Elsevier Pure

Pure is a cloud-managed total research package that keeps track and displays a researcher's publications and research activities. Pure works within a university and inter-universities. It compares research activities/projects across several universities and reports back to the researcher. It allows researchers at different universities to view a research grant proposal/application but does not allow editing. Comments made by other researchers are sent back to the researcher for improvement of the grant proposal.

There are new terms such as hyperauthorship and Common (country-based) CV when collaboration over the web is deployed for international research projects. There is a prepared Common CV template or CCV.

There are Pure Users Groups in Australia, the Netherlands, and Canada.

Pure 5.11 is due for release in February 2018.

Pure 5.12 is due for release in June 2018.


Elsevier Pure
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/pure/releases/roadmap

Pure Portal
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/pure/features/pure-experts-portal

Mendeley

Mendeley is like ResearchGate. It gathers almost all the publications of a researcher at one place. But it has limited capacity as only those listed on certain databases are gathered and listed on Mendeley. The drawback is it gives a false idea about a researcher's publication activities and research. It is not so useful for me.

Mendeley
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/mendeley

Elsevier Fingerprint Engine

This is an interesting engine that makes a fingerprint of each researcher's research publication and profile. It creates a unique fingerprint for each researcher. No 2 researchers are the same.

Elsevier Fingerprint Engine
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/elsevier-fingerprint-engine
https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/175249/Fingerprint-Engine-FactSheet.pdf
https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/181763/FPE_WhitePaper_May_2016_update.pdf

An example of deployment of Elsevier Fingerprint Engine at UTM
https://pure.utm.my/en/persons/noordin-mohd-yusof

Silent Film Fonts or Retro Fonts

Before there was movies with sound and movies with soundtrack, the old movies had no sound. They were silent. They are referred to as Silent Films. They used old fonts, which we now call Silent Film Fonts or Retro Fonts.

The Silent Film Fonts are a collection of fonts used in old silent movies. They include:

1. Bellerose
2. Chocolate Box
3. Fontleroy Brown
4. Noir-et-Blanc
5. Rechtman
6. Absinthe
7. Porte

Retro fonts are designed to look aged (old).

Some fonts add a personal touch as they are fashioned after actual handwriting. Examples of script font include:

1. Journey to Thailand
2. Chopin Script
3. Scriptina
4. Athena of the Ocean

Typewriter fonts are fonts which were available on the typewriter (before we had computers). They include:

1. Moms typewriter
2. Special Elite
3. Underwood Champ
4. Last Draft
5. 1942 Report
6. Veteran Typewriter

External links:

Modern fonts

https://1stwebdesigner.com/best-modern-fonts/

Retro fonts

http://www.wpeducationnews.com/2016/05/15/36-free-retro-fonts/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/36662184441070433/?lp=true

http://theladybugcabin.com/tag/font-combinations/

http://imrityunjaya.in/blog/25-free-vintage-and-retro-fonts/

http://rumandraisin.co/39-free-retro-fonts/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/215680269625362617/?lp=true

Bellerose

https://fonts2u.com/bellerose-light10.font

http://www.fontpalace.com/font-download/Bellerose/

https://www.dafont.com/bellerose.font

https://elements.envato.com/lp/design/

http://www.fontspace.com/harris-type/bellerose

https://www.wfonts.com/font/bellerose

https://fontmeme.com/fonts/bellerose-font/

http://www.dailyfreefonts.com/fonts/info/2149-Bellerose.html

https://creativemarket.com/harristype/1075733-Bellerose-Pro-Font-Family

Chocolate Box

http://www.fontriver.com/font/chocolate_box/download.html

http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Serif/3227/ChocolateBox

Noir et Blanc

http://www.fontriver.com/font/noir_et_blanc/download.html

Rechtman

http://www.fontriver.com/font/rechtman/download.html

Fontleroy Brown

http://www.fontriver.com/font/fontleroy_brown/

Script fonts

http://www.fontriver.com/script/

Script font - Journey to Thailand

http://www.fontriver.com/font/journey_to_thailand/download.html

Script font - Chopin Script

http://www.fontriver.com/font/chopin_script/download.html

Script font - Scriptina

http://www.fontriver.com/font/scriptina/

Script font - Athena of the Ocean

http://www.fontriver.com/font/athena_of_the_ocean/download.html

Typewriter fonts

https://www.1001freefonts.com/typewriter-fonts.php

Swirls
https://www.myfonts.com/foundry/PR_Fonts/

Fixing the Canon scanner - CanoScan LiDE 110 (for Windows 10 on x64 system)

All of a sudden, the scanner does not work!
What went wrong?
When I pressed on the usual button to scan a document, an error message is displayed.
It says I need a WIA driver!
WTH!

Why would I need a WIA driver NOW, when I probably had it BEFORE?
Why was it removed? Was it removed on purpose?
Do I need to BUY or DOWNLOAD a WIA driver under the disguise of driver update?

What is this WIA driver? Where do I find it?
I searched for the WIA driver everywhere for hours!
It can be downloaded for FREE!

WIA stands for Windows Image Architecture. It is a programmable app.
It is used to display what is to be scanned.
It is a scanning format (that is what I think it is for).

The scanner program itself uses another imaging program.
I use Zoner Photo Studio 18 for this purpose (piggy-back OCR).

The robot at the Canon website can detect what system I have and find the correct scan app for me to download.
This is a good feature of the Canon website.
I have a Canon CanoScan LiDE 110 scanner which works on my laptop, a 64-bit system running Windows 10,

I checked the necessary scan apps for my system from the Canon website.
I don't actually know what they do or what they are for, or whether I need all 3.

I downloaded the 3 files below from the Canon website.
Then I installed all the 3 files, one by one.
The one at far right is most important - it says sd68-win-lide110-17_0.5-ea24.
That's the most recent version of the scan app that I need.

Then I re-started my laptop.
Then I opened the Control Panel and the Printer & Scanner folder.

I double-clicked on the Canon CanoScan LiDE 110 icon (black scanner).

I tried all the links I can see.
One link will display the profile to use for scanning.
I created a new profile and named it after me.
I set it as my new default profile.
I closed the message box.

Then I clicked on the other link and the scanner window showed up (just what I need).
I performed a scan.
I scanned an A4 document to see if it will scan.
Yes, it scanned ok.
DONE! My scanner works again!


Other notes about my scanner

1. The Canon CanoScan LiDE 110 scanner at home is not as good as the scanner that I use at work. But it is ok for home use and for urgent use. This is a bare minimum scanner. 
2. Buy a better scanner if you have the budget. It is worth if you are keeping track of documents or photos for research and publication.
3. The control for this scanner is bare minimum and not so easy to fine tune (can't fine tune). 
4. The other Canon MP model at work is much better.