according to his girlfriend he is already a star. Sushant plans to host a special screening for his friends and family in Patna as well as Indoor which is the home town of Ankita.
How does the cast of Scandal celebrate birthdays? By embarrassing the honoree, of course!
Kidding aside, the video below is probably one of the cutest Josh Malina has ever captured for EW as part of his season-long assignment to chronicle the behind-the-scenes action at Scandal. In it, we see the cast and crew gather around the Gladiator table to pay tribute to Kerry Washington, who celebrated a birthday in late January.
Click below to watch the festivities and if you?ve missed any installments of Josh Cam, you can watch those as well.
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Jay-Z is set to host an after-party?of the BRIT Awards on Wednesday evening that will cost close to $1million.
The Sun is reporting that the hip-hop global superstar is splashing out this huge sum of money for his Roc Nation employees. It is also thought that Rita Ora, Kylie Minogue, and Justin Timberlake will attend the bash, which is being held at London?s Hakkasan restaurant.
Jay-Z?s wife, Beyonce Knowles, is also reportedly planning on flying over to the United Kingdom for the soiree, with rumors also circulating that she will perform at the show too.
Jay-Z is importing thousands of pounds worth of seafood and Ace of Spades champagne for the event, whilst English musician, Calvin Harris, is also set to DJ, having been flown in especially from Las Vegas.
The BRIT Awards is an annual ceremony which celebrates the latest musical achievements in the UK and internationally. This year, Mumford and Sons, Muse, One Direction, Robbie Williams, and Justin Timberlake are set to lay at the event, which is being hosted by English comedian James Corden.
Various nominations have been handed out to the likes of Muse, Mumford & Sons, and Alt-J.
Timberlake recently collaborated with Jay-Z for their new single, ?Suit & Tie,? the video to which was directed by legendary filmmaker David Fincher. Timberlake and Fincher worked together on 2010?s The Social Network, which saw the pop star play Sean Parker, the founder of Napstar.
Are you excited for Timberlake?s return to the musical scene? Or will you miss his acting prowess? Is he the new Frank Sinatra?
Want to know just who's developing for the PlayStation 4? Sony just gave is a very good peek: it's promising worldwide support for the console, and quickly flashed just which companies that involves.
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Cal State Fullerton President Mildred Garc?a was named to lead the board of directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, according to a statement by CSUF on Thursday.
The AACU is a national association based in Washington, D.C. which is concerned with advancing liberal education and improving undergraduate education.
?Being selected as chair of the board of directors is an honor and a truly exciting way to continue my work with AACU. I?m so proud being a part of an organization that is at the forefront of advancing liberal education and inclusive excellence in higher education,? Garc?a said in the statement.
Garc?a has been on the AACU board of directors since January 2008 and has served as the vice chair since last year. She has been involved with the association in various roles for more than a decade.
Five new directors and a handful of new officers were named as 2013 leaders at a recent annual meeting in Atlanta. The AACU adopted a new mission statement as well, ?to make liberal education and inclusive excellence the foundation for institutional purpose and educational practice in higher education.?
Garc?a succeeds president of Ursinus College Benny Fong as chair. Fong will stay on the board as past chair.
The AACU has 1,150 members including public and private colleges and universities.
?There are few national goals more important than AACU?s work in promoting student achievement, particularly through educational practices that honor diversity and address issues of equity,? Garc?a said, upon learning of the appointment.
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While watching ?Zero Dark Thirty? didn?t quite make us want to suck director Kathryn Bigelow?s toenails after, we were left impressed and entertained by this espionage thriller.
Two years after the 9/11 attacks, a bright CIA officer Maya (Jessica Chastain) is sent to work for the US embassy in Pakistan. Her mission is to gather intelligence on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden. Nearly a decade goes by with false leads, bureaucratic speedbumps and personal tragedy all threatening to derail the operation, but Maya?s resolve is rock solid until she finally zeroes in on Laden?s hidey hole in Abbottabad.
?Zero Dark Thirty? is occasionally drunk on American patriotism and shock tactic imagery but it?s not a commercial sell-out. Bigelow manages to infuse the right amount of drama (after all, this still IS a movie) into the proceedings without it getting too cheesy.
