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Autonomous robots may become our closest companions in the near future. While the technology for physically building such machines is already available today, a problem lies in the generation of the behavior for such complex machines. Nature proposes a solution: young children and higher animals learn to master their complex brain-body systems by playing. Can this be an option for robots? How can a machine be playful? The book provides answers by developing a general principle---homeokinesis, the dynamical symbiosis between brain, body, and environment---that is shown to drive robots to self-determined, individual development in a playful and obviously embodiment-related way: a dog-like robot starts playing with a barrier, eventually jumping or climbing over it; a snakebot develops coiling and jumping modes; humanoids develop climbing behaviors when fallen into a pit, or engage in wrestling-like scenarios when encountering an opponent. The book also develops guided self-organization, a new method that helps to make the playful machines fit for fulfilling tasks in the real world.
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Trading Economics members can view, download and compare data from nearly 200 countries, including more than 20 million economic indicators, exchange rates, government bond yields, stock indexes and commodity prices.
The Trading Economics Application Programming Interface (API) provides direct access to our data. It allows API clients to download millions of rows of historical data, to query our real-time economic calendar, subscribe to updates and receive quotes for currencies, commodities, stocks and bonds.
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Total number of male pupils in the specified grade who are enrolled in the same grade as in a previous year, expressed as a percentage of the total male enrollment in the specified grade. It is calculated by dividing the number of male pupils repeating a given grade in a given school year by the male number of pupils enrolled in the same grade in the same school year and multiplying by 100. The definition of repeaters should be unambiguously applied to include even pupils repeating more than once in the same grade and those who repeat the same grade while transferring from one school to another. Students who were not studying in the same grade in the previous year should be excluded.
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After Qazaghan had taken control of the Chagatai ulus in around 1346, he appointed Abdullah as governor of Samarkand. During his father's lifetime, Abdullah led an expion against Khwarazm, although Qazaghan had been against it. When the latter died in 1358 Abdullah succeeded him. Unlike his father, he had an active interest in the tribes of the northern part of the ulus. Qazaghan, whose power base had been in the southern portion of the ulus, had tended to leave the northern tribes alone; Abdullah was not content to do the same. The northern tribes bitterly resented his attempts to curtail their power.
Abdullah's decision to keep his capital in Samarkand proved to be his undoing. The Barlas and Suldus tribes, both located near the city, hated the prospect of a strong Qara'unas presence in their immediate vicinity. Together the leaders of the Barlas and Suldus, Hajji Beg and Buyan Suldus, revolted and drove Abdullah out of power; he returned to the territories of the Qara'unas and died soon afterwards. The victorious parties often cited Abdullah's treatment of Bayan Quli as a pretext for their revolt. Bayan Quli had been Qazaghan's puppet khan; soon after Qazaghan's death Abdullah desired Bayan Quli's wife and had him executed. In any case, Buyan Suldus was installed as amir of the ulus, while both Abdullah's brothers and Shah Temur, who had been raised by Abdullah to the khanship following Bayan Quli’s execution, were killed.
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Diversity Assessment on Malaysian Benthic Macroalgae in Tioman Island and Tulai Candang Island, Pahang
Pulau Tioman is one of the popular tourism island in Malaysia and was gazetted as Marine Park in 1995 to protect
the valuable marine resources. Nowadays, species compositions of seaweed are decreasing gradually due to the major
environmental disturbance. Thus, due to the concerning on the availability of the seaweeds, the assessment was employed
from October 2011 until April 2016 in order to observe the changes in terms of density and richness of the marine algae. The
methodology were specimen collection, preservation of the sample, preparation of digital images, specimen identification
and herbarium specimen preparation. The herbarium specimens were deposited to Algae Herbarium, Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia. The outcomes of the study have recorded 76 taxa out of 1176 collected specimens. The recorded taxa were from
division of Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, Phaeophyta and Cyanophyta. Chlorophyta is reported having the highest number of
taxa for every assessment, followed by Rhodophyta, Phaeophyta and the least number of taxa is Cyanophyta. Over six years
assessment, started from 2011, the species density were gradually change, then it was reduced suddenly in 2013. The
reduction in species density were twofold, later the species density getting lower and constant until now. There were several
species noticed as new record in Pulau Tioman and Pulau Tulai which are Acetabularia clavata, Anadyomene plicata,
Caulerpa cupressoides, Chaetomorpha ligustica, Dictyosphaeria versluysii, Gelidiella trinitatensis and Padina pavonica. The
work has successfully observed the changes in terms of density of the seaweed species throughout six years assessment.
Index Terms- Benthic algae, diversity, seaweeds, Pulau Tioman, Pulau Tulai Candang.
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explore the collection
Photography as Witness
During the final liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto, Ross buried his negatives with other artifacts in the ground to preserve the photographic record he had created. Some inhabitants remained in the ghetto after the final liquidation to close down the factories, clean up and sort possessions. In January, 1945 as the Red Army approached Lodz the Germans ordered the remaining residents to dig mass graves. Instead, they went into hiding. There were 877 still hiding in the camp when the Red Army liberated Lodz on January 19, 1945. Henryk Ross, and his wife Stefania, were among them.
Following the liberation of the ghetto, Ross excavated the box of negatives and recovered this extraordinary archive. Although significant material was damaged, almost 3,000 negatives survived—the most comprehensive known collection of Holocaust ghetto photographs by a single Jewish photographer.
Ross’s work was preserved through an act of will. They demonstrate photography’s ability to bear witness to history and serve as a catalyst for change; to foster sympathy, awareness, and even critical commentary. Ross’s photographs aim to capture the events he witnessed—though the stories they tell are still open to new understandings.
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Three coordinates is the 3D coordinate measuring machine, it refers to the measurable in 3D space range, according to the data measured by probe, through the software system to calculate all kinds of geometry shape, size and other parameters.
Three coordinates measuring instrument can be defined as a kind of detector that can be moved to 3 directions, can be moved along three perpendicular guide rail. This detector transfer signals through contact or non-contact type.
The basic principle of coordinate measuring machine is putting the parts to be tested in the allowed range, measuring the coordinates of the points on the work-piece surface accurately, processing these values through measuring software, best fitting form measuring elements, such as round, ball, cylindrical, cone, curve and so on, through mathematical calculation method to get the geometric shape and position tolerances and other data.
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A recent national report co-authored by Edmonds Community College’s Mel Cossette asserts that U.S. innovation will require the production and retention of workers skilled in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).
“The purpose of this report was to shed light on the relatively underappreciated roles and contributions of engineering technicians and technologists,” said Mel Cossette, executive director and principal investigator of the National Resource Center for Materials Technology Education (MatEdU) and coauthor of the report, “Engineering Technology Education in the United States.” MatEdU, a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education funded center, is housed at Edmonds Community College.
The report presents and analyzes the findings and recommendations in four areas: the nature of engineering technology education, supply and demand, educational and employment pathways, and data collection and analysis.
According to Cossette, the focus has been on four-year degrees in engineering; however, two-year community and technical colleges are graduating “excellent” technicians in engineering technology.
The report makes the following comparison: If engineers are viewed as being responsible for designing the nation’s technological systems, then engineering technicians and technologists are the ones who help build and keep those systems running.
“The demand for trained engineering technicians is high because it takes a support team with many technicians to support one engineer,” Cossette said.
Edmonds CC offers Engineering Technology associate degrees in Materials Science Technology, Manufacturing and Materials Science Technology, and Robotics and Electronics, and certificates in Aircraft Electronics Technician and Basic Electronics.
“Many potential technician students are not aware of interesting and rewarding careers as engineering technicians,” Cossette wrote in “Educational Pathways for Engineering Technicians,” an article for the National Academy of Engineering’s publication “The Bridge” (Summer 2017 edition) and co-authored with colleague Daniel Hull.
“They may not also know that U.S. two-year colleges offer relatively low tuition and strong opportunities for technician graduates to enter the workforce at annual starting salaries exceeding $50,000.”
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examination on the patient medical check up, in the modern city, chest x ray has become a liability, because of greater life expectancy, compared to developing countries and poor countries.
Fig . below, an example of a normal chest x ray
“Normal chest x ray” pediatric
Standard posteroanterior chest radiograph demonstrated the striking contrast between the heart and lungs.
The chest radiograph is the most frequently performed radiographic study in the United States. It should almost always be the first radiologic study ordered for evaluation of diseases of the thorax. The natural contrast of the aerated lungs provides a window into the body to evaluate the patient for diseases involving the heart, lungs, pleurae, tracheobronchial tree, esophagus, thoracic lymph nodes, thoracic skeleton, chest wall, and upper abdomen. In both acute and chronic illnesses, the chest radiograph allows one to detect a disease and monitor its response to therapy. For many disease processes (e.g., pneumonia and congestive heart failure) the diagnosis can be established and the disease followed to resolution with no further imaging studies. There are limitations to the chest radiograph, and diseases may not be sufficiently advanced to be detected or may not result in detectable abnormalities. Other imaging methods are needed to complement the conventional chest radiograph. These imaging methods include computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, ultrasound (US), and radionuclide studies. These techniques, their clinical uses.
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The better your soil breathes, the more it benefits your plant’s growth. Everything in nature needs oxygen to thrive. Dense, compacted, heavy soils tend to negatively impact oxygen flow. That’s why your soil needs aeration to allow oxygen and vital nutrients to efficiently reach your plants roots. The harder a plant works to accomplish this, the less energy it has for growth and yield.
Aeration is also important for all the following reasons:
Plant and Root Growth: Inadequate oxygen in soil either retards plant growth or causes it to cease completely. Abnormally shaped roots are common in compacted or poorly aerated soil.
Microorganism Population and Activity: Beneficial microorganisms also need air for respiration and metabolism. Important microbial activity such as decomposition of organic matter, nitrification and other vital activities depend on the oxygen present in soil.
Growth of Toxins: Poor aeration results in the development of toxins in your soil.
Water and Nutrient Absorption: Oxygen deficiencies have been found to check nutrient and water absorption in plants.
Disease Development: Insufficient aeration leads to the development of plant diseases.
No matter what else you do, give your soil a breath of fresh air by regular aeration.
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Measuring soil moisture is important in agriculture to help farmers manage their irrigation systems more efficiently. Not only are farmers able to generally use less water to grow a crop, they are able to increase yields and the quality of the crop by better management of soil moisture during critical plant growth stages.
Soil moisture sensors measure the water content in soil.A soil moisture probe is made up of multiple soil moisture sensors. One common type of soil moisture sensors in commercial use is a frequency domain sensor such as a capacitance sensor. Another sensor, the neutron moisture gauge, utilize the moderator properties of water for neutrons. Cheaper sensors -often for home use- are based on two electrodes measuring the resistance of the soil.
Power supply 5v DC.
The pin type probe is pressed into the soil.According to soil moisture level , the output Analog voltage varies from 0.6v DC to 5v DC.
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bReader is my final year project which helps blind persons to read from anywhere. It is an embedded application and consists of java and Arduino code.
First of all you can get the overview of project by the given presentation:
The devices related to Braille are very expensive and the blind persons usually cannot afford. Technology has made available other aids for blind people, including talking calculators, speech-time compressors, computer terminals with speech output, Braille printers, paperless Braille computer terminals. But these devices are very costly to purchase.
Braille is a system of touch reading and writing for blind persons in which raised dots represent the letters of the alphabet. Braille is read by moving the hands from left to right along each line. Both hands are usually involved in reading process and reading is generally done by the index finger. The average reading speed is 125 words per minute. There are two levels in Braille language.
- Level 1
- Level 2
In level 1, Blind persons read the text character by character. In level 2, there are short hands in Braille language. We worked on level 1 Braille language.
Following figure shows the Braille language:
Blind persons first learn from the sixer like a Lego game. Figure shows the sixer for blinds:
First, the blind person learns to write on four liner as given below:
Then they move to the slate. They put the paper inside the slate and write with stylus as shown in figure:
The bReader is designed to help the visually impaired persons to read books. Books which are available for a blind person are expensive, so our embedded application gives assess to every blind person to read books easily and gain knowledge. Our application will facilitate the blind persons to read any text with the help of sound and braille device which will get as per given scanned text. If our application embedded on pen then it will be cheap relatively compared to present solutions and every person can buy it.
bReader has following features:
- Blind can click the picture
- Application scans the picture
- Extract text from picture
- Embossed the text character by character on braille device
- Give audio of the text
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Brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Scandinavia spend 5–7 winter months in dens. The denning period is a vulnerable time for bears because they are unable to escape from disturbances without losing valuable amounts of energy. Bears normally avoid human infrastructure when denning, but due to an expanding bear population some bears den relatively close to humans. We tested the hypothesis that bears denning closer to infrastructure selected more concealed den sites, as they do when selecting resting sites in the non-denning season. We analyzed horizontal cover and terrain ruggedness relative to distance from human infrastructure for 49 dens from 32 individuals differing in sex, age, and reproductive status. Bears used dens that were more concealed or located in more rugged terrain when closer to roads and settlements that had potential for high human activity. Our results suggest that human activity affects not only where bears den, but also the smaller-scale characteristics of den sites: cover and terrain. Increased knowledge about anthropogenic effects on bear denning behavior can add to a broader understanding of brown bear habitat use.
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Full course description
Assessment is not just for testing anymore! This course explores the concept of assessment as a design tool that allows you to build a course centered around student learning. In this course, we’ll explore a design process called the assessment loop, looking at the ways clear learning outcomes, thoughtfully designed assessment, and analysis of assessment results can help you engage your students and build a better course. The course covers writing clear unit-level learning goals, aligning assessments to learning goals, developing authentic summative assessments and developing formative assessments that provide rich and meaningful feedback for students. In addition, we’ll explore various assignment options in Canvas, and develop an overarching plan for using assessments in digital learning environments.
