Toshiba, LG, AU Optronics To Settle LCD Price-Fixing Case. Electronic News - Electronic devices, Electronic gadgets, Robotics, Electronic hardware. Scientists to inject fuel in experimental fusion device Scientists in northeast Germany were poised to flip the switch Wednesday on an experiment they hope will advance the quest for nuclear fusion, considered a clean and safe form of nuclear power. " Philae comet probe: World prepares for final farewell In November 2014, a brave explorer on a daring mission strapped on a pair of studded boots and a hard hat, stuffed a cheese sandwich and a compass into a backpack, and leapt from a spacecraft.
Model suggests Neanderthal extinction occurred due to human cultural superiority (Phys.org)—A trio of researchers, two with Stanford University in the U.S. and the third with Meiji University in Japan has created a model that showed that it might be possible that the Neanderthal extinction that occurred ... Exploring gambles reveals foundational difficulty behind economic theory (and a solution) In the wake of the financial crisis, many started questioning different aspects of the economic formalism.
The red flag of rising inventories. By James Cooke An overview study of logistic costs in the U.S. economy should serve as a red flag for electrical distributors—showing that more of them need to take action to better control their inventory. The report showed that while retailers have managed this past year to keep their inventories in check, wholesalers and manufacturers did not in 2011. That interesting finding was contained in the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) 23rd Annual State of Logistics Report presented by Penske Logistics.
This long-running study quantifies the impact of logistics on the U.S. economy. Last year money spent on logistics totaled $1.28 trillion, a 6.6% percent increase over 2010, which resulted in large part from higher truck and rail rates this past year to move freight. Because last year was such a lackluster one for the U.S economy, it would seem reasonable that businesses would NOT add to their stockpiles. . © 2014 The Electrical Distributor. Are Consumers of Electronic Products Complicit in Rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo? There has been widespread recognition that violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is fuelled by the mining and trade of its minerals. Equally recognised is the fact that women are the chief victims of ongoing violence in the DRC: symbolically violated and subject to rape as a “weapon of war”. What is less well recognised are the possible links between these two issues in the Congo and the supply-chain which connects both of these issues to consumers.
Are international global consumers complicit in rapes perpetrated in the Congo? Perhaps. Certainly there should be a wider acknowledgement of the role ‘vital’ electronic goods play in the perpetration of sexual violence against women - and in some cases men. Think Africa Press has spoken with two Congolese activists: Victoria Dove Dimandja, who campaigns with the international anti-colonialism organisation ‘Liberation', and Wemba-koy Okondo, who started Washington-based organisation ‘OkoNGO’.
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