Hood replied that he would take careful soundings as he advanced to test the depth of the water, and that " If you will allow the honour of leading you into battle, I will keep the lead going.

Independently, the Chinese developed their own advanced water clocks （ 水鐘 ） in 725 A. D., passing their ideas on to Korea and Japan.

However, the use of advanced nuclear magnetic resonance methods to directly measure the mobility of water in living cells contradicts this idea, as it suggests that 85 % of cell water acts like that pure water, while the remainder is less mobile and probably bound to macromolecules.

In developed countries, due to nearly universal advanced water treatment and sanitation practices, cholera is no longer a major health threat.

Better antimicrobial filters, like those present in advanced individual water treatment hiking kits, are most effective.

Fogponics is an advanced form of aeroponics which uses water in a vaporised form to transfer nutrients and oxygen to enclosed suspended plant roots.

In more technologically advanced areas, modern hashish is now made with more advanced technologies by compressing and / or refining or purifying a great quantity of trichomes harvested from Cannabis sativa plants using such processes as ice-water separation, also known as " bubble melt ", producing " bubble hash " or " water hash ".

When the experiments that had produced polywater were repeated with thoroughly cleaned glassware, the anomalous properties of the resulting water vanished, and even the scientists who had originally advanced the case for polywater agreed that it did not exist.

Ship technology advanced to the point where by the medieval period, water tight compartments were developed.

Early devices were not practical power producers, but more advanced designs producing usable power have become a major source of mechanical power over the last 300 years, beginning with applications for removing water from mines using vacuum engines.

Synchronized swimming demands advanced water skills, and requires great strength, endurance, flexibility, grace, artistry and precise timing, as well as exceptional breath control when upside down underwater.

Popularly called flavus (" the blond "), in reference to the yellowish colour of its water, the Tiber has heavily advanced at the mouth by about 3 km since Roman times, leaving the ancient port of Ostia Antica 6 km inland.

Environmental " chemical " engineers, on the other hand, focus on environmental chemistry, advanced air and water treatment technologies and separation processes.

* 644 – Muslim inventors develop a windmill, used to pump water for irrigation ; this is a more advanced wind powered machine than that developed by the Babylonians

When death is imminent or when a monk feels that he is unable to adhere to his vows due to advanced age or terminal disease, many Jain ascetics take a final vow of Santhara or Sallekhana, a peaceful and detached death where medicines, food and water are abandoned.

Filtration systems used in swimming pools were not as advanced as they are today, and far less chlorine was used making it easier, in those days, to degrade the cleanliness of the water thereby promoting the growth of bacteria.

Duke plans to develop the site for two Westinghouse Electric Company AP1000 ( advanced passive ) pressurized water reactors.

Zeolites are widely used in industry for water purification, as catalysts, for the preparation of advanced materials and in nuclear reprocessing.

Thames Water completed a five year modernisation in 1993 and has installed advanced water treatment facilities at the plant to filter out pesticides.

The District's system consists of of water main, four storage tanks, and water treatment facilities including aeration, activated granulated carbon ( GAC ), an advanced Zenon ( R ) filtration facility, plus fluoridation and state mandated chlorination.

The Noman Cole facility is the largest advanced waste water treatment plant in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

NASA's bioreactor is an extremely advanced biological sewage system.

Several American states have now started programs to introduce advanced wastewater treatment systems to the typical onsite sewage facilities.

The ancient Indus systems of sewage and drainage that were developed and used in cities throughout the Indus Valley were far more advanced than any found in contemporary urban sites in the Middle East and even more efficient than those in some areas of modern South Asia today.

The measures included the construction of advanced waste management facilities for sewage and industrial waste.

Construction of a sewage treatment works next to the sluice was well advanced in 2011.

An advanced student has read a considerable number of descriptions of consonantal systems, including some of the more unusual types.

New York State has what is probably the most advanced of these co-operative systems, so well developed that it has become a model for others to follow.

The avionics systems in military, commercial and advanced models of civilian aircraft are interconnected using an avionics databus.

However, some home computer manufacturers extended the ASCII character set to take advantage of the advanced color and graphics capabilities of their systems.

* Avaya-A telecommunications research and product development centre, providing customers worldwide with advanced communications and networking systems, and creating next-generation internet telephony solutions.

Biological agents are relatively easy to obtain by terrorists and are becoming more threatening in the U. S., and laboratories are working on advanced detection systems to provide early warning, identify contaminated areas and populations at risk, and to facilitate prompt treatment.

In addition, the pilots of the Avro Vulcan or Handley Page Victor bombers could tie their systems into those of the missile and make use of the guidance system to help plot their own flight plan, since the unit in the missile was more advanced than that in the aircraft.

The Cold War saw significant technological advances in warfare and the Army saw more technologically advanced weapons systems come into service.

According to some versions of functionalism, even non-human systems, such as other animal species, alien life forms, or advanced computers can, in principle, have mental states.

The 1980s brought a wave of high-technology startups, creating software such as Visicalc and Lotus 1-2-3, and advanced computers, but many of these companies fell into decline with the fall of the minicomputer and DOS-based systems.

Systems deriving from blood feuds may survive alongside more advanced legal systems or be given recognition by courts ( for example, trial by combat ).

Industrial composting systems are increasingly being installed as a waste management alternative to landfills, along with other advanced waste processing systems.

More advanced systems use inertial guidance, satellite navigation and terrain contour matching ( TERCOM ).

* The Tactical Technology Office ( TTO ) engages in high-risk, high-payoff advanced military research, emphasizing the " system " and " subsystem " approach to the development of aeronautic, space, and land systems as well as embedded processors and control systems.

* The Land Systems Office was created to develop advanced land vehicle and anti-armor systems, once the domain of the Tactical Technology Office

The second cornerstone of the Fermi paradox is a rejoinder to the argument by scale: given intelligent life's ability to overcome scarcity, and its tendency to colonize new habitats, it seems likely that at least some civilizations would be technologically advanced, seek out new resources in space and then colonize first their own star system and subsequently the surrounding star systems.

The US Navy for example developed some of the most technically advanced hydrofoils around but they could never get them to be reliable due to the complex propulsion systems and ride control required.

Hussein had good relations with the Soviet Union and a number of western countries such as France and Germany, who provided him with advanced weapons systems.

available in many advanced Database Management Systems, simple file permissions provided in the UNIX and Windows operating systems, Group Policy Objects provided in Windows network systems, Kerberos, RADIUS, TACACS, and the simple access lists used in many firewalls and routers.

For more advanced systems, during one phase of its working loop, the processor set its " internal state byte " on the data bus.

Based on Richard Feynman's vision of miniature factories using nanomachines to build complex products ( including additional nanomachines ), this advanced form of nanotechnology ( or molecular manufacturing ) would make use of positionally-controlled mechanosynthesis guided by molecular machine systems.

However, the decisions made by the design team made for a very powerful processor and made possible advanced operating systems like OS-9 and UniFlex, which took advantage of the position-independent, re-entrant nature of the 6809 to create multi-user multitasking operating systems.