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Snow Plants are parasitic plants which lack the green pigment chlorophyll required to synthesize sugars in sunlight, therefore, feed on soil fungi. They can be found growing in the decaying humus of coniferous forests, and derive sustenance and nutrients from mycorrhyzal fungi that attach to roots of trees. Mycorrhizal fungi are themselves symbiotic parasites that help plants fix nitrogen from the atmosphere in exchange for nutrients from plant roots.
Fentanyl is a potent opioid substance and belongs to Schedule II controlled medication. It was first synthesized by Paul Janssen in 1960 and marketed widely for treatment of moderate to severe pain. It is one of the prescription opiates that are approved for long-term treatment plan.
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Another pop-inspired Disney album of synthesized 80's music. Mickey hangs ten on the front cover which is totally rad, dude! This is still in plastic yet it's torn but vinyl is in great condition since I only listen to the CD of it. Features a song performed by the group, Sparks, titled, "Minnie Mouse".
oil on canvas, 1940
American
Marguerite Zorach (1887 - 1968)
Diana of the Sea is based on the Roman goddess Diana, who is associated with the moon, virginity, and the hunt. This painting is an outstanding example of the artist's mature work, in which the early influence of Cubism is synthesized with her interest in mythology and the potent themes that she saw in the Maine landscape.
(...All that may explain what the artist was thinking, but what I'm thinking is that I wouldn't want to sit naked in a rowboat full of live lobsters.)
AMES LAB CHEMIST INJECTS A SAMPLE OF PRODUCTS SYNTHESIZED BY A GATE KEEPER-FUNCTIONALIZED MESOPOROUS NANOCATALYST INTO A HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY APPARATUS.
THE HPLC ANALYZES THE YIELD AND PURITY OF THE DESIRED PRODUCT. SCIENTISTS ARE DESIGNING AND PREPARING A NEW GENERATION OF HIGHLY SELECTIVE AND EFFICIENT CATALYSTS THAT CAN BE TAILORED TO SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS. CATALYSTS ARE SUBSTANCES THAT SPEED UP THE RATES OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS WITHOUT GETTING USED UP IN THOSE REACTIONS THEMSELVES. DUE TO THEIR HETEROGENEOUS NATURE, MESOPOROUS INORGANIC MATERIALS ARE USED TO ENHANCE THE CATALYTIC PROCESS AND DEVELOP A WIDE RANGE OF NOVEL CATALYTIC SYSTEMS.
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Taste is the last frontier of virtual reality. Taste is very difficult to display because it is a multi-modal sensation composed of chemical substance, haptics and sound. Taste perceived by the tongue can be measured using a biological membrane sensor. It can easily be synthesized from five basic tastes.
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Photo showing Ralf Baecker (DE) and his work Mirage at CyberArts 2015 Exhibition at OK.
Mirage is a projection apparatus that makes uses of principles from optics and artificial neural network research. *Mirage* generates a synthesized landscape based on its perception through a fluxgate magnetometer (Förster Sonde)..
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Taste is the last frontier of virtual reality. Taste is very difficult to display because it is a multi-modal sensation composed of chemical substance, haptics and sound. Taste perceived by the tongue can be measured using a biological membrane sensor. It can easily be synthesized from five basic tastes.
