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ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2012) ? Paternal recognition -- being able to identify males from your father's line -- is important for the avoidance of inbreeding, and one way that mammals can do this is through recognizing the calls of paternal kin. This was thought to occur only in large-brained animals with complex social groups, but a new study published November 30 in the open access journal BMC Ecology provides evidence in a tiny, solitary primate that challenges this theory.
The study, led by Sharon E Kessler, finds that the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) -- a small-brained, solitary foraging mammal endemic to Madagascar -- is able to recognize paternal relatives via vocalizations, thus providing evidence that this is not dependent upon having a large brain and a high social complexity, as previously suggested.
Because grey mouse lemurs are nocturnal solitary-foragers living in dense forests, vocal communication is important for regulating social interactions across distances where visibility is poor and communication via smell is limited. Though the mouse lemur shares sleeping sites with other mouse lemurs, it forages alone for fruit and insects. It is a particularly interesting species with which to study vocal paternal recognition because, in the wild, females remain in the same area of birth and cooperatively raise young with other female kin. Males do not co-nest with their mates or young and provide no paternal care, which limits opportunities for familiarity-based social interactions. Thus, vocalizations are likely to be important -- particularly for avoiding inbreeding.
The research team from Arizona State University and the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in Germany found that two of the most frequent calls of the mouse lemur were the mate advertisement call and the alarm call. Using multi-parametric analyses of the call's acoustic parameters, they could see that both call types contained individual signatures. Through this, they discovered that only male grey mouse lemur advertisement calls, but not alarm calls, contained acoustic paternal signatures. Furthermore, females paid more attention to advertisement calls from unrelated males than from their fathers.
The findings from the study suggest that the discrimination between mate advertisement calls and alarm calls may be an important mechanism for inbreeding avoidance. This is likely to be highly important in the grey mouse lemur species because males are likely to remain in an area for several years and they can expand their ranges to more than twice that of the female's range, making it likely that adult males' ranges will overlap with those of their daughters from previous mating seasons.
The team also proposed that the mouse lemur's ultrasonic calls above the hearing range of owls could be an anti-predator strategy, especially since the species suffers from high predation.
Lead author Kessler commented, "Given that more complex forms of sociality with cohesive foraging groups are thought to have evolved from an ancestral solitary forager much like the mouse lemur, this suggests that the mechanisms for kin recognition like those seen here may be the foundation from which more complex forms of kin-based sociality evolved."
She continued, "Future analyses will determine which acoustic parameters make this kin recognition possible by artificially manipulating acoustic parameters in the calls and then using the modified calls in playback experiments."
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UPDATE: CBS Sports? Jon Heyman reports that the Yankees and Rivera have agreed to terms on a one-year, $10 million contract. He?ll have the chance to earn more with incentives.
4:21 PM: We had a false report the other day, but now it appears it?s finally getting done:
Happy birthday to him. Rivera turns 43 today.
And speaking of age, that?s a lot of bread for a reliever of his vintage, especially coming off an injury. But please, in every way, shape and form, Rivera is a special case and it was never likely that the Yankees were going to pay him like a 43 year-old reliever coming off an injury. No more than Derek Jeter was going to get the kind of contract one normally gives a shortstop in his late 30s a couple of years ago.
Implantable silk optics multi-task in the bodyPublic release date: 28-Nov-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Alex Reid alexander.reid@tufts.edu 617-627-4173 Tufts University
Dissolvable micro-mirrors enhance imaging, administer heat, deliver and monitor drugs
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (November 28, 2012) Tufts University School of Engineering researchers have demonstrated silk-based implantable optics that offer significant improvement in tissue imaging while simultaneously enabling photo thermal therapy, administering drugs and monitoring drug delivery. The devices also lend themselves to a variety of other biomedical functions.
Biodegradable and biocompatible, these tiny mirror-like devices dissolve harmlessly at predetermined rates and require no surgery to remove them.
The technology is the brainchild of a research team led by Fiorenzo Omenetto, Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering at Tufts. For several years, Omenetto; David L. Kaplan, Stern Family Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering chair, and their colleagues have been exploring ways to leverage silk's optical capabilities with its capacity as a resilient, biofriendly material that can stabilize materials while maintaining their biochemical functionality.
The technology is described in the paper "Implantable Multifunctional Bioresorbable Optics," published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online Early Edition the week of November 12, 2012.
"This work showcases the potential of silk to bring together form and function. In this case an implantable optical form -- the mirror -- can go beyond imaging to serve multiple biomedical functions," Omenetto says.
Turning Silk into Mirrors
To create the optical devices, the Tufts bioengineers poured a purified silk protein solution into molds of multiple micro-sized prism reflectors, or microprism arrays (MPAs). They pre-determined the rates at which the devices would dissolve in the body by regulating the water content of the solution during processing. The cast solution was then air dried to form solid silk films in the form of the mold. The resulting silk sheets were much like the reflective tape found on safety garments or on traffic signs.
When implanted, these MPAs reflected back photons that are ordinarily lost with reflection-based imaging technologies, thereby enhancing imaging, even in deep tissue.
The researchers tested the devices using solid and liquid "phantoms" (materials that mimic the scattering that occurs when light passes through human tissue). The tiny mirror-like devices reflected substantially stronger optical signals than implanted silk films that had not been formed as MPAs.
Preventing Infection, Fighting Cancer
The Tufts researchers also demonstrated the silk mirrors' potential to administer therapeutic treatments.
In one experiment, the researchers mixed gold nanoparticles in the silk protein solution before casting the MPAs. They then implanted the gold-silk mirror under the skin of mice. When illuminated with green laser light, the nanoparticles converted light to heat. Similar in-vitro experiments showed that the devices inhibited bacterial growth while maintaining optical performance.
