Increasing Your Share Voice
One of the ways brands measure their social media presence and gauge their visibility online is Share of Voice. It's one of the most important metrics in social media marketing. It helps businesses understand how well they are performing in comparison with their competitors. If you want to know how you can use Share of Voice so that you never miss out on any important insights, we'll be sharing with you the social metrics you should be focusing on, ways to measure them and tell you how your business can use it effectively.
Measuring Share of Voice
If you do a quick search on Google on how brands can measure their Share of Voice, you will see a lot of articles telling you how to do it. Some will recommend tracking the brand mentions manually on all social media channels while some will even give you a formula on how you can calculate to measure the effectiveness of your campaigns. In reality, neither of these options are the best way to do it.
When it comes to measuring your social media metrics online, it should be something that you and your dedicated team can sustain for a long time. For instance, you can invest in social media management tools that can track mentions of your brand across multiple platforms. Doing that will be far more efficient in the long run. Not only it will help you see all your brand mentions in one place, but you can also compare your data with the data of your other competitors.
Using Share of Voice
Share of Voice, or SOV for short, can show how large or small the impact you're making in the social media scene. Here's how you make use of this metric:
 - You can evaluate brand awareness and brand recognition.
 - You can calculate Share of Voice for competitive research.
 - You can measure how effective your campaigns are and will be.
Growing Your Share of Voice
The goal of every social media marketer is to get brands noticed by the right people online. Having a strong social media presence is critical for increasing your Share of Voice. Here are few strategies that will help you to achieve just that:
1. Stay Active and Be Consistent
If your social media content is lackluster or inconsistent, it can sabotage the growth of your business. So, if you want to people to notice and keep talking about your brand online, you need to be active and consistent with your output. But how do you get the right people to hear you and how often should you post on social media channels to stay relevant?
We know that it's hard to find the right posting frequency because not all social media platforms are the same. To strike a balance, you must learn about your audience demographics (of your chosen platform, of course) to avoid getting blocked and unfollowed.
Let's say you plan to post Facebook once a week. It's likely that those updates will not get as much engagement or worse, will get overlooked by your followers. This happens if a social media marketer planning the scheduled posts does not have any idea about their audience and online behavior. There are millions of active users sharing and uploading content to Facebook. If you allow something like that to happen, your post will just drown in the sea of information. Make sure to do your research to maximize your social media efforts.
To give you some direction, here's an example of a good social sharing frequency:
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2. Produce Shareable Content
It's a challenge for many to continuously produce interesting, meaningful content for their audience. Social media marketers have to know the ideas that will work for their target market and what will not. They also have to ensure that the content they put out on their channels out is something that their audience would want to consume and share to other people.
To determine whether a content is good and share-worthy, here are five questions to ask before hitting that publish button according to Altitude Marketing:
 - Who is your content intended for? It's imperative to learn what your prospects are looking for so you can offer them solutions and tailor the content to their needs.
 - Does it offer a solution? Addressing the issues your prospects have not yet encountered will keep you ahead of the game. You need to provide your prospects solutions to possible problems they might have with your product or service.
 - Is it timely? Keeping your content timely and relevant will make people look to you as a trusted source. This puts your brand in a good position to become a leader in your industry. That's exactly how you increase your Share of Voice on social media.
 - Is it engaging? For a content to be engaging, it needs to be thought-provoking, human and relatable. No one wants to read a piece of article that looks like it was produced by an automated software.
 - Is it customer-focused? Content published should not only benefit you but also your customers. You can try producing an infographic, article or even a video that would help educate your audience online.
3. Delight Your Customers
When you deliver excellent customer service through social media, not only do you convert your clients to loyal customers, but you also make them happy enough to create satisfaction-driven content. They are usually in the form of online ratings and product reviews. It's essentially free marketing for your business. This is because smart buyers nowadays look up customer reviews online to hear what other people have to say before buying that product. In fact, 77% of them spend their time online doing just that.
You can also delight your customers by engaging with them in helpful ways. Tune in to their conversations on social media channels. A social media monitoring tool will allow you to check and track all brand mention across networks. From there, you will be able to see discussions and exchanges among your fans and followers, know what they say about your brand and make improvements if necessary.
How does this relate to Share of Voice?
It translates to positive conversations for your brand. When people are happy with your service, there's a good chance they'll be sharing their experience on their social media channels improving your likability as a brand and have a better Share of Voice online.
4. Respond to Feedback
Make sure that you let your customers know that you are listening to them by responding to their feedback. You can simply do this by acknowledging their concerns or praises online. Thank your fans for their kind words when they recommend you. Lend an ear when they voice out their negative opinions or criticisms about your brand. It's as simple as that.
If you don't know how to respond to negative feedback on your social media pages, you can learn from social media marketer Mandi Gould on how to react and deal with them properly.
How to Respond to Negative Reviews Example
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You can keep track of all the conversations about your brand by building complex monitors using a social media management platform. This tracks the hashtags and phrases for your brand globally or your network specifically. You can do so many things, especially with the configuration options because it gives the users complete control of how searches will be conducted.
5. Build an Online Community
Last but not the least, focus on having your own community online. When strengthening your Share of Voice, it's important to join in existing conversations. However, if you really want to be regarded as a leader in your industry, you have to take the lead. and start the conversations. Find topics that are relevant to your audience. Find new updates and spark a discussion among your fans and followers. Look for something that will surely pique their interests otherwise they won't be compelled enough to join in the talk.
How to Build an Online Community
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If you want to know more how you can build your own online community, here are tips from experts you can follow to strengthen your Share of Voice.


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Orange-footed Scrubfowl
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Megapodiidae
Genus: Megapodius
Gaimard, 1823
13 total, 12 extant, see text.
The scrubfowl are the genus Megapodius of the mound-builders, stocky, medium-large chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae. They are found from south-east Asia to north Australia and islands in the west Pacific.
They do not incubate their eggs with their body heat in the orthodox way, but bury them. They are best known for building a massive mound of decaying vegetation, which the male attends, adding or removing litter to regulate the internal heat while the eggs hatch. The species in taxonomic order are:
In all of the above, the name "scrubfowl" is sometimes exchanged with "megapode". Traditionally, most have been listed as subspecies of M. freycinet, but today all major authorities consider this incorrect. Nevertheless, there are unresolved issues within the genus, and for example the taxon forstenii has been considered a subspecies of M. freycinet, a subspecies of M. cumingii, or a monotypic species. An additional species, the Moluccan megapode, has sometimes been placed in Megapodius, but today most place it in the genus Eulipoa instead. The maleo is also associated with these genera, and together the three form a group.
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A Social History of the Welsh Language
The second major research project of the Centre, the Social History of the Welsh Language from the first Act of Union in 1536 to the present, was completed in 2001.
Its aim was to explain how and why Welsh was replaced to a considerable degree in the modern period by the English language. Close attention was paid to the status and role of Welsh in relation to English, and the research focused in particular on the size and distribution of the population and attitudes towards the Welsh language in the home and workplace, in the fields of education and law, in the activities of the press and in religious, cultural, administrative and political circles.
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The research fellows, assisted by demographers, anthropologists, geographers, historians and linguists from within the constituent institutions of the University of Wales and elsewhere, discovered a wealth of hitherto unused sources which provided new insights into the development of the Welsh language in its social context. The research was supervised by the former Director, Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, and by an Advisory Panel which contained leading scholars in the field.
The project attracted considerable international interest and the eleven published volumes have been a major contribution to the social history of the language.
A report entitled The Effects of Tourism on the Welsh Language in North-West Wales, compiled by some of the Project's staff members, reveals that there is a close connection between tourism, in-migration and language decline. (See also the associated article.)


