An inventory of wild-caught caterpillars, its food plants and parasitoids, has been going on for more than 34 years in Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), a protected area of approximately 1200 km2 in northwestern Costa Rica. As a ...
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Facebook, in a major push to expand its business on smaller screens, has agreed to buy the mobile messaging app WhatsApp for US$16 billion, the companies said Wednesday. Facebook plans to pay $12 billion in shares and $4 billion in cash ...
US-based paper manufacturer NewPage has extended its flexible packaging papers portfolio with the launch of the new FlexPack Essential, designed for lamination and extrusion applications in food and medical packaging. The new packaging ...
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Sonoco today announced that it will raise the price for all paperboard tubes and cores by five to eight percent, effective with shipments in the United States and Canada beginning March 24, 2014. "This price increase is necessary to ...
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Specialty papers supplier NewPage has unveiled FlexPack Essential, a flexible packaging paper designed for applications in food packaging. The new product is claimed to comply with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standards for food ...
Acetaminophen, found in over-the-counter products such as Excedrin and Tylenol, provides many people with relief from headaches and sore muscles. When used appropriately, it is considered mostly harmless. Over recent decades, the drug, ...
Engineers trying to speed up communication between computer chips have been working on using beams of light to replace the copper traces that shuttle data between microprocessors. Now a pair of researchers at Northeastern University in ...
How do you build a universal quantum computer? Turns out, this question was addressed by theoretical physicists about 15 years ago. The answer was laid out in a research paper and has become known as the DiVincenzo criteria. The ...
The 6th Annual 2014 IEEE Green Technologies will be held in Corpus Christi, Texas at the Corpus Christi Omni Hotel April 3-4, 2014. Sponsored by IEEE USA, IEEE Region 5, and IEEE Corpus Christi Section, and commonly referred to as IEEE ...
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Babies that are delivered by caeserean section are more likely to become overweight or obese as adults, according to researchers from Imperial College, London Compared with vaginal delivery, C-section increases the odds of being ...
February 17, 2014 Sophie Langley An apple a day really does keep the doctor away, research shows Prescribing an apple a day to all adults aged 50 and over would prevent or delay around 8,500 vascular deaths such as heart attacks and ...
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(Phys.org) —From steel beams to plastic Lego bricks, building blocks come in many materials and all sizes. Today, science has opened the way to manufacturing at the nanoscale with biological materials. Potential applications range ...
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Tubal ligation - commonly referred to as having one's "tubes tied" - is widely used to prevent unintended pregnancies. However, current Medicaid policies create roadblocks for low-income women trying to obtain the procedure, according to a ...
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A new study disputes the effectiveness of mortality as a measure of the quality of care provided by hospitals to stroke patients. The paper - which was simultaneously presented today at the International Stroke Conference in San Diego and ...
Cutting-edge mobile phone technology is set to revolutionise the way people shop, bringing a range of new and complex challenges for retailers, according to new research by Dr Emmeline Taylor, senior lecturer in criminology with the ANU ...