This advance allows them to create a 3-D model of intact spinal tissue to determine whether the nerves are regenerating or not.
In 2011, Foldit players needed only 10 days to produce an accurate 3-D model of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus, a protease whose structure had stumped scientists for 15 years.
One thing Dr. Kathy had taken time out to show the boy was a freestanding 3-D model of a human spine that had not been taken care of in any real or significant way.
Even so Chevron is improving its impressive 3-D seismic model of the gulf all the time.
Our best understanding of physics so far, called the Standard Model, suggests that the complicated cascades of decay of D-mesons into other particles should be very nearly the same - within less than 0.1% - as a similar chain of antimatter decays.
Net shoppers will buy a sofa while flipping around a crystal-clear 3-D image of their model on-screen and speaking with a salesman by PC.
That's the whole business model, the very raison d'etre of Google Glass.
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Some of these are then fed into a prototyping machine, made by Objet of Israel, that can produce a 3-D model in lightweight plastic in minutes.
You pay for that convenience with some extra bulk (and we'd argue that this is the geekiest, ugliest model of the bunch), but we'll admit, it's pretty trick.
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So overall, we'd say the Droid DNA is almost the perfect model out of the four variants: it has pretty much all the radios one would need, and it does wireless charging.
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Designed on 3-D computers, the first model flew in May, a masterpiece of fit and finish.
"It's a stunning transformation of public education, given that there was nothing there to begin with that could provide a model, " says Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform in Washington, D.
The miniature building began as a detailed 3-D software rendering before the physical model was built to iron out all the intricacies of connecting the units in the full-scale building.
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"There are those of us who genuinely love these things and see something in them that a lot of people don't see, but it doesn't really convert to a commercial reality, " says Donald Kelly, the former executive director of the Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum, who now runs Intellectual Asset Management Associates, a Washington, D.
On the desktop front (shown after the jump), the PC Station BJ series sports a slim, compact form factor, an Intel Celeron D, Pentium 4, or Core 2 Duo E4300 depending on model, up to 1GB of DDR2 RAM, between 250GB and 320GB of HDD space, a dual-layer DVD burner, Windows Vista, and a number of matching displays between 17- and 22-inches.
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While the Quadricycle, the 1909 Model T and a 1932 V-8 Ford are cars you'd expect to see in an array of historic vehicles, the value of "Driving America" is in the way that it presents cars you would be more likely to find in a junkyard than a museum.
That'd be its Targa top, which--for the first time in the history of the model--isn't removable but retractable.
With the success behind it, SpaceX still needs to demonstrate the long-term strength of its business model, according to Howard McCurdy, a space policy expert and professor of public affairs at American University in Washington, D.
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