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Digital Image Recognition Revolutionizes Designers’ Access to Images

June 5, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

SILICON VALLEY, CA and DENVER, CO, Jun 04 (MARKET
WIRE) —
Amy Love, PicScout VP of Marketing and Business Development, will take
the stage at the HOW Conference with world-renowned presentation designer
Nancy Duarte to address two of the most pressing issues facing today’s
designers: Licensing and using digital images. PicScout
ImageExchange(TM), the free tool that introduces HOW Conference audiences
to a new way to work with images, transforming every image encounter,
whether on Google, Yahoo or any site, into an opportunity to license and
use images in a single click.

“Though the Internet is a visual wealth of images, ironically the biggest
consumers of images — designers — are inhibited from using the images
they find through online search engines and general websites. Since
online image ownership is not clear, and licensing can be difficult or
impossible, using these images poses a serious liability for designers
and their clients,” said Nancy Duarte, CEO, principal of Duarte Design.
“Very simply, ImageExchange solves the problem and frees designers to use
the images they see online, giving them the time they need to do what
they do best: Design.”

“Listening to Nancy Duarte and many other designers has convinced
PicScout that creative professionals seek image discovery and licensing
tools that leverage the power of the Web,” said Amy Love, PicScout VP of
Marketing and Business Development. “Creating powerful design and
presentations requires a wide range of images; the Internet can and
should offer designers both inspiration and easy selection. With PicScout
and its content partners, designers source Web images dramatically faster
and more efficiently.”

Designers already using ImageExchange are enthusiastic. “Absolutely
delighted with the PicScout ImageExchange, fantastic for the publishing
world and in particular for designers, artists and researchers,” said
Sunita Sharma-Gibson, Picture Editor, Haymarket Magazines.

ImageExchange is available for Firefox 3.0 or later and installing the
ImageExchange tool exposes tens of millions of every type of image:
Rights Managed, Royalty Free, Microstock, and User Generated Content.
Users see an “i” icon to immediately identify images wherever they
appear.

PicScout ImageExchange is featured at the three HOW sponsored events, HOW
Conference, InHOWse, and Creative Free Lancer. Amy Love and Nancy Duarte
will present on Monday, June 7 at 3:45 pm in the session, PicScout:
Inspire with Images – New Ways to Present, Find and License Them. All
attendees are invited to visit PicScout in booth #313.

About PicScout

Founded in 2002, PicScout(TM) is the information company commanding the
world’s largest index of fingerprinted and owner identified images,
protecting and promoting images for use across digital platforms and
devices through the company’s proprietary and highly scalable image
recognition fingerprinting technology. The PicScout suite of products
leverage the company’s ImageIRC(TM) platform, which includes
ImageTracker(TM) and ImageExchange(TM) products, the
ImageQualification(TM) service, and an open API for developers to create
products and services to meet the demands of clients engaged in digital
image use.

A financially independent, privately held company, PicScout has offices
in the Silicon Valley and Herzliya, Israel. PicScout is a member of PACA
www.pacaoffice.org, CEPIC www.cepic.org, and BAPLA www.bapla.org.uk

About Nancy Duarte and Duarte Design

Nancy Duarte is CEO of Duarte Design. Duarte is the preeminent
presentation company in the world. They create media experiences that
transform audiences through best-in-class communication strategies,
keynote presentations, product launches, on-demand presentations, and
VisualStory(TM) messaging systems. Their clients include innovative
Fortune 1000 companies in diverse industries, such as Adobe, Al Gore,
Cisco, Citrix, Disney, EMC, GE, Genentech, Google, Hewlett-Packard,
Intel, Logitech, McAfee, Scripps Networks, TED and Wells Fargo.

Press contact:
Suzanne Matick
For PicScout
831-479-1888
suzanne@matick.net

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Vitamin C can help protect DNA damage of skin cells

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Leicester and Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology in Portugal have found that vitamin C can help protect DNA damage of skin cells and lead to better skin regeneration.

Previous research has shown that DNA repair is upregulated in people consuming vitamin C supplements.

In the new study, the researchers have provided some mechanistic evidence.

The researchers used affymetrix microarray, for looking at gene expression, and the ‘Comet’ assay to study DNA damage

“The exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation increases in summer, often resulting in a higher incidence of skin lesions. Ultraviolet radiation is also a genotoxic agent responsible for skin cancer, through the formation of free radicals and DNA damage,” said lead researcher Tiago Duarte, formerly of the University of Leicester, and now at the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology in Portugal.

“Our study analysed the effect of sustained exposure to a vitamin C derivative, ascorbic acid 2-phosphate (AA2P), in human dermal fibroblasts.

“We investigated which genes are activated by vitamin C in these cells, which are responsible for skin regeneration.

“The results demonstrated that vitamin C may improve wound healing by stimulating quiescent fibroblasts to divide and by promoting their migration into the wounded area. Vitamin C could also protect the skin by increasing the capacity of fibroblasts to repair potentially mutagenic DNA lesions,” Duarte added.

The researchers hope that the results will be of great relevance to the cosmetics industry.

“The study indicates a mechanism by which vitamin C could contribute to the maintenance of a healthy skin by promoting wound healing and by protecting cellular DNA against damage caused by oxidation,” said Dr Marcus S. Cooke from the Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine and Department of Genetics, at the University of Leicester.

