Intel to map Plans for $ 200 million, or 10 000 elderly health study

Intel Corp. will help the Fund to work on a proposal for a study of $ 200 million of the technology used to provide care at home for the elderly, and Eric Dishman, an Intel fellow and Director of health innovationsaid in an interview.

The study will focus on the use of technology by 10 000 elderly people, said Dishman. Intel is looking for partners who can put funding for the proposal and the study and end a proposal describing the study of this year, he said.

In an effort of 5 to 10 years, researchers predict use sensors, computers connected to the Internet and other devices to capture data on daily activities of older persons, such that when they take the medicine and the speed with which they move on the House. The goal is to prove that the technology can follow physical and cognitive decline and understand how technology can help improve care providers for older persons in the settings of the home, hospitals and other facilities where care costs have skyrocketed in recent years. The so-called technology of aging on the spot market is expected to surge. Income comprehensive monitoring in patients with diseases such as diabetes and heart arrhythmia should increase to 16.6 billion in 2015, $ 11 billion last year, according to the Swedish consultant Berg Insight.

"There are likely to be more seniors which need you assistance at home," Andre Malm, senior analyst at the Berg, said in an interview. "It is a way to improve the quality of life for patients who want to live at home." What is needed, it is good, independent research "to prove that technologies to home work." The number of Americans aged 65 years or more will be increased to 72.1 million by 2030, 39.6 million in 2009, according to the Administration on aging.

One goal is to prove that technologies at home can be useful for early detection of diseases, and alert as grave emergency care providers, said Dishman. "I am certain that we will find ways to increase the prevention of falls and reduce depression," he said. Computers could remind consumers with Alzheimer's disease, for example, what they discussed in a previous conversation. A door can notify a caregiver that a person who has not gone outside for four days.

"You can solve a problem earlier, before becoming a clinical," Paul Crawford, Research Director of health for Intel Labs product, said in an interview. "Intel tries to make a living in the digital age." It's analog age now. "Crawford and Jeff Kaye, Professor at the University of Oregon Health & Science, are leading the work on the proposal. The study should be administered by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

The study can begin as early as 2012, if additional funds are secure, Dishman said. His study SILvR (Senior independent living research) Initiative could cost 200 million dollars over 10 years and eventually followed some 10,000 households with seniors, he said. The exact cost of the study will be determined this year.

Potential donors of the work of proposal include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Science Foundation, said Dishman. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which provides funding for public health projects, is "intrigued by the idea", Paul Tarini, senior officer of the Foundation programme, said in an interview. The Organization spoke with Intel on the study and is currently awaiting a funding proposal.

Intel makes chips and software used in home care. The company and GE Corp. formed a joint venture focused on technologies for independent living and telehealth in August.

Intel invested in technologies for 12 years senior health care, funding more than 100 University Grants, said Dishman.

Once the proposal is completed by the end of the year, Intel will push us and the European Union authorities to fund the study, said Dishman. Intel also spoke with representatives of the White House, including federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and shoot the study becoming an issue in the presidential election in 2012, he said.

"It is too expensive even for Intel alone produce clinical and financial evidence that these technologies detect diseases and reduce costs," said Dishman. "Even competitors need to meet and co-invest."

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S Commercial collecting Mapletree 893.2 million in intellectual property offices

10: 43 Pm EDT by Katrina Nicholas, April 18, 2011

(Corrects currency in paragraph 11 of the story published April 18).

April 18 (Bloomberg) - Mapletree Commercial Trust, the owner of properties, including VivoCity shopping mall Singapore, s raised 893.2 million dollars (718 million dollars) in an initial public offering.Mapletree Commercial sold shares at s $0.88 per unit, with their marketed to investors to s $0.84 to s $0.91 each, according to a statement of media by electronic mail. The trust, a unit of Mapletree Investments Pte, belonging to the business of investment Singapore State Temasek Holdings Pte, delayed his initial in city public offer month last due to the volatility of markets.The sale offers a "single exposure to the first Singapore, a stable and resilient portfolio assets and a platform for growth unparalleled," Amy Ng, chief executive officer of the Trust Manager, said at a Conference in Singapore today. If an over-allotment option fully exercised, about S 983 million will be triggered, she said.Mapletree Commercial is selling shares after the record economic growth of Singapore led office rents and retail higher for at least three quarters straight, lift a decline in 2009. The benchmark Straits Times Index, which lost more than 4.5 per cent in the week after the strongest earthquake of the Japan on March 11, has since recovered and has exceeded the levels before the temblor.YieldThe increase the final price of s $0.88 corresponds to a yield of distribution of approximately 5.7% for the fiscal year to March 2012, based on the estimation of dividend of 4.98 Singapore cents per unit trust, in accordance with the statement. The performance of distribution will grow to 6.2% the following year.Performance forecasts growth does not take into account future acquisitions that the trust can do, or no improvement in existing assets such as Gipsy, said Ng.Mapletree Commercial can reach its portfolio of 5.1 million square feet of the net assets of laudable, is worth about S $ 3 billion, 6.9 million square feet under the law of the first Convention of refusal, with Mapletree Investments, said.Of the total offering, approximately 30 per cent went to four investors of cornerstone - AIA Group Ltd., Hillsbro Capital Ltd., Itochu Corp., and NTUC FairPrice Co-operative Ltd. - who have purchased a combined S 266 million, according to the Declaration. The most important was Asian life insurer AIA, which purchased approximately s $ 121 million units and held 7.4 percent of the trust at registration.VivoCityAbout 16% of the units have been reserved for Singapore retail investors who will be able to subscribe through a distinct offer that opens tomorrow and extends to April 25, said the statement. Units will begin trading on April 27 and the sale was managed by Citigroup Inc., DBS Group Holdings Ltd., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Deutsche Bank AG and CIMB Group Holdings Bhd.VivoCity is the best asset of the trustwho make up 76 per cent of its revenues. Funds raised from the sale of the unit will be used to buy Bank of America Merrill Lynch HarbourFront and PSA Building, two developments of Office in the southern part of Singapore belonging to Mapletree Investments.Vivocity drew 43.6 million visitors in 2010, or an increase of 9.9% 2009, while retail sales increased 12.3% for s 741.7 million, said Ng. separately, Mapletree Investment Group Chief Financial Officer Wong Mun Hoong said at the briefing today that funds of China of the company is not sufficiently mature to an initial short-term public offer.

