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On the road to smaller, high-performance electronics, University of Illinois researchers have smoothed one speed bump by shrinking a key, yet notoriously large element of integrated circuits.
Three-dimensional rolled-up inductors have a footprint more than 100 times smaller without sacrificing performance. The researchers published their new design paradigm in the journal Nano Letters.
"It's a new concept for old technology," said team leader Xiuling Li, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois.
Inductors, often seen as the sprawling metal spirals on computer chips, are essential components of integrated circuits. They store magnetic energy, acting as a buffer against changes in current and modulating frequency ? especially important in radio-frequency wireless devices. However, they take up a lot of space. Inductance depends on the number of coils in the spiral, so engineers cannot make them smaller without losing performance.
In addition, the larger the area the inductor occupies, the more it interfaces with the substrate the chip is built on, exacerbating a hindering effect called parasitic capacitance. Researchers have developed some three-dimensional inductor structures to solve the dual problems of space and parasitic capacitance, but these methods are complex and use techniques that are difficult to scale up to manufacturing levels.
The new inductor design uses techniques Li's group previously developed for making thin films of silicon nitrate, merely tens of nanometers in thickness, that roll themselves up into tubes. The research team used industry-standard two-dimensional processing to pattern metal lines on the film before rolling, creating a spiral inductor.
"We're making 3-D structures with 2-D processing," Li said. "Instead of spreading this out in a large area to increase inductance, we can have the same inductance but packed into a much smaller area."
Using the self-rolling technique, the researchers can shrink the area needed for a radio-frequency inductor to a scant 45 microns by 16 microns ? more than 100 times smaller than the area an equivalent flat spiral would require.
The design can be adjusted to fit target parameters including metal thickness and type, frequency, tube diameter and number of turns. According to Li, this technique could be used for capacitors and other integrated circuit elements as well.
Now, Li's group is working to produce high-performance inductor prototypes, in collaboration with electrical and engineering professor Jose Schutt-Aine. Preliminary experimental data show strong correlation with the modeled designs.
"Once we have optimized this process, we should be able to make an integrated circuit with a completely different platform that could be much smaller," Li said. "It's an ambitious goal."
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(Reuters) - Barclays Plc plans to cut as many as 2,000 jobs in its investment bank as part of a broad restructuring of the company, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the British bank's plans.
The paper said senior Barclays executives are planning to recommend that the bank cut between 1,000 and 2,000 jobs, likely to be concentrated in Asia and continental Europe.
The job cuts are expected to be announced early next year, the paper said, adding that Barclays executives are aiming to protect the bank's strong U.S. and U.K. franchises. (http://link.reuters.com/vum64t)
Goldman Sachs analysts have suggested that Barclays could cut 15 percent of investment bank staff, or 3,500 of its 23,300 employees, as part of a broader strategic review by Chief Executive Antony Jenkins, who took over in August.
Barclays declined to comment on the details of the plan.
While reforms at Barclays are not expected to be as radical as those of rivals UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland , who are pulling back sharply, the actions of competitors may sway plans. UBS's pullback, for example, could open gaps that Barclays may want to exploit.
The cutback plans remain in flux, and some senior executives are pushing for a more aggressive purge, the business daily said, citing one person with knowledge of the discussions.
The potential investment-banking cuts are likely to be part of a larger number of job reductions across the entire company, the Wall Street Journal said, as Barclays executives consider areas such as information technology ripe for layoffs.
(Reporting by Brenton Cordeiro in Bangalore; Editing by Roshni Menon)
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3 top pieces of financial advice ? from appreciating CDs to following the barbarians
Tapping your life insurance?
You may want to think about cashing in your whole life insurance policy before you die, said Sandra Block in Kiplinger's Personal Finance. If you've had the policy a long time, you've probably built up plenty of cash, and that can come in handy "if you're heading into retirement with a decimated investment portfolio, a mortgage, and increased medical expenses." To access that money, you can make a partial withdrawal, take out a policy loan, sell your policy to a life-settlement company, or trade it in for an annuity or long-term-care policy. A whole life policy "is like a Swiss army knife," said Dave Simbro of Northwestern Mutual. "There are all these things you can pull out." But be sure to consider tax ramifications, and "don't underestimate the need to provide for your spouse."
