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Engineering Insight: The Albatros Warbird
The Vintage Aviator doesn't just make planes: it recreates them in a process somewhat akin to modern archaeology.
"Many of the airplanes that we build – and have reproduced from scratch – don't exist anywhere in the world, not even in museums. Some, of course, haven't been flown for 100 years," Vintage Aviator Production Manager, Gene DeMarco, says.
Based in the Wellington suburb of Kilbirnie, the company employs 52 people to reproduce airplanes, mainly those flown during World War I (WWI). One such plane is the Albatros DVA, a German fighter aircraft produced in 1917. Built by Albatros-Flugzeugwerke GmbH, a German aircraft manufacturer best known for supplying the Luftstreitkräfte (airforce) throughout WWI, the Albatros series were single-seat flying scouts. Originally 4,600 Albatros D series airplanes were manufactured, but only two planes have survived, both Albatros DVAs.
"It's a really beautiful design, a very sleek looking airplane, a unique construction," Mr DeMarco says. "It was the one that really appealed to us because it was so different."
A biplane, the Albatros' airframe is made from formed plywood to create a monocoque structure. Similar to an eggshell, a monocoque structure is where the outer skin carries most of the stresses.
While reproductions of the Albatros have been completed in the past, there are no original drawings left, and information about the airplane is not necessarily reliable. To get around this problem, Vintage Aviator staff Michelle Crosbie and Warren Rangi undertook an initial study of one of the two surviving planes housed in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
"It was at the most opportune time for us because the good people at the museum over there were restoring their airplane to put it on display, so it was all apart and it was in a warehouse," Mr DeMarco says.
Using a 3-D scanning tool called a FaroArm, Uli Beck and Charlotte Key from WETA workshop measured the co-ordinates of the plane, while the Vintage Aviator staff researched the other parts and assemblies.
The FaroArm is of an articulated arm fitted with either a digital probe or a laser scanner. With several "joints" enabling it to follow the shape of any surface, it reaches several metres in any direction and can obtain accuracies of 0.002 centimetres without touching an object.
"The co-ordinate measuring machine gave us every curve, every dimension, [and showed] where all the nails were. The machine is so accurate that even when we scanned the plywood surface, you could read the thickness of the paint in the digital scan," Mr DeMarco says.
From the scans, a 3-D model of the entire airframe could be created, so the team could go back and make drawings of the individual parts.
The Vintage Aviator also had access to the research and notebooks from the National Air and Space Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, from when the Museum restored the other surviving Albatros. "That was a big help as well," Mr DeMarco says.
Using parts from a crashed Albatros, the team was able to reverse engineer the radiator, applying regular materials analysis to determine which materials were used in its construction.
Original samples from the fabric covering the wooden frames of the Albatros's wings were also collected. Dyed with a distinctive five-coloured lozenge pattern, the samples were copied onto bolts of Irish linen to ensure the reconstructed Albatros was exactly the same as the original version.
To find the Albatros parts, Mr DeMarco checked auctions, eBay, Trade Me and talked to collectors. Original data is sourced from period-type magazines, technical documents or reports on aircraft captured by the Allies. Museums also often have artefacts in storage, which can sometimes be borrowed, restored or just referenced. "We're like a sponge: any bit that we can collect is extremely helpful," Mr DeMarco says.
He notes that with German aircraft like the Albatros, instruments like fuel gauges, tachometers and air speed indicators, as well as wheels or tyres, are often common types. "So the minute you have a reference for one, you can use those parts on other airplanes."
Even so, all of the parts for the Albatros needed to be built, except for the Mercedes D.III engine, which was overhauled, although it took several years to find a suitable example. To ensure the technology is available for future Albatros reproductions, the entire engine has been copied.
The plywood for the fuselage bulk-heads also had to be made. This required the Vintage Aviator to perfect a way to bend ash, which is a hardwood, as until the Albatros reconstruction they had only worked with the softwood spruce used in British aircraft.
The Vintage Aviator's workshop is well equipped to take on this type of work with just about everything from a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) router, CNC lathes, and CNC milling machines to a rapid prototyping machine, as well as milling and honing machines. There are also giant woodworking tools like joiners, planers and spindle moulders.
Any parts designed by the Vintage Aviator need to be certified by a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Part 146 Ap-proved Design Organisation, like NTech. "A 146 company will go over the design, check the loads, check the materials and certify that the parts that we've designed, or the parts that we have replaced, will be okay," Mr DeMarco says. "They will do this mathematically, or in a computer, or they can specify that load testing needs to be done, so we can test the individual parts or test a component like the assembly of a whole wing."
Once the 146 company has issued a Certificate of Design, either for the original drawings or parts that have been reverse engineered, work to produce a plane where every single part conforms to the drawing can begin. Given that it does conform to the drawings, the CAA will inspect it and issue a Certificate of Airworthiness so it can be test flown.
Mr DeMarco says it's one of the bonuses of his job that he gets to test fly every one of the Vintage Aviator airplanes. "That encompasses finding out what the stall speed is. We set a 'never-exceed' speed based on historic documents typically, making sure it handles sufficiently well so I can turn it over to other pilots."
Flight testing can last anywhere from two to 25 hours, depending on the engine needed, the propeller or the airframe. Once it is successfully test flown and any problems rectified, the CAA may carry out another inspection before issuing a permanent airworthiness certificate.
In cases where there is a complete set of drawings for a plane, not much testing is done. Mr DeMarco says as the Albatros's were built in sufficient quantities and flown 100 years ago during the war, they've already been tested and proven. "The problem comes when we don't have a complete set of drawings."
Engines are also test run, with new built engines being tested for 20 to 25 hours, pulled apart, checked internally, then put back together and run for another two hours. While destructive testing is done for items like buckles, cables and bolts to determine their ultimate strength, this is generally frowned upon by Vintage Aviator. Non-destructive testing, on the other hand, such as X-ray analysis, magnetic particle inspection and dye penetrant testing, is something the company has invested heavily in.
According to Mr DeMarco, the planes will perform as well or better than the original models. "They fly just like they did in the First World War. They sound, smell, handle and perform in the same way as the originals. We're essentially an extension of the original production line, although the exception is safety, where new seat belts and shoulder harnesses will sometimes be installed."
The new planes have all the original idiosyncrasies as the original models. For example, a pilot flying the Albatros needs to constantly twist the greaser handle during flight to force fresh grease to the water pump to make sure the water is separated from the engine oil, as there is not a proper seal between the two. Some have primitive controls, primitive instrumentation and no brakes, so are very difficult to steer on the ground in some cases. Some also have rotary engines, where the whole engine spins with the propeller, introducing a gyroscopic force that makes the handling characteristics of the airplane quite different. "They're not always straightforward – they're a bit cantankerous," Mr DeMarco notes. This uniqueness appeals to a small group of aviators and collectors, or to museums who want to fill a gap in their collection.
The Albatros has a price tag of around $750,000. While the Vintage Aviator owns all the intellectual property relating to the planes it creates, the amount of time it takes to make a set of drawings means that three or four planes have to be produced just to amortise the costs.
"It's very expensive," Mr DeMarco comments. "I'll have two or three CAD [computer-aided design] draughtsmen working for a year or two just to develop the set of drawings – a tremendous amount of work. With digital models and plans, though, the planes can


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Pupil's Home Address
A pupil's home address is considered to be a residential property that is the child's only or main residence, and is either:
- owned by the child's parent(s) or the person with parental responsibility for the child; or
- leased to or rented by the child's parent(s) or the person with parental responsibility under a lease or written rental agreement of not less than twelve months duration
Evidence of ownership or rental agreement may be required, plus proof of permanent residence at the property concerned.
Where parents have shared responsibility for a child, and the child lives with both parents for part of the week then the main residence will be determined as the address where the child lives the majority of the week. Parents may be requested to supply documentary evidence to support the address used when offering places.
We measure from the address point of your home to the centre of the school (unless otherwise stated) using a computerised mapping system called Cartology.
Distances are in metres and are calculated on the basis of a straight line measurement. We consider this to be the fairest way to treat all applicants. It does not take into account walking, cycling, or driving routes.
Websites which provide a distance measuring facility do not measure home to school distances as defined by us and therefore will produce different measurements.
If you move house after you have submitted your preference form you should contact School Admissions and Pupil Placements who will advise if the change in circumstances can be considered. (See contact detail in the essential information section)

