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Influence of the interaction between metal particles on optical properties of Ag–Si3N4 composite films. II. Two-particle approximation
Applied Optics, Vol. 45, Issue 6, pp. 1249-1253 (2006)
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The interaction between metal particles was calculated based on the discrete dipole method. The calculated results revealed that the multiple interactions in a collection of metal particles are dominated by the interaction between the neighboring particles. Thus, a two-particle approximation was deduced and applied to estimate the optical absorption and near-field enhancement property of
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(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
(290.5850) Scattering : Scattering, particles
(300.1030) Spectroscopy : Absorption
(310.6860) Thin films : Thin films, optical properties
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Optics at Surfaces
Original Manuscript: June 1, 2005
Revised Manuscript: October 11, 2005
Manuscript Accepted: October 11, 2005
Ding Rong Ou, Jing Zhu, and Jia Hao Zhao, "Influence of the interaction between metal particles on optical properties of Ag-Si3N4 composite films. II. Two-particle approximation," Appl. Opt. 45, 1249-1253 (2006)
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That's a tough one. I know right now it looks like surgery is the only option but I would do everything possible to talk to someone who is NOT a surgeon. I am familiar with a lot of cases (some of them in animals), where surgery was recommended by orthopedic surgeons and when other medical professionals (non-surgical orthopedists, physical therapists, alternative health care specialists) were consulted there were non-surgical options. It's not that I think that most surgeons are dishonest but more a case of seeing the options one is most familiar with. For a surgeon that will almost always be surgery.
For instance many cruciate ligament cases can be treated conservatively and almost full function can return. Surgery is not only risky but sometimes turns out not to fix the problem. Get at least a second, if not a third opinion. Any respectable surgeon will support this idea. Best wishes, hang in there, Birgit You can talk to God all you want and that's great, but the changes happen when you start listening to him.
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I went in for the bilateral standing hip to ankle x-ray and the knee MRI saturday morning and just saw my orthopedic surgeon about the results yesterday morning.... it is worse than we thought unfortunately. The degree of bone wedge that would need to be added is about double compared to most cases (21 degrees or so vs 11 on ave) and may mean i have to use a less desirable surgical technique due to risk of failure of a bone graft to take and close. The MRI showed I have a complete grade III ACL tear and a partial grade II PCL tear. Somehow I managed to only have some micro tears on my LCL thank goodness!! There are some minor micro tears in cartilage. The cartilage loss on the inside part of my knee was reconfirmed also (aka: have a nasty case of osteoarthritis developed and I'm only 29 :( ) I will need the bone surgery to correct the angle of my leg, putting the pressure/weight load on the healthy half of the cartilage in my knee, along w/ a double ligament reconstruction at the same time. Yikes!!!!!!! He (the orthopedic surgeon) gave me more confidence in him when he said he would like to consult the other orthopedists at the med center about my case and also possibly the orthopedic surgeon he trained under in Boston as well. He also referred me to another orthopedist in town to get a separate opinion from someone outside the med center I go to. Surgery will be the beginning to middle of July. So much for a 30th bday vacation to the ocean/to see a friend the very beginning of Aug. Will have to have a delayed 30th bday trip/party w/ her :)
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that you are facing surgery! That stinks! I wish I had some advice for you. Some friends that had knee surgeries swore by swimming and doing water aerobics. (I see others have recommended that, too.) Tough decision. I wish you all the best.
Now I am going to think twice about having knee replacement at the end of the year. I have lost 120+ pounds and don't want to be putting any weight back on. I don't run because of my knees but I do workout in the water and do a lot of walking.
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My hubby had to have hip replacement. He opted for a resurfacing instead of a total hip. It will allow him to run again. I understand that they are now doing a resurfacing on knees. I'd look into that. If you need more info, let me know. He had his surgery in January and is now running over 2 miles with me. In the meantime, can you swim? Walk or ride a bike? ~Nancy Co-leader of ~'50+ Maintainers'
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So sorry to hear of these problems. I agree with the low carb, high protein nutrition plan, as that has proven successful for me when all else failed. I wish you the best of luck!
That is a complicated situation for sure. I hope everything will work as planned and you get many more years out of that knee. I know quite a number of people who are doing water aerobics instead of running because of knee issues.
