Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Scientific and educational institutions in the DPRK are making substantial achievements conducive to the development of the self-supporting economy and the improvement of the people's standard of living.

Kim Il Sung University has made successes by directing efforts to improving the people's living conditions and consolidating the material and technical foundations of the public health sector.

A research group of the Acoustics Institute of the Physics Faculty of the university has solved all problems including design and programming by itself and made a new detector of water leaking from water supply pipe.

Researchers of the High-Tech Development Center have developed an aerosol generator for the performance test of biosafety equipment in conformity with international standards.

Officials and researchers of the Electrical Machinery Institute of the Electrical Engineering Faculty of Kim Chaek University of Technology manufactured a permanent magnet brushless DC motor for drilling machine, thus laying a foundation for reducing energy consumption and cost and raising the efficiency of drilling.

The modernization institute of the State Academy of Sciences has developed five kinds of industrial automation software tools and high-tech industrial information devices to provide conditions for developing the industrial information system by its own efforts.

Researchers of the Hydro-meteorological Observation Instrument Institute of the Meteorological and Hydrological Institute under the State Hydro-Meteorological Administration have made progress in introducing into the farms across the country an agricultural meteorological observation system capable of automatically measuring, processing, storing, displaying and transmitting the past and present meteorological element values and their change, including air and soil temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind direction and intensity and sunshine duration.

Officials and researchers of the Hydraulic Engineering Research Institute of Hamhung University of Hydraulic Engineering have made contributions to stepping up the tideland reclamation by exploring and applying innovative methods to minimize earth washing away and ensure the stability of structures and ground in embankment construction. -0-