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Pine nut oil is a natural substance that is popular for its varied benefits for humans. Read and know more about this natural oil.
What is Pine Nut Oil?
It is a kind of pressed vegetable oil. It is extracted from the kernels or seeds (commonly known as pine nuts) of various species of pines. It is extracted only from the edible seeds of pine. It is also known as Pine Seed Oil or Cedar Nut Oil. This oil is distinguished from other curative oils because of the wide range of benefits it has to offer.
There are various species of pine nuts like the European variety (also known as Pignoli) and the American variety (also known as pifiions). The quality of the oil extracted from pine seeds depend on the species of the pine nut it is made from. It is highly believed that the Siberian pine nut oil is superior in quality than other varieties of this oil.
Pine Nut Oil History
This oil has been used by people for many centuries to cure and heal illnesses and also to cook food.
During Great Lent, before the revolution of 1917, it was the main oil used for cooking in Russian homes. At that time, ten percent of the total hard currency of this country was based on the trade of this oil. The trade of this oil was mainly done with France. In France, this oil has been traditionally used for cooking.
Pine Nut Oil Composition
This oil is rich in various vitamins and fatty acids. It contains:
- Polyunsaturated fatty acids
- Significant quantity of fat-dissolving vitamins E and F
- Phosphatidic phosphorous
It also contains the following vitally important micro-elements:
There is up to 5% nitrogenous substances in the contents of this oil. 90% of these nitrogenous substances are amino acids and 70% are indispensable acids. This fact testifies to the high physiological value of the pine nut oil.
Pine Nut Oil – Triglyceride composition
The triglyceride composition of pine nut oil is as follows:
- Linoleic acid: 49.0% ± 2.3
- Oleic acid: 23.8% ± 2.1
- Pinolenic acid: 17.1% ± 2.0
- Palmitic acid: 6.3% ± 2.2
- Stearic acid: 2.5% ± 0.1
Pine Nut Oil Properties
- This oil is biologically active. Due to this, it is used in body massages and cosmetic facials.
- It has high curative properties.
- It has a very low smoke point.
- There is a high concentration of radical scavengers in this natural substance.
Pine Nut Oil Benefits
A wide range of benefits can be derived from this oil. The oil is used for the treatment of various sicknesses. Its usefulness is varied in range. This oil is rich in proteins, vitamins and fatty acids. Pine nut oil is a widely used natural medicine. It is used in the field of medicines, cooking, cosmetology and many more. The principal benefits of using this oil are mentioned below:
- Pine nuts are rich in amino acids. As a result, the pine nut oil is a great source of nutrition.
- This oil can also help in weight loss.
- This oil is a great source for vitamins B1, B2, B3 and E. Also there are zinc, magnesium, copper manganese etc. All these vitamins and minerals are excellent for health.
- The amino acids in this oil are highly beneficial to the development of a growing organ. This is the reason why pine nut oil is very healthy in the diet of teenagers, children and pregnant women.
- It is rich in Pinolenic Acid, which is a very powerful anti-inflammatory substance.
- It normalizes the lipid spectrum of blood. In this way, the pine nut oil helps to fight high blood pressure.
- The Department of Agricultural Chemistry at the College of Life & Environmental Sciences at Korea University has proved that pine nut oil can lower the cholesterol level in human body.
- This oil also has natural healing abilities. Pine nut oil is very efficient in healing peptic ulcer and gastritis.
- The oil works to alleviate various other digestive problems and stomach disorders.
- It is also believed to have the ability to increase mental energy and clarity.
Uses of Pine Nut Oil in Diet
Pine nut oil can help in fighting obesity. Scientists have proved that pine nuts can work as an appetite suppressant and curb the desire to eat. As a result it stops people from taking the extra food that causes obesity. Once it was proved, the scientists started to think of using pine nuts as dietary supplement. Pine nut oil was extracted so that it could be easily used for the purpose. Later, pine nut capsules were created so that using pine nut oil in a diet became easier. People can swallow the capsule without having to taste the material.
Pine Nut Oil in the Kitchen
The oil also has wide range of uses in the kitchen. It is a frequently used ingredient and there are various delicious recipes of pine nut oil. But it is not used in cooking like other nut oils. This is because it has a very low smoke point. In other words, it burns and starts to smoke at a very low temperature. This makes pine nut oil unfit to be used in cooking over a high temperature. So, pine nut oil is principally used as a "finishing" ingredient to add flavor to the food.
Pine nut oil can be a very effective preservative for bread. A small amount of the oil needs to be added to the dough.
Pine Nut Oil Side Effects
- The oil is very concentrated in nature. As a result it can cause skin irritation in case of sensitive skin. So, it is always advisable to dilute the substance before applying it to your skin.
- The pine nut oil may cause allergy in people who have allergies to other nuts (peanuts etc). The Department of Alergologia e Inmunologia Clinica at the Clinical University of Navarra, Spain has proved that people who are allergic to nuts have a tendency to have an allergy in pine nut oil.
- It smokes and burns at a very low temperature as it has a very low smoke point. Because of this property, it cannot be used in cooking at high temperatures.
- Pine nut oil causes a lack of appetite in people who ingest it. This may result in low amount of food intake and hence may cause health problems.
Buy Pine Nut Oil
If you are interested to buy and use pine nut oil, there are many stores where you can get this product. It is available for online shoppers too. There are many companies selling quality pine nut oil online.
Pine nut oil is a substance having endless natural qualities. It has a long history of being used for diverse reasons by generations past. It can also be said that pine nut oil will be successfully used by generations to come.


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February 16, 2010
No, it's not Christmas in a beehive. Instead, each hexagon in this shifting honeycomb represents a gene. A computer program called GATE makes these movies by reading the data from an experiment and grouping genes that turn on (red) and off (green) at similar times. When researchers click on any part of the honeycomb, GATE connects them to databases brimming with more information about gene and protein activity. Such interaction helps biologists wrap their heads around the vast amount of data they and their colleagues have gathered. It also inspires new hypotheses in areas as diverse as stem cell differentiation and ecosystem evolution. Courtesy of the Ma'ayan Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Featured in the February 17, 2010, issue of Biomedical Beat.

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In this course, you will learn :
- Combine and apply psychological knowledge about detecting deception.
- Create and evaluate an interview strategy.
- When conducting suspect interviews, use a rapport-building psychological model.
- Look into false confessions.
- In investigations, identify potential forms of cognitive bias.
- Use a simulated case study to apply psychological research.
1. Introduction to the case
- Witness interviews.
- Psychological theories and research on detecting deception.
2. Suspect interviews and establishing rapport
- Psychology behind police suspect interviews.
- Examples of difficult conversations.
- Rapport and respectful communication.
- Impact and dangers of interviewing techniques.
- Prioritising lines of enquiry.
4. Conclusion to the case
- Evidence and truthfulness in interviews.
- Closing the case.

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It is the most important and delicate operation, during which stigmas lose 20% of their initial weight and become special saffron.
We spread the fresh stigmata on metal fabric screens on wood embers. The dehydration is always carried out at more than 70 ° C and lasts about half an hour. To determine if the saffron is well dehydrated, the sense of touch is used and the color, aroma and appearance are observed. This process is vital for the determination of the organoleptic characteristics of saffron (color, flavor and aroma), in addition to the size it reaches.
The dedication we put into this process, the appropriate hygienic conditions, the rapid transformation process and the high temperatures used make a homogeneous saffron of excellent quality, without risks from the point of view of food safety.


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Unlike with physical books, Amazon has no control over the price of ebooks.
If someone has performed the steps required to publish an ebook via Kindle Direct Publishing, they set the price as they please, with no exceptions.
This constraint is the reason ebooks sometimes cost more than paperbacks.
Are Kindle books cheaper?
Yes most of the books I buy are less expensive than the paperback books available. They are generally cheaper than in a bookstore, plus you can get Kindle Unlimited, which lets you 'borrow' up to 10 books at once.
Why are digital books so expensive?
Despite this publisher's claim, the reason e-books are as expensive, or even more expensive, than traditional books isn't because they cost as much to produce and distribute. Anyone who produces anything digital that was formerly physical knows digital is cheaper. An e-book costs less than a physical book.
How are Kindle books priced?
They initially set up the KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) program to sell competitively priced eBooks. The catch is, to make 70% users must price their eBooks competitively—between $2.99 and $9.99. The lowest price of $2.99 keeps the content from being devalued, while keeping it at a no-brainer investment for consumers.
Why is ebook more expensive than paperback?
This is why a new ebook almost costs as much as a hardcover and is normally more expensive than a paperback. Very early on, publishers realized that e-books do not have as much legal protections as physical books do, because they are considered a service and not a product.

