3.2 “Lab-on-a-Chip” A Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) device‚ also known as a micro-total-analytical system (microTAS) or microfluidics device‚ is a device that can integrate miniaturized laboratory functions (such as separation and analysis of components of a mixture) on a single microprocessor chip using extremely small fluid volumes on the order of nanoliters to picoliters. From a technology categorization perspective‚ LOCs can be viewed as a subset of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and combine
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was used with great effect among both military and civilian populations to control mosquitoes spreading malaria and lice transmitting typhus‚ resulting in dramatic reductions in the incidence of both diseases. The Swiss chemist Hermann Müller of Geigy Pharmaceutical was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods. After the war‚ DDT was made available for use as an agricultural insecticide
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German Accounting - GPK Leave it to the Germans to develop a costing model based on detail‚ precision and improving overall control. Flexible Analytic Cost Planning and Accounting (GPK) is a powerful tool‚ having withstood 60 years of alternative methodologies and widespread hands-on use across Europe. In manufacturing companies‚ particularly those with a homogenous product line‚ GPK can be used to define the effects of resource consumption to the bottom line while greatly illustrating to management
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Ciba was a chemical company based in Basel‚ Switzerland. It has now merged with a German company called BASF. Anabolic steroids increase muscle mass and physical strength‚ and therefore is used in sports and bodybuilding to enhance strength and body structure
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John Cornforth was born September 7‚ 1917 in Sydney‚ Australia. When he was 10 he was diagnosed with ostoclerosis a disease inside his ear that would have him deaf by age 20. His chemistry teacher at the Sydney Boys high school got him interested in chemistry. He graduated from high school in 1933. At the age of 16 he enrolled at the University of Sydney where he studied organic chemistry. He graduated in 1937 with a bachelor’s degree in science with first class honors and the university medal.
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Industry Analysis: Pharmaceutical Preparations Macro and Micro Analysis Macro & Micro Industry Analysis: Pharmaceuticals subgroup: Pharmaceutical preparations The report analyses the macro and micro-environmental factors of the industrial group called “Manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations” with the standard industrial code of 21200‚ according to the most recent version of the UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) of 2007. (Office for National Statistics‚ 2007) Although different
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synthesized in 1874. However‚ its effectiveness as an insecticide was not discovered until 1939. This discovery was made by Dr. Paul Herman Müller of Switzerland. Müller worked as a laboratory technologist at the great dye-manufacturing firm of J.R. Geigy. Müller started working on inventing new insecticides in 1936 and by 1939 had synthesized DDT. After years of perfecting the new compound‚ he proved its effectiveness in controlling Colorado Potato Beetles on crops. During WWII‚ he also found it just
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Porter ’s Diamond Framework in a Mexican Context Author(s): Richard M. Hodgetts Source: MIR: Management International Review‚ Vol. 33‚ Extensions of the Porter Diamond Framework (1993)‚ pp. 41-54 Published by: Springer Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40228189 . Accessed: 30/05/2013 08:40 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that
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Executive Summary Vistakon is a well-established market leader in the disposable contact lens industry. It is a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson and has grown from a specialty manufacturer in 1987 with $20 million annual sales to a market leader in the contact lens industry in 1993 with over $250 million sales. It offers a variety of disposable contact lenses ranging from a disposable time of two weeks‚ one week and now with 1-Day Acuvue‚ one day. The idea of 1-Day Acuvue came about because there
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a chain of retail outlets has been founded under the name "Ideas by Gul Ahmed". The group’s other concerns go by the name of Swisstex Chemicals (Private) Limited‚ which is a large chemical distribution company that has the sole rights for supplying Ciba Specialty Chemicals in Pakistan. The group has invested in outsourcing information technology with Arwen Technologies. The Gul Ahmed Group began trading in textiles in the early 20th century. In 1953‚ the group decided to enter the field of manufacturing
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