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Across species, do egg-laying vertebrates instinctively seek out human syntax for use in the creation of their nesting grounds?
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HPV Testing and PAP Test Market
is poised to value over USD 5.29 billion by 2027 end at a CAGR of over 6.6% during the forecast period 2020 to 2027
HPV is a sexually transmitted virus which is the rpiamry reason for causing cervical cancer. Over 85% of all cervical and anal cancers and over 65% of vulvar and vaginal cancers are caused due to HPV. PAP tests are majorly used for detecting cervical cancer. These include specimen observation at a microscopic level. The rising number of patients diagnosed with cervical cancer, the growing geriatric population, the increased awaareness pertaining to the screening programs of cervical cancer are some ket driving facotrsd contributing to the growth of the market.
FutureWise Market Research has instantiated a report that provides an intricate analysis of the market trends that shall affect the overall market growth. Furthermore, it includes detailed information on the graph of profitability, SWOT analysis, market share and regional proliferation of this business. Moreover, the report offers insights on the current stature of prominent market players in the competitive landscape analysis of this market.
According to the research study conducted by FutureWise research analysts, the market is anticipated to attain substantial growth by the end of the forecast period. The report explains that this business is predicted to register a noteworthy growth rate over the forecast period. This report provides crucial information pertaining to the total valuation that is presently held by this industry and it also lists the segmentation of the market along with the growth opportunities present across this business vertical.
Opposing views on the interpretation of trilobite trunk segmentation and alternative phylogenetic hypotheses for the group.A. Direct correspondence between the segments and the dorsal exoskeletal plates (i.e. tergites) [11], [14]?[16], illustrated in the corynexochid Olenoides serratus; this interpretation is reflective of the plesiomorphic trunk segmentation present in most arthropods, in which the segment and tergite borders are coincident. Every second segment is shaded. A1. Morphological features and articulating devices of a typical trunk tergite, dorsal view. B. Indirect correspondence between segments and tergites [12], [19], [20]; the intersegmental boundaries of the trunk occur within each tergite, being delimited by the articulating (af) and pleural (pf) furrows. C. Trilobites have been variously interpreted as stem-euarthropods, stem-chelicerates, and stem-mandibulates [24], although most recent studies favour the latter affinities. The position of trilobites within total-group Euarthropoda indicates that the segment polarity gene engrailed had a role in the segmentation of these extinct organisms. Other abbreviations: ahr, articulating half ring; fp, fulcral process.
My mum and dad gave me a beautiful old sewing box for my 30th birthday last year. I'm on a mission to make better use of it and started by reorganising all my embroidery thread. Most satisfying!
A tiny Soldier Beetle, face full of pollen, taken on the local canal bank on the Bollington to Hurdsfield section of the Macclesfield Canal.
Soldier beetles are highly desired by gardeners as biological control agents of a number of pest insects. The larvae tend to be dark brown or grey, slender and wormlike with a rippled appearance due to pronounced segmentation. They consume grasshopper eggs, aphids, caterpillars and other soft bodied insects, most of which are pests.
The adults are especially important predators of aphids. They supplement their diet with nectar and pollen and can be minor pollinators.
"Market segmentation is so important for any company because it impacts all aspects of the business. Companies can identify the problems and needs within a segment, build the technology to solve them, and effectively communicate the solution to the marketplace," said Mr. Hohmann of the impact of market segmentation.
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Locations around the globe needed a common look to all marketing materials centered around its newly adapted market segmentations. This corporate style guide ensured consistency across all forms of communication.
In research and segmentation, trees are useful structures already used for identifying decision processes.
Using SNA and contextual information concepts, drawing trees can be helpful to understand new levels of segmentation.
And it's fun, too.
Prague City Gallery – Municipal Library (Městská knihovna)
The library building on Mariánské Square was built between 1925 and 1928. It was the first purpose-built library in the then Czechoslovakia as well as one of the most modern in Europe at the time. The exhibition space on the second floor is used by the Prague City Gallery. Its mission is focused primarily on presenting Czech modern art from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The oldest public library in Prague continued in the activity of the society libraries, and also some marginal villages had their own libraries. The first public library in Prague was opened on the 1st July 1891, being established by a decree of the municipal council as the Public Municipal Library of the Royal City of Prague. In the beginning, it had over 3000 books; its first address was in the building of the former St. Václav jail in the Na Zderaze Street. The library changed its address several times, until it finally settled at the corner of Platnéřská Street and the square Mariánské náměstí, where there used to be an Empire burgess house. The base of the modern-time library was set by its director back then, poet Antonín Sova, who also established the first six branches of the library. When 37 surrounding villages were included in Prague in 1922, which also gave rise to the so called Great Prague, also the libraries in these villages were united into one and a centralized Central Library of the Capital City of Prague was created with a network of 40 branches and this number kept growing. The library fund with approximately 260 thousand volumes was also increasing rapidly. The existing house was not suitable for the greater amounts of books. This problem was resolved by the Prague Municipal Insurance Company, which as early as in 1923 decided in a meeting of its board of directors to build a new separate building for the library needs and to donate it to the city of Prague on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Czechoslovak State. Out of five renowned architects, František Roith was the one to win the competition opened for the new library project. Work on the extensive building site, which was over 60 m long into the Mariánské náměstí and nearly 70 m in the vertical direction, began in 1925. This was the first purpose-built library construction in Czechoslovakia and one of the most modern in Europe. The author not only designed the new building as a magnificent library with all the respective services, but also as a cultural institution with premises for lectures, concerts and exhibitions. The library was officially opened for public on the 28th October 1928.
