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| Frailty in elderly may be prevented or reversed if addressed early |
28 February 2006 - Yale University
Published in Archives of Internal Medicine, the study included 754 participants age 70 or older, who were not disabled in their basic activities of daily living, such as bathing and dressing. Their frailty, assessed every 18 months for 54 months, was defined on the basis of weight loss, exhaustion, low physical activity, muscle weakness and slow walking speed. Participants were classified as 'frail' if they met three or more of these criteria, as 'pre-frail' if they met one or two and as 'non-frail' if they met none of the criteria. |
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| Bioengineers create stable networks of blood vessels |
28 February 2006 - Yale University
For body tissue to survive it must receive oxygen delivered through the finest of blood vessels. Led by Erin Lavik, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering, this study shows that the fine network of blood vessels can be formed. Further, detailed microscopic studies showed that the vascular networks were stable as implants for up to six weeks and were able to connect with larger blood vessel structures. |
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| Georgia Tech helps implement new statewide interoperable public safety system |
28 February 2006 - Georgia Institute of Technology
When a crisis occurs, it's critical for public safety officials to coordinate their efforts. Yet in Georgia, law enforcement agencies and first responders use radio systems that operate on different frequencies and technologies, making it difficult for various agencies to communicate quickly and effectively. |
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| New advice for employers on involving workers in health and safety management |
28 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
The Health and Safety Executive today launches new resources for employers to help them involve workers in health and safety management. Published as part of a new 'worker involvement' website the tools provide a wealth of sound help and advice to businesses. |
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| HSE announces new timetable for construction design regulations |
28 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
Today, the Health and Safety Executive announced the revised Construction (Design and Management) Regulations would be implemented in Spring 2007. The Regulations will revise and bring together provisions in the existing CDM Regulations 1994 and the Construction Health Safety and Welfare Regulations 1996 into a single regulatory package. |
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| New taskforce formed to help companies move to greener practices |
28 February 2006 - Defra
A new business taskforce has been brought together to identify ways in which companies can move to more sustainable consumption and production practices.
The formation of the UK Business Taskforce on Sustainable Consumption and Production and its Steering Group, who will formally meet for the first time on 14 March, was today welcomed by Environment Minister, Elliot Morley. |
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| Solid low level radioactive waste |
28 February 2006 - Defra
Proposals for dealing with solid low level radioactive waste have been published today for consultation. |
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| RAD expands its Pseudo Wire Access Solutions to include 3G backhaul over broadband wireless & DSL |
28 February 2006 - RAD Data Communications Ltd
RAD Data Communications, the industry pioneer of pseudo-wire circuit emulation technologies, will be exhibiting at CeBIT 2006 in Hanover, Germany a complete set of access solutions over packet transport to support 3G backhaul, including pseudo wire, over Metro Ethernet networks, wireless and DSL services. |
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| Casacolour achieves high performance rubine red |
28 February 2006 - Thomas Swan
Pigment Red 264, one of the most challenging colours to produce, has been successfully developed to join the high specification Casacolour pigment portfolio of Thomas Swan Performance Colours. |
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| GE insurance solutions to offer insurance credit to law firms with legal administrators |
28 February 2006 - AZDEL
The Association of Legal Administrators announced today that GE Insurance Solutions will offer an insurance credit to law firms with legal administrators, underwritten by Westport Insurance. |
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| GE infrastructure's newest explosives detection technology receives US |
27 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Infrastructure's Security business announced today that its X-ray diffraction system has been certified by the Transportation Security Administration to meet the stringent standards for screening passenger checked baggage in the United States. |
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| Air quality experts announce new air quality guidelines for halogens and hydrogen halides |
27 February 2006 - Defra
Air quality experts have today published new guidelines for halogens and hydrogen halides for protecting human health. |
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| The country needs a thriving and profitable farming industry |
27 February 2006 - Defra
We need a thriving and profitable farming industry to produce our food, to deliver the landscapes we value and to help meet our future energy needs, Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs told farmers today. |
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| New study, Baby’s face lights up emotional centre of new mum’s brain |
27 February 2006 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
When a new mom gazes at her baby, it's not just her mood that lights up, it's also a brain region associated with emotion processing, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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| Excavations on Red Sea coast uncover clues about Ancient Egyptian sailors and lost-land of Punt |
27 February 2006 - Boston University
A team of archaeologists from Boston University and the University of Naples l’Orientale recently uncovered the oldest remains of sea-faring ships in the world and cargo boxes containing goods from the lost-land of Punt, a fabled southern Red Sea trading center. The discoveries were made during a round of excavations inside two man-made caves previously found by the team at Wadi Gawasis on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. |
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| Yale Center for Parliamentary History presents records to British Government |
27 February 2006 - Yale University
On March 7, at a formal ceremony in London, the Yale Center for Parliamentary History will present to the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Lord Chancellor on behalf of the government of the United Kingdom the definitive scholarly editions it has prepared of records of the 17th-century parliaments preceding the English civil wars and revolution. |
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| GE commercial finance launches initiative to serve companies focused on clean energy |
26 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Commercial Finance announced today that it is launching an initiative to provide financial solutions to the growing number of companies focused on clean energy and related technologies. The initiative is a joint effort of GE Commercial Finance's Technology Lending and Energy Financial Services businesses. |
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| GE expands its leadership role in China's gas turbine construction project |
26 February 2006 - AZDEL
Construction Project. After winning contracts last year for 13 gas turbine systems in phase one, GE now has been chosen to supply 20 of the 39 gas turbines included in the first two phases of this program, which is a centerpiece of China's efforts to meet its growing power requirements. |
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| GE capital solutions acquires trustreet properties |
25 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Capital Solutions, the business-to-business leasing, financing and asset management unit of General Electric, today finalized its acquisition of Trustreet Properties for $17.05 per share of common stock, or approximately $3 billion. Trustreet Properties is now part of Scottsdale, Ariz., -based GE Capital Solutions, Franchise Finance. This significantly expands financial services offerings in the restaurant industry for GE. |
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| CWRU study shows how brain-injured, normal teens interact |
25 February 2006 - Case Western Reserve University
A blow to the head can do more than scramble a teen's thoughts. It can lock them out of the social fun of being young. Feeling like a teen-ager is easy, but acting like one after suffering a severe brain injury is difficult, according to Case Western Reserve University communication scientists. Observations in the hallways and cafeterias of Cleveland-area high schools led the researchers to some ground-breaking insights into how teens interact. |
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| ASML maximizes flexibility of high tech work force for 24/7 manufacturing capability in Netherlands |