The team also embedded the cancer-fighting drug doxorubicin in the MPAs. The embedded drug remained active even at high temperatures (60 degree C), underscoring the ability of silk to stabilize chemical and biological dopants.
When exposed to enzymes in vitro, the doxorubicin was released as the mirror gradually dissolved. The amount of reflected light decreased as the mirror degraded, allowing the researchers to accurately assess the rate of drug delivery.
"The important implication here is that using a single biofriendly, resorbable device one could image a site of interest, such as a tumor, apply therapy as needed and then monitor the progress of the therapy," says Omenetto.
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Collaborating with Omenetto and Kaplan from Tufts Department of Biomedical Engineering were Hu Tao, research assistant professor; Jana M. Kainerstorfer, post-doctoral researcher; Sean M. Siebert, a Tufts undergraduate; Eleanor M. Pritchard, former post-doctoral researcher; Angelo Sassaroli, research assistant professor; Bruce J.B. Panilaitis, research assistant professor; Mark A. Brenckle, graduate student; Jason Amsden, former post-doctoral researcher; Jonathan Levitt, post-doctoral researcher, and Professor Sergio Fantini.
At Tufts, Fiorenzo Omenetto also has an appointment in the Department of Physics in the School of Arts and Sciences, and David Kaplan also has appointments in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, the Department of Chemistry in the School of Arts and Sciences, the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, and the School of Dental Medicine.
The work was supported by the United States Army Research Laboratory, the United States Army Research Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Tissue Engineering Resource Center of the National Institutes of Health under award number P41EB00250 and the National Science Foundation.
Tao, H., Kainerstorfer, J.M., Siebert, S.M., Pritchard, E.M., Sassaroli, A., Panilaitis, B., Brenckle, M.A., Amsden, J., Levitt, J., Fantini, S., Kaplan, D. L., and Omenetto, F.G. (2012),.Implantable Multifunctional Bioresorbable Optics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Doi:10.1073/pnas.1209056109
Tufts University School of Engineering
Located on Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus, the School of Engineering offers a rigorous engineering education in a unique environment that blends the intellectual and technological resources of a world-class research university with the strengths of a top-ranked liberal arts college. Close partnerships with Tufts' excellent undergraduate, graduate and professional schools, coupled with a long tradition of collaboration, provide a strong platform for interdisciplinary education and scholarship. The School of Engineering's mission is to educate engineers committed to the innovative and ethical application of science and technology in addressing the most pressing societal needs, to develop and nurture twenty-first century leadership qualities in its students, faculty, and alumni, and to create and disseminate transformational new knowledge and technologies that further the well-being and sustainability of society in such cross-cutting areas as human health, environmental sustainability, alternative energy, and the human-technology interface.
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Implantable silk optics multi-task in the bodyPublic release date: 28-Nov-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Alex Reid alexander.reid@tufts.edu 617-627-4173 Tufts University
Dissolvable micro-mirrors enhance imaging, administer heat, deliver and monitor drugs
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (November 28, 2012) Tufts University School of Engineering researchers have demonstrated silk-based implantable optics that offer significant improvement in tissue imaging while simultaneously enabling photo thermal therapy, administering drugs and monitoring drug delivery. The devices also lend themselves to a variety of other biomedical functions.
Biodegradable and biocompatible, these tiny mirror-like devices dissolve harmlessly at predetermined rates and require no surgery to remove them.
The technology is the brainchild of a research team led by Fiorenzo Omenetto, Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering at Tufts. For several years, Omenetto; David L. Kaplan, Stern Family Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering chair, and their colleagues have been exploring ways to leverage silk's optical capabilities with its capacity as a resilient, biofriendly material that can stabilize materials while maintaining their biochemical functionality.
The technology is described in the paper "Implantable Multifunctional Bioresorbable Optics," published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online Early Edition the week of November 12, 2012.
"This work showcases the potential of silk to bring together form and function. In this case an implantable optical form -- the mirror -- can go beyond imaging to serve multiple biomedical functions," Omenetto says.
Turning Silk into Mirrors
To create the optical devices, the Tufts bioengineers poured a purified silk protein solution into molds of multiple micro-sized prism reflectors, or microprism arrays (MPAs). They pre-determined the rates at which the devices would dissolve in the body by regulating the water content of the solution during processing. The cast solution was then air dried to form solid silk films in the form of the mold. The resulting silk sheets were much like the reflective tape found on safety garments or on traffic signs.
When implanted, these MPAs reflected back photons that are ordinarily lost with reflection-based imaging technologies, thereby enhancing imaging, even in deep tissue.
The researchers tested the devices using solid and liquid "phantoms" (materials that mimic the scattering that occurs when light passes through human tissue). The tiny mirror-like devices reflected substantially stronger optical signals than implanted silk films that had not been formed as MPAs.
Preventing Infection, Fighting Cancer
The Tufts researchers also demonstrated the silk mirrors' potential to administer therapeutic treatments.
In one experiment, the researchers mixed gold nanoparticles in the silk protein solution before casting the MPAs. They then implanted the gold-silk mirror under the skin of mice. When illuminated with green laser light, the nanoparticles converted light to heat. Similar in-vitro experiments showed that the devices inhibited bacterial growth while maintaining optical performance.
The team also embedded the cancer-fighting drug doxorubicin in the MPAs. The embedded drug remained active even at high temperatures (60 degree C), underscoring the ability of silk to stabilize chemical and biological dopants.
When exposed to enzymes in vitro, the doxorubicin was released as the mirror gradually dissolved. The amount of reflected light decreased as the mirror degraded, allowing the researchers to accurately assess the rate of drug delivery.
