Guest Post – Page 850 – Shamskm: A site to exchange knowledge and solutions

comScore Releases the “2012 Mobile Future in Focus” Report

By Guest PostFebruary 23, 2012Technology2012 mobile future, apple ios, canada, Comscore, electronic payments, eu5, focus, france, Germany, google android, italy, Japan, lifestyle, mark donovan, mobile, mobile behaviors, mobile ecosystem dynamics, mobile industry, retail, smartphones, Social networking, spain, symbian, united kingdom, united states, us mobile users

*Report Offers Insights on the Mobile and Connected Device Landscape in 2011 and What They Mean for 2012*

RESTON, VA, February 23, 2012 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the 2012 Mobile Future in Focus report. This annual report examines the mobile and connected device landscape, covering several mobile markets measured by comScore, through an exploration of key trends driving smartphone adoption growth, mobile media usage in categories such as social networking and retail, mobile ecosystem dynamics, and shifts in multi-device digital media consumption in 2011. The report highlights insights primarily from mobile markets in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada. (more…)

How Good Cholesterol Turns Bad

By Guest PostFebruary 23, 2012Healthcholesterol concentrations, cholesterol levels, cholesterol transfer, good cholesterol, heart disease, movement of cholesterol, risk factors

Berkeley Lab Researchers Find New Evidence on How Cholesterol Gets Moved from HDLs to LDLs

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found new evidence to explain how cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) mediates the transfer of cholesterol from “good” high density lipoproteins (HDLs) to “bad” low density lipoproteins (LDLs). These findings point the way to the design of safer, more effective next generation CETP inhibitors that could help prevent the development of heart disease. (more…)

Mathematician Sees Artistic Side To Father of Computer

By Guest PostFebruary 23, 2012Scienceclassical computability, computability theory, father of computer, mathematical logic, mathematical problems

This year a series of events around the world will celebrate the work of Alan Turing, the father of the modern computer, as the 100th anniversary of his birthday approaches on June 23. In a book chapter that will be published later this year, mathematician Robert Soare, the founding chairman of the University of Chicago’s computer science department, will propose that Turing’s achievement was artistic as well as scientific. (more…)

Design Eye For The Science Guy: Drop-in Clinic Helps Scientists Communicate Data

By Guest PostFebruary 23, 2012Sciencebasic design principles, design help desk, design problems, microscope images, nanometer scale, unique experiment, visual culture

Some of the figures scientists create are stunning. Others are not – mismatched fonts, poorly aligned tables, clashing colors. Many fall somewhere in between. A deluge of data presents a challenge to amateur designers, often resulting in a cluttered presentation that can crowd out the figure’s main message. (more…)

NASA Satellite Finds Earth’s Clouds are Getting Lower

By Guest PostFebruary 23, 2012Environmentadvanced radar, cloud climate feedback, cloud height, clouds, cloudsat, global climate, global cloud, global temperature, global warming, height measurement, indian ocean, misr, NASA, negative feedback, new zealand, roger davies, satellite data, terra spacecraft, university of auckland

Earth’s clouds got a little lower — about one percent on average — during the first decade of this century, finds a new NASA-funded university study based on NASA satellite data. The results have potential implications for future global climate.

Scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand analyzed the first 10 years of global cloud-top height measurements (from March 2000 to February 2010) from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The study, published recently in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, revealed an overall trend of decreasing cloud height. Global average cloud height declined by around one percent over the decade, or by around 100 to 130 feet (30 to 40 meters). Most of the reduction was due to fewer clouds occurring at very high altitudes. (more…)

Scientists Unlock Record of Ecosystem Changes Frozen in World’s Glaciers

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2012Environmentblack carbon, glacial ice, glacier biogeochemistry, glacier ecosystem, glacier ice loss

History of influence of industrial revolution hidden in glacial ice

New clues about how Earth’s remote ecosystems have been influenced by the industrial revolution have been uncovered. Until now they were locked away, frozen in the ice of glaciers. (more…)

Local Cops on Front Lines Against Product Counterfeiting

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2012Economy, Politicscounterfeit auto parts, counterfeit windshields, counterfeiting awareness, counterfeiting incidents, intellectual property offense, product counterfeiting

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Contrary to common perception, state and local police are often on the front lines against product counterfeiting, yet it’s unclear how prepared they are to deal with the growing crime, according to a new report from two Michigan State University criminologists. (more…)

Desert Footprints Reveal Ancient Origins of Elephants’ Social Lives

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2012Scienceabu dhabi, abu dhabi tourism, adult males, ancient footprint, andrew hill, arab emirate, arabian desert, brian kraatz, faysal bibi, fossilized mammalian, marilyn fox, mark beech, mathieu schuster, modern elephant, nathan craig, prehistoric elephant, trackway, united arab emirates

A cluster of ancient footprints in the Arabian desert offers the clearest evidence yet for the early origins of modern elephants’ social structure, according to a Yale-led research team.

Roughly seven million years old, the prints represent the movements of at least 14 prehistoric elephants through the inland desert of the Arab Emirate of Abu Dhabi, anthropologists report in a paper published on Feb. 22 in Biology Letters. The research shows that early elephants exhibited social patterns typical of their modern descendants — herding by adult females and offspring, and solitary wandering by adult males. (more…)

Author Archives: Guest Post