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In the News (Wed 30 May 12)

  
 FDA/CFSAN OPA: Recommendations for Submission of Chemical and Technological data for Direct Food Additives and GRAS food ingredient petitions
Food additives generally fall into two broad categories: (1) those that are added directly to food, as codified in 21 CFR Part 172, and (2) those that are added indirectly to food through contact of the food with packaging materials, processing equipment, or other food-contact materials, as codified in 21 CFR Parts 174-178.
Briefly, these encompass five general areas of information: (1) the identity of the additive; (2) the proposed use of the additive; (3) the intended technical effect of the additive; (4) a method of analysis for the additive in food; and (5) full reports of all safety investigations with respect to the additive.
Standard solutions, consisting of the additive, ingredient, or any other analyte of interest, in an appropriate solvent, should be prepared at five different concentrations that bracket the use level or expected concentration of the substance in food and analyzed in triplicate.
www.cfsan.fda.gov /~dms/opa-cg4.html   (4090 words)

  
 AMA (CME) AMA PRA Category 1 Activities and Credit Hours
If a group of physicians chooses to use AMA PRA category 1 enduring materials, then a facilitator needs to be assigned in order to lead discussion.
If sections of a designated activity do not satisfy all the requirements for AMA PRA category 1 credit, then these sections must be clearly identified and excluded from the designation statement.
Physicians may claim Category 2 credit toward the PRA for such physician directed learning activities as: the teaching of residents, medical students, or other health professionals; online study; reading authoritative medical literature; or attending live activities not designated for AMA PRA category 1 credit.
www.ama-assn.org /ama/pub/category/2938.html   (4090 words)

  
 Flooring - Concrete Flooring
Concrete materials for Construction and Civil Engineering that are quick, simple and safe to use. Rockbond SCP materials meet Department of Transport Specifications.
Concrete treated with stains or colorants to create rich variety of hues, textures, or stamped with patterns to mimic natural surfaces from marble to wood planks. Resulting floor finishes combine beauty, creativity with economy, durability, and practicality of concrete.
Painting concrete is starting to become an increasing fad in the flooring world. This is still a relatively new concept so there are very few flooring professionals out there who are fully equipped to handle such projects. The popularity of painting concrete floors will soon fix this though.
www.dellflooring.com /concreteflooring   (2604 words)

  
 Mathematics Archives - Topics in Mathematics
use of icons to quickly show the level of mathematical background to read the materials on the site and the type of materials available on the site.
In these pages, you will find links to various WWW resources on Mathematics.
We would certainly appreciate hearing about links which we have not included or about errors in our listings.
archives.math.utk.edu /topics   (232 words)

  
 Best Book Buys - Artists' materials Books
Books > Browse > Subject Category > Art > Techniques > Artists' materials
Subject Category > Art > Techniques > Artists' materials
Art Hardware: The Definitive Guide to Artists' Materials
www.bestwebbuys.com /Art-Techniques-N_10001866-books.html   (232 words)

  
 THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING
This collection of materials relating to the history of computing is provided courtesy of the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, and is sponsored in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (CDA-9312611).
A collection of materials intended to describe the history of computing to those interested in the 50th Anniversary of Computing in 1996 was used by students at Virginia Tech to develop a Virtual Museum of Computing that you may find very interesting.
The computer was named the Machine of the Year in 1982 by Time Magazine.
ei.cs.vt.edu /~history   (1377 words)

  
 Ch25
Archival material has not only to be evaluated and to be stored in the format common at the time when the programme is produced, all not-used materials rather have to be transferred onto the changing format standards - and this is an important cost factor.
Programmes in this category are those designed to entertain and amuse.
Where purchased material forms part of a new programme produced by the company, the new programme should be retained by the company, which should note in its documentation the rights held in that material.
www.unesco.org /webworld/ramp/html/r9704e/r9704e0q.htm   (1377 words)

  
 Category:Materials science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The main article for this category is Materials science.
Materials science includes those parts of chemistry, physics, geology, and even biology that deal with the physical, chemical or biological properties of materials.
It is usually considered an applied science, in which the properties under study have some industrial purpose.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Materials_science   (85 words)

  
 Realty Times - Real Estate News and Advice
Installing Category 5 wiring in new construction costs pennies more than installing Category 3 wiring, but trying to retrofit the faster wires can be costly, depending upon the materials and the structure and design of your home.
Category 5 moves voice and data at a minimum of 100 megabytes per second and supports local area networks (LANs), providing the ability to use a home printer from the kitchen laptop, for instance.
If you need to upgrade your home's wiring service, be aware that Category 5 wiring, available at hardware or electronics retailers, pumps digitized data at maximum speeds only when it's part of a structured wired system.
realtytimes.com /rtnews/rtcpages/20000407_broadband.htm   (505 words)

  
 donga.com [english donga]
Strategic materials refer to materials or technology that can be used for developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD), such as nuclear weapons and biochemical weapons.
Sim Sung-geun, the manager of the ministry’s strategic material system team, explained, “The company was found not to have exported tritium, a category 1 strategic material, which requires the government’s approval to be exported.
That’s why the international community designated them as materials to be monitored.
english.donga.com /srv/service.php3?biid=2005091225748   (505 words)

