Silver: Besides its well-known uses in making jewelry, silverware and coins, silver is in dental fillings, architectural glass and hearing aids.
Since they can be used for cutting, slashing, spearing and pricking, knives have known more uses than it would be possible to count.
Its well known that the BCDC uses for measures: Non-Farm Payrolls, Industrial Production, Real Retail Sales and Real Personal Income, to date recessions.
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One of uses best known to the general public will be on their phones and computers through Google, which incorporates Landsat data into its Earth and Maps applications.
The project uses aerial photographs known as ortho-imagery to produce the maps, and is being delivered as a joint project between the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Land and Property Services (previously known as the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland).
Jeff Hyman, CEO of Retrofit, explains that his company uses a device known as a Fitbit along with a Withings scale (with state of the art wireless and tracking technology) that makes tracking your activity, sleep and weighing yourself rather simple.
Everyone who uses Foursquare should have known it would someday start selling all your check-in data down the river.
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She uses a well-known and simple virus that usually infects bacteria, called M13, and runs experiments on them, 1 billion at a time.
But other marketing systems the hotel uses may not have known about your stay and sent you a pre-scheduled discount for a future visit at the same time.
This followed a deep-cleaning process known as "fogging", which uses hydrogen peroxide vapour.
Verizon, by contrast, uses a different standard, known as code-division multiple access (CDMA).
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The law is so broken that when EPA tried to ban uses of asbestos, a known cancer-causing chemical, its rules were overturned in court.
EPIC's first petition, signed by four other privacy advocacy groups, points out that Ask uses a piece of data known as a "cookie" downloaded to users' browsers to determine which users have activated AskEraser.
To maintain the critical temperature, Dr Zheludev uses a small electronic heat pump known as a Peltier cell.
Such "active ignoring" and other techniques Ms. Bernal uses are part of a treatment known as teacher-child interaction therapy.
Spamhaus maintains lists of servers (and sometimes individual addresses) that are known to be used for illicit or malicious uses.
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The test uses a chemical called florbetapir, known by the brand name Amyvid, which is a radioactive agent that tags clumps of a sticky substance called an amyloid.
Effectively Bitcoins are a very long meaningless string of digits that only have value if their owner uses a shorter related number, known as a private key, to spend them.
Customers can tinker with their creations over the Web as quickly and easily as they would on desktop software because Zazzle uses the Web software tool kit known as Ajax.
Nearby were sacks of mugwort, yarrow and bee balm, all of which Mr. Hunt uses to make a little-known style of beer called gruit, brewed in a centuries-old tradition, without hops.
Along with PowerShares, Dorsey Wright, the well-known research shop, has its own ETF that uses a trend following methodology when picking its portfolio constituents.
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But the new study uses a different form of stimulation, known as transcranial random noise stimulation (TRNS), which applies randomly fluctuating currents (within certain parameters) to the head.
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The Massachusetts firm is well known for its nationwide TV advertising, which it uses to identify plaintiffs it then refers to litigators in exchange for a piece of any fees.
His method relies on some fairly basic mathematics indeed, it uses another of Fermat's theorems, known as Fermat's little theorem.
K2 Adventures uses Russian Mi-8MTV1 helicopters for the route, known for their ability to take off at altitudes above 5, 000m, and pilots must have at least 15 years of flying experience.
Yet research by well-known criminalist Gary Kleck indicates that only a tiny percentage of defensive gun uses result in the deaths of offenders.
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He's known for performing "cryosurgery"--a form of surgery that uses liquid nitrogen or nitrous oxide to freeze off cancerous tumors rather than cutting them out or amputating the host limb.
Though he's known for upgrading traditional Southern cuisine with cutting-edge techniques (he uses liquid nitrogen in cold-milling corn for grits), Mr. Brock believes cooking simply is just as challenging as cooking with modern gadgets.
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The athlete, known as the Blade Runner for the J-shaped artificial limbs he uses on the track, is now allowed to travel internationally to compete as long as he gives the state a one-week notice and turns in a detailed itinerary, a spokesman for the state prosecutor said.
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