Don't write off CDs
CD yields may be minuscule, but they are not as bad as other options, said Tom Lauricella in The Wall Street Journal. It isn't hard to find yields that top those of U.S. government bonds. A 0.3 percent yield on a one-year CD "might seem like peanuts," but U.S. Treasury one-years are yielding just 0.17 percent. What's more, CDs carry government insurance of up to $250,000 per depositor as long as they are purchased at an FDIC-insured bank. "By locking up money for fixed amounts of time ? subject to early withdrawal penalties ? CDs also can be useful for savers who might otherwise be tempted to dip into savings ahead of plan."?
Follow the barbarians
Hedge fund managers often make big bucks by investing in ailing companies. Consider "mimicking their moves," said Paul R. LaMonica in Money. In July 2011, "agitator" Carl Icahn pressured Motorola Mobility to do something with its patent portfolio. A month later, the company sold out to Google for a 63 percent premium. Similarly, shares of Yahoo are up 15 percent since Third Point's Dan Loeb disclosed his stake in the company. Loeb is now pushing for change at Murphy Oil, while Bill Ackman of Pershing Square is targeting Proctor & Gamble. Of course, investing in troubled companies is risky, and "gurus can fail." Icahn, for instance, dumped his stake in the film studio Lionsgate in 2011, before it realized "huge gains" on The Hunger Games. So following the "barbarians" isn't foolproof. But when they're right, "the little guy can profit too."
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Dec. 13, 2012 ? Labour conditions, the amount of hours and working during the morning are the factors that most negatively affect the academic development of children who work. Using data from the 'Ed?came primero Colombia' Project ('Educate me first Colombia' in Spanish), a group of researchers in which the University of Seville participates has confirmed the incompatibility between studying and child labour.
The International Labour Organisation states that, in 2010, approximately 215 million children across the world were working. This figure has been progressively decreasing in Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean especially with regards to jobs that are considered hard and dangerous carried out by the youngest children. However, according to the organisation, the number of workers between the age of 15 and 17 years has increased in the last five years.
Numerous studies have demonstrated that working and the academic development of minors are incompatible. Now, an international study analysing the situation of 3,302 children in Colombia states that there are three especially important factors that condition academic results: working conditions, the number of hours worked in a day and working during the morning.
In Colombia, youngsters are allowed to work after the age of 15 years providing that their parents or legal guardians file for permission from a labour inspector. Between the ages of 15 and 17 years, they can only work six hours a day during a day shift and up to 30 hours a week.
According to a survey from Colombia's National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE, in the last quarter of 2011, the country's child labour rate stood at 12%. Amongst 15 to 17 years old, this figure reached 27.7%.
Against this backdrop, the researchers interviewed 3,302 families that had a son or daughter participating in the "Ed?came Primero Colombia" programme, headed by the United States Department of Labour and the Ministry for Social Protection of the Republic of Colombia.
The average child worker is 9 years of age
It was generally the mother who answered the questions. In total, there were 1,453 girls and 1,849 boys, with an average age of 9 years.
"At first we only interviewed the families, who acted as the source of information on the family, labour and education situation of the children," as explained by Isidro Maya-Jariego from the University of Seville and coauthor of the study.
The researcher explained how the interviews aimed to evaluate the sociodemographic and economic variables of families as well as the education and labour characteristics and conditions of the minors.
These included work conditions and type, hours worked on a daily or weekly basis and the age the child started working.
The fact that child labour has a negative influence on academic development is not new knowledge for the researchers. However, following their project, they observed that certain aspects have more of a conditioning influence than others.
Physical and psychological risks
First, the type of work and exposure to situations that imply a physical or psychological risk had a negative impact on the academic results of the children.
Measured by the time it takes up the working day, intensity appears in the study as an important conditioning factor. As for the number of hours worked during the week, "this negatively affects academic results since, compared to the work of adults, child labour is very irregular and on occasions the tasks involved in helping out at home can arise suddenly at any given moment," according to the study.
Lastly, working in the morning means that school has to compete more, since "they both clash and, in many cases, lead to youngsters dropping out of school."
Help needed in the family business
The results showed that 90% of children knew how to read and write and that in 65.7% of cases, children left school to help with the family business.
Likewise, becoming a parent at an early age, the need to fulfil family responsibilities and the high cost of education are other reasons for dropping out of school.
This study expands upon the relationship between child labour and academic advancement -- something far from being simple given the clear competition between the two.
According to the researcher, "it is important to analyse the specific impact that child labour has on education in the context of their development."
