Reproducibility in human cognitive neuroimaging: a community-driven data sha...Nolan Nichols
Access to primary data and the provenance of derived data are increasingly recognized as an essential aspect of reproducibility in biomedical research. While productive data sharing has become the norm in some biomedical communities, human brain imaging has lagged in open data and descriptions of provenance. The overarching goal of my dissertation was to identify barriers to neuroimaging data sharing and to develop a fundamentally new, granular data exchange standard that incorporates provenance as a primitive to document cognitive neuroimaging workflow.
For my dissertation research, I led the development of the Neuroimaging Data Model (NIDM), an extension to the W3C PROV standard for the domain of human brain imaging. NIDM provides a language to communicate provenance by representing primary data, computational workflow, and derived data as bundles of linked Agents, Activities, and Entities. Similar to the way a sentence conveys a standalone thought, a bundle contains provenance statements that parsimoniously express the way a given piece of data was produced. To demonstrate a system that implements NIDM, I developed a modern, semantic Web application platform that provides neuroimaging workflow as a service and captures provenance statements as NIDM bundles. The course of this work necessitated interaction with an international community, which adopted and extended central elements of this work into prevailing brain imaging software. My dissertation contributes neuroinformatics standards to advance the current state of computational infrastructure available to the cognitive neuroimaging community.
Reproducibility in human cognitive neuroimaging: a community-driven data sha...Nolan Nichols
Access to primary data and the provenance of derived data are increasingly recognized as an essential aspect of reproducibility in biomedical research. While productive data sharing has become the norm in some biomedical communities, human brain imaging has lagged in open data and descriptions of provenance. The overarching goal of my dissertation was to identify barriers to neuroimaging data sharing and to develop a fundamentally new, granular data exchange standard that incorporates provenance as a primitive to document cognitive neuroimaging workflow.
For my dissertation research, I led the development of the Neuroimaging Data Model (NIDM), an extension to the W3C PROV standard for the domain of human brain imaging. NIDM provides a language to communicate provenance by representing primary data, computational workflow, and derived data as bundles of linked Agents, Activities, and Entities. Similar to the way a sentence conveys a standalone thought, a bundle contains provenance statements that parsimoniously express the way a given piece of data was produced. To demonstrate a system that implements NIDM, I developed a modern, semantic Web application platform that provides neuroimaging workflow as a service and captures provenance statements as NIDM bundles. The course of this work necessitated interaction with an international community, which adopted and extended central elements of this work into prevailing brain imaging software. My dissertation contributes neuroinformatics standards to advance the current state of computational infrastructure available to the cognitive neuroimaging community.
Setting up a Learning Management System is often a huge undertaking and business needs change over time. Are your Learning Management System and its content keeping up with changes in the business? Bluewater can help you get your LMS and your business processes back in sync.
A marketing and hospitality partnership opportunity to join an all-female crew on Cowes Week, yacht regattas in the Caribbean and Europe as well as corporate days out.
Keep the booze flowing and the money flowingElayne Duff
This seminar tells you why you should streamline your bar program and some of the core steps you can take to make your bar more money, plus cool cocktail trends that allows you go get high quality cocktails out faster without sacrificing quality.
Stabilization or solidification of iron ore mine tailings using cementeSAT Journals
Abstract Current research emphasis is more on the utilization of materials that are considered as waste. Tailings and fly ash are major category of industrial wastes, whose disposal is problematic from environmental point of view. In this present research, Industrial byproducts, namely, lime (CaO) and class F type fly ash have been used as candidate materials along with the partial addition of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) in the Stabilization/solidification (S/S) of polymetallic iron ore mine tailings (TM). The effectiveness of S/S was assessed by comparing laboratory experimental values obtained from unconfined compressive strength (UCS), hydraulic conductivity and leaching propensity tests of S/S samples with regulatory standards for safe surface disposal of such wastes. Some S/S cured matrices were found unable to provide the required immobilization of pollutants. S/S and 28 days cured mine tailing specimens made with composite binders containing TM/10/0/0, TM/5/0/20, TM/10/0/40 and TM/0/10/40 significantly impaired the solubility of all contaminants investigated and proved successful in fixing metals within the matrix, in addition to achieving adequate UCS and hydraulic conductivity values, thus satisfying regulatory norms (U.S. EPA). Laboratory investigations revealed the TM blends (stabilized materials) were non-hazardous. The test results of this study are encouraging and it may be possible to undertake large-scale fill construction with stabilized tailing material that is sustainable and cost effective. Keywords: Tailing materials, Laboratory study, Compaction characteristics, unconfined compressive strength, Hydraulic conductivity, Heavy metal content.
