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This weeks episode has the title Dirty Harry, which probably does not mean that baby Harrison is overdue for a diaper change. Series regular (and Lance Henricksen look-alike) James Remar gives a particularly angry, wrathful performance this week as Dexters imaginary/ghostly stepfather Harry in the wake of Deb and Agent Lundys shooting.
Dexter has grown increasingly skeptical about Harry over the seasons. At first, he came across, in flashbacks, as a positive influence on his young adopted son. Perceiving at an early age that his adopted son has sociopathic tendencies and a fascination with death, he channeled Dexters homicidal instincts in a positive direction, The Code of Harry, so he only preys on murderers and takes enormous precautions to cover his tracks. Early on, Dexters flashbacks and imaginary conversations have portrayed Harry as a combination of guardian angel and nurturing parent, albeit one who offers advice on the best places to dispose of chopped-up bodies.
The shows perspective on Harry and Dexters relationship, which wasnt exactly Field of Dreams to begin with, has become more dark and complex. Lately Harry has become kind of a complainer, counseling Dexter against family life, although he has a point if Dexter cant or wont give up killing. Dexter has become more disillusioned with how he was raised, and wondered whether Harry deliberately made him a monster, rather than try to cure his monstrous potential. Dexter and some times Harry talk about dark passenger, the bloodthirsty aspect of Dexters psyche. I would not be surprised if theyre building to the idea that Harry himself is Dexters dark passenger. Can Dexter exorcise his own father? Would the show still exist even if he could?
Dirty Harry does not actually dwell much on Dexters relationship with Harry, but Ill bet the shows going this way. This week hes more like Dexters cop-partner on this one. Their imaginary conversations about the need to protect and avenge Deb provide Dexter with a different murderous motivation. Hes not just using justice as a pretext to feed his addiction. This time it really IS personal.
What shocked me most about the episode was that it was full-on night (actually 5 a.m.) at the shooting, and full-on daylight when Dexter arrives at the crime scene, with Deb being loaded into the ambulance. Its amazing Deb didnt bleed to death. Fortunately her wound was relatively minor, leaving Jennifer Carpenter free to give a For Emmy Award Consideration performance this week. Initially, I didnt take to Carpenter, who portrayed Deb as so immature and coltish, it was easier to imagine her as a high school athlete than a law enforcement professional. Shes dialed it back over the years and made Debs explosive emotions more tomboyish, as if shes being one of the boys in a high-testosterone workplace. Carpenters an actress who digs deep and does a lot if she could get the right movie role with the right director, she could rack up awards like Hilary Swank.
No more secrets serves as a refrain on multiple subplots this week. LaGuerta went public with her and Batistas relationship. Deb came clean to Anton about sleeping with Lundy. Rita, fatefully, discovered that Dexter has been keeping his apartment. When Dexter walked in to find Rita there, I flashed on the Busted song from Phineas and Ferb. I hope this plot thread will explore just what Rita thinks of Dexter. She seems to take it at face value that he was a drug user.
Given the scenes of Trinity freaking out over his Denver omelet and choosing a framing hammer, I thought the show would continue the manhunt aspects. I was surprised that Dexter found Trinitys (seemingly happy) suburban home at the end of the episode, not even the half-way mark through the season. Clearly, Dexter and Trinitys relationship is going to become more complicated. Incidentally, I found the scene with Dexter watching Trinity on the surveillance camera to be terrifying. Something about seeing spooky images on grainy black-and-white heightens their horror than just watching the gore scenes directly. Maybe it activates your imagination while putting you in the watchers place.
Two questions: Why does Christopher Darga, as the security guard, look so familiar? Maybe its just because hes been on every other show, apparently. Also, was the hot reporter chick only hired to provide more nudity on the episodes? If so, the actress deserves a For Emmy Award Consideration speech of her own.
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Nancy Brinker Gets 21 News Jobs, Rolled into One Very Fancy Title
As it's unlikely you saw this press release from the White House yesterday, perhaps you missed the announcement that President Bush has nominated two Texans (one of whom is very local) for some gigs currently open in his administration. Fine -- feel free to insert Alberto Gonzales joke here. There, feel better?
First off, Bush asked his old pal Nancy Brinker to act as Chief of Protocol at the Department of State -- a job that entails literally rolling out the red carpet for visiting heads of state and babysitting foreign leaders whilst they're in the U.S. on official business. (Seems like a lot of busywork to me.) Brinker would also get the title of ambassasor during her tenure, should the Senate confirm her-- and it will, as the founder of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was previously Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Hungary. Love those full titles.
And Bush also tapped Steven H. Murdock as his new Director of the Census at the Department of Commerce. Murdock's currently Texas' state demographer and author of summertime reading-list favorite Demographics: A Guide to Methods and Data Sources for Media, Business, and Government. --Robert Wilonsky
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My own conducting career had an inauspicious set of role models as a child: Bugs Bunny conducting in the style of Leopold Stokowski, and Danny Kaye. Still, I managed to get on a bit in the profession thanks to some excellent mentoring and teaching, and have often wondered if people really know what conductors actually do.
To open up this topic I invited three conductors who have special connections with Australia to chat with me and tease out the questions of what conducting is really all about, and perhaps more importantly, what it is not.
Christopher Seaman (pictured), Nicholas Braithwaite and Benjamin Northey all work in Australia and internationally, and all have very different sets of experiences on which to draw. In this program you'll hear from them first hand about what they think conducting is all about, and what they really wish people understood about their work.
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Nicholas Braithwaite's biography at Tennant Artists here and on Wikipedia here
Christopher Seaman's biography at Harrison Parrott here and on Wikipedia here
Benjamin Northey's biography at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra website here and his home page here
The full interviews with Nicholas Braithwaite, Benjamin Northey and Christopher Seaman can be downloaded from Keys To Music Extras, here.


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You might know him as Ethan Craft from Lizzie McGuire, but now, actor Clayton Snyder is all grown up, and he's starring in a new mini-pilot online called "Second Star." We still want him to be in an Uncharted movie, though.
We deep dive into Flyboard Air, Volocopter and Stephen Hawking's Starshot Project. Also, we welcome actor Clayton Snyder to the show to discuss "Second Star" and playing pro water polo.