24 February 2006 - ASML Netherlands B.V.
ASML Holding NV has expanded its capability to manufacture lithography systems in Veldhoven by introducing a flexible labor model. The company has executed a three-year time bank for employees to reinforce ASML’s ability to adapt more quickly to semiconductor market cycles, including support for potential 24-hour, seven days-a-week production activities. |
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| GE unit makes one of its largest wind portfolio investment commitments |
24 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Energy Financial Services has committed to invest in a 410-megawatt wind farm portfolio, among its single largest wind investments. Among the wind farms in which it is investing is the one shown here, the 52-megawatt Mendota Hills project in Lee County, Illinois. GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of General Electric, announced today that it has committed to invest in a 410-megawatt wind farm portfolio, among its single largest wind investments. |
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| KIOTI tractors and GE money rev up new consumer financing program |
23 February 2006 - AZDEL
Hard-working tractors like KIOTI need a hard-working financing program. That’s why Daedong-USA selected GE Money’s Sales Finance unit as its new consumer finance partner. |
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| New formulation technology from Bayer CropScience |
23 February 2006 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
“O-TEQ”, a new innovative formulation concept developed by Bayer CropScience, is set to significantly improve the activity of systemic insecticides. Products like Proteus, Biscaya and Confidor O-TEQ which are based on this technology, assure excellent biological performance. In many countries patents for these products have been applied for or already granted (EP 1 401 272). |
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| Laboratory licenses hydrogen sensor technology |
23 February 2006 - DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory announced that Nuclear Filter Technology has been awarded licenses to manufacture Fiber Optic Hydrogen Sensors. |
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| Yale early stage ovarian cancer detection technology licensed by LabCorp
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23 February 2006 - Yale University
Yale University Office of Cooperative Research today announced that it has granted an exclusive license agreement with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings for the commercialization of the university's blood testing technology for epithelial ovarian cancer. |
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| New service to reduce estimated £10 billion cost to UK economy |
23 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath today launched Workplace Health Connect, a new free advisory service on workplace health for smaller businesses: 'This new confidential advisory service for small businesses offers cost-effective and simple solutions to help cut workplace injuries and ill-health. It is simply unacceptable that UK small businesses incur major costs because they are unaware of effective and efficient solutions to manage health and safety.' |
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| New research shows X-ray bursts from the Sun cause dramatic changes to the planet’s ionosphere |
23 February 2006 - Boston University
Boston University astronomers announced today the first clear evidence that solar flares change the upper atmosphere of Mars. In an article published in the February 24th issue of the journal Science, the researchers describe how X-ray bursts from the Sun in April 2001 recorded by satellites near Earth reached Mars and caused dramatic enhancements to the planet’s ionosphere, the region of a planet’s atmosphere where the Sun’s ultraviolet and X-rays are absorbed by atoms and molecules. |
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| Taste gene may play role in smoking |
22 February 2006 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Recent research on the genetics of smoking has focused on genes that are thought to be related to nicotine metabolism, personality traits, and regulation of emotions. According to a genetic study just published in 'Nicotine and Tobacco Research,' genes responsible for taste also may yield important information about who smokes and why they smoke. |
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| Yale Cancer Center participates in Connecticut Cancer Partnership |
22 February 2006 - Yale University
Today Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell presented the state cancer control plan developed by the Connecticut Cancer Partnership, a consortium of Connecticut's top cancer professionals working to implement a comprehensive plan for cancer control in the state. |
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| Proteins are key to cell death in heart disease, stroke and degenerative conditions |
22 February 2006 - Yale University
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have gained deeper understanding of two members of a family of proteins called caspases that play a key role in promoting apoptosis, a process in which the cell responds to external signals by essentially committing suicide. |
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| ASML presents leading-edge immersion results and EUV Alpha-Demo Tool Advancements at SPIE |
22 February 2006 - ASML Netherlands B.V.
ASML Holding NV today presented its latest advances in leading-edge production technology as well as its research and development progress at SPIE Microlithography 2006 in San Jose, California. Images down to 42-nanometer (nm) printed on the ASML TWINSCAN XT:1700i system were shown along with results that support the viability of this tool for volume production across several nodes. |
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| ASML presents leading-edge immersion results and EUV Alpha-Demo Tool Advancements at SPIE |
