U.S. Fund for UNICEF and Jenna Bush Hager Announce Next Generation Initiative to Improve Lives of Children Around the World

...entable deaths, ill health, disability and impaired learning are not reversed and that the availability of Sprinkles for in-home use in Guatemala is scaled up. To help reach our goal to combat malnutrition and reduce the number of daily deaths to zero, please visit www.unicefusa.org/donate/ne...

Physics research with atomic force microscope could lead to better health care

...inuously," Szoszkiewicz said. "Measuring the collective velocities, we found that they would approach the velocities of shifting a big sand dune, just scaled down." ...

Seasonal hunger devastating and under-recognized

...ity-based interventions to treat acute undernutrition and promote growth of preschool children are examples of successful interventions that should be scaled up, they argue. "Global scale-up of a basic "minimum essential" intervention package against seasonal hunger would cost around 0.1% of global GDP and ...

Verizon Private IP Quadruples Network Capacity for Invacare's European Operations

...immediate availability of applications. Verizon Private IP provides the flexibility to accommodate fluctuations in bandwidth demand and can easily be scaled to handle future growth. In addition, Invacare's data is securely hosted, and Verizon Business professionals monitor the network's security and perfo...

iMedica Selected by NJ Physicians as Preferred EHR Vendor

...agement, lab results, automated PQRI capabilities and more, without PRM 2009's full note documentation capability. By offering similar benefits with a scaled down implementation process and price, Transition allows physicians to adopt an EHR and meet stimulus fund eligibility without a large up-front financ...

Bonus Payout Trends and Continuing Cost Controls Reflect Challenging Business Climate, Says Aon Consulting's Radford

...ls or other key product events that require more of a long-term horizon and thus a continuum of talent are providing salary increases, but at slightly scaled back levels compared to 2008 increases, according to Knopping. To further control costs, many high-technology companies are continuing to require...

Server Load PerformanceTest™ Breakthrough For AJAX Applications

...es and new capacity easily break the $1 per applied browser-hour threshold. Performance jumps 20X to 50X compared with other offerings. Even under scaled execution, session timings are accurate to within 0.1% due to eValid's very low overhead. Every EU playback is a true user -- with true AJAX synchro...

Revolutionizing the diagnosis of serious disease

...nology with techniques to inspect the nanoworld. As products and their components become ever tinier, the testing facilities for those also need to be scaled down accordingly. In NEMS (nanoelectromechanical) and MEMS (microelectromechanical) based machines there is an increasing demand for testing facili...

Access Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on ProLindac(TM) Phase 2 Ovarian Cancer Trial and Clinical Development Plan

...otoxicity, which is a major adverse side-effect of the approved DACH platinum, Eloxatin , and ProLindac was well tolerated overall. The Company has scaled up manufacturing in order to begin the next phase of clinical development. Access plans to conduct several combination trials in different solid tumor...

SunGard Availability Services and Phoenix Health Systems Join Forces to Deliver Complete Software Application and Infrastructure Management to Community Hospitals

...tive officer of Phoenix Health Systems. "We are pleased to join SunGard in offering the hospital community a robust portfolio of solutions that can be scaled to fit any budget, helping improve information availability for critical data and systems." "Phoenix Health Systems' established reputation with...

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PARI Pharma Reports Successful Phase Ib Clinical Results for Inhaled Liposomal Cyclosporine A and Gains FDA Orphan Drug Designation for the Prevention and Treatment of Bronchiolitis Obliterans

... high-pressure homogenization process using standard pharmaceutical equipment followed by sterile filtration and lyophilization. The product has been scaled up to production batch sizes, and preliminary stability data indicate that a shelf life of more than 2 years at room temperature is feasible. A...

Idenix Pharmaceuticals Advances HCV Discovery Program to Clinic

...y plasma drug exposure levels, IDX375 has the potential for once-daily dosing in man. IDX136 and IDX316 Macrocyclic Protease Inhibitors Idenix has scaled up manufacturing of two clinical candidates, IDX136 and IDX316, from its HCV protease inhibitor discovery program to support IND-enabling pharmacology...

