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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and IPSWICH, Mass., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its commitment to life science research and scientific education, New England Biolabs (NEB) is pleased to offer free molecular biology reagents to the high school teams participating in the 2013 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. The iGEM competition encourages innovation in synthetic biology by soliciting novel and exciting project ideas from high school students, college...
Biennial survey finds family leave impacts both men and women; median pay rises by nine percent. NEW YORK, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As the nation marks the 50(th )anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, a new salary survey from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has found that apparent gender disparities are accounted for by time taken off for family reasons--and that time off impacts all engineers - regardless of the gender of the engineer taking such leave. This...
Symbol:-TSXV:NAA Symbol:-OTCQX:SIOCF VANCOUVER, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Sierra Iron Ore Corporation (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received subscription agreements totaling 3,357,700 units of the non-brokered private placement offered to qualified investors for gross proceeds to the company of $1,343,080. Subject to TSX approval, the total of the 1st tranche of the non-brokered private placement will result in the issuance of 3,357,700 million units at...
European Pharmaceutical Review Webinar Examines How Life Sciences Companies Transform Paper-Based Trial Master Files with Electronic Document Management Systems CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NextDocs announced today that it will be co-presenting with Sanofi, the global and diversified pharmaceutical company, in a webinar examining how life sciences companies can streamline paper-based Trial Master File (TMF) processes using electronic TMF (eTMF) systems and...
Solutions chosen for their technological capabilities and ease of use. LONDON, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Paradigm(TM) (www.pdgm.com) announced that SCDM Energie has adopted the SKUA(®) subsurface product suite and the Geolog(®) formation evaluation solution as its corporate standards for reservoir modeling and petrophysical analysis. The announcement was made at the 75(th) European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE) in London. (Photo:...
NASA has selected Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of McLean, Va., to provide safety and mission assurance engineering support services for the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has a three-year base period beginning Oct. 1, and a pair of one-year options that would extend the contract through September 2018. Cost-plus-award fee and firm-fixed-price task orders could bring the total contract value to $202.5...
NASA After two days of extensive competition, Team Survey of Los Angeles was awarded $5,000 in prize money after successfully completing Level 1 of the Sample Return Robot Challenge, a part of NASA's Centennial Challenges prize program. The event, hosted by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) June 5-7 in Worcester, Mass., drew robotics teams from the United States, Canada and Estonia to compete for a total of $1.5 million in NASA prize money. Eleven teams arrived to compete at WPI; 10...
Medikly's Sophisticated Technology Helps to More Effectively Identify and Engage Investigators BURLINGTON, Mass., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- inVentiv Health, Inc., offering best-in-class clinical, commercial and consulting services, announced today a strategic partnership with Medikly, Inc., an innovative provider of physician engagement solutions, as part of ongoing efforts to help pharmaceutical companies develop better drugs faster and more cost effectively - and get them to...
SAN DIEGO, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CareFusion Corp. (NYSE: CFN), a leading, global medical technology company, today announced a new contract with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for a new Pyxis(®) ES platform for medication dispensing technology. Terms of the contract include MD Anderson Cancer Center to implement the Pyxis(®) Enterprise Server, Pyxis MedStation(®) ES system and the Pyxis(®) Anesthesia ES system for its 600-bed hospital and outpatient...
Larry Keeley, Ryan Pikkel, Brian Quinn, and Helen Walters Share the Result of 30 Years of Research on Building Business Breakthroughs in New Book NEW YORK, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- For many businesses and organizations innovation isn't optional - it's imperative. Customers demand it; competitors will outflank them if they don't achieve it; talented employees won't join their teams if they don't deliver it; and most analysts and investors expect it. Ten Types of Innovation: The...
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Image Caption: NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light-years in diameter and approximately 60 million light-years distant. Credit: NASA/ESA/Wikipedia What is Astrophysics? For much of the modern age the term Astrophysics has been used synonymously with Astronomy. This interchange is so common that many textbooks even offer the two as having the same meaning. However, from a strictly historical perspective there are differences...
Mae Jemison is an American physician, NASA astronaut, and was the first black woman to travel to space. She was born Mae Carol Jemison on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. Her family moved to Chicago, Illinois when she was younger, and she assumed that spaceflight would become a common travel for civilians by the time she was an adult. She was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. and Nichelle Nichols. She graduated from Morgan Park High School in 1973 at age sixteen. She immediately entered...
Environmental Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published online bi-monthly by CSIRO Publishing. The journal publishes original research and review articles on all aspects of environmental chemistry, including those addressing the chemistry of air, water, soil, sediments, space and biota. Topics include atmospheric chemistry, geochemistry, climate change, marine chemistry, water chemistry, polar chemistry, fire chemistry, astrochemistry, earth and geochemistry, soil and sediment...
The International Journal of Quantum Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1967 by Per-Olov Lowdin. The journal moved to an in-house editorial office model in 2011, enlisting a permanent team of professional editors. It publishes original, primary research and review articles on all aspects of quantum chemistry, including an expanded scope focusing on aspects of materials science, biochemistry, biophysics, quantum physics, and quantum information theory. Image...
The International Journal of Plant Sciences is a scientific botanical journal published by the University of Chicago Press. It was known as the Botanical Bulletin from 1875-1876 and as the Botanical Gazette from 1876-1991. This journal covers botanical research including genetics and genomics, developmental cell biology, biochemistry and physiology, morphology structure, systematics, plant-microbial interactions, paleo-botany, evolution, and ecology. This journal also publishes important...
