Two new smartphones are going after customers who want supersized screens: Nokia's new Lumia 1520, launched Tuesday, runs Windows Phone and HTC's One Max is an Android offering. But how do the two stack up side-by-side? It's time for a face-off on the hardware specs:
The screen
When it comes to the best screen size for a device in this segment, HTC's and Nokia's product development departments seem to be in agreement. The Lumia 1520 has a 6-inch screen with a full HD resolution, while the One Max has a 5.9-inch screen with the same resolution.
Size and weight
Since the two models have roughly the same screen size, the weight is also close. The One Max is slightly heavier at 217 grams versus the Lumia 1520's 209 grams. The overall size of the two devices is also similar; the One Max comes in at 164.5 x 82.5 x 10.3 millimeters compared to 162.8 x 85.4 x 8.7 millimeters.
Processors
The two smartphones may have similar measurements, but they differ on processors. Both have quad-core processors from Qualcomm, but the Lumia 1520 is powered by the more powerful Snapdragon 800 at 2.2GHz compared to the One Max's Snapdragon 600 processor at 1.7GHz.
Storage and RAM
Buyers of the HTC One Max can choose between 16GB or 32GB, while Nokia's spec sheet only lists a 32GB option. Both vendors will let users expand the integrated memory by up to 64GB using a MicroSD card. The amount of RAM available to applications is the same at 2GB.
Camera
The camera on the Lumia 1520 has a 20-megapixel resolution compared to the 4-megapixel camera on the One Max. The sensor on the Lumia measures 1/2.5-inch and it has a f/2.4 aperture compared to a 1/3-inch sensor and a f/2.0 aperture on the One Max.
Price
The Lumia 1520 is US$749 before taxes and subsidies. The One Max sells for about US$790 without VAT or subsidies in the U.K.
NEW YORK (AP) — The prospect of more economic stimulus from the Federal Reserve pushed the Standard & Poor's 500 index further into record territory Tuesday.
Whirlpool, Delta Air Lines and Kimberly-Clark rose sharply after reporting higher earnings.
The U.S. economy added 148,000 jobs in September, the Labor Department said. That suggests employers held back on hiring before a 16-day partial government shutdown began Oct. 1. Economist surveyed by data provider FactSet had predicted 180,000 jobs would be added.
September's job report was delayed 2 ½ weeks because of the shutdown, which may have further depressed economic growth and hiring. Analysts are also expecting the coming October's job report to be weak because of the impact of the shutdown and that means the Fed is unlikely to stop its stimulus effort anytime soon.
"We've probably got another relatively soft report ahead of us," said Jeff Kleintop, Chief Market Strategist for LPL Financial. "That's likely to keep the Fed on hold for some time and the market seems to like that."
The Federal Reserve has been buying $85 billion of bonds a month to keep long-term interest rates low and spur economic growth. The central bank's stimulus has been a key support for a 4 ½-year rally in stocks.
The S&P 500 index rose six points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,750 as of 12:58 p.m. Eastern Time. The index is trading at a record level, after rebounding from a slump before lawmakers reached a deal last week to end the government shutdown and avert a potential default on U.S. debt.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 35 points, or 0.2 percent, to 15,427. The Nasdaq composite fell a point to 3,919.
Investors are also following company earnings for the third quarter.
S&P 500 companies are forecast to report average earnings growth of 3.2 percent for the July-to-September period, according to the latest estimate from S&P Capital IQ. That would be the slowest rate of growth since the third quarter a year ago.
While growth has slowed, about two-thirds of companies are reporting earnings that surpass the estimates of Wall Street analysts.
"So far, the bottom line earnings are beating the reduced expectations," said Darrell Cronk, a regional Chief Investment Officer for Wells Fargo Private Bank. "The revenue is still disappointing a little bit on the top side."
In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.53 percent from 2.60 percent, its lowest level since late July. The yield on the note has fallen as traders have pared back their expectations for the start of Fed easing.
The yields on long-term Treasury notes are used to set the rates on consumer loans such as mortgages. Falling rates should help the housing sector by keeping the cost of home financing low.