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Law of Similarity: Overview & Examples
Instructor: Orin Davis
Psychologists use the Law of Similarity to understand behavior. Learn the Law of Similarity, which is the tendency to link similar items into a distinct group, and see examples of how it affects you every day.
Definition of the Law of Similarity
Have you ever walked down a busy street on a summer day and heard the music coming out of the cars with open windows? You are probably hearing multiple songs at once, and yet you are able to identify each of them and not get lost in the ocean of sound. Within each song, the series of notes is connected more closely than it is to the notes of any of the other songs, and it is this similarity that allows you to pick out the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and Barbara Streisand all at the same time. The fact that we link things that are similar and treat them like a distinct group is the Law of Similarity. Psychologists use the Law of Similarity to understand behavior.
Examples of the Law of Similarity
To really understand how the Law of Similarity works, let's look at a few examples.
Example 1
Take a look at the letters below:
h h h h h h h h h h
q q q q q q q q q q
n n n n n n n n n n
p p p p p p p p p p
You would probably describe what you see as four rows of letters instead of ten columns of letters, because we tend to group similar things into whole sets - that's the Law of Similarity.
Example 2
What shape do you see in this picture?
ASCII Smiley
If you look closely, you will see that the smiley face is made of individual characters. We are able to see each of the eyes and the mouth because they are made of similar characters that we combine in our minds using the Law of the Similarity. While the light and dark contrasts help, we would be able to see the smiley face as long as the characters that make up the eyes are all the same but also distinct from the characters that make up the background. That way, we can group the characters using the Law of Similarity and distinguish them as eyes that are separate from the background of the face.
The Law of Similarity is a Gestalt Rule
The Law of Similarity is one of the rules that comes from Gestalt Psychology ('gesh-TAHLT'; German for 'whole'), which is about how human beings perceive wholes. Gestalt Psychology describes how a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Take a look at Example 3 to see for yourself.
Example 3
Here are four lines:
Four Lines
Here are four more lines:
Four lines in a square
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Letter C >
C is for Candy corn
Crafts > Candy
* Oct. 30th > Nat'l
Candy Corn Day
* Oct. > Halloween
* Nov. > Thanksgiving
Here are printable materials and some
suggestions to present letter C. Review related topics
in the themes column and visit the candy
themed activities and craft.
Holidays > Foods > Sweets > Candy Corn
Candy corn is a sweet food made primarily from sugar, corn syrup and
honey, This candy is particularly popular for Halloween.
Letter C is for Candy corn
Present and display your option of alphabet letter C is for Candy
materials listed in the materials column. Present and display the poster and
and distribute the coloring page or handwriting practice worksheet.
*Finger and Pencil Tracing:
Trace letter C's in upper and lower case with your finger as you also sound out the
letter. Invite the children to do the same on their coloring
page. Encourage the children to trace the dotted letter
with your choice of sharpened crayon, fine tip marker, coloring or regular pencil
and explain the direction of the arrows and numbers (on the
upper right corner) that help them trace the
letter correctly. Letter C has a number one which
indicates it is written in one continuous stroke.
*Find the letter C's: Have the children find all the
letter C's in upper and lower case on the page and encourage them to circle
or trace/shade them first. Make sure to indicate that
the word candy corn has two letter C's. Visit each child to make sure they
have identified the letter C's and then discuss the locations with the poster.
Coloring and/or Craft Activity:
Encourage the children to color the candy corn and identify
the traditional colors, orange and yellow with a variety of materials.
Advanced Handwriting Practice:
1. Print your choice of printable
lined-paper. Have children draw candy corn or print
page behind the lined
2. Drawing and writing paper: encourage children to draw
candy corn and practice writing
letter C c.
Letter C words: Letter
C Activity Worksheet and Mini Book This worksheet and matching mini
book can be used as part of Letter C program of activities
to reinforce letter practice and to identify related C words (hard
letter C like letter K). Read suggested instructions for using
the worksheet and mini-book.
Discuss other letter C words and images (refer to letter activity
worksheet above): First 'brainstorm' and
ask the children about other words that have that beginning sound and
write them on a board (dry erase board) as the children come up with
example. You can print letter C in a different bright color to
make it stand out. If you have illustrated alphabet books you
can also use images in them. You can also display letter C posters and
coloring pages or even make a letter C classroom book. For
related images visit: Letter
C Printable Materials.
Letter C Word Search
& Handwriting Practice
The word search game features letter C words
with pictures and handwriting
*coloring and writing materials

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Prepare 2 2nd Edition
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- Student's will enjoy interactive, personalised lessons with themes and resources relevant to school-aged learners.
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CloudTV JavaScript Specific Functionality
Introduction
Developing on the H5 platform allows several additional features in comparison to your desktop browser, due to the architecture of your session running in the cloud. There are a few nearly-transparent methods available to the developer which minimize the gap between testing in Chrome and deploying to the H5 platform. For example: how to send a message to the client device; how to launch an application that is resident on the device (VOD, RTSP stream, etc.); and how to determine the client device identifier needed for integration-specific APIs such as loading a user's favorite channels from a database.
Accessing the Client ID
The device ID of the client is sent by the CloudTV client living on the device, and persists from session to session unless the non-volatile memory on the device is flashed (such as during the return process or when refurbished). A small extension to the navigator agent is available that contains this client-specific information, as shown below.
var deviceid = navigator.avClient.id;
var x = new XMLHttpRequest();
//Call a "pretend" API that given the deviceid can
//tell me the preferences for this box, like
//for example zip code. This API is fictitious,
//and used to demonstrate that it
//can be done and how to access the device id.
x.open(
 "GET",
 "_URL_ + deviceid,
 false
);

Communicating With The Client
In CloudTV, the client is a thin software layer that runs on the user device. This may be a Blu-ray player, a Motorola set top box, or a Television — each can accept commands from your application.
Telling The Client to Tune Away
If the client device is a cable box, it contains additonal software agents. The CloudTV client can communicate with these agents in a handoff (or handover) that ends the CloudTV session and starts up another agent on the device with the parameters provided. Some examples are:
 1. vod://pid/aid (open up the agent which registered the vod:// protocol on the device and pass in pid and aid)
 2. rtsp://10.230.101.120:444 (open up the agent which registered the rtsp:// protocol and pass in the IP and port of the RTSP stream)
 3. info://pid/aid (open up the agent which registered the info:// protocol on the device and pass in pid and aid)
 4. tv://123 (tune to channel 123)
 5. tv://650 (tune to channel 650)
Note:
A call using this method will either suspend or terminate (depending on the server configuration) the CloudTV session once the handoff is complete.
 var tune = function(tuneString, callback){
console.log("Tuning client with string: " + tuneString);

//support for developing in the browser and current H5 platform.
//In the future, a location.href will suffice, so this code
//is forward compatible
 if (window.__openUrl__){
 console.log("Using window.__openUrl__(" + tuneString +")");
 window.__openUrl__(tuneString);
 }else if (window.openApplication){
 console.log("Using window.openApplication(" + tuneString +")");
 window.openApplication(tuneString);
 //Future gen
 }else{
 console.log("Using window.location = " + tuneString);
 window.location = tuneString;
 }
 return true;
 }
//Call the method to launch a VOD asset
tune("vod://fearnet.com/CCDN1000000003107060 ")
Playing a Video Stream
In H5, the HTML5 <video> element is used for all video behavior that is run from within the application. As such, the only requiremnt to play video from a source that is not a file is that you know how to access it and that the video is in a format which can be played back by the H5 streaming engine. This might be a single MP4 file, or a UDP stream from a scalar. The implementation in your application is exactly the same.
Example of Loading a video and a UDP stream:
document.getElementById('video1').src = '../videos/intro.mp4';
document.getElementById('video2').src = 'udp://10.210.230.101:333';

