Although it doesn't quite have the wow factor of Cornell's invisibility project, the thermal research may prove to be more practical because it also can be used to manage heat and improve cooling in components such as computer chips.
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Victim Support chief executive Javed Khan, said the money would be used "to deliver real, practical support for victims and communities".
Mr Wilson said parents and teachers used practical examples and experience to help children cope with aggression or lack of confidence, and the same approach should be used in sex education.
And please note: Foreign exchange reserves cannot, as a practical matter, be used to create domestic-currency growth.
Another change involves teacher training, which used to focus on educational theory but ignore practical techniques for keeping order in class.
Hardly fancy, but light and very practical for a tightly worn watch to be used while playing tennis.
They used the framework Counting Seeds for Change, a practical guide to help practitioners (i.e. facilitators, trainers and coordinators) to assess the strengths, weaknesses and challenges of the REFLECT programmes in an effective and coherent manner worldwide, including Angola.
Although this must give some badge of quality to the concept of executive coaching it does also raise the worry that its real basis is academic theory rather than hard, practical ideas that can be used in the day-to-day workplace.
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Sometimes the massive and expensive institutions that deliver health care are worse at dispensing practical advice than a quaint how-to book available at a used book store.
The practical applications could improve the efficiency of quantum computers, where light is often used to transfer information.
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Rather, it is a recognition of a practical reality: These chemicals are simply too widely used for civil-industrial purposes to be proscribed.
What Moog did, in 1964, was to produce and market a practical instrument, a small keyboard synth which could be used with relative ease.
More basic science tuition and more time for ICT training are among the recommendations made by the trainees to contribute towards the development of both training material and practical experience that can be used as the basis of similar workshops in other locations.
As a practical matter though, say Sammis and Citron, the federal and state laws on cyber harassment are used to protect targets from true threats.
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