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- Dropzone 2.7 - Open, transfer, and install files by drag-and-drop. (Demo)
- Picturito 1.0.2 - Share photos on Facebook right from your Desktop. (Commercial)
- OutBank 2.1.2 - German online banking app. (Commercial)
- Warhammer Quest - Screenshots
- Entropy, Vol. 15, Pages 2162-2180: Thermoelectric System in Different Thermal and Electrical Configurations: Its Impact in the Figure of Merit
- Entropy, Vol. 15, Pages 2129-2161: Zero Delay Joint Source Channel Coding for Multivariate Gaussian Sources over Orthogonal Gaussian Channels
- Remote Sensing, Vol. 5, Pages 2813-23937: Comparing Two Methods of Surface Change Detection on an Evolving Thermokarst Using High-Temporal-Frequency Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Selawik River, Alaska
- Remote Sensing, Vol. 5, Pages 2795-2812: Mapping Rubber Plantations and Natural Forests in Xishuangbanna (Southwest China) Using Multi-Spectral Phenological Metrics from MODIS Time Series
- Sustainability, Vol. 5, Pages 2389-2420: Assessment of the Impact of Business Activity in Sustainability Terms. Empirical Confirmation of its Determination in Spanish Companies
- Materials, Vol. 6, Pages 2262-2273: Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition of Horizontally Aligned Carbon Nanotubes
- Cells, Vol. 2, Pages 393-413: Systems Biology: The Role of Engineering in the Reverse Engineering of Biological Signaling
- Proteomes, Vol. 1, Pages 3-24: Protein-Protein Interactions: Gene Acronym Redundancies and Current Limitations Precluding Automated Data Integration
- Plants, Vol. 2, Pages 343-353: The Hybridization Barrier between Herbaceous Medicago sativa and Woody M. arborea Is Weakened by Selection of Seed Parents
- Toolbox for Keynote 1.2.1 - Collection of links for purchase of Keynote templates. (Free)
- Gazelle Point-of-Sale 12.18 - Advanced point-of-sale manager. (Shareware)
- The Inquisitor - Screenshots
- Lie Swatter
- Microarrays, Vol. 2, Pages 153-169: Microarray for Identification of the Chiropteran Host Species of Rabies Virus in Canada
- Computation, Vol. 1, Pages 16-26: Structural Features That Stabilize ZnO Clusters: An Electronic Structure Approach
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| Dropzone 2.7 - Open, transfer, and install files by drag-and-drop. (Demo) Posted: 31 May 2013 02:58 AM PDT  Dropzone makes it faster and easier to get things done on your Mac. Drag a file onto the dock icon and your fully customizable grid of destinations flies smoothly out using CoreAnimation. Drop the file onto a destination and Dropzone will take care of the rest. Whether you're installing an app, uploading a file to an FTP server, or sharing your photos on Flickr. Launch Applications: Sometimes you want to keep an application quickly available, but you don't want it taking up space in your Dock. Simply add it to your Dropzone grid, and then you can launch the app by clicking on it in Dropzone's grid, or you can drag files or folders onto it. Install Applications: Drag a DMG onto the Install Application destination and Dropzone mounts the disk image, finds the application inside, copies it to your Applications folder, launches it, ejects the disk image, and moves it to the trash for you. Flickr Upload: Drop a bunch of pictures on to the Flickr Upload destination and Dropzone uploads them for you. It can even copy the direct image URL to the clipboard so you can paste it to a friend. You can also setup multiple accounts. FTP Upload: You can setup as many FTP servers as you like with Dropzone. If you hold down the Option key while dragging, Dropzone will even zip up the files or folders for you before uploading and put the URL on the clipboard. Save Text: Drop some text onto the Save Text destination, Dropzone asks you for a name, and saves it for you. Great for storing those little snippets of text that you don't want to lose. Copy or Move Files: Sometimes you want to copy or move a file or folder somewhere else on your Mac. Dropzone lets you setup destinations that do this. Underneath, Dropzone uses the fast and powerful Rsync file transfer tool to do its work. Zip and Email: The Zip and Email destination zips up the dragged files and adds them as a Mail attachment, all ready to send. A simple and convenient time saver. Extend Dropzone: Dropzone has a powerful Ruby-based API that allows you to script Dropzone to do whatever you need. Not only that, but all the code for the destinations above is Open Source, so you can help us make Dropzone even better! Version 2.7: Note: The demo version is currently at 2.7. The version available for purchase is 2.6.