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As a part of a research I'm working on (involving derandomization of linear threshold functions), I'm trying to understand the following problem:
Is there a small (polynomial rather than exponential) family of hash functions, from [k] to [n] (k much smaller than n, say n^{epsilon}), which guarantee a "high inner product" with constant probability for every vector in R^n?
"high inner product" should be interpreted as following: The result of the hash function represents a vector in the binary hypercube, with 1 in every bucket which a coordinate of [k] is mapped into, and -1 elsewhere. Given a vector v in R^n, I would like at least a small constant factor of my hash functions to have an inner product which is above the expectation.
Is this possible? Does someone here have an idea for some pointers?
Thanks, Guy
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(This should be a comment, but I don't have enough reputation to post a comment.) I have some clarifications regarding the question.
 1. I guess I can think of each hash function as just a $\lbrace \pm 1 \rbrace^n$ vector $u$ with at most $k = n^\epsilon$ ones. Is this correct?
 2. Also I don't understand the "above the expectation" condition. Why can't you just take two (arbitrary) vectors $u_1$ and $u_2$ with $k$ ones each, and at least one of them will have inner product at least equal to the expectation? Is it important that you strictly exceed the expectation? Do you want a constant fraction to be $\delta$ more than the expectation for some small $\delta > 0$?
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Thanks for the answer - this was my first question, and I apologize for not knowing about the latex here.
About the comments in the previous post (Srivatsan):
 1. This is correct - I'm trying to build an epsilon net for linear threshold functions, and this would be an important part of it. The "hash function" notation looks useful to me, since this reminds me of perfect hashing and similar concepts, where we are looking for some sort of "independence" or something similar between hash functions.
 2. Since I'm trying to build a polynomial-size epsilon net, I need my family of vectors ("hash functions") to be very small in comparison with the family of all possible vectors, but still have a "good" inner product with $every$ other vector (at least for a constant factor of them). So I cannot take $u_1$ and $u_2$ as you ask and take their product, but I'm rather given an arbitrary vector $v\in\mathbb{R}^n$, and must find $u$ in my family which achieves a better inner product than the expectation (taken over the choice of any random vector with $k$ coordinates equal to 1).
Thanks, and hope this was a little clearer.
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Is there a way to generate an area by connecting points?
I have got 3 lights and I want to connect them and use the resulting shape as a mask.
So I need a filter that connect points and fill the area at least.
As far as I know, there is no way to connect mask points with something by expressions, right?
You can use the Beam effect to create a line to connect two points. Use the following Expression example to connect the Beam's 2D points to the light layer's 3D position property -
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The best shape for containing a pressurised gas is a sphere, where by 'best' we mean the shape that uses the smallest amount of material to contain a given mass of gas at given pressure.
The simplest explanation for this is that, since pressure acts equally in all directions, the best container of pressure is a container that looks the same in all directions -- which is a sphere.
We can see this by examining a pressure vessel made of a liquid: the walls of such a pressure vessel will flow to take up the best shape. Pressure vessels made of liquid are known as 'bubbles', and it is well-known that bubbles tend to be spherical.
The bathyscape Trieste, built in Italy in the Fifties, carried its crew in a steel sphere down to a depth of 11 km below the surface of the ocean. This is a good illustration of the suitability of spheres for withstanding pressure.
So why are scuba tanks cylinders rather than spheres? The cylinder is a compromise between the best pressure-containing shape and the need to mount the tank comfortably and conveniently on the diver's back. Similarly, gas cylinders in laboratories are usually cylindrical, since this allows them to be moved and stored conveniently.
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In John 10v19-27, we see the attitude of the Jews towards Jesus come through as they confront him over whether he is the Messiah or not. And then we see in verse 26, the Lord Jesus explains why they do not believe, for they are not his sheep. This verse speaks of the doctrine of election, a subject many struggle with. In this sermon, Nathan Tarrant addresses this subject, clarifying that while election is biblical, it is also the responsibility of every human to repent and turn to Christ.


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Over the years Citizen have changed their watch case back markings, whilst they have also used special backs on their high grade watches and certain specific models. This page attempts to show the basic types and how to interpret the information that case backs give – often crucial to determining the authenticity of the watch. I'll cover special case backs on a separate page.
After the very early models using the 'F' type movement, Citizen began to develop a wider model range and towards the end of the 1940s and particularly in the 1950s a number of models were in production. Each of these used various case designs, with different case materials, and the case back markings began to reflect this. I have identified three core formats, and I'll show these in the following sections, along with some of the variants that can be found – one of the joys of this for the collector is the variety of case backs that occur as result.
The late 1950s also saw the introduction of serial numbers, which are very useful to us of course, because we can determine the date of production. More on that later.
Before covering the three basic designs, a word about the very early models. Little information is stamped on the back – typically it may relate only to the case back material:
I'll provide more information on the early case backs in a 'Featured Watch' post on the Type F.
Acknowledgement – in order to get a uniform type of image and size, I have primarily used the Japanese Domestic Watch volumes as a source, I wish to give due acknowledgement and credit here.
Early Case Backs:
This section relates to watches made from around 1950 to the early 1960s. During that period Citizen's watch production accelerated enormously, particularly with the success in the domestic Japanese market of the 'Deluxe' hand winder. An ever wider range of hand winding watches was produced, and in 1958 Citizen launched their first automatic, soon followed by the 'Jet' rotored automatics of the early 1960s. Not all watches had a serial number at this time, although sometimes they may be found stamped inside the case back.
Typically the early watches use snap / press on case backs, and case type markings therefore make their appearance on the 'transitional' and later formats.
And not all case backs carried all the markings – some were minimally stamped and very simple whilst some were decorated, often with scrolled engraved lines. After looking at a fully marked example, I'll show some of the variations. Here's an example from 1963, which carries all the information to be found at that time except water resistance – see the labels for their meaning:
1) 'STAR' – as far as I know this the mark of Citizen's own case factory. It is found on watches from the 1940s through to the late 1960s.
2) 'CGP' – this is the Case Material Code – often this is an abbreviation, and is usually self-explanatory as in this example (Citizen Gold Plate). Some gold plated and especially gold filled watches specified the thickness of the gold, in microns. Gold filled watches were also marked to show the quality of the gold used, e.g '14K'
3) 'Stainless Back' – the case back material is often stamped, particularly when the case is of a different material.
4) General & Specific Model Names – in this example the general model range is Homer, which is gleaned from the movement name. This watch has a day window only, and is therefore known as a Homer 'Weekly'. Other models also use the Homer movement, so will carry their own model name, e.g. 'Newmaster'. Model names on the case back are more common in the early models than later pieces.
5) Model 'Number' – this early type of model designation which included letters and numbers (straightforward in this example) was changed in the late 1960s to a two part numerical format, i.e. 12-3456
6) Serial Number – by 1963 the use of this type of serial number was well established – see later on in the page for information on serial numbers and production dates.
7) This example has no indication of water resistance – watches were increasingly marked 'Parawater' after 1958 when Citizen designed water proof cases for the first time. 'Parawater' continued until the early 1970s when it was replaced by 'Water Resistant'.
Variants on this format often have less information than the above illustration. First are two Center Second models from the 1950s, one with an early 'Everbright' back – this may be an alloy back rather than stainless steel – and one showing a 40 micron 14K gold filled case, with number only model designation (NB: center second models used that name on the dial, but other models like the Master and Junior also had center second case backs like these):
Here's an Ace Date with serial number, and a fully marked Alarm Date with decorative scrollingnote that this one also shows water resistance – 'Parawater':
This earlier alarm (left) has a 'cricket' type back (double skin with holes to help project the sound) whilst the first automatic from 1958 uses 'water protected' rather than 'Parawater'. This has a screw on type back indicated by the indentations to locate a removal tool:
Transitional Case Backs:
I've called the next format 'transitional' because they use the layout of the later case backs whilst retaining the earlier model designations. More and more watches were using screw on backs and less were using the snap on type more typical of the early model ranges. Case design was also developing and other case types were emerging. Here is an example of a fully marked 'transitional' screw on back:
1) The back now has a circular outer 'track', with markings stamped around it and other information in the centre
2) The Model Number, or designation, is in the same style as the early format, usually a mix of letter and numbers
Here are some permutations – the Autodater 7 appears to be etched rather than stamped, and (unusually) has no serial number, whilst on the Crystal 7 the model symbol fills the centre:
These original illustrations are from a 1960s technical manual – the first shows the case type as 'GN' with different layouts:
And here are the same with 'OR' designations – the same type of cases, so 'OR' means the same as 'GN' as far as I know but is less commonly seen:
Note also that two case backs (see the two on the right in the above image) are marked with an encircled 'x'. This means these cases are one piece that have to be opened through the glass, as on this Seven:
Later Case Backs:
The end of the 1960s saw the introduction of case numbers, distinct from the earlier combined model designation. Case numbers always start with the number '4', followed by a dash and six other numbers i.e 4-123456. With the new case number system, a new model number format was also instigated: 12-3456.
The case number is often more useful than the model number, since it usually includes a reference to the movement in the watch. So for example, case number 4-520343 tells us that a movement from the '52' family is used.
Model names are not often seen on the back, but some now indicate the movement to be found inside – this is very helpful of course!
Here's a typical example of a fully marked back:
1) I have not been able to determine the system, if any, for model numbers – they generally do not help to identify the movement used.
2) In the above example you can see how the case number relates very clearly to the movement (7200)
3) 'STAR' has now been dropped, and the manufacturer's name is more prominent. Later watches have 'Citizen Watch Co' rather than just 'Citizen'
As ever, there are variations on this theme – some models, I think only in the Seven Star range, have a 'horseshoe' track rather than a full circle, and some backs have no model information – the X8 Cosmotron on the right is marked 'transistorized' reflecting the application of new technology, but is not marked 'parawater' or 'water resistant':
Some backs are simpler, with no outer 'track' – the Cosmotron on the right below also has a different type of case / model combined number which uses the full movement designation as its first part; it's also now marked 'water resistant' and 'electronic' rather than transistorized':
The Seven Star on the left below has the case number in the outer track, echoing the 'transitional' format, and on the right a black coated Custom V2 also has a coated back (others had stainless steel backs):
Serial Numbers and Production Dates:
Dating a vintage Citizen watch is relatively straightforward when it has a serial number on the case back. The key is knowing which decade the watch was produced in, and the Movement Table is useful for determining that.
The first three numbers in the serial are used for the date – the first number is the year. So, using the Seven Star pictured above left as an example, with a serial number of 90203597, the first number of the serial is '9' indicates the year. But which decade is it from?
The 'Parawater' designation means that the watch was not produced later than about 1973. The case number – 4-520068 – is in the later format


