News tagged with sketch
Why police sketches sometimes don't work
When they were investigating the series of attacks on women in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, police stopped dozens of black or Latino men who were thought to resemble a face in a forensic sketch. The image of a ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 11, 2011 |
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Method developed to match police sketch, mug shot
(PhysOrg.com) -- The long-time practice of using police facial sketches to nab criminals has been, at best, an inexact art. But the process may soon be a little more exact thanks to the work of some Michigan ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Sketch-interpreting software
(PhysOrg.com) -- Science writers know as well as anyone how much information a diagram can contain. We often labor to express in words what a researcher was able to convey in a single image. But while a drawing ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 19, 2010 |
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'FEAsy' analyzes designs from raw sketches to speed parts creation (w/ Video)
Going back to the drawing board is much easier now that researchers have developed a new type of design program called FEAsy.
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Researchers aim to assemble the tree of life for all 2 million named species
A new initiative aims to build a grand tree of life that brings together everything scientists know about how all living things are related, from the tiniest bacteria to the tallest tree.
May 21, 2012 |
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The 2012 transit of Venus
On June 5th, 2012, Venus will pass across the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that no one alive today will likely see again.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 18, 2012 |
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Archives from the pioneers of modern genetics to be brought together for the first time
The Wellcome Library is to bring the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first time as part of a ground-breaking digitisation project, ‘Modern Genetics and its Foundations’.
May 17, 2012 |
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Zuckerberg's Facebook story is study in contrasts
(AP) -- When Hollywood set out to tell the story of how Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, it enjoyed the flexibility of portraying a man who, despite his social network's worldwide reach, was all but unknown ...
May 16, 2012 |
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Technique enables mass production of custom concrete building components from digital designs
Like other professionals, architects have used computer-aided design (CAD) software in their work for decades. Typically, the resulting digital files are converted to hard-copy plans, which are then used to ...
May 16, 2012 |
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Turing was right: Two proteins fit decades-old prediction
Today, Alan Turing is best known as the father of modern computer science, but in 1952 he sketched out a biological model in which two chemicals — an activator and an inhibitor — could interact to ...
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Historian turns detective to solve film mystery
Dr. Harry Bennett, Associate Professor of History at Plymouth University, has spent years researching the bizarre tale and a book recording his work – titled The Nazi, The Painter and the Forgotten Story ...
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Illuminating carbon's climate effects: Researchers demonstrate role of CO2 in deglaciatio
Harvard scientists are helping to paint the fullest picture yet of how a handful of factors, particularly a worldwide increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, combined to end the last ice age 10,000-20,000 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Augmented Reality technology becomes a tool for urban and construction planning
Mobile computing tools for urban and construction planning have developed dramatically over the past few years. Even by global standards, the progress made at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has been remarkable. ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Modeling extreme space weather
Explosions on the sun regularly disrupt the magnetic envelope surrounding Earth, but that envelope, the magnetosphere, largely protects the surface of the planet itself from space weather – with one exception. As a rule, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2012 |
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