"The important implication here is that using a single biofriendly, resorbable device one could image a site of interest, such as a tumor, apply therapy as needed and then monitor the progress of the therapy," says Omenetto.
###
Collaborating with Omenetto and Kaplan from Tufts Department of Biomedical Engineering were Hu Tao, research assistant professor; Jana M. Kainerstorfer, post-doctoral researcher; Sean M. Siebert, a Tufts undergraduate; Eleanor M. Pritchard, former post-doctoral researcher; Angelo Sassaroli, research assistant professor; Bruce J.B. Panilaitis, research assistant professor; Mark A. Brenckle, graduate student; Jason Amsden, former post-doctoral researcher; Jonathan Levitt, post-doctoral researcher, and Professor Sergio Fantini.
At Tufts, Fiorenzo Omenetto also has an appointment in the Department of Physics in the School of Arts and Sciences, and David Kaplan also has appointments in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, the Department of Chemistry in the School of Arts and Sciences, the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, and the School of Dental Medicine.
The work was supported by the United States Army Research Laboratory, the United States Army Research Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Tissue Engineering Resource Center of the National Institutes of Health under award number P41EB00250 and the National Science Foundation.
Tao, H., Kainerstorfer, J.M., Siebert, S.M., Pritchard, E.M., Sassaroli, A., Panilaitis, B., Brenckle, M.A., Amsden, J., Levitt, J., Fantini, S., Kaplan, D. L., and Omenetto, F.G. (2012),.Implantable Multifunctional Bioresorbable Optics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Doi:10.1073/pnas.1209056109
Tufts University School of Engineering
Located on Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus, the School of Engineering offers a rigorous engineering education in a unique environment that blends the intellectual and technological resources of a world-class research university with the strengths of a top-ranked liberal arts college. Close partnerships with Tufts' excellent undergraduate, graduate and professional schools, coupled with a long tradition of collaboration, provide a strong platform for interdisciplinary education and scholarship. The School of Engineering's mission is to educate engineers committed to the innovative and ethical application of science and technology in addressing the most pressing societal needs, to develop and nurture twenty-first century leadership qualities in its students, faculty, and alumni, and to create and disseminate transformational new knowledge and technologies that further the well-being and sustainability of society in such cross-cutting areas as human health, environmental sustainability, alternative energy, and the human-technology interface.
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The U.S. military is likely to increasingly engage in Counterinsurgency (COIN) warfare.? Despite the successful integration of medical engagements into civil-military COIN operations by Special Operations Forces, such engagements have not been widely pursued by conventional medical assets.? The authors present a rationale for rethinking the role of conventional U.S. deployed medical assets in COIN operations.? Recommendations are made regarding medical engagements in a COIN environment with the aim of turning conventional medical assets into COIN force multipliers.
Introduction
Insurgencies represent the predominant form of state-level conflict encountered in modern times. (Jones 135-8)? Correspondingly, the United States? Armed Forces are increasingly involved in counterinsurgency (COIN) operations. ?In COIN warfare, the popular indigenous support of a legitimate government is the ultimate goal while the restoration of basic services to the contested populace is central to mission success. (Headquarters, Department of the Army, Jones 49-50, Kilcullen 10).? Conventional U.S forces have limited doctrinal guidance in the execution of modern COIN missions, as these forces are designed and trained to fight orthodox kinetic battles.? Both existing military doctrine and the consensus of civilian COIN experts agree on the high priority of civil-military operations in the COIN environment.
Health care is a fundamental societal service which, when properly provided, can lend legitimacy to the agency or individual providing it.? This is especially true in rural areas, which tend to be underserved by the government and are preferred havens for insurgents to foment discontent within the population. (Jones xiii-iv)? It thus stands to reason that health operations should be of vital interest to those forces opposing an insurgency in rural areas. ?There is no current conventional U.S. military doctrine for the application of military medical assets in COIN warfare, however further medical involvement in COIN operations has been suggested as having the potential to yield great dividends in the broader COIN battlespace. (Bryan, Jones 100, Keenan).?
U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF), particularly those of the U.S. Army Special Forces, count civil affairs as one of their core disciplines.? Historically, these elite units have applied their medical assets in support of their civil affairs missions.? They have fielded programs designed not only to provide direct medical care to the population of a contested area but to build indigenous capacity to provide care, meeting a central principle of civil-military operations in COIN. ?The medical assets available to SOF units are typically limited to small clinics with one or two physicians and a small number of combat medics.? SOF commanders wishing to utilize medical assets as an integral part of their COIN mission do not have authority over larger medical units deployed in support of conventional forces within the same COIN battlespace.? With the prevalence of U.S. involvement in COIN likely to increase, conventional medical planners should develop doctrine for leveraging conventional medical assets to directly support the COIN mission, reflecting on a larger scale what SOF have historically accomplished.
Where We Are
Conventional U.S. military medical assets are deployed to an operational theater along with combat forces, and remain in place as long as the conflict continues and servicemembers are in harm?s way.? The primary mission of such assets is to treat battle casualties and non-battle injuries and illnesses occurring among friendly force personnel.? The motto of the U.S. Army Medical Department is ?To conserve the fighting strength,? and medical operational doctrine is limited to this mission.? COIN conflicts tend to be protracted and relatively akinetic (producing fewer serious casualties than conventional operations) however, resulting in the relative underutilization of considerable medical resources if doctrine is strictly followed.?
