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With Earth Day Approaching, Landscape Industry Website Aims to Enrich Earth and Contractors by Going Green
Ground Trades Xchange, one of the oldest and most respected landscape industry sites on the web, looks to make sweeping improvements in the environment by educating thousands of landscape contractors in how to install greener landscapes and land more eco-friendly commercial and municipal work. With the current green trend it's possible for landscaping businesses to profit from this work while at the same time improving the environment. With the launch of Greening, the "green wing" of the Ground Trades Xchange, the site intends to show landscape contractors how to achieve both objectives.
World Bakery Products Market to Reach About US$407 Billion by 2010, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
Baking industry worldwide is marked by continuous introductions of new flavors and varieties of bakery products. With companies working round the clock to satisfy evolving tastes and preferences, the industry is witnessing constant in-flow of new products and innovations. The companies, which anticipate changing consumer tastes and preferences and introduce new and enhanced flavors, are bound to gain significant mileage in terms of competitive edge and market share over other industry counterparts.
Sam Dhatt Shares Information About Latest Skin Care Industry Trends
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Global Application Service Provider (ASP) Hosting Services Market to Reach $45 Billion by 2010, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, I
Driven by advances in software and hardware, the world application service provider (ASP) hosting services market is forecast to exceed $45 billion by 2010. Successful adoption of ASP by several large companies, supplier partnerships, and initiatives by Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, and IBM have helped solve many problems plaguing the ASP hosting services industry.
New Survey Finds Professional Services Pricing a Challenge for Most Technology Companies: Benchmark Study Conducted by Leading Industry Associatio
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Centre for Arts And Technology Programs Address Concerns over Anticipated Labor Shortages in Canadian High-tech Sector
As Canada's Baby Boomer generation (ages 40-59) -- the country's largest ever -- phases into retirement, companies anticipate a serious shortage of skilled workers. To help address the impending need for skilled workers, The Centre for Arts and Technology presents immediate opportunities for cutting-edge, high-tech training at three expanding centres in Kelowna, Fredericton and Halifax.
Plateau Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Leading Industry Analyst Firm's Corporate Learning Systems Magic Quadrant : Leading Analyst Firm Evaluat
Plateau Systems, a leading provider of talent management software, services and solutions, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Plateau in the Leaders Quadrant of its recently released ?Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems (CLS),? which evaluated 14 vendors in the corporate learning systems market.1
Fashion Business Inc. Launches Interactive Resource Blog Addressing Industry Concerns
Professional development center Fashion Business Inc. unveils their newly created collaborative resource blog this week (www.fashionbizinc.org/blog)-- providing business owners with the answers to some of the industry's most commonly asked questions. In addition to addressing inquiries this new online community will also allow members to network, share ideas and help each other.
Solar Technology Leader Breaks Ground on Largest Inverter Factory on Earth: 82,000-Square-Foot Facility Designed to Handle Increased Demand
Global solar technology giant SMA Technologie AG, the parent company of SMA America, Inc., has broken ground on an 82,000-square-foot solar inverter manufacturing plant in Kassel, Germany. The largest of its kind on the planet, the new facility is designed to triple SMA's current production capacity to meet the global demand for its wildly popular solar inverters. It will support all manufacturing efforts for SMA America including production of the Sunny Boy 3000US/4000US and Sunny Boy 5000US/6000US/7000US inverters, created specifically for the American solar market. Construction is expected to wrap up in the fall.
Automotive Industry Gets Its Own Social Networking Site with DrivingSales.com
DrivingSales.com, (www.DrivingSales.com), the auto dealer industry's original online community and social networking site, today announced that it is now open to all automotive industry professionals for networking, sharing best practices, rating vendors, and maximizing success.
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North Shore-LIJ Using GPS Technology to Treat Prostate Cancer
New Hyde Park, NY (Vocus) May 1, 2008-- The North Shore-LIJ Health System announced today it is now using new cutting-edge technology ? similar to a global positioning system (GPS) -- to treat prostate cancer.
The Calypso© System provides clinicians with an innovative solution for targeting and continually monitoring the prostate in real time, during a patients radiation therapy treatment for prostate cancer. North Shore-LIJ is only one of two centers in the Northeast -- and the only hospital in Queens or Long Island -- that offers this innovative technology.
Calypso© enables physicians to localize and track prostate motion during treatment, and offers greater precision and capabilities than the most common methods of radiation therapy, called image guidance radiation therapy (IGRT),? said Louis Potters, MD, chairman of radiation medicine at North Shore University Hospital and LIJ Medical Center. While IGRT is helpful, there is added excess radiation exposure to the patients pelvis. Calypso© not only offers more accurate treatment, but there is absolutely no excess radiation.?
Organs naturally move during radiation treatments, and this movement cannot always be predicted,? he added. This new system is like a GPS for the body, enabling us to detect the slightest movement of the prostate so we can deliver extremely accurate radiation therapy. Until the advent of the Calypso©, we were not able to see what a tumor actually was doing during a patients treatment.?
Over the past decades, radiation oncology techniques have dramatically improved. In turn, this has provided radiation oncologists with the opportunity to deliver higher doses of radiation to tumors, while simultaneously minimizing irradiation of the surrounding tissue. Dr. Potters said it is not unusual for organs to move slightly day-to-day, but also minute by minute. The vast majority of people dont realize that a mere burp or even digestion can cause the prostate to shift an inch,? said Dr. Potters. The Calypso© allows a continuous tracking so that if the prostate moves during the 10-minute treatment, the linear accelerator will stop until the target is back in place.?
The Calypso© utilizes tiny electromagnetic sensors, comparable in size to a grain of rice, that are implanted in the prostate prior to treatment. These sensors enable physicians to locate the tumor within the prostate and then continuously monitor the tumors location during the delivery of radiation. The sensors, which are passive until activated, are implanted in an outpatient procedure?one similar to that of a biopsy.
Using the imaging and motion data we receive from the system, we can better determine whether changes in the treatment are necessary to optimize the radiation dose delivery and minimize complications of unintended irradiation of normal tissue? said Dr. Potters. This new technology, he added, represents an entire new class of radiation dose tracking.
Radiation therapy is used to treat approximately one million cancer patients each year in this country. It is one of the most effective cancer therapies that currently exist. Each year, 218,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. In the treatment of prostate cancer, the most common side effects arise when the radiation beam misses the prostate but irradiates adjacent healthy organs, causing complications such as impotence, urinary incontinence and rectal bleeding. Dr. Potters said. For that reason, he said, its critically important for physicians to guard against damaging healthy tissues that surround the tumor caused by misalignment and unpredictable tumor motion.
For more information, please call the Department of Radiation Medicine at LIJ Medical Center in New Hyde Park at (718) 470-7190 or visit www.northshorelij.com/radmed.
Contact:
Adina Conn
516-465-2620
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