The drop in yields "is very much supportive for the mortgage markets," said Anastasia Amoroso, Global Market Strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds. "That is definitely a tailwind for the housing market and the consumer."
Stocks of homebuilders rose as the yield on the 10-year note dropped. K.B. Home rose 54 cents, or 3.2 percent, to $17.10. D.R. Horton climbed 43 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $19.10.
The housing sector rebounded after a slump Monday on a report showed that Americans bought fewer previously occupied homes in September than the previous month, held back by higher mortgage rates and rising prices.
In commodities trading, the price of crude oil fell 84 cents to $99.85 a barrel as recent data indicated there is plenty of supply to meet current demand. The price of gold rose $25.10, or 1.9 percent, to $1,341.20 an ounce.
Among stocks making big moves:
— Whirlpool rose $15.46, or 11.8 percent, to $146.40 after the company said its third-quarter net income more than doubled, benefiting from some tax credits as consumer demand for its appliances continues to build amid the housing recovery.
— Delta Air Lines rose 89 cents, or 3.6 percent, to $25.59. The airline made more than a billion dollars in the third quarter as more passengers paid a little bit extra to fly. Delta also said it was seeing strong holiday bookings.
— Kimberly-Clark rose $2.85, or 2.9 percent, to $101.70 after the maker of Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers said its third-quarter net income rose 6 percent.
— Coach fell $4.20, or 7.7 percent, to $49.99 after the maker of luxury handbags and accessories said its net income fell 2 percent in its fiscal first quarter as the company dealt with weaker sales in North America. The earnings fell short of analysts' expectations.
High school student discovers skeleton of baby dinosaur
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Claremont, CA A chance find by a high school student led to the youngest, smallest and most complete fossil skeleton yet known from the iconic tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus. The discovery, announced today by the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology at The Webb Schools, shows that the prehistoric plant-eater sprouted its strange headgear before it celebrated its first birthday. Three-dimensional scans of nearly the entire fossil are freely available online, making this the most digitally-accessible dinosaur to date.
The fossil skeleton was discovered in 2009 by high school student Kevin Terris, within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. Incredibly, the specimen was missed by two professional paleontologists, who walked within several feet of the exposed bones days prior to the discovery. "At first I was interested in seeing what the initial piece of bone sticking out of the rock was," commented Terris. "When we exposed the skull, I was ecstatic!" Excavation and subsequent cleaning of the fossil, nicknamed "Joe" after a long-time supporter of the Alf Museum whose family funded preparation of the fossil, revealed nearly the entire skeleton of a baby dinosaur measuring only six feet long when it died.
Detailed study of the skeleton of "Joe" identified it as the most complete specimen yet known for Parasaurolophus (pronounced PAIR-uh-SORE-AH-luf-us), a duck-billed (hadrosaurid) dinosaur that lived throughout western North America around 75 million years ago. The herbivore is notable for a long and hollow bony tube on the top of its skull, which scientists speculate was used like a trumpet to blast sound for communication, as well as a billboard for visual display. Although partial skulls and skeletons of full-grown Parasaurolophus have been known for over 90 years, scientists previously knew little about how Parasaurolophus grew up.
Intriguingly, the new fossil shows that baby Parasaurolophus had a low bump on top of its head, which only later morphed into the curved tube of adults. "Our baby Parasaurolophus is barely one-quarter of adult size, but it had already started growing its crest," stated lead project scientist Andrew Farke, who is Augustyn Family Curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology. "This is surprising, because related dinosaurs didn't sprout their ornamentation until they were at least half-grown. Parasaurolophus had to get an early start in order to form its unique headgear."
A sample of bone from the leg helped estimate the animal's age at death. "Dinosaurs have yearly growth rings in their bone tissue, like trees. But we didn't see even one ring. That means it grew to a quarter of adult size in less than a year," commented co-author Sarah Werning of Stony Brook University. Although "Joe" was only six feet long and a year old, it would have grown to 25 feet in length as an adult.
