Toby Jugs Are So Ugly They're Cute
From outlandish and crude to surprisingly cute, Toby jugs have expressions and details in excess with their arched eyebrows, smiles, frowns, and sometimes scowls. They have a long history with many makers to credit with varying degrees of collectibility. Some call them ugly, but many collectors love these unique vessels.
Rosy-cheeked from a spell of drinking, the figures of Toby jugs will often be holding a cup of foamy brew or a pipe. They're often dressed in 18th-century-style clothing with a tricorn hat and long jacket. The subjects of Toby mugs are often a bit rough and tumble.
What makes these jugs so special are their details, which sometimes border on the grotesque. Pox, blemishes, sunken eyes, missing teeth, wrinkles, and pallor are some of the features depicted on the faces of the jug characters. Even the rare female characters are seen taking snuff or drinking. And their faces show it, too!
The tradition of these Toby jugs got started in the 1700s in Staffordshire, England. There are at least half a dozen theories as to where the name and the character came from. Toby Fillpot, Sir Toby Belch, My Uncle Toby, and The Hearty Goodfellow are all characters that have been said to influence the creation of the jugs. Regardless of which theory might be true, these jugs portrayed the rough life and appealed mainly to men. Their numbers grew in the 19th century when Royal Doulton began to produce versions of this now-classic form.
It was in the 20th century that the character mugs started being produced in nearly any shape or character by many different pottery companies. A common transformation was that many were now proper mugs instead of jugs, with no spout to pour from.
From medieval maidens and dogs to Winston Churchill and sailors with parrots, the range of faces available now were very broad. The more modern examples tend to feature just the head of the character instead the whole body. The early jugs show seated and standing figures, but show the entire body of the figure. Many character mugs retain some of the detail and crude features of the jugs, but they are not the same.
The prices of antique and vintage Toby jugs and character mugs can fluctuate highly with many of the mugs being sold as much older than they really are or being sold as Toby jugs. Many early examples are not marked which only adds to confusion among collectors. Whatever the value, you either love or hate these often-macho and mostly graphic characters. My favorites are the jolly drinkers rather than the sunken-eyed ne'er-do-wells.
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What Is DWDM？
The Internet demand is always growing, especially the hugely popular video streaming services are increasing greatly. This provides a threat for the service provider. As the hottest topic in the telecommunication industry, DWDM offers unprecedented bandwidth which promises an effective solution to the challenges posted by the Internet growth. But what is DWDM, do you really know？
What Is DWDM?
DWDM wiki has defined it as an optical multiplexing technology. As one wavelength pattern of WDM system (the other pattern is CWDM), it stands for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing, which is used to increase bandwidth over existing fibre networks. This powerful technology can create multiple virtual optical fibres, so as to increase bandwidth on existing fibre optic backbones. It means that the fibre in DWDM system can transmit multiple signals of different wavelengths simultaneously. More specifically, the incoming signals are assigned to specific wavelengths within a designated frequency band, then the signals are multiplexed to one fibre. In addition, the most commonly used grid is the 100GHz grid, which consists of a spacing of 0.8nm per channel.
After knowing what is DWDM, we need to learn DWDM architecture. A typical DWDM architecture includes transmitter, receiver, optical amplifier, transponder, DWDM multiplexer and demultiplexer. Transmitter and receiver are the place where the source signal comes in and then multiplexed. Optical amplifier can amplify the signals in the wavelength range, which is very important for DWDM application. Transponder is the converter of wavelength. It's responsible for converting the client optical signal back to an electrical signal. Multiplexer first combine multiple wavelengths of different fibre to one fibre, and at the receiving end, the demultiplexer separates all wavelengths of the composite signal onto individual fibres. Commonly, channels of DWDM Mux/Demux are available in 8, 16, 40 and 96 channels. All the DWDM basics work together to enable high capacity data flow in ultra-long distance transmission. The following figure is DWDM working principle.
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Why Use DWDM Technology?
The most obvious advantage of DWDM technology is providing the infinite transmission capacity, which would meet the increasing Internet demand. And more capacity can be added just by upgrading several equipment or increasing the number of lambdas on the optical fibre. Thus, the investment of DWDM technology has been reduced. Besides, DWDM technology also enjoys several other advantages, like the transparency and scalability.
Transparency. Due to DWDM is a physical layer architecture, it can support Time Division Multiplex and data formats like Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel with open interfaces over a physical layer.
Scalability. It's easy to be expanded. A single fibre can be divided into many channels, thus there is no need to add extra fibre but the wavelength will be increased. All these advantages make DWDM popular in the network.
Application of DWDM
As a new technology more applications of DWDM are yet to be tapped and explored. It was first deployed on long-haul routes. And now, DWDM technology is ready for long distance telecommunication operators. Using point to point or ring topology, the capacity will be dramatically improved without deploying an extra fibre. In the future, DWDM will continue to provide a higher bandwidth for the mass of data. With the development of technology, the system capacity will grow.
Conclusion
As for the question what is DWDM, I believe you have a good understanding of it. This powerful technology is related closely with current industry advancements trend. Now, service providers are faced with the sharp growth in demand for network capacity, DWDM is the best solution. With DWDM technology, the transmission work is no longer limited by the speed of available equipment, because it provides the high bandwidth without limit. We believe, DWDM will shine in the network world.


