Multicenter study of an erythro-aggregometer: quality control and standardization. Houbouyan LL, Delamaire M, Beauchet A, Gentil M, Cauchois G, Taccoen A, et al.Measurement of red blood cell aggregation in a „plate-plate“ shearing system by analysis of light transmission. In vivo hemorheology iHoHaH, IOS Press, Amsterdam 2007 322-38. Red blood cell aggregation in experimental sepsis. Haemorheology and the inflammatory process. Influence of cell-specific factors on red blood cell aggregation. Rampling MW, Meiselman HJ, Neu B, Baskurt OK.Red blood cell aggregation: 45 years being curious. In vivo correlates of altered blood rheology. It is obvious that aggregation index (AI) was calculated, using Z data exhibited a similar trend for the diluted plasma and plasma with 1% dextran 500, with a rank order of Dextran 500 >whole blood >1/2 diluted plasma.Conclusion: Although impedance measurements of erythrocyte suspensions don’t allow for the calculation of erythrocyte aggregation kinetics, it is thought that they can be used as AI which indicates the degree of erythrocyte aggregation. Objective: The study was aimed to determine whether the impedance measurements of erythrocyte suspensions can be used with a different calculation method in determining the degree of erythrocyte aggregation.Methods: Impedance measurements of different erythrocyte suspensions were recorded in horizontal glass capillaries with a haematocrit value of 40% with inductance-capacitance-resistance meter after a stop flow generated by the injector pump.Results: As a result of calculating the impedance values of the samples for which the aggregation in phosphate-buffered saline didn’t occur, the impedance values of the samples that aggregation at different grades took place were calculated as in the previous measurements of erythrocyte suspensions time course was significantly decreased for in diluted plasmas and was increased for in the 1% dextran 500 solution.
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Current popular representations of the Vikings are typically based on cultural clichés and stereotypes, complicating modern appreciation of the Viking legacy. Perceived views of the Vikings as violent, piratical heathens or as intrepid adventurers owe much to conflicting varieties of the modern Viking myth that had taken shape by the early 20th century. A romanticised picture of Vikings as noble savages began to emerge in the 18th century this developed and became widely propagated during the 19th-century Viking revival. Popular conceptions of the Vikings often strongly differ from the complex, advanced civilisation of the Norsemen that emerges from archaeology and historical sources. Most Vikings were also farmers, fishermen, craftsmen and traders. The Vikings had their own laws, art and architecture. For most of the period they followed the Old Norse religion, but later became Christians. The Vikings spoke Old Norse and made inscriptions in runes. During the Viking Age, the Norse homelands were gradually consolidated from smaller kingdoms into three larger kingdoms: Denmark, Norway and Sweden. While spreading Norse culture to foreign lands, they simultaneously brought home slaves, concubines and foreign cultural influences to Scandinavia, influencing the genetic and historical development of both. They were the first Europeans to reach North America, briefly settling in Newfoundland ( Vinland). At one point, a group of Rus Vikings went so far south that, after briefly being bodyguards for the Byzantine emperor, attacked the Byzantine city of Constantinople. The Normans, Norse-Gaels, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. Įxpert sailors and navigators aboard their characteristic longships, Vikings established Norse settlements and governments in the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, and the Baltic coast, as well as along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes across modern-day Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, where they were also known as Varangians. The Vikings had a profound impact on the early medieval history of Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Estonia, and Kievan Rus'. In their countries of origin, and some of the countries they raided and settled in, this period is popularly known as the Viking Age, and the term "Viking" also commonly includes the inhabitants of the Scandinavian homelands as a collective whole. They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, Volga Bulgaria, the Middle East, and North America. Vikings is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe. A Viking Age depiction from the Tjängvide image stone, on Gotland. Two more cosmetics, the Imp-ressive and Batty, have this ability as well, but only if their "Crewcolor" variants are selected.These cosmetics include the Mini Crewmate hat, Mini Crewmate pet, and We All Float Here. Some cosmetics change their appearance based on the player's selected