The new conservation tool takes a similar approach to entire ecosystems, determining the danger to an individual ecosystem, comparable to measuring the danger of a species going extinct.
He says it is the political context, rather than nanotechnology itself, that will determine the dangers of tomorrow's discoveries.
This product can therefore be used as a rule of thumb to determine the danger posed by a certain variety of mutation.
The mechanics behind the technology include mathematical engines that produce adaptive models of behavior of threat actors and determine the danger they pose against the client.
On two of his previous ascents, Shisa Pangma in Tibet in 1993 and Broad Peak in Jammu-Kashmir in 1997, Viesturs determined that the danger of avalanche very close to the summit of each mountain was too great to finish the climb.
Using an automobile's interior temperature profile, the system is capable of accurately determining the level of danger presented to entrapped passengers.
Gunshots are difficult to detect by ear, which is why ShotSpotter is useful in determining the presence of danger.
Technical efforts to insure conformity may be hindered by conflicting goals, unintended consequences, displacement, lessened equity, complacency, neutralization, invalidity, escalation, system overload, a negative image of personal dignity, and the danger of the means determining or becoming ends.
But Mr. MacDonald conceded that much more study was needed to determine the degree of danger from the discharge of water vapor.
