Future Seniors: Is the Hospitality Industry Ready for Them?

Persons age 55 and over will become the biggest market for hospitality throughout the next 30 years. This future senior market will not have the same needs and characteristics of current seniors. The author discusses the similarities and differences of the current and future senior markets and offers recommendations for meeting the needs of the future senior market.

Lin KERNS, The secret of secrets (Secreta secretorum). A modern translation, with introduction, of “The governance of princes", with a foreword by Elizabeth Matthew, Lewiston (New York), The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7734-5118-6, 168 pp.

Fil: Cuccia, Emiliano Javier.

THE SLOAN BRIGHT ARCS SURVEY: DISCOVERY OF SEVEN NEW STRONGLY LENSED GALAXIES FROM z=0.66-2.94

We report the discovery of seven new, very bright gravitational lens systems from our ongoing gravitational lens search, the Sloan Bright Arcs Survey (SBAS). Two of the systems are confirmed to have high source redshifts z = 2.19 and z = 2.94. Three other systems lie at intermediate redshift with z = 1.33, 1.82, 1.93 and two systems are at low redshift z = 0.66, 0.86. The lensed source galaxies in all of these systems are bright, with i-band magnitudes ranging from 19.73 to 22.06. We present the spectrum of each of the source galaxies in these systems along with estimates of the Einstein radius for each system. The foreground lens in most systems is identified by a red sequence based cluster finder as a galaxy group; one system is identified as a moderately rich cluster. In total, SBAS has now discovered 19 strong lens systems in the SDSS imaging data, 8 of which are among the highest surface brightness z similar or equal to 2-3 galaxies known.

Ethics at War: Review of Elizabeth Scannell-Desch and Mary Ellen Doherty, Nurses in War: Voices from Iraq and Afghanistan

Compte-rendu / Review

Edades & etapas : actividades de aprendizaje de 0 a 5 años.

Actividades diseñadas para ser utilizadas por el 'Programa de seguimiento, Ages & Stages (ASQ)'. Resumen tomado de la publicación

Elizabeth I.

Se hace un análisis tanto de la vida personal como de su trayectoria como líder de la reina Isabel I de Inglaterra, que ejerció su autoridad en un mundo de hombres. El texto tiene distintos tipos de letra y de dificultad para motivar a los estudiantes a leer en un nivel más elevado. Tiene, además, cronología de su vida y de su época, glosario, bibliografía y direcciones web.

Elizabeth I : meeting the challenge, England 1541-1603.

Su contenido se adapta a las especificaciones AS y A2 de 2008 para OCR y AQA.Traza la evolución de la crisis de la mitad de los Tudor, desde Enrique VIII a María I, analiza la sucesión de Isabel y su consolidación en el poder, examina las amenazas internas y externas, de carácter político, religioso y militar, a su gobierno, así como los problemas de los últimos años de su reinado. Incluye fechas clave, términos y temas, perfiles biográficos, resúmenes esquemáticos, fuentes literarias y síntesis de los principales debates historiográficos.

Caribou observations on Queen Elizabeth Islands (Tab. 1 + 2)

The numbers and distributions of Peary caribou (Rangiier tarandus pearyi) on western Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories were determined by aerial surveys based on a standard census strip method. Surveys were flown in March-April and July-August periods in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Comparison of the 1973 and 1974 survevs with those results of a comparable survey in 1961 showed an overall decline of 89% in numbers of caribou between 1961 and 1974. Percentage reduction of caribou numbers from 1961 to 1874 followed a west-cast gradient on the three major islands: Prince Patrick 72%, Melville 87% , and Bathurst 92%. The marked decrease in numbers of caribou is attributed to a combination of high winter mortality in some years and an overall low rate of births and recruitment from 1961 to 1974.

Intranuclear diffusion and hybridization state of oligonucleotides measured by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy in living cells

Fluorescein-labeled oligodeoxynucleotides (oligos) were introduced into cultured rat myoblasts, and their molecular movements inside the nucleus were studied by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP). FCS revealed that a large fraction of both intranuclear oligo(dT) (43%) and oligo(dA) (77%) moves rapidly with a diffusion coefficient of 4 × 10−7 cm2/s. Interestingly, this rate of intranuclear oligo movement is similar to their diffusion rates measured in aqueous solution. In addition, we detected a large fraction (45%) of the intranuclear oligo(dT), but not oligo(dA), diffusing at slower rates (≤1 × 10−7 cm2/s). The amount of this slower-moving oligo(dT) was greatly reduced if the oligo(dT) was prehybridized in solution with (unlabeled) oligo(dA) prior to introduction to cells, presumably because the oligo(dT) was then unavailable for subsequent hybridization to endogenous poly(A) RNA. The FCS-measured diffusion rate for much of the slower oligo(dT) population approximated the diffusion rate in aqueous solution of oligo(dT) hybridized to a large polyadenylated RNA (1.0 × 10−7 cm2/s). Moreover, this intranuclear movement rate falls within the range of calculated diffusion rates for an average-sized heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle in aqueous solution. A subfraction of oligo(dT) (15%) moved over 10-fold more slowly, suggesting it was bound to very large macromolecular complexes. Average diffusion coefficients obtained from FRAP experiments were in agreement with the FCS data. These results demonstrate that oligos can move about within the nucleus at rates comparable to those in aqueous solution and further suggest that this is true for large ribonucleoprotein complexes as well.