Talk to your aging parent about adaptive devices like a cane or wheelchair.
Most notably iPlayer and Media Player have been stuck with low-quality, non-adaptive streams and a stripped down feature set.
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Designing a truly adaptive brain-robot interface that allows paralysed patients to directly teach a robot to do something could be immensely helpful, liberating them from the need to use a mouse and keyboard or touchscreen, designed for more capable users.
Adaptive learning is a method of education that seeks to personalize learning by using sophisticated algorithmic technology to continually assess students' knowledge, skill and confidence levels and design targeted study paths based on the resulting data to bolster students' understanding in the areas where they need to improve the most.
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But the idea that emotions shape all activity in adaptive ways is quite a subtle one.
Three years later, the Army's chief of staff concedes the United States is up against a highly adaptive "thinking" enemy.
The new image, which scientists revealed on Wednesday (Jan. 9), was obtained on the night of Dec. 28 using a new adaptive optics system at the Gemini Observatory South telescope in Chile.
In addition, said Simeon Coney, a spokesman for mobile security firm Adaptive Mobile, the declining use of voicemail made it a less tempting target.
Other upgrades include a new spring-loaded, adaptive rear wing and the Triplex rear suspension, comprising a bidirectional hydraulic strut mounted horizontally between the pushrod rockers.
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Moss stressed that he sees the best innovations coming where there are risks taken in a flexible and adaptive environment.
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The so-called autonomous adaptive structures are part of a long-term research into shape-memory healing which could impact long-term developments of implantable medical devices, for instance.
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Vidyo's technology is able to optimize the user's video experience to reduce latency with H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC), an adaptive codec that can ensure a more reliable video experience on best-effort networks.
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During the event, Skaugen also demonstrated new adaptive AIO systems that have a battery built into the screen and can be picked up and easily moved around the home or office as needed.
Between the blind-spot monitoring system, the active lane-keeping, the adaptive cruise control (maintaining a set distance to the vehicle ahead), and the "precollision" system, which uses internal cameras to monitor drivers' faces for signs of inattention, the GS350 is about as close to an automated auto as you'll find on the market.
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To Petraeus and his advisers, however, the project presented a prime example of adaptive learning.
They recently acquired a 20 percent equity stake in Area9 Aps, a Denmark-based adaptive learning company.
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The Driver Assist package, debuting now, goes a step further by intervening to avoid a crash through its Adaptive Cruise Control, Automatic Collision Preparation, and Front and Rear Automatic Braking systems.
Whereas adaptive immunity is thought to be a response to specific bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, innate immunity has always been seen as the body's general response to all threats of disease.
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In addition to his Netflix day job and presence on the boards of Microsoft and Facebook, the former President of the California State Board of Education is a lead investor in adaptive learning provider Dreambox.
The TV Wonder 650 is based on the Theater 650 chip, including a "motion-adaptive 3D comb filter" as well as noise reduction, and touts the ability to work in Vista systems, even though it's still questionable whether the rest of your system will.
Autonomous driving in slow traffic is a logical combination of adaptive cruise-control and the lane-keeping systems, already available in some vehicles, which either warn the driver if the car starts to drift out of lane, or apply corrective steering to keep it in lane.
"The new material is a liquid-infused elastic porous surface, which is what allows for the fine control over so many adaptive responses above and beyond its ability to repel a wide range of substances, " Prof Aizenberg explained.
In short, investors believe they are flexible and adaptive, but their investments move in a straight line forever.
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Mr. Bruning explained that she is focused on adaptive technology that will help people live a better life.
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We think about and make our way in the world using a grab-bag of adaptive heuristics, cognitive short-cuts, and biases.
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This session aims to explore on how a new paradigm towards an adaptive management can be developed to address water security issues.
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Al is the independent member of the Board of Directors of Adaptive Computing in Provo, UT and a member of several technology advisory boards.
This season was a good test of these adaptive strategies.
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Markets have a way of developing stable adaptive landscapes.
Sprung with double wishbones, coil springs and adaptive monotube dampers, the car offers a choice of three drive modes Tour, Sport and Track with escalating thresholds for the car's engine, transmission, suspension and stability logic.
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