The cost of commodity chemicals is going nowhere but up as long as production is dependent on fossil fuels. he Center for Capture
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However these previous techniques typically led to strong bonds between the molecules being detected and the sensor itself.
But once the template is made labels can be printed in large rolls at a cost of roughly one dollar per square inch.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency the National Science Foundation the Korea Ministry of Science Information and Communications technology and Future Planning the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Korea Evaluation
In their relaxed state the atoms in a carbyne chain would be spaced more or less evenly with two bonds between them.
because when it s relaxed the bonds are confused constantly between 2-2 and 1-3 to the point where they average out
and the chain remains metallic. ut stretching the chain shifts the balance toward alternating long and short (1-3) bonds.
Carbyne s structure is a conundrumhe says. ntil this paper everybody was convinced it was single-triple with a long bond then a short bond caused by Peierls instability.
and nuclear powernd are some of the world most expensive chemical commodities. A combination of factors have created a looming shortage of several stable isotopes.
and Russia, will continue meeting global demand. 2, 000 times the price of gold One of the major sources of molybdenum-99, essential for medical imaging in tens of millions of heart, kidney,
high operating costs and regional concentration further threaten global supply. sotopes are among the most expensive commodities On earth,
professor of physics in the University of Texas at Austin and author of the study. ne ounce of a stable isotope that needs the calutron to separate it can run around $3 million. hat roughly 2, 000 times the price
because the price has been so high, or it been unavailable. The University of Texas at Austin funded the work.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy Open-Funding Opportunity Announcement program, USC, and the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute supported the research.
and solidifies it forms an extremely strong mechanical bond. he biggest problem with designing load-bearing supercaps is preventing them from delaminatingsays Westover. ombining nanoporous material with the polymer electrolyte bonds the layers together tighter than superglue. he use
Credit: NASA ESA and G. Bacon (STSCL) via U. Chicago) The researchers describe their work as an important milestone on the road to identifying potentially habitable Earthlike planets beyond our Solar system.
Skuse credits Youngâ#previous research that found mice with a mutated oxytocin receptor failed to recognize mice they previously encountered. his led us to pursue more information about facial recognition and the implications for disorders in
Similar more elusive B modes would provide dramatic evidence of inflation the theorized turbulent period in the moments after the big bang
Inflation is regarded a well theory among cosmologists because its predictions agree with observations but thus far there is not a definitive confirmation of the theory.
Measuring B modes generated by inflation is a possible way to alleviate lingering doubt. he detection of a primordial B-mode polarization signal in the microwave background would amount to finding the first tremors of the big bangsays
B modes from inflation are caused by gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are generated by intense gravitational turmoil conditions that would have existed during inflation.
These waves stretching and squeezing the fabric of the universe would give rise to the telltale twisted polarization patterns of B modes.
Cirillo is now seeking late-stage funding for the additional testing required to replicate his findings in independent labs a crucial final step before production
That involved crushing the coal and bathing it in acid solutions to break the bonds that hold the tiny graphene domains together. ou can'##t just take a piece of graphene
much as the ability to grow silicon in perfect crystalline arrangements made possible the multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry. irkin s
research group developed the ecipefor using nanomaterials as atoms DNA as bonds and a little heat to form tiny crystals.
In the study strands of COMPLEMENTARY DNA act as bonds between disordered gold nanoparticles transforming them into an orderly crystal.
NA sequences strongly suggest that a distinct and unnamed species of giant clam has been hiding literally in plain sight looking almost the same as the relatively common Tridacna maximasays Keyse. iant clams can grow up to 230 kilograms (507 pounds)
But this high capacity comes at a price: silicon electrodes swell to three times their normal size
and turnover that beekeepers have been reporting. n the journal PLOS ONE researchers from Penn State North carolina
This means the number of MKIDS that can be read out for a given price is increasing according to Moore s Lawâ##overall processing power for computers doubles every two yearsâ
which tend to scatter linearly. iven that the diode target measures 6 cm in length weighs 2. 8 g costs less than one Euro
Hovannes Kulhandjian and Zahed Hossain both doctoral candidates in his lab dropped two 40-pound sensors into the water.