The fossil skeleton has yielded a world of previously unknown information about Parasaurolophus and its relatives. Medical scans documented the internal anatomy of the animal's skull, allowing a reconstruction of its vocal capabilities. "If adult Parasaurolophus had 'woofers,' the babies had 'tweeters.' The short and small crest of baby 'Joe' shows that it may have had a much higher pitch to its call than did adults," stated Andrew Farke. "Along with the visual differences, this might have helped animals living in the same area to figure out who was the big boss."
Because of the broad importance of the fossil, researchers have made 3D digital scans of the entire fossil freely available on-line (links via http://www.dinosaurjoe.com). Although portions of other dinosaur fossils have been scanned and distributed in this way before, this the first time that virtually an entire skeleton has been posted. This will allow scientists and the public alike unparalleled access to this fossil.
The study describing the new fossil was published today in the open access scientific journal PeerJ (meaning that anyone can read and download the article for free, and without restrictions). Additionally, the specimen is now on exhibit at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, California. Researchers who co-authored the study include Andrew Farke (Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, Claremont, California), Sarah Werning (University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, and Stony Brook University, New York), and high school students Derek Chok, Annisa Herrero, and Brandon Scolieri (The Webb Schools, Claremont, California). The fossil was collected under a permit from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the Bureau of Land Management, Utah.
DISCOVERY BRIEF:
The fossil, nicknamed "Joe", was found by a high school student in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah.
"Joe" is a baby Parasaurolophus, the most complete skeleton yet known from this herbivorous tube-crested dinosaur that lived 75 million years ago.
"Joe" was less than six feet long and under a year old when it died, and would have grown to an adult measuring nearly 25 feet long.
"Joe" shows that Parasaurolophus formed its unusual headgear by expanding some of its skull bones earlier and for a longer period of time than its close relatives.
The skeleton of "Joe" is the most complete digitally-accessible dinosaur to date, with 3D models and scans of virtually every aspect of its anatomy freely available for download.
High school students were involved in the collection, study, and publication of this rare find, through the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology at The Webb Schools in Claremont, California.
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The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is the only nationally accredited museum located on a secondary school campusThe Webb Schools. The vision for the museum was born on a camping trip in 1936 led by the late Raymond Alf, a Webb biology teacher with a penchant for searching for fossils. Today the museum holds over 140,000 specimens, with exhibits divided into the "Hall of Life," which traces the history of earth from the first cells through human civilization, and the "Hall of Footprints," which holds the most diverse display of fossilized animal tracks in the United States. Donald Lofgren is Director of the Alf Museum.
The Webb Schools is a unique boarding and day secondary school located in Claremont, California. It began in 1922 with the founding of Webb School of California for boys. In 1981, Vivian Webb School for girls was established, instituting the schools' special coordinate, two-schools-on-one-campus structure. Webb is well known for the success of its alumni across many fields of endeavor, as well as for its rigorous academic program, devotion to discovery learning and unbounded thinking, and for consistently producing a placement record to colleges and universities with few rivals. Taylor Stockdale is Head of Schools.
Media Contact:
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Augustyn Family Curator of Paleontology
Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology
at The Webb Schools
1175 West Baseline Road
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: 1-909-482-5244 (office)
1-909-229-1563 (cell)
Email: afarke@webb.org
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Marketing Coordinator
The Webb Schools
1175 West Baseline Road
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: 1-909-482-5230 (office)
1-951-313-0577 (cell)
Email: vpradetto@webb.org
Citation:
Farke, A. A., D. J. Chok, A. Herrero, B. Scolieri, and S. Werning. 2013. Ontogeny in the tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus (Hadrosauridae) and heterochrony in hadrosaurids. PeerJ 1:e182. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.182
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High school student discovers skeleton of baby dinosaur
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Contact: Andrew Farke, Ph.D. afarke@webb.org 909-229-1563 Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology
Claremont, CA A chance find by a high school student led to the youngest, smallest and most complete fossil skeleton yet known from the iconic tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus. The discovery, announced today by the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology at The Webb Schools, shows that the prehistoric plant-eater sprouted its strange headgear before it celebrated its first birthday. Three-dimensional scans of nearly the entire fossil are freely available online, making this the most digitally-accessible dinosaur to date.
