IBM today announced plans to commit $1.2 billion (£730 million) to expand its global cloud footprint through a number of new data centres set to open this year. The company said it will use the money to open up to 15 new data ...
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Every week reporter Ankita Rao selects interesting reading from around the Web. NPR: 5 Simple Habits Can Help Doctors Connect With Patients I'd never [before] been encouraged to sit at a patient's bedside -; to stop hurrying for even a ...
Tags: Obesity Origins, Children with Chronic Disease, Health&Medicine
The European outdoor industry's annual sales at retail exceeded €10 billion in 2012, according to the latest edition of The State of the Trade report released by the European Outdoor Group (EOG). At a wholesale level, sell-in figures ...
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Scientists said on Friday they had mapped ground-level air pollution in China from space for the first time, a feat that should help the fight against a notorious health hazard. French and Belgian atmospheric scientists used an infrared ...
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Increased buying interest for North Sea crude oil cargoes, resulting in a sharp increase in price for a number of key grades, has negatively impacted Northwest European refinery margins, according to traders Wednesday. The cracking yield ...
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The Kuiper belt—the region beyond the orbit of Neptune inhabited by a number of small bodies of rock and ice—hides many clues about the early days of the Solar System. According to the standard picture of Solar System formation, ...
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As open as the Canadian market is to LNG vehicles, it still pales behind the reception China is giving the alternative fuel. According to Tom Campbell, head of analysis at Zeus Intelligence, a research company specializing in LNG and ...
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NICHICON CORPORATION is aiming for net sales of 200 billion yen in fiscal 2019: 100 billion yen in capacitors and 100 billion yen in NECST (Nichicon Energy Control System Technology) circuit products. To this end, on November 21, 2013, we ...
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AVX has introduced its first space-level, base metal electrodeA solid electric conductor through which an electric current enters or leaves in a medium (BME), X7RThe main differences between ceramic dielectricThe insulating material between ...
Chevrolet has made the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) 2014 its global stage for the unveiling of the much-anticipated Corvette Z06 and the C7.R race car. Recognized as an important global launch-pad for automakers to ...
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By Lynda Williams, Senior medwireNews Reporter Research shows that the severity of gout, rather than uric acid level, is significantly associated with changes in left ventricular (LV) diastolic function and left atrial volume (LAV). The ...
DIEPPE, NB — The Trucks for Change Network is spreading its influence east to help more charities in Atlantic Canada and they have the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association’s (APTA) backing. Trucks for Change, a broker that ...
Love’s Travel Stops announced it is kicking off its 50th anniversary in 2014 and founder and executive chairman Tom Love announced the company would undergo a record year of building. “I’m humbled every day by our ...
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Truck drivers, cleaning-service employees and mechanics are among the most obese groups of workers, new research contends. Not far behind are health-service workers and administrative and clerical personnel, the study out of Washington ...
Michelin says the Premier A/S tire in a half-worn state is more effective than the competitor's is new, due to expanding rain grooves that emerge and widen over time to evacuate water. Michelin North America Inc. says its new Premier A/S ...