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Can anyone explain why the following two statements both evaluate as true?
[] == false
This question is purely out of curiosity of why this happens and not about how to best test if an array is empty.
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If you really want to get your hands dirty, take a look at section 11.9.1 ("The Equals Operator ==") and Section 8.7.1 ("GetValue(V)") in the spec. And this would be another great example of why == true and == false are generally not ideal style. :-) – T.J. Crowder Nov 19 '10 at 15:21
Actually, using == or!= is never good style. Always use === or!==, and cast the operands by hand. – Marco Mariani Nov 19 '10 at 15:56
[] == []; // false – Florian Margaine Nov 6 '12 at 9:56
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The first one:
[] == false
The == operator does type conversion to its operands, in this case the both sides are converted to Number, the steps taken on the Abstract Equality Comparison Algorithm would be:
 - object == boolean
 - object == number
 - string == number
 - number == number
In code:
[] == false; // convert false to Number
[] == 0; // convert [] to Primitive (toString/valueOf)
"" == 0; // convert "" to Number
0 == 0; // end
The second comparison, [] is converted to primitive, their valueOf and toString methods are executed, but since valueOf on Array objects, returns the object itself (is inherited from Object.prototype), then the toString method is used.
At the end as you see, both operands are converted to Number, and both yield zero, for example:
Number([]) == 0;
Number(false) == 0;
And empty array produces zero when converted to Number because its string representation is an empty string:
[].toString(); // ""
And an empty string converted to Number, yields zero:
+""; // 0
Now, the double negation (!![]) produces true because all object instances are truthy:
![]; // false, [] is truthy
!![]; // true, negation
The only values that are falsey are:
 - null
 - undefined
 - 0
 - NaN
 - "" (an empty string)
 - false
Anything else will produce true when converted to Boolean.
See also:
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Very interesting. Thanks for the detailed description and sharing those links. – Matthew Manela Nov 19 '10 at 15:51
Whoops, looks like I answered the same question in the same way. Didn't notice until someone marked that question a duplicate of this one. – Nick Retallack May 11 '12 at 19:23
[] == false
In this case, the type of the left-hand side is object, the type of the right-hand side is boolean. When object is compared to (== The Abstract Equality Comparison) boolean, Javascript first converts the boolean to a number, yielding 0. Then it converts the object to a "primitive", yielding the empty string "". Next it compares the empty string to 0. The empty string is converted to a number, yielding 0, which is numerically equal to the 0 on the right-hand side, so the result of the entire expression is true.
Ref: 11.9.3 The Abstract Equality Comparison Algorithm
In this case Javascript converts the object to the boolean true, then inverts it, resulting in false.
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How to 10x your BigQuery Productivity with Variables
In this article, you're going to learn how to create and use variables to 10x your productivity in BigQuery.

How much time do you spend repeatedly making small changes to your SQL?

Whether you're updating a column's value or changing a date in your partition, this can get annoying very fastEven more so when these values appear in multiple places in your code.

This is where variables save the day (and your precious time). Variables can help you make quick updates without touching your SQL.

The best part? It's possible to set up variables without writing a single line of SQL.

