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• University Circle Police - a private department funded by the businesses they serve. University Circle is a neighborhood housing many significant educational, medical, cultural and historical facilities, which is bordered on all sides by very high-crime neighborhoods
• The Transit Police, which I believe may be the largest department in Ohio - polices the public transit buses, trains and terminals
• CMHA Police - serves the public housing projects in the county
• CMSD Police - serves Cleveland's public school district
• Cleveland's three largest hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and MetroHealth, each have their own police forces (though apparently not web sites)
• Metro Parks Rangers - basically park rangers with police authority
• Most of the colleges and universities in the area (even the small schools and technical colleges) have their own campus police forces

That's obviously in addition to all the private security services that lack full law enforcement authority. And I'm probably leaving a few out in my list above - it's been a few years since I've lived there or payed real close attention. But the point is, it's by no means unusual for a private organization to form it's own full-fledged police force.

Yes, Altera boards are great. Add a book or two to the mix, and you're all set.

Actually that "CancerX" drug all the newspapers were talking about appears to be DMAT, which you can buy here. I mean the the guy doesn't seem to have published anything about CancerX besides on his webpage. He filed a patent in 2009 which is about using DMAT or TBB to inhibit the enzyme Casein Kinase 2 (CK2), and had a PhD student do her dissertation work on the same thing which was completed in 2008. Since DMAT was actually first synthesized in 2004 for the very purpose of inhibiting CK2 to decrease cell proliferation, and there have been numerous papers on using DMAT for this purpose (you can see these by searching for DMAT CK2 in pubmed or google) I find it hard to believe that this was a serendipitous discovery. If you do the pubmed/google search and look for the institutes where the DMAT studies have been done you'll notice they are pretty much all based in Europe. So it seems to me that these other groups failed to patent the use of this drug for whatever reason and this guy is taking advantage of that while making up a new name along with some story about accidentally discovering its anti-proliferative properties as a self-marketing ploy. Possibly to encourage funding or somehow support his patent rights.

That said he is a biochemist working on anti-coagulants and DMAT is basically a nucleotide analogue (nucleotides are involved in blood clotting) so its possible he synthesized/designed the drug himself at some point for that purpose. I don't really know anything for sure except that calling it CancerX is shady, and talking to the newspapers before publishing is shady.

We could do without most of the East side of Cleveland too.

Umm, you do realize that according to the census maps East Cleveland is heavily populated, right? Or were you slating that for demolition because it's the poorest and most African-American area of the city? For those not familiar with the geography and demographics of Cleveland, what Weaselmancer said was more or less like saying "New York could be improved by eliminating Harlem." It's an incredibly racist proposal, whether you realized it or not.

Places like Flint and Youngstown have significant areas that are emptying out and abandoning their property. That's why they want to physically shrink. It's not simply picking places full of residents you don't like and/or are scared of.

If you're buying the 8 core box, and you're NOT buying a SATA raid w/card to go with it, you're pissing in the wind... because you'll NEVER keep the processors busy enough..

this is nothing new: it started before the WWI and now there are dozens of companies, universities or hobbyist doing it. It is called: "content analysis", "data mining", "discourse analysis" etc. There is a legend that sais that British intelligence managed to predict quite acurately airstrikes on England based on content analysis of Goebels' radio speeches. Take a look at this links if you are interested. Bibliography of Content Analysis Listings from Communication Abstracts, 1990-1997 Content Analysis Resources web site Text Analysis Info Page - all on text analysis and related topics The discourse analysis page of AI Topics Centre d'analyse des politiques publiques (CAPP) Département de science politique, Université Laval The Center for Social Research Methods: not necesarily content analysis, but it's good to take a look at Research Methods Knowledge Base The Annenberg School for Communication Web Concordances at the English Department of the University of Dundee Companion Website for the book Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus Journal: Language Awareness; has some free issues/articles. The General Inquirer Home Page Journal of Second Language Writing Writing Guides: Conducting Content Analysis at Colorado State University; with a nice adnotated bibliography The Content Analysis Guidebook Online, An Accompaniament to The Content Analysis Guidebook by Kimberley A. Neuendorf. The Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Literary and Linguistic Computing eximancer - Practical Text Mining and Concept Mapping Journal Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation: some online articles Content Analysis News and Discussion mailing list archives some Resources related to content analysis and text analysis; updated quite recently: June 30, 2005;

this is nothing new: it started before the WWI and now there are dozens of companies, universities or hobbyist doing it. It is called: "content analysis", "data mining", "discourse analysis" etc. There is a legend that sais that British intelligence managed to predict quite acurately airstrikes on England based on content analysis of Goebels' radio speeches. Take a look at this links if you are interested. Bibliography of Content Analysis Listings from Communication Abstracts, 1990-1997 Content Analysis Resources web site Text Analysis Info Page - all on text analysis and related topics The discourse analysis page of AI Topics Centre d'analyse des politiques publiques (CAPP) Département de science politique, Université Laval The Center for Social Research Methods: not necesarily content analysis, but it's good to take a look at Research Methods Knowledge Base The Annenberg School for Communication Web Concordances at the English Department of the University of Dundee Companion Website for the book Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus Journal: Language Awareness; has some free issues/articles. The General Inquirer Home Page Journal of Second Language Writing Writing Guides: Conducting Content Analysis at Colorado State University; with a nice adnotated bibliography The Content Analysis Guidebook Online, An Accompaniament to The Content Analysis Guidebook by Kimberley A. Neuendorf. The Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Literary and Linguistic Computing eximancer - Practical Text Mining and Concept Mapping Journal Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation: some online articles Content Analysis News and Discussion mailing list archives some Resources related to content analysis and text analysis; updated quite recently: June 30, 2005;

If anyone wants more in-depth information about microfluid logic, they can read the research work from Toshinori Munakata at Cleveland State University with the Colorado School of Mines researchers: Flow resistance for microfluidic logic operations

If anyone wants more in-depth information about microfluid logic, they can read the research work from Toshinori Munakata at Cleveland State University with the Colorado School of Mines researchers: Flow resistance for microfluidic logic operations

If anyone wants more in-depth information about microfluid logic, they can read the research work from Toshinori Munakata at Cleveland State University with the Colorado School of Mines researchers: Flow resistance for microfluidic logic operations

You're right. We should be more responsible with our lakes. Like our neighbours to the south. Lord knows, they have enough uninformed criticism to spew, but not so many answers

There are some problems with the article: it makes claims that aren't backed up. So what's new on slashdot? Anyway, here are the gory details from my point of view. The original source reference appears to suffer from the same problem.

The gist of the new idea is a clever way to create a special type of gate whose dynamical threshold value can be modified to implement one of several possible logic gates. An interesting idea, but not computationally revolutionary. These gates would still implement the same chips we use today.

Now, the article goes on to claim that there is a wonderful new horizon of modifiable computation. I see a lot of words and no details. How are those modifiable threshold levels in these gates stored, anyway? Don't tell me it's with something like a flip-flop. It would be asinine to need 6-8 gates to store each bit of the modifiable threshold value for one "chaotic" gate.

Also, there's the small problem that we can MODEL any type of strange new computational paradigm and have been able to for years. We're no closer to a replacement for Turing-style computation than we were decades ago. I've seen one paper about Analog computers being able to compute some esoteric set of functions that discrete computers can't touch, but I haven't seen anyone explain how this helps in any useful way.

Here is a paper that describes using chaotic gates as "universal gates".