KINGSTON, New Jersey, July 24 -- The Parkinson Alliance issued the following news: The Parkinson Alliance announced that the 26th annual Parkinson's Unity Walk, our in-person event in New York City's Central Park previously scheduled for April 25th, will now take place virtually on July 11th at 11:00 am ET. COVID-19 might have caused the Unity Walk to take a pause, but we know that Parkinson's disease does not take a pause, and it is critical to continue to support vital research for the develo  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, July 24 -- The Advocates for Children of New Jersey issued the following news release: The Census 2020 NJ Coalition condemns the July 21st executive memorandum from President Trump that attempts to exclude undocumented persons from the Census Bureau's legislative apportionment counts. "The memorandum is both unconstitutional and harmful to an accurate count of New Jersey's residents," said Peter Chen, Policy Counsel at Advocates for Children of New Jersey and coordinator of   more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, July 24 -- The American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, a journal that says it features biological and medical aspects of genetic disorders and birth defects and genotype and phenotype correlations, published research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2020 edition: NEW SYNDROME: * Developmental delay, intellectual disability, short stature, subglottic stenosis, hearing impairment, onychodysplasia of the index fingers, and distinctive facial featu  more

RESTON, Virginia, July 24 -- The American Society of Civil Engineers issued the following news: ASCE recently announced its 2020-2021 undergraduate Society Scholarship recipients and its 2020-2021 graduate student Society Fellowship recipients: 2020-2021 ASCE Society Scholarship recipients: Jas Ahuja, S.M.ASCE, New Jersey Institute of Technology - Samuel Fletcher Tapman ASCE Student Chapter Scholarship Tanzila Alam, S.M.ASCE, California State University - Fresno - Samuel Fletcher Tapman ASCE  more

MT. LAUREL, New Jersey, July 22 -- The American Society of Transplantation issued the following news: The full House Committee on Energy and Commerce unanimously passed H.R. 5534, the Comprehensive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act (referred to as the "Immuno Bill"). Prior to the unanimous Committee vote on July 15, 2020. Congressman Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) made remarks publicly recognizing the work of the American Society of Transplantation (AST), the American Society of Tran  more

MAHWAH, New Jersey, July 22 -- The Andrew Goodman Foundation issued the following news release: Young adults will be our nation's largest eligible voting block in the 2020 election, and this generation of voters is enthusiastic about civic participation and eager to make their voices heard. To prepare them to do just that, a diverse coalition of voting groups, research hubs, and civic tech engines have launched National Voter Education Week (NVEW), a campaign to equip voters with the tools, inf  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, July 21 -- Annals of Mathematics, a journal from Princeton University and its Institute for Advanced Study, published research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2020 edition: * Poincare polynomials of character varieties, Macdonald polynomials and affine Springer fibers * Positive characterization of rational maps The July 2020 edition of the Annals of Mathematics Journal can be viewed at https://annals.math.princeton.edu/2020/192-1. [Category: Educ  more

HIGHLANDS, New Jersey, July 20 -- Anticancer Research, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features experimental and clinical oncology from the International Institute of Anticancer Research, published research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2020 edition: Reviews: * Fecal Occult Blood Tests in Colorectal Cancer Screening: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Traditional and New-generation Fecal Immunochemical Tests * Review of the Role of Radiomics in Tumour Risk Cl  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 21 -- Clean Water Action issued the following news release on July 20: An incredibly powerful and diverse array of over 170 organizations, representing hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents including unions, environmental justice, social justice, community, faith-based groups, urban mayors, and an united environmental community called on the NJ State Assembly to pass the strongest possible version of the cumulative impacts bill (S232/A2212) out of committee and  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, July 23 -- Public Funds Public Schools issued the following news: A rule issued by the U.S. Department of Education this month coerces school districts to use an illegal process to inflate the amount of federal COVID-19 aid they must share with private schools. The rule will drastically diminish the resources available to support public school children and historically underserved student populations during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a lawsuit filed by public school  more

PENNSVILLE, New Jersey, July 21 -- Ear and Hearing, a journal from the American Auditory Society that says it covers auditory and vestibular disorders, published research articles, including the following topics, in its July/August 2020 edition: Review: * Auditory Training Supports Auditory Rehabilitation: A State-of-the-Art Review Research Article: * Audiovisual Enhancement of Speech Perception in Noise by School-Age Children Who Are Hard of Hearing * Minimal and Mild Hearing Loss in Child  more

ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey, July 24 -- Englewood Hospital and Medical Center issued the following news release: This month Englewood Health partnered with the Office of Concern Food Pantry at Saint Cecilia in Englewood to address the challenges of food insecurity and the growing hunger epidemic amid the COVID-19 crisis. As a result of reduced income, unemployment, product shortage, and increasing cost, many vulnerable households in northern New Jersey have limited access to affordable, nutritious f  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 24 -- Environment New Jersey issued the following news release: With summer in full swing, water pollution can close New Jersey beaches or put swimmers' health at risk. Last year, bacteria levels at New Jersey beaches indicated that water was potentially unsafe for swimming there on least one day 73 times, according to the new report Safe for Swimming? by Environment New Jersey Research & Policy Center. The report comes as Congress is set to vote tomorrow on a major sp  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, July 20 -- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, a journal that says it emphasizes the common ground where there is overlap involving instrumentation, hardware, software, mathematics, physics, biology and medicine from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2020 edition: * Context-Aware Convolutional Neural Network for Grading of Colorectal Cancer Histology Images * Deep Learning-Ba  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, July 24 -- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, a journal from the IEEE Computer Society, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2020 edition: * Back to the Future: Radial Basis Function Network Revisited * Contactless Biometric Identification Using 3D Finger Knuckle Patterns * Continuation Method for Graph Matching Based Feature Correspondence * Curriculum Domain Adaptation Approach to the Semantic Segmentation of  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, July 20 -- The International Journal of Psychology, a peer-reviewed journal that says it serves as the outlet for basic and applied research in scientific psychology from the International Union of Psychological Science, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2020 edition: Regular Empirical Articles: * Does power corrupt? The moderating effect of status * He is smarter when he looks smart in front of many versus a few others: Impact of audience  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, July 23 -- The Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, a journal that says it features strategies of managers and the organizational structure of firms, published research articles on the following topics in its Fall 2020 edition: ORIGINAL ARTICLES: * Graduate education and long-term inventive performance: Evidence from undergraduates' choices during recessions * Hospital performance standards and medical pricing: The impact of information disclosure in cardiac car  more

ORADELL, New Jersey, July 23 -- The Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features therapeutic role of cytokines and Interferons from the International Cytokine and Interferon Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2020 edition: Research Reports: * Nucleosome Assembly Protein 1-Like 3 Enhances Cisplatin Resistance of Ovarian Cancer Cell by Activating Transforming Growth Factor-Beta Pathway * Interleukin-6-  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, July 21 -- The Journal of Phytopathology, a journal that says it features plant diseases induced by microbial pathogens, viruses and nematodes, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2020 edition: REVIEW ARTICLE: * First report of Plectosphaerella plurivora causing root rot disease in Panax notoginseng in China ORIGINAL ARTICLES: * Temporal and spatial dynamics of grapevine anthracnose and its relationship to pathogen survival * Occurrence a  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, July 21 -- The Journal of Wildlife Management, a journal that says it features investigations into the biology and ecology of wildlife and their habitats, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2020 edition: RESEARCH ARTICLES: * Black Bear Movement and Food Conditioning in an Exurban Landscape * Acute Thermal and Stress Response in Moose to Chemical Immobilization * Disturbance Caused by Aerial Waterfowl Surveys During the Nonbreeding Season   more

ISLAND HEIGHTS, New Jersey, July 18 -- The Kennedy Forum issued the following news release: On Wednesday, July 15th, the Illinois Department of Insurance (IDOI) announced fines against five major insurance companies for violating the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (Federal Parity Law), which requires health plans to cover treatment for mental health and substance use disorders no more restrictively than treatment for illnesses of the body, such as diabetes and cancer. CIGNA  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 21 -- The New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce issued the following statement by President and CEO Tom Bracken on the death of Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia: The passing of Georgia Congressman John Lewis comes at a particularly poignant time for our nation and for New Jersey. Congressman Lewis was a pillar of the civil rights movement and his fight for inclusion and economic opportunity made him the conscience of the U. S. Congress for his more than three decades of ser  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, July 24 -- The Center for American Women and Politics issued the following news release on July 22: This August marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification and adoption of the 19th Amendment, which extended the right to vote to American women nationwide. Though full suffrage for all women, specifically women of color, would continue to be denied for many more decades through discriminatory legislation, political machinations, and domestic terrorism, the passage of  more

NEW YORK, July 23 -- The Rockefeller Foundation issued the following news release: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Main Street Alliance (MSA) announced a new effort to support small business owners from marginalized communities in Newark, New Jersey, and Norfolk, Virginia, by helping eliminate barriers to access capital and credit. This collaboration is the first to stem from The Rockefeller Foundation Opportunity Collective (ROC), a new initiative announced last month which aims to catalyze  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, July 20 -- Transactions on Circuits and Systems, a journal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2020 edition: * 8-bit Low-Cost String DAC With Gradient Errors Suppression to Achieve 16-bit Linearity * Efficient Spur-Aliasing-Free Spectral Calibration Technique in Time-Interleaved ADCs * Energy-Constraint Formation for Multiagent Systems With Switching Interaction Topologies   more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, July 21 -- World Politics, a journal that features international relations and comparative politics from the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2020 edition: Research Article: * The Logic of Illicit Flows in Armed Conflict: Explaining Variation in Violent Nonstate Group Interactions in Colombia * Local Order, Policing, and Bribes: Evidence from India * The Durability of Client Reg  more