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Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

John Chambers, chairman of Cisco Systems Inc.

Trigger its built-in alarm system at once.

The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo ( ' , 禁忌 ).

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

In other departments, a new student is assigned a faculty adviser based on some system of distribution of the departments advising load.

With wired setups, the fear is that a burglar ( ' , 入室盗贼) might be able to shut your system down simply by cutting the right cable.

With surging obesity levels putting increasing strain on public health systems, governments around the world have begun to toy with the idea of taxing sugar as well.

When the system thinks it's being jammed, it'll notify you via -94- push alert ( ' , 推送警报).

They will, however, need to know what system they're looking for.

Then, he's going to need to know the technical details of your system and acquire the specific equipment necessary for jamming your specific setup.

The team behind the article and video in question make no mention of the system, or whether or not it detected them.

The odds of a criminal using technical means to bypass a security system are so small that the FBI doesn't even track those statistics.

That approach will eliminate most cord-cutting concerns—but what about their wireless equivalent, jamming? With the right device tuned to the right frequency, what's to stop a thief from jamming your setup and blocking that alert signal from ever reaching the base station?Jamming concerns are nothing new, and they're not unique to security systems.

So it isn't surprising that you'll find plenty of strong opinions about the potential vulnerabilities of popular home-security systems.

So come on, folks: get on board with ditching the outdated tip system.

SimpliSafe, winner of our Editor's Choice distinction, utilizes a special system that's capable of separating incidental RF interference from targeted jamming attacks.

SimpliSafe was singled out in one recent article on jamming, complete with a video showing the entire system being effectively bypassed with handheld jamming equipment.

Other systems also seem confident on the subject of jamming.

One of the main theoretical home-security concerns is whether or not a given system is vulnerable to being blocked from working altogether.

No system is impenetrable, and none can promise to eliminate the worst case completely.

No matter how the math works out, you persistently view restaurants with voluntary tipping systems as being a better value, which makes it extremely difficult for restaurants and bars to do away with the tipping system.

It means that a thief likely wouldn't be able to Google how the system works, then figure out a way around it.

It is difficult to crack SimpliSafe as its system keeps changing.

It caught us in the act, sent an alert to my smartphone, and also listed our RF interference on the system's event log.

Interfering with a wireless security system is similar to interfering with a conversation.

If they detect something wrong while the system is armed, they'll transmit a wireless alert signal to a base station that will then raise the alarm.

However, we also verified that SimpliSafe's anti-jamming system works.

However, he'll need to do so without tripping the anti-jamming system, the details of which he almost certainly does not have access to.

Even if they could, SimpliSafe claims that its system is always evolving, and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.

Different measures should be taken to protect one's home from burglary in addition to the wireless security system.

But how probable is it that someone will successfully jam their way into your home and steal your stuff?Let's imagine that you live in a small home with a wireless security setup that offers a functional anti-jamming system.

At the end of the day, these kinds of systems are primarily designed to protect against the sort of opportunistic smash-and-grab attack that makes up the majority of burglaries.

A good system is one that keeps that worst-case setting as improbable as possible while also offering strong protection in the event of a less-extraordinary attack.

To appeal for changes in America's criminal justice system.

Rather, it is to recognize that in America's vast criminal justice system, second chances are crucial.

The latest congressional report acknowledges the critical importance of technical training, but also asserts that the study of the humanities (人文学科)and social sciences must remain central components of America's educational system at all levels.

But the remarkable thing is how well the system usually works

RelayRides and SnapGoods match up owners and renters; smartphones with GPS let people see where the nearest rentable car is parked; social networks provide a way to check up on people and build trust; and online payment systems handle the billing

The author is most excited about Inkling's notation system because one canparticipate in discussions with classmates and Facebook friends.

It is harder to predict how Mr Obama's proposed reforms to the failing health-care system will turn out

They want to take advantage of the medical care system.

Mr Jobs had a reputation as a control freak （怪人）, and his critics complained that the products and systems he designed were closed and inflexible, in the name of greater ease of use.

The closeness this system cultivates is reinforced by the institution of "advisory" classes Teachers meet with students in groups of 25, five mornings a week, for open-ended discussions of everything from homework problems to bad Saturday-night dates.

Over the years this system has come in for its share of criticism for its simplicity

Tony Little, headmaster of Eton, warned that boys were being faded by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls.

What does Tony Little say about the British education system

Third, decide on your own system for marking.

Choose one's own system of marking

The heating system doesn't work.