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The ocean of the Japan radiation strikes 7.5 million times legal limit - Los Angeles Times

A broker walks between fish market fish Hirakata in Kitaibaraki, the Japan, trade for the first time since the disaster of earthquake and tsunami on March 11. (Toru Yamanaka / AFP/Getty Images / April 5, 2011)The operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster of the Japan said Tuesday that he had found radioactive iodine to 7.5 million times the legal limit, in a sea water sample taken near the facility and officials imposed a new limit of radioactivity in fish health.

The reading of iodine-131 was registered Saturday, said Tokyo Electric Power Co.. Another sample taken Monday found at level 5 million times the legal limit. Monday samples were also found to contain radioactive cesium to 1.1 million times the legal limit.

The exact source of the radiation was not immediately clear, although Tepco said that highly contaminated water was leaking a pit near the No. 2 reactor. The utility initially believed that the leak was from a crack, but several attempts to seal the crack failed.

Tuesday, the company said that the leak instead could come from a defective joint, where the sky meets a duct, allowing the water to seep into a layer of gravel below radioactive. The utility said that it might inject "liquid glass" gravel to stop more than leak.

In the meantime, Tepco continued releasing what he described as water contaminated with low levels of radiation in the sea to make space in the storage tanks on-site for more highly contaminated water. In all, the company said it expected release 11 500 tonnes of water, but by Tuesday morning, he had left less than 25% of this amount.

Although the Government has authorized the publication of the 11 500 tonnes and said that any radiation could be quickly diluted and dispersed in the ocean, fish with high readings of iodine are located.

Monday, officials detected more than 4 000 becquerels of iodine 131 per kilogram in a type of fish called a lance took less than three miles off the coast of the city of Kita-Ibaraki. Young fish contained also 447 becquerels of cesium-137, which is considered as more problematic than iodine-131, because it has a much longer half-life.

Tuesday the Secretary to the cabinet Chief Yukio Edano said that the Government impose a standard of 2 000 becquerels of iodine per kilogram of fish, the same level it enables in vegetables. Previously, the Government lacks a specific level for fish. Another route of Lance with 526 becquerels of cesium was detected Tuesday, more than the standard of 500 becquerels per kilogram.

Fishing for sand lances has been suspended. Local fishermen called Tepco to stop the release of radioactive water into the sea and demanded that the company compensate them for their losses.

Fishing was banned near the plant, and the vast majority of the fishing activities in the region was interrupted because of damage to the boats and ports by the tsunami on March 11 and the earthquake. Yet, some fishermen are to catch, to see the lack of interested buyers because of fears of radiation.

It was not clear that Tepco may provide fishermen, but the company said Tuesday that he had offered "condolence payments", for a total of 180 million yen ($2 million) for the residents who had to evacuate their homes due to the radiation of the Fukushima plant. A city, however, refused payment.

The company has yet to decide how it will compensate residents near the plant in damages, although analysts say that the claims could be tens of billions of dollars. Executive Vice President of TEPCO said Takashi Fujimoto on damages company's decision hinges on how much of the burden the Government will do share.

Edano urged the company to accelerate its decisions on compensation.

For now, the company has offered to give 20 million yen ($ 240,000) each of the 10 villages and towns within 12 miles of the plant, Fujimoto said.

"We hope they will find of some use for the moment," he said.

Namie, a city of would be, located approximately 6 miles north of the plant, refused to lend money. Official city Kosei Negishi said that he and other officials working out of an Office of fortune in the city of Nihonmatsu in Fukushima Prefecture and had more pressing.

"The coastal areas of Namie have been hit by the earthquake of Earth and the tsunami, but due to radiation and the evacuation order, we did not have the opportunity to search for 200 people missing," said Negishi. "Why would we use our resources below 1,000 yen ($12) each resident?

Tokyo Electric Power Fujimoto acknowledged that he had a "divide" in the views of the company and officials Namie.

TEPCO shares dropped to a record, passing down Tuesday by the maximum daily commercial - about 18% - to 362 yen, below the previous record low of 393 yen reached in December 1951. The company has lost 80% of its value - almost 1.1 billion yen - since the earthquake and tsunami, according to the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

"We take very seriously the decline in the price of the shares," Fujimoto told journalists.

Annual earnings report said Fujimoto of the company, which was originally scheduled for April 28, would be postponed, but he declined to give other details.

Julie.MAKINEN@LAtimes.com

Hall special correspondent is.

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