HRS eNews, April 2005 - Click here to go to on-line version


Table of Contents -- April 2005

Education

New Products

Significant upgrades

Sponsorship

Seminars

Map viewer

NetCollect


Webinars

BookWhere

XFDTD


Statistica training

PLECS (Power simulation)

STATISTICA



XGTD radiation modelling

The SurveySystem



Chemometrics



Education

Seminars will be held in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin between 4 May and 11 May.

Mathcad Seminar

More and more of the engineering design companies are buying Mathcad or increasing the number of licenses they hold – if you do not know why, then now is a good chance to find out! Download the flyer in .pdf form here. To enrol go here.

STATISTICA Seminar

For general analysis of environmental, business, scientific or engineering data, you can't beat a good statistics program, and we think that STATISTICA now leads the field. We will show you why we say this at the seminar. Download the flyer in .pdf form here. To enrol go here.

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Mathcad Webinar and STATISTICA Webinar

These Webinars are on-line 30-minute demonstrations of products, containing much of the material presented in the seminars. You watch the presenter's computer screen on your computer, using the Internet, and listen to the presenter with a conference phone call. We will present both Webinars on each of 12 and 13 May, so you can have a choice of day. Registration is essential, so click here to link to the description of the webinars and to register for the any you would like to attend. Not quite as good as being there, but you will get to know the key aspects of the products. Contact Ray if you want to know how it works.


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STATISTICA Training

We are running a general STATISTICA training course in Auckland on Friday 20 May. Click here for a .pdf flyer or here to enrol.

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New products

Map Viewer - display information with maps

This product from Golden Software is ideal for those of you who want to display spatially-distributed data, such as sales figures, environmental data or traffic density. It can use industry-standard map file formats, or you can input your own. For the whole country, or for just a single shop or shopping centre. A great range of presentation tools, but easy to use and just $399 +GST. Contact Darrel.

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Use BookWhere to search Internet databases

Search catalogs and bibliographic databases on the Internet the easy way! BookWhere is a Windows program that can search more than a thousand library catalogs and databases, even searching multiple catalogs at the same time. You can use a consistent, easy-to-use search screen to find bibliographic information in the Library of Congress catalog, government information databases, online information services such as OCLC, and the online catalogs of many major universities. BookWhere uses the Z39.50 protocol to access databases on the Internet, several times faster than using the World Wide Web, and working in the background while you do other things on your computer. You can even save search results to the Library Master bibliographic database manager to create bibliographies, citations and online catalogs. Only $595 + GST. Contact Darrel.

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Simulate electrical systems with PLECS

PLECS is a unique tool for the fast simulation of electrical circuits within the Simulink environment. Although specially designed for power electronics systems it is a versatile and easy-to-use program for any combined simulation of electrical circuits and controls.

Whether you are a developer or researcher in industry or academia, PLECS will speed up the design and analysis of your electrical system. Users will also profit from the intuitive user interface and the fast and accurate simulation. Contact Marc.

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Model electromagnetic propagation with XGTD

XGTD is a new electromagnetic analysis software tool for which the primary application is modeling radiation propagation in the vicinity of complicated objects such as aircraft, vehicles and anechoic chambers. Contact Marc.

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Interpret chemometrics spectra with the Unscrambler

This multivariate data analysis program is designed specifically for use in chemometrics, and in that context offers PCA, PLS, three-way PLS regression, and design of experiments. Designed in cooperation with the world’s leading chemometricians! Contact Ray.

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Significant Upgrades

Improved web surveys with NetCollect 3.1

Many new features to allow you to create Web-based surveys that get your respondents to give you high quality data. Respondents can leave and resume a survey, including saved data, and you can randomise lists of options and question order. Contact Darrel.

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Better use of CAD in radiation modelling with XFDTD 6.2.

Many new improvements have been made to this radiation modelling tool, especially in the area of importing information from CAD systems. Colours in the CAD system can be interpreted as electromagnetic properties in XFDTD! Contact Marc.

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Even more tools for EDA in STATISTICA 7.1

• Scatterplot brushing on histograms and box plots

• Display raw data, and jitter the points, in box and whisker plots

• Use text strings to mark points, instead of the usual coloured circles and squares.

• Improved license management

• Save files in old formats for compatibility

Contact Darrel.

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Develop opinion surveys more quickly with The Survey System Version 9

This version saves you time through a new user interface, direct importing of questionnaires from Word, and a new topline report. Also, “dropout analysis” lets you see where people quit a survey. Plus many other additions. Contact Darrel.

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Do you need Sponsorship?

We sponsor many events – if you are running one ask us if we are interested. We just helped the NIR conference with trial versions of MATLAB, and put inserts in the NZ Water and Waste conference delegate packs. We are planning to support many other meetings this year – perhaps we will see you around? Contact Leon.

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For all general enquiries please phone us on 0800 477 776