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Special Offers
Pre-order SurveyPro 5 before 30 April for up to 30% Off
Pre-order SurveyPro 5 today or before the release date of 30 April and benefit from up to 30% discount off the normal retail price.
New Features in SurveyPro 5
- XML Questionnaire Import/Export: powerful new XML tools enable wider editing of questionnaires, distribution of questionnaire content, easy translation, and streamlined questionnaire import.
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SurveyPro 5 Pricing |
NZ$ Price |
| Single User/1-User Workgroup License (Incl. 30% off) | $2,895 + GST |
| SurveyPro4 to SurveyPro5 upgrade (Incl. 25% off) | $1,140 + GST |
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All licenses include 12 months of Gold single help support. Contact Glen to pre-order your copy of SurveyPro 5 today.
to contact Glen to take advantage of these offers.
Maple Toolbox for MATLAB free until June 30
If you are a Maple customer, you can get the Maple Toolbox for free until June 30. to contact Glen for your free Maple Toolbox for MATLAB.
Upcoming Events
Online NGS Presentation by Dr. Forsberg from CLC bio
Recently CLC bio's Director of Scientific Solutions and Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Roald Forsberg, did an online presentation called Comprehensive, Fast, and User-Friendly Downstream Analysis of Illumina Sequencing Data, through Illumina's webinar series. The presentation was very successful and is now available for everyone to view.
Watch the presentation online at:
http://www.clcngs.com/2009/03/online-ngs-presentation-by-dr-forsberg/
to contact Bruce if you wish to find out about CLC bio products for New Generation Sequencing.
Academic Visits
HRS is planning to visit some north island academic institutions next month to present seminars on MATLAB and Maple.
Please visit our seminar page near the end of next week for more details at http://www.hrs.co.nz/seminars.
to contact Leon if you are interested in helping to organise a visit to your institution.
Webinars
CLC bio Webinars
You can watch one of the scheduled online presentations by CLC bio by visiting http://www.clcbio.com/webinar. These one-hour presentations are performed by one of CLC bio's product specialists and transmitted to you through the internet. CLC Main Workbench is used as the platform for the presentation.
During the whole session, you can ask questions through a free/low-cost teleconference connection, ensuring that you do not leave with questions unanswered.
If you want to see a demonstration of the CLC bio workbenches, but the public times available are not suitable, HRS can arrange an online presentation by a product specialist.
to contact Bruce for more information about CLC bio products or organising a personal webinar.
EEA Conference
HRS will be exhibiting at the EEA conference in June. Many of our customers attend events like the EEA as they provide an excellent forum for keeping up to date with advances in their industry or field. Click on the link below if you wish to find out more about the conference.
| Dates | Conference | City | HRS Presence |
| 19-20 June | Electricity Engineers Association Conference | Auckland | Visit Booth 41 |
If you live in a city where HRS will be exhibiting and you would like to meet with Ray, send an email to ray@hrs.co.nz, to arrange a place and time.
Product News
MATLAB R2009a
Release 2009a includes new features in MATLAB and Simulink, two new products, and updates and bug fixes to 91 other products. Subscribers to MathWorks Software Maintenance Service can download product updates. Since R2008a, the MATLAB and Simulink product families require activation. R2009a includes enhancements to the License Centre, the online tool for managing your license and user information.
New capabilities added to the PolySpace code verification products, include JSF C++ (JSF++) standards checking, multicore acceleration and Eclipse integration.
New capabilities for the MATLAB product family include:
- Multicore support for fft and other MATLAB functions
- Utilisation of eight cores on your desktop with Parallel Computing Toolbox
- Ability to use .NET classes directly in MATLAB programs and applications
- Surface fitting, including surface fit objects and a new GUI in Curve Fitting Toolbox
- Generation of Simulink blocks from symbolic math expressions in Symbolic Math Toolbox
- Support for population pharmacokinetic (PK) modelling in SimBiology, using nonlinear mixed effects (NLME) models
- Vehicle Network Toolbox, a new product for communicating with in-vehicle networks using CAN protocol
New capabilities for the Simulink product family include:
- Save, restore, and restart simulation states in Simulink and Stateflow
- Fixed-point support for Discrete Filter block and autoscaling of Simulink data objects in Simulink Fixed Point
- Configure and generate code based on high-level objectives, such as efficiency and traceability in Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder
- Reduced RAM usage, faster execution time and other code efficiency improvements in Real-Time Workshop and Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder
- Simulink Design Optimisation, a new product for estimating and optimising Simulink model parameters
http://www.mathworks.com/products/new_products/latest_features.html?BB=1
to contact Bruce to talk about MATLAB related products.
