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National Program to Improve the Quality of Geriatric Surgical Patient Care Announced by American College of Surgeons and John A. Hartford Foundation

Today, the American College of Surgeons  (ACS), in partnership with the John A. Hartford Foundation  (JAHF), announced it will conduct a four-year initiative that will lead to improved care of older surgical patients through a standards and verification program for hospitals. The respective leaders for this initiative are pioneers in the field of geriatric surgery and long-time Hartford grantees, Clifford Y. Ko, MD, FACS, Director of the ACS Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care, and Ronnie Rosenthal, MD, FACS, Chair of the ACS

Partial Differential Equations ‘dolfin-adjoint’ Software wins the 2015 Wilkinson Prize

Prestigious numerical software prize, in honour of eminent mathematician, James Hardy Wilkinson, to be awarded at ICIAM 2015, China11 June 2015 – The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) , Argonne National Laboratory  and the National Physical Laboratory  announce and present the winner of the co-sponsored Wilkinson Prize 2015  to P.E. Farrell (University of Oxford), S.W. Funke (Simula Research Laboratory), D.A. Ham (Imperial College) and M.E. Rognes (Simula Research Laboratory) for “

Solent Lecturer performs on London Road soundtrack

Brixton cinema hosted a star-studded premiere of London Road on Tuesday, a musical centred on events surrounding the arrest and conviction of Steve Wright, the serial killer who murdered five women in Ipswich in 2006.The film, out in selected cinemas tomorrow (12 June), includes a soundtrack featuring Professor Pete Wilson, Senior Lecturer at Southampton Solent University, on bass guitar. Directed by Rufus Norris and featuring stars such as Tom Hardy, Olivia Coleman and Anita Dobson, London Road uses the residents' own words - down to every 'um' and 'erm' - to explain what went on in the

New Qube office pod system offers simplified intelligence

The creation of flexible meeting and working spaces within the office is now made simple thanks to the new Qube freestanding pod system from Unifi, part of the Boss Design Group. Providing specifiers with endless scope for design, the introduction of Qube follows the phenomenal success of the brand’s earlier acoustic pod system, Vista. Presenting a contemporary and flexible alternative to fixed partitioning, Qube offers a simplified range of options to enable specifiers to easily design and control office space to suit corporate working patterns and enhance wellbeing. Bespoke options

CARDIFF AVIATION MRO WORK UNDERGOES RAPID EXPANSION

11 June 2015Cardiff Aviation has seen demand skyrocket for its MRO services, with record numbers of aircraft inputs over the past nine months. Since October 2014, the world-class MRO facility at St Athan - Cardiff Airport Aerospace Enterprise Zone in South Wales - has completed 43 base maintenance inputs for many big name airlines and top lessors. More than £3m worth of work has been carried out on Boeing 737s, 757s, and Airbus A320s. Phil Swanson, Commercial Director at Cardiff Aviation, says: “Cardiff Aviation’s MRO operations have grown phenomenally in the past nine months and we

Hangars complete at new Defence college

Work has completed on three hangars at the new Defence College for Technical Training at MOD Lyneham in Wiltshire. The  hangars have each been newly built or refurbished by Hercules - a joint venture between Kier Group and Balfour Beatty - for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO). The buildings, which include two extensions to existing hangars, provide workshops, stores and classrooms to cater for the Army’s Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME’s) training needs.  The remodelled hangars and their extensions are part of the phase one of work on the new

lunch! 2015: Visitor registration opens for biggest ever edition

Greggs’ CEO Roger Whiteside confirmed for exclusive Keynote Q&A at lunch! 2015Top buyers from EAT, Tesco, Waitrose, Superdrug, British Airways, IKEA, Brakes, Elior, Baxterstorey, Sodexo, and Gate Retail Onboard, are among the who’s who of buyers that have already pre-registered to attend lunch! 2015, which returns to the Business Design Centre in London on 24-25 September. Now in its eighth year and firmly established as the leading trade event for the UK’s £6.9bn food-to-go market, lunch’s pivotal focus on innovation has made it a popular choice with buying teams from many of the

AMETEK AEROSPACE & DEFENSE APPROVES KELLSTROM REPAIR SERVICES AS AN AUTHORIZED REPAIR CENTER

CONTACT: Dale Gobeille 978-289-2199 WILMINGTON, MA— AMETEK Aerospace & Defense has approved Kellstrom Repair Services (KRS), a Merex Group Company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Kellstrom Defense Aerospace, Inc., as an AMETEK Authorized Repair Center. With the signing of this agreement, KRS is approved to service and repair AMETEK fuel flowmeters, transmitters and other AMETEK Aerospace sensor products for KC-10, KC-135, C-130, F-16 and T-38 aircraft. "AMETEK is pleased to partner with Kellstrom Repair Services," stated Andy Brandenburg, Vice President for AMETEK Aerospace and

