I have applied for a PhD program in USA. I have mentioned a professor's name in the SOP. Will the professor only get the application to review or the other professors will also be able to see my application? Will the other professors mind as I did not mention their name?
For PhD applications, I have mentioned that I am interested in some research areas. Besides, I am thinking about mentioning some professors' names, so that it shows I have read their websites and I am not just sending out generic statements applicable to many schools.  But is it good to mention some professors' names in the statement of purpose, if I don't know them personally? In what cases is it good, and in what cases it isn't?  For example, is it good to only mention    those whose research directions are aligned with my research interests, or/and those whose books or notes I have heard of, or better, might have read some parts of, or/and those who are already established and famous (such as having certain titles), or/and those that are directing the PhD graduate programs, or/and those that are heads of the departments?    What will other professors who are not mentioned think? How will you do, if it were you?
Get material and color of material on a face of an object in Python I want to iterate over the faces of a mesh and get the diffuse color of the material that is assigned to the face. How can I get the material that is assigned to the face of the object and the diffuse color of that material? How do I bake multiple texture maps into 1 UV, In Blender Cycles? Using:  Blender V2.79 Cycles Render Engine  After creating a complex interior scene consisting of 3 different texture types, each having 3 associated maps (Diffuse, Gloss, Normal) I noticed the texture and baking options will not successfully combine to create a texture for the exported mesh once I bring it into Unity 3D. The mesh is a single object with the different textures assigned to specified faces.  I've played around with a default cube mesh for testing purposes, using the same 3 textures split among the 6 sides, but have only been able to successfully pull over the color info by baking a diffuse map to my UV and saving the image. When using the other baking options, Blender does not successfully create a map for either my Glossy textures, nor my normal map. Even using the "Combined" baking option, I am provided a flat dull diffuse image for my mesh, no gloss or normal info is saved.  My Node process for textures is displayed here  Here is the result of baking my textures as a Normal  The result of adding other textures made from Blender's baking, results in flat gloss at best.  What can I do differently in Blender, to have my assigned UV Diffuse, Normal, and Gloss maps all appear in a single object in Unity? #!/bin/bash  SUBJECT="WARNING CPU USAGE HIGH" TO=gmail id MESSAGE=/tmp/messages echo "#######################" &gt; $MESSAGE echo "CPU statistics as follows.." &gt;&gt; $MESSAGE mpstat &gt;&gt; $MESSAGE echo "#######################" &gt;&gt; $MESSAGE CPU_USAGE=$(top -b -n1 | awk '/^Cpu/ {print $2}' | cut -d. -f1) [ $CPU_USAGE -gt 85 ] &amp;&amp; mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" &lt; $MESSAGE`   ./cpu.sh: line 11: [: -gt: unary operator expected What might be the reason Basically, here's my MWE, and I need to include "Chapter" before every section title in the ToC (without changing anything else).      \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[titles]{tocloft} \usepackage{titlesec} \usepackage{titletoc}  \addto\captionsenglish{ \renewcommand*\contentsname{\centerline{TABLE OF CONTENTS}}}  %\renewcommand{\thesection}{CHAPTER} %\renewcommand{\cftsecpresnum}{Chapter \thesection} \titleformat{\section}[display]% {\null\vskip1em\sffamily\bfseries\filcenter}{Chapter \thesection}{0em}{}[] \titlespacing*{\section}{0em}{1em}{1em}  \titlecontents{section} [1.5em] % ie, 1.5em (chapter) + 2.3em {} {\contentslabel{1em}} {\hspace*{-1.5em}} {\titlerule*[0.5pc]{.}\contentspage}  \begin{document} \newpage \tableofcontents \newpage  \section{Section One} \section{Section Two} Content \end{document}   The commented out code is what I've already tried. The first one just changes the number to "CHAPTER" and doesn't move the text in the ToC (so it just overlays on top of the name of the section), and if I include "\thesection" after "CHAPTER" it creates an infinite loop definition error. The second one causes no differences, and the code still compiles.  Thanks! How can I modify the size of swap with LVM partitions? In League of Legends, there are a number of effects which revive a champion upon death.  The item  is the most well-known and widely used of these.  I was wondering, however, whether its effect would come before or after other revive effects?  I have two examples.  First, Zilean's ultimate  will provide a champion with a Guardian Angel -like buff for a limited time.  If a champion has this buff in addition to a Guardian Angel, which effect will happen first?  