To successfully complete this course, participants will:
- Create assessments aligned to the OEI Course Design Rubric
- Develop unit-level learning objectives in student-centered language with demonstrable learning outcomes;
- Design a variety of valid and authentic formative and summative assessments aligned to the course objectives;
- Design student self-assessments;
- Write clear and detailed assessment instructions;
- Create clear descriptive rubrics that support desired outcomes;
- Develop an assessment plan for one unit of your course that supports regular assessment with timely, meaningful feedback.
This course is part of the Online Teaching & Design Certificate, and fulfills Section C: Assessment.
Duration: 4 Weeks, facilitated asynchronous
Time Commitment: approximately 10 hours per week, for a total of 40 hours
Level of Difficulty: Intermediate. To get the most from this course, you should have some familiarity with online teaching and with Canvas. For those who have never taught online, it is highly recommended you take Introduction to Course Design and Introduction to Canvas before beginning this course.
Optional Continuing Education Credit
Participants in this course can seek optional professional development/continuing education credits by dual-enrolling. A separate fee to the university for graduate-level credit will apply. To learn more, visit Course & CEU Information
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Discovery Of A New Light–Molecule Interaction: Supracence Reveals What Is Missing In Fluorescence Imaging
Published 2019 · Physics
The currently understood principles about light-molecule interactions are limited, and thus scientific scope beyond current theories is rarely harvested. Herein we demonstrate supracence phenomena, in which the emitted photons have more energy than the absorbed photons. The extra energy comes from couplings of the absorbed and emitted photon to molecular phonons, whose potentials are constantly exchanging with molecular quantum energy and the environment. Thus, supracence is a linear optical process rather than a nonlinear optical process, such as second harmonic generation. Because supracence results in cooled molecular phonons and thus cooled molecules, behavior opposite to that of hot fluorescing emitters is expected. This report reveals certain supracence principles while contrasting fluorescence with supracence in high-resolution imaging.
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We want to make sure our services are always getting better, so please share your opinions with us. You can send us an evaluation of the services you received in our installations at any time.
Social workers offer short-term psychosocial support to youth, parents, and their families. They evaluate social functioning and help families develop the skills needed to deal with different issues, such as:
- Behavioural problems, for example physical or verbal violence
- Family problems
- Problems related to a child who has witnessed domestic violence
- Victims of abuse or neglect
- Problems related to peer violence
- Various adjustment problems
- Integration and adjustment of new families, etc.
Social workers also work with youth in elementary and high schools who are having difficulties in their environment that are affecting their social or educational development. Intervention is done on a voluntary and interdisciplinary basis.
Social workers involved in schools promote consultation and collaboration between the school, the family, other programs and services of the Montréal West Island Integrated University Health and Social Services Centre, and community resources.
Psychoeducators are trained to work with people with behavioural adjustment difficulties exhibited in several settings. They assess various issues and come up with solutions tailored to the needs of the people they help.
- Conflicting family relationships
- Behavioural problems
- Discipline and crisis management
- Feeling of parental incompetence
- Family environment organization (routines, rules).
Access to Youth Services
You can contact the psychosocial reception desk of your CLSC in person or by telephone:
The school system can direct families directly to youth psychosocial services according to established procedures or via the psychosocial reception of the CLSC.
The CAFE Program is an immediate and intensive intervention service for youth aged 5 to 17 years in crisis and their families. It aims to defuse an individual or family crisis, prevent a relationship breakdown or a violent acting-out, and contribute to keeping young persons in their environment by offering an alternative to placement and reporting. The service is available 7 days a week. A counsellor is available every day from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The CLSC Psychosocial Intake Department is one of the main gateways to the CAFE Program. A psychosocial counsellor handling a family crisis, and who meets CAFE criteria, will follow up with CAFE to validate and guide the referred person.
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Jython is an implementation of the Python programming language that runs on the Java Standard Platform. Jython fully implements nearly all of the Python standard library modules, with a few key differences. It should be noted that Jython is not a different implementation of the Python interpreter.
- The os module in Jython is not a complete implementation of the os module in Python because of limitations in the "sandboxing" design of Java.
- Jython programs cannot use CPython extension modules written in C.
- Jython utilizes the pure garbage collection algorithms of the Java runtime environment instead of the reference counting method of the Python interpreter.
- Jython. The Jython Project.
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Black Harrier Circus maurus
The Black Harrier is a medium-sized African Harrier whose range extends from South Africa to Botswana and Namibia. It has a wingspan of 105–115 cm (41–45 in) and a body length of 44–50 cm (17–20 in). When perched, this bird appears all black. In-flight, a white rump and flight feathers become visible. Its morphology is comparable to that of other harriers, with a slim body, narrow wings, and a long tail. Male and female plumages are similar. Juveniles have buff underparts and heavily spotted breasts.
The Black Harrier feed mostly on small rodents and birds and will occasionally take reptiles, catching them while flying low over its hunting grounds.
In South Africa, the distribution of the black harrier is distinctly polarized in both the Western and Southern coastal plains. Nests are concentrated either along the coastal strip or inland in a more montane habitat. Nests are generally absent from transformed and cultivated lands.
Black harriers are migratory birds and, their annual movements cover the southern half of the land surface of South Africa (including Lesotho). The majority of these birds undertake an unusual west-east migration. Pair members do not travel together and, they don’t use the same non-breeding areas either. It has been suggested that black harriers migrate to deal with declines in food availability.
Unusually, Black Harriers travel almost twice as fast during their summer post-breeding migration as they during their winter/spring pre-breeding migration. In many other species, this is often reported the other way round. One reasoning for this is that it is part of their pre-breeding behavior and that the extra time is used to find the best breeding areas.
Home ranges during the breeding seasons and non-breeding seasons are of similar sizes, suggesting similar levels of food availability. Black Harriers return to breeding areas they have used previously and, they return to their birthplace to breed.
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Have a fabulous day. Till next time, please stay safe and healthy.
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Veterinary Pest Genomics Center Overview
The Veterinary Pest Genomics Center (VPGC) is an initiative within the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). The vision for this initiative is to leverage big data solutions to evaluate risk from, and develop mitigations for invasive and other economically important veterinary pests. The introduction of invasive veterinary pests is accelerated by global change, including anomalies related to climate variability. An important aspect of this effort is to foster an innovation ecosystem involving the network of laboratories directly linked to ARS National Program 104 (Veterinary, Medical, and Urban Entomology), and related locations, in a way that allows ARS to leverage its scientific talent and other research assets.
VPGC's mission is to:
- Utilize key biological resources, next generation sequencing technology, and state-of-the-art bioinformatics approaches to sequence and annotate the genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes and metagenomes of important and emerging arthropod pests of veterinary importance
- Develop and use molecular tools for population genomics studies of veterinary pests in their indigenous and invasive ranges to understand the role of different evolutionary forces in shaping phenotypic variation of high-consequence to agriculture
- Apply biogeographic, spatial, and temporal analyses to quantify and predict economically important or potential veterinary pest distributional changes, and integrate these analyses with genetic studies of rapid evolution and adaptation of pests to new or changing environments
- Conduct feasibility studies to evaluate advanced computing hardware and software systems for their ability to store and analyze large data sets on veterinary pests, and the capacity to integrate results from longitudinal
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1Running Head:Post Graduation In EntrepreneurshipPost Graduation in
2Post Graduation In EntrepreneurshipCustomer Development and the Value PropositionCustomer development is a necessary activity for the start up businesses. It involves identifyingpotential customers relevant for your business. It involves getting out picking important factsabout the customer characteristics of your intended products, and devising ways on how toeffectively reach them.Identifying the potential customers is the primary step to establishing a sound enterprise. Theyform the most important backbone of the business. They comprise of all the people with differentcharacteristics, ranging from both men and women, who will comprise a bigger part of theorganizational domain.A start up cosmetics industry targets mostly a larger percentage of female customers. Thecharacteristics of the potential cosmetic products depend on the ability of the enterprise to fulfillthe expectations of the customers from the effectiveness of the product offered. The product hasto add value to the experience of the customer in what is referred to as the value proposition.The value in the products should add memorable results in customers experience by addressingtheir needs. For instance, if the customers have had skin problems, offering them a skin careproduct that perfectly cures their problem will appeal to their expectations develop a strongbelief in what the business is offering them.The value proposition of the product to the customers will definitely get incorporated in themarketing strategy as the main marketing point to the customers about what value the productwill add to their experience, and this will involve promotional activities, advertisements amonothers. Then lastly, in the customer discovery process, there will be evaluation of the customerfeedback that is, their reaction and views about the product.
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This collection consists of 177 posters from the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) Records. Founded in 1964 by Jacob Birnbaum, SSSJ was a pioneer in the movement to oppose the persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. Birnbaum believed a grass-roots organization of college students who came of age during the Civil Rights movement in the United States were more likely than their elders to engage in the tactics of open protest and civil disobedience. This cause eventually became a mainstream, worldwide movement, considered the most effective advocacy campaign by American Jewry in the 20th century, lasting until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and resulting in the emigration of over a million Soviet Jews.
In addition to copies of printed posters that served as publicity for the organization and its mission, this collection contains a large number of unique, hand drawn placards used by participants at protests and rallies in support of Soviet Jewry.
SSSJ viewed its mission in a historic context and invoked biblical imagery and language to dramatize its goals, which the posters reflect. Its mantra “Let my People Go” drew a direct connection between its campaign and the Biblical account of the Exodus from Egypt, from which the phrase was taken. The posters also document specific events that occurred and initiatives undertaken during the campaign, such as the Leningrad Trials, summits between Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev, and linking U.S.-Soviet trade policy with freedom for Soviet Jewry. Many of the posters spotlight individual “refuseniks”, Soviet Jews who were refused exit visas, and then typically lost their jobs and were subjected to prison and internment in Soviet forced labor camps. The collection also includes posters from various other Soviet Jewry advocacy organizations that are contained in the SSSJ Records, and some that protest Arab violence and terrorism against Israel, which, in light of Soviet financial and political support for Arab countries, was viewed as part of the broader anti-Semitic policies of the Soviet Union.
This poster collection is part of the SSSJ Records held at Yeshiva University Archives. The finding aid for the parent collection, which contains over 250 linear feet of photographs, printed material, case files of Soviet Jews, administrative records, and audio and video recordings, can be found in Yeshiva’s Finding Aids Database.
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About This Project
While many studies have focused on the visible impact of ocean plastic, we know much less about the impact of microbes that choose plastic as their home, forming the so-called plastisphere. The goal of my project is to evaluate the microbial diversity on floating plastic such as retail plastic bags in coastal waters and its potential impact on humans living on coastal areas. The project uses metagenomic next generation sequencing and standard microbiology techniques.
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Are current antibacterial treatments resulting in the evolution of more virulent multidrug resistant bacteria?
Each year in the U.S. 23,000 people die as a direct result of antibiotic resistant infections. I hypothesize...
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Scientists are exploring ways to use mineral waste from mines to pull huge amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air.
On a scorching day this August, Caleb Woodall wielded his shovel like a spear, stabbing it into the hardened crust of an asbestos-filled pit near Coalinga, California.
Woodall, a graduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, was digging out samples from an asbestos mine that’s been shuttered since 1980, a Superfund site on the highest peak in the state’s Diablo Range. He extracted pounds of the material from several locations across San Benito Mountain, shoveled them into Ziploc bags, and shipped them to a pair of labs for analysis.
He and his colleagues are trying to determine the makeup and structure of the materials pulled from the pits, and to answer two critical questions: How much carbon dioxide do they contain—and how much more could they store?
The vast surface area of certain types of fibrous asbestos, a class of carcinogenic compounds once heavily used in heat-resistant building materials, makes them particularly good at grabbing hold of the carbon dioxide molecules dissolved in rainwater or floating through the air.
That includes the most common form of asbestos, chrysotile, a serpentine mineral laced throughout the mountain (serpentine is California’s state rock). The reaction with carbon dioxide mainly produces magnesium carbonate minerals like magnesite, a stable material that could lock away the greenhouse gas for millennia.
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I have two vector layers: one point and one polygon and I want to calculate the minimum distance of each point from the polygons (ie the distance from the closest point of the closest polygon).
Is there any available plugin in QGIS for doing this?
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Converting your polygon to points first is a bad idea. You will not be calculating the distance to your polygon, you will be calculating the distance to the closest node of your polygons (not the edges which may be closer). You can use the NNJoin Plugin to get accurate measurements to your polygon. Make sure your layers are in the same projection before doing analysis.
First convert the polygon to points:
Vector -> Geometry Tools -> Extract Nodes
Add this new layer, then calculate a distance matrix between your points layer and the new polygon-points layer you just created
Vector -> Analysis Tools -> Distance Matrix
Be sure to choose "Use only the nearest (k) target points" as 1
Try Hub Distance in the MMQGIS plugin.
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The Bunya Mountains is part of the Great Dividing Range which rise abruptly to over 1000 metres from the surrounding countryside, about 150km from the coast.
The name Bunya comes from the native bunya pine trees that grow here. Every three years, these distinctive, dome-shape crown trees produce heavy crops of bunya pine cones, which are edible nuts about the size of a football.
The Bunya Mountains is home to many species of birdlife and wildlife including king parrots, crimson rosellas, crows, magpies, currawongs, finches, bower birds, red-necked wallabies, swamp wallabies, red-necked paddymelons, brushtail and ringtail possums.
For those who are keen on bush walking, there is an extensive network of walking tracks leading to numerous waterfalls and lookouts. You can choose from a 500m introductory stroll to a 10km hike to the Big Falls Lookout.
