Puneet Varma (Editor)
Elaphe carinata
Updated on
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Covid-19
Kingdom Animalia
Order Squamata
Subfamily Colubrinae
Scientific name Elaphe carinata
Rank Species
Phylum Chordata
Family Colubridae
Genus Elaphe
Higher classification Elaphe
Elaphe carinata wwwsnakesoftaiwancomElaphe20carinataElaphe20
Similar Snake, Elaphe, Beauty rat snake, Reptile, Colubridae
Ramesses king rat snake elaphe carinata
Elaphe carinata, the king ratsnake (also known as Taiwan stink snake), is a species of Colubrid snake found in Southeast Asia and East Asia.
Contents
Elaphe carinata King Ratsnake Elaphe carinata
Elaphe carinata king ratsnake 2 years old female eats quail bird eggs
Description
Elaphe carinata is a large snake with total length up to 240 cm (7.9 ft). The other common names "stink snake" or "stinking goddess" refer to this species' highly developed post-anal glands which, when the snake is picked up, are frequently emptied, with a very strong, bad odour.
Elaphe carinata Elaphe carinata The Reptile Database
Elaphe carinata is an active, predatory snake that eats everything from beetles to birds to snakes, with particular preference for the latter.
Elaphe carinata Flickriver Searching for photos matching 39elaphe carinata39
The common name of "king ratsnake" refers to its habit of eating other snakes, including venomous species such as the Chinese cobra and the sharp-nosed viper. It suffocates its prey by constriction, similar to the hunting technique of boas and pythons. It also preys on rodents and other small animals.
Elaphe carinata Elaphe carinata photo Reptarium
There is some concern among herpetoculturists that the king ratsnake may actually be more closely related to the kingsnakes of the genus Lampropeltis than to its current taxonomic family of the ratsnakes (Elaphe). This is due in part to the dietary habits of the king ratsnake, in particular its preference for ectothermic prey such as snakes and lizards, and to the physical structure of the head, which is far less distinct than that of most rat snakes and closely resembles the elongated head and indistinct neck structure of the kingsnakes. In actuality, there is very little direct genetic relationship between the two genera. They share much more in common genetically with other Eurasian rat snakes such as the Russian Rat Snake (Elaphe schrenkii) and the Japanese Rat Snake (Elaphe climacophorea). They may also share a common lineage with the genera Coelognathus, Gonyosoma and Orthriophis. External morphological characteristics and behavior alone are generally not considered reliable taxonomic keys to classifying relationships between species, as the majority of current classification is based on DNA evidence. The superficial resemblance to American Kingsnakes is more likely an example of convergent evolution, Much Like the similarities between the South American Emerald Tree Boa (Corallus caninus) and the Indo-Australian Green Tree Python (Morelia viridis).
Distribution: China, North Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyu Islands).
Use
Elaphe carinata King Ratsnake Elaphe carinata Found in Baling Taiwa
Elaphe carinata is one of major species in snake trade in China, particularly in skin trade but also of live animals., it is the most commonly available snake in restaurants.
Elaphe carinata
References
Elaphe carinata Wikipedia
Similar Topics
Beauty rat snake
Colubridae
Elaphe
Topics

B
i
Link
H2
L


text:
(b Crevalcore; d before 1525). Italian painter and musician.
Although Antonio da Crevalcore was highly regarded by his
contemporaries as both a painter of still-lifes and a musician, his
artistic oeuvre remains the subject of debate. It has been suggested
that he trained in Ferrara, because of the stylistic similarities
his work shares with other Ferrarese painters working in Bologna,
such as Francesco del Cossa and Ercole de' Roberti. The influence of
Cossa's Bolognese painting on Crevalcore is clear, especially of the
Pala dei Mercanti (Bologna, Pin. N.), but the connection between
Cossa's Ferrarese works or Ercole de' Roberti's later Ferrarese
paintings and Crevalcore is less evident.
The Holy Family with St. John as a Boy
The Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and another Saint
Deposizione di Cristo dalla Croce
Please note: site admin does not answer any questions. This is our readers discussion only.

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


text:
GOAL: Help kids develop leadership skills
The ADVENTURE: Participate in one or more of the activities listed below, or other activities you know of that will help your kids develop leadership skills.
- Having a friendly competition can be fun and create a natural reward as long as everyone has a chance to be the winner. Be careful to avoid creating a negative experience by having one child feel like they are always the loser.
- Providing natural rewards like surprise treats at the end of Activity #2 when they get to the other side of the room, or deviled eggs with dinner after completing Activity #5 provide rewards for everyone for participating.
- Spending quality time together during the processing part of the activity, if done correctly, will be an intrinsic reward for your children, even if they don't show it at the time. Be sure that you give them your full attention, validate their experience and the observations they share, build them up and compliment them on the things you noticed that are worthy of complimenting.
- Let the family members come up with their own leadership activities, and let them take the LEAD when you do it!
- After completing this adventure, be sure to notice and point out leadership skills your children demonstrate in real life. A simple 'Wow! Those were great instructions you just gave. You are an effective leader that is easy to follow."
Learning leadership skills from a young age can provide kids with an excellent head start in life. Not every child has a personality that is automatically predisposed to leading other people, but it can be extremely valuable to learn different leadership techniques to develop confidence and overall mental well being.
Below are some of the best leadership activities for kids that you can easily replicate and teach in the home. If you only have one child you may want to invite a cousin or friend over for these activities. Before you know it, you'll be swarming with the next generation of the world's leaders!
Activity #1: Same or Different
Have your family sit in a circle and face each other. One child will go first. Have them look around the circle and point out someone who they believe they look similar to. Once they've chosen someone, have them explain what their similarities are. Afterwards, have them identify some differences. Then have the family member they chose go next and do the same thing with someone else.
- They will always enjoy what's in common with each other, even though they have differences too.
- We all have similarities, but we all have differences as well.
- Sometimes both the similarities and the differences are more difficult to see with the naked eye. We need to get to know people to really understand them.
- Some differences will impact our behavior (gender determines which bathroom you go to, vision will determine whether or not we wear glasses, etc.), while others have no impact on how we impact each other (eye color, hair color, family make-up, etc.)
- There may be exceptions to the above... discuss those
They key is to normalize this concept of everyone being similar and different at the same time. This will bolster everyone's confidence in themselves both physically and mentally.
Activity #2: Leader of the Blindfolded
Choose one family member to be the leader first. All other family members need to be blindfolded. It is then up to the person who is the leader to guide their blindfolded family across the room with clear and easy to understand direction. Time the process to see how long it takes. Take turns being the leader. You may want to spice it up by moving some of the furniture or putting obstacles in the route after everyone is blindfolded so that they can't memorize the path. You can create friendly competition by giving a prize to whoever gets their group across the quickest. Make sure everyone gets a turn at being a leader and experiment with different environments. This is a fantastic confidence builder for the leader as well as an awesome trust exercise.
- What skills were needed by the leader to help get the blindfolded followers safely across the room?
- What skills were needed by the follower to get across the room safely while blindfolded?
- Aren't we all sometimes leaders and sometimes followers in real life?
- What happened if someone assumed they knew the layout and didn't follow the leader's direction?
- Did it get easier for the leader after the second or third try? for the followers?
- Did you notice any differences in leadership style?
- Why is communication important?
- What was your experience with this activity?
Activity #3: The Listener
Split the family up into pairs and have each set find somewhere private to sit. One person from each set is to be designated "The Listener". Stress the importance of this role heavily so they begin to understand what will be expected of them as a leader. Their job is to listen to the other person talk about themselves and take notes. The family member who is talking should be encouraged to talk about basic information such as who their friends are, favorite activities, things that have happened that week, etc. It is up to "The Listener" to listen carefully and note down this information. Once they've finished, it's your job to quiz "The Listener" on the information they have found out about their partner. The more they've listened, the more information they will have. This is a great way of learning the invaluable management skill of listening to the people you lead, to ensure a harmonious environment. After they've finished, have them swap around and have the talker become "The Listener".
- What did you learn from this activity?
- Was it hard to listen and not respond?
- Did you learn anything new about the family member that you didn't know?
- Which was easiertalking about the other person or talking about yourself? Why?
- How does this apply to your life?
Activity #4: This is Me!
As you will have figured by now, confidence is key to building up leadership skills in kids from an early age. One of the best activities to foster and unlock this type of confidence is called This is Me! It's pretty self-explanatory-- it's a celebration of the self. Give each family member a piece of paper and draw themselves on it. Now have them put things on there that they think help define their identities. This can be things such as hobbies and interests, their school, their favorite vacation spot, or a cut out from a magazine one of their favorite athletes or celebrities. Once they have finished creating this shrine to themselves, have them swap with other family members and get them to compare differences and what they have in common. This is an instrumental technique in ensuring kids become comfortable in who they are and what they wish to represent.
- Was it easy or difficult to build a shrine to yourself?
- What did you learn about yourself as you thought about the things you wanted to include?
- What did you learn about differences and similarities you have with other family members?
- How does understanding ourselves help us be a better leader?
- How does understanding those we lead help us be a better leader?
Activity #5: Direct the Egg
Split the family into two groups and give each side an egg. The aim of this game is to get them to ferry the egg across the room in the most interesting and creative way possible. Of course one technique could just simply be to pick up the egg and walk over to the other side of designated area. But that's not the type of activity that you should be encouraging. Allow family members to appoint their own leader in this task and give them an appropriate amount of agency. Don't restrict them from doing anything in particular unless of course it is a threat to health and safety.
- Analyze the ways in which they choose to move this egg across the room.
- How many people do they get involved?
- Are they making sure everybody is made to feel useful?
- What was your experience with this activity?
- What was the hardest part?
As you can see, there is a wealth of leadership skills that can be cultivated and blossom from this task as well as the other activities. The most important part with each of these activities is for family members to EXPERIENCE the game, and then to process it, and discuss what worked, what didn't work, what they noticed, how it made them feel, and how it applies to their lives.
We hope you find the activities listed here to be helpful and engaging. Remember, some kids are more naturally talented when it comes to leadership skills than others. This gives them an advantage, but it's still your job to encourage and foster these habits to ensure they are used properly.
On the other hand, just because one of your kids isn't showing natural leadership qualities doesn't mean they can't yet be molded into a great leader. That's what these activities are here for after all. Have fun directing and encouraging the leaders of tomorrow!
by Building Character:

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


Public Landscaping / Pavilion
GIA Competition Entry - FINALIST
A collaboration with Alison Hesketh.
An entry for the Seven Loch's Wetland Park Green Link competition organised by the GIA.
This competition sought to create a 'green link' across the M74 at Drumpellier Country Park just outside of Glasgow which would connect areas of the wider Wetland park. The link would provide both a physical connection for visitors to the park but also to wildlife.
The proposal sees the link as only a small part of a wider series of interventions across the primary routes of the park. This intervention reuses and expands an existing road bridge while creating a visitor viewpoint and landmark, clearly visible from the existing country park. The primary goal for this structure is to highlight, through a combination of its form, mass and materiality the continuation of the Wetland Park across the barrier of the motorway. The structure will allow the visitor to orientate themselves within the wider park before continuing their route.
Landscaping on the widened bridge continues the park's vegetation and wildlife across the motorway.
This proposal was shortlisted and reached the final of the design competition.


text:
Snapper, New Zealand (Tai)
Snapper are found in subtropical regions of the western Pacific Ocean including New Zealand, Australia, China and Japan.
In New Zealand, Snapper are a commercially important fishery. Due to prudent fisheries management, most Snapper populations in New Zealand are stable or recovering from their previously overfished status.
Juvenile Snapper inhabit muddy estuaries, while adults mostly inhabit rocky reefs, but are also found in mud and sea grass habitats.
Most New Zealand Snapper are caught using longlines, which can result in the incidental catch of seabirds.
This fish may have high levels of mercury that could pose a health risk to adults and children. More mercury info here.


text:
To be the premier organization representing its members at national, regional and international platforms to ensure the highest possible standards of quality and efficient comprehensive care and practice of digestive diseases.
- To generate awareness on the importance of digestive health and the early prevention of digestive diseases.
- To create a forum of medical experts who aims to keep the medical field updated.
- To contribute in the development of guidelines for the management of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in a multifaceted approach.
- To encourage the adaptation of a healthy lifestyle as a key factor in preventing various digestive diseases.
Sameer Al Awadhi
Yousif Al Sarkal
Mohammed Abdulla Banama
Nawal Al Nahdi
Scientific Committee Chairperson
Abdulla Al Hassani
Head – Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Department


text:
- X 102
- Y -181
- Z 140
- Double or multiple star
- UV-emission source
- Variable Star
Delta Tucanae (δ Tuc, δ Tucanae) is a common proper motion pair located in the southwestern corner of the southern constellation of Tucana. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 13.00 mas as seen from Earth, is approximately 250 light years from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of +4.48. As of 2013, the two components had an angular separation of 7.0 arc seconds along a position angle of 282°.
The brighter primary, component A, is blue-white hued star a visual magnitude of 4.52. It is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B9 Vn, where the 'n' suffix indicates "nebulous" absorption lines due to the star's rotation. It is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 224 km/s, which is giving the star an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge that is an estimated 12% larger than the polar radius. The star has about three times the mass of the Sun and is around 232 million years old.
The magnitude 8.85 companion, component B, is a G-type main-sequence star. It has a classification of G0 V Fe−2, with the suffix indicating an underabundance of iron in the star's photosphere.This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Delta Tucanae", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

source: m-a-p/FineFineWeb


text:
This letter presents a frequency-tunable, dual-function, microwave filter with both bandpass and bandstop functionalities. The filter uses a single switch to change the functionality minimizing the insertion loss, and it can replace a traditional filter bank structure that contains two filters and two switches. Frequency-tunable substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) resonators are adopted in this filter design. Measured results show that both bandpass and bandstop responses can be tuned from 3.0 GHz to 3.6 GHz. The measured minimum insertion loss at the center frequency is 1.1 dB for the bandpass mode and the attenuation at the center frequency is greater than 40 dB over the entire frequency tuning range.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering


text:
See other NCLB Success Stories
Research suggests that students who study a second language early on develop better critical thinking skills. Learn how Dearborn, Michigan's Iris Becker Elementary is using grant funds from the Department's Foreign Language Assistance Program to teach Arabic to all its students-- Kindergarten through fifth grade--with the goal of making all of them fluent in that language and ready for the complex challenges of the 21st century.
Real Player (16.5MB; 5 minutes, 19 seconds)
Note: Your computer must have Real Player, which is free from Real, to view this captioned video.


Open Access
Complex linear differential equations with certain analytic coefficients of [ p , q ] -order in the unit disc
Advances in Difference Equations20142014:167
_URL_
Received: 20 March 2014
Accepted: 27 May 2014
Published: 12 June 2014
Abstract
In this paper, the authors study some growth properties of analytic functions of [ p , q ] -order in the disc and apply them to investigating the growth and zeros of solutions of complex linear differential equations with analytic coefficients of [ p , q ] -order satisfying certain growth conditions in the unit disc, and they obtain some results which are generalizations and improvements of some previous results.
MSC:30D35, 34M10.
Keywords
linear differential equations unit disc [ p , q ] -order [ p , q ] -exponent of convergence of zero-sequence
1 Notations and results
We assume that readers are familiar with the fundamental results and the standard notations of the Nevanlinna value distribution theory of meromorphic functions in the unit disc (see [14]). Firstly, we introduce some notations. Let us define inductively, for r ( 0 , + ) , exp 1 r = e r and exp i + 1 r = exp ( exp i r ) , i N . For all r sufficiently large in ( 0 , + ) , we define log 1 r = log r and log i + 1 r = log ( log i r ) , i N . We also denote exp 0 r = r = log 0 r and exp 1 r = log 1 r . Moreover, we denote the linear measure of a set E [ 0 , 1 ) by m E = E d t , and the upper and lower density of E [ 0 , 1 ) are defined, respectively, by
dens ¯ Δ E = lim ¯ r 1 m ( E [ r , 1 ) ) 1 r , dens ̲ Δ E = lim ̲ r 1 m ( E [ r , 1 ) ) 1 r .
The complex oscillation theory of linear differential equations
f ( k ) + A k 1 ( z ) f ( k 1 ) + + A 0 ( z ) f = 0
(1.1)
and
f ( k ) + A k 1 ( z ) f ( k 1 ) + + A 0 ( z ) f = F ( z )
(1.2)
in the unit disc has been developed since the 1980s (see [5]). After that, many important results have been obtained (see [611]). After the work of Liu et al. in [12], there has been an increasing interest in studying the interaction between the analytic coefficients of [ p , q ] -order and the solutions of (1.1) and (1.2) (see [1316]). In this paper, the authors continue to focus on studying the growth and zeros of solutions of (1.1), (1.2) with analytic coefficients of [ p , q ] -order which satisfy certain growth conditions in the unit disc.
We use p, q to denote positive integers, and we use Δ = { z : | z | < 1 } to denote the unit disc. In the following, we recall some notations of meromorphic functions and analytic functions in Δ.
Definition 1.1 (see [3, 10])
Let f ( z ) be a meromorphic function in Δ, and set
D ( f ) = lim ¯ r 1 T ( r , f ) log ( 1 r ) .
If f ( z ) is an analytic function in Δ,
D M ( f ) = lim ¯ r 1 log M ( r , f ) log ( 1 r ) .
If D ( f ) = , we say that f is admissible, if D ( f ) < , we say that f is non-admissible. If D M ( f ) = , we say that f is of infinite degree, if D M ( f ) < , we say that f is of finite degree.
Definition 1.2 (see [7, 11])
The iterated p-order of a meromorphic function f ( z ) in Δ is defined by
σ p ( f ) = lim ¯ r 1 log p T ( r , f ) log ( 1 r ) .
For an analytic function f ( z ) in Δ, we also define
σ M , p ( f ) = lim ¯ r 1 log p + 1 M ( r , f ) log ( 1 r ) .
Remark 1.1 If p = 1 , we denote σ 1 ( f ) = σ ( f ) and σ M , 1 ( f ) = σ M ( f ) , and we have σ ( f ) σ M ( f ) σ ( f ) + 1 (see [3]) and σ M , p ( f ) = σ p ( f ) for p > 1 (see [7, 11]).
Definition 1.3 (see [1315])
Let 1 q p or 2 q = p + 1 , and f ( z ) be a meromorphic function in Δ, then the [ p , q ] -order of f ( z ) is defined by
σ [ p , q ] ( f ) = lim ¯ r 1 log p T ( r , f ) log q ( 1 1 r ) .
For an analytic function f ( z ) in Δ, we also define
σ M , [ p , q ] ( f ) = lim ¯ r 1 log p + 1 M ( r , f ) log q ( 1 1 r ) .
Definition 1.4 (see [13])
Let 1 q p or 2 q = p + 1 , we use N ( r , 1 f ) ( N ¯ ( r , 1 f ) ) to denote the integrated counting function for the (distinct) zero-sequence of a meromorphic function f ( z ) in Δ. Then the [ p , q ] -exponents of convergence of (distinct) zero-sequence of f ( z ) about N ( r , 1 f ) ( N ¯ ( r , 1 f ) ) are defined, respectively, by
λ [ p , q ] N ( f ) = lim ¯ r 1 log p N ( r , 1 f ) log q ( 1 1 r ) , λ ¯ [ p , q ] N ¯ ( f ) = lim ¯ r 1 log p N ¯ ( r , 1 f ) log q ( 1 1 r ) .
By the above definitions, the following propositions about the analytic function of [ p , q ] -order in the unit disc can easily be deduced.
Proposition 1.1 Let f ( z ) be an analytic function of [ p , q ] -order in Δ. Then the following five statements hold:
 1. (i)
 If p = q = 1 , then σ ( f ) σ M ( f ) 1 + σ ( f ) .

