NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global law firm Ropes & Gray today announced that its industry-leading intellectual property and technology transactions practices are expanding again with the arrival of two leading lawyers: Edward H. Sadtler as partner in New York and Emily M. Karlberg (Lieberman) as counsel in San Francisco.

"Dealmaking shows no signs of slowing in 2022. Market-leading IP advisers like Edward and Emily are integral to help our clients understand and execute the complexities of the red hot tech market. Each has a strong, technical background and deep market knowledge that benefit our clients in their most challenging and complex tech deals. We are excited to welcome them to the firm," said David Djaha, managing partner.

Edward joins Ropes & Gray's 500-lawyer New York office as a partner in its intellectual property transactions and technology, media and telecommunications industry group. Ropes & Gray's global team is renowned for providing first-rate counsel to groundbreaking technology companies, and their investors, on transactional, regulatory, litigation and investigative matters.

With more than 20 years of experience representing leading technology companies and private equity firms, Edward has become an indispensable advisor for clients faced with complex legal challenges.

Edward has counseled clients on IP and technology aspects of M&A transactions and private equity investments, including many cross-border deals and matters involving unique transaction structures. He also serves as lead counsel on a wide range of strategic transactions, including, licensing and collaboration matters involving IP and technology in a wide range of industries. These industries include financial services, software, fintech, consumer brands, hospitality, media, energy, communications and health care.

In addition, Edward has guided fund managers and private equity firms on legal issues related to data strategies that include monetization of data, as well as cybersecurity and privacy issues. His experience also extends to providing IP advice in financings, securitizations, public offerings and restructurings.

Emily, who will be based in San Francisco, also has established a reputation for handling sophisticated transactions. Her practice is focused on IP and carve-out aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including complex business divisions, spin-offs, and joint ventures. In addition to conducting IP diligence, Emily also advises on licensing arrangements, services agreements, and other commercial agreements, both within the context of mergers and acquisitions and on a stand-alone basis.

Emily has also counseled emerging growth clients in IP and technology matters arising from entity formation, corporate partnerships and other strategic and complex transactions. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional, and conducts privacy diligence in addition to IP diligence on transactions.

"Edward and Emily are leading technology lawyers joining a sophisticated team," said Ed Black, co-head of Ropes & Gray's global technology, media and telecommunications practice.

Black continued: "In 2021, Ropes & Gray guided complex and record-breaking technology transactions, including McAfee Corp.'s $14 billion sale, and the $40 billion SPAC merger and IPO of Southeast Asian super-app Grab. Edward and Emily are a perfect fit for the complex work we're doing in the field of global tech."

"Tech dealmaking is on a tear right now. To meet that demand, Ropes & Gray is further strengthening its deal teams. Edward and Emily are a perfect complement to our practice. They understand the most complex technology, M&A and IP matters," said Megan Baca co-head of Ropes & Gray's global IP transactions practice.

Said Melissa Rones, co-head of Ropes & Gray's IP transactions practice: "At a time when more and more corporate deals involve matters related to IP, which is where Edward and Emily specialize, we are very pleased that they have decided to join our team."

Edward said: "I'm excited to be a part of the continued growth of the firm's renowned IP and technology practice and feel privileged to be joining this remarkable team of attorneys. The deep industry experience across the firm's practice groups offers clients access to one of the best platforms for handling matters where IP and technology are critical."

"It's an exciting time to join Ropes & Gray, especially with the firm's announcement that it is adding a third California office," Emily said. "This is a premier firm serving leading clients in IP and M&A, and I am proud to be part of the team."

Ropes & Gray has announced the firm will open its 12th office, and third in California, in 2022, and that private equity partner Brandon Howald, based in Los Angeles, has joined the firm.

About Ropes & Gray's Technology, Media & Telecommunications PracticeRopes & Gray's technology, media & telecommunications group consists of a multi-disciplinary team of attorneys with years of experience handling matters in the areas of technology transactions, M&A, data privacy and cybersecurity, intellectual property, finance, fintech, capital markets, antitrust, regulatory and tax. The firm advises TMT clients across the full gamut of subsectors including automotive and aeronautical, consumer technology, energy technology, fintech, AI, big data, gaming, hardware, semiconductors, software, internet and e-commerce, digital health and telecommunications.The award-winning TMT practice is regularly ranked among the world's leading practices by high-profile publications such asU.S. News & World Report,Legal 500 andChambers USA.

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MINOT, N.D. I make a living writing and talking about politics, and I divide the topics I cover up into two categories.

First, there's the sexy stuff. The hot-button stuff. Topics that immediately stir up interest from the audience. It's the stuff we spend most of our time talking about. How big should the government be, and how much should it cost us? Stuff like that.

Then there's the unsexy stuff. Like blockchain.

What is blockchain? North Dakota Chief Information Officer Shawn Riley knows. He's an advocate for it. He tried to explain it to this humble political wonk on this episode of Plain Talk, and what he said makes a lot of sense.

Blockchain is a way of recording transactions in a way that's simultaneously secure and transparent. He believes it could be used in everything from recording title histories for property to tracking mineral rights and, yes, even voting.

Nerd stuff, I know, but the impact could be very sexy in terms of that thing we all care about, which is how much government is costing us.

Riley estimates that North Dakota has something like $1.2 billion in what he calls "tech debt," which is to say investments in dated technology that needs to be upgraded. There's no holding back the rapid advance of technology, but Riley argues that if we implement blockchain for the information our government is built around - all the little transactions and data the state records and keeps - upgrading that technology could be a lot cheaper in the future.

If we could make our interactions with the government more efficient, and more secure, while simultaneously holding down the cost of the government gathering and keeping all that data, isn't that a win for everyone?

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The Department of Commerce (DOC) has produced a report about how its agencies ran technology transfer activities in fiscal year 2020, including projects related to space weather and air quality.

The Annual Report on Technology Transfer: Approach, Plans, Fiscal Year 2020 Activities and Achievements summarizes how the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration handled technology transfers, NIST said Thursday.

For example, NOAA created a technique that uses machine learning to search for space weather content among large amounts of satellite-gathered data. The weather forecasting agency also worked with NASA to study how wildfires across the U.S. affect air quality.

The agencies performed this work under the Fire Influence on Regional and Global Environments and Air Quality or FIREX-AQ program, whose resulting data now supports NOAAs forecasting models for smoke and air quality.

This report is integral to understanding and analyzing the tech transfer activities of the agencies, and it provides a great reference point for DOCs overall role in tech transfer, said Mojdeh Bahar, associate director for innovation and industry services at NIST.

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The growth rate in the market is because of the increased push by governing bodies toward agricultural automation and digitization. Impact of COVID-19 The supply chain for the majority of the industries across the globe got impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the agriculture technology-as-a-service industry.

New York, Jan. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Agriculture Technology-as-a-Service Market - A Global and Regional Analysis: Focus on Product, Application, and Country Analysis - Analysis and Forecast, 2020-2026" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06196268/?utm_source=GNW During the COVID-19 outbreak, the supply chain of the agriculture industry was disrupted.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, agricultural production was hindered for farmers, which led to a decrease in their revenue generation. This has left the farmers in no position to invest in modern agricultural equipment.

Market Segmentation

Agriculture Technology-as-a-Service Market by Service Type

The global agriculture technology-as-a-service market in the service type product segment is expected to be dominated by software-as-a-service. The high market share and growth potential associated with software-as-a-service technologies in the agriculture industry is expected to drive the global agriculture technology-as-a-service market.

Agriculture Technology-as-a-Service Market by Technology

The global agriculture technology-as-a-service market in the technology product segment is expected to be dominated by data analytics and intelligence solutions. Data analytic solutions have the ability to increase agricultural production and are expected to drive the agriculture technology-as-a-service market.

Agriculture Technology-as-a-Service Market by Application

The global agriculture technology-as-a-service market in the application segment is expected to be dominated by yield monitoring and mapping. The high market share and growth potential associated with yield mapping and mapping is expected to drive the global agriculture technology-as-a-service market.

