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Expression of a desaturase gene, desat1, in neural and nonneural tissues separately affects perception and emission of sex pheromones in Drosophila.
Abstract : Animals often use sex pheromones for mate choice and reproduction. As for other signals, the genetic control of the emission and perception of sex pheromones must be tightly coadapted, and yet we still have no worked-out example of how these two aspects interact. Most models suggest that emission and perception rely on separate genetic control. We have identified a Drosophila melanogaster gene, desat1, that is involved in both the emission and the perception of sex pheromones. To explore the mechanism whereby these two aspects of communication interact, we investigated the relationship between the molecular structure, tissue-specific expression, and pheromonal phenotypes of desat1. We characterized the five desat1 transcripts-all of which yielded the same desaturase protein-and constructed transgenes with the different desat1 putative regulatory regions. Each region was used to target reporter transgenes with either (i) the fluorescent GFP marker to reveal desat1 tissue expression, or (ii) the desat1 RNAi sequence to determine the effects of genetic down-regulation on pheromonal phenotypes. We found that desat1 is expressed in a variety of neural and nonneural tissues, most of which are involved in reproductive functions. Our results suggest that distinct desat1 putative regulatory regions independently drive the expression in nonneural and in neural cells, such that the emission and perception of sex pheromones are precisely coordinated in this species.
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François Bousquet, Tetsuya Nojima, Benjamin Houot, Isabelle Chauvel, Sylvie Chaudy, et al.. Expression of a desaturase gene, desat1, in neural and nonneural tissues separately affects perception and emission of sex pheromones in Drosophila.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (1), pp.249-54. ⟨10.1073/pnas._PHONE_⟩. ⟨hal-00723157⟩
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"But where and how do hawks sleep?" I asked John Bateman, and here is his fascinating reply:
"Good question. Where do hawks sleep? It's a question every hawk watcher eventually asks. The answer is not so evident. Red-tails can be rather circumspect about the matter. They can seem to just evaporate towards dusk.
Red-tails, like most other birds, have an interesting and useful foot locking mechanism used when sleeping. As the bird begins to nod off, there is a ratchet-like band of tissue that can be tightened around the inside of the leg. Once tightened, it sticks together somewhat like velcro, locking the bird's grip on the branch. The hawk doesn't have to pay any attention to holding on during the night. The bird's toes are physically locked around the branch, and normal winds cause no problems.
That, then, raises the question of how well the hawks can see at night. From watching my several falconry red-tails over the years, it seems pretty evident to me that they can see at night just about as well as I can. That's not too powerful. But I have some evidence that red-tails may be able, like rattlesnakes, see a bit down into the infrared spectrum. If that's so, a distant red-tail taking an hourly peek at its distant nest and incubating mate at night may be able to easily seen a heat-emitting, thereby infrared-glowing raccoon ascending the nest tree in search of a nighttime hawk egg snack.

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RPI's quantum computing research initiative is set to receive a significant boost with philanthropic funding of over $150 million from Curtis Priem, vice chair of RPI's Board of Trustees. The establishment of the Curtis Priem Quantum Constellation, a faculty-endowed collaborative research center, will feature the new quantum computer as a centerpiece to attract additional faculty leaders who are passionate about advancing the field.
RPI's vision is to significantly improve the educational experiences and research capabilities of students and researchers at RPI and other institutions. It also aims to propel New York's Capital Region into a top location for talent and accelerate
"RPI is expanding on our long-standing collaboration with IBM to harness cutting-edge computing to solve global challenges while training the next-generation workforce in quantum," said RPI President Marty A. Schmidt. "The Capital Region and the State of New York will benefit greatly from our new quantum computational center, which will significantly improve our area's research capabilities."
IBM's 127-qubit Quantum Eagle processor will power the IBM Quantum System One at RPI. The processor can perform utility-scale calculations, defined as the point at which quantum computers can be used as scientific tools to explore problems that remain intractable for classical methods. The agreement with IBM includes a commitment to provide a system upgrade to RPI in 2026.
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While the cylinder label is the primary means of identifying the properties of the gas in a cylinder, the colour coding of the cylinder itself, can often time provide a further guide.
Cylinder Shoulder - European Standard Color Coding
The color applied to the shoulder, or curved part, at the top of the cylinder signifies the European standard color coding that has recently come into force. The aim of the standard (EN 1089-3), which has replaced the old cylinder colour scheme (BS349), is to help improve safety standards within the gases industry.
A number of gases have been assigned a specific colour and some of these are shown below:
Cylinder Body - BOC Colour Coding
The colour of the body of the cylinder may differ for the same gas among different gas companies. The BOC cylinder body colours are displayed below:
- Variation in monitor colour settings may impact colours displayed.
- Cylinder colors are a guide ONLY. Labels MUST be used as the primary means of identification cylinder content.
- For more detail on cylinder identification, colour coding and labelling standards under the new European cylinder color coding system, visit the British Compressed Gases Association website.

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The effects and experiences of goal setting in stroke rehabilitation - a systematic review.
Sugavanam T., Mead G., Bulley C., Donaghy M., van Wijck F.
To systematically integrate and appraise the evidence for effects and experiences of goal setting in stroke rehabilitation.Systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies.Relevant databases were searched from start of database to 30 April 2011. Studies of any design employing goal setting, reporting stroke-specific data and evaluating its effects and/ or experiences were included.From a total of 53998 hits, 112 full texts were analysed and 17 studies were included, of which seven evaluated effects while ten explored experiences of goal setting. No eligible randomized controlled trials were identified. Most of the included studies had weak to moderate methodological strengths. The design, methods of goal setting and outcome measures differed, making pooling of results difficult. Goal setting appeared to improve recovery, performance and goal achievement, and positively influenced patients' perceptions of self-care ability and engagement in rehabilitation. However, the actual extent of patient involvement in the goal setting process was not made clear. Patients were often unclear about their role in this process. Professionals reported higher levels of collaboration during goal setting than patients. Patients and professionals differed on how they set goals, types of goals set, and on how they perceived goal attainment. Barriers to goal setting outnumbered the facilitators.Due to the heterogeneity and quality of included studies, no firm conclusions could be made on the effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability of goal setting in stroke rehabilitation. Further rigorous research is required to strengthen the evidence base. Better collaboration and communication between patients and professionals and relevant education are recommended for best practice.


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A methodology combining optimization and simulation for real applications of the Stochastic Aircraft Recovery ProblemArtikel
The Aircraft Recovery Problem appears when external events cause disruptions in a flight schedule. Thus in order to minimize the losses caused by the externalities, aircrafts must be reallocated (rescheduled) in the best possible way.
The aim of this paper is to develop a suitable methodology that combines optimization techniques with a simulation approach to tackle the so-called Stochastic Aircraft Recovery Problem. The approach solves the problem through the rescheduling of the flight plan using delays, swaps, and cancellations. The main objective of the optimization model is to restore as much as possible the original flight schedule, minimizing the total delay and the number of cancelled flights. By applying simulation techniques, the robustness of the given solution is assessed. The proposed methodology is applied on a medium-sized scenario based on real data provided by a commercial airline. The obtained results show that the methodology described in the paper is capable of producing a feasible and robust solution for this problem.
Arias, P., Mota, M. M., Guimarans, D., & Boosten, G. (2013, September). A methodology combining optimization and simulation for real applications of the Stochastic Aircraft Recovery Problem. In Modelling and Simulation (EUROSIM), 2013 8th EUROSIM Congress on (pp. 265-270). IEEE.


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Community health centers can play a vital role during emergencies, not as a first responder but as the front line source of care. Community health centers have the ability to serve patients during an emergency. It alleviates the strain on the hospital, allowing emergency rooms to focus on true crises. IPHCA provides resources and technical assistance to community health centers that aligns with the expectations stated in section A of HRSA PIN 2007-15, "4 Phases of Emergency Management".
- Mitigation activities lessen the severity and impact a potential disaster or emergency might have on a health center's operation;
- Preparedness activities build capacity and identify resources that may be used should a disaster or emergency occur;
- Response refers to the actual emergency and controls the negative effects of emergency situations; and
- Recovery actions begin almost concurrently with response activities and are directed at restoring essential services and resuming normal operations. Recovery planning is a critical aspect to sustaining the long-term viability of the health center.


text: GEZGIN and GEZGIN-2 are real-time multispectral image processing subsystems developedfor BILSAT-1 and RASAT satellites respectively, the first two earth observing small satellites of Turkey. Main functionality of these subsystems is to compress in real-time multi-spectral images received concurrently from imagers, using JPEG2000 Image Compression algorithm. The compression features are controlled through user-supplied parameters uploaded in-orbit, so that the compression rate could be adapted to bandwidth, image quality and other mission requirements. GEZGIN employs both reconfigurable hardware and a DSP processor for image processing, where as the more advanced GEZGIN-2 contains full integration of the JPEG2000 processing path plus other image pre-processing features on reconfigurable hardware, hence offering increased performance and full re-configurability in orbit. Both systems demonstrate space-tailored architectures for implementing image processing functions where adaptability becomes the crucial issue determining robustness, flexibility and survivability of the system.