A markedly traditionally designed building looks very suitable between the early-Baroque Clementinum and the Secession building of the New Prague Town Hall. The main front of the object unites modern temperance with Classicising segmentation. The corner parts with arcades extend into the pavement, and there is a monumental port with a balcony balustrade in the middle. On the balcony, there are 6 allegorical sculptures made by Ladislav Kofránek. The main facade, as well as the side tract, are lined by Slovak travertine. Also the interior is simple and strictly purposeful, even if a little more decorative. The monumental staircase and vestibule again use travertine, artificial stone and brass. Ornamental paintings on the ceiling of the central hall were realized by František Kysela. Even the furniture and equipment corresponded with the building’s simple and purposeful architecture. Today, the original equipment can only be seen the information centre and the theatre section.
Premises for puppet theatre were built in the underground, on the side in Žatecká Street. The theatre came here from Bubeneč. A model of the scene and auditorium was realized by sculptor and woodcarver Vojtěch Sucharda, who was the founder and the first director of the local Artistic Scene of the Puppet Land (Říše loutek).
About one fifth of the building is taken up by the residence of Prague’s chief magistrate on the first and on the second floor of the front tract, which is made up of the service flat, representative and reception lounges, an apartment for accommodating precious guests, and operational background. The residence has its own access from the corner of Platnéřská and Žatecká Street. The residence utterly leaves the idea of an overall restrained purposefulness. It is decorative, noble and cultured Art Deco style. František Kysela participated in the decorations and he realized the ceiling paintings and designed a large tapestry named Work, Science and Arts. Equipment and decorations of the chief magistrate’s residence were completed in 1930. However, the Prague chief magistrates never actually lived in the residence, perhaps with the only exception of Karel Baxa. It was, nevertheless, regularly used for accommodating official foreign visitors and for protocolar and representative purposes. In the years 1994 - 95 it went through a general reconstruction and the pieces of art were carefully restored.
Modernity and generosity of the Roith’s project of a library from the era of the first republic is documented by the fact that only in the end of the 1970s, the library no longer suited the needs of a modern information institute, both spatially and technologically. The city initiated a generous building reconstruction in the years 1996 - 98. All the lending and studying areas were connected during the reconstruction, and free selection of the library fund was increased. The surface area extended by 900 m2 thanks to placing ceilings on two atriums and to in-built galleries.
www.prague.eu/en/object/places/860/prague-city-gallery-mu...
The use of 3D-printing in the development of a surgical training model for robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy
Generated from a CT scan of a patient who had kidney cancer, this project used image segmentation and 3D-modelling software combined with 3D-printing technology to develop and evaluate an anatomically accurate, low-cost surgical training model of a kidney with a tumour.
There is an increasing incidence of kidney cancer within the UK and where possible surgeons will use a procedure known as a partial nephrectomy to treat it. This procedure removes only the part of the kidney affected by the tumour, which is done to preserve as much post-operative kidney function as possible while still removing the cancer. This procedure is very technically challenging and can only be performed by a few very skilled surgeons. The implications of developing this model are that trainee surgeons could access a low-cost means of learning and continually developing the skills required to perform a robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy, which could ultimately generate a bigger pool of capable surgeons and thus widen access to the best available care for patients.
Better data is becoming available on economic activity within countries, often much exceeding the available information of economic activity across countries. This creates new research opportunities for testing economic theory, analyzing market structures and the sources of market segmentation, and making predictions of how economic shocks propagate across space. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers from urban economics, industrial organization, health economics, and international trade to study production and trade within and across countries.
