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Odyssey HealthCare Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
MarketWatch -
... Continuing operations $ 0.12 $ 0.15 $ 0.23 $ 0.29 Discontinued operations (0.07) (0.03) (0.13) (0.06) --------- -------- --------- --------- Net income ...ODSY
HCP Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results
WELT ONLINE, Germany -
... earnings per common share: Continuing operations $ 0.13 $ 0.20 $ 0.25 $ 0.29 Discontinued operations 0.84 0.12 0.95 0.72 Net income applicable to common ...HCP - THC
Sam Woo (02322) FY08 NP $22M, down 25%; fin div 0.13 cent
華富財經, Hong Kong - Jul 23, 2008
A final dividend of 0.13 cent per share was declared. In relation to the stock quote service (the "Quote Service") information, the stock price, ...HKG:2322

Azerbaijan Business Center
Profitability of Azerbaijan National Bank?s notes has dropped by 0.13%
Azerbaijan Business Center, Azerbaijan - Jul 30, 2008
Compared to the previous auction, profitability on cut off price did not change (11.68%) and on weighted average price reduced by 0.13% - from 11.02% to ...
Nu Tek India IPO Subscribes 0.13 Times
Trading Markets (press release), CA - Jul 29, 2008
(RTTNews) - Tuesday, Nu Tek India that came out with an initial public offer of 45-lakh equity share of Rs.10 each subscribed 0.13 times at 16.00 hrs IST, ...

AFP
FTSE gains 0.13 percent at open
AFP - Jul 16, 2008
LONDON (AFP) ? The London stock market firmed in opening deals on Wednesday, after striking a three-year low point the previous day, with a gain of 0.13 ...
European shares higher at open; London FTSE up 0.13 percent Khaleej Times
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AuEx Ventures, Inc.: Long Canyon Drilling Returns 125 Feet at 0.13 ...
Stockhouse, Canada - Jul 29, 2008
AuEx Ventures, Inc. ("AuEx" or the "Company") (TSX:XAU) is pleased to report new gold intercepts, including hole LC085 returning 38.1 meters (125 feet) at ...TSE:XAU - NGD
Mac OS X market share growth stumbles
Computerworld, MA -
Windows, meanwhile, posted a small gain in overall share, climbing 0.13 percentage points from June's 90.89% to end July with 91.02%. In the last year, ...AAPL - MSFT
River City Bank Reports Strong Asset Growth and Second Consecutive ...
MarketWatch -
... and diluted) for the quarter ended June 30, 2007 and $(226359) or $(0.13) per share (basic and diluted) for the six month period ended June 30, 2007. ...CTBK

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athenahealth, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
WELT ONLINE, Germany -
... (0.68 ) $ 0.13 $ (1.23 ) Weighted average shares used in computing net income (loss) per share Basic 32485 5026 32414 4934 Diluted 34730 5026 34758 4934 ...
Hudson Highland Group Reports 2008 Second Quarter Financial Results Earthtimes (press release)
Actuate Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results MarketWatch
EarthLink Announces Second Quarter Results IT News Online
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Measuring the Independence of Central Banks and Its Effect on Policy Outcomes -
A Cukierman, SB Web, B Neyapti - The World Bank Economic Review, 1992 - World Bank
Page 1. THE WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW. VOL. 6. NO. 1: 35J-J9J Measuring the
Independence of Central Banks and Its Effect on Policy Outcomes ...

Variation in d 15 N and d 13 C trophic fractionation: implications for aquatic food web studies -
MJ Vander Zanden, JB Rasmussen - Limnology and Oceanography, 2001 - JSTOR
... 0.13 0.05 ? ... of isotopic fractionation-A literature review produced 35 A8'5N estimates
and 42 A^'3C estimates from 22 studies and 20 species (Web Appendix 1 ...

