Frank’s Website - ** RECOMMENDED ** - Frank’s Hospital Workshop is a free, noncommercial online resource created by an experienced biomedical technician, offering educational materials, user and service manuals, and training courses to help biomedical technicians in developing countries improve the maintenance and operation of hospital equipment.
Health Literacy Online health.gov - “A Guide for Simplifying the User Experience - This research-based guide will help you develop intuitive health websites and digital tools that can be easily accessed and understood by all users — including the millions of Americans who struggle to find, process, and use online health information.”
TISSUE DB » IT’IS Foundation - Biomedical Tissue Properties Database: “tables are available for the densities, heat capacities, thermal conductivities, heat transfer rates, heat generation rates, viscosities, acoustic properties (speed of sound, attenuation constant, and non linearity), tissue weight fractions, and for MR parameters (longitudinal and transversal relaxation times)”.
Biomedical Engineering Focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Advancing Research Impact in Society - The purpose of ARIS is to advance impacts of research for the betterment of society and the expansion of research. We elevate research impact by providing high-quality resources and professional development opportunities and by creating connections among researchers, community partners, and engagement practitioners.
Biomedical Engineering Professional Organizations, Societies, Memberships
AAMI Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation - A nonprofit organization founded in 1967. It is a diverse community of more than 10,000 professionals united by one important mission—the development, management, and use of safe and effective health technology. AAMI is the primary source of consensus standards, both national and international, for the medical device industry, as well as practical information, support, and guidance for healthcare technology and sterilization professionals. Also offers certification: CBET - electromechanical devices, computers, networks, and software used in the delivery of healthcare; CRES - medical imaging modalities, electromechanical devices, computers, networks, and software used in the delivery of healthcare; CHTM - responsible for planning and directing activities of other HTM professionals, monitoring their work, and taking corrective actions when necessary; CISS - person who understands the principles of sterilization process development, validation, control, and management as part of the manufacturing of healthcare products. They have expertise in the science of sterilization, knowledge of sterilization processing, quality management systems, risk management and regulatory requirements; CABT - A certified associate in biomedical technology is an individual who is new to or planning to enter the HTM field and looking to earn an entry level certification to kick-start their career.
AIMBE American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering - The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering is a non-profit organization founded in 1991, and headquartered in Washington. It represents 50,000 medical and biomedical engineers, and academic institutions, private industry, and professional engineering societies.
ASAIO American Society of Artificial and Internal Organs - The ASAIO Journal is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research and development of artificial organs. It is published by Wolters Kluwer on behalf of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs and the editor-in-chief is Mark S. Slaughter, MD.
ASB American Society of Biomechanics - The American Society of Biomechanics is a scholarly society that focuses on biomechanics across a variety of academic fields. It was founded in 1977 by a group of scientists and clinicians.
ASEE American Society for Engineering Education - The American Society for Engineering Education is a non-profit member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and engineering technology education.
BMES Biomedical Engineering Society - BMES is the professional society for students, faculty, researcher and industry working in the broad area of biomedical engineering.
ESB European Society for Biomaterials - The European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) is a non-profit organisation that encourages research and spread of information regarding research and uses of biomaterials. Founded in March 1976, it organises an annual meeting where recent developments mainly within academic research of biomaterials are presented.
ESB European Society of Biomechanics - The European Society of Biomechanics was founded in 1976 at a meeting in Brussels of 20 scientists from 11 countries. Our goal is to encourage research, disseminate knowledge and promote progress in Biomechanics.
IBE Institute of Biological Engineering - The Institute of Biological Engineering or IBE is a non-profit professional organization which encourages inquiry and interest in the field of biological engineering.
IFMBE International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering - The International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering was initially formed as International Federation for Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering during the 2nd International Conference of Medical and Biological Engineering, in the UNESCO Building, Paris, France in 1959.
IPEM Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine - The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine is the United Kingdom’s professional body and learned society for physicists, engineers and technologists within the field of medicine, founded in 1995, changing its name from the Institution of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology in 1997.
ISB International Society of Biomechanics - The International Society of Biomechanics, commonly known as the ISB, is a society dedicated to promoting biomechanics in its various forms. It promotes the study of all areas of biomechanics at the international level, although special emphasis is given to the biomechanics of human movement.
