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THE REACH OF WAR: INSURGENCY; U.S. Attacks Falluja as Iraqis Renew Hint of Martial Law
By SOMINI SENGUPTA; Fooad Al Sheikhly contributed reporting for this article.
Published: June 26, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 25— United States marines attacked the insurgent stronghold of Falluja with airstrikes on Friday, and Iraq's new government again strongly hinted that it would declare martial law, but said nothing about its timing or scope.
For the last several days, officials of the Iraqi interim government, including Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, have indicated they would declare a state of emergency, saying that, at a minimum, it could include a curfew, checkpoints and a ban on public demonstrations. Questions remain about the ability of the new Iraqi security forces to enforce such measures, and the extent to which the American military would be willing to help carry them out.
If nothing else, the declarations of the government signal that on the question of security -- by far Iraq's chief problem -- the new government intends to be nothing but tough. ''It's the people who want stronger measures in Iraq,'' Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan told reporters on Friday, five days before the United States is scheduled to transfer sovereignty to the Iraqis. ''We've come to build democracy, and building democracy requires patience.''
He said the government was preparing ''an urgent plan'' to secure the capital and was also considering emergency measures for the provinces. ''It might be a limited area,'' he said. ''It might cover more than one area.''
Predicting more violence, Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib urged Iraqis to report potential insurgent activity to state security forces. ''It is the responsibility of every Iraqi to cooperate with us to remove this cancer from our midst,'' he said. ''You cannot expect the police to do it on their own.''
Neither cabinet member said anything about when such measures could start. As the transfer of power approaches, insurgent attacks have intensified, culminating with a coordinated set of strikes across the country on Thursday that killed more than 100 people. The Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his organization have claimed responsibility.
Earlier in the week, Mr. Allawi, a former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party with strong links to the Central Intelligence Agency, floated the idea of emergency measures in limited regions of the country. The prospect of any heavy-handed security measures that restrict basic civil liberties could prove awkward for the United States if American troops are asked to enforce them. On the other hand, such measures could enjoy popular acceptance if they are promulgated by Iraqi officials, rather than Americans. In any event, given Mr. Allawi's close links to Washington, it is unlikely that any new security policies would be undertaken without significant American input.
Iraqi government officials blamed foreign fighters for the latest violence. Predicting an imminent showdown with the insurgents, Mr. Shalaan promised to ''confront the beastly attackers from outside the borders of the country.''
On Friday, Marine aircraft bombed what American military officials called a safe house used by the Zarqawi network in Falluja. Qasim Mohammed Abdul Satar, who sits on the town's council of elders, said the bombs struck several houses in a neighborhood that had been attacked by American forces last Saturday. Reuters quoted an official of the American-led alliance as saying that 20 to 25 people were killed in the latest attack.
The Dubai-based Al Arabiya television network broadcast a speech by gunmen in Falluja denying Mr. Zarqawi's presence in the town. Three unidentified men, their faces shrouded, appeared on the screen. One read from a statement, saying, ''We deserve to protect our city.''
Also on Friday, a lawyer defending an American soldier accused in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal described his client as a scapegoat whose superiors were fully aware of what was going on. The soldier, Specialist Sabrina Harman, 26, was shown in a photograph, posing with the body of a detainee who apparently died during an interrogation. According to a pool news report, her lawyer, Frank Spinner, told a military court that senior officers were aware of the abuse. Mr. Spinner said his client ''was caught in a very difficult situation as a junior soldier.''
''I don't think this young woman should ever have been put in that environment,'' he added. ''I think the Army set her up.''
Specialist Harman is also accused of writing ''Rapeist'' on the leg of a prisoner held on a rape charge. Her lawyer said Friday that the prosecution had presented no evidence that the prisoner knew what was being written on him. Therefore, he argued, her action could not be construed as abuse.
In Washington on Friday, the Army replaced Maj. Gen. George R. Fay with a more senior officer as chief investigator into the role of military intelligence in the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The appointment of Lt. Gen. Anthony R. Jones, deputy commander of the Army Training and Doctrine Command, to replace General Fay will delay completion of the military investigation, said Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, The Associated Press reported.
Army officials said the decision to put General Jones in charge did not reflect on General Fay's performance, but was necessary to resolve a protocol problem in the investigation. At issue was the need to interview Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez as part of the investigation. General Sanchez is the top American commander in Iraq, and the Army wanted a lead investigator of at least equal rank.
In a related development, the Senate announced that it had confirmed the Army's vice chief of staff, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., as commander of all American and coalition forces in Iraq, replacing General Sanchez, The Associated Press reported.
Photo: A soldier with the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps stood guard in Baghdad yesterday, one day after attacks across the country by insurgents killed more than 100 people. The new Iraq government is vowing to quell violence. (Photo by Lynsey Addario for The New York Times)


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By Johnny Jackson
Federal officials anticipate as much as a quarter of all taxpayers in the Southern Crescent area, and the rest of the state, will file their federal tax returns during the final week of filing season.
That amounts to an estimated one million returns, out of the 4.1 million to be filed by Georgians this year.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) also projects more than 275,000 Georgians will request an extension, even with the extended filing deadline of April 18.
"It's a real possibility that some people might file on the weekend before the April 18th deadline," said IRS Spokesman Mark Green. "[However,] taxpayers who need extra time to file their federal returns this year can file the Form 4868 request for an automatic extension through IRS Free File."
Green said -- while the extension gives taxpayers an additional six months, until Oct. 17, to file their tax return -- it is not an extension of time to pay.
Taxpayers can file the request for an extension with traditional Free File, or Free File Fillable Forms, said Green, who added that preparing and submitting Free File Form 4868 is free to everyone.
The tax-filing season has progressed smoothly, so far, noted the IRS spokesman.
"Georgians are e-filing in record numbers this year, up 8.7 percent," Green said. "Thus far, we have received over 2.6 million e-file returns out of the estimated 4.1 million [Georgia] tax returns [63.4 percent]."
Green acknowledge that many of those are coming from a younger generation of taxpayers. "About 90 percent of new taxpayers are going to be taking advantage of technology, and are going to e-file," he said. "A lot of these folks are younger, and they're more familiar with what's available out there."
Green said he encourages those who have not yet filed their tax returns, to e-file for its convenience, and to avoid filing late. He said, if a taxpayer is unable to pay the total balance due on his or her taxes owed, he or she should pay as much as possible and contact the IRS about an installment plan.
