Samsung has once again hosted its annual Regional Forum in Bali, Indonesia, bringing together representatives from the company’s Asia Pacific and Australian markets for a dedicated spotlight on consumer electronics and appliances. ...
Tags: localised information, Consumer Electronics Business, smart appliance
To keep up with ever-changing consumer demands for different package sizes and materials, manufacturers need flexible packaging equipment that has many configuration options for quick product changeovers. Known for its flexible, ...
A new Indiana University study that examines the brain activity of alcohol-dependent women compared to women who were not addicted found stark and surprising differences, leading to intriguing questions about brain network functions of ...
Tags: fMRI, network activation, physiological effect, Alcohol-Dependent Woman
Giving intravenous magnesium to stroke patients soon after the start of symptoms, in an attempt to protect brain cells deprived of oxygen, failed to improve stroke-related disability 3 months later, according to research presented at the ...
Tags: Intravenous Magnesium, Stroke-Related Disability, Stroke Therapy
A new combination MRI-ultrasound imaging system can result in fewer biopsies and better treatment decisions for prostate cancer patients. The technology, called UroNav®, fuses images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with ...
Tags: MRI, PSA blood, Prostate Cancer, aggressive tumor, Loyola
Detailed structural and functional 'maps' of the human kidney made using advanced scanning technology are to be developed by scientists at The University of Nottingham. The research, funded with -107,623 from the Dr Hadwen Trust, a ...
Tags: Kidney Disease, GFR, vitamin D, kidney healthy
Germany’s VDMA predicts positive prospects for machine vision 13 Feb 2014 National market expected to grow by 5% in 2014; Frankfurt roundtable assesses global opportunities. The German machine vision (MV) industry is on a stable ...
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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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The new Ricoh WG-4 GPS ($379) brings the Ricoh brand to the former Pentax all-weather camera family. Related ricoh Ricoh Theta Users Can Now Post To Google Maps ricoh Ricoh Adds 20-40mm Pentax ‘Limited Lens’ ricoh Ricoh Begins ...
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LED Engin has combined its LZ4-Plus emitters with Gaggione eight to 45deg zoom optics said to produce excellent candela/lumen performance, beam quality and control. Together, they enable luminaire manufactures to design smaller, lighter and ...
Tags: wash lamps, Precise colour control, narrow beam angles
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded UCLA researchers Dr. Daniel Lu (Brentwood) and Dr. Reggie Edgerton (Bel Air) a $6 million, five-year grant to explore new therapies for the approximately 273,000 ...
Tags: UCLA, Spinal-Cord Injuries, New Therapies, lower spine.
Researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) are developing quality control systems for unprocessed and processed food items using infrared technology. Funded by an Australian Research Council grant, the project is aimed ...
Tags: Infrared Technology, Food Quality
The UK’s University of Leeds has fabricated what is claimed to be the world’s most powerful terahertz (THz) laser chip, exceeding 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade laser (QCL) (Lianhe Li et al, ‘Terahertz quantum ...
Tags: Laser Chip, Electronics
Fractals—patterns defined by their scale-invariance that makes them look the same on large scales as they do on small scales—are found in nature everywhere from snowflakes to broccoli to the beating of the heart. In a new study, ...
University of Leeds researchers have taken the lead in the race to build the world's most powerful terahertz laser chip. A paper in the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) journal Electronics Letters reports that the Leeds ...