  
 Homepage
Type Ia, layering by so-called ridge-lamellae, is defined as a category in which lamellae run parallel or near-parallel to the base of the scale.
The cuticle material itself is a composite of rods of chitin set in a matrix of proteins.
Type IIa comprise the simplest form of such body-lamellae systems in which the lamellae are parallel and flat across the entire area of the scale (allowing for any curvature of the scale itself).
newton.ex.ac.uk /research/emag/butterflies/classification_page.htm   (2542 words)

  
 The Food Additives Business
Direct food additives, i.e., those intentionally added to food, as opposed to chemicals that for example, can migrate into food from packaging materials; the latter are called indirect food additives and are outside our scope.
First of all, food additives are, after all, chemicals, either synthetic or natural, and therefore, this is a "chemical" study with all its concomitant public and political perceptions and problems.
Government personnel, because food additives, since they are deliberately incorporated into foods, are watched and regulated by governments at all levels from the local to the federal.
www.marketresearch.com /researchindex/802151.html   (2259 words)

  
 N. Scott Robinson-World Music and Percussion, Frame Drums, Riq, Tambourines
Mbira are made from an assortment of materials, such as wood, metal gas and insecticide cans, gourds and coconut shells, and in a great variety of sizes, shapes and types, and they exist as acoustic or electric instruments.
Ethnomusicologists use another term that places all these instruments in a single generic category: "lamellaphone" (also lamellophone) designates any instrument with plucked keys (or lamellae) attached to a soundboard, with the possible addition of a resonator.
The material used for the keys varies: some are made from a heavier, stiffer metal that requires the player to have a longer thumbnail to play comfortably, while others may be of a softer, more flexible metal that makes plucking with the fingertip comfortable.
www.nscottrobinson.com /mbira.php   (3751 words)

  
 Open Directory - Business:Electronics and Electrical:Components:Semiconductors
This category will list companies that manufacture or distribute materials or supplies used in the manufacture of semiconductors.
Optoelectronic components such as IR emitter receivers and opto isolators are to be submitted to the Optoelectronics category.
This category is for the manufacturers of discrete semiconductor devices.
dmoz.org /Business/Electronics_and_Electrical/Components/Semiconductors/desc.html   (3751 words)

  
 Wisconsin Enterprise Standards - Network LAN/Voice Cable
Category 6 cable should be considered where long building occupancy is expected (beyond December 31, 2007) and the total cost of installing Category 6 cable (materials and labor) is less than 15% more than the cost of installing Category 5e cable.
Category 5e UTP cable is also recommended for voice in wiring projects with an expected lifetime past December 31, 2006 even though there is an incremental cost increase over Category 3 cable.
Category 5e cable will allow the use of a common patch panel for both voice and data cabling, reducing the agency costs for moves/adds/changes.
enterprise.state.wi.us /home/standards/std0516_new.htm   (3751 words)

  
 Champions Technical Support Library's hardware concepts: C
The electricity-handling properties of cables determine their function: (1), data and/or voice impedance; (2), attenuation, and grounding capacitance; (3), stranded or solid wire; (4), shielding materials may be either foil tape or braided; (5), shielding of individual wires, pairs of wires, groups of wires, overall, and not at all.
Category 5 cable is the recommended choice for most installation because it offers the most resistance to the four CAIN raisers that afflict networks.
When ordering cable, determine your maximum requirements for the cable&emdash;how much power it may carry, the length of the longest cable, how much shielding it may need, the physical environment where it will be laid, and cable function.
home.earthlink.net /~champions/h_c.htm   (3751 words)

  
 Search: pharmaceutical encyclopedia - MetaCrawler
Describes manufacturing processes for approximately 1300 pharmaceuticals including a 2000 entry raw materials index and a 12000 entry trade name index.
Pharmaceutical Technology is a unique, comprehensive compilation that brings together knowledge from every specialty encompassed by...
pharmaceutical company (or drug company) is a company licensed to discover, develop, market and distribute drugs.
www.metacrawler.com /info.metac.toolbar/search/web/pharmaceutical%2Bencyclopedia   (227 words)

  
 Library Research in Psychology: Finding It Easily
The indexes are generally listed by subject category and will help you find resources in a wide array of fields, including psychology.
The catalog provides electronic access to indexes of materials and will help you pinpoint where you are most likely to find information on your research topic.
Access to an archive of previously published articles may be available for a nominal fee.
www.apa.org /science/lib.html   (1770 words)

  
 VEHICLE RETROFIT DEVICES AND ADDITIVES
- Usually materials which are poured into the crankcase either as a complete lubricant or as an additive to a complete lubricant.
EPA definitions of the various categories of devices and additives are contained later in this report.
It does determine, however, in accordance with standardized procedures, the fuel economy, emissions, safety, etc., performance of vehicle retrofit devices and additives for which fuel economy/emissions improvement claims are made.
www.bbbsilicon.org /topic178.html   (525 words)

