BIOBOARD

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Keyword(s):  
Lower Cost ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Research Award ◽  
Spinal Disc ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Gene Switch ◽  
Hiv Aids

AUSTRALIA – Genetic Link Found for Brain Disorders. AUSTRALIA – Burns Treatment to Replace Skin Grafts. AUSTRALIA – Australian Scientists Discover How Liver Kills "Killer Cells". AUSTRALIA – High Fat Food Triggers Gene 'Switch' Leading to Type 2 Diabetes. CHINA – First Biologist from China Wins Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. INDIA – H5 Bird Flu Outbreak in West Bengal. JAPAN – New Zealand, Japanese Scientists Collaborate on Functional Foods Research. SINGAPORE – Antibodies Can Bind Cancer Proteins on the Inside. SINGAPORE – A Guinness World Record for Singapore with A*STAR IMRE's world's smallest Working Gears. SINGAPORE – IBN Harnesses Ultrasmall Peptides to Repair Spinal Disc Damage. TAIWAN – Meningitis C Vaccination Breakthrough. TAIWAN – Taiwan Targets Developing High-end Medical Equipment in Three Stages. TAIWAN – Scientists Announce Technology to Grow Meat Faster at Lower Cost. TAIWAN – Taiwanese-American HIV/AIDS Academic Joins Team. OTHER REGIONS — Gene Behind Chronic Blood Cancer Identified. OTHER REGIONS — New Technology Could Make You Light-Hearted. OTHER REGIONS — HIV/AIDS Researcher David Ho Wins NIDA's 2011 Avant-Garde Award. OTHER REGIONS — Steven Chu - 2011 R&D Magazine's 49th Scientist of the Year. OTHER REGIONS — Shu Chien Awarded 2011 National Medal of Science.

scholarly journals Advances in high-density lipoprotein physiology: surprises, overturns, and promises

2016 ◽  
Vol 310 (1) ◽  
pp. E1-E14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caterina Constantinou ◽  
Eleni A. Karavia ◽  
Eva Xepapadaki ◽  
Peristera-Ioanna Petropoulou ◽  
Eugenia Papakosta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Fatty Liver Disease ◽  
Metabolic Disorders ◽  
Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Pulmonary Diseases ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver ◽  
Disease States ◽  
And Function

Emerging evidence strongly supports that changes in the HDL metabolic pathway, which result in changes in HDL proteome and function, appear to have a causative impact on a number of metabolic disorders. Here, we provide a critical review of the most recent and novel findings correlating HDL properties and functionality with various pathophysiological processes and disease states, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, inflammation and sepsis, bone and obstructive pulmonary diseases, and brain disorders.

Nutritional Genomics and Dietetic Professional Practice

2008 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milly Ryan-Harshman ◽  
Ellen Vogel ◽  
Holly Jones-Taggart ◽  
Julia Green-Johnson ◽  
David Castle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Blood Lipid ◽  
Lipid Profiles ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Ethics Policy ◽  
Associated Conditions ◽  
Nutritional Genomics

Nutrigenomics is concerned with the role of nutrients in gene expression, and nutrigenetics is the study of how genetic variants or polymorphisms (mutations) can affect responses to nutrients; nutritional genomics is the umbrella term. Nutritional genomics can be expected to revolutionize the way dietitians and other health professionals identify people with chronic diseases and treat those diseases. Understanding the science of nutritional genomics is important to dietitians and other health professionals because major scientific advancements such as this usually have a significant impact on ethics, policy, and practice. Blood lipid profiles are one area in which nutritional genomics has quickly advanced knowledge. New knowledge is available on blood lipid profiles and associated conditions, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. New technology has also had an impact on policy and practice issues, and ethics is an important issue to consider.

Representative Democracy as Kitsch, and Artificial Intelligence’s Promise of Emancipation

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius C. Silaghi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Civic Involvement ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Significant Support

The chapter explores relations between modernity and the decentralization of authority, kitsch and partial centralization, the avant-garde and social media. Decentralization is identified as an important expression of modernist philosophy in current technology. As a characteristic of current directions of social progress, authority-opposing trends of modernism and post-modernism find significant support in new technology via less falsifiable decentralization based on crypto-currencies, blockchain, social media, search engines, and other products of the internet era. The scalability of classic athenian democracy to large societies is not yet accomplished by technology. Against the early modernity tendency to cheaply give the masses an almost effortless sense of participation (features associated with kitsch), the system of representative democracy promises to become more genuine through opportunities for electronic civic involvement.

scholarly journals Applied Art: Innovative Thinking From a Material Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneli Hoel Fjærli ◽  
Ida Haugland
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Applied Art ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Society ◽  
On The Road

The modern world is continuously engaged in a racing processes aimed towards building a favourable future society. In this development, the apparent tools seem to be related to theoretical thought, new technology, avant-garde approaches and innovation. The bodily focus and the societal micro level processes are often left behind in this race. Though, in our aspiration towards urban development and the future society, we should not forget that the bodily functions and the possibilities that these give, represent one of the most fundamental and basic tools we have. This article would like to form an argument carrying out the seeming advantage of bringing in not just technological and theoretic avant-garde to the term of innovation and development, but to invite the whole body into the forming of the future, thereby seeing the term innovation from a material perspective. As the art field today is more often approaching subject matters that are primarily societal, we would like to introduce the potential of a mutual approach from the other end, seeing the art field as a central part in the creation of engagement and progress that can instigate another form of efficiency and present an expanded understanding of what innovative activity can be, and how it can be perceived and comprehended. We would like to debate an art form that takes the bodily, active and relational focus and its social context as a base and starting point on the road towards societal consciousness and potential development. Looking at the example of the art project «The Collectivity Project», this article takes it’s starting point in the following question; How can applied art projects in connection to social contexts, like The Collectivity Project, show the art field and the bodily sensuousness as a tool in the forming of values pointing towards an alternative way of thinking societal consciousness and development?