But first…
What are variables?
Sometimes referred to as parameters, variables are placeholders in SQL for values that can change. Variables store the value you assign them, and pass them on when used in a query.
They're extremely helpful when you want to update literal values in your queries.
Typically, DECLARE and SET statements are used to create variables and assign them values, with the syntax looking like:
DECLARE @Local_Variable
SET<@Local_Variable =
Google allows you to run something similar to variables in BigQuery, called parameterized queries, but it only works via their API and not when using the Web UI.
However, you still have to use the DECLARE and SET clauses, which can get tedious if you're creating lots of variables or repeatedly changing values.
Next, we're going to show you:
 1. How to quickly set up variables in superQuery without using any SQL.
 2. How to save TONS of time by using variables in your queries.
How to create and use variables in superQuery
In our example below, we'll look at how to analyze an e-commerce store's data using variables.
Step 1: Open the superQuery IDE — Make sure you have a superQuery account (it's free to start)
Step 2: Click the "Add Variable" button to open the Variable Settings pop-up.
Step 3: Select your variable's data type.
In superQuery, variables can hold the following data types: STRING, NUMBER, DATE, DATETIME.
Step 4: Give your variable a good name and click "Save".
In the example below, since we're analyzing e-commerce store data, let's create a variable for product category.
For this, we'll create a String variable, naming it "category" and giving it an initial value of "Bags".
This replaces the variable-creation process of writing DECLARE and SET clauses.
Second Step of Adding Variables in superQuery. Select data type, give your variable a name and initial value.
Easily select your variable's data type, give it a name, and assign it an initial value.
Step 5: Use your variable in a query.
Use variables in your SQL by placing an "@" character in front of the variable's name, like in the example below.
To edit your variable's value, change it in the text box next to your variable's name. Then run the query again to explore the new results.
Quick notes on variables in superQuery:
 - You can use multiple variables in a query.
 - In addition, you may also use the same variable across several query tabs.
 - Lastly, variables are stored inside of boards. If you switch to work in another board, it will have a different set of variables (or none at all if you haven't created any).
How to Edit Variable Values and use them in queries in superQuery
How to edit variable values and insert them into queries.
[Bonus] Step 6: How to use variables as DATE and DATETIME substitutes
Variables are incredibly helpful when you're working with dates. In our example above, we were dealing with a specific date range — "BETWEEN '2017-01-01 AND '2017-12-27'".
In this situation we would create two DATE variables — we'll call them begDate and endDate — to replace the values. This allows us to dynamically change the date values and quickly examine different date ranges.
Lastly, you have the ability to set dynamic values for your date variables. For instance, if you wanted our endDate variable from above to always represent the current day, you would just select Today as the option.
To give your variable a dynamic value click on a date variable's value. A calendar dropdown will appear. From there, either choose a date on the calendar itself, or one of the dynamic values below it.
How to set dynamic values for your DATE variables in superQuery
Set dynamic values for your DATE variables in superQuery
Why use variables?
Without variables, if you wanted to update your SQL — like changing the value of "category above — you had to manually find the value in your code and then change the value. Or, if you had multiple occurrences that needed to change, you'd use CTRL-F + Replace All.
Imagine having to find the specific value you'd like to change when the SQL is 100+ lines.
Now, you can insert a variable in place of any value and update its value without needing to revisit a specific line in your SQL again.
Using variables with visualizations
Variables are also useful when you're visualizing your queries in superQuery.
When you update your variable(s) values while in Visualize mode and click the "Refresh" icon, any widgets containing a variable
This is the same as running a new query, and your visualizations will update accordingly.
Wrapping up
Now that you know how to create and use variables, it's time to try them out on your own BigQuery data.
They'll give your SQL some flexibility, and save you tons of time when making small changes.
To use variables in your query editor, create a superQuery account — it's as simple as logging with your Google account directly from our website.
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You will then pick your 2 traits, take [GOOD NATURED] and [KAMIKAZE]. ) Go over to the door with DOC MITCHELL and talk to him, he will give you some items and your [PIPBOY]. You are done with him for now. Head back to the medic room where you woke up and click on the [CHEMIST SET] on the table and choose to get 5 [STIMPACKS]. Now click on the [BROKEN 9MM MACHINE GUN] and repair it. Open the [SASPARILLA CRATE] and loot it. You will be using this crate to store any items until you get your hotel room later. Until then this will do fine for storing items. Loot the clinic dry, and store your extra stuff in the crate. Talking to the Doc will get you needed info, plus pass a speech check [SPEECH:30] to get 3 [STIMPACKS]. ) Exit the hospital clinic, go straight left down the road and enter the Saloon. You'll encounter SUNNY. Talk to her and get some town info but save the first option for last. You will get a lockpick book and info on picking a safe in the school house later. 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Talk to SUNNY again for a reward and to finish the [BACK IN THE SADDLE] quest, and to start the [BY A CAMPFIRE ON THE TRAIL] quest. ) Fast travel back to GOODSPRINGS and enter the general store. Talk to CHET and ask about various topics to get info. Buy a shovel. Head outside then northeast up the big hill towards the water tower/graveyard. On the way you'll probably encounter a BARK SCORPION. Kill it and continue to the top, and kill the BLOATFLIES that are up there. Pick the [BROC FLOWER], take the [SNOW GLOBE-GOODSPRINGS] and other items that are about on the graves. Finally dig up the various graves for misc items, you want to get a couple [DISTINCTIVE CIGARETTE BUTTS] which are about near the open grave site. ) Go back to town, then head SW towards the red school building. Just outside are 2 GIANT MANTIS NYMPHS. Kill them and pick the [XANDER ROOT] bulbs just near the tree trunk. Fast travel to GOODSPRINGS SOURCE and go down and talk to SUNNY. Activate the campfire, make a [HEALING POWDER]. Fast travel back to town and enter the Saloon. You'll see an argument between TRUDY and JOE COBB. Talk to TRUDY afterwards which finishes the [BY A CAMPFIRE ON THE TRAIL] quest. Milk her for all information, talk about her broken radio, then talk about how to handle JOE COBB, and you will start the [GHOST TOWN GUNFIGHT] quest. ) Now repair the broken radio [REPAIR:20] and talk to TRUDY for a reward. [BARTER:20] for some extra caps. You'll level up. Raise EXPLOSIVES to 25 and pick the SWIFT LEARNER perk. Head outside, and go to the SE building where you will find JOE COBB standing. Talk to him and milk him for info, but DO NOT TALK ABOUT TAKING OVER THE TOWN. Pass the speech check for some free exp. Once done talking to JOE, crouch and hide behind him and ready your 9MM MACHINE GUN (or another weapon). SAVE YOUR GAME. Now, while hidden enter V.A.T.S and shoot him in the head. If your reputation with the POWDER GANGERS drops, reload and try again. You're going to kill JOE anyway soon, might as well do it now. You should be able to kill him from stealth without any reputation change. Loot him. ) Head up to the gas station near the Medical Clinic, enter and talk to RINGO, and get info from him. Agree to help him against the GANGERS, then loot the entire gas station, making sure to pick the safe using the lockpick book that SUNNY gave you. Return to the Saloon and talk to SUNNY who will open options to get town support for the [GHOST TOWN GUNFIGHT] quest. Talk to TRUDY and pass [SPEECH:25] check for supplies. Go outside and talk to EASY PETE pass [EXPLOSIVES:25] check for dynamite. Head into the supply store and talk to CHET pass [BARTER:25] check for fighting supplies, and finally up to DOC MITCHELL for medical supplies. Return to TRUDY she should talk about JOE COBB and give you some exp (strange she doesn't talk about this earlier). ) Your all ready for the final showdown. Get what ever weapons and items you want and head up to the gas station and talk to RINGO to let him know the town is ready. Start the fight, SUNNY shows up and says the Gangers are on the way. Go outside and run down to the Saloon area, the POWDER GANGERS are heading up the road. NOTE: You can fight this battle any way you want, its not super hard, but there is a catch. If you kill any of the Gangers your reputation with them will drop all the way. We want it to only drop a little, so when you enter the fight, don't kill any of them, let the townspeople do it. You want to distract them. Equip a basic weapon (laser pistol, 9MM, etc) and run directly into their group. Attack them lowering their health but do not kill them yourself. Keep to the left so the townspeople have open shots. Switch foes, wounding them down to low health, they don't do any major damage to you, so just be the "big target". Afterwards, you'll level up again. Raise LOCKPICK to 25 and BARTER to 48. Ringo will come up and give you some caps as a reward. ) OK! Your basically done in GOODSPRINGS. Time to finish up the Prologue so we can head out into the wasteland. Start in the south of town, a house there holds a [CHINESE ARMY TRAINING MANUAL] on


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Project title and work package:
Theory of time-dependent heat transport and detection of fluctuations, work package Quantum thermodynamics

