#high performance organization framework

[randomlywanderingmoth]

Part of the problem with Fate Grand Order is the core gameplay is fundamentally flawed, and it's very difficult to restore "a fun game" around a flawed core.

Quick and Buster and Arts were all interesting notions, and could have mapped into action gameplay (if we were to merge FGO's ideas with FSR's gameplay I would equate them to fast attacks, heavy attacks, and weaker attacks meant to charge your special bar, but I digress).

As it is, though, it just makes for unpleasant feelings in gameplay, demanding optimizations (I would point out that in the international release we only recently got the ability to combo all three together, and made Quick chains strong enough to consider independently). Those optimizations rise up around every aspect of the game; only a select few Servants have the ability to AoE without accessing their Noble Phantasm, and they haven't even made it to international. There's a wide range of Craft Essences, but only a few that ever matter. Creativity in builds is tamped down around increasingly narrowed build notions as the devs design with over-optimized teams in mind.

The end result is a game that, optimally, advises you to use your super rare fully powered optimized support, your friends' identically super rare fully powered optimized support, and a high power damage Servant, and repeatedly fire the damage dealer's Noble Phantasm to either clear waves or kill bosses.

Speaking of which, from a lore perspective, this is also completely messed up. By the lore of the Nasuverse, a Noble Phantasm is a Servant's super secret ultimate move, only meant for the final hour. This is fully incongruous with the gameplay, where you typically throw the same world-ending mythology-defining techniques three times in a row and call it a day. (Entertainingly, in the International release, we've also made it to Traum, where we see faceless Servants fire their Noble Phantasms like simple artillery, but that's its own commentary.)

Like, it's so effortless to imagine better systems than this! Servants deployed on a chessboard-like map, heralding back to the themes of Fate Apocrypha; suddenly we don't need anything as mechanically obtuse as Class Advantages when we could organically differentiate each Class by how they navigate the board or how they fight each other (Riders can leap over enemies like knight pieces in chess; Archers can attack at range without moving; Lancers do really well on Attack but have poor Defense; and Berserkers can be the units of terror that lore implies!)

Alternatively, the Grail Battlefronts we've already seen- rework the entire game to operate more organically like that; maybe Servants can use skills without entering combat, but it exhausts their actions. Then different forms of gameplay can exist beyond just "mulch the enemy"; like "defend this location" or "collect these resources" or "defeat This Particular Foe".

Or, even if we had to work with just the system we have! Change THAT! Rather than select three cards from a set of five, have it go down the list; each Servant gets One Action to either pick from "Quick, Buster, Arts, Use A Skill".

As for Servant Customization, walk it all the way back, all the way back up to the Attack/HP boosting. Make it so that players can individually optimize Servant performance in different ways- this Servant has better output in Arts, that Servant has higher Crit Star generation. And for folks who'd already spent their Fous, you could just say "right, so anybody with Fous spent can now allocate those points into these new Stats! No harm done!"

Of course, in order to do this, they would likely need to construct a whole new framework for their game, whilst preserving the progress people have made until now.

Then again, they are presently building castles in the sand during the rising tide with one hand and bandaging bullet wounds with the other, so maybe a long shot like that is what they need.

[faejilly]

i always liked the thought that outside of the persona that he presents, magnus is terribly domestic bc he seems that he would curl up on a couch with his lover and just be yk? like i bet that he has had relationships that were just sex and partying but i bet if he was given a choice he would choose to spend the evening in and watching a movie

Quite possibly.

I do think that Magnus, (much like Alec in fact, if in a slightly different way), is very good at giving anyone he is with the experience that they most want.

He enjoys performing, whether he is highlighting or subverting expectations, I believe he loves putting on a show and he is perfectly capable of tailoring that show to his audience. Part of this is survival, part of this is avoiding conflict, part of this is politics, but it seems clear he does actually also like it or he wouldn't have chosen such an extravagant persona (or bothered with all the necessary closet space to hold his wardrobe 😅).

He likes planning parties which is a different skill-set than just attending them after all. He wants to create an environment, set the stage, organize the comforts and attractions and entertainment and etc.

Magnus does in fact also enjoy people. He likes parties and dancing and afternoon tea and anything else that gives him that jolt of interaction and appreciation. He does seem to legitimately be an extrovert who feels recharged after social interaction; especially if he knows he's the one who made it a good experience for everyone involved. (Or a bad one, if he's intimidating people. There's some pride involved, I think, in knowing he can have whatever effect he wants, regardless of what anyone else is expecting.)

He is much better at grand gestures of devotion and friendship (and money and power) because that ties back into him being in control of his interactions and his vulnerabilities and other people's expectations.

So I don't think he dislikes being a party person, or his extravagant High Warlock persona, or that he was at all unsatisfied with whirlwind dramatic relationships full of parties and dancing and shows and travel. Those are all things he can do, and do well, and gets a kick out of.

However satisfying it is to do the things you're good at, and know that you're sweeping someone else along with something they enjoy, I do think sometimes he hid himself within those extravagances; avoided smaller intimacies of domestic chores and quietly reading on opposite sides of the couch, etc. because then he'd have to share control, which is terrifying when you're as aware as he is of all the ways an intimate friend or partner can (purposefully or not) betray or hurt you.

He offers the high life because he can, and once upon he couldn't, and most people enjoy it and are impressed by it. HOWEVER, I do agree that that's not really the point for him, and sometimes it was definitely another layer of armor between his bruised heart and the world.

All he needs from a partner is their attention. (I know the love languages book is nonsense, but, it will be a useful framework for my rambling, so! Let's imagine it's not.) I think his personal love language is simply quality time. Someone who wants to be with him, regardless of time or place or consequences or conveniences, who doesn't just want his money or magic, but will not flinch from those parts of him either. Who may not need him to take care of them, but won't push him away when he does anyway.

Which is of course exactly what Alec offers with his single-minded focus and devotion to the partner he's chosen, and which most of us cannot do to at all the same extent. (Which is why Alec feels vaguely useless to Magnus most of the time, because everyone else he's ever known or loved has required his actions not just his presence, and is also why Magnus cannot understand that insecurity at all, because no one else has ever just looked at Magnus without all the trappings and been enraptured.)

But! Back to the original premise.

Alec is not an extrovert and hates putting on a show and does not trust large crowds of people to avoid being stupid, so in fact once they are together I do believe they are usually very quietly domestic at home, because the setting, for Magnus, is incidental to the fact that they're spending time together, so he is perfectly content making sure Alec is comfortable wherever they are, and that they have that quiet time together reasonably often.