When conventional medical forces have engaged in civil-military relations with indigenous populations, it has typically been in the form of Medical Civic Action Programs (MEDCAP?s).? These are a means of humanitarian assistance in which primarily U.S. providers offer direct health care to host nation civilians on a time- and resource-limited basis.? MEDCAP?s as such do not meet the central COIN objective of increasing indigenous health capacity in the name of the legitimate government. ?In fact, MEDCAP?s have been suggested to be counterproductive in COIN operations for two reasons; first, the provision of care by U.S. military personnel is transient, creating resentment when we are no longer there to provide care or cannot provide the ?miracle cure? that was envisioned by the local patient.? Second, it suggests that local host nation capabilities are lacking, thus undermining popular confidence in the indigenous health system and decreasing government legitimacy as a provider for the population. (Rice) ?A U.S. military physician and a few medics can go into a village and hand out a lot of medications over the course of a day, but who will be there in a month to check on blood pressures and what does U.S. medical presence say about the capabilities of the local government clinic to care for the people?
Lack of synchronization of military medical missions and objectives with other agencies charged with civil affairs in COIN operations is another current problem.? Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT?s) arose from the evolving COIN missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, but these teams had little or no intrinsic medical role applicable to their reconstruction missions and little to no coordination with (often co-located) military medical assets. (Thompson)? Additionally, the U.S. military has been slow to synchronize its medical diplomacy efforts with those of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO?s) in modern COIN operations.? This discrepancy exists despite increasing security, considered a prerequisite for the broader application of NGO?s in COIN. (Jones 130-1)? NGO participation can ensure the sustainability of military medical assistance, even after U.S. forces redeploy.? The U.S. military can deliver the generator to power the hospital, but who will ensure that it has fuel and remains in good repair when the host nation stands alone?
Where We Should Be
U.S. military participation in foreign COIN campaigns is likely to continue into the foreseeable future.? It is time to rethink the role of conventional military medical assets in COIN operations while simultaneously allowing them to maintain continuous readiness to support their primary mission of caring for friendly force casualties, injuries, and disease.? Using SOF medical engagements as a model, we advocate for the development of doctrine that turns conventional medical assets into COIN force multipliers by leveraging physical plant, materiel resources, knowledge, and skills to perform medical engagements within the indigenous health care system.? Such engagements should consistently and solely be geared towards increasing the legitimacy of the supported government by promoting increases in indigenous health care capacity. ?We present four critical themes that have guided such engagements and have proven successful in SOF COIN medical operations.
Civic engagement with indigenous health resources and key leaders
Placing ?locals in the lead? is key to the success of any civil-military operation in COIN. (Jones 88)? Close collaboration between host nation and U.S. military medical providers allows for the development of the relationships and interactions that characterize COIN success. (Kilcullen 37)? For medical COIN missions to succeed, early and frequent interaction with personnel within the indigenous health sector must occur.? Any medical operations should address specific health needs identified by local community members during a cooperative needs assessment process.? Planners should take care to ensure that popular expectations are reasonable, as a broken promise can be worse than no promise at all in COIN. (Kilcullen,47)?
By proactively engaging local leaders, SOF medical teams have successfully leveraged their assets using the above model.? One example is an indigenously-led targeted community education program known as the Medical Seminar (MEDSEM). (Alderman, Irizarry)? Additionally, the authors have participated in frequent medical key leader engagements at the district and provincial levels in Tarin Kowt, the capital of Uruzgan province Afghanistan. ?Normalizing of leader relationships allows the targeting of training and aid programs to needs that can be most sustainably met in the community. ?
Recommendation: Conventional military medical personnel must engage leaders from the indigenous healthcare sector and establish relationships to guide planning and execution of civic medical interventions.
Development of training programs for local healthcare providers
Knowledge and skills are the most powerful assets that conventional military medical units can leverage to become COIN force multipliers.? Training should be tailored to the conditions in which indigenous providers will practice to impart skills and techniques that will result in progressive local capacity increases.? Whenever possible, only indigenously available equipment should be used to train local providers.? Direct medical humanitarian assistance, even when provided on a large scale, is rarely sustainable ? donated medications run out, treatment supplies are exhausted, and equipment breaks or requires specialized technical maintenance unavailable locally. ?Training providers from the local health sector in response to specific knowledge and skills deficits assessed through civic engagements is also the most sustainable method of increasing indigenous healthcare capacity in COIN. ?Properly designed and executed medical training programs allow for increases in the capacity of the civilian and military healthcare sectors, lending legitimacy to both the civilian government and its armed forces.?
SOF-led training programs for civilian healthcare providers have used the MEDSEM model in a rural area of the Philippines, where medical self-reliance was promoted by educating large numbers of indigenous healthcare providers in primary care. (Alderman)? In Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan, the authors? unit hosts a program in which a rotating group of physicians, nurses, and anesthetists from the local provincial hospital live and work at our small facility learning to care for and acutely ill and injured patients from Uruzgan and nearby heavily medically underserved districts.? The providers are paid by the U.S. military for their participation in exchange for a commitment to remain working in the local hospital following their graduation from the three-year program.
Standing up indigenous partner forces is typically the rate-limiting step in planning withdrawal from a COIN theater of operations.? SOF military medical assets successfully increased the capacity of host nation military medical units to care for their own casualties, contributing to overall COIN mission success.? A MEDSEM-type program instituted in Kabul, Afghanistan to educate Afghan National Army (ANA) medical personnel resulted in sustainable improvements in capacity. (Irizarry)? The authors? unit participates in weekly didactic and practical casualty care training with ANA conventional and special operations forces.? This has resulted in greater partner force casualty care autonomy, hastening the transfer of care to partner force providers and reducing reliance on coalition medical assets.
Recommendation: Training programs for indigenous healthcare providers should be instituted by conventional medical units deployed in COIN operations.? Programs should maximize use of local resources and tailor to local healthcare conditions.
