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NBA fines Noah $50,000 for anti-gay slur
A rude fan, television camera and brief lapse in judgment proved costly for Bulls center Joakim Noah.
Noah spoke to the league office Monday morning and got the news he expected a few hours later: a $50,000 fine. He was not suspended, however, and will play in Game 4 on Tuesady at Miami.
In the first half of Sunday's Game 3 loss at Miami, television cameras were on Noah as he returned to the Bulls' bench and appeared to use a derogatory term when speaking to fan.
"Spoke to them (NBA officials) earlier this morning," Noah said at the team hotel. "Like I said before, very disappointing. I got caught up. After picking up a second foul yesterday, I was frustrated. A fan said something that was disrespectful toward me and I went back at him. They got it on camera."
Lakers star Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 for allegedly using the same anti-gay last month in the regular season. Bryant's comment was directed toward a referee.
"I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings," Noah said. "Anybody who knows me knows that I'm not like that. I'm an open-minded guy. I said the wrong thing. I'm going to deal with the consequences like a man. I don't want to be a distraction to my team right now. Just focused on a huge Game 4."
Other Bulls talked about hearing several nasty comments from fans in Miami during Game 3. TNT plans to move its studio crew away from its postgame location outside the arena because of taunts and towels thrown at Charles Barkley, who called the Heat a "whiny bunch."
Taj Gibson described Noah's encounter with the rude fan.
"(The fan) was really loud. He was a big guy, too," Gibson said. "He was intoxicated. When I saw him, I was surprised because he kept going and going. Normally, a fan may say a couple of things and sit down. He kept going at Joakim."
"That fan should have been out of the game. He should have been thrown out way before," Luol Deng said. "He just kept going at him. An emotional game like that, and things not going Jo's way, it's human nature to react."
Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau was supportive of his fourth-year center.
"I think he knows how to handle that," Thibodeau said of Noah. "He made a mistake. I know the type of guy he is. He's a high character guy. He made a mistake. He'll apologize, learn from it, and hopefully he'll move on."
This was the second odd distraction for the Bulls since arriving in Miami. Before Game 3, Derrick Rose said he didn't remember making a comment about performance-enhancing drugs in the NBA that ran in a recent issue of ESPN Magazine.
According to one reporter, Carlos Boozer got tired of questions about Noah and walked away from an interview Monday.
"The more media you have around, there's more stuff going on," Thibodeau said. "I think the important thing is not to get distracted by it. Lock in on what's important, which is getting ready for the next game."
Also Monday, a human-rights group addressed Noah's comments and his apology.
"We need to get to a point where you don't use an anti-gay slur to respond to events," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "It's just plain unacceptable.
"At a time when the NBA and a growing number of pro-athletes are publicly standing up for equality, it's too bad Mr. Noah worked against their efforts last night. That said, we're pleased he quickly realized the error of his ways and apologized."
Also Monday, the Human Rights Campaign released a video of NBA star Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns publicly supporting marriage equality in New York. NHL forward Sean Avery did the same last week.

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Diamond blades for cutting stone come in a variety of configurations and sizes, depending on the stone to be cut, the tool being used and quality of the diamond abrasive matrix and blade disc itself. The harder the stone, the softer the diamond matrix should be on the blade, as a soft matrix will give up the diamond abrasive more easily, However, soft matrix diamond blades wear out faster. All things being equal, the longevity of a blade is based on the segment/rim height, taller rims will last longer. Stone cutting blades can be wet or dry use or both and can be continuous rim or segmented, and turbo blades are an option too. Continuous rim blades are the most accurate and provide the least chipping when cutting stone, while segmented rim blades are faster but more prone to chipping. Turbo blades, while generally being ok for dry use, usually split the difference in speed and propensity for chipping between segmented and continuous rim.


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On average, women only make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns—even while more women are becoming breadwinners in their families.
That's why President Obama is working to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, a law that would strengthen the Equal Pay Act by giving women even more support to fight against gender discrimination in the workplace.
Check out the slideshow to see exactly how the Paycheck Fairness Act would help women and families, then share it with everyone you know who cares about equal pay.


