]
 this.storage.forEach((list, id) => {
 lists.push(JSON.parse(list))
 console.log(this.lists)
 }).then(() => {
 this.lists = lists
 })
 }
 selectSms() {
 this.navCtrl.push(SelectPage, {}) // this is how we change the page
 }
 listTitle(list) {
 return list.items.map(x => x.title).join(", ")
 }
 go(id) {
 this.navCtrl.push(ListPage, {id}) // another example of changing the page,
 // this time with a parameter
 }
}</glist>
Now, this might feel a little overwhelming, so let's break this code down piece by piece.
First of all, in Angular when you want to use a component, you are using dependency injection. Basically, you're not creating the components yourself, but rather declaring which ones you need and letting the engine figure out the details. In the example above, this is how we inject navCtrl and storage. Angular will create them for us and put on this.
The ionViewWillEnter is part of the Ionic page lifecycle. This method runs just before the page is to become active. This is usually the place where you want to load your data. This is what we are doing here by loading all of our lists from the storage.
You've probably noticed that storage works asynchronously. Instead of returning a value, it returns a promise. The same goes for the forEach method we're using here.
Finally, when we want to navigate to another page, we use the navCtrl which works like a simple stack. It has a push method we need to call whenever we want the view to change. It can also accept the params, which can be retrieved on the next page (we'll talk about this later).
At this point, the compiler will fail because we still haven't defined the other two pages SelectPage and ListPage. So let's write them.
Reading the SMSes
A couple of words about Ionic Native. Loosely speaking, this is a set of JavaScript bindings for some native behavior. It allows you to use some of the native phone functions (for example camera) from JavaScript. Underneath it is powered by Cordova, but I think nowadays you can even swap it to Xamarin which is owned by Microsoft.
The list of Native's features is astonishingly long. You can skim through the whole list here.
Some of those plugins can be used on both platforms iOS, and Android, while others are platform-specific.
Our task here is to read the list of SMSes and let the users select the SMS they want. I have to say that iOS doesn't have an ability to read SMSes (at least not that I'm aware of, please let me know otherwise). So from this point onwards, we're going Android-only.
Let's start by using a permissions module. It allows us to ask for a particular permission at any point of the code (this is how the modern Android permission system works).
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-android-permissions
npm install --save @ionic-native/android-permissions
Then, in the app.module.ts add to the providers section:
import { AndroidPermissions} from '@ionic-native/android-permissions';
// ...
 providers: [
 StatusBar,
 SplashScreen,
 {provide: ErrorHandler, useClass: IonicErrorHandler},
 AndroidPermissions // < = this change
 ]<
We will also need the Cordova plugin for reading the SMSes:
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-sms
Now let's create the SelectPage. This time let's start with the component itself:
// app/pages/select/select.ts
import { Component } from "@angular/core"
import { NavController, Platform } from "ionic-angular"
import { AndroidPermissions } from "@ionic-native/android-permissions"
import { ListPage } from "../list/list"
import { Storage } from "@ionic/storage"
import { GLIST } from "../../app/types"
declare var SMS: any // making TypeScript happy. Otherwise, we could use 'window.SMS'
@Component({
 selector: "page-select",
 templateUrl: "select.html"
})
export class SelectPage {
 messages: Array<any> // Our messages definition
 constructor(
 public navCtrl: NavController,
 public androidPermissions: AndroidPermissions, // a component for requesting permissions
 public platform: Platform,
 private storage: Storage,
 ) {
 this.messages = []
 }
 select(m) {
 const id = m.date + ""
 const list: GLIST = {
 id,
 created: formatDate(new Date()),
 items: m.body.split(",").map(s => {
 return {
 title: s.trim(),
 done: false,
 }
 })
 }
 this.storage.set(id, JSON.stringify(list))
 this.navCtrl.push(ListPage, { id })
 }
 loadMessages() {
 this.platform.ready().then(readySource => {
 SMS.listSMS(
 { box: "inbox", indexFrom: 0, maxCount: 50 },
 messages => {
 console.log("Sms", messages)
 this.messages = messages
 },
 err => console.log("error listing smses: " + err)
 )
 })
 }
 ionViewWillEnter() {
 const READ_SMS = this.androidPermissions.PERMISSION.READ_SMS
 this.androidPermissions.checkPermission(READ_SMS).then(
 success => {
 console.log("Permission granted")
 this.loadMessages()
 },
 err => this.androidPermissions.requestPermission(READ_SMS)
 )
 this.androidPermissions.requestPermissions([READ_SMS])
 }
}
// A simple formatter for dates, i.e. "4 Feb"
function formatDate(date) {
 var monthNames = [
 "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr",
 "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug",
 "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"
 ]
 var day = date.getDate();
 var monthIndex = date.getMonth();
 return day + ' ' + monthNames[monthIndex];
}</any>
Let's start with the method:
 ionViewWillEnter() {
 const READ_SMS = this.androidPermissions.PERMISSION.READ_SMS
 this.androidPermissions.checkPermission(READ_SMS).then(
 success => {
 console.log("Permission granted")
 this.loadMessages()
 },
 err => this.androidPermissions.requestPermission(READ_SMS)
 )
 this.androidPermissions.requestPermissions([READ_SMS])
 }
You already know this method runs every time a view is about to enter. Here, we're using the permission component that will trigger a standard Android permission dialog asking if we can read the SMSes. And if we have the permission, then it will load the messages:
 loadMessages() {
 this.platform.ready().then(readySource => {
 SMS.listSMS(
 { box: "inbox", indexFrom: 0, maxCount: 50 },
 messages => {
 console.log("Sms", messages)
 this.messages = messages
 },
 err => console.log("error listing smses: " + err)
 )
 })
 }
Here, we're using the SMS module and one of its methods called listSMS. By the way, here you can read about others. So, we read the first 50 SMSes and put them on this so that we can iterate them in the view.
Then we also have the select method:
 select(m) {
 const id = m.date + ""
 const list: GLIST = {
 id,
 created: formatDate(new Date()),
 items: m.body.split(",").map(s => {
 return {
 title: s.trim(),
 done: false,
 }
 })
 }
 this.storage.set(id, JSON.stringify(list))
 this.navCtrl.push(ListPage, { id })
 }
It takes the SMS body, then it prepares the items list by splitting it with commas, puts it into the storage this.storage.set(id, JSON.stringify(list)) and navigates to the list page, which we still need to write.
And, finally the html view (src/pages/select/select.html) should already be understandable:
<ion -header>
 </ion><ion


text: An important risk that children face today is online grooming, where a so-called sexual predator establishes an emotional connection with a minor online with the objective of sexual abuse. Prior work has sought to automatically identify grooming chats, but only after an incidence has already happened in the context of legal prosecution. In this work, we instead investigate this problem from the point of view of prevention. We define and study the task of early sexual predator detection (eSPD) in chats, where the goal is to analyze a running chat from its beginning and predict grooming attempts as early and as accurately as possible. We survey existing datasets and their limitations regarding eSPD, and create a new dataset called PANC for more realistic evaluations. We present strong baselines built on BERT that also reach state-of-the-art results for conventional SPD. Finally, we consider coping with limited computational resources, as real-life applications require eSPD on mobile devices.

