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Burma is in chains, Zimbabwe is a human tragedy, in Sudan thousands of people have died unnecessarily for wars that we could prevent.
Bad rules can prevent the kind of win-win solution that's available when people can bring new technologies in and make them available to someone like Nelson.
Back in 2006, as a winner of the TED Prize, we granted you a wish, and you wished the world would create this pandemic preparedness system that would prevent something like this happening.
Meant to be a way to incentivize invention, meant to be a way to orchestrate the dissemination of knowledge, they are increasingly being used by large companies to create thickets of patents to prevent innovation taking place.
In the 1990s, we saw financial centers around the world competing for their business, and there was simply no effective mechanism to prevent money laundering.
So, for example, last year, the government of Pakistan asked its Internet service providers there to prevent citizens of Pakistan from seeing YouTube.
It wouldn’t be easy: the Nodes had safeguards to prevent robots from taking and using them.
What's fascinating about these signs is they cost about 10 percent of the running cost of a conventional speed camera, but they prevent twice as many accidents.
In these communities, the fishermen developed a kind of social contract that told each one of them to hold back a bit to prevent overfishing.
Because that would prevent the ensemble, the listening to each other that is needed for an orchestra."
They wished they knew how to prevent their food supply from sometimes failing, and how they could rest when they were tired without risking starvation, be warmer, cooler, safer, in less pain.
And you know all those kind of sound puts us in a kind of stressful state, and prevent us from being quiet and focused.
Running the gauntlet through hostile crowds, and some wearing motorbike helmets to prevent injury.
I propose to explore this idea further, to examine the potential of creating a for-profit, fee-based BPO kind of service to stop bribes and prevent corruption.
We can prevent most cancers.
When one is exposed to H1N1, you take Tamiflu, and you can remarkably decrease the severity of symptoms and prevent many of the manifestations of the disease.
If we could even take it one step further and prevent disease, we can take it enormously the other direction, and obviously, that's where we need to go, going forward.
The ultimate goal is that you prevent any of these things from happening.
One of the ones I just wanted to mention: The iShoe is another example of a sensor that improves proprioception among the elderly to prevent falling.
We can give glucose a sensor for diabetes to prevent it.
We can prevent, or have the earliest detection possible, for breast cancer with an ultrasound device given to the patient.
And vital-signs monitoring to prevent sudden cardiac death.
How do we actually prevent the vast majority of falls from ever occurring in the first place?
43 percent of the children in need of an infant feeding program to prevent malnutrition and early death are now getting the food supplements they need to stay alive and to grow.
In fact, if you actually block angiogenesis and prevent blood vessels from ever reaching cancer cells, tumors simply can't grow up.
So to look for a way to prevent angiogenesis in cancer, I went back to look at cancer's causes.
Memory B cells turn into plasma cells, which produce wave after wave of the specific antibodies that latch onto HIV to prevent it from infecting cells, while squadrons of killer T cells seek out and destroy cells that are already HIV infected.
So far, animal tests indicate that such a vaccine could prevent severe disease, although you might get a mild case.
We may need to regulate the intensity of recreational boating and actual whale watching in order to prevent these kinds of problems.
There's a potential problem that maybe this kind of shipping noise would prevent whales from being able to hear each other.
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