(I do think Magnus and Alec spend a lot of time in physical contact, cuddling or hand-holding or working on similar projects in shared space, because Alec's love language is very clearly physical touch. He is more than capable of showing his love and care to people in their own languages, time or gifts or words or service, but all he really needs is for the people he's worried about to be close enough to hold onto.)

[vergess]

I've seen you use the phrase "irreversable hierarchies" recently several times in defining your anarchism, I'm curious: what are some examples of (by your definition) a reversible hierarchy? It's a way of thinking about hierarchies I'm not familiar with.

Realistically, there are going to be times where either logistics demands a single decisive voice for a necessary process to occur (such as someone performing task triaging in the wake of a natural disaster), or there are going to be cases in which expertise requirements are so high that a hierarchy is inevitably going to develop (such as medical care).

In these cases, as anarchists, we must not shy away from the reality that these hierarchies are necessary for quality of life to continue for many people.

However, we must also provide ways for this hierarchy to be dissolved when its utility is over. Some common examples of dissolution methods are regular elections, lotteries, and multiple providers of the same/similar expertise.

This is actually a very common way to conceptualize the need for temporary power structures in large organizations, but not one that I think people.... consciously take note of.

It's the underpinning to the very notion that you can "elect someone out of power."

Except, in the contemporary system, no you cannot.

But you should, in fact, be able to do so.

This conceptualization really struggles to scale up well in practical terms, for example a national government needs a lot of continuity of identity to be recognized internationally, and just dissolving your entire power structure every election period does not allow for that unless everyone does it and most people do it peacefully.

But it's no more utopian a dream than any political framework is. Certainly it is more plausible than infinite growth capitalism and global colonialism.

[haggishlyhagging]

It was clear to "everyone" during the witchcraze that the witchburners were doing god's will by slaughtering women. Even the title of the "authoritative" work of demonology, the Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches) worked as a self-fulfilling prophecy, for of course "maleficarum" is the feminine form of the word for evil-doer/witch. Since this was published in 1486, in the early period of the witchcraze, it contributed mightily to the overwhelming focus on women during the following centuries. In order to grasp how thoroughly males justified their massacre it is necessary only to look through the Malleus Maleficarum. For example, in the ninth question of Part One, the priestly authors gravely pose the pregnant question: "Whether Witches may work some Prestidigitatory Illusion so that the Male Organ appears to be entirely removed and separate from the Body?" The learned response is that they can: "But when it is performed by witches it is only a matter of glamour; although it is no illusion in the opinion of the sufferer." The term glamour, of course, means "a magic spell."

Kramer and Sprenger gave abundant reasons to justify the gynocidal maniacs who controlled society and culture. They explained that witches turn men into beasts, copulate with devils, raise and stir up hailstorms and tempests. The witch/ woman-killers appeared "perfectly" justified, since the priest professionals had posed the question: "Why is it that Women are chiefly addicted to Evil Superstitions?" The question itself set the framework for the answer. The reader was informed that women are more credulous, that they are naturally more impressionable, have slippery tongues, are feebler both in mind and body, are more carnal than men (!) to the extent of having insatiable lust, have weak memories, are liars by nature. Then—without missing a beat, after hammering home their view that women are feeble in every sense—these Sado-Sages add that "nearly all the kingdoms of the world have been overthrown by women."

Those who acted as henchmen in hunting out, torturing, and killing women as witches could argue correctly that they were serving the Higher Order of patriarchy and were acting "under orders." The papal Bull of Innocent VIII, Summis desiderantes affectibus (1484), was a document of the highest authority, giving the support of Rome to "Our dear sons," the dominican Inquisitors, Kramer and Sprenger, who were encountering opposition to the witch persecutions. This papal document had been purposefully solicited by the two dominicans to legitimate their attempt to launch the witchcraze in the Rhineland. As Trevor-Roper points out:

Having obtained it, they printed it in their book, as if the book had been written in response to the bull. The book thus advertised to all Europe both the new epidemic of witchcraft and the authority which had been given them to suppress it.

Here we see very conscious manipulation of legitimation from on high by the Inquisitors. Given the "go ahead" from Innocent, they had perfect justification for carrying out orders. More than that: Innocent had made it clear that "Our venerable Brother, the Bishop of Strasburg . . . shall threaten all who endeavor to hinder or harass the Inquisitors, all who oppose them . . . [with] terrible penalties." Thus ecclesiastical power was used to erase responsibility for opposing the witch persecutions, even for speaking against them. Although Innocent's Bull itself refers to "many persons of both sexes" as having "abandoned themselves to devils, incubi and succubi," the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum manage to totally erase this idea, while at the same time retaining the full support of "Innocent" in their war against women. Thus the "dear Sons"—the real leaders of the witch-hunting brotherhood—were the power behind the throne of the Holy Father.

In the witchcraze, then, we can see the truth of Helen Diner's insight that "in Christianity the tree becomes the torture cross of the world." Under the Sign of the Cross good and wise women were tortured and burned to death. Trees were killed and their wood used to make the fires that would devour these women. Under the reign of the Torture Cross Society, the Tree of Life—the divine Self-centering life of independent women—was cut down and consumed. The citizens of the city of god created, staged, and acted out the christian hell on earth. Their theology expressd itself as demonology; their reigning philosophy became an ontology of the damned. No one was responsible for this evil except the victims, who were perceived not as victims of their murderers, but of the devil. Innocent and his "dear Sons" were servants of god, burning with innocence.

-Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Improving lithium-sulfur batteries with metal-organic framework-based materials

Current lithium-ion battery technology does not have the energy density necessary to meet the demands for renewable energy. In theory, lithium-sulfur batteries could be a viable alternative with a higher specific capacity and energy density. However, sulfur has disadvantages that currently limit its practical adoption. A comprehensive review published in Nano Research outlines how metal-organic framework-based cathode materials could improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries, making them a practical alternative to lithium-ion batteries. "The application of high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries is still impeded by some major issues, leading to unacceptable practical capacity and cycling stability," said Weihua Chen, a researcher at Zhengzhou University.

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Best 15 Cheap SEO Tools for Small Businesses in 2024

Introduction

Fortunately, many affordable SEO tools can help small businesses realize their marketing goals without spending much money on their activities. In this blog, we’ll take you through the best 15 affordable SEO tools that every small business should use in 2024, interpreting their features, benefits, and prices for you.

Below is an extension of the section “Top 15 Affordable SEO Tools for Small Businesses.” An elaboration on each tool will be done to provide more detailed information on features, benefits, pricing, and use cases.