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June 2018).
Network operators often need to ensure that important probabilistic properties are met, such as that the probability of network congestion is below a certain threshold. Ensuring such properties is challenging and requires both a suitable language for probabilistic networks and an automated procedure for answering probabilistic inference queries. We present Bayonet, a novel approach that consists of: (i) a probabilistic network programming language and (ii) a system that performs probabilistic inference on Bayonet programs. The key insight behind Bayonet is to phrase the problem of probabilistic network reasoning as inference in existing probabilistic languages. As a result, Bayonet directly leverages existing probabilistic inference systems and offers a flexible and expressive interface to operators. We present a detailed evaluation of Bayonet on common network scenarios, such as network congestion, reliability of packet delivery, and others. Our results indicate that Bayonet can express such practical scenarios and answer queries for realistic topology sizes (with up to 30 nodes).
USENIX NSDI 2018. Renton, Washington, USA (April 2018).
For an Internet Service Provider (ISP), getting an accurate picture of how its network behaves is challenging. Indeed, given the carried traffic volume and the impossibility to control end-hosts, ISPs often have no other choice but to rely on heavily sampled traffic statistics, which provide them with coarse-grained visibility at a less than ideal time resolution (seconds or minutes). We present Stroboscope, a system that enables fine-grained monitoring of any traffic flow by instructing routers to mirror millisecond-long traffic slices in a programmatic way. Stroboscope takes as input high-level monitoring queries together with a budget and automatically determines: (i) which flows to mirror; (ii) where to place mirroring rules, using fast and provably correct algorithms; and (iii) when to schedule these rules to maximize coverage while meeting the input budget. We implemented Stroboscope, and show that it scales well: it computes schedules for large networks and query sizes in few seconds, and produces a number of mirroring rules well within the limits of current routers. We also show that Stroboscope works on existing routers and is therefore immediately deployable.
USENIX NSDI 2018. Renton, Washington, USA (April 2018).
Network operators often need to adapt the configuration of a network in order to comply with changing routing policies. Evolving existing configurations, however, is a complex task as local changes can have unforeseen global effects. Not surprisingly, this often leads to mistakes that result in network downtimes. We present NetComplete, a system that assists operators in modifying existing network-wide configurations to comply with new routing policies. NetComplete takes as input configurations with "holes" that identify the parameters to be completed and "autocompletes" these with concrete values. The use of a partial configuration addresses two important challenges inherent to existing synthesis solutions: (i) it allows the operators to precisely control how configurations should be changed; and (ii) it allows the synthesizer to leverage the existing configurations to gain performance. To scale, NetComplete relies on powerful techniques such as counter-example guided inductive synthesis (for link-state protocols) and partial evaluation (for path-vector protocols). We implemented NetComplete and showed that it can autocomplete configurations using static routes, OSPF, and BGP. Our implementation also scales to realistic networks and complex routing policies. Among others, it is able to synthesize configurations for networks with up to 200 routers within few minutes.


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Transcript of The Ancash Earthquake
The Ancash Earthquake Monica Bueno The Ancash Earthquake The Ancash Earthquake or Great Peruvian Earthquake is an undersea earthquake. It is one of the most biggest natural disasters ever witnessed in the world which caused half a billion dollars worth of damage. It lasted for approximately 45 seconds but caused terrible destruction. What Caused the Earthquake? The cause of the earthquake was the South American plate subducting the Nazca plate. Subduction is when a tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate, sinking into the Earth's mantle. Where this happens, it is called a subduction zone. The Nazca plate is the oceanic crust and the South American plate is the continental crust. What happened? What happened in the Ancash Earthquake was the Nazca Plate was being subducted by the South American Plate resulting in a disastrous earthquake and a horrific avalanche, in the town of Yungay. This caused major damage in Peru. When & Where did the Earthquake Occur? The Ancash Earthquake occured on the 31st of May, 1970 at approximately 3:23pm (Peruvian time). The earthquake happened in Peru. It's epicenter was located 35 kilometres off the Peruvian coast in the Pacific Ocean. Who was affected by the earthquake? People who were affected by the Ancash Earthquake where the residents of Peru, mainly the residents of Ancash and La Libertad. Over 3 million people were affected by the earthquake. Around 74 194 individuals died, 25 600 got injured and more than 1 million were left homeless. What was the Richter Scale Reading? The Richter Scale reading was 7.9. The Richter Scale measures the magnitude of the earthquake. What was the Modified Mercalli Scale level? The Modified Mercalli Scale level was VIII (8). The Modified Mercalli scale measures what people have witnessed during the earthquake. VIII (8) on the Modified Mercalli Scale means destruction, it causes major damage to poorly structured buildings but minor damage to strong buildings. Questions! I have prepared some questions for you to test your knowledge on the Ancash Earthquake. 1. Where was the avalanche located?Full transcript
2. Which plate was subducting the Nazca plate?
3. Where was the epicenter of the earthquake located?
4. What is the Ancash Earthquake?
5. What is subduction?
6. What was the Modified Mercalli Scale level?
7. What is the Richter Scale reading?
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Areas of Expertise:
- Biology of whale sharks
- Marine conservation
- Aquatic animal health
- Science communication
Dr. Dove is a broadly trained marine biologist and conservationist and a leading authority on the biology of whale sharks. As Vice President of Science and Education, he leads the Aquarium's education, research and conservation initiatives and develops collaborative partnerships with other institutions. He provides strategic oversight for the IUCN Center for Species Survival at Georgia Aquarium, coordinating the Aquarium's conservation efforts with the IUCN Species Survival Commission and other key conservation partners. He is also the Institutional Official for the Aquarium's USDA Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).
Dr. Dove obtained his PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1999, studying invasive freshwater fishes in Australian lakes and rivers. After moving to the USA in 2000, Dr. Dove held positions at the Wildlife Conservation Society (New York Aquarium), Cornell University, Stony Brook University and Columbia University, studying various aspects of the health of marine life. He joined the Georgia Aquarium team in 2006. He currently serves on the council of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) as chair of the Aquariums Committee, and is Vice Chair of the Wildlife Conservation Committee of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums
He has published over 75 scientific articles, several book chapters, and is the author and co-editor of the book Whale sharks: biology, ecology, and conservation. He is an adjunct faculty member at Georgia Institute of Technology (Biology), Georgia State University (Neurobiology), and UGA (Anatomic Pathology). Dr. Dove is a passionate science communicator and a compelling public speaker. He presented at TEDxPeachtree in 2015, was the Keynote speaker at the 2019 NCUR conference, and has been a contributor and associate editor for DeepSeaNews.com. He actively engages the public about marine science and conservation from his main Twitter account @DrAlistairDove.


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Real Time Biological Threat Agent Detection with a Surface Plasmon Resonance Equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
A system was developed to perform real-time biological threat agent (BTA) detection with a small autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Biological sensors just recently reached a level of miniaturization and sensitivity that made UAV integration a feasible task. A Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) biosensor was integrated for the first time into a small UAV platform, allowing the UAV platform to collect and then quantify the concentration of an aerosolized biological agent in real-time. A sensor operator ran the SPR unit through a groundstation laptop and was able to wirelessly view detection results in real time. An aerial sampling mechanism was also developed for use with the SPR sensor. The collection system utilized a custom impinger setup to collect and concentrate aerosolized particles. The particles were then relocated and pressurized for use with the SPR sensor. The sampling system was tested by flying the UAV through a ground based plume of water soluble dye. During a second flight test utilizing the onboard SPR sensor, a sucrose solution was autonomously aerosolized, collected, and then detected by the combined sampling and SPR sensor subsystems, validating the system's functionality. The real-time BTA detection system has paved the way for future work quantifying biological agents in the atmosphere and performing source localization procedures.


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Teradata SQL Assistant
Teradata SQL Assistant (TSA), as part of Teradata Tools and Utilities (TTU), is an ODBC-based client utility used to access and manipulate data on ODBC-compliant database servers
TSA for Windows:
Teradata SQL Assistant is an information discovery tool designed for Windows XP and Windows 2000. Teradata SQL Assistant retrieves data from any ODBC-compliant database server. The data can then be manipulated and stored on the desktop PC.
Teradata SQL Assistant for Microsoft Windows, originally called "Queryman" (before V. 6.0)or "QueryMan" (V. 6.0 and up), is also known as "SQLA" among programmers. It supports import / export tasks, but not the serious ones.
With its user-friendly GUI, TSA for Windows is generally oriented to business users and casual data consumers. (Refer to BTEQ for comparison.).
The key features of Teradata SQL Assistant are:
* Send queries to any ODBC database or the same query to many different databases;
* Export data from the database to a file on a PC;
* Create reports from any RDBMS that provides an ODBC interface;
* Import data from a PC file directly to the database;
* Use an import file to create many similar reports (query results or Answersets). For example, display the DDL (SQL) that was used to create a list of tables;
* Create a historical record of the submitted SQL with timings and status information such as success or failure;
* Use SQL syntax examples to tailor statements;
* Use the Database Explorer Tree to easily view database objects;
* Use a procedure builder that provides a list of valid statements for building the logic of a stored procedure;
* Limit data returned to prevent runaway queries.