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Firefighters play an important role in our community. But, their job is not easy. There are many things a firefighter must do to prepare for his/her job. Lucky the Firehouse Dog takes a cat, Pumpkin, on a tour of a firehouse. Pumpkin learns all about firefighters and how they prepare for an emergency. The social studies connection relates to firefighters and their role in our community.
Capítulo 1Duración: 15min
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How Droughts Can Lead to Ecological Devastation
“How can droughts cause mass ecological devastation?”
Water is one of the most important ingredients of life. However, with the changing climate, droughts are becoming more common. When there is an extended period of rain-loss, plants can die out, reducing food sources for animals, cascading until a vast ecosystem death occurs. This is How Droughts Can Lead to Ecological Devastation.
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If you’re feeling guilty for taking your kids out of school for that family vacation, don’t. It might actually be making them smarter. According to a new survey commissioned by the Student and Youth Travel Association, travel has an extremely positive impact on students’ educational prospects, cultural awareness, and even their future careers. One thousand five hundred US-based teachers were polled in the survey, with 74 percent agreeing that travel has a “very positive impact on students’ personal development,” and 56 percent believing that that positive impact extends to a student’s educational experience.
The majority of teachers surveyed agreed that children who travel have an increased tolerance and respect for other cultures and a greater willingness to try new things. Teachers also observed that kids who traveled were more likely to demonstrate higher self-esteem, independence, confidence, adaptability, and sensitivity when interacting with other children. Unsurprisingly, a whopping 76 percent of teachers noted that once students had been taken on a single trip, they suddenly had the travel bug and expressed a desire to travel more.
Although no actual college admission statistics are provided to substantiate this belief, 42 percent of teachers said that they believe well-traveled students look more attractive to college admissions recruiters and are more like to be accepted.
A “well-traveled” student doesn’t necessarily mean the child has gone on an epic globetrotting trip to Asia. Impactful family travel can be as small as venturing domestically to a city or town vastly different from where the child grew up. Small, frequent weekend trips can be just as beneficial as a trip to Europe.
H/T: Travel & Leisure
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About Wildflowers, Grasses and Other Nonwoody Plants in Missouri
A very simple way of thinking about the green world is to divide the vascular plants into two groups: woody and nonwoody (or herbaceous). But this is an artificial division; many plant families include some species that are woody and some that are not. The diversity of nonwoody vascular plants is staggering! Think of all the ferns, grasses, sedges, lilies, peas, sunflowers, nightshades, milkweeds, mustards, mints, and mallows — weeds and wildflowers — and many more!
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Neighbors for Clean Air envisions an Oregon where every community has clean and healthy air to breathe.
Why We Care
Oregon’s Air Is Toxic
Multnomah County has the fourth highest level of diesel pollution in the nation. Nineteen Oregon counties have concentrations of diesel pollution at rates so high that residents face increased risk of cancer. This contributes to a statewide cost of $3.5 billion, harming the health and productivity of Oregonians.
Diesel’s black carbon is also one of the worst contributors to our climate crisis. Stopping diesel will dramatically slow the pace of climate change.
Clean Air is a Racial Justice Issue
Diesel pollution in Black, Brown and Indigenous neighborhoods in Portland are 20 times higher than other parts of the City, exacerbating already severe racial health disparities. In particular, rates of asthma in non-white neighborhoods are significantly higher than elsewhere. Industrial sites, transportation corridors and other pollution generators often exist near BIPOC communities.
Our Children’s Health is at Risk
Oregon is in the top five states with the highest percentage of people living with asthma. Numerous studies show that early exposure to bad air leads not only to poor lung function and cardiac disease but also has negative impacts on brain development. This has been shown to increase absenteeism and lower performance on standardized tests of students attending schools in high pollution zones.
Existing Regulations Don’t Ensure Healthy Air
Despite the clear public health risks, nearly all air pollution in Oregon remains legal. The Clean Air Act only provides limits for 6 pollutants in the air we breathe despite recognizing over 187 additional hazardous air pollutants that cause cancer and negative human health effects. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality data shows the concentration of some of these pollutants in the Portland Metro area is over 100 times healthy levels.
Contact Neighbors For Clean Air
Neighbors for Clean Air
P.O. Box 10544
Portland OR 97296
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Infestation Location & Management Zones
Generally infested area
Emerald ash borer is in this zone, though not necessarily in all ash trees.
Potential expansion area
Emerald ash borer isn't known to be in the area, but the area is within 10 miles of the outer limits of the known infestation. There is a high probability emerald ash borer will spread naturally to this zone within a few years.
Emerald ash borer isn't known to be in the area and it is more than 10 miles from the known infestation.
Emerald Ash Borer
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) was found in Concord in March 2013, and the list of towns with known infestations continues to grow. As a non-native insect, EAB lacks predators to keep it in check. EAB attacks ash trees and infested trees die within 3 to 5 years.
PLEASE NOTE: The entirety of the state of New Hampshire is within the federal EAB quarantine area. Moving regulated products from anywhere in New Hampshire to non-quarantined areas, like the state of Maine, requires meeting federal regulatory requirements. Visit compliance agreements for more information. Ash movement within the state of New Hampshire is no longer regulated, however, moving ash risks spreading emerald ash borer. As such, we encourage professionals and landowners to follow best management practices when moving ash.
You can help protect New Hampshire's forests by reporting suspect trees or insects; considering insecticide treatment of some trees to keep ash in the understory; being aware of the risks of spreading EAB; and using best management practices to avoid transporting this pest to your favorite outdoor spot.
It takes years to decades for EAB to spread naturally; humans can spread it in hours.
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Boreal countries are rich in forest resources, and for their area, they produce a disproportionally large share of the lumber, pulp, and paper bound for the global market. These countries have long-standing strong traditions in forestry education and institutions, as well as in timber-oriented forest management. However, global change, together with evolving societal values and demands, are challenging traditional forest management approaches. In particular, plantation-type management, where wood is harvested with short cutting cycles relative to the natural time span of stand development, has been criticized. Such management practices create landscapes composed of mosaics of young, even-aged, and structurally homogeneous stands, with scarcity of old trees and deadwood. In contrast, natural forest landscapes are characterized by the presence of old large trees, uneven-aged stand structures, abundant deadwood, and high overall structural diversity. The differences between managed and unmanaged forests result from the fundamental differences in the disturbance regimes of managed versus unmanaged forests. Declines in managed forest biodiversity and structural complexity, combined with rapidly changing climatic conditions, pose a risk to forest health, and hence, to the long-term maintenance of biodiversity and provisioning of important ecosystem goods and services. The application of ecosystem management in boreal forestry calls for a transition from plantation-type forestry toward more diversified management inspired by natural forest structure and dynamics.
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A lexical item is described as “playful” or “ludic” when it shows evidence of manipulation of the relation that inheres between its form (signifier) and its meaning (signified). The playful lexicon of any given language, therefore, is the sum total of its lexical items that show signs of such manipulation. Linguists have long recognized that the only necessary link between a word’s form and its meaning is the arbitrary social convention that binds them. However, nothing prevents speakers from creating additional, unnecessary and therefore essentially “playful” links, associating forms with meanings in a symbolic, hence non-arbitrary way. This semantic effect is most evident in the case of onomatopoeia, through which the phonetic form of words that designate sounds is designed to be conventionally imitative of the sound. A second group of playful words combines repeated sequences of sounds with meanings that are themselves suggestive of repetition or related concepts such as collectivity, continuity, or actions in sequence, as well as repeated, back-and-forth, or uncontrolled movements, or even, more abstractly, intensity and hesitation. The playfulness of truncated forms such as clips and blends is based on a still more abstract connection between forms and meanings. In the case of clipping, the truncation of the full form of a word triggers a corresponding connotative truncation or diminution of the meaning, that is, a suggestion that the referent is small—either endearingly, humorously, or contemptuously so. In blending, truncation is often accompanied by overlapping, which symbolically highlights the interrelatedness or juxtaposition of the constituents’ individual meanings. Prosodic templates do not constitute a separate category per se; instead, they may play a part in the formation or alteration of words in any of the other categories discussed here.
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The HIV-infected population has been understudied and underserved with respect to risk reduction and prevention interventions. Increases in high-risk sex practices and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have prompted considerable concern and have led to initiatives to implement routine STD screening and risk reduction counseling among the HIV-infected population. Available evidence indicates that risk reduction counseling can be effective. Improved attention to risk reduction counseling in the HIV medical care setting in needed, and efforts to improve access and maintain linkage to care must be increased. This article summarizes a presentation given by Carlos del Rio, MD, at the March 2003 International AIDS Society-USA course in Atlanta.
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What percentage of Americans believe in God? 91% What percentage of Americans believe that God created human beings in our present form, or guided by an evolutionary process that led to our present form? 78% Who said "A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question"? Charles Darwin, Introduction to The Origin of the Species What is Darwinism? Unguided process produces new forms of life through random mutations (nothing + time/chance = everything) What is Intelligent Design? Certain features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause. It's a theory based on modern science. Should scientists, teachers, and students have the right to debate the evidence for and against Darwinian evolution? Why? Should they have the right to debate the evidence for and against Intelligent Design? Answers will vary Should a scientist or teacher lose his job for presenting scientific evidence critical of Darwin's theory? Answers will vary Is Intelligent Design science? Why or why not? It's theory is based on modern science Which is better supported by the scientific evidence--Darwin's theory or Intelligent Design? Intelligent Design In your view, what is the strongest evidence for or against Intelligent Design? Answers will vary How does the information encoded in the DNA point to intelligent design? The most likely explanation is that the DNA also had an intelligent source Someone says to you, "What's the big deal? I believe in evolution, and I believe in God. Evolution is just God's method of creation." How would you respond? Answers will vary
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There is a saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Behaviour and nature trumps intentions.
Commitment and good intentions are not enough
Procrastination is the biggest problem to getting things done. We all think our willpower is stronger than it really is.
Our biology and brains are wired to the present and pleasure and in the absence of habits and systems to overcome our natural tendencies, we will be victims to our own nature.
Knowing what is good for us is not the same as doing it.
Giving yourself short deadlines work and is the basis of practises such as Design Sprints.
Getting it done also creates rewards in your dopamine receptors and creates a positive cycle.
What can you do to overcome these.
Answer is use behaviour science, these “strategies” from Dan Ariely will give you some help
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The sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus Linnaeus, 1758) is a relatively small sturgeon widely distributed in Eurasian rivers from the Danube to the Yenisei. During the twentieth century, all wild sterlet populations have declined due to anthropogenic factors including: overfishing, poaching, construction of dams, and pollution. Despite the necessity of characterization both wild and captive stocks, few studies of population genetics have been performed thus far. Here we studied the genetic diversity and geographic structure of sterlet populations across the eastern range – Ob-Irtysh and Yenisei basins – by sequencing a 628-bp fragment of mitochondrial DNA control region. We identified 98 new haplotypes, delineated 12 haplogroups and estimated the time of basal haplogroup divergence within the species as over 8 million years ago. Our data suggest that Ob-Irtysh and Yenisei populations are isolated from each other and much lower genetic diversity is present in the Yenisei population than in the Ob-Irtysh population. Our data imply that sterlet populations in Siberian rivers underwent bottleneck or fragmentation, followed by subsequent population expansion. The data obtained here are important for sterlet population monitoring and restocking management.
|Журнал||Mitochondrial DNA Part A: DNA Mapping, Sequencing, and Analysis|
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Baseline Information for the Lead Paint Country Situation in Nigeria
Lead in Nigerian paints is another route of lead into the environment and exposure can be caused as a result of inhalation or ingestion especially in children. In 2008, SRADeV Nigeria under the auspices of International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) collected and analyzed decorative paints produced and/or marketed in Nigeria. All the sampled paint brands were found to contain lead higher than 90ppm, in fact up to an alarming level of 129,837ppm in one case. At that time, there were no regulatory limit for the paint sector.
In another study carried out between July to August 2016, a total of 54 cans of solvent-based paint intended for home use purchased from stores in Lagos, Nigeria, analytical results showed 74% of the samples had values higher than 90ppm as well as peak value of 160,000ppm. Moreover, it has been estimated that lead exposure accounts for 7-25% of the disease burden among Nigerian children, and a 50% decrease in childhood BLL could save up to $1 billion per years. Like other West African countries, the economic cost due to lead exposure is estimated at $27.9 Billion'. There are yet still barriers to this abuse to their use such as lack of regulations, access to vendors and lack of awareness of small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMEs) to the need for phasing out lead paint.
Therefore, the Federal Ministry of Environment with key sectors stakeholders as well as Paint Manufacturers Association (PMA) of Nigeria in response to the shocking results have joined UNEP and other developing countries together with IPEN/SRADev Nigeria partnership and launched National Lead Paint Elimination Campaign. In response to the international effort to eliminate lead in paint, the Global Environment Facility project on global best practices on emerging chemical policy issues of concern under the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management was launched in January 2019. In Nigeria, International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) participation organization Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development (SRADev Nigeria) implements the national activities with support and guidance from IPEN's international team. A baseline information study on paint market in Nigeria is a preliminary deliverable of the project.
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STEM is the combination of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math. Rather than teach each subject individually, these are taught together. This allows students to see the interconnectedness of the subjects. The reason for the recent push toward STEM is that those fields are going to experience incredible job growth in the near future. We want our students to be able to compete well when they get to high school and college. Our goal is also to provide students with real world opportunities to use STEM. One way we do this is through our weekly science labs which all students take part in, Kindergarten through 8th grade. Our labs provide age-appropriate experiences where students can learn how STEM is a part of their everyday lives.
