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- GuestReel 1.5.1 - Interactive guestbook.. (Shareware)
- sArchiver 3.8.13 - File archiving and extraction.. (Shareware)
- Web Site Maestro 8.6.1 - Optimize and upload your webpages.. (Shareware)
- Entropy, Vol. 13, Pages 1533-1540: Distinguishability in Entropy Calculations: Chemical Reactions, Conformational and Residual Entropy
- Information consumes attention: focus in the age of abundant stimulus
- Stilllifes of action figures and Nintendo catridges
- Symmetry, Vol. 3, Pages 574-599: Squaring the Circle and Cubing the Sphere: Circular and Spherical Copulas
- Sensors, Vol. 11, Pages 8180-8202: LinkMind: Link Optimization in Swarming Mobile Sensor Networks
- JFB, Vol. 2, Pages 173-194: Temperature-Responsive Biocompatible Copolymers Incorporating Hyperbranched Polyglycerols for Adjustable Functionality
- IJMS, Vol. 12, Pages 5428-5448: Antioxidant, Antimicrobial and Antiproliferative Activities of Five Lichen Species
- Molecules, Vol. 16, Pages 7171-7182: Optimized Enzymatic Synthesis of Hesperidin Fatty Acid Esters in a Two-Phase System Containing Ionic Liquid
- Molecules, Vol. 16, Pages 7155-7170: The Growth Suppressing Effects of Girinimbine on Hepg2 Involve Induction of Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Arrest
- Molecules, Vol. 16, Pages 7143-7154: Physico-Chemical Characteristics and Functional Properties of Chitin and Chitosan Produced by Mucor circinelloides Using Yam Bean as Substrate
- On 50lb bicycles and the lockability thereof
- IJMS, Vol. 12, Pages 5422-5427: Preparation and Microcosmic Structural Analysis of Recording Coating on Inkjet Printing Media
- Suspects with similar descriptions sought in separate robberies [PHOTOS]
- iFFmpeg 2.5.6 - Convert multimedia files between formats.. (Shareware)
- FontExplorer X Pro 3.1 - Font management software.. (Demo)
- Google Chrome 13.0.782.215 - Modern and fast Web browser.. (Free)
- Apple iTunes 10.4.1 - Manage your music, media, Apple devices, and iTunes Store.. (Free)
GuestReel 1.5.1 - Interactive guestbook.. (Shareware) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:06 AM PDT GuestReel transforms your guestbook into an interactive experience for everyone. Your guests will love recording their heartfelt well-wishes for you through our easy-to-use software conveniently located right at your reception, and you will love being able to view and share those "visual guestbook" videos or integrate them into your wedding footage. Features:
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NOTE: For those of you with security concerns, we have found creating a separate user account with limited access should alleviate most concerns. They will not have administrator access, and will not be able to view or delete and of your files.
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sArchiver 3.8.13 - File archiving and extraction.. (Shareware) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:07 AM PDT sArchiver is the lord of archives. Features:
Version 3.8.13:
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Web Site Maestro 8.6.1 - Optimize and upload your webpages.. (Shareware) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:26 AM PDT Web Site Maestro speeds up your site by optimizing both HTML and script code of your web pages and optimizing your JPEG and PNG images. It helps you keep organized by creating a duplicate site folder for the optimized files. An added benefit is that it leaves your original files untouched. You should use your original web folder for editing and use the duplicate web folder for uploading. Web Site Maestro features Smart Handling, supports XML and can handle web pages with any text encoding. Moreover, it can check your web pages for dangling tags, missing attributes and broken links. A built-in FTP/WebDAV Client enables one-click optimizing and uploading, also in secure mode. You can synchronize your entire web site with your local web folder or synchronize only one remote folder. MobileMe iDisk is supported. Web Site Maestro offers many options to customize its operation to your special needs. Drag and drop is fully supported. Version 8.6.1:
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Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT By analyzing different examples of practical entropy calculations and using concepts such as conformational and residual entropies, I show herein that experimental calorimetric entropies of single molecules can be theoretically reproduced considering chemically identical atoms either as distinguishable or indistinguishable particles. The broadly used correction in entropy calculations due to the symmetry number and particle indistinguishability is not mandatory, as an ad hoc correction, to obtain accurate values of absolute and relative entropies. It is shown that, for any chemical reaction of any kind, considering distinguishability or indistinguishability among identical atoms is irrelevant as long as we act consistently in the calculation of all the required entropy contributions. |
