Feds ready for sterile moth release Oct 30, 2009
Hawkins said the program would be repeated several times in coming weeks to provide a data set showing the effectiveness of the program before deciding whether it would be feasible to implement it on a larger scale statewide. Reader Comments. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
US economy set to exit recession Oct 29, 2009
Page last updated at 06:52 GMT, Thursday, 29 October 2009. The 'Cash for Clunkers' scheme gave the economy a boost. (BBC News -- Business)
Software That Gets Reduced, Reused, Recycled Oct 29, 2009
A mash-up takes one data set, like Google maps, and plugs it into another dataset, like estate agent listings, and creates a new service, for example, a map with all the houses for sale in your town. Now European researchers have developed a platform that offers service-centric software engineering for industrial-strength applications. (Science Daily)
AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling Oct 29, 2009
Statisticians who analyzed the data found a distinct decades-long upward trend in the numbers, but could not find a significant drop in the past 10 years in either data set ... "Levitt, a University of Chicago economist, said he does not believe there is a cooling trend. He said the line was just an attempt to note the irony of a cool couple of years at a time of intense discussion of global warming. Levitt said he did not do any statistical analysis of temperatures, but "eyeballed" the numbers... (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Waste of money? Oct 29, 2009
We would have liked to have had the opportunity to see the entire data set, said Clinton V. Oster, Jr., co-chairman of the National Research panel who is associate dean at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs. We'll never know what might have happened if we had. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Obesity, STDs flow in social networks Oct 25, 2009
In fact, the researchers re-examined the same data set and found that people who dumped their friends who gained weight were even more susceptible to obesity. "On the one hand, yes, our work showed that if you keep your friend, you are going to be susceptible to their bad behaviors," he said. (CNN -- Tech)
Record recession for UK economy Oct 24, 2009
4% In Quarter - 7 hrs ago UK 'last to get out of global slump' - 8 hrs ago * Surprise data set economists on collision course - 8 hrs ago UPDATE 4-Britain still in recession after shock Q3 contraction - 15 hrs ago Pound tumbles as recession breaks all records - 21 hrs ago * Requires registration. SHARED. (BBC News -- UK)
What Are Web Surfers Seeking? Well, It's Just What You'd Think Oct 24, 2009
But taking up AOL on its original intentions, I got hold of the data set -- 2. 27 gigabytes' worth, loaded it into my shiny new SQL Server database software, and started my own research project into how people really use the Web. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Surprise data set economists on collision course Oct 24, 2009
Financial Times FT.com. All times are London time. (FT.com -- Markets)
Errors in Judgment Oct 23, 2009
In addition to the usual information on defendants and their crimes, Owens' data set included sentence recommendations provided to judges to guide their punishment decisions. The sentencing guidelinesbased on a that graded the severity of a convict's crime and his risk to societywere meant to make the administration of justice a little less arbitrary: Similar cases should lead to similar penalties. (Slate)
Primate fossil 'not an ancestor' Oct 22, 2009
He added: "We have analysed a large data set based on observations we have made on almost 120 living and extinct primates and what we find... [is that] Darwinius and this new genus that we've described are not part of our ancestry. "They are more closely related to lemurs and lorises than they are to tarsirs or monkeys, apes and humans. This study would effectively remove Ida from our ancestry. (BBC News)
Investor Interpretation of Economic... Oct 21, 2009
Though the inflation rate is by far the most volatile data set of the four, in general, recessions begin when or shortly after inflation has surged and/or peaked ... However, these other data sets are also inconsistent, and can be influenced by non-economic factors (and vice versa). (Suite101.com)
Integrating functional genomics data using maximum likelihood based simultaneous component analysis Oct 17, 2009
In a previous simulation study it outperformed normal SCA-P. This previous study, however, did not mimic in many respects typical functional genomics data sets, such as, data blocks coupled via the experimental mode, more variables than experimental units, and medium to high correlations between variables ... Subsequently, the performance of the two methods is evaluated by analysis of a real life Escherichia coli metabolomics data set ... In the analysis of an E. coli metabolomics data set,... (BioMed Central)
Functional Status of Elderly Adults before and after Initiation of Dialysis Oct 15, 2009
Functional status was measured by assessing the degree of dependence in seven activities of daily living (on the Minimum Data Set Activities of Daily Living [MDS ADL] scale of 0 to 28 points, with higher scores indicating greater functional difficulty). Results The median MDS ADL score increased from 12 during the 3 months before the initiation of dialysis to 16 during the 3 months after the initiation of dialysis. (New England Journal of Medicine)
'Match Day' to benefit library Oct 13, 2009
