Just a century ago, work settings were absent of telephones, typewriters, calculators, digital computers, and even, women. People from that era would not recognize today's professional environment, which is highly automated and impersonal. ...
Tags: Virtualized Work, Frost&Sullivan's new analysis, work setting
Members of the British Retail Consortium have set themselves an ambitious target of reducing energy-related building emissions by 50 per cent by 2020. The cut, compared to a 2005 baseline, follows BRC members beating their previous target ...
Tags: energy-related building emissions, Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme
Armstrong Fluid Technology has announced the introduction of Maintenance-Free (MF) versions of its popular S&H Circulator line and the Seal Bearing Assemblies (SBA) used to service them. The ...
Tags: Seal Bearing Assemblies, circulator models, periodic oiling
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has set a record for CdTe solar cell conversion ...
Tags: Crystalline Silicon, Solar Cell
Food and beverage company Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has announced a net profit after tax of $502.8 million, before significant items. Net profit after tax (including significant items) decreased by 82.5 per cent to $79.9 million for the twelve ...
Tags: operating cost structure, Results Decline, Capital Expenditure
A new innovative magnetic plaster solution by British Gypsum has helped to transform a subterranean former Royal Air Force (RAF) communication bunker into a family home and guest house. The building, in Nottinghamshire, was operational ...
Tags: Gypsum Transforms, Furniture&Furnishing, magnetic plaster solution
How do you build a universal quantum computer? Turns out, this question was addressed by theoretical physicists about 15 years ago. The answer was laid out in a research paper and has become known as the DiVincenzo criteria. The ...
lllustration: University of Colorado Boulder Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a model of a thermoelectric material that can insulate itself from heat transfers while still allowing electricity to flow. Such ...
Tags: Nanopillars, Thermoelectric Material, conducting electricity, voltage
From the organizers of the world’s largest trade expo for children, baby and maternity products – CBME China -- comes a new trade event focused on children fashion, Cool Kids Fashion. UBM China launches Cool Kids Fashion on ...
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For a moment last April, the Indiana General Assembly looked like it was going to conclude like an Indianapolis 500 race – with the state Senate putting the hammer down on a “farm protection” bill the House still had some ...
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U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) used a special Town Hall session hosted by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Wednesday to issue a call for both new patent legislation and immigration reform to help drive capital investment and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
To better protect lives and property, a new radar network offering higher resolution data and potentially earlier warning of severe weather goes live this month in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex as government, university and industry ...
Tags: Weather Radar, Storm Data, NSF, CASA
Construction toy firm will preview new line based on popular Nickelodeon animation at this year's American Toy Fair Mega Brands is expanding its Mega Bloks kids' construction toys portfolio this year with Nickelodeon's popular animation ...
Tags: Toys, Toy Fair, construction toys
Whether it's season tickets to Green Bay Packers' games or silver place settings, divorce and inheritance have bred protracted disputes over the assignment of belongings. But, now, a trio of researchers has found a method for resolving such ...
Tags: 'envy-Free'Algorithm, Settling Dispute, indivisible good
Topological insulators are the key to future spintronics technologies. EPFL scientists have unraveled how these strange materials work, overcoming one of the biggest obstacles on the way to next-generation applications. Spintronics is an ...
Tags: EPFL, Future Electronic, Material, Physical Review Letters