The use of 3D-printing in the development of a surgical training model for robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy
Generated from a CT scan of a patient who had kidney cancer, this project used image segmentation and 3D-modelling software combined with 3D-printing technology to develop and evaluate an anatomically accurate, low-cost surgical training model of a kidney with a tumour. The model was made primarily from hydrogels, which are capable of simulating human tissues due to their capacity to hold large volumes of water.
There is an increasing incidence of kidney cancer within the UK and where possible surgeons will use a procedure known as a partial nephrectomy to treat it. This procedure removes only the part of the kidney affected by the tumour, which is done to preserve as much post-operative kidney function as possible while still removing the cancer. This procedure is very technically challenging and can only be performed by a few very skilled surgeons. The implications of developing this model are that trainee surgeons could access a low-cost means of learning and continually developing the skills required to perform a robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy, which could ultimately generate a bigger pool of capable surgeons and thus widen access to the best available care for patients.
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Prague City Gallery – Municipal Library (Městská knihovna)
The library building on Mariánské Square was built between 1925 and 1928. It was the first purpose-built library in the then Czechoslovakia as well as one of the most modern in Europe at the time. The exhibition space on the second floor is used by the Prague City Gallery. Its mission is focused primarily on presenting Czech modern art from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The oldest public library in Prague continued in the activity of the society libraries, and also some marginal villages had their own libraries. The first public library in Prague was opened on the 1st July 1891, being established by a decree of the municipal council as the Public Municipal Library of the Royal City of Prague. In the beginning, it had over 3000 books; its first address was in the building of the former St. Václav jail in the Na Zderaze Street. The library changed its address several times, until it finally settled at the corner of Platnéřská Street and the square Mariánské náměstí, where there used to be an Empire burgess house. The base of the modern-time library was set by its director back then, poet Antonín Sova, who also established the first six branches of the library. When 37 surrounding villages were included in Prague in 1922, which also gave rise to the so called Great Prague, also the libraries in these villages were united into one and a centralized Central Library of the Capital City of Prague was created with a network of 40 branches and this number kept growing. The library fund with approximately 260 thousand volumes was also increasing rapidly. The existing house was not suitable for the greater amounts of books. This problem was resolved by the Prague Municipal Insurance Company, which as early as in 1923 decided in a meeting of its board of directors to build a new separate building for the library needs and to donate it to the city of Prague on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Czechoslovak State. Out of five renowned architects, František Roith was the one to win the competition opened for the new library project. Work on the extensive building site, which was over 60 m long into the Mariánské náměstí and nearly 70 m in the vertical direction, began in 1925. This was the first purpose-built library construction in Czechoslovakia and one of the most modern in Europe. The author not only designed the new building as a magnificent library with all the respective services, but also as a cultural institution with premises for lectures, concerts and exhibitions. The library was officially opened for public on the 28th October 1928.
A markedly traditionally designed building looks very suitable between the early-Baroque Clementinum and the Secession building of the New Prague Town Hall. The main front of the object unites modern temperance with Classicising segmentation. The corner parts with arcades extend into the pavement, and there is a monumental port with a balcony balustrade in the middle. On the balcony, there are 6 allegorical sculptures made by Ladislav Kofránek. The main facade, as well as the side tract, are lined by Slovak travertine. Also the interior is simple and strictly purposeful, even if a little more decorative. The monumental staircase and vestibule again use travertine, artificial stone and brass. Ornamental paintings on the ceiling of the central hall were realized by František Kysela. Even the furniture and equipment corresponded with the building’s simple and purposeful architecture. Today, the original equipment can only be seen the information centre and the theatre section.
Premises for puppet theatre were built in the underground, on the side in Žatecká Street. The theatre came here from Bubeneč. A model of the scene and auditorium was realized by sculptor and woodcarver Vojtěch Sucharda, who was the founder and the first director of the local Artistic Scene of the Puppet Land (Říše loutek).
About one fifth of the building is taken up by the residence of Prague’s chief magistrate on the first and on the second floor of the front tract, which is made up of the service flat, representative and reception lounges, an apartment for accommodating precious guests, and operational background. The residence has its own access from the corner of Platnéřská and Žatecká Street. The residence utterly leaves the idea of an overall restrained purposefulness. It is decorative, noble and cultured Art Deco style. František Kysela participated in the decorations and he realized the ceiling paintings and designed a large tapestry named Work, Science and Arts. Equipment and decorations of the chief magistrate’s residence were completed in 1930. However, the Prague chief magistrates never actually lived in the residence, perhaps with the only exception of Karel Baxa. It was, nevertheless, regularly used for accommodating official foreign visitors and for protocolar and representative purposes. In the years 1994 - 95 it went through a general reconstruction and the pieces of art were carefully restored.