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


CS261 Projects
General information
A final suggestion: Aim high! The top projects could lead to publication (and in past years, a number of projects have led to publications).
The process
The project proposal was due Tue 15 October.
Here's how to submit your proposal. You should put together a web page for your project; currently all it needs to contain is the project members, title of your project, and proposal. Then just email the URL for your project web page to _EMAIL_ by Tuesday, October 15th.
You will also be required to present your project at a poster session, to be held on Monday, December 9th from 2-4pm in the Woz lounge.
Finally, a project report will be due by 9am on Monday, December 16th. No exceptions or extensions will be granted, so get it in on time! See below for instructions.
The final report
You may submit your project report electronically or on paper. I prefer electronic submission, although you may choose either. In either case, the deadline is the same: Monday, December 16, before 9:00am.
If you submit electronically:
If you submit on paper, place it in my mailbox in Soda Hall (in the mailroom, or outside my office -- 765 Soda).
Example project topics
New attacks
Find new security weaknesses in any widely-deployed system.
Security auditing
Tools for vulnerability detection
Resilient aggregation
Build "resilient aggregation" components for TinyOS. Sensor networks (such as the TinyOS-based systems studied here at Berkeley) are often used to aggregate sensor information and use the result to control systems. For instance, we might put a sensor in each room of Soda Hall and use the average temperature to control the air conditioning. However, at present, our aggregation operations are not secure against errors or maliciously chosen inputs (as might happen if a sensor is compromised). For instance, consider computing the average of N data values: an adversary who can control one of those inputs can bias the output by any desired amount, hence the "average" is not a resilient aggregation operation. However, the median is resilient, because changing any one input by any amount will cause only a small change in the output. Build a prototype of a few resilient aggregation operators and study their usefulness in some sensor network application.
Adversarial simulation
Build an "adversarial simulator" for TinyOS. Currently, the TOSSIM simulator runs the system under friendly conditions (no dropped packets, no bit errors, no unfriendly timing of the scheduler). Hence, it can't detect ways that an adversary might try to crash or subvert the system. We might be more likely to find security bugs by running the system on parameters that are chosen to be the worst case for system, or that are likely to cover corner cases. For instance, an adversarial simulator might determine ahead of time all possible dependencies between tasks and then test exhaustively all possible orderings of interdependent tasks, looking to see if any of these orderings deadlocks the system. Build a prototype of an adversarial simulator and study its effectiveness.
Preventing casting bugs
 typedef unsigned short uid_t;
 void dowork(uid_t u);
 main() {
 int x = read_from_network();
 if (x==0)
Validation bugs in Linux kernel
Dawson Engler's group found many security holes in the Linux kernel based on improper input validation (see their paper) based on heuristic compile-time rules. Formalize their rules into a concrete type system, perhaps using flow-sensitive type qualifiers. Then, analyze the Linux source code using your type system, perhaps using Cqual for the type-checking.
Inlined reference monitors
Proof-carrying code takes a reference monitor (expressing some security policy) and injects it into the program during compilation, in an integrated way; then it is possible for the recipient to verify that the desired policy is enforced by the presented code. This allows us to build extremely efficient reference monitors: rather than implementing the reference monitor in a separate process (thereby incurring performance penalties), the reference monitor can be inlined directly into the code that it is supposed to monitor. Sometimes we don't care about the ability of a recipient to verify that code injection was done appropriately, for instance because the injector and receiver are one and the same. Can we build a more lightweight implementation of this functionality?
For instance, maybe we can emulate some notion of "user-level call gates" using the mprotect() system call? (We could imagine storing the reference monitor's state in a write-protected segment of memory; then any call to an interface that is protected by the reference monitor would be replaced with a call to the reference monitor entry point; and the entry point would need to write-enable the special segment and atomically transfer control to the reference monitor code.)
Virtual machines for security
Enforcing resource bounds on malicious code
Side channel attacks meet mobile code
Verifiable distributed computation
Security of peer-to-peer systems
Information retrieval for audit logs
Formal modelling of security systems
Secure coding
Theory or cryptographic work
Projects in theory or cryptography are not necessarily out of scope, if you have some specific ideas you consider relevant. For instance, formal analysis of cryptographic protocols or cryptographic primitives could probably serve as a reasonable topic.
Privilege separation
Distributed firewalls
Encrypted databases
Suppose we want to store our data on a remote server (e.g., so that we can take advantage of the computational power of the server) without requiring full trust in the remote server. What types of database semantics can we support? In previous work, Dawn Song, Adrian Perrig, and I showed a special way to store the data in encrypted form on the untrusted server so that the trusted server can do keyword searches over the encrypted data (on our behalf, and only when authorized by us) with minimal communication complexity. What other types of queries can be supported efficiently? How about if the goal is integrity rather than confidentiality? This is a cryptographic design problem.


text:
Homeowners, businesses, community groups, and government agencies are developing and planning better flood protection measures in Kihei, South Maui, where the frequent problems of flooding during major storms have prompted the community and local authorities to seek effective solutions. Here are some examples of flood protection walls and driveway berms:
Green Flood Walls:
- Instead of traditional concrete walls, green flood walls use vegetation to mitigate rising floodwaters. These natural barriers absorb water, reduce erosion, and provide a more environmentally friendly solution.
- The proposal for Kihei includes green flood walls to fortify areas around the Kulanihakoi and Waipuilani gulches1. These walls can help prevent floodwaters from inundating nearby properties.
Vegetated Retaining Walls:
- Vegetated retaining walls combine structural support with greenery. They stabilize slopes, prevent soil erosion, and enhance aesthetics.
- These walls can be strategically placed along vulnerable areas to prevent soil displacement during heavy rains.
- Driveway berms are raised areas along driveways or roadways that act as barriers against floodwaters.
- By elevating the driveway surface, berms help divert water away from homes and prevent flooding.
- Increasing the size of culverts along roads like South Kihei Road can enhance drainage capacity.
- Larger culverts allow water to flow more efficiently, reducing the risk of flooding.
- Coastal dunes play a crucial role in protecting against storm surges and flooding.
- Stabilizing dunes through vegetation planting and erosion control measures helps maintain their integrity.
Channel Stabilization Techniques:
- Channels that carry stormwater need proper stabilization to prevent erosion and sediment transport.
- Techniques such as bioengineering (using plants and natural materials) can enhance channel stability.
- Maui News: The article "Plan seeks more natural solutions to flood risks" discusses the environmentally friendly alternatives proposed for Kihei's drainage system1.
- Civil Beat: The article "Kihei Wants Long-Term Solutions To Chronic Flooding" provides insights into strategies for flood control, including retaining walls and dune stabilization2.
Remember that these solutions aim to balance flood prevention with environmental conservation, ensuring a sustainable approach to protecting Kihei from future floods.
Here are some examples of flood-protection walls, and driveway berms in Kihei: _URL_