Agreements for transfer of patients between local and military medical facilities
In medically underserved rural areas in the COIN environment, a deployed U.S. military medical unit?s resources and capabilities may far exceed those of the host nation.? Directly providing medical care to the indigenous population can be advantageous, though enthusiasm should be tempered with the limitations of MEDCAP?s outlined above.? The direct provision of medical care has been demonstrated to be a very effective method of gaining the support of the contested populace and developing actionable intelligence. (Jones 100, Keenan)? It does not lead to the goal of sustainable increases in indigenous healthcare capacity, however. ?Sustainability can be produced through patient care training programs offered by the U.S. medical unit as described above and by collaborative, progressive patient transfer agreements allowing for maximal participation of local healthcare assets.? Such agreements should be flexible to allow for increasing local national care as indigenous capabilities increase.? Over time, reliance on U.S. military medical assets must decrease.
The author?s small forward-deployed surgical unit has a strong relationship with the medical director and the medical staff of the Tarin Kowt (provincial) hospital.? We accept patients in transfer with needs that exceed the available resources at the local hospital and provide acute care for (typically surgical) disease at our facility.? These patients provide training experiences for our resident local medical providers and are transferred back to the local hospital as soon as feasible.? Over time, we have noted fewer and fewer transfer requests from the local hospital and increased confidence and ability to care for serious injury and illness there.? Additionally, there has been increasing participation of local providers not affiliated directly with the training program, multiplying its impact on the healthcare in the community.
Recommendation: Conventional military medical assets should develop relationships with indigenous healthcare facilities for reasonable patient transfers when local capabilities are exceeded.? The care of such patients should be part of a training program for local providers and overall reliance should decrease over time as indigenous capabilities increase.
Coordination with PRT?s, NGO?s, and other government agencies
U.S. military medical units will likely not be deployed for the entire duration of COIN conflicts, which typically last for decades. (Jones 10)? Whatever participation these units have in the COIN civil-military programs will therefore be transient in view of the entire conflict.? Civilian NGO?s and other U.S. governmental agencies will likely have longer-term involvement with indigenous health system reconstruction than will the military.? For this reason, military programs should be synchronized at the strategic level with the activities of these other actors to best facilitate seamless transition of reconstruction efforts.? PRT?s, NGO?s, and other actors may be performing community healthcare interventions in the same area and at the same time as military assets.? Synchronization is required to address this issue at the tactical level to avoid duplication of effort and to present a unified front to the effort as viewed by the local population.
Coordination and communication with key medical leaders from the Uruzgan multinational military team and the PRT have been critical to the success of COIN medical engagements performed by the authors? unit and the local PRT.? The PRT in our area is responsible for provincial midwifery and children?s health initiatives while our military unit is responsible for hospital and trauma care.? Regular meetings of key leaders from both groups have avoided unnecessary duplication of effort and have provided additional medical intelligence to enhance independent needs assessments of indigenous capacity.
Recommendation: Military medical interventions in COIN should be performed in concert with NGO?s, PRT?s, and other agencies operating in the same area.? Operations should be synchronized at the strategic and tactical levels.
Conclusion
It is time to rethink the role of conventional U.S. military medical assets in COIN operations. These assets are currently underutilized, but by following the model of successful SOF medical engagements they can become COIN force multipliers; simultaneously maintaining readiness to care for friendly force elements.? We make the following recommendations for operational planning:
??????? Engage with key leaders of the indigenous health sector
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Acknowledgements
The authors wish to acknowledge the operational support and editorial assistance of Commander Mike Hayes.? This paper and our efforts to get deployed medicine involved in COIN are dedicated to everyone in the armed forces who have tried to help those in need.
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2012) ? U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists working as part of an international team have completed a "shotgun sequencing" of the wheat genome, a paper published in the journal Nature reported today. The achievement is expected to increase wheat yields, help feed the world and speed up development of wheat varieties with enhanced nutritional value.
"By unlocking the genetic secrets of wheat, this study and others like it give us the molecular tools necessary to improve wheat traits and allow our farmers to produce yields sufficient to feed growing populations in the United States and overseas," said Catherine Woteki, USDA's Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics. "Genetics provides us with important methods that not only increase yields, but also address the ever-changing threats agriculture faces from natural pests, crop diseases and changing climates."
Olin Anderson and Yong Gu, scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) based at the agency's Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., played instrumental roles in the sequencing effort, along with Naxin Huo, a post-doctoral researcher working in Gu's laboratory. All three are co-authors of the Nature paper.
ARS is USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency, and the work supports the USDA goal of ensuring global food security.
As the world's largest agricultural research institute, USDA is focused on reducing global hunger by increasing global cooperation and collaboration on research strategies and their implementation. For example, through the U.S. government's Feed the Future initative, USDA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are coordinating their research portfolio with ongoing work of other donors, multilateral institutions, and government and non-government entities at the country level to effectively improve agricultural productivity, reduce food insecurity and generate economic opportunity.
Grown on more land area than any other commercial crop, wheat is the world's most important staple food, and its improvement has vast implications for global food security. The work to complete the shotgun sequencing of the wheat genome will help to improve programs on breeding and adaptation in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa for wheat crops that could be drought tolerant and resistant to weeds, pests and diseases.
ARS is one of nine institutions with researchers who contributed to the study. The lead authors are based in the United Kingdom and were funded by the British-based Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Funding also was provided by USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). NIFA focuses on investing in research, education and extension programs to help solve critical issues impacting people's daily lives.
The study represents the most detailed examination to date of the DNA that makes up the wheat genome, a crop domesticated thousands of years ago. The wheat genome is five times the size of the human genome, giving it a complexity that makes it difficult to study. The researchers used the whole genome shotgun sequencing approach, which essentially breaks up the genome into smaller, more workable segments for analysis and then pieces them together.
