Press Releases by Category Science & Education
New Yorker Electronics expands capacitor line with Cornell Dubilier HVHR Flatpac …
NORTHVALE, NEW JERSEY – New Yorker Electronics has introduced Cornell Dubilier’s newest line of MLS/MLP Flatpack aluminum electrolytic capacitors into its vast product catalog. This expanded line includes a high vibration package, type HVMLS and a high reliability burn-in option, type HRMLS. Applications are mainly for military and commercial flight based power systems that require high energy density, high reliability, rugged capacitors for bulk storage, where relatively expensive wet tantalum…
UTP Provides Inventory Management Services
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Phone: 334.361.7853
UTP provides inventory management services to ensure that our customers have the right part at the right time and at the right price with no headaches. We will supplement your inventory with ours while utilizing our repair vendor base. You will enjoy access to a wider range of parts at a lower cost than available when going it alone. This also allows you…
Impelsys announces a new re-engineered iPublishCentral portfolio that will addre …
Feb 24, 2016 – New York : Treading on their experience of working with some of the leading publishers and associations of the world for over a decade, Impelsys today brings to market its comprehensive range of Read to Learn solutions.
iPublishCentral, the flagship digital content delivery infrastructure of the company has evolved to support dissemination of basic PDF/EPUB based eBooks to complex SCORM based courseware. Impelsys has announced three flavors…
2016 Adelphi President’s Gala Honors Outstanding Individuals
Adelphi University is proud to announce its 16th annual President’s Gala to be held on Saturday, March 12, 2016, at the Garden City Hotel, 45 Seventh Street, Garden City, NY. This year, we will recognize several outstanding honorees: John Collins and Winthrop-University Hospital, Marian Conway, Ph.D. and the New York Community Bank Foundation and Adelphi alumnus Vince Tizzio ’89, with a cocktail reception followed by dinner and dancing. The President’s…
Largest exhumation project of all times
Hamburger laboratory supports large-scale identification of Vietnam War victims
Hamburg/Hanoi, 17 December 2015 – The Hamburg laboratory Bioglobe has developed a concept for genetic identification of hundreds of thousands of victims of the Vietnam War for the government of Vietnam. In the largest identification project of all times Hanoi intends to recover the victims of the Vietnam War from mass graves, genetically identify and hand the victims over to their…
BINDER Avantgarde.Line drying chambers – featuring new technology for improved p …
Following extensive technical development, Tuttlingen-based BINDER GmbH is relaunching its Avantgarde.Line drying and heating chambers with new functions, innovative technology, and unique performance.
BINDER GmbH, the world's largest specialist in simulation chambers for scientific and industrial laboratories, has overhauled its product portfolio of drying and heating chambers with extensive technical development work in order to perfect performance levels. To distinguish between the products, the previous units are now referred to as…
Top innovative ideas for the city of tomorrow
Three winners of the “Call for Ideas” competition at Fraunhofer’s “Urban Futures” conference
As part of the Fraunhofer “Urban Futures” conference, ten selected young entrepreneurs and start-ups took to the stage to dazzle the jury and the audience with their innovative ideas. The finalists presented their concepts for the city of the future at an “idea pitch” event on November 25, 2015 to about 250 prominent representatives from municipalities, politics, business…
Pfeiffer Vacuum welcomes 2015 Röntgen Prize Winner
• Outstanding contributions in the field of attosecond physics and technology with soft X-rays
• Vacuum indispensable for basic scientific research
• Pfeiffer Vacuum and Schunk Group support young researchers
Asslar, November 27, 2015. This year, the Justus Liebig University Giessen awards its Röntgen Prize to Dr. Eleftherios Goulielmakis. The Röntgen Prize is awarded each year in an academic award ceremony for outstanding work on basic research into radiation physics and radiation biology. It…
Update on Glycomics - Achieve Safe, Easy, and Accurate O-Glycan Analysis with Bl …
MoBiTec to launch Sumitomo's BlotGlyco® O-Glycan Sample Preparation Kit, a streamlined process for releasing and purifying O-glycans for detection by HPLC, LC-MS, and MALDI-TOF MS.
Hydrazinolysis is a traditional method for O-glycan release from glycoproteins. However, this method requires anhydrous hydrazine, a highly toxic and hard to handle compound. Another problem is "peeling", which is an unwanted O-glycan degradation during the release process of conventional methods. Traditional hydrazinolysis, as well as…
Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH pres …
• Award for doctoral research on high-precision measurement of magnetic moment of proton
• Vacuum indispensable for scientific investigations
Asslar, November 11, 2015. For the second time, Pfeiffer Vacuum and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research) have jointly presented a doctoral candidate award. The recipient is Dr. Andreas Mooser who received the award for his dissertation on the high-precision measurement of the magnetic moment of a proton.…
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum Supplies Vacuum Systems for the COPT.Zentrum of the Univ …
International top level in and out of Cologne
For the University of Cologne, the COPT.ZENTRUM is a central element of their technology transfer strategy from science to practice. Small and middle-sized companies will benefit from the premises of the center, the technology, and the newest scientific findings in the field of organic electronics. Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum supplies the necessary vacuum technology.
After two years of construction, the building, which was financed with…
In the NeuroLab, Fraunhofer IAO develops emotion-sensitive human-computer techno …
With the opening of its NeuroLab, Fraunhofer IAO now has a test environment for researching neuro- ergonomical topics. It is a place where researchers are applying neuroscientific knowledge to issues of ergonomic workplace design. The focus is on assistance systems in vehicles, in human-robot collaboration, and in knowledge work. The laboratory opened on October 27, 2015, with a symposium.
What goes on in the human brain has fascinated neuroscientists for decades.…
Incremental Trigger Function
Trigger signals dependent on the position of the stage
Digital piezo-controllers from piezosystem jena (d-Drive and d-Drivepro) offer flexible control for customized systems such as cameras, illumination systems, optical shutters or external measuring systems.
Now, piezosystem jena can offer a comfortable trigger function.
Trigger signals can be generated dependent on the position of the stage:
• Rising edge
• Falling edge
• On both edges in the direction of movement
An additional function sends out a trigger…
Total pressure measurement equipment from Pfeiffer Vacuum expands to include a n …
• From ultra-high vacuum to the overpressure range
• Analog and digital complete range
• Expansion through the CenterLine
Asslar, Germany, October 15, 2015. Many vacuum applications only operate in a certain pressure range. In order to operate vacuum systems with high precision, the total pressure must be measured reliably. For this purpose, Pfeiffer Vacuum offers a range of different measurement equipment series with a digital or analog signal output, which is now being…
MoBiTec GmbH to Attend BIOTECHNICA 2015, Germany - See ZDGSY's World's Smallest …
BIOTECHNICA - Europe's No.1 Event for Biotechnology, Life Sciences, and Lab Technology! At MoBiTec's booth, cutting-edge technologies will be presented. Highlight: The world's smallest and fastest Handheld DNA Extraction Device!
MoBiTec, leading supplier of unique, superior non-E. coli gene expression systems for Bacillus megaterium, Bacillus subtilis, and Lactococcus lactis, as well as provider of best available fluorescent probes, reagents, and detection kits, imaging and cell culture labware, versatile spin columns (Mobicol),…
Envisioning the production of tomorrow
Production research by Fraunhofer IAO honored with three awards at the ICPR 2015
The 23rd International Conference for Production Research ICPR, which took place from August 2-5, 2015 in Manila, was a runaway success for Fraunhofer IAO and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Both keynote speakers, Professor Wilhelm Bauer (IAO institute director) and Professor Hans-Jörg Bullinger, received a Certificate of Appreciation, and each was part of a team that scooped an Outstanding Paper Award…
New Product-Catalog from piezosystem jena
Positioning Solutions with Sub-Nanometer-Precision; Movements up to Multiple Centimeters/ Inches
piezosystem jena introduces its brand-new catalog! To offer you complete systems for your needs, piezosystem jena has engineered and produced a NEW series of Motion Control Stages and High-Power Piezo-Composite Actuators.
The new catalog does not only show our proven, ultra-precise nanopositioning piezo stages for positioning with sub-nanometer accuracy and their appropriate controllers; it also incorporates our powerful Piezo-Composite Actuators and their…
ENTOURAGE project among the winners in the German Federal Ministry for Economic …
ENTOURAGE, an interdisciplinary project involving Fraunhofer IAO, has succeeded in attracting funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) through its Smart Service World technology competition. ENTOURAGE is one of 16 successful projects selected from among 130 entries. Over the next three years it will seek to build a bridge connecting the Internet of Things with smart assistance systems.
