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Stigma persists through systematic exclusion of black persons from mobility and resources in society (i.e., structural racism). Residential segregation, like other forms of structural racism, may impair health by hindering access to important resources such as housing, food, health insurance coverage, and governmental benefits. Recent literature has proposed that stigma be considered a fundamental cause of population health inequalities.
We examined the relation between county-level residential segregation dissimilarity indices and various social determinants of health outcomes within Indiana using generalized estimating equation (GEE) modeling. Primary outcomes included housing instability, food insecurity, health insurance status, and enrollment in governmental assistance programs (i.e., Medicaid and SNAP). We used social determinants of health data provided by the Indiana Department of Health collected by Indiana 2-1-1 and residential segregation dissimilarity indices calculated by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
The GEE models, adjusted for county based on the assumption that subject responses within the same county are correlated, regressed SDOH outcomes against segregation indices. In the adjusted models, we controlled for race and income level. Interactions between residential segregation and race were tested. Residential segregation was significantly associated with housing instability (OR = 1.2916, 95%CI (1.0877, 1.5338), p = 0.0035), food insecurity (OR = 1.1294, 95%CI (1.0292, 1.2394), p=0.0103), and SNAP benefits (OR = 1.1640, 95%CI (1.0559, 1.2831), p = 0.0023). Residential segregation was not significantly associated with health insurance status or Medicaid enrollment.
Structural racism is a fundamental cause of some social determinants of health inequalities. People living in counties with higher residential segregation were found to have significantly higher odds of being food insecure, housing insecure, and receiving SNAP benefits. Insurance status and type were not found to be significant outcomes. State and federal governmental programs and policy changes, paired with anti-stigma campaigns, can be implemented to decrease structural racism and subsequently racial health inequities.
Good, Madelyn, "Structural Racism: A Fundamental Cause Of Social Determinants Of Health Inequalities In Indiana" (2020). Public Health Theses. 1939.


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Recently there has been an error that bothers many users and is the message "Some Settings Are Manage By Your Organization."
In this tutorial, you will see how to fix this error.
How To Fix
- Press the following keys Winkey + R and execute the command: gpedit.msc
- Now, go to: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Data Collection and Preview Build.
- There, double click in the policy "Allow Telemetry":
- Activate the "Enabled" box and in the "Options" field select "Full".
- Click on the "Apply and OK" button to save the changes.
With this method, you will delete this message and be able to take full advantage of your Settings.
- Go to the following link and download gpedit.msc (Group Policy Editor): LOCAL GROUP POLICIES
- Once downloaded, go to C:\Windows\SysWOW64
- There, copy the following:
folders: GroupPolicy GroupPolicyUsers gpedit.msc (console document)
- Paste these elements in the following routes:
So you have seen how to remove this annoying Windows 10 Message.

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Does your SharePoint company site use maps to identify office locations? You can add a geolocation column for a map view in contact lists and libraries. This short video will walk you through a few of the primary steps to setting up map views.
Find out how to:
- Build geolocation fieldtype
- Add a column
- Specify locations
- Find and select latitude/longitude in Bing maps
- Create different views
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Operation Sealords is launched in the Mekong Delta by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces.
This operation was ordered by newly appointed Commander Naval Forces Vietnam, Vice-Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., who established Task Force 194 to operate along the canals and less-traveled waterways of the Mekong Delta to interdict Viet Cong infiltration routes from Cambodia. Additionally, TF 194 was to harass Communist forces in the area and, with the assistance of ground and air forces, pacify the Delta region. Under Zumwalt's direction, U.S. and South Vietnamese naval forces worked together to secure the waterways of the Mekong Delta. When the Vietnamization program began in 1969, the U.S. Navy instituted ACTOV (Accelerated Turnover to Vietnam), the Navy's Vietnamization plan, and by April 1971, all Sealords operations had been turned over to the South Vietnamese Navy.