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GeoT*SOL: A tool for planning, designing and calculating heat pump systems
Valentin's GeoT*SOL allows users to choose between different heat sources and system configurations specific to their location. A key feature is the integration of solar thermal systems for domestic hot water or space heating. Requirements, losses and consumption are determined as a result of a dynamic minute-by-minute simulation. These form the basis on which electricity consumption, the annual coefficient of performance and costs are calculated, taking into account off-periods and tariffs. Given these parameters, GeoT*SOL evaluates the efficiency of the system. Heating cost and yield are calculated for the heat pump and a comparison system.
One other useful feature is an interface to Valentin Software's photovoltaics planning tool PV*SOL: This can be used to directly determine the power supplied by a PV system to the heat pump system or to dimension the PV array needed to power a specific heat pump. (mfo)
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UPLC-QTOF-MSE phenolic profile of kombuchas produced from the fermentation of green tea or black tea at 25 °C for 10 days was investigated along with the determination of their antioxidant capacities, antibacterial and antiproliferative activities. Overall, 127 phenolic compounds (70.2% flavonoids, 18.3% phenolic acids, 8.4% other polyphenols, 2.3% lignans and 0.8% stilbenes) were identified, with 103 phenolic compounds reported for the first time in kombuchas. A greater diversity and abundance of phenolic compounds was detected in black tea kombucha, which resulted in a higher antioxidant capacity. However, the green tea kombucha was the only one that presented antibacterial activity against all the bacteria tested and an increased antiproliferative activity against the cancer cell lines, which was attributed to the presence of catechins among the most abundant phenolic compounds and verbascoside as an exclusive compound. Thus, the type of tea used in the kombucha production interferes in its bioactive composition and properties.
Keywords: Bioactive compounds; Cytotoxicity; Metabolomics; UPLC-MSE.
Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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Managing PPPs for Budget Sustainability: The Case of PPPs in Portugal, from Problems to Solutions
M Abrantes de Sousa, PPP Lusofonia, PT
The case study of the PPP program experience in Portugal focuses on the issue of budget sustainability. Though PPPs have clearly contributed to Portugal's budget and external debt problems, lessons can be learned about this can be avoided.
Managing PPPs for Budget Sustainability: Lessons from the Portuguese Experience
The work consists of a case study of the PPP program experience in Portugal, focusing on the issue of budget sustainability.
Portugal is one of the countries that has relied the most on concession and PPP contracts to meet its public investment needs, even as the project finance market retracted in the financial crisis. As a result, the public sector has assumed considerable project risks in the form of availability payments, either at project onset, or upon contract renegotiations.
In fact, PPPs, which were once seen as part of the solution to Portugal's investment needs, are now clearly contributing to the budget sustainability and public debt problems which plague Portugal.
The key areas of analysis include:
1. The recourse to PPPs in the context of a severe Government budget constraint and limited public investment funding capacity: PPPs, Budget Framework Law and the Maastricht criteria
2. Individual PPP projects , selection, priorities and the overall PPP and public investment programme
3. The legal and organizational framework for managing the PPP contracts and budgeting for PPP liabilities and fiscal risks
4. Managing the PPP program in the financial crisis, public tenders, financing and renegotiations
5. Resolving the fiscal risks related to PPP contracts in the future in order to help resolve Portugal external debt problem.
The Portugal PPP case study details the impact of PPPs on Portugal's debt crisis, and draws lessons and recommendations for managing individual PPP contracts and overall PPP programs in a manner consistent with reducing fiscal risks and improving budget sustainability.
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I'm trying to determine which to apply and when is the appropriate time to apply compression. I'm posting this question to get insight from this community. I have read several articles, but wanted to have a place where this addressed in DB Administrators.
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This is a good reference and explanation for row v page (no pun intended) compression: _URL_
In short though, page compression encompasses the algorithms contained with row level compression and then also covers Prefix compression and Dictionary compression. Prefix and dictionary compression finds patterns in the data and replaces them with smaller values. During decompression it will do the reverse and restore the data to its original values.
Row level makes easier compression decisions, like reducing metadata, and removing unused space, like the letter 'Y' stored in a CHAR(1000).
The article referenced explains this in much greater detail.
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In order to make a decision for bunch of tables you can run procedure "sp_estimate_data_compression_savings":
exec sys.sp_estimate_data_compression_savings @Schema,@Table,NULL,NULL,ROW;
exec sys.sp_estimate_data_compression_savings @Schema,@Table,NULL,NULL,PAGE;
That will help you determine savings for each particular table.
From my experience PAGE compression works better in most of the cases.
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 - except that sp_estimate_data_compression_savings base its extimate on 5000 rows only, with no way I could find to change it. So I ended up trying out Rebuild with (data_compression=row and page) on a test server, over the weekend. Dec 6, 2021 at 16:42
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|Submission Date||March 1, 2019|
Harvey Mudd College
OP-23: Rainwater Management
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Assistant Vice President for Capital Projects and Facilities
Facilities and Maintenance
Which of the following best describes the institution's approach to rainwater management?:
A brief description of the institution's green infrastructure and LID practices:
There is no written policy in place that we can locate, but one of the minimum expectations for new construction projects is that they will have a minimum of LEED Silver status (or equivalent).
A copy of the institution's rainwater management policy, plan, and/or guidelines:
A brief description of the institution's rainwater management policy, plan, and/or guidelines that supports the responses above:
In keeping with the College's strategic vision to embrace sustainability, Harvey Mudd College uses green infrastructure to manage rainwater on a case-by-case basis. For instance, Drinkward Residence Hall was recognized for stormwater collection and recharging of ground water, yielding a 50 percent reduction in landscape water use and a 48 percent reduction in building water use. In addition, many sustainable projects aimed to reduce water usage on campus, including the replacement of certain sprinkler heads with more efficient sprinkler heads, the Installation of new drip irrigation systems to conserve water and the replacement of ivy from Marks Hall with drought tolerant species.
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution and complete the Data Inquiry Form.


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When the modify_entry.rhtml template is submitted, the modify_entry controller action of the controller directory gets invoked. Modify the modify_entry controller action.
Retrieve the values for the form fields :gn and :sn, and define a variable cn.
values = params[:modify_entry]
 gn=values[:gn]
 sn= values[:sn]
 cn=gn+sn
A directory entry is identified with a distinguished name. Define the DN of the directory entry to modify.
dn="cn="+cn+",cn=localhost"
Retrieve the values of the other form fields.
title=values[:title]
telephoneNumber=values[:telephoneNumber]
physicalDeliveryOfficeName=values[:physicalDeliveryOfficeName]
 facsimileTelephoneNumber=values[:facsimileTelephoneNumber]
Open a connection with the Tivoli Directory Server and replace the attribute values with the replace_attribute method. For example, the :title attribute is replaced as follows:
Net::LDAP.open( :host => 'localhost', :port => 389,:base =>
'cn=localhost', :auth => { :method => :simple, :username => 'cn=root',
:password => 'tivoli' } ) do |ldap| ldap.replace_attribute dn, :title, title end
A directory entry is modified from the modify_entry.rhtml view template. Start the WEBrick Web server and invoke the modify_entry.rhtml view template with the URL http://localhost:3000/directory/modify_entry.rhtml. Specify the directory entry to be modified and the modified attributes. Click Submit, as shown below.
Figure 5. Modifying a directory entry
Modifying a directory entry
The directory entry gets modified as shown in the Web Administration Tool.
Figure 6. Modified directory entry
Modified directory entry
Searching a directory
This section explores how to search for a directory entry. You will display the result of the directory search on the same page where the directory entry data is input using the Ajax Web technique. The Ajax Web technique is implemented by the prototype library. The prototype library includes the class PrototypeHelper to create a form that may be updated asynchronously using Ajax. Include the prototype library in the search_entry.rhtml view template.
<%= javascript_include_tag "prototype" %>
Add a form submitted using Ajax with the form_remote_tag method of the PrototypeHelper class. The :update option of the form_remote_tag specifies the form element to be updated with the server response. The :url option specifies the URL to which the form is submitted, and the controller action is specified with the :action parameter.
<%=form_remote_tag(:update=>"directory_entry",
:url=>{:action=>:search_entry}) %>
<% end_form_tag %>
Specify the directory entry input fields with the text_field_tag of the FormTagHelper class. The form element to be updated is specified as a div.

