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Supernatural beings from Slovenian myth and folktales
Focusing on Slovenian mythology the book contains a review of Slovenian mythological, historical, and narrative material. Over 150 supernatural beings are presented, both lexically and according to the role that they have in Slovenian folklore. They are classified by type, characteristic, features, and by the message conveyed in their motifs and contents. The material has been analysed in the context of European and some non-European mythological concepts, and the author deals with theory and interpretations as well as the conclusions of domestic and foreign researchers. The book forms new starting points and a classification of supernatural beings within a frame of a number of sources, some of which have been published for the first time in this book.
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# How To Solve Quadratic Equation Graphical Method Ideas
How To Solve Quadratic Equation Graphical Method Ideas. To do this, we draw the line \ (y = 10\) on the graph. Transform the equation so that the quadratic term and the linear term equal a constant.
Both roots of the equation are zero when b and c are zero. The roots of the quadratic equation details are mentioned here. Use quadratic formula if you couldnβt factorize the quadratic.
### Now You Have To Set Each Factor = Zero.
This is just the tenth grade mathematics. Rearrange the equation so that one side = 0 (if necessary). There are three basic methods to solve a quadratic equation in mathematics:
### π ( π₯ β π) ( π₯ β π) = 0.
In order to find the solutions of a quadratic equation using a graph: Use quadratic formula if you couldnβt factorize the quadratic. This video demonstrates how to solve quadratic equations by graphing.
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# \$ % \$ 3. If you are required to solve this quadratic equation => 3xΒ² + 14x + 8 = 0. To compute complex calculation use texas instruments.
### Using The Quadratic Formula To Try To Solve This Equation, A = 1, B = 2 And C = 5 Which Gives:we Can Help You Solve An Equation Of The Form Ax 2 + Bx + C = 0 Just Enter The Values Of A, B And C Below:.we Can Solve A Quadratic Equation By Factoring, Completing The Square, Using The Quadratic Formula Or Using The Graphical Method.
This method may be used to solve all quadratic equations. Transform the equation so that the quadratic term and the linear term equal a constant. We can solve the quadratic equations by using different methods given below:
### Each Equation Has To Be Solved.
As an exercise you are asked to find the equation of a quadratic function whose graph is shown in the applet and write it in the form f(x) = a x 2 + b x + c.you may also use this applet to find quadratic function given its graph generate as many graphs and therefore questions, as you wish. The other method to solve the quadratic equation is the graphical method to solve a quadratic equation. Change the zero to y or f(x).
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योजना राष्ट्रीय खाद्य सुरक्षा मिशन योजना, दियारा विकास योजना, राष्ट्रीय बागवानी मिशन, मुख्यमंत्री बागवानी मिशन, विशेष फसल योजना, किसान समूह गठन, एफपीओ, कृषि यंत्र बैंक की स्थापना, किसान पुरस्कार योजना, किसान पाठशाला, प्रधानमंत्री कृषि सिंचाई योजना, फसल कटनी, खरीफ फसल उत्पादन तकनीकी, बिहार वित्त नियमावली, कौशल विकास मिशन आदि विषयों पर विस्तार से बताया गया। प्रदेश में सात खेलों को बनाएंगे 70 खेल मैदान गौतम बुद्ध पार्क में फिर बनेगा भूलभुलैया यह स्पष्ट नहीं है कि 15 सितंबर से पोर्टल गड़बड़ मुक्त होगा या नहीं, लेकिन आईटीआर भरने की तारीख का विस्तार राहत के रूप में आता है। अधिकारी ने कहा कि वाम कार्यकर्ताओं ने कोलकाता के सेंट्रल एवेन्यू, हेस्टिंग्स, श्याम बाजार और मौलाली इलाकों में सड़कें अवरुद्ध कर दीं। जानकारी के मुताबिक सुदामडीह थाना क्षेत्र के एएसपी कोलियरी में बीती रात 20 से 25 की संख्या में आए हथियारबंद अपराधियों ने कोलियरी के सीओसीपी में तैनात गार्डों के साथ मारपीट कर उन्हें बंधक बना लिया. इसके बाद पेलोडर मशीन की बैटरी समेत 2 लाख की संपत्ति लूटकर फरार हो गए. गार्डों का मोबाइल छिन कर भाग रहे अपराधियों ने शोर मचाने पर गोली मारने की धमकी भी दी. बाद में घटना की सूचना मिलने पर सीआईएसएफ और स्थानीय पुलिस</s>
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Christmas train – level 3
The multicolored lights of Bogota’s Christmas train have returned to Colombia’s capital for Christmas after it was cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
400-meters-long and comprised of 14 cars, the lit-up trin makes use of old railways that were out of commission in Bogota for more than three decades. The holiday express can carry up to 600 passengers at a time, some of which tend to be foreigners. Staff dressed up as nutcrackers and Santa Claus greeted passengers at the train station, and they passed cabin to cabin to visit passengers as the train chugged along.
The train follows a route through the South American capital, leading to Bogota’s popular attraction, the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira.
The Christmas train will be running all through December, and according to the train’s manager, besides being a publicity event, the attraction also helps bring joy to the people of Bogota who always come out to see it passing by every night.
Difficult words: comprise (to consist of), out of commission (not in working condition), chug (to move with repeated low sounds like that of a steam engine).
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या कोई कपड़ा अवश्य रखें। अखबारों के संपादकीय लेखों में विश्लेषक देवेश कपूर और प्रतापभानु मेहता ने लिखा कि संसद में जारी विभाजन की वजह से भारत कई क्षेत्रों में पिछड़ रहा है. नई दिल्ली। पेट्रोल और डीजल के दाम वर्तमान में अपने उच्चतम स्तर पर पहुंच चुके हैं। विपक्षी दलों ने सोमवार को देशभर में विरोधप्रदर्शन किया। अामजन भी पेट्रोल और डीजल की बढ़ती कीमतों से हलकान हैं। उधर, सरकार ने ईंधन की खुदरा कीमतें कम करने के लिए उत्पाद शुल्क में किसी भी तत्काल कमी की संभावना से इनकार कर दिया है। केंद्र सरकार ने राज्य सरकारों से आग्रह किया कि वे पेट्रोल और डीजल के दाम कम करने के लिए जरूरी कदम उठाएं। संजय राउत ने एक इंटरव्यू में कहा था कि पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री इंदिरा गांधी अंडरवर्ल्ड डॉन करीम लाला से मिलने जाया करती थीं। शिवसेना सांसद के बयान के बाद सियासी तकरार छिड़ गई। राउत के बयान पर कांग्रेस नेता संजय निरुपम ने अपने आधिकारिक ट्विटर हैंडल से प्रतिक्रिया देते हुए कहा, बेहतर होगा कि शिवसेना के मिस्टर शायर दूसरों की हल्कीफुल्की शायरी सुनाकर महाराष्ट्र का मनोरंजन करते रहें। उन्होंने मिस्टर शायर शब्द का इस्तेमाल संजय राउत के लिए किया। विधानसभा क्षेत्र कर्णप्रयाग में बृहस्पतिवार को</s>
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Diabetic Boots for work are specially designed to work boots that offer support and comfort to people with Diabetes. Podiatrists recommend Diabetic footwear for working people who have cushioned insoles. The insoles help absorb shock from walking and standing, which can protect against long-term damage to the feet. Diabetic Work shoes are also stain resistant, anti-static and have slip resistance. They are made with breathable materials that keep your feet dry during long shifts at work or play.
Best Work Boots For Diabetics to stay active without fatigue
If you are a diabetic, then it’s important to keep your feet in the best shape possible. The best way to do this is by wearing Best Work Boots For Diabetics. Diabetic shoes have a special design that makes them comfortable for people with Diabetes and also helps reduce the risk of injury during work.
The following are some of the features of diabetic shoes:
- They are made from high-quality materials that can withstand wear and tear.
- They provide comfort by cushioning the foot.
- They provide stability by preventing rolling over.
- They have an anti-slip sole to prevent accidents at the workplace.
- Some brands offer waterproof designs which protect against water damage while working outdoors in bad weather conditions.
How to pick the best diabetic boots that you can wear at work
When you are thinking about purchasing diabetic shoes for work, there are several factors to consider.
- The first is the price of diabetic boots. If you have a budget, it is important to stay within your budget and get the most out of it. You may have noticed that some retailers offer special deals on certain days or times of the year. These can be really helpful if you want to buy your diabetic boots at an affordable price. It’s up to you whether or not these deals are worth it; just make sure not to overspend on something because it was “on-sale”. They might be good deals, but they’re still too expensive even with a discount!
- The second thing is size – this varies depending on the manufacturer, so check their sizing chart before buying anything online. Some brands require specific sizes while others only need general sizes like small/medium/large, so always double-check before ordering anything from their website since different companies may use different methods when creating their products, and this could mean that one company’s shoe fits differently from another’s even though they’re both made by the same person (which makes sense). That being said: find out what size fits comfortably first, then look at everything else later, such as colour scheme, material type, etcetera!
Diabetic Boots Mens
When you’re diabetic, it’s important to find the right boots that will help keep your feet dry and comfortable. The best diabetic boots for men are made of materials that can absorb moisture, which keeps your feet dry when you need them to be. They also have special insoles that provide extra comfort and support for those who need it.
What makes these types of work boots great for diabetics? Here are some features:
- They come with an antimicrobial lining that helps prevent foot odour from forming if you wear them all day long at the office or on a construction site.
- They have heel cups that allow your feet to stay in place while being active, so they don’t feel sore after being on them all day long.
- They feature Gore-Tex material, which makes them waterproof, so water doesn’t seep through onto your skin when walking through puddles during the rainy season
Features of Diabetic Boots Mens
Boots for Diabetics Men and Women are designed to offer your feet the best support, protection and comfort. The diabetic boots mens should have features like:
- Cushioned insoles to prevent blisters.
- Breathable keeps your feet cool in summer seasons and warm in winter seasons by allowing the air to flow inside the boot, which makes them breathable.
- Waterproof, as you know, water can cause foot infections if it gets inside your shoes, so it’s better to wear waterproofed boots which protect from getting wet or damp conditions on rainy days or snowy winters when we go outside our homes/offices.
Lightweight – These boots will be lightweight, so you don’t feel heavy wearing them all day long while working at a job that requires standing or walking around most of the time during work hours (elevator operator). A lightweight design helps prevent injuries caused by lifting heavy objects repeatedly throughout an 8-hour shift at least three times a day for five days per week because this type of footwear is easier than heavier alternatives such as steel toe cap versions with reinforced toes made out from hard plastic material instead of fabric materials found on regular workwear models so they won’t fall apart easily due too much wear over time thanks primarily due how often they’re used daily amongst other factors such as improper care taken off these items properly after each use cycle (washing machine) etcetera!
Top 3 Best Diabetic Boots by Medicomf Shoes Australia
Medicomfort Shoes has a wide range of Diabetic Work Boots for people with Diabetes. Whether you’re looking for the best diabetic boot, we have something to suit your needs.
Cortez Men’s Shoes are suitable for men who want a comfortable, durable and affordable work shoe option that will protect their feet from injury or damage during work hours. The Cortez boots feature an ergonomic design that provides excellent support to the arch and heel of the foot to reduce fatigue and pain during long shifts.
Palermo Diabetic Boot is designed specifically for people with Diabetes who are in need of an easy-to-put on and take off Man’s boot that offers maximum comfort while working at a job site, especially when they have mobility issues due to other medical conditions like arthritis or neuropathy in their legs.”
Paradise Women shoes are the perfect footwear choice for women who experience discomfort due to swelling caused by poor circulation in their lower extremities during long periods of standing or sitting down throughout each day at work.”
Diabetic boots are a great way to improve your foot health
If you have a medical condition, it’s important that you take care of your feet. Shoes are the only thing standing between your feet and the ground. If your shoes are not comfortable or supportive enough, this can lead to serious foot problems in the future. Diabetic boots help to keep your feet dry, breathable, lightweight and comfortable.
Diabetic boots are designed for people who suffer from diabetes mellitus type 1 or 2 (or other medical conditions). These boots provide comfort and support for those who have trouble walking due to circulatory problems in their legs that lead them to feel pain when walking long distances on surfaces such as concrete floors or carpeting. They also help prevent infections because they contain antimicrobial agents that fight off bacteria that could otherwise cause irritation while wearing these types of protective garments over long periods of time without being cleaned properly every day, Generic Cialis 40mg, like with regular footwear options such as sneakers!
Diabetic Boots for Female workers
Women’s feet are different from men’s. When it comes to working boots and diabetic boots, the shape of their feet means they need a type of footwear that doesn’t compromise comfort, support, breathability or lightweight.
- Women’s feet are generally more narrow than men’s, and high heels can be uncomfortable for women who suffer from Diabetes. With this in mind, look for diabetic boots for women with a wider toe box that allows your toes to spread out comfortably as you walk along.
- Women tend to have narrower ankles than men do, so you’ll want to avoid boots that are too tight around your ankles so as not to restrict blood flow there – especially if you’re on your feet all day! Look for one with an adjustable lace-up feature instead, which allows you to dial in just how much room there is inside them, so they don’t feel tight at all when wearing them over extended periods of time (like during work shifts).
- Don’t forget about breathability! Your feet will be working harder throughout the day due partly due increased physical activity but also because they’re being forced into enclosed spaces such as shoes/boots where airflow isn’t optimal like outdoors where we normally spend most days going about our daily routine however since diabetics have higher levels circulating throughout their bodies which can cause sweatier conditions inside footwear without proper ventilation systems set up beforehand then it makes sense why some people may experience discomfort here especially those who suffer from chronic conditions like diabetes mellitus type II (DM) syndrome – something worth considering before making any purchases today because having one pair suits both genders well enough would mean less hassle trying out different brands with various features just hoping something works out when really all we need something simple designed specifically around these needs which exist within each gender group separately rather than taking away from other important factors necessary when looking at potential purchase options available today…
Diabetic Work Boots for people who have to walk a lot
Enter diabetic work boots. These stylish shoes have been specially designed with special features that protect against common foot conditions such as cracked heels and calluses caused by walking long distances every day. They’re also made specifically for people with Diabetes (hence the name), so they’ll help prevent any further damage from occurring as well as provide comfort during those long hours spent on one’s feet.
Do you feel like your feet are heavy after a long day at work? If so, then you may be suffering from diabetic neuropathy. This is a condition that causes your nerves to stop working properly, which in turn makes it difficult for them to relay messages between the brain and different parts of the body. If left untreated, this can lead to serious complications such as amputation or even kidney failure!
Diabetic Work Boots for Labour intensive industry
Labour-intensive industries include mining, construction, manufacturing, and agriculture. In these industries, you may have to walk a lot or perform physical labour for long hours. If this is the case for you, then diabetic work boots are recommended for your safety and protection.
Diabetic work boots are designed to provide comfort and support while at the same time protecting against foot injuries caused by heavy-duty activities in those industries. They can also be used as general-purpose footwear if they offer the right features that won’t cause any problems with your feet.
So how do you choose a good pair? Here is what I recommend:
- Make sure it’s made of leather – The best diabetic work boots are made from leather because it lasts longer than synthetic materials like nylon or synthetic suede, which tend to wear out faster over time due to frequent use in harsh environments such as those found on construction sites.
- Look for cushioned insoles – Your feet will thank you if there’s extra padding between them and whatever surface they touch! For example, when walking around all day long inside buildings (like warehouses), concrete floors tend not only to make noise but also cause pain through constant vibration on concrete surfaces.
Podiatrists recommend Diabetic Work Boots have cushioned insoles.
Podiatrists recommend Diabetic Work Boots have cushioned insoles. The cushioning will help reduce foot fatigue, foot pain, and foot swelling. It can also help prevent numbness in your feet and improve blood circulation.
It’s important to your feet that you take care of them and find the best diabetic work boots. It is not just about comfort but also about your health and well-being. The good news is there are many different styles available for men and women, so you can make sure that the shoes match your taste as well as fit your foot type perfectly!
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Natural Hair Loss Treatment in San Fernando, CA
According to the American Hair Loss Association, over 85 percent of American men experience hair loss by the time they reach fifty, with two-thirds losing their hair in their thirties.
While most people think of male-pattern baldness when they think of hair loss, women make up 40 percent of hair loss sufferers.
Hair loss is on the rise overall and age of onset is getting younger. Many believe that stress, overuse of harsh dyes and hairstyling products, and exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals play a role in causing hair loss.
If you want to avoid the side effects of conventional hair loss treatments or are looking for an alternative non-surgical treatment for hair loss, schedule a consultation with a qualified healthcare practitioner in San Fernando who specializes in natural hair loss treatment.
Call (424) 365-1800 or contact Dr. Jeremy Fischer online.
What Causes Hair Loss?
Hereditary male-pattern baldness is the most common cause of hair loss, but hormonal imbalances, stress, and diseases like hypothyroidism or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have also been found to frequently cause hair loss.
In addition, the following conditions can play a role in the onset of your hair loss:
- Nutritional deficiencies (e.g., iron, vitamin D, biotin, zinc, etc.)
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals in food and environment
- Excessive hairstyling (blow-drying, straightening, curling, teasing, braiding, etc.)
- Certain medical conditions like diabetes, PCOS or thyroid disease
- Certain beta blockers used to treat high blood pressure
- Cessation of hormonal birth control
- Post-menopausal baldness
- Post-pregnancy hair loss
Natural Hair Loss Remedies
The following natural hair loss remedies have been recommended for both their ability to combat hair loss and promote hair regrowth:
- Scalp massage or acupuncture to restore circulation and trigger hair growth
- Essential oils rubbed into scalp, such as rosemary, spikenard, lavender, thyme, cedarwood, sage and peppermint
- Topical scalp applications of Indian gooseberry, onion juice, potato juice, fenugreek, licorice root, coconut milk or aloe vera gel
- Homeopathic remedies like floricum acidum, phosphorus, calcarea carbonica, vinca minor, graphites, Mezereum, and Silicea
- Dietary modifications to incorporate more nutrients that help improve scalp health and hair growth
When used in combination with therapies which address the root cause of your hair loss - such as hormone replacement therapy to correct a hormone imbalance - you can both treat hair loss and prevent further hair loss.
What is a Healthy Diet to Promote Hair Growth?
When examining your diet as it relates to hair loss, look at common nutritional deficiencies linked to hair loss or hormonal imbalance.
Foods you should avoid include:
- Trans fats
- Genetically-modified foods or non-organic foods high in hormone-disrupting pesticide residue
- Sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, or artificial sweeteners
- Processed or fast foods
- Canned foods (especially tomato products)
Instead, create a diet filled with foods that can help promote hair growth, such as:
- Fish like sardines, salmon, and anchovies, which are high in omega-3 fatty acids
- Healthy fats found in coconut oil and avocado oil
- Foods rich in zinc like lamb, oysters, and pumpkin seeds
- Seeds like hemp, pumpkin, chia, sesame and flaxseed
- Biotin-rich foods like grass-fed beef and chicken, almonds, sweet potatoes, beans, and egg yolks
- Bone broth
- Green tea
- High antioxidant fruits and vegetables like berries, plums, Brussels sprouts, bell peppers, onions, and broccoli
Vitamins for Hair Loss
Certain vitamin deficiencies are well-known for causing hair loss, and certain herbal remedies have been used for centuries to slow or reverse hair loss. Incorporating the following herbal supplements and vitamins for hair loss may be helpful:
- B vitamins like biotin and B5 (pantothenic acid)
- Vitamin D3 with K2
- Fish oil
- Saw palmetto
- Stinging nettle
Before taking a dietary supplement, talk with your healthcare provider, who can evaluate nutritional deficiencies and current medications to make sure that your vitamins are properly dosed for safety and effectiveness.
How Can I Prevent Hair Loss?
Prevention and early treatment of hair loss is important, as advanced hair loss cannot always be reversed. There are steps you can take to prevent hair loss, including:
- Keeping your stress level down
- Avoiding medication with side effects that cause hair loss
- Controlling blood sugar
- Avoiding over-styling and coloring your hair
- Using natural hair products that do not contain sulfates or parabens
- Supplementing diet with vitamins and herbs listed above
- Regularly massaging your scalp with essential oils like rosemary
- Taking multivitamins after pregnancy
- Avoiding hormonal birth control
These natural remedies for hair loss can be a safe and effective way to slow or even reverse hair loss. Request more information about natural hair loss treatments today. Call (424) 365-1800 or contact Dr. Jeremy Fischer online.
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The profitable adventure of threatened middle-class families: an ethnographic study on homeschooling in South Korea
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- Seo, DH. Asia Pacific Educ. Rev. (2009) 10: 409. doi:10.1007/s12564-009-9036-x
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South Korean society in the late 1990s was confronted with socio-economic setbacks and discursive turbulence concerning the quality of education being provided. It was at such a particular historical juncture of South Korean society that I conducted ethnographic research on homeschooling families. Based on field data collected from four homeschooling families, this article examines how lower middle-class families at first manifested their education fever in an unprecedented adoption of homeschooling, and then returned their children to school within the same socio-cultural context. Central to this article’s analysis is what members of these middle-class families, especially children, experienced during the homeschooling period, and how parents negotiated their rationale for homeschooling and returning their children to school within contesting discourses (e.g., deschooling and neo-liberalism). As will be shown, despite experiencing difficulties in pursuing a self-fashioned education in a school-centered society, the families benefited from homeschooling in terms of acquiring “neo-liberal” mentalities for survival without risking their established socio-cultural status. As such, this article reconfirms the ambivalent characteristics of the alternative education movement in South Korea and its inevitable connection with the middle-class habitus embedded in the South Korean socio-cultural context.
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How the Declaration of Independence landed us in a state
The Declaration of Independence emphasizes the deep connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, but is vague about borders and the type of regime. How has this formulation affected the character of the state?
Theodor Herzl was well aware of the importance of the Land of Israel in Jewish religion and history, and the bulk of his efforts were aimed at bringing about the establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine. But he was ready to consider other possibilities: Argentina, East Africa. Had those suggestions been accepted, it’s unlikely that Zionism would have developed into a broad national movement or gained the...
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This important book examines the history of human conflict concisely, including modern terrorism that continues to spread globally.
Features of the book include:
- An overview of man’s long history of conflict.
- Urban crime and conflicting groups in society.
- Tribal, ethnic, religious and political conflict.
- Territorial and imperialist conflict.
- The two World Wars.
- Terrorism and revolution.
- The threats of nuclear and biochemical warfare.
- Conflicts of ‘democratic’ vs. ‘socialism’.
- Islamic terrorism and jihad.
- Proposals to reduce conflict.
This timely and through provoking book is certain to interest adult readers of all ages for many years to come. In decades to come it may also provide a useful historical look at the present times.
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Nuestro tiempo es el de la caída en el presente. Es imposible construir nuevos pactos sociales y, por tanto, las oportunidades para imaginar el futuro son pocas. No hay utopías, sólo un pragmatismo que apuesta por lo útil. Nuestra sociedad sufre el desencanto de la democracia, la lógica del mercado y la globalización, incapaz de producir ideas para el porvenir ¿Cuál es la salida? Richard Rorty diría: no es la razón lo que cambia las cosas, sino la imaginación. A partir (...) de este principio, este libro hace un elogio del optimismo desencantado, donde las preguntas son más importantes que las respuestas ¿Cuál es el papel que las palabras juegan en el actual estado del arte? ¿De qué modo están conectados el mundo y la llamada República de las Letras? ¿Qué idea de generación tienen los escritores nacidos a partir de la década de los setenta? ¿Por qué niegan el concepto de colectivo? ¿Cuál es la relación entre política y literatura? ¿En qué momento el crítico se convirtió en redactor de obituarios? ¿La literatura forma parte del espectáculo? Éste es un ensayo sobre el lenguaje, la idea de generaciones y las estéticas de la literatura contemporánea; pero también es una denuncia que señala los mecanismos que han provocado el distanciamiento entre la creación y la acción, la ética y la estética, la literatura y el espacio público. (shrink)
D. D. Raphael examines the moral philosophy of Adam Smith (1723-90), best known for his famous work on economics, The Wealth of Nations, and shows that his thought still has much to offer philosophers today. Raphael gives particular attention to Smith's original theory of conscience, with its emphasis on the role of 'sympathy' (shared feelings).
In this fascinating exploration of justice, eminent philosopher D. D. Raphael presents the culmination of a lifetime's study of its evolution, from ancient times to the late twentieth century. His aim is not just historical but philosophical: to illuminate our true understanding of justice. His unique approach examines not only classic texts by such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Mill, and Rawls but also the Bible and Greek tragedy, as well as some neglected but important thought from the modern era. (...) Lucid and stimulating, this work can be enjoyed by anyone interested in moral and political thought, even by those with little to no knowledge of political theory or philosophy. (shrink)
The twelve essays in this volume are not only introductions to some of the most influential thinkers in human history but are also invitations for the reader to participate in a living debate. "What is justice?" "What is truth?" These questions, first posed by Socrates two and a half millennia ago, have lost none of their power to baffle. And while many philosophers have claimed to answer them, ultimately the questions return, compelling us once again. The authors of these essays (...) are distinguished philosophers in their own right. They engage with philosophical ideas rather than merely relaying them. By choosing a specific aspect of their subject's work, they liberate the great philosophers from textbook cliche;s--revealing them in all their freshness and originality. (shrink)
Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can attest. This book is an important entry in a distinctive new series from Routledge: The Great Philosophers . Breaking down obstacles to understanding the ideas of history's greatest thinkers, these brief, accessible, and affordable volumes offer essential introductions to the great philosophers of the Western tradition from Plato to Wittgenstein. In just 64 pages, each author, a specialist on his subject, places the philosopher (...) and his ideas into historical perspective. Each volume explains, in simple terms, the basic concepts, enriching the narrative through the effective use of biographical detail. And instead of attempting to explain the philosopher's entire intellectual history, which can be daunting, this series takes one central theme in each philosopher's work, using it to unfold the philosopher's thoughts. (shrink)
In this new and enlarged edition of a standard introduction to moral philosophy, Raphael shows in clear and simple language the connections between abstract ethics and practical problems in law, government, medicine, and the social sciences in general. Moral Philosophy deals with six main areas. First, it looks at the two opposed traditions of naturalism and rationalism, and considers more recent discussion in terms of logic and language. Next, it explores the attractions and defects of Utilitarianism, and then turns to (...) its main rival, Kantian ethics, which Raphael favors in a modified form. The third section shows how different moral views are related to different theories about justice and liberty. The fourth examines the problem of free will and determinism in the context of the presuppositions of science, especially in the social sciences. This second edition enlarges the relation of moral philosophy to other concerns, with two new chapters: one on ethics and evolution, the other on medical ethics. (shrink)
NON-DUALISM, DUALISM AND MONISM Q.1 What do the following terms, often used by the Vedanta: dualism, monism, monotheism and non-dualism, mean? A. Every philosophical or cosmological vision which affirms two opposing and irreducible ...