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With last week's cold snap wreaking havoc with water supply and availability in many parishes, St. Charles Parish was one that did not have to issue a boil water advisory like many of its neighbors.
St. Charles Parish Waterworks Director Robbie Brou said the parish has the ability to treat more than twice the average daily water demands of its residents, a useful distinction in these situations. That infrastructure, along with some conservation by parish residents, kept the situation from escalating and requiring a boil mandate.
"We also maintain a one day supply of drinking water in storage at our facilities," Brou said. "These abilities were stretched to their maximum due to the number of customer leaks and people flushing water lines to avoid frozen pipes. This prompted us to ask our customers to restrict or limit water usage to avoid low water pressure in the system and the resulting boil water advisories."
Even so, Brou admits waterworks staff and parish authorities were very concerned throughout the course of the cold weather event.
"Even with the additional capacity we were supplying more water to the distribution system than we could treat," Brou said. "We were able to do this because of the one day's supply of water in storage. However as the level of water in storage continued to drop during the event there was growing concern that we could not maintain the rate of flow from the plants for much longer without facing low water pressure issues."
Brou credited the department's distribution crews that worked diligently to locate and turn off leaking water services for both days of the event, as well as repairing the two water main breaks in the parish's system.
The call to residents to conserve reversed the trend of having to distribute more water than the department was treating, which allowed for the chance to start filling its storage tanks.
The Department of Health requires water systems to maintain water pressure above 15 PSI. All water distribution lines have small leaks in them and the maintained positive pressure on the inside of those pipes ensures those leaks are leaking out and that nothing is leaking in.
"The parish places a large emphasis on our water system as it is a critical service that we provide to residents." — Robbie Brou
Brou said the concern and often the need for a boil advisory comes when the pressure falls too low. That can result in ground water leaking into the water pipes and causing potential contamination.
If the water needs of residents exceed the ability to treat it, it can result in low water pressure throughout a system.
Preparation is key in any emergency situation, and this was no different, Brou notes.
"The parish places a large emphasis on our water system as it is a critical service that we provide to residents," he said. "Well-maintained and properly-sized treatment, storage and distribution infrastructure is critical to sustaining water pressure, flow and quality in an event such as we have just experienced, but also in maintaining these every day of the year."


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Defining the Waste Principle
To account for cases across diverse legal fields, the waste principle must be formulated at a high level of abstraction. At this level, the principle prohibits negative-sum uses of property when the owners' self-interest would not reliably produce this result absent legal constraint. By "negative-sum," we mean uses that generate fewer benefits than costs, thereby reducing the total net value of the property to all its owners.
First, consider the case of A, who owns the whole undivided fee simple in Blackacre. A is free to use or not use Blackacre however she pleases (constrained by nuisance and land-use controls), including by arbitrarily destroying the magnificent and valuable house on the premises. The law does not preclude such destruction, even though it would manifestly reduce Blackacre's value, because A's self-interest should prevent her from demolishing it for no reason.
This is not so where A owns only a life estate, or where she owns a right to extract water, oil, or gas from a common supply. Because A must share the property, her self-interest may lead her to use or dissipate it in ways that benefit her but that reduce the property's overall value. To prevent this, the law prohibits A from "wasting" the property.
The oil and gas case Elliff v. Texon Drilling Co., 210 S.W.2d 558 (Tex. 1948), demonstrates this principle. Texon drilled into a common reservoir and its well blew out, destroying the gas and condensate under its land and Elliff's land next door. Texon's actions clearly reduced the value of the reservoir without creating any offsetting benefit, and because it shared the reservoir with Elliff, it was liable for waste.
The principle operates similarly in water law. For example, in Shodde v. Twin Falls Land & Water Co., 224 U.S. 107 (1912), a senior water rights holder was barred from using a giant, old-fashioned wheel to divert water from the Snake River in Idaho because it used nearly the entire river to operate, monopolizing it and depriving junior holders. Although operating the wheel benefitted the senior holder, it created greater losses for the juniors, reducing the flow's total value and violating the waste principle.
The principle also holds for resources that are subject to the public trust doctrine. As acknowledged in the seminal case Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois, 146 U.S. 387 (1892), the public trust doctrine limits the state's power to grant private rights in certain resources like submerged lands, which are considered held by the state in trust for the public. The Supreme Court held that Illinois breached this trust by conveying the shoreline of Lake Michigan in Chicago to a private railroad because (like in Shodde) it permitted a private monopoly over the resource that diminished its overall value to the public. Id. at 452–53.
Three notable features of the waste principle contribute to its ability to curtail abuses of natural resources. First, it is adaptive. As a standard, the stringency of the waste prohibition ratchets up and down with changing circumstances, including the physical characteristics of the resource, the demand for the resource, and technological innovation. Second, waste enforcement is largely decentralized. At common law, the waste principle provides a private right of action to remedy, including by injunction, the overexploitation or monopolization of common resources. This right of action requires no bureaucracy to enforce, but instead distributes enforcement across resources and individual owners. However, as the scale of resource use grows to the point where decentralized private enforcement is no longer effective, the waste principle facilitates the establishment of regulatory schemes to overcome enforcement difficulties. Thus, the waste principle permits decentralized enforcement so long as it is effective and facilitates bureaucratic enforcement when it is not. And third, the waste principle is forward looking. It grants rights in resources to future interest holders and thereby places limits on present holders' exploitation. In this sense, the principle is well suited to conserving exhaustible resources.
As we attempt to illustrate in the following sections, recognizing this waste principle may enable more active common law management of the environment and natural resources.
Applying the Waste Principle in Practice
There are many potential practical applications of the waste principle in environmental and natural resources law. The following offers only a high-level survey of some of the possibilities.
As it pertains to the management of water resources, the waste principle confirms and clarifies what water codes already prohibit. The failure of water codes to prevent and remedy waste, especially in the West, is well documented and occurs in part because of the difficultly in curtailing existing senior water rights. Understood in light of the waste principle as an inherent limitation on any title to a common resource, an administrative agency or state engineer does not, and by definition cannot, infringe senior rights by curtailing them to avoid waste. The inverse is also true: A state cannot validly create or authorize a water right in a use of water that constitutes waste.
Often the trouble for water administrators is in identifying when an existing beneficial use or diversion subsequently becomes wasteful. As Shodde aptly illustrates, senior uses or means of diversion that were net beneficial when they were perfected may well become net wasteful over time as water stocks decline, appropriations proliferate, and diversion technology improves. Water rights are not simply "set it and forget it," especially in rapidly depleting groundwater aquifers in the West, but must be continually reexamined in light of changing circumstances to avoid waste. The waste principle sets the standard for reexamination, which requires greater efficiency as the resource grows scarcer and the costs of its use rise. The extent of water rights is always proscribed by the waste principle, but under the principle, the particular definition of waste applicable to a given water right may become more or less (though almost always more) demanding over time. The waste principle thus empowers—indeed obligates—water administrators to continually enforce the waste limitation on water rights accordingly.
Oil and Gas
As in the case of water, the right to produce oil and gas is inherently limited by an obligation to use due care to avoid waste. This too has been codified through oil and gas conservation statutes, which empower agencies to regulate oil and gas production to prevent waste and protect correlative rights (see, e.g., Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 30-5-102). Conservation rules frequently codify the waste principle by requiring an operator to demonstrate that its proposed activity produces a greater benefit than any resultant losses to the common source of supply. For instance, whereas statutes prohibit spillage of oil or flaring of gas from natural gas wells, conservation regulations permit flaring of gas from oil wells where the cost to capture and market gas would exceed the value of the gas flared. As the resource becomes more scare or where nonwasteful alternatives to flaring are developed—such as the ability to use casinghead gas to power bitcoin mining—the waste principle requires conservation agencies to further limit flaring and require greater conservation measures.
The Public Trust Doctrine
The common law waste doctrines primarily operate between owners of a common pool of resources. It proscribes a class of activity that violates the rights of other owners in the resource. Likewise, most oil and gas and water conservation regulations traditionally protected common owners' correlative rights. The public, however, also has an interest in the use and misuse of common pool natural resources. For example, water waste and natural gas flaring, in addition to possibly injuring the correlative rights of the owners in the source of water and gas, may also result in significant and widespread environmental impacts to surrounding communities and the public in general.
As noted, however, the waste principle does afford protection to the public interest. Just as the principle undergirds waste doctrines and conservation regulations, it forms the foundation of the public trust doctrine, which limits the government's power to permit private uses of public resources, where the present and future harms outweigh the benefit, resulting in net losses. For instance, as the Nevada Supreme Court recently acknowledged in Mineral County v. Lyon, 473 P.3d 418 (Nev. 2020), the state is constrained by the public trust doctrine in administering its prior appropriation water code, such that failing to curtail water rights for waste under the code could breach the public trust. Thus, while water administrators and courts may hesitate to enforce waste regulations, the waste principle, acting through the public trust doctrine, may hold them to account. Understanding the public trust doctrine as an extension of the common law waste principle to public resources may open new pathways for litigants to address the issue of environmental or economic externalities.
Empowering Courts Through Reengaging the Common Law
Despite extensive statutory and administrative regulation, and robust jurisprudence, waste is underenforced by both agencies and courts. Environmental enforcement actions by state conservation agencies are rare and often carry only modest penalties, at times far less than the lost value to the common resource. Rather than take up the burden, however, modern courts have also been hesitant to resolve disputes concerning waste of common pool resources whether due to concern about the potential for takings, lack of jurisdiction, or out of political and legislative deference. Waste cases regarding overuse and purposeless exhaustion of common pool resources are the exception rather than the rule. Instead, courts have deferred to administrative regulation as displacing, rather than complementing, the common law of waste.
Vogel v. Marathon Oil Co., 879


