Faster, Cheaper, Safer, T-cell Engineering

Better, faster, cheaper, and safer too - Is this really possible?

Increased levels of automation together with increased complexity of automation systems brings increased responsibility on the system developers in terms of quality demands from the legal perspectives as well as company reputation. Component based development of software systems provides a viable and cost-effective alternative in this context provided one can address the quality and safety cert...

Faster, cheaper, safer optical tweezers for the undergraduate laboratory

A tightly focused beam of light can attract and trap micron-sized dielectric particles whose refractive index exceeds that of the surrounding medium. Although single-beam optical traps were developed only in 1986, they have already proven their worth in making possible an increasing number of experiments. Optical traps have found particular use in biophysics, where they allow one to manipulate ...

Roving Faster Farther Cheaper

Current Mars rovers travel a few kilometers per year. Future rovers will need to travel a couple orders of magnitude faster than that in order to move from safe landing zones to areas of scientific interest – which may be many 10s of kilometers away from a suitable landing location. This paper describes a recent field test of the SR-II rover. SR-II is a 22kg solar powered autonomous rover, whic...

Handover : Faster and safer ?

Objective This study aimed to introduce bedside handover to three rural South Australian hospitals. Design A mixed‐method, pre‐test post‐test evaluative approach involving quantitative (quasi‐experimental) and qualitative (ethnographic) elements was used. Setting This study was set in three acute hospital wards. Subjects The sample comprised forty‐eight self‐selected enrolled/registered nursing...

Developing More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper