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July 2006
Job Creation Tax
Credit Approved for Rapid MR International Operations in Ohio
Columbus, OH, July 31: RAPID MRI International, LLC (RAPID MRI), to be
located in Columbus, OH, has been awarded a 35 percent tax credit for a
five-year term to expand its first North American facility.
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Oxford Instruments strengthens links with Industrial
Technology Research Institute of Taiwan
Witney, UK, July 27: A formal Memorandum of Understanding was signed
between Oxford Instruments plc and The Industrial Technology Research Institute
of Taiwan, which will enable them to pursue joint projects in identified areas
of mutual interest, and exchange beneficial information and expertise.
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Varian, Inc. Reports Third
Quarter 2006 Results
Palo Alto, CA, July 26: Varian, Inc. (NASDAQ:VARI)
today reported revenues of $209.7 million in the third quarter of fiscal year
2006, representing an increase of 12.3% over revenues of $186.8 million in the
third quarter of fiscal year 2005. The growth in sales was broad-based, with
double-digit increases in life science and industrial applications for both the
Scientific Instruments and Vacuum Technologies segments.
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Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN on track with
cosmic rays
Geneva, Switzerland, July 26: The giant CMS particle detector at
CERN
has been sealed and switched on to collect data for an important series of tests
using cosmic ray particles. The CMS ‘cosmic challenge’ will be carried out with
segments of the full set of sub-detectors including a tracking detector composed
of 2 square metres of silicon sensors. This is larger than any used in CERN’s
previous generation of experiments, but only about 1% of the final detector that
will be installed in CMS when CERN’s new flagship particle accelerator, the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), starts up next year.
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SuperPower and Partners
Resume Fault Current Limiter Development To Protect Utility Grids
Schenectady, NY, July 25: SuperPower and two partners have agreed to
further develop a unique Superconducting Fault Current Limiter (SFCL) intended
to protect utility grids from damaging power surges that occur from lightning
strikes, fallen tree limbs and other mishaps. SuperPower already has designed,
built and successfully tested a proof-of-concept prototype. The next prototype
will be designed for transmission level voltages, and in the final phase a
complete three-phase prototype “power valve” will be installed at a substation
of American Electric Power for extended operation.
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BOC turns up the power in Albany: Superconducting system
provides three to five times more power capacity
Murray Hill, NJ, July 25: This summer, when the demand for electricity to
run pool pumps, fans and air conditioners is at its peak, power customers in
Albany, N.Y., will get some extra capacity thanks to new technology. A system
that eliminates the resistance that causes power losses in traditional copper
cables has begun operating, providing enough power for more than 70,000 area
households.
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Unique High-Temperature Superconducting Cable Project is Online In Albany, NY
Schenectady, NY, July 25: The world’s first in-grid superconducting
power cable has gone online in Albany, New York, on July 20, 2006. The 350-meter
underground cable—a demonstration of high-temperature superconducting (HTS)
applications to improve electric power transmission and distribution—is
operating at 34,500 volts, with a nominal current carrying capacity of 800
amperes. The cable—developed under the direction of
SuperPower with
partners Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. of Osaka, Japan, and BOC of Murray
Hill, New Jersey—links the Riverside and Menands substations of the North Albany
Service Center at National Grid.
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SuperPower Continues To Set
The Pace Of Global Leadership In Second Generation High-Temperature Wire
Schenectady, NY, July 25:
SuperPower, Inc.
today reported at the 2006 Annual DOE Peer Review in Washington, D.C. on
additional progress made in its manufacturing scale-up efforts for routine
production of long lengths of high performing second generation (2G)
high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wire.
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American Superconductor
Announces Major Breakthrough in Electricity with Its 2G Wire
Westborough, MA, July 25: American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:AMSC),
a leading energy technologies company, announced today it has achieved
commercial levels of electric current for the first time in long lengths of
second generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire. This is the
first time commercial levels of electrical current have been successfully
achieved in long lengths (over 300 feet) by a low cost industrial process,
making possible the emergence of this technology from the laboratory into the
marketplace. HTS wires conduct large quantities of electricity with 100%
efficiency when cooled with environmentally friendly liquid nitrogen, the
coolant of choice for superconductor electric power transmission and
distribution cables.
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UK Department of Trade and Industry Announces New Large
Science Facilities Council
Oxon, UK, July 25: This morning the Department of Trade and Industry announced
that the Government has decided to create a new Large Facilities Council merging
the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils [CCLRC]
and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council [PPARC]
following the 'Next Steps' consultation exercise. The Government aims to set up
the new Council so that it can take on its new functions by 1 April 2007.
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MRI Manufacturer Supertron
Raises $3.5 Million in Series C Financing
New York, NY, July 24:
Amphion Innovations plc today announced that one of its partner companies,
Supertron
Technologies, Inc. a leading developer of next-generation solutions for
high-performance preclinical and clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
coils, probes and accessories, has raised $3.5 million in a Series C financing.
