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An exhibit at the University of Nebraska at Omaha doesn't emphasize the end result of working with clay. Instead, "Clay as the Human Condition" focuses on the process and how the artists use an inanimate substance to reflect how they approach life and how life affects them. Featured are artists with Iowa ties. ALISA HOLEN, a visiting ceramics professor at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, is the exhibit's curator. She chose to display three artists with ties to the Hawkeye State. Each used clay to explore different areas of life and its challenges.
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Bill Kules, Jack Kustanowitz, and Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab and Department of Computer Science propose a number of "fast-feature" methods to categorize Web search results into stable and meaningful categories. These techniques were developed to address the metadata challenge of increasing numbers of unstructured and semi-structured digital documents, and the advantages such techniques yield include the provision of overviews, navigation within search results, and negative results. These methods use nothing beyond the features available in the search result list (title, snippet, URL, etc.), while credible knowledge resources (the Open Directory Project Web directory's thematic hierarchy, a U.S. government organizational hierarchy, personal browsing histories, DNS domain, and document size) are ... employed to augment search results with important metadata. The researchers ran three tests in which the percentage of results categorized for a quintet of representative queries was high enough to suggest that the techniques were practically beneficial for such applications as general Web search, government Web search, and the Web site of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A prototype search engine (SERVICE) incorporates fast-feature techniques, and Kules et. al make suggestions about improving categorization rates and how Web site designers could restructure their sites to support rapid search result categorization. They note, for example, that categorization engines would be capable of classifying pages in precise accordance with the authors' intentions if sites published a machine-readable site map and placed it in a standard location.
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Residents of Iowa City, home to the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, have submitted a ballot measure that would kick anyone under 21 out of the city's bars after 10 p.m. The measure appears on the ballot Nov. 6. At the University of Iowa, Republicans and Democrats alike have been conducting nonpartisan voter registration drives and setting up voting stations in the residence halls. Even students at other schools, many of whom travel to Iowa City to drink, are speaking out. The result, if the organization effort works, is that more young people than usual will be registered to vote in Iowa on Nov. 6 and during the caucuses. This could be good news for Obama.
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Data is still being compiled from the moisture probes (provided by AgriLink Company Ltd.), Pilcher said, but initial results are consistent with those of a similar study conducted the last two years at the University of Nebraska. Those studies... involving moisture probes, have shown that the fuller root mass of YieldGard Plus corn hybrids was able to utilize about 3.0 more inches of subsoil moisture than corn protected with soil insecticides.
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The team at Stirling University have discovered workers of both sexes who drink in moderation tend to earn more than their teetotal colleagues. Even heavy drinkers - who may be damaging their health as a result of their habit - tend to earn more than their fellow workers who spurn alcohol altogether.
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A news release was issued on 7/30 to announce that researchers from UCDHSC along with colleagues from Stanford University, report the results of a large-scale, genome-wide study to investigate gene copy number differences among ten primate species, including humans. The study provides an overview of genes and gene families that have undergone major copy number expansions and contractions in different primate lineages spanning approximately 60 million years of evolutionary time. In the report, which appears online in Genome Research, the scientists speculate how unique, lineage-specific gene copy number expansions and contractions in humans may underlie traits such as endurance running, higher cognitive function, and susceptibility genetic disease.
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