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text: News Penn State Frat Suspended Over Facebook Page With Nude Pics By The Associated Press • Mar 17, 2015 A fraternity at Penn State University has been suspended as police investigate allegations that members used a secret Facebook page to post photos of nude women, some of whom appeared to be sleeping or passed out. According to a copy of a State College police warrant obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, a former member of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity came to authorities and told them about the page. The former member also turned over printouts from the page on a computer thumb drive. Police say some Facebook posts also related to hazing and drug deals. Senate Bill Would Provide Quality Control for Cyber-Charter Schools By Erika Beras • Mar 17, 2015 State Sen. Sean Wiley (D-Erie) has introduced Senate Bill 128, which would address the cost and performance of cyber-charter schools that aren't related to school districts. In those schools, each is paid the same amount per student per district. That fluctuates depending on the district. In one part of the state you'd be paying $6,000 per student, and in other parts of the state the payment is as high as $15,000 per student. That adds up to over $400 million a year. "This is a complete draw on our public school system," Wiley said. Wolf Seeks Lower Cap On Schools' Surplus Funding By Mary Wilson • Mar 17, 2015 AP Photo/Matt Rourke Gov. Tom Wolf wants to cut property taxes and keep them low, but not just by shoveling more state aid toward school districts – his proposal would also attach more strings to their taxing power. Essential Pittsburgh: A Conversation with Governor Wolf By Essential Pittsburgh • Mar 16, 2015 Tom Wolf / Flickr Now that Pennsylvania is transitioning to a full Medicaid expansion, what happens if the Supreme Court decides to unravel Obamacare? And will Gov. 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President Lyndon Johnson signed ESEA as part of his war on poverty. The original intent was to ensure that federal resources would help disadvantaged and special-needs children. Measuring the Power of the PA Millennial Boom By Weenta Girmay | PublicSource • Mar 16, 2015 Ohad Cadji / PublicSource This year, the Millennial generation will eclipse the Baby Boomers as the nation's largest living generation, totaling 75.3 million, according to U.S. Census data. For our purposes, the Millennials are that broad group born between 1981 and 1997, making them between the ages of 18 and 34 in 2015, as defined by the Pew Research Center. Study: Charters More Segregated than Public Schools in Pennsylvania By Larkin Page-Jacobs • Mar 16, 2015 Listen Listening... / 3:51 Charter schools in the commonwealth have grown rapidly. Over a five year period beginning in 2006, enrollment in the state increased by 54 percent, and according to the most recent data, 6 percent of Pennsylvania students now attend a charter school. But a study by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania at Penn State has found that charter schools are more racially segregated than their public school counterparts. Brochure Outlines Ways to Reduce Negative Police/Citizen Confrontations By Deanna Garcia • Mar 16, 2015 In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown and, more recently the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Mo., a brochure is going out to the Pittsburgh community outlining rights, responsibilities and realities of police encounters. "For instance, you have the right to curse at a police officer, but it's not a good idea in most cases to do that," said Tim Stevens, president and founder of the Black Political Empowerment Project (B-PEP), "so we're talking about what your rights are, what your responsibilities are as a citizen and what the reality is." Should Powdered Alcohol Be Sold In Pennsylvania? By Jess Lasky • Mar 16, 2015 The relatively new product Palcohol, or powdered alcohol, has many concerned with its safety, including a Pennsylvania state senator who is looking to have the intoxicant banned. Sen. Shirley Kitchen echoes the concerns of many that this product will lead to more problems with teen drinking. They believe the product would be easier to conceal and transport. Also some are concerned drinks could be spiked with the power, making them much stronger than intended. 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Sociologists Melanie Hughes and Lisa Brush address the financial disruption in women's lives when they petition the courts to leave abusive relationships. Lisa discusses the focal points and the results of this study. "What we really wanted to understand was if we compared women to themselves before and after they went through the process of petitioning ... did they have a boost in their earnings and an increase afterwards in the wake?" She continues by presenting the other possibility for the results. "Or was there an economic shock or a stall in their earnings? And in fact we found out that the period right around the time when they're petitioning is full of all kinds of turmoil and um pretty much everybody experiences a shock and lots of women experience a stall in their earnings." Also, in this program we speak with Attorney Lisa A. Borelli Dorn about what it takes to file a protection from abuse order. 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The Railroad Emergency Services Preparedness, Operational Needs and Safety Evaluation, or RESPONSE ACT, would create a new set of training and resource recommendations for derailment first responders. It would be a subcommittee under the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Independent Study Shows Benefit of Incorporating the Arts into a Math Lesson By Sarah Schneider • Mar 13, 2015 Gateway to the Arts Early childhood learners outperform their peers when they are taught with an arts-integrated background, according to an independent study of a model used in 11 Pittsburgh area schools. Get Your Calculators (And Ovens) Ready: Super Pi Day Is Coming By Mark Nootbaar • Mar 13, 2015 dansheadel / flickr In school we were all taught about the number represented by the symbol π. Our understanding of the number might be a bit foggy, but most of us remember it has something to do with a circle and that it is 3.14. In reality, the irrational number (by definition) goes