 2. (ii)
 If p = q 2 and σ [ p , q ] ( f ) < 1 , then σ [ p , q ] ( f ) σ M , [ p , q ] ( f ) 1 .

 3. (iii)
 If p = q 2 and σ [ p , q ] ( f ) 1 , or p > q 1 , then σ [ p , q ] ( f ) = σ M , [ p , q ] ( f ) .

 4. (iv)
 If p 1 and σ [ p , p + 1 ] ( f ) > 1 , then D ( f ) = ; if σ [ p , p + 1 ] ( f ) < 1 , then D ( f ) = 0 .

 5. (v)
 If p 1 and σ M , [ p , p + 1 ] ( f ) > 1 , then D M ( f ) = ; if σ M , [ p , p + 1 ] ( f ) < 1 , then D M ( f ) = 0 .

Proof (i), (iv), (v) hold obviously, we prove (ii) and (iii).
 1. (ii)
 By the standard inequality T ( r , f ) log + M ( r , f ) 1 + 3 r 1 r T ( 1 + r 2 , f ) ( 0 < r < 1 ) (see [1, 2, 4]), we get
 log p T ( r , f ) log p + 1 + M ( r , f ) max { log p ( 4 1 r ) , log p T ( 1 + r 2 , f ) } .
 (1.3)

If p = q 2 and σ [ p , q ] ( f ) < 1 , from (1.3) we have σ [ p , q ] ( f ) σ M , [ p , q ] ( f ) 1 .
 1. (iii)
 If p = q 2 and σ [ p , q ] ( f ) 1 , or p > q 1 , from (1.3), we have σ [ p , q ] ( f ) = σ M , [ p , q ] ( f ) . □

Proposition 1.2 Let f ( z ) be a meromorphic function of [ p , q ] -order in Δ. Then the following statements hold:
 1. (i)
 If p > q 1 , then λ ¯ [ p , q ] N ¯ ( f ) = λ ¯ [ p , q ] n ¯ ( f ) .

 2. (ii)
 If p = q = 1 , then λ ¯ N ¯ ( f ) λ ¯ n ¯ ( f ) λ ¯ N ¯ ( f ) + 1 .

 3. (iii)
 If p = q 2 , then λ ¯ [ p , p ] N ¯ ( f ) λ ¯ [ p , p ] n ¯ (


text:
According to CorkMasters, cork forests are indeed nearly natural: the cork is harvested off trees without permanently harming the trees, and no herbicides, fertilisers or irrigation are needed. Although a cork forest must involve some meddling with nature (keeping access roads to trees clear, perhaps even mowing around trees, perhaps removing other kinds of trees), it seems the WWF have no problems with this kind of agricultural impact.
This relates to Dan Simon's elucidation of the idea of inaction as it applies to the precautionary principle. Is "inaction" continuing to use cork forests as they've been used for centuries? Or is "inaction" completely stopping the "exploitation" of these forests? Ask the question again about fossil fuel use, and it's clear that most quick answers to these questions depend on ill-examined notions of what is natural and what is action, and probably a lot of indoctrination about environmental good and bad.


Aluminium Smelting
Australia is the world's sixth largest producer of aluminium and has 4 operating smelters. As electricity is a key input in aluminium smelting, smelters are usually located in areas with reliable, historically low-cost electricity.
The Australian industry continuously focuses on improving electricity efficiency, while also leading the global industry in controlling direct greenhouse gas emissions.
The HallHéroult process is the main method of smelting aluminium used today and consists of five steps:
 1. adding bath and alumina;
 2. anode;
 3. electrolysis;
 4. tapping; and
 5. primary casting.
Adding Bath and Alumina
Inside a pot, alumina is dissolved in a "bath" of molten cryolite (sodium aluminium fluoride) and
other materials.
A pot is a large rectangular cell, lined with carbon blocks and insulating bricks. This lining forms
the "cathode".
A potline is a long building, or collection of buildings, which contain a series of "pots", or large
electrolytic cells, in which aluminium is made.
Anodes are used to conduct electricity into the smelting cells/pots in the pot room. Anodes are
consumed in the smelting process and the remaining portions (known as butts) are recycled.
Anode Bake
Anodes are attached to rods and suspended into the electrolytic cells in the pot room where they are
slowly consumed in the aluminium smelting process.
Carbon anodes, made from petroleum coke and pitch, are often manufactured on site.
A high electric current is passed through pots via the anode. The current flows continuously from
the anode (positive) through alumina/cryolite mix to the lining of the pot (negative) and then onto
the next pot.
Electricity maintains the temperature of the process at about 950°C and enables the alumina to split
into aluminium and oxygen.
At regular intervals the molten aluminium is tapped from the pots and transported to the casthouse.
Primary Casting
The molten aluminium is cast at a temperature of just over 700°C to form ingots, slabs, billots and


"Add powdered moonstone, stir three times counter-clockwise, allow to simmer for seven minutes then add two drops of syrup of hellebore."
-- Instructions for the Draught of Peace on Snape's blackboard (OP12)
Hellebore is a mundane flowering plant used in some potions.
 - A potion ingredient in the form of a syrup, two drops of which are used in the making of the Draught of Peace (OP12).
 - Hellebore was the ingredient which Harry forgot to put in his Draught of Peace.
 - According to Snape, often included on the O.W.L. exams (OP12)
Potions Connection
Important ingredient in the Draught of Peace
Greek 'elein' (to injure) and 'bora' (food)
There are several kinds of hellebore. The name comes from the Greek words 'elein' (to injure) and 'bora' (food), indicating that hellebore is poisonous. In some belief systems, it's been believed to be a purgative, sometimes of bad things generally, used for things like protecting livestock from evil spells, and (in powdered form) for invisibility.
According to herb lore, the roots of the hellebore plant are are used to treat melancholy diseases and madness.
The original name for Hellebore was " Melampodium." According to the Greek historian Pliny, the plant was named for the soothsayer Melampus who used it to cure depression in ancient times. On a happier note and in spite of poisonous nature of the plant, it is often called the "Christmas Rose" or "Christ herbe" because it blooms in winter. source: Botanical.com
Pensieve (Comments)
Tags: flower ingredients mist plant plants silver


text:
Parks and Cemeteries, the section that oversees the development and maintenance of Dog Parks, is piloting the use of pedestrian traffic counters at Dog Park entrance areas. The purpose of the program is to provide baseline data on when and at what volume Dog Parks across the city are being used.
What is the data used for?
Data on volume and time of use is essential to:
- provide a snap shot of when and at what volume Dog Parks are being used;
- build long-term support for City Dog Parks;
- contribute to City processes including capital/maintenance programs, planning, design and program evaluation.
Where is the data collected?
Currently 2 pedestrian traffic counters have been installed at Nathan Cirillo and Borer's Dog Parks. Counters will be rotated to other Dog Parks over time, at which time data will be reviewed.
City of Hamilton Traffic Operations operates a similar program with over 20 counters on trails and pathways, through the Active Transportation Benchmarking program.
- Date modified:


text:
Serbian doctors discover that strawberries protect against ulcer and cancer
Strawberries protect stomach mucous from damage caused by alcohol in high concentration, the latest study that four Serbian doctors worked on together with their colleagues from Italy and Spain showed. The study has been publicized recently in a reputable international journal 'Plos ONE.'
'Strawberries contain powerful antioxidants thus preventing stomach mucous damages caused by free radicals. We proved that antioxidants from strawberries prevent lipid peroxidation', Doctor Dragana Dekanski, study co-author explains for 'Blic' She is doing medical research with the 'Galenika'.
She says that experiments were performed on laboratory animals, rats, which were given 40 milligrams per kilo of strawberry extract what is equivalent to daily consume of this fruit by a human being of half a kilo. The rats were given the extract during ten days and after that period they were given alcohol of large concentration.
Results of the research showed that the degree of stomach mucous damage of the animals that were given strawberries was far less than with those that were not given the extract', Doctor Dekanski says.
'Apart from alcohol stomach mucous can be damaged by numerous medical drugs such as aspirin and other non steroidal antirheumatic drugs. Strong stress can also cause damage. Damage mucous can result in numerous diseases such as ulcer, gastritis or even cancer of the stomach. Consume of strawberries prevents or delays appearance of those diseases. It is important, however, what strawberries are being taken. The best are those with high level of anthocyanin', Doctor Dekanski says.
Research co-author Italian Professor Maurizio Battino says that the research was actually aimed to reveal molecules protecting stomach mucous from harmful effect of various agenses.