Vical Advances RapidResponse(TM) DNA Vaccine Platform Under $6 Million Grant from NIH

...s and single-step vaccine purification. The process has the potential to be scaled up by simply using larger equipment with no increase in production time, co...ventional vaccines; whether RapidResponse(TM) platform will successfully be scaled up to allow the production of hundreds of millions of doses of DNA vaccines...

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Direct View PACS System 5

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Company:Kodak - Medical

Jameson Muscle Forceps - Right

Description:... Angled shafts with 12 mm scaled jaws. 1 mm teeth on one jaw fit into holes on the other jaw. Slide lock and serrated handle with polished finish. Right. Most popular size or model....
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Jameson Muscle Forceps - Left

Description:... Angled shafts with 12 mm scaled jaws. 1 mm teeth on one jaw fit into holes on the other jaw. Slide lock and serrated handle with polished finish. Left. Most popular size or model....
Company:Bausch & Lomb Storz

Jameson Muscle Forceps - Child Size - Right

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Jameson Muscle Forceps - Child Size - Left

Description:... Angled shafts with 9 mm scaled jaws. 1 mm teeth on one jaw fit into holes on the other jaw. Slide lock and serrated handle with polished finish. Left....
Company:Bausch & Lomb Storz

Dolphin Medical 2150 Pulse Oximeter

Features:...d pulse rate 4 to 12 second SpO2 response averaging modes Trend data storage up to 8 hours; trend data is retained after power cycling Automatic scaled plethysmographic waveform Serial Irda output capabilities Allows use of 400-series thermistor probe Temperature displayed in either Celcius or Fah...
Company:Dolphin Medical, Inc.

2100 Pulse Oximeter

Features:... alarm informational messages appear on the LCD display 4 to 12 second SpO2 response averaging modes Trend data storage up to 24 hours Automatic scaled plethysmographic waveform Patented Digital sensor Easy-to-read display that presents patient data and status information - shows the SpO2, pulse r...
Company:Dolphin Medical, Inc.

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August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...-km-long canyon that has no surface outlet, was formed by collapse and draining of brines and entrained solids into sink holes. The study was based on scaled laboratory models of Hebes and on satellite images and spectra. The authors conclude that a salt and ice-rich regolith at Hebes dissolved and melted w...

Dolphins get a lift from delta wing technology

... of seven different species ranging from the slow swimming Amazon River dolphin and pygmy sperm whale to the super-fast striped dolphin, the team made scaled models of the flippers of each species. Then they measured the lift and drag experienced by the flipper at inclinations ranging from -45deg. to +45deg...

Singapore scientists synthesize gold to shed light on cells' inner workings

...opts an environmentally friendly method that does not involve toxic chemicals or high temperatures. In addition, the simple synthesis technique can be scaled up easily for mass production. "We are inspired by nature's ability to create elegant and functional materials. Our process is similar to biominer...

Tailor-made recombinant proteins in mammals

...icity have been found in the laboratory, but these lab methods usually aren't very practical for drug manufacture because they can't be generalized or scaled up." Enter Bertozzi's aldehyde tag: the tag is an aldehyde group displayed as part of an amino acid side chain with chemical reactivity completely ...

Microbes fuel energy debate

...ins is a major effort and challenge to biochemical engineering at the many new plants being built for biofuel production. The new processes have to be scaled up and carried out in a cost-effective way. The future of biofuels looks very brightthe best is yet to come." ...

Microbot motors fit to swim human arteries

...n their research over two years ago in the belief that piezoelectricity was the most suitable energy force for micro-motors because the engines can be scaled down while remaining forceful enough, even at the sizes necessary to enter the bloodstream, for motors to swim against the blood's current and reach s...

Oregon's Rogue River Basin to face climate-change hurdles

... Three major global climate-change projections scaled down to Oregon's Rogue River Basin point to hotter, drier summers with increasing wildfire risk, reduced snowpack and rainier, stormy winters, accordi...

Jupiter's shrinking red spot

...University of North Carolina, along with mechanical engineer Arvind Santhanakrishnan and graduate student Anil Shenoy, constructed several dynamically scaled models of the embryonic heart within rigid plexiglass walls. The models represent the morphologies of different stages in heart development, and provi...

