Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by D. Woods
Steroid hormone responses to three exercise modalities assessed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry in a randomized crossover trial
Abstract Exercise disrupts hormonal balance, driving physiological adaptations. However, inconsistent findings exist due to methodological limitations. To address this, this study simultaneously profiled 16 steroid hormones via LC-MS/MS in response to three distinct exercise modalities – moderate intensity continuous exercise (MICE), resistance exercise (RE), and High-intensity Intermittent Exercise (HIIE) – using a randomized crossover design.
Beef Short Rib Ragu
Use this Beef Short Rib Ragu recipe to make delicious short ribs in the Instant Pot or on the stove top. Simmer boneless short ribs in marinara to make a delicious and tender meat sauce. Make-ahead Minimal prep You’ll Learn: How to sear ribs without oil Worth It: Perfect for batch cooking Bonus: Use on different pastas or zoodles Make it your way – This recipe works on the stovetop, Instant Pot, or Crock Pot so you can make it in whatever method you would like.
Understanding the deficiency in inertial confinement fusion hohlraum x-ray flux predictions using experiments at the National Ignition Facility
Abstract The predicted implosion performance of deuterium-tritium fuel capsules in indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion experiments relies on precise calculations of the x-ray drive in laser-heated cavities (hohlraums). This requires accurate, spectrally dependent simulations of laser to x-ray conversion efficiencies and x-ray absorption losses to the hohlraum wall.
🔒All the flowers in bloom across the Houston area🌺🌼🌷🌹🌸: See the best of our latest Click2Pins submissions
HOUSTON – Ever get overwhelmed by how beautiful Texas can be? If it hasn’t happened in a while, read on and look at the beautiful photos people have shared with us this week on Click2Pins.com. And if you love flowers, you’re in for a real treat this week. The Houston area is in bloom in a big way. Thanks for sharing yours with us! Haven’t done it yet. Here’s where to start! In case you’re wondering, Click2Pins.com is where we find the photos that are making your life what it is in Southeast Texas.
ğSkies, sunsets and, of course, a cow or two: See the best of our latest Click2Pins submissions
Sign up for our Newsletters HOUSTON â The sunsets are spectacular, the skies divine and the bovines are exceptionally photogenic across Texas this week. We know -- how? Because weâre looking at your submissions on Click2Pins.com. Yâall are so talented! In case youâre wondering, Click2Pins.com is where we find the photos that are making your life what it is in Southeast Texas.
Book Review: Articulating Design Decisions
September 20, 2021 For many UX designers, discussing design solutions with stakeholders is a source of anxiety and frustration. Our stakeholders hire us to design an experience, admit that they lack any expertise in design, yet frequently express opinions that are contrary to our recommendations or even overrule our decisions.
Book Review: Escaping the Build Trap
August 23, 2021 As organizations become more customer obsessed or user centered, we are seeing greater specialization in the delivery of user experiences. We are also experiencing significant changes in how organizations are delivering user experiences. A role that has recently risen in importance and shares some overlap with User Experience is that of Product Management. Specialization and modern forms of project management are encouraging these changes.
Book Review: Org Design for Design Orgs
July 19, 2021 As the strategic business value of design as a methodology gains recognition, so has the importance of the structure and leadership of Design teams. In fact, I describe my own career as having started out with my designing Web sites, then digital solutions, then systems, and finally, designing business models and teams. Fortunately, many business schools and thought leaders within the UX community have recognized the importance of the structure and leadership of Design teams.
Book Review: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
June 21, 2021 In recent years, the perception of UX design has changed dramatically. In the profession’s early days, less mature organizations frequently treated UX professionals as another type of graphic designer, as though UX designers were synonymous with Web designers. But, in today’s leading organizations, UX design is a strategic capability that drives innovation and enhances competitiveness.
Book Review: Nudge
Scientists consider homo sapiens to be the most intelligent species among all life on Earth. Primarily through our use of technology and tools, we have become the apex predator and dominate the planet. Thus, despite troublesome viral pandemics such as COVID-19, the shot-in-the-dark possibilities of collisions with an asteroid or space junk, global warming, or the inevitable death of our Sun, we humans should, as a species, expect to have a long and prosperous existence.
Book Review: Make Your Customers Dance
February 22, 2021 In learning theory, a constructivist approach suggests that, among other things, the ability to gain new knowledge depends on a learner’s existing knowledge. The experience of trying to explain to people what User Experience is bears out this philosophy. In his book Make Your Customers Dance, Marc Majers illustrates the importance of user experience, while describing its tools and tactics in an accessible way.