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Minimum Spanning Tree
Minimum Spanning Tree
Written by Mike James
Monday, 04 January 2010
Article Index
Minimum Spanning Tree
Prim's algorithm
Implementing Prim's algorithm
Graphs
In computer science and discrete mathematics a graph is a set of points – called vertices or nodes and a set of connecting lines called paths, arcs or edges. This definition of a graph includes the familiar temperature charts etc but only as a special case. In this sense a graph is anything from a hierarchy chart to a computer network.
Graph
A simple graph of vertices and arcs
Graphs are important in computer science as a basic tool of theory and they are of practical importance. Before we can go on to explain why we need some additional definitions:
 - A path is a route from one vertex to another via arcs.
 - If there is a path between every pair of vertices the graph is a "connected graph".
 - A path from a given vertex and back again is called a cycle.
path
A connected graph showing a path and a cycle
Now we can define a tree – a tree is a connected graph with no cycles. There are many equivalent definitions of a tree including the one that gives it its name – a root node connected to leaf nodes by branches.
tree
Check that this is a connected graph with no cycles – aka a tree!
A slightly more advanced form of graph is the network. A network is a graph which has weights assigned to each of its paths. You can think of each weight as either being a distance or a cost associated with the path. With networks you can ask questions such as "find the shortest path", "find the shortest round trip" and so on.
MST = Minimum Spanning Tree
One important version of this "shortest" type of question is – what is the shortest connector. That is, the sub-graph with the shortest total distance that connects all of the vertices.
It doesn't take much to see the shortest sub-graph that connects all of the vertices is going to be a tree because if it contains any cycles you can get a shorter graph by deleting at least one arc without altering the connectivity. As a result this problem is often called finding the "minimum spanning tree", MST.
Why is the MST important?
Consider the situation that you have to connect three computer sites into a network. All you care about is that every computer is connected and the cost of connection is proportional to distance. In this case the minimum spanning tree is going to be a good starting point for a practical implementation of the network.
Another, slightly more esoteric, example of the usefulness of an MST is that it provides an upper bound to the travelling salesman problem. The travelling salesman's round route has to be shorter than twice the MST for the network.
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FPGA Device Communication Examples
LabVIEW 2014 Robotics Module Help
Edition Date: June 2014
Part Number: 372983F-01
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Owning Palette: Protocols VIs
Requires: Robotics Module. This topic might not match its corresponding palette in LabVIEW depending on your operating system, licensed product(s), and target.
Use the items on the FPGA Device Communication palette to launch LabVIEW project-based examples that demonstrate the use of a communication interface between a hardware target and sensors.
Examples
You can modify an example VI to fit an application, or you can copy and paste from one or more example VIs into a VI that you create.
Examples
Refer to the following VIs for examples of using the FPGA Device Communication Examples:
 - labview\examples\robotics\I2C\I2C Communication - sbRIO.lvproj
 - labview\examples\robotics\SPI\Multiport SPI - sbRIO.lvproj
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Translation of plea in Spanish:
- 1 (appeal) [formal] despite pleas from local peoplea pesar de las peticiones de los vecinosshe listened to my pleaescuchó mis ruegos or súplicasplea
forsomethingshe made a plea for mercyrogó or suplicó or imploró clemenciathe play is a plea for tolerancela obra es un llamamiento or (in Latin America also) un llamado a la toleranciaExample sentences
- But unlike Moore, he doesn't rely on emotional pleas from hysterical moms and funny songs to lighten the mood.
- Beware of charities long on emotional pleas but short on concrete examples of where the money goes, she advised.
- He also is undecided on his emotions, chopping and changing between angry violent outbursts and whiny emotional pleas.
- 2 (Law)to enter a plea of guilty/not guiltydeclararse culpable/inocenteto cop a plea (American English) [colloquial](declararse culpable para obtener una sentencia más leve)Example sentences
- The defendants put forward a plea of justification, based on the issue of the writ itself.
- It seems that he indicated a plea of guilty even before the charge was amended.
- I have already said that I am not going to make a plea of diminished responsibility on the grounds of incapacity.
- 3 (excuse) [formal] she didn't come on the plea of illnessno vino so pretexto de or pretextando estar enfermaExample sentences
- You must demonstrate that you have made a decision and will no longer accept philandering, excuses, promises or pleas.
- His attorneys moved on Wednesday to obtain a prompt hearing on his plea that he is legally entitled to release.
- He was given six years for forgery despite his plea that he regarded painting banknotes as "a new form of art."
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"A very special use of Japanese irises in Japan is the ritual of enjoying what is known as 'the Act'.
"Hirao explains that this dates back to the mid-nineteenth century when, in selecting their seedlings, growers became fascinated by the mystery of the movement or act of the flower in opening. During its three-day life the petals enlarge ceaselessly until the afternoon of the third day, with the appearance of the flower changing hour after hour. A true Japanese lover of this ritual will meditate and watch the Act as the beautiful flower slowly opens. Watching a flower in this way leaves an impression that lasts a lifetime."
– The Japanese Iris, Currier McEwen, 1990
In what was still the village of Horikiri, located a few miles outside the old city limits of Tokyo but still within easy jinrikisha distance, was to be found what is perhaps the oldest and most famous Iris garden in the world. One hundred and twenty-some years ago a certain well-to-do Japanese farmer, Kodaka Izayemon, in making a journey to the foot of Mount Fuji, brought back with him a specimen of the Iris growing there. With this and two other specimens procured from different places he formed the nucleus of the garden which was to grow into what is now Horikiri Shobu-en [sweet flag iris garden]. Two samurai chanced to visit his garden, and their reports attracted others, until finally the fame of the garden reached the ear of the reigning shogun himself who came in person to see it.
The long, long journey have I traveled across the countries,
Far away from my old home in the capital of flowers,
Where my sweetheart must be longing for my return,
Wrapped in the bed clothe embroidered with irises.
– from Ise Monogatari


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|Go to:Historical Standard ATLAS Moorings - Surface Mooring Hardware - Sensor Heights and Depths - ADCP Current Meter Moorings - Historical Current Meter Moorings - TRITON Moorings|
NEXT GENERATION ATLAS MOORINGS
of the relatively inexpensive ATLAS (Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition
System) mooring was initiated by PMEL's Engineering Development Division
(EDD) in 1984 (see Standard ATLAS Moorings,
below). By the mid-1990's, a reengineering effort was underway to modernize
the ATLAS mooring with emphasis on:
|A significant Next Generation ATLAS improvement over the Standard ATLAS is the incorporation of inductively coupled sensors for subsurface data. The sensors clamp onto the wire rope strength member that serves as one of the inductive elements. This simplifies fabrication, eliminating the themistor cable with its labor-intensive assembly and deployment procedures.|
|Addressable modules on the cable allow the system to be expanded for new sensors by adding the appropriate hardware and software interfaces. Flexibility in the design also allows the interface of additional sensors including rainfall, short-wave and long-wave radiation, barometric pressure, ocean salinity and currents. Most measurements are made at a sample rate of 10 minutes, with the exception of barometric pressure (1 hour), short-wave and long-wave radiation (2 minutes), and rainfall (1 minute). These high temporal resolution data are recorded internally and available after mooring recovery.|
HISTORICAL STANDARD ATLAS MOORINGS
|After testing and deployment of prototype ATLAS moorings, the first elements of the large scale monitoring TAO array were deployed in the eastern Pacific in November 1984. The full TAO array was eventually completed in December 1994.The standard ATLAS mooring had a design lifetime of one year, and the system proved to be robust and reliable. Over 500 Standard ATLAS moorings were deployed between 1984 and 2001. The final standard ATLAS was recovered in November 2001 and NextGeneration ATLAS moorings are now used exclusively in the TAO array.|
Standard ATLAS moorings measured surface winds, air temperature, relative humidity, sea surface temperature, and ten subsurface temperatures from a 500 m long thermistor cable. Daily-mean data were telemetered to shore in near real-time via NOAA's polar-oribiting satellites and Service Argos. A small subset of hourly values (2-3 per day) coinciding with satellite passes were also transmitted in real time. Hourly values of surface data were internally recorded and available after mooring recovery.
SURFACE MOORING HARDWARE
| The TAO surface
buoy is a 2.3 m diameter fiberglass-over-foam toroid, with an aluminum tower
and a stainless steel bridle. When completely rigged, the system has an
air weight of approximately 660 kg, a net buoyancy of nearly 2300 kg, and
an overall height of 4.9 m. The electronics tube is approximately 1.5 m
long, 0.18 m diameter, and weighs 27 kg. The buoy can be seen on radar from
4-8 miles depending on sea conditions.
Non-rotating 3/8" (0.92 cm) diameter wire rope jacketed to 1/2" (1.27 cm) is used in the upper 700 meters to guard against damage from fish bite. Standard ATLAS thermistor cables were fixed to the mooring wire with wire rope clamps. Plaited 8-strand 3/4" (1.9 cm) diameter nylon line is used for the remainder of the mooring. Anchors are fabricated from scrap railroad wheels, and typically weight _PHONE_ kg. All hardware is standard equipment as used in other PMEL taut-line moorings and deployments follow the traditional anchor last routine.
Moorings are deployed in water depths between 1500 and 6000m. To ensure that the upper section of the mooring is nearly vertical a nominal scope of 0.985 (ratio of mooring length to water depth) is employed on the moorings in water depths of 1800m or more. At a few sites, slack moorings with scope 1.35 have been deployed due to either shallow bathymetry or severe current regimes. In these cases, the upper portion of the mooring is keep fairly vertical (but less so than taut-line moorings) by using a reverse catenary design.
Standard instrument heights for ATLAS mooring meteorological sensors. LWR is Long Wave Radiation sensor, SWR is Short Wave Radiation sensor, Rain is rain gauge, ATRH is air/relative humidity sensor, BP is Barometric Pressure sensor
Standard instrument depths for ATLAS moorings by ocean basin are listed below: SST/C is Sea Surface Temperature and Conductivity sensor. T1, T2,...., T10 are subsurface thermistors. TP9 and TP10 are subsurface temperature and pressure sensors. TC1,...,TC6 are subsurface temperature and conductivity sensors. TV1 is a velocity measurement made at 10m depth by a Sontek acoustic Doppler current meter. The current meter is cabled to a temperature module at 13m depth, which relays both velocity and temperature data to the surface buoy.
CURRENT METER MOORINGS
| ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT METER MOORINGS
Subsurface Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) moorings are deployed at a few locations to provide velocity profiles the upper 200-300 m of the water column. ADCP moorings are mostly deployed at equatorial locations where geostrophy breaks down and direct velocity measurements are required. ADCPs are usually deployed in tandem with nearby ATLAS moorings, which may also measure velocity as a backup to the ADCP and/or to provide velocity data near the surface where acoustic backscatter from the sea surface interferes with the ADCP signal. The vertical resolution of the ADCP is about 8 m. ADCP data are available only after the subsurface moorings are recovered.
HISTORICAL CURRENT METER MOORINGS
From the 1980s to the mid-1990s, older style current meter moorings were deployed at a few equatorial sites in the Pacific (0-156E, 0-165E, 0-140W and 0-110W). Upper ocean currents were measured at 4 to 7 discrete depths in the upper 300 m using vector-averaging and vector measuring mechanical current meters. In general, these moorings differed from ATLAS moorings in that no subsurface data were telemetered in real time and in that subsurface data were internally recorded at higher sample rates than Standard ATLAS systems. Between 1990 and 1995, current meter moorings included downward looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) mounted in the surface toroidal float and were referred to as PROTEUS (PRofile TElemetry of Upper ocean currentS) moorings. PROTEUS mooring deployments stopped in 1995 because fish backscatter interfered with the acoustic signals and seriously contaminated the velocity measurements.
These older style current meter moorings were eventually replaced by Next Generation ATLAS moorings with paired subsurface ADCP moorings. Instrument depths for the older current-meter moorings were different than for ATLAS moorings and varied over time. For graphical information on these instrument depths, see the TAO data availability page. In NetCDF files used for web displays, temperatures from historical current meter moorings have been regridded to standard ATLAS depths.
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responsibility for moorings along and to the west of 156E was assumed by
the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) which
has deployed Triangle Trans-Ocean Buoy Network (TRITON) buoys at those locations.
Data from both ATLAS and TRITON moorings are merged in a common data base
and available from both PMEL and JAMSTEC.
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You already know that a strong headline gets people to start reading
your (advertising or marketing) copy. You also know that the purpose of
every paragraph is to get people to continue to read the rest of the
copy. But what happens when people get to the end of your copy?
Each of Aesop's Fables end with a brief moral ("One bad turn deserves another" or "Appearances are deceptive") that summarizes the point of the story. Does your copy end with a moral-like statement? I think of this phrase as a "toeline" (the opposite of a headline). While a headline focuses on the benefit to the reader, the toeline focuses on your offering with a reminder about the benefit.
For example, if you're selling raw, organic cat food (called Purely Cat Food), your headline might read: "Keep Your Cat Healthier Naturally". Your copy would describe why most commercially available cat food is bad for cats, and by feeding your cats this food they'll live longer and be sick less. Most people end the copy with "Now available at your local store".
Instead, create a toeline that echoes the headline. For example, "Purely Cat Food Ensures Your Pet's Health". Notice it starts with the offering, then mentions the benefit.


