Applied Physics

ARNHEM, The Netherlands, June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consulting, design and engineering company, today announced that it is in the process of terminating its duty to file reports with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It is anticipated that on June 9, 2008, the company will file a Form 15-F with the SEC to terminate the registration of its securities under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and to suspend its duty to file reports with the SEC. ARCADIS anticipates that the deregistration process will be…

Could macro-scale chemical engineering be used to stop a volcanic lava flow in its tracks and save potentially thousands of lives and homes when the next eruption occurs? R.D. Schuiling of Geochem Research BV, based in The Netherlands, thinks so. During the 1960s, Schuiling pioneered the discipline of geochemical engineering, which involves the use of natural processes to solve environmental and civil engineering problems. He recently turned his attention to the ongoing problem of how to tame volcanic lava flows. Lava flows regularly threaten and sometimes destroy human settlements. In 1973…

ORLANDO, Florida, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - Leading technology partners honoured for achievement on connected device platforms. Microsoft Corp announced the winners of the 2008 Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Awards for the Americas, which were presented this week at the Tech*Ed North America 2008 Developers conference. The Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Awards recognise visionary organisations round the world that use Windows Embedded technology in innovative and creative ways. Windows Embedded Partners were honoured for their outstanding customer service and the many innovative…

LONDON, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - End-to-end Avid Solution Maximizes Newsroom Efficiency and Multi Platform Distribution With Collaborative Production Environment Avid Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced that ITN, the UK's leading independent broadcast news producer, has completed the installation of an end-to-end Avid(R) digital workflow to deliver its national news services for ITV, including News At Ten and Channel 4. The system is built around the Avid Interplay(TM) nonlinear workflow engine, the Avid iNEWS(R) newsroom control system and the Avid Unity(TM) ISIS(R) media…

Cartilage, a tissue in the human body that cannot heal itself, has long been a target of tissue engineers. Cartilage is the skeleton's shock absorber, and its stiffness, strength and other mechanical properties derive not from living cartilage cells but from the densely woven matrix of collagen and proteoglycan that surrounds them. This extracellular matrix, or ECM, is produced during cartilage development in children, but cannot be repaired following injury in adulthood. Injured cartilage often serves as the focal point for arthritis formation, so tissue engineers have long sought a means of…

Dr Adrian Bowyer, a senior lecturer in engineering in the Faculty of Engineering & Design at the University of Bath, has created RepRap, an open source prototype machine that has succeeded in making a duplicate of itself - by printing its own parts and building a clone. RepRap is short for replicating rapid-prototyper. RepRap employs a technique called ‘additive fabrication’. The machine works a bit like a printer, but rather than squirting ink onto paper, it puts down thin layers of molten plastic which solidify. These layers are built up to make useful three-dimensional (3D) objects.…

LA BAULE, France, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - Solar Thermal Power Expert Terry Murphy to Address European Buyers Terry Murphy, President and CEO of California-based solar thermal power company SolarReserve, has been tapped to speak about the future of concentrated solar power at a technology conference to be held later this week. The conference's goal is to foster European expansion and partnership agreements for select companies focusing on energy, technology, entertainment and media, telecommunications, security, and other emerging technology fields. The conference is for U.S.-based companies…

FREMONT, California, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - XPS730 Achieves Rock-Solid Stability Using Corsair DOMINATOR Memory Corsair(R) http://www.corsair.com, a worldwide leader in high performance computer and flash memory products, announced today that 4GB of overclocked DDR3 memory is now officially ready for prime time. Using Corsair's DOMINATOR memory modules, Dell's XPS 730 gaming desktop runs with rock-solid stability at the overclocked memory frequency of 1600 MHz. The dramatic increase in memory frequency from previous 800MHz DDR2 modules to the overclocked 1600MHz Corsair DOMINATORs allows a…

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- VT MAK, (MAK), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), is pleased to announce that company founder and chief executive officer Warren Katz will be a keynote speaker at the "Future Trends in Simulation" conferences at Eurosatory in Paris, France. Katz's presentation, titled "Industry Trends - COTS and Simulation" will discuss the rise of COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) tools in the defense simulation market. Katz's presentation is on Tuesday, June 17 at 1600 hours and MAK's solutions will be showcased at the Antycip Simulation booth U210 in…

SAN JOSE, California, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - Security Industry Veteran Leads Session on new Web Threats Facing Government Agencies and Ways to Combat Them SAN JOSE, California, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Finjan, Inc. a leader in secure web gateway products, today announced that CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak will be a presenter at the 11th Annual New York State Cyber Security Conference. Co-sponsored by the NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination (CSCIC), the University of Albany, State University of New York, and the New York State Forum, the Conference brings cyber…