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An Information Flow represents information items or classifiers flowing between two elements in any diagram. The connector is available from the Common page of the Toolbox and from every Quick Link menu.
You can have more than one Information Flow connector between the same two elements, identifying which items flow between the two under differing conditions.
Example of Use
- Open a diagram and add two elements (for example, Nodes on a Deployment diagram).
- Click on the Information Flow connector in the Common page of the Toolbox and drag between the two elements. The Information Items Conveyed dialog displays.
- Add the classifier or information item element(s) to the Information Flow. The diagram now resembles the following.
- Add another connector between the same two elements (for example, a Communication Path connector).
- Right-click the connector and select the Advanced | Information Flows Realized context menu option. The Information Flows Realized dialog displays.
- Tick the checkbox against the required classifier element and click on the OK button. The combined connector now resembles the following:
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The OMG UML specification (UML Superstructure Specification, v2.1.1, p. 606) states:
An InformationFlow specifies that one or more information items circulates from its sources to its targets.
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An information flow is an abstraction of the communication of an information item from its sources to its targets. It is used to abstract the communication of information between entities of a system. Sources or targets of an information flow designate sets of objects that can send or receive the conveyed information item.


How Long Do Rabbits Breed?
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Rabbits indeed have a higher rate of reproduction than any other livestock. They then turn to be sexually mature in just several months of giving birth. Surely, they have a short-term pregnancy period. They can best produce huge litters while staying unique in the re-breeding process after kindling. Following a breeding program, it is when a doe can have sixty-weaned young every year. Intensive breeding somehow may not be recommended. But, this is what we advised for most beginners.
Below is essential info that you must know with rabbit breeding.
When you set up a breeding system for the rabbits, you need to think about the purpose of raising them. If you want to raise them for the sake of meat, you may produce a lot of fryers. If you want more to show rabbits, you may have just a few litters every year. Time them to bring about a stock of the right age-specific for showing.
The schedules of breeding rabbits follow a seven-day interval to make recordkeeping convenient and easy. A lot of commercial producers of rabbit breed do fourteen to twenty-one days right after kindling. We recommend a thirty-five breed-back schedule in here. Reduce the interval between breeding and kindling while still gaining experience. Intensive form of breeding programs can increase the does put down or culled yearly because of "burn out."
With whatever breeding schedule that you follow, check the condition of the rabbits. This also is before you even mater them. It is not a wiser decision having to mate a doe in its poor condition. That also is when one is nursing a large litter twenty-one days following kindling. This will only affect the reproductive performance of the mother rabbit. That's when poor fertility became the result here. A high death rate or a small litter in the young is as well produced.
Make sure the doe is in its good health conditions. This will potentially limit the chances of problems. Mate at the same time, like twenty-eight to thirty-two days later. This will ensure that fostering the young is just easier provided that it is necessary.
It is expected that the does will produce at about 7 or 8 young in the litter. Nevertheless, they may have bigger or smaller litters. It will depend on the specific rabbit species.
Proper Age for Breeding
There are various breeds of rabbits that can reach their sexual maturity. This falls down to various ages. It's when smaller breeds can turn to be sexually mature at an earlier time than the bigger breeds. The Polish or the small breeds can also be bred at about four to five months.
For the medium breeds like the Californians and New Zealand, they sexually mature at around six to seven months. The Flemish Giant, as among those giant breeds, should at least be at seven months of age before they are bred.
As for the female rabbit breeds, they must reach the level of sexual maturity at an earlier time as compared to males. Does of the same age can be produced than bucks. Better watch this video to become fully guided by the proper age for breeding among rabbits, (
Knowing the Mating Season
Once it does have become fully-receptive towards mating, they then become in heat. They would often act restless while rubbing their chins on the water and feed containers. They show their desire to be with other rabbits. As for the vulva of does, it becomes slightly swollen, reddish, and moist.
Now for a dry, pale, and small vulva, the doe is not yet ready for breeding. It may present itself while lying on its stomach or lifting its tail once touched. That's in the case of it being in heat. Before the mating attempts, the doe and the buck must be examined both. They should fall in their good condition while freeing themselves from injury and disease.
Take the doe to the cage of the buck for mating. It is so far considered a territorial while when another animal is placed in its cage; it can become defensive. When a buck is also placed in another type of cage, it will take time to sniff around the cage. That is true even before the process of breeding the doe.
If the doe is now ready for the mating process with an experienced and active buck, the mating will now occur right away. Mating an inexperienced and young stock will demand more time as compared to mating just experienced breeders. In the completion of the mating process, it's when the buck will fall over at the back or on the side.
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Rabbits tend to decline in their productivity level, especially in the late fall, summer, and just early winter. Both conception and reception rate decrease at this time. Choosing breeders from the stock that will produce well every year will bring about good production.
 - Temporary Sterility. Exposing rabbits to temperature over 85-degrees Fahrenheit for five consecutive days bring about temporary sterility. This is true in regard to bucks. Even old bucks can become more exposed to heat as compared to younger bucks. They may remain sterile for sixty to ninety days. The good thing is that male sterility brought about by hot weather is reduced. We recommend that you breed bucks in the rabbitry. You should then mate them more often.
 - False pregnancy or pseudopregnancy. This is a known condition of does that makes them look pregnant, but they are not. This is often the result of physical stimulation or sterile mating. This is because one is mounted by a rabbit causing such a physiological response on the part of the doe.
The pseudopregnancy can last for about seventeen days. This is when the doe will never breed. It may create a nest even if it is not expecting. Even if the condition may seem normal without bringing harm to the doe, it will then delay the breeding process.
 - Incapable of Conceiving After Mating. One more reproductive problem occurs when the doe is not capable of conceiving right after mating. This is due to the reason that they already have been out of production or are overweight for a long time.
 - Excessive and overweight. Excessive and overweight bucks can bring about a problem. This is due to the reason that they lack sexual desire, and they become lazy. Old age, poor physical condition, inadequate nutrition, injury, and other essential factors can bring about reproductive problems. As an owner of this pet rabbit, you must keep the breeding animal in a healthy, active, and trim condition. This will mean to say the best performance in reproduction.
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Do not breed sisters to brothers when it comes to rabbits. Some combinations are just perfectly fine like a son to mother, daughter to father, cousins, and more. Provided that you have gained knowledge in the way that inbreeding works with genetics, it is recommended to not breed close pairs.
Mate only similar breeds together. This is also unless you want to get some meat rabbits with specific characteristics. This is also as you do genetic experiments, or you never care about the offspring and its fate.
Mate rabbits having the same breed and different colors. There are possibilities of combinations when it comes to mixing colors. What we suggest is for you to mate rabbits of the same color to begin off. This is also until you already know about the way that colors interact. Try to check this one out ( prior to breeding.
Breeding rabbits require an owner like you to become responsible at it. Prepare for the tears, smiles, laughter, and shock. Let others read this article and share it with them. You may have understood it clearly how long do rabbits breed. You can get ready with the entire breeding process!
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Over the past year, unknown persons have forged information about the deployment of more than 100 warships.
According to the results of research by the Internet publication Wired, SkyWatch (a robotic monitoring system) and Global Fishing Watch (a service for tracking illegal fishing), hackers changed the coordinates of more than 100 locations of active warships, including the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth and the American destroyer Roosevelt.
In some cases, distorted information indicated that ships entered disputed areas, including the waters of naval bases, which is fraught with serious international conflicts.
The researchers recorded the falsifications after comparing the available information with the data of the AIS system (automatic ship identification system). Disinformation came from coastal AIS receivers, and real information came from satellites.


