Animators also relied on videotapes of the two stars - and close observation - to help them breathe life into their woman warrior.
That started happening in 2006, when Dr Jiao developed a technique called time-series observation-based infra-red epifluorescence microscopy, or TIREM for short, that is able to measure the amount of AAPB in the oceans accurately.
While not quite as "nano" as the SIM card-sized satellites that launched with the Shuttle Endeavor, the smaller-than-a-breadbox ExoPlanetSat is still pretty tiny by satellite standards, yet it packs all the necessary optics and technology required for what's known as transit observation -- that is, monitoring a star for decreases in brightness, which could indicate a planet passing in front of it.
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On Friday police also raided offices of the ZESN -- an independent election observation group -- in Harare, according to a program manager for the group.
It's a perennial problem for Earth observation missions - getting a timely sign-off from the politicians so that an enduring presence in orbit can be maintained.
At the moment, the earth-observation satellites which employ microwaves generally use short-wavelength radiation, because this provides more detailed images.
Over the three-year observation period, the African-American students who took part in the study had higher grade-point averages relative to multiple control groups, and the minority achievement gap overall was reduced by a dramatic 50%.
Today, first-class observation cars with panoramic windows let leaf-peeping tourists zoom through the hill country in one day.
Checking data collected at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island and the Federal Physical and Technical Institute in Germany, they came across something even more surprising: long-term observation of the decay rate of silicon-32 and radium-226 seemed to show a small seasonal variation.
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While on the energy watch, here's one end-of-week observation about one of Scotland's better-performing corporates, Aggreko.
This is where the majority of missions returning critical Earth-observation data tend to operate.
The best approach is a combination of questionnaires, personality typing, self-observation and observation by your financial adviser.
Zephyr, as the craft was known, could be used for military applications, as well as for Earth-observation and communications.
Here, the objective is to develop middleware for research projects in the biological sciences, earth observation and high-energy physics.
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Studies like The Pub and the People (1943) and Weeping in the Cinema in 1950 (1995) are just two of the many studies based on Mass-Observation data.
The observation of cross-sector productivity improvements led to increased levels of interest in literacy attainment from many diverse parties, including the private sector and many government ministries.
Robert Weiss, for example, was a 21-year-old artillery forward-observation officer.
Her diaries, one suspects, could stand alone but have their own part to play here in fashioning the collective "anthropology of ourselves" that the Mass-Observation founders sought to create.
They were employed by Mass-Observation, a social research organization founded in 1937 to study the everyday lives of ordinary people, who were also invited to participate in surveys and keep diaries.
IncREO - Increasing Resilience through Earth Observation is a collaborative project under the call FP7-SPACE-2012-1 in support of emergency response management and risk-preparedness.
Jobs paused near the end of his presentation and ended this personal and heart-felt observation.
He made the uncontroversial, industry-wide observation that print is moving in the direction of digital.
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In June, Cpl Michael John Thacker was shot while on duty at observation post in Nahr-e Saraj.
Ride a glass elevator to the 160-meter-high observation deck for an incredible view of the city and its surroundings.
Onto that I submit the follow chaos-adding observation that every person with Internet access is also now a media company.
This might go some way to explaining the oft-repeated observation that dogs are permanently stuck in a kind of puppyhood.
The few workers on duty keep an eye on progress from glassed-in observation posts above the shop floor, watching multiple computer screens.
The very notion of holidays perpetuates the age-old observation of "holy days".
The problem, of course, is that this kind of measuring, particularly the hands-on observation in classrooms, is costly, adding about 2% onto payroll.
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My observation is that start-ups can benefit from using this framework.
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