Researchers and librarians working in Islamic Studies will now for the first time have online access to nearly 1000 Ph.D theses in the subject, spanning over ten years. JISC, The Academy and The British Library have combined their resources to bring together Islamic Studies theses from universities across the UK and Ireland.
Up until now this wealth of knowledge has been dispersed across 97 universities and has only been accessible through individual academic libraries and archives. The collection represents nearly half of the 2000 Islamic Studies Ph.Ds written between 1997 and 2006.
This diverse collection, which has been put online by the British Library via its EThOS electronic theses service, covers fields such as Islamic law, history, politics, finance, anthropology, sociology and gender studies. There are also theses which examine Muslim communities in the UK.
To find more details see visit:
http://ethos.bl.uk/ProcessSearch.do?query=JISC%20Digital%20Islam
Monday, May 31, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Super disc to store 1,000 times more data than a DVD
Super disc to store 1,000 times more data than a DVD
Tokyo: A Japanese research team has found a material that could be used to make a lowprice super disc with data storage capacity thousands of times greater than a DVD, the lead researcher said.
The material transforms from a black-colour metal state that conducts electricity into a brown semiconductor when hit by light, according to Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, chemistry professor at the University of Tokyo.
The material, a new crystal form of titanium oxide, can switch back and forth between the metal and semiconductor states at room temperature when exposed to light, creating an effective on-off function for data storage.
It is “promising as a material for a next-generation optical storage device”, Ohkoshi said on Monday.
A material that changes colour with light can be used in storage devices as colours reflect light differently to contain different information. His team has succeeded in creating the material in particles measuring five-to-20 nanometres (a five-billionth to 20-billionth of a meter) in diameter.
If the smallest particle is used, the new disc could hold more than 1,000 times as much information as a Blue-ray disc, provided that matching data writing and reading equipment are developed.
A single-layer Blue-ray disc can hold five times as much data as a conventional DVD.
Titanium oxide’s market price is about one-hundredth of the rare element — germanium-antimony-tellurium — that is currently used in rewritable Blue-ray discs and DVDs, Ohkoshi said.
“You don’t have to worry about procuring rare metals. Titanium oxide is cheap and safe, already being used in many products ranging from face powder to white paint,” the professor said. Ohkoshi said it was not known when a disc with the material would be manufactured and put to practical use, adding that he would start talks with private sector companies for commercialization. AFP
Source | Times of India | 25 May 2010
Tokyo: A Japanese research team has found a material that could be used to make a lowprice super disc with data storage capacity thousands of times greater than a DVD, the lead researcher said.
The material transforms from a black-colour metal state that conducts electricity into a brown semiconductor when hit by light, according to Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, chemistry professor at the University of Tokyo.
The material, a new crystal form of titanium oxide, can switch back and forth between the metal and semiconductor states at room temperature when exposed to light, creating an effective on-off function for data storage.
It is “promising as a material for a next-generation optical storage device”, Ohkoshi said on Monday.
A material that changes colour with light can be used in storage devices as colours reflect light differently to contain different information. His team has succeeded in creating the material in particles measuring five-to-20 nanometres (a five-billionth to 20-billionth of a meter) in diameter.
If the smallest particle is used, the new disc could hold more than 1,000 times as much information as a Blue-ray disc, provided that matching data writing and reading equipment are developed.
A single-layer Blue-ray disc can hold five times as much data as a conventional DVD.
Titanium oxide’s market price is about one-hundredth of the rare element — germanium-antimony-tellurium — that is currently used in rewritable Blue-ray discs and DVDs, Ohkoshi said.
“You don’t have to worry about procuring rare metals. Titanium oxide is cheap and safe, already being used in many products ranging from face powder to white paint,” the professor said. Ohkoshi said it was not known when a disc with the material would be manufactured and put to practical use, adding that he would start talks with private sector companies for commercialization. AFP
Source | Times of India | 25 May 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
NDLTD Union Catalog Surpasses One Million Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) announced that there are now over one million readily available electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) online worldwide. The NDLTD, OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), VTLS and Scirus maintain and provide access related to the NDLTD Union Catalog of ETDs available in institutional repositories around the globe.