Winner of the AERO 2012 Lindbergh Prize for Innovation, E-volo is trying to change personal transportation with its multi-propeller aircraft designs.
Aside from being emission-free, the German-built Volocopter VC200 is a VTOL aircraft that aims to offer a calm and quiet ride.
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Phoenix Police on Hunt for Alleged Kid-Killer Juan Garcia: "We're Not Going Away"
Phoenix cops have been working since Saturday to find Juan Garcia -- who's accused of killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old son late Friday night -- and police say the leads have been scarce as of yet.
"We're going to track him down -- it's just a matter of when," Phoenix Sergeant Trent Crump tells New Times. "We're not going away."
According to court documents, Garcia, 18, picked up 2-year-old Jorge Zamora-Rogel by the neck and slammed him into a wall at his girlfriend's house, before smashing the boy's head into the ground and beating him unconscious. Garcia attempted to wake the boy up, but when he didn't respond, Garcia just left the house. Jorge died after his girlfriend allegedly waited about three hours to call 9-1-1.
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"When you have an act like this committed against a 2-year-old, there's not too many people that doesn't outrage," Crump says. "Including the people in this department."
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Regardless of Garcia's prior juvenile troubles, police describe his alleged actions on Friday night as a "violent assault on [the boy] causing severe swelling to [his] head, obvious bruising, bloody froth coming from his mouth, labored breathing with rattling sounds, unconsciousness, and non-responsiveness to pain stimuli for over three hours..."
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Today I apologized to Nebraska, talked Bond Justin and other stuff.
Today I apologized to Nebraska, talked Bond Justin and other stuff.
We all do things. You do things; your friends do things; even celebrities do things. So why is this Tumblr so funny? Well, it takes photos of Justin just being Justin and adds captions that are just a little bit absurd. Behold, Justin Timberlake doing things!
Justin Timberlake releases the official video for 'Suit and Tie.'
Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z are packing up their suits and ties and hitting the road together...we think! JT, who has been mounting his musical comeback since the calendar turned, and the Hova, who lends his rap talents to JT's smash 'Suit & Tie,' are expected to play 10 stadium gigs together.
He's got a Top Five hit on the Billboard Pop charts, another one on the way, and a new album right around the corner, so if you feel like Justin Timberlake is everywhere these days, we can understand why. But Sunday night (Feb. 10) after his Grammy performance, there was only one place to see him: At the Palladium in L.A., in front of 4,000 screaming fans.
We're getting closer and closer to seeing '20/20,' courtesy of that 'Suit & Tie'-wearing crooner known as Justin Timberlake.
Today we fell in love with Robin Daggers, talked about Yoda and dispelled Beyonce and 'NSNYC rumors.
20 songs in 20 days? That's a whole lot of music! So is that where Justin Timberlake got the title of his album 'The 20/20 Experience'? Actually no! Timberlake joked with Ryan Seacrest, "I wish I was that smart." JT was playing some of his new tunes for his best friend who remarked, "This is music you can see," and just like that, 'The 20/20 Experience' was born.
Contrary to what some reports would have us believe, Justin Timberlake did not call his ex-girlfriend Britney Spears a "bitch" during his Pre-Super Bowl concert on Saturday, Feb. 2.
As the stars party-hopped this weekend in anticipation of the Super Bowl on Sunday, Justin Timberlake took the stage at the DIRECTV's Super Saturday concert on Feb. 2 for his first full live show in three years.
During the set, he performed some oldies, but he also did three new songs from his upcoming album 'The 20/20 Experience' -- 'Little Pusher Lover Girl,' 'Bad Girl' and 'Suit & Tie.' And for the latter, collaborator Jay-Z even joined him on stage.


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DPReview is hiring! Software development manager
DPReview is hiring! We're looking to add a Software Development Manager to our Seattle-based team. Bring your creativity, passion and talent to help us build the next generation of our web and mobile experiences. Responsibilities include building and managing our team of engineers, listening to audience feedback and driving DPReview's technical vision. See all of the details below.
Software Development Manager
DPReview.com is seeking a talented, passionate, creative developer to help us craft the look, feel, and functionality of the world's most popular digital camera website. The right candidate will be capable of defining the technical vision for the product, as well as leading the team in achieving that vision.
Our engineers work closely with a small in-house product management and editorial team. Fast, scrappy development and testing, combined with regular (sometimes daily) deployment ensures that no one gets the chance to fall into a rut and that everyone has the opportunity to help shape projects from concept to delivery. You will listen to our audience, help drive our goals, and leverage our unique position in the photographic industry, and to constantly strive for better, smarter ways to deliver the content, services, and community tools that have made the site the success it is.
You'll be excited by the opportunity to build rich interactive user experiences on a large-scale public facing website. Your core focus will be to build the next generation of DPReview web and mobile experiences, including shopping and comparison tools for photographic gear, community and social features focused on photography enthusiasts, and special products in support of Amazon teams. DPReview has enough traffic to pose interesting performance challenges, so a solid knowledge of SQL, database design, and optimization techniques is important.
While we are part of Amazon, DPReview has its own unique culture, with a small but cohesive team of editorial staff and developers. You'll feel like you're at a small startup, with lean, product-focused processes, but with all the upsides of working for a large company.
DPReview.com runs primarily on .NET, but any solid experience with web technologies is sufficient. Also, we collaborate with other Amazon teams to develop features and widgets for Amazon.com, which provides the unique opportunity to show your work to a much larger audience than DPReview's millions of daily visitors.
Basic Qualifications
- Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education
- 4+ years professional experience in software development
- Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis, databases, and web technologies
- Proficiency in at least one modern server-side programming language (such as C# or Java) and a client-side language (JavaScript); HTML and CSS experience is assumed
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- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Build and manage a team of engineers. Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach technical staff
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated leadership ability as a lead software developer
- People management, team building and mentoring experience
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software such as large-scale public websites that have been successfully delivered to customers
- A track record of handling ambiguity well, translating loose product and project requirements into effective customer solutions
- Hands-on expertise in many web technologies, ranging from front-end user interfaces through back-end systems and all points in between
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, etc.
- Strong UX intuition and demonstrated UI design skills
- Solid database design experience with an emphasis on performance
- Experience with systems administration
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I can use word and excel.
Plus I am an excellent conversationalist around a water cooler. Eg: "how about the Tiges"
Oh, also you would need to relocate to Australia.
