From dazzling rings to stunning pendants, your perfect accessory this summer is lovely, luscious pinks and greens.
Start with your favorite ring. Layer several on one finger or wear across multiple fingers. Mix colors & metals. Experiment with shapes & lines.
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​Services and facilities: Upholstered furniture; individual climate control system; Desktop; soundproofing; cupboard; shower cubicle; dryer for drying hair; comb; toiletries; slippers; phone; a flat-screen TV; mini bar; fridge; Wi-Fi Internet. Some rooms with balconies. Baby cots are available free of charge, on request.
Built in 2011, the new hotel complex "Europe" accommodates 33 comfortable rooms. The hotel offers a large conference room, a restaurant, a lounge bar located on the roof of the building with a beautiful view of the city, a summer cafe, a heated pool with hydromassage and a sauna. The building also houses a salon and a rent / car wash.
A skin is a collection of images and a definition file, which together describe an application interface. You have no doubt come across applications using skins already. On Windows, Linux, and other operating systems, an increasing number of applications (and games) allow users to completely change the look and feel of the user interface. The packages used to implement these design changes are usually called skins.
Winamp -- an MP3 player by Nullsoft (see Resources for more info) -- is one application that uses skins. Nullsoft actively encourages skin development for Winamp, and, according to its Website, more than 5,000 skins are currently available. Games such as Quake III Arena use skins to allow players to select the characters who will represent them during play, and create entirely new characters. Skins even help you alter the look of your operating system desktop according to your whims.
Why should you use skins? Well, if you write applets, especially for the Internet, and cannot guarantee that your user base already has JDK 1.2 installed, or has access to broadband, there is significant overhead with downloading Swing. The same argument applies if you write a downloadable application, or one in which the application size may be an issue.
Another advantage to using skins is you can fit a pre-existing library of lightweight components into a dynamic (skin-based) model without too much pain. If you have ever worked with a designer, then you probably spent hours reworking your layouts to make a minor modification to the interface design. Use a skin, and the design can be altered in a few moments without the need to recompile. Better yet, skins allow you to hand over complete control of the interface layout to your designer.
There are also marketing considerations. Winamp might not have been as popular if more than 5,000 designs were not available for download. But skins' big selling point for me is the fact that after I brand an application for one company, I can rebrand it for another company, or for a shrink-wrapped version, quickly and easily.
Note: to download the complete source code for this article as a zip file or in tar.gz format, see Resources.
The following code samples define the most basic lightweight components -- the ImageLabel and ImageButton. Those who already have a library of lightweight components should skip ahead to the layout manager definition.
The ImageButton component is similar to ImageLabel, but has additional methods for focused and pressed images:
SkinLayout is constructed with one of two methods specifying the location of the properties file (either an input stream or a filename):
The file is read into a Properties object ready for use. Components can be added to the layout using two methods. The first method conforms to the 1.1 version of addLayoutComponent(). The constraint must be a string. This string is the name of the component and is used to retrieve layout information from the Properties object:
The positioning and sizing of components in a container are performed by the layoutContainer() method:
The layoutContainer() method also calls processAttributes() (which is private within the SkinLayout class) to attempt to set other properties on a component, such as its image:
The properties file will contain some basic information about the application screen, plus all the components used on that screen. The following example includes settings for the application width and height in addition to attributes for one button. These attributes will set the image, the pressed image, and the focused image.
For testing purposes, TestApplet.java implements part of a toolbar (three buttons), along with two buttons to change the layout of the toolbar. (If you have a browser that supports JDK 1.1, click TestApplet.html to see this applet running.) The init() method of TestApplet is as follows:
The paint/update methods use double-buffering to eliminate flicker and paint, our lightweight components:
Mice with newly identified spontaneous mutations undergo genetic, genomic and phenotypic characterization to evaluate and develop their value as resources for ongoing biomedical research. Each new mutant strain is characterized:
Genetically, by determining its mode of inheritance, its chromosomal location and its complementation status with any known colocalizing mutations that produce similar phenotypes.
Phenotypically, by observing its fertility, growth, viability, life span and behavior, and by defining its anatomical, histopathological and physiological abnormalities
New spontaneous mutations are genetically mapped, tested for complementation with other colocalizing candidate genes (mapping to the same chromosomal region), and subjected to regional array-capture, whole exome-capture, or whole genome high-throughput DNA sequence analysis. If a new spontaneous mutation results in the first phenotypic allele within a given gene, it is designated as a novel phenotypic mutation.
Novel phenotypic mutations often provide the first experimental insights into gene function, uncovering roles for genes that may never have been anticipated based on primary sequence alone. Moreover, novel phenotypic mutations in mouse frequently provide the first known animal models of human genetic disorders.
If a newly arising spontaneous mutation occurs in the same gene in which other mutations have previously been described, the mutant allele is considered the second or subsequent allele of an allelic series. Allelic series are valuable for confirming that candidate mutations are causative of observed phenotypes. Allelic series also provide a means to assess the effect of a particular mutation type or location on the phenotype. Differing mutations in a single pleiotropic gene can provide domain-specific insight into gene function and may even result in models for distinct human diseases.
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