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Had one for 3 years now
By Cervelo S2
from Atlanta, GA
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Comments about Elite Real Axiom Interactive Trainer:
I have had this trainer for over 3 years now and have had no problems. It's a hard work out every time because I always race against my best time -- no slacking off. The Italian support site doesn't work very well but haven't needed it yet. I went to Verona this summer so it was almost like I'd been there before.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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When the ACTUAL Road isn't an OPTION
By A Guy Who Needs to Ride More
from Cleveland, OH
About Me Competitive Cyclist
I live in an area where riding outdoors from December through March is very rare. Even with all the right gear it can be tough. I have owned several trainers (Fluid and Magnetic) over the last few years and I would say I am partial to Fluid trainers but in general, I have never remotely found the trainer to be (shall we say) inspiring... loathsome more like it. But a necessary evil to maintain SOME fitness in the off season...Then I received this item as a gift... and WOW! No trainer can perfectly emulate the road, but this one does a FAR better job than the others I have tried... and the Video aspects, combined with the internet competitors plus using the previous workouts as competitors has made a HUGE difference in my interest! It is like playing a giant VIDEO GAME with your bike and your legs being the only way to control whether you win or loose! I find myself actually looking forward to trainer rides ALMOST as much as actual ride!The selection of courses is very good, but be warned that the PRO level ones are going to change your perception of how tough an indoor trainer workout can be!The icing on the cake is the ability to pull in my Garmin GPS routes from the last several years... though I can't "see" where I am riding in these instances (unlike the videos that come with it) the ability to "race" against my rides from last summer or last year is nothing short of fun...Now... if only I could simulate the WIND, the Oxygen deprivation and the dogs chasing me... then it would be as real as need be!I recommend displaying this on a BIGGER screen TV or projector instead of a small computer monitor. While the Video quality isn't 1080P HD, the experience is MUCH better with a larger screen... besides... after 15 mins of climbing the Tourmalet you won't be looking up the road as much as staring at your front wheel... :)STRONGLY RECOMMEND for those confined to indoor training more than you would like!
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Better then just sitting and spinning
By 2UpDuc
from Washington DC Area.
If you hate just sitting and spinning and have some cash burning a whole in your pocket then this trainer is for you. After many hours of mundane sitting and spinning I upgraded to the RealAxiom Interactive trainer. It is worth every penny! You can create your own courses with hills and flats and watch your performance on your computer. I use a laptop on a chair next to my bike and trainer to see the course I am using. I can watch old cycling movies or filmed bike rides from around the world to help pass the time. It is a great system and really helps in the off season. This is not a cheap system so be sure that you can afford to drop the coin on it and have it sit around and collect dust during the main ridding season.
My Third Unit
By ML
from NJ
This is my third axiom trainer. My primary use is for winter training. On average these units last about 3 years, I have burnt up the 2 previous units. My biggest problem with these trainers is that it is hard to get repair support. Overall it is a good winter trainer, compact and stores easily. I would just like to add that nothing beats ridding outdoors.
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Description is misleading
By Joe the biker
from Washington DC
Pros: If you don't have the ability to ride outdoors everytime you want to this trainer would definitely solve that problem. It does what I expected to do, so I could still overlook the obvious problems with the software.Cons: The software is full of annoying little bugs. For example the units switch from miles to km for no apparent reason, some items get disabled randomly, etc. Nothing that prevents enjoying a training session but enough to make you consider writing your own front end software. Also the description is misleading. There is no 4 week training plan and the videos included are not the ones described. The videos included are Vassiviere Part 1 and Col du Galibier.I still have to give it 4 stars because I can do a workout that feels almost as good as being outdoors. The software gets 2 stars...
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Awesome Trainer
By John
from Valencia Ca
This is a very nice video trainer a bit hard to first set up and get going but tech help from elite is awesome and made set up easy and very helpful this trainer let you ride different race courses it will give you one good workout i would recommend it if your budget does
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Did the VC:MP team drop all support for LC:MP or something? I haven't seen anything about it being dropped. If it is dropped, would it be possible to build an exclusive Multiplayer Service for LC? I mean, I saw gameplay of LC:MP and it looked amazing, and I would really love to play GTA: LC in multiplayer with other players. But I digress.
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|We have never had a connection to any multiplayer team (with the exception of letting them use our files).
Ah. I figured as much. Thanks for the reply.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 05:01 PM
I can help convert peds if you want, just send me a model and I will get it rigged
btw, would Xbox's vehicles be included too?