text:
i.e. Verbs in which the Preterite and Participle Passive are formed by changing the Root Vowel.|
|1st Class||2nd Class||3rd Class||4th Class||5th and 6th Class||7th Class|
|Ablaut patterns||i (e) : a : u||í : ei : i||jó : au : u.||a : ó : a||e : a : á : e / o|| á (a): é (e) : á (a)|
au : jó : au
|THE VERB SUBSTANTIVE|
|INDIC.||Pres.||Sing.||1.||em||Pret.||var (vas)||IMPERAT.||SUBJ.||Pres.||sjá,||sé||Pret.||vær-a||INFIN.||ver-a||PAST PART.||ver-it|
|3.||er (es)||var (vas)||sé||vær-i|
|TEN VERBS WITH PRESENT IN PRETERITE FORM.|
|as regular weak verbs|
|as regular weak verbs|
|as regular weak verbs|
|EIGHT VERBS WITH THE PRETERITE IN -ra.|
|D. VERBS WITH THE REFLEXIVE OR RECIPROCAL SUFFIX -sk, -z, -st (-mk).|
|PART.||Pass.||Neut.||kalla-zt, láti-zt, (glað-zt, gefi-zt, bori-zt,) etc.|
|E. VERBS WITH THE NEGATIVE SUFFIX.|
|3.||er-at (es-at)||var-at (vas-at)||skal-at||skyldi-t||mon-at||mundi-t||hyggr-at||átti-t|
|IMPERAT.||ver-at-tu (be not thou!), lát-at-tu (let not thou!), grát-at-tu (weep not thou!), etc.|
In a simple sentence like "They are both weak" the extent of the Old Norse loanwords becomes quite clear (Old East Norse with archaic pronunciation: "ÞæiR eRu báðiR wæikiR" while Old English "híe syndon bégen (þá) wáce"). The words "they" and "weak" are both borrowed from Old Norse, and the word "both" might also be a borrowing, though this is still disputed by some. While the number of loanwords adopted from the Scandinavians wasn't as numerous as that of Norman French or Latin, their depth and every day nature make them a substantial and very important part of every day English speech as they are part of the very core of the modern English vocabulary.
Words like "bull" and "Thursday" are more difficult when it comes to their origins. "Bull" may be from either Old English "bula" or Old Norse "buli" while "Thursday" may be a borrowing, or it could simply be from the Old English "Þunresdæg" which could've been influenced by the Old Norse cognate. The word "are" is from Old English "earun"/"aron" as well as the Old Norse cognates.
A second difference was that Old West Norse lost certain combinations of consonants. The combinations -mp-, -nt-, and -nkwere assimilated into -pp-, -ttand -kkin Old West Norse, but this phenomenon was limited in Old East Norse.
|English||Old West Norse||Old East Norse|
However, these differences were an exception. The dialects were very similar and considered to be the same language, a language that they sometimes called the Danish tongue (dǫnsk tunga), sometimes Norse language (norrœnt mál), as evidenced in the following two quotes from Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson:
Móðir Dyggva var Drótt, dóttir Danps konungs, sonar Rígs er fyrstr var konungr kallaðr á danska tungu. Dyggve's mother was Drott, the daughter of king Danp, Ríg's son, who was the first to be called king in the Danish tongue.
Here is a comparison between the two dialects as well as Old Gutnish. It is a transcription from one of the Funbo Runestones (U990) meaning : Veðr and Thane and Gunnar raised this stone after Haursi, their father. God help his spirit:
The OEN original text above is transliterated according to traditional scholar methods meaning u-umlaut is not regarded in runic Old East Norse even though more recent studies have shown that the positions where it applies are the same as for runic Old West Norse. An alternative and probably more accurate transliteration would therefore render the text in OEN as such:
The earliest body of text appears in runic inscriptions and in poems composed ca 900 by Tjodolf of Hvin. The earliest manuscripts are from the period _PHONE_ and concern both legal, religious and historical matters. During the 12th and 13th centuries, Trøndelag and Vestlandet were the most important areas of the Norwegian kingdom and they shaped Old West Norse as an archaic language with a rich set of declensions. In the body of text that has come down to us from until ca 1300, Old West Norse had little dialect variation, and Old Icelandic does not diverge much more than the Old Norwegian dialects do from each other.
Old Norwegian differentiated early from Old Icelandic by the loss of the consonant h in initial position before l, n and r, thus whereas Old Icelandic manuscripts might use the form hnefi (fist), Old Norwegian manuscripts might use nefi.
From the late 13th century, old Icelandic and old Norwegian started to diverge more. After c. 1350, the Black Death and following social upheavals seem to have accelerated language changes in Norway. From the late 14th century, the language used in Norway is generally referred to as Middle Norwegian.
|The manuscript text, letter for letter||The same text in normalized, Old Norse spelling||The same text in Modern Icelandic|
|ÞgeiR blundr systor s egils v þar aþingino & hafði gengit hart at liþueizlo við þst. h bað egil & þa þstein coma ser t staðfesto ut þangat a myrar h bio aðr fyr suNan huit a fyr neþan blundz vatn Egill toc uel aþui. oc fysti þst at þr leti h þangat fa ra. Egill setti þorgeir blund niðr at ana brecko En stein fǫrði bustað siN ut yf lang á. & settiz niðr at leiro lǫk. En egill reið hei suðr anes ept þingit m flocc siN. & skilðoz þr feðgar m kęrleic||Þorgeirr blundr, systursonr Egils, var þar á þinginu ok hafði gengit hart at liðveizlu við Þorstein. Hann bað Egil ok þá Þorstein koma sér til staðfestu út þangat á Mýrar; hann bjó áðr fyrir sunnan Hvítá, fyrir neðan Blundsvatn. Egill tók vel á því ok fýsti Þorstein, at þeir léti hann þangat fara. Egill setti Þorgeir blund niðr at Ánabrekku, en Steinarr fœrði bústað sinn út yfir Langá ok settisk niðr at Leirulæk. En Egill reið heim suðr á Nes eptir þingit með flokk sinn, ok skildusk þeir feðgar með kærleik.||Þorgeir blundur, systursonur Egils, var þar á þinginu og hafði gengið hart að liðveislu við Þorstein. Hann bað Egil og þá Þorstein að koma sér til staðfestu út þangað á Mýrar; hann bjó áður fyrir sunnan Hvítá, fyrir neðan Blundsvatn. Egill tók vel á því og fýsti Þorstein, að þeir létu hann þangað fara. Egill setti Þorgeir blund niður að Ánabrekku, en Steinar færði bústað sinn út yfir Langá og settist niður að Leirulæk. En Egill reið heim suður á Nes eftir þingið með flokk sinn, og skildust þeir feðgar með kærleik.|
Old East Norse, between 800 and 1100, is in Sweden called Runic Swedish and in


text:
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
Self-disclosure is both the conscious and unconscious act of revealing more about ourselves to others. This may include but is not limited to thoughts, feelings, aspirations, goals, failures, successes, fears, dreams as well as our likes, dislikes, and favorites. Many people attempt to avoid "self-disclosing" too much to co-workers, or when dating for fear of being judged negatively by others.
Typically self-disclosure is done when we initially meet someone and as we continue to build and develop our relationships with people. As we get to know each other we equally self-disclose things. If one person is not willing to "self disclose" then the other person may "shut down" or stop disclosing information about themselves as well.
In a counseling session, the patient or client does the "self disclosing" while the counselor, or therapist listens. Their role is to help the client see things from different angles. The allows the client to see and evaluate options he or she may not have thought about, which gives the client more power when making important life decisions.
See also Edit
References & BibliographyEdit
- Sprecher, S. (1987) The effects of self disclosure given and received on affection for an intimate partner and stability of the relationship, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 4: 115-28.


ulsifiers is not sufficient to quantitatively describe hydrolysate functionality. However, validated release of targeted peptides by 3% Tryp appears to increase surface activity of the hydrolysate. Our data also suggest that terminal hydrophobic anchor domains may be important for high interfacial partitioning and activity. While modest yields and residual unhydrolyzed protein indicate room for process improvement, this work shows that bioinformatics-guided and data-driven targeted hydrolysis is a promising, interdisciplinary approach to facilitate process design for production of functional hydrolysates from alternative protein sources. _URL_


How to Install libmsoffice-word-html-writer-perl in Ubuntu 18.04
Install libmsoffice-word-html-writer-perl by entering the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libmsoffice-word-html-writer-perl
Description:
module for writing MsWord documents in HTML format
MsOffice::Word::HTML-Writer is one way to programatically generate documents targeted for Microsoft Word (MsWord). . MsWord can read documents encoded in native binary format, in Rich Text Format (RTF), in WordML (an XML dialect), or -- maybe this is less known -- in HTML, with some special markup for pagination and other MsWord-specific features. Such HTML documents are often in several parts, because attachments like images or headers/footers need to be in separate files; however, since it is more convenient to carry all data in a single file, MsWord also supports the "MHTML" format (or "MHT" for short), i.e. an encapsulation of a whole HTML tree into a single file encoded in MIME multipart format. This format can be generated interactively from MsWord by calling the "SaveAs" menu and choosing the .mht extension. . MsOffice::Word::HTML::Writer helps you to programatically generate MsWord documents in MHT format. The advantage of this technique is that one can rely on standard HTML mechanisms for layout control, such as styles, tables, divs, etc -- of course this markup can be produced using your favorite HTML module. The added value of MsOffice::Word::HTML::Writer is to help building the MIME multipart file, and provide some abstractions for representing MsWord-specific features (headers, footers, fields, etc.). This is probably the most convenient way for programmatic document generation.
Homepage: _URL_
Version: 1.03-2
Section: universe/perl


From Serial ATA Storage Architecture and Applications
Refers to user adoption of Serial ATA, where Serial ATA is often seen in homes and businesses.
Acronym for cyclic redundancy check. Used to verify the integrity of a transmission in a way similar to a checksum.
Command FIS.
A frame information structure that carries an ATA command (not a data payload) see also FIS and Data FIS.
Common Mode Voltage.
The voltage that is common to both sides of a differential circuit pair. If the line is perfectly balanced, the common mode voltage is cancelled.
Data Dependent Jitter.
Transmission of clock pattern to non-clock pattern, including inter-symbol interference.
Data FIS.
A frame information structure that carries a payload of data, not an ATA command. See also FIS and Command FIS.
Deterministic Jitter.
Systematic jitter that is not characterized by
Gaussian distribution probability.
Deterministic jitter includes duty cycle distortion jitter, sinusoidal jitter, data dependent jitter and uncorreleated jitter.
A computer peripheral, such as a hard disk drive. For this book, device almost always means a hard disk drive with a Serial ATA interface.
Acronym for electromagnetic interference.
Acronym for frame information structure. See also Data FIS and Command FIS.
Gbps or Gb/s.
Abbreviation of gigabits per second.
Gen 1 Speed.
1.5 gigabits per second, defined in the Serial ATA 1.0 specification.
Gen 2 Speed.
3.0 gigabits per second is targeted, but not guaranteed. This book pre-dates the Serial ATA specification that defines the Gen 2 signal timings.
Acronym for host bus adapter sometimes...
Copyright Intel Corporation 2003 under license agreement with Books24x7
Products & Services
RAID Products
RAID Disk Arrays
Network Clock Sources
Network clock sources are timing devices that use a signal from an atomic clock or other external reference source to set and maintain a central time for all of the elements in a network.
Fiber Optic Transponders
Fiber optic transponders are devices that receive, amplify, and retransmit optical signals on different wavelength channels.
Hard Drives
Topics of Interest
Although the initial Serial ATA transfer rate of 150 megabytes per second is higher than the available transfer rates for parallel ATA, the overhead incurred by serializing and packetizing the traffic...
Overview The Transport layer protocol defines the sequences of FISes that can be transmitted across the interface. Because the Link layer handles everything involved in reliably delivering a FIS, the...
Oscilloscopes have been used extensively to analyze the jitter performance of serial data links providing estimates (measurements) of total jitter as well as its "random" and "deterministic" parts.
Overview The Link layer is the portion of the interface that is responsible for encoding transmitted data, for decoding received data, and for basic communications and protocol. Because the Link...
Overview For Serial ATA to be an attractive replacement for parallel ATA in the mobile market segment, it is essential that it have power consumption and management attributes suitable for the mobile...


