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Background/Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a rapid expansion in the use of telemedicine. This study aimed to assess the experiences of hemangioma specialists utilizing telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic to evaluate and manage infantile hemangiomas (IH), including perceived effectiveness of different modalities and barriers to care delivery. Methods: Multicenter cross-sectional study asking providers to describe their experiences using telemedicine for initial evaluation of IH from March to September 2020. Results: The study included 281 patients from 15 medical centers internationally. Median time from referral to evaluation was 17 days. Median physician confidence in performing evaluations via telemedicine was 95.0 (IQR 90.0–100.0). Most evaluations were performed via video communication with photographs or audio communication with photographs; when not initially available, photographs were requested in 51.4%. Providers preferred follow-up modalities that included photographs. Conclusions: Physicians with extensive expertise in managing IH are confident in their abilities to assess and manage IH via telemedicine including initiating treatment in patients without risk factors for beta-blocker therapy. There was a preference for hybrid modalities that included photographs. The data suggest that telemedicine can be effective for managing IH and may decrease wait times and improve specialist reach to underserved areas.
- health care delivery
- hemangiomas/vascular tumors
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- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health


A review of El Dorado by Dorothy Porter
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
El Dorado
By Dorothy Porter
May 2007, 369pp, Paperback, $32.95
In The Guardian, author Michael Symmons Roberts calls the true verse novel a form of its own—fraught with difficulties: "the awkward child of successful parents, destined to disappoint both of them." After writing her last verse novel Wild Surmise Dorothy Porter called it "an impossible juggling act of narrative and poetry." Yet, it is one of the oldest and most enduring of literary forms, and Porter herself continues to work happily and successfully in the medium. I suspect that a reader looking at the fat exterior of Porter's latest novel, El Dorado will either expect, if they aren't already a fan, a long and complex narrative full of ghastly thick prose and scary lawyers. Others might know that this is not written in standard prose but rather verse, and might expect something more complex and slower going than the "average" novel (whatever that is). Both would be wrong. There are no winding pathways, nothing even remotely thick about the writing, and it is a much faster read than any thin novel I've come across this year. And yet this is indeed verse. Each of the poems which makes up the whole of this novel stands on its own. Each one is well written, with the intense denouement Porter has become famous for:
Does he dangerously
in sad rank fantasy
behind the dank walls
of solitude?
Who doesn't?
Who doesn't.
Especially in the thick
silent night
when your own futile life
sets on you
with the slow strokes
of a disembowelling knife. (20)
The structure forces the reader to take a breath or pause at the end of each piece, and then to read just one more before stopping. It's quite a different reading experience than reading a novel. The white space between each poem has a role in the overall meaning, creating a silent narration between the author and reader.
Ostensibly, the story is about a serial killer who calls himself El Dorado. His victims are children—around 8 or 9, buried gently, with a gold mark on their heads. The promo says that the killer kills out of love instead of hate, but the truth is that the killer kills out of loneliness and psychotic fantasy. The story is as engrossing, chilling, and ultimately psychologically powerful as any thriller, but Porter's poetry takes it a step further:
In the ice's time
When the cold black water
will receive
and swallow us
leaving nothing
but a passing warm steam
to show briefly
where we had been. (10)
There are three key characters: Detective Inspector Bill Buchanan, his old school friend Cath, Imaginary Worlds Specialist Director returned to Australia from Hollywood, and the killer. Their relationships with one another are part of the action that drives the novel forward, and Porter is very clever in the way she links them. They are all part of the crimes that are committed, in one way or another, both culpable, and innocent.
Although the novel is fairly black, it isn't draining. There is energy created in the frenetic dance between the three key characters, and in the way their poetic voices move towards, and away from one another. The voices shift, primarily between Cath and Bill, skipping the need for conjunctions and prose syntax, and go directly into the heart of what is troubling them as they search for the things that most people want: love, security, serenity in a situation that is anything but secure and serene. Both Cath and Bill have difficulties with the kinds of things that grown-ups deal with – long term relationships, stability, and in Bill's case, parenting his teen-age daughter. Mingled with the murder mystery is a romance between Cath and Lily, a beautiful young snake charmer. As Cath experiences the pain and joy of new love, she tries to move forward, but her past is rapidly catching up with her as she begins to understand that neither Cath nor Bill have really matured, and that this is somehow related to the murders:
Is cute puppy-dinosaur Dino
a baited hook?
Like Emma's copy
of Peter Pan
Suddenly Bill wants to chuck
in the nearest bin.
Instead he walks
into a bright toy shop –
a cornucopia of plastic fossils
for tragic grown-ups.(176-7)
The book isn't without humour either. At one point El Dorado is on the verge of becoming "Melbourne's most prominent poet", and each of the poem's have titles that are demonstrate a tiny hint of black tongue-in-cheek: eg "What can ail thee?" or "Clean and tidy."
Like most of Porter's work, El Dorado isn't pretty, but it is full of an odd kind of beauty, that transcends the death and destruction that fills its pages. Once again, Porter succeeds in that impossible juggling act of narrative and poetry. Even for the most casual of reader, El Dorado reads easily as a fast paced, intense and psychologically satisfying thriller. For those who want more than simply a quick escape, El Dorado explores complex topics of childhood innocence and guilt; love and hatred; desire and psychosis with the kind of taut intensity that only poetry can provide. In the end, as beautiful as the fantasy is (Disneyworld/the city of gold/love unmangled by the reality of morning breath and old age), the children are real, their death is still a horrific loss. El Dorado's world is a simply a fantasy that ends in death:
But when the ice takes
our young
we know
we will never have
or find our deluded footing/again." (11)
This is a linguistically powerful novel, which is both internally effective and at the same time, greater than the sum of its parts.
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The P-TRAP consortium consists of 16 participants from 7 European countries, which requires an appropriate management structure to ensure a smooth and successful course of the project.
The organisational structure of P-TRAP is based on 7 work packages (WPs) and on the following management bodies:
Management Board: the communication interface between the EC and the project consortium, responsible for the overall management of P-TRAP
Supervisory Board: the central decision making board, responsible for the scientific strategy and direction
Training Board: responsible for the planning, organisation, and monitoring of the training activities
Dissemination & Communication Board: responsible for the planning organisation, and monitoring of dissemination and communication activities
External Advisory Board: external scientific expert board to advise the consortium and evaluate the progress of the project
Workpackages: thematic groups to structure, organise, and coordinate the (scientific, training, and administrative) project activities

