Ports in Biological Technology

Study on keeping nuclear bombs from US ports shows misplaced fear over cargo scanning cost

A two-tiered scanning-protocol for inspecting all containers at international ports could be the most affordable approach to ensuring containers moving through the global transportation system are not carrying nuclear bombs, according to a paper being presented at a services special interest group...

Excalibur International Marine (49% Owned by EFT BioTech Holdings) Completes Inaugural Passenger Crossing of Taiwan Strait

...ar service chartered by travel agencies. "Eventually it will become a regular cruise service going not only to Xiamen, but also to other Chinese ports like Fuzhou and Shanghai," said Han Chih-yang, Excalibur's deputy. "We are full of confidence for the future of cross-strait tourism, so we are s...

DHS Begins Test of Biometric Exit Procedures at Two U.S. Airports

...xt year. Non-U.S. citizens departing the United States from all other ports of entry will continue to follow current exit procedures, which require tra...4 and 79, with some exceptions, when they apply for visas or arrive at U.S. ports of entry. US-VISIT has simultaneously worked to create a congressionally ma...

Minimally Invasive Surgery: Olympus Further Enhances Credentials by Entering Into Exclusive Sales and Distribution Partnership With Market and Technology Leader Advanced Surgical Concepts

...g an exclusive and immediate deal to distribute the products of Irish company Advanced Surgical Concepts worldwide. ASC is the sole global provider of ports for state-of-the-art laparoscopic operative techniques via a single access point - the patient's navel. Olympus is now the exclusive distributor for t...

Creators of Britain's Innovation Economy to Showcase the Technologies of the Future at the Fifth SETsquared Partnership Showcase 2008

...solete COBOL computer code, much of it in Fortune 500 companies, and Xintronix is developing semiconductor chip technology that will make computer USB ports run more than 10X faster than they do today. Professor Philip Nelson, Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton, will host the SETsqua...

RAND study finds increase in piracy and terrorism at sea

...a by creating an incentive for many to engage in maritime (and other types) of crime. Maritime terrorism -- attacks against vessels, sea platforms, ports or other coastal facilities -- has also experienced a modest increase, particularly over the past six years when several attacks and plots have been a...

Renowned NJ-Based Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) Team Completes 5,000th Successful Procedure

... images of the operative area onto strategically positioned monitors in the operating room. Concurrently, the three remaining incisions serve as entry ports for the surgical instruments necessary to carry out the procedure. Operating as a surgical team for over 15 years, the unique collaborative approach...

RAND study finds increase in piracy and terrorism at sea

...a by creating an incentive for many to engage in maritime (and other types) of crime. Maritime terrorism -- attacks against vessels, sea platforms, ports or other coastal facilities -- has also experienced a modest increase, particularly over the past six years when several attacks and plots have been a...

LI-COR(R) Biosciences Introduces New Tools for High Throughput Western Blotting

...nitrocellulose blot of 7 x 8.5 cm. Processing is as simple as clamping the blot into the MPX System, creating up to 24 independent channels. Channel ports are low volume, conveniently spaced, and staggered and beveled for use with multi-channel pipettes. Other advantages include no cross contamination or...

Highlights of Economic and Business Growth in the Tampa Bay Region

...Peruvian Amazon Line has operated regular liner service between the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Peru for 38 years, focusing on serving ports along the Amazon River. While the service sails every 60 days, Peruvian Amazon Line has plans to increase the service frequency to monthly. (John Thor...

SurgiQuest Announces First Single Port Procedure for Ovary Removal Using AirSeal(TM) Access System

...cess System represented a significant improvement in operative management of patients with adnexal masses, which traditionally requires three separate ports for completion," said Dr. Awtry, Instructor of Gynecological Oncology at Harvard Medical School. "The five centimeter mass was worrisome for malignanc...

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 2008

..., you can send it to news@ornl.gov . HOMELAND SECURITY -- Protecting ports . . . Knowing beforehand whether a system for detecting weapons of mass destruction at U.S. ports will be practical and effective can make for smooth sailing. PortSim, a sec...

Nikon Instruments Launches Fully-Automated A1 Confocal Laser Microscope Series

...just three of the laser options available. Laser power for two of the input ports are continuously monitored and reported to the control system ensuring exce...quantitative and uniform imaging performance. There are also three output ports to allow optical fiber connection to as many as three separate detector uni...

USGI Medical Demonstrates First System for Gastrotomy Closure in NOTES

...all, the way surgeons would prefer. Now that it's possible to close the gastrotomy through the mouth, surgeons can begin to eliminate the laparoscopic ports they used to guide their first NOTES cases in patients." In NOTES, a small camera and surgical instruments, like the EOS, are passed through the bod...

Rutgers neuroscience may hold key to hearing loss remedy

...dial approach, Davis described how the neurotrophins could potentially be pumped into a newly-designed cochlear implant and released through graduated ports along its length. ...

Let there be light: new magnet design continues magnet lab's tradition of innovation

...bore, or center, of the magnet, but also from four ports on the sides of the magnet, while still reaching f...his team created a design with four big elliptical ports crossing right through the midsection of the magnet. The ports open 50 percent of the total space available for e...

Out beyond the horizon

...Scotland where it packs in woolen sweaters, and finally sets sail for Newark, New Jersey. Eleven million containers packed with such goods reach U.S. ports every year. At any point in a merchant ships journey, pry open container XYZ mid-ocean, and what might you find" When you cant be sure, that spel...

Out beyond the horizon

...Scotland where it packs in woolen sweaters, and finally sets sail for Newark, New Jersey. Eleven million containers packed with such goods reach U.S. ports every year. At any point in a merchant ships journey, pry open container XYZ mid-ocean, and what might you find" When you cant be sure, that spel...

