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Business Wire
22-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Mouser Electronics Named Global High Service Distributor of the Year by TE Connectivity for Eleventh Year
DALLAS & FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest electronic components and industrial automation products, today announces it has received its eleventh Global High Service Distributor of the Year Award from TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity and sensors. The prestigious distribution award recognizes Mouser's 2024 performance based on sales growth, market share growth, customer growth and business plan performance. Mouser is an authorized distributor with over 600,000 TE Connectivity parts available to order, including over 75,000 in stock and ready to ship. Share "We applaud the Mouser team for receiving this well-deserved award again," said Sean Miller, Vice President of Global Channel Sales at TE Connectivity. "Mouser's consistent attention to our needs and focus on new product introductions, as well as overall professionalism, has helped us grow our business. We are proud of our association with Mouser and very pleased to present them with this important award." "It is our honor to receive this top award from our valued partner TE Connectivity," said Kristin Schuetter, Mouser Senior Vice President of Products. "Our customers across the globe depend on TE's components for their designs. We value our strong business relationship and look forward to many more years of continued success together." Mouser previously won the TE Global High Service Distributor of the Year Award for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Additionally, for 2018, Mouser received TE's Customer Expansion Awards for APAC, Japan and EMEA, along with Americas Distributor of the Year Awards for the Application Tooling Business Unit and TE's Data and Devices Business Unit. An authorized distributor with over 600,000 TE Connectivity parts available to order, including over 75,000 in stock and ready to ship, Mouser offers a wide portfolio of TE's products and technologies to help buyers and engineers bring their products to market. To learn more about the newest TE products available from Mouser Electronics, visit For more Mouser news and our latest new product introductions, visit As a global authorized distributor, Mouser offers the widest selection of the newest semiconductors, electronic components and industrial automation products. Mouser's customers can expect 100% certified, genuine products that are fully traceable from each of its manufacturer partners. To help speed customers' designs, Mouser's website hosts an extensive library of technical resources, including a Technical Resource Center, along with product data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design information, engineering tools and other helpful information. Engineers can stay abreast of today's exciting product, technology and application news through Mouser's complimentary e-newsletter. Mouser's email news and reference subscriptions are customizable to the unique and changing project needs of customers and subscribers. No other distributor gives engineers this much customization and control over the information they receive. Learn about emerging technologies, product trends and more by signing up today at About Mouser Electronics Mouser Electronics is an authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on New Product Introductions from its leading manufacturer partners. Serving the global electronic design engineer and buyer community, the global distributor's website, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 6.8 million products from over 1,200 manufacturer brands. Mouser offers 28 support locations worldwide to provide best-in-class customer service in local language, currency and time zone. The distributor ships to over 650,000 customers in 223 countries/territories from its 1 million-square-foot, state-of-the-art distribution facilities in the Dallas, Texas, metro area. For more information, visit About TE Connectivity TE Connectivity plc is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. TE's broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enables the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers, medical technology and more. With more than 85,000 employees, including 9,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 130 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Trademarks Mouser and Mouser Electronics are registered trademarks of Mouser Electronics, Inc. All other products, logos, and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Time of India
20-07-2025
- Science
- Time of India
‘The global obesity epidemic is linked to palm oil inputs — so is the 21st century land rush'
