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An Assessment of Occupational Needs and Training Programs in Saudi Arabia
Date: May 1979
Creator: Awwad, Muhammad M. Joma
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine (1) the size of the Saudi Arabian manpower shortage in light of the Second Development Plan, (2) the number of skilled and semi-skilled workers that will be graduated from vocational and technical programs during the plan period, and (3) the factors that explain the major causes of the labor shortage problem. In order to accomplish these objectives, the study has considered two questions: (1) Is there a consistency between the manpower needs of skilled and semi-skilled workers and the vocational and technical training programs' output? (2) What are the major factors that explain the labor shortage in Saudi Arabia?
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A Case Study on Police Misconduct in the United States of America and an Applicable Model for the Turkish National Police.
Date: August 2002
Creator: Lofca, Izzet
Description: This study explores the underlying causes and deterrent control mechanisms of police misconduct in the United States. Outcomes of causes and control mechanisms constitute the basis for an applicable model for the Turkish National Police (TNP). Why is some police behavior deviate? What are the main determinants of police misconduct? Is police misconduct a result of sociological behavior and subcultural development within police organizations or a psychological behavior as an outcome of officers' personal traits? What are the control mechanisms for police misconduct? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Do they deter or not? Is there a control mechanism that deters better than others? What is the best deterrence model for the TNP?
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The Challenges of China's Economic Reform: State Enterprise Reform and Financial Liberalization
Date: December 2000
Creator: Zhou, Haoming
Description: This thesis examines China's state-owned enterprise reform and financial reform in the last two decades. I characterize the progress of China's state-owned enterprises reform in two areas: privatization of small SOEs and mass layoffs. I argue that privatization rests on the political economy of China. I also discuss the evolution of the financial system and come up with some strategies of financial liberalization in China. Result from this study suggests that if the necessary reforms of the financial sector and state enterprises are effectively carried out, inevitably this will lead to a significantly slower rate of growth for a period of time. However, these reforms will provide the basis for a period of sustained growth in the long run.
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Comparative Analysis of Interrelations Between Democracy and Democratic Policing Practices
Date: August 2002
Creator: Can, Salih Hakan
Description: It is assumed that democratic policing will help to improve the respect of human rights and democracy in a given country. Using secondary data, this study explores cross-nationally the interrelation between democratic policing practices (e.g., community policing) and democracy and human rights.The results show significant positive correlation between the practice of democratic policing and indicators of democracy and respect for human rights. The analysis strongly implies that scholars have underestimated the power of policing institutions in democratic societies.
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A Comparison of Economic Development in Latin America, Middle Eastern Europe and Asia in the 1990s
Date: May 1999
Creator: Marktanner, Marcus
Description: The 1990s were characterized by severe turbulence in the global economy. Economic and financial crises occurred in Latin America, Middle and Eastern Europe and Asia. This analysis distinguishes between the two socioeconomic criteria "transitional" and "emerging" region. Transitional countries are former centrally planned socialist economies and emerging countries former agricultural-oriented classical developing economies with mostly a history of military or some other kind of autocratic dictatorship. The resources for the analysis are data sets regarding investment, exchange rate behavior, government finance, international liabilities of monetary authorities and inflation. The study reveals macroeconomic patterns associated with economic development in each socioeconomic region. It is shown that similar patterns are responsible for successful and non-successful performance in each region. A comparison of different regions shows many parallels between emerging economies, but only little similarity between transitional economies.
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Computer Crime as a Barrier to Electronic Commerce: New Solutions for Public Law Enforcement.
Date: August 2002
Creator: Temur, Nuri
Description: Electronic commerce was expected to grow exponentially, but the actual rate of growth in recent years has been disappointing. Recent surveys of perceptions of the development of electronic commerce clearly focus our attention on the perception and fear of computer crime as the major cause of this disappointing growth pattern. The thesis critiques existing private law solutions to this problem and argues from a normative theory on "the commons" for the application of new public law enforcement solutions in the public trust, sanctions, and public coproduction of order. The thesis argues that given the failures of existing private law solutions to the problem, these public law enforcement solutions should be more effective, efficient, and more satisfactory.
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The Effects of a Feedback Package on the Facial Orientation of a Young Girl with Autism During Restricted and Free Operant Conditions
Date: August 2000
Creator: Jacobs, Wendy Lynn
Description: A multiple baseline design across activities and people was used to assess the effectiveness of a feedback package on the facial orientation of a young girl with autism. During baseline, observations indicated low rates of facial orientation and high rates of gaze avoidance during conversation (restricted operant) and play (free operant) conditions. After treatment, facial orientation rates increased and gaze avoidance rates decreased to levels similar to typically-developing peers and maintained at one month follow up. These results suggest that the feedback package was effective in producing durable facial orientation across different environments and people. Possible interpretations, strengths, and limitations are discussed.
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The Effects of a Remote Control Tactile Feedback System on Conversation Skills in Children with Autism.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Shively, Jane M.
Description: A few studies have examined the effects of a remote control tactile device (RCT) as an unobtrusive prompting method used to promote skills such as verbal initiations and play behaviors in children with autism. To date, however, no published studies have investigated the effects of the RCT as a consequence to increase and maintain conversation skills. This study was designed to determine whether the RCT, in conjunction with common training techniques (i.e. roleplays, visual feedback, and sibling coaching), could be used as a discrete and unobtrusive feedback system to promote conversation skills in high functioning children with autism. Results found that the RCT and training packages were effective in initially increasing rates of target responses. The effects however, did not always maintain with a return to baseline. Programming "naturally" maintaining communities of reinforcement was found to be a critical factor in the maintenance of the conversational responses.
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The Effects of "Errorless" Training and Testing on the Performances of Typically Developing Children During Acquisition and Retention.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Arnadottir, Iris
Description: This study examines the effects of two teaching procedures and two testing procedures ("Skip" and "Guess") on acquisition, retention and generalization of learning. Three typically developing females between the ages of 8 and 11 learned the 24 lower case letters of the Greek alphabet. Half of the letters were taught with the "Skip" procedure and the other half with the "Guess" procedure. The "Skip" procedure produced faster and more efficient learning than the "Guess" procedure. The "Skip" procedure also resulted in better initial retention (4 weeks), but this effect disappeared in subsequent retention tests. The training conditions did not have differential effects on generalization tests across learning channels, except for the Free/Say channel.
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The Effects of Extinction on Human Performance Following Exposure to Fixed Ratio Schedules of Reinforcement
Date: May 2000
Creator: Anderson, Richard L.
Description: This experiment examined the effects of extinction on rate of responding and several topographical and temporal measures in adult humans. Three college students were trained to type the sequence 1•5•3 on a numeric keypad on a computer. The subjects were exposed to different fixed-ratio schedules of reinforcement (FR1, FR 5, and FR10 respectively) and extinction. Subjects displayed typical schedule performances during the maintenance phase of the experiment. During extinction the performances were disrupted, they showed a "break and run" pattern and a general decrease in responding. Also, new topographical and temporal patterns emerged. These data are consistent with those reported for non-human species and special human populations.
