German automaker Volkswagen Group has signed joint declarations with its Chinese joint venture partners SAIC Motor and First Automotive Works (FAW) Group to work collaboratively in the field of forward-looking technologies. Under the ...
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SMARTRIPE, a new EU-research project, is set to develop a new monitoring technology to help manufacturers improve efficiency and sustainability of cheese ripening processes. The two-year project builds on the results of previous FP6 ...
The European Commission is funding a new research project to develop hybrid inorganic and organic lighting modules. The modules are being specifically developed for the professional and architectural lighting sectors, as these have been ...
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The European Commission is funding a new research project to develop large-scale solid state lighting modules. The modules are being specifically developed for the professional and architectural lighting sectors, as these have been early ...
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High family stress can lead to the child's immune system being affected, as a research group at the School of Health Sciences at Jönköping University and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Linköping University in Sweden shows ...
Tags: immune system, highly-stressed families, autoimmune reaction
A research consortium being coordinated at Saarland University is developing a novel sensor system for monitoring airborne contaminants that will provide high-quality indoor air without the energy losses typically associated with ...
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Alberta's cattle see their feed change rapidly throughout their growth cycle. Milk and fresh grasses give way to stockpiled forages or dry hay and grain as the calves grow. The feed shift is compounded by other unique challenges for ...
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The project is the result of an initiative of Spanish people affected by this rare disease. FARA, one of the main patients' associations in the United States now joins the endeavour The gene therapy-based research project to tackle ...
Tags: FARA, CBMSO, GENEFA Platform, IRB
By Neil Billinger SaskCanola is planning a multi-year research project on straight cutting canola and is looking for input from growers. The group says the majority of farmers still swath and combine their canola because they are ...
Tags: SaskCanola, Hudson Bay, harvesting method, Groeneweg
January 28, 2014 Sophie Langley Chinese and Thai cuisines are popular among Australian vegetable consumers More than a third of Australian vegetable consumers have added Chinese and Thai cuisines to their cooking repertoire in the ...
Tags: AUSVEG, vegetable, cuisine, Andrew White
The European outdoor industry's annual sales at retail exceeded €10 billion in 2012, according to the latest edition of The State of the Trade report released by the European Outdoor Group (EOG). At a wholesale level, sell-in figures ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Apparel
Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen have developed a process that cooperates with driver assistance systems in cars to pinpoint pedestrians and cyclists—even while they are hidden from view. To this end, pedestrian's ...
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Remember the children's game "warmer/colder," where one person uses those words to guide the other person to a hidden toy or treat? Well, it turns out that chimpanzees can play, too. Researchers at Georgia State University's Language ...
Experts and social organizations have warned of the negative effects that the economic crisis could mean for the health of the population. But it was not easy to demonstrate with data what is happening. A new comparative analysis of the ...
Three-year project will encourage national expansion of Workplace Standard The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), along with its partners, CSA Group (CSA) and Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ), joined Labour Minister ...