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Detailed view of the phenotypic characterization work by measuring for each selected giant coconut plant the descriptors: plant heights, stem circumference at 20 cm and 1.5 m from the ground, and number, width and lengths of leaflets of leaf 14.
Laura Garci-a y Ricardo J. Rodriguez
A Journey through iOS Malware Landscape: Evolution & Characterization
Mickey Leland research associate Megan Rich working in the Geological & Environmental Systems lab with mentor Thomas Paronish. Megan's project is core characterization of carbon storage wells. In this research, Megan will spend the summer learning how to acquire and analyze Multi-Sensor Corelogger and CT images data from a carbon storage well and compile the data into a report for publication.
NETL researcher, Beom-Tak Na, inserts a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) sample into an atmosphere controlled chamber to be characterized using a technique called Electrical Conductivity Relaxation (ECR). The ECR technique allows NETL to obtain conductivity parameters of novel SOFC materials with high accuracy. Reliable materials characterization is critical for understanding how SOFC developed with these materials will behave over long-term operation. NETL’s research into SOFC technology, which converts the chemical energy of a fuel and an oxidizing agent into electricity, holds the potential to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions while using our nation’s abundant fossil fuel resources
In 2009 I worked on a portfolio of photographs for my friend Raj. He needed an actor portfolio and this is a photo from that set.
A still from The Man Who Knew Too Much, the earlier version. I'm a big Hitchcock fan but really the only reason to see this version is Peter Lorre who just blows all the pallid British actors off the screen. It's the characterization that gave birth to a million bad Lorre imitations. I think Hitchcock knew what he had with Lorre because he places him front and center while the supposed hero, lingers in a corner of the frame. Nobody does slime like Lorre. And he actually makes slime likable.
Black swan theory
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For Taleb's book on the subject, see The Black Swan (Taleb book).
A black swan, a member of the species Cygnus atratus, which remained undocumented until the eighteenth century
The Black Swan Theory or "Theory of Black Swan Events" was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain: 1) the disproportionate role of high-impact, hard to predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science, finance and technology, 2) the non-computability of the probability of the consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to their very nature of small probabilities) and 3) the psychological biases that make people individually and collectively blind to uncertainty and unaware of the massive role of the rare event in historical affairs. Unlike the earlier philosophical "black swan problem", the "Black Swan Theory" (capitalized) refers only to unexpected events of large magnitude and consequence and their dominant role in history. Such events, considered extreme outliers, collectively play vastly larger roles than regular occurrences.
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[edit]Background
Black Swan Events were characterized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book (revised and completed in 2010), The Black Swan. Taleb regards almost all major scientific discoveries, historical events, and artistic accomplishments as "black swans" — undirected and unpredicted. He gives the rise of the Internet, the personal computer, World War I, and the September 11 attacks as examples of Black Swan Events.
The term black swan was a Latin expression — its oldest known reference comes from the poet Juvenal's characterization of something being "rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno" (6.165).[1] In English, this Latin phrase means "a rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan." When the phrase was coined, the black swan was presumed not to exist. The importance of the simile lies in its analogy to the fragility of any system of thought. A set of conclusions is potentially undone once any of its fundamental postulates is disproven. In this case, the observation of a single black swan would be the undoing of the phrase's underlying logic, as well as any reasoning that followed from that underlying logic.
Juvenal's phrase was a common expression in 16th century London as a statement of impossibility. The London expression derives from the Old World presumption that all swans must be white because all historical records of swans reported that they had white feathers.[2] In that context, a black swan was impossible or at least nonexistent. After a Dutch expedition led by explorer Willem de Vlamingh on the Swan River in 1697, discovered black swans in Western Australia[3], the term metamorphosed to connote that a perceived impossibility might later be disproven. Taleb notes that in the 19th century John Stuart Mill used the black swan logical fallacy as a new term to identify falsification.
Specifically, Taleb asserts[4] in the New York Times:
What we call here a Black Swan (and capitalize it) is an event with the following three attributes.
First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact. Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.
I stop and summarize the triplet: rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability. A small number of Black Swans explains almost everything in our world, from the success of ideas and religions, to the dynamics of historical events, to elements of our own personal lives.
[edit]Coping with black swan events
The main idea in Taleb's book is not to attempt to predict Black Swan Events, but to build robustness against negative ones that occur and being able to exploit positive ones. Taleb contends that banks and trading firms are very vulnerable to hazardous Black Swan Events and are exposed to losses beyond that predicted by their defective models.
