The paper examines Facebook’s ambition to extend into the entire web by focusing on social buttons, developing a medium-specific platform critique. It contextualises the rise of buttons and counters as metrics for user engagement of different web economies to show that Facebook is not only creating a social web but a dataintensive fabric the Like economy. The implementation of Like buttons enab...

The goal of this project was to design the vision system onboard a PR2 robot tasked with navigating between floors in the ICICS X-Wing at UBC. The vision task includes the detection and localization of elevator buttons that must be pressed in order to ride the elevator to a desired floor. The system is implemented in ROS, the Robotic Operating System from Willow Garage, and executed on the PR2....

Recirculation of fluid and cells through lymphatic vessels plays a key role in normal tissue homeostasis, inflammatory diseases, and cancer. Despite recent advances in understanding lymphatic function (Alitalo, K., T. Tammela, and T.V. Petrova. 2005. Nature. 438:946-953), the cellular features responsible for entry of fluid and cells into lymphatics are incompletely understood. We report the pr...

With the explosion of social media in the last few years, web pages nowadays include different social network buttons where users can express if they support or recommend content. Those social buttons are very visual and their presentations, along with the counters, mark the importance of the social network and the interest on the content. In this paper, we analyze the presence of four types of...

Auxiliary materials are as important the fabric, which is main material of a garment. One most auxiliary button. There different types buttons, made materials, with numbers holes in sizes. The breaking strength button determines performance characteristics buttons during use. 
 In this study, commonly used were investigated and values measured. results show that related to number button, s...

Awkward control schemes or nonsense button-mashing are common complaints from gamers worldwide. Assigning actions to buttons can be a complicated task for the game designer due to the limited quantity of buttons available on the joystick used in the current generation of video games. Along the years, the industry has increased the number of buttons in the controllers, but despite this a more pe...

PURPOSE To develop and compare effective strategies for depleting graft-derived passenger leukocytes that include antigen-presenting cells from corneal buttons and to assess the effectiveness of this strategy in promoting graft survival using a high-risk (HR) model of corneal transplantation. METHODS Corneal buttons harvested from C57BL/6 mice were used in three ex vivo strategies of passenge...