Warbler Central – Garden Warblers at RSPB Fen Drayton
I’ve talked about warblers before. Basically, the warblers are a non-scientific grouping of similar birds. In the UK, we often see and hear a variety of warblers, mostly summer visitors, among them Blackcap, Cetti’s Warbler, Chiffchaff, Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin), Grasshopper Warbler, Great Reed Warbler (occasionally), Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, and Willow Warbler.
Garden Warbler, Sylvia borin
I headed to RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes nature reserve on a promise of Arctic Terns as a big influx had been reported on Tuesday, some 36, arriving in two waves, 29 and then 7, from Graf...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 24, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Endava to Acquire GalaxE Solutions to Boost Its Position in North America Healthcare With Delivery from India
Endava, a leading technology services company combining world-class engineering, industry expertise, and a people-centric mindset, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% ownership of GalaxE Group, Inc. (GalaxE), a global IT and business solutions provider headquartered in New Jersey, United States.
Founded by Tim Bryan over 30 years ago, GalaxE has been singularly focused on driving digital transformation for Fortune 500 companies in the healthcare, financial services, and retail industries.
When completed, the transaction will add approximately 1,650 employees and provide several key strategic benefits to...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP BofA Securities Endava GalaxE GalaxE Group Inc. Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A John Cotterell JP Morgan Securities LLC Tim Bryan White & Case LLP Source Type: blogs
Christmas Round Robin
In conclusion, as we bask in the glow of our self-created magnificence, we send our regards to you, dear friends and family. May your year have been half as extraordinary as ours, and may your holidays be filled with the kind of refinement and sophistication that only we can truly appreciate.
Yours, with an air of restrained magnanimity,
Giles and Aspen Urquhart-Smythe
The Croft
Tilbury
In case you were wondering, yes, this is an edited version of something I got ChatGPT to produce using the following prompt:
You are to act as a pretentious, over-privileged middle-class Englishman writing a “round robin” newsl...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Fiction Source Type: blogs
Medical Malpractice as a Separate Criminal Offense: a Higher Degree of Patient Protection or Merely a Sword Above the Doctors' Heads? The Example of the Croatian Legislative Model and the Experiences of its Implementation
Igor Vuleti ć (University Goce Delcev), Medical Malpractice as a Separate Criminal Offense: a Higher Degree of Patient Protection or Merely a Sword Above the Doctors' Heads? The Example of the Croatian Legislative Model and the Experiences of its Implementation, 2... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 9, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
A song of courtship, love, memories, and a life together
Listen on SoundCloud or BandCamp
A lot of the lyrics to my songs come out ad lib when I have a go at recording a first-pass demo of a new tune. I usually then edit them into shape as the song evolves. But, sometimes they have a bit more of a story, and although the basics just emerge as I’m putting it together, they do get more craft occasionally. My latest conflates a couple of encounters Mrs Sciencebase and I have had with Paris over the years. The most recent encounter was from a high altitude, a few years ago we were flying back at night from a trip to Croatia and could see Paris from the airliner. The Eiffel Tow...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 11, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
The people we can be – a song
Listen on SoundCloud or BandCamp
A lot of the lyrics to my songs come out ad lib when I have a go at recording a first-pass demo of a new tune. I usually then edit them into shape as the song evolves. But, sometimes they have a bit more of a story, and although the basics just emerge as I’m putting it together, they do get more craft occasionally. My latest conflates a couple of encounters Mrs Sciencebase and I have had with Paris over the years. The most recent encounter was from a high altitude, a few years ago we were flying back at night from a trip to Croatia and could see Paris from the airliner. The Eiffel Tow...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 11, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
The people we can be
A lot of the lyrics to my songs come out ad lib when I have a go at recording a first-pass demo of a new tune. I usually then edit them into shape as the song evolves. But, sometimes they have a bit more of a story, and although the basics just emerge as I’m putting it together, they do get more craft occasionally. My latest conflates a couple of encounters Mrs Sciencebase and I have had with Paris over the years. The most recent encounter was from a high altitude, a few years ago we were flying back at night from a trip to Croatia and could see Paris from the airliner. The Eiffel Tower was illuminated and looked lik...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 11, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
Medgadget ’s Best Medical Technologies of 2020
In conclusion, 2020 will certainly be remembered for a world stopped by an pandemic. It will also stand out as a time when people came together to innovate, adapt, and improve the world around them. We wish you all a happy New Year and look forward to better times ahead, together.