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I am doing 100 push ups program and I have reached a plateau at around 65. The program suggests to have a day off between training days, but since I don't get desired results I would like to increase frequency. Is it the right move or should I think about something else?
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Frequency, weight to use, sets/reps are all point-in-time individual specific settings. What works for you today many not work tomorrow or for anyone else. What I would recommend is:
Specific to plateauing - there are different methods to get over your current max:
to provide specific advice we would need to know what happens after 65 - are you sore? hands numb? just tired?
Your muscles only build while they are resting. Exercise breaks them down and works them hard. When you are not working your muscles, they start rebuilding themselves and making them strong.
In short, rest is an important aspect of building strength. If you can't go past the 65 barrier, it's possibly because they aren't getting enough rest in between. At a certain point, your muscles may need more rest than the one day in between. Your two choices are then:
In free weights, you can sometimes break through a plateau by a process called deloading. Essentially it is taking 10% of the weight off the barbell, and then slowly increasing back to where you were. Many times you can get through the plateau because you gave your muscles some more recovery time. If the deloading doesn't work a couple times in a row, you have to resort to cutting the number of sets.
Applying the same principle to you, I would recommend that you:
You might feel like you are going backwards, but you are putting your body back into a place where it can rebuild its muscle in time for the next workout. The hope is that it has spare capacity when you hit the limit.
I wish I could produce a direct link to the source of this information, but it is contained in the Stronglifts 5x5 special report. The report is free, has some pretty good information, but you have to register to get it.

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If I use a stick to push and accelerate an object, my hand pushes one end of the stick distance $x$, while the other end of the stick pushes the object distance $y$.
Distance $y$ is smaller than distance $x$, because of Lorentz contraction of the stick.
My hand does work $Fx$.
Work $Fy$ is done on the object.
Energy $F \cdot(\text{Lorentz contraction of the stick})$ seems to disappear.
So I'm asking, what happens to the "missing" energy?
EDIT: In this thought experiment pushing causes the object and the stick to accelerate, which causes the stick to Lorentz-contract. In extreme case the length of the stick becomes zero, which means my hand moved a distance of the stick's length kind of unnecessarily. Shorter stick saves energy.
EDIT2: I noticed that "lost" energy approaches zero, when force approaches zero. This suggests the energy loss is linked to deformation of the stick.
EDIT3: This very simple problem may be very difficult to understand, so I ask this way: A good push rod is rigid. Relativity says rigid push rods don't exist. So what kind of energy goes into a push rod, that is as rigid as relativity allows, when we use the push rod, using moderate force, and the speed that the push rod is accelerated to, is relativistic?


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Volume 87, Issue 1, 04 July 2005
ZnO nanopencils were synthesized on a silicon wafer without catalysts at a low temperature of 550 ° C through a simple two-step pressure controlled thermal evaporation. Penholders were well-hexagonal faceted and the diameter of pen tips on the nanopencils was in the range of 20–30 nm. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy shows that the nanopencils were single crystals growing along the [0001] direction and the pen tips subtend a small angle with multiple surface perturbations. Field-emission measurements on the nanopencils show a low turn-on field of at a current density of . The emission current density reached at an applied field of . The emission at the low field is attributed to the sharp tip and surface perturbations on the nanopencils.
Reduction of the internal electric field in wurtzite -plane GaN self-assembled quantum dots87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1977210View Description Hide Description
We present a study of the emission of self-assembledquantum dotsgrown on -plane 6H-SiC showing evidence of the suppression of the internal electric field. The strain in dots and barriers is determined by means of Raman scattering and the induced piezoelectricpolarizations are estimated. These reveal a compensation of the spontaneous polarization and justify the lack of a quantum confined Stark effect found in the photoluminescence spectra. Strain effects and strong confinement are responsible for the partial depolarization of the emission and its energy dependence.
Switching mirror in the CdTe-based photonic crystal87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1954876View Description Hide Description
Theoretical investigations, modeling and design of a Bragg mirror(photonic crystalstructure) in the CdTe-based material system are presented. It is shown that, in addition to the third-order nonlinearity (Kerr-like effect), the two-photon absorption and the resulting free-carrier refraction have to be included in the analysis and design. Inclusion of changes in the refractive index with the square of the light intensity (fifth-order nonlinearity) leads to desirable functional features of the switching mirror. The analysis provides insight into the complex nonlinear effects and serves as a tool for designing a nonlinear intra-cavity mirror for a novel pulsed laser.
Ultraviolet direct printing of rare-earth-doped polymer waveguide amplifiers87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1968422View Description Hide Description
Polymerchannel waveguideamplifier arrays were fabricated using ultraviolet direct printing methodology. The effects of different weight percentage (wt. %) combinations of rare-earth ions erbium and ytterbium on the absorption spectrum, as well as the internal gain, were investigated. With an input signal power of , the highest internal gain obtained is at a wavelength of for a long multimode channel waveguide codoped with of and of derivatives. The UV direct printing methodology opens a simple platform for the fabrication of dense and compact polymer waveguide laser arrays.
Active -switched distributed feedback erbium-doped fiber lasers87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1990252View Description Hide Description
This letter presents a distributed feedback fiber laser that operates in an actively controlled -switched regime. The laser is based on a Bragg grating made in an erbium-doped fiber. The grating has a defect induced by a magnetostrictive transducer that configures the distributed feedback laser structure. The phase shift generated by the defect can be dynamically modified by an electric current, permitting active -switching of the laser. The laser generates pulses of duration and the repetition rate can be continuously adjusted from .
Observation of far-infrared emission from excited cytosine molecules87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1968412View Description Hide Description
We report a time-resolved investigation of the resonantabsorption of far-infrared radiation and the subsequent vibrational relaxation processes in a sample of polycrystalline cytosine at , using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. The subpicosecond time resolution achieved in our experiments corresponds to a near single-cycle of far-infrared radiation, and this enables us to observe the damped oscillations of the electric field produced by excited molecules as they decay. Furthermore, we show that the progressive absorption and subsequent emission of far-infrared radiation at the frequency of the corresponding vibrational mode can be followed directly as a function of time by means of time-partitioned Fourier transforms of the transmitted signal.
Transflective spatial filter based on azo-dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal films87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1990248View Description Hide Description
This work demonstrates the feasibility of exploiting the photoisomerization effect in azo-dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal (DDCLC) films with a concomitant decline of the phase transition temperature from the cholesteric to an isotropic phase as a spatial filter. The fabrication depends on the fact that the various intensities of the diffracted orders are responsible for the various degrees of transparency associated with the photoisomerized DDCLC film. High- and low-pass images in the Fourier optical signal process can be simultaneously observed via reflected and transmitted signals, respectively. A simulation is also performed, and the results are consistent closely with experimental data.
