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Madiha Harrabi, Olfa Belkahla Driss, Khaled Ghedira
Computer Vision Techniques
Frontmatter
Deep Component Based Age Invariant Face Recognition in an Unconstrained Environment
Age Invariant face recognition is one of the challenging problems in pattern recognition. Most existing face recognition algorithms perform well under controlled conditions where the data set is collected with careful cooperation with the individuals. However, in most real-world applications, the user usually has little or no control over environmental conditions. This paper proposes efficient deep component-based age-invariant face recognition algorithm in an unconstrained environment. The algorithm detects face from an image, align the face and extract the facial components (eye, mouth and nose). Each facial component is then trained using deep neural network. Thus, deep features are extracted from each component. Support vector machine is then used in classification stage. Experiments are conducted on two challenging benchmarks: AgeDb30 and Pins-Face. Results have shown significant improvement when compared with the state of the art baseline approach.
Amad Asif, Muhammad Atif Tahir, Mohsin Ali
Hybrid Vision Transformer for Domain Adaptable Person Re-identification
Person re-identification refers to finding person images taken from different cameras at different times. Supervised re-id methods rely on labeled dataset, which is usually not available in real word situations. Therefore, a procedure must be devised to adapt unseen domains in an unsupervised manner. In this work we have proposed a domain adaptation methodology by using hybrid Vision Transformers and incorporating Cluster loss along with the widely used Triplet loss. Our proposed methodology has shown to improve results of exiting unsupervised domain adaptation methods for person re-id.
Muhammad Danish Waseem, Muhammad Atif Tahir, Muhammad Nouman Durrani
Recognition of Changes in the Psychoemotional State of a Person by the Video Image of the Pupils
We are looking for a relationship between electrodermal activity and the amplitude of fluctuations in the size of the pupils, depending on the magnitude of the stress (stress state) experienced. Studies have been carried out on the psychophysiological reactions of a person (emotions) arising in response to external stress factors (stimuli). For this, a device was used to register changes in pupil size and galvanic skin response. It turned out that the change in the values of galvanic skin response and pupil size correlates (p = 0.9) in the presence of emotions (all other things being equal). The result of measuring galvanic skin reaction (GSR) shows that the level of attention during the test to some stimuli was higher than to others. This means that the first stimuli may be more significant for the subject than the second. The results obtained make it possible to link the galvanic skin response and the pupil response in response to the stimulus material. Our research also shows that the pupil diameter signal has a good discriminating ability to detect changes in the psychological state of a person. The results can be useful for the development of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence.
Marina Boronenko, Oksana Isaeva, Yuri Boronenko, Vladimir Zelensky, Pavel Gulyaev
Morphological Analysis of Histopathological Images Using Deep Learning
In this study, we introduce a morphological analysis of segmented tumour cells from histopathology images concerning the recognition of cell overlapping. The main research problem considered is to distinguish how many cells are located in a structure, which is composed of overlapping cells. In our experiments, we used convolutional neural network models to provide recognition of the number of cells. For the medical data used: Ki-67 histopathology images, we achieved a high f1-score result. Therefore, our research proves the assumption to use convolutional neural networks for morphological analysis of segmented objects derived from medical images.
Artur Zawisza, Martin Tabakov, Konrad Karanowski, Krzysztof Galus
Developing a Three Dimensional Registration Method for Optical Coherence Tomography Data
This work proposes a registration method for stitching different overlapping Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) data. The algorithm is based on the basic procedure of image registration where key points and descriptors are located, feature matching is established and transformed using a homographic transformation to obtain the resultant registered images. Image similarity techniques such as mean square error, structural similarity index, and peak signal to noise ratio are the three basic approaches that are used for the analysis of these registered OCT images from the OCT datasets. An algorithm for locating the differences in the registered images against reference and target images is also demonstrated. Similarity measures and image differentiation approach provide a general analysis regarding the appropriateness of the image registration algorithm. The same methods are also used for the analysis of the optical coherence tomography volume scans. The analysis on the similarity of the images also shows that images with the highest similarities have the highest possibilities to be close to each other and can be further used for the registration. The analysis comprises the comparison of two optical coherence tomographic volumes.
Bansari Vadgama, Doina Logofatu, Peter Thoma
Which Gameplay Aspects Impact the Immersion in Virtual Reality Games?
In this paper a comparison of two implementations of the same game is presented: a VR (virtual reality) version and a traditional one, meaning with no VR hardware used. The implementations' design - made specially for this research - is the result of the analysis of many state-of-the VR games. The comparison's goal is to find the aspects of gameplay that impact user immersion in a video game. Each extracted aspect is covered by a question in a post experiment questionnaire and discussed before final conclusions are drawn.
Marek Kopel, Marta Rutkowska
Innovations in Intelligent Systems
Frontmatter
Is Wikipedia Easy to Understand?: A Study Beyond Conventional Readability Metrics
Wikipedia has emerged to be one of the most prominent sources of information available on the Internet today. It provides a collaborative platform for editors to edit and share their information, making Wikipedia a valuable source of information. The Wikipedia articles have been duly studied from an editor's point of view. But, the analysis of Wikipedia from the reader's perspective is yet to be studied. Since Wikipedia serves as an encyclopedia of information for its users, its role as an information securing tool must be examined. The readability of a written text plays a major role in imparting the intended comprehension to its readers. Readability is the ease with which a reader can understand the underlying piece of text. In this paper, we study the readability of various Wikipedia articles. Apart from judging the readability of Wikipedia articles against standard readability metrics, we introduce some new parameters related specifically to the comprehension of the text present in Wikipedia articles. These new parameters, combined with standard readability metrics, help classify the Wikipedia articles into comprehensible and non-comprehensible classes through the SVM classification technique.
Simran Setia, S. R. S. Iyengar, Amit Arjun Verma, Neeru Dubey
Compatibility Checking of Business Rules Expressed in Natural Language Against Domain Specification
Business rules play an important role in software development. They are usually expressed in natural language, sometimes with the use of sentence templates such as RuleSpeak. The rules should be consistent with other artifacts representing the same domain, e.g. business glossary. Typically, business rules are written in a text editor. Such editors only offer basic support such as grammar spelling. They do not check compliance of business rules with a business glossary or more complex artifacts, e.g. domain diagrams. The goal of this paper is to propose a method of compatibility checking of business rules expressed in natural language with the domain specification. Checking is done at the syntax level. It is assumed that the domain is specified by a class diagram and a glossary. The compatibility checking is a heuristic method, the usefulness of which has been demonstrated by several experiments. At that point, the method application is limited to business rules relating to at most two classes and/or two attributes/roles.
Bogumila Hnatkowska
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Citizens Sheltering During a Tsunami: Application to Da Nang City in Vietnam
Humans have witnessed several tsunamis throughout their history with tremendous human, environmental and material damage. Vietnam, because of its special geographic location in Southeast Asia, might be affected by tsunamis. Although the risk of tsunami in Vietnam is low, it does exist. Therefore, people must be well prepared if a tsunami strikes. Minimizing the damage caused by a tsunami, both for humans and infrastructure, is the most important duty of the authorities and the scientists. The objective of our research is to evaluate and measure the tsunami impacts on citizens and tourists according to their awareness of the situation and moving strategies towards shelters. We follow the agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) approach and illustrate it through a case study applied to Da Nang city, Vietnam, using the NetLogo platform and geo-spatial information.
Nguyen-Tuan-Thanh Le, Phuong-Anh-Hung-Cuong Nguyen, Chihab Hanachi
Effect of Dialogue Structure and Memory on Language Emergence in a Multi-task Game
In language emergence, neural agents engage in finite-length conversations using a finite set of symbols to reach a given goal. In such systems, two key factors can determine the dialogue structure; the size of the symbol set and the conversation length. During training, agents invent and assign meanings to the symbols without any external supervision. Existing studies do not investigate how these models behave when they train under multiple tasks requiring different levels of coordination and information exchange. Moreover, only a handful of work discusses the relationship between the dialogue structure and the performance.