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Custom Combo in Visual Basic 2005
This article was originally published in VSJ, which is now part of Developer Fusion.
VB6 had a handy Drive ComboBox control, but sadly it's not available in Visual Studio 2005 – unless that is you create your own. This project, which shows how to do it in VB 2005, is an interesting one because it illustrates how to create a custom control and how to create wrapper classes for API features.
Start a new VB Windows form-based project and add to it a new class called "DirCombo". This generates the following code:
Public Class DirCombo
End Class
Add to this class declaration:
Public Class DirCombo
 Inherits ComboBox
This means that our new class inherits from the ComboBox class, which means that it has all of the properties, methods and events of a ComboBox class. This makes it an exact copy of the ComboBox. If you build the project you will discover that the DirCombo control appears, with a default icon, in the Toolbox. You can select it and place it on the form in the usual way to create a perfectly standard ComboBox.
Customising
The first thing we need to do is populate the ComboBox with a list of the available drives. This can be done in the control's constructor. We can use the My.Computer.FileSystem object to return a collection of DriveInfo objects. A For Each loop then adds each Drive to the original ComboBox's Items collection. Notice the use of MyBase to refer to the original ComboBox control that our class derives from:
Public Sub New()
 Dim Drives As _
 ReadOnlyCollection( _
 Of DriveInfo)
 Drives = _
 My.Computer.FileSystem.Drives
 For Each Drive As DriveInfo In _
 Drives
 MyBase.Items.Add(Drive)
 Next
 MyBase.SelectedIndex = 1
End Sub
To make all this work we also need to add to the start of the class definition:
Imports System.Collections.ObjectModel
Imports System.IO
Now if you build the project and try the new control out on a form you will discover that it does list the drive letters. Unfortunately it lists them at design time when you drop the control on the form, and it lists them twice at runtime because it doesn't clear the set added at design time. The solution to this problem is to add an If statement that distinguishes between design and run time:
Public Sub New()
 If LicenseManager.UsageMode _
 = LicenseUsageMode.Runtime Then
 ..code for constructor
 End If
End Sub
We also need to add:
Imports System.ComponentModel
Now the control works as desired and is only activated when used at runtime.
A reusable drive control
A reusable drive control
System Icons
The next step is to add icons that correspond to the type of drive. Before we can do this we need to gain access to the appropriate icons. Windows uses a wide range of "standard" icons, the location of which seem to be well hidden from the average application programmer. If you spend time searching the documentation you probably won't find out much about how you can use these icons, but they aren't deliberately hidden.
The .NET framework does provide some access to standard system icons in the SystemIcons class. This returns an Icon object for any of the icons that you will find in a message box or dialog box – but not the wider range of drive and folder icons. To rectify this you need to know that these are stored within the Shell32.dll file in the windows\system32 directory. There is an ExtractAssociatedIcon method in the Icon class that will extract a single icon from a file, but it only returns the first icon found in the file. To pick an icon from the Shell32.dll file we have no real choice but to use an API call – ExtractIcon.
To make the shell icons look as much like the SystemIcon class as possible we need to create a new Module within the project, called ShellIcons. A Module is used because there is no need to have more than one instance of the ShellIcons class, and a Module is VB's way of creating a static class. A static class is automatically instantiated by the system, and the resulting object has the same name as the class. The idea is that we are going to add static properties to the class that return each of the icons we want to use. For example, to get the "hard disk" icon you would use something like:
ic = ShellIcons.HardDisk
We also need some constants to specify which icon to obtain. The icons are stored in order, with the first icon having index 0. I don't know of any documentation that gives the order of the icons in the file, but it is fairly easy to discover what you are looking for by enumeration. The following constants give the position of the device icons that we are specifically interested in – you can add more:
Private Const Floppy As Integer = 6
Private Const Hard As Integer = 8
Private Const Net As Integer = 9
Private Const CD As Integer = 11
Private Const RAM As Integer = 12
Private Const Unknown As Integer = 53
The API call is easy to translate to a VB declare:
Private Declare Function ExtractIcon _
 Lib "shell32.dll" Alias _
 "ExtractIconA" _
 (ByVal hInst As IntPtr, _
 ByVal lpszExeFileName As String, _
 ByVal nIconIndex As Integer) As _
 IntPtr
It returns a handle to the icon stored in the file given by the values of nIconIndex and lpszExeFileName. The hInst parameter is supposed to be set to the application's handle, which is used by Windows to keep track of it. It is quite difficult to obtain the application instance handle and, after spending some time implementing other API calls to discover it, a programming error revealed that the ExtractIcon API call doesn't actually seem to make use of it or need it. This is undocumented, so if you find it doesn't work with another version of Windows (I used XP) you might have to implement the code needed to obtain the application handle.
As well as using constants for the icon indexes, it also makes good programming sense to use a constant for the location of the Shell32.dll file:
Const ShellIconsLib As String _
 = "C:\WINDOWS\System32\shell32.dll"
It is worth adding a public method that will return the icon corresponding to any index:
Public Function GetIcon( _
 ByVal index As Integer) As Icon
 Dim Hicon As IntPtr
 Hicon = ExtractIcon( _
 IntPtr.Zero, ShellIconsLib, _
 index)
 Dim ic As Icon
 ic = Icon.FromHandle(Hicon)
 Return ic
End Function
Notice the use of the FromHandle static method to create the icon object. Now we can add the properties to return the specific icons we are going to use. As there is no logical reason why the user should ever need to set these properties, we only define a get:
Public ReadOnly Property _
 FloppyDisk() As Icon
 Get
 Return GetIcon(Floppy)
 End Get
End Property
Public ReadOnly Property _
 HardDisk() As Icon
 Get
 Return GetIcon(Hard)
 End Get
End Property
Public ReadOnly Property _
 NetDisk() As Icon
 Get
 Return GetIcon(Net)
 End Get
End Property
Public ReadOnly Property _
 CDROM() As Icon
 Get
 Return GetIcon(CD)
 End Get
 End Property
Public ReadOnly Property _
 RamDisk() As Icon
 Get
 Return GetIcon(RAM)
 End Get
End Property
Public ReadOnly Property _
 UnknownDisk() As Icon
 Get
 Return GetIcon(Unknown)
 End Get
End Property
You can, of course, add further properties to return other icons – the only problem being thinking up a name for some of them!
OwnerDraw ComboBox
If we want to add icons to the drive listing we are going to have to modify the way the ComboBox is drawn. The designers of the .NET Framework have done their best to make such modifications easy. If the DrawMode property is set to either OwnerDrawFixed or OwnerDrawVariable, then rather than draw the items in the drop-down list, the ComboBox raises the DrawItem event. The DrawItem event handler is passed all of the information and objects it needs to actually draw the item. There is a small complication in that if you set DrawMode to OwnerDrawVariable, the ComboBox raises the MeasureItem event just before the DrawItem event. This allows you to tell the ComboBox how much space you need to draw the next item. In this case the icons are the same size, so we can use OwnerDrawFixed and ignore the need to handle the MeasureItem event – the ComboBox will work out how much space there is to draw an item.
There is one final small detail before we implement the DrawItem event handler. The default mode of operation of a ComboBox is to allow the user to edit or enter the selected item. Clearly if the user can edit an item it cannot be shown graphically – it has to be text. What this means is that the DrawItem event is raised for each of the items in the drop-down list, which the user cannot edit, but the item displayed as selected is still drawn by the ComboBox as text. The solution to the problem is to force the ComboBox to stop


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Firming agents Stabilisers maintain the uniform dispersion of substances in solid and semi-solid foods.
Flavour enhancers enhance the existing taste and/or odour of a food.
Foaming agents maintain the uniform dispersion of gases in aerated foods.
Gelling agents modify the texture of the food through gel formation.
Glazing agents impart a coating to the external surface of the food, for example, a wax coating on fruit to improve its appearance.
Humectants reduce moisture loss in foods. For example, glycerine may be added to icing to prevent it from drying out.
Preservatives retard or prevent the deterioration of food by micro-organisms, and thus prevent spoilage of foods.
Raising agents liberate gases, thereby increasing the volume of a food. Raising agents are often used in baked goods.
Sweeteners replace the sweetness normally provided by sugars in foods without contributing significantly to their available energy.
Thickeners increase the viscosity of a food. For example, a sauce might contain a thickener to give it the desired consistency.
*Sourced directly from: Food Standards Australia and New Zealand
Helpful websites and organisations
This information has been provided by Leanne Cooper from Sneakys baby and child nutrition. Leanne is a qualified nutritionist and mother of two very active boys.

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First most, understand that no matter what, even if you buy a Mouse for sale, or adopt, as a new pet owner it is your responsibility to care for the Mouse it's entire lifespan. Part of that responsibility is taking time to understand the basic needs of a Mouse. At the top of that list should be getting know the diet of a Mouse. Find out how often and what a Mouse needs to eat. Next, what shelter do you need to provide? Get to know what habitat a Mouse is accustom to, what temperature will the Mouse need to maintain, and what range of temperatures are acceptable for a Mouse to survive.
It's usually a good idea to get to know a little more about Mouse habits, temperament and relationship with humans before adopting a Mouse. For example, can you handle a Mouse. What is an indicator if a Mouse is being aggressive and senses fear? Some pets will maintain much more happiness as long as they live socially, does a Mouse need a companion pet in order to live happily? What exercise does a Mouse need regularly?
Mouse adoption can be an enriching experience, and is a big decision. Whatever pet you adopt will demand certain lifestyle changes, and a financial commitment. Estimating the monthly costs of owning a pet is just as important as making sure you have the time and motivation to feed the Mouse when necessary, and provide a safe environment to live.
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Two Nations: Black & White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (Paperback)
Product Descriptionby Andrew Hacker
"A telling portrait of American life...The numbers are stark and irrefutable."
Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead separate lives, continually marked by tension and hostility? In his much-lauded classic, newly updated to reflect the changing realities of race in our nation, Andrew Hacker explains the origins and meaning of racism and clarifies the conflicting theories of equality and inferiority. He paints a stark picture of racial inequality in America - focusing on family life, education, income, and employment - and explores the current controversies over politics, crime, and the causes of the gap between the races. Illuminating and oftentimes startling, Two Nations demonstrates how race has defined America's history and will continue to shape its future.