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The only reason we wanted to do the XBOX peds was to hopefully make the cutscene heads animations work better. My primary concern is the play ability of the mod. Its look is secondary.
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|The 10th anniversary edition of Vice City uses HUD icons made in the same style as the ones in GTA III, maybe they can be recolored back so we can have all the weapons using proper ones?
I've already done this. Check the unofficial mods thread.
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|QUOTE (Craig Kostelecky @ Sunday, Mar 24 2013, 03:39)
|Does MVL work with weapons as well? If so, then in theory we could. But I'd prefer to integrate that code into our own code so there's less bugs and it's more compatible. Perhaps that's something Silent could do after he is done with the scm for VCS Beta 3.
Well, I can't see why it would cause any problems. MVL objects can be called apon with the main SCM. So both MVL Weapons and Vehicles can be spawned via CLEO/Main.scm. I've tested this myself and it works fine.
Regardless, it's up to you.
EDIT: If MVL were to be used, we'd have to wait for additional sounds to be compatible with MVL so the MVL based AK doesn't sound like the M16.
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|I do not know the solution to that problem yet. Sorry.
It was discussed so many times...
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Posted 19 April 2013 - 02:03 AM Edited by ITBTD, 19 April 2013 - 03:11 AM.
EDIT: No I was looking at the wrong version's DFF. I found it and I'll see what i can do with it.
Posted 19 April 2013 - 07:13 AM Edited by ITBTD, 19 April 2013 - 09:34 AM.
Theres a few bugs and a couple missing polys I'd like to fix but it's looking good so far.
Edit: I'm tempted to re-convert the whole thing really and start from scratch. It just seems like there's too much wrong with it in it's current state. I'm quite inexperienced but I've learned a lot in the last few hours just messing around with it in 3ds max. My only problem would be collisions but I can figure those out eventually. I'll see what I can do tomorrow. For now, I'll get some sleep.
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Just drop the .rep file into the "user files" folder usually located in My Documents, start any saved game or new game for that matter and press F2 to view the replay.
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There are some moments in life so startling that you always remember exactly where you were when you heard about them. For an older generation of Americans, it was the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Lady's Diana's death is another, and 9/11 is an obvious example. For many, the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia on Boxing Day 2004 is equally memorable, and certainly Juan Antonio Bayona, the Spanish director of The Impossible, remembers his whereabouts.
"I was with my family having lunch," he says. "It was a Holiday Inn in Barcelona, and I remember the news. At the beginning they were not saying much about it. I had to wait. It was on the news at night that suddenly I started to realize the scope of the tragedy, and I was kind of upset watching the news and kind of [in] shock about the surreal footage that the news was showing us in those days.
Set in the prelude to and in the wake of that horrific event, The Impossible stars Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor as Maria and Henry, English parents to three children whose vacation in paradisiacal Thailand turns into a nightmare when the tsunami strikes. A wounded Maria and her older son Lucas (Tom Holland) manage to cling to one another, while Henry searches desperately for the rest of his family, who have been separated by the storm. The rest of the film follows their efforts to find each other.
Bayona's primary collaborator on the story was Maria Belon, a Spanish woman whose family endured the tsunami and whose story provides the basis for the film. Belon made herself available to Bayona whenever he needed her and collaborated with screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez who also wrote Bayona's last film, the Guillermo Del Toro-produced horror film The Orphanage (2007). Bayona says her insights were invaluable to imbuing his film with a sense of authenticity.
"From the very beginning I wanted to be very true to her because that was a way of getting the authority of the story. She gave us a great amount of detail, retelling her story. But not just their story. All the big decisions we were taking, not just with her but lots of people who were there: survivors I met, volunteers, and even people who have lost their family. And I was all the time trying to get as close as possible to them in order to know what was the right thing to do."
Casting Watts as Belon was an easy decision for Bayona once the actress expressed an interest in the script.
"I think she's great in portraying some of the darkest aspects of life, and she can really portray some of the most tragic aspects of human nature," he says. "I think she has proven very often in her films that quality. Take a look at how many she has made, and from the very beginning she was perfect. And also the fact that I always saw her as an everyday woman. I never saw her as a Hollywood actress, probably because she has been doing these films; more independent or European."
The Impossible's most terrifying sequence by far is the 10-minute tsunami scene, which six special effects companies worked on for over a year. Most impressively, the scene was done practically, on sets with real water, instead of being rendered digitally.