22 February 2006 - ASML Netherlands B.V.
ASML Holding NV today presented its latest advances in leading-edge production technology as well as its research and development progress at SPIE Microlithography 2006 in San Jose, California. Images down to 42-nanometer (nm) printed on the ASML TWINSCAN XT:1700i system were shown along with results that support the viability of this tool for volume production across several nodes. |
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| State of the art container security system to help protect Marine Cargo at Port of Portland |
22 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Security, Inc. today announced the installation of the CommerceGuard System at the Port of Portland to further secure a vital link in the world’s global supply chain. |
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| GE money, Mohawk extend consumer finance program |
21 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Money's Sales Finance unit and Mohawk Industries, one of the nation's leading flooring and carpet manufacturers, have announced the signing of a new multi-year agreement to extend the Mohawk Consumer Finance Program for flooring retailers across the country. |
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| New manufacturing process enables larger production volumes |
21 February 2006 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
In collaboration with Bayer MaterialScience, scientists from Bayer Technology Services have succeeded for the first time in producing high-quality carbon nanotubes on an industrial scale at considerably lower costs than before. They are considerably stronger than steel, enable electricity to travel through plastics and improve the mechanical properties of ceramic materials. Bayer MaterialScience AG plans to market the nano-sized materials worldwide under the trade name Baytubes. |
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| Successful market introduction of a new generation of halogen-free, flame-retardant PC/ABS blends |
21 February 2006 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
Special oxidic nanomaterials incorporated in the Bayblend FR flame retardant package promote the formation of carbon depos-its on the surface of the plastic, thereby impeding the spread of flame in the event of fire. Thanks to an innovative application of nanotechnology by Bayer MaterialScience, the new Bayblend FR generation of flame-retardant polymer blends, based on a polycarbonate and acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer, has been successfully positioned on the market. |
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| Bayer MaterialScience AG introduces nanoscale adhesive additives |
21 February 2006 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
One-component aqueous adhesives formulated with silica gel dispersions of the Dispercoll S line of products are characterized by their high green strength. This enables manufacturers of various end products to continue processing immediately after bonding, resulting in a significant leap in productivity. |
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| HSE issues precautionary advice to fuel depot operators |
21 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
The Health and Safety Executive today issued precautionary advice to operators of fuel storage sites following the publication of a progress report by the Buncefield Major Incident Investigation Board on the joint investigation by HSE and the Environment Agency. |
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| Maintainer's Electronic Performance support system helps U.S. Navy maintain key systems |
21 February 2006 - Georgia Institute of Technology
Engineers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute are assisting them, using current computer and database technology to help military aircraft maintainers get their work done more efficiently. A team from GTRI's Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory has been developing and improving maintenance software for the U.S. Navy since 2000. |
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| Stress Workshop Tackles Sickness absence in the police |
20 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
'Stress is the main cause of sickness absence in the public sector,' Geoffrey Podger, Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive, will today tell Human Resource Directors in the police service, 'but there is a growing realisation that it can be tackled effectively.' |
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| Stress Workshop Tackles Sickness absence in the police |
20 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
'Stress is the main cause of sickness absence in the public sector,' Geoffrey Podger, Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive, will today tell Human Resource Directors in the police service, 'but there is a growing realisation that it can be tackled effectively.' |
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| Transport case prompts HSE reminder on the importance of radiation protection controls |
20 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
The Health and Safety Executive today issued a reminder to companies working with radiation on the importance of protection control measures, including basic monitoring. The reminder follows the conclusion of a case brought jointly by HSE and the Department for Transport against specialist contractor, AEA Technology plc. |
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| Strong relationship with father may delay daughter’s sexual activity |
20 February 2006 - University of Texas at Austin
Girls who have good relationships with their fathers tend to wait longer to have their first sexual intercourse experience, according to a new study by a University of Texas at Austin sociologist. |
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| Certification demonstrates ongoing commitment of the santoprene specialty products group |
20 February 2006 - ExxonMobil Chemical Co
Advanced Elastomer Systems, L.P., an affiliate of ExxonMobil Chemical, has achieved certification to the globally accepted automotive industry quality standard ISO/TS 16949:2002. The manufacturer of Santoprene™ thermoplastic vulcanizates is the world's leading supplier of TPVs to the automotive industry. |
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| GE commercial finance fleet services launches vehicle replacement product |
20 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Commercial Finance Fleet Services has introduced Time2Sell, a web-based vehicle replacement product that can deliver significant savings to fleet customers. Time2Sell applies powerful analytics to Fleet Services' comprehensive database to help customers make better, more informed, vehicle replacement decisions. |
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| First cardiology-specific installation of its next-generation volume computed tomography scanner |
19 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Healthcare announced today the first cardiology-specific installation of its next-generation volume computed tomography scanner, the LightSpeed VCT. This marks the first installation utilized exclusively for cardiac applications by a cardiologist. |
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| Learning and memory stimulated by gut hormone |
19 February 2006 - Yale University
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found evidence that a hormone produced in the stomach directly stimulates the higher brain functions of spatial learning and memory development, and further suggests that we may learn best on an empty stomach. |
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| GE healthcare to install World's first volume CT system utilized exclusively for cardiac applications |
18 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE's 5-Beat Cardiac Imaging Application Ushering in a New Era of Rapid, Less Invasive Cardiology; LightSpeed VCT a Breakthrough Technology, According to the President of the American College of Cardiology |