MATLAB and Simulink Based Books
There are more than 1,000 books available for teachers, students, and professionals
A reflection of the widespread use of the MATLAB and Simulink product families is the large and growing number of books based on MATLAB and Simulink. The texts present theory, real-world examples, and exercises using MATLAB, Simulink, and other MathWorks products. They provide course material for instructors in engineering, science, and mathematics and serve as an authoritative reference source for researchers in academia and industry.
Visit the MathWorks website to look for a title of interest to you:
http://www.mathworks.com/support/books/ to contact Bruce to talk about MATLAB books and resources.
Books by Cleve Moler
Cleve Moler is chairman and chief scientist at The MathWorks. Moler was a professor of math and computer science for almost 20 years at the University of Michigan, Stanford University and the University of New Mexico. In addition to being the author of the first version of MATLAB, Moler is one of the authors of the LINPACK and EISPACK scientific subroutine libraries. He is co-author of three textbooks on numerical methods.
Numerical Computing with MATLAB
This lively textbook by Cleve Moler is designed for use in an introductory course in numerical methods, MATLAB, and technical computing.
Experiments with MATLAB
Under active development by Cleve Moler, this electronic book features chapters that supplement high school and early college courses in mathematics and technical computing, including calculus and matrix theory.
Download an ebook or resources related to these books from:http://www.mathworks.com/moler/
to contact Bruce to talk about MATLAB products.
MATLAB Digest Academic Edition - April 2009
The MATLAB Digest Academic Edition for April 2009 is live on the web site. The technical article in this issue that may interest you is:
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MATLAB Digest – March 2009
Technical articles in the March issue that may interest you are:
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Major update to the Curve Fitting Toolbox 2.0
Curve Fitting Toolbox provides graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and command-line functions for fitting curves and surfaces to data. The toolbox lets you perform exploratory data analysis, preprocess and post-process data, compare candidate models, and remove outliers. You can conduct regression analysis using the library of linear and nonlinear models provided or specify your own custom equations. The toolbox also supports nonparametric modeling techniques, such as interpolation and smoothing.
New features introduced in this version:
Interactive Surface Fitting
You can interactively fit surfaces to data and view plots with the new flexible and intuitive Surface Fitting Tool GUI.
- Create, plot, and compare multiple surface fits
- Use linear or nonlinear regression, interpolation, local smoothing regression, or custom equations
- View goodness-of-fit statistics, display confidence intervals and residuals, remove outliers and assess fits with validation data
- Automatically generate M-code for fitting and plotting surfaces, or export fits to workspace for further analysis
For more information, see Interactive Surface Fitting.
Programmatic Surface Fitting
- New surface fit objects store the results from a fitting operation, making it easy to plot and analyze fits at the command line.
For more information, see Surface Fitting Objects and Methods.
to contact Bruce about the Curve Fitting Toolbox.
Simulink Design Optimisation for enhanced modelling and control design
Capabilities Include the Use of Optimisation to Refine Model and Control System Parameters for Increased Model Accuracy and Improved Control System Performance.
Together, Simulink Design Optimisation, Simulink, Simscape, and Simulink Control Design provide a powerful modelling and control design environment that enables engineers to create plant models, calibrate these models with test data, and use them to design, simulate, and optimise control systems.
With Simulink Design Optimisation, modelling engineers can calibrate models with test data directly, bypassing time-consuming trial and error methods. Simulink Design Optimisation lets control engineers use optimisation algorithms for automatic controller parameter adjustment to meet system performance requirements.
Read the full press release at:
www.mathworks.com/products/sl-design-optimization.
to contact Bruce to talk about MATLAB & Simulink products.
Introducing Vehicle Network Toolbox 1.0
Communicate with in-vehicle networks using CAN protocol.
Vehicle Network Toolbox lets you send and receive CAN packets directly from MATLAB or Simulink. It enables encoding, decoding, and filtering of CAN messages and lets you work with industry-standard CAN database files.
With Vehicle Network Toolbox, you can create test and analysis applications in MATLAB that use live data from CAN networks. You can also use live CAN data to validate Simulink models. Vehicle Network Toolbox lets you communicate with the CAN bus directly from MATLAB or Simulink so that you can correlate and synchronise CAN messages with other data and monitor CAN bus traffic. The toolbox provides full support for the following Vector CAN interface hardware: CANcardX, CANcardXL, CANcaseXL, CANboardXL, CANboardXL PCIe, and CANboardXL pxi.
Read the full press release at:
http://www.mathworks.com/products/vehicle-network/?BB=1
to contact Bruce to talk about the Vehicle Network Toolbox.
Introducing Simbiology 3.0
Latest version provides more accessible, flexible functionality for population pharmacokinetic modelling
The MathWorks recently announced the availability of SimBiology 3, a tool for modelling, simulating and analysing biological systems in one integrated, graphical environment. SimBiology 3 provides a more intuitive and flexible environment for population pharmacokinetic (PK) modelling and analysis.
