地理科学 ›› 2013, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (7): 824-830.doi: 10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2013.07.824
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俞万源(), 冯亚芬, 梁锦梅
 1. 嘉应学院地理科学与旅游学院,广东 梅州 514015
 梅州市文化生态旅游研究会,广东 梅州 514021
 - 收稿日期:2012-10-14 修回日期:2013-03-16 出版日期:2013-07-20 发布日期:2013-07-20
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Hakka Culture Tourism Development based on Tourist Satisfaction
Wan-yuan YU, Ya-fen FENG, Jin-mei LIANG
 1. 1.College of Geographical Science and Tourism, Jiaying University, Meizhou, Guangdong 514015,China
 2. Culture and Eco-tourism Association in Meizhou, Meizhou, Guangdong 514021,China
 - Received:2012-10-14 Revised:2013-03-16 Online:2013-07-20 Published:2013-07-20
关键词: 游客满意度, 客家文化旅游, 开发策略
The Hakka culture tourism means using Hakka region's unique historical background and cultural and natural landscape to satisfy tourist cultural heritage and cultural experience tourism. Since the 21st century, the Hakka culture tourism is booming. But the Hakka culture tourism development needs theoretical guidance extremely. So it is an effective way to enhance the competitiveness of tourist attraction and tourist satisfaction measurement to understand and grasp the service needs of the tourism. In Hakka cultural tourism, as the research object, the theory of satisfaction is used to assess the evaluation of the tourist satisfaction. Studies show that: 1) The overall satisfaction degree of tourists is lower than satisfaction level. 2) There are some differences in the satisfaction between different tourist groups. 3) There are significant influence factors of satisfaction. Otherwise, the Hakka culture tourism has such problems as fuzzy image, narrow market, single product, lack characteristics, less service supervision and so on. Improving the visitors' understanding of Hakka culture, enriching Hakka culture tourism products, enhancing the cultural connotation of tourism products and optimizing the tourism environment are effective ways to enhance the satisfaction of Hakka culture tourism tourists. The article suggests: the Hakka culture tourism development should implement the image strategy, market strategy, product strategy, environment and management strategy to improve the image of the Hakka culture tourism value, the product value, environmental value and service value. Countermeasures include: 1) Strengthening the image theme, strengthening tourism promotion and image propagation, cultivating and promoting Hakka culture tourism brand image can enhance the value of Hakka culture tourism image.2) Developing non-Hakka tourist market, innovating mode of tourism marketing, widening the Hakka culture tourism marketing channels can expand the Hakka culture tourism market.3) Strengthening the characteristics and competitive products consciousness, enriching Hakka culture tourism products, improving the Hakka culture tourism product quality can improve the Hakka culture tourism products and service value.4) Strengthening the construction of infrastructure and ecological environment construction, enhancing the Hakka culture tourism environmental quality can enhance the Hakka culture tourism environment value.5) Strengthening the system construction, standardizing the trade management, establishing long-term mechanism to promote customer satisfaction can improve the Hakka culture tourism service value.
Key words: the tourists' satisfaction, Hakka cultural tourism, development strategy
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Abattoirs, as integral components of the meat production chain, face a myriad of challenges spanning from regulatory compliance to environmental sustainability. However, with innovative solutions and collaborative efforts, these challenges can be addressed to ensure the continued viability of abattoirs while upholding standards of hygiene, animal welfare, and environmental responsibility. This article explores the key challenges faced by abattoirs and presents innovative solutions to mitigate them for a sustainable future.
- Regulatory Compliance: Challenge: Abattoirs must adhere to stringent regulations governing food safety, animal welfare, and environmental protection. Compliance with diverse regulatory frameworks can be complex and resource-intensive, particularly for small-scale facilities with limited resources. Solution: Implementing integrated management systems that streamline compliance with multiple regulations can help abattoirs navigate complex regulatory landscapes more efficiently. Investing in staff training and capacity building to ensure awareness of regulatory requirements and best practices is essential for maintaining compliance.
- Animal Welfare Concerns: Challenge: Ensuring humane treatment and handling of animals in abattoirs is paramount, yet challenges such as stress during transportation and slaughter, inadequate stunning techniques, and insufficient monitoring can compromise animal welfare. Solution: Adopting best practices in animal handling and stunning, such as implementing low-stress handling techniques, providing adequate facilities for rest and water, and employing trained personnel, can improve animal welfare outcomes. Continuous monitoring and auditing of welfare practices are essential to identify areas for improvement and ensure compliance with standards.
- Environmental Impact: Challenge: Abattoirs can have significant environmental footprints due to water and energy consumption, waste generation, and greenhouse gas emissions. Pollution from effluents, such as blood and wastewater, can also pose environmental risks. Solution: Implementing sustainable practices, such as water recycling and reuse systems, energy-efficient technologies, and waste management strategies (e.g., composting, biogas production), can reduce environmental impacts. Investing in renewable energy sources and implementing pollution control measures, such as effluent treatment systems, can minimize environmental pollution and enhance sustainability.
- Workforce Safety and Health: Challenge: Abattoir workers are exposed to various occupational hazards, including sharp tools, heavy machinery, repetitive tasks, and exposure to biological and chemical hazards, which can pose risks to their safety and health. Solution: Prioritizing occupational health and safety measures, such as providing personal protective equipment, implementing ergonomic workstations, conducting regular training on safety procedures, and fostering a culture of safety awareness, can mitigate risks and promote the well-being of abattoir workers.
- Community Relations and Social Responsibility: Challenge: Abattoirs can face challenges related to community acceptance, noise, odor, and concerns about environmental and public health impacts. Solution: Engaging with local communities through dialogue, transparency, and community outreach initiatives can foster understanding and trust. Implementing measures to mitigate odors and noise pollution, such as investing in odor control systems and soundproofing, demonstrates commitment to being a responsible neighbor and promoting social harmony.
Addressing the challenges faced by abattoirs requires a multifaceted approach that integrates technological innovation, regulatory compliance, environmental stewardship, and social responsibility. By implementing innovative solutions and collaborative strategies, abattoirs can overcome these challenges and contribute to a sustainable and ethical meat production industry. Through continuous improvement and adaptation to evolving standards and practices, abattoirs can ensure the well-being of animals, workers, communities, and the environment while meeting the demands of consumers for safe, high-quality meat products.

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A new registry compiled by two major universities reveals that more than 2,000 prisoners were incorrectly imprisoned for serious crimes since 1989. After perusing the registry, it has been uncovered that more than half of the newly exonerated prisoners were African American, according to Newser.
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The University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern University School of Law worked in tandem to compile the data and found that 5 out of 10 falsely accused defendants were Black and 9 out of 10 were male. Before now, there was no official record-keeping arm or prisoner exonerations and the schools say this is the most-complete listing ever created.
DNA evidence seemed to be the thread that unbound the prisoners from their premature fates, with many of the arrested charged with homicides and sex crimes. Two-thirds of the exonerations came by way of DNA testing and nearly one-third of the 416 false homicide convictions were exposed due to genetic testing.
See the full registry here.

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There's a distinction to be made between two notions: foliations and distributions.
A distribution is the data, at each point m of M, of a subspace of Tm(M). These subspaces are all of the same dimension (say r), and depend smoothly on the point m, which means that they are generated by r smooth vector fields.
A foliation is a partition of the manifold into (not necessarily closed) submanifolds, such that, locally, this partition looks like the standard decomposition of ℝn into translates of ℝd. Ok, there's a caveat in my description since a same leaf could come infinitely many often in the neighborhood of a given point m. Anyways... I'm assuming that you know what a foliation is.
Foliations of M form a subset of distributions on M.
The Frobenius integrability criterion (mentioned by Tom in him remark) states that a distribution D comes from a foliation iff for any vector fields v and w tangent to D, their Lie bracket is again tangent to D.
It turns out that that criterion is always satisfied for one-dimensional distributions, and so one-dimensional distributions are indeed in bijection with one-dimensional foliations. But that's no longer true for r ≥ 2.
The operation of taking orthogonal complement is a very good operation for distributions: it's always well defined, and the orthogonal complement of the orthogonal complement is the distribution you started with.
But the orthogonal complement of a foliation is typically only a distribution.
The standard example that illustrates that situation is the vector field sin(z)d/dx + cos(z)d/dy on ℝ3. It defines a perfectly good foliation, but its orthogonal fails to satisfy the Frobenius integrability criterion, and therefore fails to be a foliation (in this particular case, it's a contact structure, another beautiful mathematical notion...).
Ah! You also wanted the foliation to be defined by the orbits of a group acting by isometries... That can be arranged: take the action of S1 on S3 given by the Hopf fibration. The orthogonal distribution is the standard contact structure on S3.
You also said that you wanted you Riemanninan manifold to be flat... In that case, you can take ℝ4=ℂ2 with its S1-action by complex multiplication. That example contains the above S3 example as an
invariant submanifold, and therefore reproduces all its features.