The Internet of Things connects things, products and…
Eurogentec (EGT), Belgium, Appoints MoBiTec GmbH as Distributor for Germany
Eurogentec (EGT) is a leading provider of innovative products and services to the life science, diagnostic, and pharmaceutical community. MoBiTec is selling the products of AnaSpec, which now is part of EGT, for more than 10 years already. The agreement allows MoBiTec to also offer EGT's state-of-the-art qPCR kits, oligonucleotides, and further products related to genomics to its customers.
Eurogentec was founded in 1985 as a spin-off from the University of…
EUPROMA will be part of the European Conference for Responsible Skills in Hospit …
Munich, August 2015: As German Core Partner of the Responsible Skills Alliance for Sustainable Management of Small Hotels and Restaurants (RESPONS), Euproma will present one of the key outputs of the RESPONS Project, the “eHandbook on Socially Responsible Management of Small Hotels and Restaurants” and the “Managers’ guide to sustainable business”. The European Conference for Responsible Skills in Hospitality and Dining Industry will gather the main representatives of…
e-Handbook for Socially responsible management of small hotels and restaurants - …
Munich, August 2015: As German core partner of the European Sector Skills Alliance RESPONS, Euproma has coordinated the development of an e-Handbook for Socially Responsible Management of Small Hotels and Restaurants, which supports lifelong learning that can be easily integrated into the daily routine, i.e. it facilitates non-formal and work based learning just in time, whenever it is needed. It is relating to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which is increasingly…
New European Qualification Framework for “Hotel Managers” and “Restaurant Manage …
Munich, July 2015: The Responsible Skills Alliance for Sustainable Management of Small Hotels and Restaurants (RESPONS) is a Sector Skills Alliance in the HORECA sector, with 9 Partners from 7 European countries. It is co-funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the Euroean Commission. The project focuses on the improvement of vocational education and training at sectoral level, involvingHORECA SMEs, educational bodies and institutions as well as social partners.
After…
Euproma presents eLearning job role profiles and training guidelines at the “Wor …
• The e-Virtue project consortium will be part of the “World of Learning”, an international event where training organizations, practitioners and companies meet to exchange ideas and pave the way to modern learning environments.
• In a project-specific session, the partnership will present the main e-learning job role profiles and guidelines on how to align curricula to the market needs.
• e-Virtue started on the 1st October 2013 and is coming to end…
Euproma presents job requirements and training needs in the field of e-Culture a …
• Provide a forum of museum professionals, scholars and ICT initiatives to meet and exchange experiences and ideas for training and employment in the field of Culture & Technology.
• The event is organized within the framework of the e-Cult Skills project, which has recently finalised its investigation of new and emerging jobs in the field of e-Culture at international level, and developed Training Guidelines for VET providers in this…
Drip & Prep – RNA Isolation Has Never Been So Easy; FortiusBio Do Cell Lysis Car …
MoBiTec's new partner FortiusBio is a US startup biotech firm that does only one thing good: to soak filter paper with proprietary lysis solutions and make cards which lyse cells and preserve nucleic acid (even RNA!) integrity at room temperature.
RNASound™ RNA Extraction Strip Card enables high throughput and quick cell culture RNA extraction for gene transfection and expression screening. The card presents eight 5 mm filter paper discs that were…
PRESS RELEASE - we.CONECT Global Leaders
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Our product portfolio offers senior managers and top executives all over the world exclusive business information, digital media, business communities, business events and platforms to gather information, for all…
Call for ideas: New impulses for better cities
Fraunhofer Conference offers idea platform for the city of the future
What does the city of the future look like? Start-ups, cities and students will present their best ideas to prominent representatives from communities, politics, industry and research at the Fraunhofer Urban Futures Conference in Berlin on November 25 and 26, 2015. An “idea-pitch” event will determine the top three innovators.
Global developments such as population growth, climate change, urbanization, increasing energy…
Evolution - Trafo Meets Display
Reliable
Reliability and safety - the most important attributes in generator and transformer technology. The Optocon AG developed for this purpose the fiber optic thermometer FOTEMPTrafo, that supports you effective in these areas. To ensure a constant and guaranteed operational safety, the temperatures are monitored at critical points in transformers and generators permanently.
In combination FOTEMPTrafo with the fiber optic temperature probe TSTrafo and the innovative measurement method, allows accurate and precise…
World's only thermoelectric cooling incubator with 170 liters of interior volume
BINDER's range of cooling incubators with thermoelectric cooling is getting a new member that is set to offer outstanding performance: the KT 170. This cooling incubator, which cannot be found anywhere else in the world and features an interior volume of 170 liters, has the same footprint as the next model down – the KT 115 – but provides 65 percent more usable space and can be used extremely flexibly.
