Maryland, New Jersey Inventors Develop Global Laser Rangefinder...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 30, 2007 ;     344 words ......each other). A camera captures the surface scattering of the beams in a photographic 'double-be...corresponding to the two respective surface scattering locations." An abstract of the invention...surface in the vicinity of the two surface scattering locations. Some inventive ...

Exploiting nanotechnology for terahertz interconnects.

Semiconductor International;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......free path for electronic scattering, surface scattering from boundaries of ultra-narrow conductors...deleterious effects on resistivity of surface scattering, grain boundary scattering, and surface...nitride surfaces. (3) Unfortunately, surface scattering is a fundamental quantum ...

Vertical Distribution of the Mirror Image Returns Observed by TRMM PR and...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the MI return is affected by the surface reflection and surface scattering, the MI returns are much smaller and more complex than...provided. Closed expressions for the power from secondary surface scattering have been derived by Meneghini and Atlas (1986). Four...

Blooms of [sigma]^sup 0^ in the TOPEX Radar Altimeter Data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......degraded by the occurrence of unrealistically high radar return cross sections, which indicate a breakdown of the rough surface scattering model used to interpret these measurements in terms of satellite to sea surface height ranges. The TOPEX altimetric data...

PRINCE OF WHALES; One man's extraordinary photographs of the enduring...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  March 30, 2001 ;     652 words ......primeval force suddenly breaks through the ghostly foam of churning seas. A pod of humpback whales rises to breach the surface, scattering the seabirds that follow their dark shadows to scavenge on the shrimp-like krill spilling from their mighty mouths. Jaws...

Gatwick Airport, the gateway to the gods THE LOST WORLD OF MICHAEL BYWATER

The Independent - London;  July 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Eyes bubble, face goes red, teeth grind, an aesthetic sensibility which I normally don't possess bursts to the volcanic surface, scattering the searing magma of my righteous contempt. Look at them! Look at them! Nasty whining people, people called things like...

Technology that would make any animator green

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 21, 2004 ;     214 words ......said the two main technological advances are called sub-surface scattering and global lumination, both of which deal with how light reflects on objects. With sub-surface scattering, animators were able to study how light passes through...

`Shrek' tech.

Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA);  May 17, 2004 ;     272 words ......said the two main technological advances are called sub-surface scattering and global lumination, both of which deal with how light reflects on objects. With sub-surface scattering, animators were able to study how light passes through...

`Shrek' tech.(The Orange County Register)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  May 17, 2004 ;     272 words ......said the two main technological advances are called sub-surface scattering and global lumination, both of which deal with how light reflects on objects. With sub-surface scattering, animators were able to study how light passes through...

NewTek Inc. releases LightWave v9.3.(newsroom)

Asia Image;  September 1, 2007 ;     253 words ......improvements in rendering technology including the ability to render lines with photorealistic motion blur; two new sub-surface scattering shaders and various performance and maintenance improvements including advancements in software developer's kit and scripting...

Measurement of attenuation with airborne and ground-based radar in...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......The EDOP flying at an altitude of 20 km, uses a nadir beam and a forward-pointing beam. It is found that over land the surface scattering cross section is highly variable at nadir incidence but is relatively stable at forward incidence. It is concluded that...

Minnesota Inventors Develop Field Effect Transistor

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 16, 2007 ;     240 words ......transistor. The bulk charge carrier transport characteristic of the Schottky barrier field effect transistor minimizes carrier surface scattering, which enables the strained substrate to provide improved power and speed performance characteristics in this device...

V fuels cockroach antics.(Fuel International Pty Ltd.)(Brief Article)

Australasian Business Intelligence;  March 17, 2005 ;     171 words ......three-dimensional insects were based on some dead American cockroaches found at Sydney University. He reports that sub-surface scattering and High Dynamic Range Imagery were used to make the cockroaches stand out. Publication Date: 11 March 2005 FUEL INTERNATIONAL...

Evans gets back from nightmare beginning; SCOTTISH RALLY.(Sports)

Sports Argus (Birmingham, England);  June 12, 1999 ;     343 words ......the day in seventh. When we reached a corner in (Forest) Ae we found the cars running ahead of us had dug into the new surface, scattering sharp loose stones into the middle of the road, he said. They were impossible to avoid and we were lucky just to pick...

Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Fabrication Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 14, 2008 ;     246 words ......the gate electrode, and a semiconductor region buried in the insulation layer in a region below the gate electrode. The surface scattering of the carriers and phonon scattering can be prevented while suppressing the short channel effect. Resultantly the semiconductor...