A few days afterward, the authority moved ahead and laid off 260 agents who worked in customer-assistance booths rather than sales booths, saying that the customer-assistance agents were not covered by the stay.
They have parlayed themselves into celebrities without the assistance of agents or managers, to the best of anyone's knowledge, setting up their own photo shoots and drumming up business for themselves.
The order, from the Federal District Court in Alexandria, Va., required Mr. Levison to log Mr. Snowden's account information and provide the F.B.I. with "technical assistance," which agents told him meant handing over the private encryption keys, technically called SSL certificates, that unlock communications for all users, he said.
In an urban landscape, in which the population is possibly influenced by ambient assistance, an agent in the collective awareness model must consider the effect of three different types of interactions (that are agent-to-agent, agent-to-environment, and environment-to-agent) for the decision making process.
In 1981, the then Greek Intelligence Services drafted a list of potential terror suspects that the intelligence officials said was compiled with the assistance of C.I.A. agents operating in the country at the time.
But in contrast to that plan, which the authorities learned about only at the last minute, the F.B.I. had been tracking Mr. Mohamud since 2009 and his planning unfolded under the scrutiny and even assistance of undercover agents, officials said.
But with each passing day, more of his time is spent in the new world of terrorist deterrence theory, trying to figure out how to prevent attacks by persuading terrorist support networks — those who enable terrorists to operate — to refuse any kind of assistance to stateless agents of extremism.
In addition, the synthesis of the magnesium borate nanorods needs the assistance of surfactants/capping agents.
In this work, halides modified Au nanoparticles (NPs) as the modification substrates were first designed for rapid and sensitive determination of BPA residue in real milk by SERS method with the assistance of aggregation agents (Zn2+).
Today, an Israeli startup called TechSee is announcing $16 million in funding to help build out its own twist on that innovation: an AI-based video service, which uses computer vision, augmented reality and a customer's own smartphone camera to provide tech support to customers, either alongside assistance from live agents, or as part of a standalone customer service "bot".