ISPO International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics - ISPO is a multidisciplinary organisation that promotes access to appropriate and equitable rehabilitation, mobility devices, and other assistive technology to improve the quality of life for people with reduced mobility.
IUPESM International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine - The International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine is an international non-governmental organization - the umbrella organization for the International Organization for Medical Physics and International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering.
NIH National Institutes of Health - The National Institutes of Health (NIH /ɛn. aɪ. ˈeɪtʃ/) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
PLoS Medicine - PLOS Medicine is a peer-reviewed weekly medical journal covering the full spectrum of the medical sciences. It began operation on October 19, 2004, as the second journal of the Public Library of Science, a non-profit open access publisher.
PLoS Public Library of Science - PLOS is a nonprofit open-access science, technology, and medicine publisher with a library of open-access journals and other scientific literature under an open-content license. It launched its first journal, PLOS Biology, in October 2003 and publishes seven journals.
SFB Society for Biomaterials - The Society For Biomaterials is a multidisciplinary society of academic, healthcare, governmental and business professionals dedicated to promoting advances in all aspects of biomaterial science.
G. Karantzas and C. Patsakis. “An Empirical Assessment of Endpoint Security Systems Against Advanced Persistent Threats Attack Vectors” J. Cybersecur. Priv. 2021, 1(3), 387-421; doi: 10.3390/jcp1030021 . Available from: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-800X/1/3/21
S. Mehta, M. Darji and H. Joshi, “Threat Prediction using Ensemble Learning Algorithm to provide End-Point Security,” 2022 International Conference on Electronics and Renewable Systems (ICEARS), 2022, pp. 1427-1434, doi: 10.1109/ICEARS53579.2022.9751963. Available from: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9751963
2013-06-07 - A Microfluidic D-subminiature Connector - Lab On A Chip - “Standardized, affordable, user-friendly world-to-chip interfaces … a connector system for plug-and-play interfacing of microfluidic devices to multiple input and output lines. The male connectors are based on existing standardized housings from electronics that are inexpensive and widely available. The female connectors are fabricated using familiar replica molding techniques that can easily be adopted by microfluidic developers.”
2017-07-28 - Tough adhesives for diverse wet surfaces - Science - “Sticky even when wet Tissue adhesives are used as an alternative to stitches or staples and can be less damaging to the healthy tissues. But they can suffer from low biocompatibility and poor matching of the mechanical properties with the tissues. Li et al. combined an adhesive surface with a flexible matrix to develop an adhesive that has the right level of stick but moves with the surrounding tissues. The adhesive is effective in the presence of blood and thus might work during wound repair.”
2020-12-02 - Reprogramming to recover youthful epigenetic information and restore vision - Nature - “show that it is possible to safely reverse the age of a complex tissue and restore its biological function in vivo … We envision that epigenetic reprogramming, either by gene therapy or other means, could promote tissue repair and the reversal of age-related decline in humans.” human regeneration
2022-04-06 - Direct sound printing - Nature Communications - “3D printing of structures using acoustic cavitation produced directly by focused ultrasound which creates sonochemical reactions in highly localized cavitation regions”
2022-06-12 - Transmissible Cancers in an Evolutionary Perspective - iScience - “an overview of known transmissible cancers, discuss the necessary and sufficient conditions for cancer transmission, and provide a comprehensive review on the evolutionary dynamics between transmissible cancers and their hosts.”
2022-06-30 - Hedgehog signaling reprograms hair follicle niche fibroblasts to a hyper-activated state: Developmental Cell - Potential cure for androgenetic alopecia - “SCUBE3 protein microinjection is sufficient to induce new hair growth, and pharmacological TGF-β inhibition rescues mutant hair hyper-activation phenotype. Moreover, dermal-papilla-enriched expression of SCUBE3 and its growth-activating effect are partially conserved in human scalp hair follicles.”
2022-07-06 - Freeform 3D Ice Printing (3D‐ICE) at the Micro Scale - Garg - 2022 - Advanced Science - Wiley Online Library - This work introduces the freeform 3D ice printing (3D-ICE) process for high-speed and reproducible fabrication of ice structures with micro-scale resolution. Drop-on-demand deposition of water onto a −35 °C platform rapidly transforms water into ice. The dimension and geometry of the structures are critically controlled by droplet ejection frequency modulation and stage motions. The freeform approach obviates layer-by-layer construction and support structures, even for overhang geometries. Complex and overhang geometries, branched hierarchical structures with smooth transitions, circular cross-sections, smooth surfaces, and micro-scale features (as small as 50 µm) are demonstrated. As a sample application, the ice templates are used as sacrificial geometries to produce resin parts with well-defined internal features. This approach could bring exciting opportunities for microfluidics, biomedical devices, soft electronics, and art.