Second, Anivia's passive  allows her to come back to life if her egg is not destroyed after she is killed.  If she has a Guardian Angel, will her passive be triggered before or after it? How does this compare to  and ?  It seems like in one case it is more beneficial to have Guardian Angel's precedence be greater, and in the other it is more beneficial to have it be less.  In the first scenario, if the Guardian Angel was triggered first, then Zilean would have a good chance of simply wasting his ultimate.  On the other hand, if it is triggered after these revival effects, then Anivia could not get the full benefit of her passive.  Is there a set order of precedence, or does each revival effect have their own unique "priority level" that is explicitly detailed for each ability? Is it possible to mark or segregate bad blocks on HDD? Hello I want to know if is it possible to mark bad blocks on HDD for OS to not use them. I don't want to save data written on this blocks, just want to get rid of them.  I found some article where author describe how to partition disk to avoid using bad blocks of HDD.  I count how many MB from the start are OK. And also how many MB from end are OK. It looks like I will lost about 50GB of storage space but it is quite fine for me when the disk will run one year more.  First I split disk to 2 partitions:   From beginning to around 190 GB From 190GB to the end   Then I made surface scan of 2nd partition and everything was OK. I was really happy cause i though that finally I will succeed.  Than I wanted to copy all data from 1st partition to 2nd BUT in some data a problem occurs. I/O error. I'd say it is Read problem but when I open file on which copying failed it runs OK, for example some pdf files didn't copied but I opened them.  What can be problem can it be a Write problem? But why there is a problem when surface scan on whole 2nd partition was fine?  What can I do(except buying new HDD)? Can I somehow do this partitioning and use just partition with good sectors? Will it work? How are data stored on the disk? Can I determine where the data will be written? Reading input from text file to array in c++ Why are light rays able to cross each other? See the image first:   Why are light rays able to cross each other? Air isn't able to. Organize desktop icons on Windows into categories or sections Why is it dangerous to initialize weights with zeros? Is there any simple example that demonstrates it? In course of evolution (possibly), mammary glands became vestigial in male mammals, but became fully developed in females. Is there any plausible explanation for this characteristic? tar files only, no directories Large braces for specifying values of variables by condition Disable ssh password authentication by user Is it possible to enable ssh password authentication for one user on a system and disable it for an other.  If you add  ChallengeResponseAuthentication no PasswordAuthentication no UsePAM no   to /etc/ssh/sshd_config you disable it for all users  Adding it to ~/.ssh/config doesn't seem to work Is it possible for a foreigner to drive through (mainland) China in a foreign-registered car? Is it possible to drive through mainland China, for example for transit from Kazakhstan to Vietnam, as a non-Chinese citizen, in an own car/van/truck?  This is about an European Union citizen, trying to make a tourist trip overland by car from the EU to Vietnam. This is about a special (equipped with sleeping, cooking and other facilities) vehicle, that the owner intends to keep and use in Vietnam, so buying/renting a vehicle inside China and selling it before leaving is not an option - the question is about driving a specific vehicle the owner already has in the EU to Vietnam. getting new licence plates is OK, as long as it is allowed to put back the old ones when the vehicle gets back to the EU.  What legal issues are there with getting in an own car over China, and how to overcome them?  Is it possible to drive a car with EU licence plates through China, or would one have to get something like temporary Chinese plates? Is an EU driving licence valid? Are there any customs issues one has to know about, and how long one can keep a foreign motor vehicle in China without having to pay import taxes on it? Best practices for catching and re-throwing .NET exceptions How to copy files into /usr/local/? (permission denied) I'm still a little new to Ubuntu and was wondering how I can copy files, in this case Aptana Studio, to /usr/local/ without being denied.   Is there a way to do it in terminal? Or a way to allow myself permission?  I should add that I am using 10.10 Desktop edition, not server. Where did they go?   Where do they went?   Can you please advise which of above forms is correct?  I'm pretty sure that first one is fine but wondering about second one.   Can I use a second form as well or it's incorrect? Identifying Coordinate System of Shapefile when Unknown? I have a Shapefile but its coordinate system is Unknown, and there is no *.prj file.   How can I identify it now?