Our students receive a comprehensive STEM program starting in Kindergarten. Students K-2 begin by observing scientific phenomena and talking about, writing about, and drawing basic diagrams of what they observe.
Students 3-5 continue with what they have learned in the lower grades and begin to learn to ask scientific questions about what they are observing. Their conversations, writings and drawings reflect their deepening knowledge of scientific content.
Students in Middle School continue to observe scientific phenomena and ask questions about what they are observing. At this level they learn to construct scientific arguments using a claim, evidence and reasoning framework. This is similar to what we used to know as the scientific method, but is much more in depth and allows students to apply what they are learning to mathematics, engineering and technology applications as well.
In the next few years we will be moving from STEM to STEAM. What this means is that students will learn to use Art and Design to harness their creativity to solve problems to STEM problems. This push comes from universities that have seen the value in the creative and collaborative environment that art provides.
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How Social Media has changed our lives
Everywhere we go, social media is ever-present. This digital medium has become one of the most important outlets in the world. Millions of people talk about different topics and share their lives through sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
But what is the impact of social media? What positive and negative effects does it have on our lives? We have listed below some of the pros and cons of social media for your benefit:
- News can be shared instantly in real-time
- Faster worldwide communication
- Can be used to promote positive ideas
- Increased marketing opportunities for business
- Can become addictive
- Reduces our ability to communicate face-to-face
- Can reduce confidence and self-esteem
- Can be used to spread hate and racism
As you can see, social media is a double-edged sword. It can be used to spread positivity. There is also no denying that it has improved communication and allows people from around the world to get in touch easier. On the flip side, social media can also become hugely addictive. Students can waste hours mindlessly scrolling through Facebook and Twitter feeds. Furthermore, there are those who use these platforms to spread their own negative agendas.
To help better understand this phenomenon, we have a myriad of social media essay topics. You can find out more info using our different essay about social media category. It is important that we look at how social media is being used, and what effects it can have.
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Clinical disease and mortalities due to disseminated visceral coccidiosis were identified for the first time in a group of captive juvenile Eurasian cranes (Grus grus) in the UK during 2008. Presumptive diagnosis was made from the finding of granulomatous nodules in the liver, spleen and other organs at gross postmortem examination, and confirmed histologically by the presence of intracellular coccidial stages within lesions. The species of coccidian was determined to be Eimeria reichenowi on the basis of faecal oocyst morphology and sequencing of 18S rDNA by PCR. A further outbreak of clinical disease occurred in the same enclosure in 2009, affecting a new group of juvenile Eurasian cranes and demoiselle cranes (Anthropoides virgo) and indicating the persistence of infective oocysts in the environment. Clinical sampling of birds during both years demonstrated positive results from examination of both faecal samples and peripheral blood smears.
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What Is Auditory Rehabilitation?
Auditory rehabilitation is the process of helping someone effectively adjust to and manage his or her hearing loss. Methods of rehabilitation are focused on helping overcome the challenges caused by hearing loss, therefore improving the quality of day-to-day life. Adult rehabilitation strategies differ significantly from those used for children.
Adult rehabilitation may be offered in individual or group settings and generally encompasses these main points:
- Adjusting to and learning about your specific type of hearing loss
- Improving communication skills
- How to use, care for, and make the most of your hearing aids
- Exploring accessories for your hearing aids
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The basic terms used in defining probability are:
2.1.1 Trial and event:
If we take an experiment in which the experiment is repeated under essentially same conditions, the outcome won’t be unique but may result in any of the possible outcomes. The experiment is known as a trial and the outcomes are known as events or cases.
2.1.2 Exhaustive events:
The all possible outcomes of any experiment are known as the exhaustive events.
2.1.3 Favourable events or cases:
The number of events favourable to an event in an experiment is the number of outcomes which entail the happening of the event.
2.1.4 Mutually exclusive events:
The happening of any one of them precludes the happening of all the other events that is if no two or more of them can happen simultaneously in the same trial.
2.1.5 Equally likely events:
Outcomes of an experiment is said to be equally likely if taking into consideration of all the relevant evidences there is no reason to expect one in preference to the others.
2.1.6 Independent events:
Several events are said to be independent if the happening of an event is not affected by the supplementary knowledge concerning the occurrence of any number of the remaining events.
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You will read that blockchain is a form of distributed ledger technology (DLT) . Basically, a ledger that keeps accounting data - the oldest type of database known in history. For as long as civilizations have been engaging in trade or organized systems of government, methods of record keeping using ledger have been in use.
With the advent of the internet we began digitizing the ledger, and eventually in 1990 distributed ledgers where designed to manage document updates using timestamps across servers. A decade later the DLT concept was taken further by designing block structure to hold data.
Between 1990s and early 2000s, there were a series of developments toward digital currencies based on various cryptographic concepts.
Most notably, 1998 Nick Szabo created a digital currency: Bitgold . It was the first attempt at blockchain based cryptocurrency for peer to peer transactions. However digital assets are easily duplicated and BitGold was not able to resolve the common issue of double spending for peer-to-peer digital currencies without third party entities to authorize transactions.
In 2008 blockchain was fully developed, by someone going under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto published the paper, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Bitcoins blockchain solution is the first blockchain to solve the double spending problem without needing any centralized authority as financial institutions are used today - hence Bitcoin introduced the first decentralized blockchain solution for p2p transactions.
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This part provides AC at a glance and features of Assembly as per Delimitation Commission of India document.
Location and Political Maps
It highlights location maps of AC and thematic map representation of winner parties at town and village level.
This section furnishes information on demographic features of AC with socio-religious classification of population.
Presents data on some important historical features of the elections held since independence along with the electoral by age group for latest year.
Historical Summary Election Results
This segment gives a summary of the assembly elections result since independence which include vote share of major parties, polarity, winning margin, etc.
Polling Station Level Election Results
It covers the name, number and elections results of the polling station along with their electoral and voter & voter turnout after delimitation 2008.
Share of Assembly Constituency
This part confers data on the share of AC in state, district and parliamentary constituency.
Socio- Economic Amenities
It contains data on socio-economic amenities likewise education, health, drinking water supply, sanitation, entertainment and recreations infrastructure, etc.
Abbreviation and sources
It contains the abbreviation and the source of information used in the book.
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The World’s favorite conductivity meter. Simply brilliant, brilliantly simple!
It is essential when growing with a hydroponic solution to KNOW what the strength of the solution is before feeding your plants AND while they are growing. If the conductivity reading is too low, your plants may not be getting enough nutrients. If the conductivity reading is too high, plants can dehydrate.
Understanding the conductivity of the nutrient solution takes the guesswork out of feeding plants. It will also save you money! Using the Bluelab Truncheon® Nutrient Meter is the fastest and easiest way to measure the conductivity!
To take a reading of your solution – simply place the probe head into the solution and the reading is indicated by the flashing lights. Calibration of the Truncheon® Nutrient Meter is not required.
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Reaganomics and Its Effect on Minority Groups
But even more painstakingly, with federal cuts to social programs, the administration was able to afford an extra $206 billion for military expansion. With the promise of increased pay and employment opportunities in the military, a large number of black men enlisted to support their families causing an absence of black fathers in black households and thus compromising the structural fabric of Black American family life by leaving children to be cared for in single family households.
According to recent census, minority families are “no better off” than they were in 1980. However, white families gained disposable income after the inflation adjustment, but the disposable income in black families decreased by more than 2 percent. Reagan also falsified many facts in order to justify his budgets cuts to social welfare programs. The most famous occurrence was when he addressed an alleged “welfare queen”. Reagan would often state that this “welfare queen”, whom allegedly resided in Chicago, drove a Cadillac and cheated the government out of $150,000 “using 80 aliases, 30 addresses, a dozen social security cards and four fictional dead husbands”. Reagan’s fictional welfare queen could easily be interpreted as a racially charged comment aimed towards impoverished black women in urban areas who seek financial assistance from the government. Predictably, after extensive searches for this “welfare queen” was conducted by journalists, it was soon
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Thomas Edison invented the clear light bulb in 1879. Manufacturers eventually introduced the frosted light bulb. Clear and frosted light bulbs are incandescent light sources that differ only slightly.
Clear light bulbs and frosted light bulbs share the same design. Both are made of glass and contain a tungsten filament that glows when heated by electricity, resulting in light. In addition, low- and high-wattage bulbs are available in clear and frosted bulbs.
The interior glass of frosted light bulbs contains a substance that coats the glass and diffuses the light. Clear bulbs do not contain any special coatings.
Those wanting softer, diffused light use frosted light bulbs. Clear bulbs give light that is brighter and suitable for everyday applications.
Inventors created early versions of light bulbs beginning in 1810, all using clear glass with no inside coating. Frosted light bulbs were not available until the 1920s.
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Hardness can be defined as a material’s resistance to permanent deformation. In the coatings industry, hardness measurement can be used to determine the resistance of the coating to scratching from general wear and tear and also if a coating is fully cured.
Depending on the requirements, there are various methods for testing hardness. Some are dedicated to characterise coatings and others are more suitable for testing bulk materials such as metals, plastics, rubber or elastomers.
Scratch Resistance: To assess a coating’s resistance to scratch there are a number of different instruments that can be used: Pencil Hardness Tester (Wolff-Wilborn), Sclerometer, Clemen Apparatus, Scratching and Shearing Instrument.
Resistance to Indentation: There are many instruments available to assess the resistance to penetration. For coatings in particular, there are three common methods where the depth of penetration of a weighted tool is used to show the coating’s resistance to penetration: Buchholz Hardness Tester, Barcol Impressor Hardness Testr, Shore Durometer.
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The tools required to meet the decarbonisation goals of the Paris Agreement exist today, and are technically feasible and economically attractive.
This central message is being presented by International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) at the underway United Nation’s Climate Summit in Abu Dhabi.
The agency highlights that falling technology costs have made solar, wind and other renewables the competitive backbone of energy decarbonisation and the most effective climate action tool available.
“Renewable energy delivers jobs, delivers on sustainable economic development and will deliver a viable climate solution. It is the competitive backbone of global energy decarbonisation and an essential and ready instrument to achieve the Paris Agreement goals,” said Francesco La Camera, IRENA Director-General.
To meet climate goals however, deployment needs to happen six times faster than it is today.
IRENA estimates that keeping global average temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius by 2050, means two-thirds of the world’s energy should be renewable.
More ambition needed
A clear opportunity lies in increasing ambition under Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), a framework for co-ordinated climate action under the Paris Agreement.
Currently NDCs would increase installed renewable power capacity by 3.6% annually to 2030, yet annual renewable energy deployment has actually increased by 8.5% over 2015-2018.
NDC targets could already more than double just by reflecting the current pace of renewable energy deployment.
In addition to climate benefits, IRENA analysis suggests that the cumulative payoff by 2050 of increased renewables deployment, in economic terms, would be a 2.5% GDP boost —between $65 trillion and $160 trillion— and up to 31 million additional renewable energy sector jobs.
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Looking for different ways to recognise progress?
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Narrative assessment is becoming increasingly used with special needs students to assess important moments of achievement, with what teachers describe as a remarkable effect on learning. It can also be used to recognise progress in areas such as inquiry or play-based learning, where conventional assessment tools may not be appropriate.
Narrative assessment is an approach to assessing and describing a student’s learning that allows a far richer depiction of that learning than is possible through more traditional criterion-referenced assessment. It compels the assessor to know the learner. It requires the assessor to notice, respond to, extend, reflect upon and communicate about important learning in which the student engages that can easily be overlooked by more conventional modes of assessment. It also requires careful response to and reflection on the teaching strategies.
We can support schools through seminars, coaching and modelling to become skilled in all aspects of narrative assessment.
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Our facilitators are comfortable in any teaching space, modelling the strategies for narrative assessment and supporting teachers to write learning narratives for their students.
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Surveys by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) show that there are some 6.3 million people in Afghanistan in need of humanitarian assistance in 2019. The causes of this precarious situation include armed conflict and recurring natural disasters, such as last year’s dramatic drought crisis. These factors result in large-scale displacement within Afghanistan, to its neighbouring countries Iran and Pakistan, and beyond.
UNOCHA estimates that around 900,000 people in Afghanistan will be affected by internal displacement in 2019. Between January and October 2018 alone, around 551,000 people, of whom more than half are children, were displaced within the country. The provision of basic services and supplies to internally displaced persons is often significantly worse than among the local population, and in some cases results in conflicts between the host communities and displaced persons.
At the same time, refugees returning from other countries also need support. The number of people returning from Iran is on the rise due to economic problems in the country. From January until October 2018 there were 670,000 returnees from Iran – a higher figure than the whole of the previous year. UNOCHA predicts that returnees from Iran and Pakistan will number around 575,000 and 40,000 respectively in 2019. These individuals often have no means of securing their livelihood or that of their families and rely on humanitarian assistance.
The German government is therefore providing targeted support to internally displaced persons and returnees through humanitarian assistance measures that focus on food, drinking water supply, waste water disposal and healthcare. Germany is also involved in disaster risk management that aims to reduce the impact of recurring humanitarian disasters.
In addition, Afghanistan is among the most mine-affected countries in the world. According to the country’s Directorate of Mine Action Coordination (DMAC), hundreds of square kilometres of land have become contaminated with mines and other explosives as a result of armed conflict in recent years. Improvised landmines and booby traps present a particular problem, with the latter being deployed deliberately against the returning population and occurring frequently in private dwellings and on agricultural land. The German government therefore supports landmine and weapon clearance projects and projects that provide care to victims of landmines and booby traps.
For further information about our work in the area of humanitarian assistance, please see the ‘Stories’ section and the project descriptions.