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Gears - Measuring
Name of Corresponding Unit Plan: Gears
Grade Level: K-8
VT Grade Expectations
VT S:5 Students demonstrate their ability to REPRESENT DATA by displaying and labeling data for separate trials/observations.
VT S:6 Students demonstrate their ability to ANALYZE DATA by interpreting patterns or trends in data.
VT S:7 Students demonstrate their ability to EXPLAIN DATA by poroviding a reasonable explanation that accurately reflects data.
VT S:21 Students demonstrate their understanding of Force by investigating variables that change an object's speed, direction, or both, and identifying and describing the forces that cause the change in motion.
NY Standard 1: Mathematical Analysis
Key Idea 1: M1.1 Use algebraic and geometric representations to describe and compare data.
NY Standard 1: Scientific Inquiry
Key Idea 1: Clarify ideas through reasoning, research, and discussion
Content Areas: Science
Recommended Length/Duration: 30-50 minutes
Students will identify the parts of different gear systems, measure their dimensions and calculate their mechanical advantage.
- This activity can be done in lab groups or as a learning center in the classroom.
- The teacher will present a variety of geared tools and how they work. Determine if the purpose of the gears is to increase power or speed. Identify the Effort gear and the Resistance gear.
- As an example the teacher will demonstrate how find and count the geared teeth.
- Review the worksheet and the data students are to record.
- Have students work in groups or individually to identify the parts of the gears, count the teeth on the gears, and record their data.
- Intermediate students should calculate mechanical advantage by using the formula:
Resistance gear teeth / Effort gear teeth
- Students should answer the questions on their data collection sheet.
- When all students have completed the activity, the teacher should review their findings and discuss how the different gear systems are well designed for their purpose.
Assessments: Informal assessment based on participation and general understand of key ideas or more formal assessment of measurements and calculations.
Materials/Resources: Measuring Gears Worksheet (pdf); a collection of geared tools (can opener, egg beater, bicycle, fishing reel, etc.)
Special Considerations: Machines that are intended to increase speed rather than power will have fractional mechanical advantages. Be sure students have the appropriate mathematical skills to work with fractions.


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Thyme is an herb that's known for its aromatic flavor that's why it's used in many ways, such as cooking, bathing, and even for therapeutic purposes. It's also easy to grow so as long as it's planted in areas wherein it can get a good dose of warm love from the sun.
In case you have one growing at home, you might want to cut some of its leaves and start using it in your recipes. What about the rest of its leaves? You can't simply let it go to waste, right? Luckily, there are many ways to dry its leaves so you can store it away for future use, or make a profit by selling them.
Before we talk about drying thyme, it would be best to first know how to harvest this herb for optimal results.
How to harvest thyme the right way
Harvesting thyme isn't as simple as cutting the leaves off the plant, there's a proper way to do it. First, cut a stem from the plant itself just before its nodes bloom.
Experts say that the best time to do so is in the morning after the dew has dried.
Pinch the stem and then pull it between your fingers; this will easily separate the thin leaves from the stem. Some people like to add a little bit of stem in their recipes, but that's up to you.
Discard the main stem and wash the leaves and remove the excess water. You can then chop up the leaves or leave them as is when you dry them.
Simple Methods of Drying Thyme at Home
There are several methods for drying thyme at home.
- Tie the stems all together with a string and hang the bundle upside-down from an elevated place.
- Hang the thyme bundles in a room with low humidity. Do not dry the bundles under the sun because doing so will make the leaves lose a lot of their color and flavor.
- You can also place a small bag underneath to catch the dry leaves that fall. Make sure it has a few holes around the top to allow air to pass.
The good thing about this process is that you don't need any fancy equipment, saving you a bit of cash. However, the process may take around one to two weeks.
Drying on paper towels
If you don't have that much time and a little bit of change to spare, you can place the leaves on a sheet of parchment paper spread on a cookie sheet.
Shake it every 12 hours and the leaves will be dry in a couple of days. It's a faster method of drying thyme and with a minimal cost.
Drying thyme in the dehydrator
An even faster alternative of drying thyme would be using a food dehydrator. Not only does it dry the leaves faster, it can even prevent molds from growing while drying. With the right temperature set, you can dry the leaves in less than a day (usually it takes about 6 to 12 hours to dehydrate thyme).
You'll know that it's ready when the leaves easily crumble.
Yes, a food dehydrator may be expensive but it is very handy especially for those who need to dry leaves quickly.
READ ALSO: Which Food Dehydrator is Right for You
Drying thyme in the microwave
In the event that you're in a real rush to get dry thyme, you can use the microwave.
- Place the leaves in a microwaveable container and replace the lid. Make sure that the seal is airtight.
- Turn on the microwave and blast the thyme leaves on high heat for 30 seconds. Check the eaves and repeat the process.
- If after one minute the leaves aren't dry, you can nuke them again on high for another thirty seconds, continue heating the leaves in the microwave using thirty-second bursts until the thyme is dry enough to your liking.
When you do choose to use the microwave, it is advisable that you check on the leaves constantly.
f you see small wisps of smoke coming out of the thyme leaves, you need to stop immediately.
Drying thyme isn't that hard, and now that the leaves are dry, it's time you used or store them for future use. If it's the latter, here are a few ways to do it correctly and save its flavor for later.
How to store dried thyme
Store dried thyme in airtight containers such as re-sealable bags or plastic containers with air-tight lids. If you don't like using plastic, glass jars that have covers with rubber seals will do the trick.
Hide it from the sun
Do not place the container under direct sunlight. Why? Exposing the already dried out herb to sunlight will cause the leaves to lose their potent flavor. You need to use dark-colored jars or opaque containers to block out the sun's rays.
Stay cool and dry
You can place the container in a cool and dry area like a cellar or a cupboard. You can also place the thyme in the vegetable storage space in your refrigerator; however, you need to make sure that the leaves are in an air-tight container to prevent the humidity from getting in contact with the dried leaves. Placing the thyme in the refrigerator will extend its shelf life.
When stored properly, dried thyme will be good for a year or two; that is, if you haven't used it all up before then. Label the container with the time and date it was dried and stored so that you have an idea when to replace with freshly-dried leaves.
Herbs will last longer and have a stronger flavor when it is stored whole.
So think before you chop, if you need the leaves right away and might use it frequently then by all means grind it or chop it to smaller pieces before storing it. But if you don't see yourself using as much as you've harvested, maybe it would be a better idea to store it whole.
Congratulations! You now know how everything that's needed for drying thyme at home.