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| Picturito 1.0.2 - Share photos on Facebook right from your Desktop. (Commercial) Posted: 31 May 2013 02:44 AM PDT  Picturito is the fastest and easiest way to share multiple pictures from multiple places on Facebook right from your desktop! Easy as 1, 2, 3! Picturito is a small menu-bar app that helps you share multiple pictures to Facebook using the built-in OSX Facebook integration. You just have to choose the pictures you want and Picturito will do the hard work! Sharing those 50+ holiday pictures to your Facebook albums has never been easier! Picturito features:
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| OutBank 2.1.2 - German online banking app. (Commercial) Posted: 31 May 2013 02:34 AM PDT  OutBank is Germany's most successful online-banking application, suitable for almost all German banks and savings banks (incl. PayPal -- see prerequisites), and is now available on your Mac! Secure Simple Fast Comfortable Prerequisite The following banks are NOT supported:
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| Posted: 31 May 2013 03:26 AM PDT Game Features: - iCloud support - Intense dungeon battles with orcs, goblins, and more - Travel across the Warhammer World - Retina support - State-of-the-art high fidelity game engine - 3 additional heroes available via IAP - Fight the Skaven in a huge expansion via IAP - 25+ hours of gameplay (including expansion) - Hardcore mode option with permanent hero deaths - English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. More translations coming |
| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT In this work, we analyze different configurations of a thermoelectric system (TES) composed of three thermoelectric generators (TEGs). We present the following considerations: (a) TES thermally and electrically connected in series (SC); (b) TES thermally and electrically connected in parallel (PSC); and (c) parallel thermally and series electrical connection (SSC). We assume that the parameters of the TEGs are temperature-independent. The systems are characterized by three parameters, as it has been showed in recent investigations, namely, its internal electrical resistance, R, thermal conductance under open electrical circuit condition, K, and Seebeck coefficient . We derive the equivalent parameters for each of the configurations considered here and calculate the Figure of Merit Z for the equivalent system. We show the impact of the configuration of the system on Z, and we suggest optimum configuration. In order to justify the effectiveness of the equivalent Figure of Merit, the corresponding efficiency has been calculated for each configuration. |
| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Communication of a multivariate Gaussian source transmitted over orthogonal additive white Gaussian noise channels using delay-free joint source channel codes (JSCC) is studied in this paper. Two scenarios are considered: (1) all components of the multivariate Gaussian are transmitted by one encoder as a vector or several ideally collaborating nodes in a network; (2) the multivariate Gaussian is transmitted through distributed nodes in a sensor network. In both scenarios, the goal is to recover all components of the multivariate Gaussian at the receiver. The paper investigates a subset of JSCC consisting of direct source-to-channel mappings that operate on a symbol-by-symbol basis to ensure zero coding delay. A theoretical analysis that helps explain and quantify distortion behavior for such JSCC is given. Relevant performance bounds for the network are also derived with no constraints on complexity and delay. Optimal linear schemes for both scenarios are presented. Results for Scenario 1 show that linear mappings perform well, except when correlation is high. In Scenario 2, linear mappings provide no gain from correlation when the channel signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gets large. The gap to the performance upper bound is large for both scenarios, regardless of SNR, when the correlation is high. The main contribution of this paper is the investigation of nonlinear mappings for both scenarios. It is shown that nonlinear mappings can provide substantial gain compared to optimal linear schemes when correlation is high. Contrary to linear mappings for Scenario 2, carefully chosen nonlinear mappings provide a gain for all SNR, as long as the correlation is close to one. Both linear and nonlinear mappings are robust against variations in SNR. |
| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) allow large and complex landforms to be rapidly surveyed at previously unattainable point densities. Many change detection methods have been employed to make use of these rich data sets, including cloud to mesh (C2M) comparisons and Multiscale Model to Model Cloud Comparison (M3C2). Rather than use simulated point cloud data, we utilized a 58 scan TLS survey data set of the Selawik retrogressive thaw slump (RTS) to compare C2M and M3C2. The Selawik RTS is a rapidly evolving permafrost degradation feature in northwest Alaska that presents challenging survey conditions and a unique opportunity to compare change detection methods in a difficult surveying environment. Additionally, this study considers several error analysis techniques, investigates the spatial variability of topographic change across the feature and explores visualization techniques that enable the analysis of this spatiotemporal data set. C2M reports a higher magnitude of topographic change over short periods of time ( 12 h) and reports a lower magnitude of topographic change over long periods of time ( four weeks) when compared to M3C2. We found that M3C2 provides a better accounting of the sources of uncertainty in TLS change detection than C2M, because it considers the uncertainty due to surface roughness and scan registration. We also found that localized areas of the RTS do not always approximate the overall retreat of the feature and show considerable spatial variability during inclement weather; however, when averaged together, the spatial subsets approximate the retreat of the entire feature. New data visualization techniques are explored to leverage temporally and spatially continuous data sets. Spatially binning the data into vertical strips along the headwall reduced the spatial complexity of the data and revealed spatiotemporal patterns of change. |
| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT We developed and evaluated a new approach for mapping rubber plantations and natural forests in one of Southeast Asia's biodiversity hot spots, Xishuangbanna in China. We used a one-year annual time series of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) reflectance data to develop phenological metrics. These phenological metrics were used to classify rubber plantations and forests with the Random Forest classification algorithm. We evaluated which key phenological characteristics were important to discriminate rubber plantations and natural forests by estimating the influence of each metric on the classification accuracy. As a benchmark, we compared the best classification with a classification based on the full, fitted time series data. Overall classification accuracies derived from EVI and SWIR time series alone were 64.4% and 67.9%, respectively. Combining the phenological metrics from EVI and SWIR time series improved the accuracy to 73.5%. Using the full, smoothed time series data instead of metrics derived from the time series improved the overall accuracy only slightly (1.3%), indicating that the phenological metrics were sufficient to explain the seasonal changes captured by the MODIS time series. The results demonstrate a promising utility of phenological metrics for mapping and monitoring rubber expansion with MODIS. |
| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Because the issue of sustainability presents urgent problems crucial to the future of mankind, there has been serious discussion of the role accounting should play. In this context, a new line of research, still at a relatively unexplored, embryonic stage, has arisen, which tries to establish measurement of business sustainability and so compensate for the lack of information currently existing about the net impact of the company's activity. Full Cost Accounting could allow sustainability to be translated into the language of business, together with analysis and comparison of its progress, so it might be the most appropriate vehicle for more participatory, democratic accounting, with greater dialogue, giving the accountant a much more active role, this being necessary in order to generalize the research, development and use. To analyze the current situation, a survey of 192 Spanish companies was carried out to obtain at first hand the perception of strategic positioning adopted with regard to Sustainable Development, measurement of the contribution of business activity to its achievement and the rendering of accounts carried out. |
| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT A plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition reactor has been developed to synthesis horizontally aligned carbon nanotubes. The width of the aligning sheath was modelled based on a collisionless, quasi-neutral, Child's law ion sheath where these estimates were empirically validated by direct Langmuir probe measurements, thereby confirming the proposed reactors ability to extend the existing sheath fields by up to 7 mm. A 7 mbar growth atmosphere combined with a 25 W plasma permitted the concurrent growth and alignment of carbon nanotubes with electric fields of the order of 0.04 V μm−1 with linear packing densities of up to ~5 × 104 cm−1. These results open up the potential for multi-directional in situ alignment of carbon nanotubes providing one viable route to the fabrication of many novel optoelectronic devices. |
| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT One of the principle tasks of systems biology has been the reverse engineering of signaling networks. Because of the striking similarities to engineering systems, a number of analysis and design tools from engineering disciplines have been used in this process. This review looks at several examples including the analysis of homeostasis using control theory, the attenuation of noise using signal processing, statistical inference and the use of information theory to understand both binary decision systems and the response of eukaryotic chemotactic cells. |
| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Understanding protein interaction networks and their dynamic changes is a major challenge in modern biology. Currently, several experimental and in silico approaches allow the screening of protein interactors in a large-scale manner. Therefore, the bulk of information on protein interactions deposited in databases and peer-reviewed published literature is constantly growing. Multiple databases interfaced from user-friendly web tools recently emerged to facilitate the task of protein interaction data retrieval and data integration. Nevertheless, as we evidence in this report, despite the current efforts towards data integration, the quality of the information on protein interactions retrieved by in silico approaches is frequently incomplete and may even list false interactions. Here we point to some obstacles precluding confident data integration, with special emphasis on protein interactions, which include gene acronym redundancies and protein synonyms. Three human proteins (choline kinase, PPIase and uromodulin) and three different web-based data search engines focused on protein interaction data retrieval (PSICQUIC, DASMI and BIPS) were used to explain the potential occurrence of undesired errors that should be considered by researchers in the field. We demonstrate that, despite the recent initiatives towards data standardization, manual curation of protein interaction networks based on literature searches are still required to remove potential false positives. A three-step workflow consisting of: (i) data retrieval from multiple databases, (ii) peer-reviewed literature searches, and (iii) data curation and integration, is proposed as the best strategy to gather updated information on protein interactions. Finally, this strategy was applied to compile bona fide information on human DREAM protein interactome, which constitutes liable training datasets that can be used to improve computational predictions. |
| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Medicago sativa, alfalfa or lucerne, and M. arborea were considered reproductively isolated until recently. Then, in 2003, an alfalfa genotype was identified that produced a few seeds and progeny with hybrid traits after a large number of pollinations by M. arborea. A derivative of this alfalfa genotype also produced a low frequency of progeny with hybrid traits. Thus, the hybridization barrier was weakened by selection of seed parents. Hybrids from both events expressed traits from M. arborea and M. arborea-specific DNA bands, although more of the M. sativa genome was retained, based on the DNA results. Thus, there was chromatin elimination during embryogenesis, resulting in partial hybrids (hereafter hybrids). However, more than 30 hybrids with an array of M. arborea traits have been obtained thus far, and research continues on the nature of the hybrids. Traits have been genetically transmitted in crosses, and selected traits are in use for alfalfa breeding. This paper reviews the first hybrids and then focuses on further weakening of the hybridization barrier with the discovery of a more efficient hybridizer derived from crossing Medicago sativa subspecies, sativa, coerulea and falcata. This genotype was found to have reproductive abnormalities associated with its complex subspecies origin that are best described as hybrid breakdown. In effect, this subspecies derivative is a bridge-cross parent that consistently produces hybrids. Reproductive abnormalities in the bridge-cross parent are reported and discussed. |
| Toolbox for Keynote 1.2.1 - Collection of links for purchase of Keynote templates. (Free) Posted: 31 May 2013 02:26 AM PDT  Toolbox for Keynote from Jumsoft is a free download that contains links to the ultimate collection of themes and illustration elements for Apple's Keynote. Besides, the first item in each product category is available free of charge -- just click Open! The toolbox offers numerous options for creating professional and inspiring slideshows for business or entertainment. Whether you choose to purchase a single clipart image or a full Keynote Themes set, you will receive a beautiful, easily customizable product which will make your work more efficient and its results more enjoyable. Toolbox for Keynote provides access to five product sets that can be purchased from within the app:
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| Gazelle Point-of-Sale 12.18 - Advanced point-of-sale manager. (Shareware) Posted: 31 May 2013 02:12 AM PDT  Gazelle is an advanced and modern point-of-sale, inventory, customer- and staff-management system which is aimed to meet the needs of small and medium enterprises. It has a built-in online store allowing retail stores to explore e-commerce, reaching the global population of the Internet. Best of all, Gazelle offers all these at a very affordable price. Visit our website for more information. Version 12.18: Now supports:
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| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:51 AM PDT If you've played a lot of trivia games before, you're probably familiar with You Don't Know Jack, a pitch perfect blend of pop culture, snark and trivia. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Species identification through genetic barcoding can augment traditional taxonomic methods, which rely on morphological features of the specimen. Such approaches are especially valuable when specimens are in poor condition or comprise very limited material, a situation that often applies to chiropteran (bat) specimens submitted to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for rabies diagnosis. Coupled with phenotypic plasticity of many species and inconclusive taxonomic keys, species identification using only morphological traits can be challenging. In this study, a microarray assay with associated PCR of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene was developed for differentiation of 14 bat species submitted to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency from 1985–2012 for rabies diagnosis. The assay was validated with a reference collection of DNA from 153 field samples, all of which had been barcoded previously. The COI gene from 152 samples which included multiple specimens of each target species were successfully amplified by PCR and accurately identified by the microarray. One sample that was severely decomposed failed to amplify with PCR primers developed in this study, but amplified weakly after switching to alternate primers and was accurately typed by the microarray. Thus, the chiropteran microarray was able to accurately differentiate between the 14 species of Canadian bats targeted. This PCR and microarray assay would allow unequivocal identification to species of most, if not all, bat specimens submitted for rabies diagnosis in Canada. |
| Posted: 31 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT We show that a simple approach to building small computationally inexpensive clusters offers insights on specific structural motifs that stabilize the electronic structure of ZnO. All-electron calculations on ZniOi needle (i = 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18) and plate (i = 9 and 18) clusters within the density functional theory (DFT) formalism show a higher stability for ZnO needles that increases with length. Puckering of the rings to achieve a more wurtzite-like structure destabilizes the needles, although this destabilization is reduced by going to infinite needles (calculated using periodic boundary conditions). Calculations of density of states (DOS) curves and band gaps for finite clusters and infinite needles highlight opportunities for band-gap tuning through kinetic control of nanocrystal growth. |
| Posted: 30 May 2013 11:52 PM PDT Shaun and Erick get all vampire-ish in the stealth RPG - Dark.
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