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How Much Water Do Carnations Need?
Colorful carnations grow as annual, perennial or biennial flowers. From the genus Dianthus of the Caryophyllaceae family, carnations are among 300 known floral species with a larger number of hybrids in various shades of pink and other colors. Although carnations grown in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 8 through 10 can tolerate some drought, give plants a light misting or, if the soil is dry, about 1 inch of water once or twice per week as needed to help flowers stay healthy.
Carnations need at least four to five hours of bright sunlight per day because low or filtered light may cause poor branching in flower stems. Long, sunlit days encourage stem leafing and floral buds, but intense heat and humidity may damage some hybrids. Outdoor carnation plants require well-draining soil with a pH of 6.6 to 8.5, but greenhouse-grown flowers can use potting media with a pH of 5.8 to 6.5, advises Alabama Cooperative Extension. Spaced about 1 foot apart, perennial carnation plants such as "Cottage Pink" (D. plumarius) and "Fire Witch" (D. Feuerhexe), which thrives in USDA zones 3 through 8, grow to various heights -- usually about 12 to 18 inches tall.
Monitoring outdoor carnation plants helps to determine if the soil is dry. Newly planted stems must be kept moist, especially if there's less than 1 inch of rainfall each week. You should water carnation plants once or twice weekly if the top 3 inches of soil is dry. Give them either a light misting or about 1 inch of water, but be careful not to get the plant too wet because excess watering may cause leaves to turn yellow and flowers to droop or fall off altogether. Watering carnations by hand is best because overhead sprinklers or hoses can damage tender flower petals and lead to rotting blooms. Soaking water directly into the soil will keep roots well-saturated and flowers from wilting or rotting. Early-morning watering allows leaves to dry in sunlight. After-dusk watering keeps soil moist overnight.
Raising carnations in greenhouses begins with seeds or root cuttings placed directly into flats or containers. New plant roots need regular watering because they must become established into the soil. As with outdoor plants, greenhouse carnations tolerate dryness but not overly saturated soil, so give them a light misting or about 1 inch of water or less, as needed. Bright, direct light encourages plants to grow. Greenhouse-grown carnations are often nurtured and "forced" to bloom at different times so that flowers are ready for gift-giving.
Disease and Pests
Carnations and other Dianthus flowers such as "Sweet William" (D. barbatus), which is hardy in USDA zones 4 through 9, may develop bacterial leaf spot, root rot and fusarium wilt. Bacterial leaf spot develops gray and brown dots and splotches on foliage. Root rot occurs when saturated stems and roots lie in excess water. Fusarium wilt causes leaves to yellow and often drop. Removing plants from infected soil may help them recover, depending on the severity of the damage. Dianthus flowers attract spider mites, thrips, aphids and other insects, especially in dry, hot weather. Regular watering and chemical pest control help to control infestation.
- The New Sunset Western Garden Book: Kathleen Norris Brenzel, ed.
- University of Maryland Cooperative Extension: Carnation Production and Consumer Care
- University of Florida Extension: Gardening with Annuals
- Alabama Cooperative Extension: Greenhouse Production of Dianthus
- Fine Gardening: Dianthus (Carnation, Pink)
- Missouri Botanical Garden: Dianthus 'Feuerhexe' Firewitch
- National Gardening Association: Dianthus
Teri Silver began a career in 1984 as a news, sports and feature writer/reporter, anchor, editor, producer and program host for central Ohio radio and television stations. She has done work for stations including WTVN, WMNI and WOSU (NPR). Silver has a Bachelor of Arts in journalism with an English minor from The Ohio State University.


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Negev berry coaxes mice to ensure plant reproduction
The discovery shows that plant uses a toxic "mustard oil bomb" to make the mouse serve its needs.
Mouse Photo: Courtesy of American Friends of TAU
While Israelis who eat sunflower seeds typically spit out the husks and often
throw them near their feet, a spiny mouse living in the Negev is induced by a
plant called sweet mignonette to eat the fruit and spit out the seeds. This
mechanism, just discovered by researchers at the TechnionIsrael Institute of
Technology, helps the plant reproduce in an arid climate.
carried out with assistance from other Israeli and American researchers and
published on Thursday in the online edition of the journal Current Biology,
shows that the plant uses a toxic "mustard oil bomb" to make the mouse serve its
The plant, also called taily weed, is the first known case within
a single species of what is known as the "directed deterrence" hypothesis that
"the fruit is trying to have itself eaten by the right consumer that will spread
its seeds." The plant thus produces a fruit to deter a whole class of animals
from destroying its seeds.
This mechanism makes the mice conduct
"analytical chemistry experiments" to test the fruit for poisonous compounds and
not bite into the seed. The plants are in effect handing out the orders. Until
now, only primates have been shown to spit seeds.
The fleshy, fruited
plant, known to botanists as Ochradenus Baccatus, grows a meter or two in height
in wadis across an area ranging from Pakistan to Egypt and down to Ethiopia and
The plant has radiating, narrow, spiny leaves and a central stalk
with yellow-green flowers, immature white berries and mature black berries less
than a centimeter in diameter. It produces thousands of berries throughout the
year, and each fruit contains up to 20 seeds.
However, the plant's
powerful "bomb" – which tastes like mustard oil – is activated when an animal
eating the berries chews the seed as well as the fruity pulp. Enzymes, which are
called myrosinases, in the seed activate toxic substances called glucosinolates
(GLSs) in the pulp, which otherwise would be harmless.
produces chemicals named thiocyanate, isothiocyanates and nitriles.
Isothiocyanates are responsible for the characteristic hot flavor of mustard.
This mustard bomb first was discovered in mustard plants and has been known for
some time to deter insects from eating leaves of certain plants.
mustard taste is powerful enough for the common spiny mouse, also known as the
Cairo spiny mouse or the Acomys Cahirinus, to remember it and spit out most of
the seeds while chewing the pulp.
The Technion study also found the mice,
which are active at night, will revert to eating the seeds if the mustard bomb
The researchers, who videotaped the mice, found that the
rodents intentionally pull the seed from the fruit pulp like a person eating
seeded watermelon, thereby keeping the toxins from being activated.
research was conducted by Technion doctoral student and ecologist Michal SamuniBlank and physiologist Zeev Arad; colleagues at the University of Haifa, the
University of Utah and the University of Wisconsin. It was funded by the
US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation and US
Agency for International Development's Middle East Regional Cooperation program.

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Get the pip
Become irritated or annoyed.
It isn't likely that anyone would guess the original meaning of 'the Pip'. The odd fact is that it was coined in the 15th century as the name of a respiratory disease of birds. Specifically a disease that had a typical symptom of a white scaly patch on the tongue. This is first cited in the Middle English translation of the 4th century Roman writer Palladius's De Re Rustica, circa 1440:
And other while an hen wul ha the pippe,
A whit pilet that wul the tonge enrounde
Contemporary with that usage is a reference to a human disease. This appears in John Lelamour's translation of the 15th century herbal guide the Macer Herbal:
Playnteyn helithe the pipe [Plantain heals the pip]
It's good to find a use for plantain, which most gardeners revile as a noxious weed.
Some early citations concerning the human disease Pip refer to it as a disease of the mouth and it may be that duplicates the bird disease name. Other citations are quite varied in their context and it is more likely that 'Pip' was a jokey disease name, somewhat like 'lurgy' or 'nadgers'.
Most references to 'the pip' related specifically to the bird disease, which appears to have been well known and is frequently referred to in print. People in poor spirits were described as 'like a chicken with the pip' etc.
It wasn't until the 19th century that the specific avian references were dropped and people who were were annoyed or dispirited began to be described simply as having 'got the pip'. An example of that comes in High and Low, a novel by the English author Henry Coke, 1845:
"Yes, will you come?"
"I want to come, but here's More says he won't go."
"What's the matter, has he got the pip?" inquired his lordship.


