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Volume 3, Issue 4
8 March 2008
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, page: 2 –2
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080423
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 4 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080401
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 14 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080402
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It is believed that signal-processing techniques used in military radar systems could help cut deaths from stroke by improving early diagnosis and the same approach could provide a more effective way of monitoring patients as they recover. This research has involved processing transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) radio-frequency signals, to develop new techniques for the detection of cerebral emboli and to improve the axial resolution obtainable from TCD systems. Using a technique derived from military radar systems, it has been able to increase the bandwidth of the transmitted pulse and improve the axial resolution of Doppler ultrasound. The latest clinical trials in the United States of a breast cancer treatment that takes advantage of heat therapy derived from radar research suggest it can significantly increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy. Scientists at the University of Manchester are working on an X-ray technique that as well as detecting hidden explosives and drugs could help treat cancers more effectively. Known as tomographic energy dispersive diffraction imaging, or TEDDI, it harnesses all the wavelengths present in an X-ray beam to create probing 3D pictures. - Author(s): M. Bond
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 16 –19
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080403
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Is there a technology for telling whether someone is lying? Michael Bond raises this eternal question and looks at the current options from clairvoyants to latest-generation polygraphs. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 20 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080404
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The author gives an overview of the 3D imaging technology. This article also assesses the advancements in this technology and its readiness for consumer market. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 22 –23
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080405
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Imagine a technology that allowed a business to virtually eliminate the need for travel, reducing it carbon footprint, improving the work/life balance of jaded executives, and boosting productivity across the workforce. Such are the claims for telepresence, a much vaunted new conference system. Unlike with tele- and video conferencing, telepresence enables users to maintain eye contact, read body language and interact in a real-time environment. Although many issues have stood in its way in the past, the technology of telepresence is now a viable business option. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 24 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080424
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, page: 26 –26
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080425
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Why a quick fix may not be in the long-term interests of the UK car industry. - Author(s): D. Birkett
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, page: 27 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080406
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The old proverb 'make haste slowly' acquires a new meaning in the age of supersonic jets and high-speed trains, argues our travel columnist Dea Birkett. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 28 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080426
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The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was resplendent with examples of how mobile phones have got even smarter. Here is a selection of this year's best. - Author(s): D. Hooker
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 30 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080407
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Continuing the series of occasional features, started last August by Roger Dettmer's 'Backup Bungle', Dennis Hooker, CEng MIET and honorary treasurer for Kent, shares some of his desktop fears and headaches. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 32 –34
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080408
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The paper presents the steps in dealing shrinking voltages in analogue circuit design. Cost pressures are forcing designers to put more analogue circuitry onto bleeding-edge silicon. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 35 –37
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080409
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A desire to produce data converters at the latest and more cost-effective CMOS semiconductor manufacturing nodes has led to increasing interest in replacing portions of traditionally mixed-signal circuit design with digital logic.This trend has accelerated over the last three to four years, particularly as chip production has moved into the deep sub-micron era. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 38 –39
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080410
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Chipmakers have a big problem. According to a study put together by analyst firm Numetrics Management Systems, most chip-design projects miss their deadlines. And it is because of reuse that it is happening - not because the intellectual property (IP) cores they buy but because teams choose to tinker with them. Faced with projects going late, chip designers are having to face up to doing less design themselves and buy in bigger lumps of circuitry. - Author(s): E. Omerdic
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 40 –43
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080411
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Subsea vehicle control is a tough job in a harsh environment requiring great skill. Edin Ormerdic explains the Mobile & Marine Robotics Research Centre's efforts to build a standardised control system. - Author(s): P. Burge
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 44 –46
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080412
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Failure of critical operating equipment can be a problem in any sector, but at sea it can be at best hazardous and at worst catastrophic. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 48 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080413
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Europe faces some difficult decisions in its attempt to satisfy increasing demand for power, while cutting its carbon emissions. Anne Harris discusses a new report that sets the landscape for the coming challenges. - Author(s): J. Klimstra
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 52 –54
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080414