"It had to look real," Bayona says. "It couldn't look like a visual effects sequence from a factory. It had to be in the mood of the film, which was based on a true story, so it had to be done realistically. The main challenge was not to use CGI water and go to real water, because that made us get to a process of trying to figure out how we would be able to do that. And that took us more than a year, with the most important crew already working [on] the film a year before the shooting. And then we spent six weeks shooting in the water with the actors all the time in there, and that was something very demanding physically."
The Impossible was shot over 25 weeks between Spain and Thailand on over 60 sets. That included actual places in Thailand where the tsunami wreaked its havoc, including the resort where Belon and her family stayed prior to the disaster.
"Fate and being lucky was something that [was] all the time an idea that we were playing around with," says Bayona. "Because this is the only reason we can find in survival, when you are getting a family and turning into a symbol of what it was to be there from a Western point of view. So we wanted to use the same pool and the same shores and put actors in the exact same positions, because to be two metres to the left or two metres to the right would have meant maybe a completely different fate for these people."
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Everybody bring dark chocolate half price Valentine candy to the next meeting to show our appreciation to Sanjay :) I believe this private forum area will allow efficient communication between all of us if we can develop a good structure.
I started a place for "colaboration" on the monthly meeting notes so no one person will have to come up with them each month... thinking inside the box, this time.
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|An electrically small, broadband-modified, truncated ground metamaterial EZ antenna is presented. This, a modified EZ antenna system, achieves a larger bandwidth of the order of 650 MHz by adjusting the metamaterial-inspired meandered ground element fed by a top loaded monopole. The design is devoid of the large ground planes and the external parasitic elements used in conventional designs for achieving proper impedance matching characteristics. The antenna requires a small foot print of kg/5 3 kg/10, where kg is the guided wavelength corresponding to the lowest frequency of operation, when printed on a substrate of dielectric constant 4.4 and thickness 1.6 mm. The antenna offers a 2:1 VSWR bandwidth from 750 MHz to 1.4 GHz, which covers CDMA, GSM, and ISM bands
|MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY LETTERS / Vol. 56, No. 3, March 2014
|A Planar Compac ... ired Broadband Antenna.pdf
|A broadband rectangular tnicrostrip antenna utilizing an electromagnetically coupled L-strip feed is presented. Experimental study shows a 2:1 VSWR bandwidth of a 10% and excellent cross-polarization performance with a radiation coverage almost as same as that of the rectangular microstrip antenna fed by conventional methods. The variation of bandwidth for different feed parameters is also studied. The proposed antenna is suitable for broadband communications
|A compact coplanar waveguide-fed (CPW) monopole antenna for ultra-wideband wireless communication is presented. The proposed antenna comprises of a CPW-fed beveled rectangular patch with a modified slotted ground. The overall size of the antenna is 30 mm 27 mm 1.6 mm. The lower edge of the band is attained by properly decoupling the resonant frequencies due to the extended ground plane and the beveled rectangular patch of the antenna. The upper edge of the radiating band is enhanced by beveling the ground plane corners near the feed point. Experimental results show that the designed antenna operates in the 2.7–12 GHz band, for S11 10 dB with a gain of 2.7–5 dBi. Both the frequency domain and time domain characteristics of the antenna are investigated using antenna transfer function. It is observed that the antenna exhibits identical radiation patterns and reasonable transient characteristics over the entire operating band
|International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer‐Aided Engineering,VOL 22,issue 5,pp 594-602
|Planar UWB Ante ... d Slotted Ground Plane.pdf
|Rapid changes in the technological environment of marine logistics and the increasing integration of waterborne, air and land transport systems have fostered a revolution in the design and operations of transport vehicles, cargo handling technology, and terminal facilities. This in turn has caused major changes in the functions of and uses of ports. From literature, it was found that these changes were very slow in case of Indian ports and the performances of port operations were poor when compared with similar ports in the same region. It was also found that a very few studies were conducted to identify the reasons for slow improvements in the performances of Indian major ports. In this thesis, an attempt is made to find out the operational problems of Indian major ports and to analyze the reasons for it. Some solutions have also been found out using management tools
|School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|Plasma Science, 2002. ICOPS 2002. IEEE Conference Record-Abstracts. The 29th IEEE International Conference on
|Plasma Assisted ... lyanisidine Thin Films.pdf
|This proposed thesis is entitled "Plasma Polymerised Organic Thin Films: A study on the Structural, Electrical, and Nonlinear Optical Properties for Possible Applications. Polymers and polymer based materials find enormous applications in the realm of electronics and optoelectronics. They are employed as both active and passive components in making various devices. Enormous research activities are going on in this area for the last three decades or so, and many useful contributions are made quite accidentally. Conducting polymers is such a discovery, and eversince the discovery of conducting polyacetylene, a new branch of science itself has emerged in the form of synthetic metals. Conducting polymers are useful materials for many applications like polymer displays, high density data storage, polymer FETs, polymer LEDs, photo voltaic devices and electrochemical cells. With the emergence of molecular electronics and its potential in finding useful applications, organic thin films are receiving an unusual attention by scientists and engineers alike. This is evident from the vast literature pertaining to this field appearing in various journals. Recently, computer aided design of organic molecules have added further impetus to the ongoing