“These findings are particular importance to our photobiology interests, and we will certainly be looking into this further,” Cooke added.

The findings have been published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine. (ANI)

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ANC gets two-thirds of vote in South Africa elections

May 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Pretoria, April 24 (IANS) The ruling African National Congress (ANC) led by Jacob Zuma Friday received more than two-thirds of the vote as the counting neared completion in South Africa’s fourth general elections.

The ANC currently has 67.2 percent of the votes counted. The party was leading in eight of the country’s nine provinces, except for the hotly contested Western Cape province where the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) of Cape Town mayor Helen Zille was leading.

ANC spokesperson Jessie Duarte said: ‘We are pleased with the way things are going. As you know we have held a two thirds majority for a number of years but for this one we thank South Africans who went out in their millions to vote for the ANC, ‘ South African news agency BuaNews reported.

‘The people have spoken. They understand that if you vote for the ANC, you vote for the future of this country,’ he said.

The DA was at second place followed by the newly formed Congress of the People (COPE), a breakaway party of ANC dissidents.

The ANC has nominated Zuma for the post of the president. Parliament will elect South Africa’s next president by a simple majority, putting Zuma in line for the post when the new assembly votes in May.

Charges of corruption against 67-year-old Zuma were dropped by state prosecutors two weeks before the polls.

The election to South Africa’s 400-seat National Assembly and nine provincial assemblies, which was observed by 5,000 domestic and more than 300 international observers, was held Wednesday and passed off peacefully despite minor irregularities.

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Your looks can affect your chances of getting a loan

March 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, March 13 (ANI): Your looks may play a significant role in getting your loans sanctioned, if U.S. researchers are to be believed.

Jefferson Duarte at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management, and University of Washington’s Stephan Siegel and Lance Young say that a person’s appearance may play a key role in whether financial lenders deem him/her trustworthy.

In their study paper, titled ‘Trust and Credit’, the researchers say that borrowers on the peer-to-peer lending site Prosper.com, who are perceived as trustworthy, are more likely to have their loan requests granted.

The study also suggests that a seemingly untrustworthy person can have the same chance of getting a loan if he promises to pay an interest rate almost two percent higher than those deemed trustworthy.

“We found that people take into account someone’s appearance when engaging in commercial transactions — even in situations where a lot of information about the parties involved is available,” said Duarte, visiting associate professor in management at Rice.

During the study, the researchers looked at 6,821 loan applications submitted to the popular online peer-to-peer lending site Prosper.com, where people seeking loans are matched up with people willing to lend money.

On the website, people willing to obtain loans submit information like their credit profile, job history, education level, income, etc. They may supply photographs and a statement about why they are seeking a loan or its intended use.

The lenders interested in offering the borrower a loan place a bid for their business. The loan application is filled if there are enough bids. Otherwise, the application expires.

The researchers said that of the 6,821 applications they used, 733 became loans.

The group later turned to Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a site that brings together people who need a task done with people seeking work.

Twenty five MTurk “workers” were supplied with only the photographs of the borrowers, and asked to rate the borrowers’ trustworthiness on a scale of 1 to 5.

They were also asked to assess the probability that the person in the photograph would repay a 100-dollar loan.

The researchers said that the responses enabled them to build a measure of trustworthiness based on the photographs.

They found that the perceived trustworthiness of borrowers correlated with the ratings on their credit history filed at Prosper.com.

According to them, the MTurk workers could distinguish people with high credit scores from people with low credit scores based solely on the photographs.

The team also found that people perceived as trustworthy default on their loans less often, even after accounting for credit scores.

“This implies that the pictures revealed something about borrower creditworthiness that is not accounted for in traditional credit scoring models,” Duarte said.

The researchers also observed that lenders on Prosper.com used the information in the picture while deciding to make a loan, even when all required information about the borrower’s credit history was available.

They said that people perceived as trustworthy get loans more often, even after accounting for traditional creditworthiness measures, such as credit scores. (ANI)

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Eight people found dead in Tijuana with message from drug gangs

September 30, 2008 By admin Leave a Comment

Mexico City – Eight dead bodies were found Tuesday alongside messages from drug gangs in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana, where 16 dead bodies were found a day earlier.

Six of the bodies found Tuesday in the city along the US border were inside barrels with sulphuric acid in the city centre, while the two others were found in the suburbs.

The public prosecutor’s office in the state of Baja California said the barrels included a message.

“This is what happens to the engineer, and we will make stew with all those who are with him,” the message said.

The two other bodies were wrapped in blankets which had the message, “here are your people, Duarte.”

The authorities did not immediately know the identity of the two people mentioned specifically in the notes.

The bodies were found after anonymous calls were received by the police.

On Monday, 16 bodies were found in two vacant lots. Some of them were half-naked, with bound hands or feet, and showed signs of torture. They had been killed just a few hours earlier, and at least seven of them had their tongues severed.

On September 12, 24 people were found dead just outside Mexico City.

According to media reports, more than 3,300 people have been killed so far this year in Mexico in actions related to organized crime, despite a far-reaching military and police operation that has been in place to combat drug gangs since late 2006. (dpa)

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