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Inspired by conversations on the FOOD52 Hotline, we're sharing tips and tricks that make navigating all of our kitchens easier and more fun.
Today, we're making gravlax to show you the basics of curing fish.
Despite our familairity with cured fish, it maintains an air of mystique. Lox, anchovies, pickled herring, bottarga and salt cod are all products of the curing process -- cooking without direct heat, that is -- that preserves fish for longer than it would last fresh. These foods incorporate different (and old!) methods, but all are transformed in texture, flavor, and shelf-life by salt.
Lox is salt-cured or brined, and smoked. Anchovies are packed in salt and pressed for months. Pickled herring is cured in salt, rinsed, and pickled in a vinegar brine. Bottarga is fish roe that has been cured in salt. Salt cod has been salted and dried.
The world (or ocean) of cured fish is large, but today, we're focusing on the easiest method: gravlax. You coat a fish filet in seasoning, wrap, and refrigerate for a few days. And, as you'll see, the salt does all the work for you.
Most traditional recipes for gravlax use a lot of chopped, fresh dill and a little sugar. The dill lends a heady, herbal note, and the sugar rounds out the flavor. Here, we're using a juniper berry and earl grey curing mix. Be sure to use a casserole style dish (one with higher edges), as the fish tends to release liquid in the process.
Lightly coat the fish on all sides with the curing mixture. You can remove the skin before you coat the fish in seasoning or after it's done curing. Either way, just remember to trim it off before you serve it.
Once the fish is covered in the seasoning, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 to 4 days, turning the fish over once a day. Putting a weight on the fish is optional. It has the effect of pressing the seasoning into the fish, pushing fluid out, and compressing the fish, yielding a slightly denser texture. You can do this by putting a plate upside-down on top of the wrapped fish and placing something heavy on top, like a few big tomato cans (or a few cans of beer).
As you turn the fish, take note of how it feels. When it's done, the center of the filet should feel firm. Then, unwrap the fish, lightly rinse or scrape off the seasoning, and enjoy. Because of its strong flavor and beautiful texture, gravlax is best enjoyed sliced thin. Store it in your refrigerator for a few days after it's done or freeze it for later.
There you have it! Gravlax, demystified. Just season, wrap and refrigerate, and you'll be chowing down in no time.
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There are a few details, of course. To design an optimal cluster for any given task one has to understand parallel computations and how to match them to cluster design.
The speedup experienced running a task on processors is less
than or equal to:
Limiting result, not horribly useful quantitatively except to tell you when there is no point in parallelizing something. Can do much better.
For example, we can account for the time spent communicating between processors, the time spent setting things up, and changes in the times to perform various tasks with different algorithms. Defining things like:
Granularity typically is somewhat controllable. Network speed and latency, scaling of computation to communication as a function of problem size, CPU/memory speed, program organization all control variables.
Fine grained tasks are ``bad'' for scaling to many nodes . Coarse grained tasks are ``good''.
Beware nonlinearities! CPU/cache/memory/disk bottlenecks can create ``superlinear speedup'' and violate Amdahl's Law!
In all the figures below, (which sets our basic scale, if you like) and . In the first three figures we just vary for (fixed). Finally, the last figure is , but this time with a quadratic dependence .
Goal is optimizing overall performance per dollar. The following are appropriate for increasing fineness of program granularity:
These are suitable for increasingly fine granularity, at increasing cost and decreasing general purpose utility.
Schematics for the general designs follow, first a ``true beowulf'' and then a workstation cluster.
The following are some possible node configurations and prices:
The cheapest barebones clusters for learning and experimentation can cost surprisingly little. On www.clustermonkey.net, for example, you can find an article on a ``value cluster'' - an 8 node cluster that cost $2500 total in 2005. This is easily within the reach of individuals, clubs, or small schools.
Turnkey clusters can make sense if you are building a very specialized cluster and need help designing and installing it. A turnkey integrator will typically resell the hardware components to you pretty much at standard retail marked up to cover their ``integration fee'' for designing the cluster, installing the clusterware on it, and so forth. This ends up being anywhere from a 20% markup of OTC prices on up.
