Sentences with phrase «of modern mapping»

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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

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

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

For instance, maps drawn with north at the top are the result of an early modern European phenomenon.

«A world map of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry in modern humans.»

By comparing Ust» - Ishim's genome to various groups of modern and ancient humans, the researchers are filling in gaps in the map of initial human migrations around the globe.

A big interactive map traces the emergence of modern humans in Africa more than 150,000 years ago and how they spread worldwide — travels that have been tracked by studying fossils, artifacts, and the DNA of humans from all over the globe.

Haak says this man's mitochondrial genome, especially if we find more like it, will help scientists develop a map of how early modern humans moved around Africa.

Steven Johnson makes this fact startlingly clear in his latest book, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Riverhead, October 2006).

Alaska's new map reflects the changes in our modern understanding of geology as it builds on the past.

Modern sonar techniques map the continental margins of the U.S. and reveal the richly varied scenery usually hidden underwater

Modern neuroscientific data techniques have recently highlighted how the brain spatially organises the portrayal of word sounds, which researchers were able to precisely map by region of activity.

The angular concept car sported a lot of modern - sounding tech: a hybrid electric / gas power train that drove all four wheels, an onboard computer with digital displays for everything from the speedometer to the radio, and electronic maps to help you navigate traffic snarls.

Scientists compared the maps to modern charts, finding that more than half of the historical reefs have been replaced by seagrass beds or bare sea floor.

They also integrated these data with modern samples to create a genetic family tree, or phylogeny, that maps the evolutionary relationships of various snake species.

The researchers compared a modern - day map from 2007 that shows the spread of infection by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum throughout the world to a similar map constructed in 1900.

She said less than 5 percent of the region has been mapped according to modern standards.

As a control, they also mapped the social networks for modern works of fiction: Les Misérables, Shakespeare's Richard III, The Fellowship of the Ring, and the first book in the Harry Potter series.

The discovery of a young boy in Mal» ta (see map), who died 24,000 years ago and was related to both modern Europeans and modern Native Americans, confirmed theories that this mystery population lived in Siberia.FIG - mg29954301.

«It might look like a dirty rugby ball or a piece of modern art, but I can assure you cosmologists would have hacked our computers or given up their children to get a copy of this map,» said George Efstathiou at a press conference at ESA headquarters in Paris, France, this morning.