source: m-a-p/FineFineWeb


text:
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Measurement (of cloth) by the ell.
- n. A duty paid for such measurement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A measuring by the ell; specifically, official inspection and measurement of woolen cloth for the purpose of laying duties on it. Also spelled alenage, ulnage.
Old French alnage, aulnage, French aunage, from Old French alne ell, of Germanic origin: compare Old High German elina, Gothic aleina, cubit. See ell. (Wiktionary)
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Health Informatics Assignment Week 25 to 26
Week 25 Questions
Draw a patient demographic data entry screen mock-up designed for a touch screen tablet, following elements of good form design. Include at least 5 demographic details.
 1. Describe the features of your screen that will help erasure data quality and user satisfaction.
 2. Describe how you would change your screen if it were to be used with a small screen device, such as a mobile phone.
 3. Describe the validation steps necessary to ensure that data is correct.
A nursing staff member wants to know the process of implementing an electronic rostering system in a nursing home.
Describe the process of implementing such a system, using the system development life cycle, including the types of documents that would be produced. Use examples specific to a nursing home rostering system.
Compare and contrast three types of system modelling (data flow, entity relationship, and use cases), including in your answer the purpose and benefits of each type.
Provide a simple example or small fragment of each model with respect to a nursing home electronic rostering system.
Give advice about system security to a small medical practice (consisting of 3 doctors, l admin staff and 4 networked computers and a server, connected to the internet). Organize your advice into categories: integrity, confidentiality, and availability.
Describe a testing plan for your enquiry case study; you should consider unit, integration, and system testing. Determine who should participate in the testing process. Also, provide examples of some of the data you would use for the testing.
Describe a system to control software maintenance requests, including a complete written procedure for each step, and a rationale for each procedure. Provide mock-up of a maintenance request from appropriate to your system.
Week 26 Questions
Question 1 Describe 5 principles of good screen design and explain how this is demonstrated in the following user screen provided:
explain how this is demonstrated
Reference: Australian Digital Health Agency accessed on 20 March 2020,
Question 2
Describe one of the workflow processes in the following object relationship diagram and how the objects (users and systems) interact with each other:
object relationship diagram
Question 3
Redstone Hospital is looking to implement a new Patient Administration System (PAS) called PatientCareSystem (PCS). The system performs operational processes (Register Patient, Store Patient Demographics and create patient encounters), has a data store for Patient Identifiers (MRN Pool) and the following data flows:
Data Flow
Patient Unique Identifier
Patient Care System (PCS)
MRN Pool
Patient Demographic details
Admissions Officer entity
Patient Care System (PCS)
Admission data
Patient Care System (PCS)
Admission Officer entity
Report data on new MRNS created
Patient Care System (PCS)
MRN pool
Create a context diagram illustrating a selected workflow process
Question 4
A new staff member joins the department that you are working in and asks you what a Business Case is and what it is used for. Describe what you would tell them and identify three key components in developing a Business Case. You can use examples to explain your answer.
Question 5
Describe ransomware and malware? Describe three IT strategies used to protect health information in health care organisations against Cybersecurity attacks.
Question 6
Payback analysis is an important consideration in demonstrating the cost benefits of an Information System application. Explain the concept of payback analysis and when it takes effect in the table below:
Explain what is happening at year 0 and year 4
Complete the missing figures
Cumulative Cost
Cumulative Benefit
Question 7
Evaluate 2 examples of system maintenance and support
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text:
Surrey Police Federation is a branch of the Police Federation of England and Wales, who are the representative body to which every police officer below the rank of Superintendent belongs. It was established by the Police Act 1919 to provide the Police with a means of bringing their views on welfare and efficiency to the notice of the government and the Police Authorities.
All the elected officials of the Police Federation must be serving Police officers. Police officers are not permitted to belong to trades unions and must not take part in politics. Under the provisions of the Police Act, the police are forbidden to take industrial action and to incite anyone to do so is a criminal offence. Police pay, allowances, pensions and conditions of service are negotiated nationally in the Police Negotiating Board, which covers the United Kingdom Police service.
Following a police strike in London in 1918, and subsequent trouble between an unofficial body called the National Union of Police and Prison Officers and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, the Government appointed Lord Desborough to head a Committee of Inquiry into the Police Service.
The Committee reported in June, and recommended standard conditions of service for all police forces in Great Britain. The Home Secretary was to become directly responsible for the service, and an advisory Police Council was to be appointed.
Desborough also recommended that there should be a Police Federation to represent the interests of constables, sergeants, inspectors and chief inspectors on matters affecting their welfare and efficiency.
The Government quickly accepted the Desborough Report and the pay scales he recommended. This meant a substantial improvement in police pay for most forces. It was also announced that, following the passages of the Police Act and the setting up of the Police Federation, members of the police forces would no longer be allowed to belong to a trade union, meaning the end of the Police Union. A second strike, called in defiance of the Police Act, was a failure: only on Merseyside was there a large response from the police, and rioting had to be put down by military intervention. All 2,000 strikers were dismissed.
1920 – First meeting of the Police Council The first meetings of the Police Council of England and Wales drew up new Police Regulations which were approved by Parliament. Many local authorities strongly objected to the new powers of the Home Secretary and complained about the high level of police wages.
The Police Pensions Act standardised pensions for all police forces. However, by requiring officers to serve for 30 years, instead of 26 years, for their maximum pension entitlement, in many areas conditions were worsened.
The Home Secretary told the Joint Central Committee that a pay cut for provincial forces, as recommended by the Geddes Committee on Public Expenditure, could only be avoided by savings in other areas. It was agreed that there should be: a cut in rent allowances and the abolition of tax refunds on them; a 'levy' of 2.5% of pay; reductions in plain clothes and subsistence allowance; overtime was to start after nine hours duty instead of eight. The 'levy' was considered a temporary measure.
The agreement at the Police Council split the JCC and aroused bitter protests from branch boards. It was a major blow to confidence in the new Federation.
The levy was renewed for another year. In July, the Government yielded to pressure from the local authorities and reconvened Lord Desborough's Committee to reconsider the pay scales it had drawn up in 1919.
Desborough reported that the Committee saw no reason to alter police pay, saying that it was not the right time for "disturbing an agreement come to so recently".
Following disagreement at the Police Council, a Committee under Lord Lee recommended that the deductions from pay and rent allowances should be ended, but that pension contributions should be doubled to 5%.
The year of the General Strike saw the Times newspaper set up a National Police Fund, in response to public's gratitude for the work of the service.
The Police (Appeals) Act gave members of the police service a limited right of appeal against disciplinary decisions.
The JCC was unable to find a secretary after Station Sergeant Berry resigned because there were no official facilities. After much argument, the Home Secretary agreed to an annual grant of £300 a year to cover all Federation expenses, and agreed that the JCC Secretary, although not a full-time Federation official, would be given 'every facility' to do the work.
The Police Council convened, for the first time since 1925, to discuss the Home Office proposal for a National Police College to train the higher ranks. The scheme was accepted by all bodies represented on the Police Council, but was abandoned because of the economic crisis the following year.
The Home Office agreed that the new JCC Secretary, Constable Albert Goodsall of the Metropolitan Police, should be the first full-time official of the Federation.
The May Committee on National Expenditure recommended a cut of 12.5% in police pay as part of general cuts in public spending, phased over two years. May also recommended the abolition of the right to retire on 'half pay' pensions after 25 years' service.
A sub-committee of the Police Council recommended that there should be no change in pensionable pay, but that there should be 'temporary deduction'. The sub-committee was divided on the pensions issue, but a majority proposed that the pay of new entrants should be reduced.
The Government decided to reduce police pay by 10% in two instalments of 5%, taking into account the reduction in police pay when pension contributions were increased in 1925.
The Federation held a series of mass meetings of the membership to protest against the pay cuts.
A Committee, under Sir George Higgins, recommended that the pay of new entrants to the police should be lower than the pay of existing officers. The Government accepted the report and two scales of pay, 'A' for existing officers and 'B' for recruits, were introduced.
Lord Trenchard, the Metropolitan Commissioner, persuaded the Home Secretary to ban the Federation from holding Open Meetings, on the grounds that they were being used to make protests against Government policy.
The JCC submitted a resolution to the Home Secretary which drew attention to 'dissatisfaction in the Force'.
Lord Trenchard's Annual Report for 1932 contained a strong attack on the Metropolitan Branch Boards, accusing them of attempting to stir-up discontent in the force and of issuing a steady stream of propaganda against his policies.
The Commissioner's Report also contained his proposals for a Metropolitan Police College, which would train bright young officers and recruit others from public schools and universities. After graduating from the college, the students would be given the rank of Junior Station Inspectors.
A scheme to recruit constables on ten-year contracts in the Metropolitan Police was announced. These officers would not qualify for promotion or permanent appointments, but would be paid a gratuity on completing their engagement.
The Trenchard proposals were embodied in the Metropolitan Police Act of 1933, and amongst other provisions, Metropolitan chief inspectors were taken out of membership of the Police Federation.
The 10% pay 'cut' was reduced by one-half (and abolished altogether the following year).
1939 – World War Two impacts on the service With the outbreak of war, the right of police officers to retire on pension was suspended, and they were classed as a reserved occupation. Thousands of officers who were military reservists were called up and their places were taken by temporary police officers, members of the wartime Police Auxiliary Service.
For the first time since Desborough, police pay was increased, thanks to a five shillings a week supplementary payment to take into account wartime inflation, plus a war duty allowance of three shillings in lieu of overtime. This only applied to men receiving less that £5 a week.
A Committee, under Lord Snell, reported that the pensions of police widows and the allowances paid to dependent children should be increased, provided that the pension contribution was increased to 7%. The Federation opposed any increase in contributions and the Snell Report was shelved. The JCC Chairman, Inspector Strangeways, resigned after being censured for supporting increased contributions.
The ban on Open Meetings, imposed in 1932, was lifted.
After a long period of strained relations between the Federation and the wartime Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, the entire JCC was summoned to the Home Office where they were told they were entitled to submit representations. However if Morrison refused their requests, it was their job to justify his decisions to their membership, not to continue to press their claims.
'Scale B', the lower pay scale for post-1932 recruits, was abolished. Police pay was formally increased for the first time since 1919.
The ban on married women serving in the police service was lifted.
The Report of the Police Council Committee on Rent Allowances recommended that the rent allowance should be high enough to reimburse the reasonable rent and rates of all members occupying unfurnished rent property. New maximum allowances of 30 shillings for the provinces and 35 shillings for London were recommended, and these proposals were accepted by the Government. The system by which police authorities paid a compensatory grant in respect of income tax on rent allowances was also introduced.
The National Police College was established, offering higher training for serving officers. Hendon Police College had closed in 1939, and had not been reopened.
A 'London Allowance' was introduced for the first time, starting at £10 a year for constables.
The Oaksey Committee of Inquiry into the Police Service published its First Report after a lengthy examination of pay and conditions of service. Oaksey recommended a modest pay increase, conditional upon police officers agreeing to 'average'; i.e. to have their pensions based on the their average pensionable pay over the last three years of their service.
The Oaksey recommendations came as a major disappointment and did nothing to solve the great

