provided we have the right level of investment and the right industry partners. Our main aim is to develop a prototype that can demonstrate that it is possible to go all the way with'Quantum CMOS
"Such a powerful quantum computer would have major implications for the finance, data security, and health industry.
what is known as a heteroatom structure (where non-carbon atoms bond with carbon atoms to form part of the molecular ring),
#Teenage Girl Turns Plastic Trash Into Million-Dollar Biofuel An Egyptian teenager has discovered an inexpensive way to turn plastic trash into fuel
and it could be worth tens of millions of dollars a year. Azza Faiad ideas attracted the attention of the Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute.
On the federal level, significant increases in funding for permanent housing vouchers and additional funding targeted to provide rapid rehousing to veterans,
Recouping that added investment, however, will be location-dependent. Generally speaking, single-axis trackers produce about 20 percent more energy compared to fixed-mount systems just about anywhere in the U s. However,
Dollars per AC Watt Quarterly Average in California Source: Go Solar California Since 2007, the installed price for smaller PV systems (under 0. 5 megawatts) has dropped from around $10 per watt AC to around $5.
The cost for medium-size systems (0. 5 to 1 megawatts) is about 60 percent of the cost of smaller systems, around $3 per watt AC today.
with a forecast of 12 gigawatts of PV installed in 2016 as companies rush to take advantage of expiring tax credits.
With the help from better tracking technologies, hopefully solar will continue its downward trajectory in costs to offset the reduction in the federal Investment Tax credit.
Innovus has raised between $40 million and $50 million from three unnamed investors, Hoffman said. They include two individuals he knew from his years working at General electric and aircraft engine maker Allied Signal,
as well as a third angel investor. The company's executive team includes CTO Mark Preston a veteran of Vestas, United technologies,
#Solarcity Has a New Plan to Make Distributed Energy an Integral Part of the Grid Solarcity has an idea for how to help California utilities tap their own customers as an integral part of their billion-dollar distribution grid plans:
In a white paper this week, Solarcity wrote that the structure could be a key lever for customer-owned distributed energy resources (DERS) to compete for billions of dollars of distribution grid projects being planned by the state big three utilities.
in an interview. fter you find out what you can do with your pricing signals, then you do an RFP.
Under a California Public Utilities Commission decision last year, the state big investor-owned utilities are already turning in distribution resource plans (DRPS.
in fairness, withhold payment if theye going to be a grid burden. Florio proposal calls for policies that allow rooftop solar energy storage, plug-in vehicles
Meanwhile, customer incentives are split up into energy efficiency programs, self-generation incentive program credits, energy storage mandates, demand response payments,
or predict the response of lots of household batteries and smart thermostats to rising and falling prices.
California utilities have made it pretty clear that they want to have direct access to whatever DERS they take on as grid investments,
smart thermostats and plug-in EVS to help defer distribution grid investments Ted Ko, policy director at behind-the-meter battery startup Stem,
While individual customers might make unwise investment decisions, ou won have ratepayers as a whole bearing the burden of that.
Of course, because utilities earn a regulated rate of return on capital expenditures like distribution system upgrades, that not necessarily something theye happy about.
or if youe a hardware provider, you can supply the technology to adapt to these prices.
when fighting for funding to tackle a single disease in isolation is no longer effective. Health problems tend to cluster from childhood to adulthood
very early calculations we think 20 kilograms 44 pounds of magnesium could get a 100 kilogram 220 pound ship to Mars and back.
Determining an accurate number would require billions more dollars and a great deal more manpower than is given currently to the study of viruses. Though a handful of viruses live in
since the mass spectrometers that are being used cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. But the same technology could eventually be incorporated into easy and small testing kits for anywhere that people need them,
is attracting the interest of hedge funds, banks, consultancies and call centres across the UK. Dr John Coates, a fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge who specialises in the biology of risk taking and stress, said he is now getting bout one call a weekfrom financial institutions,
healthcare companies and tech firms interested in applying his research in the workplace. p to now,
If the technology works, a wearable gadget could potentially warn a stock market trader to slow down
including profiles with all the customerssecret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses,
Chief executive officer and Cofounder of Diablo Technologies. he business impact on datacenter economics and application performance is dramatic.