color.If the player's selected color ID is anything but a whole number, it will be set to a random value between 0 and 17.Similarly, Cyan was used in a prototype for Among Us, but removed from its original release.During the removal period, it was still officially recognized in the Innersloth Discord server as a custom emoji, and it has since been added back. Tan is the only color that was temporarily removed from Among Us.However, these color IDs result from Fortegreen being Among Us's failsafe color.Fortegreen and Olive are the only colors that cannot be selected in the wardrobe.On June 10, 2021, during the Summer Game Fest, a color called Banana was confirmed.On June 8, 2021, a couple days later, Maroon was confirmed as an upcoming color by Innersloth on their official Discord server and Twitter account.On June 3, 2021, Tan's readdition was confirmed by Innersloth on Twitter and Discord, with a trailer.On May 26, 2021, Gray was confirmed to be added by Innersloth on the Discord server and Twitter. They also announced more information to be announced during the Summer Game Fest on June 10. On May 20, 2021, Innersloth confirmed another new color, Rose, on the Discord server and Twitter.After the vote ended, Coral was deemed the winner. On Discord, a tiebreaker vote between Coral and Olive started on April 20, 2021, and ended roughly 28 hours later.This update was implemented to the game on June 15, 2021. Six new colors were confirmed for a future Among Us update in the Innersloth Discord server.Cyan and Lime were added in version 2019.4.24.There are eight colors that were added after Among Us's initial release.When enabled, color names are made visible during gameplay and are displayed over their respective character sprites as well as in the chat and during emergency meetings. Since version 2022.6.21, a "Colorblind Text" option can be toggled in the settings menu. However, it can still be accessed when joining a lobby (appearing as Fortegreen briefly), selecting a color as someone with that color joins, or as a side effect of another bug. Fortegreen was an exception to this rule, as it occupied all IDs of whole numbers above 11, examples being 12 and 100, though as of version 2021.2.21, Fortegreen's color ID was removed from the code, so it can no longer be accessed by ID. Each color also has a unique color ID for example, Red's is 0, and Gray's is 15. The only exception was Fortegreen, who is not legitimately playable in-game and causes numerous bugs when played as. The player's selected color does not directly affect gameplay, and only directly affects the player's in-game appearance. Players are able to select between 18 different colors using the wardrobe: Red, Blue, Green, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Black, White, Purple, Brown, Cyan, Lime, Maroon, Rose, Banana, Gray, Tan and Coral. I honestly wasn’t able to get that far in that mode and was hoping it offered something new to the standard format. This means you don’t recover all your health in new sections, and that dying forces you to restart from the very beginning. Playing it is almost identical to playing on expert difficulty. While it’s true there’s an Arcade mode in the game, I wasn’t that excited by it. And for those that like a challenge, bosses only get harder on the steeper difficulties, some even learning new attacks. So just bunker down and get ready to fail a few times as you learn their devious patterns. By contrast, each boss has a huge health meter that you’ll have to chip away at. And keep in mind, there are no helpful health refills during boss fights. From flying machines that gun you down and electrify the floor to gyrating drill worms and even some deadly wonder twins, they’ll all make you earn every victory. Not only are they all larger than life and dynamic, but they all fight completely differently. Oh, and on rare occasions, you’ll be riding some vehicle to mix things up. Other times they’ll be hardcore mechanical monstrosities. Mini-bosses can sometimes just be groups of foes you have to defeat. The highlights of any stage are the mini-bosses and boss fights. This is especially true when you have to make a leap of faith right into the sights of a gun trained on you. Precision is a must, and the game can be cruel at times. Your best bet is to deflect bullets, move quickly and pay attention to your surroundings. They’ll come from all angles, and many can fly. So you’ll really need to master and memorize the levels to have a chance to survive because Steel Assault is not an easy game, on any difficulty.