High inventories have pushed the spot price of monoethylene glycol in China to the lowest level seen since July 2012, Platts data showed Tuesday. Weakness in the domestic market pressured down the import price of MEG to $916/mt CFR China ...
Tags: MEG Prices, Domestic Market
Germany’s VDMA predicts positive prospects for machine vision 13 Feb 2014 National market expected to grow by 5% in 2014; Frankfurt roundtable assesses global opportunities. The German machine vision (MV) industry is on a stable ...
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Cat bites may look less serious than dog bites, but beware: They can cause dangerous infections, particularly when they involve the hand, new research indicates. Although cats have no more germs in their mouths than dogs or people, ...
Tags: Cat Bites, dangerous infections, bacteria
The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation's Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM program today announced it will award nearly $3.7 million in grants to 19 nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving cardiovascular health in local ...
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A Florida State University researcher is tackling a new and inventive way to slow down and perhaps prevent preterm labor. The solution A pair of goggles. Specifically, Associate Professor James Olcese is developing goggles - he's ...
Tags: Preterm Labor, pregnancy, light emitting device, goggle
A recent Gallup “Mood of the Nation” survey shows that a majority of Americans are dissatisfied with current gun laws. Gallup reports that 55 percent of participants stated they were not satisfied with current firearms laws, ...
Tags: Mood of the Nation, Gun Laws, national demographic, terrorism
The Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation announces the launch of the Project Ubi Odyssey. Ubi - The Ubiquitous Computer - is a device made to usher in the era of ubiquitous computing - when humans will be able to interact with ...
Tags: Ubiquitous Computer, Odyssey, LED, Ubi Portal
Scientists at the University of Kansas Medical Center have determined that high doses of vitamin C, administered intravenously with traditional chemotherapy, helped kill cancer cells while reducing the toxic effects of chemotherapy for some ...
Will your child be a slim adult A novel new study published in PLOS ONE asked 532 international English speaking adults to submit or "crowd-source" predictors of whether a child is going to be an overweight or a slim adult. Each ...
Tags: PLOS ONE, Obesity, BMI, fresh ingredient
In their first results of the heralded program -- which was set up in the health law -- federal officials say about half of the accountable care organizations slowed spending but few met the requirements to qualify for bonuses. Kaiser ...
Tags: Healthcare Delivery Reforms, reduce healthcare costs, Medicare
Though hog farmers are starting to see decent profits, the continued presence of a major disease continues to keep a lid on profits and herd expansion, a report released this week shows. In a quarterly pork report, Rabobank livestock ...
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As China is executing its ambitious shale gas development plans to reach 6.5 billion cubic meters (cm) by 2015, the US' experiences in the industry may offer a number of lessons for China, US and Chinese academics concluded in a conference ...
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Two trades for mid-calorific value imported thermal coal for delivery to ports in South China were heard in the seaborne market during Friday's Asia trading session, supporting prices, said market sources. The Platts/Fenwei CFR South ...
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Around a quarter of Australian metallurgical coal is sold on a spot basis following a significant increase in production and the fact that the primary buyer, China, prefers short-term pricing, an analysis of Platts data and a survey of ...
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The garment manufacturing industries in Bangladesh have not yet reached the peak level where they would need to shift to another level of industrialization to avoid decline, Dr. Ludovico Alcorta, Director, Development Policy, Statistics and ...