(Young later became a well known anti-war activist and the subject of the 2007 documentary Body of War.) Two hours stand out for their intensely moving narratives: the fifth, “The Choice,” which focuses on the Iraqi interpreter Jassim (Darius Homayoun), and the sixth, “A City Called Heaven,” which follows Army enlistee Tomas Young ( Noel Fisher) before and after Black Sunday, through his tragic journey from newlywed soldier to unhappily married paralyzed veteran. The rising number of wounds among the soldiers and the steady depletion of ammo gin up some urgency, but too many scenes force us to wait alongside the men for intervention without learning enough about who they are.Įach of Long Road Home’s eight episodes focuses on a different character, with extensive, Orange Is the New Black-like flashbacks fleshing out backstories. The multi-step rescue operation is somewhat hard to follow, robbing the series of tension it could certainly use more of. As the title implies, Long Road Home takes some time to pull the squads back in from danger. Michael Kelly and Jason Ritter give the production its obligatory boldface names, but their roles are relatively small and, in the overall scheme of things, pretty insignificant. The nervous, soul-sustaining chatter - funny, bro-y and sometimes deeply uncomfortable - makes for some of the miniseries’ best written scenes.įar less compelling is the activity back at the base. A pair of young dads (Jorge Diaz and Ian Quinlan) horse around, barely grown up themselves. The soldiers ask each other - rhetorically, then not so rhetorically - whether they could shoot a child. Another scoffs that it’s no wonder the insurgents fear death so little what would you have to live for if you lived in Sadr City? A third resents being made into a killer. One grouses about the Iraqis’ ingratitude toward the American peacekeepers. His grim austerity is contrasted by the bored flippancy with which the younger soldiers meet their tasks. Robert Miltenberger (Jeremy Sisto), a Kosovo vet haunted by war’s savagery who doesn’t let his fatalism keep him from protecting his brothers in uniform. Shane is both relatable and inspirational, a D&D fan who has to keep his smartest but most aggressive soldier (Jon Beavers) in line to ensure that there aren’t any unnecessary deaths on an already grisly and panic-stricken night. Initially saddled with a baldly manipulative prelude about leaving behind his extremely photogenic children, Bonilla proves a fantastic anchor of a sprawling tale with his level-headed, slightly dorky presence. His team holes up in an Iraqi home and is forced to take its family of four hostage. Bonilla) and the two squads he’s leading are ambushed by heavily armed rebels. On a routine surveillance run around the city (with an automated cannon towering out of the humvee roof), Lt. But I kept finding myself more often wondering what the characters made of their mission - which was sold to them as humanitarian peacekeeping - than absorbed in the umpteenth firefight between soldiers and insurgents. The mini is a lavish production, with chases, cityscapes, tanks and explosions vying for attention. That depoliticization lands The Long Road Home somewhere between an earnest brochure and a proper drama.
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Like its motley crew of eccentric companions, Chernobylite is a flawed misfit that I can't help but like. Its cast of characters and its choice system are genuinely gripping, while its depiction of the zone is at times breathtaking (if a little postcardy and non-interactive). Maybe Chernobylite latches onto these recognisable tropes because its greatest strengths aren't easily conveyed through trailers or genre tags. Similarly, the Black Stalker who beams himself into maps on a timer in later missions is more a nuisance than a threat when you realise he's rooted to the spot and can be blasted away. It's been termed 'survival horror', but monster encounters are scarce, and beyond that the occasional jump-scare, creepy doll and hallucination of a jittery man in a gas mask don't really justify the label-if anything, they cheapen the experience. There are a few quirks in Chernobylite that seem to exist to tick certain boxes. Do you shoot down a helicopter without knowing who's in it? Is a friendly stalker fair collateral when taking out an enemy encampment? To whom do you hand the gun to finish off a key villain (if indeed you choose to execute them at all)? All genuine quandaries, where sometimes you'll be swayed by having to keep one character or another onside so that they're still with you come the final mission. You'll need to keep up your crew's morale by keeping them well fed, sufficiently bedded, as well as managing their disagreements when they chime in on key story decisions. It all speaks to a combat system that's stretched between multiple styles without particularly excelling in any of them. Again, though, this feels a little threadbare as you can't hide bodies (not that the enemy AI is particularly miffed when they stumble upon the corpse of one of their