AMN Healthcare Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

...arable among periods since it excludes the impact of items that may recur occasionally, but tend to be irregular as to timing, thereby distorting comparisons between periods. However, investors should note that this non-GAAP measure involves judgment by management (in particular,...

Maui Jim Teams With Unite for Sight in New 'Buy One, Give One' Program to Improve Eye Health Amongst the World's Most Needy

...the world. As local demand grew for sunglasses that provided advanced protection from the severe glare and UV rays of the Hawaiian sun -- without distorting the beautiful colors of the Islands, the company developed proprietary technology -- PolarizedPlus. ABOUT UNITE FOR SIGHT Founded in 2000, U...

MIT: New system monitors fetal heartbeat

...omen, but it is weak compared to the maternal heartbeat and surrounding noise. Further, it has not been possible to separate the three signals without distorting characteristics of the fetal heartbeat key to identifying potential clinical problems. "The dominant signal turns out to be the mother's heartbeat,...

Planned Parenthood Urges Gov. Schwarzenegger to Rescind Harmful Budget Cuts to Women's Health Care

...entive care, putting women's health at risk." Critics of Planned Parenthood have launched a misleading campaign attacking Planned Parenthood and distorting the facts. Below is a brief fact check that corrects the false attacks against Planned Parenthood and the preventive health care that is provided to m...

AMN Healthcare Announces First Quarter 2009 Results

...hat is more comparable among periods since it excludes the impact of items that may recur occasionally, but tend to be irregular as to timing, thereby distorting comparisons between periods. However, investors should note that this non-GAAP measure involves judgment by management (in particular, judgment as to ...

NoiseBuster(R) Safeguards Hearing by Utilizing Cutting-Edge Technology to Attenuate Power Equipment Noise

...r's audio input feature makes it an excellent choice for listening to music from portable audio devices such as MP3 players without over amplifying or distorting the music in order to overcome equipment noise. The NoiseBuster ANR Earmuff is powered by a single AA battery. Specifically designed to be durabl...

Synthetic gene circuit allows precise dosing of gene expression

...ssion, and so on. Balzsi compares this to dealing with distortion in electronic circuits. Amplifiers strengthen a signal, but also distort it. By distorting the signal before it enters the amplifier in the opposite way that the amplifier will distort it, the two distortions cancel each other out, resulting...

AMN Healthcare Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results

...arable among periods since it excludes the impact of items that may recur occasionally, but tend to be irregular as to timing, thereby distorting comparisons between periods. However, investors should note that this non-GAAP measure involves judgment by management (in particular,...

Research hightlights, AAO-SOE Joint Meeting, Nov. 9 sessions

...nus Patients Keratoconus is an eye disorder that causes corneal tissue to become abnormally thin and the central area to protrude in a cone shape, distorting vision. The cornea is the clear tissue that covers the front of the eye and is crucial to focusing light on the back of the eye. In the US, keratoconu...

AAO-SOE Joint Meeting research highlights

...us Patients Keratoconus is an eye disorder that causes corneal tissue to become abnormally thin and the central area to protrude in a cone shape, distorting vision. The cornea is the clear tissue that covers the front of the eye and is crucial to focusing light on the back of the eye. In the US, keratoconu...

distorting in Medical Products

Seibel 3-D Lid Speculum

Description:...n Anatomically Correct Arc Of Motion Over The Globe. This Design Contrasts With All Other Lid Speculums Which Pull Straight Apart In A Frontal Plane, distorting The Tarsal Plate As They Open. Gentle Support Is Particularly Critical In Topical Anesthesia When Periorbital Sensation Is Intact. Univer...
Company:Rhein Medical, Inc.

BioArc™ TO Subfascial Hammock

Description:...rethral support. Tensioning and loosening sutures maintain mesh integrity during placement and allow for intra-operative tensioning refinement without distorting the biologic graft material. Suburethral biologic graft material is available with InteXen™....
Company:AMS

BioArc™ SP Sling System

Description:...rethral support. Tensioning and loosening sutures maintain mesh integrity during placement and allow for intra-operative tensioning refinement without distorting the biologic graft material. Suburethral biologic graft material is available with InteXen™....
Company:AMS

OPMI Vario/NC33

Features:...pe allows you to move up and down the focal plane without changing lenses. 1:6 Zeiss zoom system Even the finest details are illuminated without distorting their natural colors. Very compact co-observation options do not significantly change the system's compact size...
Company:Carl Zeiss Surgical, Inc.