Information consumes attention: focus in the age of abundant stimulus Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:58 AM PDT In New York magazine, Sam Anderson ponders economist Herbert A. Simon's 1971 thoughts on the economics of attention: "What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." What follows is a conflicted, engaging look at attention, focus and the net, which really got to me: This doomsaying strikes me as silly for two reasons. First, conservative social critics have been blowing the apocalyptic bugle at every large-scale tech-driven social change since Socrates' famous complaint about the memory-destroying properties of that newfangled technology called "writing." (A complaint we remember, not incidentally, because it was written down.) And, more practically, the virtual horse has already left the digital barn. It's too late to just retreat to a quieter time. Our jobs depend on connectivity. Our pleasure-cycles—no trivial matter—are increasingly tied to it. Information rains down faster and thicker every day, and there are plenty of non-moronic reasons for it to do so. The question, now, is how successfully we can adapt...In Defense of Distraction (via Beth Pratt) (Image: Meditation Room, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from joeshlabotnik's photostream) |
Stilllifes of action figures and Nintendo catridges Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:23 AM PDT Jason Dunn creates digital stilllifes of Nintendo catridges, action figures and the like. framed Zelda prints for sale! (Thanks, Jason!) |
Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT Do there exist circular and spherical copulas in ℝd? That is, do there exist circularly symmetric distributions on the unit disk in ℝ2 and spherically symmetric distributions on the unit ball in ℝd, d ≥ 3, whose one-dimensional marginal distributions are uniform? The answer is yes for d = 2 and 3, where the circular and spherical copulas are unique and can be determined explicitly, but no for d ≥ 4. A one-parameter family of elliptical bivariate copulas is obtained from the unique circular copula in ℝ2 by oblique coordinate transformations. Copulas obtained by a non-linear transformation of a uniform distribution on the unit ball in ℝd are also described, and determined explicitly for d = 2. |
Sensors, Vol. 11, Pages 8180-8202: LinkMind: Link Optimization in Swarming Mobile Sensor Networks Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT A swarming mobile sensor network is comprised of a swarm of wirelessly connected mobile robots equipped with various sensors. Such a network can be applied in an uncertain environment for services such as cooperative navigation and exploration, object identification and information gathering. One of the most advantageous properties of the swarming wireless sensor network is that mobile nodes can work cooperatively to organize an ad-hoc network and optimize the network link capacity to maximize the transmission of gathered data from a source to a target. This paper describes a new method of link optimization of swarming mobile sensor networks. The new method is based on combination of the artificial potential force guaranteeing connectivities of the mobile sensor nodes and the max-flow min-cut theorem of graph theory ensuring optimization of the network link capacity. The developed algorithm is demonstrated and evaluated in simulation. |
Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT Temperature-triggered copolymers are proposed for a number of bio-applications but there is no ideal material platform, especially for injectable drug delivery. Options are needed for degradable biomaterials that not only respond to temperature but also easily accommodate linkage of active molecules. A first step toward realizing this goal is the design and synthesis of the novel materials reported herein. A multifunctional macromer, methacrylated hyperbranched polyglycerol (HPG-MA) with an average of one acrylate unit per copolymer, was synthesized and copolymerized with N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm), hydroxyethyl methacrylate-polylactide (HEMAPLA) and acrylic acid (AAc). The potential to fully exploit the copolymers by modification of the multiple HPG hydroxyl groups will not be discussed here. Instead, this report focuses on the thermoresponsive, biocompatible, and degradation properties of the material. Poly(NIPAAm-co-HEMAPLA-co-AAc-co-HPG-MA) displayed increasing lower critical solution temperatures (LCST) as the HPG content increased over a range of macromer ratios. For the copolymer with the maximum HPG incorporation (17%), the LCST was ~30 °C. In addition, this sample showed no toxicity when human uterine fibroid cells were co-cultured with the copolymer for up to 72 h. This copolymer lost approximately 92% of its mass after 17 hours at 37 °C. Thus, the reported biomaterials offer attractive properties for the design of drug delivery systems where orthogonally triggered mechanisms of therapeutic release in relatively short time periods would be attractive. |
Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT The antioxidative, antimicrobial and antiproliferative potentials of the methanol extracts of the lichen species Parmelia sulcata, Flavoparmelia caperata, Evernia prunastri, Hypogymnia physodes and Cladonia foliacea were evaluated. The total phenolic content of the tested extracts varied from 78.12 to 141.59 mg of gallic acid equivalent (GA)/g of extract and the total flavonoid content from 20.14 to 44.43 mg of rutin equivalent (Ru)/g of extract. The antioxidant capacities of the lichen extracts were determined by 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radicals scavenging. Hypogymnia physodes with the highest phenolic content showed the strongest DPPH radical scavenging effect. Further, the antimicrobial potential of the lichen extracts was determined by a microdilution method on 29 microorganisms, including 15 strains of bacteria, 10 species of filamentous fungi and 4 yeast species. A high antimicrobial activity of all the tested extracts was observed with more potent inhibitory effects on the growth of Gram (+) bacteria. The highest antimicrobial activity among lichens was demonstrated by Hypogymnia physodes and Cladonia foliacea. Finally, the antiproliferative activity of the lichen extracts was explored on the colon cancer adenocarcinoma cell line HCT-116 by MTT (3-[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) viability assay and acridine orange/ethidium bromide staining. The methanol extracts of Hypogymnia physodes and Cladonia foliacea showed a better cytotoxic activity than the other extracts. All lichen species showed the ability to induce apoptosis of HCT-116 cells. |
Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT Response surface methodology (RSM) based on a five-level, three-variable central composite design (CCD) was employed for modeling and optimizing the conversion yield of the enzymatic acylation of hesperidin with decanoic acid using immobilized Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB) in a two-phase system containing [bmim]BF4. The three variables studied (molar ratio of hesperidin to decanoic acid, [bmim]BF4/acetone ratio and lipase concentration) significantly affected the conversion yield of acylated hesperidin derivative. Verification experiments confirmed the validity of the predicted model. The lipase showed higher conversion degree in a two-phase system using [bmim]BF4 and acetone compared to that in pure acetone. Under the optimal reaction conditions carried out in a single-step biocatalytic process when the water content was kept lower than 200 ppm, the maximum acylation yield was 53.6%. |
Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT Murraya koenigii is an edible herb widely used in folk medicine. Here we report that girinimbine, a carbazole alkaloid isolated from this plant, inhibited the growth and induced apoptosis in human hepatocellular carcinoma, HepG2 cells. The MTT and LDH assay results showed that girinimbine decreased cell viability and increased cytotoxicity in a dose-and time-dependent manner selectively. Girinimbine-treated HepG2 cells showed typical morphological features of apoptosis, as observed from normal inverted microscopy and Hoechst 33342 assay. Furthermore, girinimbine treatment resulted in DNA fragmentation and elevated levels of caspase-3 in HepG2 cells. Girinimbine treatment also displayed a time-dependent accumulation of the Sub-G0/G1 peak (hypodiploid) and caused G0/G1-phase arrest. Together, these results demonstrated for the first time that girinimbine could effectively induce programmed cell death in HepG2 cells and suggests the importance of conducting further investigations in preclinical human hepatocellular carcinoma models, especially on in vivo efficacy, to promote girinimbine for use as an anticancer agent against hepatocellular carcinoma. |
Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT Microbiological processes were used for chitin and chitosan production by Mucor circinelloides (UCP 050) grown in yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus L. Urban) medium. The polysaccharides were extracted by alkali–acid treatment and structural investigations by X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform IR analysis, viscosity and thermal analysis by TG, DTG, and DTA were done. The highest biomass yield (20.7 g/L) was obtained at 96 hours. The highest levels of chitosan (64 mg/g) and chitin (500 mg/g) were produced at 48 and 72 hours, respectively. It was demonstrated that yam bean shows great potential as an economic medium and it is possible to achieve a good yield of chitosan with chemical properties that enable its use in biotechnological applications. |
