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- Mover 0.91 - Dual-pane file manager. (Free)
- LaunchControl 1.3.1 - Create, manage and debug launchd(8) services. (Demo)
- Jaksta Music Miner 1.0.8 - Capture MP3s from the web. (Shareware)
- Animals, Vol. 3, Pages 386-400: Animal Welfare and Food Safety Aspects of Confining Broiler Chickens to Cages
- Econometrics, Vol. 1, Pages 53-70: Outlier Detection in Regression Using an Iterated One-Step Approximation to the Huber-Skip Estimator
- Molecules, Vol. 18, Pages 5517-5530: Synthesis of a New ent-Cyclozonarone Angular Analog, and Comparison of Its Cytotoxicity and Apoptotic Effects with ent-Cyclozonarone
- Molecules, Vol. 18, Pages 5498-5516: Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of 3-Benzisoxazolyl-4-indolylmaleimides as Potent, Selective Inhibitors of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β
- Molecules, Vol. 18, Pages 5482-5497: Synthesis, Antifungal and Antitumor Activity of Novel (Z)-5-Hetarylmethylidene-1,3-thiazol-4-ones and (Z)-5-Ethylidene-1,3-thiazol-4-ones
- Molecules, Vol. 18, Pages 5472-5481: Enantioselective Esterification of Ibuprofen under Microwave Irradiation
- Remote Sensing, Vol. 5, Pages 2275-2291: Tile-Level Annotation of Satellite Images Using Multi-Level Max-Margin Discriminative Random Field
- Remote Sensing, Vol. 5, Pages 2257-2274: Retrieval of Forest Aboveground Biomass and Stem Volume with Airborne Scanning LiDAR
- Diablo III gold-multiplying bug profits to go to charity
- Weekly SMITE tournament series hosted in North America and Europe
- Remote Sensing, Vol. 5, Pages 2238-2256: Remote Sensing and Geodetic Measurements for Volcanic Slope Monitoring: Surface Variations Measured at Northern Flank of La Fossa Cone (Vulcano Island, Italy)
- Sensors, Vol. 13, Pages 6295-6318: WEAMR—A Weighted Energy Aware Multipath Reliable Routing Mechanism for Hotline-Based WSNs
- Sensors, Vol. 13, Pages 6272-6294: Noise Reduction in Brainwaves by Using Both EEG Signals and Frontal Viewing Camera Images
- Sensors, Vol. 13, Pages 6254-6271: Development and Testing of a Decision Making Based Method to Adjust Automatically the Harrowing Intensity
- Library plans Scrabble Tournament for Saturday
- CUP: Darlington Power Rankings
- Sensors, Vol. 13, Pages 6229-6253: FTT-MA: A Flexible Time-Triggered Middleware Architecture for Time Sensitive, Resource-Aware AmI Systems
| Mover 0.91 - Dual-pane file manager. (Free) Posted: 13 May 2013 03:03 AM PDT  Mover is a two-panel file manager. It always displays both source and destination in a single window. This allows a user to operate more quickly and conveniently.
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| LaunchControl 1.3.1 - Create, manage and debug launchd(8) services. (Demo) Posted: 13 May 2013 02:54 AM PDT  LaunchControl is a launchd(8) frontend allowing you to manage and debug system and user services on your Mac. All documented features of launchd(8) are supported. It reports potential problems even before a job is started and makes sure you always create valid configurations. Sophisticated interface Absolute freedom Everything you need Discover what's possible Version 1.3.1: Improved
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| Jaksta Music Miner 1.0.8 - Capture MP3s from the web. (Shareware) Posted: 13 May 2013 02:49 AM PDT  Jaksta Music Miner for Mac captures and tags MP3s from popular audio and video Web sites, automatically. Just open Jaksta Music Miner, play a song or video, and the MP3 is created, usually up to 10x faster than real time. Adding the MP3 to iTunes happens with the click of one button. Jaksta Music Miner supports Grooveshark, Last.FM, YouTube, Jango, and more. Jaksta Music Miner is great for discovering new music or enjoying your music offline. Version 1.0.8:
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| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT In most areas of the world, broiler chickens are raised in floor systems, but cage confinement is becoming more common. The welfare of broiler chickens in cages is affected by movement restriction, poor bone strength due to lack of exercise, and prevention of key behavioral patterns such as dustbathing and ground scratching. Cages for broiler chickens also have a long history of causing skin and leg conditions that could further compromise welfare, but a lack of controlled studies makes it difficult to draw conclusions about newer cage designs. Cage environments are usually stocked at a higher density than open floor systems, and the limited studies available suggest that caging may lead to increased levels of fear and stress in the birds. Further, birds reared on the floor appear less likely to harbor and shed Salmonella, as litter may serve as a seeding agent for competitive exclusion by other microorganisms. Cages for laying hens used in egg production have met with substantial opposition due to welfare concerns and caging broiler chickens will likely be subject to the same kinds of social disapproval. |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT In regression we can delete outliers based upon a preliminary estimator and re-estimate the parameters by least squares based upon the retained observations. We study the properties of an iteratively defined sequence of estimators based on this idea. We relate the sequence to the Huber-skip estimator. We provide a stochastic