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text:
is a tangible reminder of the anxiety and insecurity that the French and Indian War created among colonial South Carolinians.
- The fort at Old Dorchester is the largest, best preserved, and most complete tabby fortification in North America.
- Old Dorchester documents an important relationship between Anglicans and Congregationalists in colonial South Carolina.
- Old Dorchester signifies an important link in the migration of Congregationalists from England to Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Georgia.
- In the time period that Old Dorchester's church bell tower was built, few existed in South Carolina; this bell tower signifies the relative affluence of the Old Dorchester populace.
- The oldest continuing schoolboard in America has its roots in Old Dorchester.
- Old Dorchester, located at the furthest inland navigable point on the Ashley River, served as a strategic commerce center in colonial South Carolina.
Set of Primary Interpretive Themes
- The social, political, economic, and religious forces that framed the founding and evolution of colonial Dorchester provide opportunities for us to explore how communities survive and prosper through human interdependence.
- The ongoing investigation of colonial Dorchester's cultural resources provides interactive opportunities to understand how archeological and historical investigation help us to learn from our past.
- The Anglican bell tower standing in a community that was founded by Congregationalists is emblematic of the dynamic relationship among the various religious groups of colonial Dorchester.
- The fort at colonial Dorchester, built as a response to the French and Indian War and adapted for use in the Revolutionary War, exemplifies the need of communities to ensure the safety of their members.
Use What You Know
What are the primary themes and subthemes that archeological research at your park has addressed?
Use your theme statement to organize the opportunities for interpreting your resource into a sequence that cohesively develops the relevant idea or ideas stated in the theme. Plan effective transitions to move from one opportunity to another.


text: Empirical evidence has shown that international adoptees present physical growth delays, precocious puberty, behavioral problems, and mental health referrals more often than non-adoptees. We hypothesized that the higher prevalence of (mental) health problems in adoptees is accompanied by elevated consumption of prescription drugs, including antidepressants, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication, and medication for growth inhibition/stimulation. In an archival, population-based Dutch cohort study, data on medication use were available from the Health Care Insurance Board by Statistics Netherlands from 2006 to 2011. The Dutch population born between 1994 and 2005 and alive during the period of measurement was included (2,360,450 including 10,602 international adoptees, of which 4447 from China). Their mean age was 6.5 years at start (range 1-12 years) and 11.5 years at the end of the measurement period (range 6-17 years). Chinese female adoptees used less medication for precocious puberty (as treatment for precocious puberty; odds ratio (OR) = 0.57, effect size Cohen's d = -0.31) and contraception (OR = 0.65, d = -0.24) than non-adoptees. For both males and females, non-Chinese adoptees used more medication for ADHD than non-adoptees (males: OR = 1.22, females: OR = 1.32), but the effect was small (males: d = 0.11, females: d = 0.15).


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8.10. Returning the Entire Line in Which a Match Is Found
Problem
You have a string or file that contains multiple lines. When a specific character pattern is found on a line, you want to return the entire line, not just the matched text.
Solution
Use the StreamReader.ReadLine method to obtain each line in a file in which to run a regular expression against:
public static ArrayList GetLines(string source, string pattern, bool isFileName) { string text = source; ArrayList matchedLines = new ArrayList( ); // If this is a file, get the entire file's text if (isFileName) { FileStream FS = new FileStream(source, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read); StreamReader SR = new StreamReader(FS); while (text != null) { text = SR.ReadLine( ); if (text != null) { // Run the regex on each line in the string Regex RE = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.Multiline); MatchCollection theMatches = RE.Matches(text); if (theMatches.Count > 0) { // Get the line if a match was found matchedLines.Add(text); } } } SR.Close( ); FS.Close( ); } else { // Run the regex once on the entire string Regex RE = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.Multiline); MatchCollection theMatches = RE.Matches(text); // Get the line for each match foreach (Match m in theMatches) { int lineStartPos = GetBeginningOfLine(text, m.Index); int lineEndPos = GetEndOfLine(text, (m.Index + m.Length - 1)); string line = text.Substring(lineStartPos, lineEndPos - lineStartPos); matchedLines.Add(line); } } return (matchedLines); } public ...
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Balance and adjust the number of posts
Depending on the Cycle Time and different Takt Time, we will be able to balance and adjust the number of operators on manual stations. There is 11 positions.
The overall cycle time for all of these positions is 868 seconds.
The theoretical calculation of the number of operators for the different takt time is as follows :
- High season : Takt = 2mn 36s soit 156s —> 868 / 156 = 5.5 so 6 operators
- Average season : Takt = 3mn 15s soit 195s —> 868 / 195 = 4.5 so 5 operators
- Low season : Takt = 4mn 20s soit 260s —> 868 / 260 = 3.3 so 4 operators
The assembly line is linear, and a length of at least 40m, balancing can be done only on contiguous positions. It is thus not possible to use the theoretical calculation.
The various balances are the following :
The number of operators, according to seasonality is from 8 to 5.


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Global Initiative for Food-related Scientific Advice (GIFSA)
What and Why?
For over 50 years WHO and FAO have been the international source of scientific advice on matters related to the safety of food. This advice provides the evidence base for a linkage between substances in food and disease, or the prevention of disease. This evidence base is necessary to define the best preventive measures to avoid foodborne disease and promote human health as it links to our daily food. It also enables both national and international solutions to these problems, a necessary pre-condition in the present period of increased international food trade. Therefore it is important that the FAO/WHO scientific advice provides the basis for food standards, guidelines and codes of practice developed by the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission.
WHO and FAO devote significant resources to the provision of scientific advice in relation to food. However, there has been an increase in the demand for scientific advice. More and more links between food and disease have been discovered and recently also beneficial food constituents are now investigated and linked to the prevention of disease.
The FAO/WHO framework for scientific advice is based on a transparent and global selection of experts representing the best in food safety and nutrition science. Over recent years the scope of scientific advice has therefore been broadened to include zoonotic diseases, biotechnology and nutrition as well as new emerging priority issues.
As a result, FAO and WHO need to overcome a number of challenges in order to continue to support the technical consultations, workshops and related activities, which form the basis of FAO/WHO scientific advice. Over the past few years FAO and WHO have revised their advice framework to ensure the independence, quality, timeliness and sustainability of the provision of scientific advice. In order to specifically address the issue of sustainability of the provision of scientific advice, FAO and WHO are establishing a Global Initiative for Food-related Scientific Advice (GIFSA).
The specific objectives of the GIFSA are:
- To increase awareness of the FAO/WHO programme of work on the provision of scientific advice,
- To mobilize technical, financial and human resources to support the provision of scientific advice in food safety and nutrition,
- To promote the timeliness of the provision of scientific advice by WHO and FAO, while ensuring the continuation of the highest level of integrity and quality.
Characteristics of the Fund
The main focus of GIFSA is to establish a mechanism to facilitate the provision of extrabudgetary resources for scientific advice activities. Contributions are accepted from governments, organizations and foundations in accordance with WHO and FAO rules. Two separate accounts will be maintained, one at WHO and one at FAO. An FAO/WHO Committee manages the GIFSA, and procedures have been developed to ensure that all resources provided through GIFSA will be allocated to activities in an independent and transparent manner, taking into consideration the criteria for prioritization of activities already agreed by Codex, FAO and WHO and the specific needs of FAO and WHO Member countries.


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Chemical cues from fathers may be delaying the onset of sexual maturity in daughters, as part of an evolutionary strategy to prevent inbreeding, according to researchers at Penn State.
"Biological fathers send out inhibitory chemical signals to their daughters," said Robert Matchock, assistant professor of psychology at Penn State's Altoona Campus. "In the absence of these signals, girls tend to sexually mature earlier."
The effect of chemical cues on sexual maturity is common in the animal world, Matchock explained. If the biological father is removed from rodent families, the daughters tend to mature faster, he said.
"Recently, experts elsewhere discovered a little-known pheromone receptor gene in the human olfactory system, linking the role of pheromones on menarche, or the first occurrence of menstruation," said Matchock, whose findings are published in the recent issue of the American Journal of Human Biology.
Researchers, including Elizabeth Susman, the Jean Phillips Shibley professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State, collected menarcheal data from 1,938 college students to explore the link between girls' social environment and their sexual maturity. The data included information on factors such as the girls' family size, social environment, and how long the father had been absent.
"Our results indicate that girls without fathers matured approximately three months before girls whose fathers were present," Matchock said, adding that the data seem to suggest a relationship between length of the father's absence and age of menarche – the earlier the absence, the earlier the menarche.
Results from the study additionally suggest that the presence of half and step-brothers was also linked to earlier menarche. Girls living in an urban environment also had earlier menarche compared to girls in a rural environment, even when fathers were present for both groups, and had similar levels of education.
Matchock speculates that urban environments provide greater opportunities to get away from parents' inhibitory pheromones, and encounter attracting pheromones from unrelated members of the opposite sex.
"It is possible that a stimulating urban environment can negate suppressive cues from parents," he added.
Taken together, the Penn State researcher says the study is not a human anomaly but an explanation of how pheromonal cues modulate sexual maturity, to enhance mating and prevent inbreeding.
"Prevention of inbreeding is so crucial to successfully spread healthy genes that anti-inbreeding strategies such as the use of pheromones seem to be conserved across species," he added.
Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009
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Electromagnetic field distributions in 3-dimensional irregular cavities
Ulrich Dörr · Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann · Michael Barth · Ulrich Kuhl
The eigenfrequencies νn of the cavity are measured in
dependance of the metallic bead position r:
Wavefunctions and their Δν distribution
|wave functions||distributions of Δν|
Δν distribution of wavefunctions
Distribution P(Δν) is defined by:
If all components of E and B are independently Gaussian distributed, i.e,
Only for chaotic wave functions the ansatz is valid. If the wave function is scarred, deviations from the expected deviations can be seen. Therefore the distribution can be used as a check whether the wave function is chaotic or not.
Δν distribution at the walls
Close to the walls three field components must be zero, due to the boundary conditions. Thus the distribution of Δν must be different and can be calculated by using only three independent components of the fields.
At the walls (d < 10mm) the deviations from the volume distribution (dashed dotted line) clearly can be seen. The sharp peak of the expected distribution (dashed line) can't be resolved.
In the intermediate regime (10mm < d < 20mm) a transition from border to volume distribution is found.
For the data well inside the cavity (d > 20mm) the volume distribution describes the experimental findings.
Spatial correlation functions
(in cooperation with B. Eckhardt)
The spatial correlation function is defined by:
Longitudinal correlation function along the displacement:
Transversal correlation function:
If the polarization is not considered, one expects:
Experimental correlation functions(- - - - including polarization, · · · · excluding polarization)
ResultsThough the electromagnetic fields E and B are coupled by the Maxwell equations, the six components can be considered as independently Gaussian distributed.
==> Field distributions can be described by random superposition of plane waves.


