Sentences with phrase «scale maps of»

Within hours of the flaming debris of Pan Am flight 103 crashing onto the Scottish village of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988, the emergency services had large - scale maps of the area and its surroundings on the scene.
Large scale maps of dark matter like this are critical for understanding its distribution, and for figuring out what the heck this stuff is.
After compiling 10 floe - scale maps of the ice from the Weddell, Bellingshausen, and the Wilkes Land regions of the continent, the researchers found that the sea ice thickness tended to be highly variable, with many ridges and valleys, they report online today in Nature Geoscience.
The prize will be equally split between biophysicist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge in England, biochemist Thomas Steitz of Yale University and molecular biologist Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, for their work in using x-ray crystallography to get a precise, atomic - scale map of the ribosome — the protein - making machine in all cells with nuclei that makes life possible.
Now, an international team led by marine scientist Callum Roberts of the University of York in the United Kingdom has pieced together the first large - scale map of living marine treasure.
The NOC's robot - sub, Autosub6000, used seafloor photographs to create the first landscape - scale map of marine snow patches in addition to a map of the abundance of life on the sea - floor (also known as biomass).
«Our project will serve as a pilot for the full - scale mapping of functional regulatory elements in the human genome,» said program director Kevin White, PhD, the James and Karen Frank Family Professor in the departments of Human Genetics and Ecology & Evolution, and Director of the Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.
Using a new approach, combining both protein and peptide immobilized metal affinity chromatography and mass spectrometry data acquisition strategies, we have produced the first large scale map of the mouse synapse phosphoproteome.
These findings further underscore the utility of the rabbit hybrid zone for fine - scale mapping of candidate genes likely to be involved in the early stages of reproductive isolation.
In a large scale mapping of the Baltic Sea, researchers from Stockholm University and SciLifeLab have now identified 22 million genes in viruses, bacteria and plankton.
I was pleased to see that the mission breifing had a full scale map of the mission proceeding, and full voice as well.
Fun and interactive, the course guides visitors around Doug Fishbone's Costa Concordia, over Eyal and Ines Weizman's Bridges of Kӧnigsberg and until they finally make the treacherous crossing over the canal to Ellie Harrison's scale map of the UK; a good example of the importance of inclusion within the UK's art scene.
As the final hole Ellie Harrison's Life Raft — a scale map of the UK floating in the adjacent canal — offers a safe haven to immigrant golf balls that can make the treacherous crossing.
Users must fill out a short registration form to use the feature, which allows them to create a scale map of their yard and arrange landscape elements within it.
Google has its own difficulties: its maps often fail to apply a blue colour to lakes and major rivers — on a large - scale map of Castlegar, B.C., for example, the mighty Columbia River passing through town is mysteriously missing.

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This animated map shows the scale of the Mississippi River and its drainage system in perspective.
You can see the relative scale of these events in the map below, which is based on estimates from NOAA and other sources.
Those markets with the highest density of the target market and subscriber lookalikes were plotted on the map (overleaf) to demonstrate location and scale simultaneously.
In the same way in dealing with the clash between permanent elements of human nature, it is well to map our history on a large scale, and to disengage ourselves from our immediate absorption in the present conflicts.
We completed an intensive GIS spatial analysis to identify parts of our Commonwealth most threatened by development and created a website with interactive maps and data for use at the town, watershed, or county scale.
Additional Riverkeeper maps showing how Lac - Megantic and Casselton - scale disasters would affect areas of the Hudson Valley are available in the Crude Oil Public Outreach section.
To make plotting on a map easier, the edges of the baseplate are equipped with three different scales.
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.
Mars 2020 takes the next natural step in its direct search for evidence of ancient microbial life, focusing measurements to the microbial scale and producing high - resolution maps over similarly postage stamp - sized analytical areas.
The maps show changes in vegetation, elevation, amount of rainfall and include scales to show distance.
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Science can help measure the scope, scale and impact of illegal wildlife trade, map illicit networks and assess the effect of social marketing and other interventions designed to reduce demand.
Since 2007 nonprofit CHF International has been mapping urban poverty in areas of India and Africa through a program called Slum Communities Achieving Livable Environments with Urban Partners (SCALE - UP)(pdf).
Although geologists can use seismic data from large earthquakes to see features deep in the earth, the shallow subsurface geology of the park has remained a mystery, because mapping it out would require capturing everyday miniature ground movement and seismic energy on a much smaller scale.
The Human Connectome Project aims to map the large - scale connections of 1200 human brains and will start reporting data in late 2012
The challenge will be to create these centimeter - scale maps for thousands of roads worldwide and constantly update them as they change, says Alberto Broggi, an engineer developing self - driving cars at the University of Parma in Italy.
To map the minute landscape of molecules, at scales as tiny as just tenths of a nanometer, and help decipher their functions, structural biologists have long relied on two tools: nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.
Pete Warden, founder of travel - mapping company Jetpac, based in San Francisco, says personalised maps will work best on a large scale.
Richard Radke of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York says the Marauder's Map solves on a small scale a challenge that he's attempting to tackle in a much larger setting.
It shows magnitudes of recent quakes superimposed on a map of the world which you can zoom into, and information about how quakes are measured and what the different scales mean.
Through this observation network, the densest every deployed on this scale, the researchers were able to create the first maps of Amazon groundwater.
Overlaid on maps, the time - series of GOES cloud images provide a review of the large - scale weather.
Further observations will be used to refine the global map, to construct local and regional digital elevation models for scientific analysis and aid in assessment of future landing sites, and to attempt to detect and characterize global - scale seasonal variations.
At the high end of the scale, the map is also causing some rethinking.
They combined this information with maps of population distribution and malaria prevalence over the same period to create, for the first time, a map that correlates large - scale trends in movement to the spread of the disease.
The researchers carried out fine - scale mapping, looking for parts of the DNA sequence that were specifically different in butterflies with different patterns, in three different Heliconius species, and in each case the cortex gene was found to be responsible for this adaptation in their patterning.
By using the research ship and robotic vehicles together, the NOC team were able to create a series of detailed maps of the site at different scales from tens of kilometres down to a few millimetres.
The Web site uses Google Earth technology and satellite images to create interactive maps up to a scale of 1:150,000.
1 EXPERIENCING TURBULENCE Koblin used the Bézier method of curve analysis (which coincidentally is also used to design airplane bodies) to accentuate any flight plan changes hidden by the map's massive scale.
The imaging concentrates on a mesa - scale of the brain analogous to the map view of Google Earth.
New NOAA - led research maps the distribution of aragonite saturation state in both surface and subsurface waters of the global ocean and provides further evidence that ocean acidification is happening on a global scale.
A botany researcher at New Zealand's University of Otago and colleagues have developed a new system to map the world's «biomes» — large - scale vegetation formations — that will provide an objective method for monitoring how vegetation reacts as climate changes.
Enormous projects are also planned to map the distribution of galaxies on large scales.
A temperature forecast map of Australia features a brand new color scale to accommodate rising temperatures.
Lead author Dr Robert Holland, also from the University's Centre for Biological Sciences, said: «Based on mapping patterns of freshwater consumption associated with energy sectors at subnational scales, our analysis also reveals that pressure on freshwater resources associated with energy production happens in a number of freshwater scarce river basins globally.
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