recursion equation for the estimation error in terms of a kernel, the previous estimation error and a uniformly small error term. The main contribution is the analysis of the solution of the stochastic recursion equation as a fixed point, and the results that the normalized estimation errors are tight and are close to a linear function of the kernel, thus providing a stochastic expansion of the estimators, which is the same as for the Huber-skip. This implies that the iterated estimator is a close approximation of the Huber-skip. |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT The synthesis of a newangular analog 11 of cyclozonarone was achieved via Diels-Alder reaction between a sesquiterpene-1,3-diene and 1,4-benzoquinone. The cytotoxic activity of ent-cyclozonarone [(+)-10] and the angular (−)-cyclozonarone analog 11 has been determined in three human cancer cell lines and in normal fibroblasts using the sulforhodamine B assay. The analyzed isomers induce cell death in different cancer cell lines by eliciting nuclear condensation and fragmentation, decreasing mitochondrial membrane permeability and increasing caspase-3 activity, all traits indicating apoptosis, with the effects of (+)-10 being stronger than those of 11 in all cases. |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT A series of novel 3-benzisoxazolyl-4-indolyl-maleimides were synthesized and evaluated for their GSK-3β inhibitory activity. Most compounds exhibited high inhibitory potency towards GSK-3β. Among them, compound 7j with an IC50 value of 0.73 nM was the most promising GSK-3β inhibitor. Preliminary structure-activity relationships were examined and showed that different substituents on the indole ring and N1-position of the indole ring had varying degrees of influence on the GSK-3β inhibitory potency. Compounds 7c, 7f, 7j–l and 7o–q could obviously reduce Aβ-induced Tau hyperphosphorylation by inhibiting GSK-3β in a cell-based functional assay. |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT New hetaryl- and alkylidenerhodanine derivatives 3a–d, 3e, and 4a–d were prepared from heterocyclic aldehydes 1a–d or acetaldehyde 1e. The treatment of several rhodanine derivatives 3a–d and 3e with piperidine or morpholine in THF under reflux, afforded (Z)-5-(hetarylmethylidene)-2-(piperidin-1-yl)thiazol-4(5H)-ones and 2-morpholinothiazol-4(5H)-ones 5a–d, 6a–d, and (Z)-5-ethylidene-2-morpholinothiazol-4(5H)-one (5e), respectively, in good yields. Structures of all compounds were determined by IR, 1D and 2D NMR and mass spectrometry. Several of these compounds were screened by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) to assess their antitumor activity against 60 different human tumor cell lines. Compound 3c showed high activity against HOP-92 (Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer), which was the most sensitive cell line, with GI50 = 0.62 μM and LC50 > 100 μM from the in vitro assays. In vitro antifungal activity of these compounds was also determined against 10 fungal strains. Compound 3e showed activity against all fungal strains tested, but showed high activity against Saccharomyces cerevisiae (MIC 3.9 μg/mL). |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Enantioselective esterification of ibuprofen has been successfully carried out in an organic solvent catalyzed by recombinant APE 1547 (a thermophilic esterase from the archaeon Aeropyrum pernix K1). Here we used microwave irradiation (MW) as the mode of heating to improve the enzyme performance. Under the optimum conditions, the enzyme activity of APE 1547 was 4.16 μmol/mg/h and the enantioselectivity (E value) was 52.9. Compared with conventional heating, the enzyme activity and the enantioselectivity were increased about 21.9-fold and 1.4-fold, respectively. The results also indicated that APE 1547 can maintain 95% of its activity even after being used five times, suggesting that the enzyme is stable under low power MW conditions. |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT This paper proposes a multi-level max-margin discriminative analysis (M3DA) framework, which takes both coarse and fine semantics into consideration, for the annotation of high-resolution satellite images. In order to generate more discriminative topic-level features, the M3DA uses the maximum entropy discrimination latent Dirichlet Allocation (MedLDA) model. Moreover, for improving the spatial coherence of visual words neglected by M3DA, conditional random field (CRF) is employed to optimize the soft label field composed of multiple label posteriors. The framework of M3DA enables one to combine word-level features (generated by support vector machines) and topic-level features (generated by MedLDA) via the bag-of-words representation. The experimental results on high-resolution satellite images have demonstrated that, using the proposed method can not only obtain suitable semantic interpretation, but also improve the annotation performance by taking into account the multi-level semantics and the contextual information. |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Received: 12 March 2013; in revised form: 7 April 2013 / Accepted: 7 May 2013 / Published: 13 May 2013 |
| Diablo III gold-multiplying bug profits to go to charity Posted: 13 May 2013 12:53 AM PDT Proceeds from real money auction house glitch to go to Children's Miracle network hospitals.