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OCL operation reference
Ocl operations for type *Classifier*
allInstances () : Set{T}
Returns a Set containing all of the existing instances of the current classifier (along with instances of all its inherited classifiers).
Expression Result
let a : String = 'a', b : String = 'b', c : Integer = 2 in String.allInstances() Set{'a','b'}
Ocl operations for type *OclAny*
oclAsType ( typespec : Classifier ) : T
Returns *self* statically typed as typespec if it is an instance of this type. *Note* that this does not alter the runtime value of *self*, it only enables access to subtype operations. This operation allows users to cast self to another type.
Expression Result
aPerson.oclAsType(Employee) an object of Employee type
oclIsInvalid () : Boolean
Returns true if self is equal to *invalid*.
Expression Result
let anObject : String = null in anObject.oclIsUndefined() false
let anObject : String = invalid in anObject.oclIsUndefined() true
let anObject : String = 'null' in anObject.oclIsUndefined() false
oclIsKindOf( Classifier typespec ) : Boolean
Returns **true** if the type of self corresponds to the type or supertype of typespec, false otherwise. This operation allows users to check the class hierarchy of self much like would an instanceof Java.
Expression Result
anEmployee.oclIsKindOf(Employee) true
anEmployee.oclIsKindOf(Person) true
aCat.oclIsKindOf(Person) false
oclIsTypeOf( typespec : Classifier ) : Boolean
Returns true if the type of self is the same as typespec, or false otherwise. This operation allows users to check the exact class type of self.
Expression Result
anEmployee.oclIsTypeOf(Employee) true
anEmployee.oclIsTypeOf(Person) false
aCat.oclIsTypeOf(Person) false
oclIsUndefined () : Boolean
Returns true if self is equal to invalid or null.
Expression Result
let anObject : String = null in anObject.oclIsUndefined() true
let anObject : String = invalid in anObject.oclIsUndefined() true
let anObject : String = 'null' in anObject.oclIsUndefined() false
<> ( object : OclAny ) : Boolean
Returns **true** if *self* is a different object from *object*.
Expression Result
let a : String = 'a', b : String = 'a' in a <> b false
let a : Integer = 2, b : Real = 2.0 in a <> b false
let a : Integer = -2, b : Integer = 2 in a <> b true
= ( object : OclAny) : Boolean
Returns **true** if *self* is equal to *object*.
Expression Result
let a : String = 'a', b : String = 'a' in a = b true
let a : Integer = 2, b : Real = 2.0 in a = b true
let a : Integer = -2, b : Integer = 2 in a = b false
< ( object : T ) : Boolean
Returns **true** if *self* is comparable to *object* and less than *object*.
Expression Result
let a : Integer = 1, b : Integer = 2 in a < b true
let a : Real = 1.5, b : Integer = 2 in a < b true
let a : String = 'Anteater', b : String = 'Aardvark' in a < b false
> ( object : T ) : Boolean
Returns **true** if *self* is comparable to *object* and greater than *object*.
Expression Result
let a : Integer = 1, b : Integer = 2 in a > b false
let a : Real = 1.5, b : Integer = 2 in a > b false
let a : String = 'Anteater', b : String = 'Aardvark' in a > b true
<= ( object : T ) : Boolean
Returns **true** if *self* is comparable to *object* and less than or equal to *object*.
Expression Result
let a : Integer = 1, b : Integer = 2 in a <= b true
let a : Real = 1.5, b : Integer = 2 in a <= b true
let a : String = 'Anteater', b : String = 'Aardvark' in a <= b false
>= ( object : T ) : Boolean
Returns **true** if *self* is comparable to *object* and greater than or equal to *object*.
Expression Result
let a : Integer = 1, b : Integer = 2 in a >= b false
let a : Real = 1.5, b : Integer = 2 in a >= b false
let a : String = 'Anteater', b : String = 'Aardvark' in a >= b true
Ocl operations for type *String*
 - A note on Strings** : OCL Strings begin at index *1*, not *0* as in most languages. Thus *'test'.at(0)* fails in
 - invalid* whereas *'test'.at(1)* yields *'t'*. Likewise, *'test'.substring(2, 2)* returns *'e'*.
concat ( s : String ) : String
Returns a string containing *self* followed by *s*.
Expression Result
'concat'.concat(' ').concat('operation') 'concat operation'
size () : Integer
Returns the number of characters composing *self*.
Expression Result
'size operation'.size() 14
substring ( lower : Integer, upper : Integer ) : String
Returns a string containing all characters from *self* starting from index *lower* up to index *upper* included. Both *lower* and *upper* parameters should be contained between *1* and *self.size()* included. *lower* cannot be greater than *upper*.
Expression Result
'substring operation'.substring(11, 19) 'operation'
'substring operation'.substring(1, 1) 's'
'substring operation'.substring(0, 1) invalid
toInteger () : Integer
Returns an Integer of value equal to *self*, or |invalid| if *self* does not represent an integer.
Expression Result
'3.0'.toInteger() invalid
'4'.toInteger() 4
'toInteger'.toInteger() invalid
toLower () : String
Returns *self* with all characters converted to lowercase.
Expression Result
'LoWeR OpErAtIoN'.toLower() 'lower operation'
toReal () : Real
Returns a Real of value equal to *self*, or |invalid| if *self* does not represent a real.
Expression Result
'3.0'.toReal() 3.0
'4'.toReal() 4.0
'toReal'.toReal() invalid
toUpper () : String
Returns *self* with all characters converted to uppercase.
Expression Result
'UpPeR OpErAtIoN'.toUpper() 'UPPER OPERATION'
Ocl operations for type *Number*
In addition to the basic math functions (+, -, /, \*) are a number of advanced functions. Take note that *Number* denotes both *Integer* and *Real*, and they're substitutive unless otherwise specified.
Number::abs () : Number
Returns the absolute value of *self*, *self* if it is already a positive number.
Expression Result
(-2.3).abs() 2.3
-5.abs() 5
Number::floor () : Integer
Returns the integer part of *self* if it is a Real, *self* if it is an Integer.
Expression Result
(2.3).floor() 2
(2.8).floor() 2
2.floor() 2
Number::max ( r : Number ) : Number
Returns the greatest number between *self* and *r*.
Expression Result
6.max(3) 6
6.max(5.2) 6.0
(2.3).max(3) 3.0
(2.3).max(5.2) 5.2
Number::min ( r : Number ) : Number
Returns the lowest number between *self* and *r*.
Expression Result
6.min(3) 3
6.min(5.2) 5.2
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Doctor of Philosophy
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Ilia Polushin
Dr. Rajni Patel
Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgical (RAMIS) systems frequently have a structure of cooperative teleoperator systems where multiple master-slave pairs are used to collaboratively execute a task. Although multiple studies indicate that haptic feedback improves the realism of tool-tissue interaction to the surgeon and leads to better performance for surgical procedures, current telesurgical systems typically do not provide force feedback, mainly because of the inherent stability issues. The research presented in this thesis is directed towards the development of control algorithms for force reflecting cooperative surgical teleoperator systems with improved stability and transparency characteristics. In the case of cooperative force reflecting teleoperation over networks, conventional passivity based approaches may have limited applicability due to potentially non-passive slave-slave interactions and irregular communication delays imposed by the network. In this thesis, an alternative small gain framework for the design of cooperative network-based force reflecting teleoperator systems is developed. Using the small gain framework, control algorithms for cooperative force-reflecting teleoperator systems are designed that guarantee stability in the presence of multiple network-induced communication constraints. Furthermore, the design conservatism typically associated with the small-gain approach is eliminated by using the Projection-Based Force Reflection (PBFR) algorithms. Stability results are established for networked cooperative teleoperator systems under different types of force reflection algorithms in the presence of irregular communication delays. The proposed control approach is consequently implemented on a dual-arm (two masters/two slaves) robotic MIS testbed. The testbed consists of two Haptic Wand devices as masters and two PA10-7C robots as the slave manipulators equipped with da Vinci laparoscopic surgical instruments. The performance of the proposed control approach is evaluated in three different cooperative surgical tasks, which are knot tightening, pegboard transfer, and object manipulation. The experimental results obtained indicate that the PBFR algorithms demonstrate statistically significant performance improvement in comparison with the conventional direct force reflection algorithms. One possible shortcoming of using PBFR algorithms is that implementation of these algorithms may lead to attenuation of the high-frequency component of the contact force which is important, in particular, for haptic perception of stiff surfaces. In this thesis, a solution to this problem is proposed which is based on the idea of separating the different frequency bands in the force reflection signal and consequently applying the projection-based principle to the low-frequency component, while reflecting the high-frequency component directly. The experimental results demonstrate that substantial improvement in transient fidelity of the force feedback is achieved using the proposed method without negative effects on the stability of the system.
Takhmar, Amir, "Control of Cooperative Haptics-Enabled Teleoperation Systems with Application to Minimally Invasive Surgery" (2014). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 1899.

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Overview The Forsyth family of Roxbury, Massachusetts, founded the Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children in 1910. Recognizing that oral hygiene was a key factor in controlling dental disease, the family established The Forsyth School for Dental Hygienists in 1916. In 1948, the school entered into an affiliation with Tufts University. In 1962, it became affiliated with Northeastern University, and in September 1963, the first class was admitted. The Northeastern-Forsyth partnership offered dental hygiene...