On 50lb bicycles and the lockability thereof Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:18 AM PDT Mike Estee responds to the cyclist's old saw: "All bikes weigh fifty pounds. A thirty pound bike requires a twenty pound lock. A forty pound bike requires a ten pound lock, and a fifty pound bike doesn't need a lock, because really, who wants a fifty pound bike?" What is the utility of a fifty pound bike? Would anyone ever ride it? What if we took the idea of building the fastest and lightest bike, and flipped it on its head. What if we designed for more weight instead of less? How heavy would a bike need to be to not require a lock? How would this change our social interaction with the humble bicycle?And MAKE:'s Michael Colombo takes the question seriously: "Short of mechanically hoisting your bike up a lamppost, what else could be done? Are all bikes really fifty pounds? In most large American cities a burly U-Lock and/or chain is essential. The Kryptonite New York U-Lock weighs in at 4.5 pounds, and the Kryptonite New York Noose chain is a hefty 6.8 pounds. This doesn't quite live up to the fifty pound joke, but it can drastically increase the weight of your ride. Most urban cyclists keep both a chain and a U-Lock for versatility's sake, since they can never be sure what they'll be locking to. Let's hear it in the comments. If you had an extra twelve pounds to make your bike theft-proof, how would you do it?" The resulting discussion is pretty interesting. Bike Theft: Thinking Outside of the Lock (Image: Never enough, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from rednuht's photostream) |
Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT Preparation of recording coating on inkjet printing (RC-IJP) media was proposed. The microstructure and roughness of RC-IJP was analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscope (AFM). The surface infiltration process of RC-IJP was studied by a liquid infiltration instrument. The distribution of C, O and Si composites on recording coating surface is analyzed by energy dispersive spectrum (EDS). The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis showed that the nanoscale silica could be dissolved uniformly in water. Finally, the print color is shown clearly by the preparative recording coating. |
Suspects with similar descriptions sought in separate robberies [PHOTOS] Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:51 AM PDT Eugene Police are investigating two separate robberies that took place on Sunday. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
iFFmpeg 2.5.6 - Convert multimedia files between formats.. (Shareware) Posted: 22 Aug 2011 08:59 PM PDT iFFmpeg is a graphical front-end for FFmpeg, a command-line tool used to convert multimedia files between formats. The command line instructions can be very hard to master/understand, so iFFmpeg does all the hard work for you. This allows you to use FFmpeg without detailed command-line knowledge. Version 2.5.6:
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FontExplorer X Pro 3.1 - Font management software.. (Demo) Posted: 22 Aug 2011 08:59 PM PDT FontExplorer X Pro is optimized for professional use; it's the solution that gives you the power you need to manage all your fonts. Now you can more easily manage, activate and organize your existing font collection as well as find and experiment with new fonts. Whether you've got a hard drive full of typefaces or a few cherished families, FontExplorer X Pro handles your font library quickly, efficiently and reliably. And when you're ready to add to your collection, you can view thousands of classic designs and the latest releases from independent foundries using the integrated store. FontExplorer X Pro features an enhanced user interface with a configurable toolbar, activation control, comprehensive font information at your fingertips, customizable font previews, back-up functionality and access to FontExplorer X Server. Used together, FontExplorer X Pro and FontExplorer X Server are your complete solution for organizing, exploring and buying fonts and managing font licenses.
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Google Chrome 13.0.782.215 - Modern and fast Web browser.. (Free) Posted: 22 Aug 2011 08:59 PM PDT Google Chrome is a Web browser by Google, created to be a modern platform for web pages and applications. It utilizes very fast loading of web pages and has a V8 engine, which is a custom built JavaScript engine. Because Google has used parts from Apple's Safari and Firefox browsers, they made the project open source. Version 13.0.782.215:
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Apple iTunes 10.4.1 - Manage your music, media, Apple devices, and iTunes Store.. (Free) Posted: 22 Aug 2011 08:59 PM PDT iTunes lets you organize and play digital music and video on your computer. It can automatically download new music, app, and book purchases across all your devices and computers. And it's a store that has everything you need to be entertained. Anywhere. Anytime. Version 10.4.1:
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