[PDF] AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION OF REQUISITE SKILLS NEEDED BY DEVELOPERS OF E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS -
AM Aladwani - The International Conference on Informatics Education & …, 2002 - iaim.aisnet.org
... Web programming 1.93 0.20 Web networking 1.53 0.20 Web databases 0.67 0.13 Web security
2.67 0.33 Web management 1.60 0.00 Web site design 1.53 0.00 ...

Artifacts or Attributes? Effects of Resolution on the Little Rock Lake Food Web -
ND Martinez - Ecological Monographs, 1991 - JSTOR
... The key in (a) also applies to (b). In the 93-trophic-species web, 0.86 and 0.13
of the species are intermediate and basal species, respectively. ...

[PDF] Web Link Behavior and Consequences for Connectivity Based Authority Measures
T Mandl - The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, 2003 - uni-hildesheim.de
Page 1. 0.34 -0.13 Abstract This study analyzes the link behavior of web page authors
and draws conclusions for the design of link analysis algorithms in web ...

A comparison of development effort estimation techniques for Web hypermedia applications -
E Mendes, I Watson, C Triggs, N Mosley, S Counsell - Software Metrics, 2002. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE Symposium …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
1 A Comparison of Development Effort Estimation Techniques for Web Hypermedia
Applications ... Has the technique been used previously in Web engineering? ...

Trust management for the semantic web -
M Richardson, R Agrawal, P Domingos - Proceedings of the Second International Semantic Web …, 2003 - Springer
... Trust Management for the Semantic Web ... Abstract. Though research on the Semantic Web
has progressed at a steady pace, its promise has yet to be realized. ...

[PDF] Removal policies in network caches for world-wide web documents -
S Williams, M Abrams, CR Strandridge, G Abdulla, E … - Computer Communication Review, 1996 - cs.kent.edu
... caching in networks with workloads like ours could dramat- ically reduce the load
on popular Web servers. ... CGI 0.13 0.08 0.15 0.12 0.12 0.03 0.22 0.00 0.95 0.05 ...
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Combating web spam with trustrank -
Z Gy?ngyi, H Garcia-Molina, J Pedersen - Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on …, 2004 - portal.acm.org
... on Figure 2. The input to the algorithm is the graph (the transition matrix T and
the number N of web pages) and ... s = [ 0.08, 0.13, 0.08, 0.10, 0.09, 0.06, 0.02 ...

A Fully Automated Object Extraction System for the World Wide Web -
D Buttler, L Liu, C Pu - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2001 - doi.ieeecs.org
... for the World Wide Web David Buttler , Ling Liu , Calton Pu ... 2.2. Tree Representationof
Web Documents Awell-formed web document can be modeled as a tag tree . ...

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Overweight Young Women Have Reduced Risk Of Developing Breast Cancer Before Menopause

Article Date: 30 Nov 2006 - 18:00pm (PST)
A higher body mass index (BMI), especially in early adulthood, may be associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer before menopause, according to an article in the November 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. This association does not appear to be related to ovulation problems that overweight women may develop.

Previous studies have observed an association between higher body mass index and a lower risk of breast cancer, according to background information in the article. High BMI can be associated with irregular or long menstrual cycles and the development of polycystic ovary syndrome, a condition that occurs when the ovaries malfunction, decreasing fertility and contributing to other illnesses. All of these are related to disruptions in ovulation, which decrease levels of the hormones estradiol and progesterone; the long-held belief was that these lower levels, in turn, might explain the decrease in breast cancer risk. "However, few studies have explored whether these or other factors provide mechanistic insights into the unexpected protection that a high body mass confers on the premenopausal breast," the authors write.

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Karin B. Michels, Sc.D., Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues studied 113,130 premenopausal women who were part of the Nurses' Health Study II, a large group of female registered nurses who have been followed since 1989. At the beginning of the study, the women provided information about their adult height and their weight at age 18, as well as their current weight, any fertility problems, their family history of breast cancer and the characteristics of their menstrual cycle. Follow-up questionnaires that included questions about breast cancer and benign breast disease, childbirth, alcohol consumption, oral contraceptive use and physical activity were filled out every two years. The women were followed until 2003 or until they developed breast or any other cancer, died or reached menopause, whichever happened first.

