In extreme cases, as described in Use of Weapons and Surface Detail, dangerous individuals have been known to be assigned a " slap-drone ", a robotic follower who ensures that the person in question doesn't continue to endanger the safety of others.

She is a citizen of the Culture in the novel Use of Weapons, the novella The State of the Art, and is hinted at in the novel Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks.

The close of Surface Detail suggests that she remains in contact with Zakalwe long after the events of Use of Weapons.

The reference to the woman in Surface Detail, however, notes that she is a poet, and the only poet in Zakalwe's life was Shias Engin ( from Use of Weapons ).

References to the war can also be found in Excession, Matter and Surface Detail.

Terror weapons can achieve an almost bloodless rout of the enemy, in contrast with no-holds-barred offensive war machines ; in Surface Detail, the Abominator-class picket ship wipes out a third of the GFCF fleet to administer the required instructive lesson.

In Surface Detail, the tattoo, like the EDust assassin, was sentient ( and even had a name ); it was originally intended for preservation of the person wearing it.

'"), to Yime Nsokyi in Surface Detail (" This is the bod who ’ s famous in the Culture because she turned down SC ").

They are mentioned in the novels Consider Phlebas, Excession, Matter, Surface Detail and Look To Windward ( where it forms a major part of the story ).

Surface Detail states that Contact has, within the last few centuries, reorganized and established at least three specialist sub-branches akin to Special Circumstances:

In the Culture novel ( Surface Detail ) Veppers is informed that a single large GSV would be able to combat a fleet of 230, 000, 000 simple warships-representative of the combined force of an entire lesser civilisation-alone.

Premelting ( also: Surface melting ) describes the fact that, even below its melting point, quasi-liquid films can be observed on crystalline surfaces.

Surface functionalization may provide a way to transform a bio-inert material into a biomimetic or even bioactive material by coupling of protein layers to the surface, or coating the surface with self-assembling peptide scaffolds to lend bioactivity and / or cell attachment 3-D matrix.

Surface supplied divers are often weighted even heavier, and may be unable to achieve neutral buoyancy, and rely on the diving stage, bell, umbilical or lifeline for returning to the surface.

* Diffused Surface Illumination, a multi-touch technique using a special acrylic Endlighten that disperses even light supplied by edge lighting the acrylic.

( This section may not have much force of law, as railroad operations, even those where a railroad physically exists in only one state, are governed by the Surface Transportation Board, a federal agency.

MeikOS was made obsolete by the introduction of the In-Sun Computing Surface and the Meiko MK083 SPARC processor board, which allowed SunOS and SVCS ( Sun Virtual Computing Surfaces, later developed as VCS ) to take over the roles of MeikOS and M²VCS respectively.

* Surface Area: In reactions on surfaces, which take place for example during heterogeneous catalysis, the rate of reaction increases as the surface area does.

; PanCam: The Panoramic Camera was designed to take a TV panorama of the landscape around the Surface Station.

Middeck experiments included: Biological Research in Canister ( BRIC ) experiment to investigate effects of spaceflight on plant specimens ; Military Application of Ship Tracks ( MAST ) to take high-resolution imagery of ship tracks and to analyze wake formation and dissipations ; Solid Surface Combustion Experiment ( SSCE ) to supply information on flame propagation over fuels in space ; Radiation Monitoring Equipment III ( RME III ) to measure ionizing radiation ; Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment II ( SAREX II ) to demonstrate feasibility of short-wave radio contacts between orbiter and ground-based amateur radio operators ; and Air Force Maui Optical Station ( AMOS ) test, which required no onboard hardware.

Surface piercings are any body piercings that take place on the surface sewn into the body through areas which are not particularly concave or convex, where the piercing canal transverses a surface flap of skin, rather than running completely through a piece of body tissue from one side to another.

In fact, the closing did not take place until January 31, 2009 ( effective February 1, 2009 ), following regulatory approval of the purchase by the Surface Transportation Board on December 24, 2008.

* Surface tension theory-according to this theory, emulsification takes place by reduction of interfacial tension between two phases

A test of a railgun took place on December 10, 2010, by the US Navy at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division.

A more recent test took place in February 2012 at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division.

