![]() Lm3886! Also called gainclone after a ludicrous commercial amp called gaincard that used the recommended application notes off product sheet (so I've read) and then sold the amp for around $3000 in year 2000 dollars. But barring that a kit amp would at least be like the workbook problems and force me to think it through a bit and also validate it to some degree. If there is a build a virtual amplifier kit out there, that explains what each part does and lets you play with parameters, I would give that a shot first, since my current amps are certainly good enough. Everything seems to be for experts (here’s the diagram have fun! or here’s a circuit simulator. I tried playing with some online circuit building software, but I need more hand holding than that. I have this feeling like I’m just not getting it, which bugs the crap out of me. Or looking at circuit diagrams and they mostly make sense, but then certain parts don’t. I get in to discussions here or read them, about Zout and its impact on speakers and I get lost. Back in high school calculus, I remember never feeling like I understood until I successfully solved enough problems. I can read about programming language, but if I don’t actually code in it, it feels very fragile. While most have been fine, have had a couple of unsuccessful projects and that is not fun. Should mention that in all cases my DIY goal has always been to have a useful product in the end. ![]() In the end, a simple lower power amp like the Akitika might be educational, but is no substitute for years of experience IMO. This was before op-amps and is somewhat better now, but have read up more on amp design and understand why my EE buddies got cold feet. It never got built unfortunately as I wanted the experience as I think you do. I bought the parts to build and they backpeddled and said they would have to build it to ensure stability. When I was first hired (mid 1980s) some EEs had knocked off a Threshold amp. After some serious studying decades later, am still barely functioning when it comes to analog. That is when I switched to computer science as a major. After my first digital design class, was somewhat dismayed that it was not as clearcut as I expected. Being good at analog circuit design requires real experience.
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![]() ![]() Daily Montanan maintains editorial independence. JBillings Clinic to open new 28-bed Immediate Care Unitīy Keith Schubert, Daily Montanan June 3, 2022ĭaily Montanan is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. “It’s a shift in how we look at critical care, from a single unit to a division within our hospital that works together to meet the needs of our patients.”īillings Clinic to open new 28-bed Immediate Care Unit “We’ve seen an increase in the acuity of our inpatients over the last two years, and the Intermediate Care Unit will provide more space to care for many of them,” said Christy Baxter, RN, Billings Clinic Director of Critical Care. “It is an adaptable and modern space that helps to relieve pressure and open up space in the ICU and other inpatient units,” the release read. The new unit will ease those pressures, according to the release. Over the last two years, COVID-19 has strained hospitals that often have minimal beds available. This unit fills a real need with a dedicated space for patients who are between needing critical care services and medical or surgical inpatient care.” “We know that we’re going to care for a wide range of people, and we’re ready for that. “We have a team of highly-skilled, well-trained, adaptable, and compassionate people to take care of patients whenever they need us,” Jennifer Macks, RN, the new unit’s manager, said in the release. The unit can also provide ICU-level monitoring for patients as needed, according to the release. It will serve patients for a wide range of medical diagnoses, including sepsis, diabetic ketoacidosis, complex wounds, neurological conditions that require frequent monitoring, COVID-19 patients or those in respiratory distress, and tracheostomies and/or chronic ventilator use. As a Level I Trauma Center, Billings Clinic will provide the care and resources to treat every type of injury, no matter how serious, at any time. The opening of the IMC will further efforts on the Level I Trauma journey while attracting additional care staff and freeing up space in other inpatient units. The 30,00-square-foot unit will provide care for high-acuity needs and serve as a bridge between the Intensive Care Unit and medical and surgical inpatient units.