įrom the get-go, you’ll have foes raging to rip you to shreds. They’re all pretty minor, and most only last a short period of time. These consist of either an electric whip upgrade, a shield, or a health refill. But that’s pretty much the only helping hand the game will provide, other than the occasional power-up. Plus, when you reach a new area on easy or normal, you’ll recover all your health. The handy thing is, you have unlimited continues. Each is also comprised of multiple sections. Though there are only five stages in the game, they’re all long and full of arcade mayhem. Otherwise, Taro might fall to his death, which happened to me a handful of times in my time with the game. On the plus side, you can launch the zipline vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. There’s just one proviso – you need two points to connect the zipline to before it’s stable and able to be climbed. You can use this to reach distant platforms with ease, and leaping from it launches him vertically. The other essential tool is Taro’s zipline. The slide is actually the only way to dodge bullets, lasers, and flames coming from every angle, so mastery of it is a must. Taro also has the capability to double jump and do a short slide. So long as they aren’t glowing red and blue, you can smack them away. Not only is this a useful weapon for playing keep away, but it can also dispel most bullets. When you’re up close and personal, Taro uses a brutal punch instead. Just remember that to whip downwards, you’ll have to do a short jump first. You’ll automatically use it when distant from foes, and you can fling it in pretty much any direction. Luckily, Taro has some fantastic tools to help him survive. Moments into the game, his jet is shot down, and he has to crash land. From the very beginning, it’s clear Taro has his work cut out for him. General Magnus has a whole fleet of mechanized mayhem at his disposal, including mechs, goons in flying suits, floating drones, and much more. It’s up to Taro and his support team to put a stop to his machinations before everything spirals completely out of control.Īmerica may be in ruins, but that doesn’t mean there’s no technology around. It’s all thanks to the actions of maniacal General Magnus Pierce, who not only rules over the ashes, but is dead set on making things worse. Regardless, you can tell from the beginning that our hero, Taro Takahashi, has been figuratively and literally scarred by this war-torn world. Not only is the setting post-apocalyptic, but it’s also pretty much post-democracy, which feels a bit more relevant given the state of our world these days. Though Steel Assault isn’t big on backstory, from the opening cutscenes, it’s clear it takes place in an America in ruins. The question is, was this a title that will only appeal to fans of arcade games? Or does Steel Assault provide a worthy experience for any gamer? It features a captivating visual style, hard-yet-satisfying gameplay, and an interesting story. Developed by Zenovia Interactive, it’s a raging, non-stop ride through 5 action-packed stages. Steel Assault is a game I’ve been intrigued by since I demoed it. Steel Assault Review: Fight the Power in Post-Apocalyptic America The answer is in the double precision capabilities. The 780 Ti is physically locked at 1:24 FP32 where has the Titan Black has an ace up it’s sleeve.įor the Titan Black, the magic happens in the driver. The Titan black’s driver gives the user an option to choose the double precision performance between 1:3 and 1:24 FP32 (by switching the GPU to TCC mode). When the double precision performance is set to 1:24 FP32, which is the same as the 780 Ti, the the single precision performance of the Titan Black and 780 Ti are identical. But when the user sets the double precision performance to 1:3 FP32, the single precision performance is compromised to boost double precision performance and make it equal to the K40c. In other words, you can choose the performance of the Titan Black to match either the 780 Ti or the K40c based and your preference. The K40c has a double precision performance of 1:3 without compromising the single precision performance. This is because the K40 is given a special double precision unit for every 3 single precision cores ( white paper). NVIDIA also states that the Tesla GPUs go through a much more rigorous Q&A process which guarantees lesser failures and also has additional features such as ECC memory. NVIDIA’s GTX series are known for their great FP32 performance but are very poor in their FP64 performance. The performance generally ranges between 1:24 (Kepler) and 1:32 (Maxwell). The exceptions to this are the GTX Titan cards which blur the lines between the consumer GTX series and the professional Tesla/Quadro cards. The Kepler architecture Quadro and Tesla series card provide full double precision performance with 1:3 FP32. However, with the Quadro M6000, NVIDIA has decided to provide only minimal FP64 performance by giving it only 1:32 of FP32 capability and touting the M6000 as the best graphics card rather than the best graphics+compute card like the Quadro K6000. However, software developers will need to optimise their code to take advantage of this technology.AMD GPUsĪMD GPUs perform fairly well for FP64 compared to FP32. Those interested in larger memory capacities for handling more complex CAE