On a good day, this will work as a demo...
Note well that recurring costs for operating a node can compete with the cost of the node! This favors getting relatively expensive nodes and dumping nodes quickly when obsolete!
In summary, Min: 1 hour a day, on average, for a ``good'' 100+ node cluster; Max: full time job and then some for a ``bad'' cluster (depending on luck, hardware reliability, your general admin skills, your cluster admin skills, user support requirements, and the availability of cluster expertise in a distributed support environment).
Still, beowulfish clusters often yield staggering productivity efficiency. Generally 3-10x more cost/benefit than comparable power ``big iron''. SO, literally everybody is buying or building them.
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Update: When you look at the web-onlies, there are 256 ads total.
Later Update: last year there were 507 ads published on October 10th. Fuck.
Even More Later Update: Seriously, APA, what's with the same ad appearing with different ad numbers all over the place?
-- Mr. Zero
Latest Update: I realize the naïveté is at work when I found it strangely exciting to look at the JFP seriously for the first time.
I wait for the panic. The above comparisons are making it creep slowly. Full on anxiety attacks to happen soon. For now, I'll stick to taking deep breaths and marking down the numbers to the jobs that have earned the privilege of second looks and applications from yours truly...and everyone else. Fuck indeed.
Latest of the late updates: Anon. 4:00 p.m. has already called dibs on the Wisconsin job. Damn it. We should have gone to an auction for this year's job draft format, not a dibs system.
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Made for outdoor use in all weather, striking in colour, the weave is wrapped to a lightweight aluminium frame which is powder coated to add extra quality to the detail,
MarinaPlus Fabrics? designed for yacht use due to their all weather use, cutting edge fabrics are classed as synthetic leather, this is used abundantly as an integral part of the overall design to a great effect, also stitched into the weave itself and padded throughout with a soft and spongy filling.
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All the modern materials used in this lounger are 100% recyclable and the manufacturing processes used produce very little waste giving the whole thing an environmentally friendly.
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Claycomo Assembly Line Prepares To Begin New Line
Plant Will Be Only One In North America Producing Ford Transit
The last Ford Escape will roll off the Claycomo assembly line this weekend as workers prepare to build a new vehicle.
More than 3 million Ford Escapes have been built by Claycomo employees since 2000. But they will begin building another vehicle -- the Ford Transit. It's a type of van designed for various uses.
Because of the Transit's many different options, plant management believes the vehicle will keep the Claycomo assembly line rolling along.
"With all the option content that they'll offer in the marketplace for this product, I see this rising to the top of Ford's products," plant manager Kevin Gideon said.
Ford is investing more than a $1 billion in upgrades at the plant to make the Transit.
The assembly line will have to be retooled and re-engineered to build the Transit. An estimated 1,100 to 1,200 workers will be laid off while the changes are made. Workers will continue to be paid.
Claycomo is the only assembly plant building the Transit in North America.
The end of the Escape era has employees looking ahead to the future. They're also thinking fondly of the vehicle they made for so long.
"It's a bit sad to see it go," said employee Loy English, who has worked for Ford for 34 years.
He was part of the original Ford team that brought the Escape to the Claycomo plant.
"We will still be employed here," he said. "A lot of us will be putting in the facilities for the next product. I think the plant has a very bright future."
"We worked a lot of hours over time, made a lot of money off the Escape," said Ford employee Chris Light. "(It's a) real good vehicle and stuff. (I'm) just excited for the new product, and stuff, you know, and just what's coming next."


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J-Roll Rolls On
At 32 years of age, Jimmy Rollins is the dean of the Phillies. Or, Granddaddy, if you will. Yep, he's been around longer than anyone else on the team. In 2011, he's headed for his 11th consecutive full season.
Only Larry Bowa has patrolled shortstop longer for the Phillies, 12 seasons, 1970-81.
Not surprisingly, J-Roll is putting his mark on Phillies all-time records, 12 different categories, to be specific:
Games: 10th (1,494)
At-Bats: 6th (6,291)
Runs: 4th (993)
Hits: 6th (1,714)
Singles: 8th (1,096)
Doubles: 3rd (366)
Triples: 4th (98)
Total bases: 6th (2,738)
Extra-base hits: 5th (618)
Strikeouts: 10th (797)
Stolen bases: 4th (343)
When his Phillies days are over, he'll be ranked higher in each category. Needless to say, he will be a future inductee into the Phillies Wall of Fame.


