Sentences with phrase «pinpoint locations»

To help carry out its aggressive growth strategy, privately held Marco's turned to MapInfo Corp., a site - selection software and services company based in Troy, N.Y. Marco's executives have employed the technology to target markets for its nationwide expansion and to pinpoint locations with the greatest potential for customer traffic and sales.

This allows police to log the identifying numbers of mobile phones in the area and to pinpoint their locations.

I'm thinking of adding it to future posts to more precisely pinpoint the locations I'm writing about.)

Combined with Computed Tomography (CT), this state - of - the - art imaging process can pinpoint locations of lameness with more accuracy than CT alone or other forms of imaging.

Another advantage of iPad with 4G is the added capability of assisted GPS (A-GPS), allowing users to accurately pinpoint their locations on a map and take advantage of navigation and location - aware apps.

Other online dating sites do not pinpoint locations and this can lead to a lot of pointless interactions.

ALMA's high resolving power and sensitivity enables us to pinpoint the locations of those galaxies rich in fine solid particles (dust).

Other future telescopes, including the VLA equipped with a feature called Realfast, should be able to pinpoint the locations of FRBs even if they don't repeat.As patterns emerge in the locations of FRBs and their origins become clear, scientists hope to use the signals to better understand the nature of their host galaxies, and to more precisely map the distribution of matter in the universe.

In the event that they lose communication with their command unit, we will be able to pinpoint locations as close as three feet,» said Deputy Under Secretary for Science and Technology Dr. Robert Griffin, a former firefighter.

Distant blasts could also help pinpoint the locations of faint GRB host galaxies that could be detected by space telescopes like the soon - to - be-refurbished Hubble Space Telescope or NASA's infrared James Webb Telescope, which is set to launch in 2013.

With ten times better sensitivity and 60 times better resolution, ALMA enabled astronomers to pinpoint the locations of nine monstrous galaxies in SSA22.

In March, the two observatories were meant to begin joint observations — which allow researchers to pinpoint the locations of sources of cosmic waves, such as merging black holes, more accurately.

Snelling dropped his lawsuit after the National Park Service offered to have «experienced staff» help «pinpoint locations and determine appropriate sampling methodology.»

Therefore, Danny Miller, an MD - PhD student at the University of Kansas Medical Center who is conducting his doctoral research in the Hawley lab, had to rely on whole genome sequencing and new computer algorithms to pinpoint the locations of both kinds of events.

The M.I.T. and Georgia Tech teams proved most successful in using social networks to pinpoint the locations of 10 red weather balloons scattered throughout the U.S.

«One in 10 of these are as bright as FRB 150807, and the Deep Synoptic Array prototype will be able to pinpoint their locations to individual galaxies.

The country's water loss is now below 10 % due to the use of algorithms that predict where leaks will occur, underground pipe repair tools, and a sonar - like system that pinpoints the locations of tiny leaks that have the potential to grow larger.

They mimic cell phone towers in order to force cell phones in the area to transmit «pings» back to the devices, enabling law enforcement to track a suspect's phone and pinpoint its location.

But the most important feature of all is the thumb - print button on the pendant's face — when pressed, it will alert a pre-determined list of contacts via text and email that the wearer is in need of assistance, and will pinpoint their location.

Amazon was recently granted patents for employee wristbands, which would «pinpoint the location of warehouse employees and track their hand movements in real time,» while also telling employees where to go.

A large digital diagram of the twin towers pinpoints the locations of real - time transmissions from first responders who did not make it out alive, as well as the locations of first responders who did, and we also hear the latter's reminiscences.

Now, when a call comes in from a stranded boat, the company can pinpoint its location and send the GPS coordinates to Italian authorities in less than an hour.

«Our customer care staff is able to pinpoint the location of any truck with a few clicks of a mouse and respond to delivery status inquiries quickly and accurately.»

The new technology will allow police to pinpoint the location of gunshots.

By pinpointing your location, the Map of Life app lets you explore plants and critters you might see nearby.

Combine those with the pinpoint location feature and you'll be on your way to finding treasure in no time.

That job went to Elnashai, who began by creating a detailed database pinpointing the location of 603,756 structures, including all the hospitals, bridges, schools, and fire stations in the region.

In February 2017, pinpointing the locations of FRBs will become much easier for astronomers with the commissioning of the Deep Synoptic Array prototype, an array of 10 radio dishes at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California.

For example, VISA did a better job than the older system in pinpointing the location of a prior North Korean nuclear test in 2013, Sudderth said.

And apps that harness pinpoint location data could not only guide you around a mall, railway station or airport, but take you to the exact shelf in a shop for the product you want, he says.

A ground - based system that uses much stronger signals than GPS can pinpoint your location in cities and indoors

The fly can pinpoint the location of a chirping cricket with remarkable accuracy because of its freakishly acute hearing, which relies upon a sophisticated sound processing mechanism that really sets it apart from all other known insects.

The target in that case was North Korea's 25 May 2009 UNE: Park and her team found a unique TID that also pinpointed the location of the explosion to within about 4 kilometers of its seismically determined epicenter.

That same profile appeared in multiple stations — and as a result, based on where the stations were and how long it took that fingerprinted signal to arrive, the team was also able to pinpoint the location of the original signal — the Hunters Trophy blast.

The effort succeeded, and by 1918 the Allies were using acoustic echoes to correctly pinpoint the location of German U-boats.

For example, research in 2003 at the University of California, Berkeley, used a computer monitor to provide users with a visual aid to pinpoint the location of a sound.

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new technique that lets them pinpoint the location of chemical reactions happening inside lithium - ion batteries in three dimensions at the nanoscale level.

Phones and other GPS - enabled devices pinpoint your location on Earth by contacting at least four satellites bearing atomic clocks.

Although last - minute discovery of a larger NEO would be problematic for evacuations, Yeomans notes that being able to pinpoint the location of a brilliant fireball even hours in advance can have great geopolitical value.

A repeating burst was discovered in 2012, however, providing an opportunity for a team of researchers to repeatedly monitor its area of the sky with the Karl Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico, in hopes of pinpointing its location.

He noted that the equipment to track the seismic signals from calving glaciers is expensive, and it's necessary to have a number of sensors in place — as the Alaska network does — because to pinpoint the location of a calving, glacier scientists have to triangulate data from several sensors.

«To understand the formation mechanism of a disk, we need to differentiate the disk from the outer envelope precisely and pinpoint the location of its boundary.»

Infrasound signals can remain strong as they travel over large distances, making them useful for pinpointing the location and size of events such as nuclear explosions, meteorite strikes, volcanic eruptions and sometimes earthquake ruptures.

Using only the timing of radiation bursts from pulsating stellar corpses, an experiment on the International Space Station was able to pinpoint its location in space in a first - ever demonstration.

WHAT would you rather have — a superfast data connection on your cellphone, or a reliable GPS signal to pinpoint your location?

When at least five stations record a pulse, computers at the UW register a lightning strike, and then triangulate the arrival times at different stations to pinpoint the location.

It had been difficult to pinpoint their location over the rising wind, but it seemed as if they were moving along a benchland one - tenth of a mile east of us.

Their goal was to use classical genetic techniques to pinpoint the location of the lin - 4 gene on the worm's DNA, progressively narrowing the relevant stretch of nucleotides until all they had left was the gene itself.

Pinpointing the location of that boundary will help clarify how continents formed and why certain parts of those continents are particularly stable today.

Map databases and Global Positioning System satellites can pinpoint your location — and direct you to the nearest McDonalds.