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Drought-Induced "Crop Lines" in the Driftless Area of Northwestern Illinois
The persistent drought impacting the health and vigor of Illinois' crops has provided a rare opportunity to glimpse the bedrock surface and underlying karst aquifer within the driftless area of northwestern Illinois. First reported to the ISGS by Mr. Matthew Alschuler of Warren, Illinois, complex networks of vegetated crop lines crisscross the summer landscape of Jo Daviess County (Figure 1), prompting an investigation by scientists from the Illinois State Geological Survey and the Illinois State Water Survey.
In addition to a ground investigation of the crop lines, the phenomenon was also photographed from a low flying aircraft at an elevation of approximately 1,000 feet. The orientations, widths and horizontal separations of the crop lines were measured at several locations and found to be consistent with solution-enlarged crevices exposed in road cuts and quarries in the area, as well as lineaments mapped using LiDAR elevation data of Jo Daviess County.
Figure 2. Aerial photography of the alfalfa fields showing how the vegetated crop lines delineate fractured and creviced bedrock, which is approximately three feet below the land surface in this location. North is to the left in the photograph. Photo by S.V. Panno.
Primarily confined to alfalfa and soybean fields, the crop lines are due to a combination of extremely dry conditions, coupled with a thin soil zone overlying fractured and creviced dolomite bedrock. The plants forming the crop lines are denser and taller (approximately 1.5 ft) as compared to the plants in the remaining field area, which are only about 0.5 ft. in height. The near-surface bedrock fractures and crevices host a karst aquifer, providing the necessary moisture to sustain the overlying healthier plants, while much of the field exhibits stunted and sparsely separated plant growth (Figure 1). Aerial photography reveals a complex pattern of intersecting crop lines, with the most prominent ones exhibiting generally north-south and east-west orientations (Figure 2). Note also the distinctive rectangular drainage pattern in the stream adjacent to the crop lines — the right-angle angle bends in the stream course are the result of control by crevice and fracture patterns at the top of the near-surface bedrock. Streams tend to follow the paths of least resistance. The orientation of the stream channel is consistent with the orientation of the crop lines, and the straight reaches of the stream channel follow trends in crevices which have been observed in outcrops in the region (Figure 3).


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A tool to automate removal of generated logs after a set amount of time.
npm install log-file-remover
var logRemover = ;logRemover;
The library will accept a custom config object being passed into the schedule function. If no object is passed through then the default config will be used.
If startTheJobAutomatically is set to false, remember to call job.start(), assuming job is the variable you set the cron job to. Unfortunately, for now this is hard coded to true.
For the timeZone if you need others, check the moment-timezone npm module
timeToTake is the time which will be looked at when deleting logs.
timeToTake is either mtime, ctime or fileName. The modified time, the created time or a date specified in the file name.
The filename looked at follows this expression:
cronTime uses standard cron input. This allows for more explicit control of the timed settings of the cron Job
everySecond: '* * * * * *'everyMinute: '* * * * *'everyHour: '00 00 * * * *'every10Seconds: '*/6 * * * * *'midnight: '00 00 00 * *'everyDayAtTwoFifteen: '00 15 02 * * *'


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For example: The application show a list of results.
Now we have a new feature: The list can be filtered.
The user can use a search input field and a date range to filter the results.
To cover all possible combinations with test cases, I create a matrix. For this simple example, they look like this:
Matrix
I feel confident that this type of matrix has a specific name.
How is the name? Test Case Combination Matrix?
After getting the keywords, I found a nice and large article by Michael Bolton about Pairwise Testing.
_URL_
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 As an aside, when you try to cover every possible combination of values, that's called combinatorial testing.
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I think it is called a "Combinatorial test matrix" .
With more combinations the matrix could become infinitely large, have a look at Pairwise Testing to simplify this, but still have a high coverage with combinations.
Pairwise (a.k.a. all-pairs) testing is an effective test case generation technique that is based on the observation that most faults are caused by interactions of at most two factors. Pairwise-generated test suites cover all combinations of two therefore are much smaller than exhaustive ones yet still very effective in finding defects.
Also there is a list of software tools to assist you with generating the pairwise matrix.
Currently we are playing with the free version of CTE-XL , which looks pretty good.
I am interested in experience with other Pairwise testing tools.
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It could be called anything as long as the stakeholders of the project understand what it is and how to use it. You can call it combinatorial input matrix, all pairs matrix, exhaustive input matrix and so on!
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It's just a representation of test cases.
When I use it I call it Test cases, Test case matrix, Test Matrix or just tests.
Anyway, it is a great way to present data and test inputs.
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 I'm with Rsf - simple test cases. We do a lot of this in relation to database search combinations. But I think one needs to be sure that you are not testing things that are never used. For example with dbs you can end up with an index strategy which itself has a performance hit, that favours the rare cases and not the common ones. Commented Jul 23, 2014 at 15:48
 - @NigelHoath Yes, sure. Creating test cases for combinations that will never happen is useless. But my opinion is, it is veriy helpful for the beginning to have a overview of all combinations. After that you can decide for what combination you create an test case.
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When you produce a matrix of all combinations, that is called the "cartesian product." See _URL_
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The new exception concept replaces the old one. All the old source code sections must therefore be rewritten. As of SAP Web Application Server 6.20, function modules from the SAP standard system automatically raise object-oriented exceptions. True False.
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Will climate change ruin Aspen's economy?
Auden Schendler doesn't seem like a worrywart. Tan, fit, blond, and perpetually smiling, he has the typical manner of a resident of Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley: relaxed and happy. Who wouldn't be, living high up in the gorgeous Rocky Mountains with great hiking, biking, and skiing, surprisingly good restaurants, lots of tasty microbrews on tap at the local bars, high-quality mass transit, and legal pot?
This valley, historically home to a string of mining towns, has prospered in recent decades thanks to Aspen's boom as a vacation and second-home destination. But places where the economy depends on visitors looking for fun in the sun are especially vulnerable to climate change. Skiing, of course, requires snow, and warmer temperatures can reduce snowpack. Meanwhile Aspen's scenic mountains are under numerous other threats from climate change. Schendler, as vice president of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, which manages skiing on the major mountains in the area, is in charge of trying to stave off destruction of the area's natural beauty, and the loss of business it would cause. (He is also an occasional contributor to Grist.)
The mountain peaks around Aspen are so high that some are still capped with snow in late June, even as the midday temperatures in town reach 80 degrees. Looking at them this summer, though, you notice that they are often covered with a layer of reddish brown dust. This is a new, and very unattractive, phenomenon. The epic drought in the Southwest is sending dust clouds northward. Another contributor to the problem is the clearing out of greenery that holds down soil; it started with ranching, and accelerated recently because of the local fracking boom. Wind then brings the dust all the way up to the mountaintops. "Since 2010 there has been five times as much dust because of construction of dirt roads for oil and gas development," says Jamie Cundiff, forest program director at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies. The dust does more than just look bad. By making snow less reflective, dust increases its heat absorption, causing the snow to melt faster. "You see a spike in runoff when the snow melt hits a dust layer," notes Cundiff.
Climate change is already affecting the region in other ways too. Trees, including the aspens from which the town takes its name, are threatened by increasing wildfires and invasive species. Drive up to the Continental Divide, and you can see areas along the way where trees have been decimated by fires, which are becoming more prevalent because of hotter and drier conditions. There are also pockets of trees that have been denuded by pine bark beetle infestation. The beetles are migrating northward and to higher elevations thanks to warmer temperatures, and they are attacking pine forests in Colorado. Pine trees naturally fight off the beetles by releasing sap to smother them. But that requires a lot of water, and trees cannot defend themselves when they are dried out by droughts or heat waves. On Aspen Mountain, you can see Engelmann spruce trees suffering from spruce broom rust, a similar condition. "Trees facing environmental stressors such as drought are more susceptible to all kinds of insect and disease infestations," says Cundiff.
Climate change is not the only way that humans have made trees more vulnerable to invasive species. A healthy forest has a diversity of tree species and tree ages. Pine bark beetles cannot fly, and if pines are interspersed with other species, beetles will not be able to take down a whole forest. But in places where logging has occurred, trees are replanted in neat rows, all the same species and all the same age, making them a perfect target for insects.
Losing either the snow or the trees would threaten to reduce the numbers of tourists who come to hike or ski. But Schendler says the threat to his company's business is broader than that. "Just the general instability and disruption [caused by climate change] is a problem for us," says Schendler. People fly to Aspen from all around the country, but they can't do that when a disaster at their doorstep like Hurricane Sandy shuts down their local airport. And storms can threaten access to ski resorts in other ways. A year before Sandy, Tropical Storm Irene washed out the access road to ski resorts in Vermont, closing them for weeks.
Aspen is not the only area with a tourist-dependent economy under threat from climate change, of course. Warmer temperatures could devastate other ski towns. Throughout the Rocky Mountains, invasive species and wildfires that kill trees could ruin the hiking and hunting that draw visitors. Drier weather threatens the water supply to resort towns throughout the Southwest, such as California's Catalina Island. Las Vegas and other outposts in the desert are especially vulnerable to extreme heat and droughts. Barrier beaches all over the East Coast have been battered by severe hurricanes. And the two American cities most vulnerable to tropical storms, Miami and New Orleans, are also major tourist destinations.
In all of these regions, some tourism-dependent companies are taking steps to lessen their environmental impact. But the Aspen Skiing Company has gone further, noting that the usual corporate efforts to combat climate change are inadequate. Merely reducing their own waste or carbon footprint won't cut it. The only solutions broad enough to stop climate change are political. That's why Schendler reaches out to politicians and advocates for clean energy policies. Corporations, he argues, should treat addressing climate change as a lobbying priority, the same way they do favorable tax or labor policies, because it's essential to their bottom line.
Aspen residents may seem carefree, but climate change is giving them something to worry about.


