China will strengthen the policy support and create a favorable environment to boost the development of the country's renewable energy vehicle industry, said a statement posted on the central government's website over the weekend. ...
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LAS VEGAS — The Specialty Sleep Assn. is sponsoring a presentation at the market here by James Kohm, the associate director for the Enforcement Division of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Kohm, who ...
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Company Vitroterm-Murów SA, one of the few manufacturers and processors of glass in Poland certified by DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions for heavy-duty glass laminating interlayer SentryGlas. The product is characterized ...
Newer vaccines that protect against rotavirus have lower risks of bowel obstruction for infants than a previous vaccine did, two new studies suggest. "We would call it a small increased risk," said W. Katherine Yih, a lecturer at Harvard ...
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China’s wetlands have shrunk by nearly 9 percent in recent years, and the loss could continue if the government doesn't intervene. Officials from China's State Forestry Administration (SFA) told reporters on Monday that 340 000 square ...
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Bauer Performance Sports Ltd. reported revenues in its second quarter ended Nov. 30 rose 7 percent to $117.1 million while advancing 9 percent in constant currencies. Adjusted n Net Income increased 3 percent to a record $7.5 million or 20 ...
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Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nanotube-based coating that greatly reduces ...
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Rogers Corporation has launched the XRD Impact Institute,an in-house testing and design support center where sporting goods brands can develop and test helmets,body armor and insoles and other impact protection products made with the ...
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Amcor is in the process of acquiring some of the assets of PET pioneer company, Constar International Holdings LLC. Constar goes back to the 1960s and developed the two litre PET soda bottle in the 1980s. Constar has been working its way ...
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(Phys.org) —It is one the oldest mathematical problems in the world. Several centuries ago, the twin primes conjecture was formulated. As its name indicates, this hypothesis, which many science historians have attributed to the Greek ...
Black Lab, LLC, a custom blender of granular and aggregate materials for industrial applications, has significantly extended the shelf life of its products while safeguarding product quality by converting to an advanced valve bag packaging ...
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The presence of calf scours is often an unwanted guest during spring calving season. Good management alone is sometimes not enough to protect the calf from scours, and so cattle producers turn to practices like calf vaccination to head ...
Earlier soybean planting coupled with increasing seed costs and higher commodity prices have led to a surge in the number of acres planted with seed treatments (Esker and Conley, 2012). Furthermore, the components and relative cost of ...
Seven new cotton varieties designed to help cotton farmers meet some of their most challenging conditions are being released for the 2014 season. Developed by Bayer CropScience, the new varieties can better handle tough-to-control weeds, ...
In October 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a draft risk assessment on the levels of contaminants in spices. The report made headlines nationwide for including the finding that 12 percent of spices imported to the U.S. ...