SINGAPORE: Temasek Holdings has set up an energy company to tap Asia's growing energy demand.
Pavilion Energy will have an initial authorised capital of S$1 billion and should be operational by September.
The company will invest globally across Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)-related businesses.
These include LNG trading and exploration as well as storage, processing and shipping.
Temasek said in a statement that as the region's economies continue to transform and urbanise, the demand for clean energy, especially LNG, is expected to increase.
According to the International Energy Agency, the global use of gas will rise 50 per cent by 2035, from the levels in 2010.
Gas will account for a quarter of the world's energy mix, especially with increasing demands from large economies such as China which is replacing coal with gas as an energy source.
Pavilion Energy will look to partner with energy industry leaders and players to meet the region's growing gas needs.
It may also co-invest alongside Temasek, which has been stepping up its investments in the energy and resource sectors over the last few years.
Pavilion has appointed Mohd Hassan Marican, the former president and CEO of Petronas, as chairman of its board.
The company has also appointed Seah Moon Ming as its chief executive officer.
Mr Seah joined Temasek in March and was most recently the deputy CEO of ST Engineering, overseeing ST Aerospace, ST Electronics, ST Kinetics and ST Marine.
"To secure long-term and stable supply of LNG to our customers in Singapore and the Asian region, we will be sourcing our LNG supply from multiple sources and various partners in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia," said Mr Seah in the statement.
Over the coming months, Pavilion Energy will work to set up the various parts of its operations and it expects to be operational in September 2013. ?
April is Financial Literacy Month, a campaign to help focus on our finances and develop healthy financial habits. One of the best ways to save money?month after month?is to conserve energy.
Whether it?s the middle of the hot summer or the dead of winter, there are several basic no- or low-cost measures you can take to conserve energy and decrease your utility bills:
Use a programmable thermostat to reduce your heating and cooling costs.
Turn off computers and monitors when not in use.
Plug home electronics, such as TVs and DVD players, into power strips and turn the strips off when equipment is not in use.
Turn off lights when not in use.
Close your fireplace damper when not in use.
Take short showers; turn your hot water heater down to 120 degrees.
Wash only full loads of dishes and clothes; air dry when possible.
Replace inefficient incandescent light bulbs with ENERGY STAR? rated compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) or light emitting diodes (LEDs).
Look for the ENERGY STAR? label when purchasing new appliances, lighting, and electronics.
Have a home energy assessment to identify ways to make your home more energy efficient (weather-strip doors and windows, seal air leaks, add insulation, and more).
Go to work via carpool or vanpool, or use public transportation.
For more energy-saving tips, check out the U.S. Department of Energy?s Energy Savers website. Also, the Division of Energy Resources offers an energy guide called ?Appliances, Lighting & Electronics? and a fact sheet called ?Ten Ways to Save Energy? that address ways to save energy.
Apr. 3, 2013 ? A rotary fuel delivery valve developed by a University of Alabama in Huntsville team led by Dr. James Blackmon just might help us get manned space flights out of our immediate neighborhood one day, and he says it could have practical terrestrial applications.
Dr. Blackmon, a principal research engineer at the university's Propulsion Research Center, figures that to travel to places like Mars and beyond we'll first have to decide what kind of fuel delivery system we'll use to feed the rocket engines and then we'll have to determine how we're going to rebuild or maintain that system during long stays in space. That's where the new valve comes in.
"There are two primary propellant feed systems, a pressurized system and a turbo pump system," he said. The pressurized system uses tank pressure to deliver fuel. "These are fine as long as the system uses less than 300 psi pressure." The turbo pump system uses an exhaust gas generator to power the pump. "That works up to 3,000 psi and the higher pressure gives you higher performance."
A third system known as sequential pumping lies between those two and may be best suited for long-distance travel. In that configuration, three fuel tanks are pressurized in sequential rotation from a main tank. As the first tank is about to be expended, valves switch from it to the second tank, and then subsequently to the third tank, then back to the first tank, and so on. Tanks not being used to fire the engine are being recharged in rotation from the main tank.
"This system gives you both high pressure and fail operational ability," Dr. Blackmon says. Rather than redundancy, where parts are duplicated so new ones can take over for failed ones, fail operational ability means that even if components in the system fail, the engine will continue to operate.
"Rocket systems are typically designed so they can sustain one failure and be safe, but to have fail operational ability is great because you don't have to lose your mission" Dr. Blackmon said. "It is very cheap, very reliable and it gives you the same delivered payload as a turbo pump."
The sequential system has a three to one advantage because of its lower weight, lower cost and greater reliability, but if there's one drawback to it, it's the valves.
"Valves are often the source of trouble in spaceflight," Dr. Blackmon said. "You have these plunger valves slamming open or slamming closed, or ball valves clunking full open and clunking full closed."
That's a lot of wear and tear over time, and here is where the new rotary valve excels. It uses a mechanism operated by one of two redundant motors to turn a shaft and slide a configured recess to a port, opening that port for either fuel delivery or recharge. One valve can control filling and emptying of all three rotational fuel tanks in the sequential system, and it can replace multiple older style valves with a device that is lower weight, lower cost and more reliable.
"You can do it with standard valves but we think it's better to do it with this because a standard valve is so difficult to repair," Dr. Blackmon said. When it comes time for service, the rotational valve is an easy fix.
"You can use a Crescent wrench and take it apart," said Dr. Blackmon. "It uses simple tools to fix it, and you can do it in space. If you're going to Mars and an astronaut had to fix it, you could fix it easily with a valve repair kit without having to remove the valve. You just block it off and fix it."
Two 3-D printed plastic rotary valve prototypes and a milled stainless steel prototype reside in Dr. Blackmon's office, and he uses them to illustrate its operation.
"We can change the flow rate in a controlled way by the contours in the flow path and also by the rate at which you rotate the valve," he said. "That way, as the first tank is tailing off, you can gradually increase the second tank for smooth operation. You're not slamming valves open and closed, and it makes it much smoother in operation."
The valve was developed and tested using just $5,000 gained as part of the Space Act Agreement initiatives for development, engineering and testing of design concepts. The money allowed former UAHuntsville graduate students David Eddleman and Chris Morton to work on design and testing in conjunction with James Richard of the Engineering Directorate at Marshall Space Flight Center. Eddleman is now an MSFC employee. MSFC testing facilities were used to test and prove the valve's operation, as well as facilities at UAHuntsville.
Cheaper, lighter weight, dependable and easy to fix. But will it ever fly?
"That's a very good question," Dr. Blackmon said. "The problem is that it's very tough to get technical funding to develop a new idea, because what we have right now works. What we tried to do in testing was to demonstrate that the rotary valve does work like we said it will."
For now, he's also looking at uses for the valve in industrial flow control. "It might have applications in industry," Dr. Blackmon said, "if they want a durable valve in the field that's easy to fix, where you can keep the valve in place while you fix it."
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The following research from clinician-scientists at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, April 6, 2013, in Washington, DC.
EMBARGO NOTE: The embargo for all abstracts to be presented at the AACR Annual Meeting is in effect until the date and time of the presentation unless otherwise noted on the abstract and/or this summary. Please address any questions to the AACR media and public relations team.
Cancer Imaging in Mice and Men
Authors: Andrew Kung, MD, PhD, chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplantation
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 7:00 am:00 am
Major SymposiumThe Origins and Clinical Implications of Precancerous Lesions
Author: Cory Abate-Shen, PhD, professor of urology, director of research, Department of Urology
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 1:00 pm:00 pm
The Interface Between Development and Cancer Using Model Organisms
Author: Michael Shen, PhD, professor of medicine and of genetics and development
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 1:00 pm:00 pm
The Origins of Neoplastic Progression of Barrett's Esophagus
Author: Timothy C. Wang, MD, chief, Division of Digestive & Liver Diseases, Silberberg Professor of Medicine
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 1:00 pm:00 pm
Exploration of Genome-Wide Circulating MicroRNA in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) - Dysregulation of miR-483-5p and miR-150 as Diagnostic Marker
Author: Jing Shen, PhD, assistant professor of environmental health sciences
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 1:00 pm:00 pm
Hiding from Chemo: Leukemia Cells Making Tumors to Survive [in Session: Role of Microenvironment in Tumor Dormancy and Resistance Niches]
Author: Isabel Cunningham, MD, adjunct associate research scientist, hematology oncology
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 3:15 pm:15 pm
Loss of PTEN Expression Predicts Poor Prognosis in Patients with Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas
Author: Dario Garcia-Carracedo, PhD, associate research scientist
Presentation Time: Monday, April 8, 1:00 pm:00 pm
Predictive Modeling of Cancer Treatment in Single Patients (N of 1)
Author: Andrea Califano, PhD, chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics, professor of systems biology (in biomedical informatics and the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
Presentation Time: Monday, April 8, 5:00 pm::30 pm
Inactivation of the Activin Signaling Pathway Accelerates the Development of Pancreatic Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms in vivo
Author: Wanglong Qiu, MD, PhD, associate research scientist
Presentation Time: Tuesday April 9, 8:00 am:00 pm
Current Concepts in Diagnostics and Therapeutics Research - Next-Generation Therapeutic Modeling in Mice
Author: Cory Abate-Shen, PhD, professor of urology, director of research, Department of Urology
Presentation Time: Tuesday, April 9, 8:15 am:15 am
Cancer Targets and Discovery
Author: Andrea Califano, PhD, chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics, professor of systems biology (in biomedical informatics and the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
Presentation Time: Wednesday, April 10, 11:00 am:00 pm
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Contact: Elizabeth Streich estreich@columbia.edu 212-305-3689 Columbia University Medical Center
The following research from clinician-scientists at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, April 6, 2013, in Washington, DC.
EMBARGO NOTE: The embargo for all abstracts to be presented at the AACR Annual Meeting is in effect until the date and time of the presentation unless otherwise noted on the abstract and/or this summary. Please address any questions to the AACR media and public relations team.
