Oracle Magazine September October 2013

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Plug into the Cloud
Consolidate, secure, and connect with the revolutionary multitenant architecture of Oracle Database 12c.

Get Ready
Learn, share, and network at the world’s largest gathering of business technology professionals. Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, and MySQL Connect come to San Francisco September 21 to 26.

Faster
ORACLE TEAM USA uses Oracle technology, including Exadata Database Machine X3-2, to deliver extreme speed in the America’s Cup.

Cloud Computing Breakthrough
Oracle unveils new multitenant architecture in Oracle Database 12c.

Partnering in the Cloud
Oracle enters into agreements with Microsoft, Salesforce.com, and NetSuite.

A Foundation for Cloud Computing
New releases of Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Coherence are optimized for the cloud.

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Machine Design September 2013

FEATURED ARTICLES

The Difference Between Industrial Strength and Low-cost Meters
Life expectancy and safety are part of the equation when evaluating handheld multimeters.

A Primer on Pipe Supports
The structural behavior of piping is critical to reliability, safety, and long life.

Basics of Ceramic heaters
Heating modules mode with ceramics can ramp up temperature quickly and be more compact than those incorporating other kinds of dielectrics

Longer Life for Old Semiconductors
When semiconductors become obsolete, the best way to ensure a steady supply of them is to cultivate a relationship with a manufacturer that specializes in making vintage devices

Using Coiled Spring-Pin Hinges
Engineers can easily tailor the fit and feel of coiled spring hinges, a popular features on everything from laptops to cosmetic cases.

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Global Finance September 2013

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Cover: The Global War On Tax Havens
Multinational corporations could have a harder time shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions under new OECD rules.

Risk Management: Cyber Risk Insurance
Companies must beef up their cybersecurity coverage as the risk of disruption continues to skyrocket.

Country Report: Mongolia
Mongolia is struggling to find the right path in making use of abundant resources to improve the lives of its citizens.

Frontier Markets Report: Côte d’Ivoire
Côte d’Ivoire has the opportunity to regain its status as a leading economy in Africa.

Awards: Best Internet Banks—Round 1
Global Finance identifies the top online corporate and consumer banks by country and regionally.

CEE: Charting Diverse Economies
Central and Eastern European countries are quite diverse in their performance, but investors still lump them together.

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Chemical Engineering September 2013

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ChemInnovations 2013 Conference & Expo Show Preview
Use this ceramic DP sensor with corrosive media; This rectangular explosion vent has a non-fragmenting opening; These products remove scale deposits from a variety of materials; and more...

Improve Rotary Equipment Reliability with Checklists
Design selection and commissioning of rotary equipment can benefit by following a structured, checklist-based method and by promoting end-user involvement

PVC and CPVC Plastics for CPI Equipment
Chemical process equipment made from thermoplastics can have distinct advantages for equipment corrosion, fluid contamination and flame retardancy. The following represents a brief look at properties, possible applications and available methods of fabrication for heavy-gauge thermoplastics sheets of polyvinyl chloride and chlorinated polyvinyl chloride...

Polypropylene Bulk-Phase Process
Polypropylene is a thermoplastic polymer with a global market of about 60 million metric tons annually. More than 35% of the world's total PP is produced using LyondellBasell's Spheripol technology...

Successful implementation of a new extractive-distillation technology for aromatics recovery
AMT International Inc. (Plano, Texas) and LG Chem, Ltd. (Seoul, Korea) have successfully converted an existing sulfolane liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) unit at LG Chem’s Yeosu plant using a new extractive-distillation...

Some bacteria are not inactivated by ultrasound; here’s why
Although the inactivation of bacteria by high-power ultrasound has been extensively studied, the relationship between the effectiveness of ultrasound to inactivate bacteria and their physico-chemical properties is not yet well understood...

The Science Of Droplets
Many chemical engineers study or employ distillation trays, gas-liquid separators and spray nozzles. Most of those engineers have studied or employed force balances around liquid droplets suspended in upward-flowing vapor streams...

