9 In fact, in these patients, cognitive fluctuations and periods of behavioral confusion, inattention, and alternating episodes of lucidity and capable task performance have been described.
The cognitive impairment, spontaneous alterations in attention, and incoherent speech, alternating with episodes of lucidity and capable task performance are a recognized feature of dementia, especially in DLB, but they are present also in AD.
In the short term, there are concerns that clever machines capable of undertaking tasks done by humans until now will swiftly destroy millions of jobs.
But Mallouk thinks his motors could be developed to power slightly larger robot-like machines that might one day be capable of tasks such as minimally invasive surgery.
Dreams are usually centered around a dream self capable of tasks generally impossible in waking, e.g. flying or walking through walls.
Several companies are involved in Puls as partners, including Nuance, which worked with i.am+'s team on a virtual assistant feature called AneedA – the Puls' equivalent of Apple's Siri, capable of tasks including taking dictation to send texts, controlling music and scheduling calendar appointments.
Last year, Mr. Pollack branched out from his research roots to found Thinmail, a venture that provides users of wireless devices with an intelligent electronic assistant capable of tasks like translating documents into simple text and diverting bulky attachments to fax machines.
These advancements include 2D and 3D paper devices that are capable of tasks such as multiplexing, sample processing, and signal enhancement, sophisticated functions that have previously been reserved for laboratory-based or traditional microfluidic tests.
These consortia are often capable of tasks that are far too complex for any single organism to complete themselves including some of the most important global biogeochemical cycles [ 2].
Increasing the range of people capable of undertaking particular tasks might mean that those tasks are no longer specifically "owned" by anyone.
As the LSWR lacked existing freight designs capable of undertaking this task, a new design was needed to serve the south coast ports of Portsmouth, Weymouth and Southampton.
