Almost Family Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results
...s. The items excluded from EBITDA are significant components in understanding and evaluating financial performance and liquidity. Management routinely calculates and communicates EBITDA and believes that it is useful to investors because it is commonly used as an analytical indicator within our industry to eval...Innophos Holdings, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results
... 54.9% Canada 38.4% 15.1% Price / Volume - Second Quarter The Company calculates pure selling price dollar variances as the selling price for the current period minus the selling price for the prior period, and then multiplies the ...NuVasive Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results
...nd acquisition related costs. Management does not consider these costs in evaluating the continuing operations of the Company. Therefore, management calculates the non-GAAP financial measures provided in this earnings release excluding these costs and uses these non-GAAP financial measures to enable it to ana...Reed Group Will Debut New Predictive Modeling Tool at DMEC Conference
...idelines lists the optimum duration for physiological recovery time for a bimalleolar (closed) ankle fracture as 14 days. The Predictive Modeling Tool calculates that a 30-year-old male with a sedentary job class and a history of episodic mood disorders usually takes 48.5 days to return to work. Using the ...Insulet Establishes Eco-Friendly Disposal Program for the OmniPod(R) Insulin Management System
... on the body to hold and deliver insulin; and the PDM (Personal Diabetes Manager), a hand-held device that communicates wirelessly to program the Pod, calculates suggested doses and has a built-in FreeStyle(R) blood glucose meter. About Insulet Corporation Insulet Corporation is an innovative medical d...Team Type 1 Takes First Place Finish in Race Across America
... on the body to hold and deliver insulin; and the PDM (Personal Diabetes Manager), a hand-held device that communicates wirelessly to program the Pod, calculates suggested doses and has a built-in FreeStyle(R) blood glucose meter. About Team Type 1 RAAM The Team Type 1 Elite/Developmental team formed o...Barry Lundquist Named Interim President of Council for Disability Awareness
...hrough its main Web site, www.disabilitycanhappen.org . The CDA most recently launched an innovative new online tool, www.WhatsMyPDQ.org , which calculates an individual's own unique Personal Disability Quotient (PDQ), or chances of becoming disabled. About the Council for Disability Awareness (CDA...Prostate cancer test improves prediction of disease course
...tment, rather than providing information relevant to multiple treatment modalities. Because of these limitations, UCSF developed the CAPRA test. It calculates patient risk through five factors: age at diagnosis, Gleason score (a measure of how aggressive the cancer cells appear under the microscope), PSA sco...St. Jude Finds Young Age May Give Survival Advantage to Children With Certain Brain Tumors
... for at least two years following this therapy, which is ineffective in older children with similar tumors. Based on these findings, the St. Jude team calculates that 45 percent of children under 3 years treated for DPG will survive for at least three years without experiencing tumor growth, and 69 percent of s...Drug Combo Could Lower Diabetes Complications and Costs
...ondition that often leads to diabetes. The assessment tool, which will soon replace the American Diabetes Association's existing online risk test, calculates a person's chances of having diabetes using the answers to a series of questions, such as age, weight, history of gestational diabetes and other varia...Study calculates patient time costs associated with cancer care
In 2005, the overall cost of patients' time spent on cancer care was $2.3 billion in the first year after diagnosis, according to a new study in the January 3 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute . The time costs for the 11 cancers studied and for different phases of cancer care v...New study calculates millions of years saved in lives of AIDS patients
This year, the U.S. federal government will spend $21 billion for HIV/AIDS research, treatment, prevention, and related activities. Is this enormous expenditure paying off? A study published in the July 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online, indicates that it is--and m...Laughing hyenas, wailing levees, the sound of cheese and blaring bagpipes
...ked, this sound profile changes. Using a signal-processing technique called matched-field processing, Tolstoy picks out the more important changes and calculates how long these frequencies took to bounce back to the two microphones on the device. This time indicates how far along in the pipe the clog is located...Nuclear science for food security
...llars in economic benefits for farmers and consumers, especially in developing countries. In Japan alone, the Institute of Radiation Breeding (IRB) calculates that crops developed using mutation induction generated economic returns of nearly US$ 62 billion against US$ 69 million invested during the period 19...100-meter sprint world record could go as low as 9.48 seconds
