Word: detections
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...perhaps, you detect the tramping of sour grapes. To read a piece about online reviewers by a critic who has done most of his work in print is to hear the roar of a dinosaur, noisy but anachronistic, trying to drown out a freeway full of SUV?s. And I admit this: I share your cynicism. General-interest magazines like TIME have reduced the space devoted to reviews and expand their entertainment "news" coverage. The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill. That?s why many...
...product into a household name with the help of a massive television advertising campaign featuring China's debonair movie heartthrob, Pu Quanxin. Zhang has also proved to be a clever distributor. He secretly installs a bar code in each PDA so when his reps visit retail shops, they can detect when distributors poach on one another's territory. But Zhang's magic bullet in the PDA wars is a sleek regulation-blue Police PDA. Flip open the lid, press a button and the detailed files of some 300,000 criminal suspects are just a tap away. Given the size...
...wealthier nations like the U.S., pap smear tests to detect pre-cancerous lesions are commonly available, and incidences of the disease are very...
Meanwhile, there is a large body of evidence to show that the best way to detect breast cancer is with mammograms and annual breast exams by a physician. Surveys suggest that many women regard breast self-exams as just as good as mammography at finding tumors. That's simply not the case...
...Kyllo was arrested in 1992 after an Oregon National Guard sergeant used military equipment - an Agema Thermovision 210, which could detect different levels of infrared heat emanating from a building - to find that part of Kyllo's triplex was putting out a relatively large amount of heat. Thanks to the splotchy picture produced by the thermal imaging device, the cops were able to get a search warrant, go into Kyllo's home and find that he was growing about 100 marijuana plants in a room above the garage, under high-intensity lamps. In previous decisions dealing with this technology, courts...