A group of Finnish scientist did a test to find out what effect emotion has on your body.
Red = Increased activity
Blue = Lowered activity
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A group of Finnish scientist did a test to find out what effect emotion has on your body.
Red = Increased activity
Blue = Lowered activity
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Harlow is a beautiful Weimaraner and Indiana is an adorable and goofy little Dachsund (they have more than 115.000 followers on Instagram!).
Enjoy these cute photos :)
And this is a photograph of Sage, the old Weimaraner’s best friend (passed away at age 13, last september)
More photos here.
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Caracol
Double Conic Spiral, process
Double Conic Spiral. Ink, acrylic/canvas.
Morpho
Calculation (Sequence) #2. Acrylic, china ink/canvas.
In the midst of our daily binge of emailing, Tweeting, Facebooking, app downloading and photoshopping it’s almost hard to imagine how anything was done without the help of a computer. For Venezuelan artist Rafael Araujo, it’s a time he relishes. At a technology-free drafting table he deftly renders the motion and subtle mathematical brilliance of nature with a pencil, ruler and protractor. Araujo creates complex fields of three dimensional space where butterflies take flight and the logarithmic spirals of shells swirl into existence. He calls the series of work Calculation, and many of his drawings seem to channel the look and feel of illustrations found in Da Vinci’s sketchbooks. In an age when 3D programs can render a digital version of something like this in just minutes, it makes you appreciate Araujo’s remarkable skill. You can see much more here. (via ArchitectureAtlas)
Motivation: Many metagenomic studies compare hundreds to thousands of environmental and health-related samples by extracting and sequencing their 16S rRNA amplicons and measuring their similarity using beta-diversity metrics. However, one of the first steps—to classify the operational taxonomic units within the sample—can be a computationally time-consuming task because most methods rely on computing the taxonomic assignment of each individual read out of tens to hundreds of thousands of reads.
Results: We introduce Quikr: a QUadratic, K-mer–based, Iterative, Reconstruction method, which computes a vector of taxonomic assignments and their proportions in the sample using an optimization technique motivated from the mathematical theory of compressive sensing. On both simulated and actual biological data, we demonstrate that Quikr typically has less error and is typically orders of magnitude faster than the most commonly used taxonomic assignment technique (the Ribosomal Database Project’s Naïve Bayesian Classifier). Furthermore, the technique is shown to be unaffected by the presence of chimeras, thereby allowing for the circumvention of the time-intensive step of chimera filtering.
Availability: The Quikr computational package (in MATLAB, Octave, Python and C) for the Linux and Mac platforms is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/quikr/.
Contact: koslicki.1@mbi.osu.edu
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Summary: Pathview is a novel tool set for pathway-based data integration and visualization. It maps and renders user data on relevant pathway graphs. Users only need to supply their data and specify the target pathway. Pathview automatically downloads the pathway graph data, parses the data file, maps and integrates user data onto the pathway and renders pathway graphs with the mapped data. Although built as a stand-alone program, Pathview may seamlessly integrate with pathway and functional analysis tools for large-scale and fully automated analysis pipelines.
Availability: The package is freely available under the GPLv3 license through Bioconductor and R-Forge. It is available at http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/pathview.html and at http://Pathview.r-forge.r-project.org/.
Contact: luo_weijun@yahoo.com
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Gabriele Galimberti is an experienced Italian photographer who travels all over the world to capture the soul of different cultures in the little things. You might know his project called Toy Stories, and following the same idea, he captured the essence of each country's traditional foods, cooked mainly by old ladies, which is totally cute. The project called Delicatessen with Love is a explosion of colors and tastes [in my head] that will bring you new light about other countries' cultures. These are only a handful of dishes: for more, and even to get the actual recipes, visit the project page at Gabriele's personal portfolio. It's a delight. Cheers. ;)
Abolu Pirags (sweet pizza with apples and chocolate) by Natàlija Kaze, 65 years old
Lambi in creole sauce by Serette Charles, 63 years old
Mjadara (rice and lentils cream) by Wadad Achi, 66 years old
Finkubala (Caterpillar in tomato sauce) by Regina Lifumbo, 53 years old
Hui Guo Rou (twice-cooked pork with vegetables) by Pan Guang Mei, 62 years old
Nasi Lemak (coconut rice with vegetables and fried dried anchovies) by Thilaga Vadhi, 55 years old
Fejoada light by Ana Lucia Souza Pascoal, 53 years old
Inkokt Lax â (poached cold salmon and vegetables) by Brigitta Fransson, 70 years old
Karniyarik (stuffed aubergines with meat and vegetables) by Ayten Okgu , 76 years old
Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup) by Julia Enaigua, 71 years old
Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat) by Normita Sambu Arap, 65 years old
Empanada Criolla (that is, meat stuffed pastry) by Susana Vezzetti, 62 years old
Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie) by Fifi Makhmer, 62 years old
Kjotsùpa (lamb and vegetables soup) by Valagerdur Olafsdòttir, 63 years old
Corvina fish ceviche by Itala Revello Rosas, 77 years old
Enjera with churry and vegetables by Bisrat Melake, 60 years old
Asadura de cordero lecca con arroz (milk-fed lamb offal with rice) by Carmina Fernandez, 73 years old