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Rice farmers scrap seedlings to sow directly in cost-cutting push
2015-05-10 14:47:20| Steel - Topix.net
A number of rice farmers have started sowing seed rice directly into paddy fields, breaking with the conventional method of growing seedlings and then transplanting them. Yamaha Motor Co.
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Rice Engineering Students Create Real-Time 3-D Radar System
2015-05-05 03:27:54| rfglobalnet Home Page
A real-time 3-D radar system designed by Rice University engineering students as a concept for a next-generation collision-avoidance system for the auto industry captured the $5,000 top prize at Rice’s annual Engineering Design Showcase and could have wider applications in security screening and biomedical imaging.
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IPO lifts Rice Energy executives' long-term compensation
2015-04-24 23:47:57| Chemicals - Topix.net
Rice Energy CEO Daniel Rice IV, left, and his brother Toby Rice, president and COO, at the Pollock Site in Somerset Township, Washington County. Rice Energy Inc.'s initial public offering - and regulatory reporting requirements - are likely to propel five of its leaders onto the list of the area's most highly compensated public company executives in 2014, according to Pittsburgh Business Times research and the company's proxy statement.
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Drew Clark: After 50 years, Moore's Law teaches the power in a grain of rice
2015-04-20 07:53:50| Semiconductors - Topix.net
If the fuel efficiency for cars improved at the rate of Moore's Law, you could drive it your entire life on a single tank of gas. If skyscrapers grew in height at the rate of Moore's Law, a building would be 35 times the height of Mount Everest.
Remaking Asia's rice bowl
2015-04-09 07:26:19| Agriculture - Topix.net
A farmer works at his paddy field on the outskirts of Yangon. For much of the early 20th century Myanmar was Asia's rice bowl, but after a nominally socialist junta seized power in 1962, decades of mismanagement shattered the agriculture industry in a nation where 70% of inhabitants still live in the countryside.
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