Objectives:
You will investigate quantum thermodynamic transport realised in superconducting circuits.
Pumping heat: You will first develop the concept of an energy pump in a mesoscopic superconductor-normal metal heterostructure. Using the phase sensitivity in Andreev interferometers, you will study the electronic and radiative transport of heat driven by a time-dependent flux. Using the Keldysh Green function method, you will describe the pumping of heat and charge from adiabatic to non-adiabatic driving in collaboration with Early Stage Researcher 3 (CNRS, France). You will address the full transport statistics and relate it to fundamental thermodynamics concepts like entropy production. This discussion will have an impact on the experimental control of heat and charge transport in mesoscopic current standards as well as on tests of fundamental fluctuation relations in connection with the projects of Early Stage Researcher 4 (AALTO, Finland) and Early Stage Researcher 8 (ETH, Switzerland).
Measuring fluctuations of heat using superconducting threshold detectors: The detection of fluctuations in the quantum regime is a fundamental challenge. On the theoretical side, one has to consider detection schemes in the weak, non-invasive limit to access correlations without disturbance. To develop a heat detection device, you will investigate a superconducting tunnel junction acting as a heat fluctuation filter. Embedded in an electromagnetic environment, radiative heat transfer will be taken into account. You will investigate the possibility of using superconducting single electron devices showing a pronounced even-odd effect as heat detector (relevant for Early Stage Researchers 1, 2 (CNRS France), and 6 UKON, Germany)). The goal will be to propose a three-terminal device as realisation of a Maxwell demon, by operating an SSS or NSN SET far from equilibrium.

Expected Results:
- Concept of an energy pump in a mesoscopic superconductor heterostructure.
- Quantitative description of the full transport characteristics of heat and charge (electronic and radiative).
- Characteristics of a SSS or NSN SET realizing a Maxwell demon and testing basic concepts of quantum thermodynamics.

Planned secondments:
at AALTO, Finland (1 month, Year 1) learning basics of the theory of refrigeration in mesoscopic devices, at CNRS, France (2 months, Year 2) to learn theoretical techniques of quantum tunnelling in superconducting junctions, at EDP Sciences, France (2 months, Year 3) to get trained in scientific writing and editing.

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Is it true that the light from a tube fluorescent diminishes in proportion to the distance (line source) Twice the distance, half the light. While a CFL (point source) diminishes as the square of distance? Twice the distance, one fourth the light. Would a good reflector change this?


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16th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2008) (2011)
Ayia Napa, Cyprus
Feb. 9, 2011 to Feb. 11, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7695-4328-4
pp: 167-171
ABSTRACT
In current distributed systems, such as Grids, Clouds, or P2P systems, the amount of information to handle influences the way the system is managed. In P2P systems containing large quantities of data, or in Grid systems containing a large number of (often heterogeneous) resources, information about data or resources must be spread through the system in an efficient way in order to allow them to be found. An information discovery technique based on data summarization, via clustering, is presented. These summaries can be used to classify information to provide users with greater insight about documents or computing resources compared to raw data. Also, meta-schedulers or brokers would benefit from the proposed technique due to the fact that they would have to deal with less data from resources, thus aiding to the scalability of the system. An evaluation of the approach is subsequently provided to identify the impact of choosing particular parameters to be used as part of the summary.
INDEX TERMS
summary creation, classification, information discovery, distributed systems
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C. Carrión, A. C. Caminero, O. Rana, E. Huedo, I. M. Llorente and B. Caminero, "Summary Creation for Information Discovery in Distributed Systems," 16th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2008)(PDP), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 2011, pp. 167-171.
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The Muglia Valley is saved
In Sicily the splendid Muglia Valley (Enna), full of archaeological remains, risked becoming an enormous rubbish dump. The local community's fight to protect the territory was successful
In the Sicilian municipality of Centuripe (Enna), a town of Hellenistic origin facing Etna, the rural Muglia valley still boasts a hilly landscape of exceptional integrity, characterised by badlands and hills, including Mount Pietra Perciata. Of great importance are the archaeological remains that attest to an uninterrupted human presence since prehistoric times, as well as ancient farmsteads and old industrial elements linked to the centuries-old extraction of sulphur.
However, the 1967 application for protection was never approved. This "vacatio legis" left open the possibility of building a rubbish processing plant which, with its 300 hectares, would have irreparably compromised the valley. Fighting against this choice were the citizens of Centuripe who, organised into the transversal committee No discarica #restiamopuliti (No landfill #letsstayclean), at the end of 2018 published a manifesto, supported by people such as Antonio Paolucci and Mina Gregori, which gathered more than 2,500 signatures on the platform Change.org.
The manifesto had asked for the direct involvement of the archaeologist and regional councillor for cultural heritage Sebastiano Tusa, who tragically passed away recently, and had promised the inclusion of the area as a Zone C protection area in the regional planning programme. The battle carried out by local organisations such as SiciliAntica and Zona Libera led to the denial of the petition for change of use from agricultural to industrial, which was necessary to build the plant, and in May of this year to receiving protected status. Muglia has been nominated as a Luogo del Cuore FAI 2020.
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HTML5, the successor of Flash, has improved upon its predecessor's flaws – the lack of support for mobile devices, for example. However, moving your Flash-based learning ecosystem to HTML5-based e-learning involves a significant budget, and more importantly demands careful planning.
Before you go ahead with the migration, you need to be certain of the approach you have chosen. In this blog, I will offer you a handy checklist to help you when planning for a Flash to HTML5 migration.
1. List all the courses you want to convert/migrate
The first step – and the most important one – you must follow is, recognizing the various Flash-based courses that you want to convert to HTML5. This is especially vital if you are planning for a pilot approach where you want to convert a few courses and see how your learning audience is going to respond to it. It is ok to test the waters before you convert all the courses.
2. Ensure all the source files are in place
The next important step is to gather all the source files of the legacy courses. Source files are essentially the files a developer uses to create the e-learning, before exporting them for the final output (e-learning course). If your legacy courses were developed by an in-house development team or by a third-party content vendor, ensure that you compile all the related source files. These source files will contain all of your text, media, and resources. Having all these source files in place ensures that your migration process is smooth.
3. Identify the need: Technology update vs. complete redesign
There may be some courses in your repository of legacy courses which may do well with just a technology update, and there may be others that need a complete visual overhaul. Identify the need by evaluating the overall nature of upliftment and then chart a priority list. For your understanding, here's an example of how you can map your priorities:
- Courses that you have developed recently may require only a technology upliftment (Conversion to HTML5 with no instructional design involved)
- Compliance courses (if any) that will work just fine with a visual uplift
- Legacy courses may have to be restructured completely (including instructional design)
4. Evaluate converting long courses to shorter, bite-sized mobile learning
Today's learners expect training to be short, yet useful. They may not have the patience to sit through an hour-long course. It's crucial to understand that your learners are multi-device users (Smartphones, tablets), which means that you have to evaluate a completely different approach for them. Besides, Smartphones and tablets, in the past few years, have been shaping how learners access training resources.
From your repository of legacy courses, identify courses that are anywhere between 1 and 2 hours (more than 50 slides), and convert them into short, digestible courses, also called mobile learning. Mobile learning, as the name suggests, refers to accessing training resources on portable mobile devices, such as Smartphones, tablets, and laptops. The other advantage of mobile learning is that these courses can act as performance support tools (PSTs) for your multi-device learners, who would want to learn and improve their skills even when they are away from the training.
5. Select an authoring tool which supports responsive e-learning
If your mobile learning courses are to work seamlessly on all types of mobile devices, then you need a tool that supports responsive e-learning development. Responsive e-learning is developing online courses that can be accessed efficiently on multiple devices. The courses are "responsive" to the varying screen sizes of various digital devices and provide an optimal viewing experience.
One of the biggest advantages of moving from Flash-based to HTML5-based e-learning is mobile learning. Mobile learning has been growing in popularity among the learning and development community, and especially among the new-age learners who use multiple devices to access training. It is not only important to cater to your learners' needs, but also join and move along with the technology that is shaping the e-learning space – in your case, moving from Flash to HTML5.


