Archive for December, 2012

Litigation in the area of genetics and athletics

Monday, December 31st, 2012

focusing on ACTN3 & 23andme

http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2012/12/26/23andme-and-labcorp-sued-for-patent-infringement/

Park New Haven – Find Parking in New Haven, CT

Monday, December 31st, 2012

interesting new valet parking at train station
http://parknewhaven.com/

The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin, Science

Monday, December 31st, 2012

A classic, published in Science
http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_tragedy_of_the_commons.html

Litigation in the area of genetics and athletics

Monday, December 31st, 2012

http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2012/12/26/23andme-and-labcorp-sued-for-patent-infringement/

‘Want to Know My Future’? Parents Grapple with Delving into Their Kids’ DNA | TIME.com

Monday, December 31st, 2012

http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/13/want-to-know-my-future-parents-grapple-with-delving-into-their-kids-dna/

The Ultimate Amenity – Grandparents – NYTimes.com

Sunday, December 30th, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/realestate/the-ultimate-amenity-grandparents.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

iPod Hearing Loss Danger

Sunday, December 30th, 2012

Why loud jazz is bad.

See
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1881130,00.html

More detail at:
http://www.noisehelp.com/ipod-hearing-loss.html

Volume Level Maximum Listening Time per Day
50% or below No limit
60% 18 hours
70% 4.6 hours
80% 1.2 hours
90% 18 minutes
100% 5 minutes

add 10% to vol. level for headphones

Zapier – Connect Your Apps Useful Tools – UsefulTools.com

Sunday, December 30th, 2012

looks like a very interesting way to connect up web services, incl. gmail, twitter & dropbox
http://www.usefultools.com/2012/11/connect-your-apps

PubMed Help – Searching for specific last and first authors

Sunday, December 30th, 2012

From
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3827/#pubmedhelp.Search_Field_Descrip some useful field descriptors, include:

Last author = [Lastau]
First author = [1au]
Grant = [GR]

Here are some examples employing these from the end of 2012:

(1) My overall query (from papers page, http://papers.gersteinlab.org) =

((Gerstein M[Author] NOT (1957[dp] : 1990[dp])) NOT 10787728[UID] NOT 11744447[UID] NOT 14663468[UID] NOT 14730174[UID] NOT 16081066[UID] NOT 14663468[UID] NOT 17270657[UID] NOT 21243890[UID] NOT
21406498[UID] NOT 21945273[UID]OR 15499007[UID] OR 17571346[UID] OR 17571346[UID] OR 8877505[UID] OR 8816770[UID] OR 7540695[UID] OR 7567918[UID] OR 7567918[UID] OR 7577841[UID] OR 7567917[UID] OR 7643385[UID] OR 8749848[UID] OR 8808580[UID] OR 8120887[UID] OR 8029203[UID] OR 8204609[UID] OR 7922041[UID] OR 7584390[UID] OR 8078776[UID] OR 8428572[UID] OR 8429559[UID] OR 8464069[UID] OR 8234227[UID] OR 8230220[UID] OR 1584800[UID] OR 2067013[UID] OR 20981092[UID] OR 21526222[UID])

==> yields 426 papers (from my total of 449)

(2) Last author papers

(2a) Gerstein M[Lastau] AND
==> yields 242 last author papers

(2b) GM[GR] AND Gerstein M[lastau] AND
==> yields 33 of 242 last author papers supported by NIH/NIGMS

(2c) GM[HG] AND Gerstein M[lastau] AND
==> yields 45 of 242 last author papers supported by NIH/NHGRI

(3) 1st author papers

(3a) Gerstein M[1au] AND
==> yields 41 first author papers

(3b) Gerstein M[lastau] AND Gerstein M[1au] AND
==> yields 11 sole author papers

Yale University Art Gallery Reopens After Renovations – NYTimes.com

Sunday, December 30th, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/arts/design/yale-university-art-gallery-reopens-after-renovations.html?pagewanted=all