Sentences with phrase «many modern maps»

This is a revised attempt to correct my comments that I neglected to read before posting in my comment of June 6,2012 at 11; 39 For those who think that the 3rd world war won't happen, all you have to do is look in Ezekiel chapts 38 and 39 then compare them to ancient map and a modern map to find out who they are.

To examine the underlying structure of this 1475 portolan chart, Hessler took a grid on a modern map and transferred it point by point to the chart.

Many modern maps solve this problem by using so - called Mercator projections, which turn the lines of latitude parallel to the equator and the lines of longitude that converge at the Earth's poles into a tidy grid of perpendicular lines on a flat plane.

His and other historical and modern maps are on display at the Boston Public Library.

Historical and modern maps hang side by side, illustrating how ways of thinking about the Earth developed as the tools for exploring it improved.

As with the butterflies» wings, he imagined each chart drawn on a metal plate and simulated bending it to move the landmarks on the medieval chart to meet their locations on a modern map.

It seemed as though this helter - skelter mess of lines served as a kind of skeleton for the map — its «mathematical structure» — just like the tidy grid does for modern maps.

Fresh from his work using morphometric analyses to compare Alpine butterfly species, Hessler realized that a similar approach might allow him to compare a portolan chart with modern maps — and maybe even shed some light on the mystery of how they were made.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration made the first systematic estimates of the size and growth of the modern mapping workforce and divided it into 10 distinct occupations, including GIS scientist and technician and various kinds of surveyors and cartographers.

The authoritative appearance of modern maps belies their inherent biases.

If you're not a fan of Cue's interface, standard Android Auto and Apple CarPlay somewhat helps by allowing you to bring more modern maps and media apps from your smartphone into the dashboard simply by connecting a USB cable.

Find Pets with the ancient art of map dowsing, modern mapping tools and animal communicator help you locate any type of missing animal

Megan Barron presents new drawings and collages in her exhibition «Modern Maps.»

THE SOUTH STREET GALLERY - «Megan Barron: Modern Maps» and «Ron Barron: Neptune Adrift» have a Meet the Artists reception on Friday, October 7, 2016 from 6 to 9 p.m. Megan Barron will show new drawings and collages and Ron Barron will show digital collage, drawings and a performance video.

Standard forms of geographical names, and their clear, unambiguous application to particular features are an essential element of modern maps and charts.

Not exact matches

Once you've identified those touchpoints that will most effectively reach your customer, it's time to string them together into a touchpoint map: the modern day media plan.

A new map created by Jeff Clark, a developer for Neoformix, reflects this modern - day reality.

Most of us will never need to know which characters map to which Unicode numbers, but modern computing could scarcely do without Unicode.

Still viewable today, the site spotlights features in the DNA of every modern website, including hyperlinks, a site map, an About - style page and contact information.

Mapping the buyer experience journey contextually to the realities and complexities of B2B offers organizations the insights and views needed to make informed decisions that shape customer and growth strategies in the modern era.

With these words, President Clinton announced one of the great feats of modern science, the mapping of the human genome.

Sure: the ancient Persians, Greeks and Romans (before Christianity and Islam) seem to have regarded bisexuality as the norm for men — although their attitudes do not map straightforwardly onto modern ones (the main distinction was between «active» and «passive» or to be less euphemistic, penetrator and penetrated, with the former regarded as superior).

Established in 1882 when the California Railroad put the valley on the map, this historic district offers unique local history combined with modern conveniences.

The Geology of the McLaren Vale Wine Region map was developed as a result of decades of diligent investigation by curious geological scholars and provides a key to the complex, constantly unfolding links between geology and modern wine flavours.

«San Francisco is one of the most sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and beautiful cities in the world,» noted Richard Toshio Miyashiro, West Coast new projects operations director of Hakkasan, «Steeped in modern and authentic Chinese artistry, we're confident Hakkasan will add an intriguing new dimension to our city's design heritage and further advance San Francisco on the design map.»

His modern approach and mastery of technique has been instrumental in putting Singapore on the global gastronomic map.

