Ultrasonic detectors provide more accurate mapping of the surroundings at short range, for example when parking.
The subsequent mapping of the genomes of many nasty pathogens has opened up wholly new approaches to vaccine discovery.
Other proposals include the development of a Tongan Language glossary for ESD and also ongoing mapping of ESD activities in-country.
Other new features will include more detailed 3-D mapping of urban areas.
This allows for games built on the system to have more precise, one-to-one mapping of player movement in real-life to that on the screen.
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The mapping of the entire human genome will facilitate this process.
Some of his success is down to computer mapping of where crimes are taking place, as well as a team of 40 street wardens, Mr Mallon has suggested.
The more serious side of Mr Coetzee's exploits was the mapping of these remote rivers and analysis of their water, to help ensure that villagers had clean, accessible supplies.
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Then two competing groups of scientists--one working for the government and one in the private sector--stopped feuding and announced the first mapping of the human DNA sequence in June 2000 at the White House.
It involves a series of national consultations organized by UNESCO to mobilize stakeholders, partners and potential donors, followed by a regional workshop and the mapping of groundwater at pilot sites in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Unlike the effort to decode the human genome, or the project to put a man on the moon, the mapping of the human brain is a fuzzy endeavor, with no obvious milestones along the way.
"That is a million times more connections than the genome has letters of DNA, " said computational neuroscientist Sebastian Seung at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is developing ways to automate the mapping of individual synapses.
Better to model yourself on Cohen and seek your fortune in what he predicts are the growth areas of the 21st century: the electronic microchip, the cellular phone and Internet, new discoveries in DNA and the mapping of the human genome.
The study, performed in partnership with the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany, will consist of a mapping of Holocaust education in all UNESCO member states, with a view of identifying where and in which contexts the Holocaust is taught.
In the aftermath of 2010 floods, UNESCO has initiated a major project "Strategic Strengthening of Flood Warning and Management Capacity of Pakistan" for upgrading the flood forecasting and early warning system, and for the risk mapping of flood plains along the Indus River, in cooperation with the government of Japan.
"We have had very detailed mapping of that basin from images, from orbital spectral data, but we have not had high-resolution of its interior structure, " Grail's chief scientist, Prof Maria Zuber, who has been speaking at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas, told BBC News.
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Collins, the force behind the mapping of the human genome and now the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, accused the firm of hijacking drug research with flimsy patents covering huge strips of so-called junk DNA, biological bits once thought insignificant but now central to the work of disease hunters.
In addition, UNESCO is building on its existing partnership with GOOGLE to enlarge the scope of the AFRICOM Membership Directory to include more information on museums in Africa in order to elaborate a mapping of museums in Africa on the general GOOGLE site and a more detailed mapping that includes museum professionals and their specialities on the AFRICOM web site.
Think in terms of mapping incidents of violence and peace efforts in South Africa, Gaza or Pakistan, or monitoring local elections in India.
All this geographic mania amuses the de facto father of the mapping field: Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Environmental Systems Research Institute, the 37-year-old firm that is the Microsoft of mapping.
So the process of mapping the extent of NHS fraud started - and is still going on.
Along with enhancements to Nokia Transit, the Nokia location suite of services represents the most comprehensive, integrated mapping experience of any smartphone.
Along with enhancements to Nokia Drive and Nokia Transport, the Nokia location suite of services represents the most comprehensive, integrated mapping experience of any smartphone.
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Mr. Cameron seems to have done a good job of mapping and moving some of the key players as well.
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Thanks to smartphones there's less of a reason to invest in a standalone navigator, and while GPS companies have been selling mapping apps of their own, that doesn't quite make up for plunging device sales, now does it?
"One of the reasons we're so excited about community data is the sheer volume of it, " says Rik Temmink, vice president for product management at TeleAtlas, the digital mapping subsidiary of sat-nav manufacturer TomTom.
Besides tracking pollution, watching volcanoes and measuring icebergs, they are following fish around, monitoring changing temperatures in different layers of seawater and mapping the abundance of algae.
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Target Ovarian Cancer, which conducted a mapping exercise of the disease this summer, also welcomed the promise of early tests.
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