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Wireless reliability in industrial automation
Two key considerations—wireless technology and hardware devices—contribute to building mobile and wireless solutions that transform operations
Fast Forward
By Scott Thie and Jeff White
Wireless data options in automation abound. They have led to the adoption of new workflow and automation solutions by many companies seeking to streamline operations, empower timely decision-making, and improve customer service and shareholder value.
Field automation technologies provide intangible benefits, too, such as bolstering employee morale. Nothing keeps workers happier than having the right tools on hand to get the job done right—the first time.
Of course, all of these items on the positive side of the ledger can quickly disintegrate when solutions fail to deliver their promised value. For this reason, reliability has become a critical focus for field technicians, warehouse workers, and customer service representatives. Every link in the service delivery chain must be able to rely on the technology tools provided them in order to be successful.
Think of the frustration captured in the "Can you hear me now?" and "Fewer dropped calls" campaigns, and factor in that a customer's happiness, or even someone's job, may be on the line, and you get a clear picture of the importance of wireless data reliability.
Holistic approach value
There are countless success stories where wireless technology has driven positive results, however, these kinds of stories are causing organizations to investigate closely the value of wireless data solutions.
Tennant Company, a world-leading manufacturer of indoor and outdoor cleaning equipment and supplies, deployed rugged notebooks with embedded wireless access to the EV-DO data network of Sprint.
Thanks to this next generation data network, the company's field technicians can now send 85% of customer orders directly to invoicing and billing without any additional human intervention, saving the company more than $600,000 per year in data entry labor costs alone. This is only one of several key business metrics they saw enhanced by their use of these technologies. Another well-known global brand deployed a solution using the 3G data network of Verizon Wireless. As a result of their program, technician productivity jumped by 16%, and first-time repair rates climbed to 90%. They were also able to reduce call center and dispatch costs due to the improved efficiency of their field force. All of this happened by using a variety of software solutions and rugged mobile PCs with embedded antennae for wireless access.
Many organizations in the public and private sector have deployed similar solutions with equally significant impact on their operations. Wherever projects succeed, it is generally because project leaders have taken a holistic approach to pursuing a reliable mobile and wireless solution. They factored in the impact on their workforce, the kinds of information they would need to access, the environments in which they would be working, and other geographical considerations that influence the software, hardware, and wireless decisions they made.
Two key considerations—wireless technology and hardware devices—contribute to building reliable mobile and wireless solutions that can transform operations.
Wireless solutions wired right
There are numerous options to consider when looking at wireless technologies. A successful mobility project will likely incorporate more than one of these solutions.
Local area wireless (wireless LAN, Wi-Fi, or 802.11) is most commonly used on location at an office, a warehouse, or a job site.
Simply and cost-effectively deployed with an off-the-shelf "access point," these solutions deliver data speeds ranging from 1.5 megabits per second (Mbps) to 15 Mbps, more than suitable for sharing data.
The range of this technology is currently limited to within approximately 150 feet of an access point and is not a suitable option for remote connectivity users can count on.
Wide area wireless (mobile broadband) is adopted because of its promise of anytime, anywhere connectivity.
Known as 3G wireless, most wireless voice carriers, including Sprint, Verizon, Alltel, and AT&T now offer wireless data services on EV-DO Revision 0 and Revision A or EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA networks cap-able of delivering speeds from 70-700 kbps—in some cases up to impressive speeds 2.0 Mbps.
Roughly translated, this means remote users can easily access everything from e-mail to complex files, like schematics, when they are on a job. The cost to implement is reasonably low, with most carriers charging a monthly fee in the $60 range.
4G (fourth generation) or WiMAX networks are also in development. A natural extension of "hot spot" technology some major carriers and infrastructure companies have begun to build out these fourth generation (4G) networks.
Municipalities are adopting these solutions to create a wireless mesh or umbrella to provide ubiquitous connectivity for public safety agencies, schools, and commercial users.
Hardware built for speed
One of the most important considerations in deploying wireless solutions is a high-speed network does not guarantee high-speed performance by mobile devices. Think of it this way: A BMW performs differently on the Autobahn than a Hyundai because of the cars' engineering. The two cars provide a different level of performance and a different end-user experience.
The same holds true for accessing wireless networks. Most mobile PCs now come equipped with embedded technology that enables access to Wi-Fi networks as this technology has evolved to a point where it is widely accepted. There are two main options for mobile broadband or 3G technologies, however. PC Cards are add-ons while embedded wireless, where the radio or modem is part of the device, is for better performance.
Isolated from radiated noise and heat, embedded wireless modems generally deliver improved connections to wireless networks. Because embedded solutions also allow users to take advantage of system-power management capabilities, battery performance, critical to any mobile computer user, is better. Finally, because these systems work as a unit, modem loss, theft, or damage due to user error is less.
By contrast, PC cards often suffer data loss due to a number of factors, including signal interference and system heat and noise from internal PC components. When inserted, PC Cards also drain battery life, whether or not they are actively on the network. They also add practical elements of risk. Repeated insertion and removal of PC cards may result in damage to the card itself or to internal PC components. As a non-integrated component, the likelihood of PC Card loss and theft—resulting in higher costs and reduced productivity—also increases. While a non-integrated PC card can certainly provide a level of access to a growing number of networks, it is not a truly reliable alternative.
For all of these reasons, an increasing number of companies are recognizing the value in embedded wireless technology. A recent study by Venture Development Corp. predicts by 2010 more than 90% of rugged computers will have integrated wireless capabilities. Embedded wireless solutions are also becoming more widely available in other types of mobile computers, such as ultra portables designed for professional users. Even for those not destined for extreme environments, reliable connectivity is important.
Field users demand durability
Just as there is no one-size-fits-all wireless solution, not all computer hardware is created equal, and it is important not to force-fit solutions that may not be up to the task of mobility.
Once a computer leaves a desk, it is at risk. Drops, bumps, and spills happen to the most docile technology user in what would seem to be safe environments. Place a typical PC in the hands of a field technician, however, and the likelihood of reliable access—no matter how fast a network—is significantly less.
