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E-Commerce Apparel Brand Sees 50X Return on Post-purchase Automation Using Rush.app

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Friday, August 11, 2023
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As the e-commerce industry continues its massive growth, Rush.app proves its ability to drive revenue and improve customer retention after the sale. Their recent success with Combat Iron Apparel helped the unique clothing brand, offering a wide range of high-quality tactical and athletic apparel and gear, drive $140,000 in revenue from automated shipping notification emails.

Key Points: 
  • The post-purchase automation solution for e-commerce brands, Rush.app, highlights a customer demand for better engagement through the order fulfillment process.
  • Their recent success with Combat Iron Apparel helped the unique clothing brand, offering a wide range of high-quality tactical and athletic apparel and gear, drive $140,000 in revenue from automated shipping notification emails.
  • "We're thrilled at the success brands like Combat Iron have seen using Rush.app," said Mario Peshev, CEO of Rush.app.
  • This has helped Rush.app brands generate up to 7% more revenue per month through post-purchase automation.

MicroVention Reshapes Stroke Therapy with the Introduction of the ERIC™ Retrieval Device; ERIC Delivers Thrombus Control, Procedure Efficiency and Versatility When Every Second Counts

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023
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ERIC delivers thrombus control inside and outside of the device, offers no clot integration wait-time to drive procedure efficiency, and offers versatile treatment options for thrombectomy.

Key Points: 
  • ERIC delivers thrombus control inside and outside of the device, offers no clot integration wait-time to drive procedure efficiency, and offers versatile treatment options for thrombectomy.
  • With the introduction of the ERIC Retrieval Device, MicroVention now offers a comprehensive and streamlined portfolio of stroke solutions, delivering compatibility, versatility, and speed unlike any other.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230627119839/en/
    MicroVention's ERIC™ Retrieval Device is a self-expanding, laser-cut clot retriever with multiple retrieval cages, located on a pusher wire delivery system.
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    MicroVention’s ERIC Retrieval Device is a self-expanding laser-cut clot retriever with multiple retrieval cages, located on a pusher wire delivery system.

Despite Magnetic Fields' Best Efforts, Star Formation Continues in 30 Doradus

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Thursday, June 8, 2023
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The researchers determined how star formation can continue in the region despite its strong magnetic fields.

Key Points: 
  • The researchers determined how star formation can continue in the region despite its strong magnetic fields.
  • Most of the energy in 30 Doradus, also called the Tarantula Nebula, comes from the massive star cluster near its center, R136, which is responsible for multiple, giant, expanding shells of matter.
  • Using SOFIA's High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera Plus (HAWC+), astronomers studied the interplay between magnetic fields and gravity in 30 Doradus.
  • Observing the region with other instruments can help astronomers better understand the role of magnetic fields in the evolution of 30 Doradus and other similar nebulae.

SOFIA Helps Reveal a Destroyed Planetary System

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
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These observations provide one potential explanation for the fate of these planetary remains.

Key Points: 
  • These observations provide one potential explanation for the fate of these planetary remains.
  • The Helix Nebula is an old planetary nebula – expanding, glowing gas ejected from its host star after its main-sequence life ended.
  • The nebula has a very young white dwarf at its center, but this central white dwarf is peculiar.
  • To answer the question of where this excess emission comes from, the astronomers first determined where it could not have come from.

SOFIA Helps Complete Picture on Molecular Cloud Formation

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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This study provides the first evidence that ionized carbon can unveil interactions between molecular clouds.

Key Points: 
  • This study provides the first evidence that ionized carbon can unveil interactions between molecular clouds.
  • Coupled with these previous findings, this first observation of cloud collision in such a massive region helps complete the picture.
  • Together, the studies indicate a degree of universality: Both smaller and more major cloud collision events that lead to star formation are now known to be quick.
  • This study also provides the first evidence that ionized carbon can unveil the interactions between molecular clouds.

This Week in Transportation News: 12 Stories You Need to See

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Friday, March 17, 2023
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NEW YORK, March 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the auto and transportation industries stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.

Key Points: 
  • A new study using NASA's and DLR's now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has pieced together the first detailed, wide-area map of water distribution on the Moon.
  • In addition to these popular releases, several must-read earnings reports crossed the wire this week, including the quarterly results for Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. and Hagerty .
  • These are just a few of the recent press releases that consumers and the media should know about.
  • Related Resources: Read and subscribe to our journalist- and blogger-focused blog, Beyond Bylines , for media news roundups, writing tips, upcoming events, and more.

SOFIA Makes First Detection of Heavy Oxygen in Earth's Upper Atmosphere

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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WASHINGTON, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) made the first-ever measurement of heavy atomic oxygen in Earth's upper atmosphere.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) made the first-ever measurement of heavy atomic oxygen in Earth's upper atmosphere.
  • Heavy oxygen is so called because it has 10 neutrons, rather than the normal eight of "main" oxygen, the form we breathe.
  • Both forms are byproducts of photosynthesis, but main oxygen is consumed by the respiration of living things more than its heavy counterpart, leaving a larger concentration of heavy oxygen behind.
  • With its high spectral resolution, SOFIA's GREAT instrument measured the ratio of main to heavy oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, making the first spectroscopic detection of heavy oxygen outside a laboratory.

USRA's Dr. Joan Schmelz Named Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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She was one of the first people  in the astronomy community to talk and blog about topics that have become central to diversity -- unconscious bias, stereotype threat, and impostor syndrome. Her 2011 blog post, Coming Out of the Shadows, described her own experience with sexual harassment. As a result, young women from across the country began contacting her about their own situations. These conversations – which formed the basis of what is now called the whisper network – helped shine a light on the abusive behavior that had always hidden in the dark. Schmelz was honored in 2015 as one of Nature's Top Ten people who made a difference in science for her work fighting sexual harassment.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Universities Space Research Association's Dr. Joan Schmelz has been elected Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), joining a distinguished group of professional astronomers and astronomy educators.
  • This year, the AAS is honoring 22 members for extraordinary achievement and service by naming them AAS Fellows .
  • She has served as director, astronomer, and diversity advocate at Universities Space Research Association (USRA).
  • Before joining USRA, she was a program officer at NSF's Division of Astronomical Sciences (2013-15) and a professor at University of Memphis for over 20 years.

SOFIA Helps Reveal Why Cosmic Bubbles Are Leaking Out Into Space

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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Cosmic bubbles are blowing up earlier than expected, and research from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) can help explain why.

Key Points: 
  • Cosmic bubbles are blowing up earlier than expected, and research from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) can help explain why.
  • These protostellar outflows are also interacting with the bubble's shell, allowing the researchers to study the process in more depth.
  • This process is important for astronomers to study because of the role it plays in the dynamics of bubbles like Orion's Veil.
  • SOFIA was therefore unique in its ability to reveal this interaction, thanks to its spectral resolution and its ability to resolve the ionized carbon around protostars.

No Phosphine on Venus-According to SOFIA Observations

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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Its observations did not find phosphine in Venus's atmosphere which is a potential biomarker and could be an indicator of organic matter, or life.

Key Points: 
  • Its observations did not find phosphine in Venus's atmosphere which is a potential biomarker and could be an indicator of organic matter, or life.
  • Venus is considered Earth's twin in many ways, but, thanks to SOFIA, the one difference now seems clearer: Unlike Earth, Venus does not have any obvious phosphine.
  • Phosphine is a gas found in Earth's atmosphere, but the announcement of phosphine discovered above Venus's clouds made headlines in 2020.
  • Despite the fact the group did not find phosphine after the stressful observations, the study was a success.