Gregory Thaler is Associate Professor of Environmental Geography and Latin American Studies at Oxford University. Gregory Thaler is Associate Professor of Environmental Geography and Latin American Studies at Oxford University . He tells Srijana Mitra Das at TE about ways to ensure healthier oil: The pace of deforestation on Earth is breath-taking. The loss of forests itself is intertwined with the rise of humanity — in just the last three centuries, Earth has forsaken 1.5 billion hectares. Palm oil plays a huge role in this. Between 2001 to 2015, studies find its plantations expanded over 22.4 million hectares — a rise estimatedly of 167%. While the statistics are shocking, Gregory Thaler remains calm, discussing palm oil's worldwide web. Outlining his research, he explains, 'I work broadly on how power influences social and ecological change. I do this with two major research programs. One looks at the political ecology of tropical forest landscapes and how different actors, policies and power relations affect de-forestation, agriculture and livelihoods in Indonesia, Brazil and Bolivia. The second looks at global environmental governance and how different institutions structure environmental decisions — in this, I also study environmental NGOs.' Discussing palm oil, Thaler says, 'Its spread is extraordinary as is the role it plays in modern society. This oil is primarily produced from the West African palm — traditionally, this was done by small farmers in community operations. Over the last two centuries, it became a major industrial crop, grown in vast plantations, processed in massive factories. It is pervasive in multiple consumer goods, one of the most common inputs in detergent, cosmetics, adhesives, wet wipes and processed foods, from biscuits to chips, noodles to ice-cream.' by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like This Could Be the Best Time to Trade Gold in 5 Years IC Markets Learn More Undo Palm oil has a particular tenacity — it makes wafers crisper and keeps ice-cream from melting. Its impacts on the planet and people are somewhat different though. Thaler explains, 'Its widespread industrial expansion has tremendous consequences for both ecologies and live-lihoods. In Indonesia, palm oil plant-ations have caused massive deforestation — that comes with huge ecological effects in terms of losses of biodiversity and climate change as you replace carbon-dense natural forests with a single-crop plantation. Further, people in these regions lose their land, get pulled into exploitative labour regimes and exposed to toxic chemicals.' The health impacts don't stop there. Thaler says, 'This proliferation of junk food that oil palm is part of is affecting people's diets globally now — the worldwide obesity epidemic is driven in part by this expansion of cheap industrially produced oil inputs.' Yet, Thaler is sceptical of technological solutions which claim to address at least palm oil's ecological impacts, promising more oil from less land. As he says, 'There are problems with those narratives, the first being basic political economy — these innovations are deployed in an industrial capitalist system. So, these basically facilitate greater production and uptake globally — the driving incentive remains profit. Hence, there is no level of sufficiency at which industrial actors will stop producing and using more palm oil.' There is also some greenwashing involved. Thaler explains, 'These 'green' supply chains often depend on destructive nongreen ones — you separate zones of supposedly sustainable production but, in fact, their green palm oil is coming from one cleansource while overall expansion is still fulfilled through new deforestation, plantations and dirty palm oil.' Thaler pauses and then emphasises, 'I am also sceptical of these narratives because I think we should consider what goals we are working towards — a world wherefood oil, a fund-amental staple, is produced thousands of miles away and managed by a few multi-national corporations is not a recipe for environmental sustainability or socioeconomic development. We should question the industrial corporate system being the best way to satisfy people's fundamental food needs.' Yet, this system drives 'the 21 st century land rush'. Thaler explains, 'Following the financial and food crises of 2007-08, there was an increase in international land deals, arranged by different actors — some were government-linked entities, trying to secure food production for their citizens, as certain Persian Gulf states did. There was also a broader involvement in land by corporate actors and investors like pension funds. International land investment in the global economy is not new — but after 2008, we saw a dramatic increase. The fundamental idea was land as a key asset, especially in times of economic and climate volatility — hence, we continue to see states and global investors, seeking ways to control land and secure their supply chains. We also see conflicts over land between such interests and local communities.' Palm oil — the ubiquitous grease around this vast global industrial machine — is part of our modern epic. Can it be made more just? Thaler says, 'Yes, solutions include production and consumption. For the first, oil palm can be profitably and effectively produced by small farmers who use more biodiverse systems. It's not necessary to only grow it in huge corporate plantations. It's also important to shorten our supply chains — it will never be ecologically or socially desirable to keep shipping huge volumes of staples around the world. We should localise such production far more. Traditionally, people used a variety of crops to meet their needs — it's not necessary to use palm oil everywhere. We should explore alternatives which work better, according to local ecologies and farming systems. Re-localising and supporting smaller-scale production will lighten the world.' And many of its citizens, currently burdened under palm oil-based foods which are anything but nourishing.