Field technicians are subject to a variety of conditions that typical devices cannot withstand. According to an October 2005 report by Venture Development Corporation, standard notebooks in field environments fail 36% of the time.
By contrast, rugged mobile computers in the same conditions fail only 4% per year. This is not surprising considering Gartner, Inc., in a 2006 report, stated most notebook PCs fail 15% of the time in their first year of deployment. (This rate is for all users, not extreme mobile users.) These low rates of reliability, combined with the recognition that the workforce is more mobile than ever, has led to attempts by most computer vendors to make their products more durable, resulting in some confusion for technology buyers. There are standards, however, which can make these decisions easier.
The MIL-STD-810F standard offers a set of criteria a device must meet in order to list as "rugged." These tests cover everything including drops, temperature extremes, and vibration. In addition, Ingress Protection, or IP, ratings provide guidance on exposure to liquid and dust. If a notebook is not MIL-SPEC tested and does not achieve an IP rating of at least 54 (roughly the equivalent of being able to work in a steady rain or sandy environment), it will probably be a less-than-ideal solution for field technicians.
When evaluating mobile devices destined for outdoor use, screen brightness and battery life are also key contributors to reliability. A standard notebook screen generally offers inadequate visibility in daylight or in-vehicle use, while notebooks classified as semi-rugged or rugged are generally much brighter. Screen brightness measures in "nits," and 450 nits is the minimum rating for sunlight readability. It is critical to achieve a balance between brightness and the battery-life needed between charges.
Think tailored solution
Wireless solutions are ineffective if they are not up and running when end users demand them. Every moment a user spends unable to work due to a hardware failure costs organizations in real dollars and, potentially, in reputation damage. Moreover, do not forget the morale, even safety, of those in the field.
Clearly, wireless is here to stay as a means to streamline operations. A company must consider a number of critical factors to ensure it deploys the most reliable solution to meet its unique needs—the end user, the likely work environment, network coverage in disparate areas, and the design of computing equipment among them.
Ultimately, the best plan of action will be a tailored solution built by trusted partners. It is also possible multiple network providers will be involved, depending on the scope or scale of a deployment.
If the fundamental goal is to maximize uptime, everything should be on the table in service of that goal. The answers are out there—it is just not quite as simple as pulling them from the air.
Scott Thie (firstname.lastname@example.com) is the field automation national manager at Panasonic Computer Solutions Company where he works with field service technicians. Jeff White (jeff@ pssid.com) is president of Paradigm System Solutions, and he works the utilities, transportation, oil & gas, and public safety industries.
Questioning reliabilityWhen looking to build a reliable mobile and wireless solution, buyers are challenged with a sea of choices—in technology, vendors, and solution providers—and a number of the same superiority claims being made by interested parties. How can you be sure you are making the right choices? While there is never any guarantee for success, here are some recommended questions to ask those seeking your business:
This list is not exhaustive, but it should point to areas that need addressing as you look to create long-term partnerships in support of a long-term, reliable mobile and wireless solution. |
Wireless inroads: User comfort zone aheadThe vast majority of respondents to InTech's industrial wireless usage survey have the technology already performing in their workplaces, and they intend to acquire more of the equipment and services soon. Over 200 plants, factories, and manufacturing facilities responded to InTech magazine's nine-question query asking after users' adoption of wireless technology.
Since wireless is now a part of all our personal lives and we demand it in many areas of our professional pursuits, the wireless comfort zone is ever broadening. It seemed for a while there was a disparity between users' knowledge of wireless on a grand scale and as pertaining to their non-work lives, and that which they were knowledgeable about in an industrial setting and willing to take a chance on in their facility. The survey also asked readers what sort of control takes place at their plants. Process control (47%), discrete control (22%), batch (16%), and hybrid (13%) were the answers with the raw numbers suggesting about 38% of the respondents answered and use more than one kind of control. InTech also asked whose products the respondent owned or whose products they would consider buying, and the survey gave a list of some 20 wireless vendors. The responses favored the usual suspects in automation, but no company had more than 13% of the responses. We asked users to "check all that apply" in this question, and the raw numbers suggest that folks chose two companies and a few chose three suppliers. These results are available. —Nicholas Sheble (firstname.lastname@example.com) |
Terms and Technology3G: In mobile telephony, third-generation (3G) protocols support much higher data rates, measured in Mbps, intended for applications other than voice. 3G will support bandwidth-hungry applications such as full-motion video, video-conferencing, and full Internet access. 4G will be a fully IP-based integrated system of systems and network of networks achieved after the convergence of wired and wireless networks. MIL STD 810F is a U.S. military standard and includes testing protocols to simulate environmental stresses from rain, humidity, salt fog, sand/dust, vibration, shock, temperature, and the like. A copy of MIL-STD 810F from the United States Army Developmental Test Command is at http://www.dtc.army.mil/pdf/810.pdf (539 pages!). Nits: Candela per meter square; used as a measurement of screen brightness for display cubes IEEE 802.11 is the Wi-Fi standard and denotes a set of wireless LAN/WLAN standards developed by working group 11 of the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee (IEEE 802). The term 802.11x also denotes this set of standards and is not one of its elements. There is no single 802.11x standard. The term IEEE 802.11 also refers to the original 802.11, which now is 802.11legacy. IEEE 802.11g is a proposed standard describing wireless WLAN that operates in the 2.4 GHz radio band (ISM—Industrial Scientific Medical frequency band). These WLANs will be able to achieve a maximum speed of 54 Mbps and are backward compatible with the 802.11b standard. IEEE 802.15 are the low power wireless personal area networks such as low-complexity Bluetooth, UWB-based high-rate PANs, and mesh networks. IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee is a published specification set of high-level communication protocols designed to use small, low power digital radios based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for wireless personal area networks. The ZigBee 1.0 specifications started on 14 December 2004 and are available to members of the ZigBee Alliance. IEEE 802.16 is WiMAX: Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, a point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access. |
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By all accounts, the public liked Campaign 2008 and followed election news avidly. But enough is enough. Fully 82% say they will not miss following election news, while only 17% say they will miss it. Even among Democrats, only a quarter say they will miss the campaign.