Viruses, Worms, and Exploits

...ns. Lastly, a well-configured firewall is very important. The impact of several recent attacks could have been greatly reduced by blocking certain ports at the perimeter. At the very least, this affords administrators a bit more time to attempt to get Windows patches and virus definitions up to date. ...

Former SGI/Cray Team Develops Products for G5 Platform

...a software-only mechanism that allows G5 users to combine multiple Ethernet ports into one logical port, which gives administrators more bandwidth, better availability and more efficient utilization of all the physical ports in the network. In addition, the company says, the software allows for larg...

Small Tree boosts bandwidth for Apple G4 and G5 servers

...for Apple G4 and G4 servers that combines Ethernet ports on a computer into one interface with more bandwid...2.3ad link aggregation , a way of bonding Ethernet ports together, combines multiple physical connections i...he software spreads network traffic out across the ports so none is overloaded, and it can use the redundan...

Small Tree provides Apple drivers for Intel's new 10-gigabit Ethernet cards

...ls of Small Tree's multi-port gigabit ethernet cards for Apple G4 and G5 servers, as well as link-aggregation software, which allows multiple Ethernet ports to be combined into a single interface. All have been aimed at increasing the use of Apple systems as enterprise servers. Now that Small Tree has s...

IP Surveillance - Another Piece of the Converged Network

...Does the video data need to be secured? How? Physical Locations of Components Where and how many components? Network Connections Will additional ports or switches be needed? Protocols Will this affect any other applications on the network? Operations Whos responsible for what? One of Inacoms...

Small Tree offers free trial of Mac OS X link aggregation for G4 and G5 servers

...nced a free trial of its link aggregation product . Link aggregation, an implementation of the IEEE 802.3ad standard , combines multiple Ethernet ports on a computer into one virtual interface, combining the individual ports' bandwidth to produce a high-speed data channel with built-in redundancy. Sma...

Chippewa Valley angels invest in network hardware company

...ter networks to the Apple computer platform. During 2004 alone, the company released software for Apple G4 and G5 servers to combine multiple Ethernet ports into a virtual port, Mac OS X drivers for Intel's 10-gigabit Ethernet adapters and optical Ethernet cards, and software that works with InfiniBand har...

RFID expert says piecemeal approach won't work

...n, where a cart with a few RFID-equipped products was demonstrated being scanned. Lab worker and UW student Brad Geiger discussed how RFID use at such ports will take on a greater role in the near future, due in part to federal and state security regulations requiring manufacturing and shipping companies t...

Student survey shows surging demand for wireless access

...the goal will be to have a ubiquitous wireless environment by summer 2006, Rust says. A completely wireless network will involve creating 2,600 access ports around 130 buildings on campus. More than 50 percent of students reported that they currently use wireless computing. When asked what new or expan...

UW-Madison helps Imago carry out its big vision for seeing small

...EAP Microscope Source: Imago Madison, Wis. -- Up close, Imago Scientific Instrument's atom probe is a veritable jungle of glinting steel, glowing ports and snaking hoses and wires. This microscope that lets scientists peer at the very atoms that compose matter does so by an intricate process, first pl...

Efforts to avoid friendly fire spawned ancestor of todays RFID

...nt tag to come out." Where could the technology go from here? Though he is not at liberty to cite specific pilot programs, Miles spoke of refitting ports with RFID. Removing human interaction "If you go to Hong Kong harbor today, where there are 28,000 containers a day shipping across from Zheji...

Are your business and technology goals aligned?

... technology professionals and the business people who will be using the system they create. Each group has their own jargon, whether it is packets and ports or business' billing cycles, risk management, or compliance issues. "Great IT projects are just like any other great project. There has to be a lot...

Fundamentals of Fermentation: Techniques For Benchtop Fermentors

...he fermentors vessel. To avoid damage to the entry ports it is a good idea to use a sterile dis... a sample. It is advantageous to have the addition ports for acid, base, etc., on the same side (or at le...ter for the exhaust line.) All tubing connected to ports that have their terminus within the vessel below...

Scaling-Up from Spinners, T-Flasks & Shakers: A versatile bioreactor for mammalian and microbial cells

...e, mammalian cell culture bioreactors require added contamination safeguards, such as use of magnetic-coupled bearing housings and threadless welded ports among others. Temperature - Microbes have a wide range of temperature tolerances, with strains found in the sub-freezing environs of the ...

Optimizing Your Benchscale Fermentation Process

...0 can handle it all. There are seven analog input and seven analog output ports for adding ancillary devices such as an optical density probe, gas analyz... connecting scales or other external devices with serial connections. USB ports enable exporting process data to a PC, as well as importing future firmwa...

New Tools for Making and Processing Protein Microarrays.

...he reaction chamber and forms the base of the reaction chamber itself. The reaction chamber block also contains the pipette tip holding mechanisms and ports by which the low-volume samples are added to the sample storage chamber. The reaction chamber is created between the surfaces of the reactio...

Long-Term Instrument Control and Connectivity Solutions

...up to 127 devices on one port, and has a theoretical maximum throughput of 480 Mb/s (high-speed USB defined by the USB 2.0 specification). Since USB ports come standard on today's PCs, USB is viewed as a natural evolution of conventional serial port technology. Some of the bus features may prevent it f...

Integration of the LEADseeker Multimodality Imaging System with automated plate loading and incubation using Overlord Instrument software

...gh the LEADseeker instrument is controlled through COM1 and COM2 so these ports cannot be used for other equipment. The cables from the DIGI card are lab...obot and any other equipment, a null modem cable is required to connect COM ports 5 and 6 together on the LEADseeker instrument PC. This is because the LEADs...