Want bigger plants? Get to the root of the matterPublic release date: 30-Jun-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Catie Lichten leitac@gmail.com 44-777-279-5646 Society for Experimental Biology
Plant scientists have imaged and analyzed, for the first time, how a potted plant's roots are arranged in the soil as the plant develops. In this study, to be presented at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting on 30th June, the team has also found that doubling plant pot size makes plants grow over 40% larger.
From their 3-D MRI root scans, the researchers observed that potted plants quickly extend their roots to the pot's walls. It is likely that the plants use their roots to 'sense' the size of the pot, although the details of how the roots relay the message about the pot's size remain the plants' secret.
They also looked at 65 independent studies across a wide range of species including tomato, corn, pine tree, cactus, wheat, and cotton plants, and found that all species reach larger sizes when grown in a bigger pot. On average, doubling pot size allowed plants to grow 43% larger.
Dr Hendrik Poorter (Forschungszentrum Jlich, Germany) who led the study, said: "There has been commercial interest in seeing how small pots can be, but our aim was to see how big a pot needs to be to avoid affecting plant experiments."
The work is relevant for gardeners too. Poorter added, "After this study, I immediately changed the pot size for all the plants I had in my house."
To understand the pot size effect, the scientists looked at various aspects of the plants' growth. They found that the plants in smaller pots grew more slowly because of a decreased rate of photosynthesis. But, looking for causes for the decrease, the scientists ruled out limitations in water and nutrients and did not find any differences in the thickness of the leaves for plants in smaller pots. It is therefore unlikely that the plants use water and nutrient levels to sense the pot size, supporting the possibility that sensing happens another way, such as by the roots.
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Want bigger plants? Get to the root of the matterPublic release date: 30-Jun-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Catie Lichten leitac@gmail.com 44-777-279-5646 Society for Experimental Biology
Plant scientists have imaged and analyzed, for the first time, how a potted plant's roots are arranged in the soil as the plant develops. In this study, to be presented at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting on 30th June, the team has also found that doubling plant pot size makes plants grow over 40% larger.
From their 3-D MRI root scans, the researchers observed that potted plants quickly extend their roots to the pot's walls. It is likely that the plants use their roots to 'sense' the size of the pot, although the details of how the roots relay the message about the pot's size remain the plants' secret.
They also looked at 65 independent studies across a wide range of species including tomato, corn, pine tree, cactus, wheat, and cotton plants, and found that all species reach larger sizes when grown in a bigger pot. On average, doubling pot size allowed plants to grow 43% larger.
Dr Hendrik Poorter (Forschungszentrum Jlich, Germany) who led the study, said: "There has been commercial interest in seeing how small pots can be, but our aim was to see how big a pot needs to be to avoid affecting plant experiments."
The work is relevant for gardeners too. Poorter added, "After this study, I immediately changed the pot size for all the plants I had in my house."
To understand the pot size effect, the scientists looked at various aspects of the plants' growth. They found that the plants in smaller pots grew more slowly because of a decreased rate of photosynthesis. But, looking for causes for the decrease, the scientists ruled out limitations in water and nutrients and did not find any differences in the thickness of the leaves for plants in smaller pots. It is therefore unlikely that the plants use water and nutrient levels to sense the pot size, supporting the possibility that sensing happens another way, such as by the roots.
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Retailers were quick to react to the Supreme Court's upholding of Obamacare, saying they were "dismayed" at the plan and that government regulations would eat away their profits and limit the number of people they could employ.
But Bryan Gildenberg at Kantar Research says that there are some ways retailers can actually profit from the plan. Here are his points:?
Young people will have more access to healthcare. This means that they'll be more likely to seek out early care for disorders like high blood pressure. Retailers can tailor their marketing for a younger audience.
With all the new participants under Obamacare, the demand will increase much faster than the system can. So in-store clinics (like at Walmart) will likely be crowded with affluent customers trying to get in where they can.
