In its first two rounds, the company aspired to demonstrate that its technology would work at least as well as the existing method of testing for DNA, proteins, and small molecules.
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Nortel (Northern Telecom) and a subsidiary of U.K.-based United Utilities announced recently that they have developed a method allowing data to be sent cheaply and quickly over existing power lines into your home.
The problem with enacting Leveson was always how to bring in a bill, if Conservative minsters didn't want to (I posted on one possible method a while ago) - and amending an existing bill is an elegant solution.
In 1984, I developed a very simple method to speed computers up by over 10, 000 times using existing technology.
The public will be asked whether they want to replace the existing first-past-the-post system for electing MPs to Westminster with a method known as the alternative vote (AV).
As a small business owner, asking your existing broker for a quote is not going to solve this problem as it will require a new method behind providing employees with health insurance.
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The method offers the promise of a rapid and precise screening of algae directly rather than the existing time-consuming, cumbersome and error-prone means for analyzing algae, and may prove pivotal in the development of a fuel industry based on algae.
Because the technique uses off-the-shelf wireless transceivers similar to those used in home computer networks, "the cost of this system will be cheaper than existing methods of monitoring breathing, " says Neal Patwari, senior author of a study of the new method and an assistant professor of electrical engineering.
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Hudson-Webber's method reveals the potential of another kind of analysis, one that is based on the untapped power of existing assets.
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