The search_entry.rhtml view template is shown in Listing 3.
Listing 3. search_entry.rhtml

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When the search_entry.rhtml form is submitted, the search_entry controller action of the directory controller gets invoked. Modify the search_entry action. Retrieve the values of the :gn and :sn fields, and define the base DN of the directory entry to search.
gn=values[:gn]
 sn= values[:sn]
cn=gn+sn
treebase= "cn="+cn+",cn=localhost"
Specify the attributes of the directory entry to retrieve.
attrs = ["cn", "sn","title", "telephoneNumber","physicalDeliveryOfficeName",
"facsimileTelephoneNumber"]
Open a connection with the Tivoli Directory Server and search for the specified directory entry using the search method of the Net::LDAP class.
Net::LDAP.open( :host => 'localhost', :port => 389,:base =>
'cn=localhost', :auth => { :method => :simple, :username =>
'cn=root',
:password =>'tivoli' } ) do |ldap| ldap.search( :base => treebase, :attributes => attrs, :return_result => true ) do |directory| end
The search method returns a result set. Iterate over the result set and create an HTML table to send as a response to the search_entry.rhtml view template. For example, a row for the cn attribute is added to the table.
directoryEntry+="
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directoryEntry+="cn	"
directoryEntry+=""+"#{directory.cn}"+"	"
directoryEntry+="
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Invoke the search_entry.rhtml view template with the URL http://localhost:3000/directory/search_entry.rhtml to search for a directory entry. Specify the :gn and :sn attributes, which form the rdn of a directory entry, and click Search.
Figure 7. Searching for a directory entry
Searching for a directory entry
The directory entry attributes get listed.
Figure 8. Directory entry search result
Directory entry search result
Deleting a directory entry
In this section, you delete a directory entry. A directory entry is identified by a DN, which is comprised of the rdn and the base DN. The RDN of the directory entry to be modified is specified in the delete_entry.rhtml view template. The form_tag method is used to create a form, and the text_field tag is used to create a form text field. The delete_entry.rhtml view template, which consists of input fields for first name and last name, is shown below.
Listing 4. delete_entry.rhtml

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 <%= form_tag :action => "delete_entry" %>

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The French plant phenomic network (FPPN)
PHENOME will provide France with an up-to-date, versatile, high throughput infrastructure and suite of methods allowing characterisation of panels of genotypes of different species under scenarios associated with climate changes. Phenotyping has become the major limitation in programmes aimed at building genotypes that maintain / increase crop performance under climate change and reduced inputs.
The project objectives are to:
- Build or upgrade highly instrumented platforms in seven French sites able as a whole to deal with the most important crop species, biological questions and environmental stresses
- Develop hardware and software applications with technological jumps, including the development of new sensors, methods, data analysis and databases able to cope with millions of data points
- Disseminate techniques and methods towards the French phenotyping community (seed companies, technical institutes, public research groups),
- Enhance emergence of French SMEs involved in the development of phenotyping methods.


text: Low energy threshold detectors are necessary in many frontier fields of the experimental physics. In particular these are extremely important for probing Dark Matter (DM) possible candidates. We present the activity of the AXIOMA matrix R&D project, a novel detection approach that exploits Rare gases crystals both undoped and doped maintained at low temperature. In the undoped matrices, the direct ionization of the incident particle creates free charges that could be extracted through the solid-vacuum interface and then detected. In the doped crystals scheme we probe the energy levels of atoms embedded into the crystals. We exploit laser-assisted transitions that are triggered by the absorption of the incident particle in the material and leads in the emission of a fluorescent photon or in an electron. Two possible schemes are thus possible: one is based on a light signal while the other takes advantage of high efficiency-in vacuum charge detection. The second approach offers the advantage of single-electron detection combined with a very low dark count rate using microchannel plate or channeltron sensors. However, to ensure electrons' drift, we needs high quality crystals with an impurity level lower than ppb especially for high electronegativity atoms. Through these schemes, we could be able to detect low energy release in the range [sub eV-tens of eV] in large volume crystals opening thus the possibility to investigate lighter DM candidates.


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The discoveries in Mkhambathi Nature Reserve on South Africa's Wild Coast were made by scientists and volunteers from Earthwatch during an eight-day period in 2008. The scientists were working in partnership with Eastern Cape Parks, the government organisation that manages the protected areas in the Eastern Cape Province.
Earthwatch scientist Dr. Michelle Hamer of the South African National Biodiversity Institute and the University of KwaZulu-Natal explains the significance of the findings: "These discoveries are important because they highlight just how little we know about our biodiversity, even in a relatively well studied country like South Africa. This particular area is also threatened by the construction of a major motorway nearby and by mining of the dunes in the adjacent area. There is also a lot of pressure to develop tourism infrastructure inside the reserve. This means that many of these species could have disappeared before they were even discovered by scientists."
Dr. Hamer says: "At least if we understand the importance of the area in terms of its invertebrate fauna, then we can try to protect it. Will it make a difference to anyone if these new species go extinct? We don't know for sure, but we do know that every species that is removed from an ecosystem results in some weakening of the ecosystem. This could have an effect on the cleanliness of the water or on soil fertility, for example."
Executive Vice President of Earthwatch, Nigel Winser, says: "These new discoveries by Michelle Hamer and her field assistants confirm the rich biodiversity of this grassland ecosystem. Systematic surveys of flora and fauna such as these, underpin long term management strategies for habitats under threat and Earthwatch is proud to be supporting this invertebrate research over many years. Such findings give a boost to conservation commitments in South Africa."
The scientists confirmed 18 new species of invertebrates, but suspect that another 18 might also be newly discovered. A report, highlighting the important information about the invertebrates of Mkhambathi, was presented to Eastern Cape Parks scientists earlier this year for use in their conservation planning and management strategies. The new species are currently in the process of being named, described and illustrated by scientists at museums and other research institutes in South Africa.
Earthwatch has supported Dr. Hamer's research in South Africa for seven years. Dr. Hamer says: "We have also collected new species on other expeditions in South Africa, but the large number collected in such a short time at Mkhambathi is quite unusual. Many of the species we collected seem to be unique to a small area in or around Mkhambathi."
She adds, "Mkhambathi has enormous potential for ecotourism, providing economic benefits to South Africans through this. Conflicting pressures may, however, result in the destruction of key habitats and subsequently the biodiversity of the reserve. Collecting data is critical in any motivation for continued conservation."
Earthwatch scientists in South Africa have discovered 18 new species of invertebrate including spiders, snails, millipedes, earthworms, centipedes and true bugs.

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Friday, January 13, 2012
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol
Gaurab Aryal (The Australian National University) and Maria F. Gabrielli (CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo) are Testing for Collusion in Asymmetric First-Price Auctions.
ABSTRACT: This paper proposes fully nonparametric tests to detect possible collusion in first-price procurement (auctions). The aim of the tests is to detect possible collusion before knowing whether or not bidders are colluding. Thus we do not rely on data on anti-competitive hearing, and in that sense is 'ex-ante'. We propose a two steps (model selection) procedure: First, we use a reduced form test of independence and symmetry to shortlist bidders whose bidding behavior is at-odds with competitive bidding, and Second, the recovered (latent) cost for these bidders must be higher under collusion than under competition, because collusion dwarfs competition, hence detecting collusion boils down to testing if the estimated cost distribution under collusion first order stochastically dominates that under competition. We propose rank based and Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) tests. We implement the tests for Highway Procurement data in California and conclude that there is no evidence of collusion even though the reduced form test supports collusion.


