He and his wife Anne donated $15 million to fund the George and Anne Ryan Center on Neuroscience at URI. The effort is one of the key elements in bringing together major educational and health organizations in a broad-based neuroscience initiative in Rhode Island.

Inventor(s): Rongsheng Miao (San Jose, CA), Yusheng Bai (Los Altos Hills, CA) Assignee(s): FutureWei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX) Law Firm: No Counsel Application No., Date, Speed: 14591516 on 01/07/2015 (1434 days app to issue)

I just finished the Gamecube version of Pikmin, and planning on getting 2, but i want it on Gamecube, rather than Wii.

The practice reaches back to when cheesemakers in England skimmed the butterfat from milk to make butter, according to Elizabeth Chubbuck of Murray’s Cheese in New York. The leftover milk was whiter, so cheesemakers added pigments to recreate butterfat’s golden hue, she said.

“In the nearly 40 years since lead acetate was initially approved as a color additive, our understanding of the hazards of lead exposure has evolved significantly,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, says in a statement. “We now know that the approved use of lead acetate in adult hair dyes no longer meets our safety standard.”

The wine is priced at $100 a bottle. Lake’s Folly’s wine club members get first dibs. If any is left, it will go on sale at Lake’s Folly’s cellar door on Broke Road.

So there you have it… my monthly beauty haul! Hope you found some new products to try out — and if you do try some out, I’d love to hear about it!

Jodie, who posted pictures of Violet’s injuries on Facebook, has contacted the police and the RSPCA but there has been no suggestion that her neighbours were responsible.

Aquaporins (AQPs) feature highly selective water transport through cell membranes, where the dipolar orientation of structured water wires spanning the AQP pore is of considerable importance for the selective translocation of water over ions. We recently discovered that water permeability through artificial water channels formed by stacked imidazole I-quartet superstructures increases when the channel water molecules are highly organized. Correlating water structure with molecular transport is essential for understanding the underlying mechanisms of (fast) water translocation and channel selectivity. Chirality adds another factor enabling unique dipolar oriented water structures. We show that water molecules exhibit a dipolar oriented wire structure within chiral I-quartet water channels both in the solid state and embedded in supported lipid bilayer membranes (SLBs). X-ray single-crystal structures show that crystallographic water wires exhibit dipolar orientation, which is unique for chiral I-quartets. The integration of I-quartets into SLBs was monitored with a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation, quantizing the amount of channel water molecules. Nonlinear sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy demonstrates the first experimental observation of dipolar oriented water structures within artificial water channels inserted in bilayer membranes. Confirmation of the ordered confined water is obtained via molecular simulations, which provide quantitative measures of hydrogen bond strength, connectivity, and the stability of their dipolar alignment in a membrane environment. Together, uncovering the interplay between the dipolar aligned water structure and water transport through the self-assembled I-quartets is critical to understanding the behavior of natural membrane channels and will accelerate the systematic discovery for developing artificial water channels for water desalting.

One of the biggest differences between the Echo and the Echo Plus is the in-built Zigbee smart home hub. While the Echo can communicate with other Echo devices, the Zigbee hub can communicate with non-Echo smart devices such as Philips Hue smart bulbs, smart plugs and smart switches. 

Through the correlation of energetically favorable confinement with induced dipole orientation of water molecules, I-quartet artificial water channels could be an interesting scaffold for future highly efficient water purification membranes. To compete with reverse osmosis, the current gold standard for desalinating seawater (39), permeation water flux rates for artificial water wire channels will need to be increased significantly to that of AQPs. Shorter channel lengths, more dense channels per unit area of surface, and optimal number of hydrogen bonds between the water and the channel [to take advantage of both selectivity in hydrophilic channels like I-quartets (14) and high water transport rates in hydrophobic channels such as carbon nanotubes (40)] are possible approaches.

For decades the nicest restaurant in Providence might have been the old Rusty Scupper, but in the 1980′s, Johanne Killeen and George Germon not only transformed the restaurant scene in Providence, but also proved that small cities with brilliant chefs could compete.