But current sensors are large may cost thousands of dollars and often must be read manually.
#Gene keeps wheat from sprouting on the stalk A new way to keep high humidity from damaging wheat crops could save farmers millions of dollars
It should also save farmers and governments around the world significant amounts of money in the future.
Primary funding for this research is from the US Department of energy Office of Science. The study s lead authors were Stanford graduate students Edgar Peralta and Ken Soong.
and received funding support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Caltech s Kavli Nanoscience Institute and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter an
and Broker Biospin Corp. The US Department of energy supported the work. Source: Iowa Stat
#Densest galaxy is jam-packed with stars Michigan State university right Original Studyposted by Tom Oswald-Michigan State on September 25 2013 Astronomers have discovered the densest galaxy in the nearby universe.
With additional funding a standalone prototype could be created in about one year he says. Funding for the research was provided by the Department of Homeland security Science and Technology Directorate.
and around crops could pay huge dividends for farmers in the near future thanks to advances in genetic sequencing.
says George Loewenstein, professor of economics and psychology. For the study, 10 actors were scanned at the Scientific Imaging & Brain Research center while viewing the words of nine emotions:
#The research began with initial funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi arabia (KAUST)
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With proper funding the vehicles could be tested in a real-world hurricane in two or three years.
Ambiq has built out this technology on about $30 million in funding. It does this without requiring fancy changes in manufacturing or a new way of writing software
But security ramping up volume price all those things are really important.##One potential roadblock is that
#but doesn#t want to go to a clinic $34 is a small price to pay for peace of mind.
and hope it will be available to purchase at an affordable price soon. Biolite have pledged to commit a portion of sales from the camp stoves to support clean wood burning projects in the developing world.
which are currently being produced as pure research/exotics with a price of US$75, 000. Full commercial production of the Imagine PS will begin once the break even point of around 800 orders are reached,
The institute has received also funding to develop a heart-lung micromachine to test the safety and efficacy of inhaled drugs on the integrated heart and lung function,
but in either case it is very costly-at about 2, 000 euro (US$2, 626) a gram,
or make enough money to hire additional labor. In the early 20th century, milking machines became available
it can additionally advise users on how often fertilizer should be applied this stops farmers from wasting money by over-fertilizing,
"Cultural memory should not be dependent on money or technology.""It's only fitting that he chose to use a Raspberry Pi for the project,
The Economist reported last year that Ethiopia lags behind its neighbors in terms of cell phone penetration;
and Kalvachev tells us that his team is hoping to keep the price below US$1, 000.
Food poisoning due to outbreaks is a major problem putting thousands of lives at risk wasting tons of recalled foodstuffs with US$70 billion dollars lost in the US alone each year.
because they rely on what is essentially a combination of accountancy interviews and logical deduction to trace contaminated foods back along what is often an incomplete trail.
Applying DNATRAX is simply a matter of spraying it on fruits vegetables and meats or mixing it in with bulk commodities like honey olive oil flour or rice.
and costing producers more money due to massive recalls triggered by poor traceability y
#New Spanish streetlight powered by the sun and the wind The light is being developed through a collaboration between the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Spanish startup Eolgreen.
VW and BMW are making equal investments in the Chargepoint venture, but the automakers declined to disclose financial details l
Local and state seizures without federal participation amounted to 57 percent of the dollar value of the seized items under Equitable Sharing since 2008$3 billion out of $5. 3 billon.
and comes with a multi-billion dollar societal cost. Current treatments are problematic because they cause intolerable side effects,
Compelling economics The economics for all parties involved are compelling. The cost of the Wall Connector is minimal;
While Tesla investors shouldn count on such an optimistic scenario, it is a possibility worth considering.
While Tesla investors shouldn count on such an optimistic scenario, it is a possibility worth considering.