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The Toxic Truth About Stevia
By Jane Barthelemy. Stevia is marketed as a healthy sweetener. But surprising new evidence indicates it is highly processed with toxic chemicals. Have you ever wondered how stevia is refined? Is your stevia pure? Or is it mixed with other sweeteners and chemicals?
How to End Food Cravings & Addictions
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Egg Buyers, Beware
By Jane Barthelemy. You're in the grocery store looking for non-GMO eggs, and it's confusing. What is the truth behind these terms: Free-Range, Organic, Cage-free? While most have legal meanings, the labels are purposely misleading. For example, did you know that pasture-raised hens may receive up to 30% of their diet in GMO grains?
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Every frequent traveler knows the challenge of eating well on the road. If you're doing gluten-free, Paleo, GMO-free, or any healthy diet, you can solve that with a bit of planning. It's all in the preparation. I recently took a trip and photographed my hotel kitchen set up. Here are my 6 steps to eating healthy in a hotel room:
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Which Gluten-Free Brownie is Best?
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April 4, 2002
By Todd F. Gaziano and Rich Tucker
It's not that far away.
Unless something changes, May 9 will mark an important
anniversary. On that date last year, President Bush nominated 11
men and women to fill open federal judgeships. President Clinton
had originally appointed two of them. Those two have been
One of the president's nine other nominees has been sworn in.
But not one of the remaining eight has had even a hearing before
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In almost a year, not even one hearing. What's wrong with this
Are they a bunch of extremists? Not according to Democratic
comments at the time.
The New York Times on May 10, 2001, quoted Senate
Majority Leader Tom Daschle: "I'm pleased the White House has
chosen to work with us on this first group of nominees." In fact,
the Times reported, "none of the Senate Democratic leaders
who spoke to reporters at a news conference today -- Mr. Daschle,
Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the top Democrat on the
Judiciary Committee, and Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York,
top Democrat on that panel's courts subcommittee -- criticized any
of the nominees."
No criticism, but no hearings. Why?
Are there plenty of federal judges already? No. In fact, at this
writing, there are 95 vacancies in the federal courts. The vacancy
rate on the U.S. appellate courts -- often the courts of last
resort -- is 17 percent.
Even worse, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S.
Courts, 40 of the openings represent "judicial emergencies." These
are positions that need to be filled quickly, to keep the legal
process from grinding to a halt. Eight of President Bush's nominees
were to judgeships classified as emergencies.
Maybe some bureaucrats are dragging their feet. Judges must
undergo an FBI background check, and the American Bar Association
evaluates them. Have those groups dropped the ball? Let's check the
Senate Judiciary Committee's Web page.
It says the FBI signed off on all the nominees on May 14, 2001
-- five days after their nomination. The ABA had turned in all its
paperwork by mid-July. In fact, the ABA completed its review of
most of the nominees in June. All 11 were listed as "well
qualified" or "qualified."
OK, hearings probably were scheduled for last fall, but put off
by the earth-shaking events of Sept. 11, right? Again, let's turn
to the committee's Web site.
It lists no hearings between April and September of 2001. So
even without the terrorist attacks, none of these nominees was
going to get a hearing until the fall, at the earliest.
Keep in mind that, shortly after President Bush's nominations on
May 9, the Senate flipped into Democratic hands when James Jeffords
of Vermont left the Republican Party and declared himself an
independent on May 24. Since then, Democrats have chaired every
committee and subcommittee.
Judiciary is now controlled by Vermont's other senator, Democrat
Patrick Leahy. He recently bragged that the Senate has confirmed 42
judges since he took over -- which, he pointed out, is more than
the 39 judges confirmed in 2000, when Republicans ruled.
But that ignores the fact that President Bush has nominated more
judges and nominated them more quickly than any president in
history -- almost 100 in his first year in office. So nearly
two-thirds of his nominees have not been confirmed.
In attempting to defend the way his committee torpedoed the
nomination of Charles Pickering, who was voted down on a party-line
vote, Sen. Leahy said that "the Constitution provides a democratic
check on the power of appointment by requiring the advice and
consent of the Senate."
That's true. But it's difficult to see how the Senate can
possibly give advice or consent if it won't even hold hearings.
That's why, for the eight men and women who've been in limbo for
almost a year, the old adage applies: Justice delayed is justice
Gaziano is director of the Center for Legal and Judicial
Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Rich Tucker is
manager of professional training in Heritage's Center for Media and
Public Policy.
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Maximum-likelihood tree and prevalence of duplicated, singleton, and orphan genes within 45 complete α-proteobacterial genome sequences. A. Unrooted maximum-likelihood tree based on 108 conserved protein sequences (for construction of the tree and references to the genomes, see Methods and Additional file 2, respectively). Bootstraps are 100, unless indicated otherwise. B. Percentual presence of the four gene categories: orphans (dark blue); singletons (cyan); phage- or integrase-related genes (red); and duplicated genes or paralogs (light blue). Genome sizes are indicated on the right.
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"The statement of Mr. Reardon complains of various text messages being sent to his phone between August 23rd and September 1st from a phone card, but indicates HE (REARDON) DOES NOT KNOW WHO SENT THE TEXT MESSAGES"
"There is no EVIDENCE that the defendant committed the offenses charged"
All the accusatory instruments are based SOLELY upon information and BELIEF of the victim, John Reardon
ABSENT ARE FACTS that the defendant committed the offenses charged.
People who do not know the facts SHOULD NOT BE SO QUICK TO JUDGE.
The Associated Press should be knocking on REARDONS DOOR asking him why he filed a false complaint.
"I'm going to kick your ass in the parking lot," he screamed, according to sworn testimony that John Reardon gave to the cops.
Reardon swore back at him, and the angry fathers separated as the teams cleared out of the sports complex. They seemed to forget it was only a game, played by 10-year-olds. But then, in Suffolk County, youth baseball is a religion — and not really about the kids.
It was two months before Reardon heard from Sanfilippo again. "See you at Baseball Heaven, scumbag."
It was 1:32 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 23, and the text on Reardon's cellphone had come from an unknown number, according to a court filing in Suffolk County District Court obtained by The Post.
Reardon didn't immediately connect the menacing words back to the ugly incident on the field from months back. He was too concerned with the fact that the text came with a picture of Jack, his son.