and tripling individual machine profit. The implications of this technology cannot be overstated. We are excited very to partner with Diablo Technologies to deliver solutions based on Memory1 to our customers,
and reducing overall expenses compared to existing solutions. This will address the requirements of multiple enterprise market segments today as well as next generation datacenter designs.
empowered participants in the haring economy, or workers being exploited by well-funded technology companies? That is an open question as millions of people shift from traditional employment to freelance igwork, giving them more independence,
or so-called gig economy is creating exciting economies and unleashing innovation, she said in June. ut it is also raising hard questions about workplace protections and
he sharing economy could be stopped in its tracks, said Christopher Koopman, a research fellow at George Mason University Mercatus Center. e would not see the dynamic,
Some analysts say current laws are adapted not to these new models where people earn money through shopping services like Postmates, meal preparation like Feastly and pet-sitting like Dogvacay.
Simon Rothman at venture capital firm Greylock Partners says a key to helping this thriving sector is nbundlingbenefits such as health care
insurance and retirement from the workplace. one are the days of a social contract with employers for lifetime employment it an old model,
Reich said on his blog about the hare the scraps economy.?In effect, on-demand work is a reversion to the piece work of the 19th century
Zaino said that t not so much about the money, but noted that he fastest growing segment is people earning over $100, 000 a year. his $100,
Sundararajan said. hey want the nice things of being a full-time employee income stability, insurance benefits,
with tax incentives and contributions from employers and workers. his could be a good template,
probably by adding money to gig workers to allow them to get benefits. whole new industry is being born where we are helping people get those types of benefits
Success came only at the end of a tortured path of fluctuating research funding and disappointments that at times shook Luthra hopes. here were times where
The Department of energy helped with some early funding, hoping the materials could be used in power plants. NASA wanted to use them in supersonic aircraft.
On back-to-back days in late September, a specialty tuberculosis drug saw its price raised 2, 600 percent,
and subsequently raised the price from $500 for 30 capsules to $10, 800. The day after the price hike, Rodelis agreed to return the drug patent to its former owner, the nonprofit Chao Center for Industrial Pharmacy and Contract Manufacturing,
which is affiliated with the Purdue Research Foundation. Now, the Chao Center will charge $1, 050 for 30 capsules,
The foundation president Dan Hasler told The New york times the new price was needed to mitigate losses,
Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager, acquired the infectious disease drug Daraprim in August.
Turing then raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13. 50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Turing CEO Martin Shkreli announced the company had agreed to lower the price of the drug to a point that is ore affordable,
and will still allow the company to make a profitut a small profit, he urged.
Shkreli did not announce the new price however. Turing price hike on an old drug is indicative of a growing business trend in pharma where new companies buy old,
and Par pharmaceutical colluded to raise the price of generic Kapvay, a medication for ADHD. According to the FTC, Concordia agreed to stay out of the market for Kapvay in return for a share of Par revenue.
As Turing Shkreli alluded to, pharmaceutical companies sometimes have a hard time recouping all the costsspecially R&d and regulatoryssociated with developing
Multiple studies in the past few years have concluded that only one-third of prescription drugs make a profit for the developing company.
The effect on generic drugs Generic drugs are intended to serve as the national policy solution to high prescription drug prices.
Traditionally, when a generic enters the field, drug prices decrease by 80 to 90 percent for oral prescriptions.
prices usually decrease about 60 to 80 percent. In the last five years however, this has not been happening as it has in the past.
According to a recent survey by Consumer Reports, 33 percent of Americans have seen their prescription price rise an average of $39 over the last year.
the price increases are especially harmful. From 2012 to 2013, the cost of the generic blood pressure medication Captopril climbed more than 2, 700 percent,
Seven percent said they missed a mortgage payment, one out of four stopped getting their prescriptions filled
experts place the price blame on aging production facilities, shortages of ingredients and, most importantly, competition.
and bring prices down. Not only have mergers and acquisitions reduced the number of companies in the market,
Drug shortages not only affect customers and prices but also R&d. If the drug in question is the backbone of a specific therapy,
Conti and her team studied the launch price of new oncology drugs from 1996 to 2012.