Selected and edited with comparative notes and analytical index by Raphael. The British Moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries form a remarkable tradition of continuous philosophical debate, reaching its high point in the ethical writings of Hume. Many of the works included in this collection are unavailable in modern editions, and those that are available can be seen to better advantage here, in the context of their historical development. This new selection differs appreciable from its predecessor, Selby-Bigge's British Moralists, (...) in the choice of authors and excerpts, in extending the scope of the authors included, and in adding comparative notes. The analytical index enables the reader to trace influences and locate notable arguments and positions. (shrink)
The main purpose of this paper (1) is to draw attention to a gap between the principles of Common Law and the principles accepted by many leading medical practitioners on the ethics of allowing severely handicapped infants to die. The Common Law principles are shown in Court of Appeal judgements on two cases. The contrasting principles of many paediatricians were illustrated at the trial of Dr Leonard Arthur. The paper suggests that the gap could be closed by statutory guidance on (...) general principles. It also argues that utilitarian concepts misrepresent the ethical issues of medical dilemmas like this one. (shrink)
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By Prensa Latina
UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Cuba, Soledad Bauza, stated here today that the National Biodiversity Program is an essential pillar for tackling climate change.
In relation to Cuba, it is vital because its status as a small island state makes it vulnerable to an increase in the average sea levels, an increase in temperature and an intensification of drought, the official told Prensa Latina.
Presented yesterday, and under the auspices of the UNDP, the program contains 20 concrete actions to minimize the loss of species of flora and fauna by the end of this decade.
To achieve it, the program is focused on five key objectives, among them to address the underlying causes of the phenomenon, to control the major threats to the species, to promote their sustainable use, and conserving ecosystems, habitats, species, and genes.
This strategy constitutes the main action platform for the implementation of the strategic objectives defined in the national environmental policy to face the loss of biodiversity, she explained.
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Ok, so cocoa and cacao are kind of the same thing. They're also very different.
*le sigh* Let us explain:
The cacao bean is the source of both cacao and cocoa powders. So, “cacao” basically refers to the raw form of chocolate. The cacao bean is what any type of chocolate (cocoa powder) is initially made of.
Actual cacao beans are found inside the fruit of the tree in fleshy, oval-shaped pods. The beans are harvested, fermented, and dried.
When you see cacao nibs, powdered cacao (or cacao powder) in the grocery stores, the bean is in its raw state—uncooked, additive free, and unprocessed.
Cacao contains an abundance of antioxidants, because it's raw and pure. It’s also a fantastic source of fiber, magnesium, essential fatty acids, iron, copper, zinc, sulfur, and calcium.
It isn’t until after the cacao beans are roasted and processed that they are called cocoa. Most cocoa powders have additives like sweeteners or cocoa butter. Once roasted and processed (turning cacao to cocoa), the beans lose much of their nutritional benefits.
There are two types of cocoa powder: Dutch-process cocoa powder is made from cocoa (cacao) beans that have been washed with a potassium carbonate solution, to alkalize the pH and to neutralize their acidity. Dutch-process is dark brown in color.
Natural cocoa powder is reddish-brown and is made from cocoa beans that are simply roasted and ground into a fine powder. Natural unsweetened cocoa powder is actually very similar to raw cacao powder except for experiencing higher temperatures during production, which decreases antioxidant activity.
Or, if you're over the whole thing and just want to ruin cacao for the rest of your life, watch this:
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Yacker Tracker Original - Adjustable sound-activated noise monitor
Equipped with longer lasting LED lights eliminating the need for replacement bulbs. Features 2-second delay before the optional siren sounds preventing false alerts resulting from sudden noises. Acceptable levels of noise can be adjusted for quiet activities or louder for group work. Nursery schools with hearing impaired students can use the unit as a visual signal. Drama departments can incorporate this unit as a quiet signal to alert backstage cast members of inappropriate offstage noise. Other features include: voice ("Quiet Please") or siren options; Automatically or manually adjustable lights; Decibel sensitivity control (from 50dB to 110 dB); Self-standing or wall-mountable; Powered by a 120V AC adapter (Included) or 6 AA batteries, sold separately. Optional face stickers for lights.
- Traffic light is approximately 17" high.
- Unit plugs into AC 120 volt electrical outlet with included UL approved transformer (Input: 100-240V AC 50-60Hz, Output: 9V DC 500mA) or can be used with 6 AA alkaline batteries (sold seperately).
- Unit can be self-standing or wall-mounted.
- Traffic light is computerized with adjustable sound level meter.
- Red light counter registers each time the red light activates. Push reset button to reset counter to zero.
- Decibel sensitivity control can be set to operator's choice. Push button to devrease sensitivity. Also offers manual operation option of staying on a given light color.
- Option face stickers provided to add the element of emotion ot the lights.
- Green light stays lit until noise in room goes above set level (determined by user, green light is replaced with a flashing yellow light as a warning. When sound level reaches 15 dB above set level, the red light and siren are activated.
- Voice ("Queit Please" in 4 languages or your own recording) and siren options. User has the option of turning sounds on or off.
- Delayed Alarm Function will sound when noice continues for more than 2 seconds.
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the impossible & infinite encyclopedia of the world created by Schuiten & Peeters
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Mélange is a journal of the Academy of Sciences of Brüsel. Its 60th Anniversary issue was devoted to Professor Loms and his study of the Network 1).
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Olive Children Foundation and Berkeley Academy thank Mr. Andy Sass for being our guest speaker this month, sharing his experiences in mineral extraction and chemical engineering with our students. Mr. Sass received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from U.C. Davis and has worked on and designed dozens of chemical plants. Mr. Sass brought several samples of minerals including crystalline gypsum, sodium carbonate, gold ore, and a 20 kilogram ingot of lead! During the event, students were also introduced to the various industrial and commercial applications of chemical engineering, and how we use goods made possible by chemical engineering in everyday life. We are thankful for having the privilege of hosting Mr. Sass as he shared his experiences as a chemical engineer with the kids.
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Literati painting, or bunjinga, introduced from China in the early eighteenth century, flourished in Japan's artistic communities. Even after Western culture began to eclipse Chinese influences with the opening of the Meiji era in 1868, Japanese scholar-painters continued to thrive under strong patronage from government officials. A new generation of artists during the Taishō and early Shōwa eras revitalized the ltierati movement in the twentieth century. This "new" literati painting, or shin nanga, revived and continued the concept of the scholar-amateur artist in the context of modern expressionism and individualism.
Although an area of serious Japanese scholarship in recent years, the literati phenomenon has been little examined in the West. Literati Modern: Bunjinga from Late Edo to Twentieth-Century Japan introduces to the pulic for the first time an important collection of literati and shin nanga artworks.
Formed by noted garden designer Terry Welch, the collection-recently acquired by the Honolulu Academy of Arts- offers outstanding examples of paintings, calligraphy, and ceramics. In this volume, eighty-three select objects are beautifully illustrated and examined. Translations of inscriptions and poems, detailed artist biographies, and photographic documentation of seals and signatures are also provided. In addition, essays by scholars Paul Berry and Michiyo Morioka consider the relationship between Chinese and Japanese painters in the nineteenth century, the transformation of literati tradition in modern-era Japanese painting, and the types and significance of seals in literati painting. Throughout, the striking diversity of individual expressions that underlies the bunjinga movement shines through. The volume is a major contribution to the field of Japanese art.
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Covenant Preparatory School’s academic program combines rigor with support, requiring students to take responsibility for their success both in and out of the classroom. Covenant Prep students are expected to be academically and personally primed and polished. In addition to a core curriculum which focuses on English language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science, students also study art, music, physical education, and a course titled: Pathways to College & Career. As part of the extended day program, students engage in regular, structured study time.Students in 7th and 8th grades receive additional instruction in preparing for the Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT) and high school placement guidance.
Teaching and learning at Covenant Preparatory School is supported by technologies including a computer lab, iPads, and Chromebooks, innovative and exciting classroom applications, and SMART interactive whiteboards that allow teachers and students to take a hands-on approach in all subject areas. Furthermore, students, families, and teachers are all connected through a web-based program that tracks important educational data and streamlines communication between the School and its students and their families/guardians.
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Aug 1, 2012
Hairy solution to making sensitive artificial skin
A team of South Korean researchers has produced a simple, highly sensitive and flexible sensor based on the intermolecular forces between "nanohairs". The device was fabricated as a synthetic equivalent to human skin. It is capable of distinguishing and measuring pressure, as well as shear stress and torsional forces, and can be easily and economically manufactured.
Reproducing the qualities of skin in a suitable synthetic sensor has proved a challenge because there are severe design constraints on such sensors that make them highly complex to fabricate. Most significantly, the devices need to be thin and flexible enough to wrap around areas of high curvature such as fingers and toes without being damaged. This is problematic because most of the materials used in electronics, such as silicon and germanium, are, in their bulk state, hard and brittle.
Various research groups have made progress in "epidermal electronics" using a variety of methods. John Rogers' group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for example, has used a transfer-printing method to cut individual silicon chiplets to micrometre size and attach them to a flexible substrate, allowing the researchers to create wireless heart-rate monitors that stick to the skin like temporary tattoos using just Van der Waals forces. Other groups have created flexible electric circuits using carbon nanotubes or graphene. But doubts remain about whether such approaches can realistically be used to produce an affordable sensor able to measure and distinguish between different types of forces on a large area of "skin", as the circuitry would become increasingly complex and the engineering demands ever greater.
Instead, researchers at Seoul National University (SNU), together with a colleague from Rogers' group in Illinois, have created a simpler sensor based on piezoresistance – where changes in the electrical conductivity of a semiconductor are caused by applied mechanical stress. Their design uses two slightly separated thin layers of a flexible polymer – polymethylsiloxane (PDMS) – each covered with a very thin layer of platinum to make them conduct electricity. The team then covered the inner surface of both layers of polymer with a dense carpet of platinum-covered "nanohairs". Van der Waals forces between the intertwined hairs cause the two layers of polymer to be drawn together like a kind of molecular Velcro. However, the hairs' resistance to bending simultaneously acts to push them apart. The two forces balance at an equilibrium distance.
As the hairs are covered with platinum, they provide an electrical connection between the otherwise separate layers of polymer. Any pressure on the sensor at a particular point brings the two layers closer together, thus increasing the amount of contact between the hairs and reducing the electrical resistance. When the pressure is removed, the two layers return to their equilibrium separation and the resistance returns to normal. Shear and torsion forces also affect the membrane double layer, albeit in more complex ways. Using established engineering technology, the researchers were able to collect resistance measurements from a closely spaced 2D array of points on the sensor and use them to distinguish and measure pressure, shear and torsion.
The researchers have shown their device's sensitivity via several demonstrations. They measured a small water droplet bouncing on a hydrophobic surface and also measured the change in the speed and intensity of a volunteer's heartbeat after vigorous exercise using a sensor attached to the artery at their wrist. They also demonstrated the sensor’s ability to measure the spatial distribution of pressure by using an interconnected sensor network of 64 pixels and placing two ladybird beetles at separate locations on its surface, mapping their pressure displacement as the insects walked over the sensor.
"We wanted to mimic the sensing mechanism of a beetle's wing locking device," team leader Kahp-Yang Suh told nanotechweb.org. "This creature folds its wing at rest by mechanically interlocking two densely populated microhair arrays, called microtrichia, on the outer wing and body." Suh explains that the techniques used in the manufacture of the sensor are easily reproducible and are economical. "It's very easy to replicate this hairy structure using a standard soft-lithography process," he says, "You can easily replicate from a single silicon master by a process called replica moulding, which is well established in our field.
John Rogers is impressed by the researchers' design. "It represents a clever way to combine materials, mechanics and structure layouts for a class of tactile sensor technology that has exceptional performance and the ability to integrate naturally with the surface of the skin," he says. He is sceptical, however, about the researchers' claim to have removed the need for complex electronic circuitry. "If one is interested in real, multifunctional artificial skin, then you need a lot more and different stuff, such as different sensors, electronic amplifiers and multiplexers. The need for and benefits of active electronics do not go away," he adds.
As well as applications in electronic skin, the device might also be used as a touch sensor for display devices and as a sensor unit for biomedical instruments. "We are in touch with a biorobot expert and are discussing the possibilities of implementing our device as a tactile sensor," revealed Suh. "It might be possible to perform different functions such as shaking, gripping and touching, by distinguishing different physical signals applied to the robot skin."
The researchers now plan to do more theoretical analyses to better understand how the device distinguishes between different loads. They will also try to miniaturize the signal processing and display units in the device. "We also hope to mimic some other functional aspects of skin," said Suh. "For example, fatigue - where skin sensitivity decreases as the same signal is applied continuously. There may be several biological issues involved in this phenomenon, but it would be interesting to reproduce it by exploiting some viscoelastic properties and hysteresis of our nano hair sensing system."
The research is published in Nature Materials.
About the author
Tim Wogan is a science writer based in the UK
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सिल्वर व्रेप ड्रेस में अपने आप को साझा करते हुए प्रशंसकों की प्रशंसा की रिहाना और ड्रेक को ब्वॉयफ्रेंड हसन जमील से अलग होने के बाद यम दिवस 2020 पर एक साथ देखा गया भगवान शनि देव और हनुमान जी को कुंभ राशि का आराध्य देव माना जाता है। कुम्भ राशि के गावया नाम की लड़कियों की उत्तेजना और परिसंचरण को यूरेनस ग्रह द्वारा नियंत्रित किया जाता है। वर्षा ऋतु का अन्त होने के बाद इस राशि के गावया नाम की लड़कियाँ जन्म लेते हैं। गावया नाम की लड़कियाँ गुस्सैल प्रवृत्ति के होते हैं। इन गावया नाम की लड़कियों को अस्थमा, एलर्जी, सूजन और हृदय रोगों का खतरा रहता है। इन गावया नाम की लड़कियों में दूसरों की मदद करने का गुण, ऊर्जा और बुद्धि कूट कूट कर भरी होती है। इन्हें दोस्ती करना पसंद होता है। यहां हमेशा पुराने घरों के टूटने और नए घरों के बनने का सिलसिला चलता रहता है. इसलिए यहां आसानी से दंगाइयों को सड़क किनारे ईंट और पत्थर मिसाइल की तरह इस्तेमाल करने के लिए मिल गए. मन की बात में पीएम ने आगे कहा कि देश को 2025 तक टीबी मुक्त बनाने का लक्ष्य रखा है। टीबी से मुक्ति पाने के लिए हम</s>
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Remaining depreciable value
Value = deprdv(Cost, Salvage, Accum)
Cost of the asset.
Salvage value of the asset.
Accumulated depreciation of the asset for prior periods.
Value = deprdv(Cost, Salvage, Accum) returns
the remaining depreciable value for an asset.
This example shows how to find the remaining depreciable value after six years for the cost of an asset for $13,000 with a life of 10 years. The salvage value is $1000.
Accum = depstln(13000, 1000, 10) * 6 Value = deprdv(13000, 1000, 7200)
Accum = 7200 Value = 4800
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For discussing the functions of different structures of all organisms.
It would be cool to be able to do that, but unfortunately, we can't. Bears can turn urea into aminoacids when they hibernate but i don't know exactly how they do it.
"As a biologist, I firmly believe that when you're dead, you're dead. Except for what you live behind in history. That's the only afterlife" - J. Craig Venter
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Author Diane Ravitch is a controversial figure in education reform. An appointee to the Department of Education under President George H.W. Bush who later served Bill Clinton, Ravitch championed contemporary education policy reforms like the proliferation of charter schools and teacher merit pay (based on test scores). Here, she recants many of her former positions. The book became a quick bestseller when its original edition hit bookstores in 2010, and it remains controversial because Ravitch still supports some of the primary aims of reform, such as a one-size-fits-all national curriculum.
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It is a text field. I would like to display a static text message to the user to enter the courseNo in the a specific format (ex: "Course number should be in the following format XX-XXX). How do I display the message right below the text field.
When I put h:outputText it displaces the other fields in the page.
When I surround it with h:panelGroup, and then put h:outputText, it does not show up.
I just want that message to be shown below the text field when the page renders. It should be in a small font so that the user is aware how to enter the input.
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मैंने एक साल पहले इस विषय पर शोध करने में सप्ताह बिताए हैं और वर्तमान निष्कर्ष पर आधारित मेरा निष्कर्ष यह था: मिफ़रे क्लासिक का अनुकरण संभव है, लेकिन केवल एम्बेडेड सिक्योर एलिमेंट के माध्यम से, यह तत्व एनएक्सपी के एनएफसी चिप के भीतर एम्बेडेड है (पीएन ६५ चिप के लिए निर्मित उदाहरण सैमसंग ई९३००)।
मैं अंड्रॉयड_एक्स्टेर्नल_लिब्न्फ़्क-न्ङप लाइब्रेरी में छिपे हुए कार्यों का उपयोग करके एक मिफ़रे क्लासिक कार्ड को पूरी तरह से अनुकरण करने में सक्षम हूं। हालांकि मैं केवल कार्ड पढ़ सकता था और इसके लिए उपयोगी होने के लिए आपको सुरक्षित तत्व तक पहुंच की आवश्यकता होती है, जहां अधिकांश मामलों में एनएक्सपी द्वारा एक एप्लेट मौजूद होता है, यह एप्लेट सर्वर नकली कार्ड के प्रबंधन के लिए फ्रंट एंड के रूप में होता है।
इस खोज को जारी रखने का एक अच्छा तरीका गूगल के वॉलेट एप्लिकेशन के विपरीत इंजीनियरिंग होगा।
मैंने माइफेयर और अन्य कार्ड इम्यूलेशन का शोध किया है, मुझे प्रोग्रामिंग में बहुत अच्छा ज्ञान है (एंड्रॉइड नहीं, लेकिन सी / सी ++)। मेरे पास प्रॉक्सीमार्क है और मैंने प्रॉक्सीमार्क के लिए एकाधिक इम्यूलेशन कोड बनाए हैं, इसलिए मुझे पता है कि कार्ड कैसे संवाद करते हैं।
मैं वर्तमान में समझ में नहीं आता, एंड्रॉइड पूर्ण कार्ड अनुकरण सक्षम करता है। मैंने इसे लगभग ३ दिनों के लिए शोध किया है, और निष्कर्ष यह है कि कोई भी निरंतर पैटर्न नहीं है। कुछ लोग कहते हैं कि यह संभव है, कुछ कहते हैं कि यह नहीं है। मैंने एंड्रॉइड एपीआई के माध्यम से देखा और होस्ट-आधारित कार्ड इम्यूलेशन चाल करने में सक्षम प्रतीत होता है, लेकिन जैसा कि मुझे लगता है कि यह ४.४ किटकैट में नई बात है, क्या किसी के पास इसका कोई अनुभव है?
चीजों को सरल बनाने के लिए, वर्तमान में मैं मिफ़रे अल्ट्रालिट के लिए सबसे सरल सरल अनुकरण की जांच कर रहा हूं। यह कार्ड एक सुरक्षा दुःस्वप्न है, इसमें कोई एन्क्रिप्शन नहीं है और केवल १० कार्य करता है। इसलिए मुझे इस कार्ड के साथ शोध शुरू करने में दिलचस्पी है, क्योंकि यह पुन: पेश करने का सबसे आसान तरीका है।
तो क्या किसी को एंड्रॉइड पर कार्ड इम्यूलेशन में कोई ज्ञान है। शायद स्टॉक ओएस का उपयोग नहीं कर रहा है। किसी भी चीज जो जानने योग्य है उसे बहुत सराहना की जाएगी।
मिफ़रे अल्ट्रालिट चिप म्फ०इक्यू१ (१6 पृष्ठ क्स ४ बाइट्स प्रत्येक) वास्तव में एक दुःस्वप्न है, लेकिन पीएन ५३क्स सहित किसी भी एनएक्सपी इंटरफेस पर नकल नहीं किया जा सकता है, क्योंकि उन्होंने पहले उइड बाइट ( उइड उइड० ) को ०क्स०8 तक उइड० , तो इसका मतलब है कि टैग में यादृच्छिक है उइड (एनएक्सपी मानकों के अनुसार)। मिफ़रे अल्ट्रालिट अनुकरण करने के लिए आपको उइड० = ०क्स०४ की आवश्यकता है।
एक स्टैंडअलोन मिफ़रे अल्ट्रालिट एमुलेटर मौजूद है जो उइड० लिए किसी भी मूल्य की अनुमति देता है, इसमें रीसेट करने योग्य ओटीपी, लॉक और ब्लॉक-लॉकिंग बिट्स हैं। अधिक जानकारी के लिए मैनुअल देखें।
एंड्रॉइड ४.४ में होस्ट-आधारित कार्ड इम्यूलेशन (एचसीई) के साथ आप केवल आईएसओ / आईईसी 1४४४3-४ प्रोटोकॉल का अनुकरण कर सकते हैं। अधिक विशेष रूप से आप केवल आईएसओ / आईईसी ७८१६-४ के अनुसार आवेदन संरचनाओं का अनुकरण कर सकते हैं (इस प्रकार कार्ड एमुलेशन अनुप्रयोगों को एआईडी के रूप में चुना जाना चाहिए)। इसके अलावा, एपीआई आपको टाइप ए या टाइप बी प्रोटोकॉल का उपयोग करके कार्ड अनुकरण किया जाना चाहिए या नहीं, यह निर्दिष्ट करने के लिए कोई साधन नहीं देता है।
मिफ़रे अल्ट्रालिट (और डेरीवेट्स) प्रोटोकॉल आईएसओ / आईईसी १४४४३-३ के शीर्ष पर संचालित है। अंड्रॉयड ह्स का उपयोग करके ऐसे निम्न परत प्रोटोकॉल का उपयोग करके कार्ड अनुकरण करना संभव नहीं है।
मिफ़रे क्लासिक प्रोटोकॉल आंशिक रूप से आईएसओ / आईईसी १४४४३-३ (कुछ अलग फ्रेमिंग के साथ) के शीर्ष पर संचालित होता है। इस प्रकार, एंड्रॉइड एचसीई का उपयोग कर मिफ़रे क्लासिक का अनुकरण करना भी संभव नहीं है।
मूल प्रोटोकॉल : चूंकि यह प्रोटोकॉल आईएसओ / आईईसी ७८१६-४ के अनुसार एपीडीयू का उपयोग नहीं करता है, इसलिए एंड्रॉइड एचसीई का उपयोग करके इसे अनुकरण करना संभव नहीं है।
आईएसओ प्रोटोकॉल : यह प्रोटोकॉल आईएसओ / आईईसी ७८१६-४ पर आधारित है और एआईडी द्वारा एप्लिकेशन चयन का उपयोग करता है। इस प्रकार, एंड्रॉइड एचसीई का उपयोग करके इस प्रोटोकॉल का अनुकरण करना संभव हो सकता है।
कुछ पाठकों को निचले प्रोटोकॉल परतों (जैसे एक विशिष्ट यूआईडी कैस्केड-स्तर, एक निश्चित अटका मान, एक निश्चित सक मान, या एक निश्चित एटीएस) में कुछ पैरामीटर मानों की आवश्यकता हो सकती है। इन मानों को सेट करने के लिए एंड्रॉइड एचसीई का कोई साधन नहीं है। कुछ रूट किए गए उपकरणों पर उन मानों को संशोधित करने के लिए एक संभावित दृष्टिकोण के लिए एंड्रॉइड में होस्ट कार्ड इम्यूलेशन की संपादन कार्यक्षमता देखें और कस्टम रोम में उन मानों को प्रोग्रामेटिक रूप से बदलने की रणनीति के लिए फिक्स्ड कार्ड आईडी के साथ होस्ट-आधारित कार्ड इम्यूलेशन का मेरा जवाब देखें ।
संस्करण ९.१ से संस्करण १0.२ तक सायनोगेन्मोद में उपलब्ध एचसीई सुविधा पर एक नोट: यह किसी भी आईएसओ / आईईसी १४४४3-४ आधारित प्रोटोकॉल को आईएसओ / आईईसी 78१6-४ के अनुसार आवेदन संरचना की आवश्यकता के बिना अनुकरण करेगा। आप यह भी चुन सकते हैं कि आप टाइप ए या टाइप बी प्रोटोकॉल अनुकरण करना चाहते हैं या नहीं। इसलिए यह संभव होना चाहिए (हालांकि मैंने परीक्षण नहीं किया है) तीन डीईएसफायर प्रोटोकॉल में से किसी एक को अनुकरण करने के लिए। हालांकि, साइनोजनमोड की एचसीई सुविधा के साथ भी मिफ़रे अल्ट्रालिट या क्लासिक प्रोटोकॉल का अनुकरण करना संभव नहीं है। इसके अलावा, यूआईडी, एटीक्यूए, एसएके, या एटीएस जैसे निम्न स्तर के प्रोटोकॉल पैरामीटर को प्रभावित करना भी संभव नहीं है।
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Everyone experiences some digestive changes as they get older, but women going through menopause and women who are post-menopausal can have serious changes in digestion that can affect their ability absorb nutrients from the foods that they eat. Hormonal changes affect every system of the body, including the digestive system. Some of the most common symptoms of a sluggish or changing digestive system in women over 50 include symptoms like:
- Bloating and gas
- Gaining weight or not being able to lose weight.
- Chronic fatigue
- Food Intolerance or allergies
- Indigestion or heartburn
- Rashes, acne or itchy skin
So women should start taking steps to boost their digestive system and protect their digestive system as they approach 50 and they should continue taking steps to promote good digestive health during and after menopause. Here are some great tips from experts that women can use to get their digestive system back on track during and after menopause:
A good probiotic can help balance the bacteria levels in the gut and ensure that you have the right kinds of bacteria in healthy amounts to keep your gut functioning the way that it should. Imbalances of gut bacteria can also cause weight gain so keeping the bacteria in your gut at healthy levels is very important for digestive health. If you don’t want to take probiotics add healthy yogurt to your diet by eating plain or lightly sweetened yogurt with a high fiber fruit in the morning to keep your digestive system functioning well.
Exercise is really the key to staying healthy as you age. There are many benefits that come from getting at regular exercise every week. One of those benefits is that regular exercise will boost the function of your digestive system and keep it working the way it should. Walking, cycling, swimming or any aerobic activity is essential for women as they get older.
Eat More Fiber
Eating foods that are rich in fiber is one of the best ways to keep your digestive system healthy. If you don’t typically eat fiber rich foods you should make sure that you add some to your diet or take a fiber supplement to make sure that you’re getting enough fiber. Some of the best fiber rich foods include whole grains, oats, beans, and fruit. If you are eating a healthy diet that is primarily based on fruits and vegetables but you are still experiencing digestive problems then you may need a fiber supplement to keep your digestive system on track.
Drink More Water
Most women don’t drink enough water and that can cause a lot of health problems including slowing down your digestive system. Be sure that are you drinking 8 glasses of water each day. Caffeinated drinks like coffee or black tea are fine as long as you have plain water in between as well in order to make sure that your digestive system is getting the water it needs to function.
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Comrades, pour the wine to-night
For the parting is with dawn!
Oh, the clink of cups together,
With the daylight coming on!