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I'm comparing two databases using liquibase integrated with ant. But the output it is generating is like generic format. It is not giving sql statements. Please can any one tell me how compare two databases using liquibase integrated with ant or command line utility.
Explain me with some example.
Thanks in advance, Bhasker.
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Obtaining the SQL statements, representing the diff between two databases, is a two step operation:
 1. Generate the XML "diff" changelog
 2. Generate SQL statements
Example
This example requires a liquibase.properties file (simplifies the command-line parameters):
classpath=/path/to/jdbc/jdbc.jar
driver=org.Driver
url=jdbc:db_url1
username=user1
password=pass1
referenceUrl=jdbc:db_url2
referenceUsername=user2
referencePassword=pass2
changeLogFile=diff.xml
Now run the following commands to create the SQL statements:
liquibase diffChangeLog
liquibase updateSQL > update.sql
A nice feature of liquibase is that it can also generate the rollback SQL:
liquibase futureRollbackSQL > rollback.sql
Update
Liquibase does not generate a data diff between databases, only the schema. However, it is possible to dump database data as a series of changesets:
liquibase --changeLogFile=data.xml --diffTypes=data generateChangeLog
One can use the data.xml file to migrate data contained in new tables.
Update 2:
Also possible to generate liquibase changesets using groovy.
import groovy.sql.Sql
import groovy.xml.MarkupBuilder
//
// DB connection
//
this.class.classLoader.rootLoader.addURL(new URL("file:///home/path/to/h2-1.3.162.jar"))
def sql = Sql.newInstance("jdbc:h2:db/db1","user","pass","org.h2.Driver")
//
// Generate liquibase changeset
//
def author = "generated"
def id = 1
new File("extract.xml").withWriter { writer ->
 def xml = new MarkupBuilder(writer);
 xml.databaseChangeLog(
 "xmlns":"_URL_
 "xmlns:xsi":"_URL_
 "xsi:schemaLocation":"_URL_ _URL_
 ) {
 changeSet(author:author, id:id++) {
 sql.eachRow("select * from employee") { row ->
 insert(tableName:"exmployee") {
 column(name:"empno", valueNumeric:row.empno)
 column(name:"name", value:row.name)
 column(name:"job", value:row.job)
 column(name:"hiredate", value:row.hiredate)
 column(name:"salary", valueNumeric:row.salary)
 }
 }
 }
 }
}
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Thank u so much. – bhasker Dec 13 '11 at 8:39

hiee I'm able to see the diff but if a table is missing it will just create the table , but wont copy the table data from source db to target db. Is there any solution for that – bhasker Dec 26 '11 at 5:56

No not a complete solution. I've update my answer to indicate how the data can be dumped as a series of changesets. This generated data can be used to load new tables in the the new database. – Mark O'Connor Dec 26 '11 at 17:16

Thank you so much for your help connor. – bhasker Dec 27 '11 at 7:24

hiee after executing the command it gives java heap space error. I tried setting java heap size as %JAVA_OPTS% -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m. Can u plz help me in this? – bhasker Dec 27 '11 at 8:50
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This video of just 6 minutes and 45 seconds can greatly help you answer questions in your GCSE exam.
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He then explains the human influence on the number of people killed and the amount of buildings destroyed and the percentage of the infrastructure that is destroyed. If you want a high grade at GCSE watch this video and write down all the facts that influence the impact of an earthquake on people. (think of building quality, where the main roads are located, what type of ground the buildings are on and other factors as well)
And as the professor says "Its not earthquakes that kill people its buildings
And if you want to revise convection currents and plate boundaries here is about 74 seconds of video from the same man to assist you 🙂


Getting comfortable with demoing VR
And more importantly, making your users feel comfortable when trying the experience.
We recently held a client workshop looking into how they can integrate immersive technologies into their work, and when it's right to do so.
A theme emerged from conversations with the attendees on responsible xR and making the person in the experience comfortable and safe. In this guide, we'll discuss managing expectations, and how to put people at ease, as well as making it as safe as possible for them.
Now before we get into things, it's important to understand the importance of your role when demoing an experience. The user, often a complete stranger is putting their trust in you when they have two senses removed for a short time. With both their vision and hearing overwritten by the experience, it's natural to feel unsure about it.
1) Safe space
Before even approaching someone asking them if they'd like to try your experience, ensure that the space you have is safe and ready to go.
That means; ensuring the space is large enough for the experience itself and moving all furniture away from the demo, and that the experience is set up in the way it was intended (eg, if the experience is a rollercoaster, these are sat down. Yes, it makes the experience feel more realistic, but it's also a safety protocol to prevent people from falling over when you approach a tight corner).
These might sound silly and basic but are by far the most important part. Safety should be taken seriously when someone is putting their trust in you to look after them.
2) Explain, explain, explain
With people's senses overwritten, it's important you first explain to them what the experience and what's going to happen whilst they're in it (even if it's a secret as to what will happen in the experience, at least let them know where they'll be or what they'll see when they initially put on the headset).
Let's not forget that often people's first experience of 'VR' is a low res 360 video they downloaded online on a Google Cardboard they got given at a conference. It's hardly surprising that many people's first reaction when asked to "try our new VR experience" is "no".
And on that note, don't pressure people into doing it. A little gentle encouragement never hurt anyone, but forcing someone into it could actually hurt them.
3) Keep your focus
Making people comfortable doesn't stop once they've entered the experience. It's important for you, as their eyes and ears in the real world to ensure they're safe. This means redirecting people away from the space, stopping friends wanting to scare or push their friends and moving hazards such as wires attached the headset so they don't trip.
4) Be their coach
Remember that you're the expert in this situation and they look to you for guidance and help. It's important you familiarise yourself with the experience and have plenty of practice knowing how to deal with confusing situations or dilemmas.
Imagine you're their coach or mentor. Your job is not to tell them what to do but to help them get through it if they need your help.
5) No sudden endings
And lastly, when the experience finishes, be sure that the participant takes the headset off themselves. It's extremely unsettling for the world around you to be lifted up as the person demoing removes the headset from your face. It's okay to ask the participant to remove the headset, just make sure they do it themselves!
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Both alcohol and smoking have been shown to increase the risk of sudden childhood syndrome. Alcohol consumption can also increase the risk of fetal alcohol spectral impairment, which can lead to problems such as abnormal manifestations, poor memory, poor coordination, cognitive impairment, and problems with organs such as the heart, bones, and kidneys.
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Running until 7 January 2018, British artist and writer John Akomfrah's emotional site-specific installation for the Curve at the Barbican (London) features photographs, an immersive six-channel video, sound and music installation, raising awareness on the urgency of climate change and the inherent consequences of the upcoming disaster. These themes include the realities of economic hardship and deadly migration. The immersive artwork is a must-see.
Ten years in the making, Akomfrah has arranged hundreds of hours of archival footage filmed worldwide in a composition that first shows poetic photographs of saved-natural environment alongside a pile of tires; later a dramatic ceiling-installation of empty plastic bottles acting as a reminder of how human industrial activities inexorably destroy the planet.
At a time when, according to the UN, greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at their highest levels in history, with people experiencing the significant impacts of climate change, including shifting weather patterns, rising sea level, and more extreme weather events, Akomfrah's Purple deals with animal extinctions, the memory of ice, the plastic ocean and global warming.


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IMPORTANCE Carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) accounts for 3%to 5%of all cancers and is associated with poor prognosis. Familial clustering of different cancer sites with CUP is unknown and may provide information regarding etiology, as well as elevated cancer risks in relatives. OBJECTIVE To quantify the risk of cancer by site in firstand second-degree relatives and first cousins of individuals with CUP. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Nested case-control study of patients who received a diagnosis of CUP between 1980 and 2010 identified from the Utah Cancer Registry. Population controls with no CUP diagnosis were sex and age matched 10:1 to patients with CUP. Data about relatives were drawn from the Utah Population Database. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Familial aggregation of cancer risk in relatives of cases compared with controls using Cox regression analysis. RESULTS For the 4160 index patients (median [interquartile range] age, 72 [62-81] years; 47.6%male) who had received a diagnosis of CUP, first-degree relatives were at an elevated risk of CUP themselves (hazard ratio [HR], 1.35 [95%CI, 1.07-1.70]), as well as lung (HR, 1.37 [95%CI, 1.22-1.54]), pancreatic (HR, 1.28 [95%CI, 1.06-1.54]),myeloma (HR, 1.28 [95%CI, 1.01-1.62]), and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (HR, 1.16 [95%CI, >1.00-1.35]) cancers compared with controls without CUP. When the analysis was restricted to relatives of cancer-free controls, additional increased risks for colon (HR, 1.19 [95%CI, 1.06-1.33]) and bladder (HR, 1.18 [95%CI, >1.00-1.38]) cancers were observed. Second-degree relatives of patients with CUP were at a slight increased risk of lung (HR, 1.14 [95%CI, 1.03-1.26]), pancreatic (HR, 1.17 [95%CI, 1.01-1.37]), breast (HR, 1.09 [95%CI, 1.02-1.16]), melanoma (HR, 1.09 [95%CI, >1.00-1.19]), and ovarian (HR, 1.19 [95%CI, 1.02-1.39]) cancers. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Relatives of patients with CUP are at increased risk of CUP and several other malignant neoplasms, including lung, pancreatic, and colon cancer. The present data may suggest sites of origin for CUP and provide cancer risk information for relatives of patients with CUP that can lead to effective intervention. Relatives of patients with CUP should be aware of the elevated risks for lung, pancreatic, and colon cancer and encouraged to modify risk factors and adhere to site-specific population cancer screening.
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- Cancer Research