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Acquisition of
Intermagnetics by Philips Clears U.S. Antitrust Regulatory Review Waiting Period
Latham, NY, July 24: Intermagnetics General Corporation (Nasdaq:
IMGC), announced today that the waiting period under the Hart-Scott Rodino
Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 regarding the acquisition of
Intermagnetics by
Philips Holding USA Inc., subsidiary of Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V.
(NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI), has expired. Completion of the transaction remains
subject to satisfaction or waiver of conditions and terms of the merger
agreement, European regulatory approval, and the approval of Intermagnetics'
shareholders. The merger is expected to close during the fourth quarter of
calendar 2006.
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Green Light For The Marketing Of The First Superconductive
Cyclotron For Hadrontherapy
Rome, Italy, July 23: The agreement between the
Italian National Institute for
Nuclear Physics and the Belgian firm Iba for the marketing, in the
biomedical field, of the first superconductive cyclotron producing protons and
carbon ions, has been made official today. The innovative project, that was
developed by the Infn Southern National Laboratories and realized with the
contribution of the Iba specific twenty-year experience in the field of
cyclotrons for medical applications, was conceived for the hospital centres of
oncological hadrontherapy.
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HYPRES receives $800K to further develop cryopackage and
superconductor analog-to-digital converter for defense communications
Elmsford, NY, July 20: HYPRES, Inc., a leading developer of
superconducting microelectronics (SME) technology, recently received $800K in
SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase II Plus contract additions from
the Department of Defense in support of its effort to develop a compact
cryocooler and its superconducting 2 MHz-2 GHz direct-conversion all digital
receiver—both key components in the company’s work to deliver to the DoD the
industry’s first all-digital transceiver (ADT) for wireless communications.
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VSM Medtech Appoints New
Directors and President
Vancouver, BC,
July 17: VSM MedTech Ltd. (TSX:VSM),
the world leader in the emerging clinical market for magnetoencephalography,
is pleased to announce that as part of its financing and restructuring
program it has appointed Paul Murdoch as President and CEO to replace Jack
Price, effective immediately. Mr. Murdoch has been with the company since
2004 in the position of Vice President, Customer Services, and has over 20
years experience in the medical equipment industry.
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First Direct Observations of Spinons and Holons
Berkeley, CA, July 13: The theory has been around for more than 40 years,
but only now has it been confirmed through direct and unambiguous experimental
results. Working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS)
of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a team
of researchers has observed the theoretical prediction of electron “spin-charge
separation” in a one-dimensional solid. These results hold implications for
future developments in several key areas of advanced technology, including
high-temperature superconductors, nanowires and spintronics.
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American Superconductor Receives
$1.3 Million Contract for 2G HTS Wire from U.S. Department of Defense
Westborough, MA, July 12: American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading
energy technologies company, announced today it has received a $1.3 million
contract extension for its second generation (2G) high temperature
superconductor (HTS) wire from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
The contract was awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
This most recent extension represents the sixth contract or contract extension
American Superconductor has received for 2G HTS wire development over just the
last 10 months and brings the total dollar amount of all AMSC government
contracts and contract extensions for this purpose to approximately $8.1 million
in that timeframe.
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Practice builds brain connections
for babies learning language, how to speak
Seattle, WA, July 10: Experience, as the old saying goes, is the best teacher.
And experience seems to play an important early role in how infants learn to
understand and produce language. Using new technology that measures the magnetic
field generated by the activation of neurons in the brain, researchers tracked
what appears to be a link between the listening and speaking areas of the brain
in newborn, 6-month-old and one-year-old infants, before infants can speak.
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Researchers peg magnetism as key
driver of high-temperature superconductivity
Gaithersburg, MD, July 6: When it comes to superconductivity, magnetic
excitations may top good vibrations. Writing in the July 6, 2006, issue of
Nature, scientists working at the Commerce Department's National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Center for Neutron Research (NCNR)
in collaboration with physicists from the University of Tennessee (UT)
and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
report strong evidence that magnetic fluctuations are key to a universal
mechanism for pairing electrons and enabling resistance-free passage of electric
current in high-temperature superconductors.
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Experts on the Science Behind Superman Returns
Toronto, Canada, July 6: In the movie Superman Returns, Lex Luthor
steals crystals from Superman’s Fortress of Solitude, and uses them to grow a
new continent. While the real science of growing crystals is not quite so
dramatic (or catastrophic), it is every bit as earth-shattering.
CIAR offers world renowned experts
who can explain the groundbreaking science of crystallography.
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New Materials Spur Advanced Applications in Electronics
Industry
Palo Alto, CA July 6: The Technical Insights group at
Frost & Sullivan will host
an analyst briefing teleconference on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at 1 p.m. EDT.
With electronic materials playing a significant role in various applications,
fundamental research into electronics has become highly essential for the
continued improvement and miniaturization of electronic devices. With Increased
scientific understanding, scientists, researchers and institutions have been
able to exploit the materials' behavior from the atomic levels to nano levels.
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