Maintaining good oral hygiene and oral health is essential. It becomes more crucial for orthodontic patients who undergo different orthodontic treatments. The measures and precautions to ensure oral hygiene to improve the life quality during the treatment.
Pandora is winning today in the Marketing Department. Their latest video ad has gone viral, and with good reason. It’s common knowledge that the bond between a mother and child is powerful.
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popurls is the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet.
http://www.Awake2000.com Nightly affirmation device offers better results for affirmation users. Many users prefer nightly affirmations claiming they are better than daily affirmations. ThoughtDr
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The long rumored (and we mean long rumored) Apple tablet has finally arrived. Is the iPad as "magical" as the company hopes? Perhaps not, but there is a lot to this story beyond the obvious: A4 chip? Micro SIM? What's the deal with Flash? Since we know you're looking for the straight dope on the big reveal, and since this is what Engadget does best, we've thoughtfully compiled the last twenty-four hours worth of coverage in something we like to call a "list." Now sit back, put your feet up, and take it all in. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com%2F2010%2F01%2F28%2Fapple-ipad-launch-day-roundup-everything-you-need-to-know
If you've never abandoned your 4th grade obsession with the night sky (and who has?), Star Viewer is a web-based tool for peeking at some of the most interesting and vivid sights in the night sky. Star Viewer is not as complicated as, say, the previously mentioned open-source and feature-rich astronomy tool Stellarium
Thirty years ago, Mr. Wallach was one of a small team of computer designers profiled by Tracy Kidder in his Pulitzer Prize winning best seller, “The Soul of a New Machine.”
Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial (LSST) v2.0 A Beginners Handbook for New Linux Users / Sys Admins and School Students Studying Linux or Computer Science.
IBM's future Power7 chip may be just about done as far as the engineering is concerned, and its server designs might also be more or less completed as well. But there is plenty of time yet to tweak the boxes, and I doubt very much that the final packaging and pricing for the future Power7 machinery is anywhere close to being set. Which is a pity, really.
Philip, a new supercomputer-- named after one of the first Boyd Professors (A Boyd Professorship is the highest and most prestigious academic rank LSU can confer on a professor) at LSU -- chemistry professor Philip W. West, is a 3.5 TFlops Peak Performance 37 compute node cluster running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system. Each node contains two latest Quad Core Nehalem Xeon 64-bit processors operating at a core frequency of 2.93 GHz. Philip was delivered to LSU in May, 2009 and is to be open for general use to LSU users.
The New York Times has announced that its increasingly popular Congress API has been upgraded to include additional features and data (more at our Congress API Profile). The latest version of the Congress API includes two new features that give developers access to more information: Retrieval of bills cosponsored by an individual member and all of the cosponsors for a particular bill Compare the voting records of two members of the House or Senate to see how often they agree and disagree
ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn reports today on a new open source navigation project launched by European GPS company TomTom that adds additional functionality to navigational devices, regardless of the make or model. The OpenLR project aims to put navigation data on top of a GPS unit's existing database so drivers can access local traffic, weather, and other useful information as they travel.
Computational photography refers broadly to sensing strategies and algorithmic techniques that enhance or extend the capabilities of digital photography. The output of these techniques is an ordinary photograph, but one that could not have been taken by a traditional camera. Representative techniques include high dynamic range imaging, flash-noflash imaging, coded aperture and coded exposure imaging, photography under structured illumination, multi-perspective and panoramic stitching, digital photomontage, all-focus imaging, and light field imaging.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center has taken a significant step forward for scientific processing by developing the first of its kind High-Performance Computing (HPC) system which utilizes flash memory. Commonly used in household electronics such as digital cameras and cell phones, flash is generally considered a faster storage medium than traditional hard drives due to the fact that there are no moving parts, as opposed to the traditional drive which stores information on magnetic plates which must be individually accessed.
NIH Research Database Gets a Makeover HDM Breaking News, September 8, 2009 The National Institutes of Health has added funding information for grants and contracts to its NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool, called RePORT. The RePORT Web site is an online repository of reports, data and analyses of research-related funding.
The essential benefit of hNews is that by identifying content more clearly and making more of its key information machine-readable it therefore becomes easier to search for. It also could lead to the development of different ways to search via different applications. Kasi was enthusiastic about the advantages of this for the AP. "AP clearly believes that being able to better identify each piece of content for better search discovery, better linking, better aggregation allows ultimately for the customer to see more content, more trusted content, from editorial sources," he said. "Microformats are a very simple, elegant way to do that on a pretty large scale basis," he added, allowing the AP to "prime the content better for search purposes even before it gets to the publisher."
n a new study released this week found that many of the most successful social media initiatives on company intranets start as underground, grassroots efforts led by front-line workers, and which later are officially sanctioned by the enterprise.
