But among the tasks the machine can perform in a single step are edge detection, inversion, the identification of lines and shapes of different orientations, and the filling-in of concave shapes all things that are useful in image-processing, and not all of which can be managed by digital technology.
The company's international headquarters in Zaandam is a squat, four-story building in the food-processing district along the North Sea canal.
Investors in grain-processing giant Archer-Daniels-Midland ( ADM) think corn is king.
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He didn't have to travel far from his home in Minneapolis to find a camp where Hispanic women, migrant workers in food-processing plants, have temporary quarters.
When human brains come across uncertainty, they tend to pay attention to information more because they want to figure it out, which leads to longer and more in-depth processing.
It is ironic that today's computer industry has its origins in a data-processing project carried out in 1890 that was completed on time and under budget.
In a series of tweets, he says that PureView itself is about "blending optics, pixels and image processing in new and different ways, " hinting at the high-end Carl Zeiss lens and the built-in image processing algorithms that are part of the 808 PureView's camera package.
Then came construction, banking and securities broking in the 1980s, followed by overseas expansion (from prawn farming in Australia to a seafood-processing factory in Alaska in the early 1990s) and, finally, financial services.
Good news for a firm like ManTech International, which specializes in government data-processing services.
The iOS 6 makes the phone into a Mac-in-your-hand with more processing power and memory than previous versions.
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For agricultural companies and food producers, however, rising commodity prices can be a blessing or a curse, depending on where the company is in the food-processing chain.
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This latest incident comes just over a week after inspectors found horse DNA in meat labelled as beef in three Polish meat-processing plants, the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw reports.
As the first step towards the commercialization of its new CMOS image sensors, Sony has developed a model with built-in signal processing functionality, an element that usually requires external embedment.
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"In my memory, this is the most serious accident in the meat-processing sector, " said He Zhonghua, an analyst with China Meat Industry Network, a consultancy owned by the semiofficial China Meat Industry Association.
Scanning their brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the scientists found that a region involved in language processing - the temporal lobe, part of the prefrontal cortex - was activated during verbal learning in rested patients.
Much like Microsoft Word had a model for GUI-based word processing in MacWrite, touch-optimized office suites have been developed by or snapped up by Microsoft's competitors, including Apple ( iWork), Google ( QuickOffice) and RIM ( Docs To Go).
In another application, scientists selectively stimulated brain cells in animal models of Parkinson's disease, a disease that involves the disruption of information-processing in the brain.
Malaysia announced the ban Friday, but it was effective as of April 23 after the first case of human infection with the H7N9 virus was reported in the coastal province of Shandong, a major chicken-processing area in China.
In addition, advanced digital processing in the X-E1 enables multiple exposures, giving photographers the ability to take two shots while visually checking the finished image, either in the viewfinder or LCD screen.
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It found IRS managers had allowed "inappropriate criteria" to be developed and stay in place for more than 18 months, resulting in "substantial delays" in processing applications for tax-exempt status, and requests for "unnecessary information", such as lists of donors.
In addition to security and speed, SWIFT offers a standard interface to reach pretty much any bank in the world with a standard message format to provide completely automated processing of payments, straight-through processing (STP) in industry terminology.
Both games taught me some interesting lessons in non-software assisted processing of information.
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If a retailing chain, for example, needs in-house mobile payment processing, Howerton and Hoch will recruit a team and oversee the creation of a company suited especially for that purpose.
Palmer said rumors abound of Yahoo and Google releasing more real-time processing technologies for working in real-time with big data, and Streambase plans some specific product announcements in a month or so.
Crestwood, the Houston-based company engaged in gathering and processing natural gas, announced an all-stock merger with Inergy, the Kansas City, Missouri-based company engaged in storage and transportation of natural gas earlier this month.
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"IUS014F-Z" is an all-in-one imaging module type with a camera signal processing functions on the image sensor, with built-in auto-focus and image quality adjustment.
Meanwhile, less than two decades ago in the mid-1990s, the relentless increase in processing power of microchips and corresponding price declines unleashed another form of IT, commonly known as mobile phones.
Back in China, Pacific Andes is constructing a 3.5-million- square-foot processing complex in Hongdao, near Qingdao.
The company, which was first featured in FORBES ASIA in 2008, has gone from one diamond processing plant to three in-house facilities in that period.
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