Electro-optic phase modulator using metal-defined polymer optical waveguide87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1991998View Description Hide Description
We demonstrate metal-defined electro-optic polymer phase modulators for the first time. A metal strip patterned on top of a three-layer slab waveguide causes a strain-induced refractive index change, resulting in lateral optical mode confinement within the core layer. The strain profile, refractive indexes, and optical mode shapes of the metal defined optical waveguide are obtained analytically. Electro-optic phase modulators fabricated using this technique have a driving voltage of , and of extinction ratio at wavelength. These results may be used in the complex design of integrated polymer optical circuits that require a simple and cheap fabrication process.
Electro-optic characteristics and switching principle of a single-cell-gap transflective liquid-crystal display associated with in-plane rotation of liquid crystal driven by a fringe-field87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1991981View Description Hide Description
A single-gap transflective liquid-crystal(LC) display associated with in-plane rotation of the LC director was designed. In the device, a fringe electric field drives to rotate a homogeneously aligned LC in plane to optimize polarization efficiency. Rotating degrees of the LC director, 22.5° and 45° were required in both reflective and transmissive regions, respectively. In the device, the cell gap was the same for both regions, and a dark state was irrespective of the cell retardation value at normal direction, which was highly important in massive fabrications. The switching principle and electro-optic characteristics of the device are reported herein.
Low-power, multiport, ultrafast, parametric switching in cascaded waveguide couplers87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1991993View Description Hide Description
We explore an approach to multiport, phase-insensitive all-optical switching of milliwatt power signals based on linear coupling in cascaded directional couplers and on nonlinear parametric gain via the second-order nonlinearity. For the basic unit, a two-core coupler, we experimentally demonstrated ultrafast transparent switching of signals triggered by -long control pulses at with a peak power of . Theoretically, we show that this concept has the potential for terabit/s switching with a few picojoules control energy and without pulse degradation.
Tensile strained Ge photodetectors on Si platform for C and L band telecommunications87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1993749View Description Hide Description
We demonstrate a 0.25% tensile strained Gephotodetector on Si platform that effectively covers both C and L bands in telecommunications. The direct band edge of the Gefilm has been pushed from 1550 to 1623 nm with 0.25% tensile strain, enabling effective photon detection in the whole L band. The responsivities of the device at 1310, 1550, and 1620 nm are 600, 520, and under 0 V bias, which can be further improved to 980, 810, and with antireflection coating based on calculations. Therefore, the device covers the whole wavelength range used in telecommunications. The responsivities at 1310 and 1550 nm are comparable to InGaAs photodetectors currently used in telecommunications. In the spectrum range of 1300–1650 nm, maximum responsivity was already achieved at 0 V bias because carrier transit time is much shorter than carrier recombination life time, leading to collection efficiency even at 0 V bias. This is a desirable feature for low voltage operation. The absorption coefficients of 0.25% tensile strained Ge in the L band have been derived to be nearly an order of magnitude higher than bulk Ge. The presented device is compatible with conventional Si processing, which enables monolithic integration with Si circuitry.
Use of patterned laser liftoff process and electroplating nickel layer for the fabrication of vertical-structured GaN-based light-emitting diodes87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1993757View Description Hide Description
The fabrication process and performance characteristics of a vertical-structured GaN-based light-emitting diode (VM-LED) employing nickelelectroplating and patterned laser liftoff techniques are presented. As compared to regular LED, the forward voltage drop of the VM-LED at 20–80 mA is about 10%–21% lower, while the light output power is more than twice in magnitude. Especially, the exhibits no saturation or degradation at an injection current up to 520 mA which is about 4.3 times higher than that of the regular one. Substantial improvements in the VM-LEDs performances are mainly attributed to the use of metallic substrate which results in less current crowding, larger effective area, and higher thermal conductivity.
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Effects of focal volume and spatial inhomogeneity on uncertainty in single-aerosol laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy measurements87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1984086View Description Hide Description
Particle location with respect to the plasma volume and the focal volume of the collection optics is identified as an important source of uncertainty in single-aerosol laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy(LIBS)measurements. Two sets of optics were used to image different regions of a LIBSplasma and simultaneously collect spectra from single particles. Strong variation and lack of correlation between the two measurement channels suggest that emission from a single particle is localized within the plasma.Measurement precision and detection efficiency were improved by imaging a larger plasma region, thus integrating the spatially distributed signal.
Measurements of dioxygen fluoride in an atmospheric pressure plasma jet87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1968420View Description Hide Description
When etchingtantalum with a coaxial-cylinder-type atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) in a gas mixture, we found that the etch rates vary little with the distance between the plasma region and the substrate. Etch rates decrease by less than a factor of 3 when the distance increases from in a closed tube that carries the APPJ effluent. These results indicate that reactive species may last up to in the effluent. Ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy was employed to measure possible reactive species, specifically dioxygen fluoride and ozone, in a parallel-plate type APPJ. was found to be a significantly long-lived species, lasting up to in the effluent with a constant density of about . Using a measured density profile, the concentration of atomic fluorine (F) was estimated to be about , which is two orders of magnitude lower than that of at a distance of away from the APPJ exit. In summary, F atoms produced inside the APPJ combine with molecules, producing molecules, which can live long enough to reach and possibly etch metal surfaces.
Transient observation of extended x-ray absorption fine structure in laser-melted Si by using femtosecond laser-produced-plasma soft x ray87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1989445View Description Hide Description
We have demonstrated the time-resolvedmeasurement of the extended x-rayabsorption fine structure(EXAFS) in laser-melted Si foil by using a pump-probe absorption spectroscopy system that utilizes a femtosecond laser-produced-plasma soft x-ray source. By using 100-fs laser irradiation, we observed the transient change in the Si L-edge EXAFS, that is, a slight shortening of its oscillation period and a decrease in its oscillation amplitude. This result suggests that the Si-Si atomic distance expanded and structural disordering occurred as a result of the production of liquid Si.
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Patterning of hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon growth by magnetic field87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1984102View Description Hide Description
A way of influencing growth of siliconfilms by magnetic field is demonstrated. Permanent magnet(s) placed under the substrate influenced the discharge in a mixture of silane and hydrogen and led to formation of microcrystalline regions in otherwise amorphous film. The pattern of microcrystalline regions varied with the orientation of the magnetic field. Microscopic study by atomic force microscopy and by micro-Raman spectroscopy revealed that the microcrystalline regions resulted from a higher density of crystalline grain nuclei, increased at the locations where the magnetron effect could be expected. This phenomenon could be used to study the transition between amorphous and microcrystalline growth. Moreover, we suggest it as a kind of "magnetic lithography" for the preparation of predefined microcrystalline patterns in otherwise amorphous siliconfilms.
