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This can be accomplished substantially by a continued trend toward better facilities and techniques for fire control and more resources to cope with critical fire periods, and a more intensive application of a program of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations.
The study of the radio emission of the moon and planets began with the detection of the thermal radiation of the moon at 1.25-cm wave length by Dicke and Beringer ( 1946 ).
The game is mostly playable with some later collision detection issues requiring cheats to get past.
An early demo of the game has been found, with crude graphics, no sound and poor collision detection.
*** Unlimited number of high-speed sprites with collision detection
In addition to take advantage of modern sonars with a much larger detection range.
DASI made the first detection of the polarization of the CMB and the CBI provided the first E-mode polarization spectrum with compelling evidence that it is out of phase with the T-mode spectrum.
The 1570 utilized a 1571 logic board in a cream-colored Commodore 1541 case with a drive mechanism similar to the 1541 except that it was equipped with track zero detection.
The sonar system uses phase and amplitude bottom detection, with a precision of better than 0. 2 % of water depth ; this is an error of about at this depth.
In addition, if the particles of which it is composed are supersymmetric, they can undergo annihilation interactions with themselves resulting in observable by-products such as photons and neutrinos (" indirect detection ").
The requirement for the eventual appearance of an interference pattern is that particles be emitted, and that there be a screen with at least two distinct paths for the particle to take from the emitter to the detection screen.
There are various extremely important electrochemical processes in both nature and industry, like the coating of objects with metals or metal oxides through electrodeposition and the detection of alcohol in drunken drivers through the redox reaction of ethanol.
The STEM rasters a focused incident probe across a specimen that ( as with the TEM ) has been thinned to facilitate detection of electrons scattered through the specimen.
The first confirmed detection came in 1992, with the discovery of several terrestrial-mass planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257 + 12.
A wave as it is understood in everyday life would paint a large area of the detection screen, but the electrons would be found to impact the screen at single points and would eventually form a pattern in keeping with the probabilities described by their identical wave functions.
* M. A. Rowe, D. Kielpinski, V. Meyer, C. A. Sackett, W. M. Itano, C. Monroe and D. J. Wineland, Experimental violation of a Bell's inequality with efficient detection, Nature 409, 791 – 794 ( 15 February 2001 ).
In information theory and coding theory with applications in computer science and telecommunication, error detection and correction or error control are techniques that enable reliable delivery of digital data over unreliable communication channels.
On September 22, 2011, a paper from the OPERA Collaboration indicated detection of 17 and 28 GeV muon neutrinos, sent 730 kilometers ( 454 miles ) from CERN near Geneva, Switzerland to the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, traveling faster than light by a factor of 2. 48 × 10 < sup >− 5 </ sup > ( approximately 1 in 40, 000 ), a statistic with 6. 0-sigma significance.
Many analytical procedures involve the use of a fluorometer, usually with a single exciting wavelength and single detection wavelength.
Unambiguous detection of individual gravitons, though not prohibited by any fundamental law, is impossible with any physically reasonable detector.
Geiger detectors are still used as a general purpose alpha / beta portable Radioactive contamination measurement and detection instrument, owing to their relatively low cost, their robustness and their relatively high detection efficiency ; particularly with high energy beta particles.
A new civilization has risen, with three dominant powers: the Ixians, whose no-ships are capable of piloting between the stars and are invisible to outside detection ; the Bene Tleilax, who have learned to manufacture spice in their axlotl tanks and have created a new breed of Face Dancers ; and the Bene Gesserit, a matriarchal order of subtle political manipulators who possess superhuman abilities.

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The most famous experiment is probably the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) satellite that orbited in 1989 – 1996 and which detected and quantified the large scale anisotropies at the limit of its detection capabilities.
Experiments observe nothing whatsoever between the time of emission of the particle and its arrival at the detection screen.
