Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has (14 October) published the results from its second Food in Scotland Consumer Tracking Survey, showing that while most people in Scotland are aware of healthy eating recommendations, the majority do not ...
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Though the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened to a six-year low against the U.S. dollar Friday, analysts said a sharp drop is unlikely despite persistent depreciation pressure. The central parity rate of the yuan retreated ...
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Chinese manufacturers and traders were optimistic about overcoming global economic headwinds as they turned up at the month-long Canton fair which opened its 120th session on Saturday at the southern city of Guangzhou. The biannual event, ...
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Donations and needed supplies to assist organizations leading the hurricane relief and includes $500,000 for recovery efforts in Haiti. BENTONVILLE, Ark., October 11, 2016 – Walmart and the Walmart Foundation have made a commitment ...
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Grant will support food bank’s school Backpack, School Pantry, Picnic in the Park and Cooking Matters programs BOISE, Idaho (Oct. 6, 2016) — This week, the Idaho Foodbank celebrated receiving a $90,000 grant from the Walmart ...
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Amarinth has received an order worth more than €500 000 from Fjords Processing in France to supply eight API 610 OH2 desalting system recycling pumps for the Al Dabb’iya Facilities Development Phase III project in Abu Dhabi. ...
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However, LEGO has strengthened its position in the equivalent US list, and is now the leading toy brand there with 11 products in the US top 100. Hasbro has overtaken LEGO to become the leading brand in the Amazon UK best-selling toys & ...
A research team led by faculty scientist Ali Javey at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has created a transistor with a gate length (the defining dimension of a transistor) just 1nm long, ...
The biggest patent case to hit the modern tech world is back again. Apple and Samsung will appear before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to argue why their opponent was wrong when it came to a patent case from 2012. This is the first time ...
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MACOM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has introduced three broadband voltage-controlled oscillators ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched the UltraCMOS PE45361 monolithic 100W power limiter. The ...
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched the XLamp XQ-E and XP-E High Efficiency (HE) Photo Red LEDs. With up to 21% higher output than previous generations of XQ-E and XP-E Photo Red LEDs, they ...
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Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have created a high-voltage and high-frequency silicon carbide (SiC) power switch that could cost much less than similarly rated SiC power switches, it is reckoned. The findings could ...
In 2015, the global market size of service robots reported USD8.49 billion, surging by 42.2% on a year-on-year basis, and it is expected during 2016-2020 to show an annual average growth rate of 16.5%, which will be mainly driven by: (1) ...
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WorldACD reports that after a volume growth of 1.8% year-on-year (YoY) in July, we witnessed a slightly higher figure for August: +2.3%. Taken together with the volume growth in June (+3%), one could say that the (Northern Hemisphere) ...
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