Question: What wines are low in histamines?
Try drinking dry whites like Sauvignon Blanc or sparkling wines like Cava or Prosecco as they are lower in histamines than red wines.
Which wines have histamines?
Red wines typically have the highest histamine levels when compared to white wines and champagnes. The levels are typically between 60 to 3800 micrograms per liter (mcg/L). Red wines normally need the longest aging time to "soften" and fully develop their desired flavor.
Which alcohol has least histamine?
When it comes to spirits, stick to tequila, vodka and gin.
They're lower in histamine than other liquors. For vodka, stick to the plain types, as flavored vodkas can have higher histamine levels.
Which wine has less sulfites red or white?
Fact: Red wines typically contain less sulfites than white wine. Why do red wines have less sulfites? They contain tannin, which is a stabilizing agent, and almost all red wines go through malolactic fermentation. Therefore, less sulfur dioxide is needed to protect the wine during winemaking and maturation.
What alcohol contains histamines?
Wine and beer have a lot of histamines in them, which is a substance your body produces naturally. Histamines develop over time, mostly in aged beverages or foods, like wine and aged cheese.
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Does B12 increase histamine?
Folic acid (with vitamin B12) can help to raise the histamine level.
Is Turmeric high in histamine?
5. Turmeric is a spice that can prevent the release of histamine from mast cells and can even inhibit anaphylactic reactions. It can be used in cooking or can be made into a tea.
Does Coca Cola contain histamine?
The problem is that histamine is not only produced by cells in our immune system, it can also occur naturally in some foods such as champagne, wine, beer, sauerkraut, vinegar, pickles, mayonnaise, tofu cheese, sausages, processed meats, mushrooms, prepared salads, tinned vegetables, dried fruits, seeds, nuts, yeast, …
Is Pinot Noir high in histamines?
Most of the wines had similar amine levels except for Pinot noir and St. … For example, when wines from 2004 and 2005 were compared, it was found that levels of histamine, putrescine and tyramine were higher in 2004 (a vintage with very good red wines) than in 2005 (a year delivering average red wine) [4].
What fish is low in histamine?
Histamine levels of fish
Fish product Histamine level
Fresh fish (e.g. salmon, saithe, redfish, cod, hake, hoki, plaice, trout, zander) low-histamine
Frozen Fish (also fish fingers) low-histamine
Fish oil capsules low-histamine
Canned fish (e.g. tuna, anchovies, sardines, mackerels, herring, rollmops) histamine-rich
Which wines have less sulfites?
Wines with more color (i.e., red wines) tend to need less sulfites than clear wines (i.e., white wines). A typical dry white wine may have around 100 mg/L whereas a typical dry red wine will have around 50–75 mg/L.
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What wine has the least amount of sulfites?
Frey Vineyards Natural Red NV, California ($9)
A pioneer of organic and biodynamic wines, Frey also prides itself on adding no sulfites to its wines. Their basic red blend is comprised of Carignan, Zinfandel, and Syrah – fruity and easy drinking.
Does coffee contain histamine?
Coffee is high in histamine which can set off what looks like an allergic reaction but it doesn't occur through the typical allergy mechanism. Instead, the histamine from the coffee causes an inflammatory reaction that can be quite severe in some people.
Is wine high in histamine?
"Red wine migraines" are often histamine intolerance headaches, and red wine is indeed high in histamine. All alcoholic beverages can be problematic for people with histamine intolerance because alcohol can make DAO, one of the enzymes your body uses to process histamine, less effective.
Does alcohol contain histamine?
Beer, wine and liquor contain histamine, produced by yeast and bacteria during the fermentation process. Histamine, of course, is the chemical that sets off allergy symptoms. Wine and beer also contain sulfites, another group of compounds known to provoke asthma and other allergy-like symptoms.
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The Evangelical Faith in the Arab Culture
Yohanna Katanacho, ed. The Evangelical Faith in the Arab Culture. Lebanon: Dar Manhal Alhayat, 2021.
Few years ago, several PhD Arab Scholars met in order to discuss faith among Arabs in the Middle East and north Africa. The goal was to help Arab Evangelical Seminaries to develop their hermeneutical lenses. How can we train our Evangelical Christian leaders? What are the main Christian ways in which Arab Evangelicals perceive or should perceive their realities? The focus was to help Arab Evangelicals to construct a multifaceted hermeneutical tool that can empower them to perceive maturely and form their faith contextually. This tool can then be used to influence many disciplines such as biblical studies, or history, or society, or other fields that are important for shaping a contextually sensitive faith.
Eight PhD scholars who are considered among the top Evangelical leaders in the Arab world worked with the editor in order to fulfil this goal. The journey was full of obstacles but the outcome was indeed worth it. Scholars from Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine-Israel, Jordan, and Egypt worked together and wrote a well-documented and researched academic book.
The lenses that were considered indispensable for viewing Arab reality maturely were: Christ, Scriptures, the global church, the Missional church, Islam, the historical depth, the political considerations, and the socio-political dynamics of the church. The chapters were done in the following order
1. Dr. Hani Hanna wrote on the centrality of Christ in theological education. Dr. Hani is the
president of Evangelical Theological Society in Cairo.
2. Dr. Imad Shehadeh wrote on the centrality of Scriptures. He is the President of Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary.
3. Dr. Wageeh Mikhail on the global church focusing on Arab Christianity. He an expert in Christian and Muslim history and serves with Scholar Leaders.
4. Dr. Elie Haddad wrote on the Missional Church. He is the president of Arab Baptist Theological Seminary.
5. Dr. Martin Accad wrote on Islam. He is an associate professor of Islamic Studies at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary.
6. Dr. Ashoor Yousef wrote on the historical depth. He is the director of MTS Modular Program at Tyndale University.
7. Dr. Andrea Zaki wrote on the political considerations. He is the president of Protestant Churches in Egypt.
8. Dr. Salim Munayer wrote on the socio-political consideration focusing on Palestinians as a case study. He is the founder of Musalaha and a Professor at Bethlehem Bible College.
Dr. Yohanna Katanacho the Academic Dean at Nazareth Evangelical College led the team in writing this project and introduced the book by talking about three components in the title of the book, that is, (1) Evangelical, (2) faith, and (3) Arab. After discussing theses labels diachronically, synchronically, historically and theologically, He introduced the different lenses. The book is now available in Arabic and it is expected to impact the next generation of Arab Evangelical scholars in several ways such as:
1. It is expected that Arab Evangelical Scholars will pay better attention to their context not only thematically but also hermeneutically.
2. It is expected that Arab Evangelical Scholars will reflect critically on their identity and missional responsibility.
3. It is expected that Arab Evangelical Scholars will work together and develop tools to relate to their Christian brothers and sisters from other denominations with generous orthodoxy.
4. It is expected that Arab Evangelical Scholars will pay more attention to the importance and significance of the church.
5. It is expected that Arab Evangelical Scholars will reflect saliently on addressing their Muslim neighbors lovingly, truthfully, and wisely for the glory of God.
6. It is expected that Arab Evangelical Scholars will use these lenses to write many other scholarly volumes that has the potential to enrich theological Education.
7. Last, producing contextually and hermeneutically wise leaders shall advance the Kingdom of God among Arabs globally.
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— NYT Archives (_USER_) September 18, 2014
It cost one cent, was only four pages long, and was then called The New York Daily Times, but on Sept. 18, 1851, The New York Times published its first issue.
As Robert McFadden wrote in 2001, when the paper celebrated its sesquicentennial,
Beginnings are apt to be inauspicious, and so they were in 1851 with Henry Jarvis Raymond's little newspaper. But over the last 150 years, as the nation endured wars, depressions, terror attacks and often painful political, economic and cultural growth, that paper survived competitive challenges, even brushes with death, and prospered beyond its founders' wildest dreams.
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I am stuck to this code and particularly the point F=[ones(size(x)) x x.^2]. What does it do mathematically? I cannot understand what the heck the matrix has to do with this least-squares regression.
I think it should do something like:
$$\begin{align} \min \sum_{i}&r_{i}\\ s.t. \\ r_{i}=(o_{i}- &h_{i})^2 \end{align} $$
where $r_{i}$ is the distance between the observed value $o_{i}$ and the plotting value $h_{i}$.
I do not have access to MATLAB so please refer to some free software such as R or Python if you are going to demo.
x=[1 3 5 7 9 11]'
y=[0.0100 2.3984 11.0256 4.0272 0.2408 0.0200]'
plot(x,y,'r*')
hold on % Model a_1+a_2*x+a_3*x^2
F=[ones(size(x)) x x.^2]
a=F\y % solves F*a=y with Least-Squares
l=max(x)-min(x); % greatest distance between x -points
t=[floor(min(x)):l/100:ceil(max(x))]'; % plot distance a bit greater
plot(t,[ones(size(t)) t t.^2]*a,'b') % [ones(size(t)) t t.^2]*a calcs fits in t
legend('Data points','Fits')
axis([0,12,-2,15])
SSE=sum((y-F*a).^2) % a sum
SST=sum((y-mean(y)).^2) % total sum
rSquared=1-SSE/SST % R-squared
fun = @(x)(-a(1)-a(2)*x-a(3)*x^2) % -1 * fit, cos fminsearch looks for min
x_max=fminsearch(fun,6)
plot(x_max,a(1)+a(2)*x_max+a(3)*x_max^2,'o')
hold off
...this code is supposed to do the same thing:
x = [1 3 5 7 9 11]';
y = [0.0100 2.3984 11.0256 4.0272 0.2408 0.0200]';
X = [x.^0 x x.^2]; % Model: y = b1 + b2x + b3x^2 -> y = Xb
x_grid = 0:0.01:11; % grid for drawing
b1_hat = inv(X'*X)*X'*y; % Least squares
y1_hat = b1_hat(1)*x_grid.^0 + b1_hat(2)*x_grid.^1 +...
b1_hat(3)*x_grid.^2;
figure(1) % Drawing the fitted polynomial
plot(x,y,'*',x_grid,y_hat)
optimal1 = max(y_hat)
...I am now confused by this X = [x.^0 x x.^2];, the logic seems the same as earlier but I cannot understand yet it.
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The reason why the rows of your design matrix take the form $(1\quad x_k\quad x_k^2)$ is that you're fitting with the quadratic model
$$y=c_0+c_1x+c_2x^2$$
If you expand out the matrix product
$$\begin{pmatrix}1&x_1&x_1^2\\1&x_2&x_2^2\\\vdots&\vdots&\vdots\\1&x_m&x_m^2\end{pmatrix}\begin{pmatrix}c_0\\c_1\\c_2\end{pmatrix}$$
you should be able to recognize that in the residual function you're trying to minimize.
In general, one always adds a column of $1$'s to the design matrix to account for constant terms in the model.
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b1_hat, y1_hat and b1_hat(3)... why and what it really do? It does vector multiplication with the X*X' (where X' is apparently transpose(?!)) and then it takes inverse but why, sorry I cannot understand this yet... – hhh Dec 3 '11 at 8:34
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The Platte Alliance Water Supply (PAWS) Project is a rural municipal water supply project incorporating communities and additional rural water districts in Southeastern Wyoming and Western Nebraska, along the North Platte River basin. These rural municipalities are experiencing significant financial hardships to treat for significant nitrates, arsenic and uranium contaminants in their water systems. Upstream, in Wyoming, the water quality is significantly improved.
The planning concept is to take water upstream in the North Platte River, where only conventional treatment processes will be required; and via gravity transmission, pipe the treated water downstream to the rural municipalities and water districts. The project will be the first multi-state treated water project for both Wyoming and Nebraska; will involve significant water rights issues (although this is a water quality issue not water quantity issue); operations and governance issues; and financial considerations.
The initial planning study was conducted via funding from the Bureau of Reclamation, and the current, subsequent (Level II) planning study is sponsored by Goshen County, Wyoming and funded jointly by the Wyoming Water Development Commission and the City of Scottsbluff, Nebraska.


