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Volume 5, Issue 17
13 November 2010
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1701
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, page: 5 –5
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1702
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(10 pages) - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 16 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1715
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E&T notes that a trade show once dedicated to electronic components is shifting its emphasis towards software and the virtual world. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 18 –19
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1703
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Best of the E&T inbox. - Author(s): I. Schofield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 20 –23
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1716
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E&T looks how software can help patients with speech difficulties. Patricia Ruckoff was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) on Christmas Eve, 2009. Her daughter Melissa found JayBee on the Internet and contacted Time Is Ltd. (TIL) to try to secure the speech-generation software it had developed. The local MND Association had a system purchased for a previous patient who had recently died of MND. Patricia took delivery of the system in January 2010 and immediately tried it out, allowing JayBee to learn her communication traits. At that time, she was fully mobile, walking and climbing stairs, and her voice, although slightly slurred, was completely understandable. Her home was soon broken into, and the system was stolen. After an insurance claim was filed, she received a replacement. - Author(s): S.A. Holgate
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 24 –26
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1717
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As the NHS faces a funding gap of £6bn a year by 2015, Sharon Ann Holgate looks at the new technologies for better and less costly medical treatment of the UK's increasingly infirm and ageing population. - Author(s): A. Spurling
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 27 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1718
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To mark the Royal Society's 350th anniversary, E&T talks to its outgoing President, astrophysicist Lord Rees, on a variety of topics from the Society's famous fellows to whether engineering is too low-profile. - Author(s): P. Bizony
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 30 –33
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1719
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Robonaut is the first humanoid robot ever sent into space.It is designed to look and behave much like a space-suited human. Robonaut's grasping skills and sensitivity to touch are markedly finer than those of a space-walking astronaut, because its slender fingers have no need for thick gloves. A set of 14 brushless motors in each forearm drive the hands. Robonaut's gold-plated head is articulated at the neck, allowing a similar freedom of movement to a human head. The torso is built from aluminium, with Kevlar and Teflon padding to protect it from fire and micrometeorite impacts. The torso and arms are covered with a custom-fitted fabric skin that secures the electrical wire harnesses and keeps dust away from the mechanical joints. The 'foot' is an adaptor that clicks into various attachment points on the outside of the space station, or on the end of long and similarly articulated robotic boom arms that are already part of the station's external equipment. - Author(s): C. Edwards and J. Sawicki
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 34 –35
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1720
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The paper presents the different techniques in fabricating wafer process and the used of EUV lithography and it would still do a side bet on optical lithography. And to maximise the use of grating-like feature, chipmakers such as Intel and Samsung are using a technique called double patterning. Here. the exposure is performed in two stages using two different masks. - Author(s): R. Piggin
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 36 –38
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1721
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The paper is talking about cyber attacks and its complications to industrial control systems. The Stuxnet threat poses blueprint for attacks on real-world infrastructure, providing generic methods to reprogram industrial control systems. - Author(s): G. Richards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 39 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1722
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Wireless networking is making major inroads into industry, but with it comes the inevitable issue of how to integrate such a 'game changing' technology with existing wired networks. End users who are still undecided over whether to take the plunge into the wireless networks route are looking for assurance in four principal areas standards, implementation, management and security. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 42 –44
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1723
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This paper discusses the problem of conversion efficiency in photovoltaics cells. Most installations today use a central inverter to deliver AC electricity to the grid. This puts most of the complex electronic control needed to synchronise with the grid into one unit. - Author(s): M. Venables
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 45 –47
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1724
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Kevin Costner, a man better known for his acting skills, has invested over $20m developing a technology that can help clean-up oil spills. - Author(s): M. Courtney
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 48 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1725