Agriculture Technology-as-a-Service Market by Region

North America is expected to generate the highest revenue in 2020.The large market share of the region has been attributed to the increased application of automation and control systems in most of the countries and the rising adoption rate of smart farming practices leading to increased adoption of agriculture technology-as-a-service.

The North America market for agriculture technology-as-a-service is expected to witness a moderate growth as of CAGR 21.93% in the forecast period.

Key Market Players and Competition Synopsis

365FarmNet GmbH, Accenture plc, AGCO Corporation, Agrellus, Inc., Agrivi, Airbus S.A.S, AT&T Inc., Ceres Imaging Inc., CLAAS Group, CNH Industrial N.V., Cropln Technology Solutions Pvt.Ltd., Deere & Company, DeHaat, Fujitsu Limited, Harvest Automation Inc., Hexagon Agriculture, IBM Corporation, Intertek Group plc, Kubota Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Naio Technologies, Nutrien AgSolutions, Inc., Parrot SA, Pixhawk, Precision Hawk Inc., Raven Industries Inc., Robert Bosch GmbH, SGS S.A., Small Robot Company, Syngenta AG, SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd, Taranis, Teejet Technologies, Topcon Corporation, Trimble Inc., Yanmar Co. Ltd.

The companies that are profiled in the report have been selected based on the selective pool of players, primarily Tier-1 (holding 50-60% of the market), mid-segment players (comprising 30-40% share), and small and emerging companies (holding the balance 10-20% share), based on various factors such as product portfolio, annual revenues, market penetration, research, and development initiatives, along with a domestic and international presence in the agriculture technology-as-a-service industry.

Countries Covered North America U.S. Canada Mexico Europe Italy France Germany Rest-of-Europe U.K. Middle East and Africa South Africa Saudi Arabia Israel China Asia-Pacific Japan India Australia Rest-of-Asia-Pacific South America Brazil Argentina Rest-of-South AmericaRead the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p06196268/?utm_source=GNW

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The global agriculture technology-as-a-service market is expected to reach $3,031.1 million by 2026, with a CAGR of 24.42% during the forecast period...

The next-generation BMW 7 Series is expected to enter production later this year before rolling out to global markets around early 2023. Based on reports and spy shots, seems we can expect a lot more revolution than evolution from Munich's flagship luxury sedan. BMW Blog has run through the intel on the various powertrains to be offered, saying that the top slot among the ICE-powered trims will belong to the M750e xDrive PHEV. Tuned by the M division, its powertrain reportedly combines the B58 3.0-liter inline-six with an electric motor for roughly 560 total horsepower pushed to all four wheels. M will also tune the handling dynamics, and based on camouflaged prototypes, the bodywork will wear M cues including, perhaps, quad trapezoid taillpipes. A version that may be called the 745 xDrive will utilize the same powertrain without the M badging and finessing, likely coming in around 480 hp.

Sticking with the ICE half of the family, BMW Blog's sources allege the base model will be a 735i with about 270 horsepower, the only rear-driver among the range. Above that comes a gas-powered 740i xDrive with about 370 hp, both using the same B58 3.0-liter inline-six. BMW is said to be retiring the current N63 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8 for the S68 V8. In the new 750i, that V8 could produce around 535 horsepower, and will be even more powerful as a hybrid in the top trim of the XM crossover.

The i7 will be motivated by electrons only, and supposedly will count i740, i750, and i7 M60 trims ranging from 480 to around 650 horsepower.

Design-wise, the G70/G71 sedans are going to borrow tech and features from the spearheads in BMW's electrification push, the iX, i4, and XM. Outside, anticipate split headlights from the Concept XM flanking a large kidney grille with a new slat treatment and illumination options. On the sides, doors with flush handles will gain the pushbutton open and close functions most identified with Rolls-Royce, in back, the license plate holder will move from the trunk to the bumper for the first time in 7 Series history. Inside, there will be BMWs new infotainment system displayed on a huge, curved screen, Natural Interaction gesture control from the iX, the Motorway Assistant driving tech, and an even better Bowers & Wilkins sound system.

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Its hard to reckon exactly when in history humans became a technological species. Part of that is because the definition of technology is somewhat subjective; if you think making a stick pointy enough to grub roots from the dirt or to poke enough holes in an animal to convince it to let you eat it is technology, then our engineered world goes back a long, long way indeed.

But something about pointy sticks just doesnt seem transformative enough, in the sense of fundamentally changing a naturally occurring material, to really count as a technological line in the sand. To cross that line, it really seems like the use of metals should be part of the package. Even if thats the case, our technological history still goes pretty far back. And copper ends up being one of the metals that started it all, about 11,000 years ago, when our ancestors discovered natural deposits of the soft, reddish metal and began learning how to fashion it into the tools and implements that lifted us out of the Stone Age.

Our world literally cannot run without copper, forming as it does not only the electric-motor muscles of civilization, but also the wires and cables that form the power and data grids that stitch us together. Ironically, we are just as dependent on copper now as we were when it was the only metal we could make tools from, and perhaps more so. Well take a look at whats involved in extracting and purifying copper, and see how the methods we today use are not entirely different from those developed over seven millennia ago.

As useful as copper was to early civilizations, and for as easily accessible as it was thanks to surface deposits of native copper sprinkled around the world, it was not the first metal to be discovered and worked. That honor falls to both gold and, strangely enough, meteoric iron. But neither of these metals was abundant enough to make anything but a token impact on technology, and mostly ended up enriching and ornamenting kings and princes.

Copper, however, was easily located and, perhaps more importantly, easily worked without the need to develop much infrastructure at least at first. Lumps of copper could be pried from native copper deposits and cold-worked with stone tools into useful artifacts, thanks to coppers malleability. It wasnt long before coppers relatively low melting point led to the discovery of casting, which led to more uses for the metal and increased demand.

Eventually, supplies of native metal from easily exploited deposits exceeded demand, and our ancestors discovered smelting from various copper-bearing ores. The most important ore for commercial copper production is called chalcopyrite, an iron-containing copper sulfide mineral with the chemical formula CuFeS2. Chalcopyrite deposits are found all over the world, with particular abundance in North and South America, as well as Africa and Australia. Other important ores occur as oxides and carbonates of copper, like azurite and cuprite.

Although some deep-shaft mining is done, most of the big copper mining operations are vast open-pit mines. The worlds most productive copper mine right now is the Minera Escondida in the Atacama Desert in Chile, which produced $10 billion worth of copper in 2007 and can output 1.2 million tons a year. While a pure sample of chalcopyrite is about 34% copper by weight, the mineral is usually associated with a host rock species that reduces the ore to a fraction of a percent of copper. This means that vast amounts of ore have to be processed to make a mining operation commercially viable. In some deposits, gold and silver are sparingly substituted for copper in the ore, making these precious metals a valuable side product that in some cases can actually pay for the entire cost of extraction of all the copper.

Extraction in open-pit mines begins with typical hard-rock mining methods, like blasting. Ore-bearing rock is loaded 200 to 300 tonnes at a time by enormous loaders and shovels into mammoth haul trucks, for the trip up out of the pit to the processing plant. There, enormous crushers reduce the car-sized boulders into smaller and smaller fractions, which are passed to ball mils for finer grinding. The goal is to reduce the physical contact between the ore minerals and the waste rock that surrounds it, which is called gangue.

What happens next is the extraction of the elemental copper from the ore minerals, but the method used depends upon which type of ore is present. For oxides and carbonates of copper, the copper is soluble in acid solutions, so a hydrometallurgical process is used. Details vary, but in leaching processes, typically the powdered ore is piled up in large pits lined with an impervious barrier. Dilute sulfuric acid is sprayed onto the piles and leaches copper sulfate from the ore minerals. The copper is stripped from the leachate with special extractants, which leaves the sulfuric acid clean and ready to be recycled for another round of leaching, plus a copper-rich solution ready for further purification.