That's the Android operating system running on this fairly slick looking ARCHOS tablet, which is concrete proof that Android is headed for more than just smartphones.
The purpose of our centre is to provide a national focus for research and development into curation issues and to promote expertise and good practice, both national and international, for the management of all research outputs in digital format. Find out more about the DCC.
Future of the Screen: After the CRT, a Display Deluge By Jon Stokes | 09.02.09 For the seven decades following the debut of television at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the term "cathode ray tube" (CRT) was virtually synonymous with "display." Shortly after the turn of the millennium, liquid crystal display (LCD) technology began to replace the venerable CRT in desktop-computer applications, and by the middle of the decade LCD was rapidly squeezing the CRT out the television market that the latter had invented. Just two years ago, it seemed obvious that the display space was in the final stages of a relatively straightforward evolutionary shift, with LCD replacing the CRT in the same way that the gas-powered automobile had replaced the horse and buggy.
Wolfram Alpha to open data feeds Wolfram Alpha, a project from the makers of math software Mathematica, will soon be opening up its data sets, opening up new possibilities for data mash ups
Name an industry that can produce 1 million new, high-paying jobs over the next three years. You can't, because there isn't one. And that's the problem.
As the school year begins, be ready to hear pundits fretting once again about how kids today can't write—and technology is to blame. Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into "bleak, bald, sad shorthand" (as University College of London English professor John Sutherland has moaned). An age of illiteracy is at hand, right?
In a vault beneath the British Library here, Jeremy Leighton John grapples with a formidable challenge in digital life. Dr. John, the library's first curator of eManuscripts, is working on ways to archive the deluge of computer data swamping scientists so that future generations can authenticate today's discoveries and better understand the people who made them.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a technology that allows organizations to deliver news to a desktop computer or other Internet device. By subscribing to RSS feeds, users can easily stay up-to-date with areas of the Library's site that are of interest. The Law Library of Congress now offers RSS feeds for use in an RSS reader or RSS-enabled Web browser. Library feeds consist of headline, brief summary, and a link that leads back to the Library's Web site for more information. Available feeds cover: THOMAS: Daily Digest, Law Library News and Events, Law Library Webcasts, Current Legal Topics, and the Global Legal Monitor.
When the banking crisis tore through Wall Street and the City of London there wasn’t much Devin Wenig could do, apart from sit and watch the trading screens in his office turn red. As for any supplier to investment banks, a string of collapses including Bear Stearns was not good news for Thomson Reuters, even though the financial news and data provider claims to thrive on volatility.
As computational scientists are confronted with increasingly massive datasets from supercomputing simulations and experiments, one of the biggest challenges is having the right tools to gain scientific insight from the data. One common method for gaining insight is to use scientific visualization, which transforms abstract data into more readily comprehensible images using advanced computer software and computer graphics. But the ever-growing size of scientific datasets presents a significant challenge to modern scientific visualization tools. As a result, there is a great deal of motivation to explore use of large, parallel resources, such as those at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) supercomputing centers, to take advantage of their vast computational processing power, I/O bandwidth and large memory footprint.
The Great Plains Network Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Group is a cooperative undertaking of member Great Plains Network universities. The group seek to use existing programs and regional initiatives to advance educational and research objectives at the intersection of biology and computer science.
ERCIM News is the magazine of ERCIM. It reports on joint actions of the ERCIM partners, and aims to reflect the contribution made by ERCIM to the European Community in Information Technology. Through short articles and news items, it provides a forum for the exchange of information between the institutes and also with the wider scientific community. ERCIM News is published quarterly. The printed edition of the current number has a circulation of 11,000 copies.
Virtual research environments (VREs), as one hopes the name suggests, comprise digital infrastructure and services which enable research to take place. The idea of a VRE, which in this context includes cyberinfrastructure and e-infrastructure, arises from and remains intrinsically linked with, the development of e-science. The VRE helps to broaden the popular definition of e-science from grid-based distributed computing for scientists with huge amounts of data to the development of online tools, content, and middleware within a coherent framework for all disciplines and all types of research. This article highlights some of the issues relating to the development and deployment of VREs and introduces three VRE projects in which Oxford University is leading or playing a significant role.