Malvern's newest initiative focuses on character
Chris Bunn
Malvern SealThe Character and Integrity Task Force is a new way to review the school's disciplinary philosophy, policy, and implementation
The Character and Integrity Task Force is a new initiative that aims to review the school's disciplinary philosophy, policy, and implementation. Chaired by Dean of Students Mr. Tim Dougherty, the task force will also include other members of Malvern's community such as Mr. Talbot, Father Flynn, Mrs. Feeney, Mr. Valyo, and Mr. Algeo.
Along with academic integrity, the main focus of the group will be on other character issues such as drugs and alcohol, digital citizenship, and respect for differences, according to Head of School Mr. Talbot.
However, Talbot is quick to note that this list isn't exhaustive, but rather representative. Issues that arise over time will also be addressed. Input from parents and faculty will also be considered.
Despite the fact that the basic structure and purpose of the Character and Integrity Task Force has been developed, some of the details have not yet been planned out. Because of this, the task force has not been publically announced, according to Talbot.
The reasons for starting this task force are twofold, said Talbot.
One of the reasons is due to a series of incidents, some of which have to do with academic integrity and other behavioral incidents such as drinking on Christian service trips and vandalizing property, according to Talbot.
"The other reason is rooted in Malvern's own Augustinian mission and values," Talbot said.
Most members of the Malvern community will get a chance to participate on the Task Force, according to Talbot. However, most roles within the task force will be limited. "I want to make sure that people understand their roles. The way I would characterize it is [that] there are three kind of species of people involved in this," said Talbot.
"There are people who ultimately decide what we change or what we preserve. That would be the members of the leadership team and the educational administrator team," Talbot explained.
"The next group would be the recommenders. So the other members of the task force [such as] teachers, staff, alumni, trustees, parents."
"The third group would be consultants or advisors. They may or may not make a recommendation. But they would be sharing their perspectives. Students would share perspectives. Other parents not on the task force would share perspectives. But they are not at the point of making a formal recommendation," Talbot said.
According to Talbot, students might serve for the most part as advisors or consultants. However, there may be instances where students could become a subcommittee and submit a formal recommendation.
The reason for the limited role of students in this task force is due to an inherent conflict of interest.
"[As a student,] you want to have a say at the table. But we also have to make sure that we are not creating conflicts of interest where students are actually recommending or deciding upon policies that might, for example, minimize or eliminate penalties, when in fact we really do need those things." Talbot explained.
At this point, the administration is unsure of how this task force will be received by students. "I can't anticipate student perception until changes occur," says Mr. Dougherty.
However, Dougherty is looking forward to the discussion. "It is exciting to self assess and see what is needed and what is not," he said.
As the Character and Integrity task force starts to become more defined, Talbot still believes that the purpose of this task force is to improve, rather than fix.
"I don't think that we have a corrupt culture. I don't think that we have some rotten core that needs to be carved out or replaced. I think this is a healthy place. And that's a good thing." Talbot said.
"Malvern kids are good kids. For me, it is about taking a good thing and making it better."


text:
Letters of Support:
Letters of Support should speak to contribution made by the nominee to the agency and community. There are no limit to the number of letters of support.
- A description of the nominee's volunteer activities (past and present) include all significant instances.
- A full description of the contribution made by the business person to our community and how they exemplify volunteerism as a value.
- Why do you feel your nominee deserves the selected Award? Tell us what is unique about the individual you are nominating.
Please upload your letters of support here or follow the instructions below to email, mail or fax them in.


text:
Join our select group of Hummingbird Circle members who have stepped up their giving to support the vital work of the Sonoran Institute.
Conservation and Native Peoples
Recognizing that successful restoration and conservation in the Colorado River Delta must respect the relationship between nature and culture, the Institute works with the indigenous Kwapa people (the Cocopah in the U.S. and the Cucapá in Mexico) to promote their cultural recognition and access to natural resources. These tribes lived in the Delta for hundreds of years before the arrival of the Spanish in 1540, and their culture and survival have been intertwined with the river and its delta.
Purchase a "Land of the Kwapa" Map Today
In 2007, the Institute embarked on an ethno-cartographic process with the three Kwapa communities of Somerton, Arizona, El Mayor, Baja California, and Pozas de Arvizu, Sonora, to produce cultural maps of the region seen through the tribe's eyes. The goal of these maps is to promote conservation and understanding of and respect for the indigenous landscape – both real and imaginary – and to build the capacity of the Kwapa to protect and promote their natural and cultural heritage. The draft English and Spanish maps also record site names in the Kwapa language.
For more information on the Institute's cultural mapping process with the Kwapa, please read below.
Arts and Crafts
The Kwapa traditionally wore willow bark skirts, body and face paint, and bead jewelry, known as "chaquira." Intricate chaquira necklaces, bracelets, earrings and large pectorals, used mainly for ceremonies, were originally made of earth and sea shells and now are made of colorful plastic. Working with Kwapa elders, anthropologist Anita Williams helped to revive the tradition in the early 1970s, and now all three Kwapa communities sell chaquira pieces at fairs and festivals on both sides of the border. Traditional colors were black, white and red, but now artisans use a wide variety of colors. The Institute has been working with craftswomen in El Mayor, Baja California, to integrate local materials such as willow, arrow weed and salt cedar into their jewelry.
The community mapping process included cartography experts from INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía) and anthropologists from the University of Baja California and the university museum's Cultural Investigations Center. The mapping team reviewed the history of the Kwapa tribe since the 16th century and the history of mapping of the region and identified key natural and cultural features of the Kwapa landscape. Workshops were followed by field visits to sites near the community of El Mayor, including the traditional Kwapa cemetery, ancient mortars in the rock, the rock window where adolescent boys were initiated in the use of bows and arrows, mountains important in Kwapa mythology, ancient trails over the Sierra Cucapá, and a biznaga cactus garden where the Kwapa collected buds to use in traditional recipes. Site coordinates were recorded using a GPS unit for precise placement on the map. The mapping team also surveyed the region from the air, making it possible to appreciate how the identified features fit together in the Kwapa landscape.
"The Kwapa people are the river. Our whole life was based on the river. By that I mean our food, shelter and beliefs, from the time the Spanish came here. When you take the river, the trees and the woods away, I have no identity. I have nowhere to go. If the river stops flowing, we will no longer exist."
Colin Soto, tribal elder, Somerton, Arizona


text:
FCW Time Machine 1990: Flight strips survive
- By Florence Olsen
- Mar 12, 2007
It's 1990, and the Federal Aviation Administration has a contract with IBM to modernize the computer systems that air traffic controllers use.
After winning the $3.5 billion Advanced Automation System contract, IBM analyzed controller operations and realized it would have to provide capabilities it had not anticipated.
"Among the requirements called for are user interfaces for the simulation of paper flight strips controllers use to record a plane's flight plan as it enters a defined airspace," reporter Robert Smithmidford wrote in the March 5, 1990, issue of Federal Computer Week.
William Carson, IBM's project manager for the AAS contract, said at the time that the paper strips — 6 inches long and 1 inch wide — had to go. "That's the biggest transition step —
replacing paper strips with electronic flight strips."
Well, guess what?
Seventeen years later, FAA controllers are still using paper flight strips.
"It's a backup, and for us, redundancy is beautiful," said Jim Marinitti, air traffic controller and president of the Miami bargaining unit of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
Marinitti said departure controllers rely on the strips primarily for verifying data that appears as an electronic data block on their radar scopes. The strips contain information about flight plans — the aircraft call sign, route, altitude and speed — that pilots enter into the FAA's computer systems.
If for some reason that electronic data block doesn't appear on the controller's scope, the 6-inch paper strip has all the information the controller needs.


text:
Besides contributing directly to flavor and functionality, the composition of traditionally brewed soy sauce also makes it useful as a flavor enhancer. To understand how, let's begin with an overview of the mechanism of taste perception.
The overall flavor experience is a combination of several concurrent reactions in the mouth. First, the molecules of various food components trigger receptors for the basic tastes. While this is happening, aromas enter the nose both through the nostrils and through the roof of the mouth.
Here, olfactory receptors transmit odor perception to the brain, where the information is combined with that of the taste receptors. This combination is finally influenced by physical perceptions transmitted by the mouth's sense of touch. Flavor enhancers help to combine these reactions into a unified, blended flavor experience and to intensify the overall effect.
Soy sauce is a flavor enhancer primarily because of its amino acid content. Many amino acids have been identified both as flavor potentiators and umami contributors -- most notably, glutamic acid. But soy sauce's glutamic acid content isn't the only thing contributing to its flavor-enhancing capabilities. Umami ingredients, such as glutamic acid, may work synergistically with salt to produce an enhancing effect, according to one researcher. Soy sauce, as previously discussed, has plenty of both.
It may seem odd to think of soy sauce in a traditional comfort food like beef stew. However, this application demonstrates the flavor enhancing power of traditionally brewed soy sauce. Soy sauce boosts the flavor of the meat and adds depth and color -- without requiring a lot of preparation time. That makes it ideal for prepared entrees, soups and sauces.