SimBiology 3 includes a new PK model wizard that offers the ease-of-use of a built-in library without the limitation of pre-defined models. The model wizard automatically generates PK models by specifying only compartment number, route of administration and method of elimination. Users can also import clinical or experimental data, preprocess, visualise and calculate statistics on the data. Population fits can then be performed using methods such as non-linear mixed effects modelling.
Read the full press release at:
http://www.mathworks.com/products/simbiology/
to contact Bruce to talk about Simbiology 3.
Native Colour Space support in CLC Genomics Workbench
The new CLC Genomics Workbench supports assembly and visualisation of SOLiD data in native Colour Space format. This has been shown to assemble up to 80% more reads than assembling SOLiD data in base space.
Read the whole article at:
http://www.clcbio.com/index.php?id=1330&manual=Viewing_color_space_information.html
to contact Bruce if you wish to find out about CLC bio's Genomics Workbench
STATISTICA integration with R!
Run R in STATISTICA!
You can now run R programs directly from STATISTICA, and get results as STATISTICA reports, workbooks and graphs - enhancing your R with unique STATISTICA capabilities.
Leverage your R Libraries to create new functionality within STATISTICA, including integrating specialised R routines into STATISTICA Data Miner - enhancing your STATISTICA with unique R capabilities.
to contact Glen about STATISTICA and R.
@RISK Case Study - Demand-Side Management and
BC Hydro's Energy Planning Process
Presented by Basil Stumborg at the 2008 Palisade Risk & Decision Analysis Conference.
BC Hydro is the provincial electric utility for British Columbia. With two million customers and annual revenues of roughly $5 billion, it is Canada's second biggest utility.
With its current Long Term Energy Plan in front of its regulator, BC Hydro has embarked on a bold shift in its energy strategy– it intends over the next 20 years to meet almost 75% of its incremental load through energy conservation – one of the most aggressive targets in North America.
The uncertainty analysis around the energy conservation goals has played a key role in the energy planning processes. @RISK's Monte Carlo simulation is used to forecast highly uncertain demand and other variables.
Download the whole presentation from:
http://www.hrs.co.nz/downloads/Basil_Stumborg.pdf
to contact Glen about @RISK.
University of Houston MBAs put the DecisionTools Suite to Work
Phil Rogers teaches Managerial Decision Making to MBA candidates at the University of Houston's C. T. Bauer College of Business where most of his students are managers with industry experience. These students need analytical tools that offer both a short learning curve and the ability to accurately model their real-life problems. Phil uses Palisade's DecisionTools Suite in the classroom because "the leverage you get by using these tools in Excel is phenomenal. My students can very quickly learn and apply the techniques they see in class to difficult decision-making problems faced by their firms." Students include managers from Sinopec and CNPC, the two largest petrochemical companies in China.
http://www.hrs.co.nz/dst-mba-article.aspx.
to contact Glen about the Decision Tools Suite.
Forecast Pro Tips and Tricks: Flexible Data Hierarchies in Forecast Pro Unlimited V5
Forecast Pro Unlimited V5 allows you to easily define hierarchies through the use of attribute fields. Unlike other desktop forecasting applications, there are no limits on the number of levels or structure of the hierarchy (e.g., customer-based, product grouping-based, geography-based, etc.). Forecasts are generated for all levels of your hierarchy and can be reconciled using any combination of top-down, bottom-up and middle-out approaches. Once you've completed your forecasts, Forecast Pro Unlimited V5 will export your forecasts and defined hierarchy in a tabular format, allowing for easy forecast integration, analysis and reporting.
Read the whole article at:
http://www.forecastpro.com/Trends/FPTipsAndTricksMarch2009.html
Contact Glen about Forecast Pro.
General News & Working with HRS
HRS Sponsorship
HRS has sponsored many association and society events over the years and we will continue to do this for events where delegates have a strong need for our products.
If you or an associate are organising a conference where the delegates could benefit from using the many mathematics based products sold and supported by HRS, please contact Leon by emailing leon@hrs.co.nz or by calling him on 0800 477 776.
User Stories
If you have any newsworthy user stories related to our products that you think our customers would be interested in reading, please contact Leon.
to email Leon or call him on
0800 477 776 to supply us with your product news.
Advertising your events on the HRS Website
If we sponsor your event, or your delegates are likely to be using one of our products, contact Leon to place details of your conference on our website.
to email Leon or call him on
0800 477 776 to advertise your event.
Best wishes,
Leon Tepania
Marketing Manager
Hoare
Research Software Ltd
Email: leon@hrs.co.nz