Chinese have been using the green and leafy andrographis paniculata to treat inflammation, fever and pain for decades, with its cultivation dating back to at least the 1950s in the southern province of Guangdong. The plant, better known ...
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A prototype is a replica of the manufactured goods that is used for testing before a manufacturing run is ordered. When developing a new product, companies go through numerous prototypes to know more about the manufacturing process, their ...
IDG News Service - Google is benefiting in terms of advertisement revenue from YouTube videos that depict and even promote dangerous or illegal activities, two state attorneys general in the U.S. have stated in a letter to the company. ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche's new streamlined workflow process for the cobas Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Test, which help labs reduce costs, improve turnaround time and focus on other key tasks. Roche ...
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India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma will be meeting heads of global retail chains on June 27 to address their concerns related to the Government’s foreign direct investment (FDI) Policy in multi-brand retail ...
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GreenBlue's Forest Products Working Group has recently released the Guidelines for Sustainable Paper Products (Guidelines). They complement the SPC's Definition of Sustainable Packaging (Definition) and advance the larger GreenBlue goal of ...
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Microsoft took a two-year-old contest and turned it on its head to come up with a new reward program that will pay security researchers up to $100,000 for demonstrating novel attack tactics against Windows 8.1. In a broad announcement ...
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More secret National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden to The Guardian suggest that the U.S. agency's British counterpart intercepts petabytes worth of communication data daily from fiber-optic cables. The operation ...
Construction is huge and involves numerous things. The materials used generally include wood, Pvc sheets, concrete, bricks, stainless steel or mild steel pipes & tubes, and more. These are found in bulk quantity and wider range in the ...
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Organic micropollutants are omnipresent in water, and although they typically occur at very low concentrations, they can be transformed into complex mixtures of unknown composition. This study proposes a new approach for the tentative ...
A U.S. researcher at IBM who invented the basic building block of the modern DRAM has been honored with a prestigious Japanese award and a $500,000 prize. IBM researcher Robert Dennard was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize, and ...
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Pharmaceutical packaging requires high attention to detail due to the critical nature of the materials required to protect the active product throughout its shelf life. Types of packaging material and design can also be influenced by the ...
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Microsoft on Wednesday backpedaled from a long-standing refusal to pay bug bounties when it announced a temporary program for the beta of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). The Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bug Bounty will start June 26, the day ...
KappAhl is one of the initiators of SWAR, a Swedish project for cleaner textile production in India. SWAR is a collaboration project between Swedish textile buyers and Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), with support from SIDA. ...
Nutrition Dried fruits retain most of the nutritional value of fresh fruits, and so are included with fresh fruit in dietary recommendations by U.S. and world health agencies. The specific nutrient content of the different dried fruits ...
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