Recent earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan were met with terrific aid response on a global level. Humanitarian relief was evident in the form of medical supplies, food, and heavy construction equipment. The latter build cities and infrastructure but is also needed during disasters to remove rubble

Demand for gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs is expected to grow nearly 40% in 2011, according to a recent study by IMS Research. The nearly $11-billion (USD) market for these blue/green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is expected to rebound strongly from what Ross Young, IMS Senior Vice President of Disp

Indirect costs are 4 to 10 times the actual direct costs of an accident or serious OSHA violation.

Accidents don't just happen.

We all know the direct cost of a failed safety program - an accident that results in Fines, Medical Costs, Temporary Total Disability, Permanent Partial Disability, P

Almost seems like a bad joke; people stuck on an escalator…..awaiting rescue.

Except 31 people died in the escalator fire at London England King's Cross Underground Station on 18^th November 1987. It was apparent to investigators that several fires had previous started and then had gone out

I started out really excited about the Cruze. A week later, I'm still pretty excited. First of all, the design. I think the Cruze looks great from any angle, which is not something I'd also say about most cars these days. I'd say it looks like a car that costs more than $16,000. Nice work, Chevy.

From New Scientist - Online News:

Turning a vacuum into a superconductor could be as simple as zapping it with a super-powerful magnet. That's according to Maxim Chernodub of the University of Tours in France, who believes powerful magnetic fields could pluck charged particles out of

From Yahoo! News: Science News:

Mark your calendars for an impressive and upcoming flyby of an asteroid that's one of the larger potentially perilous space rocks in the heavens - in terms of smacking the Earth in the future.

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From Wired Top Stories:

Smartphone apps may be the key to getting people out of their cars and onto mass transit. An interesting study of commuters in Boston and San Francisco found people are more willing to ride the bus or train when they have tools to manage their commutes effectiv

From PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories:

Now Polish scientists say they have discovered a new method to produce entire layers of graphene, a move that should help to propel it out of the lab and into everyday life. Just one atom thick, the novel form of carbon is

Well it was boring as usual, bring back characters like this guy.

Beltrán Alfonso Osorio y Díez de Rivera, known as the the "Iron" Duke of Albuquerque (1918-1994), surely ranks as the worst jockey in horse-racing history. After receiving a film of the Grand National as a gift for his eighth birthda

What is the biased differencial protection of transformer

hai ,can u tell me the working principles of solinoid valve. what is fieldbus in instrumentation . In a pressure transmitter how I can calculate the value in pressure unit if I get the mA .

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To: solidworksexpress@solidworks.com
Subject: Funnel for Cat or Dog Food Container

Dear Sirs:

Just an idea for replacing a couple of sheets of 8 & l/2 by 11 inch paper attached by scotch tape to form a funnel to help pour a bag of cat or dog food without spilling cont

Hi mates,

Already posted this in Instrumentation site but it should better be here. I am a new comer in this field even I used to work with the DCS one year ago. Now, I have chance to work with the electrical sub-contractor who will install the BMS for the business office.

It is known that BMS is

Hi mates,

I am a new comer in this field even I used to work with the DCS one year ago. Now, I have chance to work with the electrical sub-contractor who will install the BMS for the business office.

It is known that BMS is quite similar to that of DCS, isn't it? Could anyone helps by pointing out

̣Hi all,

Is there any issue for the beam when we installed the sprinkler pipe support by utilizing the beam. The contractor drilled a hole through the lower side of the beam itself.

I have the photo but it is impossible to past into here. But this kind of installation seems to be popular sinc

Hello all,I've attached a circuit above, i need to find the voltages across both loads. The values don't matter I just need a general equation.Voltages of both voltage sources are known, Is is known, the three impedances on top are known (and equal), the P and Q for both loads are known.
I need t

This is part of a scan from the packaging of a steak pie I bought recently:

204°C? 204°C? The domestic ovens I've checked have a hard time keeping the temperature within ±10°C of the dial setting, and some are considerably worse. Are we supposed to modify our ovens with PID controllers?

Anyone g

i have a problem with alyistart48 depend on it is setting seems be right and (sty=d )but in stop position it is going to instant break?

If you were old enough to wear a wristwatch during the 1980s, you probably remember the now "classic" Casio LCD timepiece. Watches and liquid crystal displays (LCDs) still abound, of course, but light emitting diodes (LEDs) are now all the rage. For its part, Casio Computer Co. is also alive and