"It's a very rich data set and search tool for people who care about nonprofit organizations and might want to support them. It gives those organizations an opportunity to share their own stories and promote greater transparency. ; You can go online and research their financials, their mission and their board of directors, and then make a decision whether to contribute.". There is a credit card processing fee of 4. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Sports and game theory: Common-room quarterbacks Oct 13, 2009
Mr Kovash and Mr Levitt suggest that their vast data set allows a sterner test of the theory. It may also be that pitchers and quarterbacks have a harder task than penalty-takers and are likelier to make mistakes. (The Economist)
iPhone the body electric Oct 8, 2009
The ability for the public to do 3-D visualization of large data sets is a fairly recent development, he adds ... "You can have the data sitting elsewhere, yet you can still view it, display it and manipulate it on your iPhone," even though "the data set size can be much, much larger than the memory on the iPhone.". (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
New Kind Of Search For Dark Energy: First Light For BOSS Oct 3, 2009
"The high precision, enormous dynamic range, and wide redshift span of the BOSS clustering measurements translate into a revolutionary data set, which will provide rich insights into the origin of cosmic structure and the contents of the Universe.". Existing SDSS spectrographs were upgraded to include new red cameras more sensitive to the red portion of the spectrum, featuring CCDs designed and fabricated at Berkeley Lab, with much higher efficiency than standard astronomical CCDs in the near... (Science Daily)
Greenhouse Rock: Stone-Cold Data from Ancient Glacial Deposits May Help Reveal Future Climate Change Sep 25, 2009
Global data set in stone Schaefer wants to see the improved dating method taken around the world, and has been chiseling rocks himself from New York to New Zealand. He is the lead author of a study published in the May 7, 2009, issue of Science that investigated the ebbs and flows of. (Scientific American)
Frog Fungus Hammering Biodiversity Sep 23, 2009
Hoping to find a data set appropriate for the kind of analysis he had in mind, Smith got in touch with Lips, a scientist who has monitored amphibian declines in Central America for many years. "The basis of this paper is her decades of work in this area," says Smith, "and the astonishing data set they produced.". (Science Daily)
Ocean observing scientists and marine industries teaming up to sustainably monitor the water column Sep 22, 2009
Launched in 2000, the innovative program has produced a vast data set of atmospheric and oceanographic measurements along the ship's itinerary, and its full automation will serve as a pilot study and test bed for OceanScope. "Our ability to equip freighters, tankers and cruise ships, which traverse all major oceans on defined schedules will allow us to scan both the surface waters and the water column without having to deploy individual research vessels," said Ortner. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
November/December 2009 GSA Bulletin highlights Sep 22, 2009
In order to investigate regional, upper-crustal deformation resulting from forearc sliver transport and/or slab rollback of the Cocos plate, these new data were integrated with relocated earthquake epicenters, earthquake focal mechanisms, high-resolution digital topography from the NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission published GPS vectors, onland geologic maps, previous maps of lake bathymetry and bottom sediment types, a previously unpublished regional aeromagnetic data set, and multichannel... (EurekAlert!)
High growth to counter corruption Sep 21, 2009
Using forest cover as a proxy for economic growth, (a somewhat surprising and highly debatable choice) B at a data set of 20 Indian states during the three year period after the passage of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and find that faster growing states do indeed have lower levels of corruption suggesting that growth does reduce overall corruption. In itself this is not very surprising. (India Times)
Athletes With Smaller Anterior Cruciate Ligaments May Be More Susceptible To Injury Sep 20, 2009
If you compared two people of the same weight, based on our data set, we would expect the injured person had the smaller ACL, said Ajit Chaudhari, assistant professor of orthopedics at Ohio State University and lead author of the study. Knowing that the knee s anatomy can influence susceptibility should help researchers who are trying to figure out why ACL injuries occur and who is most likely to experience these injuries, Chaudhari said. (Science Daily)
10 Million Users Select Firefox Security Upgrade Sep 19, 2009
Taking a (small) leap of faith and without having the full data set myself, I'm going to assume that means that at least 30 percent of Firefox 3. 5. (Datamation)
Set-Top Data: Taming the Wild West Sep 19, 2009
Besides representing a very large data set ; in the millions of viewers, versus the 18,000 in Nielsen;s national panel ; set-top box data is free of non-response bias and ;respondent fatigue; over time. So there;s inherent quality to set-top data that we believe will result in a better measurement tool long-term,; he said. (Multichannel News)
Heart Attack Deaths Declining for Veterans Affairs Patients Sep 18, 2009
Their analysis of the first data set found that death rates fell from 16 ... In the second data set, the researchers found, 30-day mortality after heart attack declined from 16 percent in 2000-2001 to 15. (MEDLINEplus)
Arena Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive, Highly Significant BLOSSOM Trial Results for Weight Management; NDA Submission on Track for December Sep 18, 2009
