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Soft House Flexible facades harvest energy, smart curtains provide light HAMBURG, Germany, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- THE SOFT HOUSE, a winning competition project for adaptable live/work row housing designed by the KVA Matx Team with 360+ Architekten opens today in Hamburg, Germany in the International Building Exhibition (IBA). The Soft House offers a new model for carbon neutral construction and an ecologically responsive lifestyle that can be personalized to meet homeowner...

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MD4 Utah and the Intermountain Biomedical Association (IBA) today announced joint plans to merge into Utah's new, independent life science association. The merger decision follows unanimous votes of approval by the boards of directors of both IBA and MD4 Utah. The two organizations will also provide key leaders for the new association's transition team, including: Kimball Thomson, current executive director of MD4 Utah, who will...

LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium, March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LEONI Studer Hard AG is located in Daniken (Switzerland) and offers sterilization, decontamination and crosslinking services to third parties. LEONI Studer Hard AG is a well known and established European player, experienced in E-beam, gamma and X-ray Irradiation technologies. Why X-ray Sterilization? Up till 2011, LEONI Studer Hard proposed two sterilization services based on two technologies: gamma...

Try Telework Free In February! FREDERICK, Md., Feb. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Irving Burton Associates (IBA), a leading provider of Telework services for over 14 years, is offering Federal employees free access to the Frederick Telework Center during the month of February. This promotion is being offered as part of National Telework Week and is designed to help Federal employees take advantage of Telework solutions. National Telework Week is a week-long, nationwide effort that...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- An advance in the way protons are delivered at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute enables physicians to treat tumors that are deeper in the body, tumors that are very large and tumors that are situated closer to vital organs. Called uniform scanning, the new device moves a single beam of protons in a sweeping or "scanning" motion, enabling the beam to reach deeper into the body and to cover a wider treatment area than the more...

Doctors at the National Cancer Center (NCC) of Korea are now employing proton beams in their war against cancer using a newly installed $38 million proton therapy system from IBA. The first patient at the $51 million NCC Proton Therapy Center was treated for prostate cancer. More than 900 patients a year are expected to be treated at the proton therapy center for breast cancer, pediatric cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, brain cancer and prostate cancer. The only facility of its kind...