Unsurprisingly, the primary application is to handle tasks inside your body, such as deploying it via a "minimally-invasive catheter procedure" rather than implanting it through surgery.

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Over the coming months Kenagy will try various ways to eliminate less important tasks that distract the nurses on 10B from their primary job of patient care.

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Other studies have shown that environments with red as one of the primary colors are conducive to good performance on short-term memory tasks.

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The trojan is able to carry out many tasks, he added, but taking over computers for Bitcoin mining appears to be its primary function.

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