For example, linear actuators help raise or lower a hospital bed or allow solar panels to track the path of the sun.

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Google has launched interactive maps to track the path of Hurricane Sandy and provide localised support information as it approaches the US east coast.

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It has to do with the track that shapes or directs the path of learning.

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Police are also appealing to anyone who uses the path at the back of Tooting Bec Athletics Track to contact them if they have recently seen anything there which was out of the ordinary.

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Although many of the Boomers blazed an impressive path, the track for the women who followed often remains unclear.

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But the only direct challenge we encountered on the rutted track came from a pack of 12 wild dogs that briefly blocked our path, and then lazily chased our small convoy for a few hundred metres.

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Mr Williams is accused of driving up the mountain along a public path and the mountain railway track on 3 September 2011, and again later that month.

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The way to test that is to track back along the branches leading from each existing language, and count the number of splits on each path before you get to the common ancestor of all.

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One reason the PATH has been so much slower to recover than the New York City subway is the relatively greater expanse of track area that was subjected to coastal flooding in the storm, said Stephen Kingsberry, the acting director of the PATH, on a recent visit to Exchange Place in Jersey City.

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