Dr Fihn:It’s really interesting when you think about what the imperative is to develop a new technology. The VA was trying to solve the problem of missing records. In those days, we had these gigantic paper records, and more than half the time they weren’t available when we saw patie...
Detecting the tone of a story is similar to picking up on tone of voice. It's not what is being said or done — it's a matter of how. According to the Literary Terms & Poetry Glossary, tone is "the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation ...
Ampeater Music is a website devoted to bridging the gap between unsigned (or just plain underexposed) artists and music lovers everywhere. Every day we feature a different artist on what we call The Ampeater Review. Each fea
(physics) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle. Pop A pistol. Pop A small, immature peanut, boiled as a snack. Pop (colloquial) freeze pop Pop A (usually very) loud...
My Roommate Is A Gumiho - omg it's so funny! This show is surely gonna be my mindless, guilty pleasure watch. Our Mr.Gumiho looks kinda creepy, but he's not a downright jerk like many other supernatural main leads appear. But the second lead is surely a jerk and I'm happy that ou...
Apple says, they ran out of “felt and wood,” for iOS 7 which gave me a chuckle. While iOS 7 is definitely very minimal, I wouldn’t quite call it “Holo” or even Metro. There are no sharp edges to the design and everything has a very rounded look, more in tune with the UI...
An exchange of two comparable things. Fly To pass by swiftly A vacation flying by. Swap (finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream. Fly To be dissipated; vanish All his money has flown. Swap Space available in a sw...
is an unlicensed derivative so you can’t obtain it anyway). The distributing company needs to also pre-purchase copies of the mechanical rights to each track for each copy they expect to sell. I’ve been in this industry long enough to know this will never happen because the logistics ...
this pool is driven largely by the public markets. this pool of capital was "all in" on consumer web/social web in the 2009-2011 time frame. it drove a lot of activity throughout the venture capital markets because each layer of the VC stack (angel, seed, Srs A, Srs B, Srs C, ...
It is acknowledged that not all will agree with those decisions and the reader need look no further than the numerous debates that have resonated over the years regarding the HDI let alone the EPI and its precursor called the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI). Morse [2] provided a ...