Copper sulfide ores are at a disadvantage when it comes to chemical methods of extraction, since the sulfides are barely soluble in acid. To free copper from these ores, refiners need to turn up the heat with pyrometallurgical methods. These begin with the same crushing and grinding steps as before, resulting in a fine powder that is mixed with water in large vats. To the slurry are added chemicals known as collectors, whose job it is to bind to the sulfide mineral particles. The collector molecules cover the sulfide particles and increase their hydrophobicity, or tendency to repel water, while leaving the waste rock particles alone. When air is bubbled through the solution, the now-hydrophobic sulfides attach to the air bubbles and form a froth at the surface of the vat, which is skimmed off the top and subjected to further rounds of this froth flotation method to increase the concentration of copper.

The output from this froth flotation process is then put through a thickening process, to remove as much water as possible. This is done by a combination of simple evaporation in open ponds, and by filtration using porous ceramic discs or cylinders. The filtration step is critical, as it lowers the moisture content to around 8% and results in a copper concentrate of about 20-30% enrichment that can be easily shipped to smelting plants.

To extract the copper from the concentrate, a flash smelting process is used. Concentrate is sprayed into a reaction column in a flash furnace along with heated, oxygen-enriched air. The sulfide compounds in the concentrate melt instantly and fall to a collecting pool at the bottom of the furnace. There, the molten materials separate by density, with the molten copper, called matte copper, sinking to the bottom, while the iron and silicate slag floats to the top with the assistance of added fluxes.

Matte copper, now about 60% pure, is tapped off the bottom of the flash furnace for further purification through conversion, which is basically blowing hot air through the molten matte. The oxygen reacts with the remaining sulfur, leaving behind blister copper thats about 98% pure.

The final stage of purification for the end products of both hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical extraction is called electrowinning. This is simply electrolysis, albeit on a massive scale. For hydrometallurgical copper, the copper sulfate solution that comes from the leaching pit is used as the electrolyte, with lead anodes and thin stainless steel sheets for cathodes. Current is passed through the electrolyte, causing the copper in the solution to plate out onto the stainless steel cathodes. When about 100 pounds (45 kg) of copper have accumulated on the cathodes, they are removed, rinsed, and flexed to pop off the finished, 99.99% pure copper sheets.

For pyrometallurgical copper, the blister copper ingots serve as anodes for electrowinning. They are suspended in a tank filled with dilute copper sulfate mixed with sulfuric acid, interleaved with cathodes of either pure copper sheets or, again, stainless steel. Current is passed through the tank and the copper plates out on the cathodes, again reaching 99.99% purity in the finished process.

The waste product left behind in the electrowinning tanks is known as anode slime, and despite its unappealing name is a valuable product. Depending on the minerals present in the feedstock and the voltage used for electrowinning, the anode slime can contain gold, silver, selenium, tellurium, and possibly even platinum-group metals, along with a fair amount of copper that wasnt recovered in the first go-around. Anode slime is generally sold off to specialty smelters for recovery of these valuable metals, using combinations of hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical processes that are customized to the blend of metals in the slime.

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Real-time Locating Systems Market Research Report by Technology (Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Infrared (IR), and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)), by Access Type (Education, Government and Defense, and Healthcare), by End-User, by Application, by Region (Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa) - Global Forecast to 2027 - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19

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The Global Real-time Locating Systems Market size was estimated at USD 4,500.37 million in 2020 and expected to reach USD 5,279.22 million in 2021, at a CAGR 17.67% to reach USD 14,059.34 million by 2027.

Market Statistics:The report provides market sizing and forecast across five major currencies - USD, EUR GBP, JPY, and AUD. It helps organization leaders make better decisions when currency exchange data is readily available. In this report, the years 2018 and 2019 are considered historical years, 2020 as the base year, 2021 as the estimated year, and years from 2022 to 2027 are considered the forecast period.

Market Segmentation & Coverage:This research report categorizes the Real-time Locating Systems to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:

Based on Technology, the market was studied across Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Infrared (IR), Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID), Ultrasound, and Wi-Fi.

Based on Access Type, the market was studied across Education, Government and Defense, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Automotive, Oil & Gas, Retail, Sports and Entertainment, and Transportation and Logistics.

Based on End-User, the market was studied across Cloud-based Application Program Interfaces (API), Integrated CRM Software, and Mobile Apps.

Based on Application, the market was studied across Access Control and Security, Environmental Monitoring, Management and Monitoring, and Tracking and Management.

Based on Region, the market was studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas is further studied across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The United States is further studied across California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The Asia-Pacific is further studied across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The Europe, Middle East & Africa is further studied across France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.

Cumulative Impact of COVID-19:COVID-19 is an incomparable global public health emergency that has affected almost every industry, and the long-term effects are projected to impact the industry growth during the forecast period. Our ongoing research amplifies our research framework to ensure the inclusion of underlying COVID-19 issues and potential paths forward. The report delivers insights on COVID-19 considering the changes in consumer behavior and demand, purchasing patterns, re-routing of the supply chain, dynamics of current market forces, and the significant interventions of governments. The updated study provides insights, analysis, estimations, and forecasts, considering the COVID-19 impact on the market.

Competitive Strategic Window:The Competitive Strategic Window analyses the competitive landscape in terms of markets, applications, and geographies to help the vendor define an alignment or fit between their capabilities and opportunities for future growth prospects. It describes the optimal or favorable fit for the vendors to adopt successive merger and acquisition strategies, geography expansion, research & development, and new product introduction strategies to execute further business expansion and growth during a forecast period.

FPNV Positioning Matrix:The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the Real-time Locating Systems Market based on Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) that aids businesses in better decision making and understanding the competitive landscape.

Market Share Analysis:The Market Share Analysis offers the analysis of vendors considering their contribution to the overall market. It provides the idea of its revenue generation into the overall market compared to other vendors in the space. It provides insights into how vendors are performing in terms of revenue generation and customer base compared to others. Knowing market share offers an idea of the size and competitiveness of the vendors for the base year. It reveals the market characteristics in terms of accumulation, fragmentation, dominance, and amalgamation traits.

Competitive Scenario:The Competitive Scenario provides an outlook analysis of the various business growth strategies adopted by the vendors. The news covered in this section deliver valuable thoughts at the different stage while keeping up-to-date with the business and engage stakeholders in the economic debate. The competitive scenario represents press releases or news of the companies categorized into Merger & Acquisition, Agreement, Collaboration, & Partnership, New Product Launch & Enhancement, Investment & Funding, and Award, Recognition, & Expansion. All the news collected help vendor to understand the gaps in the marketplace and competitors strength and weakness thereby, providing insights to enhance product and service.

Company Usability Profiles:The report profoundly explores the recent significant developments by the leading vendors and innovation profiles in the Global Real-time Locating Systems Market, including Aeroscout Inc, AirFinder by Link Labs, Inc., AiRISTA, AiRISTA Flow, Alien Technology, LLC, Aruba Networks, Axcess International, BeSpoon, Catapult Sports (Australia), CenTrak, Inc., ChyronHego Corporation, Decawave, Ekahau Inc, Elpas, Essensium, HERE Global B.V., Hewlett Packard, Honeywell International Inc., Hospital Products Australia Pty Ltd, Identec Group, Impinj, Impinj,Inc., Intelligent Insites, KINGDOES, Litum Technologies, Locaris, Midmark Corporation, Mojix Inc., PINC Solutions, Plus Location Systems, Quuppa (Finland), Radianse, Sanitag, Savi Technology, SCHMIDT, Sewio Networks, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Sonitor Technologies, STANLEY Healthcare, Statsports (U.K), TeleTracking Technologies, Inc., ThingMagic, TimeDomain, Ubisense Group, and Zebra Technologies.

