![]() gondii’s effect on gray wolves.Ī mind-controlling parasite might be affecting the behavior of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park. And now, a recent study in the journal Communications Biology has shown the first evidence of T. Some behavioral changes - including taking risks in business, road rage and even schizophrenia - may be associated with T. gondii is optimized for cats and their prey, but other animals can get caught in the biochemical crossfire, with similar behavior-altering results. ![]() When it comes to evolutionary survival, T. These daredevil mice make an easy meal for a cat, and in eating them, the newly infected feline unwittingly sets the process in motion once again. gondii seem to lose their inherent fear of cats and no longer avoid the scent of cat urine, studies have shown. The mechanism isn’t yet clear to researchers, but the phenomenon is most well known in rodents: Mice infected with T. The parasites enter the intermediate host’s brain and muscle tissue and change its behavior in a way that boosts its chances of getting eaten by a cat. gondii needs to reproduce, so the parasite has to find its way back to a member of the cat family. But other animals’ guts don’t have the linoleic acid content that T. When other mammals or birds eat or drink something contaminated by those hardy oocysts, they become infected as well. The parasites reproduce in a cat’s intestines, and then the cat sheds the parasite’s oocysts (single cells that are sort of like eggs) in its feces. Its life cycle is closely entwined with cats - due to unique enzyme activity, cat guts contain an excess of an acid that T. ![]() If you’ve ever owned a cat, chances are you’ve heard of toxoplasmosis, an infection caused by T. The startling revelations could change scientists’ understanding of wolf-pack dynamics and improve conservation efforts for an apex predator that plays a major role in the health of its mountain ecosystem. Researchers found that gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park infected with a parasite known as Toxoplasma gondii were more likely to leave the group of wolves they were born into or become a pack leader. Mystery parasites on zombie ant fungus identified by scientists
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![]() For the first time, Sims both feel and express emotions. Smarter Sims – Create and control smarter Sims with unique appearances, personalities, and emotions in The Sims 4.Ĭreate unique Sims and customize their appearance, fashion styles, personality traits, skills, careers, and walk styles.Control the mind, body, and heart of your Sims and explore your new gameplay possibilities in vibrant neighborhoods that bring your stories to life. Use The Gallery to browse, share, and download new content without ever leaving your game. Experience new levels of creativity when you sculpt Sims with the powerful Create A Sim and design beautiful homes with tactile, room-based Build Mode. Control smarter Sims with unique appearances, personalities, behaviors, and emotions. The Sims 4 is the highly anticipated life simulation game that lets you play with life like never before. The base game was announced to be free-to-play on Septem, and was officially available for download on October 18, 2022, following "Behind The Sims Summit". This is the first time the full base game and content packs became available for consoles, unlike previous iterations in which a limited version of the game was used. The Console versions of The Sims 4 were released on November 17, 2017, for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It was released on February 17, 2015, several months after the PC version. A Mac version of the game was announced at the same time but a release date was not specified until early 2015. The Sims 4 was released in North America on September 2, 2014, and in other places worldwide shortly thereafter for PC. The Sims 4 boasts an overhauled and intuitive Create a Sim, updated building tools, and deeper, more complex Sims through the addition of emotions and new traits. Like the previous games in the series, The Sims 4 focuses on creating and controlling a neighborhood of virtual people, called " Sims". The Sims 4 is the fourth installment in The Sims franchise. ![]() That’s why many are turning to cloud-based platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) for durable storage, high-performance databases, and low-cost computing.ĪWS is offered as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS). To achieve this goal, companies need a cost-effective and fully functional infrastructure platform. Businesses seem to operate at high speeds, coupled with tight budgets and extensive levels of complexity, in order to be innovative and competitive in today’s markets. Regularly review and update the architecture to ensure it remains optimized for the organization’s needs and best practices.These days, a variety of technology services are required to develop, manage, and deploy products. Share easily with others via a link or download as PDFs. Make use of Creately’s powerful documentation capabilities, frames and tables to create report-like workspaces. ![]() Easily store information about each shape in the notes panel, including attachments and detailed notes. Use Creately as your documentation repository. Share the documentation with other team members, customers, or stakeholders to keep them in the loop. Optimize as necessary to improve performance, security, or cost.