The improved outlook for the quarter which ends later this month is due primarily to increased royalties from its micro-electronics customers.

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Mr Bidve, who was a postgraduate student in micro-electronics, was visiting Greater Manchester with friends over the festive period when he was killed.

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The new technology, called an epidermal electronic system (EES), is based on a new class of micro-electronics that integrates miniature sensors, light-emitting diodes, tiny transmitters and refined wire-filament receivers.

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