Maybe we finally see more real estate used. 2 massive pieces of dark grey background to the right and left NOT used when using browser in actual size.
see https://www.dropbox.com/s/4kx9k7dxxdub3xz/Screenshot%202016-03-28%2009.37.41.png?dl=0
Last year you guys were looking for two new reviewers, did anything actually ever materialize from that?
The current presentation/navigation/menu system/interactivity of DPR is among one of the best, if not the best, around. A lot of sites are going to a template based "responsive" design that is neither attractive nor functional. Be cautious of who you hire, and make sure they are capable of knowing when to use the "overrated" responsive design capabilities, and when not to. A lot of web developers these days are buying into the universal "responsive" approach because "someone" told them it was the best, and that "someone" may be great coder, but has no idea what is both functional and attractive.
thanks, Mike
a little bit of a follow up: the site on smaller devices (phones, pads, pod, etc.) is approaching the " less functional" territory mentioned above, but is at least usable.
If I promise to grow a beard and wear hipster clothing would you turn a blind eye to my lack of 'academic' qualifications?
I heard that the cost of housing in Seattle is so expensive that if you don't make at least $150K a year you'll have to live either in a cardboard box or a van down by the river.
yes, I live in the NW and the cost of living in city is expensive. But more important is the dull wet weather 8 months out of the year!
Or in a tree.
Also, vans down by the river have been steadily climbing in value.
"Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education"
As somebody who has a Bachelor's Degree and worked 40 years in the real world I think you've got it backwards. 1 year work experience is worth 3-4 years of college. Most of the people fresh out of college I worked with didn't know much and they graduated from quality engineering schools.
What they say is:
"Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education
4+ years professional experience in software development"
It means Bachelor AND 4+ years of experience OR 12+ years of experience. Now I could point brakects for clarity, but AND is stronger than OR.
Education + experience OR a lot of experience.
Maybe reading this advertisment is a first test, in the end software development manager needs to think logically and understand specifications well.
I really wish DP is not based in such a boring city. Travel south 678 miles / 1,091 km and you'd be in San Francisco. That's a much prettier and interesting city for sample photos and surprisingly better weather too.
SF is actually quite boring these days.
It is a matter of degrees. Seattle < SF < LA < London < NY < HK.
DigitalRev overtook most photography channel on YouTube because it has HK as backdrop. I am sure some city in India and maybe Brazil would be even more interesting but I am not sure how long a review camera will last in those places.
We need an algorithm that directs the comments to focus on cameras and photography rather than brand bashing, people bashing and pixel peeping.
You forgot the most important one, generalizations about other people's comments like what you just did.
We need new photo viewer, now!
The notion that you need a degree is becoming less important, and most of the successful business owners I know, the last thing they consider is a college degree. Successful leaders know that it's not a degree, but the real world experience and results that matter.
Keep your degrees. I'll hire someone who's actually done something to show.
You won't get a tech job in Seattle without having 'done something to show', degree or not.
My point was that you need experience, and you don't need a degree to get experience.
By the way, I love this site.
In many fields you need a certain level of education to even be able to work, so sometimes knowledge is a pre-requisite before you can get any experience at all. Surgeons, engineers, nuclear physicists, chemists, microbiologists, do you think any of those could work in their respective fields without an education? Software development is no different.
I wasn't going to bother, but you're wrong about software development being no different. It is different. Of course there are professions where higher education is a must, but we are talking about software development. My son is 15 and is way farther along in his software development than most kids entering college, and is gaining real world experience by working on paying projects, both from software and physical IT stuff.
Another friend of mine who barely passed high school, and never stepped into a college is now heading a department of software engineers in SF. My nephew is VP of a security software company and he has the same story as my friend. Both of them are making a lot more than most, and they never had to pay off college debt.
Don't get me wrong, many people, such as yourself, need a college education, but not all.
tony - education e.g. helps in developing reading skills. Advarts says - "Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education". If you have the experience, your education is not essential.
Additionally, I doubt that vast majority of companies that put some requirement on education doesn't know what they're doing.
Tony, I am not saying that a person without formal education in software will not be able to code. It's just that a good university-level program will teach you a lot more than just writing a program that works. In fact, "coding" is not a purpose in itself, it is only a means to an end. Moreover, there are many ways of writing a program, and simply producing a program that works is not enough to quarantee a quality product.
Building software projects requires high-level skills, many of them based on math, and the most important part is not the coding per se, but the design, the architecture, the algorithms, the choice of technology, methodologies, and so on. The difference between a university-level software professional and a coder is the same as the difference between an architect and a construction worker. Both are needed, but they have different skillsets.
Their former software person must have found a better paying job. I live in the area, and the software sector in Seattle is smoking hot these days. DPR better have a good pay and benefits package for their hire or they won;t get anyone good.
It's actually a very nice place to live with very mild winters, and the annual average rainfall is actually less than Cincinnati, OH. Flowers are starting to bloom and I would put up Seattle as a flower photography haven versus any place. Summers are long. Coastlines and mountains within a short drive. Golden hour landscape photography is terrific.
We're part of Amazon. Same pay, same benefits, more toys.
So I work on something that's critical to people in their day to day life (money) with millions of users. I've torn down a couple of huge applications and introduced and replaced several mobile apps. I was also a cold-calling sales guy for nearly a decade.
I've become pretty resilient over the years. Lots of rejection and accusations of conspiracy and calls for my job and/or head (for something like moving a button).
That's all to say I'm pretty sure I'd still be driven to drink if my fellow dpreview readers were my users. Talk about herding angry cats when it comes to developing a single experience for everybody. Good luck to the team and the sucker err.... highly qualified individual you find.
We provide an excellent selection of medications to help in dealing with our readers.
Looks perfect for me. I don't meet any of the qualifications.
That job is mine!
Cool! Unfortunately, I meet zero of the basic qualifications, and precisely one of the preferred ones. I'm assuming I need not apply ;-)
BTW, you may want to consider releasing a NATIVE iOS / Android (/ WM) app. It'd offer far better experience, particularly WRT browing photos and, when propelry(!) written, can offer much moe functionality than the current mobile version of DPR.
(Just don't do the same way as Flickr did. Their native iOS app diplays low-res crappy photos on both iPhones and iPads.)
and this is again US residents only, I assume?