syntax. Otherwise the defmethods won't work right. CLtL2 gives an example of using DEFTYPE in this way to define a "square 2-d array" type:
(defun equidimensional (a)
 (or (< (array-rank a) 2)
(deftype square-matrix (&optional type size)
 "SQUARE-MATRIX includes all square 2-d arrays."
 (satisfies equidimensional)))
So we can say something like:
(deftype *matrix-like* (&optional type nrows ncols)
 '(and matrix-like (satisfies (or (= (* (nrows A) (ncols A)) 0)
 (typep (mref A 0 0) type)))))
and then make the defmethods specify (*matrix-like* double-float) or whatever type as the types of the matrix arguments. Note that zero-element matrices and matrix views have any data type you want, and we don't evaluate (mref A 0 0) unless we know that there is at least one element in the matrix (view). Note that we don't ask for (array-element-type (my-array A)) because (a.) zero-element Lisp arrays may be tricky (I'm not sure), and (b.) we might use a C array instead of a Lisp array.
Code generation
The BLAS and LAPACK support four different datatypes: single-float, double-float, (complex single-float) and (complex double-float). We can generate DEFMETHODs for all different types of matrices by using the same "method template" that we use for WITH-COPIES. It's easy to find the right BLAS / LAPACK routine for a given datatype because it begins with a letter corresponding to the datatype: S for single-float, D for double-float, C for (complex single-float) and Z for (complex double-float). I've written some code sketches for this.
The BLAS and LAPACK wrapper functions that we support are put into an alist mapping from method name to method template. We could even store them in a file, though this could be a security risk if people mess with the file, no?
Dependency analysis (for a "smart Matlab compiler")
Here follows discussion of a "smart Matlab compilation" technique that tries to preserve Matlab copy semantics while avoiding copying whenever possible.
Types of accesses:
 1. overwrite-read: qr (A)
 2. overwrite-write: A(2:4, 2:4) = [0 1; 2 3];
 3. read: print (A(:, 2:3));
We can classify datapath links as follows. A (plain) read can be followed by anything.
 1. overwrite-read -> overwrite-read:
 [Q, R] = qr (A);
 [L, U] = lu (A);
 This requires saving a copy of the dependent variable the first time.
 2. overwrite-read -> overwrite-write: [Q, R] = qr (A); A(2:4, 2:4) = [0 1; 2 3]; These require saving a copy of the dependent variable, or at least a copy of the subview that is required. Of course if we are in a function and we don't have inter-procedural analysis, we have to return a whole copy of A.
 3. overwrite-read -> read:
 [Q, R] = qr (A);
 print (A);
 4. overwrite-write -> overwrite-read:
 [Q,R] = qr (A);
 E = eig (Q); (???)
 OK, no special handling needed.
 5. overwrite-write -> overwrite-write:
 [Q, R] = qr (A);
 [Q, S] = qr (B);
 Cleverness can avoid computing Q the first time (e.g. with a QR factorization, we can avoid computing Q explicitly or at all; with an eigenvalue decomposition, we can avoid computing the eigenvectors). Otherwise there's nothing we need to do.
 6. overwrite-write -> read:
 [Q, R] = qr (A);
 print (Q);
 OK, no special handling needed.
Dependency analysis is pretty easy in straight-line code. We may not know if we have a loop unless we macro-expand all the way and look for primitives (DO, GO, etc.). User-defined functions can be optimized if we ask the user to make assertions about inputs and outputs, or we can do inter-procedural analysis ourselves (operate on blocks -- find their inputs and outputs). For example, in Allegro CL v. 8.0 on MacOS X PPC:
CL-USER> (macroexpand '(dotimes (i n) (setf (aref A i) 0)))
(block nil
 (let ((#:g251 n) (i 0))
 (cond ((>= i #:g251) (return-from nil (progn))))
 (tagbody (setf (aref A i) 0))
 (psetq i (1+ i))
 (go #:Tag4))))
CL-USER> (macroexpand-1 '(dotimes (i n) (setf (aref A i) 0)))
(do ((#:g252 n) (i 0 (1+ i))) ((>= i #:g252)) (setf (aref A i) 0))
If we want to do this thoroughly, we'll have to trace out the control flow. User-defined functions may even have return-froms that make things messy. But eventually we have to make simplifying assumptions. These can be governed by a conservativity level so that the user can choose to sacrifice safety for speed.
"Matlab in Lisp"
Parse a Matlab file and convert it into a PROGN of Lisp statements. This can then be compiled (using the standard Lisp compiler) which gives you, therefore, compiled Matlab code! We can also use our own code optimization tools on the PROGN before we feed it into COMPILE.
It's too ambitious to try to replicate all of Matlab in Lisp, especially the GUI stuff and the toolboxes. Nevertheless, we can bring in a lot of useful functionality from e.g. the GSL (though that's GPL'd, be careful) or other libraries.
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if (spoolfile != NULL) fclose(spoolfile);spoolfile = NULL; tmpname = tmpnam (NULL); if (spoolname != NULL) free(spoolname); spoolname = malloc(strlen(tmpname)+strlen(SPOOLDIR)+1); sprintf(spoolname, "%s%s", SPOOLDIR, tmpname); if (controlname != NULL) free(controlname); controlname = malloc(strlen(spoolname)+strlen(EXT)+1); sprintf(controlname, "%s%s", spoolname, EXT); spoolfile = fopen (spoolname, "w"); /* 4.X.X Persistent Transient Failure A persistent transient failure is one in which the message as sent is valid, but some temporary event prevents the successful sending of the message. Sending in the future may be successful. X.2.X Mailbox Status Mailbox status indicates that something having to do with the mailbox has cause this DSN. Mailbox issues are assumed to be under the general control of the recipient. 3.3 Mailbox Status X.2.0 Other or undefined mailbox status The mailbox exists, but something about the destination mailbox has caused the sending of this DSN. X.2.1 Mailbox disabled, not accepting messages The mailbox exists, but is not accepting messages. This may be a permanent error if the mailbox will never be re-enabled or a transient error if the mailbox is only temporarily disabled. X.2.2 Mailbox full The mailbox is full because the user has exceeded a per-mailbox administrative quota or physical capacity. The general semantics implies that the recipient can delete messages to make more space available. This code should be used as a persistent transient failure. X.2.3 Message length exceeds administrative limit A per-mailbox administrative message length limit has been exceeded. This status code should be used when the per-mailbox message length limit is less than the general system limit. This code should be used as a permanent failure. X.2.4 Mailing list expansion problem The mailbox is a mailing list address and the mailing list was unable to be expanded. This code may represent a permanent failure or a persistent transient failure. */ if (spoolfile == NULL) { DRAIN(); put (to_client, "450 4.2.0 Requested mail action not taken: mailbox unavailable - cannot open %s - %s\n", spoolname, strerror(errno)); debug_exit (7); // more graceful failover needed? } controlfile = fopen (controlname, "w"); if (controlfile == NULL) { DRAIN(); put (to_client, "450 4.2.0 Requested mail action not taken: mailbox unavailable - cannot open %s - %s\n", controlname, strerror(errno)); debug_exit (8); // more graceful failover needed? } domainp = domain; usernamep = username; *domainp = '\0'; *usernamep = '\0'; i = 0; // Small state machine to extract username@domain from "mail from" // command. #define PRE 1 #define GRAB_USERNAME 2 #define GRAB_DOMAIN 3 #define DONE 4 state = PRE; for (;;) { c = get (from_client, ReadTimeout); if (c == '\r') continue; if (c == EOF) { put (to_client, "451 4.3.0 Requested action aborted: error in processing - unexpected end of file\n"); debug_exit (9); } if (c == '\n') break; if ((state == GRAB_USERNAME) || (state == GRAB_DOMAIN)) { // canonicalise case in username and domain if (isalpha (c) && isupper (c)) c = tolower (c); } if ((state == PRE) && (c == '<')) { state = GRAB_USERNAME; i = 0; } else if ((state == GRAB_USERNAME) && (c == '>')) { state = DONE; strcpy (domain, ""); // DEFAULT_DOMAIN domainp = domain + strlen (domain); // [TO DO!] #define for local default domain above } else if ((state == GRAB_DOMAIN) && (c == '>')) { state = DONE; } else if ((state == GRAB_USERNAME) && (c == '@')) { state = GRAB_DOMAIN; i = 0; } else if ((state == GRAB_USERNAME) && (c != ' ')) { // truncate if username too long (might be x500 address :-( // // ) if (i < (MAX_STRING - 1)) { *usernamep++ = c; i += 1; } } else if ((state == GRAB_DOMAIN) && (c != ' ')) { // truncate if domain too long - it's probably a hack // attempt if (i < (MAX_STRING - 1)) { *domainp++ = c; i += 1; } } } #undef PRE #undef GRAB_USERNAME #undef GRAB_DOMAIN #undef DONE *domainp = '\0'; *usernamep = '\0'; // SAVE USERNAME@DOMAIN (or just USERNAME) to control file. if (*helo_host != '\0') { fprintf(controlfile, "helo %s\n", helo_host); } else if (*connecting_host != '\0') { fprintf(controlfile, "helo %s\n", connecting_host); } fprintf(controlfile, "mail from:<%s@%s>\n", username, domain); put (to_client, "250 2.1.0 <%s@%s>... Sender ok\n", username, domain); } } else if (strncmp (comm, "rset", 4) == 0) { DRAIN(); *domain = '\0'; *username = '\0'; *helo_host = '\0'; accept = FALSE; if (controlfile != NULL) fclose(controlfile); controlfile = NULL; if (spoolfile != NULL) fclose(spoolfile); spoolfile = NULL; put (to_client, "250 2.0.0 Reset state\n"); } else if (strncmp (comm, "noop", 4) == 0) { DRAIN(); put (to_client, "250 2.0.0 OK\n"); } else if (strncmp (comm, "help", 4) == 0) { DRAIN(); put (to_client, "214-2.0.0 This is backupmx/store version "); put (to_client, VERSION); put (to_client, "\n"); put (to_client, "214-2.0.0 Commands available:\n"); put (to_client, "214-2.0.0 HELO MAIL RCPT DATA\n"); put (to_client, "214-2.0.0 RSET NOOP QUIT HELP\n"); put (to_client, "214 2.0.0 End of HELP info\n"); } else if (strncmp (comm, "helo", 4) == 0) { int i; char *s = helo_host; if (*helo_host != '\0') { DRAIN(); put (to_client, "220 2.5.0 HELO/EHLO command already issued.\n"); } else { *helo_host = '\0'; for (;;) { c = get (from_client, ReadTimeout); if (c == EOF) debug_exit (10); if ((c == '\r') || (c == ' ') || (c == '\t') || c == '\0') continue; if (c == '\n') break; if ((s-helo_host) + 1 < MAX_STRING) { *s++ = c; *s = '\0