To finance this, South korea created a long-term-care insurance system, paid for with 6. 6 percent increases in people national health insurance premiums.
In 2009, about $1 billion of government and public insurance money was spent on dementia patients.
Still, with the over-65 population jumping from 7 percent in 2000 to 14 percent in 2018 to 20 percent in 2026
The Aging-Friendly hall, financed by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, encourages businesses to enter ilver industries,
Students as Helpers Schools offer community service credit, encouraging work with dementia patients, whom students call grandmas and grandpas.
The University of Florida broadcasts and archives Dr. Rush lectures less for the convenience of sleepy students like Mr. Patel than for a simple principle of economics:
resident students are earning 12 percent of their credit hours online this semester, a figure expected to grow to 25 percent in five years.
#Wave and Paymobile Phone Payment system Launched in the UK Orange and Samsung have teamed-up with Barclaycard to provide mobile phone payments with the new uick Tappayment technology.
Like the abolition of the £1 note or the introduction of the £2 coin, yesterday was a historic day for British money.
But that wasn thanks to the Royal Mint or the Bank of england. Courtesy of Barclaycard, Orange and Samsung, consumers across the UK can now pay for goods and services with nothing more than a mobile phone.
This technology, much trialled but never launched, will admittedly be used mostly for buying cups of coffee
but when Orange head of mobile payments, Jason Rees, calls it he beginning of a new order he not wrong.
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
to simply touch their specially updated credit and debit cards to complete the transaction. Although just a million or so such p (a) in-free transactions have been made in the last twelve months,
the rate is already doubling each year. The advantages of a contactless credit card however, are limited. You still need a card with you,
and because the card itself cannot be authenticated, every five times or so it requires the standard chip
-and-pin payment method. With a mobile phone data connection, however, all transactions can be authorised and completed instantly.
And the £15 maximum payment will rise steadily over time. This technology is cheaper for banks, shops and customers.
Almost everybody happy. The snag however, is that for now only one phone, one payment provider and one network operator provides this whizzy technology.
So yesterday was a milestone but not a tipping point: Orange customers, with a Barclaycard who took the trouble to buy a specially made Samsung Tocco handset can take advantage of the new systems.
and pay account from a connected credit or debit account by up to £100, to a total of £150.
useful and sometimes painful tally of expenditure. Any losses are limited to that £150 total, but they be borne by Barclaycard rather than the customers anyway.
even if rumours that NFC payments are to be built into the forthcoming iphone turn out to be untrue,
Google is working with Mastercard and a host of other manufacturers have similar plans. Indeed, as with almost all significant new technology, the appeal is mainly in the simplicity of NFC.
former assistant commissioner for food protection at the FDA. omebody is probably going to make a bundle of money out of this.
And during harvesting, he takes the laptop to a bank or some other place with Internet service to upload the data to Harvestmark.
economics and terrorism analysis, is led by Deputy Inspector Brandon del Pozo, a 16-year NYPD veteran.
Inside the two-pound mechanical organ is an intricate system of sensors and microprocessors that monitors the body s internal changes and alters the flow of blood as needed.
The Carmat artificial heart is expected to cost about 140,000 to 180,000 Euros (or $191, 000 to $246, 000.
Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself.
Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. According to David Rose, CEO of Gust, venture capital investors funded about 1500 startups last year, with Angel investors backing over 50,000 more.
Of course, with more startups, this is still a tough space, with VCS funding only one out of 400 requests they get,
and Angels limiting their focus to one out of 40. No wonder 90%of the successful startups still bootstrap.
when creating a web site for ecommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing
so who needs an investor? Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more nonprofit.
After the bubble burst and the recession, more than 80%of them disappeared. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates.
The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally.
a National Venture capital Association and Dow jones press release predicts that 2014 will bring further good news for entrepreneurs across several fronts,
including more investment, greater IPO volume for exits, greater employment opportunities at startups, and even more improvements in the economy.
