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NNN Christian Brothers Automotive (Corporate) - Dallas Business Journal
Automotive technology used to develop a high tech medical tool - News-Medical.Net
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NNN Christian Brothers Automotive (Corporate) - Dallas Business Journal

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 09:01 PM PDT

This absolute net, 15-year lease investment property offers investors no landlord responsibilities and income appreciation with 1.5% annual increases. The lease is corporately guaranteed by Christian Brothers Automotive Corporation which currently operates 64 stores in thirteen major metropolitan areas primarily in the southern and central United States. The property is located near the corner of FM 3040 and Old Orchard Lane, just west of I-35E, north of DFW International Airport, and services the growing communities of Lewisville, Flower Mound, and Coppel. The newly constructed improvements are of the highest quality and aesthetic with brick and cast stone veneer.

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Automotive technology used to develop a high tech medical tool - News-Medical.Net

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 08:54 PM PDT

Research at the University of Warwick have taken high tech gas sensors normally used to test components for premium cars and applied the same techniques to human blood, human urine, and even cow dung samples from local cow pats. The results could lead to a new high tech medical tool that could provide a fast diagnosis for some of the most difficult gastrointestinal illnesses and metabolic diseases

Fermentation of undigested foods in the colon by its resident bacteria affects not only colonic health (protection against inflammation and tumour formation) but also influences metabolic health. Studying fermentation and the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) it generates directly is difficult due to lack of easy access to the colon.

Researchers from the University of Warwick's innovation specialists WMG have devised a solution to this problem using a special suite of equipment normally used to test car components for premium cars. The equipment heats car material samples to see what range of "volatile chemicals" (essentially gases) are emitted from car components to understand what implications that would have for air quality in the car and how it might affect the future recycling of the component. The car researchers wondered if this high tech equipment for studying volatile chemicals in premium cars would also assist their medical colleagues seeking to study volatile organic compounds from the human colon.

The University of Warwick WMG researchers Dr Mark Pharaoh and Dr Geraint J. Williams invited medical consultant Dr Ramesh P Arasaradnam (a Clinician Scientist and Lecturer in Gastroenterology in Warwick Medical School and a Gastroenterologist at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwick) to work with them to advise on how they could test their equipment on organic matter. Professors Sudesh Kumar, Chuka Nwokolo and K D Bardhan, from Warwick Medical School, also joined the team.

The gas products of fermentation include various volatile organic compounds, the relative proportions of which may change in disease. The research team have coined the term 'fermentome' to describe the complex interplay between diet, symbiont bacteria and volatile gases The clinical researchers in the team believed that the research engineer's equipment could help them study such a 'fermentome' which could then be used for diagnosis and disease characterisation. Measurement of VOCs through non-invasive methods could then have an important application as a hypothesis-generating tool and could even have clinical applications.

The joint clinician and engineering research team have now performed tests using the car analysis equipment on human blood, human urine, and even cow and horse dung harvested from locality. The results so far suggest that the equipment could indeed be used to obtain a useful picture of the range of fermentation gases produced by this organic matter. Knowing what those mix of gases are could therefore provide a useful analogue understanding of what gastrointestinal illness or metabolic diseases are afflicting patient.

The team have just published that research in a paper entitled "Colonic fermentation - More than meets the nose" in the journal Med Hypotheses. The research team are now exploring funding options that would allow them to take this new technique into a larger scale studies including clinical trials.

Dr Mark Pharaoh said: "These early results suggest that we could indeed use this automotive technology to give medical consultants a very precise understanding of the mix of gasses being produced within the human gut. An understanding of the precise mix of gasses is a very valuable clue to understanding any problem with the balance and mix of bacteria that are generating those gases."

Dr Ramesh P Arasaradnam said: "This is could be a vital new tool in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal as well as metabolic diseases. Gaining first hand information of what is going on in the gut would require very invasive procedures. Even simply culturing the bacteria from a patient's urine or faeces takes a considerable amount of time. This technique could give medical consultants such as myself valuable information about what is causing a patient's condition long before the data from a standard bacterial culture would be available."

The research team are now exploring funding options that would allow them to take this new technique into a clinical trial.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/premium_car_research

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Asbury Automotive Up 25.7% Since SmarTrend's Buy Recommendation - TradingMarkets.com

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 07:06 PM PDT

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Posted: 13 Oct 2009 03:53 PM PDT

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Melexis Opens the Door on a New World of Automotive High Voltage ... - PR Newswire

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 02:56 PM PDT

YPRES, Belgium, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Melexis extends its product portfolio of ASSPs with a new generation of system solutions for different smart actuator applications, like window lifter, roof control, engine flaps as well as seatbelt retractors and others. The MLX81150, developed with the industries most cost efficient 0.18um technology, realizes the single die integration of automotive grade high voltage components, flash memory as well as digital and mixed signal blocks.

The number of electronic applications in current automobiles increases every day. The proliferation of electronics in automobiles demands higher integration and improved cost effectiveness. The previous generation of chip development in this area used SIP (System in package), but in general this is not cost efficient due to the complex assembly technology and the necessary overhead. Additionally a bare die application on ceramic substrates, or hybrid circuit, is difficult to realize with SIP devices. To gain the advantage of SIP with cost efficiency of single die solutions Melexis has developed the MLX81150, the 1st product of a new family which opens the door to the next level of cost efficient automotive integration.

The MLX81150 integrates a physical layer LIN transceiver, a voltage regulator as well as a 16-bit microcontroller with 32kB flash memory including the peripheral functions like high voltage IOs, timer, ADC with differential amplifier for current monitoring, PWM-unit and EEPROM. The high voltage mixed signal integration of the 0.18um process enables the inclusion of a relay driver with free wheel function to support relay based DC applications like window lifters.

As a microcontroller core it uses the field proven 4-bit/16-bit dual task implementation. The 4-bit task takes care of communication and the 16-bit task is completely free for the motor control algorithm. A fully approved LIN Software driver meeting the communication tasks of all LIN protocols (LIN1.3, LIN2.x and J2602) is available and functions just like a complete high level development environment.

The high integration of all components together with the flash memory makes the MLX81150 a perfect fit for cost sensitive and flexible LIN slave DC motor actuators.

The product is currently under development and will be available with 1st samples Q1/2010. The MLX81150 is value priced at $1.97 for 50K quantities.

More information: http://www.melexis.com

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