Crafting a career in yacht design

Preparing to set a course for their future careers, final-year yacht engineering students from Southampton Solent impressed industry experts with their skills and knowledge at a University award ceremony.Six students were shortlisted for the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, RINA-BAE Systems and RINA-BMF Awards for best final-year design and yacht production project of the year. The finalists were asked to give a 10-minute presentation on their projects to a panel of three industry experts, including two course alumni: Trevor Blakeley, Chief Executive of The Royal Institution of

Living Wage Deal for Southampton Solent Contractor employees

Southampton Solent University is firmly committed to social justice and to economic prosperity and in recognition of this, we are working with our main contractors to implement the payment of the living wage rate for their staff working in Solent University premises.All the University’s directly employed staff are already paid above the living wage rate, with some higher than national pay rates in place for apprenticeships and other trainee roles. With increased funding from the University, the three main contract service partners will make the uplift in wages to their staff working

ATS EUROMASTER UNVEILS NEW MASTERCARE PACKAGE FOR PROACTIVE PROBLEM PREVENTION

11 June 2015ATS Euromaster has launched MasterCARE, a new service package for cars, 4x4s, vans, trucks, trailers, buses and coaches designed to provide easy access to a range of pre-emptive tyre safety checks. The package is focused on scheduled, electronically managed tyre inspections to minimise the risk of tyre failures and prolong tyre life, through optimal tyre maintenance and identifying potential service issues before they lead to vehicle downtime. MasterCARE comes with a variety of service options, including checks of tread depths, valve caps and tyre pressures by expert

Starting small: students test their designs in annual model yacht race

Pierre-Antoine Tesson from France has won this year's model yacht race - an annual event that began more than 40 years ago as a bit of end of term fun - for Southampton Solent University yacht engineering students.It was a close fought race, but the first-year BEng (Hons) Yacht and Powercraft Design student had already scored highly for his design and build. Marin Lauber from Switzerland came second and Aladin Montel, also from France, took third place. Giles Barkley, Programme Group Leader of the yacht engineering courses says, “Congratulations to Pierre-Antoine on a very well deserved

New Report from Change the Equation Finds American Millennials Lack Tech Savvy Stresses the Value of K-12 Technology Literacy

Findings show millennials are largely unaware of their shortcomings and their impact on individual opportunityDespite their presumed tech-savvy, the majority of American millennials struggle to use technology to solve problems at work and at home, according to a new report released today by Change the Equation . The report, Does Not Compute: The High Cost of Low Technology Skills in the U.S.—and What We Can Do About It , is an original analysis of the 2012 Programme for International Assessment of Adult

BIMobject® Cloud - now more than 100 000 professional users

BIMobject® is proud to announce that BIMobject® Cloud, the central database service and portal of the company, is now used by more than 100 000 professional architects, engineers, interior architects, specifiers, and construction companies. "We are pleased to see an ever-growing influx of new users on BIMobject® Cloud," says Stefan Larsson, CEO of BIMobject AB, "and that the total number of professional BIM-users now has passed the 100 000-mark. That record is to be compared to some 30 000 users at the end of year 2013, a number that had risen to some 80 000 last turn of the year."  "

Student work lights up the big screen

Students, staff and figures from the film industry gathered at Harbour Lights Picture House on Thursday 4 June to see the latest final-year film projects from Southampton Solent University’s film and TV courses.The morning’s showings covered an extraordinarily diverse selection of films on topics as wide as identity and uncertainty, journeys, moments of life-changing crisis and social interconnectivity. Darren Kerr, Programme Group Leader for Film and Television, says, “The final-year project is a huge investment of time and effort for students, especially while the rest of their studies

Cool kitchen from Stoneham at ICE Development Kitchen and Cook School

Stoneham Kitchens has provided a custom kitchen for ICE Development Kitchen and Cook School, created by Infusions4Chefs, a centre exploring fantastic food through experimentation. An ultra-functional, innovative and unique kitchen was required to support the school’s cooking classes and demonstrations.Infusions4Chefs, established 13 years ago, supplies a wide range of ingredients, gadgets and cooking essentials from its Suffolk warehouse. “We’d always planned to expand by opening a cookery school, but it was a struggle to find a kitchen supplier and designer who could deliver exactly what

