Flat computers, powerful cell phones and tablets – the integrated circuits, our computers' power centers, are becoming increasingly smaller and more complex. The microchips in today's computers already contain some two billion transistors. To get the chip density right, the structures are exposed onto the chips by means of lithography. To be able to meet future requirements, the semi-conductor industry is planning to convert the exposure using a wavelength of 193 nm to a wavelength of just 13.5 nm. This can be achieved only with completely new radiation sources. The favorite ...

The epic number of record high temperatures across the United States this year has led to predictions of a hot summer, which means high energy bills. Even during moderately warm summers, however, air-conditioning costs can be quite significant. But there is an easy way to slash electric bills without suffering through uncomfortable evenings. An attic fan is a simple and inexpensive method of cooling a home. Attic fans neutralize the source of upstairs heat so families can be cool and comfortable all summer while using far less electricity. Typical savings are up ...

With a new single spinning on airwaves all across the country, and just in time for her new EP to hit stores next week, teenage singer/songwriter Justine Dorsey secured two nominations for Best Female Singer/Songwriter and Hot Adult Contemporary Single at the esteemed 2012 LA Music Awards. With well over six hundred applicants, Justine stood out amongst the pack and was honored with nominations in two of the night's most competitive categories, Hot Adult Contemporary Single and Best Female Singer/Songwriter. Justine knows that Female Singer/Songwriter category is the ...

WHO: Claire Casseb & PrimaDonna Productions, Inc. WHAT: "Glamour in Glitter" Art Show WHEN: Saturday, June 2, 2012 6:00pm-9:00pm WHERE: Architecture Foundation of San Antonio - Center for Architectur 200 E. Grayson St. (in the Pearl Brewery; free parking available across the center) San Antonio, TX 78215 Artist Claire Casseb will bring legends of film and music to life in her latest exhibit. Produced in association with PrimaDonna Productions, Inc., "Glamour in Glitter" will showcase Casseb's portraits in glitter of cultural ...

Laser technology uses light. Light can be rapidly and precisely deflected, shaped and focused. If we pulse laser light and reduce pulse duration more and more, the laser tool works even more precisely. A benefit: The material being processed heats up less and less. High-power, ultra-short pulses, then, are the ideal solution for medical applications, in brain surgery for instance, as the cerebral membrane is not damaged. Or for removing tumor tissue thereby conserving the surrounding tissue and blood vessels. This precision technology is also valued in the processing of ...

Tettenhall Towers in Wolverhampton is a brand new location for simply ghost nights. Tettenhall Towers dates back to the early part of the eighteeth century and was built by Thomas Pearson is 1771. In 1851 it was bought by Colonel Thomas Thorneycroft who was a very eccentric man and has been spotted many times at the Towers, unhappy that there are people in his home, Its documented that scared builders have fled the property and not returned because of what they've seen or heard!! The Thorneycrofts, Colonel Thorneycroft bought and sold property on a grand scale but preferred ...

NeoMetrix Technologies, Inc, a high-technology company located near Orlando, FL, will be holding a rapid design contest at this year's Rapid 2012 show in Atlanta, GA. Candidates will submit their sketched ideas for a new smart phone holder at booth 250. A winning design will be selected each day. That winning design will be converted to a 3D solid model using SpaceClaim Engineer, then printed on our Objet 3D printer. SpaceClaim provides all the tools required to quickly convert conceptual designs into engineering quality 3D solid models. Objet 3D printers take those ...

When manufacturing products, the coating technology is a key innovation driver for almost all areas of daily life – for example, for making scratch-proof displays for smart phones or anti-bacterial surfaces in refrigerators. Other coatings protect components from corrosion or aging, for example in a solar cell module or a car engine, without the end user noticing their existence. In industry today, wet chemical processes or vacuum plasma processes are primarily used for coating applications. Both have drawbacks. Vacuum units are expensive, limited to smaller components ...

VIDEO: A new method detects traces of veterinary drugs in baby food. Click here for more information. The quantities are very small, but in milk powder and in meat-based baby food, residues of drugs given to livestock were found. Researchers from the University of Almería (Spain) have developed a system to analyse these substances quickly and precisely. Antibiotics, such as tilmicosine, or antiparasitic drugs, such as levamisole, are given to livestock in order to avoid ...

Quinetha Frasier, MBA of Firstborn Group, LLC will present social enterprise as an viable option for creating revenue to support nonprofit missions on May 22, 2012 with the Georgia Center for Nonprofits (GCN). The workshop is from 10:30 am - 11:45 am at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Atlanta, GA. The "Social Enterprise: Nonprofits in the Business of Funding Change' class will provide attendees with practical strategies and case studies on how to create additional revenue streams. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how to advance their social mission ...

A new social website for posting free online classified ads in local markets is shopping for a new state to call home. SquawkBoard.com offers localized "neighborhood bulletin boards" throughout the United States so it's open for a lot of possibilities. California's tax hike will place a strain on SquawkBoard's growing company and is seeking to save various taxes by moving out of the state. "Officially, 254 large companies have left California last year which is five times higher than 2009 and this tax hike will probably push out ours. We're looking for ...

Metalworking plays a key role in industry. Drilling, milling, turning and grinding operations all use lubricants to prevent work pieces and tools from overheating and from excess wear. Standard lubricants today are based on mineral oil. This has drawbacks: fossil mineral oils come from finite resources, transport relatively little heat away from the work piece, are harmful to health and are flammable. All of this calls for extreme technical efforts, for occupational safety, fire safety and disposal, for example. So there's a need for alternative lubricants. Renewable ...

