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Telecommunications ... discharged from the hospital and referred
to the VNAGP participated in the study. Half of them were randomly assigned
to receive a patient telecommunication station in their...
... from the masses. This is a fatal error. Political economy
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ditches, to raise fences, to break the soil, to clear away the ... against capital and interest. On
the other hand, there are moments in which, I am convinced,
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... supply and demand always balance each other, it immediately
forgets its own assertion that the supply of people (the theory of population) always exceeds the demand and
that therefore the disproportion ... Pleasure and necessity. The law of the
heart and the madness of self-conceit. Virtue and
the way of the world.
(c) Individuality which is real in and for itse...
... wanted.’
One of the prime aims of education, it could be argued, is to
develop such an inquisitive mind. The whole art of teaching,’
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Art of Creative Thinking 1-1 34 :Creative ... ability to see
things and make detailed observations. For they are the mate-
rials for future creative thinking.
The Art of Creati...
... doesn't have the document that the requestor is looking for, it forwards the request to another
node that, according to its information, is more likely to have the document. The messages form a
chain ... one of the servers. The key is used to decrypt the file and a tamper
check is then performed. If the document successfully passes the tamper check...
... from—then they’ll just scale the
information appropriately for the device you’re using.”
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ities. An alternative approach would be to build the ... Bits—
Telecom Hardware,
Software, and More
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... and airports,”
says Weber. The first products will reach the market in two to three years,”
he predicts.
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the long term, the benefits from this effort ... “If the power supplied by the battery is too low, the
computer’s performance is reduced,” Shukla says. The question is whether a
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... signals from their neigh-
bors to map their locations. The signals will be relayed from one device to
another until they reach a human operator at the edge of the territory. In
theory, the “reachout ... 3
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Wireless Technologies
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The Internet Rules—
IP Technologies
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them.”
The sponge in the study, Euplectella, lives in the depths of the ocean in the
tropics and grows to about half a foot in length. Commonly known as the
N...
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Something in the
Air—Radio and
Location Technologies
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someone in trouble and whether they practice what they preach. In most cases,
the students gave their partners h...
... take
a pill, the monitoring circuit records the date and time. The data is then read
from the packaging when the user visits his or her doctor.“It confirms whether
the patient is following the doctor’s ... spins to match the magnetic orientation in
the film. But when the now aligned electrons flow through the second mag-
netic film, the process is reversed. This time the...
... vibration in the material, which is converted to
an AC voltage on the other side of the wafer. The amount of increase or
decrease in the voltage transformed is dependent on the gap between the
electrodes.
Most ... the car or truck passes over the next loop, the computer matches the
two signals and calculates the vehicle’s travel time. Based on the travel times,
t...
... that showed the users their position within the room.
The users then used the robotic arms to collaboratively lift the box. As each
user moved the arm—and therefore the pointer—to touch the box, ... INCH—INPUT AND OUTPUT TECHNOLOGIES
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Inch—Input and
Output Technologies
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Fiber-optical technology, 78 103
code division multiple access
(CDMA), 93
copper wire, 102 103
light emitters, 93 101
laser, 98 100
manipulating light, 100 101
nanotubes, 93–94
transistor, ... for the
disabled man to control the grasping device. After the software is trained to
the client’s voice, the man will first say “arm” or “hand” to take command of
one of the two mo...