Management Health Solutions, Inc. Procures Key Funding from Eastward Capital Partners

Management Health Solutions, Inc. (MHS), a leading provider of clinical supply chain management solutions to the health care industry, has secured key funding from Eastward Capital Partners, it was announced today by William Zierolf, Chief Executive Officer of MHS. www.MHSINC.com ...

Landmark USGS study

...ampled Pacific Ocean waters is caused by emissions originating from fallout near the Asian coasts. The mercury-enriched waters then enter a long-range eastward transport by large ocean circulation currents," said USGS scientist and coauthor David Krabbenhoft. Scientists sampled Pacific Ocean water from 16...

Purdue study projects weakened monsoon season in South Asia

...se circulation changes decrease moisture flow over the land, and we see longer periods without rain, along with hot conditions." The model shows an eastward shift in monsoon circulation, which would mean more rainfall over the Indian Ocean, Bangladesh and Myanmar, and less over India, Nepal and Pakistan, A...

Practice parameters discuss the evaluation, treatment of circadian rhythm sleep disorders

...s. In addition, the combination of morning exposure to bright light and shifting the sleep schedule one hour earlier each day for three days prior to eastward travel may lessen symptoms of jet lag. Prescribed sleep/wake scheduling, timed light exposure, or timed melatonin administration serve as treatme...

Melatonin Can Help Nighttime Workers Sleep

...leep structure and melatonin production. “Participants were then kept on a 20-hour sleep-wake schedule, simulating a traveler crossing four time zones eastward every day,” explained Dr. Charles Czeisler, Chief of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and senior author of the study. “F...

Lunar Forces Affect The Surface Of The Earth

...arch, however, says that in addition to being jostled every which way from below, the planet's plates are slowly sliding westwards. As the earth spins eastward beneath the moon, the moon's gravity ever so slightly holds the earth's surface layer back. Doglioni points to a profound asymmetry in the distr...

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NSF provides $3.4 million to study climatically important Agulhas Current

...waters southward along the east coast of Africa as a narrow, fast jet. At the tip of Africa the Agulhas retroflects, looping around to eventually flow eastward toward Australia. This retroflection is unstable and regularly sheds large Agulhas Rings, which carry Indian Ocean waters into the South Atlantic. ...

Google Earth aids discovery of early African mammal fossils

...stead of setting out blindly across the desert, Gingerich sat down at his computer and clicked on Google Earth. After locating Sheikh Fadl, he scanned eastward until he found a range of limestone bluffs trailing across the desert like the backbone of some enormous serpent. Continuing his virtual expedition, G...

High numbers of right whales seen in Gulf of Maine

...n the middle of the Gulf of Maine and off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and by early spring move into Cape Cod Bay, then the Great South Channel and then eastward toward Georges Basin. By mid-summer they head north into the Bay of Fundy." The survey team has used a variety of aircraft through the years, from ...

Hurricane Ike tracked by ESA's Envisat

... map of the radial component of sea surface velocity. The colour of the graphics shown in the 'current' section is representative of a very strong eastward motion in the southern part of the hurricane and a symmetrical strong westward motion in the northern part. These observations are clearly in line wit...

Y chromosome study sheds light on Athapaskan migration to southwest US

...om 26 native populations in North America. By including groups from across the continent (they studied tribes from Alaska to the Yucatan Peninsula and eastward to Hudson Bay and southeast U.S.), the researchers were able to analyze genetic differences among many native groups and to get an idea of the degree ...

U-M researchers release most detailed global study of genetic variation

...cific Islands, and finally to the Americas. The results also bolster the notion of "serial founder effects," meaning that as people began migrating eastward from East Africa about 100,000 years ago, each successive wave of migrants carried a subset of the genetic variation held by previous groups. "Dive...

Research team says extraterrestrial impact to blame for Ice Age extinctions

... carbon-rich material that appears as far north as Canada, Greenland and Europe to as far south as the Channel Islands off the coast of California and eastward to the Carolinas. Two sites exist in Arizona at Murray Springs and Lehner Ranch, both near Sierra Vista. Evidence of mammoths and other megafauna a...

Canada's new government invests $200M in the fight against the mountain pine beetle

...s of the beetle infestation and assist in efforts to slow the infestation's eastward spread. "This outbreak is a major threat to the economy and the communiti...festation. Project activities will include measures to control the eastward spread of the beetle in British Columbia and along the British Columbia–Alb...

NASA study: Alaskan fires affected Houston air quality in 2004

...d eastern Alaska were consuming more acres than at any time during the past 50 years. Meteorological conditions carried smoke from these intense fires eastward and southward to the U.S. Gulf Coast. "The combination of our balloon-borne ozone data and observations by NASA satellites, aircraft, and a network...

Ancient global warming drove early primates' dispersal

...ca or Asia and traveled through North America to reach western Europe. Finally, it has been suggested that the group originated in Asia and fanned out eastward to North America and westward to Europe. In the new research, U-M paleontologist Philip Gingerich and coworkers re-evaluated the four hypotheses b...

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Berbee acquires Ohio IT company, expands eastward

Source: Berbee MADISON Berbee Information Networks has acquired Foresight Technology Group in an effort to expand both its geographic and customer bases. Announced last Friday, the purchase is expected to establish a symbiotic relationship between the companies. I think well get a posit...

Building sustainable cities

... Envision the city of the future. Is it a "sustainable" community? The idea of sustainability has finally made its way eastward across the Atlantic and is gaining traction in the United States. Whether you count the number of dedicated Web pages, mayors' mentions, or the amount...