on forever, but it starts with 3.141592653. For the last several years, the popularity of so-called "Pi Day," or March 14 (3/14), has been growing in the U.S., and Saturday will mark what many are calling "Super Pi Day," where we can add the next two digits of the mathematical super number (3/14/15). And if you really want to geek out you can make sure you are near a clock at 9:26:53 a.m. (3/14/15 9:26:53). Hemp Plants Would Be Legal Under PA Senate Bill By Mark Nootbaar • Mar 13, 2015 A state legislator from a much more rural portion of Pennsylvania wants to make it legal for farmers to grow industrial hemp. State Sen. Judy Schwank (D-Berks) said the level of THC, which gives cannabis its psychoactive effect, is so much lower than the plant used in the drug trade that it can hardly been considered in the same conversation. Private Clubs, a Liquor Code Loophole and Lucky: How Gay Life Came of Age in Pittsburgh By Margaret J. Krauss • Mar 13, 2015 Margaret J. Krauss / 90.5 WESA Listen Listening... / 4:07 Gay culture didn't develop solely in the biggest cities of the mid-20th century. In Pittsburgh, gay life grew from the city's longstanding culture of private social clubs. Doug Rehrer started graduate school at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 1978. "It was a fun time but you always had to be aware of your surroundings because you could end up in a very bad situation," he said. Rehrer is not talking about his religion classes. Essential Pittsburgh: Tapping into the Contents of Our Drinking Water By Essential Pittsburgh • Mar 13, 2015 Ricky Romero / Flickr Kyle Bibby, a University of Pittsburgh professor of civil and environmental engineering has been studying the microorganisms in Pittsburgh's drinking water. He's received some help in this endeavor from students at the Pittsburgh Gifted Center and the Carnegie Science Center. Professor Bibby explains what we may, or may not want to know about the microbes in our tap water. "We like to think of water as "sterile," but really nothing is sterile, in the sense that microorganisms exist everywhere. Understanding what's there is essential to understanding why it's safe. It's also just very scientifically interesting." - Professor Kyle Bibby Also in this hour, the once in a lifetime date Super Pi Day arrives, host Guy Raz of the TED Radio Hour stops by, and the New Girl gives a guide to traveling the States with the luck of the Irish. Listen Listening... / 50:25 Pittsburgh Seeks Promise Zone Designation, Priority in Federal Grant Awards By Liz Reid • Mar 12, 2015 Flickr user Joseph A "A child's zip code should never determine her destiny; but today, the community she grows up in impacts her odds of graduating high school, her health outcomes, and her lifetime economic opportunities." 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"In so doing, together our two institutions are helping to ensure that future graduates have the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in our diverse and changing world," said CCAC President Quintin Bullock. Blarney and Beers: Social Club March 13 By Madelyn Knapp • Mar 12, 2015 Listen Listening... / 22:12 In case you've missed the sudden onslaught of green decorations around the 'burgh, this Social Club is all about Saint Patrick's Day celebrations! For those interested in an authentic Irish experience, Rachel and Josh tip you off on how to tell if you're in an authentic Irish pub, and recommend the top Irish watering holes around town guaranteed to provide the best Saint Patrick's Day celebrations. Not one for shamrocks and whiskey? On Friday night, the Carnegie Science Center is hosting their 21+ Night, H2OH, and the Thrill Mill will host a Yoga + Wine Mixer. 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Talking about the enduring popularity of the rather old-fashioned tradition of fraternities, Flanagan says: "You would think if there were something as un-modern, essentially un-modern, as a fraternity -- you know, clubs that are largely all white, clubs that are exclusionary in all sorts of ways and that have real problems in terms of violence against women -- you would think in modern America those would be the sort of things dying on the vine. You'd think there'd be no role for them at all anymore. And yet they are currently at kind of a zenith of popularity. So we're really stuck here with a system that nobody knows what to do with but that hundreds of thousands of young men absolutely love." Asked about the challenges of university oversight of fraternities and sororities, Kelderman explains: "Universities have struggled with this idea of holding Greek organizations accountable. They're private organizations, they often live in privately owned housing, and that creates a number of complications …" Also in the program, former August Wilson Center CEO Andre Kimo Stone Guess and Robert Morris University Director of Special Programs and Student Community Standards offer their perspectives on contemporary fraternity culture. Listen Listening... / 49:14 What You Need to Know For Saturday's St. Patrick's Day Celebration By Liz Reid • Mar 11, 2015 Flickr user DrivingtheNortheast Pittsburgh's St. Patrick's Day Parade and celebration is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday. We've put together a list of what you need to know to make the most of the day. Pages« first ‹ previous … 3 4 5 6 … next › last »


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The OSCAR Revolution
It took nearly a full year, but OSCAR had a beta demonstration at SC2000 in Dallas, Texas at the Oak Ridge National Lab booth in November 2000. The beta was run on a heterogeneous cluster of servers provided by Dell and SGI. The first release was announced shortly thereafter and made a successful debut at LinuxWorld Expo in New York City in February 2001, at the Intel booth. Since then, there have been continuous improvements in the OSCAR software stack, which currently includes:
Linux installation: SIS (system installation suite). SIS is an open-source cluster installation tool based on the merger of LUI (the Linux utility for cluster install) and the popular SystemImager. SIS, developed by Michael Chase-Salerno and Sean Dague from IBM, made its debut in the 1.2.1 version of OSCAR. Most recently, Brian Finley of Bald Guy Software, the creator of SystemImager, has been attending the OSCAR meetings and looking for free beer, as in free beer.