Book Review: How Design Makes the World
January 18, 2021 This is a review of a PDF, media version of the book How Design Makes the World that I received from the author, Scott Berkun. Every once in a while, I read an article or a book that seems to have channeled my own thoughts. My reading of Scott Berkun’s latest work, How Design Makes the World, was just such an experience.
Book Review: A Field Guide to Lies
December 21, 2020 As ever-increasing quantities of information confront us, critical thinking is a tool that we’ll need to apply with greater frequency. Information sometimes takes the form of memes, or information that appears out of context. We’re encountering a higher level of political disinformation than we’ve ever seen before, which has the potential to destabilize our societies. Disinformation relating to COVID-19 is costing people’s lives.
Book Review: Laws of UX
November 23, 2020 In the early part of the 21st century, a strange and unexpected phenomenon has taken hold of the world. While, in the past, scientific methods, hypotheses, and falsifiable observations have led to theories upon which new knowledge could grow, we now see the opinions of individual people gaining currency as objective facts.
Book Review: That Will Never Work
October 19, 2020 If you’ve ever frittered away an afternoon, watching a late 1990s sitcom on Netflix on autoplay or, if you lamented the final demise of the neighborhood video stores—or even Blockbuster—Marc Randolph’s idea might be to blame. While Reed Hastings has been the CEO of Netflix throughout its period of tremendous growth since 2002, Marc Randolph was its first CEO and co-founded the firm with Hastings.
Book Review: The User’s Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love
September 21, 2020 Throughout my time teaching and conducting training on the subject of User Experience, I’ve stressed the point that much, if not most, of a user’s experience with a product or service is not visual. This understandably annoys some people—particularly those who, like myself, have a background in visual design. It’s also understandable that there is a bias toward focusing on visual attributes, which are the easiest for many people to identify and critique.
Book Review: Traction
August 17, 2020 Over the past several years, I’ve been spending more of my time working with startups, entrepreneurs, and solopreneurs. Many founders have a lot of passion for their ideas and fervently believe they can build a successful company. There are also many programs available to help businesses start up, through grants and matching funds.
Book Review: The Lean Product Playbook
July 20, 2020 Over the last several years, I’ve noticed a shift in the adoption of User Experience within organizations. This is encouraging, but might also require UX professionals to consider the skills and the roles that we bring to product teams. There are two key factors that are now impacting the way UX professionals work with product teams. First is the adoption of new project-management methods, as well as the integration of UX deliverables into those methods.
Book Review: The Innovation Stack
June 22, 2020 Have you ever encountered something in our world that was so obviously wrong that you knew it needed to be fixed? Did you ever have the chutzpah to think you had the power to make the world better? Jim McKelvey has—quite a few times, actually. He is the cofounder of Square, the point-of-service system that started out as a way of making credit-card processing accessible to a wider audience.
Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
May 18, 2020 Some have said that we are living in the age of algorithms. Netflix uses an algorithm to recommend videos. Facebook has an algorithm that displays the posts and advertisements you’re most likely to interact with. Google’s algorithm serves different search results to different people, based on prior Web traffic. Amazon’s algorithm makes recommendations for things you might want to buy. Match’s algorithm identifies people with whom you are likely to be romantically compatible.
Book Review: The Zombie Survival Guide
April 20, 2020 Given our circumstances vis-à-vis the COVID-19 outbreak, I’ve had some time to sort through my book collection and stumbled upon The Zombie Survival Guide. I figured it might be fun to write a tongue-in-cheek review that includes some practical advice.
Book Review: Change by Design
March 23, 2020 Interest in design thinking as a professional practice seems to ebb and flow. Currently, we’re in a period when there is great interest in design thinking. This trend may lead to some confusion or even consternation among my UX colleagues, who may see design thinking as a faux version of User Experience that dilutes interest in the real work that UX professionals do.
3:36 PM Abstract No. 231 Dose escalation study of topotecan-eluting radiopaque microspheres for hepatic chemoembolization in a rabbit preclinical model
To view the full text, please login as a subscribed user or purchase a subscription. Click here to view the full text on ScienceDirect. To evaluate the loading and elution of topotecan from radiopaque microspheres (ROMTOP) and determine the maximum dose that could be safely administered by transarterial chemoembolization in a rabbit preclinical model.
