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- Sustainability, Vol. 5, Pages 1304-1316: Plant Species Restoration: Effects of Different Founding Patterns on Sustaining Future Population Size and Genetic Diversity
- Sustainability, Vol. 5, Pages 1282-1303: The World is Yours: “Degrowth”, Racial Inequality and Sustainability
- Sensors, Vol. 13, Pages 3975-3985: Piper nigrum, Piper betle and Gnetum gnemon Natural Food Sources with Anti-Quorum Sensing Properties
- HTML-Optimizer 10.7.3 - Speeds up your site by optimizing code. (Shareware)
- HTML-Optimizer Plus 2.5.3 - Speeds up your site by optimizing code. (Shareware)
- HTML-Optimizer Pro 5.12.3 - Speeds up your site by optimizing code. (Shareware)
- Web Site Maestro 8.7.4 - Optimize and upload your webpages. (Shareware)
- Liquid 2
- MiJournal 1.2.2 - Feature-rich journaling application. (Shareware)
- NodeScan Server 1.0b33 - Chat and share files over intra/internet (Beta). (Free)
- Nodescan Client 1.0.33b - Cross-platform chat and file sharing solution (beta). (Free)
- Eisenpower 1.1.3 - Manage and organize your day-to-day tasks. (Commercial)
- The Swapper - Screenshots
- Sensors, Vol. 13, Pages 3951-3974: A Transmission Power Optimization with a Minimum Node Degree for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks with Full-Reachability
- Sensors, Vol. 13, Pages 3941-3950: Simple Fabrication Process for 2D ZnO Nanowalls and Their Potential Application as a Methane Sensor
- Sensors, Vol. 13, Pages 3922-3940: Measurements of Tropospheric NO2 in Romania Using a Zenith-Sky Mobile DOAS System and Comparisons with Satellite Observations
- Sensors, Vol. 13, Pages 3902-3921: Rank Awareness in Group-Sparse Recovery of Multi-Echo MR Images
- Warframe hits open beta with new update
- Shadows of the Damned director’s new company joining forces with Sony
- Go for Full Tilt Poker- Get Rich Quick
| Posted: 20 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PDT Efforts to sustain the earth's biodiversity will include the establishment and manipulation of isolated rescue populations, derived either via in situ fragmentation, or under ex situ circumstances. For target species, especially those with limited propagation resources, major goals of such projects include both the optimization of population size and the preservation of genetic diversity. Such rescue populations will be founded in a variety of ways, but little is known about how the geometric patterning of founders can affect population growth and genetic diversity retention. We have developed a computer program, NEWGARDEN, to investigate this issue for plant species that vary in life history characteristics. To use NEWGARDEN, input files are created that specify the size and structure of the preserve, the positioning and genetic diversity of the founders, and life history characteristics of the species (e.g., age-specific reproduction and mortality; gene dispersal distances; rates of selfing, etc.). The program conducts matings with consequent offspring establishment such that the virtual population develops through generations as constrained by the input. Output statistics allow comparisons of population development for populations that differ in one or more input conditions. Here, with NEWGARDEN analyses modeling a triennial species, we show that rescue population project managers will often have to carefully consider the geometric placement of founders to minimize effort expended while maximizing population growth and conservation of genetic diversity, such considerations being heavily dependent on the life history characteristics of particular species. |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PDT In French economist Serge Latouche's 2009 book, Farewell to Growth, Latouche discusses "degrowth" in great detail, but he also explains how racial bias (and bias in general) in the world today has no place in a post-GDP world that embraces the principles outlined in "degrowth" or, as he calls it, décroissance. Latouche writes in Farewell to Growth that "we resist, and must resist all forms of racism and discrimination (skin color, sex, religion, ethnicity)", biases he insist are "all too common in the West today." Latouche's ideas are important for considering "degrowth", because racial bias and the historical problems presented by that bias, in the United States, continues despite efforts to address it in a significant manner. The World is Yours discusses "degrowth" , economic growth and racial inequality, seeking to not only provide a better understanding of the recent social, legal and political meaning of these terms, but also the difficulties presented by these ideas today in a world increasingly committed to economic growth, even at the expense of human existence. How can a new economic paradigm be pursued that is more sustainable? Will African-Americans and other groups of color and nations of color accept "degrowth" if the US begins to implement a real sustainable agenda that addresses racial inequality? |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PDT Various parts of Piper nigrum, Piper betle and Gnetum gnemon are used as food sources by Malaysians. The purpose of this study is to examine the anti-quorum sensing (anti-QS) properties of P. nigrum, P. betle and G. gnemon extracts. The hexane, chloroform and methanol extracts of these plants were assessed in bioassays involving Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01, Escherichia coli [pSB401], E. coli [pSB1075] and Chromobacterium violaceum CV026. It was found that the extracts of these three plants have anti-QS ability. Interestingly, the hexane, chloroform and methanol extracts from P. betle showed the most potent anti-QS activity as judged by the bioassays. Since there is a variety of plants that serve as food sources in Malaysia that have yet to be tested for anti-QS activity, future work should focus on identification of these plants and isolation of the anti-QS compounds. |