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Women Get the Word out at Top Book Houses from Independent Publishers to Top New York Firms, Women Are Writing the Book on the Future of Publishing
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WHEN Little, Brown & Co. threw a party for its new publisher on a stormy spring evening, no amount of rain and cold wind could dampen the high spirits of the 300 guests.
Editors and agents had come to celebrate Sarah Crichton's appointment as the first woman - and first outsider - to serve as publisher of the 159-year-old firm. Publishing circles were abuzz about the appointment.
A similar buzz accompanied Rupert Murdoch's designation of another newcomer to book publishing as president and chief executive officer of HarperCollins. Anthea Disney, who assumed her post this month, is the second female CEO of a major book publishing company, following Phyllis Graham, who for a decade has reigned as CEO at the Putnam Berkley Group, Inc. "The fact that you have women being put in these positions in publishing is a healthy sign that the industry is interested in being dynamic and shaking itself up a little bit," Ms. Crichton says. That need for dynamism comes as publishers face new challenges, including competition from electronic publishing and the need to reach readers who may be more comfortable with computers than print. Publishing has always been more open to women than many other fields, although women have traditionally worked their way up from within. Yet Crichton and Ms. Disney defend their zigzag career paths. Disney, a former producer for Fox TV's "A Current Affair" and editor of TV Guide, began as a reporter and then became an editor. "All my skills are in the editorial world," she says. As for her outsider status, she adds, "There really is a value in being fresh." Crichton, a former editor at Seventeen magazine and most recently assistant managing editor at Newsweek, explains that she "grew up in publishing." She is the daughter of novelist Robert Crichton and the granddaughter of the writer Kyle Crichton. Her mother and sisters are writers, as is her husband, Guy Martin. Crichton believes magazine publishing offers valuable lessons for the book industry. "At Newsweek ... there was instant feedback," she says. "Magazines really teach you to be respectful of your readers, and to understand what their interests are...." In book publishing, by contrast, "there's more of a distance. There probably shouldn't be. You're asking book buyers to take a great leap of faith - to believe in you and ... hand over $25, which is a lot of money." Crichton says that too often, she has "seen that trust toyed with. …


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text: Computer Science http://hdl.handle.net/10523/568 2015-10-05T12:46:33Z Dynamical properties of gene regulatory networks involved in long-term potentiation http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5816 Dynamical properties of gene regulatory networks involved in long-term potentiation 2015 Sanchez Nido, Gonzalo The significant increase in the availability of postgenomic data has stimulated the growth of hypothesis-generating strategies to unravel the molecular basis of nature. The application of systems theory to biological problems emerged in the early 1970s, and yet the computational methods developed to model biological networks and analyse their functionality have been seldom used for understanding the neurogenetic basis of cognition. The main interests of this thesis are the application of computational models to microarray expression data for the identification and analysis of biological networks related with long-term potentiation (LTP), the cellular correlate of learning and memory in mammals. The models include the analysis of co-expression and studies of dynamical stability. The thesis starts with the application of established methods on gene expression analysis on the available expression data from LTP in order to identify networks of closely correlated genes in their patterns of expression to ultimately pinpoint putative key regulators not identified previously by classical differential expression analysis. The thesis continues with the analysis of previously identified gene networks regulated 20 min, 5 h, and 24 h post-LTP induction. A dynamical stability analysis using weight matrices suggests that the early network has a significant sensitivity to perturbations compared with randomly generated networks of similar characteristics. In addition, using random Boolean networks, we study the differential sensitivity to perturbations of these networks and we find that our results are consistent with a model of LTP as a complex cellular switch. In such a scenario, earlier networks are dynamically more unstable than later regulatory networks, which are proposed to be responsible for the new homeostatic state reached by the stimulated neurons. Key genes responsible for the dynamic properties observed are identified and discussed. In particular, we found that Egr2, a member of the Egr family of transcription factors was crucial to the bistability observed in the early-response network. Other genes previously associated with LTP have a more modest contribution. A functional analysis of these networks is presented and integrated with previous knowledge on the molecular basis of LTP. 2015-07-29T01:35:48Z An examination of polychronous neural groups as a potential substrate for representation http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5727 An examination of polychronous neural groups as a potential substrate for representation 2015 Guise, Mira It is widely assumed that synaptic plasticity provides the neural basis for long-term memory in the brain (Abraham, 2008, Caporale and Dan, 2008, Martin et al., 2000). However, the precise nature of the underlying representation is still unclear, despite being of great relevance to brain research (Caroni et al., 2012). Izhikevich (2006a) has proposed that Polychronous Neural Groups (PNGs) might provide this representational mechanism. Importantly, this proposal links a high-level concept of representation to a model that is expressed at the level of spiking neurons and an empirically observed learning rule called Spike-timing-dependent Plasticity (STDP). Polychronous groups are connected groups of neurons that exist in large numbers in brain-like network simulations, and are often related to the Hebbian idea of neuronal assemblies (Hebb, 1949). The neurons in a polychronous group can be fired together in a process called PNG activation. However, the activation of polychronous groups is not synchronous but polychronous (i.e. many-timed), occurring at slightly different times as a wave-like sequential pattern of firing that passes through the group. Izhikevich views such activation events as corresponding to the activation of specific memory representations. A system of representation that is based on the activation of polychronous groups is an interesting idea that has not been adequately investigated. I therefore examine this idea in a series of experiments and theoretical discussions. The investigation of this claim has also motivated the development of two new tools. The first is a software tool called Spinula that is the foundation of all simulation experiments in this thesis. The second is a new probabilistic method for the study of PNG activation called Response Fingerprinting (Guise et al., 2013c, 2014). Using these tools I show that PNGs can meet a number of demanding criteria that I deem as necessary for a robust PNG-based representational system. 