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Unfortunately it is not a completely new problem. It developed last august.... (but may be related to an old injury that happened 6-7 yrs ago), ended up having to take half of sept all the way through dec off of running, along with several sessions of physical therapy ect. Started running again in january but the runner's knee flaired off and on again this spring, making it harder to train for my HM, but did it anyways (just made sure to run with the knee taped and braced as I was told to do by the physical therapists if i started running again). I was having problems in the HM, but blocked it out and was determined to finish anyways. The knee problem is part runner's knee, part LCL and ACL being lax now... the lax ligaments are being caused by the bend in my tibia....which is what is causing the problems, leading to the pain. The x-rays showed rapid cartilage loss and bone spurs already developed in the inside half of my knee. The surgery would be to correct the bend in my tibia and put the weight on the half of my knee that still has healthy cartilage, thus extending the life-span of my knee joint.
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It's hard to understand for me that if you were able to run a HM recently that you have so much damage to your knee that only surgery could help. Do you think that it may be worth getting a second opinion? Is there anything that physical therapy may be able to do?
My experience has told me that there are almost always several options before undertaking massive surgeries, in particular with something that may only cause major trouble down the road. Have you heard of the book "Pain Free" by Pete Egoscue? This very thorough student of anatomy and physiology has developed an approach to address muscle imbalances that helps many people with joint problems and spine problems without surgery. There are clinics in many parts of the country and this method has the potential to put chiropractors out of business. Best wishes, Birgit You can talk to God all you want and that's great, but the changes happen when you start listening to him.
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They cut/break the tibia near the top of it to either add or remove a wedge of bone to straighten the lower leg to reduce wear and load on the injured part of the knee, shifting the weight/load to the side w/ healthy cartilage. May also need ligaments repaired but won't know until they look at the soft tissue with the MRI sat.
I'm thinking the next time I move, it will have to be near an indoor swimming pool at minimum ;) and potentially some good biking trails :D "A man who wants something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse."
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Great Advice here! I never had that problem but it sounds good to rest it and then to try swimming. If it hurts you then do not swim either maybe get some therapy. Best wishes with coping with this condition. Linda from bean town
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Been in a similar situation (torn ACL and meniscus - twice) - definitely swimming and biking. Eventually distance walking and hiking. Sorry, but running really isn't good for your knees. And, ten years after my 2 knee surgeries, I can feel that even walking 6 to 8 miles a day isn't going to work for too much longer.
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Tough news.....but you are tougher! Get thee to a pool - GREAT cardio to be had swimming sprints! You can do this! Biking too!
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Been in your postion many times. Best advice I can give you is as soon as the doctor allows get yourself into your local area swimming pool with a float belt on and water walk or jog in the deep end of the pool. great cardio workout and no pressure on your joints, then when able start water walking and light water jogging in chest high water. Best of luck
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I just finished my first half marathon about a week and a half ago, and two days after that was informed i needed surgery to fix my knee. After seeing an orthopedist two days ago I was again told i had to have surgery and not just ligament repair (what i was hoping). I have to have a high tibial osteotomy, and possible ligament repair on top of that (a lax LCL and now ACL). I will be unable to run for a year from surgery, and i'm a distance runner... was also told I will be unable to return to distance running if i want a knee intact in 10 years... as they are trying to have me avoid a total knee replacement for 15-20 years. I will likely be in a cast and then brace for awhile and unable to do any real form of cardio, and i'm definitely a cardio junkie... so am now totally freaking out about surgery and also how I will maintain the 95-100 pounds I have lost to reach my goal weight. I have been maintaining since january w/o issues but now am overwhelmed and scared on how to maintain w/o being able to do cardio and only being able to do upper body and ab work for strength training. Anyone ever been in a similar situation? eeeeeeeek........
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Topics: Crime, Rudy Giuliani, Academia, Harvard, News
Even a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. And so it is a small, if slightly comical, sign of progress that New York police officers will now carry palm cards with pointers for behaving more politely to a populace they have grown accustomed to bullying. "Use terms such as 'sir' and 'ma'am,'" the cards advise. "Say 'hello' and 'thank you,'" and "apologize for any inconvenience."
But apologies won't do much to compensate for the "inconvenience" of Amadou Diallo, the African street vendor who was shot 41 times and killed by police Feb. 4. And forced manners aren't likely to placate the many thousands of New Yorkers who have come to see the city's police force as the enemy.
By now, New York's dilemma is familiar: Under Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the city's crime rate has plunged, with homicides down 70 percent and felonies down by half since 1994. At the same time, police brutality and harassment complaints have risen alarmingly. New York registered about 5,000 complaints about its officers' conduct in 1998, up from about 3,600 in 1993. Racial tension is peaking as minorities feel especially targeted by the department's aggressive tactics — a concern crystallized in such high-profile incidents as the Diallo shooting and the brutal beating of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima last year. To some, the lesson is that stamping out crime means stomping on civil liberties.
