Word: maps
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...been a little-noticed constituency in a fading area of South London, but last week the voters put Croydon (NorthWest) on Britain's political map. For the first time, a candidate backed by the alliance between the Liberal Party and the new Social Democratic Party (S.D.P.) took on Labor and the Tories. When the count was in, the alliance candidate had won a stunning victory, taking 40% of the vote, vs. 30.5% for the Conservatives and 26% for Labor. "We have split the old party system wide open and shown there is a real alternative," insisted William Pitt...
Mitchell W. Goldman, editor-in-chief of The Justice, said yesterday the newspaper, which has never before requested access to police files, asked for the information in order to design a map of "trouble spots" at Brandeis...
...goal is to understand how images from the eye are translated in the visual cortex to the language of the brain, Hubel says. The dream is to map the machinery of the mind...
...apparatus was simply a slide show for the anesthetized monkeys. The knowledge of which cells would send out electrical impulses in response to--or "recognition" of--which visual patterns could offer a map of the architecture of the visual cortex...
Also seriously threatened: VOIR (for Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar), a scheme to place a radar-equipped robot in orbit around Venus and map its cloud-covered surface. NASA officials are even talking about mothballing the Deep Space Network, a globe-girdling array of antennas that acts as a vital communications "downlink" with all U.S. unmanned planetary spacecraft. One effect of such a move would be to silence the transmissions of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is scheduled to pass by Uranus...