Time of India
06-07-2025
- General
- Time of India
‘Rice is sacred to Japan — part of history and cosmology, it faces climate change now'
Emiko Ohnuki-Tiernay, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Emiko Ohnuki-Tiernay is William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin- Madison . She tells Srijana Mitra Das at TE about rice , crisis — and stability — in Japan : Connecting to Emiko OhnukiTiernay is a little surprising because the professor is sitting against a backdrop of billowing breezes over a shimmery blue ocean, framed by swaying palms. Yet, we are discussing a nation known for its snowy peaks, cherry blossom trees — and rice. Hence, TE began by asking OhnukiTiernay about her research. She replied, 'The first period of my anthropological work was on the Sakhalin Ainu, so-called huntergatherers. Later, my work turned towards emphasising what I call 'symbolic meanings' rather than quantitative economic values, etc. I work on cultural meanings for Japan and study the historicisation of culture as you cannot understand periods of Japanese society without understanding historical processes. So, my work is now about symbolic cultural values and meanings and a historicisation of culture.' Rice plays a role in both. Why is it so significant in Japan? Ohnuki-Tiernay explains, 'Major grains often became the symbol of collective identities of people. As I've written, both Germany and Russia adopted wheat as a symbol.' There is an important distinction in the world of signs though — the anthropologist tells TE, 'There is a history of meat versus plant emphasis in food which mirrors a difference. In the West, the king as hunter is an important concept. So, Versailles and other palaces in France were situated next to an imperial forest for the king to showcase his power by hunting a wild animal, which he'd then distribute to his subjects. In Japan, hunting never took that kind of cultural, symbolic or economic value. Instead, as wet rice agriculture began around the end of the 9 th century BC, rice became a very important part of society — and the foundation of the imperial system. Instead of being the supreme hunter, the Japanese emperor's role was to oversee a stable climate for agriculture. Even when the imperial system lost power and a warrior class took over, it was the exclusive right of the Emperor to oversee rice rituals — the most powerful shogun could not take over that role. That is the historical overview of how rice became important and carried quantitative value. Today, although the Japanese have become much more affluent, meals still have rice. That symbolic value continues.' Rice remains a powerful reminder to Japanese society of the stability it cherishes. In recent months, Japan has undergone a rice crisis, with shortages in supply, growing demand and sky-rocketing prices, leading to imports. The atmosphere was so tense, a joke — the former farm minister, jested he was gifted so much rice, he didn't have to buy any — cost a politico his job. This wasn't the first time rice stirred up heated passions. As Ohnuki-Tiernay recounts, 'Japan's government tried to prohibit imports but in 1993, Bill Clinton pushed for the opening of the rice market. Even those who paid more for rice tried to prevent that, although finally, every political party yielded.' The moment carried some bitterness as some in Japan felt the nation had been forced into importing rice different from its own varieties. This passion can be traced back to the role rice plays in Japanese cosmology. As elaborated, 'The origin of rice was, of course, the middle stream of the Yangtze River. That went to Korea and the Koreans brought wet rice agriculture to Japan — however, the imperial household had to invent how rice originated in Japan itself. So, the Kojiki, an 8 th century chronicle of history and myths, states how rice came from the stomach of the deity of food. For the Japanese, the stomach is a very vital part of the body and thus, rice became extremely important — every single grain is supposed to house the soul of deities. Thus, rice became sacred and a symbol of Japanese collective identity.' Today, with growing urbanisation overshadowing traditional fields, and globalisation bringing bread and pasta to Japanese tables, rice faces challenges. Perhaps the greatest though is climate change, with its shifting of water and temperature. As Ohnuki-Tiernay says, 'In 1993, Japan experienced a rice crisis because of changing climate. Until recently, the Japanese government was in charge of rice supplies — some years, it even subsidised farmers to not produce anything, so prices would stay stable. That system is under pressure now — with climate change, the government is strained on how to manage rice. Most Japanese families once had a favourite local rice supplier but today, to what extent they can offer quantities is linked to environmental changes,' Ohnuki-Tiernay adds, with a