Many Americans (23%) say they are saving a newspaper with headlines about Barack Obama's victory for posterity. Among African Americans, more than half (55%) say they are saving a newspaper with election headlines. Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to be saving a post-election newspaper (36% vs. 9%).
As expected, the election was the dominant news story last week, with 60% following news about the election very closely and 39% citing it as their top story of the week. Nearly a quarter of Americans (23%) followed news about the congressional elections very closely, with 2% saying they followed it more closely than other any other story.
In other election-related news last week, 39% paid very close attention to plans for the new Obama administration, and 12% listed this as their most closely followed news story. Democrats were much more interested than Republicans in news about the president-elect: 57% of Democrats vs. 24% of Republicans followed plans for the new administration very closely. Among independents, 32% followed the early transition news very closely.
With all the competing election headlines, the public paid relatively little attention to the passage of Proposition 8 in California, which essentially banned same-sex marriage in that state. Only 18% followed this story very closely, and 4% listed this as their most closely followed news story of the week. The national news media devoted 2% of its overall coverage to this story.
America's Favorite Campaign Journalists
As the Pew Research Center's Weekly News Interest Index has shown, the public followed news about the 2008 presidential campaign more closely than any presidential election in the past 20 years. Americans relied primarily on television news for information about the campaign, and cable TV was the dominant medium. [See "Internet Now Major Source of Campaign News" released October 31, 2008.]
When asked to name their favorite and least favorite campaign journalist or commentator, Bill O'Reilly was named most frequently as the favorite – and as the least favorite. O'Reilly was named by 5% as their favorite journalist or commentator, while 3% each named Tom Brokaw and Sean Hannity. However, fully half could not name anyone as their favorite.
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The Center for Computational Nanoscience (CCN) brings together the faculty across campus who are currently involved in modeling and simulation. As device design is a critical factor in nanoelectronics incorporated into solar photovotaic devices, CCN is working to understand the quantum- mechanical effects in nanostructures with the goal of improved solar electronics device design.
Connection One is a National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center working closely with private industry and the federal government on various projects in RF and wireless communication systems, networks, remote sensing, and homeland security. The Center's mission is to develop the technology to enable end-to-end communication systems for a variety of applications, ranging from cellular to environmental and defense applications. One aspect of the research is the development of integrated RF and wireless circuits-on-a-chip to simplify and enable a small, portable, all-in-one communication device. An additional research focus is the development of efficient architectures and routing techniques for networked applications.
CETMONS unique role is crucial in today's era of unprecedented and complex technological evolution. It is necessary to understand and support military operations and national security in a complicated, violent, and rapidly chaning world.
The Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes is an intellectual network aimed at enhancing the contribution of science and technology to society's pursuit of equality, justice, freedom, and overall quality of life. The Consortium creates knowledge and methods, cultivates public discourse, and fosters policies to help decision makers and institutions grapple with the immense power and importance of science and technology as society charts a course for the future.
The Copper Triangle Pilot Project (CTPP) is a partnership among Arizona State University, Central Arizona College, a rural high-need school district (Superior Unified School District) and local industry (Resolution Copper Mining Company) to develop a research-based, sustainable pathway to baccalaureate degrees and careers in the Earth and environmental sciences for underrepresented minority students (mostly Hispanic and Native American) who reside in an underserved rural mining area (the "Copper Triangle") of central Arizona.
This project will establish CyberGIS as a fundamentally new software framework comprising a seamless integration of cyberinfrastructure, GIS, and spatial analysis/modeling capabilities.
The Decision Center for a Desert City conducts climate, water, and decision research and develops innovative tools to bridge the boundary between scientists and decision makers and put their work into the hands of those whose concern is for the sustainable future of Greater Phoenix.
The Decision Theater is an immersive, interactive, 3D-visualization facility for collaborative decision making.
This project will deepen basic understanding of the complex interactions involving geophysical, biological, social, and policy factors and feedback systems that affect grassland status
This project seeks to evaluate and develop policy options for achieving sustainable regional biofuels/bioenergy production and commercialization.
The project addresses the Program Area Priority: Crop Protection for Sustainable Feedstock Production Systems. Contamination of cultures and grazing of algae by zooplankton (e.g., rotifers, amoebas and protozoa) represents the most challenging issue for sustainable algal mass culture, preventing algae from being a practical source of oil crops for production of bioenergy and bioproducts.
This project will develop a new interdisciplinary partnership between connectivity ecology, metal isotope geochemistry,, and paleoclimatology to identify new proxies for ocean acidification that can be used to assess pH exposures in living organisms and, potentially to interpret the geologic record.
This project couples field studies of local climate, tree establishment and tree growth with regional climate modeling and models that depict spatial processes of plant population and fire dynamics.
The objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program award is to investigate the effects of driver behaviors, such as car-following and lane-changing, on traffic state transitions (i.e., changes in traffic conditions such as speed). This research focuses on transitions near freeway choke points (i.e., bottlenecks), merges, and ends of queues (where vehicles encounter congestion).
The Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management (CESEM) seeks to provide the basis for understanding, designing, and managing the complex integrated built/human/natural systems that increasingly characterize our planet in the athropocene - the Age of Humans. To this end, CESEM combines research, teaching, outreach and public service in an effort to learn how engineered and built systems are integrated with natural and human systems.
This research will transform scientific understanding of an important and increasingly common ecosystem type ("suburbia") and the consequences to carbon storage and nitrogen pollution at multiple scales. In addition, it will advance understanding of how humans perceive, value and manage their surroundings.
The "Urban Air" project studies the exchange of chemical elements between land and atmosphere in urban systems.
This project will determine if the introduction of the biocontrol agent (tamarisk leaf beetle, Diorhabda spp.) as an insect consumer and defoliator of saltcedar influences wildlife populations and communities via alterations to food resources and/or habitat.
ESPI's objective is to to establish a strong program of research and policy engagement to understand and analyze the social dynamics of past, present, and future energy systems.
The Center for Environmental Biotechnology focuses on developing microbiological systems that capture or develop renewable resources and also prevent or clean up environmental pollution. Center researchers combine engineering with microbiology, molecular biology, and chemistry in order to gain an integrated understanding of how microbial ecosystems work and can be controlled to reclaim polluted water, generate energy from waste substances, and improve public health and sustainability.
