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How Does Video Conferencing Benefit a Business?

By Guest PostOctober 1, 2013Small Business, Technologybenefit, business, easing communication, executives feel confident, growing businesshttp, how, internet, internet connection, michelle patterson, new project, online communication systems, phone conference, phoneam, powerpoint presentations, small business, tandberg corporation, video calls, video conferencing, voip

Cost control is one of the major challenges that companies face and when it’s for a small business, things come to survivability. Thus, the latest technologies and tools that promise to cut down the costs of a company is readily tested and accepted by the small business concerns. VoIP/IP telephony or online applications to make cheap/free calls are always welcome by the business owners who would like to enjoy anything doesn’t have a price tag attached to it.

There are many business owners who work with overseas clients and frequently travelling is not a very feasible option. Travelling abroad is not at all a financially viable option, if it has to be undertaken quite frequently. Phone conferences were a great way to have one-to-one meetings but it had its own downsides – they were costly and very difficult to arrange. Phone conferences often proved to be confusing and led to misunderstandings. Internet and especially after the advent of broadband, it has become really easy for medium and small-scale companies to maintain cheaper communication channels with their clients. (more…)

NABU International startet Petition für die kleinsten Delfine der Welt

By Guest PostOctober 1, 2013Natureaussterben, barbara maas, der welt, die maui delfine, internationale walfangkommission, iucn, iwc, kleinsten delfine, kueste neuseelands, maui delfin, nabu international, petition, smm, thomas tennhardt, william trubridge

Nur internationaler Protest kann ihr Aussterben jetzt noch verhindern

Berlin – Erneut ist an der Küste Neuseelands ein Maui-Delfin tot aufgefunden worden. Damit hat sich der Bestand der kleinsten und seltensten Meeresdelfine der Welt weiter verringert. Zurzeit rechnen Experten nur noch mit zirka 46 lebenden Tieren. Noch vor vierzig Jahren gab es etwa 1800 Maui-Delfine. Verantwortlich für den Rückgang der Population ist die Küstenfischerei mit Stell- und Schleppnetzen.

„Erst kürzlich hat die neuseeländische Regierung einen neuen Schutzplan für einen weiteren kleinen Teil des Verbreitungsgebietes der Maui-Delfine aufgelegt. Diese Pläne sind jedoch völlig unzulänglich und zielen darauf ab die Öffentlichkeit zu beschwichtigen“, sagt Thomas Tennhardt, Vorsitzender der NABU International Naturschutzstiftung, die sich seit ihrer Gründung für den Schutz der Mauis engagiert. „Neuseeland ignoriert die dringenden Empfehlungen der weltweiten Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft. Damit riskiert das Land sein grünes Image.“ (more…)

Made in IBM Labs: Scientists Turn Data into Disease Detective to Predict Dengue Fever and Malaria Outbreaks

By Guest PostSeptember 30, 2013Technologyclimate change, data, disease detective, disease modeling, eclipse foundation, environmental factors, epidemiology, ibm labs, infectious diseases, james kaufman, johns hopkins, justin lessler, made in, malaria outbreaks, new analytic measures, open source framework, predict dengue fever, spatio, stem, temporal epidemiological modeler, world health organization

IBM teams up with Johns Hopkins University and UC San Francisco to help public health officials model, predict and track the possible spread of infectious diseases

SAN JOSE, Calif., – 30 Sep 2013: Scientists from IBM are collaborating with Johns Hopkins University and University of California, San Francisco to combat illness and infectious diseases in real-time with smarter data tools for public health. The focus is to help contain global outbreaks of dengue fever and malaria by applying the latest analytic models, computing technology and mathematical skills on an open-source framework.

Vector-borne diseases, like malaria and dengue fever, are infections transmitted to humans and other animals by blood-feeding insects, such as mosquitoes, ticks and fleas. (more…)

Warme und saure Sintflut?

By Guest PostSeptember 30, 2013Environment, Natureantarktis, climate change, CO2, co2 konzentration, groenlands, intergovernmental panel, ipcc, juergen freund, klimaschutz, klimawandel, kohlensaeure, kontinental eisschilde, korallenriffe, marine oekosysteme, meeresschutz, oekosysteme, ozeane, saure sintflut, stockholm, warme, wwf

WWF zum Klimabericht des IPCC: „Klimaschutz und Meeresschutz verbinden“ zum Klimabericht des IPCC: „Klimaschutz und Meeresschutz verbinden“

Der vom Menschen gemachte Klimawandel hat stärkere Auswirkungen auf die Weltmeere als bislang bekannt. Dies geht aus den heute in Stockholm vorgestellten Ergebnissen des Klimabericht des IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change) hervor. Die vom Menschen verursachten CO2-Emissionen wirken direkt auf die Ozeane: Die Meere werden saurer, weil das Meerwasser CO2 aus der Atmosphäre aufnimmt und sich daraus Kohlensäure bildet. (more…)

A new strategy to stop the TB bacterium

By Guest PostSeptember 30, 2013Sciencebacterial cell, brown university, cellular enzyme, clpp, clpp enzyme, corey compton, garbage disposal, jason sello, karl schmitz, lactone 7, mycobacterium tuberculosis, new strategy, tb bacterium, traditional antibiotics, tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis may have an Achilles’ heel: It needs a particular enzyme to survive. Inhibiting that enzyme’s function, researchers have shown, will kill the bacteria, pointing toward a design strategy for new TB drugs.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — To stay ahead in the race against drug-resistant infections, scientists constantly search for and exploit vulnerabilities in deadly bacteria. Now, researchers from Brown and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used a novel compound to exploit an Achilles’ heel in the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. (more…)

Studying dating abuse in the Internet age

By Guest PostSeptember 30, 2013Healthdating abuse, dating partner, dating violence, non physical abuse, text messages

Non-physical abuse by a dating partner such as threats, controlling behavior and harassing text messages can have a serious effect on a teenager’s health and well-being, finds new research led by a Michigan State University scholar. (more…)

UCLA scientists explain the formation of unusual ring of radiation in space

By Guest PostSeptember 29, 2013Scienceadam kellerman, alexander drozdov, dmitriy subbotin, earth, explain, formation, hazardous, high energy electrons, highly charged particles, jack eddy fellowship, ksenia orlova, kyung chan kim, MIT, model, NASA, plasma waves, President Obama, radiation belts, ring of radiation, russia, simulation, skolkovo institute, Space, third radiation ring, ucla scientists, ultra relativistic electrons, unusual, van allen, velocity, yuri shprits

Since the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in 1958, space scientists have believed these belts encircling the Earth consist of two doughnut-shaped rings of highly charged particles — an inner ring of high-energy electrons and energetic positive ions and an outer ring of high-energy electrons.

In February of this year, a team of scientists reported the surprising discovery of a previously unknown third radiation ring — a narrow one that briefly appeared between the inner and outer rings in September 2012 and persisted for a month. (more…)

Oldest existing lizard-like fossil hints at scaly origins

By Guest PostSeptember 29, 2013Scienceancestors of lizards, dating technique, fossil jaws, fossilised remains, modern lizards, molecular clock, permian mass extinction

The fossilised remains of a reptile closely related to lizards are the oldest yet to be discovered.

Two new fossil jaws discovered in Vellberg, Germany provide the first direct evidence that the ancestors of lizards, snakes and tuatara (known collectively as lepidosaurs), were alive during the Middle Triassic period – around 240 million years ago. (more…)

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