Study of fluorine behavior in silicon by selective point defect injection87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1984094View Description Hide Description
This letter reports a point defect injection study of fluorine implantedsilicon. After an inert anneal at , fluorine peaks are seen at depths of and and a shoulder between . The shallow peak (at ) is significantly smaller under interstitial injection than under both inert and vacancy injection conditions. For a longer anneal under interstitial injection, both the shallow peak and the shoulder are eliminated. These results support earlier work suggesting that the shallow fluorine peak is due to vacancy-fluorine clusters which are responsible for suppression of boronthermal diffusion in silicon. The elimination of the shallow fluorine peak and the shoulder is explained by the annihilation of vacancies in the clusters with injected interstitials.
Optical study of disorder and defects in hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbon alloys87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1968413View Description Hide Description
We have studied the defect density and disorder in hydrogenated amorphous siliconcarbon alloys produced by rf glow discharge of silane-methane-hydrogen mixtures, by combining spectroscopicellipsometry and photothermal deflection spectroscopy measurements. Increasing the methane flow rate leads to a widening of the optical gap and to an increase of the apparent disorder, deduced from the standard analysis of the exponential absorption edge; the so-called Urbach energy. Interestingly, the subgap absorption decreases with increasing methane flow rate. This points towards a lower density of defects with increasing carbon content and is in contrast with the increased disorder. This apparent contradiction results from the presence of three absorption bands within the gap of this material, as reported by [Ivashchenko et al., J. Phys.: Condens. Matter14, 1799 (2002)], and which make unreliable the standard analysis of the disorder in siliconcarbon alloys.
Electronic properties of N- and C-doped87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1991982View Description Hide Description
We present first-principles density-functional calculations for the electronic properties of nitrogen(N)-doped as well as carbon(C)-doped titanium dioxide . We find that the bands originating from N (C) states appear in the band gap of , but the mixing of N (C) with states is too weak to produce a significant band-gap narrowing. Our results are consistent with several recent experimental data of N-doped , where the absorption of visible light is due to isolated states above the valence-band maximum of rather than due to a band-gap narrowing.
Surface oxide reduction and bilayer molecular assembly of a thiol-terminated organosilane on Cu87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1968414View Description Hide Description
We demonstrate the use of thiol-terminated organosilane to reduce the surface oxide and form a protective layer on Cusurfaces. The thiol termini of mercapto-propyl-trimethoxy-silane molecules reduce the copper oxide, and release disulfide- and sulfonate-terminated silanes. Unreacted mercaptosilanes and disulfides then assemble on the clean Cusurface forming a monolayer via chemisorption. The outward pointing methoxy groups react with other methoxysilane termini of sulfonated- and unreacted organosilanes, forming a molecular bilayer with Si–O–Si linkages between the two layers. These findings open up new possibilities for surface cleaning and passivating Cuinterconnects with molecular nanolayers, and minimize surface-scattering-induced conductivity decrease in nanometer-thick Cu lines, without destructively etching the surfaceCu oxide.
Coherent epitaxial growth and superhardness effects of nanomultilayers87(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1951047View Description Hide Description
nanomultilayers with different layer thicknesses were deposited by the multitarget magnetron sputtering method. Studies show that because of the template effects of the cubic TiN layer, the normally amorphous layer crystallizes into a compact hexagonal structure when its thickness is less than 2.9 nm. As a result, the multilayers form a coherent epitaxialstructure with the orientation relationship of . Correspondingly, the multilayers show a significant hardness enhancement with a maximum hardness of 46.9 GPa. Further increase in layer thickness leads to the formation of amorphous that blocks the coherent growth of the films, and thus the hardness of the multilayers decreases gradually.


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For any $\alpha\in [0, 1]$ and $g:[a, b]\to [0, 1]$, let us define $g^{-}:[0, 1]\to [a, b]$, by the formula $g^{-}(\alpha) = \inf (x\in [a, b] ; g(x)\ge \alpha )$.
Let $f_{n}, f : [a, b]\to [0, 1]$, $n\in \mathbb{N}$, be continuous on $[a, b]$, such that the value $1$ is attained, for $f$ and for all $f_{n}$. It is true that if $f_{n}\to f$ uniformly on $[a, b]$, then $f_{n}^{-}(\alpha)\to f^{-}(\alpha)$, almost everywhere in $[0, 1]$ ?
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Hey guys,
i have a question regarding my new hardware: 7D+NN4+Sigma 10-20mm using @10mm.
i set the NN4 as close as the NPP but after tryin a 360 pano i get some shifting on the floor tiles while the nadir image is perfect.
for this one i used 17pictures (N, -30°*8, 45°*8)
i tried to move the Upper rail by one mm forward and backward and get the same shifting.
the day after i tried another setup; 16 pictures (-60°*4, 0°*8, 60°*8) and the result on the floor is perfect however the nadir image is not.
as pictures are way better to explain things, have a look out there:
Password: panophoto
Do you think its a stiching issue with Autopano Pro or some adjustment of the NPP to be done ?
By the way i tried the second pano with a 17th images (the nadir) and the stiching is well on the tiles but rotator is not circular ...
Thanks guys for your help.


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Assassin's Creed Director's Cut PC (Download) for $0 + free shipping
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another great deal from me :D
Now THIS is a deal.
Sending this to all my PC friends to get in on this.
Deal is Dead: Product Not Available
Well, I got it to a couple people.
Well, I managed to pick it up before it went dead. So thanks for posting it.
Still listed as "Processing serial number or unlock code." on my account, makes me wonder if this was a mistake ;)
Just got an email letting me know my key is available.
Free game, thanks Ubisoft :D
same here , just got the code
what the @$$# , i got an email saying my order was denied because this was a mistake.
@pemfir: Yeah, just saw that and came here to update.
:| Sucks. I thought it was in the clear once the code had processed, but nope...
I was hoping maybe it was a super limited promotion for ACIII, but it was just a mistake. Stupid Ubisoft.
Wow, I thought when the key said processing all weekend that it was a mistake, and they needed to decide how to handle it. So I figured they would either give the game away and have good PR, or say it was a mistake. I did not expect them to give the game away one day, allow you to download it, install it, and then find out there's a key needed and then get an email saying it was a mistake and there would be no key... that's just dirty.
the cheapest thing was to offer only a 25% discount coupon. I won't shop from them again.
So, contacted support, this is what I got:
"Unfortunately we cannot offer more than the 25% off coupon code that was given to as an apology from Digital River. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Ubisoft Support"
I shall pursue contact with Digital River then!
i have also sent two individual emails , and will follow up this to the bitter end :D
Digital River is attempting to bounce me back to Ubisoft now. Currently trying to get DR to authorize something better than a 25% off apology.
can i ask which email address you used to contact them ? they are not responding to me. may be my tone was too harsh :D


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I need a ramdisk who handle transparent realtime compression on write and decompression on read.