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I saw mention of a 'dish' hold, and cannot figure out what this means exactly from Google searches. There are many sites selling dish holds like this one, but I don't understand what 'dish' means from the pictures. Plates? Something to do with their flatness?
"Dish holds" are holds that are (in relation to their total size) rather flat.
That seems to be their defining property - they can be round, have pockets, edges or other interesting features on them, but the one thing they have in common is their flat shape. This is in contrast to e.g. large jugs or slopers etc. which stick out more from the wall.
From my experience, a dish hold is one containing a smooth, shallow concave indentation, generally looking like the shape of a bowl or dish. I think it would fall under the sloper category, although slopers include both smooth concave and convex surfaces.
Below are some examples:
The indentation on the right would be considered a dish hold.
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Myth: Employers can make deductions from the wages of staff who make mistakes which cost them money
Irwin Mitchell LLP 22 March 2018
The right to be paid wages in full is a basic employment right and the circumstances in which employers can make deductions from an individual's pay are limited.
Generally, unless the terms of the worker's contract allow you to make the deduction, or the worker agrees in writing before making the deduction, any deduction you make to recover costs/expenses due to a mistake or negligence will be unlawful.
If you go ahead anyway, the worker can bring an employment claim to recover the amount they have been underpaid. If they feel very strongly about it, they could also resign and claim constructive dismissal, if they have two years' service. In addition, if you wrongly make a deduction you will not be able to recover it by any other means, such as by suing the individual.
The rules around making deductions from salary are set out in the Employment Rights Act 1996. These state that employers cannot make any deduction unless:
 1. It is required to by law – for example, to make NI and PAYE deductions
 2. The worker's contract expressly permits it
 3. The worker has agreed to the deduction in writing before it is made.
Any provision in your worker's existing contract must be precisely worded and clearly set out the circumstances in which a deduction can be made. Any ambiguity in the contract terms you are relying on will be interpreted in favour of the worker – not you. For example, a clause that purports to give you the right to deduct "any sums due" is too wide and you will not be able to rely on it. Conversely, a clause, which, for example, allows you to recover losses from your worker if their work mobile phone is lost, stolen or damaged due their neglect is likely to be sufficiently clear to be enforceable.
In addition, the clause would have to be enforceable under ordinary contractual principles before you can rely on it. This means that the amount you are seeking to deduct must relate to the losses you have incurred. If it doesn't, and instead is designed to penalise the worker, you are unlikely to be able to enforce it even if it is "crystal clear".
If your contract does allow you to make the deduction, before you make it you must provide details of the deduction in writing to the worker and any deduction you make must not reduce their hourly wage to less than the appropriate National Minimum Wage.
There are additional restrictions that apply to retail workers. If you are looking to make deductions to recover cash or stock shortages, the maximum deduction you can make is 10% of gross pay.


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It takes a special kind of person to work in the field of crime scene cleanup. You need a strong stomach and nerves of steel, because your job involves cleaning up human remains left behind by medical examiners, chemicals, or potentially harmful viruses or bacteria. Crime scene cleaners typically take a 20-hour bio-recovery technician course on the hazards of cleaning up human waste and best practices. According to CNN Money, entry salaries start at around $35,000 a year but can grow to over $80,000 after a few years' experience.
Most crime scene cleanup technicians don't work 9 to 5 hours. Instead, they're on call, typically for a 12-hour shift during weekends, about two nights a week, and one or two weekends a month. Because the work is sporadic, regular hours aren't efficient or cost effective for employers, which are typically local law enforcement agencies. Because you need to be able to work at a moment's notice, you can't be out of town, under the influence of alcohol, or otherwise unavailable when called.
One of the main job duties is cleaning up human waste. This includes cleaning blood off walls and objects, ripping out or cleaning carpeting, cleaning or disposing of furniture, and bagging loose human remains the coroner has left behind. You must wear appropriate protective gear to prevent exposure to blood-borne pathogens. Your training teaches the chemicals to use to get the job done, as ordinary household cleaners won't completely sanitize affected areas.
Another common cleanup situation is when criminals such as methamphetamine dealers are apprehended, and the potentially toxic chemicals left at the crime scene need proper disposal. Training for crime scene cleaners typically covers the personal protective equipment you need to wear, how to handle various chemicals, proper disposal methods and accounting for all inventory. You treat all substances at a crime scene as potentially hazardous, even if they're labeled otherwise, because they could be mislabeled to prevent detection by authorities.
Perhaps the most potentially dangerous situation for a crime scene cleanup expert is being called to clean a potential bio-terrorism site. If you're dealing with infectious agents, you have to wear hot, heavy protective gear, such as a Hazmat suit, double-filter respirators and chemical-spill boots. Your training covers respiratory protection, official communication channels, awareness of your personal space and labeling procedures. It's important all procedures are followed to the letter, or you risk infecting not only yourself, but countless others by being careless.