Greet the morn
With a double horn,
When strong men drink together!
Comrades, gird your swords to-night,
For the battle is with dawn!
Oh, the clash of shields together,
With the triumph coming on!
Greet the foe,
And lay him low,
When strong men fight together!
Comrades, watch the tides to-night,
For the sailing is with dawn!
Oh, to face the spray together,
With the tempest coming on!
Greet the sea
With a shout of glee,
When strong men roam together!
Comrades, give a cheer to-night,
For the dying is with dawn!
Oh, to meet the stars together,
With the silence coming on!
Greet the end
As a friend a friend,
When strong men die together!
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मकारोवा और एलीना वेस्नीना एक एक स्थान के सुधार के साथ संयुक्त तीसरे नंबर पर पहुंच गई हैं, जबकि बेथानी माटेक सैंड्स और लुसी सफारोवा नंबर एक और क्रमश: दूसरी रैंकिंग पर हैं। (वार्ता) प्रियंका ने आगे कहा कि यह लोग जहां रह रहे है वहा पर पैर रखने तक की जरूरत नही है। प्रियंका ने आगे कहा कि दुनिया को इनकी परवाह करने की जरूरत है, हमें इनकी परवाह करने की जरूरत है। देश भर के स्कूलों में पहली बार पहली से 12वीं कक्षा तक के सभी विषयों के पाठ्यक्रम में बदलाव होने जा रहा है। केंद्र सरकार के दिशानिर्देश के तहत एनसीईआरटी की टीम विषयों को रिव्यू करने में जुट गई है। एनसीईआरटी की टीम को एक साल में रिव्यू रिपोर्ट देनी होगी। खास बात यह है कि पाठ्यक्रम को मार्केट डिमांड और स्किल डेवलेपमेंट के आधार पर तैयार करना होगा, ताकि विद्यार्थियों को किताबी ज्ञान के साथ रोजगार भी मिल सके। खास बात यह है कि पाठ्यक्रम में नोटबंदी, जीएसटी के चलते जीडीपी ग्रोथ आदि को भी शामिल किया जाएगा। कोरोना वायरस महामारी के बीच म्यूकोर्मिकोसिस या ब्लैक फंगस के तेजी से मामले बढ़ते जा रहे है। जिसे सरकार ने राज्यों से महामारी घोषित करने को कहा</s>
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- vt. & vi. 拖,拉 pull with effort or difficulty
- vt. & vi. 运送 carry (goods) in vehicle, especially a truck
- vt. 传讯 force to appear before an official body, especially a court of law; summon
- [S]拖,拉 the act of hauling
- [S]一网的捕获量; 一次偷得的数量 the amount of a net; the amount of sth stolen
- [S]拖运货物的距离 the distance over which a load is hauled
the act of drawing or hauling something;
"the haul up the hill went very slowly"
the quantity that was caught;
"the catch was only 10 fish"
draw slowly or heavily;
transport in a vehicle;
"haul stones from the quarry in a truck"
"haul vegetables to the market"
- They hauled the boat up the beach.
- It cost him no end of time and groans to haul his wounded leg behind him;
- So I won't have to haul you around all the time.
- Falumpasets haul battle wagons and the catapults of the Gungan Grand Army into the battlefield, and Boss Nass uses a decorated falumpaset as a ceremonial transport.
- It is a long haul to drive across the country.
- All haul together! One, two, three, haul!
- If you haul hard you will divert the fish.
- The fishermen hauled in a line hand over hand.
- Trains haul freight.
- Cattle are hauled by rail.
- The rope stood up under the strain of the haul.
- The thieves got away from the jeweler's with a good haul.
- The fisherman had a good haul.
- It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.
- haul around (v.+adv.)
haul around to sth
The wind hauled around to the east.
He hauled around to my way of thinking.
- haul at (v.+prep.)
拖或拉(某物) drag sth
haul at sth
They hauled at a rope.
The crew hauled at the heavy sail.
- haul away (v.+adv.)
用力拉 drag exerting with one's strength
haul sth ⇔ away
The tractor hauled the load away.
拖拉机将重物拖走。haul away on sth
They hauled away on the ropes.
- haul before (v.+prep.)
〈非正〉迫使(某人)出(庭)受审 force (sb) to appear before (a court of law or judge) on trial
haul sb before sth
The police have hauled Peter before the court on a charge of dangerous driving.
The least that can happen is that you'll be hauled before the company commander and given a severe reprimand.
- haul down (v.+adv.)
卸下(某重物) lift (sth heavy) down from a higher level
- haul down one's flag〔colours〕 (v.+adv.+n.)
〈非正〉妥协,投降,认输 yield; admit defeat
- haul in (v.+adv.)
往回拽或拉(某物) pull (sth) towards one
haul sth ⇔ in
They went down to the shore to watch the fishermen hauling in their nets.
- haul in one's horns (v.+adv.+n.)
减少活动; 有所收敛; 谨慎从事 be less keen or active, and more careful
- haul into (v.+prep.)
把(某物)拖进 drag sth into
haul sth into sth
The fishermen hauled the fish into the port.
- haul off (v.+adv.)
改变船的方向以躲避(某物); 拉走 change the direction (of a ship) in order to hedge sth; drag sth away
haul sb/sth ⇔ off
He told the chief officer to haul the ship off four points.
The protesters were hauled off to jail.
- haul on〔onto〕 the wind (v.+prep.+n.)
抢风驶船 pull the sails so that they lie near or in the same direction as the desired course, so as to sail closer to the wind
- haul out of (v.+adv.+prep.)
拖运出 drag sth out from sth
haul sth out of sth
Logs must be hauled out of the forest.
- haul over the coals (v.+prep.+n.)
为过错斥责某人 scold sb for a fault
haul sb over the coals
The director called Fair into his office to hauled him over the coals for being late so often.
He was hauled over the coals by the manager for his carelessness.
- haul up1 (v.+adv.)
haul sth ⇔ up
If we can get some strong ropes or wires around the sunken boat, we might be able to haul it up.
The log was hauled up by a crane.
木头被起重机吊起来。haul sb ⇔ up
〔说明〕 haul up作此解时常用于被动结构。
If we get caught with the jewels,I hope we're not hauled up before the same judge who dealt with us last time.
This is the second time that Matthew has been hauled up on a dangerous driving charge.
The child ran over and hauled up in front of me.
The boats hauled up at the pier.
- haul up2 (v.+prep.)
把(某物)拖上… lift; pull (sth) up
haul sb/sth up sth
They hauled the boat up the beach.
They had to fasten a rope round the man and hauled him up the cliff.
- haul daily 日常地运送
- haul economically 经济地运送
- haul painfully 令人痛心地传讯
- haul professionally 专业运送
- haul speedily 快速地拉
- haul around 转变
- haul away 拉走
- haul down 降低,把(重物)搬下
- haul down one's flag 投降
- haul in an anchor 起锚
- haul in one's horns 退缩,克制自己
- haul in a net 收网
- haul in a rope 收起绳索
- haul off 改变船的方向以躲避(某物),撤退,缩手准备出击
- haul round 转变
- haul up 拖上来,传讯,迎风行船,船停下
- haul at a rope 拉绳子
- haul coal from the mines to the city 把煤从煤矿拉到城里
- haul on〔to〕 the wind 抢风驶船
- haul sb over the coals 斥责某人
- haul sb to a football match 硬拉某人去看一场足球赛
- haul sth up the beach 把某物拖到岸上
- haul sb up before a magistrate 把某人送上法庭
- give a haul 拉一下
- rail haul 铁路运输
An aged ferry steamer whose normal run was only the short haul between Malta and Syracuse.出自： R. Sutcliff
She clutched the banisters and hauled herself upstairs.出自： V. Woolf
- haul后接at或on〔upon〕表示用力拉某物; 后接up表示把某物拖上来; 后接down表示把某物拉下去。
- ☆ 直接源自中古英语的halen，意为拖，拉。
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इंदौर। प्राइवेट कॉलेज में महिला प्रोफेसर एवं पीएचडी की छात्रा का शव उसी के कमरे में फांसी पर झूलता मिला है। ससुराल वालों का कहना है कि वो १७ साल से यहीं थीं, परिवार के सदस्य जैसी थी। प्रिया और सिमरनजीत अच्छे दोस्त थे। ९ महीने पहले ही दोनों की शादी की थी। प्रिया के पास से एक नोट मिला है जिसमें लिखा है ई लव उ , ई हटे उ और ई आम सॉरी. पुलिस पता करने की कोशिश कर रही है कि उसने किसके लिए क्या लिखा है।
घटना इंदौर के राजेंद्र नगर थाना क्षेत्र स्थित रॉयल बंगलो शिवालय की है। ससुरालवालों के मुताबिक प्रिया मुंशी भाटिया रोज सुबह पढ़ाने के लिए कॉलेज जाती थी और शाम को घर लौटती थी। बुधवार रात खाना ना खाकर वो अपने कमरे में चली गयी। पति सिमरनजीत भाटिया घर से बाहर था। जब प्रिया देर तक कमरे से बाहर नहीं आयीं तो परिवार के सदस्यों ने दरवाजा खटखटाया लेकिन उसने नहीं खोला। उसे कई बार फ़ोन भी किया लेकिन उसका भी जवाब नहीं दिया। ससुरालवालों ने पति को फोन पर ख़बर दी। जब प्रिया ने पति सिमरनजीत का फोन भी नहीं उठाया तो उसने प्रिया के कज़िन भाई को फोन करके उसे घर भेजा।
सबकी मौजूदगी में जब मुंह बोले भाई और ससुरालवालों ने बलपूर्वक दरवाजा खोला तो अंदर कमरे में प्रिया फांसी पर लटकी मिली। पास में सुसाइड नोट मिला जिस पर ई लव यू, ई हटे यू और ई आम सॉरी लिखा था। ससुरालवालों ने इसकी सूचना इलाके के एसडीएम को दी। उनकी अनुमति और मौजूदगी में लाश को उतारकर पोस्टमॉर्टम के लिए भेजा गया।
ससुर मनमोहन भाटिया के मुताबिक, वो १७ साल से प्रिया की देखरेख कर रहे थे। बचपन में ही उसके माता पिता गुजर गए थे। उनका बेटा और प्रिया दोनों स्कूल में साथ पढ़ते थे। करीब ९ माह पहले हमने खुश होकर दोनों की शादी की थी। प्रिया के पति सिमरनजीत भाटिया की पाइप की फैक्ट्री है।
प्रिया के माता पिता समेत परिवार के सात अन्य सदस्यों की वर्ष २००० में पंजाब में एक सड़क हादसे में मौत हो गई थी। उस हादसे में प्रिया भी घायल हो गई थी। तब से प्रिया इंदौर में अपनी मौसी के पास रह रही थीं। आज जैसे ही प्रिया की मौत की ख़बर मौसी को दी गयी, सदमे में उनकी भी मौत हो गयी।
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Read this article to learn about the meaning, components, computation, precautions and advantages of return on capital employed.
The prime objective of making investments in any business is to obtain satisfactory return on capital invested. Hence, the return on capital employed is used as a measure of success of a business in realizing this objective.
This ratio is also known as Return on Investment (ROI). It is an overall profitability ratio. It indicates the percentage of return on the capital employed in the business and it can be used to show the efficiency of the business as a whole.
Capital employed and operating profits are the main items. Capital employed may be defined in a number of ways. However, two widely accepted definitions are ‘gross capital employed’ and ‘net capital employed’.
Gross capital employed usually means the assets used in the business, while net capital employed refers to total assets minus current liabilities. On the other hand, it refers to the total of capital, capital reserves, revenue reserves (including Profit and Loss a/c balance), debentures and long-term loans.
Computation of Capital Employed:
It may be computed from the asset side as well as from the liabilities side.
If it is computed from the asset side, it will comprise:
(a) Fixed assets:
Land and Buildings, Plant and Machinery, Furniture and Fittings, and Motor Vehicles, etc.
(b) Investments made in the business:
(c) Current Assets:
Inventories, Book Debts less provision for bad and doubtful debts, Bills Receivable, Bank, and Cash, etc.
Less Current Liabilities:
Sundry Creditors, Bills Payable, Bank overdraft, outstanding expenses, etc.
Gross Capital employed = Fixed Assets + Investments+ CurrentAssets
Net Capital employed = Fixed Assets + Investments + Working Capital (Current Assets minus Current Liabilities)
Alternatively, if it is calculated from the liabilities side it will include the following items:
Equity and Preference Share Capital (issued capital)
Reserve and Surplus:
Capital Reserve, General Reserves, P&L A/C balance
Other Long-term loans
Precautions to be taken while Computing Employed:
(a) The valuation of fixed assets may be done at their replacement cost. The current market prices may be ascertained either by reference to reliable published index numbers, or on valuation of experts. At the same time the provision for depreciation should also be readjusted.
(b) All idle assets should be excluded from the computation. However, standby plant and equipment required for normal working may be included.
(c) All intangible assets like goodwill, patents and trademarks unless they have potential sales value and all fictitious assets like preliminary expenses, discount on issue of shares, etc., should be excluded.
(d) All investments made outside the business should be excluded.
(e) All current assets should be properly valued. Any excess bank balance, which is more than the normal requirements, should not be considered.
Some people suggest that average capital employed should be used in order to give effect to the capital investment throughout the year. It is argued that the profits earned remain in the business throughout the year and are distributed by way of dividends only at the end of the year. Average capital employed may be calculated by two methods.
Under the first method, only the simple arithmetic mean of the total capital employed at the beginning and at the end of the year is found out. Under the second method, it is calculated by adding half of the profits after tax and interest to the opening capital employed.
When net capital employed has been calculated either from the asset side or liabilities side, half of the profits earned during the year may be deducted from the figure so computed in order to arrive at ‘average capital employed’.
Operating profit used for the computation of return on capital employed should be the profits earned by such capital. Hence, the net profit should be adjusted, if necessary, for obtaining the true operating profit with the following items:
(a) Any abnormal and non-recurring losses or gains,
(b) Income from investments made outside the business,
(c) Depreciation based on the replacement cost of the asset,
(d) Interest on long-term loans and debentures should be added back.
(e) Profits before the payment of income tax
From the following financial statements, calculate Return on Capital employed:
Profit and Loss Account for the year ended 31-12-2002
Profit = Net Profit before interest and tax minus income from investments
= Rs.50,000 + 5,000 + 50,000 – 5,000 = Rs.1,00,000
Capital employed = Fixed Assets + Current Assets – Provision for Taxation
= Rs.2,25,000 + 75,000- 50,000 = Rs.2, 50,000
= Share capital + Reserves + P & L a/c + Debentures – Government Bonds
= Rs. 1,50,000 + 50,000 + 50,000 + 50,000 -50,000
= Rs.2, 50,000
Average Capital employed
= Capital employed – 1/2 (Profits earned during the year)
= Rs.2, 50,000 – 25,000 = Rs.2, 25,000
Return on Capital employed is considered to be the best measure of profitability in order to assess the overall performance of the business satisfactorily. It is commonly used as a basis for various managerial decisions since it relates to the benefits obtained in the form of income with the sacrifice made in the form of capital invested.
A starting point in budgeting and management planning is the determination of a minimum rate of return on capital invested. All business decisions should result in a reasonable (minimum) return.
Investments, which generate rates lower than this minimum rate of return, are rejected. However, it is very difficult to set a standard rate of return on capital employed as a number of factors such as business risk, the type of industry, inflation, changes in economic conditions, etc., may influence such a rate.
Different views prevail with regard to standard rate. Bank rate, discount rates of gilt-edged securities or some opportunity rate are some of the suggested rates as the norm for this ratio.
However, it is left to the discretion of management to set some rate against which they are to compare the actual result with a view to measuring their efficiency, or the overall performance of the business.
This ratio could be supplemented with a number of ratios depending upon the purpose for which it is computed.
Advantages of the Concept of “Return on Capital employed”:
(a) It is the only measure, which can be said to show satisfactorily the benefits being obtained for the sacrifice involved, the latter being represented by capital invested.
(b) It allows external comparisons to be made. The progress of one company or companies may be compared with that of other companies.
(c) It is an effective tool for making an internal comparison in respect of different divisions or departments of a company. It may be used as an instrument of control by comparing the relative profitability of different products.
(d) It enables the management to make efficient capital budgeting decisions. It can become an integral part of the budgetary control system.
(e) It gives ideas for analysis and decisions to bring about effective changes in the financial policies. For example, there should be no borrowing when the rate of interest is higher than the rate of return.
(f) If management ensures that an adequate return on capital invested is earned, then many direct benefits such as regular and satisfactory dividends to shareholders, adequate strength to face competition, etc., may accrue to the business concern.
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by Chris Marker and Chris Ware 2011
Without the Sun life on Earth would be impossible, it provides us with all our energy yet it could be that the Sun could soon have a significant detrimental effect on our everyday life.
Our Sun has a magnetic field which is strong and changeable and which varies year by year reversing direction every 11 years or so. Due to the fact that the Sun is made up of a gas and plasma it rotates faster at the equator than at the poles. This difference in rotation means the magnetic field lines of the Sun can become mixed up and twisted resulting in the formation of several phenomena:
• Sunspots are dark spots on the Sun caused by the magnetic activity reducing convection and causing a fall in surface temperature.
• Solar flares are large explosions in the Sun’s atmosphere powered by the magnetic field of the Sun.
• A coronal mass ejection is a massive burst of solar wind, a stream of charged particles and radiation from the Sun.
All three phenomena increase during the active phase of the solar cycle which we are now entering. Indeed direct evidence of the changing of the solar cycle came on August 4 2010 when significant auroras caused by a coronal mass ejection were seen in many areas of the planet.
Sunspots and flares do not directly affect the Earth; however coronal mass ejections could possibly have negative consequences for life on Earth. The radiation emitted by coronal mass ejections can cause long-lasting radiation storms in the Earth’s ionosphere, the uppermost part of the planet’s atmosphere, and trigger radio black-outs around the world. A particularly large coronal mass ejection could potentially destroy satellites and wreck power and communications grids around the globe for a sustained period of time.
If this were to happen our modern way of life, based on electricity and computer technology would be seriously affected. The evidence suggests that every 100 years there is a large coronal mass ejection and we are currently overdue with the last such event happening in 1859.
Such an event however may not cause any problems. Space based satellites have a large tolerance margin to extreme conditions as it is difficult and costly to go into space to repair them. Our ground based systems are probably more vulnerable but there are ways of protecting these systems being worked on and as some people point out there have been periods of increased solar activity before where our modern systems have had no problems.
There are also efforts underway to better predict and detect solar events giving us more warning of possible large events. The NASA Stereo (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) has produced three dimensional images of coronal mass ejections and other solar activity helping out understanding of the way the Sun behaves.
Inspec covers many of the aspects of solar physics discussed. Listed below are thesaurus terms and classification codes that would be useful when searching within this area.
aerospace instrumentation, artificial satellites, astronomical telescopes, solar activity, solar atmosphere, solar flares, solar magnetism, solar prominences, solar rotation, solar wind, Sun, sunspots
|a9460G||Solar wind plasma|
|a9460Q||Solar wind interaction with Moon, planets, satellites, and comets|
|a9430V||Magnetospheric interaction with solar wind|
|a9660C||Physical properties of the Sun|
|a9660H||Solar magnetic and electric fields|
|a9660Q||Sunspots, faculae, plages|
|a9660R||Solar flares, bursts, and related phenomena|
|a9660S||Solar prominences and mass ejections|
|a9660V||Solar particle radiation, solar wind|
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Computational Model for Aesthetic Assessment of Videos
In this paper we propose a novel aesthetic model emphasizing psychovisual statistics extracted from multiple levels in contrast to earlier approaches that rely only on descriptors suited for image recognition or based on photographic principles. At the lowest level, we determine dark-channel, sharpness and eye-sensitivity statistics over rectangular cells within a frame. At the next level, we extract Sentibank features (1,200 pre-trained visual classifiers) on a given frame, that invoke specific sentiments such as “colorful clouds”, “smiling face” etc. and collect the classifier responses as framelevel statistics. At the topmost level, we extract trajectories from video shots. Using viewer’s fixation priors, the trajectories are labeled as foreground, and background/camera on which statistics are computed. Additionally, spatio-temporal local binary patterns are computed that capture texture variations in a given shot. Classifiers are trained on individual feature representations independently. On thorough evaluation of 9 different types of features, we select the best features from each level – dark channel, affect and camera motion statistics. Next, corresponding classifier scores are integrated in a sophisticated low-rank fusion framework to improve the final prediction scores. Our approach demonstrates strong correlation with human prediction on 1,000 broadcast quality videos released by NHK as an aesthetic evaluation dataset.
Automatic aesthetic ranking of images or videos is an extremely challenging problem as it is very difficult to quantify beauty. That said, computational video aesthetics has received significant attention in recent years. With the deluge of multimedia sharing websites, research in this direction is expected to gain more impetus in future, apart from the obvious intellectual challenge in scientific formulation of a concept as abstract as beauty.
We propose a hierarchical framework encapsulating aesthetics at multiple levels which can be used independently or jointly to model beauty in videos. Our contributions are: (1) We extract motion statistics that latently encode cinematographic principles, specific to foreground and background or camera, superior to approaches previously proposed, (2) We introduce application of human sentiment classifiers on image frames that capture vital affective cues which are directly correlated with visual aesthetics and are semantically interpretable, (3) We employ a relatively small set of low-level psychovisual features in contrast to earlier approaches and encode them efficiently into descriptors that capture spatial variations within video frames, and finally, (4) We exploit a more sophisticated fusion scheme that shows consistent improvement in overall ranking when compared to earlier methods.
We also observe that, shot level features : camera/background and foreground motion statistics outperform all other features in most cases. It is also interesting to note that frame-level sentibank features also perform equally well. Among cell-level features, dark channel based statistics demonstrate best performance. This is further supported by the scatter plot in Fig. 3(a). Ideally, the dots in the figures are expected to be along the line that connects (1; 1) to (1000; 1000), indicating no discordance between ground truth rank and predicted rank. We notice that magenta dots, corresponding to dark channel features are more aligned to the line, than those belonging to sharpness or eye-sensitivity.
However, in case of shot level features, we observe a larger degree of agreement between the ground truth and the prediction, in comparison to the cell-level features. This is reflected in Fig. 3(b). Finally, in Fig. 4, we provide some results using classifiers trained on frame-level affect based features (Orange). Except for a few ( less than 5%), we see strong label agreement between ground truth and prediction – similar to the shot-level features. This encourages us to fuse the individual classifier outcomes in 3 different settings. These results are also shown in Fig. 4. Fusion of classifiers trained on affect and dark channel based features are indicated in Turquoise. These results are further improved after adding classifiers trained on camera/background motion (Lime green). Ultimately fusion results from classifiers trained on top 5 features is shown in Pink. We notice strong level of concordance in this setting.
MATLAB code for computing aesthetic representation of a frame is available here. Dataset is available from NHK upon request.
Subhabrata Bhattacharya, Behnaz Nojavanasghari, Tao Chen, Dong Liu, Shih-Fu Chang, and, Mubarak Shah, Towards a Comprehensive Computational Model for Aesthetic Assessment of Videos, In Proc. of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), Barcelona, ES, pp. 361-364, 2013.[ACM MM 2013 Grand Challenge 2nd Prize]
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claypan soils, agriculture, soil classification, soil physical properties, undrained shear strength
Soil erosion reduces topsoil depth. In areas with a claypan, removal of productive topsoil reduces crop yield where the claypan layer is near the surface. The topsoil and claypan layer each have unique characteristics that impact crop production and within-field variability. To better understand these differences, the soil from an area of low crop yield and high crop yield were collected and laboratory tests were performed to determine the soil classification and undrained shear strength. Understanding the soil properties and the interaction between the topsoil and claypan layers may aid in understanding the process by which topsoil is being eroded.
Creative Commons License
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Mathis, M. A. II; Tucker-Kulesza, S. E.; and Sassenrath, G. F.
"Characterization of Claypan Soils in Southeastern Kansas,"
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports:
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रकबा घटकर 7.08 लाख हेक्टेयर रह गया है, जबकि पिछले साल 8.59 लाख हेक्टेयर क्षेत्र में अरंडी की खेती हुई थी। उपलब्ध आंकडों के अनुसार अरंडी का उत्पादन करने वाले राज्यों गुजरात, आंध्र प्रदेश और राजस्थान में अरंडी के रकबे में गिरावट आई है। आंध्र प्रदेश, जहां नई फसलों की आवक शुरू हो गई है, वहां अरंडी के रकबे में 50,000 हेक्टेयर की कमी आई है। पुलिस ने सत्यापन अभियान में लगाया पलीता जयललिता की गिनती साउथ सिनेमा की सबसे खूबसूरत एक्ट्रेसेस में होती थी। उनके शानदार अभिनय के लिए उन्हें तीन बार फिल्मफेयर के बेस्ट एक्ट्रेस (साउथ) के अवॉर्ड से नवाजा जा चुका है। पहला फिल्मफेयर उन्हें शिवाजी गणेशन की तमिल फिल्म (1971) के लिए मिला था। इसी साल तेलुगु फिल्म श्री कृष्ण सत्य के लिए उन्हें दूसरा फिल्मफेयर मिला।साल 1973 में तमिल फिल्म के लिए तीसरा फिल्मफेयर मिला था। पाकिस्तान के पास 140 से 150 परमाणु हथियार उत्तर प्रदेश पुलिस ने राज्य में रेलगा़डयों में होने वाली आपराधिक वारदातों पर काबू पाने के लिए एक नई हेल्पलाइन... पढ़े अभ्यास के बारे में दुखद तथ्यों में से एक यह है कि ज्यादातर लोग इसके लिए वहां नहीं रहने का प्रयास करते हैं। वे अपने शरीर का काम करते हैं</s>
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Mars results in second house of horoscope kundli according to Indian vedic astrology
When Mars is sitting in second house of horoscope, the person may have the defect in speech. Person remains estrangement from his friends and family due to dirty words. The person is mouth patient and quarrelsome. Person would like to eat spicy and peppery but he is stingy. But due to Mars in second house of horoscope if person is gambler, he/she dose not show miserliness. He must have economic benefits through female or wife. But due to addictions and his gruff speech he lose the benefits. If Mars is more malefic in second house the person may have divorce or away from family.
Note: All results of Moon are written on the basis of Vedic Astrology and Shastras. Results may change according to different lagnas of horoscope.