Taleb states that a Black Swan Event depends on the observer—using a simple example, what may be a Black Swan surprise for a turkey is not a Black Swan surprise for its butcher—hence the objective should be to "avoid being the turkey" by identifying areas of vulnerability in order to "turn the Black Swans white".
[edit]Identifying a black swan event
Based on the author's criteria:
The event is a surprise (to the observer).
The event has a major impact.
After the fact, the event is rationalized by hindsight, as if it had been expected.
[edit]Epistemological approach
Taleb's black swan is different from the earlier philosophical versions of the problem, specifically in epistemology, as it concerns a phenomenon with specific empirical and statistical properties which he calls, "the fourth quadrant".[5] Taleb's problem is about epistemic limitations in some parts of the areas covered in decision making. These limitations are twofold: philosophical (mathematical) and empirical (human known epistemic biases). The philosophical problem is about the decrease in knowledge when it comes to rare events as these are not visible in past samples and therefore require a strong a priori, or what one can call an extrapolating theory; accordingly events depend more and more on theories when their probability is small. In the fourth quadrant, knowledge is both uncertain and consequences are large, requiring more robustness.
Before Taleb,[6] those who dealt with the notion of the improbable, such as Hume, Mill, and Popper focused on the problem of induction in logic, specifically, that of drawing general conclusions from specific observations. Taleb's Black Swan Event has a central and unique attribute, high impact. His claim is that almost all consequential events in history come from the unexpected—yet humans later convince themselves that these events are explainable in hindsight (bias).
One problem, labeled the ludic fallacy by Taleb, is the belief that the unstructured randomness found in life resembles the structured randomness found in games. This stems from the assumption that the unexpected may be predicted by extrapolating from variations in statistics based on past observations, especially when these statistics are presumed to represent samples from a bell-shaped curve. These concerns often are highly relevant in financial markets, where major players use value at risk models, which imply normal distributions, although market returns typically have fat tail distributions.
More generally, decision theory, based on a fixed universe or a model of possible outcomes, ignores and minimizes the effect of events that are "outside model". For instance, a simple model of daily stock market returns may include extreme moves such as Black Monday (1987), but might not model the breakdown of markets following the September 11 attacks of 2001. A fixed model considers the "known unknowns", but ignores the "unknown unknowns".
Taleb notes that other distributions are not usable with precision, but often are more descriptive, such as the fractal, power law, or scalable distributions and that awareness of these might help to temper expectations.[7]
Beyond this, he emphasizes that many events simply are without precedent, undercutting the basis of this type of reasoning altogether.
Taleb also argues for the use of counterfactual reasoning when considering risk.[8][9]
[edit]Taleb's ten principles for a black swan robust world
Taleb enumerates ten principles for building systems that are robust to Black Swan Events:[10]
What is fragile should break early while it is still small. Nothing should ever become Too Big to Fail.
No socialisation of losses and privatisation of gains.
People who were driving a school bus blindfolded (and crashed it) should never be given a new bus.
Do not let someone making an "incentive" bonus manage a nuclear plant – or your financial risks.
Counter-balance complexity with simplicity.
Do not give children sticks of dynamite, even if they come with a warning.
Only Ponzi schemes should depend on confidence. Governments should never need to "restore confidence".
Do not give an addict more drugs if he has withdrawal pains.
Citizens should not depend on financial assets or fallible "expert" advice for their retirement.
Make an omelette with the broken eggs.
In addition to these ten principles, Taleb also recommends employing both physical and functional redundancy in the design of systems. These two steps can be found in the principles of resilience architecting. (Reference: Jackson, S. Architecting Resilient Systems: John Wiley & Sons. Hoboken, NJ: 2010.)
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Mickey Leland research associate Megan Rich working in the Geological & Environmental Systems lab with mentor Thomas Paronish. Megan's project is core characterization of carbon storage wells. In this research, Megan will spend the summer learning how to acquire and analyze Multi-Sensor Corelogger and CT images data from a carbon storage well and compile the data into a report for publication.
Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart, 2022 Frontiers of Materials Award recipient, gives her talk, "Data-Driven, Machine-learning Augmented Design and Novel Characterization for Nano-architectured Materials."
Caricatures are internationally popular and a great way to embellish your home page... or even hanging on your wall at home!
All you have to do is send me a good, accurate digital picture of yourself (or send several). Let me know what your passion or interests are which you want to have shown in your caricature (or send that treasured picture of yourself doing that passion). In other words, the more information you send me, the more you're gonna be pleased with the final result. If you're gonna use this caricature on your Facebook profile, blog, or other personal site, you may as well have it be an accurate, personal (but humorous) characterization of you!