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Jules Verne's history of Mr. Fogg's circumnavigation of the globe indicates that Fogg intended to journey by rail from San Francisco to the Hudson River in 7 days; it took him 8. According to an article in the Oct, 1986 issue of American History Illustrated, in 1876 it still took 7 days to make that trip. Custer's friend, the actor Lawrence Barrett found himself in New York City on 31 May 1876 with a booking to play Henry V in San Francisco on 5 Jun. As a publicity stunt and with the cooperation of the various railroads and while Custer was on the march from Ft Lincoln, Barrett made the trip in 84 hours in time to go yet again "unto the breach."
In Verne's Mysterious Island, one of his characters is a New York Herald reporter/artist who once held a telegraph wire by having Scripture transmitted, while he prepared his copy. Scripture was used that way during Lounesbury's reporting on the LBH. Since Verne's book came first, might this have been a common practice among reporters and telegraphers? or had Lounesbury read Verne?

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Background: Associations between levels of sedentary behavior and depressive symptoms independently and in combination with different levels of physical activity remain unclear. Purpose: This study aimed to examine independent and combined associations of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) with depressive symptoms among Japanese adults. Method: An Internet-based survey collected data on depression levels (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale), self-reported time spent in PA and SB (Japanese short version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire), and sociodemographic variables from 2,914 adults in 2009. Binary logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the odds ratios (ORs) for being depressed (depression scores ≥16) according to independent PA levels (none, insufficient, sufficient), SB levels (low, moderate, high), and nine combinations of PA and SB categories. Results: After adjusting for potential confounders, sufficient PA level was found to be related to lower risk of depressive symptoms independently (OR = 0.61), whereas no significant associations were observed between SB levels and depression. In the combined associations, adults in the sufficient PA/high SB (OR = 0.44), sufficient PA/moderate SB (OR = 0.56), and sufficient PA/low SB (OR = 0.57) categories were significantly less likely to have depressive symptoms in comparison with the no PA/high SB category. Conclusion: Meeting physical activity recommendations is associated with a lower risk of depressive symptoms, regardless of time spent in total sedentary behavior. These results suggest that promoting physical activity may be an effective strategy against depressive symptoms among Japanese adults.
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- Applied Psychology


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World congress on endourology - Annual endourology research symposium. St, Louis USA ; St, Louis USA, 1994/12.
A review of the National Institutes of Health funding history for urolithiasis shows that support has increased from about $3 million in 1990 to about $4.7 million in 1993 and to an estimated $5.1 million in 1994.
The award of large project grants accounts for the increase : individual research project grant funding (R01-type grants) has not increased.
The overall funding for urologic research supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has more than doubled in this same period, with most of the increase attributable to the award of individual research grants.
Although there has been a significant number of urolithiasis research grant applications submitted in this time period, the percent of successful (funded) applications continues to lag behind the number in other urology-related areas.
Strategies for improving the award rate for urolithiasis-related research grant applications are reviewed.
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Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Lithiasis, Urinary system, Human, Scientific research, Financing, Economic aspect, United States, North America, America, Urinary system disease, Urinary stone
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object as a collection of key/value properties.
The collection must have one property marked as identity to identify the primary field for the authentication. For example, in the collection representation below, email is marked as identity.
When defining up Global Variables, make sure to define the following:
 - ERROR_MESSAGE: To handle and display error messages on form screens. Define it as an App Variable.
 - USER_TOKEN: To obtain and save the value of user-token from Backendless. This identifies the user session initiated by the Login operation in Backendless. Define it as a Device Variable.
 - USER_OBJECT_ID: To obtain and save the value of objectId from Backendless. This is a unique identifier assigned by Backendless to the user account. Define it as a Device Variable.
Note: Both user-token and objectId are required to update for updating a user in the Backendless database.
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Before implementing endpoints for authentication (from the sections below), refer to the documentation on how to add Global Variables for saving the auth token and error messages
Sign up
To implement the signup process with the Backendless REST API service, you need to add the endpoint:
/users/register
Open the Backendless service you have previously created and follow the steps below to add the endpoint:
 - Click Add Endpoint.
 - In Step 1: enter a name for the endpoint and select the Method to POST.
 - In Step 2: enter the base name as path: /users/register.