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| Posted: 19 Mar 2013 09:37 PM PDT Platform: Flash —  If you've ever played with a bottle of oil and water, you already understand the basic mechanic of Liquid 2, a friendly (and occasionally psychedelic) little physics game from OneGoodGame. Tilt the maze to guide as much liquid as you can into the goal, navigating hazards and picking up bonus drops along the way. Tagged as: browser, flash, free, game, gravity, maze, onegoodgame, physics, puzzle, rating-g, water |
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| Eisenpower 1.1.3 - Manage and organize your day-to-day tasks. (Commercial) Posted: 20 Mar 2013 02:55 AM PDT Eisepower is all about saving time and getting more productive. The app provides a 4-quadrant structure for organizing your tasks by importance and urgency, a principle that goes back to Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States. The first of those four sections is for important and also urgent tasks that are done at best by yourself and immediately. Then comes the "Schedule" section where you put in stuff that is indeed important but not that urgent and can easily be scheduled for later processing. Next are to-dos for delegating -- dedicated to things that should be done immediately but that are not that important. The last section "Really!?" is also a crucial part of the Eisenhower principle. You would put things in there that are neither important nor urgent. Meaning that these things really shouldn't be done at all... Because knowing when to say "No" is very important in terms of good time management. But that is actually not all Eisenpower is good for. With the ability to create multiple projects and to rename any of those four sections, you can easily customize the Eisenhower matrix to the needs of your very own projects. Keep track of all your to-dos by creating reminders and using the built-in sharing services. It syncs your tasks to any of your Macs via iCloud and is enhanced for Retina displays. It's uncluttered, easy to use, and beautiful. Features:
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| Posted: 20 Mar 2013 03:33 AM PDT The Swapper features a unique art style that uses real-world clay-models and found objects to create an explorable space station realised in unique detail; gameplay sees players swap between different bodies to achieve otherwise impossible tasks. |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PDT Transmission power optimization is the most significant factor in prolonging the lifetime and maintaining the connection quality of wireless sensor networks. Un-optimized transmission power of nodes either interferes with or fails to link neighboring nodes. The optimization of transmission power depends on the expected node degree and node distribution. In this study, an optimization approach to an energy-efficient and full reachability wireless sensor network is proposed. In the proposed approach, an adjustment model of the transmission range with a minimum node degree is proposed that focuses on topology control and optimization of the transmission range according to node degree and node density. The model adjusts the tradeoff between energy efficiency and full reachability to obtain an ideal transmission range. In addition, connectivity and reachability are used as performance indices to evaluate the connection quality of a network. The two indices are compared to demonstrate the practicability of framework through simulation results. Furthermore, the relationship between the indices under the conditions of various node degrees is analyzed to generalize the characteristics of node densities. The research results on the reliability and feasibility of the proposed approach will benefit the future real deployments. |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PDT Two-dimensional (2D) ZnO nanowalls were prepared on a glass substrate by a low-temperature thermal evaporation method, in which the fabrication process did not use a metal catalyst or the pre-deposition of a ZnO seed layer on the substrate. The nanowalls were characterized for their surface morphology, and the structural and optical properties were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and photoluminescence (PL). The fabricated ZnO nanowalls have many advantages, such as low growth temperature and good crystal quality, while being fast, low cost, and easy to fabricate. Methane sensor measurements of the ZnO nanowalls show a high sensitivity to methane gas, and rapid response and recovery times. These unique characteristics are attributed to the high surface-to-volume ratio of the ZnO nanowalls. Thus, the ZnO nanowall methane sensor is a potential gas sensor candidate owing to its good performance. |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PDT In this paper we present a new method for retrieving tropospheric NO2 Vertical Column Density (VCD) from zenith-sky Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) measurements using mobile observations. This method was used during three days in the summer of 2011 in Romania, being to our knowledge the first mobile DOAS measurements peformed in this country. The measurements