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Type of Cost in Economy :: SSC CGL & CHSL Economy
Type of Cost in Economy
Here are Important Study Material of SSC CGL/CHSL Economics. You will learn the art of identifying the study material associated with it and with the help of this article, You can develop your abilities & gain experience. This will be very helpful for those candidates who are preparing for SSC CGL exam.
Explicit Cost –
- is the money expenditure incurred on the resources used in the production of a commodity.
- These are also known as paid out costs, expenditure costs and also as outlay costs.
Implicit Cost –
- Is the costs of self-owned and self-employed resources, which if employed else-where were being paid.
- These include interest on capital employed by entrepreneur in his firm, rent of building owned by entrepreneur, reward for his managerial skills.
- These are non-expenditure costs also called as imputed cost.
- Opportunity cost is an example of imputed cost.
- The explicit and implicit costs together make the economic cost.
Social Cost –
These are the costs that arise due to the production of the firm but they are not borne by the firm but
They are borne by the society.
- This cost includes
– (i) the use of natural resources freely available, and
– (ii) The dis-utility created in the process of production.
– These cost together constitute social cost, also termed as external costs.
Example is the chemical factories discharging its waste in rivers, air pollution created by chimneys of the firm, etc.
Resources used are atmosphere, rivers, land etc.
Real Cost –
- Efforts, pains and exertions of labour along with wait and abstinence required by entrepreneur for saving the capital used in making a commodity.
- It is a subjective type of cost introduced by Marshall.
Incremental Cost –
- Increase in total cost on an increase in the level of operations is called the incremental cost.
- This cost is associated with the decisions to expand the output or to add a new variety of product or to replace worn out plant and machinery.
- It is also termed as differential cost and it does not apply to a new firm but applies to existing firm only.
Fixed Cost (FC) –
- Are costs incurred on production firm which is fixed in short-run irrespective of the volume of output level.
- These are incurred even if production comes tohault.
- These include office over heads, depreciation on machinery, building, maintenance of firm
- Fixed costs are also known as general costs, supplementary costs and indirect costs.
Variable Cost (VC) –
- Also known as prime costs or direct cost, it varies with the variation in the volume of total output.
- It includes cost of raw material, running cost of fixed capital, direct labour charges and costs of all other inputs that vary with output.
Total Cost (TC)
- It is the sum of fixed costs and variable cost. TC = FC + VC
- Total cost curve TC moves parallel to total variable cost curve (TVC) because difference between TC and TVC is FC which remains constant.
Average Variable Cost (AVC) –
- AVC declines at initial stage due to law of increasing returns.
- It becomes constant when firm attains its full capacity; AVC starts to increase due to application of law of diminishing returns.
- Thus, AVC gets "U" Shape in long-run.
- Same is applicable to Average Cost Curve.
- It is also U shaped.
Type of Cost Function-
Short-run Cost Functions
Relation between MC (Marginal Cost) and AC (Average Cost) Curve
- Both AC and MC are derived from total cost.
- So as far as AC falls, MC falls more sharply MC < AC
- MC curve cuts AC curve from below at the minimum. This is point of optimum capacity.
- When AC increases, MC also increases but at a more pace, i.e., MC > AC after intersection.
- MC reaches its minimum level sooner than AC.
- Thus, just before the point of inter section, MC must be rising while AC is falling but
- MC curve must be below the AC curve.
Long run Cost Curve
Long-run is a period characterized by changing factors of production, fixed as well as variable.
The firm plans to produce more by building a new large plant by changing the production technique.
Laws of return to scale applies
- Each plant capacity has its own Short-run Average Cost Curve (SAC).
- In long-run, there can be a large number of plants as well as their SACs.
- LAC curve is a U shaped curve enveloping all the SACs.
- LAC curve is flatter, smooth and is tangent to all the SAC at its minimum point.
- It is also called envelope curve
- Long-run Average Cost Curve (LAC) helps the firm to determine an optimum scale of operation which incurs least cost and maximum profit.
Margin of Safety (MoS) –
- It is the difference between actual sales and the breakeven point sales.
- It is the range of sales over and above the break even sales.
- If the difference is big, it implies that the firm can still make profits even after a serious drop in production.
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, or G-stem. Following the tradition of mediaeval Arabic grammarians, it is more often called the Pə'al (also written Pe'al), using the form of the triliteral root P-'-L, meaning "to do". This stem carries the basic lexical meaning of the verb.
By doubling of the second radical, or root letter, the D-stem or Pa''el is formed. This is often an intensive development of the basic lexical meaning. For example, qəṭal means "he killed", whereas qaṭṭel means "he slew". The precise relationship in meaning between the two stems differs for every verb.
A preformative, which can be ha-, a- or ša-, creates the C-stem or variously the Hap̄'el, Ap̄'el or Šap̄'el (also spelt Haph'el, Aph'el and Shaph'el). This is often an extensive or causative development of the basic lexical meaning. For example, ṭə'â means "he went astray", whereas aṭ'î means "he deceived". The Šap̄'el is the least common variant of the C-stem. Because this variant is standard in Akkadian, it is possible that its use in Aramaic represents loanwords from that language. The difference between the variants Hap̄'el and Ap̄'el appears to be the gradual dropping of the initial h sound in later Old Aramaic. This is noted by the respelling of the older he preformative with aleph.
These three conjugations are supplemented with three derived conjugations, produced by the preformative hiṯor eṯ-. The loss of the initial h sound occurs similarly to that in the form above. These three derived stems are the Gt-stem, Hiṯpə'el or Eṯpə'el (also written Hithpe'el or Ethpe'el), the Dt-stem, Hiṯpa''al or Eṯpa''al (also written Hithpa''al or Ethpa''al), and the Ct-stem, Hiṯhap̄'al, Ettap̄'al, Hištap̄'al or Eštap̄'al (also written Hithhaph'al, Ettaph'al, Hishtaph'al or Eshtaph'al). Their meaning is usually reflexive, but later became passive. However, as with other conjugations, actual meaning differs from verb to verb.
Not all verbs utilise all of these conjugations, and, in some, the G-stem is not used. In the chart below (on the root K-T-B, meaning "to write"), the first form given is the usual form in Imperial Aramaic, while the second is Classical Syriac.
Stem Perfect active Imperfect active Perfect passive Imperfect passive
Pə'al (G-stem) kəṯaḇ ↔ kəṯaḇ yiḵtuḇ ↔ neḵtoḇ kəṯîḇ
Hiṯpə'ēl/Eṯpə'el (Gt-stem) hiṯkəṯēḇ ↔ eṯkəṯeḇ yiṯkəṯēḇ ↔ neṯkəṯeḇ
Pa''ēl/Pa''el (D-stem) kattēḇ ↔ katteḇ yəḵattēḇ ↔ nəkatteḇ kuttaḇ
Hiṯpa''al/Eṯpa''al (Dt-stem) hiṯkattaḇ ↔ eṯkattaḇ yiṯkattaḇ ↔ neṯkattaḇ
Hap̄'ēl/Ap̄'el (C-stem) haḵtēḇ ↔ aḵteḇ yəhaḵtēḇ ↔ naḵteḇ huḵtaḇ
Hiṯhap̄'al/Ettap̄'al (Ct-stem) hiṯhaḵtaḇ ↔ ettaḵtaḇ yiṯhaḵtaḇ ↔ nettaḵtaḇ
Aramaic also has two proper tenses: the perfect and the imperfect. In Imperial Aramaic, the participle began to be used for a historical present. Perhaps under influence from other languages, Middle Aramaic developed a system of composite tenses (combinations of forms of the verb with pronouns or an auxiliary verb), allowing for narrative that is more vivid. The syntax of Aramaic (the way sentences are put together) usually follows the order verb–subject–object (VSO). Imperial (Persian) Aramaic, however, tended to follow a S-O-V pattern (similar to Akkadian), which was the result of Persian syntactic influence.
Aramaic word processors[edit]
The World's first Aramaic language word processing software was developed in 1986–1987 in Kuwait by a young information technology professional named Sunil Sivanand, who is now Managing Director and Chief Technology Architect at Acette. Sunil Sivanand did most of the character generation and programming work on a first generation, twin disk drive IBM Personal Computer. The project was sponsored by Daniel Benjamin, who was a patron of a group of individuals working worldwide to preserve and revive the Aramaic language.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Aramaic". Glottolog 2.2. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
 2. ^ Aramaic appears somewhere between 11th and 9th centuries BC. Beyer (1986: 11) suggests that written Aramaic probably dates from the 11th century BC, as it is established by the 10th century, to which he dates the oldest inscriptions of northern Syria. Heinrichs (1990: x) uses the less controversial date of 9th century, for which there is clear and widespread attestation.
 3. ^ Allen C. Myers, ed. (1987). "Aramaic". The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans. p. 72. ISBN 0-8028-2402-1. It is generally agreed that Aramaic was the common language of Israel in the first century AD. Jesus and his disciples spoke the Galilean dialect, which was distinguished from that of Jerusalem (Matt. 26:73).
 4. ^ Aramaic language - Encyclopedia Britannica
 5. ^ "What Language Did Jesus Speak?". Retrieved 2014-03-20.
 6. ^ Beyer 1986: 38–43; Casey 1998: 83–6, 88, 89–93; Eerdmans 1975: 72.
 7. ^ "Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language And Literature". J R Smart, J. R. Smart. 2013.
 8. ^ Heinrichs 1990: xi–xv; Beyer 1986: 53.
 9. ^ Naby, Eden. "From Lingua Franca to Endangered Language". Assyrian International News Agency.
 10. ^ a b Richard, 2003, p. 69.
 11. ^ Ancient and Modern Assyrians: A Scientific Analysis, page 88
 12. ^
 13. ^ "Panammuwa II and Bar-Rakib: Two Structural Analyses, K. Lawson Younger, Jr., University of Sheffield" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-03-20.
 14. ^ Klaus Beyer, The Aramaic Language, Its Distribution and Subdivisions, (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gottingen, 1986), 14.
 15. ^ Shaked, Saul (1987). "Aramaic". Encyclopædia Iranica 2. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 250–261. p. 251
 16. ^ Frye, Richard N.; Driver, G. R. (1955). "Review of G. R. Driver's "Aramaic Documents of the Fifth Century B. C."". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 18 (3/4): 456–461. doi:10.2307/_PHONE_. JSTOR _PHONE_. p. 457.
 17. ^ Geiger, Wilhelm; Kuhn, Ernst (2002). "Grundriss der iranischen Philologie: Band I. Abteilung 1". Boston: Adamant. pp. 249ff.
 18. ^ Stolper


