Input prices continued to rise, particularly for fuel, other petroleum-based materials, metals, food, and chemicals.
Some of the more intriguing meteorites are partly composed of carbon-based materials, including amino acids and sugars.
The information published consists of web-based materials and covers all 95 courses.
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"Not only are children and young people more likely to read on electronic devices than they are to read paper-based materials but they also do it more often, " said the study.
About the same size as fine particles of cigarette smoke, the grains are made of silicate minerals and carbon-based materials coated with ice - principally water ice and frozen carbon monoxide.
Other research projects in the field of artificial retinas are currently focusing on carbon-based materials like nanocrystalline diamond and graphene, but those are intended for replacing silicon electrodes, like the Argus 2.
As water-based materials are better at stopping radiation than metal, the approach theoretically represents the best of all worlds with less bulk, a simpler life support system and maximum room for supplies.
Well, after scooping up some loose sand, Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite and the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instruments found a menagerie of chemicals, including sulfur, chlorine, and traces of carbon-based materials.
The material is an organic photovoltaic semiconductor (called rr-P3HT) which, unlike the metal or silicon-based materials used until now for such biotechnological interfaces, is soft, light, flexible and highly biocompatible and naturally sensitive to visible light.
An additional innovation of this programme is the design of context-based materials by a multidisciplinary team including educators and designers who are in charge of writing the content, selecting material, editing and producing the multimedia resources.
I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DD) : This Delaware-based materials giant operates in about 80 countries, making products for a wide array of industries, including agriculture, nutrition, electronics, construction and apparel, to name a few.
These include Yuri Suzuki, a materials scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is building stacks of metal oxides in the hopes that, when combined with carbon-based materials, they'll blend into a new kind of semiconductor that can control spin at normal temperatures.
Fossil fuels, similarly -- we are trying to target fossil fuels and design so that you get fossil -- biomass to replace fossil fuel, but biomass based on, for example, woody materials, based on agricultural waste like wheat straw, corn cobs -- agricultural waste, lumber waste residues -- that's very inexpensive feedstock.
MRAM, a next-generation memory based on magnetic materials, has emerged as an alternative to SRAM because it is non-volatile, cutting leak current during standby status.
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Angel, which is based in Penicuik but also runs facilities in Glasgow and Northumberland, manufactures and supplies clinically-based bio-materials for global biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
UBS, filed a lawsuit against a rival, Deutsche Bank, for refusing to pay out on a credit derivative on Armstrong World Industries, a maker of building materials based in Pennsylvania.
The new materials are based on a design known as the "split ring" structure.
The Swiss-based company supplies raw materials such as oil, copper and wheat and owns plants, warehouses and mines.
The grain of truth here is that, yes, changes in technology and the economy have meant that, say, clever financiers or computer programmers can make billions of dollars almost overnight in a way that would have been inconceivable to the strenuously materials-based wealth accumulation of Andrew Carnegie or Commodore Vanderbilt.
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The charges were based on conflicting information accompanying materials related to the merger.
Directed by Satoshi Kon, who mixes drawn and digital materials, and based on a novel by the science-fiction writer Yasutaka Tsutsui.
With the rise of biotechnology and other advances, many patented technologies are based on biological or other materials that are by nature replicable, making illicit copying as tempting as it is easy.
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Mr Lansley says he will draw the review team's attention to the work of the Surgical Materials Testing Laboratory based in Bridgend, after Ms Griffiths suggested the English NHS might wish to use it.
This is why using a web based service to send out printed materials is still attractive to many business owners.
There are still many sectors where Japanese firms are world leaders, based primarily on superior engineering, materials, manufacturing and quality management.
To the function-based repurposing of natural-wonder materials, like silk and cashmere.
Among the announcements at Beijing Design Week, however, US based Material Connexions, the leading materials library and consultancy, announced a new Beijing office, its first in China.
Users can access to the learning materials through Flash-based software.
So do buildings materials firms like Chicago-based USG, maker of the popular Sheetrock brand of gypsum wallboard.
Incorporated in 1977, Pasadena, California-based Avery Dennison manufactures pressure-sensitive materials and a variety of tickets, tags, labels other converted products.
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