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Discipline of the School
School believes in maintaining discipline which is not regimental or oppressive. Discipline is an essential part of school education.
A. DRESS AND APPEARANCE
- All students must come to school wearing the prescribed uniform. The House uniform must be worn by the students on Saturday.
- All students must wear the school tie and school belt at all time and boys shall tuck their shirts in to their pants.
- Failure to comply with the school’s uniform regulations may result in a student being sent home after two warnings are recorded in the School Diary.
- Courtesy and respect must be the key aspects of pupil behavior. Disrespect and disobedience may result in disciplinary action, involving suspension or even expulsion.
- Staying away from school ‘bunking’ will be punished by suspension followed by expulsion.
- Students are expected to greet all visitors and members of the staff with respect.
- They should always remember that the schools are judged by their conduct.
- Silence must be maintained in the classrooms during periods.
- Indisciplined behavior in the schools bus will render a student ineligible to use the transportation.
- All students are responsible to the school authorities for their behavior both in and outside the school. Any reported or observed objectionable conduct outside the school on the part of the students shall render them liable for disciplinary action.
- Money should not be lent to or borrowed from, or articles exchanged.
- The school is not responsible for goods or money lost it is not advisable to bring valuables to school.
- No books (other than text books or library books), magazines etc. may be brought to the school, no absence literature will be allowed in the school premises.
- Normally no student is allowed out of the class to drink water or go to the toilet. This should be done only during break time.
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Assessment is the process through which teachers gather evidence and information to inform their future planning and your child's next steps in their learning. This is an ongoing process from tweaking lessons in the moment to adapt to children's needs, planning lessons, planning topics and making a yearly plan.
By making accurate assessments through a systematic whole school approach we can ensure that your child has tailored next steps and makes good progress.
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
In the Early Years we allow children time to settle into their new classes and routines and use the 'Leuven' scales to guide when we should assess the children. This is always done in the first half term and we ensure that your child is settled before assessing their levels against the 'Early Years Outcomes'. Assessments are completed through play and practical adult led activities.
Children's learning and achievements are captured using the 'Tapestry' online learning journal app. Parents can view their journals and upload learning from home by downloading the app to their own phones or tablets.
Children are assessed against the 7 areas of learning, these are split into two categories Prime and Specific.
Prime areas of learning:
*Personal, Social and Emotional Development
*Communication and Language
*Expressive art and design
*Understanding of the World
For each of these areas, the children are assessed against ‘age related bands’, which provide a standardised set of criteria for what a child might be able to do at different points during their early years. For each area, accurate judgements will be made as to whether the children are entering a particular age band, working within it (developing) or secure with all aspects. These assessments are then used to inform the planning so that teaching can be carefully matched to the children’s abilities and needs.
Key Stage 1
From September 2014, children are assessed in relation to the expectations for their age. For every child we carefully consider whether they are working at their age related expectations (ARE), slightly/ significantly below or slightly/ significantly above. By regularly monitoring and tracking children’s progress, we ensure that anyone needing additional support is quickly identified so that interventions can be put into place, enabling children to meet or exceed their targets.
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Harvard's Soft, Tiny Robot - A First
It's a tiny, soft robot, inspired by spiders, that may operate on humans someday. Harvard and Boston University engineers and scientists developed it. Their goal is to enable the robot to get to areas inside the human body that surgeons can't reach. This is the 1st time a flexible soft robot with an extensive range of capabilities has been created on such a small scale. The process is called MORPH.
Robots One Millimeter in Size
Boston University and Harvard's Wyss Institute have developed a process to create millimeter-sized, flexible robots. It's a hybrid technology that merges 3 different fabrication techniques. With the process, the team created a soft robot spider made of silicone rubber. It has 18 degrees of "freedom", meaning changes in structure, motion and color. These devices are at the micrometer scale level, meaning they can operate in small, inaccessible places.
The soft robotic devices have significant potential applications in endoscopy, microsurgery, biomedical uses and wearables. Despite the fact that it looks like the Australian Peacock spider, it most likely will have a prominent role in operating rooms in the near future.
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NCETM Newsletter - November 2020
Raising levels of achievement in maths, and increasing appreciation of the power and wonder of maths
Discover ways to develop your classroom practice and pedagogy with professional development that leads to improved maths teaching.
Find materials, guidance and National Curriculum resources to ensure your teaching is meeting your pupils’ needs.
Learn about what teaching for mastery in maths means, and discover materials, videos, opportunities, and more.
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These KS2 dictionary worksheets for Year 3 and 4 support children in learning to use dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read; a LKS2 curriculum aim for reading comprehension.
Use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both of these in a dictionary.
Broadening vocabulary and develop the ability to understand new words that are introduced into familiar written material, including through using a dictionary.
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New research suggests that our immune system may play an active role in shaping the digestive-tract flora, which is tightly linked to health and disease.
An innovative approach from Priya Rajasethupathy has been used to link genetics to behavior in mice. The analysis identifies a gene that underpins the role of the brain’s thalamus region in maintaining short-term memory.
Research led by Jean-Laurent Casanova shows Covid-19 patients with life-threatening illness have antibodies that disable key immune system proteins called interferons.
Just how sick we get from COVID-19 depends on genetic variations, including ones that sabotage immune molecules called interferons. Jean-Laurent Casanova's work aims to better understand why, which could lead to new treatments for COVID-19 and other scourges.
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Writing a dissertation is an extremely complicated task. It is mostly to be submitted towards the end of your academic journey and the purpose of this paper is to showcase your skills and capacity to conduct research in your chosen discipline and present the outcome through an original paper which would add value to the academic community.
How to Write a Dissertation – Advance Planning
Make sure you are given a good supervisor – speak to the alumni, seniors, other faculty and find out the necessary info. Your supervisor should ideally be reliable, and be able to give detailed feedback about each segment of your dissertation paper
4Impressive & Original Topic
Try and stay away from generalized themes about famine, wars, racial issues, religion etc. Invest time and conduct a thorough research to find a truly impressive topic that interests you. Ensure the topic is original.
3Divide & Conquer
Think about the outline of your paper and divide the paper into stages to fit the deadline. Begin with your literature review, primary sources and methodology, then move to analysis and organization of the material and start writing. Check and proofread each part of your dissertation carefully to make sure the ideas flow logically.
2Validate with Requirements & Guidelines
It is important to understand your university department requirements before you finish writing your dissertation paper. Request your librarian to provide you samples of dissertation papers from past years to see the way they were written. Some supervisors pay attention to the style, others to layout and some may reference to content most.
Each idea presented in your dissertation paper must be supported with proper references. Analyze the refence and present your ideas rather than just giving the details present in the references. Technical terminology should be supported with detailed definitions.
A dissertation paper is one of the most important task in your course, ensure you take it with utmost seriousness and deliver your best output.
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Byrhtnoth at the Battle of Maldon relays the story of the mighty Saxon leader as he leads his army against marauding Vikings, in an attempt to defend his homeland of East Anglia. In a battle of both heroism and cowardice, it is the sheer determination of their leader Byrhtnoth that is recalled to this day. Aimed at children aged 8 - 12 years, this story will open their eyes to the nature of battle in the year 991 when a very large force of Danes prepared to attack the Essex coastline in Maldon. Byrhtnoth would not agree to pay the requested tribute of silver to avoid battle, instead setting up a small army by the narrow causeway across the river from the Danes. Arrows, spears and swords were thrown by both sides in the ferocious battle of Maldon. This work of fiction brings together historical truth and the excitement of battle to teach children about the history of England, the Saxons and the invasion of the Vikings. Inspired by the work of Michael Murpogo, Byrhtnoth at the Battle of Maldon will appeal to children who enjoy historical novels and who are looking to learn about history in an exciting manner, as well as fans of Robin Campbell’s previous books, Running One Thousand Miles and Gallipoli Guns.
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Everyone gets anxious from time to time. Anxiety can help you to stay safe, for example it brings about physiological symptoms that warn you to either fight, flight or freeze in dangerous situations, such as running away from an angry dog. Anxiety also helps you perform better, for example feeling anxious before an exam can assist you to stay alert, which helps you to do your best. So it is not uncommon to feel anxious before exams or when there are stressful events in your life.
However, if this anxiety is interfering with many areas of your day to day life, such as you job, schoolwork, relationships and how you socialise with people, it is possible that you have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders can make you feel very anxious a lot of the time and this anxiousness can last over a long period of time and can happen in a lot of situations.
Anxiety disorders can affect anyone. Anxiety often comes when people hold in their fears until they begin to feel anxiety.
The signs of an anxiety disorder include:
Endless checking or rechecking actions.
A constant and unrealistic worry about everyday occurrences and activities.
Fear and anxiety that appear for no apparent reason.
Anxiety disorders include the following:
Panic Disorder: a sudden, uncontrollable attack of terror that can manifest itself with heart palpitations, dizziness, shortness of breath, and an out of control or terribly frightening feeling;
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: excessive anxiety and worry that last for at least six months accompanied by other physical and behavioural problems;Social
Phobia: a persistent fear of one or more situations in which the person is exposed to possible scrutiny of others;
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: repeated, intrusive and unwanted thoughts that cause anxiety, often accompanied by ritualized behaviour that relieve this anxiety;
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: caused when someone experiences a severely distressing or traumatic event. Recurring nightmares and/or flashbacks and unprovoked anger are common symptoms.
By contacting a psychologist, those who suffer from an anxiety disorder can take the first step on the road to recovery. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, 90 percent of people with emotional illnesses will improve or recover if they get treatment.
** With thanks to reachout.com and American Psychological Association
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Blame, culpability, guilt, fault are comparable when they mean responsibility for misdeed or delinquency.
Blame is a term of shifting denotations, sometimes meaning the reprehension, criticism, or censure of those who find fault or judge one’s work or acts or sometimes a charge or accusation of some fault, misdeed, or delinquency.
When the term denotes responsibility for wrongdoing or delinquency, it also implies the meriting of reproof, censure, or the appropriate penalty.
Often the term means ultimate rather than immediate responsibility.
Culpability usually means little more or no more than the fact or the state of being responsible for an act or condition that may be described as wrong, harmful, or injurious.
Guilt usually carries an implication of a connection with misdeeds of a grave or serious character from the moral and social points of view. Also it usually implies a deserving of severe punishment (as condemnation, loss of freedom, or, in the case of sin, loss of salvation) or of a definite legal penalty (as a fine, imprisonment, or death).
Therefore, when the term denotes responsibility for a crime or sin, it also carries implications of need of proof before punishment can be determined or forgiveness granted.
Fault (see also FAULT 2) is often used in place of culpability as a simpler word.
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How and where, in the human brain, are memories stored?
Background: I am a computer programmer who is fascinated by artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks, and I am becoming more curious about how biological neural networks work. Context & what I think I understand: In digesting all I have been reading, I am beginning to understand that there are layers to neural networks. A front-line layer of neurons may receive, for example, a visual stimulus such as a bright light. That stimulus is taken in by the front-line neurons, each of which produce a weighted electro-chemical response that results in a binary decision to pass an electrical charge through its axon to the dendrites of the tens of thousands of neurons to which it is connected.This process repeats through layers channeling the electrical signals and focusing them based on their permutations until ultimately a charge is passed to a focused response mechanism such as the nerves that control shrinking of the pupils.Hopefully I got that correct. Preamble to the question: Assuming that I am not completely off-base with my basic understanding of how a biological neural network operates, I am beginning to grasp how an input (stimulus) results in an output (response) such as motor movement or reflexes. That would just seem to be basic electricity of open and closed circuits. HOWEVER, what confuzzles me still is how a memory is stored. The analogy to an electrical circuit breaks down here, for in a circuit I can't really stop the flow of electrons unless I dam up said electrons in a capacitor. If I do that, once the electrons are released (accessed), they are gone forever whereas a memory endures. So. . .How the heck are memories constructed and stored in the human brain? Are they stored in a specific region? If so, where?
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Introduction to Public Health
The first time an influenza virus was found to be transmitted directly from birds to people, with infections linked to exposure to poultry markets. Six people in Hong Kong died. This virus was different because it moved directly from chickens to people, rather than having been altered by infecting pigs as an intermediate host. In addition, many of the most severe illnesses occurred in young adults similar to illnesses caused by the 1918 Spanish flu virus.
Law firms will lead the pack, with 30% expecting to add staff. Paralegals with four to six years' experience are in particular demand, as are attorneys who specialize in "lucrative areas like litigation, health care, bankruptcy, and foreclosure law," the report says.
- Key public health terms
- Historical developments from four public health perspectives
- Determinants of health and their effects on population health
These slide sets are in the public domain and may be downloaded and customized as needed by the user for informational or educational purposes. Permission from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not required, but citation of the source is appreciated.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Introduction to Public Health. In: Public Health 101 Series. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC; 2014. Available at: 智能家居开放与标准化倡议出台.
- 北京将出新规 五大类家具材种不能随意标注
- Introduction to Public Health Course on CDC TRAINExternal
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Glass is a popular packaging choice for all kinds of food and beverages.
It is made of abundant natural raw material, such as sand and recycled glass. And besides its versatility and its aesthetics, it offers an unbeatable advantage compared to other packaging materials as it preserves flavour and freshness, and guarantees that food and beverages placed in glass containers are not stained by the packaging. It is also commonly used in the pharmaceutical industry to preserve the properties of medicines. Glass can also be melted down an infinite number of times to create new, high quality glass packaging without any loss of quality and, as such, makes a significant contribution to protecting the environment.
Glass is made from naturally abundant materials, including sand, limestone, and soda ash and it can last for decades.
It is always a safe choice to use for packaging products.