They also remind us that all is not rosy, with continuing economic challenges and a gridlocked Congress that could change everything.
who was working on behalf of an insurance company, was not human. What really got to people was that this##robot##kept denying that it was a robot,
##This week,#Time#confirmed with the insurance company#that they were using a soundboard-assisted telemarketing firm.
Callassistant s Bills pointed out#that a nationwide debt-settlement company is being sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau#for deceptive telemarketing calls made by an old-school telemarketing company.##
##In outbound sales, it knocked our turnover from 400 percent a year to 135 to 140 percent.
140 percent turnover is about on par with#the fast-food industry. The paragons of employee retention keep their numbers in the single digits.
if you want to start making money), ##Ugarte wrote to me.####In a normal voice campaign, it takes two weeks up to four weeks to train reps.
A world in which mass telemarketing exists, driven by the dictates of the global economic system,
They re now paying $300 per month on a loan for the panels, plus the $250 electric bill.##
and prices for the fuel have jumped in recent years, igniting demand for alternatives. The state s tax credit for solar energy made it additionally appealing (Climatewire, May 6).
) The new struggle on Hawaii foreshadows what the rest of the country could face as solar moves closer to the mainstream
and the District of columbia##lets households with renewable energy earn bill credits for surplus power delivered to the grid.
because customers with net metering bill credits don t pay their fair share of transmission and distribution charges.
it represented more than a third of the revenue that the relevant division at RSA had taken in during the entire previous year, securities filings show.
Some in the security industry view the payment as little more than a bribe. For instance in its#report,#CNET#quotes cryptography veteran Bruce Schneier, who is unimpressed clearly:##
And after a $10 billion investment in analytics IBM believes it can harness big data to help students out.##
and many physical retailers have gone out of business as they fail to compete on price with the likes of Amazon.
Stop Wasting Money on Mineral Supplements.#####The message may come as a surprise to many Americans##40%of us reported taking some sort of multivitamin or mineral between 2003 and 2006.
It could be as small as a two-inch square on top of a conventional credit card reader,
to enable payments, or as large as a room, which might want to know that you have entered
##There s nothing stopping this technology from be squeezed into something as small as a credit card, or being embedded in clothing or other discrete wearable devices like fitness sensors, wristwatches#or even temporary tattoos.
save money for U s. consumers, and reduce pollution nationwide.####The U s. installed 930 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaics (PV) in Q3 2013, up 20 percent over the second quarter and 35 percent from the third quarter of last year.
since the monthly payments for energy storage would be less than the money saved by not forking over cash to the utility.
And Solarcity is pioneering#the securitization of solar##giving it the ability to dip into a potentially vast pool of capital by packaging leases for photovoltaic systems into asset-backed notes that are sold to pension funds,
hedge funds and other deep-pocketed investors. Rive says Demandlogic should save commercial customers 20 percent in demand charges.
While energy storage systems would cut utilities revenues they would also help them balance supply and demand on the grid as increasing amounts of renewable
and Rive and Solarcity spokesman Jonathan Bass was sketchy on the details on how the economics pencil out
when providing energy storage to customers for no money down. But growing economies of scale are in Solarcity and Tesla s favor.##
##The economics and scale that Tesla has achieved in the automotive market now make stationary energy storage more cost effective and reliable than it has ever been in the past,##JB Straubel,
or the banks would be paralysed, ##Lieutenant general Benny Gantz told a security conference in October. Around the same time, the Israeli security services reportedly thwarted a cyber attack
Inc. TUI has won two rounds of funding for its Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer from the#NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts#(NIAC) program.
The first step would be funding to update the Boeing/North american Aviation studies done in the 1970s.
