Sentences with phrase «of balloon systems»

Google notes that various types of balloon systems may be incorporated in an example balloon network.

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«To provide a continuous internet service you're talking about a complex choreography where thousands of balloons are steered and programmed in an automated fashion,» said Cassidy, adding that the system makes sure another balloon comes into range as soon as another has left.

Project Loon tapped artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning, to improve the navigation system of its internet - providing balloons.

The trouble is that, since then, Apple has released a new version of the watch operating system meant to speed up and enrich third - party apps, and the number of those apps has ballooned from about 4,000 to over 13,000.

Of course, there are many people which pofit from a ballooned educational system.

Comptroller John Liu stepped up his criticism of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's financial stewardship in light of the burgeoning scandal surrounding New York City's long - delayed computerized payroll system, reproaching the mayor for suggesting there's little that can be done to prevent high - tech projects from ballooning over budget.

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«Using more recent data and better analysis methods we have been able to re-examine the global weather balloon network, known as radiosondes, and have found clear indications of warming in the upper troposphere,» said lead author ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Chief Investigator Prof Steve Sherwood.

During the test, a large saucer - shaped disk carrying an inflatable inner tube - shaped decelerator and parachute system will be carried to an altitude of 120,000 feet by a giant balloon.

The experiment is the first major test of a piping system that could one day spew sulfate particles into the stratosphere at an altitude of 20 kilometers, supported by a stadium - size hydrogen balloon.

The size of the government's commitment, and its importance for the future of a ballooning health care system, suggests that CER is here to stay.

Both systems are beset by ballooning costs and, especially with a presidential election on the horizon, calls for reform, but a recent study could put ammunition in the hands of people who believe it is time the U.S. ceased to be the only developed nation without universal health coverage.

The microclimate has been recorded with various wireless monitoring systems, including the use of balloons to elevate the sensors, together with infrared thermography, hygrometry and electrical resistivity devices to measure the two critical parameters for conservation: temperature and humidity.

A small group of meteorologists headquartered in Norman, Oklahoma, had for decades employed ingenious means: instrumented probes, weather balloons, and small radar systems.

At the same time, the new outbreak puts public fears of bioterrorism and ballooning biodefense budgets into perspective by reasserting the impact of naturally occurring diseases, says Marjorie Pollack, who is monitoring the outbreak for ProMED, a worldwide electronic reporting system.

Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise — carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013 — scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have presented unique insights into a layer on the sun called the chromosphere.

Over the past three years, ARM has managed field campaigns using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and tethered balloon systems (TBS) at Oliktok Point in northern Alaska, where the U.S. Department of Energy controls restricted airspace supporting such efforts.

Site operators use the automated balloon - borne sounding system, or SONDE, to launch weather balloons twice a day at the North Slope of Alaska site.

Beginning routine collection of spatial information using unmanned aerial systems and tethered balloon systems

The Obalon balloon - in - a-pill system helped people shed nearly 7 % of their body weight, researchers found, although it can cause cramping and nausea.

Given its role in our immune and nervous systems, our skin, and every other major bodily system, you should expect this body of research to continue to balloon in the coming years.

Their business has ballooned into a $ 2.7 billion weight loss empire since the introduction of their popular Points system in 1997.

My favorite moments involved the stealthy kidnapping of Soviet infantry and commanders, an option enabled by the Fulton surface - to - air recovery system — using balloons and aircraft to extract soldiers through quiet force — that's central to The Phantom Pain's stealth mechanics.

The sections themselves are brought to life in comic - book form, using our 4 - text - level system of: Original Text - The full Shakespeare script for the set sections Plain Text - The set sections translated into plain English Quick Text - With reduced dialogue for rapid, easier reading No - Text - With empty speech balloons for you to fill in the dialogue Each document puts the set sections into the context of the whole play.

Since then, the number of school systems closing has ballooned to 42.

Once you've got them snoozing on the dirt you can whip out your Fulton Recovery Device, which is essentially a large balloon with a homing system that you tie to the unsuspecting victim, at which point it gently lifts them a few feet off the ground, giving them about three or four seconds to groggily come to before they suddenly get yanked at speed up into the clouds, issuing a hilarious scream of terror as they go, although funnily enough POWs that you can rescue and other «friendlies» all let out whoops of delight.

