Dr. Joyce F. Brown, president of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), has been named a recipient of City & State magazine’s 2013 Above and Beyond Award. Dr. Brown, who is being honored in the Public Service category for her ...
The petrochemical production capacity of Iran is likely to reach 100 million tons by 2015, Mr. Abdolhossein Bayat, an Iranian Deputy Oil Minister, has said. Mr. Bayat, who is also the managing director of National Petrochemical Company ...
According to Allen Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, 95% of all attacks on enterprise networks are the result of successful spear phishing. In other words, somebody received an email and either clicked on a link or opened ...
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The Northwest European benzene market tumbled to a 15-week low of $1,335.5/mt Tuesday on a combination of weak downstream demand, upcoming derivatives turnarounds, a closed arbitrage to the US, as well as persistently high inventories, ...
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China is considering to make changes to its oil pricing mechanism by both shortening the price review period and removing the price fluctuation limitation of a basket of crudes used to adjust retail oil product prices, the official Xinhua ...
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The arrival of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) at 12Gbps will be a boon for demanding applications such as databases, according to Adaptec by PMC, which is demonstrating the technology at Cebit. To show the potential of the upcoming ...
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has calculated the second quarter 2013 reference prices for hot-rolled steel flat products pursuant to the suspension agreement with Russia. The reference prices for the second quarter of 2013 (April ...
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A graduate student at MIT has developed a 3D computer interface that could radically alter the way we interact with personal technology. As Wired reports, Jinha Lee's SpaceTop 3D desktop breaks the two-dimensional barrier within which ...
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People consuming a lot of processed meat such as sausages, ham, and bacon are at an increased risk of early death, according to a new study that evaluated half a million people across Europe. The study followed people across 10 European ...
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In February this year, Germany's crude steel output amounted to 3.447 million metric tons, decreasing 3.7 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, according to the information provided by the German steel federation ...
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A survey conducted by IMS Research of more than 400 global photovoltaic (PV) inverter customers has revealed a rapidly growing need for energy storage in PV systems. Despite the infancy of the energy storage market, nearly one third of the ...
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The 2013 Holden Cruze has launched with significantly lower pricing, more standard equipment, and re-calibrated suspension and automatic transmissions. As revealed exclusively by CarAdvice last week, a 1.6-litre turbocharged four-cylinder ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in January this year Turkey's steel billet and bloom exports amounted to 268,936 metric tons, more than double compared to the 112,179 mt recorded in the previous ...
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Brazil's motor vehicle output in February this year decreased by 17.9 percent from the previous month to 229,300 units, according to the Brazilian Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association (Anfavea). The country's motor vehicle output ...
The Toyota LandCruiser 200 Series has been updated with new safety technology, including the first-time addition of a trailer sway control system. The first Toyota to adopt the towing-focused safety technology, the updated Toyota ...
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