Security: OpenSSH—the most common way to allow secure connections in a Linux environment. OpenSSH is a collection of packages that handles secure connections, server-side SSH services, secure key generation and any other functions used to support secure connections between computers.
Cluster management: for cluster-wide management operations, OSCAR uses the Cluster Command and Control (C3) management package developed at Oak Ridge National Lab by Stephen Scott and Brian Luethke, an East Tennessee State University student working at ORNL. C3 provides a "single-system illusion" so that a single command affects the entire cluster. C3 remains installed on the cluster nodes for later use by cluster users and administrators.
Programming environments: Message-Passing Interface (MPI) and Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM). Most cluster users write the software that runs on the cluster. There are many different ways to write software for clusters. The most common approach is to use a message-passing library. Currently, compilers or math libraries installed by OSCAR come from the Linux distribution. Both LAM/MPI and MPICH have been available since OSCAR 1.1.
Workload management: Portable Batch System (PBS) from Veridian and Maui Scheduler (developed by Maui High Times Computing Center). To time-share a cluster, some type of workload or job management is needed. Maui acts as a job scheduler for OSCAR, making all resource allocation and scheduling decisions. PBS is the job server/launcher and in addition to launching and killing jobs, handles job queues.
MSC.Linux, a distribution developed by the Systems Division of MSC.Software Corporation, is of special importance in the acceptance of OSCAR. Shortly after the 1.0 version of OSCAR was available, MSC.Software announced their own cluster solution, the MSC.Linux Version 2001 operating system. This 2001 offering was in large part based on OSCAR, the first commercial offering based on the work of the OCG. MSC.Software's Joe Griffin added a Webmin interface to LUI (the first OSCAR cluster installation tool), which generated LUI bottom-line commands for multiple nodes to provide an easy-to-use interface in defining the nodes of the cluster and what resources to install on each. One of the original intents of the OCG was that commercial companies would see the value in the open OSCAR software stack and build their own proprietary or open stacks around the OSCAR stack. In so doing, companies using OSCAR would be freed from the mundane chores associated with building a cluster, such as providing the basic infrastructure, and could concentrate instead on more cutting-edge improvements to distinguish their offering.
Like other far-flung open-source projects, it was clear from the beginning that doing the work of the consortium face to face would not always be an option. The travel expense was simply too great, and it was difficult to align so many schedules. To coordinate the work, the group held open weekly phone conferences and would rely on mailing lists and an occasional meeting at a workshop or expo. There were face-to-face "integration parties" held quarterly, one at Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon and another at NCSA in Illinois. But for integrations held between meetings, a new construct was developed, called DIP Day, for distributed integration party. The intent of DIP Days was that everyone working on the project that had a cluster would set aside those days to work on OSCAR, jointly and remotely. Everyone would download the OSCAR package and install and run it, reporting any bugs to the group. On DIP Days, programmers were expected to provide fixes in real time, so that multiple iterations of the code could be tested shortly. Several conference calls with the entire team were held every DIP Day to assess progress and assign new work and priorities. By loosely coordinating the group between DIPs and face-to-face meetings, OSCAR made great strides in reliability and function.
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As Senior Executive Manager of Product Operational Testing (POT) at the Maui "High Times" Computing Center, let me say that we're like totally stoked that the OSCAR dudes are using Maui Wowee scheduler in their groovy software!
We're gonna be like helping out with their upcoming Benchmark Oscar for the Next Generation (BONG) project. Oops maybe I wasn't sposed to mention that yet, but kudos all around and oh yeah I forgot to mention that we now print all of our documentation on like organically grown hemp stock. But it mostly just gives you a headache (reading or smoking it). Bummer.
Ericsson and OSCAR
One of the projects at the Open Systems Lab (Ericsson Research) is the ARIES project
that targets improving the clustering capabilities of Linux to fulfill the carrier class requirements. ARIES shares some overlapping activities with the OSCAR project. However, the typical Ericsson Linux cluster supports many high-end characteristics that are not available on an OSCAR cluster.
Telecommunication systems are one of the several potential specialized platforms that can take full advantage of clustering. These systems support some of the most stringent requirements in terms of reliability, availability, and scalability. They must be available 99.999 percent of the time which includes hardware and software upgrades (including operating system) for any mission critical server applications. Among these characteristics are build-in redundancy schemes at different levels such as redundant Ethernet connections, redundant Network File System servers, and software RAID support for data redundancy, special methods for booting diskless nodes, optimized traffic distribution and
load balancing schemes and so on.
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What's On Tonight: Harry Potter, Rescue Me, Code Monkeys, Top Chef
- At 8, ABC has a new The Next Best Thing, then new episodes of American Inventor and Traveler.
- FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance at 8, followed by the premiere of Don't Forget The Lyrics!