Gotham LLC, an industrial marketing firm based in Hickory, NC, has completed an extensive new branding package and website for Southern Glove Inc. in Newton, NC. "We have had a solid, long-term marketing relationship with Southern Glove," said Gotham president Woody Stoudemire. "I respect the perseverance the company has displayed, staying in business since 1945. I am honored that we were selected to update Southern Glove's company image." Stoudemire said the branding project included a new logo, communications package, slogan and website. Other ...

With the recent announcement of the much anticipated GSA/PBS Fast 50 Award, Realcomm Conference Group, LLC, a global leader in providing technology education and networking opportunities for the commercial, corporate, institutional and government real estate industry, announced an important milestone today - the transformation of a paper based, disparate industry to a more seamless, energy conserving, operationally efficient, financially optimized and more tenant friendly model. The Realcomm journey on this topic started in earnest in April of 2002 with the publication ...

Exercise clears the mind. It gets the blood pumping and more oxygen is delivered to the brain. This is familiar territory, but Dartmouth's David Bucci thinks there is much more going on. "In the last several years there have been data suggesting that neurobiological changes are happening—[there are] very brain-specific mechanisms at work here," says Bucci, an associate professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. From his studies, Bucci and his collaborators have revealed important new findings: The effects of exercise are different on memory ...

E-Training for Dogs, the most extensive online dog training educational site on the Internet and provider of a wide selection of webinars for the dog owner, dog trainer, breeder and canine enthusiast, announces a new ground breaking seminar designed to help shelter, rescue and foster family individuals prepare their rescued dogs for more successful adoptions, and a chance to win the free online seminar, 'Working with Shelter or Rescue Dogs: When Love Isn't Enough.' The new online seminar 'Working with Shelter or Rescue Dogs: When Love Isn't Enough,' is designed to new ...

In addition to in-house transportation cost management services, Source Consulting now offers innovative, cloud-based transportation management systems, Intelliship and HALO. Both SAAS (Software As A Service) solutions are designed to streamline a variety of transportation related processes, allowing companies to improve efficiencies and reduce shipping costs. "By enabling our customers with Intelliship and HALO, we are able to further expand the significance of our value proposition to high-volume shippers," said Luke Kupersmith, president of Source Consulting. ...

Laser systems can be used to implement highly precise and ultra-fast measuring processes. Railway measuring technology has a huge worldwide need here. One prerequisite for its use is that nobody is damaged or suffers irritations by the laser. Dr. Heinrich Höfler and Dipl.-Ing. Harald Wölfelschneider from the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg have worked with their team to develop a 3D laser scanner. It can be used outdoors without hesitation. Extremely fast and precise, it is able to spatially measure and monitor the position of the ...

Bridesandlovers.com - the premier Russian dating and marriage agency for men seeking relationships with Russian and Ukrainain women - Today announced that it has broken its previous record for success stories in April 2012. By bringing to the point where over 30 online couples involved in a internet relationship have taken the relationship to something more stable and permanent often making a planned trip to meet each other in real life. Bridesandlovers.com broke their previous record set in September of last year. Customer feedback has showed the couples used the features ...

Dartmouth faculty and students played prominent roles in a recent study on the cognitive effects of head impacts among student athletes. Tested at the beginning and end of one season, 22 percent of those students who participated in contact sports scored significantly lower in memory and learning skills than expected, as opposed to only 4 percent of non-contact sport athletes. "These results were found shortly after the season and we do not know how long the effect [of the head impacts] lasts," said Thomas McAllister, Millennium Professor of Psychiatry and Director of ...

The first purely silicon oxide-based 'Resistive RAM' memory chip that can operate in ambient conditions – opening up the possibility of new super-fast memory - has been developed by researchers at UCL. Resistive RAM (or 'ReRAM') memory chips are based on materials, most often oxides of metals, whose electrical resistance changes when a voltage is applied – and they "remember" this change even when the power is turned off. ReRAM chips promise significantly greater memory storage than current technology, such as the Flash memory used on USB sticks, and require much ...

WASHINGTON — Whether you're an iPerson who can't live without a Mac, a Facebook addict, or a gamer, you know that social media and technology say things about your personality and thought processes. And psychological scientists know it too – they've started researching how new media and devices both reveal and change our mental states. Two recent articles in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, a publication of the Association for Psychological Science, explored how trends in technology are changing the questions psychological scientists are asking and the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- University at Buffalo researchers are making significant progress on rust-proofing steel using a graphene-based composite that could serve as a nontoxic alternative to coatings that contain hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen. In the scientists' first experiments, pieces of steel coated with the high-tech varnish remained rust-free for only a few days when immersed continuously in saltwater, an environment that accelerates corrosion. By adjusting the concentration and dispersion of graphene within the composite, the researchers increased to about ...

The Hadley Nursing Center at the Specialty Hospital Of Washington (SHW), joined forces with 4th and 5th grade students at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in the Healing Walls Student Art Exhibit. The Healing Walls project was developed by Cheron McNear, Marketing Coordinator for Specialty Hospital of Washington, and is designed to provide the patients and residents in our facility with uplifting artwork that will inspire and assist them in their healing process. The students were led by their art teacher, Mr. Bryan, who directed the theme of the artwork around ...

Andre' Haynes 'The People's Publicist' announced today that Richard Knapp of Las Vegas, NV has won the Award of Excellence of the Screenplay Competition at the 2012 CIFF, for his screenplay, "Can Richard Come Out and Play?". Richard Knapp's Award of Excellence was presented on March 31, 2012 at the Closing Night Award Ceremony at Edgewater Casino's Stadium Club Theatre. CIFF is gaining a reputation for its wide variety of film genres, and has quickly garnered a respected following for its dynamic selections. Held each year in Vancouver, BC, the festival brings ...