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Kind of Steroids utilized by contemporary athletes Steroids are a type of natural compounds which are extracted from some particular species of plants, fungi and numerous various animals. Individuals consider steroids to improve their body’s muscular development. Steroids are essentially of two kinds Anabolic steroids and Corticosteroids. The functions of each these sorts of steroids are nevertheless extremely various from 1 an additional. Anabolic steroids are prescribed by the physician for muscle mass develop up whereas Corticosteroids are utilized to decrease inflammation and more than active immune responses. Anabolic steroids which are utilized by most athletes and sportsmen are essentially synthesized types of Testosterone which is essentially a male hormone. This hormone is normally created in each males and women and like all other hormones if one’s testosterone manufacturing goes out of stability then this can outcome in numerous severe implications. But testosterone is 1 of these steroids that is the most fundamental component of any steroid cycle. It does not make a difference if you are subsequent a reducing cycle or a bulking steroid cycle it is extremely essential to have testosterone as a fundamental steroid in your steroid cycle. Nevertheless there are various esters of the steroid but usually maintain in thoughts that testosterone enanthate В or testosterone cypionate are the very best choices to be utilized if you are subsequent a bulking steroid cycle and in situation of a reducing steroid cycle then go for testosterone propionate. It has been noticed more than the past numerous many years that Anabolic steroids can effortlessly outcome in some significant mass reduction which indicates that they assist in burning physique body fat and gaining huge muscle mass buildup. It is why individuals who function out consider these steroids so that they can burn up that extra physique body fat and shape up their bodies in the way they have usually needed it to be. An additional steroid which is regarded as the very best amongst all muscle mass developing steroids has received to be Winstrol also recognized as Winny and Winni-v and so on. it assists incredibly in growing muscular mass of one’s physique, gets rid of the extra body fat this hardens your physique and raises your power and endurance a fantastic offer. But it has its side results as well. Pimples and in serious instances dry joints are some typical illustrations. So make certain to get a correct prescription by a physician on what quantity of doses you ought to consider in to steer clear of the side results as a lot as you probably can. Anavar occurs to be 1 of the majorly misunderstood steroids and it is noticed very seldom that individuals use this steroid in the correct method. Most of the athletes that consider up the steroid anavar are essentially utilizing the steroid in purchase to get rid of that extra body fat and physique flab whilst they are subsequent a reducing cycle. It is type of a tragedy В that most of the athletes and physique builders generally totally neglect the reality that the anabolic steroid anavar also assists a fantastic offer in growing the physique power and assisting you to be in a position to do much better lifts when you are training a bulking steroid cycle. But at the exact same time a hige quantity of athletes and health and fitness fanatics use this steroid in purchase to improve their physical power and acquire much better muscular mass. В
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• We learned about archives and using primary sources
• We visited local historical societies and museums
• We checked census records and newspapers
• We interviewed long-time town locals
• We synthesized and analyzed the information we found
What We Discovered:
While some of us discovered racist incidents within our selected town’s history and others did not, each of us learned new skills regarding archival research. Through our research along with our reading and discussion of the book Sundown Towns, we all discovered a hidden dimension of American racism here in Oregon.
Drawings showing the many functions of mucins in the body. Dense mucin networks block the passage of large foreign bodies, bind to certain viruses and allow other particles through. Foreign particles and pathogens caught in mucus are trapped and expelled from the body. Mucin networks can physically separate microorganisms, possibly impeding their communication by preventing the free flow of signaling molecules. Mucins can interact directly with the immune system — for example, by stimulating dendritic cells. Mucins help nourish the body’s resident microbes — some bacteria produce enzymes that snip off the glycans and use them as food. The glycans on mucins can transmit signals to receptors on the surface of bacteria and alter the activity of microbial genes.
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This link below made me smile - apart from the fact that it is awfully synthesized, it is so jolly!
Sandstone & pebbly sandstone in the Pennsylvanian of Ohio, USA.
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(Synthesized from info. provided by several geologists during the 2003 Annual Field Conference of the Great Lakes Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists):
The Lower Pennsylvanian Sharon Formation is a 10-15 meter thick, ledge-forming, erosion-resistant unit. The Sharon is paleovalley-filling in places, so it is thicker than 10-15 meters in some spots. The jointing patterns of the Sharon Formation allow for 3-D examination around large blocks of outcrop - can see the 3-D architecture of sedimentary structures. The Pottsville Group lies over a major unconformity, which was formed by eustatic sealevel fall & erosion. The Sharon Formation is the basal unit of the Pottsville sediments over this unconformity. In terms of the tectonic setting, this is in the Appalachian Foreland Basin. What influenced sedimentation and sediment supply of the Sharon Formation during the Early Pennsylvanian? Probably a migrating forebulge and Early Pennsylvanian climatic changes. The Sharon is correlatable with the Olean Conglomerate in Pennsylvania. Both the Sharon and the Olean are time-equivalent to the Tumbling Hill Member & the Huylkill Member of the lower Pottsville Formation of central Pennsylvania (both of those members are below the major unconformity in Pennsylvania, unlike in northeastern Ohio). The Sharon Conglomerate/Formation & the Olean Conglomerate were deposited under strong north-to-south paleoflow conditions.
