David Berry

1 month ago | chemicalprocessing.com | David Berry

Cooling towers and air-cooled heat exchangers (ACHEs) are crucial in the chemical industry to ensure temperature control, safety, equipment protection, energy efficiency and environmental compliance. However, many facilities face expensive, unplanned shutdowns due to component failures, leading to a whole cooling-system breakdown. Sometimes even Mother Nature can wreak havoc. For example, I have seen events such as unexpected, long-lasting freezes that caused major challenges.

2 months ago | wimmeramalleenews.com.au | David Berry

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Dec 2, 2024 | wimmeramalleenews.com.au | David Berry

The open girls team competing in division one at the senior event won a bronze, defeating McKinnon College in straight sets while the under-16 girls won a silver medal in the junior event going down to Methodist Ladies College in the deciding set. Volleyball Victoria established this event in 2019, offering an alternative tournament for teams that didn’t want to participate in the National Schools Cup when it moved to the Gold Coast, opening entries to associations, clubs and academies.

Oct 31, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Jan-Philipp Wittlinger |Natalia Castejon |Bela Hausmann |David Berry

AbstractPolyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) play a crucial role in aiding bacteria to adapt to extreme and stressful environments. While there is a well-established understanding of their production, accrual, and transfer within marine ecosystems, knowledge about terrestrial environments remains limited. Investigation of the intestinal microbiome of earthworms has illuminated the presence of PUFAs presumably of microbial origin, which contrasts with the surrounding soil.

Jun 21, 2024 | hakkoda.io | Matt Florian |David Berry

,  /PRNewswire/ — Hakkoda, a cloud data engineering consultancy specializing in Snowflake, today released its 2024 Generative AI State of Data Report. The findings show 50% of organizations are already using AI for automation, but sophisticated use cases like AI copilots, ETL/ELT, and schema matching and integration are significantly less common. The use of AI to automate decision-making was identified as a top challenge for 45% of organizations.