ĭocument the architecture, including the design and implementation details. Monitor to ensure that the architecture is running as expected. Encourage team members to keep an open flow of communications to give and receive feedback using comments and comment threads. Use the task panel to assign and track the progress of each activity. After making the required adjustments, implement the architecture in a production environment.Īs the team works on validating and implementing the AWS architecture, use Creately’s infinite canvas and project management capabilities to keep track of the assigned tasks and progress. You can also share it with anyone via an email or link invite.Īs the next step, the team should validate the design by testing it in a sandbox environment. You can download your diagrams as PNGs, SVGs, PDFs, and JPEGs for printing, sharing, or publishing on websites, presentations, etc. Share your AWS architecture diagram with other key stakeholders or team members to gather their feedback with contextual comments on Creately. You can use our basic shapes and customized AWS shape libraries for this purpose. Alternatively, you can enable Creately’s comprehensive AWS diagram shape library and create one from scratch easily with its drag-and-drop interface.Īdd the details of your application design, topology, and deployment in AWS into the workspace. Make sure to include the network architecture, security measures, load balancing, and auto-scaling.Ĭreately’s AWS architecture diagram tool offers a wide selection of AWS templates that you can start with instantly. ![]() With the team, you are now ready to design the architecture. Put together the gathered information for further consideration by the team. Research and identify the most appropriate AWS services for the architecture. You can also opt to connect through Microsoft Teams for real-time collaboration and discussions. Use Creately’s free hand drawing tool and whiteboard to discuss and analyze. This should include the desired level of scalability, availability, security, and performance. ![]() Get together with your team members and detail the requirements for the planned AWS cloud architecture. In addition to setting up a range targets to be scanned, users can also control the depth of each scan. As such, most people use Nmap in more limited deployments or divide different parts of their network up for scheduled scanning over time. Plus, depending on the type of passive defenses that are in use on the network, such a massive port scan would likely trigger security alerts. It’s also possible to scan all network ports, although that would potentially take a lot of time and eat up quite a bit of available bandwidth. Instead, they compile a range of ports to scan. Users don’t need to identify specific targets, which is good because most administrators don’t have a complete picture of everything that is using the potentially thousands of ports on their network. How it works is that users designate a list of targets on a network that they want to learn information about. Ironically, it was designed to help administrators map, protect and defend their networks, but it’s powerful enough that the bad guys can also use it for reconnaissance to capture information about the networks they have targeted for nefarious activities. One of the reasons why Nmap is featured in so many movies is because of its ability to uncover unknown information about computer networks, meaning that it makes for a great tool for hackers. They also maintain an active and ever-expanding filmography about the tool. The community of developers that maintains Nmap, as well as Lyon himself, has extended an open invitation to directors and film writers, offering to provide technical advice to help make movies that feature Nmap a little more realistic. It even has the dubious distinction of being prominently featured in the softcore pornography series HaXXXor. That’s because Nmap is also showcased in Matrix Reloaded, Dredd, Fantastic Four and Elysium. And even though the tool is 25 years old, if Hollywood has it correct, it will still be used well into the future, even a dystopian one. Nmap has been featured in thriller movies set in modern day like Ocean’s 8, Die Hard 4 and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It’s a safe bet that no other tool has had so many cameo appearances in major motion pictures. It’s been featured in popular culture including books, television shows and blockbuster movies. ![]() Although everyone today knows who Lyon is, he still uses the Fyodor name to identify his work within the Nmap community.Īnd it’s not just computer professionals and the IT community that consider Nmap to be a star. ![]() He released the tool through Phrack Magazine under the pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovitch, which he created after reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground. The tool was originally created using the C++ computer language by Gordon Lyon. And the results of recent scans can be stored in a searchable database. Saved scan results can be compared with one another to see how they differ. Scan results can be saved and viewed later. A command creator allows interactive creation of Nmap command lines. Here are some of the capabilities that are enabled by Zenmap: Frequently used scans can be saved as profiles to make them easy to run repeatedly. Like Nmap, Zenmap is free and the source code is both open and available to anyone who wants to use or