When the province of Ontario gave the green light to the first of its long combination vehicles (LCVs) in 2009, it did so under the condition that truckers and shippers would have to pay for the engineering studies needed to prove ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
NHS England has issued a tender worth between £200,000 and £2m to train 100,000 people in basic online skills, in its bid to boost health literacy. The plan comes under NHS England's commitment in 2013/14 and 2015/16 to reduce ...
Tags: Health Services, Computer Products
A dozen Chinese rare earth companies have formed an industrial alliance to sue Japan’s Hitachi Metals for holding invalid patents and infringing patent rights of Chinese companies. The legal process could start in early September in ...
Tags: Hitachi Metals, Rare Earth
Researchers based in the USA and Korea have found "an unequivocal correlation between the onset of high injection and the onset of the efficiency droop" of gallium indium nitride (GaInN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [David S. Meyaard et al, ...
Tags: LED, Nitride LED, Electrical, Electronics
After experiencing fast expansion in 2010, the LED display industry went through an integration period. Most companies experienced a period of low gross profit margins, slow increasing revenue, and chaotic competition within the industry. ...
Tags: LED Display Industry, Lighting
University of Tokyo has improved the temperature performance of 1.3μm quantum dot (QD) laser diodes bonded to silicon [Katsuaki Tanabe et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p082703, 2013]. Photonic circuits are commonly created in silicon, ...
Tags: Quantum Dot Lasers, Electrical, Electronics
“It’s worth noticing the unexpected declines in vehicle exports in the first half year of 2013,” Vice Chairman of CAAM Dong Yang says. The export of Chinese vehicles which grew very fast last year presents a declining ...
Tags: Overseas Market, Vehicle
Fluorinated containers producer Fluoro-Seal has announced the change of its name to ‘Inhance Technologies.’ Inhance president & CEO Andrew Thompson said the new name better represents the broad utility of the company's ...
Tags: Fluoro-Seal, containers
Researchers in China and Turkey have been using varying-thickness gallium nitride (GaN) barriers between indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) to improve hole distributions and thus to reduce efficiency droop effects ...
Tags: InGaN LEDs, Electrical, Electronics
2013 has brought about some amazing trends in both commercial and residential carpets. These trends are far more intrinsic than simple—or sophisticated—aesthetics. New fiber systems, improved performance characteristics and ...
Tags: Carpet, Decoration
There's a "lump in the learning curve" for some organisations to overcome in the adoption and use of NoSQL databases. That's what James Tomkins, Met Office Portfolio Technical Lead, told Computing while discussing the organisation's use of ...
Tags: Met Office, learning curve
GP practices could be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if they fail to warn patients that identifiable data will be extracted from their electronic health records to be used by the National Health Service (NHS) ...
Tags: GPs, EMIS Group software
The Ken-Tool 5-bar Super Magnum cage features five mandrel-bent, high-strength 12-gauge, 2-1/4-inch diameter structural steel tubes, welded to a 3/16-inch thick steel plate base with a 2-inch wide, ?-inch thick reinforcing strap welded to ...
Photonics, a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, has received an order for its Lutetium Fine Silicate (LFS) scintillation crystals from its Japanese partner Hamamatsu Photonics. ...
Tags: Photonics, Scintillation Crystals, Pet Scanning Device
International buyers from countries having a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia, accounted for business expectations worth US$ 73.9 million at Colombiamoda 2013. The amount corresponds to 76 percent of the total US$ 97 million ...