Previous Mars in first house of horoscope
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Characterization of PHRF1/KIAA1542, a PHD domain and RING finger protein
PHRF1/KIAA1542 is a protein of virtually unknown function containing a putative PHD domain and RING finger. Sequence variants in the PHRF1 gene have been uncovered in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). PHRF1 has been identified as a substrate of ATM and ATR, important kinases that modulate the cellular response to DNA damage. We hypothesize that this protein is an E3 ubiquitin ligase and may play a role in the DNA damage response. The aim of this study was to perform preliminary functional characterization of PHRF1, and to develop reagents and optimize experimental conditions for further study. Immunoblot analysis demonstrated that multiple isoforms of PHRF1 exist, most likely due to posttranslational modifications. Using both immunofluorescence microscopy and cellular fractionation, PHRF1 was found to be a predominantly nuclear protein that can be found either tightly associated with chromatin or in a soluble nuclear fraction. Additionally, PHRF1 assembles into nuclear foci following transcriptional inhibition but not following treatment with the DNA damaging agents ultraviolet irradiation or mitomycin C. Using an immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry approach, PHRF1 was also found to interact with proteins involved in mRNA processing and translation. ^
Biology, Molecular|Biology, Cell
Kelly E Cybulski,
"Characterization of PHRF1/KIAA1542, a PHD domain and RING finger protein"
Dissertations and Master's Theses (Campus Access).
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Last Updated on June 20, 2021 by Matthew Donnelly
Over 50 percent of the greenhouse gasoline emissions you produce in your house are generated with the aid of heating, air con, and scorching water. In other words maintaining your residence heat in wintry weather, cool in the summertime with satisfactory hot water on tap is emitting to 5 tonnes of greenhouse gasoline emissions each yr. It additionally contributes a hefty amount to your electricity bill, between 50 to 60 percent. CSIRO has invented a new solar air conditioning approach for Australian properties. This technology resolution will diminish Australia’s emissions, lower your vigor expenses and slash our demand for electrical energy and fuel. If every house in Australia set up our solar cooling science, it might be the equivalent of saving 15 megatonnes of CO2 or taking a million automobiles off the road.
CSIRO’s solar air con is a progressive three in one technological know-how that provides hot water, cooling, and heating. It makes use of best a fraction of the electrical energy of present systems and halves greenhouse gas emissions. The approach starts with a traditional sun scorching water approach. Water is heated via solar panels and saved in the scorching water tank. This sunlight sizzling water can then be used throughout the home, reducing the need for gasoline or electrical power. A portion of the scorching water is diverted into CSIROs new sunlight air conditioning unit, which is split into two booths. The sizzling water enters a warmness exchanger within the first compartment of the unit. Much like a car radiator, the warmness exchanger makes use of the hot water to warmness external air that has been drawn into the primary compartment by way of the vent. While outside air is also being drawn into the second compartment right into a desiccant wheel.
The desiccant wheel is the most vital part of the process. It’s used to dry out the air before it goes into the residence. Slowly turning the desiccant fabric within the wheel regularly absorbs moisture within the 2d compartment and then the absorbent fabric dries out within the first compartment. The desiccant fabric is dried out utilizing the scorching dry air generated through the heat exchanger. This air is then exhausted outside the home. The dry air from the desiccant wheel flows through an indirect evaporative cooler, which creates a flow of cool dry air. This cool dry air is then fed into the dwelling in an effort to cool down the rooms. In wintry weather, the sun heated air can be utilized directly to heat the condominium. CSIROs solar cooling system is a low emissions replacement to conventional air conditioning and gas or electric powered heating, supplying more comfy properties, diminished vigor bills, and a cooler planet.
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Elliott and Gann have become household names among the worldwide trading community. These pioneers of technical analysis developed some of the most widely used techniques in the field. But how did Ralph Nelson Elliott and W.D. Gann come up with these techniques, and how did they become so successful? Truth be told, it's not as difficult as it sounds! This article takes you through the process of building your own custom indicator, which you can use to gain an edge over the competition.
Recall that the theory behind technical analysis states that financial charts take all things into account—that is, all fundamental and environmental factors. The theory goes on to state that these charts display elements of psychology that can be interpreted via technical indicators.
To better understand this, let's look at an example. Fibonacci retracements are derived from a mathematical sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and so on. We can see that the current number is the sum of the previous two numbers. What does this have to do with the markets? Well, it turns out that these retracement levels (33%, 50%, 66%) influence traders' decisions to such an extent that the levels have become a set of psychological support and resistance levels. The idea is that, by finding these points on charts, one can predict the future directions of price movements.
Components of an Indicator
All indicators are created to predict where a price is headed when a certain condition is present. Traders try to predict two basic things:
- Support and resistance levels: These are important because they are the areas at which prices reverse direction.
- Time: This is important because you need to be able to predict when price movements will occur.
Occasionally, indicators predict these two factors directly—as is the case with Bollinger Bands or Elliott's waves—but indicators commonly have a set of rules enacted in order to issue a prediction.
For example, when using the breadth thrust indicator (which is represented by a line indicating momentum levels), we need to know which levels are relevant. The indicator itself is simply a line. The breadth thrust indicator looks similar to RSI, in that it is "range-bound," and it is used to gauge the momentum of price movements. When the line is in the median zone, there is little momentum. When it rises into the upper zone, we know that there is increased momentum and vice versa. One could look to take a long position when the momentum is on the rise from low levels and look to short after the momentum peaks at a high level. It is important to set rules to interpret the meaning of an indicator's movements in order to make them useful.
With this in mind, let's look at ways of creating predictions. There are two main types of indicators: unique indicators and hybrid indicators. Unique indicators can be developed only with core elements of chart analysis, while hybrid indicators can use a combination of core elements and existing indicators.
Components of Unique Indicators
Unique indicators are based on inherent aspects of charts and mathematical functions. Here are two of the most common components:
Patterns are simply repeating price sequences apparent over the course of a given time period. Many indicators use patterns to represent probable future price movements. For example, Elliott Wave theory is based on the premise that all prices move in a certain pattern that is simplified in the following example:
There are many other simple patterns that traders use to identify areas of price movement within cycles. Some of these include triangles, wedges, and rectangles.
These types of patterns can be identified within charts simply by looking at them; however, computers offer a much faster way to accomplish this task. Computer applications and services provide the ability to locate automatically such patterns.
2. Mathematical Functions
Mathematical functions can range from price averaging to more complex functions based on volume and other measures. For example, Bollinger Bands are simply fixed percentages above and below a moving average. This mathematical function gives a clear price channel showing support and resistance levels.
Components of Hybrid Indicators
Hybrid indicators use a combination of existing indicators and can be thought of as simplistic trading systems. There are countless ways in which elements can be combined to form valid indicators. Here's an example of the MA crossover:
This hybrid indicator utilizes several different indicators including three instances of the moving averages. One must first draw the three-, seven- and 20-day moving averages based on the price history. The rule then looks for a crossover in order to buy the security or a cross-under in order to sell. This system indicates a level at which price movement can be expected and provides a reasonable way to estimate when this will occur (as the lines draw closer together). Here's what it might look like:
Creating an Indicator
A trader can create an indicator by following several simple steps:
- Determine the type of indicator you wish to build: unique or hybrid.
- Determine the components to be included in your indicator.
- Create a set of rules (if necessary) to govern when and where price movements should be expected to occur.
- Test your indicator in the real market through backtesting or paper trading.
- If it produces good returns, put it into use.
Suppose we want to create an indicator that measures one of the most basic elements of the markets: price swings. The goal of our indicator is to predict future price movements based on this swing pattern.
We look to develop a unique indicator using two core elements, a pattern and math functions.
Looking at weekly charts of company XYZ's stock, we notice some basic swings between bullishness and bearishness that each last about five days. As our indicator is to measure price swings, we should be interested in patterns to define the swing and a mathematical function, price averages, to define the scope of these swings.
Now we need to define the rules that govern these elements. The patterns are the easiest to define: they are simply bullish and bearish patterns that alternate every five or so days. To create an average, we take a sample of the duration of upward trends and a sample of the duration of downward trends. Our end result should be an expected time period for these moves to occur. To define the scope of the swings, we use a relatively high and a relative low, and we set these at the high and low of the weekly chart. Next, to create a projection of the current incline/decline based on past inclines/declines, we simply average the total inclines/declines and predict the same measured moves (+/-) occur in the future. The direction and duration of the move, again, is determined by the pattern.
We take this strategy and test it manually, or use software to plot it and create signals. We find that it can successfully return 5% per swing (every five days).
Finally, we go live with this concept and trade with real money.
Building your own indicator involves taking a deeper look into technical analysis and then developing these basic components into something unique. Ultimately, the aim is to gain an edge over other traders. Just look at Ralph Nelson Elliott or W. D. Gann. Their successful indicators gave them not only a trading edge but also popularity and notoriety within financial circles worldwide.
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Other Medical Considerations
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your body more vulnerable to infections and cancers. Diseases such as herpes
simplex, chicken pox and lupus can become worse with sun exposure. The American
Academy of Ophthalmology has cautioned that excess exposure to UV radiation
can cause a painful burn of the cornea and that chronic eye exposures to UV
radiation may increase the incidence of cataracts.
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सरकार का मंगलवार को चौथा बजट पेश किया गया। सरकार ने गौतमबुद्ध नगर के जेवर में बन रहे नोएडा इंटरनेशनल ग्रीनफील्ड एयरपोर्ट के निर्माण को गति देने के लिए दो हजार करोड़ रुपये का आवंटन किया है। टिकटों के बंटवारे को लेकर येदियुरप्पा की नहीं चली और वह अपने ज्यादातर समर्थकों को टिकट नहीं दिलवा पाए. लोकसभा की सांसद और येदियुरप्पा की करीबी शोभा करंदलाजे को भी विधानसभा का टिकट नहीं मिला. जबकि येदियुरप्पा खुद चाहते थे कि वह चुनाव लड़ें. येदियुरप्पा की कई मांगों को बीजेपी हाईकमान ने नकार दिया. पार्टी आलाकमान ने सांसदों को चुनाव नहीं लड़ाने की बात करके उनकी दावेदारी खारिज कर दी. श्रीरामुलू भी सांसद हैं लेकिन उन्हें विधानसभा चुनाव लड़ने की इजाजत मिल गई. कर्नाटक बीजेपी में कई पावर सेंटर बन गए हैं. येदियुरप्पा को इन चुनौतियों से भी जुझना पड़ रहा है. संसदीय कार्यमंत्री अनंत कुमार लंबे समय तक येदियुरप्पा के विरोधी रहे हैं. मुख्यमंत्री आज करेंगे एकलव्य विद्यालय का शिलान्यास एक पौराणिक गाथा के अनुसार यह असित मुनी का निवास था। भूकम्प की वजह से यह बर्बाद हो गया था। वर्तमान मंदिर का निर्माण 19वीं में जयपुर की महारानी ने गुलेरिया ने करवाया था। उनका संदेह माली पर है। अलगअलग कारणों से</s>
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Scoliosis is a spinal condition which can affect babies, children, adolescents and adults. It causes the spine to curve into an S shape, which can sometimes make the body look uneven or cause back pain. While some babies are born with the condition, scoliosis can start to appear at any age and usually presents between 10-15 years of age. It is thought that three or four children out of every 1,000 in the UK have the condition and require treatment. Read more
Scoliosis is a spinal condition which causes the spine to twist and have an abnormal curvature. In many cases it is not serious and may not require treatment, but scoliosis can also cause back pain in adults, and the curve could possibly get worse over time.
The causes are not fully understood, and the majority of cases are defined as idiopathic when the cause cannot be identified or prevented. Sometimes it runs in families or could be caused by a genetic condition. Other types of less common forms include:
- Neuromuscular scoliosis – caused by a nerve or muscle condition such as cerebral palsy
- Congenial scoliosis – when the bones in the spine don’t form properly in the womb
- Degenerative scoliosis – wear and tear of the spine which occurs in old age
Although scoliosis affects people of all ages, it is most common in children aged 11-15. The condition can be present at birth, or can develop as the spine grows, and sometimes children need specific treatment to stop the curve getting worse until they stop growing. However, most people can live normal lives and the condition doesn’t affect physical activity except in extreme cases. There are no other health problems associated with scoliosis and usually it doesn’t cause recurring pain.
Symptoms of scoliosis
How do you know if you have scoliosis? If you think your spine is curved in an ‘S’ or ‘C’ shape then you may have the condition. Here are some other signs:
- Uneven shoulders
- Visible curves in the spine
- Leaning to one side
- Uneven hips
- Ribs sticking out on one side
- One shoulder or one hip sticking out
If you are experiencing back pain along with any of these signs, you should see a GP who will be able to diagnose scoliosis. An X-ray scan will be carried out so doctors can view the spine, and if it has an abnormal curve they can see how severe the curve is. A chiropractor can also refer you for a scan if they suspect scoliosis. If diagnosed you can see a specialist who can discuss treatment options available if needed.
Treatment depends on how severe the curve is and if it is likely to get worse. Adults may require pain relief in the form of spinal injections or even surgery. Toddlers, children and teenagers may be given a back brace to wear to control the growth of the spine.
For more information, visit http://www.sauk.org.uk/
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Micro-learning is on trend for a reason—it’s what today’s learners want and need. It’s the learning equivalent of instant gratification.
Put yourself in your learners’ shoes. Let’s say you want to learn how to make a perfect soft-boiled egg. You search the web and the results show videos ranging from 5 minutes to 55 minutes. Which video are you going to choose? Most people would choose the 5-minute video.
Your learners are just like you. When they see a super-long course, they feel overwhelmed and think to themselves, do I really have time for this?
If you’re used to creating one long course that covers a topic from A to Z you may be wondering how to make the switch to micro-learning. Here are a couple of tips for designing effective, micro-learning courses your learners will love.
Stick To One Learning Objective Per Course
Most lengthy e-learning courses start out with a bulleted list that details the learning objectives the course aims to help learners achieve. With micro-learning, you’ll want to whittle that down to just one.
Many instructional designers struggle with this. Only one learning objective? Yes. One. With micro-learning, it’s important to stay laser-focused. But remember: the idea is to create a series of 5-minute micro-learning courses that learners can take one after the other as part of a learning path or a curriculum, instead of packing tons of content into a single course. So if you’ve got multiple objectives, that’s fine! Just make a separate micro-learning course for each.
Cut Out Non-Essential Content
Once you’ve identified the learning objective, use it as a guide for determining what to include in your course. Ask yourself, do learners absolutely need to know this to achieve the learning objective? If the answer is no, cut it out.
This can be easier said than done—especially if you’re working with a Subject Matter Expert (SME) who’s convinced everything is essential. If you want to keep your SME happy without going over the 5-minute mark, try suggesting “learn more” buttons that give learners access to additional information and links to external resources. That way you’re empowering learners who want to dig deeper without overwhelming those who just need the basics.
If you’re still struggling to convince your SME that this is the way to go, remind them that just because you include something in the course, doesn’t mean learners will retain it! Tell them that by sticking to the essentials, you’re increasing the likelihood that learners will retain key messages.
For more tips on curating your content, check out this article: The Dos and Don’ts of Separating Need-to-Know from Nice-to-Know.
The Bottom Line
Your learners are much more likely to engage with course content if they know it’ll take them 5 minutes (or less!) to complete. And if those 5-minute courses teach them relevant skills they can apply to their jobs, they may even end up going through a bunch in one sitting—much like when you sit down to watch one episode of your favorite TV show and somehow end up binge-watching an entire season.
By breaking your content down into bite-sized chunks, you’re empowering learners to take control of their learning experience and decide how much content to consume at a time. And when learners are in the driver’s seat, they’re typically more engaged, leading to better learning outcomes. So everybody wins!
Convinced micro-learning is the way to go but not sure where to start? Check out these resources for more information and inspiration:
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This research aims to evaluate the performance of hybrid method of ozonation and hydrodynamic cavitation with orifice plate on E.coli bacteria disinfection. In this research, ozone dose, circulation flowrate, and disinfection method were varied. Ozone was produced by commercial ozonator with ozone dose of 64.83 mg/hour, 108.18 mg/hour, and 135.04 mg/hour. Meanwhile, hydrodynamic cavitation was generated by an orifice plate. The disinfection method compared in this research were: hydrodynamic cavitation, ozonation, and the combination of both. The best result on each method was achieved on the 60th minutes and with a circulation flowrate of 7 L/min. The hybrid method attained final concentration of 0 CFU/mL from the initial concentration of 2.10 × 105 CFU/mL. The ozonation method attained final concentration of 0 CFU/mL from the initial concentration of 1.32 × 105 CFU/mL. Cavitation method gives the least disinfection with final concentration of 5.20 × 104 CFU/mL from the initial concentration of 2.17 × 105 CFU/mL. In conclusion, hybrid method gives a faster and better disinfection of E.coli than each method on its own.
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5 exercises to get relief from Arthritis (Joints Pain)
Arthritis is a swelling of one or more joints, leading to pain and stiffness that can worsen with age. Exercise is essential for people with arthritis. It improves vitality and elasticity, decreases joint pain and aids in combat fatigue. Of course, when stiff and aching joints are already pissing you off, the idea of exercising or swimming a few laps might seem terrifying.
But to help reduce arthritis symptoms you don't require to run a marathon or race as fast as an Olympic competitor. Even moderate activity daily can relieve your pain and help you manage a healthy weight.
Here are some reasons to exercise with Arthritis:
- Exercise strengthens your muscles.
- Exercise helps you support bone power.
- Exercise helps you regulate your weight.
- Exercise keeps the joint’s complete range of movement.
- Healthy muscles help the joint incorporate shock.
- Exercise enhances your quality of life.
Symptoms of Arthritis:
- Joints pain
- Morning stiffness.
Ayushakti brings you 5 exercises to get relief for Arthritis:
- Leg Raise
- Lie flat on your spine on the floor or carpet with your arms on the sides, toes upward.
- Maintain your leg straight while stretching your leg muscles, and gently raise it a few inches.
- Clench your abdomen muscles to push your lower backbone down.
- Hold and count to 7, then lower your leg as gently as feasible.
- Repeat, then change to the other leg.
Exercise suggestion: Start with 1 set of 4 for each leg.
- Leg Stretch
- Rest on the ground with both legs out on the same level. Uphold yourself with your palms on either side of your sides and keep your back upright. Gradually bend one knee until it feels pulled a bit, but not until it becomes uncomfortable.
- Keep your leg in that pose for 5 seconds, then gently unfold your leg out as far as possible, and repeat staying there for 5 seconds.
Exercise suggestion: Repeat and change legs whenever one of the legs mounts to tire, 10 times.
- Range-of-Motion Exercises
These activities decrease stiffness and improve your capability to move your joints in their full range of movement. These exercises might include motions such as lifting your arms over your head or spinning your shoulders ahead and behind. In most instances, these exercises can be done every day.
Walking is a moderate-impact form of activity that can benefit aerobic conditioning, heart health and joint strength, and mood. It is necessary to wear appropriate running shoes and sip a lot of water to stay hydrated, even if the walking is not exhausting. It is oftentimes practical to walk gently initially and then increase the speed when feasible. A walking routine is advised to start on flat surfaces before proceeding to climb uphill, downhill, or rugged surfaces.
Yoga is not only about exercises related to breathing routines and meditation, but it involves a range of activities that decrease joint soreness, promotes joint elasticity and tightness, and reduces stress to support better sleep. Training weekly significantly decreases the shock and stiffness linked with arthritis. It also helps to enhance the range of movement in the joints. On days when you’re undergoing a severe arthritis flare, proceeding to do some type of physical activity like yoga, if feasible, can help you support joint elasticity.
Tips for Exercising
- Be regular.
- Seek varieties in exercising.
- Listen to the body.
- Pay awareness to small things.
- Work with a physical specialist.
- Modify exercises according to symptoms.
- Accessorize for support and protection.
Ayushakti's mission is to help people in every possible way. You can consult our experts by phone or video. We will suggest diet & home remedies for maintaining your wellbeing in these difficult times. Book your consultation here https://bit.ly/31YnP1b
For more information write to us at [email protected]
Author of the Blog: Dr. Rajeshri Mehta
Expert Review By: Dr Smita Pankaj Naram
Co-Founder, Ayushakti Ayurved Pvt Ltd
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गूगल मैप पर दक्षिणी निगम जारी करेगा डिजिटल पार्किग मैप। मैप के जरिये आसपास पार्किग तलाशने के साथ वैध पार्किग स्थल पर खड़े हो सकेंगे वाहन।
नई दिल्ली (जेएनएन)। राजधानी दिल्ली की सड़कों पर वाहन चलाना जितना मुश्किल है, उससे कहीं ज्यादा मुश्किल है किसी बाजार या भीड़भाड़ वाली जगह पर अपनी गाड़ी के लिए सुरक्षित और अधिकृत पार्किंग तलाशना। दिल्ली वालों की ये परेशान जल्द गूगल गुरू दूर करने वाले हैं। गूगल मैप आपको केवल दिल्ली के रास्ते ही नहीं बल्कि वैध पार्कियों की भी जानकारी देगी।
दक्षिणी दिल्ली नगर निगम ने पार्किंग तलाशने के लिए गूगल मैप की मदद लेने की योजना बनाई है। इससे लोगों को जहां पार्किंग तलाशने में मदद मिलेगी, वहीं निगम को अवैध पार्किंग खत्म करने में सुविधा होगी। वाहन चालकों को भी अवैध पार्किंग माफिया के चंगुल से बचाया जा सकेगा।
दरअसल, दिल्ली में पार्किग की समस्या को ध्यान में रखते हुए दक्षिणी दिल्ली नगर निगम कई पार्किंग का निर्माण करा रहा है। आने वाले समय में अवैध पार्किग को पूरी तरह खत्म किया जाए इसके लिए निगम ने गूगल की मदद लेने का फैसला लिया है।
दक्षिणी दिल्ली नगर निगम के लाभकारी परियोजना विभाग के उपायुक्त प्रेम शंकर झा ने बताया कि लोगों को निगम की पार्किग में अपना वाहन खड़ा करने में कोई दिक्कत न हो इसके लिए निगम ने पहले चरण में अपनी वेबसाइट पर सभी वैध पार्किग स्थलों का डिजिटल मैप अपलोड करने का फैसला लिया है। झा ने बताया कि इसके लिए अगले चरण में गूगल की मदद लेने का भी फैसला लिया गया है। इसके तहत दक्षिणी दिल्ली नगर निगम अपने डिजिटल पार्किंग डेटा को गूगल के साथ साझा करेगा।
निगम के मुताबिक डिजिटल करने का उद्देश्य उन अवैध पार्किग संचालकों पर शिकंजा कसना है जो अवैध पार्किग का भी शुल्क वसूल कर रहे हैं। निगम का कहना है कि वेबसाइट पर डिजिटल नक्शा जारी करने के साथ यह भी बताया जाएगा कि पार्किग में वाहनों की क्षमता कितनी है और उसका ठेकेदार कौन है। पार्किंग की दर क्या है।
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Conformer Three Quarter Orthotic - High Density
These semirigid orthotics don't compress, change shape or bottom out during normal use. High Density Conformers also provide an excellent foundation for custom-fabricated orthotics. Use High Density Conformers where long life and functional control are your primary objectives.
- Anatomically designed to support the foot
- Provides arch support
- Heel counter provides heel and ankle stability
- Single high density foam
- Provides firm, long-term support
- Proven Plantar Fasciitis relief.
- These accommodative insoles are generally used without modification
- Arch pain
- Foot pain
- Corrective orthotic
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में स्वापक औषधि नारकोटिक्स ड्रग्स की परिभाषा में पापीस्ट्रा सम्मिलित किया गया है। इस परिभाषा से पापीस्ट्रा को हटाया जाना चाहिए। ब्राजील में आयोजित रियो फैशन वीक के दौरान अगाथा फैशन कलेक्शन की क्रिएशन पेश करती रैम्प पर एक मॉडल। हिंदी न्यूज़ बिहार आरा कोरोना के भय से घंटों पड़ा रहा शव, प्रशासन ने कराया दाह संस्कार अपनी स्पीच में मैक्रों ने अपील करते हुए कहा कि सभी वैज्ञानिक, इंजीनियर्स, आंत्रप्रेन्योर, जिम्मेदार नागरिक जो अमेरिका के फैसले से निराश हैं, वो फ्रांस को अपना दूसरा घर समझें. ट्रंप के बयान पर प्रतिक्रिया देते हुए मैक्रों ने आगे कहा कि मैंने उन्हें (ट्रंप) कॉल करके कहा कि आइए और हमारे साथ काम कीजिए. दिल्ली डेयरडेविल्स टीम प्रबंधन ने इंडियन प्रीमियर लीग के 55 दिन के व्यस्त कार्यक्रम में वीरेंद्र सहवाग एवं कंपनी को प्रोत्साहित करने के लिये वॉल आफ फेम बनाने का फैसला किया है।टीम के होटल में एक टीम रूम है जिसमें अमेरिका के महान बास्केटबाल खिलाड़ी माइकल जोर्डन और मोहम्मद अली के कुछ मशहूर वक्तव्यों के बड़े बड़े पोस्टर लगे हैं जो घरेलू मैचों से पहले ख उन्होंने कहा, हालांकि पार्टी ने काफ़ी वादे किए हैं. अब यह देखना है कि उन वादों का क्या होता है. दिवाली पर</s>
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Sadly, due to COVID-19 the Cambridge Science Festival has been cancelled and our Hands-On Maths Fair scheduled for Saturday 21 March will not take place. However, you can still explore many of our family maths activities and games at home through our NRICH and Wild Maths websites.
Here's a short selection of a few of our favourites:
- Factors and Multiples Game
- Creating Squares interactive game
- Got It! interactive game
- Play to Win - Can you find a winning strategy for each of the games in this collection?
- Who's Who? puzzle
- Folding and cutting challenges - A collection of paper folding and paper-cutting activities and challenges. What shapes can you make by folding a piece of paper and then making a single cut? Can you make each of the letters of your name?
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Defamation & Anonymous Gmail Accounts.Disputes & Litigation
In this day and age people need to be wary about what they post on social media when they are attacking or criticising individuals or small business. A momentary lapse or ‘what the hell‘ can cause significant damage to someone’s reputation and lead to you being involved in defamation proceedings.
Even if you think it justified if the meaning or imputation this is carried by your post goes beyond the truth of a matter, you can find yourself in trouble.
Interestingly, some attackers still think they can hide behind an anonymous email account, usually a gmail account, and use the account to email defamatory publications to groups of people in a community or with a similar interest. It takes only a few Subpoenas to identify the creator of a gmail account and the IP address of the computer logged into gmail when a particular email is sent. Even if you using a work computer, your employer’s computer logs will show what each employee was doing at the relevant times.
When someone defames another person using an anonymous email account this is usually grounds to seek aggravated damages for defamation against the person.
There is an interesting case running in Newcastle District Court at the moment dealing with these exact circumstances.
Because people tend to be more liberal when they think their identify is concealed, it my view, thinking you can hide behind an anonymous email account is actually more dangerous then posting something on social media personally.
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The Kabbalah of Marriage
Love remains the most compelling and elusive issues of our time, and perhaps of all time.
How can I find a healthy, meaningful and above all, permanent relationship?
No adequate answer will be found to this question until we first understand what exactly a relationship is.
The word “relationship” means two things relating to one another. But what is the essence of a relationship? What makes a relationship work? What ingredients are necessary?
The secret of a relationship can be found in an unlikely place: The month in which we find ourselves now.
