Current municipal traffic monitoring systems study individual stretches of road that use induction loops to sense the passage of cars, or complex camera systems that capture licence plates.
Plus it's tough for researchers to even gain access to FIX-based systems to study their weaknesses since you can't just take down a financial trading app to test it, for instance.
And there are direct economic consequences of high and low performing education systems, the study says, particularly in a globalised, skill-based economy.
This type of impact by top-of-the-food-chain predators on lower trophic levels is well known in marine systems, said Peterson, and has been shown to occur in terrestrial systems in the study of invertebrates.
This course is taught by Scott E Page, the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan where he directs the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
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Looking at education systems that succeed, the study concludes that spending is important, but not as much as having a culture that is supportive of learning.
Those who study other planetary systems have been more restrained.
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Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope -- designed to reveal the first galaxies ever formed in the universe and to study other planetary systems -- could far surpass Hubble's discoveries.
His specific areas of study include how our immune systems play a key role in our emotional lives and using compassion meditation to prevent depression in college students by reducing stress-related inflammatory activity.
The second study, commissioned by Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) and the National Cyber Security Alliance, also shows that more than 60% of employees sometimes use mobile devices without encrypted or password-protected data to connect to their work's network, and more than a third sometimes work by piggybacking on strangers' wireless Internet connections.
Well, according to the study, Harvard has the smoothest systems in place for making sure students sign up to the correct classes and all the other necessities of college life.
Scientists are keen to study Antarctica's subglacial hydrological systems because liquid water beneath the ice sheet will influence its movement (the ice above Lake Whillans is moving at about 300m per year).
However, on-premises Web application systems get hammered more frequently with attacks, the study shows.
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The study included 498 adults with healthy immune systems who had a diagnosis of genital herpes or who tested positive for HSV-2.
Two camera systems take color photos and high-definition video to study the Martian landscape, track weather conditions and aid in driving operations.
As the study by the Princeton economists illustrates, in diverse systems where a greater number of perspectives are represented, more possibilities are considered and addressed.
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Using science test results from the major international PISA study, which compares the performance of different education systems, it shows that there are wide differences in the levels of resilience.
According to a study commissioned by Fiserv, which develops online billpay systems, using the internet to pay bills, send electronic checks, etc. can reduce customer turnover by up to 95%.
They will consider expanding cooperative efforts in theater missile defense technology and exercises, study ways of sharing data obtained through early warning systems, discuss theater missile defense architecture concepts, and seek opportunities for joint research and development in theater missile defense.
Back in 2010, 1500 Facebook users were polled in a University of Colorado study conducted through Twitter by PhD Computer Science and Information Systems student Christopher Sibona, where he focused on the repercussions of unfriending someone on Facebook.
The field of study investigating the coming phase shift is known as Complex Adaptive Systems.
But the new study suggests that the neostriatum plays a role in the reward systems of the brain, too, DiFeliceantonio said.
In a more recent study they found that countries with insufficient reserves to insure their financial systems suffered bigger currency crashes during last year's turmoil.
Men and women infected with HIV reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by taking oral antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems were relatively healthy, according to findings from a large-scale clinical study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Another study, by Steffen and his colleagues, confirms 27 planets in 13 systems.
His study focused on the cost-effectiveness and productivity of "comfort control" systems regulating heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
Before getting into some of the specific aspects of the study, some relevant background information provided by study co-author Lawrence Sanders, PhD, professor of management science and systems in the UB School of Management.
Recently, a group of doctors who study physicians diagnostic errors have come around to rejecting a recycling of the old systems methods and have said that methods of reducing hospital errors must be rethought and tried in experimental settings to prove their worth.
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The report was commissioned by ICSU's General Assembly in September 1999 to make a 'critical study' of the paragraphs in the Declaration and Science Agenda referring to traditional knowledge systems.
Moreover, the 2010 study "Staying Connected on the Go: A Look at In-Vehicle Smartphone Integration Systems" conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association reports that 55 percent of smartphone owners prefer voice commands as their user interface for in-car smartphone integration, making the business case for SYNC and AppLink even more compelling.
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