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During development at the University of Plymouth, in conjunction with BAE Systems and Sumitomo Precision Products, the iBot was nicknamed Fred Upstairs ( after Fred Astaire ) because it can climb stairs: hence the name Ginger, after Astaire's regular film partner, Ginger Rogers, for a successor product.
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During this precarious period of development the mother should continue to influence the growth of the child's conscience.
During his five years as an assistant director, Kurosawa worked under numerous directors, but by far the most important figure in his development was Kajiro Yamamoto.
During the 1670s corpuscularianism was used by Isaac Newton in his development of the corpuscular theory of light.
During development, engineers had made the decision to use the Zilog 8530 serial controller chip ( SCC ) instead of the lower cost and more common UART to provide serial port connections.
During this period significant analytical contributions to chemistry include the development of systematic elemental analysis by Justus von Liebig and systematized organic analysis based on the specific reactions of functional groups.
During the Middle Bulgarian period, the language underwent dramatic changes, losing the Slavonic case system, but preserving the rich verb system ( while the development was exactly the opposite in other Slavic languages ) and developing a definite article.
During the 19th century, the development of mines led to a new type of naval warfare.
During pregnancy, the breast is responsive to a complex interplay of hormones that cause tissue development and enlargement in order to produce milk.
During thelarche, the developing breasts sometimes are of unequal size, and usually the left breast is slightly larger ; said condition of asymmetry is transitory and statistically normal to female physical and sexual development.
During the 6x86's development, the majority of applications ( office software as well as games ) performed almost entirely integer operations.
During his time there, Doppler, along with Franz Unger, played an influential role in the development of young Gregor Mendel, known as the founding father of genetics, who was a student at the University of Vienna from 1851 to 1853.
During early development of the vertebrate embryo, a longitudinal groove on the neural plate gradually deepens and the ridges on either side of the groove ( the neural folds ) become elevated, and ultimately meet, transforming the groove into a closed tube, the ectodermal wall of which forms the rudiment of the nervous system.
During development in 1983, Amiga had exhausted venture capital and was desperate for more financing.
During the first century of development, the Spanish dominance was undisputed.
During development, the Palo Alto design team were working on a Unix-only workstation that originally included the PRISM.
During the development of radio, many scientists and inventors contributed to radio technology and electronics.
During the late 20th century, Fort Collins expanded rapidly to the south, adding new development, including several regional malls.
During the 1820s and 1830s, HBC trappers were deeply involved in the early exploration and development of Northern California.
During 1991, loan negotiations with multilateral and bilateral lending institutions brought Honduras US $ 39. 5 million in United States development assistance, US $ 70 million in balance-of-payments assistance in the form of cash grants, and US $ 18. 8 million in food aid.
During the initial development phases, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was named Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems.
During development, it was found that the comparatively heavy rear-mounted engine moved the center of mass of the vehicle rearwards.
During fetal development, since bones and thus the bone marrow develop later, the liver functions as the main haematopoetic organ.
During development, Intel, HP, and industry analysts predicted that IA-64 would dominate in servers, workstations, and high-end desktops, and eventually supplant RISC and complex instruction set computer ( CISC ) architectures for all general-purpose applications.
During this initial period of development, the campus plan was established and six buildings were constructed.
During the development of radio, he also worked on wireless telegraphy.
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During his tenure he also fulfilled guest engagements at the Berlin State Opera.
During the summer he had tried to repair some of his losses at the track, and the bare trees reminded him that his pari-mutuel tickets would still be lying, like leaves, in the gutters near Belmont and Saratoga.
During this period, a total of 762 exhibits were presented at 442 medical and scientific meetings.
During the war it was in constant use by the wagon trains transporting supplies from the railhead at Grafton to the troops operating in the interior.
During Oersted's attendance at the university, it was poorly equipped with physical apparatus for experimenting in the sciences.
During the latter procedure the temperature was maintained at 2-degrees-C by surrounding the apparatus with ice.
During the poetically sterile years he was writing novels at the rate of almost one a year and was, in addition, burdened with bad health ( he spent six months in bed in 1881, too ill to do more than work slowly and painfully at A Laodicean ).
During a 1933 tsunami in Japan the sea glowed brilliantly at night.
During the Civil War, Custer, who achieved a brilliant record, was made brigadier general at the age of 23.
During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.
During the quarrel I learned what the trouble was, from the accusations each hurled at the other.
During his second week at sea he brought the curious melody out of the instrument and suddenly wanted to force the biwa to remain at just that moment in its history when it had given him pleasure.
During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!
During the first stage of the plague outbreak, Paneloux preaches a sermon at the cathedral.
Within a short while, he grasps what is at stake and warns the authorities that unless steps are taken immediately, the epidemic could kill off half the town's population of two hundred thousand within a couple of months .</ br > During the epidemic, Rieux heads an auxiliary hospital and works long hours treating the victims.
During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.
During the first 11 months of 2006, net imports grew by 21 percent to $ 1. 95 billion, while exports stood at $ 895 million, up 0. 3 percent from the same period in 2005.
During World War II, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre.
During the four years of his reign disaster followed on disaster, and in 1695 Ahmed II died at Edirne Palace, worn out by disease and sorrow.
During his reign, Poland suffered much humiliation at the hands of her subject principality, Moldavia.
During the honeymoon, a pastry cook named Otero fired at the young sovereign and his wife as they were driving in Madrid.
During his short reign, peace was established both at home and abroad, finances were well regulated, and the various administrative services were placed on a basis that afterwards enabled Spain to pass through the disastrous war with the United States without the threat of a revolution.
During the press conference, the astronauts answered questions pertaining to several technical and non-technical aspects of the mission prepared and listed by priority at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston by journalists covering the flight.
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