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 ").

Surface Detail even mentions competitions to take the place of avatars on SC ships, eagerly sought after ; “ Poor fool won some sort of competition to replace a ship ’ s avatar for a hundred days or a year or something similar ... if I ’ d really been sneaky I ’ d have left the dumb fuck with a batch of implanted false memories full of whatever Contact-wank fantasies he ’ d been imagining before he took the gig in the first place .”.

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 ).

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.

The Recreational Trails Program defined as part of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act ( ISTEA, ) of 1991 mandates that states must use a minimum of 30 percent of these funds for motorized trail uses.

Surface states at the cleaved plane, have energy levels within the ( otherwise forbidden ) bandgap of the semiconductor.

# a lemma upon the Surface Loci of Euclid which states that the locus of a point such that its distance from a given point bears a constant ratio to its distance from a given straight line is a conic, and is followed by proofs that the conic is a parabola, ellipse, or hyperbola according as the constant ratio is equal to, less than or greater than 1 ( the first recorded proofs of the properties, which do not appear in Apollonius ).

Includes water supply forecasts, reservoirs, and and the Surface Water Supply Index ( SWSI ) for Alaska and other Western states.

A percentage of the fund is distributed to states with approved reclamation programs for their projects, and the remaining monies are used by the federal government through the Office of Surface Mining ( OSM ) to reclaim abandoned mines in states without active programs.

Surface states and crystallographic defects in the crystal lattice can also play role of deep-level traps.

* The Hylozoist is one of the Culture ships mentioned in Iain M. Banks's novel Surface Detail-appropriately, this ship is a member of the branch of Contact dealing with smart matter outbreaks.

* 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 waves have been used in over-the-horizon radar, which operates mainly at frequencies between 2 and 20 MHz over the sea, which has a sufficiently high conductivity to convey the surface waves to and from a reasonable distance ( up to 100 km or more ; over-horizon radar also uses skywave propagation at much greater distances ).

Though transformations continue to be important in Chomsky's current theories, he has now abandoned the original notion of Deep Structure and Surface Structure.

She has appeared in guest roles on Family Ties ( 1985 ), ER ( 1999 ), Law and Order: Special Victims Unit ( 2002 ), 7th Heaven ( 2004 ), Law and Order: Criminal Intent ( 2006 ), Surface ( 2006 ), The Good Wife ( 2009, 2010 & 2012 ), Medium ( 2009 ), Greys Anatomy ( 2009 ), Fringe ( 2010 ) and How To Make It In America ( 2010 ).

Surface tension has the dimension of force per unit length, or of energy per unit area.

Surface tension gives them their near-spherical shape, because a sphere has the smallest possible surface area to volume ratio.

Snake asks why she is so involved in the affairs of Sir Peter Teazle, his ward Maria, and Charles and Joseph Surface, two young men under Sir Peter's informal guardianship, and why she has not yielded to the attentions of Joseph, who is highly respectable.

One item is the imminent return of the Surface brothers ' rich uncle Sir Oliver from the East Indies, where he has been for sixteen years ; another is Charles ' dire financial situation.

It may be significant that in Johann Zoffany's portrait of Robert Baddeley as Moses, we find that " Under his arm Moses holds a rolled parchment of the Surface family tree that is used as an auction hammer, and he seems to be ticking off pictures in the catalogue ," although in the play Careless is the auctioneer in the relevant scene ( IV. 1 ) and Moses has a relatively minor role.

* Surface effect ship, a class of ship that has both an air cushion ( like a hovercraft ) and twin hulls ( like a catamaran )

The United States Bureau of Reclamation ( USBR ), and formerly the United States Reclamation Service ( not to be confused with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ), is a federal agency under the U. S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation.

* Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging ( MESSENGER ), a mission to study and map the planet Mercury from orbit ; launched in August 2004, has completed a series of flybys of Earth, Venus and Mercury, and following a successful orbital insertion maneuver in March 2011 has begun its yearlong primary mission.

In the United States, the code is given authority ( with some US national differences from the WMO / ICAO model ) under the Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 1 ( FMH-1 ), which itself has paved the way for the US Air Force Manual 15-111 on Surface Weather Observations, being the authoritative document for the US Armed Forces.

A diver who has deployed a Delayed Surface Marker Buoy ( DSMB ) at the end of a dive may use a pre-arranged colour code to indicate if there is a problem.

Surface oxygen for first aid has been proven to improve the efficacy of recompression and decreased the number of recompression treatments required when administered within four hours post dive.

There has been conflict with NBC's Surface television show.

For example, a Surface Warfare Officer with a regular commission has a designator of 1110 ; a reserve officer has an 1115 designator.

He has contributed to the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, which details the Apollo lunar explorations.

* Surface temperature – The surface temperature has a large effect on the nucleation density.

He has received many prizes, among which the APS Irving Langmuir Prize for Chemical Physics ( 2003 ), the AVS Medard W. Welch Award for Surface Science ( 1997 ), the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics ( 2008 ) and the Richard Feynman Prize ( 1999 ).

Any officer who has earned the Surface Warfare insignia may automatically be awarded the gold Small Craft Pin upon joining a small boat command.

Gaskin has sung with Egg ( The Civil Surface ), National Health, Peter Blegvad ( The Naked Shakespeare ), Phil Miller, Nigel Planer ( Neil's Heavy Concept Album ), Jane Wiedlin ( Tangled ), Rick Biddulph and Mont Campbell ( Music from a Round Tower ).

Douglas portrays Commander, later Captain, Paul Eddington, a wayward sort of career officer who has resigned as a Naval Aviator and returned to the Surface Navy because of an unhappy marriage.