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development and artificial
Inside the body, artificial heart valves are in common use with artificial hearts and lungs seeing less common use but under active technology development.
In 1995, Simon Keynes observed that " if Bede's concept of the Southumbrian overlord, and the chronicler's concept of the ' Bretwalda ', are to be regarded as artificial constructs, which have no validity outside the context of the literary works in which they appear, we are released from the assumptions about political development which they seem to involve ... we might ask whether kings in the eighth and ninth centuries were quite so obsessed with the establishment of a pan-Southumbrian state ".
Hydraulic limes, " natural " cements, and " artificial " cements all rely upon their belite content for strength development.
The discovery of the ELIZA effect was an important development in artificial intelligence, demonstrating the principle of using social engineering rather than explicit programming to pass a Turing test.
Noteworthy technical achievements of Mountbatten and his staff include the construction of an underwater oil pipeline from the English coast to Normandy, an artificial harbour constructed of concrete caissons and sunken ships, and the development of amphibious tank-landing ships.
Other compounds used to color tissue sections include safranin, oil red o, Congo red, fast green FCF, silver salts, and numerous natural and artificial dyes that were usually originated from the development dyes for the textile industry.
The process continued in the modern period with extension of shorelines and building of artificial islands for industrial and port development, such as Port Island in Kobe and the new Kansai International Airport in Osaka Bay.
In August 2010, PepsiCo entered into a 4-year agreement with Senomyx for the development of artificial high-potency sweeteners for PepsiCo beverages.
Unfortunately, however, with the advent of artificial island development, most of their habitat is destroyed, or occupied by man-made structures.
Despite the simplicity of their grass diet, new developments along the Persian Gulf coastline, particularly artificial island development in Arab states, pollution particularly by oil spills caused during the " Persian Gulf war " and also due to occasional oil spills, and uncontrolled hunting has had a negative impact on the survival of the dugongs.
Other technological and engineering feats achieved during, or as a result of, the war include the world's first programmable computers ( Z3, Colossus, and ENIAC ), guided missiles and modern rockets, the Manhattan Project's development of nuclear weapons, operations research and the development of artificial harbours and oil pipelines under the English Channel.
Finally, with the development of artificial intelligence, computers can actually serve as opponents, and thus provide opportunities for solitaire gaming.
In 1934, he participated in the discovery of the artificial radioactivity of fluorine and aluminium which would be critical in the development of the atomic bomb.
Wangame Studios is a Chinese video game development company that focuses on artificial intelligence.
At MIT, The University of Southern California, RWTH Aachen University, and the University of New South Wales, an " artificial retina " is under development: an implant which will bypass the photoreceptors of the retina and stimulate the attached nerve cells directly, with signals from a digital camera.
Hackworth is forced to spend ten years with a colony of " Drummers ," using their distributed intelligence ( similar but not identical to distributed artificial intelligence ) for the development of a new form of nanotech, known as the Seed.
Eutrophication ( Greek: eutrophia — healthy, adequate nutrition, development ; ) or more precisely hypertrophication, is the ecosystem response to the addition of artificial or natural substances, such as nitrates and phosphates, through fertilizers or sewage, to an aquatic system.
* 1000 – The Arab Empire introduced agricultural innovations such as new forms of land tenure, improvements in irrigation, a variety of sophisticated irrigation methods, the introduction of fertilizers and widespread artificial irrigation systems, the development of gravity-flow irrigation systems from rivers and springs, the use of noria and chain pumps for irrigation purposes, the establishment of the sugar cane industry in the Mediterranean, and experimentation in sugar cultivation
The keen observer may associate this with the development in the field of artificial intelligence made popular in the 1980s and 1990s such as expert systems, neural networks, machine learning, natural language processing, and vision.
Poplog is a reflective, incrementally compiled software development environment for the programming languages POP-11, Common Lisp, Prolog, and Standard ML, originally created in the UK for teaching and research in artificial intelligence at the University of Sussex.
Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky ( born September 11, 1979 ) is an American writer, blogger, and advocate for the development of friendly artificial intelligence and the understanding of a possible future singularity.
One useful development for the silk industry are silkworms that can feed on food other than mulberry leaves, including an artificial diet.
Inside the body, artificial heart valves are in common use with artificial hearts and lungs seeing less common use but under active technology development.