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Fabrication and Characterization of a Novel Bioactive Poly(ether-ether-ketone) Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering (Poster)
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It is widely accepted that the initial interactions between the cells and implant surface are crucial to clinical success. One of the promising alternative materials for tissue engineering is polyetheretherketone (PEEK) which has good chemical resistance and mechanical properties similar to those of human bones. However, its hydrophobic and chemically inert surface limits local bone attachment. Consequently, there have been efforts to enhance PEEK bone-implant integration by incorporating molecules (such as HA) or making it porous. Regarding to the latest, this study aims to demonstrate a process that can greatly enhance the density and interconnectivity of a PEEK porous product (US2012323339). Moreover, a novel surface modification through wet-chemistry protocol has been developed for RGD and OGP (osteogenic growth peptide) grafting onto porous PEEK scaffolds (US2013172273). As a result, the production of porous structures manufactured by thermally induced phase...


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In 2011, prominent introductory anthropology textbook author Conrad Kottak teamed up with Lisa Gezon to produce the new "magazine style" CULTURE. Anthropology definitely has some branding woes–see Anthropology is the worst college major–and Kottak is well known for keeping a finger on the pulse of pop culture. But can a glossy magazine textbook, doubling down on culture in anthropology, help the anthropology brand?
Culture is one of the ideas most associated with anthropology, but culture in anthropology has also been fiercely critiqued. Using a splashy textbook to double down on culture in anthropology is problematic, not so much because it ignores the critique of culture in anthropology, but because the terminology of culture hardly needs promoting in the world-at-large: culture is already everywhere.
Doubling Down on Culture in Anthropology–Why Now?
Why might textbooks now be emphasizing culture in anthropology? Two immediate possibilities come to mind. The first and more generous possibility is as a response to the ascendancy of genetic and biological determinisms. Doubling down on culture in anthropology attempts to counter the trend. This seems to be what is at work in the 2012 article The biological myth of human evolution by Jonathan Marks, which counts heavily on the idea of culture as inextricable from the human animal (see Human Biologies and the Biocultural Naturenurtural).
The second possibility is this is not actually doubling down but "sailing on," an extension of the culture-promoting anthropology has been doing since at least Ruth Benedict's 1934 Patterns of Culture (and see Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture: From Culture to cultures).
By "sailing on," I am thinking of how Norman Sauer in 1992 asked forensic anthropologists not to simply keep making race identifications without an educational component on why such identifications did not validate traditional race categories:
Furthermore, our work with law enforcement officials promotes a communication channel with personnel who might benefit professionally from exposure to the notion that perceived races are not reflections of biological reality. But we "sail on" as though the question of races was never an issue in anthropology.
–Forensic Anthropology and the Concept of Race: If Races Don't Exist, Why Are Forensic Anthropologists So Good at Identifying Them?, 1992:110. In using the phrase "sail on," Sauer was referring to an article by Loring Brace, "The Roots of the Race Concept in American Physical Anthropology" (1982).
But whether this is in response to genetic determinists or sailing on, it appears as though the question of culture was never an issue in anthropology, and introductory anthropology needs to convince the world at large of the importance of culture.
The Non-Problem with Culture in Anthropology
At this point, anthropologist readers wince and expect me to take Kottak and Gezon to task for ignoring the internal-to-anthropology critique of culture, a critique mainly from Marxism, feminism, post-modernism, and post-colonialism. Although I find elements of those critiques important, I don't think that's the problem with a textbook like Culture. Indeed, on the inside there is more attention to those kinds of critiques than the cover indicates–for example, the chapter on "The World System and Colonialism" concentrates more heavily than many anthropology textbooks on political economy, with references to Wallerstein, Braudel, Marx, Weber, and a discussion of Sidney W. Mintz's Sweetness and Power (see also my review of Kottak's four-field Anthropology).
I am also struck by Andre Gingrich's comment about these critiques:
A careful and balanced history of those sequences of anthropological autocritique still remains to be written, but to my mind, one may argue with some justification that each of these critiques in some ways went too far and that none of them fully achieved what its main advocates originally had in mind. (Transitions: Notes on Sociocultural Anthropology's Present and Its Transnational Potential, 2010:555)
This is especially striking in the light of the 2010 flap about Science in Anthropology, which has surely nixed the possibility of a "careful and balanced history" of the autocritique.
Again, although elements of the autocritique are important, almost all anthropologists have a completely usable understanding of the concept of culture. I also do not find introductory textbooks objectionable in their presentation of the concept of culture. Moreover, many people were turned off by the autocritique, seeing it as the source of vitriol and jargon. So what's the problem?
The Real Problem with Culture in Anthropology
The real problem with promoting culture right now is not the concept of culture but that we are completely saturated with culture terminology. It's not like anyone needs to be introduced to the word "culture." It is already everywhere, as documented in Seeing Culture Everywhere, from Genocide to Consumer Habits: "We conclude by offering readers a series of questions designed to help anyone who needs to evaluate the impact of decisions potentially involving cultural difference to decide whether, in a particular case, culture matters" (Breidenbach and Nyíri 2009:29).
Indeed, not only do we need to decide whether culture matters, we often find culture used to justify pernicious activities, such as reducing the hiring chances of "too ethnic" job candidates: "Discrimination in many cases may not even be intentional... but simply a matter of people gravitating toward similar people, casting about for the right 'cultural fit,' a buzzword often heard in corporate circles" (In Job Hunt, College Degree Can't Close Racial Gap).
Franz Boas, who fought for thinking about culture as a way to counter racial discrimination, can now roll over in his grave.
The difference between our time and the time of Benedict or Boas, is that we are not introducing culture as a term and a concept together. We are trying to adjust the concept underlying a term which everyone has already heard–a lot. For most people, culture is 1) personal values and beliefs, often with a consumer-commodity aspect, and 2) a kind of race-lite, roughly parallel to traditional notions of race but not quite as deterministic. As John and Jean Comaroff write:
Cultural identity, in the here-and-now, represents itself ever more as two things at once: the object of choice and self-construction, typically through the act of consumption, and the manifest product of biology, genetics, human essence (Ethnicity, Inc., 2009:1).
Moreover, as Zoë Burkholder has discussed, this version of culture actually emerged during the time of Benedict and Boas: "The result was a softer, culturalized notion of race that reproduced the dangerous, tautological generalizations Boas had rallied against in the first place" (Franz Boas and Anti-Racist Education, 2006:25)
Under these conditions, it is very difficult to dislodge culture as it is already understood and replace it with an anthropological concept. It would take quite radical classroom tactics, and even those would probably only alter the concept at the margins. At the end of the semester, too many evaluation forms will read: "I never realized how much culture really matters." And then out into the world.
What Do We Do?
To be clear: at this point, there is little value in an anthropological internal critique of culture. There is not even much to be gained from getting snobby about introductory textbooks. What is of concern is the culture-splash. Again, this has nothing to do with the concept of culture in anthropology and everything to do with how its use has spun way out of anthropology's control.
On a workaday level, I probably end up following the recommendation of "whistle-blowing, and trying to propagate our own view of culture" (Hannerz 2010:546; for an evaluation of Hannerz, see Greg Downey's Brand Anthropology: New and Improved, with Extra Diversity!). For my "Cultural Anthropology" course I use Carol Delaney's Investigating Culture, who does some whistle-blowing but ends up being muddled about culture in anthropology. My course is a 200-level follow-up to a four-field introduction to anthropology.
If I were teaching cultural anthropology as a 100-level introduction to anthropology, I would consider Cultural Anthropology by Schultz and Lavenda, which emphasizes power and inequality, including a section on "Did their culture make them do it?"
But there are not enough anthropologists or enough whistles to do the whistle-blowing, let alone promote our own views. And it may actually enhance our whistle-blowing if we officially drop the term. So as an ideal, it is time to adopt the recommendation from Michel-Rolph Trouillot, bidding Adieu Culture:
We need to abandon the word while firmly defending the conceptual kernel it once encapsulated.... Abandoning the word "culture" would free practitioners from within all the subfields of the discipline, and enhance dialogue between sociocultural anthropologists, archaeologists, and especially biological anthropologists. Biological anthropologists would not have to find "culture" in the behavior of humans or other primates. Rather, they would have to specify the role of biology in patterning particular instances of cognition, volition, and activity among the groups–human or otherwise–that they study, and detail the degree to which symbolic constructions inform these patterns. Debates would turn on specifics, not on generalities. Anthropologists will undoubtedly find that those specifics can open new discussions by providing links across disciplinary boundaries....
There is no reason today to enclose any segment of the world population within a single bounded and integrated culture,


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The Hawfinch Recovery project is an exciting initiative to research and help this charismatic species in the Morecambe Bay area.
Hawfinches are large finches with a bill powerful enough to crack cherry stones. The National Trust's Sizergh Castle is one of the best places to see Hawfinches up close, where these handsome birds prefer the fallen seed from hornbeam trees.
Hawfinch is a priority species but sadly a recent national survey revealed a huge population decline over the last 20 years. Little is known about Hawfinches in South Cumbria/North Lancashire, so in order to learn more a research programme was established in 2013. In 2018 the project team will be catching and colour ringing Hawfinches which will enable data collection on the size and stability of the local population and the movements of individual birds to be recorded. Ultimately this information will inform woodland management to create better conditions to help the birds to thrive in the future.
To see Hawfinches, visit Sizergh Castle - the birds are most regularly encountered in the visitor car park area between February and April, with early March mornings often the most rewarding.