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Colonial knots have a raised, textured appearance and can be sewn individually or in clusters, making them ideal for stitching floral motifs.
Sew colonial knots using three shades of pink to stitch delicate blossoms with our step by step guide to this clever embroidery stitch. Download our free template below as a positional guide to where to place your knots. Trace the blossom embroidery pattern onto the fabric.
If you're working the design above, add the words, branches and birdcage in backstitch. Template design by Lisa Jones stitching and instructions by Rebecca Reid
First, secure your thread on the back of your work through some of the already worked backstitches, close to where you want your first knot to be. Now bring the needle up at 1 and loop the thread over it.
Next, take the thread over and under the needle in a figure of eight. Follow the thread path on the diagram to see exactly how this is done. With time and practice you will get very quick at doing this.
Push the needle back down at 2, close to where it first emerged. Before you pull it all the way through, tighten the loops around the needle and hold them in place. Pull the needle through to form a neat knot.
Add colonial knot blossoms to brighten up bags and pouches
The welcome sight of blossoms in bloom is a sure sign that winter is behind us and spring has sprung. Though the blossom season may be fleeting and it's not long before those pretty petals float away on the summer breeze, you can make it last by stitching your own blossom tree onto
a plain make-up bag using colonial knot stitches. Download our free pattern above and use your new skills to embellish a plain bag with these pretty blooms.

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John and Eliza WebbFlorida homesteaders
In 1867, John and Eliza Webb left their home in Utica, N.Y., to build a life in the warm climate of Florida. It was thought that the weather would benefit Eliza Webb's asthma. The Webbs set sail in February with their five children, Eliza Webb's sister, and her father. They eventually settled near present-day Sarasota, called Spanish Point. A Cuban fisherman whom they had met in Key West had described the area to them. There they established and ran a sugar mill and refinery. Later, as the area became more popular with tourists, they built Webb's Winter Resort, made up of guest cottages.


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S. 13.2. – "The Last Ice Age": The trade in natural ice as an agent of modernisation and economic integration in the 19th and early 20th century
Chair: Per G. Norseng (the Norwegian Maritime Museum / the University of South-Eastern Norway) // Discussant: Ingo Heidbrink (Old Dominion University)
Eyvind Bagle/Knut M. Nygaard (Norwegian Maritime Museum / University of South-Eastern Norway) – Norwegian ice from "Nature's Factory" over the seas: Production and shipping of natural ice
Ben Jennings/Effie Dorovitsa (Blaydes Maritime Centre, University of Hull) – Natural ice as a driver for modernisation – Britain and France
Ingo Heidbrink (Old Dominion University, Norfolk Virginia) – Domestic Production or Import of natural ice? The example of the ice supply for the German distant water fisheries before the introduction of artificial ice production.