Number 1 task: make the site retina display compatible. A photography gear site not able to take advantage of modern high resolution display is shameful.
... and the gallery is absolutely useless on an iPad. Not only because it lacks Retina support...
"The problem would then be a (non)clear one, yes, but on your end: Liking to be duped by Apple marketing."
A bit offensive today, aren't we? :) He may have not used the term properly, but he's still right: it's a PIA to browse the galleries with an iOS devices - low-res images and, when you zoom in everything gets misplaced.
I was not pretending to be offensive but rather reversing the logic into what "the problem" truly is.
People like to buy Apple products to be "trendy" in spite of their consumer-abusing "walled garden" approach and their continued failure to deliver top-tech products.
In the specific case of the much-touted "Retina" this happens to a point I am starting to believe the marketing name has actually been created to preclude prospective buyers to understand what they're getting into (...and their continuous use of the designation into successive, differently speced but always short-performing versions of the display only reinforces that perception...)
It is OK for people to do whatever they want with their money.
It is not OK to then come to online forums to complain that their "dbluetooth" can't connect with other devices or that the photography they're viewing in a photography site looks like cr@p or that the galleries don't work.
"People like to buy Apple products to be "trendy" in spite of their consumer-abusing "walled garden" approach and their continued failure to deliver top-tech products."
It's both a pro and a cons. I can safely give my wife, my mother-in-law etc. an iPad / iPhone because I know they won't refuse them after some days of using them. This wouldn't necessarily happen with an Android and particularly not with a full-blown Windows tablet.
Of course, for us power users, restrictions are a PIA. This is why I'm jailbreaking to get rid of some of the restrictions.
Well, if it is determined that a specific user benefits from iOS, by all means, give him/her that.
...but, if you're in a Photography site it is logic to assume YOU like photography.
Photography (...and cinema...) is about resolution, color fidelity and, most especially, contrast.
If you're a photographer and are not using a SuperAmoled or SuperAmoled+ display you're making yourself an huge disfavor.
Now, you can still say "oh, yes but all things pondered Apple/iOS/Retina works best for me".
Again, that is perfectly OK but then it has to be an assumed option and it is not OK coming here to complain about the site's programmers prowess or lack of it, which was the crux to my original reply to SDPharm's comment.
"Again, that is perfectly OK but then it has to be an assumed option and it is not OK coming here to complain about the site's programmers prowess or lack of it, which was the crux to my original reply to SDPharm's comment."
Well, for casual Web browsing, an iPad is still great. I do most of my kitchen / bathroom / bedtime browsing on my iPad Pro. I could afford (and definitely could operate) the SP4 but I'm afraid I wouldn't use it as frequently in the above cases than my iPad Pro; for example because of the price difference. (it's not that big a problem if a 930 euro Pro breaks - as opposed to a 2000+ euro i7-based SP4.)
That is, even techies and photography fans (like me) may very frequently browse DPR / Flickr etc. wanting flawless for example gallery rendering support.
This is just out. I wholeheartedly recommend you check it out:
"People like to buy Apple products to be "trendy" in spite of their consumer-abusing "walled garden" approach and their continued failure to deliver top-tech products.".
Good description.
Need to add that they like to brag about the outrageous price they paid as well!!
Kind'a reminds me of my wealthy neighbor who knew nothing about photography.
Back in the late 1990s, he bought a top of the line Nikon 35mm camera and a couple of expensive lenses.
Every time he wanted to mount or remove a film from the camera, or anything to do with batteries, he came knocking on my door so I'd do that for him.
I had set the camera for him to fully automatic, and that setting never changed!!
He loved to look "trendy", and to show off expensive gadgets that he hardly knew how to use!
After all, to each their own but I certainly do not have the image quality complaint that Apple hardware users seem to complain about.
Of course I never was, and never will be an Apple product customer.
I'm afraid we non-US residents don't need to apply...
LOL. Not sure about that. My photography skills are pretty average, but my IT skills were well sought after when I was working full time.
I have the experience and the passion, but I'm not moving to Seattle.
We just had a weird cool spell a few hours ago where it dropped to 24c and I had to drive back home to get my wife's hat and coat!
I made a sad excuse for an Android app about four years ago. I still use and alter it to this day. So I kinda-sorta satisfy 1/8th of your bullet points... Sorry everyone else, this job is mine!
What's the compensation? You're looking at $140k/yr plus for the talent you are looking for.
Market rates + access to play with all of the latest gear.
"Can I work remotely from UK?"
In the last 4-5 years, all their job postings have been US-only. (I know as, being proficient in both J2EE and iOS programming - and knowing quite a bit about photography - have been constantly monitoring their announcements.)
"3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education"? So let me get this straight. In your mind, a recent college graduate on web design with zero experience would be as valuable to you as someone who's actually been designing websites for 12 years?
But it also means the longer your education, the more work experience they want. They'd take you with a BSc (3 years) and 9 years of work experience, but not with a BSc + MSc (5 years) and 10 years of work experience.
The longer you're in school, the longer it takes to forget all the bs they taught you.
0 x 4 = 0
Some people need education to help with illiteracy. One of the basic skill is "4+ years professional experience in software development".
Not sure if it makes sense to explain since reading is not the strong side here, but it's about being educated AND experienced OR being very experienced.
I wish for two program changes for members' galleries right away:
1. Please, allow members to batch backup download all gallery information, including challenge placements, etc...
2. Change gallery reference numbering so the first photo in the gallery is number 1. The way it is now, the last photo uploaded to the gallery is number 1. The reference numbers are always changing every time a new photo is added. I have over 500 photos in my gallery and I cannot refer to any photo by number, after I add another photo.
Also, maybe some gallery and challenge member statistics would be interesting to read in your sidebar; top 10 members challenge entered, challenges voted, photos in galleries, forum activity, etc..
Just when you get used to the look and feel of a website and have mastered navigating it then poof! An "engineer" comes in and changes everything. ):
Bernardf12...what problems do you have??...on Android being able to post/edit comments works fine...
Fine... I'll do it. But I demand a hefty expense account and airline vouchers.
And a flexible schedule.
VERY flexible.
I may not come in at all.
When can you please never start?
I can start not coming in tomorrow morning.
