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Characterizing galvanizing baths

...ument. Complete experiments can be stored in memory and recalled by a technician for push-button, menu-driven operation. <P>Therefore, spectra can be acquired in seconds, and a time-based scan can be collected at 1 ms/data point. Simplicity is apparent in the automation, computer-controlle...

Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots, monitored by the Spex FluoroMax

... in optoelectronics, biosensing and biolabeling, memory devices, and sources of laser light. For example, alloyed CdSeTe QDs are shown herein to possess a nonlinear change in their photoluminescence spectra, correlated to size and composition, as monitored by the versatile...

New Mexico firm to make flu vaccine at Wisconsin BioManufacturing facility

...the vaccine uses DNA technology to implant a false memory of previous exposure to the flu virus, including the inactivated virus contained in standard vaccines. Waisman was selected in part because of its facilities for processing cell therapeutics, and its ability to assist CytoDyn throughout the devel...

The Apple iPhone: A call to competitors

...ly show a full-length feature film. With that much memory and new functionality, it really renders obsolete just about everything on the market. It also commands a premium, whereas most consumers think phones have a value that should be gotten as a prize in a cereal box. Will they pay a premium? How many b...

Reader predictions would make 2007 quite a year

...r. Sales of Microsoft Vista will be slow. Vista's memory requirements and thirst for video and processor cycles are out of synch with current corporate and consumer PC hardware. Are you ready for 4-6 GB of memory? From Dharmesh Shah , author: RSS finally spreads to the masses. With the release and adopt...

Failure of heart drug offers lessons for drug industry

...nt to grow hair where none exists, to restore lost memory and virility, and to make up for a lifetime of unhealthy habits. We want these miracle drugs to be inexpensive - and safe within thousandths of a decimal point. And, because so many of us are aging Baby Boomers, we want them now. Competing demands ...

Security concerns grow with mobile tech devices

...nd the ability to remotely wipe data from build-in memory are among the newer technologies, but policies and practices come first. John Girard, vice president and analyst with the Gartner, suggested that the decision about who can take sensitive information from the office is a matter of need to know - not...

PDS survives with technological reinvention

... years of revenue growth. PDS is a rare breed - a memory chip broker that managed to survive 20 years in th...nder another name - Memory and More, which offered memory chips for PC upgrades to computer resellers. The "More" in Memory and More meant that if customers e...

Biotech firm has strokes, Alzheimer's in its sights

... in the hippocampus of the brain, where short-term memory is formed and ingrained, but Underwood believes the brain is one place where location doesn't matter - hence the initial emphasis on strokes, which can affect any part of the brain that blood flows to. "If you have something that can help heal a cut ...

Wisconsin joins price-fixing suit vs. D-RAM makers

...ainst seven manufacturers of dynamic random access memory microchips (D-RAMs), accusing them of violating federal and Wisconsin antitrust laws from 1998 to 2002. The complaint alleges that the defendants conspired to coordinate prices for the DRAM microchips used in many applications, including computers, ...

Just one nanosecond: Clocking events at the nanoscale

...ance the ability to develop materials for improved memory applications in microelectronics of all kinds, among other things. "Now we have a tool to look inside a device and see how it works at the spatial scale of nanometers and the time scale of nanoseconds," says Alexei Grigoriev, a UW-Madison postdoctor...

Embracing failure is a necessary step for successful entrepreneurs

... component distributor after a start as a computer memory broker. Later, responding to market changes, it built and sold computers wholesale, then became a direct seller of hardware to large companies and ultimately moved into IT consulting and outsourcing. Today, Paragon Development Systems is a full-servi...

Palm TX could bring Palm faithful back

...and video. If the 128M-bytes of non-volatile flash memory isnt enough capacity (and it wont be for portable digital media), the TX has an SD/SDIO card slot that supports SD cards up to 2G-bytes in capacity. While not intended to be used primarily as an MP3 player, the TX does include a Pocket Tunes player f...

Hot products launch in summer's slow days

...provements -- faster processor, more storage, more memory -- over the forerunner P1000, which sold mainly into vertical applications. This new computer is light, small, and ergonomically designed to function extremely well as a tablet. It fits comfortably in a one-hand grasp, leaving your writing hand-free...

