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The same technology that makes you safer in a car crash also makes life more difficult for those trying to help you.
That's because the reinforced steel, multiple airbags and other safety measures placed into modern vehicles can be difficult for rescur workers to cut into.
"Some vehicles are harder to get into these days," said Capt. Chris Etheredge of the Dothan Fire Department.
According to Capt. Adrian Thomas, the vehicles are designed to protect the drivers during impact, but make extrication much more difficult.
"The cars are designed to fall apart, which decreases the kinetic energy.
The problem is, that makes it more difficult getting in," Thomas said.
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Pentawards, the world's first competition online devoted exclusively to packaging design is open for entries from 1 May to 13 June 2008.
Packaging designers from the world over are invited to enter their best creations in 44 categories divided into 5 major sectors: Food - Beverages - Body - Other Markets - Luxury.
An international jury composed of 12 professionals from packaging design and its chairman will bestow the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum Pentawards.
The best of the show will be crowned with the prestigious and unique Diamond Pentaward.
The official ceremony for Pentawards 2008 will be held on 30 October 2008 at the Luxe Pack Fair in Monaco (France).
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Ever wish you could turn your child's boundless energy into a source of power and at the same time end the hassle of buying batteries for their toys?
Zen Design Group of Berkley has a solution.
Zen Design is offering an alternate to battery power - children's power.
Its line of toys, SEE Toys (Safety, Ecology, Economy), come with a crank that convert's children's energy into electricity.
Sixty seconds of cranking gives about 15 minutes of electrical power.
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Pininfarina intends to establish a Research, Design and Engineering Centre in Pune, India within the end of 2008.
Pininfarina and Tata have signed a Letter of Intent wherein Tata will support this Centre in India with contracts and participate with a minority interest.
Pininfarina will be the majority shareholder with management responsibility.
"This agreement witnesses the great attention Pininfarina is dedicating to an emerging and highly developing market such as the Indian one," declared Andrea Pininfarina, Chairman and CEO of Pininfarina S.p.A.
"Thanks to our partner, one of the worldwide major automotive manufacturers with strong roots on the Indian market, we will reach a higher excellence level in the design and engineering sectors".
The Centre - that will be able to provide its services also to other Indian and international automotive manufacturers - enlarges the Pininfarina offer of services to the OEMs, thus strengthening the engineering best cost services developed since 2005 with Pininfarina's Moroccan engineering centre.
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Over the past 25 years Physiological Anthropology has focused on Human Adaptability to physical environments using laboratory methods, which controlled some physical factors.
The adaptability was evaluated in terms of body temperature regulation, respiratory and cardiovascular functions and body composition, or physical fitness.
The collected data has been applied to actual space as well as products in daily life through cooperation with business and companies.
One of the aims of Physiological Anthropology is "to conduct research into humans in modern society from both a physiological and a cultural standpoint, in an effort to create a truly healthy and comfortable living environment as rapid advances in Science and Technology are having a profound effect on the human community, in terms of not only lifestyle and culture but the physiological capabilities of the human body as well".
We should now start to pay attention to individual differences in these physiological parameters, which should be considered not as errors, but as natural variation between individuals.
Therefore, we have to make efforts to study the biological characteristics that can explain these similarities and differences.
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