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Volume 3, Issue 14
9 August 2008
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, page: 2 –2
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081424
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 4 –9
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081425
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 10 –11
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081426
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William Dennis reports from Malaysia on developments in the Asia-Pacific region. - Author(s): D. Lenton
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, page: 12 –12
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081400
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Labels whose colour indicates whether food is fresh or past its best could prevent a great deal of waste, but supermarkets don't want them. Dominic Lenton reports. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, page: 13 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081427
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- Author(s): M. Williamson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 14 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081401
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Mark Williamson ponders the absence of the space industry from the UK's principal aerospace show. - Author(s): P. Chamberlain
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 16 –19
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081402
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In this feature from the Hidden Engineering series, the author looks at the history of sports engineering as well as the latest sports technology breakthroughs. - Author(s): R. Mileham
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 20 –23
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081403
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All over the world, talented competitors are training hard, putting in long hours at their chosen discipline, and seeking the chance to represent their country at international level. With the Beijing Olympic Games in progress, that's no surprise. Yet these people are not preparing for any traditional sporting activity. Active computer games may soon end up as an Olympics discipline. The author reviews the state of the growing sports games industry in the UK and elsewhere. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 24 –26
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081404
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We most readily associate the idea of robots competing at sport with machines built to human-size, or at least human- scale. Honda's Asimo, Sony's Aibo and the 'house' hatchet-lady Matilda from TV's 'Robot Wars' spring to mind. The capabilities of these larger machines have advanced at a tremendous rate, keeping them in the public eye. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 28 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081428
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- Author(s): K. Barnfather and M. Venables
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, page: 30 –30
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081429
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US courts have upheld an intellectual property principle dating back to the nineteenth century. - Author(s): D. Birkett
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, page: 31 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081405
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Dea Birkett on how modern technology brings a traveller closer to home. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 32 –33
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081406
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This issue, the new 3G iPhone promises something for everyone - even engineers. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 34 –35
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081407
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E&T listens in on resident inventors Mark Sheahan and Patrick Andrews as they exchange emails on an idea that could have the world beating a path to their door. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 36 –39
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081408
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Wearable body monitors are reaching into sports and healthcare as preventive medicine gets active. The aim is to produce a garment that will record electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. The cardio-vascular system is not the only target. A 'smart bed' fitted with sensors has been worked on that is intended to help with the monitoring of insomnia and other sleep-related problems. The sensors take ECGs and monitor movement and respiration rate so that doctors can make better diagnoses than is possible today. It is concluded that the framework of healthcare may change so much that consumers will just find themselves having to adjust. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 40 –43
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081409
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The amount of hardware to design digital silicon keeps spiralling upward. Can the tools cope? As we move further into the multicore processing age, it is tempting to see EDA (electronic design automaation) as a vanguard sector. It helped design the chips. Maybe, its natural participation in designing the generations and refinements that follow will help us solve the accompanying multicore programming problem. - Author(s): A. Longyear
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 44 –46
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081410
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UK utility companies specifically in the water industry, can benefit greatly form the use of new technologies and techniques to help to solve pressing business issues and enhance operational capabilities. - Author(s): G. Richards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 48 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081411
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The paper discusses the use of analog control equipment in nuclear power plants. - Author(s): N. Newman
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 52 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081412
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As the European Parliament struggles to pull all the strands of a common energy policy into coherent strategy, it is becoming clear that common ground is hard to find. This paper presents the formulating of an energy policy by EU. EU must take into account the effect of energy security issues of potential disruption, both in the long- and short-term, by sabotage, political instability, and speculation by traders on world's stock market. - Author(s): M. Venables
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 56 –58
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081413
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Ask any scientist to name Earth's most abundant source of energy, and the answer comes quickly: sunlight. In one hour, the Sun strikes Earth with enough energy to power the entire planet for a year. "There's nothing that compares to the Sun. Everything else pales in comparison," Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy in MIT's Department of Chemistry, says. With gas and oil prices at all-time highs, it's only logical for scientists to try to harness some of that solar energy. Three projects at America's MIT are leading research into the area, looking at mimicking photosynthesis, producing a cost-efficient solar power system and finally designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy. - Author(s): J. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 60 –62