A final word on branding

...of an early Alzheimer's condition to justify their memory loss. Nothing sticks in mind any longer. The blasted, useless messages are instantly forgotten. The 15-minute fame suggested by Andy Warhol is now only a 15-second blip on the global e-commerce landscape. What was previously shoved on 24-7 ad campai...

Small Tree is streamlining digital video editing

...re primitive computers of that time, which had low memory and storage and network speeds. As such, the hardware is therefore unable to live up to its full potential on a given file-sharing stream, topping out at about 80 megabytes/second for the fastest streams. Nowadays machines have multiple gigabytes ...

Creating thousands of jobs, Chicagos biotech space to triple

...ers, which has been sold to a different group. My memory of the Searle Parkway facility was a typical, old pharmaceutical research complex in a dumpy part of Skokie. My arrival back to this site after at least 10 years of not visiting it showed me some change. Still, it's wasn't anything spectacular. This...

Schiavo's death calls attention to ethical issues weighed at Bioethics Forum

...e human brain. Hovering over the forum will be the memory of Terri Schiavo. Every day, scientists and medical experts struggle with ethical questions surrounding patients such as Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman who died last week nearly two weeks after her feeding tube was removed. Those questions...

PDS discovers golden opportunity In 323 dumpsters worth of trash

...PDS back in 1986, their goal was to sell computer memory chips wholesale. But the team didnt stick with its original mission for very long. After experimenting with selling computer components, the PDS team decided to build and sell PCs. The Y2K hullabaloo was good for PDS and other companies that sol...

UW-Madison picks scalable SGI computer to simulate weather

...ose an Altix computer because of its need for more memory and data speed over the existing systems. CIMSS' p...24 Pentium IV Xeon processors with 48 gigabytes of memory and a gigabit switch. With the upgrade, the system now runs on 24 Itanium processors and 192 gigabyt...

Christmas comes early with Treo 650

..., PalmOne added 32 megabytes bytes of non-volatile memory and a removable battery. This means that for the most part, youll never lose your data because of a drained battery. Built-in Bluetooth supports wireless headsets, among printers and other Bluetooth-enabled peripherals essential, I think, for device...

Google delves deep within your computer with new desktop tool

...etly sourced and powerfully protected photographic memory actually, its Outlookgraphic, AIMgraphic, IEgraphic, Wordgraphic, Excelgraphic, PowerPointgraphic and textgraphic is again in the palm of your hands but this time for delving deep within your very own computer rather than just the puny recesses of ...

Naming that thing... again?

...promotional hoopla and without properly structured memory recall devices. Is this the reason why all car commercials look the same? Why are almost all logos and names so similar? The toll of innovation on the human mind is enormous as every second; some new product is being introduced with a spinning logo a...

GE Healthcare technology helping to detect Alzheimers earlier

...ss some patients with early dementia or unexpected memory loss. With input from independent experts, including the Alzheimer's Association and the National Institute on Aging, CMS completed a thorough review of the evidence regarding the use of PET for diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. In addition, Medicar...

Armstrongs new Trek modeled on AMD 64-bit processors

...m, in addition to taking advantage of the expanded memory and performance. "Competing in a race such as the Tour de France demands using every resource to remain ahead of the competition, and AMD's superior technology has enabled Trek to design standard road, climbing and time trial bicycles that are truly...

Don't count out notebooks

... handsome 17-inch screen, is loaded with 512 MB of memory and a 60-GB hard disk drive, along with slots for SD and flash memory cards. While it has a monstrous feature set, it is priced at less than $1,500 at big box and members...

The passing of Ronald Reagan, and other Americans, is a reminder of the promise of stem-cell research

...rwise fine physical shape for a man of 80, but his memory and even his ability to mumble more than a cogent word or two was gone. His body simply forgot how to function. Ive thought of him often in the past week or so with the passing of another American of his generation, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Like my fat...

Engineers visualize electric memory as it fades

MADISON - While the memory inside electronic devices may often be more reliab...se materials is that they have built-in electronic memory that doesn't require any power," explains Paul Evans, a UW-Madison assistant professor of materials ...

Conference roundup: ITEC Milwaukee smaller, friendlier

...he Sun Ray , a dumb terminal with a processor and memory but no hard drive that uses ID cards for login management. Weaver said the Madison conference was not administered by the same group as the Milwaukee conference. Several vendors commented on the general nature of the conference. It did not focus on...

WARF sues Samsung over computer chip technology license agreement

...ronics Co. , the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, for allegedly using a patented technology developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty without a license for use in their semiconductors. According to Andy Cohn, spokesman for WARF, the technology at the heart of the Samsung lawsuit i...

The Palm to "de-Zire"

...a very nice backlit color display, eight times the memory of the Zire 21, updated PIM software, and an expan... cumbersome slider on the model 71. With twice the memory of the 71 and a faster ARM processor, the Zire 72 is well designed as a multimedia capture and playb...

Small-Tree extends G5 networking platform to G4, Windows and Linux

...gy, such as a router potentially not having enough memory to handle many large streams of data at a time when it expects smaller bits but many companies are going ahead with it regardless for the increase in speed. Small Tree\'s cards allow for that an option along with the user's choice of operating syst...

Federal command center is at the front line of defense for public health emergencies

...en human health. In a nation still haunted by the memory of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and more likely to react (or overreact) to threats to its food, water and air supplies, the DHSS command center is a welcome security blanket. It is a marriage of technology and intergovernmental cooperation, d...

DHEA Boosts Growth Rate of Human Neural Stem Cells

...oducts of DHEA hormone have also been shown to aid memory retention in old mice. Despite hints from the studies in rodents that DHEA may play a role in enhancing the brain and memory, the new findings reported in the PNAS article were a surprise, says Lardy. "We assumed the compounds we were testing would...

Router Failure and Software Crash UW-Madison Network

...d without configurations, which is indicative of a memory problem. The card was replaced, but two redundant switches failed to synchronize. In what DoIT described as a poorly timed hardware failure, the department reverted to code, which was in use before the upgrade in order to increase the stability of th...

Wisconsin Should Create, like Renewables, an Energy Efficient Portfolio

... of the retail electric utility industry a distant memory with an exception or two, it appears to be a time to return to regulated utility basics. This means that Wisconsin and its legislators should revisit the original text for the regulation of public utilities to find a blueprint for its future directio...

Consumers Lead Tech Market Comeback

... another indicator. SanDisk leads the way in flash memory technology, and last week they dropped 1 gigabyte ...l media in tremendous volume. They are using flash memory cards in digital cameras like the film of old. (And sources near to SanDisk hint that the company wi...

High-Tech Economic Development in Southeastern Wisconsin

...imes" in response to market changes. Starting as a memory chip wholesaler in the mid-80s, the company added computer components, and then moved to building PCs and marketing through resellers in the early 90s. The business model shifted to selling direct in the mid- to late 90s. PDS now concentrates on help...

Holiday Tech Gizmo's to Give and Get

...mera cover, there are no moving parts or removable memory cards to lose. The 1.3 megapixel camera goes forever on a single charge, and holds up to 150 images in solid state memory. A simple USB cable connects camera to PC where images can be downloaded and stored. Best of all, this camera is nearly impervio...

Artificial intelligence and healthcare technology

...uses a simple graphical code consuming about 2K of memory to make decisions based on criteria entered into tables. The small size means KEEL could be easily embedded in a number of devices. Like a neural network, KEEL uses weighting factors to prioritize criteria. But unlike a neural net, the KEEL programmi...

SGI banking on Altix to pay the freight

...t also offers what the company calls global shared memory with its NUMAflex interconnect technology, which c...very large data sets within one system-wide shared memory space. Despite a wide range of new productsincluding the hot Tezro and Fuel lines of desktop visual...

Two Cool Products Advance Printing Capabilities

...ctly from a handheld device - a device without the memory or processing power to handle printer drivers, mind you. PDF Direct is stored on a Flash DIMM that works with a range of HP LaserJet and multifunction printers. In effect, the product acts as a resident print driver, translating native PDF, TIFF, Mu...

UW-Madisons IT Metamorphosis

...p660-6H1 running AIX 6 CPU's, 750MHz 16 GB memory (can be expanded to 32 GB) Application Server (o... p660-6H1 running AIX 6 CPUs, 750MHz 16 GB memory (can be expanded to 32 GB) Web Servers (four) Dell PowerEdge 2550s running Windows 2000 2...

SGI, Introduces Powerful High End Visualization Tools

...is based on the companys supercomputers, with high memory bandwidth and big-time I/O connectivity. In addition, the Tezro boasts SGIs Vpro graphics, which features a 12-bit per color component path (48-bit RGBA) for all operations throughout the pixel pipeline, the company says. The upshot is more accurate...