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Students all over Canada have been feeling the stresses of midterm exams, and for some, reading week may have come just in time.
But students like Shantelle Bron, a third-year English minor at Concordia University in Montreal, have some tried and true methods of tackling any obstacle midterms may throw at her.
"Midterms for me usually involve both written exams and take home essays," said Bron in an e-mail interview.
Bron prepares for her midterms by employing different studying tactics specific to her courses, including utilization of a close-knit study group, flash cards, and converting written notes into flowcharts.
"The flow charts work better for English classes in which I must tackle large concepts in a short amount of time," said Bron.
According to Bron, equally important to studying tactics is the support of classmates and friends.
"I find a study schedule, as well as balancing my school with things I enjoy doing (exercise, cooking) extremely helpful."
These methods of study can vary from student to student, but the baseline is essentially always the same. Repetition is the key.
"Every midterm I do is different," said Simran Panang, a third-year kinesiology student at the University of Calgary.
"Depending on the class, I might do flashcards, or paraphrasing notes. Sometimes I listen to audio recordings or YouTube videos if I don't understand a concept."
Preparing for, and completing, the midterms is only half the battle, however.
An additional component to full midterm recovery is some valuable post-midterm downtime.
"I always make plans for after midterms," said Panang.
"It helps having something to look forward to after."
Although some U of C students might be feeling the pressure of midterms, others seem to have it under control.
"I work well under pressure," said Monika Serquina, a second-year anthropology student at the U of C.
"But if I'm really stressed about it I plan out my time and stick to it the best I can."
For Serquina, the midterms can be varied, with tests that can require a number of logic and abstract thinking skills.
"A few others are readings — context base — so if you understand the material and the main ideas, you're pretty much golden," said Serquina.
"I read over my notes, write down random things in a notebook, such as ideas or key terms or people, to ingrain it into my memory."
According to Serquina, those seemingly random and endless scribbles help later on to figure out why the concepts learned were important, and how to apply those concepts to questions in the midterm.
"If the stress is incredibly overwhelming, I allow myself some time to just focus on me, relax my brain before I go right back to studying," said Serquina.
Serquina also has a word to the wise for other students.
"Stay away from Netflix," she warns.
"That site brings out a lot of the good stuff when students are back in school, and during midterms rather than on a break," she said.
(You can read Verge Campus' post about dealing with midterm stress here.)


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The pressure in Bamako, Mali is predicted to quickly drop over the next few hours, with an average pressure of 1009.9 hPa today, which is considered normal.
Weather prediction: Expect gale force weather
The daily total fluctuation in pressure in Bamako is 6.8 hPa, with a low of 1006.3 hPa and a high of 1013.1 hPa. The daily average here is lower than in most cities around the world.
In Bamako, Mali, the barometric pressure tends to be relatively stable throughout the year. The city experiences two primary seasons: the dry season, which runs from November to April, and the rainy season, which occurs from May to October. During the dry season, the barometric pressure remains higher, resulting in sunny and hot conditions. In contrast, the rainy season brings lower pressure and frequent showers, providing relief from the intense heat.
Bamako's landscape, situated on the banks of the Niger River, influences its atmospheric pressure. The river's presence impacts the local climate, with the water acting as a moderating element. Additionally, the city is surrounded by flat terrain, which allows air masses to move more freely. These factors contribute to relatively steady barometric pressure in Bamako, with only minor fluctuations throughout the year.


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What was mission life like for the missionaries and why were the missions so important?
First of all, why did they have missions and why were they important?
As we have said in an earlier Q&A, the missions were built by the Spanish starting in 1769 in order to "colonize" the territory of Alta California. So the missions were important because they were the means of settling California. Without the missions, California - which was a real wilderness in 1769 - would have been settled much more slowly and possibly with a lot more conflict. The missions are also important because they are some of the oldest buildings left in the state and they help us get in touch with the early history of California.
What life was like for the missionaries?
The missionaries typically entered the Franciscan order at a very young age (usually about 16). They then studied to become priests. They only became missionaries if they volunteered. If they were accepted for missionary service they had to leave their homeland (almost all of them came from Spain) with a good chance they would never see their parents or their country again. In actual fact 58 of the 142 missionaires died in California and never did return home.
Their daily life was very busy and combined religious activities (saying mass, baptizing the natives etc.) and running a large community – building the mission (which often included more than 20 buildings), making sure that there was enough for everyone to eat (the missions had large farms and ranches) and overseeing all the goods the missions needed (each mission had blacksmiths and candle makers; they made their own shoes and clothing etc.).
There was a wonderful priest named Fr. Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta. I wrote a whole chapter about him in my book Soldiers, Scoundrels, Poets & Priests. Fr. Cuesta was age 27 when he arrived in California by ship in 1808. He died the age of 60 in 1840, afflicted with rheumatism, hardly able to walk. Even though he had fulfilled his service in 1818 he stayed at his post all those years because there was no one to replace him. I found a copy of a letter he wrote to a friend which will give you a good idea of the "temporal" duties of the missionaries, which many of them found an almost intolerable burden. He writes:
There are difficulties all around and I am overburdened with cares which render life wearisome. There is hardly anything of the religious in me, and I scarcely know what to do in these troubling times. I made the vows of a Friar Minor; instead, I must manage the Indians, sow grain, raise sheep, horses and cows. I must preach, baptize, bury the dead, visit the sick, direct the carts, haul stones, lime etc. These are things incompatible, thorny, bitter, hard and unbearable. They rob me of time, tranquility and my health. I desire with lively anxiety to devote myself to my sacred ministry and to serve the Lord. Fr. Felipe Arroya de la Cuesta in a letter to a friend, written in 1826
Joseph wrote to thanks us. "That memo was very helpful for my project. Fr. Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta does sound like a wonderful guy."


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From Azure Infrastructure as Code by Henry Been, Eduard Keilholz, and Erwin Staal
This is an excerpt from chapter 6, which starts with introducing the Bicep language, a new and improved IaC language for a Azure. This snippet is the next section of the chapter, which lists the benefits of Bicep over ARM Templates.
Let's jump into using Bicep templates to improve ARM template syntax!
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Bicep templates are a good approach to alleviating issues with ARM templates. Apart from addressing the downsides of the existing ARM template syntax, Bicep templates also come with other improvements. Let's have a look!
Referencing resources, parameters, and variables
One of these improvements is in referencing other resources and fetching their properties. To see the difference, let's first revisit referencing a property using an ARM Template.

 [listKeys(resourceId('Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts',
 [CA] parameters('storageAccountName')), 2019-04-01').key1]"

Remember how you first had to build the full resourceId for the function using its type and name? With Bicep, no more for resources that are declared in the same template. Now you can use the reference-name for the resource you saw earlier and directly access any of its properties, like this:

 listKeys(myStorageAccount.id, '2019-04-01').key1

Here you see that the listKeys(...) function is called again using two parameters. But instead of using two functions, you can directly reference the resource using its reference-name and then fetch its property id. This yields the same result as building that id manually using the resourceId(...) function. Just comparing these two code examples shows the improvement to readability.
Referencing parameters and variables works the same way as referencing a resource. If you want to refer to a parameter for setting a value, you can use it directly like this:

 Parameter storageAccountName string

 resource myStorageAccount '_URL_ protected]' = {
 name: storageAccountName
 ...
 }

This example declares a Storage Account. The Storage Account name is not specified as a literal but references the value of the parameter storageAccountName. One thing to note is that parameters, variables, and resources share a single namespace. Sharing a namespace means that you cannot use the same name for a parameter, variable, or resource – all names have to be unique.
The single exception are outputs. Outputs can have the same name as parameters, variables, or resources. This allows you to do something like this:

 var storageAccountName = 'myStorageAccount'

 resource myStorageAccount 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts
 [CA] @2020-08-01-preview' = {
 name: storageAccountName
 location: resourceGroup().location
 kind: 'StorageV2'
 sku: {
 name: 'Premium_LRS'
 tier: 'Premium'
 }
 }

 output storageAccountName string = storageAccountName

In this example, you see a typical scenario where a resource's name is generated using a variable value and returned as an output. Reusing the same name for the variable and the output allows for better readability over using different names for precisely the same thing.
Using References in variables and outputs
In ARM Templates, it is impossible to use the reference(...) function in variables. The reason is that ARM calculates variable values deploying any resource, and in that stage it cannot evaluate the reference(...) function. In Bicep template, this problem does no longer exists. To see why, take a look at the following Bicep template:

 resource myStorageAccount 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts
 [CA] @2020-08-01-preview' = {
 name: 'myStorageAccount'
 location: resourceGroup().location
 kind: 'StorageV2'
 sku: {
 name: 'Premium_LRS'
 tier: 'Premium'
 }
 }

 var storageAccountName = myStorageAccount.name
 var accessTier = myStorageAccount.properties.accessTier

 output message string = '${storageAccountName} with tier ${accessTier}'

In both variables in the example above, a storage account is referenced. Here the Bicep transpiler does something clever. Instead of leaving these variables in and using the variable value in the output, it completely removes the variable. Instead, it copies the complete expression that yields the parameters result into the output. Like this:

 {
 "$schema": "_URL_
 [CA] 2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
 "variables": {
 "storageAccountName": "myStorageAccount"
 },
 "resources": [
 {
 "type": "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts",
 ...
 }
 ],
 "outputs": {
 "message": {
 "type": "string",
 "value": "[format('{0} was deployed with accessTier {1}',
 [CA] variables('storageAccountName'), reference(resourceId('Microsoft.
 [CA] Storage/storageAccounts', 'myStorageAccount')).accessTier)]"
 }
 }
 }

