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Acquiring man power is one of the toughest jobs in the world of opportunities. Small mistake or denial may lead to loss of some critical resource to the rival company. To overcome such situations companies look forward to customize and organize all the recruiting processes and procedures. Nowadays most companies rely on recruiting software to do the job in a better way. Based on the company needs recruiting software is available. For example a company might have permanent employees and contract employees, so in that case the company should look for software which provides and manages both. Staffing agency software is greatly used by consultancies which does the job of catering human resources to various corporate. Back office for staffing firms is basically works for acquiring people into their companies. The staffing software helps them in great deal. Even based on the industry needs the recruiting software might be different. For example a software company may require recruiting software which talks about the technical expertise of the people but a medical staffing or a hospital may require software which can cater its needs to a greater level. Some software is designed generally for any company irrespective of the field where it is used.

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You should probably looking into a digital rangefinder as well, if you want the camera to take half-decent pictures. The advantage of a range finder is that it can automatically adjust and focus an image at any length. This will insure that your pictures come out crisp and clean.

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Credit Suisse has raised its rating for the Indian software industry to ‘overweight’ and lowered that on capital goods to ‘underweight’ as it expects export-focused industries to drive economic growth.

The continuing weakness of the Indian rupee because of an increase in capital outflows and the high cash flows may find favour with investors, the Swiss Bank said in a report.

“The key differentiating factors we believe are a weaker rupee, low financial leverage and their under-appreciated low operating leverage,” the Swiss bank said in its research report.

“Given the firms’ high-quality management, with strong track records and a focus on profits, we expect the sector to gain favour with investors, at least relatively, despite the weak demand environment.”

A slowing of India’s investment-led growth may weigh on the capital goods sector, even as regulators lower interest rates and free up liquidity, said Credit Suisse, explaining the rationale for dowgrading the sector.

“The producers of the large infrastructure projects could delay and cancel many projects, irrespective of the funding availability, because of the need to reduce their own overall leverage,” it said.

Software was previously ranked ‘underweight’ while capital goods were rated ‘market weight’ by the bank.

Infosys Technologies Ltd., Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro Ltd. have been assigned an ‘outperform’ rating by Credit Suisse analysts Nilesh Jasani, Arya Sen and Deepak Ramineedi who authored the report.

They have a ‘neutral’ rating on Thermax Ltd. and Crompton Greaves and an ‘underperform’ rating for Cummins India.

wo engineers from China were sentenced to a year in prison Friday for stealing computer chip designs from their Silicon Valley employers and trying to smuggle the secrets to their homeland to launch a government-backed startup there.Fei Ye, a U.S. citizen, and Ming Zhong, a permanent resident of the U.S., had pleaded guilty in 2006, becoming the first people convicted of the most serious crime under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. They were accused of trying to benefit China with their stolen chip designs, though prosecutors did not allege that the Chinese government knew of their illegal activities.

Ye and Zhong could have gotten 30 years, but prosecutors asked for less because the men cooperated with investigators. Both engineers apologized in court Friday.

Only a handful of cases have been filed under the Economic Espionage law, mostly because it’s difficult to prove someone was trying to benefit a foreign nation, even if investigators suspect it. Prosecutors say the trail of evidence often goes cold because of a lack of cooperation by other countries in investigations.

The case against Ye and Zhong stretches back seven years, when they were arrested at the San Francisco airport trying to board a flight to China. Their luggage was allegedly stuffed with sensitive documents on chip designs stolen from four tech companies they had worked for.

Other papers seized from the men allegedly showed they were trying to solicit funding from Chinese government agencies to help get their startup going. Prosecutors say the documents showed that Ye and Zhong were promoting the startup as something that would elevate China’s chip-making smarts and help China compete better against other countries in microelectronics.

Those documents were critical to federal prosecutors’ assertion that Ye and Zhong were trying to help China — but the papers say nothing about whether anyone in the Chinese government knew the chip designs were stolen. Court papers are fuzzy on how much success the pair had in securing money for the project. And the indictment doesn’t charge anyone in the Chinese government as a coconspirator.

Four companies were victims of the plot: NEC Electronics Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Transmeta Corp. and Trident Microsystems Inc. Ye and Zhong both had worked at Transmeta and Trident. Ye had also worked at NEC and Sun.

The allegations against Ye and Zhong amounted to one of the first economic espionage cases filed. Since then, other cases in Silicon Valley have developed, including one in which an engineer admitted in June he tried to sell fighter-pilot training software to the Chinese Navy. He was sentenced to two years in prison.

Prosecutors in that case said the engineer, Xiaodong Sheldon Meng, who was raised in China and holds Canadian citizenship, was focused on profit, not a foreign allegiance, so they asked for a more lenient sentence than they would if someone was accused of spying.