Modernity and generosity of the Roith’s project of a library from the era of the first republic is documented by the fact that only in the end of the 1970s, the library no longer suited the needs of a modern information institute, both spatially and technologically. The city initiated a generous building reconstruction in the years 1996 - 98. All the lending and studying areas were connected during the reconstruction, and free selection of the library fund was increased. The surface area extended by 900 m2 thanks to placing ceilings on two atriums and to in-built galleries.
www.prague.eu/en/object/places/860/prague-city-gallery-mu...
This careless cyclist wears no helmet at all. Beyond the previously described segmentation, the whole body is starting to crumble at the edges.
Mine, Yours, Ours 2019
Filodrammatica Gallery, Rijeka
14th February, 2019
on view until 1st March, 2019 (Mon-Fri 5 - 8 pm)
Curated by Silvio Lorusso
Featured artists: Anxious to Make, Deconstructeam, Constant Dullaart, Maria Eichhorn, Sam Kidel, Alina Lupu, François Girard Meunier, Elisa Giardina Papa, Ottonie Von Roeder, Sebastian Schmieg and Jeff Thompson
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Output of a Bayesian graph segmentation algorithm on the "high resolution" 2000 US Census commuter dataset for Pennsylvania. The algorithm clusters economically related municipalities by joining together places with lots of commuter traffic between them.
Without prior knowledge of the number of clusters, the algorithm does a decent job of identifying economically linked regions around Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Erie, Harrisburg, Wilks-Barre, and Scranton, among others. In sparser areas, the algorithm's partitions of the state match county lines---proposing in effect that people who live in rural counties tend to work in those counties. This despite the fact that input data contains no information about counties: it's simply a matrix of how many people commute to work between municipality A and municipality B.
According to a new market report published by Persistence Market Research “Global Market Study on E-Clinical Solution Software: Asia to Witness Highest Growth by 2020”, the global e-clinical solution software market was valued at US$ 3,005 Mn in 2014 and is expected to expand at a CAGR of 13.8% from 2014 to 2020, to reach US$ 6,515.3 Mn by 2020.
Harris's hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus), formerly known as the bay-winged hawk, dusky hawk, and sometimes a wolf hawk, and known in Latin America as peuco, is a medium-large bird of prey that breeds from the southwestern United States south to Chile, central Argentina, and Brazil. This bird is sometimes reported to be at large in Western Europe, especially Britain, but it is a popular species in falconry and these records almost invariably all refer to escapes from captivity.
The name is derived from the Greek para, meaning beside, near or like, and the Latin buteo, referring to a kind of buzzard; uni meaning once; and cinctus meaning girdled, referring to the white band at the tip of the tail. John James Audubon gave this bird its English name in honor of his ornithological companion, financial supporter, and friend Edward Harris.
Harris's hawk is notable for its behavior of hunting cooperatively in packs consisting of tolerant groups, while other raptors often hunt alone. Harris hawks' social nature has been attributed to their intelligence, which makes them easy to train and has made them a popular bird for use in falconry.
Description
This medium-large hawk is roughly intermediate in size between a peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) and a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis). Harris's hawks range in length from 46 to 59 cm (18 to 23 in) and generally have a wingspan of about 103 to 120 cm (41 to 47 in). These hawks have a brownish plumage, reddish shoulders, and tail feathers with a white base and white tip.
They exhibit sexual dimorphism with the females being larger by about 35%. In the United States, the average weight for adult males is about 701 g (1.545 lb), with a range of 546 to 850 g (1.204 to 1.874 lb), while the adult female average is 1,029 g (2.269 lb), with a range of 766 to 1,633 g (1.689 to 3.600 lb). They have dark brown plumage with chestnut shoulders, wing linings, and thighs, white on the base and tip of the tail, long, yellow legs, and a yellow cere. The vocalizations of Harris's hawk are very harsh sounds.
The lifespan of Harris's Hawk is 10–12 years in the wild and 20–25 years in captivity.
Juvenile
The juvenile Harris's hawk is mostly streaked with buff and appears much lighter than the dark adults. When in flight, the undersides of the juveniles' wings are buff-colored with brown streaking. They can look unlike adults at first glance, but the identical chestnut plumage is an aid for identification.
Subspecies
P. u. superior: found in Baja California, Arizona, Sonora, and Sinaloa. P. u. superior was believed to have longer tails and wings and to be more blackish than P. u. harrisi. However, the sample size of the original study was quite small, with only five males and six females. Later research has concluded that there is not as strong a physical difference as was originally assumed. Other ecological differences, such as latitudinal cline were also brought up as arguments against the validity of the subspecies segmentation.
P. u. harrisi: found in Texas, eastern Mexico, and much of Central America.
P. u. unicinctus: found exclusively in South America. It is smaller than the North American subspecies and the adult's dark brown ventrum is streaked or flecked with white or whitish.