 - In Step 3: define the structure of the Body object that will be sent through the POST request. It's a JSON object that requires a key and a value. There are built-in user properties in the Backendless collection, such as email, name and password. For the sign-up route, here is how we have defined the body structure for this POST request:
{
 "name": {{signupName}},
 "email": {{signupEmail}},
 "password": {{signupPassword}}
}
In the above snippet, using {{variable}} names to test the endpoint before using it in the rest of the app. You can provide test values for each of the {{variable}}. The more fields you have while signing up a new user in your app design, the more key and value pairs you can add to the Body structure.
Once you have created the body structure, click on the Body Preview to verify if the structure you have defined is valid to be sent with the POST request or not.
 - In Step 5: click the button Test. On success, the Backendless service will return an object with details related to the record.
 - Click Save.
A typical Signup screen (see the image below) will have a Button/Touchable component in its Components tree to send the API request.
Stacking Actions
When sending an API request to signup a user using the endpoint created in the previous step, you will need to stack the following actions on a Button/Touchable.
Following actions will be stacked on the Signup screen.
 - To add an action, select the Button/Touchable component from the Components tree.
 - Then, in the Properties Panel, go to the Interactions tab.
 - Click the + (plus) button to add an action.
Here is the description of each action:
1. API Request
This API request comes back with an object in the response that contains the detail of the newly created user object.
 - Select the Service name.
 - Select the Endpoint. In this case, it's Signup.
 - Add a variable to store the Result Name. The variable assigned here will enable it to be used by subsequent actions.
 - In the Body, select the appropriate Field name property for each variable defined in the Body when setting up the endpoint, from the dropdown menu.
2. Parse JSON
This action is chained with the API Request action to parse the result from it with .json(). In the action:
 - Select the *Result Name from the previous action as the value of Response to parse**.
 - Assign a new Result Name variable. For example, signupResponseJson.
3. Extract Key: error message
In the action:
 - Select the value of the Input to be Result Name of the previous action. For example, signupResponseJson.
 - Add the Path value: .message.
 - Add the Result Name: message.
4. Set Global Variable: Error Message
In the action:
 - In the Variable, select the Global Variable assigned for Error Message from the dropdown menu.
 - In the Value, select the Action Result message extracted from the previous action.
5. Conditional Stop
This action will stop the execution of any actions defined after it. It will check message field is present in the signupResponseJson. If it is, then the execution of the action will stop here. If it is not, the next action in the stack will be triggered. In the action:
 - In Check value, select message from the dropdown.
6. Navigate
This action helps to navigate to a screen for the user to enter their login credentials(for example, a Login screen). In the action:
 - In Destination, select the screen name from the dropdown menu.
Log in
To implement the signup process with Backendless REST API service, you need to add the endpoint:
/users/login
Open the Backendless service you have previously created in the Draftbit app and follow the steps below:
 - Click Add Endpoint.
 - In Step 1: enter a name for the endpoint and select the Method to POST.
 - In Step 2: enter the base name as path: /users/login.
 - In Step 3: define the structure of the Body object that will be sent through the POST request. It's a JSON object that requires a key and a value. The key should associate with the name of the field in the Backendless database. For the login route, here is how we have defined the body structure for this POST request:
{
 "login": {{loginEmail}},
 "password": {{loginPassword}}
}
In the above snippet, using {{variable}} names to test the endpoint before using it in the rest of the app. You can provide test values for each of the {{variable}}. The more fields you have while signing up a new user in your app design, the more key and value pairs you can add to the Body structure.
Once you have created the body structure, click on the Body Preview to verify if the structure you have defined is valid to be sent with the POST request or not.
 - In Step 5: click the button Test. On success, the Backendless service will return an encoded user-token. Using the value of this token you can make the authenticated API requests.
 - Click Save.
A typical Log in screen (see the image below) will have a Button/Touchable component in its Components tree to send the API request.
Stacking Actions
When sending an API request to log in a user using the endpoint created in the earlier step, you will need to stack the following actions on a Button/Touchable.
Following actions will be stacked on the Login screen.
 - To add an action, select the Button/Touchable component from the Components tree.
 - Then, in the Properties Panel, go to the Interactions tab.
 - Click the + (plus) button to add an action.
