Kaiser Health News staff writer Anna Gorman, working in collaboration with USA Today, reports: "On a recent winter morning, health outreach worker Christopher Mack walked through the streets and alleys of the city's Skid Row, passing a man ...
Headquartered in a traditional courtyard in downtown Beijing, Tongrentang (TRT), a pharmaceutical giant with a history of more than 300 years, is increasing its international reach with its legacy products: traditional Chinese medicine ...
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FOR MANY years of his life, Ho Chong Choai watched his father Ho Kian Chuan labour over glass and frames in a small business with four workers in Kampung Pantai Malacca. Over 35 years, Chong Choai, now the managing director of SecuGlass ...
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Photo: Tekla Perry One of Samsung's new curved TVs Press day, the day before the official opening of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), always brings new product and technology announcements from the large TV ...
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The ability to sequence the DNA of plants and animals has revolutionized many areas of biology, but the unstable character of DNA poses difficulties for sequencing specimens in museum collection over time. In an attempt to answer these ...
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Nothing, it seems, makes the hand of Vernon Brejcha quiver. Not the heat from a furnace that burns a few thousand degrees, not the weight of a five-foot pole with a ball of fire attached to its end, and not even the frailty of a very, ...
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Alsa Refinish, a California-based company, has process and utility patent applications in place for a medication delivery method. If successful, Alsa will hold patents for a device that delivers medications and herbal preparations ...
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(By Stefania Fumo) Rome, December 10 - A sensational collection of 180 rare Venetian glass works, paintings, drawings, and furniture donated by Anna Maria Miele and the late Adalberto Vinciguerra opens December 21 in the city of Pesaro's ...
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The technology group SCHOTT presents a rather special exhibition solution for the first time ever at Exponatec (November 20 – 22, Booth 3.2/B059) in Cologne, Germany. At Europe´s most important trade fair for museums, ...
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What four agriculture items would show up on a list of the 101 most important objects in American history? Probably not the four selected by Smithsonian from its “101 Objects That Made America.” But if you guessed cotton gin, ...
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Crystal Museum behalf Maltsov in Gus-Crystal Vladimir region was one of the winners of museum programs Vladimir Potanin Charity Foundation "first publication" - "Museum Guide - 2014". Just a list of the winners was 15 museums, including ...
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Speirs + Major will transform the underpass of the A13 in London while Leni Schwendinger will lead a ‘NightSeeing LightWalk’ at London’s first ever ‘Light Night’ in Canning Town on Saturday 30 November. The ...
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Research Frontiers Inc. (Nasdaq:REFR) and Brazilian architectural glass fabricator Mecanica de Vidros Industria E Comercio Ltda. ("MDV Glass") announced today that MDV Glass has been licensed by Research Frontiers to offer SPD-Smart ...
The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery has announced winners of the 2013 Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics and RBC Award for Glass. Janet Macpherson of Toronto won the Shantz ceramics award. Brad Turner of Calgary, Alta. won the RBC glass ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report, Color Maintenance of LEDs in Laboratory and Field Applications. Although concern for parametric failure of LED lighting products has largely been focused on lumen maintenance, ...
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