2022-08-02 - Tuberculosis vaccine candidate VPM1002 safe in HIV- and non-HIV-exposed newborns as study shows Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - “No other infectious disease has killed more people than tuberculosis. Currently, only one vaccine is available to prevent severe courses: Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG). However, it is not equally effective against all types of tuberculosis. Especially infants and immunocompromised patients are therefore in urgent need for more effective tuberculosis vaccines. A clinical trial in South Africa has now shown that the new vaccine candidate VPM1002, developed by Max Planck researcher Stefan H.E. Kaufmann and his team, is equally safe for newborns with and without HIV exposure and has fewer side effects compared to BCG.”
2022-08-30 - Experimenters’ sex modulates mouse behaviors and neural responses to ketamine via corticotropin releasing factor Nature Neuroscience - “Mice showed aversion to the scent of male experimenters, preference for the scent of female experimenters and increased stress susceptibility when handled by male experimenters…A better understanding of the specific and quantitative contributions of the sex of human experimenters to study outcomes in rodents may improve replicability between studies and, as we have shown, reveal biological and pharmacological mechanisms.”
2022-09-22 - Researchers Uncover How to 3D-Print One of the Strongest Stainless Steels NIST - “A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Argonne National Laboratory has identified particular 17-4 steel compositions that, when printed, match the properties of the conventionally manufactured version. … The authors of the new study aimed to shed light on what happens during the fast temperature changes and find a way to drive the internal structure toward martensite. Just as a high-speed camera is needed to see a hummingbird’s flapping wings, the researchers needed special equipment to observe rapid shifts in structure that occur in milliseconds. They found the right tool for the job in synchrotron X-ray diffraction, or XRD.”
2022-10-13 - Hydrogel interfaces for merging humans and machines - Nature Review - “In this Review, we provide a comprehensive summary of functional modes, design principles, and current and future applications for hydrogel interfaces towards merging humans and machines.”
2022-11-17 - Researcher shows how a common fungus eliminates toxic mercury from soil and water - “A University of Maryland researcher and colleagues found that the fungus Metarhizium robertsii removes mercury from the soil around plant roots, and from fresh and saltwater. The researchers also genetically engineered the fungus to amplify its mercury detoxifying effects.”
2022-11-22 - A multivalent nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes Science - “In this Report, we present an alternative strategy for inducing universal immunity against distinct influenza virus strains.” and “Our overall approach will likely be useful for infectious diseases other than influenza viruses. Multivalent mRNA-LNP vaccines may be applied against other variable pathogens, such as coronaviruses and rhinoviruses. For example, SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines are being updated to include multiple spike components to combat antigenically distinct strains”.
O*NET OnLine - “The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledges, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs.”
[_dissertation|thesis-firstAuthorOrOrgIfNoTitle-abrevTitle] AuthorLastnameFM. ArticleTitle. [dissertation | master’s thesis]. [City (ST)]: UniversityNameOrPublisher; YYYY. TotalNumberOfPages p. Available from: URL.
[_report-firstAuthorOrOrgIfNoTitle-abrevTitle] AuthorLastnameFM (Author Affiliation, Organization, City, ST). ArticleTitle. Edition. PlaceOfPub: Publisher; DateOfPub. TotalNumberOfPages p. Report No.: ReportNumber. Contract No.: ContractNumber. NoteSentence. doi: doiNumber. Available from: URL.
[\software-firstAuthorOrOrgIfNoTitle-abrevTitle] AuthorLastnameFM. SoftwareTitle [computer program on disk]. Version VersionNumber. PlaceOfPublication: Publisher; DateOfPublication. Available from: URL.