development and nesting
In South Australia, nesting sites on the Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island are vulnerable to unmanaged coastal recreation and encroaching urban development.
The endangered green turtles are a special group of marine organisms with distinctive navigation behaviour between their nesting, breeding, development and reproduction sites.
This can lead to a high degree of relatedness between individuals nesting on the same island, as well as the development of kin-based female social structures.
The second decline in the Piping Plover's population and range has been attributed to increased development, shoreline stabilization efforts, habitat loss and human activity near nesting sites in the decades following World War II.
Niko Tinbergen was born in the Netherlands in 1907 and worked closely with Lorenz in the development of the FAP theory ; their studies focused on the egg retrieval response of nesting geese.
Coastal development, natural disasters, climate change, and other sources of beach erosion, have also been cited as potential threats to nesting grounds < sup > 1 </ sup >.
Threats include development and recreational use of nesting beaches.
Although the endangered species is protected, habitat loss from human development is a major reason for the loss of green turtle nesting beaches.
The beach areas provide fragile ecosystems for birds whose populations have already been impacted by development, so Holgate is closed to all public during the nesting season ; Little Beach is closed all year except by special permit for research or education.
However, beach development deprives them of suitable nesting areas, forcing them to nest closer to the surf.
Also, real estate development often causes habitat loss by eliminating nesting beaches.
Golden Sands urban development took place within a protected area declared in 1943 ( its original name was Hachuka State Forest ); some nature landmarks were lost in the process, such as beach freshwater ponds abounding in tortoises and snakes and beach nesting bird habitats.
Candidates in favour of further high-rise residential and business development in the area have generally been in favour of the concept, while environmental groups are concerned by the threat to the nesting areas of the cockatoos in Darvall Park.

development and box
In retrospect, it was a damaging career move as Deliverance and Jeremiah Johnson, critical and enduring box office hits, were in development at the time and Peckinpah was considered the first choice to direct both films.
In November 2011, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association announced a new energy efficiency initiative that commits the largest cable operators to the purchase of set-top boxes that meet Energy Star standards and the development of sleep modes that will use less energy when the set-top box is not being used to watch or record video.
* Grey box testing, a step in software development
* August 15 Sherron Watkins, a vice president for corporate development, puts a one-page letter in Lay's suggestion box, questioning Enron's accounting practices.
Much earlier in Ashdown ’ s development, there had been a Coca-Cola bottling plant, an ice plant, a pallet plant, a garment plant, a box factory, and many other small businesses that no longer exist.
The final nail in the coffin of the formerly thriving business district, mainly along 8th Avenue, was the opening of many big box chain stores and restaurants in the new ( 1990s ) Waterfront development.
Snow White was a worldwide box office success, and was universally acclaimed as a landmark in the development of animation as a serious art form.
Unit tests are created by programmers or occasionally by white box testers during the development process.
This development brought boombox to their height of popularity, and as their popularity rose so did the innovative features included in the box.
* Harm to locally owned small businesses: The development of a big box store may provide too much competition to a locally owned store ; similarly, the construction of a new road may make the older road less travelled, leading to a loss of business for property owners.
Truly open development classes are also almost unknown, the famous line about the 18 ft skiff " the boat shall be 18ft long and the race starts at 2 o ' clock " is a myth but open classes will usually allow pretty radical changes within usually some kind of box rule which specifies depth, length, width of hull height of mast and sometimes a minimum weight and sail area.
The new community is zoned for residential and commercial development, including office parks and " big box " shopping centers.
With the practical development of electric power, the complexity of a signal box was no longer limited by the distance a mechanical lever could work a set of points or a semaphore signal via a direct physical connection ( or the space required by such connections ).
According to the original game box, it development took " 15 man-years ".
This has resulted in development along the Johnston Road ( Highway 4 ) corridor, including several big box retailers, grocery stores and strip mall developments.
John Wilder Tukey ForMemRS (; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000 ) was an American statistician best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot.
A reason for the development of rimless. 38 Super cases was that the semi-rimmed. 38 Super case did not always feed reliably from double column box magazines used in several semi-automatic pistols that are popular in practical shooting sports such as IPSC.
Wayne Gretzky, who also played box lacrosse in his youth, argued that the skills Nieuwendyk learned dodging opposing players in that sport aided his development as a hockey player.
It was a box office hit, but consistently regarded by professional critics as one of the worst movies of the year .< ref name =" rt7 "> He was slated to direct a remake of the 1966 science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage, but the project slipped back into development hell.
Specifically, they are FOX ( box ) proteins, which are important in embryo development — affecting genes that control cell growth and differentiation.
Burlington, Vermont's Church Street Marketplace has been expanded from the original three blocks to four, encompassing the entirety of the city's commercial " main street ," and remains a thriving cultural center with shops, restaurants, vendor carts, sidewalk performers and special events which does not appear to be affected by the development of big box store farms in neighboring Williston.
Due to further development of these usually CMOS-compatibility limited processes, a tool box became available to create micrometre or sub-micrometre sized mechanical structures in silicon wafers as well: the Micro Electro Mechanical Systems ( MEMS ) era ( also indicated with Micro System Technology-MST ) had started.
The mall has spurred development in the entire area, creating big box power centers and new housing and apartment communities.
However, commercial development in Rome continues to remain mostly around the old Riverbend Mall site while big box development around Mount Berry Square is sparse.

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