Between 1989 and 2003, 1,398 cases of invasive breast cancer occurred among the women. Those with a current BMI of 30 or higher had a 19 percent lower risk of breast cancer compared with those who had a BMI between 20 and 22.4, after adjusting for family history, personal characteristics, lifestyle habits and menstrual variables. Women whose BMI was 27.5 or higher at age 18 had a 43 percent lower risk of developing breast cancer than those whose 18-year-old BMI was between 20 and 22.4. This association did not change when the researchers considered current BMI.

"A high BMI during adulthood is highly correlated with a high body mass during adolescence, which may be more important for the development of breast cancer before menopause," the authors write. "Although a high birth weight has been fairly consistently linked to an increase in the risk of premenopausal breast cancer, the BMI-breast cancer association seems to reverse at some point during the first years of life, only to revert back after menopause," when breast cancer is most often diagnosed.

Because the failure to ovulate (anovulation) cannot be measured directly, these findings do not rule out the hypothesis that factors related to ovulation contribute to the protective effect of a high BMI. "However, because adjustment for menstrual cycle patterns, infertility due to ovulatory disorder, probable polycystic ovary syndrome and use of oral contraceptives did not even slightly attenuate the association with BMI, anovulation does not seem to be a primary explanation for the reduced risk in heavier women," the authors conclude. "Among women with no history of infertility due to an ovulatory disorder, the inverse association between BMI and premenopausal breast cancer incidence persisted, lending further support to the role of mechanisms other than anovulation." The link may be hormonal, or due to the fact that obese women are less likely to be screened for breast cancer.

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(Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:2395-2402.)

This project was supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Research Grants Program of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The Nurses' Health Study II is supported by a Public Health Service grant from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc.

Contact: Leah Gourley
JAMA and Archives Journals
 

Tales Of The Unexpected: How The Brain Detects Novelty

When you sit down to watch a DVD of your favourite film, the chances are that you are able to predict the exact sequence of events that is about to unfold. Without our memories we would not only be unable to remember our past but perhaps more importantly predict the future. Scientists believe they may have identified how the brain allows us to anticipate future events and detect when things do not turn out as expected.

Dr Dharshan Kumaran and Dr Eleanor Maguire at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London have shown that the hippocampus, the area of the brain believed to play a crucial role in learning and memory, makes predictions of what will happen next by automatically recalling an entire sequence of events in response to a single cue. The research is published in the journal Public Library of Science Biology.

Using an fMRI scanner, which uses changes in blood flow within the brain to provide measurements of brain activity, Dr Kumaran and Dr Maguire were able to show how the brain reacts to unexpected changes in a sequence of images. A subject is shown a series of four images which are then repeated in a different order. By changing the order of only the final two images, the researchers found that the hippocampus appeared to be predicting which image would come next and reacting when an unexpected image appeared.

"These experiments indicate that the hippocampus acts as a sort of comparison device, matching up past and present experience" says Dr Kumaran. "It does not appear to be reacting to novelty as such, but rather to discrepancies between what it expects to see and what it actually sees."

The results imply that when the hippocampus is prompted by a cue, it recalls a sequence of associated memories, a process that may explain how seeing a particular person's face or listening to a piece of music can trigger the recollection of an entire past experience. Furthermore, the hippocampus would appear to perform a critical comparison between our past and present experiences alerting us to unexpected occurrences in our environment, such as changed layout.

"Patients with damaged hippocampi, such as those with Alzheimer's Disease, often have trouble remembering sequences of events or finding their way around" explains Dr Kumaran. "This would seem to be because the damaged hippocampus is unable to rapidly bind together the many different components of our experiences into a coherent whole."

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Contact: Craig Brierley
Wellcome Trust
 
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