Less publicized, however — as good news always is — is a happier story to the north. In Boston, not only has crime dropped even faster than in New York, but complaints about police tactics have fallen as well — by an astonishing 50 percent. Like New York, Boston has adopted new crime-fighting strategies in the 1990s, but there has been no backlash against its police force — no street protests, no cries of racism, no expletives hurled at the mayor. As people try to figure out what New York did wrong, they should look first at what Boston has done right.
Where the New York police have acted like an occupying force in the city's neighborhoods, Boston's police have succeeded through partnerships. Where New York has relied on an aggressive strategy that cultivates fear and intimidation, Boston's police have worked with local clergy and community leaders to identify and target actual criminals, rather than wantonly sweeping neighborhoods. Next to New York's archetypal "NYPD Blue" approach, Boston's strategy might sound wimpy. But don't snicker. President Clinton has called on "communities around the country [to] follow the example of Boston." And New York Sen. Charles Schumer recently proclaimed: "The Boston model will work in New York, and we should move quickly to implement it here."
So what's Boston's secret? "Basically, [Boston] has done it with the community," says Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, "and not to the community."
New Yorkers may think of Boston as a quaint, provincial New England capital. But a decade ago, the city was an urban nightmare, with drugs, guns and gangs terrorizing residents.
Bostons low point came in 1989, with the nationally publicized murder of Carol Stuart, a pregnant white woman who, her new husband said, had been stabbed by a young black man. Stuart's murder led to a citywide manhunt in which Boston police officers shook down dozens of black males who fit her husband's vague description. The cops proudly apprehended their man — but then released him when Stuart's husband was revealed to be the actual killer. Minority neighborhoods seethed.
The Stuart case touched off deep soul-searching within the city. But it took another horrifying event to bring a revolutionary change to the city's police culture: At the May 1992 funeral of a 20-year-old Boston gang member, a dozen hooded kids from a rival gang rushed into Morning Star Baptist Church in Mattapan, firing on mourners and stabbing a teenager nine times. Days later, 300 local ministers met at the church to come up with a way to address the drug and gang epidemics in the city's minority neighborhoods. (Contrary to its shamrock image, Boston has a minority population of more than 40 percent.)
In the late 1980s, according to one Boston police superintendent, "there was a lack of trust, there was no communication" between the police and the neighborhoods. Now the traditional rivals needed one other. The police wanted to shed their reputation for racism, and the clergy wanted to stop the killing. The result was a partnership between the police department and neighborhood leaders that allowed the cops to crack down on minority offenders without being resented in minority neighborhoods.
"That is the approach of neighborhood policing," says Boston Police Commissioner Paul Evans. "It's the idea that the police cannot solve the problems themselves. They have to work with the communities to solve problems."
Evans might sound like a social worker, and if his approach hadn't paid off, he might be one now. But neighborhood policing has won converts among cops in Boston because it works.
Ironically, New York and Boston both owe their 1990s police department overhauls to the same man, William Bratton. It was Bratton who changed the Boston police force's mission by placing an emphasis on selective crime prevention over haphazard response. Bratton left Boston for New York, where he served as that city's acclaimed police chief from 1994 to 1996, before ego clashes with Giuliani forced him out.
Since replacing Bratton in Boston, Evans has become hailed as an innovator in his own right. A modest, low-key product of South Boston, a tightly knit Irish neighborhood, Evans has been less of a publicity hound than Bratton. He has been willing to cede his power, for instance, decentralizing the police force by breaking up the department's five jurisdiction zones into 10 smaller districts, and is quick to share credit for his department's successes.
Like Boston, New York also practices neighborhood (or community) policing, which gets officers out of their patrol cars and onto the streets. But Boston police have given a higher priority to building relationships with neighborhood residents than to the "zero tolerance" crime prevention strategy that prevails in New York. Better known as "broken windows" policing, the strategy is to crack down on small offenses like jaywalking or public drinking, which are often used as an excuse to "stop and frisk" thousands of people in a hunt for guns. The result is that thousands of innocents are harassed: More than 27,000 New Yorkers, largely minorities, were frisked by the NYPD's street crimes unit last year; only about 4,600 were arrested.
In Boston, the guiding principle has been integration, not intimidation. Ministers, street workers and community leaders have made an explicit compact with the police: They will identify lawbreakers in their neighborhoods and accept decisive police action against those criminals. In return, however, the police refrain from the kind of sweeping and indiscriminate stop-and-frisk tactics that bred such anger during the 1989 Stuart manhunt.
