LEXINGTON,Ky.,Jan.26(UPI)--A small U.S.study found learning stress management techniques helped people trying to lose weight. Kelly Webber,associate professor in the University of Kentucky's Department of Dietetics and Human ...
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There are many ways to drive forward the energy saving and environmental protection industries in an ecologically fragile area like Northwest China's Gansu province, but not if the market is shut and centered on local government's ...
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Argentine polymer and synthetic rubber output fell 4.6% in December compared with the year-ago period, state statistics office Indec said Friday. Production of the petrochemicals rose 0.6% in December compared with November, and was down ...
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SML group opened what is to be the first of its three global RFID Technology and Innovation Centers. The center is located at Corby, Leicestershire, a town 75 miles north of London and home to SML’s UK operations. The group has plans ...
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The Chinese government has issued a gasoil export quota of 1.9 million mt to state-owned traders Chinaoil and Unipec, sources said Friday. Unipec, the trading arm of state-owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, is ...
At the kick-off of the Berlin Fashion Week, World Wide Fund For Nature Germany and Welthungerhilfe invited leading textile companies to Berlin. The goal was to provide information about the use of sustainable cotton fundamental for a ...
China would see a greater shortage of paraxylene (PX) supply in 2014, says a latest report prepared by the economics and technological research institute under the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), according to an article ...
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China's apparent demand for gas in December rose 14.1% year on year to a record high of 16.26 billion cu m, according to Platts calculations of recently released government data. China does not release consumption data on gas. Platts ...
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The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive opinion for the use of Novartis’ Xolair (omalizumab) as an add-on therapy for the treatment of chronic spontaneous ...
Supply offers nation more import sources, enhances energy security Energy-rich Russia has started delivering crude oil to China as of the beginning of the year after the contract signed between the two countries last June, which will ...
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China's top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, announced on Wednesday it would improve the country's on-grid hydropower pricing mechanism to boost investment in the sector for sustainable development. ...
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Energy transition would not complete in an easy way, and the public should be ready for higher energy price, said Total CEO Christophe de Margerie on Wednesday. "This transition will be long and slow," said de Margerie in a written ...
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China has huge potential for liquefied natural gas (LNG) development, according to the organizer of an international industry event underway. Pat LaStrapes, vice-chairman of the World LNG Fuels 2014 event committee, told Xinhua he saw the ...
Japan's direct-burning crude oil demand for power generation has picked up since late December as a cold spell across the country has increased appetite for loadings into March in the absence of nuclear output, industry and trading sources ...
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The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes on an FOB Korea basis narrowed $2/mt from Tuesday to a more than three-year low of $154.50/mt Wednesday, with MX staying relatively supported while PX and downstream ...