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San Antonio's proximity to rural South Texas farming and ranching communities has supported the growth of Palo Alto College's agriculture program — the only higher education option for agriculture in Bexar County. As leaders in agriculture education, Palo Alto College faculty and students are engaged at San Antonio's signature agriculture event — the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo.
Drawing approximately 1.9 million visitors each year, the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo is one of the most prominent events in the city, and they attribute their success to over 6,000 volunteers who make the 18-day event possible.
For the past several years, Palo Alto College's agriculture students have volunteered their time to support the rodeo. Students benefit from the hands-on industry experience as they play an integral role in multiple rodeo events, from running swine and beef cattle skillathons to promoting ag advocacy.
The partnership has also helped minimize financial barriers for our agriculture students. Since 2017, the San Antonio Livestock Exposition, Inc. (San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo) has donated $40,000 annually in scholarship funding to support Palo Alto College students pursuing a degree in agriculture.
Since our founding 35 years ago, Palo Alto College has continually shown commitment to providing well-rounded educational opportunities that prepare our community for employment.
Through partnerships with organizations such as San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, the high-quality education our students receive in the classroom is reinforced by experiential and financial opportunities that support their academic journeys.
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|Objectives of Toolbox
The objective of the toolbox is to help users to identify the links between specific processes which lead to positive or negative impacts of livestock on the environment and technology or policy options which can enhance the positive and/or mitigate the negative effects.
Identification of the links can start either:
Content of Toolbox
A diagram showing the linkages between the different components of the toolbox is given in Fig. 1, clicking on a box will take you to the relevant page.
The pages separate into analytical tools which help the user define their question very tightly, information tools which provide the options in response and communication tools, which describe roles and options for training, extension and awareness creation and a zipped version of the toolbox which can be downloaded from the web site onto a CD.
For evaluating impacts of existing livestock management systems(IIa): the descriptions of systems (III) and agro-ecological zones (IV) are designed to help the user identify the key aspects of the environment and system which are particularly sensitive to interactions between livestock and the environment.
The matrices of risks and opportunities (V) help to identify possible causes of the interactions between livestock and the environment (VI) and the pages on environmental assessment (VII) are designed to help the user verify whether the cause described does apply in the system and environment specified at the start.
For assessing the impact of specified technologies and/or policies(IIb): the technologies are listed both by objective (XII) (increasing food supply, improving health status etc) and alphabetically (VIII), while the policy options are listed by livestock management system (XI) and alphabetically (IX).
Downloading: the toolbox (with all the internal links attached) can be downloaded from the web for use on a PC by clicking on the green button on the left hand side entitled 'download'. Clicking on the appropriate buttons leads to easy to follow instructions. A powerpoint presentation for use in workshops or talks to raise awareness of issues associated with livestock and the environment can be downloaded from the same page.
Training, extension and awareness creation: this tool includes cross-referencing to web sites which indicate how to access training in participatory analysis, which will help in the organisation of stakeholder consultations, which are considered an essential part in the implementation of national or regional environmental plans. The tool also links through to the powerpoint presentation referred to above.
Navigation through the toolbox
Information in the toolbox is stored in separate files. Key files, such as the structure, systems, options and communication tools can be accessed from anywhere in the toolbox by double clicking on green buttons down the left had side of the screen. If you use the search engine you 'lose' the green buttons, but clicking on the 'Livestock and Environment Home' text at the foot of the page will return you to the Home Page. Links between files (underlined in red or purple) are arranged to direct the reader to the most appropriate part of the file.
Logical progress through the toolbox as illustrated in the structure diagram is made by selecting the appropriate green matrix buttons embedded within the systems or options pages and then double clicking on the appropriate text for further information on an underlying factor or specific option, and then moving on to an information tool underlined at the foot of each page.
Access to background information or to expanded definitions of some concepts is provided within the text where underlining in red or purple appears. Some references are provided in full in the document, but provision of all was not recommended as this would have slowed up the speed of response of the toolbox.
To evaluate the impact of existing livestock management systems
Figure 1 Outline Structure of the Toolbox
[Livestock & Environment Toolbox Home]


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Here's a quick tutorial on how to use PArray in 3ds Max with the neat grass technique that thxraph put together.
First off, we need to make our plane object that the grass material will be applied to. Now, PArray is very picky about the XYZ orientation of the objects it uses. Even if you change the pivot and align it to 'World', it will ignore it and use the original XYZ orientation that the object was created with. When you create a standard plane, it's Z axis is oriented to it's face's normal, so it will emit from the plane flat to the ground. So, here's what I do in order to make this easer to deal with:
I first create a straight line within the Top viewport (in this case 9" long). I then extruded it approximately 6" - giving me a shape roughly the same size as the maps provided by thxraph. I then applied UVW mapping (it will default map a plane as viewed from the top, so it will have 0 height - so I simply use the Box UVW to simplify things). Then I convert the object to a Poly. So now we have our seed object.
PArray will "spray" particles (or objects) from any type of geometry. So in this case we want it to spray the grass from a plane object (our ground). In this example, I made a 10' x 10' square plane.
So, the first step is to go to the Particle Systems option from the [Create][Object] tab and select PArray. You then draw a box anywhere in the Top viewport (its size does not matter - I don't care what she says....
Now click on the modify tab, and using the below image as reference, I'll walk you through each step.
A. This is the default setting which you want to use for this case.
B. This sets how you will see the objects in the viewport. It won't effect the actual rendering, but I like to set it to Mesh so I can see what's going on. I also set it to 100% so I can see all "particles" so I can guage how much coverage I'm getting.
C. For this case, I'm using a Total ammount for the Particle Quantity, for the same reason as above - I want to see everything all at once.
D. This sets the speed that the particals are being emitted from the plane. This can be either zero or a very low value (zero is better).
E. Particles begin to start emitting at frame 0 (default setting)
F. I set the emit stop at frame 3, meaning after frame 3 all particles have been emitted that I set in step C. You could also set this to 1 if you want.
I forgot to mark it, but you want to set your Grow For and Fade For both to zero.
G. You can adjust the overall size by changing the value in the Size field. In this case I left it at the default. I did set the size variation to 10%, which will randomly resize the grass object by + or - 10% (making the grass a bit rougher).
Unmarked Arrow (oops!). For the particle type, you want to select Instanced Geometry
H. Click on this button, then select the grass object you created earlier.
I. Set the spin time to 1
J. Set the variation to 100%
K. This defaults to Random. Select User Defined
L. Then set the Z axis to 179 degrees (this will let you see both sides - 360 will work as well also).
Then all you need to do is move your time-line slider until you've got a good random rotation of your grass object. In order to create a permanent grass object out of this array, convert the PArray to a poly using the Mesher (found in the Compound Object section)
Piece of cake!
Here's the screenshot of my settings:
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What is the success rate of IVF on the first try?
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With the advent of Assisted reproduction technologies and In Vitro Fertilization techniques, having babies through artificial methods has helped many aspiring couples realize their dreams of parenthood.
For couples, trying to have a child through extensive procedures like IVF; can be physically, emotionally, and financially draining. And so, it becomes crucial to understand the chances of a successful IVF prone to differ individually.
While there are chances of having a successful IVF pregnancy on the first go itself, what if the IVF fails, can be a question clogging your mind. IVF success rate varies individually depending on the maternal age, the techniques and procedures used, experience and expertise of the doctor, and the cause of infertility a couple is experiencing.
Although the success rate is well above 40% for the first IVF cycle, and many have had successful IVFs in the first attempt, some may require more than one IVF cycle to accomplish their parenthood dreams.
This article helps understand the IVF success rates, factors influencing the IVF success, and how you can go about after an unsuccessful IVF.
Table of Contents
Feel free to skip ahead if one topic catches your eye:
 1. What is the success rate of IVF on the first try?
 2. Factors Impacting IVF Success Rates
 3. Tip for successful IVF cycle
 4. If it Fails, When Should I Try Again?
Takeaway
1. What is the success rate of IVF on the first try?
Are you planning for an IVF treatment for the first time and worrying about the success rate? With the high rise in infertility rates, IVF has been a silver lining for couples aspiring to have babies. The best part of IVF treatment is that it can get successful even on the first attempt. And if opting for a second attempt after a failed IVF, your chances of success are likely to increase provided you have a proper analysis of the reasons for a failed IVF.
The IVF success rate is the rate of conducting an IVF procedure successfully subject to change between clinics. The rate of IVF success is the percentage of the number of successful IVF cycle embryo transfers (ET) to the total number of IVF performed in a clinic.
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Every clinic in India gives a different success rate that depends on variable factors. However, considering all the factors influencing IVF success rate, including maternal age, the IVF success rate in India is around 40%.
2. Factors Impacting IVF Success Rates
Previously, speculations were running around, about IVF procedures and success rates. But, now, things seem changed, and with wide acceptance, millions have embraced parenthood through IVF. The success of the whole process of IVF is influenced by factors such as:
 - Age of the mother: One of the most influencing factors of IVF success rate is maternal age. Generally, women under 40 have higher IVF success rates than women above 40. And women between the age of 24 to 34 are more likely to have a higher IVF success rate. The reason is that advancing age can impact the quality and quantity of eggs produced.
 - Reasons for infertility: Infertility in men and women can be due to various causes. Some of them can be addressed through the IVF infertility treatment like:
 1. Sperm fertility factors- low sperm count, poor sperm quantity, abnormal sperm morphology
 2. Ovulatory disorders- irregular menstruations or delayed menstrual periods
 3. Unexplained fertility
 4. Fertilization issues
 5. Egg quality problems
 6. Genetic conditions of the couples
 7. The blocked uterus or fallopian tubes in women
 8. Blocked ducts or vas deferens in men
 9. Retrograde ejaculation and erectile dysfunction in men
 - The clinic and doctor's experience: The clinics' embryological lab set-up, technologies used, and the doctor's expertise to handle complications associated with infertility also adds to IVF success rate.
 - IVF advanced procedures: Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) of embryos, Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), laser-assisted hatching, blastocyst culture, and many more can help improve IVF success rates.
3. Tips for successful IVF cycle
Lifestyle and environmental factors like smoking, exposure to harmful chemicals, pesticides, and stress can influence IVF success rates. If you are planning for an IVF treatment, taking precautions and following tips can help optimize your chances of a successful IVF attempt.
 - Maintain a healthy body weight by eating healthy, maintaining proper eating habits, moderately exercising, and shedding the extra kilos for a healthy pregnancy and IVF.
 - Make changes in your lifestyle. These include avoiding smoking and alcohol intake. Avoid exposure to cigarette smoke, harmful chemicals, and pesticides before and during the IVF treatment, as these can impact your IVF success rates.
 - The Clinic's experience, expertise of IVF specialists, and the technology and techniques used also determines the IVF success rates. Choosing the right clinic is an important step towards IVF success.
 - Advanced IVF techniques, like PGT, ICSI, Laser-assisted hatching, embryo implantation enhancement protocols, can make a difference and enhance your chances of IVF success.
 - Intended parents experience a lot of stress and anxiety during IVF. And this can negatively impact IVF success. Try to destress, relax, continue with hobbies and activities of interest, exercise, maintain a healthy fertility diet and routine while undergoing the IVF procedure.
what to avoid for successful ivf, Tip for successful IVF cycle
4. If it Fails, When should I try again?
IVF journey can be arduous, and IVF failure can be distressing, painful, and heart-wrenching. IVF can drain your finances as well. Although coping with an IVF failure is not easy, having a stable mind and the courage to overcome the emotional toll is the key.
Sometimes a natural pregnancy can also be possible after a failed IVF attempt. You can speak with your doctor and look for options to consider a natural pregnancy or analyze the reasons for failure with IVF failure evaluations such as:
 - Uterine evaluation test or Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)- Done to assess the uterus and fallopian tubes.
 - Sperm DNA fragmentation test- To check the integrity of the sperm DNA
 - Endometrial receptivity assay (ERA)- To determine if the uterine lining is receptive for implantation.
 - Preimplantation genetic testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A)- Screening of embryos for aneuploidies
 - And other immunological tests- To detect immunological abnormalities
Once the reason for IVF failure is analyzed, you will need to be strong from within before you decide to proceed with another IVF cycle. Statistically proven, the possibility of IVF success increases with the second IVF cycle which is almost 51%.
If considering a second IVF cycle, you can choose to use the embryos preserved during the first cycle or even go with donor options. Medically, you can have the second IVF embryo transfer even after a month of IVF failure.
However, healing yourself physically and emotionally must be the priority and trying after a few months of complete healing would be ideal.
Takeaway
IVF is a very laborious and stressful process of hormonal interventions, regular clinic visits, and extensive procedures. With progressive technologies in ART, IVF success rates have drastically improved. And there are better chances of having a successful IVF even on the first attempt.
Dr. Preeti Singh is a renowned Obstetrician-Gynecologist in Noida. Her experience in handling complicated infertility cases and IVF is immense. She ensures your fertility-related issues are dealt with great care and expertise.
Also Read: Is It Possible To Have Normal Delivery in IVF?