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Zotac is really making a mark for itself as a motherboard manufacturer, especially in the small form factor arena, and this Zotac A75-ITX WiFi certainly looks to continue that trend.
We checked out the Z68-ITX WiFi a little while back and its combination of packed PCB and impressive performance made it an incredibly interesting prospect for a wee Intel Sandy Bridge machine.
More suited to the smaller PC though is AMD's Llano APU. In a form factor where space is at a premium having decent graphics power on-chip makes for a well-rounded machine in a very tight space.
Intel's Sandy Bridge may also have integrated graphics but that hardly gives you much power beyond a little light media play and standard web-crawling.
The Llano APUs though have discrete-class graphics prowess, maybe not of the high-end calibre, but certainly far better than anything we've seen before.
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At least a dozen volunteer fire companies from four different counties responded to the blaze at the Upper Freehold farmhouse in Monmouth County, officials said. The farmhouse is off a dirt road and there are no hydrants nearby so firefighters had to use less expeditious methods to fight the blaze, which may have exacerbated the damage.
No one was home at the time of the fire and no injuries were reported. The house, though, was destroyed. White smoke billowed out from the charred shell of the home after firefighters doused the flames.
Meteorologists say another powerful round of thunderstorms is expected to move across the area Thursday afternoon that could bring more intense lightning.
Showers are expected off and on Friday and Saturday but the sun comes out in time for a beautiful rest of the Memorial Day weekend with temperatures in the high 70s Sunday and Monday.


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- Toddlers build and rebuild three different vehicles out of one set of colorful, easy-to-handle parts
- Includes parts needed for a space-age rocket, old-fashioned train engine, and cartoony helicopter
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- Building-based play supports development of creativity and fine motor skills
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- Features Nordic Ecolabel certification.
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Who says you can't support nature and still look good? Clothes are a necessity, since it is illegal to run around naked. As this may be the most natural and eco-friendly way to go, it is still against the law. So the next best thing to do is to buy clothes that have as little impact on the earth as possible.
Adayak clothing company sells t-shirts that are 100% certified organic cotton and for every shirt sold, $1 is donated to Plant a Billion Trees, where $1 equals one tree.
Aventura produces clothes made of organic cotton, recycled polyester, rayon from bamboo, hemp and soy. You can find information on its website that explains why the company has chosen to use these materials in its clothing production and why "you'll love it." Aventura's ultimate goal is to provide comfortable, fashionable clothing using sustainable fabrics. It has everything from dresses, skirts and pants to jackets and vests.
Cottonique produces products from all-natural, organic cotton. It sells undergarments for women, men, children and infants and claims that chemicals are not even used in its production process. This seems to be one of the ways companies get away with selling "organic" clothes; the cotton used is organic, but the clothing was still exposed to many textile chemicals.
Earth Creations offers clothing made of hemp and organic cotton and dyes its fabrics using natural clay, not chemicals. Furthermore, it is a company based in Alabama, which allows some of its products to have less of a carbon footprint than those that are made overseas. The company has also donated $50,000 in clothing to organizations, such as Audubon Society, Animal Acres, and many more that support the earth and conservation.
If looking for companies that are just eco-friendly, a non-profit organization called Textile Exchange (formerly known as Organic Exchange), whose headquarters are in the U.S., was created in 2002 in order to help expand "textile sustainability across the global textile value chain." Its mission is to encourage sustainable practices in the textile industry so that companies can adopt earth-friendly production processes.
The organization's website contains a "Member Directory" that includes companies working with it to develop sustainable practices. You can either search by company, production country, a general "supply chain/ manufacturers" search, "brand/retailers" or "professional services" depending on what type of information you are trying to acquire. The site also contains information about each company's sustainable practices that have allowed them to become partners with Textile Exchange. Some popular members include Adidas, Anvil, Aventura Clothing/Sportif USA, Disney Consumer Products, Econscious, Gap, Greensource, H&M, Kohl's, Land's End, Levi Strauss & Co., New Balance, Nike, Nordstrom, Patagonia, Prana, Puma, Quicksilver, REI, Target and The North Face Inc., among many others.