About twelve lithofacies can be seen in the Sharon Formation in the Akron, Ohio area. The Sharon Formation is dominantly conglomerate and sandstone, with lots of sedimentary structures. It is light on fine-grained materials. The Sharon has horizontally bedded gravels, cross-bedded gravels (including trough and tabular cross bedding), deformed/overturned cross-bed sets, basal scours up to 2 meters deep (but typically 0.5 to 1 meter deep; scours are backfilled by dune/bar back migration), whole channel fills, chute fills, and gravel bar platform deposits (usually 1-2 meters thick in the Sharon; these include bar head deposits, bar core deposits, bar tail deposits, and bar margin deposits - can usually use the presence of imbricated clasts to ID bar-head & bar-core portions of gravel bar platforms, but in the Sharon, clasts are mostly spheroidal, so it is difficult to tell specific portions of gravel platforms here). In the gravel-rich Sharon deposits, get calculated average bankfull depths of 2.1 meters, 19.9 meter average paleochannel widths, and 34.3 meter maximum paleochannel widths. Get different numbers for the sandy Sharon deposits. The Sharon is typically more conglomeratic at the base & more sandy near the top. The Sharon’s interpreted depositional environment is gravel & sand bedload streams. Paleovalleys underneath the Sharon Formation were formed when the subsidence rate was greater than the sediment supply. Paleovalley backfilling (i.e., Sharon deposits) occurred when the subsidence rate was less than the sediment supply. The change in fluvial style seen in Sharon deposits is probably due to filling & overtopping of paleovalleys.
Beds of the Sharon Formation are usually cliff-forming. The Sharon in the Akron area consists of quartz-pebble conglomerate & quartzose sandstone & pebbly quartzose sandstone & sandy quartz-pebble conglomerate & some lenses or thin intervals of granulestone. The basal Sharon is conglomeratic - the “lower conglomerate”. An “upper conglomerate” can be seen in places - it is usually quite thin (1-2 pebbles thick in places), and in some places, it splits into two horizons; in some places it’s not there at all. Pebbles are almost entirely white vein quartz, with an uncertain source from the north. Detrital muscovite in the Sharon has been dated to about 370 and 406 Ma (Devonian), so the source area includes Acadian Orogeny materials. The Sharon has relatively common cross-bedding, with a few overturned cross-beds visible in areas. Abundant iron oxide staining is present in the Sharon sandstones, with a variety of morphologies - this can weather out as resistant ridges or as 3-D surfaces. Many vugs have thick goethite linings. Many goethite-stained quartz pebbles are present. Seeps & springs occur sporadically along the sandstones of the lower Sharon Formation in places. These spring waters have widely variable pH and TDS (total dissolved solids). Some dry springs are present - conduits without water emerging. A few places in basal Sharon strata have obvious rip-up shale clasts, derived from uppermost Meadville Shale beds (below the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity). One outcrop is known with many Meadville Shale clasts mixed in with Sharon quartz pebbles - this appears to represent paleobank failure of Meadville material during near-earliest Sharon deposition.
The outcrop shown above is at Virginia Kendall Ledges in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Virginia Kendall Ledges is an isolated platform of Sharon Formation, surrounded by a lower land surface of Lower Mississippian Cuyahoga Formation shales & siltstones & sandstones. The lower Sharon Formation at this site is quite pebbly - many pebble-filled channelform features are present. Upon 3-D examination of their architecture, these are not channels or chutes, but are interpreted by Professor Neil Wells as bar confluence scours with subsequent pebble fills. The edges of the Virginia Kendall Ledges platform have large Sharon blocks separating from the rest of the platform. Abundant overturned recumbent cross beds are present - some of the world's best developed and best exposed examples. The mechanism by which crossbeds get overturned seems straightforward (unidirectional shear by fluvial currents), but the cause is not clearly understood - some cohesive agent may be required? Someone suggested biomats. Some of the scour pits in this area seem to have fairly steep margins - perhaps whatever cohesive agent was responsible for simple deformation of crossbeds was also responsible for overly steep, stable margins of depressions/chutes/channels/scours.