Book Review: Strategic Writing for UX
February 24, 2020 Some years ago, I noticed a funny thing happening in the Web-design industry almost overnight: quite a few Web designers had changed their title to UX designer. This seemed to me to be an obvious attempt to cash in on the growing popularity of the term User Experience. Even worse, their seeming to assume that User Experience might merely be a better version of Web design demonstrated their fundamental misunderstanding of what User Experience actually is.
Book Review: How Not to Be Wrong
January 20, 2020 As Jordan Ellenberg, the author of How Not to Be Wrong, describes in his book, students tend to become alienated from math at two points in their math journey. The first of these points occurs at the introduction of fractions in primary school. It is challenging for students to understand the difference between natural, or counting, numbers and the more complex constructs that describe proportions and relationships.
Book Review: Innovation by Design
December 16, 2019 Over the last several years, design thinking has gained its fair share of attention as an applied professional practice. In fact, it has gained so much currency in corporate activities that design thinking already heavily influences and is the driving methodology of the team with which I recently began a UX engagement. They even refer to their methodology as a design-thinking framework.
Book Review: Intertwingled
November 18, 2019 Peter Morville is a prolific author on the subject of information architecture and his writings are always insightful. As the coauthor of the “polar bear book,” as many people refer to Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, which is now in its fourth edition, I can think of few non-academics who could provide a more authoritative assessment of information theory and the practical application of information architecture to our lives.
Book Review: Redesigning Leadership
October 21, 2019 John Maeda has been an influential figure in the creative, technology world for decades. He began his career as a computer-science student, then pivoted to art and design. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he led the Media Lab; became president of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), was Design Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), and now serves as a Strategic Advisor there.
Book Review: UX Strategy
September 23, 2019 I must admit that I picked out this book based on its title alone, UX Strategy, which I found intriguing. Plus, the book had high reviews on Amazon. I was curious about what the term UX strategy meant from author Jaime Levy’s perspective. Was it strategy for leading UX teams? Was it applying UX to strategic planning in companies? Something different altogether? My own thinking was that UX professionals need to think more strategically about the impact of their work.
Book Review: Designing Your Life
August 26, 2019 Are you happy with how things are going in your life? Are you doing the work you thought you would be doing; living the life you hoped you would? Did the plans you set for yourself in the autumn of your senior year of high school work out? One thing that has bothered me for some time is the folly of expecting young people who are between the ages of 16 and 18—or even younger—to try to determine what profession they should choose for the rest of their life.
Book Review: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
July 29, 2019 “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”—commonly attributed to Mark Twain Despite our technological advances, it seems that things just keep getting worse. Overpopulation, terrorism, natural disasters, lack of food and resources, crime, income inequality, and access to education are just some of the things with which humanity is contending. It makes one long for the good old days.
Book Review: A Designer’s Research Manual
June 17, 2019 As a design discipline, User Experience frequently gets lumped together with visual or graphic design—often to the chagrin of UX professionals. Of course, this tendency reinforces and is reinforced by the common belief that design is defined by its deliverables.
Book Review: How to Get People to Do Stuff
May 21, 2019 Susan Weinschenk is known for her psychological approach to User Experience. She holds a PhD in Psychology, worked with Human Factors International, and created a following by portraying User Experience through the lens of brain science. Weinschenk is a well-known speaker and the author of several books that discuss the application of psychology to User Experience, including How to Get People to Do Stuff: Master the Art and Science of Persuasion and Motivation.
Book Review: Think Like a Futurist
April 23, 2019 You are living in a world and subject to forces beyond your control that have been at work since before you were born. These factors influence what opportunities are available to you, how much potential you have for wealth and career development, and frankly, every part of your life.
On-Farm Experience with Swine Liquid Feeding: Research Unit at Arkell Swine – University of Guelph - Swineweb.com - Complete Swine News, Markets, Commentary, and Technical Info
Author(s): D. Columbus, J. Zhu, D. Woods, J. Squire, E. Jeaurond and K. de Lange Publication Date: April 5, 2006 Reference: London Swine Conference, 2006 Country: Canada Summary: The University of Guelph installed a liquid feeding system at their Arkell station. The system is unique because it has feed prepared for individual troughs, and it uses high pressured air to move feed. Some modifications had to be made to the system post-installation to reduce blockages.
Book Review: Information Anxiety
March 18, 2019 One thing we can count on is that the quantity of information is increasing over time. The prevalence of information, its relationship to knowledge, and its impact on people’s decision-making faculties is becoming a more central concern for UX professionals. Richard Saul Wurman, the author of Information Anxiety, is a trained architect, a very prolific writer, the founder of the TED conference, and a well-known public speaker.
