The government has announced plans for major GCSE reform which will see exams sat at the end of two-year courses, rather than in modules throughout, as well as an increase in extended questions and less internal assessment.
What Transphorm is doing is making new kinds of power conversion devices, based on a material called gallium nitride (a substance best known for its use in LED lighting), which it embeds in modules and sells to equipment manufacturers.
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The government had already announced that it wanted to shake up GCSEs by returning to the system where most exams were taken after two years, rather than in modules, and those changes were already planned to affect pupils beginning their GCSE studies this autumn.
Brian Lightman, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, says there is no evidence that linear exams are more rigorous than those taken in modules - and that schools in England should be free to choose which exams their pupils take.
TBM's founder, Anand Sharma, is convinced that the car industry will gradually move to a pattern where most of a car will be made in modules that are simply snapped together in small assembly lines close to the consumer, where details can be adapted to local tastes.
Developers can also break apart some applications, like Gmail, to easily change look and layout on different tablets (think of it as a marriage of programming in modules and graphic templates.) There is a good 3-D capability, so scrolling YouTube galleries, looking at album art or turning the pages of ebooks looks good.
Some materials in solar modules such as silicon and rare metals could be more valuable in the future, providing an additional incentive to recycle.
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The Mac uses only plug-in memory modules, its operating system automatically recognizes all the memory present, and all Mac software can share it.
We currently estimate 300 MW in sales to Italy in 2011, so this scenario would mean a reduction in PV modules sold by about 100 MW for the year.
When opting for one of the foreign languages, the student has from three months to one year to complete the program, divided in three modules (Basic, Professional and Regional), with a total duration of 80 hours.
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But police departments around the country are working very hard to fight these ill-conceived notions and, in recent years their diversity recruitment and selection processes, paired with modules in sensitivity and multicultural training, have had an impact.
She said there had been many "significant unknowns" in changes to modules of the GCSE English exam, which had to be resolved in the final awarding of grades.
In its computer science programming modules that launched in August, the platform has moved more toward experimenting with helping students learn by doing.
Students will also take three "intellectual skills" modules in science literacy, logic and critical thinking and applied ethics.
This new result suggests that in psychopaths these modules have been switched off.
Our portfolio company Solaria produces solar modules in a market where hundreds of down-stream developers compete for end customers.
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Bosch said it would unwind the solar power venture and shut down manufacturing ingots, wafers, cells and modules in early 2014.
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The car, built on Mitsubishi-designed underpinnings, will be assembled into modules in China, then shipped to a factory near Oxnard, Calif. to be completed.
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Burke estimates that U.S. companies like Dow Chemical, Dupont and 3M are major players in roughly 70% of the advanced materials used in making solar modules.
Nanayang's EMBA participants can complete some study modules in the U.S. at the University of California's Berkeley business school campus as part of the Advanced Management Program.
Accept has several application modules in its platform, Accept360, that help support the innovation process, and help companies figure out which products to bring to market, in which order, for the fastest time-to-profit.
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And most recently, during Martin Luther King, Jr. day, which is known as a national day of service, PwC employees spent the day giving back from teaching financial literacy modules in schools to hosting career exploration programs for youth organizations.
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These activities could include demonstrations of new robots, inflatable modules in which to live or grow food ("greenhouses"), new life-support technologies, radiation protection systems, communications and sensor technologies, novel telemedicine approaches - anything that would be needed by astronauts on a self-sufficient mission far from Earth.
In addition, as the slim form factor fits in an 8.5mm x 8.5mm auto focus camera module with a height dimension of 6.0mm, the S5K3H2 gives design engineers a great deal of freedom in designing camera modules suitable for slim mobile handsets and small form factor applications.
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"We do not envision a realistic scenario in which crystalline silicon modules would be able to achieve cost levels that enable competitive pricing, " he said in a recent call with investors.
Ten new modules are in the pipeline including a keyboard and a sim card reader.
First Solar has been a leader in thin film photovoltaic modules using cadmium telluride.
And indeed, the volume of megawatts of photovoltaic modules produced in the U.S. fell 11% in the second quarter from the first quarter.
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The company leverages its deep expertise in optics, camera modules, MEMS and image processing to deliver pioneering products that expand the boundaries of smartphone photography.
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Mr Andre's works often consist of identical modules, in linear or square configurations, fashioned from ordinary materials, unattached to each other, unpainted and unadorned in any way.
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