Now a team of doctors is trying for the first time to work out the scale of the food-inhaling problem among stroke patients.
It will allow astronomers to peer back into the universe's Dark Ages, a period roughly 400, 000 to 800m years after the Big Bang, during which things cooled enough to allow the first large-scale objects, such as galaxies and clusters of galaxies, to form.
Friday's letters appear to be the first large-scale effort by members of the Senate to influence the president's decision.
Manufacturer Nokia was perhaps the first brand to realize the astonishing new scale of technology inherent in mobile.
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The current plan is to launch the first full-scale habitat (called Sundancer) in 2014.
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One of the first actions of the current government was to set up a full-scale strategic defence and security review, the first since 1998 (see article).
And last summer, a Java vulnerability was used by the Flashback malware to create the first known large-scale botnet of Macs, which numbered more than 600, 000 at its peak.
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Unlike the first model, which required you to hook the scale to your computer with a micro-USB cable and set it from there, this version can be set up from a smartphone.
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Hong Kong Telecom plans to bring the world's first commercial video-on-demand service to the territory this year, the first step toward full-scale interactive television.
Looking back from 2040, the second thing people will see is that India was the first developing country to embrace on a major scale the knowledge economy.
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The auto industry has been working on so-called V2V technology for a long time but this is the first large-scale test to see how well it works in the real world.
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Realizing that better processes alone will never overcome these imperfections, the Stanford engineers managed to circumvent the barriers using a unique imperfection-immune design paradigm to produce the first-ever full-wafer-scale digital logic structures that are unaffected by misaligned and mis-positioned CNTs.
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The project aims to create the world's first large scale wave energy farm by constructing a wave hub, or "socket", on the seabed.
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This summer, local microbrewers will band together to open the first large-scale brewery within city limits in more than 30 years.
The first cars to be produced on a larger scale are expected to hit the road next year.
Von Hippel has for the first time given us a scale to work against when we think of the power of adaptive consumers.
These could be among the first full-scale power plants in the nation to turn powdered coal into a synthetic natural gas that is burned in a gas turbine whose exhaust gas powers a steam turbine.
Ms Glass criticised the Met for not referring the case to the watchdog when the scale of their internal concerns first emerged in early 2008.
If you follow the natural gas sector, you might remember that Chesapeake was one of the first in the group to announce plans to scale back production due to plunging prices.
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DeCode's research has broad implications because this is one of the first drugs to emerge from the newfangled science of genomics, the large-scale study of disease-causing genes.
This will be the first commercial wind farm in the U.S. to deploy, at scale, turbines that use permanent magnet generators tech-speak for evolutionary turbine technology that will improve efficiency, reliability and grid connection capabilities.
Eight student political societies - including all the major parties - had invited undergraduate and postgraduate students to vote in what was billed as the first large-scale poll of Scottish university students on the country's future.
Wry says their paper is the first to offer a large-scale sociological analysis.
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The authority said at the time its challenge was not undertaken lightly because it believed the anaerobic digester was the first on this scale to be approved in any UK national park under farm diversification policies.
Ohio-based American Electric Power, the largest consumer of coal in the U.S., is trying to build the country's first super-efficient commercial-scale coal gasification plant.
"By using natural crystals for the first time, rather than artificial metamaterials, we have been able to scale up the size of the cloak and can hide larger objects, thousands of times bigger than the wavelength of the light, " said Shuang Zhang, the University of Birmingham physicist who led the research.
The scales, known as the Smart Body Analyzer, are the first-ever smart scale to feature heart rate measurement and air quality monitoring.
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These hires come close in scale for the first time to the losses in print newspapers, and that is something we could never have suggested in any other year.
The plant will be one of the largest solar projects in the country and the first to store heat on a large scale so that it can continue to make electricity after sunset.
The first company to develop an effective vaccine is rewarded with a prize in the form of large scale purchases of its vaccine.
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