I'll send my mailing and account information to payroll.
Thanks for the laugh you both!
Ok Big question: What does this job pay?
Maybe now we can get ignore in news messages and the tablet version of messages and desktop version of messages will be in sync.
Hopefully the new guy/girl will know how to implement a mobile first strategy because it would be great to be able to edit my posts on my phone for instance.
i'll repeat it: the only real requirement one needs for this job is to know that DARK TEXT goes on LIGHT BACKGROUND to make text legible. and being stubborn and convincing enough to finally break the tradition of one of the noughties design nightmares.
Software development people have nothing to do with how it looks and feels. Believe me it's for the better that way.
from the ad: "..is seeking a talented, passionate, creative developer to help us craft the look, feel, and functionality of the world's most popular digital camera website."
that is _exactly_ someone to start a process to keep the look & feel of the site in it's dark tradition – nothing wrong with that – but then making texts legible and less stressful on the eyes.
"the dark background is better for screens" is an age old argument, but holds only true if your screen is really crappy and if the enviroment you read is lit like a cave and not up to workplace ergonomics.
get a decent screen, light your place beyond 250 lux and your eyes will hurt after a short time reading light-on-dark.
but i know that bringing these facts up is moot because cavemen will be cavemen and tradition always _trumps_ reason.. ;)
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My initial thought is "Yeah, Mobile APP!", but looks like DPR is getting a new face and some features.
Actually, DPR has been with this face for like.... forever. They hire people for their technical stuff from time to time and they've never ever changed the main 'feeling' of the site.
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It worked perfectly on Windows 8 64 bit.
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Error states "Virtual Bus Driver is not loaded"
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Ultimate Steak Sandwich 1 of 10Bring your partner to his favorite sandwich shop — without leaving the kitchen! This manly, meaty steak sandwich is bursting at the seams with chimichurri goodness. Toasted ciabatta bread and cheese take this from ordinary to extraordinary.
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Sausage Kebabs 2 of 10You can't go wrong with food on sticks. These sausage kebabs are glazed with a balsamic and fig reduction — but don't worry, it just sounds fussy. He'll be impressed — and you'll be stress-free.
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Beer Can Chicken 3 of 10It's simple math, really: beer + chicken = happy dads. Beer cooked inside a chicken = ecstatic dads. All kidding aside, the aromas from the beer make this one of the juiciest, most flavorful chickens you'll ever eat.
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It was interesting to have explained some of the differences between current workplaces and previous work places. I struggled a little with de Botton's writing as it felt quite condescending to those who work in non-creative industries.
In Fates worse than death. An autobiographical collage Kurt Vonnegut wrote that a beginning writer should be on the look out for unusual fields, technology, occupations or cultural niches, which may harbour a treasure trove of unusual vocabulary and usage of language. Alain de Botton is hardly a new writer, but The pleasures and sorrows of work seems to be a typical illustration of Vonnegut's tip.
In The pleasures and sorrows of work De Botton collects 10 essays about a very wide variety of topics: (1) Cargo Ship Spotting, (2) Logistics, (3) Biscuit Manufacture, (4) Career Counselling, (5) Rocket Science, (6) Painting, (7) Transmission Engineering, (8) Accountancy, (9) Entrepreneurship, and (10) Aviation.
One typical problem of this choice, is that few readers of essays may have rather little interest in any of these topics. Another problem is that, while reading, one gets the feeling that these are not essays per se but rather pieces of journalistic work. Then, too, as journalism, they would be a tat too literary. Each of the essays does introduce a wealth of vocabulary and particular language use. Besides, De Botton treats every topic with a broad sweep of elegance and seriousness, oddly juxtaposing literary erudition and matter-of-fact knowlegeability about such plebescite topics.
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For readers who are interested in mastery of language in ususual areas, or faithful fans of Alain de Botton, The pleasures and sorrows of work may have some appeal. Incidentally, the essays are not a reflection on our own work or the psychology of a working (wo-)man's life. They are rather descriptive features of an odd-ball variety of occupations.
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With their first records, Ride created a unique wall of sound that relied on massive, trembling distortion in the vein of My Bloody Valentine but with a simpler, more direct melodic approach. The shatteringly loud, droning neo-psychedelia the band performed was dubbed shoegazing by the British press because the bandmembers stared at the stage while they performed. Along with their initial influence, My Bloody Valentine, Ride stood apart from the shoegazing pack, primarily because of their keen sense of songcraft and dynamics. For a while, Ride were proclaimed the last great hope of British rock, but they fell from the spotlight nearly as quickly as they entered it.
Ride were formed in Oxfordshire, England, in 1988 by guitarist/vocalist Andy Bell, vocalist/guitarist Mark Gardener, bassist Stephan Queralt, and drummer Loz Colbert when the group members were still in their late teens. The band soon earned a dedicated following through its blisteringly loud, intense live shows. Creation Records signed the band in 1989 and the group released its self-titled debut EP later in the year. Not only did the British music critics praise the Ride EP, but it climbed into the lower reaches of the U.K. charts.
Play, Ride's second EP, appeared in the spring of 1990 and it surpassed the success of its predecessor, entering the Top 40 upon its release. Ride continued to gain new fans and quickly became darlings of the U.K. press. Nowhere, the group's first album, was released at the end of the year and became a significant hit in England, peaking at number 14. The band's third EP, Fall, was released in the summer of 1991 and became a Top 20 hit in the U.K. Ride released their second album, Going Blank Again, in the spring of 1992. Going Blank Again was successful — particularly in the U.K., where first single "Leave Them All Behind" went into the Top Ten — but it didn't increase their audience dramatically.
That lack of a breakthrough success caused tensions within the band, especially between Bell and Gardener. After completing a frustrating American tour, the band decided to take an extended break. It would be two years before Ride re-emerged with their third album, Carnival of Light, which represented a major shift toward conventional psychedelic rock and turned out to be a commercial misstep. Not only did their die-hard following dislike the record, but Ride failed to pick up a new batch of fans with their stylistic makeover. Wounded from a lack of sales and critical respect, the band moved to the studio in the summer of 1995 to record its fourth album, Tarantula.