The Surface Transportation Board ( STB ) released the final Environmental Impact Statement ( EIS ) on November 19, 2001 ; with the final EIS in place and approval from the STB, the railroad has federal authority to construct the project.

The buyout was approved by the Surface Transportation Board ( successor agency to the Interstate Commerce Commission ) and took place on August 22, 1998.

" Under the Surface " was judged as the best song of the decade, making her 1st place on the list.

Her song " If A Song Could Get Me You " came in 4th place and her album " Under the Surface " gets 2nd place for the best album of the decade.

The Naval Surface Warfare Center will place an order for the MALD-J.

The day's next task was to deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ( ALSEP ); while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning without explanation.

The NASA Constellation Program announced Altair as the name of the Lunar Surface Access Module ( LSAM ) on December 13, 2007.

The Broadway Surface Railroad's Broadway Line, a cable car line, opened on lower Broadway ( below Times Square ) in 1893, and soon became the core of the Metropolitan Street Railway, with two cable branches: the Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line and Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line.

Surface forces or contact forces, expressed as force per unit area, can act either on the bounding surface of the body, as a result of mechanical contact with other bodies, or on imaginary internal surfaces that bound portions of the body, as a result of the mechanical interaction between the parts of the body to either side of the surface ( Euler-Cauchy's stress principle ).

* Surface Loci concerned either loci ( sets of points ) on surfaces or loci which were themselves surfaces ; under the latter interpretation, it has been hypothesized that the work might have dealt with quadric surfaces.

Surface hoar is a cause of avalanches when it forms on top of snow.

The remnants of this plate on the Surface of the Earth are the Juan de Fuca Plate and Explorer plate in the Northwestern USA / Southwestern Canada, and the Cocos Plate on the west coast of Mexico.

Powers ’ U-2, which departed from a military airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan and may have received support from the US Air Station at Badaber ( Peshawar Airbase ), was shot down by an S-75 Dvina ( SA-2 Surface to Air ) missile on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk.

Surface water drains more easily on the levees ' backslope, and the coarse soils of the levees are easier to cultivate and permit better subsurface drainage.

In early planning for the Apollo Program, it had been assumed that two Saturn V launch vehicles would be used for each lunar mission: one for sending the crew aboard a Lunar Surface Module ( LSM ) to lunar orbit, landing, and returning, and a second for sending an LSM-Truck ( LSM-T ) with all of the equipment, supplies, and transport vehicle for use by the crew while on the surface.

Positional C < sub > 2 </ sub > Deposition on Diamond C ( 110 ) Surface using Si / Ge / Sn-based Dimer Placement Tools.

Surface micromachining uses layers deposited on the surface of a substrate as the structural materials, rather than using the substrate itself.

Surface micromachining was created in the late 1980s to render micromachining of silicon more compatible with planar integrated circuit technology, with the goal of combining MEMS and integrated circuits on the same silicon wafer.

Surface water temperatures on the Atlantic side reach a summer average of inshore and offshore to winter lows of inshore and offshore.

Surface rust provides no protection to the underlying iron, unlike the formation of patina on copper surfaces.

Externally, Columbia was the first orbiter in the fleet whose surface was mostly covered with High & Low Temperature Reusable Surface Insulation ( HRSI / LRSI ) tiles as its main thermal protection system ( TPS ), with white silicone rubber-painted Nomex — known as Felt Reusable Surface Insulation ( FRSI ) blankets — in some areas on the wings, fuselage and Payload Bay Doors.

The upgrade also involved replacing many of the white LRSI tiles on the upper surfaces with Advanced Flexible Reusable Surface Insulation ( AFRSI ) blankets ( also known as Fibrous Insulation Blankets, or FIB's ) after their successful use on shuttle Discovery and Atlantis.

Surface commerce raiders were proving to be ineffective, and on 4 February 1915, the Kaiser assented to the declaration of a war zone in the waters around the British Isles.

Surface markers called SNAREs identify the vesicle's cargo, and complementary SNAREs on the target membrane act to cause fusion of the vesicle and target membrane.

Similar employee protections enforced through OSHA are included in the Surface Transportation Assistance Act ( 1982 ) to protect truck drivers, the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act ( PSIA ) of 2002, the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (" AIR 21 "), and the Sarbanes – Oxley Act, enacted on July 30, 2002 ( for corporate fraud whistleblowers ).