research activities in this area. Polymers, especially, conducting polymers can be prepared both in the bulk and in the thinfilm form. However, many applications necessitate that they are grown in the thin film form either as free standing or on appropriate substrates. As far as their bulk counterparts are concerned, they can be prepared by various polymerisation techniques such as chemical routes and electrochemical means. A survey of the literature reveals that polymers like polyaniline, polypyrrole, polythiophene, have been investigated with a view to studying their structural electrical and optical properties. Among the various alternate techniques employed for the preparation of polymer thin films, the method of plasma polymerisation needs special attention in this context. The technique of plasma polymerisation is an inexpensive method and often requires very less infra structure. This method includes the employment of ac, rf, dc, microwave and pulsed sources. They produce pinhole free homogeneous films on appropriate substrates under controlled conditions. In conventional plasma polymerisation set up, the monomer is fed into an evacuated chamber and an ac/rf/dc/ w/pulsed discharge is created which enables the monomer species to dissociate, leading to the formation of polymer thin films. However, it has been found that the structure and hence the properties exhibited by plasma polymerized thin films are quite different from that of their counterparts produced by other thin film preparation techniques such as electrochemical deposition or spin coating. The properties of these thin films can be tuned only if the interrelationship between the structure and other properties are understood from a fundamental point of view. So very often, a through evaluation of the various properties is a pre-requisite for tailoring the properties of the thin films for applications. It has been found that conjugation is a necessary condition for enhancing the conductivity of polymer thin films. RF technique of plasma polymerisation is an excellent tool to induce conjugation and this modifies the electrical properties too. Both oxidative and reductive doping can be employed to modify the electrical properties of the polymer thin films for various applications. This is where organic thin films based on polymers scored over inorganic thin films, where in large area devices can be fabricated with organic semiconductors which is difficult to achieve by inorganic materials. For such applications, a variety of polymers have been synthesized such as polyaniline, polythiophene, polypyrrole etc. There are newer polymers added to this family every now and then. There are many virgin areas where plasma polymers are yet to make a foray namely low-k dielectrics or as potential nonlinear optical materials such as optical limiters. There are also many materials which are not been prepared by the method of plasma polymerisation. Some of the materials which are not been dealt with are phenyl hydrazine and tea tree oil. The advantage of employing organic extracts like tea tree oil monomers as precursors for making plasma polymers is that there can be value addition to the already existing uses and possibility exists in converting them to electronic grade materials, especially semiconductors and optically active materials for photonic applications. One of the major motivations of this study is to synthesize plasma polymer thin films based on aniline, phenyl hydrazine, pyrrole, tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil by employing both rf and ac plasma polymerisation techniques. This will be carried out with the objective of growing thin films on various substrates such as glass, quartz and indium tin oxide (ITO) coated glass. There are various properties namely structural, electrical, dielectric permittivity, nonlinear optical properties which are to be evaluated to establish the relationship with the structure and the other properties. Special emphasis will be laid in evaluating the optical parameters like refractive index (n), extinction coefficient (k), the real and imaginary components of dielectric constant and the optical transition energies of the polymer thin films from the spectroscopic ellipsometric studies. Apart from evaluating these physical constants, it is also possible to predict whether a material exhibit nonlinear optical properties by ellipsometric investigations. So further studies using open aperture z-scan technique in order to evaluate the nonlinear optical properties of a few selected samples which are potential nonlinear optical materials is another objective of the present study. It will be another endeavour to offer an appropriate explanation for the nonlinear optical properties displayed by these films. Doping of plasma polymers is found to modify both the electrical conductivity and optical properties. Iodine is found to modify the properties of the polymer thin films. However insitu iodine doping is tricky and the film often looses its stability because of the escape of iodine. An appropriate insitu technique of doping will be developed to dope iodine in to the plasma polymerized thin films. Doping of polymer thin films with iodine results in improved and modified optical and electrical properties. However it requires tools like FTIR and UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy to elucidate the structural and optical modifications imparted to the polymer films. This will be attempted here to establish the role of iodine in the modification of the properties exhibited by the films
|In the present study we assessed plasma and platelet monoamine content using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The study included 22 subjects consisting of 12 freshly-detected male diabetic patients and 10 age and sex-matched healthy controls. The same parameters were measured in streptozotocin -induced diabetic rat models consisting of controls , diabetic and insulin - treated diabetic rats. The platelet counts were significantly reduced (P < 0.05) in rat models as well as human diabetic samples. The plasma norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (EPI) concentrations were significantly increased (P < 0.05). The platelet showed a significant increase (P < 0.01) in NE, EPI and serotonin content. Increase in the plasma and platelet content of neurotransmitters may be due to increased sympathetic function, which is an adaptation for the decreased platelet count observed in our study . The results indicate that changes in the neurotransmitter content of the platelet may be a good index to assess the neurotransmitter status in pathological condition such as diabetes mellitus.
