It is the first application for consent in the latest of the Crown Estate's offshore leasing rounds.
Paul Bloom at IBM research said the first application will be around call centers which have to handle millions of calls a year, some of them very complex.
The first application, currently in clinical development, is to treat interstitial cystitis (IC), a painful bladder disease in women that forces them to urinate every 10 minutes.
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The first application of their technology is in the OPE market, but the company sees other applications as well, such as in the wind energy sector with wind turbines.
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The first application the firm has in mind is a niche in this market, but it is an important one: stabilising the grid in order to prevent power failures.
For now, though, it looks like luxury cars may become the first major application of the technology.
Being the first SmartGlass application to launch has its advantages, such as setting the bar.
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Well before the first aid application is due, a grandparent should transfer ownership of the account to a parent of the beneficiary.
The first practical application of embryonic stem cells was to provide a way for the gene-targeting trick invented by Dr Capecchi and Dr Smithies to be used to produce adult mice lacking particular genes or knockout mice, as they are now called.
Whatever the issues are that we face, whether we're talking about health care, or education, or energy, all those important things, the application of those first principles, the application of those common sense conservative beliefs will result in a stronger and stronger nation.
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However, in many other countries, the patent is awarded to the inventor who files the first patent application.
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The Pelican's successful flight probably means that the first big application for power beaming will be supplying energy to drones.
They also chose a particularly challenging target for the first therapeutic application.
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The Berlin-based startup's high quality app is the first educational application with both comprehensive and affordable learning material for iPad users that facilitates entertaining and multi-media language learning any time, any place.
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Face-to-face conversations of up to 12 people in HD quality are enabled by the fact that ooVoo was built on the cloud from scratch, making it the first free application to do so.
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YellowFlag is the first mobile application to allow American soldiers (and everybody else) deployed near and far away to follow live games of their favorite football teams and simultaneously communicate with their friends via mobile device to discuss and vote on key game plays.
An index value of 100 is equal to the application volume on March 16, 1990, the first week the MBA tracked application volumes.
The first stage of the application process involves groups setting out their aims and "vision" for the school and the area they hope to serve as well as showing demand from parents.
And even if a company is among the first to file an application, that's no guarantee that it will be among the first to receive a license.
The "Zero Motorcycles" app is the world's first mobile application with the ability to control the performance characteristics of a production motorcycle.
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In other words, the first inventor to file an application for an invention gets the patent, not the first person to invent something.
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What if the first great Facebook application was finally made, but only on iOS 6?
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The first GIA scholarship application cycle for 2012 runs through Oct. 30 for on-campus, distance education and lab classes.
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The first is to add the Terminal application to your Login Items.
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The America Invents Act, signed into law in September, will transition the patent application process from the first-to-invent system, to the new first-to-file system.
Making the first inventor to file an application the owner.
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Under the Florida statute it would appear to be illegal, and Constitutional rights under the First Amendment have no application to this issue even though it is clearly within the public interest to understand the private positions of candidates.
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At the core of Project SHIELD is the world's fastest mobile processor, the new NVIDIA Tegra 4, which delivers enormous power from its custom 72-core GeForce GPU and the first quad-core application of ARM's most advanced CPU core, the Cortex-A15.
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The Mail application shows the first few lines of an email when a finger hovers above it in the list, and the Gallery application shows an expanded thumbnail.
The trademark office at first said the company's application was similar to other registered trademarks.
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