Sentences with phrase «technology over the past decade»

But advances in technology over the past decade have made it easier to design sophisticated buildings that produce 100 percent of their own energy.

However, advances in MEG technology over the past decade allowed the team to gather accurate data about the origins of FFRs using MEG.

Several improvements in technology over the past decade — including solar cells and more efficient engines — make these aircraft more of a reality than they have been in the past.

This is just one of countless advances in scientific ingenuity and technology over the past decade, sparked by the first draft sequence.

Advances in digital technology over the past decade have made it easier and cheaper to distribute music online.

December 30, 2009 • Advances in digital technology over the past decade have made it easier and cheaper to distribute music.

The world is changing, driven largely by the rapid advances in technology over the past decades.

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has consistently missed on finding the up and coming trends in technology over the past decade.

One of the major advancements in computing and technology over the past decade has been the proliferation of cloud, or SaaS, offerings.

Lawyers have adapted numerous technologies over the past decades.

If you've used or owned any piece of personal technology over the past decade, chances are good that you've come across a MicroUSB cable in that time.

What it means to real estate agents: We've seen big growth in green technology over the past decade, and it's not going away.

Not exact matches

O'Reilly, whose company produces technology books and events, has been at the forefront of nearly every major development in computers over the past three decades.

Over the past decade, employment of skilled technology workers in BC has grown 27 %, driven partly by U.S. companies frustrated with their own government's limit on visas for skilled workers.

For the past decade, I've been watching VoIP technology improve and capture market share over traditional lines.

The company has, over the past decade, transformed itself from a humble maker of computers into the biggest and most important technology company on the planet, mostly by eschewing the gadget - only approach.

Over the past couple decades, Turkle has become a leading voice in the ways technology has been tearing at our social fabric.

Call it post-modern cynicism, technological dissonance or even hipsterism — what I suspect it really is is a defence mechanism for dealing with the sudden onslaught of technology that we've all had to face over the past decade.

Over the past decade, virus - writers worldwide have created and released about 80,000 viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other «malware» programs, according to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for antivirus software vendor Sophos Inc. (www.sophos.com) And about 600 to 800 new variations crop up every month, although, typically, only a few cause widespread or serious headaches.

Over the past two decades — since the mainstreaming of the Internet and the fall of communism — the twin forces of rapidly advancing technology and globalization have been reshaping every aspect of life.

I kind of hope that's true because the world, thanks to all this technology, has seen dramatic upheaval over the past decade.

I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

Although financial services companies including PIMCO and Pacific Life have dominated the local economy over the past few decades, Newport Beach has built a technology cluster in recent years: Investment app Acorns and CudaSign, an e-signature company, were both started in Newport Beach.

The price of insulin — a lifesaving drug — has reached record highs as Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi raised prices more than 240 percent over the past decade to often over $ 300 a vial today, with price rises frequently in lockstep, according to information technology firm Connecture.

St. Louis was once corporate America's manufacturing backyard, but through strategic planning initiatives first launched at the start of the new millennium, the region has evolved into a vibrant hotbed of technology, as well as a cradle of entrepreneurship over the past decade.

Then the rapid development of computer technology, combined with a handful of regulatory changes, enabled dozens of alternative trading venues to sprout up over the past two decades, increasing competition for volume and driving down the exchanges» profits, ultimately pushing the NYSE — one of the most enduring symbols of American capitalism — towards increasing irrelevancy.

Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500 Index revenues have grown at a nominal rate of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit of stock buybacks.

Technology has made so many advances over the past decade, many businesses struggle to keep up.

There are various studies that have tracked the probability of success of technology startups over the past decades, such as MIT's Edward Roberts.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

Over the past decade, however, radical changes in energy markets and technology have fundamentally altered the foundation of our strategic interests.

Over the past decade many technology companies have taken the title of growth stocks.

But Karl Brauer, a senior analyst for Kelley Blue Book, also said that given Mitsubishi's the financial straits over the past decade, he doubts the company has invested much in technology to bring the plant up to date.

Benbrook and Mellon argued against genetically modified food because they say the technology hasn't done what it promised over the past two decades, it has not been determined if there are long - term health risks, weeds are becoming resistant to Bt and requiring the use of more herbicides and biotechnology can't prove it will solve the world's hunger crisis.

While many advances have been made in disposable diaper technology to improve waste containment over the past three decades, cloth diapers are only recently beginning to undergo similar advances in design.

Wellstone is honored to continue the work of the organization that blazed the trail over the past decade for organizers, advocates, and political campaigners looking to leverage technology to make social change.

Democrats also benefit from the growth of progressive nonprofit advocacy campaigns over the past decade: not only have advocacy groups experimented with just about every tool or tactic in the book, but the existence of so many independent groups clamoring for effective technology has created a vibrant market.

Over the past decade, the Regent University College of Science & Technology has shaped minds and influenced the Ghanaian society.

This suggests that the expansion in federal investment in R&D over the past several decades has resulted not only from a commitment to the «endless frontier» of science and technology, but perhaps as importantly from the general growth of discretionary spending which allowed greater government investments to be made in a variety of areas including S&T.

From building - blocking bollards to millimeter - wave scanners, the September 11 terrorist attacks have led to significant changes in security techniques and technology worldwide over the past decade to discourage future attacks and to avoid being surprised again.

The potential for mind - boosting drugs and technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.

Sharp - eyed reader Paul Marks spotted the following interesting paragraph in the Office of Science and Technology's Forward Look report on government spending on science: «Despite enormous progress over the past decade, software engineering still suffers from being too much of an art and not enough of a science and much remains to be done to establish it on a firmer scientific basis.»

New farming technology — from selective breeding to chemical fertilizers — is assumed to be behind increasing U.S. corn yields over the past 3 decades.

Now researchers report in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters that exposure to at least one of the newer compounds has increased significantly over the past decade.

«While advances in science and technology and improved safety practices have significantly reduced the threat of oil spills in Canadian waters over the past few decades, much about the fate, environmental impacts and remediation of oil spills remain poorly understood,» said Kenneth Lee, the director of Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Perth, Western Australia and chair of the seven - member panel.

«Advancing technology has revealed more and more of the Universe to us over the past few decades, and our study shows individual objects that account for about 96 percent of the background radio emission coming from the distant Universe,» Condon said.

Over the past decade, the development of fast and affordable technologies for DNA sequencing and synthesis and a growing understanding of complex biological systems have opened the door to a new approach to biology.

Think of all the intelligent technologies that have become standard in our automobiles over the past decade or so: antilock braking systems, air bags, OnStar, and new collision - detection technologies.

Pop Quiz: Q. — The U.S. lags in science and technology A. — False As nations such as China and India increased their global science and technology presence over the past few decade, researchers have groused that the U.S. was in danger of losing its edge.

A handful of other robotics researchers — including those at Japan's Kyoto Institute of Technology — have over the past decade been developing quadruped robots, but none appear to have BigDog's high levels of adaptability, balance and perseverance nor LittleDog's intelligence and awareness.