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Any number of variables during testing can cause inaccurate results, but most of the variables in the process can be rechecked and verified. As with most lab equipment problems, the most often overlooked is the lab’s utility power source and specifically its voltage regulation.
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A new report from the National Academies contradicts an earlier one from that organization on whether women in academe face discrimination in hiring, promotion, and access to resources. The current report, released last week, finds rough parity between the sexes, even though the earlier report, released in 2006, contends that women do face discrimination.
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PerkinElmer and Rigaku Americas' co-marketing agreement allows both companies to share information and provide customers with a single point of contact for PerkinElmers atomic spectroscopy solutions.
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Michigan State University today announced the signing of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy concerning the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. The agreement, an important milestone towards establishing the FRIB project, provides the instrument for DOE Office of Science to provide financial assistance to MSU to design and establish the new facility.
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Conferee Networking Sessions are free to all registered Pittcon 2010 attendees and provide an open forum for people to establish new friendships, alliances and communication in an informal environment.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently joined the InCommon Federation to provide NSF's research and education community simpler and easier access to online services.
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The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was officially dedicated Friday, May 29th, setting into motion the next chapter of one of the countrys greatest scientific assets.
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The data eyeglasses can read from the engineers eyes which details he needs to see on the building plans. A CMOS chip with an eye tracker in the microdisplay makes this possible. The eyeglasses are connected to a PDA, display information and respond to commands.
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ADMET Inc. is celebrating 20 years in business by offering a free, turnkey biomedical or biomaterials testing system valued at up to $30,000 to a company or university operating in the United States.
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The sputtering alternative-energy market, which has been mired in a deep slump for at least the last six months, is showing some signs of recovery.
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In economic downtimes, businesses are apt to cut R&D projects that don't promise a speedy return on investment. But take a cue from smart science-based businesses, which view the recession as an opportunity to stoke up research and innovation for long-term competitive advantage.
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Human resources transformation refers to the massive restructuring of corporate human resources (HR) departments that took place in the decade or so after 1995. Before that, the staff in HR departments had generally been seen as administrators, not as people to be involved in high-level strategic discussions. HR staff saw themselves as lifetime career specialists with little need for knowledge or experience of what the rest of the business was about.
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