Experiments pay off. By staying away from used-to-death imagery, Bigelow?s 9/11 recap held our attention and the ambush scenes were far from the GI Joe-meets-Blair Witch Project nightmare this reviewer had expected it to be.
In Maya, the audience has a heroine worth rooting for and Chastain does a brilliant job at portraying her. Other standout cast members are Jason Clarke as interrogator Dan and Kyle Chandler as Maya?s boss.
The story of history?s greatest manhunt for the world?s most dangerous man could not have had a better retelling. Go watch it.
Chefs are a competitive lot, but it was all friendly competition at last week?s CCVI Food Fight 4. Three of the city?s best gathered on stage at The Guild, cooking to beat the clock, impress a panel of judges and benefit the Children?s Center for the Visually Impaired.
Alex Pope of Local Pig topped the event, closely followed by Howard Hanna of The Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange and Michael Smith of Michael Smith and Extra Virgin in what co-chair Dolly Wood called the tightest point-spread in the event?s four-year history.
Food Fight 4 chefs with their sous chefs: Tony Glamcevski & Howard Hanna, Jerry Fisher & Alex Pope and Michael Smith & Ryan Sciara
This year?s twist? Help from a trio of untrained sous chefs. Jerry Fisher, a self-described food enthusiast who?s never worked in a professional kitchen, backed up Pope. Hanna?s second was Tony Glamcevski, an industry pro who?s worked at Le Fou Frog and Green Dirt Farm and is now front-of-house at The Rieger. And Ryan Sciara of Cellar Rat Wine Merchants served as Smith?s sous.
If it added tension to the evening, you couldn?t tell. Each duo focused on the job at hand, chopping, frying and roasting as efficiently as possible in their make-shift kitchens. Their task: to prepare three courses in one hour, using ingredients from a grocery bag that included cod, flank steak, black walnuts, piquillo peppers and the like.
They could plan everything in advance but for one factor: a secret ingredient announced by honorary chef and chairman David Crum at the outset of the evening. His pick? Sweet potatoes grown by Thane Palmberg.
?It?s the only thing grown locally that?s available this time of year,? said Crum, general manager of Arrowhead Specialty Meats and Food Fight veteran (he served as sous chef to the late John McClure of Starker?s in 2011 and for Patrick Ryan of Port Fonda in 2012). ?They?ve been cellared since last fall, and they?re so tasty.?
They certainly were. A volunteer circled the room with a basket of fresh sweet potato chips that were so crisp and sweet that I was tempted to follow him until the basket was empty. Not that there weren?t plenty of other options.
Kansas City?s restaurants support this event with abundant generosity and tables full of tasting portions. Sponsors included Aces Cake Shop, The American Restaurant, BabyCakes, Caf? Sebastienne, Extra Virgin, Lon Lane?s Inspired Occasions, The Jacobson, Local Pig, Natasha?s Mulberry & Mott, Remedy Food & Drink, Reserve, The Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange, The Roasterie, Room 39, Snow & Co. and Starker?s Restaurant. Still more sponsors donated funds, wine and silent and live auction items.
Guests even got to vote for their favorite, and Lon Lane?s Inspired Occasions won the People?s Choice award for at least the second year in a row.
And then there was the bar. Boulevard Brewery supplied beer, including its far-too-quickly tapped out Rye-on-Rye. Dark Horse Distillery and Moonlight Liquors provided ample spirits that four of the town?s finest bartenders crafted into cocktails.
Travis Stewart, Jake Cole, Jenn Tosatto and Brock Schulte brought their mad bar skills to the fight
Jake Cole of Port Fonda created a Michelada (Port Fonda?s hot sauce, maggi, Tecate beer, salt and lime), while Travis Stewart, Port Fonda?s bar manager, served up his Siberian Punch (Samogon Russian grappa, Kronan Swedish Punsch, Ceylon fruit tea, an oleo saccharum made with lemons and sugar and nutmeg).
Brock Schulte, who manages The Drum Room?s bar, offered Long Shot Limeade (Dark Horse?s Long Shot White Whisky with cherry limeade). And the always amazing Jenn Tosatto, bar manager at The Rieger, created the Night Rider (Dark Horse Rider Vodka with lemon, honey cider syrup and soda water).
