The emergence and development of players such as Cory Jane, Israel Dagg, Tom Donnelly and Kieran Read over the past year has further strengthened Henry's hand.

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Aquatic colloid science and engineering is currently undergoing a period of rapid development, driven by the emergence of a range of new and complementary techniques for the separation, fractionation and characterisation of colloidal material.

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The urgency of antibiotic development is enhanced by the emergence of new and deadly bacteria strains, usually called CRE, a term that includes bacteria like some strains of KPC or NDM that are antibiotic resistant.

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The emergence of hardware and software IP load-balancers in the late 1990s catalyzed the development of server-farms by transparently distributing incoming client requests among the servers of a farm.

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One important tangent of this discussion hasn't had much exposure in the United States: the now 25-year-old wave of new Chinese documentary (and documentary-influenced fiction), whose development has paralleled the nation's emergence as an economic powerhouse.

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Moderated by Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, among other books, panelists were unanimous in their belief that the ubiquity of the Internet, along with the emergence of Web-based platforms that enable mass collaboration and crowd-sourcing, hold the key to rapid creation and development of new startups.

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