More people will be able to afford medications and preventative care. If retailers educate their consumers, they can get them to spend a little now rather than let a condition get worse and end up in the hospital.
But even if retailers utilize these opportunities, it's hard to imagine they would begin to offset all the costs of meeting the new regulations.
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Virus:Win32/Sirefef.R Windows reboots
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Posted Today, 01:56 PM
Hi guys.
I'm trying to fix my dads computer, which reboots with a message that windows has found an error. I attached the harddrive to another computer and did a scan with MSE, and it found the virus in services.exe I tried to follow the prep. guide, but there is not time to do anything before it reboots.
I ran frst and here is the logfile:
Scan result of Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST written by Farbar) Version: 20-06-2012 01 Ran by SYSTEM at 28-06-2012 20:50:51 Running from F:\ Windows Vista ? Home Premium (X86) OS Language: English(US) The current controlset is ControlSet001
C:\Windows\System32\winlogon.exe => MD5 is legit C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe => MD5 is legit C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe => MD5 is legit C:\Windows\System32\services.exe 8737764F4FD36D6808EE80578409C843 ZeroAccess <==== ATTENTION!. C:\Windows\System32\User32.dll => MD5 is legit C:\Windows\System32\userinit.exe => MD5 is legit C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\volsnap.sys => MD5 is legit
==================== EXE ASSOCIATION =====================
HKLM\...\.exe: exefile => OK HKLM\...\exefile\DefaultIcon: %1 => OK HKLM\...\exefile\open\command: "%1" %* => OK
========================= Memory info ======================
Percentage of memory in use: 13% Total physical RAM: 2045.5 MB Available physical RAM: 1762.11 MB Total Pagefile: 1977.4 MB Available Pagefile: 1837.45 MB Total Virtual: 2047.88 MB Available Virtual: 1990.35 MB
======================= End Of Log ==========================
I hope for your help.
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Hello pokkers,
1. Open notepad. Please copy the contents of the code box below. To do this highlight the contents of the box and right click on it. Paste this into the open notepad. Save it on the flashdrive as fixlist.txt
NOTICE: This script was written specifically for this user, for use on that particular machine. Running this on another machine may cause damage to your operating system
On Vista or Windows 7: Now please enter System Recovery Options. On Windows XP: Now please boot into the BartPE CD. Run FRST64 and press the Fix button just once and wait. The tool will make a log on the flashdrive (Fixlog.txt) please post it to your reply.
2. We need to find a clean file to replace the patched services.exe.... Do the following:
Boot to System Recovery Options and run FRST as you did to get the log.
Type the following in the box after "Search:".
services.exe;explorer.exe
Click Search button and post the log (Search.txt) it makes to your reply.
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A second product has a more prominent role, only there?s no logo or corporate sponsor credited for the cell phone used by Northam?s villain. In the final chase scene, he makes a call simply by pressing his phone?s touchscreen. When The Net was made, there was only one cell phone with a touchscreen and sufficient smarts for one-touch dialing: the Simon Personal Communicator. By the time the movie hit theaters that summer, the phone was off the market after its brief, six-month run before consumers. At least Simon left a more lasting impression than the movie did.Early prototype designs. The yellow one (never produced) got all the attention in presentations
Simon was the first smartphone. Twenty years ago, it envisioned our app-happy mobile lives, squeezing the features of a cell phone, pager, fax machine, and computer into an 18-ounce black brick. The touchscreen (monochrome) had icons you tapped, or poked with a stylus, for e-mail, calculator, calendar, clock, and a game called Scramble in which you moved squares around the screen until you formed a picture. It featured predictive typing that would guess the next characters as you pecked. And it had apps, or at least a way to deliver more features?including a camera, maps, and music?by plugging a memory card into the phone. BellSouth wanted customers to think of the phone as being as easy to use as ?Simon Says ...?
