Sentences with phrase «area of technology use»

The new C3 Framework has much to offer the field, but its emphasis on disciplinary literacy offers too little space for addressing the normative dimensions of our work as citizenship educators, especially in the critical area of technology use.

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Last year, in a review published in the journal Nature, Beebe and coauthors wrote that hematology, the study of blood, was one of the leading areas of use for microfluidic technology, though «a «killer application'that propels microfluidics into the mainstream has yet to emerge.»

And most of business men use many technologies to manage their business like some use paper management, some use time tracking or workforce management software, and some use computer programs to develop and manage their business when they are out of area or out in field.

-- Ted Farnsworth, CEO of RedZone, a GPS - driven, real - time crime and navigation map app that uses proprietary geo - fencing technology to show users where recent crime has taken place in order to navigate through safer neighborhoods while avoiding risky crime areas deemed «red zones.»

By now, Canadians are probably used to seeing reports telling them how they're behind in various areas of technology.

It is an emerging area of intense interest for banks and other financial companies as well as technology developers, with potential uses in a range of financial transactions including securities settlement and payments.

Bartolini cites Loblaw's PC Points and Click & Collect programs, respectively, as examples of a retailer successfully using technology in these two key areas.

One way to get to know an area and its people is through the use of technology.

Quanser The Toronto - area company is primarily focused on health and academic markets, but its haptic technology — which replicates the sense of touch through mechanical vibration — is being used in commercial home robots.

In a Thursday statement, Naspers said it would use the proceeds of the sale to prop up its balance sheet and make some more investments, in areas such as online food delivery and financial technology.

A tap of a finger could soon suffice to identify credit card shoppers and rail commuters, offering areas of new business for specialist companies which have benefited from the use of such technology in smartphones.

But an overemphasis on conventional person - to - person customer engagement does not come close to areas of growing consumer interest: innovation, self - service and the use of contemporary technology.

«Once renovations are complete, Hangar One will again be home to high - tech innovation, as Planetary Ventures begins using the historic facility for research, development, assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration, aviation, rover / robotics and other emerging technologies,» NASA said in a statement.

Some analysts have noted that rising gas prices have made car - sharing a desirable method of transportation in urban areas; other experts have praised the company for its successful overseas strategy and smart use of technology.

She cites regulations that are used infrequently but still serve an important purpose and may lose out to rules governing emerging areas of business, like technology.

«We're not only developers of one of the world's best facial - recognition technologies but can also create products using our vast experience in wider areas.»

Analytics are going to play more and more of a function in deciphering huge quantities of data, making sense of it, applying it into many different areas and then using blockchain technologies to securitize that.

The report suggests that the major VR and AR areas that will be generating revenue fall into one of three categories: Content (gaming, film and TV, health care, education, and social); hardware and distribution (headsets, input devices like handheld controllers, graphics cards, video capture technologies, and online marketplaces); and software platforms and delivery services (content creation tools, capture, production, and delivery software, video game engines, analytics, file hosting and compression tools, and B2B and enterprise uses).

The Hon. Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, explained that Canada must think beyond trade and investment to build new opportunities and partnership through innovation hubs and by tapping into the growth of developing smart cities — urban areas that use communications technologies to manage their infrastructure.

SEC chairman Jay Clayton, in response to Cotton's question, pointed to applications in the areas of data verification and record - keeping - i.e., using the technology to create distributed records of information - as particularly notable use cases.

The event is geared towards consumers and merchants who are interested in expanding the use of bitcoin in the Atlanta area, as well as those interested in working on the business and technology side of Bitcoin.

Although the Swell keynote delivered by Bernanke was filmed for private use only, some of his remarks regarding blockchain and cryptocurrency applications for interbank transfers have been reported: «It's an obvious area where new technologies like blockchain or these electronic currencies can be used to improve the process.»

In addition to human resources, they also have land, existing industries that can be partners or consultants for startups in the same areas, and agricultural sites that can be used for trials of agro-tech technologies.»

Far more workers are employed in areas that underpin the use of solar technology, such as making steel racks that angle the panels toward the sun.

EEA believes to see great advances in these areas in 2018 through the use of Ethereum technologies.

