China

  2010 AUG 18 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to recent research from Changsha, People's Republic of China, "A novel inductance-based sensing technique is presented for remote query measurement in different liquid media including organic solvents and inorganic solutions. The inorganic solutions tested included salt solutions of different concentrations, and the organic solvents detected included 1,4-dioxane and tetrahydrofuran."

  "To extend the application of the sensor, bacterial culture media were also detected, and the growth of Escherichia coli (E. coli) was controlled. The influential factors which may affect the inductance responses were studied in detail," wrote L. Ma and colleagues, Hunan University ...read more

  2010 MAY 4 - (VerticalNews.com) -- "Spectrally precoded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and constant-envelope OFDM (CE-OFDM) are two modified OFDM formats that enhance the signaling features of OFDM, while allowing for the efficient implementation by discrete Fourier transform and the insertion of guard intervals to counteract channel dispersion. The spectrally precoded OFDM signal provides very small power spectral sidelobes decaying asymptotically as f(-2J-2), with.. an integer-valued design parameter, thereby suppressing sidelobe powers effectively and achieving higher spectral efficiency than nonprecoded rectangularly-pulsed OFDM which has power spectral sidelobes decaying asymptotically as f(-2)," scientists in Taipei, Taiwan report ...read more

  2009 JUN 2 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to a study from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, "This work elucidates the evolution of three generations of the laboratory information system in the National Taiwan University Hospital, which were respectively implemented in an IBM Series/1 minicomputer, a client/server and a plug-and-play HL7 interface engine environment respectively."

  "The experience of using the HL7 healthcare information exchange in the hospital information system, laboratory information system, and automatic medical instruments over the past two decades are illustrated and discussed. The latest design challenge in developing intelligent laboratory information services is to organize effectively distributed and heterogeneous medical instruments through the message gateways," wrote P.H. Cheng and colleagues ...read more