Priced at only $30 for a single person. Each additional person in the same image is $20... (the Beatles would be $30 for John, $20 for Paul, $20 for George, and $20 for Ringo). If you make changes after the original caricature is finished, each revision is $15 added to the original $30. Prices are for a high resolution digital file which will be sent to your email or FTP site. (Your choice of jpg or pdf.) If you require a 16x20" printed piece, an additional $40 will be charged to the original $30, shipping included.
At this point in time I am returning completed caricatures in as little as two days. Like all other art sold elsewhere, payment is expected up front. The only feasible guarantee that I can realistically give is that it will look enough like you that other folks will be able to recognize you... that is the same guarantee that any good caricature artist has ever been able to make. The artistic quality will be quite similar to the examples shown.
With decades of extensive experience in fine art, illustration, characterization, and other graphic visual arts, the internet is filled with literally thousands of my illustrations and artistic renderings which cover numerous areas of interest and subjects. ("pdw" is my known signature for illustrations and fine art pieces)
(Note: Examples shown are not for sale and are for reference only.)
Magnolia
One of most complex characterization of Tom cruise .If you doubt his ability of his acting caliber watch this movie and especially the interview scene .You will understand the depth of his acting skills
“In this life, it’s not what you hope for, it’s not what you deserve – it’s what you...
Iron Shell, LLC
415 N Plumer Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719
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Patent - CURABLE COMPOSITION, PASTE, AND OXIDATIVELY CARBONATED COMPOSITION
Strain energy and process zone based fracture characterization
of a novel iron carbonate binding material.
Iron Shell, LLC has developed a carbon-negative, iron-based binder for use with recycled materials — as an alternative to regular concrete. Their green product, Ferrock-TM, uses sustainable materials and has reduced environmental impact, greater flexural strength and resistance to salt water corrosion.
FAO & MOA field characterization.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Liberia Team. Editorial use only. Copyright FAO
Mickey Leland research associate Megan Rich working in the Geological & Environmental Systems lab with mentor Thomas Paronish. Megan's project is core characterization of carbon storage wells. In this research, Megan will spend the summer learning how to acquire and analyze Multi-Sensor Corelogger and CT images data from a carbon storage well and compile the data into a report for publication.
In 2009 I worked on a portfolio of photographs for my friend Raj. He needed an actor portfolio and this is a photo from that set.
RIDING
Wood panel, wood mâché, gesso
94" x 48"
Detail of: STUDIO SECTION 1981-1983,TERMINUS Construction, Defacement and Interruption of the West Wall
Another characterization of CHRISTOPHER WHITBY
Mickey Leland research associate Megan Rich working in the Geological & Environmental Systems lab with mentor Thomas Paronish. Megan's project is core characterization of carbon storage wells. In this research, Megan will spend the summer learning how to acquire and analyze Multi-Sensor Corelogger and CT images data from a carbon storage well and compile the data into a report for publication.
Authors: Kate Bowers and Paul Lawrence (pictured)
Auctions are often designed with the goal of maximizing social welfare, which is a combination of the auctioneer’s revenue with the utility of bidders. The notion of Price of Anarchy captures the worst-case loss in social welfare caused by the selfish behavior of bidders, making it useful to consider before deploying a given mechanism. Determining the Price of Anarchy for arbitrary auctions is difficult, making it helpful to analyze auction performance with alternative tools such as Smoothness, the main subject of our research. We prove that in certain settings, Smoothness fully characterizes Price of Anarchy. Additionally, we prove that computing Smoothness and Price of Anarchy are NP-hard.
