CANBERRA John Guidetti VM 2018 Tröja , April 6 (Xinhua) -- Australia's top female cricketers are set to become the nation's highest-paid team sportswomen, after Cricket Australia announced a landmark pay rise in the women's game on Wednesday.
Cricket Australia said its female player payment pool would be increased from 1.8 million U.S dollars to 3.2 million U.S dollars per year for the upcoming summer, meaning the top players could earn up to "six figures" per year.
Maximum retainers for the Southern Stars - Australia's national team - are set to rise from 37,000 U.S dollars to 50,000 U.S dollars. When combined with increased maximum retainers for the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) of 12,000 the base rate for Australia's best female cricketers rises to 62 Emil Forsberg VM 2018 Tröja ,000 U.S. dollars per year.
After Southern Stars match payments and tour fees are added to the players' base incomes, the top players are expected to earn in excess of six figures.
At the other end of the spectrum, lower earners are also set to get a pay rise. Minimum retainers have more than doubled, rising from 14,000 U.S. dollars to 30,000 U.S. dollars for the Southern Stars and 2400 U.S. dollars to 5500 U.S. dollars for the WBBL.
Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland said the sporting body was "determined" to encourage more women to play cricket.
"Cricket is a sport for all Australians and Cricket Australia will continue to invest heavily in the women's game in the coming years Marcus Berg VM 2018 Tröja ," Sutherland said in a statement on Wednesday.
"We are determined to make cricket the sport of choice for women in Australia."
Sutherland said the recent exposure and high TV ratings for the women's game meant it was an easy decision to allocate more money towards the female players.
"We have worked constructively with the Australian Cricketers' Association to reach this point and will continue to do so in our ongoing efforts to improve wages and workplace conditions for all elite female cricketers," Sutherland said.
"The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars have achieved great success on the world stage, including making it through to the recent final of the ICC World T20 in India, and are great role models for the next generation of Australia's aspiring female cricketers."
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld a jury's verdict that Samsung Electronics infringed the Apple Inc.'s patents, but vacated part of the 930-million-U.S. dollar damages awards.
"We affirm the jury's verdict on the design patent infringements Gustav Svensson VM 2018 Tröja , the validity of two utility patent claims, and the damages awarded for the design and utility patent infringements appealed by Samsung," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., which deals with patent lawsuit appeals, said in its ruling.
However Sebastian Larsson VM 2018 Tröja , the appeals court concluded that "the jury's findings of non-functionality of the asserted trade dresses were not supported by substantial evidence," and ordered a trial court in California to reconsider the award of 382 million dollars for Samsung's dilution of Apple's trade dress, a term that generally refers to characteristics of the visual appearance of a product or its packaging.
"We reverse the jury's findings that the asserted trade dresses are protectable. We therefore vacate the jury's damages awards against the Samsung products that were found liable for trade dress dilution and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion," said the appeals court.
The appeals court's ruling came after a California jury in 2012 found that Samsung infringed several Apple patents and Apple was eventually awarded 930 million dollars in damages.
Apple and Samsung, the world's top two smartphone producers, have been embroiled in what's been described as a "patent war of the century" across the globe. The two giants last year agreed to end all patent lawsuits outside the United States.
CANBERRA Niklas Hult VM 2018 Tröja , Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- A drug that successfully prevented kidney disease in diabetic mice will undergo world-first human trials in Australia, it was announced on Wednesday.
More than 140 Australians suffering from type 1 or 2 diabetes will participate in the study, run by the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, which will begin in September.
A drug developed by researchers at Monash University that blocks a pathway through which NOX enzymes cause damage to the kidneys will be tested in the trial.
Monash's Mark Cooper said that blocking the pathway in mice had prevented kidney damage and the drug, the rights to which are owned by Swiss pharmaceutical company Genkyotex, has shown promise in repairing eye and heart damage related to diabetes.
"In the diabetic kidney three things happen: it scars Martin Olsson VM 2018 Tröja , it gets inflamed, and it leaks the protein albumin," Cooper told Australian media on Wednesday.
"We were able to show this drug stopped the protein leaking, stopped the inflammation, and stopped the scarring. It's the scarring, particularly Andreas Granqvist VM 2018 Tröja , that causes kidney failure."
The 142 study participants will have their urine tested for albumin and then be administered the NOX-inhibitor or a placebo for 12 months.
Diabetes affects 250,000 Australians and Cooper said kidney disease is one of the most common causes of death associated with the disease.
"If we can slow down kidney disease, and also reduce heart and eye disease in the diabetes population, it will dramatically improve lifespan and quality of life," he said.
"These people (sufferers of both type 1 and 2 diabetes) can avoid dialysis, have fewer heart attacks Victor Lindelof VM 2018 Tröja , and suffer less blindness."
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