Including line numbers in typeset output
For general numbering of lines, there are two packages for use with LaTeX, lineno (which permits labels attached to individual lines of typeset output) and numline. (Numline is considered obsolete, but remains available from the archive.)
Both of these packages play fast and loose with the LaTeX output routine, which can cause problems: the user should beware…
If the requirement is for numbering verbatim text, moreverb, or fancyvrb (see including files verbatim) may be used. Class memoir also provides the necessary facilities.
One common use of line numbers is in critical editions of texts, and for this the edmac package offers comprehensive support; ledmac is a LaTeX port of edmac.
The vruler package sidesteps many of the problems associated with line-numbering, by offering (as its name suggests) a rule that numbers positions on the page. The effect is good, applied to even-looking text, but is poor in texts that involve breaks such as interpolated mathematics or figures. Documentation of the package, in the package itself, is pretty tough going, though there is an example (also inside the package file).
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Author Topic: [Chris says: let's discuss!] Ship bays as a means of managing perplanet assets (Read 3745 times)
Offline TheDeadlyShoe
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In AIWC, we manage engineers/remains rebuilders using the control screen to set a quota galaxywide/perplanet. Then we just have those units built on the planet. After reading the 'ship bays' section of the design doc it comes to mind that there's no reason that ship bays cannot be used as a means of managing engineers and possibly similar assets for the player.
Imagine that every command station has a hangar/ship bay for engineers. Similar to AI units, engineers/rebuilders/other utility units return to the ship bay when there is no task needing their attention. Utility units would cost power to maintain, and since power is per-planet it places native limits on the number of engineers available without taking resources from the strike fleet. It also creates tradeoffs and choice for the player; if they want to make a planet an effective repair facility via utility units, it would cost power that eats into the budget for turrets and the like.
Another implementation could involve different types of command stations having different numbers of 'free' utility unit slots; players could spend power to increase the # of slots at a command station. Candy-upgrades for command stations could also affect the properties or number of utility unit slots, possibly including effects like faster/cheaper reconstruction or exotic upgrades like 'combat repairers'.
This would also make it easy to have a 'town bell' mechanic, where players could restrict utility units from leaving hte ship bays either totally or on a per-unit basis. The ship bays also offer a natural UI venue for managing settings for drones at a planet; players could set options for that station in terms of AI behavior for utility units launched from the bay.
Since utility units would cost per-planet power, and would return to bays when not in use, they functionally would not require ship caps; there's little potential performance issue and they would be restricted via other means.
Finally, this would create a unified mechanic across the game between AI and players, even if they use ship bays in a different fashion.
OFFSHOOT IDEA:
When playing AIWC, I tend to build a glob of engineers, colony ships, mobile builders, and remains rebuilders and stick them in a transport. I then use this as a 'meta unit' for colonization or the construction of siege bases on AI planets. This could easily (conceptually) be collapsed into a single unit - a construction/colony starship with a utility unit ship bay similar to the one described above. Although in this case both the unit and any drones in its bay would cost fuel instead of power. This would actually be a reasonable valuable unit - at least enough that you'd actually care about it, unlike colony ships or mobile builders. Something like 60,000-150,000 metal in AIWC terms. It would be a lot more useable and straightforward too :^)
The mothership could also have a ship bay, and double as a colony ship.
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Re: Ship bays as a means of managing perplanet assets
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2016, 02:01:59 AM »
I love this intention, even if I don't completely agree on several points (nitpicking).
I had some similar ideas, weeks ago, oriented toward macro. My grandest desire would be to completely remove the engineers and RRebuilders and automate their role. I like your idea of making planetary upgrades (with Knowledge?) to enhance the construction or repair capability of a planet. (I remember the "air staging facility" from Supreme Commander: great macro-management and automation.)
* integrate the energy collector into the command station
* integrate the knowledge gathering into the command station (Only one version of science lab, stealth and used for gathering on neutral planets and ARS scouting, maybe even merged with the hacker. Researches are done in the UI.)
* integrate the redirector post into the command station (or maybe make it a UI-only thing, not a unit in the game)
* integrate the beginning's producers (cryopods and cities) into the Home command station (or maybe let them out as they are for lore and AIP², why not)
* make remains rebuilders automated: they would be OCStation's drones, unbuildable and uncontrollable, only and automatically dispatched when needed.
* better build rate for space docks to let them work without a swarm of engineers (I would even say "remove engineers, make a healer fleetships (between scout drone and triangle) and make self-building at better rate").
Please excuse my english: I'm not a native speaker. Don't hesitate to correct me.
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Re: Ship bays as a means of managing perplanet assets
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2016, 11:00:53 AM »
In general there is a lot to like here. My takeaway from this, overall, would be to do something like the following:
1. On each planet, have a "utility panel" that describes a few things like how many engineers you want there, and potentially even what you want them to focus on, as well as things like how many remains rebuilders and so on.
2. These things would be automatically created and would not be something you'd have to come back on and see (hey do I have X number of engineers left?)
3. Having them go into the ship bays I'm less crazy about, because then the logic for "do I stay or do I go" gets kinda complicated in the inefficient-on-the-CPU sense. Probably. Maybe. ;) I see pros and cons, but overall I think it adds more complexity than it solves.
4. Basically I think of this kind of like the screens in SimCity where you can set the tax rate, set the funding rate for different programs, and enact social policies, etc. I don't think there needs to be a different type of command station for planets at all, but rather you configure these things at the planet the way you want (and if your command station dies, next time you come back it's the same again since this data was at the planet).
5. Various tech unlocks could get you new things that are like the social policies in SimCity (recycling as a new program, etc). But those would cost power on a per-planet basis, so you'd need to weigh where your power goes at any given time.
6. Being able to turn up and down the amount of power being used for turrets in general versus for the other things would be pretty cool. Aka, it's like under-funding your fire department. You can build a certain number of turrets, period, on a planet in general. And you can have those fully powered if you want. Or you can turn those to 50% power for a while to then have extra power to ship creation or whatever you want.
7. Hell, having engineers and remains rebuilders actually doesn't fit super well into the current design in general. In the past those were useful on AI planets, but that means they should cost fuel. But that really doesn't fit with the overall goals here, I don't feel like. Having "battlefield engineers" that are used in hostile space and are a fuel-related ship would be pretty cool, but on your own planets why even have those? Why not control everything from this sub-screen and save any worries about things like engineer travel times and whatnot. Cutting down on the amount of waiting time, and just letting you express yourself through the sorts of screens that have been really well-refined over the years (I'm thinking of SimCity 4, not having played the later ones).
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Nice.
Galaxy-cap for engineer stuff would go bye-bye?
Would engineer drones and remains rebuilders be merged, in the end?
Please excuse my english: I'm not a native speaker. Don't hesitate to correct me.
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Bear in mind these ideas are super half-baked right now.
Galaxy-cap for engineer stuff would go bye-bye?
Yes, BUT. We'd see those utility ships actually removed in general in terms of something you can control or whatever, potentially. Instead it would be something like "invisible nanobots


