Sensors out in the field monitor all the traffic area and report back to the box, and the software provides users with a real-time, graphical view of what's going on inside their network.

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Church, who has made a career out of perfecting the speed with which genes can be sequenced, was emphatic about the need for the Federal government to regulate and monitor the new field.

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He points to the varied platforms on which you can connect to what is happening in the game: using FiOS to watch live games on smartphones, mobile apps track player stats, or mobile services used by athletes to monitor their health off the field and safety on it.

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The Monitor Group, a Boston consultancy, offered free office space and field work.

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The researchers will monitor the growth of this vegetation around newly formed thermokarst features and use experimental field plots to test how conditions mimicking such features affect which species will thrive.

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