Sentences with phrase «other infrastructure systems»

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The company used to charge fees for access to its infrastructure and other services, but with the move to the BlackBerry 10 operating system, it no longer imposes these fees.

Virtualized phone systems allow you to integrate land lines, mobile phones and other IT infrastructure so clients never feel out of the loop

A MPUC representative declined to comment and instead directed us to contact the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO)-- a nonprofit organization that oversees high - voltage power grid infrastructure and reliability across Minnesota, 14 other US states in the Midwest (in whole and in part), and parts of Canada.

Austin infrastructure is strong with an international airport and, unlike other large Texas cities, a strong public transit system.

Once we shift from «assistive» tech to full autonomy, how much can self - driving systems expect to rely on clear road markings or other directional infrastructure?

In places where access to electricity and other infrastructure is far from guaranteed, this system aims to sterilize the grimy bits.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The Japanese government has spent heavily on improving its information security systems and has formed teams to study possible threats to power supplies and other infrastructure.

Paul Black lists out three big trends to watch for in health IT this year, namely: a continuing shift to value - based care models (rather than the fee - for - service, volume - oriented paradigm which still dominates the sector); digital health infrastructure interoperability that makes it possible for different systems to talk to each other and coordinate care; and an increased focus on precision medicine and «genomically aware care» that can help take a lot of the guesswork out of medicine.

For the last 300 years, the assumption of Europe and North America was that you were going to have a mixed economy, with governments investing in infrastructure, roads and other transportation, communications, water and sewer systems, gas and electricity.

Indeed, he and his coauthors advocate an expansion in infrastructure spending — in ports, roads and transit systems — among other things.

Mechanical Infrastructure: Are the heating, cooling, electric, water and other systems in good working order?

On the other hand, the blockchain will help reduce some of the enormous cost of the increased financial system infrastructure required by new laws and regulations, including Dodd - Frank.

Some of the proceeds would go to network maintenance, but the excess would pay for other forms of infrastructure these firms depend on: roads for deliveries, legal systems for adjudicating differences and regulations for protecting consumers.

Given the sad state of our highways, public transportation systems and other material infrastructure, as well as the severe needs of our educational system, increased government spending in these areas could take up the slack in declining defense expenditures while contributing enormously to the potential productivity of the United States.

The infrastructure would ensure that programs are high quality, true to their intended model, and linked to other critical early childhood systems, thereby creating a seamless and holistic network of support for at risk families.

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise tax money, then we should be talking about something else.

If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise...

Senate Democrats in January introduced their own $ 180 billion infrastructure spending package that proposed sweeping upgrades to the nation's roadways, bridges and other transportation systems over the next decade.

Membership fees will be spent on enterprise, education, a better healthcare system, roads and other infrastructure rather than squandered on EU dreams.

Kink says he does like the governors» job creation programs - the biggest one would use over one and half billion state dollars to leverage billions more in investments for road and bridge and other infrastructure repairs, including a new Tappan Zee Bridge, better flood control, and renewable energy systems.

The Board's concerns include that «large holders of Puerto Rico debt will seek to raise their stakes and collateralize their debt with the island's public infrastructure: roads, bridges, sewers, water systems, and other public assets.»

Other Westchester Municipalities having School Board And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Street.)

«From building bridges to revitalizing our subway and rail systems, we have invested more in our infrastructure than any other administration, and now we must take t...

Our de facto unitary system has produced states and local governments who can neither pay staff salaries nor perform the basic functions of governments - who can not properly educate their citizens, secure their communities or provide basic, functional roads and other infrastructure.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner told state legislators during a budget meeting today that her city needs state money to fix its water system and other aging infrastructure.

The budget included gubernatorial priorities including an expanded system of college tuition subsidies, funding for several infrastructure projects and the legalization of ride - hailing outside New York City — among other things.

«We can see that senseless and wasteful cost overruns on construction projects are destroying New York City's subway system and harming other public infrastructure priorities,» Sampson said.

There's an increasing consensus that the money, estimated to be between $ 5 billion and $ 7 billion, should be spent on infrastructure — the state's aging roadways, bridges, transit and other public systems.

Common Council President James Noble, who recently formed an infrastructure committee to help track and coordinate the city's efforts to deal with an aging sewer and stormwater system and other problems said that he had received no word from the Mayor's office regarding the status of the sinkhole project.

He says he'll also improve the state's emergency fuel and water supplies and protect the subway system and other infrastructure from future floods, in what he says will be a massive effort that «requires immediate assistance on a grand scale.»

Giambra says, «It is time we join with the other states that have moved to legalize marijuana and take advantage of the enormous opportunity we have to raise money to deal with our very serious infrastructure problems, including the subway system in New York City.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

Given any worry that launch sites, production sites or other infrastructure might be targeted — and not just physically, but through cyber - and other means — then you definitely might want to pre-deploy systems into orbit or farther out, Cheng said.

Now that Stuxnet has shown it is possible for a targeted piece of software to take command of an industrial control system, and now that the malware has been released on the Internet for other hackers to study, the bar has been lowered for destructive attacks on other control systems — whether at critical infrastructure or an industrial factory.

Currently, it's much faster for property owners in many parts of the country to get a permit for sea walls, bulkheads and other so - called gray infrastructure than it is to get a permit for construction of nature - based systems.

Rodgers adds: «It's essential to demonstrate that high - performance computing simulations can generate realistic results and our team will work with engineers to evaluate the computed motions, so they can be used to understand the resulting distribution of risk to infrastructure and ultimately to design safer energy systems, buildlings and other infrastructure.»

But here if they are recasting it and showing [that] the right kind of infrastructure, the right kind of business model, the right kind of other systems that are not specifically technological, can completely change the game on that.

New investments in mini grid systems aimed at bringing power to rural Africa and other remote areas may provide a test bed for the rural energy infrastructure of the future.

CHOMPING AT THE QUBIT IBM announced two new advances to its quantum computing hardware (cooling system and other infrastructure shown): a 20 - qubit processor that will be available commercially and a 50 - qubit prototype currently undergoing testing.

«Disruptions of services in one infrastructure will almost always result in disruptions in one or more other infrastructures, especially in urban systems, triggering serious cross-sectoral cascading infrastructure system failures in some locations, at least for short periods of time,» the report says.

The obvious strain on gingerbread houses, jelleybean - and - honey fastening products, and other sugar - based infrastructure systems brings them to our attention during the holiday season.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a software algorithm that detects and isolates cyber-attacks on networked control systems — which are used to coordinate transportation, power and other infrastructure across the United States.

Other governments around the world more successfully manage infrastructure investments, health systems and environmental resources, apparently with greater flexibility, less corruption, lower costs and better outcomes.

Ghana, Nepal, Mexico and other developing countries often lack the tax bases and infrastructure needed to put such systems into place.

The team's analysis focused on zirconium alloys, which are widely used in the nuclear industry, but the basic principles they found could apply to many metallic alloys used in other energy systems and infrastructure applications, the researchers say.

More storage may be needed Planning needs to begin now for the adjustments that will need to take place with dams, reservoirs and other water system infrastructure, Fahlund said.

The report recommends beefing up forecasting systems for ocean and ice conditions, infrastructure for supply chains for people and equipment to respond, field research on the behavior of oil in the Arctic environment, and other strategies to prepare for a significant spill in the harsh conditions of the Arctic.

Critical infrastructure, such as dams, power grids and other systems are increasingly linked to the Internet, meaning they, too, are exposed to ransomware.