To a packed house at a computer conference in San Francisco, Stanford Research Institute's Douglas Engelbart made a dramatic presentation that included first-time demonstrations of onscreen "windows," teleconferencing and a wooden stylus device he called a "mouse".
This paper reports the recent progress on the development of double-cantilever infrared (IR) detectors, including the fabrication, the post-process curvature control, and also the first-time demonstration of thermal detection using capacitive-based IR focal plane arrays (FPAs).
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first-time demonstration of online simultaneous volume structure and flow-rendering OCT imaging.
After years of talk and anticipation, this years E3 marks the first time playable demonstrations of the three next-generation consoles– Sony s PS3, Nintendo s Wii and Microsoft s Xbox 360 will share a showroom floor.
We mourn the passing of our dear friend who in the mid 1970s created highly sophisticated, computerized addiction registries in New York City and Hong Kong, allowing for the first time the demonstration of the enormous benefits of methadone maintenance treatment to the health and social welfare of patients and community alike.
Skateboarding, roller sports, sport climbing and wushu will all be presented for the first time as demonstration sports in China.
In conclusion, our results provide for the first time the demonstration that HIV-1 is highly competent to cleave the LTR-LTR junction.
The results presented in this report provide for the first time a demonstration of the impact of the antigen delivery route on the quality of the immune response, a quality that reflects the functional status of effector T cells.
Moreover our data provide for the first time the demonstration that the level of NKG2D expression on NK cells (Fig. 5) and CD8+ T cells (not shown) are increased after 4 vaccinations with Dex in humans.
For the first time the demonstration of the presence of the HPV positivity in the EBC, paired bronchial brushing and lung tissue led us to suppose that the EBC contains identical information on airway colonisation as previously demonstrated for somatic DNA alterations specific to lung cancer (Carpagnano et al, 2008).
And commentators around the Middle East pondered the potential regional implications of the success of Tunisia's protests; Mr. Ben Ali's fall marked the first time that street demonstrations had overcome an Arab autocrat.
