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• Richard F. Begley Named Vice President and General Manager of PerkinElmer Analytical Sciences

  PerkinElmer, Inc. announced that Richard F. Begley, Ph.D., has joined the Company as vice president and general manager of its Analytical Sciences business. In this position, he will develop and lead the growth strategy globally for the organization's entire portfolio of analytical instrumentation w more

• Agilent Technologies Names Shiela Robertson to Succeed John Eaton as Vice President, Corporate Development

  Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that Shiela Robertson has been named to succeed John Eaton as vice president, Corporate Development. Eaton is retiring on April 30 after 23 years with Agilent and the Hewlett-Packard Co. Succeeding Robertson as operational CFO of the Electronic Measurement Group i more

• Agilent Technologies Names Helen Stimson VP and General Manager of Global Consumables for Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis

  Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the promotion of Helen Stimson to vice president and general manager of Global Consumables for the company's Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis (LSCA) business. Stimson, a 24-year veteran of Agilent and Hewlett-Packard, now heads the business unit that provides more

White papers Hewlett - Packard

• Outsourcing R&D Innovation takes on New Meaning
  

  Innovative drugs are the lifeblood of pharmaceutical companies, but the cost of developing them is rising to unsustainable levels. Pharma executives are already saying that as the economy falters, they foresee bleak prospects and mergers unless their companies get more innovative drugs into their pipelines. The clock is ticking on the race to increase productivity, as key patents worth a projected $30 billion in revenue will expire between 2010 and 2013, opening the floodgates to competition from generics, according to Barbara Ryan, an analyst at Deutsche Bank. This imperative is propelling increased outsourcing of R&D operations as companies trim overcapacity. more

• Half a Century of Chromatography with Agilent and Predecessors
  

  Twsett originated the chromatography with his work about the separation of chlorophyll in 1903. For some time it was relatively quite around this new technology. Exceptions were the workings of Kuhn and Lederer (1931) as well as of Hesse (1936 and 1942). A break through succeeded to E. Cremer during the 40ies, but hardly considered caused by the war events, what however in the years 1950/51 by the conception of the gas chromatography suddenly changed and involved a rapid development more

Publications Hewlett - Packard

• The Effects of FreeSurfer Version, Workstation Type, and Macintosh Operating System Version on Anatomical Volume and Cortical Thickness Measurements

  by Ed H. B. M. Gronenschild, Petra Habets, Heidi I. L. Jacobs, Ron Mengelers, Nico Rozendaal, Jim van Os, Machteld Marcelis FreeSurfer is a popular software package to measure cortical thickness and volume of neuroanatomical structures. However, little if any is known about measurement re more

• Sensors, Vol. 12, Pages 753-767: Soil Moisture Sensing via Swept Frequency Based Microwave Sensors

  There is a need for low-cost, high-accuracy measurement of water content in various materials. This study assesses the performance of a new microwave swept frequency domain instrument (SFI) that has promise to provide a low-cost, high-accuracy alternative to the traditional and more expensive time d more

• Enhancing emission

  Enhancing emission Nature Photonics 5, 314 (2011). doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.69 Andrei Faraon from Hewlett-Packard describes how he and his colleagues achieved an eightfold enhancement to the zero-phonon emission from single nitrogen–vacancy centres in diamond. more

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