Sentences with phrase «of open source materials»

Many of the developers and maintainers of open source materials are people who use these materials themselves, and thus have a strong interest in keeping the quality as high as possible.

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«3D printing is freeing access to material objects in the same way that the computer and Internet revolutions has been liberating information for the last 30 years,» said Adrian Bowyer, the founder of one of the most popular 3D printing open source platforms, the RepRap project.

It has also given engineers the tools to manipulate the natural functions of organisms in ways that were unimaginable only a decade ago, opening up rich sources of new biology - based materials.

This light source opens up a whole new range of opportunities in medicine, life science, and material analysis.

Their move follows similar schemes for sharing plant material in India and the United States, but is the first that provides legal protection for the open - source status of future descendants of plant varieties.

In addition, in collaboration with Irwin Goldman, Claire developed eight intellectual - property - free populations of carrot germplasm based upon market and color classes and released them as OSSI - Pledged varieties, thus providing ideal sources of material that all interested can use to breed new open source carrot varieties.

An integrated suite of Open - Source computer codes for electronic - structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale, based on density - functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials.

The «open notebook» approach involves full disclosure and public publishing of raw story materials, a focus on science research published in open access mediums, and encouraging scientific story sources to provide their contact information for follow - up coverage of the story.

To handle the vast amount of data generated by the observatories, BL intends to innovate powerful open source software that will enable members of the general public to make a material contribution to the project by creating their own search tools, and donating unused CPU space to boost the projects computing prowess.

A workshop on the development and use of Python - based open - source software stacks for quantum chemistry and materials science.

Nike's Making app is an open - source tool for designers to become better informed about the environmental impact of the materials they use by scoring them based on properties such as chemical processes, energy and water consumption and greenhouse gas output.

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Knowing the source material, I wanted to like this film, the possibilities of how film could open this material up and delver deeper while also utilizing film techniques to condense while exploring different facets of the lyrics were endless.

Though the finale is left just as open - ended as in the book (which may be a sore point for viewers unfamiliar with the source material), «Catching Fire» is everything you could want from a sequel without many of the usual failings.

After a tragic opening in which young Peter Quill witnesses the death of his mother only to be abducted by a UFO, we're thrown into an adventure that owes as much to Indiana Jones and the TV series Farscape as to its source material.

The most obvious feature of free open source (FOS) materials is the lack of cost for the materials themselves - most open - source content is free of cost in digital form.

Open source digital textbooks, which contain free, typically changeable material that can be shared between teachers, have been in the works for several years and are just one part of a larger movement to transform learning through the use of technology.

The week this announcement was made, Edutopia had an article on the use of open source curricular materials - a growing trend being driven, in part, by the extraordinary cost of commercial textbooks.

He must ask Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to launch a major campaign (as part of the I - 3 initiative, perhaps) to give schools incentives to take advantage of new technologies that are rapidly coming on line — broadband, powerful computers, 3 - dimensional presentation of material (ala Avatar), and open - source curricular development (ala Wikipedia).

Into this mix has walked the Open High School of Utah, a charter school that is offering a virtual education that is based almost entirely on curricular materials available free - of - cost from open sourOpen High School of Utah, a charter school that is offering a virtual education that is based almost entirely on curricular materials available free - of - cost from open souropen sources.

As we enter the world of high - powered notebook computers, broadband internet connections, 3 - dimensional curricula, open - source product development, and internet - based games, both co-operative and competitive, students will learn by accessing dynamic, interactive instructional materials that provide information to each student at the level of accomplishment he or she has reached.

Educational opportunity is about to be revolutionized by powerful notebook computers, broadband and the open - source development of curricular materials (a la Wikipedia).

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

But a group of teachers working together in a protected space, where open source cowboys couldn't trespass, could produce far more innovative material than Forte sees in conventional texts, and for far less money.

Additionally, the paper also includes plans to create a new standard for teachers» continuous professional development and will examine the feasibility of incentivising teaching schools to publish their research and CPD materials on an «open - source» basis.

«Increasingly, you're going to see open education projects become the leading publication outlet for educational material, because they're so flexible, they're so easy to maintain, and authors can have such a big impact by publishing their material with open access,» says Richard Baraniuk, founder of the open source content library Connexions.

Open source authoring can provide more diverse and up - to - date materials than the lumbering print - textbook process can, and if teachers contribute, it could pour the wisdom of wired teachers everywhere into a collective global brain.

Educational opportunity is about to be revolutionized by powerful notebook computers, broadband, sophisticated cooperative and competitive game playing over the Internet, curriculum in three dimensions, and the open - source development of curricular materials.

