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McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
Fundamental research in deterioration and durability of structures and materials has shown great potential for increasing the life span of the United States' civil and mechanical infrastructure systems, as well as enhancing their functionality and serviceability. The goal—the intelligent renewal of aging and deteriorating infrastructure systems, potentially saving trillions of dollars—depends largely on the effective use of high-performance materials.
Industry:Science
Direct audio broadcasting from satellites to mobile and stationary receivers. This concept originated in the late 1980s as an outgrowth of direct television broadcasting from satellites to home receivers. There are currently two satellite radio systems (also known as satellite digital audio radio service) operating in the continental United States, one is providing service to users in Japan and Korea, and another is in advanced planning to serve Europe.
Industry:Science
Engineering applied toward the purposes of law. In forensic engineering, the majority of investigations are carried out in the context of civil litigation; for example, the cause of a plane crash is often due to defective design, which is a civil litigation consideration. However, the crash could be due to a bomb or terrorist activity in the cockpit, which is a criminal consideration. Often the cause of an accident is initially unknown or misattributed.
Industry:Science
In 2004 a team of Australian and Indonesian archeologists and paleoanthropologists announced the remarkable discovery of a new species of fossil hominid, <i>Homo floresiensis</i>, from the island of Flores in Indonesia. The geographical location and the anatomical specializations of the new finds were so unexpected that it has led to major debates among the scientific community and a critical rethinking about the nature of human adaptation and evolution.
Industry:Science
In crystalline solids the atoms or molecules are stacked in a regular manner, forming a three-dimensional pattern which may be obtained by a three-dimensional repetition of a certain pattern unit called a unit cell. When the periodicity of the pattern extends throughout a certain piece of material, one speaks of a single crystal. A single crystal is formed by the growth of a crystal nucleus without secondary nucleation or impingement on other crystals.
Industry:Science
Electric motors are the major user of electricity, consuming 25% of all electricity in the United States. A survey by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) showed that electric motors consume as much as 63% of the total industrial electricity and that present technology is available to reduce this electric consumption by as much as 18%. Follow-up studies showed that actual savings were approximately 36% for companies that followed best-practices guidelines.
Industry:Science
Color images are commonly printed with cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK) inks rendered as halftone images and printed in register with each other. Although this process is known as four-color printing, the black ink is not technically a color because it does not have an associated hue (or dominant wavelength). The addition of black in a three-color printing system extends the range of printable tones and improves detail rendition in the shadow region.
Industry:Science
Entertainment systems in which a computer is used to drive a video display and interact with players using a variety of input devices. Video games can be divided into arcade systems, home computers, and game consoles. The distinction between a home computer and a game console is that a computer can be used for a variety of other applications such as word processing and Internet access while a game console is specifically designed for entertainment purposes.
Industry:Science
As networking and storage technologies become faster and cheaper, people will amass more kinds of digital information than ever before. Much of this will be multimedia information such as faxes stored as bitmap images, voice-mail messages stored as audio files, and handwritten notes captured on a personal digital assistant and stored as pen stroke sequences. The problem of managing a database of such diverse media types requires fundamentally new techniques.
Industry:Science
Collections of large matrices, chosen at random from some ensemble. Random-matrix theory is a branch of mathematics which emerged from the study of complex physical problems, for which a statistical analysis is often more enlightening than a hopeless attempt to control every degree of freedom, or every detail of the dynamics. Although the connections to various parts of mathematics are very rich, the relevance of this approach to physics is also significant.
Industry:Science
