Percolator, ($1.99), for instance, converts images into colorful mosaics that look almost like stained glass.
Benjamin Fry's "Valence," for instance, converts bland data -- here, the genetic characteristics of a human, a fruit fly and a mouse -- into appealing visual displays.
Across the region, local officials are changing their routines to offset rapidly rising energy costs, making big efforts, for instance, converting diesel-guzzling trucks to biofuels, and smaller gestures, like filling car tires with nitrogen, to help increase gas mileage.
Another parent, Anne Cattaneo Santore, said she was troubled because her son, William, a second grader at P.S. 124 in Chinatown, spent months counting with coins and solving equations using "friendly numbers," for instance, converting 71+1919 into the easier 70 + 20.
One tool, for instance, converts text into its mirror image.
It learns a rule by building a decision tree on the current subset of instances, converting the path from root to the leaf that covers the most instances into a rule.
Maryland, for instance, has converted to full-day kindergarten, which gives students more time to master basic skills and develop discipline.
Leaning forward, for instance, is converted into a push of the W key that would normally be pressed to walk forward in the game.
The Service Employees International Union, for instance, has converted a 30-foot tractor-trailer into a mobile phone bank in which volunteers can use 32 computerized phones to make more than 1,000 calls an hour.
The Support Vector Regression Machine was applied through SVMTorch [ 28], where every learning instance was converted into position specific dinucleotide density variation profile with respect to the (possible) target sites.
