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They must also engage more with the real-world applications of their theoretical work, which may have the added benefit of advancing the field of ethics.
Then, in 1996, Richard Smalley of Rice University was awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes, beautiful nanometer-scale carbon structures with remarkable properties and many potential applications.
To oversee the vetting and exemption process, the US Department of Commerce hired 30 new employees to review applications.
According to QuantGov, the US Bureau of Industry and Security has approved 11,259 applications, denied 4,367, and has yet to process over 50% of those received.
As the sheer number of exemption applications demonstrates, administering a protectionist policy is exceedingly complex, even in a single industry.
In this and other medical applications, we are well prepared to deal with ethical questions in parallel to and in cooperation with neuroscientific research.
All applications of CBA are controversial when economists with different explicit or implicit biases study the same topic.
With the technology now reaching a milestone, discussions about its applications have reached fever pitch.
For example, public officials can use mobile applications to tag and respond to citizen complaints about the delivery of water and sanitation services, thereby enhancing transparency and accountability.
Natasha Walter, who works with refugee women in London, reports that most of the persecution they are fleeing is sexual – and that the law does not validate the grounds for their asylum applications.
In addition, the FDA’s backlog of more than 4,000 applications for generic medications means that approval can take more than two years.
Universities perform their natural economic function when academics speak and write plainly, demystify jargon, present their ideas in alternative media and stress applications to domains that do not concern the academics themselves.
Allocating clean water, for example, to those able to pay the most for it results in situations where industrial applications win out over individual needs, leaving many with none.
In August, the Trump administration banned US companies from selling gas turbines and electronic equipment to Russia, owing to those products’ potential military applications.
Young researchers, in particular, believe that advances in basic knowledge are coming as fast as ever, even if practical applications are taking a long time to develop.
In fact, in August, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force unveiled the helicopter destroyer Izumo, whose structure and capabilities resemble those of an aircraft carrier, with possible offensive applications.
But, again, the report offers little in the way of solutions, and it largely rejects the distinction between therapeutic and enhancement applications, which leaves open the possibility that such technologies could be misused for cosmetic purposes.
The McKinsey Global Institute projects that new Web applications could enable as much as 22% of China’s total GDP growth through 2025.
One of the earliest applications of this strategy to economic policy is in the design of central banks.
But recent breakthroughs in AI-related technologies do offer enormous potential for positive advances in a range of applications from transportation to education and drug discovery.
When interpretability is important – for example, in many medical applications – you need a trained human in the decision-making loop.
The multitude of narrow AI applications that could affect jobs in sectors such as health care, education, and construction will take much longer to spread.
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, for example, is holding an international competition – called eduapp4Syria – to develop smartphone applications that “can build foundational literacy skills in Arabic and improve psychosocial wellbeing for Syrian refugee children aged five to 10.”Similarly, in Lebanon, the Beirut-based non-profit organization Sawa for Development and Aid, facilitates the work of NaTakallam, a service that offers unemployed Syrian refugees a chance to work as Arabic tutors.
There are more specialized applications of computing and information technology in smart machines and mobile telephones, whose defining characteristic is that they communicate with each other.
In 2009, about 280,000 domestic patent applications were filed in China, placing it third globally, behind Japan and the United States.
China is fourth and rising in terms of international patent applications.
Harnessing the Genomics RevolutionCAMBRIDGE – Just 13 years after the successful completion of the Human Genome Project, the power of genomics applications to spur innovation is already becoming apparent.
The Kremlin has been rumored to expedite passport applications for Crimean residents, and its allies – for example, Aleksei Chalyi, Sevastopol’s new mayor – populate its political offices.
Genetic medicine is advancing at a rapid pace, but its clinical applications seem to be receding.
It has become more rigorous in it s applications due to the influence ofmilitant Islam, which seeks to use religious texts to legitimize escalating brutality, especially against women.
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