The Best 15 Affordable SEO Tools for Small Businesses

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Features and Benefits:

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Free Vs Paid SEO Tools

Both free and paid SEO tools have their importance. Free SEO tools like Google Search Console and Yoast SEO Pack come in free plans, but they provide only basic core functionality. These tools best serve people who are just getting started or those on very tight budgets. Paid SEO Tools: People will get advanced features, better support, and detailed data, leading to better SEO results if they invest in paid tools like Ahrefs or SEMrush.

How to Maximize the Use of Affordable SEO Tools

Below, you’ll find a guide to help you make the most of affordable programmatic SEO tools. i. Integrate multiple tools: Combine tools to include all SEO functions, from keyword research and site audit to backlink analysis. ii. Monitor regularly: Keep checking on your website’s performance and changing your SEO strategy where necessary. Stay updated: Gear yourself constantly with information about SEO trends and updates to help you enable tools and strategies that work with relevance.

Conclusion

Affordable SEO tools can largely change the whole game for small businesses, making their way up the search rankings without having to break the bank. You use the right tools and implement them properly, and you are likely to gain a lot in terms of SEO and, therefore, drive quality traffic to your website. Look through the tools mentioned in the blog below and get started strategizing your SEO plan for maximum optimization.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What are some affordable SEO tools for beginners? Tools like Ubersuggest and Yoast SEO are user-friendly and encompass most of the fundamental requirements that most beginners need.

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i just wanna ramble about revue and jhs and remains don't mind me. literally speech to text-ing most of this so it's really not organized

I've been thinking a lot about the junior high in general and how (un)successful they are and the state of things in revue starlight. now obviously they do still have fans but ultimately it's because it's like a niche of a niche of an already niche thing... people get this way about any sort of new group or graduation situation in the anisong world but it's usually overcome by them having an anime that people watch and fall in love with and then time goes on and they're more cemented in the fandom. the junior high are frankly just never going to get an anime because it would put revue Starlight in debt and theyre flops bc of that because most of the people who are fans of Starlight are fans of it because of the characters who appeared in the anime and a stage play is "inaccessible" to those anime fans. even for #2 the reason why Seiran became so popular was because they were directly linked to kukugumi and for the junior high, they're linked to the edels but compared to kukugumi the edels didn't get as much content by the time the junior high came out, and then them being pushed so much when other starira characters didn't have as much content plus them not being related to kukugumi or having an anime is what caused this pushback against them.

I guess for me the thing is that with Starlight I'm not particularly biased towards any specific characters or very attached to the characters as characters themselves as I am to the way that they exist within the franchise and the stories that are being told with the same framework within Starlight. I for real just didn't have a favorite character until shiro ogami existed. and I'm one of those people who likes to dive into things that might seem less accessible to most people, and I'm not a huge anime watcher, like I literally didn't watch anime for about 7 years until I watched revue Starlight. and being a k-pop fan who went through several member changes and disbandments and reformations of groups I guess I'm just way way more desensitized to this kind of evolution. what matters to me is that the stories that writers want to tell through this work can continue to be told and the franchise can continue to exist in an active way and continue to fill that niche because if there was no revue Starlight, if it just faded away right now what would be in its place? there's really nothing else like it, you can get girls fighting, you can get Yuri, you can get stories about theater, but none of them would be able to take revue starlight's place (without accusations of being a literal starlight clone).

and it's passed for the most part now but when the junior high first came out it was really shocking to me how little people understood about the purpose of the starira characters and the fact that about half of them are voiced by voice actors who are strictly voice actors and not going to perform on stage. and I guess around the time that Junior High started getting implemented Starlight was trying to pivot towards being more event and Stage focused because that really is the future of the franchise because again they don't have enough money to make another anime and they're also never going to kill starira unless they have to and then the event in real life and things in starira feed into each other in kind of a loop and that is basically where we're at now. and you just have to accept that it's not a fault of the company if the actors can't fulfill a role that they don't want to fulfill like that's just their job and life comes at you and now mimorin is in Florida and I'm wishing the best for her and her child and I can't even bring myself to feel sad about it because that's her life! I'm in the middle of my quarter life crisis how can I complain about people living their lives the way they want to live them and the companies responsible for revue Starlight trying their best to keep the franchise alive?

all that is to say I really am so excited and happy and hopeful for what revue Starlight is becoming right now and the new avenues that the junior high are opening for the franchise because we finally have a group that can hold regular concerts and like crazy insane stage plays that have never been done before. don't get me wrong I really love the existing plays and the work that kodama Akiko and miura kaori do. but I've always felt like the way that the stage plays always have to wrap up in a very conclusive way by the end of the 1 hour and 30 minutes was slightly a detriment to the storytelling. but it works for the live since the stage plays were meant To be A supplement to other parts of the franchise and for kukugumi the main thing IS the anime. they don't need a whole other plot line happening in the place that is completely deviant to the other sections of the franchise. but that was kind of like an unspoken rule that the plays had to reach a happy ending by the end. so for the junior high who are getting there story told basically exclusively through the stage first (they have some starira stuff but it's mostly filler and then stage adaptations) to have every single stage end with a happy ending would get kind of repetitive and kind of boring eventually SO THIS IS AN AMAZING DEVELOPMENT AND AN AMAZING IDEA ON EZAKI'S PART AND I'M SO FREAKING HAPPY!!!!!!!!! AND I WISH MORE PEOPLE WOULD GIVE IT A CHANCE!!!!!!! I don't know to be honest I'm at this point in my life where I get super pissed off whenever I see kukugumi fans who don't care about the jhs like those are your cousins SHOW SOME RESPECT. anyway

I always have to think about revue starlight in terms of the writers because this isn't something that's created in a vacuum by some mysterious entity it's usually just one single person writing the whole story for a particular part of the franchise, and we know their names. I really like ezaki's writing I think part of it is because maybe it's a little bit similar to mine in the way that he gets really down in the details and doesn't really do a lot of things for like comedic value or shock value and it's a little bit methodical. and when you compare it to miura's it lacks a lot of flair for the stage part (i really wish we could get a writing directing collab w ezaki and kodama but that's a pipe dream). but he's really really good at writing tragic unhappy stories that can be twisted into a happy story and i think he likes doing that. and it's great and so fitting because we must remember that Starlight is a tragedy.