- Combined Phase 3 BLOOM and BLOSSOM Data Set Confirms Lorcaserin's Excellent Safety and Tolerability Profile and Rules Out Heart Valve Effect ... The integrated echocardiographic data set from BLOSSOM and BLOOM rules out a risk of valvulopathy in lorcaserin patients according to criteria requested by the FDA. Treatment with lorcaserin also resulted in significant improvements as compared to placebo in multiple secondary endpoints associated with cardiovascular risk ... The integrated BLOOM and... (PR Newswire)
Relative power and sample size analysis on gene expression profiling data Sep 17, 2009
Relative power and sample size analysis were performed on two distinct data sets ... A simulation experiment was performed that mimicked the effect sizes seen in the first data set ... The second, more challenging data set describes a microarray platform comparison study using hippocampal deltaC-doublecortin-like kinase transgenic mice that were compared to wild-type mice, which was combined with results from Solexa/Illumina deep sequencing runs. (BioMed Central)
MySpace to Open Source In-house Data Analysis Technology Sep 17, 2009
Qizmt is a distributed computation framework based on the MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets in processor clusters ... "We want to look at our entire data set and start exploring the realm of social analytics. We're really trying to understand the nature of our users' behavior and the relationship with each other and with content as well," Al-Adwan said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Public Library of Science releases online usage data for its articles Sep 17, 2009
For anyone wishing to examine the data in detail the complete raw data set is also available as a download. PLoS is still in the early stages of the article-level metrics program, but this is the first attempt by a major publisher to place such a broad range of data on each article. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Windows 7 Install Time Varies Wildly Sep 16, 2009
The team tested specific PC configurations, ranging from low-end, mid-range, and high-end hardware, against typical user scenarios that were based on questions such as how large a data set the user needs and how many applications are installed. Microsoft referred to them as medium, heavy, and super users. (Datamation)
Remarks by Assistant Attorney General Christine A. Varney at the Competition Conference of the International Bar Association Sep 13, 2009
In appropriate instances, they can even involve the mutual use of some shared databases so Division and party economists are able to work from a common data set. More generally, we welcome creative suggestions from parties about how to make our investigations more efficient in specific instances. (PR Newswire)
UCS MEAP assessment is misrepresented Sep 12, 2009
First, the "80 percent average" figure refers to no specific data set. Is it the average of every school and their average of the four subject tests. (Shelby Twp Advisor & Source, MI)
Scientists Identify Genes Linked To Lou Gehrig's Disease Sep 10, 2009
The data set they analyzed was provided by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Human Genetics Resource Center at the Coriell Institute, a publicly funded "bank" or repository for human cells, DNA samples, clinical data, and other information that aims to accelerate research on the genetics of nervous system disorders. Ideally, we should confirm our results in a second data set, but we don t have one available, Sha says ... Using data sets provided by University of... (Science Daily)
Breakthrough Discoveries of Alzheimer's Genes Sep 7, 2009
Williams's team found that among the Alzheimer's patients' samples, certain versions of the genes that coded for clusterin and PICALM were more likely to be active, compared with the controls; in Amouyel's data set, clusterin and CR1 were the two highest ranking genes. While Amouyel's study had also noted PICALM as a high-risk gene of interest and Williams's research had likewise identified CR1, the two groups used different criteria to pinpoint their highest priority genes, leading to the... (Time.com)
The Myth of Moderate Exercise Sep 6, 2009
That left researchers with a slightly different data set than they had planned for, but they were still able to associate women's reported physical activity with their weight loss. Indeed, exercise was more strongly associated with weight loss than any other factor, including diet. (Time.com)
Economists Measure GDP Growth From Outer Space Sep 6, 2009
17, 2008) Two economists have created a new data set that enables them to explain differences in countries' incomes based on their people's ancestral histories. They find that where the ancestors of a. (Science Daily)
Over Time, An Invasive Plant Loses Its Toxic Edge Sep 4, 2009
To determine if the decline in glucosinolate production was allowing native plants to return to areas previously dominated by garlic mustard in the wild, the researchers turned to a unique data set available in Illinois. The Critical Trends Assessment Program (CTAP) is a long-term initiative funded by the state Department of Natural Resources and administered by the INHS that monitors the status of plants, birds and insects across the state every five years. (Science Daily)
For Heart Health: Avoid Tobacco Smoke, Pollution Sep 2, 2009
So, Pope said, he and his colleagues decided, "We're going to take the largest data set available" - from the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study II - "and look at the effects of different increments of exposure" to smoke and other pollutants on risk. They discovered, Pope said, that "the biggest increases in risk occur at lighter levels of exposure.". (MEDLINEplus)