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|The Majority Strategy for finding medians of a set of clients on a graph can be relaxed in the following way: if we are at v, then we move to a neighbor w if there are at least as many clients closer to w than to v (thus ignoring the clients at equal distance from v and w). The graphs on which this Plurality Strategy always finds the set of all medians are precisely those for which the set of medians induces always a connected subgraph
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|Two three-clement polarisation-agile active microstrip patch arrays have been developed . The radiating elements are square patches each with two transistors mounted on adjacent edges. The patches radiate orthogonal modes , the relative phase of which can be varied. Radiation patterns show good agreement with predictions from theory, in both linear and circular polarization, and no grating lobes were observed
|Polarisation ag ... icrostrip patch arrays.PDF
|A new microstrip antenna element is described which exhibits polarization agility. This is achieved by employing a T-slot radiator which is driven by the edge fields of a balanced microstrip line. The balanced line can support two propagating modes. namely. an even mode and an odd mode, and be switching between these modes. the orthogonal arms of the T-slot radiator are separately excited thus forming orthogonally polarized radiated fields. A nucrostrip patch antenna, which displays polarization agility using the sane mechanism, is also described
|This thesis attempts to gain insight on the mathematical approach to estuarine oceanographic systems; also to closely understand the governing processes in the estuarine environment as well as in the adjoining river reaches. The main aim was to conduct pollution routing for tropical estuarine environment namely, for the Cochin estuary. In this context, attempts have been made to apply, verify and validate the application of models, pre- prepared with necessary modifications to suit the area of interest by use of RIVMIX and WASP tools. Finally the thesis concludes by highlighting the advantages and limitations in modelling water bodies and concurrentlysimulates most of the possible scenarios within the purview of this work.
|Department of Physical Oceanography, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|This 'study' deals with a preliminary study of automatic beam steering properly in conducting polyaniline . Polyaniline in its undoped and doped .state was prepared from aniline by the chemical oxidative polymerization method. Dielectric properties of the samples were studied at S-band microwave frequencies using cavity perturbation technique. It is found that undoped po/vanihne is having greater dielectric loss and conductivity contpared with the doped samples. The beam steering property is studied using a perspex rod antenna and HP 85/OC vector network analyzer. The shift in the radiated beam is studied for different do voltages. The results show that polyaniline is a good nutterial far beam steering applications.
|Rajesh Menon an ... iline as an...July2007.PDF
|Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|In situ polymerization of aniline is done inside the pillared clay matrix. The nonswellable pillared clay confined matrix allows efficient polymerization that leads to nanofibrous morphology. As a result high polymer order and crystallinity is attained and is evident from XRD patterns. The strong interaction between the clay layers and polyaniline (PANI) is understood from FTIR and DRS spectra. Additionally these analytical results suggest that the prepared PANI is in the doped state. The PANI/pillared clay nanocomposite formation gives additional thermal stability to the polymer backbone and is clear from the DTG curves.
|Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and other toxic compounds from industrial effluents are noted for their high potency for skin, lung, bladder and gastrointestinal cancers. Increased industrialization, and population growth led to greater production of wastes, Pesticides and PAHs have received attention due to their carcinogenic effects. The main objectives of the study were; to collect base line data on the concentration of PAHs in seawater and sediment from the west coast of India, the concentration of PAHs in certain species of fishes, the comparative levels of PAHs in fish, the influence of sediment characteristics on the concentration of PAH in sediment, changes in PAH concentration in water, sediment and fish, to provide a base line concentration of trace metals in water, sediment and fish, the seasonal changes in content of selected trace metals in water, sediment and fish from the west coast of India. The present study revealed that a predominance of silt and clay at all stations in the off Cochin area. The study has provided comprehensive information available to date for PAHs in seawater, sediment and fishes from the west cost of India especially from the Quilon to Mangalore region.
|As the application of polymeric complexes is enormous, there exists a continuing interest in the synthesis and characterization of these complexes. The synthetic and characterization parts are very important in an academic point of view. Further in an application point of view also polymeric ligands/complexes are gaining attention.The thesis is divided in to six chapters, in which the first chapter gives an introduction along with a brief review on polymeric ligands/ complexes. The second chapter explains the different procedure adopted for the whole work along with the details of the reagents/ instruments used. The third chapter gives a report of the detailed study regarding the synthesis and characterization of eighteen complexes. While the fourth chapter is a report of the ion removal studies using three polymeric ligands, the fifth chapter explains the development of a polymeric complex as ion selective electrode material for the fabrication of a CC ion selective electrode. The sixth chapter presents the summary and tables, figures and references are given separately at the end.
|Department of Applied Chemistry, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|The current research investigates the possibility of using single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) as filler in polymers to impart several properties to the matrix polymer. SWNTs in a polymer matrix like poly(ethylene terephthalate) induce nucleation in its melt crystallization, provide effective reinforcement and impart electrical conductivity. We adopt a simple melt compounding technique for incorporating the nanotubes into the polymer matrix. For attaining a better dispersion of the filler, an ultrasound assisted dissolution-evaporation method has also been tried. The resulting enhancement in the materials properties indicates an improved disentanglement of the nanotube ropes, which in turn provides effective matrix-filler interaction. PET-SWNT nanocomposite fibers prepared through melt spinning followed by subsequent drawing are also found to have significantly higher mechanical propertiesas compared to pristine PET fiber.SWNTs also find applications in composites based on elastomers such as natural rubber as they can impart electrical conductivity with simultaneous improvement in the mechanical properties.
|Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|Fine (approximately 18 nm) particles of nickel ferrite were synthesized by the sol-gel technique, and their structural properties were evaluated by X-ray diffraction. Neoprene-based rubber ferrite composites were prepared by incorporating these nickel ferrite powders in the rubber matrix according to a specific recipe. The cure characteristics were analyzed, and the samples were molded into particular shapes whose properties were determined according to ASTM standards. Magnetization studies were carried out using a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer. This study indicates that neoprene rubber-based flexible magnets with desired magnetic properties and appropriate mechanical properties can be prepared by incorporating an adequate amount of nanoscale nickel ferrite particles within the rubber matrix
|Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering, 47: 137–146, 2008
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That said, this can't be classified as a turnaround just yet. Orbitz must deliver full year profits, (and despite the industry performing well), there are many questions about the health of the consumer on a global scale. If the industry falters, then it will be very difficult for Orbitz to show consistent improvement on the bottom-line.
Online performance
Orbitz owns several online brands, including Orbitz.com, CheapTickets.com, ebookers.com, HotelClub.com, and RatesToGo.com. While this demonstrates diversification, it's not impressive on a relative basis to peers.
Priceline.com owns Priceline.com, Agoda.com, Kayak.com, and Booking.com.
Expedia owns Expedia.com, Hotels.com, and Hotwire.com.
Priceline.com and Expedia have a lot more exposure to consumers. The global traffic rankings for the aforementioned websites are from Alex.com.
Orbitz Brands
- Orbitz.com: 1,514
- CheapTickets.com: 4,924
- ebookers.com: 15,187
- HotelClub.com: 12.446
- RatesToGo.com: 66,653
Priceline.com Brands
- Priceline.com: 682
- Kayak.com: 1,009
- Booking.com: 150
- Agoda.com: 899
Expedia Brands
- Expedia.com: 487
- Hotels.com: 711
- Hotwire.com: 1,428
The numbers below, provided by comScore, indicate industry 2012 page-view market share for Expedia.com, Priceline.com, and Orbitz.com.
- Expedia.com: 31.6%
- Priceline.com: 17.3%
- Orbitz.com: 12.9%
Not surprisingly, Priceline.com and Expedia have been more consistent performers. Expedia's revenue has consistently improved. Profits have also been steady, but earnings declined in 2012, and the company reported a loss last quarter.