Flashbacks: Medgadget’s Best Medical Technologies of 2019; 2018; 2017; 2016; 2015 (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - December 30, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 18th 2020
This study provides direct evidence for the contribution of gut microbiota to the cognitive decline during normal aging and suggests that restoring microbiota homeostasis in the elderly may improve cognitive function.
On Nutraceutical Senolytics
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/05/on-nutraceutical-senolytics/
Nutraceuticals are compounds derived from foods, usually plants. In principle one can find useful therapies in the natural world, taking the approach of identifying interesting molecules and refining them to a greater potency than naturally occurs in order to produce a usefully large therap...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 17, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Biomarker of Aging Based on Protein Glycosylation Patterns
Today I'll note the development of a commercial aging clock based on glycosylation patterns of immunoglobulin G, a marker for the inflammatory status of the immune system, by startup biotech company GlycanAge. There are at present any number of approaches to measuring biological age, the burden of cell and tissue damage that leads to dysfunction. Stage of development varies widely, with the most work to date being on clocks based on changes in DNA methylation. There are also clocks that use protein levels in blood, weighted combinations of simple measures such as grip strength, and other approaches besides these. The impor...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 13, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 13th 2020
This study is par for the course, looking at Japanese Olympic participants. Interestingly, it hints at the upper end of the dose-response curve for physical activity, in that a longer career as a professional athlete may be detrimental in comparison to lesser degrees of exercise and training.
From this large, retrospective cohort study targeting 3546 Japanese Olympic athletes, we observed significant lower mortality among Olympians compared with the Japanese general population. The overall standardised mortality ratio (SMR) was 0.29. The results were consistent with previous studies conducted in other non-Asian co...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 12, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
CroResp Makeshift Respirator Mask for COVID-19 Pandemic: Interview with Ivor Kovic, MD
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant shortages of PPE for medical staff. This is extremely concerning, as it means that clinicians can’t adequately protect themselves, and infections among medical staff will lead to staff shortages at a time when every member of staff is needed. Similarly, infections among clinicians could promote the spread of the virus between patients.
In such a situation, medical staff need to find new and imaginative ways to protect themselves and their patients. A group of doctors in Croatia has developed a makeshift protective respirator mask called the CroResp that relies on a scu...
Source: Medgadget - April 8, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Olympic Athletes Have a Lower Mortality than the General Population
This study is par for the course, looking at Japanese Olympic participants. Interestingly, it hints at the upper end of the dose-response curve for physical activity, in that a longer career as a professional athlete may be detrimental in comparison to lesser degrees of exercise and training.
From this large, retrospective cohort study targeting 3546 Japanese Olympic athletes, we observed significant lower mortality among Olympians compared with the Japanese general population. The overall standardised mortality ratio (SMR) was 0.29. The results were consistent with previous studies conducted in other non-Asian co...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 6, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Brown announces new director of neuropathology
Ivana Delalle, MD, PhDThe Brown University Department of Pathology in Providence, RI recently announced that a new director of neuropathology has been appointed to the faculty. Ivana Delalle, MD, PhD will replace long-time neuropathology director Edward Stopa, MD, who recently passed away.After earning her MD and PhD from Zagreb University in Croatia, Dr. Delalle joined the developmental neurobiology laboratory directed by Verne Caviness at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She then completed her residency in anatomic pathology and fellowship in neuropathology at MGH, after which she joined the faculty at MGH. She ...
Source: neuropathology blog - October 24, 2019 Category: Radiology Tags: neuropathologists Source Type: blogs
Box-tree Moth, Cydalima perspectalis
The Box-tree Moth, Cydalima perspectalis, is an Asian species of moth (usually seen in (Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, the Russian Far East, and India), that is gradually spreading, presumably with the advent of box hedges on new housing estates, across the South East of England.
Box-tree Moth, Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859), to actinic light Jul 2019, VC29
It would’ve arrived as eggs/larvae on imported box (Buxus), first recorded here in 2007. Its larvae can destroy a box hedge. Another reason to go native when it comes to planting…probably too late for native box now though. I saw my first one in the trap...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 13, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
