Although a voluntary shopping cart safety standard was implemented in the United States in 2004, the overall number and rate of injuries to children associated with shopping carts have not decreased. In fact, the number and rate of ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Children Head Injuries
Further to Josh Brooks’ comments in The Answer To The Litter Problem Is Simple: Stop Littering (Packaging News, Monday, January 20) we at LINPAC Packaging would like to add our own views on the issues surrounding litter and the ...
Critical Role of Sirens in Emergency NotificationA Whitepaper from Federal Signal When it comes to emergency warning and mass notification, much of the conversation lately seems to focus on social media and other relatively recent ...
One developer's posting this week about Chrome has drawn a bunch of headlines from tech sites launching into reports on the developer's headline post: "Chrome Bugs Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Conversations." Tal Ater, who ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Fonterra, a New Zealand-based dairy co-operative, has raised around NZD250m ($207m), under a five-year dim sum bond issue, in a move to develop its business in China. The dim sum bonds have been issued as part of Fonterra Treasury's ...
Tags: Fonterra, Chinese Operations, dairy
There’s now more support for Ontario Trucking Association’s call for mandatory entry-level training for truck drivers. The Toronto chapter of the Fleet Safety Council commented in a letter: “The lack of training ...
The stable and good momentum of economic growth in recent months will ensure that China is able to fulfill its expected growth target. The question is how long this growth momentum can last. The consensus is that China’s economy is ...
Tags: Economic Growth, China's economy
New research finds significantly higher levels of infectious pathogens in water from faucet taps with aerators compared to water from deeper in the plumbing system. Contaminated water poses an increased risk for infection in ...
A team of researchers exploring the intergranular stress corrosion cracking of a type of metallic tubing used within nuclear power plants has developed a technique to both map and predict its propagation. Metallic tubing plays a key role ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Verizon on Wednesday became the first major US telecom carrier to release a "transparency report," and said it received 320,000 data queries last year in the United States alone. Verizon also said it received between 1,000 and 2,000 ...
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It's not too often you actually hear somebody come out in favour of a tax increase, but that exactly what Chris Burruss did. Speaking at the Driving for Profit conference in Mississauga, Ont., the president of the Truckload Carriers ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
The New York Times: Health Care Reform Survives A Lawsuit A long-shot lawsuit that could have damaged the effectiveness of health care reform got a well-deserved brushoff from a federal district judge on Wednesday. The suit was brought ...
Tags: New York Times, Alemtuzumab, Maternity Leave, FDA
Television audiences care less about suffering experienced by people in other countries when they watch the news than when they watch a range of different programmes, according to new research. The study by Dr Martin Scott, from the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, TV, Service
After the driest year on record in 2013, California is facing its driest January ever, and the dryness mixed with pollution is unhealthy, officials say. A stuck high-pressure zone off the West Coast of the United States is creating dry ...
Tags: health, dry conditions
Sleeping during the day -- a necessity for jet-lagged travelers and those who work overnight shifts -- disrupts the rhythms of about one-third of your genes, a new study suggests. What's more, shifted sleep appears to disrupt gene ...