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LONDON, December 20 /PRNewswire/ --
- Amazon Sites Grows 13% to Reach Highest Ever U.K. Audience
comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its report on the most visited and fastest growing Internet properties in the U.K. for November, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.
Top 10 Properties for November
Google was the most visited property in November, with 29 million unique visitors age 15 or older, and reaching 89 percent of the total U.K. Internet audience. Google was followed by Microsoft Sites, which…
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ROCKFORD, Michigan, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --
- Wolverine World Wide, Inc. Announces Voluntary Recall of Certain Styles of Children's Shoes
Wolverine has become aware of a risk of the black plastic tab at the end of the shoelaces on Caterpillar(R) brand children's Sheltered, Equate and Kudos models (pictured below) coming off the laces when pulled. Wolverine has not received reports of any incidents from any consumer, but is voluntarily recalling the styles listed above in EU children's sizes 23-29 (equivalent to US children's sizes 7-12) as a precaution because of the potential…
We've reached an important milestone on our CombiUgi project involving the synthesis of falcipain-2 inhibitors. In my last update I described how our focus was more on doing many reactions in parallel and only looking for Ugi products that precipitate in pure form within a few days.
It took little longer than I hoped. In order to do more reactions, we reduced our efforts towards monitoring. One of the assumptions that we made was to trust a bottle's label to accurately describe its contents. That turned out to be incorrect for one of our key aldehydes, as we eventually found out by…
LONDON, December 10 /PRNewswire/ --
- New research announced this week has found an association between certain genes and the severity of multiple sclerosis (MS).
The results of the study by Prof George Ebers, Chair of Clinical Neurology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, will be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and represent a step forward in the understanding of the role of genetics in MS.
The study involved comparing genes from people with severe MS who used wheelchairs within five years of being diagnosed and people who had no…
An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Scientists have discovered a huge belt of warm dust – enough to build a Mars-size planet or larger – swirling around a distant star that is just slightly more massive than our sun. The dust belt, which they suspect is clumping together into planets, is located in the middle of the system's terrestrial habitable zone. This is the region around a star where liquid water could exist on any rocky planets that might form. Earth is located in the…
The first significant genetic finding in premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) has now been reported. PMDD is a very severe form of the more commonly known premenstrual syndrome, or PMS.
PMDD is heritable, affects 5-8% of women, and is associated with severe emotional and physical problems, such as irritability, marked depressed mood, anger, headaches, weight gain and more, to such an extent that quality of life is seriously impacted.
Previously, researchers have shown that women with PMDD have an abnormal response to normal hormone levels and, thus, are differentially sensitive to their…
A team of researchers has determined through analysis of the earliest known hominid fossils outside of Africa, recently discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia, that the first human ancestors to inhabit Eurasia were more primitive than previously thought.
The fossils, dated to 1.8 million years old, show some modern aspects of lower limb morphology, such as long legs and an arched foot, but retain some primitive aspects of morphology in the shoulder and foot. The species had a small stature and brain size more similar to earlier species found in Africa.
"Thus, the earliest known hominins to have lived…
Prions – an abbreviation for proteinaceous infectious particles – work as a trigger to a set of diseases of the brain and nervous system, the so-called spongiform encephalopathies. These include BSE in cattle, scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt Jakob’s Disease in humans. Prions are structural variants of a normal protein found in healthy tissues – especially in the brain.
The devastating effect of infectious prions is that, once they have entered the organism, they can modify the normal "healthy" prion proteins to create more infectious prions, and thus cause the illness to progress. However,…
The rise in year-round consumption of fresh leafy greens such as lettuce and baby spinach is increasing the difficulty of keeping produce free from contamination by food poisoning bacteria.
“The only land suitable for supplying this abundance of year-round, high quality, fresh leafy vegetables, which are eaten raw by large populations in Europe and the United States, is in special geographic regions, with ideal soil and climate conditions”, says Robert Mandrell from the US Department of Agriculture’s Research Service in Albany, California.
This move to the year-round supply of leafy…
Fibromyalgia has emerged as a common yet difficult to treat disorder. A group of investigators of the University of Basel has proposed a new modality of treatment; mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR).
Studies suggest improvements in general aspects of well-being, including quality of life (QoL), coping and positive affect, as well as decreased anxiety and depression. A quasi-experimental study examined effects of an 8-week MBSR intervention among 58 female patients with fibromyalgia (mean, 52 ± 8 years) who underwent MBSR or an active social support procedure.
Participants were…