CRANFORD, New Jersey, July 22 -- American Atheists issued the following news: Today, American Atheists joined 125 national organizations to urge Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar to stop considering any proposed regulation that would allow taxpayer-funded foster care and adoption agencies to discriminate in the name of religion. "Ensuring that taxpayer-funded child placement agencies abide by nondiscrimination laws is not hostile to religion. Turning away people seeking to engag  more

CRANFORD, New Jersey, July 23 -- American Atheists issued the following news: Today, American Atheists joined 178 organizations to call for scrapping the Department of State's recently announced "Commission on Unalienable Rights." American Atheists denounced the preponderance of religious supremacists serving on the commission. The commission's chair, Mary Ann Glendon, has called religious freedom the "first of freedoms," believing it should trump "other rights, claims, and interests." In addi  more

CRANFORD, New Jersey, July 25 -- American Atheists issued the following news: This month, American Atheists submitted comments opposing the U.S. Department of Education's plan to introduce dangerous new exemptions for religious institutions of higher education. The department's proposed rule would unconstitutionally favor religious schools and seminaries over secular colleges and universities. Institutions that claim to have religious missions would receive wide-ranging exemptions from require  more

MOUNT LAUREL, New Jersey, July 24 -- The American Journal of Transplantation, from the American Society of Transplantation and American Society of Transplant Surgeons, says that it covers organ transplantation, published 27 research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2019 edition: * A national mandatory-split liver policy: A report from the Italian experience * A Path Toward Improving Health Literacy and Transplant Outcomes * Agree on much, except it is time for change * A  more

MOUNT LAUREL, New Jersey, July 26 -- The American Journal of Transplantation, from the American Society of Transplantation and American Society of Transplant Surgeons, says that it covers organ transplantation, published 28 research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2019 edition: * Abatacept as rescue immunosuppression after calcineurin inhibitor treatment failure in renal transplantation * Barriers to live and deceased kidney donation by patients with chronic neurologica  more

MOUNT LAUREL, New Jersey, July 24 -- The Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology Journal, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features neurology from the American Neurological Association, published 21 research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2019 edition: * Acoustic enhancement of sleep slow oscillations in mild cognitive impairment * Clinical and molecular findings in a cohort of ANO5-related myopathy * Comparison of machine learning models for seizure predicti  more

HIGHLANDS, New Jersey, July 23 -- Anticancer Research, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features experimental and clinical oncology from the International Institute of Anticancer Research, published 82 research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2019 edition: * 2-Deoxy-glucose Enhances the Effect of Cisplatin and Pemetrexed in Reducing Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Cell Proliferation But Not Spheroid Growth * A Brief Guide to Performing Pharmacological Studies In Vitro:  more

ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey, July 23 -- Englewood Hospital and Medical Center issued the following news release: Cardiothoracic surgeon Molly Schultheis, MD, has joined the Englewood Health Physician Network and Englewood Hospital. Dr. Schultheis has specific clinical interests in aortic aneurysm, coronary artery disease, endocarditis, heart valve disease and arrhythmias. In addition, she is skilled in video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), ventricular assist devices (VAD), extracorporeal membrane o  more

PENNSVILLE, New Jersey, July 22 -- Ear and Hearing, a journal from the American Auditory Society that says it covers auditory and vestibular disorders, published 26 research articles, including the following topics, in its July/August 2019 edition: * A Laboratory Evaluation of Contextual Factors Affecting Ratings of Speech in Noise Implications for Ecological Momentary Assessment * A New Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale Short-Form Factor, Cluster, and Comparative Analyses * Ben  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, July 23 -- Educational Testing Service issued the following news release: * * * - ETS and Khan Academy(R) Partner to Bolster Equity in Education with Khan Academy Official Praxis(R) Core Prep * * * Princeton, N.J., and Mountain View, Calif. -- At a time when school systems across the country are struggling with teacher shortages and a need to broaden diversity within the profession, Khan Academy and ETS are proud to introduce Khan Academy Official Praxis(R) Core Prep,   more