Unicode Security Mechanisms - “Because Unicode contains such a large number of characters and incorporates the varied writing systems of the world, incorrect usage can expose programs or systems to possible security attacks. This document specifies mechanisms that can be used to detect possible security problems.”
a fortiori: “from the stronger” or “more importantly”.
a posteriori: “from after the fact” and refers to reasoning that is done after an event has already happened.
a priori: “from before the fact” and refers to reasoning that is done while an event still has yet to happen.
ad hoc: “to this” and refers to reasoning that is specific to an event as it is happening. (Such reasoning is regarded as not being generalizable to other situations.)
ad infinitum: “to infinity” or “without limit”.
ad nauseam: “causing sea-sickness” or “to excessive”.
c. (circa): “around” or “near”. (It is used when giving an approximation, usually for a date, and is never followed by a comma.) The abbreviation “c.”~is also commonly written as “ca.”, “cir.”, or “circ.”
cf. (conferre): “compare to” or “see also”. (It is used either to draw a comparison or to refer the reader to somewhere else that they can find more information, and it is never followed by a comma.)
e.g. (exempli gratia): “for example”. (It is usually used to give an example of a statement that was just made and is always followed by a comma.)
et al. (et alii): “and others”. (It is used in place of listing multiple authors past the first and is never followed by a comma.) The abbreviation “et al.”~can also be used in place of et alibi}, which: “and elsewhere”.
etc. (et cetera): “and so forth” or “and so on”. (It is used to suggest that the reader should infer further examples from a list that has already been started and is usually not followed by a comma.)
ex lib. (ex libris): “from the library of”. (It is used to indicate ownership of a book and is never followed by a comma.).
i.e. (id est): “that is” or “in other words”. (It is used to paraphrase a statement that was just made, not to mean “for example”, and is always followed by a comma.)
Illud Latine dici non potest: “You can’t say that in Latin”.
in vitro: in a glass or within the glass
in vivo: in a living thing
Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!: “Beam me up, Scotty!”
mutatismutandis: “changing what needs changing” or “with the necessary changes having been made”.
N.B. (Nota Bene): “note well” or “pay attention to the following”. (It is used to imply that the wise reader will pay especially careful attention to what follows and is never followed by a comma. Cf.~the abbreviation “verb.~sap.”)
non sequitur: “it does not follow” and refers to something that is out of place in a logical argument. (This is sometimes abbreviated as “non seq.”)
q.v. (quod vide): “which see” or “go look it up if you’re interested”. (It is used to cross-reference a different written work or a different part of the same written work, and it is never followed by a comma.) The plural form of “q.v.”~is “q.q.”
Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur: something like, “Anything that is said in Latin will sound profound.”
v.s. (vide supra): “see above”. (It is used to imply that more information can be found before the current point in a written work and is never followed by a comma.)
verb. sap. (verbum sapienti sat est): “a word to the wise is enough” or “enough has already been said”. (It is used to imply that, while something may still be left unsaid, enough has been said for the reader to infer the entire meaning.)
vice versa: “the other way around” and is used to indicate that an implication can logically be reversed. (This is sometimes abbreviated as “v.v.”)
viz. (videlicet): “namely” or “more specifically”. (It is used to clarify a statement that was just made by providing more information and is never followed by a comma.)
vs. (versus): “against” or “in contrast to”. (It is used to contrast two things and is never followed by a comma.) The abbreviation “vs.”~is also often written as “v.”
If the duration of a . (dot) is one unit then that of a − (dash) is three units. The space between the components of one character is one unit, between characters is three units and between words seven units.