Īccording to the release, Billings Clinic is currently the busiest trauma center in Montana and Wyoming and recently announced its intent to become a Level I Trauma Center. We are incredibly excited and honored to open this new unit.” “It delivers on a promise Billings Clinic made several years ago to expand beds in our hospital to meet the growing needs of thousands of patients from across our region. “The Intermediate Care Unit is a new resource for our patients in a beautiful space that meets their specific needs,” Billings Clinic CEO Scott Ellner said in the release. ![]() ![]() It is the first unit to be built and completed in Billings Clinic’s construction of two new floors of planned patient beds. Opening the 28-bed unit will increase the hospital’s capacity to care for more complex and longer-term patients in a “modern, healing and state-of-the-art” way, the hospital said in a Friday press release. Billings Clinic is set to open its new Immediate Care Unit to patients on June 6. ![]() The Wonder of Tech recently added a Send to Kindle button at the end of each article so you can send your favorite articles from here to read on your Kindle or Kindle apps. The article will appear on your device the next time you turn it on and connect it to Wi-Fi. Choose where you want to send the article and click Send. You’ll then be shown a list of Kindle devices and Kindle apps where you can send the content. Click on the button and log into your Amazon account. How to Use Send to KindleĪmazon recently launched this feature so you will be seeing more Send to Kindle buttons on websites. Content sent using this service will be downloaded to your Kindle or mobile device so you can read it later, even when you’re not connected to the Internet. 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In 1990, the product was released as FileMaker Pro 1.0. ![]() FileMaker, however, continued to succeed on the Macintosh platform.Ĭlaris changed the product's name to FileMaker II to conform to its naming scheme for other products, such as MacWrite II, but the product changed little from the last Nashoba version. By then, Leading Edge and Nutshell had faded from the marketplace because of competition from other DOS- and later Windows-based database products. Claris purchased Nashoba to round out its software suite. Shortly thereafter, Apple Computer formed Claris, a wholly owned subsidiary, to market software. Microsoft negotiated with Nashoba for the right to publish FileMaker, but Nashoba decided to self-publish the next version, FileMaker 4. Microsoft had introduced its own database application, Microsoft File, shortly before FileMaker, but was outsold by FileMaker and therefore Microsoft File was discontinued. When Apple introduced the Macintosh Plus in 1986 the next version of FileMaker was named FileMaker Plus to reflect the new model's name.įorethought was purchased by Microsoft, which was then introducing their PowerPoint product that became part of Microsoft Office. Nashoba found another distributor, Forethought Inc., and introduced the program on the Macintosh platform as FileMaker in April 1985. Leading Edge was not interested in newer versions, preferring to remain a DOS-only vendor, and kept the Nutshell name. ![]() With the introduction of the Macintosh, Nashoba combined the basic data engine with a new forms-based graphical user interface (GUI). Nutshell was distributed by Leading Edge, an electronics marketing company that had recently started selling IBM PC-compatible computers.
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“You make very good sauce…but leave the pasta to the Italians,” Massimo remarked then gave her an atta-boy pat on the shoulder.Ĭheck out this hilarious skit that pokes fun at Italian-American pasta fails, by Italian actor and comedian Checco Zalone.Ī Step-By-Step GUIDE to Perfect Al Dente Grains Every timeĪmerica as a whole likes their pasta more well-done than Italy. Let’s just say that was the last time she prepared pasta for us. Not only was he visibly angry, he was offended as an Italian. Hangry and eager to take the first bite, he twirled the pasta on his fork and immediately watched it break into itsy-itsy-limp pieces of spaghettini (“little spaghetti”). ![]() ![]() I looked over at Massimo, the 82-year old man of the house. With much finesse, she whipped up a beautiful braised meat and eggplant ragu, fairy-dusted with grated parmiggiano and torn sweet basil. She began boiling the pasta, then patiently foraged for fresh ingredients in the garden out back. With raised eyebrows, we agreed to let her proceed. She insisted she was a great cook who excelled with Italian food. One evening a sweet South American gal was over and said she wanted to cook a pasta dish for dinner. I was staying with a family in Lido di Noto, Sicily. But, if cooking and sharing food is the blood line of all Italians, take this kitchen quality-control behavior to heart, cooking grains precisely is a big deal. Of course you don’t need a man around to help test your grains (I certainly don’t!). If you’re hanging around the kitchen in Italy, regardless of your gender, odds are you’ll get pulled into the decision-making process of “ Pronto?” (Ready?). Getting the grains prepared right is critical and sets the quality standard for the entire meal. I mentioned this observation to a girlfriend of mine who lives in Southern Italy-her and her fiancé are feminists-yet even they had never noticed this cultural habit and agreed that it was interesting and “just the way things are”. ![]() Even in the most progressive homes, I found this to always be the case. In all the kitchens I explored across southern Italy, the cooking was the woman’s job-however, testing the pasta, legumes, and rice for doneness was the man’s job. Cultural and Social Significance of “al dente”