Open source content, or material freely contributed and given away, is best known to software engineers through operating systems such as Linux and to the nongeeky rest of us through the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

By ensuring a well - maintained and E F organised cleaning storage area, operatives and employers can further increase the safety of their operatives by ensuring: hazardous materials are out of the reach of young children but remain easy to access by the cleaning operative (ie, not stored above head height); containers are not left open; there is suitable ventilation where required; warning signs are used correctly; all equipment and materials are labelled correctly; heaviest equipment is stored at the lowest levels; storage areas are dry and not immediately next to a heat source; and hazardous substances are not overstocked.

By ensuring a well - maintained and organised cleaning storage area, operatives and employers can further increase the safety of their operatives by ensuring: hazardous materials are out of the reach of young children but remain easy to access by the cleaning operative (ie, not stored above head height); containers are not left open; there is suitable ventilation where required; warning signs are used correctly; all equipment and materials are labelled correctly; heaviest equipment is stored at the lowest levels; storage areas are dry and not immediately next to a heat source; and hazardous substances are not overstocked.

Valor makes all of the Compass model curriculum materials available as open source.

Some of the big commercial publishers, such as McGraw - Hill and Pearson, also create open source materials for use in schools.

SB 1784 by Sen. Larry Taylor / Rep. Dan Huberty clarifies the definition of «open - source instructional material» to refer to resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that allows for free use, including courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, videos tests, software and other materials used to support access to knowledge.

There are no collections of free open sourced software, communities, and marketing materials that offer step by step tutorials or have seasonal advice.

Whereas it can be argued that the «digital age» has democratised up to a certain extent a «culture of making» by encouraging people to create and share open - source code, the software and hardware of today can simultaneously alienate users from an awareness of the material conditions of production that still underpin creative labour.

When checking a text, a user gets the results in the percentage of material that was copied from open web sources.

As an example, the Open Source paradigm in software engineering has also done wonders for the salaries of IT personnel in the past 10 years most which is available looks like it has been written by high - school students; hardly professional material at all.

OPDS is a lightweight open standard used to create catalogs that enable the aggregation, distribution, and discovery of books, journals, and other material by any user, from any source, in any digital format, and on any device.

Reviews for the film adaptation of Herman Koch's The Dinner, which opens Friday in select theaters, are split right down the middle, which isn't exactly surprising given the source material!

The first is that Habitat supports Creative Commons licensing, allowing publishers to create open source content and educational materials; in line with that is Inkling's announcement that it will be creating fifty open source titles for schools in partnership with the 20 Million Minds Foundation, furthering the reach and viability of digital textbooks in environments that are more than ready to receive them.

The Bookseller conducted an interview with Flooved's founder, Hamish Brocklebank, who said, «We pivoted our business model back in December and dropped the publishers as we realised students no longer had to be so dependent on overpriced textbooks... Along the lines of the Open Access movement, we source our content directly from the world's best professors in maths and physics who share our vision that access to educational materials should be free.

This is millions of free books that are mainly classics and open source material.

When AmazonCrossing opened a new submissions Web site last year at Frankfurt Business Club, it was met with a dynamic influx of new material in source languages including Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Croatian, Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Urdu.

Included in every course is the PADI Open Water Diver Manual, which you may keep, as well as access to interactive learning sources such as DVD videos to watch at your leisure and online materials, all of which cover what you need to know about basic scuba diving skills, terminology and safety procedures.

Drawing from Hughes» remark on the assumption that «all of us had a sense of rhythm», this exhibition presents an original research into rhythmic sources in performative, material, and immaterial productions within African traditional and contemporary cultures, and extends this assertion to the field of contemporary art; opening up the «us», referring to black people, to a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary engagement with notions of rhythm.

Within his fascination with source, Boone is interested in how particular arrangements and the accumulation of materials that are clearly part of a larger cultural fabric are what construct personal histories, and how reconfiguring these arrangements creates open vessels for new intention.

He has pointed to three sources underlying his free use of diverse materials: Josef Albers's students at Black Mountain College making art out of almost anything; John Cage's and Merce Cunningham's open - ended compositional techniques in music and dance; and James Joyce's construction of new words made out of parts of words from many different languages in Finnegans Wake.

Formed out of a mixture of punk aesthetics, open sourced material via the internet, and expressive abstraction.

Including essays by Tom Eccles, Douglas Fogle, and Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith; a thorough guide to the source material for Edmier's work by the artist's longtime friend, Jade Dellinger; an interview with Keith Edmier by artist Matthew Barney; and a comprehensive bibliography, the book will be officially released at the opening reception of Keith Edmier 1991 - 2007 at CCS Bard on October 20.