Today's headlines include reports about the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that people who get their health insurance through high-risk insurance pools will have an extra two months before this program ends. ...
Tags: high-risk insurance, White House, Obamacare, Health Law
The left image shows actual eye movements of two different persons choosing among four snack items as recorded with eye-tracking. Number "1" indicates where the first eye movement is made to. The right image shows predicted eye movements ...
Tags: package, consumers, buying decisions, images of food items
The brewers at Samuel Adams are ushering in the new year with a new spring beer—Samuel Adams Cold Snap—the newest addition to the brewery's popular seasonal beer collection. Brewed for spring's transition away from the hearty ...
Tags: Spring Seasonal Beer, brewers
By Kirsty Oswald, medwireNews Reporter Results from a German national health survey indicate that asthma patients with multiple comorbidities are at increased risk for unplanned hospital admissions. The findings also confirm that ...
Tags: asthma patients, comorbidities, cardiovascular disease, health
Dr. Robert J. Brulle is a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia A new study conducted by Drexel University's environmental sociologist Robert J. Brulle, PhD, exposes the organizational ...
Tags: Robert J.Brulle, climate change countermovement, climate science
Yield results are in! The August 2013, Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) Newsletter reported on AWC funded research aimed at maximizing wheat yields and profitability. The project, being led by Sheri Strydhorst, Agronomic Research Scientist ...
Tags: wheat, agriculture
Samsung Semiconductor Europe GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., is joining the Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup as a sponsor to seek the most innovative, cutting-edge solutions. At the next Wearable ...
The CO2 EOR market is a well established sector of the oil and gas industry in the United States with the first commercial projects dating back to the early 1970s. The key enabler of this success has been the availability of a large volume ...
Tags: CO2, Oil Recovery
A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company. Eric J. Rosol, 38, is admitted that on Feb. 28, 2011, he took part in a denial of service ...
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new type of nanoparticle, which can be taken orally and gets successfully absorbed through the digestive tract. The nanoparticles ...
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U.S. scientists say they have developed a urine test for hard-to-detect blood clots, which can cause strokes and heart attacks. Lead author and doctoral candidate Kevin Lin, postdoctoral fellow Gabriel Kwong and Sangeeta N. Bhatia, all at ...
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has appointed Claudio Facchin as Executive Committee member responsible for the Power Systems division, effective Dec. 1, 2013. He succeeds Brice Koch, who will leave ABB on Jan. 15, ...
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Professor Robert Langer, David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be the honored speaker at the Axalta Distinguished Lectures sponsored by Axalta Coating Systems and hosted by the Department of ...
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Brice Koch (photo), head of the Power Systems division at ABB is leaving the company to become CEO at Oerlikon—a Swiss-based industrial group specializing in machine and plant engineering. ABB aims to have a permanent successor in ...
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Oerlikon announces the appointment of Dr. Brice Koch as Group Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Koch, who will assume the role during the first quarter of 2014, comes to Oerlikon following a successful career at ABB where he has been a member of ...
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