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| SAM'S CLUB and GE consumer finance launch new credit cards where members |
17 February 2006 - AZDEL
Wal-Mart and GE Consumer Finance are launching two new credit cards on the Discover Network, one for business members of SAM'S CLUB and one for consumers. The new SAM'S CLUB(R) DISCOVER(R) will be available in all 552 SAM'S CLUB locations in April. Both cards offer members even more ways to save, and are issued by GE Consumer Finance. The Business card is the first such card ever offered on the Discover Network. |
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| Models could help speed discovery of new drugs |
17 February 2006 - ESI Group
In an important step toward accelerating drug discovery, researchers have created computer models of more than 900 cell receptors from a class of proteins known to be important drug targets. The models, which are now freely available to noncommercial users, promise to help scientists narrow their research inquiries, potentially speeding up the discovery of new drug compounds. The research appears in the February 17, 2006 issue of the Public Library of Science Computational Biology. |
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| Mechanism for memory revealed in neurons of electric fish |
17 February 2006 - University of Texas at Austin
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin studying electric fish have gained new insight into how memory is stored at the level of neurons. Their finding, published in the Feb. 16 issue of Neuron, could help researchers better understand memory formation and neural disorders like epilepsy in humans. Dr. Harold Zakon, Dr. Jörg Oestreich and colleagues show that when electric fish zap each other in dark waters, their neurons store a memory of the sizzling communiqué by turning on special cell membrane channels. |
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| New theory resolves mystery of anomalous cosmic rays |
17 February 2006 - Boston University
When Voyager 1 finally crossed the “termination shock” at the edge of interstellar space in December 2004, space physicists anticipated the long-sought discovery of the source of anomalous cosmic rays. These cosmic rays, among the most energetic particle radiation in the solar system, are thought to be produced at the termination shock, the boundary at the edge of the solar system where the million-mile-per-hour solar wind abruptly slows. A mystery unfolded instead when Voyager data showed 20 years of predictions to be wrong. |
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| Ashland introduces a new, tough, low-density resin system for composite |
16 February 2006 - Ashland Specialty Chemical Company
Three new unsaturated polyester resin formulations now available from Ashland Composite Polymers, a business group of Ashland Specialty Chemical, a division of Ashland Inc, reduce weight and improve the painting characteristics of automotive composites. The new resins, available in one Class A and two low-density structural formulations, are the latest enhancements to Ashland's AROTRAN line of resins for the transportation industry. |
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| Start date for pre-movement testing of cattle for bovine TB delayed to give farmers |
16 February 2006 - Defra
New rules to help reduce the risk of spreading bovine TB through movements of cattle in England will now be introduced on 27 March to give industry more time to prepare for the measure, Defra announced today. |
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| HSE to prosecute Corus UK LTD following incident in November 2001 |
16 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
The Health and Safety Executive yesterday served two summonses on Corus UK Ltd for breaches of health and safety law, following the conclusion of its investigation into the explosion at Blast Furnace 5 at their Port Talbot site in November 2001. The explosion killed three men, Len Radford, Andrew Hutin, and Stephen Galsworthy. |
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| Statement of nuclear incidents at nuclear installations |
16 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
A statement on incidents at nuclear installations in Britain that meet Ministerial reporting criteria is reported to the Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry and for Scotland and published every quarter by the Health and Safety Executive. |
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| Study finds no safe level for ozone |
16 February 2006 - Yale University
The study, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control, found that if a safe level for ozone exists, it is only at very low or natural levels and far below current U.S. and international regulations. A 10 part-per-billion increase in the average of the two previous days' ozone levels is associated with a 0.30 percent increase in mortality. |
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| GE and partners launch the World's largest membrane-based water filtration project |
16 February 2006 - AZDEL
In a ceremony attended by more than 400 people, which included representatives from the highest level of the Kuwaiti Government, GE Infrastructure's Water & Process Technologies business helped dedicate the world's largest membrane based wastewater filtration project and the company's first major water project in the Middle East. |
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| New bill payment and check cashing kiosk expected to drive increased store traffic and sales |
15 February 2006 - AZDEL
Providing customers with financial service options such as bill payment and check cashing draws customers into a store on a regular basis. Now CashWorks, a GE Consumer Finance company, is offering both bill payment and check-cashing services through its new mini-kiosk platform. |
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| Revolutionary lighting technique and transparent hardtop at the Geneva Motor Show |
15 February 2006 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
February 28, 2006, will mark the world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show of the Rinspeed concept car, “zaZen', created by the famous Swiss designer, Frank M. Rinderknecht. It represents his vision of the car of the future and will be showcased as a kind of “automotive enlightenment” on four wheels. |
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| Yale acts to divest in response to Darfur Genocide |
15 February 2006 - Yale University
President Richard C. Levin announced today that Yale University will bar investments of its endowment assets in obligations of the Sudanese government as well as in seven oil companies currently operating in Sudan as a response to the genocide being committed with support from the government of Sudan in the Darfur region. |
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| Deleting gene in brain cells mimics effects of antidepressants |
15 February 2006 - Yale University
'The results have implications for a number of psychiatric conditions, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder where stressful events can have significant and long-lasting consequences on social behavior and interactions,' said Ralph DiLeone, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale and a co-author of the report that appeared in the recent issue of the journal Science. |
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| HSE seeks views on domestic gas safety |
15 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, Minister with responsibility for health and safety, is launching the review by opening a stakeholder forum on 20 February at HSE's London offices. He said today: 'Every year between 20-30 people are tragically killed through carbon monoxide poisoning. I want to ensure that we have an effective regime to improve gas safety.' |
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| Cell phone users concerned about lack of etiquette rules, according to University of Texas at Austin global study |