and he also has this habit of wanting to do everything at once which I also kind of understand. and that's the reason why Rebellion got so much Flack, they resolved the shiro plot like in the middle and then the rest of it was the wartime of farewells and people got really upset about that. but i can only go "well he wanted to do everything!!!" .. I think that's probably about half the reason that we cut off remains because he still wants to do salome we're still going to see Salome. in the next play. I know for sure he really actually wants to do salome we'll see how that goes because uhm.. but. imagine remains but we got ryoko back in the middle and then performed salome like Hahahahaha

what's my point. I think it's so exciting that we're getting new content in revue Starlight and not just new in terms of time but in terms of format in terms of writing in terms of staging in terms of characters we have real actual villains now who are actually going to be evil and remain evil for a full year how exciting is that??? I'm text-to-speeching this so you can't tell but I'm literally yelling at my phone right now.

another thing is that I think there's something so fun about having to wait and I think the strongest i felt this feeling up until now was when arcana arcadia was being released, there was just something so fun about having to wait for the next installment this is ALL BECAUSE I GREW UP READING HOMESTUCK FUCK ME. anyway you get to discuss in between updates and theorize and create your own ideas and your own stories and they might get overwritten by what the actual story is in the end and that's super fun you can only do that in that moment and for the play it's like the play itself is already a living thing this is like a phrase that maybe makes less sense in English but you know the whole idea of it's always moving and changing it's alive. and then when you get this time to wait for the next one and you have no idea what's going to happen in the next one and you can create all of these ideas and stories together as fans it kind of unites people and it makes the story feel even more alive because everything's in like a box the Schrodinger's box and it might change after that time has passed but in that time everything is up in the air and it's moving around. so I think it's so incredibly awesome that we have to wait for a year and I'm definitely not just saying this in order to convince myself that it's going to be okay that I have to wait for a year. for sure.

I think ezaki really and truly understands what makes revue starlight stage play fans tick. people want to see

girls fighting with weapons in a less male gaze-y way than some anime do..

girls being cool as fuck

toxic yuri

people being insane and GOING insane

tragedy that will eventually become some form of comedy (in the happy ending sense)

and remains is like. he went. okay. I'll put all of this in there. and that's why it's so crazy. i think it might be too much for some people yeah. but for the people who are already into the stageplays? It's PERFECT...

and finally this isn't really necessarily about remains but I've been thinking a lot about how Revue Starlight is one of those stories that can give me any sort of trope that I would maybe not like in another genre, and I will immediately eat it up like it's the most delicious thing in the world because I know that they're going to represent it in a way that doesn't destroy their character and they're going to make this character grow and resolve at least some of their issues to a certain extent and it's not just like some overdone thing just to make the character have a character you know? if you told me in 2020 that I would love characters that could technically be classified as yanderes and a plot that could technically be classified as NTR I would have looked at you like you had five heads. but here we are today and that is the truth.

I think that's all I have to say for now thank you for reading my podcast like and follow And subscribe

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Ultimate Guide to PCB Testing Methods: Ensuring Quality and Reliability in Your Circuits

In the electronics sector, Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) are the life-lines of virtually all gadgets that are in use in the modern society. From humble home appliances to gigantic industrial equipment, PCBs are the skeletal framework of hardware organization and connection of circuit elements. It is vital to guarantee the quality and dependability of these fundamental parts – thus enters PCB testing methods. It is our hope that this extensive hand will help identify the most suitable test strategies for PCB testing, why these techniques matter, and how to maximize your circuits’ functionality.

Introduction

Firstly, an increase in the capability of different electronic devices leads to higher necessary requirements to the PCBs used in their production. Performing tests on the PCBs is an essential step in the manufacturing process done to confirm that a given board performs as a unit to the expected levels. This guide aims at explaining various techniques of PCB testing with a view of having a better understanding on how to achieve quality and reliability on the circuits.

Why PCB Testing is Crucial

PCB Testing When it comes to the potential defects on PCBs, there are shorts, opens, and some component placements. They can cause device failure, decline in performance level, and sometimes also pose safety issues. Through high-quality testing regimes, it becomes easier to address problems before they reach the customer, and thus manufacturers will have reliable and efficient products. Key reasons for PCB testing include:

Detecting Manufacturing Defects: Solder bridges, missing and placed in wrong position components, all can be detected in the initial stages easily.

Ensuring Functionality: Ensuring that the PCB does what is wanted and needed when it is in use, and under several conditions.

Quality Assurance: Ensuring that the business meets industry standards, and what clients require of them.

Cost Efficiency: Decreasing the likelihood of rework and recall by identifying possible defects before they get to the customer.

Types of PCB Testing Methods

These are the types of PCB Testing Methods:

Visual Inspection

Technique one as also referred to as the VI or visual inspection is the simplest and basic type of testing done on PCBs. The technique entails inspecting the board with naked eyes for some of the common faults including solder bridges, missing parts, and misalignment issues.

Automated Optical Inspection (AOI)

AOI employs cameras and software algorithms to check PCBs for defects and performs the inspections singly. This method of inspection is far more efficient than the manual inspection and simultaneously versatile enough to identify numerous problems.

X-ray Inspection

Some functions which include examination of features of BPCs that could not be easily inspected include solder joints under components through x-ray inspection. It is especially effective in inspecting defects in BGA (Ball Grid Array) and other various packages as well.

In-Circuit Testing (ICT)

ICT entails applying different voltage across the PCB to checks on the electrical characteristics of the needy part and connections. The use of this method is highly recommended for the identification of functional problems and verification of the circuit’s goodness.

Functional Testing (FCT)

Functional testing evaluates the effectiveness of the PCB pointing to the fact that it can be tested when placed in use. This method enables the certification of that the PCB works as expected under actual environment.

Flying Probe Testing

In flying probe testing, the probes are moved around to test the electrical properties of the created PCB. Lower to medium volume production runs can be made easily by using this technique; hence it is advantageous in this regard.

Boundary Scan Testing

Boundary scan testing also called as JTAG testing extends test circuitry into all the components for testing the connections between them. Although, this method is very efficient for identifying connection problems and faults.

Burn-In Testing

Burn-in testing puts the PCB in a state of operational stress for a long time to capture early-life failures. This aspect makes the method reliable for the long term since it is likely to identify problems that may occur when the equipment is in use for a long time.

Detailed Analysis of Each Testing Method works

These are the detailed analysis of each testing method works:

Visual Inspection

Pros:

Simple and low-cost

Determined to be a system for the reporting of noticeable defects as soon as they are observed.

Cons:

Time-consuming for complex boards

Limited to visible defects

Automated Optical Inspection (AOI)

Pros:

Fast and accurate

Is capable of detecting various kinds of defects.

Non-destructive

Cons:

High initial setup cost

May need to have better settings optimized for specific boards.