Here is the description of each action:
1. API Request
API Request is used to send the POST request to the endpoint users/login. It comes back with a user-token, objectId, and other user-related data from the Backendless REST API service. In the action:
 - Select the Service name.
 - Select the Endpoint. In this case, it's Login.
 - Add a variable to store the Result Name. The variable assigned here will enable it to be used by subsequent actions.
 - In the Body, select the appropriate Field name property for each variable defined in the Body when setting up the endpoint, from the dropdown menu.
2. Parse JSON
This action is chained with the API Request action to parse the result from it with .json(). In the action:
 - Select the *Result Name from the previous action as the value of Response to parse**.
 - Assign a new Result Name variable. For example, loginResponseJson.
3. Extract Key: userToken
Using the loginResponseJson value from the previous action, let's extract the userToken. In the action:
 - Select the value of the Input to be Result Name of the previous action.
 - Add the Path value: ["user-token"].
 - Add the Result Name: userToken.
4. Extract Key: objectId
Using the loginResponseJson value from the previous action, let's extract the objectId. In the action:
 - Select the value of the Input to be Result Name of the previous action.
 - Add the Path value: .objectId.
 - Add the Result Name: objectId.
5. Extract Key: error message
In the action:
 - Select the value of the Input to be Result Name of the previous action. For example, loginResponseJson.
 - Add the Path value: .message.
 - Add the Result Name: message.
6. Set Global Variable: Error Message
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||The Environmental Interest Group provides a forum for member companies to enhance individual company and industry performance in the area of environmental management by increasing awareness of regulatory issues and providing training and information exchange.
- SGA Layman's Guide to Environmental Regulations in the Natural Gas Industry
- The SGA Layman's Guide to Environmental Regulations in the Natural Gas Industry was developed and written by industry environmental professionals and consultants to provide a basic regulatory summary of the environmental regulations that directly affect the natural gas industry. Latest Revision: 2015
- Visit the SGA Products page for more details.
- Environmental Excellence Awards
- This award recognizes companies who have made significant impacts in protecting the environment by supporting environmental programs on the job or in the community. This award program also provides a forum for sharing of innovative environmental practices. Through utilization of innovative environmental practices, SGA member companies reduce waste, save money, and contribute to the industry's environmental protection efforts, as well as benefit the health and welfare of the nation.
- To submit a nomination, please fill out the nomination form and follow submittal instructions within the nomination form.
- Work on this program must have been completed in the previous calendar year for the current year award nomination.
- 2015 Environmental Excellence Award Recipients
- Technical Conference on Environmental Permitting & Construction
- The SGA Technical Conference on Environmental Permitting & Construction is designed to provide professionals in the pipeline design and construction industry a better understanding of the requirements associated with permitting complex projects and ensuring they are constructed per the federal, state, and local regulatory requirements. This conference is an opportunity for environmental professionals of pipeline operators and service providers to learn more about activities related to meeting the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements for pipeline construction.
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An interest group is a database of gas industry professionals interested in a particular subject matter. SGA members may join as many interest groups as they prefer. Each interest group is managed by a committee. Learn more about the committee that manages this interest group by downloading their Activity Plan.
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Farma Research Animal Health performs studies in major and minor species: dairy cattle, veal calves, swine, horses, sheep, poultry, dogs, cats and ornamental birds.
Type of studies: residues (tissue, injection site, egg, milk), pharmacokinetic and bio-equivalence, target animal safety (systemic and local tolerance), dose determination and field efficacy studies
Farma Research Animal Health is able to perform studies in all numbers of animals, housed individually, in groups or on multiple farms.
Examples of non-standard studies performed are:
- Parallel bioequivalence studies in 90 calves or 80 sheep
- A tissue residue depletion study in 16 healthy milking cows, to be subsequently included, just after calving
- A 5-months explorative safety/efficacy study in more than 80 healthy milking cows divided over 2 farms.
- (Reproductive) safety studies with 20 pregnant sows and more than 200 piglets
- Long lasting safety and residue studies in chickens and pigs (3-6 months)
We advise or assist you in choice of study and study design.
Farma Research Animal Health has been certified by Dutch Authorities to perform animal experiments. Animal care is conducted conform European Law and Guidelines.