X = 1 you get one comparison which is 1 + 2*(1 - 1) = 1.
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 Hi,
 Here is an observation that you may find helpful.
 The tricky point about this algorithm is the test "a[i] > mx". Let's fix i and ask the question, "What is the probability that a[i] > mx, given that a[] initially contains a random permutation of 0, 1, ..., n-1?"
 Inspection of the algorithm shows that a[i] > mx exactly when a[i] is the largest value seen so far, i.e. a[i] is the maximum of a[0], a[1], a[2], ... , a[i]. So what's the probability? Well, when i=1, the probability that a[1] is greater than a[0] is 1/2. When i=2, the probability that a[2] is the largest of a[0], a[1], and a[2] is 1/3, because each of a[0], a[1], and a[2] is equally likely to be the largest. And in general, the probability that a[i] is the maximum of a[0], a[1], a[2], ..., a[i] is 1/(i+1).
 So the probability that a[i] > mx is 1/(i+1).
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 Hi,
 Here is an observation that you may find helpful.
 The tricky point about this algorithm is the test "a[i] > mx". Let's fix i and ask the question, "What is the probability that a[i] > mx, given that a[] initially contains a random permutation of 0, 1, ..., n-1?"
 Inspection of the algorithm shows that a[i] > mx exactly when a[i] is the largest value seen so far, i.e. a[i] is the maximum of a[0], a[1], a[2], ... , a[i]. So what's the probability? Well, when i=1, the probability that a[1] is greater than a[0] is 1/2. When i=2, the probability that a[2] is the largest of a[0], a[1], and a[2] is 1/3, because each of a[0], a[1], and a[2] is equally likely to be the largest. And in general, the probability that a[i] is the maximum of a[0], a[1], a[2], ..., a[i] is 1/(i+1).
 So the probability that a[i] > mx is 1/(i+1).
 So would this relate back to what chiro was getting at? If the probability that a[i] > mx is 1/(i+1) then the probability that a[i] < mn is 1-(1\(i+1))
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'/'fuel_econ.csv'
 print('File path : {}'.format(filePath))
 #To check if file present in that directory or Not
 isfileExist = filePath.exists()
 print('isfileExist : {}'.format(isfileExist))
 #To check if the path is a directory or a File
 isadirectory = filePath.is_dir()
 print('isadirectory : {}'.format(isadirectory))
 #To get the extension of the file
 fileExtension = mypath/'data'/'fuel_econ.csv'
 print('File extension : {}'.format(filePath.suffix))
输出： 绝对路径是放置Python文件的路径
绝对路径：D：\ Study \ Machine Learning \ Jupitor Notebook \ JupytorNotebookTest2 \ Udacity_Scripts \ Matplotlib和seaborn Part2
文件路径：D：\ Study \ Machine Learning \ Jupitor Notebook \ JupytorNotebookTest2 \ Udacity_Scripts \ Matplotlib和seaborn Part2 \ data \ fuel_econ.csv
isfileExist：真
isadirectory：错误
文件扩展名：.csv
USEFUL PATH PROPERTIES IN PYTHON:
 from pathlib import Path
 #Returns the path of the directory, where your script file is placed
 mypath = Path().absolute()
 print('Absolute path : {}'.format(mypath))
 #if you want to go to any other file inside the subdirectories of the directory path got from above method
 filePath = mypath/'data'/'fuel_econ.csv'
 print('File path : {}'.format(filePath))
 #To check if file present in that directory or Not
 isfileExist = filePath.exists()
 print('isfileExist : {}'.format(isfileExist))
 #To check if the path is a directory or a File
 isadirectory = filePath.is_dir()
 print('isadirectory : {}'.format(isadirectory))
 #To get the extension of the file
 fileExtension = mypath/'data'/'fuel_econ.csv'
 print('File extension : {}'.format(filePath.suffix))
OUTPUT: ABSOLUTE PATH IS THE PATH WHERE YOUR PYTHON FILE IS PLACED
Absolute path : D:\Study\Machine Learning\Jupitor Notebook\JupytorNotebookTest2\Udacity_Scripts\Matplotlib and seaborn Part2
File path : D:\Study\Machine Learning\Jupitor Notebook\JupytorNotebookTest2\Udacity_Scripts\Matplotlib and seaborn Part2\data\fuel_econ.csv
isfileExist : True
isadirectory : False
File extension : .csv
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如果您只想查看当前的工作目录
import os
print(os.getcwd)
如果要更改当前工作目录
os.chdir(path)
path是一个字符串，其中包含要移动的所需路径。例如
path = "C:\\Users\\xyz\\Desktop\\move here"
If you just want to see the current working directory
import os
print(os.getcwd)
If you want to change the current working directory
os.chdir(path)
path is a string containing the required path to be moved. e.g.
path = "C:\\Users\\xyz\\Desktop\\move here"
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IPython有一个神奇的命令%pwd来获取当前的工作目录。它可以按以下方式使用：
from IPython.terminal.embed import InteractiveShellEmbed
ip_shell = InteractiveShellEmbed()
present_working_directory = ip_shell.magic("%pwd")
在IPython Jupyter Notebook上%pwd可以直接使用，如下所示：
present_working_directory = %pwd
IPython has a magic command %pwd to get the present working directory. It can be used in following way:
from IPython.terminal.embed import InteractiveShellEmbed
ip_shell = InteractiveShellEmbed()
present_working_directory = ip_shell.magic("%pwd")
On IPython Jupyter Notebook %pwd can be used directly as following:
present_working_directory = %pwd
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要保持跨平台（macOS / Windows / Linux）的迁移一致性，请尝试：
path = r'%s' % os.getcwd().replace('\\','/')
To keep the migration consistency across platforms (macOS/Windows/Linux), try:
path = r'%s' % os.getcwd().replace('\\','/')
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为了获取当前文件夹，我已经在CGI的IIS下运行python时使用了一个函数：
import os
 def getLocalFolder():
 path=str(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))).split('\\')
 return path[len(path)-1]
I have made a function to use when running python under IIS in CGI in order to get the current folder:
import os
 def getLocalFolder():
 path=str(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))).split('\\')
 return path[len(path)-1]
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假设您具有以下目录结构：-
主/折1折2折3 …
folders = glob.glob("main/fold*")
for fold in folders:
 abspath = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(fold))
 fullpath = os.path.join(abspath, sch)
 print(fullpath)
Let's assume you have the following directory structure: –
main/ fold1 fold2 fold3…
folders = glob.glob("main/fold*")
for fold in folders:
 abspath = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(fold))
 fullpath = os.path.join(abspath, sch)
 print(fullpath)
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## IMPORT MODULES
import os
## CALCULATE FILEPATH VARIABLE
filepath = os.path.abspath('') ## ~ os.getcwd()
## TEST TO MAKE SURE os.getcwd() is EQUIVALENT ALWAYS..
## ..OR DIFFERENT IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES
## IMPORT MODULES
import os
## CALCULATE FILEPATH VARIABLE
filepath = os.path.abspath('') ## ~ os.getcwd()
## TEST TO MAKE SURE os.getcwd() is EQUIVALENT ALWAYS..
## ..OR DIFFERENT IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES
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To 'acknowledge' means to recognise the importance or quality of something. This concept and its application in Australia has been imperative to the slow repair of disparities that exists between First Nations People and non-Indigenous Australians. By acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and in turn, giving them the opportunity to welcome us to Country, we promote an awareness of the history and culture of Indigenous people, as well as contribute to mending a long history of dispossession and colonisation. Further to this, by incorporating welcoming and acknowledgment into official meetings and events, we recognise First Nation Peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of this land.
The difference between an Acknowledgment of Country and Welcome to Country is not often well understood. In light of this, today we seek to explain their meanings, tradition and importance.
"An Acknowledgement of Country is an opportunity for anyone to show respect for Traditional Owners and the continuing connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to Country. It can be given by both non-Indigenous people and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people."
There is no set script for an Acknowledgment of Country. Personalising and localising an acknowledgment is encouraged as it helps to make it as meaningful as possible. An example of an Acknowledgment would read:
"A Welcome to Country occurs at the beginning of a formal event and can take many forms including singing, dancing, smoking ceremonies or a speech in traditional language or English. A Welcome to Country is delivered by Traditional Owners, or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have been given permission from Traditional Owners, to welcome visitors to their Country."