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The Village of Baldwin retained Ayres to provide topographic survey and concept analysis of the drainage in the Creekview Meadows subdivision. During extreme rainfall, the existing stormwater pond in the middle of the subdivision would overtop and flood adjoining properties. A number of heavy storms in 2003, 2007, and 2010 resulted in repeated flooding for landowners.
Ayres modeled the existing conditions and provided alternatives to the Village. The preferred solution was to add freeboard capacity for the pond berms and to route the pond's emergency overflow to a different location that wouldn't cause flooding to homes that had been built in harm's way.
The completed project increased the height of the top of the pond for freeboard; created an emergency spillway on the opposite end of the pond; and constructed a 10-foot bottom drainage swale along the downstream portion of the subdivision with sufficient capacity for the 100- and 1,000-year floods without overtopping the pond or the drainage swale.


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Can someone sketch some ideas of how to use the Poincare-Bendixson Theorem to prove that there must be a fixed point contained inside a periodic orbit?
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I have a feeling that that statement is false. I do not have a counterexample though. – picakhu Apr 6 '11 at 2:43
I cant see the question, the image link isn't showing either. – Kate Apr 6 '11 at 3:22
This certainly doesn't hold for discrete or higher dimensional dynamical systems (ex: billiards in polygons), so I take it we can assume the system is continuous and 2 dimensional? – Alex Becker Apr 6 '11 at 5:13
_USER_: is there even a Poincare-Bendixson theorem in more than 2 dimensions? In anycase, certain topological assumptions must be made about the domain, else just consider the rotations on $\mathbb{S}^1\times \mathbb{R}$. – Willie Wong Apr 6 '11 at 13:21
_USER_: please flesh out your question. Your statement is presumably true under certain assumptions, none of which you stated in the question. Please put more effort into describing what exactly it is that you want to know. – Willie Wong Apr 6 '11 at 13:22
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What is meant here with inside is inside as in the Jordan-curve-theorem. The proof can be done using it as well as the Schauder-fixed-point theorem - see for example the proof in the book by G. Teschl (to be found on his homepage).
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I interpreted the question as follow:
Let $f : \mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}^2$ be a $\mathcal{C}^1$ vector field. Suppose there exists a periodic orbit $\gamma$. According to Jordan-curve-theorem, $\mathbb{R}^2 \backslash \gamma$ admits only one bounded connected component $D_{\gamma}$. Show that $D_{\gamma}$ contains a fixed point.
In fact, you only need a weak version of Poincaré-Bendixson theorem:
Theorem: Let $f : \mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}^2$ be a $\mathcal{C}^1$ vector field and $x \in \mathbb{R}^2$. If the $\omega$-limit $\omega(x)$ is nonempty, compact and does not contain any fixed point, then $\omega(x)$ is a periodic orbit.
Notice that it is also true for $\alpha$-limits, since by reversing time an $\alpha$-limit becomes an $\omega$-limit while the phase portrait is unchanged.
By contradiction, suppose $D_{\gamma}$ does not contain any fixed point. Then, by Poincaré-Bendixson theorem, for all $x \in D_{\gamma}$, $\omega(x)$ and $\alpha(x)$ are periodic orbits. In particular, there are infinitely many periodic orbits in $D_{\gamma}$.
For any periodic orbit $\tau$ in $D_{\gamma}$, let $K_{\tau}=\tau \cup D_{\tau}$ (where $D_{\tau}$ is defined like $D_{\gamma}$ but for $\tau$). We get a family of compacts $\{K_i : i \in I \}$ linearly ordered by inclusion, indexed by some unbounded set $I \subset \mathbb{R}_+$. Without loss of generality, we can suppose the family $\{K_i : i \in I\}$ nonincreasing (otherwise, take $\tilde{K}_i= \bigcap\limits_{j \leq i} K_j$).
Because any $x \in \mathbb{R}^2$ is between its $\omega$-limit and its $\alpha$-limit, $\bigcap\limits_{i \in I} K_i=\emptyset$.
Now, take $i_n \in I$ such that $i_n \underset{n\to + \infty}{\longrightarrow} + \infty$; then $\bigcap\limits_{n \geq 0} K_{i_n}=\emptyset$. So we find a nonincreasing sequence of compacts converging to the emptyset, a contradiction (since $\mathbb{R}^2$ is complete).
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If you are training for your a half marathon or 21K you can benefit from following a half marathon training program for developed by an Australian endurance coach. Ben Wesby
The 12 week program contains training tips and ideas for half marathon training. It covers the following areas :-
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Jason Weiss, a researcher involved in the development of more durable and sustainable concrete, has been appointed as head of the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University.
Publishing 135 peer-reviewed journal articles, Weiss' expertise lies in reducing the potential for cracking in concrete, predicting the service life of concrete pavements and reinforced concrete structures, improving the durability of concrete pavements and structures, and developing improved practices for making concrete more sustainable.
He has received a number of honors in the concrete, construction and engineering fields, including the National Science Foundation Career Award. Additionally, he received 10 awards for teaching and advising at Purdue University.
Jason Weiss was most recently a Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. At Oregon State University, he will direct the Kiewit Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Research.
"My vision as head of the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State is to create a welcoming culture that enables faculty, staff and students to succeed in all aspects of the creation, synthesis and transmission of knowledge," commented Weiss.
"We're excited to have Jason join our rapidly growing engineering community here at Oregon State," said Scott Ashford, Dean of the College of Engineering and the former head of the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. "He brings an excellent combination of research and teaching skills, as well as a visionary approach to leadership."
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You need to cover a lot of Medical Council of Canada (MCC) objectives when preparing for the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination (MCCQE) Part 1. Fear of remembering the key point is common during preparation for the MCCQE1 exam, which is a valid concern. Concise and well-organized summary notes will aid you in retaining the information you need to make a proper decision during the MCCQE1 exam and will address recall concerns.
Making notes is critical, especially when preparing for the MCCQE1 exam because good summary notes make the objective easier to recall and significantly improve performance simply by assisting you in recalling those key points, similarities, best initial test, and most accurate diagnosis, as well as best initial therapy and management during the exam.
Making summary notes involves actively engaging with the text's ideas and transforming the original material idea into one's own words through reflecting on key points or underlining key points. To summarize, you should be an active reader, and while reading, you should scan for key points with significant value, such as similarities between medical conditions, different and unique features of medical conditions. Next, take a moment to summarize what you've learned.
Note-making can be done in many ways, and different note-making methods exist, but Outlining, Mind-mapping, and Cornell methods are the most prominent and widely used methods. Some people prefer Cornell methods because Cornell is more appealing to them and is what works well for them, and some prefer a combination of methods, and they tend to combine Mind Mapping with Outlining. If you have successfully used one or more methods in the past, It is best to stick to the methods that have worked for you so far.
The purpose of this article is to discuss the advantages, disadvantages, and importance of making notes and why you should make your own summary note while studying for the MCCQE1 exam.
Why are summary notes important in MCCQE1?
To be effective, study must be active. When you note down a summary during your study, you actively engage your mind, which will help you understand and retain information better, which is essential during the preparation for the MCCQE1 exam.
A key part of creating summary notes is to understand the concepts well so that you can summarize them effectively. Making an effective summary note without a firm grasp of the concepts is not impossible but definitely less useful.
The concepts you're learning are similar to the clothes in your closet: We have a tendency to keep clothing that we wear every day. The stuff that gets tossed or lost is the stuff that is piled in the back of the closet. Likewise, merely reviewing the same information over and over is useless. The key to retention is to do something with the content you wish to master. Making your own summary notes, as well as sketching figures or graphs, are common active learning techniques.
You have to do something with the content as you learn, such as generating your own summary notes to engages the hippocampus and amygdala. The hippocampus is a brain map that organizes information, allowing for broad comprehension as well as active memory. Amygdalas attach an emotional tag to events and knowledge, making them stand out among the sensory stream of daily experiences. When you interact with the information, your brain receives a signal that the content is significant and engages the mental processes that allow for long-term recall.
I've previously gone through the format of the MCCQE1 exam in-depth, but in a nutshell, the MCCQE1 exam consists of 210 multiple-choice questions (MCQ). The questions are not separated into sections and are meant to be answered one after the other. You will have around 3.5 – 4 hours in the morning to finish the exam. When you have to answer 210 questions in a row, having a strong memory comes in handy. Revising the summary note will provide you with a strong recall and an advantage over your competition.
How should I make a summary note?
To begin, you should first know the difference between taking notes and making notes. Note-taking and note-making are not the same. Note-taking is the act of jotting down notes from a lecture, conference, or meeting in order to relieve your mind of the burden of remembering everything and having a general idea of what was discussed, While Note Making is all about making personalized summary notes to describe what you have understood clearly from a textbook using your own words.
The ability to summarise is extremely valuable, especially in the medical sector, yet taking notes is not simple. However, in order to create a summary note, you must first comprehend the disease. Certain dermatological manifestations might be the result of gastrointestinal disease. Let's go with erythema nodosum, which causes painful, red lumps on the shins. However, dermatological manifestations such as erythema nodosum are more common in Crohn's disease patients but can also occur in ulcerative colitis patients.
In your summary points, you should include the key points in the history and physical examination findings that led to a proper diagnosis, as well as the difference between two similar inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). The summary note should also include the appropriate management, therapy, medication side effects, and other clinical manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease. Time and patience are needed to collect all of this detailed information and write it down in your own words.
ACE Question Bank was created with you in mind. The correct, as well as incorrect answers, are explained for each question. In addition to explanations, Ace Qbank provides explanations as well as tables, algorithms, and summary notes to help you put together your own summary notes.
The essential point to remember is that an effective summary note is brief (one side of A4 MAX) but contains all of the necessary information without error, requiring you to return and double-check. Your notes might be tidy or sloppy in the form of organized lists or vast webs. As long as you can use them, it doesn't matter. Here are a few suggestions for creating a good summary note:
- Should be short, selective, and contain all essential points
- Should be well-spaced for add more details later if necessary
- Should be the essence of your deep understanding of the concept
- Should be summarized using your own words
- Should be easy to memorize use color, highlighting, and underlining
You'll know how good your notes are when you try to use them, so make sure your summary notes are error-free. They are clear, and you understand them, so there will be no surprise when you come to revise.
The characteristics of useless summary notes are as following:
- Close resemblance to the original source
- unsummarize (long summary note, two pages of A4)
- failure of writing it in your own words
Possibly you are wondering at this point whether the effort is worthwhile. Let me give you the answer……. Yes, absolutely. In medical practice, people use summary methods to claim success.
Benefits of making note
In terms of benefits, making notes can help you prepare for the MCCQE1 exam since they are a permanent record of concise and organized medical knowledge that you can access as you prepare for the exam. The following are some benefits of creating your own summary notes:
- helps you to understand, make connections, and remember
- Makes revision for the MCCQE1 exam much easier
- Helps you to focus on what is important, such as the best initial test, most accurate diagnosis, best initial therapy, and management.
- Helps you to identify the key points, similarities, major and minor differences between clinical presentations, which significantly increases the speed of answering questions.
Downside of making summary notes
Fortunately, there are few drawbacks to making summary notes. One big drawback is that if someone ignores the summary notes for a lengthy period of time and then attempts to go over them close to the exam date. Revision of summary notes will help solidify the information, but the reverse could have the opposite effect, which would exacerbate stress levels and cause chaos near the exam date. Here are a few disadvantages of making summary notes:
- Mistake in summary notes, pay attention when writing notes, and don't rush to write down the summary. The accuracy of the information determines the summary note's value.
- Poorly organized summary notes, poor arrangement of summary notes may lead to confusion that does not serve a purpose later.
- Too many summary notes, you should be selective when writing summary notes. Not everything is important.
- It takes time; Creating a well-organized summary will take time and effort, but it will be worth it in the end.
Take your time:
If you wish to make your notes an effective resource, then consider spending some additional time processing your notes while it's still fresh in your mind; annotate, summarize, identify keywords and write down questions or the objective the notes address. Your notes won't be of any value to you in the future if you merely file them and forget about them. Therefore, organizing your notes effectively now assures that they will be meaningful in weeks, months, or even years to come.
Review your summary notes:
The summary points need to be reviewed as often as possible, and It is critical to go over your summary points since this will help you retain what you learned. Every day, you should set aside time to revise your summary note, even if it is only a small part of the summary note. By reviewing, you strengthen your memory of key facts over time, which is tremendously helpful during the MCCQE1 exam.
No matter how good your summary notes are, they are useless without revision, and they will only create stress for you. The summary note from two months ago is no longer familiar today, which may cause you to cram before the MCCQE1 exam or may lead to feelings of unpreparedness


text: This paper develops an agent- and activity-based large-scale simulation model for Beijing, China (MATSim-Beijing) to explicitly simulate enroute travel, enroute refuelling and parking behaviours, as well as the associated vehicular energy consumption and emissions, based on MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation), which is a typical integrated activity-based model. In order to take into account heterogeneous parking and refuelling behaviours, the MATSim-Beijing model incorporates several Multinomial Logit (MNL) models to predict individual choices about the maximum acceptable times of walking from trip destination to parking lot, of diverting to a refuelling station and of queuing at a station, using the data collected in a paper-based questionnaire survey in Beijing. A Sensitivity Analysis (SA) -based calibration method was used to estimate the model parameters by searching for an optimal parameter combination with the objective of minimize the gap between simulated and observed traffic flow data, exhibiting a relatively good performance of decreasing the Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) by around 23%. Further, the calibrated model was used to investigate whether and how the population scaling and network simplification, which were two commonly used approaches to speeding up large-scale traffic simulations, might influence model accuracy and computing time. The results indicated that both approaches could to some extent influence model outputs, though they could significantly reduce computing time.


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FOC provides connection to a single control system using ITDS-ШС01Т-1G / 2FO / 7TP communication kit with two Internet 1GB optical fiber channels. The communication kit performs the functions of organizing data transmission channels and routing data streams, organization of redundant fibre-optic line (FIL) channels (ring). The kit contains the necessary equipment for connecting the controlled point to the FIL network, and communication equipment for the organizations of the local internal network of the controlled point.
The device provides communication of local objects using Internet 10/100 technology. The number of Internet ports is determined by the project (customer).
The device can be used to create systems for dispatching electrical facilities, systems of local automation of energetically connected objects, organization of local information computer networks and Internet access.


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The Edge of the Cedars State Park, Blanding
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Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum is a state park and museum of Utah, USA, located in Blanding. It is an Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site, a museum, and an archaeological repository. Cowboys from the nearby town of Bluff camped there in the late 19th century and called the site Edge of the Cedars because it sits on the edge of a natural boundary, separating a heavily forested region and a treeless landscape to the south. Cedar is a term locals use for the Utah juniper tree.Because of its archaeological significance, the site was designated a State Historical Monument in 1970 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Edge of Cedars Indian Ruin in 1971. In 1974, the Utah Navajo Development Council donated the 6.65acre site to the Division of Utah State Parks and Recreation. Shortly thereafter the Utah Legislature enabled the establishment of Edge of the Cedars State Park as a museum of Indian history and culture. The museum opened in 1978. The archaeological repository was completed in 1994. Today, the facility serves as the primary repository for archaeological materials excavated from public lands in southeast Utah, and includes archives and a research library.In August 2014 the museum and state park will host the Pecos Conference, the annual gathering of Southwest archaeologists.Use our Blanding vacation builder to visit The Edge of the Cedars State Park on your trip to Blanding, and learn what else travelers and our writers recommend seeing nearby.
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"I walked quite a way out, but it was still only about waist deep."
You're at the beach with your family. You've gone in the water and were surprised by how shallow it was. You tell your wife, who hasn't gone in the ocean yet, about it.
I walked quite a way out, but it was still only about waist deep.
This casual expression means "quite far" or "pretty far". You use it with a direction word like one of these:
quite a way up
quite a way down
quite a way away
(This sometimes becomes "quite a ways away" in casual speech, although that's ungrammatical.)
To explain how deep some water is in a pool, ocean, lake, etc., English speakers sometimes explain what part of their body the water reached to. To do this, they use the expression "___ deep":
Don't be scared. It's only waist deep.
Aside from "waist deep", we also use the expressions:
When someone is swimming in the ocean, a lake, etc., you explain where they are by saying how far "out" they are from the shore:
She was swimming about twenty yards out, and suddenly I saw her start to splash and wave her arms.
You use the same phrase when someone is riding in a boat:
To catch the really big fish, you have to go a few miles out.


