Applied Physics

A detergent solution developed at The University of Texas at Austin that treats donor nerve grafts to circumvent an immune rejection response has been used to create acellular nerve grafts now used successfully in hospitals around the country. Research also shows early promise of the detergent solution having possible applications in spinal cord repair. The solution – combined with an enzyme treatment conceived at the University of Florida in Gainesville – is licensed by AxoGen, an Alachua, Florida-based company, and is used to create an acellular nerve graft from human cadaver tissue,…

LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Purvin & Gertz announces the release of the Global LNG Outlook, a new service providing insight into the short-term global LNG market. The cornerstone of the service is a quarterly publication that will assess the impact of changing LNG market fundamentals and provide an in-depth perspective of the drivers of the global LNG market on a monthly basis over the next 2-3 years. The service will determine the impact of weather, competing fuel prices and economic growth on gas demand, the competition to LNG from domestic and imported pipeline supply, the impact…

PALO ALTO, California, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- - Accelerating global customer and community adoption Nexenta Systems, Inc., developer of NexentaStor(TM), the leading Open Storage management software that provides enterprise class NAS/SAN/iSCSI capabilities for 80-90% savings versus legacy solutions, has achieved a number of milestones since the launch of the NexentaStor Enterprise Edition in late April of 2008: -- A customer per day: Customer adoption has accelerated to over 1 a day. Recent reference customer additions include St. Mary's University and the University of Delaware. --…

In my previous posting, "Fixing Soot Gains 20 Years against Global Warming" I found myself omitting some rather surely controversial comments in hopes the idea gains acceptance and distribution. I truly believe it's a win-win proposition for everyone concerned about global environmental problems whether they be industrialists or environmentalists. Airborne soot falls from the air in a matter of weeks, so its abatement is perhaps even more efficacious than curtailing CO2 emissions in terms of cost effectiveness and tangible environmental benefits. If human societies find themselves incapable…

SAN JOSE, California, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- - The radio chip enables long range, low power, wireless connectivity for IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the availability of the AT86RF212 800/900 MHz IEEE 802.15.4(TM) RF transceiver for low power wireless applications, including ZigBee(R). The AT86RF212 offers an industry best RF performance with a link budget of up to 120 dB in the 800 MHz and 900 MHz ISM bands available in Europe and North America, respectively. The link budget is the result of the -110 dBm sensitivity offered by the device and the…

MILPITAS, California, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of high-performance computing systems will showcase a 40Gb/s InfiniBand Xtreme-X1 Supercomputer powered by Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors utilizing high density computing, new industry-leading Mellanox ConnectX(R) 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and InfiniScale(R) IV-based 40Gb/s InfiniBand switch running an ANSYS- Fluent airplane structure application. This demonstration features a powerful and balanced open supercomputer architecture managed by Appro Cluster Engine(TM) software that combines…

Biometrics is commonly associated with retinal scans, iris recognition and DNA databases but researchers in India are working on another form of biometrics that could allow law enforcement agencies and airport security to recognize suspects - their characteristic gait. C. Nandini of the Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology and C.N. Ravi Kumar of the S.J. College of Engineering in Mysore, India, explain that human gait typifies the motion characteristics of an individual. Viewed from the side, we each have a unique gait that makes us easily recognizable. They point out that a…

The world needs to develop a means of securing the supply of clean fresh water within the next 10 years if we are to tackle a looming water shortage, says a leading expert on water purification and director of the National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Centre for Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water. Dr. Mark Shannon is giving a speech at the 2nd Global Innovation Imperatives (Gii) conference in New Delhi, India on 19-20 June 2008 and will warn top scientists, government, industrialists, academics and business people that just as food shortages have led to fierce…

Arsenic is acutely toxic and a highly potent carcinogen, but is widespread in the earth's crust and easily taken up and accumulated in crops. Contaminated water is the main source of arsenic poisoning, followed by ingestion of arsenic-rich food, especially rice that has been irrigated with arsenic-contaminated water. According to the WHO, arsenic has been found approaching or above guideline limits in drinking water in Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Chile, China, Hungary, India, Mexico, Peru, Thailand, and the US. Amid recent reports of dangerous levels of arsenic being found in some baby…

Technology-development studies at Cornell University and Jefferson Laboratory are showing how to use the brightest X-ray light ever generated for the scientific examination of everything from human proteins to forged art. X-ray beams from an energy-recovery linac (linear accelerator) could be both a thousand times brighter and a thousand times faster--with pulses as brief as one ten-thousandth of a billionth of a second--than current state-of-the-art synchrotron X-ray sources. "We're closer than ever to building a kind of universal toolkit for all the science and engineering disciplines,"…