Photo Courtesy of Paul Lawrence
Ｅ－ＭＲＳは欧州最大の材料科学に関する国際会議で、年２回欧州で開催されます。春は毎回フランスで開催され、２０１６年度は５月２－６日の日程でフランスのリールで開催されています。３４のシンポジウムが企画され、厳正な審査に基づき各シンポジムから２名までの大学院生が受賞の栄誉にあずかることができる大変栄誉ある賞です。
高橋さんは、Symposium J "Established and emerging nanocolloids: from synthesis & characterization to applications II"において口頭発表とポスター発表をそれぞれ１件ずつ行い、そのどちらも高く評価された結果、Symposium Jからは並み居る欧州の優秀な大学院生を抑え、単独での受賞となりました。
参考：http://www.european-mrs.com/meetings/2016-spring-meeting
■受賞年月日
平成２８年５月４日
■タイトル
Oral: "Formation mechanism of Ag@FeCo@Ag core@shell@shell nanoprobes designed for biomedical separation/imaging applications"
Poster: "Exchange bias in Ag@FeCo@Ag core@shell@shell hybrid bioprobes due to partial oxidation of FeCo intermediate shell"
■論文概要
【口頭発表】：Ag@FeCo@Agダブルシェル型ナノ粒子の生成機構が、Agコアのサイズフォーカシングとそれに伴う還元触媒作用の発現、およびFeCoシェルに取り込まれたAg原子の表面偏析による自己組織的なものであることを解明した。
【ポスター発表】：Ag@FeCo@Agナノ粒子のFeCoシェルの表面が酸化され反強磁性相コバルトウスタイトとなることで、強磁性相FeCoとの界面で生じる磁気交換バイアス現象について詳細に調べた。
■受賞にあたって一言
今回このような大変名誉ある賞を戴きまして、心から光栄に思います。皆様方の支えがあってこその業績だと思います。今回Ｅ－ＭＲＳで合計３件発表する機会を与えて頂いたため、多くの欧州の研究者達に私の研究に興味を持って頂くことができました。中には、以前も私の発表を聞いたことがあるという方も少なからずいらっしゃり、私のナノ粒子が世界に浸透してきているのだなぁと実感でき、開発者として非常に嬉しく思います。今回の受賞を励みにして、これからも研究により一層邁進して参りたいと思います。
Mickey Leland research associate Megan Rich working in the Geological & Environmental Systems lab with mentor Thomas Paronish. Megan's project is core characterization of carbon storage wells. In this research, Megan will spend the summer learning how to acquire and analyze Multi-Sensor Corelogger and CT images data from a carbon storage well and compile the data into a report for publication.
Mixed oxide of lanthanum, titanium and ruthenium with perovskite structure. It has been studied as a catalyst in water treatment processes, in particular in ozonation photocatalytic of phenolics compounds.
Courtesy of Maria Carbajo
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta DualBeam Family
Magnification: 7500x
Horizontal Field Width: 19.85 μm
Vacuum: 3.27e-4 Pa
Voltage: 10 kV
Spot: 5.5
Working Distance: 6.9 mm
Detector: SE
Thermal Testing
Performance Calibration and Validation of Infrared Systems
Nivisys has complete thermal device characterization and certification with our SBIR 14000 Series IR Target Projector. The 14000 is a fully automated Differential Blackbody Collimator optimized for use in the 8-14 micron range.
Image extracted from: Mühlsteinová, R., Johansen, J. R., Pietrasiak, N., & Martin, M. P. (2014). Polyphasic characterization of Kastovskya adunca gen. nov. et comb. nov. (Cyanobacteria: Oscillatoriales), from desert soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Phytotaxa, 163(4), 216. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.163.4.2 licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Mickey Leland research associate Megan Rich working in the Geological & Environmental Systems lab with mentor Thomas Paronish. Megan's project is core characterization of carbon storage wells. In this research, Megan will spend the summer learning how to acquire and analyze Multi-Sensor Corelogger and CT images data from a carbon storage well and compile the data into a report for publication.
Department of Public Works and Environmental Services – Stormwater Management
Category: Significant Data Contributor
George Long’s American Literature students used active and collaborative reading exercises to come to terms with The Great Gatsby. Here, the class examines details of characterization to construct a more holistic understanding of the text and insert their voices into the intellectual conversation. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
Materials Characterization Facility, Texas A&M University
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Emeritus professor of materials science and engineering and U-M alum Wil Bigelow, with the JEOL 3100R05 electron microscope at the Michigan Center for Materials Characterization at the North Campus Research Center on the North Campus of the University of Michigan on November 15, 2017.
Photo: Levi Hutmacher/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Mickey Leland research associate Megan Rich working in the Geological & Environmental Systems lab with mentor Thomas Paronish. Megan's project is core characterization of carbon storage wells. In this research, Megan will spend the summer learning how to acquire and analyze Multi-Sensor Corelogger and CT images data from a carbon storage well and compile the data into a report for publication.
Chemical engineering doctoral student Robert H. Herring III won third place in the Graduate Student Poster Competition for his project, “Computer-Aided Molecular Design with Multi-Dimensional Characterization”
George Long’s American Literature students used active and collaborative reading exercises to come to terms with The Great Gatsby. Here, the class examines details of characterization to construct a more holistic understanding of the text and insert their voices into the intellectual conversation. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
Monster High is an American fashion doll franchise created by Mattel in July, 2010. The characters are inspired by monster movies, sci-fi horror, thriller fiction, and various creatures therefore distinguishing them from most fashion dolls. They were created by Garrett Sander, with illustrations by Kellee Riley.[2]
The Monster High franchise also includes other consumer products such as stationery, bags, key chains, various toys and video games. There are also Monster High TV specials, a web series, a direct to DVD movie, and software. Lisi Harrison is the author of the Monster High books. The characters are depicted as being either related to or as offspring of famous monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, Medusa, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Phantom of the Opera, and zombies and more. The characters are usually referred to as ghouls, rather than girls.