were carried out over large and different areas using a mobile DOAS system installed in a car. We present here a step-by-step retrieval of tropospheric VCD using complementary observations from ground and space which take into account the stratospheric contribution, which is a step forward compared to other similar studies. The detailed error budget indicates that the typical uncertainty on the retrieved NO2tropospheric VCD is less than 25%. The resulting ground-based data set is compared to satellite measurements from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2). For instance, on 18 July 2011, in an industrial area located at 47.03°N, 22.45°E, GOME-2 observes a tropospheric VCD value of (3.4 ± 1.9) × 1015 molec./cm2, while average mobile measurements in the same area give a value of (3.4 ± 0.7) × 1015 molec./cm2. On 22 August 2011, around Ploiesti city (44.99°N, 26.1°E), the tropospheric VCD observed by satellites is (3.3 ± 1.9) × 1015 molec./cm2 (GOME-2) and (3.2 ± 3.2) × 1015 molec./cm2 (OMI), while average mobile measurements give (3.8 ± 0.8) × 1015 molec./cm2. Average ground measurements over "clean areas", on 18 July 2011, give (2.5 ± 0.6) × 1015 molec./cm2 while the satellite observes a value of (1.8 ± 1.3) × 1015 molec./cm2. |
| Sensors, Vol. 13, Pages 3902-3921: Rank Awareness in Group-Sparse Recovery of Multi-Echo MR Images Posted: 20 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PDT This work addresses the problem of recovering multi-echo T1 or T2 weighted images from their partial K-space scans. Recent studies have shown that the best results are obtained when all the multi-echo images are reconstructed by simultaneously exploiting their intra-image spatial redundancy and inter-echo correlation. The aforesaid studies either stack the vectorised images (formed by row or columns concatenation) as columns of a Multiple Measurement Vector (MMV) matrix or concatenate them as a long vector. Owing to the inter-image correlation, the thus formed MMV matrix or the long concatenated vector is row-sparse or group-sparse respectively in a transform domain (wavelets). Consequently the reconstruction problem was formulated as a row-sparse MMV recovery or a group-sparse vector recovery. In this work we show that when the multi-echo images are arranged in the MMV form, the thus formed matrix is low-rank. We show that better reconstruction accuracy can be obtained when the information about rank-deficiency is incorporated into the row/group sparse recovery problem. Mathematically, this leads to a constrained optimization problem where the objective function promotes the signal's groups-sparsity as well as its rank-deficiency; the objective function is minimized subject to data fidelity constraints. The experiments were carried out on ex vivo and in vivo T2 weighted images of a rat's spinal cord. Results show that this method yields considerably superior results than state-of-the-art reconstruction techniques. |
| Warframe hits open beta with new update Posted: 20 Mar 2013 12:51 AM PDT Digital Extremes "soft-launches" public beta phase for shooter; update 7.0 introduces two new warframes and a snow level.
Digital Extremes has "soft launched" its third-person shooter Warframe into open beta, complete with a massive update. The patch, called Update 7.0, has brought in new warframes for players to try out: the saryn and banshee. The former has corrosive attacks that dissolve both organic and synthetic material, while the latter has sonic-powered offensive and support capabilities. The update also introduces a new snow-themed stage called the Corpus Outpost that features an open-ended environment. New weapons in the update include the Paris hunting bow, the Viper full-auto light pistol, and the Fang daggers. Players can also try out a new mission type called endless defense where players have to defeat waves of enemies and survive as long as possible for big rewards. Concerning balances, the mod system now does not allow the same mods to be stackable onto the same weapon. Existing warframe powers and weapons have been fixed. For more information, check out the full list of changes on the official forums. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot "Warframe hits open beta with new update" was posted by Jonathan Toyad on Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:51:25 -0700 |
| Shadows of the Damned director’s new company joining forces with Sony Posted: 20 Mar 2013 12:47 AM PDT Massimo Guarini to start working on an unannounced new IP as a director.
A studio headed by former Grasshopper manufacture game director Massimo Guarini (Shadows of the Damned) will be teaming up with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) for a future project. The company --called Ovosonico--will be working on a new IP for the publisher. Guarini said that SCEE understood the his company's vision and were thrilled to partner with them. The studio head will be directing the yet-to-be-revealed IP. The game's Sony platform has yet to be announced at this point in time. Apart for Shadows of the Damned, Guarini previously worked on titles such as Way of the Samurai 3 (producer), Naruto: Rise of a Ninja (design director) and Moon (producer). For more information on Shadows of the Damned, check out GameSpot's review on the title. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot "Shadows of the Damned director's new company joining forces with Sony" was posted by Jonathan Toyad on Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:47:44 -0700 |
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