We have just entered the Hebrew month of Elul, the last month of the year. Every month has its own unique energy and power. Elul is the month of love and relationships. The sign of Elul is Virgo, and one of the acronyms of Elul is:
Ani l’dodi v’dodi li, meaning “I am to my beloved, and my beloved is to me” (Song of Songs 6:3).
Ani L’dodi V’dodi Li captures the very essence of a relationship: It is mutually symbiotic fusion of two forces – I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me.
First there are two distinct personalities: “I” and “my beloved.” Then the “I” (my personality) takes the initiative and reaches to “my beloved.” In turn, “my beloved” responds “to me.”
Ani l’dodi v’dodi li emphasizes another vital aspect – that a relationship is a reflection: You and your beloved mirror each other. Like the face reflected in water, one heart [is reflected] in another (Proverbs 27:19). Love elicited is in direct proportion to love given. When “I am to my beloved” – “my beloved” will be “to me.” The same way that “I am to my beloved,” so will “my beloved” be “to me.”
Thinking of love as your reflection is quite extraordinary: Look into the eyes of your beloved and you will see yourself.
Finally, Elul’s Ani l’dodi v’dodi li teaches us that love is about initiating. First Ani L’dodi – I am to me beloved, and that is the catalyst for “my beloved to me.” Love is proactive, nor reactive or passive. If you want love in your life do not stand on the sidelines, “protecting” yourself from being hurt and wait for someone to love you. You must learn to give – to initiate, to love. And when you do – love comes back to you.
One powerful question, however, looms: How is it possible that two distinct entities should become one? Can they actually retain their distinct personalities and truly love each other? It’s one thing to say that for love we pay a price. The price is relinquishing independence and compromising your identity for the benefits that love brings. But it’s quite another to claim that love can be had without compromising individuality.
Yet, we are told that true love is unity, and true unity is the fusion of two souls in one seamless union, in which both remain intact while joining as one.
How that paradox is possible requires a journey into the mystery of Divine Unity (Hashem Echod), the theme of this column over the last few weeks.
The quest to discover Divine unity in a pluralistic universe is far thornier than the effort to build unity between finite creatures. After all, as different as two people may be, they still are both human, both mortal and finite, both with more similarities than differences, and both in need of love. G-d and the universe, on the other hand, are infinitely distant entities, that seemingly have nothing in common. Quite the contrary: they are diametric opposites: G-d is infinite, the universe is finite; G-d the invulnerable Creator, we the fragile creatures. Above all, our existential, dependent, existence is absolutely different than the Divine non-existential, independent, existence (metzius bilti metzius nimtza). How then is it possible to unite these opposite realities?
The entire study of Kabbalah and Chassidus – Jewish mysticism – comes to answer this very question; to teach us how humans can develop a relationship with G-d
The mystics lay out an elaborate system which allows us the ability to achieve Divine Unity (Hashem Echod) in the universe: Like “stepping stones” the process of creation, called the “cosmic order,” enables us to climb the ladder that marries heaven and earth, the human and the Divine – the finite and the infinite.
Last week we discussed the first step in this process – the Tzimtzum concealment. In order for there to be a relationship we first need independence – an “I” who reaches to “my beloved.” In the presence of the Divine omnipresence no independent entity can arise. The Tzimtzum concealment allowed “room” for our independent consciousness to emerge.
However, the Tzimtzum is not “literal,” it is only a state of concealment, and it only affects the outermost layers of consciousness (light), not the higher states, and surely not on the unconscious level. [Yet, even the non-literal Tzitmzum is real, not an illusion, and the independent reality it creates is real, not just in our perception]. Hence, despite the concealment we always have the ability to connect and integrate our lives with the Divine light and the Divine Essence.
But the Tzimtzum only explains the possibility for potential integration, not how to actually achieve it. The non-literal Tzimtzum tells us that within existence we can find the Divine. But does existence itself have Divine properties?
To answer this question we need to dissect existence a bit. What exactly is existence?
Existence as we know it is comprised of various elements, but in its most basic form they break down into two forces: matter and energy. Every part of the universe, from the largest to the smallest, has a “body,” some form (physical or otherwise), and a “soul,” the inner power that defines the energy of the object. Matter is the “outer” layer and energy is its “inner” function and purpose.
Breaking it down further, both matter and energy are also each comprised of these two dimensions: The “body” of matter – its tangible properties, and the “energy” of matter – its shape, form and function: The “body” of energy – its definable personality, and the soul “energy” of energy – its deeper purpose.
Now the question is this: When we connect our lives to the Divine do we do so only on the spiritual (energy) level or also on the material (matter) level?
The argument could be made, as some schools of thought maintain, that the objective of life is to deny the material and transcend to the spiritual. Unity, then, is achieved exclusively on the soul level.
Even if we need to engage somewhat the material world, some suggest that at most we can channel the “function” of matter toward spiritual ends, but not the coarse matter itself.
At the other extreme, one could argue that even the spirit and energy of existence cannot be integrated with the Divine. At most the “energy” of energy can find some commonality with G-dliness, but not the “matter” of energy (its personality and form). A soul can unite with G-d only in a very general sense, but not with its distinct personality. Its must relinquish its individuality in order to become one with the Divine.
[All these viewpoints, mind you, are possible even according to the non-literal interpretation of the Tzimtzum, which only tells us that the Divine is present (albeit concealed) within existence, but does not inform us about the personality of existence, and thus, to what extent we can integrate the universe with the Divine. Let alone according to the literal interpretation of the Tzimtzum, according to which there is no direct relationship between our world and the reality of the Divine].
In the ultimate application of Divine unity, the mystics teach us – as emphasized in the works of the Chassidic masters – that the unity must permeate every fiber of existence, not just its spirit, not just its shape, form and function, not just in general terms. But every dimension of the universe – from energy to matter, from the matter of energy to the matter of matter – contains a Divine dimension that is waiting to be released.
They explain this with the elegant structure of the “cosmic order” comprised of “energies” (lights) and “containers,” which correspond with and are the root of the “energy” and “matter” of our universe.
By understanding the interplay between “light” and “container” and how each of them interact with their respective divine source, we can learn how to marry heaven and earth and integrate every aspect of our beings with higher purpose, ultimately with the Divine itself. The relationship between these forces teach us how to develop the relationship between our material bodies and souls, between our involvements in the physical worlds with our spiritual endeavors; we learn ho to develop and expand our own material “containers” and fuse them with the “lights” of spirituality.
Beginning with the human soul shaped in the Divine Image, the mystics explain that the soul manifests and mirrors the Divine energy (light); each person’s soul is a reflection, a microcosm of G-d’s “personality.” And not just in a general sense, but the distinct personality of each soul is rooted in the distinct personality of the “lights,” which have defined properties (there are actually several opinions regarding the extent of these “light” properties, which reflect in different levels of the unity that can be achieved. But the final consensus is that the “lights” have individual properties, which allow our unique personalities to find divine expression).
Similarly, the spiritual forces within the material world can be aligned to their respective Divine roots, in all their glorious detail, rooted in the Divine light, the kav (thin ray of light) that pierced through the Tzimtzum, whose source is the light before the Tzimtzum, the Divine power to create the infinite (koach ha’bli-gvul).
That’s the soul. What about the body and the matter of the universe? The human body too was created in the Divine Image, and every aspect of matter is shaped by the “hand of G-d.” Not only “light” but also the “containers” reflect higher levels of the Divine. Not only the spirit but also the structure of existence is rooted in the Source with G-dlike features, which we have to reveal.
In mystical terms: The “containers” of existence are rooted in the Divine “containers” of Atzilut, which in turn are a reflection of the “containers” of Adam Kadmon, which originate from the (letters of the) reshimu, the residue that remained after but was unaffected by the Tzimtzum, rooted in the Divine power to create the finite (koach ha’gvul).
Now, when you take into account that “light” and “container” join together until they become one, we can begin to understand E=mc2 – how energy and matter are actually one and the same.
This, briefly, is the way the Kabbalists explain how the very fabric of existence (matter and energy) can be integrated with the Divine. It’s not just that the Divine Essence, which transcends all definitions and structures, enables the fusion of matter and spirit. That would imply that the fusion is solely a result of the Essence’s power, despite the limits of existence. The ultimate purpose is that the universe, on its own terms and by the standards of its own parameters, contains the Divine. That is ultimate unity – not simply on G-d’s terms, but also on the terms of existence. Such unity can only be achieved when we recognize that in the personality of existence glimmers of the Divine.
Discovering the Divine within the properties of our universe is the most magnificent effort we can undertake, transforming life into a majestic journey.
The ultimate manifestation of Divine unity is in human relationships – in the ways of love and marriage. The “lights” and “containers” that teach us how we can fuse our lives with the Divine, teach us how we can discover true unity, while maintaining our individuality in our interpersonal relationships.
A good analogy for this is music: The power and beauty of a melody is dependent on each note maintaining its “individuality” and playing its unique sound. Simultaneously, each note is completely fused with all the others, all complementing each other, without in any way compromising each ones’ distinct identity. The same synthesis – harmony out of diversity – can be witnessed in the symmetry of every healthy organism and system, from the human body to the extraordinary design of nature.
A true relationship is total fusion of two – “I am to my beloved and my beloved to me.” Two distinct individuals, with different bodies and different souls, join together, in one seamless union. Neither is compromised or diminished. A transcendent power enables the fusion; but it also manifests in the individual personalities: as they remain intact they also recognize on their own individual terms that love – “I am to my beloved and my beloved to me” – is the ultimate expression of individuality.
In this month of Elul we have the opportunity to create, mend and renew relationships. May we use the month well, and may we all be blessed with experiencing “I am to my beloved and my beloved to me.”
One fundamental question still remains: How can we achieve total fusion of “I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me” when the Divine Essence is a non-existential reality, completely different and beyond our existential existence? Given, we can unite with the Divine as it manifests in existence, but can we actually connect to the ultimate reality – the innermost essence of Divine reality, which we have absolutely no way of relating to?
The answer – coming next week. See you then.
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Lapping Abrasives / Abrasive Powders
Lapmaster Wolters Wolters offers a complete line of lapping abrasive products for processing today's complex materials. The abrasive grains must bring a certain hardness, toughness, thermal resistance and chemical resistance to a material removal process. For general engineering applications, Lapmaster Wolters Wolters offers Aluminum Oxide, Silicon Carbide, Boron Carbide, and Diamond Powder. For high-tech materials, glass, and other polishing applications, Lapmaster Wolters Wolters offers Micro-graded Diamond Powder, Micro-graded Alumina Powder, Cerium Oxide, and other specialized polishing compounds. Most abrasives are available in various size containers
Whats Abrasives do we offer & what is the difference between them?
Aluminium Oxide (Al2O3) is typically used for achieving a fine lapped finish on softer materials prior to polishing. E.g. brass, glass. This is the softest (in relative terms) and most “friable” fused synthetic lapping abrasive offered by Lapmaster Wolters. Because of this materials friability it is considered a fine finishing abrasive. In terms of stock removal, aluminum oxide is efficient for cutting materials with a Rockwell “C” scale hardness up to 54. Although, aluminum oxide is sometimes used to process materials harder than 54C to generate a specific surface roughness, it is normally after a roughing step with a more suitable abrasive. There are two forms of aluminum oxide offered by Lapmaster Wolters. The most common product is technically called micro-graded dark brown fused aluminum oxide and the other type is micro-graded calcined white alumina.
Calcined Aluminum Oxide
This form of aluminum oxide is recommended for electronic materials processing. The reason for this is the minimal depth of component material subsurface damage created by the more gentle cutting action of this materials non-fused, flat plate like crystals. The cutting action is less stressful because the crystals slide and shave stock from the component instead of gouging a chip of material as a blocky shaped fused crystal does. The flat shape of the crystal helps minimize cutting pressure by contacting more area of the component thus distributing the cutting force over a larger area.
Calcined aluminum oxide is available with and without a suspension treatment. The suspension treatment is a chemical coating of the abrasives individual particles that allows the particles to remain in solution for a longer period when using water as the vehicle. Suspension treated abrasive is not required when lapping with oil or water-base lapping vehicles.
Some users of calcined aluminum oxide are lapping metal components. This is due to scratching problems experienced with the standard fused aluminum oxide. Other customers have reported more scratching problems when using calcined material. This simply points out the fact that every application is different and must be evaluated on its own merits.
Silicon Carbide (SiC) is typically used for general stock removal and the removal of machining marks on a variety of materials. E.g. mild steel, stainless steel. This material is considered an aggressive cutting, high stock removal abrasive. It is required to cut materials with Rockwell “C” scale hardness of 55 and higher. Obviously this abrasive can be used to machine softer materials when the surface finish requirement is not so precise. The surface roughness of material processed with a specific grade of silicon carbide abrasive will be higher than those achieved with aluminum oxide of the same particle size. The appearance will be significantly different as well. Aluminum oxide produces a matte finish with very few micro-scratches as opposed to silicon carbide of the same size that produces a very micro-scratched finish.
Silicon carbide is significantly more expensive than aluminum oxide, so even though it cuts much faster it may still be more economical to tolerate the longer process time of aluminum oxide processing. Customers must evaluate the trade-off of process time versus cost per component in addition to the achievement of the required engineering specifications.
Boron Carbide (B4C) is typically used for when faster stock removal is required for the removal of machining marks, etc. It is a preferred abrasive for hard materials. E.g. Tungsten Carbide, tempered steel. Boron carbide abrasive is an extremely aggressive cutting, ultra high stock removal product. It is recommended only for lapping the hardest materials, generally limited to tungsten carbide and titanium carbide. It is cost prohibitive to use this abrasive for lapping of any other materials due to the exorbitant price of this product.
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In use, diamond abrasive particles maintain their size because of their hardness and extremely low friability rate. This allows diamond-lapping slurry to be recycled. I want to be clear and indicate that I’m not talking about the standard pre-mixed diamond polishing slurry that should not be recycled. The diamond lapping slurry I’m referring to is not a standard pre-mixed product offering. I’m referring to a standard water-base lapping vehicle with a relatively high concentration of diamond powder mixed into it.
Cerium Oxide (CeO2) offers an enhanced polishing performance for optical flats, as well as other applications like filters and prisms. Cerium oxide has long lasting polishing efficiency providing excellent surface quality. Cerium oxide can retain its effectiveness over longer periods, even when used under demanding polishing conditions. It’s used for optical pitch applications and with a variety of pads. This abrasive is used strictly for polishing glass like materials on a soft polishing pad or pitch polishing plate. The average particle size utilized is typically somewhere in the range of one to three microns. Some brands of cerium oxide have a slightly high pH level. These abrasives cause an oxidation of the surface being polished. The oxidized material is mechanically removed by the rotating action of the pitch plate or polishing pad.
Polishing machines utilizing cerium oxide abrasive slurry should be protected from corrosion by using stainless steel components and epoxy paints. The water most commonly used with the cerium oxide is also a source of corrosion for unprotected ferrous metal machine components. The standard Lapmaster Wolters pitch polishing machines are constructed appropriately to eliminate corrosion problems from contact with water and high pH abrasive. It is important to consider this issue whenever quoting a standard lapping machine that is modified for cerium oxide polishing.
This is a chemical slurry used to CMP process a wide variety of materials, but typically semiconductor materials. The slurry is used by dispensing it onto a soft polishing pad, usually a soft poromeric urethane (ex: Polytex Supreme) for semiconductor polishing or another type of soft fabric pad. When used in a suitable polishing technique this slurry will produce the highest quality scratch free reflective surface roughness. Depending on the specific product, the liquid colloid has a pH value of 8.5 to 12. This chemical generally oxidizes the material being polished as well as any unprotected machine components. Sub-micron size alumina abrasive particles are added to the colloid in very low concentration. Once again, the abrasive particles serve to mechanically remove the thin layer of oxidized material.
This chemical slurry is identical to colloidal alumina except the abrasive added is sub-micron silica particles.
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Seven years after swede midge was identified in Ontario, three adult midge were found in Saskatchewan, in 2007. It was then believed the insects were the same species (Contarinia nasturtii), but researchers have since discovered differences between the two.
“We have now behavioural evidence — we know that what we thought was swede midge in Saskatchewan isn’t attracted to our pheromone traps,” says Boyd Mori, research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada out of Saskatoon, adding that there are also subtle, physical differences between the species.
“And we also have some genetic evidence now that indicates it’s not actually the same species.”
In this interview, filmed at FarmTech in Edmonton, research scientist Boyd Mori provides an update on the canola flower midge, including distribution, plant symptomology, and the next steps for researchers and farmers.
So far, neither species has caused significant damage in the west, but for researchers like Mori, this finding means there’s a need for further investigation, not to mention a formal name and description.
“We have a tentative common name — right now we’re calling it the canola flower midge — and then we’re working on a publication to actually get a formal, scientific name for it.”
The canola flower midge has not been described anywhere else in the world, says Mori, and right now, the only symptoms definitively associated with the midge are bottled/galled flowers. Further exploration will determine whether or not the insect is, in fact, a pest of canola, and what the next steps should be for Western Canadian farmers.
If a producer believes s/he might have found symptoms of swede midge or canola flower midge, Mori suggests getting in touch with an agronomist, and contacting Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
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Australian band The Rubens took the nation by storm in 2012, with their debut self-titled album peaking at number three on the ARIA charts. Three years later, the boys are back with second album Hoops.
We sat down with two members from the band, to see what makes them say "OK" and what makes them give a big thumbs down.
1. Reuben Sandwiches:
Sam: We had to do this promo thing one time where we had to eat all the best Rueben sandwiches in Sydney. And I don't even like them to start off with, so the last shot was me keeled over, nearly vomiting!
2. Online trolls:
3. Music reality shows like The X Factor and The Voice:
Sam: It's the worst thing to happen to music for a long time!
Will: And for common knowledge and personal development.
4. The Bachelor Australia:
Sam: Festivals are the funnest thing you can do as a band. Basically you already have a ready made audience of 20,000 people and you never get that anywhere else.
Sam: I just hate the fact that hipsters love basketball. Like you didn't care two years ago, you didn't have a team. We called our record Hoops but it's nothing to do with basketball.
Will: It reminds me of the good old days! Being a teenager.
Sam: There's some nostalgia there.
10. Taylor Swift:
11. Tony Abbott:
Sam: Ugh, thumbs down. Do I really have to explain why?!
13. Alcohol served in hipster jars:
Sam: Just leave it man. It's not necessary. Also… put a sign on your bar! It's not cool to not have a sign on your bar. It doesn't help. Especially when it's down some secret alleyway. Ugh God… it's hard to be hipster I reckon!
14. Drunk crowds at live shows:
15. When a McFlurry isn't flurried:
Sam: Like when it's not mixed?
Will: I've had that a couple times.
Sam: Terrible! They're too thick to do it yourself.
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10 Health Benefits of lobster – One of tempting seafood is lobster. Lobster or giant shrimp is very attractive for a meal, especially lobster cooked in favorites menu.
The lobster menu is a favorite menu in any seafood restaurant. Because lobster is very savory and soft compared to other shrimp. Behind this delicious food contained some health benefits of lobster that may make the body more powerful, one of them is lobster meat that content high enough of protein. Even so, in fact, there are many other health benefits of lobster that can we get.
Nutrient Content in Lobster
Lobster is renowned for seafood cuisine that high in protein. In one cup of lobster meat, and cooked in stir-fry, it will find 129 calories. Quite a lot is not it? However, it is also balanced with a protein produced, which amounted to 28 grams. In fact, this number reaches 16% of the recommendations a 2000 calorie diet.
The content of lobster meat is not only just that. However, also carbohydrates, fiber, as well as some vitamins are good for the body. One is vitamin B, niacin, B6, and also B12. There are also vitamins E, A and vitamin C that have fewer levels than a collection of vitamin B.
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Minerals present in the lobster is also quite a lot, among them is phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, and zinc that are the most dominating. There are other vitamins contained in the lobster, but the levels are minuscule.
Top 10 Health Benefits of Lobster
1. High Protein Source
Although the food is included in the category of “be careful with obesity”, but that does not mean should not eat them. For who would have thought, the health benefits of lobster that rich in animal protein. Highly recommended for children who are still in the growth stage.
2. Good for formation of new cell
The health benefits of lobster for a formation of new cells. So, eating lobster is needed. Because able to assist in the formation of new cells and replace damaged cells. That way, your body system is running smoothly.
3. Prevent Kwashiorkor Disease
Lobster Benefits are also magnificent to treat diseases associated with malnutrition, one of them is a kwashiorkor disease. Usually marked by shrinking the stomach, and then arms and legs become emaciated. This can happen due to lack of nutrition, especially protein nutrition. So, patients with kwashiorkor are suggested to eat these foods.
4. Good for Development of Brain Cells
Health benefits of lobster for the brain. These benefits can be obtained from eating lobster because it can stimulate the growth of brain cells. Protein, especially from the sea, further support the substance content of omega 3. These substances are very active in the formation of brain cells, which can drive to work optimally. Recent research shows, children who consume omega 3 have sharper memories.
5. Fast overcome bruising
Furthermore, the health benefits of lobster to overcome bruising. When we fall, a bruise is an event that we can not avoid. Some people when injured, there is speedy in recovery, there is also in the long time. One way to overcome the bruises is by eating lobster. Because the content of protein was able to help the body to repair damaged cells due to bruising.
6. Sources of reserves energy
Eating lobster certainly make full, in lobster contained enough calories to make us full. Moreover, the protein in it is also very much. If the protein content not in use, it will be stored in the form of energy in the body.
7. Content of Essential Amino Acids
Health benefits of lobster thank to rich content of essential amino acids. In lobsters are also full in essential amino acids. Where, these amino acids can not be produced by our bodies. So that, to fulfill it we mus eat the foods. For example from foods that contain the essential amino acids.
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8. Fast curing inflammation
The other health benefits of lobster is found in amazing content in the lobster meat, namely the presence of omega-6 (arachidonic acid or AA) and omega 3 (eicosapentaenoic acid or EPA and dokosaheksanoat acid or DHA). The content is very active and healthy for producing prostaglandins.
9. Prevent and Reduce the Risk of Stroke
Not only that, the health benefits of lobster that you get from omega-6 is capable of reducing the risk of stroke. Because in the presence of omega 6, the flexibility of blood vessel walls more awake. Consequently, the possibility and the risk of stroke and coronary heart disease also declined.
10. Smooth the Skin
Lobster is also great for skin health and beauty. Because there is the content of vitamin E and vitamin A that works actively to help keep your skin rejuvenation to keep it smooth and soft.
That is a myriad of health benefits of lobster. Indeed, the price of lobster is very expensive, but if you have enough money, you can try the dishes occasionally.
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NEW YORK (CNN) – The world is filled with digits. Phone numbers, passwords: All are important. But physicians say knowing your medical numbers is essential for living a healthier life.
So which numbers should you know? Let’s start with blood pressure.
“Blood pressure is important because it’s a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke and kidney disease and those are some of the leading causes of death in the U.S.,” said Dr. John Dooley.
Then there’s your cholesterol, know the difference between HDL and LDL.
“Higher levels of LDL or the bad cholesterol are associated with an increased risk of developing atherosclerosis disease, meaning heart attacks and strokes. Whereas higher numbers of HDL or good cholesterol are associated with a lower risk,” Dr. Dooley continued.
And your weight and waist size are important for knowing your body mass index.
“Patients who are overweight, are at higher risk for cardiovascular disease, arthritis, acid reflux, sleep apnea, and even cancer, some estimates that between 15% to 20% cancer deaths in the U.S. are attributable to weight,” said Dr. Dooley.
Blood sugar numbers can tell you whether you may be pre-diabetic.
“Diabetes is a major risk factor also for the development of heart disease, other vascular diseases and kidney disease,” Dr. Dooley continued.
Knowing these numbers can help you work towards a healthier lifestyle.
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लिए भी सर्वाधिक उपयुक्त भाषा संस्कृति है। उन्होंने कम्बोडिया के मंदिर में उत्कीर्ण भाषा संस्कृत पर हुए कार्यों में अपने अनुभव को साझा किया। डेरा सच्चा सौदा ने पंजाबहरियाणा हाईकोर्ट में एक अर्जी दायर कर अपने फ्रीज बैंक खातों को खोलने की मांग की हैं। डेरा से जुड़ी शोभा गोरा व अन्य ने कहा कि पैसा न होने की वजह से एक ओर जहां बच्चों की पढ़ाई प्रभावित हो रही है वहीं डेरे के अस्पताल में मौजूद मरीजों को सुविधा नहीं मिल पा रही है। कर्मियों का वेतन भी लंबित हो गया है जिसके चलते संकट की स्थिति पैदा हो गई है। इस अर्जी पर बुधवार को मुख्य याचिका संग सुनवाई होगी। सेना ने कहा कि सीमा पार सुरंगों के निर्माण के लिए परिसर का उपयोग कंक्रीट उत्पादन संयंत्र के रूप में किया गया है। मथुरा के थाना मगोर्रा के कस्बा सोंख से बाइक सवार वृद्ध से एक लाख छीन ले गए। ट्रंप की रैली को स्वास्थ्य विशेषज्ञों ने खतरनाक कदम बताया उसमें से एक साल बाद 33 लाख रुपये पंचायत के खाते में हस्तांतरित किया गया है। कहा गया है कि पंचायत सचिव की लापरवाही के चलते सरकारी की महत्वपूर्ण योजनाएं प्रभावित हुई हैं। डीपीआरओ ने बताया कि जांच</s>
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आर्शीवाद की चाह के साथ उन्होने जीत की कामना की। पीएम मोदी ने कोरोना से लड़ाई में अच्छी सक्रियता दिखाने और जमीनी स्तर के अनुभव से जुड़ी कीमती सलाह के लिए मुख्यमंत्रियों को धन्यवाद किया। सर्वाधिक वारदात शहर के यमुनापार नैनी एरिया में बदमाशों द्वारा अंजाम दी गई हैं लाल किताब के अनुसार सूर्य के अशुभ होने के संकेत किसानों से मुलाकात करने के लिए गए सांसदों के प्रतिनिधिमंडल में एनसीपी की सांसद सुप्रिया सूले भी मौजूद थीं। महाराष्ट्र में एनसीपी की पकड़ ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में कमजोर हुई है। पार्टी की कोशिश है कि किसान आंदोलन के जरिए वह एक बार फिर ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में जनाधार हासिल कर सकती है। एनसीपी अध्यक्ष शरद पवार भी कुछ दिन पहले मुंबई के आजाद मैदान में हुई किसानों की रैली में शामिल हुए थे। उनके साथ शिवसेना के आदित्य ठाकरे भी थे। शिवसेना सांसद संजय राउत ने भी गाजीपुर बॉडर जाकर किसानों से मुलाकात की थी। शिवसेना भी किसान आंदोलन के जरिए ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों तक पहुंचना चाहती है। क्योकि, अभी तक शिवसेना की छवि शहरी पार्टी की है। इसलिए वह गांवदेहात में अपनी पैठ मजबूत करना चाहती है। वजन में दो हजार 625 किलो की रुक्मणी अरब सागर से लेकर बंगाल की खाड़ी</s>
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# math (Gaussian n! formula)
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I'm trying to figure out the generalized form of the Gaussian n-factorial (n!) formula.