Another international team of scientists is working on a long-term project expected to result in more detailed sequencing results of the wheat genome in the years ahead. But the results published today shed light on wheat's DNA in a way that will help breeders develop hardier varieties by linking genes to key traits, such as disease resistance and drought tolerance.
Wheat evolved from three ancient grasses, and the ARS team, working closely with partners at University of California, Davis, mapped the genome of one of those three parents, Aegilops tauschii. That mapping, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, was instrumental in the study. It allowed researchers to identify the origins of many of the genes found in modern-day wheat, a key step in linking genes to traits and developing markers for use in breeding new varieties.
Wheat growers face numerous challenges each year. Acidity in the soil can make wheat difficult to grow in some areas. Stem rust, a fungal disease, can wipe out entire crops, and a particularly aggressive form of stem rust has developed the ability to knock out genetic resistance in many popular wheat varieties and is causing major losses overseas.
USDA scientists have conducted similar genomic studies that have helped to increase the productivity of dairy operations, enhance cattle breeding and improve varieties of a number of other crops, including tomatoes, corn and soybeans. In 2010, Anderson and Gu, along with other ARS staff, were part of a team that published a paper in Nature detailing the sequencing of Brachypodium distachyon, a model plant used to study wheat, barley and biofuel crops.
Recent international research collaborations have been critical to meet challenges such as combating wheat rust and increasing wheat productivity, fighting aflatoxin contamination in corn, and sequencing genomes of important crops.
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Computer programming has often been a subject exclusive for adults but with recent development, the course is being adapted by younger generations. Introduction to computer programming has never been taught in high school until the early 2000s and now, with even the youngest children having access to computers and technology, even kids old enough to read can start learning basic programming.
Python, a popular open source programming platform has recently released a book called ?Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming? which could be a guide to bringing out the programming prodigy out of your child. Python enjoys an enormous popularity among programmers in the open source world and with it being a very flexible language, it deserves a lot of attention even from start up programmers.
The book is written by Jason Briggs who believes that Python is a powerful, expressive programming language that?s easy to learn and fun to use. Some books that teach programming can be dull and boring for kids but Python for Kids brings the programing language to life and brings kids into the world of programming.
The book teaches kids to be able to learn how Python works and teach them how to write a few lines of code. By the end of the book, the readers will have been able to program two full games: a clone of Pong and a platform game that involves jumps, animations and more.
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PowerInbox, an email platform company which offers interactive email apps for consumers and marketers, has raised a $10 million Series A round jointly led by Atlas Venture, Longworth Partners and Battery Ventures, following the company's merger with NYC-based ActivePath, which offers a similar interactive email solution.
If you're confused over a recent email from Facebook regarding its data use policy, you're not alone.? The email ? with the subject line "Up... Read more
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A generation ago, when the Electronic Privacy Communication Act was passed,?"the cloud," a term for massive?server?storage of private?emails, documents and photos, didn't exist. Now some?lawmakers are looking to amend the 1986?law so that information stored in the cloud would require a warrant by the police who want that information from either the cloud?storage provider or the individual.
That amendment to the?Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 2012, the first major changes to 26-year-old law, is expected to be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Right now, law enforcement needs only a subpoena, issued by a prosecutor, to search cloud-based storage, whether it's for emails or documents that are shared for collaboration?on sites like Google. A bill by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, would instead require law enforcement to obtain a search warrant issued by a judge.
"The bill pending at the Senate Judiciary Committee to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act is long overdue," said Greg?Nojeim, senior counsel and director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's?Project on Freedom, Security & Technology, told NBC News.
"Requiring a warrant for email and other information stored in the cloud would provide privacy to consumers, certainty to law enforcement, and clarity to the companies that receive law enforcement demands."
The ACLU, too, is backing the change. "We believe the statute is very out of date," Christopher Calabrese, ACLU legislative counsel, told NBC News. "All email and all private communications should be covered by a warrant," and not just a subpoena.
Law enforcement groups are opposing the cloud-based?warrant requirement.?The battle comes as courts continue to?wrangle?over whether law enforcement should be allowed to track an?individuals'?cellphone information?without a warrant.?
"The crime scene of the 21st century is filled with electronic records and other digital evidence," wrote?representatives of various investigative, legal and police agencies via the National Sheriffs' Association?in a?letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
If anything, the agency representatives said in the letter, "laws, policies, protocols, and practices related to the process of law enforcement evidence retrieval from communications service?providers are out-of-date and increasingly insufficient moving forward."
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After back-to-back disappointing Senate elections in 2010 and 2012, Republicans (and others) are looking at 2014 and wondering not just how similar, but perhaps, how different, they could be. Two years ago, Republicans gained six Senate seats, but that gain was disappointing compared with what they could have won but weren?t able to because of exotic candidates (see Colorado, Delaware, and Nevada), and compared with the 63 seats their party was able to gain in the House. In the election just past, Republicans were unable to knock off a single Democratic incumbent, and the only Democratic seat they did manage to win was in Nebraska, one that most Democrats long ago gave up for lost. Adding insult to injury, Democrats captured three GOP-held seats, beating incumbent Scott Brown of Massachusetts and winning open seats in Indiana and Maine (counting independent Angus King as a Democrat).
A major similarity between the 2012 and 2014 cycles is the disproportionately large number of Democratic seats up for grabs: 23 Democrats to 10 Republicans in the former and an expected 20 to 13 in the latter. What is likely to be a major difference in 2014, however, is Democratic performance against Republican incumbents. This past election, Democrats managed to capture three seats from the GOP in states that Barack Obama won in 2008 (Indiana), or in both ?08 and this year (Maine and Massachusetts). As unlikely as it was that Democrats would manage to gain seats in 2012 against the odds (I believe only the hyper-audacious Chuck Schumer ever predicted a net Democratic gain), the chances of them beating the point spread in three consecutive elections seems even tougher.?
