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Lori Chips
No full textLori Chips reading poetry on May 6, 1976 in the Towbin Poetry Room at Bard College.https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/poetry_at_bard_1960s/1002/thumbnail.jp
cicirello/Chips-n-Salsa: Chips-n-Salsa, version 2.0.0
No full textAbout Chips-n-Salsa
Chips-n-Salsa is a Java library of customizable, hybridizable, iterative, parallel, stochastic, and self-adaptive local search algorithms.
[2.0.0] - 2020-09-16
First release available through Maven Central. New major release, 2.0.0, due to incompatible interface changes within the org.cicirello.search.ss package. Code that doesn't depend upon any of the stochastic sampling search algorithm implementations should be unaffected by these changes, and in those cases should be safe to simply upgrade to this new version without need to change anything in dependent code.
Added
An interface Partial to enable generalizing the various stochastic sampling search algorithms from optimizing the space of permutations to more general types.
A method was added to ConstructiveHeuristic for creating empty Partials of the appropriate length needed by the heuristic.
Class HeuristicSolutionGenerator, which is a generalization of existing class HeuristicPermutationGenerator, for constructing solutions to optimization problems via constructive heuristics (HeuristicPermutationGenerator now extends this new class).
PartialIntegerVector class to support using stochastic sampling search algorithms to generate vectors of integers.
BoundedIntegerVector and BoundedRealVector classes added to the package org.cicirello.search.representations
Changed
ConstructiveHeuristic and IncrementalEvaluation now have a type parameter.
ValueBiasedStochasticSampling, HeuristicBiasedStochasticSampling, and AcceptanceBandSampling also now have a type parameter.
All of the scheduling heuristics were modified based on interface changes.
Renamed ConstructiveHeuristic.completePermutationLength to ConstructiveHeuristic.completeLength to be more general.
Minor edits to the example program SchedulingWithVBSS related to other changes (added missing type parameter to construction of the ValueBiasedStochasticSampling instance to avoid compiler warning).
Workflows and pom.xml to enable publishing to both Maven Central as well as Github Package
Hyper RAM Memory Chips
No full textComputer memory chips; PL060143; P/NHYMF162032; Polyshield 1265. Date: 1995 (circa) - from the The Betty Smithers Design Collection at Staffordshire University.
Menu, Hi-Tide Fish and Chips, Tampa, Florida, 1981
No full textA menu for Hi-Tide Fish and Chips located at East Hillsborough and Nebraska Avenue in Tampa, Florida.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fl_menu/1064/thumbnail.jp
Chips and Egg, 2019
No full text“Taking its title from the famous scene in the 1989 ‘kitchen sink’ film 'Shirley Valentine' ('I like chips and egg on Tuesday, this is Thursday') this group exhibition explores mundanity, domestic life, class, the evolving body, cliché and sparkling rediscovery…
…Milly Thompson’s six paintings come from a series of work depicting menopausal nude, or near-nude women in relaxed, luxuriant poses – they lay on beaches, day beds, sofas or next to swimming pools. The titles describe a place or activity relating to women’s names. The work 'Neon Nails' references a nail bar shop sign and typifies the carefree positivity of the series and their unapologetic relationship to pleasure and desire."
Artists: Alia Syed, Cinzia Mutigli, Hayley Tompkins, Kate Davis, Milly Thompso
Detector-Free Photothermal Bar-Chart Microfluidic Chips (PT-Chips) for Visual Quantitative Detection of Biomarkers
No full textThe volumetric bar-chart
microfluidic chips (V-Chips) driven by chemical reaction-generated gas provide
a promising platform for point-of-care (POC) visual biomarker quantitation.
However, multiple limitations are encountered in conventional V-Chips, such as
costly and complex chip fabrication, complicated assembly, and imprecise
controllability of gas production. Herein, we introduced nanomaterial-mediated
photothermal effects to V-Chips, and for the first time developed a new type of
V-Chip, photothermal bar-chart microfluidic chip
(PT-Chip), for visual quantitative detection of biochemicals without any bulky
and costly analytical instruments. Immunosensing signals were converted to
visual readout signals via photothermal effects, the on-chip bar-chart
movements, enabling quantitative biomarker detection on a low-cost polymer
hybrid PT-Chip with on-chip scale rulers. Four different human serum samples containing
prostate-specific antigen (PSA) as a model analyte were detected simultaneously
using the PT-Chip, with the limit of detection of 2.1 ng/mL, meeting clinical
diagnostic requirements. Although no conventional signal detectors were used,
it achieved comparable detection sensitivity to absorbance measurements with a
microplate reader. The PT-Chip was
further validated by testing human whole blood without the color interference
problem, demonstrating good analytical performance of our method even in
complex matrixes and thus the potential to fill a gap in current clinical
diagnostics that is incapable of testing whole blood. This new PT-Chip driven by nanomaterial-mediated
photothermal effects opens a new horizon of microfluidic platforms for
instrument-free diagnostics at the point of care.</p
Tutorials Online - Curly Chips & Gravy
No full textEnhancing the tutorial session - Curly Chips & Gravy - healthy lifestyle session. Notes, presentations and quizzes (Word documents and Powerpoint presentation)
Optical micro analysis in lab-on-a-chips
No full textLab-on-a-chips are microfluidic devices which include biological laboratory functions on a single chip. They offer great advantages in terms of speed of analysis, precision, low sample and reagent consumption and automation of analysis. An efficient detection method in lab-on-a-chips is essential for the detection and quantification of chemical and biological parameters under examination. This review paper focuses on the recent research on optical detection techniques for LOC applications. Furthermore, several emerging detection paradigms which are still being matured are covered in this paper. Also, an analysis of the performance of different optical detection methods is given.<br
Photonic Weyl waveguide and saddle-chips-like modes
No full textTopological Weyl semimetals are characterized by open Fermi arcs on their terminal surfaces, which not only renewed our well-accepted concepts of the Fermi loop but also enabled many exotic phenomena, such as one-way propagation. The key prerequisite is that the two terminal surfaces have to be well-separated far away, i.e. the Fermi arcs are not allowed to couple with each other. Thus, their interaction was overlooked before. Here, we consider the coupled Fermi arcs and propose a Weyl planar waveguide, where we found a saddle-chips-like guiding mode. Compared with the conventional waveguiding mode, the new guiding mode propagates along different directions depending on the vertical excitation position. Experimentally, we drill periodic holes in metal plates to sandwich an ideal Weyl meta-crystal and characterize the topological guiding mode. Our study shows the intriguing behaviors of topological photonic waveguides, which could lead to beam manipulation, position sensing, and even 3D information processing on photonic chips
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