Minnetonka, Minn.-based NatureWorks LLC has begun commercial production of two high-performance Ingeo? biopolymer grades that it reports are suitable for a range of processes used in the production of fibers and nonwoven fabrics. According ...
A common source of water-cooler conversations is the federal government shutdown in early October and the overall ineffectiveness of our federal legislative and executive branches. If we - the American People – operated our ...
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Aim for a reception area that's stylish, comfortable and functional. As the saying goes, you only get one chance to make a first impression, and this is especially true with reception furniture. Your reception area is often the first ...
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While Microsoft's recent acquisition of Nokia's smartphone division is potentially good news for Microsoft, the company needs to work on its branding issues if it's to start seeing greater success in the mobile hardware industry, a Gartner ...
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Taiwan’s National Chiao-Tung University has developed a titanium nitride/copper (TiN/Cu) gate structure for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) that shows improvements over a comparison ...
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A car anticipated to be the all-new third-generation Renault Twingo has been caught road testing by CarAdvice’s spy photographers. Still heavily camouflaged, the new Renault prototype is expected to be the third-generation Twingo ...
Oracle has kicked off its Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference in San Francisco by unveiling in-memory processing for its Oracle Database 12c product, as well as new hardware to run it on, and a new cloud-based database backup solution. ...
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Ruchi Soya, an Indian-based food company, is evaluating options to foray into the ready-to-cook segment, especially in the breakfast category. A company source was quoted by Press Trust of India as saying, "Going forward, the company is ...
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History Chinese Paper Cutting or Jianzhi is the first type of papercutting design, since paper was invented by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. It is a very distinctive visual art of Chinese handicrafts. ...
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Researchers in France have developed a monolithic metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) process for growing indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with a multiple quantum well (MQW) light converter [Benjamin ...
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Different alloys contain different components of metallic as well as non- metallic elements. Men have used nickel in a lot of their needs from several thousands of years. Since even when they don't know the chemical properties of this ...
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Coatings giant PPG Industries Inc. (PPG - Analyst Report) recently unveiled its new residential glass website, www.ppgglass.com, which features better navigation along with integrated links and functionality to help homeowners purchase ...
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Novaled and Colnatec hope to control film thickness with novel sensing technology on OLED roll-to-roll production lines, while researchers at the University of Utah have tuned a plastic polymer that could yield true white OLEDs. While ...
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IR imaging market shifting from military to civilian 13 Sep 2013 Military budget cuts and growing commercial markets drive change says analyst Yole Développement. Hot market: The global uncooled thermal camera business is set to ...
The Euro area's recession came to an end. In the second quarter of 2013 GDP increased by 1.1 percent. For the next months we expect a gradual improvement of economic conditions. Our forecast is based on a continued upturn of business and ...
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