##But##on-orbit fabrication with Spiderfab,##a TUI presentation#promises,##will enable NASA to accomplish ten times more science per dollar.##
Uber is launching a pilot program to finance new cars. The company is partnering with GM, Toyota,
and financial institutions to offer 100,000 driversreduced monthly car payments, in an effort get more Uber drivers on the road.##
##Uber partner-drivers have a robust, reliable cash flow through the Uber platform every fully utilized car on the Uber system grosses over $100, 000/year.#
#That kind of cash flow lowers the risk of financing drivers and means better access to cheaper credit than otherwise available on the open market.##
##Uber started out as an on-demand service for black town cars and has taken the cab industry by storm.
##But this kind of growth can come at a price.##Users began complaining#that the driver acceptance times were getting longer,
Uber drivers can make good money and by lowering the upfront cost of owning a car,
##By streamlining capital investments for existing and would-be drivers, this program also brings the Uber opportunity of turnkey entrepreneurship within reach to even more drivers across the country.##
It will not only be saving consumers money, but also the environment from 500 tons of CO2 EMISSIONS.##
##TVA must respond immediately to challenging trends in lower power demand, a slow economy, uncertainty in commodity pricing,
utilities face declining revenues while still retaining responsibility for paying for the transmission system. In Arizona, for instance, there were 900 solar arrays installed on Arizona residential rooftops in January 2009.
homeowners receive a credit for the solar electricity they send to the grid that is used to pay for the power they use
In Arizona, that credit is calculated at retail rates and APS argued that penalized homeowners who don t go solar as the utility will be forced to raise their rates to pay for the transmission system
the expansion of solar capacity meant the utility saved money by not having to build additional power plants and transmission lines.
APS and its supporters spent hundreds of thousands of dollar on an advertising campaign but yesterday the ACC rejected the utility s request,
and price point needed to make this good invention a great product, we need to finish our research and development.
As#Nokia###once the hometown hero of the country, accounting for 4%of the Finnish GDP##began to shed workers over the years,
What if you could carry a single credit card device in your wallet that would digitally store up to eight credit, debit, membership,
It looks like a normal credit card at first glance, but Coin is much smarter than your average piece of plastic.
which is about the normal expiration date for credit/debit cards anyway. There are tons of questions to still be answered about Coin,
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##Cisco said on Wednesday that its revenue would drop 10 percent this quarter, and continue to contract until the middle of 2014, in part due to a backlash in#China#against revelations about#U s. government surveillance programs worldwide.##
One of those peers, IBM, reported in October a 22 percent drop in#China#revenue, leading to a decline of 4 percent in third-quarter profit for the world s biggest technology services company.
IBM Chief Financial officer Mark Loughridge attributed the company s problems to the##process surrounding#China s development of a broad-based economic reform plan##
such as Lenovo,##said a person familiar with technology purchases at one of#China s four big state-owned banks.##
and finance networks. In August, the#National Development and Reform Commission,#China s top economic planning body, published a statement setting cybersecurity standards for financial institutions, cloud computing and big data, information system secrecy
management and industrial controls. Four domestic software and hardware makers, including#China National Software & Service Co.,announced this month they have received a##top-tier##rating from the#Ministry of Industry and Information technology.
China National Software s share price has gained nearly 250 percent since Snowden first revealed the existence of the NSA s clandestine#data mining#program in June.
Chief Financial officer Frank Calderoni said#China#was where Cisco was affected most by a political backlash,
but noted that it was difficult to quantify how much of its revenue shortfall was due to politics versus macroeconomic trends.##
Despite huge leaps forward in comfort for the upper classes (and the more recent##premium economy##class), the economy section of a cabin is cramped more often than not,
All three seats take up 54 inches of width##a fairly standard economy bench size. When shared between a trio of passengers, that offers 18 inches each.
This simple adjustment gives the father more lateral space than almost#any major airline would offer in economy
at no extra expense to the family. With some economy airlines charging significantly more to sit in an exit row or close to the front of the plane,
it s easy to envisage the second scenario Seymourpowell offers up becoming a reality. Morph s design allows for the central seat to be made as small as 10 inches wide.
This configuration could also potentially save money for overweight people, some of whom buy two adjacent seats when traveling.
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