Improving safety practices takes management leadership, but it’s also a group effort. Kevin Lhota was still fresh in the job as production and maintenance senior leader at the ATI Allegheny Ludlum steel mill in Bagdad, PA, the first ...
When there's a blizzard approaching, people flock to grocery stores for bread and milk, test their generators...and nowadays take to Twitter and Facebook. Social networks have lit up with activity as a blizzard of of potentially historic ...
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The Landsat Data Continuity Mission, the newest addition to NASA's 40-year mission monitoring Earth from space, blasted into orbit atop this Atlas V rocket yesterday. The successful launch ensures observations will continue uninterrupted ...
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Ontario’s Infrastructure Health & Safety Association (IHSA) has presented the Certificate of Recognition (COR) to Aecon, a construction and infrastructure development company. The Ontario designation adds to Aecon’s COR ...
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A NASA spacecraft is sending back evidence that a deep crater on Mars once held a groundwater-fed lake. The information is further evidence that the Red Planet has a history of water. Last fall, NASA scientists discovered evidence ...
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc., Lansing, Mich., developer of spider silk technologies utilizing customized genetic engineering sequences, has created a new variety of recombinant spider silk that it reports has increased strength compared ...
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VIE,a Crowd-soured,Media-based Polling Application,Enables Users to Engage in Debates in a Whole New Way. Sirqul,a Seattle-based startup,has brought hot-topic polls to users and their iOS devices.Utilizing the Sirqul platform,VIE is a new ...
According to P. Sunderarajan writing in The Hindu, work on the world’s largest solar telescope is likely to commence in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir in India by the end of 2013. The telescope, with an aperture of 2 metres ...
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The 2012 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has concluded, and the system of forced labour of cotton production remained the same as in previous years. The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights and the Cotton Campaign (of which Anti-Slavery ...
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2012 has been a great year for the global security industry. This is especially true for many PSIM vendors who have seen their busiest year to date. We catch up with Keith Bloodworth, CEO of CNL Software, one of the world’s leading ...
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The Daily Times reported that Pakistan's Privatization Commission has approved withdrawal of the review petition filed against the Supreme Court's judgment,which annulled the privatization of Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation. Prayer was ...
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A report tabled by the Comptroller and Auditor General suggests, iron ore miner National Mineral Development Corporation has suffered revenue loss of INR 745.94 crore during 2007-10 for not revising the domestic prices of the steel making ...
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Seoul National University and Ritsumeikan University in Korea have developed a new technique for growing higher-quality gallium nitride (GaN) layers at temperatures as low as 500°C [In-Su Shin et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol5, p125503, ...
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Internet access in Syria has been shut off nationwide, and network watchers Akamai and Renesys have issued charts illustrating the dramatic traffic collapse. RELATED: Anatomy of an Internet blackout Syria has experienced partial ...
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A fragrance-release system designed to stimulate appetite,specially-trained"guide dogs for the mind,"and an intelligent wristband that supports people with dementia to stay active safely,are just some of the design prototypes to help people ...
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