Tensions between Bell and Gardener escalated throughout the recording sessions, and after Tarantula was completed in August 1995, Gardener left the band; Bell followed immediately afterward. Ride announced their disbandment in January of 1996. The album was released two months later. Bell subsequently formed Hurricane #1 and later joined Oasis as the band's bassist. Gardener and Colbert were in the short-lived Animalhouse. More prominently, Colbert played with the Jesus and Mary Chain and Supergrass, while Gardener performed as a solo artist and released an album in 2005, then spent the next decade collaborating with a variety of artists. In 2014, Ride announced that they had reunited and booked a monthlong world tour for the following year, including an appearance at the Primavera Sound festival.
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Volume 132, Issue 6, December 2012
Children weight dynamic spectral structure more than adults: Evidence from equivalent signals132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4763554View Description Hide Description
Earlier work using sine-wave and noise-vocoded signals suggests that dynamic spectral structure plays a greater role in speech recognition for children than adults [Nittrouer and Lowenstein. (2010). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 1624–1635], but questions arise concerning whether outcomes can be compared because sine waves and wide noise bands are different in nature. The current study addressed that question using narrow noise bands for both signals, and applying a difference ratio to index the contribution made by dynamic spectral structure. Results replicated earlier findings, supporting the idea that dynamic spectral structure plays a critical role in speech recognition, especially for children.
Release from masking of low-frequency complex tones by high-frequency complex tone cue bands132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4766274View Description Hide Description
This study investigated the influence of high-frequency cue bands on the detection and discrimination of low-frequency target bands presented in a 3000-Hz low-pass noise masker. Target and cue bands were complex tones with 80-Hz spacing. The cue band consisted of 60 components starting at 4000 Hz; targets consisted of four components starting at different frequencies (500, 700, 1000, 1200, and 1500 Hz). Targets were presented with different durations within the 500-ms masker; target and cue bands had a common on- and offset. Presentation of the high-frequency complex tone significantly enhanced both the discrimination and detection thresholds by 2–3 dB.
Fractional lower order moment based adaptive algorithms for active noise control of impulsive noise sources132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4766275View Description Hide Description
This letter deals with active noise control(ANC) for impulsive noise sources being modeled using non-Gaussian stable process. The filtered-x least mean square algorithm is based on minimization of the variance of the error signal and becomes unstable for impulsive noise. The filtered-x least mean p-power algorithm—based on minimizing the fractional lower order moment—gives a robust performance for impulsive ANC; however, its convergence speed is very slow. This letter proposes modifying and employing a generalized normalized LMP algorithm for impulsive ANC. Extensive simulations are carried out which demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
Influence of cortical endplate on speed of sound in bovine femoral trabecular bone in vitro132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4767449View Description Hide Description
Speed of sound(SOS) was measured in 14 bovine femoral trabecular bone samples with and without the cortical endplates with various thicknesses of 1.00, 1.31, 1.47, 1.75, and 2.00 mm. The presence of the cortical endplates resulted in an increase in the mean SOS of 16 m/s (+0.9%) to 91 m/s (+5.3%). The mean SOSmeasured in the samples with and without the cortical endplates exhibited similar significant correlations with apparent bone density (r = 0.86–0.91). All the SOSmeasurements were also found to be highly correlated with each other (r = 0.89–0.99).
Chirp resonance spectroscopy of single lipid-coated microbubbles using an "acoustical camera"132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4767448View Description Hide Description
An acoustical method was developed to study the resonance of single lipid-coated microbubbles. The response of 127 SonoVue microbubbles to a swept sine excitation between 0.5 and 5.5 MHz with a peak acoustic pressure amplitude of 70 kPa was measured by means of a 25 MHz probing wave. The relative amplitude modulation in the signal scattered in response to the probing wave is approximately equal to the radial strain induced by the swept sine excitation. An average damping coefficient of 0.33 and an average resonance frequency of 2.5 MHz were measured.Microbubbles experienced an average peak radial strain of 20%.
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Cylindrical transducer for producing an acoustic spiral wave for underwater navigation (L)a)132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4763994View Description Hide Description
A cylindrical piezoceramic transducer using two orthogonal dipoles driven in phase quadrature to create an acoustic spiral wave, having constant amplitude and phase that varies linearly with azimuthal angle, is considered as a source for an underwater acoustic navigation system. Comparison of the spiral-wave signal with an omnidirectional reference signal having a constant phase originating from the same or co-located source provides a means for an underwater vehicle to determine its bearing angle relative to the signaling beacon [B. Hefner and B. Dzikowicz, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 129(6), 3630–3639 (2011)]. An alternative proof-of-principle transducer along with experimental results including transmit frequency response, directional factors, and computed versus measured bearing angle are presented.
Acoustic identification of buried underwater unexploded ordnance using a numerically trained classifier (L)132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4763997View Description Hide Description
Using a finite element-based structural acoustics code, simulations were carried out for the acoustic scattering from an unexploded ordnance rocket buried in the sediment under 3 m of water. The simulation treated 90 rocket burial angles in steps of 2°. The simulations were used to train a generative relevance vector machine (RVM) algorithm for identifying rockets buried at unknown angles in an actual water/sediment environment. The trained RVM algorithm was successfully tested on scattering measurements made in a sediment pool facility for six buried targets including the rocket at 90°, 120°, and 150°, a boulder, a cinderblock, and a cinderblock rolled 45° about its long axis.
Ultrasonic whistles of killer whales (Orcinus orca) recorded in the North Pacific (L)132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4764874View Description Hide Description
Ultrasonicwhistles were previously found in North Atlantic killer whales and were suggested to occur in eastern North Pacific killer whales based on the data from autonomous recorders. In this study ultrasonicwhistles were found in the recordings from two encounters with the eastern North Pacific offshore ecotype killer whales and one encounter with the western North Pacific killer whales of unknown ecotype. All ultrasonicwhistles were highly stereotyped and all but two had downsweep contours. These results demonstrate that specific sound categories can be shared by killer whales from different ocean basins.
