Led by professor Darwin Caldwell, the international team created HyQ with a special Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).

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"He doesn't belong to any particular political party, " said Ashrafuddin Khan Imu, an Awami League leader and longtime Rana rival.

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The IMU tax amounts to 0.4% of the value of a property owner's primary residence, and is comparable to similar taxes levied elsewhere in Europe.

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The story points out that IMU technology has traditionally had problems because tiny errors in calculation add up over time until the predictions are way off.

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But HyQ has a customized IMU which gives it the ability to overcome obstacles and adjust its steps in real time in order to maintain a pre-determined posture and stay on its course.

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Reports say he was also seen as an enemy of militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), and praised by Pakistan for expelling Uzbek and other foreign fighters from Pakistan in 2007.

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The International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP) of UNESCO and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) are leading this Mathematics of Planet Earth Day and the international exhibition which is an important component of the year of scientific and outreach activities, Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013), under the patronage of UNESCO.

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