15 February 2006 - University of Texas at Austin
A lack of cell phone rules of etiquette such as when to answer ringing phones or turn phones off, and how to conduct a private conversation in public, was a common concern reported among cell phone users from 14 countries examined in a new study by the Science, Technology and Society Program at The University of Texas at Austin. |
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| Study shows link between clear lakes and mercury contamination |
15 February 2006 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
As spring approaches, thousands of anglers eagerly anticipate the day they can cast their lines into a clear lake and pull out fish for dinner. But at the same time, departments of natural resources in approximately 40 states issue advisories that help fishermen avoid eating a mercury-contaminated catch. |
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| Ashland's new PLIODECK membrane adhesive features labor-saving application |
14 February 2006 - Ashland Specialty Chemical Company
Saving time means saving money on roofing installations, and that's what Ashland's new PLIODECK membrane adhesive brings to roofing contractors. Formally introduced at the International Roofing Exposition by Ashland Specialty Polymers and Adhesives, a business group of Ashland Specialty Chemical, a division of Ashland Inc, PLIODECK membrane adhesive is a one-part, moisture-cure urethane adhesive that delivers superior performance when compared to traditional solvent-based, single-ply membrane bonding adhesives. |
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| RAD first-to-market with pre-standard implementation of ITU and IEEE carrier-class ethernet |
14 February 2006 - RAD Data Communications Ltd
At CeBIT 2006 in Hanover, Germany, RAD Data Communications will unveil the world's first-to-market pre-standard implementation of ITU Y.1731 and IEEE 802.1ag, which allow for end-to-end Ethernet Operations, Administration and Maintenance. |
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| GE launches ecomagination to develop environmental technologies |
14 February 2006 - AZDEL
General Electric Company Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt today announced ecomagination, a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges. |
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| GE healthcare's lightspeed VCT aiding physician diagnosis of stroke |
13 February 2006 - AZDEL
LightSpeed VCT image of the carotid arteries that supply blood to the brain and internal parts of the head. Physicians at University of Michigan Health System are using GE Healthcare's new technology to quickly diagnose stroke and determine the extent of brain damage. |
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| Nanoparticle probes are destined for major new role in medicine |
13 February 2006 - Emory University
The emerging miniaturized world known as nanomedicine integrates technology, biology and medicine using tools and materials constructed from molecular- and atomic-sized particles too small to seen with a conventional laboratory microscope. |
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| Aid for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, how social ecology can help |
13 February 2006 - Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
A year after the tsunami devastated the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, wide-ranging field studies are helping to preserve the last remaining indigenous cultures. The tidal wave not only deprived the tribes of their livelihood, it also threatens to dispossess them of their cultural identity. Now a new Austrian Science Fund project is using scientific methods to assist the islanders in opting for a culturally appropriate sustainable future. |
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| New code of practice for using pesticides |
13 February 2006 - Defra
A new Code of Practice for professional users of plant protection products was published today. The Statutory Code replaces and updates three previous codes of practice including the code for using pesticides in amenity areas, which was previously a voluntary code. |
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| Scientists find a way to make human collagen in the lab |
13 February 2006 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
It is the most important structural protein in the body, reinforcing connective tissue, bones and teeth, and forming long, fibrous cables to strengthen tendons. Collagen forms sheets of tissue that support the skin and every internal organ. There is nothing in the body, in fact, that does not depend in some way on collagen. |
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| Scientists seek to unwrap the sweet mystery of the sugar coat on bacteria |
13 February 2006 - University of Texas at Austin
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a quick and simple way to investigate the sugar coating that surrounds bacteria and plays a role in infection and immunity. The sugars coating bacteria can change very quickly during the course of an infection, cloaking the bacteria from the immune system of their host. Previous techniques for studying the sugars were too slow to catch these rapid changes. |
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| Success drives ink resin production upgrade |
13 February 2006 - Thomas Swan
Ink additive specialists Thomas Swan & Co Ltd have upgraded their manufacturing capability following the successful launch of the Casamid 1000 series of polyamide resins for packaging print applications. |
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| Cyberinfrastructure poised to revolutionize environmental sciences |
13 February 2006 - National Science Foundation
The convergence of information and communication technologies into a national 'cyberinfrastructure' is poised to revolutionize the environmental sciences and many other disciplines in the coming years, according to researchers presenting at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle. The two Feb. 13 sessions on cyberinfrastructure were organized by the heads of two National Science Foundation directorates. |
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| Reversible Microlenses to speed chemical detection |
13 February 2006 - Georgia Institute of Technology
Scientists at Georgia Tech have created technology capable of detecting trace amounts of biological or chemical agents in a matter of seconds, much faster than traditional methods, which can take hours or up to a day. The system uses reusable hydrogel microlenses so small that millions of them can fit on a one-inch-square plate. It could greatly enhance the ability of authorities responding to a biological or chemical weapons attack as well as increase the speed of medical testing. The research appears in the February 20 edition of the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie. |
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| New Brookhaven Lab study shows how ritalin works |
12 February 2006 - DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
New research on Ritalin, a drug prescribed to millions of American children each year with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, shows for the first time how the drug acts in the human brain and why it is so effective. |
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| GE healthcare introduces new cardiovascular imaging system |
12 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, announced today a new cardiovascular imaging system that will enhance clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat heart disease and enable more precise placement of interventional devices such as stents, balloons and filters. |
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| GE'S corporate payment services secures patent on account pool feature of vPayment tool |
