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It is easy to heat up the biosphere, but so far there is
no practical technology for cooling it down.
Not exact matches
Rapid prototyping is a more
practical use
for the
technology, and manufacturers seem to agree — Stewart says it's what 80 — 90 % of 3D printers are used
for today.
Wherever
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As a spokesman
for the Danish audio company said, Bang & Olufson is rarely first with new
technologies; instead, it waits to see how
practical they are before adopting them.
«There are many historical cases where entertainment drives
technologies that then become very
practical for other things.»
It was a
technology project and
for a lot of
practical reasons should have been very successful.
The
technology giant said Thursday that several companies and universities have joined its initiative to create
practical uses
for quantum computing, a nascent
technology that researchers believe could eventually surpass conventional computers in speed and power.
You'll hear
practical advice on how to critique your own ABM programme, including updated versions of our two key tools
for success the ABM Maturity Index, which allows you to map your journey towards success, and the ABM
Technology Map, which shows the tech solutions available to you at each stage of your programme.
Technology Startups: A
Practical Legal Guide
for Founders, Executives and Investors.Retrieved April 9, 2009, from Fraser Milner Casgrain website at http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7c476ef3-67a9-4a33-8053-05331cb29e6a.
Accordingly, blockchain has been touted as everything from a replacement
for conventional stock exchanges to a new distribution mechanism
for digital music, but most viable uses
for the
technology are decidedly more
practical.
The wall behind them is papered with various possible looks
for the startup's ambitious products: 3 - D printers that can fabricate metal parts cheaply and quickly enough to make the
technology practical for widespread use in product design and manufacturing.
It's the environment and
technology upon which clever developers can build smart applications
for practical use in everyday life.
While the IOTA blockchain
technology is a tangle chain based on DAG (directed acyclic graph), IoT Chain will be a decentralized main chain based on PBFT (
practical Byzantine fault tolerance) consensus, which will allow
for fast and accurate mining.
«By combining our capabilities, we will significantly improve our ability to turn innovative ideas, paired with disruptive
technologies, into
practical and scalable business solutions
for our clients,» said Gianfranco Zaccai, Founder of Continuum.
The smartest bet is to focus on the work of seasoned technologists who are using blockchain
technology to develop
practical new platforms
for business, e-commerce, and social media.
Silicon Valley giants are engaged in developing blockchain
technology for practical business applications.
As this is discussed theoretically (and under the guidance of the Spirit), it could be helpful
for theologians to be aware that, on the
practical level, these issues are linked to communication theories and
technologies that have transformed organizational patterns in our day.
For all
practical purposes, this means the implementation of worldwide energy conservation and renewable energy
technologies.
They believe that capital expressed in
technology can lead to virtually unlimited substitutions, so that they argue that
for practical purposes raw materials are unlimited.
Alcoholic beverages in bag - in - box are a rapidly growing market, thanks to the wide range of
practical benefits offered by this
technology and its capability to respond to rising consumer expectations
for preservative - free, premium beverages and to meet increasingly «on the hoof» lifestyles.
We work with Australian industry, government and researchers to identify major growth opportunities
for the medical
technologies and pharmaceuticals industries in Australia, as well as develop strategies and
practical plans to ensure we position Australia as an influential and innovative player in the global MTP sector.
One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call
for a concussion assessment, but to employ
technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where
practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.
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Not only is a sensor program extraordinarily costly and time - consuming to manage, but achieving short - term
practical use from the
technology as it currently exists isn't feasible
for the majority of organizations.
Now you can order that
practical someone on your list the latest in LED lighting
technology — with free shipping
for the holidays.
This discussion will look at how candidates and interest groups in in the U.S. are using Facebook advertising, Twitter, Google Ads, mobile phones, location - based services and older
technologies like email and blogs to raise money, mobilize support and get voters to the polls in an important election year, with an emphasis on
practical results and the implications
for future political campaigns around the world.
«It's a very clear and important
practical extension of synthetic biology, opening up a whole generation of new
technologies for diagnosis,» says Jim Collins of the Wyss Institute
for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.