Iraqi cuisine has developed over the course of a long and rich history. Oldest known recipes in the world come from Iraq, and were inscribed on Babylonian tablets going back to 1700 BCE. Boiling the meat into stew with spices and other ingredients was the basic culinary technique. Garlic, coriander and mint appear in these recipes, as does cumin, a spice that has retained its ancient name to the present day.
Iraqis have a deep appreciation for their own cuisine. They view each part of the animal as healthy and nutritious, and make sure to cook all the organs, including the heart, kidneys and liver, brain, feet, eyes, and ears. Comparing the Babylonian recipes to what we know of medieval cuisine and present-day culinary practices suggests that the stews represent an early stage of a long tradition that is still dominant in Iraqi cuisine. Boiling the meat into stew with spices and other ingredients was the basic culinary technique. Iraqi Pache is prepared almost in similar ways as are described in the tablets.
The head, called pache, of the sheep is considered to be a delicacy, very healthy and delicious in Iraq, and commonly eaten by men so they become strong. Pache (pronounced as pah-chay), averitable witch's brew of sheep offal, is celebrated as rare delicacy, having its origin in early Mesopotamian civilisation. Another charm that adds on to the wacky tinge of this adventure food is that is made with a Sheep's (or goat's or lamb's) head, the stomach and its hooves (cleaned and processed under sanitary measures) boiled slowly, mashed up and served with khubz (flatbread) sunken in hot, watery and oily broth.
I am quite adventurous in tasting foods so I went for Pache. Prepared well, pache rewards the intrepid diner with a delicate meaty flavour that is never overshadowed by the rich patina of fat. This special delicacy could almost terrify anyone else from any other part of the world! If you can skip the notion of eating the head, it's a must try for all the adventurist folks out there. The textures of the different parts combine, while the lemon and garlic (not to mention the obsessive cleaning) chase away any gaminess one might expect in such a dish.
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Many of us drink water to stay healthy and often just to survive. We rarely stop and think about the effect of water on our key organs. Here you can know why water is essential for the lungs and how sufficient drinking water improves your breathing.
Though the association between water and lung health isn't very clear, it is a fact that good hydration habits will make a significant positive impact on your ability to breathe well. It is essential because breath is life!
Water and Respiratory System- The Connection
Research has shown that dehydration affects all systems in a person's body. It includes your respiratory system also. Drinking enough water will help thin the mucus lining, which is present in the airways and lungs.
Dehydration might cause the mucus to thicken and get sticky. It can then slow down the overall respiration and make you more vulnerable to allergies, illness, and other respiratory issues.
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Dehydration can also lead to breathing issues. Water is essential for nasal passages, lungs, and bronchial tubes as it helps them to be moist. When a person breathes out, the moisture from these tissues will be expelled, while every time a person breathes, it will bring in dry air. When your body is hydrated, the water will be replaced quickly.
Dehydration Can Trigger Allergies
A histamine reaction in your body usually causes allergies. If you are allergic to pollen, your body will see it as dangerous and overreact. Hence, your body will produce histamines to fight the pollen.
Histamines can also play a key role in regulating your body's water supply. In 1995, a Dutch study even confirmed that dehydration triggered the production of histamines. It is a defensive mechanism that helps preserve remaining water in a person's body to avoid possible losses in the future.
When a person is dehydrated, the histamine production rises considerably and can lead to symptoms of seasonal allergies like itchy eyes, runny nose, and sneezing
The rise in histamine production can be avoided if you drink more water. Remember, histamine production occurs when there is a lack of water in the body.
Hopefully, these examples will help you understand why water intake is essential for your lungs.
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Controller function used to suspend watering for a specified period without affecting watering programs.
Rain Shut·off Device Or Rain Sensor
A device which prevents the controller from activating the valves when a preset amount of rainfall is detected.
A length of pipe which has male nominal pipe threads on each end. Usually affixed to a lateral or submain to support a sprinkler or anti-siphon valve. May also be used underground to connect system components.
A sprinkler with a water-propelled internal drive mechanism which causes the sprinkler to rotate and water the area in which it is installed. Other type of rotor: impact drive.
Water which is not absorbed by the soil and drains to another location. Run-off occurs when water is applied in excessive amounts or too quickly for the soil to absorb.


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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the free and confidential National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255). This line is staffed by a trained crisis counselor 24/7.
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National Alliance on Mental Illness
The largest grassroots mental health organization in the United States. Resources are available for teens, young adults, and families. Local events can be found at: _URL_
Strive for Wellness statement on stigma:
Stigma is defined as a "mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person."
Sadly, many individuals experiencing mental illness are impacted by sigma. These stereotypes or prejudices lead of labeling and incorrect assumptions about those with mental illnesses. This can sometimes lead people having these experiences to internalize the negative stereotype and potentially transform their own identity.
When this happens, it leads to negative impacts on the potential for recovery.
Discrimination against those with mental illnesses is an example of stigma in action. It can limit a person's freedoms, and/or coerce or socially exclude them.
For many, experiences of stigma prevent individuals from seeking out potentially life-improving treatment and intervention.
 - Provide person-centered services in a nonjudgmental treatment environment
 - Actively protest negative myths about those with mental illness
 - Provide outreach and education to community and provider groups to educate others on mental illness and impacts of stigma


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It is not the same engineer. It is not even the same planet.
In 'Alien', the crew of the Nostromo lands on LV -426 where they find the 'derelict' (the wrecked space craft) with the 'space jockey' (engineer) dead in his seat. It is at this point nothing more than a barren planetoid with trace elements of an atmosphere (ASH: "It's almost primordial").
In 'Prometheus', which is set approx. 29 years earlier, the crew of the Prometheus land on LV - 223, a moon with an extremely active atmosphere and dynamic geology.
The events that led up to the crash discovered in 'Alien' have not been covered yet however, after seeing the events of 'Prometheus' one can imagine that the original 'derelict' on LV - 426 encountered similar problems related to the mutagen. Or perhaps David had something to do with it (watching 'Alien: Covenant' answers some questions while raising many more).
TL:DR - 'Prometheus' is not a direct prequal to 'Alien' and they are set on different planets - Alien Universe Timeline.


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Toddler Activities: Styrofoam Tray Prints with Tempera
Toddler Activities: A green craft using styrofoam trays to print.
Reuse styrofoam veggie and meat trays and make your own print. Use a pencil to make a pattern, design or picture on the flat side of the styrofoam tray,
add some paint and make some colorful prints.
Washed meat or vegetable trays. We found a four pack of tomatoes with a tray that had no markings on the bottom.
Pencil (not too sharp)
Sponge Brush or Roller (brayer)
White Paper (Water Color paper or cardstock works well)
Frame or Construction paper to mount on.
White Scratch Paper to test
Newspaper to work on.
Paint tray or small flat containers (lids of plastic containers work well especially when using a roller)
- Wash trays thoroughly and dry
- Draw with a pencil, trying not to puncture tray.
- When your child is finished, go over the lines with a sharper pencil to add more definition if necessary.
- Pour tempera paint into small dish or lid for roller. Roller produces smoothest results. You could probably use a regular paint brush as well but we didn't
- Roll or brush paint onto pattern. Turn tray over onto test paper and rub the back gently in all areas to ensure best print results
while making sure the tray does not slide.
- Do a couple test prints on scratch paper to see how much paint you need or if you need to deepen some of the lines.
- Lift tray gently from paper making sure not to slide or drop tray.
- Add more paint if needed and press onto your watercolor paper or cardstock.
- Let dry. Frame or mount on construction paper.
TIPS AND SUGGESTIONS
Look at the bottom of the tray for ones that are unmarked.
Keep it about 5 x 5 for best results and easier printing.
Test a few to get the results desired. Deepen any lines necessary but try to keep it your child's work!
We used a brayer and a sponge brush. The brayer has a slightly smoother finish.
Keep in mind the picture will be backwards so words are not advised unless they are palindromes (words that can that can be read the
same way in either direction) that have mirror image letters like m and o in mom
Patterns are the easiest but my animals can be made too.
This would make a simple, inexpensive toddler activity at a birthday party.
Words are tricky but you might find a few palindromes which are words that can that can be read the same way in either direction
MOM is a palindrome and the letters look the same both ways so this makes a great Mother's Day Print!
DAD is tricky and although it is spelled d-a-d both ways...you have to flip the letters. If you do try it,
write it on a paper and use a mirror to see if it is correct.
Patterns are easier but animals can be made too!
This project can make great toddler activities. By using several trays and making a different shape on each would make a great way to reinforce shape recognition.
Don't forget to talk about colors and size.