This is a game in which you indicate with your finger the way through a complex system of passages or paths

But he had the heating system replaced right away.

"It's an important, cautionary note that we shouldn't get too carried away with the idea that a computer system can replace doctors and therapists," says Christopher Dowrick, a professor of primary medical care at the University of liverpool.

After exercising, the scientists tested the cyclists with eye tracking cameras to see how well their brains could still control their visual system.

And though the system was built mostly to make car travel easier, defense was not forgotten.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how sa

By 1974, this system was mostly completed.

California has been facing a drought for many years now, with certain areas even having to pump freshwater hundreds of miles to their distribution system.

Defense minister Farhat Horchani said last week that German and American security experts were expected to come to help Tunisia devise a new electronic video-supervision system on its border with Libya.

Even if they could, Simpli Safe claims that its system is always evolving, and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.

Everybody's television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language or exercise classes.

However, we also verified that Simpli Safe's anti-jamming system works.

In 1944, Congress passed a bill to upgrade the system, but did not fund the plan right away.

In other departments, a new student is assigned a faculty adviser based on some system of distribution of the departments "advising load".

In those years, just after World War I, the military wanted to build an American highway system for national defense.

It's an important, cautionary note that we shouldn't get too carried away with the idea that a computer system can replace doctors and therapists.

Let's imagine that you live in a small home with a wireless security setup that offers a functional anti-jamming system.

Muscle performance can also be affected by a phenomenon called "central fatigue", in which an imbalance in the body's chemical messengers prevents the central nervous system from directing muscle movements effectively.

My research focus is on what happens to our immune system as we age.

One educator named Dori Roberts decided to do something to change this system.

She noticed there was a real void in quality STEM education at all levels of the public educational system.

She told BuzzFeed News that her freshman chemistry class required her to use Connect, a system provided by McGraw hill where students can suBMIt homework, take exams and track their grades.

simpli Safe was singled out in one recent article on jamming, complete with a video showing the entire system being effectively bypassed with hand-held jamming equipment.

simpli Safe, winner of our Editor's Choice distinction, utilizes a special system that's capable of separating incidental RF interference from targeted jamming attacks.

So the job of the immune system is to fight infections.

Stawood Hotels and Resorts, which owns more than 1, 150 hotels in nearly 100 countries, plans to install the system in the next three months at two of its hotels in the USA.

Such a system could, if necessary, move troops quickly from one area to another.

The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo.

The idea was to connect the new system to existing expressways and freeways.

The New York State parks system wants to turn off the falls on the American side some time in the next two to three years to replace two 115-year-old stone bridges that allow pedestrians, park vehicles and utilities access to Goat Island.

The United States Postal Service has a system to ensure its employees’ safety.

There's a high-tech underground trash disposal system.

This is evidence that our immune system really doesn't function so well when we age.

To find out, researchers gave 11 volunteer cyclists a carbohydrate solution either with a moderate dose of caffeine, which is known to stimulate the central nervous system, or as a placebo without, during 3 hours of cycling.

To this end, Aclima has been collaborating with Google's Street view system.

We all know there exists a great void in the public educational system when it comes to exposure to STEM Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics courses.

When the system thinks it's being jammed, it'll notify you via push alert.

with the exception of South Africa, the only light rail metro system in sub-Saharan Africa is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

with wired setups, the fear is that a burglar might be able to shut your system down simply by cutting the right cable.

We want to reach parents who are not plugged into the system, said Zaharopol.

System institutions are operating very efficiently based on this analysis, raising the question of the value of pursuing a broad scale outsourcing initiative.

Morgan said those findings—which included data from the system's 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities—were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam's proposal to privatize management of state buildings in an effort to save money.

Morgan said last week that he would retire at the end of January because of the governor's proposal to split off six universities of the Board of Regents system and create separate governing boards for each of them.

In an email sent Monday to college presidents in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, outgoing Chancellor John Morgan said an internal analysis showed that each campus' spending on facilities management fell well below the industry standards identified by the state.

He opposed the governor's plan to reconstruct the college board system.

Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a business justification the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.

We are very proud of our accomplishments under the Greenlist system and we believe that we will prevail in these cases, Christopher Beard, director of public affairs for SC Johnson, said, while acknowledging that this has been an area that is difficult to navigate.

Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

The stimulus package provided money to convert the inefficient, paper-driven medical system to electronic records that can be easily viewed and transmitted.

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental ( ' , 渐进的) gains.