Geographic parthenogenesis and plant-enemy interactions in the common dandelion
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Background: Many species with sexual and asexual variants show a pattern of geographic parthenogenesis where asexuals have broader and higher-latitude distribution than sexuals. Because sexual reproduction is often considered a costly evolutionary strategy that is advantageous in the face of selection by coevolving pests and pathogens, one possible explanation for geographic parthenogenesis is that populations at higher latitudes are exposed to fewer pests and pathogens. We tested this hypothesis in the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), a species with well-established geographic parthenogenesis, by screening prevalence and effects of several specialized pests and pathogens in natural dandelion populations. Results: We did a population survey of 18 dandelion populations along a geographic transect that ranged from the area where sexual and asexual dandelions co-occur northward into the area where only asexuals occur. In addition we used four southern and four northern populations in a 8x8 cross-inoculation greenhouse experiment in which plants were exposed experimentally to each other's natural field soil microbial communities. The cross-inoculation experiment indicated a higher pathogenicity of soil microbial communities from the southern, mostly sexual, populations compared to soil microbial communities from the northern asexual populations. Northern dandelion populations also showed reduced infestation by a specialized seed-eating weevil. A similar trend of reduced rust fungus infection in northern populations was observed but this trend was not statistically significant. Conclusions: The prevalence of pests and pathogens decreased along the south-to-north axis of geographic parthenogenesis. This highlights the potential of biotic interactions in shaping patterns of geographic parthenogenesis.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)23
JournalBMC Evolutionary Biology
Volume13
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Wednesday, 5 December 2012
How to make Roman coins
Ebi-kun has had an interest in ancient Rome and gladiators recently so we decided to make some Roman coins.
We used a basic salt dough and added brown food colour.
Salt dough recipe
2 cups of plain flour
1/2 cup salt
1/2 - 3/4 cup hot water
+ brown food colour
Just throw everything into a bowl and mix until you get a dough. Then take a small lump of dough, roll it into a ball the squash it flat. We experimented with different tools but found the end of a paintbrush worked best for engraving the numbers.
We baked them at 180c for 10 minutes then turned them over and gave them another 5 minutes.
Once they had cooled we painted them with varnish, Ebi-kun is a bit heavy handed with the varnish so some came out a bit splogy.
1 comment:
 1. What a great idea!! We have made some for my sons Roman topic at school, really enjoyed this and he secretly was learning about roman numerals without really knowing about it!!! Don't tell him LOL
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Introductory Session: How to Conduct Effective Training Sessions
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Module 1: Screening and Brief Intervention using the ASSIST
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Module 1: Drug Addiction and Basic Counseling Skills
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ArabiaWeather - Did you know that replacing 100 grams of beef meatballs with meatballs made from pea protein can achieve a similar climate effect as avoiding driving 16 kilometers (10 miles)!
On the other hand, replacing one liter of cow's milk with soy milk may not have a direct impact on the climate. However, effective land management policies can increase the climate benefits of simple food system alternatives. This would increase the climate impact to 48 kilometers (29 miles) driving equivalent when replacing meatballs and 6 kilometers (4 miles) driving equivalent when replacing cow's milk.
A new study, led by Bangor University, has been conducted by a team of scientists who have identified how simple changes in nutritional habits can make a positive contribution to environmental conservation.
However, these benefits can be greater in some transitions than in others, due to complex impacts across interconnected agri-food and land-use systems. For example, a shift to soy milk may result in a decrease in the overall number of cows used in the beef industry. Therefore, more land may be available for use for other purposes, such as planting trees, which contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
This study was based on German agricultural systems, however, the results can be widely applied in most regions of Europe and countries with temperate climates. The conclusions reached by the study indicate a clear role that consumers and policy makers can play in combating climate change. Overall, the study confirms that switching from animal protein to plant protein has environmental benefits, and also indicates that these benefits are much greater when substituting beef for milk.
Marcela Porto, lead author of the study and a PhD from Bangor University, explained the process followed in the study, saying: "We applied a combination of farm modeling, scenario analysis and subsequent life cycle assessment to calculate the potential greenhouse gas emissions consequences of replacing meatballs with peas (balloons). Protein) and cow's milk with soy milk. This process revealed a complex chain of influences resulting from changes in agricultural and livestock systems within Germany and also across global commodity markets."
Legumes, such as peas and soybeans, are excellent sources of dietary protein and fiber, and fix nitrogen directly from the air, reducing the need to use chemical fertilizers. In addition, they require very little land to produce a unit of digestible protein compared to livestock systems.
Increasing the utilization of these "underutilized crops" contributes significantly to achieving positive change in food systems, and this is the main focus of the TRUE and RADIANT projects that supported this study.
David Stiles, study coordinator and honorary lecturer at Bangor University, said: "Over recent decades, the popularity of legumes has declined across Europe, as diets have centered around a small number of high-input crops that produce calories for humans and livestock. But there is growing interest. "By reintroducing legumes as positive disruptors, this type of transformation could significantly contribute to achieving the climate change goals of the Paris Agreement through improved diets and desired land uses."
The study highlights the significant role that land use policy can play in harnessing the climate benefits of ethical consumer choices. The livestock production industry is directly or indirectly responsible for most of the land used for food production worldwide. Effective policies that promote nature-based solutions to combat climate change, such as afforestation of land not used by the livestock industry, can up to triple the climate benefits of nutritional transitions.
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String:longest substring without repeat characters - brute force
Given a String find a longest substring without repeating characters
seenhar[urrenthar]={a,b,d}
Example 1:
Input: s = "abcabcbb"
Output: 3
Explanation: The answer is "abc", with the length of 3.
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Example 2:
Input: s = "bbbbb"
Output: 1
Explanation: The answer is "b", with the length of 1.
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Example 3:
Input: s = "pwwkew"
Output: 3
Explanation: The answer is "wke", with the length of 3.
Notice that the answer must be a substring, "pwke" is a subsequence and not a substring.
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Explanation
coming up with brute force methods
abcbdca
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{a} longest substring=1
{a,b} longest substring=2
{a,b,c} longest substring=3
{a,b,c,b}= {b} longest substring=1// since b is already appeared
{b,d} longest substring=2
{b,d,c} longest substring=3
{b,d,c,a} longest substring=4
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Verify constraints
Is the substring contiguous
yes ,look for substring not a subsequence
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coding out through brute force solution
"abccabb"
const length of Longest Substring=function(s){
if(s.length<=1){
return s.length;
}
let longest=0;
for(let left=0;left<s.length;left++)
{
let seenchar={},currentLength=0;
for(let right=left;right<s.length;right++)
{
const currentchar=s[right];
if(!seenchar[currentchar]){
currentLength++;
seenchar[currentchar]=true;
longest=Math.max(longest,currentLength);
}
else
{
break;
}
}
}
return longest;
}
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Explanation
if(s.length<=1){
return s.length;
}
if only a is there
ex: a
a==>s.length<=1==>1<=1===>return s.length==1
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for(let right=left;right<s.length;right++)
{
const currentchar=s[right];
if(!seenchar[currentchar]){
currentLength++;
seenchar[currentchar]=true;
longest=Math.max(longest,currentLength);
}
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eg:abcbda
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a b c b d a
L
R
currentchar=s[right]=a
seenchar={a}
if(!seenchar[currentchar])
currentLength++;===>1
seenchar[currentchar]=true;
longest=Math.max(longest,currentLength);===>(0,1)=1
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right++
a b c b d a
L
 R
currentchar=s[right]=b
seenchar={a b}
if(!seenchar[currentchar])
currentLength++;===>2
seenchar[currentchar]=true;
longest=Math.max(longest,currentLength);===>(1,2)=2
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right++
a b c b d a
L
 R
currentchar=s[right]=c
seenchar={a b c}
if(!seenchar[currentchar])
currentLength++;===>3
seenchar[currentchar]=true;
longest=Math.max(longest,currentLength);===>(2,3)=3
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right++
a b c b d a
L
 R
if(!seenchar[currentchar]) not works
so break
currentchar=s[right]=b
currentchar=s[right]=b
seenchar={ b }
if(!seenchar[currentchar])
currentLength++;===>1
seenchar[currentchar]=true;
longest=Math.max(longest,currentLength);===>(0,1)=1
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right++
a b c b d a
L
 R
currentchar=s[right]=d
seenchar={ b d}
if(!seenchar[currentchar])
currentLength++;===>2
seenchar[currentchar]=true;
longest=Math.max(longest,currentLength);===>(1,2)=2
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right++
a b c b d a
L
 R
currentchar=s[right]=a
seenchar={ b d a}
if(!seenchar[currentchar])
currentLength++;===>3
seenchar[currentchar]=true;
longest=Math.max(longest,currentLength);===>(2,3)=3
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python solution without seeing the solution video:
class Solution:
 def longest_substring_optimized(self, str):
 # Use a sliding window technique
 # Initialize left and right pointer to 0
 # move right to forward, and if char not found in hash. Each iteration, compute
 # right - left to compute the max_length.
 # Now, if we find a character already found in hash, then check if the index of the character lies outside of left
 # if yes, then we change the index value in the hash, else, we adjust the left pointer to the next of the found index
 # of the duplicate char we just found.
 left = 0
 right = 0
 hash_by_char = {}
 max_length = 0
 while right <= len(str) - 1:
 if right - left > max_length:
 # Do not do right - left + 1 to compute max_length, as we have already added +1 and then checked here,
 # so, implicitly it adds +1
 max_length = right - left
 char = str[right]
 if char not in hash_by_char:
 hash_by_char[char] = right
 right += 1
 continue
 else:
 # check if already found character is out of our sliding window, if yes, then just update the hash
 found_index = hash_by_char[char]
 if found_index >= left:
 left = found_index + 1
 hash_by_char[char] = right
 # Move right pointer to 1 ahead
 right += 1
 # check for the last one, as we broke the while loop, so we did not calculate the last max_count
 if right - left > max_length:
 max_length = right - left
 return max_length
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python3 solution (since you can't set prevSeenChar if currentChar has not been set in the seen hashmap/dict)
def lengthOfLongestSubstring(s: str) -> int:
 #fast fail
 if len(s) <= 1:
 return len(s)
 longest = 0
 left = 0
 seenChars = {}
 for right in range(0,len(s)):
 currChar = s[right]
 prevSeenChar = -1
 if currChar in seenChars.keys():
 prevSeenChar = seenChars[currChar]
 if prevSeenChar >= left:
 left = prevSeenChar+1
 seenChars[currChar] = right
 longest = max(longest,right-left+1)
 return longest
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NRS News Release
Study Finds that Local Government, Home Owners Are Paying for Damages Caused by Non-native Forest Insects
ST. PAUL, MINN, September 9, 2011 - Non-native, wood-boring insects such as the emerald ash borer and the Asian longhorned beetle are costing an estimated $1.7 billion in local government expenditures and approximately $830 million in lost residential property values every year, according to study by a research team that included scientists with the U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station.
The research effort was funded by The Nature Conservancy and supported by the University of California / Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). The team included scientists from the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. and Canadian academic institutions. The research findings were published in the on-line journal PLoS ONE on Sept. 9.
This study provides the most comprehensive estimates of the costs of non-native forest insects that are currently available for the United States. While invasive species are widely recognized as being among the greatest threats to biodiversity and ecosystem stability worldwide, there has been little research into their economic impact.
"Solving the problems posed by non-native forest insects demands that we have useful tools and the motivation to use them, and this study provides both," according to Michael T. Rains, Director of the Northern Research Station. "This is a great example of how Forest Service scientists collaborate with others to produce relevant and effective tools."
According to the study, more than 450 non-native insects are established in the United States. "This study underscores the fact that we all have a stake in environmental issues," according to Bob Haight, research forester with the U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station. "The economic data shows that cities and homeowners have a strong interest in preventing the inadvertent import of non-native invasive species."
For each of the three main feeding guilds, which are based on the insects' feeding habits, researchers identified one high impact "poster pest" that was the most damaging species of its guild to date. Poster pests identified for the study were the emerald ash borer in the borer guild, hemlock woolly adelgid in the sap feeder guild, and gypsy moth in the foliage feeder guild.
For each poster pest, researchers analyzed five cost categories: (1) federal governmental expenditures (e.g. survey, research, regulation, and outreach), (2) local governmental expenditures (tree removal, replacement, and treatment), (3) household expenditures (tree removal, replacement, and treatment), (4) residential property value losses and (5) timber value losses to forest landowners.
For all of the guilds studied, homeowners and local governments are bearing the greatest share of costs associated with non-native forest insects. The woodand phloem-boring insects, including the emerald ash borer and Asian longhorned beetle, are the species that create the greatest economic damage to urban trees. Of the three guilds, borers were represented by the fewest species, but a high proportion of them – 20 percent – are damaging, according to the study.
Of the three guilds, efforts to control or manage sap feeders received the fewest federal dollars ($14 million annually), although they caused substantial losses in real estate values – approximately $260 million per year. Costs associated with foliage feeders were substantially lower than costs associated with borers for all categories except annual federal expenditures, which were slightly greater ($110 million for foliage feeders and $92 million for borers). Foliage feeders were estimated to cause approximately $410 million per year in lost property value.
"In the forest insect research community we've known for many years that invading species are a huge problem but now that we were finally able to calculate their economic impact, even I am a little bit shocked by the level of damage," according to Andrew Liebhold, a research entomologist with the Northern Research Station.
The team calculated a 32 percent risk that a new borer that is as damaging or more costly than the emerald ash borer will invade in the next 10 years. That calculation may be reduced if recent international standards targeting pathways of introduction such as wood packaging materials are effectively implemented.
Development of the study's analytical framework is as much an end product of the study as its findings. The framework can be used to estimate the economic impacts of natural resource disturbances at scales ranging from municipalities to nations in any country where data are available. It can be easily adapted for estimating costs of a variety of natural resource disturbances in addition to invasive species, including fire, disease, and water pollution.
The journal article resulted from a study by an NCEAS working group with support from The Nature Conservancy.
Located in Santa Barbara, Calif., NCEAS is a research center of the University of California, Santa Barbara. NCEAS supports cross-disciplinary research that uses existing data to address major fundamental issues in ecology and allied fields, and encourages the application of science to management and policy.
The mission of the U.S. Forest Service is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the nation's forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations. The agency manages 193 million acres of public land, provides assistance to state and private landowners, and maintains the largest forestry research organization in the world. The mission of the Forest Service's Northern Research Station is to improve people's lives and help sustain the natural resources in the Northeast and Midwest through leading-edge science and effective information delivery.