Cooling…
BINDER presents a global innovation at ACHEMA
At this year's ACHEMA, among the many highlights that BINDER GmbH presented was its thermoelectric cooling incubator with a capacity of 170 liters – an innovation that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. The innovative products and technologies attracted industry professionals from a whole range of sectors to the BINDER stand at the trade fair.
Between June 15 and 19, ACHEMA 2015 – the leading international trade fair for…
Process analytical technology for concentration measurement, phase separation an …
In industrial processes, inline analytical technology is used to monitor critical parameters and to control processes for quality assurance, production efficiency and safety. This increases process reliability, reduces costs of raw material and energy, and eliminates failed productions.
With the LiquiSonic® analytical technology of SensoTech, parameters such as the concentration in process liquids can be monitored. The analyzer is used in almost any liquids of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry,…
FIRST EXOSKELETON FOR INDUSTRY UNVEILED
EU Robo-Mate project presents first prototype of an exoskeleton to help production workers.
Production workers often lift up to 10 metric tons of material a day. According to the Work Foundation Alliance (Lancaster, UK), 44 million workers in the EU suffer from work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Now researchers in the EU’s Robo-Mate project have developed an exoskeleton that makes loads up to ten times lighter to lift or carry. The project partners…
Simulation for civil protection
Results of the CRISMA EU project help rescue teams prepare for catastrophes
In 2012, 40 researchers, technicians and operators from 17 European institutions joined forces in the EU’s CRISMA project to develop simulation and modeling solutions that help public authorities and rescue teams prepare for crisis situations. Now to conclude the project, the consortium will present its concepts for modeling and simulation.
Chemical spills, earthquakes or large-scale emergencies – effective crisis management…
Now Available at MoBiTec: Ni-IDA Columns for Fast Purification of His-Tagged Pro …
MoBiTec Ni-IDA Columns containing a superior silica-based IDA resin provide a fast and convenient routine tool for purification of recombinant polyhistidine-tagged proteins by gravity flow.
Poly-histidine tags are often used for affinity purification of poly-histidine-tagged recombinant proteins expressed in Escherichia coli, Bacillus megaterium, Bacillus subtilis, and other prokaryotic expression systems. A poly-histidine tag is an amino acid motif in proteins that consists of multiple histidine (His) residues, mostly located at the…
Technology that feels good
Brain-computer interface to improve interaction with technology through emotion recognition
May 27, 2015
In the EMOIO project launched at the beginning of the year, Fraunhofer IAO is working with partners from research and industry to study how they might record and classify the emotional experiences that take place when a human being interacts with a technical product. The goal is to develop emotion-sensitive assistance systems that adapt to the mood and personal…
At the Far End of the Pipeline – Long-Distance Commuting as a Way of Life
Life as a shift-worker, far from home, is usually considered problematic and often described in such terms. An interdisciplinary project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF focuses on the Russian petroleum industry to study the complex interconnections in long-distance commuting and reconstituting the normality of a life between extremes.
Oil and gas extraction sites are gradually shifting to the Arctic north. Depending on the method of calculation, about 20…
Adelphi University’s Award-Winning Exploring Critical Issues Discusses the Succe …
(Garden City, NY, May 2015) Exploring Critical Issues, the award-winning televised series conceived and hosted by Adelphi University President Robert A. Scott, will once again bring expert panelists together to discuss important current topics. The latest edition will discuss the factors that contribute to the successful university. It will air for two weeks, beginning on Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 10:00 PM.
“A university’s success is measured in part by…
iversity Wins “Land of Ideas” Award
11 May 2015 – iversity is the winner of the title “Landmark in the Land of Ideas”. The jury of the prestigious competition announced that iversity, the European platform for academic online courses, is one of the prize recipients in the Education category.
This year’s competition is themed “Urban Space. Rural Space. Cyberspace! Innovations for Germany’s digital future”. The prize was awarded to 100 companies, societies, and research institutions that find…
Beam Tracking with Mirror Tip- and Tilting Piezostage PKS1
In biology applications a laser beam is used for cell stimulation. First the laser beam is redirected onto 2 mirrors then directed to the cells. An important requirement, to hold the laser beam onto the cell is very difficult to achieve due to thermal effects or external vibration. The position of the laser beam needs to be controlled in real-time to track the motion of the cell.