EFD is a multi-disciplinary research program dedicated to understanding fluid motions in the environment through atmospheric research, industrial and basic fluid dynamics, and physical oceanography. The Center brings together faculty, staff and students to enhance interdisciplinary and individual research efforts, undergraduate and graduate education and service to industry and the state.
This project seeks to endow Si-compatible materials with increased optical functionality.
The overall goals of this study are to better understand how water use by crop type responds to drought conditions and to use this knowledge to support adaptive management in the agricultural sector and foster sustainable water use in an era of climate uncertainty and change.
The project proposes to obtain high-resolution trace metal geochemical profiles from organic-rich sedimentary rocks to examine the evolution of climate and biospheric oxygenation in the Late Archean to Middle Proterozoic.
The overall objective of the proposed research is to use solar radiation to photocatalytically reduce CO2 to fuels (CO, methane, methanol, and other hydrocarbons) at high conversion efficiency through manipulation of catalyst composition and nanostructure.
Society's response to climate change and many other challenges hinges on public understanding that science is not a body of facts and certainties in tidy disciplines, but rather a process of reasoning which often crosses disciplines and which narrows the uncertainties of knowledge. In this project, the investigators are deploying and assessing a large-enrollment undergraduate general education science course that places scientific reasoning and multidisciplinary perspectives at the heart of the experience.
This interdisciplinary research project focuses on people, community organizations, and the long-term health of natural ecosystems that support people's livelihoods.
The mission of the Flexible Display Center is to advance full-color, video rate, flexible display technology and catalyze development of a vibrant flexible display and flexible electronics industry to produce integrated electronic systems with advanced functionality. The FDC collaborates with government, academia and industry to provide comprehensive flexible electronics capabilities that bridge the high risk, resource intensive gap between innovation and product development in an information-secure environment for process, tool, and materials co-development and evaluation. Integral to the Center's mission is integrating the concept of sustainable microelectronics processing into all FDC activities.
GeoDa develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through software tools, applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences, and disseminates them through training and support to a growing worldwide community.
The Global Ethnohydrology Study is a multi-year transdisciplinary project using data collected with local communities from around the globe. The goal is to better theorize how people understand and adapt to the everyday challenges of getting enough safe water, and to explicate the health and psychological impacts of that struggle.
This Research Coordination Network grant brings together and international, multi-disciplinary team of scientists and educators to better mobilize cases of long term human ecodynamics on the century to millennial scale to aid national and global efforts to develop effective future sustainable development and to create resources for Education for Sustainable Development.
GlobalResolve was established at ASU in 2006 as a social entrepreneurship program designed to enhance the educational experience for interested and qualified ASU students by involving them in semester-long projects that directly improve the lives of underprivileged people, and/or those in underdeveloped nations throughout the world.
This research will advance a novel technological approach that relies on machine learning techniques in general and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in particular to develop models and support for creativity during collaborative science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational activities.
The Center for Health Information and Research (CHIR) employs a multidisciplinary approach to research in areas of epidemiology, health care information technology and data management, health economics and workforce, and health data mining. The goal of CHIR is to provide actionable information regarding health care policy, quality of care, public health and the health care workforce and to develop new methodologies for storing, collecting, analyzing and disseminating health information.
The overarching goal of the HLRC is to facilitate interactions among faculty that promote collaborative research into diverse aspects of how daily lifestyle habits and actions impact both short and long term health, chronic disease risk, and quality of life.
The primary purpose of the center is to develop and test interventions that promote the highest level of health and quality of life for individuals who are aging within a culturally diverse society. The center emphasizes multidisciplinary, theory-based interventions across a variety of clinical settings.
The Center supports collaborative and creative research in design and the arts. Some of the Center's work includes creating consumer-driven product concepts that improve society and the environment, understanding the interconnections between urban design and energy demand and on emerging models for the post-petroleum city, and supporting organizations, neighborhoods, and professionals in their efforts to improve the growth of quality affordable homes and sustainable communities.
The Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University is the leading research organization in the United States devoted to the science of human origins. Embedded within ASU's School of Human Evolution and Social Change, IHO pursues a transdisciplinary strategy for field and analytical paleoanthropological research central to its approximately 30-year-old founding mission-integrating social, earth, and life science approaches to the most important questions concerning the course, timing, and causes of human evolutionary change over deep time. IHO links to its research activites innovative public outreach programs that create timely, accurate information for education and lay communities.
The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is dedicated to promoting excellence and innovation in humanities scholarship, contributing to scholarly innovation, and engaging the greater community in exploring the human dimensions of significant social, cultural, technological and scientific issues.The IHR strives to create a dynamic environment for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship and to facilitate collaboration among scholars in the humanities, social sciences and sciences for the purpose of examining issues that challenge and shape individual and collective human experience across time.
This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award focuses on the energy transition from the current fossil-fuel-based economy to one where solar energy harvested by means of photovoltaics, solar-thermal, and photosynthesis-driven bioenergy approaches will become a keystone in global human energy use.
This research is unique and ground breaking, as few researchers have targeted students' emotion in classrooms, gathered fine grained data on emotions during learning, or assessed the impact of specific affective treatments on a moment-to-moment basis. Students using the tutoring systems have already shown statistically significant gains and learning outcomes, as well as increased positive affect and attitudes. The new affective interventions will greatly increase the broad impact of these systems.
The Center for Improving Health Outcomes in Children, Teens and Families is conducting interdisciplinary research to extend the science in the field of maternal/child health; translating research findings into clinical practice to improve health care and outcomes; educating health professionals, students and the public about the best research evidence to improve health outcomes; mentoring pre- and post-doctoral fellows and junior investigators in developing and testing interventions to improve health outcomes in children, teens and families; and leading innovation to improve pediatric and adolescent health care.
This research project addresses the pressing need for better monitoring of toxicant bioavailability in contaminated sediments by introducing the in situ sampling/bioavailability determination (IS2B) approach. The proposed device and mathematical model will inform risk assessment for environmental management for Superfund and other hazardous waste sites.
The Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology is focused on basic bacterial and viral infectious disease processes as well as the design and use of vaccines and protein therapeutics to combat infectious diseases. These include newly emerging pathogens and potential biological warfare agents. The Center is devising new and effective ways of producing advanced vaccines and therapeutics, and has also applied its expertise in the development of bacterial-based vaccines to genetically optimize cyanobacteria for biofuel production.
Arizona State University's Innovation through Institutional Integration (I-3): The Modeling Institute integrates the efforts of its most successful NSF-sponsored initiatives in STEM teacher education and more: Modeling Physics (numerous NSF programs); Project Pathways (MSP); Professional Learning Community Resources (TPC); Project Learning through Engineering Design and Prime the Pipeline Project (ITEST); Ask-a-Biologist (NSDL); SMALLab (CISE & IGERT); Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER); and MARS (NASA).
The Center for Innovations in Medicine attempts to transform our understanding of disease, putting aside what we think we know and approaching problems in ways that have never before been attempted. Research efforts focus on the improvement of medical diagnostics and treatment and the prevention of disease, with the ultimate goal of saving lives and improving quality of life.
The project will establish a repository and a research system based on computational tools and digital sources, and it will develop education and training modules. The goal is to move beyond separate small collections that reside on individual computers in dispersed places, and bring together the objects of study as well as scholarly interpretations of those objects.
Recognition Tunneling is a new analytical tool that generates a distinct electronic signal for each of the four bases in DNA, as well as identifying a modification that underlies the epigenetic code. Here, we propose to use Recognition Tunneling to develop an instrument to read the sequence of DNA as it emerges from a nanopore.
The goal of this TUES Type 2 project is to incorporate sustainability grand challenges and experiential learning into classrooms and throughout engineering programs, with the aim of attracting and retaining a talented and diverse set of students who are prepared to tackle the engineering challenges of a global economy.
Three leading universities (York University, Arizona State University and the London School of Economics), a prominent research centre (The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy), and the world's leading association of social and environmental standards initiatives (the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance) are partnering by supporting an international research network on interactions in transnational business regulation, conducting collaborative interdisciplinary research, creating policy-relevant knowledge across academic and non-academic sectors, and mobilizing that knowledge in support of innovative and effective policy solutions.
The project provides international research experiences for 11 young Americans to carry out research at the interface of mathematics and the ecology of infectious and vector borne diseases at the Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES) in Colombia South America.
Based on the vision of former Dean L. William Seidman, the Seidman Research Institute today serves as an essential link between the local, national and international business communities and the intellectual and creative resources of Arizona State University's nationally ranked school of business. From collecting and disseminating essential information about local economies to benchmarking industry practices to identifying emerging business research issues, the Seidman Research Institute's member centers have gained the recognition and respect of business practitioners and academics the world over.
The Laboratory for Algae Research and Biotechnology adds to the body of basic research on algae and cyanobacteria, while also conducting applied research into renewable energy production, environmental remediation, and human nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals.
The Center for Law, Science & Innovation is the first and largest academic center focused on the intersection of law and science. The Center bridges law and science by fostering the development of legal frameworks for new technologies and advancing the informed use of science in legal decision making. The Center facilitates transdisciplinary study and dialogue among policy-makers, academics, students, professionals and industry. It is committed to principles of balance, innovation, competitiveness and sustainability.
This collaborative project involving ecologists and archaeologists explores how prehistoric agricultural communities have affected plant communities, soil properties, and biogeochemical cycling for thousands of years. The goal of the project is to build theory about what types of human disturbances leave legacies over different time scales, and gain insights into the ways that today's actions can affect future ecological systems.
ASU LightWorks is a multidisciplinary effort to leverage ASU's unique strengths, particularly in renewable energy fields including artificial photosynthesis, biofuels, and next-generation photovoltaics.
The mission of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics is to improve the ethical awareness and understanding and thereby the ethical decision-making and behavior of the ASU community and extending to society at large. The Center's goal is to create a university and community ethical culture by sponsoring, organizing and conducting an array of activities on ethics issues that occur in specific fields and professions as well as those of pressing importance in the community at large.
This project will provide a basis for predicting the responses of Bahamian and other island ecosystems to climatic and human-related perturbations. In particular, the assessment and management of worldwide biodiversity loss depend on an improved understanding of the dynamics of ecosystems at local and regional geographical scales as well as short and long time frames.
The Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center (MCMSC) vision includes: bridging the gap between the biological, environmental, and social sciences and the mathematical sciences; promotion and support of cross-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary research that relies on state of the art computational, modeling and quantitative approaches; and the training of a new generation of computational mathematical, and theoretical scientists whose research is driven by the application of computational, mathematical, modeling and simulation approaches to the solution of problems that will improve the human condition.
The investigators form a "Mathematics and Climate Research Network." This is a framework for an intensive effort aimed at bringing to bear the full power of modern applied mathematics and statistics on the prediction and understanding of the Earth's climate.
The objectives of the Mathematical & Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI) Undergraduate Research Program are to encourage and facilitate the access to and the successful completion of graduate studies by mostly under-represented minority students in mathematics and science.
This project will develop a recruitment network for mathematically talented students in community colleges in Maricopa County, Arizona, to help facilitate their successful transitions to baccalaureate programs in the mathematical sciences at Arizona State University (ASU).
The research team investigates the use of oxidation of organic compounds by denitrifying bacteria ("denitrification") to induce carbonate cementation in sand.
This research provides a novel approach to study biodegrading and bioenergy relevant mixed microbial communities. The results will provide fundamental understanding of the role of homoacetogens in electron and carbon flow in dechlorinating and ARB mixed communities. This will allow exploiting the use of complex renewable waste sources for bioenergy and bioremediation.
The research will incorporate the economic drivers of 'contact' into dynamic models of emerging human and animal infectious disease systems, and analyze the system dynamics with and without adaptive responses. The models will be calibrated for a set of diseases where people's trade and travel decisions are potentially important.
This project addresses our need to better understand solids hydrolysis by anaerobic microorganisms, focusing on municipal wastewater sludge.
