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Simplifying transactions with blockchain - IBM Patent 9824031

Businesses conduct a variety of transactions, such as selling products, paying vendors, and trading stocks. But whatever the transaction, when different parties are doing business together, it can get complicated. If companies don’t have a trusted relationship in place they require a third-party clearing house to execute transactions. Patent 9824031 uses Blockchain technology to help make every single transaction as smooth and secure as possible. Rather than use a third-party clearing house, companies can act as an intermediary to facilitate the transaction efficiently and securely. Blockchain is enabling transactions that are immutable and transparent.

This is just one of the record-breaking 9,000+ patents IBM received in 2017. Explore more patents->

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What I find difficult about photoshoots is the line between playing a character—you’re being asked by the photographer to take on a role like you would in a movie—and being a fancier version of yourself. It’s about finding that line between being spontaneous and open to direction, but also trying to explain to photographers that the “me” is often taken out of context because it has all of this other stuff attached to it. Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you.

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The evolution of the inner you should come out. Too oftentimes we forget that our persona changes over time. Though persons of habit, the constant imput of people who have influenced us makes us what we are today and in the future. Your ability to be self-empowered as a woman and affect the effect of what the world presents to you is God testing you. In the end, the final judge of what you have accomplished, God will say "Work well gone. Come and join me." So , enjoy the world and you should have confidence that family and friends will be your best experience. Merry Christmas.🎄🎅

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Thank you Edward Enninful, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for your passion, spirit, and contagious laughter on set. Mert and Marcus took these photos for British Vogue and my album photos for reputation, and it’s been such a bonding experience working together so closely and talking so much about what we wanted to make. It’s been a while since I’ve done a magazine cover. I’m really happy my first one back was with such wonderful people.

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Beautiful and great taste in style Taylor Swift.🌷🌷🎉🇺🇸🌷🎅

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Study finds brain markers of numeric, verbal and spatial reasoning abilities

A new study begins to clarify how brain structure and chemistry give rise to specific aspects of “fluid intelligence,” the ability to adapt to new situations and solve problems one has never encountered before.

The study, reported in the journal NeuroImage, links higher concentrations of a marker of energy production in the brain with an improved ability to solve verbal and spatial problems. It also finds an association between brain size and number-related problem-solving.

The analysis involved 211 research subjects, making it the largest study to date linking brain chemistry and intelligence in living humans, said University of Illinois postdoctoral researcher Erick Paul, who led the work with research scientist Ryan Larsen and Illinois neuroscience professor Aron Barbey. The work was conducted in the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. More studies will be needed to confirm and extend the findings, the researchers said.

“In our data, we observed two facets of fluid intelligence – one that involves quantitative or numeric reasoning, and another that involves verbal or spatial reasoning,” Paul said. “A similar separation of reasoning abilities has been demonstrated in previous studies.”

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The researchers conducted magnetic resonance spectroscopy to analyze brain concentrations of a compound called NAA (N-acetyl aspartate), a byproduct of glucose metabolism and a marker of energy production. They measured brain volume in all subjects using magnetic resonance imaging.

“We found that the quantitative reasoning component of intelligence correlated with brain volume, but not with the concentration of NAA in the brain,” Paul said. “And the verbal and spatial components of intelligence correlated with NAA, but not with brain volume.”

The team observed the same basic relationships when analyzing males and females separately.

The findings add to the evidence that fluid intelligence involves distinct yet interrelated processes in the brain, Paul said.

“Surely there are many things about the brain that determine a person’s intelligence, and the goal is to try to tease apart that puzzle,” he said. “These two brain biomarkers, brain volume and NAA, are each giving us independent information about fluid intelligence. There are different properties of the brain that we can measure, and these different properties go with these different facets of fluid intelligence.”

“Our findings contribute to a growing body of evidence to suggest that intelligence reflects multiple levels of organization in the brain – spanning neuroanatomy, for example brain size, and neurophysiology, such as brain metabolism – and that specific properties of the brain provide a powerful lens to investigate and understand the nature of specific intellectual abilities,” Barbey said.

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