And, you do not have to stress about chemicals and contaminants.
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Understand Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease
Diabetes and cardiovascular disease often go hand-in-hand. Adults with diabetes are two to four times more likely to develop heart disease or have a stroke than people without diabetes. In fact, about 68 percent of people with diabetes die of heart disease or stroke - one more factor that makes cardiovascular disease the most common cause of death in both men and women.
In addition, people with diabetes often have a build-up of atherosclerotic plaque throughout the body. About one in three people with diabetes over the age of 50 has peripheral artery disease (PAD), which is the narrowing of blood vessels by plaque in parts of the body other than the heart, for example in the legs or the kidneys.
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Ottoman Empire in Kosovo and Albanian history books
How the history of the Ottoman Empire in Kosovo and Albania is written has important implications for Kosovo and Albania's relations with Turkey.
By Muhamet Brajshori for Southeast European Times in Pristina
Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu's concept of "strategic depth" faces problems in Kosovo and Albanian history books. [Reuters]
In the history books of Kosovo and Albania, full of nationalist building discourse, the Ottoman Empire, and in some cases Turkey, are considered an oppressor due to nearly five centuries of Ottoman rule. However, historians argue that this nationalist-based perception could have a long-term impact on relations with a resurgent Turkey in the region.
Olsi Jazexhi, who is doing his PhD on Albanian nationalism, tells SETimes the history books on the Ottoman Empire and Turkey reflect a prejudice that is influenced by so-called Albanian European nationalism, which had different stages of development, beginning during the Ottoman presence until Communist rule.
"All those stages show Europe as a destination of the Albanians, and Turkey as the opposite of it, and since 9/11 show Islam as part of this evil," says Jazexhi.
Describing the Ottoman period, a history book written for primary schools in Kosovo describes the influence of Islam on Kosovo. "Factors which had impact on the spread of Islam were: pressure on the people through land taxes, which should be paid only by Christians, abducting boys and taking them to Istanbul where they faced Islamisation and education in Islamic way, reprisals of the state organs on the population, etc."
In this context, one issue discussed among experts and historians is whether the Ottoman Empire was an occupying country in Albania and Kosovo.............................
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Unikernels are the smallest lightweight virtual machines (VMs) one can create: they are VMs where there is no traditional operating system running underneath the application; instead, the application is compiled against bits of OS functionality that it needs, resulting in a very small app+OS bundle.
Developing applications with unikernels is a manual process today requiring significant expert resources, which prevents them from being widely used by the software industry. UNICORE will enable standard developers and dev-ops engineers to create, maintain and deploy unikernels with ease.
UNICORE will build the toolstack under the umbrella of the nascent Unikraft Xen subproject under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. Unikraft focuses on easing the creation of building unikernels, which compile source code into a lean operating system that only includes the functionality required by the application logic.
We encourage you to try the Unikraft Tutorial and build your first Unikernel!
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Where: Forest Lake Boulevard Park
Date: Sunday 25 May 2014
Time: From 9am – 12pm
Learn how to identify pest fish species and the impact they pose on our native fish and aquatic habitat. During the event, residents will able to fish for Tilapia, a hardy fish whose effective breeding habits can lead to it overrunning native species, other noxious fish such as carp, and ornamental fish commonly kept in home aquariums such as goldfish. To take part in the fishing activity, residents are asked to sign up at the registration marquee near the Stage area at the parklands where they will be directed to one of the designated fishing sites around the lake.
There will also be a free sausage sizzle.
Participants will be required to bring along their own fishing rod and line. Barb-free hooks will be provided to reduce the impact on native bycatch that will be returned to the water. Bait will be available on site.
As this is an outdoors event, participants should also bring water, sun smart clothing, hat, sunscreen and enclosed shoes. All children, under the age of 18, must be accompanied by an adult.
Note: Fishing in Forest Lake is normally prohibited, however Council has approval to oversee this one off event to raise awareness for and manage this pest species.
More information about pest fish is available from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
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The Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris rapae) and the Cabbage Moth (Plutella xylostella), along with their offspring (the very hungry caterpillars!) are responsible for the eaten leaves and irregular holes in the leaves of vegetables such as Cabbage, Cauliflower, Kale, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Bok Choi, Wombok and Watercress.
The Cabbage White Butterfly (pictured here) is white with black spots on the wings. It is around 4cm across and has a Green-Blue caterpillar stage. The Cabbage Moth is greyish and small (around 1cm across) and has a Green-Brown caterpillar stage.
Both the butterfly and the moth lay their eggs on the underside of young leaves. The eggs develop into sap-sucking ‘crawlers’ that excrete a sugary honeydew. This then attracts black or green sooty mould on the surface of the leaf. The crawlers then turn into caterpillars and start chewing vigorously on your vegies!
What you can do:
- Pick off caterpillars by hand and run your fingers over the leaves to squash the eggs and crawlers.
- These guys are very territorial, so there are a few ways you can make it seem like another moth or butterfly is already in residence. Eggshell halves or the plastic clips from loaves of bread can be taped together to look a little like a butterfly and strung above your crops. You can even try hanging a few little fake plastic butterflies.
- Create a physical barrier by using exclusion netting (pictured here). Ideally you need to cover the entire bed for the whole growing season to stop the eggs being laid in the first place. Exclusion netting is available in the hardware section at BAAG.
- Spray with a Microbial Insecticide. Dipel is a very low toxic microbial insecticide that contains a bacteria which is highly effective and selective for caterpillars. It is a bacteria that occurs naturally in the soil and it acts as a stomach poison only to these caterpillars. It is totally safe to many beneficial insects, mammals, birds, fish and plants. There is no witholding period when harvesting crops that have been sprayed with Dipel (they can safely be eaten immediately). Dipel breaks down naturally in sunlight, so repeat sprays are necessary every 5-7 days.
Another good microbial insecticide is ‘Success’.
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Dairy health experts at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s New Bolton Center (NBC) have seen an increase in pneumonia cases this year, particularly in growing heifers and calves, resulting from the wide temperature swings and wet-warm weather in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. NBC experts have provided several important tips for area producers to aid in the prevention and management of pneumonia in dairy cows.
Producers should ensure that their operations offer good ventilation, which significantly impacts the air quality and cooling capacity necessary to prevent illness. Keeping curtains and windows open will allow for good air flow. Producers operating on older farms should consider installing a forced or tube installation system in their barns, and all operations can benefit from having an air-quality and air-flow test run on their facility.
Vaccinations are a key component to disease prevention, but only if they are utilized correctly. The best way to ensure that a vaccine program that will work well for a specific operation is to consult with a veterinarian, or have them develop a plan specific to the operation’s needs. Consider adding pneumonia-specific vaccinations just before the most challenging times the year, early and late winter, to provide added protection for your animals. Some intranasal vaccines are particularly helpful, and provide better localized immunity in the airways.
Be sure to avoid or minimize as many additional sources of stress as possible during the winter months. Transportinganimals, excessive intermingling, or bringing in new stock from outside sources or sale barns should be kept to a minimum if possible.
Monitoring animals regularly, checking for signs of illness and taking the temperatures of animals that present any symptoms, can help producers to recognize the existence of illness early, which will give the best chance of effective treatment and prevention of long-term damage.
Finally, if an outbreak does occur, fast and aggressive treatment is the key to success. Treat affected animals early, and consider isolating them to help prevent the disease from spreading. Blanket treatments, including feed through antibiotics, can be effective when dealing with a larger outbreak, but be sure to consult a veterinarian before doing so.
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A research paper1 recently accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters titled “The radial acceleration relation in rotationally supported galaxies”2 highlights a discovery that is bad news for dark matter. It certainly does not strengthen the case for halo dark matter around spiral galaxies.
The research team, McGaugh et al, took data for 153 spiral disk galaxies from the Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves (SPARC) database that represents spiral galaxies of all types and morphologies, from very bright to very low surface brightness disks. It included representative spiral galaxies that would be assumed to contain a very high fraction of dark matter at very low orbital accelerations to those with very little dark matter at high orbital accelerations. These galaxies are all assumed to be rotationally supported, which means their disks are assumed to be gravitationally bound by the included matter inside any radial distance (R) from the centre of the galaxy. The speeds of the stars and gases (V) as a function of their measured radial distance (R) determines what is known as a rotation curve V(R). See Fig. 1.
In this paper the observed acceleration, gobs, at each radial distance R from the centre of the chosen galaxies, was calculated from the measured values of V(R) and R for each galaxy, totalling 2693 data points over the 153 galaxies. Also using infrared data the mass density was accurately measured at these same radial points, which permitted, via the Poisson equation, a direct calculation of the expected acceleration, gbar, due to the baryonic matter (protons and neutrons, i.e. normal matter) content within the same galaxies. No free fit parameters were used in these estimations, except a single fixed Mass-to-Light ratio of 0.5 was used across all galaxies.
Assuming standard Newtonian (or Keplerian) physics the acceleration due to the baryonic matter, gbar, is all we should need to correctly calculate the rotation curve of any galaxy. See Fig. 1 (which reproduces their Fig. 2). Some representative rotation curves are shown by the upper-most black circles with error bars. Quite obviously the solid blue lines—the expect rotation velocities due to the observed baryonic matter—do not follow the observed rotation curves, but fall well below, in most galaxies. This is the reason halo dark matter is invoked. See Fig. 2.
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Course: DEAF 200. Introduction to Deaf Studies (3)
Preparatory: DEAF 160. This course introduces students to the basic information of the American Deaf experience in the United States: Deaf community/culture and American Sign Language. This course exposes students to the history, contributions and contemporary lives of Deaf people in America. This course is interdisciplinary in that it introduces a range of issues that are developed in the purview of Deaf Studies — linguistics, education, sociology, psychology and other fields.
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In the wake of December’s Connecticut school shootings, teachers and administrators all across the US are under pressure to formulate safety plans for the children in their schools.
These education professionals need to be prepared to assess and react to a variety of emergency situations every day. In some instances, a quick response can mean the difference between life and death. As school districts across the nation mull over various safety and emergency alert options, one school district is moving ahead with a technology solution from one of our partners.
The Nye County (Nevada) School District is testing a reliable emergency alert system in one of its schools, with the intention of rolling it out to others within the district. The SAFE (Security Alert For Education) System is gaining awareness as more schools find opportunities to try out its unique safety system.
According to an NBC News article about the school district, the Nye County School District is spread across 18,000 square miles, and Superintendent Dale Norton needed to find a audio-video solution to put into place for the district. After consulting with SAFE management team, the district chose to work with Audio Enhancement Safe System – which involves video, audio and security.
The SAFE system works when a teacher wearing the teardrop microphone sends out a discreet signal for help by using the alert button built into the transmitter. An audible and visual alarm on the monitoring station in the front office notifies designated first responders immediately of the emergency alert.
School officials can monitor specific classrooms via monitors that are connected to in-room cameras and audio systems. In this way, they can check that everything is OK in the classrooms in real time. Or, should the need for an emergency assistance come up suddenly, officials can make the call for help.
Learn more from the clip below about how your school can benefits from purchasing the SAFE system through CCS Presentation Systems.
For more information of the SAFE audio enhancement system, check out our CCS Presentation Systems site for more specs on this truly necessary component of today’s safe classroom environment.
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ABOUT Metal Injection Molding
Technology: Metal Injection Molding Services are manufacturing services which produce metal parts through a combination of injection molding and sintering. In the process, powdered metal is mixed with plastic binders and the plastic is then melted and the mixture injected into a mold. After cooling, parts are ejected from the mold, debinded, and finally sintered to produce parts that are near net shape. Metal injection molding services are characterized as high volume production of small, complex parts.Offers higher product density than traditional powder metallurgy processesNear net shape eliminates secondary machiningLong tool life
Many metals can be formed using the injection molding process, including stainless steels, superalloys, low alloy steel, and low expansion alloys. Metals that have lower melting temperatures than copper are generally not good candidates for metal injection molding, including aluminum and zinc. Titanium is also not suited to injection molding.
Advantges: Metal injection molding services offer an alternative to investment casting and machining processes.
Limitations of metal injection molding servicesParts are oversized out of mold but shrink isotropically during sinteringSagging can occur during sintering if supports are not used
Applications: Metal injection molding services have applications in a number of specialized areas, devicesElectrical componentsAerospace components
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Catholic Schools nurture personal growth, scholarship, life-long learning, service and responsible stewardship through a faith-centered way of life.”Vision Statement – Diocese of Richmond)
The articulation of a faith-centered environment with a quality educational program for the Diocese of Richmond requires that all educators involved in schools work collaboratively to design and implement an ever-developing and creative curriculum. According to Catholic tradition, curriculum should encompass the principle of respect, challenge learners to achieve their full potential and contribute to the moral development of all students.
The Consensus Curriculum has been designed in such a manner that it will stimulate a logical progression through the intellectual stages of critical analysis, deductive/inductive reasoning, clarity of thought/expression and utilize effective strategies for problem solving. As part of the student’s faith journey, the Benziger Family Life Series is integrated into the religion curriculum. This series is used to teach respect for life and human sexuality in all grades.
The teacher, as a leader, creates a learning environment which provides all learners with the opportunity to learn and succeed. Having a thorough knowledge of the current research on learning, the teacher sets high expectations, addresses the varied learning styles of students and provides the necessary resource to achieve success.
The principal creates a school environment of mutual respect and encourages the team approach to teaching at each grade level. He oversees the development and implementation of the Consensus Curriculum. Additionally, he is instrumental in the continuing development of the curriculum scope and sequence and ensures that all teachers are adhering to established grade level time lines. The principal reports to and consults with the Office of Catholic Schools in the Richmond Diocese.