Of the 13 Republican-held seats up in 2014, only one is in a state that Obama carried: Susan Collins in Maine. Indeed, Obama wasn?t even close in any GOP-held seats in other states. Other than Maine, the best Obama performances were minus 13 points in Alabama (Jeff Sessions), minus eight in Georgia (Saxby Chambliss), minus 12 in Mississippi (Thad Cochran), and minus 12 in South Carolina (Lindsey Graham). The other states ranged from minus 16 in Texas (John Cornyn) to minus 32 in Idaho (James Risch) and minus 34 in Oklahoma (James Inhofe).
Conversely, Democrats have three seats up in 2014 in states that Obama lost by more than 15 points: minus 17 points in Louisiana (Mary Landrieu), minus 24 in Arkansas (Mark Pryor), and minus 27 in West Virginia (Jay Rockefeller). It should be noted that six-term Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced her candidacy on Monday at the State Capitol in Charleston. ?
In three more 2014 Democratic Senate states, Obama lost by at least five but less than 15 points: minus 11 in South Dakota (Tim Johnson) and minus 13 in both Alaska (Mark Begich) and Montana (Max Baucus). Former South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds started an exploratory committee in September and is expected to challenge Johnson.
There are three more 2014 Democratic Senate seats up in swing states, defined as such due to 2012 margins of five points or less: Obama minus two in North Carolina (Kay Hagan), plus three in Virginia (Mark Warner), and plus five in Colorado (Mark Udall).
That?s nine Democratic seats that are either in demonstrably swing states or in enemy territory. This also does not take into account some states that were on the bubble: Obama won Iowa (Tom Harkin) and New Hampshire (Jeanne Shaheen) by just six points each.
The remarkable thing about Senate Democrats in 2012 was their ability to go on the offensive while, by necessity, playing defense. That will be much more difficult to replicate in 2014 given the seats up that cycle.
Republicans will still face the same obstacles they have had to contend with in the last two cycles: first, getting high-quality and electable candidates to run, and second, getting them through primaries. Their challenge, in part, is that too many traditionally Republican voters?both of the moderate and the ?mainstream? variety?seem to have pulled back from active roles in GOP politics and even participation in primaries, allowing the more conservative wing of the party to become dominant. This has encouraged extreme candidates to run and has produced rather exotic and problematic candidates who often go on to lose general elections. Republicans took encouragement in Mitt Romney performing so well among independent voters, but the truth is that many of those were Republican-leaning independents?voters who used to call themselves Republicans but have edged over one notch to the left?who were uncomfortable with much of the rhetoric that has been projected in recent years.
But even if these candidates don?t open their mouths, insert grenades, and pull pins (a la Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock), they still project a more extreme image for the party that makes it incredibly difficult for more-mainstream Republicans in swing or difficult states to win. For every Akin and Mourdock, there is a Scott Brown, a Linda Lingle, or a Heather Wilson who cannot win in tough places, at least in presidential years, because of the face of the Republican Party, a threatening brand to many moderate and swing voters.?
SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazilians have voted to name the 2014 World Cup mascot Fuleco.
FIFA says more than 1.7 million people in Brazil took part in the vote to select the name for the armadillo. The other options were Zuzeco and Amijubi.
Fuleco comes from the Portuguese words "futebol" (football) and "ecologia" (ecology). FIFA says it "seamlessly represents the way in which the FIFA World Cup can combine the two to encourage people to behave in an environmentally friendly way."
Soccer's governing body said Sunday that Fuleco received 48 percent of the vote, while 31 percent went for Zuzeco and 21 percent for Amijubi.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago public school district, which is expected to close dozens of schools next year, will impose a five-year moratorium on shuttering public schools after the fall of 2013, the new head of the district said on Monday.
The nation's third-largest school district, which weathered a nasty strike of public school teachers in September, is facing a financial crisis after granting pay rises to teachers in order to settle the strike.
It is widely expected to try to balance its budget by closing public schools because of falling enrollment. The school district said it has room for 500,000 students but has only about 400,000 enrolled.
Urban school districts around the country are grappling with the same issue of closing schools, including Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C., according to a study last year on school closings by the Pew Charitable Trust.
Feelings are still raw after the first Chicago teachers strike in 25 years drew national attention to the city's dispute over education reform. Chicago teachers and some parents complain that the school district has ignored their concerns.
The offer of a five-year moratorium was seen as an attempt by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who has championed education reform and has repeatedly clashed with the teachers union, to provide some stability to Chicago schools after closings in the coming year.
"Mayor Emanuel recognizes that for many years CPS (Chicago Public Schools) has made too many piecemeal decisions around school actions, which has caused unnecessary disruptions to students, parents and schools across the city," said Barbara Byrd-Bennett, who was appointed by Emanuel after the strike ended to head the district. Byrd-Bennett spoke to a business group on Monday at the City Club of Chicago.
The district faces a December 1 deadline to issue a proposed list of schools to be closed, although Byrd-Bennett has asked the Illinois legislature for a four-month delay until March 31.
The union has previously said it wants an immediate halt to school closings, and the Chicago Teachers Union was expected to react to the moratorium proposal later on Monday.
The Chicago Tribune has reported that school district officials are considering closing up to 120 schools next year, or about 17 percent of schools. The district has established a commission to study the issue.
Enrollment in Chicago Public Schools has fallen nearly 20 percent in the last decade, mainly because of population declines in poor neighborhoods.
Some 140 schools are half-empty, according to the district. The union said 86 Chicago public schools have closed in the past decade, but the district could not confirm that number.