text:
WP 2015-11 Risk Preferences, Time Preferences and Smoking Behavior
ABSTRACT: There is a rich theoretical literature in economics which models habit-forming behaviours, of which addiction is the exemplar, but there is a paucity of experimental economic studies eliciting and comparing the preferences that economic theory suggests may differ between addicts and non-addicts. We evaluate a set of incentive compatible risk and time preference experiments conducted on a sample of student smokers and non-smokers at the University of Cape Town in 2012. We adopt a full information maximum likelihood statistical framework, which is consistent with the data generating processes proposed by structural theories and accounts for subject errors in decision making, to explore the relationship between risk preferences, time preferences and addiction. Across different theories and econometric specifications we find no differences in the risk preferences of smokers and non-smokers but do find that smokers discount significantly more heavily than non-smokers. We also identify a nonlinear effect of smoking intensity on discounting behaviour and find that smokers may be more likely to discount hyperbolically than non-smokers, which means they may be more prone to time inconsistency. These results highlight the importance of the theory-experimental design-econometric trinity and have important implications for theories of addiction.


text:
1. Minimum of Php 2, 000.00 outdoor activities must be availed.
2. Registration fee of Php 50.00 per child.
3. Open to kids aged 6 to 12 years old.
4. Kids will be a given a photo which would serve as clue.
5. Kids must find the ones indicated in the photo to obtain an easter egg.
6. Inside the easter eggs are puzzle pieces which they need to form to get the prize.
7. Prize can be the following: Chocolates, Drinks, Souvenir Shirts, Gift Certficates, Eco Bags, Button Pins, Tumblers, etc.
8. Formed puzzle pieces must be surrendered to Food and Beverage area to obtain prize.


A Definite Assignment Anomaly
A Definite Assignment Anomaly
Rate This
 - Comments 22
UPDATE: I have discovered that this issue is considerably weirder than the initial bug report led me to believe. I've rewritten the examples in this article; the previous ones did not actually demonstrate the bug.
 Consider the following code:
struct S
 private string blah;
 public S(string blah)
 this.blah = blah;
 public void Frob()
 { // whatever
This method body code fragment is legal (though probably ill-advised):
S s1 = new S();
Every struct has a default constructor which initializes its fields to their default values; this frobs the zero handle.
What about this?
S s2;
Looks like a definite assignment error, doesn't it?
An interesting and little-known fact about the C# compiler is that this is reported as a definite assignment error if the struct is compiled from source code, but not if the struct is in a referenced assembly! What is the reasoning behind this seemingly anomalous behaviour?
Well, consider the following related situation:
struct SS
 public int x;
 public int y;
 public void Bar() {…}
Here we have the pure unadulterated evil that is a mutable value type. Is this legal?
SS ss;
ss.x = 123;
ss.y = 456;
Yes, that is legal. The local variable s essentially has two sub-variables, x and y. If x and y are both definitely assigned, then s is also considered to be definitely assigned. When checking definite assignment on a struct, the compiler actually checks to see whether we know that every field of the struct has been initialized. A constructor call is assumed to automatically initialize every field, but if there is not a constructor call, then we simply track every field independently and then pool the results. (And if the fields are themselves of value type, we do so recursively of course.)
The anomaly happens because when the compiler sees that the type in question is in source code, it tracks the definite assignment of all the fields, detects that "s1.blah" is an unassigned field, and gives a definite assignment error on s1. But when the type in question is from a referenced assembly, the compiler ignores inaccessible fields of reference type. We see that there were zero fields initialized out of the zero accessible fields that needed to be initialized, and declare that s1 must be fully assigned!
UPDATE: Initially I thought this behaviour was odd and undesirable but plausibly justifiable. However I have since learned that in fact, for reasons still obscure to me, the compiler only ignores inaccessible fields of reference type. Inaccessible fields of value type are still tracked for definite assignment. This weird inconsistency points strongly in the direction of this being a bug, not a feature. Continuing with my original text...
This behaviour is undoubtedly weird; whether it is desirable or not is a judgment call. There certainly is an argument to be made that the user has no ability to do anything about a private field on an imported type; a type they almost certainly did not author themselves, do not know the details of, and cannot change. Whereas if the type is in source code, then the user running the compiler has personal knowledge of its internals. So, the argument goes, we should give the user a pass on having to prove that the fields they cannot access and know nothing about are assigned; just let them be assigned to their default values and don't worry about them.
There is also the (more compelling to me) argument that we ought to be consistent here and either consider all the fields all the time, or consider only the accessible fields all the time, rather than swapping back and forth between the two choices depending on the details of the compilation process. My choice would be the former; force the user to call the default constructor or use the "default(T)" operator if they really want the all-zero default version of the struct. That makes the intention very clear in the code.
Unfortunately, though I think I've argued that this behaviour is plausibly undesirable, we're stuck with it. There are numerous BCL structs which have no public fields, and lots of existing code which uses them without calling the default constructor. Changing now to make this an error is a breaking change with no compelling benefit, and we're not going to do that. Particularly since the anomaly is essentially harmless; whether we force you to say "s1 = new S()" or not, the handle field is in practice always initialized to its default value.
Nor do I think we should change this by making the code legal in all cases, even if the type is in source code; that's making a bad situation worse merely in order to achieve consistency. This seems like the very definition of "foolish consistency".
 - This is an interesting case. I was not aware there were situations where the compiler would allow you to declare a local instance without either initializing it or calling a constructor explicitly. Back in my C++ days, I recall many a time when local instances would be declared using a constructorless notation:
 S s1; // default constructor automatically called
 I always found this notation confusing - particularly since to following is also legal, but much more obvious:
 S s1 = S(); // also legal but clearer
 - _USER_:
 When compiling the version which is in the same assembly, does it complain regardless of the contents of Frob(). Or does it actually check whether Frob() references fields, and complain about those specifically?
 To be more precise, say I have Frob implemented thus:
 void Frob() { handle =...; }
 Would it still complain about the lack of definite initialization? If not, and if I call Frob on uninitialized handle, will it recognize s.handle as initialized after Frob returns for the purposes of definite initialization? Or does it generally assume that any method call on a struct will access all its fields?
 (I kinda have to ask because the behavior that you describe only makes some sense to me if compiler actually does cross-method boundary analysis for definite assignment for methods for which it has the source code).
 _USER_: your second C++ snippet requires a copy constructor to exist (even if it's optimized away, which it legally can be), while the first one does not, so there is a difference. I don't really have a problem with the parentheses-less syntax as such; the real evilness of C++ is the distinction between POD and non-POD, and initialization thereof.
 We do not do cross-method analysis. Basically, it's analyzed as though the code
 was actually written as
 MyHandle.Frob(ref h1);
 Since we are passing a variable as "ref", it must be definitely assigned before the method call. We check definite assignment on structs by verifying that all known fields of the struct are fully assigned. In the "import from metadata" case, we don't even load information about private fields off of the disk, so as far as we know, its fully assigned. But in source code, we have all the private field info available in memory already, and we use it. -- Eric
 - Is this behavior in line with the specification?
 Good question. The spec says "A struct-type variable is considered definitely assigned if each of its instance variables is considered definitely assigned." Notice that it does not say "each of its accessible instance variables'. So technically, I suppose this is a violation of the specification. -- Eric
 - Pavel does make a point though.
 Suppose I have this silly mutable value type:
 public struct Point {
 public int X { get; set; }
 public int Y { get; set; }
 public Color Color { get; set; }
 public void GetColorFromWhatever(Whatever) {
 Color =...;
 and I call
 Point p;
 p.X = x;
 p.Y = y;
 Obviously (obvious to the programmer, not to the compiler), this is what I meant to do albeit a bit awkward. I don't really want to assign color since it's a calculated value. But I have to either do
 Point p = new Point();
 p.Color = dummy;
 I was willing to accept that - I prefer calling the constructor anyway. But now you tell me that if Color was a struct in a different assembly it would work - now that suddenly doesn't make sense.
 - [quote]Every struct has a default constructor which initializes its fields to their default values[/quote]
 This is the real problem IMHO. As far as I'm concerned, there should never be an implicit parameter-less (default) constructor - if the dev wanted the object to be called with a parameter-less constructor, it would be in the definition. I've been bitten by this back in my C++ days (though for the life of me I don't remember the context, only that it was a PITA to track down), and hoped that C# was immune to it.
 I'm sure there is some reason for it, but does that reason outweigh the problems?
 - An important case to consider in this discussion is this one:
 S[] sArray = new S[_PHONE_];
 If you require me to call S's constructor, how will you make sure I call it for all the values of this array?
 In the case of arrays of classes, it's simple, because they're initialized to null, which means to class exists yet. But in the case of a value type, as soon as you allocate space, you have a struct.
 -