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Large scale modulation of high frequency acoustic waves in periodic porous media132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4763553View Description Hide Description
This paper deals with the description of the modulation at large scale of high frequency acoustic waves in gas saturated periodic porous media. High frequencies mean local dynamics at the pore scale and therefore absence of scale separation in the usual sense of homogenization. However, although the pressure is spatially varying in the pores (according to periodic eigenmodes), the mode amplitude can present a large scale modulation, thereby introducing another type of scale separation to which the asymptotic multi-scale procedure applies. The approach is first presented on a periodic network of inter-connected Helmholtz resonators. The equations governing the modulations carried by periodic eigenmodes, at frequencies close to their eigenfrequency, are derived. The number of cells on which the carrying periodic mode is defined is therefore a parameter of the modeling. In a second part, the asymptotic approach is developed for periodic porous media saturated by a perfect gas. Using the "multicells" periodic condition, one obtains the family of equations governing the amplitude modulation at large scale of high frequency waves. The significant difference between modulations of simple and multiple mode are evidenced and discussed. The features of the modulation (anisotropy, width of frequency band) are also analyzed.
Sound radiation from a flanged inclined duct132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4764883View Description Hide Description
A simple method to calculate sound radiation from a flanged inclined duct is presented. An inclined annular duct is terminated by a rigid vertical plane. The duct termination is representative of a scarfed exit. The concept of a scarfed duct has been examined in turbofan aero-engines as a means to, potentially, shield a portion of the radiated sound from being transmitted directly to the ground. The sound field inside the annular duct is expressed in terms of spinning modes. Exterior to the duct, the radiated sound field owing to each mode can be expressed in terms of its directivity pattern, which is found by evaluating an appropriate form of Rayleigh's integral. The asymmetry is shown to affect the amplitude of the principal lobe of the directivity pattern, and to alter the proportion of the sound power radiated up or down. The methodology detailed in this article provides a simple engineering approach to investigate the sound radiation for a three-dimensional problem.
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Energy-based method for near-real time modeling of sound field in complex urban environments132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4763552View Description Hide Description
Prediction of the sound field in large urban environments has been limited thus far by the heavy computational requirements of conventional numerical methods such as boundary element (BE) or finite-difference time-domain(FDTD) methods. Recently, a considerable amount of work has been devoted to developing energy-based methods for this application, and results have shown the potential to compete with conventional methods. However, these developments have been limited to two-dimensional (2-D) studies (along street axes), and no real description of the phenomena at issue has been exposed. Here the mathematical theory of diffusion is used to predict the sound field in 3-D complex urban environments. A 3-D diffusion equation is implemented by means of a simple finite-difference scheme and applied to two different types of urban configurations. This modeling approach is validated against FDTD and geometrical acoustic (GA) solutions, showing a good overall agreement. The role played by diffraction near buildings edges close to the source is discussed, and suggestions are made on the possibility to predict accurately the sound field in complex urban environments, in near real time simulations.
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Probability distribution for energy of saturated broadband ocean acoustic transmission: Results from Gulf of Maine 2006 experiment132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4763547View Description Hide Description
The probability distribution of ocean-acoustic broadband signal energy after saturated multipath propagation is derived using coherence theory. The frequency components obtained from Fourier decomposition of a broadband signal are each assumed to be fully saturated with energy spectral density that obey the exponential distribution with 5.6 dB standard deviation and unity scintillation index. When the signal bandwidth and measurement time are larger than the correlation bandwidth and correlation time, respectively, of its energy spectral density components, the broadband signal energy obtained by integrating the energy spectral density across the signal bandwidth then follows the Gamma distribution with a standard deviation smaller than 5.6 dB and a scintillation index less than unity. The theory is verified with broadband transmissions in the Gulf of Maine shallow water waveguide in the 300 to 1200 Hz frequency range. The standard deviations of received broadband signal energies range from 2.7 to 4.6 dB for effective bandwidths up to 42 Hz, while the standard deviations of individual energy spectral density components are roughly 5.6 dB. The energy spectral density correlation bandwidths of the received broadband signals are found to be larger for signals with higher center frequencies and are roughly 10% of each center frequency.
Deterministic forward scatter from surface gravity waves132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4763996View Description Hide Description
Deterministic structures in sound reflected by gravity waves, such as focused arrivals and Doppler shifts, have implications for underwater acoustics and sonar, and the performance of underwater acoustic communications systems. A stationary phase analysis of the Helmholtz–Kirchhoff scattering integral yields the trajectory of focused arrivals and their relationship to the curvature of the surface wave field. Deterministic effects along paths up to 70 water depths long are observed in shallow water measurements of surface-scattered sound at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory. The arrival time and amplitude of surface-scattered pulses are reconciled with model calculations using measurements of surface waves made with an upward-looking sonar mounted mid-way along the propagation path. The root mean square difference between the modeled and observed pulse arrival amplitude and delay, respectively, normalized by the maximum range of amplitudes and delays, is found to be 0.2 or less for the observation periods analyzed. Cross-correlation coefficients for modeled and observed pulse arrival delays varied from 0.83 to 0.16 depending on surface conditions. Cross-correlation coefficients for normalized pulse energy for the same conditions were small and varied from 0.16 to 0.06. In contrast, the modeled and observed pulse arrival delay and amplitude statistics were in good agreement.
Quantifying the effects of roughness scattering on reflection loss measurements132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4765304View Description Hide Description
Seafloor reflection loss and roughness measurements were taken at the Experimental Validation of Acoustic Modeling Techniques experiment in 2006. The magnitude and phase of the reflection loss was measured at frequencies from 5 to 80 kHz and grazing angles from 7° to 77°. Approximately 1500 samples were taken for each angle. The roughness was measured with a laser profiler. Geoacoustic parameters such as water and sediment sound speed and density were measured concurrently. The reflection loss data were compared with three models: A flat interfaceelasticmodel based on geoacoustic measurements; a flat interface poro-elastic model based on the Biot/Stoll model; and a rough interfacemodel based on the measuredinterface roughness power spectrum. The data were most consistent with the poro-elastic model including scattering. The elasticmodel consistently predicted values for the reflection loss which were higher than measured. The data exhibited more variability than the model due to layering and fluctuations in the propagating medium.
Shear wave velocity and attenuation in the upper layer of ocean bottoms from long-range acoustic field measurements132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4765078View Description Hide Description
Several physics-based seabed geoacoustic models (including the Biot theory) predict that compressional wave attenuation in sandy marine sediments approximately follows quadratic frequency dependence at low frequencies, i.e., . A recent paper on broadband geoacoustic inversions from low frequency (LF) field measurements, made at 20 locations around the world, has indicated that the frequency exponent of the effective soundattenuation in a frequency band of 50–1000 Hz [Zhou et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 2847–2866 (2009)]. Carey and Pierce hypothesize that the discrepancy is due to the inversion models' neglect of shear wave effects [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124, EL271–EL277 (2008)]. The broadband geoacoustic inversions assume that the seabottom is an equivalent fluid and sound waves interact with the bottom at small grazing angles. The shear wavevelocity and attenuation in the upper layer of ocean bottoms are estimated from the LF field-inverted effective bottom attenuations using a near-grazing bottom reflection expression for the equivalent fluid model, derived by Zhang and Tindle [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98, 3391–3396 (1995)]. The resultant shear wavevelocity and attenuation are consistent with the SAX99 measurement at 25 Hz and 1000 Hz. The results are helpful for the analysis of shear wave effects on long-range sound propagation in shallow water.
A vessel noise budget for Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, Washington (USA)132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4763548View Description Hide Description
One calendar year of Automatic Identification System (AIS) ship-traffic data was paired with hydrophone recordings to assess ambient noise in northern Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, WA (USA) and to quantify the contribution of vessel traffic. The study region included inland waters of the Salish Sea within a 20 km radius of the hydrophone deployment site. Spectra and hourly, daily, and monthly ambient noise statistics for unweighted broadband (0.02–30 kHz) and marine mammal, or M-weighted, sound pressure levels showed variability driven largely by vessel traffic. Over the calendar year, 1363 unique AIS transmitting vessels were recorded, with at least one AIS transmitting vessel present in the study area 90% of the time. A vesselnoise budget was calculated for all vessels equipped with AIS transponders. Cargo ships were the largest contributor to the vesselnoise budget, followed by tugs and passenger vessels. A simple model to predict received levels at the site based on an incoherent summation of noise from different vessels resulted in a cumulative probability density function of broadband sound pressure levels that shows good agreement with 85% of the temporal data.
Simulations of multi-beam sonar echos from schooling individual fish in a quiet environment132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4763981View Description Hide Description
A model is developed and demonstrated for simulating echosounder and sonar observations of fish schools with specified shapes and composed of individuals having specified target strengths and behaviors. The model emulates the performances of actual multi-frequency echosounders and multi-beam echosounders and sonars and generates synthetic echograms of fish schools that can be compared with real echograms. The model enables acoustic observations of large in situ fish schools to be evaluated in terms of individual and aggregated fish behaviors. It also facilitates analyses of the sensitivity of fish biomass estimates to different target strength models and their parameterizations. To demonstrate how this tool may facilitate objective interpretations of acoustically estimated fish biomass and behavior, simulated echograms of fish with different spatial and orientation distributions are compared with real echograms of herring collected with a multi-beam sonar aboard the research vessel "G.O. Sars." Results highlight the important effects of fish-backscatter directivity, particularly when sensing with small acoustic wavelengths relative to the fish length. Results also show that directivity is both a potential obstacle to estimating fish biomass accurately and a potential source of information about fish behavior.
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Experimental assessment of four ultrasound scattering models for characterizing concentrated tissue-mimicking phantoms132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4765072View Description Hide Description
Tissue-mimicking phantoms with high scatterer concentrations were examined using quantitative ultrasound techniques based on four scattering models: The Gaussian model (GM), the Faran model (FM), the structure factor model (SFM), and the particle model (PM). Experiments were conducted using 10- and 17.5-MHz focused transducers on tissue-mimicking phantoms with scatterer concentrations ranging from 1% to 25%. Theoreticalbackscatter coefficients (BSCs) were first compared with the experimentally measured BSCs in the forward problem framework. The measured BSC versus scatterer concentration relationship was predicted satisfactorily by the SFM and the PM. The FM and the PM overestimated the BSC magnitude at actual concentrations greater than 2.5% and 10%, respectively. The SFM was the model that better matched the BSC magnitude at all the scatterer concentrations tested. Second, the four scattering models were compared in the inverse problem framework to estimate the scatterer size and concentration from the experimentally measured BSCs. The FM did not predict the concentration accurately at actual concentrations greater than 12.5%. The SFM and PM need to be associated with another quantitative parameter to differentiate between low and high concentrations. In that case, the SFM predicted the concentration satisfactorily with relative errors below 38% at actual concentrations ranging from 10% to 25%.
A model for ultrasound absorption and dispersion in dilute suspensions of nanometric contrast agents132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4765639View Description Hide Description
Ultrasound dispersion and absorption are examined in dilute suspensions of contrast agents of nanometric size, with a typical radius around 100 nm. These kinds of contrast agents are designed for targeted delivery of drugs for cancer treatment. Compared to standard contrast agents used for imaging, particles are of smaller size to pass through the endothelial barrier, their shell, made up of biocompatible polymer, is stiffer to undergo a longer lifetime, and they have a liquid core instead of a gaseous one. Ultrasound propagation in dilute suspension is modeled by combining two modes for particle oscillations. The first one is a dilatational mode assuming an incompressible shell with a rheological behavior of Kelvin–Voigt or Maxwell type. The second one is a translational mode induced by visco-inertial interaction with the ambient fluid. The relative importance of these two modes of interaction on both dispersion and absorption is quantified and analyzed for a model system and for two radii (75 and 150 nm) and the two rheological models. The influence of shell parameters (Young modulus, viscosity, and relative thickness) is finally discussed.
Simulation of incoherent and coherent backscattered wave fields from cavities in a solid matrix132(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4763985View Description Hide Description
This paper reports a study of the backscatteredultrasonic signal from a solid layer containing spherical cavities, to determine the conditions in which an effective medium model is a valid description of the response. The work is motivated by the need to model the response of porous composite materials for ultrasonicnon-destructive evaluation(NDE) techniques. The numerical simulation predicts the response of a layer containing cavities at a single set of random locations, and compares it to the predicted response from a homogeneous layer with ensemble-averaged material properties (effective medium model). The study investigates the conditions in which the coherent (ensemble-averaged) response is obtained even from a single configuration of scatterers. Simulations are carried out for a range of cavity sizes and volume fractions. The deviation of the response from effective medium behavior is modeled, along with the trends as a function of cavity radius, volume fraction, and frequency, in order to establish an acceptability criterion for application of an effective medium model.