...marathon runners, Denny predicts that males could cut the current world record, held by Haile Gebrselassie, by between 2min7s and 4min23s. And when he calculates the top speed that a human female marathon runner could achieve, Denny suspects that women could eventually cross the 42,195m finishing line in 2h12mi...Hypertension develops early, silently, in African-American men
...ure, a measure of the pressure found in the artery, near the heart. The researchers used an instrument that takes blood pressure at the wrist and then calculates the central blood pressure. Carotid artery pressure. The carotid artery runs through the neck. The African-American men, unlike the white men, al...Acoustical Meeting, Nov. 10-14, 2008 in Miami, Florida
... software first constructs a model of the current sea surface using input from a floating buoy or other device. It then takes this simulated ocean and calculates all the different sound wave paths and how they interfere with each other. The results tell a user exactly how fast they can reliably send their data ...Census of Marine Life lists 122,500 known species, over halfway to complete inventory by Oct. 2010
...fe and other explorers are finding unknown species at a rate much faster than the capacity to describe them due to a shortage of experts. Dr. Bouchet calculates that 3,800 taxonomists enter at least 1,400 new marine species into the literature every year. At this rate, the process of discovering, verifying, de...NIST's LIDAR may offer peerless precision in remote measurements
...he second comb serves as precise timer to measure the delay between the reflections returning from the target and from the reference plane. A computer calculates the distance between the target and the reference plane by multiplying the time delay by the speed of light. ...Hospira Announces Plans to Integrate Symbiq(R) and EndoTool(R) Technologies
...ed glucose management system designed to improve the safety and quality of care, as related to the treatment of hyperglycemia (high blood glucose). It calculates the dose of intravenous (I.V.) insulin needed to effectively control blood glucose levels. EndoTool is a 510(k) approved system. It is a dynamic and a...Physicists discover important step for making light crystals
...ach other out. This two-fermion state would have no entropy, or heat. But according to the laws of thermodynamics, the heat has to go somewhere. Ho calculates that it would be pressed outward to the surface of the lattice, where a Bose-Einstein Condensate could absorb it. After the BEC evaporated away, th...Nuvasive Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results
...l property litigation expenses. Management does not consider these costs in evaluating the continuing operations of the Company. Therefore, management calculates the non-GAAP financial measures provided in this earnings release excluding these costs and uses these non-GAAP financial measures to enable it to ana...Wyeth Reports Earnings Results for the 2008 Third Quarter and First Nine Months
...ring site network consolidation initiatives. (b) Other income, net represents the net gain on the sale of a manufacturing facility in Japan. Wyeth calculates net income before certain significant items by excluding the after-tax effect of items considered by management to be unusual from the net income repo...VAP(R) Cholesterol Test From Atherotech Covers an Additional 9 Million of Florida Insured
... number of people at risk than the standard cholesterol test. "The routine lipid panel, which measures total cholesterol, HDL, and triglycerides and calculates LDL, has been shown to have a 40-percent predictive value for coronary heart disease (CHD)," said Paul Ziajka, M.D., Ph.D., director of The Florida Li...Nanotechnology in reverse uses cell to calibrate tools
...einrich and Ounkomol used individual red blood cells sucked onto the end of a pipette to push the lever. The lab has previously developed a model that calculates the exact forces needed to squeeze a red blood cell by a certain amount. They could therefore use the red blood cell to very accurately calibrate the ...Wyeth Reports Earnings Results for the 2007 Fourth Quarter and Full Year
...ax adjustment of $70.4 million ($0.05 per share-diluted) related to the reduction of certain deferred tax asset valuation allowances. Wyeth calculates net income before certain significant items by excluding the after-tax effect of items considered by management to be unusual from the net income repo...EasyCount System from Immunicon Corp.
Description:... The EasyCount System is a fluorescent microscopy-based imaging system that accurately counts dead and live nucleated cells and automatically calculates cell viability, in a single test. By automating this routine function, the variability associated with the subjective interpretation of manual method...OLIGO from Molecular Biology Insights
Description:...otides from a sequence file for polymerase chain reaction (PCR), DNA sequencing, site-directed mutagenesis, and various hybridization applications. It calculates hybridization temperature and secondary structure of oligonucleotides based on the nearest neighbor thermodynamic values....C6 Flow Cytometer System from Accuri Cytometers, Inc.
Description:...uidics system actually meters the sample fluid uptake so it is simple to obtain absolute counts, or sample concentration. In fact, CFlow automatically calculates the events per microliter for every run. The C6 Flow Cytometer is programmed for automatic decontamination and cleaning of the fluidics system. Pressi...