Marriott Resort Magically Turns Brown Grease "Green" With The Cost-Cutting Hydrologix GRS
Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort and Spa in Waikoloa, Hawaii, has just installed the trailblazing new Hydrologix Grease Reduction System, the Hydrologix GRS, which transforms their restaurants' brown grease waste into clear water - right in the grease trap! Their choice of both a cost-cutting and &...Online Career Service Turns Focus to 'Switching Gears'
Partners with research institute to aid in successful mid-career changes SANTA CRUZ, Calif., May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio Career Center ( http://www.biocareercenter.com ) an online job board and careers tool site for life-science professionals, has partnered with Turning Points Research Institut...Cord Blood America Reports CorCell, Its Major Acquisition in 2006, Turns Profitable
LOS ANGELES, May 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cord Blood America, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CBAI), the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company ( http://www.cordblood-america.com ) focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells to families nationwide and internationall...One of Nation's Oldest Blood Services Providers Turns to Sysmex America
ANAHEIM, Calif., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Blood Systems intends to purchase up to 23 Sysmex XE-2100D(TM) Automated Hematology Analyzers for the organization's 21 component production/quality control laboratories across the United States, said Blood Systems Vice President for Manufacturing Syste...Toward world's smallest radio: nano-sized detector turns radio waves into music
Researchers in California today (Oct. 17) report development of the worlds first working radio system that receives radio waves wirelessly and converts them to sound signals through a nano-sized detector made of carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotube radio device is thousands of times smaller than ...Better living through software
Carlos de la Huerga turns burning ideas into burgeoning technology
Orion Energy turns the lights up and energy usage down
Plymouth, WI Orion Energy Systems announced on Tuesday that they have continued their trend of offering energy-efficient lighting with the introduction of their newest model in the Illuminator Series of commercial lighting products. The new lights which offer 50 percent more light at half the e...UW prof turns sugar into diesel fuel, chemicals
Madison, Wis - The soaring prices of oil and natural gas have sparked a race to make transportation fuels from plant matter instead of petroleum, and both biodiesel and gasoline containing ethanol are starting to make an impact on the market. But the oil price hike has also fueled a race to f...BarCamp talk turns to Internet dating
Milwaukee, Wis. - Last Sunday morning, in the free-wheeling environment of Milwaukee's BarCamp , Wisconsin author Lynnanne Huber shared secrets and strategies from her forthcoming book, titled Shopping for Men on the Internet, which she expects to publish next year. In her seminar at this s...America's Organic Home-Fueling Movement Begins in Los Angeles
...EB) August 1, 2009 -- The future of filling up your tank at home has arrived! The first of the revolutionary portable home micro-refinery systems that turns organic waste into a high performance ethanol fuel for cars was installed Thursday night at a home in Pacific Palisades, near Los Angeles, California....Breaking barriers with nanoscale lasers
...re ways around this supposed limit, Ning says. One way is by the use of a combination of semiconductors and metals such as gold and silver. "It turns out that the electrons excited in metals can help you confine a light in a laser to sizes smaller than that required by the diffraction limit," Ning e...GreenHouse Debuts the World's First E-Fuel MicroFuelerTM in Los Angeles
...eenHouse announced today that on July 30, 2009 it will introduce the revolutionary E-Fuel MicroFuelerTM, a portable in-home micro-refinery system that turns organic waste into a high performance ethanol fuel for cars. The first installation of the E-Fuel MicroFueler will be made in Pacific Palisades, CA w...New MRI technique could mean fewer breast biopsies in high-risk women
...e professor of biomedical engineering and medical physics. "Many of these lesions turn out to be difficult to classify and lead to biopsy." Yet, it turns out that with the right kind of MRI scan, radiologists can visually identify a cancerous lesion based on characteristics about its shape. For example,...Sandia researchers construct carbon nanotube device that can detect colors of the rainbow
...ve, down to about 40 W/m2about 3 percent of the density of sunshine reaching the ground. "Because the dye is so close to the nanotube, a little change turns into a big signal on the device," says Zhou. The research is in its second year of internal Sandia funding and is based on Lonard's collaboration ...Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory
...e atoms of underlying silicon. "Changing the spacing between atoms by about 1.7 percent drastically alters the properties of strontium titanate and turns it into a material with useful memory properties," said Long-Qing Chen, professor of materials science and engineering at Pennsylvania State Universit...Cells Exhibition Opens at Maryland Science Center
...permanent exhibition, Cells: The Universe Inside Us, the Maryland Science Center takes the same telescopic technology used to view faraway planets and turns it inward on the human body. The result is a 4,000 square foot exhibit featuring dozens of interactive components and images never seen before by the ...Bio-Matrix Scientific Group, Inc. Gets Updated Stock Recommendation By KonLin Investment Letter
...ave, "the potential to generate substantial first year as well as ongoing revenues." Kuhn pointed out that BMSN is about to dramatically change as it turns the corner to full commercialization. Kuhn reported in his investment newsletter that, "Winning a major contract demonstrates the substantial progres...Home Delivery Medical Offers New Glucose Meter With State-Of-The-Art Technology
... a result time of only 5 seconds, the X-Meter saves your time and your fingers. The Glucocard X-SENSOR is an auto-coded test strip that immediately turns on the meter eliminating the need for coding and buttons. This functionality is housed in a sleek white body that is nearly 10mm thick. With its bol...U of T chemistry discovery brings organic solar cells a step closer