11 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE's Corporate Payment Services unit has secured a U.S. patent covering aspects of the account pool feature of its vPayment electronic settlement tool. It is the third and latest patent associated with vPayment, a payment automation tool that integrates with corporate procurement and Accounts Payable systems and processes. |
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| ETON selects GE for private label credit card program |
10 February 2006 - AZDEL
The Retail Sales Finance unit of GE Consumer Finance announced today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with ETON America, LLC, for a new consumer credit card program. ETON is a leading manufacturer of all-terrain vehicles and scooters. |
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| Unique coating technology for diffuser films boosts optical performance of LCDs |
10 February 2006 - Autotype International
MacDermid Autotype, one of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of high quality coated films, chemicals and emulsions, has launched an innovative new range of diffuser films, designed to be used for LCD and LED displays in mobile phones, digital cameras, GPS units, PDAs and notebook PCs. |
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| Immune system's Suicide Machinery kills legionnaire's bacteria |
10 February 2006 - Yale University
A new study indicates how the immune system fights bacteria that cause the severe form of pneumonia known as Legionnaire's disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the March issue of Nature Immunology. |
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| Government urges greener digital tv services |
10 February 2006 - Defra
Digital TV broadcasters, manufacturers and retailers are being urged by the government not to promote or sell those set top boxes which waste energy. |
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| Saving people from poverty is key to saving rare species |
10 February 2006 - Defra
Humans have caused a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on earth. If we are to stop this trend we must stop the unsustainable use of the world's natural resources. And if we are to do this without creating more poverty and starvation in the developing countries, we have to ensure that local people are part of the solution. |
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| New device revolutionizes nano imaging |
09 February 2006 - Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech researchers have created a highly sensitive atomic force microscopy technology capable of high-speed imaging 100 times faster than current AFM. This technology could prove invaluable for many types of nano-research, in particular for measuring microelectronic devices and observing fast biological interactions on the molecular scale, even translating into movies of molecular interactions in real time. The research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, appears in the February issue of Review of Scientific Instruments. |
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| New Georgia Tech probe revolutionizes nano imaging |
09 February 2006 - Georgia Institute of Technology
FIRAT technology simultaneously captures a variety of material properties from just one touch including (from upper left to right) topography, adhesion energy, contact time and stiffness. The technology creates a faster, more sensitive AFM capable of creating nano movies, creating material properties images. |
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| NAFEMS launch Autosim |
09 February 2006 - NAFEMS
Thirty-two of Europe’s leading automotive companies have joined forces to launch the EC funded Autosim project, which will ensure that the entire European automotive industry is making the most effective use of engineering simulation techniques. |
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| Cozy polyurethane-backed floor covering |
09 February 2006 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
Werner Steck, managing Director of Dura-Malans, shows a carpet coated on the back with a layer of polyurethane based on raw materials from Bayer MaterialScience. |
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| GE insurance solutions launches mortgage originators professional liability product |
09 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Insurance Solutions announced the launch of an innovative product designed to help mortgage originators protect their reputations today at the annual convention of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers in Minneapolis, Minn. |
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| New ''Fusion'' PET/CT scanner extends leadership in detection & management of cancer |
08 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, introduced today a new molecular imaging system designed to help doctors detect, diagnose and monitor treatment of cancer and other diseases, including heart disease and neurological disease, more accurately and earlier in the disease process. |
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| Prediction and modelling of failure using FEA |
08 February 2006 - NAFEMS
Prediction and simulation of failure has a growing importance since designing against ultimate and fatigue strength should be predicted more precisely, as testing is expensive. Including more simulation shortens design time which often is an important parameter. A more accurate prediction of the ultimate and fatigue strength can also lead to more optimized designs. |
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| New technology allows for more versatile portable spectrometers |
08 February 2006 - Georgia Institute of Technology
But Georgia Tech researchers have developed a technology to help spectrometers, instruments that can be used as the main parts of sensors that can detect substances present in even ultra-small concentrations, analyze substances using fewer parts in a wider variety of environments, regardless of lighting. The technology can improve the portability while reducing the size, complexity, and cost of many sensing and diagnostics systems that use spectrometers. The technology has appeared in Applied Optics, Optics Express and Optics Letters and was presented as an invited talk at the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2005. |
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| New two component nickel conductive epoxy adhesive |
08 February 2006 - Master Bond
Master Bond Inc. of Hackensack, New Jersey has developed a new two component, room temperature curing, nickel filled, electrically conductive epoxy adhesive called EP76M. EP76M has a convenient one to one mix ratio by weight or volume. It has a volume resistivity of 5-10 ohm-cm and excellent low outgassing properties. It has a thermal conductivity of 8-9 BTU/in/ft²/hr/°F. EP76M readily develops a tensile shear strength of 2,000 psi when measured and cured at room temperature. |
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| High-tech water divining could help scientists better understand coastal bay ecology |
08 February 2006 - University of Texas at Austin
A marine chemist at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute has found hidden pockets of saltwater seeping into Nueces Bay, Texas from beneath its floor. Like a water diviner for the 21st century, Dr. John Breier used an electrical resistivity device that penetrated sediments along the bay floor with an electrical current. The data gathered from the device showed Breier where saltwater was seeping up into the bay. |
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| Study explains unexpected conductivity of nanoscale silicon |
08 February 2006 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
When graduate student Pengpeng Zhang successfully imaged a piece of silicon just 10 nanometers-or a millionth of a centimeter-in thickness, she and her University of Wisconsin-Madison co-researchers were puzzled. According to established thinking, the feat should be impossible because her microscopy method required samples that conduct electricity. |