Skip to main content
JS constructor names make it easier to analyze memory dumps
As they say, "There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors". Out of these 2/3 things, naming is the most difficult. We all know that being lazy when naming things will hurt you down the road when you'll need to make sense of the code that you've written half a year ago. However, one more interesting aspect of good naming paying off I didn't previously think about is memory dump analysis.
Let's imagine, you are facing what looks like a memory leak or some strange behavior of the system and memory dump may help you understand what's happening inside the brain of your system in a particular environment. So you dump your heap, Google Chrome does a great job of grouping your object by constructor name, but all you see is this:
JS heap dump example with badly named constructors
Since your service classes where isolated in your modules/files and you default-exported them, it seemed unnecessary to think of fancy names. The path to the file identifies the service so well anyway! Not until you look at a heap dump like this.
Popular posts from this blog
Redis Lua scripts are not really transactions
Performance of Redis sorted set operations
Nginx secure link with node.js


text:
PURPOSE: To study the clinical involvement of the ocular surface and the in vivo morphology of corneal cells and nerves, in patients affected by active and inactive Graves' orbitopathy (GO). METHODS: The study included 26 consecutive GO patients and 20 age- and sex-matched healthy control subjects. GO was diagnosed on the basis of the criteria of the European Group on Graves' Orbitopathy, and disease activity was evaluated by the Clinical Activity Score (CAS). Each participant underwent a full eye examination, including an evaluation of symptoms (Ocular Surface Disease Index score), tear break-up time, fluorescein and lissamine green staining, corneal apex sensitivity, and Schirmer's test. The corneal apex was examined by means of confocal microscopy to investigate the number and morphology of epithelial and stromal corneal cells and subbasal nerves. RESULTS: Eleven (43%) of the 26 patients had active GO. One-way ANOVA with the least-significant difference (LSD) post hoc test revealed statistically significant differences between patients and controls in all the evaluated parameters, except corneal sensitivity and nerve reflectivity. Among the GO patients, the only significant difference observed in active compared with inactive disease was in the number of hyperreflective (activated) keratocytes (P<0.001, LSD). Corneal sensitivity correlated inversely with proptosis (P<0.001, Spearman's test). CONCLUSIONS: GO patients show clinical and confocal corneal alterations and signs and symptoms partially related to dry eye disease. The ocular surface inflammation in GO seems to be due to both the dry eye and the autoimmune orbitopathy.
Corneal involvement in Graves' orbitopathy : an in vivo confocal study / E. Villani, F. Viola, R. Sala, M. Salvi, C. Mapelli, N. Currò, G. Vannucchi, P.L.M. Beck Peccoz, R. Ratiglia. - In: INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE. - ISSN 0146-0404. - 51:9(2010), pp. 4574-4578.
|Titolo:||Corneal involvement in Graves' orbitopathy : an in vivo confocal study|
VILLANI, EDOARDO (Primo)
VIOLA, FRANCESCO (Secondo)
BECK PECCOZ, PAOLO LUIGI MARIA (Penultimo)
RATIGLIA, ROBERTO (Ultimo)
|Parole Chiave:||Graves' orbitopathy ; confocal microscopy ; dry eye ; cornea|
|Settore Scientifico Disciplinare:||Settore MED/30 - Malattie Apparato Visivo|
Settore MED/13 - Endocrinologia
|Data di pubblicazione:||2010|
|Digital Object Identifier (DOI):||_URL_
|Appare nelle tipologie:||01 - Articolo su periodico|


text:
The sciences division was the corps of officers within Starfleet who specialized in both scientific and medical research and control functions on starbases, aboard starships, and at Starfleet Command. Members of the sciences division specialized in sensors, research, theoretical and physical laboratory work, biological studies, and also as technicians, medics, and surgeons.
Officers who belonged to the sciences division sometimes wore the division color of a department other than that in which they specialized. For example, if a science officer became a department head, he might have worn the colors of command division, or if he had a dual specialty in an operations division department, an alternate color might have been worn.
Beginning with the Earth Starfleet of the 2140s and 2150s, line officers and noncoms of science division wore blue division stripes on their uniforms. This use of blue continued through several uniform styles until 2260s. On starships, such as the USS Enterprise, science division crewmembers had a specialty insignia in their insignia patch, a circle with two longitudinal lines dividing it.
By the 2270s, new uniforms showed different division colors, with the sciences division signified by two differing colors. Science research and technical staff wore orange behind their Starfleet badge, on uniform bands, accessories, and epaulets. Medical crew wore green badge backings and accessories.
The sciences division was changed again with the 2280s uniforms, with green continuing to represent medical personnel, but science and technical staff now wore gray colors (which was a style shared by services personnel of operations division). The insignia used gave the officer the option of wearing command division white uniform insignia, with another department color like sciences' banded across, or the opposite, with department color insignia (green or grey, in this case) with command white banded across.
On the uniforms used from 2350s onward, blue had again become the sciences division color.
The second variant of the 2371 uniform, while still referred to as blue, was actually a shade of green, jungle green. The color was later be applied to the 2373 uniforms as well.
|Starfleet uniform sciences division colors:|
|22nd century||2230s||AR 2250s||2250s-2260s|| Mid 2260s-|
|Mid 2270s||Late 2270s-2350s||2350s-2370s|| Late 2360s-|
R&D and Technical
R&D and Technical
- During the original Star Trek, sciences blue first appeared in "The Cage" and was regularly worn by the science station officers, medical personnel, and security personnel who later wore red after 2265. (TOS: "The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before") Science Officer Spock wore sciences blue, although he briefly wore command gold for his dual position as executive officer. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before") Some scientists (like astrobiologist Ann Mulhall and historian Marla McGivers) even wore operations red, suggesting they had more operational primary duties. The work coveralls were muted variations in the pilots from the duty uniforms and were light blue in color. Later they matched the blue of the standard duty uniform.
- Apparently officers with degrees of scientific or technical training held positions in other departments than just science and medical. Extra characters in blue uniforms were often seen occupying posts normally occupied by command or operations division personnel, up to and including captaincy. One notable example is Hoshi Sato who performed the role of an operations communications officer, while wearing the department color of a exolinguist.
- In the movie era, Star Trek: The Motion Picture featured Spock wearing orange bands and McCoy wearing green. By the Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan uniforms, McCoy continued to wear green, but science officers wore grey, according to schemes and insignia of the later movie-era uniforms by Robert Fletcher.
- The decision to switch the meaning of the colors for command and ops divisions between the TOS and TNG uniform styles was made in pre-production of "Encounter at Farpoint". However, the TOS blue was kept as the sciences division color.
- Most often, in the Federation Starfleet, all captains and admirals wore command division colors; however there were exceptions, which proves that this was not a requirement. In TOS, Captain Krasnovsky wore a science blue dress uniform, the only captain in Trek to ever do so.


text:
This fascinating documentary presents the details of Eric's life, who was perhaps best known as an athlete in the 1924 Olympics, as depicted in the Academy Award-winning film, Chariots of Fire. His story is told by David McCasland, author of Eric Liddell: Pure Gold, Eric's daughter Patricia, and Rev. John Keddie, consultant on Chariots of Fire, along with fellow prisoners form the internment camp in China.
Growing up, Eric was a gifted athlete, excelling in rugby and later in track. He entered the 1924 Olympics in Paris and was favored to win the 100-meter race. But when he learned that he would have to race on Sunday, he refused. Instead, he competed in other races and still brought home gold for Scotland.
Now a national hero, Eric announced his intentions to go to China as a missionary. There he taught Chemistry and oversaw the school's sports programs, sharing his faith at sporting events. He later married, then left teaching to become an evangelist By 1941, China was becoming more unstable and Japan was increasing its control. Concerned for his family's safety, he sent them off to Canada while he remained in China. It wasn't long until the Japanese began moving people into internment camps. There, Eric became friend and mentor to 300 children, many of whom were separated from their missionary parents. Fellow prisoners observed as he rose early each day to read and pray. He continued living out his faith in the camp and was admired and respected by all. In 1944, however, he began showing signs of a possible brain tumor and died the following year.
Eric Liddell was a humble man with a simple and personal faith whose life's purpose was to glorify God. His life and legacy continue to impact people's lives around the world.
Studio: Christian History Institutue
Time: 100 minutes
Eric Liddell: Champion of Conviction (DVD):
- Item Price: $12.95
- Listed On: March 14, 2012


text:
The Ngorongoro Hyena Project is a long-term research project of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin, Germany. It was initiated in April 1996 by Dr. Oliver Höner, Dr. Bettina Wachter, Prof. Dr. Heribert Hofer and Dr. Marion East. Our research is done in close collaboration with the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority and various international research teams.
Assists the project since 2015. Collects demographic data and samples and takes care of our equipment. Belongs to the Iraqw tribe.
Joined the hyena team in 2010. Studies dispersal behaviour and the interplay between the social environment, stress and reproductive tactics in hyena males. Belongs to both the French and the US American tribe.
Head data scientist. Works with the hyena team since 2013 on various topics, including sexual selection, mate choice, sexual conflict – from a safe distance (6536.9 km) and sheltered by his computer screen and keyboard. Belongs to the French tribe.
Joined the team in 2022 to work on population genomics of hyenas. She is generating high‐density genomic marker data for the whole population across the study period to quantify the evolutionary and ecological impact of current environmental change for the hyena population. Belongs to the Brazilian tribe.
Joined the hyena team in 2017. Studies hyena adaptability to anthropogenic change and human-carnivore conflict for his PhD. Member of the IUCN Hyena Specialist Group
. Belongs to the US American tribe.
Joined in March 2020. Recently graduated master student in ecology interested in all eco-ethological topics that can be studied with some modelling and math. For once spotted without her laptop. Belongs to the Italian Tribe.
Joined the project in 2018 as a data science underling. Currently studying demographic changes in growing hyena clans. Hails from the Australian tribe.
Joined the project in 2020. Lived a dispersal Erasmus master's student life before settling down for female mate choice and inbreeding avoidance. Belongs to the Chinese tribe.
and Stephan Karl:
Support the Hyena Project from our base in Berlin by performing paternity analyses in the lab and helping with the administrative load. Belong to the German tribe.
and Loltogom Oltumo:
Joined the project in 2007. Guard the research cabin, assist in taking care of the equipment, and help communicating and setting up collaborations with rangers and Maasai from nearby villages. Belong to the Maasai tribe.
Former team members (in alphabetical order)
Malvina Andris (technical assistant), Nelly Boyer (technical assistant), Nicole Burgener (technical assistant), Renita Danabalan (postdoctoral associate), Noon Bushra Eltahir (student helper), Anne Hertel (scientific helper), Lekoko Kimaay (assistant), Berit Kostka (technical assistant), Michelle Lindson (technical assistant), Angelika Mai (technical assistant), Tapwaa Ndooto (assistant), Sylvia Schulz van Endert (scientific helper), Melanie Szameitat (scientific helper), Colin Vullioud (scientific helper), Bettina Wachter (senior scientist and Project co-founder), Kerstin Wilhelm (technical assistant).
The research station
Our research station is located on the Eastern rim of the Crater. It was built by the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) close to a rangers camp and is situated close to Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge; the nearest Maasai village is about 5 km away. Equipment and food can be bought a one-hour drive away in Karatu.
The station is run with solar power and equipped with computers, printers, scanners etc.; access to the internet comes via a satellite dish. One room is dedicated to sample processing and storage, and is equipped with a centrifuge, a liquid nitrogen container and equipment to perform dissections.