Projects are reviewed by an independent Animal Experimental Committee (ethical committee) and are granted by the Central Authority for Scientific Procedures on Animals (CCD). Prior to start study, each study plan will be evaluated by the Animal Welfare Body of Farma Research Animal Health.
In-life phases are conducted under supervision of an independent Animal Welfare Officer


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Agent-based modeling is a methodology for analyzing how groups of interacting individuals or other types of agents bring about various macro outcomes. This course provides a detailed introduction to the agent-based modelling (ABM) technique. The course covers all the steps in the process of developing an ABM, from theoretical design to model implementation and model evaluation. During intensive computer labs, ABMs are implemented using object-oriented programing, including the treatment of variables, commands, and procedures. The course includes practical work with various types of computer-based experiments, as well as methods for evaluating the robustness of simulation results using various statistical sensitivity analyses.
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Originally from China, crape myrtles are truly beautiful trees. With their colorful flower blooms and delicate, exfoliating bark, it is no wonder that crape myrtles have become a favorite for homeowners and landscapers all across North Carolina and the rest of the South. Here at Leaf & Limb Tree Service we receive numerous inquiries from individuals asking what they should do to ensure the well-being of their crape myrtles. Here is some general information about caring for these trees:
- Pruning: Crape myrtles usually need little pruning in order to develop a strong structure. But there are some basic pruning techniques that can enhance the tree's beauty and bloom capacity. First of all, remove dead branches, lower branches very near the ground, suckers growing from the base, and small twiggy branches inside the foliage. Second, you should select one to five strong shoots arising from (or near) ground level to be the tree's main stems. Remove all others. The remaining shoots now form the tree's central framework. These main stems will support the flowering branches (known as laterals and sublaterals). Third, prune one out of every three lateral and sublateral back to the main framework. This will stimulate new growth that matures to bear flowers through the summer. Last, for crape myrtles located in cooler areas, especially in northern regions where the growing season is short, the canopy should be further thinned out in order to let light and air into the center of the tree, thereby discouraging disease.
- Fertilizer: Crape myrtles generally grow best in soil with a pH of 4.5 to 7.5. But even if the soil conditions are not ideal, crape myrtles need very little fertilizer, since they are hardy trees. For older plants, sickly plants, or plants in especially bad soil, a light application of 5-10-5 fertilizer applied in the spring when growth begins should do the trick
- Sunlight: Crape myrtles thrive in full sunlight and full heat. If your crape myrtle is planted in the shade, look for ways to increase sunlight, such as trimming nearby trees. If you are getting ready to plant your crape myrtle, choose a spot that has plenty of sun.
- Water: Crape myrtles, particularly those that are well established, are drought resistant. Crape myrtles need a minimal amount of water and prefer well drained soil. Therefore you should avoid excessive watering.
- Flowers: Excessive watering, too much fertilizer, not enough sun, and too little heat can all cause a dearth of flowering. These actions promote more vegetative growth, which results in less flowers.
- Powdery Mildew: Though there are a handful of resistant varieties, most crape myrtles are susceptible to mildew. This is the most common disease on crape myrtles. If there is a white or grey powder film on the leaves and flower buds of your crape myrtle, it may have powdery mildew. This is a fungal disease that causes damage by halting photosynthesis and other basic life processes of the leaves and buds, which harms the tree. It can be eradicated by applying any fungicide that is labeled for mildew on a weekly basis until the flower buds open. In addition, thinning out branches in order to allow sun and air flow penetration into the canopy can help reduce susceptibility to mildew problems.
- Aphids: These are yellowish green insects that can cover the underside of the crape myrtle's leaves and cause damage by sucking sap out of the tree. In addition, they produce sticky honeydew drops that get all over the tree itself as well as nearby decks, chairs, cars, and patios. These pests are controlled by predators, such as lady bugs. But if you are using pesticides, it may be killing the predators and not the aphids. Quit using pesticides and see what happens – it should allow the predator population to grow and they in turn will eat the aphids. If that does not work, try spraying your crape myrtles with insecticidal soap, such as Safer's Soap, or with an oil product, such as Neem Oil Spray or a paraffinic oil.
