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- Dream of Pixels - Screenshots
- Bartender 1.0.1 - Organize your menubar apps.. (Demo)
- Borderlands Legends - Screenshots
- 7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover - Screenshots
- Symmetry, Vol. 4, Pages 603-625: N = (4,4) Supersymmetry and T-Duality
- Plants, Vol. 1, Pages 74-81: Antibacterial and COX-1 Inhibitory Effect of Medicinal Plants from the Pamir Mountains, Afghanistan
- Plants, Vol. 1, Pages 61-73: Phylogeny of Cirsium spp. in North America: Host Specificity Does Not Follow Phylogeny
- Insects, Vol. 3, Pages 1093-1104: cDNA Cloning and Expression Analysis of Pattern Recognition Proteins from the Chinese Oak Silkmoth, Antheraea pernyi
- Insects, Vol. 3, Pages 1084-1092: Insulin Modifies Honeybee Worker Behavior
- Information, Vol. 3, Pages 621-634: Design Epistemology
- Information, Vol. 3, Pages 601-620: Fröhlich Condensate: Emergence of Synergetic Dissipative Structures in Information Processing Biological and Condensed Matter Systems
- Atmosphere, Vol. 3, Pages 495-521: Initial Assessment of the Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (4STAR)-Based Aerosol Retrieval: Sensitivity Study
- Roccat Browser 2.8 - Fast Web browser with a variety of features.. (Free)
- nessMediaCenter 1.3 - Make your Mac an optimal media center.. (Demo)
- Tomb Raider box-art: Love it or hate it?
- Forests, Vol. 3, Pages 986-996: Diversity, Vertical Stratification and Co-Occurrence Patterns of the Mycetophilid Community among Eastern Hemlock, Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carrière, in the Southern Appalachians
- Forests, Vol. 3, Pages 959-985: Oribatid Mite Community Decline Two Years after Low-Intensity Burning in the Southern Cascade Range of California, USA
- The Spice Cupboard
- Mowing Down Squirters Gameplay – Medal of Honor: Warfighter
- Isabela City Shoot Out Gameplay– Medal of Honor: Warfighter
| Posted: 24 Oct 2012 04:34 AM PDT Features - Beautiful ever-changing visuals! - A brilliant twist on an old falling blocks classic! - 5 modes: Classic, Puzzle, Pro, Nightmare and Shattered Dream! - Zen Puzzle mode to slow down, relax, and think about it! - Amazing music, matching the visual experience perfectly! - Challenge your friends via the new Game Center CHALLENGES! - Share ANIMATED screenshots on Twitter and Facebook! |
| Bartender 1.0.1 - Organize your menubar apps.. (Demo) Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:19 AM PDT  Bartender lets you organize your Menu Bar Apps. Features:
There are loads of ways to configure Bartender to perform as you wish. Give it a go and find out. Note: Bartender is free during beta. Version 1.0.1:
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| Borderlands Legends - Screenshots Posted: 24 Oct 2012 04:04 AM PDT |
| 7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover - Screenshots Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:50 AM PDT 7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover whisks you away to the Temple of Solomon, Göbekli Tepe, Puma Punku, Ancient Dwarka and other ancient alien theorist proposed visitation sites. Enjoy hours of rune matching fun on a new playfield size that allows for larger boards and different configurations. These configurations provide more opportunities for strategic decisions on matches and use of power-ups, which are easier to access in the redesigned display. Key Features: - 56+ addictive and challenging levels - 7 mystical locations to create, plus a bonus 8th to unlock - Brain teasing mini-games - All new creation mode where you build your own village - Collector's Edition includes 3 extra Wonders: Angkor Wat, Baalbek and Nineveh, craftsmen bios, before & after sketches, plus wallpapers and screensavers |
| Symmetry, Vol. 4, Pages 603-625: N = (4,4) Supersymmetry and T-Duality Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT A sigma model with four-dimensional target space parametrized by chiral and twisted chiral N =(2,2) superfields can be extended to N =(4,4) supersymmetry off-shell, but this is not true for a model of semichiral fields, where the N = (4,4) supersymmetry can only be realized on-shell. The two models can be related to each other by T-duality. In this paper we perform a duality transformation from a chiral and twisted chiral model with off-shell N = (4,4) supersymmetry to a semichiral model. We find that additional non-linear terms must be added to the original transformations to obtain a semichiral model with N =(4,4) supersymmetry, and that the algebra closes on-shell as a direct consequence of the T-duality. |
| Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT Plants used to treat inflammatory ailments, pain, fever and infections in the Pamir Mountains in northeastern Afghanistan, were tested for antibacterial and COX-1 inhibitory activity. Water and ethanol extracts of 20 species were tested for antibacterial activity against two gram positive and two gram negative bacteria. The ethanol extract of Arnebia guttata inhibited Staphylococcus aureus with a MIC of 6 µg/mL. Water and ethanol extracts of Ephedra intermedia and the ethanol extracts of Lagochilus cabulicus and Peganum harmala inhibited Staphylococcus aureus at 0.5 mg/mL, and the P. harmala extract further inhibited the growth of Bacillus subtilis and E. coli, also with MICs of 0.5 mg/mL. Ethanol extracts of Artemisia persica (IC50: 0.5 µg/mL), Dragocephalum paulsenii (IC50: 0.5 µg/mL), Ephedra intermedia (IC50: 3.8 µg/mL), Hyoscyamus pusillus, Nepeta parmiriensis (IC50: 0.7 µg/mL) and Rumex patientia subsp. pamiricus (IC50: 3.5 µg/mL) exhibited COX-1 inhibitory activity. The observed in vitro activities support the use of some of the plant species in the traditional medicine systems of the Pamir Mountains. |
| Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT Weedy invasive Cirsium spp. are widespread in temperate regions of North America and some of their biological control agents have attacked native Cirsium spp. A phylogenetic tree was developed from DNA sequences for the internal transcribed spacer and external transcribed spacer regions from native and non-native Great Plains Cirsium spp. and other thistles to determine if host specificity follows phylogeny. The monophyly of Cirsium spp. and Carduus within the tribe Cardinae was confirmed with native North American and European lineages of the Cirsium spp. examined. We did not detect interspecific hybridization between the introduced invasive and the native North American Cirsium spp. Selected host-biological control agent interactions were mapped onto the phylogenic tree derived by maximum likelihood analysis to examine the co-occurrence of known hosts with biological control agents. Within Cirsium-Cardueae, the insect biological control agents do not associate with host phylogenetic lines. Thus, more comprehensive testing of species in host-specificity trials, rather than relying on a single representative of a given clade may be necessary; because the assumption that host-specificity follows phylogeny does not necessarily hold. Since the assumption does not always hold, it will also be important to evaluate ecological factors to provide better cues for host specificity. |
| Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT Pattern recognition receptors play an important role in insect immune defense. We cloned the β-1,3-glucan recognition protein, lectin-5 and C-type lectin 1 genes of Antheraea pernyi and examined the expression profiles of immune-stimulated pupae. After infection with Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Antheraea pernyi nuclear polyhedrosis virus (ApNPV) and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, respectively, the pupae showed different gene expression levels in the different tissues examined (midgut, fatbody, epidermis, testis, and hemocytes). ApβGRP and Aplectin-5 was induced by all the microorganisms, and mainly in epidermis and hemocytes, but not in testis; Aplectin-5 was also expressed in fatbody. Ap C-type lectin 1 was, on the contrary, highly expressed in testis and also in fatbody, but not in hemocytes. Unlike ApβGRP and Aplectin-5, Ap C-type lectin 1 was not induced by Gram-positive bacteria. The results suggest that the cloned lectins may have different functions in different tissues of A. pernyi. |
| Insects, Vol. 3, Pages 1084-1092: Insulin Modifies Honeybee Worker Behavior Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT The insulin signaling pathway has been hypothesized to play a key role in regulation of worker social insect behavior. We tested whether insulin treatment has direct effects on worker honeybee behavior in two contexts, sucrose response thresholds in winter bees and the progression to foraging by summer nurse bees. Treatment of winter worker bees with bovine insulin, used as a proxy for honeybee insulin, increased the bees’ sucrose response threshold. Treatment of summer nurse bees with bovine insulin significantly decreased the age at which foraging was initiated. This work provides further insight into the role of endocrine controls in behavior of in honeybees and insects in general. |
| Information, Vol. 3, Pages 621-634: Design Epistemology Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT The liberation from the view that only one way of making sense of experience is legitimate (the one that “corresponds to reality”), which follows from the results of 20th century science and philosophy, puts us into a position to consciously choose and assign a purpose to the creation of meaning; and based on that choice, to develop completely new modes of information, to suit each chosen purpose. We present an instance of this approach, where information and knowledge work are considered as key societal systemic components, and then designed as it may best suit the various functions that pertain to this role, notably the function of illuminating the way to all other systemic self-organization. Design epistemology provides an academic foundation for this approach; the Knowledge Federation community implements it in practice. |
| Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT We consider the case of a peculiar complex behavior in open boson systems sufficiently away from equilibrium, having relevance in the functioning of information-processing biological and condensed matter systems. This is the so-called Fröhlich–Bose–Einstein condensation, a self-organizing-synergetic dissipative structure, a phenomenon apparently working in biological processes and present in several cases of systems of boson-like quasi-particles in condensed inorganic matter. Emphasis is centered on the quantum-mechanical-statistical irreversible thermodynamics of these open systems, and the informational characteristics of the phenomena. |
| Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT The Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (4STAR) being developed for airborne measurements will offer retrievals of aerosol microphysical and optical properties from multi-angular and multi-spectral measurements of sky radiance and direct-beam sun transmittance. In this study, we assess the expected accuracy of the 4STAR-based aerosol retrieval and its sensitivity to major sources of anticipated perturbations in the 4STAR measurements. The major anticipated perturbations are (1) an apparent enhancement of sky radiance at small scattering angles associated with the necessarily compact design of the 4STAR and (2) an offset (i.e., uncertainty) of sky radiance calibration independent of scattering angle. The assessment is performed through application of the operational AERONET aerosol retrieval and constructed synthetic 4STAR-like data. Particular attention is given to the impact of these perturbations on the broadband fluxes and the direct aerosol radiative forcing. The results from this study suggest that limitations in the accuracy of 4STAR-retrieved particle size distributions and scattering phase functions have diminished impact on the accuracy of retrieved bulk microphysical parameters, permitting quite accurate retrievals of properties including the effective radius (up to 10%, or 0.03), and the radiatively important optical properties, such as the asymmetry factor (up to 4%, or ±0.02) and single-scattering albedo (up to 6%, or ±0.04). Also, the obtained results indicate that the uncertainties in the retrieved aerosol optical properties are quite small in the context of the calculated fluxes and direct aerosol radiative forcing (up to 15%, or 3 W∙m−2). |
| Roccat Browser 2.8 - Fast Web browser with a variety of features.. (Free) Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:57 AM PDT  Roccat Browser is an amazing browser from the fludium family. Roccat Browser is an amazingly fast Web browser, which has some great features such as:
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| nessMediaCenter 1.3 - Make your Mac an optimal media center.. (Demo) Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:51 AM PDT  nessMediaCenter enables you to use your Mac as optimal media center! Internet offers, Aperture and iPhoto albums, iTunes music, Miro video podcasts, local media at picture/movie folder and volumes can be selected easily & comfortably. Plenty of different media can be selected and will be continuously presented afterwards. MediaCenter and media presentations can be controlled by Apple remote control, "NV Remote" app for iPhone and iPod touch or keyboard. Home entertainment as its purest - comfortable and relaxing, from the couch, armchair, bed or directly at the Apple computer!
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| Tomb Raider box-art: Love it or hate it? Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:29 AM PDT Publisher Square Enix has unveiled the box art for next year's Lara Croft island survival adventure, Tomb Raider. The cover shows a contemplative Lara |
| Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT Over 400 species of insects have been found in association with eastern hemlock in the southern Appalachians. Eastern hemlock stands provide an ideal habitat for all life stages of mycetophilids. However, the diversity, distribution and co-occurrence patterns of these species throughout the tree canopy are unknown. This study was initiated to evaluate abundance, species richness and species composition within three designated strata in the canopy of eastern hemlock, assess species for vertical stratification patterns, and determine if co-occurrence patterns of mycetophilid species are random or non-random. During this study, 24 species representing 14 genera were identified and evaluated. Mycetophilid abundance, species richness and composition differed among the lower, middle, and upper strata. Unique assemblages were identified in each stratum, indicating vertical stratification. The upper stratum of the canopy had four exclusive species, the middle had six exclusive species, and the lower stratum had nine exclusive species. The co-occurrence pattern of mycetophilid species in the canopy of eastern hemlock was non-random. |
| Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT To assess effects of low-intensity fire, we combined two silvicultural prescriptions with prescribed fire in the California Cascade Range. In the first treatment, two 100-ha stands were thinned to reduce density while retaining old-growth structural characteristics, yielding residual stands with high structural diversity (HSD). Two other 100-ha plots were thinned to minimize old growth structure, producing even-aged stands of low structural diversity (LSD), and one 50-ha split-plot from each treatment was burned. In addition, two 50 ha old-growth Research Natural Areas (RNA) were selected as untreated reference plots, one of which was also burned. Fire treatments profoundly altered mite assemblages in the short term, and forest structure modification likely exacerbated that response. Sampling conducted two years following treatment confirmed a continuing decline in oribatid mite abundance. Oribatid species richness and assemblage heterogeneity also declined, and community dominance patterns were disrupted. Oribatid responses to fire were either more intense or began earlier in the LSD treatments, suggesting that removal of old-growth structure exacerbated mite responses to fire. Prostigmatids recovered quickly, but their populations nonetheless diminished significantly in burned split-plots. Mite assemblage responses to prescribed fire were continuing nearly two years later, with no clear evidence of recovery. |
| Posted: 24 Oct 2012 01:10 AM PDT My pal Steve came to town last weekend. He's a friend I've had since I was in the Boy Scouts when I was about 10, and he had been planning to anyway. |
| Mowing Down Squirters Gameplay – Medal of Honor: Warfighter Posted: 23 Oct 2012 06:56 PM PDT Air support helps bring down a small force closing in on Preachers location in Isabela City.
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| Isabela City Shoot Out Gameplay– Medal of Honor: Warfighter Posted: 23 Oct 2012 06:55 PM PDT Preacher makes his way through the city and engages in some firefights in a raging storm.
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