Volvo Trucks has made in-cab LED lighting standard on all vehicles, and is offering LED headlamps on its VNL and VNX models. Volvo says the LED interior lights and headlamps consume one-eighth the energy required by standard incandescent ...
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Around a quarter of Australian metallurgical coal is sold on a spot basis following a significant increase in production and the fact that the primary buyer, China, prefers short-term pricing, an analysis of Platts data and a survey of ...
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US crude stocks rose 1 million barrels last week, just over half of what analysts were expecting, as a drop in refinery run rates was partly offset by a decrease in US imports, according to data released Thursday by the US Energy ...
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VERO MODA’s Spring Summer’14 collection is feminine, chic and effortlessly elegant. The key trends of the collection include tribal patterns, botanical inspirations, american explorers, tropical influences, summer graphics, ...
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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, ...
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has seen a fast-moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while spewing out a record-breaking jet—the longest of any object in the Milky Way galaxy—of high-energy particles. The pulsar, a ...
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First meeting of the reconstituted All India Handloom Board was held under the chairmanship of Union Minister of Textiles Dr. K S Rao in New Delhi. While addressing the members of the board, the Minister said that the Government of India ...
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As the plane carrying your correspondent from Hong Kong to Singapore started its descent to the Changi airport, the world's fifth busiest, it started flying circles. Shortly afterwards, the captain explained that multiple aircrafts were on ...
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To enter into symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, host plants reprogram their root cells. An LMU team has now identified a calcium-binding protein complex that can be persuaded to spontaneously induce the formation of root nodules. ...
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Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry electrons with almost no resistance even at room temperature – a property ...
A new study from the University of Iowa shows evidence that stock price movements are, in fact, predictable during short windows. The study by researchers in the Tippie College of Business suggests that price movements can be predicted ...
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Raising the alarm against deepening income disparities in countries around the world, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) called today for a shift to more inclusive growth patterns – supported by redistributive ...
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Continuing its growth trajectory, the winter 2014 Las Vegas Market (held from 26-30th January at World Market Center Las Vegas) hosted the biggest and best-attended market in its nine-year history. Record-breaking gains in both attendance ...
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Continuing its rapid growth trajectory, the winter 2014 Las Vegas Market (January 26-30, at World Market Center Las Vegas) hosted its biggest and best attended market in its nine-year history. Record-breaking gains in both attendance ...
Tags: furniture, home décor, gift
Range inspired by DC Comic Super Heroes will make its German debut later this year Warner Bros Consumer Products has confirmed that Fisher Price will be launching its popular range DC Super Friends Imaginext toys across Germany. The ...
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