characteristic enigmatic tone, 'Rice remains of enormous cultural significance. So, we will see.' Other countries, like China and India, also consume rice as a staple. Why is Japan's use of it, in ideas and identity, so different? The anthropologist replies, 'Japan is the only country which relies only on rice as a staple. India has wheat and rice and so does China — Chinese dumplings are important. India and China therefore have two major sources of staples — in Japan, it's only rice.' A symbol can symbolise both belonging — and strain. TE asks Ohnuki-Tiernay if, as rice grown in Japan undergoes challenges, whether this has meaning for Japanese identity? She replies, 'It's interesting how collective identity evolves facing pressure from others. For example, the plum blossom was first a symbol liked by Japanese aristocrats who embraced it as part of their aesthetics. But when the Chinese, for whom plum blossoms were symbolically key, started becoming a dominant other, the nobles chose cherry blossoms — a deity is thus supposed to come down on the petals of the cherry blossom to rice paddies. Again, if there are pressures to fortify the collective identity of the Japanese, we will see to what extent rice plays a dominant role.' The anthropologist leaves us thinking of her words, against the backdrop of a glorious Hawaiian isle where, too, rice is a loved dish.
Time of India
22-06-2025
- Time of India
‘From spaceflights to ‘doom tourism', travel poses questions of philosophy — and power'
Emily Thomas Emily Thomas is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University . She tells Srijana Mitra Das at TE about the nature of travel: Emily Thomas is sitting in her living room, its windows giving a glimpse into the afternoon sunshine which, in an English summer, can't decide if, slipping between leafy filigree, it wants to sparkle like a diamond or gleam like green-tinted gold. Yet, as TE spoke with her, the philosopher's discussion was not about homelands but places far away. Could she describe her work on the philosophy of travel? She replies, 'At the core was a question — has philosophy ever had anything to do with travel? As I began research, I found philosophy and travel have had lots to do with each other. They have interacted in all kinds of ways throughout history.' by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Perdagangkan CFD Emas dengan Broker Tepercaya IC Markets Mendaftar Undo Maps, the knowledge of where to go and why, are key to this interaction. How can we understand them philosophically? Thomas laughs, ' Maps are the most fascinating objects. They seem deceptively simple, a map of a city or part of a country might look like it's just telling you where the roads, buildings or hills are. But actually,' And here, her voice drops confidentially, 'So much decision-making went into what to represent on a map and how it is shown. Maps are not simple representations of the world, they are very complex depictions of what the map-maker desires to highlight. Often, the map-maker emphasises a society's power structures, that's why you see palaces, churches or temples on maps, not houses of individual people.' Is technology, with its ability to scope out every corner of Earth, altering old ways of map-making? 'Yes. Google Maps is probably the most popular online mapping service now. Again, what it does and doesn't flag says a lot about what its map-makers think is important or what they believe we consider important. So, they highlight tourist sites but not the houses of individual people. Also, unlike paper maps, online maps represent different parts of the world in exactly the same way, you can look up the United States, the United Kingdom or India and an online map will use the same colour schemes to represent all these diverse places. That gives the illusion that all these places are much more similar than they are, they put a kind of film over our perception of the world's complexity.' Some parts of the world are clearly different from others, though, marked by nature's most spectacular aspects. Has travel had links, both in philosophy and history, with ecology? Thomas nods emphatically. 'Yes. A lot of travel is about humans going into nature and experiencing unfamiliarity, bad weather or difficult terrain. How they navigate this embodies human approaches to nature. Throughout history, you can see how people's attitudes towards nature changed by reading their travel writing — for example, before the 17th century, many writers described mountains in negative terms like 'boils and warts upon Earth'. Then, in the late 17th century, poets, novelists and painters became enthralled by Isaac Newton's philosophy of space, where Newton expounded on space being connected to God. Suddenly, there grew this new conception of space as divine — travel writers began seeing mountains differently and started describing them as 'cathedrals to God'.' This also changed how