Taxonomy
Robert Ridgway placed Harris' Hawk in its own new subgenus Urubitinga (Antenor) in 1873, and introduced the generic name Parabuteo in 1874. Richard Bowdler Sharpe also separated Harris' Hawk to a monotypic genus, Erythrocnema, in 1874. In his Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, Sharpe gives an extensive synonymy, with various authors having earlier placed harrisii in three genera and unicinctus in eleven.
Distribution and habitat
Harris's hawks live in sparse woodland and semi-desert, as well as marshes (with some trees) in some parts of their range (Howell and Webb 1995), including mangrove swamps, as in parts of their South American range. Harris's hawks are permanent residents and do not migrate. Important perches and nest supports are provided by scattered larger trees or other features (e.g., power poles, woodland edges, standing dead trees, live trees, boulders, and saguaros).
The wild Harris's hawk population is declining due to habitat loss; however, under some circumstances, they have been known to move into developed areas.
Behaviour
This species occurs in relatively stable groups. A dominance hierarchy occurs in Harris's hawks, wherein the mature female is the dominant bird, followed by the adult male and then the young of previous years. Groups typically include from two to seven birds. Not only do birds cooperate in hunting, but they also assist in the nesting process. No other bird of prey is known to hunt in groups as routinely as this species.
Breeding
They nest in small trees, shrubby growth, or cacti. The nests are often compact, made of sticks, plant roots, and stems and are often lined with leaves, moss, bark, and plant roots. They are built mainly by the female. There are usually two to four white to blueish-white eggs sometimes with a speckling of pale brown or gray. The nestlings start light buff, but in five to six days turn a rich brown.
Very often, there will be three hawks attending one nest: two males and one female. Whether or not this is polyandry is debated, as it may be confused with backstanding (one bird standing on another's back). The female does most of the incubation. The eggs hatch in 31 to 36 days. The young begin to explore outside the nest at 38 days, and fledge, or start to fly, at 45 to 50 days. The female sometimes breeds two or three times in a year. Young may stay with their parents for up to three years, helping to raise later broods. Nests are known to be predated by coyotes (Canis latrans), golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis), great horned owls (Bubo virginianus), and flocks of common ravens (Corvus corax), predators possibly too formidable to be fully displaced by Harris's hawk's cooperative nest defenses. No accounts show predation on adults in the United States and Harris's hawk may be considered an apex predator, although presumably predators like eagles and great horned owls would be capable of killing them. In Chile, black-chested buzzard-eagles (Geranoaetus melanoleucus) are likely predators.
Feeding
The majority of Harris hawk's prey are mammals, including ground squirrels, rabbits, and larger black-tailed jackrabbits (Lepus californicus). Birds from the size of small passerines such as diuca finch (Diuca diuca) to adult great egret (Ardea alba) and half-grown wild turkey (Meleagris gallapavo) can be taken. In one instance, the lone Harris hawk successfully killed a subadult great blue heron (Ardea herodias). Reptiles such as lizards and snakes are additionally taken as well as large insects.
When hunting in groups, Harris's hawk can take large prey effectively, such as desert cottontail (Syvilagus auduboni), the leading prey species in the north of Harris's hawk's range, usually weighs 800 g (1.8 lb) or less. Even adult black-tailed jackrabbits weighing more than 2,000 g (4.4 lb) can be successfully taken by a pack of harris hawks.
Undoubtedly because it pursues large prey often, this hawk has larger and stronger feet, with long talons, and a larger, more prominent hooked beak than most other raptors around its size. Locally, other buteonine hawks, including the ferruginous hawk, the red-tailed hawk, and the white-tailed hawk also hunt primarily cottontails and jackrabbits, but each is bigger, weighing about 500 g (18 oz), 300 g (11 oz) and 200 g (7.1 oz), respectively, more on average than a Harris's hawk.
In the Southwestern United States, the most common prey species (in descending order of prevalence) are desert cottontail (Syvilagus auduboni), eastern cottontail (Syvilagus floridanus), black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus), ground squirrels (Ammopsermophilus spp. and Spermophilus spp.), woodrats (Neotoma spp.), kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spp.), pocket gophers (Geomys and Thomomys spp.), Gambel's quail (Callipepla gambelii), scaled quail (C. squamata), northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), cactus wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus), northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), desert spiny lizards (Sceloporus magister), and skinks (Eumeces spp.) In the tropics, Harris's hawks have adapted to taking prey of several varieties, including those like chickens and European rabbits introduced by man. In Chile, the common degu (Octodon degus) makes up 67.5% of the prey.