2015-06-22T01:39:04Z Efficient Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks Analysis and Design http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5720 Efficient Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks Analysis and Design 2013 Al Hinai, Aysha Today's wired and wireless networks have enabled interconnections among a wide range of computing devices including smart phones and tablets laptops. However traditional network techniques e.g. TCP IP fail to provide sufficient connectivity in environments with highly dynamic network topology and frequent network partition due to mobility. Delay Tolerant Networks DTNs have been introduced to fill in this gap. Unlike conventional networks such as the Internet DTNs suffer from a lack of end to end connections long communication delays and limited computing and storage resources. Consequently routing protocols designed for traditional networks are not suitable for DTNs. In addition the special characteristics of DTNs pose unique security challenges that need to be addressed in the design of routing protocols. This thesis investigates the issue of designing low overhead and secure protocols for packet forwarding in DTNs and presents two novel routing schemes: Trust based Spray and Wait TB SnW and Fine Grained PRoPHET FG PRoPHET . TB SnW extends the Spray and Wait routing protocol by exploiting a distributed trust management mechanism to mitigate blackhole attacks in DTNs. Each device maintains history records of successful message delivery and uses this information to detect and mitigate blackhole attackers. Simulation results show that TB SnW protocol achieves better robustness against blackhole attacks when compared with the Spray and Wait protocol. Fine Grained PRoPHET FG PRoPHET aims at enhancing the message delivery rate without overwhelming the network's scarce resources. Different from most existing routing schemes FG PRoPHET maintains fine grained history records on successful message delivery to make more accurate forwarding decisions to improve message delivery rate. Moreover FG PRoPHET integrates a greedy algorithm in an attempt to avoid overwhelming the network scarce resources. Simulation results show that FG PRoPHET considerably outperforms Epidemic and PRoPHET routing schemes by producing more accurate routing decisions resulting in significant increase of successful message delivery rate and better handling of the network buffer resources. 2015-06-17T20:48:51Z Power Modelling in Multicore Computing http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5710 Power Modelling in Multicore Computing 2015 Mair, Jason Power consumption has long been a concern for portable consumer electronics, but has recently become an increasing concern for larger, power-hungry systems such as servers and clusters. This concern has arisen from the associated financial cost and environmental impact, where the cost of powering and cooling a large-scale system deployment can be on the order of millions of dollars a year. Such a substantial power consumption additionally contributes significant levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, software-based power management policies have been used to more effectively manage a system's power consumption. However, managing power consumption requires fine-grained power values for evaluating the run-time tradeoff between power and performance. Despite hardware power meters providing a convenient and accurate source of power values, they are incapable of providing the fine-grained, per-application power measurements required in power management. To meet this challenge, this thesis proposes a novel power modelling method called W-Classifier. In this method, a parameterised micro-benchmark is designed to reproduce a selection of representative, synthetic workloads for quantifying the relationship between key performance events and the corresponding power values. Using the micro-benchmark enables W-Classifier to be application independent, which is a novel feature of the method. To improve accuracy, W-Classifier uses run-time workload classification and derives a collection of workload-specific linear functions for power estimation, which is another novel feature for power modelling. To further improve accuracy, W-Classifier addresses a number of common misconceptions in power modelling, which were found to impact both modelling accuracy and evaluation. These misconceptions have arisen from differences in the experimental setup and configuration, such as, execution time, handling of thermal effects and performance event selection. These differences can influence the perceived modelling accuracy, resulting in potentially misleading or erroneous conclusions if sufficient care is not taken. As a result, W-Classifier has adopted a number of additional steps to ensure good modelling practices, which were not available in previous work. In addition to improving modelling accuracy, the workload classification used in W-Classifier can be leveraged by power management policies to provide execution context to the power values. The workload context enables more informed power policies to be implemented, improving the balance between power and performance in achieving effective power management. According to experimental results, the modelling accuracy of W-Classifier is significantly better than previous multi-variable modelling techniques due to a collection of workload-specific power models derived through run-time workload classification. Therefore, W-Classifier can accurately estimate power consumption for a broader range of application workloads, where a separate power model can be used for each distinct workload. 2015-06-11T21:28:41Z Actions of attention, and attention to action: investigating the relationship between visual attention, episodic representation, and language http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5703 Actions of attention, and attention to action: investigating the relationship between visual attention, episodic representation, and language 2015 Webb, Andrew Cognitive representations of episodes are likely to play an important role in the neural mechanisms representing the syntactic and semantic structure of natural language sentences. However, there is little consensus on how observed episodes are represented in the brain, and how those episode representations can be transformed to and from corresponding sentence descriptions. This work investigates the theory that there is a direct structural relationship between the representation of episodes and sentences describing those episodes, and that the underlying mechanism which informs the representation of an episode is based upon the sequence of sensorimotor actions involved in observing that episode. This gives rise to two predictions: firstly that there is a canonical sequence of sensorimotor actions involved in observing actions, and secondly, that changing that sequence leads to systematic changes in descriptions of those actions. Experimental results confirm that there is a strong default sensorimotor sequence involved in the observation of a range of transitive actions. However, in part due to the robustness of the default sensorimotor sequence, the second prediction was not confirmed. 2015-06-09T02:46:58Z Modelling type-denoting concepts and words in a simulation of vocabulary development. http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5686 Modelling type-denoting concepts and words in a simulation of vocabulary development. 2015 Webb, Andrew Luc Steels proposes a mechanism by which a community of agents is able to negotiate a common vocabulary for referring to objects in their environment, using two simple games. In a 'discrimination game', an agent equipped with a set of simple sensory channels attempts to distinguish a target from a set of context objects. If it cannot do so, it subdivides one of its channels to make discrimination more likely in future. In a 'language game', a speaker agent identifies an object in the world, and consults a lexicon of mappings from object concepts to words to generate a word for this object, that is then passed to a hearer agent. The hearer uses its own lexicon to attempt to identify the object in question. If successful, the word-concept mapping is reinforced for both speaker and hearer; if not, the speaker indicates the intended object explicitly. Using these games, a group of agents can successfully develop a shared vocabulary. However, it is possible that the success of Steels' system is an artifact of the highly artificial classification and word-learning mechanisms which agents use. Discrimination games make no reference to current biological theories of perception and discrimination, and language games make no reference to psychological theories of vocabulary acquisition. This thesis describes a Steels-like system in which agents have more psychologically realistic categorisation and word-learning methods. The main conclusion of this work is that Steels' system can be successfully reimplemented using more psycho- logically realistic object classification and word-learning methods. 