Rocky Brands, Inc. announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2013. Fourth Quarter 2013 Sales and Income Fourth quarter net sales increased 5.7% to $61.6 million, which included zero revenue ...
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A new study disputes the effectiveness of mortality as a measure of the quality of care provided by hospitals to stroke patients. The paper - which was simultaneously presented today at the International Stroke Conference in San Diego and ...
A new Indiana University study that examines the brain activity of alcohol-dependent women compared to women who were not addicted found stark and surprising differences, leading to intriguing questions about brain network functions of ...
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A coalition of civil society groups and professional bodies in the construction industry is set to launch a major campaign for the standardisation of cement production and importation. Specifically, the coalition said it would call on the ...
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Dillard’s, Inc. announced operating results for the 13 and 52 weeks ended February 1, 2014 including record fiscal year earnings per share adjusted for certain items of $6.99 versus $6.33 in the prior year. Fourth Quarter Results ...
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U.S. teens are following in the shoes of their very stressed parents; in fact, today's teens report higher stress levels than parents, researchers say. A survey by Harris Interactive on behalf of the American Psychological Association ...
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US crude stocks rose 1 million barrels last week, just over half of what analysts were expecting, as a drop in refinery run rates was partly offset by a decrease in US imports, according to data released Thursday by the US Energy ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and epiwafer foundry IQE Inc have developed 1.3μm-wavelength indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) lasers grown on silicon (Si) with “record performance” [Alan Y. Liu et al, ...
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Driven by surging demand from the lighting, tablet and cellphone backlighting segments, global revenue for gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) rose 10.6% from $11.2bn in 2012 to $12.4bn in 2013, but this could mark the last ...
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Steel rebar galvanizing is a promising but largely overlooked niche for zinc that has the potential to be a 400,000 mt market in the near term, and also has significant technological and cost advantages, a zinc industry official said late ...
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Dean's Sour Cream and Cottage Cheese products are currently arriving on retailer shelves throughout the upper Midwest in innovative new packaging. The packaging concept, originally developed and used throughout Europe, provides several ...
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From a technical point of view the market did resolve the flag formation that we had mentioned last week and broke out to the upside, which propelled March to a six-month high, while May traded at its best level since April 2012. On ...
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Wolverine Worldwide reported financial results for both the fourth quarter and full year ended December 28, 2013. Full-year results include a full 52-week contribution from the Company's October 2012 acquisition of the Sperry Top-Sider, ...
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The Dixie Group reported financial results for the year ended Dec. 28, 2013. For the year of 2013, the company had sales of $345,066,000 and income from continuing operations of $5,358,000, or $0.40 per diluted share, compared with sales of ...
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The Ifo Indicator for the world economic climate continued to rise. Assessments of the current economic situation were more positive than three months ago. The six-month economic outlook remains bright. The world economy is expected to gain ...
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