The report provides insights on the following pointers:1. Market Penetration: Provides comprehensive information on the market offered by the key players2. Market Development: Provides in-depth information about lucrative emerging markets and analyze penetration across mature segments of the markets3. Market Diversification: Provides detailed information about new product launches, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments4. Competitive Assessment & Intelligence: Provides an exhaustive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, certification, regulatory approvals, patent landscape, and manufacturing capabilities of the leading players5. Product Development & Innovation: Provides intelligent insights on future technologies, R&D activities, and breakthrough product developments

The report answers questions such as:1. What is the market size and forecast of the Global Real-time Locating Systems Market?2. What are the inhibiting factors and impact of COVID-19 shaping the Global Real-time Locating Systems Market during the forecast period?3. Which are the products/segments/applications/areas to invest in over the forecast period in the Global Real-time Locating Systems Market?4. What is the competitive strategic window for opportunities in the Global Real-time Locating Systems Market?5. What are the technology trends and regulatory frameworks in the Global Real-time Locating Systems Market?6. What is the market share of the leading vendors in the Global Real-time Locating Systems Market?7. What modes and strategic moves are considered suitable for entering the Global Real-time Locating Systems Market?Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p06204383/?utm_source=GNW

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At a hearing of the Environmental Audit Committee last week, professor Benjamin Sovacool, director of the Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex, said the technology, which removes CO2 from the atmosphere with the intention of storing it underground for thousands of years, could be vulnerable to attacks.

He told MPs: Terrorists or hackers could target these types of carbon reservoirs and then release large amounts of carbon as a threat, or to get money or some sort of concessions. This is the tension: the more you concentrate and create economies of scale, the more you're creating potential security risks.

Giving evidence to the committee, expert witnesses including Dr Amy Ruddock, European vice-president of Carbon Engineering, and Dr Chenggong Sun, associate professor of clean energy technologies at the University of Nottingham, said that the very high potential energy demand for DACCS also posed a challenge to its ongoing development.

Asked whether he was aware of any other concerns regarding the implementation of carbon capture in the UK, Sovacool said that the public still did not fully understand the technologys potential.

Very recent experiences here in the UK with shale gas and geothermal energy raised similar concerns about underground permanence, and I think this whole issue of social acceptance could also be very frustrating, because we could identify very strong geologic repositories that aren't socially viable, and that will create a nightmare for politicians and members of parliament who have to contrast security and climate change with social legitimacy and acceptance, he said.

Despite the warning, Sovacool insisted that DACCS and other negative emissions technologies (NETS) were essential to the UK achieving its climate targets and represent a huge opportunity for the economy.

In my work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, I can tell you that almost every scenario we run depends on a very significant deployment of NETS by the mid-century, so I think it's definitely a technology we have to invest in as a safety measure and even just to stabilise the climate, Sovacool said.

Were literally now setting the goalposts to who will dominate the next energy transition mid-century. Those are the stakes, and the technologies could be so huge, he added.

Ruddock also emphasised the importance of DACCS for achieving net zero carbon emissions targets, pointing to work that Carbon Engineering was carrying out with the UK-based firm Storegga.

The project that we're doing with them entered pre-feed that means the first detailed engineering stage back in August. We're looking at deploying a plant [that can remove] between 500,000 and a million tonnes of CO2 per year, and we're targeting operations in 2026, she said.

Asked whether he thought DACCS could make a meaningful contribution to the UKs negative emissions targets, Chenggong Sun said: Yes, clearly.

Direct air capture is no longer considered as an option, but something we have to do to deliver climate action targets particularly in the UK. Even if we take all existing technologies to their maximum potential, we still have quite a considerable [amount of CO2] remaining to decarbonise because of the wide range of harder-to-decarbonise sectors in the UK, he added.

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City Theatre in Pittsburgh is bringing back a play that first appeared on its stage 25 years ago.

The Medium, a postmodern deconstruction of the musings of writer/philosopher Marshall McLuhan, will run from Jan. 22 through Feb. 13 on the City Theatre Main Stage on Pittsburghs South Side.

The third show of the 2021-22 subscription season is presented by New York City-based SITI Company.

The production was originally created in 1993 and conceived to explore the then-burgeoning field of technology through the lens of Marshall McLuhan, said Anne Bogart, SITI Company co-artistic director, who conceived the play. We follow the famous Canadian philosopher of media studies on an Alice in Wonderland-like journey through the landscape of his profound insights about the effects of media upon the human experience.

Now, nearly 30 years later, the play seems even more relevant to the world that we inhabit today than it did when we first created it, she said.

First seen at City Theatre in 1996, The Medium explores the effect of media and emerging technologies on our perceptions, our psyches, and our personal lives, according to a release.

The Medium is structured upon the well-known narrative format of the heros journey, which can be found in stories and fairy tales from around the world and throughout history, Bogart said. Our hero is based upon the great Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan who, in the 1960s, was able to predict what would happen to us when the media, digital technology and the internet would dominate our lives.

Through the television screen

In a confused state after suffering a stroke, the character of McLuhan finds himself transported, like Alice Through the Looking Glass, into the world of television.

Unable to speak, McLuhan moves from channel to channel, experiencing firsthand the fulfillment of his worst and most insightful dreams, Bogart said.

The scenes in The Medium are presented in the form of television genres, including classic varieties like a Western, a hospital drama, a game show, a family show, a chat show and so on, she added. Each genre form functions as a container for different insights and themes from Marshall McLuhans writings. McLuhan himself, our main character, travels through this TV landscape.

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Will Bond will appear in the SITI Company production of "The Medium," Jan. 22-Feb. 13 at City Theatre in Pittsburgh.

Directed by Bogart, The Medium features performers William Bond, Gian-Murray Gianino, Ellen Lauren, Barney OHanlon, Violeta Picayo and Stephen Duff Webber.

One can see the irony in the fact that this prescient philosopher, who spoke and wrote so eloquently and playfully on the media and culture, should suffer the inability to communicate, Bond said. In this way, one might call him a modern-day Cassandra who is insightful enough to sound the warning, but doomed to have his warnings not be believed by his own culture.

The other characters are ordinary people dealing with extraordinary changes brought about by the rapidly changing world, in scenes that are expressionistic and collage-like. The text is taken from McLuhans writings, expressionistic writings of the 1920s and modern media.

Scenes, movements, and moments shift abruptly, at times manically, suddenly lyrically, as in the blips and bleeps of electronic media, Bogart said.

Issues stemming from the widespread sharing of information and disinformation go back to the advent of the printing press, Bogart said.

McLuhan was the first person able to articulate the stress and complexity of the world in which we now find ourselves, she said. He was the progenitor of such familiar notions as the global village and the medium is the message. He began to understand the effect of media and emerging technologies on our perceptions, our psyches, and our personal lives.

Exploring such issues is the very raison detre of theatre, Bond said.

Among theaters perennial questions are Who are we? Do we know what is happening to us? And most importantly, how can we get along, or function together, better? he said.

Scenic and lighting is by SITI Company member Brian H. Scott, costumes are by Obie Award-winner Gabriel Berry and soundscape by is Tony Award-winner Darron L. West. Patti Kelly is the production stage manager.

Thrilled to be back

Following its newly adapted revival in Pittsburgh, the production will travel to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City.

We are thrilled and delighted to bring our production of The Medium back home to City Theatre, Bogart said. Our long association with Pittsburgh, Marc Masterson and City Theatre conspire to make this a meaningful event indeed.

City Theatre is proud to be a part of the internationally renowned SITI Companys past, present and future, said Masterson, City Theatre co-artistic director. This collaboration has spanned four decades and has generated productions that have been seen all over the world.

Five plays have premiered between the two companies since the original Pittsburgh staging of The Medium.

Masks and proof of vaccination or negative covid-19 test will be required of all audience members. Exceptions will be made for those under age 12, who must be accompanied by an adult who meets the venues vaccination requirements, and for guests who need reasonable accommodations due to a medical exception or sincerely held religious belief.

For more information and tickets, call 412-431-2489 or visit citytheatrecompany.org.

Shirley McMarlin is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Shirley at 724-836-5750, smcmarlin@triblive.com or via Twitter .