- At 9, NBC has a new America's Got Talent, then a new Last Comic Standing.
- There's a new American Masters on PBS at 9, on Les Paul.
- Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, talks to Larry King on CNN at 9. Should be surreal.
- Sci-Fi has a new Ghost Hunters at 9, followed by a new Destination Truth.
- VH-1 has The World Series of Pop Culture at 9.
- There's a new Footballer's Wives at 9 on BBC America.
- More stuff at 9: G4 has two new episodes of Code Monkeys.
- At 10, FX has a new Rescue Me.
- Discovery has two new episodes of Cash Cab at 10.
- Also at 10: Bravo has a new Top Chef.
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Code Monkeys hits G4 next month
Back in January, I mentioned that actor/writer Adam De La Pena (I'm with Busey, Crank Yankers, Minoriteam) was creating an animated series for G4 called Code Monkeys. Well, the series will debut July 11, and based on the seconds-long promos I've been seeing, it looks pretty cool.
The series is animated in the 8-bit style of retro video games, with blocky backgrounds and characters who move as if being controlled by some unseen entity with a magical joystick. The main characters, Dave and Jerry, are game coders who occupy this bizarre pixel-y world.
I love the idea, but I also played a lot of video games in the '80s and '90s, so I'm excited to see how many of the show's inside jokes I'll comprehend. My only worry is that the series might be too much of a "niche show," much like Minoriteam was, and it won't attract a wide audience.
Note: the theme song is "Code Monkey" by Jonathan Coulton (used with permission). Thanks to our own Annie Wu for telling me 'bout that.
De La Pena creating new animated shows for G4 and FOX
Adam De La Pena, creator of the Adult Swim series Minoriteam and creator and co-star of the Comedy Central series I'm with Busey has created a new animated series for G4 called Code Monkeys. The series, which was recently picked up for fourteen episodes, takes place in a world that resembles an actual video game from the '80s and will include several allusions to games from that era. De La Pena will direct all the episodes, and will also serve as a writer and the voice of the main character.
Meanwhile, he's also developing another animated series for FOX with the working title Think Tank. The series will spoof office politics and is based on the idea that everything in pop culture is controlled by a single "think tank."
Out of the two projects, I must say Code Monkeys looks the most interesting to me. The idea of a cartoon set in a world resembling the blocky look of old Atari games could be really cool. The series will hit G4 this spring.
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Noémie Jelly added an answer in DNA Elution :Can I use Agencourt Ampure XP for genomic DNA purification?
I have genomic DNA eluted in TE buffer, and am planning to sequence them. Unfortunately, EDTA should be avoided for Nextera library preparation.
I am thus planning to purify my gDNA again, using Agencourt Ampure XP, in order not to lose too much material and elute it in water or 10 mM Tris (without EDTA of course).
In the protocol, it is said I should use 1,8 volume of beads for PCR purification. But what about total gDNA? Can't I use less? If I understood well, lower volumes of beads allow larger size selection?
Thank you for your answers. I agree with you Richard, it would have been better to simply dilute our samples (only 2.5 ng/µL is needed), but the problem is that the concentrations of our gDNAs are so low that it's not possible, we actually also need to concentrate them! That was our idea behind: getting rid of EDTA because we can not simply dilute them (concentrations ranging frome 3 to 15 ng/µL).Following
Mourad Attouchi added an answer in Shimadzu:Why the Moisture values differs from GC/MS and proximate analysis results?
Experiments on Co pyrolysis of low rank coal and rice husk in Py-GC/MS. The GC/MS i was using is PY-2020iD, Frontier Lab, Japan GC/MS, Shimadzu GC-2010 and QP2010. My m/z range is 10-400. This is what the values i'm getting 50% GC/Ms, 6% Proximate analysis. Why this happen?
I agree with Mr. Fegade, at 500°C several reactions must deliver H2OFollowing
David Riedl added an answer in Psychotherapy:What is the cut-off Score for the German Childhood Trauma Questionnaire?
does anyone know whether specific cut-off scores for the German CTQ have been defined? As far as I am informed in Bernstein & Fink (1998) cutoff scores for "none to low", "low to moderate", "moderate to severe", and "severe to extreme" exposure are provided for each scale of the Englisch version (Van de Eede et al. 2012).
I have already checked these publications, but no cutoff scores were included for the German CTQ
Klinitzke, G., Romppel, M., Häuser, W., Brähler, E., & Glaesmer, H. (2012). Die deutsche Version des Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) - psychometrische Eigenschaften in einer bevölkerungsrepräsentativen Stichprobe. Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie, 62(2), 47-51. doi:10.1055/s-0031-1295495
Wingenfeld, K., Spitzer, C., Mensebach, C., Grabe, H. J., Hill, A., Gast, U., & ... Driessen, M. (2010). Die deutsche Version des Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ): Erste Befunde zu den psychometrischen Kennwerten. Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie, 60(11), 442-450. doi:10.1055/s-0030-1247564
Bader K, Hänny C, Schäfer V, Neuckel A, Kuhl C. Childhood Trauma Questionnaire - Psychometrische Eigenschaften einer deutschsprachigen Version. Zeitschrift Für Klinische Psychologie Und Psychotherapie [serial online]. 2009;38(4):223-230. Available from: PSYNDEX: Literature and Audiovisual Media with PSYNDEX Tests, Ipswich, MA. Accessed March 25, 2015.