scholarly journals Production of ethanol from Jerusalem artichoke by mycelial pellets

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Daoji Wu ◽  
Hongqi Yang ◽  
Huixue Ren
Keyword(s):  
Lower Cost ◽  
Simultaneous Saccharification And Fermentation ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Ethanol Yield ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Jerusalem Artichoke ◽  
Mycelial Pellets ◽  
Repeated Use ◽  
Easy Operation ◽  
Simultaneous Saccharification

AbstractMycelial pellets formed by Aspergillus niger A-15 were used to immobilize the ethanol producing yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae C-15. The operation parameters, such as agitation speed, temperature and mixed proportion of strains were studied. The optimal adsorption 66.9% was obtained when speed was 80r/min, temperature was 40 °C and mixed proportion(mycelial pellets: yeasts) was 1:10. With Jerusalem artichoke flour as substrate, 12.8% (V/V) of ethanol was obtained after 48 h by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation using mycelial pellets. And mycelial pellets could tolerate 19% (volume fraction) ethanol. The above results proved that this new technology was feasible, and it had the advantages of higher ethanol yield, long service life, repeated use, easy operation and lower cost in producing ethanol.

An Australian Based Study on the Readability of HIV/AIDS and Type 2 Diabetes Clinical Trial Informed Consent Documents

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura D. Buccini ◽  
Donald Iverson ◽  
Peter Caputi ◽  
Caroline Jones
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals The Role of Type 2 Diabetes for the Development of Pathogen-Associated Cancers in the Face of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa J. Blumenthal ◽  
Sylvia Ujma ◽  
Arieh A. Katz ◽  
Georgia Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
The Face ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Impact of New Technologies for Middle-Aged and Older Patients: In-Depth Interviews With Type 2 Diabetes Patients Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-Ju Chiu ◽  
Yu-Hsuan Chou ◽  
Yen-Ju Chen ◽  
Ye-Fong Du
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Continuous Glucose Monitoring ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Glucose Monitoring ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Diet Control ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Diabetes Patients

BACKGROUND Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) uses subcutaneous sensors and records the average interstitial sensor current every 5 min in the recorder; data are subsequently exported to a computer 4 to 7 days later when calibration with self-measured blood glucose is made retrospectively. How middle-aged and older patients perceive the added technology intervention is not clear. OBJECTIVE The study aimed to understand the factors associated with the adoption of new technology in diabetes care, to understand the feelings and behaviors while using it, and to determine the changes in attitudes and behavior after completing the use of the new technology at the 3-month follow-up. METHODS Middle-aged and older type 2 diabetes patients who had received professional continuous glucose monitoring (iPro 2 [Medtronic]) were invited for semistructured in-depth interviews on the day of the CGM sensor removal and at 3 months after CGM-based counseling. A phenomenography approach was used to analyze the interview data. RESULTS A total of 20 type 2 diabetes patients (aged 53 to 72 years, 13 males and 7 females, 4 to 40 years duration of diabetes, mean glycated hemoglobin 8.54% [SD 0.71%]) completed 2 sections of semistructured in-depth interviews. Physician guidance and participant motivation toward problem solving were found to be factors associated with adoption of the device. Participants indicated that technology can be a reminder, a supervisor, and a visualizer of blood glucose, all of which are helpful for disease management. However, CGM is somewhat inconvenient, and some participants also reported that the provision of this new technology might be a hint of disease progression. There was a higher percentage of women compared with men who reported that CGM can be a reminder or a supervisor to help them with diet control. CONCLUSIONS Physician guidance and participants’ degree of motivation are keys to adopting new technology in the case of middle-aged and older adults. Although the CGM sensor may cause inconvenience to patients on their limited body movement when wearing the device, it is helpful for diet control and is an effective behavioral modification tool that offers support, especially in the case of women.

scholarly journals Study on Application of Membrane Technology in Treatment of Effluent from Dyeing Industries in Erode, TamilNadu

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.12) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
K Prasanna ◽  
K S.Anandh ◽  
S Vimal Kumar ◽  
A Edwin
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Operation Time ◽  
Total Dissolved Solids ◽  
Textile Dyeing ◽  
Activated Carbon Filter ◽  
Ultra Filtration ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Nano Filtration ◽  
Effluent Characteristics ◽  
Carbon Filter

The textile dyeing industry is one of the hazardous polluting industries which uses water as the major source for their production and substantially the generation of wastewater leads to be a huge burden in treatment. The existing treatment methods adopted in most of the dyeing industries are said to be very old and its efficiency of removal is very less and at the same time it does not meet the standards for trade effluent discharge as prescribed by the regulatory boards. The study carried out on the application of Activated Carbon Filter (ACF) outlet in three stages of Reverse Osmosis results in reduction of 52% and the Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) is reduced to 226 ppm under the operation time of 10 hours. Significance reduction in pH, BOD, COD, TSS and Sulphates. The results say that the new technology of applying Nano-filtration and ultra-filtration will increase the efficiency of treatment. The effluent characteristics with the help this technology satisfy the standards.  

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