They concluded that approximately one-fourth to one-third of price increases were related to the quality of drugs becoming better.
As for the rest of the price inflation it a tale as old as time. here is this natural ecology of price where the market appears to be signaling they are willing to pay higher prices,
so even after adjusting for inflation, companies know they can price their drug higher than previous years just
because the ambient mood for process has changed, said Conti. In other wordsupply and demand. Patent protection If supply and demand is the problem,
Given the expense of R&d, that may not be enough time for manufacturers to recoup their costs.
because they don get their money worth. This would decrease competition even further and put innovation, safety and efficacy on the ropes.
and giving up competition that would make prices more reasonable, said Schwartz. So, how do we strike that balance?
Schwartz says it all about better pharmacological economics. rugs should get a preferred status from the government
and lower their prices if patent life was longer. But he suggested looking more toward the future than trying to fix the present. e should decrease interest in investing in small molecule chemical drugs
and increase interest in developing biologic drugs, Holroyd told Laboratory Equipment. hat is an area where there is limited competition even
Medicare Part D Medicare, specifically Part D, plays a huge role in prescription drug prices. It also one of the most hotly contested issues in the pharmaceutical industry
Now, however, it has fallen under scrutiny as drug prices continue to rise across the nation. The big deal with Medicare Part D is this:
it has a noninterference clause that bars the federal government from negotiating prices directly with pharmaceutical companies.
All the negotiations are left to private insurers and drug companies. The United states is the only nation that operates this way.
Most other countries give the government direct saynd most other countries have significantly lower drug prices than the U s. So,
Monthly premiums for the program are expected to be $32. 50 for 2016 price that has risen barely in the last five years.
if the government was allowed to negotiate prices directly with industry. f government negotiators set prices too low,
artificially low prices could deprive drug companies of future funds to invest in the risky, expensive research that leads to better treatments and cures.
By expanding the number of seniors with prescription drug insurance, an additional source of revenue was opened up to pharmaceutical companies for future devlopment.
For example, before Part D was implemented there were 18 Alzheimer drugs in development. Now, there are 82. Additionally, the number of diabetes drugs in development jumped from 34 to 142,
whether we are getting value for our dollar is the actual treatment. With diabetes or hypertension, it important to look at the total medical care costs of treating those conditions,
Additionally, drug prices around the world are pegged off the U s. price. If the U s. was to implement a drastic policy change
harming R&d expenditures the most, Conti says. nce you have a situation where the government is the majority payer,
and say ow we want the lowest price possible for this drug and as your majority purchaser,
whatever price we negotiate is the standard price. It acts as a floor for everyone else.
and the prices have gotten out of control, said Tulane Schwartz. Vanderbilt Holroyd is in favor of direct negotiation by the government,
and grandchildren, should we be spending the money right now on pharmaceuticals? Or should we wait for them to be developed more slowly?
and are borrowing the money from the future. I do think if the government was more involved with that,
cadmium selenide is also expensivene website listed a price of $529 for 25 ml of the compound. ith food
Niklas Arvidsson, a researcher in industrial economics and management at KTH, says that the widespread and growing embrace of the mobile payment system,
"Cash is still an important means of payment in many countries'markets, but that no longer applies here in Sweden,
"In a country where bank cards are used routinely for even the smallest purchases, there are less than 80 billion Swedish crowns in circulation (about EUR8 billion), a sharp decline from just six years ago,
The rest is socked away in people's homes and bank deposit boxes, or can be found circulating in the underground economy.
The result of collaboration between major Swedish and Danish banks, Swish is a direct payment app that is used for transactions between individuals, in real time.
The service's direct collaboration with Bankgiro and Sweden's national bank, Riksbanken, is a critical factor in its success
. But if Swish starts to be used on a larger scale and grows to include retail transactions and e-commerce,
Arvidsson says it is likely the country's entire payment system infrastructure will have to be revamped. That may not be as prohibitive an idea as it sounds.