Thank you very much for your help!
Bernstein D, Fink L. Childhood Trauma Questionnaire: A Retrospective Self-
Report Questionnaire and Manual. San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corp; 1998.
Van Den Eede, F., Haccuria, T., De Venter, M., & Moorkens, G. (2012). Childhood sexual abuse and chronic fatigue syndrome. The British Journal Of Psychiatry, 200(2), 164-165. doi:10.1192/bjp.200.2.164a
Thank you both!Following
Giovanni Colonna added an answer in Receptor:Why are ligand molecules coming out of protein ones we define solvation ?
I was performing MD simulation for receptor ligand complex and once define simulation box and solvating ligand receptor complex ligand is coming out.
What could be the possible reasons?
If the system under MD, once at equilibrium, is not stable may also mean that the modeling of some part was not adequate. Of course, I assume that the MD was performed in water, at neutral pH and 20 - 37 °C. is that so?Following
Ramón Santana Fernández added an answer in Biometrics:What should I test for in a biometric fingerprint encryption algorithm?
Other than testing for efficiency, reliability and speeds in a biometric encryption algorithm. What else should I test for?
sou should test also cryptographic security and revocabilityFollowing
Gaetano Zuccaro added an answer in Biodiesel:How can I detect lipids producing by fungi?
I would like to produce biodiesel from fungi, therefore I would like to detect lipids producing from fungi, what is a suitable technique for detecting lipids?
We use Bligh and Dyer, Smedes or Folch method, but we can trying to use organic green solvents. You can read this article:
Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) as an Intensification Pretreatment for Greener Solvent Lipid Extraction From Microalgae (Zbinden et al., 2013).Following
Dr Murugesan Muthu added an answer in Juice:How to measure protein in fruit juice?
measurement with folin reagent
Measurement of Protein Content in Fruit Juices, Wine and Plant Extracts in the Presence of Endogenous Organic Compounds, Lebensm.-Wiss. u.-Technol., 30, 778–785 (1997) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002364389790267X#
Muddsair Sharif added an answer in Free Software:Pricipal component analysis, free software?
I am looking for a Statistical Software "free" that is able to perform Principal component analysis, Discriminant analysis, and cluster analysis. This program should be easy to use and with a clear graphic results visualization. R is too complex for me!
thanks a lot
i am also agreed with above all and i am also fan of R. i have been involve in it since 3 years and found very good but you will have also option for Rapid-miner and Weka. you can also used them if you are interested!
Gábor Hollandi asked a question in Brain Slice:What may couse the facilitation in the fEPSP amplitude in a Haas type interface chamber?
I'm working with a new Haas type interface chamber, called BSC-HT Brain Slice Chamber System Haas Top (Harvard Apparatus). The problem I encountered is as follows: after calibrating the perfusion, the slice doesn't look dry, yet the fEPSP amplitudes facilitate during the recording (increases by about 400 uV in an hour).
The ACSF is saturated with carbogen and is at room temperature, carbogen is also directly flown into the chamber to produce carbogen-steam. I tried different perfusion speeds (1-4 ml/min), but it didn't make significant difference. I previously worked with a similar Haas type chamber, and managed to overcome similar difficulties.
I wonder what may couse the facilitation in the fEPSP amplitude - any suggestion is welcome.
Thanks in advance.Following
Andrés Méndez-Lucas added an answer in PPAR alpha:Anyone knows circadian change of PPAR-alpha in liver?
Does anyone know the profile of circadian change of PPAR-alpha in mRNA and protein level? Thank you!
Fig 4, C and D.
I hope that helps.Following
Tapan Barman asked a question in Photovoltaics:How the open circuit voltage of a photovaltaic device changes with intensity of incident light?
In what factors the open circuit voltage of photovoltaic depends? How the open circuit voltage of a photovaltaic device changes with intensity of incident light?Following
Gonzalo Sanchez added an answer in Normality Test:Can I use a two way ANOVA for repeated measurements with discrete data?
I am making a behavioral research about social interaction in rats, I count contacts over time. It often happens that there is no contact between the rats , so the range of the data goes from 0 to 20 approx. I made a normality test and one of the treatments that decrease social interaction does not fit normality, I guess because the increase in the number of zeros . The problem is that there is no non parametric test equivalent to 2 way ANOVA with repeated measurements.
Actually, they just ejected my paper for this reason.
Hi Pablo!
My advice: go ahead and use it, then if everything goes well just play the "marcha peronista" and everybody will be happy.
Best regards,
Ni Ge added an answer in Special Relativity:Special relativity: a big Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
If you know the coordinates for one referential, you can only know the speed of the other. If this is true, are the Lorentz transformations incomplete? Or do they resolve the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
Dear Andrew,
When I read Joel article, it seems that relativistic quantum mechanics solve the observables problems by the concept of "localization" (not included in Galilean).Following
Joanna B. Whittier added an answer in Ecological Restoration:Does anyone have suggestions for developing a course ecological recovery potential screening tool, to address multiple ecosystems across a landscape?
The location is a corridor from the Florida panhandle, westward to east Texas. Longleaf pine is a significant component of this landscape but riparian, wetland, seepage bogs, and other fragmented ecosystems need to be addressed simultaneously within this landscape. Developing a course tool to prioritize connectivity and where ecological restoration should/can occur is needed.
You might consider these tools: Marxan (http://www.uq.edu.au/marxan/) Corridor Designer Evaluation Tools (http://www.jennessent.com/arcgis/corridor.htm), and Land Facet Corridor Analysis (http://www.jennessent.com/arcgis/land_facets.htm) to help address your questions.Following
Yao Zhou asked a question in Polymer Nanocomposites:Could anyone give me some suggestions on surface modification of nanoparticles using silane coupling agent?
I would like to prepare polymer nanocomposites for dielectric applications. In order to ensure good dispersion of the nanoparticles, surface treatment of the nanoparticle with silane coupling agent is needed, but I do not how to do it in details. Could anyone give me some suggestions in detail?Following
Mark Farman added an answer in Primer Sequences:How do I sequence PCR products?
Greeting Guys,
I am in need of sequencing my PCR products. My supervisor asked me that please take care that the forward and reverse primer sequence should match with the output sequence result. But, as far as I know the capillary sequencer will read the product from the 30 - 40 base pairs away. If this so, then I couldn't match the forward and reverse primer to that of the output sequence.
Could sumone suggest me a lab or third party research labs who carrying out the outsourcing samples
Thanks in advance
If the PCR product is short (<800 bp), you should get the reverse complement of the "opposite" primer's sequence at the end of each read. If, it's too long, then use Heba's suggestion.Following
Brennan Murphy added an answer in Organic Synthesis:How to make synthesis for Aminorhodanine ?
I have reference inform about the method of synthesis but it is so sad that the paper now is offline so I cant get the paper please Scientists here who are expert in Organic Synthesis Please Suggest design to method of synthesis with the available reagents and solvents mentioned in the attached image of reaction.and please every one here tell about the amounts of reagents suggested and if one have experience with the same conditions for another reactions tell about ur experience.
thanks in advance
If I were you, I'd use the following orgsyn procedure, but substitute ammonia with hydrazine.
Though this may not work, as you may have a competing ring closure to the 6 membered heterocycle.Following
Humberto O Cisale added an answer in Semen:What can we estimate from sperm pellet?
After separating seminal plasma from bovine semen, which type of parameters/biochemical tests can be performed from sediment/spermatozoal pellet?
It depends on wath equipement you have access. You can write me and I´ll send you some tips in order of the equipment you have.Following
Wendy Burpee added an answer in Urbanization:What drives diet changes in urbanization?
Hello colleagues
Are there any studies on what drives diet changes in the case of urbanization? Meat and wheat (bread) are up in Dakar and Dar Es Salaam compared with rural areas, but what is the driver? Higher average income? Is the fact that bread is just bought from a shop (most of the time) and does not require any preparation (such as cooking) a factor? What is the situation outside of Africa, e.g. Thailand, India? Is there any reason to suspect that increasing urbanization rates in China (65% projected for China) will be accompanied by an increase of bread consumption?
Also about recent changes in India:
Michael Reinartz added an answer in GraphPad Prism:How can I determine if apparent biased agonism is significant?
I have a number of agonists for which i have dose-reponse data in 2 or more systems. I'm using Graphpad prism to calculate bias, in this case using the equiactive approach as discussed in Rajagopal (2011). Calculating the "bias factor" from EC50s and Emax is simple enough, but I can't figure out how to get error estimates & determine significance. I have SEM for Emax and pEC50 for each ligand in each pathway but not sure how to sum these to give a total error for the calculated bias factor. Anyone have an easy step by step guide to or know where to find a suitable prism template?
Maybe the Appendix of Westhuizen et al 2014 will help you to tackle this question (it did in my case of bias analysis).
You could add weighted error propagation (simply by an coefficient), if you performed (very) different n-counts / replica per system.Following
Wolfgang H. Muss added an answer in Escherichia Coli:How can I prepare E. coli control for TEM analysis?
I'm trying to analyse E. coli with TEM, attached file is what I've done, the control sample without any treatment. It shows empty part in the cells.
I've tried 1.changing fixatives' concentration (glutraldahyde and OsO4), 2. varying E. coli incubation time, and 3. different protocols, but still can't get the satisfying result.
Which step would be critical for this experiment?
Ask some advice from any experts.
Your image [ultrathin section, ?nm thickness?, staining?] shows bacteria (E.coli) with an artificial morphology after "classical" fixation and perhaps processing (the latter we have no information so far, therefore one only can guess...about the causes of artifacts) as this is displayed mostly in bacterial specs. processed without some special treatment*).
Special treatment could be: PLT-embedding (progressive lowering temperature embedding in lowicryls HM20 or K4M), Use of microwave fixation and embedding, additives to your primary fixative, Processing by initial HPF-technol, and others. IMHO there are two major parameters influencing "ultrastructural preservation" after >>>chemical fixation:
i) elution of bacterial core components (e.g. also due to damage of bacterial wall) by fixative and/or processing chemicals
ii) non-preservation of bacterial core components due to bacterial wall permeation hindrance to fixative(s) and processing chemicals.
