Australian doctors learn tricks of stent implanting in Mumbai hospital
So far, around 13,000 bioabsorable stents have been deployed in India while Germany leads in using the advanced stent having deployed more than 20,000. The bio-absorbable stent was approved by the Drug Controller General of India in December 2012 …
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Samsung SM951-NVMe M.2 SSD Review
Both models are equipped with Samsung's UBX 3-Core controller technology. Even though SM951-NVMe packs a huge haymaker in the performance column, the drive's thickness is roughly 3.73 millimeters when equipping chips on both sides of the board …
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LLC synchronous rectification made easy, robust and more efficient
The green energy movement has brought about huge increases in efficiency to commercial AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies. The 80 Plus requirements stipulate that titanium-class power supplies must have a 97% efficiency from input to output. The results …
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Capital in for bad days as row between Jung and Kejirwal hots up Centre
The row between Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and chief minister Arvind Kejriwal turned terse on Sunday with minister of state (home) Kiren Rijiju accused the Aam Aadmi Party government of indulging in character assassination of a lady Indian …
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Here's how you turn a USB charger into a little Linux machine
Remember Chris Robinson over at NODE? He was the guy who built the handheld Raspberry Pi-powered Linux terminal we wrote about back in January. Now he's back with an even smaller Linux project for you to make – one built into the body of a USB …
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NextGen ATC Communications to Become VOIP Powered
… voice switching technologies at different ATC environments, including the Small Digital Voice Switch (SDVS) at the smallest towers in the NAS, and the Rapid Deployment Voice Switch (RDVS) that is used in Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON …
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Automating the Preparation of Syringes and IV Bags
Due to the importance of safety for the RIVA system, designers also included an NE1A-SCUP01 programmable safety controller from Omron (Omron Global, http://www.omron.com) with its three DST1 series distributed safety terminal nodes. With fast moving …
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Nintendo announce new console, the Nintendo NX
The Fusion Terminal, as the home console component, came with specs that were much closer to those seen on the PS4 or Xbox One, with a powerful 8-core processor, an equally capable graphics card, and tonnes of RAM. … sounds like the love-child of the …
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Status Report – Source: SpaceRef
Ground controller attempts to restart the UPA were unsuccessful. Teams are standing down from running UPA pending troubleshooting and forward plans. Russian Chibis Suit Smoke Event: This morning while performing their Lower Body Negative Pressure …
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Aluminum capacitor slideshow: Handling heat issues
The following presentation is an excellent technical tutorial given by Vishay Product Marketing engineer, Theo van de Steeg on handling heat issues when working especially with aluminum capacitors. The lifetime of an aluminum electrolytic capacitor …
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Do you spend ages wasting time because of a bulging rack?
Comment Behold GRAEF-USA's mostly empty rack; latency sucks, and getting files from the cloud generally means multiple round trip delays if large files are needed in remote offices and shared by project teams. But Panzura says it has cloud storage …
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Tributes to brave grandmother who outlived doctor's cancer prognosis
After news that her cancer was terminal, Mrs Harrison, who has a son John, helped organise a fashion show which made more than £800 to get her cousin's husband Stan Padley to Beijing for stem-cell treatment designed to restore his voice and help him …
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Welcome to the fast-moving world of flash connectors
Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI): When SATA first emerged we all had to scramble around to find drivers for each implementation from the various vendors. Initially, parallel ATA emulation mode was used as a horrible kludge to get around this …
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InventDesign sets DJ Hardwell up with stage LED lighting and controls for tour
The controller is ideal for this sort of installation, not only because of the high capacity, but also because of its small size and weight. The controller weighs only 130 grams and if you need to ship … C-4 controller allows a direct translation of …
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The Cruise Industry's March to China: What's In It for Lines and Agents?
Shanghai has good cruise infrastructure and several cruise terminals now home porting ships. Hong Kong too has multiple terminals, including the new Kai Tak terminal. But the lines, for the most part, have centered their focus on Shanghai. Buckelew is …
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Triac triggering: Positive, negative supply basics
This gate current has to be applied on the gate pin and circulates between the gate and the AC switch reference terminal, which is the Cathode (K) for SCR, A1 for Triac, or COM for ACST and ACS. As the AC switch control circuit, and so its power supply …
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Intel pushes factory IoT with million cost savings at plant
They then sent data to Mitsubishi Electric C Controller gateway devices powered by Intel Atom chips. After some filtering, the data were then processed using software from Revolution Analytics. Putting the data results into practice resulted in a …
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Don't call it throttling: Ericsson 'priority' tech gives users their own slice
The policy controller talks to the SGSN-MME (Serving GPRS Support Node – Mobility Management Entity), which then controls the RF. In LTE, the spectrum is … optimize our spectrum. By enabling us to dynamically allocate the best radio resources on a …
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Agents Sound Off on Disney's NCF and Commission Changes
Yesterday, NCF increases of $ 5 to $ 10 per person daily went into effect for Disney Cruise Line's voyages of up to 10 days, and Adventures by Disney eliminated agent commission for air and non-Disney property stays. Here's what agents are saying about …
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Supermicro releases X10 server solutions at IDF 2014
support dual Intel® Xeon® processors E5-2600 v3 (up to 18 cores, 145W TDP) per node up to 1TB of DDR4 2133MHz memory in 16x DIMMs, 4/6x Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessors in 1U/2U, 10 SATA 3.0 (6Gbps) ports with Intel® C612 controller, LAN options up …
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Members of Congress seek flexibility in FCC's rural broadband requirements
A key element of the CAF II program will be providing fiber-fed broadband services, or some form of a fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) type of architecture using a mix of ADSL2+ or VDSL2 with vectoring to deliver the service over the existing copper connection …
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US airborne communication plane could be tracked on the Web for 9 hours
… callsign, but based on the hex code FR24 could identify it as a Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft, an advanced ultra long-range business jet that has been modified by the U.S. Air Force to accomodate Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN …
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Is There a Ma Joad for the Piketty Era?
“Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution,” Steinbeck wrote in one of the novel's inner chapters. “This is the ….. “Does it offer a sustained and compelling diagnosis of the terminal pathology that afflicts us, or is it an especially …
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GL Communications … Insight Into MAPS™ UMTS IuCS Interface Emulator
MAPS™ UMTS IuCS ATM can emulate the RNC (Radio Network Controller) and the MSC (Mobile Switching Centre) nodes by generating RANAP, ALCAP, and DTAP signaling messages over SSCOP. It includes ready-scripts to simulate all IuCS signalling …
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Building The Industrial Cloud
On the other hand, securing networks with firewalls and VPNs, protecting against dropped packets or node failures, and the multifarious problems introduced by wireless communications are all things typical for IT, but which IA engineers would rather …
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Cloud Computing Stocks; Cloud services market is expected to grow to 5
Our proprietary mobility platform utilizes the cloud and a distributed, controller-less architecture to deliver unified, intelligent, simplified networks that can be cost-effectively deployed. The scalability and flexibility of our platform makes …
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NAV CANADA and Techno Sky Team Up to Supply NAVCANatm Technology for
NAVCANstrips, an advanced flight strip system, allows air traffic controllers to manage flight data online, providing immediate access to key information, and permitting more efficient management and use of airspace and airport capacity. Flight data …
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Excuse the long dry review series of the Yaesu VX-7R. This review is geared toward the Prepper community, intended for the worst case scenario of SHTF & WROL…