The curriculum exists for the total development of each student in our schools. The students, as learners, will assist in the continuing growth of the curriculum, not only as recipients of learning, but as creators of new opportunities. A well-developed curriculum encourages, within every student, an inventive spirit, flexibility to adapt to change, a desire to set and attain goals, and a belief in themselves.
Subjects outlined in the Consensus Curriculum include:
- Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Foreign Language
- Physical Education
The Consensus Curriculum is available for review on the Richmond Diocesan School System’s website curriculum page.
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Building Digital Communities: A framework for action
(Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2012-01)
Digital inclusion is the ability of individuals and groups to access and use information and communication technologies. Not all members of a community benefit equally, and some communities have been left out altogether. "Building Digital Communities: A framework for action" is a resource for fostering digital inclusion ...
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Breeding males are distinctive with dark reddish-brown cap and sides, along with buffy nape. Two bold white wingbars. Females and fall birds are duller; most show at least some chestnut coloring on sides. Dullest birds are similar to Blackpoll and Pine Warblers; look for streaks on back, well-defined wingbars, and cleaner greenish-yellow head and neck. Prefers conifers during migration, but can be found in any woodland. Breeds in the boreal forest. In most of U.S. , only seen during migration. Winters in Central and South America. Listen carefully for extremely high-pitched, squeaky-wheel song, similar to a fast Black-and-white Warbler.
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EU rules on product safety ensure that only safe products are sold on the market. Businesses should only sell products which are safe, and inform consumers of any risks associated with the products they supply. They also have to make sure any dangerous products present on the market can be traced so they can be removed to avoid any risks to consumers.
The General Product Safety Directive complements sector specific legislation such as specific rules that apply to toys, electrical and electronic goods, cosmetics, chemicals and other specific product groups. It does not cover pharmaceuticals, medical devices or food, which fall under separate legislation.
Market surveillance: EU countries are responsible
EU countries are responsible for market surveillance on their territory, through their national authorities. They check whether products available on the market are safe, and that product safety legislation and rules are applied. National authorities can also impose sanctions when necessary.
Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products
The Rapid Alert System enables national authorities of EU and EEA countries and the European Commission to quickly exchange information on dangerous non-food products. Products that are a risk to health and safety can be traced and swiftly taken off the market.
If a dangerous product is found in any of the countries that participate in the system, and measures are taken by the national authorities, they should send information about the product, the risks linked to the product and measure taken to the Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products.
The information sent by the national authorities is published daily on Safety Gate.
Market surveillance authorities cooperate closely with customs, which play a major role in protecting consumers from any unsafe products imported from outside the EU.
Consumer Safety Network
The Consumer Safety Network is a consultative expert group chaired by the European Commission and made up of national experts from the administrations of EU countries, as well as Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
The safety of consumer products as well as general product safety issues are the main areas of discussion.
The network meets on average three times a year.
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Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines 1740-1803
Enlightened Monks investigates the social, cultural, philosophical, and theological challenges the German Benedictines had to face between 1740 and 1803, and how the Enlightenment process influenced the self-understanding and lifestyle of these religious communities. It had an impact on their forms of communication, their transfer of knowledge, their relationships to worldly authorities and to the academic world, and also their theology and philosophy. The multifaceted achievements of enlightened monks, which included a strong belief in individual freedom, tolerance, human rights, and non-violence, show that monasticism was on the way to becoming fully integrated into the Enlightenment. Ulrich L. Lehner refutes the widespread assumption that monks were reactionary enemies of Enlightenment ideas. On the contrary, he demonstrates that many Benedictines implemented the new ideas of the time into their own systems of thought. This revisionist account contributes to a better understanding not only of monastic culture in Central Europe, but also of Catholic religious culture in general.
Oxford University Press
History of Christianity
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Proletarians-the working class intended to "haunt" Europe and seize control of it.
For these people as well as all the other European socialist and communist parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, eventually became one of the principal programmatic statements. The book was preaching for the fall of the ruling classes and the emergence of the workers. This being the main topic of the "Manifesto" inspired people to believe that the bourgeois exploited them as well as everything else only to benefit themselves. In four chapters and an introduction, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, develop the fall of bourgeoisie, the idea of communism and most importantly the rise of proletariat.The "Manifesto" opens with a phrase: "A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of communism." The intention of it is the same as of the entire chapter, the acknowledgement of the spread of communism and its strength ("Communist Manifesto"). The role of the "Manifesto" is shown as promoting the communist beliefs.
In the very next chapter "Bourgeoisie and Proletarians" some of these most radical beliefs are expressed.According to Marx and Engels, the struggle of classes is inevitable. Yet, by the working class taking over, there would be no more classes and humans would be equal. The main reason behind the bourgeois being the antagonist is that they are oppressors, the inheritors of the feudal system where they exploit their surrounding.
Marx and Engels condemn free trade as a mean of exploitation, which demands the poorer people and nations to depend on the richer ones. "Universal interdependence of nations" is not seen as a beneficial factor, but just another symbol of the rich, taking all the wealth from the p…
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Aspergillus niger is one of the most active cellulolytic fungi. The roll of drawings in the above picture is mainly infested by A. niger and Chaetomium sp. as identified from the cultures isolated from the deteriorating inner-side of the roll. This culture was maintained on potato dextrose agar slants.
Following are the digital pictures of the portions of the slides that were studied under a compound microscope.
Aspergillus niger is ubiquitous in soil and is commonly reported from indoor environments.
Cellulase production by Aspergillus niger on lignocellulosic substrates is reported in both submerged (SmF) and solid State (SSF) Fermentations. Cellulases are the group of hydrolytic enzymes Filter paperase (FPase), Carboxymethylcellulase (CMCase) and -glucosidase (BGL) and are responsible for release of sugars in the bioconversion of the paper into a variety of products which is the cause of loss of drawing along with the paper.
P.S. (post scriptum)
Aspergillus niger is included in Aspergillus subgenus Circumdati, section Nigri. The section Nigri includes 15 related black-spored species that may be confused with A. niger, including A. tubingensis, A. foetidus, A. carbonarius, and A. awamori.
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Obesity refers to an abnormally high body mass. It is a condition that can lead to various health problems and is not just a cosmetic issue. It is associated with diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.
Obesity can be attributed to some causes:
- Lack of activity
- Excessive eating
- Diseases like Prader Willi syndrome, Cushing’s syndrome
Obesity is characterized by the body mass index (BMI) value. If a person has a BMI more than 30, the person is said to be obese.
Along with a high BMI, the patients that have started getting diseases associated with this health condition, have symptoms of those diseases.
The diagnosis is made by calculating the patient’s BMI. The BMI is calculated by dividing the patient’s weight in kilograms by height in meters squared. A patient with a BMI of 30 and higher is considered as obese.
Treatment for this health condition is simply lifestyle changes. Adopting healthy eating habits, and increasing daily physical activity can lead to weight loss, which can decrease the risk of many health problems associated with obesity.
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Genetic aberrations play a major role in human disease. They are responsible for a number of birth defects and have been identified as an important cause of much prenatal mortality. Approximately one-half of all conceptuses, for example, have been estimated not to survive to term, and some die so early that they are not even detected by the mother. Not all genetic anomalies appear at birth, however, since a number may result postnatally from environmental agents that have caused single cell mutations (which might develop into a human tumor), and yet others may require a second mutational event and appear even later. Thus, the industrial environment poses special hazards, to both female and male workers, because of the risks of induction of cancer, as well as of impairment of reproductive ability. Industrial cytogenetic monitoring, as a form of preventive medicine, is now possible. This review discusses many of the causes and types of genetic damage and the current cytogenetic techniques, as well as their use in industrial monitoring.
©1981 The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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MIMO communication is a technique for improving the transmission and reception of signals over a channel by exploiting multipath propagation. Some examples MIMO communications are presented in this section.
Combine (MIMO) processing and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) techniques together with beamforming to improve the received signal-to noise-ratio (SNR). Improved SNR reduces the bit error rate.
Use antenna arrays to improve the SNR and capacity of a wireless link.
Send multiple data streams through a scatter-rich channel by using a set of precoding and combining weights derived from the channel matrix. Each data stream can be independently recovered.
Employ hybrid beamforming at the transmit end of a massive MIMO communications system, applicable to both multi-user and single-user systems.
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Libraries Opening Paths to Knowledge
Ensuring access to knowledge has always been at the heart of the mission of research libraries. In the digital age, and with the growth of Open Science, this implies not only preserving and providing access to content but also opening up new pathways to interacting with and creating knowledge.
1) Content and Processes
Working ever more closely with researchers throughout the research life cycle to encourage and help them to open up their research process and to make both their outputs and methodologies available during and beyond the life of a research project, libraries are moving from curation to creation and workflows.
Engaging in user-led development of services, and a trend towards the creation of shared services as well as developing new methods and opportunities for user engagement.
3) Legal & Ethical
Keeping abreast of emerging legislative developments and considering how to act responsibly to address ethical issues in making data open. Opening up new pathways to knowledge and knowledge creation can also have legal and ethical implications related to copyright and data protection.
4) Space & Experimentation
Rethinking library spaces (physical and virtual) to open up opportunities for experimentation and the visualisation of data, and leveraging e-infrastructure to support collaboration and sharing across borders and disciplines.
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Your kids are interesting, fun, wonderful people. Butterfly crafts for kids let them know it! By expressing themselves, kids not only learn more about themselves, but also more about the world around them.
Before beginning these butterfly crafts, consider researching butterfly books or exploring the outdoors for inspiration. You and your kids will soon discover there's much to learn and appreciate about nature's most beautiful insect.
Explore the links below to find fun, educational butterfly crafts that will have your whole family abuzz with activity:
Make a gorgeous notebook for family members and friends to share signatures, notes, and ideas.
Build a home for migrating and hibernating butterflies right in your own backyard.
Pin up report cards, photos, and reminders with these fun, fluttery clips.
Celebrate a butterfly's beginnings with these crafty, wiggly-eyed creatures.
Use paper and paint to create stained glass butterflies that shine in the sunlight.
Turn butterflies, ladybugs and dragonflies into great gifts for everyone on your list.
Bring a scene from your garden to life by making this lovely and useful magnet.
Not only is this craft fun to look at, but it makes a lovely jingle, too.
This beautiful butterfly craft is quite quick to make -- either with our pattern, or with one of your own.
Keep reading to learn how to make a special butterfly autograph book for the whole family to share.
For more fun activities and crafts for kids, see:
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As the crisis caused by the Covid 19 virus deepens we are seeing new hospitals being built to cope with a predicted rise in demand for intensive care units.
These have been named after one of outstanding nurses of the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale. Other notable women from British History include Jamaican born Mary Seacole, who despite being rejected by the War Office, travelled to the front line to care for injured soldiers, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson who was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon.
Liverpool Green Party Have written to the Mayor calling for any additional capacity in Liverpool to recognise the outstanding contributions of these other women.
Leader of Liverpool Greens, Cllr Tom Crone said, “Its right that we recognise the vital role of women in British history, but also important that we showcase the fact that this is a story of many pioneering women, not just the one who is a household name.”
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The most valuable insight gleaned from the site visits to India, Nepal and Taiwan, was that this kind of in-context observation and support is necessary to help education programs grow in emerging communities. The Education Team is in the process of drafting strategy to streamline and scale up this kind of support through equitable and transparent processes. We will be sharing more information about this strategy in the coming months.
Additionally, three ideas emerged from the site visits, and were based on conversations that happened in-context in each country. These ideas might seem difficult to implement, but the ideas themselves can provide valuable insight into the type of support that the Education Team might provide in the future.
||A safe space where educators using Wikimedia projects in the classroom can collaborate, co-create, and give constructive feedback. This idea was brought up during several focus groups in Asia with educators at the secondary and higher ed levels, but especially in Nepal with the teachers at Deerwalk Sifal School.
- “Open education”, “sharing (pedagogic practices) is learning”,
- Could be a valuable project to develop with partners in the open education movement.
||Wiki Student and Educator Summit
||Intrinsic and extrinsic motivators for participating in education programs are needed for sustainability at the local level. Intrinsic motivation comes from tapping into student interests and being part of a volunteer community. In India, conversations with program leaders, especially Tanveer, and educators led to the idea of an extrinsic motivator in the form of attendance at a Wiki Student and Educator summit that students and educators can earn participation in through a transparent selection criteria. This could be piloted regionally (CIS offered to host) and scaled internationally in years to come.
||Sustained learning for program leaders
||Discussions in Taiwan with Liang and other program leaders led to the development of an idea for a pilot of sustained learning for program leaders. Program leaders have the opportunity to earn micro-credentials or some other formal recognition for taking part in sustained learning around planning and evaluating education programs (and/or other programs). The problem being workshops at Wiki Conferences during learning days are not sufficient for program leaders to implement what they have learned. They need more mentorship and sustained guidance and practice.
Want to be kept up to date about developments that result from this pilot? Sign up for updates on the talk page!
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The natural disaster, alongside the closure of the small family citron farms to make way for tourism, make for a dim future for Chabad Jews reliant on this citron, which has been grown in the region for at least 2,000 years.It is not clear to me whether Chabad is actually considering using Israeli citrons for Sukkot. The Calabrian ones were prescribed by their late leader Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, so there is considerable authority behind their use. But the losses of the Calabrian citron crop sound catastrophic. I suppose they may need to look to other options.
So perhaps they should look to a place where they have been cultivated for even longer — Israel.
A recent study of the migration of citrus fruit to the Mediterranean region by Tel Aviv University Prof. Dafna Langgut illustrates through archaeobotanical proof that the citron first appeared in Israel, and only about 500 years later in Italy.
