EIGHTY-GUN SHIPS

Eighty-Thousand Adolescents

The survey was undertaken by the staff and students of Westell Training College. Many visits were paid to Clubs and Youth Organisations in the City and questionnaires put to a sample of 0yer 1,000 young people inside and outside Youth Organisations. Let it be said frankly that the picture which emerges is a highly depressing one?so depressing that one turns the pages again, lncredulously seekin...

Eighty Ways to Spell Refrigerator

A methodology that combines text mining, statistical process control and a balanced scorecard eliminated inaccurate manual claim coding and a significantly reduced the time required to identify root causes of field failures. As a result annual warranty claim costs have decreased, product reliability has increased, and customer satisfaction has improved.

Eighty years of random networks

The 80 years since Zachariasen’s famous paper, 20 years before Stephen Elliott was born, on the random network theory of glass structure have seen remarkable progress in our understanding of the structure of glassy materials through the construction of models and comparison with experiment. In the early days, models were hand-built with plastic units and had free boundary conditions. Today, ver...

Working with alarms on ships ICT work on ships

Alarm indicators are a very simple and important user interface for many control tasks, and are known to be problematic. Alarms on ships have increased in number and importance. Recent incidents such as Savannah Express, Aquitaine and others have identified a number of important issues in the way that alarm systems support safe and effective work. The state of alarm systems onboard is inconsist...

A tower of paper spanning eighty years.