It would take an additional 10 years before anyone called a cell phone ?smart,? and a further five before the iPhone shattered our view of what these digital devices could do for us. Simon retailed for $899 and sold approximately 50,000 units. If you were a heavy data user, you had about 60 minutes before you needed to recharge?as little as 30 minutes in areas with poor cell coverage. The Smithsonian Institution has one. Nearly two decades later, you can still find Simons for sale by collectors at the same retail price.
When a few IBM (IBM) engineers first showed a working prototype at the 1992 Comdex computer show in Las Vegas, the model was code-named ?Angler? and drew crowds of people eight-to-10 deep. BellSouth Cellular teamed with IBM to turn it into a commercial product with a Milton-Bradley-meets-Gene-Rodenberry name. The two companies hold 11 Simon-related patents?including how to highlight text on a touchscreen to do things like place a call, update apps in the field, and remotely set up and activate a cell phone?among other unique functions that are now standard on smartphones.
The story of Simon is the timeless lesson of tech innovation: Groundbreaking products require a rich ecosystem before the ?big idea? can become truly useful or widespread. In this case, what was needed included fast networks, Web browsers, and a whole lot of apps waiting to be pulled off the Internet. In the early 1990s, none of these were available. Phone networks were designed mostly for voice, not sending data. When Simon was conceived, a Web browser had yet to be released. IBM was hemorrhaging money and people, losing $16 billion and over 100,000 jobs in the years from 1991 to 1993. In the end, technical limitations, product delays, a world-class corporate meltdown, revolving-door management, and bad business decisions conspired against Simon. Plastic mockups of memory cards show how additional features (today's apps) could make Simon versatile
IBM and BellSouth chose to drop the phone and abandon a next-generation version of Simon that would have been closer in size to an iPhone. Motorola (MOT), a supplier of the cellular smarts for the prototype, passed when it came time to build the product, concerned that it would be helping IBM become a future competitor. Mitsubishi (6503:JP) replaced Motorola and built the commercial product.
Simon?s short lifespan also illustrates how truly original tech products feed so many other creative efforts, if not those of its creators?at least directly. ?The innovations of the Simon are reflected in virtually all modern touchscreen phones,? writes Bill Buxton in an e-mail. Buxton, a computer scientist at Microsoft (MSFT) Research, has been collecting groundbreaking tech gadgets for 30 years. He has two Simons, including one in its original box.
It?s somehow fitting that Simon is nowhere in the credits of The Net. IBM has no record of Simon in its archives. The company passes inquiries on to BellSouth, which merged with AT&T (T) in an $86 billion deal in 2006. The original engineers that worked on Simon still refer to themselves as ?Simoneers.? In over 20 conversations and e-mail exchanges I had with the BellSouth and IBM team members about the project, some memories had faded over time. But the team discussed its technical accomplishments with pride, despite Simon?s belly flop in the market.
Frank J. Canova Jr. is the IBM engineer who came up with the original concept for Simon. With 51 patents logged over the course of his career, he always had a few ideas banging around in his head. In the early ?90s, he was thinking chip-and-wireless technology was becoming small enough to put in the palm of your hand. He described his concept to colleagues, including his boss Jerry Merckel, who was on an industry task force working up specifications for a now defunct device (the PCMCIA card) that could plug into a laptop computer for extra memory?the grandfather of today?s thumb drives. Merckel realized the cards could be used to launch other apps or services for Canova?s phone. He just needed approval to build a prototype.
Paul C. Mugge indirectly put all this in motion after he became director of the Florida Research Lab in late 1988?long after the glory days of the IBM Personal Computer Co.?with a mandate to re-energize development. Mugge put together a small team of engineers including Canova and Merckel to explore ways to use ever-smaller, more powerful electronics to build new products.