- Japanese Beetles: Whole books can be (and have been) written about controlling Japanese Beetle infestations. Here are some of the basics. If you are able to start early before there are too many Japanese Beetles, hand removal is the most effective control method. The best time to do this is early in the morning, when the beetles are still sluggish. The goal is to remove the beetles while they are emerging, before they have a chance to emit pheromones. Just pluck the beetles from the tree, reaching from above (so they cannot fly away) and drop them in a bucket of soapy water. A variation to this method, which can be used if a) there are many beetles or b) you do not want to touch these critters, is to simply place a bucket of water underneath a branch or cluster of flowers, then tap the branch. The beetles usually fall to the ground when disturbed and they will land in the water. Again, the early morning is the best time to do this since the beetles are generally still lethargic. Other methods include: 1) Use a shop vacuum to suck up the beetles. 2) blend dead beetles with some water, then spray this on the plant. Many farmers swear this method is most effective. 3) Blend garlic and hot peppers in water and spray this on the trees. 4) Shower the trees with a commercial garlic spray used to deter mosquitoes. This usually works with beetles as well. 5) Encourage birds to take up residence by placing birdbaths, feeders, and nesting boxes nearby. Birds, especially Starlings, love eating Japanese Beetles. There are many other methods for getting rid of these pests, but do keep two things in mind: First, Japanese Beetle traps are a bad idea. They generally attract more beetles than they kill, which leaves an excess of new bugs to prey on your trees and plants. Second, it is usually not worth spraying Japanese Beetles with pesticides since this will also kill aphid predators and likely lead to an explosion in the aphid population.
The good news is that crape myrtles are very tough trees. They do not need much care in order to survive. But if given a little extra TLC, your crape myrtles are sure to be especially healthy trees full of lovely flower blossoms.


Planning to hire a virtual employee? Not so fast!
Posted on: December 7, 2017 by
Software robots are in many ways equivalent to human workers. They can do many things people can do. They can login into applications, read and write and do even complex processing of data. Yet they are vastly dissimilar. They need to be taught the work step by step. They cannot cope with exceptional situations without guidance like people can. In the other hand, they have better memory capabilities and they usually do not forget to execute a task. You could call a software robot a virtual employee. As with hiring a person, you need to also consider several things before proceeding to hire a robot (buying a robot license).
The Robot Should Not Be Idle
A robot does not sleep. It does not take breaks and it does not go on a skiing trips on the Alps, unless you instruct it to do so. It works day and night, on the weekends, during Christmas and every day in the month, if you instruct it to do so. This means that the robot has over 700 hours of working time each month. This brings us to the first consideration: do you have enough work for the robot? This should be examined thoroughly before making the hiring decision. Luckily, there are already experiences and methods how to do this.
Create a Strategy
The second consideration is about the aim of hiring a robot: what do you want to achieve with your new virtual employee? Do you want to cut cost? Are there more valuable tasks that you need to release your other employees to execute? Do you want to increase the quality of your products by removing the human error? Will the robot be used to otherwise raise your operational excellence? Many times the goal of the robot is to cut costs and other goals are not even considered. But what if you could in stead increase your revenue by providing more quality goods or better service for your customers to buy? It would be healthy to build a strategy for utilizing the virtual employees.
Required Capabilities
When you are hiring actual employees, you usually think about the skills, capabilities and experience candidates. The same applies to robots. There are different kinds of robots and they come with different brands and capabilities. This is the third consideration: what kind of robot to choose? First of all, there are several software robot suppliers in the market. The market leaders (by Forrester) are Automation Anywhere, Blueprism and UIPath. These three already differ from each other in their approach: how the robots are instructed, how the robots are controlled and how open the framework is. There are also differences on the salary model of the robot, the licensing. The tools also have pros and cons when evaluated against your process and IT landscape; the result most likely differs in other environments.
Organizing Differently
You can also think about the management of these virtual employees: will you manage them yourself or will you outsource that task? If you manage them yourself, in what part of the organization will they reside? IT department could be the obvious choice, but it could well be also the different business units or even an own separate unit! Or then you could outsource that separate unit completely. Many digital services vendors, like Atos, have the full capability to offer this service to you. This is the fourth thing to consider when hiring a virtual employee.