and assignment will have explicit type annotation requirements with an exception for wherever the compiler can infer the type. The following is an example showing explicit and implicit types in Rust.
fn add_one(input: u8) -> u8 {
 input + 1
}
let four = add_one(3);
Here the method add_one is explicit about the input type and output type. The number 1 being added here is implicitly made an u8 number at compilation time as the context helps infer the type and addition for u8 is only implemented to work with u8 numbers. The last line is implicitly typed to be an u8 since the method itself defines the type that will be returned.
What can be inferred in Rust is pretty impressive with the use of generics. But use of inference is limited to things that can be known at compile time. If it cannot be known at compile time then you must explicitly define the type at any point of assignment. Take the following method definition:
use std::ops::Add;
fn add_both<T: Add>(a: T, b: T) -> T::Output {
 a + b
}
Here T can be any type that implements the trait Add. The T::Output type is defined when the Add trait is defined for your specific type and is generally the same type as T itself in this case. Now if we provide two numbers as parameters the compiler will infer the type to it.
let x = add_both(3 , 4 ); // implicit type
let y: u8 = add_both(3u8 , 4u8 ); // explicit type
let z: u32 = add_both(3u32, 4u32); // explicit type
When I run the above code x is inferred to be the type i32. The y and z examples require the input parameter types to be known when provided to the function as the inference for T::Output isn't necessarily the same as what T may be inferred to as. It would default to i32 and then assigning an i32 as a u8 or u32 is simply wrong.
Dynamically-typed languages
Now with dynamically-typed languages, you have to worry less about types, per se, and more about implicit or explicit objects or behavior. Modeling code around objects which have the same behavior is what is known as duck typing which is a higher domain of thinking in object-oriented programming where handling those objects is implicit. Whereas modeling the code around specific object classes is much like using explicit or implicit typing. But when you accept any kind of object as input, then the code in that section must either handle different objects explicitly or hand that responsibility off elsewhere.
For clarification, when you are writing code to handle different kinds of things, then you are writing explicit code. However when this same code has already been written and you are reusing it with a simple method call, then the behavior in this new context is then implicit. Implicit being things done as though automatically and handled outside of your current scope.
In Ruby, most types have a design for explicit or implicit conversion. The idea is the implicit conversion methods are meant to be used in implicit contexts and the explicit conversions are meant for developers to write inline in much more contexts. Let me demonstrate this by example.
# explicit
"4".to_i + "5".to_i
# => 9
# implicit
class Seven
 def to_int
 7
 end
end
Array.new(Seven.new)
# => [nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
Here the explicit example makes it very obvious to the reader that we are converting String objects to an Integer object and performing addition between the two. And the implicit example isn't so obvious to the reader as the Array.new method implicitly calls the to_int method on whatever parameter it is given. The Integer class has the method to_int defined on each instance of it that simply return self. If you write 42.to_int you simply get back 42. This use of using implicit conversion as an input guard for method calls is a great design for type safety by design. Here's what happens if you give it the wrong kind of object as input which doesn't define to_int.
Array.new("32")
# TypeError (no implicit conversion of String into Integer)
Not only does it fail but it gives us a helpful message that an implicit conversion was attempted and tells the class of object given and the class of object it expects. Implicit conversion methods in Ruby is a way of saying this object really is what you're expecting. And explicit conversion is simply making the conversion to the type expected.
Ruby has implicit and explicit options for many of its core objects.
Array#to_a // explicit
Array#to_ary // implicit
Hash#to_h // explicit
Hash#to_hash // implicit
Kernel#to_s // explicit
String#to_i // explicit
String#to_str // implicit
Integer#to_i // explicit
Integer#to_s // explicit
Integer#to_int // implicit
Ruby also has a few classes with class methods that will either do a implicit conversion or return nil and that method name is try_convert.
Array.try_convert // calls 'to_ary' on the parameter or returns 'nil'
Hash.try_convert // calls 'to_hash' on the parameter or returns 'nil'
String.try_convert // class 'to_str' on the parameter or returns 'nil'
We can follow Ruby's example with Array.new and have a good guard for the kind of input parameters we're given by designing implicit conversions for our own custom types. For this example, since to_f is an explicit conversion to a Float number in Ruby we'll use as_ as a prefix instead of to_. Here's a basic example of implicitness as a pattern for safety.
class Foo
 def as_f
 self
 end
 def as_foo
 self
 end
end
class Bar
 def initialize(foo)
 begin
 @foo = foo.as_foo
 rescue NoMethodError
 raise TypeError, "no implicit conversion of #{foo.class} into Foo"
 end
 end
end
Bar.new(4)
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# ...
# TypeError (no implicit conversion of Integer into Foo)
Bar.new(Foo.new)
# => #<bar:0x00005600711d10d8 @foo=#<Foo:0x00005600711d1100>></bar:0x00005600711d10d8>
Now this will help other developers who use the Bar class to not pass it as an incompatible parameter. It follows a convention within the Ruby language and should be much more easy for developers to understand with more helpful errors. When you have other objects that you would like to convert into a Foo object then you can define an as_f method on it for an explicit conversion and the developer who uses that new object will be explicit in its use Bar.new(Baz.new.as_f). This ensures the code will work in so much as Bar and Foo are already working.
Summary
The act of implicit and explicit coding, and implicit and explicit code, is defined by context of execution of additional behavior or type setting/casting. Specifically, implicit or explicit methods are defined by the contexts in which they are meant to be used. Implicit code can be a very nice experience if things are well named as it keeps things simple.
However, implicit code, code doing things behind the scenes for you, can also be a difficult issue to solve when done wrong. Explicit code makes the code clear when you look at it as the specifics of what's being done is already laid out before you and you don't have to track down issues elsewhere, but generally means a lot more work writing it. On its own it can become overwhelming so finding a proper balance between the two is often the best solution. Be explicit when you must, and implicit when the design and naming concepts are easy to understand. It will make for a more convenient development experience.
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Héctor Valdez Albizu
Héctor Valdez Albizu (born November 10, 1947) is the current Governor of the Banco Central de la República Dominicana (central bank of the Dominican Republic), a position he first held from 31 August 1994 through 16 August 2000, and again since 16 August 2004. He is also a well known economist and author of numerous works relating to economics.
In 1971 Valdez received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. Afterwards, he did post graduate work at the Institute of Social Studies, Universidad Católica de Chile in the center for Student Movements Relations Organization. His area of study was primarily related to the Social Aspects of Economic Development, Latin American University Reforms, and Landholding-Agrarian Reform from 1966 to 1967. He then left for Washington, D.C. to continue work at the International Monetary Fund Institute of Specialized Studies as a specialist in monetary policy, public finance and the design of monetary and financial Programs from 1974 to 1977. He finally returned to the Dominican Republic for further study and research at the Organization of American States, in the Central Bank and Advanced Studies Investigation Center.
Career at BCRD
Valdez began his career at the Dominican central bank (BCRD) in 1970 as a Technical Assistant in the Economic Research Department, occupying the position of Director of that department from 1984 through 1986. Since then he has held numerous positions in the bank, including: Assistant Manager, Monetary and Exchange Policy from 1986 to 1990; Advisor to the Monetary Board, 1987–1989; Representative of the Central Bank before the Administrative Board of the Banco de Reservas, 1991–1992; and Assistant General Manager from 1991 to 1993. On January 4, 1993 he was designated General Administrator of the Banco de Reservas, a position he occupied until August 31, 1994, when he was designated Governor of the BCRD. He was reconfirmed in that position in August 1996 by President Leonel Fernández, and was granted the rank of Cabinet Minister, occupying that position until August 16, 2000. Again, on August 16, 2004, President Fernández appointed him Governor of the BCRD. As a governor of the Central Bank, he has been Titular Member of numerous commissions established by Executive Order.
Research projects and academic publications
During his outstanding career as an economist he has worked on numerous research projects, among which are:
- "Study of the Parallel Exchange Market"
- "Investment Alternatives in Financial Activities"
- "Importance of the Financial Market on the Exchange System"
- "Financial Programs for the Dominican Republic, 1976 - 1990"
- "Dimensions of the National Banking System and its Enhancement Possibilities", 1976
- "Exchange Emergency Regime", 1985
- "Reform of the Financial System, a Proposal", in 1985.
In 1996 he published Un camino hacia el desarrollo (A Road toward Development), Conferences and Addresses, and, in 2000, Un camino hacia el desarrollo II. He also taught at the Universidad Central del Este from 1975 to 1977 and at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores (APEC) from 1978 to 1989.
On behalf of the Dominican Central Bank, he has participated in various international meetings as an official representative. Among the most important are the meetings of Latin American Integration Association of the Monetary and Financial Affairs Board (CFM), of Latin America Central Banks Governors' meetings held in Canada, Spain and the Philippines; the Inter-American Development Bank Governors' Assemblies and the Inter-American Investment Corporation, Dominican Republic, 1992. He participated in the foreign debt renegotiations with commercial banks during 1992 and with the member governments of the Paris Club between 1992 and 1993. He also attended a working lunch with the U.S. Treasury Secretary in 1994 and is a signatory to the 1995 Constituent Agreement for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). He also represented the Dominican Republic at the 35th Meeting of Central Bank Governors of the American Continent held in Hong Kong during 1997.
In addition to being a leading member of the Dominican Association of Economists (CODECO), Valdez Albizu has received numerous awards for his many years of service towards the economic development of not only the Dominican Republic, but Latin America in general. During 1996 he was awarded the Public Servant Medal of Merit in the Dominican Republic and the Gaucho Rioplatense award from Dirigencia Magazine in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was voted Economist of the Year 1997 by the Dominican Association of Economists, and during 1998 he was given the title of Distinguished Visitor by the city of Barahona and voted Banker of the Year by Listín Diario Newspaper. In 1999 he was named Boss of the Year by the Dominican Association of Secretaries and listed among the 500 Personalities of the Financial World by Who's Who United States. Valdez Albizu was selected by British magazine The Banker as governor of the year for 2005, in the Latin American region. The magazine granted the prize acknowledging Valdez Albizu's contributions to recuperating the Dominican economy achieved during President Leonel Fernández's current administration. Valdez Albizu is the first Dominican Central Bank governor to receive such an honor. In the comments on the award, The Banker stated that "the Dominican Republic recuperated during 2005, vigorously expanding the economy and ending the year with a single-digit inflation rate." Also he was
- Capital Markets, 1975; Central Bank of the Dominican Republic. Interpretation of Financial Statements Analysis, 1977; Balance of Payments, 1987; Project Analysis, Preparation and Evaluation, 1988; National Accounts- Analysis and Preparation, 1989
- Dominican Today, Central Bank's Valdez Albizu chosen governor of the year by British mag The Banker February 6, 2006

