Most curious is Portrait of the Knight of Wands ("His mission: the transmission of technology") – a eulogy for Steve Jobs in ballad form?
This can potentially ignite democratic transitions or consolidation and increase the transmission of technology across the economy.
Csibra and Gergely (2011) suggest that a suite of species-specific cognitive adaptations for cultural learning, which they label 'natural pedagogy', may be responsible for the capacity of preservative cultural transmission of opaque technologies.
Also from Vintage Digital this month is an e-short on literature from novelist Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder and C. Transmission and the Individual Remix: How Literature Works (£3.67) explores themes familiar to readers of McCarthy's novels, focusing on literature as an act of listening and reception as well as one of transmission and of technology.
Several ways that transmission of ideas and technologies happen have been cited, which include international trade: imports of high-technology products (Coe and Helpman 1995; Coe et al. 1997; Kwark and Shyn 2006); foreign technology payment; direct adoption of foreign technology (Soete and Patel 1985); and acquisition of human capital (Park 2004; Le 2008; Le and Bodman 2011).
Khan would go on to establish an illicit nuclear weapons technology procurement and consulting operation, the "Khan Network," that would play a major role in the transmission of nuclear weapons technology to Iran, Libya and to a lesser extent, North Korea.
Both rice and millet agriculturalists were responsible for the transmission of important agricultural technology across Southwest China and they must be considered in any linguistic or population history model for this region.
Training of specialist and technicians in the use and implementation of tools for controlling the transmission of VBDs including modern technologies may result in improving risk assessment and disease control.
In order to improve the anti-noise and anti-decay of underwater data transmission, the technology of frequency shift keying (FSK) is used.
The physical layer consists of the basic networking hardware transmission technologies of a communication network.
With a predominant focus on bifaces and cores, few studies discuss in depth, components of lithic waste products, significant in informing on aspects of technology, skills, transmission of knowledge, or behavioural organisation at site and landscape scales.