Animal and biological science highlights: San Antonio Fluid Dynamics Conference, Nov. 23-25

...d the technique: the hummingbird. He and his colleagues constructed a large scaled model of a rufous hummingbird, a common hummingbird species. In real life, ...akrishnan and graduate student Anil Shenoy, constructed several dynamically scaled models of the embryonic heart within rigid plexiglass walls. The models rep...

AGU journal highlights -- Oct. 16, 2008

...e is known about how slow slip differs from ordinary earthquakes. To help explain a wide variety of observed features, such as steady moment rates and scaled energies, characteristics of tremor signals, and the migration of source locations, Ide develops a simple model of slow earthquakes. In his model, slo...

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Penguin Computing Forms OEM Agreement with Applied Biosystems for Scyld ClusterWare

...ment system, designed to simplify the deployment and management of Linux clusters. With Scyld ClusterWare's lightweight provisioning, a cluster can be scaled out in seconds while Scyld's Single System Image architecture ensures configuration consistency across all nodes in the cluster at all times. Scyld Cl...

Xspray Expands to Meet Pharma's Interest in its Ground-Breaking Particle Production Technology

...nd by adding innovative properties that truly benefit patients. A key advantage of RightSize Particle Manufacture is that it can be effectively scaled up to production volumes, making it an important breakthrough in the manufacture of pharmaceutical particles. Xspray Microparticles has its hea...

Catching the lightwave: Nano-mechanical sensors 'wired' by photonics

...he paper. "Very cheap LEDs will suffice." Futhermore, the LED light sources like the million LED pixels that make up a laptop computer screen can be scaled in size to integrate into a nanophotonic-chip an important feature for this application. "This development reinforces the practicality of the new ...

Self-assembled nanowires could make chips smaller and faster

...ectronics must first be overcome. "Our new planar growth process creates self-aligned, defect-free gallium-arsenide nanowires that could readily be scaled up for manufacturing purposes," said Li, who also is affiliated with the university's Micro and Nanoelectronics Laboratory and the Beckman Institute. ...

GeoVax Labs, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2008 Financial Results

...ermore, the EB66(R) cell line can be grown in suspension (without the cells attached to the surface of the growth vessel) and can be scaled up for growth in giant bioreactors (a cutting edge industrial method) for large scale production of the MVA viral vaccine. * ...

Assembling cells into artificial 3-D microtissues, including a tiny gland

...e properties of organs now, though not yet organisms." While the synthetic tissues today comprise only a handful of cells, they could eventually be scaled up to make artificial organs that could help scientists understand the interactions among cells in the body and might some day substitute for human or...

Zymetis Inc. Named Top 50 'Cleantech/Greentech' Company

... Program in January, 2008. Zymetis has received two Maryland Industrial Partnerships research project awards, for a total of $227K. The company scaled its product up using Mtech's Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility. About Zymetis ( www.zymetis.com ) Zymetis, Inc. is a biotechnology company focu...

Bone Biologics Announces UCB-1 (NELL-1) Bone Growth Protein Production Process With Aragen Biosciences

...or us. UCB-1 (NELL-1) is a complex and challenging protein, but we believe that the cell line and process we have developed for Bone Biologics can be scaled up to provide protein at purity and productivity levels sufficient for Phase I clinical studies." William Jay Treat, Ph.D., President of Southwest Bi...

Sophisticated nano-structures assembled with magnets

...observations of the assembly process. Because of the unique nature of this "bulk" assembly technique, Yellen believes that the process could easily be scaled up to create large quantities of custom-designed nano-structures in high-volume reaction vessels. However, the trick is to also be able to glue the st...

Engineers tune a nanoscale grating structure to trap and release a variety of light waves

...ologies. Recently, Bartoli's team recorded a second major advance. Working again with Ding, they demonstrated that their grating structure could be scaled down in size to a dimension compatible with light waves in the telecommunications portion of the spectrum. THz waves measure several hundred micron...

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MasterPure Plant Leaf DNA Purification Kit from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

Description:...rification Kit is designed for isolating DNA from 35-100 mg of fresh plant leaf tissue. The protocol can be completed in less than one hour and may be scaled up to obtain larger amounts of DNA. The purified DNA can be used for PCR amplification, restriction digestion, and Southern blotting. The MasterPure K...
Company:EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

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