You don't have to harm the earth in order to be fashionable. Be a conscience consumer and support companies that are actually producing products in an eco-friendly way.
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VKORC1 and CYP2C9 Gene Polymorphisms and Warfarin Management
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00970892
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified September 2009 by Ankara University.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : September 3, 2009
Last Update Posted : September 3, 2009
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|Condition or disease
|Atrial Fibrillation Cardiac Thrombus Deep Vein Thrombosis Pulmonary Embolism Heart Valve Replacement (Mechanical or Biological With AF) Cardiomyopathy (Ischemic or Dilated) Peripheral Vascular Disease
|Drug: Warfarin dose titration
Long-term anticoagulation therapy with warfarin is recommended for patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF), left atrial thrombus, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary thromboembolism (PE), mechanical heart valve replacement, cardiomyopathy, and ischemic stroke. Warfarin, a coumarin derivative, produces an anticoagulant effect by interfering with the vitamin K 2,3 epoxide reductase (VKOR) enzyme and γ-carboxylation of vitamin K-dependent clotting factors such as II, VII, IX, and X. However, management of warfarin therapy is complicated with interindividual differences in drug response, delayed onset of action, difficulty with reversal and a narrow therapeutic window leading to increased risk of life-threatening hemorrhagic adverse events or thromboembolism. Furthermore, in order to determine safe and effective loading dose during the early phase of therapy and maintenance doses require frequent laboratory monitoring and adjustments to compensate for changes in patients' age, body size, vitamin K intake through diet, disease state, comorbidities, concomitant use of other medications, and patient-specific genetic factors.
Poor anticoagulant control may cause fatal complications such as thromboembolism with undertreatment or bleeding with excessive anticoagulation. Indeed, the risk of major bleeding in patients on warfarin is between 1% and 5% per year. Identifying the optimal therapeutic range and managing the dose of therapy to achieve the maximal time in therapeutic range are two of the most important determinants of therapeutic effectiveness and of reducing hemorrhagic risk. Currently, there have been substantial efforts to improve the safety of warfarin anticoagulation therapy. Recent warfarin pharmacogenetic studies have largely focused on two candidate genes: CYP2C9, responsible for warfarin metabolism, and VKORC1, which encodes vitamin K epoxide reductase, the site of warfarin action. Current evidence is clear that polymorphisms in either CYP2C9 or VKORC1 affect warfarin sensitivity.
We aimed to use pharmacogenetic information in clinical practise which may lead to rapid, efficient, and safe warfarin dosing in this observational prospective study. In this context, we plan to develop an algorithm for estimating the appropriate warfarin dose that is based on both clinical and genetic data from the Turkish study population. This study is unique not only investigating clinical factors, demographic variables, CYP2C9, and VKORC1 gene variations which contribute to the variability among patients in dose requirements for warfarin but also including thrombogenic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in the same patient population. Thus, warfarin would be a good example by being the first cardiovascular drug for pharmacogenetic guided "personalized medicine" applications.
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|500 participants
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|Evaluation of VKORC1 and Cytochrome P450 CYP2C9 Gene Polymorphisms and Management of Warfarin Dose Using Pharmacogenetic Data
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|July 2009
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|July 2012
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|December 2012
- Drug: Warfarin dose titration
- Warfarin related complications including bleeding and thromboembolism [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Maximal time in international normalized ratio (INR) therapeutic range and deviation from target INR levels [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
Patients who require warfarin for at least 6 months with the indications listed below:
- Permanent Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter
- Left atrial or ventricular thrombus
- Deep Vein Thrombosis
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Heart Valve Replacement (Mechanical or Biological With AF)
- Cardiomyopathy (Ischemic or Dilated)
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of GI bleeding or peptic ulcer disease
- Significant liver disease, active hepatitis or chronic HBV/HCV infection
- Uncontrolled hypertension
- Chronic diarrhea or malabsorption syndrome
- Viral or bacterial infection prior to enrollment
- Active or previous infective endocarditis
- Hospital stay > 30 days as a result of septicemia, mediastinitis or pneumonia
- Cardiac cachexia
- Morbid obesity
- Expected pregnancy, pregnancy or lactation
- Psychiatric disease
- Malignancy with Life expectancy less than 1 year
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00970892
|Contact: RUCHAN A AKAR, Assoc. Prof.