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One of my favorite Saturday Night Live sketches is More Cowbell, in which Christopher Walken's character keeps asking for "more cowbell" during a recording session. Today's example covers some of the simple but powerful concepts of JavaFX in the context of an imaginary iPhone-esque application that lets you select a music genre and control the volume. Of course, "Cowbell Metal", shortened to "Cowbell", is one of the available genres :-) Click the screenshot below to launch the application, and then I'll show you the code behind it.
Audio_configuration
Application Behavior and the Code Behind It
When you play with the application, notice that adjusting the volume slider changes the associated decibel (dB) level displayed. Also, selecting the Muting checkbox disables the slider, and selecting various genres changes the volume slider. This behavior is enabled by concepts that you'll see in the code below, such as binding to a class that contains a model, on replace triggers, and sequences (think arrays).
Here is the main program, which contains the declarative script that expresses the UI:
/*
* AudioConfigMain.fx - A JavaFX Script example program that demonstrates
* "the way of JavaFX" (binding to model classes, triggers, sequences, and
* declaratively expressed, node-centric UIs). Note: Because this example
* covers beginning JavaFX concepts, it is more verbose than necessary.
*
* Developed 2008 by James L. Weaver jim.weaver [at] javafxpert.com
* as a JavaFX Script SDK 1.0 example for the Pro JavaFX book.
*/
package projavafx.audioconfig.ui;
import javafx.ext.swing.*;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.scene.*;
import javafx.scene.paint.*;
import javafx.scene.shape.*;
import javafx.scene.text.*;
import javafx.scene.transform.*;
import projavafx.audioconfig.model.AudioConfigModel;
Stage {
var acModel = AudioConfigModel {
selectedDecibels: 35
}
title: "Audio Configuration"
scene: Scene {
content: [
Rectangle {
x: 0
y: 0
width: 320
height: 45
fill: LinearGradient {
startX: 0.0
startY: 0.0
endX: 0.0
endY: 1.0
stops: [
Stop {
color: Color.web("0xAEBBCC")
offset: 0.0
},
Stop {
color: Color.web("0x6D84A3")
offset: 1.0
},
]
}
},
Text {
translateX: 65
translateY: 12
textOrigin: TextOrigin.TOP
fill: Color.WHITE
content: "Audio Configuration"
font: Font {
name: "Arial Bold"
size: 20
}
},
Rectangle {
x: 0
y: 43
width: 320
height: 300
fill: Color.rgb(199, 206, 213)
},
Rectangle {
x: 9
y: 54
width: 300
height: 130
arcWidth: 20
arcHeight: 20
fill: Color.color(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
stroke: Color.color(0.66, 0.67, 0.69)
},
Text {
translateX: 18
translateY: 69
textOrigin: TextOrigin.TOP
fill: Color.web("0x131021")
content: bind "{acModel.selectedDecibels} dB"
font: Font {
name: "Arial Bold"
size: 18
}
},
SwingSlider {
translateX: 120
translateY: 69
width: 175
enabled: bind not acModel.muting
minimum: bind acModel.minDecibels
maximum: bind acModel.maxDecibels
value: bind acModel.selectedDecibels with inverse
},
Line {
startX: 9
startY: 97
endX: 309
endY: 97
stroke: Color.color(0.66, 0.67, 0.69)
},
Text {
translateX: 18
translateY: 113
textOrigin: TextOrigin.TOP
fill: Color.web("0x131021")
content: "Muting"
font: Font {
name: "Arial Bold"
size: 18
}
},
SwingCheckBox {
translateX: 280
translateY: 113
selected: bind acModel.muting with inverse
},
Line {
startX: 9
startY: 141
endX: 309
endY: 141
stroke: Color.color(0.66, 0.67, 0.69)
},
Text {
translateX: 18
translateY: 157
textOrigin: TextOrigin.TOP
fill: Color.web("0x131021")
content: "Genre"
font: Font {
name: "Arial Bold"
size: 18
}
},
SwingComboBox {
translateX: 204
translateY: 148
width: 93
items: bind for (genre in acModel.genres) {
SwingComboBoxItem {
text: genre
}
}
selectedIndex: bind acModel.selectedGenreIndex with inverse
}
]
}
}
Notice how the bind operator is used in various places to cause the UI to reflect the state of the model. In a couple of places, a bind with inverse is employed to keep the UI and the model class in sync bi-directionally. Now take a look at the model class, and in particular the on replace trigger that is invoked when the user selects a genre:
/*
* AudioConfigModel.fx - The model class behind a JavaFX Script example
* program that demonstrates "the way of JavaFX" (binding to model classes,
* triggers, sequences, and declaratively expressed, node-centric UIs).
*
* Developed 2008 by James L. Weaver jim.weaver [at] javafxpert.com
* as a JavaFX Script SDK 1.0 example for the Pro JavaFX book.
*/
package projavafx.audioconfig.model;
/**
* The model class that the AudioConfigMain.fx script uses
*/
public class AudioConfigModel {
/**
* The minimum audio volume in decibels
*/
public var minDecibels:Integer = 0;
/**
* The maximum audio volume in decibels
*/
public var maxDecibels:Integer = 160;
/**
* The selected audio volume in decibels
*/
public var selectedDecibels:Integer = 0;
/**
* Indicates whether audio is muted
*/
public var muting:Boolean = false;
/**
* List of some musical genres
*/
public var genres = [
"Chamber",
"Country",
"Cowbell",
"Metal",
"Polka",
"Rock"
];
/**
* Index of the selected genre
*/
public var selectedGenreIndex:Integer = 0 on replace {
if (genres[selectedGenreIndex] == "Chamber") {
selectedDecibels = 80;
}
else if (genres[selectedGenreIndex] == "Country") {
selectedDecibels = 100;
}
else if (genres[selectedGenreIndex] == "Cowbell") {
selectedDecibels = 150;
}
else if (genres[selectedGenreIndex] == "Metal") {
selectedDecibels = 140;
}
else if (genres[selectedGenreIndex] == "Polka") {
selectedDecibels = 120;
}
else if (genres[selectedGenreIndex] == "Rock") {
selectedDecibels = 130;
}
};
}
As always, please leave a comment if you have any questions!
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I'll be speaking on JavaFX at the Jfokus 2009 conference in January. While in the area, I will also be conducting a two day public JavaFX class in Stockholm on January 29 & 30, 2009 entitled "Rich Internet Application Development with JavaFX".
Regards,
Jim Weaver
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Best Practices for Effective Universal App Campaigns (UAC)
As a mobile app marketing agency, one of our favorite tools for promoting our in-house and clients' mobile apps is Universal App Campaigns (UAC).
In 2015, Google introduced UAC as its primary advertising solution for mobile applications. Instead of having to manually set bids and targeting certain keywords like in other Google Ads campaigns, UAC uses machine learning to automate the targeting, bidding, and use of creative assets for campaigns.
In this post, we'll outline 3 best practices for optimal UAC results.
 1. Set the Right Campaign Objective
It is crucial to decide the right objective for your campaign.
UAC lets users select between "Install Volume" and "In-App Actions" as potential campaign goals.
At this juncture, it is important to understand WHO your target audience is and WHAT value-added activity you would like them to do. Once you figure this out, you can decide which goal best fits your app's needs.
If your app has multiple goals and target audiences, you can set up different UACs for each. This segmentation will provide you with greater control over your UACs by allowing you to set the creative assets specifically for each target audience and objective.
 1. Sufficiently Fund Your Campaign
Because Google's algorithm needs sufficient time and budget to effectively collect data and learn from your creative assets, Google Adwords recommends certain budgets for each UAC campaign type.
For "Install Volume" campaigns, Google suggests a budget at least 50 times greater than your target CPI.
As for "In-App Actions" campaigns, they suggest a budget at least 10 times greater than your target CPI.
Furthermore, it is imperative you ensure your app's campaign has sufficient budget to be able to reap the full benefits of UAC's machine learning.
Otherwise, your campaign's success can be stunted, simply due to a lack of funding.
 1. Find the Best Performing Creative Asset Mix
As in other areas of advertising, finding the correct mix of creative assets is essential.
UAC streamlines the A/B testing process by automatically testing the effectiveness of different creative asset combinations in its "learning period."
First, users provide Google with 4 text ideas for the algorithm to mix and match together. It's important that these text combinations are distinct and unique from one each other so that the system can truly test different ad groupings and versions.
Next, you have the option of adding up to 20 images or HTML5 assets. The more dimensions and orientations you provided, the more mediums and platforms your ad can be placed. As a result, Google's algorithm can help you discover the best devices and channels for your app's campaign to reside.
Finally, using the Creative Asset Report, you can evaluate the performance of all of your campaign's creative assets. From this, you can see which text ideas and creative assets you should keep, modify, and scrap.
Furthermore, UAC's machine learning capabilities provide a powerful tool for testing and modifying advertising efforts, if used correctly.
To learn more about mobile application development and technology, make sure to contact our New York City Appetizer Mobile team today!


