We just witnessed the arrival of Pandora on Windows Phone last week, and sometime this week users will be able to enjoy another large title: Temple Run. The flee-from-evil-monkeys thriller has long been available for iOS and Android, but its arrival adds another popular app to Microsoft's arsenal. We've confirmed that the 99-cent title is in fact the original version, with no official word on when or if the sequel will land in the Windows Phone Store. The game is just one of six that plan to debut in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference. The list of the other five includes 6th Planet, Propel Man, Orcs Must Survive, Fling Theory and Ruzzle, and most (if not all) will be available as early as today.
Anyone remember the last time I said "Wow! Look at how pretty this web app is!"? Because I don't. At least, not before this morning when I saw Forecast.
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The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society has asked an Ada County District Court judge to review an Ada County Board of Equalization decision that the nonprofit, which provides hospice care, senior health ...
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Mar. 15, 2013 ? Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their single classmates, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
"Romantic relationships are a hallmark of adolescence, but very few studies have examined how adolescents differ in the development of these relationships," said Pamela Orpinas, study author and professor in the College of Public Health and head of the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior.
Orpinas followed a group of 624 students over a seven-year period from sixth to 12th grade. Each year, the group completed a survey indicating whether they had dated and reported the frequency of different behaviors, including the use of drugs and alcohol. Their teachers completed questionnaires about the students' academic efforts. The Healthy Teens Longitudinal Study included schools from six school districts in northeast Georgia. Investigators used two indicators of students' school success: high school dropout rates and yearly teacher-rated study skills. The results of the study were recently published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence.
"In our study, we found four distinct trajectories," Orpinas said. "Some students never or hardly ever reported dating from middle to high school, and these students had consistently the best study skills according to their teachers. Other students dated infrequently in middle school but increased the frequency of dating in high school. We also saw a large number of students who reported dating since sixth grade."
Of the early daters, a large portion of the study group-38 percent-reported dating at almost all measurement points throughout the study. The second at-risk segment, identified as "high middle school dating," represented 22 percent of the sample. One hundred percent of these students dated in sixth grade.
"At all points in time, teachers rated the students who reported the lowest frequency of dating as having the best study skills and the students with the highest dating as having the worst study skills," according to the journal article.
Study skills refer to behaviors that lead to academic success such as doing work for extra credit, being well organized, finishing homework, working hard and reading assigned chapters.
"A likely explanation for the worse educational performance of early daters is that these adolescents start dating early as part of an overall pattern of high-risk behaviors," Orpinas said.
Children in these early dating groups were also twice as likely to use alcohol and drugs.
"Dating a classmate may have the same emotional complications of dating a co-worker," Orpinas said. "When the couple splits, they have to continue to see each other in class and perhaps witness the ex-partner dating someone else. It is reasonable to think this scenario could be linked to depression and divert attention from studying."
Authors indicated that more research is needed to identify characteristics that distinguish dating as a healthy developmental process from dating as part of a problem behavior syndrome.
Orpinas says this study suggests, "dating should not be considered a rite of passage in middle school."
Co-authors are Arthur M. Horne, Xiao Song, Patricia M. Reeves and Hsien-Lin Hsieh.
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NEW DELHI: The Government has reiterated that it has no proposal to control the number of television channels in the country, pointing out that the number of private television channels at present is 833.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari reminded Parliament that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had also opined against any cap on the number of channels to be uplinked or downlinked in the country.
However, the government is taking some steps to ease the problems relating to increasing demand on satellite bandwidth. These include leasing transponder capacity from foreign operators to meet the demand, and building and launching additional INSAT/GSAT satellites to augment the transponders capacity in the country.
Earlier this year, it had been revealed that 14 of the 58 space missions to be launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as a part of 12th Five Year Plan, 2012-17 are linked to communication.
GSAT 10, GSAT 15, GSAT 16, GSAT 17, and GSAT 18 will specifically be communication satellites to augment the INSAT system with C and Ku band Transponders.
GSAT 9 will be a communication satellite to augment the INSAT system with C band transponders.
GSAT 14 and GSAT 11S will be experimental communication satellites, while GSAT 6 and GSAT 6A will be multi-media mobile communication satellites for strategic applications.
The five launch vehicle missions are GSLV ? D5 (Development flight with indigenous cryogenic stage for launching GSAT 14 satellite); GSLV D6 (for launching of GSAT 6 into Geosynchronous transfer orbit); GSLV F09 (for launching of GSAT 9 communication satellite); GSLV ? F11 (for launching of GSAT-6A satellite); and GSLV Mk III D1 (first developmental flight of GSLV Mk III for launching GSAT-19E satellite).