Remove Class From Body Tag In Wordpress With Code Examples
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Use the classList. remove() method to remove a class from a div element, e.g. box. classList. remove('my-class') .
// Remove class from body tag
function alpha_body_class($classes){
 unset($classes[array_search('class-one', $classes)]);
 unset($classes[array_search('class-two', $classes)]);
 unset($classes[array_search('class-three', $classes)]);
 return $classes;
}
add_filter('body_class', 'alpha_body_class');
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How do I delete a class in HTML?
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Because body classes are theme specific, you would need to add the following code to your theme's functions. php file. add_filter( 'body_class' , 'my_class_names' ); The above code will add a class "wpb-class" to the body tag on every page on your website.
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Sustainable Development - Learning at St Fagans: National History Museum
Introduction to the Tŷ Gwyrdd
Compare your own house with this eco-friendly family home. Discover the energy saving features and locally sourced materials that help keep the carbon footprint of the house low.
A general introduction to the Tŷ Gwyrdd. We are able to tailor the session for your group, so let us know what you are studying when you make your booking.
30 minutes, activity led by Museum staff
Go Green @ Tŷ Gwyrdd � KS2
Find out how to save energy and reduce pollution in your everyday life. Explore and complete a quiz to find out how the house uses water, heat, light and electricity.
1 hour, activity led by Museum staff
Sustainable living picture quiz � KS2
Explore the traditional houses at St Fagans to find out how people built houses, cooked food and kept warm in the past.
1 hour, teacher-led activity
Sustainable living � Past Present and Future (Welsh Bacc.)
Suitable for students studying the Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship element of the Welsh Baccalaureate. Gather evidence and take photographs to compare how people lived in the past with how you live today. Consider the impacts on the world around us and discuss ideas to create a more sustainable future.
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Midwest states see biggest output growth over year-earlier levels, boosted by higher per-cow production.
Dairies in the 23 major producing states churned out 1.7% more milk in December 2012 than a year earlier, boosted by higher per-cow production, USDA reported today in its December milk production report.
Milk output totaled 15.7 billion pounds last month, while production per cow rose 30 pounds over year-earlier levels to average 1,848 pounds. For 2012, cow numbers increased to 9.231 million head over 2011's 9.194 million.
Analysts called the report bearish, saying it exceeded their production projections.
Output increases were largely seen in Midwestern states. Among them:
- Wisconsin, up 5.5% over year-earlier levels to reach 2.343 billion pounds;
- Minnesota, up 4.4% to 786 million pounds;
- Michigan, up 5.5% to 762 million pounds;
- Indiana, 4.6% to 317 million pounds.
The biggest year-over-year percentage increases were seen farther west: Kansas output jumped 10% to 241 million pounds while Colorado's milk production increased by 6.3% to 272 million pounds.
Western states saw lower or flat production from December 2011 levels. California, still the nation's milk-producing leader, fell 2.3% to 3.416 billion pounds. Milk output in New Mexico and Arizona dropped.3% each, to 674 million pounds and 375 million pounds, respectively. Washington increased only.4% to 515 million pounds.
Total U.S. milk production in all states during December was up 1.6% over December 2011.


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The Registration of Titles to Land (Amendment) Bill, 2012
4 May 2012
Changes to Land Registration... to come soon...
The Registration of Titles to Land (Amendment) Bill, 2012 was introduced in the Senate on 6 March, 2012 by Senator the Honourable Emmanuel George, Minister of Public Utilities.
The full text of the Bill is available in PDF format on this website, you can download it via this link. You may also place your comments directly on this Bill page, which can be accessed here.
The following is a brief explanation of some aspects of the Bill
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The Registration of Titles to Land (Amendment) Bill, 2012 will seek to amend the Registration of Titles to Land Act No.16 of 2000.
The Bill is comprised of 21 clauses.
What is Land Registration?
Land registration generally describes systems by which matters concerning ownership, possession or other rights in land can be recorded (usually with a government agency or department) to provide evidence of title, facilitate transactions and to prevent unlawful disposal. The information recorded and the protection provided will vary by jurisdiction.
Land Registration in Trinidad & Tobago
In Trinidad & Tobago there are two systems of land registration:
- Deed Registration
- Title Registration
Both have co-existed since 1889 and are managed by the Land Registry in the Registrar General Office.
Registration of Land Title Documents
This includes Deeds of Conveyance, Mortgages, Powers of Attorney, Agreements, Charges, Debentures, Deed Polls, Probate and Grants and Instruments under the Real Property Ordinance e.g. Transfers, Mortgages, Leases, Caveats, Death of Proprietors.
What does "title to land" mean?
Title refers to the legal ownership of particular part or property. A deed or Certificate of Title is the only means whereby a person can demonstrate ownership, and register his/her ownership.
The title provides an up-to-date official record of the legal ownership of the property or piece of land in question. Information on Title will generally include:
- A description of the property.
- Name of the owner or owners.
- Mortgage lender (if any).
- Rights of way (not public rights of way) or other rights affecting the property.
- Restrictions or other conditions.
Why the need for land title legislation?
- Land title documents serve as evidence of ownership of a piece of property
- Registration also affords property owners some protection against squatters and;
- It makes the transferring or mortgaging of land easier for the persons involved.
- According to a study by the Law Association in 2007 "Implementing the Land Titles Legislative Package":
- 47% of all households do not have adequate title documents
- Approximately 30,000 households have no title Documents
- There is widespread squatting on State and private land
Benefits of Land Registration
- Cheaper, quicker, easier and safer transfer of land
- Improved land tenure security as Government will guarantee title to all registered land.
- Simplification of land transactions
- Elimination of the need to search several deeds and other legal documents in order to establish ownership of title (therefore reducing cost).
- Reduced squatting and land disputes
- Land registration assists Government in:
- Land use planning
- Environmental management & protection
- Equitable taxation
- Tax policy options physical planning
- Development control State land administration and management
What are the key features of this proposed legislation?
Some key features of this Bill include proposals for:
- The creation of a new post of Senior Assistant Registrar (clause 5) who must be an Attorney –At-Law who performs functions of the Registrar General in his/her absence and holds position of Commissioner of Affidavits
- The creation of a condominium folio for every condominium unit
- A more defined procedure for the first registration of any parcel for which a folio is to be prepared and signed by the Registrar showing the particulars of ownership and particulars of encumbrances if any.
- To replace words Certificate of Title with Land Certificate
- To replace section 30 (1) with a new subsection to amend the reasons for rectification by The Registrar:
- in formal matters and in cases of errors or omissions not materially affecting the interests of the proprietor
- in any case at any time with the consent of all persons interested
- where upon resurvey an area shown in in the register is incorrect the Registrar is sanctioned to give notice to all persons appearing by the register who will be interested or affected by his intention to rectify
- upon receipt of any decision of any Court or the Land Tribunal
- To provide for a new subsection 30(3) allowing the Registrar to record any change in the Register any name or address changes of any proprietor on the written application
- To provide for new subsections; 73(2),(3),and (4):
- (2) to allow for persons seeking to deal with registered land with consent in writing from the proprietor who have applied for an official search stating particulars of the proposed dealing in his/her application called an instrument to have a suspension period of 14 days from the time the official search was made.
- (3) to grant the instrument priority over any other instrument presented for registration during the suspension period
- (4) to provide for any instrument or document for registration during the suspension period other than that affecting the proposed dealing to be deal with in the same manner and hold the same priority and be as effectual as if no stay of registration had been obtained.
Important Issues for consideration
- The Bill allows the Real Property Ordinance to be repealed in respect of lands brought under the Act and is not applicable to adjudicated land or interests registered in Land Registry.
- Land Registration is limited by its slow and long process
- Few land owners undertake to transfer lands from the unregistered to registered system
- There is still need for a comprehensive complete computerized database of land information
- Delays in the implementation of technological complements to the land registration system such as digitization of cadastral index and aerial photography to provide accurate topographic maps
- Amendments to land surveying legislation needed