Cancer Imaging in Mice and Men
Authors: Andrew Kung, MD, PhD, chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplantation
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 7:00 am:00 am
Major SymposiumThe Origins and Clinical Implications of Precancerous Lesions
Author: Cory Abate-Shen, PhD, professor of urology, director of research, Department of Urology
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 1:00 pm:00 pm
The Interface Between Development and Cancer Using Model Organisms
Author: Michael Shen, PhD, professor of medicine and of genetics and development
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 1:00 pm:00 pm
The Origins of Neoplastic Progression of Barrett's Esophagus
Author: Timothy C. Wang, MD, chief, Division of Digestive & Liver Diseases, Silberberg Professor of Medicine
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 1:00 pm:00 pm
Exploration of Genome-Wide Circulating MicroRNA in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) - Dysregulation of miR-483-5p and miR-150 as Diagnostic Marker
Author: Jing Shen, PhD, assistant professor of environmental health sciences
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 1:00 pm:00 pm
Hiding from Chemo: Leukemia Cells Making Tumors to Survive [in Session: Role of Microenvironment in Tumor Dormancy and Resistance Niches]
Author: Isabel Cunningham, MD, adjunct associate research scientist, hematology oncology
Presentation Time: Sunday, April 7, 3:15 pm:15 pm
Loss of PTEN Expression Predicts Poor Prognosis in Patients with Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas
Author: Dario Garcia-Carracedo, PhD, associate research scientist
Presentation Time: Monday, April 8, 1:00 pm:00 pm
Predictive Modeling of Cancer Treatment in Single Patients (N of 1)
Author: Andrea Califano, PhD, chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics, professor of systems biology (in biomedical informatics and the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
Presentation Time: Monday, April 8, 5:00 pm::30 pm
Inactivation of the Activin Signaling Pathway Accelerates the Development of Pancreatic Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms in vivo
Author: Wanglong Qiu, MD, PhD, associate research scientist
Presentation Time: Tuesday April 9, 8:00 am:00 pm
Current Concepts in Diagnostics and Therapeutics Research - Next-Generation Therapeutic Modeling in Mice
Author: Cory Abate-Shen, PhD, professor of urology, director of research, Department of Urology
Presentation Time: Tuesday, April 9, 8:15 am:15 am
Cancer Targets and Discovery
Author: Andrea Califano, PhD, chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics, professor of systems biology (in biomedical informatics and the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
Presentation Time: Wednesday, April 10, 11:00 am:00 pm
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Anger management programs provide the personal plenty of info regarding techniques and methods for handling temper. Is there anger management treatment available for those that feel the need to take their therapy a step further?
In the very early 1970?s, a psychiatrist named Aaron T. Beck, M. D, created an anger management therapy focusing on problem-solving. This therapy at first called Cognitive Treatment is now also referred to as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy or CBT. Beck collaborated with people for many years using his psychological expertise however was strained to see his person?s treatment making only sluggish development. Beck wished to utilize a more intense approach to anger management therapy.
Cognitive Treatment is a kind of anger management treatment which helps a person to deal with or transform certain information in their reasoning. These details, including unfavorable sensations, will likely lead to temper and source behavioral issues. Its popularity has dispersed worldwide and is utilized by many qualified specialists to deal with people along with behavior troubles such as temper.
Many individuals who experience anger-related issues steer clear of treatment. Some believe they do not need it and others see it as a sign of weakness. The reverse can in fact be said of an individual who looks for anger management treatment. They are sturdy and figured out, willing to take whatever gauges essential to make beneficial adjustments in their life. When an individual specifies where they can easily confess they need anger management therapy, it is essential to discover a counselor who makes them feel comfortable. It is important to be able to communicate easily with a therapist because this is the person who will certainly aid enhance the shape of the individual?s life. Developing a reliabling partnership with their counselor is essential when an individual is committed to therapy, no matter exactly how long it takes.
Being able to discuss emotions, whether bad or great, is essential in anger management therapy. It is through discussing and trusting that an individual starts to find things about themselves. Once these revelations are disclosed, an individual will certainly begin to work on making changes in their ideas and feelings which will result in favorable modifications in their lives. Anger management treatment may appear tough at first however along with a reliabling specialist, an individual will certainly make progress. This partnership in between the individual and their counselor gives a safety zone, a place where they can easily don?t hesitate to disclose their innermost ideas and restraints. Exploring hiddening feelings of these ideas will ultimately supply the devices essential for success. Anger management therapy, either CBT or meeting regularly with a therapist, is absolutely useful for individuals aiming to work through anger-related concerns. Choosing anger management therapy is a large step and requires the assistance and encouragement from friend and family.
Beck wished to use a much more extreme technique to anger management therapy.
Cognitive Treatment is a form of anger management therapy which aids a person to fix or alter particular details in their reasoning. The reverse can actually be said of an individual who seeks anger management treatment. When an individual obtains to the factor where they can easily accept they need anger management treatment, it is necessary to locate a therapist who makes them feel comfy. Anger management treatment might appear tough at first however with a reliabling specialist, a person will certainly make development.
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