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Volume 5, Issue 3
20 February 2010
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0319
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 5 –11
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0320
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 12 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0300
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This paper looks at the options for protecting the security of Britain's energy supplies. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, page: 14 –14
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0321
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- Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, page: 15 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0301
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While the world recovers slowly from recession, the author discovers that the semiconductor industry is seeing a much more dramatic rebound. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 16 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0322
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- Author(s): K. Sangani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 18 –19
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0302
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Imagine if you bought a computer with an operating system that only allowed you to purchase software from one store and carefully vetted suppliers. Imagine, also, that the suppliers had to pay a fee to the original computer company each time a customer purchased software from the store. There would be uproar from consumers and regulators alike. However, when you purchase an iPhone or an iPod Touch from Apple, as the owner of the device you pretty much have to live with this scenario (although there are hacks allowing you to get round this). But, for the non-geeks, hacks and mods are as unpopular as monopolies. - Author(s): C. Evans-Pughe
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 20 –23
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0303
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The trouble with saturated fat is that it's just so moreish. Christine Evans-Pughe meets the chemists using emulsions and colloids to fool the addiction and sidestep obesity. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 24 –26
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0304
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Nothing has suffered a backlash quite like GM food. But the public's reticence to embrace crops that have been modified artificially has helped spur new approaches to creasing food production. The reticence among the public to embrace GM may help improve its performance, which has been patchy David Dawe, senior food systems economist with the FAO, says one of the problems with technology is that it can focus too readily on large farming operations and take a long time to put into action properly. "For the small farmer, if it takes years of learning, it's no use to him". - Author(s): D. Lenton
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 27 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0305
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Globalisation of the food supply chain has resulted in lower prices, greater choice and for consumers in the wealthiest countries the opportunity to enjoy their favourite meals regardless of season. The downside is that the further food has to travel the greater the chance of it becoming contaminated on the way. Reducing that risk and spotting unsafe products as quickly as possible so they can be withdrawn is the big motivator for the industry to invest in traceability systems. Once a dangerous product has reached the public, the cost of recovering it can be massive, never mind the damage to valuable brand reputations. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 30 –32
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0306
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Want to eat meat without the guilt? The author looks at the technology behind in vitro meat, and looks to a time when we will be able to grow only the choicest cuts. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 33 –35
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0307
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Reference designs from chipmakers look more and more like finished products. The author investigates what is left for the systems makers to do. - Author(s): B. Greenaway
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 36 –40
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0308
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It might sound far-fetched but the technology known as an Automated Voluntary Milking System (AMS) was pioneered by Lely Industries, a family-owned business based in Holland, who first invented the robotic milking machine 17 years ago. They now have over 9,000 robots installed around the world, carrying out over 1.2 million milkings per day. In the UK the latest version of its robot, the Lely Astronaut A3 Next, recently won the prestigious RABDF (Royal Association British Dairy Farmers) Livestock and Machinery award. When the possibility of robotic milking was first discussed, one of the concerns was that animal would suffer as farmers became less hands-on. The reality seems to be the opposite, as it frees up farmers to spend more time taking care of a myriad of farm duties rather than standing in the parlour for hours each day. It also appears that the majority of cows actually prefer the robot to conventional milking, as it gives them greater choice of when and how often to be milked and a highly reproducible routine. - Author(s): J. Thomsen
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, page: 41 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0309
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Few responsibilities are greater for a control system than the reliable running of a waterworks, as failure to keep the water flowing for 24 hours a day leads to expensive and awkward workarounds. However, one Danish facility has found a way to enable its personnel to monitor water quantity, pressure drops and salinity directly on their PCs. The works in Ballerup, near Copenhagen, is in the middle of a modernisation programme that will see technicians provided with direct access to large amounts of data that, among other things, will allow them to check for leaks in pipes. - Author(s): R. Dettmer
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 42 –45
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0310
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Massed ranks of gas central heating boilers, serving as mini CHP plants, are being recruited in the battle against global warming. - Author(s): T. James
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 46 –47
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0311
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The success of biofuels depends on creating a non-food feedstock that produces the right sugar for conversion into fuel. The basic feedstocks for the production of first-generation biofuels are products that would normally enter the animal or human food-chain such as seeds, or grains such as wheat. These crops yield starch that is fermented into bioethanol. The drive is therefore to develop second and third-generation biofuels. Second generation biofuels present the short term solution, and are made up of biofuels derived from feedstock outside the food chain. In the UK the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) collaborates to carry out a variety of research to speed up the adoption of second-generation biofuels along the biofuels supply chain. - Author(s): M. Cooter