Priceline.com has seen very consistent improvement on the top line and red ink is nowhere to be found. Furthermore, Priceline.com sports a profit margin of 26.82%, whereas Expedia's profit margin is 4.24%, and the profit margin for Orbitz is -18.82%. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that shorts are betting heavily against Orbitz.
The industry has seen a significant amount of consolidation, but Orbitz hasn't been a major player. Unfortunately, Orbitz doesn't have nearly as much cash available as Expedia or Priceline.com, which puts it at a significant disadvantage when it comes to inorganic growth.
While Orbitz might be showing improvements, it will be difficult for Orbitz to steal market share if it doesn't have the capability of acquiring popular properties. And with the company focused on trying to deliver consistent profits, a major acquisition would be risky.
Company culture
The company culture for Orbitz is strong, which is a big positive. It indicates employees believe in the direction of the company. Happy employees also tend to produce more and make for happy customers. According to Glassdoor.com, Orbitz employees have rated their employer a 3.9 of 5 and 84% of employees would recommend the company to a friend. Several employees point out the low turnover rate and limited micromanaging as big positives.
Expedia employees rate their employer a 3.3 of 5, and 65% of employees would recommend the company to a friend. Therefore, Orbitz does outperform a peer in one area.
However, Priceline.com remains a dominating force, even in company culture. Priceline.com employees have rated their employer a 4.1 of 5, and 86% of employers would recommend the company to a friend.
Orbitz is a risky turnaround play. While the rewards could be high, it's a dangerous game to play. That being the case, investing in best-of-breed companies for the long haul is recommended. Priceline.com is clearly the best option of this group. If you're concerned about the broader market, then consider scaling into a position slowly.
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President Abraham Lincoln's classic oration provides classroom teachers a wealth of innovative opportunities to teach this period of history within the national middle school curriculum. Educators who attend this conference leave equipped with new techniques, an extensive resource book for implementing new lessons in the classroom, and a renewed enthusiasm from a first-hand study of the Gettysburg battlefield and Soldiers' National Cemetery, the site of The Gettysburg Address.
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The late Richard "Rick" Bartol Jr. had a rare ability to genuinely connect with people and show them the relevance of the Civil War to their place in the world and history as a seasonal park ranger at Gettysburg for 30 summers. In keeping with Bartol's passion, this conference was developed to inspire middle school teachers engage their students with the people and places of the Civil War within the context of Social Studies and Language Arts. The goal of the conference is to help teachers educate students about the relevance of this time period to their own lives as Americans living in the modern era.


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Bummer. The Core Be No More.
Let's sign everyone to big deals, oh.
Should be a fun season.
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The Library Director provides dynamic leadership and oversight for the Health Sciences Library (HSL) of New York Medical College, and assures the delivery of high quality academic and knowledge-based resources and tools that align the library's strategic plan with the goals of the College and University System, notably: the School of Medicine, Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences and the School of Health Sciences and Practice, Graduate Medical Education, clinical affiliations, and all university programs and initiatives as appropriate. The incumbent is a member of the Chancellor's senior leadership team and reports directly to the Chancellor.
The HSL library foot print totals 22,125 square feet, including: the main library in the Basic Sciences Building and branch sites in the Vosburgh and Skyline buildings. The director is responsible for effectively meeting the information needs of faculty, residents, employees and students through the continuing enhancement of collections, services, facilities, and technology in all formats and locations. The Director also manages the historical archives and educational media functions of the College.
1. Creates a vision for the HSL, provides leadership for the library and oversees the traditional and innovative library, information technology and archives programs that are synchronized with the vision, mission and plan of NYMC.
2. Prepares and effectively manages the library's budgets and accounts, ensuring that financial expenditures meet all of the plans and reporting requirements of the University. Provides assessment and metrics to support collection development plans and funding in collaboration with other University library components and locations.
3. Recruits, leads, motivates, and develops staff in a way that fosters engagement and high performance. Creates and communicates clear performance measures, accountability and continuing education to develop staff.
4. Leads the library's strategic planning process working with staff, students, faculty and administration to identify strategic directions, goals and objectives aligned with the needs of the University. Develops relevant assessment tools, strategies, classes and programs to continuously monitor and improve services and resources.
5. Maintains awareness of emerging technologies and their application to libraries. Develops and delivers information services that adapt innovations in technology. Develops and implements innovative licensing, technology and access models to serve constituents.
