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6,175 articles mezi dny 1.8.2010 a 31.8.2010

• TUESDAY 31. AUGUST, 2010
• 22:23 Preventive cancer surgeries save women's lives

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  A new study underscores the importance for women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer to get genetic counseling and testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that make them more likely to develop lethal breast or ovarian cancer, says a Northwestern Medicine oncologist.  

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• 22:23 Prophylactic surgeries associated with lower risk of cancer for women with BRCA1/2 gene mutations

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  Women at increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer because of inherited mutations of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes who had prophylactic mastectomy or salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of the fallopian tubes and ovaries) had an associated decreased risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer, according to a study in the September 1 issue of JAMA.  

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• 22:23 Species cooperate out of self-interest rather than to be mutually beneficial, study says

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- Applying employment contract theory to symbiosis, a new paper suggests that the mutually beneficial relationships that species create are maintained because of simple self-interest, with partners benefiting from healthy hosts, much as employees benefit from robust employers.  

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• 22:23 Staples to sell Amazon's Kindle

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  Staples will begin selling Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader this year, making the US office supply chain the second brick-and-mortar store to offer the device.  

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• 22:23 Stem cell ruling puts researcher's project in limbo

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- Promising work by Joanna Wysocka, PhD, has been thrown into an uncertain limbo by a recent injunction suspending federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.  

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• 22:23 Students create web site to track historic twitter trends

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- RT @UCRiverside: #Computerscience and #art student create tool to track Twitter's top trending topics over time.  

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• 22:23 Study discovers why females fare better than males after traumatic injury

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  A study published in the September 2010 issue of SHOCK by Dr. Ed W. Childs and colleagues at Scott & White Healthcare looks at how female versus male rats fared after suffering a trauma and subsequent hemorrhagic shock who were given Estradiol (estrogen). In the study, the Estradiol prevented vascular permeability following hemorrhagic shock.  

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• 22:23 Thinnest eggs belonged to largest Moas

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- In a detailed online study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on August 30th, scientists investigate questions surrounding New Zealand's moa eggs and the results are mystifying.  

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• 22:23 University of Colorado students, staff help NASA decommission satellite

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  University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates, who have been helping to control five NASA satellites from campus, participated in the unusual decommissioning of a functioning satellite with a failed science payload in recent days, bringing the craft into Earth re-entry to burn up yesterday.  

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• 22:12 The End of Cell Phone Chargers Is Near (LiveScience.com)

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  LiveScience.com - When your cell phone is running out of juice, you usually have two options: pray your charger is handy, or pray that someone with your exact phone model has his or her charger on hand.  

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• 22:11 Japan's Government Aims High in Budget Plan

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  TOKYO—Funding to complete a controversial supercomputer, plan a second Hayabusa asteroid sample retrieval mission,...  

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• 22:02 Can NASA Help Trapped Chilean Miners?

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  As NASA helps with the rescue effort, the psychological strain the Chilean miners are under may have more parallels with combat soldiers than astronauts.  

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• 21:58 Reid hopeful for GOP energy votes after elections (Reuters)

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  Reuters - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he hoped to pick up Republican votes for a pared-down energy bill after the midterm congressional elections.  

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• 21:50 Classic NASA Photos Rocket onto Flickr (LiveScience.com)

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  LiveScience.com - NASA has posted almost 200 pictures to the photo-sharing site Flickr in what is the first of many batches of photos the space agency plans to share for public feedback.  

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• 21:45 Brock University staff get Wi-Fi warning

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  Staff at Brock University in St. Catharines are being warned to be wary of Wi-Fi by a former member of the school's joint health and safety committee.  

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• 21:45 How Australia's 'Smart State' Lured Irish Science Guru

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  Last month, one of Australia’s leading biomedical centers, the Queensland Institute of Medical Research...  

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• 21:44 Aging vets' costs concern Obama's deficit co-chair (AP)

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  AP - The Republican co-chairman of President Barack Obama's deficit commission says he's worried about the enormous costs of compensating Vietnam veterans for common ailments of age.

  
   

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• 21:41 Obama administration appeals stem cell injunction (Reuters)

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  Reuters - The Obama administration on Tuesday appealed a ruling that blocked federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, asking the judge who issued the injunction to put it on hold pending the appeal.  

