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«We can now take linear nano - materials and direct how they are organized in two dimensions, using a DNA origami platform to create any number of shapes,» explains NYU Chemistry Professor Nadrian Seeman, the paper's senior author, who founded and developed the field of DNA nanotechnology, now pursued by laboratories around the globe, three decades ago.

â $ œWe canâ $ ™ t be that hard on Penfield, because the number of cases where he was able to study head movement was quite limited, and studying head motion as he did, by applying an electrode directly to the brain, creates some challenges, â $ says lead author Buz Jinnah, MD, professor of neurology, human genetics and pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.

But the dabs are created using highly volatile butane gas, and a number of fires, explosions and severe burns have been linked to the production of this marijuana concentrate, said study lead author John Stogner, an assistant professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

The author's program gives you many tools to help you easily create a personalized plan, including exact numbers of calories and macronutrient amounts and ratios, lists of foods and replacements, pre - and post-workout food modifications, and a personalized exercise routine.

26 Mark Sisson, author of The Primal Blueprint, suggests the reason for this six - hour despondency is that the neutrophils are too busy dealing with the inflammatory mess created by the influx of sugar.27 Whatever the mechanics, removing excess sugar is a must if you want to reduce the number of illnesses your family suffers.

Originally created in the 1930s by short - lived author Robert Howard, the character of Conan the Barbarian has seen a number of incarnations over the years, including an upcoming filmed re-adaptation of Howard's original stories.

Rapid authoring tools are updating themselves with HTML5 output, while an increasing number of learning and development managers create courses...

Lastly, there are a number of eLearning authoring tools that offer everything you need to create eLearning courses from start to finish.

A number of rapid authoring tools, like Adobe Captivate 5.5 with HTML5 Converter and Lectora Inspire can also help in quickly converting the existing e-learning to HTML5 for mobile delivery, as well as create dynamic video and Flash content.

She has spent more than 20 years studying and writing about classroom assessment practices and has authored a number of ASCD publications, including How to Create and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading, How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students, and How to Design Questions and Tasks to Assess Student Thinking.

Chris Belfield, one of the report's authors, said the reform was always going to create «winners and losers» at a time of «severe pressure on school budgets», but said there was «significant uncertainty» about the future funding position for large numbers of schools

This has prompted a number of companies to meet the unscrupulous needs of authors to get noticed and has created a firestorm of epic proportions.»

I have a hunch, though, that some kind of screening process will evolve among book reviewers, perhaps around some version of nepotism / networking — either where outlets within certain «elite» lit communities will begin reviewing talented self - published people who are also connected with the same communities — or sufficient numbers of intrepid bloggers will have the tenacity to weed through the jungle and sniff out the good stuff to review, creating a critical mass of well - reviewed, non-tradionally published authors.

A number of clever coders (people who understand Internet stuff really well) have created software that help authors like us cut back on the labour intensive work behind collecting good quality reviews.

Open Road, as a digital publisher of ebooks with a focus on the vast number of backlist titles, is perfectly poised to deliver value to its authors, as its marketing approach uniquely focuses on authors as brands and systematically creates authentic connections between the authors and the reader.

This cadre of unlikely players created a digital bookstore that currently has 300,000 titles, an indie author self - publishing system and a number of e-readers and tablets that are currently sold in over 12,500 retail locations.

A number of authors have been delighted and / or perplexed to find a new designation next to their books» titles in their KDP dashboards, and that's the option to create a print version of their ebooks.

Elegant Book Design will work with the author to create a unique, well - designed cover; however, Elegant Book Design limits the number of rounds of revision request and reviews to five.

-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting books for Smashwords — Research about the business side of being an author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)-- Scouting for bloggers to send book review requests to — Pitching to those bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing) of blog posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the traineesCreating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the traineescreating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)

While it may sound simple to create a Kindle book or CreateSpace or Lulu or any number of the 20 + Author Solutions companies, what people unskilled in publshing do not realize:

But for authors with the right technical know - how, creating tablet PC - specific interactive ebook files known as enhanced ebooks that contain complete audio, video, and astounding numbers of graphics have made their works stand out from the digital crowd.

With a market flooded with user - created ebooks across an ever - growing number of distribution platforms, indie authors have discovered that making their work stand out from the crowd is a full time job on its own.

It seems that more and more people have access to creating a book these days, whether it is through the large number of publishers both big and small, a print - on - demand service like CreateSpace or Lightning Source, or any of the independent presses that are springing up to meet the needs of authors who are tired of... [Read more...]