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Two Japanese researchers have recently developed a gun that is able to stop someone from speaking mid-sentence, according to the Washington Post.
Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University who made the gun said that the device can silence someone from talking more than 100 feet away, the Post reports.
"In general, human speech is jammed by giving back to the speakers their own utterances at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds. This effect can disturb people without any physical discomfort, and disappears immediately by stopping speaking," Kurihara and Tsukada wrote in a research paper describing the portable gun, according to The Telegraph.au.
Initially, the researchers intended the device to be used in hushed spaces, like libraries. But also in that paper they wrote that it can be used to silence people who speak during important speeches and hush meaningless noises.
Extremetech.com comments that this gun was made basically "to enforce 'proper' conversations."
Controversial talk bout the invention of this speech-silencing gun concern the rights of free speech.


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Swamp heathland covers much of the low poorly drained areas where heath and Prickly Tea-Tree are found.
The healthy woodland has some interesting plants, ranging from the taller Mealy Stringybark trees, to the understorey of attractive Hairpin Banksia, Furze Hakea and rare Swamp Bush-pea.
Foothill forests of Silvertop and Messmate are found higher up. Here you can see White-throated Tree Creepers hopping around tree trunks searching for insects. Below is a dense layer of smaller plants including Common Correa, Hop Goodenia and Dusty Miller, where Yellow-rumped Thornbills and Superb Fairy Wrens feed. Mountain Ash, the tallest flowering plants in the world, are found on the steep southern slopes in the northern end of the Park.
The insect-eating Southern Emu Wren is the smallest of the birds inhabiting the swamp heathland. It has a unique long barbless tail of only six feathers. The White-eared and Crescent Honeyeaters are two of the birds that can be seen feeding on the nectar bearing flowers of the heathlands. The raucous call of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos are sometimes heard as they search for wood grubs in nearby Silver Wattles on the steep southern slopes in the park's northern end.
Most of the animals in the park, such as possums, bats, owls and gliders, are active only at night. During the day you may be lucky to catch a glimpse of a Swamp Wallaby in the forest shadows or a goanna basking in the sun.


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4 Types of Geotechnical Monitoring Instruments
Geotechnical monitoring instruments are very useful in the mining environment
Geotechnical monitoring instruments are very useful in the mining environment. Engineers use them to provide information on as well as measure different characteristics of water behavior, rock, or soil.
The information collected is analyzed and interpreted by engineers. This helps them understand the mechanics affecting the mine and come up with ideal methods to manage and maintain the mine. Some of the monitoring instruments used are:
 1. Thermistors
The name 'thermistor' is a combination of 'thermal' and 'resistor'. Thermistors have lower resistance than insulating materials and higher resistance than conducting materials. They're a very accurate sensor for measuring ground temperature and are available in 2 types: PTC, or positive temperature coefficient, and NTC, or negative temperature coefficient.
 1. Extensometers
Extensometers are geotechnical monitoring instruments that measure the elongation of a substance when it's under pressure. It also determines strain ratio, yield strength, and strain-hardening exponent. There are four types of extensometers: Soil extensometers, magnetic extensometers, mechanical extensometers, and electrical extensometers.
 1. Sloughmeters
These instruments are used to monitor sloughing around a stope, for instance. The inner circuit in them breaks if the area in which they are fixed breaks down. Their design enables them to always provide accurate results.
 1. Contractometers
These are the exact opposite of extensometers. They are crafted to measure compression and are crucial for determining whether a mine shaft is conducive for operation. These geotechnical monitoring instruments offer data that warns miners that a certain area of the mine is under intense stress. Moving water, rock, or soil causes the pressure.


>-1, b-1.)

If we take this approach, then we will need to add some new rules too. We will need the rules a a-1 = 1, etc. We will probably also need the "inverses" of the relations in our presentation. For example, if we have a^4 = 1, then we should also have a rule (a-1)^4 = 1.

It's going to be a bit of a pain. (And it's probably going to cause Knuth-Bendix to get indigestion, in some cases at least.) Luckily, for finite groups, we don't really need this. In a finite group, each generator must have finite order: in our example a^4 = 1, b^2 = 1. So the inverse of each generator is itself a power of that generator - a-1 = a^3, b-1 = b. So for a finite group - or in fact any group where the generators are all of finite order - then the inverses are already there, expressible as words in the generators.

So for most purposes, we have no need to introduce the inverses as new symbols. For example, if we want to list the elements of a finite group, or tell whether two words in the generators represent the same element, then we are fine. When it will matter is if we are specifically interested in the length of the words. For example, if we want God's algorithm for solving Rubik's cube, we are interested in the length of words in the generators and their inverses - the clockwise and anti-clockwise face rotations.

There is one situation when even this won't matter - and that is if the generators are their own inverses. If we have a generator g such that g^2 = 1, then it follows that g-1 = g. Such an element is called an involution.

Are there groups which can be generated by involutions alone? Yes, there are. Let's have a look at a couple.

Consider the symmetry group of a regular polygon, say a pentagon. Consider the two reflections shown below. 'a' is the reflection in an axis through a vertex, and 'b' is the reflection in an axis through the midpoint of an adjacent edge. Hence the angle between the axes is pi/5 (or for an n-gon, pi/n).

It should be clear that ab is a 1/5 rotation of the pentagon. It follows that a,b generate the symmetry group of the pentagon, with a^2 = b^2 = (ab)^5 =1.

> elts (['a','b'], [("aa",""), ("bb",""), ("ababababab","")])
["","a","b","ab","ba","aba","bab","abab","baba","ababa"]
> length it
10

Next, consider the symmetric group S4 (or in general, Sn). It can be generated by the transpositions s1 = (1 2), s2 = (2 3), and s3 = (3 4), which correspond to the diagrams below:

Now, multiplication in the group corresponds to concatenation of the diagrams, going down the page. For example:

In fact, each of those diagrams represents the identity element - as you can check by following each point along the lines down the page, and checking that it ends up where it started. Hence each diagram represents a relation for S4. The diagrams show that s1^2 = 1, (s1s2)^3=1, and (s1s3)^2 = 1.

