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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>ESL General Science and Technology English</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/GeneralScienceTechnologyEnglish/Forum36.htm</link><description>Everything from Biology to Engineering</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CSMOD (Build: 3191.21962)</generator><item><title>Re: Lecture</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Lecture/zpznw/post.htm#492974</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:09:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:492974</guid><dc:creator>Avangi</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Lecture/zpznw/post.htm#492974</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments36-492974.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Nowadays there are greater and greater desires for&amp;nbsp; (Too bloody much!) &lt;em&gt;Nowadays there is a need&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;(your use of comparatives&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp; faster, more reliable, safer&amp;nbsp; -&amp;nbsp; makes &amp;quot;greater and&amp;nbsp;greater&amp;quot; unnecessary, or somewhat redundant.)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;a&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; faster etc system which demands &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;a / the&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; precise choice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;technology.&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;B&lt;/strong&gt;ut this&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; (sentence is too long)&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;well known&amp;quot; hyphenated??&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;, but is still in the initial way and is going to be improved,&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; consider using parentheses here??&amp;nbsp; (&lt;u&gt;but / which&lt;/u&gt; is still in the initial &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;stages&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Authors of research work&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; Researchers&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;Too wordy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/u&gt;system consists of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;a&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; microcontroller, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;an&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; RFID etc., etc.&amp;nbsp; ( if these items are singular you should use the article)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;a&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; compteitor&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt; the&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; RFID reader&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;passes&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; it through??&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;The &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;microcontroller then saves it&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt; All of these singular nouns to the end of your piece need articles!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m beginning to wonder what you mean by a &amp;quot;competitor.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Are we talking about industrial espionage here, or sales???&amp;nbsp; Is this suspect a client, or a customer, or what?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;along accurate time of detection&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Do you mean, &amp;quot;along &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;with&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the exact time of detection&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I never heard &amp;quot;orienteering.&amp;quot; sorry.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;that logicality of usage RFID station&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;the logistical placement of the RFID station&amp;quot;?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;the logical location for the RFID station&amp;quot;???&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;is partially conditional with GSM plug-in&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;is dependent on the availability of GSM plug-ins&amp;quot; ??&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In your last sentence, I&amp;#39;m still confused as to what you mean by &amp;quot;comptetions&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;competitors.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Lecture</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Lecture/zpzmb/post.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:50:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:492950</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Lecture/zpzmb/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments36-492950.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;span&gt;Hi,
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I&amp;#39;m writing a research work and now I have to translate key words
documentation to English. Could you please help me and correct possible
mistakes below?
I&amp;#39;m in a little hurry. &lt;img src="http://www.frihost.com/forums/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif" alt="Confused" border="0" /&gt; Thanks in advance.
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Nowadays there are greater and greater desires for faster, more
reliable, safer and automated unified system of marking and tracking
various products, which
demands precise choice of advanced information technology, but this
exceeds the usage of now well known bar code. There are new solutions
nowadays, which allow
more accurate control and identification. One of those new technologies
that already works well, but is still in the initial way and is going
to be improved,
is called radiofrequency identification or briefly RFID. Authors of
research work developed a system for identification radiofrequency tags
and implemented it
in foot orienteering matches. System consists of microcontroller, RFID
reader, GSM modem and stabilized power supply. If competitor with
compatible RF tag is
near, RFID reader checks his unique identification number and serves it
through communications lines to microcontroller. Microcontroller then
saves it to
temporary memory and delivers it along accurate time of detection to
GSM modem, which sends SMS with all included data to recipient. Such
system allows
automatic registration of competitors on arrival to individual
orienteering check points, where identification and timing of
competitors is logged. They have
come to conclusion that logicality of usage RFID station for reading RF
tags is partially conditional with GSM plug-in. They cannot tolerate
mistakes and
instability in electronic devices on competitions, so in this case,
implementation of GSM modems in necessary.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>