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GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN / ACCESSWIRE / January 10, 2022 / XVIVO Perfusion AB (STO:XVIVO)(LSE:0RKL)(FRA:3XV)

On January 7, 2022, the world's first ever successful pig to human heart transplantation took place, a groundbreaking milestone for the field of transplantation. A team at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA, performed the procedure. The recipient was a 57-year-old terminally ill man who received a heart from a gene-modified pig. After retrieval, the pig heart was preserved with XVIVO's heart perfusion device and proprietary solution until transplanted.

Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the transplant field today. Consequently, only a small number of patients with end stage heart disease is given the opportunity of a transplant and many die while waiting for a new organ. A potential solution to this critical shortage is xenotransplantation, which means transplantation between species.

Groundbreaking research, utilizing XVIVOs heart preservation technology, has in recent years achieved long-term survival after xenotransplants of hearts from gene-modified pigs to primates. Based on this extensive research the first ever transplantation of a heart from a genetically modified pig to a human has now taken place.

The patient did not qualify to receive a conventional human organ transplant, and due to his terminal heart disease, xenotransplant was the only available option for his survival. He is still doing well three days after the historic surgery.

XVIVO has developed a novel method for storing and transporting donated hearts in an optimized way, through non-ischemic heart preservation (NIHP) in collaboration with Professor Stig Steen and Igelsa Life Science in Lund, Sweden. The XVIVO heart perfusion device preserves the donor heart at 8 C while continuously pumping an oxygenated, propriety solution through the organ. The first transplants with human donors have successfully been performed and several clinical trials at leading transplant centers in Europe and Australia are ongoing. In 2019, XVIVO's new heart technology was granted Breakthrough Device Designation' from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a multicenter clinical trial is planned in the US for 2022.

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The new heart preservation technology is intended for clinical human to human transplants, but it has also been demonstrated to be pivotal for long term survival in pre-clinical research using pig hearts for xenotransplantation by mitigating the risk of early organ dysfunction.

Muhammad M. Mohiuddin, MD, Professor of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, has been involved in the field of xenotransplantation since 1992. "I'm together with Dr Bart Griffith heading a large and highly-skilled team, and together we made this happen. Many years of research and preclinical efforts by us and others led us to this point. The transplanted patient had a life-threatening condition with no satisfactory alternative therapy. I am happy to say that his progress is on the track and he is in very good spirit. Without XVIVO's new heart technology this transplant would never have happened, and I am grateful for all support we have received", says Professor Mohiuddin.

"In a future where xenotransplants can help solve the donor organ shortage we are truly living our vision that nobody should die waiting for a new organ. We have always been in the forefront of organ technology and innovation. Therefore, it is nothing more than a true honor to be part of this first ever successful cardiac pig to human xenotransplant that could bring additional hope for patients on the waiting list. To me, this is the ultimate proof that collaboration between scientists, clinicians and the industry is making the world a better place," says Dag Andersson, XVIVO CEO.

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In 2006, Tourism Australia launched an advertising campaign which coined the phrase So where the bloody hell are you?. Most hoteliers will have been asking themselves that same question over the last two years, albeit with slightly less Australian flavour on the language. After 2 years of the pandemic, the appetite for travel is insatiable. And while guests are returning, and occupancy levels rising, staff are scarce, with many operators now struggling to maintain service standards with what can only be described as a decimated workforce. Many are taking extraordinary measures such as closing restaurants, reducing room numbers, or removing services. Not because the demand isnt there, but because there are no staff to service this demand. So, while operators ponder the question of where the bloody hell are you? as it relates to labour, how can hoteliers provide a high-level guest journey, with fewer resources, and less money? Because as Albert Einstein, one of historys great thinkers says, In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The answer can lie in automation through the use of technology. And luckily, it not only provides a short-term band-aid to the existing challenges facing the industry, but it provides hoteliers an opportunity to transform their businesses for years to come and better service the needs of their customers in a more cost effective and efficient manner. According to McKinsey1, the pandemic accelerated digital transformation in hospitality by 10 years. And those with foresight will take advantage and position themselves for the future. In a fantastic article by Max Starkov titled "No, Guests Do Not Require Human-Provided Services In Hospitality", Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta was referenced as quoting The work were doing right now in every one of our brands is about making them higher-margin businesses and creating more labour efficiencies, particularly in the areas of housekeeping, food and beverage, and other areas.When we get out of the crisis, our brands will be higher margin and require less labour than they did pre-COVID. And thats what leaders do. Thats how innovators think. They seize opportunities for what they are and use them to their advantage.

For hoteliers, implementation of a digital guest journey not only provides significant opportunity to automate the guest experience at multiple guest touch points, but it supports a contactless stay, meets the modern travellers expectations around self-service and do-it-yourself, and can take significant load of frontline staff. But given technology (cloud, mobility, AI, and IoT) can be used to automate almost any task, where should you begin? This is especially pertinent given the cost of automation can be quite capital intensive, which may not be feasible for many operators in todays climate (although the long term labour savings would more than justify the implementation of many technologies).

A good place to begin is with technology that is cost effective, easy to implement, but has the capacity to significantly enhance the guest journey, and remove repetitive tasks from frontline staff, freeing them up to engage in more high-value interactions. To that end, the following provides a nice starting point:

So, there you have it, a few suggestions to get you started on the implementation of your new digital guest journey. And while all properties are different, and are at different stages of their digital transformation, its essential to appreciate that the current environment provides an opportunity. The goal inflicted upon hoteliers in the current environment is simple: do more with less, by embracing technology and thus reducing a properties reliance on physical labour. And its a goal that needs to be embraced, not avoided. And on that note, Ill leave you with this. A thought from one of the great motivators of the modern era, Tony Robins:

Expect change. Analyse the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. Its your move.

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ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- America is getting older faster. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number ofpeople aged 65 or older in the United States will grow to 95 million by the year 2060 and will account fornearlyone-quarterofthepopulation.Artificialintelligence(AI)andtechnologysolutionshaveasignificantpotential to transform quality of life and improve health care outcomes for older Americans, includingthosewithAlzheimer'sDisease andRelatedDementias(AD/ADRD).

To meet this challenge, the AI/Tech + Aging (a2) Collective is announcing the a2 Pilot Awards, a nationalcompetitionthatwillearmark $40millionover thenext5years forpromisingpilotprojects that leverageAI and other transformative technology to support healthy aging and persons living with AD/ADRD. Thea2 Collectiverepresents the National Institute on Aging's (NIA) Artificial Intelligence and TechnologyCollaboratories for Aging Research (AITC) program, which is dedicated to helping Americans live longer,betterthroughtheapplicationofAI and emergingtechnologies.

"AI and transformative technology that supports America's aging population is projected to be a multi-trillion dollar market opportunity," says Stephen Liu, a2 Collective's Managing Director Head ofMarketing & Business Development. "Tech giants and AI startups cannot afford to overlook how thisdemographicwill interactwiththeemerging #AgeTech economy."

The a2 Pilot Awards is funded by the NIA through three AITCs at Johns Hopkins University, theUniversity of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the University of Pennsylvania, with coordination supportprovided by Rose Li & Associates, Inc. Pilot applicants can request up to $200,000 in non-dilutive directcosts to be expended within a 12-month period, with multi-year commitments and time extensionsdetermined bytheawarding AITC.

Each AITC will offer pilot awardees access to a wealth of resources, translational services, and state-of theartfacilities,includingsoftwareandhardwareplatforms,datasets,andpopulationstudysites.

Awardeeswillalsobeeligibletoapplyfor$10,000inAWScredits.

Applications for the inaugural a2 Pilot Awards will be accepted from January 10 through February 18,2022.Pleasevisitoura2PilotAwardswebsiteforeligibility requirements.

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NIST researchers studied the effects of trees on millimeter waves, which are planned for use in 5G communication. Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST

Measurements of trees impact on 5G transmissions could prove vital to using a new class of signal.