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traffic flow; discontinuous Galerkin method; junctions; numerical flux
We deal with the simulation of traffic flow on networks. On individual roads we use standard macroscopic traffic models. The discontinuous Galerkin method in space and explicit Euler method in time is used for the numerical solution. We apply limiters to keep the density in an admissible interval as well as prevent spurious oscillations in the numerical solution. To solve traffic networks, we construct suitable numerical fluxes at junctions. Numerical experiments are presented.


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Chinese date or jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) is a deciduous, smallto medium-sized tree that bears edible fruit. Grown in China for over 4,000 years, jujube has hundreds of named cultivars there. The round to oval fruit is crisp when mature, tasting something like a green apple. When ripe and somewhat dry, fruits resemble dates. Each fruit contains a central stone with two seeds. Chosen cultivars are usually grafted or budded onto seedling rootstock.
Trees can reach 30 feet tall, but vary according to the cultivar. Small, fragrant greenish flowers appear in late spring to summer. Leaves are oval, 1/2 inch long and shiny bright green, turning yellow in fall. Branches have a varying amount of thorns, with wild jujubes very thorny and some cultivars almost thornless. Grafted trees and wild-type trees produce many root suckers, sometimes a distance away from the parent tree. These root suckers are sometimes used as rootstock when grafting jujubes. Fruits range from cherry size to plum size and are green when immature. They change from yellow blotched with mahogany to completely red as they ripen. Ripe fruit soon softens and becomes wrinkled. Fruits are eaten fresh, dried or candied.
Grafting and Budding
Sour jujube (Ziziphus spinosa) rootstock is commonly grafted using the tongue or whip method. Remove the top of the rootstock with a slanted cut and make a matching cut on the scion, fitting the cuts together. Wrap with grafting tape until the tissues grow together. In budding, common methods are T or I budding or shield budding. To bud the scion to the rootstock, make a T-shaped or I-shaped cut through the bark of the rootstock and insert a single bud taken from the scion under the bark. Wrap the area with grafting tape with just the bud showing.
Growing jujube from cuttings is not very successful. There are some indications that jujube will root from softor hardwood cuttings, but in practicality jujubes are not propagated from cuttings. Some reports of success come from the Soviet Union in rooting many cultivars readily from softwood cuttings. The closely related Indian jujube (Ziziphus mauritiana) can be rooted successfully by air layering branches using rooting hormones. Successful rooting of cuttings taken of 2-year-old wood was also reported for Indian jujube.
Except for raising plants for use as rootstock, Chinese jujubes are not grown from seed. For one thing, seeds have a low germination rate. In Indian jujube, removing the seeds from the hard stone that encases them increases germination rates. Soaking the stones in water for 48 hours prior to planting also resulted in better germination. Another reason not to grow trees from seed is that seed do not produce plants that are true to the cultivar. Cultivars can produce fruits without cross-pollination, but the seeds are usually not viable.
Your Planting Articles
- University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service Fact Sheet: The Chinese Jujube
- California Rare Fruit Growers: Jujube
- New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service: Jujube: Chinese Date in New Mexico
- Propagation of Horticultural Crops; S. Rajan, S. Rajan and B. L. Markose
- Purdue University NewCrop: Indian Jujube
- Government of Western Australia Department of Agriculture and Food: Growing Chinese Jujubes in WA
- The Encyclopedia of Fruits and Nuts; Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull
- Texas A&M Aggie Horticulture: Whip Grafting
- Texas A&M Aggie Horticulture: Plant Propagation: T or Shield Budding


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Urine specimens submitted for pain management drug testing often contain multiple psychotherapeutic drugs, in addition to opioids. Immunoassay-based screen-and-confirm approaches typically used for clinical drug testing have limited sensitivity to detect therapeutic concentrations of many drugs prescribed in pain management and do not differentiate between drugs in the same class. In addition, screening for all the various illicit and prescription drugs that may be present in the pain management population requires as many as 10-20 individual immunoassays. High-resolution MS approaches have the potential to transform the way clinical drug testing is performed for pain management.
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Marked nouns: a hit at gender equality?
Jul 7, 2013
On this week's edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and Professor of English at the University of Michigan Anne Curzan discuss the irksome "ess" added to the end of nouns to indicate a female in words like authoress, actress and governess.
These "ess" words are ubiquitous in the English language. But do we really need them? And does the distinction in fact diminish the word's meaning? This practice in linguistics is called markedness.
Markedness is about an asymmetry in, for example, a pair of words where one is a more neutral term - the dominant term, and one is marked somehow - it's specialized," says Anne Curzan.
Examples include authoress versus the unmarked author, or actor versus actress. In these examples, there's arguably no difference between the marked and neutral term beside the "ess" added to indicate the noun is female. However, as Curzan explains, history has had a pejoration of the marked word due to sexism in the past.
"As a historian of the language I'm struck by these asymmetrical pairs…where the female term undergoes pejoration, or the acquisition of negative, lower status meanings. And it's impossible to disentangle that from a history of sexism."
According to Curzan, "early on, a governor and a governess both governed. But over time, a governess, she governed children, and then she became the teacher of children and no longer had the stature of a governor."
-Austin Davis, Michigan Radio Newsroom


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LEGAZPI CITY—A gentle eruption of the Philippines's most active volcano that has forced nearly 18,000 people to flee to emergency shelters could last for months and create a protracted crisis, officials said Wednesday.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. flew to northeastern Albay province to reassure villagers who were forced to evacuate from mostly poor farming communities within a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) radius of the Mayon volcano's crater since volcanic activity spiked last week.
Marcos distributed food packs and other aid to displaced villagers, and was expected to meet Albay town mayors later Wednesday to discuss the unfolding crisis.
The eruption is the latest natural calamity to test the administration of Marcos, who took office in June 2022 in a Southeast Asian nation regarded as one of the most disaster-prone in the world. About 20 typhoons and storms a year lash the Philippines, and the poor archipelago with 23 active volcanoes wrestles with frequent earthquakes.
"Unfortunately, the Philippines falls victim not only to volcano explosions, but of course to typhoons and earthquakes. We are in that part of the world where we are vulnerable," Marcos told the United Arab Emirates' ambassador to Manila on Tuesday after the Arabian Peninsula nation provided 50 tons of food and other aid. "We are hoping that the activity of the volcano will start to calm, but we cannot say that for sure."
The volcano's activity was raised to alert level three on a five-step warning system on June 8, meaning a hazardous eruption was considered possible in weeks or days.
After days of showing signs of renewed restiveness, including a swarm of rockfalls and a bright-orange crater glow visible at night, Mayon began expelling lava Sunday night. The lava flowed slowly down its southeastern slope, government experts said.
Authorities enforced a mandatory evacuation of tens of thousands of villagers living within a permanent danger zone around the volcano. The zone is supposed to be off-limits to people but has become the site of farming villages of mostly impoverished residents that have thrived for generations.
Albay's governor extended the danger zone by a kilometer (more than half a mile) on Monday after Mayon began expelling red-hot lava. He asked more residents to be ready to move anytime if the volcanic activity picked up.
"It's a very gentle eruption and hopefully, it will stay that way," Teresito Bacolcol, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, told The Associated Press.
The volcano could spew lava gently for as long as three months or more, as it has done in the past, without generating a violent and life-threatening explosion, Bacolcol said, warning people not to let their guards down.
A tame but prolonged eruption would mean the large number of displaced villagers would have to stay away from their homes and in emergency shelters where they receive food packs, drinking water and other government-provided basic necessities.
"It's a very difficult situation," Daraga Mayor Carlwyn Baldo said. About 2,900 residents of his town have fled to evacuation shelters, including school buildings that would need to cleared of evacuees before classes resume in August and September.
"We can't allow anybody to return home even if there's just a crater glow. It's dangerous. The volcano may suddenly erupt violently and put people in danger," Baldo told the AP, adding he was considering setting up tents for the displaced now taking shelter in school buildings.
His rural Albay province town of 140,000 people could not afford the huge cost of providing food aid and other necessities to the evacuees without national government assistance, Baldo said.
Unhindered by clouds, Mayon appeared calm Wednesday. Bacolcol, the seismology institute director, said lava continued to flow slowly down its slopes but could not be seen easily under the bright sun.
The 2,462-meter (8,077-foot) volcano is a top tourist draw in the Philippines because of its picturesque conical shape but is the most active of the country's 24 known volcanoes. It last erupted violently in 2018, displacing tens of thousands. An 1814 eruption buried entire villages and left more than 1,000 people dead.
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Excavated iron, with an x-ray showing a buckle inside. Accession number 1981.895
For example, this excavated iron above just looks like a lump of material. It is not even obvious that there is something inside it. Analysis using x-ray radiation showed that there are the remains of a harness buckle inside. In fact the actual harness has rusted away. All that remains are the traces of the corroded metal in the shape of the original object. The buckle was probably used on an animal harness.
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Pattern welded Anglo Saxon sword, with an x-ray showing the pattern. Accession number Sw.U.5
X-ray analysis of these two pieces show that they are are both part of an Anglo Saxon sword. The sword has been made using a technique called pattern welding. Pattern welding is what can be seen in the 'herring bone' patterns visible on the x-ray image.