  
 Copper Cable Testing
Category 5 cable is much more tightly and consistently twisted than category 3 cable, and uses better insulation materials which further reduce crosstalk and attenuation.
Category 5 or 5E components from one supplier or from multiple suppliers that have been deliberately designed to minimize EMI susceptibility and maximize EMI immunity.
Cable consists of 4 pairs of 24 AWG (0.50mm) copper with thermoplastic polyolefin or flourinated ethylene propylene (FEP) jacket.
www.jensentools.com /tech_docs/copper.cfm   (525 words)

  
 PROPOSALS FOR IMPLEMENTING NEW EUROPEAN UNION REQUIREMENTS ON SPECIFIED RISK MATERIALS (SRM)
As the SSC’s assessments of BSE risk in third countries emerge, the Commission is amending the SRM Decision to exempt such third countries in the lowest BSE risk category from the SRM import controls.
The main risk from BSE infectivity associated with bovine vertebral column arises from the presence of the dorsal root ganglia (DRG).
We are therefore proposing to specify that the meaning of ‘carcase’ for this purpose includes half, quarter and one third of half carcases.
archive.food.gov.uk /consultations/srm_consullet.htm   (525 words)

  
 NASA's Observatorium--Hurricanes: Category Two Hurricanes
The hurricane was almost at category three intensity when it came near the islands.
Category Two: A hurricane in this category has wind speeds between 96 and 110 mph with a storm surge of about 6-8 feet above normal.
Damage can occur to trees and/or shrubbery with some damage to certain roofing materials.
observe.arc.nasa.gov /nasa/earth/hurricane/cate2.html   (525 words)

  
 ccl1.txt
Related Definitions: N/A ECCN Controls: (1) This entry does not control tritium, tritium compounds, and mixtures that are byproduct material (e.g., produced in a nuclear reactor) such materials are subject to the licensing jurisdiction of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (see Related Controls paragraph for this entry).
Related Definitions: 1.) For the purposes of this entry "immunotoxin" is defined as an antibody-toxin conjugate intended to destroy specific target cells (e.g., tumor cells) that bear antigens homologous to the antibody.
Technical Notes: (1) Specific modulus: Young's modulus in pascals, equivalent to N/m2, divided by specific weight in N/m3, measured at a temperature of (296 + 2) K ((23 + 2)ΓΈ C) and a relative humidity of (50 + 5) %.
www.access.gpo.gov /bis/ear/txt/ccl1.txt   (13153 words)

  
 PLT Online
Part of the reason PL theory and advanced programming languages seem impenetrable to other communities is that learning materials are hard to obtain, or demand a sizeable investment of resources (time, money,...) even if the potential reader is only exploring the subject.
This is a collection of programming language theory texts and resources, all of which are freely available over the Internet.
Many valuable reference texts on programming language theory, previously only available in paper form, have in recent years become publicly accessible from the net.
www.cs.uu.nl /~franka/ref   (13153 words)

  
 Future Hi - Celebrating the Rebirth of Psychedelic Futurism
For the future of space migration, the amount of raw materials and water out there is phenomonal.
The moment the point of singularity is crossed, the entity enters the time zone marked as negative in physical universe and null or non-existent in the parallel universe.
Like we can walk around in the physical universe from point A to point B, in the parallel universe, it is possible to walk from one time to the next time.
www.futurehi.net   (13153 words)

  
 PLT Online
Part of the reason PL theory and advanced programming languages seem impenetrable to other communities is that learning materials are hard to obtain, or demand a sizeable investment of resources (time, money,...) even if the potential reader is only exploring the subject.
Electronically Available Books and Lecture Notes (mainly Category Theory).
Many valuable reference texts on programming language theory, previously only available in paper form, have in recent years become publicly accessible from the net.
www.cs.uu.nl /~franka/ref   (985 words)

  
 PLT Online
Part of the reason PL theory and advanced programming languages seem impenetrable to other communities is that learning materials are hard to obtain, or demand a sizeable investment of resources (time, money,...) even if the potential reader is only exploring the subject.
Electronically Available Books and Lecture Notes (mainly Category Theory).
This is a collection of programming language theory texts and resources, all of which are freely available over the Internet.
www.cs.uu.nl /~franka/ref   (985 words)

  
 Manuscripts in the Department of Special Collections
This category covers all manuscripts materials from the United States since the end of the Civil War.
This category groups together pre-1600 bound manuscripts described in James A. Corbett, A Catalogue of the Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts of the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, 1978), as well as more recently acquired manuscript codices.
This category comprises a few examples of early writing including cuneiform, Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek.
www.library.nd.edu /rarebooks/collections/manuscripts   (985 words)

  
 Studex - Body Piercing
We recognize the importance of body jewelry as a category and would like to introduce you to our recommended body jewelry supplier.
Pacific Piercing Supply is the leading manufacturer and wholesaler of body jewelry and body piercing supplies.
Studex specializes in the manufacture of ear piercing systems and jewelry used to pierce ears.
www.studex.com /studex/body/body.html   (91 words)

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