I keep seeing n!= n(n+1)/2 but that's not working.
For example: 5!= 120 but 5(6)/2 or 6(5/2) is 15; a far cry from 120. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong; distributing gives (n^2+n)/2 which is incorrect.
Also the example I saw as the supposed true story used 1-100 and showed it as 101(100/2) = 5050.
What am I missing here?
• math (Gaussian n! formula) -
I don't know where you got that formula, it is obviously wrong.
2!=2*1 which does not equal 2*3/2
• math (Gaussian n! formula) -
There must be a confusion somewhere.
Gauss as a small boy in school was told by his teacher to add numbers from 1 to 100, after which he can play outside. While everyone else was still adding away, he went out and played after about 2 minutes. His teacher was about to punish him when he told the teacher he finished!
Write the numbers 1-100 and 100-1 one on top of the other and add vertically. We have 100 sums of 101 for two rows, so the sum for one row is 101*100/2=5050.
So probably this 1-100 = 5050 formula became the famous Gauss formula, but not for factorial.
If you are looking for an approximation to the factorial function, i.e. f(n)=n! (approximately), use the Stirling formula.
lim n->∞ n!=√(2πn)(n/e)n.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation
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Shuliang Jiao, Hao F Zhang, Carmen A Puliafito; Absolute retinal blood flow measurement with a dual-beam Doppler optical coherence tomography. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):226.
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To test the capability of a novel dual-beam Doppler optical coherence tomography (OCT) technique for simultaneous in vivo measurement of the Doppler angle and, thus, the absolute retinal blood velocity and the retinal flow rate, without the influence of motion artifacts.
A novel dual-beam Doppler spectral domain OCT (SD-OCT) was developed. The two probing beams are separated with a controllable distance along an arbitrary direction, both of which are controlled by two independent 2D optical scanners. Two sets of optical Doppler tomography (ODT) images are acquired simultaneously. The Doppler angle of each blood vessel segment was calculated from the relative coordinates of the centers of the blood vessel in the two corresponding ODT images. The absolute blood flow velocity and the volumetric blood flow rate can then be calculated. To measure the total retinal blood flow, we used a circular scan pattern centered at the optic disc to obtain two sets of concentric OCT/ODT images simultaneously.
We imaged two normal human subjects at ages of 48 and 34. The total retinal blood flows rates of the two human subjects were calculated to be 47.01 μl/min (older subject) and 51.37 μl/min (younger subject), respectively. Results showed that the performance of this imaging system is immune to eye movement since the two sets of ODT images were acquired simultaneously.
The dual-beam OCT/ODT system is successful in measuring the absolute retinal blood velocity and the volumetric flow rate. The advantage of the technique is that the two sets of ODT images used for the calculation are acquired simultaneously, which eliminates the influence of eye motion and ensures the accuracy of the calculated hemodynamic parameters.
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Modeling Risk in the Dynamic Environment of Maritime Transportation
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By Lillian Lin-Levitan a recent ASU nutrition student
Essential nutrients include various vitamins and minerals along with certain fatty acids and amino acids that your body must have to function and is not able to make on its own. That means you have to be getting these nutrients from the outside – via either food or supplements.
Check out what these essentials are doing for you!
- Helps make up a vital protein for eye health – this is why we associate carrots with improved eyesight!
- Improves immune function
- Builds and repairs body tissues – think skin, blood vessels, and all other organs!
- Reproductive health
Thiamine (Vitamin B1)
- Is a major player in your metabolism – changing the carbohydrates you eat into energy that your body needs to power every single cell!
- Energy released by Thiamine is vital for your brain and nervous system function.
- This energy also fuels cellular growth, development, and repair.
Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)
- Prevents premature aging and disease by protecting our cells from oxidative stress (oxidation occurs in the energy creating processes within our body – it’s natural but it takes a toll on our cells)
Niacin (Vitamin B3)
- A cofactor for hundreds of enzymes – these are processes that are responsible for life providing biochemical reactions that happen in our bodies. None of which would be possible without Niacin!
Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5)
- Another cofactor that is responsible for making life providing biochemical processes possible!
- Helps produce red blood cells and hormones that your body needs to function.
Pyridoxine (Vitamin B6)
- Essential for making the amino acids that are so vital for brain and nervous system function usable.
- Helps create mood boosting hormones!
Biotin (Vitamin B7)
- Helps keep your outsides looking healthy – specifically promotes nail, hair and skin health.
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- Regulates DNA activity and gene expression.
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उसको खोलते हैं, तब उसके खुलने की ध्वनि को सुनिए। जब कुंडी खुल जाती है, तब एक सांस लीजिये, और द्वार को धीरे से ढकलिए। किसी पिछले जन्म का स्वागत करिए: द्वार के दूसरी ओर दिखने वाली पहली वस्तु को आप अपने पिछले किसी जीवन से जुड़ा हुआ समझिए। वह कोई पीले रंग जैसी अमूर्त वस्तु भी हो सकती है या इतनी स्पष्ट और विषद जैसे आपकी गोद में सिमटा हुआ आपका प्यारा बच्चा। आप जो भी देखें उसको ही आधारशिला समझिए। उसी पर अब निर्माण शुरू करिए। उसको अनुभव करिए। इस कल्पना को ध्यान में रखिए और जो भी आपके मन में आता जाये, उसे स्वीकार करते हुये इसको आगे बढ़ाइए। आप पाएंगे कि वह पीला रंग कालीन बन जाता है। जब आप उस कल्पना में और आगे बढ़ते हैं, तब आप शायद यह पाएंगे कि सूर्य का प्रकाश उस कालीन पर पड़ रहा है। शायद आपको एकाएक यह लगेगा कि वह कालीन लंदन के किसी घर में है ... आदि। धैर्य रखिए: यदि आपको कुछ नहीं दिखता है, तब किसी ऐसी चीज़ की कल्पना करिए जिसमें आपको सदा ही मज़ा आता रहा हो, जैसे कि कोई प्रिय शौक, कौशल या यात्रा स्थल। आप स्वयं से पूछ सकते हैं,</s>
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ने हालात को भीड़ से लेकर खरीदारी में आपाधापी और बगैर मास्क आदि के लोगों को खरीदारी करते कैमरे में कैद किया तो खलबली मच गई। पहले तो गार्ड भी बैठा हुआ था। इसके बाद वह भी गेट पर सक्रिय हुआ और गेट पर वाहनों से लगे जाम को हटवाया तथा बगैर मास्क के अंदर आने वालों को वापल भेजना शुरू किया। इसी तरह से दुकानदारों ने भी लोगों को मास्क लगाने और सोशल डिस्टेसिंग का पालन करने की हिदायत देनी शुरू की। जीएसटी का असर अब बैंकिंग सेवाओं पर भी पडऩे लगा है। मंदिरों में गूंजा ओम नमः शिवाय चालू खरीफ मौसम में कृषि विभाग द्वारा जिले में करीब 27 हजार हेक्टेयर में विभिन्न खरीफ फसलों के उत्पादन का लक्ष्य निर्धारित किया गया है। सबसे अधिक 25 हजार हेक्टेयर में धान की खेती का लक्ष्य निर्धारित किया गया है। निर्धारित लक्ष्य को पूरा करने के लिए विभाग द्वारा आवश्यक तैयारी भी शुरू कर दी गई है। उमर का एक वीडियो भी आया सामने, विदेश यात्राओं की कर रहा बात अग्नि5 में क्या है खास जिसे ढूँढ़ती रही हैं मेरी बेक़रार आँख़े कालांतर में दोनों पशु योनि छोड़कर पुनः मनुष्य योनि में आईं। चंद्रमुखी मथुरा के राजा पृथ्वीनाथ की रानी</s>
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फूलपुर: घटना वाराणसी से करीब तीस किलोमीटर दूर फूलपुर इलाके के राजपुर गांव की है| जहाँ संदीप नाम के एक युवक को लकवा मारने के कारण हाथ-पैर काम नहीं करते थे और यही कारण था कि वह रेंगकर चलता था। उसके इस तरह रेंगकर चलने के कारण लोगों ने उसे इच्छाधारी नाग कहना शुरू कर दिया। इस बात का फायदा उठाकर संदीप ने इच्छाधारी नागिन से शादी करने की अफवाह फैला दी। बस फिर क्या था कई जिलों से हज़ारों लोग उनकी शादी को देखने के लिए पहुंच गए। हालात इतने खराब हो गए कि अल सुबह ही पुलिस को इस भीड़ को संभालने के लिए आना पड़ा। पर इस भीड़ को संभालने के लिए स्थानीय पुलिस बल के पुलिसकर्मी कम पड़ गए और आसपास के पांच थानों सहित पीएसी की टुकड़ियों को भी बुलाना पड़ गया।
संदीप नाम के इस युवक ने खुद को न केवल इच्छाधारी नाग बताया, बल्कि इच्छाधारी नागिन से शादी करने की बात भी कही। सुचना मिलते ही पुलिस ने अफवाह फैलानेवाले आरोपी संदीप पटेल व उसके पिता दयाशंकर को हिरासत में ले लिया, लेकिन फिर भी वहां से लोग टस से मस नहीं हुए। इसके बाद पुलिस को लोगों को समझाना पड़ा और उन्हें घर भेजना पड़ा।
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Description: Open to all on Church land. Starts in wooded terrain then opens up to long holes through a large field ending with a long tunnel hole through a tree lined ex-cattle run. Water in play on several holes.
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Think Insights with Google is a relatively new Google service aimed at providing businesses with information about current trends in consumer behavior. Think Insights provides tools for discovering trends, monitoring trends, and it provides a public research library. Users can refine their searches in Think Insights according to industry, target audience, media platform, and marketing objectives. The research studies can be downloaded as PDFs or read online. Some of the research studies are accompanied by videos of analysts discussing the meaning and implications of the research.
Applications for Education
When I first saw Think Insights with Google I thought of high school students who participate in activities like DECA. Those students and their teachers could find Think Insights to be very useful in getting a handle on market trends and how consumers interact with different types of marketing strategies. Marketing instructors might ask students to read one of the research studies on Think Insights then use that information to develop a marketing strategy based on that study.
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Schematic image of the human TMEM18 protein's features. TMEM18 has three transmembrane α-helices and the N-terminal and second loop probably face the inside of the nucleus, whereas the first loop and the C-terminal are oriented towards the cytoplasm, according to predictions by Phobius. The N-terminal contains five predicted O-β-GlcNAc glycosylation sites (red pentagons) and the second loop contains one phosphorylation site (blue star). Also, one of the glycosylation sites (*) is potentially targeted by phosphorylation. The C-terminal is annotated to contain a Coiled-coiled domain and an NLS-motif. The protein is highly conserved: blue boxes represents well conserved motifs, capital letters represent amino acids that are completely conserved in all investigated organisms and lower cases represent those conserved in 90%. Circles represent single conserved residues. The circles and amino acid letters are colored according to Zappo color scheme in Jalview. All numbers represent amino acid positions, starting at the N-terminal.
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Pouring Rain is a framework for distributed data transfer over unreliable network using Luby Transform codes.
test-server.py for usage.
Problem: How to transfer data over (unreliable) network as fast as possible?
Solution: Use distributed stateless transfer mechanism with error correction.
- Transfer time T(K) = 1.25/K where K = number of servers.
- This means that T(5) = 0.25 (four times faster than from a single server!)
- M packets ( M is slighty larger than N ) needs to be received in order to construct the original message (composes of N packets).
- Total independece of transfer:
- All packets are independent of each other so they don't have to come from the same machine.
- No ordering of packets is required.
- Tolerates packet loss and unavailability of source machines
- Only requirement is to receive enough unique packets to construct the original file.
- Can be started, stopped and restarted arbitrarily. Servers doesn't need to know what you have received so far.
- Runs on UDP so no TCP overhead on the transfer.
- Server load (also disk io) is indepedent of how many clients it serves.
- Each resource in the network has a unique 64 bit identifier.
- When a client wants to retrieve that resource it sends a "subscribe" packet to each server it knows.
- If that resource is found on server, the server starts to stream packets to client.
- After a certain amount of time the server stops streaming to that client (UDP is used as protocol so there is no way to know is the client is still receiving).
- In order to receive packets the client sends periodically the "subscribe" packet to each server.
- When the client is able to reconstruct the resource it sends a "unsubscribe" packet to each server and the servers stop to stream packets to client.
- Currently maximum transferred payload size is 4 Mb. Comes from 64 ipv4 datagrams.
- As there is no connection (udp), a heartbeat message is sent periodically in order to keep stream running
- C / C++ implementation for more performance and smaller footprint
Murky Waters is a distributed data store implemented using Pouring Rain. It adds "propagate" feature to Pouring Rain, which is used to replicate data over a PR cluster. It also caches locally all entries it fetches from the cluster.
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Silver Stacking Bangle Bracelet
Silver Bangle Bracelet
Hand Stamped Skinny Bangle
Simple and Sweet but powerful in their reminders - these thin stamped bangle bracelets are great on their own or in a stylish stack.
- Choose a Message that Speaks to your Heart or helps you to create a Mantra that motivates you.
- Comfortable for a 7-inch Wrist. Hook and Eye Closure
- Very thin
- Super Cute, Tiny and Delicate
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इंस्टेंट मूँग दल धोक्ला रेसिपे इन हिन्दी इंस्टेंट मूंग दाल ढोकला बहुत ही जल्द बनकर तैयार हो जाता है ये बहुत ही सॉफ्ट बनता है। ब्रेकफस्ट के लिए ये एकदम परफेक्ट रेसिपी है आप इसे बच्चों के लंच बॉक्स में भी बनाकर दे सकते है।
मूंग दाल का ढोकला बनाने के लिए दाल और चावल दोनों को मिक्स करके दो से तीन बार अच्छे से धो लें। फिर इसे ५ से ६ घंटे के लिए भिगोकर रख दें। तय समय बाद दाल और चावल दोनों को छलनी में छानकर इसका सारा पानी निकाल दें।
बेटर बनाने के लिए दाल और चावल को मिक्सर जार में डाल दें और इसमें दही, हरी मिर्च, अदरक, नमक, हल्दी पाउडर, रिफ़ाइंड ऑइल और पानी डालकर जार का ढक्कन बंद कर दें और इसको पीस लें। चावल को थोड़ा दरदरा ही पीसे।
हमार मूंग दाल ढोकले का बेटर बनकर तैयार है बेटर को एक बाउल में निकाल लें। अब इसमें इनो डालकर बेटर को चलाते हुए अच्छे से मिक्स कर लें हमारा बेटर स्टीम करने के लिए एकदम तैयार है।
ढोकला बनाने वाली प्लेट को तेल लगाकर ग्रीस कर लें। अब इस बेटर को प्लेट में डाल दें और हल्के से टेप कर लें ताकि ढोकले में कही हवा ना भरी रह जाएँ। अब इसके ऊपर दो चुटकी लाल मिर्च पाउडर छिड़क दें आप चाहे तो काली मिर्च पाउडर भी डाल सकते है।
ढोकले को स्टीम करने के लिए एक कढ़ाही या भगोने में पानी डालकर उसके ऊपर स्टेंट रख दें और ढोकले वाली प्लेट को स्टेंट पर रख दें। ऊपर से ढक्कन से ढककर १५ से २० मिनट के लिए मीडियम आंच पर ढोकले को स्टीम होने दें।
तय समय बाद खोलकर छुरी को ढोकले में डालकर देखे अगर छुरी साफ़ निकलकर आती है। तो हमारा ढोकला बनकर तैयार है (अगर आपकी छुरी पर बेटर लगा हो तो ढोकले को पांच मिनट और पका लें) गैस को बंद कर दें और धोकले की प्लेट को बाहर निकाल लें।
५ मिनट इसे ठंडा होने दें थोड़ा ठंडा होने पर ढोकले को अपने पसंद के पीस में काट लें और इसके ऊपर हरा धनिया डाल दें।
ढोकले के लिए तड़का बनाने के लिए तड़का पैन में तेल डालकर गर्म होने के लिए रख दें। तेल गर्म होने पर इसमें राई, ज़ीरा, करी पत्ता और हींग डालकर हल्का सा पकाएं फिर इस तडके को गर्म ढोकले के ऊपर अच्छे से फेलाकर डालें।
हमारा बहुत ही मज़ेदार व हेल्दी मूंग दाल का नर्म व सॉफ्ट ढोकला बनकर तैयार है ये खाने में बहुत ही मज़ेदार लगता है।
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Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) is an open XML-based standard for exchanging translation memory data.
Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) is a standard format for storage and lossless exchange of translation memory (TM) data. TMX primarily stores the following:
- Segments (source and target);
- Creation dates and times;
Other data it can store is as follows:
- Usage counts;
- Change dates and times, i.e. versioning;
- Creation tools used;
- Domain(s), field(s), and/or topic(s);
- Alternate translations;
TMX is possibly the most important as well as the most widely implemented localization standard format in the industry. It was first released in 1997 by the Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use (OSCAR), which is a special interest group of Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA; dissolved in 2011). Since 2011 it is under a Creative Commons license. For the latest version, see version 1.4b.
Another popular standard format in the industry is XLIFF, which is also XML-based. TMX allows any number of languages in the same document, while XLIFF is designed to work with one source and one target language.
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The Objective of this task is to identify the speed of the vehicle and cut off the fuel on the off chance that it surpasses as far as possible. This task is likewise used to stay away from mishaps in light of over speed. The idea has an engine to work the valve.
This task is planned with the control unit, Proximity Sensor, Stepper engine and a driver circuit with Relay and keypad. In this venture, we are utilizing Proximity sensor as a speed indicator. A Proximity sensor can recognize metal articles. A nearness sensor regularly produces an electromagnetic field or shaft and search for changes in the field. The protest being detected is regularly alluded to as the nearness sensor’s objective. The vicinity sensor is settled close to the valve plate of the throttle valve, to discover whether the valve is in open state or shut. As indicated by the opening of the throttle valve the speed of the vehicle can be changed. Here we refresh the speed by each second and contrast and the settled speed constraint. The constrained speed can alterable through given keypad. On the off chance that the present speed surpasses the settled speed the first time then it hints in LCD by intersection speed restraint. Indeed, even after the notice on the off chance that it surpasses the point of confinement again then it slices the fuel to motor through transfer associated with the solenoid.
Low control utilization
Since it is programmed the writing computer programs is required to encourage in the controller.
It can be utilized as a part of schools zones, healing centers and so on.
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Pakistan Journal of Languages and Translation Studies (PJLTS) is bi-annual peer-refereed publication of the Centre for Languages and Translation Studies, University of Gujrat, Pakistan, to provide a trans-disciplinary forum for discourse on issues in translation and related disciplines. It deals with the rising questions in theoretical and practical translation studies and their social significance in the global situation. The trans-disciplinary nature of translation studies encourages researchers from fields: translation and its applications to various fields of knowledge and human endeavour, linguistics, language learning, comparative literature, literary history and theory, computational linguistics, machine translation, language engineering, and localization. We welcome research articles, empirical reports, and reviews from the authors interested in any of these areas.
Paper Submission and Selection
The PJLTS is interested in the articles on emergent and challenging issues. All submitted papers are acknowledged quickly and reviewed as rapidly as possible. They are initially scrutinized by the editors who decide whether they meet certain basic standards with respect to, for example, length, presentation, clarity, and level of scholarship. Those papers that pass this initial scrutiny are sent out to referees who are carefully selected on the basis of their expertise. Once suitable referees are identified, they are normally asked to reply within a month. We follow single-blind system for peer-review; the reviewers' identities remain anonymous to authors. The review process may take four to five weeks.
Authors may contact the editors at any time for information on the status of their papers.
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or an academic thesis); it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out; and, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the editors. The editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in MS-Word format to:
Dr. Riaz Ahmed Mangrio: [email protected]
Ghulam Ali: [email protected]
Pakistan Journal of Languages and Translation Studies
Call: +92-53-3643408; Ext 208, 158
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किसी बात को लेकर कोई नाराजगी है तो हम उसे बैठकर बातचीत से दूर करेंगे। सोनू के टीटू की स्वीटी (2018) की सफलता के बाद कार्तिक आर्यन एक होनहार युवा सितारे के रूप में उभरे..... नदी घाट तक कीचड़ से गुजरने को मजबूर राहगीर अबुधाबी, 23 सितंबर (भाषा) मुंबई इंडियन्स के कप्तान रोहित शर्मा ने संयुक्त अरब अमीरात (यूएई) में पहली जीत दर्ज करने पर राहत की सांस ली और साथ ही वह छह महीने के बाद क्रीज पर पर्याप्त समय बिताकर भी खुश दिखे। रोहित ने पुल शॉट का अच्छा प्रदर्शन करके 80 रन बनाये जिससे मुंबई पहले बल्लेबाजी का न्योता मिलने पर पांच विकेट पर 195 रन बनाने में सफल रहा। इसके जवाब में कोलकाता नाइटराइडर्स (केकेआर) नौ विकेट पर 146 रन ही बना पाया। रोहित ने मुंबई की 49 रन से जीत के बाद कहा, मैंने पुल शॉट खेलने का अच्छा अभ्यास अबुधाबी, 23 सितंबर (भाषा) मुंबई इंडियन्स के कप्तान रोहित शर्मा ने संयुक्त अरब अमीरात (यूएई) में पहली जीत दर्ज करने पर राहत की सांस ली और साथ ही वह छह महीने के बाद क्रीज पर पर्याप्त समय बिताकर भी खुश दिखे। रोहित ने पुल शॉट का अच्छा प्रदर्शन करके 80 रन बनाये जिससे मुंबई पहले</s>
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At-Home Easter Egg Hunt Ideas for 2022
This year, Easter falls on April 17, 2022. For those who celebrate, an Easter egg hunt ranks high on the list of fun family traditions. Maybe you’ve held your Easter egg hunt at home for years and need ways to freshen it up. Perhaps you’ve decided to host an egg hunt for the first time. We’re here to help you plan a memorable Easter egg hunt at home for all ages. Here we’re sharing our top at-home Easter egg hunt ideas.
The History of Easter Eggs
Decorating Easter eggs dates back to the 13th Century. The custom of an Easter egg hunt can be traced to 16th century Germany when Martin Luther organized an egg hunt for the women and children of his congregation.
It wasn’t until the 1970s that plastic eggs filled with candy became a holiday mainstream. Nowadays, you can find all types of small goodies hidden away in Easter eggs. Kids of all ages race around squealing with glee as they hunt up these colorful eggs. Cracking open pastel or brightly colored eggs to reveal what’s inside sparks joy for younger kids and older kids alike.
Easter egg hunts can range from simple affairs to larger productions. Some have petting zoos, photos with the Easter Bunny, face painting, and more. You’ll find Easter egg hunts held by schools, neighborhood associations, and churches to name a few. But what if you want to hold an egg hunt at your home this year? We’ve got you covered.
Why Hold an Easter Egg Hunt at Home
Due to the pandemic, many things were downsized from large communal gatherings to small at-home events. With COVID still present, you may want to host a smaller home Easter egg hunt for family and friends, instead of attending a community event. Or you may simply like the idea of carrying on traditions or making new memories at home with your kids.
Whatever your reason, holding an Easter egg hunt at home means:
- Fewer crowds and strangers, an important consideration with little ones excitedly running around.
- A familiar space for children who are shy or need a sensory-sensitive egg hunt.
- You are in control and can create the holiday memories you desire.
Tips for Planning an Epic Easter Egg Hunt
The great thing about an at-home Easter egg hunt is that it can be as simple or as elaborate as you wish.
To ensure everyone gets their fair share of eggs, we recommend putting some structure in place. This tends to work better than watching the kids race about in an egg gathering free-for-all. Consider the following:
- Create separate egg hunts for different ages. For example, set out eggs and let young children aged zero to three hunt. Then, lay out a new set of eggs for 4 to 10-year-olds. End with a separate hunt for kids age 10+. This way you can tailor what’s inside the eggs to the age group, as well as the difficulty of your hiding places. Looking to keep the older kids busy, ask them to help you hide eggs for the younger ones.
- Designate separate spaces or colors for varying age groups. If holding three separate egg hunts sounds like too much work, consider this variation. Split your yard into three areas. Then, hide the eggs for each group in a separate area. You could also color code the eggs by age group. Place all the eggs in the same area, but depending on the child’s age, she can only collect eggs of a certain color.
- Set a number of eggs per child. Depending on how many eggs you hide, tell the hunters that they may each collect a certain number of eggs. Once they have collected their eggs, they can go enjoy!
- Assign a different color egg to each child. Assigning a color to each child helps limit the number of eggs he or she collects. It also allows you to customize the fillings to their preference. Have a child who doesn’t like chocolate? No problem… their eggs can contain jelly beans. This also works for kids who are too young for candy, have allergies, diabetes, or simply don’t love sweets.
- Create and hide Easter baskets. In this version of the Easter egg hunt, you create a basket filled with goodies for each child. Hide the basket according to your child’s age and hunting ability. For example, you may place your toddler’s basket behind a bush. Your teen, on the other hand, will need to climb a tree or hunt a lot harder for his basket.
What to Stuff in Your Easter Eggs
Things have changed a lot since the 16th Century when hard-boiled eggs were hidden for women and children to find. Today, you’ll find all types of Easter egg stuffing. Here is a list of some of our favorites. Customize your eggs to fit your kids’ ages and preferences.
Don’t Forget the Adults!
The kids are not the only ones who can get in on the Easter egg hunt fun. This year, consider holding a separate hunt for the adults. While the little ones munch on their treats, hide a variety of adult-friendly eggs in some hard-to-find places. Or if you don’t have kids, host a hunt for your fellow kid-free friends. Ideas for adult egg stuffers include:
- Lottery tickets
- Mini liquor or wine bottles
- Beauty products
- Golf tees
- Candy - Adults like it too!
Where to Hide Your Easter Eggs
Depending on how difficult you want to make the hunt for your kids, you can get very creative with your hiding places.
If you are staging your hunt outside, hiding places include:
- Low-hanging trees
- Garden beds and flower pots
- The bottom of gutter drains
- Rock-wall nooks
- Swing sets
- Patio furniture
- Window sills
If the weather doesn’t cooperate or you prefer an indoor egg hunt, consider the following hiding places:
- Couch cushions
- Oven or microwave
- Kitchen cupboards
- Under pillows
- Behind baskets, table legs and furniture
- Tops of table or desk chairs that are pushed in
Untraditional Easter Egg Hunt Ideas
If you’re looking for something outside the traditional egg hunt, try one of these creative Easter egg hunt ideas.
- Glow in the dark egg hunt. This is particularly fun for an indoor hunt or a nighttime event. Purchase glow-in-the-dark eggs and hide them right before the sun goes down for an epic hunt.