Toner Gum Transfer with B.I.G. Ground
In this experiment, we aim to develop a method of transferring a toner-printed image onto a copper plate to act as a resist in the etch. The process was first tested by Andrew Baldwin, and involves wetting a toner image with gum arabic, rolling on a coating of B.I.G hard ground, and wiping off excess ground with a damp sponge. The wet ground should stick to the printer toner, and remain in all but the white areas of the paper. This treated image is then run through the press facing the copper plate in order to transfer the B.I.G. onto the copper. The plate is baked, allowed to sit and cure, and etched in ferric chloride. The B.I.G. should act as an aquatint to achieve tone, and the white areas will open-bite. We hope that with some refinement, this technique will render a printed image that is as true as possible to the tone and detail of the original image. For these tests, we printed our source images on a Brother laser printer model number HL- 2280DW. In most tests we used the printer on its default settings, but we did utilize the photocopy setting and another special setting for the Pronto Plates, as explained in the following tests.
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Defective or Abnormal Eggs in Poultry
Most "ridged," "sunburst," "slab-sided," soft-shelled, or double-shelled eggs are the result of eggs colliding in the shell gland region of the oviduct when an ovum (yolk) is released too soon after the previous one. Necropsy examinations have demonstrated that two full-sized eggs can be found in the shell gland pouch. As the second egg comes in contact with the first, pressure is exerted, disrupting the pattern of mineralization. The first egg acquires a white band and chalky appearance, while the second egg is flattened on its contiguous surface (ie, slab-sided). Pimpled or rough eggs may have been retained too long in the shell gland. Blood spots result when a follicle vessel along the stigma ruptures as the ovum is being released. Meat spots occur when a piece of follicle membrane or residual albumen from the previous day is incorporated into the developing egg.
Many abnormalities appear to have no specific cause, but the incidence is much higher in hens subjected to stressful management conditions, rough handling, or vaccination during production. A significant increase in the number of soft-shelled eggs is also common as a result of viral diseases such as infectious bronchitis, egg drop syndrome, and Newcastle disease.
Small eggs with no yolk form around a nidus of material (residual albumen) in the magnum of the oviduct. Small eggs with reduced albumen and eggs with defective shells may be the result of damage to the epithelium of the magnum or shell gland.
Very rarely, foreign material that enters the oviduct through the vagina (eg, a roundworm) may be incorporated into an egg.


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NASTAR Center Announces 2010 Classes For Suborbital Scientists
Southampton PA (SPX) Apr 08, 2010
Environmental Tectonics's National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center has announced the next Suborbital Scientist Training Program course dates as June 14, 15, 16 and August 2, 3, 4 of 2010. Course dates for sponsored groups are also set for the summer and fall of 2010.
The NASTAR Suborbital Scientist Training Program provides space flight physiology training for prospective "Suborbital Scientist-Astronauts" wishing to fly experiments on upcoming suborbital space missions.
The course teaches how to handle the physiological and psychological rigors of spaceflight and provides a tangible understanding of how to design experiments for research in a suborbital environment.
The program is three days and includes an overview of the commercial space research industry, altitude and space flight physiology training and distraction factors management
Dates available for individual sign-ups are June 14-16 and August 2-4 of 2010. NASA, Industry Organizations, and University sponsored group dates are available through NASTAR Center.
Brienna Henwood, Director of Space and Research at NASTAR Center, said, "The coming era of commercial suborbital spaceflights will provide low-cost, frequent space access for projects and people to altitudes of 70-140 km with up to 5 minutes of microgravity. The NASTAR Center Suborbital Scientist Training Program provides researchers and their organizations an understanding of how they can take advantage of these newly emerging 'human-in-the-loop' Research and Education Mission (REM) opportunities. In the end, our trainees walk away with confidence and an excellent understanding of the processes necessary to prepare experiments and themselves for suborbital spaceflight."
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I am new to Python scripting in ArcGIS but not new to ModelBuilder.
I would like to know the benefits of Python vs ModelBuilder.
When should we write Python script for GIS automation rather than use ModelBuilder?
What are the automation capabilities of Python that we cannot find in ModelBuilder?
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I believe that the user should clearly define their objectives before deciding which set of tools to use. ModelBuilder and Python scripting excel at different tasks. A few thoughts:
 1. ModelBuilder has no mapping capabilities, whereas arcpy.mapping does.
 2. Python can be used to optimize workflows, such as with the multiprocessing package or with parallel processing.
 3. Python allows for nested loops and other handy iterative logic tools. To accomplish a similar result in ModelBuilder, you would have to construct intricate, and complicated, nested models.
 4. Simple text manipulation is very easy with Python and either very difficult or not possible with ModelBuilder.
 e.g. to rename a list of file names from, for example "m_2010_naip_2310345_nw.img" to "2310345nw.img" can easily be accomplished with Python using the os.path module.
On the other hand:
 1. ModelBuilder is very useful for quickly putting together common tools and eliminating the need for debugging scripts.
 2. ModelBuilder has a very useful recursive iterator that is easy to implement in order to loop through folders and subfolders.
 3. ModelBuilder excels at visually and intuitively depicting the workflow for complicated tasks.
 4. ModelBuilder can incorporate Python script tools.
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Described differences between Python and Model Builder in ArcGIS clearly. Thanks – wetland Apr 7 '13 at 17:34
I would add also: 1. you can run your Python script outside ArcMap 2. You can use ArcObjects in Python, 3. There may be some speed differences. – Tomek Apr 7 '13 at 19:19
+1 NESTED LOOPS & arcpy.mapping! I like the ability to make calculations within a script and add them to attribute tables or better yet to the map layout (area of each wetland type for example). – Roy Apr 9 '13 at 19:43
I read python scripting for ArcGIS book. I also add some more capabilities : 1- script cursors let you loop through records in a table, reading the existing rows and inserting new rows. 2- scripting can be used to wrap other softwarethat is, to glue together application. for example python can be used to access functions in Microsoft Excel or in the statistical Package R. 3-A script can be run as a stand-alone script on disk outside of ArcGIS.you do not need to run ArcMap or ArcCatalog for script to work. (Python Scripting for ArcGIS, Chapter 2, Page 39) – wetland Apr 13 '13 at 15:02
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If you are working solely within the confines of ArcGIS, there are a few considerations I would consider when attempting to determine the approach to take.
 - What are you trying to accomplish,
 - What are your current skill sets,
 - Will you be sharing your work with others to use, learn from, or manipulate, and
 - Who is your intended audience.
Given those considerations:
 1. It is often quicker and easier to build a process in ModelBuilder than in Python, unless part of your process cannot be replicated in ModelBuilder.
 2. If you don't know Python & have not intention to learn it, ModelBuilder is a great option.
 3. If you don't know Python & want to learn to incorporate it into your skill set, ModelBuilder is a great way to start by creating simple models, then exporting them to Python so you have the skeleton of your final process pre-built for you. This method does come at a cost, as there is a lot of extraneous information & variables that usually get created during the conversion process, but it is still a great way to start learning.
 4. If you are building tools for personal use, using whichever method you feel most comfortable with is usually the route to go. I personally use both, depending on my needs.
 5. If you are planning to share your analysis with others, and want to share your model/script with others are part of your process documentation, a model is generally much easier to follow and understand for non-technical people.
There probably is no answer to "which is better" for personal use, but if you are looking long-term at employment possibilities, by learning Python you will set yourself apart from those who only know how to use the pre-programmed tools, or just know how to use ModelBuilder. You also give yourself the ability to go outside the confines of Python for ArcGIS (ArcPy), and start automating far more tasks and projects by using other proprietary and open-source GIS libraries, as well as many non-GIS libraries (iedatabase, image manipulation, statistics, etc).
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great. I'll use your Python programming experiences. – wetland Apr 8 '13 at 5:23
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Model Builder is a great and easy to learn visual programming language and a good entrance to GIS-programming in general. But in some things python can do more.
One example is the integration of non-ESRI GIS libraries. Nearly all of the Open Source GIS can be adressed via python as well (e.g. GRASS, Sextante, QGIS, SAGA). This helped me a lot, because I only have an ArcView license. So every time I cannot use a certain geoprocessing tool in ArcGIS, I look what other options are available in Open Source GIS. I then take these OpenSource-tools and combine them with ArcGIS tools either in a bigger python script or integrate them in ModelBuilder via a smaller python script.
I'm sure other members can name more advantages.
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Thanks but i only use ArcGIS Desktop (ArcInfo) – wetland Apr 7 '13 at 17:25
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When using Python and ArcGIS, you get the entire functionality of Python in addition to what you already had in ArcGIS. If you need this kind of power and flexibility depends on your wishes. In addition, getting to know and really leverage a programming language such as Python takes time. If this investment is worth it for you is up to you. However, for serious data processing a real scripting language is a very good addition in your arsenal.
Apart form any functionality that the ModelBuilder might miss, there is also a more fundamental discussion. In general, scripts are much more suitable to create complex workflows. The code is processed from top to bottom, and complex tasks can be subdivided into smaller sub tasks using e.g. functions. or objects. A graphical tool such as the model builder tends to become a big spaghetti.
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I'm partial to creating Python scripts. It's more fun to write code than to mess around with connecting lines to boxes and such, for me at least.
What's really great about Python scripting is you can schedule your scripts to run at a time that is convenient for you. If you have a script that takes a while to complete, or needs to be run outside of regular business hours, this is really convenient. You can see an example of how to schedule a script here.
And as _USER_ mentions, you can easily set up looping in a Python script.
If you're just setting out with Python scripting, you might want to create a model with Model Builder and export it as a Python script. I do this sometimes if I'm having trouble understanding how to use several tools in a script. It could help you get a sense for how to put scripts together.
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your answer was very interesting for me.Thanks – wetland Apr 7 '13 at 18:35
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I have found that I seem to get stuck with no solution more with model builder than with python scripting. The somewhat 'black box' nature of model builder to me makes it harder to find where the problem is located.
I have also found that I can find a lot more help on python. I tend to find lots of dead end threads and topics about model builder. There area also fewer example to go by, where as with python, you probably can find small snipets of most parts of any script you are writing.
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Gas Buster is also called mud gas separator or poor boy degasser, which is a safety equipment used on oilfield to remove the gas from drilling fluids. The gas in the drilling fluids is coming from underground with very high pressure. The worse is that the gas is always flammable and sometimes poisonous.
Where to the locate the gas buster on an oilfield
It is well known that the solids control equipments are used to remove the solids from the drilling fluids so that the fluids could be reused. Greatly could be saved by recycling the drilling fluids. Strictly speaking, even though the gas buster is not one type of solids control equipment, it always appears together with solids control equipment. Some mud engineers will put gas buster out of but ahead of the mud recycling tank, some ones even directly put the gas buster on the top of the mud tank. When there is drilling fluids coming out from the drilling hole with cut in high pressure gas, unless the gas is removed, the drilling fluids will be not be guided to the shale shakers unit for recycling.
How does gas buster work
The drilling fluids with high pressure gas will be firstly guided to chock manifold for pressure relief. And then the drilling fluids will be guided to gas buster. Inside the gas buster there is a device named distribution pipe which could decompose big bulk gas into small gas bubbles. The gas bubbles coming out of the distribution pipe will directly float upwards and build up at the upper part of the gas buster vessel and then guided out from the pipe at the top of the vessel. The slurry coming down will then transferred to the shale shaker for mud cleaning system.
As mentioned before, the gas separated by the gas buster is always flammable and poisonous. It cannot be discharged to environment directly. The usual practice is to guide the gas somewhere 50-100 meters far away from the rig and the burnt by an igniter device.
Gas buster and igniter device are not used very often, they are just like the fire extinguisher. However, to a oilfield drilling site, especially a deep drilling site, they are indispensable.