As 5G technology gets fully implemented over the next several years, cellphones and other wireless tech will grow more powerful with increased data flow and lower latency. But along with these benefits comes a question: Will your next-generation cellphone be unable to see the forest for the trees?

Thats one way to describe the problem confronting cell network designers, who have to embrace both the benefits and shortcomings of a new class of signals that 5G will use: millimeter waves. Not only can these waves carry more information than conventional transmissions do, but they also usefully occupy a portion of the broadcast spectrum that communication technologies seldom use a major concern in an age when broadcasters vie for portions of spectrum like prospectors staking out territory.

However, millimeter waves also have drawbacks, including their limited ability to penetrate obstacles. These obstacles include buildings, but also the trees that dot the landscape. Until recently little was known about how trees affected millimeter wave propagation. And just as few of us would want to imagine a landscape without greenery, few designers would be able to plan networks around it without such a crucial fundamental detail.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has set out to solve this problem by measuring trees effect on millimeter waves. The effort could make a profound difference in our next-generation devices ability to see the 5G antennae that may soon sprout.

The 5G era will feature wireless communication not only between people but also between devices connected to the Internet of Things. The increased demand for larger downloads by cell customers and lag-free network response by gamers has spurred the wireless industry to pursue speedier, more effective communication. Not only could our current devices and services work more effectively, but we could realize new ones: Autonomous vehicles will depend on such quick network response to function.

We will be able to do new things if our machines can exchange and process information quickly and effectively, said Nada Golmie, head of NISTs Wireless Networks Division in the Communications Technology Laboratory. But you need a good communication infrastructure. The idea is to connect, process data in one place and do things with it elsewhere.

Millimeter waves, which are new turf for the wireless industry, could be part of the solution. Their wave crests are just a few millimeters apart a very short distance compared with radio waves that can be several meters long. And their frequencies are very high, somewhere between 30 and 300 gigahertz, or billion wave crests per second. Compared with conventional radio transmissions, which are in the kilohertz (for AM) and megahertz (for FM) ranges, new 5G signals will be very high frequency indeed something like a bird tweeting at the upper range of human hearing compared with radios deep, low bass.

It is millimeter waves high frequency that makes them both tantalizing as data carriers and also hard to harness. On the one hand, more wave crests per second means the waves can carry more information, and our data-hungry era craves that capability to provide those faster downloads and network responses. On the other, high-frequency waves have trouble traveling through obstructions. Anyone who has passed near a house or car whose occupants are playing loud dance music knows that the throbbing bass frequencies are most of what reaches the outdoors, not the treble of a lilting soprano.

For 5G networks, the obstructing wall can be no more than an oak leaf. For that reason, NIST scientists embarked on a somewhat unusual task in September 2019: They set up measurement equipment near trees and shrubs of different sizes around the agencys Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus. The study continued for months, in part because they needed seasonal perspective.

The tree study is one of the few out there that looks at the same trees effect on a particular signal frequency through different seasons, Golmie said. We couldnt only do the survey in the winter, because things would have changed by summer. It turns out that even the shape of leaves affects whether a signal will reflect or get through.

The team worked with the wireless community to develop the mobile equipment that was needed to take the measurements. The researchers focused it on single trees and aimed millimeter-wave signals at them from a range of angles and positions, to simulate waves coming from different directions. They measured the loss, or attenuation, in decibels. (Each 10 dB of loss is a reduction by a power of 10; a 30 dB attenuation would mean the signal is reduced by a factor of 1,000.)

The tree study is one of the few out there that looks at the same trees effect on a particular signal frequency through different seasons. Even the shape of leaves affects whether a signal will reflect or get through. Nada Golmie, NIST researcher

For one type of leafy tree, the European nettle, the average attenuation in summer was 27.1 dB, but it relaxed to 22.2 dB in winter when the tree was bare. Evergreens blocked more of the signal. Their average attenuation was 35.3 dB, a number that did not change with the season.

(As a measure of comparison, the team also looked at different types of building materials. Wooden doors, plasterboard walls and interior glass showed losses of up to 40.5 dB, 31.6 dB and 18.1 dB, respectively, while exterior building materials exhibited even larger losses, up to 66.5 dB.)

While NISTs contributions to 5G network development effort could end up as ubiquitous as trees themselves, for most of us they will be considerably less visible. The measurements the team made are intended mainly for companies that create models of how different objects affect millimeter waves. Part of the effort was a collaboration with Ansys Inc. The company used the measurement data NIST shared with it to tune the tree simulation models, which cell companies use to plan out their networks of antennas in detail.

Most models dont include measurement-based information about trees, said NISTs David Lai, one of the scientists who conducted the study. They might simply say that for a given tree-like shape, we should expect a certain amount of signal loss. We want to improve their models by providing accurate measurement-based propagation data.

NISTs collaboration with Ansys contributed to guidance issued by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the organization that creates guidelines for telecom standards. The results now appear as a new section on trees in ITUs Recommendation ITU-R P.833-10. This publication serves as a reference for signal propagation models, which others will develop.

Our goal is to get these measurements in front of the entire wireless community, Golmie said. We hope this effort will help the entire marketplace.

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The University of Michigan has formed a collaboration with Michigan State and Purdue universities to study quantum science and technology, drawing together expertise and resources to advance the field.

The three universities are partnering to form the Midwest Quantum Collaboratory, or MQC, to find grand new challenges we can work on jointly, based on the increased breadth and diversity of scientists in the collaboration, said Mack Kira, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the College of Engineering and inaugural director of the collaboration.

U-M researchers call quantum effects the DNA of so many phenomena people encounter in their everyday lives, ranging from electronics to chemical reactions to the study of light waves and everything they collectively produce.

We scientists are now in a position to start combining these quantum building blocks to quantum applications that have never existed, said Kira, also a professor of physics in LSA. It is absolutely clear that any such breakthrough will happen only through a broad, diverse and interdisciplinary research effort. MQC has been formed also to build scientific diversity and critical mass needed to address the next steps in quantum science and technology.

Collaborators at U-M include Steven Cundiff, professor of physics and of electrical engineering and computer science. Cundiffs research group uses ultrafast optics to study semiconductors, semiconductor nanostructures and atomic vapors.

The main goal of the MQC is to create synergy between the research programs at these three universities, to foster interactions and collaborations between researchers in quantum science, he said.

Each university will bring unique expertise in quantum science to the collaboration. Researchers at U-M will lead research about the quantum efforts of complex quantum systems, such as photonics, or the study of light, in different semiconductors. This kind of study could inform how to make semiconductor-based computing, lighting, radar or communications millions of times faster and billions of times more energy efficient, Kira said.

Similar breakthrough potential resides in developing algorithms, chemical reactions, solar-power, magnetism, conductivity or atomic metrology to run on emergent quantum phenomena, he said.

The MQC will be a virtual institute, with in-person activities such as seminars and workshops split equally among the three universities, Cundiff said.

In the first year, MQC will launch a seminar series and virtual mini-workshops focused on specific research topics, and will conduct a larger in-person workshop. The collaboration hopes fostering connections between scientists will lead to new capabilities, positioning the MQC to be competitive for large center-level funding opportunities.

We know collaboration is key to driving innovation, especially for quantum, said David Stewart, managing director of the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute. The MQC will not only provide students with scientific training, but also develop their interpersonal skills so they will be ready to contribute to a currently shorthanded quantum workforce.

The MQC also will promote development of the quantum workforce by starting a seminar series or journal club for only students and postdocs, and encouraging research interaction across the three universities.

MQC also provides companies with interest in quantum computing with great opportunities for collaboration with faculty and students across broad spectrums of quantum computing with the collaborative expertise spanning the three institutions, said Angela Wilson, director of the MSU Center for Quantum Computing, Science and Engineering.

Additionally, bringing together three of our nations largest universities and three of the largest quantum computing efforts provides potential employers with a great source of interns and potential employees encompassing a broad range of quantum computing.