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Masimbaashe Chikuni, a third year Bachelor of Computer Science student in the College of Business, Peace, Leadership and Governance received special recognition in the 2020 MultiCity Challenge public engagement initiative for his project that looks at increasing resilience through Data Science & Flood Warnings in the City of Mutare.
5 African cities in collaboration with the UNDP and Gov Lab at New York University Tandon School of Innovation hosted the 2020 MultiCity Challenge initiative that aims to tackle urban challenges by partnering the people most affected by them, namely city residents. The participating cities included:
Accra, Ghana
Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Kampala, Uganda
Masimbaashe provided context as to why his project focus zoned in on flooding drawing from the experiences and challenges posed by 2019's Cyclone Idai that affected the Chimanimani area of Manicaland.
"With the advent of global climate change, most countries are experiencing a significant weather change, both in temperature and precipitation. The rising temperature accompanied with altering precipitation patterns has accelerated hydrological cycles and increased the frequency of occurrence of natural disasters such as cyclones. Reviewing cyclone Idai that struck Zimbabwe in March 2019, it exhibited unusual characteristics that resulted in disastrous impacts. To date, an estimated 50 000 households were affected with the Chimanimani district being the worst affected because of lack of preparedness. For urban and peri-urban settlements, there is need to enhance climate resilience at different scales and with a range of different measures. By incorporating data science and flood warning systems, we will be better equipped to respond to natural disasters and prevent future disasters from occurring."
Speaking to the importance of research generated by Africa's youth and the prestige of receiving special recognition, Masimbaashe went on to say,
"Being recognized for my contributions to building urban resilience is a great honor that broadens my professional experiences, builds my confidence and increases my perseverance. It is encouragement to continue to tackle big challenges and reframe the future. I entered the initiative to test my ideas and see how viable they are especially when implemented in the real-world. It gives me a sense of accomplishment to know that I have a voice to add to the development narrative and it gives me the boldness required to develop new systems to emancipate and grow Africa."
The Africa University College of Business, Peace, Leadership and Governance has set a track record of excellence in studentled research and innovation. This award recognition comes on the back of a previous win by four students also in the Computer Science programme who won the UmojaHack Zimbabwe InterUniversity Hackathon that took place towards the end of 2020 and focused on the utilization of big data in realworld problem solving.
Mentorship by leading college academics such as Dr. Yogesh Kumar Awasthi lends students the critical support required in the knowledge generation process.
Dr. Yogesh said,
"Effective mentorship is critical to the success of early stage researchers, and has been linked to enhanced mentee productivity, self-efficacy, and career satisfaction. The Objective is to provide all students across the all technical fields with evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming that emphasizes the benefits and challenges of diversity, inclusivity, and culture within mentoring relationships, and more broadly the research workforce."
Dr. Yogesh went on to expand on the critical need for the creation of strong research structures and mechanisms to engage more young people in the process.
"The world is well into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and yet education systems have not kept pace. Young people are often not learning the skills they need to succeed in the 21st century and interact with their changing world, such as digital literacy, problem solving, and critical thinking. Despite widespread recognition of the importance of these skills for the future in education policies, very few education systems have adapted to this reality. On the African continent, where 60 percent of the population is under the age of 25, the teaching of 21st century skills will be necessary for Africa to transform itself into a continent of growth and opportunity. If young people do not learn how to use and create with technology, they are sure to fall further behind. To achieve the vision of 2030, technological advancement will play a vital role which is led by computer science."
He went on to put emphasis on the need to encourage, motivate and inspire students with academic staff being a conduit for budding researchers to contribute actively to the development of the continent.
Our young and energetic researchers should come forward and play their role in development of the country and continent. Awards and recognition like this motivates us and encourages us to show our best at social and economic research levels. As we know, Africa is grappling with lots issues therefore it is the responsibility of the universities to come forward and give their input for innovations and solutions of existing problems. Universities are not only made to provide degrees but now is the time to participate in the socio economic development of the nation."
The GovLab created the City Challenges model in 2016 under the notion that public institutions need to change how they work, becoming more data-driven, agile, innovative, and capable of tapping expertise from new sources to respond more effectively to novel challenges. The first pilot of this initiative was carried out in the municipality of San Pedro Garza García, Mexico. The Multi-City Challenge scales the previous model running the programme in parallel in different cities that share similar urban challenges. This programme allows them to pool the expertise of their civil servants and residents to define problems and to find innovative solutions to solve them creating synergies and economies of scale between them.(_URL_

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they do not contain the required tools needed for lockfile generation (with the exception of the pip tool). The slim tags are significantly smaller and allow for faster action run times. They are useful for those instances where no manifest files are present and/or only lockfiles are used.
Here are examples of using the slim image tags:
 # NOTE: These are examples. Only one image line for 'phylum-ci' is expected.
# Use the most current release of *both* 'phylum-ci' and the Phylum CLI
image: phylumio/phylum-ci:slim
# Use the 'slim' image with a specific release version of 'phylum-ci' and Phylum CLI
image: phylumio/phylum-ci:0.42.4-CLIv6.1.2-slim
See the Docker image option and build environment documentation for more information.
Git clone behavior
The git version control system is used within the phylum-ci package to do things like determine if there was a dependency file change and, when specified, report on new dependencies only. Therefore, a full clone of the repository is required to ensure that the local working copy is always pristine and history is available to pull the requested information.
 - step:
clone:
depth: full
See the git clone behavior documentation for more information.
Script arguments
The script arguments to the Docker image are the way to exert control over the execution of the Phylum analysis. The phylum-ci script entry point is expected to be called. It has a number of arguments that are all optional and defaulted to secure values. To view the arguments, their description, and default values, run the script with --help output as specified in the Usage section of the top-level README.md or view the script options output for the latest release.
 # NOTE: These are examples. Only one script entry line for 'phylum-ci' is expected.
script:
# Use the defaults for all the arguments.
# The default behavior is to only analyze newly added dependencies
# against the active policy set at the Phylum project level.
- phylum-ci
# Provide debug level output. Highly recommended.
- phylum-ci -vv
# Consider all dependencies in analysis results instead of just the newly added ones.
# The default is to only analyze newly added dependencies, which can be useful for
# existing code bases that may not meet established policy rules yet,
# but don't want to make things worse. Specifying '--all-deps' can be useful for
# casting the widest net for strict adherence to Quality Assurance (QA) standards.
- phylum-ci --all-deps
# Some lockfile types (e.g., Python/pip 'requirements.txt') are ambiguous in that
# they can be named differently and may or may not contain strict dependencies.
# In these cases it is best to specify an explicit path, either with the '--depfile'
# option or in a '.phylum_project' file. The easiest way to do that is with the
# Phylum CLI, using 'phylum init' command (docs.phylum.io/cli/commands/phylum_init)
# and committing the generated '.phylum_project' file.
- phylum-ci --depfile requirements-prod.txt
# Specify multiple explicit dependency file paths.
- phylum-ci --depfile requirements-prod.txt Cargo.toml path/to/dependency.file
# Exclude dependency files by gitignore-style pattern.
- phylum-ci --exclude "requirements-*.txt"
# Specify multiple exclusion patterns.
- phylum-ci --exclude "build.gradle" "tests/fixtures/"
- |
phylum-ci \
--exclude "/requirements-*.txt" \
--exclude "build.gradle" "fixtures/"
# Force analysis for all dependencies in a manifest file. This is especially useful
# for *workspace* manifest files where there is no companion lockfile (e.g., libraries).
- phylum-ci --force-analysis --all-deps --depfile Cargo.toml
# Perform analysis as part of a group-owned project.
# A paid account is needed to use groups: _URL_
- phylum-ci --group my_group
# Analyze all dependencies in audit mode, to gain insight without failing builds.
- phylum-ci --all-deps --audit
# Ensure the latest Phylum CLI is installed.
- phylum-ci --force-install
# Install a specific version of the Phylum CLI.
- phylum-ci --phylum-release 4.8.0 --force-install
# Mix and match for your specific use case.
- |
phylum-ci \
-vv \
--depfile requirements-dev.txt \
--depfile requirements-prod.txt path/to/dependency.file \
--depfile Cargo.toml \
--force-analysis \
--all-deps
Alternatives
It is also possible to make direct use of the phylum Python package within CI. This may be necessary if the Docker image is unavailable or undesirable for some reason. To use the phylum package, install it and call the desired entry points from a script under your control. See the Installation and Usage sections of the README file for more detail.