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The "urology plasma button loop" design refers to the shape of the electrode tip. It typically features a small, rounded button-shaped surface that delivers the plasma energy. This design allows for precise and controlled application of energy to the tissue, minimizing collateral damage to surrounding structures.
Urology plasma button electrodes are used for various purposes in urological surgery, including cutting, coagulating, and vaporizing tissue. They are often used in procedures such as transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), bladder tumor resection, and ureteral stricture treatment.
These electrodes are typically compatible with electrosurgical generators that provide plasma-based energy. Surgeons can manipulate the electrode using specialized instruments during endoscopic procedures, allowing for precise and effective tissue treatment while minimizing patient trauma and recovery time.
- Polarity : Bipolar
- Spherical shape results in well-coagulated, smooth tissue
- Easy-to-learn vaporization technique
- Safe, controlled, and precise vaporization and removal of tissue
- Each electrode individually tested for High Frequency leak test.
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Self-limiting (biology)
In biology, a self-limiting organism or colony of organisms limits its own growth by its actions.[1] For example, a single organism may have a maximum size determined by genetics, or a colony of organisms may release waste which is ultimately toxic to the colony once it exceeds a certain population. In some cases, the self-limiting nature of a colony may be advantageous to the continued survival of the colony, such as in the case of parasites. If their numbers became too high, they would kill the host, and thus themselves. In other cases, self-limitation restricts the viability of predators, thus ensuring the long-term survival of rare species.[2]
In medicine, the term may imply that a condition would run its course without the need of external influence, especially any medical treatment. However, the fact that a condition may be self-limiting does not mean that medical treatment would not bring the condition or its symptoms to an end more quickly, or that such medical attention would be unnecessary in severe cases.[3][4]
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 1. ^ Yenni, Glenda Marie (2013). "Self-limitation as an explanation for species' relative abundances and the long-term persistence of rare species". All Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
 2. ^ Lötsch, Jörn; Ultschc, Alfred (2016). "A computational functional genomics based self-limiting self-concentration mechanism of cell specialization as a biological role of jumping genes". Integrative Biology. 8 (1): 91–103. doi:10.1039/C5IB00203F. PMID 26679724.
 3. ^ Pfammatter, Jean-Pierre (November 2014). "Treatment of a mostly self-limiting disease: keep it simple and safe". Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 15 (9): 901–902. doi:10.1097/PCC.0000000000000261. ISSN _PHONE_. PMID 25370058.
 4. ^ Levin, Bruce R.; Baquero, Fernando; Ankomah, Peter Pierre; McCall, Ingrid C. (November 2017). "Phagocytes, Antibiotics, and Self-Limiting Bacterial Infections". Trends in Microbiology. 25 (11): 878–892. doi:10.1016/j.tim.2017.07.005. ISSN _PHONE_. PMID 28843668.


