Think of MOOCs as modules of knowledge or content packaged together with high-quality pedagogy, student-student interaction, and specialized tools for scalable faculty-student interaction.

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The specialized tools built for the job allowed Dextre to seal the connections between the tool and the fuel valve to eliminate the possibility of leaks.

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The creative submissions included specialized tools that enable clinical decision support through diagnostic applications, clinical dashboards that link EMRs with immunization registry and syndromic surveillance data, and multi-use applications that support clinical workflow and medical record annotation.

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Jane, like her male counterparts, has a big truck with her company logo plastered on the doors, lots of specialized tools and ladders, a crew of talented helpers, 20 years in the business and several pairs of Carhartt jeans and Timberland boots ( NYSE:TBL).

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And these four finalists have some terrific ideas: putting books that have been ordered every year online instead of continuing to incur the shipping costs, to having a tool library over at NASA so that instead of buying very specialized tools over and over again for different projects, we actually keep an inventory of those tools.

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Before Mockups people used pen and paper, whiteboards, Visio, generic drawing tools or specialized wireframing tools.

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Besides the help of these organizations, small business owners with their eye on foreign markets also have a host of specialized tech tools at their disposal to make their lives easier.

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With Windows Embedded, developers can use the same trusted tools used in building applications for Windows 8 to build specialized devices within line-of-business applications - extending the power of Windows 8 and the cloud to intelligent systems.

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