Fundamentals of Bulk Solids Mixing and Blending
Learn about mixing technology, types of blending equipment and key sampling practices to meet today’s requirements for robust processes

Understanding Finned Heat Exchangers
Fin geometry affects many aspects of boiler, evaporator and heater selection

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Air Transport World Magazine September 2013

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Fuel for Thought
New approaches are necessary for biofuels to advance from demonstration flights to regular commercial aviation operational use.
MAX Benefit
In addition to new engines and performance enhancing hardware, the Boeing 737 MAX will come with a new avionics package.
China’s Field of Dreams
Beijing is committed to rapidly expanding its domestic airports despite most of them struggling financially.
Annual ATW/Arthur D. Little World Airport Report
Asia-Pacific overtakes North America to become top dog in airport passenger traffic.
Analysis – Deja Vu
Why are new aircraft programs repeatedly delayed?

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E&P Magazine August 2013

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Activity picks up in the UK North Sea
Billions of dollars worth of projects are progressing in the UK North Sea as companies use technology while the government works to stimulate interest, all in an effort to boost lagging production levels.

CBM aids Asian markets
This abundant and potentially cheap gas resource is filling the gap as some countries face declines in conventional production.

Emerging flow solutions drive industry's subsea advances
If there is one thing that currently gets the juices flowing for subsea production engineers, it is the accelerating pace of flow assurance technologies.

Fast-track design solution for KHIs on Varg
Recent research indicates that KHIs can provide predictable, long-term hydrate protection under certain conditions.

Investigating electrical anisotropy in the Barents Sea
A new study will integrate multiple measurements from this frontier area.

Optimizing multistage cemented completions
Cemented sliding-sleeve systems offer an innovative, efficient way to reduce the cost, complexity, and time for well completion.

CT technology saves time on Caspian job
ECT technology puts nonproducing well in Azerbaijan back online.

New technologies reduce environmental footprint
Efficiency gains enable both good stewardship and a production boost in unconventionals.

New EPA regulations can add 'green' to the bottom line
A look at how one company's alternative to gas flaring proves profitable.

Integrated analysis predicts sweet spots
A study of microseismic and seismic reflection leads to success in the Montney shale.

Increasing efficiency, safety through automation on land drilling rigs
Automated systems, centralized control, and a reduced number of people allow easier and more effective handling of the hydraulic rig with beneficial effects on overall performance and costs.

HD 3-D cameras prove value downhole
Full-color HD video technology is beginning to be deployed in the wellbore environment.

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Machine Design August 2013

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Making the Move to Eco-Friendly Hydraulic Fluids
Biodegradable hydraulic fluids are safer for the environment than petroleum based fluids, but they require special design considerations.

How to Avoid Overengineering Composite Parts
Analysis techniques help avoid a tendency for designers to overengineer composite parts.

How to Pick Motors for Linier Motion
The easiest way to design a linier-motion system is to add components one by one. Then, step by step calculations relate input to power dissipated moving a load in a specific amount of time.

Force Sensors and Their Uses
Force sensors use load cells to weigh objects and prevent machinery from overloading.


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Offshore Magazine August 2013

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Full waveform inversion improves subsurface models
Full waveform inversion is providing the E&P industry with ever-more detailed images and models of the subsurface that can make exploration, development, and production more efficient and reduce drilling risk.

Water jet cutting an option throughout structure’s life
Technology advancements in recent years have enabled amazing things in offshore oil and gas developments.

Safety, feasibility highlight platform removal plan
Even high oil prices cannot sustain depleting fields forever, so CNR International (CNRI) has decided to end production on the Murchison field in the UK northern North Sea.

Study explores all-electric subsea HIPPS reliability and maturity
With subsea developments moving to longer tiebacks and deeper water, all-electric architecture has potential advantages over the conventional electro-hydraulic system: lower cost resulting from doing away with the hydraulic umbilical, reduced and easier maintenance, less environmental impact, and simplification of topsides.

Subsea stations could reduce cost, loads of long-distance umbilicals
Subsea production requires injection of various chemicals and hydrate inhibitors conveyed from the topside production facilities to the subsea equipment via umbilicals.

