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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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Officials of the Department of Energy and UT-Battelle broke ground Wednesday on a $95 million Chemical and Materials Sciences facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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For six years, Pittsburg State and Cargill have worked tirelessly to create new polyols. On Thursday, the two took a break for a day to document that partnership.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced it is running a search for the oldest Thermo Scientific Multiskan microplate photometer in use.
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In 2006 Mario Lebrato and Daniel Jones of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England, were using a remotely operated deep-sea vehicle to study the sea floor near an oil pipeline off Cte dIvoire. What they found surprised them. It was a thaliacean graveyard. And its discovery throws into question the received wisdom about one important aspect of climate change, namely how much carbon from the atmosphere ends up at the bottom of the sea.
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