At the heart of the dispute over school closings is the expansion of charter schools, which are publicly funded but mostly nonunionized. The number of charter schools has risen even as neighborhood public schools are closed.
The teachers union has complained that charter schools undermine public education and force more community schools to close. Their academic performance record compared with community schools is mixed, according to national studies.
Chicago now has 103 charter or "contract" schools, some run by philanthropists, which account for 12 percent of students. There are plans by supporters for 60 more charter schools over the next five years, according to the district and the union.
Generally, the martial arts mean self-defense tactics originated in Asian nations. Some martial arts pressure using the feet to attack the opponents, although others concentrate on the use from the hands to render the opponents. Mental discipline and the search for enlightenment are also the concentrate of martial arts.
Martial arts are exceptional for individuals of either sex and all ages. Ladies will discover an successful self-defense that may be utilized against an opponent who might be larger and stronger than themselves. There are a number of forms of martial arts originating from all over the planet. Each martial art possesses their very own special strengths and also weaknesses. Primarily, martial arts aren't only designed just for fighting and combat.
Korea plays a vital role inside the promotion of martial arts within the globe. Obviously, taekwondo was their best served dish in the globe of martial arts. This is a Korean martial art that originally came from Korea and became as there national sport. It's certainly one of one of the most sympathetic and scientific kind of martial art not only in Korea but in addition in virtually nations worldwide. Taekwondo may be the finest type of art that utilizes fists and feet.
Just like Korea, Japan also influenced the popularity of martial arts globally. Judo is regarded as as their national sport. Judo was established by combining jiu jitsu, a form of wrestling that needs mental and physical discipline. Therefore, Japan is continuing to promote Judo for the complete globe particularly to those countries who does not know it yet.
Kung Fu is one more time-honored and common type of martial arts. The teachings of Kung Fu are according to the movements of 5 animals: the dragon, the tiger, the snake, the leopard, as well as the crane. Grace, strength, and mental discipline are the aim of any student of Kung Fu.
Aikido, translating roughly as "the way in the harmonious spirit", is often a Japanese martial art. Morihei Ueshiba could be the proponent for this martial art. Just like other martial art it's much more about punches and kicks to knock down opponent.
The root of Karate can be traced to the 5th century BC, and as such it carries an excellent deal of mystery with it. Karate created mainly as a form of fist combat, and also the teaching of Karate instructors still focus on utilizing the hand as a weapon. Today, Karate is nonetheless taught at martial arts academies by way of the globe. Martial art emphasizes on balance-both thoughts and physique each of them really should work as one particular consequently every single student of martial arts should go on difficult coaching to locate a balance with regards to karate. Karate also originated in japan but you will find misconceptions that China could be the 1 who introduce it worldwide.
Take the useful time whilst the martial artist is explaining the strategy to create a reason that it will not perform. This can save you from in fact having to listen to the entire explanation with the martial arts strategy and provides you more time to determine a reason NOT to add it for your repertoire.
Sure you'll be hit by the strategy because you don't train with it or against it, but related methods could be utilized to create excuses why you had been hit, there is no should practice the method. I assure you this would only speed up your martial arts training and enhance your expertise.
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I am a 44 year old Independent Adult, that is temporarily living with my mother and step dad because of an injury I received a month ago which resulted in a broken leg. I was immobile and needed much care. Now I can get around on crutches but still not able to cook etc. I have a 14 year son and he stays with us also so that my mom can get him to and from school for me. My stepdad is very selfish man and he does not want us here and malkes us miserable but my mom is enjoying our company. I tried talking to my mom, but she does not allow anyone to talk negative about my stepdad. I am off work until next year and am now in a boot for 4 weeks,which makes it easier to get round. I want to go back home,I am loosing my sanity, but mom is tryna force me to stay with her. Mom is enjoying my company, and I as well.
HERE IS the situation, my mom is feeling guilty because she caused me to fall but it was an accident. We were coming out of a public building and she tripped on a step and fell into the back of me, without warning which pushed me over 6 flights of stairs. In my mind, I was angry at her at first because she never warned me that she was falling, I though she should have said HELP, MOVE, or I am falling help me, but I am glad that I took the fall instead of her because she is 61 years old. We were told that she is the 2nd customer to fall on the step and the company still has not fixed it so it was definately not her fault.
Long story short, me and my siblings cannot tolerate my step dad. I am helping my parents financially and I am also taking care of my home that I left my 19 year old son in that is doing lord knows what in my absence. My 19 year old is not working or going to school but have full range in my home. SORRY GUYS BUT I WOKE UP NEEDING TO VENT.I have been on my job 24 years, I have degrees, built my own home, and to date cannot walk and I miss normancy in my life, I cannot talk on the phone, step dad comes in room and listen to my conversations, leaves when they are over, if my boyfirends comes over to see my my step dad sits in the rooms with us until he leaves because he does not like visitors in his home. My step dad is my siblings biological dad and they will not come to see me when he is here because no one wants to be around him. SUGGESTIONS NEEDED,as many as possible, plese answer.
Update: November 25, 2012. I did not mention but yes, I am thankful and appreciative of my mom caring for me and I tell her everyday. I have spoken to my step dad about his behavior but he is a user and a difficult person, and I am the only famiy member that tolerate him, please as many as possible continue share your opinion.
Quantro is a puzzle game that we wouldn't blame you if you thought was Tetris at first glance. There are plenty of these types of games out there so what makes this one special? Well now with its latest update, Quantro is offering both local and online multiplayer support -- the latter being in "open beta" now. You can join public lobbies to play against random opponents, or choose to create a private lobby with just friends that you invite.
You can grab a download of Quantro at the Google Play Store link above. If you need a quick primer on the basics of the game, you can take a look at the video below as well.
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