own). Thankfully, stealth is a viable approach, so I focused on upgrading my revolver with a silencer and becoming a master of silent takedowns. I appreciate how easily enemies blend with the dense foliage, but this is undermined by the big healthbars that pop up above their heads, and their substantial bullet absorbance makes the mechanically 'meh' gunfights drag on a little too long. Beyond a rather pathetic side-dash, there are no mechanics like sliding or cover-firing, while leaping over obstacles is very particular about what it counts as obstacle. The combat gets a bit tangled between realistic shooter, stealth and RPG. The developers could certainly have picked up a few tricks from Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl and its sequels about how to make the Zone feel more dynamic. Friendly trader stalkers, meanwhile, simply stand around waiting for you to come to them. The only things you find are resources and clues relating to your story, there is no wildlife (even though the Exclusion Zone is renowned for it) and enemy AI rigidly sticks to their patrol routes or stands in one place-never sitting at desks or fighting radioactive monsters or taking a wazz. As someone mildly obsessed with the crumbling vestiges of the Soviet empire, I find these environments mesmerising.īeautiful and haunting though these areas are, they are a little lacking in substance. It gives the areas an intense verisimilitude that I can't stop snapping-grass and shrubbery reclaiming blocky clusters of Soviet apartments, smashed stained glass windows depicting doomed communist utopias, smoggy sunlight oozing through sickly canopies. The Farm 51 actually went to the Exclusion Zone and used 3D scanning to recreate its terrain, textures and buildings. These maps aren't huge, but they look wonderful. At the same time, you can send out your companions to scout future missions or gather resources. When you're ready, you pick a mission set in one of six regions around the Zone-whether to progress the main story or search for clues. The Farm 51 actually went to the Exclusion Zone and used 3D scanning to recreate its terrain, textures and buildings.īetween missions you hang out in your base, where you can cook, build improvements, explore other peoples' memories based on clues you find, or even just go straight to the Heist mission at the end of the game (where you'll almost certainly die if you've not assembled a crew and equipment, but it's there if you want it). Your choices will affect enemy activity in the area, how many allies you have in the Zone, and at one point even the topography of the game-you can, for instance, destroy the infamous Duga radar at the behest of a man believing himself to be in a good-vs-evil conflict with a Rat King. It's pretty ballsy for a game to lay bare the workings of its choice system like this, but given the breadth of Chernobylite's web of choices and possible outcomes, the devs have every right to want to show it off. You will come to another hallway where you can pick up a Treasure Chest near a guard containing a Silver Spinner. On left back room, you can also pick up a Protein Scent from one of the bookcases and a Spicy Cake from a statue at the exit. In the right back room is Flash Skill 38 on the table. You can also pick up 400x Gold from a pot. On the right is a library with a Treasure Chest containing a Silver Spinner. There are two rooms on the left, that each have a Treasure Chest in containing Defense Cake (s) and Attack Cake (s). There are a lot of guards around here and talking to them won't trigger anything, so feel free to wonder around. You'll meet Archie again just outside the Palace, where he says the insider will respond to the phrase "The sky seems extra blue today!". Once you make your way through the Guard Barracks, you can pick up a Guard hat, allowing you to enter the Grand Palace of Duradic. The Treasure Chest contains a SP Cake (M). Check out the map above of where you need to walk to. There are various safe spots throughout the map that you can use. The Guard Barracks requires you to not get caught by the wondering guards. Archie distracts the guard, allowing you to enter the Guard Barracks. Head to the Guard Barracks, where you'll meet Archie. If you head upstairs, you can find a Treasure Chest containing an Ambrio and also pick up a Pix Fruit from the bedside table. Archie says to meet him at the Guard Barracks, which is on the right of the Palace entrance.īefore leaving, pick up the Combi Cake (s) from the oven and the LuxRecall from the shelf. They say they can help you get Dawn Valley open again.īut in order to get inside the Palace, you're going to need a Guard uniform. Inside, Archie will tell you of a note being left by someone stationed inside the Palace. Head to Archie's house, which is on the left of Duradic. There is also a Treasure Chest with a Potent Scent inside and you can pick up a Fear Scent from the Globe. If you go upstairs, there's lots of spare plant pots to plant your own fruit. You can find a Defense Cake in the kitchen and also 300x Gold in one of the pots. There is also a HP Cake (L) next to the cactus. If you enter the house in the middle of Duradic, you can find a Treasure Chest with a Grapa Fruit x2 in. If you head outside, you'll meet Amad.