In the general case, it's clear that Sn can be generated by n-1 transpositions si of the form (i i+1), and that they satisfy the following relations:
si^2 = 1
(si sj)^3 = 1 if |i-j| = 1
(si sj)^2 = 1 if |i-j| > 1

Here's some Haskell code to construct these presentations of Sn. (Did I mention that all of the string rewriting code works on arbitrary lists, not just strings?)

newtype S = S Int deriving (Eq,Ord)

instance Show S where
    show (S i) = "s" ++ show i

_S n = (gs, r ++ s ++ t) where
    gs = map S [1..n-1]
    r = [([S i, S i],[]) | i <- [1..n-1]]
    s = [(concat $ replicate 3 [S i, S (i+1)],[]) | i <- [1..n-2]]
    t = [([S i, S j, S i, S j],[]) | i <- [1..n-1], j <- [i+2..n-1]]

And just to check:

> _S 4
([s1,s2,s3],[([s1,s1],[]),([s2,s2],[]),([s3,s3],[]),([s1,s2,s1,s2,s1,s2],[]),([s2,s3,s2,s3,s2,s3],[]),([s1,s3,s1,s3],[])])
> elts $ _S 4
[[],[s1],[s2],[s


This definition will make a series of rectangular cells move in the z-direction and scale based on their distance from point attractors. Finally, they will loft together to form the modules.
By using the "Spatial Deform (Custom)" component you can deform a freeform surface. You have to define a space syntax of points and forces. First, give the moving points and related forces to the space syntax and then define some points which are fixed and have no movement.
The Splop component Wraps geometry onto a surface. Basically, you can distribute a geometry on a surface by using the Splop component. The Geometry will not be deformed as it is transformed if You activate the Rigid option.
In this exercise file, you can learn how to scale a series of boxes by using the range and graph mapper to produce a non-linear distribution.
In this grasshopper definition a way of creating a desired number of arcs will be demonstrated using the 3 point arc component. In order to do so, 3 sets of points will be required. One set is only one point in the center which all arcs are connected to.
In this definition by using a parametric helix and modeling a series of triangles on the path you can make spiral spikes. You can also change the graphs to get different results.
In this grasshopper definition, by defining a planar module and mirroring it by one of the module's edge as the mirror plane, you can create aggregation model from this recursive loop.
In this grasshopper definition by choosing a random point inside a rectangle and creating a loop which constantly cuts the rectangle from a point vertically and horizontally you can have a parametric subdivided model.
In this grasshopper definition first we scatter a series of random points inside a brep and then generate random vectors to cut the brep with the related planes. Finally you can move the pieces away from each other.
In this grasshopper definition by training a neural network using boundary curves (representing a function in an urban scale) you can use it to recognize the function of any given closed curve.
In this grasshopper definition by using the lunchbox plugin you can convert a csv file into a pie chart
In this grasshopper example file you can define a sphere and use the TSP(travelling salesman problem) component from the Leafvein plugin as a space filling algorithm.


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SCIENCE MEDICINES HEALTH
EPAR summary for the public
This is a summary of the European public assessment report (EPAR) for Actraphane. It explains how the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) assessed the medicine to reach its opinion in favour of granting a marketing authorisation and its recommendations on the conditions of use for Actraphane.
What is Actraphane?
Actraphane is a suspension for injection that contains the active substance human insulin. It is available as vials, cartridges (Penfill) or prefilled pens (InnoLet or FlexPen). Actraphane contains both fast-acting (soluble) and long-acting (isophane) insulin:
- Actraphane 30: soluble insulin 30% and isophane insulin 70%;
- Actraphane 40: soluble insulin 40% and isophane insulin 60%;
- Actraphane 50: soluble insulin 50% and isophane insulin 50%.
What is Actraphane used for?
Actraphane is used to treat diabetes.
The medicine can only be obtained with a prescription.
How is Actraphane used?
Actraphane is given by injection under the skin in the thigh, the abdominal wall (at the front of the waist), the gluteal region (buttocks) or the deltoid region (shoulder). The injection site should be changed for each injection. The patient's blood glucose (sugar) should be tested regularly to find the lowest effective dose.
An agency of the European Union
© European Medicines Agency, 2015. Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.
The usual dose is between 0.3 and 1.0 international units (IU) per kilogram body weight per day. Actraphane is given 30 minutes before a meal. It is usually given once or twice a day when a rapid initial effect together with a more long-lasting effect is needed.
Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce enough insulin to control the blood glucose or when the body is unable to use insulin effectively. Actraphane is a replacement insulin which is very similar to the insulin made by the pancreas.
The active substance in Actraphane, human insulin, is produced by a method known as'recombinant technology': the insulin is made by yeast cells into which a gene (DNA) has been introduced, which makes them able to produce insulin. Actraphane contains insulin in two forms: a soluble form, which acts quickly (within 30 minutes of injection) and an isophane form, which is absorbed much more slowly during the day. This gives Actraphane a longer duration of action. The replacement insulin acts in same way as naturally produced insulin and helps glucose enter cells from the blood. By controlling the blood glucose, the symptoms and complications of diabetes are reduced.
Actraphane has been studied in a total of 294 patients with type 1 diabetes, when the pancreas cannot produce insulin, and type 2 diabetes, when the body is unable to use insulin effectively. About one-third of the patients had type 1 diabetes and the remainder had type 2 diabetes. The study compared Actraphane 30 to a similar mix, but made up using an insulin analogue (insulin aspart). The study measured the level of glycosylated haemoglobin (HbAlc) after 12 weeks, which is the percentage of haemoglobin in the blood that has glucose attached. HbA1c gives an indication of how well the blood glucose is controlled.
Actraphane led to a decrease in the level of HbA1c, indicating that blood glucose levels had been controlled to a similar level to that seen with other human insulin. Actraphane was effective for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
The most common side effect with Actraphane (seen in more than 1 patient in 10) is hypoglycaemia (low blood glucose levels). For the full list of all side effects and restrictions, see the package leaflet.
The CHMP decided that Actraphane's benefits are greater than its risks and recommended that it be given marketing authorisation.
A risk management plan has been developed to ensure that Actraphane is used as safely as possible. Based on this plan, safety information has been included in the summary of product characteristics and the package leaflet for Actraphane, including the appropriate precautions to be followed by healthcare professionals and patients.
The European Commission granted a marketing authorisation valid throughout the European Union for Actraphane on 7 October 2002.
The full EPAR for Actraphane can be found on the Agency's website: _URL_ medicine/Human medicines/European Public Assessment Reports. For more information about treatment with Actraphane, read the package leaflet (also part of the EPAR) or contact your doctor or pharmacist.
This summary was last updated in 11-2013.


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雅思写作中有这样一道考题：Do you agree or disagree university should not provide theoretical knowledge, but to give practical training benefit to society.你支持哪种观点呢?
Some people think that university should not provide theoretical knowledge, but to give practical training benefit to society.
Do you agree or disagree. use your own experience and knowledge to support your idea.
Most universities and colleges spend a rather long period in fundamental theories and elementary courses. But students regard these kinds of knowledge useless, and pay less attention to them. They suggest school pay more time for practical training instead of providing theoretical lessons. In my opinion, however, theoretical knowledge is necessary. And one will definitely benefit from it.
Firstly, fundamental theories, such as math and physics, are the basis of other knowledge. To a student who majors in automatic control, the course of control system is the most practical and useful in the future. But if he isn't good at math and circuit, he will hardly be able to understand the principles and methods of how to control a subject or process. It is just like constructing a building. How can you imagine a spectacular high-rise without a firm groundsill? That is, theories and practices are interrelated. We can ignore neither of them.
Moreover, theoretical basic knowledge provides not only the knowledge itself, but also a way that how to learn and research. University is a place for scientific research and invention. So it is necessary for students to have the skill of doing research. Seeing from another angle, science and techniques are exploding so quickly that present skills will soon be out of date. If one learnt nothing except practical skills, he would also fall behind the society. But if one could master the method of research, he would be able to refresh himself continuously with advanced technology.
From all the commentaries above, we can learn the important role of
theoretical knowledge. Although pragmatism is very popular today, we should pay enough attention to the basis and principles.


Alpha-Bisabolol
Definition - What does Alpha-Bisabolol mean?
Sometimes called a-bisabolol, levomenol, or just bisabolol, alpha-bisabolol is a terpene. It's most commonly found in German chamomile, but can also be extracted from the bark of the candeia tree in South America. However, it's also a terpene in cannabis.
In addition to the smell and taste, alpha-bisabolol has been found to have many medicinal uses, including antibacterial benefits, wound healing, and even use as a deodorizer. There is ongoing research into its use as an anti-inflammatory, as well.
MaximumYield explains Alpha-Bisabolol
Most plants contain terpenes of various sorts. They're responsible for things like aroma and flavor. You'll also find them in some insects. Alpha-bisabolol is most commonly found in German chamomile, where it gives off a floral aroma and flavor. It can also be extracted from a South American tree, which is the primary source of alpha-bisabolol for the cosmetic industry.
Interestingly, it is also one of the 11 important terpenes, or "terps", found in marijuana.
There are many uses for terpenes in cannabis. One of those is to manipulate the taste and smell of particular strains. By mapping terpene levels, they can then be manipulated and adjusted to give the desired smell or taste. However, there are other important benefits from terpenes, including alpha-bisabolol.
Alpha-bisabolol is associated with a floral aroma in any plant where it is found, including certain strains of marijuana. The Oracle strain has been noted for having a very high concentration of this particular terpene.
As mentioned, there are actually 11 important terpenes found in cannabis. A few examples of others include delta 3 carene, linalool, borneol, alpha-pinene and eucalyptol. All have medicinal uses, in addition to their role in influencing aroma and flavor.
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