BERLIN, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --
- Seminar Attendees to get First-hand Experience With LANscape(R) Pretium(R)
EDGE Solutions
Corning Cable Systems GmbH Co KG, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE:GLW)
Telecommunications segment, will feature its new LANscape(R) Pretium(R)
Evolved-Density, Growth-Enabled (EDGE) Solutions, high-density preterminated
optical solutions for the data centre environment, at the Corning Data Centre
Seminar in Munich on July 9.
The conference in Munich opens the 2009 Corning Data Centre Seminar series,
which will also visit the Netherlands (Eindhoven, Sept. 24) and the United
Kingdom (London, Oct. 15).
The Munich Corning Data Centre Seminar will gather professionals involved in the
design, operation and management of data centres.
MANCHESTER, England, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --
- With Photo
United Utilities has scooped the top national award for responsible business
practice. The organisation, which keeps the taps flowing and loos flushing for
seven million customers in the North West as well as operating and maintaining
electricity and gas networks, has won the coveted Business in the Community
(BITC) Company of the Year Award.
HRH The Prince of Wales, President of BITC, hosted the Awards for Excellence
ceremony at a garden party reception at his Clarence House home. Only seven
companies were eligible to enter the ultimate Company of the Year award
category.
PARIS, France, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Essilor is pursuing its external growth
strategy through a number of recent transactions in Europe, North America and
the Middle East.
Essilor has acquired all outstanding shares in De Ceunynck, a major player in
the Belgian market where the company is BBGR's long-time distributor. De
Ceunynck, which has a prescription laboratory near Antwerp and 92 employees,
generated EUR17 million in 2008 revenue. The current management team will remain
in place.
In the United States, Essilor is continuing to expand its network with the
acquisition of Barnet Ramel Optical ($10.8 million in revenue), Apex Optical
($2.7 million), ABBA Optical ($2.2 million) and Vision Pointe Optical ($1.1
million).
Any road with a loose surface like or gravel or snow can develop ripples that make driving a very shaky experience. A team of physicists from Canada, France and the United Kingdom have recreated this "washboard" phenomenon in the lab with surprising results: ripples appear even when the springy suspension of the car and the rolling shape of the wheel are eliminated. The discovery may smooth the way to designing improved suspension systems that eliminate the bumpy ride.
"The hopping of the wheel over the ripples turns out to be mathematically similar to skipping a stone over water," says University of Toronto physicist, Stephen Morris, a member of the research team.
The Amazon River has been around for 11 million years ago and in its shape for the last 2.4 million years ago, according to a study on two boreholes drilled in proximity of the mouth of the Amazon River by Petrobras, the national oil company of Brazil.
Until recently the Amazon Fan, a sediment column of around 10 kilometres in thickness, proved a hard nut to crack, and scientific drilling expeditions such as Ocean Drilling Program could only reach a fraction of it. Recent exploration efforts by Petrobras lifted the veil, and sedimentological and paleontological analysis on samples from two boreholes, one of which 4.5 kilometres below sea floor, now permit an insight into the history of both Amazon River and Fan.
In the 1980s, a popular hypothesis was that any number of people were suffering from trauma they knew nothing about; dissociative amnesia, or repressed memories.
At issue is how to prove whether memories of trauma, such as childhood sexual abuse, could be repressed and then resurface later in life. Overzealous therapists and willing victims led to any number of false allegations and the resulting damage to families can't be overstated. Even a hint of child abuse is guilt in the minds of many.
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a viable way to manipulate a single 'bit' in a quantum processor without disturbing the information stored in its neighbors, using polarized light to create "effective" magnetic fields.
A great challenge in creating a working quantum computer is maintaining control over the carriers of information, the "switches" in a quantum processor while isolating them from the environment. These quantum bits, or "qubits," have the uncanny ability to exist in both "on" and "off" positions simultaneously, giving quantum computers the power to solve problems conventional computers find intractable – such as breaking complex cryptographic codes.
The mystery of a rare bat's unusually large nose has been solved, according to an article in Physical Review Letters.
The adult Bourret's horseshoe bat, known scientifically as the Rhinolophus paradoxolophus meaning paradoxical crest, has a nose roughly 9 millimeters in length but the typical horseshoe bat's nose is half that long, said Rolf Mueller, an associate professor with the Virginia Tech mechanical engineering department and director for the Bio-inspired Technology (BIT) Laboratory in Danville, Va. "This nose is so much larger than anything else," among other bats of the region, he said.
Severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with lower cognitive function in older adults, according to research from Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Researchers compared cognitive performance in over 4,150 adults with and without COPD and found that individuals with severe COPD had significantly lower cognitive function than those without, even after controlling for confounding factors such as comorbidities.
Researchers have used genetific modification (GM) to bring salt-tolerant plants a little closer to reality.
The research team – based at the University of Adelaide's Waite Campus in Australia – has used a new GM technique to contain salt in parts of the plant where it does less damage.
Salinity affects agriculture worldwide, which means the results of this research could impact on world food production and security.
The work has been led by researchers from the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics and the University of Adelaide's School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, in collaboration with scientists from the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK.