Example : I use /dev/shm, or I create a new tmpfs, mount it writeable and compressed.
I wrote and read about 500 Mb - 1 GB of text files. The files' content is not fixed, every few seconds the files are updated.
So squashfs / zramswap seems not to fit my goal.
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6 Movie and TV Universes That Overlap in Mind-blowing Ways
#3. Conan the Barbarian and Cthulhu: Best Buds Forever?
Cthulhu art via fantasyflightgames.com
One is an action/fantasy hero famously portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger and his once mighty pectorals. The other is perhaps the most significant creation in 20th-century horror literature and H.P. Lovecraft's signature character. A Conan/Cthulhu connection seems unlikely, if not impossible -- and probably would be if not for the fact that their creators were BFFs.
Their dapperness united them.
H.P. Lovecraft and Conan's creator, Robert E. Howard, published their most famous stories in the same pulp magazine, Weird Tales. The two writers became friends in the 1930s, and as friends often do, started slipping references to each other's work in their stories. For example, the very first Conan story mentions Lovecraft's "Old Ones" and explicitly named Cthulhu in the original draft. That's right: Conan's adventures were part of the Cthulhu mythos from the beginning.
Get the ftaghn out.
There are numerous other references to Lovecraft in Conan stories, but we'll admit they don't seem so shocking now, what with Cthulhu showing up pretty much everywhere these days ...
South Park
There's also that Simpsons episode where Homer helps him deal with his fear of escalators.
However, this is different because Lovecraft himself included several shout-outs to Conan in the original Cthulhu stories -- one story features a character from Cimmeria (Conan's homeland) who is named after Conan's nemesis, and another mentions the Serpent Men of Valusia, best known as the bad guys from the cheesy Conan cartoon:
In fact, in that same cartoon (as in Robert Howard's stories), the Serpent Men worship a snake god called Set -- that's another name for Yig, one of Lovecraft's Old Ones. Incidentally, the Snake Men from He-Man are thinly veiled rip-offs of the Serpent Men (just as He-Man is a thinly veiled rip-off of Conan) and worshipped practically the same ancient snake deity. And say, what did Skeletor's lair look like, again?
"In his house at R'lyeh, Dead Skeletor waits dreaming."
The snake monsters and such are probably the only connection to Lovecraft that still survives in the Conan franchise -- just take a look at the trailer for the new movie. As Conan's popularity exploded (and the character started being dumbed down for other media), most Cthulhu mythos references ended up being edited out of his original stories and ignored by subsequent writers.
"Edited out" in this case means "forcibly removed from the memories of."
But hey, at least he didn't become an overused Internet meme.
#2. The Guy from Wolfenstein Is the Grandfather of the Kid From Commander Keen
You probably won't be too shocked if we tell you that id Software, the company best known for shooting games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake, also did a cutesy Mario-like platform game called Commander Keen. After all, this is nothing new -- the company that made Resident Evil also did the Megaman series, and the creator of Dragon Quest also published disturbing toddler porn games for PC. In fact, video game companies rarely stick to doing the same type of game over and over.
Of course, there are exceptions.
What's surprising in this case is that id Software seems to have gone out of its way to link its vastly different franchises together -- you wouldn't expect one of the kids from Yu-Gi-Oh! to show up in Silent Hill, or Ms. Pac-Man to be an unlockable character in Mortal Kombat.
Although we could totally see that happening now.
Commander Keen was id Software's first big hit in the early '90s, and it stars an 8-year-old boy called Billy Blazkowicz who fights cartoony aliens and vegetable people with his pogo stick. It's a pretty Nintendo-esque game, which is explained by the fact that it started as a project to bring Super Mario games to PC.
That thing on his head is a helmet, and sadly not a glorious chinstrap beard.
A couple of years later, the same company released Wolfenstein 3D, a violent first-person shooter about an Allied soldier shooting his way through a castle full of Nazi atrocities. The name of the protagonist? William Blazkowicz, Billy's grandfather.
"Sit on my lap, Billy, and let me tell you about the time I blew Robot Hitler's head off."
There's more: id Software's next hit was Doom, an even more violent shooter about a futuristic soldier fighting space demons (or something: nobody's quite sure). The identity of Doom's protagonist has never been officially revealed by id Software, but it's been hinted that he's a member of the Blazkowicz family, too: In Wolfenstein RPG, the Nazis summon a demon called the "Harbinger of Doom." William Blazkowicz defeats the demon by cutting off an arm and a leg, and as he's banished back into hell, the demon swears to return one day and haunt William's descendants.
If you've played the original Doom games, you might remember the exact same demon from this part:
Note that the robot parts replace the limbs William blasted off.
So apparently the Doom guy is the descendant of Wolfenstein's protagonist, which means he's a family member of Commander Keen, too -- unless they are actually the same person.
This screenshot from Doom 2 says otherwise. id Software -- you're sick, sick people.
#1. Daredevil and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Were Created in the Same Traffic Accident
Superhero crossovers are nothing new, but what makes this one special is the blatant illegality and in-story significance of it. Daredevil had existed for 20 years before the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles showed up in the '80s -- and yet their origins establish that they are both the products of the same traffic accident and the same mysterious goo.
Daredevil's origin, as shown in Daredevil #1, is that when he was young he saved a blind man from getting hit by a truck, only to have a radioactive canister fall off the same truck and hit him in the face. This was before, of course, the "Put Some Time into Securing Your Radioactive Shit" shipping laws that we take for granted now.
Daredevil #1 (1964)
"Call an ambulance? No, I'd rather stand here and commentate."
Between the radioactivity of the substance, the impact of the hit and the cylinderness of the container, Daredevil was left blind. But he was extra good at his other senses, so he ended up a superhero, obviously. The real question wasn't "How is getting blinded by a can after saving a blind guy an origin story?" It was "What happened to the mysterious canister after it bounced off proto-Daredevil's kisser?"
It doesn't look like it did Ben Affleck any harm.
Fast forward 20 years: The creators of the Ninja Turtles were big fans of Daredevil, especially the issues by Frank Miller. Not content with simply borrowing Daredevil's origin, they actually went ahead and wrote their characters into it. In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1, we see the exact same scene as before only from a different perspective. The radioactive canister hits the boy in the head ...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (1984)
... then falls into a sewer and mutates some baby turtles into cowabunging ninjas.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (1984)
As opposed to, say, sewer alligators.
Of course, the boy is never explicitly identified as the future Daredevil, but that's because the character belongs to Marvel Comics and the Ninja Turtles do not. Still, it's pretty obvious that it's the same kid, and the fact that the canister turned out to be full of mutating goo does explain how getting hit in the head by something could possibly give someone superpowers. (Life tip: It usually doesn't.)