One day in Mugge?s office, he listened to Merckel?s pitch. ?This is the phone of the future,? Merckel said, reaching into a sleek black aluminum box to pull out plastic cards, all in different colors. (Those cards didn?t function and were purely for show; they had been created by Hunter T. Foy, who headed a small group of industrial designers attached to the lab.) Merckel explained to Mugge that you plug the card into the phone to get directions or music. One card, labeled ?ZZ Top?s Greatest Hits? (with a picture of the group), was Merckel?s personal favorite. On reading the label, Mugge asked: ?Who?s ZZ Top?? He approved the project anyway.
The applications on those cards became the core of IBM?s first services, code-named InTouch. ?We knew services would make or break Simon,? says Mugge, now executive director of the Center for Innovation Management Studies at North Carolina State University. ?As you see with Apple, without apps [the iPhone] is just a device. It all came to pass?unfortunately 15 years later,? he says.
To give the concept form, IBM turned to Frog Design, a rare move because the computer giant never went outside for design work. When Foy projected it would cost $80,000 to create the prototype, he says, Merckel and Mugge ?threw up on it.? When Frog didn?t come up with anything radically different from Foy?s early sketches, he was soon back on the project. IBM paid Frog $49,760 for its sketches, according to an unsigned copy of the agreement.
There wasn?t much leeway for Frog to come up with a different look. The phone could be only so small. The memory cards dictated a certain width. The touchscreen had a set thickness. And you needed a battery with enough juice to power the device. The finished prototype is the Shaq of phones, standing 8 inches high, 2.5 inches wide, and 1.5 in. thick. Pull out your smartphone and you?ll see the difference.
Everything about the phone required something unique, from the motherboard housing an Intel (INTC) chip to the operating system and on to the way all its features interrelated. At first there was no rush to produce the prototype, but IBM decided 14 weeks before Comdex that it wanted to display the device at the trade show. The race was on. Canova and other engineers worked 80-hour weeks, including weekends, right up to the last day.
The prototype at Comdex displayed a map of the Las Vegas strip, plus stock quotes. There was no website for Canova to download that information, so he scanned the maps into the prototype?s memory from printed sources and punched in sample ticker data. ?It was hard for people to believe back then you would carry maps or stock quotes in your phone,? he says. ?As we know now, it was just the tip of the iceberg.?
When the team finished the prototype?it wasn?t clear they?d make the deadline until two weeks before the show?IBM sent a manager to Florida to make sure ?Angler? worked as advertised. (A substitute was ready if it didn?t.) It worked too well: The company made the team encase each of the three prototypes for Comdex in bulky, see-through plastic housing to make clear that these were not finished products. ?IBM was afraid people would want to buy it,? says Canova.
In truth, IBM wasn?t sure it wanted to be in the phone business. Alan Testani recalls showing Jack Keuhler, then IBM?s top technologist, a prototype. Keuhler, an internal critic of IBM?s already troubled communications effort, called it ?a World War II walkie talkie.? It wasn?t a compliment.Early prototype designs. The yellow one, which was never produced, got all the attention in presentations
The effort moved forward, anyway. Deep within IBM?s DNA was the eternal belief that the multiplication of electronic gadgets?cell phones or PCs?would fuel demand for big, powerful mainframe computers. Jim Cannavino, then a senior vice president responsible for IBM?s Personal Systems division, recalls telling the board: ?Whether you want to build them or not (cell phones), you really want them to happen. That was the air cover to get Simon out the door.?
Canova has a video taken by one of the Simoneers as they?re setting up in Las Vegas before Comdex opens. The narrator approaches the mustachioed engineer as he?s intently working on the prototype. Then in his early 30s, Canova is wearing a white, short-sleeved shirt. He seems genuinely surprised as he reports that everything is working smoothly. There?s a hint of pride when he says colleagues like the device.
Later, Canova walked out into the cool Las Vegas night to call Gary Wisgo, the project?s engineering manager. Wisgo had booked too late to get a hotel room anywhere near the convention center. ?Here I was, talking to someone with access to my calendar, e-mail, and much more, with only a phone in my hand. For the first time, no computer was needed,? recalls Canova. ?That simple moment is when I realized the world was about to change.?