For this task a…
Mark W. Harris to Receive Honorary Degree at Adelphi Commencement
Adelphi University will confer an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree to Mark W. Harris, president and chief executive officer of ELS Educational Services, Inc. Harris will receive the degree at Adelphi’s 119th Commencement on Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale, NY.
Inspired by his own study abroad at the University of Madrid and language teaching experience as an instructor…
Cora Weiss to Receive Honorary Degree at Adelphi Commencement
GARDEN CITY, NY, April 2015 - Adelphi University will confer an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to Cora Weiss, president of the Hague Appeal for Peace. Weiss will receive the degree at Adelphi’s 119th Commencement on Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale, NY.
Cora Weiss has devoted her life to the movements for peace, the advancement of women, civil rights…
Scientists Gain Unique Insight into the Function of a Key Muscle Protein
Thanks to the first high-resolution structural analysis of the muscle protein α-actinin, scientists now have a better understanding of how muscles work. The analysis provides crucial information about the structure and function of this complex muscle protein and could lead to the development of new treatments for major muscular disorders. The results of the project, which is funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF and the European Commission, were recently…
Vartan Gregorian, Ph.D., to the Deliver the 119th Adelphi Commencement Address
Adelphi University will confirm graduates at the associate, bachelor, master and doctoral levels during its 119th Commencement on Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale, NY.
Vartan Gregorian will deliver the Commencement address and be recognized with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
Vartan Gregorian is the 12th president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Prior to his…
Specialized system – Piezo Micrometer Screw Drive MICI
Hybrid element that combines the advantages of long travel of micrometer screws, with the nm-accuracy of a piezo stage
These elements were originally developed for quality control applications in the optics industry. They consist of a piezoelectric actuator in combination with a micrometer screw drive. The user can first adjust the coarse position of the actuator with a micrometer screw, and then fine tune it with the piezo stage itself.…
AeroMACS Takes Flight Globally: Delivering Next Generation Communications to the …
Phased wireless deployment using WiMAX Forum’s Network Reference Model as a guide
Washington D.C. – ICNS Conference – April 20, 2015 – The WiMAX Forum® is announcing today the publication of a technical white paper entitled, “AeroMACS: Delivering Next Generation Communications to the Airport Surface.” Collaborating with a team of industry experts, the WiMAX Forum identified the short- and long-term benefits to 3 major stakeholders—aviation authorities, airports, and airline carriers—for improved…
Free online course on “Store Design, Visual Merchandising and Shopper Marketing” …
Consumer researcher Claus Ebster reveals the secrets of how retail stores lure shoppers into buying.
Vienna/Berlin, 14 April 2015 – Have you ever wondered how stores influence your shopping behaviour? In the first ever online course on store design and shopper marketing, consumer researcher Claus Ebster, associate professor of marketing at the University of Vienna, reveals the marketing secrets of how our purchase decisions are influenced by colors, scents, store layouts…
Polish History from the Standpoint of "Ordinary People"
The historian Katherine Lebow investigates "everyman" autobiographies in Poland between the two World Wars. Her research project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. With her work, Lebow adds a new perspective to the history of Eastern Europe and documents a chapter in international science history.
In the 1920s, Polish sociologists developed autobiography competitions as a way to preserve personal stories and biographical documents of workers, farming folk, young…
Electrifying Research: Piezoelectric Effects for the Suppression of Material Str …
The generation of electrical charges in response to mechanical deformation is a distinctive feature of piezoelectric materials. This property can be used to avoid mechanical stresses in special materials. A project currently funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF will make a key contribution to the optimisation of these "intelligent materials".
High levels of mechanical stress reduce the lifespan of construction components. This is true for all types of materials; exposure…
New Book Offers a Historical View of Adelphi University
In recent months, much has been reported about the state of higher education. Media stories have discussed how schools need to adapt to changing needs, demographics, technologies, and market demands. In her latest book, A History of Adelphi University (Pearson), Jennifer Fleischner, Ph.D., acclaimed author (Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave) and professor in the English department…
Cognitive Plasticity in Adulthood
What is the link between personality, life experience, and brain structure? On Wednesday, January 28, listen to aging experts present their findings at the German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI) in New York on the plasticity of the human brain.
NEW YORK (January 22, 2015) – Although the adult brain was once thought to be a rather static organ, it is now clear that the organization of brain circuitry is…