many humans felt they could impact nature. As Thomas explains, 'In Western philosophy, people often saw nature as something they could do what they liked with, thinking God had created it for humans, around the 18th century, those attitudes began to change, partly due to the American transcendentalists. People like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Theroux began conceiving of nature as divine in itself, perhaps even the embodiment of God, and not just something God made. So, many began thinking, 'Well, nature isn't something that's just useful — we must protect it as it's inherently beautiful.' That began what is today's ecology movement, where people see themselves as caretakers of nature, rather than its rulers.' What exactly is the rather disturbingly termed 'doom tourism', linked to nature, though? Thomas replies, 'It's the idea that many beautiful places on our planet, like the Arctic, Antarctic or coral reefs, are 'doomed', largely due to climate change. The thought is, 'Well, as they're perishing, we should rush to see them as quickly as we can.' The problem is people going to these places, taking planes and leaving large carbon footprints, contribute to environmental problems. This produces an ethical dilemma — is it alright to visit these 'doomed' places when the very act of going there will hasten their demise? Some philosophers think we should protect these places rather than hurry their end along.' Meanwhile, why is the interest in 'space tourism' rising — are people just bored of planet Earth? Thomas says, 'That could be one part — but what space tourism offers above many other forms of travel is exclusivity. Several people can claim to have visited the Arctic or Antarctica now — very few can say they've been to space.' Thomas pauses, thinks and then continues, 'I think another part is that we now have so much fiction, movies, documentaries and novels about what it's like to go into space. That's powered a very real human curiosity about this. Some people have also recounted how going into space can be transformative — when you're an astronaut looking down on Earth, it gives a very new perspective. It helps us realise how our planet is deeply beautiful, unique and actually unified and it should be protected. I personally would be quite curious about obtaining a perspective that seems very hard to get in any other way except literally leaving the planet and looking back on it.' The view of the traveller is thus central, but has the idea of modern travel been shaped largely by a white male gaze? Thomas smiles ironically and says, 'Oh, yes, certainly within the West. If you look at who wrote the most historical travel books, it's almost always white men. In Europe and North America , very few women wrote about travel and even fewer people of colour did so. That's not true of other places — China and Japan have an enormous history of travel writing, also by men but not white men. That viewpoint is important to remember. Travel is about unfamiliarity and otherness. But what is unfamiliar to one may not be so to another. That defines travel — and a lot of what happens at home.'
Time of India
01-06-2025
- Science
- Time of India
‘Gold arrived on our planet as Earth was forming 4.5 billion years ago — it holds an extraordinary history'
Jun Korenaga Jun Korenaga is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University . He tells Srijana Mitra Das at TE about how gold got to Earth: It's a little surprising to connect to Jun Korenaga , not least because the scientist is sitting against the backdrop of a planetary surface that could be — but doesn't have to be — Mars. Speaking with purple rock and feathery clouds in a sunless sky behind him, Korenaga explains the origins of gold — and Earth. 'My work focuses on estimating early Earth's history. In the last few years, I've worked on the Hadean Eon which was about 4.5 billion years ago — this is the most mysterious part of our planet's history because we don't have a rock record for it. I work on the theoretical side and try to reconstruct what early Earth looked like.' Gold is part of early Earth's story, although in unexpected ways. A symbol of stability now, gold had quite a dramatic past. Supernovae or cataclysmic stellar explosions and star collisions occurred in the universe. The extreme pressure of such imploding stars was so high, subatomic protons and electrons got pushed into their core — these formed neutrons. Rapid neutron capture by iron then created heavy elements like uranium, lead, silver and gold. Interestingly, this process occurred very, very swiftly — and then, these elements were expelled into space. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like News For Jack Nicholson, 87, He Has Been Confirmed To Be... Reportingly Undo (Photos: Getty images) Thus, metals like gold and platinum arrived on Earth while our planet was still forming. Korenaga explains, 'About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth was hit by a Mars-sized rock and the moon formed as the debris from this collision went into an Earth-orbiting disk. More bombardment followed — there were plenty of leftover rocks orbiting the sun as well and several fell on young Earth. The landing of these objects is known as 'late accretion', comprising about the last 1% of planetary growth. In this period, some of the rocks which fell on Earth had metallic components like gold.' Importantly, gold and platinum are among highly siderophile elements (HSEs) — these are metals with an extremely strong affinity for iron. Korenaga smiles slightly and says, 'Now, if Earth was created with no funny twists in its story, we actually wouldn't have any gold on our planet's surface because, sticking to iron, this was heavy and should have gone straight down into the core which we cannot access. But we do have gold on the surface, which shows that part of Earth's mantle can retain metallic components.' Korenaga's research, conducted with Simone Marchi , posits the notion that there is a thin or 'transient' part of the mantle where shallow areas melt away and a deeper region stays solid. This part could hold falling metallic components and reach them to the mantle. In the simulations the scientists conducted, as a rock crashed onto Earth, it hit a localised liquid magma ocean where heavy metals sank to the bottom. As these reached the partially molten area underneath, the metal would start sinking further down — then, the molten mantle solidified, capturing the metal there. But how did this re-emerge to the part of Earth's surface humans could access? As Korenaga says, 'The part of the mantle which contains this metallic component is heavier and more chemically dense than the rest — to bring it up, you have to offset that density by being hotter than normal as hotter materials usually have lower density. Thus, thermal currents from Earth's core outweighed that compositional density and made these materials move up from the solid mantle to Earth's surface.' This process is called 'mantle convection', when hot mantle material rises as colder material sinks. Earth's mantle is almost totally solid — yet, over long geologic periods, it acts like a pliable material which can mix and move things within it. Those include the HSEs — like gold — which came to Earth from massive collisions billions of years ago and then reached the planet's surface through these enormous, yet intricate internal processes. Is gold found on other planets as well? Korenaga says, 'Gold is found on the moon — but its abundance there is much lower than on Earth. It is found on Mars too. Of course, we don't have direct samples from Mars but we have so-called Martian meteorites. These are found on Earth but because of their isotopic features, they are traced back to Mars. Analysing these rocks shows us the presence of highly siderophile elements there — again though, the abundance of these, like gold and platinum, is much lower than on Earth.' Do siderophiles contain a larger story of the formation of our solar system — and universe? Korenaga comments, 'We understand planetary formation in terms of silicate rocks and iron which makes up most of the core. Iron is a major element while silicate rocks are made of silicon, oxygen, magnesium, iron, etc. Highly siderophile elements exist in very small abundances — their presence by itself doesn't drive any major planetary formation processes but they stick with iron and by measuring such trace elements, we can study more details of planetary formation.' These abundances thus help us decipher the paths planets once took. The Golden Moon: This too has gold on it THE GOLDEN MOON: This too has gold on it Given its incredible history — arriving on Earth 4.5 billion years ago, seeping deep into its mantle, pushed to the top by extraordinary forces operating from within our planet — how should we think of gold the next time we see it? Korenaga replies, 'Gold is, of course, widely available as jewellery and other items from shops but when we look at it, we should actually think about its extraordinary origins — we shouldn't take gold for granted. Its presence helps us understand crucial details of the very existence of this metallic Earth and the formation of its unique atmosphere which is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen — why did our planet develop in this way? A simple everyday item like gold can hold big answers to that.' Korenaga concludes by remarking, 'Of course, my work explains why Earth's mantle has some amount of gold or platinum at the surface level but for humans to access pure gold, you need a concentrated form in a mine,' He adds, with a scientist's exactness, 'It is extremely inefficient otherwise to extract gold from rocks — but to understand the formation of gold mines, you need deeper knowledge about very local processes. And that is another story.'