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SOUTHLAKE, Texas, Jan.10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry, and Aviatur, Colombia's leading travel agency and one of the largest in Latin America, today announced a new multi-year preferred GDS agreement to support the agency's growth plans, transform its business, and increase efficiencies.

Throughout the pandemic, Aviatur has been focused on transforming its business with technology to continue innovating in its well-implemented omnichannel retail strategy. Likewise, Sabre accelerated its own tech transformation in the past year to provide the level of personalization today's travelers want, as well as to meet changing demands within the travel industry's dynamic ecosystem.

"Aviatur has shown that it can reinvent itself as the market needs change. We believe our own technology transformation one of our prioritiesand finding the right partners to go along this path will play a key role in the agency's future. We are confident Sabre is the right technology partner to help us transform our business as we look into the future of travel," said Samy Bessudo, Chief Executive Officer at Aviatur.

"Aviatur has always recognized Colombia as a key travel market in Latin America, and our business transformation as well as investment plans to grow long term are a priority for the board," added Jean Claude Bessudo, President, Aviatur Group.

Bogot-based Aviatur has been one of Latin America's largest travel agencies for over 60 years, consolidating itself as a group with different business units and leveraging its leadership position in different markets such as leisure, online, corporate, consolidation, and consortia. With 130 travel agencies in 23 Colombian cities and a presence in La Habana (Cuba), Panama City, Paris and Miami, Aviatur enjoys a successful omnichannel retail strategy, specializing in tailor-made programs.

"We are excited to support all of Aviatur's business units with their solid omnichannel retail strategy in a key market like Colombia," said Esteban Velsquez, VP Sales & Customer Management Agencies, Latin America & the Caribbean, Sabre Travel Solutions.

"After months of fruitful dialogue that proved Sabre's unparalleled value to the Aviatur Group, we are thrilled to strengthen our relationship and become Aviatur's preferred GDS partner long term. This new strategic agreement is a testament to Sabre's valuable solutions and its commitment to create a new marketplace for personalized travel," added Jos Guzmn, Regional Director, Agency Sales, for the region that includes Colombia, Per, Ecuador, and Venezuela Sabre Travel Solutions.

This new 11-year GDS agreement with Aviatur Travel Agency will help propel their future in the travel & tourism, technology and hospitality industries. Aviatur Group recently launched Avia Tecnologa its IT solutions business-- and Avia Soluciones Hoteleras, which successfully deployed the Sabre SynXis CRS platform in 2021 to support its growth plans in the hospitality industry.

About Sabre CorporationSabre Corporation is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, serving a wide range of travel companies including airlines, hoteliers, travel agencies and other suppliers. The company provides retailing, distribution and fulfilment solutions that help its customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences. Through its leading travel marketplace, Sabre connects travel suppliers with buyers from around the globe. Sabre's technology platform managers more than $260B worth of global travel spend annually. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the world. For more information visitwww.sabre.com.

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Aviatur Travel Agency, one of the companies of the Aviatur Group, has 65 years in the market. Through its offices throughout the country and its different digital channels, it offers travelers a wide range of tourist plans, cruises, tickets, experiences, car rentals, bus tickets, assistance cards and corporate trips. It also has specialized departments for the management of congresses and events, incentive trips, transport, student tourism, religious tourism, ecological tourism, and luxury tourism.

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The pandemic hasaccelerated workplace technologyin countless ways, from where people work to automating tasks, and HR is no different.

Technology is at the front of everyones minds, especially as companies face labor shortages and struggle to attract new talent. As a result of The Great Resignation, leaders are coming to terms with the need to update how they measure performance and productivity.

Fortunately, new tools exist that can help HR and executives bring in new talent, retain current employees, and usher in what the modern workforce requires: a better employee experience.

HR has long been viewed as a money pit, rather than a way to generate revenue. However, using this type of technology can help businesses measure productivity and employee wellbeing, allowing them to boost capital.

By incorporating this type of technology, leadersare able todetect work patterns, measure employee behaviors, and understand what may or may not be working in everyday operations.

Addressing what does not work will likely be key here, especially for companies suffering from the ongoing labor shortage.

These leaders must address emerging demands from todays workforce, which can include hybrid arrangements, career growth opportunities, better pay, improved benefits, and more.

Having a clear understanding of how employees view the workplace is essential here, and without it, companies will fall far behind in the race for new talent.

This can be done through employee surveys, which allows workers a chance to voice their opinions on how the company is operating, what would improve their experience, and whether the organization is doing enough to support staff during this unprecedented time.

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BERLIN & BRISBANE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bayer AG and Mammoth Biosciences, Inc., which is harnessing the diversity of nature to power the next-generation CRISPR products, today announced a strategic collaboration and option agreement for the use of Mammoths CRISPR systems to develop in vivo gene-editing therapies.

Mammoth Biosciences groundbreaking gene-editing technology is a key enabling technology, as well as a stand-alone therapeutic modality. It will significantly enhance Bayers efforts to develop transformative therapies for patients faster and strengthen the companys recently established new cell and gene therapy platform. Under the terms of the agreement the two companies will start their collaboration with a focus on liver-targeted diseases.

Bringing together Mammoths novel CRISPR systems with our existing gene augmentation and our induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) platforms will allow us to unleash the full potential of our cell and gene therapy strategy, said Stefan Oelrich, Member of the Board of Management, Bayer AG and President of the Bayers Pharmaceuticals Division. Partnering with Mammoths cutting edge scientific team is a fundamental pillar for our company to improve the lives of patients suffering from conditions that are currently still difficult to treat.

Were excited to be working together with Bayer, building on the technology leap of our novel CRISPR systems, along with Bayers expertise in successful drug development, said Dr. Peter Nell, Chief Business Officer and Head of Therapeutic Strategy at Mammoth. This joint effort has the potential to benefit patients by developing CRISPR-based approaches for the clinic with the appropriate urgency, while ensuring scientific excellence and safety.

Cell and gene therapies are the next step in the evolution of drug development. By addressing the root cause of diseases, they are potentially capable of permanently reversing diseases with a one-time treatment. Gene editing serves as a key enabler for cell therapies when used outside the living body (ex vivo) and allows therapeutic targeting of a wide range of genetic diseases with a high unmet medical need when used inside the living body (in vivo).

Mammoth Biosciences proprietary toolkit of ultra-small Cas enzymes, including Cas14 and Cas, allows for expanded high-fidelity gene editing to be combined with targeted systemic delivery. Under the agreement, Bayer gains access to this novel gene-editing technology, which offers the potential of an advanced in vivo applicability due to the ultra-compact size of these novel CRISPR systems.

Under the terms of the agreement, Mammoth Biosciences will receive an upfront payment of USD 40 million and is eligible to receive target option exercise fees as well as potential future payments in the magnitude of more than one billion USD upon successful achievement of certain research, development, and commercial milestones across five preselected in vivo indications with a first focus on liver-targeted diseases. In addition, Bayer will pay research funding and tiered royalties up to low double-digit percentage of net sales. The companies are also exploring work on ex vivo projects on a nonexclusive basis.

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Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition. Its products and services are designed to help people and planet thrive by supporting efforts to master the major challenges presented by a growing and aging global population. Bayer is committed to drive sustainable development and generate a positive impact with its businesses. At the same time, the Group aims to increase its earning power and create value through innovation and growth. The Bayer brand stands for trust, reliability and quality throughout the world. In fiscal 2020, the Group employed around 100,000 people and had sales of 41.4 billion euros. R&D expenses before special items amounted to 4.9 billion euros. For more information, go to http://www.bayer.com.

About Mammoth Biosciences

Mammoth Biosciences is harnessing the diversity of life to power the next generation of CRISPR products. Through the discovery and engineering of novel CRISPR systems, the company is enabling the full potential of its platform to read and write the code of life. Mammoth aims to develop permanent genetic cures through best-in-class in vivo and ex vivo therapies and to democratize disease detection with on-demand diagnostics. By leveraging its internal research and development and exclusive licensing to Cas12, Cas13, Cas14, and Cas, Mammoth can provide enhanced diagnostics and genome editing for life science research, healthcare, agriculture, biodefense and more. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mammoth Biosciences is co-founded by CRISPR pioneer and Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna and Trevor Martin, Janice Chen, and Lucas Harrington. The firm is backed by top institutional investors including Redmile Group, Foresite Capital, Senator Investment Group, Sixth Street, Decheng, Mayfield, NFX, and 8VC.

