The Greek textile industry has been severely affected by the rising energy costs in the country, which has led to increasing imports of textiles from countries like China, and the Government needs to take necessary action to resolve this ...
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Japan plans to slash by half the amount of juvenile bluefin tuna taken from the Northern Pacific starting in 2015, compared to the 2002-2004 average, reports said Sunday. The Fisheries Agency has decided to increase protection for bluefin ...
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Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. , and Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) today announced TRANSFORMERS®: RISE OF THE DARK SPARK®, a video game complement to Paramount Pictures' upcoming ...
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The Nicaraguan government has granted a concession to a mysterious Chinese company owned by Jing Wang, a little-known Hong-Kong based businessman, to build an inter-oceanic canal. This would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal that, ...
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One quarter of the world's cartilaginous fish, namely sharks and rays, face extinction within the next few decades, according to the first study to systematically and globally assess their fate. The International Union for Conservation of ...
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Quantum dot (QD) diode laser manufacturer Innolume GmbH of Dortmund, Germany has launched a diode laser product family designed for pulse operation. Dedicated to operate as a seed source in Yb- and Nd-doped fiber laser systems, the ...
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Replica Optimus Prime truck to welcome visitors, while extensive branding is planned at Olympia. 2014 is set to be a big year for the Transformers brand. Not only is it the brand’s 30th anniversary, but the highly anticipated ...
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Simon Fraser University's Bruce Archibald and Rolf Mathewes are part of a team of biologists, including Christian Kehlmaier from Germany's Senkenberg Natural History Collections, that has discovered three new, extinct fossil species of ...
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Scientists from across the world have "scanned the horizon" in order to identify potentially significant medium and long-term threats to conservation efforts. Resurrection of several extinct species, the increasingly accelerated loss of ...
Tags: resurrection, extinct species, loss of wild rhinoceroses
Spiral steel pipe seam weld porosity affects not only dense, causing pipeline leak, which will become a point of corrosion-induced, severely reducing weld strength and toughness. Weld porosity factors are: the flux of water, dirt, iron ...
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A global leader in the development of rosin and turpentine extracted from pine resin, DRT has announced an increase in capital of its joint-venture with the Indian company Crown Chemicals to the level of 50 %. Specialized in the manufacture ...
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The scent of diesel, rusting anchors and fish slurry hung in the humid air of the harbor. I was in Puntarenas on the western shore of Costa Rica, waiting to leave on a scuba-diving trip to Cocos Island – often called an "underwater ...
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Red palm oil has burst onto the health scene as a miracle food, helping to heal everything from cardiovascular disease to Alzheimer's to cancer. However, as it becomes more popular worldwide, a dark secret has come to light. Due to its ...
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The true cost of fossil fuel reaches far beyond what is paid at the gas pump -- the expense of waging war to protect oil interests, governmental corruption, global warming and environmental destruction all are part of the equation. And ...
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) (formerly known as NARSAD, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression), under the direction of president and CEO Dr Jeffrey Borenstein, has announced the latest ...
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