Operators planning some 5,600 miles of offshore pipelines through 2017
Operators and developers are studying, planning, and building almost 5,600 mi (9,012 km) of oil and gas pipelines to bring these supplies from offshore fields to onshore markets.

Castorone extends the threshold for deepwater, large-diameter pipelay
The offshore market will increasingly require lay vessels capable of installing large (more than 24-in.) diameter trunklines in all water depths, with more advanced dynamic positioning (DP) capability and higher pipe storage capacity for remote locations.

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Global Finance Magazine July August 2013

FEATURED ARTICLES

Salon: Izzet Bensusan, Karbone
Izzet Bensusan of Karbone discusses market dynamics, financing and investment opportunities for alternative energy.

Awards: World’s Best Subcustodians 2013
Global Finance presents its annual awards honoring the leading subcustodians worldwide.

Awards: Best Supply Chain Finance 2013
Global Finance’s annual awards honor the leaders in supply chain finance services and solutions.

Regional Report: Central Asia
Central Asian countries must diversify their economies to maintain growth.

Country Report: Nigeria
Nigeria will soon pass South Africa as the continent’s largest economy, but it must make that a sustainable position.

Country Report: Portugal
Portugal is still making structural adjustments to realign its economy. But citizens are wearying of austerity measures.

Risk Management: Reinsurance
Despite the succession of natural catastrophes in recent years, reinsurance capacity remains robust.

Frontier Markets Focus: Cambodia
Cambodia has a well-deserved reputation as being among the most open markets in Southeast Asia.

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Electronic Design July 2013

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Top 101 Components of 2013
Survey Says Design Engineers Have Power On Their Minds: Supercap, DC/DC Converters and Charging Coil Garner Four Of The Top 10 Spots On Annual List

Bluetooth And Wi-Fi Rule The Airwaves
These two core wireless technologies continue to dominate short-range applications with new features and benefits.

Advanced Packaging Delivers Capacity And Performance
High-density BGAs and 3D stacking increase compute and storage density.

Matterform Interview – Low Cost 3D Scanner
The Matterform 3D Scanner allows anyone to take a physical object, and turn it into a digital 3D model on your computer.
Transaction-based Verification And Emulation Combine For Multi-megahertz Verification Performance
Transaction-based verification is becoming the emulation mode of choice because of its unique ability to keep pace with the growing verification support requirements of the latest high-performance, industry-standard interfaces.

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RadioResource International Quarter 3 2013

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CCW Roundup from Paris
A hot topic at this year's conference was the European plan to lobby for a public-safety broadband allocation

Dispatch Paramount for Oil Companies
Oil and gas firm are centralizing communications to better monitor field personnel and equipment

Narrowbanding for European Broadband
A report identifies spectrum for future broadband public-safety systems and plans to introduce a narrowbanding approach in Europe

Project 25 for Medical Workers
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health selected a P25 network to capitalize on coverage and data features

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Egg Industry Magazine July 2013

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Biological tsunami: Avian influenza in Mexico
The great concentration of birds in Jlisco, Mexico, difficulty of initial diagnosis and other factors have contributed to this epidemic

Calcium source particle size has an impact on pullets
Research suggests that bone density can be improved and keel bone deformities reduced if pullets are fed large particle size sources of calcium

EPA still trying to link poultry feathers, dust to nutrient discharge issue
Despite setbacks in Maryland and West Virginia, the EPA and environmental activists haven't abandoned efforts to classify dust and feathers blown out by poultry house exhaust fans as stormwater discharges.

House holds key for Egg Bill passage in 2013
Egg producers told that the showdown over enactment of laying hen welfare legislation in 2013 will hinge on adoption of a Farm Bill amendment on the House floor

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Chemical Engineering July 2013

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CO2 Utilization
Researchers are developing new technologies for using CO2 as a feedstock to make a variety of chemicals

Securing Industrial Control Systems
ICSs are vulnerable targets to cyber attacks. More than conventional IT-security solutions are needed to protect them

Rotary Valves in Pneumatic Conveying Systems
Because of their wide application in pneumatic conveying systems, it is important to understand how rotary valves are designed and used

Cooling-tower Water: A Hybrid Problem Calls for a Hybrid Solution
In addition to the usual woes, new issues are creating a situation that calls for a hybrid approach to water treatment

Improved corrosion control in refinery steam systems
GE Power & Water has introduced a novel, dual-pronged approach to corrosion inhibition for boiler and steam-condensate systems in petroleum refineries. The technology is designed to prevent attack by acidic species on...