**This article describes a basic end-to-end deal process on Outlaw, assuming your team has already set up and activated at least one dynamic template.**
1. Create New Contract
To begin working on a new deal, navigate to the "Contracts" tab and click the purple New Contract button. Then choose "Generate from template":
2. Contract Set Up
Fill in all dynamic elements (blue click-able fields) in contract text. Example: annual starting salary:
"Parties" are a special kind of dynamic field where information about individuals signing the document get filled in:
A counterparty's signer can fill in and edit their own information, but can not edit the rest of the document unless you give them access to do so.
Note: if a feature called "Auto-Include" has been activated, this information for your side of the deal may be filled in as soon as a new agreement is created. To learn about activating or adjusting this setting, click here.
3. Share Contract
Sharing is how people gain access to contracts on Outlaw. The Manage Users Panel is where you go to share contracts with people--including the counterparty when it's time for them to review and sign the document.
The panel opens at upper right of the contract screen (person icon):
In this panel you can share a contract with someone already listed there, add a teammate (someone in your organization), or add a new user external to your organization.
Click "share" under a user's name to generate an invitation for that user (via email notification or link) to view the contract.
You can also re-share a contract here, edit or remove user information, and adjust user permissions. If the word "share" does not appear under the user's name, it means this person already has access to the deal (contract was shared and accessed previously) so you don't need to re-share.
4. Negotiate: every deal process is unique!
Outlaw has a ton of features for deal review and negotiating: red-lining, commenting, internal approval workflows, and more. Click the links to learn more about how to close better and faster with Outlaw.
5. E-Sign!
Once all dynamic fields are filled in and all negotiation points have been resolved, parties can sign when ready. Users who are authorized signers simply click or tap the appropriate e-signature field:
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Mare grazing, foal yawning.
Horses go through various stages of pregnancy before giving birth after 11 to 12 months, and it's crucial to provide the right care to ensure a healthy foaling. You might be able to tell when your mare is approaching labour due to signs such as an enlarged udder and dripping beads of wax from the teat. However, udders can shrink back to near original size during the daytime when your horse is active, and not all mares secrete a waxy substance before giving birth. Some behavioural signs can give away a mare that's within days of foaling, but you can't monitor or remain close your horse 24 hours a day, and they save the best indicators for when you are watching them. Fortunately, technologies such as transmitters and radios can help horse owners monitor their mares remotely, and they're high-value because you can use them time and time again. However, a common problem with many models concerns interference, especially when the horse lies down. You need a device that guarantees to remain functional and provides comprehensive data relating to your mare's activity, and you need to find a provider that takes measures to prevent its transmitters from sustaining damage or experience signal problems. At Smart Foal, we spent two years developing our cutting-edge foaling app, which lets you monitor your mare's activity around the clock. The transmitter collects data for the app to make sense of and display in an easily-to-read format on your laptop or device, letting you know when your horse is pacing, laying down or otherwise acting out of character. The transmitter fastens to the mare's halter with a Velcro strap, ensuring that horses can break away should they ever become entangled. Plus, thanks to being manufactured with high-grade materials, it can stand up to tremendous pressure, making it highly stomp-proof.
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Canarina DISPER - Air Quality Dispersion Model · Point
DISPER is a software for air pollution dispersion analysis. The program calculates the pollutant concentration in each point of the air considering each one of the pollutant sources and the conditions of the atmosphere. The system of simulation of processes of dispersion that DISPER 5.2 has, offers to the beginner and the expert programmer, a quick and practical system to evaluate the dispersion of pollutants in the air. The program is based on the operating system Microsoft WINDOWS where one works intensively with the mouse and the graphic windows. We can say, with a certain security that the software DISPER 5.2 is one of the best tools, to carry out numeric simulations of air pollution processes.


