Achieving Happiness

July 10, 2015 hbobis

Hand Drawn Graphic Message: Happiness is Found Within

Content Strategy, Employment, Quotes, Story Telling, Writing

Why Companies Should Hire Novelists

May 5, 2015 hbobis

“Desiderata” (Latin: “desired things”)

April 2, 2015 hbobis

My “Photo Poem”

“Desiderata” (Latin: “desired things”) is a 1927 prose poem by American writer Max Ehrmann.

Blogging, Quotes, WordPress

Resume Blog Site

Biography

Dr. Brian D’Alessandro, Ph.D. received the B.S. (summa cum laude), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering all from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, in 2008, 2009, and 2012 respectively.

Presently, he is working as an Image Analysis Scientist with Canfield Scientific, Fairfield, New Jersey, developing algorithms for skin feature detection. From 2009-2011, he was a Teaching Assistant at NJIT, recognized in 2010 as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. He has previous intern and research experience with IBM and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. His research interests include image processing, medical imaging, computer vision, digital signal processing, pattern classification, and audio quality detection.

Dr. D’Alessandro was twice selected as a Student Paper Competition Finalist in the International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society – once in 2010 for his work on oxygen saturation measurement of skin lesions, and again in 2011 for his work on 3D reconstruction of melanin and blood volume components of skin lesions.

Education, Quotes

Does Education Make You Happy?

March 10, 2015 hbobis

By CATHERINE RAMPELL FEBRUARY 18, 2010 7:10 PM February 18, 2010 7:10 pm 20 Comments
Ignorance isn’t bliss. Rather, education is.

At least, that’s what trends in education and well-being levels across American cities seem to show.

On Tuesday, we wrote about the happiest states and cities in America (Hawaii and Boulder, Colo., took top honors). In response, lots of readers have speculated about what made some states report higher levels of well-being than others.

Now Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and his colleague Charlotta Mellander have taken a closer look at the metropolitan well-being numbers. They found moderate correlations between happiness and other factors, like wages, unemployment and output per capita.

But the variable they looked at that showed the strongest relationship with happiness was “human capital,” measured as the share of the population with a bachelor’s degree or higher:

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Christy Birmingham, freelance writer and author, based in BC, Canada.

Apps, Blogging, Content Strategy, Online Platform, Quotes, Social media, Visual Content

What are Web Fonts?

Unlike web safe fonts, web fonts are not pre-installed on the user’s system. The fonts are downloaded by the user’s browser while rendering the webpage, and then applied to your text. The main drawbacks of using web fonts is it will slow your site’s load time. There is also limited support for CSS3 in older browsers which is required to use web fonts. The later limitation can be remedied by using a font stack, similar to the web safe font stacks, but including a web font as the first font of the stack. If a browser is unable to use the web font it will fall back on the web safe fonts in the stack.