When we watch movies, we pay attention to specific parts of the scene and focus on different actors and look at certain things on the screen. Most of what we see is influenced by what the directors want us to see, our attentions are easy to grab after all. So what if you showed the same movie to computers? What would they see? How would the movies look to them?
Benjamin Grosser created a computational system to reveal what computers see in movies. He wrote software using vision algorithms and artificial intelligence routines to give "the system some degree of agency, allowing it to decide what it watches and what it does not". The vision of the computer is reflected in temporal sketches, the sketching is synced with the movie's audio. Grosser asks:
The movies the computers 'watched' are 2001: A Space Odyssey, American Beauty, Inception, Taxi Driver, The Matrix, and Annie Hall. Grosser's project, which was found by Laughing Squid, shows the difference between how tightly wound the focus is in certain scenes of 2001 and how messy action sequences of Inception can get.
I'd love to see these computer watching habits superimposed on the movie scenes and how they compare to human watching habits too. Though it is interesting to watch the movie play out with simple lines. You can see the individual scenes here.
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In recent years, the tech industry has witnessed the emergence of numerous young and talented individuals who have made significant contributions to the field. One such individual is Kaden Brent Carter, a prodigious entrepreneur and innovator who has been making waves in the tech world. In this article, we will delve into the life and achievements of Kaden Brent Carter, exploring his journey, his impact on the industry, and the lessons we can learn from his success.
The Early Years
Kaden Brent Carter was born on June 15, 1990, in San Francisco, California. From a young age, he displayed a keen interest in technology and computers. His parents, both engineers, nurtured his curiosity and provided him with the necessary resources to explore his passion. At the age of 12, Kaden built his first computer from scratch, a feat that showcased his exceptional technical skills and determination.
Education and Career Beginnings
After completing high school, Kaden Brent Carter pursued a degree in Computer Science at Stanford University. During his time at Stanford, he actively participated in various coding competitions and hackathons, where he consistently demonstrated his exceptional problem-solving abilities and creativity. It was during this period that he developed a deep understanding of the tech industry and identified several areas where he believed he could make a significant impact.
Upon graduating from Stanford, Kaden joined a prominent tech company as a software engineer. However, he soon realized that his true passion lay in entrepreneurship and creating innovative solutions to real-world problems. With this realization, he made the bold decision to leave his stable job and embark on his entrepreneurial journey.
Founding his First Startup
In 2014, Kaden Brent Carter founded his first startup, a software company focused on developing cutting-edge mobile applications. The company quickly gained traction and attracted significant attention from investors. Within a year, Kaden's startup secured its first round of funding, allowing him to expand the team and accelerate product development.
Under Kaden's leadership, the startup launched several successful mobile applications that garnered millions of downloads and received rave reviews from users and industry experts alike. The company's success not only solidified Kaden's position as a rising star in the tech industry but also provided him with valuable insights into the dynamics of running a successful startup.
Breakthrough Innovation: AI-Powered Virtual Assistant
In 2017, Kaden Brent Carter's entrepreneurial journey took a significant leap forward with the development of an AI-powered virtual assistant. Leveraging his expertise in machine learning and natural language processing, Kaden and his team created a virtual assistant that could understand and respond to human commands with remarkable accuracy.
The virtual assistant, named "VoxAI," quickly gained popularity and was hailed as a game-changer in the tech industry. Its advanced capabilities and seamless integration with various devices made it a valuable tool for both individuals and businesses. Within a year of its launch, VoxAI had amassed millions of users and attracted the attention of major tech giants.
Recognition and Awards
Kaden Brent Carter's groundbreaking work in the tech industry has not gone unnoticed. He has been recognized with numerous awards and accolades for his contributions and achievements. In 2018, he was named one of Forbes' "30 Under 30" in the Technology category, a prestigious honor that celebrates young innovators who are reshaping their respective industries.
Furthermore, Kaden's virtual assistant, VoxAI, received the "Best AI Innovation" award at the Tech Innovators Conference in 2019. This recognition further solidified Kaden's position as a trailblazer in the tech industry and served as a testament to his relentless pursuit of excellence.
Lessons from Kaden Brent Carter's Success
Kaden Brent Carter's journey to success offers valuable insights and lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts. Here are some key takeaways:
- Passion and Curiosity: Kaden's unwavering passion for technology and his insatiable curiosity were the driving forces behind his success. Cultivating a genuine interest in your chosen field and constantly seeking knowledge are essential for achieving greatness.
- Embrace Risk: Kaden's decision to leave a stable job and pursue entrepreneurship was undoubtedly a risky move. However, it was this willingness to take risks that allowed him to explore his true potential and make a lasting impact in the tech industry.
- Continuous Learning: Throughout his journey, Kaden consistently sought opportunities to learn and grow. Whether it was participating in coding competitions or staying updated with the latest industry trends, his commitment to continuous learning played a crucial role in his success.
- Focus on Innovation: Kaden's ability to identify gaps in the market and develop innovative solutions set him apart from his peers. By prioritizing innovation and pushing boundaries, he was able to create products that disrupted the industry and garnered widespread acclaim.
1. What inspired Kaden Brent Carter to pursue a career in the tech industry?
Kaden's parents, who were both engineers, played a significant role in nurturing his interest in technology from a young age. Their encouragement and support inspired him to pursue a career in the tech industry.
2. How did Kaden Brent Carter's first startup gain traction?
Kaden's first startup gained traction through the development of cutting-edge mobile applications that resonated with users. The positive reviews and word-of-mouth recommendations helped the company attract attention from investors.
3. What was the breakthrough innovation that propelled Kaden Brent Carter's career?
Kaden's breakthrough innovation was the development of an AI-powered virtual assistant named VoxAI. Its advanced capabilities and seamless integration with various devices revolutionized the way people interacted with technology.
4. What awards and recognition has Kaden Brent Carter received?
Kaden has been recognized with numerous awards, including being named one of Forbes' "30 Under 30" in the Technology category. His virtual assistant, VoxAI, also received the "Best AI Innovation" award at the Tech Innovators Conference.
5. What are some key lessons we can learn from Kaden Brent Carter's success?
Some key lessons from Kaden's success include the importance of passion and curiosity, embracing risk, continuous learning, and a focus on innovation.
Kaden Brent Carter's journey from a young tech enthusiast to a trailblazer in the industry serves as an inspiration to aspiring entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts worldwide. His unwavering passion, willingness to take risks, and commitment to innovation have propelled him to great heights. By


Asteroseismology reveals magnetic fields deep within stars
24 October 2015 Astronomy Now
Astronomers have for the first time probed the magnetic fields in the mysterious inner regions of stars, finding they are strongly magnetised. Using a technique called asteroseismology, the scientists were able to calculate the magnetic field strengths in the fusion-powered hearts of dozens of red giants, stars that are evolved versions of our Sun.


