Two music recommender websites, Pandora (a content-based recommender) and Last.fm (a rating-based social recommender), were compared side-by-side in a within-subject user study involving 64 participants. The main objective was to investigate users initial adoption of recommender technology and their subjective perception of the respective systems. Results show that a simple interface design, th...

The two British species of Pandora are adapted for life on muddy-sand. P. inaequivalvis is taken from very sheltered shores at low-water mark and down to 10 fathoms. P. pinna is taken from depths of over 40 fathoms. Both species are markedly inequivalve. This is probably connected with the habit of lying horizontally. The mantle muscles and the ciliary mechanisms of the mantle and gills are des...

Once Pandora unlocked her fateful box and liberated the evil forces within, it became impossible to put them back. Now, new work on Crohn's disease suggests the existence of a viral "key" that irreversibly renders a genetically susceptible mouse prone to pathogenesis. Indeed, dangerous liaisons among host genotype, viral infection, intestinal injury, and trillions of gut microbes may in part de...

Popular music streaming services like Spotify and Pandora are able to suggest songs to users based on a variety of factors. One of the major ones is the music’s genre. The aim of our project is to explore machine learning algorithms that can identify a song’s genre based on its metadata. This report outlines various research methods and discusses their performance. It provides an overview of ou...

Six new species of the genus Distatrix Mason from Central and South America, D. loretta, D. xanadon, D. vigilis, D. pitillaensis, D. pandora Grinter, n. sp., and D. antirrheae Whitfield & Grinter, n. sp., are described from large-scale caterpillar inventory endeavors, mostly from the larvae of geometrid moths. Biological information and diagnostic features that distinguish these species from ot...

Pandora is a tool for supporting the learning of first order natural deduction. It includes a help window, an interactive context sensitive tutorial known as the ‘‘e-tutor’’ and facilities to save, reload and export to . Every attempt to apply a natural deduction rule is met with either success or a helpful error message, providing the student with instant feedback. Detailed electronic logs of ...

Four species of entomophthoroid fungi, Pandora neoaphidis (Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae), Zoophthora radicans (Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae), Entomophthora planchoniana (Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae) and Neozygites fresenii (Neozygitales: Neozygitaceae) were found to infect Aphis craccivora, Therioaphis trifolii, and Acyrthosiphon pisum and unidentified species of Acyrthosi...

We present the first and southernmost records of the fungi Hirsutella strigosa Petch, H. citriformis Speare (Ascomycota: Hypocreales), and Pandora nouryi (Remaudière & Hennebert) Humber (Zygomycota: Entomophthorales) infecting Doru lineare (Eschscholtz) (Dermaptera: Forficulidae), Ectopsocus californicus (Banks) (Psocodea: Ectopsocidae), and Heterocaecilius sp. (Psocodea: Pseudocaeciliidae), re...