modify it. Zenmap was created to allow beginners to use the tool. That changed recently with the introduction of the Zenmap tool for Nmap, which adds a graphical interface that makes launching the program and analyzing the returned output it generates much more accessible. To deploy Nmap, users originally had to have some advanced programming skills, or at least know their way around console commands or non-graphical interfaces. ![]() The last major update was Nmap 7.90 in October, 2020, which included more than 70 bug fixes and improvements, as well as various build system upgrades and code quality improvements. It was fine if the car was sitting in the garage or crawling along at 10mph, but that all rather defeated the purpose of a mobile Hi-Fi in the first place. This happened until it was heavily weighed-down, a process which made playing easier but which swiftly wore out the records. Peter Goldmark’s Highway Hi-Fi had caused a stir, but his in-car Hi-Fi system had one major snag: it was all based on vinyl records whose audio signal emerged via a needle, a needle which frequently jumped whenever the vehicle went over the slightest bump. ![]() But by then he had returned to his first loves-audio and cars. Muntz television sales then started to drift downwards, and he finally sold off his telly division in 1959. Muntz's TV sales grossed an amazing $49 million in 1951-52 alone-almost half a billion in today’s money-but his overheads were tight, and his bank unfriendly, and within two years he was posting losses of over one million dollars a year. What went wrong is easily explained with hindsight-though it seemed mysterious at the time.Ĭrazy it may have been, but it worked spectacularly. Yet within a few years of that expensive media blitz, the cartridge was dead in the water as far as the consumer market was concerned-and, by the mid-1990s, it was a rare antique even in broadcasting studios. ![]() Within a few years various megastars were using it, and it was swiftly installed in virtually every radio station in the western world-and, with rising domestic sales, it even had a massive ad campaign fronted by TV star Jimmie "Dy-no-mite!" Walker. And despite its roots in the Mad Men in-car market of the 1950s, it was seemingly future-proof, too, with a unique potential for quadraphonic sound (a potential later realised, in part). ![]() The 8-track cartridge, aka the Stereo 8, first appeared at trade shows in 1964, just 18 months after the cassette, and it did initially seem to have it all: it was comparatively small, portable, and had pretty good audio quality. This bread lame is designed to hold a double-sided safety razor with a 6.3-inch wooden handle and a stainless steel razor stick. ![]() If you're just starting your bread-making journey or are unsure of your level of commitment, the XoYo Bread Lame is a great, reusable option that won't break the bank. And when you need to store it, the Baker of Seville lame comes with its own hard plastic case to protect both the blade (and your fingers) from damage. After removing the blade and securing the screw, it can be washed in your dishwasher. The stainless steel design makes for a slightly heavier-weight lame, allowing for greater control while scoring. Unlike most other bread lames on the market constructed, this one is made entirely of stainless steel, making it sturdy and easy to clean. The screws kept the blade secure in testing, and scoring our bread was easy whether we used the blade straight or curved. The depth of the curve can also be controlled, depending on how tightly the blade is attached. This process proved to be fairly easy you can switch from a straight blade to a curved one by placing the included spacer on top of the blade (for a curved slash) or under it (for a straight one). In testing, it came with the first blade attached, but of course, we wanted to see how easy it would be to change from a straight blade to a curved one. The edge is stabilized with a sturdy screw and two stabilizing knobs to keep the blade from slipping under pressure. The biggest advantage of this lame is its ability to alternate between a straight-edge and curved blade, meaning that you can make a variety of cuts without having to purchase two different tools. Designed and tested by bakers and baking enthusiasts, the Baker of Seville bread lame is versatile, sturdy, and streamlined. This is what you get when a bread baker sets out to make their own equipment. I don’t think it’s too bad plus silver will always be in style like black and white. Muscular fenders on all four corners accentuate its ready-for-anything attitude, while available two-tone exterior paint color schemes help you express your own unique style. Here’s mine, not trying to show it off just trying to help you visualize what you can do with silver should you get it. If you live somewhere hot then the lighter color will help for sure too that’s something we have to think about here at least. Check out Toyota RAV4 photos and interior features, trunk and cargo space. You can’t ever see watermarks on lighter colors but definitely on the darker ones. One more thing is the lighter you go the less drying you have to do(if you wash your own car that is, I’ve got a tent on top and I’m not allowed through car washes). ![]() View all 12 pictures of the 2023 Toyota RAV4, including hi-res images of the. Most trails I take end up giving me a few more scratches than the last trip. Edmunds has 12 pictures of the 2023 RAV4 in our 2023 Toyota RAV4 photo