X-ray Inspection

Pros:

Examines hidden features

Ideal for complex packages

Cons:

Expensive equipment

Requires skilled operators

In-Circuit Testing (ICT)

Pros:

Thorough electrical testing

High fault coverage

Cons:

Requires custom fixtures

Not for all the boards or servers that you wish to build.

Functional Testing (FCT)

Pros:

Ensures real-world performance

Detects system-level issues

Cons:

Time-consuming

The mathematical test object can involve complex arrangements of test configurations.

Flying Probe Testing

Pros:

Flexible and adaptable

Cost-effective for small batches

Cons:

Slower than ICT for big volumes

Applicable only when the board is specially designed

Boundary Scan Testing

Pros:

Interconnections have high fault coverage.

Said; No need to have physical access to the test points

Cons:

Requires boundary scan-enabled components

Complex setup

Burn-In Testing

Pros:

Identifies early-life failures

Ensures long-term reliability

Cons:

Time-consuming and costly

Perhaps stressful to the board

Choosing the Right Testing Method

The choice of the appropriate method of PCB testing can be influenced by several factors such as the level of complexity of the PCB and the numbers of boards to be tested as well as the actual costs of the testing process and other features. Consider the following when choosing a testing method:

Board Complexity: Great board densities or component placement can be a determinant as to whether one needs AOI or X-ray inspection.

Production Volume: Applications that are characterized by high volumes can be easily facilitated by ICT while the low to medium volume applications may require flying probe testing.

Budget: Both manual inspection and AOI are favorable for various production volumes, while X-ray and ICT are more expensive at the beginning.

Specific Requirements: There are two types of the test, namely Functional Test and Burn-In Test that should be made so as to attain the long term reliability in applications that are critical.

Best Practices for PCB Testing

Using the best techniques in testing PCBs increases the quality and reliability of the circuits that you are working on. Here are some key practices to follow:

Early Testing: It is recommended to carry out the tests when the product is still in its design and manufacturing phase so that problems can be noted earlier before they reach a very catastrophic level.

Automate Where Possible: Use method such as automation to reduce the time and improve on the quality of the testing.

Regular Calibration: It is necessary to check if all the testing equipment used for calibration are accurate.

Comprehensive Coverage: This way, you will be able to ensure that there are no defects that are not tested as the best testing approach combines all types of testing methods.

Document Everything: Ensure that you keep records of the tests performed, the results obtained, as well as any measures taken to correct the breaches.

Common Challenges and How to Overcome Them

These are the common challenges and how to overcome them:

False Positives/Negatives

Automated testing methods maybe good some times, they give you the results that are either positive or negative and this will lead to unnecessary rework or more alarming leaving critical defects unfound. In order to avoid this, make sure that testing algorithms and testing equipment are updated and fine-tuned from time to time.

Component Access

Some of the testing techniques involve handling parts of the circuit and with high density board this can be very difficult. Some of the ways in which testbench implementation can be avoided are as follows Boundary scan testing and X-ray inspection.

High Costs

Some form of testing such as X-ray and ICT testing is often very costly. The effectiveness must come with reasonable prices; try to combine some of the mentioned approaches to cover all the aspects without spending too much money.

Future Trends in PCB Testing

About the future, it can be stated that its trends will be in fact linked to the tendencies in technologies and expectations towards ever higher quality and quantity of tested PCBs. Key trends to watch include:

AI and Machine Learning: Using of intelligence algorithms and machine learning in testing algorithms to enhance the efficiency and the minimization of false negative or false positives.

IoT and Smart Manufacturing: Higher testing flexibility and opportunities for the continuous test process supervision.

Advanced Imaging Techniques: The need for better techniques that would enhance the detection of defects within a printed circuit.

Environmental Stress Testing: More focus in the testing of PCBs under different environmental pressures in order to improve on its longevity.

Conclusion

Quality and reliability of packaged circuits have to be maintained to contribute positively in any electronic equipment. This paper seeks to explain the common testing techniques for PCB so that PCB manufacturers are able to test and see if they are free from defects and if they are functional. This ultimate guide will give you a full insight on the available options in PCB testing that will enable you make the best decision that will give you perfect circuits.

The aim is to help you understand how to attain the best quality of PCBs, what methods are worth following, and what trends drive future improvements, thus contributing to the quality of the final electronic products and, consequently, consumer satisfaction.

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Machine learning and the microscope

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Machine learning and the microscope

With recent advances in imaging, genomics and other technologies, the life sciences are awash in data. If a biologist is studying cells taken from the brain tissue of Alzheimer’s patients, for example, there could be any number of characteristics they want to investigate — a cell’s type, the genes it’s expressing, its location within the tissue, or more. However, while cells can now be probed experimentally using different kinds of measurements simultaneously, when it comes to analyzing the data, scientists usually can only work with one type of measurement at a time.

Working with “multimodal” data, as it’s called, requires new computational tools, which is where Xinyi Zhang comes in.

The fourth-year MIT PhD student is bridging machine learning and biology to understand fundamental biological principles, especially in areas where conventional methods have hit limitations. Working in the lab of MIT Professor Caroline Uhler in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, and collaborating with researchers at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute and elsewhere, Zhang has led multiple efforts to build computational frameworks and principles for understanding the regulatory mechanisms of cells.

“All of these are small steps toward the end goal of trying to answer how cells work, how tissues and organs work, why they have disease, and why they can sometimes be cured and sometimes not,” Zhang says.

The activities Zhang pursues in her down time are no less ambitious. The list of hobbies she has taken up at the Institute include sailing, skiing, ice skating, rock climbing, performing with MIT’s Concert Choir, and flying single-engine planes. (She earned her pilot’s license in November 2022.)

“I guess I like to go to places I’ve never been and do things I haven’t done before,” she says with signature understatement.

Uhler, her advisor, says that Zhang’s quiet humility leads to a surprise “in every conversation.”

“Every time, you learn something like, ‘Okay, so now she’s learning to fly,’” Uhler says. “It’s just amazing. Anything she does, she does for the right reasons. She wants to be good at the things she cares about, which I think is really exciting.”

Zhang first became interested in biology as a high school student in Hangzhou, China. She liked that her teachers couldn’t answer her questions in biology class, which led her to see it as the “most interesting” topic to study.

Her interest in biology eventually turned into an interest in bioengineering. After her parents, who were middle school teachers, suggested studying in the United States, she majored in the latter alongside electrical engineering and computer science as an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley.

Zhang was ready to dive straight into MIT’s EECS PhD program after graduating in 2020, but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed her first year. Despite that, in December 2022, she, Uhler, and two other co-authors published a paper in Nature Communications.

