Its covert action abilities, which withered in the 1990's after the cold war ended, are gradually being revived, as is the agency's paramilitary arm, the Special Activities Division, which sent C.I.A. officers to work with Special Operations forces in Afghanistan.
These factors have led the administration's policy makers to lengthen their estimate of how long it would take Iran to accomplish what nuclear experts call "covert breakout" — the ability to secretly produce a workable weapon.
While the ability to covert physical to digital from the comfort of one's home may seem like an awesome idea, there are some limitations.
This idea is supported by Helton et al. (1977), who suggested that isolated intact liver parenchymal cells from S-D rats were less efficient than the C3H mouse cells in their ability to covert 17α-ethynyl-estradiol into its metabolites.
This strongly suggests a role for aldoketoreductases in anthracycline resistance, which may involve their ability to covert anthracyclines to less-toxic 13-hydroxy metabolites and/or block anthracycline-mediated DNA damage [ 51, 52].
Behavioral studies have shown reliable advantage of professional sports training on perceptual abilities such as covert spatial attention, selective attention and spatial orienting ability (Nougier et al. 1992; Kioumourtzoglou et al. 1998).
The game's amnesiac protagonist, Nick, discovers that he is a covert operative with psychic abilities.
This might seem like a fun way to store the information, but it also enhances the ability to deploy covert operations.
If cognition is linked to overt or covert movement, intelligence becomes the ability to consolidate individual motor elements into more complex patterns, and creativity is the outcome of a race-to-threshold process which centers on the motor areas.
Developed at UC Berkeley's PolyPEDAL Lab, DASH, a 10-centimeter long, 16-gram Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod strives to mimic a cockroach's speed and ability to remain covert and a gecko's speed and agility.
This ability, known as covert spatial attention, allows us to select and acquire peripheral visual information without shifting gaze [1], [2].