Guidelines for Consumer Testing - guidance from ESN members
In this series ESN members give their solutions to the most frequently asked questions from product developers and marketers.
Does the taste match the concept?
In an innovation process it is important to develop a product marketing concept that creates high initial purchases. However, Olaf Biedekarken of the German sensory and consumer research company isi warns, "to assure that the product purchase is repeated, the marketing concept should also be based on an optimised sensory product recipe that at the minimum meets and ideally exceeds the expectations of the target group."
The secret of successful products is based on a high correspondence between the marketing concept, which from the consumer point of view causes defined expectations, and the product itself, which needs to fulfil these expectations. Taking this interaction into account, a high repurchase rate and therefore a successful product launch will be achieved.
Biedekarken goes on to observe that, "In practice, marketing departments and R&D departments sometimes work in isolation from each other." He calls this approach „misleading, since even the best concept and the best design can result in a product 'flop' if both elements do not fit well together." If the sensory experience caused by the intrinsic product attributes and the expectations raised by the extrinsic product attributes are not successfully co-ordinated, product success is not very probable.
Biedekarken suggests that, „Instead of individually optimising the sensory product and the marketing concept, both tasks should be done in an integrated way". According to his experience this is the only way to optimally combine the product's sensory and informational-promotional aspects.
 - Which intrinsic attributes (e.g. appearance, flavour) and which extrinsic attributes (e.g. packaging, brand) are responsible for consumers' preferences or rejections of product innovations?
 - What is the impact of product expectation on the consumers' experience of a new product?
 - How can the perception and evaluation of product attributes be affected by appropriate marketing activities?"
Olaf Biedekarken states that, „In order to support the management decisions, we propose a 3-step test approach that will deliver sound information not only about the acceptance of design and concept alternatives individually, but also about the interactions of both aspects". (It is recommended but not absolutely necessary that all three steps be conducted with the same subjects):
Step 1: a product blind test
that evaluates
a) the acceptance of the intrinsic attributes
b) the impact of intrinsic attributes
Step 2: a concept test
that evaluates
a) the expectation and acceptance of extrinsic attributes
b) the impact of extrinsic attributes and evaluation of initial purchase
A concept test uses a computer-generated design to determine the different characteristics of the concept (packaging, claim, brand). These are combined into holistic product concepts. Potential buyers are confronted with these concepts in realistic purchase decision situations. Their purchase behaviour, i.e. the selection of one or the rejection of all alternatives indirectly reveals the preference structure with regard to single concept features.
Step 3: In a combined test the recipe and all the concept attributes are pulled together to achieve a viable product
A combined test measures
a) the acceptance of the entire product
b) the impact of intrinsic and extrinsic attributes
Finally, a comparison of the results from all three tests will show the impact of the expectation on the experience.
By a direct comparison of the acceptance scores of the 3 test steps, valuable conclusions concerning the product-concept fit can be drawn. Olaf Biedekarken gives three examples of possible findings:
Example 1:
Good results in all three tests (blind test, concept test, and combined test) indicate a very good product-concept fit, and a high level of initial purchase and repurchase. The concept is credible and the expectation is confirmed. In the combined test the consumers' assessment comes up to the expectations raised by the packaging.
Example 2:
Bad results in the blind test compared to good results in the concept test, and intermediate results in the combined test indicate a bad product-concept fit: in this case the concept is not credible and the expectation is not confirmed (sensory-induced disappointment). The sensory design is bad and cannot come up to the expectations evoked by a good concept.
Example 3:
Good results in the blind test compared to rather bad results in the concept test, and low intermediate results in the combined test: once again, this indicates a bad product-concept fit. However, this time the product is good, but the expectation, based on the poor marketing concept, is low (marketing-induced disappointment). With the good sensory design, one only needs to improve the packaging concept in order to achieve optimal results. Even if the revised concept raises much higher expectations, the consumers will not be disappointed.
Mr. Biedekarken concludes, „Through the simultaneous development of product quality and marketing concepts, it is possible to identify innovations with product/marketing concept and product core that are optimally coordinated. The main potential of integrating marketing concept and product tests can be seen in the early stages of the innovation process during which many possible alternatives for both the marketing concept and the sensory product recipe exist. This approach allows one to find the ideal combination without excluding the possibility of being able to follow up on promising directions."
For more information please contact:
Olaf Biedekarken
Institut für Sensorikforschung und Innovationsberatung GmbH
Neuhauser Str. 45
80331 München
Telefon: +49 89 41 42 43 89-0
Telefax: +49 89 41 42 43 89-9
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Prostitutes, a bloody fight and yobs urinating in the street: The heartbreaking picture drawn by a 10-year-old showing unruly behaviour which has become all too familiar in deprived corners of Britain
- The boy's father is using it to highlight anti-social issues facing Boscombe
- The child says he often watches drunks and prostitutes from his window
A ten-year-old boy has highlighted the anti-social behaviour in his town by drawing a scene from his bedroom - and it includes a prostitute, a man urinating and a fight.
The unnamed youngster lives in the once-prosperous resort of Boscombe in Bournemouth, Dorset, that is now blighted by problems including drug dealing.
The schoolboy drew the picture and his father handed it to a local newspaper to highlight the anti-social issues facing the town.
Through child's eyes: The drawing shows a man fighting with a bottle and a knife, a woman with money stuffed in her stocking, and a sad-looking child and the boy's father is using it to highlight antisocial issues
The drawing shows a man fighting with a bottle and a knife, a woman with money stuffed in her stocking, and a sad-looking child.
Once Boscombe was the chosen destination for the well-heeled Victorians who erected large churches as a signpost for their morals.
But now the prostitutes, drug addicts and general violence have become major issues, despite valiant efforts to improve the area through investment and charity.
But the boy's drawing shows there is a long way to go, and it depicts a scene that could be witnessed in any large town or city across the country.
The child, who lives near the town's red light district, said: 'I see all these people out of my window all the time, sometimes I tell my dad, sometimes I just watch them.'
Boscombe seafront: The town is popular among tourists but locals say there are many crime problems
Up-market: Holidaymakers in Boscombe in 1936. In the Victorian era the town was popular with the well-to-do
His father said: 'He sees prostitutes regularly and the people fighting with the bottle. He's seen people urinating in the graveyard at St Clement's church.
'The children often get woken by shouting and screaming and witness women being picked up in cars, a lot of aggressive men are around all the time.'
Boscombe resident Chris Thompson, 22, who grew up in the area, said: 'You see lots and lots of fights between groups of lads.
'When you are little all this frightens you, you feel shocked.'
Joey Robinson, 28, a father of two girls aged eight and three, said: 'You see a lot of drinkers here and you see prostitutes all the time.
'You want to get your children away from that. I came here from Tottenham in north London and I find it worse here than certain parts of Tottenham.
'I didn't believe it was like this.'
Andy Williams, Bournemouth council's safer communities manager, said: 'There are a number of activities taking place to target those who are responsible for anti-social behaviour in Boscombe including increased CCTV to tackle prostitution.'
Superintendent Nicky Searle, of Dorset police, said the force had staged a number of operations in the area to tackle drug-dealing and prostitution.
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Units Of Measure
Today's topic is units of measure (those words and symbols that come after numbers).
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Today's topic is units of measure—those words and symbols that come after numbers.
Put a Space Between Numbers and Units of Measure
This first point may seem self-evident: you put a space between the number and the unit of measure. Even though it seems obvious, I'm telling you because I've seen people do it wrong, and there are also exceptions to the rule.
For example, if you want to say you threw a ball 100 feet, there is a space between the number 100 and the whole word feet. Obvious, right? But what if you use the abbreviation ft. instead of the word feet? It's the same rule: there's a space between 100 and ft., and if you just think of the abbreviation as the word, it should be easy to remember, but I've seen them squished together without a space many times.
Most style guides do recommend writing out units of measure (e.g., the word feet instead of the abbreviation ft.) unless you are writing a technical or scientific document, but abbreviations are acceptable in tables in other kinds of writing too.
Degrees and Percentages
Sometimes I think people get confused because there are a few exceptions to that rule—percent, degrees, and foot and inch symbols—but it helps to remember that these exceptions occur when you are using symbols instead of abbreviations. For example, if you are writing out the words 100 degrees, there is a space between the number 100 and the word degrees, but if you are using the degree symbol, that little superscript circle, you butt it right up against the number without any spaces in between (100°—no space). The same holds true if you want to use the percent sign. Even though you use a space when you are writing out the word percent, if you use the percent sign, it goes right after the number without any spaces (100%—no space). It's the same for the foot and inch symbols (those little prime and double prime marks). If you write four feet five inches with symbols (4'5''), it's written all together.
Units of Measure in Compound Modifiers
For the next point, let's go back to talking about feet. The singular is obviously foot, and the plural is usually feet, but when you are using it as a compound modifier, you use the singular. For example, you would say that Squiggly climbed a tree that was 10 feet tall.* But you don't say Squiggly ran up a 10-feet tree—you say Squiggly ran up a 10-foot tree. I don't have a good explanation for why—that's just the way it is. (If you know why, please leave a comment!) That's also true for other units of measure such as inches and pounds. Squiggly was running from a 100-pound monster, and he was terrified of its 10-inch tentacles.
Similarly, the abbreviations for units of measure are the same whether the units are singular or plural. The abbreviation is ft. whether it is foot or feet. Occasionally you will see an s after the abbreviation for pounds, lbs. For example, the AP Stylebook notes that lbs. is sometimes used in sports such as weightlifting, (1) but in most cases, the s isn't necessary.
Should You Put a Period After Abbreviations?
Although it's technically a style choice, most US style guides recommend putting periods after abbreviations for English units of measure such as feet, inches, and pounds. (2, 3) In general, it's more common to use periods in the US than in Britain. (4) With the metric system, or more formally the International System of Units, you never use a period after the abbreviations. (5)
Next: Why Is Pound Abbreviated "Lb"?


