MOSCOW (AP) ? Russia's leading anti-drug crusader says the abuse of synthetic marijuana is turning into a "horrible" epidemic in his country.
Experts say a range of hallucinogens known as "spice" are very hard to kick, and addicts lose sleep, weight and get kidney and brain disorders from them.
Evgeny Roizman, who spoke Wednesday, heads a rehabilitation clinic in the central city of Ekaterinburg.
Concerned about the spread of "spice," Russian drug enforcement agencies have banned several of its chemical ingredients. But producers can easily change the chemical makeup to come up with new brands, which are advertised online and widely sold across Russia.
Components of "spice" have been banned in several European nations and in parts of the United States.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) ? Memory-chip maker Micron Technology Inc. has agreed to buy Elpida Memory Inc. for approximately $750 million in cash in a deal that would boost its wafer manufacturing capacity by about 50 percent.
Elpida specializes in dynamic random access memory chips used in mobile phones and computers. It has been developing a plan of reorganization since filing for the largest manufacturing bankruptcy ever in Japan earlier this year.
Elpida wanted to reorganize after years of sliding chip prices amid a glut of supply, punishing competition from South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. and weaker sales due to last year's flooding in Thailand that disrupted production.
Micron and Elpida said Monday that the total value of their deal is about $2.5 billion including about $1.75 billion in future annual installment payments that Micron would make through 2019.
Micron Technology shares rose 29 cents, or 4.6 percent, to $6.60 in premarket trading.
Elpida's reorganization plan is expected to be submitted in August to the Tokyo District Court for approval.
Last month Micron Technology said that it was in talks to purchase Elpida. Micron Technology said at that time that the Tokyo District Court had allowed Elpida's trustees to negotiate an agreement with Micron to become Elpida's sponsor and acquire its entire business in accordance with corporate reorganization proceedings.
The Micron deal requires approval from Elpida's creditors, the Tokyo District Court and antitrust approvals.
Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology also said Monday that it is buying Powerchip Technology Corp.'s 24 percent stake in Rexchip Electronics Corp. for approximately $334 million. Elpida has about a 65 percent stake in Rexchip. Combined, this will give Micron Technology an 89 percent stake in Rexchip.
The deals are expected to close during the first half of 2013. Micron's transaction with Powerchip will take place once the Elpida acquisition is complete.
Samsung has been quiet on the subject of its second-generation Galaxy Beam and the Galaxy Ace 2 ever since they showed together in Barcelona this February, but the two just reemerged as close buddies for an initial launch in East Asia. The Galaxy Beam receives the grandest introduction, as it's coming to Singapore on July 7th followed by a more nebulous mid-July release for Taiwan residents. Those craving tiny, dual-core TouchWiz will have no choice but to flock to Singapore and pick up an Ace 2 at the end of the month. There's no word on where else they'll go on their respective world tours, although the cash outlay is strictly in the middle of the pack: we're looking at S$648 or NT$16,900 ($513 or $566) off-contract for a Galaxy Beam, while its more diminutive cousin carries a S$438 ($352) price tag on similar terms.
Back in March at CeBIT, Acer unveiled a slew of new laptops, among which the Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 Ultrabook was easily the most celebrated. But while slim designs and instant-on technology are shoe-ins for media attention, slightly thicker machines with revved-up internals and discrete graphics are champions of the "don't judge a book by its cover" philosophy. And besides, not everyone is willing to part with a DVD drive, much less spend $1,000-plus on their next PC.
Hence Acer's Aspire V3, which is available in sizes ranging from 14 to 17.3 inches (for the purposes of this review, we took a look at the middleweight 15.6-inch version). While it weighs a hefty 5.8 pounds and looks positively bloated next to 0.8-inch-thick laptops such as the M3, the V3 packs serious power in the form of NVIDIA Kepler graphics and a Core i7 Ivy Bridge CPU. And unlike many Ultrabooks trickling their way into the market, this guy is priced to compete, making it a viable choice for the back-to-school season. But is it the best mainstream notebook $850 can buy? Let's see.