When the show opened the next day, Canova and the other engineers demonstrating the product were swamped. The prototype was a hit. Wisgo remembers awakening to a ringing phone at 6 a.m. An excited engineer was calling to tell him the project had made the front page of USA Today?s Money section, with a photo of Canova holding the prototype. The positive reaction convinced IBM?s senor management to build a real product. It helped that BellSouth wanted in on the action. IBM pumped money into the effort and the team grew from five engineers to 32. This was one of the rare parts of IBM that was hiring.
The timing was perfect for Jim Thorpe, senior vice president of marketing for BellSouth Cellular, whose boss wanted to know what they could do to differentiate the company. Thorpe had set up a research and development lab, run by Dan Norman, to devise innovative products. It was BellSouth that came up with the name Simon, following an internal debate over whether the phone should have a science fiction-sounding name (Merlin and Wizard were suggestions.) Others wanted something easy to remember that would evoke simplicity. One of the marketing managers had seen his kids play with the popular electronic memory game, Simon, which asked you to repeat a series of tones that got progressively more difficult in order to win. He suggested Simon, as in ?Simon says simplicity.? An ad campaign was born.
The Simon Personal Communicator had its coming-out party on Nov. 2, 1993, at a telecommunications trade show at Disney World (DIS) in Orlando. Before an audience of 150 analysts and journalists, Norman and Rich Guidotti, a product development manager, did their interpretation of Alexander Graham Bell?s celebrated moment. On stage, Norman sent Guidotti a fax: ?Rich, Simon looks great. Dan.? Thorpe has the fax framed in his house, along with the stylus Norman used.
To promote Simon at trade shows and to distributors, BellSouth made a video. Norman says the company was concerned customers would think Simon was too complicated because it could do so much. (This was right after Apple?s Newton bombed.) They hired an actress to have a little fun with Simon, playing a character named Christy. She is shown in situations you might not think to use Simon, but could: Send a fax while on a picnic, or check e-mail at the opera. As the video progresses, Christy starts making outrageous claims such as, ?It?ll wash your car,? and ?You can talk to aliens.? Norman appears in the video as the voice of reason, denying you can do those things. The video even veers into late-night infomercial territory: ?What would you expect to pay for a machine that does all this, $5,000, $10,000, or more? How about under $1,000??
The video drummed up interest, but Simon wasn?t ready for its scheduled release in May 1994. Customers couldn?t get one until Aug. 16. IBM was still wrestling with the device?s short battery life. Its engineers reworked some software, but? the ultimate solution was to provide a second battery, as a lot of video cameras did at the time. That was just one issue. Consumers were then enthralled by the popular, less expensive, $500 flip cell phones. They were small and cool. (And they looked much more like those communicators on Star Trek.)
Norman, who has one of the original Simon prototypes from Comdex, conceived what would have been a first for the cellular industry?activating a cell phone ?wirelessly over the air.? (AT&T now holds the patent.) At the time, cell phones had to be programmed at the store. It was a laborious, manual process that could take two hours. Norman planned to include with every Simon the software that would let BellSouth handle everything. Simon was off the market before the feature was ready. ?That was actually a bigger deal than anything else that Simon was capable of doing,? he says.
There was a second generation of Simon, code named Neon?thinner and shorter?that also didn?t make it out. The design, sans fax, was to be closer in shape to the eventual iPhone. IBM even made a logo for Neon with the name running both vertically and horizontally around the letter O; it would say Neon, no matter how it was held. ?We actually rotated the screen like the iPhone,? says Canova.
By now, IBM was closing plants and offices around the world. The company moved PC operations out of Florida, sending the Simon design work to Raleigh, N.C. Many Simon engineers didn?t want to move north, so they left. Canova eventually departed after trying to work with the team in Raleigh.