- Treasure hunt. Instead of stuffing the eggs with trinkets, have a treasure box filled with larger prizes. Based on the number of eggs collected, the child is eligible for certain prizes. Another twist is hiding eggs with tokens for larger prizes.
Bonus Tips for Your At-Home Easter Egg Hunt
- Count your eggs before you hide them so you know they have all been collected at the end. No one wants to mow over an Easter egg come late spring!
- Don’t have time to stuff your Easter eggs? Buy pre-stuffed eggs or hire a company to come to hide the eggs for you.
- Have an activity ready to keep the kids busy while you hide the eggs. Otherwise, you risk having several pairs of little eyes peeking out the windows.
No matter your reason for doing Easter at home, you can make it special by honoring old traditions and forming new ones. Happy Easter!
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"Why are my SMS messages taking a while to process/deliver to students?" is a question we get asked often. This article aims to cover the processing limits of messages sent through Gecko.
Note: SMS messaging is a relatively old technology and comes with certain limitations that are unavoidable by any modern texting solution.
What determines rate limits?
Your rate limit is determined by a few factors: the product you are sending from and the region you are in.
Our products limits are enforced based on the product or feature you are using.
For example, if you are sending a message through our Chat experience, as opposed to our Engage experience (Forms, Events, Broadcasts, Workflows), then you will see different rate limits.
If your Chat platform is integrated with Engage and you are using a GeckoChat number in Engage for broadcast or workflow purposes, then GeckoChat's limits apply as opposed to Engage's.
Your region also determines rates of sending, as different countries enforce different legislation and limitation around mass SMS broadcastings. The main distinction with Gecko products and our message processing comes between US/CA and UK/Rest of the world (ROW).
(Form/Event/Broadcast text messages sent using a VoIP number from within our forms, events, broadcast and talk platform)
- US/CA: 1 message per second
- UK/Rest of the world: 10 messages per second
(Our GeckoChat platform, including any messaging done with GeckoChat numbers within our Forms, Events and Broadcasts using the Engage <> Chat integration)
- US/CA: 1 message per second
- UK/Rest of world: 10 messages per second
What do those rates of sending mean for me?
Depending on where you are sending the message (region/product-wise), your message may arrive with a delay to your audience.
Sending a broadcast message through a UK GeckoEngage number to 5,000 students.
- This message will roughly take 8 minutes and 20 seconds to complete sending. Meaning some students will receive it immediately, while others will receive it 8 minutes later
Sending a broadcast message through a US GeckoChat number to 5,000 students.
- This message will roughly take 1hr and 25 minutes to complete.
Does this impact other message sending in the system?
The sending limits are applied per VoIP number owned and each number maintains its own capacity. In the last example above, if a user was to send a broadcast message using a GeckoChat number to 5,000 students, it would result in a delay responding to messages when using the same number in GeckoChat. For example, if someone responds to the message during the process, you may not be able to respond until the broadcast has finished.
An easy way around the above problem is to add a broadcast-only Chat number for broadcasts, allowing you to mass message through one and instantly answer conversations through another. This is a fairly standard practice in the industry and you may have experienced this when dealing with businesses.
Is there a way to increase my rate of sending?
There are potential options to increase this limit, however, they can incur an additional cost. Please contact our support team through live chat or your account manager to find out more. You can also contact us through [email protected]
For any support or questions on the above:
Please don't hesitate to reach us through our in-app LiveChat support or by emailing [email protected]
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Digital Collage Brainstorm
Here is where I will post random thoughts and ideas that could lead to some fun and unique lesson plans! Feel free to share your own ideas!
- Students could collage their own world showing things they like and dislike. They could place in hints to clue the viewer in on their beliefs and customs. They could place themselves into this world, kind of giving it a "Where's Waldo?" effect. Could be a fun ice breaker??
- Students could use the tools of Photoshop to give organic shapes and edge urban feel? A garden in the city lesson plan maybe? Could be a good stem for a lesson plan dealing with texture and getting familiar with what the program has to offer?
- Students could photoshop their favorite celebrity to see how much can be changed. Could be a good lesson on body image and media???
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This two-module online course covers topics about the mental, social and emotional development of children, with support from online tutor
What You'll Get
- What’s included: online child psychology course
Module one: Major developmental issues
- The first year of life
- The formation of attachments
- Consequences of breakdowns in attachments
- The home, family and school
- Basic principles of research methods
- The development of visual perception
- The development of language and communication
- Intelligence and intelligence testing
- The nature/nurture debate in the study of intelligence
- Data collection and interpretation
Module two: The child as an individual
- How children think
- Learning theory - how behaviour is acquired
- Freud’s psychodynamic theory - an alternative approach
- Moral development
- Aggression in children
- Methods used in child development research
- Learning in school
- See the full course details
- Completion of this course does not result in a degree of a child psychologist or qualify participants to practice professionally.
The Fine Print
Must redeem by 30 Jun 2020. Course content available for 12 months from registration date.
Purchase: Limit 1 per person. May buy 4 additional as gifts.
Restrictions: Register online: https://www.onlineacademies.co.uk/groupon-form. No refunds or cancellation once log in details have been provided. Internet connection required. Customer support available Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, contact [email protected].
About Online Academies
The team at Online Academies provide distance learning opportunities in a range of disciplines, enabling students to study at their own pace. The syllabi range from animal care to calligraphy, from working with children to wedding planning. Avoiding strict academic criteria for participation, the courses feature tutor support provided via email.
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Image saliency detection is a fundamental and active problem in computer vision. It aims at highlighting salient foreground objects automatically from background, and has received increasing attentions due to its wide range of applications in computer vision and graphics, such as object recognition, content-aware retargeting, video compression, and image classification. Despite significant progress, image saliency detection still remains a challenging task in complex scenes and environments.
Recently, integrating RGB data and thermal data (RGB-T data) has been proved to be effective in several computer vision problems, such as moving object detection [1, 2] and tracking . Given the potentials of RGB-T data, however, the research of RGB-T saliency detection is limited by the lack of a comprehensive image benchmark.
In this paper, we contribute a comprehensive image benchmark for RGB-T saliency detection, and the following two main aspects are considered in creating this benchmark.
A good dataset should be with reasonable size, high diversity and low bias . Therefore, we use our recording system to collect 821 RGB-T image pairs in different scenes and environmental conditions, and each image pair is aligned and annotated with ground truth. In addition, the category, size, number and spatial information of salient objects are also taken into account for enhancing the diversity and challenge, and we present some statistics of the created dataset to analyze the diversity and bias. To analyze the challenge-sensitive performance of different algorithms, we annotate 11 different challenges according to the above-mentioned factors.
To the best of our knowledge, RGB-T saliency detection remains not well investigated. Therefore, we implement some baseline methods to provide a comparison platform. On one hand, we regard RGB or thermal images as inputs in some popular methods to achieve single-modality saliency detection. These baselines can be utilized to identify the importance and complementarity of RGB and thermal information with comparing to RGB-T saliency detection methods. On the other hand, we concatenate the features extracted from RGB and thermal modalities together as the RGB-T feature representations, and employ some popular methods to achieve RGB-T saliency detection.
Salient object detection has been extensively studied in past decades, and numerous models and algorithms have been proposed based on different mathematical principles or priors [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]. Most of methods measured saliency by measuring local center-surround contrast and rarity of features over the entire image [5, 16, 17, 12]. In contrast, Gopalakrishnan et al. formulated the object detection problem as a binary segmentation or labelling task on a graph. The most salient seeds and several background seeds were identified by the behavior of random walks on a complete graph and a
-regular graph. Then, a semi-supervised learning technique was used to infer the binary labels of the unlabelled nodes. Different from it, Yang et al. employed manifold ranking technique to salient object detection that requires only seeds from one class, which are initialized with either the boundary priors or foreground cues. They then extended their work with several improvements , including multi-scale graph construction and a cascade scheme on a multi-layer representation. Based on the manifold ranking algorithms, Li et al. generated pixel-wise saliency maps via regularized random walks ranking, and Wang et al. proposed a new graph model which captured local/global contrast and effectively utilized the boundary prior.
With the created benchmark, we propose a novel approach, multi-task manifold ranking with cross-modality consistency, for RGB-T saliency detection. For each modality, we employ the idea of graph-based manifold ranking for the good saliency detection performance in terms of accuracy and speed. Then, we assign each modality with a weight to describe the reliability, which is capable of dealing with occasional perturbation or malfunction of individual sources, to achieve adaptive fusion of multiple modalities. To better exploit the relations among modalities, we impose the cross-modality consistent constraints on the ranking functions of different modalities to integrate them collaboratively. Considering the manifold ranking in each modality as an individual task, our method is essentially formulated as a multi-task learning problem. For the optimization, we jointly optimize the modality weights and the ranking functions of multiple modalities by iteratively solving two subproblems with closed-form solutions.
This paper makes the following three major contributions for RGB-T image saliency detection and related applications.
It creates a comprehensive benchmark for facilitating evaluating different RGB-T saliency detection algorithms. The benchmark dataset includes 821 aligned RGB-T images with the annotated ground truths, and we also present the fine-grained annotations with 11 challenges to allow us to analyze the challenge-sensitive performance of different algorithms. Moreover, we implement 3 kinds of baseline methods with different inputs (RGB, thermal and RGB-T) for evaluations. This benchmark will be available online for free academic usage 111RGB-T saliency detection benchmark’s webpage:
It proposes a novel approach, multi-task manifold ranking with cross-modality consistency, for RGB-T saliency detection. In particular, we introduce a weight for each modality to represent the reliability, and incorporate the cross-modality consistent constraints to achieve adaptive and collaborative fusion of different source data. The modality weights and ranking function are jointly optimized by iteratively solving several subproblems with closed-form solutions.
It presents extensive experiments against other state-of-the-art image saliency methods with 3 kinds of inputs. The evaluation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Through analyzing quantitative results, we further provide basic insights and identify the potentials of thermal information in RGB-T saliency detection.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Sect. II introduces details of the RGB-T saliency detection benchmark. The proposed model and the associated optimization algorithm are presented in Sect. III, and the RGB-T saliency detection approach is introduced in Sect. IV. The experimental results and analysis are shown in Sect. V. Sect. VI concludes the paper.
Ii RGB-T Image Saliency Benchmark
In this section, we introduce our newly created RGB-T saliency benchmark, which includes dataset with statistic analysis, baseline methods with different inputs and evaluation metrics.
We collect 821 RGB-T image pairs by our recording system, which consists of an online thermal imager (FLIR A310) and a CCD camera (SONY TD-2073). For alignment, we uniformly select a number of point correspondences in each image pairs, and compute the homography matrix by the least-square algorithm. It is worth noting that this registration method can accurately align image pairs due to the following two reasons. First, we carefully choose the planar and non-planar scenes to make the homography assumption effective. Second, since two camera views are almost coincident as we made, the transformation between two views is simple. As each image pair is aligned, we annotate the pixel-level ground truth using more reliable modality. Fig. 1 shows some sample image pairs and their ground truths.
The image pairs in our dataset are recorded in approximately 60 scenes with different environmental conditions, and the category, size, number and spatial information of salient objects are also taken into account for enhancing the diversity and challenge. Specifically, the following main aspects are considered in creating the RGB-T image dataset.
Illumination condition. The image pairs are captured under different light conditions, such as sunny, snowy, and nighttime. The low illumination and illumination variation caused by different light conditions usually bring big challenges in RGB images.
Background factor. Two background factors are taken into account for our dataset. First, similar background to the salient objects in appearance or temperature will introduce ambiguous information. Second, it is difficult to separate objects accurately from cluttered background.
Salient object attribute. We take different attributes of salient objects, including category (more than 60 categories), size (see the size distribution in Fig. 2 (b)) and number, into account in constructing our dataset for high diversity.
Object location. Most of methods employ the spatial information (center and boundary of an image) of the salient objects as priors, which is verified to be effective. However, some salient objects are not at center or cross image boundaries, and these situations isolate the spatial priors. We incorporate these factors into our dataset construction to bring its challenge, and Fig. 2 presents the spatial distribution of salient objects on CB and CIB.
|BSO||Big Salient Object - the ratio of ground truth salient objects over image is more than 0.26.|
|SSO||Small Salient Object - the ratio of ground truth salient objects over image is less than 0.05.|
|LI||Low Illumination - the environmental illumination is low.|
|BW||Bad Weather - the image pairs are recorded in bad weathers, such as snowy, rainy, hazy and cloudy.|
|MSO||Multiple Salient Objects - the number of the salient objects in the image is more than 1.|
|CB||Center Bias - the centers of salient objects are far away from the image center.|
|CIB||Cross Image Boundary - the salient objects cross the image boundaries.|
|SA||Similar Appearance - the salient objets have similar color or shape to the background.|
|TC||Thermal Crossover - the salient objects have similar temperature to the background.|
|IC||Image Clutter - the image is cluttered.|
|OF||Out of Focus - the image is out-of-focus.|
|MST ||Lab & Intensity||Minimum spanning tree||IEEE CVPR||2016|
|RRWR ||Lab||Regularized random walks ranking||IEEE CVPR||2015|
|CA ||Lab||Celluar Automata||IEEE CVPR||2015|
|GMR ||Lab||Graph-based manifold ranking||IEEE CVPR||2013|
|STM ||LUV & Spatial information||Scale-based tree model||IEEE CVPR||2013|
|GR ||Lab||Graph regularization||IEEE SPL||2013|
|NFI ||Lab & Orientations & Spatial information||Nonlinear feature integration||Journal of Vision||2013|
|MCI ||Lab & Spatial information||Multiscale context integration||IEEE TPAMI||2012|
Sparse sampling and kernel density estimation
|BR ||Lab & Intensity & Motion||Bayesian reasoning||ECCV||2010|
|SR ||Lab||Self-resemblance||Journal of Vision||2009|
|SRM ||Spectrum||Spectral residual model||IEEE CVPR||2007|
Considering the above-mentioned factors, we annotate 11 challenges for our dataset to facilitate the challenge-sensitive performance of different algorithms. They are: big salient object (BSO), small salient object (SSO), multiple salient objects (MSO), low illumination (LI), bad weather (BW), center bias (CB), cross image boundary (CIB), similar appearance (SA), thermal crossover (TC), image clutter (IC), and out of focus (OF). Tab. I shows the details, and Fig. 2 (a) presents the challenge distribution. We will analyze the performance of different algorithms on the specific challenge using the fine-grained annotations in the experimental section.
Ii-B Baseline Methods
To provide a comparison platform, we implement 3 kinds of baseline methods with different modality inputs. On one hand, we regard RGB or thermal images as inputs in 12 popular methods to achieve single-modality saliency detection, including MST , RRWR , CA , GMR , STM , GR , NFI , MCI , SS-KDE , BR , SR and SRM . Tab. II presents the details. These baselines can be utilized to identify the importance and complementarity of RGB and thermal information with comparing to RGB-T saliency detection methods. On the other hand, we concatenate the features extracted from RGB and thermal modalities together as the RGB-T feature representations, and employ the above-mentioned methods to achieve RGB-T saliency detection.
Ii-C Evaluation Metrics
There exists several metrics to evaluate the agreement between subjective annotations and experimental predictions. In this work, We use (P)recision-(R)ecall curves (PR curves),
metric and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) to evaluate all the algorithms. Given the binarized saliency map via the threshold value from 0 to 255, precision means the ratio of the correctly assigned salient pixel number in relation to all the detected salient pixel number, and recall means the ratio of the correct salient pixel number in relation to the ground truth number. Different from (P)recision-(R)ecall curves using a fixed threshold for every image, themetric exploits an adaptive threshold of each image to perform the evaluation. The adaptive threshold is defined as:
where and denote the width and height of an image, respectively. is the computed saliency map. The F-measure () is defined as follows with the precision () and recall () of the above adaptive threshold:
where we set the to emphasize the precision as suggested in . PR curves and metric are aimed at quantitative comparison, while MAE are better than them for taking visual comparison into consideration to estimate dissimilarity between a saliency map and the ground truth , which is defined as:
Iii Graph-based Multi-Task Manifold Ranking
The graph-based ranking problem is described as follows: Given a graph and a node in this graph as query, the remaining nodes are ranked based on their affinities to the given query. The goal is to learn a ranking function that defines the relevance between unlabelled nodes and queries.
This section will introduce the graph-based multi-task manifold ranking model and the associated optimization algorithm. The optimized modality weights and ranking scores will be utilized for RGB-T saliency detection in next section.
Iii-a Graph Construction
Given a pair of RGB-T images, we regard the thermal image as one of image channels, and then employ SLIC algorithm to generate non-overlapping superpixels. We take these superpixels as nodes to construct a graph , where is a node set and is a set of undirected edges. In this work, any two nodes in are connected if one of the following conditions holds: 1) they are neighboring; 2) they share common boundaries with its neighboring node; 3) they are on the four sides of image, i.e., boundary nodes. Fig. 3 shows the details. The first and second conditions are employed to capture local smoothness cues as neighboring superpixels tend to share similar appearance and saliency values. The third condition attempts to reduce the geodesic distance of similar superpixels. It is worth noting that we can explore more cues in RGB and thermal data to construct an adaptive graph that makes best use of intrinsic relationship among superpixels. We will study this issue in future work as this paper is with an emphasis on the multi-task manifold ranking algorithm.
If nodes and is connected, we assign it with an edge weight as:
where denotes the mean of the -th superpixel in the -th modality, and is a scaling parameter.
Iii-B Multi-Task Manifold Ranking with Cross-Modality Consistency
We first review the algorithm of graph-based manifold ranking that exploits the intrinsic manifold structure of data for graph labeling . Given a superpixel feature set , some superpixels are labeled as queries and the rest need to be ranked according to their affinities to the queries, where denotes the number of superpixels. Let denote a ranking function that assigns a ranking value to each superpixel , and
can be viewed as a vector. In this work, we regard the query labels as initial superpixel saliency value, and is thus an initial superpixel saliency vector. Let denote an indication vector, in which if is a query, and otherwise. Given , the optimal ranking of queries are computed by solving the following optimization problem:
where is the degree matrix, and . indicates the diagonal operation. is a parameter to balance the smoothness term and the fitting term.
Then, we apply manifold ranking on multiple modalities, and have
From Eq. (6), we can see that it inherently indicates that available modalities are independent and contribute equally. This may significantly limit the performance in dealing with occasional perturbation or malfunction of individual sources. Therefore, we propose a novel collaborative model for robustly performing salient object detection that i) adaptively integrates different modalities based on their respective modal reliabilities, ii) collaboratively computes the ranking functions of multiple modalities by incorporating the cross-modality consistent constraints. The formulation of the multi-task manifold ranking algorithm is proposed as follows:
where is an adaptive parameter vector, which is initialized after the first iteration (see Alg. 1), and is the modality weight vector. denotes the element-wise product, and is a balance parameter. The third term is to avoid overfitting of , and the last term is the cross-modality consistent constraints. The effectiveness of introducing these two terms is presented in Fig. 4. With some simple algebra, Eq. (7) can be rewritten as:
where , and denotes the cross-modality consistent constraint matrix, which is defined as:
where and are the identity matrices with the size of .
Iii-C Optimization Algorithm
We present an alternating algorithm to optimize Eq. (8) efficiently, and denote
Given , Eq. (10) can be written as:
and we reformulate it as follows:
where , and is a block-diagonal matrix defined as: , where . . Taking the derivative of with respect to , we have
is an identity matrix with the size of.
Given , Eq. (10) can be written as:
and we take the derivative of with respect to , and obtain
A sub-optimal optimization can be achieved by alternating between the updating of and , and the whole algorithm is summarized in Alg. 1. Although the global convergence of the proposed algorithm is not proved, we empirically validate its fast convergence in our experiments. The optimized ranking functions and modality weights will be utilized for RGB-T saliency detection in next section.
Iv Two-Stage RGB-T Saliency Detection
In this section, we present the two-stage ranking scheme for unsupervised bottom-up RGB-T saliency detection using the proposed algorithm with boundary priors and foreground queries.
Iv-a Saliency Measure
Given an input RGB-T images represented as a graph and some salient query nodes, the saliency of each node is defined as its ranking score computed by Eq. (8). In the conventional ranking problems, the queries are manually labelled with the ground-truth. In this work, we first employ the boundary prior widely used in other works [19, 11] to highlight the salient superpixels, and select highly confident superpixels (low ranking scores in all modalities) belonging to the foreground objects as the foreground queries. Then, we perform the proposed algorithm to obtain the final ranking results, and combine them with their modality weights to compute the final saliency map.
Iv-B Ranking with Boundary Priors
Based on the attention theories for visual saliency , we regard the boundary nodes as background seeds (the labelled data) to rank the relevances of all other superpixel nodes in the first stage.
Taking the bottom image boundary as an example, we utilize the nodes on this side as labelled queries and the rest as the unlabelled data, and initilize the indicator in Eq. (8). Given , the ranking values are computed by employing the proposed ranking algorithm, and we normalize as with the range between 0 and 1. Similarly, given the top, left and right image boundaries, we can obtain the respective ranking values , , . We integrate them to compute the initial saliency map for each modality in the first stage:
Iv-C Ranking with Foreground Queries
Given of the -th modality, we set an adaptive threshold to generate the foreground queries, where indicates the maximum operation, and is a constant, which is fixed to be 0.25 in this work. Specifically, we select the -th superpixel as the foreground query of the -th modality if . Therefore, we compute the ranking values and the modality weights in the second stage by employing our ranking algorithm. Similar to the first stage, we normalize the ranking value of the -th modality as with the range between 0 and 1. Finally, the final saliency map can be obtained by combining the ranking values with the modality weights:
In this section, we apply the proposed approach over our RGB-T benchmark and compare with other baseline methods. The source codes and result figures will be provided with the benchmark for public usage in the community.
V-a Experimental Settings
For fair comparisons, we fix all parameters and other settings of our approach in the experiments, and use the default parameters released in their public codes for other baseline methods.
In graph construction, we empirically generate superpixels and set the affinity parameters and , which control the edge strength between two superpixel nodes. In Alg. 1 and Alg. 2, we empirically set , (the first stage) and (the second stage). Herein, we use bigger balance weight in the second stage than in the first stage as the refined foreground queries are more confident than the background queries according to the boundary prior.
V-B Comparison Results
To justify the importance of thermal information, the complementary benefits to image saliency detection and the effectiveness of the proposed approach, we evaluate the compared methods with different modality inputs on the newly created benchmark, which has been introduced in Sect. II.
Overall performance. We first report the precision (), recall () and F-measure () of 3 kinds of methods on entire dataset in Tab. III. Herein, as the public source codes of STM, MST and RRWR are encrypted, we only run these methods on the single modality. From the evaluation results, we can observe that the proposed approach substantially outperforms all baseline methods. This comparison clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach for adaptively incorporating thermal information. In addition, the thermal data are effective to boost image saliency detection and complementary to RGB data by observing the superior performance of RGB-T baselines over both RGB and thermal methods. We also report MAE of 3 kinds of methods on entire dataset in Tab. IV, the results of which are almost consistent with Tab. III. The evaluation results further validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, the importance of thermal information and the complementary benefits of RGB-T data.
Fig. 6 shows some sample results of our approach against other baseline methods with different inputs. The evaluation results show that the proposed approach can detect the salient objects more accurate than other methods by adaptively and collaboratively leveraging RGB-T data. It is worth noting that some results using single modality are better than using RGB-T data. It is because that the redundant information introduced by the noisy or malfunction modality sometimes affects the fusion results in bad way.
Challenge-sensitive performance. For evaluating RGB-T methods on subsets with different attributes (big salient object (BSO), small salient object (SSO), multiple salient objects (MSO), low illumination (LI), bad weather (BW), center bias (CB), cross image boundary (CIB), similar appearance (SA), thermal crossover (TC), image clutter (IC), and out of focus (OF), see Sect. II for details) to facilitate analysis of performance on different challenging factors, we present the PR curves in Fig. 5. From the results we can see that our approach outperforms other RGB-T methods with a clear margin on most of challenges except for BSO and BW. It validates the effectiveness of our method. In particular, for occasional perturbation or malfunction of one modality (e.g., LI, SA and TC), our method can effectively incorporate another modal information to detect salient objects robustly, justifying the complementary benefits of multiple source data.
For BSO, CA achieves a superior performance over ours, and it may attribute to CA takes the global color distinction and the global spacial distance into account for better capturing the global and local information. We can alleviate this problem by improving the graph construction that explores more relations among superpixels. For BW, most of methods have bad performance, but MCI obtains a big performance gain over ours, the second best one. It suggests that considering multiple cues, like low-level considerations, global considerations, visual organizational rules and high-level factors, can handle extremely challenges in RGB-T saliency detection, and we will integrate them into our framework to improve the robustness.
V-C Analysis of Our Approach
We discuss the details of our approach by analyzing the main components, efficiency and limitations.
Components. To justify the significance of the main components of the proposed approach, we implement two special versions for comparative analysis, including: 1) Ours-I, that removes the modality weights in the proposed ranking model, i.e., fixes in Eq. (8), and 2) Ours-II, that removes the cross-modality consistent constraints in the proposed ranking model, i.e., sets in Eq. (8).
The PR curves, representative precision, recall and F-measure, and MAE are presented in Fig. 7, and we can draw the following conclusions. 1) Our method substantially outperforms Ours-I. This demonstrates the significance of the introduced weighted variables to achieve adaptive fusion of different source data. 2) The complete algorithm achieves superior performance than Ours-II, validating the effectiveness of the cross-modality consistent constraints.
Efficiency. Runtime of our approach against other methods is presented in Tab. III. It is worth mentioning that our approach is comparable with GMR mainly due to the fast optimization to the proposed ranking model.
The experiments are carried out on a desktop with an Intel i7 3.4GHz CPU and 16GB RAM, and implemented on mixing platform of C++ and MATLAB without any optimization. Fig. 8 shows the convergence curve of the proposed approach. Although involves 5 times of the optimization to the ranking model, our method costs about 1.39 second per image pair due to the efficiency of our optimization algorithm, which converges approximately within 5 iterations.
We also report runtime of other main procedures of the proposed approach with the typical resolution of pixels. 1) The over-segmentation by SLIC algorithm takes about 0.52 second. 2) The feature extraction takes approximately 0.24 second. 3) The first stage, including 4 ranking process, costs about 0.42 second. 4) The second stage, including 1 ranking process, spends approximately 0.14 second. The over-segmentation and the feature extraction are mostly time consuming procedure (about 55%). Hence, through introducing the efficient over-segmentation algorithms and feature extraction implementation, we can achieve much better computation time under our approach.
Limitations. We also present two failure cases generated by our method in Fig. 9. The reliable weights sometimes are wrongly estimated due to the effect of clutter background, as shown in Fig. 9 (a), where the modality weights of RGB and thermal data are 0.97 and 0.95, respectively. In such circumstance, our method will generate bad detection results. This problem could be tackled by incorporating the measure of background clutter in optimizing reliable weights, and will be addressed in our future work. In addition to reliable weight computation, our approach has another major limitation. The first stage ranking relies on the boundary prior, and thus the salient objects are failed to be detected when they crosses image boundaries. The insufficient foreground queries obtained after the first stage usually result in bad saliency detection performance in the second stage, as shown in Fig. 9 (b). We will handle this issue by selecting more accurate boundary queries according to other prior cues in future work.