DOE supports fiber-optic data link critical to search for the Higgs 'God' particlePublic release date: 2-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Margaret Allen mallen@smu.edu 214-768-7664 Southern Methodist University
Tiny optoelectronic module plays a key role in the worlds largest physics experiments; new module will be 75 times faster than current fiber-optic data link on LHCs ATLAS
A tiny optoelectronic module designed in part by SMU physicists plays a big role in the world's largest physics experiment at CERN in Switzerland, where scientists are searching for the "God" particle.
The module, a fiber-optic transmitter, sends the Large Hadron Collider's critical raw data from its ATLAS experiment to offsite computer farms, where thousands of physicists around the world access the data and analyze it for the long-sought sub-atomic particle, the Higgs boson.
Now as a result of SMU's role on the LHC link, SMU Physics Research Professor Annie Xiang has won a three-year research and development grant with $67,500 in support annually from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance the design of the optoelectronic module.
The grant calls for a customized multi-channel optical transmitter that can be deployed on many of the world's high-energy particle detectors.
Xiang is principal investigator for SMU's Data Links Group in SMU's Physics Department, working in the Optoelectronics Lab of Physics Professor Jingbo Ye. She coordinates the lab's development of optical data transmission systems for particle physics experiments.
More than 1,500 data link modules are installed on ATLAS
"We made the first-generation fiber-optic data link specifically for ATLAS and its extremely harsh low-temperature, high-radiation environment," Xiang said.
More than 1,500 of the first-generation data link modules are installed on the calorimeter detectors of ATLAS. The link's job is to reliably offload a continuous flood of raw data without failure or error. Scientists scour the data for signs of the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that has been theorized for decades but never actually observed. It is believed the Higgs gives mass to the matter that we observe.
A second-generation data link, which SMU also helped design, is slated for deployment in the next upgrade of the LHC in coming years. The current data link installed in ATLAS can transmit up to 1.6 gigabits a second in a single channel, which equates to writing an HD DVD in one minute, Xiang said. The second-generation link, a 5 gigabit transceiver, has a smaller footprint than the current link, but can transmit three times faster and is qualified for even higher radiation. "Many thousands of the second-generation link will be installed across the LHC detectors," Xiang said.
The data link being supported by DOE will be even faster. A transmitter only, it will have a transmission capacity of 120 gigabits a second, or 75 times faster than the data link currently installed on ATLAS, Xiang said.
DOE project will customize off-the-shelf commercial components for on-detector installation
To design the links, SMU's team and its collaborators start with qualified commercial transmitters and receivers, then customize them for the LHC detectors, Xiang said. They will repeat that process to develop the data link being supported by DOE.
Called a "generic" module, the link supported by DOE isn't specified for any particular detector, but rather will be available to deploy on detectors at the LHC, at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and others.
The module a 12-channel transmitter must be high speed and low footprint, and able to withstand an extremely cold and high-radiation environment, while at the same time maintaining low mass and low power consumption, Xiang said.
The DOE award is part of a collaborative project with Fermilab, the University of Minnesota, The Ohio State University and Argonne National Laboratory, with a total funding of $900,000. SMU designed the first-generation module in collaboration with Taiwan's Academia Sinica. SMU collaborated on the second-generation module with CERN, Oxford University and Fermilab.
Ye and Xiang are members of SMU's ATLAS team, which is led by SMU Physics Professor Ryszard Stroynowski.
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SMU is a nationally ranked private university in Dallas founded 100 years ago. Today, SMU enrolls nearly 11,000 students who benefit from the academic opportunities and international reach of seven degree-granting schools. For more information see www.smuresearch.com.
SMU has an uplink facility located on campus for live TV, radio, or online interviews. To speak with an SMU expert or book an SMU guest in the studio, call SMU News & Communications at 214-768-7650.
