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Orlando, FL (PRWEB) October 25, 2013
Social Networking just became logical and simple with the release of http://www.CategoryMe.com. CategoryMe is a social networking site built around finding people by categories or #hashtags. The site is built to put the control back in the hands of the users. Each user controls if and how they are found by listing categories or #hashtags that they wish to connect under.
The concept is simple and the site is simple. Internet users want social networking but are often confused and let down by other sites. CategoryMe provides the user with simple settings and privacy. Searching for people has never been easier as you simply type in a category and then filter the results by age, gender, and location.
CategoryMe can be used for a broad range of social networking including areas such as employers searching for a new employee with certain skills. (example: programmer, pilot, accountant, researcher, teacher, nurse,) It also works great for online dating, college connections, sports, and groups. Anyone can find a use for this type of a platform and the site provides privacy settings that any user can understand. The staff at CategoryMe.com is currently testing Iphone and Android phone apps and expect to release those within the next 30 days.
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Professor Ruth Bishop has been named the 2013 CSL Florey Medallist for her discovery of the rotavirus responsible for the deaths of half a million children each year.
By their third birthday, just about every child in the world has had a rotavirus infection. Every day about 1200 children die from it; half a million children every year. Thats changing. Were fighting back thanks to a discovery made in 1973 by a quiet Melbourne researcherthis years winner of the 2013 CSL Florey Medal.
That was when Ruth Bishop, Brian Ruck, Geoffrey Davidson and Ian Holmes at the Royal Childrens Hospital and the University of Melbournes microbiology department found a virus, now known as rotavirus. Until the middle of the last decade, it put about 10,000 Australian children in hospital each year with acute gastroenteritis. In the next decade, as a direct result of their research, millions of young lives will be saved.
The discovery initiated a lifes work for Ruthunderstanding the virus, working out how it spreads and fighting back with treatments and vaccines. As a result, vaccination against gastro has been part of the National Immunisation Program for all Australian infants since July 2007. And the number of hospital admissions has dropped by more than 70 per cent.
Globally, rotavirus infection still leads to more than 450,000 child deaths each year. But thats changing too. Fifty million children in the poorest countries will be vaccinated by 2015 by GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, and their partners, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Figures available from Bolivia, the first low-income country to take part in the program, show a drop of about three-quarters of all hospitalisations.
Yet Ruth Bishop, a quietly-spoken Australian microbiologist now in her eighties, wont be fully satisfied until a new vaccine she helped develop becomes available. Its intended for newborns, the only time children in many developing countries are likely to be near a hospital, she says. The vaccine is currently being trialled in Indonesia and New Zealand.
For her work in saving the lives of young children worldwide and inspiring a revolution in public health, Professor Ruth Bishop has won the 2013 CSL Florey Medal, a $50,000 biennial award made by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science. The medal honours Australian researchers who have made significant achievements in biomedical science and/or in advancing human health.
The main problem with gastroenteritis is dehydration. The infection destroys mature cells lining the small intestine that absorb nutrients, fluids and electrolytes. If they cant do their job, Ruth says, you get watery diarrhoea. Children can lose up to 10 per cent of their bodyweight in fluid, and then they are in real strife.
Ruth started on the hunt for the cause of gastro when she returned to work at Melbournes Royal Childrens Hospital (RCH) in 1965 after a post-doctoral fellowship in the UK. She looked initially for a bacterium, but couldnt find any candidate that could be linked to gastroenteritis. Then, in the early 70s, she got another chance. By this stage there were hints emerging in the scientific journals that a virus may be involved.
Researchers from the RCH Department of Gastroenterology had started to study another nasty aspect of gastroenteritislong-term malnourishment and sugar intolerance. They had developed a biopsy technique for the small intestine, and were using it to examine whether it was possible to predict sugar intolerance and thus move early to treat it. Ruth realised she could put the samples they took to further use by examining them under an electron microscope.
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Aeva Palecek - Developing Artist-Centric Tools and Infrastructure for 3D Printing
Summary This talk is a discussion on research and experiments made so far in the process of developing a voxel based 3D model slicing engine for 3D printing....
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Apple, a premium technology company whose products and services generally command a premium price, announced the latest upgrade of its flagship desktop/laptop operating system last week at a price that had the tech world scratching its head.
OS X Mavericks would be free, Apple announced; free to download, free to install, free to use.
Common wisdom had held, and consumers had come to accept, that Apple products were more expensive that anything from their competitors. Mac Pro computers cost more that Windows PC; a MacBook came at a higher price than other laptops; an iPhone would set you back more than any comparable Android handset.
Whether it was actual or perceived superiority, or simply the cachet of buying a product from a company seen as a leader in design and innovation, consumers seemed willing to pony up, and Apple's coffers swelled accordingly.
So why not charge for OS X Mavericks and make even more money?
Because Apple is, at its heart, a hardware company, and if the computer industry has learned one lesson over the years, it's that software sells hardware.
An operating system has one use; to run a computer. Apple wants to sell computers, and will happily give up a few dollars on Mavericks if it can convince an Apple user to upgrade to the latest, fastest and shiniest Mac computer -- or even entice a Windows PC user into switching.
This likelihood of a free Apple OS has been coming for a while; Apple offered the previous version of Mac OS X Mountain Lion for just $19, pretty close to free as software prices go.
In comparison, the base version of Microsoft's current operating system, Windows 8.1, sells for $120, and the supercharged Windows Pro 8.1 version will set a consumer back $200.
Microsoft sees that as proper because, until recently, it has been at its core a software company; it's where it has made its money.
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