Opmi Vario/S88 System

Features:...he Zeiss zoom system provides an excellent field of view and magnification. Xenon illumination brilliantly illuminates even the finest details without distorting their natural colors. The S88 floorstand has a rock-solid suspension system. Magnetically locked axes for exact positioning. Carl Zeiss Open Interface...
Company:Carl Zeiss Surgical, Inc.

OpmiI Vario/NC33 System

Features:...dible color fidelity. Its varioscope can be moved up and down the focal plane without changing lenses. Even the finest details are illuminated without distorting their natural colors. Very compact co-observation options do not significantly change the system's compact size. The Navigation Interface offers stand...
Company:Carl Zeiss Surgical, Inc.

distorting in Medical Definition

Body shaping

... a sleeker upper trunk that looks good in a T-shirt . Stomach lift or abdominoplasty. Excess skin hanging down over the pubic region is often the distorting feature that most concerns and bothers patients. The stomach pannus retains moisture, and causes rashes due to skin rubbing against itself which usu...

distorting in Biological News

Are journal rankings distorting science?

This week’s BMJ raises concerns over whether journal rankings (known as impact factors) are distorting publishing and science. The impact factor is a measure of the citations to papers in scientific journals. It was developed as a simple measure of quality and has become a proxy for the importanc...

Water in the early universe

...o the chance alignment of a foreground galaxy and the distant quasar MG J0414+0534. The foreground galaxy acts like a cosmic telescope, magnifying and distorting the light from the quasar forming four distinct images of the quasar. Without this gravitational lensing effect, 580 days of continuous observations w...

GN Netcom Introduces Innovative Noise Blackout Technology

... Developed by GN Netcom engineers, Noise Blackout(TM) applies a directional principle to noise cancellation, reducing only surrounding noise and not distorting the users' voice. The technology uses dual microphones to capture sound, intelligently filtering background noise only. Other noise cancellation heads...

How to make microwaves on a chip to replace X-rays for medical imaging and security

... are designed to vary their storage capacity as the voltage of the signal changes, creating the equivalent of the varying depths of an ocean beach and distorting the timing of the electrical signals that pass by. When low-frequency, low-power signals are applied simultaneously to both the vertical and horizon...

New gas sensors for monitoring carbon dioxide sinks

...ster than others. Using a tube-like sensor it is possible to measure an average gas concentration value over a certain distance without influencing or distorting conditions in the measuring environment. If such sensors are laid in a particular pattern, it is possible to calculate the concentration of a gas over...

Paleontologists learn how not to become a fossil

...e of decaying organic matter, which is not favorable to shell preservation." The team also found that shell composition played virtually no role in distorting the bivalve fossil record, echoing the findings of a related study that Kidwell published in the Feb. 11, 2005, issue of the journal Science. That stu...

distorting in Biological Technology

Brown chemists create more efficient palladium fuel cell catalysts

...un's lab. "We made high-quality palladium nanoparticles, put them efficiently on a support, then removed them from the stabilizers efficiently without distorting catalyst quality." The Brown scientists now are looking at various palladium-based catalysts with enhanced activity and stability for future fuel c...

Economic outlook for 2007, and still clueless on Apple

...ll phone at a meeting of over 1,100 executives, Apple might as well fire whoever put together the marketing strategy. Some in the prominent media are distorting the product's capabilities by only ranting about price, which is turning some people off, if not putting them in a cynical mode. Maybe Apple should...

distorting in Biological Dictionary

AP endonuclease

...n repair (BER) is a cellular mechanism that repairs damaged DNA throughout the cell cycle. It is primarily responsible for removing small, non-helix distorting base lesions from the genome. The related nucleotide... AP , endonuclease ,biological ,biology dictionary,biology terminology,biology terms,biol...