And if it can be built small, using an integrated circuit process, it can be made cheaply and scaled to quantities of millions.
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It is this sort of thing that stimulates the imagination, she said, while the screen "tends to short circuit that process and the development of creative capacity".
Everyone -- a lot of people, and certainly we made clear back in December that a political effort to short-circuit that process for ideological reasons would be counterproductive because a proper review that weighed all the important issues in this case could not be achieved in 60 days -- according to the State Department, which, again, runs this review process.
Undoubtedly, they do not want to short-circuit the political process by creating a self-fulfilling prophecy or by driving a backlash.
From resistors and LED modules to light sensors, each block represents a real component that can be attached to each other via magnetic connectors, hopefully creating a circuit in the process.
If their party can't get the 60 votes needed for the bill to reach the Senate floor, some top Democrats have hinted they may try to short-circuit the traditional legislative process by using an obscure tactic known as reconciliation.
As a result, Ornstein argued, Democratic leaders may now try to short-circuit the traditional Senate legislative process by passing a more partisan bill through an obscure tactic known as reconciliation, a type of budget maneuver that requires only a simple majority -- 51 votes -- to pass.
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Ms Hersman said they were now following up two lines of inquiry - the actual cause of the short circuit, and why the certification process failed to pick up the defect in the battery's design.
Furthermore, as the pixel section and circuit section are formed as independent chips, a manufacturing process can be adopted, enabling the pixel section to be specialized for higher image quality while the circuit section can be specialized for higher functionality, thus simultaneously achieving higher image quality, superior functionality and a more compact size.
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"The challenge is to make a microbattery array that is robust enough and that does not have a single short circuit in the whole array via a process that can be scaled up cheaply, " said Prof Clare Grey from the University of Cambridge's chemistry department.
"The failure rate was higher than predicted as part of the certification process and the possibility that a short circuit in a single cell could propagate to adjacent cells and result in smoke and fire must be reconsidered, " said Deborah Hersman, the head of NTSB.
So the Supremes have the opportunity to uphold Bilski and still get a shot in at the Federal Circuit if they include language that invalidates patents like the Prometheus process.
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The Heads of the Valleys Development Company, which is behind the plans, said the proposed Circuit of Wales development has been subjected to a rigorous environmental assessment process as part of the planning application.
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What did happen is that for more than two decades, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (which sits below the Supreme Court in the patent appeals process) unilaterally expanded the range of stuff that could be patented.
He insisted that the machinery on the 165-foot assembly line be configured to move the circuit boards from right to left as they got built, so that the process would look better to visitors who watched from the viewing gallery.
In the typical process of electronic consolidation, they say, positioning will be built in at the circuit board level.
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Fredericks notes that Boston police are likely now going through a similar process, collecting every piece of digital media available from transit and nearly 600 closed circuit television cameras covering the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority alone.
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