2015-05-28T23:39:03Z Decoding Feedback: Improving feedback practices for students in introductory programming courses http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5483 Decoding Feedback: Improving feedback practices for students in introductory programming courses 2015 Ott, Claudia High failure rates in introductory programming courses testify that learning to program is challenging for many students. This problem is widely acknowledged in the field of com- puter science education research. In higher education, quality feedback from teachers is regarded as one of the main contributors to improve student learning. Feedback to support students' development into self-regulated learners, who set their own goals, self-monitor their actual performance according to these goals and adjust learning strategies if neces- sary, is seen as an especially important aspect of contemporary feedback practice. For this research project the notion of feedback, as described within the higher education literature, was reviewed and provides a theoretical basis to address the question of how to support first year programming students. A framework to consider effective feedback was developed and used to assess feedback practice in the context of introductory program- ming courses. Various opportunities to integrate research from computer science educa- tion to support feedback processes were revealed. A gap in the research became apparent when searching for ways to support students' self-regulated learning and we realised that only those students who are informed about course demands and the impact of certain study behaviours on their final achievement are in a position to self-regulate their learning on an informed basis. As a next step we analysed the predictive value of naturally occurring course data for stu- dents' final performance at different stages in our course. All data sets, drawn from the records of 387 students enrolled in 2011 and 2012, correlated significantly with students' final examination results and we were able to define risk factors as well as performance indicators. Based on those findings an infographic for students was developed communi- cating course characteristics and projected final performance for different achievement levels at various stages of the course. To explore the impact of feedback on self-regulation level as well as to learn about students' attitudes towards diagnostic course data in general, a scoping study was conducted in 2013. Over 200 students were supplied with the infographic. The results from the study suggest that students valued the information, but, despite high engagement with the information, students' study behaviour and learning outcome remained rather unaffected for the aspects investigated. Given these multi-layered results, we suggest further exploration on the pro- vision of feedback based on diagnostic course data – a vital step towards more transparency for students to foster their active role in the learning process. 2015-03-01T19:53:04Z Computational Modelling of Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus Granule Cell http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5482 Computational Modelling of Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus Granule Cell 2015 Hananeia, Nicholas After more than 30 years of study, the dynamics of synaptic plasticity in neurons still remain somewhat a mystery. By conducting a series of simulations on a simulated version of the rat dentate gyrus granule cell usingthe Izhikevich spiking neuron model, we compare and contrast several potential synaptic plasticity rules' applicability to the same experiment. Based on a 2001 experiment (Abraham et al., 2001), our simulations find that spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP), a more recent (Markram et al., 1997) theory of synaptic plasticity, is insufficient to replicate the heterosynaptic LTD shown in the experiment without including aspects of the significantly older Bienenstock-Cooper-Munro (BCM)(Bienenstock et al., 1982) theory. A combination of the history-independent STDP model and the historydependent BCM model seems most likely to be an accurate candidate for reproducing the greatest variety of cell dynamics. We also findthat in simpler nearest-neighbour STDP rules, the choice of pairing scheme is critical in achieving the greatest concordance with experiment. 2015-03-01T19:43:52Z


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text: ''Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul'', originally ''The Cursed Lands'' (Russian: Проклятые земли), is a PC game by [[{{Creator/Nival}} Nival Interactive]] that combines role-playing, stealth and real-time strategy. It is the third game of the ''VideoGame/{{Allods}}'' series, after ''Rage of Mages'' and ''Rage of Mages 2: Necromancer''. ''Evil Islands'' introduces a new interface and full 3D graphics.The game was published in October 2000 in Russia and CIS (Russian version) and a few months later in English.The game's story consists of a man called Zak who finds himself at a base of ruin in an unknown land called Gipath. After he wakes up, Zak finds a group of people praying and as they spot him, they run off and alert a nearby village shouting, "The chosen one has come!" Zak soon finds this village and the people who live in it. While inside the village the village Elder, named "Silver Tongue", briefs Zak on how they believe he is this chosen one and how he has come to save their village from Goblins and other such threats that roam the land. Soon after he has done these Quests, he finds a plot about a traitor who plans on killing him. And the story also unfolds even more over three different lands, and how he wants to regain his lost memory over the course of the game's story.''Evil Islands'' also has an online muliplayer feature allowing you and other people to do quests, level up and generally do the things you do on the single player side of the game but with human players. Quests are different from those of the single player story and have different objectives and rewards. The multiplayer portion of the game is also much harder than normal play especially without other players, encouraging people to group up. Multiplayer gaming at the time when the game was released was still fairly new, making ''Evil Islands'' stand out from other roleplay games for its time.----!!This game contains examples of:* AlwaysAccurateAttack: All offensive magic works that way (though it doesn't necessarily have to deal damage). That's why most enemies wielding it have less hp than other monsters in the area. It's also the reason why Kharad's spear is so powerful.* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: You can't have more than two allies at a time, although LazyBackup is avoided and you can just pick another one if one of them is killed.* BackStab: Backstab does extra damage but does not guarantee a kill. If you're attacking a strong enemy, you must be sure to aim to the head if possible to perform the most damage possible. You can also spend your EXP points into a backstap upgrade that increases damage when attacking from behind (the hero starts with this).* BeefGate: A few throughout the game, worth noting a couple of dragons in Gipath and an [[BossInMooksClothing Imperial Guard]] in Suslanger.* BlackAndGrayMorality: Zak falls into the AntiHero trope, and while the Khadaganian empire is undoubtedly evil, the Canian empire is not much better.* BladeOnAStick: Kharad carries an unique spear that [[ShockAndAwe throws lightning bolts towards his opponents]].