Monitoring transformers key to predictive maintenance
The latest technology used for remote transformer monitoring includes a combination of a remote terminal unit, a programmable language controller, a gateway (a network node equipped for interfacing with another network that uses different protocols),
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NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 22 December 2011
Continuing his troubleshooting of the SEP (Electric Power System/EPS) power bus controller on channel B (uncommanded deactivation) begun on 12/19, Shkaplerov performed continuity checks (resistance measurements) with the MMTs-01 Multimeter on the BSK-7
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Arizona (Dec. 30)
A motor command is supplied to a motor control. The motor control is configured such that the first terminal of each stator winding is selectively coupled to a power source at a first duty cycle, and the second terminal of each stator winding is
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Oregon (Dec. 22)
A switch circuit also in the same container with the transformer has a terminal for sensing either a second signal or a second circuit condition of the remotely located system controller. The switch circuit has a second terminal to provide either a
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Idaho (Dec. 8)
The input/output terminals are connected to a multiplexer, which is responsive to a received mode control signal to couple the input/output terminals to either a command bus or an input/output bus. A latch in the memory device latches the command
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Georgia (Dec. 21)
The abstract of the patent published by the US Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described herein for achieving network-based wake-up functionality for power management functions using a standard network controller for embedded
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Illinois (Dec. 8)
A controller is in communication with the user interface and operatively coupled with the lights to illuminate and turn off each light during its associated interval. The device may include an audio section linked to the controller for further
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Pennsylvania (Oct. 21)
The abstract of the patent published by the US Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electrical switching apparatus comprises: a first terminal; a second terminal; separable contacts electrically connected between the first terminal and the second
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Maryland (Oct. 29)
The charger controller may set the output current level by adjusting gain of an operational amplifier having a negative feedback configuration with the feedback signal input to a non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier,
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Running Windows on a Mac, part 3: The complete how-to
Open a Terminal window and run "diskutil list". Determine which device node matches your USB thumb drive (eg this could be "/dev/disk4"). 2. Unmount this disk by typing in "diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX" (where X stands for the number of your USB
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A few nice Terminal Node Controller images I found:

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Inside the Kantronics KPC-3 Terminal Node Controller

Node Under a Rock

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NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 17 October 2011
[A few weeks ago RPCM A4A_C in the Lab had an RPC (Remote Power Controller) failure. The RPC provides redundant power to ER2 (EXPRESS Rack 2) which powers the Ku-Band Receiver. RPCM A4A_C is one of several RPCMs on a power bus located at the back of
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US Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (Oct. 13)
By moving the triggering of the storage of the timestamps by the PHY itself, rather than by a monitoring of the traffic between the PHY and the Media Access Controller (MAC), higher accuracy can typically be achieved." The patent application was filed
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NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 29 September 2011
With the Lab camcorder configured to view CIR from the Node-1 side, and after verifying the main & auxiliary RPCs (Remote Power Controllers) to be open and touch temperatures within limits, Mike removed/replaced a manifold bottle on one of four
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Terminal Node Controller packet modem prescribed by N2RVQ KISS protocol APRS autmatic position/packet reporting system AFSK Audio Frequency Shift Keying MX 614 8 cm x 4.2 cm 30 grams testing with sound generator 17th Dec 2009
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This is a prerlease segments for bastard Sons of Dial-Up – www.BSoDtv.org This is a build of the Tiny TNCx Kit, which hooks to a ham radio (or your FRS Radio) that lets you operate digital modes. A Terminal Mode Controller (TNC) is pretty much an old school modem. It turns binary bits of data from a terminal (a computer or PDA) into sound which can then be transmitted over radio waves.
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