problems will likely be interested in NVLink, a technology built into the Quadro GP100, which effectively allows two cards to be connected together for shared GPU resources and memory (up to 32GB). While 16GB is an improvement over the Quadro K6000, the Quadro GP100’s memory footprint is not as big as the Quadro P6000 (24GB), which is tuned for graphics and not double precision floating point operations. With 16 GB of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2), the GPU can read data at a rate up to 717 GB/sec, which should make it much faster to load complex engineering datasets. In addition to offering significantly bigger compute resources than the Quadro K6000, the Quadro GP100 features bigger and faster memory. The Quadro GP100 features 3,584 CUDA FP 32 cores and 1,792 CUDA FP 32 cores, boasting peak single precision performance (FP 32) of 10.3 TFLOPS and peak double precision performance (FP 64) of 5.2 TFLOPs, which is more than double that of the Quadro K6000. This is the first compute focused workstation GPU that Nvidia has launched since the Kepler-based Quadro K6000 in 2013, with the Maxwell-based Quadro M6000 not tuned for double precision operations that are needed for Finite Element Analysis (FEA) or Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Nvidia has launched the Quadro GP100, a ‘Pascal’-based workstation GPU designed specifically for compute tasks, big news for users of simulation software, including Ansys and Abaqus. goto An unstructured branching statement that causes the logic to jump to a different place in the program. exit A predefined function used to prematurely stop a program and return to the operating system. continue A branching statement that causes a loop to stop its current iteration and begin the next one. break A branching statement that terminates the existing structure. Key Terms branching statements Allow the flow of execution to jump to a different part of the program. It fits the definition of branching which is to jump to some other place in the program. The exit function terminates the running of the program and in the process returns an integer value back to the operating system. If not, we have an error that usually indicates that we want to prematurely stop the execution of the program. A good example is the opening a file and then testing to see if the file was actually opened. some lines of code Īlthough exit is technically a pre-defined function, it is covered here because of its common usage in programming. You use the command word goto followed by the label. However, some programming languages allow you to create a label with an identifier name followed by a colon. The goto structure is typically not accepted in good structured programming. The break is used in one of two ways with a switch to make it act like a case structure or as part of a looping process to break out of the loop. The following gives the appearance that the loop will execute 8 times, but the break statement causes it to stop during the fifth iteration. Additionally, we will add to our list of branching items a pre-defined function commonly used in programming languages of: exit. The goto is rarely used in modular structured programming. The common branching statements used within other control structures include: break, continue, return, and goto. Discussionīranching statements allow the flow of execution to jump to a different part of the program. Common branching statements include break, continue, return, and goto. A branch is an instruction in a computer program that can cause a computer to begin executing a different instruction sequence and thus deviate from its default behavior of executing instructions in order. I can't really say much without spoiling the game, as this is from one of the key cutscenes in the game. I used metalic gold primer for her machine and then airbrushed and drybrushed the Nanny herself. I'm going to go back and add some more details to it at some point, but overall, I'm pretty satisfied with the current paint-job. The Queen's right-hand woman, Nanny Fortunta, rides her wrecking ball machine in this print of one of the game's bosses. I also made a base and gave that a bit of goopy goop and some dry brushing. I modelled him a little skinny so he warped a little on print but it was easily fixable with a heatgun. I was really happy with how he came out texture wise. Mullgrow Alley's menacing resident 'The Shadowman'. I like how this one came out, other than the eyes, if I did it again I think I would print out the pupils and irises as I have before and use those. I managed to paint it pretty much identical to the other Dicey so really happy with how he came out.Ī print of the loveable Seemore character that Even meets along the ways. It's the same as the other Even and Dicey print, though with a custom-made base. I think I've learnt my lesson that eyes are really difficult and it's much better to print them.