In a separate case, two other Silicon Valley engineers, Lan Lee and Yuefei Ge, are under indictment on charges they stole chip designs and tried to launch a microprocessor startup with a Chinese venture capital firm. Their trial hasn’t been set.

In Southern California, Chinese-American engineer Dongfan “Greg” Chung, who worked at Boeing Co. and space shuttle-builder Rockwell International, is accused of stealing secrets regarding the space shuttle, a military transport plane and a rocket on behalf of China. Chung has pleaded not guilty.

The stress of providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s results in 25 percent of family caregivers having at least one emergency room or hospital visit every six months, says an Indiana University study.It’s long been recognized that family care of an Alzheimer’s patient is difficult, but the Indiana University researchers said their study is the first to actually measure the stress and examine how it affects the physical and mental health of caregivers.

The study included 153 Alzheimer’s patients and their family caregivers, for a total of 366 people. Forty-four percent of the caregivers were spouses, and 70 percent lived with their Alzheimer’s-afflicted loved one. The average age of the caregivers was 61 years.

Age, education and relationship to the patient didn’t affect caregivers’ use of emergency room/hospital services, the researchers found. The behavior and functioning of the patient, not their cognitive disability, were the major factors that determined whether a caregiver went to the emergency room/hospital.

The study was published in the November issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

“Our findings opened our minds to the fact that society needs to expand the definition of patient to include both the person with Alzheimer’s dementia and that individual’s family caregiver,” study corresponding author Dr. Malaz Boustani, an assistant professor of medicine, said in an Indiana University new release.

“For American society to respond to the growing epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease, the health care system needs to re-think the definition of patient. These findings alert health-care delivery planners that they need to restructure the health care system to accommodate our new inclusive definition of patient,” said Boustani, who directs the Healthy Aging Brain Center.

About four million older adults in the United States have Alzheimer’s disease, and three million of them live in the community, often under the care of family members. By 2050, it’s estimated there will be 18.5 million people with Alzheimer’s in the U.S.

“While we’ve long known that Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease to the patient, this study offers a look at how it also impacts the caregiver’s health. If we don’t offer help and support to the caregiver too, the stress of caring for someone with dementia can be overwhelming, both mentally and physically,” Dr. Cathy C. Schubert, an assistant professor of clinical medicine in the IU School of Medicine, said in the news release.

In the not-so-distant future, American seniors may turn to helpful, uncomplaining robots to fill the worrisome “care gap” that many face today.One of these autonomous devices, called the uBOT-5, is already capable of carrying out simple tasks while it monitors the home environment. The robot can even spot trouble — such as a person falling down — and call 911 if necessary.

The freestanding device can also bring a faraway loved one into an aging person’s home via video Internet hook-up.

“So, if I’m at work, and it’s lunch hour and I want to poke in on Dad, I can get on the Internet and basically ’step inside’ the robot,” said uBOT-5 co-inventor Rod Grupen, who directs the Laboratory for Perpetual Robotics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. With their face appearing via video on the front of the robot’s head, the virtual visitor can converse with their loved one while moving the robot around, doing some cleaning, for example, or retrieving a dropped TV remote.

Any “authorized user” can jump into and guide the robot, Grupen said. “So, if you can’t get to your doctor, your doctor can now come to you,” he said. In fact, the UMass team hopes that the uBOT-5 will someday be capable of running simple medical tests, such as measuring blood pressure or blood sugar.

And because it’s fully mobile, with Segway-like wheels, virtual visits from others should include much of the house, and beyond. “Your granddaughter on the West Coast can get into the robot and visit with you outside in the garden, you can have a two-way conversation with audio/video, hold hands and go show them the flowers you just planted,” Grupen said.

There’s a huge and growing need for robotic home assistants that might help care for the elderly or disabled and allow them to stay in their homes, Grupen believes. According to U.S. Census figures, the number of Americans age 65 or over will double by 2030, and two-thirds will need some form of long-term care. At the same time, there’s a dearth of nurses and home health-care aides to care for them; experts predict a shortage of 800,000 nurses by 2020.

The uBOT-5’s design was inspired by the human body. Its myriad sensors mimic human eyes and ears, constantly scanning its environment. It is even programmed to detect and respond to worrisome aberrations, including a fallen, unresponsive human. The robot’s arms are each capable of handling 2.2-pound loads, and they can extend to reach high or pick things up off the floor (a dropped pill bottle, a package in a foyer, for example). The robot can lie prone to scoot itself under a bed (and then right itself), and it may even someday help with household cleaning and grocery shopping, Grupen said.

And the cost? Right now, the prototypes at UMass cost $65,000 apiece, but Grupen envisions a day when commercial versions would be sold for $5,000 plus a monthly Internet hook-up fee, much like today’s computers.

And the uBOT-5 isn’t the only such device in the pipeline. Over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researcher Nicolas Roy, at the institute’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has developed an “autonomous wheelchair” that only requires a command to whiz users from one spot to another in a hospital or nursing home.

When first delivered to a facility, the wheelchair — rigged out with high-tech scanning software — has no knowledge of the particular layout. But staff will uncrate it, turn it on, and give it a verbal guided tour, walking it past different rooms and nursing stations.

“You talk to it like you’d talk to a new person, a new nurse. And as a side effect of the thing being walked through the facility once or twice, the wheelchair has now been demonstrated a route between all the points,” explained co-developer Seth Teller, who helps lead the lab’s Robotics, Vision and Sensor Networks Group.

After that, a wheelchair-bound stroke patient or quadriplegic need only say, “Take me to Room 451″ for the chair to understand and then do just that. The device will be launched as a prototype ready for testing in a Boston-area nursing home within two years, Teller said.

Finally, at Georgia Tech, researchers led by assistant professor Charlie Kemp are making their own home-care robots, inspired by the agile intelligence of service dogs.

“We’re using service dogs to answer three important questions: What tasks would be good for a [home] robot to perform? How should people interact with the robot, to tell it to do these tasks? And how can the robot actually perform these tasks, given the complexities of the home?” Kemp said.

Service dogs and the disabled people they help are providing the answers. The new robot is being designed to move about and perform tasks such as opening drawers, turning doorknobs and working light switches, Kemp said. Users indicate what they’d like done by using a laser pointer, and homes are modified slightly to help the robot, just as homes are subtly tweaked to aid service dogs. “Things like tying a small towel to a doorknob” to facilitate grasping, Kemp explained.

The robot may not ever replace a great service dog, but Kemp noted that the average disabled American now pays $16,000 for a properly trained canine, and waiting lists now stretch for years.

“I think there’s a real need,” he said. “So, the hope is that people will support this sort of work. Then, we’ll be able to deliver these things when people need them.”

A digital picture carries pixel-based fingerprint that can reveal which camera model was used to click it, say researchers.Nasir Memon of the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York, has revealed that every digital camera has an in-built “demosaicing” software that translates each pixel into a usable colour and brightness signal.

He says that software has to be tailored to a particular camera type to cater for the many peculiarities of each model, including colour filter arrays, lenses, and light-sensitive microchip called a charge-coupled device (CCD).

According to him, one of the algorithm’s tasks is to work out the colour a screen pixel should adopt without jarring with the colours of neighbouring pixels.

Memon says that he and his colleagues have discovered how to work backwards from neighbouring pixel values in a photo to identify the model-specific demosaicing algorithm that created it.

The researcher says that his team’s approach has been found to identify cameras with 90 per cent accuracy in early tests.

Mark Pollitt, a former FBI crime lab scientist who is currently associated with the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that the novel technique may make a big difference to detective work if further tests too provide promising results.

He substantiates his statement with the example of a photo of any kidnapped person emailed to a press agency.

“If we can identify the camera, then there is a possibility that we can identify who bought it and where,” New Scientist magazine quoted him as saying.

Though the same camera models may be owned by many people, Pollitt still believes that the new approach can be used forensically.

Given that digital cameras have a shelf life of only 18 months, he adds, it may be possible to find out when and where it was sold.

A team of American researchers has moved a step closer to realising much advanced technology for satellite communications and solar power generation by finding a way to slow down the cooling of electrons in nanocrystals, which can lead to more efficient photovoltaic devices.University of Chicago researchers claim that they have successfully induced electrons in the nanocrystals of semiconductors to cool more slowly by forcing them into a smaller volume, something that was first theorized in 1990.

“Slowing down the cooling of these electrons-in this case, by more than 30 times-could lead to a better infrared laser source,” said Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Chicago.

“This, in turn, could be used to increase the bandwidth of communication satellites, allowing for faster connections,” Guyot-Sionnest added.

He added the slow cooling of electrons in nanocrystals could lead to better, more efficient photovoltaic devices.

“This is because proposals to devise ways to extract the excess heat from these electrons as they cool are more likely to be realized-and to work-due to the fact that we now understand better what is going on with these nanocrystals,” Guyot-Sionnest said.

Slow electron cooling in nanocrystals occurs because forcing the electrons into a smaller volume leads them to oscillate between their alternate extremes within a very short period of time.

The electrons in the nanocrystals used in this experiment oscillated so fast that it became difficult for them to drag along the more sluggish vibrations of the nuclei. As a result, the energy stayed with the electrons for a longer period of time.

The slower cooling effect was difficult to induce and observe because several different mechanisms for energy loss interfered with the process.

By eliminating these other mechanisms, the researchers were able to induce and observe slower electron cooling in nanocrystals.