Visual technology, advanced

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Perception is a field ripe with unanswered questions that continues to fascinate researchers who may greatly benefit from new technologies and new perspectives. Indeed, recent technological advances in the measurement of eye movements (saccades) have made their study much easier for researchers interested in changes in the focus of visual attention. 

Laboratory automation commences with the use of simple laboratory gadgets like horizontal shakers, as even these take over certain manipulations from laboratory workers (in this case, the time-consuming task of shaking flasks during liquid-liquid extraction). This enables technicians to concentrate more on other laboratory activities that require, for instance, constant visual or sensory monitoring. But these too have increasingly fallen, thanks to technological advances, within the orbit of laboratory automation, which has... 

Interactive science and technology centres have wrestled with the presentation of chemistry for some years. Exhibits based on chemical themes are difficult to design. They tend not to be as robust as physics-based exhibits, in that they require the refurbishment of chemicals. The time spans for phenomena that they might display do not usually occur within the attention span of the average visitor. These phenomena often do not have a visual impact. Where interaction is possible, this involves the manipulation of apparatus, even if under remote control, which requires skills that are not learned in a few seconds. For success, solutions of chemicals have to be readily mixed, any observations have to be safe, visibly clear, and unambiguous. The consequences of these prerequisites are that interactive exhibits with an overtly chemical content are badly under-represented in the many science and technology centres to be found in most technologically advanced countries. 

Wind is the most cost competitive of the renewable energy technologies. Advanced turbines, primarily horizontal axis designs, have replaced the sails and blades of traditional farm windmills. The focus is on large power plants with individual turbines as large as 1,000 kW. Since the 1980s, cost has dropped, efficiency has increased, and reliability has improved. Modem wind turbines produce electricity for 5 to 6 cents/kWh. Bird kill, visual impact, and noise are perceived as environmental issues. The intermittent and site-specific nature of the wind poses challenges. 

Rothen-Rutishauser, B.M., Schiirch, S., Haenni, B., Kapp, N. and Gehr, P. (2006) Interaction of fine partides and nanopartides with red blood cells visualized with advanced microscopic techniques. Environmental Science Technology, 40,4353-9. 

Inspection techniques for the detection and measurement of corrosion range from simple visual examination to nondestructive evaluation. Significant technological advances have been made in the last decade. For example, the combined use of acoustic emission (AE) and ultrasonics (UT) can, in principle, allow an entire structure to be inspected and growing defects to be quantified in terms of length and depth. Advanced corrosion monitoring methods have been developed that have both online capabihty and the abihty to detect problems at an early stage. The oil and gas production and petrochemical industries have assumed a... 

Radiant heat transfer had historically been the biggest heat transfer mechanism for windows. Low-e materials were developed and have historically been used to control for heat transfer. An example of the popularity of using metals to reflect heat to control for radiant heat transfer is the thermos bottle. Applying that new technology to windows, and getting materials that normally would affect transparency of the product to remain visually neutral, was a huge advance to the industry. 

Laboratory for Quantitative Visualization in Energetics NSF Science Technology Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems (CAMPWS) Department of Mechanical Industrial Engineering... 

Wasserfall was built entirely of steel because light alloys were in short supply, and the missile was big and heavy. It had to be launched vertically, and a primitive computer was required to ensure that the round was launched in the correct direction and gathered by the associated optical or radar tracking devices as quickly as possible. Beam-riding guidance was proposed originally, but the technology was not sufficiently advanced at the time a visual command system was therefore adopted initially, with radar planned to supersede it later... 

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