ESnet will build the world’s fastest supercomputing network and test subnetwork for future technology using $62 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. ESnet, which is based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, described their plans for the network in an announcement on the 10 August. Dubbed the Advanced Networking Initiative, it will serve as a pilot for 100 gigabit per second ethernet technology. “We’re moving to 100 gigabits because the standard today is 10 gigabits, and we already have individual streams of data that are bumping against that limit,” said Steve Cotter, ESnet department head, in a recent interview. “We’d like to have a system out there that can handle more.”
The computer world is notorious for its obsession with what is new - largely thanks to the relentless engine of Moore's Law that endlessly presents programmers with more powerful machines. Given such permanent change, anything that survives for more than one generation of processors deserves a nod. Think then what the Unix operating system deserves because in August 2009, it celebrates its 40th anniversary. And it has been in use every year of those four decades and today is getting more attention than ever before.
As many of you already know, virtualization is big, and it continues to grow in popularity. Users are now actively seeking complementary solutions to extend the virtual infrastructure across the entire enterprise, from storage to server to desktop. The move to "Total Enterprise Virtualization" is real and might be taking place in your organization right now. Today, virtualization is understood as a comprehensive infrastructure solution that is absolutely strategic to a competitive business.
The group has created a motherboard prototype that uses separate modules, each of which has its own processor, memory and storage. Each square cell in this design serves as a mini-motherboard and network node
It costs more than three times as much to publish an article in a humanities or social-science journal as it does to publish one in a science, technical, or medical, or STM, journal, and the prevailing model used by many publishers of STM journals will not work for their humanities and social-sciences counterparts. Those are some of the eye-opening conclusions released today in a report on an in-depth study of eight flagship journals in the humanities and social sciences.
I was doing some work and thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to have my own cluster?" I'm guessing not many people have those types of revelations, and probably fewer that decide they should go ahead and solve the problem. I wanted a cheap, small, easy to pack, light, quiet, low-power cluster that I could sit on my desk, and not even think about it.
While they weren’t brand new cars, Oprah did leave 4500 copies of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Dan Pink on the chairs of the graduating students she was addressing (Stanford 2008). Why?
Last week, Sam explored trends in the technology jobs market, suggesting that significant opportunities only reveal themselves when examining both the available jobs and the underlying trends in demand for skills. Coincidentally, on the same day that Sam’s piece was published, The New York Times suggested that “the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians.”
THE FREE INTERACTIVE PLAYER FOR MATHEMATICA NOTEBOOK DOCUMENTS Mathematica Player uses the unique capabilities of Wolfram Mathematica to display notebooks and to run fully interactive Demonstrations from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, as well as other interactive notebooks converted for use with Player.
Multi-million dollar supercomputers take up most of the headlines, but many organizations are now considering the addition of smaller, personal supercomputers to their desktop fleet. Despite some strong global sales, find out why the idea still hasn’t taken off at most companies
raditional supercomputer vendors pushing miniaturized versions of their big machines, like Cray with its CX1, or NEC with its SX-9, have definitely been endorsed by pockets of life sciences researchers, but certainly not on any widespread scale. GPU chip maker NVIDIA even has its own personal supercomputer offering in an effort to capitalize on the growing use of graphics chips in scientific computing. And according to market research firms like IDC's High Performance Computing group, personal supercomputers that cluster together GPUs and CPUs are a definite boon to pharmaceutical research shops. And with the steadily climbing growth of workgroup systems selling for less than $100,000, what's the problem?
Amazon Web Service today announced a new AWS Import/Export feature. A potentially huge step forward for data portabilty when using the Amazon Cloud computing infrastructure.
Virtual Machines and Types of Service for TeraGrid Computing Foundational capabilities we provide in TeraGrid, such as "roaming" access and a "coordinated" software environment, open new possibilities in terms of more specialized services, or to allow the TeraGrid, as a system, to respond to supply and demand. For example, a resource provider might elect to increase the "price" of a queue in order to improve turnaround time by reducing demand, or decrease the price to increase demand (and thus utilization).
Windows/Mac/Linux: Inspired by our post on Linux backup utility Back in Time, but finding it lacking encryption and network powers, Rob Oakes wrote his own Python-based utility to back up Windows, Mac, or Linux machines across local machines or networks.
Cloud computing means you can store your data in web applications and access it from any browser, anywhere—but that doesn't mean you don't need a backup plan. Safeguard your data when a storm's a-brewing in the cloud with these tools.
Before specialized graphics-processing chips existed, pioneers in the field of visualization used multicore supercomputers to realize data in three dimensions. Today, however, the speed at which supercomputers can process data is rapidly outstripping the speed at which they can input and output that data. Graphics-processing clusters are becoming obsolete.