While personnel can be gained via a few missions and during the story, the main way of getting them is by capturing enemy soldiers and POW's using the Fulton Recovery System, which is a fancy name for tying a balloon to their belts which then whisks them away to a waiting helicopter.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

When Doki Doki Penguin Land looks like an early Famicom game on a system with the power of a ColecoVision, well, get out the balloons and champagne, Sega!

Filled with excellent and really challenging boss fights (really, really if you aren't prepared with balloon magic) that caused me to truly learn and master the combat system in a way that the previous 75 % of the game never challenged me to.

Replayability by varied and deep character progression, exploration of three systematically generated worlds, an underworld and a small solar system, by foot, mech, air - balloon, jetski and UFO.

Look Mickey is notable for its ironic humor and aesthetic value as well as being the first example of the artist's employment of speech balloons, comic imagery and Ben - Day dots — a system used in mass - circulation printed sources such as comics, newspapers, and billboards — as a source for a painting.

Working with seductive commercial materials such as the high chromium stainless steel of his «Balloon Dog» sculptures or his vinyl «Inflatables», shifts of scale, and an elaborate studio system involving many technicians, Koons turns banal objects into high art icons.

Creed's balloon rooms are quintessential examples of the wit and humor that pervade his body of work and the idea that creating a system following one simple and straightforward rule — you must enclose half the air in a given space inside balloons — can have a tremendous, joyous, and almost magical impact on the viewer.

Using a system of string, balloons, counter-weights and hooks, the pizza arrived safely to the window.

The researchers compared predictions of 22 widely used climate «models» — elaborate schematics that try to forecast how the global weather system will behave — with actual readings gathered by surface stations, weather balloons and orbiting satellites over the past three decades.

None of these reanalyses directly use the surface temperature data so their returned surface estimate is a combination of a state of the art data assimilation scheme and much of the rest of the surface observing system (satellites, weather balloons, surface pressure, sea surface temperatures, etc.).

We put together a project called Celestial Mechanics that attempted to visualize a number of these systems including helicopters, satellites, hot air balloons, and more.

As a result, the ARM Facility is expanding its use of UAS, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and tethered balloon systems (TBS).

The budget of the National Polar - orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), now five years behind schedule, has more than doubled since it was proposed by President Clinton, ballooning from $ 6.5 billion to $ 13.9 billion despite a previous effort to restructure the program in 2006.

Evidence for changes in the climate system abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans (Figure 2.1).1 Scientists and engineers from around the world have compiled this evidence using satellites, weather balloons, thermometers at surface stations, and many other types of observing systems that monitor the Earth's weather and climate.

Unmanned aerial system and tethered balloon system measurements have supplemented ARM Mobile Facility data to help improve understanding of atmospheric processes in the Arctic.

In addition to the data from the radiometers, the Berkeley Lab scientists will get supplemental data by taking advantage of a separate, in - depth DOE climate study at the same location, which is using additional instruments and a balloon - borne sounding system to get information on temperature, cloud cover, the density and types of aerosols or pollution particles, heat fluxes and other climate variables like precipitation.

The Gossamer Orbit Lowering Device, or GOLD system, uses an ultra-thin balloon (thinner than a plastic sandwich bag), which is inflated with gas to the size of a football field and then attached to large pieces of space debris.

Dr. Kristin L. Gates of the Global Aerospace Corporation (GAC) will present the idea of GOLD, a patented system that uses an ultra thin balloon envelope — thinner than a plastic sandwich bag — inflated with gas to the size of a sports field (about 100 years in diameter) that will increase drag enough that the space junk will enter the earth's atmosphere and burn up.

Steve Sherwood, chief investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science and lead author for the study, explained that he and his colleague Nidhi Nishant used improved methods of analysis and more recent data to reexamine radiosondes, or the global weather balloon network.

As the volume of cases in the system grew and the quantity of disclosure ballooned, Crown offices were struggling to ensure that the administrative requirements of organizing such cases kept pace with constitutional demands for speedy trials.

Heleum's unique system, however, still allows smaller accounts to have as many balloons as possible to be able to take advantage of the same opportunities.

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