In particular, their assessments have depended heavily on measurements of temperature from ground-based instruments.
Confirming that these candidates are actually planets can be a tricky and laborious process, requiring follow-up observations by ground-based instruments or further analysis of Kepler's data.
Follow-up observations are also being planned using other ground-based instruments, as well as several space observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.
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The primary difference between the terrestrial-based instruments and AMS is that AMS' science instrument systems were miniaturized and ruggedized for launch on the space shuttle and operation on the space station.
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That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.
The most important, in the United States and in most other countries, is a positive declaration that gold, and gold-based instruments (such as gold-based bank accounts and so forth) would be permitted for monetary usage, just as we use dollars or, for that matter, foreign currencies such as Canadian dollars or euros.
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These funds generally invest in publically listed securities and derivative instruments based on such securities.
My favorites this year were based on Texas Instruments (nasdaq: TXN - news - people )' mirror-flipping Digital Light Processing chips.
As we all know by now, the practice of building financial houses of cards on various investment instruments based in non-transparent and problematic subprime mortgage-backed securities was a formula for disaster.
The move eases fears Google will standardize on ARM-based processors from Texas Instruments, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Apple, and others.
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The software for the EV3, which is based on the same National Instruments LabView software used for industrial robot applications, has been upgraded.
Derivatives are financial instruments whose value is based on some underlying asset, like a mortgage for instance, and and can be used to either hedge risk or for completely speculative positions.
American pundits might like to try the following two thought experiments, based on real-life EU instruments, and imagine how, with Mexico playing the part of Turkey, they would sell either to American voters.
Based on this philosophy, Shariah compliant financial instruments and techniques have been developed and successfully used by Islamic banks and their customers worldwide in the funding of items such as property, ships, hotels and power plants.
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The move creates an opening for companies like Nvidia, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm that build ARM-based processors to expand from mobile devices into Windows-based PCs and tablets.
In a break with longtime partner Intel, Microsoft announced the new version of Windows will run on ARM-based processors from Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments.
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For example, based on his past experience as a senior executive at Seiko Instruments, he set up an outsourced sales team.
Known for its luxury writing instruments, the venerable Hamburg, Germany-based company entered the world of Swiss watchmaking in 1997, when it purchased the villa.
Is it based on the same ARM-design as processors built by Texas Instruments and Qualcomm?
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Qualcomm, Nvidia, Texas Instruments and Apple license the U.K.-based company's designs.
That would be a dramatic shift for Apple, whose mobile processors are based on the same basic ARM design used by Nvidia and Texas Instruments.
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The new version of Windows will work with processors based on the ARM architecture from Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Texas Instruments, in addition to x86 processors from Intel and AMD.
Native Instruments set the high watermark for DJ software with its desktop-based Traktor application, and now it's available in compact iOS form.
We're in a market-based economy, where we're looking at fair-value accounting and marking instruments, to the markets.
In addition, last week Texas Instruments ( TXN) raised its Q2 guidance range citing strong broad-based demand of chips and that the company was not seeing any adverse effects from Europe.
Instead it licenses its processor designs to companies such as Apple, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, among others, and collects royalty fees based on the number of processors shipped.
It is rare that foreign governments changed policy based on the application of US economic power alone, but in combination with the other instruments of national power, economics can be a very effective tool.
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Primarily based on Eurodollars, U.S. Treasuries, swaps and other dollar-related instruments that customers can utilize to manage short, medium and long term interest rate risk, interest rate contracts are the largest class of financial products traded on CME Group.
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But much of that performance was based on investing in alternative assets, like hedge funds, leveraged buyout funds and other exotic financial instruments that plummeted during the recent financial crisis.
The capital requirements will be based on those used during the eurozone-wide stress tests earlier this year, but 'new instruments' implemented since the stress tests may be considered as capital if regulators so choose.
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