Dashes
U+2010 ‐ HYPHEN
→ U+002D - hyphen-minus
U+2012 ‒ FIGURE DASH
U+2013 – EN DASH
U+2014 — EM DASH
• may be used in pairs to offset parenthetical text
→ U+2E3A ⸺ two-em dash
U+2015 ― HORIZONTAL BAR
= quotation dash
• long dash introducing quoted text
Basic Latin — ASCII punctuation and symbols — items: 33
\ U+0020 SPACE
! U+0021 EXCLAMATION MARK
" U+0022 QUOTATION MARK
# U+0023 NUMBER SIGN
$ U+0024 DOLLAR SIGN
% U+0025 PERCENT SIGN
& U+0026 AMPERSAND
' U+0027 APOSTROPHE
( U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS
) U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS
* U+002A ASTERISK
+ U+002B PLUS SIGN
, U+002C COMMA
- U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS
. U+002E FULL STOP
/ U+002F SOLIDUS
: U+003A COLON
; U+003B SEMICOLON
< U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN
= U+003D EQUALS SIGN
> U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN
? U+003F QUESTION MARK
@ U+0040 COMMERCIAL AT
[ U+005B LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
\ U+005C REVERSE SOLIDUS
] U+005D RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
^ U+005E CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
_ U+005F LOW LINE
` U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT
{ U+007B LEFT CURLY BRACKET
| U+007C VERTICAL LINE
} U+007D RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
~ U+007E TILDE
Basic Latin — ASCII digits — items: 10
0 U+0030 DIGIT ZERO
1 U+0031 DIGIT ONE
2 U+0032 DIGIT TWO
3 U+0033 DIGIT THREE
4 U+0034 DIGIT FOUR
5 U+0035 DIGIT FIVE
6 U+0036 DIGIT SIX
7 U+0037 DIGIT SEVEN
8 U+0038 DIGIT EIGHT
9 U+0039 DIGIT NINE
Basic Latin — Uppercase Latin alphabet — items: 26
A U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
B U+0042 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
C U+0043 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
D U+0044 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D
E U+0045 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
F U+0046 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
G U+0047 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
H U+0048 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
I U+0049 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
J U+004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
K U+004B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K
L U+004C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
M U+004D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
N U+004E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N
O U+004F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O
P U+0050 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
Q U+0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
R U+0052 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
S U+0053 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
T U+0054 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
U U+0055 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
V U+0056 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
W U+0057 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
X U+0058 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X
Y U+0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
Z U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
Basic Latin — Lowercase Latin alphabet — items: 26
a U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A
b U+0062 LATIN SMALL LETTER B
c U+0063 LATIN SMALL LETTER C
d U+0064 LATIN SMALL LETTER D
e U+0065 LATIN SMALL LETTER E
f U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F
g U+0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G
h U+0068 LATIN SMALL LETTER H
i U+0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I
j U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J
k U+006B LATIN SMALL LETTER K
l U+006C LATIN SMALL LETTER L
m U+006D LATIN SMALL LETTER M
n U+006E LATIN SMALL LETTER N
o U+006F LATIN SMALL LETTER O
p U+0070 LATIN SMALL LETTER P
q U+0071 LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
r U+0072 LATIN SMALL LETTER R
s U+0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S
t U+0074 LATIN SMALL LETTER T
u U+0075 LATIN SMALL LETTER U
v U+0076 LATIN SMALL LETTER V
w U+0077 LATIN SMALL LETTER W
x U+0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X
y U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
z U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
Basic Latin — Control character — items: 1
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Diversity Supplements - “NIMHD Research Diversity Supplement Application Guidelines - This information provides additional guidance for applicants requesting supplements to active NIMHD grants and cooperative agreements (hereinafter “grants”) through PA-18-906 and PA-18-592.”
_draw.io - diagrams.net - “Flowchart Maker and Online Diagram Software. diagrams.net (formerly draw.io) is free online diagram software. You can use it as a flowchart maker, network diagram software, to create UML online, as an ER diagram tool, to design database schema, to build BPMN online, as a circuit diagram maker, and more. draw.io can import .vsdx, Gliffy and Lucidchart files.” Security-first diagramming for teams. Bring your storage to our online tool, or go max privacy with the desktop app. No login or registration required.
Watabou’s Procgen Arcana - A collection of free map generators (procedural generation using Haxe and OpenFL) for tabletop role-playing games and worldbuilding.
The Belmont Report HHS.gov - “the basic ethical principles that should underlie the conduct of biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects and developing guidelines to assure that such research is conducted in accordance with those principles”
NWCG Incident Response Pocket Guide (IRPG) NWCG - The NWCG Incident Response Pocket Guide (IRPG) establishes standards for wildland fire incident response. The guide provides critical information on operational.
Application Launcher For Drive (by Google) - Chrome Web Store - For Windows. Open Drive files directly from your browser in compatible applications installed on your computer. This extension from Google lets you open Drive files directly from your browser in compatible applications installed on your computer. Start by installing Google Drive for Mac/PC then simply right-click on the file from Google Drive and select “Open with” to see a list of applications on your computer that can open it.
Caret - Chrome Web Store - Text Editor. Caret is a graphical text editor modeled on Sublime Text, running completely offline (no Internet connection required) and capable of opening and saving files anywhere on your hard drive. The goal of Caret is to provide a missing portion of the Chrome OS developer story: serious programmer tooling without needing to install a second OS and learn Vim.
Creator Studio - Google Workspace Marketplace- Convert Google Slides presentation to animated GIF images and video slideshows. Extract Speaker Notes from Slides. Sync PowerPoint with YouTube using Slidecasts.
