The video game is a simulator, a training or practice device.
Unlike a skateboard, which was invented more than 50 years ago as an off-season practice device for surfers, Mr. Martin's board does not have wheels and therefore stays in one place.
His practice device, called Auto‐shag, for which he was awarded Patent 3,521,887 this week, is intended to let everybody at least warm up.
Under current practice, device studies may be closed or categorized as "failures" before knowledge embedded in them can be fully mined.
While hospitals defend the practice, device makers and some physicians say that it increases the risk of infections and death.
In smart learning environments the practice devices are expected to be context-aware and adaptive, e.g. like GPS sport watches could be used as a digital feedback device to learn to perform better.
We developed a registry to track patients undergoing endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) in an integrated health care system, leveraging an electronic medical record (EMR) to evaluate clinical practices, device performance, surgical complications, and medium-term outcomes.
When does such a practice serve as a device for collusion?
Finally, it is not unusual that different smokers share the same device, a practice that has been hypothesized to cause the transmission of communicable diseases [ 1].
Indeed, a late amendment to the bill currently before parliament would strengthen those powers by allowing examining officers to download the contents of mobile phones, laptops and other electronic devices, a practice of questionable lawfulness at present.