In the example above, you can see how the output's value is built up without using the variable accessTier. Instead, the reference(...) function moves into the output's value calculation, where it works.
Referencing existing resources
When you want to reference an existing resource on multiple occasions, you can repeatedly use the reference(...) function. But as a better alternative, you can also make that resource available in your template under a reference-name. To do this, you can use the existing keyword as follows:

 resource existingStorageAccount 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts
 [CA] @2020-08-01-preview' = existing { #A
 name: 'preexistingstorageaccountname'
 }

#A The existing keyword indicates a pre-existing resource that should not be created using this template.
This example does not declare a new resource at all, but instead, it only builds a reference to an existing resource with the provided name. Please note that when you deploy this Bicep template, and the resource does not exist yet at that time, the deployment will result in an error.
Dependency management
Yet another improvement with the arrival of Bicep is the removal of having to declare dependencies. As you may be aware, you are required to declare all dependencies between your resources, even if they are already implicitly declared through a parent-child relationship.
With Bicep, this is not needed anymore. When you transpile a Bicep file to an ARM template, all implicit dependencies are automatically detected, and the correct dependsOn declarations automatically are generated. Implicit dependencies are parent-child relations and resources that reference each other. For example, when your App Settings reference a Storage Account to store its key as a setting, no more need to declare dependencies manually.
If you want to control the order of resource deployments, and there is no implicit dependency, you can still declare your own dependencies using the dependsOn property. The dependsOn property still works precisely the same as in ARM templates.
String interpolation
Another nuisance when building larger ARM templates is the lack of built-in support for string interpolation. String interpolation is a technique used for building text strings out of literals, parameters, variables, and expressions. For example, take a look at the following common approach for generating names for resources based on the environment name.

 "parameters": {
 "environmentName": {
 "type": "string",
 "allowed": [ "dev", "tst", "prd" ]
 }
 },
 "variables": {
 "mainStorageAccountName": "[concat('stor', parameters('environmentName'),
 [CA] 'main')]",
 "otherStorageAccountName": "[concat('stor', parameters('environmentName'),
 [CA] 'other')]",
 "somethingWebAppName": "[concat('webappp', parameters('environmentName'),
 [CA] 'something')]"
 },

While the above works quite well, it takes a few seconds to "calculate" the actual resource name in your mind when reading the template. And that's for this relatively simple example. Just imagine how that would work when listing tens of resources.
In Bicep templates, it is no longer necessary to use the concat(...) function for concatenating values. Instead, you can use ${...} syntax anywhere within a string literal, and the value between the curly braces is automatically interpreted as an expression. Here is an example.

 param environmentName string {
 allowed: [ 'dev', '


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Just like you, the Lone Wolf is a loner and amidst a row of soulmates at Dhanmondi Lake today, only he's alone. In this unfair world, each person has a soulmatesheep value. Two persons' soulmatesheep values are equal if and only if they are soulmates. That means, Sadly, there's no other person having the same soulmatesheep value as the Lone Wolf and hence the desolation.
In total, there are N persons in the row, and they are sitting from left to right in a non-decreasing order of their soulmatesheep values. More than two persons can't be soulmates so no value will occur more than twice and one value will occur exactly once. Outside the row, there's this Badamwala. You can ask the Badamwala about any contiguous segment of people in the row, and he'll answer you with the bitwise XOR of the solumatesheep values of all the persons in that segment. You have to find the value and position of the Lone Wolf without asking the Badamwala too many questions as today is his busy day.
Input begins with an integer N (1 ≤ N ≤ 100000), the number of persons in the row. Then, you can start the interaction. The indexing in the row is 1-based and soul values are integers between 1 to 109 inclusive. In every test case the numbers are fixed beforehand and will not change during the queries, i.e. the interactor is not adaptive.
You can make two types of interactions with the Badamwala:
0 L R: Here, L and R (1 ≤ L ≤ R ≤N) are the positions of respectively the first and the last person in the segment you want to ask about. For each of these queries, the Badamwala will answer you with the bit-wise XOR of the values of all the persons in that range. You cannot make this type of interaction more than 20 times. If you ask more queries, you will receive "Wrong Answer" as the verdict.
1 X V: Here, X and V are respectively the value and the position of the Lone Wolf. You have to make exactly one interaction of this type and this interaction will terminate the execution. So, after this interaction, you will not receive any reply from the Badamwala. Now, if X and V are correct then you will get "Accepted" as the verdict. Otherwise, you will receive "Wrong Answer".
For invalid interactions, you may receive "Wrong Answer" or "CPU Limit Exceeded".
The second type of interaction that you can have only once is considered as the output of your program.
Let's say the queue looks like this : [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4]. So the Lone Wolf has value 3 and is at position 5. Here is what an example interaction would look like:
> 7 0 1 4 > 0 0 5 7 > 1 0 5 5 > 3 0 6 6 > 4 0 7 7 > 4 0 4 4 > 2 1 3 5


Connected infrastructure
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In particular, using 'internet of things' (IoT) technology in an infrastructure context will allow us to generate enormously valuable insights and drive down operational costs for governments and the private sector.
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Work in Progress
Quantus is a precision, low-cost, and user-friendly measurement apparatus for high school science labs to make experiments meaningful and accessible. The first device I am creating takes distance-time measurements at 20Hz.
Explore the algorithms and view the code on GitHub
I am writing about Quantus' development.
Labs and experiments provide students with hand-on interaction with science that enhance their understanding of the concepts. Conducting a meaningful experiment involves collecting meaningful data. Thus, the quality of labs that one can conduct is limited by the quality of the apparatus they use and the data it collects. Unfortunately, good lab equipment is typically very expensive and difficult to use therefore making them inaccessible to many schools. Students are therefore stuck dropping a ball from overhead and using their stopwatch to measure the amount of time it takes for a ball to hit the floor – a lab that puts greater emphasis on a student's reflexes than their understanding of physics (not to mention you only get two data points).
There are countless experiments that can be conducted with a Quantus distance-time device. Some of the concepts that can be explored include:
- Acceleration due to gravity
- Kinematics on an inclined plane
- Moment of inertia
- Terminal velocity


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Published on Brock University (_URL_)
A Brock University professor, a physician and a bracing specialist are teaming up on research to expand our knowledge of bone strength as well as re-think how we design back braces for people with scoliosis.
And they're inviting women across the Niagara peninsula to take part in the project.
The researchers are seeking young women, aged 18-30 years, who have or have had scoliosis, and who used a scoliosis brace during their adolescence. Scoliosis is a medical condition characterized by curvature and rotation of the spine.
Bareket Falk, a researcher in Brock's Department of Kineseology, is undertaking the project with partners Alan Rigby of the private-sector business Niagara Prosthetics and Orthotics, and Dr. Matt Greenway of the Michael DeGroote School of Medicine.
Falk said the researchers want to study how bracing may affect bone during the growing years, and whether flexible scoliosis braces are more effective than the rigid braces traditionally used by patients with scoliosis. Importantly, the researchers are interested in examining how nutrition and exercise can be used to alleviate some of the potential effects of bracing.
Read the full story on the Brock News
For more information about Bareket Falk's research visit her faculty profile


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Definition of orc
n. - The grampus. 2
The word "orc" uses 3 letters: C O R.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after orc (in bold), or to cor in any order:
a - arco orca c - croc d - cord e - cero core f - corf i - coir k - cork rock m - corm n - corn p - crop s - cors orcs rocs t - torc w - crow y - cory
Shorter words found within orc:
All words formed from orc by changing one letter
Browse words starting with orc by next letter


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muddy the waters
Confuse the issue, as in Bringing up one irrelevant fact after another, he succeeded in muddying the waters. This metaphoric expression, alluding to making a pond or stream turbid by stirring up mud from the bottom, was first recorded in 1837.
|a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.|
|a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.|
Dictionary.com presents 366 FAQs, incorporating some of the frequently asked questions from the past with newer queries.


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Discover your intellectual strengths
It is said that to have a mastery of words is to have in one's possession the ability to produce order out of chaos and that command of vocabulary is a true measure of intelligence. Verbal intelligence measures your capacity to use language in order to express yourself, comprehend stories and understand other people. Verbal abilities include reading, writing and communicating with words. The verbal component of this test examines your vocabulary and your capacity to learn verbal material. It also measures your ability to employ verbal skills in reasoning and problem solving.
Your verbal score was 47 and you scored in the 28th percentile.
Your Grade ** Average **
You have good verbal skills and a sound understanding of the intricacies of communication. A good vocabulary will determine the quality of your communication, both in written and oral and will help you appreciate subtle differences between words. Remember there is no ceiling to your knowledge and you can improve your verbal ability infinitely.
Here is a question which contributed to your verbal score
Which one of the sets of letters below can be arranged into a five letter English word?
People with strong verbal intelligence skills have a way with words, so to speak. According to Howard Gardner (author of the theory of multiple intelligences) people who excel in verbal intelligence end up being poets, writers, journalists, and lawyers while in high school they tend to participate in drama and debate clubs.


