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Neben dem hervorragenden Wörterbüchern gibt es jetzt unter dieser Adresse auch einen online-Sprachtrainer, LEO Deutsch-Englisch Sprachtrainer . Die Nutzung scheint kostenfrei zu sein und es werden sogar Lerngruppen unterstützt. Genauso wie bei den Wörterbüchern werden auch hier mehrere Sprachen neben dem Englischen unterstützt.

Müssen Sie englische Texte übersetzen oder englische Texte erstellen und fehlen Ihnen manchmal die Worte, so bietet leo.org ein sehr umfangreiches, leicht zu bedienendes und kostenfreies Wörtbuch an. Nicht nur Englisch, sondern auch Französisch, Spanisch, Italienisch und Chinesisch wird angeboten.

Google did change its advanced search window. They made it a lot easier to use and it looks now much more simplified.  Some search options are minimized and can be expanded if necessary. Well done. Take a look here: Google Advanced Search .




Lets hope the German version will be available soon.

On ostermiller.org is a very informative introduction to the dilate and erode image processing algorithm. Interactive examples introduce several ways to implement the function. Efficiently Implementing Dilate and Erode Image Functions

Great advice in starpaths "My web 2.0 collection" blog.

If you want to search for a book, paper, file and your are using Google, just type:

allinurl: +(rar|chm|zip|pdf|tgz) TheTitle

Quite often percentages of remembrance are assigned to activities like reading, seeing, hearing, ... These are often incorporated into graphics like Dale's pyramid.

I have to give a presentation next week on how and why I am sharing the content of my courses. To gather some ideas I have created a mindmap with some links and examples. You can follow this link: "Sharing course material", or use the embedded version. You can drag the image around using the mouse.

 

Ever wanted to be notified, if a free full text article of your research interest is newly available in the National Library of Medicine (NLM)? Well, the NLM offers to create your own RSS feeds out of your customized searches. Here are easy step by step instructions on how to do that. Click on any image to enlarge it:

1. Go to PubMed and build your search to give you the best possible results. Perform your search.

Thanks to OCR (optical character recognition) technologies Google now indexes and makes available to text searches pdf-documents, that have originally been scanned. While these documents in the past appeared to be images with their content (text) hidden in the image, Google now converts them to html text and indexes their content. These are great news for everyone searching for articles in old scanned journals.
See: Official Google Blog: A picture of a thousand words?

... and gesture recognition is among them. It as been around for quite while in the scientific literature, but with the entertainment industries finally starting to get into it, the concept becomes a lot more realistic. PC World - 15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything