A non-profit organization is publishing a quick-reference card to help cycling teams and race officials assess possible concussions. The group, Medicine of Cycling, has collaborated with a group of physicians and researchers with a ...
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The Novotel Saigon Centre hotel has installed six Hanovia UV systems to meet its service water requirements. Novotel's flagship Saigon Centre hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has recently installed six Hanovia UV systems for service ...
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This survey reports that the use of subsurface intake systems for seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants significantly improves raw water quality. Such systems also reduce chemical usage and environmental impact, decrease the ...
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Business confidence levels are showing signs of stabilising, with the year-end outlook for profits, sales, employment and capital investment beginning to level out. After declining through much of the year, initial expectations for the ...
In July, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.3 percent, up by 0.2 percentage point month-on-month. In view of the sizes of enterprises, the PMI of large-sized enterprises was 50.8 percent, up by 0.4 percentage ...
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A group calling itself Canadians for Safe Technology (C4ST) has released a new video quoting the results of a survey highlighting how some Canadians perceive the radiation emitted from everyday wireless devices, and its potential health ...
The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) used a weather analogy to characterize its latest Q3 business survey. And it's not a bad forecast: Partly sunny with reduced chance of showers. The Q3 business survey of member carriers found rising ...
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Of the top-selling smartphones in the U.S. in the past year, customers ranked two Samsung smartphones higher than the last three Apple iPhone models. The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, released Wednesday, ranked both the ...
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U.S.-based workers show more initiative and are more innovative and more understanding of the business than offshore workers, according to a new study that examines sourcing services in the U.S. These qualities are helping to boost use of ...
Computerworld - Corporate attitudes toward bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies appear to fall into one of three categories, according to a survey of IT users released this week: There's no official BYOD policy, devices are banned, or no ...
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The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported today that non-manufacturing activity in July had a very solid month. In its Non-Manufacturing Report on Business, the ISM reported that its index used to measure growth—the ...
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With slower than expected activity in the nonresidential construction sector in the first half of the year, the projections for growth in spending have been scaled back. Led by the hotel and retail project categories, the commercial sector ...
With slower than expected activity in the nonresidential construction sector in the first half of the year, the projections for growth in spending have been scaled back. Led by the hotel and retail project categories, the commercial sector ...
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That's the conclusion of a study recently conducted by a team of engineers at the University of California, San Diego. They found panels that hadn't been cleaned or rained on for 145 days during a summer drought in California lost only 7.4% ...
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The euro zone manufacturing sector returned to growth at the start of the third quarter, with production and new orders both increasing at the fastest rates since mid-2011. Markit's Eurozone Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) ...