Machinery represents a major portion of capital costs, second only to land in farming operations. A well-kept fleet of machinery lets you respond to changing field conditions and other seasonal needs. Surveys of tractor owners indicate most ...
A week of talking about ambitious plans for the Chinese economy was followed by a weekend of reality as key economic data were released. Journalists in Beijing flocked around a beleaguered spokesman whilst analysts elsewhere were cursing ...
Tags: Chinese economy, export data
Allison Transmission says it has developed a new fuel-efficiency package that can improve fuel mileage by 20%. The FuelSense package will initially be offered in the Freightliner M2 106 medium-duty truck. The system automatically adapts ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, Fuel
Anta Sports Products Ltd. reported revenues declined 4.5 percent in its year ended Dec. 31, to 7.281 billion yuan ($1.18 billion) compared with 7.622 billion yuan in 2012. Net profit slid 3.2 percent in the same period to 1.314 billion ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Anta Sports
Retrieving organs from brain-dead donors is logistically challenging and time consuming in hospitals. Multiple surgical teams often fly to a donor's hospital but frequently face delays in retrieving organs due to crowded operating-room ...
Tags: Moving Organ Donors, stand-alone facility, lowers costs
By Sara Freeman, medwireNews Reporter mewireNews: Shortening the time that patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma are on and off treatment with sunitinib improves the drug’s overall tolerability without affecting its efficacy, ...
Tags: ORR, Tolerability, PFS, Sunitinib
British Standards are the standards produced by BSI Group which is incorporated under a Royal Charter (and which is formally designated as the National Standards Body(NSB) for the UK). The BSI Group produces British Standards under the ...
Tags: British Standards, BS, certification
Selecting a Chevy Volt, Tesla Roadster, Nissan Leaf—or one of many other new models—shoppers in the United States bought more than 96,000 plug-in electric cars in 2013. That's a tiny slice of the auto market, but it's up ...
Zurich, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2014 – ABB said its fourth-quarter 2013 results were adversely impacted mainly by charges for storm-related project delays and some operational issues in the Power Systems (PS) division. Additional ...
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE: STJ) today reported sales and net earnings for the fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 28, 2013. Fourth quarter highlights: Net sales increased by approximately 6 percent on a constant-currency basis ...
Tags: CRM, AF, Neuromodulation, St.Jude Medical
UK Flammability Regulations for Upholstered Furniture Published on : Wednesday, January 22, 2014 Following the recent BBC investigation into upholstery on sale in the UK containing foams and fabrics that do not comply with British ...
Tags: BBC, FIRA, Tristine Hargreaves, UK
You will find an automatic valve actuator working hard in many commercial and industrial applications, such as petrol refineries, oil plants, waste water management plants, and even in some sea-water marine mining and construction ventures. ...
MONDAY Jan. 20, 2014, 2014 -- Delaying the morning school bell might help teens avoid sleep deprivation, according to a new study. Later school start times appear to improve teens' sleep and reduce their daytime sleepiness. For the study, ...
Police officers working the night shift are significantly more likely to suffer long-term on-the-job injuries than officers on day and afternoon shifts, according to new research conducted at the University at Buffalo. The study found ...
Tags: Long-Term on-The-Job Injuries, Urban Police Officers, Health&Medicine
There were a wide-variety of errors, faults, and general IT-related ooftas to choose from last week. But GM’s recall of 370 000 of its 2014 model year Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks, in order to update ...
Tags: GM, recall, Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks