2) Should American companies be free to sell surveillance and internet technologies globally even to totalitarian or non-democratic regimes? 3) How should America increase low cost access to high-speed broadband in order to all Americans to effectively compete in the 21st century internet economy?
Although the I.M.F.'s plan to sell a share of its gold holdings to increase low-cost lending to poor countries had been flagged for a year before it was formally approved in September, both the speed of the deal and the buyer were a surprise.
Indeed, as the difference between the unitary costs increases (low cost rates), the difference between the optimum thicknesses also increases.
But, a year after the original request, the administration needs to even out this process: looking at the rules where the public benefit could be increased at low cost would also be wise.
The demand for increased performance, increased reliability, and low cost from commercial off-the-shelf electronics technologies has increased the viability assessment efforts for a plethora of new materials targeting the electronics packaging industry.
An increased supply, low costs, and few barriers to distribution may have basically commoditized written content and therefore the book industry.
Brazil, the No. 1 grower, is also increasing production at low cost because its farms are highly mechanized.
Also, the increasing availability, at low cost, of multimedia devices (cameras, microphones,...) has triggered the emergence of multimedia wireless sensor networks (WMSN) [1, 2].
The increasing demand for low cost composites in military applications is accompanied by the need to develop cost-effective and high-performance material forms and processing technologies.
In part, this was made possible by the increasing access to low cost, high throughput DNA sequencing technologies that have appeared in recent years, such as 454 pyrosequencing [54] and Illumina technologies [55].