This project is to develop and characterize a new class of chemically resistant Molecular Sieve Inclusion Nanocomposite (MoSIN) membranes for liquid separations.
This project will develop models to simulate the impact of solar storms on Earth?s atmosphere.
This project will develop models to simulate the urban atmosphere and its interaction with ambient climate and atmospheric circulation occurring on spatial scales which are much larger than cities.
The Center for Nanophotonics gathers a large group of faculty members from various disciplines to foster new ideas and to carry out collaborative research with enhanced inspiration. It integrates a broad spectrum of research topics ranging from fundamental study of photon-matter interactions to practical optical sensors for medical and biological applications. The center coherently merges education and research by embedding one in the other. The center is committed to not only high standard scholarship development but also the promotion of its technology commercialization.
The Center for Nanotechnology and Society (CNS) is working to increase capacity for social learning within the nanotechnology enterprise and to increase society's capacity to engage in anticipatory governance of nanotechnology and other emerging technologies. Thorough these avenues, CNS strives to increase the ability for society to make informed decisions about evolving nanotechnology and to guide nanotechnology knowledge and innovation towards a more socially desireable outome.
The objective of this research is to explore individually addressable high density arrays of specialty diodes (p/n junction, Schottky, Zener, metal-semiconductor-metal and tunnel structures) made from vertical silicon and germanium nanowires grown with the vapor-liquid-solid method.
The National Center of Excellence (NCE) on SMART Innovations provides climate and energy system solutions based on sound science and engineering to governments and industries around the globe.
This project will combine field studies on free-ranging organisms with experiments in a controlled laboratory setting to investigate the neuroendocrine bases of vertebrate reproductive flexibility.
NACTS focuses its research and policy efforts in the areas of borders, competitiveness, and the environment and works to diffuse the results of these efforts through events and initiatives that build public awareness about North America. NACTS accomplishes its mission by building key partnerships among northern and southern border specialists and identifying and educating key constituencies in government, the private sector, and civil society.
Services are being developed to aid teachers, librarians, and learners in sharing resources and promoting further access to NSDL resources. The Middleware for Network- and Context-aware Recommendations (MiNC) being developed provides online integrated services.
This Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program entitled, "NUE: Cross-disciplinary Education in Social & Ethical Aspects of Nanotechnology", at Arizona State University, will develop a unique four weeks long workshop experience for undergraduate students that will explore the social and ethical issues raised by nanotechnology, build cross-disciplinary communicative competence,
The proposed work tackles the computational challenges underlying a user driven integration (UDI) system, keeping in mind the human constraints and challenges that underlie the technical considerations.
PRISM is the focal point at Arizona State University for interdisciplinary research in modeling and visualization to permit intelligent analysis and create spatial and dynamic knowledge. Some of PRISM's work includes geospatial modeling, modeling of urban environments, cloud development modeling, and 3D modeling such as that exhibited in ASU's Decision Theater.
This survey studies the relationships between people and the natural environment in the Phoenix metro area.
The goal of this project is to explore and optimize the use of photocatalysts as a reductive technology for treating nitrate in drinking water applications. The underlying hypothesis is nitrate can be converted to innocuous aqueous species in drinking water applications using metal-loaded photocatalysts.
Patch clamp technique is a powerful tool for studying ion channels of cells, but it is difficult to operate, low throughput and often invasive. The present project develops an optical method to measure electrical conductance, making it possible to map ion channel opening and closing activities noninvasively with high spatial and temporal resolution. This unprecedented capability is anticipated to provide new insights into ion channel activities and a new tool for high throughput screening of ion-channel targeted drugs.
CePoD is a transdisciplinary research center drawing scholars who are interested in broad aspects of population research. The center is located in the Phoenix metropolitan area, a vibrant, rapidly growing urban center of the American Southwest. We pursue novel avenues of population research in local, regional, national and international settings.
Civil and construction engineering students must learn to deploy sustainable systems that balance economic, social, political, and community considerations, in addition to technical considerations in order to address America's declining infrastructure. The project is evaluating whether integrating sustainability concepts through project-based learning into existing undergraduate civil and construction engineering courses results in improvements in team-based problem-solving skills and whether collaborations between upper and lower division undergraduates in multiple courses improve students' ability to apply concepts taught in introductory courses to future courses.
This research project addresses that gap by developing a conceptual framework and set of policy tools, called Knowledge Systems Analysis, that can be used by researchers and policymakers to guide the systematic review of environmental decisions and their outcomes.
The multidisciplinary expertise of PSERC's researchers includes power systems, applied mathematics, complex systems, computing, control theory, power electronics, operations research, non-linear systems, economics, industrial organization and public policy. A key strength is ironment. In addition a strength of the research work in this area also relates to market tools and policy issues that will enable the integration of the new energy sources into power system operation and planning.
This project integrates mathematical modeling, invertebrate sampling, and statistical estimation to develop robust methodologies for tracking biodiversity of aquatic invertebrates on dryland military bases.
The objective of this collaborative research project is to develop methods for joining social and built environment vulnerability into a single framework, and will create a prioritization framework for selecting investments in cooling infrastructure that maximize the reduction in vulnerability. The vulnerability of the United States Southwest populations to heat is a result of both a city's socio-demographic profile and the built environment, yet little is known about the latter.
The proposed work addresses important improvements and advancements in the transmission and delivery of electricity.
Driven by a mission to conduct timely, applied analysis that informs, advises, and assists Arizona's state and community leaders, Morrison Institute researches public policies that impact greater Phoenix, the State of Arizona, and the nation. Through publications and forums, Morrison Institute's research serves the public officials, private sector leaders, and community members who shape public policy.
The overall goal of the proposed research is to develop a fundamental understanding of the electronic and defect properties of doped and undoped pyrite thin films for solar photovoltaics.
A major societal challenge is to generate terawatts (TWs) of electricity with minimal environmental impact. The Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST) Engineering Research Center will transform the existing electricity generation system towards a sustainable and ubiquitous one by developing photovoltaic (PV) technologies with higher efficiency and novel functionality.