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Hammers and mallets are some of the most useful tools available to the home craftsman. While most people own at least one basic hammer, many are unaware that there are actually a variety of different types of hammers and mallets, each with its own specific use. A professional craftsman will often employ many different hammers depending upon what the job calls for, and learning their different uses can be beneficial even for those who do not find themselves using hammers regularly.
The claw hammer is what most people think of when they hear the word "hammer." This is a great all-around tool that is used in most general carpentry jobs. The claw aspect of this hammer is used to pull nails from the wall, making the claw hammer an effective multitasking tool. Claw hammers can come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and can be made with both wooden and metal shafts, with wood being the most common material used. Every homeowner should have a claw hammer in their toolkit.
Ball-pein hammers are used quite frequently by engineers. The pein, or round ball on the backside of the hammer, can be used to shape metals, as well as for riveting. Like the claw hammer, ball-pein hammers are suitable general carpentry jobs, especially for those that involve the need to bend metals.
Also known as a club hammer, the carpenter's mallet is used in jobs that require a little extra power. Furniture assembly and shaping metals often involve the use of a carpenter's mallet, as do any other jobs that require force without blows that cause marring. While most home craftsmen will not find themselves using a carpenter's mallet on a daily basis, it is a good idea to have one around, as they can come in handy during special projects.


Effects of nonstationarity on muscle force signals regularity during a fatiguing motor task - LIRMM - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier Access content directly
Journal Articles IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering Year : 2020
Effects of nonstationarity on muscle force signals regularity during a fatiguing motor task
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Physiological signals present fluctuations that can be assessed from their temporal structure, also termed complexity. The complexity of a physiological signal is usually quantified using entropy estimators, such as Sample Entropy. Recent studies have shown a loss of force signal complexity with the development of neuromuscular fatigue. However, these studies did not consider the stationarity of the force signals which is an important prerequisite of Sample Entropy measurements. Here, we investigated the effect of the potential nonstationarity of force signals on the kinetics of neuromuscular fatigue-induced change in force signal's complexity. Eleven men performed submaximal intermittent isometric contractions of knee extensors until exhaustion. Neuromuscular fatigue was assessed from changes in voluntary and electrically evoked contractions. Sample Entropy values were computed from submaximal force signals throughout the fatiguing task. The Dickey-Fuller test was used to statistically investigate the stationarity of force signals and the Empirical Mode Decomposition was applied to detrend these signals. Maximal voluntary force, central voluntary activation and muscle twitch decreased throughout the task (all p < 0.05), indicating the development of global, central and peripheral fatigue, respectively. We found an increase in Sample Entropy with fatigue (p = 0.024) when not considering the nonstationarity of force signals (i.e. 43% of the signals). After applying the Empirical Mode Decomposition, we found a decrease in Sample Entropy with fatigue (p = 0.002). These findings confirm the presence of nonstationarity in force signals during submaximal isometric contractions which influences the kinetics of change in Sample Entropy with neuromuscular fatigue.
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SAE J1939 Protocol
The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) J1939 protocol is a higher-layer protocol based on CAN (Controller Area Network). It is used in commercial vehicles and construction machinery for communication of electronic control units. The protocol was developed in the mid-1980s to ensure standardized communication between electronic control units of different manufacturers. It focuses on the diesel engine and its communication with, for example, the gearbox, brake, or retarder (engine brake).
SAE J1939 und CAN (Controller Area Network)
The SAE J1939 protocol uses CAN (Controller Area Network, ISO 11998-1 and ISO 11998-2) as the physical layer. The CAN protocol plays a major role in motor vehicle networking and represents a commonly used method for bit serial communication between electronic control units (ECUs). Typical ECUs include: Engine, transmission, and brake ECUs as well as the instrument panel and door ECUs.
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BelongTo is an amazing organisation that provides support for young Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people in Ireland. If you know someone who is trans or non-binary, you probably want to be supportive, but maybe have some questions and are afraid to ask in case you cause offense. This week, BelongTo have released a series of videos in which the trans and non-binary community and their families share their stories in order to start some open and honest conversations.
Here's what we learned:
- Gender identity is who you are, and sexuality is who you are attracted to.
- Theres no one way to be trans.
- Names and pronouns are important to trans people, if you're not sure, use 'they' or 'them' (its okay to make mistakes, as long as you try).
- Allies and supportive people are very important to the trans community (and we should all try to be allies).
- Don't ask a trans person something you wouldn't be comfortable answering yourself.
- Bathrooms can be difficult for trans people, and some schools are starting to introduce gender neutral bathrooms, which is cool.
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Weekly Pivot Points, monthly Fibonacci retracements, multi-frame highs and lows and an uncountable amount of averages allow us to give this level the name of "The Wall".
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The TCI (Technical Confluences Indicator) is a tool to locate and point out those price levels where there is a congestion of indicators, moving averages, Fibonacci levels, Pivot Points, etc. Knowing where these congestion points are located is very useful for the trader, and can be used as a basis for different strategies.
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This tool assigns a certain amount of "weight" to each indicator, and this "weight" can influence
The tool detects and draws those price levels in which the confluences of indicators and key levels are recorded. Blank lines represent areas where the price can move without technical resistance. The levels with the highest assigned weight of resistance are drawn with the darker colour, this colour being degraded as the influence of the maximum levels decreases.
You can see which indicators are within each price level by placing the cursor on the level. The explanation uses a code that indicates:
- Recent maximums and minimums
- Round numbers. Round numbers have a psychological effect on traders, so we assign the finished price levels at 0, 00 and 000 some degree of resistance.
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With the TCI tool, you can easily locate areas where the price can find a support zone or resistance zone and make trading decisions. If you are a short-term trader, you will find entry points for counter-trend strategies and hunt a few points each time. If you are a mediumand long-term trader, this tool will allow you to know in advance the price levels in which a medium / long-term trend can stop your travel and rest, where to undo positions or
The length of the bars of the TCI tool is determined by the weight assigned by the algorithm at each price level. The longest bar in a confluence indicates the level of the price segment where the highest level of confluence of the segment is located. In case of similar levels in the same price range, the maximum length will be assigned to that bar with more accumulated indicators.


