Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The launch of the clinicaltrials.gov registry in 2000 se... striking impact on reported trial results, according to ... that many researchers have been talking about online in ...
A 1997 US law mandated the registry’s creation, requir ...

Regular Expression Tester
Anytime I use Regular Expressions, I find myself doing a ...
Due to popular demand, I've added parenthesized substrin ...
Pattern:
... preg (Perl) ereg (POSIX)

Reification in this context means the expression of some... using the language, so that it becomes treatable by the ... graphs consist of RDF statements. If one wants to look o... RDF graph and reason about it is using RDF tools, then i... least in th

Rel-Tag is one of several MicroFormats. By adding rel="t... a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink ... author-designated "tag" (or keyword/subject) for the cur... that a tag may just refer to a major portion of the curr... blog post).

Rel-Tag is one of several MicroFormats. By adding rel="t... a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink ... author-designated "tag" (or keyword/subject) for the cur...
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tech" rel="tag">tech</a>
the author i

Van den Hoven believes we need to delete more. “A lot ... think forgetting is a bad thing, that it’s a bug of hu... not. Forgetting is a side-product of a successful memory.”
And that, she says, is one of the project’s aims. “W ...

Background: I have an HTML page which lets you expand ce... only small portions of the page need to be loaded for su... it's done via JavaScript, and not by directing to a new ...
http://example.com/#foobar
and have the "foobar" category be opened imme

Globally, renewables account for about one third of elec... generation—and that share is rising.

Reading frequency is also at a historic low, with 20.5% of eight- to 18-year-olds reporting reading daily in their free time, compared with 28% last year.
The gender gap in reading enjoyment has widened, with 28.2% of boys aged eight to 18 ...

Foxconn, a Chinese company that assembles Apple products... employees to sign a pledge promising that they won't com... according to the Daily Mail.

Representing The Impact of Time on Human Error and Syste...
Chris Johnson
Glasgow Accident Analysis Group,
Department of Computing Science,
... that will capture the temporal properties of accidents.

Non-Places, Placelessness

Modeling Interaction Techniques
* C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and W. Mackay. (200 ...
* C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon and W. Mackay. (2003 ...
* C. Appert. (2003). CIS : Evaluer les Techniques d' ...

Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us descr... computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male. We... largely noctural creature, passing sleepless nights writ... According to workplace researchers, this stereotype of t...
It may be s

I was recently talking with Jeff Barr, creator of syndic... chief web services evangelist. He let drop an interestin... has both SOAP and REST interfaces to their web services,... usage is of the REST interface. Despite all of the corpo... SOAP stack,

A while back (September 2014) I ran a very short 5-minut... at UX professionals to elicit thoughts on the links betw... that of academic HCI research.
The survey was framed in the following way: "This survey ...

I’ve now finished the Coursera Human Computer Interact... await my final grade, I reflect on my experience, on the... student numbers, and on how the platform can develop.
It’s been a wonderfully wide-ranging course, spanning ...

Internet technical specifications often need to define a... are free to employ whatever notation their authors deem ... years, a modified version of Backus-Naur Form (BNF), cal... (ABNF), has been popular among many Internet specificati... compactness

Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages
6. ADDRESS SPECIFICATION
6.1. SYNTAX
address = mailbox ; one a ...
... ef = atom ; symbolic reference

Sinister or not, its use at Baja Beach Club seems in kee... surroundings. "It's very suitable for this kind of place... body-aware," says René Lönngren, who runs the Barcelon... cool. "In an atmosphere where it is all muscles/tits/bod... attracted b

RGraph is a HTML5 canvas graph library. It uses features... available in HTML5 (specifically, the CANVAS tag) to pro... variety of graph types: bar chart, bi-polar chart (also ... frequency chart), donut chart, funnel chart, gantt chart... chart, LED

Berlekamp et al quote G. W. Leibniz:
The game called Solitaire pleases me much. I take it in ...
This quote fills my heart with humility as I find it by ...

RIPS is a static source code analyser for vulnerabilitie... webapplications. It was released during the Month of PHP... (www.php-security.org).

It's no secret to that our society is getting older. Mor...
The solution, the robotics industry hopes, is technology ...
Japanese Nursebots can lift up elderly patients and brin ...
In recent years, Japanese tech giant Panasonic has creat ...
In the next

Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpr... even its creators don’t understand. As machines increa... events, how can we regain control?

Riya is a new kind of visual search engine. We look insi...
Use Riya to:
* Find similar faces and objects on many images acro ...
* Refine the results, using color, shape and texture.
... look forward to your feedback via email or via our blog.