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text: This paper mainly describes the influence factors of the captured energy power by huge wave energy harvesters, in which the vertical motion of buoy can transform ocean's potential energy into piezoelectric energy power by undulating waves. Firstly, related environmental coefficients are analyzed by means of the incident wave theory. Besides, the geometric structural parameters are also analyzed and compared under optimal environmental coefficients with semi-analytical solutions. Thirdly, the numerical results also show the impact trend of hydrodynamic parameters and geometric volume on motion, voltage and power with qualitative agreement. The numerical simulation confirms that the improved structure parameters could markedly deliver sufficient power under the same conditions with long-time stability.


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Up from a meeting in the Carolinas, a weekend home, an interview in his Chicago office first thing Monday morning, a telephone conference with a client, and then off to O'Hare International for a flight to New York City. That's five days in the life of Jonathan Howe, president and a senior and founding Partner of Howe & Hutton, Ltd. in Chicago. He has written hundreds of articles and papers, and with a thespian's delivery, Howe has shared legal insight with the meetings industry for decades, earning a reputation as an industry expert with a steel-trap mind. A board director for Duke Law School, his alma mater, Howe broke ground in the highly specialized field of international meetings law in 1969.
MeetingsNet: Let's start with the basics. What is the distinction between offshore and international meetings?
Jonathan Howe: The distinction is defined by the nature of the attendee. In my dictionary or lexicon, if you will, offshore means that an organization says, "We as a group will leave our home country and run a meeting in another one." In other words, an offshore meeting is composed of a homogeneous group gathering outside the boundaries of its home country. A meeting is international when its attendees are international in scope—not one homogeneous group of Americans, Canadians, Mexicans, or Brits, but a diverse group with attendees from many nations.
MeetingsNet: What is the distinction in terms of negotiations and contracts?
Howe: A planner of an offshore meeting must be acclimated to different procedures used in negotiations and contracts because each country has different laws and customs affecting both. With an international meeting, a planner may face similar issues. At the same time, procedures for an international meeting may be entirely familiar. For example, to organize an international meeting in New York, a planner would deal with local suppliers pretty much the same way he or she does in the rest of the country.
MeetingsNet: What caveats can you give planners of offshore meetings, whether they're attended by Americans, or people from a variety of countries?
Howe: The communication between planner and attendees becomes complex. For example, the planner of an offshore meeting should ask, "What am I doing to get my people into the country? Will there be visa problems? Will there be liabilities regarding getting people to and from [the meeting site] and even at the meeting site?"
MeetingsNet: Do planners expose themselves or their organizations to different liabilities when orchestrating international meetings?
Howe: There is liability any time a planner does not exercise due care. Due care takes on an added dimension with international meetings, especially as to the consequences of meeting in a particular venue. Primarily, there have been allegations made in regard to security issues. People have alleged that organizers failed to provide adequate warning about situations around various venues or activities.
For instance, there was a case a couple of years ago regarding a travel agent's failure to provide a warning. It seems that a group of American students were traveling by train through Mexico. The students were going from car to car. A student was seriously injured. According to the suit, there was a history of similar accidents, and because of such, the travel agent should have been aware and should have warned the students. That's the kind of situation a planner must address.
MeetingsNet: How can a meeting planner uncover this type of information?
Howe: The U.S. State Department issues warnings about potential problems in different locations. The alert list is updated frequently and is easy to obtain on the Internet or from a State Department office. Should a planner discover there are problems at the venue, he or she must ask, "What would the prudent planner do in that type of situation?" If the meeting is to proceed, a planner must then let people know what they might anticipate at the meeting venue. Planners might want to alter their contracts based on the State Department's list. The contract could state that because a venue is on the State Department's list, the meeting can be canceled at any time without any fee or obligation.
MeetingsNet: What is the most common mistake planners make with international meetings?
Howe: Assuming that the way we do business is the way they do business. Planners shouldn't rely on lingo used in the American marketplace. A first-class hotel in the United States is different than those in Europe or third-world countries. Another example is negotiations. Planners must do their homework. There are cultural hot buttons. The way we negotiate in the U.S. will not be effective in China, Japan, or Singapore.
MeetingsNet: What are some other relevant cultural differences that might impact negotiations?
Howe: Time can be cultural problem. For example, in all negotiations and contracts, there are elements that deal with time. The problem arises in that each culture defines time differently. There's an expression in the international market: "Is it Swiss time?" You can set your watch by Swiss time. Another culture's definition of time allows you only to set your calendar. You cannot fight the differences. Express interest and concern about how the deal is done, then develop a relationship and exchange valuable information.
MeetingsNet: How can planners guard against potential pitfalls?
Howe: Planners should check with their peers. Meeting Professionals International, the Professional Convention Management Association, and the American Society of Association Executives provide opportunities for sharing information and for networking. Also, find out which destination management companies or professional congress organizers have a good track record in overseas programs. Then call an attorney.
MeetingsNet: Why is an attorney necessary?
Howe: An attorney experienced in international law can help with contracts, currency issues, and making sure basic things like State Department Alert lists are checked out. A good attorney will note the differences in the methodology of contracts. Planners should not be fooled. There are those who will tell them not to worry, but sometimes there's a worry that even a vendor might not be aware of. For example, some countries automatically impose certain standards and conditions even if they are not in the contract. They may be conditions that the planner does not want to accept. It becomes a case of knowing what you are doing.
7 Tips for Conducting Business Internationally
1. Avoid assumptions about business or cultural protocol. If in doubt, observe and imitate.
2. Solicit advice from personal acquaintances, government contacts, or industry sources who have recently visited the country where your meeting will be held.
3. Avoid gestures, speak in low and even tones, and avoid attempts at humor.
4. Learn how to say thank you in the local language.
5. Allow more time to accomplish business transactions than you would in the U.S. Time is a cultural concept, so know the local attitudes towards punctuality.
6. Typical business blunders cluster around scheduling appointments, dressing for appointments, introductions, gift-giving customs, and negotiation procedures and pace.
7. If you cause offense, the best thing to do is just apologize. Most offenses are forgivable.
7 Things to Watch For in International Hotel Contracts
1. In most countries outside the U.S., business relationships are much more formal. Allow the other culture to take the lead.
2. With the exception of new convention hotels, most properties outside the U.S. have limited meeting space, and typically meeting room rentals are likely to cost you more than in the U.S. Further, meeting space in older hotels tends to be designed for food and beverage functions, not meetings with serious audiovisual needs.
3. Just as in the States, being flexible about timing can make a significant difference to your bottom line. For example, unlike in the U.S., the best hotel rates in Japan are available during the week, not the weekend.
4. Hotel contracts in other countries are often one-page letters of agreement, and the tricky part is to expand that document into something more substantial without offending your negotiating partner by implying mistrust.
5. Expect to pay a substantial pre-payment deposit at hotels outside the U.S. Some properties will accept a letter of credit.
6. U.S. sales representatives of international hotel chains can help with negotiating, logistics, and red tape—everything from banking information and airport transfer arrangements, to getting materials through customs.
7. Be aware that some countries automatically impose certain standards and conditions, which may not appear in your hotel or convention center contract.


