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...reason is that the fire group recently installed a new fire alarm system in the Daniels building. The system is programmed to go off when a fire alarm occurs in Daniels. In such an event, the fire control center gets the signal to roll the fire trucks and will automatically sound the alarms in all the towers and Currier Lower Main...
Every nation gets the TV it deserves. And 1990s America, a land replete with both couch potatoes and high-tech capitalists, surely deserves high-definition television (HDTV), the digital TV signal whose aesthetic pleasures and economic efficiencies will transform the shows we watch and the boxes we watch them on. Last week the Federal Communications Commission voted to give broadcasters free channels on which to broadcast digital versions of their current programs. A few questions about the future of the boob tube...
...first time, it became possible to shut off angiogenesis and cause [tumor] regression," Folkman said. "This was caused by a specific signal which only talks to endothelial cells...
Digital broadcasting encodes data--in this case, the video and audio signal sent by a station--in binary form as ones and zeroes. Computers and compact discs are dependent on digital encoding instead of the older analog methods...
Other stations will have the option of sending just one "signal" over their frequency, but making their broadcast high-definition instead. Manufacturers and content providers have fought over HDTV--which provides for a larger viewing area and greater resolution--for the better part of a decade. HDTV will be available over the new digital channels...