Millions of germs and bacteria await kids at school.(wash hands, the...

Journal of Environmental Health;  January 1, 2006 ;     562 words ......as 2.7 million bacterial cells per square inch on common school...surfaces--2.7 million bacterial cells/[in.sup.2]. * A...toilet seat (33,800 bacterial cells/[in.sup.2] versus 3,200 bacterial cells/[in.sup.2...

On their toes: Control, strength of Bolshoi Ballet help keep tradition...

University Wire;  April 13, 1998 ;     417 words ......COLLEGE, Penn. -- It all came down to one square inch. Well, maybe an inch. What's the circumference...Bolshoi Ballet dancers used that one square inch Wednesday night to put the jewelry boxes...then come back and land on that one square inch. That control has a wide and storied...

High-pressure hydrogen tank.

Advanced Composites Bulletin;  October 1, 2001 ;     220 words ......hydrogen at 69 MPa (10 000 pounds a square inch). At 69 MPa, 80% more hydrogen fuel...space than at 34.4 MPa (5000 pounds a square inch). Potential applications include mobile...pressure of 162 MPa (23 500 pounds a square inch); the European Integrated Hydrogen Project...

Consumerism 101.

Playthings;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......saw the television ad that promised a square inch of land in Alaska, 'Absolutely Free...become as I thought about farming my square inch. Corn, I thought, I'll grow corn! All...however, lost the memory of farming that square inch of land. It was a brilliant marketing...

Understanding the through-hole density barrier.(Happy Thoughts)

CircuiTree;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......The element of this CELL is a single square inch of a printed circuit board's surface...this the average pins (connections) per square inch or assembly density. This is a useful...The Y-Axis is the Average Parts per Square Inch of an assembly and the X-Axis is the...

Microbes Build a Better Nanoworld.

Analytic Separations News;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Wisconsin-Madison has successfully used single bacterial cells to make tiny bio-electronic circuits...to capture, interrogate and release bacterial cells one by one. Built into a sensor, such...for many applications the use of bacterial cells affords a number of potential ...

Harnessing Microbes, One by One, to Build a Better Nanoworld.

AScribe Business & Economics News Service;  March 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Wisconsin-Madison has successfully used single bacterial cells to make tiny bio-electronic circuits...to capture, interrogate and release bacterial cells one by one. Built into a sensor, such...for many applications the use of bacterial cells affords a number of potential ...

Read-Rite New 'Top Gun' in Vertical Recording Company Shatters Areal...

PR Newswire;  November 15, 2002 ;     592 words ......storage world record of 146 gigabits per square inch using vertical recording technology...The achievement of 146 gigabits per square inch will enable hard disk drive manufacturers...projected densities of 1 terabit per square inch, he added. The demonstration utilized...

IBM: 20 billion bits per square inch -- IBM sets new disk-drive world...

M2 Presswire;  May 14, 1999 ;     700+ words ......PRESSWIRE-14 May 1999-IBM: 20 billion bits per square inch -- IBM sets new disk-drive world record...20 billion of them would fit within a square inch. This laboratory demonstration is very...new record density of 20 gigabits per square inch (3.1 gigabits per square centimeter...

DuPont develops bio-route to solvent. (Green Chemistry).(Brief Article)

Chemical Week;  May 15, 2002 ;     262 words ......Xolvone, is produced via the reaction of bacterial cells with 2-methyl - glutaronitrile (MGN...gel coating that encapsulates the bacterial cells but allows them to react with the...cost-effective, too, Hennessey says. The bacterial cells are only 2-3 microns in diameter...

Minnesota Inventor Develops Bacteria Detection Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 10, 2008 ;     325 words ......eukaryotic cells (e.g., platelets) from intact bacterial cells before lysing the bacterial cells to release ATP, contacting the ATP with...sample with a support surface that binds bacterial cells, lysing the bacterial cells to release...

E. Coli bacteria as cancer fighter

Mechanical Engineering;  August 1, 2003 ;     405 words ......University of Delaware researcher found that bacterial cells progress toward optimal behavior, a...he used to predict the evolution of bacterial cells. The models showed that bacterial cells are methodical and evolve to function...

Read-Rite Announces Breakthrough in GMR Head Technology Aimed at...

PR Newswire;  August 3, 1999 ;     700+ words ......density of 26.5 billion bits per square inch, or over 38 billion bytes per 3.5...be extended to 40 billion bits per square inch, he added. Read-Rite demonstrated over 25 billion bits per square inch with media from HMT Technology Corporation...

E. coli bacteria as cancer fighter.(news & Notes)

Mechanical Engineering-CIME;  August 1, 2003 ;     403 words ......University of Delaware researcher found that bacterial cells progress toward optimal behavior, a...he used to predict the evolution of bacterial cells. The models showed that bacterial cells are methodical and evolve to function...

Microbially enhanced removal of pyrite and chalcopyrite from oxide gangue...

Minerals & Metallurgical Processing;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......calcite was achieved in the presence of bacterial cells and metabolic byproducts of Bacillus polymyxa. A selective affinity of the bacterial cells towards the mineral surface was observed...the minerals after interaction with bacterial cells and bacterial biomass led to an ...