The groundwork for the paper was laid by Xiao Wang, one of the co-authors. She had previously done work with the Broad Institute in developing a form of spatial cell analysis that combined multiple forms of cell imaging and gene expression for the same cell while also mapping out the cell’s place in the tissue sample it came from — something that had never been done before.

This innovation had many potential applications, including enabling new ways of tracking the progression of various diseases, but there was no way to analyze all the multimodal data the method produced. In came Zhang, who became interested in designing a computational method that could.

The team focused on chromatin staining as their imaging method of choice, which is relatively cheap but still reveals a great deal of information about cells. The next step was integrating the spatial analysis techniques developed by Wang, and to do that, Zhang began designing an autoencoder.

Autoencoders are a type of neural network that typically encodes and shrinks large amounts of high-dimensional data, then expand the transformed data back to its original size. In this case, Zhang’s autoencoder did the reverse, taking the input data and making it higher-dimensional. This allowed them to combine data from different animals and remove technical variations that were not due to meaningful biological differences.

In the paper, they used this technology, abbreviated as STACI, to identify how cells and tissues reveal the progression of Alzheimer’s disease when observed under a number of spatial and imaging techniques. The model can also be used to analyze any number of diseases, Zhang says.

Given unlimited time and resources, her dream would be to build a fully complete model of human life. Unfortunately, both time and resources are limited. Her ambition isn’t, however, and she says she wants to keep applying her skills to solve the “most challenging questions that we don’t have the tools to answer.”

She’s currently working on wrapping up a couple of projects, one focused on studying neurodegeneration by analyzing frontal cortex imaging and another on predicting protein images from protein sequences and chromatin imaging.

“There are still many unanswered questions,” she says. “I want to pick questions that are biologically meaningful, that help us understand things we didn’t know before.”

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Comparing Laravel And WordPress: Which Platform Reigns Supreme For Your Projects? - Sohojware

Choosing the right platform for your web project can be a daunting task. Two popular options, Laravel and WordPress, cater to distinct needs and offer unique advantages. This in-depth comparison by Sohojware, a leading web development company, will help you decipher which platform reigns supreme for your specific project requirements.

Understanding Laravel

Laravel is a powerful, open-source PHP web framework designed for the rapid development of complex web applications. It enforces a clean and modular architecture, promoting code reusability and maintainability. Laravel offers a rich ecosystem of pre-built functionalities and tools, enabling developers to streamline the development process.

Here's what makes Laravel stand out:

MVC Architecture: Laravel adheres to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern, fostering a well-organized and scalable project structure.

Object-Oriented Programming: By leveraging object-oriented programming (OOP) principles, Laravel promotes code clarity and maintainability.

Built-in Features: Laravel boasts a plethora of built-in features like authentication, authorization, caching, routing, and more, expediting the development process.

Artisan CLI: Artisan, Laravel's powerful command-line interface (CLI), streamlines repetitive tasks like code generation, database migrations, and unit testing.

Security: Laravel prioritizes security by incorporating features like CSRF protection and secure password hashing, safeguarding your web applications.

However, Laravel's complexity might pose a challenge for beginners due to its steeper learning curve compared to WordPress.

Understanding WordPress

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) dominating the web. It empowers users with a user-friendly interface and a vast library of plugins and themes, making it ideal for creating websites and blogs without extensive coding knowledge.

Here's why WordPress is a popular choice:

Ease of Use: WordPress boasts an intuitive interface, allowing users to create and manage content effortlessly, even with minimal technical expertise.

Flexibility: A vast repository of themes and plugins extends WordPress's functionality, enabling customization to suit diverse website needs.

SEO Friendliness: WordPress is inherently SEO-friendly, incorporating features that enhance your website's ranking.

Large Community: WordPress enjoys a massive and active community, providing abundant resources, tutorials, and support.

While user-friendly, WordPress might struggle to handle complex functionalities or highly customized web applications.

Choosing Between Laravel and WordPress

The optimal platform hinges on your project's specific requirements. Here's a breakdown to guide your decision:

Laravel is Ideal For:

Complex web applications require a high degree of customization.

Projects demanding powerful security features.

Applications with a large user base or intricate data structures.

Websites require a high level of performance and scalability.

WordPress is Ideal For:

Simple websites and blogs.

Projects with a primary focus on content management.

E-commerce stores with basic product management needs (using WooCommerce plugin).

Websites requiring frequent content updates by non-technical users.

Sohojware, a well-versed web development company in the USA, can assist you in making an informed decision. Our team of Laravel and WordPress experts will assess your project's needs and recommend the most suitable platform to ensure your web project's success.

In conclusion, both Laravel and WordPress are powerful platforms, each catering to distinct project needs. By understanding their strengths and limitations, you can make an informed decision that empowers your web project's success. Sohojware, a leading web development company in the USA, possesses the expertise to guide you through the selection process and deliver exceptional results, regardless of the platform you choose. Let's leverage our experience to bring your web vision to life.

FAQs about Laravel and WordPress Development by Sohojware

1. Which platform is more cost-effective, Laravel or WordPress?

While WordPress itself is free, ongoing maintenance and customization might require development expertise. Laravel projects typically involve developer costs, but these can be offset by the long-term benefits of a custom-built, scalable application. Sohojware can provide cost-effective solutions for both Laravel and WordPress development.

2. Does Sohojware offer support after project completion?

Sohojware offers comprehensive post-development support for both Laravel and WordPress projects. Our maintenance and support plans ensure your website's continued functionality, security, and performance.

3. Can I migrate my existing website from one platform to another?

Website migration is feasible, but the complexity depends on the website's size and architecture. Sohojware's experienced developers can assess the migration feasibility and execute the process seamlessly.

4. How can Sohojware help me with Laravel or WordPress development?

Sohojware offers a comprehensive range of Laravel and WordPress development services, encompassing custom development, theme and plugin creation, integration with third-party applications, and ongoing maintenance.

5. Where can I find more information about Sohojware's Laravel and WordPress development services?

You can find more information about Sohojware's Laravel and WordPress development services by visiting our website at https://sohojware.com/ or contacting our sales team directly. We'd happily discuss your project requirements and recommend the most suitable platform to achieve your goals.

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10 Proven Strategies for Effective Social Media Development

Introduction

In today’s digital age, social media marketing agency isn’t just a trend — it’s a vital component of any successful business strategy. Whether you’re a small business owner, a marketer, or an entrepreneur, understanding how to effectively develop your social media presence can make a world of difference. But with so many platforms and strategies out there, where do you even begin? Fear not! We’ve got you covered with these 10 proven SEO Services for effective social media development.

