Just as human-computer interaction was once a burgeoning new field and now is a given in system design, human-future interaction is poised to become more essential to our strategic planning and innovation processes.
"Design patents used to be in the backwaters of the patent system, " said Christopher Carani, a design-law expert and lawyer in Chicago.
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You are the first writer I have seen who has grasped the seminal point that the dysfunctions in the current health care system are expressions of basic structural errors in their design, not intrinsic failings of capitalism or some such.
The basic system design was completed in 1994, and it took about a year of experimentation to work the bugs out.
This is a design fault in the system, not some result of Italy not collecting enough in taxation or spending too much.
No vendor creates a solution for clinicians without including clinicians in the design and no large system invests millions of dollars in a solution without clinicians being involved.
If we design a system in which firms are expected to maximise shareholder value and CEOs are stimulated to take risks, some of the investments are going to go wrong.
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Now the U.S. Green Building Council has a pilot project to award credits under its LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) system for the use of materials that have EPDs.
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"In order to achieve this, the council needs the cooperation of Scottish Water to design and implement a drainage system in the waterfront, " he said.
There is no question in my mind that the system of aircraft design, certification and approval for operation is safe.
To safely operate in the mobile industry, a company needs to have substantial portfolios in the three main patent areas involved in the design of smartphones: operating system and software, hardware and wireless patents.
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The SunShot initiative focuses on bringing down costs by pursuing innovations in four particular areas, including solar cell technology, power electronics that optimize the performance of installations, improvements in manufacturing processes, and installation and system design.
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The independent inquiry board set up to investigate the first explosive failure said the flight control system failed because of errors in computer software design.
As I met with each client and listened to their struggles, my mind began to formulate additions to our system design that were far broader in scope than my original ideas had ever been.
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And the problem is that the pain and time of tax accounting, tax preparation, is entirely unaccounted for in the deliberations of those who design the tax system.
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Touch sensing helps increase product lifetimes by eliminating mechanical wear and tear associated with buttons and switches, while minimizing system cost by saving an extra IC in the design.
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Fundamental advances in LED semiconductor technology, optics, and lighting system design now enable LED lights to break century old cost and performance barriers that have prevented consumers from realizing the savings businesses and municipalities already enjoy.
And game design is quickly becoming an important linguistic system in its own right.
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Given a free hand in the design, his team developed a continuously variable transmission system that allows the petrol engine and electric motor to work separately or in tandem.
This all-in-one design eliminates the need for a two-speaker system with all the messy wiring, microphones and unwieldy power adaptors along with their plugs and cables.
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PolyMedix, a company that is developing drugs made by a proprietary computational drug design system to mimic natural germ-killing proteins found in humans.
The CUE entertainment system in the Cadillac ATS, meanwhile, has a clean, uncluttered design, natural voice recognition, and responsive touch screen technology that operates a lot like a smart phone or tablet.
"We were motivated by a desire to design a system for anyone to both build with fabric in a way similar to playing with Lego and create objects that are rich with relevant context-aware computation without having to program, " said Nanda, who devised the patches for a project towards a Media Arts and Sciences masters degree.
Rather than building a federal system, it fills in two holes in the single currency's original design.
The K computer is a wholly made-in-Japan supercomputer, from the research and development of the processors, to system design and manufacturing.
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The coal was sent to potential customers in China and South Korea, to prove its quality and design the most efficient system.
This, the Gould report pointed out, enabled the SNP to appear at the top of all but one regional list in the elections, which saw a new ballot paper design and a new voting system for the council seats.
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The board's turntable unit has a carbon fibre finish and integrated RGB controlled LED lighting system in order to bring additional style and complete customisation to the table - a design which has quickly become a focal point of the festival following recent pictures being leaked via Twitter.
By design, the Utah Health Exchange conducted a beta test of the system in August 2009.
"I think they were very careful to keep design information, very important information in Japan, out of reach of our system as much as possible, " he said.
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