For now, no decision has been made about whether work cell phones, digital devices and laptop computers would be confiscated for those days.
The nation spends 15% more on phone services, as a percentage of GDP, than Western Europe as a whole and sports a 110% penetration rate for mobile services (many Italians have one personal and one work cell phone).
Of course, there are more rugged devices in development that work on cell or satellite networks and are built for emergencies.
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The writers, represented by the Writers Guild of America, want a bigger share of the profits from DVDs as well as other new-media productions of their work for cell phones and other handheld devices.
This field is slowly gaining steam just as Geron is abandoning stem cell work.
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And proteins are the molecules that do most of the work in a cell.
Indeed, Verfaillie said, the embryonic stem cell work presented today by Ron McKay of the NIH is years ahead of her own.
The new stem cell work was done by researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Kyoto University in Japan, and published in the journals Science and Cell.
Aastrom Biosciences came to stem-cell work through bone marrow transplants.
Groups opposed to stem cell work on embryos say the use of embryos is immoral and unnecessary, because the procedure destroys the embryo and because an alternative is available.
Edwards noted that stem-cell work uses blastocysts containing clumps of 16 or 32 cells that were collected by fertility clinics but are no longer needed and would otherwise be thrown away.
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Defenders of embryonic stem cell work say that it is important even in understand adult stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells, which resemble the embryonic cells but can be created without destroying embryos.
The only thing these geeks discovered is the function of how modern cell phones work.
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Both versions of SpareOne are designed to work independently of a cell phone carrier, with no monthly fee.
But that day on his boat, Rob was expecting his cell to work.
They also found hints that genes whose protein-products work together in a cell have sometimes ended up as neighbours on a chromosome.
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The fuel cell development work will use existing facilities, including the site of a joint venture between Daimler and Ford to develop fuel cells in Vancouver, Canada.
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In 16 years at Qualcomm, the wireless titan that reaps billions in patent fees for the electronic tricks that make cell phones work, Paul Jacobs racked up a reputation for combining high intelligence with a low success rate for business decisions.
If the server farm is doing a lot of work to take in cell tower distance data and spit back car locations, it can certainly do each calculation faster than any endpoint, particularly a small one, but what happens when 1 million endpoints are hitting the cloud at the same time?
Called UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access), the technology is designed to provide better call quality indoors (where your cell shouldn't otherwise work, natch) by switching over from a weak cell signal to a stronger in-home WiFi signal.
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But Ian Wilmut, who created Dolly the sheep, says Advanced Cell's work on cows is encouraging.
It doesn't take much for a photovoltaic cell to not work quite as well as it used to.
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Jensen was able to begin patient trials just two years after starting lab work on this designer T cell therapy.
This reliance, like a faith that our cell phones will work or the electricity will be on, means that failure can be a crisis.
The other interesting aspect of the stem-cell link is that it was inspired by work outside the mainstream of the huge cancer-research industry: stem-cell research is now a huge field in its own right.
The advantage is that they work whether or not you have cell phone connection.
The partnership will also work on developing unique content for cell phones, like music, videoclips, games and television programs.
So Vertex and the CFF worked to develop drugs that would raise the protein out of the cell so Kalydeco could work.
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The benefit: Rattner could demonstrate a processor doing work while powered by a solar cell the size of a postage stamp .
In 1972 Sydney Brenner, a biologist then at Cambridge University, decided to work out the connections of every cell in the nervous system of a small nematode worm called C. elegans.
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