What might be a failing in terms of our comprehensive knowledge of the world, is a total win for marketers and app makers.
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Their knowledge of the world beyond Latin America is largely confined to the French and Italian left, and few of them speak English.
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Excellent knowledge of the World Heritage Convention and its Operational Guidelines.
David was also the leading force behind legislation that has encouraged thousands of American college students to study abroad to deepen their knowledge of the world and cultures.
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Thus the 1992 Cable Act is a legal anachronism that blindly careens into the future like a 1992 time capsule devoid of knowledge of the real world of today or the amazing technological innovations in the pipeline.
In ancient times the Library of Alexandria held the collected knowledge of the Western world.
Rather than the illusion of control that cabinets of curiosities offered centuries ago by facilitating an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world, the dreamlike microcosm in "Ghosts in the Machine" anticipates a dematerialized digital culture.
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Mr. Poole has critically overlooked the growth of food knowledge throughout the Western world and the overall improvement of food at all levels.
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He was said to have encyclopaedic knowledge of the railway world, after devoting his life to the subject.
With support from Norway, UNESCO published a 2-volume book in the Mayangna language based on their indigenous knowledge of the natural world.
Another reason the authorship question arose and took hold before the 20th century was the limited knowledge of the Elizabethan world most people had, including historians.
She recalled that 65 years ago in the same Great Hall in London, UNESCO was established as an organisation to enable free and mutually enriching exchange of ideas and achievements and sharing of creative skills and knowledge among peoples of the world.
Historians and sociologists of science have made a convincing case that language plays a crucial role in the production of knowledge about the natural world.
And historically there was the additional fear that the precious store of knowledge accumulating as the world grew in wisdom might be lost by natural or man-made disaster.
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As digital media has become the main means of recording and transmitting knowledge today, The Memory of the World Programme is committed to raising awareness and building capacity to address issues affecting digitization and digital continuity while developing digital preservation strategies that are sustainable and globally applicable.
The novel interactions of the original dot com world were contextualized by knowledge of the customer.
The cameras roll and without missing a beat, he slips into his deranged millionaire persona, a character that has popped up a bit over the past few years, as Hodgman has wrapped up his trilogy of "complete world knowledge, " the last entry of which, "That is All, " was released in paperback and audiobook forms this week.
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Her ignorance of what happened at the News of the World reinforced their claims that they too had no knowledge of the alleged scale of abuses by the Sunday tabloid, which was closed down only a week ago.
"With the rapid pace of globalization, corporate America has got the message that global growth requires talent with in-depth knowledge of the languages, customs and geography of other parts of the world, " she says.
The UNESCO Ethics of Science and Technology Programme, organizer of the conference, was created in 1998 with the establishment of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) to generate ethical reflection on science and technology and its applications.
The Director-General underlined that the preservation, protection and the accessibility of documented heritage of the world are key elements for the progress and advancement of knowledge societies.
He decided to harness the strength of what he calls "the finest RNA chemists in the world" to use their knowledge in the nascent field of RNA interference.
In essence, I am talking about the kind of knowledge work jobs that exist in the high-tech world and the advanced manufacturing plants of some major manufacturers.
He set aside his prejudice only during the second world war when his knowledge of the desert was put at the disposal of the British fighting the Germans and Italians in North Africa.
None of those critics, to my knowledge, were demanding that the News of the World should be shut.
To make it useful to the rest of the world requires domain knowledge, and often a transformation that is simply nonsensical within the source domain.
France has long-standing interests in, and knowledge of, this part of the world.
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In the second world war his knowledge of them had saved him from deploying with the marines.
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