The Housing Choice Voucher program was created, in part, to help low income households reach a broader range of neighborhoods and schools. Rather than concentrating low income households in designated developments, vouchers allow families to choose their housing units and neighborhoods. In this project we explore whether low income households use the flexibility provided by vouchers to reach ne...

The introduction of a GNU/Linux-based desktop system in a large company is often problematic, in terms of technical issues but especially for employees' training costs. Mainly, these obstacles are represented by different hardware configurations that might require several ad-hoc activities to adapt a standard release to the specific environment, including company's application profile. On the o...

Two experiments tested the ability to distinguish between ordinary and fantastic complex visual displays in 6and 9-year-old children and adults. In Experiment 1, adults found discrimination between ordinary and fantastic visual realities (Task 1) as clear and manageable as the discrimination between pictures that included or did not include human characters (Task 2), but 6and 9-year-old childre...

This paper focuses on the potential of collaborative live coding in educational settings. In particular, it draws from our experience with EarSketch, a free online platform for algorithmic composition and computational music remixing that allows students to learn Computer Science Principles (CSP) by making music using either Python or JavaScript. We argue that collaborative live coding is a pro...

introduction: cholesterol and fatty acids are two important components of the lipids. various fatty acids have different effects on plasma lipoproteins. consumption of saturated fatty acids tends to increase total plasma and ldl cholesterol levels. while  polyunsaturated fatty acids reduce both ldl and hdl cholesterol, edible oil rich in monounsaturated fatty acid (mufa) however, tend to lower ...

In the setting of collaborative live coding, there emerges a number of issues: (1) the need for communication, (2) issues of conflicts in sharing program state space, and (3) remote control of code execution. This paper proposes solutions to these problems. In the recent extension of UrMus a programming environment for mobile music application developmentwe introduce a paradigm of shared and in...

This demonstration presents a live observatory system named ‘NExTLive’. It aims to analyze live online social media data to mine social phenomena, senses, influences and geographic trends dynamically. It builds an efficient and robust set of crawlers to continually crawl online social interactions on various social networking sites, covering contents from different facets and in different mediu...

different layers of acorn (quercus infectoria), hull, seed coat and seed kernel were analyzed for determination of chemical composition. the results of the preliminary analysis showed that acorn contained more than 65% carbohydrates, 8% lipid and 10% tannin among other constituents. the fatty acid composition of the seed oil was determined using thin layer chromatography and comparing with ...