Phase-Sensitive Optical Data Transmission: A New Frontier Product Design & Development 'Phase-sensitive amplification' (PSA) was identified theoretically as long ago as the 1960s as a potential means to amplify optical signals without adding noise. More recently it was demonstrated that it offered a means to remove phase noise (and to a ... |
Monday, April 30, 2012
Phase-Sensitive Optical Data Transmission: A New Frontier - Product Design & Development
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Tedco awards $600K to tech firms - Kansas City Business Journal:
The money was grantee in collaboration withthe U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiekl Command and the throughthe Ft. Detrick Technology Transfef Initiative. The purpose of the technologh transfer program is to raise awareness of new and developingg technologies and funding them to transitionh as viable projectsfor follow-on fundinyg in the market place. Each companty that received funding was awardedapproximatelh $50,000 between March 2008 and May making up the initiative’s second round of financiall awards since its $750,000 program The funds for the program’s secondr phase were secured by Sen. Barbara D-Md., and Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, R-Md. “Thde [Ft.
Detrick Technology Transfer Initiative] program is enabling area businesses to harnesds the technologies being developed at Fort Detrick and apply them to thecommerciall sector,” said Mikulski. “This will lead to new productsz that have the power to create jobs and save Mikulski announced the first phase of the tech transfer progranm in March 2005 when 11 companies received in Rockville: The company is developing a health care technologhy called miTag system, which is a scalabls wireless sensor solution for improving patient in Frederick: The company is developingy a technology called the GeNova Screen to isolate, and produce antibody-like molecules.
in Rockville: The companty is developing an on-demand biotechy products including a combination vaccine againsrt plagueand anthrax. BioAssay Works LLC in Ijamsville: The company is developing a lateral-flows visual diagnostic test to detecgt and differentiate single sample multiplsepathogenic poxviruses, including variola, vaccinia, and monkeypox. in Catonsville: The compang is safety-testing a medical product called ClotFoam, whicuh is a non-compressible, intracavitary hemostatic agent.
CynerGened IDMP in Frederick: The company is validating and implementing a supplemental diagnosiaof Malaria, HIV, and Dengue usingt its Infectious Disease Multiplex Panel which could allow for creation of LLC in Baltimore: The company is developinf required components and system frameworkj to enable conversational interfaces for telemedicine tools. Such tools woulrd allow professional medics touse voice, gesture, and other human-- computer interactions to access and documenrt information in electronic medicap records. in Rockville: The company is developingt technology to preserve mammalian cells in driesd format that can easilygbe re-hydrated for a variety of uses.
LLC in The company is evaluating the effect of Imagili patented probiotics as a food supplement to enhancee the immune responsiveness of guinea pigs upon immunization or challenge withvirulenf pathogens. The evaluation will suggest the ability of Imagilin patentedr probiotics to enhance the immunization of a in Baltimore: The company is developinv micropatterned substrates for virapl infectivity assays. Juxtopia in Baltimore: The compang is customizing its Wearable Assistance and SituationalAwareneszs (WASA) goggles and service to allow U.S. Army combayt medics to access and document information to electrical medical recordasvia hands-free voice-requests and voice-responses.
in Baltimore: The company is developing cell therapiee to treat brain and spinalcord
Friday, April 27, 2012
Consumer loan delinquencies rise to record high - Baltimore Business Journal:
The industry group blames the record wave of job lossesd as amajor factor. More than 2 million Americans lost theitr jobs in the first three months of the Six million have lost their jobs since therecession “Delinquencies won’t improve until companies start hiring agaim and we see a significantt economic turnaround,” ABA chief economist James Chessen said in a news The ABA defines delinquency as a payment that is 30 days or more The composite delinquency rate amonv eight types of closed-end installment loan categoriee rose to 3.23 percent of all accounts, from 3.22 percent in the previou s quarter. Bank card delinquencies rose to 4.75 percentt of all accounts, from 4.