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The final masterpiece by Matisse is as amazing as his early ones. He spend so much time making this painting. It depicts Henri's interpretation of a snail. He actually closely studies snails before making the painting. It is a nearly 3 square meter composition, and made with his gouache on paper technique. Matisse created this painting when he was no longer able to paint. Therefore, he had help of assistants to make it.


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A new Rice University-led study of ancient predators remains reveals new information about how prehistoric humans found – or did not find – food.
For more than three decades, archaeologists thought that one potential source of meat — crucial for the development of the early human brain — was the flesh abandoned from sabertooth cat kills. Until very recently, researchers thought that prehistoric humans stripped flesh from abandoned animal carcasses to consume, but these ancient remains suggest that was not the case. The new research, conducted on fossil remains from 1.5 million years ago, reveals that sabertooth cats fully devoured the flesh of their prey and even consumed some bones.
These iconic ancient predators, named for their enormous upper canines, roamed the landscapes of Africa, Eurasia and the Americas from the Miocene to the late Pleistocene. Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, a visiting professor of anthropology at Rice and the study's first author, was able to determine together with his colleagues the eating habits of these prehistoric cats based on their skeletons and those of their prey.
The discovery is significant, according to Dominguez-Rodrigo, because it indicates that early humans relied on various methods to find protein sources. It lends credence to the notion that early humans were already skilled hunters.
Dominguez-Rodrigo said the research helps further this area of study as it eliminates a source of this important type of food for ancient humans. However, he said, there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how prehistoric humans hunted and gathered food, and these topics will be the focus of future work.
Cover Photo: Examples of African warthog carcasses consumed by modern lions.
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Dr Bradley Love (UCL Department of Cognition, Perception and Brain Sciences), lead author of study, said: "Providing people with idealized situations, as opposed to actual outcomes, 'cleans' their memory and provides a stock of good quality evidence for the brain to use."
In the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers programmed computers to use all available statistics to form a decision - making them more likely to predict the correct outcome. By using all data from previous sports leagues, the computer's predictions always reflected the most likely outcome.
The scenarios consisted of games between two Major League baseball teams. Participants had to predict which team would win and were told if their prediction was correct. Those in the 'actual' group we told the true outcome of the game and those in the 'ideal' group were given fictional results.
Participants in the experiment were tested by being asked to predict the outcomes for the rest of the matches played in the league, but they were not given feedback on their performance. Even though the 'ideal' group had been given incorrect data during training, they were significantly better at predicting the winner.
Dr Love explained: "Unlike machine systems, people's decisions are messy because they rely on whatever memories are retrieved by chance. One consequence is that people perform better when the training situation is idealised - a useful fiction that fits are cognitive limitations."
Participants' prediction abilities were compared to computer models that were either optimised for prediction or modelled on human brains. After ideal outcome training, the study showed that 'ideal' subjects had greatly enhanced their skills and were comparable with the optimised model when predicting baseball game outcomes.
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I'm here and you're here, so This Must Be The Place. Ellen Rutt's "place paintings" call attention to the interconnectivity of earth's complex systems. By tracing elements from the physical environment and evaluating overlooked aspects of architecture to dictate the composition and textures. Through the physicality of her process-driven approach, she intimately kneads urgency for climate action into her work. This Is The Place opens at Playground Detroit on July 20th, 2019.
This series of paintings reflects the complex balance of navigating society and the natural world, examining the politics of access and belonging. Improvisational mark-making gathered from the environment lays the groundwork for each piece, then camoflauged by Rutt's contained shapes to create layers of control and turbulence. Often, the resulting painting resembles a collage composed of clean and chaotic, textural and flat color– reflecting the dichotomies within human-made and natural environments. Rutt confronts her own hypocrisy in order to envision a future centered on, green capitalism, as well as social justice.
"Making paintings in this way mirrors the daily process of synthesizing experiences into stories, and by extension, create identity. These experiences leave imprints; and as human beings, we craft narratives, make connections, then decide which ones to get rid of or what is worth keeping. How much of each place do I continue to let have a presence in the painting? What do we leave, and what do we let show through?" –Ellen Rutt


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Does the UK do Cyber Attacks?
The short answer is that most countries engage in covert cyber operations, i.e. cyber warfare, also known as nation-state hacking or cyberterrorism. Covert cyber operations have existed for as long as computers have existed, indeed, covert operations kick-started the invention of the computer. When the Bletchley Park codebreakers needed help in cracking the German Enigma cyphers during World War II they invented the first programmable computer, Colossus. The existence of Colossus was kept hidden from the public for many years after the war.
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) makes a big deal about how the UK is defended from cyber attacks, however, what about cyber offensive operations. Does the UK do cyber attacks? Well, a job advert posted at the end of April 2021 provides a pointer:
The job to work as Director General Q at the UK's Secret Intelligence Service is to work with technology to help protect the UK. Notice the phrase proportionate cyber activity, what could that mean? Maybe it is suggesting not only cyber defensive activity but when required cyber offensive activity. So, does the UK do cyber attacks? We'll often hear of the UK defending itself from nation-state cyber attacks, and it is often said that attack is the best form of defence, maybe that is proportionate cyber activity.
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This paper reveals two important characterizations of global exponential stability (GES) of a generic class of continuous-time recurrent neural networks. First, we show that GES of the neural networks can be fully characterized by global asymptotic stability (GAS) of the networks plus the condition that the maximum abscissa of spectral set of Jacobian matrix of the neural networks at the unique equilibrium point is less than zero. This result provides a very useful and direct way to distinguish GES from GAS for the neural networks. Second, we show that when the neural networks have small state feedback coefficients, the supremum of exponential convergence rates (ECRs) of trajectories of the neural networks is exactly equal to the absolute value of the maximum abscissa of spectral set of Jacobian matrix of the neural networks at the unique equilibrium point. Here, the supremum of ECRs indicates the potentially fastest speed of trajectory convergence. The obtained results are helpful in understanding the essence of GES and clarifying the difference between GES and GAS of the continuous-time recurrent neural networks.
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The etymology of the term cosmetic combines the idea of order with that of ornament (beauty and image), creating a dual synergistic bond. With the extensive use of cosmetic techniques ornament becomes a tool that takes on new meanings, wider-ranging and even less apparent. The unfinished, the discreet, the lavish or the technified, is also, the, in its own way, ornamented.
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During the expeditions the conditions and possibilities of immediate contact with cetaceans are studied, as well as the state of mind of human individuals in the course of and after such encounters.
2. Unique natural objects, traditionally associated with extraordinary manifestations of possibilities for interaction between Man and Nature (so called places of power – sacred mountains, springs believed to be healing, etc.).
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It would help if you could provide the entire sentence. – Barrie England Sep 23 '12 at 19:17
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I think the verb is was. You can remove the word paid without significantly affecting the meaning, and it's really only acting as another adjective modifying price, the same as bundle does. Unless you "promote" it somehow, by saying, for example, "The average bundle price advertised was 5, but in fact the average bundle price paid was a little over 8, because of non-advertised additional costs". – FumbleFingers Sep 23 '12 at 19:21
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In "The average bundle price paid was a little over $8", price or bundle price is the subject and was is the verb. Average modifies bundle price or bundle price paid. In any case, "average bundle price paid" is a noun phrase forming the subject of the sentence.
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Thanks for putting in the rest of the sentence - it makes analysis possible.
Leaving out the word 'paid' leaves us with the sentence
The average bundle price was a little over $8.
Here, it is obvious that the subject is 'The average bundle price'. There follows a copular structure; the verb involved is be ('was').
A 'bundle price' is a collocation possibly best regarded as a compound noun:
"...savings based on comparison of Bundle price with price of same services sold separately...." (Google)
and 'average' is an adjective in attributive position (actually a rather difficult type of adjective to classify - but that's not germane here).
Putting 'paid' back into the reduced sentence, it is seen to be relating to the noun group ('bundle price'); if we had 'paid by the people in the showroom' we would see it is an adjectival non-finite clause postmodifying the noun group. The shorter version 'paid' is syntactically the same.
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"The average bundle price paid"
1) Price is the subject.
2) Bundle is a noun used as an adjective.
3) Average can be a noun or an adjective. In this sentence it is an adjective.
I see nothing wrong with that sentence.
I mean, there are two adjectives (average + bundle) giving qualities to one noun (price).
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Liersch, S.; Fournet, S.; Koch, H.; Djibo, A.G.; Reinhardt, J.; Kortlandt, J.; Van Weert, F.; Seidou, O.; Klop, E.; Baker, C. and F.F.Hattermann (2019). Water resources planning in the Upper Niger River basin: Are there gaps between water demand and supply? Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 21, 176-194.
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Today's irrigation demand corresponds to 7% of the average annual Niger discharge and could account to one third in 2045. An extension of irrigated agriculture is possible in the wet season, while extending dry-season cropping would be largely compromised with the one major existing Sélingué dam. An additional large Fomi or Moussako dam would not completely satisfy dry-season irrigation demands in the 2045 scenario but would reduce the estimated supply gap from 36% to 14%. However, discharge peaks may decrease by 40% reducing the inundated area in the Inner Niger Delta by 21%, while average annual discharge decreases by 30%. Sustainable development should therefore consider investments in water-saving irrigation and management practices to enhance the feasibility of the envisaged irrigation plans instead of completely relying on the construction of a flow regime altering dam.


