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How Price Comparison Sites Boost Retailer Competition

But it’s not just the shoppers who are benefiting from the ability to check prices across a range of online stores, the retailers are using price comparison…

Technology Offerings

Optical Nano-Filters Boost Data Transmission in Fiber Networks

The invention is a nano-scale optical filter for pre-determined extraction of certain wavelength areas from a light beam.

In particular, the filter can be…

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Micro-Laser Component Boosts Efficiency in Communication Tech

The invention is a micro-laser component with effectivity and low production costs that is particularly suitable for application in communication technology…

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Innovative Laser Micro Material Processing Breakthroughs

The invention concerns a process and apparatus which enable the highly efficient processing of any type of material with adaptive, feedback controlled pulses…

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Measurement Set-Up for Intermodulation Analysis Metrological

The invention describes a measuring process and set-up to reduce memory effects of power amplifiers by recording an optimized operational state via harmonic…

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3D Trace Element Analysis with LIBS-Microscopy Innovation

The invention concerns a procedure and apparatus which enable the three-dimensional trace element analysis of material samples by ultra short laser pulse…

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Measurement Set-Up for Memory Analysis

The present invention is for a measurement process and set-up to analyse memory effects for the modelling of power amplifiers. Unlike GSM driven mobile radio…

Earth Sciences

How Snottites and Biofilms Speed Up Cave Formation

“Cave biofilms are simpler than the microbes that occur in soils where there can be hundreds of thousands of species,” says Dr. Jennifer L. Macalady, assistant…

Earth Sciences

Ice-Free Arctic Summers by 2040: New Study Insights

The study, by a team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the University of Washington, and McGill University, analyzes the…

Health & Medicine

Molecular Condom: A New Daily Defense Against AIDS

University of Utah scientists designed a “molecular condom” women could use daily to prevent AIDS by vaginally inserting a liquid that would turn into a…

Earth Sciences

Pollution Links: Insights from Mexico City to Houston

“There is a connection between pollution in Mexico City and in Houston, Texas,” says Dr. Anne M. Thompson, professor of meteorology, Penn State. “The spring,…

Studies and Analyses

Sleep Apnea Therapy Boosts Memory: New Study Insights

Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may improve their memory by using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). A new study published in the December…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Map Enhances Malaria Research Insights

An international research team announced today the completion of a genome-wide map that charts the genetic variability of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium…

Life & Chemistry

Geneticists Identify Genes Causing Sterility in Fruit Fly Hybrids

Now, Cornell researchers have made the first identification of a pair of genes in any species that are responsible for problems unique to hybrids….

Power and Electrical Engineering

'Stripes' and superconductivity — Two faces of the same coin?

Previous experiments have shown that in high-temperature superconductors known as cuprates, electrons bind together in pairs. The energy required to pull a…

Earth Sciences

New Earthquake Forecast Model Promises Improved Accuracy

“This is the most realistic model to date,” said Kaj Johnson, assistant professor of geological sciences at Indiana University, who worked on the modeling…

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