Scientists working for WCS’s (Wildlife Conservation Society) New York Aquarium and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) now have an “ear” for the New York region’s biggest “voices and singers”— the whales of New York Bight. (more…)
ARMONK, N.Y. – 01 Sep 2016: Almost every company is using the cloud, but not for everything, finds a new IBM study. Seventy-eight percent of respondents say their cloud initiatives are coordinated or fully integrated, compared to just 34 percent in 2012. And, among high performing organizations, that number climbs to 83 percent. At the same time, nearly half of workloads — 45 percent — are expected to remain on-premises with dedicated servers. (more…)
Death and mourning were largely considered private matters in the 20th century, with the public remembrances common in previous eras replaced by intimate gatherings behind closed doors in funeral parlors and family homes. (more…)
Forscherteam identifiziert Lipopeptide als Ursache für schweren Krankheitsverlauf
Blutvergiftungen, verursacht durch Infektionen des bakteriellen Erregers Staphylococcus aureus, sind Ursache für viele tausend Todesfälle jährlich in Deutschland. Wie die Blutvergiftung bei solchen Infektionen ausgelöst wird und zum lebensbedrohlichen Multiorganversagen führt, war bislang weitgehend unverstanden. Auch sind die verfügbaren diagnostischen und therapeutischen Möglichkeiten derzeit sehr begrenzt. Forscher des Interfakultären Instituts für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin der Universität Tübingen (IMIT) und des Deutschen Zentrums für Infektionsforschung (DZIF) um Dr. Dorothee Kretschmer, Dennis Hanzelmann und Professor Andreas Peschel haben nun eine der Ursachen für diesen schweren Krankheitsverlauf geklärt. Die Ergebnisse wurden im Fachjournal Nature Communications veröffentlicht. (more…)
AUSTIN, Texas — Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a correlation between aging and the effectiveness of T-cells, a type of immune cell programmed to fight or kill a threat. The researchers found that older people have T-cells that are less effective at fending off the hepatitis C virus (HCV). (more…)
At first glance, the MIT programmers may have looked like just a bunch of gamers goofing off, as they fired spaceship torpedoes in a video game they built. (more…)
Materials researchers at North Carolina State University have fine-tuned a technique that enables them to apply precisely controlled silica coatings to quantum dot nanorods in a day – up to 21 times faster than previous methods. In addition to saving time, the advance means the quantum dots are less likely to degrade, preserving their advantageous optical properties. (more…)
Things went not so well for Laila, a divorced 28-year-old mother of one who is now a garment worker in a factory located in Savar area, the apparel industry hub of Bangladesh and not far away from the Dhaka city’s fringe. She was happily married to a man who was a masonry worker but since his income was never stable and sufficient enough for the family, it all started to go very erratic. (more…)