Merckel, now a professor of engineering at the University of North Florida, had more features in the works, too, including a card that would turn the phone into a radio. He also tried to convince Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to supply the chip for future products. Those efforts went nowhere. ?I threw it in the trash,? he says of the working prototype for the radio. ?IBM was disappearing.?
By early 1995, Simon was off the market. IBM decided not to pursue the business. BellSouth put money into improving its own communications network.
Today, BellSouth executives say Simon was worthwhile. Tech companies began to think about how they could use cellular technology in their products. BellSouth received recognition and attracted partners such as Microsoft, which had never before called on their company.
For Mugge, the lesson of Simon is a familiar tale for many pioneers: ?Don?t invent one of these things before they invent the Internet or fiber optics with tremendous bandwidth.?
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol' Federal Communications Commission's site. Since we couldn't possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we've gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy!
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iran has agreed with Britain to have other countries' embassies represent the two nations in each other's capitals, Iranian state media reported on Thursday.
British officials were unable to confirm the report.
Both countries shut down their diplomatic missions last year around Britain's prominent participation in efforts by the West to pressure Iran over its nuclear program. Iranian hard-liners stormed Britain's embassy in Tehran in November, and Iranian lawmakers voted to downgrade relations to the level of charge d'affaires from ambassador level.
Iran's Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, said in remarks carried by the state IRNA press agency Thursday that the two countries have agreed to have their interests represented by third parties: the Omani Embassy in London will handle Iran's interests, while the Swedish Embassy in Tehran will do the same for Britain.
In London, Britain's Foreign Ministry could not immediately confirm whether the nations had completed an agreement.
Britain's embassy in Tehran has been closed down many times since early 1950s. The two countries have had a history of bitter relations over the past decades on various issues, including the nationalization of Iran's oil industry in the 1950s, the 1979 Islamic revolution and the 1989 fatwa religious ruling issued by late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordering Muslims to kill British writer Salman Rushdie over his novel "The Satanic Verses."
The current point of contention is Iran's nuclear program. The West suspects Iran of trying to develop weapons technology. Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes.
Tehran regularly accuses Britain of meddling in Iran's internal affairs, a charge London denies.
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague met with Salehi on June 14 on the sidelines of an international conference in Kabul, their first talks since the U.K. downgraded ties with Tehran in response to the November storming of the British Embassy.
At the time, Hague said he expected an agreement to be confirmed to allow another European nation to offer consular help to Britons in Iran, as well as carrying out other administrative work on Britain's behalf.
Representatives of Sweden could not immediately be reached for comment.
Efforts to reach the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Muscat by phone and email were unsuccessful.
Oman keeps a relatively low diplomatic profile, but has been successful in balancing relations between the West and its neighbor Iran.
The sultanate and Iran share control of the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf that handles a fifth of the world's oil supply. Oman's ruler, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, was the first foreign leader to visit Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after the Islamic Republic's disputed 2009 election.
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Associated Press writer David Stringer in London contributed to this report
Posted: Thursday, June 28th, 2012 at 6:26 am Author: KCII News - Bill Gatchel
Pets can suffer stress when the temperatures get warm and there are easy steps that can be taken to avoid illnesses. ?Amber Talbot with Paws and More Animal Shelter says one of the most important things a dog owner can do is to leave the animal at home and not take it along on car rides.? She says if you have an outdoor dog, to provide plenty of water and shade and a place that provides a good breeze.
Some heat exhaustion symptoms in a pet are excessive thirst and heavy panting along with a lack of appetite and a rapid pulse rate.? Talbot says to take your pet to their veterinarian right away if you see these signs.? She recommends putting cold, wet towels on the animal to help them to cool down as well.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients appear to have a lower cancer risk, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health.
The study, published on-line in the journal Brain, is the first to investigate overall cancer risk in MS patients in North America.
