Applied Physics

Energy from the sun and carbon dioxide fuel photosynthesis in plants and algae, making life on earth possible. Carbon that is fixed by plants is converted to starch and sucrose, which are utilized by plants for energy and to build biomass. Human evolution and society have been intimately tied to our exploitation of plant biomass for food, fuel, tools, and shelter. However, to be usable, the starch carbohydrate stored in plants must be broken down to component sugars. Some aspects of starch metabolism have been known for many years, but regulation of the process and exact physical mechanisms…

LONDON, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - Arxan Technologies Expands Global Footprint to Europe to Address Software Piracy and Tampering Arxan Technologies, a leading provider of application hardening solutions designed to protect software from tampering and theft, announces its global expansion into Europe with the appointment of Lance Boyd as Vice President of International Sales. Boyd will be supported by a team based in London dedicated to providing application hardening solutions tailored to the European software industry. Arxan has expanded its global footprint to the European market at a time…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - Demonstrates Viability of Using Mobile TV Broadcasts for positioning-based Services Rosum Corporation announced today that it has successfully completed a DVB-H positioning trial in collaboration with National Grid Wireless, the U.K.'s leading provider of large-scale transmission infrastructure. The companies conducted the trial at National Grid Wireless' DVB-H trial network in Warwick, UK, and utilized DVB-H mobile TV broadcasts to locate precisely prototype receivers in a variety of environments, including multi-storey car parks where…

ROUSSET, France, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- - AT73C237 Integrates 4 Linear Regulators in a 3mm x 3mm QFN Package Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the release of its AT73C237 Power Management Unit (PMU) compatible with a 5V input supply and generating four regulated output voltages, with programmable output voltage selection and output current up to 70mA. The AT73C237 has a similar architecture to the established AT73C239 PMU, but supports a 5V supply. It integrates four Linear Low Drop Out (LDO) Regulators, three of which provide the high-accuracy supply (programmable from 1.…

NEW YORK, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Intellect Neurosciences, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ILNS) and MRC Technology (MRCT) announced today they have achieved an important milestone through their collaborative efforts to humanize Intellect's lead antibody IN-N01 necessary for creating a therapeutic antibody for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The antibody is intended to be used to promote clearance from the brain of beta amyloid, the toxin that leads to Alzheimer's disease. IN-N01 is Intellect's first drug candidate based on the technology invented by Dr. Daniel Chain, the Company's Chairman…

Want to put your computer to good use while you sleep? Muhammad Zaman, assistant professor in biomedical engineering, recently introduced Cellular Environment in Living Systems @Home or CELS@Home for short. The program already has more than 1,000 computer users worldwide contributing to the project and the numbers are growing. The idea is based on grid computing so instead of using local computing resources, which are almost always limited, Internet users worldwide can contribute their idle computer time, creating a "virtual" supercomputer to solve a difficult problem. In this case, the grid…

NERYUNGRI, Russia, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces that on June 22nd at the 60th kilometer landmark of Verhny Ulak Station of Baikal-Amur Mainline, together with Transstroy Engineering Corporation ZAO, a ceremony for the railway construction start-up was held. This spur-track will connect the Elga deposit with the Baikal-Amur mainline. Construction of the spur-track to the Elga deposit started in February 2008 after the signing of the contract with Transstroy Engineering Corporation for the design and…

One of my pet peeves is the common description in the media of bacteria "learning" to "outsmart" antibiotics. As anyone with a basic comprehension of evolution knows, learning has nothing to do with it. Learning is what happens during the lifetime of an individual, and it occurs in direct response to some information that the individual encounters. When bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, it is not by learning. The individual bacteria do not sense the antibiotic and change to become resistant. Rather, individual bacteria in a population that happen to be resistant because of some…

ABERDEEN, Scotland and 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, The Netherlands, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintiq, a leading provider of advanced planning and scheduling solutions, today announced that it has won the contract to provide a comprehensive resource optimisation solution to FirstGroup, the world's leading transport operator. Following a successful pilot with First ScotRail, Quintiq's resource optimisation solutions will be implemented at all four of First's rail passenger franchises, First ScotRail, First TransPennine Express, First Capital Connect and First Great Western. The Quintiq solution will…

LONDON, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- - Maximum Capacity of Plant Sufficient to Power up to 150 HGVs or 500 LGVs - With Photo Gasrec, the UK's first commercial producer of liquid biomethane fuel, BOC, a member of the global gases and engineering Linde Group and SITA UK, one of the country's leading recycling and waste management companies, are pleased to announce the successful production of liquid biomethane ('LBM') fuel from the Gasrec plant at SITA UK's Albury landfill site in Surrey, UK. Gasrec has been working closely with BOC and SITA UK to develop an LBM production facility at Albury which…