PEMBERTON, New Jersey, July 23 -- The Open Space Institute issued the following news release: * * * - An inspiring model for protecting the forested source water of the greater Delaware River * * * With support from the Open Space Institute, a long-abandoned blueberry farm is now permanently preserved as open space. The property will expand recreational opportunities in central New Jersey while protecting drinking water within the Delaware River. The 202-acre property, protected by the Ranc  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, July 22 -- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, a journal that says it deals with the theory, design and applications of neural networks and learning systems from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, published 23 research articles on the following topics in its August 2019 edition: * A Novel and Safe Two-Stage Screening Method for Support Vector Machine * A Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Flexible Convolutional Autoencoder for Image Class  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, July 18 -- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, a journal that says it deals with the theory, design and applications of neural networks and learning systems from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, published 23 research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2019 edition: * A Cross-Domain Recommender System With Kernel-Induced Knowledge Transfer for Overlapping Entities * Adaptive Leader-Following Consensus for Multiple Eul  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- The International Code Council issued the following news release: * * * - The merger will provide expanded product offerings and digital solutions to code officials, municipal planners and zoning officials in New Jersey and beyond * * * The International Code Council announced that as of July 1, New Jersey-based Coded Systems has merged with General Code, a member of the Code Council family of solutions. The merged companies, operating as General Code, will support the  more

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Muslim Advocates issued the following statement by Madihha Ahussain, special counsel for anti-Muslim bigotry: * * * - Official Posted a Death Wish on Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Accusations of Terrorism at Rep.Ilhan Omar * * * Muslim Advocates called for Daniel Patrick Leonard, a member of the Toms River Regional Schools Board of Education and the New Jersey School Boards Association Board of Directors, to resign or be removed from both posts because of his violent, anti-M  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- The National Partnership for Women and Families issued the following news release: * * * - Millions Helped But Workers Who Make Low Wages Face Barriers; Report and Issue Briefs Available at NationalPartnership.org/PaidLeaveReport * * * As the debate over a national paid leave plan heats up mdash; both in Congress and on the campaign trail mdash; today the National Partnership for Women & Families, in partnership with Main Street Alliance, the National Center for Childr  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 22 -- The New Jersey School Boards Association issued the following news release: The New Jersey School Boards Association applauds Governor Murphy and the Legislature for enacting a bill that effectively eliminates the superintendent salary cap. The governor signed the legislation, S-692/A-3775, yesterday. The cap has been "an unnecessary restriction that can have a negative impact on the quality, stability and continuity of public education," said Dr. Lawrence S. Fe  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 26 -- The New Jersey School Boards Association issued the following statement: The Executive Committee of the New Jersey School Boards Association today issued a statement condemning the social media posts made by a member of the Toms River Regional Board of Education who also serves as an Ocean County representative to the NJSBA Board of Directors. In statements issued earlier this week, Association officials termed the posts "offensive" and "reprehensible." Today's   more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 24 -- The New Jersey School Boards Association issued the following statement on the posting of messages by a local school board member: "The New Jersey School Boards Association learned of the social media posts yesterday. "The content of the posts is offensive and does not represent the values and beliefs of our organization. "NJSBA is a service organization. It does not have the authority to remove an individual from local school board office. The individual who i  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, July 25 -- RWJBarnabas Health issued the following news: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick (RWJUH) hosted 29 students representing the New Jersey Governor's Hispanic Fellows program last week. During the visit, leaders at RWJUH and RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH), including RWJUH President and CEO John J. Gantner and Nicole Martinez, Assistant Vice President, Nursing Informatics and Finance for RWJBH; shared career and life advice. The day also featur  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- U.S. Term Limits issued the following news release, dated July 30: U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the leader in the non-partisan national movement to limit terms for elected officials, praises Russ Cirincione, 2020 U.S. House candidate from New Jersey's 6th congressional district, for signing the pledge for an amendment to term limit Congress. The primary for this race will be held June 2, 2020. Currently, U.S. Term Limits has the support of nearly 70 pledge signers in Congres  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, July 19 -- Transactions on Circuits and Systems, a journal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published 22 research articles, including the following topics, in its June 2019 edition: * A 2.86-TOPS/W Current Mirror Cross-Bar-Based Machine-Learning and Physical Unclonable Function Engine For Internet-of-Things Applications * A 53-67 GHz Low-Noise Mixer-First Receiver Front-End in 65-nm CMOS * A New Nonlinear Global Placement for FPGAs: The Chaot  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, July 22 -- Transactions on Circuits and Systems, a journal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published 23 research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2019 edition: * A New Fast Algorithm for Discrete Fractional Hadamard Transform * An All-Digital On-Chip Peak-to-Peak Jitter Measurement Circuit With Automatic Resolution Calibration for High PVT-Variation Resilience * An SVD Processor Based on Golub-Reinsch Algorithm for MIMO   more