Sentences with phrase «technology as a good example»

Chalupka uses technology as a good example of a secular decline.

Chalupka uses technology as a good example of a secular decline.

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Seely Brown brought up the car as the best example — it's a piece of technology into which we stick a key, and it works.

He mentioned Microsoft's Office work productivity and Dynamics software for salespeople as being two examples of applications Microsoft has imbued with better data crunching technology.

If you need skilled expertise — legal, programming, information technology or public relations, for example — you might as well spend that money.

For example, Instagram may work well for someone in, say, the fashion industry, but it may not work as well for a technology company.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

A key organizational reason for the change is that it is no longer necessary to have everyone located in one central place because connections (as well as communication) within the organization are facilitated by technology — computers, fax machines, and wireless telephony, for example.

Witness the transitions to market economies in Russia and Eastern Europe, for example, as well as the rapid development of technology in the United States and the enormous impact of corporate downsizing and restructuring.

Each discussion concludes with a list of key research questions that industry — in partnership with research — will need to answer in the coming years as well as example enabling technologies.

As I've previously written, it's important to also take a pause from technology to set a good example for your family.

An example would be Wonderschool, which provides caregivers with a proprietary technology platform, as well as licensing, marketing, and administrative services.

Paula - Marie Brown, IET Head of Transport, said: «Over recent years, travelling on the London Underground has been transformed by noticeable changes in technology, for example with the introduction of the Oyster card and WiFi on station platforms as well as the introduction of new rolling stock.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

For example, I have voted to improve fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, to provide communities with funding to expand public transportation, to provide tax credits to expand the use of wind and solar technologies, as well as expanding access to grants and tax credits for homeowners to weatherize their homes and purchase more fuel efficient vehicles.

In the process, the inventors themselves bring recognition to the value of innovation, serving as living examples of what an inventor can accomplish in terms of solving problems that confront society, as well as advocating for the support of innovation through prerequisites such as strong STEM education and sustained government funding of science and technology.

It will produce the ultimate example of gene - culture co-evolution: our technology will change the world, and it will dramatically affect natural selection, not just for a whole range of species but for humans as well.

The region has a number of government - sponsored centers of excellence, with strengths in climate change and applied mathematics, for example, as well as cooperative research centers with a range of foci, including biotechnology, nanotechnology, and manufacturing technology.

Examples of new products enabled by graphene technologies include fast, flexible and strong consumer electronics, such as electronic paper and bendable personal communication devices, as well as lighter and more energy - efficient aeroplanes.

And it maybe goes both ways, but I know that in radio astronomy, for example, they have taken advantage of a lot of the — and presumably in other kinds of astronomy as well, they've taken advantage of the, you know, how cheap storage is now and processing power to do really hugely data - intensive observations with off - the - shelf technologies, and they've used graphics processors to, you know, do things they could only do before with custom fabricated chips, which were obviously extremely expensive.

Fusion imaging, combining traditional nuclear medicine with other imaging technologies like CT and MRI and their related contrast agents, as well as new and exciting areas like fluorescence imaging are examples of this.

Future technologies that need R&D: high - efficiency photovoltaics (say, 50 % conversion)(as well as lowering the cost of PV), energy storage systems for intermittent sources like solar and wind (hydrogen storage, other methods), advances in biofuel technology (for example, hydrogen production from algae, cellulosic ethanol, etc..)

For example, research dollars that are devoted to develop a particular technology or method will grow rapidly after it is initially discovered, eventually stagnate as its potential is realized, and decline as it is replaced by better technologies.

Houghton Mifflin, for example, started out with a competitive advantage in education, but over time, it struggled, thanks to the «fundamentally capricious nature of the K — 12 end market,» as well as ineffective attempts to pursue globalization (though education content is fundamentally local), technology (despite schools» resistance), and «edutainment» (rarely successful).

ClaaS is designed to help schools: · Maximise their budget with savings that can amount to as much as 40 percent when compared to an outright purchase · Release capital from their existing IT assets to help finance their new ClaaS subscription · Receive ongoing servicing, training and maintenance which is covered by the agreement, ensuring schools and teachers get the most from technology · Add more equipment and services as and when required · Potentially include other equipment and services such as; tablets, PCs, printers and Wi - Fi from other best of breed suppliers · Build in a regular refresh to ensure they always have the latest learning technology · Be flexible: choose a convenient term length (for example: 3, 4 or 5 years) with the ability to renew the contract, negotiate a new contract or end the contract at the end of the original term Jane Ashworth, UK Managing Director, SMART Technologies commented: «We are thrilled to announce Crystalised as our third distributor in the UK, effective October 1st.

Now, schools can make the best of both worlds, as technology has spearheaded collaborations between more traditional resources, for example, books have developed into ebooks and the textbook has become digitised.

