The central South American country of Paraguay has signed an international cooperation agreement with Brazil and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), with the aim of combating the pest weevil that has been damaging ...
Tags: Cotton, cotton fields, cotton production
Residents on a street in the west London borough of Hounslow are complaining that new LED street lamps are so bright that they are affecting their quality of life. The 8-metre tall columns were installed on Whitehall Park Road in the ...
Tags: LED Streetlights, LED
The data breach at Target Corp. that exposed millions of credit card numbers has focused attention on the patchwork of state consumer notification laws in the U.S. and renewed a push for a single national standard. Most U.S. states have ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
GU Energy Labs has promoted Michael Littleton to vice president of finance, Magdalena Lewy-Boulet to vice president of innovation and Lauren O'Connor to director of marketing. GU Energy's resident US Olympian (Women's Marathon, 2008 ...
Tags: Gu Energy, sports, Recreation
As Fashion Week closes in Manhattan, New York's outer boroughs are offering a glimpse of what the best-dressed techies will be wearing this Valentines Day: electronic-embedded costumes for a video game that demands hand-holding. There's ...
Tags: Video Game, Game Innovation
LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Kentucky heroin overdose deaths and emergency department visits increased from 2011 to 2012, while prescription painkiller overdoses dropped, officials say. A report by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and ...
Patrick J. Murphy Jr., M.D., director of the University of Louisville Home Call Program and professor of geriatrics in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, has been named one of six finalists for a national award recognizing ...
Tags: Finalist, Recognizing Leadership, Long Term Care, AMDA
The new Parallel Sensorless Pump Controller from Armstrong Fluid Technology coordinates the operation of up to four Armstrong variable speed pumps to offer superior energy efficiency at a reduced first installed cost. By automatically ...
Tags: Parallel Sensorless Pump Controller, variable speed pumps
A little-known aspect of Medicaid allows states, in certain cases, to recoup medical costs by claiming deceased people's homes, which is causing some people to avoid coverage, even those who are newly eligible under the health law's ...
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The Good Guys has launched a major marketing drive for its sponsorship of reality renovation series The Block, with a new microsite launching on The Good Guys website featuring a swathe of Block-branded content. Billed under the tagline ...
Local resident Tony Holdip stood admiring the latest technological lust object on display at the world's largest consumer electronics show as a friend joined a crowd of amateur photographers snapping pictures of the immense 110-inch Samsung ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, TV, Samsung
Explains why some motor neurons are not vulnerable to ALS and points to potential therapeutic target Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have identified a gene, called matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), that appears to ...
A team of Chinese experts have begun feasibility study from Monday to install solar power station in Nepal's administrative center, officials said. The Nepal government has shown willingness to light Singh durbar and its peripheral area ...
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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
Given a choice, male dyeing poison frogs snub empty pools in favor of ones in which their tiny tadpoles have to metamorphose into frogs in the company of larger, carnivorous ones of the same species. The frog fathers only choose to deposit ...
Tags: Frog, Agriculture