David Kennedy, a senior researcher at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government who has been intimately involved with Boston's policing efforts, describes the police philosophy this way: "In Boston the logic is, 'We know where the action is and we're going to carefully act in ways that can be very meaningful indeed to those people and places. But if you're in that neighborhood and you're not involved, we're gonna walk right by you.'"
Commissioner Evans cites curfews as an example of this strategy. Although youth curfews are in vogue in troubled cities like Baltimore and New Orleans, Evans says they clash with his department's philosophy. "Instead of those types of enforcement tactics that go across the board and target everyone, we do focused intervention," Evans says. "We put area restrictions and time curfews on young people who earn them instead of every young person in the city."
Evans has also focused on nontraditional crime-prevention tactics. He recalls a 1994 meeting with officers in his department's gang unit at a moment of rising violence in Boston's low-income Roxbury neighborhood. "I asked them what we could do," Evans says. "And I expected them to say, 'More cops, tougher judges and more jail space.' But what they said to a person was, 'We need jobs and alternatives for these people. We need to provide them with hope.'" The result has been a network of programs for youths and young adults, from business-sponsored summer jobs to "midnight basketball" to whitewater rafting trips.
Evans is particularly proud of his department's new practice of using federal block-grant money — dollars traditionally used for salaries and overtime — to award its own grants to local community groups who submit specific plans for assisting in crime-prevention. (This year the department will give out $1 million to 20 local groups.)
Leroy Stoddard, director of community services for Urban Edge, a Roxbury community development corporation that has received grant money, says the work can be as simple as shooing unwanted loiterers off building stoops and moving illegally parked cars — tasks that are "below the threshold of police attention." As someone who works on the city streets every day, Stoddard can attest to the larger success of Boston's cooperative approach. "It's important to educate people and ready them for police enforcement," he says. "It's better for residents to be aware that the police are coming rather than be surprised by a crackdown."
What does this all amount to? Not just a plunging crime rate — homicides are down from 152 in 1990 to 34 last year, and all violent crimes and robberies are down more than 80 percent since 1990 — but also a steady drop in complaints about officer misconduct, by more than 50 percent since 1990.
Arguably, New York was asking for its recent troubles. Police Commissioner Howard Safir has been less enthusiastic about community policing than his predecessor, Bratton. Safir has cut back the number of officers on neighborhood beats, a move criticized by Bratton.
Harvard's Kennedy cautions against oversimplifying the NYPD's tactics, however, saying the department boasts an array of innovative policing efforts. "The actual behavior of NYPD doesn't match the cartoon version that got put on the street," Kennedy says. But he acknowledges that the department's prevailing attitude has been to clamp down on the streets "until the streets simply cry uncle." It should also be noted that while overall police brutality complaints are way up, killings by police are down 50 percent under Giuliani, high-profile tragedies like the Diallo shooting notwithstanding.
But there is no doubt that under Giuliani, New York police have resisted cooperative efforts with the community. Shortly after the Diallo shooting, according to New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, some 100 clergy members met with the Bronx borough president to discuss response strategies. A Bronx official told Herbert, "The one thing everybody at the meeting said was: 'We could be a resource. But they're not using us. The police don't even know us. They don't come and talk to us.'"
Boston's not perfect either, of course. In February, for instance, the city paid $900,000 to settle the case of a black plainclothes police officer who was beaten by colleagues who thought he was a criminal. Some critics say that when complaints are registered, the department doesn't deal decisively with its problem officers. And finally, it's not clear whether acts of harassment and brutality have actually decreased, or whether a more trusting community is less likely to report them.
Still, there's a consensus that life on Boston's streets — and the relationship between Boston's police officers and its neighborhood residents — is as good as anyone can remember.
"Ten years ago you wouldn't see young kids — 5, 6, 7 years old — out playing, riding bikes, in the parks. The parents wouldn't let them out of the house. There was a lot of fear," says Lt. Gary French, who runs the Boston police's anti-gang unit. "Now we have a very good relationship with a lot of the inner-city neighborhoods. The community leaders know they can call us if there's a problem." Instead of alienating whole neighborhoods, he says, "we're ticking off the right people."
Community leaders mostly agree. "I can remember how, in the late '80s and early '90s, it was an us-against-them mentality between the community against the police," says Tracy Litthcut, a Boston community worker who has been a key liaison between the police department and the neighborhoods. "The police had no credibility. It was 'stop-and-frisk,' and that didn't go over well."
