As new early-detection techniques become affordable for the wealthy directly, it becomes cheaper for them to detect heart, stroke and cancer early than to pay for expensive treatment later.

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Then they combined their findings with earlier surveys, which used other detection techniques, to create a statistical sample of stars and the planets that orbit them, which they say is representative of the galaxy.

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One of the missions of the AMS is to attempt to ascertain if there are any large structures of antimatter present in the universe, and the RHIC data will assist in refining its detection techniques of that antimatter.

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Daniel Loeb, the billionaire founder of New York hedge fund Third Point, also reportedly got former CIA operatives to teach his staff deception detection techniques and uses private investigators when the hedge fund is shorting a stock.

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This has mirrored progress in fields as diverse as speech recognition and credit-card fraud detection, where modern techniques combined with a continuing explosion in computer power have made possible behaviour that seems very like human intelligence, albeit limited to a specific domain.

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Their reports on school violence advise instituting techniques of early detection and threat assessment as the means most likely to succeed in stopping school killings.

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These techniques help criminals evade signature-based detection and stay on the network.

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Three years ago PARC scientists stumbled onto a surprising insight: Combining laser techniques with a whisk-broom bundle of fiber-optic threads enables incredibly accurate detection of traveling cancer cells, at a much faster pace than current screening allows.

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