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Now "militarized police" can mean different things to different people, but a good number of countries, including some European ones, have a Gendarmerie, which according to Wikipedia's definition is a
a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population.
Are there surveys in countries (besides the US) that have such a force finding a negative reaction among the population, and more precisely among the minorities, when the "Gendarmerie" (whatever it may be called in a given country) is deployed, over and above less "militarized" police?
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 In Austria, a popular view of Gendarmerie is this: In urban areas, the police is called Police. In rural areas, it's called Gendarmerie. Other than the name, there is little difference between them from an ordinary person's point of view. Gendarmerie does not appear more militarized than ordinary police. – user4370 Sep 3 '20 at 9:31
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 In countries that fell under Soviet yoke you will find such feelings still alive for non-theoretical reasons, as such forces were used as means of oppression by communist regimes. For example in Poland there was ZOMO _URL_ However you won't find much of surveys (because "everyone knows its true") and it was more or less targeted against majorities rather than minorities, so I am not sure if it would be fit for answer. – PTwr Sep 3 '20 at 9:33
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 The Gendarmerie are no more armed than the civilian Police. They are technically military, they are not "militarized". – OrangeDog Sep 3 '20 at 9:40
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 The American political rhetoric is not about people with actual military positions doing police work; it is about ordinary police having access to military equipment and training. – Karl Knechtel Sep 4 '20 at 15:43
There is a lot of confusion regarding the French Gendarmerie, fueled by descriptions like "military police" or "military force with law enforcement duty" which are technically correct but do not fully reflect the nature and tactics of the force. Its members are indeed military officers, which has some legal consequences (trade unions are strictly forbidden, ranks are different) but it is otherwise a regular law enforcement agency, not an elite force or second level of response when the police cannot deal with a situation.
In general, the French Gendarmerie is policing rural areas and small towns when the national police (Police nationale) is in charge of big cities (and above all Paris, which the French government has long feared as the source of many revolts and disturbances). In its area of responsibility, the Gendarmerie covers the full scale of law enforcement activities, from policing traffic, securing road accident sites (a major role as they cover most of the long-distance road network) and response to emergency calls and disturbances (police secours) to criminal investigations and riot control.
French gendarmes are not issued and do not routinely carry military weapons (e.g. HK 416) but simply a handgun (Sig-Sauer SP 2022, procured through a common call-for-bids covering both police and Gendarmerie). Unlike the rest of the military, ranking members of the Gendarmerie have power-of-arrest (officier de police judiciaire) and are trained in criminal procedure. They will act at the behest of the justice system when appropriate (executing warrants, etc.) In this like in so many other aspects they are closer to the police than to the military.
Operationally, both the police and the Gendarmerie have SWAT teams (the GIGN and RAID are the most famous). It is extremely rare for the Gendarmerie SWAT team to be called in to intervene in the police area of responsibility and vice versa. Both the police and Gendarmerie have roughly the same number of riot control units (unité de force mobile: escadron de gendarmerie mobile in the Gendarmerie and compagnie républicaine de sécurité in the police), with similar tactics and organisation, deployed side-by-side depending on availability (especially in Paris). The Gendarmerie does have a few aging armored vehicles, seldom seen in metropolitan France but that's about the only difference when it comes to riot control.
The Gendarmerie has a few capabilities the police doesn't have but they are really marginal and not directly relevant to your question: mountain rescue, coast guard duties, security for air bases and nuclear sites, provost duties for the French military at home and abroad, deployment abroad to secure French military bases and diplomatic posts. The GIGN also has a long tradition of training and working with the special forces and has officers trained in military parachuting or assault at sea so that it is tasked with some counter-terrorism missions on the whole territory (i.e. even in the police area of responsibility). The police also has a few specific duties that are not shared with the Gendarmerie: investigation of terror attacks, border control and railway police, larger role in domestic intelligence.
All that is a long-winded way to say that the analogy in the question is not the right one. To the extent that there are debates on a "militarization" of law enforcement (and in France there are, for example regarding riot control tactics), it would not focus on Gendarmerie vs. police. If anything, the Gendarmerie has a more positive image in the public and a reputation of being less "heavy handed" than the police. With a few key exceptions (Rémi Fraisse and Adama Traoré), all cases of excessive violence and racism by law enforcement that have created controversy in France in the last decade involved the police, not the Gendarmerie.
Incidentally, while they do sometimes retain a different legal status and traditions, there are signs of a convergence between Gendarmerie and police in many European countries. In Austria or Belgium, the Gendarmerie was merged with the police. In France, it was transferred from the ministry of Defense to the ministry of the Interior.
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 In Germany, the Bundesgrenzschutz became the Bundespolizei decades ago, too. Their SWAT team is still called Border Guards Group 9 to keep the tradition. – o.m. Sep 2 '20 at 15:36
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 Almost the same in Spain with the Guardia Civil. They are mostly in charge of policing rural areas, borders and patrol national roads (and some specialist units), have a military-like structure, and can be used both for police tasks (the usual missions in Spain in peacetime, under the Ministry of Interior) and for military tasks (some foreign missions, or during war, under the Ministry of Defense). – SJuan76 Sep 2 '20 at 22:01
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 It seems that the French have a tradition of outsourcing public service to the military - Les Sapeurs-Pompiers (fire and rescue service) in Paris is also a brigade of the French Army.. – Oscar Bravo Sep 3 '20 at 8:48
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 _USER_ There are two of them in France: Paris and Marseile (in Marseille, they are not part of the Army but of the Navy). They were established at different times, each of them after a large fire that was seen to be mishandled by the municipal fire brigade. – Relaxed Sep 3 '20 at 8:51
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 _USER_.m. The Bundespolizei is not, and never was, a military force though – it's under the administration of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, and not of the Federal Ministry of Defense. So, it's not a "militarized police" in the sense used by the OP (members of the Bundesgrenzschutz did have combatant status, though). – Schmuddi Sep 4 '20 at 7:57
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Background: Police in New Zealand do not typically carry firearms on their person, despite a longstanding stated desire from the police association to do so. Since 2012 pistols and semi-automatic rifles are stored in lock boxes in patrol cars, which may be accessed at the officer's discretion, but they must advise their command if they are going to do so. Typically when dealing with armed suspects the procedure is to call in the Armed Offenders Squad (AOS), who have extra training and equipment to contain a situation, after which the Special Tactics Group (with an even higher level of training, and consisting of officers selected from the AOS) is employed to resolve the situation. In exceptional circumstances district commanders have the authority to order all frontline officers to carry their firearms while on duty, as was done after the mass shooting at two mosques in 2019.
As a response to this mass shooting, and an alleged rise in use of firearms by criminals, a six-month trial of "Armed Response Teams" (ARTs) was instigated. This involved members of the Armed Offenders Squad patrolling full-time while armed. The trial ended after 6 months because they created fear in the community, according to the police themselves
Police Armed Response Teams set up after the Christchurch mosque attacks were dumped because they "created fear" in the community, new documents have


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A step-by-step guide to successful plant choice and long-term planting, using design techniques and good horticultural practice
Plants are a major part of most gardens and fulfil many roles within them, providing color, shade, scent, form, texture, and much more. Choosing the right plants can be a challenge but this book is both inspirational and practical, helping gardeners to interpret their visions and understand growing conditions for all styles and types of planting. It also looks at creative maintenance for the future of the design, emphasizing the need for good techniques and best practice to ensure that the garden matures beautifully.
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The vegetation on soils rich in zinc has recently been studied by Libbert (1930) in the Harz and by Schwickerath (1931) near Aix-la-Chapelle. In addition to the very specialized Viola calaminaria, the latter lists Arineria elongata and Thlaspi calaminare and varieties of Minuartia verna, Silene vulgaris, and Festuca ovina, as occupying the thin sod (Violetum calaminariae) over extensive areas. The soil here has always considerable zinc amounting to 0.78 per cent in the upper horizons and 0.73 per cent in the lower. One slope at Breininger Berg where the soil has 8.69 per cent of zinc is entirely bare of vegetation, this amount of the metal being apparently quite toxic. (Braun-Blanquet 1932:191)
2. Besides these characteristic relict species there are others whose fidelity is due to a narrowly specialized adaptation to definite physicochemical relations of the habitat, such as associations of rock crevices, dunes, and epiphytes; e.g., the association Violetum calaminariae on zinc soils investigated by Schwickerath (1931) contains several characteristic species narrowly limited to this special substratum. (Braun-Blanquet 1932:63)
BRAUN-BLANQUET, Josias. 1932. Plant sociology: the study of plant communities. (Trans.: George D. Fuller; Henry S. Conard) New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.