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Kitware Prepares to Share Results of Dental Shape Analysis Research
Kitware detailed plans to share preliminary results of ongoing research at the 95th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR). Kitware Technical Leader Beatriz Paniagua, Ph.D., will present the results in “Continuous 4D Shape Analysis of Mandibular Changes” at an oral session on temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD). The session, TMD Imaging Advances in Craniofacial Biology and Orthodontics, will take place Friday, March 24, 2017, in Moscone West in San Francisco, California...
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Kitware to Enhance the Visualization Toolkit (VTK)
New NIH funding for the enhancement and refactoring of the Visualization Toolkit will modernize the platform to maintain its position as the industry standard for advanced medical data visualization. Read More »
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Kitware Unleashes Brand-New Rendering Backend in ParaView 5.0
On behalf of the ParaView community, Kitware announces the release of ParaView 5.0. The release follows closely on the heels of ParaView 4.4, building on its features while presenting a rewrite of ParaView’s rendering backend to leverage newer OpenGL features. This major milestone in ParaView’s life cycle ensures that the open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application gets the most out of modern graphics cards and rendering systems for large data sets...
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Knowledge Unlatched and University of Michigan Library Announce Collaboration to Advance Open Access
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a not-for-profit company based in England, and University of Michigan Library (U-M Library), a major research library based in Michigan, are pleased to announce that they will collaborate to study and overcome remaining obstacles to the spread of Open Access scholarly publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Under the arrangement, U-M Library will provide a North American base for KU which has recently also established presences in Germany and Australia...
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Knowledge Unlatched Enables a Further 78 Books to Be Open Access
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is delighted to announce the 'unlatching'* of 78 new titles. These titles have been made Open Access through the support of both individual libraries and library consortia from across the globe. This brings the total to over 100 titles now available as Open Access since 2014, when KU celebrated the success of its Pilot Collection with 28 Humanities and Social Sciences monographs from 13 publishers being unlatched by nearly 300 libraries worldwide...
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Knowledge Unlatched Launches Institutional Usage Statistics Reports
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is delighted to announce that it will be launching institutional usage statistics reports in November for libraries which participated in KU's Pilot Open Access e-book collection. The reports are based on institutional IP addresses using COUNTER-compliant data provided by one of KU's official hosting platforms, OAPEN. Until now, KU has been publishing aggregated reports for the Pilot Collection only. Looking at the overall usage from HathiTrust and OAPEN, KU can reveal that the Pilot titles have been downloaded and viewed more than 100,000 times...
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Knowledge Unlatched Make Open Access Open for Trade Partners
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is partnering with a number of sales agents specializing in library sales to better promote its Open Access offering to libraries. Starting in September, countries including Austria, Germany, Italy, Israel, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Turkey will be covered by three different partners: Schweitzer, Karger Libri and Casalini Libri will join KU’s long-standing partner LYRASIS and include information Knowledge Unlatched into their outreach towards librarians in their core markets...
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Knowledge Unlatched Select 2016 off to a strong start: 53 Publishers submit 681 titles
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the global initiative for Open Access monographs, has commenced preparations for its next front list and backlist collections: KU Select 2016. KU Select 2016 follows on from the successful unlatching of new books earlier this year, bringing the total to over 100 Open Access books. This time KU will offer subject-based packages of both new books and complementary older books that will be of high value to both researchers and students in the Humanities and Social Sciences...
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Knowledge Unlatched – Scaling Up In 2016
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is pleased to announce that it is expanding and scaling up. There will be several announcements over the next few months about KU's greatly expanded new collections. As Knowledge Unlatched scales up it will experiment with more choices - more curated thematic and topical packages, new subjects and more diverse content. KU is looking now at opening up access to journals as well as to backlist books...
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KU Launches Pledging Period for KU Select 2016
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the global initiative for Open Access monographs, today launches its next front list and backlist collections; KU Select 2016. KU Select 2016 offers 343 titles to libraries (147 front list to be published between November 2016 – April 2017 and 196 backlist published between 2005 – 2015) with 16 subject areas in the Humanities and Social Sciences...
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Lab Informatics Market worth 2.97 Billion USD by 2021
The report "Lab Informatics Market by Product (CDS, EDC, LES, ECM, ELN, LIMS, SDMS), Component (Software, Services), Delivery (On-Premise, Hosted, Cloud) & Industry (CROs, Pharma, Biotechnology, Chemical, Petrochemical, F&B, Agriculture, Oil, Gas) - Forecasts to 2021", The global laboratory informatics market is expected to reach USD 2.97 Billion by 2021 from an estimated value of USD 2.20 Billion in 2016, growing at a CAGR of 6.2% during the forecast period...
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LabLynx Joins the COVID-19 Fight by Introducing Laboratory System Dedicated to Infectious Disease Diagnostic Testing
LabLynx, Inc., long-time leader in enterprise-level cloud-hosted LIMS/LIS, today announced it has developed the world's first LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) dedicated specifically to COVID-19 diagnostic testing. Called "CovidLiMS," its main features include, crucially, swift setup-to-live time: 2-5 days, including training, according to LabLynx President John H. Jones.
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Largest-Ever Study Reveals Environmental Impact of Genetically Modified Crops
According to new research from University of Virginia economist Federico Ciliberto, widespread adoption of genetically modified crops has decreased the use of insecticides, but increased the use of weed-killing herbicides as weeds become more resistant. Ciliberto led the largest study of genetically modified crops and pesticide use to date, alongside Edward D. Perry of Kansas State University, David A. Hennessy of Michigan State University and GianCarlo Moschini of Iowa State University...
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Last Mile: A Matter of Life and Death
Access to essential medicines is not only about the development and cost of pharmaceuticals but also supply chain logistics. The "last mile" plays a particularly important (and challenging) role in low- and middle-income countries, such as Uganda. Industrial and systems engineering research reveals major disparities in access to essential medicines. Although Malaria accounts for 50% of a country's morbidity and mortality, some districts only have 50% of public health facilities with regular supplies of therapies...
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Legion-backed "Medicare at VA" Bill Introduced in House
The leader of The American Legion is urging the organization's members to push for congressional support of a bill that, if enacted, would allow military veterans to use their Medicare benefits at VA (Department of Veterans Affairs) medical facilities. Read More »