* CantDropTheHero: Zak can't be dropped no matter what.* CrapsackWorld: Let's see. First, an AfterTheEnd environment (Gipath) with ruins everywhere and people living in Stone Age. Second, an empire (Ingos) governed by TheCaligula, and where just leaving the city means you'll get ruthlessly shot either by rioting villagers, the incredibly powerful gang of local thieves or the PrivateArmy under orders from the local merchant. Finally, an empire (Suslanger) with basically no freedom, soldiers everywhere, and with legal slavery. [[SarcasmMode What a happy world, don't you think?]]* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Erfar the Silvertongue.]]* CriticalEncumbranceFailure* DamageSpongeBoss: One of the two types of "bosses" in the game. A few examples include the Ogre Brothers, the White Wolf and a fair share of lone dragons, cyclops or ogres.* DemBones: The skeletons from the Dead City.* DungeonBypass: Can be done a couple of times, although you still want to complete all quests because of the experience bonus. (Especially since the game's extremely steep level and equipment curve means that almost any area you're not supposed to be is going to be a solid BeefGate wall extending forever.)** Instead of doing the long set of quests related to entering the Dead City, you could just traverse the cave that is available very early in the game. The other entrance leaves you about ten metres far from your objective in the Dead City.** If you don't want to avoid ''all'' of those quests, you can still shorten them. Getting to the observatory is far easier than the game tells you. Instead of making peace with the Lizard Men living in the Middle Mountains, you can just lure the ones near the dragon to kill them elsewhere, and then just sneak the dragon. Similarly, you can avoid the quest for freezing the lake by taking a side path that goes around the lake. There are some Lizard Men there, but you should have killed many of them already by that point, and they're anyway weaker than the skeletons you're forced to fight to get the crystal required to freeze the lake.* ElementalCrafting: The game has cloth, leather, hide and fur for armor, stone and bone for weapons, and metal and diamond for both. Wood is strangely absent.* ElementalTiers: Zigzagged, even though it seems the designers wanted to play this trope straight. Fire magic is rendered obsolete ''because'' of this trope, but it's averted with acid magic, and lightning magic is the ultimate magic instead, despite coming at the middle of the game (check the LastDiscMagic entry for more info, but to be short, some reasons are lightning magic doing extra damage against enemies wearing metal armor, and high mana cost and magic requirement on acid magic combined with a low range of attack).* TheEmpire: The Khadaganian empire.* TheEvilArmy: The Khadaganian army definitely falls here.* FallenAngel: [[spoiler: The Curse]] sure has an appearance of one.* FishingForMooks: This is the purpose of the Fireworks spells. It creates small purple fireworks that attract the closest enemy, and only it. You can spam it to lure it far from the other enemies. Considering that most of the time you encounter mooks that are too strong to be killed in groups, and there's no good way for LevelGrinding, it's one of the most useful spells in the game.* FlunkyBoss: The other type of "bosses" in this game.** [[spoiler: Erfar]] takes it to its logical extreme, {{Zerg Rush}}ing you with at least fifteen {{Mooks}} who you will likely two-shot by then (the boss himself included).** A less serious and way more dangerous example would be Bandit Chief's Lieutenant. Encountered fairly early in the game he has an assortment of six to eight bandits that will come to his aid once engaged. It's possible to pick them off one by one before the main fight though, otherwise you're in for a slugfest.* GiantEnemyCrab / GiantSpiders: The Armadillos in Gipath and the Haunt Spiders in Suslanger, respectively.* HeelFaceTurn: Kharad used to be a part of Khadaganian Army before defecting to {{La Resistance}}.* ImprobablePowerDiscrepancy: Mostly played straight, with a few aversions. The different types of UndergroundMonkey have completely different health depending of the island you are, and the giant spiders you fight in the Death Canyon (that you're forced to complete while alone and with obselete equipment) are strangely weak compared to the ones you fight elsewhere in Suslanger. However, in Suslanger you encounter hyenas which have about the same power as the dogs you encountered in Ingos. This actually has some logic, but makes hyenas look pathetic when compared to the rest of enemies in Suslanger.* InexplicableTreasureChest: Averted. The few treasure chests that you find usually have some kind of background that you can check accesing the quest menu.* InfinityPlusOneSword: [[spoiler: An equipment made of diamond.]] An odd case since you don't really need to work for them as [[spoiler: Tka-Rik]] hands them to you on a silver platter, for free, just before the final battle.* ItemCrafting: Taken UpToEleven in this game, as you have to craft even ''spells''. Also, disassemble a suit of armor and then assemble the metal into a sword and a helmet.* LaResistance: The Brotherhood of the Last Sanctuary.* LastDiscMagic: Completely averted. The best offensive magic is not acid, the Suslanger magic, but lightning, which is already available in Ingos, and there's even a way to craft a Lightning spell in Gipath, although it will be ''very'' expensive. Concerning non-offensive magic, the high price, required skill and stamina cost and the low duration of Suslanger's spells makes most of them useless, while the game's most useful spells are already available in the previous islands. To drive the point home, [[spoiler: The Curse]] uses lightning in its attacks.* LizardFolk: The most dangerous regular enemies in Gipath.* LordBritishPostulate: Many monsters were designed as unkillable by giving them tons of HP and rapid regeneration. However, with the introduction of easy mode in a patch, most of them became technically possible to kill, even though the process was long, difficult, and involved a share of luck. Enthusiasts posted a detailed guide to killing every single creature outside of towns, except two dragons that are too tough to kill even this way and a frog in the tutorial, which only survives because the player has no ranged weapons at this point. This slaughter, nicknamed "Project Genocide", completely breaks the game scripts, making quests play in the wrong order, [=NPCs=] making references to future events, and corpses and empty spaces participating in conversations. * LukeNounverber: Everyone and their mother is named like that in Gipath. Examples include Erfar Silvertongue, Gort Skullcrusher and Babur Tightfist to name a few. Hilariously, a handful of non-human NPC's such as Goblin Chieftain Gogo averts this. It's also averted in Ingos and Suslanger.* MoneySpider: Mostly averted, as slain beasts can only be looted for body parts, and only humanoid enemies drop money or items. Played straight with unicorns and [[FairFolk Woodsfolk]], who, for some reason, drop bars of iron.* MultiplayerDifficultySpike: The game doesn't allow importing your SP characters to co-op (so you have to make new ones from scratch), makes all enemies a lot tougher than in SP, and drastically reduces the XP and money rewards for quests and combat.* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: Enemies never run out of fatigue needed to run (no pun intended) and cast spells. Thus even a frigging troll (an ugly, pimply, lumbering bulk--you know the [[OurTrollsAreDifferent kind]]) can always outrun the player.* NoHeroDiscount: Lampshaded and justified.** In one instance, your base of operations is a village where you are praised as the "ChosenOne", but the village merchant is so infamously stingy that he explicitly warns you right away that he will still charge you with all your purchases. [[spoiler:Later, all the village money happens to be stolen and he once again clearly refuses to supply the village guards with weapons for free... because they didn't stand for him against brigands]].