Google Docs Offline - Chrome Web Store - Edit, create, and view your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations — all without internet access. Note: This extension is also used to make advanced copy & paste functionality available in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. No network connection? No problem! With Google Docs Offline, you can access Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive without connecting to the internet.
Secure Shell - Chrome Web Store - Terminal emulator and SSH and SFTP client. Secure Shell is an xterm-compatible terminal emulator and stand-alone ssh client for Chrome. It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies. A SFTP command line client is included. On Chrome OS, you can create SFTP mounts and access them from the Files app!
uBlock Origin - Chrome Web Store - Finally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. IMPORTANT: uBlock Origin is completely unrelated to the site “ublock.org”. uBlock Origin is not an “ad blocker”, it’s a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature.
Web Server for Chrome - Chrome Web Store - A Web Server for Chrome, serves web pages from a local folder over the network, using HTTP. Runs offline. Web Server for Chrome is an open source (MIT) HTTP server for Chrome. It runs anywhere that you have Chrome installed, so you can take it anywhere. It even works on ARM chromebooks. It now has the option to listen on the local network, so other computers can access your files. Additionally, it can try and get an internet address.
Wicked Good Unarchiver - Chrome Web Store - Open 7z/ar/CAB/CPIO/deb/ISO/jar/lha/pax/rpm/tar/warc files in Files app. For Chrome OS Only Enable mounting of a variety of archive formats (and different compression schemes) in the Files.app just like the native ZIP/RAR support that exists today. Most notably, 7z & tarballs!
Zoom - Chrome Web Store - Zoom Cloud Meetings for Chrome Stay connected wherever you go – start or join a 100-person meeting with crystal-clear, face-to-face video, high quality screen sharing, and instant messaging – for free!
Emulate CSS media features - Chrome Developers - Disable Chrome Print CSS Style Sheet. Chrome > Developer tools > Press Command+Shift+P (Mac) or Control+Shift+P (Windows, Linux, ChromeOS) to open the Command Menu. > Start typing rendering, select Show Rendering, and press Enter. DevTools displays the Rendering tab at the bottom of your DevTools window. > Scroll to Emulat CSS media type Forces media type for testing print and screen styles. Choose Screen. Then Print the Document. Change back to from Screen to Print for default.
ImageJ Image Processing and Analysis in Java - ImageJ is a Java-based image processing program developed at the National Institutes of Health and the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation.
Imaris Stitcher - Imaris - Oxford Instruments - “Stand-alone application made for precise alignment and fusing of multiple microscopy image tiles into one 2D, 3D or 4D volume.” Note that you can also probably do this in MATLAB.
See also NIH NLM Cite. Easily cite a webpage using the National Library of Medicine (NLM) citation format. Web Sites - Citing Medicine - NCBI Bookshelf. You will still need to manually edit Authors, Organization, Date of Publication, Date of Update. TIP: double-click word to select the whole word, then start typing to replace.
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While technically not JavaScript, this allows you to copy and paste content (text, images, etc.) from another webpage into your new tab that you use this URL.
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This writes the current domain name with a capital first letter. https://www.google.com/ -> Google
This JavaScript Bookmarklet code gets the current webpage title and URL, then formats it for use in Markdown by removing characters that cause issues with Markdown parsing engines. Useful for copy and paste into text and emails.
This JavaScript Bookmarklet code removes all the stylesheets (presentation), styles, fonts, of a webpage. Well, at least style attributed by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). While technically not a valid encoded URL “most” browsers should handle it just fine.
_js-textarea
data:text/html,<textarea>
While technically not JavaScript, this allows you to copy text from another webpage and paste the unformatted plan-text into your new tab that you use this URL.
PLAN A Princeton Science & Global Security - “…simulation for a plausible escalating war between the United States and Russia using realistic nuclear force postures, targets and fatality estimates. It is estimated that there would be more than 90 million people dead and injured within the first few hours of the conflict. …based on independent assessments of current U.S. and Russian force postures, nuclear war plans, and nuclear weapons targets. It uses extensive data sets of the nuclear weapons currently deployed, weapon yields, and possible targets for particular weapons, as well as the order of battle estimating which weapons go to which targets in which order in which phase of the war to show the evolution of the nuclear conflict from tactical, to strategic to city-targeting phases.”