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It is a non-visible component: that is, if the icon is selected from the Standard tab of the Component Palette and placed on the form, it will not appear at run-time. Instead, a menu bar with a structure defined by the menu editor will appear.
To see the Menu Editor, right-click on the Main Menu icon on your Form.
Creating a PopupMenu
In the next passage, I will show you, how to assign a popup menu to a component an your Form:
- Create a new GUI application and insert a TImage to the form. To do this, choose the TImage from component palette Additional and click on your form. It will put a TImage on your form, with the name Image1.
- Go to the Object Inspector (which must be on Image1) and under the tab properties, select the Align property. Adjust the alClient align in the adjacent combobox (the Image1 is adjusted in the size of the form).
- Now you put a TPopupMenu (component tab standard) on your form (if possible on the "Image1", so you know that this is one of the image). The component PopupMenu1is displayed on the form (a square with a representation of a drop down menus and the name of the component).
- Right click now on "PopupMenu1", a pop-up menu appears. Click the first entry Menu Editor.
- The Menu Editor window will open with a menu item already created with a caption of New Item1. Probably you want to change it, so click on it and go to the Object Inspector.
- In Object Inspector, change the Name property from MenuItem1 to something more appropriate. Let's say this is the Load menu, so let's change Name by typing in popLoad and press enter.
- We want a better caption than New Item1, so go to the Caption property and type in Load and press enter.
- Now we want to create yet another menu entry. Go back to the Menu Editor window. Rightclick on Load. A pop-up menu will appear. Click on Insert New Item After, and a new menu, called New Item2 will appear. As explained in the last two items, let's change its name to popStretch and the caption to Stretched in the Object Inspector.
- We noticed that we forgot a menu entry. That's not bad, you go back in the menu editor. You can either right-click on Load and click on Insert New Item (after) or right-click on Stretched and click on Insert New Item (before).
- Change caption to Centered and name to popCenter.
- Procedure the menu editor so each menu item which you need and close at the end.
- When you have added all the menus, you must still set what component it should be associated with. In our case, this should be the TImage Image1, what we have placed at the beginning at the form.
- Select on the form Image1 and go in the object Inspector on the property PopupMenu. There, select PopupMenu1 in the adjacent combobox.
- In run-time, the popup menu will always appear if you right click the image.
Now, all this will get you is a menu that displays at run time and will allow the user to click on the menus. It won't actually do anything. To have the menu items do something, you have to add events for each menu that is to react to being clicked upon.
The following explains how to edit the events of menu clicks using the Object Inspector.
- Go back to the menu editor and select the Load menu item with a click. Now go to the Object Inspector window, and select the tab events. The only event that you really want to change, is OnClick, which is currently empty. If you already have an existing EventHandler to use, can use these and choose accordingly, otherwise you can create one by Lazarus. There is a button with 3 dots on the right side. Click on it, and a new procedure (your newly created eventhandler) is created in the code and the view changes to the source text editor. Your Procdure will look something like this:
procedure TForm1.popLoadClick(Sender: TObject); begin end;
- Between the statements begin and end you can now insert the code for the menu entry click Load.
In our case we could insert a TOpenDialog control on the form and use the standard dialog for our purposes:
- For that, put a TOpenDialog control (component palette dialog) on your form, with the name OpenDialog1. Now change your procedure to:
procedure TForm1.popLoadClick(Sender: TObject); begin if OpenDialog1.Execute then //only if a file is selected try //try Image1.Picture.LoadFromFile(OpenDialog1.Filename); //to load that file except end; end;
- Analogous procedures with other menu items and create their event handlers and insert following code:
procedure TForm1.popStretchClick(Sender: TObject); begin popStretch.Checked := not popStretch.Checked; //mark/checked on/off Image1.Stretch := popStretch.Checked; //Image1 streched yes/no end; procedure TForm1.popCenterClick(Sender: TObject); begin popCenter.Checked := not popCenter.Checked; //mark/checked on/off Image1.Center := popCenter.Checked; //Image1 center yes/no end;
- Now you can start the sample with [F9], open the popup menu with a right click and click on Load. Now, load a picture of your choice. If you have loaded an image, try the other menu entries.
May be you dont want to have displayed a popup menu with a right click on a specific component, but at a different event. That you can realize with
A simple example:
- Create a new GUI application and add a TPopupMenu PopupMenu1 and a TButton Button1 to your form.
- Insert a few menu entries in PopupMenu1 (see Creating a PopupMenu).
- Generate the event handler for the OnClick event of Button1 and write the following code:
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); begin PopupMenu1.PopUp; //shop PopupMenu end;
- Start your program, the popup menu is called by clicking the button.


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Improving the safety of Nevada's highways is the top priority of the Department of Public Safety, Highway Patrol. The Highway Patrol has established the goal to reduce the Nevada large truck and bus related fatalities rate to 0.16 fatalities per 100 million Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) by 2011, as averaged over the three preceding years. This equates to a 24 percent reduction from the base period of 2003-2005 average fatality rate of 0.21. This represents an estimated average of 7 lives saved each year in the State of Nevada.
To assist in achieving this goal, the DPS, Highway Patrol participates in the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP). This is a Federal grant program that provides financial assistance to States to reduce the number and severity of crashes and hazardous materials incidents involving commercial motor vehicles (CMV). The goal of the MCSAP is to reduce CMV-involved crashes, fatalities, and injuries through consistent, uniform, and effective CMV safety programs. Investing grant monies in appropriate safety programs increases the likelihood that safety defects, driver deficiencies, and unsafe motor carrier practices are detected and corrected before they become contributing factors to crashes. The MCSAP also sets forth the conditions for participation by States and local jurisdictions and promotes the adoption and uniform enforcement of safety rules, regulations, and standards compatible with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR's) and Federal Hazardous Material Regulations (HMR's)for both interstate and intrastate motor carriers and drivers.


Religion & Ethics: Content from Across the ABC
Date/Time 29 Dec 2014 3:52:42pm
The author proposes that religious instruction "should be for the sake of social cohesion" and "as a gateway to learning about and celebrating diversity".
In other words, religious instruction should be used as a vehicle to preach her religion, multiculturalism, whose very motto "Unity through celebrating diversity" provides sufficient warning of its inevitable failure, to those of us not of the faith.
Never mind that people who are vastly more informed than the author have already declared its failure -
'Nicolas Sarkozy joins David Cameron and Angela Merkel view that multiculturalism has failed':
Furthermore, one way migration from Islamic to Western countries testifies to the superiority of the Judaeo-Christian over the Islamic model. The Muslims are voting with their feet. The only way multiculturalists can get around this reality is by denying the West's "Judaeo-Christian heritage".
Why then should Islam be given equal time to Christianity in Australian classrooms, especially given that it is practised by only 2.2% (author's figure) of the population? And why should religious instruction be used as a front for promoting the failed policy of multiculturalism?


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Take a look to this picture
As you can see there is a relatively intuitive way to map x,y rectangular coordinate system to the hexagonal one.
We may talk about "rect" irregular hexagons ie hexagons inscribed in ellipses or hexagons obtained from regular hexagons scaled in both directions disproportionately (no rotations-shearings).
A rect hexagon can be defined by the height and width of the circumscribing rectangle plus the width of the inscribing one. (W,w,h)
The easiest way to find out the hexagonal index is to partitionate the space as follow:
The rectangle width is w + (W - w)/2 = (w + W)/2, its height is h/2; the width of the green rectangle is (W-w)/2. Is easy to find out where in which rectangle the point falls:
u and v are the reminder coordinates that indicates where the point is whithin the i,j rectangle: Using w we can say if we are in the green area (u < (W-w)/2) or not.
if it is the case we are in the green area we need to know if we are in the upper or lower half of the hexagon: we are in the upper half if i and j are both even or both odd; we are in the lower half otherwise.
In both cases it is usefull to trasform u and v so they vary between 0 and 1:
if we are in the lower half and v < u
if we are in the upper half and (1-v) > u
then we decrement i by one
Now we simply have to decrement j by one if i is odd to see that i is the horizontal hexagon index (column) and the integer part of j/2 is the vertical hexagon index (row)


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Nathans Na·thans (nā'thənz), Daniel. Born 1928.
American microbiologist. He shared a 1978 Nobel Prize for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to molecular genetics.
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American microbiologist who pioneered the use of restriction enzymes—enzymes that break DNA molecules down into manageable fragments—to create the first genetic map on which the location of specific genes on the DNA could be identified. For this work, which revolutionized genetic engineering, Nathans shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Werner Arber and Hamilton Smith.
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- Makes tying up staked or trellised plants in the greenhouse, nursery or field a breeze. You'll never use a twist tie again.
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Jointly developed outcomes guide the work of the FDC collaborative and demonstrate that they have achieved agreement on desired results. Without agreement on shared outcomes, each of the partners is likely to measure its progress as it did prior to the collaboration, based on its own internally defined outcomes. Particular importance needs to be given to the outcomes for the whole family—parents' recovery as well as safety and permanency of the children to appropriately reflect a family-centered approach in monitoring the effectiveness of the FDC collaborative effort
Joint accountability and shared outcomes developed in a collaborative process guide the work of the partnership by providing a performance and measurement driven framework for working with children and families. Defined performance indicators or benchmarks allow the partnership to measure the impact it is having together in the respective systems. It enlists the commitment of partners to work on achieving comprehensive family outcomes for example both permanency for children and recovery for parents.
This webinar continues the sustainability discussion, focusing on program outcomes. Lessons learned from a national perspective will be presented. The primary learning objectives are:


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Fall Creek Falls & Coon Creek Falls
January 15, 1951
RG 82, Department of Conservation
Fall Creek Falls is Tennessee's second-largest park; it consists of 19,684 acres and is located between Spencer and Pikeville along the border of Van Buren and Bledsoe counties. Park construction began in 1936 following the arrival of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA). The CCC restocked wildlife and began reforestation, and the WPA assisted with the construction of the park's facilities. The State Forestry Service and Department of Agriculture administered the park throughout the 1930s and 1940s. The National Park Service oversaw development, which included parking areas, picnic and camping facilities, trails, etc.
Today, park attendance places Fall Creek Falls among the state's most heavily visited recreational sites. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation has successfully retained the parks' most valuable resources, including the spectacular 250-foot namesake, Fall Creek Falls, as well as Cane Creek Gulf, Cane Creek Falls, Rockhouse Falls, Piney Creek Falls, numerous gorges, natural foliage, and an abundance of wildlife species. Today, the park remains, as the National Park Service remarked in the mid-1930s, "unquestionably one of the most outstanding beauty regions" in the United States.
Section researched and written by Kimberly Wires, Archival Assistant.


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addnote2Now we have a shaded button, but with nothing on it. The image and the text will be inset from the edge of the button by 9 pixels horizontally and 8 pixels vertically; and there will be a spacing of 5 pixels between them.
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addnote3We're getting closer. The button has its image and text, but its size is still fixed at 100×40. We really ought to measure the text and make our image size match. Fortunately, the Pango library (which we used to draw the text via the #newLayout method) can give us measurements for our text, so we gather that information before we create our initial PNG surface. Our image size will be derived from the text size, padding on all sides, the image size, spacing between the image and text, and the radius of the drop shadow:
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addnote4In #textExtent, I had to create a Cairo surface to use as a basis for Pango's measurements. I could have used my "image" instance variable, but that didn't seem like a healthy dependence to me. Better to create a scratch surface and throw it away.
Finally, we want a drop shadow. This is where we have to fake things a little. Cairo doesn't have a "blur" operation, so we'll take the shape the button we've drawn and smear it around. To avoid having to draw our shape several times, we use Cairo's built in layering capability to draw our shape on a separate layer, then repeatedly place this layer down in the drop shadow region (thanks to Travis Griggs for the help on this):
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addnote5Now it looks just like the customer wanted, and all we have left to do is take out the white background that we forced into place by removing the first two lines of #drawOn:.
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I got an email notification today that there is a new General Fuzz album available. If you've never listened to any General Fuzz, you're really missing out. It's some of the highest quality electronic music I've ever heard, having all of the elements that make real music worth listening to: melody, rhythm, harmonic development. And it's all free to download under a Creative Commons license.
I'm still digesting the new album, called "soulful filling", but I'm loving it so far. The blend of instrumental and electronic sounds is delicious. Recommended tracks from the other albums: Smiling Perspective, Baby Steps, Reflective Moment, Red Balloon, Cream.
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Definition of linden in English:
Another term for the lime tree (lime3), especially in North America.
- Lime trees (formerly also called the linden of romantic legend, or the lin - the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus is named for the lime tree at his family…
- Other mild sedative herbs are linden (lime flower) and lemon verbena.
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BAIHATA CHARIALI, July 2 - State Environment and Forest Minister, Parimal Suklabaidya inaugurated the 69th Van Mahotsav yesterday. The function was centrally organised at Garopahar Jarashal Reserve Forest at Rani under Kamrup district by the Environment and Forest Department of the State. This year, the main objective of the Mahotsav is to plant saplings.
On the occasion, the department organised a public meeting to create awareness among the masses about the need of plantation and conservation of bio-diversity for the welfare of human beings.
Participating in the meeting as the chief guest, Suklabaidya spoke about the significance of the Mahotsav and called upon the people of the State to create a habit of planting saplings on every auspicious festival.
Attending the meeting Naba Kumar Doley, Minister of State for Environment and Forest urged the people to extend their active co-operation and support to the Forest Department of the State through massive plantation so that a healthy environment could be grown. In the programme, Chief Conservator of Forest, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) including a number of higher officials of the department participated.
Meanwhile, North Kamrup (NK) Division of the Forest office also celebrated the Mahotsav at the Saraighat Lake park premises at Amingaon in association with Shyamalima, a wing of Rotary Club, Guwahati city. The programme was inaugurated by Kamal Kumar Baishya, Deputy Commissioner of Kamrup in presence of Chandan Bora and Dilip Deka, DFOs of NK division of forest office and social forestry, Nalbari respectively.
In the inaugural ceremony, a sapling plantation drive in the park premises was carried out by the Forest Department staff under the leadership of Nripen Kalita, ACF of NK division Forest office and Rabin Baishya, Range Officer of Sila range Forest office. Moreover, free sapling distribution programme among the people was also organised by the workers of the department.


Ice and Salt Preschool STEAM Activity
It's easy for kids to have fun with winter STEAM in this simple ice and salt activity. Kids can compete in ice cube races, observe changes in ice cubes as they melt, and discover how salt affects ice.
Salt and ice cubes experiment for kids
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Ice cubes are fun to use in a science activity to promote critical thinking and observation.
In this activity, kids will have an opportunity to make changes throughout the experiment to see how various factors affect the movement of the ice cubes.
STEAM = science+technology+engineering+art+math
Kids are engaging STEAM principles as they set design and set up the experiment (engineering), choose ice cubes of the same size (math), and observe how ice freezes and melts (science)!
Ice and salt experiment
Moving ice with a fan in a kids STEAM activity
1. Set up the activity
Set up the activity with a fan, a smooth surface, and ice cubes. You might go through some trial and error, as we did, in order to get results kids can easily observe and identify.
Here are some examples of our tests:
In our first attempt, we placed the ice cubes directly on the counter top.
For our second attempt, we placed the ice cubes on a glass cutting board (turned upside down as the underside is smooth).
We also tried various fans - a small table fan, a slightly larger 12 in. (30 cm) table model, and a floor model. The 12 in. (30 cm) sized fan is shown in the picture. It proved the best for moving the ice cubes.
2. Conduct experiments
Ice Races
Ice races science activity for kids
Place two ice cubes in front of the fan. Turn on the fan.
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See if one ice cube races ahead of the other!
Ice and Salt Friction
Ice with salt and fan STEAM experiment for kids
Place a row of salt in the path of one ice cube.
Observe the movement of the ice cube with salt and fan
The salt halts the progress of the ice cube!
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3. Observe results
 - We noticed that ice cubes melted faster in the path of the fan than ice cubes off to the side.
 - Salt inhibited the movement of the ice cube.
 - Ice cubes would slow or stop and then proceed after melting a bit, as if they moved on a cushion of water.
 Science for kids with salt and ice cubes
4. Make conclusions
Factors affecting the movement of the ice include:
 - type of surface where the ice cubes are placed
 - size of fan and strength of air flow
 - salt sprinkled in the path of the ice cube
 - ice melting during the experiment
This is an open-ended activity that encourages input and response from kids. As they play and learn kids benefit from exploring the challenges presented in this activity, and from the fine motor and sensory experiences it provides.
Simple STEAM activities are not only fun for kids but promote observation and discovery.
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Need for Assistance Worksheet
The Need for Assistance (NFA) worksheet looks at a specified geographic area and provides a score that is based on specific core barriers to care and other health indicators to prioritize underserved areas in need of more healthcare resources. NFA worksheets are a requirement for new access point applications for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) or FQHC Look-Alikes. The Bureau of Health Systems Development has developed a database to pull together all of the information required in a NFA worksheet and provides this information as a free resource.
The barriers and health indicators covered in the NFA worksheet include:
- Population to One FTE Primary Care Physician Ratio
- Percent of Population at or Below 200 Percent of Poverty
- Percent of Population Uninsured
- Distance or Travel Time to Nearest Primary Care Provider Accepting New Medicaid and/or Uninsured Patients
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Prenatal and Perinatal Health
- Child Health
Review the NFA Data Resource Guide for more information on the data included in the NFA.
- FFIEC Geocoding System
Enter an address and get census data and geocodes specific to that location
- HealthCare Service Delivery Sites (HRSA)
- UDS Mapper
Note: Information provided in PDF files, unless otherwise indicated.