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| Plastic substrate and ultra-high-barrier coating system for flexible organic displays |
07 February 2006 - GE Advanced Materials
GE Global Research is presenting details on its successful development of a substrate system for flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) at the Flexible Displays & Microelectronics Conference. |
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| New GE French door bottom-freezer refrigerators offer consumers elegant yet functional refrigeration |
07 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Profile French Door Bottom-Freezer Refrigerator LOUISVILLE. Summertime and entertaining go hand in hand. Impress your guests with your sense of style and practical functionality with the new GE French door bottom-freezer refrigerators. |
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| New MileMarker card will help RV travelers go farther |
06 February 2006 - AZDEL
The Retail Sales Finance unit of GE Consumer Finance has announced a new credit card for the recreational vehicle industry. The MileMarker(R) card is now available to RV owners through authorized RV dealers across the country. |
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| Study supports limiting television time for children |
06 February 2006 - University of Texas at Austin
Children who spend more time watching television spend less time interacting with their family and playing creatively, report researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard Children’s Hospital in the journal Pediatrics. |
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| Advances in Swan polyamide resins for ink formulations |
06 February 2006 - Thomas Swan
Two new polyamide resin products designed to help ink formulators meet more demanding performance and environmental requirements in packaging print applications have been launched by Thomas Swan & Co Ltd. |
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| UK and India agree urgent action to save tigers from extinction |
06 February 2006 - Defra
The UK and Indian Governments have agreed a way forward to help to reverse the rapid decline in India's tiger population, which could be on the brink of extinction, with fears growing that organised crime is now involved in the trade in tiger skins. |
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| Knight commends Indian villagers saving tigers and climate |
05 February 2006 - Defra
Biodiversity Minister Jim Knight today congratulated villagers in northern India who are helping to save the world's climate as well as their own endangered tigers. |
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| GE healthcare's clinical enable NASA surgeons to monitor astronauts' health real-time during space walk |
05 February 2006 - AZDEL
NASA flight surgeons will use GE Healthcare's advanced heart monitoring and digital networking systems to monitor astronauts' health information real-time during space walks, which will take place throughout the Space Shuttle Discovery mission launching on July 13, 2005. |
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| GE's quartz business to offer custom wafer heater assemblies for Semiconductor equipment manufacturers |
04 February 2006 - AZDEL
To help optimize the performance of heaters and electrostatic chucks in chip-making equipment, GE's Quartz business today announced an integrated heater assembly platform based at the company's new laboratory in Kobe, Japan. These custom assemblies, a critical subsystem of semiconductor equipment manufacturers' wafer chambers, combine customer-specific mechanical, electrical, and thermal engineering with GE's advanced chemical vapor deposited ceramic heaters and e-chucks. |
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| GE global research develops ''Ideal'' carbon nanotube diode |
03 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Company, announced the development of an ideal carbon nanotube diode that operates at the 'theoretical limit,' or best possible performance. This is a significant improvement upon the original nanotube diode device that GE developed and announced last year. This latest breakthrough will enable even smaller and faster electronic devices with increased functionality. |
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| Successful start to new model for the production of high-quality, safe food |
03 February 2006 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
Bayer CropScience intends to further expand its activities to optimize food production. The company has established its own “food chain” team to support fruit and vegetable growers, food producers, fruit and vegetable importers and distributors. |
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| ESI Group announces the release of Version 2006 of CADalyzer |
03 February 2006 - ESI Group
ESI Group is pleased to announce the release of the 2006 version of CFD-CADalyzer. CFD-CADalyzer is the perfect tool for both CAD engineers and CFD analysts to perform design level analysis with a simple and intuitive interface. CFD-CADalyzer, a complete package in itself with built-in pre and post-processor, enables the simulation of flow and heat transfer, and allows the comparison of results over a range of varying geometries and operational conditions. |
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| Iressa holds promise and continue investigating its potential |
03 February 2006 - American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Oncologists believe that Iressa still holds promise and continue investigating its potential. Several studies presented at the Annual International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics coordinated by the American Association for Cancer Research, the National Cancer Institute and the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer explore the ways in which gefitinib may work on tumors and which patients may benefit the most. |
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| New CardioMEMS device helps aneurysm patients |
03 February 2006 - Georgia Institute of Technology
Winning a thumbs-up from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, CardioMEMS Inc. has launched its EndoSure sensor, which makes testing safer and more convenient for aneurysm patients. Based on intellectual property from the Georgia Institute of Technology, EndoSure is the first implantable pressure sensor that combines wireless and microelectromechanical system technology to receive FDA clearance. |
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| New MRI technology at Yale |
03 February 2006 - Yale University
'Our approach identifies distinct brain networks of linked structural and functional changes,' said Vincent Calhoun, M.D., associate professor adjunct in the Department of Psychiatry and director of the Medical Image Analysis Lab at the Institute of Living's Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center in Hartford. 'The linking of structural and functional changes is new. This is different from finding both structural and functional changes in patients which may not be related to one another.' |
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| Novel diagnosis of preeclampsia with proteomic analysis |
03 February 2006 - Yale University
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that analyzing proteins in urine is a simple and objective method to diagnose and classify preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy causing high blood pressure after 20 weeks of gestation. |
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| Women pregnant with girls experience more severe asthma symptoms |
02 February 2006 - Yale University
Women with asthma who are carrying a female fetus are more likely to experience worse asthma symptoms than asthmatic women carrying a male fetus, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the February issue of American Journal of Epidemiology. |
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| Receptor critical in neurodegeneration reduces alzheimer's |