V-D Discussions on RGB-T Saliency Detection
We observe from the evaluations that integrating RGB data and thermal data will boost saliency detection performance (see Tab. III). The improvements are even bigger while encountering certain challenges, i.e., low illuminations, similar appearance, image clutter and thermal crossover (see Fig. 5), demonstrating the importance of thermal information in image saliency detection and the complementary benefits from RGB-T data.
In addition, directly integrating RGB and thermal information sometimes lead to worse results than using single modality (see Fig. 6), as the redundant information is introduced by the noisy or malfunction modality. We can address this issue by adaptively fusing different modal information (Our method) that can automatically determine the contribution weights of different modalities to alleviate the effects of redundant information.
From the evaluation results, we also observe the following research potentials for RGB-T saliency detection. 1) The ensemble of multiple models or algorithms (CA ) can achieve robust performance. 2) Some principles are crucial for effective saliency detection, e.g., global considerations (CA ), boundary priors (Ours, GMR , RRWR , MST ) and multiscale context (STM ). 3) The exploitation of more relations among pixels or superpixels is important for highlighting the salient objects (STM , MST ).
In this paper, we have presented a comprehensive image benchmark for RGB-T saliency detection, which includes a dataset, three kinds of baselines and four evaluation metrics. With the benchmark, we have proposed a graph-based multi-task manifold ranking algorithm to achieve adaptive and collaborative fusion of RGB and thermal data in RGB-T saliency detection. Through analyzing the quantitative and qualitative results, we have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach, and also provided some basic insights and potential research directions for RGB-T saliency detection. Our future works will focus on the following aspects: 1) We will expand the benchmark to a larger one, including a larger dataset with more challenging factors and more popular baseline methods. 2) We will improve the robustness of our approach by studying other prior models and graph construction.
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Towards the middle of lap 1 finding my groove:
Chasing Alread down the blacktop hill on lap 1:
Focus is good:
My current favorite race shot of me. The fire was definitely there:
Laying it all out on the final hill climb. I love seeing the elevation drop down to the lake:
Happy to be done:
Keith hammering home.
Gritting through the finish line:
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#Написать программу, которая проверит равенство сумм и выведет "Счастливый",
# если суммы совпадают, и "Обычный", если суммы различны.
#На вход программе подаётся строка из шести цифр.
a = int(input())
b = a % 10
c = ((a % 100) - b) // 10
d = ((a % 1000) - c) // 100
e = ((a % 10000) - d) // 1000
f = ((a % 100000) - e) // 10000
g = ((a % 1000000) - f) // 100000
if ((b + c + d) == (e + f + g)):
print("Счастливый")
else:
print("Обычный")
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|Actually, it still is your fault that the Nostalgia Critic hates us|
The Top Ten Worst Arthur Episodes Of All Time Continued
#5. I Owe You One ( 12-07) - After learning about interest, Buster realizes that he owes his friends about a million favors, and he agrees to do them all for them. What a mess this episode turned out to be. For example, the characters teach kids about interest in a really sloppy way. Seriously! I got so confused about interest while watching it, and it's nothing like that at all. Plus, if Buster is doing work for his friends, are they owing him money? Unfortunately , it doesn't answer it but raises another question; why does Buster always appear in the horrible ones? I mean there's a lot of inconsistencies and boring plot lines in here that will put kids to sleep. If there weren't four more horrible ones, this would have been #1 already.
#4. Nicked By A Name (14-03) The main reason why this episode sucks so badly is because it has no idea of what it wants to be. Does it want to be a quirky little episode about Brain giving all of his classmates new nicknames, thus giving him complete control of their lives or does it want to be another let's talk about bullying episode in which name calling hurts the soccer team? Without any sense of framing or set goals, a narrative can't fulfill the honor of telling a story as the plot will have no relevance to the viewer. Plus, Brain comes up with the most ridiculous names ever using an esoteric method from an advertising book. Don't laugh for I did the same thing in my pre-school class. Oh wait. I used my English to French dictionary to pick out nicknames for my classmates, not from an advertising book.
#3. In My Africa (14-09) Brian's cousin moves in from Africa, and D.W. is struggling to learn about the country. So, they decide to make a song about it! What's the point of this episode? Kids don't want another lesson in Africa, and the song doesn't make any reference to how they can help others there. Instead, it sugarcoats everything and makes Africa seems like an over educated gasbag. What a shame. This episode had so much potential but they messed it up with this silly song about Africa. Okay, the song's not as bad as others, but really we want life lessons from this show! Maybe this episode should have talked about moving problems or helping out others in Africa or getting used to one's cultural identity. Sadly, they decide to sing about Africa's wonders and deal with bullying which is a cliche in Arthur now. What a shame.
#2. Whistling In The Wind (15-02) Timmy Tibble is really upset because his brother can whistle while he can't. So how does he solve it? By punching the living daylights out of him so they can both get their middle tooth knocked out, involving them to whistle very badly. Whoa. Whoever thought that violence is acceptable in solving everyday problem, must be fired immediately because it really doesn't in real life. After all, they did do an episode on how to resolve conflicts peacefully. Remember? Now, they expect us to believe that revenge and violence will make you the same as him.What in the world are they they teaching kids? Maybe they should have taught to accept each other's differences. That way, they can't hurt each other, causing physical and social problems! Oh my gosh!
The worst Arthur episode of all time is ........ Get Smart (16-04). The entire sixteenth season is just horrid to watch as there was a different company making them now. Unfortunately that same company also did Max And Ruby. Classy, guys. The sketchy animation is horrid, the "modern" storylines involving a ripoff of the I-Pad often don't work in the context of the show, the characters are unrecognizable, and the worse thing about the new season is that the creators don't care about their subject matter as they treat it if it was made for stupid little children. Even then stupid little children are smarter than what adults give them credit for. The one episode that really got under my skin and also made me give up on Arthur was Get Smart. Oh my goodness, it's terrible. I don't know what they did to the show, but when you watch it, your childhood is officially over as one of the greatest shows ever has been brought down to levels of unreachable stupidity that I won't ever forget as long as I live. Period. Just watch it on Youtube and you'll understand why I'm scarred for life. No, wait. Don't do it for you will be scarred for life as well. :(
Remember the good old days when the script had life lessons that everyone could relate to, great wit, character depth, and realistic situations. Well, it's gone unless the staff goes back and re watch the classic episodes of Arthur, like Arthur's Eyes, D.W., The Picky Eater, and You Are Arthur. The reason why these episodes and hundreds like them were great was because the sophisticated and timeless themes remained relevant with its viewers even when they reached adulthood. Let's pray for Arthur's salvation from crap.
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def fooBar():
for i in range(100,10001):
print i
if isPrime(i):
print 'Foo'
elif isSquare(i):
print 'Bar'
else:
print 'FooBar'
def isPrime(x):
for i in range(2, x):
if x%i == 0:
return False
return True
def isSquare(x):
for i in range(2, (x/2)+1):
if i*i == x:
return True
return False
fooBar()
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AN INTERROGATION OF THE LAW RELATING TO COHABITATION IN ZIMBABWE AND THE NEED FOR LAW REFORM
Keywords:Cohabitation, property, marriage, equality, nondiscrimination
This article specifically interrogates the extent to which the continued lack of recognition of cohabitation relationships under Zimbabwean law has resulted in disproportionate gendered impacts on women involved in such relationships. Yet in all fairness and to a large extent, a cohabitation relationship performs the same function as that of a legally recognised marriage. It argues that the non-recognition is discriminatory and violates section 56(1) of the Constitution of
Zimbabwe. The article builds a case on the need for law reform of marriage laws in Zimbabwe that takes into account international best practice.
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African American men suffer the highest prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates among men of all racial and ethnic backgrounds in the United States. This racial disparity is the largest for any major cancer and all African American men are deemed to be at high – risk for prostate cancer. The United States Senate passed a resolution in 2012 recognizing prostate cancer among African American men to be of epidemic proportions.
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Recent guideline statements and recommendations regarding the use of prostate – specific antigen (PSA) testing for the early detection of prostate cancer, and the resulting controversy, have led to confusion and a lack of clarity for the men most at risk for suffering and dying from prostate cancer.
Despite high-level evidence for the use of PSA testing as an aid to early prostate cancer detection, and also for its role as a predictor of future risk, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has called for PSA testing to be abandoned completely. The American Urological Association (AUA) and National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) support a role for PSA testing but with somewhat conflicting recommendations. The guideline statements have endorsed the role of shared decision-making for men considering PSA testing. However, media reports on the PSA test controversy are confusing and preventing many African American men from even having a discussion with physicians about early detection, thereby negating any opportunity for shared decision-making, and in the absence of discussion most men do not have PSA testing.
African American men and certain other men deemed to be at high – risk for prostate cancer, including men with a family history and men exposed to agent orange , were not included in sufficient numbers in the two main randomized clinical trials used as the scientific evidence to formulate the PSA test guidelines. Few men, if any, of African ancestry and obviously no African Americans were included in the European trial. Consequently, some guidelines do not directly or clearly address the needs of African American men.
The Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN)* has formulated a set of consensus statements for PSA testing to address the need for providing clear guidance on PSA testing for African American and other high – risk men. These statements rely on “The Melbourne Consensus Statement on Prostate Cancer Testing” adopted by leading prostate cancer experts from around the world at the 2013 Prostate Cancer World Congress in Melbourne, Australia. The three statements herein were excerpted from this statement with modifications.
The PHEN consensus statements are not inconsistent with the AUA Early Detection of Prostate Cancer guidelines, which “invites the consideration of PSA testing for African Americans under the age of 55.” The statements are consistent with the NCCN Prostate Cancer Early Detection guidelines , which state: “Although age 50 has traditionally been the age for starting to consider PSA testing, researchers have recognized that high-risk groups such as African Americans and men with a family history of prostate cancer may benefit from beginning testing at an earlier age.”
Absent scientific evidence from randomized clinical trials, guidance on PSA testing for high – risk men must be provided through expert opinion. Studies have shown that African American men as a group are diagnosed with life threatening prostate cancer at an earlier age and with a more advanced stage of the disease. It is believed that these factors contribute to a death rate that is 2.45 times higher than for white men and even higher compared to men of other racial and ethnic groups. Expert opinion has historically held that African American men should begin PSA testing at an earlier age, and the two main randomized clinical trials provided no scientific evidence that disproves this opinion.
The signatories to this consensus statement are medical specialists with extensive experience diagnosing and treating prostate cancer patients. For many, this experience spans the period before the PSA test was adopted, which provides them with a perspective on how African American men presented with prostate cancer before the era of wide-spread PSA testing and more than two decades later today.
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This report is designed to explain the value of remote sensing to environmental professionals who have limited or no background in the technology. It is not designed as a user manual for remote sensing, but references are provided to allow the reader to
obtain further detail where required. In terms of applications, this document does not cover polar or oil spill response applications of remote sensing (both of which have been covered by IOGP/IPIECA), and provides only a brief summary of atmospheric applications.
While the document covers mainstream satellite and airborne remote sensing platforms, including UAVs and manned aircraft, it does not include high altitude (stratospheric) and other experimental remote sensing platforms. Neither does this document cover laser fluorosensors, hand-held remote sensing, acoustic or seismic (in-water) sensors. These sensors do not belong to the commonly defined suite of remote sensing instruments.
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Bug Repellent Explained
Many people suffer from painful allergic reactions from insect bites. If you live near fresh or stagnant water or in places with high humidity, insect bites are a common summertime concern. Bug repellent has been a controversial topic over the years due to the active ingredient DEET (chemical name N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) that is found in many insect repellent products. In 1998, the EPA reported their findings after a comprehensive study of bug repellents containing DEET. They concluded that as long as consumers followed the drug label directions, DEET does not present a health concern.
Based on their extensive testing, the EPA believes the normal use of DEET does not present a health concern to the general public, however they do not recommend using products containing DEET in the following cases:
- On newborns
- On open wounds or irritated skin
- Near the hands, eyes or mouth of young children
- Directly on to face
They also recommend to avoid using products containing DEET under clothing, and to avoid over-application. Upon returning indoors, the EPA recommends washing your body and clothing thoroughly after using bug repellents containing DEET.
Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics announced that insect repellents containing DEET are safe to use on children as young as two months old. Products containing lemon or eucalyptus oil should not be used on children younger than three.
Choosing the right wardrobe is an essential tool for avoiding bug bites. First, avoid bright or dark-colored clothing. Wear earthy shades, which help you blend in to the outdoor landscape. Try to keep yourself covered by wearing long-sleeve shirts, pants and long socks whenever possible. Leave perfume, cologne, heavily scented shampoos and other strong-smelling products at home. In general, if you also wear the right clothes, bugs will have to work harder if they can’t smell or see your skin.
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The Alberta Open Pigeon Race
The Alberta Open Pigeon Race
It is now over a decade ago that this yearly competition from the hamlet of Parkbeg (50 km west of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) is taking place between racing pigeon fanciers of mainly Calgary,
Lethbridge and Edmonton.
Organizing a pigeon race open to fanciers in such a large geographic area requires the race distance to be large which in turn leads to not only benefits but also challenges for our athletes.
Visualize a 100 mile club race which includes many pigeon races in North America. The birds are released, orient, and fly toward their home loft. Since these lofts are in a small geographic area, the divergent
angles between the lofts being quite small, almost all birds fly in a large flock toward their city. Unless there is a strong headwind the race distance of 100 miles is usually too short for the flock to become
subdivided into individuals of varying ability. The large flock will therefore usually break up just before reaching the city where the real race begins. Groups of birds reach their home loft together where the
determination of the winner becomes a timing contest, a matter of chance. The birds are then separated in the prize list by seconds or fractions thereof.
The benefits of participating in a long distance race like the Alberta Open include a fairer assessment of the performance of each of these athletes since advantages or disadvantages of loft location,
wind direction, luck, etc. play a smaller role during the competition between pigeons within each city the larger the race distance is.
But competition between birds whose lofts are in different cities is another matter. Differences in wind and weather within such a large geographic area will always favor the birds of one city over another
each year. Any southerly wind component will always favor the Edmonton birds while a northerly one will favor the Calgary birds and this will then usually but not always decide the overall winner. Regardless
of such issues the favorable and unfavorable situations will even out over many years as the weather is different each year.
The challenges encountered for such an event are numerous:
Imagine a large group of young racing pigeons being liberated near Parkbeg, a place none of these birds had ever been near to.
Yet, like magic most of them head towards home and are joined by those who need to fly to the same city. There are many hypotheses how these birds are capable of doing this but the truth is that we
just do not know. I am sure that there will be some birds who cannot decide which way to go and will eventually join a flock of farm pigeons that find food in the fields during the present harvest season.
Although these participants may be bred from excellent racing pigeons even the best produce a certain percentage of offspring that is better suited to join a group of feral pigeons. Only racing
competitions can differentiate between good racing pigeons and those that lack the talents.
The talented ones will orient correctly at the release site and head home. There will therefore be a large group of pigeons that flies towards Calgary, another group will be heading towards Lethbridge,
and a third group will be flying towards Edmonton. Some of the pigeons within each group that may lack endurance or athletic condition will gradually find it increasingly difficult to keep up with the
pace set by the leaders of the group and fall behind. This will be repeated many times as the hours tick by until there are many small groups of racing pigeons strung out along the line of flight.
Provided the race is of long enough duration the leading pack will be getting progressively smaller until there will be only one pigeon out in front - the winner.
Suppose you want to take the family out for a long trip without having any service stations on the way. You wouldn't just get into the car and start driving. Instead you would make some preparations.
You would want to be sure that the car is in good mechanical condition, that there is enough air in the tires and oil in the engine, and that there is enough fuel in the fuel tank. Similar preparations need to be
made for our pigeons but since a pigeon has no way of knowing how long it will need to fly in the coming race the pigeon itself cannot possibly prepare itself. This is the fancier's responsibility.
Above all a pigeon needs to be healthy and be in possession of most of its feathers because it cannot fly without these. It needs to have enough fuel stored in the form of fat for a long distance race.
Depending on the bird's efficiency during flight it will need between 3 and 3.5 gm fat for every hour of flight. A pigeon flies approximately 75 km per hour on a day without any wind. Since these pigeons
may need to fly 600 km from Parkbeg they would need 600km/75km/hr = 8 hours to come home. They would therefore need to have 8 x 3.5gm fat = 28gm fat stored. Should there be a tailwind blowing, the amount of
fuel needed would be less, the opposite being true for a headwind race as was the case this past year 2018 for the birds flying to Edmonton. That year the wind was blowing at 20-25km/hr, gusting to 35km/hr,
pretty well all day. Since the birds couldn't fly on average even 50 km/hr during such weather they required at least 600km/50km/hr = 12 hrs; 12 x 3.5gm fat = 42gm fat stored.
The forgoing means that the fancier also needs to try and predict the weather to enable him/her to prepare his/her birds properly.
We are fortunate that the temperatures late in September are usually moderate in our part of the world but a hot spell is always a possibility. The birds' working muscles produce much heat which needs to
be eliminated. Since birds do not possess sweat glands water is evaporated during panting from the air sacs thereby having a cooling effect on the birds. It also leads to a gradual loss of fluid that can be
replaced by the bird stopping over and drinking. Should there be no surface water available dehydration would increase and gradually lead to hyperthermia, muscle cramps due to electrolyte imbalance,
confusion, and death at only 15% dehydration as there would not be enough blood volume to perfuse all the organs, including the brain, in spite of the compensating mechanisms of increased heart and
We are fortunate that surface water is usually available on the race route. Hopefully the water they find does not have a toxic algal bloom.
Staying undeterred while flying against a headwind of 25 km/hr is a talent not given to every pigeon, especially when flying on the prairies where there is nowhere to hide. Imagine trying to fly at the
average pace of 75 km/hr but being pushed back 1 yard for every 3 yards flown and that for 11 hours. Only the good athlete will not be discouraged but continue and fight all day.
The day is often not long enough for completing a really challenging long distance race. Each bird will then need to look for and hopefully find a safe place to rest. It needs to be protected from prowling cats
and looks for a place high above the ground that is inaccessible to these predators. The tops of steel grain bins would be such a place as it also provides some protection against hungry owls that hunt at night.
Another good place may be found by temporarily joining a feral flock and share their resting place that is usually quite safe. The following morning the pigeon may continue its journey home, sometimes being
accompanied by one or more feral pigeons.
The Alberta Open Pigeon Race
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है तथा वह अवकाश पर चले गए हैं। ऐसे में सचिव अमिताभ को उनकी जगह आईसीसी की बैठक में बीसीसीआई का प्रतिनिधित्व करने के लिये नियुक्त किया गया है। : सोने के दाम में आई तेजी, कोरोना की दूसरी लहर की आशंका से बाजार प्रभावित, यह है आगामी संभावना मुंबई. केंद्रीय मंत्री रामदास अठावले ने अपने नाबालिग बेटे को राजनीति में उतारने के लिए पार्टी की बाल शाखा का गठन किया है और अपने 12 साल के बेटे जीत को उसका मुखिया नियुक्त किया है. पार्टी की ओर से जारी एक बयान के अनुसार अठावले ने पूर्वी मुंबई के चेंबूर में जीत की देखरेख में बाल शाखा के गठन की घोषणा की. : एक दिन में कोरोना से 236 लोगों की हुई मौत, 7,579 लोग हुए संक्रमित अंशुल चौहान ने शेयर किया एक्सपीरियंस मिसेज इंडिया फेस ऑफ नार्थ का खिताब जीतकर लौटी भाजपा पार्षद प्रीति जौहर का शहर पहुंचने पर भव्य स्वागत किया गया। जगाधरी के महाराजा अग्रसेन चौक पर लोगों ने उनका फूलमालाएं पहनाकर अभिनंदन किया। युवाओं में प्रीति जौहर के साथ सेल्फी लेने का उत्साह रहा, कइयों ने उनके साथ सेल्फी ली। टीमें डिवीजन पांच के माध्यम से योग्य: दिल्ली भाजपा,कांग्रेस ने अपने सांसदों के लिए जारी किया</s>
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Using the feedback received, SHIFT worked with local architect, Whitefish Architecture, to develop a conceptual shade structure design suitable for the public square space, presented in the images below.
To bring shade to the square, a repeating shade structure has been conceptually developed to enhance the space while bringing an identifiable element to the heart of uptown. The structures are focused on the south end of the square, working with existing infrastructure and other features, and accommodating the many events that happen in the space. These structures cast a dappled shade over the tiered seating and south end of the square. They may also incorporate accent lighting and could be utilized as features for special events. Beyond the structures, additional planting spaces are also being recommended along King Street to create a green edge to the square and expand on the existing street trees. To provide even more natural shade, additional tree planting is also being considered within the square’s existing raised planters.
These shade elements are intended to recall to the local heritage of uptown in a contemporary way, while introducing natural materials into the square and further enhancing the existing, well-used space. The form of the structures plays on the deconstructed form of a barrel, linking to the city’s historic distilling industry, and also capturing the natural form of a leaf and the natural heritage of the area. Materials would include structural steel framing and reclaimed wood that brings variety to the concrete space and softening the square overall. To further enhance the public space, additional shade trees and pockets of at-grade planting are proposed to complement the organic forms being introduced into the square. There are also opportunities to add wood tops to existing concrete seating to further soften the space.
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क्या आप भी इस फेस्टिव सीजन नया स्मार्टफोन लेने की सोच रहे हैं। अगर हां, तो हम आपको एक ऐसी खबर देने जा रहे हैं जिसे सुनकर आप बेहद खुश हो जाएंगेक्या आप भी इस फेस्टिव सीजन नया स्मार्टफोन लेने की सोच रहे हैं। अगर हां, तो हम आपको एक ऐसी खबर देने जा रहे हैं जिसे सुनकर आप बेहद खुश हो जाएंगे। दरअसल, सैमसंग कंपनी यूजर्स के लिए एक शानदार ऑफर लेकर आई है। जिसमें आप सैमसंग मोबाइल आधी कीमत में खरीद सकते हैं। ये ऑफर उन यूजर्स के लिए काफी अच्छा है जो सैमसंग स्मार्टफोन के फैन है और उन्हें खरीदना चाहते हैं। तो चलिए आपको बता देते हैं कि कंपनी कौन-कौन सा स्मार्टफोन आधी कीमत में दे रही है।
सैमसंग स्मार्टफोन्स खरीदने की सोच रहे हैं, तो ये हैं शानदार मौका, पाएं भारी डिस्काउंट!
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Blood notes a type of connective tissue red blood cells (erythrocytes) white blood cells (leukocytes) platelets – cell fragments plasma – fluid part of blood average-sized adult has 4 to 6 liters of blood amount depends on: size of person amount of adipose tissue concentrations of ions females have less than males blood components hematocrit the percentage of red blood. The note about le is very high yield in fact, the entire card describing antibody characteristics is important undoubtedly, you will have at least one question based on characteristics of antibodies. The blood notes of peter mallow - paul boor md dr peter mallow, a university scientist working on a virulent bird flu, becomes concerned when his brilliant research student, jorge, freaks out during a routine autopsy of a drowning victim. Use your notes and what you learned about blood transfusions to complete the game directions: 1 - drag the syringe to the patient’s arm (near the elbow) to draw blood and then hold it over each test tube.
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Blood consists of many types of cells floating around in a fluid called plasma the red blood cells contain hemoglobin , a protein that binds oxygen red blood cells transport oxygen to, and remove carbon dioxide from, body tissues. Immunohaematology i preface this immunohaematology lecture note is prepared to meet the needs of medical laboratory professionals and blood. York notes’ blood brothers study guides, both printed and online, are designed to help you maximise your revision by providing detailed analyses of the text and key elements, useful contextual and background information and. Welcome to the litcharts study guide on willy russell's blood brothers created by the original team behind sparknotes, litcharts are the world's best literature guides created by the original team behind sparknotes, litcharts are the world's best literature guides. - note that despite contraction-relaxation cycles, blood pressure and blood flow through capillaries does not fluctuate -- not pulsatile • during systole more blood enters arteries from heart than leaves them due to.
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A Three-Frequency Feed for Millimeter-Wave Radiometry
- Created: Monday, 01 October 2012
This wave feed operates at frequencies approximately five times higher than current feeds and provides greater bandwidth.
A three-frequency millimeter-wave feed horn was developed as part of an advanced component technology task that provides components necessary for higher-frequency radiometers to meet the needs of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. The primary objectives of SWOT are to characterize ocean sub-mesoscale processes on 10-km and larger scales in the global oceans, and to measure the global water storage in inland surface water bodies, including rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands.
In this innovation, the feed provides three separate output ports in the 87-to- 97-GHz, 125-to-135-GHz, and 161-to- 183-GHz bands; WR10 for the 90-GHz channel, WR8 for the 130-GHz channel, and WR5 for the 170-GHz channel. These ports are in turn connected to individual radiometer channels that will also demonstrate component technology including new PIN-diode switches and noise diodes for internal calibration integrated into each radiometer front end. For this application, a prime focus feed is required with an edge taper of approximately 20 dB at an illumination angle of ±40°. A single polarization is provided in each band. Preliminary requirements called for a return loss of better than 15 dB, which is achieved across all three bands. Good pattern symmetry is also obtained throughout all three-frequency bands. This three-frequency broadband millimeter- wave feed also minimizes mass and provides a common focal point for all three millimeter-wave bands.
In order to achieve similar E and H plane beam widths over the combined 87-to-183-GHz band ring, loaded slots are employed in the corrugated portion of the feed. The feed operates in a flareangle limited condition, which gives approximately constant beam width across the entire band, and provides a common phase center located near its apex. The half-flare angle for the feed is approximately 30°. Analysis and optimization of the overall feed design employed a combination of finite element and mode-matching tools.
The illumination requirements and relative frequency spacing for this application are similar to those required for the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on Seasat, the (TOPEX)/Poseidon, and the Jason missions. However, in this particular application the required fractional bandwidth is larger. Thus, while the three-frequency feed horn described here shares many features in common with the feed previously developed for the above missions, enhancements are necessary in order to achieve broad band performance and manufacturability in the millimeter- wave bands.
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Click on the above link to read a very short article about the damaging effects of colonialism, and its inevitable disastrous effects on a quality education for Puerto Rican children.
Since a colony is only acquired for exploitation by the empire, the educational system in a colony, even if managed by the ones colonized, is designed to perpetuate the colonial relationship. This is why, as a people, Puerto Ricans have low self-esteem, and are more comfortable following than leading. We've had an eternal history of following!
Join in 2 peaceful protests a year until Puerto Rico is decolonized! Once you have studied Puerto Rican history, you will be convinced that without this protest, we will be a colony forever. You will also be convinced that, those who practice or accept colonialism don't believe in justice for all!
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