The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has released its inaugural LEED in Motion report, a holistic statistical snapshot of the green building movement aimed at equipping its members with the insight to make a strong case for sustainable ...
Suppliers at the Tupelo Furniture Market here report a steady flow of customers into showrooms and good promotional upholstery business prior to the market's official opening here today. Jon Marino, executive vice president at Flair, said ...
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According to reports, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a sensor device capturing signatures with tiny piezo-phototronic LEDs, that's to say, the device converts mechanical pressure from a signature or a ...
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Owens-Illinois, Inc. (NYSE: OI) announces today that the lead independent director on its Board of Directors, Corbin A. McNeill, Jr., has resigned due to personal reasons. Mr. McNeill’s resignation is not the result of any ...
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology want to put your signature up in lights – tiny lights, that is. Using thousands of nanometer-scale wires, the researchers have developed a sensor device that converts mechanical ...
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Scientists at GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric, in collaboration with a team based at the University of Washington are currently developing a small, light-weight device that can detect a wide range ...
A comprehensive U.S. Department of Energy report predicting the market penetration of light-emitting diode (LED) white-light sources from 2010 to 2030 is available free from the National Lighting Bureau (www.nlb.org). Titled Energy Savings ...
Like Design by Nendo/Oki Sato Offecct presents the chair Cape, an addition to the collection by the Japanese designer Nendo/Oki Sato. Cape is designed by Nendo who was the Guest of Honour at the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2013 as well as ...
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The AATCC Foundation, Inc, announces deadlines in September for two programs designed to support students enrolled in university textile programs. The AATCC Foundation Student Research Support Program, which is supported by the AATCC ...
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Like Design by Maria Pergay Maria Pergay designed the Pouf Vague 1969. In the beginning it was made in stainless steel, but has now been enriched by a natural fox fur cushion. The pouf chair reminds of the shape of a seagull. It has a ...
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) has selected five educational and cultural facilities for this year's CAE Educational Facility Design Awards. The CAE Design Excellence Award honors ...
GP practices could be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if they fail to warn patients that identifiable data will be extracted from their electronic health records to be used by the National Health Service (NHS) ...
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Congress will begin its summer break this week without any plan for high-skill immigration. But here's what to watch for when lawmakers return in September. House Republican leaders have been working on an immigration strategy since the ...
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The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported today that non-manufacturing activity in July had a very solid month. In its Non-Manufacturing Report on Business, the ISM reported that its index used to measure growth—the ...
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The World Wide Web Consortium has finalized its specification for Web Storage, a technology that would give Web applications more flexibility in storing data on user machines. Now that Web Storage is an official specification, browser ...
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