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Shown above is "Ice Box Cave", a natural crevice extending far back into a sandstone cliff face. The opening is gated off to prevent vandalism by hominids.
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Stratigraphy: Sharon Formation (also known as Sharon Sandstone or Sharon Conglomerate or Sharon Member), lower Pottsville Group, upper Lower Pennsylvanian
Locality: Ice Box Cave, Virginia Kendall Ledges, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, north of Akron, northern Summit County, northeastern Ohio, USA (~~vicinity of 41° 13' 44.76" North latitude, 81° 30' 37.76" West longitude)
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CGI America 2014
Like many of their megacity counterparts, America’s small and mid-size cities are using technology to gather and synthesize data and are applying new analytical tools to improve social service delivery, community development, decision-making, and effective city planning and design. This session will explore how American cities—in partnership with individual citizens and a range of private sector firms—are deploying innovative technology strategies to impact social programs, transportation, and urban planning.
ANTICAKING AGENT
Importance of anticaking agents in our life
Anticaking chemicals help prevent clumping by absorbing excess moisture or coating particles to make them more water repellent. These chemicals, when used in modest amounts, prevent dry foods from adhering together, ensuring that the product remains dry and free-flowing. Many powdered or granular foods absorb water, making it difficult for them to flow smoothly out of the package. Anticaking agents are additives that are added to these foods to prevent clumping and sticking of the powder or granules. Some of the anti-caking agents are natural, such as betonies, while others, such as silicon dioxide and various silicates, are synthesized from natural sources. Anticaking agent calcium silicate is added to table salt because it absorbs both water and oil. Anticaking chemicals prevent lumps, making it easier to pack, transport, store, and consume these meals.
WHAT IS ANTICAKING AGENT
An anti-caking agent is a substance that is added to powdered or granulated products, such as table salt, to keep lumps from forming and to make packaging, transportation, and consumption easier. Anticaking agents prevent powdered and granular components from clumping, whereas humectants keep foods wet. Food additives might come from natural sources or be made with chemical or artificial substances. They're also utilized in cosmetics, detergents, pharmaceuticals, and tobacco, among other things. Anticaking agents, such as potassium Ferro cyanide, calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, sodium alumina-silicate, and others, are used to prevent the agglomeration of materials as powders; for example, potassium Ferro cyanide, calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, sodium alumina-silicate, and others are used to prevent the agglomeration of materials as powders.
Use of anticaking agents
1. Salts
2. Egg mixes
3. Sugar products
4. Flours
5. Cakes mixes
6. Ready to make and ready to eat mixes
7. Powdered spices egg chili, pepper
8. Shredded cheese
How to make anticaking agents
Anticaking Agents are found in small levels in powders and other foods such as table salt, spices, milk powder, flour, sugar, and a variety of other pantry staples. Anti-caking compounds are often employed in flour, but they also have other uses. Non-food items such as "road salt, fertilizers, cosmetics, synthetic detergents, and other comparable applications," for example, commonly use anticaking chemicals. When they're in use, they allow a wide range of items to freely flow. They are frequently found in items that are prone to clumping, such as sugar or wheat. These common materials frequently crystallize, resulting in solid blocks that do not pour evenly and are difficult to blend. This
Types of anticaking agents
1.e 536 anti-caking agent
2.calcium carbonate anti caking agent
3.magnesium stearate anti caking agent
4.anti-caking 551
5.anti-caking agent e341
6.anti-caking agent 504
7.tri calcium phosphate anti-caking agent
8.anti-caking agent magnesium stearate
9.anti-caking agent in salt
10.anti-caking agent for spices
Advantages or disadvantages
Advantages
1.Anti-caking qualities are easily handled and stored.
2.As well as to prevent caking, it's been added to the powder system.