Īmad can sell you Sol Soda this will allow you to reset your temperature in The Scorching Sands area, allowing you to reach some of those hard-to-get areas. In the Spa, you can find Skill Flash 53 from a Treasure Chest and Doom Scent, Ether Scent from the jugs. You can find the following loot in Darudic If there is a Gem nearby, it will tell you within how many steps the gem is near to you. When you use the Drill Shovel, it will scan a portion of the room. It's up to you which drill you choose any Gems you find you can sell to the NPC at the counter for Gold! The Silver Drill Shovel has a 20% commission but a smaller radius to search for gems and the Golden Drill Shovel has a 40% commission but a huge radius. There are two choices the Silver Drill Shovel or the Golden Drill Shovel. If you head to the house next to the Spa, you can get a free Drill Shovel. You can also pick up a new ability to find rare gems around Darudic. You can buy several useful items for Gold in the main square area, including Coromon Scents that you could craft at Soggy Swamp and Fruits (including Ber Fruit for double XP!) previously only obtainable via random Treasure Chests and floor loot. The Trainer Hub allows you to switch Spinners for your Coromon on the second floor and the basement floor allows you to play online against other players. He has a plan to get you into Dawn Valley and wants you to meet him at a house on the west-side of Darudic.īefore you continue with the story, it's time to go and loot up! Darudicĭaurdic is home to some interesting new features. If you head through the gates of Darudic you'll come across Archie. You'll have to pay Gold for certain services that are normally free in other towns (like using the Trainer Hub!). The curve is usually a lamp current with higher sensitivity and better stability. The choice of the atomic absorption spectrometer lamp current can be determined experimentally by measuring the absorbance of a standard solution at different lamp currents and plotting the relationship between lamp current and absorbance. A hollow-cathode lamp (HCL) is type of cold cathode lamp used in physics and chemistry as a spectral line source and as a frequency tuner for light sources. In general, both sensitivity and precision should be considered. The self-absorption in the lamp increases, the intensity of the radiation sharp light decreases, the background increases, the sensitivity decreases, and the consumption of inert gas in the lamp is accelerated, and the service life of the lamp is shortened. The hollow cathode lamp is a discharge lamp designed for use as a spectral line source with atomic absorption (AA) spectrometers. At this time, noise is increased and the signal-to-noise ratio is lowered if the lamp current is too large, the spectrum of the radiation is thermally broadened and the collision is widened. However, if the lamp current is too small, the transmitted light is too weak, and the gain of the photomultiplier tube sensitivity needs to be increased. The lamp current is small, and the spectral line of the sharp line that enables radiation is narrow, which makes the measurement sensitivity high. The magnitude of the operating current of the lamp directly affects the stability of the lamp placement point and the output intensity of the sharp line light. Generally, a hollow cathode lamp having a high melting point of nickel, cobalt, titanium, zirconium or the like can be used with a larger current, and for a hollow cathode lamp of a low melting point and easily sputtered bismuth, potassium, sodium, cesium, cesium, gallium or the like, an electric current is used. For most elements, the working current of daily atomic absorption spectrometer analysis should be 40%~60% of the rated current, which can ensure stable and suitable sharp line light output. The hollow cathode lamps are marked with the maximum operating current. Therefore, check the quality of the lamp before selecting the lamp current. The background reading should not be greater than 5%, preferably equal, and the ratio should be less than 1%. HOLLOW CATHODE LAMP FILLED WITH NEON ANTIMONY Product Code: LM600-12. Where there is no emission line, if there is still a reading, this is the background continuous spectrum. A range of Hollow Cathode Lamps suitable for laboratory applications. When the shutter is turned off, then the shutter is turned on, and the wavelength is changed to leave the wavelength of the emission. Hollow cathode lamp, Au, 37mm / 1.5, standard, Heraeus type 3QNY/Au suitable for manufacturer / instrument:their order number: Agilent Technologies. The lamp emits a trace of hydrogen in the lamp during use, and the light emitted by the hydrogen is a continuous spectrum, which can be called the background emission of the lamp. MxRady offers LARK® Hollow Cathode Lamps compatible for various AAS. Some of the lamp backgrounds are too large to be used normally. The