These were followed, more recently, by technologies of prosperity like the steam engine, the assembly line, and complex systems of communication, power and finance.
Through the use of path-breaking museological itineraries, the museums will show their role in illuminating the rich and complex systems of cultural, technical and stylistic influences and exchanges between civilizations.
But on Abilene, information travels through a few hundred extremely large rivers in the form of high-bandwidth applications and complex academic systems.
The coastal strip includes beaches and chain dunes, alternating with forests, centenary pine trees, and complex lagoon systems interconnected by the water-table.
Enter the cockpit of a fighter plane and you will be amazed by the myriad arrays of display panels and complex control systems.
This approach has resulted in many cost and schedule over-runs, aborted implementations, and overly complex systems that are not used to their full potential.
Beyond those areas, Blazer says there is a demand for people who understand finance or supply chain logistics, who can build and supervise complex systems.
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Alliander is a major Dutch energy distributor and specialist in renewable energy, sustainability, technical innovations, and complex power systems in the Netherlands, serving more than three million customers in the region.
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For what it is worth, RBS does not believe that the issue raised by many - that all the banks have creaking ancient and complex computer systems, on to which they are constantly grafting updates - is the core weakness.
Another fear is that - with the increasing number of elections, and with more complex PR systems being used - voters may suffer election fatigue and simply refuse to turn out.
Millions of pounds were wasted on England's rapidly growing academies programme because of over-complex and inefficient funding systems, MPs say.
This was a fine diplomatic philosophy during the Napoleonic era, but it crumbles under the weight of our complex geopolitical and financial systems.
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But in any case, they will beg for custom software design as large and complex health care delivery systems go through compliance procedures and also look to streamline administrative costs.
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Like the 1986 NASA disaster, investigations of the BP spill are starting to point toward complex and sophisticated technical systems that failed because of overlooked problems, which, in turn, exacerbated the situation in unanticipated ways.
As far back as the telegraph and the telephone, communication technologies have played an important role in raising our awareness of the fact that we increasingly live and work within complex sociotechnical systems of our own creation.
The business challenges and opportunities of today and tomorrow are simply too demanding, too complex, and too dynamic for traditional systems.
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Integrating reservations systems is a complex and enormous task for airlines, partly because they have to take the systems temporarily offline, even though flight operations must continue.
Divergent standards, protocols, and skill sets among nations have resulted in systems that are complex, duplicative and inefficient.
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"Cell phones, e-mail, complex phone systems and the Internet all enhance the way megachurches work, " says Thumma, faculty associate at the Hartford Institute.
These offerings sit between traditional IT systems and a complex array of channels and devices that customers are using to access their services today.
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While the research could help inform practices in older NHS buildings, many newer UK hospital buildings feature no opening windows and complex computer-controlled ventilation systems.
To address the big data issue, governments must continue to develop and enhance their complex analytical targeting systems to scour the data for the proverbial needle in a haystack that would flag a suspicious shipment.
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This course is taught by Scott E Page, the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan where he directs the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
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Nares' group offers translation services and an on-site resource center at Rady to help them navigate the often-complex insurance systems, legal issues and medical diagnoses.
Mr. McMurray and his team of scientists have worked out advanced mathematical equations, complex graphs showing "cutting systems" and precise anatomical diagrams of chickens.
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But VTEL management was reluctant: It had a nice little business selling complex systems to schools and hospitals.
But VTEL's management was reluctant: It had a nice little business selling complex systems to schools and hospitals.
Highly complex systems are complicated and time-consuming to figure out.
With the invention of complex control systems, and especially with the invention of solid state electronics and the computers, we have been loosing our mental jobs to the machines.
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Dr Meyer's flight of fancy shows that such computers could also operate comfortably in the area of game theory, with all that implies for modelling complex systems and, presumably, for games themselves.
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