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DOE supports fiber-optic data link critical to search for the Higgs 'God' particlePublic release date: 2-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Margaret Allen mallen@smu.edu 214-768-7664 Southern Methodist University
Tiny optoelectronic module plays a key role in the worlds largest physics experiments; new module will be 75 times faster than current fiber-optic data link on LHCs ATLAS
A tiny optoelectronic module designed in part by SMU physicists plays a big role in the world's largest physics experiment at CERN in Switzerland, where scientists are searching for the "God" particle.
The module, a fiber-optic transmitter, sends the Large Hadron Collider's critical raw data from its ATLAS experiment to offsite computer farms, where thousands of physicists around the world access the data and analyze it for the long-sought sub-atomic particle, the Higgs boson.
Now as a result of SMU's role on the LHC link, SMU Physics Research Professor Annie Xiang has won a three-year research and development grant with $67,500 in support annually from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance the design of the optoelectronic module.
The grant calls for a customized multi-channel optical transmitter that can be deployed on many of the world's high-energy particle detectors.
Xiang is principal investigator for SMU's Data Links Group in SMU's Physics Department, working in the Optoelectronics Lab of Physics Professor Jingbo Ye. She coordinates the lab's development of optical data transmission systems for particle physics experiments.
More than 1,500 data link modules are installed on ATLAS
"We made the first-generation fiber-optic data link specifically for ATLAS and its extremely harsh low-temperature, high-radiation environment," Xiang said.
More than 1,500 of the first-generation data link modules are installed on the calorimeter detectors of ATLAS. The link's job is to reliably offload a continuous flood of raw data without failure or error. Scientists scour the data for signs of the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that has been theorized for decades but never actually observed. It is believed the Higgs gives mass to the matter that we observe.
A second-generation data link, which SMU also helped design, is slated for deployment in the next upgrade of the LHC in coming years. The current data link installed in ATLAS can transmit up to 1.6 gigabits a second in a single channel, which equates to writing an HD DVD in one minute, Xiang said. The second-generation link, a 5 gigabit transceiver, has a smaller footprint than the current link, but can transmit three times faster and is qualified for even higher radiation. "Many thousands of the second-generation link will be installed across the LHC detectors," Xiang said.
The data link being supported by DOE will be even faster. A transmitter only, it will have a transmission capacity of 120 gigabits a second, or 75 times faster than the data link currently installed on ATLAS, Xiang said.
DOE project will customize off-the-shelf commercial components for on-detector installation
To design the links, SMU's team and its collaborators start with qualified commercial transmitters and receivers, then customize them for the LHC detectors, Xiang said. They will repeat that process to develop the data link being supported by DOE.
Called a "generic" module, the link supported by DOE isn't specified for any particular detector, but rather will be available to deploy on detectors at the LHC, at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and others.
The module a 12-channel transmitter must be high speed and low footprint, and able to withstand an extremely cold and high-radiation environment, while at the same time maintaining low mass and low power consumption, Xiang said.
The DOE award is part of a collaborative project with Fermilab, the University of Minnesota, The Ohio State University and Argonne National Laboratory, with a total funding of $900,000. SMU designed the first-generation module in collaboration with Taiwan's Academia Sinica. SMU collaborated on the second-generation module with CERN, Oxford University and Fermilab.
Ye and Xiang are members of SMU's ATLAS team, which is led by SMU Physics Professor Ryszard Stroynowski.
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SMU is a nationally ranked private university in Dallas founded 100 years ago. Today, SMU enrolls nearly 11,000 students who benefit from the academic opportunities and international reach of seven degree-granting schools. For more information see www.smuresearch.com.
SMU has an uplink facility located on campus for live TV, radio, or online interviews. To speak with an SMU expert or book an SMU guest in the studio, call SMU News & Communications at 214-768-7650.
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Firefighters came face-to-face with flames that shot 100 feet into the air as a wall of fire barreled down the hills in Colorado Springs. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
By Isolde Raftery, msnbc.com
The fast-paced Waldo Canyon Fire near Colorado Springs, Colo., may be more than half contained, but fire officials warn that it hasn?t run its course. Firefighters hope to have it completely contained by July 16, 9news.com reported.
