Think your kid really needs antibiotics for that sore throat? That a Pap smear every year is a good idea? That testosterone will restore your love live? The answers for most people: nope, nope, and nope. That's the word from, ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) has appointed photonics integration veteran ...
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The glass and materials industry of China is presently faced with various difficulties while developing, such as uncoordinated and unsustainable development, weak ability for scientific and technological innovation, unbalanced industrial ...
Howard P. Lewis, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America’s (IES’) representative to the National Lighting Bureau, has been elected to an unprecedented fourth consecutive term as Bureau chair. The National Lighting ...
National Lighting Bureau (NLB) Chair Howard P. Lewis sounded a strongly optimistic note in his December 7 annual- report address to the Bureau’s board of directors. “I think we are on the cusp of a major resurgence for the ...
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1. What's "guanxi"? Guanxi is regarded as the central idea in Chinese society with long historical and cultural roots. It is understood and utilized by virtually every Chinese person in greater or lesser measure. Understanding how the ...
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The Directorate of Handlooms and Textiles, Government of Kerala, a state in southern India, has announced that it will participate in Heimtextil, an international trade fair for home textiles scheduled to be held at Frankfurt, Germany in ...
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The Textiles Committee under the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, will hold a one-day workshop on December 24 at Indore in Madhya Pradesh. The workshop will be on ‘Post GI Initiatives for Brand Promotion through Market ...
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An agreement has been signed to merge DNV and GL. The new entity will be called DNV GL Group. It will be one of the world's leading ship classification societies and risk experts in the oil and gas, renewable energy and power sectors, and ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched a family of highly efficient front-end solutions for smart water and gas metering applications. The front-end solutions ...
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In pursuance to the Budget announcement(2011-12),'Revival,Reform and Restructuring package for"Handloom Sector",having financial implication of Rs.3884 crore,has been approved by the CCEA on 24.11.2011. Of this Rs.3884 crores,Government ...
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In China, marriage is considered to be one of the three most important things in one's whole life. Chinese wedding is a ceremonial ritual within Chinese societies that involve a marriage established by pre-arrangement between families. ...
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The American National Standards Institute is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization ...
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The findings of a first-of-its-kind survey by the Dubai School of Government (DSG) revealed today that the majority of enterprises in the Middle East see social media as a way of increasing collaboration, connecting with customers, ...
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Despite vowing that fighting cybercrime is high on its agenda, the European Commission increased its planned cyber security budget by just 14 percent through 2020, an amount one security expert referred to as “paltry.” For the ...
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