Daredevil #1 (1964)
You're usually advised to open the lid first, duh.
So if young Daredevil hadn't been there, the canister probably wouldn't have fallen into the sewer and those four regular turtles probably wouldn't be fighting crime today. All the TMNT cartoons and movies show variations of the same origin, and the radioactive ooze in particular has become an iconic part of the Turtle brand -- even though it was completely stolen from another comic.
"Warning: May cause irrevocable blindness."
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For more strange relations, check out 10 Animals You Won't Believe Are Closely Related. Or see your favorite fictional kids all grown up.


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- Karl Linn bridged communities with their landscapes by dedicating his life to improving the green environments around him. From developing community gardens in local communities to jumpstarting an Urban Habitat Program in the San Francisco Bay Area, Linn inspired the idea of environmental justice before it became widely known. In his death, he has left a legacy in every commons he created.
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- Carl Anthony on the regional equity movement, and making cities work.
Military Families Say "Bring Them Home Now"
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- In Fayetteville, North Carolina, a protest led by veterans and military families drew 4,000 people to the largest demonstration ever held in that military city.
A Classroom in the Forest
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- Children learn lessons from slugs and hemlocks, and would-be MBAs from Bainbridge Graduate Institute attend class in a treehouse
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- From abandoned to beautiful: Lily Yeh partnered with the youth of North Philadelphia to transform a neighborhood.
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- We face devastation of the natural world and violence in human communities. There's a way to solve both these crises. A reverence movement would anchor a different economics, a restorative economics. Working with nature, we can create wealth sustainably and spread it more equitably. Solution-based, investment-driven environmentalism.
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- Movement building is not just about winning on a particular issue, says Grace Lee Boggs. It is about advancing the evolution of human society.
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On JM in the AM, once, I heard a leading chazzan -- sorry I don't recall the name, but he was a leader in an organization for chazans -- make the argument that it is assur to adapt melodies from pop culture and use them when davening from the amod. My first reaction was, "I thought the melody many shuls use for Adon Olam was an old French marching song." My second thought was that in Modern Orthodox synagogues, I occasionally did heard the liturgy sung to an occassional pop tune, and that Lenny Solomon had written an entire album of Beatles melodies to words from the siddur. But then again, I've heard rabbis say that Schlock Rock, Variations, and the like, are more suited for baalei tshuva than Jews from a yeshivish background. Then I remembered the controversy when Lipa Schmeltzer adapted a pop song for his song "Uman, Hey," although I frankly never heard the original. Also, pop music sometimes creeps into our Jewish musical vocabulary unknowingly. My son-in-law tells the story of his Rebbe who was humming a Simon and Garfunkel tune and had no idea that it was a pop culture since he had thought it to be from Jewish liturgical music. Does anyone know the sources for these restrictions and to what degree, if any, there is consensus?
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See Rabbi Student's excellent treatment, "Kedusha of Roses", here.
It's discussed; hundreds of years ago there were discussions about church music; Rabbi Moshe Feinstein says listening to gospel tunes without the words is distasteful but permissible; Rabbi Y.H. Henkin shlit'a concludes quite reasonably that it all depends on what will/won't distract the congregation. (His essay in Bnei Banim -- linked above -- is marvelous, and has a full treatment of the subject.)
A Sephardic friend of mine informs me that the Sephardic world has been more open to external music, with R' Ovadiah Yosef shlit'a punning -- al aravim betochaH talinu kinoroteinu -- our harps [of liturgical music] are supported by the [musical traditions of] Arabs.


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At DWU, we are excited about this online endeavor, which grew out of the accreditation process. When DWU was challenged to choose one new venture to deliver education in a different way, we knew offering online degrees was the route we wanted to go. We listened to the needs of our community and alumni in choosing to offer two fully online degree programs: The Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) and the RN-Bachelor of Science nursing degree (RN-B.S.)
Through these programs, busy adults can earn their degrees while juggling families and careers so that they can take on leadership roles with their current employer—or move on to new career opportunities. They will build on their previous education—and will even earn credit for their work experience.
It has taken a tremendous team effort at DWU to bring these online degree offerings to fruition. In true DWU fashion, the team demonstrated how truly dedicated it is to enriching the student experience and making this transition as smooth as possible for students.
We are excited—about these new online degrees and about this blog. Through "Online Degrees @ DWU," we want to engage in a conversation with you. If you have any questions or comments or just want to know what is going on at DWU in general, we invite you to share a comment.
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Haha. He makes me look active.
(Look at the red pouch on his waist)
Haha. He makes me look active.
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Kermit The Frog + Miss Piggy = Yoda
Moral of this story: USE CONDOMS KIDS! NEVER KNOW WHAT WEIRD LITTLE JEDI MIGHT POP OUT IF YOU DON'T!
Ahahaha, only JaMarcus Russell.
Those aren't skittles by looking at the bag - look more like raisins.
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Congrats to Wisconsin. Even more congrats to UK haters.
I agree with Matt, those are not skittles. Still hilarious though. The one guy who shouldn't be eating garbage is...
Michael Floyd > Justin Blackmon
Why can I see Walt having a long list of food jokes after this?
Now that I look at it closer, it looks like it could be one of those weird sport drink things that come in the plastic packages. Sports Gel or something.
Jamarcus Russel wouldnt be content with just eating Skittles, hed eat the whole rainbow.
There definitely skittles you can see the Rainbow. I think its photo shoped though.


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How to add audio files to wordpress blog that when someone clicks on a post Music began playing by itself.
Basic parts
To get all audio files attached to a post use
For the last attached file URL use
To insert an audio player use the HTML5
There are other solutions to play audio files with a better compatibility. I'll leave it up to you to implement those.
The plugin
Let's put this together. I recommend to use this a plugin so you can turn it off fast once your visitors start complaining. That will happen soon, see the caveats at the end of this answer. :)
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Great picture,impressive animal.
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Great Capture ... Awesome Picture ...
Looks like the Ruler of the Area. Gives creeps.
Luar Biasa , Aku gak tau merunu Tapi'e .. hehe ,, gak Duwe duek -_-
Only at Komodo Island, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia :) The island is one of new seven wonder of the world.
mysterious animal.
I suppose one gets used to seeing Komodos in this area but I think I would be terrified if I saw one.
This is amazing and if you look from another perspective it seems as if Godzilla is overlooking a small town ;)
Beautiful composition!
amazing animalz
Wow! I really love komodo dragons... ;)
I think that this is such an amazing shot. The dragon surveying the people and town below. Although very dangerous - what a beautiful animal in its own unique way. The whole setting is really lovely with everything in focus far and near. Even the little flowers bringing colour into the photo. Wonderful shot.