The fossil skeleton was discovered in 2009 by high school student Kevin Terris, within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. Incredibly, the specimen was missed by two professional paleontologists, who walked within several feet of the exposed bones days prior to the discovery. "At first I was interested in seeing what the initial piece of bone sticking out of the rock was," commented Terris. "When we exposed the skull, I was ecstatic!" Excavation and subsequent cleaning of the fossil, nicknamed "Joe" after a long-time supporter of the Alf Museum whose family funded preparation of the fossil, revealed nearly the entire skeleton of a baby dinosaur measuring only six feet long when it died.
Detailed study of the skeleton of "Joe" identified it as the most complete specimen yet known for Parasaurolophus (pronounced PAIR-uh-SORE-AH-luf-us), a duck-billed (hadrosaurid) dinosaur that lived throughout western North America around 75 million years ago. The herbivore is notable for a long and hollow bony tube on the top of its skull, which scientists speculate was used like a trumpet to blast sound for communication, as well as a billboard for visual display. Although partial skulls and skeletons of full-grown Parasaurolophus have been known for over 90 years, scientists previously knew little about how Parasaurolophus grew up.
Intriguingly, the new fossil shows that baby Parasaurolophus had a low bump on top of its head, which only later morphed into the curved tube of adults. "Our baby Parasaurolophus is barely one-quarter of adult size, but it had already started growing its crest," stated lead project scientist Andrew Farke, who is Augustyn Family Curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology. "This is surprising, because related dinosaurs didn't sprout their ornamentation until they were at least half-grown. Parasaurolophus had to get an early start in order to form its unique headgear."
A sample of bone from the leg helped estimate the animal's age at death. "Dinosaurs have yearly growth rings in their bone tissue, like trees. But we didn't see even one ring. That means it grew to a quarter of adult size in less than a year," commented co-author Sarah Werning of Stony Brook University. Although "Joe" was only six feet long and a year old, it would have grown to 25 feet in length as an adult.
The fossil skeleton has yielded a world of previously unknown information about Parasaurolophus and its relatives. Medical scans documented the internal anatomy of the animal's skull, allowing a reconstruction of its vocal capabilities. "If adult Parasaurolophus had 'woofers,' the babies had 'tweeters.' The short and small crest of baby 'Joe' shows that it may have had a much higher pitch to its call than did adults," stated Andrew Farke. "Along with the visual differences, this might have helped animals living in the same area to figure out who was the big boss."
Because of the broad importance of the fossil, researchers have made 3D digital scans of the entire fossil freely available on-line (links via http://www.dinosaurjoe.com). Although portions of other dinosaur fossils have been scanned and distributed in this way before, this the first time that virtually an entire skeleton has been posted. This will allow scientists and the public alike unparalleled access to this fossil.
The study describing the new fossil was published today in the open access scientific journal PeerJ (meaning that anyone can read and download the article for free, and without restrictions). Additionally, the specimen is now on exhibit at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, California. Researchers who co-authored the study include Andrew Farke (Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, Claremont, California), Sarah Werning (University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, and Stony Brook University, New York), and high school students Derek Chok, Annisa Herrero, and Brandon Scolieri (The Webb Schools, Claremont, California). The fossil was collected under a permit from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the Bureau of Land Management, Utah.
DISCOVERY BRIEF:
The fossil, nicknamed "Joe", was found by a high school student in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah.
"Joe" is a baby Parasaurolophus, the most complete skeleton yet known from this herbivorous tube-crested dinosaur that lived 75 million years ago.
"Joe" was less than six feet long and under a year old when it died, and would have grown to an adult measuring nearly 25 feet long.
"Joe" shows that Parasaurolophus formed its unusual headgear by expanding some of its skull bones earlier and for a longer period of time than its close relatives.
The skeleton of "Joe" is the most complete digitally-accessible dinosaur to date, with 3D models and scans of virtually every aspect of its anatomy freely available for download.
High school students were involved in the collection, study, and publication of this rare find, through the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology at The Webb Schools in Claremont, California.