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It becomes complex when you are working in a large organization where hundreds of networks are connected. One of the challenging tasks for network administrators is to manage the IP address. List of IP Management and Scanner tools for administrators ![]() Hence, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has become an increasingly important field of computer science research. Many studies have focused on the interaction between users and computers. There are many applications have been developed with emotion detection such as safe driving, mental health monitoring, and social security. Since emotions contain many nonverbal cues, various studies apply different modalities as indicators of emotional states. In recent years, there has been a rising trend in research to improve the emotion recognition systems with the ability to detect, process, and respond to the user’s emotional states. Emotions play an important role in human activity and real-life interactions. With the development of advanced and affordable wearable sensor technologies, investigations into emotion recognition have become increasingly popular among affective computing researchers since emotion recognition can contribute many useful applications in the fields of neuromarketing, entertainment, computer gaming, health, psychology, and education, among others. ![]() This review concludes with a discussion on the current open research problems and prospective future research directions that will be beneficial for expanding the body of knowledge in emotion detection using eye-tracking as the primary sensor modality. In this survey paper, we present a review on emotion recognition using eye-tracking technology, including a brief introductory background on emotion modeling, eye-tracking devices and approaches, emotion stimulation methods, the emotional-relevant features extractable from eye-tracking data, and most importantly, a categorical summary and taxonomy of the current literature which relates to emotion recognition using eye-tracking. Although eye-tracking is fast in becoming one of the most commonly used sensor modalities in affective computing, it is still a relatively new approach for emotion detection, especially when it is used exclusively. Among the more common approaches to emotion detection are methods that rely on electroencephalography (EEG), facial image processing and speech inflections. The ability to detect users’ emotions for the purpose of emotion engineering is currently one of the main endeavors of machine learning in affective computing. and it will be posted on the MacPsych archive, which is accessible by anonymous FTP at. Department of Psychology, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13323 (e-mail: or PsySquash is made available at no charge for noncommercial, educational use. Inquiries about PsyScope should be directed to Jonathan Cohen or Brian MacWhinney Inquiries about PsySquash and its tutorial materials should be directed to J. The development of Psyscope has been made possible by the contributions of the PsyScope Consortium. We are grateful to Jonathan Cohen and Brian MacWhinney for the development of the PsyScope system and for permission to use examples from it, to Earl Hunt, Simon Farr, Colene McKee, and John Palmer for allowing us to incorporate the Squash statistical routines into PsySquash, and to Helene Joseph for beta testing of PsySquash and preparation of documentation. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 21, 240–244. Enhancing a standard experimental delivery system (MEL) for psychological experimentation. SuperLab: General-purpose Macintosh software for human experimental psychology and psychological testing. V., Parasuraman, R., Lalonde, F., & Abboud, H. A review of Macintosh-based instructional soft-ware. VSearch Color: Full-color visual search experiments on the Macintosh II. A versa-tile, user-friendly tachistoscope for the Macintosh. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 25, 257–271.ĭoenias, J. PsyScope: An interactive graphic system for designing and controlling experiments in the psychology laboratory using Macintosh computers. Cognitive Psychology, 3, 472–517.Ĭohen, J., MacWhinney, B., Flatt, M., & Provost, J. On the process of comparing sentences against pictures. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 18, 205–209.Ĭlark, H. MacLaboratory for psychology: General experimental psychology with Apple’s Macintosh. ![]() Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 24, 426–430.Ĭhute, D. Tachistoscopic software for Macintosh computers. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 19, 131–134.īusey, T. The Macintosh as a user-friendly laboratory for perception and cognition. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 24, 431–433.īharvcha, J. Tachistoscopic software for the Macintosh. |
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