"I've been a mimicker, so I mimic first and then I find my feet," she says.
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Mimicker Alarm does the normal alarm thing of waking you up, but it then expects you to play a game.
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"With Mimicker, we are showcasing several different Project Oxford APIs," Allison Light, a program manager on a team that develops apps for Project Oxford, said in today's launch announcement.
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Mimicker Alarm might sound like the world's most insane and annoying alarm, but it's really designed to be a fun little app that shows off what Microsoft's machine learning is capable of.
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"Melioidosis is a great mimicker of other diseases and you need a good microbiology laboratory for bacterial culture and identification to make an accurate diagnosis," said Direk Limmathurotsakul, a microbiologist and assistant professor at Thailand's Mahidol University, who co-led the study.
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Mimicker is a free download on the Play Store, and it's not exactly a complicated concept: set your alarm, and when the time comes, you have to either mimic a some particular kind of selfie (ugh), try a tongue twister, or find a color.
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The Mimicker Alarm app only lets you dismiss the alarm by — you guessed it — mimicking certain facial expressions, taking a picture of an object that matches whatever color the app decides on for the day, or by repeating a tongue twister ("All I want is a proper cup of coffee, made in a proper copper coffee pot").
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The app is the latest project out of Microsoft's Garage, which is where Microsoft showcases experimental projects created by its employees (previous projects have included last week's Mimicker alarm clock app and the Invite app for scheduling meetings.) Given the still experimental nature of the app, it's not clear is Microsoft might have bigger plans for the app, but the company says it does plan to "continue to evolve and improve our app" based on users' initial feedback.
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It might be that instead of the mimicking plant solely benefitting, the host plant could also experience reduced herbivory as potential herbivores might mistake the Boquila for the host. This would suggest that the relationship between mimicker and host is not just beneficial to the mimicker. Further research into the plant-plant interactions would need to be done in order to answer these questions.
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Neotenous features elicits fitness benefits for mimickers. From the point of view of the mimicker, the neoteny expression signals appeasement or submissiveness. Thus, extra parental or alloparental care will be most likely be administered because the mimicker appears to be more childlike and maybe ill equipped to survive on its own. On the other hand, the recipient often faces aggression because of this signaled vulnerability.
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is an example of an endocrine disruptor which negatively affects reproductive development. BPA is a known as an estrogen mimicker (Xenoestrogen) and a likely androgen mimicker. It is used in the production of various plastic products. BPA exposure in fetal female rats leads to mammary gland morphogenesis, increased formation of ovarian tumors, and increased risk of developing mammary gland neoplasia in adult life.
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Proposed mechanisms for BPA exposure to increase the risk of obesity include BPA-induced thyroid dysfunction, activation of the PPAR-gamma receptor, and disruption of neural circuits that regulate feeding behavior. BPA works by imitating the natural hormone 17B-estradiol. In the past BPA has been considered a weak mimicker of estrogen but newer evidence indicates that it is a potent mimicker. When it binds to estrogen receptors it triggers alternative estrogenic effects that begin outside of the nucleus.
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Those affected present with symptoms of sepsis (predominantly fever) with or without pneumonia, or localised abscess or other focus of infection. The presence of nonspecific signs and symptoms has caused melioidosis to be nicknamed "the great mimicker".
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Not much is known about the underlying mechanisms of how the mimicking plants and their hosts are able to communicate, or if they do at all. Kin recognition would be an area to further study as it might reveal more about volatile communication between plants. Heil and Karban note that the use of volatiles can be costly to the emitter which poses the question of competition and cost between the host and mimicker. If the host were to somehow recognize the mimicker as kin, it would offer potential reasoning for the exchange between the two.
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It is characterized by repeated episodes of lip and eyelid edema and occasionally euthyroid goiter. The syndrome generally occurs within the first 20 years of life.Sanchez MR, Lee M, Moy JA et al. Ascher syndrome: a mimicker of acquired angioedema.
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Myoclonic movements can either be caused by seizures or be benign neonatal sleep myoclonus, a common mimicker of seizures in neonates (see differential diagnosis, below). Myoclonic seizures are characterized by isolated and fast contractions of muscle groups. These movements typically occur in the limbs or face, and do not repeat. Stimulation can provoke myoclonic seizures.
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In 1990, she recorded a spoken word sequence in her Margaret Thatcher voice for Mike Oldfield's album Amarok. Still acting in her 80s, her last role was as Old Lady Squeamish on the London West End stage in a production of Wycherley's The Country Wife at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, which opened in September 2007. She entitled her 1986 autobiography Prime Mimicker.
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A government mouthpiece is a pejorative term for media outlets which are widely viewed as being an accessory to an oppressive government as well as its propaganda. Such media networks are typically criticized for taking government statements at face value without challenging their positions. Critics of such networks may criticize such networks as being a mimicker or parrot of whatever the government may say. Such lack of media independence is subsequently said to result in media that is biased, and hence cannot be trusted.
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There are many conditions to be considered in the differential diagnosis of carbon monoxide poisoning. The earliest symptoms, especially from low level exposures, are often non-specific and readily confused with other illnesses, typically flu-like viral syndromes, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, chest pain, and migraine or other headaches. Carbon monoxide has been called a "great mimicker" due to the presentation of poisoning being diverse and nonspecific. Other conditions included in the differential diagnosis include acute respiratory distress syndrome, altitude sickness, lactic acidosis, diabetic ketoacidosis, meningitis, methemoglobinemia, or opioid or toxic alcohol poisoning.
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