Package com.linar.jintegra not found in import... error, then your CLASSPATH environment variable does not correctly include jintegra.jar
 If you get an error like error: File .\excel\_Application.java does not contain type excel._Application as expected. Please adjust the class path so that the file does not appear in the package excel., then it is likely that you did not specify the package excel when generating the proxy files from the type library.
2.4 Run the Example
Run the example in J-Integra®'s native mode (you need to use DCOM mode if remotely accessing Excel):
java -DJINTEGRA_NATIVE_MODE ExcelExample
Excel will start up, the values will be set in the spreadsheet, Excel will be shut down again after ten seconds. During that time, you may wish to modify a couple of the cells, so that you see differing values being fetched back by the Java example:
Accessing Excel from Java: Run the example
The example displays the content of the same range of cells, perhaps modified by the user:
Accessing Excel from Java: Display output
2.5 Bonus Step - Subscribe to Excel Events
The Excel Application component implements the _Application COM Interface. The Application component has an additional interface associated with it, called AppEvents.
Take a quick look at the AppEvents.java file that was generated. It includes methods such as newWorkbook, sheetSelectionChange, and sheetBeforeDoubleClick. As is often the case with event interfaces, there is an AppEventsAdapter class, which was generated by J-Integra®. This class implements the AppEvents interface, and provides empty implementations for each of the methods in the interface. You can derive your event listener class from this class, and implement the methods you require.
You will also notice that J-Integra® creates classes that contain the parameters to each of the event methods. This is because GUI development tools assume that event methods only have a single parameter, which is the event.
In COM terms, this is a source interface, meaning that the Excel Application component can invoke the methods in that interface on other components, that register with the Excel component.
The generated Application Java class includes two methods -- addAppEventsListener() and removeAppEventsListener(). As a Java developer, you deal with standard Java events, in the way you would expect.
 1. Create the AppListener class that derives from the the AppEventsAdapter class
 Add the following class to the end of your ExcelExample.java file (after the final "}"). The new AppListener class extends the AppEventsAdapter class, and each method simply displays the fact that it has been invoked. Right clicks will alternate between being cancelled, and not being cancelled:

 class AppListener extends excel.AppEventsAdapter {
 boolean cancelRightClick = true;
 public void newWorkbook(AppEventsNewWorkbookEvent theEvent) {
 System.out.println("newWorkbook Event");
 }
 public void sheetSelectionChange(AppEventsSheetSelectionChangeEvent theEvent) {
 System.out.println("sheetSelectionChange Event");
 }
 public void sheetBeforeRightClick(AppEventsSheetBeforeRightClickEvent theEvent) {
 System.out.println("sheetBeforeRightClick Event. Cancelling?: " + cancelRightClick);
 theEvent.setCancel(cancelRightClick);
 cancelRightClick = !cancelRightClick;
 }
 }

 2. Register an instance of the AppListener with Excel
 The final steps are to register and unregister an AppListener with Excel. Add the following two lines immediately after app.setVisible(true);
 AppListener appListener = new AppListener();
 app.addAppEventsListener(appListener);

 Add the following line immediately after Thread.sleep(10000);
 app.removeAppEventsListener(appListener);

 3. Rebuild and re-run the example
 If you now recompile (using the javac command), and run the new example, you will now see that Excel is invoking the AppListener to inform it of various events (you can cause some of these events, by selecting text, for example):
 Accessing Excel from Java: Display output with events
3 Running the Java Client on Remote Non-Windows Platforms
If you want to run your Java client on a remote non-Windows machine, then you must do the following (The steps below also apply to remote Windows machine):
 1. Move the com2java tool to the Windows machine to generate the Java proxies of Excel and put them in an Excel.jar file, and then move the Excel.jar file from the Windows to the UNIX machine.
 2. Install J-Integra® (the jintegra.jar and the corresponding Excel.jar) on the non-Windows machine and include the jar files in CLASSPATH.
 3. Use DCOMCNFG to configure the Excel on the Excel Windows machine.
 4. Uncomment the line in the ExcelExample.java:
 com.linar.jintegra.AuthInfo.setDefault("NT DOMAIN", "NT USER", "NT PASSWORD");
 and pass the correct login credentials that are used to access the Window machine.
 5. Uncomment the line in the ExcelExample.java and pass the IP address or the computer name to the constructor of Excel in the ExcelExample.java:
 Application app = new Application("123.456.78.9");
 6. Move ExcelExample.java to the Linux machine. Compile and run it in DCOM mode without using DJINTEGRA_NATIVE_MODE property:
 java ExcelExample
4 More about Excel Programming
J-Integra® is a generic bi-directional bridge between any Java objects and any COM components. We do not provide the documentation of the generated Java proxies since the Java proxies are just mapped from the programming API of the COM component. For more information about Microsoft Excel programming, pleaserefer to the Microsoft Excel VBA Language Reference. It's also easier to find a VB example first, and then covert the VB example to Java program using the reference Mapping VB Code to Java Code. We can assist you if you encounter any difficulty when mapping the VB code to Java code.
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 1. What strategies may improve emergency department (ED) throughput and minimize ED crowding?
 2. How can hospitalists and Emergency Medicine (EM) physicians collaborate to improve the care of patients boarded in the ED?
 3. How can hospitalists and EM physicians improve the quality and safety of hand-offs between their departments?
 4. What basic principles underlie the operation of an observation unit?
Co-management of patients in the emergency department (ED) by Emergency Physicians and Hospital Medicine physicians has become necessary to alleviate ED crowding and optimize care of patients boarded in the ED while awaiting an inpatient bed. This chapter describes the challenge of ED crowding and how co-management strategies can improve patient flow from the ED into the hospital and improve the safety of patients who must be boarded. The chapter also examines two additional strategies for decreasing ED crowding: establishing a process for the triage of patients to appropriate services and locations within the hospital, and using ED based observation units.
Emergency Department Crowding
The Institute of Medicine in its 2006 report entitled Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point1 concluded that EDs in the United States are in crisis, with hospital crowding being the single largest contributor to long wait times and adverse clinical outcomes. Investigators have found an association between ED crowding and a higher risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes in patients with an initial diagnosis of chest pain. Others have found that, for patients with non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, long ED stays are associated with decreased adherence to clinical guidelines and an increased incidence of repeat myocardial infarction. An estimated 91% of the nation's EDs are overcrowded at any given time.
The causes of ED crowding are myriad and include increased utilization, demographic changes (most significantly the aging of the population), shortages of particular types of health care providers, and changing financial trends. Most significant amongst these were increased utilization and insufficient numbers of inpatient hospital beds. From 1996 to 2006 ED visits increased 32%, from 90.3 million to 119.2 million, equating to 325,000 visits per day. During that same time the number of ED visits per 100 persons rose 18%, from 34.2 to 40.5. In 2005 approximately one-fifth of the U.S. population had visited an ED within the previous 12 months. Ironically, the increase in ED utilization has been concurrent with a decrease in the total number of EDs. From 1996 to 2006 the number of EDs in the United States declined 4.6%, from 4019 to 3833 (Figure 123-1).
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Trends in emergency department utilization, number of hospitals, and number of emergency departments in the United States, 1994–2004. (Reproduced, with permission, from Kellermann AL. Crisis in the emergency department. N Engl J Med. 2006;355(13): 1300–1303. Copyright © 2006 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.)
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This paper presents a novel view of document processing, as being the reverse process to TeX. This concept simplifies the analysis of the physical structure of documents, and also suggests the use of a style file for layout recognition. An algorithm is given for both phases, layout analysis and layout recognition. The bottom-up layout analysis method employed is based on the Kruskal's algorithm and uses the distances between the components to construct the physical page structure. The algorithm is linear with respect to the number of the connected components. For layout recognition, a document style description language (DSDL) is introduced. This helps a fault-tolerant, recursive parsing algorithm to label the blocks of the document. The presented methods were designed to be used for scientific publications (papers, reports, books), but could be applied to a broader range of documents.
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- What is specific about a stove with a remote firebox
- Installation sequence
- Opening preparation
- Fire safety requirements
- Aisle finish and installation site
It is not always convenient to load the sauna stove from the steam room. If there is a remote firebox in the main rooms of the bath, there will be no chips and dirt, and when using coal as fuel, an unpleasant smell will disappear. We will show you how to install the external heater correctly and safely..
What is specific about a stove with a remote firebox
The choice in favor of a remote firebox can be dictated by a number of reasons: hygiene, aesthetics, lack of free space. And yet, giving preference to such a design, you need to understand that the benefit in the future should compensate for the complexity of installation. And there are much more of them in a stove with a remote firebox than in a conventional stove..
First of all, fire safety requirements apply. If the traditional design of the furnace requires either maintaining a distance from the combustible coatings, or lining them with a non-combustible screen, then the presence of a combustion tunnel implies a tight adjoining of highly heated parts to a wall or partition. In this regard, it is required:
- Replacing a section of a wall or partition with a non-combustible and heat-resistant material.
- Covering the tunnel in thermal insulation material, preventing overheating and damage to the finishing layer.
The situation is complicated by the fact that the whole action takes place in a bathhouse, which is traditionally built of wood and trimmed with wood. In connection with this feature, the decision to install a furnace from a remote firebox should be made in advance with the appropriate additions to the construction project. In particular, it is possible to recommend replacing the entire partition through which the channel will pass with a lightweight non-combustible material with a minimum value of thermal shrinkage. An example of this is tongue-and-groove gypsum boards, warm ceramics or hollow bricks..
The main specifics of installing a stove with a pass-through firebox is limited by the very place of the passage, otherwise the same requirements apply as for a conventional stove. Despite this, you should plan your actions correctly so that, in the end, the correct relationship of technical and decorative elements is ensured..
As many people know, the weight of a stove with a full load and brick lining can reach one ton, and therefore installation directly on the floor would be a deliberately wrong decision. This can be done only if we are talking about a relatively small stove (8-10 kW) and only with the correct organization of the floor supporting system. In other cases, it is required to cast a pedestal from reinforced concrete, which will rise 50–70 mm above the plane of the floor covering. Do not use flammable materials for finishing the stove base.
Now we will consider two special cases – the passage of the firebox through the non-capital partition and the passage through the load-bearing or external wall. In the first version, the partition does not have its own foundation; it is attached to the subfloor, which is possible due to the relatively low weight of the structure. However, if part of the partition is replaced by a heavier material (brick), it is quite advisable to continue the pedestal deep into the section of the wall for its entire thickness.
In the case of a passage through the main wall, additional difficulties arise. On the one hand, it is possible to tie the pedestal to the foundation, on the other hand, this increases the risk of the monolithic structure breaking due to uneven settlement of the building. Such a bundle can be performed only if the pedestal is poured simultaneously with the foundation, the reinforcement is connected with anchors, and there is a common cushion of sand and gravel under the pedestal and foundation. It seems unlikely to arrange such a bundle of a pedestal with a foundation upon completion of construction, in such cases, the passage and protective screen should be laid out separately with a gap of about 5-10 mm.
Preparing the right plinth is only the first part of the task. The sequence of further actions is as follows:
- Installing the furnace body.
- Installation of a furnace tunnel.
- Alignment of the entire structure as an assembly along the plane of abutment of the fire door to the finish.
- Installation of a chimney and, if available, a hydro-connection of the furnace.
- Passage laying and decorative finishing.
Agree that not every builder can boast of the ability to carefully plan and absolute foresight. Therefore, it makes sense to give some practical advice on preparing an opening in an already built partition.
The most problematic case can be called the passage of the firebox through a wooden frame wall. With a standard column pitch of 40-60 cm, at least three of them will have to be cut, while maintaining the structural strength of the upper section of the wall. This can be achieved by installing a more massive beam as the upper guardrail of the passageway, supporting it along the edges with additional posts. The technique is similar to the preparation of wide window openings during the construction of a frame house.
If the partition is folded from a bar, the opening in it is simply cut out with a chain saw, and then a lining from a board is mounted from the inside with a width of the entire thickness of the wall and a thickness of about 50-60 mm. The only pitfall here is that the length of the timber fragments remaining at the edge of the opening should not be less than 30 cm, respectively, you will have to play a little with the stove shifting to one side or the other.
To make an opening in a stone wall, slotting work cannot be avoided. The good news is that it is enough to simply tear off the combustible finish from the stone wall, but it makes no sense to carry out a complete replacement of the material at a specified distance from the tunnel. In this case, after installing the furnace body, the outline of the tunnel is drawn on the wall, the opening is cut out without additional reinforcement with a tolerance of 20-30 mm in each direction.
Fire safety requirements
So far, we have not deliberately touched on the question of how far from the furnace tunnel should be replaced with a non-combustible material and how to arrange a fire-safe, heat-resistant salary. The generally accepted norm is the replacement of a section of a wall with a width of 150 cm and the same height with a non-combustible material. It is characteristic that this does not take into account the section of the furnace tunnel and its design features. So, if the tunnel has a telescopic device, it will have double walls in the passage area, and therefore the heat transfer will be significantly reduced. The best guideline in determining the dimensions of the preparatory opening will be the recommendation of the manufacturer of a specific furnace model.
One of the mandatory requirements when installing the stove is the installation of a fireproof covering on the floor in an area of 0.5 m from the fire door. Such a coating can be a tile or galvanized steel sheet. It also makes sense not to arrange masonry close to the furnace tunnel. It is much more correct to provide a gap of about 20–30 mm on the top and sides, which is subsequently sealed with mineral wool. Such a damper will allow leveling the thermal expansion of the metal and maintaining the integrity of the finished masonry..
Aisle finish and installation site
The time has come to move from general concepts to practice. When the opening is prepared, the stove is installed and the chimney is mounted, the passage zone is closed. First, a lining is assembled from a brick under the furnace tunnel: by orienting the stones in different positions and adjusting the thickness of the seam, you need to achieve a tight backfill.
Next, lay out the side sections. Usually, at the edge of the opening, bricks are pushed together, forming a small protrusion, which provides additional protection for the finish and gives the masonry a more complete look. The sections between the ledge and the furnace door are laid with bricks in "spoons". In this case, the laying can be performed in two layers. Alignment of the masonry plane is carried out along the frame of the fire door.
The top row is laid out by analogy with the extreme bricks, thus forming the frame of the firebox. If, after laying the final butt row, a gap of more than 20 mm remains in the opening, this is a good opportunity to install a narrow shelf above the firebox – just insert a board of suitable thickness into the gap. After the mortar has set, the brickwork is lightly sprinkled with water and embroidered with a semicircular knife.