Polymer-based Piping
Polymer-based piping systems offer a number of advantages, along with some limitations, compared to metallic and other non-polymeric pipe materials. The use of thermoplastic piping in the chemical process industries (CPI) must be carefully considered on a case-by-case basis...

Polymer-based Piping
Polymer-based piping systems offer a number of advantages, along with some limitations, compared to metallic and other non-polymeric pipe materials. The use of thermoplastic piping in the chemical process industries (CPI) must be carefully considered on a case-by-case basis...

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Nature Methods July 2013

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Points of view: Multidimensional data
Visually organize complex data by mapping them onto familiar representations of biological systems.

Another transistor-based revolution: on-chip qPCR
More than 40 years after the invention of semiconductor pH microtransducers known as ISFETs, this transistor-based technology may revolutionize quantitative PCR.

Embryos under the X-ray
X-ray imaging using synchrotron radiation reveals the cellular choreography of a developing frog embryo in spectacular detail.

Fly walk
Two methodological advances enable tracking of the walking behavior of fruit flies at single-leg resolution.

Matching marks with mechanisms
Reagents that recognize specific chemical modifications while ignoring the surrounding protein offer valuable proteomic insights.

Human stem cells from cloned embryos
Methodological optimization makes possible the long-awaited derivation of human embryonic stem cells from embryos obtained with somatic cell nuclear transfer.

Peptides aplenty
A large library of peptides and phosphopeptides, along with their tandem mass spectra, serves as a resource for the proteomics field.

Assembling genomes in microbial communities
Binning based on differential read coverage, rather than sequence composition, allows separation of metagenomic sequence reads into species-level clusters that can be assembled into single chromosomes.

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International Railway Journal July 2013

FEATURED ARTICLES

Africa

African market excites international suppliers
Mineral rush sparks investment in rail

Nigeria backs rail to boost economic growth
Challenges and opportunities await NRC

Coal to power Botswanan revival?
Black gold reverses BR's fortunes

High Speed

High-speed champion
Uncovering Trenitalia's Frecciarossa 1000

Where next for Spanish high-speed rail?
Economic crisis reshapes national project

German Aerospace Centre studies high-speed
Developing concepts for lightweight trains

Track

Track technology draws thousands to IAF
Highlight from VDEI's Munster show

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Railway Age Magazine July 2013

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Railroads at Midyear: Why Investors Turn to Rail
Shrewd capital investments have been quick to pay dividends

Crossties Mark the Way
As old rights-of-way expand or are rehabilitated--and as new rail transit routes are created and extended-- the growing demand for crossties will have to serve a more diverse marketplace

Transit vehicle design: Comfortable, Profitable
A growing North American market for rail transit makes increased passenger comfort and convenience a profitable venture--and good public relations

For EMD, A Passenger Rail Rebirth
The locomotive builder's determination to reenter the passenger market has come to fruition

The Autorack evolves: Two Levels or Three, Both Suit Me
Greenbrier's new Multi-Max is designed to meet the constantly changing requirements of motor vehicle manufacturers.

Educating The Next Generation of Railroaders
After years of stagnation, railroad-specific programs are re-emerging to serve a growing industry that needs new talent and research resources.