Duplicating Objects
You can create duplicate or multiple copies of an object. The copies can be identical or can differ in size, color, orientation and location.
The following example creates a stack of coins by making multiple copies of a single ellipse.
 1. Use the Ellipse tool to draw a solid yellow ellipse.
 2. Select the ellipse and choose Edit - Duplicate.
 3. Enter 12 as Number of copies.
 4. Enter a negative value for the Width and Height so that the coins decrease in size as you go up the stack.
 5. To define a color transition for the coins, select different colors in the Start and End boxes. The Start color is applied to the object that you are duplicating.
 6. Click OK to create the duplicates.
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Apple may feature finger-print sensor technology in iPhone 5
Apple fingerprint patent
Last year Apple acquired a security company called Authentec for $356million. And since then there have been widespread rumors about Apple's interest in finger-print sensor technology. Now, there are reports that indicate the iPhone 5 will most likely feature a finger-print sensor (at least based on the publication above from the US Patent and Trademark Office).
The patent states that there will be a fingerprint sensor embedded into the bezel of a device, as well as it also mentions the size, about which it says "approximately the width of an average user's fingertip, but only several pixels tall, typically between 1 and 8 pixels, and possibly as many as 16 pixels tall".
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I'm trying to extract a section of a raster file that overlaps with a polygon shapefile in QGIS 2.18.3. When I run extract, I'm left with a large null value area as part of the extent of the output raster.
I have the polygon (.shp):
vector mask
And the raster (.tif) which had this large null value area since the first time I clipped one of two DEMs that were merged together to create this layer:
I used Raster -> Extraction -> Clipper tool with the.tif input and.shp mask layer shown above, and it produced this output:
Using clipping option "Crop the extent of the target dataset to the extent of the cutline" didn't do much better:
clipped to extent ws dem
Here are the settings I'm using in QGIS' clipping tool:
clipping config
How do I get the DEM clipped exactly to the boundaries of the shapefile of interest in QGIS? Open to recommendations of other open source GIS tools as well but would prefer using this since I'm already up and running and learning my way around it.
The raster is clipped exactly to the shapefile boundaries.
But remember, a raster is a kind of matrix. It's composed by n rows and m columns, so the extent of it is rectangular.
The black area are pixels without values, so you only have valid pixels in the extent of the shapefile.
If you want to hide null pixels, check this answer How to display NoData of a raster in QGIS.
What have you done is clip out some values. The result is the desired but the meaning is different:
What have you done:
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In this case, NULL pixels are defined by a value equals to 255. You can clip out those pixels setting a max of 254 and clipping out the remains values:
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Sure work, even you can set two boundaries to remove some values of the render (min and max). But QGIS has a dedicated section to remove NULL or No Data values. Gives you more control about how to handle these values:
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 - Aha! That linked question is the opposite of what I wanted to do but led me to the answer: on the raster layer in question, go to properties, style, load min/max values, then check "clip extent to canvas". I applied that and got a raster with the extent only displaying as the vector's boundary. – cr0 Jul 31 '17 at 1:29
 - I think your answer is pretty complete if you add that last part. You could take my text and add it, then I'll check yours off. Thanks – cr0 Jul 31 '17 at 1:29
 - _USER_ ok, I updated my answer – aldo_tapia Jul 31 '17 at 14:03
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Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning in Acoustic Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition
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Acoustic models require a large amount of training data. However, lots of labor is required to annotate the training data for automatic speech recognition. More importantly, the performance of the acoustic model could degenerate during test time, where the conditions of test data differ from the training data in speaker characteristics, channel and recording environment. To compensate for the deviation between training and test conditions, we investigate a graph-based semi-supervised learning approach to acoustic modeling in automatic speech recognition. Graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a widely used semi-supervised learning method in which the labeled data and unlabeled data are jointly represented as a weighted graph, and the information is propagated from the labeled data to the unlabeled data. The key assumption that graph-based SSL makes is that data samples lie on a low dimensional manifold, where samples that are close to each other are expected to have the same class label. More importantly, by exploiting the relationship between training and test samples, graph-based SSL implicitly adapts to the test data. In this thesis, we address several key challenges in applying graph-based SSL to acoustic modeling. We first investigate and compare several state-of-the-art graph-based SSL algorithms on a benchmark dataset. In addition, we propose novel graph construction methods that allow graph-based SSL to handle variable-length input features. We next investigate the efficacy of graph-based SSL in context of a fully-fledged DNN-based ASR system. We compare two different integration frameworks for graph-based learning. First, we propose a lattice-based late integration framework that combines graph-based SSL with the DNN-based acoustic modeling and evaluate the framework on continuous word recognition tasks. Second, we propose an early integration framework using neural graph embeddings and compare two different neural graph embedding features that capture the information of the manifold at different levels. The embedding features are used as input to a DNN system and are shown to outperform the conventional acoustic feature inputs on several medium-to-large vocabulary conversational speech recognition tasks.
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Nutrition, Health and Safety for Young Children : Promoting Wellness, Video-Enhanced Pearson eText — Access Card – Inge Daeschel
NOTE: Used books, rentals, and purchases made outside of Pearson If purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson, the access codes for the Enhanced Pearson eText may not be included, may be incorrect, or may be previously redeemed. Check with the seller before completing your purchase. This access code card provides access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. A comprehensive overview of the nutrition, health, and safety needs of young children from birth through school age, Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children: Promoting Wellness, 2/e prepares future educators to implement healthful practices and teach young children ways to contribute to their own wellness. Through anecdotes, cases, and authentic examples, the authors use a storytelling approach that helps contextualize wellness concepts for readers, promote thinking about professional situations, and offer a glimpse into the everyday classroom environment-diverse populations of young children in family child care, child care centers, preschools, and elementary school settings. In this new edition, the text has been streamlined to 16 chapters and still covers the wide range of challenges that teachers of young children are facing today, such as: an increasingly diverse population of young learners, more identified food allergies, concern about the obesity epidemic, the increase in pertussis (whooping cough) cases, focus on serving children with special health care needs in classrooms, new kinds of threats to children's safety, and increased awareness of the need to develop healthy environments and use sustainable practices in early childhood settings. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video. Improve mastery and retention with the Enhanced Pearson eText* This access code card provides access to the new Enhanced Pearson eText, a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content. The Enhanced Pearson eText is: Engaging. The new interactive, multimedia learning features were developed by the authors and other subject-matter experts to deepen and enrich the learning experience. Convenient. Enjoy instant online access from your computer or download the Pearson eText App to read on or offline on your iPad (R) and Android (R) tablet.* Affordable. Experience the advantages of the Enhanced Pearson eText for 40-65% less than a print bound book. *The Enhanced eText features are only available in the Pearson eText format. They are not available in third-party eTexts or downloads. *The Pearson eText App is available on Google Play and in the App Store. It requires Android OS 3.1-4, a 7″ or 10″ tablet, or iPad iOS 5.0 or later.


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Hilde Koch is a PhD researcher in the iCRAG raw materials research spoke. She graduated in 2016 with BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Tuebingen. For her MSc, she specialised in isotope geochemistry. In 2016, Hilde joined the iCRAG team under the supervision of Prof. Balz Kamber at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on the chemistry of Irish Mississippian bentonite layers and the carboniferous limestones in between. Hilde investigates how they could be used as stratigraphic and tectonic markers relevant for the zinc – lead deposits of Ireland. Her research involves high – precision trace element geochemical methodology, as well as Sr isotopic studies.
Ireland hosts a large number of zinc-lead deposits, of which one is currently exploited at Navan. This mine is Europe's largest zinc producer. The search for additional economic deposits is ongoing. So far, in the Irish ore field there is information missing which could clarify the timing and the position of mineral deposits. Bentonite layers are volcanic ash beds which form widespread deposits. The position of these volcanic layers relative to the zinc – lead deposits of Ireland makes them useful markers, which can be indicative of the presence of zinc-lead deposits. These volcanic layers can show recognizable patterns in diagnostic elements, which characterise the layers and therefore make them distinguishable. Additionally, the chemistry of the ore hosting rock can be used as a secondary marker to test the results from the bentonite layers.
Project title: The chemostratigraphy and petrology of Mississippian volcanogenic clay bands (tuffs) in the Irish Midlands and their relation to potential volcanic centers
There are various volcanogenic clay bands of Mississippian age which occur in the Irish Midlands. Their relative position to the zinc – lead deposits of Ireland makes them extremely important stratigraphic and tectonic markers. The aim of the project is to develop a chemical stratigraphy for the Irish Mississippian bentonite layers and the host carboniferous limestones. With the help of the markers we will be able to clarify stratigraphic correlations and hence the timing of faulting and associated mineralisation.
The first task of the study is to focus on the stratigraphy in and around the Navan ore body. The second component is a regional chemostratigraphic survey of the Irish Midlands. Furthermore, it is proposed that a petrological and geochemical characterisation of the volcanic centres will be undertaken in collaboration with FI Emma Tomlinson.
The research involves major element analysis by ICP-OES, high–precision trace element geochemical methodology using solution ICP-MS as well as Sr isotope measurements. Additionally, a laser ablation ICP-MS method will be developed using the laser as a micromill. Sr isotopes will be measured with a multi-collector mass spectrometer at UCD.
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Eclipse and Maven Integration (without m2e)
This page describes how to integrate an EAR project in Eclipse or Eclipse-based IDE without m2e support. Normally however, using m2e (and m2e-wtp) should be the preferred way to integrate Maven and Eclipse. But in some rare cases that might not be possible.
If you have used mvn eclipse:eclipse to generate the metadata for an EAR project, it will want the application.xml file in the src/main/application/META-INF directory.
If you edit application.xml using the WTP based Application Deployment Descriptor editor, it will use the name of the projects (Web, EJB etc) as the name of the modules. Here is an example:
Obviously this does not have the typical Maven based version naming convention applied to it. This allows us to run the application internally within Eclipse using the test environments. When Maven is used to create the ear using mvn package, it will create the versionized application.xml file, if told to. However, by default it will not pick up the generated (versionized) one, it will use the existing one in the src/main/application/META-INF directory.
The solution to resolve this conflict is to have Maven generate the application.xml and use the generated one as opposed to the existing one.
This can be achieved via these two directives:
The first line tells Maven to generate a new application.xml file, by default in the target directory. The second line tells Maven to use it.