presence of collisions is further supported by determination of beaming exponent by numerically fitting the data.The quality of the element lamp selected by the atomic absorption spectrometer directly affects the sensitivity of the measurement and the linearity of the standard curve. The total line-of-sight average atom density measured by absorption technique using hollow cathode lamp is compared to that measured by atomic vapor deposition method. The formation of collision induced virtual source is inferred from measurement of atom density distribution profile along the width of the atomic beam. This is ascribed to competing processes of atom-atom and electron-atom collisions. It is observed that at higher source temperatures the atoms from metastable state relax to the ground state. Here, several transitions pertaining to a given state have also been invoked to obtain the mean value of atom density thereby providing an opportunity for in situ averaging. In particular, the advantage of availability of multiwavelength emission in hollow cathode lamp is used to determine the atom density in different states. This paper reports the use of hollow cathode lamp based atomic absorption spectroscopy technique to measure online the state resolved atom density (ground and metastable) of metal vapor in an atomic beam produced by a high power electron gun. It needs to be experimentally investigated. State resolved atom population of metal vapor having low-lying metastable states departs from equilibrium value. Detection of coherent radar signals with unknown Doppler shift. This is because we have access to radars in over 90 countries all over the world. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems, Kokura, Japan, 11–13 July 2007 IEEE: Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2007 pp. Optimization of Orthogonal Discrete Frequency-Coding Waveform Based on Modified Genetic Algorithm for MIMO Radar. Design of OFDM radar pulses using genetic algorithm based techniques. Some devices for the solution of large sets of simultaneous linear equations. The orthogonal approximation of an oblique structure in factor analysis. Lectures on Modern Convex Optimization SIAM: Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2001. Inverting Modified Matrices Memorandum Report 42 Statistical Research Group: Princeton, NJ, USA, 1950. Joint Design of Transmitting Waveforms and Receiving Filter for MIMO-STAP Airborne Radar. Manifold Optimization for Joint Design of MIMO-STAP Radars. Robust MIMO Radar Waveform Design to Improve the Worst-Case Detection Performance of STAP. Waveform Design for Radar STAP in Signal Dependent Interference. In 2015 IEEE Radar Conference IEEE: Piscataway Township, NJ, USA, 2015 pp. Projected Gradient Waveform Design for Fully Adaptive Radar STAP. In 2014 IEEE Radar Conference IEEE: Piscataway Township, NJ, USA, 2014 pp. Signal dependent clutter waveform design for radar STAP. MIMO radar waveform design in the presence of clutter. Adaptive radar phase-coded wave-form design. (WFIE) - Our weather remains unseasonably chilly through the rest of the weekend. is the official website for KHOU-TV, Channel 11, your trusted source for breaking news, weather and sports in. Still cold Sunday, warmer with rain chances for the workweek. Enhanced target detection and identification via optimized radar transmission pulse shape. Weather forecast and conditions for Houston, Texas and surrounding areas. Optimumu transmit-receiver design in the presence of signal-dependent interference and channel noise. Optimum Matched Illumination-Reception Radar. Principle of Space-Time Adaptive Processing IEE: Bodmin, UK, 2002. Space-Time Adaptive Processing for Airborne Radar MIT Lincoln lab.: Lexington, MA, USA, 1994. EPA.The authors declare no conflict of interest. Ozone, particulate, and sulfur dioxide levels are sampled through the Lung Association and Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Air Quality Division, and the U.S. And to help you breathe easier, we monitor allergens through the St. With a network of over 35 cameras throughout the viewing area, we can even show when and where air masses are changing and precipitation types are changing.įor astronomers, we track the moon phase and provide star charts for significant celestial events. Download the NEWS CENTER Maine app on your mobile device to get personalized weather. With fast-changing air masses, computer software samples temperatures from hundreds of weather stations around the viewing area and the country to show temperature trends so that you can prepare for flash freezes, heat waves, cold fronts, and warm fronts to help dress for the changing air masses. Tornadoes, flash flooding, severe thunderstorms, and winter weather driving conditions are the favorite chase items. 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RADAR CHECK: Rain is fairly widespread across Alabama this afternoon as a cold front. In addition, our meteorologists have more experience than the competition with over 100 years in the field. ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama offers news, sports, and weather. Every season, every hour, every day, FOX 2 and KPLR 11 covers all types of weather with more meteorologists than any other station. If DjVu document has color images, then they'll be usually placed on background layer in this case user can take advantage of tools like ddjvu (extract only background layer) and imagemagick (auto-crop) to output just images instead whole canvas, but it can't be automated for creating PDF outputĪnother saner, but slower approach is use of regular OCR GUI tools. Lengthy comments below discuss representing smaller images from DjVu document page as separate objects, which is not easily possible because DjVu document page is itself just a single image with optional text layer, with no "information" about smaller images as separate objects. Do this for all possible file types you want, eg xls xlsx xlsm xlst. Solve it by, from the file explorer, right click the file, select Open With, Select Excel Program and also thick the box 'always use this program to open'. Which is identical to input DjVu file and has text layer inside: Or the file association with excel is incorrect. Thanks text-processing djvu Share Improve this question Follow edited at 9:09 Peter.O 31. Next, open up a File Explorer and drag and drop the DjVuLibre setup. Then this nifty program takes care of everything that's inside this folder (HTML and TIFF files with same base name) and produces output PDF file with some by-products: sample.djvu Consider two different cases: extract without removal of pages from the original djvu file, and extract without removal. The result should be that the djvu files in your Greenstone collection are now. This is where pdfbeads comes in play, and we simple execute: So that we end with these file in out work folder: sample.djvu Now we extract DjVu page to TIFF format with:ĭdjvu -format=tiff -page=10 sample.djvu pg10.tif Sed intervention corrects class names in output hOCR (which is just simple HTML file) After that, you should be able to open File Explorer on Windows. Your Taskbar will disappear for a few seconds before reappearing. In the Processes tab, locate Windows Explorer. We can use djvu2hocr command (from ocrodjvu package) to extract hidden text layer from DjVu file (it doesn't do any OCR or similar, it just extracts text layer with geometry), i.e.:ĭjvu2hocr -p 10 sample.djvu | sed 's/ocrx/ocr/g' > pg10.html Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc on your keyboard to open the Task Manager. pdfbeads, that has it's own requirements which can be found by Google.Here is one way, which would require some not so common tools: If you’ve followed the steps correctly, the updated code will show up in the Authenticator app. Now, you’ll need to enter the 6-digit code that you just saw in the Authenticator app.Now, tap on “Scan a QR code” and point your iPhone’s camera and the barcode that’s displayed on your computer.Launch the Google Authenticator app on your iPhone and tap on the “+” icon as shown below.If you’re not sure, follow the next steps. At this point, you’ll need to use the Authenticator app to scan this QR code. A QR code will be displayed on your screen.Now, you need to select the “iPhone” option and click “Next”.Here, you’ll find the Authenticator app section.Next, enter your Google account login details that you use for the Authenticator app and click on “Next”.Click on “Get Started” located at the top of the page. Head over to Google’s 2-step verification webpage on your computer using a web browser.Now, without further ado, let’s get started. It’s best to use a computer for this method. Keep in mind that the following procedure can only be used to recover your Google Authenticator account if you still have access to your old iPhone. Trying to get back all your two-factor verification codes in the Authenticator app on a new iPhone? Read on! How to Move Google Authenticator Account to a New iPhone As long as you have access to your old iPhone, you should be able to move your Authenticator account including all the accounts that were added to the app. This doesn’t mean you’ve lost access to all of your online accounts since Google makes it easy to transfer your Authenticator account. When you install and launch the Google Authenticator app on a new iPhone, it’s going to be empty without any of your verification codes. Humidity, precipitation, pressure, dew point, dusk times, wind, visibility etc. Weather detailsĪs we mentioned earlier, the weather unit in iStat Menus is ridiculously rich in all kinds of information. To prevent it, constant view of your disk’s temperature is vital. When you’re running software that strains your system, there’s always a risk of overheating. One of the crucial points in Mac’s hardware that needs monitoring during intensive work is temperature. Plus, it shows you charge cycles, unlike macOS (looking at you, Apple). The estimate shrinks when you open CPU and memory-hungry apps, but at least it gives you some comfort in knowing how much time your Mac has. As macOS once did, it shows you the time until your Mac shuts down. One of the most useful (even though a bit unreliable) displays in iStat Menus is battery life. As well as pressure that current usage has on your Mac’s memory. You can view the list of apps that take up most memory resources and general division of memory load between wires, active, and compressed. Usually, you’d have to resort to Activity Monitor, but iStat Menus will keep an overview of your CPU and GPU (graphic processing unit) load in your menu bar.