In addition, Blue Cross coverage for all employees and their dependents was extended to provide the full cost of semi-private hospital accommodations.

This matte contains the coverage information — the shape of the geometry being drawn — making it possible to distinguish between parts of the image where the geometry was actually drawn and other parts of the image which are empty.

A value of 0 means that the pixel does not have any coverage information and is transparent ; i. e. there was no color contribution from any geometry because the geometry did not overlap this pixel.

OnStar relied heavily on North American AMPS service for its subscribers because, when the system was developed, AMPS offered the most comprehensive wireless coverage in the US.

" The claim was true, oddly enough because of wide analog coverage in rural areas.

* Telecom New Zealand — Operated an AMPS / TDMA network in New Zealand from 1987 until 2007 throughout the whole country and the network was renowned for its superb coverage, In 2000 Telecom announced that they would discontinue the AMPS network within 5 years ( 2005 ) to give customers an opportunity to transition to the CDMA2000 and later 1XRTT technologies that replaced it.

Atlanta ’ s tree coverage does not go unnoticed — it was the main reason cited by ‘‘ National Geographic ’’ in naming Atlanta a " Place of a Lifetime.

This was a key turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic, enabling the Royal Air Force, the U. S. Army Air Forces, and the U. S. Navy to provide aerial coverage in the Mid-Atlantic gap.

As late as 1855, the New York press was still devoting more space to coverage of cricket than to baseball.

* GSM coverage was for a long time limited to the capital area.

But in June 2006 coverage was expanded at least to Berberati in the western part of the country.

Early press coverage was " mixed ", generally a combination of " embarrassment and puzzlement ".

This generated a large amount of coverage in the popular media, and the comet was closely observed by astronomers worldwide.

The Domesday Book of 1086 in England contained listings of households but its coverage was not complete and its intent was not the same as modern censuses.

Code coverage was among the first methods invented for systematic software testing.

In time, cable television was widely established to carry available Canadian stations as well as import American stations, which constituted the vast majority of signals on systems ( usually only one or two Canadian stations, while some systems had duplicate or even triplicate coverage of American networks ).

The funeral was overshadowed in the media due to coverage of the 9 / 11 attacks in the United States.

The initial 15th edition ( 1974 – 1985 ) was faulted for having reduced or eliminated coverage of children's literature, military decorations, and the French poet Joachim du Bellay ; editorial mistakes were also alleged, such as inconsistent sorting of Japanese biographies.

Nevertheless, from the 9th edition onwards, the Britannica was widely considered to have the greatest authority of any general English language encyclopaedia, especially because of its broad coverage and eminent authors.

Despite controversial press coverage of his personal life, Eriksson was consistently popular with the majority of fans.

The El Niño winter of 2006 / 2007 was unusually mild in Europe, and the Alps recorded very little snow coverage that season.

He cites as examples Hollywood coverage and the use of language in publications like Empire Magazine, as well as blockbuster dominance in multiplexes, but he also notes that this is an industrial matter: " The Full Monty was entirely financed and distributed by one of the US majors, Twentieth Century Fox, The praise went to Britain, but all the film ’ s profits went to America.

A second crew member behind the pilot could aim and fire a swivel-mounted machine gun at enemy airplanes however, this limited the area of coverage chiefly to the rear hemisphere, and effective coordination of the pilot's maneuvering with the gunner's aiming was difficult.

Since being liberalized in 1991, the Colombian telecommunications sector has added new services, expanded coverage, improved efficiency, and lowered costs.

For example, Ireland currently has 4 licenced operators with their own networks despite a smaller and sparser population than France's making improved coverage less economically rewarding.

This lens, called the Elmax, gave good coverage of the 24x36mm format and was used until improved optical glass allowed the third group to be simplified to a cemented pair and then lens was renamed the Elmar.

As he had in London, he focused on political controversy, but he also made the Herald influential in other ways, through such devices as improved arts coverage, and celebrity contributions.

The means for producing a new WGS were available in the form of improved data, increased data coverage, new data types and improved techniques.

The paper's international coverage was spotty, though it has improved.

The coverage and quality of signal has improved consistently in the past years, at present Zapp reaching over 90 % of the urban population, but is still far behind that of the competitions, that cover between 95 and 97 of the total population of the country.

Flint has its own low-powered television relay transmitter, designed to provide improved coverage of Welsh channels in an area that would otherwise receive only English television signals.

The Basic Health Services Project piloted strategies to ensure equitable access to China's rural health system ; health outcomes for women improved significantly, with substantial declines in maternal mortality due to increased coverage of maternal health services.

San Miguel revamped the selling and distribution organization resulting in higher distribution efficiency, improved coverage of key accounts, greater pricing stability and reduced overall costs.

That application has since been approved, and the station plans to build out the improved coverage by replacing its antenna system before the fall of 2011.

In late 2005, WYAY changed transmitters to a new tower that they are sharing with 104. 7 WFSH which improved south metro coverage for the 106. 7 signal.

An additional FM transmitter on 104. 6 has recently improved coverage in the Kidderminster area & in February 2006, a new transmitter was turned on for Redditch ( Headless Cross ) on 104. 4FM, as reception in the town had been unreliable.

CKVU started broadcasting a VHF signal on channel 10 on February 13, 1985, which improved the station's coverage and ratings ( channel 10 was originally reserved for a proposed CBC Television station in Victoria, but that station never went on the air due to lack of funds, clearing the way for CKVU to switch its channel position ).

This analog transmitter was replaced with two UHF transmitters serving Vancouver and Victoria, both with lower coverage areas, but with improved coverage to those particular metropolitan areas.

Analogue coverage has been greatly expanded, and many channel placements improved, through new deals with Rogers Cable, Bell TV, Shaw Direct and others.

The digital transition slightly improved CFTU's coverage in Montreal.

The research indicates the efficacy of fat grafting for breast reconstruction the treatment of radiation damage to the chest, the incidental reduction of capsular contracture, and the improved soft-tissue coverage of breast implants.

Because of these many flows into the bay, its large watershed covers portions of five Florida counties By 2010, measures of sea grass coverage, water clarity, and biodiversity had improved to levels last seen in the 1950s.

Minor upgrade works currently taking place in its final stages at the station includes improved shelter, carpark upgrades, and a security upgrade including brighter lighting and better CCTV coverage.

Clair Brothers Systems installed a combination of JBL line arrays to provide improved audio coverage for all events.

He also wrote Radio Engineering ( first edition in 1932 ; second edition, much improved, in 1938 ; third edition in 1947 with added coverage of new technologies developed during World War II ; fourth edition in 1955 with a new title, Electronic and Radio Engineering ), one of the most important books on electrical and radio engineering, and to this day a good reference on those subjects.