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Glatfelter Announces Leadership Change in Specialty Papers Business Unit
Jan 17, 2017Glatfelter announced the promotion of David Dickerhoof to vice president of sales and marketing for specialty papers, effective immediately. Mr. Dickerhoof fills the position previously held by Mr. Timothy Hess who was promoted to Senior ...
Tags: Specialty Papers, Glatfelter
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UK City Council Switches Lights to Bring Back Glow Worms Libido
Nov 12, 2015The Welsh City Council in UK has switched to LED lights, since traditional sodium lights was interfering with local glow worm population’s reproduction habits, reported Daily Post. In short, the male glow worms were more attracted ...
Tags: LED lights, traditional sodium lights, glow worm population
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Klockner Pentaplast Pharmaceutical Films Division Sets up New Centre
Apr 3, 2015Germany-based packaging, printing and specialty solutions provider Klckner Pentaplast has opened a kp i.center that will help pharmaceutical customers bring their products to market faster. The centre that will be located in the ...
Tags: printing, generic products, Packaging
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There Are Three Common Drugs for Advanced Ovarian Cancer
Feb 27, 2014There are three common drugs for advanced ovarian cancer: paclitaxel, cyclophosphamide, and topotecan. Like a shell game, if you pick the right drug a patient is likely to respond. And, unfortunately, picking the wrong drug can lead to ...
Tags: right drug, sophisticated model of ovarian cancer genetics
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The Medicaid Expansion Is Back in Play
Feb 25, 2014With state legislatures kicking off their 2014 sessions, the Medicaid expansion is back in play. Twenty-six states had signed onto the Medicaid expansion at the start of this year -- and that leaves nearly half the country deciding whether ...
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Mayor and Governor Teaming up to Save Brooklyn Hospitals
Feb 7, 2014A selection of health policy stories from New York, Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, Kansas, Florida, Rhode Island and Georgia. The New York Times: Mayor And Governor Teaming Up To Save Brooklyn Hospitals Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. ...
Tags: N.Y.Mayors, Health-Care, Financial Data, GOP
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Biological Single-Cell Analyses Is Improved by Statistical Methods
Jan 24, 2014Stem cells can turn into heart cells, skin cells can mutate to cancer cells; even cells of the same tissue type exhibit small heterogeneities. Scientists use single-cell analysis to investigate these heterogeneities. But the method is still ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Biological Single-Cell
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Taylor Tools Has Elected Gavin T. Daniels to The The Position of President/CEO
Jan 23, 2014Taylor Tools has elected Gavin T. Daniels to the the position of president/CEO, succeeding his father, Jim Daniels, who will continue to function as the company's chairman of the Board. The Board of Directors also announced that Keith ...
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Direct Evidence of a Supernova's Dust-Making Capabilities
Jan 7, 2014Galaxies can be remarkably dusty places and supernovas are thought to be a primary source of that dust, especially in the early Universe. Direct evidence of a supernova's dust-making capabilities, however, has been slim and cannot account ...
Tags: supernovas, dust-making, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
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IQE Presented a Joint Paper on a New Type of Transistor
Dec 17, 2013At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington DC (9-11 December), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Pennsylavania State University and the US Commerce Department's National ...
Tags: Low-Power Tunneling Transistor, Electrical, Electronics
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American Exploration & Mining Association Awarded Boise-Based Mining Lawyer
Dec 16, 2013American Exploration & Mining Association awarded Boise-based mining lawyer, Joseph H. Baird, Esq., its Lifetime Achievement Award. Baird was honored with the association's highest individual award at American Exploration & Mining ...
Tags: mineral, exploration
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Biomet Has Announced The First US Implantation of Its Comprehensive Nano Stemless Shoulder
Oct 23, 2013Biomet, a manufacturer of orthopedic and biotechnology products, has announced the first US implantation of its Comprehensive nano stemless shoulder as part of an US Food and Drug Administration investigational device exemption (IDE) ...
Tags: Biomet, Nano Stemless Shoulder
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Glatfelter Announced The Promotion of Kent K. Matsumoto to Vice President, General Counsel
Oct 10, 2013Glatfelter announced the promotion of Kent K. Matsumoto to Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, effective immediately. In this capacity, he will report directly to Dante C. Parrini, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. ...
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Vintage 'Flag Shorts' Offered by Peace Frogs
Jul 10, 2013The way Peace Frogs history goes, a group of college students sat around a dorm room in 1985 at the University of Virginia discussing a start-up idea by Catesby Jones – make and sell shorts fashioned out of the flags of different ...
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ACI Introduced Its 2013-2014 President, Vice President, and Four Board Members
May 21, 2013The American Concrete Institute (ACI) introduced its 2013-2014 president, vice president, and four board members during the ACI Spring 2013 Convention in Minneapolis, Minn. last month. Anne M. Ellis was elected to serve as president of ...
Tags: ACI, Anne M.Ellis