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The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is the only nationally accredited museum located on a secondary school campusThe Webb Schools. The vision for the museum was born on a camping trip in 1936 led by the late Raymond Alf, a Webb biology teacher with a penchant for searching for fossils. Today the museum holds over 140,000 specimens, with exhibits divided into the "Hall of Life," which traces the history of earth from the first cells through human civilization, and the "Hall of Footprints," which holds the most diverse display of fossilized animal tracks in the United States. Donald Lofgren is Director of the Alf Museum.
The Webb Schools is a unique boarding and day secondary school located in Claremont, California. It began in 1922 with the founding of Webb School of California for boys. In 1981, Vivian Webb School for girls was established, instituting the schools' special coordinate, two-schools-on-one-campus structure. Webb is well known for the success of its alumni across many fields of endeavor, as well as for its rigorous academic program, devotion to discovery learning and unbounded thinking, and for consistently producing a placement record to colleges and universities with few rivals. Taylor Stockdale is Head of Schools.
Media Contact:
Andrew Farke, Ph.D.
Augustyn Family Curator of Paleontology
Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology
at The Webb Schools
1175 West Baseline Road
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: 1-909-482-5244 (office)
1-909-229-1563 (cell)
Email: afarke@webb.org
Additional Media Contact:
Vivian Pradetto
Marketing Coordinator
The Webb Schools
1175 West Baseline Road
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: 1-909-482-5230 (office)
1-951-313-0577 (cell)
Email: vpradetto@webb.org
Citation:
Farke, A. A., D. J. Chok, A. Herrero, B. Scolieri, and S. Werning. 2013. Ontogeny in the tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus (Hadrosauridae) and heterochrony in hadrosaurids. PeerJ 1:e182. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.182
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Pioneer in schizophrenia and ethics research receives Institute of Medicine's 2013 Sarnat Prize
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Contact: Jennifer Walsh news@nas.edu 202-334-2138 National Academy of Sciences
WASHINGTON The Institute of Medicine today awarded the 2013 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health to William T. Carpenter, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. He is being recognized for his achievements in broadening the understanding of schizophrenia as well as for his research on ethics and informed consent. The Sarnat Prize, which consists of a medal and $20,000, was presented to Carpenter at IOM's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
"Our understanding of schizophrenia and how to treat it are greatly due to the lifetime dedication of Dr. Carpenter," said IOM President Harvey V. Fineberg. "His work on mental illness research ethics and academic relations has contributed significantly to policies that have become influential in setting national standards for handling this illness."
Carpenter's research into schizophrenia has helped uncover its symptoms, courses, and causes and shaped the prevention and treatment of the illness. In the 1970s, he challenged the understanding of schizophrenia, which focused on "positive" symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, and shifted the disease paradigm to emphasize "negative" symptoms -- for example, inexpressive faces, monotone speech, and impaired social behavior. This work spurred an initiative at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) that urged more focus on negative symptoms and cognitive deficits for therapeutic intervention. The domains for the disease that are specified in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders are based on this paradigm shift and on domains Carpenter previously identified.
When schizophrenia research was under intense scrutiny due to allegations of research ethics violations -- including lack of informed consent, medication-free research, and the use of compounds to deliberately cause psychoses -- Carpenter provided key empirical data supporting competent informed consent, established new methods for implementing and documenting informed consent, and completed critical reviews demonstrating the absence of harm in off-medication research and in pharmacological challenge studies. In addition, he published guidelines for conducting schizophrenia research safely and ethically.
As director of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, he transformed a facility that lacked research beds, clinics, and funding into a top-tier translational research center with the dual purpose of supporting investigative work and providing unique clinical services at no cost to patients. The center recently gained support for an initiative in pre-psychotic early detection and intervention.
Carpenter is editor-in-chief of Schizophrenia Bulletin; is author of more than 400 publications; and has served on the editorial boards of the Archives of General Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Neuropsychopharmacology, Psychiatry Research, Schizophrenia Research, and Current Psychiatry Reports. He is a past president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and helped establish the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.
