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the tracing of this mountain lion is going to be difficult if the rain washes away all of the tracks
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The rock is the first and only known example of a possible tracing from that time period, Helm tells IFLScience’s Tom Hale.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
The academics with whom the science of crypto tracing originated acknowledge that it should not be applied as evidence in isolation, or mischaracterized as some sort of a smoking gun.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
The goal of the agency’s national tracing center is to slow down those pathways or stop them completely, ATF Director Steven Dettelbach told CNN.
—Emma Tucker, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
Blockchain and smart contracts are enabling the tracking and tracing of materials—from gold to airplane parts to carbon—across complex ecosystems.
—François Candelon, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
The report accuses the facilities of still failing to properly train their staff or comply with basic infection control protocols, such as testing, contact tracing and isolation of sick residents.
—Jessica Xing, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
While some users were shocked by the green dye, this isn’t the first time NYC has implemented dye tracing.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
These people do contact tracing and outreach, and are a key piece of trying to stop the spread of syphilis, which reached a low point in the U.S. in 2000 but has increased almost every year since.
—Kenya Hunter, Fortune Well, 28 Oct. 2023
Hamas, for instance, raised $41 million in cryptocurrency over the past two years, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad raised $91 million, according to a report last week in the Wall Street Journal that cited analyses by cryptocurrency tracing firms and seizures by the Israeli government.
—WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
The academics with whom the science of crypto tracing originated acknowledge that it should not be applied as evidence in isolation, or mischaracterized as some sort of a smoking gun.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
The goal of the agency’s national tracing center is to slow down those pathways or stop them completely, ATF Director Steven Dettelbach told CNN.
—Emma Tucker, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
Blockchain and smart contracts are enabling the tracking and tracing of materials—from gold to airplane parts to carbon—across complex ecosystems.
—François Candelon, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
The report accuses the facilities of still failing to properly train their staff or comply with basic infection control protocols, such as testing, contact tracing and isolation of sick residents.
—Jessica Xing, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
While some users were shocked by the green dye, this isn’t the first time NYC has implemented dye tracing.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
These people do contact tracing and outreach, and are a key piece of trying to stop the spread of syphilis, which reached a low point in the U.S. in 2000 but has increased almost every year since.
—Kenya Hunter, Fortune Well, 28 Oct. 2023
Hamas, for instance, raised $41 million in cryptocurrency over the past two years, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad raised $91 million, according to a report last week in the Wall Street Journal that cited analyses by cryptocurrency tracing firms and seizures by the Israeli government.
—WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
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tracing
noun
trac·ing
ˈtrā-siŋ 
: a graphic record made by an instrument (as an electrocardiograph) that registers some movement
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