Railway Age Magazine July 2013 - Free Subscription

Poultry International July 2013

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• 2013 poultry nutrition survey offers mixed views
• Canadian egg producer mixes business, environmental care
• SACE 2013 preview
• China's top poultry producers continue long-term growth plans despite difficulties
• Poultry industry must play its part in global issue of antibiotic resistance
• Salmonella, Campylobacter incidences greater on broiler parts than carcasses
• How nutrition can reduce the number of dirty eggs in layers
• Six feed additives for poultry under heat stress
• The impact of workplace environment on productivity and yield in poultry processing

Poultry International Magazine July 2013 – Free subscription

Feed International July August 2013

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• Egypt leads African surge in fish feeds
• How to reduce lactose in piglet feeds
• Mycotoxins management: The importance of a coordinated program for feed mills
• 2013 poultry nutrition survey offers mixed views
• Brazilian feed production update
• SPACE 2013: Overcoming difficulties in the poultry and pork industries

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Marine Log June 2013

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Financing: How Norway is succeeding where others have failed
System of export credit guarantees bolster maritime clusters

OP-ED: Upholding the Jones Act
Remaining vigilant against attempts to weaken the Jones Act

Shipyard Safety: More OSHA rulemaking on the horizon
U.S. shipyards are embracing a safety culture

OFFSHORE: Norwegian yards gear up
Yards prepare for the rush of ship construction and repair capacity

Shipbuilding: Oil boom energizes shipbuilding
Increasing offshore oil and gas production drives orders

Environment: Looking for clarity on ballast water management
USCG, EPA move ahead with implementing BWM requirements

Cruise Shipping: Raising the bar
Cruise lines enhance safety standards and fleet image

IT & Software: Enhancing the operator's experience
Innovative software solutions can help advance safety and efficiency

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Landscape Management June 2013

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Point & Click
A beginner’s guide to Green Industry pay-per-click marketing
Side by side
Two landscape competitors decide to share space and get much more than they bargained for
Project Portfolio: Room for a view
Gardeners’ Guild’s award-winning project incorporates more outdoor living space and showcases the San Francisco Bay
150 LM : Think Big
We analyze data from the Green Industry’s largest 150 firms. Plus, 13 ideas any size company can implement to boost revenue and profits.

Landscape Management Magazine June 2013-Free Subscription

Railway Age June 2013

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Amtrak Sprints Toward a Higher Speed Future
The Northeast Corridor’s “New Jersey Raceway” is receiving some of the most significant improvements since the original NECIP and NHRIP projects.

Conquering Rolling Contact Fatigue & Gage Corner Cracking
Eddy Current inspection may be a technology whose time has come

Helping Railroads Make the Grade on Safety
CSX, Front Row Motorsports join forces on grade crossing, trespassing hazard


Equipment Leasing: The Best of Times?
The good news is obvious; the bad news is actually hard to find

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Pumps & Systems Magazine June 2013

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Peristaltic Pump Speed Considerations
Operating speed requirements must be a factor when selecting a pump.

Rotary Lobe Pumps in Sugar Processing
This pump type manages the temperature and viscosity challenges of handling this

Improved Torque Tension
How does lubrication affect fastener torque and resultant tension?

ATEX: The Symbol of Safety in Dangerous Chemicals Handling
Safety-conscious chemical companies are making ATEX-certified pumps and equipment

Root Cause Analysis & Problem Solving
Basic solutions that limit the involvement of a slowly dwindling staff are ideal

Food & Beverage Industry Pump Market
The total pump market within this segment is steadily growing in the U.S.


Long-Term Motor Reliability
A variable frequency drive’s effect on system efficiency and motor life

Internal Clearance & Its Effect on Bearing Fatigue Life
End users must include bearing clearance as an integral part of designing or building a pump.

Reverse Engineering of a Vertical Pump Suction Bowl
The pump was returned to service at a nuclear power plant after reverse engineering of an unavailable part and complete pump testing.

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Global Finance Magazine June 2013

Featured Articles

Cover: New Role For Central Banks?
With more assets under control than ever, central banks are evolving. But how new strategies will work is uncertain.

Salon: Yves Zlotowski, Coface
Global Finance spoke with Yves Zlotowski of Coface to get his take on the opportunities in emerging markets investing.

Frontier Markets Focus: Estonia
One of the few frontier markets to adopt the euro, Estonia is among the fastest-growing economies in Europe.

Risk Management: Supply Chain Risk
Supply chain globalization has increased the risk of disruption—and increased the need for good risk management.

