On to the shelves will be put the valves and other components that form the computational heart of the pioneering machine.
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This can be done using either valves as on the French horn, trumpet, and tuba or a slide, as on the trombone.
Lawrence Biegelsen, an analyst at Wells Fargo, forecasts on the order of 40, 000 of the valves will be used annually in the U.S. by 2015.
Instead, new medical devices allow valves to be fixed or replaced with tiny catheters that are snaked up from the groin, similar to the way stents are implanted in the heart to open clogged arteries when people have heart attacks or pain from a lack of good circulation in the heart muscle.
He said the Irving, Texas-based company has already altered its training program and procedures on the use of remote-control valves that can be used to shut down pipelines quickly when accidents occur.
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He and his team already have grown early-stage valves and patches that could be used some day to repair tissue damaged by heart attack.
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The FDA action follows a similar decision by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency, which announced last week that it had recommended that Pradaxa be contraindicated in patients with prosthetic heart valves.
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It can escape accidentally, through broken pipes, valves or other equipment, or be let out on purpose, when it is vented or not fully burnt during flaring.
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Manufacturing facilities will be built to manufacture pipes, drill bits, valves and other required infrastructure materials.
The control pod will open the valves that allow the drilling mud to be forced into the well.
Tiny liquid crystal molecules are sandwiched between the two polarizers, and these crystals can be switched by tiny transistors to act as light valves.
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To that end, a government watchdog group is recommending the use of automatic shut-off valves, as opposed to those that must be manually attended.
They had to be surrounded with backup equipment like diesel generators and hundreds of pumps and valves meant to squelch problems before they turned into disasters.
The primary culprit behind the explosion appears to be the blowout preventer, a two-story-tall stack of valves on the seafloor that was built by Cameron in 2001 and designed to guillotine shut an out-of-control well.
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