심하고 먹을 있다.
Answer꿀의 당분 농도가 유지될 maintaing sugar concentration of honey
MeaningIt is well known that honey is a food that is not easily deteriorated. Food rotting is due to microbial propagation, but microbes do not reproduce in honey. This is due to osmotic phenomena in which the liquid with a low concentration moves toward the higher concentration. Because honey has a very high concentration of sugar, when the microorganisms enter the honey, the moisture escapes from the cells of the microorganism, causing the microorganisms to dry out and die. Therefore, if you maintain the sugar concentration of honey, you can safely eat it even for a long time.
[32~34] 다음을 읽고 내용이 같은 것을 고르십시오. ( 2)
[32] 정의의 여신상 법을 대표하는 상징물로서 보통 손에는 저울을다른 손에는 칼을 쥐고 있다저울은 다툼의 정확하고 공정한 해결을 의미하고 칼은 사회 질서를 파괴하는 행동에 대한 강력한 제재를 나타낸다어떤 국가에는 어느 한쪽으로 치우치지 않는 공평한 판단을 강조하기 위해 눈을 안대로 가린 정의의 여신상도 있다 대신 법전을 들고 있는 경우도 있는데 법전은 오로지 법에 따라 심판한다는 의미를 가진다.
Answer어떤 정의의 여신상은 안대로 눈이 가려져 있다. Some Statues of Justice are blindfolded by eyemasks.
MeaningThe Statue of Justice is a symbol of the law, usually holding a scale in one hand and a sword in the other. The scale means an accurate and fair resolution of a quarrel, and the sword represents strong sanctions against actions that destroy social order. In some countries there is also the Statue of Justice that two eyes are blindfolded to emphasize impartial judgment that is not biased toward either side. In some cases, she holds a law book instead of a sword, which means that she judges only according to the law.
[33] 격구는 원래 말을 타고 막대기로 공을 치는 전통놀이였다그런데 조선 시대에는 격구가 무예를 단련하는 방법의 하나로 널리 활용되었다말을 상태에서 막대기를 이용해 공을 치는 행위가 창을 들고 목표물을 조준해 찌르는 것과 유사했기 때문이다하지만 17세기 이후 총이나 대포 같은 무기가 발달하면서 말과 창의 군사적인 효용성이 떨어지자 격구라는 전통놀이도 점차 사라지게 되었다.
Answer조선 시대에는 격구로 무예를 익히는 사람들이 많았다. During the Joseon Dynasty, there were many people who mastered martial arts by using dakgu (polo).
MeaningPolo was originally a traditional game of riding a horse and playing with a long stick. But in the Joseon era, polo was more widely used as a way to practice martial arts. Because playing the ball with a stick while riding a horse, this behavior is similar to holding a long gun and aiming at the target object. But after the 17th century, with the development of weapons such as guns or cannon, the military effectiveness of horses and spear has decreased, and the traditional game of polo has gradually disappeared.
[34] 한국의 전통 종이인 한지가 해외 문화재 복원에도 사용되고 있다종이로 문화재의 훼손된 부분을 보수하는 데에 쓰이는 것이다한지는 섬유질이 질긴 닥나무로 만들기 때문에 다른 종이에 비해 내구성과 보존성이 우수하다 잿물과 햇볕을 이용한 자연적 방법으로 하얗게 만들기 때문에 화학 약품을 종이와 달리 쉽게 변색되지 않는다이렇게 한지는 가치를 인정받으며 세계적인 예술가 다빈치의 작품 복원에도 사용되었다.
Answer한지는 닥나무로 만들어 시간이 지나도 쉽게 훼손되지 않는다.
Hanji is made of mulberry and is not easily damaged over time.
MeaningKorean traditional Korean paper is used to repair overseas artifacts. That is to repair the damaged part of the paper artifacts. Because hanji is made of tough mulberry, it has better durability and preservation than other paper. Also, it does not discolor easily unlike paper that uses chemicals because it makes it white in natural ways using lye and sunlight. Hanji was recognized for its value and was also used to restore works by world-renowned artist Da Vinci.
[35~38] 다음 글의 주제로 가장 알맞은 것을 고르십시오. ( 2 )
[35] 제품을 디자인할 아름다움을 우선적으로 생각하는 경향이 있다그러나 때로는 제품의 사용자가 누구냐에 따라서 우선시해야 하는 요소가 달라질 있다예를 들어 장난감을 디자인할 때는 아이들의 특성을 생각하여 입에 넣을 없는 크기로 만들어 안전성을 높여야 한다 고령자를 위한 제품은 조작 방법을 단순화하는 편의성을 고려해야 한다제품의 디자인은 사용자에 대한 분석과 이해가 바탕이 되어야 하는 것이다.
Answer디자인을 떄는 사용자의 특성을 고려할 필요가 있다. When designing, it is necessary to consider the characteristics of the user.
MeaningWhen designing products, we tend to think about aesthetics first. However, sometimes the factors that should be considered first are different depending on the user of the product. For example, when designing a toy, the characteristics of the child should be considered, and the product should be made into a size that cannot be swallowed to improve its safety. In addition, for products designed for the elderly, attention should be paid to the simplification of the assembly method to consider its convenience. Product design should be based on analysis and understanding of the user.
[36] 과거 시청자들은 수동적으로 방송을 수용하며 감상평 정도를 제한적으로 표현했다그러나 인터넷이 발달하고 자신의 생각을 드러내는 것이 자연스러운 시대가 되면서 시청자들이 의견 개진에 적극 나서고 있다방송 내용의 오류에 대해 수정을 요구하거나 방송 구성에 대한 새로운 방향을 제시하는 능동적 참여자가 되고 싶은 것이다제작진 역시 시청자들의 의견을 받아들여 방송 제작에 반영하는 경우가 많아지고 있다.
Answer방송을 대하는 시청자의 태도가 변화하고 있다. The viewer's attitude toward broadcasting is changing.
MeaningIn the past, viewers passively watched the show and expressed their feelings within certain limits. However, as the era of developed internet and natural expression of personal ideas comes, the audience is actively participating in the improvement opinions. The audience asked to modify the errors in the content of the program, or to propose new directions for the structure of the program, etc. They want to be active participants. Producers are also increasingly accepting viewers' opinions and reflecting them in broadcasting production.
[37] 한국 작품의 세계 문학상 수상이 이어지면서 한국 문학의 해외 진출에 대한


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Ruby Question
How to write DOS line endings to a file from Unix
My Unix Ruby program needs to write a file that will be read by
SqlServer running on Windows. I need for the lines I write to this
file to end in
\r\n
, the DOS/Windows line ending, rather than
\n
,
the Unix line ending. I want this to happen without me having to
manually add the \r to the end of each line.
The starting point
If my program writes to the file like this:
File.open("/tmp/foo", "w") do |file|
file.puts "stuff"
end
Then the file has Unix line endings:
$ od -c foo
_PHONE_ s t u f f \n
That is expected, since my program is running on Unix. But I
need for this file (and this file only) to have DOS line endings.
Adding the \r to each line manually
If I add the \r to each line manually:
File.open("/tmp/foo", "w") do |file|
file.puts "stuff\r"
end
Then the file has DOS line endings:
$ od -c /tmp/foo
_PHONE_ s t u f f \r \n
This works, but has to be repeated for each line I want to write.
Using String#encode
As shown by this SO answer, I can modify the string using
String#encode before writing it:
File.open("/tmp/foo", "w") do |file|
file.puts "alpha\nbeta\n".encode(crlf_newline: true)
end
This results in DOS line endings:
$ od -c /tmp/foo
_PHONE_ a l p h a \r \n b e t a \r \n
This has the advantage that if I am writing multiple lines at once,
one call to #encode will change all the line endings for that one
write. However, it's verbose, and I still have to specify the line
ending for every write.
How can I cause each
puts
to an open file in Unix to end
the line in the Windows
\r\n
line ending rather than the Unix '\n'
line ending?
I am running Ruby 2.3.1.
Answer Source
There's an option for this, the same one you're using on encode also works with File.open:
File.open('/tmp/foo', mode: 'w', crlf_newline: true) do |file|
 file.puts("alpha")
 file.puts("beta")
end
This option not only ends lines in \r\n, it also translates any explicit \n into \r\n. So this:
file.puts("alpha\nbar")
will write alpha\r\nbar\r\b


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Are Iceman Blood Cells Really the Oldest?
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Researchers discovered intact red blood cells in the body of Ötzi the Iceman, a world-famous once-frozen natural mummy found in the Alps in 1991. Livescience called them the "world's oldest blood cells."1 But clear evidence shows that other blood cells hold the real record.
Forensic researchers have gleaned a wealth of information about the Tyrolean Iceman, commonly known as Ötzi. For example, chemical traces show places he had recently been, tiny particles revealed his last meal of red deer and bread, and his boots were likely made by an ancient professional bootmaker. An arrowhead had lodged in his left shoulder, damaging an artery and likely causing his death. Just this year, geneticists sequenced his DNA, finding that modern inhabitants of the Mediterranean's Corsica have the most similar sequences.2
Now, scientists discovered intact red blood cells in tissue samples from a wound that his hand suffered, as well as the arrow wound to the chest. Their research appeared in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, where the authors wrote "It was initially assumed that the blood had disintegrated owing to autolysis within the corpse."2 Autolysis is the process where oxygen, which is especially abundant within oxygen-carrying red blood cells, reacts with and fragments the proteins that comprise cells. Few, if any, expected that red blood cells could have persisted within Ötzi for perhaps thousands of years until today.
What appeared to be red blood cells were probed with two techniques to ensure their identity. Atomic force microscopy and Raman spectroscopy both clearly confirmed Ötzi's red blood cells, according to the report.3 But in contrast to the news headlines, they do not appear to be the oldest.
In 1992, researchers assigned Ötzi to a European Copper age that occurred after Stone age remains were deposited in that area.4 He probably lived only a few thousand years ago after the post-Flood ice age.5
But red blood cells from even earlier specimens have appeared under paleontologists' microscopes. Totally unexpected, the bone marrow of a T. rex recovered in 1990 from Montana had what appeared to be red blood cells. Their story was recounted in Earth magazine.
The lab filled with murmurs of amazement, for I had focused on something inside the vessels that none of us had ever noticed before: tiny round objects, translucent red with a dark center. Then a colleague took one look at them and shouted, 'You've got red blood cells. You've got red blood cells!'6
Their technical report appeared in Science in 2005.7 Some of the same authors involved in a much larger team described what looked identical to red blood cells found in a hadrosaur bone as "cell-like structures" in Science in 2009.8
Of course, both the T. rex and hadrosaur are widely believed to be tens of millions of years old. Any red blood cells should have long since disintegrated. The Ötzi study even verified that his blood cells had lost much of their integrity by comparing the Raman scans with those of modern blood samples. But not only did the dinosaur bone marrow results show clear pictures of red-colored, round disks inside blood vessels, they also detected hemoglobin.7 Why are these not the rightful record-holders for oldest blood cells?
Since the dinosaur fossils formed as a result of Noah's Flood, which produced the Alps mountain range that Ötzi later walked upon, the dinosaur red blood cells are older than Ötzi's by perhaps a millennium or two. In order to maintain belief in millions of years, those who insist that Ötzi's are the oldest blood cells must ignore the dinosaur data.
- Pappas, S. 'Iceman' Mummy Holds World's Oldest Blood Cells. LiveScience. Posted on livescience.com May 1, 2012, accessed May 4, 2012.
- Keller, A., et al. 2012. New insights into the Tyrolean Iceman's origin and phenotype as inferred by whole-genome sequencing. Nature Communications. 3: 698.
- Janko, M., R. W. Stark, and A. Zink. Preservation of 5300 year old red blood cells in the Iceman. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Published online before print, May 2, 2012, accessed May 4, 2012.
- Seidler, H., et al. 1992. Some anthropological aspects of the prehistoric Tyrolean ice man. Science. 258 (5081): 455–457.
- Sherwin, F., and B. Thomas. 2010. Understanding Evidence for the Biblical Timescale. Acts & Facts. 39 (4): 16-17.
- Schweitzer, M., and I. Staedter. 1997. The real Jurassic Park. Earth. 55–57.
- Schweitzer, M., et al. 2005. Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science. 307 (5717): _PHONE_.
- Schweitzer, M., et al. 2009. Biomolecular Characterization and Protein Sequences of the Campanian Hadrosaur B. canadensis. Science. 324 (5927): 626-631.
- Wieland, C. 1997. Sensational dinosaur blood report! Creation. 19 (4): 42-43.
Image credit: Samadelli Marco/EURAC. Copyright © 2012 The Royal Society. Adapted for use in accordance with federal copyright (fair use doctrine) law. Usage by ICR does not imply endorsement of copyright holders.
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Article posted on June 13, 2012.