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Rationale Oxygen isotope fractionation of molecular O2 is an important process for the study of aerobic metabolism, photosynthesis, and formation of reactive oxygen species. The latter is of particular interest for investigating the mechanism of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, such as the oxygenation of organic pollutants, which is an important detoxification mechanism. Methods We developed a simple method to measure the δ18O values of dissolved O2 in small samples using automated split injection for gas chromatography coupled to isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC/IRMS). After creating a N2 headspace, the dissolved O2 partitions from aqueous solution to the headspace, from which it can be injected into the gas chromatograph. Results In aqueous samples of 10 mL and in diluted air samples, we quantified the δ18O values at O2 concentrations of 16 μM and 86 μM, respectively. The chromatographic separation of O2 and N2 with a molecular sieve column made it possible to use N2 as the headspace gas for the extraction of dissolved O2 from water. We were therefore able to apply a rigorous δ18O blank correction for the quantification of 18O/16O ratios in 20 nmol of injected O2. Conclusions The successful quantification of 18O-kinetic isotope effects associated with enzymatic and chemical reduction of dissolved O2 illustrates how the proposed method can be applied for studying enzymatic O2 activation mechanisms in a variety of (bio)chemical processes.
Bibliographical notePublisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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period. Fields that cause problems are any fields that produce floating-point values, such as any Date type field in raw format (e.g. [date,0], [last played,0], [date modified,0], and [date imported,0]), or any textual field that contains floating-point values that will be used for various calculations (e.g. any of the Dynamic Range variants). Certain functions such as Now() and ConvertTime() also return localized floating-point values. Consider also that the expression parser uses comma as the argument separator. Any literal numeric values specified as a function argument must have any embedded commas escaped.
A Complex Expression Example
Here is a more complex expression example that illustrates the various rules discussed above regarding expressions:
The expression demonstrates that
- whitespace before and after commas or opening and closing parenthesis is ignored
- expressions can be safely split into multiple lines using the whitespace rules just mentioned
- function and field names are case insensitive
- forward slash is used and required to escape parenthesis (see inside the Delimit() function)
- whitespace does not require escapement when surrounded by other characters (see after the C in DISC)
- literal text is output unmodified (Disc number is empty)
- functions can be nested (Both IsEmpty() and Delimit() are nested within the If() function, and the Field() function is nested within Delimit()
When the expression is run, files that have no disc number will produce Disc number is empty, and files that have, say, a disc number value of 3 will produce DISC (3).
The output of an expression can be used to assign a value to a tag. This is accomplished by preceding the expression with an = character. The = character causes the tagging engine to invoke the expression evaluator first, and then to use its output as the value to assign to the field.
Without the prepended = character, the literal expression text itself and not its evaluated value would be stored in the tag. The expression can refer to the field's own value to modify itself, and this offers a convenient way to perform complex transformations on field values. For example, the assignment expression
entered into an edit cell for the name field would remove four characters from the left of the name field's current value. An assignment expression can be entered into the Tag Action Window, or by using inline editing in the file list or a pane entry. The image on the right shows inplace field assignment.
Note: Undo is supported, reverting each tag to its value prior to the assignment. Redo is also supported, reapplying the most recent Undo.
Expressions and Search
The expression language is fully available to the search query engine (Search, Set rules for file display, etc.). This allows creation of more complex search queries than would otherwise be possible. An expression-based search query is any valid expression that produces a zero or non-zero numeric output. The syntax of the query is:
where expression is any valid expression, and numval is the expected numeric output produced by the expression. The expression is evaluated against the current list of available files and the expression output numerically compared against numval. All files for which the comparison is true are returned as part of the file list produced by the query and all files that fail the comparison are winnowed from the file list.
The following example illustrates an expression-based search query:
The IsMissing() function is run using the file name argument [filename (path)] appended by \Folder.jpg, and returns a Boolean value 1 for files that are missing, and this 1 is compared against the value numval. All these files where there was a successful comparision are returned in the file list, and all those for which the expression produced 0 are filtered from the file list. By inverting the comparison and using a 0 numval, the set of files remaining in the file list would be those that did not match.
It was mentioned already that the Media Center expression language is primarily a textual language - it consumes and produces text. Nonetheless, certain areas of Media Center are influenced by the type of data used or presented, and sometimes it is useful or necessary to coerce expression output into one data type or another. Each Media Center field is defined to be of a certain data type, listed in the Field Data Types table. These types influence how values are output, sorted, and interpreted on input. And expressions always output data of type String. By coercing the data type of an expression, output formatting and sorting can be controlled in various ways.
Data types are forced by appending to an expression the string:
where type is one of the following values:
|list||A list of strings, separated by semicolons|
|string||Sorts as strings (with smart number handling)|
|number||Sorts values as numbers (decimal or integer)|
|integer||Sorts values as integers|
|path||Sorts using a smart filename compare style|
|month||Sorts string month names (i.e. January, February, etc.)|
Lists and Trees
The list of output in view categories and pane columns can be modified by forcing the data type to a List type. Two things happen when the data type is List: The values within a List type are split into their individual (semicolon-separated) list items The backslash character takes on a special meaning and becomes another form of separator that creates tree-like hierarchies, collapsable in panes columns and creates drill-down categories in any category view type (Standard View > Categories, Theater View, DLNA, Gizmo/WebGizmo). Forcing an expression's type to list causes this list item separation and hierarchy generation. Alternatively, forcing a List type to string defeats this. Add the cast:
to the end of an expression to force an expression's output to be considered as a List type. Conversely, a List type may be forced into a String type by ading the cast:
to the end of an expression.
Normally strings are sorted ASCII-betically with some smart numeric sorting. But this form of sort may not always be desired.
Sorting by Month
Generally it is more useful to see month names sorting such that January sorts before April, instead of alphabetically where April would sort before January. Forcing an expression's type to Month forces string month values to be treated instead as their equivalent numerical month numbers. For example, the first month January and the third month March sort before the fourth month April. Add the cast:
to the end of an expression to force an expression's output to be sorted by numberic month values.
Sorting by Path
Path data types sort using smart filename comparisons.
XXX complete this: Path sorting always seems to be used.
Add the cast:
to the end of an expression to force an expression's output to be smart-sorted by path components.
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Doreen Adengo, architect from Kampala, Uganda has passed away, as reported by African Futures Institute's Instagram Account, after a long battle with cancer. Founder of Adengo Architecture in 2015, a research-based multi-disciplinary practice operating out of her hometown Kampala, Doreen, a registered architect in the United States and Uganda, had earned her undergraduate at the Catholic University (Bachelor of Science in Architecture) and graduate studies at Yale (Masters of Architecture). She has taught at The New School and Pratt Institute in New York, the University of Johannesburg's Graduate School of Architecture, and was currently teaching at Uganda Martyrs University. In celebration of International Women's Day 2022, Doreen Adengo was recognized by ArchDaily as one of the established practitioners implicated in change.
Lesley Lokko: The Latest Architecture and News
The "Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet" Conference, hosted by Bauhaus Earth and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS), has begun at the Casina Pio IV in the Vatican Gardens. The conference opened with a speech from Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. The extensive program brings together renowned scientists, architects, spatial planners, and policymakers to discuss the transformation of the built environment from a driver of climatic and societal crises into a force for regeneration.
The Laboratory of the Future: The 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale Announces Title and Theme of its 18th Edition
Running from May 20th to November 26th, 2023 in the Giardini, at the Arsenale, and at various sites around Venice, the 18th International Architecture Exhibition will be titled: The Laboratory of the Future. Announced today by the President of La Biennale di Venezia, Roberto Cicutto, and the Curator of the exhibition, Lesley Lokko, the theme and title of this edition will consider the African continent as the protagonist of the future. "There is one place on this planet where all these questions of equity, race, hope, and fear converge and coalesce. Africa. At an anthropological level, we are all African. And what happens in Africa happens to us all", explains Lokko.
Lesley Lokko Appointed Curator of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia
The Board of La Biennale di Venezia, has appointed Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic, and novelist Lesley Lokko as Curator of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The 18th International Architecture Exhibition will be held from Saturday 20 May to Sunday 26 November, 2023.
The Board of Directors of the 2021 Venice Biennale has appointed Kazuyo Sejima as president of the international jury, in charge of awarding mainly the Golden Lion for Best National Participation, the Golden Lion for the Best participant, and the Silver Lion for a promising young participant. In addition, they have also selected four other jury members from Peru, Lebanon, Ghana-Scotland, and Italy. The Awards Ceremony will take place in Venice on Monday, August 30th, 2021.
The current global situation forces us to do all kinds of adjustments and we are seeing this as an opportunity to go out of our comfort zone and try something new. We are going online! This allows us to invite architects from different parts of the world and make it possible for you to get to know them from the "AnA perspective", no matter where you are located. The first round of events will take place before mid-July. Join us!
My decision to study architecture was a naive one, made after having taken several vocational tests I found on Google. When I found out it was one of the toughest courses in Brazilian public universities, I thought about giving up. But I was already hooked by the history of architecture and its social role.
However, nothing is perfect. Architecture and Urban Planning is one of the most elite courses in the most renowned Brazilian universities, something that is reflected outside of the classroom as well. The architects went on to serve the rich, casting aside the needs of the cities and the poor.
The third Chicago Architecture Biennial will occur from September 19, 2019, to January 5, 2020, and yesterday the first group of contributors to the 2019 edition and publication was announced. This year's theme, "...and other such stories," will bring together a multi-faceted and international exploration of architecture and the built environment. Newly commissioned projects for the Biennial will highlight issues including public housing, social justice, and the appropriation and preservation of the natural environment.
Caroline Bos, David Adjaye, Li Xiaodong and Many Others to Speak at 2018 World Architecture Festival
After two years in Berlin, the World Architecture Festival will move their 2018 edition to Amsterdam for three days of talks, design presentations, and award ceremonies featuring cutting-edge contemporary works and some of the most prominent figures in architecture today.