So far, the Waldo Canyon blaze ? deemed the most destructive wildfire in Colorado state history ? has burned nearly 18,000 acres and destroyed 346 homes, the television station reported. The cause of the fire, which started on June 23, is under investigation.
The fire is still active and the environment remains very dry, Bret Waters, emergency management director of Colorado Springs,?told the Denver Post. About 3,000 people are still barred from returning home, he said.
Related:?Colorado wildlife relief beginning of the long haul
Fire managers called the fire ?incredible,? the Denver Post reported in another story. It has burned more than 1,500 degrees ? that's hotter than the Hayman Fire in 2002, which was Colorado's biggest-ever wildfire in terms of acreage -- and has moved very quickly.
Related: Scientists sorting out beetle-fire relationship
The heat radiating from the fire has cooked the area around it, making it easier for the fire to spread.
The worst fire season in recent history is taking its toll with large fires burning thousands of acres in Colorado while others consume areas in Montana, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming.
The fire burned so hot at the northwest border of the fire that a window sill inside a home caught fire, the Post reported.
Rain is forecast but afternoon thunderstorms could counter the moisture by introducing more wind and lightning.
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Why smoking is 'BAD' for the Fallopian tube -- and increases the risk of ectopic pregnancyPublic release date: 3-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Christine Bauquis christine@eshre.eu 32-499-258-046 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
Istanbul, 3 July 2012: Cigarette smoke reduces the production of a Fallopian tube gene known as "BAD", which helps explain the link between smoking and ectopic pregnancy. The finding, from scientists led by Drs Andrew Horne and Colin Duncan at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Reproductive Health in Edinburgh, UK, was described today at the annual meting of ESHRE (European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) in Istanbul.
Ectopic pregnancy - when the embryo implants outside the uterus and in the Fallopian tube - occurs in up to 2% of all pregnancies and is the most common cause of maternal death in early pregnancy. There is currently no way to prevent an ectopic pregnancy, and the condition must be treated by abdominal surgery or, when the ectopic is small and stable, by injection of a drug called methotrexate.
In presenting background information to the study, Dr Horne explained that ectopic pregnancy is the result of a combination of factors affecting the transport of the developing embryo from the Fallopian tube to the uterus and changes in the tubal environment which allow early implantation to occur. Smoking is known to be a major risk factor, but how smoking changes the environment of the Fallopian tube for an ectopic pregnancy to occur has so far remained largely unknown.
For the purpose of this study, Dr Horne's group first exposed cells from the Fallopian tube to a breakdown product of nicotine called cotinine. They then showed that cotinine had a negative effect on genes known to be associated with cell death (or apoptosis), and in particular with a gene called BAD. In a further study the researchers showed that BAD expression was reduced in the Fallopian tube of women who were smokers.
Dr Horne explained that changes in the production of BAD and related genes are seen in the uterus as it prepares for normal implantation of the embryo and early pregnancy. A reduction in the expression of BAD is normally seen in the cells of the uterus just before the embryo implants.
The results of this study, said Dr Horne, suggest that the reduced production of the BAD gene in the Fallopian tube leads to an environment like that of the uterus, which encourages and allows ectopic pregnancy to occur. "So our research," he added, "may in future help scientists find ways to prevent ectopic pregnancy, diagnosis it better, and treat it earlier."
He went on: "The research is exciting because it provides new scientific evidence to help understand why women who smoke are more likely to have ectopic pregnancies. It appears that smoking reduces the production of genes such as BAD which are involved in the control of cell death and promote an environment in the Fallopian tube which is attractive to the developing embryo.
"The information gained from this study can also be applied to other conditions caused by smoking, and could help us prevent or treat them better in the long term."
###
Note
A recent review of the effect of smoking on IVF outcomes has confirmed that smoking patients have a significantly lower chance of live birth and clinical pregnancy per cycle, and a significantly higher risk of spontaneous miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy than non-smoking patients. (Waylen AL, Metwally M, Jones GL, Wilkinson AJ, Ledger WL. Effects of cigarette smoking upon clinical outcomes of assisted reproduction: a meta-analysis. Hum Reprod Update 2009; 15: 31?.)