Protecting the union demand sacrifices those students, in effect turning a blind eye to the injustice in the education system.

In contrast, the criminal justice system accounted for nearly one out of every five visual backgrounds.

But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

Scholars warn that Antarctica's political drift could blur the distinction between military and civilian activities long before the continent's treaties come up for renegotiation, especially in parts of Antarctica that are ideal for intercepting ( ' , 拦截) signals from satellites or retasking satellite systems, potentially enhancing global electronic intelligence operations.

Building on a Soviet-era foothold, Russia is expanding its monitoring stations for Glonass, its version of the Global Positioning System ( ' , GPS).

That’s what hard-working men and women say to justify their lavish vacations, big stereo systems or regular restaurant meals.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light, understanding energy system inertia and momentum can help you decide whether their plans are feasible.

Unfortunately for them ( ' , and often the taxpayers), our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier: they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia ( ' , meaning it takes a lot of energy to set them moving), and they have a lot of momentum once they are set in motion.

The major components of our energy systems, such as fuel production, refining, electrical generation and distribution, are costly installation that have lengthy life spans.

The biggest obstacle to energy transition is that the present energy system is too expensive to replace.

Physical characteristics of moving objects help explain the dynamics of energy systems.

Not only moving objects and people but all systems have momentum.

In physics, moving objects have two characteristics relevant to understanding the dynamics of energy systems: inertia and momentum.

For that, we have a robust informal learning system that gives no grades, takes all comers, and is available even on holidays and weekends.

Changing the current energy system requires the systematic training of professionals and skilled labor.

By far the biggest type of momentum that comes into play when it comes to changing our energy systems is economic momentum.

Another type of momentum we have to think about when planning for changes in our energy systems is labor- pool momentum.

After all, we don't speak only of objects or people as having momentum; we speak of entire systems having momentum.

Better design and wiseruser of both mass transit systems and private vehicles will playing an important part in helping America get more out of energy used fortransportation.

"The creation of a system of marine protected areas is a key part of ongoing scientific and policy discussions in CCAMLR," he added.

"We want to reach parents who are not plugged into the system," said Zaharopol.

Banks can save a lot of money and avoid headaches by moving to a cash-free system, and they can also avoid bank robberies, theft, and dirty money.

Building on a Soviet-era foothold, Russia is expanding its monitoring stations for Glonass, its version of the Global Positioning System GPS.

But less than a month before hand, inspectors found significant problems with the fire safety system and push the opening back again to 2013.

But the development of an early-warning system has reversed that trend.

But the system isn't efficient, and it does not work that well.

Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a "business justification" the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.

Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, wrote, "The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention."

In an email sent Monday to college presidents in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, outgoing Chancellor John Morgan said an internal analysis showed that each campus' spending on facilities management fell well below the industry standards identified

In exchange, he guarantees an above-market price for each animal and a calf-to-customer electronic ear tag ID system like that used in the European Union.

In the grass fed system, farmers are also not subject to the wildly fluctuating milk prices of the international commodity market.

It wasn't just the smoke system.

New electric engines coupled with artificial intelligence and autonomous systems will contribute to a more efficient, integrated transport system that is less polluting and less noisy.

Perhaps we can learn from Japan where they have a system of private and public universities.

Research conducted at Stanford University shows a mental image fires the nerve system the same way as actually doing something.

Second, they rely on a system that has long been marked by a poor relation between national health and social care services.

The Arctic sea ice holds a central position in the Earth's climate system and it's deteriorating faster than expected.

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental gains.

This system couldn't care less how often you use it.

Unfortunately, however, our education system has not caught up to the approaching reality.

virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system— doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness — is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline -powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light

But however long it takes, the technology has the potential to change our transportation systems and our cities, for better or for worse, depending on how the transformation is regulated.

But the most sensible form of adaptation is surely to adapt our energy systems to emit less carbon pollution.

Dad said she was probably lonely, and that I ought to sit and listen and nod my head and smile, and Maybe she'd work it out of her system.

For your safety, never tamper with these systems.

How does an early-warning system help us maintain the ecological balance?

Ideally, the system would tell us when to adapt human activities that are pushing an ecosystem toward a breakdown.

If the new safety system had been put to use, the accident would never have happened.

In many ways, the education system in the US is not very different from that in the UK.

Instead, he invented a reading system of raised dots点, which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.

It is also a mark of disrespect for a system or an institution.

Later, engineers managed to construct railways in a system of deep tunnels, which became known to the tube.

