Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. announced its CS3 Touring tire has earned a 2013 Good Design Award for innovation and quality. The company introduced the mid-range touring tire in June 2013. The award was presented by the Chicago Anthenaeum: ...
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Major currents in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be slowing down, according to new research from the University of Reading. The findings show that a recently measured slowdown of 10-15% may be part of larger decline that began in the ...
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California Market Center (CMC) hosted LA Fashion Market on January 12-15, 2014 and began the New Year with a bright outlook following reports of good traffic, new accounts and great orders. The Market opened to buyers on Sunday, ...
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The Canadian Swine Health Board is once again encouraging pork producers to protect themselves and their swine herds by being vaccinated against seasonal influenza. Influenza is a virus of the upper respiratory tract. Certain strains ...
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Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen have developed a process that cooperates with driver assistance systems in cars to pinpoint pedestrians and cyclists—even while they are hidden from view. To this end, pedestrian's ...
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Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Researchers at the University of California, ...
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The Kuiper belt—the region beyond the orbit of Neptune inhabited by a number of small bodies of rock and ice—hides many clues about the early days of the Solar System. According to the standard picture of Solar System formation, ...
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Wednesday's Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Mar. corn closed at $4.25 and 3/4, down 5 and 3/4 cents Mar. soybeans closed at $13.18, up 11 cents Mar. soybean meal closed at $434.50, up $4.40 Mar. soybean oil closed at 37.99, up ...
The results of the design world’s highest-ranking honours, The Wallpaper Design Awards 2014 have been released. The Best Pixelation Award has been awarded to Brintons for their Cristian Zuzunaga ‘Deep Grid’ rug. This ...
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For several years, many have been quick to attribute rising fast-food consumption as the major factor causing rapid increases in childhood obesity. Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill report that fast-food ...
By Lucy Piper, Senior medwireNews Reporter Patients with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder (MDD) have increased use of maladaptive and decreased use of adaptive emotion regulation (ER) strategies, researchers report. ...
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BALTIMORE, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The caffeine in a mug of coffee, a cup of tea or a can of soda has a positive effect on our long-term memory, U.S. researchers say. Michael Yassa, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at ...
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Caffeine may help long-term memory Whether it's a mug full of coffee, a cup of hot tea, or a can of soft drink, consuming caffeine is the energy boost of choice for millions who want to wake up or stay up. But the popular stimulant could ...
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They said the party was over, but Australia's giant resources sector is surging into a two-horse race between iron ore and coal, with the latest numbers revealing that there is still fire in the belly of the boom, thanks mainly to sustained ...
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Halfway through the six-month enrollment period for private insurance under the health care law, just one in four adult enrollees are between ages 18 and 34, the crucial demographic group whose participation rates are key to keeping monthly ...