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Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands, Atlantic Ocean
January 17, 2006
This Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) image is centered over Saint-Pierre and Miquelon islands.
This territorial collectivity of France is located in the North Atlantic Ocean south of the coast of the Canadian island of Newfoundland. As can be seen in the image, a low, sandy isthmus divides Miquelon in Grande Miquelon to the north and Petite Miquelon to the south. Saint-Pierre Island is located to the lower right. The islands, mostly barren and rocky, are important for cod fishing. Some saltwater lagoons are seen in black color in the image bordered by barrier beaches.
Part of the island of Newfoundland is seen in the top of the image bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The first use of the name Newfoundland was in an English registry in 1947, recording the discovery of Terra Nova or the "new found land". As can be seen in the image, its coastlines are highly irregular, with many bays, islands, and peninsulas like the Peninsula of Avalon (in the south east).
One particular interest of this image is the patterns observed over the sea surface. The area known as Grand Banks is lying off the southeastern coast of Newfoundland. It consists on several banks rising from the continental shelf with an extension of 560 km and a depth ranging from 40 to 180 m. This area is one of the world's leading fishing grounds, being a favorable environment for plankton due to the shallowness of the water plus the mingling of the cold Labrador Current, crossing most of the banks, and the warm Gulf Stream, flowing along the eastern part of the region. Some lee waves, a special case of atmospheric gravity waves, are seen in the right part of the image where the wave motion is forced over a terrain obstacle, the coastline with the wind in the north part and the banks with the ocean in the south part of the image. Some current fronts extending from north to south are also seen in the central bottom part of the image.
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 - Acquisition: 20-Dec-2003
 - Orbit nr: 09440
 - Center coordinates: lat. 46.64, lon. -54.87
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Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht: history, editions and analyses
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Source: Taipei Medical University Hospital
Published on 2019-06-14
TMU Hospital and Taiwan AI Labs signed an agreement in December 2018 to create AI health care applications. Superintendent Ray-Jade Chen and Labs founder Ethan Tu initiated a five-year multidisciplinary collaboration to develop AI in innovative ways for hospital use.
Taiwan AI Labs was established in 2017 after Ministry of Science and Technology approval. It is pursuing digital medical treatments, "smart city" innovations and human-machine interactions with the goal of improving precision medical treatments. TMU is dedicated to creating world-class "smart" hospitals. In 2018, TMU Hospital launched a "smart chain passport" that applies blockchain technology to create a patient-centered health management and referral system linking caregiving departments.
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The collaboration will use clinical information designated by hospital experts to develop AI algorithms based on the hospitals' clinical systems. The first collaboration is focused on the TED ICU "smart intensive care system." Applying AI to medical data can improve speed and precision by reducing septicemia prediction times from the current average of 4 hours to immediate, real-time warnings, thus increasing survival rates.
Superintendent Chen says that while situations in intensive care unit are everchanging, septicemia remains a critical and deadly challenge. Globally, septicemia on average occurs in 437 individuals per 100,000 cases, and United States studies estimate consequent mortality as high as 33%. As current screening methods like SOFA, SIRS and MEWS have limitations, patient prognoses improve when septicemia can be diagnosed and treated earlier.
The TED ICU "smart intensive care system" has been used since 2017 to integrate, calculate and record patient physiological data. This data will be used to predict septicemia cases, along with vital signs and patient background information. Taiwan AI Labs will use patient condition data to determine how medical teams can react most quickly to improve care quality.
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Chrysaora hysoscella has a thickened bell (manubrium) that can grow up to 30 cm in diameter. The edges of the bell are developed into 32 lobes and bear 24 marginal tentacles. These are arranged in eight groups of three which alternate with eight sensory organs and are capable of great elongation. The marginal tentacles are conical in shape with a flattened thicker base giving the jellyfish a fluted appearance. They are also covered with clusters of stinging cells (nematocysts). It has a long and slender manubrium which leads onto 4 oral arms that are fused for a short distance at its base. Typically Chrysaora hysoscella is yellowish white in colour with a highly distinctive brown pattern like the radii of a compass.May be confused with the common jellyfish Aurelia aurita when stranded. Aurelia aurita however, has shorter tentacles with no brown v-shaped markings on the bell. Instead it has 4 purplish-blue horseshoe shaped gonads that are easily distinguished through the upper surface of the bell. The stinging cells and venom of Chrysaora hysoscella are strong and can produce painful, long lasting weals in humans.
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The permanent laminar flow of an incompressible viscous fluid in the space between two parallel plates can be described by a linear ODE for
is the dynamic viscosity of the fluid and
is the pressure gradient. The boundary conditions are:
(lower plate velocity),
(upper plate velocity).
This problem has an analytic solution:
that varies as a function of the pressure gradient and the upper plate velocity.
Snapshot 1: pressure induced parabolic flow (Poiseuille solution)
Snapshot 2: linear flow induced by the translation of the upper plate (without pressure gradient)
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