No, the real reason Kurzweil has become such a magnet for blogospheric debate, and a tech-celebrity, is that he's convinced those future predictions – and many more just as stunning – are imminent occurrences.
This sense of disenfranchisement has periodically led to talk of seceding from Southampton, but that occurrence does not seem imminent.
A simulation study revealed that the recurrence interval of short-term SSEs becomes short as the occurrence of a great earthquake becomes imminent (Matsuzawa et al., 2010).
Our randomised controlled trial shows that antenatal treatment with corticosteroids in women at 34-36 weeks of pregnancy at risk of imminent premature delivery is ineffective in reducing the occurrence of respiratory disorders in the babies and fails to exert any effect on the incidence of various other complications of late prematurity, with the exception of jaundice requiring phototherapy.
The federal agency said adherence to the safeguards proposed in the plan "will help prevent the occurrence of a situation that may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and the environment".
Last Friday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency accepted the authority's decontamination plan, saying its safeguards "will help prevent the occurrence of a situation that may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and the environment".
In light of this controversy, mosquito control agencies in California are often hesitant to apply adulticides until epidemics appear imminent on the basis of available risk estimates or the occurrence of human cases.
The system's response time was considered to be the time between the occurrence of an event to be notified, for example, the imminent arrival at a stop and the reception by the passenger via his/her GSCA of said event.
To this end, the system's response time was studied, understood as the time between the occurrence of a relevant event for the system, for example the imminent arrival at a stop, and the reception of the corresponding information by the traveller in his/her preferred format: vibration, bell, audio or text message.
The continuing occurrence of sporadic human H5N1 infections has ignited worldwide concern about an imminent influenza pandemic with potentially devastating consequences, especially if a pandemic H5N1 virus would keep its current virulence in humans.