In the future, "it would be interesting to include other variables that reflect the academic results in a more holistic way, such as the experience of the child in terms of the educational surroundings," concludes the researcher.
These types of studies allow more adequate intervention in eradicating child labour in those affected areas and the characteristics of work undertaken by children.
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LONDON (AP) ? The value of mergers and acquisitions deals around the world in 2012 was nearly half the amount made five years ago, when the financial crisis first bared its teeth, a leading accounting and consulting firm said Wednesday.
Despite big deals such as Rosneft's takeover of fellow Russian oil company TNK-BP for a projected $54.5 billion, and Glencore International PLC's $45.8 billion acquisition of miner Xstrata PLC, Ernst & Young is forecasting that the value of global M&A was 47 percent lower in 2012 at $2.25 trillion, against 2007's $4.3 trillion. The company noted a shift in activity from developed economies to high-growth ones in Asia and Latin America ? the value of deals in the U.S. halved while those in China doubled.
There were a little under 37,000 deals worldwide, around 9,000 less than in 2007, when many companies took part in a feverish bout of deal-making, many of which proved to be too costly for the companies to bear. Much of the blame for Royal Bank of Scotland PLC's near-collapse in 2008, which eventually required a government bailout, was due to its over-priced purchase of a large chunk of Dutch bank ABN Amro the year before.
The excess of corporate deals in 2007 contributed to the near freezing of credit markets that year and paved the way for the global banking crisis in 2008 and the subsequent global recession.
However, Ernst & Young said this year's slump in corporate activity was mainly due to the uncertainty created by the debt crisis afflicting the 17 European Union countries that use the euro as well as fears over the impending "fiscal cliff" of automatic spending cuts and tax increases in the U.S.
"Acute caution was the prevailing M&A sentiment in 2012," said Pip McCrostie, global head of Ernst & Young's M&A division. "The eurozone crisis continues to impact 9 global companies in every 10 and in 2012 we saw its impact reduce the appetite for M&A, even in many formerly deal-hungry emerging markets. Limited deal activity will likely continue through 2013, especially if we don't see a clear, long term resolution to the fiscal cliff."
One clear consequence of the eurozone debt crisis in Europe has been to lower the currency bloc's share of the deals that do take place. In 2007, the eurozone accounted for around 21 percent of the global value of M&A. That's now down at 11 percent.
While the eurozone has suffered, the so-called BRIC countries? the fast-growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China ? are filling the gap. They accounted for 15 percent of the global M&A market in 2012, more than double 2007's rate of just 7 percent.
Even if the rapid growth of the BRIC countries over the previous few years wasn't fully sustained in 2012, the global M&A landscape has transformed over the past five years. Since 2007, the value of China's M&A market has doubled, while that of the U.S. has halved, Ernst & Young found.
"China's growing global economic influence, along with the other emerging economies, has been a re-occurring narrative over the past decade," said McCrostie. "Now the numbers tell their own story ? the shift in the balance of M&A power has accelerated since the financial crisis and it will likely become even more pronounced in 2013."
Ernst & Young found that China will be the preferred investment destination in 2013. The U.S., India, Brazil, and Germany completed the top five.
The survey, conducted in October, compiles the views of 1,500 senior executives from large companies around the world and across industry sectors.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal sentenced Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir to life in prison on Wednesday for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.
U.N. judges said Tolimir, 64, an intelligence chief and close aide to Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, planned and oversaw the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys after the town of Srebenica was overrun in July.
The massacre was part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out by nationalist Serbs determined to carve out a Serb state in Bosnia by removing all of the multi-ethnic province's Muslims and Croats. The 1992-95 war killed 100,000 people.
"The crimes were massive in scale, severe in intensity and devastating in effect," presiding judge Christoph Flugge said when reading the verdict at the Hague-based tribunal.
He said Tolimir had been close to Mladic and was referred by witnesses as his "right-hand man and eyes and ears."
Tolimir was found guilty of genocide, conspiring to commit genocide, violations of the laws and customs of wars and crimes against humanity including murder, persecution and exterminations of non-Muslims.
He was arrested in June 2007 on the border between Serbia and Bosnia's Serb Republic and is thought by security experts to have helped Mladic evade arrest until then.
Mladic was eventually captured in Serbia last year after 16 years on the run and is now standing trial in The Hague for the Srebrenica massacre and other alleged war crimes.
(Reporting by Ivana Sekularac; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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