My students participate in writing proposals, setting up experimental and computational equipment, acquiring and analyzing data, and preparing manuscripts and presentations.
Besides selling hydroponic trailers for $30,000 to $80,000, his company makes hydroponic equipment, acquiring smaller retailers and creating new technology, including an iPhone app that allows growers to monitor crops remotely.
In fall 2013, Applied Materials, an American manufacturer of chip-making equipment, acquired Japanese rival Tokyo Electron for more than $9 billion.
APPLIED MATERIALS INC., Santa Clara, Calif., a maker of semiconductor equipment, acquired the closely held Global Knowledge Services Inc., Austin, Tex., a provider of data mining services, to improve chip manufacturing yield and efficiency.
The biggest increases were for buying, repairing and replacing new armoured vehicles and other equipment acquired under a Urgent Operation Requirements system.
A Justice Department official said the relevant US agencies are "considering policies to return equipment acquired through other programs" besides the Pentagon's program.
The committee found that all of the equipment acquired by Iraq had conventional military or industrial uses, and the tubes in question appeared to be for building rockets.
In 1979 Schlumberger Limited, a French company primarily known for supplying oil field services and equipment, acquired the company and its historic name.
DANA CORP., Toledo, Ohio, a maker of components for vehicular and industrial equipment, acquired Delphi Automotive Systems's automotive filter operations in Southampton, England, for an undisclosed sum.
He said it appeared that little, if any, of the equipment acquired for that operation was reused during the summit weekend.
But the over-all value of military equipment acquired by police forces is actually much higher: local governments have received approximately thirty-four binlion dollars in grants from the Department of Homeland Security to buy their own military equipment from private suppliers.