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Much effort has gone into making PCs more energyefficient, but it is not just the power used by office desktop computers that places massive burdens on electricity supplies. The networks, servers and storage resources they connect to plus the printers, scanners, photocopiers, phone handsets, and other electronic office equipment that supplement them all contribute toward increasing IT's carbon footprint. Add to this the fans and airconditioning systems that prevent all that hardware from overheating, and you don't need to be an electrical engineer to recognise that it results in a very high therm count. - Author(s): J. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 52 –53
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1726
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This article is discussing about software licensing. Sourcing enterprise software from the cloud may bring operational and cost benefits, but factoring in licensing complexities can obfuscate cost-of- ownership issues. Cloud enables users to directly procure applications and services that they want, bypassing the IT department. Cloud computing is enveloping the options for enterprise software specifiers as well as changing the terms and conditions by which such software can be deployed and used. - Author(s): M. Wheatley
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 54 –56
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1727
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Does your production line fill containers? Do you produce any kind of weighed product? The smallest efficiency improvements can translate into major savings. Filling-line efficiencies are very important. There's a lot of capital equipment on them, and the more product that you put through the lines, the greater your revenues and the lower your average costs. A lean manufacturing and continuous improvement programme has been under way, intent on driving down inefficiencies and boosting output levels, aiming for sustainable improvements, not 'flavour of the month' quick wins that don't last. - Author(s): B. Betts
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 57 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1728
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If you doubt water's ability to cut hard materials, just think of the Grand Canyon. Granted, it was on a longer turnaround than the average cutting job, but by using a thin high-pressure jet initially of water alone, but then including abrasive powder the process can be made to work rather faster. Cutting machines of this type are now widely used. An inevitable consequence of employing water is of course that it has to go somewhere, so a waterjet can usually be recognised by the large tank that absorbs the leftover power of the jet once it has cut through the workpiece. The latter is mounted upon an array of vertical slats sitting in the tank. Alternative cutting technologies, which let you cut metal and other materials non-mechanically using lasers or water, are becoming increasingly powerful and accurate. - Author(s): J.P. Conti
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 60 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1729
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This paper presents the problem of extending broadband out to rural communities has had network providers scratching their heads for years but now affordable services are poised for deployment in some of the most remote parts of the world. - Author(s): L. Collins
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 64 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1730
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The recent UK comprehensive spending review demonstrated the importance the government attaches to fast Internet access for economic growth, especially in rural areas. Even as Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was cutting department budgets left and right, he still found £530m to bring next-generation access (NGA) to parts of North Yorkshire, Cumbria, Herefordshire and the Highlands and Islands. These areas need the subsidy because it is otherwise uneconomic for operators to bring them high-speed Internet access. In urban areas, it is going to be easier: you may already have seen the kerbside cabinets that Openreach (the access division of BT) is installing to enable its Infinity service, or you may have been offered a 50Mbit/s connection by Virgin. But the issue of enabling service competition still has to be addressed: no one wants to see the introduction of NGA leading to new monopolies. The solution relies on a combination of technical, business and regulatory factors. The problem is that enabling NGA competition is not as straightforward as it was for current broadband services. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 66 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1731
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The paper is discussing ARM chip (advanced RISC machine) and its innovation. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 78 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1704
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E&T meets an engineer turned author, and reads a new book about how biology inspires innovation. - Author(s): S. Munk
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, p. 80 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1705
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The browser wars are back, says Simon Munk, with the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 9. Also, discover how to tweak your photos on-the-fly with our pick of picture-editing apps. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 17, page: 82 –82
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1706
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Jack needs to prove he's employable. But is anybody at his Dad's engineering firm listening?
Editorial: If he builds it, will they come?
News
Electronica unveiled
Letters to the Editor
Listen to me
Your virtual e-therapist
An eye on society
Robonaut flies in [humanoid space robot]
Step out of the light [lithography]
The reality of cyber terrorism
What's on the wireless?
Efficiency drive [photovoltaic cells]
Oil field of dreams [oil spill clean-up machine]
Now green IT gets personal
Clouding the licensing issues? [enterprise software licensing]
Filling time [manufacturing efficiency]
The kindest cut [laser and water cutting]
Satellites bring broadband home
Unbundling the future of broadband
20 years ago today - the making of ARM
Book reviews
Software
Jack's blog
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