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081414
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The paper discusses about the growing interest in virtual reality work tools. VR has been used by design engineers in sectors such as automotive and aeronautics for research and product development for years, initially in the form of computer-aided design and manufacturing systems, and more recently for virtual prototyping. - Author(s): D. Bradbury
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, page: 63 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081430
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Microsoft plans to charge users of its Live! Search engine. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, page: 63 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081431
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High-street homewares and furnishings retailer The Pier recently deployed Sarian's mobile routing technology to provide backup connections to support online chip-and-pin transactions at all 35 of its stores. The nationwide rollout involved equipping each of The Pier's outlets with Sarian HR4110 routers, which provide back-up data communications links over new high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) mobile networks. Alex Meek, head of information systems at The Pier, tells us about the project. - Author(s): K. Allan
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 64 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081415
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Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is proving its worth at sporting venues, and placing ticketing at the heart of a range of automated systems designed to enhance the user experience. Demand for tickets has outstripped supply, and in order to combat fraud and tighten security, the organisers are using RFID-embedded tickets to control piracy concerns and speed-up entry into venues. But this is not a one-off occurrence for a prestige occasion; more and more organisations are turning to RFID-ticketing. This paper discusses the advantages of using RFID embedded ticketing system. - Author(s): B. Cervi
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 66 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081416
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In an age when manufacturers are commonly outsourcing production to low-cost countries in Asia, one nation appears to be bucking this trend. Famed for technology as much as for design, Finland is keeping much of its production on home soil, if the activities of some of its leading brands are anything to go by. Moreover, this small country is seeking to bolster its position within the global marketplace with the launch next year of a national 'innovation university' that will bring together technology, design and business to develop new innovatory products. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 70 –71
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081417
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This paper discusses a new prototype engine that is claimed to greatly improve fuel economy particularly urban driving is presented in this paper. The technology comes under the unlikely acronym Music, which stands for Merritt unthrottled spark ignition combustion, an engine developed by Dr. Dan Merritt of Coventry University. By adopting diesel engine processes and incorporating them into a petrol engine, Merritt and his team say they have achieved a 20 per cent gain in efficiency, as well as a significant reduction in carbon and nitrogen emissions. A diesel engine is more efficient than a petrol one because it sprays tiny droplets of fuel into very hot air. Diesel fuel will ignite on contact with the heat. A petrol engine has to create a correct mix of air and fuel, which is less efficient. - Author(s): J.P. Conti
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 72 –75
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081418
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The emergency relief operations that follow natural disasters rely heavily on communications technology. But during disasters, telecommunication networks are among the first things to be swept away. Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) was born with a simple mission - to help individuals and rescue organisations through the early days of a disaster. Today, this non-governmental organisation (NGO) can set up fully-equipped communication hubs, offering global voice and Internet connections, anywhere in the world less than 24 hours after a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis has begun. This paper discusses the technologies and methods used by TSF in order to fulfill their mission. - Author(s): D. Hobson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, page: 76 –76
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081419
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The author warns that the upcoming Olympics could see the start of a wave of cyber-terror attacks against the UK. As more sensitive data are digitised, and regulatory requirements become increasingly stringent, organisations face the challenge of securing that data against unauthorised access, tampering and loss. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 78 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081420
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The article discusses the move of Symbian and some of handset makers and network operators to an open source operating system. It also presents other open source operating system for mobile phones. - Author(s): P. Wilton
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 80 –83
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081421
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This article examines the demands made of today's younger managers, debunks the myths surrounding them and gives clues about how organisations in the engineering sector can attract and retain Generation Y. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, p. 84 –87
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081422
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Twenty years ago climber Stephen Venables became the first Englishman to reach the top of Everest without using bottled oxygen. Today, Venables is all about motivating the management community. This article give some practical advice in motivating people based on his experience. - Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 14, page: 96 –96
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081423
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Vitali Vitaliev examines the concept of punctuality and its technological epitome - a Swiss post bus.
Editorial
News
Asia news
Analysis: Smart packaging struggles for shelf space
News in brief
Analysis: No room for space
The science of winning [Sports Technology]
Let the games begin [computer games]
Mini Robocup
Letters to the Editor
If you ask me
The global engineer
Gadgets
Inventors inbox
Healthcare's hi-tech lifelines [wearable sensors]
The great builders [electronics design]
Testing the waters [water industry]
Power is nothing without control [nuclear power plants]
Searching for common ground
Bring me sunshine [Solar energy]
Virtual reality enters the real world
Viewpoint
Sixty-second interview: Alex Meek
Tickety-boom [RFID embedded tickets]
Finnish first [innovation university]
Urban harmony [diesel engine]
Here, there and everywhere [emergency communication]
Olympics and IT: be aware, be very aware [cyber-terror attack]
Mobile's game of risk [mobile handset operating system]
Unlocking the talent of generation y
Mountains of motivation [engineering management]
After all - On the (yellow) dot
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