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 48 –50
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0312
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The day of migration is nigh. IT strategists should be planning for their organisations' transition to the impending IP version 6, the latest edition of the Internet protocol that connects the world. - Author(s): C. Rowland
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 52 –53
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0313
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This article looks at how business transaction management can help IT system handle the transaction level monitoring far more efficiently and tune them to full race fitness. Keeping track of IT as it is commissioned and decommissioned is tricky enough, so how can you provide accurate transactional-layer monitoring and problem resolution?. Achieving this ' granular', transaction-level view calls for specialist tools, which are becoming the domain of an emerging technology business transaction management (BTM). - Author(s): R. McGowan
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 54 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0314
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In the teeth of a severe economic downturn, the global bike industry enjoyed an impressive year in 2009, following a spectacular 2008. Retailers in recession-hit Britain have told of record sales, and shortages of their most popular models. "Europe," one London cycle shop owner commented, "is running out of bikes." Brompton, purveyors of folding bikes that are built from scratch somewhat incongruously perhaps in ritzy west London, explained that a bike ordered in early December could not be with the purchaser for 13 weeks. It was a similar story over at Pashley's factory in Stratford-upon-Avon. Technical director Dan Farrell commnted that sales were up by 30 per cent year on year, and that it was a case of 'all hands on deck' to get orders that had been placed months before boxed up and shipped out in time for Christmas.A combination of convenience, cost saving and health and environmental concerns seems to have inspired this urge to saddle up, for both the daily commute and for getting out and about at weekends. In Britain, the government's 'Cycle to Work' tax incentive has been a trigger; it is estimated to account for as much as half of all sales in some bike shops. London is leading the way, with a dramatic 90 per cent increase in the number of cyclists since 2005, amid worries about obesity and carbon footprints, with a cycling Mayor, and a cycling leader of the parliamentary opposition. It has also coincided with the gentrification of areas once derided as 'inner cities'. Their affluent residents have discovered that a five-mile daily commute is easily achievable in normal, non-lycra, clothing and often preferable to the costly hurly burly of rush-hour public transport. Homes that are close to a city centre-bound cycle path have become highly sought after. - Author(s): C. Evans-Pughe
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 60 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0315
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The author looks at what can be done about the limit to how much data optical fibres can carry. Digging ditches to bury more optical fibre is expensive, so operators are looking at ways to squeeze extra capacity from the fibres they already have in the ground by borrowing from the modulation schemes used in wireless. These schemes can encode relatively high numbers of bits per second per Hz of available spectrum, using phase states or phase states combined with polarisation states to carry the information. - Author(s): L. Collins
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 64 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0316
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Electronic whiteboards and video-conferencing equipment are being installed throughout BT's global development organisation to speed up the introduction of new services including the UK's next-generation access network. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 66 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0317
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It won't come as big news to many that engineering managers aren't the fittest, healthiest or most diet conscious people in industry. But, argues Susan Aid ridge, with a few diet modifications we can eat ourselves fitter and offer better performance. - Author(s): W. Altman
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 70 –71
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0318
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The secret to good morale in the workplace is good leadership. It sounds obvious, but why is it so hard to achieve? High morale provides a strong competitive edge, and makes it easier to support the implementation of new strategies. It helps businesses attract and retain talented people, makes the workplace easier to manage, and increases productivity. It can lead to less absenteeism and stress, create higher customer satisfaction and with luck better financial results. Wilf Altman reviews a new book addressing this issue. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, page: 73 –73
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0323
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Dates for your diary. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 76 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0324
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An artificial intelligence pioneer, high-tech cooking, and the story of the Royal Society. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, page: 78 –78
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0325
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Edward Harrison saved thousands of lives on the toxic battlegrounds of the Great War. This article recalls this tragic and scandalously uncelebrated engineer. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, page: 79 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0326
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Engineering news from the very edge of feasibility. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 80 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0327
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Read the future, protect your tech and experience wireless sonic excellence. We test the next big things in technology. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, page: 82 –82
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0328
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This week Jack realises that bridging the generation gap may be a project too far, even for the son of engineers.
Editorial: Food for thought
News
Analysis: Averting the energy crisis
News in brief
Analysis: Chip market bounces back
Letters to the Editor
Open all hours [iPhone]
Fat chance [emulsions and colloids in food engineering]
Gene genies [genetically modified food]
From farm to fork [food supply chain tracking]
Factory-fresh flesh
The package deal [electronics design]
Robots run amuck [robot invasion in farming]
Going with the flow [waterworks control system]
The mighty micro
No sugar rush [biofuels]
Six sense [Internet protocol]
Winning the load race [business transaction management]
Two wheels good
The big squeeze [optical fibre networks]
In the thick of it
Recipe for better management
High morale and working wonders
Events
Book reviews
The eccentric engineer
E&Tcetera
Gadgets
Jack's blog
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