The patient lies with back flat on operating room bed.

Similarly, the north east of South America is covered by the flat Amazon Basin.

In that case, the flat world could become a desert.

There's the atomic force microscope working and you can see that the landing's a little rough.

And, in an age of flatter hierarchies and empowered knowledge workers, soft power is likely to increase in importance.

The team of specialists found some specimens of this orchid, typical of the hills in the Rimac river basin, near that body of water.

The Himalayas. The flat horizon that we've evolved with has been a metaphor for the infinite unbounded resources and unlimited capacity for disposal of waste.

Because in reality, what you want to do is you actually want to have the patient on the bed with the wound, and you have a scanner, basically like a flatbed scanner.

In the flat world of globalization to borrow Thomas Friedman s powerful metaphor it seems that Russia no longer has a place.

The , often shortened to Inland Sea, is the body of water separating Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū, three of the four main islands of Japan.

A water strider's brain doesn't need 3D software at all, since it lives on the surface of the pond in an Edwin Abbott flatland.

A microscope slide is a thin flat piece of glass, typically 75 by 26 mm (3 by 1 inches) and about 1 mm thick, used to hold objects for examination under a microscope.

It was located on the flat country of the North China Plain about 50 miles east of the point where the current course of the Yellow River changes from east to north east.

So these minimum snap trajectories in this flat space are then transformed back into this complicated 12 dimensional space, which the robot must do for control and then execution.

Based on the NDRC s figures, 2008 capacity utilization rates were just 76 for steel, 75 for cement, 73 for aluminum, 88 for flat glass, 40 for methanol, and 20 for poly crystalline silicon (a key raw material for solar cells).

If in the past Cannes showcased films telling a hundred different kinds of stories, this year s offerings made clear that in an increasingly flattened and wired world, there is really only one story with a hundred different inflections.

Construction of the lakes of Wada The Lakes of Wada are formed by starting with a closed unit square of dry land, and then digging 3 lakes according to the following rule On day n 1, 2, 3... extend lake n mod 3 ( 0, 1, 2) so that it is open and connected and passes within a distance 1 n of all remaining dry land.