3.Cosmetics, fertilizers, and synthetic detergents are examples of non-food items
Disadvantages
Health effect
Magnesium carbonate: Magnesium is used in the treatment of heart attack patients, and promotes the health of arteries, bones, nerves, and teeth also as a low-sodium salt substitute in table salt.
Magnesium stearate and sodium Ferro cyanide: No adverse effects are known for use in food
Anti-caking agents have a number of drawbacks, some of which are quite harmful and others which are nearly harmless. Potassium sulphate, an anti-caking chemical, can induce gastrointestinal bleeding if taken in excess. Sodium aluminum silicate, for example, has been related to Alzheimer's disease and bone loss.
Examples of anti-caking agents
1.Powdered milk and cream
2.sugar for icing
3.powdered sugar
4.Cake batters
5.Soup powders in a hurry
6.Chocolate is consumed.
7.salt from the table
List of Anti- caking Agents
•Aluminium calcium silicate
•Aluminium silicate (E559)
•Mennonite (E558)
•Bone phosphate (E542)
•Calcium alumina silicate (E556)
•Calcium Ferro cyanide (E538)
•Calcium silicate (E552)
•Hydrated sodium calcium silicon aluminate
•Magnesium silicate
•Magnesium tri silicate (E553a)
•Poly dimethyl Sloane (E900)
•Potassium aluminium silicate (E555)
•Potassium Ferro cyanide (E536)
•Silicon dioxide (E551)
•Sodium alumina silicate (E554)
•Sodium bicarbonate (E500)
•Sodium calcium alumina silicate
•Sodium Ferro cyanide (E535)
•Sodium silicate (E550)
•Stearic acid (E570)
•Tri calcium silicate
•Talcum powder (E553b)
•Tri calcium Phosphate (E341)
Manufactured or man-made and natural anticaking agents
Anti-caking agents are divided into two categories: produced or man-made anti-caking agents and natural anti-caking agents. Anti-caking agents are mostly constructed of synthetic materials like silicon dioxide or magnesium and calcium stearates (solid saturated fatty acids.) Many anti - caking agents, on the other hand, come from natural sources. Kaolin (E559); talc (E553b); and betonies are examples of natural anticaking agents. Some anti-caking agent’s producers also make organic and hypoallergenic anti-caking agents from natural sources like rice.
Other common anti-caking agents includes
Silicon dioxide, calcium silicate, iron ammonium citrate, and yellow prostate of soda are all common anti-caking agents. Because of their names, certain anti-caking compounds have recently been causing worry. Because the chemical compound contains cyanide, a known toxin and a popular Hollywood poison, sodium and potassium Ferro cyanide are dreaded. Regular table salt, on the other hand, may be regarded to be the same. Salt is made up of chloride (a poison) and sodium (also a toxin). The bonds of sodium chloride and Ferro cyanide can break in acidic environments, but stomach acid isn't strong enough to cause these reactions. Another issue is aluminum, which is utilized in anti-caking treatments. salt, dietary supplements and pharmaceuticals, dry milk, egg mixes, sugar goods, coffee mixes, flours, and so on Road salt, fertilizers, cosmetics, and detergents all include anticaking ingredients.
How do anticaking agents work?
Some anti-caking chemicals are soluble in water, whereas others are soluble in alcohol or solvents. Anticaking agents work by absorbing excess moisture or making particles resistant to water.
What are the side effects of an anticaking agent?
Cancer
Pharmaceutical
Magnesium silicate is used as a glidant and anticaking agent in oral pharmaceutical formulations and food products
(b) In antacids and antiulcer preparations
(c) As a component of antiepileptic drugs in the treatment of alimentary intoxication, indigestion, and small intestine inflammatory conditions Magnesium silicate is used as a gliding and anticaking agent in oral pharmaceutical formulations and food products
(d) As an antifungal agent in topical preparations
Evaluation of Natural Anti-caking Agents in Spices and Spice Blends
Many culinary ingredients are sold in powdered form to make them easier to use and prepare, as well as to increase the stability of the contents by minimising the amount of water [1]Caking of food powders, in which free-flowing particles combine to form lumps, is a common occurrence. Problem that can lead to decreased product quality, functionality, and shelf-life .It can happen during processing, handling, or storage, and as a result, it can be an issue both in and out of the lab.
