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TheStreet.com Reports Second-Quarter Financial Results
MarketWatch - Jul 31, 2008
It engages audiences on video and digital platforms through some of the Web's best known sites: TheStreet.com, RealMoney.com, Stockpickr.com, ...
Virtual Radiologic Corp. Reports Second Quarter 2008 Revenue ... CNNMoney.com (press release)
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Rackable Systems Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results
Trading Markets (press release), CA -
The public is invited to listen to a live web cast of the call on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.rackable.com. ...RACK
Online Resources Posts Second Quarter 2008 Results
WELT ONLINE, Germany - Jul 29, 2008
Online Resources Corporation (Nasdaq:ORCC), a leading provider of web-based financial services, today reported financial and operating results for the three ...ORCC
Tasty Baking Company Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
MarketWatch - Aug 1, 2008
Investors will have the opportunity to listen to the call over the Internet at Tasty Baking Company's web site, http://www.tastykake.com. ...TSTY
Geron Corporation Reports 2008 Second Quarter Financial Results ...
MarketWatch - Jul 30, 2008
Net loss applicable to common stockholders for the first six months of 2008 was $27.2 million, or $(0.35) per share, compared to $16.5 million or $(0.23) ...GERN
thinkorswim Group Inc. Reports Second Quarter Financial Results
CNNMoney.com (press release) - Jul 31, 2008
The call is being webcast by Thomson CCBN and will be available through our Web site at www.thinkorswim.com under Investor Relations. thinkorswim Group Inc. ...SWIM
PPL Corporation Reports Second-Quarter Earnings
Earthtimes (press release), UK - Aug 1, 2008
The meeting is available online live, in audio format, along with slides of the presentation, on PPL's Web site: www.pplweb.com. ...PPL
GCC markets close down for week
AME Info, United Arab Emirates - Jul 17, 2008
The DFM and ADX fell 0.02%, Doha 0.04%, Muscat 0.68% and Bahrain by 0.23%. Replication or redistribution in whole or in part is expressly prohibited without ...

CPI Financial
Investor Relations Earnings Release
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Origen Financial Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results PR Newswire (press release)
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On Hudson's Owen Brown Street, a century home that is 0.23 miles from a Caribou coffee shop scores an 82. In Lakewood, the new Rockport Square townhouses ...
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A Meta-Analysis of Response Rates in Web-or Internet-Based Surveys -
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FOOD WEB STRUCTURE AND THE ROLE OF EPILITHIC BIOFILMS IN CAVE STREAMS -
KS Simon, EF Benfield, SA Macko - Ecology, 2003 - esajournals.org
... velocities (0.5?22.8? 10- 5 m/s) and uptake rates (0.04?0.23 mg m ... labeled with 13C,
indicating that biofilm C was passed through the entire food web. ...

Web Reinforcement Effects on Deep Beams -
FK Kong, PJ Robins, DF Cole - ACI Journal Proceedings, 1970 - ACI
... L/ D supported deep ranging from to 3 and clear shear span/depth ratios x/D from
0.23 to 0.7. The effects of seven different types of web reinforcement on ...

Developing and validating an instrument for measuring user-perceived web quality -
AM Aladwani, PC Palvia - Information & Management, 2002 - Elsevier
... between the variables comprising the four dimensions perceived web quality was between ...
was that between technical adequacy and appearance (Pearson?s r=0.23). ...

The Evolution of Price Dispersion in Internet Retail Markets -
X PAN, BT RATCHFORD, V SHANKAR - papers.ssrn.com
... Product Information 0.35 0.72 -0.31 Web Site Navigation 0.15 0.87 0.23 On-Time
Delivery 0.93 0.12 0.10 Product Representation 0.89 0.30 0.08 ...

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? ...

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
... evant to the application of stable isotopes to quantitative food web studies: Do ...
relatively consistent across lakes, with an average of 3.49%,o 0.23 (A815N + 1 ...

Untangling the Web: Using Price-Response Measures in Enrollment Projections -
EPS John - The Journal of Higher Education, 1993 - JSTOR
... In this article I attempt to untangle the web of controversy surrounding the use ...
Persistence Price Response [48] First-to-second year NA NS 0.41 0.23 NS Second ...

A comparison of sources of links for academic Web Impact Factor calculations -
M Thelwall - Journal of Documentation, 2002 - emeraldinsight.com
... gov 0.39* 0.15 .int 0.23 0.11 ... Academic full time equivalent staff numbers are confirmed
as a better choice for WIF denominator than Web site page counts. ...

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Nutrition Is An Essential Part Of Basic Patient Care, Says BMA Scotland

Article Date: 02 Dec 2006 - 5:00am (PST)
The BMA in Scotland has welcomed the publication of an Audit Scotland report into catering for patients in hospital which found that progress had been made on recommendations made in an initial review in 2003.