Answering a question from the audience on Thursday about Alibaba's development of artificial intelligence, Tsai noted the company is already using an AI chatbot that can handle 90 percent of customer enquiries and is spreading learning - machine technology to other areas such as logistics and product search.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

The Oscar winner is among an elite circle of Hollywood and Silicon Valley backers behind Diamond Foundry (Disruptor No. 33), a Bay Area company that claims it uses technology to accomplish what alchemists and others have attempted in vain for centuries: growing diamonds and other precious sto...

Three areas that HR could make even better use of, when it comes to technology, would be:

As noted in the report, the technology can be used in key areas such as health and the protection of critical infrastructure, financial and energy.

Work internally to assist in the process of streamlining the use of technology in key account management, contract fulfillment and tracking and other areas of work;

As the fresh produce industry integrates new technologies throughout the supply chain, China has emerged as a leader in some key areas, especially technologies that reduce friction points for the consumer such as mobile payments (with an estimated 94 % penetration rate in first tier cities), app - based food delivery and, a big buzzword in China right now, «O2O,» or online - to - offline — which describes a range of technologies and strategies for using internet - based tools to facilitate brick - and - mortar sales, and vice versa.

After tracing the origin of the oil it sources, IOI Loders Croklaan uses remote sensing technology to analyze whether mills are operating in a low or high sensitive area.

Klefenz says the acquisition will enable Bosch to offer a broader product portfolio in the area of inspection technology, from basic inspection solutions to fully automated high - performance systems for all commonly used applications on the market.

Yalumba is enforcing a change in the irrigation technology used by its growers from broadacre systems, which provide water to large swathes of land, to microsystems, which target specific areas, ensuring each drop of water counts.

They do have some videos that talk about latch and kind of show you how to do things well and perhaps some of the more interesting, what I found at least more interesting about the app was it does use GPS technology to find comfortable places to breast feed or pump when you are out and about and basically it just uses the tracker on your to say where you are at and then you can also find lactation consultant s in your area as well as pediatricians that support breast feeding.

A breast ultrasound examination is not considered a screening test, but an investigative technology used for taking a closer look at areas of your breast that your doctor still has questions about after doing a mammogram and clinical breast exam.

Bonuses will be awarded to the «best» plans in eight areas, including «best use of technology» and «best use of community involvement.»

The survey, which also collected information on households» access to information and communication technology (ICT) and patterns of usage, found that about 89 per cent of Nigerians have access to a mobile phone, adding that access to the internet was more prevalent in urban areas than in rural areas — the most common uses being to send and receive emails.

The Green Party candidate also said he would not be in favor of using experimental drone technology to provide high - speed internet to underserved areas in the Adirondack Park.

Given the possible security vulnerabilities related to developments in synthetic biology — a field that uses technologies to modify or create organisms or biological components — a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine proposes a framework to identify and prioritize potential areas of concern associated with the field.

Then image - recognition technology gauges how footage physically overlaps: features such as edges and corners are used to find areas that match, before the images are blended to create a wider view of the scene.

«If we get better at mapping the brain areas responsible, it will lead to more precision in the use of technologies that may repair these damaged connections, like deep brain stimulation.»

The team next plans to use the discovery to develop technology for «photonic printing,» the ability to quickly create numerous task - specific WGM biosensors, with specific molecules attached to specific areas of the micro-bead.

So since last week, Kate Coyer of the Civil Society and Technology Project at Central European University in Budapest and her colleagues have been plugging power strips into the area's few available public outlets, so more people can use them.

These included some areas of the tourism industry being behind the times when it came to using technology, which empowered the entrepreneur to apply technological knowledge to attract customers.

A novel study in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), presents cases from Boston - area hospitals where victims were treated, examining the medical response and imaging technologies used to save lives and limbs.

Using weather and sea data from the time of the sinking, along with a new theoretical model, a Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has calculated that there was as much as a one - in - 130 chance — over a period of time and area — that a rogue wave 46 feet high (14 meters) could have occurred during the hurricane.

Using their star power and connections, the foursome have pushed their ideas on conspicuous occasions, a number of which they created themselves: a session at the National Academy of Sciences» annual meeting that Varmus described as «heated;» a briefing by Krischner, Tilghman, and Varmus at the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; a meeting at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that «brought together some senior... influencers to talk about the problem;» a new paper about that meeting that will soon appear in PNAS; and a presentation by Kirschner at the Future of Research symposium organized by Boston - area postdocs in October.

The researchers are also using this technology to investigate the drivers of the accretion - erosion balance over the much larger area of the Hawaiian Archipelago.