In Pakistan, for example, the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), created under the auspices of UNESCO, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) designed the Integrated Flood Analysis System (IFAS), a risk-prevention system using data obtained via satellite.
Staff give tours Monday through Saturday that take in the reception area (Minnie Ripperton worked the desk) and main studio (designed by a 21-year-old newbie who inadvertently created the room's remarkable sound).
Several years ago Bryant was said to be a part investor in boutique Swiss brand Nubeo, which designed (but never commercially released) a Nubeo Black Mamba watch.
They have found that heating the sand for about 90 seconds with a microwave generator (known as a magnetron) designed for a household microwave oven produces a thermal image that is detectable for 15-20 minutes.
On the lighter side, Randy Sarafan, the same guy who designed a chair that tweets his own farts (seriously), unveiled a lamp that shuts off whenever you shut your eyes.
After years of study, thousands of hours of congressional testimony, hundreds of hearings, uncountable public comments, the DOL issued their final Reg 408(b)2 and 404(a) (who makes up these names, anyway?) designed to force better disclosure.
From a molecular perspective, Lucentis was designed to stay in the eye and have a short half-life (two hours), while Avastin was designed to enter the circulatory system and to stick around to fight off cancer (a half-life of 20 days).
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It showed a reporter this case study, making sure to call it a hypothetical example designed to impress Ebay into giving it a contract (it worked).
He added the same phrase had inspired The Dream, a 66ft (20m) statue of a girl's head designed by Jaume Plensa at the former Sutton Manor Colliery, in St Helens.
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The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate companion, Protect IP Act (PIPA), were ostensibly designed to deal with a very real problem: rampant piracy of copyrighted material by foreign websites, particularly those in China.
In a building designed by Gustave Eiffel, a Molinard "nose" (perfume maker) helps visitors create their own distinctive fragrance.
Bickford, who bought the property in 2001 (it was designed as a private home), took his inspiration from African safari camps and Aman resorts.
This little gem was designed to hold a cheroot (a small cigar) in one of three so-called coloring bowls, shaped to accommodate cigars of different diameters.
This inquiry must be designed to ascertain whether the metals originated (a) in the DRC or neighboring countries, (b) in another geographic region, or (c) from recycled or scrap metals.
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He was musing about how helpful it would have been to have had a CRM program that was specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and worked with a calendaring application.
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The company, which provides phones that work off a wireless local area network (WLAN)--a Wi-Fi network designed for the workplace--had recently acquired KIRK Telecom, a privately held Danish provider of wireless communications products.
Organized both chronologically and thematically, the exhibition begins with a Donatello "speaking reliquary" (c. 1425): a gilded bronze bust designed to house a skull fragment of St.
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Total Car Score compiled a list of 10 other vehicles that are going away in 2013, including the Hyundai Veracruz (replaced by a larger Santa Fe), the Mazda CX-7 (replaced by more fuel-efficient CX-5), and the Jeep Liberty (to be replaced next year by a Fiat-designed Jeep).
On NYLA's wide and shallow stage, outfitted for the occasion with a front curtain to give the appearance of a proscenium, and set austerely as if against a low horizon (by Akiko Iwasaki, who also designed the costumes), "Bell" unfolds more as a patchwork than as an authoritatively layered or structured presentation.
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Levi s Red Wire DLX iPod Jeans have a pocket specifically designed to hold an iPod (with built-in docking station) and another to hold a retractable headset.
For a company that makes products designed to help people feel comfortable, Kimberly-Clark ( KMB) managed to make a lot of stockholders pretty sore over the past year.
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In order to achieve these fundamental goals, KL has developed four training modules and a web-based toolkit (see below), all of which are designed to equip adult teachers with a wide range of skills and competencies necessary for the successful and effective use of evidence-based instruction practices in the classrooms.
Designed in a garage in California (no, really), Botiful is already functional, with working software as well.
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And the DOJ itself participates in Basic Immigration Enforcement Training (BIET), a program designed to train state and local law enforcement on immigration enforcement.
At its heart is the concept of "advance informed agreement" (AIA), a procedure designed to make sure countries have the information they need before agreeing to import GMOs.
Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a plan designed to increase the number of health care professionals who are trained on how to properly prescribe certain types of painkillersand help patients use prescribed medications safely.
One problem was that the rocket used as a booster (a type known as Pegasus, that is designed to be used as a satellite launcher) is usually dropped from its launch aircraft at an altitude of 12, 200 metres.
The leaders also agreed to bring forward to next year the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a fund designed to bail out ailing countries reducing the risk that the likes of Italy and Spain would struggle to refinance maturing debts.
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This effort by NYSE is a classic example of a community cloud in that it is a private IaaS solution (yes, there is dedicated hosting too) designed specifically to meet the needs of a particular market and open to all members of that community.
To find out, I talked to Bailey Klinger, CEO of the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL), which has designed a proprietary psychometric loan application that predicts the business performance and credit worthiness of entrepreneurs based on their attitudes and beliefs, intelligence, business skills, and character.
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