Not very revolutionary, given the growing numbers of ebook platforms that let authors upload content and create a book — for free, no less — in the same... [Read more...]

Now that many of the barriers and critical stigmas associated with independent publishing have been stripped away, a large number of authors are opting to create their own small press publishing imprints to produce and market their works.

It seems that more and more people have access to creating a book these days, whether it is through the large number of publishers both big and small, a print - on - demand service like CreateSpace or Lightning Source, or any of the independent presses that are springing up to meet the needs of authors who are tired of playing the publishing game.

Book Baby offers a number of services to help authors create and promote their books.

Back in the olden days - a couple of years ago - an author was forced into a system where the people who created the work had to act as beggars, supplicants crawling in mass numbers to bow before the altars of literary agents.

Consider creating a high visibility promotion that includes publicity: a walk for cancer by zombie book lovers (in costume of course), or blood drive where vampire authors donate blood and attempt to reach a goal of a certain number of donors in a limited time.

Amazon has laid out five arbitration demands in a complaint filed with the American Arbitration Association (obtained by TechCrunch, see below), accusing the involved parties of offering services to boost the number of pages read in books, fraudulent customer reviews, creating fake user accounts to download e-books and inflate the numbers and other schemes to boost the amount of royalties authors and publishers were able to pull from Amazon's self - publishing platform.

I bought ten numbers at Bowker (but a lot of my fellow authors have bought 100 because it was the best «deal») but when I loaded my books at Create Space I chose to go with their number because I believed it would help me in the libraries.

Hi Phil, a number of traditionally published authors are going indie with some of their books — Barry Eisler being one and of course JK Rowling has started her own company for Pottermore — hardly an indie in one sense of the word but she has the ebook rights and is creating a whole new world for fans.

A number of authors have created viable careers and readerships through self - publishing.

However, that is in total, so it is difficult to tell whether individual authors in general are making more or if there are a growing number of independent authors creating greater total volume but not necessarily higher personal profits.

Yes, the mass of self - published authors out there will create a tier of value - priced books (this has already been done), and I'm sure in a couple of years Amazon will release another spate of numbers that will show how much more profitable $ 6.99 eBooks are as compared to $ 9.99 eBooks, and so on.

So far, it doesn't seem like ANY indie authors have discovered Merch yet — and so they are missing out on a number of unique opportunities to expand their customer base, grow their brand AND create an additional income stream beyond their books.

I think a good number of authors these days are in a sub-genre or create - your - own - subgenre «kink» as you say.

For those of us who romanticize a more tactile library experience, Chronicle Books has created stationary from images of The Library of Congress's original cards for a number of classic authors.

Rather than create a false comparison (this is usually done by ignoring the vast number of traditionally aspirant authors who never get published and never sell a single book, and instead comparing the top 1 % from one pool to the 100 % from another), we're just looking at results.

If this is typical, then the bookstores could likely save a lot of bandwidth if large numbers of Smashwords authors decide to create their own epubs.

Operating under the assumption that these authors have worked with traditional / small press / e-publishers, know enough about the industry to create a quality product to generate sales and have some sort of built - in following, the quality and quantity of the product did not necessarily correlate to number of book sales in this no - income category.

For indie authors, instead of abandoning the telling signals and numbers, you must remain open to the availability of data that can help create a suitable marketing campaign to target your audience in the right place, right time.

Sales Rank Express was created and is maintained by Aaron Shepard, Webmaster of Aaron Shepard's Publishing Page and author of a number of influential books on Kindle and POD publishing, among others.

It is being created by a team that includes: Richard «Lord British» Garriott, the creator of the Ultima series, Starr Long, the original Director of Ultima Online, and Tracy Hickman, the author of the beloved Dragonlance Novels and a number of Dungeons & Dragons modules.

This new opus has been created by Anime - fighting masters CyberConnect2 and contain tons of new techniques, a never - before - seen number of playable characters and a new character designed by Naruto's author, Masashi Kishimoto.

This new opus created by CyberConnect2, the masters of the Anime - fighting genre, will contain tons of new techniques, a never - before - seen number of playable characters and a new character designed by Naruto's author: Masashi Kishimoto!

«There has never been a pause in global warming unless you try to create one by looking at an insufficiently large number of data points,» said lead author Stephan Lewandowsky, a social scientist and professor of psychology at the University of Bristol in the U.K..

Most meta data is straight - up boring: author's name, number of revisions, date created, etc..