Archive for April, 2003
03-04-09
Tags: Pest Control Companies “Do I need the annual contract?”
The cost of a renewal is typically between $75-$200, depending on the size and construction of the house.
This question is largely a matter of preference.
1. If you are planning to sell your home within a couple of years, a contract would be advisable. It will include a clearance letter […]
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03-04-09
Tags: Termite baits, TERMITE BAITS Mode of action: Uses a chitin inhibitor, IGR (Insect Growth Regulator) , with use of monitoring stations. Exterra uses in ground monitoring-baiting system. As with Sentricon, Exterra is often used as a stand-alone treatment. The active ingredient in both products disrupts the molting […]
EXTERRA BAITING SYSTEM
For more information:
Exterra Termite Interception and Baiting System (Ensystex):
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03-04-08
Tags: WebDot Home Page
WebDot is a CGI program that converts a graph description from a .dot file into an image that can be included on a web page. (As distributed, “Server 1″ and “Server 2″ are constrained to be the same host. If anyone wants to run a public WebDot server they can easily relax this […]
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03-04-08
Tags: The Protg Project Protg-2000 is an ontology editor and a knowledge-base editor.
Protg-2000 is also an open-source, Java tool which provides an extensible architecture for the creation of customized knowledge-based tools
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03-04-07
Tags: MIT Meme Tag Manufacturing MIT Meme Tag Manufacturing This page links to online information regarding the design and manufacture of the MIT Media Lab Meme Tag. Manufacturing overview, including photographs of a prototype. Fred Martin / MIT Media […]
Special assembly instructions.
Parts listing for release version 1.0.
PCB illustration GIF file, PostScript file, or PDF file, for release version 1.0.
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03-04-07
Tags: http://web.media.mit.edu/~borovoy/ Richard Borovoy (1999) I’m a Ph.D. student at the MIT Media Lab. I build technology to help children and adults understand ideas about communication and community. See my vitae to view my publications, patents, etc. Dr. LEGOHead (1995) By constructing interactive toys from lots of communicating pieces, children can tangibly explore the social nature of […]
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03-04-06
Tags: Lyn Abramson ProfessorPh.D. 1978, University of Pennsylvania
She was invited to the Duke Psychology Union to talk about her research on cognitive theories on depression.
Lyn Abramson
Phone: 263-4965Email: lyabrams@facstaff.wisc.eduOffice: 323 Psychology
My research focuses on vulnerability and invulnerability to depression. I am particularly interested in the developmental, cognitive, motivational, and cultural determinants of information processing about the self. […]
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03-04-06
Tags: Open Content Licenses
Open Content Licenses
Jan Newmarch University of Canberra DSTC jan.newmarch@infotech.monash.edu.au http://jan.netcomp.monash.edu.au
Much software is now available under Open Source licences, which apply to the public availability of source code. There are many Open Source licenses, with a variety of conditions to cover different circumstances. However, there are many other types of information covered by […]
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03-04-06
Tags: Do Open-Source Books Work?
Do Open-Source Books Work?
by Ben Crowell http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/article.html
How will the internet change book publishing? This article examines a new crop of math and science textbooks that are available for free over the internet, and discusses what they have to tell us about whether the open-source software model can be translated into book publishing.
This […]
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03-04-06
Tags: Daniel A. McFarland’s Home Page Daniel A. McFarlandSchool of Education485 Lasuen MallStanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-3096Phone: (650) 723-1761Fax: (650) 725-7412mcfarland@stanford.edu Daniel McFarland received a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1999. He focuses on social dynamics and organizational characteristics of schools […]
Dan demonstrated his SoNIA software in the Young Faculty Leader Forum, April, 2003.
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03-04-06
Tags: Welcome to California Open Source Textbook Project
The California Open Source Textbook Project (COSTP) is a collaborative, public/private undertaking. It has been created to address the high cost, content range, and consistent shortages of K-12 textbooks in California.
California currently spends more than $400M annually and rising for K-12 textbooks. With K-12 enrollments projected to […]
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03-04-06
Tags: California Open Source Textbook Project COSTP intends to use Creative Commons licenses for selected content. Creative Commons licenses allow creators to let the public to copy and distribute their work, but only on certain conditions, and while retaining their copyright.
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03-04-06
Tags: http://ed.stanford.edu/%7Emcfarland/
Daniel A. McFarland
School of Education
485 Lasuen Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-3096
Phone: (650) 723-1761
Fax: (650) 725-7412
mcfarland@stanford.edu
Daniel McFarland received a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1999. He focuses on social dynamics and organizational characteristics of schools and classrooms. Dan has studied how the patterns of course-taking, extra-curricular affiliations, and friendship networks affect mobility […]
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03-04-06
Tags: SoNIA informationSoNIA Social Network Image AnimatorSoNIA is a Java-based package for visualizing dynamic or longitudinal “network” data. By dynamic, we mean that in addition to information about the relations (ties) between various entities (actors, nodes) there is also information about when these relations occur, or at least the relative order in which they occur. Our […]
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03-04-04
Tags: IR and IE on the Web — Available SystemsThese are the systems which make available both papers describing their techniques and the system itself — if you want to put your system here it should have documentation available online as well as an online working version or at least a demo. Available Systems These are the systems […]
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03-04-04
Tags: Visual MeSHVisual MeSH is an assist application for MedLine searching. It uses MetaThesuarus to help you identify MeSH descriptors related to your query, and uses the descriptors to perform precision searches.
It is well known that searching by descriptors will greatly improve the search precision. However, it is very difficult for people to know and use […]
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03-04-04
Tags: TileBars (i) the relative length of the document,
What are TileBars?The TileBar interface allows the user to make informed decisions about which documents and which passages of those documents to view, based on the distributional behavior of the query terms in the documents. The goal is to simultaneously and compactly indicate:
(ii) the frequency of the term sets […]
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03-04-04
Tags: VisIT: Tutorial
What is VisIT?
VisIT is a revolutionary new way to search for, analyze, share and save Internet information through a graphical search engine interface.
VisIT is being developed at the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
VisIT Tutorial
To learn more about how to use VisIT, please choose from the following […]
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03-04-03
Tags: Scientific American Frontiers . Previous Shows | PBS Watch FRONTIERS online Read the show transcript Visit the show Web site View teaching guides
All the shows, in rm or ASF formats.Click on the appropriate icon to:
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03-04-03
Tags: PBS - Scientific American Frontiers:Chimps R Us:Watch Online Chimp MindsControlled experiments give scientists insight into the chimpanzee’s mind. Select text to jump ahead in the clip: We’re back at the Floridachimp sanctuary where wetested learning abilitiesthis time to see whetherchimps have a grasp […]
The latter half is Judy DeLoache’s model room study with Chimps and human children. Great!
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