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Machine Engineering

Profinet Motion Controller for Efficient Hydraulic Control

It is a S7-300 format member of the Simotion Motion Control System and has a Profinet interface. This enables extremely efficiently control of up to 32 Motion…

Machine Engineering

Single-Axis Servo Converter Enhances Drive Line Performance

This drive has not only a comprehensive palette of positioning functions but also the most common integrated safety functions. The drive is currently available…

Machine Engineering

Siemens Launches Compact Water-Cooled Converter for Low Outputs

Siemens has thus extended its family of drives with a converter of blocksize format in the lower output range. This converter is extremely compact on account…

Machine Engineering

Discover the Versatile 1PH8 Modular Motors for Motion Control

The 1PH8 series is designed for universal use in various motion control applications.Based on a flexible modular system, the motors are available both in an…

Studies and Analyses

Boost in Child Adoption Rates in Northern Ireland

From Care to Where? A Care Pathways and Outcomes Report for Practitioners explores the placements of the 374 children who were under five years old and in care…

Physics & Astronomy

Sweet Molecule Discovery Sparks Search for Alien Life

The international team of researchers, including a researcher at University College London (UCL), used the IRAM radio telescope in France to detect the…

Environmental Conservation

Pale-Green Companies: Reality vs. Eco Hype in the UK

Dale has investigated how several major UK companies have responded to the threat of climate change. By comparing their public rhetoric with actual corporate…

Physics & Astronomy

Chandrayaan-1 Begins Lunar Observations Near Shackleton Crater

The Moon Impact Probe was dropped close to Shackleton crater, a place close to the south pole, where ice may exist in areas that are never illuminated by the…

Business and Finance

Collaboration Boosts Performance and Cuts Production Costs

“Production costs were cut in half, better performance and shorter development time were achieved,” observes Fahad Awaleh in his doctoral thesis.The…

Health & Medicine

Mineral Oil Contamination: A Rising Health Concern?

The current Editorial of the European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology reflects on this and concludes that this proof either has to be provided or we…

Social Sciences

Social Contact With Minorities Grows Among White Britons

Dr Rob Ford from The University of Manchester says that social contact with black or Asian Britons is becoming increasingly unremarkable to white people in…

Health & Medicine

EU Launches First Research Program on Nutrition Labelling

This 3-year EU 7th Framework small collaborative FLABEL project, will provide state-of-the-art science on nutrition labels and consumer behaviour as well as…

Studies and Analyses

TV – not the only channel to early sex

Watching plenty of television combined with low self-esteem, poor relationships with parents, and low academic achievement are some of the factors that may add…

Health & Medicine

New Vaccine Principle Boosts Immune Response Rapidly

A new vaccine principle is being developed by scientists at the University of Copenhagen which – if it works to its full expected potential – could help to…

Health & Medicine

Improving Services for IDPs in Northern Uganda: Key Findings

There are over 1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Uganda due to the 20-year conflict waged between a rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, and…

Health & Medicine

Combination therapies may be almost as effective as insecticide-treated bednets in preventing malaria in areas …

Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) could be almost as effective in reducing transmission of malaria as insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) in areas of low…

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