Innovation No.33

Innovation No.33

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World Heritage

DARJEELING HIMALAYAN RAILWAY (INDIA)
A mountain railway built in the 19th century for access to Darjeeling, a city in the Himalayans, still runs today as a tourist service

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World of the New Century

PESHAWAR-KAI(Headquarters: Fukuoka)
For close to a quarter of a century, the people of Afghanistan have suffered the ravages of war, as well as severe droughts. One japanese organization has been working to help these people by providing medical services and developing water supply projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
-Tools for Proteomics Research, Bioagent Detection and Diagnostics
by Dr. Robert J. Cotter
Prof. Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

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World Leader in MALDI-QIT-TOF MS Technology
by Nobel Prize winner Koichi Tanaka, Shimadzu Corporation
LC/MS Used Increasingly for High-reliability Detection
New Era of Shimadzu GC/MS in Environmental Analysis
Presenting an Advanced ICP-MS for Environmental Analysis of Metal Pollutants

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WOODLAND SCENERY

UV-absorbibg Timber
Lignin, fiber-adhesive component in timber, absords UV light
Timber reflects less than 1/8 the UV reflected by plasterboard

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Sport Becomes Science

Special Feature to Mark the World Cup Finals
Soccer from a Historical Perspective

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Development Project for Next-generation DNA Sequencers
International Technical Exhibition of Medical Imaging 2002

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Shimadzu's Starting to Fuel New Company Growth

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