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This release may contain forward-looking statements based on current assumptions and forecasts made by Bayer management. Various known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material differences between the actual future results, financial situation, development or performance of the company and the estimates given here. These factors include those discussed in Bayers public reports which are available on the Bayer website at http://www.bayer.com. The company assumes no liability whatsoever to update these forward-looking statements or to conform them to future events or developments.

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GWANGJU, South Korea, Jan. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Intense laser pulses lasting only femtoseconds (10-15s) can create extreme states of matter usually found inside planets and stars. Conventional physical models, however, are unable to describe the electron dynamics in such states. Scientists from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea have now explored non-equilibrium dynamics in copper electrons heated to temperatures over 20,000 K, presenting findings that mayopen new doors for fusion, laser cutting, and nanosurgery.

Ordinary matter behaves very differently when subjected to extreme temperatures and pressures, such as that inside stellar and planetary cores. Conventional rules of condensed matter physics and plasma physics are not applicable in such scenarios. In particular, an extreme state known as "warm dense matter" (WDM) straddles the boundary of condensed matter physics and plasma physics.

One might think that such states can never be created in a terrestrial setting. But, in fact, short laser pulses that are only femtoseconds (10-15s, or a quadrillionth of a second) long are intense enough to recreate such conditions in a laboratory! Conventional physical models that describe such states typically assume that electrons excited by the laser pulse attain equilibrium within tens of femtoseconds while the ions remain "cold." However, in doing so, the non-equilibrium dynamics of the electrons are completely disregarded.

To explore this non-equilibrium dynamics under extreme conditions, a team of researchers led by Associate Professor Byoung Ick Cho from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea studied the WDM state for copper created by using intense laser pulses. The optical pulse excitation created copper electrons with a temperature ~ 20,000 K, which is similar to that of a giant planet's core. Then, right when the copper sample was about to melt, the researchers took snapshots of the electrons using ultrafast x-ray pulses from an x-ray free electron laser (XFEL). This allowed them to analyze what happens in noble metals, such as copper, when their bonding electrons are highly excited and the metals are about to melt. The results of the study were published in Physical Review Letters.

One remarkable observation was that, when heated quickly, the bonds between copper atoms first hardened for about one trillionth of a second (1012 s) before melting. Put simply, the sample solidified before turning into liquid! The team carried out detailed theoretical analysis backed by simulations, which revealed that while some electrons were excited to higher energies at such high temperatures, some experienced a stronger attraction towards the nucleus. "This phenomenon was, in fact, predicted about a decade ago, but we have now managed to observe it directly for the first time," comments Prof. Cho. "Thiscan improve our understanding of extraordinary material properties under extreme conditions and their underlying mechanisms."

These findings could be applied in contexts where materials are subjected to extremely high pressures and temperatures. "By capturing the precise moment when a material starts to melt or vaporize, we can generate new phases of matter or energy, which would be relevant to fields such as fusion, laser machining, and even nanosurgery," speculates Prof. Cho.

Who would've thought that understanding the interior of stars could have such practical terrestrial applications?

ReferenceTitle of original paper: Investigation of Nonequilibrium Electronic Dynamics of Warm Dense Copper with Femtosecond X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Journal: Physical Review Letters DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.175003

About the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) Website: http://www.gist.ac.kr/

Corresponding author's email: [emailprotected]

Media contact:Seulhye Kim [emailprotected]82 62 715 6253

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If youve ever felt indecisive about what color vehicle to buy, BMW may have the car for you. The German automaker showed off its new color-changing paint technology at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that shares more in common with a Kindle than youd think at first glance.

Relying on E Ink, the electronic paper technology used in e-readers, and the old Pebble watch, the color-changing paint technology is making its debut on a concept version of the BMW iX that is being presented at CES.

The surface coating of the BMW iX Flow featuring E Ink contains many millions of microcapsules, with a diameter equivalent to the thickness of a human hair. Each of these microcapsules contains negatively charged white pigments and positively charged black pigments. Depending on the chosen setting, stimulation by means of an electrical field causes either the white or the black pigments to collect at the surface of the microcapsule, giving the car body the desired shade.

Just dont expect to see this at your local BMW dealership anytime soon: the automaker says this is just an advanced research and design project.

The innovative paint scheme can be triggered at the touch of a button. Right now, the colors are limited to white, black, and grey. But despite the constrained palette, BMW says it could have implications for the efficiency of its electric vehicles.

A white surface reflects a lot more sunlight than a black one, the company says. By implication, heating of the vehicle and passenger compartment as a result of strong sunlight and high outside temperatures can be reduced by changing the exterior to a light color. In cooler weather, darker tones will help the vehicle to absorb more warmth from the sun.

The concept of personalization is very popular right now in the auto industry. But while most of the efforts are focused on the interior, tweaking the software to remember the drivers preferred vehicle settings, BMW is bringing the concept of personalization to the exterior of the vehicle.

How durable this high-tech paint is and whether it can withstand extreme weather is anyones guess. I cant imagine this would handle well in a hail storm, for example. But dont listen to me. Color-changing car!!

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We have isolation, boredom, and then extra money being given out and nowhere to spend it, the founder and director of Recovery is Happening said.

She said personal connection is the best way to guide someone through the storm.

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With that connection comes accountability, and without that accountability piece, its easy to be stuck in your own thought process and not be honest about what is happening, she said.

The threat that isolation poses has led Recovery is Happening to maintain all its outpatient services and operate its group homes throughout the pandemic.

We have never stopped doing face-to-face contact with our individuals, she said, noting that COVID-19 precautions have limited sizes for in-person gatherings.

Martin E., who has struggled with alcohol and narcotic use in the past, said online meetings lack the needed connection.

Its so impersonal. It really is, said the Cronin Home resident who asked to not use his last name. You dont know if your point is coming across with your needs and wants.

Nikki Svoboda, Cronin Home administrative assistant, said she has seen residents struggle with online meetings, often sharing a single phone screen to attend.

The biggest complaint I hear about that is that nobody can hear what is going on, she said, pointing to background noises and activity.

Cindy I., another Cronin Home resident, said shes had her own struggles with online meetings that have had people drop out unexpectedly or stalled meetings altogether.

At the same time, she said shes had success with meetings held by phone.

It was kind of cool because everyone would talk about what their problem was and you hear peoples voices, she said, noting she was attending the meetings three times a week before finding a bed and support at the Cronin Home.

It highlights the fact that technology has offered mixed results.

Monique Bourgeois, chief community relations officer for Nuway, which operates Rochester inpatient and outpatient recovery programs, said a study with the University of Minnesota has been looking at the effectiveness of in-person counseling and services through telehealth options.

The people that had a mix of telehealth and in-person are seeming to have the best outcomes, she said, pointing out the findings are extremely preliminary.

She said the results could point toward a need for mixed services in the future, especially in rural areas where seeking help or attending group meetings can result in the need to spend more time traveling than getting help.

Shawn Mintey, a senior social worker with Olmsted Countys adult behavioral unit, said the technology can also connect people with groups based on specific cultural or personal needs, which might be hard to find locally.

There are some access points that are beneficial, she said, adding that younger people also might be more comfortable initially engaging online.

I think its a silver lining of COVID in some ways, because its opened it up to more people, she said.

Still, everyone agreed that face-to-face options will continue to be needed to help establish personal connections that can encourage accountability and the creation of community.

Tom Truszinski said thats why Adult and Teen Challenge sought to restore its local in-person group meetings and other services.

We are finding we need to step into this, the Rochester director said of providing the face-to-face options.

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