From the standpoint of the consumer, the creation of lumps and the reduced flowability of the powder can make it difficult to empty the spice jar or result in spice lumps when emptying a spice blend bag. Anti-caking agents/flow agents, which can prevent caking and improve the flowability of spices and spice blends, are frequently added to facilitate powder handling during production and to reduce consumer discontent [10]. Anti-caking agents can prevent caking \spy several mechanisms, e.g. compete with the host powder for moisture, and create moisture protective \barriers on the surface of hygroscopic particles, coat surfaces to eliminate
Fertilizer anti-caking agent
It's used to make fertiliser dust-proof and anti-caking, and it's excellent for S-based compound fertilisers, urea-based fertilisers, and chlorine-based compound fertilisers, notably high-concentrated phosphorus-based compound fertilisers, which have a higher risk of caking. Caking is a major issue in the production, storage, transportation, and application of dry fertilisers. Anti-caking agents can help avoid fertiliser agglomeration, reduce fertiliser moisture and powder, and improve particle mobility.
Anti-Caking Agents for Fertilizer have a wide range of applications, and they have lately gained prominence in the domains of compound fertiliser, urea, potash fertiliser, and others. The demand for Compound Fertilizer and Urea is driving the Anti-Caking Agents for Fertilizer market globally. Compound Fertilizer and Urea account for about 84.55 percent of global Anti-Caking Agents for Fertilizer downstream consumption.
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This trick was used as far back as the 19th century to synthesize musical tones. The gears have 24, 27, 30, 32, 36, 40, 45, and 48 teeth, so the notes are all related by simple fractions - that makes this a just intonation scale rather than equal temperament.
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ASF 2015, "Herding Cats: Synthesizing the Intelligence Community"
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James Clapper
Andrea Mitchell
This 2-day workshop brought representatives from countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to share their experiences in developing plans for the agriculture and livestock sector, in order to synthesize lessons learned and identify future research and capacity needs for national adaptation plans (NAPs). The workshop discussed lessons from the CCAFS’ report, “Meta Synthesis of National Adaptation Plans and Policies: West and East Africa and South Asia,” testing an analytical framework to measure country needs and progress. The key audience included national-level adaptation and agriculture decision-makers.
More information on the CCAFS report can be found here: New report highlights lessons from national adaptation planning .
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The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultanahmet Camii) is a historical mosque in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the capital of the Ottoman Empire (from 1453 to 1923). The mosque is popularly known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior.
It was built between 1609 and 1616, during the rule of Ahmed I. Like many other mosques, it also comprises a tomb of the founder, a madrasah and a hospice. While still used as a mosque, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque has also become a popular tourist attraction.
The design of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is the culmination of two centuries of both Ottoman mosque and Byzantine church development. It incorporates some Byzantine elements of the neighboring Hagia Sophia with traditional Islamic architecture and is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period. The architect has ably synthesized the ideas of his master Sinan, aiming for overwhelming size, majesty and splendour.
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Bunny ears and an eager crowd awaiting the unofficial Vocaloid concert by Synthesized Reality Productions. Pacific Media Expo 2013. [j]
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Alan Duncan facilitating his group. On 9 and 10 November 2011, the ILRI Board of Trustees hosted a 2-day 'liveSTOCK Exchange' to discuss and reflect on livestock research for development. The event synthesized sector and ILRI learning and helped frame future livestock research for development directions. The liveSTOCK Exchange also celebrated the leadership and contributions of Dr. Carlos Seré as ILRI Director General (photo credit: ILRI/Ewen Le Borgne).
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we had to partner with another student in the class and design a space around both our objects.
the challenge was to let the objects define the space and synthesize how two different pieces of furniture dictate a new design concept.
i partnered with Ellen. she's swedish! she designed the shelving system seen on the yellow wall from pieces of several old ikea chairs.
Taste is the last frontier of virtual reality. Taste is very difficult to display because it is a multi-modal sensation composed of chemical substance, haptics and sound. Taste perceived by the tongue can be measured using a biological membrane sensor. It can easily be synthesized from five basic tastes.
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