Also one should not forget the temperature maintained during all processing.
There are a lot of methods/articles on bacteria ultrastructure preservation out in the wild waiting to be found by eager young researchers...
(to name only some of some hundred articles cf: e.g.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1042/BC20070106/full, http://jb.asm.org/content/174/20/6508.full.pdf; or also www.researchgate.net/.../09e4150ab035d7de05000000.pdf, && )Following
N.F Mthembu added an answer in Vegetation:Does anyone know what AFRI vegitation index does and what does it stand for?
I want to know what AFRI vegetation index is. I am working with different indices and AFRI is one of them.
Thank you Heath for your answer.Following
Dominique Liger added an answer in Elution:How to purify protein with 27 KDa from GST ?
Dear colleagues, i am trying to purify a protein with 26 kDa size that is expressed as a GST fusion protein. When i have done on column GST cleavage in the flow through both GST and my protein of interest coming together. Even i tried Superdex 200 SEC there also proteins are co-eluting. My protein pI is 4.54 and GST pI is 6.09 so i did ion exchange (mono q) with buffer pH 6.5 i eluted by gradient elution with 1M NaCl but here also both the protein coming together. Please suggest some idea to purify the protein. I need this protein for crystallization and structural studies.
the image i have given is MONOQ profile in 18% SDS gel
Hi there,
Pass your eluate containing the mix of proteins onto Glutathion-agarose column again to trap the free GST. Hopefully your protein of interest will be in the flow through.Following
Emeline Maufroy added an answer in Imagination:What is the practical procedure for a mapping of the frequency-scaled curvature?
Lets imagine we have a DEM. How I map curvature for a changing curvature baseline length (h in questioned paper)?
I guess, that the best description is the list of the steps, like:
Step 1. Mapping of curvature from DEM with pixel size 20 m
Step2. ?????
How should I map frequency-scaled curvature for h=60 m, 100 m, 320 m, etc.?
Dear Almaz,
I'm not sure that you can simply take the average of the curvature values in the baseline length. I never tried that, so I don't know if it is equivalent or not.
The procedure that we describe in our paper is totally equivalent to the ArcGis procedure, so I advice you to closely follow it as this procedure is commonly used by people in geomorphology and hydrology.
Best regards,
Emeline MaufroyFollowing
Samir Qasim added an answer in Sport:Motivations in Martial and Non-Martial Sports?
I would like to measure behavioral regulations (motivation) in Martial sports, by comparison with Non-Martial Sports.
I am curious to receive either published or unpublished research in this area.
Any help would be appreciated.
Dear Behzad,
Below are two studies that reported motivation for practicing martial arts.
Jones, G. W., Mackay, K. S., & Peters, D. M. (2006). Participation motivation in martial artists in the west midlands region of England. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, Combat Sports Special Issue, 28-34.
Zaggelidis, G., Martinidis, K., & Zaggelidis, S. (2004). Comparative study of factors-motivates in beginning practicing judo and karate. Physical Training: Fitness for Combatives, May, 1-8.
Hope this helps
Alvaro D Garcia added an answer in Forage:What feeds should be added to a ration based around sprouted barley fodder?
When working with a dairy cow that is either approaching or at peak lactation, what other feeds should be incorporated into a total mixed ration to meet her energy needs? Also, what could be limiting her highest production level?
it is just one more feed to be included in the diet. One needs to look at it's composition and that of the rest of the feeds and balance the ration accordingly. I've used it in the past in dairy cow diets and animal performance was good.
Taqee Syed asked a question in Egg Shell:FTIR analysis for rubber samples?
I have a couple of Rubber samples which are basically natural rubber derivatives with and without bio-fillers. The bio-fillers used are Palm fibre, egg shells and an amalgamation of the two. I want to know if it is quite possible to conduct an FTIR analysis for a rubber sample? I am pretty sure it is possible. What i am confused about is the method of sample preparation. I have tried immersing the rubber sample in liquid nitrogen to freeze it so i could grind it into a powder for the analysis.Following
Narayanaperumal Jeyathilakan added an answer in Otters:Are these Taeniidae eggs found in feces from Neotropical Otter (Lontra longicaudis)?
These eggs were found in feces from Neotropical Otter (Lontra longicaudis)
I agree with Hudson. Taenid eggs must have hexacanth embryo. Hence it seems an artifact.Following
Martina Gaisch added an answer in Grounded Theory:What is the best way to operationalize grounded theory?
Since many conceptual thoughts are embedded in memos ( which -according to Charmaz- remain private and unshared), I wonder how to best operationalize the steps taken before the Integration of the abstract analyses in the grounded theory?
Does anybody know of any GT research (preferably a PhD thesis) where memos were incorporated and represented an integral part of the conceptual trail?Following
Marijan Marciuš added an answer in Polycrystalline Materials:Why would cooling a polycrystalline material down cause differences in peak intensity in powder XRD?