** Another time you join some rebels and obtain all the gear from their blacksmith. He actually apologizes for his shameless prices and explains that he has to smuggle the weapons and bribe the officials of the EvilEmpire.** However, [[spoiler:at the very end of the game, it's subverted; the very last 'merchant' you meet before the final battle will give you anything he has in stock and perform all services for free]].* NonCombatEXP: The game gives you experience points for each completed quest. Note that you only need to do the quest rather than return to the quest-giver to gain exp.* {{Oculothorax}}: The three varieties of Evileyes (regular, red and green) are big, floating eyes that shoot powerful fireballs at you. * OurOrcsAreDifferent: This game has gray-skinned Blizzard-types orcs (and [[BizarreSexualDimorphism dimorphic as hell]]).* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They come in two flavors: normal, lumbering ones(including recruits, warriors and experienced ones) and better preserved ghouls that for all intents and purposes behave like human enemies.* PantheraAwesome: Tigers appear in both of the two first islands.* PeltsOfTheBarbarian: Everyone in Gipath (both allies and enemies) wear fur and leather clothes and armor, as opposed to the more civilized inhabitants of Ingos and Suslanger, who wear either more refined silk clothes or metal armor.* PointAndClickMap* RegeneratingMana: Staying still restores magic. To be more precise, there is no separate ManaMeter; instead, both running and casting magic use the same resource, stamina.* ResourcesManagementGameplay: Very important. You'll want to grind as much as possible, not only to gain experience, but to earn money, since MoneyForNothing is completely averted in this game. Besides, the best materials in each island are not available in shops and you'll only be able to get a few from enemies.** Hard leather (the best leather in the game) is mainly acquired from the Lizard Men (also from Ogres, but there are few of them). You can stock it without too much difficulty, as you'll fight lots of Lizard Men in Gipath. However, although you can craft stronger leather armor in Ingos and Suslanger, you can't get hard leather anymore, meaning you can only use whatever you saved from Gipath.** Strangely, the opposite situation to the one just above happens with fur: you can get lots of snow tiger skin in Ingos, but there is no new fur armor, so you can only upgrade the one you saved from Gipath.** ZigZagged with hide, as the best one, red dragon hide, ''can't'' be acquired by killing red dragons (they drop red dragon bones instead), but by buying it in Suslanger. Before that, however, there's only troll hide, acquired from trolls, who are seldom encountered, and buyable only in Ingos.** Obsidian, the best type of stone, can only be acquired from elite Orcs (standard Orcs drop just silicon, although you can't buy it either).** The best type of bone ''you'll be using'' is shell bones, acquired only from Armadillos. There's one type below (hard bone, acquired from skeletons) and several above (several types of dragon bones; in Gipath they're only acquired as a quest reward, making them TooAwesomeToUse, and in Suslanger they're made obsolete by metal).** The best metal in Ingos is steel, acquired from both the Woodsfolk and Wormheads, so you'll be able to get lots of it. However, Meteorite, the best metal ''ever'', is mainly acquired from Black Wormheads and Imperial Guards (also from Desert Ogres, but again, they are seldom encountered); the first ones can't be encountered after you complete the Wormheads' Cave, and the others are the toughest regular enemies in the entire game, so good luck getting some Meteorite.* RockMonster: Stone Elementals, and Golems (the latter are made either of steel or diamond).* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: Make sure you've taken all the equipment you want from your party members before moving to the next island! Also, since the last mission on an island yields the most XP, which is shared among the party, you might want to ensure [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential that your companions do not survive the last mission at all]].* SomeCallMeTim: Tka-Rik.* SpellCrafting: You must craft spell before you use them, using a keystone and then adding runes to increase the attributes (damage, range, duration...) of the base spell.* SprintMeter: The game combined the Sprint Meter with the ManaMeter: it was depleted by either spellcasting or running, and it only replenished when the character was motionless.* SubsystemDamage: Most enemies have several parts that can be targeted, usually body, head, arms and legs (some enemies lack some of these parts, however). Damaging arms affects attacking speed, damaging legs affects moving speed, and having the body or the head depleted of life point means instant death. Although it's usually harder to aim to a specific part, doing a backstab gives you more chances to hit, which proves invaluable against enemies who are too strong to be killed otherwise.* ThunderboltIron: Meteorite is the strongest metal available for crafting weapons.* TomatoInTheMirror: It's eventually revealed that Zak's identity is [[spoiler:that of the mysterious Joon you've been looking for during the Suslanger arc]].* TheUnchosenOne: Zak, in an odd case. He is originally hailed by the villagers as TheChosenOne by sheer coincidence, and most energetically by the village elder -- but then it turns out that [[spoiler:the prophecy is more or less a scam, the village elder is actually a spy for TheEmpire, sent there in search of a fallen meteorite]]. Naturally, he becomes a hero anyway.* UndergroundMonkey: You'll find several types of wolves, boars, toads, tigers, trolls... that look the same except for color or size.* VendorTrash: Most animals and monsters drop this instead of money, materials or items. At least each type is given a short description which explains why it is sellable and what the buyers would do with it.* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: At one point in Suslanger you're required to sneak into city choke full of guards and ordinary city folk. Normally killing non-aggressive NPC's such as deer, rabbits or workers yields very low rewards. Here, however, townsfolk drop amounts of gold that can make you reconsider going on a city-wide killer spree... that is, if you don't get caught.* WarpWhistle: Completing some quests will allow to travel instantly to certain areas of the map.* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: Zak is the only one who's required to survive at any time.* WillOTheWisp: Willow-o'the-Wisps are enemies that appear in the first island (especially around the swamp areas and around the City of the Dead) as a group of lights that start burning when attacking. They throw fire at you, an attack which isn't very damaging at later stages, but makes them quite a threat when first encountered. * ZeroEffortBoss: [[spoiler: The Curse]] ''can'' kill you easily, but it's focused on [[spoiler: Tka-Rik]] who does all the fighting for you. All you need to do is to weaken it and watch the incoming ownage.----


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"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
--Randy Pausch
A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.
In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
Questions for Randy Pausch
We were shy about barging in on Randy Pausch's valuable time to ask him a few questions about his expansion of his famous Last Lecture into the book by the same name, but he was gracious enough to take a moment to answer. (See Randy to the right with his kids, Dylan, Logan, and Chloe.) As anyone who has watched the lecture or read the book will understand, the really crucial question is the last one, and we weren't surprised to learn that the "secret" to winning giant stuffed animals on the midway, like most anything else, is sheer persistence.