As
for improving election security, both Perez and Gronke cited concerns about improving voters» access and making
practical changes, such as updating voting booth
technology, increasing election funding and requiring every state to adopt risk - limiting audits.
«However, the promising results of this trial lay the foundations
for the development of a more cost - effective, clinically -
practical vaccine
technology that could deliver similar outcomes
for patients.
But I think we are close to closing all of these loopholes, which would be a significant achievement with
practical implications
for quantum
technologies.
ORNL's
technology could have a much greater impact on purely electric vehicles such as the upcoming Nissan Leaf or Ford Focus RV, which do not have a combustion engine to rely on, meaning depleted batteries need to be charged quickly
for the car to be
practical.
The group says it is the only
practical technology that might be used
for interstellar travel, since the light generates a small but constant pressure that should accelerate a sail to high speeds over time.
Now a fluid full of nanosized particles has leapt past the threshold
for practical use, say researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology.
«It's a platform
for a new class of diagnostics, and a very clear and important
practical extension of synthetic biology, opening up a whole generation of new
technologies for diagnosis,» says Jim Collins of the Wyss Institute
for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.
In a more
practical vein, the finding could have profound implications
for military
technology, wireless communication, and even interplanetary exploration.
The innovation is especially significant
for small devices, Hunter says, because other energy - storage
technologies — such as fuel cells, batteries, and flywheels — tend to be less efficient, or simply too complex to be
practical when reduced to very small sizes.
«But we also learned something that is likely to be of
practical use
for the development of
technologies that make use of 2 - D materials.»
The emitted light is not quite as intense as that produced by a monolayer of MoS2, but it's certainly intense enough
for practical use — and significantly more intense than that produced by most rival
technologies.
Their findings may have important
practical implications
for personal and facial recognition
technologies and software such as are used in airport security,
for example, the researcher says.
NIST researchers invented a method
for wiring hundreds of SQUID signal amplifiers together to make large arrays of superconducting detectors
practical — part of the cutting - edge
technology that helps make BICEP2 especially powerful.
The team is in Hannover to look
for partners interested in using this new
technology in
practical wheel - based applications.
Practical applications of this
technology will include all - optical reconfigurable routers, ultrafast optical modulators and switches
for optical networks and microwave photonic circuits as well as wafer - scale optical testing of photonic chips.
She says that there may be
practical applications in the future — a commentary accompanying the paper suggests that the method could aid in the development of
technologies such as molecular wires, atom - thick conductors that could help shrink electronic devices — but that their result concerns «extremely fundamental» physics that might be just as valuable
for developing quantum intuition in the next generation of physicists.
The team originally tested their analysis on a handheld prototype, made from a range of off the shelf materials, but Dr Iris Choi,
Technology Associate at Oxford University and the paper's co-author, is confident that the system could be miniaturised, and turned into a
practical component
for a mobile phone, such as Nokia, who were a partner in the research.
«A big challenge
for the massive deployment of such systems is the powering: wire line supply is impossible, batteries often not
practical or affordable,» Gielen said, adding: «CNTs are an emerging
technology that offer the potential to cut down significantly, by orders of magnitude, on the power consumption of electronics compared to today's state - of - the - art
technologies.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) have put this hydrogen «cure» to
practical use, making optical fibers that transmit stable, high - power ultraviolet laser light
for hundreds of hours.
Keith Yeates, PhD, lead
for the university's Integrated Concussion Research Program (ICRP) and a co-investigator on the study, says the
technology has important
practical benefits, «The fNIRS device has the potential to provide a convenient method
for helping detect concussion.»
In a decision that could affect the immigration plan President Barack Obama announced on 20 November, a federal judge decided on 21 November that the Washington Alliance of
Technology Workers (WashTech), an organization based in Bellevue, Washington, and affiliated with the national Communication Workers of America (CWA) union, can bring a lawsuit challenging the federal government's right to extend by executive action the authorization
for foreign students to work in the United States under the Optional
Practical Training (OPT) program.
The
practical uses
for these methods range from the optimization of alternative energy
technologies to the development of pharmaceuticals.