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Technological and advancements
Technological advancements changed the way war was fought, as new inventions such as machine guns, tanks, chemical weapons, grenades, and military aircraft modified tactics and strategy.
Technological advancements have made coal mining today more productive than it has ever been.
Technological advancements occur throughout the history of the fictional BattleTech universe, which extends from the late 20th to mid-32nd centuries.
Technological advancements continued slowly but steadily through the third millennium, notably including the development of the first BattleMech by Terran Hegemony engineers in 2439.
Technological advancements include the discovery of N-waves, which are used to travel faster than the speed of light, advanced and sentient AI, and weaponized lasers.

Technological and nanotechnology
Molecular nanotechnology is one of the technologies that some analysts believe could lead to a Technological Singularity.
Technological visionaries such as Eric Drexler and Ralph Merkle, both of whom receive an honorary mention in The Diamond Age, have argued that if nanotechnology develops the ability to manipulate individual atoms at will, it will become possible to simply assemble diamond structures from carbon atoms, materials also known as diamondoids.
Also that month, the Serbian Minister of Science and Technological Development met a Portuguese delegation and discussed cooperation in energy efficiency, nanotechnology, and the food industry, with plans to sign a co-operation agreement on science and technology by the end of 2008.
The term may have been coined by strategic philosopher Max More in his 1993 article, Technological Self-Transformation: Expanding Personal Extropy, where he defined it as " the ability to alter bodily form at will through technologies such as surgery, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, uploading ".

Technological and others
The field of the school is related to the strength of the university: while some have two or three schools ( typically " Arts and Humanities " and " Natural and Technological Sciences "), others have more specialized schools ( History, Aeronautics, etc ).
The National University of Singapore High School of Mathematics and Science is a specialized independent high school in Singapore offering a six-year Integrated Programme ( IP ) leading to the NUS High School Diploma, which is recognized by the National University of Singapore ( NUS ) ( its parent institution ), Nanyang Technological University ( NTU ), Singapore Management University ( SMU ) and top overseas universities in the Ivy League, Oxbridge, and others.

Technological and have
* Technological progress — For over a century, economists have known that capital and labor do not account for all of economic growth.
Technological advancement often reduces frictional unemployment, for example: internet search engines have reduced the cost and time associated with locating employment.
Bill Rose and Craig Chesner of Michigan Technological University have deduced that the total amount of erupted material was about — around of ignimbrite that flowed over the ground, and around that fell as ash, with the wind blowing most of it to the west.
:: Technological superiority: A monopoly may be better able to acquire, integrate and use the best possible technology in producing its goods while entrants do not have the size or finances to use the best available technology.
Technological advances have permitted sexological questions to be addressed with studies using behavioral genetics, neuroimaging, and large-scale Internet-based surveys.
Technological advances, principally in the field of computers, have now allowed the creation of far more complex systems, with new and complex security problems.
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey | TÜBİTAK and Turkish Aerospace Industries have developed Earth observation satellite | scientific observation satellites and spy satellite | reconnaissance satellites like the RASAT, Göktürk-1 and Göktürk-2.
Technological advances in soil preparation and seed placement at planting time, use of crop rotation and fertilizers to improve plant growth, and advances in harvesting methods have all combined to promote wheat as a viable crop.
Technological innovations such as these have introduced various food additives into ice cream, the notable one being the stabilizing agent gluten, to which some people have an intolerance.
Technological advances in telecommunications and information technology, coupled with state-of-the-art microchip, RFID ( Radio Frequency Identification ), and inexpensive intelligent beacon sensing technologies, have enhanced the technical capabilities that will facilitate motorist safety benefits for intelligent transportation systems globally.
Students also have access to an accelerated MS in Technological Entrepreneurship program at Babson College, with the potential to obtain this degree one semester after graduating from Olin College.
Technological developments, new internet platforms, applications and innovations in the last ten years have made it easier for artists, makers and creators of all types to circumvent professional studios and create high-quality work themselves.
As a result of the Scientific and Technological Revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries, various episodes of the Bible ( for example the Noahide worldwide flood, the creation in six days, and the creation of women from a man's rib ) have in scientific circles been recognised as legendary.
Technological advances have played a significant role in the development of CWM.
Technological advances in fishing such as large factory ships and sonar, as well as geopolitical disputes over territorial sea and exclusive economic zone ( EEZ ) boundaries, have led to overfishing and a serious decline in the fish stocks of the Grand Banks from around 1990.
Technological developments have also lead to improvements in the efficiency of the use of energy and other resources, but, most importantly, the warnings from Malthus onward have finally had their effect as may be seen from the population-limiting policies followed by China and, more hesitantly, by India.
The Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore each have more than 20, 000 students and provide a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes including doctoral degrees.
The large number of scientific centres, situated in the Trieste area, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, the Experimental Geophysical Observatory, the SISSA ( International School for Advanced Studies ), the Scientific and Technological Research Area, Elettra ( Synchrotron Light Laboratory ), the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, the Marine Biology Laboratory, the Astronomical Observatory, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics which have contributed to make Trieste " The town of Science ", benefit from the activity of the university researchers and, at the same time, make a contribution to the search for knowledge, which is the primary aim of Universities, whose main vocation, in turn, is the transmission of knowledge.
Technological development is taken over by the machines, who can think, act and communicate so quickly that normal humans cannot even comprehend what is going on ; thus the machines, acting in concert with those humans who have evolved into postbiological cyborgs, achieve effective world domination.

