National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has conducted a survey on Household Social Consumption: Education as part of 75th round of National Sample Survey (NSS). Prior to this, surveys on the same subject were carried out during 64th round (July 2007- June 2008) and 71st round …
reducing unwanted noise is one of the main problems for mechanical engineers. The automobiles which are not perfectly tuned cause a lot of stress to the passengers and also shorten the life of the component. Engineers mostly rely on computer models to see the response of a new design to …
RICHARD Grace, a sensor-systems scientist at Carnegie Melon University in Pittsburgh, us, is a busy man. He has been involved in figuring out how to prevent truck drivers from falling asleep during their hectic highway journeys - a cause for nearly 30-40 per cent heavy- truck accidents in the us. …
CATCHING sloshed people on the roads has always been tricky for the police. Mild drinkers are often experts at pretending that they are sober. But the next time you get caught for driving in an inebriated state, the cops may simply ask you to speak in a microphone linked to …
THE idiot-box has remained more or less the same in the past 57 years of its history - a bulky structure that brings sports, news and movies to our living rooms. But in the coming months it may well grow a brain for itself - it will take multimedia into …
A prize-winning computerised system developed jointly by the University of Hun and the JIun Royal Infirmary takes an image. guided approach to planning and implementing a trajectory in orthopaedic surgery .The Computer Assi$ted Orthopaedic Surgical System is a non-invasive, intelligent drill-guide, able to take up its position with the help …
THANKS to Steve Casner, a research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Ames research centre at Mountain View, California, us, aspiring pilots can now learn to fly advanced commercial aircrafts by using nothing more than a laptop computer. Casner's basic idea was to simulate the programme found …
COMPUTER science techniques are being used to probe into the mysteries of archaeological finds, most famous of them being the Dead Sea scrolls, which carry a surfeit of information about many a biblical anecdote. A revolutionary discovery by scientists would now make it possible for scholars to restore and study …
A GROWING number of companies throughout the world are exploiting the power of laptop and palmtop - small handhelds that include a keyboard - computers. These systems are being used to speed up information flow to distant sites, feed field employees with the collective. intelligence of the organisation, and set …
THREE times in this century, chemists have designed and manufactured artificial molecules that have launched whole new industries: nylon, polyethylene and plexiglass. Donald Tomalia, chemist and former employee of Dow Chemicals Inc, has claimed that he might have just come up with a fourth one. Tomalia's creation is 'dendrimer', the …
THE ancients in India believed that the divine aphorisms of the Vedas, once uttered, remained for ever in the ether. The great seers were probably talking web before anyone conceived it. But the Vedas are now actually available in the ether, courtesy four "crazy" people who have put it on …
TREMOR SENSORS: Last year's earthquake in Kobe, Japan, has triggered off a spate of earthquake-related lighting equipments. An emergency fight by Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. Japan's largest lighting-equipment maker, comes with a vibration sensor which turns on the light if a medium intensity earthquake occurs. It sells for US $524. …
THE use of computer technology has grown immensely and software is being used to develop varied products ranging from trains to toasters. But as the power of digital hardware has grown, the size and complexity of the software needed to control it has als6 increased. Traditional software development is labour-intensive …
COMPUTER-ASSISTED clinical trials are soon going to be a completely different ballgame with a new software approach. Till now, these trials have beep stymied by the requirement to create highly specific forms and databases for each trial. One had to design a case report form- (CRF) unique to the particular …
Open secret With memories of the Cold War fading away, the Department of Energy (DoE) of the US government is planning to post an Internet web page for people hungry for nuclear secrets. The DoE will start with a detailed account of every bit of bomb fuel it ever made …
The present generation of supercomputers has been using custombuilt processors which are very difficult to maintain. Now, if the Accelerated Strate~c Computing lnitiative, a US department of energy-funded project is successful, this may become a thing of the past. The project envisages building a massive computer using high performance microprocessors …
The problem with the nose is that in the case of radioactive materials and toxic waste once you're close enough to smell it, you're too close. Tufts University professors John Kauer and David Walt may have solved that dilemma. Their patented artificial nose technology combines fibre optics and a computer …
THE Swiss Central Bank, Zurich, will soon be giving the public a banknote so technologically advanced that it would be almost impossible to produce a counterfeit. This comes in the form of the world's first digitised banknote, entirely designed on a computer. The Bank chose Jorg Zintzmeyer, awell- known computer …
A CHEAP fingerprint recognition system may soon replace passwords and thereby make online shopping secure. In this system you can verify financial transactions on the Internet by keeping your fingerprint on a tiny touchscreen attached to your personal computer. This is the promise of a new fingerprint recognition technology developed …