I would have liked to seen this photo with less depth of field to see if it might make the Komodo dragon a little more prominent, since it's coloring is so close to that of the dirt around it, but then again you might lose too much detail in the landscape and town. Tough call.
the look on the dragon's face priceless..."i wonder what are they doing here" and i wonder what if i was to meet with this dragon in the wilderness what would i do to have the big lizzard waiting for you for the next move what should i do?
Haha! Nice comp. and a lot of impact in this shot. I was amazed at how much I had to watch out for myself when visiting Rinca. I thought, they're leaving me to fend for myself. So let me take a hike alone and see what I find. And I found..dragons! They gave me a good tip though: don't be as afraid of the really huge ones; they're too slow. Those younger, medium-sized ones are what you need to keep an eye on.
Good one !
Nice doggie
Great...but could a little richer in color
Whst a fabulous creature! Good shot.
Awesome photo!
It's very beautiful portrait.. I love it
@Agung Priyono"PORTRAIT" is really the perfect adjective! :-)
Very nice depth of field.
Far cry 3
pretty view
I think the little purple flowers add a nice touch, ya know next to the huge reptile that could kill you
Scary! Can they be tamed? Normaly they bite their victims and they have bacteria laden saliva!
melody kirby, shut up..
don't care for reptiles.
Awesome! Amazing size and power.
Stunning image.
amezing capture wid nice view...
I can hardly believe this picture! The Comodo seems to be 'king of all it surveys' and thats a lot. A whole small village is spread out below this wonderous creature, in a wonderous shot.. Everything so in focus and clear, right upto the hills all 'round. The jetty is, for me a great focal point. j.e.s.
very impressive .. dominating because of size, that's a great capture !
Beautiful capture
Oy! Humans! They messed up a perfectly good view.
The King surveys his domain.
I'd like to know what length lens Stefano used.
Wouldn't like to meet him on a dark night.
Excellent Snap !!
Not one of my favourite pics
cannot believe it's true
Komodo Dragons are my favorite animals, and I think this photograph has made it to the top of my favorite photographs list of the creatures.
me encanta...una buena imagen con un buen angulo...
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What did you miss from the London Games Conference?
Last night's London Games Conference was another jam-packed event filled with incredible insight on how to discover, sell and even make games.
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PEGI has detailed a new rating system due to be rolled out worldwide.
LGC: The indie developer revolution is over
The indie revolution is over, and PlayStation is embracing the new world it has created.
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73 per cent of all console game owners use Facebook, claims the social network's head of EMEA for gaming Tarquin Henderson.
LGC: Michael Pachter predicts PS4 will outsell Xbox One
PS4 will beat Xbox One in the next-gen console war, predicts US games analyst Michael Pachter.
LGC: GAME recruits 4,500 people for Christmas
GAME boss Martyn Gibbs said the firm has hired 4,500 temporary staff for the peak Christmas period.
LGC: 2m people buy digital content from GAME
GAME CEO Martyn Gibbs has revealed the role he believes the specialist retailer can have in a digital world.
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The LGC delegate list is a who's who of games publishing, development, retail, hardware, creative and services companies. Time's running out to make sure you can join them.
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On the eve of new console launches, the November 13th London Games Conference will prepare you for the next-generation of games.
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whatever you put in the summary tag will appear in the intellisense and what ever you put in each argument tag will appear in the intellisense for each argument. intellisense comments also show up if you mouse over the method
If I understand what you're asking, then this too has been in VS for ages. Intellisense shows you everything including comments about the class, method, property etc. Spend some time in the IDE and check out the features. IMO, except for the refactoring support which lags behind Resharper and RefactorPro by a long way, VS has got everything else.
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I've noticed that there are a lot of "How do I do X" questions, asking about how to do some particular thing in some programming language/framework/whatever.
But almost no one asks about how to correctly design some framework, module or just a group of classes.
I think that the planning stage is much more difficult as it requires more mastery than coding does. Then why are there so few design questions on Stack Overflow (and on other sites too)?
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How do people define the minimum hardware requirements for software? For example: how can a software development company tell the customer that they will need 8 GB of RAM to run the program properly?
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First off, not all requirements are hard requirements, but rather the minimum supported hardware. If someone has less than the minimum, it may run - but not optimally, or it may not run at all. In either case, its not a supported system and the problems you have are your own.
The simplest way to get hardware requirements is guess. The developer looks at their machine and says "Yep, it runs on mine, that's the requirements."
In a more rigorous environment, the development company has a suite of test systems. It may not be in house (non in house apple developers occasionally use the Apple Compatibility Lab). As part of the testing process, one tests on all the hardware available and determines the minimum requirements for it to run.
Another factor in hardware requirements is the base requirements for the operating system. In theory, Windows 7 requires a minimum of 1GB of ram to run. So testing against a 512 MB system running Windows 7 is nonsensical.
Test the system running with 1 GB of ram. Does it work? Nope... upgrade the ram. Repeat the test and upgrades until the application works in a supportable way and list those as the minimum requirements.
When performance becomes part of the promise of the software the 'supportable' includes that in addition to actually running, that the operation meets the minimum performance expectation.
Hardware requirements fall into a couple of different buckets. Often you'll include requirements from a few of these buckets when determining specific hardware requirements for any software system you build.
Technical Constraints in the Architecture
These are the kinds of requirements that absolutely must be satisfied by the built system and are specifically designed into the system from the start. For example, "x86 processor is required."
An easy example that comes to mind is Microsoft Office for Mac. Originally Macs used Power PC CPUs while Microsoft Windows was strictly targeted at "IBM Compatible" machines (mostly using x86 processors). Because Windows and thus Office only worked on x86, a completely new set of code (with different technical constraints) was written to support Office on Power PC for Mac OS. Once Mac moved to Intel x86 processors, the old Power PC optimized Office for Mac no longer worked -- and technical constraints once again changed for a new version of Office for Mac on Intel. Applications optimized for 32 vs. 64 bit is another easy example.
Implicit Hardware Requirements
Sometimes you don't actively choose to constrain yourself, but other decisions you make implicitly force requirements on to you. A common scenario is building on top of any kind of framework.
As an example, if you are building a .Net 4.0 application, .Net 4.0 has hardware requirements vetted through Microsoft's hardware labs. Now your application requires at least the same hardware requirements that the .Net 4.0 framework requires.
Contextual Hardware Requirements
Most of the time when you're talking about hardware requirements what you are really talking about is how you support specific quality attribute scenarios. Things like performance, reliability, availability, and other -ilities.
This is something I deal with often in making hardware recommendations for customers building applications on top of IBM InfoSphere Data Explorer (basically a Big Data search engine platform). Data Explorer's basic requirements are minimal (you can run it on a laptop), but hardware recommendations for any specific Big Data application (read: requirements) comes down to specific quality attribute scenarios for that application. How quickly should data be indexed? How many queries per second should be processed? How much down time is acceptable?