Litthcut says "there's no doubt" that its better police behavior, and not just a happier relationship with the neighborhoods, that explains the city's drop in harassment and brutality complaints. "Those complaints sometimes come through youth workers" — like himself — "because people might not feel comfortable passing them on through law enforcement." But Litthcut says the mood on the street is good. "People in the community are very pleased with the work law enforcement is doing. Not only are the police doing the enforcement piece, but there's also a social work component."
Just as it took a pair of watershed tragedies to awaken Boston's police and community leaders to the need to cooperate, perhaps some good can come of the Diallo shooting and the Louima beating. If only to soften his image for a Senate showdown with Hillary Rodham Clinton, perhaps Giuliani will heed the exhortations and try harder to adopt Boston's cooperative model. "That's basically the choice we've got at this moment in policing," says Kennedy. "There's one big banner out there that says, 'zero tolerance,' and there's another that says, 'exercise judgment.' The challenge is clearly to figure out how to exercise judgment well."
Container City: Shipping containers, indispensable tool of the globalized consumer economy, reflect the skyline in Singapore, one of the world's busiest ports.
Man Covering His Mouth: A shepherd by the Yellow River cannot stand the smell, Inner Mongolia, China
Angry Crowd: People jostle for food relief distribution following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
"Black Friday" Shoppers: Aggressive bargain hunters push through the front doors of the Boise Towne Square mall as they are opened at 1 a.m. Friday, Nov. 24, 2007, Boise, Idaho, USA
Suburban Sprawl: aerial view of landscape outside Miami, Florida, shows 13 golf courses amongst track homes on the edge of the Everglades.
Toxic Landscape: Aerial view of the tar sands region, where mining operations and tailings ponds are so vast they can be seen from outer space; Alberta, Canada
Ice Waterfall: In both the Arctic and Antarctic regions, ice is retreating. Melting water on icecap, North East Land, Svalbard, Norway
Satellite Dishes: The rooftops of Aleppo, Syria, one of the world's oldest cities, are covered with satellite dishes, linking residents to a globalized consumer culture.
Child Brides: Tahani, 8, is seen with her husband Majed, 27, and her former classmate Ghada, 8, and her husband in Hajjah, Yemen, July 26, 2010.
Megalopolis: Shanghai, China, a sprawling megacity of 24 Million
Big Hole: The Mir Mine in Russia is the world's largest diamond mine.
Clear-cut: Industrial forestry degrading public lands, Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Computer Dump: Massive quantities of waste from obsolete computers and other electronics are typically shipped to the developing world for sorting and/or disposal. Photo from Accra, Ghana.
Oil Spill Fire: Aerial view of an oil fire following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, Gulf of Mexico
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Airplane Contrails: Globalized transportation networks, especially commercial aviation, are a major contributor of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Photo of contrails in the west London sky over the River Thames, London, England.
Fire: More frequent and more intense wildfires (such as this one in Colorado, USA) are another consequence of a warming planet.
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- Top 100 organizations outperform the S&P 500 by 3 percent in market cap weighted revenue and add nearly 125,000 jobs
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced its 2012 Top 100 Global Innovators list, honoring 100 corporations and institutions around the world that are at the heart of innovation as measured by a series of proprietary patent-related metrics. The full report is available at http://www.top100innovators.com.
Financial analysis of the acknowledged companies gives credence to their significance in that these organizations outperformed the S&P 500 by three percent in their market cap weighted revenue (15 percent versus 12 percent). This year's winners also added 124,214 new jobs over their prior year employment figures.
"Innovation is the foundation for economic prosperity and technological advancement," said David Brown, managing director, Thomson Reuters IP Solutions. "Our Top 100 Global Innovator methodology demonstrates the insight that can be gleaned from the analysis of patent data and confirms the fact that companies focused on innovating drive growth and financial success."