The report however identified a need for routine screening for under-nutrition of patients on admission to hospital and for all NHS Boards to have systems for ensuring the nutritional balance of patient meals.

The BMA's lead on nutritional issues, Dr Sumantra Ray, said:

"Since 2003 it has been mandatory, under NHS quality standards, for patients to be screened for risk of under-nutrition on admission to hospital, but the Audit Scotland report has clearly identified that there are still barriers to the implementation of these standards in our hospitals.

"Ensuring patients receive adequate nutrition is an essential part of basic patient care as well as a basic human right as highlighted by the Council of Europe. Despite this, hospital malnutrition remains a major problem in the NHS and this must be addressed as a matter of urgency. It is estimated that UK-wide, malnutrition costs the NHS £7.3 billion a year.

"It is ironic that, at a time when the importance of eating well is high on the health agenda, that this is not mirrored in our hospitals."

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Dr Ray, who is both a fully trained Registered Nutritionist and Registered Medical Doctor working as a Clinical Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Dundee, added:

"Based on extrapolated data, at least 40% of patients admitted to hospitals in this country are undernourished, 10% higher than the EU average. Under-nutrition can contribute to prolonged ill health, clinical complications, delayed recovery and therefore longer hospital stays.

"There is an urgent need for multi-professional nutrition education to improve hospital food in general and to manage the burden of hospital malnutrition. The BMA is currently leading a tentative project (within the framework of the Council of Europe Alliance (UK) on Hospital Food and Nutritional Care) to assess the need for nutritional education in UK medical schools and to inform curriculum planners of the need for nutrition related skills required by all doctors.

"There is also a need to make special meals more widely available by hospital caterers to take account of specific dietary requirements, especially for vegetarians or the 6-7% of British people who are registered gluten sensitive."

In its recently published election manifesto, Priorities for Health¸ the BMA in Scotland called for mandatory standards for all meals provided by the public sector, including hospital meals.

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The Audit Scotland report Caring for Patients: a follow up report is available online at: http://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk

The BMA Scotland Manifesto Priorities for Health is available online at http://www.bma.org.uk/scottishelections

For further information please go to:
BMA Scotland
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BMA News, the membership magazine of the British Medical Association
 

Chemotherapy Can Be More Toxic To Brain Cells Than To Cancer Cells And May Cause Brain Damage

Drugs used to treat cancer may damage normal, healthy brain cells more than the cancer cells they are meant to target. A study published today in the open access journal Journal of Biology shows that clinical doses of chemotherapeutic drugs used to treat many common cancers cause long-term damage to the brains of mice by killing neural stem cells and oligodendrocytes, which produce the myelin insulation needed for normal neuronal function, and by impairing neural stem cell division. These results might explain the adverse neurological side effects - including reduction in cognitive abilities - observed in some cancer patients treated with chemotherapy. The approach used in the current study could also provide a rapid screening method to analyse new therapies and identify cell populations at risk during cancer treatment.

Joerg Dietrich and colleagues working in the group of Mark Noble, from the University of Rochester in the USA, exposed human neural stem cells, oligodendrocyte precursor cells and neuron-restricted precursor cells, in culture, to three chemotherapeutic agents: cisplatin, carmustine and cytarabine. Dietrich et al. also exposed different human cancer cell lines, such as uterine, breast or colon cancer cell lines to the same chemotherapeutic agents. Cisplatin is used to treat a wide range of cancers, including breast cancer, lung cancer and colon cancer and carmustine is used to treat brain tumours, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Both agents act by modifying the structure of DNA. Cytarabine, which interferes with cell metabolism, is used to treat leukaemia and lymphomas.

Dietrich et al.'s results show that clinical concentrations of cisplatin, carmustine and cytarabine are more toxic to human neural cells than to cancer cells. The drugs are toxic to both the dividing neural stem cells and the non-dividing cells such as astrocytes and neurons, even at very low concentrations. Results show that exposure to low micromolar concentrations of cisplatin, carmustine or cytarabine causes a 60-90% reduction in the viability of oligodendrocyte precursor cells and neuron precursor cells, but has little effect on most of the cancer cell lines examined. The authors show that to kill 40-80% of cancer cells, doses that also kill 70-100% of neural cells are required.

Using live mice treated with each of the drugs, Dietrich et al. show that cells of the nervous system of the mice continue to die for at least six weeks after the end of treatment. The drugs kill both dividing stem cells and non-dividing precursor cells of the nervous system in live mice. They also cause long-lasting reductions in cell division and proliferation in the central nervous system of the mice.

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Article:
CNS progenitor cells and oligodendrocytes are targets of chemotherapeutic agents in vitro and in vivo Joerg Dietrich, Ruolan Han, Yin Yang, Margot Mayer-Preschel and Mark Noble Journal of Biology 2006, 5:22 (30 November 2006)

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BioMed Central
 
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