Hunting
While most raptors are solitary, only coming together for breeding and migration, Harris's hawks will hunt in cooperative groups of two to six. This is believed to be an adaptation to the lack of prey in the desert climate in which they live. In one hunting technique, a small group flies ahead and scouts, then another group member flies ahead and scouts, and this continues until prey is bagged and shared. In another, all the hawks spread around the prey and one bird flushes it out. Harris's hawks will often chase prey on foot, and are quite fast on the ground and their long, yellow legs are adapted for this, as most hawks do not spend as much time on the ground. Groups of Harris's hawks tend to be more successful at capturing prey than lone hawks, with groups of two to four individuals having ~10% higher success rates per extra individual.
Relationship with humans
Falconry
Since about 1980, Harris's hawks have been increasingly used in falconry and are now the most popular hawks in the West (outside of Asia) for that purpose, as they are one of the easiest to train and the most social.
Trained Harris's hawks have been used to remove an unwanted pigeon population from London's Trafalgar Square, and from the tennis courts at Wimbledon.
Trained Harris's hawks have been used for bird abatement by falconry experts in Canada and the United States at various locations including airports, resorts, landfill sites, and industrial sites.
In art
John James Audubon illustrated Harris's hawk in The Birds of America (published in London, 1827–38) as Plate 392 with the title "Louisiana Hawk -Buteo harrisi". The image was engraved and colored by the Robert Havell, London workshops in 1837. The original watercolor by Audubon was purchased by the New York History Society where it remains to this day (January 2009).
Blanket online direct marketing, on its own, is neither cost-effective nor sophisticated enough to engage today’s customers, argues The Think Tank’s Liam Bateman who will be speaking at RIBA Insight's Consultancy Days in November. It needs to be combined with other activities, on- and offline, to optimise your return on investment. Direct marketing has gone through many changes in recent years with new online opportunities and more sophisticated segmentation of data. The boundaries are becoming blurred; what does direct marketing now include? How do the various digital channels impact on other marketing channels? Where does it cease to be one marketing technique and become direct marketing? This blurring around the edges has become more extreme with the introduction of online relationship marketing, or social media marketing, which has now pulled public and media relations into the mix. The importance of direct marketing has increased in the last two years as budgets have been squeezed and margins cut. Its targeted nature has provided levels of accountability and quantifiable return that other activities cannot match, and as a consequence has led many companies to switch from press advertising to communicating directly with existing and potential customers. Online direct marketing presents many new opportunities, but is it cost effective? Businesses that switch to online marketing often do so because they perceive it to be less costly, with its promise of reduced print and mailing costs. Online direct marketing can be a better route to take when budgets are tight, however it’s less costly for a reason. Response rates from electronic direct marketing can be very low. Online direct marketing serves a particular purpose and needs to be combined with other activities to optimise return on investment. Blanket direct marketing alone won’t engage customers used to being flooded with marketing messages. Multiple touch points, where your customers have the opportunity to interact with your brand and products, combined with strong messaging and a reason to believe, are essential in cutting through the fog of marketing activity. It is the suitability of media and message to your audience that is crucial to developing a good relationship with existing and potential customers, not putting all your eggs in one basket for budgetary purposes. Combining and integrating marketing channels will have the greatest impact on coverage and response. Liam Bateman will be discussing this, how social media marketing complicates matters and more at the RIBA Insight Consultancy Days in November. Click here for more information.
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With all the quips and quirps of technology, mass communication was the way of the future. But the world didn’t want to communicate on a one on one basis. So the Publics began to segment. This segmentation process split them into group of similar interests and personalities.
Doing a few quick tests on sample data from the project I'm currently woking on. Using the cvRunningAverage algorithm, needs a lot of tweaking. The parameter balance seems like a black art more than anything.
Disregard the fact that I am blue, BGR/RGB thing that I am too lazy to fix at this point, although come to think of it it might have some small effect on the segmentation.
The Golden Wired Stonefly is certainly one of the most lifelike and effective stoneflies available. The two color segmentation and durablility of the wire body make this a favorite among stonefly nymphs. The fact that big fish find this pattern irresistable only adds to its appeal. Every fly fisher should have a few of these ready to go when its stonefly time.
