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High Yields and Nutritional Quality of Leafy Greens Achievable Using Lumileds's LUXEON SunPlus LEDs
Dec 7, 2017The results of a controlled horticulture lighting study conducted by the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA have ...
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Plant Pathologist Jaimin Patel Joins The Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer
Aug 30, 2016The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced that world-renowned plant pathologist Jaimin Patel, Ph.D., has joined the center, further strengthening the LRC’s horticultural lighting and plant ...
Tags: pathologist Jaimin Patel, LRC
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Wheat Researcher Says Stem-Rust Disease Is Spreading
Mar 21, 2016WASHINGTON (FERN's Ag Insider) - This week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $24 million grant to Cornell University, funding a global wheat research group, known as Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat. The aim is to develop new ...
Tags: Stem-Rust Disease, Wheat
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Vanderbilt University To Enhance Fan Experience ith Advanced Ephesus LED Lighting From Eaton
Mar 21, 2016Power management company Eaton today announced that the home field of the Vanderbilt University men’s baseball team, Hawkins Field in Nashville, Tennessee, has installed an advanced light-emitting diode (LED) system designed to ...
Tags: Vanderbilt university, LED system, Eaton
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Walking Chinese Robot Breaks Guinness World Record
Dec 29, 2015A quadruped robot in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing walked its way on to the pages of the Guinness World Records book on Sunday. "Xingzhe No. 1" was developed by Li Qingdu, a professor with the college of automation under the ...
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China Focuses on Innovation to Boost Economy Amid Global Innovation Trend
Dec 22, 2015Against the backdrop of the gloomy global economy, almost all countries have taken innovation as a key to success. So does China. On top-level design, China's 13th Five-Year Plan for 2016-2020 clearly lists innovation as the number one ...
Tags: Innovation, China, Innovation Trend
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Building Components for GaN Power Switches
Dec 18, 2015A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches -- with ...
Tags: GaN p-n junction diodes, GaN Power Switches, solid-state lighting
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Reducing Current Leakage in Aluminium Gallium Nitride Transistors on Silicon
Nov 27, 2015Researchers in the USA have reduced current leakage for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon to the level achieved for devices produced on much more expensive silicon carbide [Bo Song et ...
Tags: AlGaN, transistors, Silicon
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Ephesus Lighting to Upgrade Bridgestone Arena with LEDs
Oct 14, 2015Ephesus Lighting, the leader in developing digital lighting solutions for sports arenas, stadiums and fields of all sizes has been selected to create an LED arena lighting solution for Bridgestone Arena, home of the National Hockey ...
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Researchers in The US Have Found Scientific Reasons Behind The Common Complaint
May 28, 2015Researchers in the US have found scientific reasons behind the common complaint that airline food tastes bad. In a study conducted by Cornell University, researchers found that a plane's noise was the biggest factor impacting the taste of ...
Tags: Airline Foods, Tasting Factors
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Inaria Is The Exclusive Uniform Provider for Colgate University
Apr 8, 2015Inaria, owned by Performance Sports Group, has agreed to become the exclusive provider of uniforms, apparel and warm-up suits for Colgate University's NCAA Division I men’s soccer program. “We’re excited to partner with ...
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Digital Lumens Aims to Accelerate Expansion of Lighting and Energy Management Solutions
Mar 30, 2015Digital Lumens announced strategic expansions to its team, with Kaynam Hedayat joining as Vice President of Product Management, and Jason Hanna as Director of Software Products. These new executives will help Digital Lumens expand its ...
Tags: market share, Computer Engineering, Lights
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EPA Announced Seven Winning Student Teams of EPA's People
Apr 29, 2014Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced seven winning student teams of EPA's People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) phase II awards for innovative and sustainable designs to help solve today's complex environmental ...
Tags: EPA, Certification
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Customer Service Is The Most Important Factor in Boosting Tasting Room Sales
Mar 11, 2014To buy, or not to buy? That is the question for the more than 5 million annual visitors to New York's wineries. Cornell University researchers found that customer service is the most important factor in boosting tasting room sales, but ...
Tags: Service, Winery Sales, New York's wineries
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What Is Nanoparticle Analysis and What Biomedical Applications Does It Have
Feb 27, 2014Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab) What is nanoparticle analysis and what biomedical applications does it have? Nanoparticle analysis is a very important field. Basically, we live in a world that is ...
Tags: Microfluidics, Microscopy, Nanoparticle, Protein