Īn individual print of Dicey to go on my speaker. The eyes on this one aren't quite as good, though (I hand-printed them rather than making eye transfers). The paintjob is almost a complete match for the other Dicey & Even I printed and painted. I'd already made an Eve and Dicey figure and really wanted to make a few more for my shelves:Īn individual print of Even to go on my speaker. It has a very Tim Burton-esque aesthetic and I love the art look and feel of the game, it's world and it's characters. I scored the soundtrack to the recently released 'Lost in Random' by Zoink Games. 3dprinting painting airbrushing 3dmodelling lostinrandom burton elfman videogames Lost in Random - Characters Today I received an email in which the e-Energy socket was advertised for saving electricity. e-Energy socket to save electricity? Let yourself.In this context, I usually also study the technical data. I often write test reports on vacuum robots, cordless vacuum cleaners or normal mains-operated cylinder vacuum cleaners. What do the suction force values Pa, kPa or AW mean for.Apple iPhone battery capacity (mAh) of all models Knowing the Apple iPhone battery capacity in mAh is important if you want to buy a power bank or a battery case, for example.After macOS Ventura upgrade: WLAN problems on Mac (+… After upgrading to a new Mac operating system, errors may occur depending on the Apple computer model and year, as well as individual usage.But with every upgrade of this kind, not only new functions and better. macOS 13 Ventura - Issues and Solutions Apple has rolled out the new macOS Ventura operating system for compatible Mac models.Search function: Finding and replacing records is made easy for you in this app.Fast processing: Even with large amounts of data, you can quickly navigate, scroll, copy, paste and so on through the data set.Resource-saving: Hex Fiend does not move the processed files to the memory / cache, so that the app also works on Macs with little RAM.which excerpt from romeo and juliet is an example of personification. 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Now I could see what exactly I had done when taking a photo, and learn from my mistakes. The fact that digital images had Exif data was one of the main reasons I immediately embraced digital photography. I was frustrated because I could not see what mistakes I had made when the resulting images were disappointing –which happened all the time. I remember when I started taking photos in the 80s with a Canon AE-1. This metadata (it is called metadata because it is data about data, the data here being the photograph itself) is written automatically into the image file by the camera when you take the photo. These can be the date and the time of the day you took that photo, the camera and the lens you used to shoot it, the shutter speed and aperture value you used, whether you used a flash, and loads of other information. If you look at a digital photo in Lightroom –or any decent photo viewer –you can easily see the metadata for each photo. In addition to being useful in automation, metadata are valuable pedagogical tools. Exif Notes allows me to “inject” metadata into the analog part of my photography world. The piece of the puzzle that makes my hybrid photography make sense to me and not drive me nuts is metadata. The hallmark of the digital is data, especially metadata. I have a dozen apps on my smartphone that I actively use in my analog photography, such as Exif Notes. While I love the aesthetics of film and the tactile and fully controllable handling of old gear, I also like the versatility of the digital. When combining digital and analog photography, good ideas can flow in both directions. I enjoy my analog photos by myself and share them on Instagram and Flickr for family and friends to see I shoot analog photos and scan them into Lightroom, where I also have my digital photos. This fascination for the digital, and now analog photography, means that my photography world is a hybrid one. I work with computers and digitalization (as a teacher and researcher) and am fascinated by the possibilities offered by digital tools. This does not mean that I don’t shoot digital photos anymore. I have now become an analog-first hobby photographer. My personal reasons, when I returned to analog photography three years ago, were a combination of my fascination for cameras as creative tools and the aesthetics of old glass and various emulsions. We all have our own reasons for picking up analog photography in a world that goes increasingly digital, and a lot has been written about these. 4 Should you use Exif Notes (or similar apps)?. 3 My experience with using Exif Notes (and Exiftools). ST38921 and ST37308 California CST#2114968Īs a convenience to Owners and Guests, Hilton Grand Vacations offers names of and/or lists of providers who have indicated they would be able to provide products and/or services to Owners and Guests. 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