6. Develops research support services, resources, and facilitates implementation of the University's research initiatives.
7. Collaborates with constituents across the organization to integrate library and archival resources and services into campus initiatives.
8. Negotiates with vendors and vendor contacts.
9. Promotes the library to the University and community through the use of social media, websites, newsletters and attendance at events and meetings. Develops library research initiatives at local and national meetings as appropriate.
10. Facilitates collaboration among NYMC and Touro constituencies, as well as other Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors (AAHSL), New York State and Hudson Valley libraries and communities.
11. Provides leadership and staff support for the Faculty Senate Standing Committee: Library and Academic Support Committee (LASCOM).
The applicant needs to be qualified for appointment to both a faculty and to an administrative position.
Education requirement: A Master's Degree in Library and Information Science from an accredited American Library Association program is required. An additional graduate degree in management or the health sciences would be an asset.
Licenses or certifications: Member of the Medical Library Association Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), distinguished level preferred.
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You will obtain the latest channel information on the pilots, fellow swimmers, other members of the association and any up to date changes to regulations. Newsletters will be sent to you via e-mail with regular updates with this latest news.
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The history of every sport is an essential feature of its growth and development and the history of the Channel Swimming Association shows that it has been at the forefront of the development of open water swimming since its formation in 1927. The early part of the 20th century was a time of great challenge in many sports and a time of great expansion in professionalism in sport. There were large sums of money to be won and everlasting fame to be earned and to swim the English Channel was considered one of the greatest achievements in sport.
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Batman's Robin is still fighting for the underdog! I was reading my latest issue of Dog Fancy magazine the other day where I found an article about a very unique dog rescue. Seventeen years ago (as of this writing) Burt Ward and his wife Tracy founded the Gentle Giants Rescue and Adoption non-profit dog rescue organization. This is hands down the biggest dog rescue organization I've ever seen and I don't mean just in the number of dogs they rescue, care for and find homes for but in dog SIZE as well! When I went to their website and watched their video my eyes bugged out and all I could think was "Holy Furkids, Batman!" and could not resist spreading the word on their tremendous efforts to help needy big dogs.
Gentle Giants specializes in rescuing and finding homes for the giant dog breeds like Great Danes, Newfoundlands, Mastiffs, Great Pyrenees, Irish Wolfhounds and other members of the giant dog breed families. They don't limit their rescue efforts to the giant breed dogs either, you'll find even itty bitty four-legged furkids amongst the varied breeds at their rescue. Click on over to the Gentle Giants website and see for yourselves the number and variety of dog breeds in their care and be prepared to be amazed! I know I sure was!
I know all to well how much shedding goes on at our house with our two German Shepherds and the work and money it takes to feed and care for them. I cannot even imagine multiplying this by the number and the sizes of dogs that Gentle Giants cares for. This is absolutely mind boggling, folks! I cannot even imagine taking on this kind of responsibility! Fighting for the underdog takes on a whole new loving meaning at Gentle Giants. Burt and Tracy are living my dream but on a much larger scale than I ever imagined was possible and I'm in awe of their rescue operation. They are definitely on my list of people I would love to meet some day. To visit their rescue would be an absolute dog lovers joy! I'm so jealous that they get to spend their days among all these beautiful creatures.
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Not only do they take in and care for these dogs but they care so much about them that they delved into the nutritional needs of the giant breed dogs and are now producing and selling their very own dog food. Oh how I wish more people took feeding their dogs more seriously than grabbing a bag of grocery store dog food. If you have a giant breed dog you might want to check out their product and here's a link to the Gentle Giants dog food order page.
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I think one of the main reasons Gentle Giants has touched my heart so much is that a celebrity has chosen to help dogs. They're not just out there making money and taking advantage of Burt's celebrity status trying to be (more) famous. They're not out to hit the front page of the papers or the cover of People magazine for themselves just to be in the public eye. They've found there's more to life than being famous and to share themselves in a unique and loving way … a way to make celebrity status count and to make a difference for those who do not have a voice of their own.
Burt Ward will always be known as Batman's sidekick – but in the world of dog lovers he'll always be remembered for something so much more important.
Riley's Place sends a HUGE THANK YOU to Burt, Tracy and their Gentle Giants rescue operation for taking on this tremendous responsibility and providing love, care and homes for these very special dogs.
Just a hint – their home page video might take awhile to load on your computer but dog lovers will be glad they waited!


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