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* Technological research to ensure GÉANT continues to be at the forefront of networking on a global scale
Technological improvements meant that rapid fire guns could be made larger, so the Braunschweig class had a main armament of 28 cm guns.
Various business analysis techniques can be used in strategic planning, including SWOT analysis ( Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats ) and PEST analysis ( Political, Economic, Social, and Technological analysis ) or STEER analysis involving Socio-cultural, Technological, Economic, Ecological, and Regulatory factors and EPISTELS ( Environment, Political, Informative, Social, Technological, Economic, Legal and Spiritual ).
* Technological inferiority usually is cancelled by more vulnerable infrastructure which can be targeted with devastating results.
Technological artifacts approaching its complexity and workmanship did not appear again until the 14th century A. D., when mechanical astronomical clocks began to be built in Western Europe.
* Plan for mining company houses, including type to be built in Frenchtown, from Michigan Technological University Archives
Technological advances in such diverse areas as organ transplantation and end-of-life care, including the development of kidney dialysis and respirators, posed novel questions regarding when and how care might be withdrawn.
Technological progress has allowed the manufacture of thermal mass flow meters on a microscopic scale as MEMS sensors ; these flow devices can be used to measure flow rates in the range of nanolitres or microlitres per minute.
In September 2010, French government allocated 651. 6 millions euros to the Commissariat à l ' énergie atomique to finalize the design of " Astrid " ( Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration ), a 600 MW reactor design of the 4th generation to be operational in 2020.
Technological progress allows more and more sensors to be manufactured on a microscopic scale as microsensors using MEMS technology.
Technological advances in efficiency may be offset by a change in buying habits with a propensity to heavier vehicles, which are less efficient, all else being equal.
CONTU ( National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works ; established by US Congress, operated 1975-1978 ) recommended that the wording of section 117 be repealed and replaced because of changes in technology from when the US Copyright Act was drafted and advances in computer technology.
This led to Hull becoming the first university to be awarded the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement for the joint-development of the long-lasting materials that made liquid crystal displays possible.
Technological news was the addition of traction control-the first front-wheel drive automobile in the world to be equipped as such.
Besides the CEMS Master ’ s in International Management, further double degrees may be obtained in cooperation with partner universities such as Bocconi University, ESADE, HEC Paris, Nanyang Technological University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Rotterdam School of Management, or Sciences Po Paris.
What many consider to be Ellul's most important work, The Technological Society ( 1964 ) was originally titled: La Technique: L ' enjeu du siècle ( literally, " The Stake of the Century ").
The DEGI ( for Spanish Decanato de Estudios Graduados e Investigación ) is to be to the vanguard of changing styles on Higher Education, Academic Management, Learning Communities, and Technological Changes so that changes on the campus ' organizations better the institutional environment of all areas, mostly those where Graduate Studies impact more.
Technological obsolescence proved to be a bane for the Asansol industrial belt.
Technological measures shall be deemed ' effective ' where the use of a protected work or other subjectmatter is controlled by the rightsholders through application of an access control or protection process, such as encryption, scrambling or other transformation of the work or other subject-matter or a copy control mechanism, which achieves the protection objective.
Technological relics of the Old Ones ' era can still be found scattered throughout the world.

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