Google opens prior-art patent search to the entire web. Google has made its Google Patents tool markedly more useful by tuning it to be even better at identifying potential infringements. Specifically, the company announced on Tuesday, Google Patents now undertakes the tricky task of spotting prior art by analyzing key phrases in individual patents across Google’s collections of book, scholarly research, patents and, indeed, web databases. A capability like this has been a long time coming considering the problems that exist in searching for patents — especially prior art. Priort art is generally defined as “all information that has been disclosed to the public in any form about an invention before a given date.”
For practitioners, however, the definition might as well read “nearly impossible to search for given the ever-growing volumes of published material.” With that in mind, here’s what Google claims it can do in a blog post explaining the new feature: In March, I explained the problems with patent search — especially through the U.S. Afghanistan the First Country Mapped using Broad Scale Hyperspectral Data (7/17/2012 5:00:00 PM) For the first time, about 70 percent of a country has been mapped using an advanced remote sensing technique known as hyperspectral imaging. In order to assist Afghanistan in understanding their abundant natural resources, in particular the development of an economically viable minerals market, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Defense Task Force for Business and Stability Operations led an effort to fully map Afghanistan with hyperspectral data. Airborne hyperspectral sensors measure light reflected from the earth.
The spectrum of the reflected light can be interpreted to identify the composition of materials at the surface, such as minerals, man-made materials, snow, and vegetation. The project was funded by the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Afghan Government. In developing the maps, more than 800 million pixels of data were generated. The new hyperspectral maps of Afghanistan are available online. International Shark Attack File. NCES Library Comparison. Compare Academic Libraries allows users to compare one library (the library of interest) with similar libraries (the comparison group). For example, a user may wish to compare one library's total circulation with the total circulation of a group of libraries with similar total expenditures.
The steps involved in using Compare Academic Libraries are: Select the library of interest for which you want to find a comparison group. Choose the basis for identifying similar libraries (the “Comparison Group”): e.g. size of staff. Choose the information you would like displayed in the report. View the report, which compares your library of interest with its comparison group. Fiscal Year 2012 data from the Academic Libraries Survey (ALS) are used in Compare Public Libraries. Missing Data: These data have been reviewed and edited at the state and national levels, and verified as correct by each state’s data coordinator. Luminous Lint. EDGE of Existence :: EDGE Conservation. Overview Amphibians Birds Coral Reefs Mammals Search Map Overview Fellows Projects Expeditions Achievements Champions Community Instant Wild Education Forum Email page Click on a country to find out which EDGE mammals, amphibians and corals occur there or use the search below the map.
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