02 February 2006 - Yale University
Increasing the level of a protein that plays a key role in traumatic spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis reduces the concentration of disease-causing plaque in Alzheimer's disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the Journal of Neuroscience. |
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| Yale researchers map protein binding that is critical to life |
02 February 2006 - Yale University
A Yale School of Medicine laboratory has succeeded in mapping and describing an interaction important for cell adhesion, a process critical to life, and, when it goes awry, can lead to diseases such as cancer. |
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| Ashland Drew Marine low-sulfur fuel additive extends engine life for merchant ships |
02 February 2006 - Ashland Specialty Chemical Company
New clean air regulations being implemented by the International Maritime Organization are requiring ocean-going vessels to reduce sulfur emissions. Switching to low-sulfur fuel when a vessel enters a designated low-sulfur area can help meet the new regulations. However, using low-sulfur fuel can cause excessive engine part wear. Drew Marine, a business group of Ashland Specialty Chemical, a division of Ashland Inc, has introduced AMERGY XLS fuel conditioner expressly for low-sulfur fuels. |
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| Sorting slips and trips in construction |
02 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
'If you see it, sort it' is the message from Stephen Williams, the Chief Inspector of Construction at the Health and Safety Executive, as construction inspectors begin a nationwide inspection programme targeting building sites with poor housekeeping. |
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| Patient safety & health & safety: two sides of the same coin: minister addresses patient safety |
02 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
Addressing healthcare staff and patient safety experts at the National Patient Safety Agency's event 'Patient Safety 2006', Lord Hunt pointed out: 'Injuries from incidents such as falls account for around a third of patient injuries. For health services staff, 54% of major reported injuries are due to slips, trips and falls, compared with 34% across all employment sectors. Given that the vast majority of such injuries result in broken bones, the costs to the health services in staff absence are phenomenal, while those injured endure a great deal of pain and suffering.' |
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| Egg carton manufacturer fined £50,000 over asbestos |
02 February 2006 - HSE InfoLine
Yesterday the Great Yarmouth based company was fined a total of £50,000 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £86,000 at Norwich Crown Court, after pleading guilty to breaching health and safety law. This criminal case follows an investigation by HSE into the condition of asbestos containing materials at the firm's site in South Denes Road in October 2003. |
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| Cheaper petrochemicals closer to reality |
02 February 2006 - University of Texas at Austin
A rubbery material that can purify hydrogen efficiently in its most usable form for fuel cells and oil refining has been developed by a chemical engineering group at The University of Texas at Austin. A rubbery material that can purify hydrogen efficiently in its most usable form for fuel cells and oil refining has been developed by a chemical engineering group at The University of Texas at Austin. Here, Dr. Benny Freeman holds a sample of the transparent membrane material. |
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| Smokers who exercise reduce risk of heart attack |
02 February 2006 - University of Texas at Austin
Even if you cannot stop smoking, you can lower your risk of cardiovascular disease by exercising regularly, according to a University of Texas at Austin study. Examining otherwise healthy sedentary smokers and physically active smokers, Dr. Hiro Tanaka, an exercise physiologist in the College of Education, discovered that the smokers who exercised had increased blood flow to the legs. |
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| UK joins US to lead world fight against wildlife crime |
02 February 2006 - Defra
Biodiversity Minister Jim Knight announced in India today that the UK Government is joining the US-led Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking and he urged India and China to do so in order to save rare species, such as tigers, from extinction. |
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| GE's new Itemiser FX provides one-touch trace explosives & narcotics detection for high applications |
02 February 2006 - AZDEL
GE's new Itemiser FX provides one-touch trace explosives and narcotics detection for high-throughput security applications. GE Security today introduced its new Itemiser FX, the first direct-transfer, trace-detection instrument that can simultaneously identify explosives and narcotics directly from a simple finger touch. |
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| Findings may explain variation in doses needed to treat attention / hyperactivity disorder |
02 February 2006 - DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
A new brain-imaging study offers insight into why individual patients respond differently to standard doses of Ritalin, a drug used to treat millions of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disordereach year. The study, conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory’ |
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| The Marvin companies creates new consumer credit program |
01 February 2006 - AZDEL
The Retail Sales Finance unit of GE Consumer Finance has announced a multi-year agreement with The Marvin Companies to provide private label credit card financing for all of the Marvin Companies' product line. |
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| AxSTREAM v1.7.05 released |
01 February 2006 - NAFEMS
SoftInWay, Inc., is pleased to announce the availability of a new version of AxSTREAM, a professional tool for rapid turbomachinery flow path design and optimization. |
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| Rear projection monitors have housings made with flame-retardant polyurethane from Bayer MaterialScience |
01 February 2006 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
Rear projection monitors with high-definition picture quality promise DVD and video game fans a host of new possibilities. The housing for the model shown here was manufactured using the flame-retardant polyurethane integral skin foam Baydur 66 FR from Bayer MaterialScience. |
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| Bayer MaterialScience launches new generation of high-performance dispersions for textile coating |
01 February 2006 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
Various environmentally compatible technologies were used for this car seat trial model, which features a polyurethane leather cover. The red seating surface consists of a low-solvent system of conventional high solids, while, for the black part of the cover, use was made of the new solvent-free 60 percent polyure-thane dispersions. |
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| New & fairer cattle compensation tables come into force |
01 February 2006 - Defra
A new and fairer compensation scheme based on table valuations comes into force for cattle in England affected by certain diseases. |
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| Unique Corus portable strain measurement system helps to optimise press shop processes for body panels |
01 February 2006 - Corus
An unique and portable strain measurement system called PHAST , has been developed by Corus, the international steel company, to help carmakers ensure reliable production quality of complex formed body panels during the vehicle development and production process. |
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