Most are also equipped with automatic fire alarm systems consisting of heat detectors, smoke detectors and sprinklers.

People believing in freedom are those who behave within the laws and value systems.

Policymakers should start thinking now about how to make sure the appearance of driverless vehicles doesn't extend the worst aspects of the car-controlled transportation system we have today.

Read the syllabus and learning management system information to be sure the answer isn't hiding in plain sight.

Scientists have built an early-warning system based on mathematical models.

The city planner decided to build an underground drainage system, but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level.

The coming technological advancement presents a chance for cities and states to develop transportation systems designed to move more people, and more affordably.

The floors of all campus buildings are equipped with manual fire alarm systems which include fire alarm pull stations and pipes.

The road novel, the road movie, these are the most typical American ideas, born of abundant petrol, cheap cars and a never-ending interstate highway system.

The same cognitive systems that make young children feel good about feel good about figuring something out may have been adopted by adult scientists.

There seems to be something wrong with the system.

These include custom-made navigation tools, night vision systems and intelligent speed adaptations.

They inspect all campus buildings and test and maintain all sprinkler(喷水灭火装置) systems fire alarms.

This affects their nervous systems and ability to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney failures and death.

We're looking at the benefits of systems which control their speed as a way of preventing that.

When another person helps us in such ways, he or she is participating in what I've called a social prosthetic system.

We are fortunate that is it, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

Thus, in his view, diverse aspects of culture, such as the structure of families, forms of marriage, categories of kinship, ownership of property, forms of government, technology, and systems of food production, all changed as societies evolved.

This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance.

To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning.

One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motives is that most members of the land community have no economic value.

To get the system working again, losses must be recognized and dealt with.

And, unless banks carry toxic assets at prices that attract buyers, reviving the banking system will be difficult.

Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day.

But many within the public sector suffer under the current system, too.

Bankers’ fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

A string of accidents, including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 207 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage, raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankee’s safety and Entergy’s management- especially after the company made misleading statements about the pipe.

This year, it was proposed that the system be changed: Horizon 2020, a new program to be enacted in 2014, would not have such a category.

“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

They could distort the achievement-based system of peer-review-led research.

Reforming the system would help both lawyers and their customers.

Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.

It is as though 20 years of ever-tougher reforms of the job search and benefit administration system never happened.

It is like the immune system of the body, which under stress or through lack of nutrition or exercise can be weakened, but which never leaves us.

Now comes word that everyone involved---Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users --as finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.

It is not, however, a sign that they' re getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.

"Children may face serious difficulties in coping with significant moves, especially if it removes them from their current school or support system," he said.

A string of accidents, including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 2007 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage, raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankee's safety and Entergy's management– especially after the company ma

Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work against the disappearance of the paper system.

Amazon.com received one for its "one- click" online payment system.

Bankers' fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

Both France and the United States are involved in the organization's work, but France's digital services tax and the American response raise questions about what the future holds for the international tax system.

Copernicus theorized in 1543 that in actual fact, all of the planets that we knew of revolved not around the Earth, but the Sun, a system that was later upheld by Galileo at his own expense.

France's planned tax is a clear warning: Unless a broad consensus can be reached on reforming the international tax system, other nations are likely to follow suit, and American companies will face a cascade of different taxes from dozens of nations that

In other words, they all share a view that the international tax system has failed to keep up with the current economy.

Including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.

It is not, however, a sign that they're getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.

It says that the problem is not merely that people do bad science, but that our current system of career advancement positively encourages it.

Last month, Howard Schmidt, the nation's cyber-czar, offered the federal government a proposal to make the Web a safer place—a "voluntary trusted identity" system that would be the high-tech equivalent of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card,

Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be sel

My own hospital system has banned sugary drinks from its facilities.

Neuroscientists, experts who study the nervous system, are increasingly showing that there's actually a lot that can be done.

Now comes word that everyone involved—Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users—has finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.

On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with "reforms" to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

Our legal system was designed to set law apart from politics precisely because they are so closely tied.

That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it.

The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century.

The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential linked to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services.

This year, it was proposed that the system be changed:Horizon 2020, a new program to be enacted in 2014, would not have such a category.

To lead in that system requires knowledge that is fairly mind-boggling plus, virtually all major American companies are beyond this major CEOs still have to do all the day-to-day work they have always done.

Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.

Users could select which system to join, and only registered users whose identities have been authenticated could navigate those systems.

Yet the new system has not worked out any cheaper for the universities.