The Thomson Reuters 2012 Top 100 Global Innovators, in alphabetical order, are:
3M Company | Eaton Corporation | |
Advanced Micro Devices | EMC Corporation | |
Alcatel-Lucent | Emerson | |
Altera | Ericsson | |
Analog Devices | European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company | |
Apple | Exxon Mobil | |
Arkema | FANUC | |
AT&T | Ford | |
Avaya | FUJIFILM | |
Boeing | Fujitsu | |
Brother Industries | General Electric | |
Canon | Goodyear Tire & Rubber | |
Chevron | ||
CNRS, The French National Center for Scientific Research | Hewlett-Packard | |
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique | Hitachi | |
Corning | Honda Motor Company | |
Delphi | Honeywell International | |
Denso Corporation | IBM | |
Dow Chemical Company | IFP Energies Nouvelles | |
DuPont | Intel | |
Jatco | Ricoh | |
John Deere | Roche | |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | Rockwell Automation | |
Korea Electronics Technology Institute | Saint-Gobain | |
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology | Samsung Electronics | |
LG Electronics | SanDisk | |
Lockheed Martin | Sandvik | |
L'Oreal | Scania | |
LSI Corporation | Seagate | |
LSIS | Seiko Epson | |
Marvell | Sharp | |
Michelin | Shin-Etsu Chemical | |
Micron | Siemens | |
Microsoft | Snecma | |
Mitsubishi Electric | Solvay | |
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Sony | |
Monsanto | STMicroelectronics | |
Motorola | Symantec | |
Nike | TE Connectivity | |
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal | Texas Instruments | |
Nitto Denko | Thales | |
NTT | Toshiba | |
Olympus | Toyota Motor Corporation | |
Panasonic | U.S. Department of the Army | |
Pohang University of Science and Technology | U.S. Department of the Navy | |
Procter & Gamble | United Technologies | |
Qualcomm | Valeo | |
Raytheon | Xerox | |
Renault | Xilinx | |
Academic Institutions & Government Entities
For the first time, academic institutions and government entities made the list. The two 2012 university recipients are both from South Korea: Pohang University of Science and Technology and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. "The addition of South Korean academic institutions confirms the role government can play in encouraging innovation, as well as the longer-term potential for corporations and academia to collaborate in bringing new ideas to fruition," said Mr. Brown.
The two government entities that made the list are from the U.S.: the Departments of the Army and the Navy, respectively. Research shows that the U.S. government has invested heavily in innovation, especially as related to matters of national security.
Molecule-Based vs. Technology-Based
The Top 100 methodology, by virtue of its criteria, favors fast-moving, hyper-competitive industries such as computer hardware and semiconductors, where product lifecycles are short and advancements in technology are demanded by users. These technology-based industries grew by 18 percent and 29 percent, respectively. "That is not to say, however, that other industries are not also innovating," said Mr. Brown. "R&D spend in pharmaceutical/chemical-focused industries is among the top in the world. Many organizations in these sectors are extremely innovative, yet they adhere to a different innovation model."
Global Distribution
The U.S. continues to lead in the number of organizations it has on the list, with 47 this year. Asia has the next highest, with 32, comprising 25 from Japan and 7 from South Korea. There was a 75 percent increase in representation from South Korea over the prior year; the new entrants included two from academia and two scientific research centers. Europe has 21 honorees, with the largest representation coming from France (13). Year over year there are a larger number of recipients from the U.S. and Asia, and fewer from Europe.
Industry Breakout
The semiconductor and electrical components industry continued to lead in 2012, with 18 representative companies, 29 percent more than in 2011. Computer hardware was the next most prolific industry, with 13 companies in this category. Other notable changes include a 133 percent increase in representation by the automotive industry (from three awardees in 2011 to seven in 2012) and a 40 percent increase in representation from transportation equipment manufacturing.
The Thomson Reuters 2012 Top 100 Global Innovator methodology is based on four principle criteria: overall patent volume, patent grant success rate, global reach of the portfolio and patent influence as evidenced by citations. The peer-reviewed methodology was executed using the Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI), Derwent Patents Citations Index™, Quadrilateral Patent Index™, and Thomson Innovation®, the IP and intelligence collaboration platform. Comparative financial analysis was done using the Thomson Reuters Advanced Analytics for Deal-Making platform.
For more information on the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovator program and to download the full report, go to http://www.top100innovators.com.
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 60,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Don DeLoach, CEO and president of Infobright, will discuss how companies need to rethink their data infrastructure to participate in the IoT, including:
Data storage: Understanding the kinds of data: structured, unstructured, big/small?
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By Pat Romanski Since 2008 and for the first time in history, more than half of humans live in urban areas, urging cities to become "smart." Today, cities can leverage the wide availability of smartphones combined with new technologies such as Beacons or NFC to connect their urban furniture and environment to create citizen-first services that improve transportation, way-finding and information delivery.
