One of the world's leading satellite and digital communications companies has selected 1.2MVA of Borri B9000FXS uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems to support its exclusive broadcasting equipment. Working in close collaboration ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Dal-Tile will build a glazed porcelain and colorbody tile manufacturing plant and distribution center in Dickson, Tenn., near Nashville. The 1.4 million square feet plant is scheduled to open in late 2015 and will be the Dallas-based ...
Tags: Tile, expand manufacturing capability, glazed porcelain capabilities
Independent Electrical Contractors (IEC) is pleased to announce Milwaukee Tool will become an IEC Partner in Learning. With this partnership, Milwaukee Tool has invested in IEC’s training program and is dedicated to providing the ...
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Pie Face has a new 'low gluten' pie Australian pie restaurant Pie Face has added a new ‘low gluten’ pie to its range. The pie, which Pie Face said contains “only gluten-free ingredients”, is a chunky steak ...
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Doctors in the United States are writing more prescriptions for sedatives than ever before, and the frequent use of these powerful drugs in combination with narcotic painkillers may be causing medication-related deaths, a new study ...
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Two lots of Pfizer's antidepressant drug Effexor XR (venlafaxine HCl) are being recalled because they may contain capsules of another drug called Tikosyn (dofetilide), which is used to treat heart rhythm disorders. The recall also ...
Tags: recall, potentially fatal consequences, abnormal heartbeat
Young women who spend a lot of time on Facebook tend to be more likely to be concerned about their body image and could be at increased risk for eating disorders, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at how much time 960 female ...
Tags: eating disorders, online social media site, societal messages
Larry Smith/TransPix The Cass Freight Index, a measure of shipping activity in trucking and other transportation modes, dropped in February while expenditures rose, Cass Information Systems said. Shipping fell 0.4% in February from the ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has concluded that Doribax (doripenem), an antibacterial drug that has been used to treat patients who develop pneumonia while on ventilators, carries an increased risk of death and lower clinical ...
Tags: kidney infections, Health&Medicine, Health care professionals
Whether you see Bitcoin as the future of finance or a reckless gamble, the digital currency has become headline news over the past year, even as its origins remain shrouded in mystery. Bitcoin began as a means of payment but quickly ...
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Antibiotics prescribed in doctors' offices are linked with many cases of serious bacterial infections that can cause severe diarrhea in children, according to a new study. Researchers found that 71 percent of cases of Clostridium ...
Tags: Antibiotics, bacterial infections, the health of our nation's children
A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other drug-resistant ...
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A team of four researchers from several universities in the U.S. has given a presentation at this year's American Physical Society meeting, outlining a theory they are developing to help explain a phenomenon known as earthquake lightning. ...
Ubiquitous but frustrating, lithium-ion batteries fade because the materials lose their structure in response to charging and discharging. This structural change is closely related to the formation of electron-rich regions within the ...
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With news that AWA has entered administration, the Australian electronics industry is mourning the demise of one of Australia’s most iconic brands and a company that has spent more than 100 years as part of the Australian technology ...
Tags: Radio, electronics industry, cross-continent communications