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poles; poling; poled
A pole is a rounded stick or rod, usually made of wood, plastic, or metal. You need a pole for hanging a flag, catching fish, or setting up a tent.
There are many kinds of poles, from the poles skiers use to balance and push themselves forward to the long, flexible pole a pole vaulter uses to help her jump over a high bar. When someone mentions the North or South Pole, they mean the points on either side of the Earth that mark the ends of its axis of rotation. This kind of pole comes from the Latin polus, "end of an axis" or "the heavens."
Close your vocabulary gaps with personalized learning that focuses on teaching the words you need to know.


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- Services & Solutions
- Clients & Partners
Tracking Humans in Crowds
SRI is developing a prototype system to automatically detect and track multiple individuals in a crowd.
Improved understanding of crowd dynamics would mitigate the increasing threat of crowd-related disasters. Under a program for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, SRI is developing novel solutions for the detection and tracking of humans in crowds. Leveraging its software for the real-time video exploitation and visualization of data, SRI is enhancing its deployed system for real-time, multi-camera tracking to achieve robust performance in crowds.
The new prototype system features several innovative technologies.
- It provides robust human detection with a low false alarm rate in the presence of environmental occlusions, illumination variations, camera shaking, and extraneous motion from foliage, flags, moving vehicles, and other objects.
- The system also offers comprehensive appearance, shape, and motion modeling for robust tracking, even when objects occlude each other, tracks are lost temporarily, and humans change their poses.
- Its architecture enables the maintenance of tracks over wide areas by using geolocations of tracks, object fingerprinting, and dynamic and static occlusion modeling.
The system's core technology is computationally amenable to real-time implementation on commercial-off-the-shelf processors with a frame rate greater than 10 Hertz and a latency of less than 0.25 seconds. In addition, the scalable system architecture can interface with hundreds of cameras.


Figure 1: Dose response of acute nisoxetine or saline on the re-feeding intake of standard chow. Animals underwent a 24 h food deprivation prior to injections and refeeding. All animals were fed and maintained on standard chow (13% fat, 27% protein). Doses were randomly administered with a week washout between doses. (a) Intake (Kcal) shown is cumulative. # indicates differences ( ) from all other doses. (b) Data expressed as ratio of food intake following saline at the individual time points. Dotted line represents intake from saline injected animals (ratio of 1.0) to illustrate the feeding suppression of nisoxetine. Asterisks indicate significant differences ( ) from 3 mg/kg dose at respective time point.


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RD Sharma Solutions Class 12 Chapter 29
A plane is a flat, 2-dimensional surface having infinite dimension, but having zero thickness. Such that if any two points are taken on it, the line segment joining them lies completely on the surface. A plane in 3-dimensional space has the following equation
ax + by + cz + d = 0,
Where at least one of the values of a,b,c, must be a non-zero.
The three possible planes in 3-d coordinate system are
- xy plane, where the value of z coordinates is zero.
- y-z plane, where the value of x coordinate is zero.
- x-z plane, where the value of y coordinate is zero.
This chapter provide you solution for RD Sharma for class 12th maths on the topic of 'Planes.' Practice questions to find to have better understanding of the topic. Questions in this chapter are important from the exam point of view.
The Plane Class 12th RD Sharma Exercises


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Thursday was the coldest May 12 in more than 100 years for many communities in BC.
A cold front smashed daytime high records for a slew of cities and towns on the coast and the eastern edge of Vancouver Island. Meteorologist Brian Proctor with Environment and Climate Change Canada said La Nina in the Pacific Ocean has been to blame for an unseasonably cool spring.
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Vancouver only got up to 10.5°C on Thursday, the coldest recorded May 12 since records began in 1896. The next-coldest May 12 was 58 years ago.
"In the last few days, we had a frontal system go through, and really cold air on the backside of it punched things down further," Proctor said. "Some pretty longstanding records fell from a number of communities."
- West Vancouver: New record low daytime high of 8.9°C, breaking record from 1986
- Victoria: 10.6°C, breaking record from 1945 (records go back to 1914)
- Vancouver: 10.5°C, breaking record from 1964 (records go back to 1896)
- Sechelt: 8.7°C; old record of 11.7°C set in 1986.
- Qualicum Beach: New record of 8.7°C, smashing old record of 12°C from 1925
- Powell River: New record of 8.4°C, colder than old record of 10.4°C set in 1986
- Port Alberni: 8.4°C, colder than previous record of 11.7°C from 1911 (records go back to 1900)
- Nanaimo: 8.9°C, smashing records from 1911
A number of communities also broke rainfall records, including Powell River, which saw 45.5 millimetres on Thursday.
For those eagerly anticipating summer weather, Proctor said not to get hopes up too high.
"La Nina is lingering, and it's held on longer than we would have thought it would have initially," he said. "It's just been a cool, slow start to spring. And we're not really seeing anything indicating really substantial warming at this point in time right through the end of the month."
It may take until mid-June for temperatures to reach seasonal levels, he said.
"We call it the May and June gloom," he said. "It's going to be a very gradual climb up toward the end of the month. It's not going to immediately turn on the heat and turn to spring/summer very quickly."


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Torque measuring flanges from Manner available in Australia through SI Instruments are designed for the measurement of both static and dynamic torques on rotating or stationary shafts and machine flanges. Power flow along a shaft can be directly calculated using the torque and rotation speed parameters.
Manner Sensortelemetrie GmbH specialises in custom-made and application-specific measuring solutions as well as serial applications for rotating and moving parts, specifically designed to meet high requirements in process engineering and measurement data quality.
Manner's patented sensor telemetry process guarantees reliable transmission of precise measurement data via non-contact induction and radio technology under difficult environmental conditions.
A stator antenna collects the measurement data without any physical contact to guarantee unbiased measuring results. In the opposite direction, the measuring electronics on the moving component are supplied with energy via inductive coupling.
Manner has developed a special range of compact torque flanges for the purpose, featuring non-contact torque signal transmission according to the patented sensor telemetry procedure.
Manner torque measuring instruments do not require bearings for operation and can be mounted without the need for an additional bearing bracket or articulated shafts, saving money and allowing for extremely compact test stands.
Key features of Manner torque measuring flanges:
- Compact and short (45mm at 1 kNm)
- Highly precise torque signal on the basis of strain gauges
- Operates without bearings
- Torque range of 5 Nm to 1 MNm
- Non-contact transmission of measured values
- High transverse and axial force resistance
- High torsional strength (according to type, up to 40,000 rpm)
- Maintenance-free via inductive energy and data coupling
- High interference resistance, EMC tested according to DIN
- Simple handling and mounting with minimal space requirements
- Remotely condition-able measuring amplifier in flange
- Recalibration without mechanical intervention
- Network compatible (CAN, Ethernet)