Still, no one had more fun than the judges, who sampled all the dishes and ultimately named Pope winner. The panel included Debbie Gold, executive chef of The American Restaurant and winner of Food Fight 1 in 2010; Doug Frost, Master Sommelier, Master of Wine, host of KCPT?s Check, Please Kansas City and all-around drinks guru; Katie Van Luchene, executive editor of Kansas City Magazine; and Kevin Marsh, a food enthusiast known for his Facebook catalog of vibrant food photos who for the second year in a row bought his judging rights at auction.
Judges Doug Frost, Debbie Gold, Katie Van Luchene and Kevin Marsh
The three chefs put judges? palates through their paces, bringing successive waves of starters, mains and desserts. (Author?s note: I did my best to take notes on the chef?s descriptions, but I may have missed an ingredient or method or two. Feel free to amend my reporting by commenting on this blog.)
Pope began with a seared beef tartar garnished with a sweet potato chip, a dish Frost described as a ?delicious mess.? He followed with braised cod with salami, sweet potatoes and a vadouvan sauce.
Yeah, I had to ask what that was, too.
Pope described it as a French curry sauce, made by first sweating finely chopped onions, garlic and shallots and then mixing them with freshly toasted and ground fenugreek, cumin, coriander and other spices. It?s all then roasted again until it turns into a sweetly spicy, sticky paste. The result was what Marsh called nicely curried without being too curry-forward.
Or, as Frost put it, ?this is a head trip of a dish. This is just crazy, with the sweet potatoes, the salty salami?I just can?t describe this thing.?
Alex Pope and Jerry Fisher
Pope?s finish was a swirling funnel cake with sweet potato cream cheese, lemon and orange sugar and a sprinkle of sea salt. In other words, ?carnival food gone upscale,? said Van Luchene.
Howard Hanna (winner of Food Fight 2) kicked off his menu with an Italina crudo-style flank steak tartar brightened with green olives, shallots, lemon juice, olive oil and black walnut pesto. I know the sweet potatoes were in there somewhere, I just couldn?t hear where when he described the dish to judges. It must have worked for them, though, because they praised it as both delicious and lush.
Howard Hanna prepping the secret ingredient: Thane Palmberg?s sweet potatoes
Hanna?s main course featured a vodka-battered tempura cod (Hanna said vodka evaporates more quickly than water, thus making for a crispier tempura) with a mini cast iron skillet sidekick containing salami, three types of pepper, sweet potato roasted with garlic and olive oil.
For dessert, Hanna served a classic almond financier, nestled in a sweet potato, butter and brown sugar sauce and garnished with amaretto cherries. But the sweetest part? When Hanna gave props to Pope for allowing him to borrow his deep fryer.
?He let me fry my fish in his fryer before he did his dessert, so I hope the funnel cake didn?t taste fishy!? Hanna told the audience.
Michael Smith?s flair showed through in each of his creations, beginning with a saut?ed cod smeared with black garlic. That was garnished with saffron sauce, a relish of pickled ramps and okra and a sprinkle of tiny dice sweet potatoes and accompanied by a quinoa-stuffed piquillo pepper.
?The presentation is absolutely gorgeous,? Marsh commented. ?I could take pictures of this all night long.?
Ryan Sciara and Michael Smith
Next up: a chipotle- and cumin-marinated flank steak, seared and served with a smoked cheese-topped tamale, another unrecognizable sauce (I couldn?t recognize it with all the background noise, anyway?something with sweet potatoes, maybe?) and a sprinkle of baby Swiss chard.
Smith, who topped Food Fight 3, finished with a brown butter and walnut flour financier finished with cherry sauce, sweet potato chips and candied black walnuts that were tasty enough to have the judges wishing for more.
Just watching it all, I felt my envy that the judges got to taste it all melt into relief that I didn?t have to choose between the chefs. I had the opportunity to do so a couple years ago, and so I know first-hand what a tough job it is.
Pope seemed pumped at having won, but the real winners, as always, were the kids who attend CCVI. It?s truly one of the most worthy organizations in Kansas City, and I?m lucky to have been able to support it in such a delicious way.
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