The Urban Sustainability RCN will begin with a broadly interdisciplinary core group of academics, students, postdocs, policy-makers, city planners, managers, and other action-focused urban players representing 14 cities in various stages of transition.
The goal of the P Sustainability Research Coordination Network (RCN) is to spark an interdisciplinary synthesis of data, perspectives, and understanding about phosphorus to identify and implement solutions for P sustainability.
The City of Phoenix will create a new model for urban development – one that increases quality of life while maintaining desirability and attainability for the entire spectrum of incomes, ages, family sizes, and physical and developmental abilities along the light rail corridor.
This is an ethnographic study that focuses on toxicologists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who are developing new toxicity testing methods and on people living with chronic exposures in a low-income minority community in Phoenix, Arizona. The project will use data collected from participant observation, ethnographic interviewing, and scientific and community documents to identify the ways in which current chemical knowledge practices differ from prior practices and to analyze the socio-political implications of these changes.
CRESMET is a collaborative center that leverages intellectual and fiscal resources from key colleges in the University to study and improve education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The Center brings together individuals, programs and organizations interested in improving K-20 STEM education to research, develop, and assess educational theories, curricula and administrative policies that impact science, mathematics, engineering and technology education; and to encourage and support wide-scale sharing and implementation of effective approaches to producing a more scientifically and technologically literate populace and more capable science, mathematics, engineering, and technology majors.
This project will investigate microorganisms that live in the human intestines and how they affect success or failure of weight loss after two methods of bariatric surgery. The ultimate goal is to find microorganisms that help weight loss following bariatric surgery.
A team of urban experts at Arizona State University will compare the ways city dwellers gained access to urban services in a sample of thirty ancient and historic cities. Planners and city officials today wrestle with difficult decisions about where to locate schools, clinics, parks, and other facilities.
SUCCESS provides a platform for international collaborations, particularly on use-inspired, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research relevant to sustainability issues that occur during the socioeconomic development in Inner Mongolia and its neighboring regions.
The Small World/Big Bodies Project looks at the socio-cultural dimensions of the growing obesity epidemic globally. This includes a focus on understanding why stigma around obesity is so profound, who is most damaged by it, and ultimately how to fix it. A recent emphasis has been the role of stigma and identity in shaping the long-term success of bariatric surgery.
The Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity leverages the emerging field of complex systems to foster interdisciplinary research on fundamental questions of social life. The Center brings together scientists from such diverse fields as anthropology, biology, mathematics, philosophy, physics, psychology, and sociology to collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams.
The Institute for Social Science Research facilitates transdisciplinary research and innovation. The Institute offers objective, relevant survey research and analysis; research technology support, and geographic information system (GIS) services to funded research projects within the university as well as community groups and organizations desiring professional research assistance.
Many of the challenges facing contemporary society, such as emission reductions or vaccination for infectious diseases, are collective action problems. To address these challenges, new approaches are needed to understand, stimulate and sustain collective action in large heterogeneous populations. To promote cooperative behavior at large scales, this project will develop computational tools to facilitate the context for cooperation – homogeneity, effective communication – observed in smaller scale case studies and field experiments.
Arizona State University's Solar Power Lab serves a staging ground for the new technologies and ideas that will move us forward in our quest for a more sustainable society.
The Center for Solid State Electronics Research seeks to provide national leadership in solid state electronics and has exhibited strong and steady growth since its founding in 1981. The Center currently provides resources and infrastructure for research and education in solid state electronics in the form of 30 laboratories covering more than 30,000 sq.ft. including a Class-100 Cleanroom administered and maintained by a complement of 10 staff and 2 student workers. CSSER has 38 faculty members, 15 post-doctoral researchers and over 80 students drawn from various disciplines including biochemistry, bioengineering, chemistry, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, and physics.
LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science provides a productive environment for interdisciplinary materials research. We are proud to make our advanced facilities user-friendly and available to the entire ASU research community, as well as government and industrial researchers.
The Consortium addresses issues pertaining to the ecologically and socioeconomically fragile environment along the US-Mexico border.
The Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC) is an Exploratory Center of Excellence conducting transdisciplinary minority health and health disparities research, training and community outreach.
Through research, educational outreach, advocacy and design innovation, the ASU Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family supports organizations, neighborhoods, and professionals in their efforts to improve the growth of quality affordable homes and sustainable communities.
The Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity housed in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change is a multidisciplinary endeavor to improve our understanding of how different types of institutions-defined as the norms and rules people use to govern common resources and provide public goods-perform within different social-ecological systems.
The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University promotes interdisciplinary research and education on the dynamics of religion and conflict with the aim of advancing knowledge, seeking solutions and informing policy. By serving as a research hub that fosters exchange and collaboration across the university as well as with its broader publics-local, national, and global-the Center fosters innovative and engaged thinking on matters of enormous importance to us all.
Modern research in materials science is strongly focused on the design and synthesis of materials not available in nature. The molecular approach to crystal growth exemplified by this project represents a new tool for this quest that may lead to materials with unique properties.
The Sustainability Consortium is an organization of diverse global participants that work collaboratively to build a scientific foundation that drives innovation to improve consumer product sustainability.
These network activities focus on basic socio-ecological principles applied to the study of the sustainability of renewable resources in large marine ecosystems under incumbent climate variability and human exploitation. Through this network a gap is bridged among ecologists, mathematicians, social scientists and resource managers to provide a sound science support system for conservation.
The Center for Sustainable Health is working to build a sustainable world where every human can live a healthy and fulfilling life.
The goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the sustainability and resilience of the water and energy systems, and to offer solutions that span infrastructure design, management of the physical environment, and socio-economic policy.
By exploring bioenergy expansion through an integrated lens that incorporates physical, agricultural, and economic elements, this project will guide local to national level agencies making decisions regarding the feasibility of biomass-derived energy.
The ASU Sustainable Phosphorus Initiative (SPI) seeks to build a credible scientific consensus on the dimensions of the phosphorus sustainability challenge, catalyze an interdisciplinary global network focused on phosphorus sustainability, and design and motivate institutional, commercial, and consumer behavior change for conservation and recycling to establish phosphorus sustainability.