NCCN Receives $2 Million in Research Funding from Boehringer Ingelheim to Study Targeted Combination Approaches with Afatinib in Lung Cancer

The NCCN Oncology Research Program (ORP) received a $2-million grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to facilitate studies of afatinib in non-small cell lung cancer.FORT WASHINGTON, PA — The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN ®) Oncology Research Program (ORP ) has been awarded a $2-million grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to develop a program to evaluate scientifically targeted combination approaches with afatinib in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Grab your teddy bear for garden party fun as Pinehurst Care Centre celebrates national Care Home Open Day 2015

Saturday 13 June, 2pm-4pmTeddy bears of every shape, size and colour – including one or two human-sized! - will be adding to the fun at Pinehurst Care Centre in Crowthorne, Berkshire, on Saturday 13 June when the care home hosts a garden party as part of National Care Home Open Day 2015. The doors will open at 2.00pm for an entertaining afternoon complete with barbecue, live music, tombola, raffle, a home-baked cake stall and an assortment of teddies! Visitors are welcome to come along and soak up the atmosphere, enjoy the food and entertainment, chat with residents and members of staff,

Fashion students launch 8th issue of Third Floor

Third Floor was created eight years ago as a live project for final year students; one of the first live projects that was run for the fashion courses.Funded by Southampton Solent University, Third Floor successfully launched their eighth publication of the magazine in May 2015. Targeting creative professionals, the magazine aims to provide a collective editorial of portfolios submitted by students from across all the fashion courses. Students working on the magazine gain real world experience sourcing models, clothing and contributors. Liaising directly with industry professionals and

UT Arlington researchers use giant foam blocks to keep approach slabs of bridges from settling

Battling settling soilsA research team at The University of Texas at Arlington is using giant lightweight geofoam blocks to bolster the earth beneath roads and bridges and slow down the settling of roadways and bridges. Anand Puppala, UT Arlington associate dean for research in the College of Engineering  and distinguished scholar professor in the Civil Engineering Department , said that the majority of the world’s largest cities, often built in areas near water bodies, have soft and compressible soils. He said a good number of the

Optronic Contributes to Swift Identification of Chemical Substances

Serstech has developed a hand-held device, a spectrometer, which identifies chemical substances. Masterminded with IT company Combitech and using a cloud solution, the spectrometer will provide valuable information that will benefit people all over the world. Optronic has participated in the construction, and is responsible for production. “We have chosen Optronic because of their skills within optics. Our customers are very satisfied with the professional product that has been delivered”, says Peter Höjerback, CEO of Serstech. Serstech sells the spectrometer, which uses lasers to

New chapter revealed in history of 1,000 year old manuscript

A new chapter in the history of a 1,000-year-old manuscript on display in York Minster’s Undercroft is being uncovered, thanks to a revolutionary new sampling technique. The York Gospels, which was made in Canterbury and is thought to have been brought to York in around 1020AD, has been analysed using a new biomolecular technique which can help explain how the book was originally put together. The new approach involves analysing the book’s parchment to identify the type of animal skins used in its original construction. The information will provide insight into the manuscript’s

Patheon to Exhibit Biologics Services and Expertise at 2015 BIO International Convention

Patheon , a leading global provider of high-quality drug development and delivery solutions to the pharmaceutical and biopharma industries, will showcase ways to accelerate biologic process development and funding options for biopharmaceutical programs at the BIO International Convention in Philadelphia, from Tuesday, June 16, to Wednesday, June 17.    Two of Patheon’s biologics rapid development and scale-up experts, Matt Caple, scientific director, cell culture development, and Tertia Dex, director, business development, will offer exclusive scientific

TFS and LobSor Pharmaceuticals advance their risk-sharing partnership in Parkinson’s disease to the clinics.

TFS and LobSor Pharmaceuticals (LobSor) have reached an important milestone in their risk-sharing partnership by advancing LobSor’s LECIGel® for Advanced Parkinson’s disease into the clinics.In June 2014, TFS and LobSor signed a risk-sharing agreement for the development of LobSor’s Advanced Parkinson’s disease candidate LECIGel® with the objective to file a Marketing Authorization (MA) in Europe. TFS is under the risk-sharing agreement responsible for the regulatory strategy, clinical development planning and execution including the regulatory MA filing. TFS and LobSor have advanced the

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