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Bradley is an English boy's or girl's name meaning: "broad wood clearing". The name Bradley is derived from Old English brad 'broad' and leah 'wood, clearing'.
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Sustainable Startups in the Netherlands: A Complete Guide
Sustainability is a hot topic in the business world right now. Consumers, investors and others are looking for businesses that operate in a sustainable manner. So what does it mean to be a sustainable startup? What are the common industries that sustainable startups are operating in? What are some promising sustainability startups in The Netherlands?
We will answer these questions for all the green startup job seekers reading this guide.
There are many reasons why sustainability is becoming an increasingly important focus for businesses. Here are some of the most common ones:
Consumers are increasingly interested in sustainable products
The Global Sustainability Study 2021, conducted by global strategy and pricing consultancy Simon-Kucher & Partners, revealed that sustainability is an essential purchase criterion for 60% of consumers. Moreover, 1/3 of consumers are reportedly willing to pay more for sustainable products.
This number will continue to grow as more and more people become aware of the impact their purchasing decisions have on the planet. Thus, the study reveals that companies should opt for sustainability, as it will become the norm and not the exception in the future.
Sustainability is good for the bottom line
Sustainability is often labeled as an unwise investment for organisations. However, according to insights on successful sustainability initiatives provided by Harvard Business School, Professor Rebecca Henderson explains that the intersection of "doing good" and "doing well" (known as the creation of shared value) is rather highly lucrative.
This is likely due to various factors, including lower costs (e.g. reduced resource consumption), higher employee productivity, and increased customer loyalty.
Sustainability is a crucial driver of innovation
As the world becomes increasingly aware of the need to reduce its environmental footprint, there is a growing market for sustainable products and services. This provides a massive opportunity for startups that can innovate in this space.
Moreover, sustainability can be a significant source of inspiration for new product and service ideas. As the world looks for ways to reduce our environmental impact, sustainable startups are in a unique position to provide solutions that meet this demand.
Sustainable startups vs Sustainability within startups
There is a crucial distinction between sustainable startups and startups that operate sustainably. Sustainable startups are businesses founded with the express purpose of being environmentally and/or socially responsible. They often have a product or service focused on sustainability, such as renewable energy, organic farming, or green construction.
On the other hand, sustainability within startups might not be their primary focus. Nevertheless, these businesses strive to operate sustainably, for example, by offsetting their carbon emissions or investing in energy-efficient technologies.
What is a sustainable startup?
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the definition of sustainability can vary from startup to startup. However, there are some general characteristics that most sustainable startups have in common.
- Environmentally conscious. Sustainable startups are typically focused on reducing their environmental impact. This may include using energy-efficient technologies, sourcing sustainable materials, or offsetting their carbon emissions.
- Socially responsible. In addition to being environmentally conscious, sustainable startups are also typically focused on social responsibility. This means that they consider the impact of their business on society, and they strive to make a positive difference in the community.
- Efficient in resources. Sustainable startups are often focused on efficiency, which means they use resources (e.g. energy, water, materials) sustainably.
- Positively impactful. Ultimately, the goal of sustainability is to have a positive impact on both the community and the environment. Sustainable startups are typically the most effective at achieving this goal.
What is sustainability within startups?
While sustainable startups are focused on sustainability as their primary business model, startups that operate sustainably are not. Instead, these businesses often have practices and initiatives in place that help them reduce their environmental impact.
Some common examples of sustainability within startups include:
- Carbon emissions offset. Many startups offset their carbon emissions by investing in clean energy or planting trees.
- Sustainable materials. Startups that use sustainable materials, such as recycled paper or bamboo can help reduce their environmental impact.
- Energy-efficient technologies. Startups that invest in energy-efficient technologies, such as LED lighting or low-energy appliances can help reduce their carbon footprint.
Car sharing. Car sharing is an excellent way for startups to reduce their environmental impact, as it eliminates the need for individual drivers to own cars.
Common industries for sustainable startups
There are several industries in which sustainable startups operate. Renewable energy is prevalent with businesses focusing on solar, wind, and hydropower. Other common industries include organic farming, green construction, and recycled materials.
Let's explore some of these common industries in more detail.
Renewable energy is a rapidly growing industry, and it's no surprise that sustainable startups are at the forefront. These businesses are often focused on solar, wind, or hydropower. Solar startups, for example, are businesses that focus on the development and deployment of solar technologies. Wind startups are businesses that focus on developing and deploying wind technologies. And hydropower startups are businesses that focus on developing and deploying hydropower technologies.
Another industry in which sustainable startups are prevalent is organic farming. These businesses often use sustainable practices, such as organic fertilisers and crop rotation, to minimise their environmental impact.
Sustainable startups are making a difference with green construction. These businesses often focus on the development and deployment of green building technologies. Green building technologies are designed to be more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly than traditional construction methods.
Recycled materials are another area in which sustainable startups are making an impact. These businesses often focus on the development and deployment of recycled materials technologies. Recycled materials technologies are designed to reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing by using recycled materials instead of raw materials.
Transportation & Mobility
The transportation and mobility industries are also seeing a rise in sustainable startups. These businesses often focus on the development and deployment of green transportation technologies. Green transportation technologies are more environmentally friendly than traditional transportation methods.
Promising sustainability startups in the Netherlands
There are several promising as well as inspiring sustainability startups in the Netherlands.
Some of the most notable include:
- Fruitleather — fruit waste turned into leather-like materials for fashion and furnishings.
- Buurman — wood workshop & store for reclaimed buildings and other materials
- Dick Moby — guilt-free recycled sunglasses
- Fairphone — old recycled phones
- Coffee Based — biobased products from coffee grounds
- Mud Jeans — ethical and environmentally friendly jeans
- Pieter Pot — package-free shopping
- Kromkommer — unwanted vegetables repackaged into soup
- BlueCity — a playground for circular startups helping combat waste
- Wasteboards — handmade skateboards from recycled bottle caps
- Vibers — high tech & natural fibers from elephant grass
- Bluehouse World — platform to find ethical producers
- Gerrard Street — wireless headphones with a lifetime service
- Ioniqa — creating value out of PET waste
- Umincorp — disruptive plastic recycling
- Better Future Factory — sustainable plastic products
- Fairm — 100% natural insulation material
- Loop — biodegradable coffins
Contributing as an employee at a sustainable startup
A sustainable startup must promote a green culture among its employees if it wants to succeed. And fortunately, there are many ways for employees to get involved and contribute to a sustainable startup.
Some of the most common ways for employees to contribute to sustainability include:
- Encouraging sustainable practices among co-workers (e.g. carpooling, recycling at the office)
- Educating others about sustainability issues (e.g. via social media)
- Working remotely to reduce energy consumption
- Pitching in on sustainability projects (e.g. working on the company's recycling program)
There are many ways for employees to contribute to a sustainable startup, and they need to find one that best suits their interests and skills.
The future of sustainable startups is looking bright. With the ever-growing concerns about climate change and the environment, these businesses are well-positioned to make a difference. If you're interested in starting a sustainable startup, you can choose from a number of booming industries. So whether you're interested in renewable energy, organic farming, green construction, or recycled materials, there's something for everyone.


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How Do You Communicate With Your Guardian Angel?
Our Angels are always by our side and never let us down at any stage in our lives. Without actually seeing them, our Guardian Angels accompany us every day and are always ready to listen to our problems. They are constantly ready to console us and help us, on the condition that we believe in them and learn how to communicate properly. Here are the main steps on how to invoke and open up to your Angel.
As messengers between Heaven and Earth, Angels are present in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Since the dawn of time, we have called on them for help to relieve our sorrows and entrust our torments to them. Each Angel symbolizes a value or a strength which they can bless their protégés with. Know that if you have a problem, you can express yourself to the Angel of your choice according to your problem.
What do you have to do to hear your Guardian Angel?
To hear your guardian Angel, you must open your mind. If you apprehend life but from a rational point of view you are unlikely to hear the voice of your Guardian Angel. Of course, our spirit guides are not beings that we can meet in the physical world, so to hear them you must place yourself in a more divine dimension. Communicating with the higher beings is easier for those who are used to meditating and listening to their inner voice.
3 Ways to invoke and call upon your Angel
First of all, you need to know the name of your Guardian Angel. Then, each of us can get in touch with our Angel to ask for advice or to confide our hopes or fears. In order to contact the higher powers, we simply need to speak with an open heart. You can either speak to them in silence or out loud, it doesn't matter. However, our Angels are superior beings and attracting their attention is not so simple. If you do not succeed, the best way to contact a medium who can act as an intermediary.
You can ask anything of your Angel as long as you do not give them orders or do things that could harm others.
1. Prayer
To talk to your Angel, choose a quiet and restful place. It's best to pray to them at the same time, and in the same place. To make your prayers more effective, turn to the East. This is the side where the sun rises, so the positive energies are more present there. Turn off your telephone to make sure that no one comes to disturb you during this moment of communication.
Light incense and a candle with the Angel's name engraved on it. If your protector doesn't show you any signs of existence, do not hesitate to let the candle burn until the next morning.
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2. Meditation
Meditation is a good way to open your mind and heart to one's guardian angel.
Choose a quiet place in your home or outside, settle down, free your mind and breathe deeply. Think about the air entering your body and filling your lungs. Focus on the different parts of your body. Think of each part independently to the rest of your body (it's a bit complex and requires a bit of practice). Then, once you are totally relaxed, try to visualize your soul. This is when you will have to think very hard about your Angel by repeating their name. If they decide to answer you, you will quickly notice.
3. Writing to your Guardian Angel
In case of an existential crisis you can write a letter to your Angel. This letter should be written on a piece of paper on which you have written the date and the name of your Guardian Angel. Then, you must describe what is on your mind and what you want... Let your heart guide your pen and then end your letter by thanking your Angel for the intervention.
To mail your letter, hold it from the bottom, above a sink, then burn the top of the letter going from left to right and let it catch fire before you drop it at the last moment. Wait for your Guardian Angel's reply.
If after a while your Angel still hasn't answered you, it may be that your goal isn't right for you. By remaining silent, you'll soon realize that you are not on the right path and need to be guided elsewhere.
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How to interpret the messages of the Angels
In order to understand the response of your Guardian Angel, it is still necessary to interpret the messages they send you. What are the methods used by the guardian angels to contact us?
1. Angel numbers
If during the course of your day, you often see Angel numbers such as 444 555 etc, know that this is not a coincidence, it is in fact your Angel trying to tell you something.
2. The shivers
Are you're in great shape but often come over cold and begin shivering? It's a sign of your Angel's presence. More often than not, these shivers occur in a sacred place, when we have to make a difficult decision or when an unpleasant event is about to happen.
3. Your pet is behaving strangely
Animals' senses are highly developed, they are more sensitive to energy. That's why if your pet acts strangely, it's probably because it perceives a new presence; that of your Guardian Angel!
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text: The term liveability is used to evaluate the quality of life in a region based on the surrounding physical environment and different location-based social elements. Having a reliable measurement of general well-being of individuals and societies can help the government and non-government organizations planning for better infrastructure. However, a variety of factors can impact the social perception of local environmental conditions, many of which are difficult to measure. This makes different liveability concepts quite challenging to be evaluated. In collaboration with the IRIS Research, we have conducted a Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) survey on perceived liveability. This measures the existing individual perceptions of social and environmental elements in the Randwick and Green Square area of Sydney. These perceptions can be grouped according to six factors describing various aspects of liveability. A linear additive model is defined in order to calculate the required area-based liveability indices using available CATI survey data.


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- Navigate to Main > Stockitems > StockitemWhere.
- Select On Loan from Box 1. From Box 2 select = and in Box 3 enter Y. Click Paste.
- Click F5 Query and answer N to the message about the File.
- All items currently on loan will display.
- Highlight all the rows and go to Main > Base > Copy. This will save them to the clipboard of the computer.
- Open a new workbook in Excel. Paste the contents into the empty workbook. It is then possible to remove any columns not required.
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Creating the LMHOSTS File
Before configuring a computer to use the LMHOSTS file, you must create the primary LMHOSTS file on each computer, name the file LMHOSTS, and save the file in the directory %s ystemroot %\System32\Drivers\Etc.
You can create and change the LMHOSTS file by using a text editor—for example, Notepad—because it is a simple text file. (An example LMHOSTS file named LMHOSTS.sam is provided with Windows 2000 in the directory % systemroot %\System32\Drivers\Etc. This is only an example file; do not use this file as the primary LMHOSTS file.)
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This 20 chemical elements freeform puzzle supports vocabulary acquisition and consolidation needed for Periodic Table of Elements in academic science-chemisty. Puzzles support brain health, enable connections between and among multiple curricula, and helps develop problem solving strategies as a transferable skill. Grades 9-12 science curriculum for classrooms and home schoolers.
Freeform crossword puzzle supports multiple learning environments: distance learning, hybrid classrooms (in-class and virtual learning) and in-class learning environments. Available in PDF (print) and Google Apps versions.


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As we all know, it's important to adjust the emission rate when using the infrared thermometer, but how can we know the emission rate of the target object? The recognized emission rates of materials including metal and non-metal materials can be searched on line typically, there are two methods for reference if corresponding emission rate is not found out:
1. Apply black adhesive on the measured object to change the emission rate of the target to 0.95.
2. Measure temperature through contact-type thermometer, and then adjust the emission rate of infrared thermometer so as to make it consistent with the reading of contact-type thermometer, by doing so, the emission rate of target object can be obtained.


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Modern cities are dependent on vast infrastructure systems to deliver a constant supply of drinking water and sewerage systems for removing surface and waste water. This paper investigates urban water infrastructure as a complex system. It describes the emergence of existing systems in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a response to public health crises. Existing systems are at a point of criticality as growth in demand for water outstrips local water resources. This represents a potential bifurcation point from which alternative structures and patterns of organisation could emerge over coming decades. One possible pathway for future urban water systems relies upon the development of new sources of water including desalination and recycling of waste water for potable supply. This pathway continues to expand the boundaries of urban water systems, increasing entropy outside the system while requiring higher energy input to maintain order within the system. An alternative pathway involves the emergence of distributed systems of water collection and reuse to meet non-potable demand, thereby relieving pressure on the existing potable water and sewerage systems. This could result in increasing complexity across the city as non-potable water systems emerge at household and neighbourhood scales. The paper concludes by outlining the potential for urban modelling techniques based on complexity to inform policy makers, planners, engineers and designers in steering urban water systems towards a more sustainable future.
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I want to write a fictional short story where part 2 is embedded in part 1. Has anyone heard of this or tried this?
Any ideas of resources would be greatly appreciated.
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Imagine a story where every letter could be turned into another letter (or every word into another word) if the person converting those letters or words had a secret key (a code or password, for example).
Now, imagine if a story, which was written as fiction or literary fiction for example, had a second story, again fiction or literary fiction, embedded within its letters and/or words that, when converted with the key or password, turned into a brand new story--perhaps a continuation or sequel.
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 Not exactly hidden as such, but Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar is composed of a large number of quite short chapters, and you can either read them in sequence as written in the book, or jumping to a specific chapter as indicated at the end of each chapter, assembling them into an entirely different story. – SF. Oct 18 '14 at 22:45
 - SF -- that's a neat idea. – Anton Rasmussen Oct 20 '14 at 13:17
You could certainly try, but it sounds like the main story would come out gibberish to me.
The only example of this which springs to mind is the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott." A character receives a letter which reads:
Which sounds kind of incoherent. It's actually in skip code, so every third word is the real message:
which is:
I honestly don't know how you'd make a framing story which was readable and had plot and character development while also going through all the coding circumlocutions to create the embedded story. Or conversely, the main story would be readable and the second story would be a short, oddly-worded missive because you could only use the terms from the main story.
It seems like either you'd sacrifice readability of the main story to create the second, or the second would be seriously hobbled by being subject to whatever you could pick out of the main narrative.
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 - Thanks Lauren! I guess I'm gonna have to figure out another way of doing this--thought the skip code is a cool idea. – Anton Rasmussen Oct 20 '14 at 14:44
Perhaps something like what you're trying to do could be done by inserting the second story inside the first one, but backwards, starting at the bottom of the last page, and working its way up, maybe combined with one or more skip codes (one specifying skipped words, another skipped pages.) Would the two stores need to be of equal "weight" or complexity? Having both read coherently and "naturally" would require each undergoing some interesting adjustments and compromises in style and readability. I imagine it could be done. But for how many words? I'm sure there are examples of music being written this way, though I can't think of any offhand -- though the idea brings to mind Brian Eno's Driving Me Backwards.
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 - Nicole, that's a wonderful idea! I think that's the approach I will take. It's very binary!! Interestingly, I already do something like it when writing stories... I write one story in a spiral notebook opening from the right (the usual way) and leave all the page backs blank. Then I turn the notebook over (opening from the left side) and write the other story on the back pages... I like your idea a lot! – Anton Rasmussen Oct 23 '14 at 17:13
 - Excellent, Anton! Glad I could be of some help. Happy writing. Maybe post us a link when the story/stories are done. – Nicole Oct 24 '14 at 21:49
 - You mean like this: _URL_-reed-the-lost-generation-annotated? – Jerenda Nov 18 '16 at 18:37
You are describing a not entirely unheard of method of hiding a coded message in a plaintext. I don't know if it's in common usage by real world spies, but it certainly has appeared before in fiction. I fondly remember once reading a time-travel romance (whose name I've unfortunately forgotten) where the young lovers communicated using overlapping codes.
Can this actually be used for a longer work? It would certainly be difficult since it necessitates a certain level of artificiality and constraint. The technique is described but not (as far as I know) actually used in Daniel Manus Pinkwater's young adult classic "Alan Mendelson, Boy From Mars" in which a dictionary hides not one, but two separate coded messages describing how to develop psychic powers AND transition to alternate realities. The use of a dictionary is probably realistic, in that it doesn't require a coherent plot, and is already divided into smaller sections.
Try as I might, I can only think of one author who has actually used this technique (but with surprising success): Steven Hall. His "Raw Shark Texts" contains 36 ordinary chapters, which contain the entire story, and can be read as given. It also, however, has 36 "negative" chapters which have been hidden in various ways, including being coded into the text of the original chapters (with different negative chapters in different translations of the book, as described here). I believe some of them are coded visually and digitally (rather than in the plaintext), which gives an avenue into making one text do double duty without sacrificing meaning.
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Ductile iron pipe (DIP) was introduced about 50 years ago as a more economical and better-performing product for water transmission and distribution. As with iron or steel pipes, DIP is subject to corrosion, the rate of which depends on the environment in which the pipe is placed. Corrosion mitigation protocols are employed to slow the corrosion process to an acceptable rate for the application. When to use corrosion mitigation systems, and which system, depends on the corrosivity of the soils in which the pipeline is buried.
The Bureau of Reclamation's specification for DIP in highly corrosive soil has been contested by some as an overly stringent requirement, necessitating the pipe to be modified from its as-manufactured state and thereby adding unnecessary cost to a pipeline system.
This book evaluates the specifications in question and presents findings and recommendations. Specifically, the authoring committee answers the following questions:
- Does polyethylene encasement with cathodic protection work on ductile iron pipe installed in highly corrosive soils?
- Will polyethylene encasement and cathodic protection reliably provide a minimum service life of 50 years?
- What possible alternative corrosion mitigation methods for DIP would provide a service life of 50 years?


Epithelia Provoke Inflammation in Response to Apoptosis
Apoptosis is a process of programmed cell death that is traditionally considered to be immunologically silent. This means that it does not trigger an inflammatory response from the immune system. However, a new study has shown that apoptosis can actually provoke inflammation in zebrafish and cell culture when apoptotic epithelial cells cannot be expelled from the monolayer by apical extrusion. This is due to an intrinsic circuit where ATP released from apoptotic cells stimulates epithelial cells in the immediate vicinity to produce interleukin-8 (IL-8). Apical extrusion therefore prevents inappropriate epithelial inflammation by physically eliminating apoptotic cells before they can activate this pro-inflammatory circuit. This carries the implication that epithelia may be predisposed to inflammation, elicited by sporadic or induced apoptosis, if apical extrusion is compromised.
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