... a sophisticated method involving more ultrashort laser pulses to observe whether this quantum state can migrate along or between polymer chains. "It turns out that it only moves along polymer chains," says Scholes. "The chemical framework that makes up the chain is a crucial ingredient for enabling quant...AdvanDx Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Yeast Traffic Light PNA FISH(TM)
...ecessary deaths and significant costs to the healthcare system. The infection is detected when a culture of the patient's blood (i.e. a blood culture) turns positive with bacteria and yeast. Rapid and accurate identification of the specific infecting pathogen is crucial to ensure early and appropriate ther...Varian to Showcase RapidArc(TM) Radiotherapy Technology Enhancements at ASTRO 2008
...r more arcs, or multiple non-coplanar arcs, which are typically used for stereotactic radiosurgery. RapidArc also now features the "skip" arc, which turns the beam off during some portion of a rotation, to completely avoid some parts of the patient's anatomy. With these new features, clinicians have more...Scientists peel away the mystery behind gold's catalytic prowess
...sion. "This was the clue that enabled us to identify the tiny bilayer clusters as the important species in the catalytic reaction," said Kiely. "It turns out that only about 2 percent of the gold deposited on the support ended up in this particular type of cluster. "We then deactivated the catalyst b...Clemson scientists put a (nano) spring in their step
... CLEMSON Electronic devices get smaller and more complex every year. It turns out that fragility is the price for miniaturization, especially when it comes to small devices, such as cell phones, hitting the floor. Wouldn't it be...DARPA awards research team $1.2M grant to study surface enhanced Raman scattering
...ensing, its practical use has been hampered by the need for improved knowledge of the fundamentals of the enhancement mechanisms," says Crozier. It turns out that Raman scattering cross sections are very small, about 1012-1014 times smaller than fluorescence cross sections. In the 1970's scientists disc...Baxter Raises Full-Year 2008 Outlook Following Strong Second-Quarter Financial Results
...====================================== Key statistics, June 30: Days sales outstanding 56.8 56.0 56.8 56.0 Inventory turns 2.3 2.6 2.3 2.6 Baxter International Inc. Net Sale...New map IDs the core of the human brain
...ged using both fMRI and DSI techniques to compare how closely the brain activity observed in the fMRI mapped to the underlying fiber networks. "It turns out they're quite closely related," Sporns said. "We can measure a significant correlation between brain anatomy and brain dynamics. This means that i...On the boil: New nano technique significantly boosts boiling efficiency
...a vehicle for heat transfer, in that it moves energy from a heat source to the bottom of a vessel and into the contained liquid, which then boils, and turns into vapor that eventually releases the heat into the atmosphere. This new discovery allows this process to become significantly more efficient, which...Breakthrough Slashes $7 Corn Over Half for Cattle Feeders
...- this makes nutrients more readily available and improves feed value too. Also, digestion is aided by the naturally occurring L-form Lactic Acid that turns to propionic acid in the cow's rumen. Because Sila-Max earlage tastes sweet and causes no digestive upsets; animals lick the feed bunk clean. ...Tiny refrigerator taking shape to cool future computers
...e them at this price, but maybe in the future," Groll said. Another portion of the research focuses on learning precisely how refrigerant boils and turns into a vapor as it flows along microchannels thinner than a human hair. Such evaporators would be placed on top of computer chips. Bertsch, the doc...Many paths, few destinations: How stem cells decide what they'll be
...any given time, says Huang. This heterogeneity has usually been seen as random measurement noise, and, more recently, as gene expression noise. But it turns out to be very important, and is the basis for stem cells multipotency their ability to differentiate into multiple lineages. Nature has created a...Nanotechnology in reverse uses cell to calibrate tools
...chnology researchers at UC Davis have shown that they can use a red blood cell to calibrate a sensitive instrument, an atomic force microscope. "It turns around the rules of nanotechnology, by using biology to calibrate an instrument," said Volkmar Heinrich, assistant professor in the Department of Biom...Making a good impression: Nanoimprint lithography tests at NIST
...ated by a highly efficient insulator. One candidate is a porous glassy material called SOG* that can be applied as a thin fluid film. When heated, SOG turns into a thin glass film laced with nanometer pores that enhance the electrical insulation. But SOG is relatively delicate, and the conventional photore...IDEXX Laboratories Announces First Quarter Results
... 2008 2007 Key Balance Sheet Days sales outstanding 42.6 39.4 Information: Inventory turns 2.0 2.3 IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. and Subsidiaries Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows Amounts in thousands (Un...Baxter Reports Solid First Quarter Financial Results and Raises Full-Year Outlook
...==================================== Key statistics, March 31: Days sales outstanding 56.3 55.3 Inventory turns 2.3 2.6 BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. Net Sa...Engineers make first 'active matrix' display using nanowires
...ing. Conventional liquid crystal displays in flat-panel televisions and monitors are backlit by a white light, and each pixel acts as a filter that turns on and off to create images. OLEDS, however, emit light directly, eliminating the need to backlight the screen and making it possible to create more v...BASF Podcast - Better Harvest in Spite of Climate Stress
...elp to make crops more tolerant against climate stress. Climatic conditions such as heat or cold and rain or drought can determine whether a harvest turns out well or badly. Because whenever these conditions are not optimal, plants also find themselves in a stressful situation, literally. On top of that ...