AnyoneCanDoIt/MathELI5.md at master · EternityForest/AnyoneCanDoIt - Math: Explain it like I’m 5 Inspired by a subreddit. All the math that someone with no math talent knows and uses without actually understanding, and the facts that people who actually knows math seem to think are “too obvious” to write down. None of the fundamentals and excercises I never learned. You should probably go actually learn math.
2022-05-19 - Scalable super hygroscopic polymer films for sustainable moisture harvesting in arid environments Nature Communications - “Extracting ubiquitous atmospheric water is a sustainable strategy to enable decentralized access to safely managed water but remains challenging due to its limited daily water output at low relative humidity (≤30% RH). Here, we report super hygroscopic polymer films (SHPFs) composed of renewable biomasses and hygroscopic salt, exhibiting high water uptake of 0.64–0.96 g g−1 at 15–30% RH. Konjac glucomannan facilitates the highly porous structures with enlarged air-polymer interfaces for active moisture capture and water vapor transport.”
A Wolverine-inspired material University of California - “Scientists, including several from the University of California, Riverside, have developed a transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable conductive material that can be electrically activated to power artificial muscles and could be used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and robots.”
MATLAB Cody - MATLAB Central - Cody is a free community game where you solve MATLAB coding problems. It is a fun way to challenge your skills and learn MATLAB.
MATLAB Graphics Object Properties - MATLAB & Simulink - View and set graphics object properties, define default values - You can control the behavior and appearance of a particular graphics object by setting its properties. To set properties, return the object as an output argument from the function that creates it. For example, the plot function returns a chart line object. Then, use dot notation to view and set properties.”
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Johns Hopkins Medicine - “Gamma Knife radiosurgery is a type of radiotherapy treatment. It’s also called stereotactic radiosurgery. Even though it’s called surgery, a Gamma Knife procedure doesn’t use incisions. It also isn’t a knife. Gamma Knife uses very precise beams of gamma rays to treat an area of disease (lesion) or growth (tumor). It’s most often used in the brain. The beams of gamma radiation send a very intense dose of radiation to a small area without a need to make an incision. Radiosurgery destroys cells so that they can’t grow. A lesion or tumor will shrink in size over time.”
DARPA operates on the principle that generating big rewards requires taking big risks. But how does the Agency determine what risks are worth taking?
George H. Heilmeier, a former DARPA director (1975-1977), crafted a set of questions known as the “Heilmeier Catechism” to help Agency officials think through and evaluate proposed research programs.
What are you trying to do? Articulate your objectives using absolutely no jargon.
How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice?
What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful?
Who cares? If you are successful, what difference will it make?
What are the risks?
How much will it cost?
How long will it take?
What are the mid-term and final “exams” to check for success?
[TreeSize Free Portable (directory size and usage analyzer)
PortableApps.com](https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/treesize-free-portable) - Use to determine what is taking up harddrive space.
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) 64-bit - Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) helps keep Windows computers free from prevalent malware. MSRT finds and removes threats and reverses the changes made by these threats. MSRT is generally released monthly as part of Windows Update or as a standalone tool available here for download.
Prevent Windows Lock Screen image and only prompt for user password: Start > GPO > Edit Group Policy Control Panel > Local Group Policy Editor > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization > Do not display the lock screen > Set to Enabled.
Reducing Disk Space Usage in System Volume Information
When your hard drive is unexpectedly full, it may be due to the System Protection or OS Restore Settings in Windows occupying excessive disk space. By default, the ‘Max Usage’ might be set to a high percentage, often consuming significant disk space. Follow these steps to reduce the ‘Max Usage’ setting:
Open System Properties: Press the “Windows Key”, type “System Protection”, and press Enter. This action opens the System Properties dialog box directly in the System Protection tab.
Configure System Protection: In the System Properties dialog, under the System Protection tab, locate the OS (C:) (System) entry, and click on the Configure button. This step will open the configuration settings for system protection.
Adjust Disk Space Usage: In the configuration settings, find the Disk Space Usage section. Here, you will see a slider under Max Usage. Adjust this slider to reduce the percentage of disk space allocated. It’s typically recommended to set this to around 10%.
Apply the Changes: After adjusting the slider, click Apply to save the changes.
Note: Reducing the disk space allocated for system protection might limit the number of restore points that Windows can keep. Ensure that you have a backup of your important data before making these changes.
