As the result of a 3D scanning process point clouds are used for many purposes, including to create 3D CAD models for manufactured parts, metrology / quality inspection, and a multitude of visualization, animation, rendering and mass customization applications.

Instead, many enterprises operate on what is called “ informal impressions, conjectures, and intuition gained through the tidbits of information about competitors every manager continually receives .” As a result, traditional environmental scanning places many firms at risk of dangerous competitive blindspots due to a lack of robust competitor analysis.

Since darker images result in less positive charge on the target, the excess electrons deposited by the splash will be read as a dark region by the scanning electron beam.

While the worm is considered harmless because it replicates but does not perform any other activity, it will result in shortened battery life on portable devices due to constant scanning for other Bluetooth enabled devices.

As a result, efforts are being made to greatly improve the scanning rate.

If a high-resolution digital image is required, it can be achieved inexpensively without the use of a digital back by taking a large-format photograph on film and scanning the result ; for best results a high-quality drum scanner is required.

Nelson's analysis, written after a visit to Mr Reenan and an examination of his unsophisticated receiving system ( which consisted essentially of an Icom wideband scanning receiver and a conventional television antenna ), showed that the recording was most likely to have been made as a result of a local tapping of the telephone line somewhere between the female party's telephone itself, and the local exchange.

As a result of the advantages students gain by attending games early in the season against typically underwhelming non-conference opponents, a phenomenon developed known among students as " scanning and leaving.

The end result should obscure any data on the drive so that only the most advanced physical scanning ( e. g., using a magnetic force microscope ) of the drive is likely to be able to recover any data.

The result in both scanning and transmission electron microscopy is significantly improved signal-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution, and greatly increased emitter life and reliability compared with thermionic devices.

As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

But the jurisdictional disputes that result from the craft-industrial rivalry do not win friends for labor.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

It stipulates, in addition, that all amounts remaining as a result of imposing the `` ceiling '', and not used for insuring the `` floor '', be redistributed to those States still below their maximums.

( Multiply the result obtained in item 3 above by the result obtained for each State in item 1 above.

( Multiply the result obtained in item 3 above by the amount used for each State in item 1 above.

The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.

The engineering provides exactly the support needed for such a result.

As with the penultimate Giselle release ( Wolff's abridgment for RCA Victor ) I find the cleaner, less razor-edged monophonic version, for all its lack of big-stage spaciousness, the more aurally tolerable -- but this may be the result of processing defects in my SD copies.

Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.

Omission of a subordinator pronoun, however, does not result in an increase in stress on a prepositional adverb for which the subordinator pronoun would be object.

If, as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second sort, then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems.

However, to the extent that the monetary authorities, in their effort to ease credit in the next several months, conduct their open market operations in longer-term Government bonds, they will certainly act to accentuate any tendency for long-term interest rates to ease as a result of market forces.

Justices Frankfurter and Jackson concurred in the Court's result, for they found no merit in the railroad's claim.

The action was a result of a court order, the citation for which ( and for other court action mentioned in this paper ) is taken from the Summary Report for this Conference.

If this threefold division of costs were to have its counterpart in the actual rates of charge for service, as it actually does have in some rates, there would result a three-part rate for any one class of service.

The result, coupled with the salesmanship for which American industry is famous, is considerable expenditure of funds and efforts in marginal areas.

The gallium / germanium ratio is higher than that for ordinary igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary matter as a result of selective volatilization of the components of the tektite.

Moritz was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle in the thigh of his right ( kicking ) leg and, as a result, several of his successful conversions have gone barely far enough.

Like many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players.

After the contract has been established, the play of the cards proceeds as in most trick-taking card games until all thirteen tricks have been played with the result that the declaring side has either succeeded or failed in fulfilling their part of the contract.

The completion of the first ever American football season came as a result of only two total games being played.

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban the sport following a series of player deaths from injuries suffered during games. The deaths and injuries were a result of the mass formations and gang tackling that characterized the sport in its early years.

As a result, drinking games have been banned at some American universities.

The character's player then rolls percentile dice ; the result is compared to appropriate column, determining a degree of success or failure and eliminating the need for second result roll ( e. g. the damage roll that many games require after a successful combat action ).

This novel method of upgrading the color count did result in graphic artifacts in certain games ; for example, sometimes a sprite that was supposed to meld into the background would be colored separately, making it easily noticeable.

After four games she had two points, which was a fair result considering she was rated third from last in the very strong event.

Pittsburgh won the division in a tiebreaker as a result of having higher net in division games than Jacksonville.

As a result, karaoke games were considered little more than collector's items until they saw release in higher-capacity DVD formats.

On March 21, 2012, Commissioner Goodell announced that, as a result of the bounty scandal and the NFL's investigation, Sean Payton has been suspended for one year, Gregg Williams indefinitely, and Mickey Loomis for the first eight regular season games.

As a result, the Mets finished 2005 four games over the. 500 mark.

As a result of this lockout the 1998 – 99 NBA season was reduced from 82 to 50 games ( 61 % of a normal season ), and the All-Star Game was cancelled.

As a result, the fan base and attendance at home games increased.

As a result, the PC-FX has gained quite a reputation for its abundance of gal games and dating simulation titles.

As a result, Atari encouraged its staff to produce more innovative games.

In time-defaulted games, where disk differential is used for tiebreaks in tournaments or for rating purposes, one common over-the-board procedure for the winner of defaulted contests to complete both sides ' moves with the greater of the result thereby or one disk difference in his or her favor being the recorded score.

STI was at one time an elite organization within Sega of America that developed games such as Kid Chameleon, Comix Zone, The Ooze and Die Hard Arcade ( this one being the result of a collaboration between STI and successful arcade game developers AM1 ).

Other games were added as a result of teams being unable to find makeup dates.

Another important sub-class consists of algorithms for exploring the game tree of multiple-player games, such as chess or backgammon, whose nodes consist of all possible game situations that could result from the current situation.

As one of the first horror-themed video games, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre caused controversy when it was first released due to its violent nature ; it sold poorly as a result, because many game stores refused to stock it.

A twenty-sided die ( d20 ) is rolled and the result is added to any modifiers for task checks against a standard difficulty target number ( referred to in d20 games as a " Difficulty Class " or DC ).

Additionally some games such as Quake 3 Arena perform physics, AI, networking, and other calculations in sync with the rendered frame rate-this can result in inconsistencies with movement and network prediction code if players are unable to maintain the designed maximum frame rate of 125 FPS.