Awards: Best Islamic Banks 2013
Global Finance presents the leading firms offering shariah-compliant products around the world.

Tackling Renminbi Trade
New banking solutions for RMB flows demonstrate the increasing importance of China’s currency to global trade.

Sector Report: Agribusiness
Population growth, volatile weather and fluctuating supply are key factors explaining the attractiveness of this sector.

Country Report: Egypt
Egypt has a diversified economy and its banking system is healthy. But political stability continues to be an issue.

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International Railway Journal June 2013

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Project Management

Lagos metro attract foreign investment
Structure of PPP key to project’s success

France

French reform revisits historic challenges
SNCF president Guillaume Pepy talks to IRJ

Ouigo leads the way in low-fare high-speed
Successful start for first no-frills service

Lille metro pioneers simplified CBTC
Exclusive report on Alstom’s new solution

Noise & vibration

Rivas strives to beat noise pollution
UIC project mitigating the impact of freight traffic

Putting the brakes on hump yard noise
Nuremberg hump yard showcases new technologies

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Oracle Magazine July August 2013

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Blazing Performance
Oracle unveiled two new SPARC microprocessors, SPARC T5 and SPARC M5; introduced a portfolio of systems based on these chips; and reported that the new SPARC T5–based systems have set 17 world records. Read how the revolutionary SPARC microprocessor design is moving software into silicon to power the world’s fastest database, Java, and middleware servers. By Diana Reichardt

Grow up, Branch Out
Are national laws requiring you to stand up new systems in new countries? What’s next for your aging heterogeneous system components? Read how organizations are using Oracle Database Appliance to meet regulations, consolidate systems, simplify operations, deliver Oracle engineered system performance, and scale up their systems with pay-as-you-grow licensing. By David A. Kelly

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Power Engineering International June 2013

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Where to get the biggest bang for your green buck
It has been ten years since business analysts at Ernst & Young (EY) started compiling their annual Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI), a report that just does what it says - calculates which countries have the most to offer financiers in return for their investment.

Addressing the mercury emissions issue
Recent initiatives to reduce global mercury emissions from power plants were addressed by governments participating in the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).

Keeping the noise down
Anyone who has set foot inside a power station will be aware of what noisy places they are. Boilers, gas turbines, pumps, stationary engines - each element contributes to the general din.

Cutting the carbon tax bill
Achieving the upmost resource recovery is part of the way A.J. Bush & Sons, from Beaudesert in Australia's southern Queensland, says it stays competitive.

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Air Transport World Magazine June 2013

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AA-US Airways merger
A transition plan that will create the world’s largest airline.
By Karen Walker

Resolution Rumpus
IATA’s proposal for a new distribution standard has travel agencies and GDSs crying foul.
By Michele McDonald

Make Way for the Drones
How to integrate remotely piloted vehicles into commercial airspace is an increasingly urgent challenge.
By Anne Paylor

Overhaul Ambitions
A relative newcomer to the civil MRO scene is starting to make an impact from its base in Eastern Europe.
By Alan Dron


787 on the Cutting Edge
Boeing’s technological leap may have outpaced testing capability, especially for batteries.
By Aaron Karp

Battle for the Long-Haul
The new Airbus A350 could become the dominant airliner in the long-haul mid-size market, but Boeing has two vehicles that could make those plans difficult.
By Robert W. Moorman

Free No More
As demand for connectivity soars, more airports are moving towards paid-for WiFi offerings.
By Christine Boynton

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Poultry International June 2013

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• Developments in Chinese poultry production and chicken consumption
• Fine the right growth path for your poultry business 2013
• Simple tips to optimize hatchery performance, increase day-old chick quality
• What’s happening in African poultry production?
• Are fumonisins really a problem in poultry feed?
• Preventing Phytase matrix problem in poultry nutrition
• How to improve the shelf life of poultry prouducts

Poultry International Magazine June 2013 – Free subscription

Lightwave Magazine June 2013

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Reducing the cost of broadband by lowering data-center footprint
With data-center space at a premium – and expensive – designers and managers must find new ways to maximize the efficiency of their floor plans.

