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Web.com Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results
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Prior to the adoption of SFAS 123(R) in fiscal 2006, the Company did not include expenses related to employee stock options and employee stock purchases ...
Prophecy drills 45.5 metres of 0.33% copper and 0.003% Molybdenum ...
Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada - Jul 28, 2008
At Okeover, the objectives of the recent program were achieved and expanded the mineralized area of the North Lake Zone (calculated in 2006 by NC Carter, ...CVE:PCY - TSE:X - CVE:ETF
Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Results
MarketWatch - Jul 29, 2008
This has resulted in steady improvements to net flows every year since 2006. It is notable and gratifying that this progress has continued through the ...WDR
Fannie Mae, Freddie Debt a Buy Poole Says `Insolvent' (Update4)
Bloomberg - Jul 17, 2008
Fannie Mae's five-year debt yielded 0.33 percentage point more than Treasuries on July 15, 2006. That compared with a record low of 0.07 percentage point in ...FNM - FRE
Bank of Hawaii Corporation Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results
Trading Markets (press release), CA - Jul 28, 2008
The conference call will be accessible via teleconference and via the Investor Relations link of Bank of Hawaii Corporation's web site, www.boh.com. ...BOH
GrowthStockAnalyst.com Reports VIPR Acquiring and Exploring High ...
Emailwire - Jul 25, 2008
Penny Stock research reports and investor relations are provided by GrowthStockAnalyst.com, visitors to our web site can sign up for our penny stock ...PINK:VIPR - GG - GRS
Cadence Reports Q2 Revenue of $329 Million
MarketWatch - Jul 23, 2008
Attendees are asked to register at the Web site at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled webcast. An archive of the webcast will be available starting ...CDNS
Canadian Oil Sands Trust raises quarterly distribution to $1.25 ...
FOXBusiness - Jul 29, 2008
Syncrude has participated in this program since inception and had its results externally verified in both 2006 and 2007. Syncrude received two awards for ...TSE:COS.UN
Progress Energy Increases 2008 Production Guidance
istockAnalyst.com, OR - Jul 31, 2008
This information is also accessible on the Trust's web site at www.progressenergy.com. We remain firmly focused on our goal of maintaining or modestly ...TSE:PGX.UN
Huntington Bancshares Reports 2008 Second Quarter Net Income of ...
FOXBusiness - Jul 17, 2008
Residential mortgage net charge-offs were $4.3 million, or an annualized 0.33% of related average balances. This was up from an annualized 0.16% in the ...HBAN - FCMC
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Web Accessibility Testing: When the Method is the Culprit -
G Brajnik - ICCHP, 2006 - Springer
... c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006 ... Figure 2 shows the validity and usefulness
metrics split by web site ... 0.80 P 3 0.08 0 S 0.48 0.70 S 3 1 0 F 0.33 0.66 E ...

A Cosmology Calculator for the World Wide Web -
EL Wright - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2006 - UChicago Press
... In particular, press releases (W. Clavin 2006, unpublished)2 ... have made it available
on the Web.7 One ... neutrino mass patterns, such as ?0.33, 0.33, and 0.33 eV ...

Utilizing Search Intent in Topic Ontology-Based User Profile for Web Mining -
X Zhou, ST Wu, Y Li, Y Xu, RYK Lau, PD Bruza - … of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web …, 2006 - doi.ieeecomputersociety.org
... IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Beijin ... on Active Media
Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 2006. 0.33 0.34 0.35 0.36 0.37 0.38 0.39 0.4 ...

Web Search Engine as a Bee Hive -
P Navrat, M Kovacik - … of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web …, 2006 - doi.ieeecomputersociety.org
... 0.36], source11[0.33], source63[0.33], source87[0.33], source18[0.32 ... Proceedings
of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI ...

A Computational Trust Model for Semantic Web Based on Bayesian Decision Theory
X Zheng, H Chen, Z Wu, Y Zhang - … of the 8 thAsia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2006), Harbin …, 2006 - Springer
... Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006 ... A Computational Trust Model for Semantic Web
Based on Bayesian Decision Theory ... of A to C is {p A (? g )=0.33, p A ...

[CITATION] Web Mining System for Mobile-Phone Marketing
VII Chapter - Business Applications and Computational Intelligence, 2006 - Idea Group Pub.
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[PDF] … of a web-based teaching module and gender on accounting students? ethical judgements Copyright 2006 …
W James, L McManus, N Subramaniam - eprints.qut.edu.au
Page 1. 1 A study on the effect of a web-based teaching module and gender on accounting
students? ethical judgements Copyright 2006 (The authors) ...
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Vacancy Ordering in SmGe 2-x and GdGe 2-x (x= 0.33): Structure and Properties of Two Sm 3 Ge 5 … -
PH Tobash, D Lins, S Bobev, N Hur, JD Thompson, JL … - Inorganic Chemistry, 2006 - pubs.acs.org
... 06)00913-X Web Release Date: July 28, 2006. Copyright ? 2006 American Chemical Society
Vacancy Ordering in SmGe 2 - x and GdGe 2 - x (x = 0.33): Structure and ...