I have run a sample at various temperatures with out removing / rotating the sample or changing the diffractometer, it was locked in the machine the whole time. There are definitely diffrences in peak intensity that are monotonic with temperature and reversible...I'm not sure how to explain it.
Any ideas?
As Dominique has explained in great detail the temperature effects on crystal structure, there is also another possibility. Without any more details about your experimental setup, regarding the cooling of the sample, one possible effect might be condensation of moisture and other atmospheric fluids on the surface of your sample (if unprotected) during the cooling phase, that might interfere with intensity of your diffraction peaks.Following


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Military shuts down MP visits to bases
Program ends after snooping scheme revealed
A program to educate parliamentarians about the work being done by the Canadian military has been shut down months after it was revealed officers were using such visits to collect information on Defence Minister Peter MacKay's political opponents.
The parliamentary outreach program allowed MPs and senators to visit military units and bases to improve their knowledge of the Canadian Forces.
But the visits became controversial earlier this year when it was revealed officers gathered information on MacKay's political opponents in an effort to help out the beleaguered defence minister.
Air Force officers targeted Scott Simms, a Liberal MP who criticized the decision by MacKay's office to order a search and rescue helicopter to retrieve the minister from a private fishing lodge. That flight cost taxpayers $16,000, according to reports last year.
In addition, officers gathered information on NDP defence critic Jack Harris, who also has criticized MacKay.
The officers were trying to find out if the opposition MPs had ever used military aircraft and, if so, had reimbursed the Canadian Forces for their flights.
But both MPs were visiting bases as part of military efforts to educate them about the Canadian Forces and at no point had they used aircraft for personal reasons.
The Canadian Forces later defended its decision to collect such information and turn it over to MacKay's office, saying the process was no different than its efforts to gather facts for the public and news media.
But some MPs said the military's practice jeopardized the parliamentary outreach program. Former military officers also warned such activities, which prompted allegations about Canadian Forces personnel digging up dirt on the minister's political enemies, crossed the line and jeopardized the long-standing political neutrality of the military.
But now the parliamentary program has been shut down, the military confirmed to the Ottawa Citizen.
"Given the current context of fiscal restraint and the realignment of priorities to available resources, it was decided to discontinue the parliamentary outreach program and to focus on the delivery of other programs," Defence Department official Elizabeth Hodges stated in an email.
"While the Canadian Forces Parliamentary Program has been discontinued, engagement opportunities for parliamentarians will continue in a decentralized manner at the base and wing level."
DND did not provide details about how much will be saved by shutting down the program.
But the NDP's Harris thinks the move is a mistake and doesn't believe cutting the program will save much money. Although he thought it was wrong and misguided for officers to collect information for MacKay on opposition MPs, he believes the parliamentary program was worthwhile.
"It provides a valuable window and perspective to members of Parliament on what the military do and how they operate," Harris said.
He spent three days with search and rescue crews, he said, learning about their jobs. Former NDP leader Jack Layton spent time on a frigate, while other MPs went with army units, he added.
"The military harmed the program by co-operating with MacKay's office and by treating it as a political issue," Harris said. "But I still think they should bring the program back."
The outreach program, he noted, "improves the democratic relationship between Parliament and the military."
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Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 23, 2012 A9
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BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — America's top military officer said Wednesday that the impasse over a security agreement between the U.S. and Afghanistan is encouraging the enemy to take bold actions and could lead some Afghan forces to align with the Taliban to "hedge their bets."
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with his commanders in Afghanistan to assess conditions and reassure them that they should focus on the considerable work they have to do this year and not worry about next year.
Dempsey told The Associated Press in an interview that President Barack Obama's order Tuesday to begin actively planning for a total withdrawal was making Afghan military leaders anxious and eating away at their troops' confidence.
Frustrated with Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai, Obama ordered the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year. But Obama is also holding out hope that Afghanistan's next president, to be elected this spring, may eventually sign a stalled security agreement that could prevent the U.S. from having to take that step.
The administration would like to leave up to 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after combat operations end on Dec. 31 to continue training Afghan forces and conduct counterterrorism missions. But without the agreement that would give international forces legal standing to stay in Afghanistan, Obama has threatened to pull all troops out, leaving the work to Afghan forces.
Obama spoke Tuesday with Karzai, the first direct conversation between the two presidents since last June. Karzai has refused to sign the pact.
The impasse is having an effect, Dempsey said.
"It is having an effect on the enemy and in some ways I think encourages them, and intelligence supports that," Dempsey told reporters. And, he said, the uncertainty of a continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan may encourage Afghan security forces in some parts of the country to "hedge their bets."
"There are parts of the country where it seems to be, there will - with some likelihood ...be some accommodations between the Afghan security forces and the Taliban," said Dempsey. "I think a delay in the (security agreement) might accelerate those kind of accommodations. I don't think it will be widespread by the way, but we do have to be alert to that possibility."
He also said expects that the Taliban will become more aggressive during the coming summer fighting season.
For Dempsey, Obama's announcement triggered a day of meetings with his commanders and with hundreds of troops in this eastern Afghanistan base in the shadow of the volatile Pakistan border region to explain what it all means. And he emphasized to them that is does not mean that a zero U.S. force is now a foregone conclusion.
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