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Here is an example of how the data body is fed by routine day-to-day activities, a data body meal plan:
Breakfast: phone calls, drive GPS (global positioning system) equipped car, emerge from surveillance camera equipped subway, go online, send E-mails, complete online registration forms, receive faxes
Lunch: pay lunch with credit card, use your customer card when shopping, use mobile phone, pass through biometric access controls, use smart card
Afternoon snack: visit doctor, file insurance claim
Dinner: respond to TV commercials, complete income tax form, visit chat rooms, use free web mail. Programme phone wake-up call.
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
Established in 1950, the National Science Foundation is an independent agency of the U.S. government dedicated to the funding in basic research and education in a wide range of sciences and in mathematics and engineering. Today, the NSF supplies about one quarter of total federal support of basic scientific research at academic institutions.
 http://www.nsf.gov
For more detailed information see the Encyclopaedia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,2450+1+2440,00.html
 http://www.nsf.gov/
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