Her case, which has received no public attention, underscores the thorny issues that arise when a severely brain-damaged person's life is sustained by medical technology.
The goal, Gov. Jim Douglas and others said, is to transform Vermont into a state where growth is driven by green businesses, the way Silicon Valley is sustained by Internet and technology companies.
In humans, they have represented a great challenge in our adaptation to new environments and social practices, with increasing population densities sustained by improved agricultural technologies and cattle domestication favoring their emergence and spread in the last ten thousand years.
Nowadays, this is sustained by information and communication technologies (ICT).
In focusing on the practice of technology as sustained by engineers, similar to the way philosophy of science focuses on the practice of science as sustained by scientists, analytic philosophy of technology could be thought to amount to the philosophy of engineering.
Sustaining life by technology is futile because, for the carer, the person has already "died".
Quantitative PCR (qPCR) technologies are developing quickly, sustained by their simplicity to generate robust data.
The process of change has a chance to begin if sustained by an active intellectual elaboration that frames future solutions in government, technology and design in urban areas of tomorrow.
In the last decade, the impressive growth of the portable systems market has been also sustained by the availability of successful semiconductor Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies.
LDPC codes were first discovered by Gallager in the far 1960s [4] but have long been put aside until MacKay and Neal, sustained by the advances in the very high large-scale of integration (VLSI) technology, rediscovered them in the early 1990s [5].