In her session at @ThingsExpo, Laetitia Gazel-Anthoine, CEO of Connecthings, will focus on successful use cases. Feb. 28, 2015 04:00 AM EST Reads: 2,838 |
By Yeshim Deniz Cloudian, Inc., the leading provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions, today announced availability of Cloudian HyperStore 5.1 software. HyperStore 5.1 is an enhanced Amazon S3-compliant, plug-and-play hybrid cloud software solution that now features full Apache Hadoop integration. Enterprises can now transform big data into smart data by running Hadoop analytics on HyperStore software and appliances. This in-place analytics, with no need to offload data to other systems for Hadoop analyses, enables customers to derive meaningful business intelligence from their data quickly, efficiently and ... Feb. 28, 2015 04:00 AM EST Reads: 2,323 |


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Linguists have recently reconstructed what a 6,000 year-old-language called Proto-Indo-European might have sounded like. This language was the forerunner of many European and Asian languages, and now you can listen to how it may have sounded. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) was spoken by a people who lived from roughly 4500 to 2500 B.C. The question became, what did PIE sound like? As linguists have continued to discover more about PIE, this sonic experiment is periodically updated to reflect the most current understanding of how this extinct language would have sounded when spoken some six thousand years ago. Since there is considerable disagreement among scholars, no one version can be considered definitive.
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Priestess Tomb Confirms That Women Ruled In Ancient Peru
A society in some respects more advanced than our own? Phys.org reports:
… Read the restThe discovery in Peru of another tomb belonging to a pre-Hispanic priestess, the eighth in more than two decades, confirms that powerful women ruled this region 1,200 years ago, archeologists said.
The remains of the woman from the Moche—or Mochica—civilization were discovered in late July in an area called La Libertad in the country's northern Chepan province. In 2006, researchers came across the famous "Lady of Cao"—who died about 1,700 years ago and is seen as one of the first female rulers in Peru.
"This find makes it clear that women didn't just run rituals in this area but governed here and were queens of Mochica society," said project director Luis Jaime Castillo. "It is the eighth priestess to be discovered," he added. "Our excavations have only turned up tombs with women, never men."
The priestess was in an "impressive 1,200-year-old burial chamber" the archeologist said.
Ancient Egyptian Sphinx Mysteriously Unearthed In Israel
Things not where they are supposed to be? Historical strangeness via CNN:
… Read the restA recent discovery of part of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian sphinx has been a most unexpected find in Tel Hazor in northern Israel.
Inexplicably buried far from Egypt, the paws of a sphinx statue, resting on its base, have been unearthed with an inscription in hieroglyphs naming King Mycerinus. The pharaoh ruled in 2500 BC and oversaw the construction of one of the three Giza pyramids.
"This is the only sphinx of this king known in the world – even in Egypt. It is also the only monumental piece of Egyptian sculpture found anywhere in the Levant," said professor Amnon Ben-Tor, the director of the excavation, referring to the region spanning the east of the Mediterranean Sea.
Tel Hazor was the capital of the city of Canaan 4,000 years ago. The question of how the sphinx got to Tel Hazor will likely remain a mystery.
5,000-Year-Old Egyptian Jewelry's Materials Came From Outer Space
The International Business Times reports on the interplanetary origins of ancient human culture:
… Read the restA set of funeral beads which could be the oldest iron artifacts on earth actually came from outer space, archaeologists have claimed.
The nine iron beads, which were found in a 5000-year-old Egyptian cemetery in 1911, were made from a meteorite that crashed to earth around 3200 BC, according to a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
"These beads were made from meteoritic iron, and shaped by careful hammering of the metal into thin sheets before rolling them into tubes," researchers noted, adding that neutron and X-ray scanning of the iron beads proved that the metal came from a meteorite.
The iron was strung into a necklace together with other exotic minerals such as lapis lazuli, gold and carnelian. The findings suggest that iron and metal works were much advanced in the ancient Egypt than previously thought.
Were Prehistoric Cave Painters High On Hallucinogenic Plants?
Do psychedelics produce the common shapes and patterns found in prehistoric cave art around the world? Alternet reports:
… Read the restPrehistoric cave paintings across the continents have similar geometric patterns not because early humans were learning to draw like Paleolithic pre-schoolers, but because they were high on drugs, and their brains—like ours—have a biological predisposition to "see" certain patterns, especially during consciousness altering states.
This thesis—that humanity's earliest artists were not just reeling due to mind-altering activities, but deliberately sought those elevated states and gave greater meaning to those common visions—is the contention of a new paper by an international research team.
Their thesis intriguingly explores the "biologically embodied mind," which they contend gave rise to similarities in Paleolithic art across the continents dating back 40,000 years, and can also be seen in the body painting patterns dating back even further
"The prevalence of certain geometric patterns in the symbolic material culture of many prehistoric cultures, starting shortly after the emergence of our biological species and continuing in some indigenous cultures until today, is explained in terms of the characteristic contents of biologically determined hallucinatory experience," the researchers hypothesize.