Understanding Your Audience

Identifying Your Target Audience

The first step to social media success is knowing who you’re talking to. Identify your target audience by researching demographics, interests, and online behaviors. Are they teenagers who love Instagram, or professionals networking on LinkedIn? Pinpointing your audience helps tailor your content to their preferences.

Creating Buyer Personas

Create detailed buyer personas to represent your ideal customers. These personas should include information like age, gender, job title, interests, and challenges. By having a clear picture of who your audience is, you can create content that resonates and engages.

Setting Clear Goals

SMART Goals for Social Media

Goals give direction to your social media efforts. Use the SMART framework — Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound — to set goals. For example, “Increase Instagram followers by 20% in the next three months.”

Aligning Goals with Business Objectives

Ensure your social media goals align with your overall business objectives. If your business goal is to increase sales, your social media goal could be to drive traffic to your website or promote your products through engaging posts.

Choosing the Right Platforms

Overview of Major Social Media Platforms

Each social media platform has its unique features and audience. Facebook is great for community building, Instagram for visual content, Twitter for real-time updates, LinkedIn for professional networking, and TikTok for reaching younger audiences with short videos.

Matching Platforms with Audience Demographics

Choose platforms where your target audience is most active. For example, if you’re targeting Gen Z, platforms like TikTok and Instagram are more effective than LinkedIn.

Content Creation and Curation

The 80/20 Rule of Content

Follow the 80/20 rule: 80% of your content should be informative, entertaining, or educational, while 20% can be promotional. This balance keeps your audience engaged without feeling overwhelmed by ads.

Types of Content That Engage

Use a mix of content types, such as blog posts, videos, infographics, and stories. Visual content tends to perform well, so invest in high-quality images and videos.

Creating a Content Calendar

Plan your content ahead of time with a content calendar. This helps you stay organized, maintain consistency, and ensure a steady flow of posts.

Consistency is Key

Importance of Regular Posting

Consistency builds trust and keeps your audience engaged. Whether it’s daily, weekly, or bi-weekly, stick to a regular posting schedule.

Tools to Maintain Consistency

Use social media management tools like Hootsuite, Buffer, or Sprout Social to schedule posts in advance and search engine optimization company in Delhi is also play an important role. These tools also offer analytics to track your performance.

Engaging with Your Audience

Responding to Comments and Messages

Engagement goes both ways. Respond to comments and messages promptly to show your audience that you value their input and are attentive to their needs.

Encouraging User-Generated Content

Encourage your followers to create content related to your brand. User-generated content not only provides authentic promotion but also builds community and trust.

Hosting Live Sessions and Q&A

Live sessions and Q&A provide a direct way to interact with your audience. They can boost engagement and give a face to your brand, making it more relatable.

Utilizing Analytics and Insights

Tracking Performance Metrics

Regularly review your social media analytics to see what’s working and what’s not. Track metrics like engagement rate, reach, impressions, and click-through rates.

Adjusting Strategies Based on Data

Use the insights from your analytics to adjust your SEO expert in ‘Delhi’ strategies. If a particular type of post is performing well, create more similar content. If something isn’t working, tweak your approach.

Leveraging Influencers and Partnerships

Identifying Potential Influencers

Influencers can help you reach a wider audience. Look for influencers whose followers match your target audience and who align with your brand values.

Building Mutually Beneficial Relationships

Establish relationships with influencers by offering value, such as free products, exclusive discounts, or payment. Collaborate on content that benefits both parties.

Running Paid Campaigns

Types of Social Media Ads

Explore different types of social media ads, such as photo ads, video ads, carousel ads, and story ads. Each has its unique advantages depending on your goals.

Setting Budgets and Measuring ROI

Set a budget for your social media marketing services Delhi ads and track the return on investment (ROI). Use the data to optimize future campaigns and ensure you’re getting the most bang for your buck.

Staying Updated with Trends

Keeping Up with Platform Updates

Social media platforms frequently update their features and algorithms. Stay informed about these changes to adapt your strategy and maintain your reach.

Adapting to New Features and Trends

Embrace new features and trends early to stay ahead of the competition. For instance, if a platform introduces a new type of content, experiment with it to engage your audience.

Building a Community

Creating Groups and Communities

Create dedicated groups or communities around your brand where followers can interact, share ideas, and connect. This fosters loyalty and engagement.

Encouraging Interaction and Engagement

Promote discussions, ask questions, and encourage your followers to share their experiences. The more interactive your community, the more engaged it will be.

Utilizing Hashtags and Keywords

Effective Hashtag Strategies

Hashtags can increase your content’s visibility. Use relevant, trending, and branded hashtags to reach a broader audience.

Optimizing Posts for Searchability

Incorporate keywords and hashtags that your audience is likely to search for. This improves the discoverability of your posts on social media platforms.

Dealing with Negative Feedback

Handling Criticism Professionally

Negative feedback is inevitable. Handle it professionally by responding calmly and addressing the issues raised. This shows that you care about your customers.

Turning Negative Feedback into Opportunities

Use negative feedback as an opportunity to improve. Show your audience that you listen to them and are willing to make changes based on their suggestions.

Conclusion

Developing an effective social media strategy takes time and effort, but the results are well worth it. By understanding your audience, setting clear goals, and staying consistent, you can build a strong social media presence that drives engagement and supports your business objectives. Start implementing these strategies today and watch your social media channels thrive!

FAQs

How often should I post on social media?

Posting frequency depends on the platform and your audience. Generally, posting once a day on platforms like Instagram and Facebook is effective, while Twitter may require more frequent updates.

What type of content works best on social media?

Engaging, high-quality content such as videos, infographics, and user-generated content tend to perform well. The key is to mix

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Revolutionizing Software Development: Unveiling the Transformative Impact of DevOps as a Service

In the dynamic realm of software development, the adoption of DevOps as a service (DaaS) has emerged as a revolutionary force, reshaping the fundamental dynamics of how organizations conceive, construct, and manage their software ecosystems. This transformative approach brings a host of advantages, fundamentally altering the collaborative, innovative, and delivery landscape. Here are seven pivotal benefits encapsulating the essence of embracing DevOps as a service:

1. Swift Time-to-Market Acceleration: DevOps as a service functions as a catalyst, propelling the software development lifecycle into unprecedented speeds. Streamlined and automated processes facilitate quicker and more frequent releases, granting organizations a competitive edge by swiftly introducing new features and updates to the market.

2. Reinforced Collaboration Framework: At its core, DevOps champions a culture of collaboration, and DevOps as a service takes this ethos to new heights by dismantling traditional silos between development and operations teams. The heightened communication and cooperation create an integrated and efficient workflow, fostering shared responsibility across the software delivery spectrum.