GSAT 7 is a communication satellite for special users, and both GSAT 11 and GSAT Ka are advanced Ka band satellite for VSAT communications. GSAT 19E is a new generation experimental communication satellite.
You get a new iPhone, you add a bunch of push mail accounts, download apps that hit the GPS and light up notifications, you watch a ton of video and play as many games as you possibly can, you do it all over LTE while blaring your Bluetooth speaker, and you curse that the frakken battery doesn't last several days. Matthew Panzarino of The Next Web rightly claims battery life is the iPhone's -- is every phone's -- biggest flaw:
My time with the Mophie Juice Packs, and other battery packs like them, has led me to a simple conclusion. We don?t need the iPhone?s battery to be 10% better, or 20% better. We need it to be 100% better.
Battery life is the choke point of every piece of modern, mobile technology, and sadly there's little sign of radical, transformative improvement coming any time soon (just more "cheating" of the astonishing kind Panzarino describes in his piece). A 5-inch iPhone could potential pack more power, but a bigger screen to power could mitigate that as well. A watch-sized device running iOS could be a far greater battery challenge.
Maybe Apple will deliver a power revolution the way their focus and scale allowed them to deliver a Retina revolution. Absent that, maybe they could stop worrying about making the iPhone so goram thin, add a couple of millimeters back, and chock the extra space full of battery.
"Today we're delivering a phone that's every bit as thin as the iPhone 4... but achieves an astonishing 20 hours of battery life on Wi-Fi or LTE."
mophie built-in. I'm sure there's many people who'd make that trade-off in a heartbeat.
As a prominent musician once noted: all that hype doesn't feel the same next year, boy. And that's sadly proving true for our old friend Higgs Boson, who shot to fame last Summer but is now waking up to find only a handful of fans camped outside his collider. Part of the problem is simply that things have become procedural and academic -- CERN scientists met in Italy this week to share their latest findings, but the updates were mostly either inconclusive or suggestive of a rather mundane-seeming subatomic entity.
At the time of Higgs' discovery, observers were especially interested in the possibility that this mysterious particle didn't decay in exactly the way science had predicted. It seemed to break down into an excess of photons, such that it might potentially reveal something unexpected about dark matter and the structure of space-time. But as data continues to be gathered, it appears more likely that the extra photons may have been a statistical anomaly, leading one researcher to admit on Twitter that his ATLAS team is "not too excited" about it anymore. Nothing is confirmed at this point, however, and other scientists have since tweeted to caution against jumping to conclusions. At least we can say for sure that Higgs still exists. And if the poor thing can't hold the universe togetherand mess with the laws of physics at the same time, then so be it.
Virus and genes involved in causation of schizophreniaPublic release date: 8-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Anders Borglum anders@hum-gen.au.dk 45-60-20-27-20 Aarhus University
For the first time, an international team of researchers has found that a combination of a particular virus in the mother and a specific gene variant in the child increases the risk of the child developing schizophrenia
Viruses and genes interact in a way that may increase the risk of developing schizophrenia significantly. This happens already in the developing foetus.
An international team of scientists led by Aarhus University, Denmark, has made this discovery. As the first in the world, they scanned the entire genome of hundreds of sick and healthy people to see if there is an interaction between genes and a very common virus - cytomegalovirus - and to see whether the interaction influences the risk of developing schizophrenia.
And it does.
Women that have been infected by the virus - and around 70 % has - will have a statistically significant increased risk of giving birth to a child who later develops schizophrenia if the child also has the aforementioned gene variant. This variant is found in 15 percent.
The risk is five times higher than usual, the researchers report in Molecular Psychiatry.
No cause for alarm
People infected with cytomegalovirus most often do not know it, as the infection by the virus, which belongs to the herpes virus family, is usually very mild. But the researchers stress that there is no cause for alarm - even if both risk factors are present in mother and child, there may be a variety of other factors that prevents disease development in the child.
But as schizophrenia affects 1 per cent of the global population, this new knowledge is very important.
"In the longer term, the development of an effective vaccine against cytomegalovirus may help to prevent many cases of schizophrenia," says Professor of Medical Genetics at Aarhus University, Anders Brglum.
"And our discovery emphasizes that mental disorders such as schizophrenia may arise in the context of an interaction between genes and biological environmental factors very early in life."
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Read the article Genome-wide study of association and interaction with maternal cytomegalovirus infection suggests new schizophrenia loci
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The study, which includes genetic investigations of almost 10,000 people, comes from the work of a Danish interdisciplinary research project iPSYCH led by Aarhus University, and Research Centre iSEQ at Aarhus University. It was carried out in collaboration with Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen University, and researchers from the U.S., Germany and Holland.
For more information:
Professor, Centre Director Anders Brglum, Department of Biomedicine, Health, Aarhus University. Mobile: +45 6020 2720, e-mail: anders@hum-gen.au.dk
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Virus and genes involved in causation of schizophreniaPublic release date: 8-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Anders Borglum anders@hum-gen.au.dk 45-60-20-27-20 Aarhus University
For the first time, an international team of researchers has found that a combination of a particular virus in the mother and a specific gene variant in the child increases the risk of the child developing schizophrenia
Viruses and genes interact in a way that may increase the risk of developing schizophrenia significantly. This happens already in the developing foetus.
An international team of scientists led by Aarhus University, Denmark, has made this discovery. As the first in the world, they scanned the entire genome of hundreds of sick and healthy people to see if there is an interaction between genes and a very common virus - cytomegalovirus - and to see whether the interaction influences the risk of developing schizophrenia.
And it does.
Women that have been infected by the virus - and around 70 % has - will have a statistically significant increased risk of giving birth to a child who later develops schizophrenia if the child also has the aforementioned gene variant. This variant is found in 15 percent.
The risk is five times higher than usual, the researchers report in Molecular Psychiatry.
No cause for alarm
People infected with cytomegalovirus most often do not know it, as the infection by the virus, which belongs to the herpes virus family, is usually very mild. But the researchers stress that there is no cause for alarm - even if both risk factors are present in mother and child, there may be a variety of other factors that prevents disease development in the child.
But as schizophrenia affects 1 per cent of the global population, this new knowledge is very important.
"In the longer term, the development of an effective vaccine against cytomegalovirus may help to prevent many cases of schizophrenia," says Professor of Medical Genetics at Aarhus University, Anders Brglum.
"And our discovery emphasizes that mental disorders such as schizophrenia may arise in the context of an interaction between genes and biological environmental factors very early in life."
###
Read the article Genome-wide study of association and interaction with maternal cytomegalovirus infection suggests new schizophrenia loci
FACTS:
The study, which includes genetic investigations of almost 10,000 people, comes from the work of a Danish interdisciplinary research project iPSYCH led by Aarhus University, and Research Centre iSEQ at Aarhus University. It was carried out in collaboration with Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen University, and researchers from the U.S., Germany and Holland.
For more information:
Professor, Centre Director Anders Brglum, Department of Biomedicine, Health, Aarhus University. Mobile: +45 6020 2720, e-mail: anders@hum-gen.au.dk
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INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Having had her own fair share of knocks in recent months while struggling for form on the tennis court, Caroline Wozniacki sprang to the defense of her golfing boyfriend Rory McIlroy in his time of trouble on Wednesday. McIlroy, golf's world number one, told a news conference in Miami earlier in the day that he had been wrong to walk off mid-round at last week's Honda Classic and admitted his toothache was not bad enough to justify quitting the tournament. ...
A little more than two years after launch, Path, the self-proclaimed ?private social network? startup, is beginning to focus more on monetization.
Hence the hiring of Kim Jabal as the company?s first CFO, who will spearhead the large task of eventually turning Path into a profitable service.
Jabal comes to Path after a year-long stint as VP of finance at Lytro, the experimental camera startup, where she handled the company?s finance, accounting and tax-related activities. Previous to that, she spent more than eight years at Google in multiple finance-focused positions, including directorships in the online sales department, investor relations, and ultimately as director of engineering finance.
In an interview, Jabal echoed Path CEO Dave Morin?s recent comments on monetization prospects, focusing in the near term on potential monetization options like virtual goods, or a premium subscription service. Her hiring, too, could begin to dispel the notion that Path is looking for an exit through an acquisition by another major company like Yahoo or Google (the latter of which has courted Path before).
?Look, we?re trying to build a long-term, sustainable company,? Jabal told me. ?We?re not trying to sell the company. I wouldn?t have come if I thought they were going to get bought next month.?
She also made it clear that the company is still looking to heavily recruit software engineers.
Jabal started her first day at Path just last week.
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