Amazon.com: I apologize for asking a question you must get far more often than you'd like, but how are you feeling?
Pausch: The tumors are not yet large enough to affect my health, so all the problems are related to the chemotherapy. I have neuropathy (numbness in fingers and toes), and varying degrees of GI discomfort, mild nausea, and fatigue. Occasionally I have an unusually bad reaction to a chemo infusion (last week, I spiked a 103 fever), but all of this is a small price to pay for walkin' around.
Amazon.com: Your lecture at Carnegie Mellon has reached millions of people, but even with the short time you apparently have, you wanted to write a book. What did you want to say in a book that you weren't able to say in the lecture?
Pausch: Well, the lecture was written quickly--in under a week. And it was time-limited. I had a great six-hour lecture I could give, but I suspect it would have been less popular at that length ;-).
A book allows me to cover many, many more stories from my life and the attendant lessons I hope my kids can take from them. Also, much of my lecture at Carnegie Mellon focused on the professional side of my life--my students, colleagues and career. The book is a far more personal look at my childhood dreams and all the lessons I've learned. Putting words on paper, I've found, was a better way for me to share all the yearnings I have regarding my wife, children and other loved ones. I knew I couldn't have gone into those subjects on stage without getting emotional.
Amazon.com: You talk about the importance--and the possibility!--of following your childhood dreams, and of keeping that childlike sense of wonder. But are there things you didn't learn until you were a grownup that helped you do that?
Pausch: That's a great question. I think the most important thing I learned as I grew older was that you can't get anywhere without help. That means people have to want to help you, and that begs the question: What kind of person do other people seem to want to help? That strikes me as a pretty good operational answer to the existential question: "What kind of person should you try to be?"
Amazon.com: One of the things that struck me most about your talk was how many other people you talked about. You made me want to meet them and work with them--and believe me, I wouldn't make much of a computer scientist. Do you think the people you've brought together will be your legacy as well?
Pausch: Like any teacher, my students are my biggest professional legacy. I'd like to think that the people I've crossed paths with have learned something from me, and I know I learned a great deal from them, for which I am very grateful. Certainly, I've dedicated a lot of my teaching to helping young folks realize how they need to be able to work with other people--especially other people who are very different from themselves.
Amazon.com: And last, the most important question: What's the secret for knocking down those milk bottles on the midway?
Pausch: Two-part answer:
1) long arms
2) discretionary income / persistence
Actually, I was never good at the milk bottles. I'm more of a ring toss and softball-in-milk-can guy, myself. More seriously, though, most people try these games once, don't win immediately, and then give up. I've won *lots* of midway stuffed animals, but I don't ever recall winning one on the very first try. Nor did I expect to. That's why I think midway games are a great metaphor for life.
Made famous by his Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon and the quick Internet proliferation of the video of the event, Pausch decided that maybe he just wasn't done lecturing. Despite being several months into the last stage of pancreatic cancer, he managed to put together this book. The crux of it is lessons and morals for his young and infant children to learn once he is gone. Despite his sometimes-contradictory life rules, it proves entertaining and at times inspirational. Surprisingly, the audiobook doesn't include the reading of Pausch's actual Last Lecture, which he gave on September 18, 2007, a month after being diagnosed. Erik Singer provides an excellent inflective voice that hints at the reveries of past experiences with family and children while wielding hope and regret for family he will leave behind. The first CD is enhanced with photos.
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Very inspiring, but also practical, everyday advice about living well in general. Well written, but easy to read. Both my husband and I enjoyed it very much. Read morePublished 14 hours ago by Amazon Customer
Sad. Yet weak. Expected more from the reviews given. The author's view is nice, but somehow felt short overall.Published 1 day ago by Carlos
Book about dying from cancer and thinking about life. Good read. Nine more words are required. Now it says onePublished 3 days ago by judith a zfaz
The book is life changing. We get caught up in the small struggles of our day to day life. We get angry at the traffic on the highway or the long lines at the grocery store. Read morePublished 9 days ago by Todd C.
This is a very inspiring set of lessons in memoir fashion that talks about achieving your childhood dreams. Read morePublished 14 days ago by Mommy2828
Bought this for a summer reading I had to do, and loved the book. A great book for young kids since Pausch writes and describes all of the lessons he learned. Read morePublished 18 days ago by Ann Boun
Excellent book. My 15 year old twins had it for summer reading and they loved itPublished 22 days ago by Rona B. Wiedmayer


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Date of the conference call: Wednesday, November 30, 2011Time: 8:00 AM EST; 9:00 PM Beijing and Hong Kong TimeDial-in Number: 1-866-519-4004 (US Toll Free)400-620-8038 (China Domestic Toll Free)800-819-0121 (China Mobile Toll Free)800-930-346 (Hong Kong Toll Free)656-723-9381 (International Toll and Singapore Toll Dial-in)Conference Code (Passcode): 31293674A telephone replay will be available shortly after the conclusion of the call and will be accessible from November 30, 2011 at 11:00AM EST to December 7, 2011 at 23:59PM EST by calling 1-866-214-5335 (US), 10-800-714-0386 (China North), 10-800-140-0386 (China South), 800-901-596 (Hong Kong) or 612-8235-5000 (International) with passcode 31293674.
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About Winner MedicalWinner Medical, a leading, China-based exporter and retailer of high-quality medical dressings and consumer products made from 100% cotton, according to industry trade association statistics. The Company has fourteen wholly-owned subsidiaries and four joint ventures, which manufacture and sell tailored medical dressings and disposables, as well as non-woven fabric made from natural cotton. With a vertica
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The Visually Responsive Neuron
From Basic Neurophysiology to Behavior
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- T.P. Hicks, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA
- S. Molotchnikoff, University of Montreal, Montreal, P.Q., Canada
- T. Ono, Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sugitani, Toyama, Japan
This timely new volume presents broad-based and wide-ranging contributions on all aspects of vision. The material is grouped for presentation in a logical fashion in five main themes: peripheral processing; sensory integration in superior colliculus; organization of visual projections; development and plasticity; and neuronal encoding and visually guided behavior.
The material spans from molecules to cognition, including overt behavior, and synaptic and membrane levels of analysis. The species studied also range over diverse phyla, while contributors too form a diverse group representing Europe, North America, and Asia. The Visually Responsive Neuron is an exciting and informative addition to the well known Progress in Brain Research series.
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