gallery. Scratches are present in my paint but only when you’re up close and I don’t treat mine very nice at all. Even white you’ll end up seeing all the dust. I’ve seen some darker colors show every bit of dust. ![]() Can’t notice the dust other than on the black trim and glass unless you’re in Sedona then it adds a little red hue to it but not bad. LED projector low- and high-beam headlights with LED DRL accent lights and turn signals. Standard two-tone exterior color with Midnight Black Metallic roof. I can attest I have a silver LE and I live in Arizona so dust 100% of the time no matter where you are or what time of year. 5-spoke painted and machined sport alloy wheels. ![]() ![]() The patient stated that she would cut superficially with a pocketknife on her left forearm and both thighs in order to relieve emotional pain. She reported that she had started to engage in self-injurious/cutting behaviors a year ago when she had to see her father in order to place a restraining order. She also complained about stress related to academic pressure due to enrollment in AP classes, athletics, and marching band while also working after school. ![]() At that time, she reported worsening depression and anxiety in the context of difficult interactions with her brother, peers, and romantic partners. The patient’s initial evaluation was conducted in July 2019. The patient was a 16-year-old female who had been referred to our child and adolescent psychiatry clinic for evaluation of depression, anxiety, and non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors (NSSI). Even though the first-line treatment with sertraline was not very effective for her, subsequent treatment with clonidine led to rapid and significant improvement in her condition. We discuss the case of a 16-year-old female suffering from OCD. Common obsessions and compulsions include rigorous and repetitive cleaning, thoughts regarding the safety of the self and others, aggressive and sexual thoughts, obsession with organization, excessive detail-orientation, excessive jealousy, musical fixation, and avoidance behaviors to evade such obsessions and compulsions. Regardless, the majority of patients recognize these unwanted thoughts and behaviors as pathological. Some studies postulate that the inverse relationship is true - that is, compulsions occur first, and that obsessions are used to rationalize compulsions. Prevailing definitions characterize obsessions as recurring and unwanted thoughts, impulses, or images, while compulsions are defined as recurring physical or mental behaviors resulting from obsessions. Some people might have other conditions alongside ADHD.Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic and disabling condition classified under the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRD) group of disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). ADD can sometimes go unnoticed because the symptoms may be less obvious. This form of ADHD is also known as attention deficit disorder (ADD). Some people with ADHD have problems with inattentiveness, but not with hyperactivity or impulsiveness. you tend to do things on the spur of the moment, without thinking, which gets you into trouble.you feel restless or edgy, have difficulty turning your thoughts off.you easily get irritable, impatient or frustrated and lose your temper quickly.you’re forgetful and tend to lose or misplace things.you fidget and can’t sit still when there’s nothing much going on.you find it hard to organise yourself – you start a lot of things without ever finishing them.it’s hard to listen to other people – you may find yourself finishing their sentences for them or interrupting them.you get easily distracted and find it hard to notice details, particularly with things you find boring.If you’re an adult with ADHD, you may find that: being unable to sit still, especially in quiet surroundings.The main signs of hyperactivity and impulsiveness are: So our second step must be to increase international cooperation. And we will share those conclusions with other countries and companies to help keep AI safe for everyone.īut AI does not respect borders. They will carefully examine, evaluate, and test new types of AI so that we understand what they can do. Our institute will bring together some of the most respected and knowledgeable people in the world. ![]() has just announced the first ever AI Safety Institute. So, what should we do? First, governments do have a role. And because the pace of change in AI is simply breathtaking: every new wave will become more advanced, better trained, with better chips, and more computing power. Not least because many of the loudest warnings about AI have come from the people building this technology themselves. So, leaders around the world, no matter our differences on other issues, have a responsibility to recognize those risks, come together, and act. There is a very real debate happening, and some experts think it will never happen.