Although this may be true, and truer still that schools have been notoriously slow in implementing technological change (ditto machines are still alive and well in many school buildings as the primary means of duplicating documents, for example), it is also true that the integration of such technologies into the workplace and in public schools has more than just begun.

He gave the example of digital textbooks which can be updated as an example of how online technology could be better than traditional methods.

For example, rural schools face uneven broadband access and infrastructure to support technology - based instructional tools as well as capacity challenges with small staffs in adopting what may be a radically different instructional orientation.

«Poor examples» would include technology used just for the sake of using technology (i.e., the concept could be learned just as well without the technology) and technology that is difficult to learn or fails to work when needed.

Chan and van Aalst (2006) explored Knowledge Building (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 2010) as a useful theoretical framework in conjunction with the collaborative use of digital technologies, which is a good example of what might be possible.

In each example the activity and its connection to geospatial technologies are described, as well as the assessment and experience of teacher candidates.

Certainly technology can be useful with logistical aspects of teaching / learning, such as braille keyboards and flexible line spacing, as well as with pedagogy — for example, connecting with real scientists doing real - time experiments (such as the Jason Project).

Originally, we imagined the new LS would come equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell, reasoning that Toyota's continued interest in the technology (the Mirai, for example), as well as the LS nameplate's reputation for introducing ground - breaking, super advanced technology, would coalesce in something like a FCV.

As these technologies become more widespread and costs fall, we will see more manufacturers follow the example of the class leaders and offer the best all - round safety to all consumers.»

And that speed of change in tech, he said, is a good example of challenges facing the traditional industry: «By the time many publishers think a technology is important enough to warrant starting a book,» Armstrong said, «the technology has already crossed the chasm to the early majority... By the time most computer programming books reach a bookshelf, the most important readers... won't be interested, as they'll have already learned everything they need from blogs.»

All of the new Kindle Fire HD models support dual - band Wi - Fi (2.4 and 5 GHz) as well as MIMO radio technology, so if your home wireless router uses MIMO to boost the signal throughput, these tablets can offer faster wireless performance over the current iPad and Nexus 7, for example.

For example, Amazon.com featured heavily in three of the five featured sector funds — technology, retail and media — while other FANG stocks held prominent roles as well.

Two examples of technology assisted advisors are startups like Personal Capital as well as Vanguard's Personal Advisor Services.

For example, the funds raised for medical technologies such as surgical robotics enables doctors to make a better diagnosis and perform more precise, less invasive procedures that can significantly improve patient outcomes.

The retrospective will include key examples from his iconic «Combines» series as well as showcase his innovative experiments with media appropriation, technology and performance.

Having said that, i believe that China for example is really experiencing the kind of pollution that US did in the 50 and 60's, and that they are better equipped to move more forcibly and quicker than the US did, one reason is that no rational being would deploy techninology that is outdated,,, they would leapfrog to the newwer technology when building infrastructure... One might be able to argue that it is cheaper and more beneficial for developed to support that... That and the belief i have that they may not, as you point, want to experihence the consumption addiction that US incurred... (Note; the Europeans are substantially less than the US per capita emissions, a benefit of greater foresight — evidence that this is not a «western» problem

If most of this investment were focused on alternative energy and new technologies (e.g., better solar collectors using carbon nanonets as one example), this could be the basis for a huge industry in which the USA could be a world leader.

The Journal further claimed that «the EPA's faulty construction of a monitoring well caused contamination» in Pavillion, WY, citing that situation as an example of how «any technology has the potential to inflict some damage» if mismanaged.

My purchase of a Volt is, to me, putting my money exactly where my mouth is, as it is the first (and an excellent) mass - produced example of exactly the «best of both worlds» PHEV technology we at CalCars have been working so hard to get into the marketplace to help empower the shift to electric propulsion without having to wait for EVs and their infrastructure to be capable of satisfying all driving needs.

For example solar is currently an expensive option per watt compared to energy efficiency measures, but in a thickly settled community like Newton, where the wind is rather whimpy as well, it is the renewable technology of choice.

Yet as we have shown, this «well funded» effort is the beneficiary of a tiny fraction of the quantity of cash available to, for example, the Carbon Trust (# 70 + million / year), whose aim is «to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy by working with organisations to reduce carbon emissions and develop commercial low carbon technologies».

These examples show why the electrification plans of the government of Indonesia are multi-dimensional; they include the extension of the existing grid, promoting micro-hydro and off - grid solar technologies as well as solar - diesel or solar - battery hybrids; only in relatively few cases are isolated diesel generators the optimal approach.

The more notable examples include long - rotational forest management, fish farming and tourism, as well as the potential for replicating the experience of Manaus to create urban economies based on technology and services.

This guidance document contains examples of technology and knowledge transfer in new markets, as well as the use of big data to improve climate adaptability in agriculture, and water management.