Book Review: Computers as Theatre
February 18, 2019 Much of the literature relating to User Experience focuses on one of just a few key topics: task engineering, users, research, information, or the design or usability of user interfaces. Many portray the experience the user has with a product or service as the outcome of design decisions relating to a user interface—as a metric that we can measure in negative or positive terms.
Book Review: Why We Fail: Learning from Experience Design Failures
January 21, 2019 One of my favorite things to do is to take photos of bad user experiences. I usually do this when I’m traveling or shopping—maybe because my senses are heightened when I’m trying to find my way around unfamiliar places or seeking out some new item to purchase. I would guess that many of you do similar things. I suppose this points to a paradox of experience design: it’s easier to identify examples of bad experiences than good ones.
Book Review: Designing Voice User Interfaces
December 17, 2018 One of the most common questions I hear when talking with students, prospective students, colleagues, and clients is: what are the emerging trends in User Experience? Most of the time, people seem to be looking for specific product predictions: What is the next device that Apple, Amazon, or Google will roll out? Or maybe, what is the next big social-media trend?
Book Review: Sprint
The Right Team You need to have a decider. Someone must represent the organization’s point of view, have the authority to assign resources and headcount, and possess the political capital to make it so. A key piece of advice in the book is that you need to have a decider. Someone must represent the organization’s point of view, have the authority to assign resources and headcount, and possess the political capital to make it so.
Book Review: Managing Chaos
October 22, 2018 Often, when I attend conferences, I like to purchase a new book. This is how I discovered Lisa Welchman’s book, Managing Chaos: Digital Governance by Design, to which I was immediately drawn. Digital projects are often challenging, creative, and fun. There may be a fair amount of healthy—and, sometimes, unhealthy—debate, but that’s generally a positive thing. Inevitably, if you are working on an initiative of any great size, someone will mention governance.
Book Review: Living in Information
September 24, 2018 The idea of information architecture was what initially attracted me to the field of User Experience some 15 years ago. Working in a small graphic-design studio as the only Web designer for an ad agency, I designed Web sites, often coding them myself. Sometimes, clients sought more complexity in their Web sites. They needed interactions, information processing, and, in some cases, a precursor of customer-relationship management (CRM).
Book Review: Design Leadership
While the book suggests dedicating a modest budget to team morale—perhaps enough to cover a monthly dinner or happy hour—Banfield wisely cautions against the trap that some companies fall into. Installing ping-pong and pool tables in a common space and providing free beer on Fridays is not culture. These things may be fun, but such superficial trappings of positive culture won’t effectively counter dysfunctional team behaviors such as infighting, hypercompetitiveness, blaming, and lack of trust.
Book Review: Evil by Design
July 23, 2018 “Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.”—Dark Helmet, in Spaceballs Lucifer. Darth Vader. Voldemort. Gru. Literature is filled with heroes, but also memorable villains. And why not? The uncomfortable truth is that, for many of us, villains and evil are much more interesting than heroes and good. It’s easy to identify the hero—the good—in a narrative. Heroes are predictable and idealistic. Villainy, on the other hand, leads us to ask questions: Why? What next?
Book Review: Creative Confidence
One of my favorite parts of the book is the chapter that discusses creativity in teams. In fact, I happened to read it the day before a student came to me asking about how he might encourage genuine buy-in for user experience and design thinking in his organization. I was happy to share that chapter with him, and I am sure he would get a lot from the book overall. The book weaves in several ideas for cultivating creativity in ourselves and our teams.
Recurrence of frozen shoulder after manipulation under anaesthetic (MUA)
Recurrence of frozen shoulder after manipulation under anaesthetic (MUA) D. A. Woods, K. Loganathan Bone Joint J Jun 2017, 99-B (6) 812-817; DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.99B6.BJJ-2016-1133.R1
Waking display from terminal, general waking
However, that didn't work for me on a circa 2008 iMac running 10.9.1 or a late 2010 MacBook Air running 10.9.2. I'm not sure if this has something to do with Mavericks' energy management or the hardware, or what. I was able to get it to work by setting the wake time to be 15 seconds into the future. Occasionally I was able to get it to work with the setting as low as 12 or 13, but not reliably. But there may have been other factors I didn't realize at the time, but 15 worked, so I used 15.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with D.
Contact D., search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack