About a month ago, I did a post, entitled, "Bad China Products, Hey, It's A Criminal Thing." That post was on the recent indictment of ChemNutra' and its owners for having allegedly imported tainted pet food. In the post, I

Our last poll was such a success, I am running another one, even more sophisticated this time. The official Chinese government position is that he was right 70% of the time and wrong the other 30%. Please vote AND please

The Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) recently asked "over 1,400 expatriates" to rank 13 Asian economies on corruption and the results of that survey, from least corrupt to most corrupt, are as follows: 1. Singapore 2. Hong Kong 3.

Teachers were reacting coolly Friday to a plan to overhaul two big high schools in Minneapolis.

The list of patients waiting for organ transplants, which is widely used to promote organ donations, includes thousands who are ineligible for the operations, according to statistics kept by the national network that manages the allocation of organs.

A leading childcare charity urges the government to force schools to make term times more co-ordinated.

Primary schoolchildren spoilt at home can disrupt classes with behaviour such as tantrums, a report says.

Everyone was a little bit buggy last week in the SWON Libraries Region. With the help of the State Library of Ohio, SWON Libraries hosted three workshops for children's librarians with the theme: Catch the Reading Bug @ Your Library.

OCLS and Indiana Wesleyan University: OCLS began in 1993 to serve the information research needs of the students and faculty of the Adult and Professional Studies Division. Since then it has expanded its role to serve the Adult and Graduate

Xavier University's Information Resources division is seeking applications for the Director for Content Management position. The Director for Content Management reports to the Vice President and CIO for Information Resources work closely with the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and

Vistronix, Inc. is a leading Information Management (IM), IT support services and Managed Services company serving government agencies and other organizations. Founded in 1990 and based in McLean, Virginia, Vistronix is a Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) with project offices located

The electron spectroscopy techniques (X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), High Resolution Electron Energy Losses Spectroscopy (HREELS), Extended Energy Loss Fine Structure (EELFS) were used for characterisation of semiconductor nanocrystals (Si, PbS, CdS) formed by various technologies: Si

Nanoparticles as fillers for epoxy composites sometimes result in unexpected dielectric properties. This paper presents a study on the dielectric properties of E-51 epoxy resin incorporated with surface modified 20 and 100 nm silica particles, respectively. The nanoparticles and composites

Two types of commercially available nano-sized, ZrO2 3mol%Y2O3 (Y-Tetragonal Zirconia Polycrystals (TZP)) powders were investigated. BET surface area analysis showed the powders to be nano-sized as determined using Equivalent Spherical Diameter (ESDBET) theory. Dilatometry analysis showed that one of the

Nanofluids are new class of heat transfer fluids developed by suspending nanosized solid particles in liquids. Larger thermal conductivity of solid particles compared to the base fluid such as water, ethylene glycol, engine oil, etc. significantly enhances its thermal properties.

This paper provides an overview of the important physical phenomena necessary for the determination of effective thermal conductivity of nanofluid. Increase in the specific area as well as Brownian motion are supposed to be the most significant reasons for the

The reduced effective mass of cadmium sulphide nanoparticles formed by Successful Ion Layered Adsorption and Reaction (SILAR) has been studied. It is found that the value of the reduced effective mass of the charge carriers in CdS nanoparticles is greater

Bad behaviour in schools is being fuelled by 'overindulgent' parents, says new research

A "lucky" scientist who unearthed curious bones in India recently found out they are the world's oldest known rabbit fossils, dating back 53 million years.

As oil development surges in the Peruvian Amazon, remote rain forest tribes are suffering both physically and socially as they're forced into contact with the outside world, rights groups say.