Business Summary: Chemicals (MIC: 11.1 SIC: 2821 NAIC: 325211)
QMJS Dec, I Dividends, ADER Pay, DA Status - doi.wiley.com
... 2006 2/15/2006 2/17/2006 3/1/2006 0.33Q 5 ... 3.0% to 4.0% overall demand growth for
full-year 2006, with higher ... PA 19106-2399 Telephone: 215-592-3000 Web Site: www ...

Failure of a Web-Based Educational Tool to Improve Residents' Scores on the American Board of … -
CM Ferguson, AL Warshaw - Archives of Surgery, 2006 - archsurg.highwire.org
... 2006;141:414-416. ... analysis best-fit slope, ?0.20 ? 0.1; r 2 = 0.33) and total ... There
was no demonstrable beneficial effect of a Web-based educational tool on ...
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Lab-On-A-Chip Could Speed Up Treatment Of Drug-resistant Pneumonia

Article Date: 18 Nov 2006 - 7:00am (PST)
The emergency treatment of drug-resistant infections with targeted antibiotics is often delayed by the need to identify bacterial strains by growing them in culture first. At this week's AVS 53rd International Symposium & Exhibition in San Francisco, Michael Lochhead, a bioengineer at the Denver biotechnology company Accelr8, described a new lab-on-a-chip that can identify single bacterial cells for the most common cases of drug-resistant pneumonia, cutting down the wait from days to hours. The technology could also help in the development of new drugs.

The constant bombardment by antibiotics and disinfectants has bred strains of super-bugs that only respond to very specific drugs. These super-bugs often lurk in hospitals, where patients with weakened immune systems can pick up obstinate, life-threatening infections such as pneumonia. "When you get pneumonia in the hospital, you're much more likely to get a resistant strain," Lochhead said. "It's an emerging public-health disaster."

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The most acute cases are admitted into intensive care units, where doctors have just days, if not hours, to save the patients' lives, Lochhead said. But reliably identifying the bacterial strain that's causing the infection traditionally requires growing the bugs in culture first, a procedure that can take two to three days. Meanwhile, doctors often have no other option than to start stopgap treatments with broad-spectrum antibiotics.

The Accelr8 technology is a "microfluidic" lab-on-a-chip designed to manipulate and analyze bacteria without growing them first. Samples are first washed out of the patient's lungs with saline solution in a procedure called bronchoalveolar lavage. The organisms are then separated, suspended in a specially designed fluid, and pumped into the chip.

Inside the chip, the bacteria flow into several different compartments -- eight in the current version of the chip -- and are made to stick to a bacteria-friendly surface using an electric current. Antibodies then flow in. The antibodies bind specifically to certain strains of bacteria, and mark them with fluorescent dyes of different colors. The dyes color-code cells from known strains. A microscope monitors the viable cells -- those that are still reproducing -- and the rate at which they duplicate helps to identify their species.
 
In the next step, different antibiotics are pumped into the chambers. If the cells in a chamber stop reproducing, that indicates that a certain drug is likely to be effective at fighting the infection. The death of the bugs is confirmed by checking with a special dye.

Once the bacteria-carrying fluid is injected into the chip, the entire procedure is automatic-- including the counting of fluorescent-marked cells, which is done by a computer -- and takes less than eight hours.

One of the most difficult steps was to design a surface that would be hospitable to the bacteria but that would at the same time keep the antibodies and antibiotics from sticking to it, Lochhead said. While Accelr8 is working on finding a "universal" material that will allow virtually all pathogenic bacteria to stick to it, the company has so far focused on nine bacterial species that cause most of the cases of drug-resistant pneumonia, including Staphylococcus aureus (staph), Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Escherichia coli (E. coli). "If we can characterize the nine panel organisms, we'll cover 80 to 90 percent of hospital-acquired pneumonia cases," Lochhead said.

The company also hopes to apply the technology not just to identifying known strains but also to testing the efficacy of new drugs, or of existing drugs on unknown strains. "Even if you don't know the identity of an organism, if you know which drug works, it's still useful," Lochhead says.

Accelr8, a former software company that refashioned itself into a biotechnology company, plans to place development instruments in collaborating clinical laboratories within a year.

Paper: "Microfluidic Devices That Capture Bacteria for Growth and Kill Analysis," Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 9:40am, Room 2001, AVS 53rd International Symposium & Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, abstract at http://www.avssymposium.org/paper.asp?abstractID=199

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AVS is a not-for-profit professional society that promotes communication between academia, government laboratories, and industry for the purpose of sharing research and development findings over a broad range of technologically relevant topics.

Contact: Davide Castelvecchi
American Institute of Physics
 
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