Quiksilver, Inc. announced financial results for the fiscal 2014 first quarter ended January 31, 2014. Fiscal 2014 First Quarter Review: The following comparisons refer to results of continuing operations for the first quarter of ...
Tags: Quiksilver, Apparel
As of the 1st of January 2014, the Fair Work Commission has jurisdiction to hear complaints about bulling in the workplace. Statistics released by the Commission has indicated that 44 applications for anti-bullying orders were made in ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Flawed but colorful diamonds are among the most sensitive detectors of magnetic fields known today, allowing physicists to explore the minuscule magnetic fields in metals, exotic materials and even human tissue. University of California, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Electronics, Colored Diamonds
An international team of researchers has used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to take snapshots of free molecules. The research team headed by Prof. Jochen Küpper of the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) ...
The National Nanotechnology Initiative defines nanotechnology as the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, at dimensions of approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Nanotechnology ...
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Quiksilver Inc, the parent of Quiksilver, Roxy and DC Shoes, reported revenues declined 4.6 percent in its first quarter ended Jan. 31, to $393 million compared with $412 million a year ago. Revenues were down 2 percent, or $9 million, in ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Iconic Australian company AWA will meet with creditors on 7 March 2014 after going into administration at the end of February. AWA's board of directors appointed administrators from PPB Advisory on 25 February, and these administrators are ...
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Raynet will launch a new solution for software packaging in summer 2014: RayPack! With Symantec havingphased out the once globally dominant WISE Package Studio almost two years ago, the Paderborn-based manufacturer is stirring up the ...
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In the past two months, both the United States (the largest exporter in 2012/13) and China (the largest producer and consumer in 2012/13) announced changes to their agricultural policies, including cotton. On February 7, 2014, President ...
Tags: Cotton Policies, Apparel
The ability to locate and count small numbers of impurity atoms could lead to advances in modern electronics and optical fiber communication networks. In research published today in Physical Review Letters, physicists from Monash ...
Tags: Spectrum Imaging, Measure Atom Concentrations, Atomic Resolution
Smart Glass - technology globally popular enough. Such glasses have a number of advantages over conventional windows. "Smart" glass does not transmit infrared radiation, it will delay the heat in the room in winter and not let the hot ...
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) today unveiled its national consumer education campaign to bolster awareness and understanding of Facts Up Front. The nutrient-based labeling system will ...
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Wolters Kluwer Health and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)—the preeminent provider of musculoskeletal education to orthopaedic surgeons and others in the world—announced today an agreement to publish the ...
Tags: Wolters Kluwer Health, AAOS'official clinical review journal, Medicine
The estimated production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant for the week ended Friday rose 16.51 cents, or 23.63%, to a seven-week high of $0.8640/gal, a review of US Department of Agriculture and Platts data showed. ...
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Samsung’s Galaxy S5 phone will launch in April and will the first smartphone to feature a dedicated heart rate monitor. Mounted near the device's flash, the monitor requires users to place a finger on the sensor to measure the pulse ...
Tags: Heart Rate Monitor, Samsung