Identifying specific quality attribute scenarios draws a line in the sand and lets me make a recommendation for minimum hardware requirements based on those scenarios -- X number of CPUs with Y amount of RAM, Z Gigabytes of hard drives, N redundant systems. In our case, we have basic formulas (determined through extensive testing in our hardware labs) that use assumptions from the quality attribute scenarios to help determine a starting point for a hardware recommendation. This recommendation becomes the requirement for that specific Big Data application.
In this example, for any production system, a laptop really won't do even though it technically meets the "minimum" requirements. The context of that implementation -- the specific scenarios and data, whether it's running in production or not, and so on, dictate the hardware requirements.
If the assumptions in the scenarios change, then so will the hardware requirements. So the phrase, "Y GB RAM is required to run the software properly," really means "Y GB of RAM is needed to crawl X million documents in Z hours or a rate of ABC docs/min."
Minimum Supported Hardware Requirements
That is, the hardware specifications expected to work correctly and that your Support group is prepared to help troubleshoot. Generally this is the set of hardware to which you have direct access, either your development machine or through a testing lab of some kind.
One example of this is pretty much any Android app that has been released. As an Android developer you test your app through some software simulators, probably on at least a few physical devices. But there are 1000s of different devices running Android, many of which with little... quirks ...that could cause your app to run into problems. In most cases, you'll still offer support if a user runs into problems. And in most cases users won't run into problems even though you didn't specifically test on that hardware variation. Microsoft has this problem too with Windows -- how many different video card, motherboard, cpu, memory combinations are out there?
Basically, identifying minimum supported hardware is like saying "this software works on my machine, I expect that it will work on machines similar to mine, lots of folks have used this software on lots of different machines without problems, your mileage may vary, and if you have a problem I'll do my best to help/fix but I can make no guarantees."
For some applications the requirements may actually be hard requirements, such as when the developer has analyzed or profiled their app and knows exactly how many megaflops, MIPS, polygons per second, array working set sizes, etc. are required to meet some specified performance benchmark.
For small developers, cost may be the issue. They only have one system available, and so they declare that system's specs as the minimum, as they haven't been able to test the app on anything else (slower, smaller, etc.) and have little clue on how the app would do with less resources.


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To reset the camera back to NPP, besides other things, you have to raise the center column to bring the camera to old NPP height because the camera will turn aside in a lower position being ready for Zenith shot.
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I know there was a long list of tripod we use, but let us update this database.
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1 May 2012 5:36 AM #1
gxt radar chart refresh issue
I'm getting some weird artifacts when redrawing a gxt radar chart. It looks like the labels are drawn on top of each other until I resize the container. Here's the code:
onSuccess(Payload result) { store.clear(); store.addAll(result.data); chart.redrawChart(); forceLayout(); }
Note that the labels only get "stacked" when the result.data object contains different a different number of data points (not just different values) from the previous run.
I'll attach a screenshot.
I'm going to try adding this to the end of the onSuccess() call:
Scheduler.get().scheduleDeferred(new ScheduledCommand() { @Override public void execute() { chart.redrawChart(); forceLayout(); } });
1 May 2012 5:51 AM #2
Didn't need to run forceLayout(). What I did need to do was run this:
before updating the store and before the redrawChart()
1 May 2012 1:00 PM #3
Thanks for the report as the axis should adapt to a changing number of data points. I will let you know when it has been fixed.
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Cool! Also, I found out I need to clear the radar (Series) object as well or the opacity goes back to the lighter default... So, now I'm clearing all the axes and all series before calling redrawChart()
8 May 2012 2:45 PM #5
This has been fixed in SVN and will be in the next release.
15 Aug 2012 1:34 PM #6
GXT 3.0.1 has been released and contains this fix.


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If a photo is over or under exposed but not to the point of clipping (histogram does not reach the left or right side) is there any reason you couldn't just fix the exposure in Photoshop or Lightroom? Obviously you wouldn't ultimately want a photo that is to bright or too dark, but is any actual information lost if the original digital file is not at the correct exposure?
Yes, you can correct a little bit; That's what the exposure sliders in Aperture/Photoshop/Lightroom are for, and it's one of the reasons RAW can be a better choice than JPEG.
However, some information is hidden by noise, and you're better off changing ISO in camera to get a proper exposure than underexposing and correcting in post. A 1/100, f/8, ISO 800 picture adjusted +2 stops in post will have more noise than a 1/100, f/8, ISO 3200 picture straight out of camera.
Also see How is ISO implemented in digital cameras? for similar discussion.
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Exposing incorrectly and fixing in post-processing does indeed lose information in all the above scenarios, so as a rule of thumb, aim for correct exposure. If you don't have a second chance, it's better to aim for a third of a stop underexposed than to overexpose.
Short answer, yes, you're fine if there's no information lost, i.e. there is nothing significant in the scene which is too bright or too dark even given the exposure error.
One caveat is that small areas of blown pixels don't always show up on the histogram, so be careful for that. There is also the potential noise problem for underexposure, as Evan notes.
Obviously, it's better to have a good exposure in-camera, but that doesn't always happen for various reasons. If you're still in the field and can re-expose, do that rather than planning to clean up in post. Also, don't hesitate to bracket in tricky lighting, if you anticipate this problem.
If you're shooting in RAW, "correcting" exposure is really not a problem so long as you find the result acceptable. Often despite shooting correctly, I will change the exposure in Lightroom a little to better suit the result I want, whether it's bringing the highlights back or correcting for slight underexposure.
Typically +/- 1 stop in a DSLR raw file is fine, at least in my experience. It will also depend on the ISO you shot the file at.
The other reason to correct exposure is when you are deliberately exposing to the right.
You can, but there is only so much data, at some point you are going to hit the case where the light colors are all the same or the dark colors are all the same. To really understand this go look an Ansel Adam's "The Zone System" and understand what he was doing in B&W film 60 years ago.
While shooting RAW: As long as the histogram doesn't clip at either end, the exposure is in principle perfectly correctible. However, in practice it is best to avoid underexposure like the plague, there be noise in dem dere shadows! Personally I "expose to the right", as long as I don't blow any channels this gives the best signal/noise ratio and can work wonders especially at higher ISO settings. It might be argued that a "to the right" exposure is actually the correct one for RAW, it gives the most signal and the least noise in the final, corrected photograph.
For JPG, the situation is different. The JPG algorithm throws out bucketloads of data when cooking the image file, this is done based on various assumptions about what will and what will not be visible to the human eye, given that the exposure is the correct one. If you start fiddling with the exposure of the image after the fact, these assumptions are rendered invalid and data that the algorithm threw away as irrelevant suddenly becomes very important for the appearance of the final image. Enter aliasing, colour shifts and other nasties. Avoid this.
Hence, for JPG, a "correct" exposure is rather important; for RAW, it is not.


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