August 2, 2016. This is a panel from the Camnous Technology conference in Boston, which I watched while preparing for my keynote on Wednesday. Notes from the panel:
Jamie Casap - Chief Education Evangilist, Google
Transformation in education
- typical white model - driving kids to 4-year school
- Latinos beginning to dominate enrolments in K12
- "staying jhere & taking care of your brothers and sisters"
- Computer science grads - schools not so much - boot camp phenomenon
- "Why do we let them go at all?" - why do we let them go to college, as opposed to learning right here
Michael Horn - Entangled Solutions
Three trends (drivers)
- growth of online learning - campuses blended learning strategies
- rise of competency-based learning
- pace of technology changing - eg. VR / Oculus, Cardboard
John Katzman, CEO Noodle Partners
- progression to college grads - no evidence college going away any time soon
- but seeing beginning of consolidation of the higher ed space
- key element is cost
- airlines - price segmentation - colleges as well - airlines advertise least expensive, colleges advertise most expensive
- counselling and instructional support - most rapidly rising cost, even more thaan faculty
- wild card: marketing
Photo by Echo Xie
Friday June 22, 2012 12:00pm - 1:30pm @ World Resources Institute (10 G St NE, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20002)
Most nonprofit organizations are making use of video as a communications tool, but not as many consider their long-term objectives with video. In a quickly evolving media landscape, a video communications strategy must include short- and long-term planning, audience identification and segmentation, and distribution strategies in order to get your organization's message to the right audiences. Join our panel as we explore best practices in the planning, creation and distribution of nonprofit video.
Lunch sandwiches will be provided by the organizer for the first 40 attendees who preregister online and bring their Eventbrite confirmation to the event.
Our panel will address the following topics:
How to use video as part of a larger communications campaign,
How to determine your audiences and the key issues that matter to them,
The benefits of establishing a long-term relationship with a videographer/editor and animator,
How to create a media file library,
How to allocate resources to use video as part of a long-term communications strategy,
How to create videos with "legs" (that will be picked up by other news sites, blogs, etc).
How to distribute video so as to build your audience,
How infographics and animation can add to your story,
...and more!
Panelists:
Kristen Milhollin (Moderator) - Co-Founder, The Goodspeaks Project
Ben Connors - Media Innovator and Visual Journalist
Will Carroll - Creative Director and Principal, Geoill; Organizer, DC Animation Group
Diane Sherman - Founder and Principal, Dianne Sherman Communications
Martha Dodge - Independent Visual Journalist, Still Photographer and Writer
Dave Cooper, Films and Brand Manager, World Resources Institute
Learn more: benevolentmedia.org/festival
Prague City Gallery – Municipal Library (Městská knihovna)
The library building on Mariánské Square was built between 1925 and 1928. It was the first purpose-built library in the then Czechoslovakia as well as one of the most modern in Europe at the time. The exhibition space on the second floor is used by the Prague City Gallery. Its mission is focused primarily on presenting Czech modern art from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The oldest public library in Prague continued in the activity of the society libraries, and also some marginal villages had their own libraries. The first public library in Prague was opened on the 1st July 1891, being established by a decree of the municipal council as the Public Municipal Library of the Royal City of Prague. In the beginning, it had over 3000 books; its first address was in the building of the former St. Václav jail in the Na Zderaze Street. The library changed its address several times, until it finally settled at the corner of Platnéřská Street and the square Mariánské náměstí, where there used to be an Empire burgess house. The base of the modern-time library was set by its director back then, poet Antonín Sova, who also established the first six branches of the library. When 37 surrounding villages were included in Prague in 1922, which also gave rise to the so called Great Prague, also the libraries in these villages were united into one and a centralized Central Library of the Capital City of Prague was created with a network of 40 branches and this number kept growing. The library fund with approximately 260 thousand volumes was also increasing rapidly. The existing house was not suitable for the greater amounts of books. This problem was resolved by the Prague Municipal Insurance Company, which as early as in 1923 decided in a meeting of its board of directors to build a new separate building for the library needs and to donate it to the city of Prague on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Czechoslovak State. Out of five renowned architects, František Roith was the one to win the competition opened for the new library project. Work on the extensive building site, which was over 60 m long into the Mariánské náměstí and nearly 70 m in the vertical direction, began in 1925. This was the first purpose-built library construction in Czechoslovakia and one of the most modern in Europe. The author not only designed the new building as a magnificent library with all the respective services, but also as a cultural institution with premises for lectures, concerts and exhibitions. The library was officially opened for public on the 28th October 1928.
A markedly traditionally designed building looks very suitable between the early-Baroque Clementinum and the Secession building of the New Prague Town Hall. The main front of the object unites modern temperance with Classicising segmentation. The corner parts with arcades extend into the pavement, and there is a monumental port with a balcony balustrade in the middle. On the balcony, there are 6 allegorical sculptures made by Ladislav Kofránek. The main facade, as well as the side tract, are lined by Slovak travertine. Also the interior is simple and strictly purposeful, even if a little more decorative. The monumental staircase and vestibule again use travertine, artificial stone and brass. Ornamental paintings on the ceiling of the central hall were realized by František Kysela. Even the furniture and equipment corresponded with the building’s simple and purposeful architecture. Today, the original equipment can only be seen the information centre and the theatre section.
