Sentences with phrase «writing system used»

Braille, the tactile writing system used by the blind, is not as widespread in the blind community as you might imagine — less than 10 percent of blind adults in the United States are able to read Braille and the number of Braille - literate individuals has been declining for decades as assistive technologies, audio books, and other substitutes replace Braille texts.

Opening the lid reveals a vintage - styled box with a drawing of the Shagohod on its lid, and the name in Cyrillic script, the writing system used in Russia.

The variants might be precursors to Elamite, the writing system used on the Iranian plateau in the late third millennium B.C..

Here's a small but revealing example of how communications technologies can work differently once they leave the land of their birth: individual Twitter posts can express more information in Chinese than in English, because the Chinese writing system uses ideograms rather than an alphabet...

My interest in languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean started from an early age, and the writing systems used were always so fascinating.

Not exact matches

Sutton wrote the book on the field of reinforcement learning, a technique which allows AI to teach itself what the best actions are using a reward - punishment system of its own, an area of deep learning that played a role in the success of DeepMind's AlphaGo project.

Now, AI systems from tech companies like Facebook and Google can recognize images, using deep learning to write descriptions like «a boy sitting on a beach next to a dog.»

Second, assume that the bad debt generated by the system (by which I mean the excess portion of any debt used to fund projects that add less value to the economy than the cost of the project) is not written down within the reporting period in which it was extended.

Living Goods has begun using its smartphone system in four of its eight branches, training 100 % of the agents from three of them on the Android platform in October 2014 (as of this writing), with plans to move the rest to the system in the coming months.39

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Security professionals can further extend this knowledge to other platforms, like SIEM and intrusion prevention systems, by writing custom rules using information about injections shared on platforms like X-Force Exchange.

But in my view, none have written with such singular purpose as McClung in testing and articulating a complete system that can be used by DIY investors.

For the rotation system you've written about where you purchase the top performer over the past 3, 6, 12 month periods, are you simply using the mean of the 3, 6, 12 month performance to calculate the top performer?

And I wrote with using a very simple plain language because a personal pet peeve of mine is that finances intentionally kept kind of opaque and confusing because I think it's meant to keep most people ignorant of how the system actually works.

The bible was written by a nation of people who believed a certain way and used those writings to encourage their people to stay with a belief system that worked for them and their way of life.

Specifically, he used the Roman road system and he wrote manuscripts that were duplicated by hand copying.

In our new aims of education for the 1980's and beyond, therefore, we shall have to dedicate ourselves to bringing back, among other things, the civilized use of language (both written and oral), a sensitivity to beauty, powers of analytical reasoning, the intellectual vision of ourselves as historical creatures, the ability to cognitively articulate ideas rather than let communication skills courses degenerate into merely «touchie - feelie» experiences of «affirming the other,» and finally, a sensitivity to the nuances, complexities, and ambiguities of meanings.7 In this way, and only in this way, our educational system will equip its students for the future with an intellectual vision comprised of both knowledge and foresightful adaptability to environmental changes.

My problem is that I just don't trust vegan chefs / recipes (I haven't had many good experiences) and as someone who wants to respect and be sensitive to my vegan friends I'd really appreciate a cookbook, for normal, non-fancy smancy food like the Great Chefs Cook Vegan, written by someone who is currently used to eating anything and isn't «sacrificing» for their cause, dietary choices, or belief system.

It's one thing to learn another language that uses the same alphabet as your own, but a completely elevated level of complexity to learn one with a totally different system of writing.

The entry point into using the Kano system are the instruction booklets which show the user (adult or child) how to connect up all of the equipment and get the pre-loaded Kano software literally telling you what to do (using the speaker of course) Once you have (satisfyingly) managed to boot up the Raspberry Pi, Kano's built in software installed on the operating system guides you through increasingly more complex tasks teaching you how to use the computer and start to write your own code.

In most cases, the early intervention system may not use your health care insurance (private or public) without your express, written consent.

We provide material support in the form of low cost cloth diapering kits as well as a step - by - step guide written by a mother who has use the system with her child from day one.

A limit on the number of emails that can be sent via the «Write Your Rep» web form system (the software that a majority of Representatives use to power their web forms) is being imposed during peak email traffic hours.

