The number of foreign civilians deployed in Afghanistan has been rising as international efforts there focus increasingly on development and aid.
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But, increasingly, the development work on robots is designed either to assist the old with physical functions such as bathing or lifting things, or to monitor health and well-being.
Lands' End also provides a good example of how technological development and increasingly clever mathematics are bringing new services to the internet.
In today's economy, says Ambassador Pickering, "energy is increasingly more important to development, " not only as a resource for cars and computers, but as a powerful commodity market.
In today's economy, says Ambassador Pickering, "energy is increasingly more important to development, " not only as a resource for cars and computers but also as a powerful commodity market.
With the allure of college athletic scholarships, the focus in our youth and high school sports programs has increasingly been on the development of elite athletes vs. participation for all.
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And as development problems grow increasingly complex, it becomes a necessity rather than a luxury.
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Moving towards an increasingly integrated approach to sustainable development in small islands, CSI focused on local community perceptions and knowledge relating to the conservation and wise use of freshwater and coastal resources.
Corporate development teams are increasingly looking outside of their organization to help keep up with marketplace demands and avoid the loss of market share that can happen with a sluggish or even delayed time to market.
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However, recently, environmental officials have become increasingly active in blocking new industrial development.
Shadow is yet another tool by Adobe which focuses on HTML 5 development as Flash becomes increasingly irrelevant in a post-PC world.
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The Summit was organized by ITU under the patronage of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to ensure that social and economic development, which is increasingly driven by ICTs, will result in a more just, prosperous and equitable world.
In terms of that new development, builders are getting increasingly creative with the extras.
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While gender is increasingly recognised as a critical aspect of development research and practice across the UN, further coordination in this field is required.
One of the merits of this exhibition is that it displays a number of works that have never been seen together before, allowing for comparison and a clear sense of the development of Guardi's increasingly personal style.
Religious conservatives have become increasingly assertive since the ruling Justice and Development Party led by Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan swept to power in 2003 pledging to build an Islam-infused democracy and seeking to rehabilitate an Ottoman past long-discredited for decades during an iron-fisted secular rule.
Thanks to our advocacy, international community is increasingly acknowledging the role of culture in sustainable development.
The Korean manufacturer describes OLED screens as one of its "new growth engines, " alongside e-paper and solar cells, so even if we may consider development slow, it's looking increasingly likely that OLED TVs will eventually make their way into the mainstream.
His point was that the NIH and the Food and Drug Administration are increasingly able to handle preclinical and early clinical drug development, and that with these first steps taken medicines are more likely to be brought to market by large pharmaceutical companies.
According to Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, the site is increasingly becoming a peer-to-peer career-development network.
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In a curious parallel development, effective middle managers within large corporations increasingly act like angel investors internally.
Mountain regions, particularly in tropical regions where they are prime human habitat, are increasingly threatened by climate change, demographic pressure, and economic development that in many cases lead to resource depletion and degradation, hindering the provision of critical goods and services to both mountain inhabitants and lowland communities.
As independent head and media suppliers in an increasingly consolidated market, TDK and SDK carried on research and development that allowed them to introduce advancements such as perpendicular recording in Toshiba products in 2004, many months before the other hard disk drive companies could bring their perpendicular recording products to market.
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They will look increasingly to next-door Turkey or distant Singapore as models of development that bring stability and progress.
Digital games, which are increasingly integrating social components, offer the opportunity to weave soft skill development into more traditional subjects.
With coastal development continuing at a rapid pace, society is becoming increasingly vulnerable to sea-level rise and variability as Hurricane Katrina demonstrated in New Orleans in 2005.
Chinese geoparks will continue to develop but they are also keen to share their experiences of conservation and sustainable development, especially at a time when geoparks are becoming increasingly popular: as of June 2012, the global network counted 88 geoparks in 27 countries.
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In addition, the development of smaller and thinner devices has made the radial approach increasingly practical.
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