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• 21:38 Feds appeal order blocking stem cell research (AP)

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  AP - The Obama administration has appealed a federal judge's order that undercuts federally funded embryonic stem cell research.  

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• 21:29 webOS 2.0 Will Switch Between Apps Using Cards

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  Details about Palm webOS 2.0 are beginning to emerge. On Tuesday, a software development kit and application programming interfaces were released to developers with some of the new features. The final 2.0 is expected to be released later in 2010.

  In one new feature, a multitasking card metaphor will become what Palm is calling "the next generation of multitasking." Fanned-out cards represent different applications that a user is working on simultaneously, and can be switched from one app to another by moving from card to card.

  Cards are grouped according to their association. The new webOS will automatically stack cards based on open activities, and a user can move cards from one stack to another.

  'Just Type'

  A new universal search will be called Just Type. Searches can be conducted by typing in the search field, as well as tapping on a search icon. In addition, third-party developers can add Just Type searching into their applications.

  Quick Actions can be conducted from the Just Type field. This means that, for instance, a Twitter tweet can be sent from the same search field by typing in Tweet This with the message. E-mails, alarms, to-dos, and text messages can similarly be sent from that field.

  Applications will be able to have a dock mode for when the webOS device is in a charger and in "glanceable" mode. Clocks, stock-market watchers, weather reports, and other information widgets will continue to be displayed. Apparently, though, only one such application can be in Exhibition view at a time.

  Version 2.0 also opens up webOS' Synergy, which integrated e-mail, social-networking sites, and other activities. Developers will have access to Synergy integration, such as integrating a lesser-known social-networking service, a carrier-based feature, or non-Exchange intranets.

  HTML5, Mojo Core, JavaScript

  There will also be more support for HTML5 technologies, which Apple in particular has been...

   

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• 21:27 New Warnings About Costs of Nuclear Power

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  Politicians in Britain and Bulgaria are seeking ways to make nuclear energy affordable.
  
   

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• 21:13 Clue to ancient Antarctic seaway

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  Scientists have found evidence for an ancient sea passage linking currently isolated areas of Antarctica.  

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• 21:05 Canadian Rockies Yields Fossil Trove

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  One of paleontology's most revered fossil sites now has a baby brother.  

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• 21:00 2 killed when copter crashes in Idaho downtown (AP)

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  AP - Two people were killed and another was injured when a helicopter chartered by the Department of Fish and Game crashed Tuesday in downtown Kamiah, authorities said.  

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• 20:54 Google Buys SocialDeck as Gaming Spree Continues

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  Before the rumors even had a chance to die down in the wake of Google's last acquisition, the search giant snapped up yet another company in the social-gaming space. The acquisition of SocialDeck marks Google's fifth buy in August.

  "We're super excited to announce that someone found our social games as much fun as you have -- in this case, that 'someone' is Google," SocialDeck wrote on its web site. "We started this company with the goal of connecting friends through social games on all kinds of exciting new mobile devices."

  Google's Gaming Moves

  Founded in 2008, SocialDeck's vision is to enable "anywhere, anytime, anyone" gaming. The company has rolled out several social-gaming titles for the iPhone, Facebook and BlackBerry using its gaming platform. Popular titles include Shake & Spell 3D, Color Connect, and Pet Hero Puzzle. The apps are free.

  SocialDeck's technology makes possible simultaneous game play across multiple mobile devices and social networks. The technology also facilitates viral content discovery, distribution and monetization. SocialDeck raised its first financing round from the BlackBerry Partners Fund in March 2009. The company was founded by Anish Acharya and Jeson Patel. SocialDeck reached the million-mobile-download milestone in February.

  Google purchased Angstro earlier this week. Angstro works to compliment Google's news aggregator services by analyzing a wide breadth of information from multiple data sources to deliver fewer, but more accurate, results. Then there was the Slide acquisition for $182 million. Slide develops apps on social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Its claims to social-gaming fame include SuperPoke!, Pets and Academy of Magic.

  Google's Social Hook

  Google also recently acquired Jambool, which peddles a virtual economy platform called Social Gold that developers can use to create currency systems and monetize them using in-game payments. Founded by Amazon.com veterans, Social Gold also offers analytics. Social Gold is found in popular Zynga...

   

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