Platts Steel Markets Daily to report prices of hot-rolled coil and rebar originating from Asia - May 19, 2008
Energy information provider Platts, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, US, has announced that it is expanding its suite of spot price assessments in global metals to include steel exported from China, specifically hot-rolled coil (HRC) and concrete reinforcing bar (rebar). The new Asia price series… Read More
Journal of Orthodontics honoured with FEO award for third successive year - May 19, 2008
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced that for the third year running, a paper published in the UK's Journal of Orthodontics has won the European Federation of Orthodontics (FEO) Award. This is an accolade given to the authors of the paper judged to be the… Read More
US heart associations update cardiac device-based therapy guidelines - May 19, 2008
The American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA) and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) have jointly released updated cardiac device-based therapy guidelines. The ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities are viewed as… Read More
Ralf Ueding appointed Managing Director of Birkhäuser - May 19, 2008
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has announced the appointment of Dr. Ralf Ueding as Managing Director of Springer's Birkhäuser Verlag AG in Basel, Switzerland, effective May 6, 2008. He succeeds Dr. Sven Fund, who left Birkhäuser at the end of March. Ralf Ueding most recently… Read More
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TechWatch report calls for libraries to take coherent approach to metadata - May 16, 2008
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that its recent TechWatch report, by Richard Gartner, on metadata for digital libraries explores how high quality metadata frameworks are critical if libraries are to provide seamless searching and retrieval technologies. Focusing thus on metadata is a… Read More
