With a smartphone in their pocket, individuals can suddenly do things that previously required an array of institutions.
Chimp Haven's decision to accept these chimps required an array of activities, including fundraising, construction of new chimpanzee housing, humanely transporting the animals, integrating them into large social groups, and getting each of them settled in their new homes.
But it's hard to miss the implication that starting life fresh requires an array of fresh purchases.
3-D printing requires an array of different software packages, from design software to "slicing" software and separate programs that connect your home computer to each individual printer.
Growing plants without soil, in a mix of rock pellets and nutrient-rich water, requires an array of electric gadgets -- from 1,000-watt 1,000-wattoolampssystoms to specoolingsystemshatoneutralize telltale odorspeciale ventilation.
At the speeds and altitudes at which such aircraft can operate, the problem of striking and destroying enemy aircraft becomes extremely complicated and requires an array of electronic, navigational, and computational gear.
Ground testing requires an array of facilities, including ovens for applying high temperatures to materials, acoustic chambers to permit study of the effect of high-frequency engine noise on structures, rigs for measuring landing impacts, and variable-frequency vibrators for investigations of vibration and flutter characteristics of structures.
It also requires an array of field techniques for measuring forest structure, soil chemistry, and climatic conditions, for example.
But, he warns, educating luck in this way requires an array of skills scientists don't often learn at a university.
To measure the muon decay parameters with high accuracy, we require an array of precision drift detector layers whose relative position is known with very high accuracy.
Matrix converter is a forced commutated ac-ac converter which requires an array of controlled bidirectional power electronic switch (PES) to generate variable output voltage based on the wind profile.