Six considerations for optimizing the cloud network
Network operators likely will find that traditional approaches won’t keep pace with emerging cloud-based services requirements.


100G reaches the metro
Metro networks weren’t the first applications of 100-Gbps technology.


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EDN Magazine June 2013

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Counting squares: a method to quickly estimate PWB trace resistance Complex geometries can be broken up into different size squares of copper to approximate the entire region of interest.

Power to the people: the democratization of engineering When it comes to open source, software is years ahead of hardware. But with encouragement from established electronics-industry players and moves from makers and hackers, engineers could see open-source hardware and an increasingly democratized, communitybased approach worked into and enhancing their design cycles.

10 tips for maximizing battery life Selecting a low-power microcontroller is an obvious first step, but you can follow a number of software and hardware tips to ensure that every milliampere-hour of battery charge is utilized.

DESIGN IDEAS

• Derive an efficient dual-rail power supply from USB
• H-bridge paves new ways for LED lighting
• Leakage-energy recuperating winding self-supplies dc/dc converter

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Feed International June 2013

FEATURES

The 2013 Buyer’s Guide
Key features that will provide readers a resource for where to turn for suppliers and their services for the next 12 months.

Products and services
Types of equipment, ingredients and services appear in alphabetical order, organized by category. Advertisers in this issue appear in boldface type with the page number of their advertisement.

Products and services index
Feed International’s annual listing of suppliers and their products and services available to feed manufacturers around the world. The index lists categories of products and services found in this issue of the Buyer’s Guide

Addresses of suppliers
Contact information for suppliers in alphabetical order under the company names. Each listing includes a postal address, telephone and fax numbers, email and website addresses where available.

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Environmental Design + Construction June 2013

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Printing And The Future Of Design
What would the A/E/C world look like if we used 3D printing to create our buildings and communities?

Transcending Corners Of Creativity
A software company shoots for LEED Gold with the development of its new campus to help develop visionary ideas in environmentally friendly ways.

Strategizing Water Reuse
Can the industry take advantage of the available solutions for water sustainability?

Taking Control Of LEDS
The Wild West is coming to an end with LED controls, making them an option for virtually any commercial application.


Decentralized Power Generation In Pv Plants
PV plants using transformerless string inverters and a decentralized approach stand to benefit technically and economically.

High-Performance Envelopes: Meeting New Energy Codes With Manufactured Systems
Designing and installing high-performance building envelope projects to meet challenging new energy codes benefits from a bit of ‘systems thinking’

Taking Stormwater By Storm
Rainwater harvesting and green roofs not only capture stormwater for reuse, but help relieve the burden on municipal sewer systems.

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Aircraft Maintenance Technology June 2013

FEATURES

Technical Support Directory 2013
Company listing index, aircraft airframe & accessories, chemicals & solvents, engines, ground support equipment, inspection & test equipment, etc.

Team FedEx LAX: AMTSociety’s 2013 Maintenance Skills Competition Winning Team
A close up of the No. 1 team at this year’s Maintenance Skills Competition. The brought home the trophy, find out what it takes.

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Chemical Engineering June 2013

FEATURES

Controlling Air Pollutants
While it’s not always easy to determine what’s required for compliance, new technologies can help achieve air-pollution control

Compressors: N2 Expands the Applicability of Dry Gas Seals
When the process gas is dirty or corrosive, nitrogen can be used to ensure trouble-free operation of the seal, but it requires special steps

Ethylene Production via Ethanol Dehydration
Ethylene is a critical building block chemical in industry. High crude oil prices and concerns over carbon dioxide emissions have spurred research into manufacturing ethylene from renewable sources. This page describes a process for making ethylene from renewably-derived ethanol

Solving Vessel Equations: A Better Way
Irregularly shaped vessels present challenges for determining liquid volumes. New tools can help

Vapor Depressurization: Concept and Implementation Hitesh Pandya
When carrying out depressurization calculations, special attention is needed for critical equipment and systems such as rotating equipment, columns and reactors

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