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New Features Introduced in March 2017
The following table provides a snapshot of new features introduced for Aperture™ in March 2017. Refer to the Aperture Administrator's Guide for more information on how to use the Aperture service.
Policy Violation Log Forwarding
The Aperture service can now forward Policy Violation logs to an external syslog server. This enables you to monitor Policy Violations from your external syslog server as they occur in your organization.
To guard against potential misuse, you can configure User Activity Rules to monitor user actions in Aperture SaaS applications. For example, you can create a policy that sends an email alert or creates a log entry when a user downloads an excessive number of reports or tries to access an SaaS application from a malicious IP address. Similar to content-based policy rules, user activity rules include a robust set of match criteria that allow you to precisely define which activities to track.
Auto-Complete for Policy Names in Advanced Search
When you search for policy.name in Advanced Search to filter assets, a list of existing policy names appears as you type. You can quickly pick a name from the list, instead of typing the full name.
Support for ServiceNow and Jive
By leveraging the Aperture service for ServiceNow and Jive, you can prevent the exfiltration of sensitive data as well as prevent malware propagation. You can get holistic visibility into assets, including deep visibility into content and how it is shared, and you can create policy to automatically remediate risks.
New Features Introduced in March 2019
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Optura Xi
miniDV Camcorders
Digital Camcorder
Item Code: 9000A001
Video and Audio Inputs and Outputs
In addition to providing digital video input and output, the Optura Xi features analog video and audio inputs and outputs: Composite and S-video.
Video Inputs and Outputs
By using audio/video cables (composite) or S-Video, it's possible to send an analog video signal from your TV, VCR or a camcorder into the Optura Xi and record it onto DV. Similarly, you can output an analog signal via composite or S-Video cables to an analog device such as a TV or VCR.
Audio Inputs
The analog audio inputs of the Optura Xi let you perform dubbing or insert editing from conventional audio sources such as CDs, cassettes, microphones or the soundtracks of other videocassettes.
Mic Input
In addition to using the built-in microphone on the Optura Xi, you have the option of plugging in an external microphone.
Audio Dub
AV Insert
The Optura Xi offers the option of adding new video from a VCR or another camcorder to a tape recorded in SP mode. The input can be digital or analog.
Audio Outputs
Audio Out
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The Canadian Satellite Design Challenge is a Canada-wide competition for teams of university students (undergraduate and graduate) to design and build a small satellite. The satellites will undergo full launch and space environmental qualification testing, with the goal of launching the winning satellite into orbit in order to conduct scientific research.
The CSDC is an innovative and academically-challenging initiative which will advance space education in Canada, inspire students to pursue science and engineering educations and careers, and prepare tomorrow's leaders with the interdisciplinary teamwork skills which are necessary for success.
Unlike many university competitions which are focused on only one department, successful teams in the CSDC are comprised of students from many disciplines – not just from Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, and Computer), but Science (Computer Science, and the department of any science instruments which are flown), and usually benefit by having students from Management, Commerce, or Education departments.
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What do they do
Who are the members
Setting up an Action Learning Set
The concept of the whole life whole person recovery approach is founded in human values and their application by the expert by experience, professionals and the service itself. The objective is to achieve health and well-being regardless of the degree of disability or distress of the individual.
This requires a paradigm shift in thinking from pathology and illness to self-determination, life stories, human strengths, hopes and dreams, peer support and control by the user with support from professionals as partners, mentors and advocates.
It should be rooted in cultural, social, religious and ethnic diversity that gives meaning to the person's identity, belief and circumstance.
Recovery is not just about regaining something lost it is a process of development, emancipation and discovery.
Action Learning Sets work together as safe, experiential and participative groups to explore the principles of shared responsibility, co-production and the belief in culture change towards a Whole Life Recovery Approach in mental health. The purpose is to explore the real needs and interests of people and how these can better understood and met.
Action Learning Sets consider
- the way in which we understand life stories and their significance
- the importance of developing trusting relationships based on reciprocal partnerships
- sharing and reflecting on local practices using case studies
- working alongside the person recognising the essential importance of each others personal strengths
- understanding the needs and the important contribution of families and social networks
- constructing whole life plans for named individuals
Active Learning Set programs involve up of 20-25 members.:
- Service Users
- Family and Friends
- Community workers (including faith groups)
- Mental Health Practitioners (All Professions)
- Emergency workers
- Significant others
It is an effective approach to:
- Changing people's attitudes/thinking
- Changing Practice
- Changing the System
This is an action based learning approach bringing together communities of common purpose.
The programme focusses on three main issues
- knowing the person
- working alongside the person
- a whole life for the person
Considering the following agendas in peoples whole life recovery journeys as follows:
- Identify what is recovery, who and why people need to recover?
- identify what contributes to the person's desire to recover
- Recognise the importance of significant Life events and Life stories
- Recognise the importance of self determination and self management
- Reflect on our own and others initial responses to a person's experiences
- Reflect on the effects of our initial traditional approaches (assesments, diagnosis, treatments, beliefs, attitudes)
- Consider what does and doesn't help (depersonalisation, exclusion, responsibility and dependency, friendships and isolation)
- Identify responses that enable the person to live with their experiences
- Understand what the barriers are in developing approaches that enable personal recovery?
- Use critical reflective practice in understanding and changing our ways of working
- Collate evidence of recovery approaches in our work
- Develop recovery approaches in our areas of responsibility
- Develop Whole Life, Recovery planning
- Develop Whole Life Recovery practice
- Provide coaching and mentorship
Action Learning Sets develop a clear and broad understanding and a consistent working definition of:
1. Whole Life Recovery philosophy, values and practice
2. Whole Life Recovery into Practice for Mental Health Workers
3. Whole Life Recovery into Practice for Family Members and People with Lived Experience
4. Whole life Recovery focused services
in forming a Whole Life, Whole Person, Whole System and Recovery strategy and implementation plan.
An action plan is produced by the Learning Set members of how to disseminate this learning and to consider the barriers that need to be overcome in its wider application.
Action Learning Sets are supported by and use the knowledge and skills of IMHCN facilitators. They combine skilled facilitation, questioning and putting into practice what has been learnt and where necessary:
- challenging familiar, outdated concepts and ideas.
- promoting the recovery approach
- re-evaluating roles in the treatment process to one of negotiation, partnership and trial and error
At the end of the Action Learning Set programme we share achievements and the outcomes of the programme which determines future action. This includes sharing the learning and how to put recovery into practice in all service areas.
The outline Whole Person - Whole Life Recovery Implementation Plan that is produced is presented at a Symposium to key stakeholders for their consideration and action. Their comments, views and ideas form the basis of further developing a shared vision and ownership for a Whole Life – Whole System Strategic Plan for the community.
Since 2013 we have these Action learning sets in the UK and internationally. If your organisation wishes to discuss with IMHCN setting up an Action Learning Set pleas contact John Jenkins at [email protected]
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2.1 CIVIL ENGINEERING
Embodied energy analysis can be used as a construction design assessment tool in a sustainable matrix for a building. Its implementation however remains challenging mainly because of data measurement errors. A comparison between the deterministic embodied energy (EE) of a building and the stochastic EE of the same building undertaken using Monte Carlo simulation showed a wide variation in results. It is recommended that the specification of EE intensity of building materials in the construction industry can assist in producing accurate and more credible EE values of building.
Acquaye, A., Duffy, A., Basu, B.: Embodied energy analysis: a sustainable construction design assessment tool. Engineering Sustainability: Innovations that spans boundaries; Conference Proceedings; Pittsburgh, PA-USA, April 19-21, 2009.