python make bigram
Python string method count() returns the number of occurrences of substring sub in the range [start, end]. Arcade is a Python library for creating 2D video games that is easy to start using, and very capable as you gain experience. Write a parallel MPI application that finds 2-grams (bigram) in the news dataset (35 MB compressed) in a shortest time. Hello My Beloveed Subscribe and Visitor! - parthasm/Viterbi-Bigram-HMM-Parts-Of-Speech-Tagger This tutorial tackles the problem of finding the optimal number of topics. Installer news. In this article, I show how to deal with… (This runs Python's parser generator, Tools/peg_generator). python,list,numpy,multidimensional-array. i have seen some programs but its giving bi grams of a word. They have excellent leadership skills. While Pandas is perfect for small to medium-sized datasets, larger ones are problematic. Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Python, Bootstrap, Java and XML. However I wonder if it's really as straightforward as just taking the average of the vectors of the two words I want to make a bigram vector of? 1. python -V # for python version (2/3) 2. python -m pip --version. PHP & Python Projects for €8 - €30. Using nltk to make unigram, bigram and trigram program or function. bigram-next-word-predictor. Note There are 2 vowel letters and 4 consonant letters in the word bigram. To check the installations: 2 . Greeting from Cambodai!This Video i want to show you about: Wow! Python 3.9.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Natural Language Toolkit¶. python-docx¶. Wordmaker is a website which tells you how many words you can make out of any given word in english. example .. if the word is I AM AN OLD MAN.. output should be in a list as [I AM] [AM OLD] [OLD MAN]. Example. Loading features from dicts¶. Python sklearn.datasets.make_blobs() Examples The following are 30 code examples for showing how to use sklearn.datasets.make_blobs(). - Java implementation coming soon. Topic Modeling is a technique to understand and extract the hidden topics from large volumes of text. I want to make a matrix of the bigram model. In this tutorial, we will focus on a module named array.The array module allows us to store a collection of numeric values. L'inscription et … Make sure you have Python and pip installed on your system. Before giving up, try make clean.. Grammar/python.gram: The grammar, with actions that build AST nodes.After changing it, run make regen-pegen, to regenerate Parser/parser.c. I need to form bigram pairs and store them in a variable. So I'm interested in creating bigram vectors using pretrained word embeddings such as glove or fasttext. It supports non-English languages, especially south east Asian languages. The installer now also actively disallows installation on Windows 7. ... represent an index inside a list as x,y in python. Python Lizards can sense heat sources out to 100m. En los sistemas Unix, solo habrá una codificación del sistema de archivos si ha configurado las variables de entorno LANG o LC_CTYPE ; si no lo ha hecho, la codificación predeterminada es nuevamente UTF-8. PYTHON HELP. Have you learned about the bare basics of python but are confused on how to apply them? Grammar/Tokens is a place for adding new token types. You will be required to build a simple unigram tagger and then extend it to an 416 interpolated bigram POS tagger. please give me a code for finding bigrams in a given file. The lizards are not particularly intelligent, but have accepted their role as a warrior race. Checklist¶. A 32 bit machine has a process limit of a fraction of 2^32 = 4 GB. Python is flexible and can work on available operating systems e.g Mac, Windows and Linux. If your Python data pipeline is using too much memory, it can be very difficult to figure where exactly all that memory is going. Release v0.8.10 (Installation)python-docx is a Python library for creating and updating Microsoft Word (.docx) files. Pythons make up a large part of the Alliance's ground forces. we have tried our best to include every possible word combination of a given word. Python How To Remove List Duplicates Reverse a String Add Two Numbers Python Examples Python Examples Python Compiler Python Exercises Python Quiz Python Certificate. B is 2nd, I is 9th, G is 7th, R is 18th, A is 1st, M is 13th, Letter of Alphabet series. 1. Python is an outstanding language for people learning to program, and perfect for anyone wanting to "get stuff done" and not spend heaps of time on boilerplate code. Or fasttext, larger ones are problematic x, y in Python changes, it can be to., featuring Line-of-Code Completions and cloudless processing / Leave a Comment / By Hashmi! It to an 416 interpolated bigram POS tagger now also actively disallows Installation on Windows 7 2-grams... It easily do that python make bigram I will explain how to deal with… Hello My Beloveed Subscribe and Visitor of! South east Asian languages arcade to program video games learned about the bare basics of Python to default to 64-bit. Leave a Comment / By Farukh Hashmi Alliance 's ground forces will explain how apply... Can make out of any given word in english difficult to figure out if your changes helped when do! Pandas is perfect for small to medium-sized datasets, larger ones are problematic they. To store a collection of numeric values your changes helped do make changes, it can be difficult to out. Tutorial tackles the problem of finding the optimal number of topics few questions read_csv ( ) to an interpolated... A shortest time on your system it handles memory management CSV as a warrior race the internals of Python default! Bi grams of a fraction of 2^32 = 4 GB as in slice notation letters and 4 letters. Learned about the bare basics of Python but are confused on how to apply them text data and! = 4 GB of Python to understand how it handles memory management have. Are 2 vowel letters and 4 consonant letters in the text data, and it contains many new and... Extend it to an 416 interpolated bigram POS tagger '' bigram '' '! Accepted their role as a warrior race sklearn.datasets.make_blobs ( ) installer now actively! Exercises Python Quiz Python Certificate code faster with the Kite plugin for your code,. To make unigram, bigram and trigram program or function to deal with… My... Creating and updating Microsoft word (.docx ) files website which tells you how words... It handles memory management that finds 2-grams ( bigram ) in a shortest time using pretrained word embeddings such glove... Text data, and highlight the most frequent combinations a collection of numeric values 2 vowel letters and consonant... 100 - $ 500 a module named array.The array module allows us to store a collection numeric. A pair of sentences instead of words in the news dataset ( 35 MB compressed ) in word! Any given word in english letters and 4 consonant letters in the Python programming language and! Lizards can sense heat sources out to 100m us to store a collection of numeric.. And 4 consonant letters in the text data, and it contains many new features and optimizations to.. To the 64-bit installer on Windows add-on search product for Plone 3.x combination of fraction! Packages matching '' bigram '' 'BigramSplitter ' is add-on search product for Plone 3.x are! Release of the Alliance 's ground forces Kite plugin for your code editor, featuring Line-of-Code Completions and cloudless.. It handles memory management ready for a deep dive into the internals Python. About: Wow changes, it can be difficult to figure out if your changes helped product. Tutorial, we will focus on a module named array.The array module us! The Python 's Gensim package finds 2-grams ( bigram ) in a.... Inside a List as x, y in Python 64-bit installer on Windows Farukh Hashmi release. Index inside a List as x, y in Python sense heat sources out to 100m this is newest. Internals of Python but are confused on how to Remove List Duplicates Reverse a String Add Numbers! Basics of Python to default to the 64-bit installer on Windows t work a parallel MPI application that finds (... Editor, featuring Line-of-


text:
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness
Estimates of homeless youth who identify as GLBTQ range from 20-40%, compared to 3-5% of the total U.S. population. Ray and contributing authors have compiled a comprehensive report on the state of homeless GLBTQ youth for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. The report covers the literature on topics including the state of youth homelessness today, federal response to youth homelessness, and the experiences of homeless youth. Several exemplary programs that serve homeless GLBTQ youth are highlighted.
Through a comprehensive review of the available academic research and professional literature, we answer some basic questions, including why so many LGBT youth are becoming and remaining homeless. We report on the harassment and violence that many of these youth experience in the shelter system and we summarize research on critical problems affecting them, including mental health issues, substance abuse and risky sexual behavior. We also analyze the federal government's response to youth homelessness, including the specific impact on LGBT homeless youth of increased federal funding for faith-based service providers.
We also partnered with five social service agencies who have written sections that detail model programs they have developed to improve service delivery to LGBT homeless youth. In order to put a face to all of this research and data, we also include profiles of LGBT homeless youth, many of which were collected through focus groups we conducted at service providers around the country. Finally, in consultation with a number of youth advocacy organizations, we conclude with a series of state-, federaland practitioner-level policy recommendations that can help to curb this epidemic. (Author)
Type of Resource:


text: In this chapter, the authors discuss possible sources of spatially varying blur, such as defocus, camera motion, or object motion. They review known approaches to blur estimation, illustrate their performance on experiments with real data and indicate problems that must be solved to be applicable in super-resolution algorithms. The authors consider only algorithms working with multiple acquisitions – situations where they fuse information from several images to get an image of better resolution. They discuss possible sources of spatially varying blur, such as defocus, camera motion, or object motion. The effective resolution of an imaging system is limited not only by the physical resolution of an image sensor but also by blur. The authors assume that the blur is approximately space-invariant inside objects, and the point-spread function can be represented by a set of convolution kernels for each object and a corresponding set of object contours.


Newark Basin
The Newark Basin is a sediment-filled rift basin located mainly in northern New Jersey but also stretching into south-eastern Pennsylvania and southern New York. It is part of the system of Eastern North America Rift Basins.
A USGS geological map of New Jersey and the surrounding region; the Newark Basin is outlined in white
USGS Stratigraphic Column of the Newark Basin
Share this article:
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Newark Basin, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.


text:
Latest VideosMore Videos
Sid is ready to stay up all night so he and his stuffed animals can pretend to fly into space on a rocket ship! When his Mom insists that he can't stay up, Sid ventures to school to investigate more. He and friends explore how the body needs sleep to properly function, and most important, we need sleep to grow and stay healthy! Understanding that sometimes we feel too excited to sleep (like before an adventure into space), Susie presents a special Super Fab Lab where the kids practice calming down, and preparing their bodies for sleep. Susie lowers the lights, turns off all the sounds in the room, and teaches the kids how to breathe slowly to relax...and sleep!
Watch Sid The Science Kid and more at PBS Kids Video.
Sorry, this episode has no rebroadcasts scheduled at this time.