Tylor in particular laid the groundwork for theories of cultural diffusionism, stating that there are three ways that different groups can have similar cultural forms or technologies: " independent invention, inheritance from ancestors in a distant region, transmission from one race to another.

After arriving at the Tines homeworld and allying with Woodcarver to defeat Steel, Pham initiates the Countermeasure, which extends the " Slow Zone " – the inner region of the galaxy where the highest technologies, such as artificial intelligence and superluminal travel, are impossible – by thousands of light-years to enclose the Blight.

Examples of these are trombe walls and other technologies as skylights.

* ore concentration: Bioleaching can extract metals from ores that are too poor for other technologies.

New physical detection technologies are employed, such as oligonucleotide microarrays to identify chromosomal gains and losses ( called comparative genomic hybridization ), and single-nucleotide polymorphism arrays to detect known point mutations.

In addition, forensic technologies are working on identifying biological agents, their geographical origins and / or their initial son.

Functional genomic and metagenomic approaches are increasing our understanding of the relative importance of different pathways and regulatory networks to carbon flux in particular environments and for particular compounds and they will certainly accelerate the development of bioremediation technologies and biotransformation processes.

: Image: brain chrischan 300. gif | Click here to view an animated sequence of slices. Imaging technologies are often essential to medical diagnosis, and are typically the most complex equipment found in a hospital including:

In addition, because biomedical engineers often develop devices and technologies for " consumer " use, such as physical therapy devices ( which are also " medical " devices ), these may also be governed in some respects by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Moreover the far north remains largely undeveloped as producers await higher prices or new technologies as many operations in this region are not yet cost effective.

It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies.

The following printing technologies are routinely found in modern printers:

The following technologies are either obsolete, or limited to special applications though most were, at one time, in widespread use.

Most uses of diamonds in these technologies do not require large diamonds ; in fact, most diamonds that are gem-quality except for their small size, can find an industrial use.

Expos usually include company or organization booths where products and technologies are demonstrated ; talks and lectures ; and general mixing of people with common interests.

As time advances, new technologies are developed ; these technologies are the primary way in which the game changes and grows.

Since only one tech may be " researched " at any given time, the order in which technologies are chosen makes a considerable difference in the outcome of the game and generally reflects the player's preferred style of gameplay.

Some wonders are made obsolete by new technologies.

The future repair technologies assumed by cryonics are still hypothetical and not widely known or recognized.

Developments in CGI technologies are reported each year at SIGGRAPH, an annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, attended each year by tens of thousands of computer professionals.

Increasingly, the voice and data pathways into the centre are linked through a set of new technologies called computer telephony integration ( CTI ).

Hall devoted much of his efforts to the technologies behind curing meat, particularly to improving a curing salt marketed by Griffith Laboratories known as flash-drying.

Aker Solutions delivers a wide range of wellstream processing technologies, which help treat and transform the oil and gas from their natural state in the reservoir to prodcuts that can be marketed and sold by the major oil companies.

Symantec continued the development of the acquired technologies, now marketed under the name of " Norton ", with the tagline " from Symantec ".

Several other technologies in the CPU-GPU spectrum have some features in common with it, although Ageia's solution was the only complete one designed, marketed, supported, and placed within a system exclusively as a PPU.

High-end audio is a class of consumer home audio equipment marketed to audio enthusiasts on the basis of high price or quality, and esoteric or novel sound reproduction technologies.

Several other technologies in the CPU-GPU spectrum have some features in common with it, although Ageia's solution was the only complete one designed, marketed, supported, and placed within a system exclusively as a PPU.

The A40 Devon ( and similar 2-door A40 Dorset ) were automobiles marketed by the Austin Motor Company from 1947 to 1952 – the first post-war saloons to be produced by Austin – featuring a mix of old and new technologies.

The physical materialization of a bit can employ various existing technologies, while new and improved technologies are constantly under development.

The physical materialization of a bit can employ various existing technologies, while new and improved technologies are constantly under development.

Similarly open universities use a blend of technologies and a blend of learning modalities ( face-to-face, distance and hybrid ) all under the rubric of " distance learning.

As of May 2007, in compliance with the specifications of the Java Community Process, Sun relicensed most of its Java technologies under the GNU General Public License.

They point out that alternative access technologies, such as wireless local loop, have proven uncompetitive and / or impractical, and that under current pricing models, the incumbent is in many cases, depending on the regulatory model, guaranteed a fair price for the use of its facilities, including an appropriate return on investment.

Many of the technologies proposed by the W3C already existed before they were positioned under the W3C umbrella.

Although the concept of information society has been under discussion since the 1930s, in the modern world it is almost always applied to the manner in which information technologies have impacted society and culture.

Newer technologies using fluorescent and antibody detection are also under development.

Between November 2006 and May 2007, Sun Microsystems made available most of their Java technologies under the GNU General Public License, in compliance with the specifications of the Java Community Process, thus making almost all of Sun's Java also free software.

Partner was the first company which built network foundations in Israel which worked under GSM technologies.

Some of the issues surrounding the related notion of a direct democracy using the Internet and other communications technologies are dealt with in e-democracy and below under the term electronic direct democracy.

As under secretary, Perry effectively controlled which emerging technologies and weapons systems would receive R & D funds and which systems the Pentagon would procure.

Like many bodies producing open standards, OASIS has a patent disclosure policy requiring participants to disclose intent to apply for software patents for technologies under consideration in the standard.

Human language technologies are areas of activity in departments of the European Commission that were formerly grouped under the heading Language Engineering ( Gupta & Schulze 2011: Section 1. 1 ).

In the area of clean technologies, university researchers work to raise the efficiency and reliability of the nation ’ s electrical power grid, improve air quality forecasting in the Northwest, and conduct cooperative research projects under the Department of Energy Nuclear Energy Research Initiative ( NERI ).

Although the railroad was first planned in 1874, existing technologies could not safely tunnel under the Hudson River.

id Software would have placed themselves under legal liability for using the technique in the finished game, so to defuse the issue, id Software agreed to license Creative Labs sound technologies in exchange for indemnification against lawsuits.

Since acquiring Call-Net, Rogers has also entered into the lucrative residential phone business under the Rogers Home Phone brand, to challenge Bell Canada, using both traditional and VoIP technologies.

As reported in the DTI Energy Review ' Our Energy Challenge ' January 2006 North Sea gas resources have been depleted at a faster rate than had been anticipated and gas supplies for the UK are being sought from remote sources, a strategy made possible by developments in the technologies of pipelaying that enable the transmission of gas over land and under sea across and between continents.

These attempts were largely made moot by the widespread use of strong cryptographic technologies such as PGP, which was not under the control of the U. S. government.

Unlike Photovoltaic technologies that often degrade under concentrated light, Solar Thermal depends upon light concentration that requires a clear sky to reach suitable temperatures.

By the late 1990s, ALP was coming under pressure from the growth of new publishing methods and technologies and the last known catalogue appeared in 1997.

Planning to present the paper at the Fourth International Information Hiding Workshop of 2001 in Pittsburgh, Felten was threatened with legal action by SDMI, the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ), and Verance Corporation, under the terms of the DMCA, on the argument that one of the technologies his team had broken was currently in use in the market.