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Let $N$ be a normal $p$-subgroup of finite centerless group $G$ such that $G/N\cong A_{5}$. Is it possible $G/N\cong \leq $Aut$(Z(N))$?
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Background, origin of problem, ideas, insights, self work...? – DonAntonio Oct 22 '12 at 17:37
Is this really the question you want? Every finite group is a subgroup of Aut(Z(N)) for some p-group N. – Jack Schmidt Oct 22 '12 at 17:42
What does $\cong\le$ mean? – Derek Holt Oct 22 '12 at 18:00
_USER_ "isomorphic to a subgroup" perhaps? – Alexander Gruber Oct 22 '12 at 21:37
_USER_: Isomorphic to a subgroup. This question related to my former question. – Ros Oct 23 '12 at 2:54
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Let $p$ be a prime number and $Q$ be a finite group with no normal $p$-subgroups.
Define $N$ to be the direct sum of the simple $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}[Q]$-modules other than the trivial module. Then $Q$ acts faithfully on $N$, and no nonzero element of $N$ is centralized by all elements of $Q$. Notice $Z(N)=N$. Let $G$ be the semi-direct product of $Q$ acting on $N$.
Then $G$ is a finite centerless group with $G/N \cong Q$, and the map $gN \mapsto ( n \mapsto g^{-1} n g)$ is an injective homomorphism from $G/N$ into $\operatorname{Aut}(Z(N))$.
If $Q$ has normal $p$-subgroups, then $G$ is no-longer centerless, and we may need to choose a more complicated $N$ (still abelian, but possibly including the trivial module, and possibly not semi-simple) in order to embed $G/N$ in $\operatorname{Aut}(Z(N))$.
Of course for $A_5$ we need not worry about normal $p$-subgroups, and we can be pretty explicit about $N$. However, I don't understand what could motivate you to ask this question and suspect you meant to ask something else.
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Real Estate and Construction
Accounting in the construction industry is different from other industries. A normal industry follows and works for stereotypical accounting methods, but when it comes to building an industry, the scenario is very different.
In the construction industry, people work in new places and the work done is of a very different nature on a regular basis. Various factors affect costs in the construction industry, such as travel time, packaging of tools and equipment, and delivery of materials to job sites, all of which are different in nature.
In a construction company, the accounting method counts revenue based on profit estimate and percentage of project completed; this is known as the "percentage complete method". Therefore, general accounting for construction companies is quite complex and unique, also because you need to keep a close eye on all expenses, costs and income of all different construction sites.
Construction accounting and construction accounting is the process of managing the financial transactions and records of construction companies. In the construction industry, bookkeeping and accounting play a crucial role in managing the financial health of the company. Construction companies can have complex financial needs due to long project times, numerous subcontractors and suppliers, and large capital investments.
Some of the specific jobs that accountants and construction accountants can perform include:
Manage project costs and budgets
- Follow-up and billing of the work performed to customers
- Payroll and benefits management for employees and contractors
- Track expenses and income for multiple projects
- Create financial statements and reports for investors and lenders.
- Preparation and filing of tax returns and compliance statements
In general, bookkeeping and bookkeeping are vital for construction companies to maintain accurate financial records, make informed decisions, and effectively manage their financial resources.


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Anyone with an interest in the history of video games should know the name Ralph Baer. As the creator of the first game console, the Magnavox Odyssey -- giving video table tennis to the world before Pong -- Baer was instrumental in the creation of the video game industry. As part of a video series on inventors, a photographer by the name of David Friedman conducted an interview with Baer.
Though the question doesn't appear in the video, Friedman asked Baer if he had "unleashed a monster" in creating the video game console. "Yeah," answer Baer, "I did a bit." He elaborated that the Odyssey was designed as a family activity, something shared with multiple people. Baer is worried that games have "just sort of degenerated into a one player type thing which was never in my mind." Friedman notes that there might still be hope, with consoles like the Wii encouraging people to play together. We would throw the Kinect and PlayStation Move onto the list as well. Let this be a reminder to always teach your children about the importance of co-op.
Watch the brief (and frankly touching) interview above.