View Full Version : R1b1b above the "Limes"!?
23-02-15, 18:49
What are the roots of E1b1b (E-V13) living above the so called "Limes" (border of the Roman Empire)?
Eb1b above that line is not more than 3%. That is not much but one out of 33 can not be neglected.
On the internet and in the literature I see three theories about it:
E1b1b are Neolithic farmers who brought agriculture to the North. In Northern Europe this didn't went sudden but more gradual. The famers lived along the huntergatherers and finally mixed with them. Others have stated that this could not be the case because E1b1b expended from the Balkan not earlier than in the Bronze Age (Dienekes weblog).
The Roman theory from Steven Bird in which troops from the Balkan where due to higher E1b1b scores in Wales and parts of England. This can be a factor for these particular areas. But above Hadrian's Wall or the Rhine the Romans had no permanent stay. This makes the chances a lot smaller for Roman-German intermarriages than in their strongholds.
E1b1b is a Jewish heritage. This can partly be the case. But I've read that for 80% of the E1b1b Europeans this is not the case. Jewish are frequently represented in specific branches of E1b1b.
In my personal Y-DNA matter is my oldest known grand father Haye Jans most probably a farmer and/or sailor who lived in the seventeenth age in Wartena in the heart of Frisia. In this area is R1b-U106 (and some I1) way out dominant. So E1b1b (or E-117 or E-M35 or E-V13) dazzles me a bit. The closest match is with someone rooted in Sicily.... a remarkable fact (a nice Frisian-Sicilian combination:laughing:
Who can make me a little bit wiser?
Thanks in advance!
23-02-15, 19:06
Excuse me it's E1b1b above the Limes in stead of E1b1b


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Transforming End-of-Life Plastics into Industry-Ready Chemicals by 2024
Indaver has started construction of a Plastics2Chamicals plant in the port of Antwerp that can recycle end-of-life plastics into basic chemicals for industry. Start-up is scheduled for 2024 and will run at full capacity from 2027.
Plastic is known as one of the biggest polluters of our planet. That is why more and more initiatives are looking for ways to reuse or recycle plastic in a different way after all. With its new facility, Indaver also wants to process plastic streams that do not qualify for other forms of recycling. These come from household packaging waste and other plastic fractions from households or industry, both from Belgium and abroad.
The Plastics2Chemicals plant will recycle about 26 000 tonnes of plastics in the first few years and will scale up to about 65 000 tonnes a year afterwards. This makes it the largest fully-industrial plant in Europe and will enable it to provide high-quality recycling of half of Europe's household waste polystyrene packaging. At the same time, the site will employ about 50 people.
The recycling process works as follows: during a thermochemical process, the longer carbon chains in the plastic are reduced or depolymerised. The substances released in the process have equivalent specifications to materials extracted from fossil streams. They can even serve for the food industry.
The recycling of plastic particles contributes to the transition to a circular economy. At the same time, the plant will save around 90 000 tonnes of CO2 annually. From 2027, this will even increase to 227 500 tonnes. Indaver can count on the Flemish government for financial support.


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As soon as the university campus in kulmbach starts teaching in two years, many young people will come to the city who want to get from a to b quickly. The bicycle is the perfect means of transport – if there is a good network of cycle paths and enough secure parking spaces. Both are still expandable in kulmbach, says professor stephan clemens of the university of bayreuth. The passionate cyclist is the founding dean of the kulmbach campus and is convinced: "if you make it possible, many more people will use the bike. In this case the offer creates the demand."
Three areas are particularly important to clemens and campus managing director matthias kaiser: the connections between and to the kulmbach campus buildings, rapid movement in the city center in general, and the train station and its immediate surroundings.
A short way to the MRI
Matthias kaiser sees a need for change in the area around the guterbahnhof, which is favored as a future campus location. "Something has to happen in terms of traffic engineering. Two busy roads have to be crossed between the site and the administration building in the spinnerei villa, and there is no direct connection to the city center." Kaiser thought it would be great if the planned bike path connection between guterbahnhof and the max-rubner-institute could be realized.
To niggle at a missing or at least incomplete bike path concept in and around kulmbach is far from clemens and kaiser's mind, but they are convinced: "if we work together on good ideas now, everyone will benefit from it in the end."
The development into a university location is also seen as an opportunity at city hall to take up the topic of bicycle traffic in principle, says press spokesman simon ries. "Of course, the infrastructure has to keep up with the development, from the train connection to the opnv and bike paths to the high-speed internet. It's all going to take on more meaning."
However, it would be premature at this point in time to speculate about bicycle path connections to and from the guterbahnhof area. "The location question has not yet been finally decided." The land negotiations have not yet been concluded. Only when it has been clarified where the campus will be located can further planning be undertaken.
Independently of this, the campus directors at the university of bayreuth are developing ideas for the future – and are happy to think a little more broadly in the process. Matthias kaiser: "we are a green faculty and want to not only teach a healthy lifestyle, but also live it. The people who study and work with us have the right attitude and want such opportunities."
The dream of the cycle track
Stephan clemens dreams of a bicycle expressway between bayreuth and kulmbach "on which you can ride quickly and safely without any obstacles". The university professor is aware that such a project cannot be implemented overnight. "But we believe it will enhance the attractiveness of the location." Unfortunately, there is not even a continuous cycle path from kulmbach to bayreuth.
The district of kulmbach is on the same page as the campus management when it comes to improving the public transport system and planning cycle paths, and would like to push ahead with the corresponding ideas. District administrator klaus peter sollner () has already written to government president heidrun piwernetz regarding the application for a campus bike path between the bayreuth and kulmbach sites. He advocates the creation of corresponding lighthouse projects not only in the metropolitan areas, but also in rural areas.
The campus brings new tasks for the district administration, says michael beck from the district office, who is responsible for public transport, among other things. Important tasks are a semester ticket for the opnv, but also a bicycle-friendly development and connection of the future campus area.
A concept is to emerge
The bike lanes and the current development planning along federal highway 85 are patchy, confirms andreas schulein of the district office's high and civil engineering department. This is to change: "it is planned to have a cycle path concept drawn up for the district. We see ourselves first and foremost as a coordinator in this area."
The county rarely builds its own bike lanes. Why? Traffic volume on county roads is too low to generate a demand for bike lane construction. And along the federal roads is the state construction office responsible.


numpy.polynomial.chebyshev.chebmul(c1, c2)[source]
Multiply one Chebyshev series by another.
Returns the product of two Chebyshev series c1 * c2. The arguments are sequences of coefficients, from lowest order "term" to highest, e.g., [1,2,3] represents the series T_0 + 2*T_1 + 3*T_2.
c1, c2 : array_like
1-D arrays of Chebyshev series coefficients ordered from low to high.
out : ndarray
Of Chebyshev series coefficients representing their product.
In general, the (polynomial) product of two C-series results in terms that are not in the Chebyshev polynomial basis set. Thus, to express the product as a C-series, it is typically necessary to "reproject" the product onto said basis set, which typically produces "unintuitive live" (but correct) results; see Examples section below.
>>> from numpy.polynomial import chebyshev as C
>>> c1 = (1,2,3)
>>> c2 = (3,2,1)
>>> C.chebmul(c1,c2) # multiplication requires "reprojection"
array([ 6.5, 12., 12., 4., 1.5])


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phononic stop bands are formed for materials with periodic elastic properties. The material does not need to be a crystal.
The basis of phononic crystals dates back to Newton who imagined that sound waves propagated through air in the same way that an elastic wave would propagate along a lattice of point masses connected by springs with an elastic force constant E. This force constant is identical to the modulus of the material. Of course with phononic crystals of materials with differing modulus the calculations are a little more complicated than this simple model.
Based on Newton's observation we can conclude that a key factor for acoustic band-gap engineering is impedance mismatch between periodic elements comprising the crystal and the surrounding medium. When an advancing wave-front meets a material with very high impedance it will tend to increase its phase velocity through that medium. Likewise, when the advancing wave-front meets a low impedance medium it will slow down. We can exploit this concept with periodic (and handcrafted) arrangements of impedance mismatched elements to affect acoustic waves in the crystal – essentially band-gap engineering.
The position of the band-gap in frequency space for a phononic crystal is controlled by the size and arrangement of the elements comprising the crystal. The width of the band gap is generally related to the difference in the speed of sound (due to impedance differences) through the materials that comprise the composite.
- "Sound ideas". Physics World (2005-12-01). Retrieved on 2008-01-19.
- G.P Srivastava (1990). The Physics of Phonons, CRC Press. ISBN _PHONE_.