Īll info on your memory load hides behind one blue bar in iStat indicators. When the stats climb up, it’s time to slow down on the apps you’re using to prevent overheating. Now, let’s take a closer look at each of the main stat displays.Ĭentral processing unit is a key indicator of a hard-working Mac. Some readouts expand into additional graphs or more detailed tables. For more information about a particular readout, hover over it with with your cursor. You’ll find a series of readouts, with some illustrated by charts and graphs. To expand any menu, just click on its icon. You can view virtually anything, from UV ray intensity to astronomical dusk and dawn times. For instance, weather doesn’t just show you current temperature and moonphase. They’re available in the main menu as well and are frankly way more convenient (and informative) than native macOS versions, so you should look into that. By extra we mean that you’ll have to turn them on manually from the iStat Menus app window, they’re not shown by default like the previous. You’ll also be introduced to a couple of extra stats, like weather and world clock. Getting to know your new Mac indicatorsīy default, iStat Menus embeds five displays in your Mac’s Menubar: CPU, Memory, Solid State Drive, Network, and Sensors. Plus, you’ll be able to customize the appearance of each display according to your needs. Control Mac's activity and performance from menu barĮach menubar display expands into a set of specialized charts and displays, each of which gives more specific information. The app displays information about your CPU, memory, solid state drives, and network connection, and gives you a convenient way to check in on your computer’s sensors. IStat Menus delivers new insights into how your Mac is performing, all built into your menu bar. Every important number in your Mac seems intentionally hidden, so you’ll need an app to bring them into the view and make them stay there. To view your central processor usage, you’ll have to launch Activity monitor, and same goes for network info. How many hours of use is it, three? What if you stream a movie? macOS prefers not to disclose the exact time. You open your Mac in an airport and it has 23% battery charge. The chemical route includes the sol–gel method, hydrothermal method, solvothermal method, cathodic reduction, and chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The photocatalytic process achieved ~5% efficiency of solar to hydrogen, which is the highest efficiency for a single material.Ĭobalt oxide can be synthesized using various methods through a chemical or physical route. (2016) revealed that CoO can cleave water molecules without the addition of cocatalysts or sacrificial reagents. Ag/AgCl could be achieved at −0.50 mA cm −2, approximately. (2017) reported that photocurrent densities produced by Co 3O 4 for PEC performance at −0.4 V bias vs. Co 3O 4 and CoO are reportedly the most stable phases of cobalt oxide and are the most investigated materials for PEC water-splitting applications. Cobalt oxide is attractive because of its suitable optical band gap of ~2.00 eV, which falls within the favorable band gap range for visible light absorption. However, recently, cobalt oxide itself has also received considerable attention as a photocatalyst material. TiO 2, Cu 2O, WO 3, Fe 2O 3, and perovskites are among the semiconductor materials that have been extensively investigated as photoelectrodes, because these materials are highly abundant and require simple fabrication techniques and low-cost preparation processes. The present study showed that Co 3O 4 is photoactive under acidic conditions, which is encouraging for HER compared with the mixed-phase Co 3O 4/CoO. This promising photocurrent generation was due to the abundant source of protons, which was favorable for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in H 2SO 4 (pH 1). This photocurrent corresponded to an 8-fold enhancement compared with that achieved in neutral and basic electrolytes and was higher than the results reported by other studies. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) was produced by Co 3O 4 (450 ☌) in H 2SO 4 (pH 1). Evaluation of the PEC performance of the samples in KOH (pH 13), Na 2SO 4 (pH 6.7), and H 2SO 4 (pH 1) revealed that the highest photocurrent −2.3 mA cm −2 generated at −0.5 V vs. Microflowers (Co 3O 4) and microflowers with nanowire petals (Co 3O 4/CoO) were produced at 450 ☌ and 550 ☌, respectively. At various annealing temperatures, different morphologies and crystal phases of cobalt oxide were observed. An investigation into the physicochemical characteristics and photoelectrochemical (PEC) properties of the developed cobalt oxide thin film was comprehensively performed. Cobalt oxide thin films were successfully grown directly on fluorine-doped tin oxide glass substrates through a simple, green, and low-cost hydrothermal method. Marginally-related, but too awesome to ignore: Worth a look in the land of text editors: Kieran Healy has helpfully mapped several text editors onto Lord of the Rings locations. If you are looking for low-stress ways to turn your otters into actual writing, nvALT is worth a look. The arguably more exciting news is that Elastic Threads has released new browser extensions for Chrome and Safari that make it even easier to get information (either the current page, a linked page, or selected text) into your notes. That should make things more consistent for users. I mention all of this simply to point to two new developments this week: first, a new version has been released, and with it the announcement that, going forward, nvALT will merge with the main release of Notational Velocity. It’s the easiest way to get from “in my head” to “drafted” that I can think of. More generally, I can say that every piece of writing that I’ve done over the past 9 months or so that’s not an e-mail, a wiki contribution, or a Google Docs collaboration has been done in nvALT. Eddie Smith has often written about ways to use nvALT, and Caleb McDaniel has shown how to use Notational Velocity as an easy task management system (previously linked). LifeHacker has a video showing off the virtues of Notational Velocity here, and Ben Brooks explains some of the strengths of nvALT. Simple formatting is possible, and you can sync your notes across machines in a variety of ways. If what you’re typing matches text you’ve already entered, those notes come up for possible editing if what you’re typing is wholly new, then the app creates a new note. The basic idea of the app is that you just start typing. nvALT is a fork by Brett Terpstra and David Halter/Elastic Threads, of Notational Velocity, which is designed to be as friction-free a way to take notes as possible. You can change the title, the content, the tags - as long as the ID remains the same, the rest of your archive will not be affected.NvALT is a Mac application that lies between conventional text editors and elaborate external-brain programs such as Evernote, DevonThink, and OneNote. Linking notes by an arbitrary identifier (we suggest using date-based numbers for that purpose) helps keep links stable between notes. (Also, file name changes usually feel more important than tag changes to me.) When you get used to using tags like this, it's easier to change a note fundamentally in the future, like splitting its contents into multiple other notes, extracting each informational part as its own piece, then leave the original as an index, subsequently changing tags to better fit its new contents. Tags are loose connection between notes, and you can add or drop them from notes anytime without much effort. It makes your thinking more rigid, though. The name prefix doesn't have any advantage when it comes to full-text search. Using the search, you can drill down your recipes by searching for #recipe #low-carb #cake, for example, hopefully resulting in a low-carb cake recipe But now you can add other tags, too, like #baking, #low-carb, #cake, or what have you. The idea is to let nvALT be the receptacle of whatever fragments of information you want to write. The app is a fork of the open-source app Notational Velocity, an application designed to let you write notes on your computer. This doesn't produce any benefit on its own, except maybe show more of the actual note title because you can remove the repeating "recipe" prefix. nvALT lays somewhere between text editor and note-taking app it's a free-to-use Mac app for web-heads. Then you can use the full-text search for "#recipe" to get to the set of notes that are recipes. I'd suggest you try to move the info "this is a recipe" from the file name into the note text as a tag: #recipe. This mimicks a rigid directory structure. The note title structures you use are useful when you sort notes by name: then you have all recipes next to one another, for example. Let me tackle the note-related question first: How does The Archive handle images? Is there a tool that will allow viewing of 'The Archive' notes on iOS and include images? On iOS I am currently using Editorial and have used 1Writer in the past. How could i transfer this structure to Zettelkasten? I have very few links between notes or tags.ģ. I have set up nvalt using the note title as means of finding my way around my notes. What are the functional differences between NVAlt and The archive, on the surface they seem very similar appsĢ. Searching twitter for any updates i have found reference to 'The Archive' and have been intrigued by its use if Zettelkasten (not something i have heard about before). I have been a longtime NVAlt user and have been waiting a long time for its replacement (Bitwriter). |
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