The dolls are approximately 27 cm tall. Or about 1 foot tall. Their bodies are made from ABS plastic. Their heads are made from soft PVC. They have various skin tones (blue, green, pink, brown, etc.) Each character has a unique head mold. No Monster High doll has the same shape head. The type of hair the dolls have is saran. The boys hair is either fuzzy or hard colored plastic. Aside from physical attributes, the dolls are quite different in the characterization of their clothes. And they all have their own unique freaky flaw, hair, etc. They might repeat bags and sunglasses. For example, 13 Wishes Howleen has the same bag as the original Clawdeen only that it is a different color. One is gold and another is purple and black. But they are both sisters. Plus, Howleen likes to borrow a lot of Clawdeen's stuff. And Gloom Beach Frankie Stein has the same sunglasses as the Scaris Frankie Stein. One s blue and one is yellow. All of them have various attributes of the monsters they are related to (i.e. fangs, stitches, wolf ears, fins, bandages,snakes, etc.)[3] Although Monster high and Barbie are from the same creator, Mattel, Monster High is starting to become more popular than Barbie.
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Monster High est une franchise américaine de poupées mannequins lancée par Mattel en juillet 2010 aux États-Unis, tirée d'une série de livres du même nom (de Lisi Harrison). Les personnages sont inspirés de personnes assez monstrueuses issues de la littérature fantastique, de la mythologie, ou encore de films cultes. Les Monster High sont toutes des enfants de monstres (Frankie Stein est la fille de Frankenstein, Draculaura est celle de Dracula, Deuce Gorgon est le fils de Méduse...).
La franchise Monster High se décline sur de très nombreux produits comme des vêtements, des bijoux fantaisie et de la papeterie, mais ses principales ventes se font grâce aux poupées mannequins du même nom. Elle s'accompagne également d'épisodes spéciaux pour la télévision et le marché DVD, et d'une web-série.S
Le concept de Monster High met en scène des adolescents tous descendants de créatures plus ou moins célèbres. Certaines poupées sont relookėes.
Les poupées mannequins mesurent une vingtaine de centimètres ; les garçons sont plus grands que les filles, même s'il existe des différences de taille chez certaines poupées (Twyla et Howleen Wolf sont plus petites, Nefera de Nile et Mme. Santête sont plus grandes...). Les corps (qui comptent de nombreuses articulations) sont fabriqués en plastique ABS et les têtes sont en PVC souple. Chaque personnage bénéficie d'un moule différent pour sa tête. Les cheveux sont en saran ou en kanekalon, voire en PVC pour les garçons dont les cheveux sont, pour la plupart des personnages, moulés. Les poupées filles de Monster High peuvent enlever leurs mains et bras mais les garçons ne peuvent enlever que leurs bras. Lagoona Blue, Rochelle Goyle et C.A. Cupid ont des éléments amovibles que les autres poupées n'ont pas (des nageoires pour Lagoona Blue, des ailes pour Rochelle Goyle et C.A. Cupid). Comme les filles ont des chaussures à talons, elles ne peuvent pas bouger leurs pieds, tandis que les garçons ont les pieds articulés.
Chaque personnage est caractérisé par un style vestimentaire et une gamme de couleurs qui se retrouvent dans différentes collections et qui reflètent leur personnalité dans la web-série.
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NGRREC researchers (and some curious ducks) look on after launching PISCES (Pontoon for In-situ Characterization of Environmental Systems) into the Mississippi River for the first time in October 2012. Photo by S. Paige Allen, Lewis and Clark Community College photographer.
Iron Shell, LLC
415 N Plumer Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719
520-207-9043
ecorp.azcc.gov/Details/Corp?corpId=L17508699
Patent - CURABLE COMPOSITION, PASTE, AND OXIDATIVELY CARBONATED COMPOSITION
Strain energy and process zone based fracture characterization
of a novel iron carbonate binding material.
Iron Shell, LLC has developed a carbon-negative, iron-based binder for use with recycled materials — as an alternative to regular concrete. Their green product, Ferrock-TM, uses sustainable materials and has reduced environmental impact, greater flexural strength and resistance to salt water corrosion.