Join me in using the online advocacy system offered by the New York Library Association to write to the governor and the legislature: nyla.org/advocacy.

find agencies in their area both by postcode or by name; rate agencies using a simple star rating system on levels of pay, quality of training, ease of finding work and support received; write reviews, explaining their experiences, both good and bad, of the agency, or agencies, they have used; read reviews written by other supply teachers, including viewing their star rating and seeing the average levels of pay that are offered; add new supply agencies as and when they open; and participate in regular polls, highlighting the key issues that affect supply teachers.

The electoral system, the use of referendum on key issues, a written constitution, devolution of power and resources to the powerless in communities, cities and regions, abolition of the Lords and the end to the attacks on trade unions, charities, civil society, civil liberties and the complacency, inertia and disregard for the weakest and inequality that creates despair must be swept away.

Unlike informal written and oral warnings used under the current system, they could not be ignored.

The negotiations, which both sides agreed to in writing, were aimed at creating a system for fairly evaluating teachers, using both student performance and observation, in the 33 schools receiving federal school improvement grants.

Before going to work for NOAA, Price worked on a big challenge in computer science: developing a prototype system that enables people to create computer programs using normal written English sentences.

«If I had written a grant about «older people using complex electronic tasks and motivational reward systems,» it never would have made it in,» she says.

By the time the telescope comes online, he and colleagues expect to be able to store 100 terabytes on a cartridge of a similar size to their prototype, by shrinking the width of the recording tracks and using more accurate systems for positioning the read - write heads used to access them.

Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.

Allen wrote the computer code necessary to analyze massive amounts of geographic information systems data about the more than 14,000 wells using the aquifer.

It's a tactic used by hackers to execute «masquerade attacks,» where they pretend to be authorized users of a system by replicating the writing styles of the compromised account.

«We support careful and sensible use of neuroimaging in which physicians exercise excellent clinical judgment to reduce waste in the medical system,» Dr. Hawasli and coauthors write.

Kaomojis often make use of characters from the Japanese katakana writing system, like the wonderful tantrum - denoting table flip (╯ ° □ ° ） ╯ ┻ ━ ┻.

They use Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer, but they can't write code, they can't hack into systems.

As it matures, the authors wrote, it is moving «from laboratory - based experimental studies in model systems to a mature discipline that is yielding products that are being evaluated and used in the clinical domain.

He used Newton's laws to write down the system's equations of motion, and solved them.

This study is the first to demonstrate the importance of the heme oxygenase system in responding to changes in blood flow pattern and the possibility of using it to treat cardiovascular diseases, the researchers wrote.

Providing written instructions or notes, letting the student sit at the front of the class, improving lighting, and using hearing - aid systems, if required, can make the difference between success and failure.

In a related commentary, Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, writes: «There is broad consensus among physicians, hospital and health insurance leaders, and policy makers to reform payment to health care providers so as to reduce the role of fee for service, which encourages high volume, and instead to use systems that reward better patient outcomes, such as bundled payments for a population or for an episode of care.»

While writing his dissertation, which examined the potential benefits of using small - scale renewable energy systems in sheltered housing for elderly people provided by the city council in North Tyneside, he decided to continue with a Ph.D..

It has four columns and 15 rows of numbers written on it in the cuneiform script of the time using a base 60, or sexagesimal, system.

They then used the system to make melodies to accompany two sets of words written by Ackerman, with lyrics such as «Now that you're gone / I just realised that I'm all alone».

«The retraction states that Mignot and his colleagues were unable to replicate the results of the ELISpot assay, a widely used method for measuring how immune system cells such as T cells respond to fragments of foreign proteins, called antigens,» Underwood writes.

As one might suspect, a prerequisite is that all competitors develop their programs using Microsoft products, including software writing tools, databases and the Windows operating system.

Recent neuro - cognitive theories of dyslexia presume that all dyslexics have the same type of brain abnormality irrespective of the particular writing system their language uses.

Professor Avi Loeb of Harvard University wrote about using Red Dots data to motivate projects such as the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative and search for extra-terrestrial life beyond the solar system.

Direct writing of chitosan scaffolds using a robotic system.