were collecting too much data Sep 1, 2009
In fact, more technical data have been collected in the past year alone than in all previous years since science began, says Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Alexander Szalay, an authority on large data sets and their impact on science ... The RAND Corp. says that researchers creating important digital data sets show an alarming lack of concern about preserving them in digital preservation ... Its final data set catalogs 230 million celestial objects, encompassing 930,000 galaxies, 120,000 quasars... (Harper's Magazine)
It's Time for Some Due Diligence on Global Warming Claims Aug 29, 2009
Professor Phil Jones, the activist-scientist who maintains the data set, has cited various reasons for refusing to release the raw data. Most famously, Jones told an Australian climate scientist in 2004: Even if WMO agrees, I will still not pass on the data. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Silky, wiry, short or long - how genes change dogs' coats Aug 28, 2009
" It means, she said, that the problems of diseases with a genetic basis are "much more solvable". Dr Ostander also expressed her thanks to all of the dog-owners who donated DNA samples from their pets. "They've turned out to be extremely helpful, and this data set is just going to keep giving and giving. " Bookmark with: Print Sponsor SEE ALSO 05 Feb 09 | Science onment 19 Aug 08 | UK 05 Apr 07 | Science onment 07 Jan 05 | Science onment 29 Dec 04 | Science onment RELATED INTERNET LINKS The BBC... (BBC News)
A reliable measure of similarity based on dependency for short time series: an application to gene expression networks. Aug 28, 2009
The results shown here are for an adapted subset of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene expression data set with low temporal resolution and poor statistics. The method reveals common transcription factors with a high confidence level and allows the construction of subnetworks with high biological relevance that reveals characteristic features of the processes driving the organism adaptations to specific environmental conditions. (BioMed Central)
In-hospital mortality after stomach cancer surgery in Spain and relationship with hospital volume of interventions Aug 27, 2009
We performed a retrospective cohort study of all patients discharged after surgery for stomach cancer during 2001-2002 in four regions of Spain using the Minimum Basic Data Set for Hospital Discharges. The overall and specific in-hospital mortality rates were estimated according to patient, surgical procedure and hospital characteristics. (BioMed Central)
CER study demonstrated asthma patients had better overall results with oral controllers Aug 26, 2009
The administrative data set consisted of integrated medical claims, pharmacy claims and eligibility files. The study database was developed in compliance with the regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. (EurekAlert!)
New economic data set to test Wall Street bull run Aug 22, 2009
August 22, 2009 - 5:49PM. New US economic data in the coming week will test the resilience of Wall Street as US shares scaled fresh highs for the year on upbeat remarks by Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke and buoyant housing data. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Morton looks at budget issues Aug 22, 2009
"With building this GIS data set, we're found there are some things that need to be worked on that we didn't know were out there before we could identify them in this computer system," Kelsch said. He said they needed to work together to determine how best to flow the missing information. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Print journalism not the only one in trouble Aug 21, 2009
A December 2008 Wall Street Journal and Gallup Poll corroborates the trend; it found that only 24 percent of Americans between 18 and 25 get their daily news from cable TV. That same data set also suggests that network nightly newscasts may have reached a trough in their viewership, and are now competing with cable news in terms of number of respondents tuning to them for news. It comes as little surprise for members of Gen. Y, for whom Jon Stewart s 2004 assault of Tucker Carlson and Paul... (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
Market Forecaster Aug 19, 2009
The monthly numbers are the official data set but we point it out for those that keep an eye on the weekly beef export reports. Also important to note is that last year US beef exporters did not have access to the Korean market. (Midwest Bulls Eye, NE)
Letter: Science teacher wrong about the causes of global warming (Aug. 19) Aug 19, 2009
Mann s work was debunked in 2003 as an artifact of a bad data set and bad mathematics. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Hackers Put Social Networks Such as Twitter in Crosshairs Aug 18, 2009
The WHID's data set is "statistically insignificant" compared to the actually number of hacking incidents, but shows overall attacker trends, Barnett said. Other data showed how Web sites were attacked. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
NIH-funded researchers sequence exomes of 12 people Aug 17, 2009
Altogether, the project determined 300 million bases of DNA sequence the largest data set reported so far of human coding sequence produced by more advanced second-generation sequencing technologies. Comparison of the exome sequences to the publicly available human genome sequence highlighted the sensitivity of this technique for detecting genetic variations, both common and rare. (EurekAlert!)