3. Elevated Software Quality and Reliability: Automation, a cornerstone of DevOps as a service, especially in testing and deployment, ensures uniform and dependable software releases. This automated precision results in superior code quality, diminished errors, and an overall elevation in the reliability of software systems.

4. Strategic Cost-Efficiency: By automating repetitive tasks, DevOps as a service strategically optimizes resource usage, leading to tangible and substantial cost savings. The reduction in manual efforts, coupled with astute infrastructure management, translates into financial advantages for organizations keen on maximizing efficiency.

5. Unparalleled Scalability and Flexibility: A defining feature of DevOps as a service is its innate scalability, allowing organizations to seamlessly adjust resources based on demand fluctuations. This unparalleled flexibility ensures optimal performance without incurring unnecessary infrastructure costs, making it an ideal fit for businesses navigating varying workloads.

6. Streamlined Deployment Efficiency: Automation within the deployment pipeline is a hallmark of DevOps as a service. By eradicating manual interventions, this approach reduces deployment errors and minimizes downtime, creating a more efficient, reliable, and streamlined deployment process.

7. Empowered Focus on Innovation: Liberated from routine tasks through automation, teams can now channel their efforts into innovation. DevOps as a service empowers organizations to invest time and resources in developing new features, refining user experiences, and positioning themselves as pioneers in a competitive market.

In conclusion, the incorporation of DevOps as a service heralds a revolutionary shift in the conventional approach to software development. It transcends traditional boundaries, fostering collaboration, innovation, and efficiency. As organizations navigate the intricate digital landscape, DevOps as a service emerges as a transformative force, offering a strategic advantage for those poised not only to adapt to technological advancements but to lead the charge in delivering impactful, high-quality software solutions.

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Molecular ferroelectrics drive two-dimensional thin film solar cells

Two-dimensional (2D) perovskite thin films possess diverse tunability, excellent optoelectronic properties and superior long-term stability, which are of great significance for high performance of perovskite solar cells. This study was led by Professor Guifu Zou from College of Energy, Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials Innovations, Soochow University.

"The biggest obstacle to achieving high-performance 2D perovskite solar cells is the inferior out-of-plane charge transport caused by the alternating arrangement of inorganic frameworks and organic space layers, also known as multiple quantum well electronic structures," says Professor Zou.

"Over the past decade, molecular ferroelectrics with perovskite structure have been extensively studied due to excellent characteristics such as strong saturation polarization, high Curie temperature, multiaxial properties, low preparation temperature, and narrow band gap. The polarization field in molecular ferroelectricity will be greatly helpful to improve the performance of 2D perovskite solar cells."

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Interesting Papers for Week 16, 2023

Sleep deprivation and hippocampal ripple disruption after one-session learning eliminate memory expression the next day. Aleman-Zapata, A., Morris, R. G. M., & Genzel, L. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2123424119.

Aversive memory formation in humans involves an amygdala-hippocampus phase code. Costa, M., Lozano-Soldevilla, D., Gil-Nagel, A., Toledano, R., Oehrn, C. R., Kunz, L., … Strange, B. A. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 6403.

Sleep preferentially consolidates negative aspects of human memory: Well-powered evidence from two large online experiments. Denis, D., Sanders, K. E. G., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2202657119.

How do (perceptual) distracters distract? Dumbalska, T., Rudzka, K., Smithson, H. E., & Summerfield, C. (2022). PLOS Computational Biology, 18(10), e1010609.

The induced motion effect is a high-level visual phenomenon: Psychophysical evidence. Falconbridge, M., Hewitt, K., Haille, J., Badcock, D. R., & Edwards, M. (2022). I-Perception, 13(5), 204166952211181.

Salience memories formed by value, novelty and aversiveness jointly shape object responses in the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia. Ghazizadeh, A., & Hikosaka, O. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 6338.

Recurrent Hippocampo-neocortical sleep-state divergence in humans. Jang, R. S., Ciliberti, D., Mankin, E. A., & Poe, G. R. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2123427119.

Cone opponent functional domains in primary visual cortex combine signals for color appearance mechanisms. Li, P., Garg, A. K., Zhang, L. A., Rashid, M. S., & Callaway, E. M. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 6344.

Hippocampal gamma and sharp wave/ripples mediate bidirectional interactions with cortical networks during sleep. Pedrosa, R., Nazari, M., Mohajerani, M. H., Knöpfel, T., Stella, F., & Battaglia, F. P. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2204959119.

Generalizing the control architecture of the lateral prefrontal cortex. Pitts, M., & Nee, D. E. (2022). Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 195, 107688.

Natural scene sampling reveals reliable coarse-scale orientation tuning in human V1. Roth, Z. N., Kay, K., & Merriam, E. P. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 6469.

Stable Working Memory and Perceptual Representations in Macaque Lateral Prefrontal Cortex during Naturalistic Vision. Roussy, M., Corrigan, B., Luna, R., Gulli, R. A., Sachs, A. J., Palaniyappan, L., & Martinez-Trujillo, J. C. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(44), 8328–8342.

A Midbrain Inspired Recurrent Neural Network Model for Robust Change Detection. Sawant, Y., Kundu, J. N., Radhakrishnan, V. B., & Sridharan, D. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(44), 8262–8283.

Distinct organization of two cortico-cortical feedback pathways. Shen, S., Jiang, X., Scala, F., Fu, J., Fahey, P., Kobak, D., … Tolias, A. S. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 6389.

Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming. Simor, P., Bogdány, T., & Peigneux, P. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2123418119.

A model of autonomous interactions between hippocampus and neocortex driving sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Singh, D., Norman, K. A., & Schapiro, A. C. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2123432119.

A robust core architecture of functional brain networks supports topological resilience and cognitive performance in middle- and old-aged adults. Stanford, W. C., Mucha, P. J., & Dayan, E. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2203682119.

Optimal noise level for coding with tightly balanced networks of spiking neurons in the presence of transmission delays. Timcheck, J., Kadmon, J., Boahen, K., & Ganguli, S. (2022). PLOS Computational Biology, 18(10), e1010593.

Dissociating the involvement of muscarinic and nicotinic cholinergic receptors in object memory destabilization and reconsolidation. Wideman, C. E., Minard, E. P., Zakaria, J. M., Capistrano, J. D. R., Scott, G. A., & Winters, B. D. (2022). Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 195, 107686.

Inducing forgetting of unwanted memories through subliminal reactivation. Zhu, Z., Anderson, M. C., & Wang, Y. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 6496.