The NDLTD is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the creation, dissemination, use, adoption, and preservation of digital theses and dissertations. The NDLTD assists students and universities in using electronic publishing and digital libraries to more effectively share knowledge in order to unlock potential benefits worldwide. The NDLTD also promotes student efforts to transform the genre of the print dissertation through the use of innovative software to create cutting edge hypertext/multimedia ETDs.
http://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-search
The NDLTD is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the creation, dissemination, use, adoption, and preservation of digital theses and dissertations. The NDLTD assists students and universities in using electronic publishing and digital libraries to more effectively share knowledge in order to unlock potential benefits worldwide. The NDLTD also promotes student efforts to transform the genre of the print dissertation through the use of innovative software to create cutting edge hypertext/multimedia ETDs.
http://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-search
Thursday, May 13, 2010
The Letter “Z” Will Be Removed from the English Alphabet
Letter “Z” Will Be Removed from the English Alphabet
Surprising as it sounds, it looks like the English alphabet will be losing one of its letters on June 1st. The announcement came from the English Language Central Commission (ELCC).
Here is a quote from the press release:
After carefully considering and debating the matter for over two years, the ELCC came to the conclusion that the letter “Z” should be removed from the English alphabet. The main objective of this change is to simplify the phonetic aspect of the language, and to unify the American and British spellings.
What will happen to the words that have the letter “z” in them? It depends on the word. According to the ELCC, words that started with a “z” will now start with an “x”. Examples include:
zero becomes xero
zoo becomes xoo
zone becomes xone
zodiac becomes xodiac
Words that featured a “z” with the “s” sound, on the other hand, will now be officially written with the “s” (i.e., unifying the American and British spelling). Examples include:
visualize becomes visualise
analyze becomes analyse
materialize becomes materialise
What do you think about this change? Will it really simplify the English language, or will it make things more confusing?
Source: http://www.dailywri tingtips. com/the-letter- z-will-be- removed-from- the-english- alphabet/
Surprising as it sounds, it looks like the English alphabet will be losing one of its letters on June 1st. The announcement came from the English Language Central Commission (ELCC).
Here is a quote from the press release:
After carefully considering and debating the matter for over two years, the ELCC came to the conclusion that the letter “Z” should be removed from the English alphabet. The main objective of this change is to simplify the phonetic aspect of the language, and to unify the American and British spellings.
What will happen to the words that have the letter “z” in them? It depends on the word. According to the ELCC, words that started with a “z” will now start with an “x”. Examples include:
zero becomes xero
zoo becomes xoo
zone becomes xone
zodiac becomes xodiac
Words that featured a “z” with the “s” sound, on the other hand, will now be officially written with the “s” (i.e., unifying the American and British spelling). Examples include:
visualize becomes visualise
analyze becomes analyse
materialize becomes materialise
What do you think about this change? Will it really simplify the English language, or will it make things more confusing?
Source: http://www.dailywri tingtips. com/the-letter- z-will-be- removed-from- the-english- alphabet/
Monday, May 10, 2010
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Library at a Single Chip
An Indian-American scientist has developed a computer chip that can store an unprecedented amount of data - enough to hold an entire library.
The new chip stems from a breakthrough in the use of nanodots, or nanoscale magnets, and represents a significant advance in computer-memory technology.
"We have created magnetic nanodots that store one bit of information on each nanodot, allowing us to store over one billion pages of information in a chip that is one square inch," says Jay Narayan, professor of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU).
Narayan, a product of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, conducted the study.
The breakthrough is that these nanodots are made of single, defect-free crystals, creating magnetic sensors that are integrated directly into a silicon electronic chip.
These nanodots, which can be made uniformly as small as six nanometres in diameter, are all precisely oriented in the same way - allowing programmers to reliably read and write data to the chips, an NCSU release said. A nanometre is the billionth of a metre.
The chips themselves can be manufactured cost-effectively but the next step is to develop magnetic packaging that will enable users to take advantage of the chips - using something, such as laser technology, that can effectively interact with the nanodots.
The research was presented at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco.
The new chip stems from a breakthrough in the use of nanodots, or nanoscale magnets, and represents a significant advance in computer-memory technology.
"We have created magnetic nanodots that store one bit of information on each nanodot, allowing us to store over one billion pages of information in a chip that is one square inch," says Jay Narayan, professor of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU).
Narayan, a product of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, conducted the study.
The breakthrough is that these nanodots are made of single, defect-free crystals, creating magnetic sensors that are integrated directly into a silicon electronic chip.
These nanodots, which can be made uniformly as small as six nanometres in diameter, are all precisely oriented in the same way - allowing programmers to reliably read and write data to the chips, an NCSU release said. A nanometre is the billionth of a metre.
The chips themselves can be manufactured cost-effectively but the next step is to develop magnetic packaging that will enable users to take advantage of the chips - using something, such as laser technology, that can effectively interact with the nanodots.
The research was presented at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco.
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