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The country's first manned science sub goes for global bragging rights – When a team of Chinese engineers set out to build the deepest-diving submersible in the world, they had never laid eyes on a manned deepsea vehicle. "We had only read some reference papers that had pictures; there was no chance for us to see a real manned submersible," says Cui Weicheng, deputy director of the China Ship Scientific Research Center and project manager for the new sub. "We were starting from the very beginning." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents a guide to the acronyms and abbreviations used in the electronics industry in the U.S. According to experts, the vast majority of what we call acronyms are really another type of abbreviation. Technically, if an acronym is pronounceable as a word such as radar, which stands for radio detection and ranging, it can be classified as an initialism. Engineers, who tend to be adamant about technical standards and specifications, are pretty ambivalent about consistent capitalization, Thus end up with the indecisive VoIP, which stands for voice over Internet Protocol and QoS, which stands for quality of service.