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Health & Medicine

Improving Risk Management to Reduce MRSA Infections in NHS

The impact of risk management standards on the frequency of MRSA infections in NHS hospitals study looked at how demanding risk management standards imposed by…

Social Sciences

Examining Supported Employment for People with Learning Disabilities

Her research will focus on four Tuck by Truck services based in East and Mid Kent and the London boroughs of Bexley and Bromley. Tuck by Truck is a project…

Environmental Conservation

Alternative Fuels League Table: Insights on Vehicle Rankings

Bottom of the table, unsurprisingly, are petrol vehicles, but coming in a close second last are hybrid vehicles that can run on compressed natural gas or…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Climate Catastrophes Across the Solar System

Modelling Earth’s climate to predict its future has assumed tremendous importance in the light of mankind’s influence on the atmosphere. The climate of our two…

Health & Medicine

Teenage Clubber Collapse Sparks Warnings on New Drug Dangers

It was during a weekend in May 2006 that an 18-year-old girl was rushed to the emergency department of a London (UK) hospital, having collapsed in a nightclub…

Technology Offerings

Continuous Dry Fermentation: Innovating Biomass Liquefaction

The invention consists in a process and a device for the continuous liquefaction of biomass. Solid materials are fed in at the base of the fermentor, and an…

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Innovative Phosphorus Removal System for Wastewater Treatment

The invention includes a procedure and an apparatus to purify waste water in small sewage treatment plants, and in particular, to remove phosphorus and its…

Technology Offerings

Photocatalytic Innovation: Clean Air and Water Solutions

The novel process uses the photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide to remove all toxic substances from exhaust air and waste water. Spraying and…

Technology Offerings

Universal Selection Process for Antibody-Producing Cells

The innovation described below consists of a simple, universal selection process for cells that produce macromolecules of all kinds, such as proteins, nuclein…

Technology Offerings

New Respiratory Air Sensor Innovates Condensate Collection

An innovative technique for collection of condensates from respiratory air and instantaneous analysis of its contents. The exhaled breath condenses on an…

Technology Offerings

Covalently Encapsulated Nanoparticles: A New Innovation Unveiled

The invention described below consists of a procedure to produce and employ hollow nanocapsules. The nanocapsules are distinguished by the fact that their…

Technology Offerings

Tailored Production of Polymer-Modified Nanoparticles

The invention described below consists of a process for the tailored production of nanoparticles in an inverted polymer-modified microemulsion, and for the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Model Explains Superfluid Helium Avalanche Behavior

Just as superconductors have no electrical resistance, superfluids have no viscosity, and can flow freely. Like superconductors, which can be used to measure…

Life & Chemistry

Key Discovery in Cortisol Production by Georgia Tech Scientists

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered an important step in cortisol production, finding that although the output of the hormone is…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Solving the Ethanol Challenge: Supercomputers Tackle Cellulose

To help unlock the cellulose bottleneck, a team of scientists has conducted molecular simulations at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), based at UC San…

Information Technology

Next-Gen High-Performance Processor Unveiled at UT Austin

The prototype for a revolutionary new general-purpose computer processor, which has the potential of reaching trillions of calculations per second, has been…

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