Fruit of the Loom, Inc., which designs, makes and markets Spalding and Russell Athletic apparel, has been named a recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Leadership Award for committing to reducing its carbon ...
Tags: Fruit, Agriculture, Food
Organisations involved in assisted suicide help women die more frequently than men. In addition, those living alone, the divorced and well-educated people make above-average use of assisted suicide. This has been demonstrated by a study ...
Tags: SNSF, Assisted Suicide, Matthias Egger
DuPont Pioneer is advancing 111 new Pioneer® brand corn products, featuring 32 new genetic platforms, to better meet growers' needs now and in the future. The new group of products includes 20 new Pioneer® brand Optimum® ...
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New Kongsberg information management system for the world’s largest cruise ship Friday, Feb 21, 2014 Dragutin Radobuljac, the Chief Electrical Engineer on Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s mega cruise ship the Allure of the Seas, ...
Tags: Information Management System, Cruise Ship, RCCL, RCUs
The Idaho House is now ready for a floor vote that will likely send Senate Bill 1337 to Republican Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter for his signature. It would make trespassing and filming agricultural operations without permission of ...
Tags: ag-gag, HSUS, Idaho, Idaho Dairymen's Association
Global health insurer Allianz Worldwide Care has announced the launch of a new plan which offers a compliant solution for onshore healthcare to shipping companies affected by the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC 2006), commonly known as ...
Tags: comprehensive rights and protection, basic employment rights
In recent years, with the constant advance of China’s utilization process and sustained stability in urban fixed-asset investment, the total investment in highway construction enjoyed sustainable growth from RMB623.1 billion in 2006 ...
Tags: Road Maintenance, Machinery, Industry Report
Amazon on Friday yanked gibberish translations of classic works from the shelves of its online ebooks shop. An array of titles including "Treasure Island" and "War of the Worlds" billed as translations of famed books into French, Italian, ...
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
Electron microscopy and spectroscopy are great tools for peering into matter on the molecular scale. But they’re not terribly effective if that matter happens to be biological. Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago ...
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A coalition of civil society groups and professional bodies in the construction industry is set to launch a major campaign for the standardisation of cement production and importation. Specifically, the coalition said it would call on the ...
Tags: Standardisation of Cement, good strength concrete, quality
A snapshot of patients who required care at Duke University Hospital during this year's flu season shows that those who had not been vaccinated had severe cases and needed the most intensive treatment. In an analysis of the first 55 ...
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BASF increased sales and earnings in 2013 compared with the previous year. Sales of BASF Group in the fourth quarter of 2013 were €18.1 billion, slightly above the same period of the previous year. Volumes increased in all segments. ...
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For more than 80 years, ATA has stood as the single most authoritative voice on behalf of the trucking industry — a tireless advocate for all motor carriers regardless of size, region or niche. ATA has evolved the way it has over that ...
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The bench-scale test widely used to evaluate whether a burning cigarette will ignite upholstered furniture may underestimate the tendency of component materials to smolder when these materials are used in sofas and chairs supported by ...
Tags: NIST, Furniture, Tset, smoldering intensity