US Representative Kevin Cramer, a Republican and North Dakota's lone House member, believes that hardline, pro-drilling arguments from his own party may be hindering the chances of bipartisan support for increasing oil and gas production on ...
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Everything moves, everything changes, everything changes. Even the domestic environment, which evolves and adapts to our changing needs. And if the spaces in many cases appear to pose a limit to how many activities or interests that ...
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UK - Olivier and Tony Award winning lighting designer Mark Henderson has chosen to use Clay Paky Sharpys to deliver his exciting 'concert performance' lighting for the glittering stage production of The Bodyguard, at the Adelphi Theatre on ...
Researchers in Spain have grown high-indium-content indium gallium nitride (InGaN) directly on silicon (Si) substrates [Praveen Kumar et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p035501, 2013]. The work was carried out at Universidad ...
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Google has released another promotional video for its widely-anticipated Glass project – the wearable device which takes the form of a pair of translucent spectacles that appear to enrich the user's experience of the world around ...
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips ...
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips are ...
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USA - Passion Conferences, founded by Louie Giglio in 1997 as a means of reaching the 20+ million university students in the world for the glory of God, has become one of the world's largest gatherings of Christian young adults. Held in ...
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Cisco this week unveiled a new Catalyst switch and WLAN controller designed to converge wired and wireless networks and centralize management of both environments. The new switch is the Catalyst 3850 and the WLAN controller is the Cisco ...
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GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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In 2012, 947,600 passengers used Erbil’s new International Airport, a 53% increase on the previous year, whilst cargo tonnage also increased dramatically, with a 54% increase to 27,849 tonnes per annum. The 2012 passenger count ...
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Kuwait MPs have overwhelmingly ratified the $500-million settlement deal to end the 22-year-old dispute between Kuwaiti Airways Corporation (KAC) and Iraqi Airways. Iraqi Airways agreed in July to pay the compensation to KAC for damages ...
Engineered specifically to eliminate the void created by using standard corrugated boxes to pack products destined for individual consumers, Packsize International’s (Booth 2344) compact iQ FUSION corrugated converting machine ...
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Dutch start-up Anagear has released a power management IC (PMIC) for wireless sensor nodes, that consumes an average of 600nA, said the firm. Typically, wireless sensor nodes have a microcontroller that spends most of its time in sleep, ...
The FAA said airlines would have to demonstrate that the lithium ion batteries involved were safe before they could resume flying Boeing's newest commercial airliner, but gave no details on when that could occur. Boeing did not ...
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