?Because the immune system plays important roles in both cancer and MS, we wanted to know whether the risk of cancer is different for people with MS,? says Elaine Kingwell, the study?s lead author and a postdoctoral fellow in the UBC Faculty of Medicine and Brain Research Centre at UBC and VCH Research Institute. ?Not only did MS patients have a lower overall cancer risk, the risk for colorectal cancer in particular was significantly lower.?
The researchers compared the diagnoses of cancer in MS patients in British Columbia with those of the general population. While they found that MS patients have a lower risk in general for cancer ? and in particular for colorectal cancer ? they found that the risks for brain cancer and bladder cancer were slightly elevated (albeit not significantly). In patients with relapsing-onset MS, the risk for non-melanoma skin cancer was significantly greater.
Further studies will be needed to understand the reasons for this reduced overall cancer risk.
An unexpected finding was that for those who did develop cancer, tumor size tended to be larger at time of diagnosis. More work is needed to determine why some tumors might be caught later in people with MS.
?Because the symptoms of MS can be broad and include feelings of fatigue, it?s possible the symptoms of cancer are being masked or overlooked,? says Helen Tremlett, the study?s senior author and an associate professor in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. She adds that, regardless of the findings, MS patients and their physicians are encouraged to follow cancer screening guidelines. Her team is planning a follow up study to determine whether death rates due to cancer are altered in MS patients.
This study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
Source: University of British Columbia
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This coffee maker is easy to use; it has a one-of-a-kind open anti-slip handle so that pouring your coffee from pot to mug would be smooth and convenient.
This model has a filter release button that allows the filter basket to release itself for easy insertion of coffee filter and also for easy filling of ground coffee.
This model is ideal for use in Europe and Asia since the power cords are of European/Asian Style and the voltage is 220/240 50Hz. Its price of less than a hundred dollars make it a true bargain for its quality.
What?s good about Braun Kf560 Coffee Maker:
This coffeemaker is inexpensive
The Braun PureAqua really helps in improving coffee taste by reducing chlorine
Can make big batches of coffee quickly (up to 10 cups)
Easy and convenient to use
Very functional yet simple
Great tasting coffee in every pot
Like all classic Braun coffee makers, the Kf560 has a sleek design that looks elegant and attractive on any countertop
Coffee always comes out very hot
Has an adjustable shut-off warming plate that keeps its temperature up to four house after brewing
The gold filter helps to improve the taste whilst eliminating the need for paper filters
Other features of Braun Cafe House include:
Drip stop when removing the jug
Take-out filter basket
Large, visible pilot light
Pivoting filter basket with overflow protection
Easy cleaning
Dishwasher-safe carafe and lid
Water level indicator
Integrated cord storage
Kf560 Things to Consider:
If you want a strong pot of coffee, it would be best that you brew 10 cups of coffee to get desired flavor
Pause and serve function have been reported to have leaking issues
Serving is not made to be a pour and go; one needs to be careful in pouring the coffee or else it may spill
Doesn?t have a function/setting that allows you to adjust your coffee?s brewing strength
Summary:
Coffee Maker Kf560 has received some mixed reviews regarding function; but when it comes to the quality of the coffee, there is no question that this coffee maker gives you what you paid for. Of course, one must take into consideration that this has 220 voltage; do not buy it if you are in the Unites States or anywhere that has 110 volts; because obviously this would not work.
But voltage aside, coffee lovers swear by the taste of Braun brewed coffee. Aside from the quality of the coffee, the quality of the water that you use determines the actual taste. The Braun PureAqua filter makes regular tap water taste great and it reduces cost because you need not purchase paper filters or filtered water. Its functions are very simple, easy to use and easy to learn to use. It may lack certain settings such as coffee strength adjustment, but it is a very minor gripe.
Aside from the flavor, aroma and body of the coffee, it is also very important that coffee is brewed and served steaming hot, Braun coffee machine does just that. There are indeed some downsides as one can see from customer reviews, but still, with its price, the Braun Kf560 delivers optimum results and durability that will allow it to pay for itself many times over.
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