The Center for Sustainable Tourism, formerly the Megapolitan Tourism Research Center, is devoted to studying the role of tourism in community development in order to strengthen its contribution to viable economic, social, and environmental systems, especially in megapolitan regions around the world.
This project will study decision-making for water resources management in anticipation of climate change in northern Mexico as a case study for the broader arid and semiarid southwestern North America. The goal of the project is to determine whether water resources systems modeling, developed within a participatory framework, can contribute to the building of management strategies in a context of water scarcity, conflicting water uses and highly variable and changing climate conditions.
The goal is to equip graduate fellows with the skills to bring their sustainability-science research into K-12 settings to benefit K-12 teachers, students, and families, as well as enhance their own professional development.
Digital Antiquity's mission is to ensure preservation of and access to digital archaeological information.
Current engineering practice for determining the volume change behavior of unsaturated expansive soils are mostly based on simplified tests, and correlations with index properties. Such practices can lead to uneconomical and distress prone foundation designs. Hence, there is a fundamental research need to review the current characterization practices in expansive soils and to revise them to reflect the current state of knowledge of unsaturated soil mechanics. The final outcome of this research is the development of methods for better predictions of expansive soil properties using unsaturated soil mechanics principles.
This interdisciplinary project will bring together sophisticated biological and structural monitoring of photosynthetic membrane assembly, function and regulation with the tools of dynamic spectroscopy required to record and analyze the detailed function of the in vivo system.
This research project will examine how social and ecological diversity interact to influence the resilience of societies facing major changes in their social or environmental circumstances. The goal of the investigators conducting this project is to discover configurations of diversity in ecological landscapes and in forms of social organization that make systems more or less able to cope with significant environmental or social changes without undergoing an unpleasant transformation.
The project will provide rigorous interdisciplinary training and research for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in history and philosophy of the life sciences, with a focus on developmental biology.
This research examines how the vulnerability of rainfed farm households to drought has changed through time as a function of both specific and generic government-led interventions. The research also explores how these two categories of interventions are related, both in terms of their relative importance in defining overall adaptive capacity, and in terms of how they may create synergies or be mutually conditioning.
This TUES Type 2 project establishes the Center for Infrastructure Transformation and Education (CIT-E) as the centerpiece of a community of practice.
This project will assess the distribution, composition and reactivity of terrestrial and riverine carbon along a sequence of well-characterized reservoirs in a single watershed.
TUV Rheinland Group has joined forces with Arizona State University to create TUV Rheinland PTL, LLC, the most comprehensive, sophisticated, state-of-the-art facility for testing and certification of solar energy equipment in the world.
Overall goals are to better understand the impacts of changing land cover spatial distribution, patterns and arrangements within and around these cities in relation to climate change and to use this knowledge to support adaptive management and foster sustainable desert cities.
This work tests the application of Uranium (U) isotopes preserved in carbonate sediments as a paleo-redox proxy
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This electronic Vital flexible tip thermometer, with a large 3 unit LCD display and an on/off button is designed for simplicity and comes in two colors, white and blue respectively. The flexible tip allows for easy handling as it conforms to the shape of the mouth making the process of taking readings, more comfortable and safe.Features
This flexible tip digital thermometer by Vital is supported by an acoustic signal feature that indicates the right time for operation and completion of the thermometer. This thermometer is waterproof. and also accommodates a memory function that helps measurement recall of the last reading. A wide range of temperature is displayed in both Celsius and Fahrenheit units. The flexibly tipped thermometer operates with a replaceable long-life battery.In The Box | |
Sales Package | Main unit, Battery, Carrying case, Instruction manual |
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Model ID | Flexible Tip |
Color | White and Blue |
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Auto Shut Off | Yes |
Flexible Tip | Yes |
Display | LCD |
Buzzer | Yes |
Water Resistant | Yes |
Memory Function | Yes |
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Measurement Accuracy Measurement Range | 93.2 - 107.6° F |
Measurement Accuracy Measurement Variance | ±0.1°F |
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Power Source | Battery |
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1 Year Vital India Warranty and Free Transit Insurance. |
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3) This product having all features required in Digital thermometer
4) Flexible tip make it very suitable for children
5) Having beeper when temperature is read
6) Having fever alarm
7) having Celsius and Fahrenheit both reading
8) Reading time is quite more 9almost 2-3 minutes)
First, the delivery was brisk(as expected from flipkart)
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-Easy to use
-Readings are accurate enough
-Feels delicate so can't risk dropping it
-The button feels a bit hard
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Years ago this home was run as the local American Lung Associations business office. Now owned by a friend, it has been reclaimed as a true landmark in our community. The lighting is minimal but the effect is beautiful! You can see this home near St. Joseph's Medical Center. Photo take 01-01-2010 late into the evening.
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(CE:1318a) JABLONSKI, PAUL ERNST (1693-1757), German theologian and Orientalist. He studied at the University of Frankfurt-an-der-Oder. He continued his studies at Berlin, where he learned Coptic under the supervision of La Goze. During his travels from 1717 to 1720, he copied Coptic manuscripts at Paris, Leiden, and Oxford, which he gave to La Goze. In 1721 he became professor of theology at the University of Frankfurt-an-der-Oder; later he was chosen member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Besides his published studies, he left unpublished studies that were issued posthumously by W. te Water: Pauli Ernesti Jablonskii Opuscula Quibus Lingua et Antiquitas Aegyptiorum, Difficilia Librorum Sacrorum Loca et Historiae Ecclesiasticae Capita Illustrantur Edidit atque Animadversiones Adiecit Jona Guilielmus Te Water (4 vols., Leiden, 1804-1813). MARTIN KRAUSE
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Six Sisters Stuff gives us several ways to show our Valentine some love with these witty, frugal treats. I love the play on words that make these treats fun. They are simple gestures to make someone feel extra special. Who doesn't like that?
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Heritage offers traditional styling in classic white. Most of these stoneware items are 12-sided and boast generous proportions, while many accessories are architecturally inspired. The wide, shallow design will keep your pasta in the tasty sauce. You'll use it for everything from salad to stir fry. Microwave and dishwasher safe. Pasta dinner bowl measures 10 inch diameter and holds 24 ounce.
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