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Carbon emissions will start to dictate stock prices: 11/15/2018 3:26:16 AM; Companies that fail to curb their carbon output may eventually face the consequences of asset devaluation and stock price depreciation, according to a new study out of the University of Waterloo.
New transgenic rat model may enable better understanding of amyloid buildup in cerebral blood vessels: 11/14/2018 11:42:54 AM; In a report in The American Journal of Pathology investigators describe the generation of a successful novel transgenic rat model that accumulates amyloid specifically in brain blood vessels and strongly mimics many of the associated detrimental changes that are observed in humans – a condition known as cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), which is also commonly observed …
Opioid Gene Variant in Adolescents Reduces Reward, May Increase Later Substance Abuse Risk: 11/8/2018 11:18:29 AM; Adolescents with a particular variant of an opioid receptor gene have less response in a part of the prefrontal cortex that evaluates rewards, compared to those with the other version of the gene, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC).
SAP Celebrates Two Million Projects and 250,000 Users of Snap! Visual Programming Language: 11/8/2018 10:41:38 AM; SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced that Snap!, a block-based visual programming language, has been used in over two million coding projects by more than a quarter of a million users worldwide.
NERC Impact Awards 2018: 4,000 tonnes of microbeads no longer released into ocean: 11/8/2018 5:20:04 AM; Professor Galloway, from Exeter University, and her team of colleagues at the University of Plymouth and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, started looking into the effect that tiny pieces of plastic could be having on marine life in 2004, at a time when other experts remained sceptical.
America’s #1 Success Coach Announces Newest Certified Trainer, Jim Van Manen: 11/7/2018 10:07:58 PM; Jack Canfield, Founder of The Canfield Training Group and NY Times Best-Selling Author of The Success Principles and Chicken Soup for the Soul series is proud to introduce his newest Canfield Certified Trainer in The Success Principles and The Canfield Methodology, Jim Van Manen.
ADHD youth no more at risk for traffic violations than non-ADHD youth: 11/7/2018 6:14:26 AM; A recent University of Waterloo study showed that youth with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are no more at risk of incurring traffic violations than their non-ADHD counterparts, contrary to previously published studies.
Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting CEO Karen Abramson Participates in Blockchain Challenge Broken Bots ‘N’ Blocks Open to US College Students Studying Accounting, Finance or Data Science: 11/6/2018 6:30:08 PM; Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting CEO, Karen Abramson, joined industry thought leaders and blockchain experts as a judge in the Broken Bots ‘N’ Blocks challenge designed to educate, explore and empower students and professionals on the fundamentals and potential of blockchain.
Life Revealed in Love Letters: 11/6/2018 9:50:48 AM; There are memories that stay in the mind. These memories raise our awareness and help us discover the essence of our humanity and acknowledge the existence of a higher being.
America’s #1 Success Coach Announces Newest Certified Trainer, Toni Camacho: 11/5/2018 11:19:19 PM; Jack Canfield, Founder of The Canfield Training Group and NY Times Best-Selling Author of The Success Principles and Chicken Soup for the Soul series is proud to introduce his newest Canfield Certified Trainer in The Success Principles, Toni Camacho.
Portable "tricorder" scans life signs: 10/22/2018 2:45:18 AM; Scientists from the School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow have developed a handheld device for taking medical readings from patients, and transferring the data to a smartphone.
Seeing Life through Literature: 10/19/2018 11:12:43 AM; Literature reflects how people think, feel, and act. A literary piece can strike a chord within us because of the ideas they express and feelings they evoke.
The Revelation of Unspoken Secrets of Evolution: 10/18/2018 9:35:50 AM; Most evolutionary behaviorists have accepted a robotic view of the interactions of social animals composed of selfishness with a small window of support to close relatives who share their genes.