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To apply automotive clear coat, apply the coat to the car, and overlap each stroke by 50 percent to prevent tiger striping. Continue until the whole car is covered. Do not rush; adhere to the paint manufacturer's guidelines for time restrictions after application. Ensure that paint application occurs in an atmosphere between 55 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Keep the leftover paint for any future touch ups.Continue Reading
To get a feel for the motion needed for proper application, practice applying the clear coat on a smooth piece of metal before clear coating the vehicle.
Optimal weather for applying an automotive clear coat is a temperature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit with no humidity. If clear coat is applied when the temperature is below 55 degrees Fahrenheit or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, or when the car is located in direct sunlight, the paint appears foggy when dry. Painting should be done in a shady area, and if it absolutely must be done during cold weather, it should be done in a heated garage.
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Find Text in the Command Window
You can search text currently in the Command Window. This includes text that is currently visible on the screen, as well as text that is in the scroll buffer.
Search Using Find Dialog
To search for specified text in the Command Window, on the Command Window title bar, click, and then select Find. The Find dialog box opens. The search begins at the current cursor position. MATLAB® finds the text you specified and highlights it.
MATLAB beeps when a search for Find Next reaches the end of the Command Window, or when a search for Find Previous reaches the top of the Command Window. If you have Wrap around selected, MATLAB continues searching after beeping.
To search for the specified text in other MATLAB desktop tools, change the selection in the Look in field.
You can increase the amount of information available in the Command Window so that more text is available for searching. Be aware that doing so requires more memory. On the Home tab, in the Environment section, click Preferences. Select MATLAB > Command Window, and then increase the setting for Number of lines in the command window scroll buffer.
Clearing the command window (for example, with the clc function), empties the scroll buffer. The cleared text is no longer available for searching. To clear your display in the Command Window without clearing the buffer, use the home function.
Incremental Search Using Keyboard Shortcuts
This topic shows how to perform an incremental search in the Command Window.
With the incremental search feature, you do not have to leave the Command Window while you perform your search.
 1. Begin an incremental search using one of the following keyboard shortcuts, depending on your operating system's active settings file.
 ActionWindows® Default Active SettingsMacintosh or Emacs Default Active Settings
 Initiate a forward incremental search.
 Initiate a backward incremental search.
 An incremental search field appears at the bottom of the Command Window. For a forward search, the text F incSearch appears. The F indicates a forward search.
 2. Begin typing your search term.
 When you enter lowercase letters in the Inc Search field, incremental search looks for both lowercase and uppercase instances of the letters. For example, if you enter b, incremental search looks for b and B. However, if you enter uppercase letters, incremental search only looks for instances that match the case you entered.
 3. Perform incremental search actions using the following keyboard shortcuts.
 ActionKeyboard Shortcut
 Complete a partially highlighted string of characters.
 Find the next occurrence of a string of characters.
 Remove characters from the Inc Search field, back to the last successful search
 If you search for a string that does not appear in the Command Window text, Failing appears in the incremental search field.
 4. End incremental searching by pressing Esc (escape), Enter, or any other key that is not a character or number.
 The Inc Search field disappears. The cursor remains at the position where the text was last found, with the search text highlighted.
Find Text in the Command History Window
You can find text in the Command History Window that matches the case. You also can search for text at the beginning of or anywhere within a command.
 1. In the Command History window, type in the Search field. To display the Search field if is not visible, click, and then select Find.
 The Command History window searches backwards and selects the previous entry that contains the sequence of letters you typed.
 2. Find the previous or next occurrence of the entry with the up and down arrow keys, respectively.
 3. Press Esc to clear the search.
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