This allowed ARPA to concentrate its efforts on the Project Defender ( defense against ballistic missiles ), Project Vela ( nuclear test detection ), and Project AGILE ( counterinsurgency R & D ) Programs, and to begin work on computer processing, behavioral sciences, and materials sciences.
As to the Treptichnus pedum, a reference ichnofossil for the lower boundary of the Cambrian, its usage for the stratigraphic detection of this boundary is always risky because of the occurrence of very similar trace fossils belonging to the Treptichnids group well below the T. pedum in Namibia, Spain and Newfoundland, and possibly, in the western United States.
The camera system was designed to obtain images of Jupiter's satellites at resolutions from 20 to 1, 000 times better than Voyager's best, because Galileo flew closer to the planet and its inner moons, and because the more modern CCD sensor in Galileos camera was more sensitive and had a broader color detection band than the vidicons of Voyager.
Since its inception it has broadened to find applications in many other areas, including statistical inference, natural language processing, cryptography, neurobiology, the evolution and function of molecular codes, model selection in ecology, thermal physics, quantum computing, plagiarism detection and other forms of data analysis.
An obvious way of detection is applying a raw compression algorithm and testing if its output is smaller than its input.
There was no direct detection, but by observation of spontaneous fission events arising from its electron-capture daughter < sup > 256 </ sup > Fm.
The first detection of tau neutrino interactions was announced in summer of 2000 by the DONUT collaboration at Fermilab, making it the latest particle of the Standard Model to have been directly observed ; its existence had already been inferred by both theoretical consistency and experimental data from the Large Electron – Positron Collider.
Despite successes in neutrino astronomy and neutrino astrophysics, Kamiokande did not achieve its primary goal, the detection of proton decay.
* " Deception and detection: The Trickster Archetype in the film, The Big Lebowski, and its cult following.
Because no isotope of technetium has a half-life longer than 4. 2 million years ( technetium-98 ), its detection in 1952 in red giants, which are billions of years old, helped bolster the theory that stars can produce heavier elements.
Fermat's principle is the main principle of quantum electrodynamics where it states that any particle ( e. g. a photon or an electron ) propagates over all available ( unobstructed ) paths and the interference ( sum, or superposition ) of its wavefunction over all those paths ( at the point of observer or detector ) gives the correct probability of detection of this particle ( at this point ).
The error detection mechanism used in Frame Relay uses the cyclic redundancy check ( CRC ) as its basis.
Error detection and correction techniques are used to check the frame for corruption after its delivery and, if necessary, the frame will be resent.
ITU-R 468 noise weighting with quasi-peak detection is widely used in Europe, especially in telecommunications, and in broadcasting particularly after it was adopted by the Dolby corporation who realised its superior validity for their purposes.
In modern practice, only error detection, not flow control using sliding window, is present in data link protocols such as Point-to-Point Protocol ( PPP ), and, on local area networks, the IEEE 802. 2 LLC layer is not used for most protocols on the Ethernet, and on other local area networks, its flow control and acknowledgment mechanisms are rarely used.
OSPF handles its own error detection and correction functions.
The cowbird ’ s parasitism does not necessarily harm its host ’ s brood ; however, the cuckoo may remove one or more host eggs to avoid detection, and furthermore the young cuckoo may heave the host ’ s eggs and nestlings out of the nest.
The size of the submarine and its hull composition determine the detection range.
The Stealth Bomber has the capacity to carry a large number of stealthy cruise missiles, which could be nuclear tipped, and due to its low probability of detection and long range would be an excellent weapon with which to deliver a first strike.
However, its detection in this series of experiments indicates the possibility of the decay of an isomer of livermorium, namely < sup > 293b </ sup > Lv, or a rare decay branch of the already discovered isomer ,< sup > 293a </ sup > Lv, in which the first alpha particle was missed.
Specific quantitative assays were even developed for its detection.
Since its accidental introduction into the United States and Canada in the 1990s, and its subsequent detection in 2002, it has spread to eleven states and adjacent parts of Canada.

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