Market researchers are interested in mapping the shape of society, and identifying different types of people with different characteristics, lifestyles and attitudes.
This multinational effort in 2008/2009 flew aircraft back and forth across the east of the White Continent, mapping the shape of the hidden mountain system using ice-penetrating radar.
Although microporosity has a complex, tortuous morphology, a simple method for mapping the shape to an idealized sphere was proposed.
The lower limb prosthesis using scanning laser provides the required distance from the ground to the axis of the ankle and knee, mapping the shape of the stump, anatomical course of the biomechanical axis and the size of the foot.
The scientists mapped the eye shape, structure, and retina cells of five deep-sea bioluminescent sharks, predators that live 200 to 1000 meters deep in the ocean, where light hardly penetrates.
Dr. Les Sirkin, a geologist who mapped the ways glaciers shaped Northern American coastlines from Long Island to Baja California, died on June 25 at his summer home on Block Island, R.I. Formerly of Garden City, N.Y., he was 66 and lived in Johnsburg, N.Y.
The colossal image, which would need a billboard as big as a football stadium if it were printed, captures only about 3% of our sky, but it should help astronomers map the exact shape of the Milky Way and discover where the edge of the galaxy is.
The invention of the marine chronometer in the late 18th century enabled Western explorers, such as Jean Francois de Galaup from France, William Robert Broughton from Britain, and Adam Johann von Krusenstern Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshternn) from Russia, to measure time and longitudes on the sea precisely and map the detailed shape of the Sea of Japan.
We mapped the evolution of stylar shape, stylar hair patterns, chromosome number and annual versus perennial habit onto the phylogeny by defining four, five, six, and two unordered states respectively (see Additional file 2: Table S1).
It has also mapped the diverse geological features that shape its surface.
