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Recent UI grad tweaks tax software for government use David Nadler, a May 2005 UI graduate has been working for the past six months to implement the Wisconsin Department of Revenue’s tax software in preparation for the upcoming tax season.

Nadler works for Fast Enterprises, LLC, a Denver-based computer software company that produces the first commercial, off-the-shelf integrated tax processing package designed for government revenue departments and agencies.

Idaho was the first state in the nation to adopt the software.

It can process individual and corporate income, sales, tobacco, alcohol, motor fuel and other taxes, fees and licenses for a revenue agency.

It is now being used in two Canadian provinces and 10 states.

While Nadler was not involved in initial software development, he set-up Wisconsin’s tax collections system, connecting collection officers with delinquent taxpayers around the state.

He also calculates how the state receives payments and applying liabilities.

The UI grad earned bachelor’s degrees in computationa...

''We are trying to get a handle on brain mechanisms for complex social phenomena."The finding has no immediate clinical implications, although it might eventually help lead to new drugs to modify behavior, Meyer-Lindenberg said.''I don't want this to be seen as gene that makes people violent," Meyer-Lindenberg said.

''It's naïve to expect that you can give people some drug and they would be nonviolent."The work centered on a gene known as monoamine oxidase, which is associated with impulsive aggression in animals and humans, according to studies of behavior.

A 2002 study reported that, among people who were abused as children, those who carry a particular version of the gene were more likely to victimize others later in life.The gene is used by cells to make an enzyme that breaks down serotonin, a chemical that carries signals among brain neurons.

In examining 142 people in the study, 57 had a version of the gene that makes less of the enzyme and that allows more serotonin to be present as the brain is developed.Brain regions associated with fear w...

Scientists tested three groups: 20 long-term users who had smoked four or more marijuana cigarettes a week for at least 10 years; 20 short-term users who had smoked a similar amount for 5 to 10 years; and 24 people, representing a control group, who had use...