Carpenter earned his bachelor's degrees from Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., and his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. He has held academic appointments at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. In addition, Carpenter served as a collaborating investigator for the World Health Organization International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia, on the NIMH Intramural Research Program Board of Scientific Counselors, and as a consultant and reviewer for NIMH and the National Institutes of Health on a variety of topics. He played a key role in founding the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), now known as the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation and has chaired its scientific program since NARSAD's inception. He was also a member of a U.S. State Department delegation whose investigation of the political misuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union resulted in a change of laws, and he provided expert testimony in the trial of John W. Hinkley for the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. Carpenter was elected to the IOM in 1998.
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Since 1992 the Institute of Medicine has presented the Sarnat Prize to individuals, groups, or organizations that have demonstrated outstanding achievement in improving mental health. The prize recognizes -- without regard for professional discipline or nationality -- achievements in basic science, clinical application, and public policy that lead to progress in the understanding, etiology, prevention, treatment, or cure of mental disorders, or to the promotion of mental health. As defined by the nominating criteria, the field of mental health encompasses neuroscience, psychology, social work, nursing, psychiatry, and advocacy among other disciplines.
The award is supported by an endowment created by Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat, whose concern about the destructive effects of mental illness inspired them to establish the award. Nominations for potential recipients are solicited every year from IOM members, mental health professionals, and others. This year's selection committee was chaired by Hortensia Amaro, Associate Vice Provost for Community Research Initiatives and Dean's Professor of Social Work and Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California. Additional information on the Sarnat Prize can be found at http://www.iom.edu/sarnat.
Established in 1970 under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine provides independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policymakers, health professionals, the private sector, and the public. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies. For more information, visit http://www.iom.edu.
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Pioneer in schizophrenia and ethics research receives Institute of Medicine's 2013 Sarnat Prize
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Contact: Jennifer Walsh news@nas.edu 202-334-2138 National Academy of Sciences
WASHINGTON The Institute of Medicine today awarded the 2013 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health to William T. Carpenter, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. He is being recognized for his achievements in broadening the understanding of schizophrenia as well as for his research on ethics and informed consent. The Sarnat Prize, which consists of a medal and $20,000, was presented to Carpenter at IOM's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
"Our understanding of schizophrenia and how to treat it are greatly due to the lifetime dedication of Dr. Carpenter," said IOM President Harvey V. Fineberg. "His work on mental illness research ethics and academic relations has contributed significantly to policies that have become influential in setting national standards for handling this illness."
Carpenter's research into schizophrenia has helped uncover its symptoms, courses, and causes and shaped the prevention and treatment of the illness. In the 1970s, he challenged the understanding of schizophrenia, which focused on "positive" symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, and shifted the disease paradigm to emphasize "negative" symptoms -- for example, inexpressive faces, monotone speech, and impaired social behavior. This work spurred an initiative at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) that urged more focus on negative symptoms and cognitive deficits for therapeutic intervention. The domains for the disease that are specified in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders are based on this paradigm shift and on domains Carpenter previously identified.
When schizophrenia research was under intense scrutiny due to allegations of research ethics violations -- including lack of informed consent, medication-free research, and the use of compounds to deliberately cause psychoses -- Carpenter provided key empirical data supporting competent informed consent, established new methods for implementing and documenting informed consent, and completed critical reviews demonstrating the absence of harm in off-medication research and in pharmacological challenge studies. In addition, he published guidelines for conducting schizophrenia research safely and ethically.
As director of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, he transformed a facility that lacked research beds, clinics, and funding into a top-tier translational research center with the dual purpose of supporting investigative work and providing unique clinical services at no cost to patients. The center recently gained support for an initiative in pre-psychotic early detection and intervention.
Carpenter is editor-in-chief of Schizophrenia Bulletin; is author of more than 400 publications; and has served on the editorial boards of the Archives of General Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Neuropsychopharmacology, Psychiatry Research, Schizophrenia Research, and Current Psychiatry Reports. He is a past president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and helped establish the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.