Amazon's data shipping goes both ways now Aug 16, 2009
(08-14) 17:14 PDT -- has expanded a shipping service for large data sets on its S3 cloud storage platform so customers can get their content back instead of just sending it ... In addition to the obvious uses of disaster recovery and retrieving large data sets that have accumulated through EC2-based applications, AWS suggested two other potential purposes for the export service ... Companies could sell copies of a large data set stored on S3 and use AWS's export system for distribution, or they... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
What Are Web Surfers Seeking? Well, It's Just What You'd Think Aug 15, 2009
But taking up AOL on its original intentions, I got hold of the data set -- 2. 27 gigabytes' worth, loaded it into my shiny new SQL Server database software, and started my own research project into how people really use the Web. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
South Africa: A Nice Surprise Aug 15, 2009
One crucial data set that the Bank would have seen, but the market hasn't yet, are the gross domestic product figures for the second quarter, due to be released by Statistics SA next week. The economy contracted by 6,4% in the first quarter: it was widely expected to contract again in the second quarter, and Mboweni confirmed yesterday that the recession indeed continued in the second quarter. (allAfrica.com)
Seizures During Pregnancy Associated With Risk Of Pre-term And Small Babies Aug 13, 2009
D., of Tai Pei Medical University, Taiwan, and colleagues used data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Data set and analyzed records from 1,016 women with epilepsy who gave birth between 2001 and 2003. Of these, 503 had seizures during pregnancy and 513 did not. (Science Daily)
Breastfeeding Reduces Risk Of Breast Cancer In Women With A Family History Of The Disease Aug 13, 2009
"This could be because there's something about genetically caused breast cancer that's affected by breastfeeding, or it could be because rates of breast cancer were so low in women without a family history that we couldn't see an association in this data set.". Stuebe says the research underscores the public health impact of policies that help mothers successfully breastfeed. (Science Daily)
Research examines organization of militaries and its effects on society Aug 12, 2009
Carlton-Ford's study used the "War and Children's Life Chances" data set to conduct a cross-national panel study from 1985 through 2004, examining the impact of armed conflict and militarization on life chances. The data set holds information from 179 countries with populations larger than 200,000. (EurekAlert!)
Story » Aug 11, 2009
Oneida is one of only two lakes that have been fished every year of the Elite Series, and the results will be important for filling out a relatively short historical data set. But the best part will be seeing just how much these predictions are off. (ESPN -- Outdoors)
Researching Brain Music At Trinity College Aug 11, 2009
"If you have a functional MRI image data set there's a lot [of information] in there but it's not obvious how to get it out. All these cognitive events are overlapping with one another.". There is no definitive way to know if someone will become schizophrenic, Calhoun said, so if the aural data serves in any way to predict the disorder's onset, it could have a big effect on research and treatment. (FOX61, CT)
Genomic Signature In Blood Identifies Underlying Viral Infection Aug 11, 2009
Investigators tested this "acute respiratory viral signature" in an independently acquired data set of gene expression patterns among people infected with influenza A and found that the signature was able to clearly distinguish with 100 percent accuracy between individuals who were infected and those who were not. "We believe there will be multiple applications for this discovery," says Ginsburg. (Science Daily)
Hadera Paper Ltd. Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter and Six Months Ended June 30, 2009 Aug 10, 2009
The Consolidated Data set forth below excluding the results of operation of the associated companies: Mondi Hadera, H-K. Consolidated Data include the sales turnover of Carmel Containers Systems Ltd. ("Carmel") and Frenkel- C.D. Ltd. ("Frenkel- C.D.") that were consolidated as of September 2008, as a result of the fact that the holding rate in Carmel has increased from 36. 2% to 89. (PR Newswire)
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Mini Pullback for Dow; Nasdaq Sinks Aug 7, 2009
" Energy stocks led the way down Thursday as stocks like Sunoco (SUN) and Chevron (CVX) slumped as crude oil tumbled as much as 2%. Yet the commodity closed well off its worst levels, settling down 3 cents a barrel, or 0.04%, at $71.94. A day after the markets fretted about disappointing data on the service sector and labor markets, the government surprised Wall Street by saying initial jobless claims fell by 38,000 to 550,000 last week. Economists had been predicting claims would rise by 1,000.... (Fox News)