Real Estate Developers Bulldoze 5,000-Year-Old Pyramid In Peru
Here's hoping a nasty curse commences to haunt them. Via the Independent:
A 5,000-year-old pyramid in Lima, Peru has been torn down by two private construction companies. The El Paraiso pyramid, located in the San Martin de Porres, was one of the Americas' oldest archaeological sites.
Archaeologist Frederic Engel said that the pyramid may have held between 1,500 and 3,000 inhabitants with over 100,000 tons of rock used in its construction, taken from hills in the surrounding area. It was likely used for religious and ritual purposes.
Archaeologist Marco Guillén Hugo, who was in charge of the research and excavation of the site, said that he had reason to believe that Compañía y Promotora Provelanz E.I.R.L and Alisol S.A.C Ambas were the private companies behind the destruction. According to The Ministry of Culture, the companies have previously laid claim to the land, but it is actually under state control.
Kazakhstan To Rebury Ancient Warlord, Fearing Curse
Call the reburial a case of superstition triumphing over rationality, but, frankly, the Golden Man gives me the creeps too. RIA Novosti reports:
… Read the restEver heard about the curse of the pharaohs? Well, how about the curse of a 2,500-year-old chief of a nomadic Scythian tribe that brings about floods, droughts, and livestock decimation?
The Scythian curse is real, say locals in a remote area of eastern Kazakhstan where the chieftain's remains were discovered – and where they will be reinterred this weekend to appease his spirit, to the chagrin of archeologists.
In 2003, an archeological expedition dug up a burial mound in the Shiliktinskaya Valley to find a Golden Man – a presumed leader of the Saka tribe, a branch of the Scythian nomads that populated Central Asia and southern Siberia in the 1st millennium BC.
Since the mound was excavated, the area around it has been hit by several floods, a drought, a mass loss of livestock and an increase in births of children with learning disabilities, locals said, Kazakh television KTK reported.
Second Century Science Fiction Describes Trip to the Moon
Continuing Disinfo's love affair with The Public Domain Review, this piece by Aaron Parrett on a 2nd century work of science fiction describing a surreal voyage to the moon:
With his Vera Historia, the 2nd century satirist Lucian of Samosata wrote the first detailed account of a trip to the moon in the Western tradition and, some argue, also one of the earliest science fiction narratives. Aaron Parrett explores how Lucian used this lunar vantage point to take a satirical look back at the philosophers of Earth and their ideas of "truth".
The Greek-speaking rhetorician and writer Lucian of Samosata, born around 125 CE in what is now known as Syria, has had a somewhat mixed reception through the ages. Scholars agree that his contemporaries and successors viewed him with a great deal of respect. Early Christians were less admiring of Lucian and his pagan and vitriolic pen, though by the time of the renaissance, he had regained favor among learned people.… Read the rest
The Oldest Known Guide To Dreaming
The 3,300-year-old Dream Book, via the British Museum:
… Read the restThe meaning of dreams is a subject that fascinated the ancient Egyptians. This hieratic papyrus, probably dates to the early reign of Ramesses II (1279-1213 BC).
On each page of the papyrus a vertical column of hieratic signs begins: 'if a man sees himself in a dream'; each horizontal line describes a dream, followed by the diagnosis 'good' or 'bad', and then the interpretation. For example, 'if a man sees himself in a dream looking out of a window, good; it means the hearing of his cry'. Or, 'if a man sees himself in a dream with his bed catching fire, bad; it means driving away his wife'.
It is uncertain who the original owner was, but it passed into the hands of the scribe Qeniherkhepshef. The Dream Book was part of an archive, including a wide variety of literary, magical and documentary material, which passed down through [his] family.
Ancient Peruvian Pyramid's Astronomical Alignment Uncovered
Live Science reports on ancient architecture and monoliths designed to merge with figures in the sky:
An ancient astronomical alignment in southern Peru has been discovered by researchers between a pyramid, two stone lines and the setting sun during the winter solstice.
The longest of the two stone lines, called geoglyphs, runs for nearly a mile. Interspersed with these lines, researchers have also found more than 200 cairns (rock piles). The stone lines and cairns appear to be connected with four nearby ancient settlements and their pyramids.
Using 3D modeling, the researchers determined that during the time of the winter solstice, "Someone viewing the sunset from these lines during the winter solstice would have seen the sun setting directly behind, or sinking into, the adobe pyramid…Thus the pyramid and the linear geoglyph constitute part of a single architectural complex, with potential cosmological significance, that ritualized the entire pampa landscape."


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