Boy Helps Blind Deer Find Food Daily
In this day and age it's nice to see something that raises our spirits.
Every day before going to school a young boy helped a deer, who just happened to be blind, find food. This story first came to us from Reddit, and Reddit user Bluecollarclassicist.
A blind deer lived in a neighborhood in Illinois, where bluecollarclassisit lives.
An animal like this could not normally live long in a suburban environment; but due to the efforts of this one child, the deer now has a chance to survive.
The survival rate of any animal declines when they live outside their natural habitats, but add in vehicles and urban sprawl and their chances recede even further, particularly if they're blind, as this deer was. Chances of being hit and killed by an automobile were much higher than that of a sighted animal.
As luck would have it, this particular deer wandered into a neighborhood where a kind-hearted and generous boy lived. Not only did the boy give up time he could have spent playing, he watched over the animal and made certain it had a safe place to rest and food to eat.
Fortunately, the news about this wonderful story flew and reached the ears of a local rescue organization who undertook the deed of moving the deer to a place where it could live safely and happily.
The deer's 10-year-old benefactor never tried to adopt him as a pet, he just searched for the deer quietly every day until he found him.
With the rescue organization now alerted to the deer's plight, they caught him and moved him to a shelter where he could be safe and have a peaceful life among other animals.
Bluecollarclassicist and his wife thought this was one of the sweetest and kindest examples of someone being helpful and understanding they had witnessed and hope to reward the young boy's selfless acts by taking him to visit the deer where the wildlife rehabilitation group placed him in relative safety at the state wildlife preserve. Not all heroes wear capes.
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When did Thomas Cranmer write the Book of Common Prayer?
The First Prayer Book, enacted by the first Act of Uniformity of Edward VI in 1549, was prepared primarily by Thomas Cranmer, who became archbishop of Canterbury in 1533.
Did the Book of Common Prayer replace the Bible?
The Bible in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer
However, in the same spirit in which the 1662 revision of the BCP replaced the 1539 Bible translations with the 1611 translations for its lessons, the 2019 BCP "re-synced" its biblical texts to the English Standard Version (ESV).
What was the purpose of the Book of Common Prayer?
The Book of Common Prayer gathered the elements of the medieval year into a compact form that has largely survived. It reinforced the basic pattern, while simplifying some aspects of the annual round, using traditional prayers and readings to mark its contours.
What is the current version of the Book of Common Prayer?
The Book of Common Prayer 2019
"The Book of Common Prayer is the Bible arranged for worship. The 2019 edition takes what was good from the modern liturgical renewal movement and also recovers what had been lost from the tradition."
How many times has the Book of Common Prayer been revised?
The first Prayer Book was published in 1549. It was revised in 1552, 1559, 1604, and 1662. The 1662 Book of Common Prayer is still the official Prayer Book in the Church of England, and it has served as the model for subsequent BCPs throughout the worldwide Anglican Communion.


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Underwater Radiated Signal Analysis in the Modulation Spectrogram Domain
Hyunjin CHO Junseok LIM Bonhwa KU Myoungjun CHEONG Iksu SEO Hanseok KO Wooyoung HONG
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2015/08/01
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Category: Engineering Acoustics
DEMON, modulation spectrogram, modulation frequency, tonal signal, underwater signal,
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Passive SONAR receives a mixed form of signal that is a combination of continuous and discrete line-component spectrum signals. The conventional algorithms, DEMON and LOFAR, respectively target each type of signal, but do not consider the other type of signal also present in the practical environment. Thus when features from two types of signals are presented at the same time, analysis results may cause confusion. In this paper, we propose an integrated analysis algorithm for underwater signals using the modulation spectrogram domain. The proposed domain presents the visual difference between the different types of signal, and therefore can prevent confusion that would otherwise be feasible. Moreover, the proposed algorithm is more efficient than multiband DEMON in terms of computation complexity, while in colored ambient noise environment, it has similar performance to conventional DEMON and LOFAR. We prove the validity of the proposed algorithm through the relevant experiments with synthesized signal and actual underwater recordings.


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Lesson 4 – Good Bones
If commitment to God is the foundation we are building our transformation on, what is the framework for transformation. In this session we are going to talk about how trust is that framework, but somehow we have been sidetracked and trust ourselves and everything else more than we trust God.
Write the Words TRUST in large block letters or print them out. Around the outside of the word, write what you trust God for. These will be the things you handed to God and other things you have already trusted to Him. Do not write it if you do not trust Him in that situation, with that person or for that provision. You can continue to add to that as you hand more things to God. Share in the comments under the post on the Facebook page. Below is an example of mine.
Objectives for this Lesson
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In light of the recent intensification of statements in the media on the alleged danger now threatening the conservation of the Šnipiškės Jewish graveyard in Vilnius (hereinafter Cemetery), the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community (hereinafter LJC) feel it our duty yet again to present the main facts in the case and the LJC's well-founded position based on those facts regarding the issue of the reconstruction of the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports (hereinafter Sports Palace) and its adaptation as a conference center.
1. To date no work for the reconstruction of the Sports Palace has been carried out, and therefore no possibly negative impact on the graveyard which was destroyed in the 1950s is being effected at the current time. The remains of the Vilna Gaon were removed to the Vilnius Jewish cemetery located on Sudervės street long ago and his headstone is located there.
False statements and rumors have been circulating for some time, so again it is necessary to explain the headstones in the Cemetery were destroyed long ago and the Sports Palace was constructed there back in the Soviet era. At the current time only pre-planning proposals have been drawn up, which could serve later as the basis for a detailed technical project for the renovation and adaptation of the Sports Palace which will be carefully examined and assessed by competent institutions.
2. The Cemetery is entered on the Registry of Cultural Treasures and has been declared a state-protected site, meaning any construction or reconstruction work in the area of the graves or in the buffer zone around it, and any plans for this sort of work, are carefully assessed and strictly controlled under the provisions of the law of the Republic of Lithuania on protection of real estate heritage and the specific requirements of a special protection plan for this Cemetery.
3. This special protection plan for the Cemetery was prepared under the requirements and principles contained in a protocol agreement signed on August 26, 2009, by the leaders of the LJC, the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe and the Cultural Heritage Department under the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. All these institutions share responsibility for keeping the agreement and ensuring sufficient authority for doing so.
4. The protocol agreement of August 26, 2009, resolves that:
4.1. Earth-moving work is forbidden in the Cemetery;
4.2. Three additional possible buffer-function zones are defined; the Sports Palace falls into zone A where earth-moving work is proscribed except in cases involving engineering construction (utility pipeline, transportation and communication infrastructure) and/or work to maintain the Vilnius Sports Palace. Jobs involving the movement of earth require consent by the LJC and must be accomplished in the smallest scope possible. All work involving the movement of ground must be done under the supervision of an archaeologist and an authorized LJC delegate. To insure adherence to this requirement, the LJC makes all decisions regarding the conservation of the Cemetery and plans for the reconstruction of Sports Palace only with the knowledge and consent of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe.
5. The Vilnius Sports Palace was constructed in 1973. The building and the Cemetery upon which it was built have been listed on the Registry and are protected as a cultural treasure since 2006.
6. According to the original construction documents presented to the LJC, the foundation of the Sports Palace extends 7.37 meters underground, so most likely all burials there were destroyed during building construction. Therefore pre-planning proposals for reconstruction of the Sports Palace are based on the assumption burials do not remain under the building. Despite the low likelihood there are still graves under the building, in the event of actual reconstruction of the Sports Palace the LJC will demand earth-moving work be of minimal scope and conducted under the supervision of representatives of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe.
Therefore, bearing in mind that:
1) existing burials were destroyed during construction of the Vilnius Sports Palace;
2) currently not a single headstone remains at the Cemetery (the last monuments were torn down back in 1955), the Cemetery territory is in disrepair, and there are no signs in the huge territory of the Cemetery testifying to its history except for a symbolic statue and an information plaque set up a few years ago;
3) the Sports Palace building along with the Cemetery surrounding it are listed on the Registry of Cultural Treasures and it cannot be torn down, but in its current state cannot either be used and requires renovation;
4) the abandoned Vilnius Sports Palace is in a state of ruin and is unbefitting the city center and the Cemetery, and stands as a horrid symbol recalling the Soviet era when the headstones of the Cemetery were destroyed and the human remains there disturbed;
The Government of the Republic of Lithuania have the right to do as they please with the property in their possession, and certainly the right to merely consider the reconstruction of the Vilnius Sports Palace, adapting it for one or another use, and the LJC has no legal foundation or rational arguments for quelling these activities. Instead of engaging in unconstructive criticism, the LJC is undertaking all measures to insure these plans and their possible realization do not violate Jewish law and tradition, and believes the Government of Lithuania, as a responsible institution with a vested interest in maintaining its reputation, will also exhaust all efforts so that the project is carried out to the highest standards of transparency, quality and respect for heritage. If the project is carried out appropriately, the LJC would achieve our goal of preserving the Cemetery:
1) establishing in city planning and physically demarcating the limits of the Cemetery;
2) renovating the territory of the Cemetery and setting up walking paths there in line with Jewish law and tradition;
3) erecting a commemorative composition including the names of the people buried in the Cemetery;
4) installing necessary educational and information material on site.