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CALABASAS, Calif., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- National Technical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTSC) (NTS), a leading provider of testing and engineering services, announced today that Aaron S. Cohen, the Company's co-founder and currently its Vice Chairman and Senior Vice President, has been named "Alumnus of the Year" by UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Cohen will receive the award at a gala UCLA Engineering Awards Dinner Nov. 2 at the Beverly Hills...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On Election Day, California voters will be confronted with a doozey of a ballot, including 11 statewide propositions, Congressional, State Senate and Assembly candidates, as well as various local offices and initiatives - not to mention the Presidential election. Help is on the way. California Choices (www.californiachoices.org), a nonpartisan clearinghouse for state voter information, is relaunching today. The newly updated website...

[ Watch the Video: ESO Celebrates its 50th Anniversary ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Researchers' discovery of self-organized electromagnetic fields in counter-streaming ionized gases is paving the way for scientists to have new ways to explore how order can emerge from chaos in the universe. "We've created a model for exploring how electromagnetic fields help organize ionized gas or plasma in astrophysical settings, such as in the plasma flows that emerge...

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of California, Irvine Extension program and its OpenCourseWare initiative recently received four Impact awards at the 2012 Internet Marketing Association (IMA) Conference in Las Vegas. The 2012 Impact Awards recognize businesses of all sizes that have demonstrated superiority in developing innovative and successful Internet marketing strategies and campaigns. The social media efforts of the UC Irvine Extension...

When President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney square off in their first debate Wednesday, college students across the country will pilot test a new smartphone application that promises to make live polling possible for the first time on a large scale. So far more than 175 political science professors nationwide have registered some 12,000 students to field test the real-time polling app, developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis, the University of...

How tumors exploit microflora and immune cells to fuel growth Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report the discovery of microbial–dependent mechanisms through which some cancers mount an inflammatory response that fuels their development and growth. The findings are published in the October 3, 2012 Advanced Online Edition of Nature. The association between chronic inflammation and tumor development has long been known from the early work of...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Samueli Foundation winner Raymond Gilmartin (age 14) of South Pasadena, Calif., wins grand prize for overall STEM excellence and his study on the effect of rear spoilers on drag and lift in cars Jessika Baral (age 13) of Fremont, Calif., wins Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation and $10,000 for her aptitude for electrical engineering and project on eye muscles and peripheral vision Sponsored by Broadcom...

LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As Baby Boomers become senior citizens, Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia are on track to reach epidemic proportions, with a new diagnosis every 68 seconds and an annual cost of $1.2 trillion projected by 2050, not to mention the psychological toll on family members caring for their loved ones. UCTV Prime's YouTube original series "Heartache and Hope: America's Alzheimer's Epidemic" reveals what it's like for patients and...

Two proteins previously found to contribute to ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, have divergent roles. But a new study, led by researchers at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, shows that a common pathway links them. The discovery reveals a small set of target genes that could be used to measure the health of motor neurons, and provides a useful tool for development of new pharmaceuticals to treat the...

Thanks to studies of a fish that gives birth to live young and is not fished commercially, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that food availability is a critical limiting factor in the health of fish populations. The scientists were able to attach numbers to this idea, based on 16 years of data. They discovered that the availability of enough food can drive up to a 10-fold increase in the per capita birthrate of fish. And, with adequate food, the young are up to 10 times more...