5 Teams Compete for "Most Transformative Idea" at Climathon Awards
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Over 4,500 citizens worldwide engaged in more than 100 Climathons last year that generated thousands of innovative solutions to local climate problems. After a grueling selection process, just five solutions will compete for the "Most Transformative Idea of 2020" at the Climathon Awards on 21 January.
This edition of the Awards marks the 5-year anniversary of Climathon and the culmination of the inspiring efforts by citizens, cities, and Climathon organisers that joined the year-long programme to raise awareness, collaborate and rethink the future of our cities.
A public vote will determine what teams advance to the Climathon Awards. Take a closer look at the top five teams competing:
MATE, Climathon Zurich 2020
Climate challenge: Sustainable food education
Team: Aline Herzog, Chiara Schnoz, Lakshman Teja Lattipally, Laura Neufeldt-Schoeller, Rahel Reinhard
Solution: Mate is a Sustainable Food Ambassador Network for Swiss high schools to raise awareness, transmit knowledge and foster behavioral change through competitive incentives such as food consumption challenges. This brings out a competitive spirit in city schools and encourages school mensas to transition towards offering more planet-friendly meals. Each time a student chooses a planet-friendly meal, it will be registered and compared with other participating high schools. The solution can also be implemented in other contexts such as company challenges, enabling large-scale impact.
Impact potential: Overall, food consumption accounts for one-third of the environmental impact of consumption in Switzerland. Therefore, if Switzerland's people eat more sustainably, they would reduce the environmental footprint and make Switzerland more sustainable while improving its population's general health. By providing healthy and sustainable menus in the mensa and the necessary knowledge, MATE can empower society to make this behavioral change, starting with young people that influence many around them and who are in their formative years.
No Appetite for Waste, Climathon London 2020
Climate challenge: Food waste
Team: Benedicte de Gelder, Michelle (Ming Hui) Chok, Sepideh Noohi, Sophie Mosselmans
Solution: No Appetite for Waste is a 4-week programme designed to inspire, excite and equip primary schoolchildren and their parents with the knowledge and skills to tackle food waste. The yearly competition will run in April with the aim to reach 1 million people in London by 2023. The programme provides template activities anchored to key curriculum themes to make it compelling for teachers to embed food waste education in their teaching. Success will be measured by: the number of participants, tons of food waste and emissions saved, and overall cost savings.
Impact potential: UK schools produce 100k tons for food waste per year, generating 155K tons of CO2. London has 700K pupils in primary schools, so assuming each pupil can influence another 2 people (school staff, parents, siblings), that is a total of 2.1 million people that can be engaged in food waste reduction. No Appetite for Waste targets a younger generation who can bring knowledge and best practices home to their families, and grow up to live more sustainably as adults. Children are ultimately very impressionable at this young age, so the more aware they are about food waste, the higher the chance for making a real impact.
Green Penguin, Climathon Ljubljana, 2020
Climate challenge: Energy
Team: Mojca Markizeti, Thorsteinn Svanur Jónsson, Anton Birkir Sigfússon, Nuno Soares, Hossam Zaimi, Robi Zorman, Vladimir Milošević, Lara Šarabon Štojs, Mariia Iglova Andreuzz
Solution: Green Penguin is an environmental competition between Ljubljana schools that calculates CO2 reduction into something tangible that kids can easily grasp: penguins! If all schools and kindergartens of the Ljubljana municipality reduced their CO2 footprint by 15%, they could save 1,086 tons of CO2, which converts to 3,259 m³ of ice not melted or 3,259 penguins saved. The idea uses smart digital technologies to engage schoolchildren through gamification, achieving environmental and digital literacy for younger generations and a substantial reduction the city's carbon footprint.
Impact potential: By targeting primary schools and kindergartens who are truly motivated by environmental impacts, the game can produce positive effects on the households of every participant. However, Green Penguin can be easily adapted for other organisations such as universities, public buildings, and even the private sector, such as hotels, retail stores, and others. Buildings are the largest contributors of CO2 emissions in the European Cities. Therefore, any impactful action on this sector has a tangible effect on the path towards net-zero emissions.
Ecopolis, Climathon Pasig 2020
Climate challenge: Food security
Team: Marie Sapuay, Rene Francis Dimalanta, Jaymee Ann Manguerra Alon, Gianina R. Custodio, Joni Galeste
Solution: Ecopolis is a holistic food security solution with two components: A mobile application (EcoLink) and a physical component (Floating Farms). The EcoLink mobile app aims to conveniently connect people to nearby compost sites and urban farms. This is considered the primary solution to address food insecurity, making fresh food locally available to Pasig communities. The Floating Farms utilise the city's rivers to compensate for the lack of available land and offer more space to grow edible crops and to compost food waste.
Impact potential: The EcoLink app will make composting sites and urban farms visible to localities. This will lessen the travel of fresh food to consumers. It will promote composting to lessen food waste and will help increase crop yield and health and will help sequester carbon emissions in the soil. The Floating Farm will help educate dwellers near the riverbanks on how to manage the urban farm to have plentiful harvest and gain livelihood from it. It will be able to accommodate organic waste that can be used as organic compost for the urban farms within the city.
Green Invest, Climathon Stuggart 2020
Climate challenge: Sustainable investment
Team: David Müller, Klemens Witte, Nicolas Maiwald, Karolina Stuhec-Meglic, Norbert Krain, Ulrich Botzenhardt
Solution: The transition to a low-carbon economy is slow. One of the major reasons: Investors are struggling to locate and assess sustainable projects while the willingness to invest is at an all-time high. To address that challenge, a community-driven investment platform like Green Invest will benefit everyone by facilitating the growth of sustainable projects. Users can quickly search for sustainable investment opportunities in their local area such as a new solar roof on a tennis court or building refurbishments. Investing starts as low as 10 EUR, making the energy transition accessible and catalyzing change at a large scale.
Impact potential: The global energy transition is not aligned with the Paris Agreement and funding is the No. 1 reason CO2-saving projects are not being realised. By creating a fun-to-use app and building a community of green investors our app can make investing in sustainable projects easy, safe, and accessible to everyone thus creating the change we need now. Our platform aims to rapidly reduce C02-emissions. Citizens who invest will be able to make a sustainable profit and grow their investments.
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AUSTINS traffic tickets are among the most popular in the country with about 25 per cent of motorists having received one.The vast majority of these are paid in the mail, which the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) says is an effective deterrent to criminals.The Department said it is not aware of any cases in which a driver has been caught after he or she was caught on a CCTV camera in a...
Traffic cones are often the subject of a great deal of speculation and debate.
Are they really a useful tool for public transport, or a waste of money?
Is it better to buy a cone instead of buying a ticket, or just buy a ticket when there are lots of traffic cones around?
Is the cone a good idea for urban areas, or for suburban and rural areas?
Can you use them for more than one purpose, or is it better just to use the ticket you get for not paying attention?
It turns out that these questions and debates are all part of a very large debate about traffic cones.
In this article, I'll discuss the pros and cons of each mode of use for traffic cones, and discuss how traffic cones can be used for both public transport and private vehicles.
I'll also examine the potential benefits and drawbacks of traffic cone technologies.
Finally, I will explore the pros of different modes of use, including both public and private use.
The article can be downloaded from the following link: traffic cone pros and con, public transport vs private, public transportation vs private vehicles, public transit vs private buses, traffic cones vs ticket, tickets vs traffic cone article Source: New Scientist article The basic idea of a traffic control system is that a system is divided into four main parts, which are controlled by a control system.
This system controls the movement of traffic, and these movements are regulated by the traffic cone.
The traffic cone, like the control system, also controls the speed of the traffic.
The cone has a control valve that is designed to allow the flow of traffic to continue at a set rate for a fixed amount of time.
The flow of movement is regulated by a signal, which is placed at each end of the cone.
At the beginning of each movement, a speedometer is connected to the speed sensor on the cone's control valve.
The speedometer gives a reading of the movement, and the speedometer can be read by measuring the distance the cone is moving.
If the speed is within a certain range, the cone stops moving, and if the speed increases beyond that range, it stops moving.
Traffic cones can also be controlled by other signals, such as red lights and stop signs.
Traffic control can also come in two different forms: a fixed speed control system (for which there are many different types of cones) and a variable speed control (for where the cone can move in response to a change in the speed limit).
Fixed speed control systems control traffic in one direction only.
If traffic is moving in one lane at a time, the system will not be able to control it.
Variable speed control can control traffic around a fixed fixed speed, such that traffic can flow in one or two directions.
When traffic is travelling at different speeds, the speed and direction of the flow can be varied.
In either case, the cones must obey the traffic control rules that apply to them, and a traffic signal is installed to warn the drivers of traffic changes.
Traffic controls are also used for signals, where traffic control is used to change a speed or direction of traffic.
Traffic cone technologies The use of traffic control devices in public transport vehicles is a very old technology.
Before the 20th century, the best way to control traffic was to have a speed limit on the road, or to have traffic lights on the street to warn drivers that they are about to enter the road.
Traffic traffic control has two main uses: it is used for speed control on the roads, and for traffic control in the environment.
Traffic on a street has to be controlled because it can affect the speed, and therefore the flow, of traffic through it.
The road has to have speed limits, and this can affect both the flow and the flow at the same time.
Traffic in a public transport vehicle has to get past a traffic light before it can be controlled.
A traffic cone can also control traffic, since it can move when there is a speed difference between two points.
This means that traffic is controlled even if there is no traffic signal, and even if traffic is changing directions.
Traffic Control in a traffic zone When there are traffic cones along the roadways of an area, they act as a speed control device.
Traffic must be controlled in one way before it passes the cones.
If a traffic driver stops at the intersection and starts to change direction, the traffic cones will stop, and they must move to the right.
However, if traffic in the street starts to slow down, the road will be closed.
Traffic flow in a street traffic is very different from traffic flow in the city.
A road has a maximum number of lanes, and traffic flow varies between them.
This can be caused by the fact that people can travel more rapidly in the streets, or by people walking faster, or both.
When a road has fewer lanes, people can move at a slower speed, but their speed can also change.
When the traffic is slow in the road and people


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It's entirely possible for a city to completely run out of water. Eventually the water table dissipates and your pumping stations run dry. There's a couple of ways you can work around this, ensuring your city will always have a clean water supply.
Rain, water from shorelines and sewage treatment plants will all slowly replenish the water table. The best option is to build a water pump next to your sewage treatment plant. The sewage treatment plant will replenish the water table as fast as the water pump is depleting it, thus providing the effect of infinite water. Make sure you're using a filtration pump module, otherwise you run the risk of pumping germ infested, polluted water to your Sims.


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Down syndrome occurs in about 1 in 700 births. Children with
typical development learn to walk independently at about 12 months of age.
Those with Down syndrome typically learn to take independent steps at 24-28
months. Getting infants walking is critical
because this can delay the emergence other skills such as social skills, motor
skills, advancement of perception and spatial cognition.
According to the Center for Motor
Development at the University of Michigan, babies with Down Syndrome can learn
to walk earlier and better using a treadmill. In
the study, 30 infants were randomly assigned lower intensity, generalized treadmill
training, or high intensity, individualized treadmill training. The exercise
therapy was implemented in the homes by their parents. The exercise therapy was
used as a supplement to physical therapy. High intensity training included
increasing the treadmill belt speed, using longer durations, and adding light
weights to the ankles, with intensity tailored to each child. The parent sat on
a bench that straddled the treadmill and held the infant as the child took
steps on the treadmill. The duration of the exercise therapy was for eight
minutes a day, five days a week for three months.
Dale Ulrich, the director of the
Center for Motor Development at the University of Michigan suggests if
children with Down Syndrome are able to walk earlier and better, they are
able to explore their environment and learn about the world around them. He
also agrees that walking is a critical factor in the development of other
domains. Treadmills are about $1,200 each. The hope is that more hospitals and
Down syndrome parent organizations will rent the equipment to parents.


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Some current sociocultural trends include the continued growth of connectivity through social media and telecommunications, the growth of cities throughout the world, the increase of green energy technologies and public awareness. Social trends are being driven by advances in technology and the ability to instantly transfer ideas via the Internet.Continue Reading
Sociocultural trends are patterns that are found within human culture and human interaction. The sociocultural trends of a society change over time and are often influenced by environmental, technological and social means. In the past, different regions had their own sets of sociocultural trends. While in some ways that is still the case, the invention of the Internet has led to a growth of interconnectedness, which has resulted in an increased number of sociocultural trends being observed world-wide.
The largest current sociocultural trend is the growth of connectivity through social media and telecommunications. More than ever before, ideas are able to be transferred instantaneously across nations. Ideas that used to be confined to certain hubs are now able to be anonymously displayed on the Internet and spread to the public. This instantaneous and anonymous transfer of information has led to uprisings against authoritarian regimes, such as during the Arab Spring, and has given voices to people who would previously be afraid to speak out against oppression.Learn more about Cultures & Traditions


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In this assignment, you will be examining the relationship between Sattler's pillars of assessment and how they apply to professional practice.
Imagine that you are working as a psychologist. Develop a scenario where you might see a client for testing. The testing may be forensic, educational, clinical, or occupational.
Part A: Using Sattler's pillars of assessment, explain how you would proceed with the testing process.
Part B: Identify at least three ethical guidelines that you will need to consider in the assessment process and give a specific example for each of these issues (such as confidentiality, informed consent, competency, etc.).
Your paper must also:
Be a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 8 full pages, size 12 font, double spaced with 1 inch margins, NOT including the Title and References pages.
 Be in APA format, including a title page and reference page.
Be proofread and contain few to no grammar errors, misspellings, or typographical errors.
Incorporate a minimum of three supportive scholarly citations and references to support content and conclusions.