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Early Settlement on the Upper North Fork River
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I've written previously about the Topaz community near the western side of Howell County in Douglas County. Northern Howell County has many ties to the place. Several families still living here trace their origin to the Norfork River, its headwaters, and the people who initially settled here. Among my sources for this article, I will refer to one written by Leonard Rowe in March 1959, and published in the Willow Springs News. Rowe, a former Missouri State Conservation Agent and respected naturalist was eighty-five years old at the time. He sourced most of his article on an interview with J.H. Wood, then eighty-six years old, and his wife "Tena," who was eighty-two. J.H. Wood was the grandson of Henry William Wood, the son of William Henry Wood, pioneers, and some of the first settlers at Topaz and the White River's upper North Fork.
Based on his discussions with J.H. Wood, Rowe wrote, "The Wood family, of English descent, first migrated from North Carolina in 1839, settling on the Meramec River in what is now St. Louis County. In the spring of 1840, Grandpa Henry Wood and a friend, Posey Freeman, explored these North Fork hills in search of land which they could homestead. The remaining Shawnee Indians were friendly and never gave them any trouble. In later years Grandpa Henry Wood named Indian Creek, of the above watershed, in honor of these Shawnee Indians who guarded this stream as their hunting grounds. The pioneers found game plentiful including bear, elk, wild turkey, deer, and fish."
In a family history written in 1924, North Fork River farmer Moses Johnson reminisced about those earliest days of white settlement on the river with much of the same information, with a few slight variations. Johnson remembered that Henry William Wood, Aaron (Posey) Freeman, and William Clinton first explored the river and lands in 1839. He wrote, "They struck Indian Creek at the head and followed it to the mouth (of the North Fork River) and gave it its name on account of the Indian huts they found along the creek. The next spring, they came to the happy hunting ground. Aaron Freeman located at a large spring on North Fork (Topaz) and put up a grist-mill and a distillery. William Clinton located at a spring on the west side of North Fork near the mouth of Indian Creek. Henry William Wood located at the third crossing below and on the west side of the same creek. Shortly after they came, there was a child born in the family of H.W. Wood and was given the same name as his father (with a reversal of the first names - the child was named William Henry Wood.) He was the first white child ever born on the North Fork." J.H. Wood pretty much confirmed this and dated the events in the Rowe article, stating:
"On returning to the Meramec colony, Grandpa Wood and (Aaron) Posey Freeman loaded their families in ox carts and headed for the North Fork hills. It took twenty-five days to make their way back over ridges, hollows, and rivers to the settlement where they pitch their first came on March 10, 1840. William Wood, the father of J.H., was born that same fall. He lived to eighty-six and was the first white child born in this area."
Leonard Rowe also wrote, "Let us pause and evaluate the present-day progress and opportunities which started with the efforts and hardships of the early pioneers. The greatest effort of the early settlers was to merely survive at all in a wilderness where there were no homes, no roads, no schools, no churches, no stores, no doctors, no neighbors, no ready-made anything, except as created from the wild with their own hands. Their homes were made of logs, chinked, and plastered with mud. The roofs were made of split oak shingles. In the absence of nails, each tier of shingles was held down with oak poles, tied securely at the ends with twisted sprouts pinned into the holes of the log frame. To cover their dirt floors, they placed the smooth side of split logs closely laid."
"Their firearms were flintlock rifles, often causing a miss by slow fire, no matter how accurate the aim at the time of the trigger pull. Grandpa Wood once told of crippling a bear because of his rifle's slow fire, which he later killed by tracing the blood trail into a cave. He and his hunting partner, Posey Freeman, quietly entered the cave with blazing pine knots. They shot the bear as it watched the moving shadows across the roof of the cave."
"A deep stone trench, dug by hand over a hundred years ago (1959) and requiring many weeks of labor, is still visible on J.H.'s farm. An old gentleman who was then known as Bushy Woods dug the trench. He was nicknamed 'Bushy' because of the nature of his unshaven beard, which grew straight out from his face creating a huge and fierce appearance. The purpose of the trench was to receive water from North Fork to operate a much-needed grist mill. The project was never completed because of the Civil War and intrusion of Bushwhackers, who ravished the countryside during those years."
Referring back to the Moses Johnson notes describing this period, Johnson wrote, "The Delaware Indians were located on North Fork and Indian Creek. The Shawnee located about thirty-five miles northeast of a creek called Jack's Fork. It seemed they visited each other very often; they had a trail that was worn out very plain, and in some places, it was about knee-deep. They got into trouble and had a war with each other, and weakened their tribes very badly. They both changed their place of living. Some of them came back on hunting tours after the whites had settled and would talk of the game they had killed. Their trail went across the foot of King Mountain (north Howell County.)
I find the co-mingling of the Shawnee and Delaware tribes in this part of the Ozarks responsible for early settlers' recollections in which the location of these tribes was often swapped back and forth. By this time, the tribes were living in log cabins and had an existence similar to the whites they were living around. The Shawnee and Delaware were friendly with each other, intermarried, and often lived in mixed settlements. They had been allied in their fight with whites in the late 1700s in which they had been defeated and had been removed across the Mississippi River to settle on our Ozark streams. By the late 1830s and early 1840, they were under orders to withdraw from here to reservations in Kansas and later Oklahoma but were apparently hiding out in one of the last areas here remote enough to offer concealment.
Some of the settlers who had intermarried with Indians also found this part of the Ozarks a safe haven. Moses Johnson wrote that Alabeth Freeman, wife of Aaron Freeman, mentioned earlier tried to "obtain her gift as a Mississippi Choctaw, in December 1830 or 1831. One witness said that Alabeth was gone for four or five days when she went to get her land from the Indian agent." One source stated the Freeman's financed their purchase of the land and spring at Topaz with proceeds from that Choctaw land sale.
Leonard Rowe, writing in the Wood article, before the advent of government protection of some of our rivers, opined, "The pioneer history of the North Fork River is typical of any watershed located in this region. Each watershed has received about the same treatment since the white man became established. This statement would include the Current River and Eleven Point on the east, Piney and Gasconade on the north, the Niangua, James, and White Rivers on the west. These streams flow through rough and rugged country, and sixty-five percent of the terrain drainage is covered with forests. Approximately two-thirds of these forests are now under fire protection by agreement with the Missouri Conservation Commission or incorporation within the National Forests. Living today, during the push-button age, we may wonder why early settlers were so thoughtless of natural resources. It is necessary to know past history in order to conceive the future potential of this vast territory. in the early days of this region during the settler's efforts to survive, no consideration was made for the future."
"Hence the forests were assaulted, the bluestem soon destroyed, the soil fertility was greatly lowered, the streams and rivers made shallow by gravel from burned forest land and newly cleared hillsides. A ravished land resulted from annual burning, over logging, overcropping, and leaving the hills exposed to erosion. On the ridge tops one hundred years ago, before man started such devastating practices, one could see for great distances through sparsely spaced oak and pine. The brush thicket of today is nature's way of holding the soil. To burn oak and pine forests destroys the young pine and increases the density of oak. The roots of the young oak resprout, while the native shortleaf pine must again start from seed. The northern range of native shortleaf pine roughly parallels the Gasconade watershed or Highway 66 across the state." I suppose that would equate to today's Interstate 44.
Henry William Wood died in September 1898. He was one hundred and three years old. He and his wife rest in hollowed pine tree coffins, covered with pine slabs, secured with pine dowel pins in the Mount Ararat Cemetery in eastern Douglas County. Their son James was the first person buried in the Mount Ararat Cemetery at


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Scenario scripts were introduced in SpaceEngine 0.990. Older versions does not supports scripts.
This manual describes how to make scenario scripts in SpaceEngine. Before continuing, it is recommended to read this manual: Introduction
SpaceEngine console and *.se files
SpaceEngine 0.990 introduced a new type of file – *.se. These are scenario script files. They contains code which can be executed by SpaceEngine. A great example of what scenarios are capable of are Tutorials, introduced in 0.990. The default location for *.se files is data/scripts/ or addons/*/scripts/. You can run an *.se file from SpaceEngine by opening the console ([~] key by default) and typing this command:
If the file filename.se exists in the mentioned folders, it will be executed. Another way to run *.se files is by passing them into SpaceEngine's executable through a command line argument. The best way to do that is to associate the *.se extension with SpaceEngine.exe in your system. In that case double-clicking on the file will launch SpaceEngine and order it to execute the scenario script. If SpaceEngine is already running, this running instance will execute the script.
All commands could be executed in the 'direct mode' by typing them in the console, or executed from a *.se script file. Commands and most of their parameters are not case-sensitive, but string constants such as names of GUI widgets and names of triggers are case-sensitive.
Some commands can have (or even must have) additional parameters, provided in the curly braces block (i.e. those commands are actually tags). Example:
Additional parameters could be typed in a single row:
Using the single-row style sometimes makes the script code more compact and easy to read and understand.
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- 22 June 2004
- OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES - No. 16Details
- This paper investigates the potential impact of the growing influence of the opinions of credit rating agencies (CRAs) on market dynamics. This impact can be seen as a consequence of the information content of the ratings themselves or indirectly as a consequence of the "hardwiring" of ratings into regulatory rules, management mandates, bond covenants, etc. Rating agencies who strive to provide credit assessments that remain broadly stable through the course of the business cycle have been themselves affected as the growing reliance on rating mean that they are increasingly expected to satisfy a widening range of constituencies with different and sometimes conflicting interests. They have responded to this challenge largely by adding more products to their traditional product palette but also through modifications in the rating process. It is however too early to say whether these changes mean a fundamental shift in their approach to credit risk measurement.
- JEL Code
- G10 : Financial Economics→General Financial Markets→General
G28 : Financial Economics→Financial Institutions and Services→Government Policy and Regulation
G29 : Financial Economics→Financial Institutions and Services→Other


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Tobacco use in China is unequally distributed among urban and rural people. It was found that rural people smoke more than urban. Experts say that the main reason for that is that people from rural areas have a lower socio-economic status (SES), however, they cannot exactly say how social structural factors affect rural smoking.
The objective of the study was to examine the social and personal contributing factors that play a leading role in supporting smoking practices among rural people in China.
An ethnographic study was made in a rural area of Central Jiangsu, China. People who participated in the study were those who lived in families with at least one smoking resident and there were kids. In order to collect all necessary data the participants had to answer on a number of questions. Also unstructured observations were used to collect data. All collected data was analyzed by specialists.
The results of the study showed that though people were poorly informed about negative effects of smoking and had no motivation to give up the habit, social factors were the main barriers to quitting smoking.
In China cigarette gifting and cigarette exchange are considered an absolutely nromal thing. The tradition is especially popular in rural areas where the phenomenon is presented in every aspect of rural life, from daily activities to leisure time, in family and wider social interactions.
Now the question is — how traditional collectivism and familism is interacted with pro-smoking environment. What is the attitude of rural people towards smoke-free environments? Are they ready to implement smoke-free policies? These are just several questions that interest the experts. Living in the rural area was a serious barrier to quitting smoking because people were not informed about smoking cessation.
The main conclusion made after the study is that development of smoking cessation programs in rural areas of China must take into consideration the social determinants influencing smoking practices.
- 350 Million Smokers in China
- Age, gender and social advantage affect success in quitting smoking
- Smoking Rates Reduced in New Zealand