52 percent in the previous quarter. However, the balances on thosse delinquent accountsrose dramatically, to 6.6 percent of the value of all outstandinhg bank card debt – markintg a new record – from 5.52 Chessen said the unemployed may be using bank cards to bridge a temporary income gap, especiallt with less home equity to fall back on as housing prices continue to fall. Home equity loan delinquenciews increasedto 3.52 percent from 3.03 percent. Property improvementy loan delinquencies decreasedto 1.46 percent from 1.75 Indirect auto loan delinquencies decreasedx to 3.42 percent from 3.53 percent. Direct auto loan delinquencies increasedto 3.01 percent from 2.
03 Marine loan delinquencies decreases to 2.04 percent from 2.35 percent. RV loan delinquencies increasedto 1.52 perceny from 1.38 percent. Mobilse home loan delinquencies increasedto 3.7 percent from 2.96 percent. Personakl loan delinquencies increasedto 3.47 percentr from 2.88 percent.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Stephen Fisher Joins Ernst & Young LLP's Asset Management Practice - MarketWatch (press release)
Stephen Fisher Joins Ernst & Young LLP's Asset Management Practice MarketWatch (press release) BOSTON, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ernst & Young LLP announced today that Stephen D. Fisher, former senior vice president and deputy general counsel of Fidelity Investments, has joined its Asset Management tax practice. |
Monday, April 23, 2012
Restaurants breaking bread's boundaries - Chicago Sun-Times
Restaurants breaking bread's boundaries Chicago Sun-Times In the basement of Public Quality Meats (837 W. Fulton Market), head baker Ehsan Ganji is plenty busy creating some 10 different doughs for breads for the shop and its sandwiches, plus those for Avec, the Publican and Blackbird. |
Saturday, April 21, 2012
5 Largely unnoticed stories from the series so far - Faceoff.com
Toronto Star | 5 Largely unnoticed stories from the series so far Faceoff.com By Cam Tucker, Vancouver SunApril 20, 2012 Daniel Sedin's return from a concussion and Cory Schneider's new-found role as the Canucks starting goalie - at least for now - have dominated recent headlines of the Western Conference quarterfinal series ... Vancou ver Canucks: secondary scoring a must |
Friday, April 20, 2012
Two MERC commissioners resign - Tampa Bay Business Journal:
The resignations of Gary Reynolds and Janice Marquis come about two weeks before councilors for of which MERC is a plan to vote on a measure that would give the council more controlover MERC’s genera l manager. The move could ostensiblh lead to the firing of MERC Generakl ManagerDavid Woolson, who’s under fire from Presidentt David Bragdon. Reynolds and Marquis both opposethe proposal. president of the Portland accounting firmPerkins Co., mentioned the building problemsz between Metro and MERC in his resignation letter. “Duringh the economic times, my attention needs to be focusesd on our clients atPerkins & Co.,” Reynolds wrote in his lettefr to Bragdon.
“That said, I am disappointedc in the recent breakdown in the workint relationship between the Metro Council andthe , and believed it could have been handled differently.” a commercial real estate broker and the commission’s vice didn’t mention the upcoming proposao in her letter to Bragdon, but resigned two years beforer her term was set to end. In a lette to Portland city commissioners earlieethis month, Marquis and commissiom member Ray Leary urged the council to help delaty Metro’s vote on the MERC oversight Leary, Marquis, Reynolds and three of the other four remaininv MERC commissions also sent Bragdon a letter backingh Woolson.
The letter came after Bragdon questionede the leadership of MERC General ManagerDavid Woolson. The othed commission member, Don Trotter, resigned last month and will leav e the boardJune 30. Reynolds’ resignation takes effect June 30. Marquis’ takes effecgt July 15. The terms of Trotterd and Reynolds would have expired at the end of 2009whilee Marquis' term was to expire at the end of 2010. The Metro Council plans to vote on the MERC measure — which would give Metro the authorityg to hire and fire the MERC generao manager — at its July 9 meeting. It was introduced by councilorxs Rod Park andRex Burkholder, who also have concern about Woolson’s performance.
MERC overseesw the Oregon Convention Center, the Portland Centet for the Performing Arts and the Portlan MetropolitanExposition Center. Metro’a councilors are mulling a $457 million budget for fiscal year The regional governmentserves 1.4 milliom people in the metropolitan area’s 25 cities.