Arvidsson says Swish is already revolutionizing the banking system, which itself is no stranger to bold digital projects.
With digital giro systems, early electronic payment services and other advances in online financial services, Swedish banks have been early adopters of advanced IT systems,
"Combined with a strong IT sector, this has led to more competitive financial services in Sweden. The success also depends on the Swedish consumer tradition of welcoming electronic payment services."
"Besides simplicity and lower costs, digital payments also add transparency to the nation's payment system.
Several banks in Sweden already have digitalized 100 percent branches that will simply not accept cash."
"At the offices which do handle banknotes and coins, the customer must explain where the cash comes from,
according to the regulations aimed at money laundering and terrorist financing, "he says. Bank staff are required to file police reports in response to suspicious cash transactions.
In spite of its popularity, Sweden will still have to ensure that all people are able to participate in the new payment system,
Arvidsson says. The transformation would present serious challenges for those who are unfamiliar with computers and mobile phones mainly older people living in rural areas.
Other segments of the population likely to feel the impact are the homeless and undocumented immigrants.
as billions of dollars have recently been invested into virtual-reality technology: In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus Rift for $2 billion;
and established a network of investors. Over the next few months, Raskar, Pamplona, and other students entered the prototype in MIT IDEAS competition,
In the United states, costs for kidney disease are about 40 billion dollars per year. Kidney disease affects approximately 700 million people worldwide.
because Nepal does not have the money to do it by itself,"Michael Hutt, a professor at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, told The Guardian."
Image Credit: Contains Copernicus data (2015)/ ESA/DLR Microwaves and Radar Institute/GFZ/e-GEOS/INGVSA SEOM INSARAP study) Moving up Nepal Insar By analyzing the satellite images,
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Image credit: DLR/EOC) Rainbow fringes Interferogram of Kathmandu, Nepal, before and after the earthquake.
Image Credit: Contains Copernicus data (2015)/ R. Grandin/IPGP/CNRS) Near the Tibetan Plateau Combining two Sentinel-1a radar scans from 17 and 29 april 2015,
Image Credit: Contains Copernicus data (2015)/ ESA/Norut/PPO. labs/COMETSA SEOM INSARAP study) Grading map Based on imagery from the Worldview-3 satellite acquired on April 28,
Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory) Emitted light Kathmandu Satellite Image-Emitted Light This satellite image shows the city of Kathmandu and its surrounding areas after the April 25 earthquake.
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#Major 7. 3-Magnitude Earthquake Aftershock Hits Nepal A 7. 3-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal this morning (May 12), toppling buildings and killing at least a dozen people.
either cells stored in banks or those harvested from adult stem cells are used to aid in bone regeneration.
or Laws, costs less than a dollar per shot
#Weird Microscopic Animal Inspires New Kind of Glass A really weird, really tiny animal the microscopic tardigrade is the inspiration behind a new material that could improve the efficiency of things like LED LIGHTS and solar cells.
as well as one day even pair up with external devices like public cash machines and information displays to offer Braille capability just about anywhere e
and offer robotic capability to clinics that don have millions of dollars in discretionary funds.
and the company just raised $11. 2m in equity financing to sponsor a feasibility study of its robotic technology.
Also, it can be a way to authenticate payments as a biometric. Instead of a fingerprint, it can scan eye topography
well-defined rmchairedges in which the carbon-carbon bonds are parallel to the length of the ribbon.
Credit: Institute for Basic Science To truly understand the significance of the team findings, it instrumental to understand the nature of two-dimensional (2-D) materials,
linked by organic bonds. Their porous properties have led to proposed application in carbon capture, hydrogen storage and toxic gas separations,
"Despite this enormous global interest and investment, quantum computing has like Schrödinger cat been simultaneously possible (in theory)
Such a full-scale quantum processor would have major applications in the finance, security and healthcare sectors, allowing the identification
which the carbon-carbon bonds are parallel to the length of the ribbon. Researchers have fabricated typically nanoribbons by using lithographic techniques to cut larger sheets of graphene into ribbons.