Premises for puppet theatre were built in the underground, on the side in Žatecká Street. The theatre came here from Bubeneč. A model of the scene and auditorium was realized by sculptor and woodcarver Vojtěch Sucharda, who was the founder and the first director of the local Artistic Scene of the Puppet Land (Říše loutek).
About one fifth of the building is taken up by the residence of Prague’s chief magistrate on the first and on the second floor of the front tract, which is made up of the service flat, representative and reception lounges, an apartment for accommodating precious guests, and operational background. The residence has its own access from the corner of Platnéřská and Žatecká Street. The residence utterly leaves the idea of an overall restrained purposefulness. It is decorative, noble and cultured Art Deco style. František Kysela participated in the decorations and he realized the ceiling paintings and designed a large tapestry named Work, Science and Arts. Equipment and decorations of the chief magistrate’s residence were completed in 1930. However, the Prague chief magistrates never actually lived in the residence, perhaps with the only exception of Karel Baxa. It was, nevertheless, regularly used for accommodating official foreign visitors and for protocolar and representative purposes. In the years 1994 - 95 it went through a general reconstruction and the pieces of art were carefully restored.
Modernity and generosity of the Roith’s project of a library from the era of the first republic is documented by the fact that only in the end of the 1970s, the library no longer suited the needs of a modern information institute, both spatially and technologically. The city initiated a generous building reconstruction in the years 1996 - 98. All the lending and studying areas were connected during the reconstruction, and free selection of the library fund was increased. The surface area extended by 900 m2 thanks to placing ceilings on two atriums and to in-built galleries.
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4.3.22 Sculpt update on Spraug, 1:18 scaled figure from the Dark Horse comic series Invasion. Added this guy back to the workbench to give it a little TLC and bring the project up to date, however the current 3 figures I've been working on will get the most of my attention.
Character recap - Spraug is a Vratix criminal on Nar Shaddaa during the Yuuzhan Vong war (Expanded Universe or Disney's Legends)....and that's about it. So suffice to say the character's back story wasn't the fuel that inspired me to sculpt a figure of him.
What inspired me is the design, the species and the challenge to produce a figure that isn't humanoid within the Star Wars universe.
The frame is a combination of two figures...An Original Trilogy Collection Chewbacca (two of them) and a Vintage Collection General Grevious (before the figure became so $$$). When this figure's frame was built, the Vintage Collection value was nominal. Nowhere NEAR the prices you see today. The figures were fodder.
I actually lost one of Spraug's antennae while the figure was shelved so I'm building a new one using a wire armature. This will also be used to sculpt the spindly fingers of the insectoid.
Really love sculpting the body's segmentation. The thick lower section or (tail) you see will be filed down and replaced with segmented detail. It's articulated at its base but will be used primarily for stabilization purposes.
Hope you enjoy the new shots. More updates coming! Thanks for all the comments and support! ❤ #starwars #spraug #darkhorsecomics #aliens #invasion #YuuzhanVong #expandeduniverse #sculpture #customactionfigure #actionfigures #avesclay #miniature
Global In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Market (Instruments, Reagents and Media, Technology, Geography) - Size, Share, Trends, Opportunities, Global Demand, Insights, Analysis, Research, Report, Company Profiles, Segmentation and Forecast
According to a new market research report published by Global Market Estimates, the Tokenization Market is deemed to compose a prominent development in CAGR by 22.55% during the prediction period (2020-2026). A Tokenization is a process of forming a “token” that concocts sensitive data. It is also termed as a solution providing real-time payment data security based on all transactions. The purpose of tokenization is to reduce processing risks of the information and can be an alternative for the isolated and data segmentation in the database. An increase in online banking & retail payment transactions, a rise in credit/debit cardholders, and deployment of the solution in large enterprises to reduce identity thefts, and swift industrialization in APAC countries are a few of the many plungers of the global tokenization market.
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•User Authentication
•Compliance Management
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•Gateway-Based
•Type of Deployment Model Outlook (Revenue, USD Million, 2020 - 2026)
•On-premises
•Cloud
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•Retail
•Healthcare
•IT & Telecom
•Energy & Utilities
•Automotive
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•The U.S.
•Canada
•Mexico
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•Germany
•UK
•France
•Spain
•Italy
•Rest of Europe
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•China
•India
•Japan
•South Korea
•Australia
•Rest of APAC
•Central & South America
•Brazil
•Argentina
•Chile
•Rest of CSA
•Middle East & Africa
•Saudi Arabia
•South Africa
•UAE
•Rest of MEA
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