From abstract no: O-188 Tuesday 3 July 2012, 17.15 hrs EEST
Why smoking is bad for your fallopian tube
Note: When obtaining outside comment, journalists are requested
to ensure that their contacts are aware of the embargo on this release.
The 28th Annual Meeting of ESHRE, the world's largest event in reproductive science and medicine, is taking place in Istanbul from 1-4 July 2012
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Why smoking is 'BAD' for the Fallopian tube -- and increases the risk of ectopic pregnancyPublic release date: 3-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Christine Bauquis christine@eshre.eu 32-499-258-046 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
Istanbul, 3 July 2012: Cigarette smoke reduces the production of a Fallopian tube gene known as "BAD", which helps explain the link between smoking and ectopic pregnancy. The finding, from scientists led by Drs Andrew Horne and Colin Duncan at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Reproductive Health in Edinburgh, UK, was described today at the annual meting of ESHRE (European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) in Istanbul.
Ectopic pregnancy - when the embryo implants outside the uterus and in the Fallopian tube - occurs in up to 2% of all pregnancies and is the most common cause of maternal death in early pregnancy. There is currently no way to prevent an ectopic pregnancy, and the condition must be treated by abdominal surgery or, when the ectopic is small and stable, by injection of a drug called methotrexate.
In presenting background information to the study, Dr Horne explained that ectopic pregnancy is the result of a combination of factors affecting the transport of the developing embryo from the Fallopian tube to the uterus and changes in the tubal environment which allow early implantation to occur. Smoking is known to be a major risk factor, but how smoking changes the environment of the Fallopian tube for an ectopic pregnancy to occur has so far remained largely unknown.
For the purpose of this study, Dr Horne's group first exposed cells from the Fallopian tube to a breakdown product of nicotine called cotinine. They then showed that cotinine had a negative effect on genes known to be associated with cell death (or apoptosis), and in particular with a gene called BAD. In a further study the researchers showed that BAD expression was reduced in the Fallopian tube of women who were smokers.
Dr Horne explained that changes in the production of BAD and related genes are seen in the uterus as it prepares for normal implantation of the embryo and early pregnancy. A reduction in the expression of BAD is normally seen in the cells of the uterus just before the embryo implants.
The results of this study, said Dr Horne, suggest that the reduced production of the BAD gene in the Fallopian tube leads to an environment like that of the uterus, which encourages and allows ectopic pregnancy to occur. "So our research," he added, "may in future help scientists find ways to prevent ectopic pregnancy, diagnosis it better, and treat it earlier."
He went on: "The research is exciting because it provides new scientific evidence to help understand why women who smoke are more likely to have ectopic pregnancies. It appears that smoking reduces the production of genes such as BAD which are involved in the control of cell death and promote an environment in the Fallopian tube which is attractive to the developing embryo.
"The information gained from this study can also be applied to other conditions caused by smoking, and could help us prevent or treat them better in the long term."
###
Note
A recent review of the effect of smoking on IVF outcomes has confirmed that smoking patients have a significantly lower chance of live birth and clinical pregnancy per cycle, and a significantly higher risk of spontaneous miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy than non-smoking patients. (Waylen AL, Metwally M, Jones GL, Wilkinson AJ, Ledger WL. Effects of cigarette smoking upon clinical outcomes of assisted reproduction: a meta-analysis. Hum Reprod Update 2009; 15: 31?.)
From abstract no: O-188 Tuesday 3 July 2012, 17.15 hrs EEST
Why smoking is bad for your fallopian tube
Note: When obtaining outside comment, journalists are requested
to ensure that their contacts are aware of the embargo on this release.
The 28th Annual Meeting of ESHRE, the world's largest event in reproductive science and medicine, is taking place in Istanbul from 1-4 July 2012
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