Langgut’s discipline of archaeobotany involves the identification of botanical remains in archeological contexts. In the case of the citron (Citrus medica), she and her team discovered pollen from the fruit in a private garden in Jerusalem which dates back to the First Temple period.
The discovery of ancient citron pollen at Ramat Rachel was noted here in 2012. For more on the Ramat Rachel excavation, see here and links. And I noted that recent study of the ancient use of citrus fruit, including citrons, here.
Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism and the biblical world.
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- Professional Learning
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NCMPS is excited to announce the release of the Montessori Assessment Playbook, a strategy manual and collection of tools for implementing a new assessment model grounded in Montessori and supporting human flourishing.
The Playbook contains 33 wide-scope assessment tools, including:
The Assessment Playbook Workshop is a team-month series of online tutorials and discussions for implementing the tools and assessment strategy in the Playbook. Learn More →
The Essential Elements for Montessori in the Public Sector is a concise set of implementation guidelines developed and endorsed by NCMPS and national Montessori organizations.
The Essential Elements Rubric, a detailed articulation of the Elements, can be used independently or as part of a comprehensive Essential Elements Review. Learn more about the Essential Elements Review
A fully-articulated rubric for evaluating schools according to the Essential Elements. The Rubric can be used independently, or as part of a contracted Essential Elements Review .
How can schools continue their path to public Montessori excellence under pandemic conditions? This free download offers guidelines and adjustments to the Essential Elements Rubric.
The DERS is a classroom assessment tool which measures child and adult behaviors, and environmental attributes, associated with developmental outcomes such as executive function, linguistic and cultural fluency, and social fluency and emotional flexibility.
Schools use the DERS to guide observation and support continuous improvement towards outcomes that matter.
For more information, training, and licensing, visit ders-app. org→
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Natural selection has produced not only fixed adaptive traits in response to enduring environments, but also contingencies capable of yielding variable outcomes in variable environments. A well-known example is phenotypic plasticity, which entails alternative developmental outcomes in different environments. Here, we focus on more immediate and transitory behavioral plasticity (underpinned by motivational processes), and we suggest that the physiological concept of homeostasis offers a coherent perspective for studying human motivations and associated behavioral processes. We further propose the asymmetric behavioral homeostasis hypothesis, which conceptualizes many motivational processes as 1-sided homeostatic mechanisms and which predicts that motivational responses that are amplified by certain cues will not be reversed simply by reversing the input cues. An important implication is that many evolutionarily adaptive—albeit subjectively and socially deleterious—responses to fitness threats (e.g., fears, aversions) are more easily inflamed than dampened. We review literature bearing on this hypothesis and discuss implications for psychology.
- Cognitive Science
- Social Cognition
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Filarial worms cause a variety of tropical diseases in humans; however, they are difficult to study because they have complex life cycles that require arthropod intermediate hosts and mammalian definitive hosts. Research efforts in industrialized countries are further complicated by the fact that some filarial nematodes that cause disease in humans are restricted in host specificity to humans alone. This potentially makes the commitment to research difficult, expensive, and restrictive. Over 40 years ago, the United States National Institutes of Health–National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH-NIAID) established a resource from which investigators could obtain various filarial parasite species and life cycle stages without having to expend the effort and funds necessary to maintain the entire life cycles in their own laboratories. This centralized resource (The Filariasis Research Reagent Resource Center, or FR3) translated into cost savings to both NIH-NIAID and to principal investigators by freeing up personnel costs on grants and allowing investigators to divert more funds to targeted research goals. Many investigators, especially those new to the field of tropical medicine, are unaware of the scope of materials and support provided by the FR3. This review is intended to provide a short history of the contract, brief descriptions of the fiilarial species and molecular resources provided, and an estimate of the impact the resource has had on the research community, and describes some new additions and potential benefits the resource center might have for the ever-changing research interests of investigators.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
©2011 Michalski et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Michalski, Michelle L.; Griffiths, Kathryn G.; Williams, Steven A.; Kaplan, Ray M.; and Moorhead, Andrew, "The NIH-NIAID Filariasis Research Reagent Resource Center" (2011). Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
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It seems paradoxical but it’s not.
Children’s stories capture our imagination, make us wonder, and reveal the inherent mysteries of life in the simplest and most profound ways.
They can also motivate teachers and students of all grade levels and subjects to ask Big Questions.
You’ve already seen how the Araboolies of Liberty Street by Sam Swope can be used to teach the Civil Rights Movement and the 1st Amendment and how Swimmy by Leo Lionni can be used to teach the meaning of bravery in the Abolitionist Movement.
But there’s so much more.
The University of Washington Center for Philosophy of Children has a treasure trove of over 100 children’s stories along with innovative ideas on how to use these stories to introduce Big Questions in the classroom. Most of the stories can be adapted seamlessly to fit the middle and high school audience.
Consider these stories and the Big Questions they inspire:
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Is the proper role of government to help citizens or to encourage citizens to help themselves?
The Big Box by Toni Morrison
Who gets to decide who is free? or What does it mean to have freedom?
If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Are historical events determined to happen or can humans change the course of history through their choices?
You might think you can’t use children’s stories, especially in a high school class! It’s too basic and simplistic. The kids will think you are insulting their intelligence.
Dispense with this thinking! Each time I’ve introduced a children’s story, I have found most of my students alert, intrigued and ready to think. This is because I’m drawing upon something familiar and creating a safe space for them to think. It’s the perfect entry point for asking Big Questions.
The best part is that you can come back to the children’s story repeatedly as you work your way through different units, all the while reinforcing the importance of the original Big Questions the story inspired. This strategy would be particularly valuable in an English class with a novel.
What children’s story do YOU use (or could you use) in your classroom?
Next Post: Where can I find Big Questions? Ask a Philosopher
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The Schooner SoundWaters is The Teaching Vessel of Long Island Sound. A representation of a 19th century sharpie schooner, the SoundWaters is an ideal platform for learning and experience for both students and adults.
For students, this three-masted, 80’ ship, typically serving forty students, is a teaching platform for the Science of the Sound, a hands-on, science-infused learning experience aboard the Schooner SoundWaters. During this three-hour science enrichment program students will help to raise the sails, haul in a trawl net and examine the ecology of Long Island Sound. Students test the Sound’s water quality along their town’s coastline, demonstrate mechanical advantage, touch and investigate the structures of live animals, and more. The program provides an interactive learning experience that cannot be simulated in a classroom and serves to reinforce many of the ecological concepts and theories introduced throughout SoundWaters education programs. The program embodies the standards for Connecticut and New York Core Science Curriculum Frameworks and prepares students for the States Mastery Tests.
For adults, the Schooner is a wonderful venue for afternoon and sunset sails that combine learning and exploration of the beauty of Long Island Sound.
The Schooner sails from April to November on Long Island Sound.
SoundWaters offers a variety of fun educational opportunities including the following:
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Flip-out screens can be useful for tricky shots.
2.Has a built-in focus motor
The focus motor moves the lens in order to autofocus. For system cameras, having a focus motor in the camera's body allows you to use a wide range of lenses, including lenses which do not have their own focus motor. For compact cameras, a focus motor is usually built-in.
A hot shoe can be used to attach an external flash, as well as light meters, viewfinders, rangefinders and other attachments.
A system camera has many interchangeable components such as lenses, flashes, and other accessories. System cameras offer greater flexibility than compact cameras.
You can operate the device easily, by pressing the screen with your fingers.
A flash is good for low-light environments, and can sometimes be used as flashlight.
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Since the first cases of SARS-CoV-2 were identified in Wuhan, China, late last year, researchers have established that a viral surface structure called the spike protein is highly immunogenic. The receptor-binding domain (RBD) of this viral protein has been shown to elicit neutralizing antibodies as early as 3 days following the onset of symptoms. Still, the question if serological memory persists over time remains unanswered.
The information regarding the dynamics of antibodies and their association with RBD-specific B cells in recovered COVID-19 patients is lacking. This information would help researchers access the breadth of the humoral memory and the fact that it contributes to long-lasting serological memory. Researchers investigated the dynamics of the serological and cellular response in recovered COVID-19 patients using blood serum collected from 54 symptomatic patients with active disease, 57 recovered patients (6 of whom provided follow-up samples), and 26 healthy controls. Serum tests were conducted to determine levels of RBD-specific immunoglobulins (Igs) and their ability to neutralize SARS-CoV-2.
The team found that levels of RBD-specific antibodies quickly increased among symptomatic patients. Among recovered patients, the team found that the RBD-specific antibody titers declined over six months following symptom onset, pointing to decay in serological memory over time. These RBD-specific memory B cells were stable during the six months. Because the virus-specific antibodies declined over time, the team hypothesized that the differentiation of B cells into long-lived antibody-secreting plasma cells (LLPCs) following SARS-CoV-2 infection is impaired. The researchers studied the association between the frequency of RBD-specific subsets of plasmablasts and the frequency of RBD-specific memory B cells, which revealed that the frequency of both subsets was strongly correlated.
They also investigated the association between RBD-specific plasmablasts and antibody titers to test whether the main contributor to serum antibody levels was short-lived plasmablasts. The team reports that the frequency of SARS-CoV-2-specific B cell plasmablasts was indeed associated with levels of virus-specific antibodies. The persistence of RBD-specific memory B-cells could provide a robust recall immune response in cases of re-infection.
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Effective water treatment breathes new life into a dead river
A significant deterioration in the oxygen balance in stretches of Sweden’s River Vege led the multinational food business Findus to seek immediate help from ÅF to upgrade its wastewater treatment.
In mid-August 2012 reports were received of large numbers of dead fish in the 55-kilometre long River Vege in south-western Sweden. An investigation showed that the Findus wastewater treatment plant upriver in Bjuv was an unwitting contributor to the cause.
Investment in modernisation
High sediment content in water discharged from the plant during processing of the annual pea harvest had led to a critical lack of oxygen in the water of the river. Fragments of oxygen-consuming organic material had passed through the plant without being decomposed, causing hypoxia and killing the fish. Findus responded by investing 1.4 million euros in modernising its treatment plant and donated around 110 000 euros to the River Vege Water Preservation Association for research and fishery conservation projects.
Multiple measures required
Findus discussed different solutions with various experts, including ÅF. It was decided that the necessary improvements could best be achieved by a combination of more reliable measuring methods, new filter processes, a retention basin and a new control system. ÅF was tasked with replacing the old control system and the outdated SCADA system that monitored and controlled certain key processes. The assignment included programming the two new systems and designing an electrical system that could replace the existing set-up and integrate new components into the plant. The SCADA upgrade also incorporates a function for producing reports that facilitate the work of the County Administrative Board’s engineers when they conduct their inspections.
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People taking cholesterol meds may be at higher risk for the flu
While vaccines are available to mitigate the risk of coming down with the flu, a pair of studies suggest seniors with high cholesterol may still be vulnerable to the illness.
One study, published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, found that the use of statins may reduce the effectiveness of the flu vaccine. Statins are drugs used to help lower cholesterol and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they are used by more than 40 percent of adults 65 years old and older in the United States.
Older adults using statins were found to have a reduced immune response to the vaccination, possibly making them less protected from influenza.
“The flu is a serious virus that can have harmful effects for seniors, especially if they are already experiencing health complications,” says Dr. James Malow, infectious disease specialist at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. “Flu vaccines are important for preventive care and we should do everything we can to ensure their effectiveness.”
The second study analyzed the effect of statins on the flu vaccine’s ability to prevent respiratory illness.
Like the first study, the findings suggested statins decrease the vaccine’s success, possibly making seniors more susceptible to the flu and conditions that come along with it as a result.
“These studies are very preliminary and additional research is necessary to confirm their findings,” says Dr. Malow. “If this information is confirmed it could change the way physicians help patients prevent and manage multiple health conditions at once, such as influenza and high cholesterol.”
The CDC recommends that everyone 6 months old and older receive a flu vaccine. For further protection, Dr. Malow advises avoiding others who are sick and washing your hands often. See a doctor if you experience flu-like symptoms such as fever, cough, body aches and fatigue.
About the Author
health enews staff is a group of experienced writers from our Advocate Aurora Health sites, which also includes freelance or intern writers.
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International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
August 9, 2021
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
9 August every year: Celebrating the lives of indigenous populations, and drawing attention to the discrimination and loss of rights they often face. You can find more information on the website of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues including the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted in September 2007.
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The Danse Macabre, also known as the Dance of Death, was a popular artistic genre during the Middle Ages that explored the inescapability of death. Many were directly connected to the plagues and epidemics that ravished medieval Europe.
Artwork relating to the genre often displays death, or death personified, as leading a procession of dancing people to their graves. The depictions were also meant to drive home the theme that no matter one’s social standing, there was no escaping death. Some historians believe the paintings depicted people rejoicing with death to help survivors cope with mourning and to unite a populous with strict social hierarchy.
Only a handful of Danse Macabre paintings survived the era. Those featured inside the Chapel of St Mary of the Rocks are among the oldest. They were crafted by master painter Vincent de Kastav and feature scenes from the life of Mary and Jesus, along with a portrait of Saint Martin to name a few. The chapel was finished in 1474.
Along the western wall is the best example of the Danse Macabre and features a pope, cardinal, bishop, innkeeper, and several others dancing with death depicted as skeletons. Death is also playing a harmonious tune on a set of bagpipes. What makes this fresco even more interesting is that children and the infirmed are leading the procession.
Part of the fresco was damaged during the 18th century when windows were installed on the side walls. Most of the decorations, including the main part of the Dance of Death procession, survived the times and presents visitors with an insight into medieval mortality.
Know Before You Go
The key is kept by Mrs Sonja Šestan, phone: + 385 (0)91 580 6083.
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