īut even if the very worst risks are unlikely to happen, they would be incredibly serious if they do. And in the most unlikely but extreme cases, some experts think there is even the risk that humanity could lose control of AI completely, through the kind of AI sometimes referred to as “super intelligence.” We should not be alarmist about this. The risk of cyber-attacks, disinformation, or fraud pose a real threat to society. AI could be used for harm by criminals or terrorist groups. could make, to help the world have a more informed and open conversation. As prime minister, I felt this was an important contribution the U.K. What are those risks? For the first time, the British government has taken the highly unusual step of publishing our analysis, including an assessment by the U.K. So, if we want our children and grandchildren to benefit from all the opportunities of AI, we must act - and act now - to give people peace of mind about the risks. And it is already making extraordinary breakthroughs in health and medicine, aiding us in the search for new dementia treatments and vaccines for cancer.īut like previous waves of technology, AI also brings new dangers and new fears. ![]() It can help accelerate the transition to net zero. ![]() ![]() Like the coming of electricity or the birth of the internet, it will bring new knowledge, new opportunities for economic growth, new advances in human capability, and the chance to solve global problems we once thought beyond us.ĪI can help solve world hunger by preventing crop failures and making it cheaper and easier to grow food. I believe nothing in our foreseeable future will transform our lives more than artificial intelligence. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wrote the following contribution to The Japan News. Vice President Kamala Harris and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are expected to attend the event. 1 and 2 to discuss international coordination and the roles of governments - and not just tech firms - across the world to properly assess the grave risks from AI without too hastily regulating the cutting-edge technology. Britain will host the first ever major global summit on artificial intelligence at Bletchley Park in central England on Nov. This course is about doing pencil sketches and sketching animals. We’re going to sketch a simple wolf in this lesson. Easy Wolf Drawing Ideas Tutorial With Step by Step This lesson makes it very simple to draw a howling wolf. Step-by-Step TutorialĪctually, Dragoart’s step-by-step guide includes this artwork. The colors that were picked and how they were applied in this howling wolf picture are perhaps my favorite aspect of it. Wolves howl to locate one another, to mark the limits of their territories, or just to express their happiness. However, “this is essentially a social activity of the pack and a method of communication” for the wolves. Wolf howls are audible for miles and can be unnerving to humans. The Ethiopian or Abyssinian wolf dwells in Africa, whereas the gray wolf, sometimes known as the timber wolf, may be found in Europe and the Americas. Koh-i-noor Aquarelle pencils were used to make these three exquisite illustrations. Anyone who sees this wolf pup is going to fall in love with it! Wolves Using Graphite Pencils They are also thought of as noble beings, but they can also be quite adorable! In this lesson, we’ll teach you how to draw a cartoon wolf with an emphasis on that side. Wolf packs enable these predators to hunt effectively despite their reputation for being fairly vicious and lethal. To find out more about drawing a realistic wolf, read the “how to draw a wolf guide” below. Here is a pretty good lesson on how to draw wolves. Increase your sketching practice and have fun! Realistic Wolf Drawing Up until he joins another pack or starts his own and rises to the position of leader, he lives alone. A powerful wolf with a strong sense of independence can be unwilling to follow the pack leader and break away. Each wolf has a unique personality, character, and set of skills that determine its place in the pack and function during the hunt. ![]() He upholds order, preventing rivalry among the workers under him. In wolf packs, the leader is constantly present. However, in this step-by-step tutorial, we will demonstrate how to sketch a cartoon wolf. Since we learn how these creatures seem from various cartoons and movies while we are young, there is no need for a lengthy description of how they look. They also consist of coyotes, who are really not all that dissimilar from wolves. Only gray and red wolves are considered to be “genuine” wolves. They are a member of the wolf family, along with numerous other closely related animals including jackals, coyotes, and wild dogs. One of the most well-known and common predators is the wolf. This step-by-step tutorial will teach you how to draw a little newborn wolf. This drawing is still doable for beginners despite having a lot of detail. Beginner Wolf Drawingįor novices, this drawing is a terrific resource. We provide clear instructions that make it simple for you to follow and create your wolf drawing by breaking down the major components and the wolf’s face traits. ![]() You shouldn’t worry, though, since our lesson walks you through how to draw a wolf step by step. Some painters find it intimidating to depict wolves because of their thick, abundant fur, which allows animals to withstand severe, frigid winters. The environment and temperature of an animal affect how much fur it has. How to Draw a Wolf HeadĮxcept for whales, dolphins, and porpoises, most animals have fur. I’ve also added some useful anatomical hints and tutorials below because of this. My major piece of advise is to study the wolf’s anatomy if you’re interested in painting a realistic wolf. Do you need inspiration for wolf drawings? This selection of my favorite wolf illustrations by some very brilliant painters will teach you how to draw a wolf. |
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