Applied Physics
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LONDON, October 8 /PRNewswire/ --
- Strengthens Expertise in Key Market and Industry Sectors, Including Pharmaceutical and Chemical
CPA, the world's top intellectual-property management specialist and a leading provider of outsourced legal support services, announced today that it has acquired renowned German patent research firm SVPG GmbH. Frankfurt-based SVPG, formerly part of Hoechst AG, has a proud history in patent research dating back more than 20 years and specialising in the pharmaceutical, chemical, life sciences, biotech, and engineering sectors.
The acquisition underlines CPA's…
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SAN JOSE, California, October 8 /PRNewswire/ --
- Improved accuracy increases energy availability up to 15% and additional monitoring functions ensure higher safety
Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today a family of single-chip Li-ion battery management devices. Combining Atmel's patented high voltage manufacturing process and AVR(R) microcontrollers' technology, the new family gives an extremely high analog accuracy at very low power consumption, while ensuring that portable handheld applications have all the necessary safety functions.
Li-ion batteries are very popular in…
Edward O. Wilson is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and Harvard research professor emeritus and has pioneered seminal works in evolution of social behavior and organization; and a commitment to conservation that has shaped the face of science, philosophy, ethics and activism for more than a half century.
Who does he admire? Charles Darwin, whose audacious ideas on natural selection, evolution, and the nature of human origins turned a Victorian public and scientific establishment on its collective ear.
On Nov. 4, Wilson will kick off Arizona State University’s Darwinfest, a series of events…
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ROUSSET, France and STOCKHOLM, Sweden, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --
- BitSim Contributes BADGE Graphics Accelerator for Enhanced Visual Effects
Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today that it has enrolled BitSim AB as an expert design center for projects based on its AT91CAP Customizable Microcontroller. BitSim will contribute its expertise as an ASIC and FPGA developer to provide design services to the companies' mutual clients. In addition BitSim can offer its BADGE 2D graphics accelerator as an IP (intellectual property) core that can be integrated into the CAP(TM) MP (metal…
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CAMBRIDGE, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --
- ARM Active Assist Offers ARM Partners Targeted Onsite Expert Advice to Help Teams Better Optimize ARM Subsystem Designs
ARM ((LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)) today announced the availability of its new Active Assist on-site service to meet ARM(R) IP Partners' demand for rapid IP deployment. Active Assist will help embedded system designers, implementers and programmers of ARM-based platforms to shorten their time to market by quickly gaining the engineering expertise on ARM IP that is most relevant to their design project. The service will offer…
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LOS ANGELES, October 6 /PRNewswire/ --
- The new facility, based in Los Angeles, California is anticipated to be operational in 2013 and will expand the Company's ability to supply its new generation of intravenous immune globulin into the foreseeable future.
Today, Grifols SA (Grifols), a global healthcare company based in Barcelona, Spain, broke ground on a new 92,000 square foot, intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) production facility at its manufacturing complex in Los Angeles, California. This new facility is the initial realization of the US$600 million long-range investment plan…
Your next wireless network could use light instead of radio waves. Researchers funded by a National Science Foundation grant expect to piggyback data communications capabilities on low-power light emitting diodes, or LEDs, to create "Smart Lighting" that would be faster and more secure than current network technology.
This initiative, known as the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (http://smartlighting.bu.edu), is part of an $18.5 million, multi-year NSF program awarded to Boston University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of New Mexico to develop the optical…
Researchers in Iran are publishing what they describe as the first study on a fungus that can remove sulfur, a major source of air pollution, from crude oil more effectively than conventional refining methods. The finding could help reduce air pollution and acid rain caused by the release of sulfur components in gasoline and may help oil companies meet tougher emission standards for fuel, the scientists say. Their study is scheduled for the Oct. 1 issue of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Jalal Shayegan and colleagues point out that existing processes for refining so-called "…
German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by 27 cm.
In spring 2004, ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme (TTP) technology broker MST Aerospace met with Wojtek Czyz and his trainer to perform a pre-screening of the most crucial elements of the prosthesis used by Czyz. Having lost part of his left leg three years before in a sports accident, he now uses a prosthesis in two athletic disciplines: long jump and sprint competitions.
The advantage of…
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ARLINGTON, Virginia and HOUSTON, October 4 /PRNewswire/ --
The Methanol Institute and its member companies have once again joined with Jim Jordan & Associates (JJ&A) to host the premier global methanol conference. The 2008 Methanol Forum will be held on Tuesday, November 4th and Wednesday November 5th at the Shangri-La Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This year's theme is "Dubai 2008: Global Methanol & Fuels Review."
The 2008 Methanol Forum will feature a stellar lineup of international speakers discussing topical issues relating to chemical and fuels markets for methanol…