The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. The aim of the project‚ founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland‚ is to study the brain’s architectural and functional principles. The project is headed by the founding director Henry Markram and co-directed by Felix Schürmann and Sean Hill. Using a Blue Gene supercomputer running
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Girls Dress Code Imagine walking to your car in an empty parking lot late at night after dinner. A man walks by and hollers at you. He slowly walks up to you and pushes you against the car. Before you know it‚ he comes on to you and you are trying to get away‚ but it doesn’t work. After he is done and has left you call the police. After a few days comes the trial. They ask the woman what she was wearing‚ she said “ I was wearing a fitting dress that came to about mid thigh”. They told her if
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The Blue Boy Summary: In Gary Stephen Ross’ excerpt‚ “The Blue Boy‚” he describes Vancouver through the eyes of the main character. The character recounts a story of his travels that he would take with his father and brother from Toronto to Vancouver. The character highlights the ongoing transformation of the city and describes how it has evolved over time. In the beginning of the excerpt‚ he describes what he saw Vancouver to be in the 60s: a small city with little to offer. Contrastingly
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“Girl” by Hanif Kureishi The short story written by Hanif Kureishi portrays a typical love story‚ but with complex aspects. Hanif Kureishi is an English author‚ novelist and short-story writer. “Girl” was written in 1999. It revolves about a young woman‚ Nicole‚ who is in a relationship with an older man‚ Majid. A classic cliché‚ young girl falls in love with older experienced man‚ and with that some questions and problems naturally will arise. They are together‚ despite of Majid’s age and
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The Blue Film An old proverb goes “The past will always come back to haunt you”. Which means‚ that no matter how much you try to hide something from your past it will somehow surface again. It is only a matter of time. This is a very fitting proverb when talking about the short story “The Blue Film”. “The blue film” is a short story about a single evening in the life of a middle aged Europe-an couple. It is a simple chronological story. The novel has a strong marriage and divorcement theme
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1. How strong are the competitive forces confronting Blue Nile and other online jewelers? Which one of the five competitive forces is the strongest? Do five-forces analysis to support your answer. * Threat of new competition: Barrier to entry is moderate due to high capital requirements for technology and software application needs to ensure a customer/user friendly online purchasing experience. But I believe this will be offset by the industry profitability attractiveness to new competitors
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A GIRL LIKE ME: GWEN ARAUJO STORY The film‚ A Girl Like Me‚ is based on a true story of a transgender teenager who was not accepted by the society. Gwen Araujo was born as Eddie Araujo. However‚ as he got older he started to realize that he was more female than a male. Eddie feels like a girl. Eddie likes wearing makeup and woman clothes. When he wore makeup and woman clothes‚ Eddie’s mother Sylvia gets angry. Sylvia is having a hard time to accept Eddie’s situation. After Eddie started to high
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A Study of History‚ Forms‚ and Influence of Blues Music John Elmer C. Bayangos Communication 2 Professor Cynthia S. Sanguyu March 29‚ 2012 Abstract This study describes how important the blues is as a type or genre of music It aims to discuss the origin of blues music and how it evolved through time. It also intends to identify‚ enumerate‚ and evaluate the differences of each forms of blues music. It will show why and how the blues affects the formation of different genres of music
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composed his first published song entitled “When You Want ’Em You Can’t Get ’Em”. From 1920 to 1924‚ he composed for an annual production put on by George White. Legend has it that he actually composed what most say is his greatest work‚ Rhapsody in Blue‚ in a rush because he had forgotten about the performance. About ten years later‚ he wrote one of the most famous American operas called Porgy and Bess. Many people say it is “considered to not only be Gershwin’s most complex and best-known works
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International Journal of Computer Science and Management Research Vol 2 Issue 7 July 2013 ISSN 2278-733X Blue eyes Technology Himanshu Sharma and Gaurav Rathee Computer Science Department‚ Mahamaya Technical University‚ Noida‚ Uttar Pradesh-201309 hmix13@gmail.com & gaurav_rathee@hotmail.com Abstract - This study examines the making‚ building and the real life application of Blue eyes Technology. The BLUE EYES technology aims at creating computational machines that have perceptual and sensory
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