New retail offering expands on existing wholesale relationship
IRVING, TX, MAY 5, 2014 --- GE Capital's Equipment Finance business announced today a new financing program for commercial buyers of collaboration solutions developed by Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM). Based in San Jose, Calif., Polycom is a leader in secure and flexible video, voice and content management solutions.
This is a stem cell taken from a mouse's incisor tooth. University of Adelaide researchers put it in a brain-like environment and the cell started developing the characteristics of a neuron.
Brain-like cells developed from mouse tooth stem cells form dendrites and axons that connect each other into a simple neural network.
It's widely expected that offshore gas will catch up to offshore oil in importance as the world's energy demands continue to grow in the years ahead.
Global energy use is expected to grow by 56 percent from 2010 to 2040, and there aren't enough vessels to meet the fast-growing global demands for LNG. Ninety-six vessels were on order last year---representing a 25 percent growth to the global fleet of around 370 vessels.
Stuart Kilduff was attending an emergency services conference in Wellington, New Zealand, when he got a call that Christchurch, his hometown some 270 miles (440 kilometers) away, had been hit by a massive earthquake. "The place was full of emergency services people, civil defense, army, you name it," he says as he recalls that early afternoon on February 22, 2011. "They all went running for the door."
Almost nothing is more obvious than the fact that time flows from the past, which we remember, toward the future, which we don't. Scientists and philosophers call this the psychological arrow of time. Hot coffee left on your desk cools down, and never heats up on its own, which reflects the thermodynamic arrow of time.
Employment and revenue growth in the U.S. middle market during the first quarter of 2014 underscore optimism among business leaders and executives in the space, according to the most recent report from the National Center for the Middle Market.
