For the next five days, mission managers plan to make sure the telescope's technical systems are working properly.
The staff was carrying out equipment and furnishings right up to the minute it was ordered to evacuate, but the theater's workshop, costume department and technical systems were inundated.
Like the 1986 NASA disaster, investigations of the BP spill are starting to point toward complex and sophisticated technical systems that failed because of overlooked problems, which, in turn, exacerbated the situation in unanticipated ways.
Michael Rzesztko, a senior technical specialist at systems integrator BV Solutions Group, in Overland Park, Kan.
There are also many resources available to give you technical information on systems development if you require it.
However, this does require a great deal of technical development work to our current systems and there are technical challenges around the ability to secure video streams in HTML 5.
One can draw the analogy with current electricity and running-water systems, where end-users can use services from providers with ease, without being concerned with the technical complexity behind those systems.
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His report made a series of recommendations, including revamping technical and professional training systems, and allowing skilled retirees to re-enter the workforce without losing their pension rights.
Not all the technical hurdles involve the autonomous systems, which seem well on the road to commercialization.
The recovery of the U.S. housing market as well as technical advances in home security systems should pave the way for brisk growth.
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No. 3 on the list is Science Applications International Corporation ( SAIC), a provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions.
Government regulation and legal liability could soon become bigger obstacles to the spread of autonomous vehicles than the technical challenges of making the systems reliable and cheap enough for mass-market vehicles.
Using unique alphanumeric identifiers for financial firms would improve OTC derivatives markets, make it easier for regulators to see aggregated risk, and, once systems were changed over, would simplify record keeping, improve operational efficiency for firms and eliminate a lot of reconciliation work, according to a report the BIS issued from the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems and the Technical Committee of IOSCO.
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This is because the world's richest democracy still has technical problems with its decentralised election systems.
"Systems are getting more technical, so making them easy to operate is a strong selling point, " says Bystrom.
Xerox said revenue from technology, representing the sale of document systems, supplies, technical service and financing of products, was flat, or up 1% in constant currency.
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Through the use of path-breaking museological itineraries, the museums will show their role in illuminating the rich and complex systems of cultural, technical and stylistic influences and exchanges between civilizations.
Alliander is a major Dutch energy distributor and specialist in renewable energy, sustainability, technical innovations, and complex power systems in the Netherlands, serving more than three million customers in the region.
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The first in a family of products that will span from technical enterprise computing to the largest systems in the world, the Cray XC30 supercomputer has been engineered to meet the real-world performance challenges of HPC users.
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Engineers also need time to grapple with a range of technical issues as they develop the new systems.
They included employees who were not properly aware of potential dangers and technical and process flaws that left their systems exposed to attack.
These "passive" 3-D technology systems put most of the technical heavy lifting on the TV screen -- instead of on the glasses, as was the case with older models.
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As the scope of Ford's hybrid program expanded, however, Ford found new efficiencies by bringing research, development and production of electrified vehicles in-house, said Anand Sankaran, Ford executive technical leader, Energy Storage and HV Systems.
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One little technical problem: aside from captive provider systems with electronic medical records like Kaiser, not a single insurer I know of in the US has any ability to affect this scandalously high rate of often unnecessary, always expensive, high-volume surgery.
No Pain, No High Tech Gain: To be sure, at some point in their development each of these systems experienced varying degrees of technical problems including in most of cases missed milestones and even outright test failures that were seized upon by the critics.
The array of technical countermeasures available to protect information and computer systems has certainly expanded dramatically over the last decade.
Other technical improvements are on the way, including systems that could charge a battery in as little as five minutes.
The Committee has raised technical questions regarding the effectiveness of Trusted Delivery Systems, but the Committee recommends continuing efforts to identify effective mitigation solutions.
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"We have one of the harshest systems, " said Tina Riches, technical director at the Chartered Institute of Taxation, a U.K. industry body.
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