Carpenter earned his bachelor's degrees from Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., and his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. He has held academic appointments at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. In addition, Carpenter served as a collaborating investigator for the World Health Organization International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia, on the NIMH Intramural Research Program Board of Scientific Counselors, and as a consultant and reviewer for NIMH and the National Institutes of Health on a variety of topics. He played a key role in founding the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), now known as the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation and has chaired its scientific program since NARSAD's inception. He was also a member of a U.S. State Department delegation whose investigation of the political misuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union resulted in a change of laws, and he provided expert testimony in the trial of John W. Hinkley for the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. Carpenter was elected to the IOM in 1998.
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Since 1992 the Institute of Medicine has presented the Sarnat Prize to individuals, groups, or organizations that have demonstrated outstanding achievement in improving mental health. The prize recognizes -- without regard for professional discipline or nationality -- achievements in basic science, clinical application, and public policy that lead to progress in the understanding, etiology, prevention, treatment, or cure of mental disorders, or to the promotion of mental health. As defined by the nominating criteria, the field of mental health encompasses neuroscience, psychology, social work, nursing, psychiatry, and advocacy among other disciplines.
The award is supported by an endowment created by Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat, whose concern about the destructive effects of mental illness inspired them to establish the award. Nominations for potential recipients are solicited every year from IOM members, mental health professionals, and others. This year's selection committee was chaired by Hortensia Amaro, Associate Vice Provost for Community Research Initiatives and Dean's Professor of Social Work and Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California. Additional information on the Sarnat Prize can be found at http://www.iom.edu/sarnat.
Established in 1970 under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine provides independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policymakers, health professionals, the private sector, and the public. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies. For more information, visit http://www.iom.edu.
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Chelsea Dickson, Media Relations Associate
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Pirelli believe its change of tyre compounds for this weekend’s race in India will lead teams to use more aggressive strategies.
The hard and soft tyres have been used for both previous races at the Buddh International Circuit, but this year the medium and soft compounds have been chosen.
Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery said their previous choices of compounds “might have been slightly on the conservative side”.
“This year we’ve gone for a softer and slightly more aggressive choice,” said Hembery.
F1′s official tyre supplier is bringing a softer selection of tyres for this weekend’s race for only the second time this year[2] – as it also did in Australia. As the 2013 rubber is softer than that used last year, its Pirelli’s of compounds for most races this season have been the same as last year or harder.
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At the White House on Monday, President Obama acknowledged widespread problems with his health care law's website while still defending the Affordable Care Act. NPR White House Correspondent Scott Horsley talks with Steve Inskeep about the president's remarks.
NPR's business news starts with an acknowledgement of trouble by President Obama.
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INSKEEP: OK, the president is speaking right now to reporters and others in the White House Rose Garden. Our White House correspondent Scott Horsley has been listening in. He's in our studios. Hi, Scott.
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: Good to be with you, Steve.
INSKEEP: OK, the president's talking about Obamacare. What's he saying?
HORSLEY: Well, this is really the first big acknowledgement by the president that the problems with the website, healthcare.gov, that people are using to access the new insurance marketplaces are more than the glitches. He'd said all along there would be glitches. It's now become clear that the problems are more deep-seeded than that.
The president said there's no sugar coating that, and that he's as frustrated as anybody else. He also said the government is working to fix those problems. They're bringing in some top IT talent from the private sector to help out. He also says some of those private sector folks anticipated this kind of problem with a big undertaking like this.
INSKEEP: They might have anticipated it but they weren't ready for it...
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INSKEEP: ..but it's going to be a problem here, isn't it, to get it fixed on the fly?
HORSLEY: Absolutely. You're trying to fix the airplane while flying the airplane, as the saying goes. But the president also stressed that what he calls the underlying product, the insurance that's available through these marketplaces is still good, even if it's tough to get access to it. And he stressed that the Affordable Care Act is more than just this website and that there are ways for people to access that insurance offline, either by the telephone or in person.
INSKEEP: OK, Scott, thanks very much.
HORSLEY: My pleasure.
INSKEEP: We'll be hearing more about this. NPR's Scott Horsley.
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Pirelli believe its change of tyre compounds for this weekend’s race in India will lead teams to use more aggressive strategies.