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There is no single answer to effectively incorporating renewable energy sources into a power grid. The only reliable solution may come from a combination of what is being offered. Wind and solar power are frequently touted as being natural alternatives to fuel-based electricity generation but both depend upon weather conditions. Reliable reserve power capability is, therefore, necessary to ensure efficiency of supply.However, electricity generation based on wind power and solar radiation lacks the easy controllability of a fuel-based power generation, resulting in difficulties in meeting demand. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 56 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080415
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Complex event processing drives many of the world's most advanced computerised trading systems. But it's not just for the frantic share shufflers - it could soon be coming to a computer near you. The key to the trading systems is complex event processing (CEP): a technique that provides a computer with the ability to look at hundreds of near simultaneous actions and work out what to do. Because it is derived from a style of design called event-driven architecture (EDA), some believe that CEP is a technology that can be used well beyond finance. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, page: 60 –60
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080427
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, page: 60 –60
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080428
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E&T talks to the man who is working to create an IP network for the Birmingham metropolitan area. - Author(s): M. Courtney
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, page: 61 –61
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080416
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BlueArc's Titan 2000 NAS array provides up to two petabytes of fast, reliable storage capacity, and makes a number of other claims to market-leadership. Martin Courtney takes a look under the lid. - Author(s): B. Cervi
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 62 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080417
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When luxury car maker Jaguar. launches its brand new XF model into the world market this month the vehicle will sport the Bowers & Wilkins badge prominently on the inside. Bowers & Wilkins has supplied the car's loudspeakers and, for Jaguar, the audio system inside the vehicle is a key selling point. This creative union between two historic companies - born out of their relationship as members of the UK's Automotive Engineering Society - represents a new level of groundbreaking car design. The interior of the XF has been developed around the needs of the audio system, making it the first vehicle to put the sound system at the heart of the design. - Author(s): C. Herron
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 66 –67
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080418
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Japan is lauded as the grandfather of lean production but is the West catching up? Colin Herron, a regular visitor to Japanese firms, finds they are still leaving their UK counterparts trailing behind. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 68 –72
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080419
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In vying to pack more features into handsets, mobile phone makers have given themselves a problem in the volume of radio standards they now have to find space for on the circuit board. The author explains how software could give them a way out of the 'porcupine problem'. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, page: 73 –73
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080429
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From small modules for portable Wi-Fi games players to a low-power GPS chip that could enable cameras to tag images with the location they were taken, we round up the latest chips which keep the hearts of communications devices ticking. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 74 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080420
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The article reports that talent management is a process of attracting and retaining human capital, and companies practising it are winning. The organizations trying to set up talent management process, the essential guide to managing talent but real success comes when we engage the hearts and minds of individuals. Individuals joining an organisation need to feel that they are valued and that their contribution will make a difference. The new paradigm is talent management, which focuses on developing and retaining good people. Companies that are known to practise talent management have a better chance of attracting recruits at all levels. One of the challenges they face, is to identify and develop the next generation of talent. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 78 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080421
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There comes a time when all businesses need to hand over responsibility to new managers. Careful succession planning can minimise the risk of damage during the change. Every enterprise evolves and grows around the vision, skill and enthusiasm of its leaders and managers. The business gradually becomes an embodiment of their judgement, values and decisions. If they retire or exit for other reasons, the ethos and dynamics of the business will inevitably change. If the value of the business is to be maintained or enhanced, it is imperative these changes are carefully controlled. The first step is to formally decide precisely what difference their departure will make. If the retiring directors/managers were responsible for sales dynamism, strict financial control, key account customer loyalty or engineering innovation, for example, these are the critical skills gaps which will need to be filled seamlessly. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 80 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080422
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In Febuary, 2008 more than 100 college lecturers in the UK completed the ground-breaking industrial fellowship scheme. The author attended the annual presentation ceremony at the Institute of Directors to find out more. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, page: 84 –84
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080430
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- Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, page: 96 –96
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20080431
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Vitali Vitaliev takes a philosophical, if somewhat politically incorrect, look at the matters of recycling.
Editorial
News
Intruder alert [Military technology applications in healthcare sector]
Exposing the big lie
Is it time for 3D? [3D imaging technology]
Turning on a meeting [telepresence]
Letters to the Editor
If you ask me
The global engineer
Gadgets
Technology on my desktop
Into the fast lane [analogue integrated circuits]
Quantum of solace
Out of time [Electronic design]
Delving deeper [subsea vehicle control]
Catastrophe in the balance [control monitoring]
Balance of power
A hybrid solution [power generation from renewables]
Time to market [event-driven architecture]
Viewpoint
Sixty-second interview: Andrew Mackay
Product profile: Store and forward
Good vibrations
Streets ahead of the west
The porcupine problem [mobile radio]
Hot from the oven
Tuning in to the talent [talent management in organisation]
Tough act to follow [organisational aspects]
Time out for teacher [industrial fellowship scheme]
Events
After all - talking rubbish
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