check emails and keep track of finances. Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number
"Commercial investors want a clear demonstration before making an investment. The military can pursue possibly transformational applications at earlier stages
such as solar or wind power, is a key barrier to a clean energy economy. When the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) was established at Caltech
a not-for-profit society. Any financial surplus earned by IOP Publishing goes to support science through the activities of the Institute t
Among other advantages of the cells, mention can be made of simple production method, appropriate final price and high transparency for the light.
and that is used in the strip on your credit card. Because spin has both a magnitude and a direction
and obtaining funding. Entrepreneurs-in-residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship helped them work through mistakes they made regarding legal support, funding,
and operations. e had a lot of holes to dig out of, and they were helpful, Brikner says.
or form bonds. In this case, it helps break down the ZDDP molecules and also helps them react to form the tribofilm on the surface.
"In addition to the silicon technology advancements at the chip-level, novel system-level integration concepts are required also to fully profit from the new capabilities silicon photonics will bring,
Both Sheng and Kelly credit Elliot Pohlmann, a fourth-year Virginia Tech School of medicine student and the paper first author, for sparking the collaboration between their laboratories on this particular project. e realized that glioblastoma
Real estate is a precious commodity for energy absorption --whether it's wind, hydro, solar or electromagnetic energy."
With the help of the new genes the yeast is capable to synthesize the high-prized, natural flavor (more than 4000 euros per kilo) in a cheap way and in useful quantities from sugar (one euro per kilo.
He estimated that a larger mesh net could be created for less than a dollar per square foot.
which has received already more than 45 pre-orders (with partial up-front payments), is planning the market entry for this summer.
developed by researchers at University college London with funding from the Biotechnology & Biological sciences Research Council (BBSRC),
When the electron beam hits the molecules on the surface it causes them to form an additional bond with their neighbors,
"The big difference between Abraxane and the Duke approach is the types of molecular bonds that are formed.
being the largest Spanish laser center in terms of research personnel and investment. The work leading to these results was held within the European FAIERA project, funded by the European union Seventh Framework Programme (GA 316161), under the Research Potential initiative REGPOT in the Capacities Programme a
With funding from the Dow chemical Company, the research team--led by Brian Cunningham (ECE), Ralph Nuzzo (chemistry),
the current method of reduction creates high-pressure conditions to facilitate stronger bonds with carbon dioxide molecules.
a 100-pound biped robot designed by the team, along with the interface, for disaster response.
check emails and keep track of finances. Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number
Understanding how the surfaces deflect water so well means the valuable feature could be reproduced in other materials on a mass scale, potentially saving billions of dollars in a variety of industries,
That's science and engineering, not serendipity, at work for the benefit of the economy.""The trick is to use rough surfaces of the right chemistry
and go on with operation, saving time and money.""Maybe someday we could apply this approach to healing of wounds or other applications,
for commodities like paint and rubber, should make scaling up their process relatively straightforward, he says:
and electrolyzes is expected to be below the target price of the United states Department of energy of 4 US dollars per kilogram. l
Such a full-scale quantum processor would have major applications in the finance, security and healthcare sectors, allowing the identification
and millions of dollars and that no one would adopt, "Aizenberg said. The goal, she said,
U s. Navy spends tens of millions of dollars each year dealing with the ramifications of biofouling on hulls.
Shultz credits her most recent breakthrough to simple geometry and trigonometry. The most common type of ice
and favoured by the trillion-dollar computing and microelectronics industry. Teams led by UNSW researchers have demonstrated already a unique fabrication strategy for realising atomic-scale devices
such as rapidly scouring vast databases, modelling financial markets, optimising huge metropolitan transport networks, and modelling complex biological molecules s
this means that the whole demonstration using such an innovative façade can be insured by insurance companies in the whole Spain,
He is defining an insurance policy for the field trial of the Meefs innovation in Spain. However, the system needs to meet cost effectiveness requirements in order to penetrate the competitive construction market. he full-scale demonstration of the Meefs façade technology fits in with a new business trend
where they cover the risk of a full refurbishment against the payment by the owners of a fixed yearly energy bill
Yet Julen Astudillo is optimistic about the possibilities of the façade having a good return on investment.
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