Digging into the Roots of Tequila- Tales of the Cocktail 2013: A presentation...Elayne Duff
An insightful presentation on how three living things (terroir, yeast and man) can effect the final flavor of a Tequila. Information within the presentation was provided by Elayne Duff: Head mixologist and Ambassador for Diageo Wine and Spirits, Enrique De Colsa: Master Distiller for Don Julio Tequila, Enrique Cedano Cruz: Top Industry Consultant in the Tequila Industry, Amy Stewart: NY Times 6 times Bestseller and Don Lee: Cocktail Consultant. Research material also retrieved from an excellent book "The Tequila Ambassador" written by Thomas Estes.
Setting up a Learning Management System is often a huge undertaking and business needs change over time. Are your Learning Management System and its content keeping up with changes in the business? Bluewater can help you get your LMS and your business processes back in sync.
A marketing and hospitality partnership opportunity to join an all-female crew on Cowes Week, yacht regattas in the Caribbean and Europe as well as corporate days out.
Keep the booze flowing and the money flowingElayne Duff
This seminar tells you why you should streamline your bar program and some of the core steps you can take to make your bar more money, plus cool cocktail trends that allows you go get high quality cocktails out faster without sacrificing quality.
Stabilization or solidification of iron ore mine tailings using cementeSAT Journals
Abstract Current research emphasis is more on the utilization of materials that are considered as waste. Tailings and fly ash are major category of industrial wastes, whose disposal is problematic from environmental point of view. In this present research, Industrial byproducts, namely, lime (CaO) and class F type fly ash have been used as candidate materials along with the partial addition of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) in the Stabilization/solidification (S/S) of polymetallic iron ore mine tailings (TM). The effectiveness of S/S was assessed by comparing laboratory experimental values obtained from unconfined compressive strength (UCS), hydraulic conductivity and leaching propensity tests of S/S samples with regulatory standards for safe surface disposal of such wastes. Some S/S cured matrices were found unable to provide the required immobilization of pollutants. S/S and 28 days cured mine tailing specimens made with composite binders containing TM/10/0/0, TM/5/0/20, TM/10/0/40 and TM/0/10/40 significantly impaired the solubility of all contaminants investigated and proved successful in fixing metals within the matrix, in addition to achieving adequate UCS and hydraulic conductivity values, thus satisfying regulatory norms (U.S. EPA). Laboratory investigations revealed the TM blends (stabilized materials) were non-hazardous. The test results of this study are encouraging and it may be possible to undertake large-scale fill construction with stabilized tailing material that is sustainable and cost effective. Keywords: Tailing materials, Laboratory study, Compaction characteristics, unconfined compressive strength, Hydraulic conductivity, Heavy metal content.
Digging into the Roots of Tequila- Tales of the Cocktail 2013: A presentation...Elayne Duff
An insightful presentation on how three living things (terroir, yeast and man) can effect the final flavor of a Tequila. Information within the presentation was provided by Elayne Duff: Head mixologist and Ambassador for Diageo Wine and Spirits, Enrique De Colsa: Master Distiller for Don Julio Tequila, Enrique Cedano Cruz: Top Industry Consultant in the Tequila Industry, Amy Stewart: NY Times 6 times Bestseller and Don Lee: Cocktail Consultant. Research material also retrieved from an excellent book "The Tequila Ambassador" written by Thomas Estes.
This material was made for the class of Multimedia design ,to give a quick cap and overview of game design concept and introduction ,try to get them understanding about the game design position and requirement