|Contact: SERKAN DURDU
|Ankara University Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Pulmonary Disease
|Ankara, Turkey, 06340
|Contact: RUCHAN AKAR, Assoc. Prof. +905336424994 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Contact: SERKAN DURDU +905336373535 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Sub-Investigator: HILAL OZDAG, Assoc. Prof.
|Sub-Investigator: RUCHAN A AKAR, Assoc. Prof.
|Sub-Investigator: ALTAY GUVENIR, Prof.
|Sub-Investigator: ISMAIL SAVAS, Prof.
|Sub-Investigator: SERKAN DURDU, MD
|Sub-Investigator: GUNSELI CUBUKCUOGLU DENIZ, MSc
|Sub-Investigator: UMIT OZYURDA, Prof.
|Sub-Investigator: HAKAN GURDAL, Prof.
|Sub-Investigator: GOKHAN H ILK, Assoc. Prof.
|Sub-Investigator: FILIZ CETINKAYA, BSc
|Principal Investigator:
|Nejat Akar, Prof
|Ankara University
|Responsible Party:
|NEJAT AKAR, Prof., Ankara University
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|September 3, 2009 Key Record Dates
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Pulmonary Embolism
Atrial Fibrillation
Vascular Diseases
Venous Thrombosis
Peripheral Vascular Diseases
Peripheral Arterial Disease
Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Embolism and Thrombosis
Lung Diseases
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Researchers from Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) have been working to beef up the nation's biosurveillance capabilities to provide early warning to warfighters and first responders.
The Obama Administration's National Biosurveillance Science and Technology Roadmap identifies and prioritizes research and development needs with the goal of giving decision makers at all levels of government more accurate and timely information when biological incidents threaten health.
It calls on government, the private sector and non-governmental and international partners "to enhance existing biosurveillance capabilities and, where necessary, develop new ones that provide decision makers and responders with the essential information they need to mitigate impacts of threats to health and associated economic, societal, and political consequences."
DTRA created its Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) to integrate timely, relevant data sources with an Analyst Workbench of tools help researchers detect, investigate and respond to biological threats, according to a DTRA newsletter.
DTRA's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department officials said they believe BSVE will demonstrate an easy, defined process for rapidly introducing new data sources into the system and displaying them as part of the search results. It will also allow users to understand relationships among data and potential correlations allowing for disease prediction and forecasting.
A downloadable software developers kit (SDK) will allow for externally developed analytics to be integrated rapidly into the BSVE for use and will allow users, researchers, students, and citizens to participate.
Users can customize their BSVE Analyst Workbench to support their activities regardless of location, skill level, or resources. The workbench provides tools for data visualization, modeling and simulation, task management, report generation, hotspot maps and crowdsourcing.
Meanwhile, researchers at the Draper Laboratory are developing the Collaborative Overarching Multi-feed Biosurveillance System (COMBS), a system that will use a cloud-based network to gather public data from social media, blogs, search trends and open source information such as news and health information sources to monitor real-time conditions affecting human, animal, and environmental health.
Having COMBS' data and tools in the cloud will facilitate broad data collection and allow researchers to conduct complex analytic calculations. Using an app-store approach for data and app provisioning, COMBS will provide a user-customizable, flexible analytic environment, allowing analysts unprecedented access to biosurveillance data that will enable real-time decision making by public health officials.
Additionally, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory released a 2014 update to its product guide listing biodetection technologies. The updated digest provides a comprehensive compilation of commercially available detection devices and products published to help first responders when purchasing equipment and supplies needed to rapidly assess biological threats, according to the lab. PNNL is also nearing completion of its first round of independent biodetection technology performance evaluations.
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