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Screentendo is a desktop application that allows you to turn a selection of your screen into a playable level of Super Mario Bros.
I've never built a Cocoa app or used Sprite Kit before, so it was a great excuse to play with both technologies. You can get the (very hacky) source code here.
How does it work?
When Screentendo is launched, a semi-transparent window appears which can be moved and resized over other application windows. After placing the Screentendo window over an area of the screen, clicking inside the window will cause the app to render a game level based on the content beneath it.
There are two basic steps to Screentendo; image processing to determine the structure of the target region, and the level generation.
The first step is to fetch the target region underneath the Screentendo window. The following shows an example targeting a chart within Google Sheets (in Safari):
- The app uses the CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo API (from the Quartz Window Services) to get a list of windows in the users current session, in the order in which they appear on the screen
- From this list of windows, the application fetches the window data (window ID, bounds, size, etc) for the Screentendo window and the second window in the hierarchy (the Safari window covered by Screentendo)
- With the target window information, CGWindowListCreateImage is used to retrieve a screenshot of Safari
- The screenshot is then cropped to the bounds of the Screentendo window, using the difference between the Safari window origin and the Screentendo window origin (as shown below), and the Screentendo window's width and height:
Screentendo overlaying target application (chart in Google Sheets)
The cropped image is then passed through a number of image filters, before finally being converted into a format that Screentendo can use to render a game level:
Motion blur – this helps to reduce the impact of general noise and small visual artefacts in the image:
Luminance filter – the average luminance threshold of the image is calculated, and then reduced to the two colours based on the calculated threshold:
Pixellation filter – a pixellation filter is applied to simplify the image detail, and prepare it for sub-blocking:
Black and white pixellated image
Sub-blocking – the image is then split into sub-blocks (by default, 10×10 pixels):
Sub-blocked image (enlarged)
Average block colour to array – for each sub-block in the image, the average colour of the block is calculated. A 2-dimensional array is created, and any sub-block with an average colour which is mostly black is set to '1′, and any sub-block with an average colour which is mostly white is set to '0′:
2-dimensional array representing the image block structure (enlarged)
Level generation and game logic
The 2-dimensional array representation of the image is passed to the GameScene class, which is responsible for generating the game level.
Iterating over the array, any values of '1′ are generated as blocks, and '0′ values are ignored:
Blocks during level generation
Blocks, cloud, background and player sprites
When the array has been processed, the background, clouds, and player sprite are then added to the scene. The rest of the game play relies on a basic physics implementation based on the Sprite Kit physics engine (to handle player physics, detect collisions, animate flying block debris, etc).
The app also has a menu option to change the block size (small, medium, large). A smaller block size increases the resolution, but takes longer to process.
This app is a proof-of-concept hack, and has a few shortcomings. Image processing is currently really (really) slow – sub-blocking the image takes a long time (each sub-block is an NSImage, which is a pretty inefficient way of solving this problem, but quick to implement). The current implementation also requires a reasonably distinct contrast in the underlying image for the block detection to work. Finally, the physics is a little screwy – I didn't set out to write a Super Mario Bros emulator, just something that would work "well enough" – and as such, there are some issues with ghost vertices (particularly with vertical walls) that I didn't get round to resolving.
The code is available over at the GitHub repo.


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How to Build A Hay Box
A hay box (or hay cooker, insulated box, straw box or fireless cooker) is a method of cooking that saves energy.
From Wikipedia: "Food items to be cooked are heated to boiling point, and then insulated. Over a period of time, the food items cook by the heat captured in the insulated container. Generally, it takes three times the normal cooking time to cook food in a hay box."
Hay and straw, even blanketing can be used as insulation — but we now have so many insulation options. A quick trip to a big hardware store reveals that, that we can build super-insulated hay cookers.
This is old technology that is now being revived. You can get fancy with the box building it out of wood or as in the following video keep it simple by using a cardboard box. According to Wikipedia, in the past, "Some types were provided with soapstone or iron plates which were heated during the preliminary cooking on the stove and then placed in the fireless cooker either over or under the cooking pot. In these types, a non-inflammable insulating material was used."
Advantage: Can save on huge amounts of energy. Risk/Disadvantage: Again via Wiki "…there is a risk of bacterial growth if the food items are allowed to remain in the danger zone for one or more hours. For this reason, food cooked in hay boxes is normally reheated to boiling before eating. Using a food thermometer eliminates the guesswork."
In this video Aaron Mackley shows us how to build a hay box using a cardboard box, styrofoam panels and aluminum foil. I would probably go with an insulator other than styrofoam, especially around something hot because it is just nasty, toxic stuff, but…


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Animal Species:Blackbanded Seaperch, Hypoplectrodes annulatus (Gunther, 1859)
It has also been called the Red-banded Sea Perch, and Yellow-banded Seaperch.
The Blackbanded Seaperch can be recognised by its colouration. It is yellow with six dark bands on the body and caudal peduncle. There are several diagonal bands on the head.
It grows to about 30 cm in length.
The species is endemic to Australia, occurring from southern Queensland to the central coast of Victoria.
Distribution by collection data
The Blackbanded Seaperch is a benthic species that is usually seen on inshore rock reefs, often upside down in caves.
- Hutchins, B. & R. Swainston. 1986. Sea Fishes of Southern Australia. Complete Field Guide for Anglers and Divers. Swainston Publishing. Pp. 180.
- Kuiter, R.H. in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & R.H. Kuiter (Eds). 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. State Print, Adelaide. Pp. 992.
- Kuiter, R.H. 2000. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Gary Allen. Pp. 437.


Format excel cells and border using VBA |
Format Cell VBA Excel
To format cells and format the text contained in the cells.
In this VBA Excel automation, we shall declare a range object and then we shall format the cells and format the text inside the cell.Here we have declared a range variable called "SampleRange" to showcase the use of range object.
Sub FormatExcelRange()
Dim SampleRange As Range
Set SampleRange = Range("A1: B10")
'Formatting the cell borders
With SampleRange.Borders
.Weight = xlMedium
.LineStyle = xlDash
.Color = RGB(0, 206, 255)
End With
'Formatting the cell interior colour
With SampleRange.Interior
.Color = RGB(128, 128, 128)
.TintAndShade = 0.8
End With
'Formatting the text inside cell
With SampleRange.Font
.Bold = True
.Italic = True
.Underline = True
End With
'Change Column Width and row height
With SampleRange
.ColumnWidth = 25
.RowHeight = 20
End With
End Sub
What this code does –
 - Created a range object for cell range A1:B10
 - Format the border line thickness, color, line style
 - Change the cell interior color and shade
 - Format the text inside the selected range as bold,italic and underlined
 - Change the column width and row height
Before executing the VBA code, for demonstration purpose we had created some sample data in cell A1:C10 as shown below.
Format Cell VBA Excel
Once the code is executed completely, cells and the text within cells is formatted.Border is also formatted.
There are multiple methods and properties which are associated with Range object, they can be used as per requirement, we can find them in the link provided in the reference section.
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Mickael Tanter interviewed in the French magazine La Recherche
In an interview given to the French magazine La Recherche, Mickael Tanter, director of the laboratory Physics for Medicine Paris (Inserm/ESPCI Paris/PSL University/CNRS), showcases functional ultrasound imaging and its expected impact in neuroscience.
The article goes through the past research work which gave birth to ultrafast ultrasound imaging, and details the more recent applications developed for brain imaging, including the latest results obtained in the past months : monitoring complex cognitive tasks and investigating sleep phases in animals, mapping and monitoring the brain activity of pre-term neonates in clinics.
Currently distributed in kiosks: La Recherche, issue 551, September 2019. Preview available here


1C:Enterprise 8.3. Practical Developer's Guide. Lesson 16 (1:50). Accounting. Understanding accounting registers
Understanding accounting registers
The Accounting register configuration object is intended to describe the data accumulation structure used for storing accounting data based on a chart of accounts. Based on the Accounting register configuration object, the platform creates database tables that accumulate accounting data.
An accounting register looks very similar to an accumulation register. It also has resources, and it can have dimensions and attributes.
Dimensions allow you to break down accounting data (for example, you can use the Company dimension to keep records for multiple companies).
Attributes serve as flags that allow you to distinguish between various register records (for example, you can use a document journal number as an attribute, which allows you to select postings that have similar purposes).
The main difference between an accounting register and an accumulation register is that the former is tightly linked to a chart of accounts. Therefore, each accounting register record contains additional fields that are defined by the chart of accounts settings.
For example, a register record can contain additional fields to store corresponding accounts, amounts, analytical accounting objects (extra dimensions), quantities, currency types, and so on.
Another distinguishing feature of an accounting register is its support of double-entry accounting, where each register record has fields for specifying debit and credit accounts.
Learn more! For details on the structure of 1C:Enterprise script objects intended for accounting register operations, see section Quick developer reference. Accounting registers.
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Is the Hyporheic Zone Relevant beyond the Scientific Community?
Zitatschlüssel w11112230
Jahr 2019
ISSN 2073-4441
DOI 10.3390/w11112230
Journal Water
Jahrgang 11
Nummer 11
Zusammenfassung Rivers are important ecosystems under continuous anthropogenic stresses. The hyporheic zone is a ubiquitous, reactive interface between the main channel and its surrounding sediments along the river network. We elaborate on the main physical, biological, and biogeochemical drivers and processes within the hyporheic zone that have been studied by multiple scientific disciplines for almost half a century. These previous efforts have shown that the hyporheic zone is a modulator for most metabolic stream processes and serves as a refuge and habitat for a diverse range of aquatic organisms. It also exerts a major control on river water quality by increasing the contact time with reactive environments, which in turn results in retention and transformation of nutrients, trace organic compounds, fine suspended particles, and microplastics, among others. The paper showcases the critical importance of hyporheic zones, both from a scientific and an applied perspective, and their role in ecosystem services to answer the question of the manuscript title. It identifies major research gaps in our understanding of hyporheic processes. In conclusion, we highlight the potential of hyporheic restoration to efficiently manage and reactivate ecosystem functions and services in river corridors.
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