Accompanying the story are 36 easy and healthy recipes for you to try with your child, as well as a medieval world map showing Polo's actual expedition routes; glossaries of cooking terms, techniques, and utensils; an extensive illustrated history of the ingredients; modern adaptations; and historical trivia.

She is also the author of the book, Birthing from Within written in 1998, and next year she will be publishing an updated version with Virginia Bobro called Ancient Map for Modern Birth.

Stephanopoulos and McGhee computed efficiency gaps for four decades of congressional and state House races starting in 1972, finding that the pro-Republican maps enacted after the 2010 Census resulted in «the most extreme gerrymanders in modern history.»

With mapping and modern computers that track demographics down to individual households, politicians can select their voters with amazingly predictable results.

All this maps directly to modern terrorists.

Behind the scenes, in the largely invisible world of digital organizing on which modern presidential campaigns increasingly depend, Trump is not merely lagging behind — he's not on the map.

By systematically analyzing the discrepancies between the portolan charts and modern ones, Hessler has begun to trace the mapmaker's tracks within the maps themselves.

Maps of coal deposits in 1880s Pennsylvania sit near modern schematics explaining how fracking works (SN: 9/8/12, p. 20).

«Even with all the information he had — every sailor's notebook, every description in every journal — I wouldn't know how to make the map he made,» says John Hessler, a specialist in modern cartography at the Library of Congress.

«It's so different from the mathematical structure you see in [modern] maps.»

In 2015 in Nature, researchers published results from the People of the British Isles (PoBI) project, which sought to map the modern population's genetic makeup in unprecedented fine scale.

Map of sites and postulated migratory pathways associated with modern humans dispersing across Asia during the Late Pleistocene.

Organisation as life is a view remarkably close to modern biology: for Leroi, biology is all about mapping the body's regular material transformations.

Already, researchers have traced the accelerating evolution of the English language, mapped the rise and fall of various people, and uncovered patterns of censorship and suppression in Soviet Russia, modern China, and 1950s America — and that's only a beginning.

Like modern South American DNA, the Anzick DNA is a mix of Mal» ta and other Asian DNA, pointing to a «source» population for the first Americans, probably in far eastern Siberia (see map).

Lawrence David and Eric Alm from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mapped the evolutionary history of 3983 gene families that occur in a wide range of modern species.

They will serve as modern Magellans, mapping out the solar system for whatever explorers follow, whether man or machine.

Researchers at Aarhus University have carried out extensive theoretical mapping of the way private consumers can save money for heating in a modern supply system based on electricity.

Modern radar mapping of Antarctica didn't begin in earnest until the 1990s, so pushing the data set back another two decades is a significant improvement, he says.

The site is a potpourri of useful material: audio files telling the story of Snow's investigations; an exhaustive collection of Snow's original writing; a vast library of articles written about Snow's legacy; annotated maps of London, including Snow's famous map of the Soho outbreak; short biographies of the major figures in Snow's life; excerpts from books that mention him; dozens of photographs, including images of Snow and landmarks in London related to his life; modern - day scientific explanations of the cholera bacteria; and much more.

Modern cod's map wouldn't be accurate since these markers change over time.

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, Simon Winchester (Harper - Collins) A former Oxford geologist reconstructs the life of a canal digger whose startling 1793 discovery that fossils are arranged in layers laid the foundation of modern geModern Geology, Simon Winchester (Harper - Collins) A former Oxford geologist reconstructs the life of a canal digger whose startling 1793 discovery that fossils are arranged in layers laid the foundation of modern gemodern geology.

Announcing their acquisition of Here Maps last year, Daimler, Volkswagen and BMW stated that «the high - precision cameras and sensors installed in modern cars are the digital eyes for updating mobility data and maps&raqMaps last year, Daimler, Volkswagen and BMW stated that «the high - precision cameras and sensors installed in modern cars are the digital eyes for updating mobility data and maps&raqmaps».

«Modern sequencing technology in conjunction with sophisticated bioinformatics algorithms increasingly allows us to map the biochemical potential of many organisms — even those that are difficult or even impossible to grow in laboratory conditions,» Molnar noted.