Diablo III production director John Hight announced on the Battle.net forums that all profits made by Diablo III players who exploited last week's gold-multiplying bug will be donated to charity. The proceeds made through the game's real money auction house by the suspended or banned players will be given to the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. This includes the player's sale proceeds and Blizzard's transaction fees. As reported previously, the bug allowed players to duplicate gold from stacks of a million to 10 million via the game's real money auction house. This in turn made Blizzard shut down the auction house temporarily from May 7 until late last Friday on May 10. According to the forum post, only a few players had the funds to take advantage of the bug, with 415 of those players using the bug for personal gain. Players who were caught exploiting the bug were either been banned or had their account rolled back. About 85 percent of the duplicate gold had been removed, according to Hight. Efforts to remove more duplicate gold from the economy are currently underway, as doing a complete rollback will bring the game's servers down and delete all player progress. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot "Diablo III gold-multiplying bug profits to go to charity" was posted by Jonathan Toyad on Mon, 13 May 2013 00:53:07 -0700 |
| Weekly SMITE tournament series hosted in North America and Europe Posted: 13 May 2013 12:49 AM PDT SMITE tournaments are being hosted by Hi-Rez Studios in the North American and European regions; $1000 prize pool per tournament is up for grabs each week.
Hi-Rez Studios have announced a weekly tournament series for battleground game SMITE. The tournaments will be hosted separately in North America and Europe, with a $1000 prize pool up for grabs each week per tournament. Teams who are interested in participating can register for a single region and compete on a weekly basis. Games are streamed live on Twitch, and kick off at 12pm EST on Saturdays in North America, and 9am EST on Sundays in Europe. A list of team brackets, live-stream details, and additional information can be found on the SMITE website. SMITE is a third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game. Players control a character inspired by mythical deities alongside their team. Each team fights to control the arena, and works toward defeating the opposing team's NPC boss.
Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot "Weekly SMITE tournament series hosted in North America and Europe" was posted by Zorine Te on Mon, 13 May 2013 00:49:56 -0700 |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Results of recent monitoring activities on potentially unstable areas of the NW volcano flank of La Fossa cone (Vulcano Island, Italy) are shown here. They are obtained by integration of data by aerial photogrammetry, terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and GPS taken in the 1996–2011 time span. A comparison between multi-temporal models built from remote sensing data (photogrammetry and TLS) highlights areas characterized by ~7–10 cm/y positive differences (i.e., elevation increase) in the upper crown of the slope. The GPS measurements confirm these results. Areas characterized by negative differences, related to both mass collapses or small surface lowering, also exist. The higher differences, positive and negative, are always observed in zones affected by higher fumarolic activity. In the 2010–2012 time span, ground motions in the northern part of the crater rim, immediately above the upper part of observed area, are also observed. The results show different trends for both vertical and horizontal displacements of points distributed along the rim, with a magnitude of some centimeters, thus revealing a complex kinematics. A slope stability analysis shows that the safety factors estimated from these data do not indicate evidence of possible imminent failures. Nevertheless, new time series are needed to detect possible changes with the time of the stability conditions, and the monitoring has to go on. |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Reliable source to sink communication is the most important factor for an efficient routing protocol especially in domains of military, healthcare and disaster recovery applications. We present weighted energy aware multipath reliable routing (WEAMR), a novel energy aware multipath routing protocol which utilizes hotline-assisted routing to meet such requirements for mission critical applications. The protocol reduces the number of average hops from source to destination and provides unmatched reliability as compared to well known reactive ad hoc protocols i.e., AODV and AOMDV. Our protocol makes efficient use of network paths based on weighted cost calculation and intelligently selects the best possible paths for data transmissions. The path cost calculation considers end to end number of hops, latency and minimum energy node value in the path. In case of path failure path recalculation is done efficiently with minimum latency and control packets overhead. Our evaluation shows that our proposal provides better end-to-end delivery with less routing overhead and higher packet delivery success ratio compared to AODV and AOMDV. The use of multipath also increases overall life time of WSN network using optimum energy available paths between sender and receiver in WDNs. |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been used in various applications, including human–computer interfaces, diagnosis of brain diseases, and measurement of cognitive status. However, EEG signals can be contaminated with noise caused by user's head movements. Therefore, we propose a new method that combines an EEG acquisition device and a frontal viewing camera to isolate and exclude the sections of EEG data containing these noises. This method is novel in the following three ways. First, we compare the accuracies of detecting head movements based on the features of EEG signals in the frequency and time domains and on the motion features of images captured by the frontal viewing camera. Second, the features of EEG signals in the frequency domain and the motion features captured by the frontal viewing camera are selected as optimal ones. The dimension reduction of the features and feature selection are performed using linear discriminant analysis. Third, the combined features are used as inputs to support vector machine (SVM), which improves the accuracy in detecting head movements. The experimental results show that the proposed method can detect head movements with an average error rate of approximately 3.22%, which is smaller than that of other methods. |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Harrowing is often used to reduce weed competition, generally using a constant intensity across a whole field. The efficacy of weed harrowing in wheat and barley can be optimized, if site-specific conditions of soil, weed infestation and crop growth stage are taken into account. This study aimed to develop and test an algorithm to automatically adjust the harrowing intensity by varying the tine angle and number of passes. The field variability of crop leaf cover, weed density and soil density was acquired with geo-referenced sensors to investigate the harrowing selectivity and crop recovery. Crop leaf cover and weed density were assessed using bispectral cameras through differential images analysis. The draught force of the soil opposite to the direction of travel was measured with electronic load cell sensor connected to a rigid tine mounted in front of the harrow. Optimal harrowing intensity levels were derived in previously implemented experiments, based on the weed control efficacy and yield gain. The assessments of crop leaf cover, weed density and soil density were combined via rules with the aforementioned optimal intensities, in a linguistic fuzzy inference system (LFIS). The system was evaluated in two field experiments that compared constant intensities with variable intensities inferred by the system. A higher weed density reduction could be achieved when the harrowing intensity was not kept constant along the cultivated plot. Varying the intensity tended to reduce the crop leaf cover, though slightly improving crop yield. A real-time intensity adjustment with this system is achievable, if the cameras are attached in the front and at the rear or sides of the harrow. |
| Library plans Scrabble Tournament for Saturday Posted: 13 May 2013 12:43 AM PDT JAMESTOWN Prender-gast Library will host a Scrabble tournament from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in the Fireplace Room at the library. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| CUP: Darlington Power Rankings Posted: 12 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT  Matt Kenseth moves to the top of the FOXSports.com/SPEED.com Power Rankings this week… |
| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT There is an increasing number of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems that are time-sensitive and resource-aware. From healthcare to building and even home/office automation, it is now common to find systems combining interactive and sensing multimedia traffic with relatively simple sensors and actuators (door locks, presence detectors, RFIDs, HVAC, information panels, etc.). Many of these are today known as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Quite frequently, these systems must be capable of (1) prioritizing different traffic flows (process data, alarms, non-critical data, etc.), (2) synchronizing actions in several distributed devices and, to certain degree, (3) easing resource management (e.g., detecting faulty nodes, managing battery levels, handling overloads, etc.). This work presents FTT-MA, a high-level middleware architecture aimed at easing the design, deployment and operation of such AmI systems. FTT-MA ensures that both functional and non-functional aspects of the applications are met even during reconfiguration stages. The paper also proposes a methodology, together with a design tool, to create this kind of systems. Finally, a sample case study is presented that illustrates the use of the middleware and the methodology proposed in the paper. |
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