Faculty Member in Computer Science
College of the Atlantic (COA) seeks a full-time faculty member in Computer Science. The anticipated start date is August, 2016. The successful candidate will be the first faculty member in computer science at COA. The faculty member will offer a range of classes to help students gain basic to advanced programming skills, while introducing students to the central questions of computer science and exposing them to the styles of thought and habits of mind associated with computer scientists. The faculty member is expected to help students make connections between computer science and other areas of the curriculum, including art and design and the humanities, as well as the natural and social sciences.
In addition to introductory and intermediate programming classes, we are interested in a candidate who can offer engaging and challenging courses that explore the intersections of computer science and computing with different aspects of the human experience and academic and creative areas. Examples of such classes might include some of the following: cryptography and computer security, information visualization, human-computer interaction, machine learning and artificial intelligence, generative art, digital humanities, agent-based modeling, data mining, micro-controller programming (e.g, Arduino and Raspberry Pi devices).
The successful candidate must have the ability and interest in teaching some courses in mathematics or related areas. These might not be math classes per se, but it is essential that this faculty member's classes connect strongly with the existing mathematics curriculum and offer courses that meet the college's quantitative reasoning requirement. It is essential that the faculty member has a background in computing and programming and be enthusiastic about and focused on developing creative ways to teach computer science to students with a wide range of backgrounds and goals.
The faculty member should have a Ph.D. in computer science, engineering, computational science, applied mathematics, physics, or a related area and demonstrated potential for excellent and innovative teaching.
College of the Atlantic is an interdisciplinary college of approximately 340 undergraduate students and 30 faculty members. Its oceanfront campus is adjacent to Acadia National Park. COA's faculty are not organized by departments, and all students design their own major in human ecology. The average class size is 13. Faculty teach five courses a year distributed across three ten-week terms; faculty also advise students, direct independent studies and final projects, and contribute to the shared governance of the college. COA is a highly interdisciplinary college seeking to understand the relationships between humans and their built, natural, and social-cultural environments, where theory is tied to practice, and where friendship and cooperation help define our community. Through both teaching and scholarship, we aim to foster the capacity to make improvements within the world and ourselves.
Interested candidates should submit a CV, a cover letter addressing interest in and qualifications for the position, and a brief statement of teaching that includes a discussion of the roles of computer science in an interdisciplinary curriculum. The CV should include contact information for three professional references; please do not have references send letters. For full consideration, please submit all application materials as a single pdf file to _EMAIL_ by December 7, 2015.
College of the Atlantic is seeking a person with outstanding cooking skills, to cook in an award-winning college kitchen. Emphasis on creative, healthy, scratch cooking. Must work well in a congenial atmosphere. A knowledge of vegetarian and vegan cooking and at least 5 years cooking experience in a professional setting required.
This position will normally work early afternoon through dinner. Must have flexibility to work with catering and special events. 11 month position per year; benefits. Send resume with references to _EMAIL_ or Ken Sebelin, Cook Search Committee Chair, College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, Me 04609. Electronic applications are preferred. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
College of the Atlantic is committed to academic excellence, cultural diversity, and multicultural education. COA is an AA/EEO employer. Applications are especially encouraged from persons who could enhance the ethnic, gender, and cultural diversity of the College.


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Analysis of 20 years of electronic health records across the U.S. finds Black and Hispanic stroke survivors were less likely than white stroke survivors to receive treatment for common complications during the first year after their stroke, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2023. The meeting, to be held in person in Dallas and virtually Feb. 8-10, 2023, is a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health.
Despite increases in recent decades in the overall stroke survival rates in the U.S., Black and Hispanic adults in the U.S. still consistently fare worse in their recovery from a stroke when compared to their peers who are white. According to a new study, differences in the treatment of complications immediately after a stroke may possibly explain these persistent health disparities.
A constellation of symptoms may manifest after a stroke; however, not all complications are life-threatening events. Some complications may be more subtle and go undetected by the medical community and, as a result, people from different racial or ethnic groups may not receive equitable treatment. Stroke may have a devastating impact on an individual's quality of life, and I think we owe it to our patients to do what we can to improve their level of function and quality of life after a stroke."
Kent Simmonds, D.O., Ph.D., Lead Study Author, Resident Physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
In this study, Using electronic medical records from 65 large health care centers across the U.S., the analysis included patients hospitalized with stroke between August 2002 and July 2022. The records were divided into three patient groups (Black, non-Hispanic white and Hispanic): 80,564 Black stroke survivors were matched to 80,564 non-Hispanic white stroke survivors; and 28,375 non-Hispanic white stroke survivors were matched to 28,375 Hispanic stroke survivors. All participants were older than 18 years with an average age of 64 and 54% were male.
Stroke survivors were matched based on 41 factors that may affect recovery, including age, sex and other health conditions, such as hypertension and diabetes (Type 1 and 2). After matching there were no significant group differences for any of 41 factors. For the analysis, researchers reviewed medications prescribed for six common stroke complications: central nervous system arousal/fatigue (foggy brain function); mood irregularities (depression/anxiety); spasticity (muscle stiffness); sleep problems; bladder incontinence; and seizure. They then compared the differences in the treatment of these conditions after a stroke among the people who had these complications at three points in time: 14 days, 90 days and 365 days after the stroke.
The analysis revealed:
- Black stroke survivors were significantly less likely to be treated for any complications except seizure, compared to stroke survivors who were white. The largest difference was seen in the treatment of arousal/fatigue, spasticity, and mood at the 14-day mark. Compared to stroke survivors who were white adults, those who were Black adults were 30% less likely to be treated for central nervous system arousal, 27% less likely to be treated for spasticity and 17% less likely to be treated for mood irregularities.
- In the comparison of Hispanic vs. non-Hispanic white stroke survivors at the 14-day mark, Hispanics survivors were 20% less likely to receive treatment for central nervous system arousal; 19% less likely to receive treatment for spasticity; and 16% less likely to receive treatment for mood irregularities.
- Little to no differences in the treatment of seizure were seen between the three patient groups at all three time periods.
"When a patient is having a seizure, the physical manifestations are often clear and demand urgent treatment. However, for other symptoms like foggy brain function or depression, health care professionals must dig a little deeper to assess for these signs or symptoms and determine if treatment is warranted. This difference between seizures and the other more subtle symptoms is the important take away," Simmonds said. "We found that the disparities among different population groups narrowed a little over time, and this likely shows that some of these conditions are being recognized and treated. However, even at the one-year mark, the overall treatment disparities remain for the treatment of nearly all post-stroke complications."
The main limitation of this analysis is that a large database review like this can identify racial disparities in stroke care, however, it is less attuned to identify the specific factors driving them. "These differences are real and persistent, so it's a matter of finding them, one by one, and filling these gaps," Simmonds said.
The research team plans to test various intervention strategies that may help stroke survivors who are Black or Hispanic achieve a better functional recovery after their stroke.
"Communication moving forward is important. Many people survive their stroke, so health care professionals need to ask patients about these other subtle symptoms that may indicate additional complications, in addition to traditional risk factors such as blood glucose levels or blood pressure. These other domains have an important impact on our patients' post-stroke, day-to-day quality of life."
"It is very important for stroke survivors to receive treatment for subsequent complications. Successful recovery and quality of life depend upon the identification and management of post stroke complications," said American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, volunteer expert Karen L. Furie, M.D., M.P.H., FAHA, vice chair of the Association Stroke Brain Health Science Subcommittee and professor and chair of neurology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. "Understanding the factors that contribute to these differences in treatment will empower clinicians to deliver high-quality, equitable care to stroke patients." Dr. Furie was not involved in this study.
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