Of course there are many more considerations to be done like
 - is my organization mature enough to employ robots?
 - will my organization resist virtual coworkers (the fear of losing jobs)?
 - are my processes ready to be handed out to be run by robots?
 - what are the tasks that are still better handled by people?
The bottom line is that you should not hire a software robot just because your competitor has one or it is the hype of the moment. But the truth is also that these robots are coming and not hiring them in the long run would mean competitive disadvantage. Ultimately, you need to hire them, but take your time to evaluate, consult the experts, experiment, create the strategy and then execute on larger extent.
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- The layout radius is the length of the side of the cone.
For truncated cones the lengths are to the theoretical point (c1 + c2).
- The FLAT layout angle is determined by the circumference of the finished cone
divided by the circumference of the layout circle (from radius 1. above).
- Since PI cancels in the two circumferences above you divide the radius of the base
(b2) by the length of the side (for truncated cones use the length to the theoretical point c1 + c2).
This is the ratio or percentage of the layout circle.
This is also the sine of half the angle of the top of the cone (angle B).
So, if you want a cone with a 90° point then the ratio is the sine of half the angle of the
point (B above).
sine(45°) =.7071
Therefore the layout angle S =.7071 x 360° = 254.6°
You can use either method, the ratio or the sine of the angle.
Both numbers are the same.
sine is simply a word for ratio in geometry.
If you have a starting angle it is easy to use a modern calculator to determine the sine.
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The Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory (NDTL) recently completed a development test campaign of a full-scale, multistage, low-pressure aviation compressor in a 10 MW test cell. The tests included over 600 measurement channels in order to understand the compressor performance in depth. High accuracy instrumentation, detailed and repeated measurement system calibrations, and special care for build-to-build repeatability resulted in a stall margin accuracy of ±0.1% and efficiency repeatability better than ±0.3 points.
In addition to base performance, the test campaign examined how the compressor flow field changes when the airfoils are subjected to small imperfections. This required measurements of the unsteady pressure behind the affected stage, which were obtained by constructing a custom probe that consisted of a miniature Kulite pressure sensor embedded inside of a Kiel type shroud. The custom probe provided a time-resolved measurement of total pressure; it was then traversed in circumferential and radial directions to construct a whole-field image of the rotor's aerodynamic performance.
An example result is shown above, featuring individual compressor blade wakes and secondary flows. These measurements were obtained for several different blade alterations in order to study the aerodynamic effects of slightly damaged compressor airfoils.
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The flying ship is the main locomotive means of the Spellbinders.
Although it seems to be quite slow the flying ship is a more comfortable way compared to horse travel. Flying ships can take multiple passengers, but at least one of them must be a pilot, wearing a charged and active Power suit. The knowledge to build and maintain flying ships has been lost to time. Currently only seven functioning ones exist in the entire land, and the Spellbinders don't have the technical know-how to repair them.
The ships don't seem to carry a power source of their own, instead relying on power distribution towers and the Center of Power in the Spellbinder castle in order to fly. When any of these are disrupted or destroyed, the ships don't have enough of their own power to land, and simply fall to the ground. Similar, if the operator is incapacitated in flight, or if their power suit is damaged or destroyed, the ship will also lose flight abilities.
The ships seem to have at least basic aerodynamic properties - when they lose power, they don't just drop to the ground (as their bulky size would suggest), but instead sort of glide to the crash.
Functions and Attributes
- The body of the flying ship looks like a sort of a capsule, with a gigantic view window in front and a constantly-open climbing hatch on its belly. It features two long and narrow feet on its sides, as well as two smaller ones at the end of the body. The entire metalwork of the ship is uncoated and all ships seen in the land are covered in rust.
- In order to engage in flight, two things are required: a functioning powersuit and a working Centre of Power in the castle. Once engaged manually, a big power stone located astern in the ship begins to rotate and glow, and this seems to produce the force that enables flight. The ship can maintain altitude and direction, and much like helicopters, it can hover in one place.
- The power suit itself doesn't seem to power the ship. Instead, it seems to provide some form of regulatory control, required for sustained flight. The suit's power stones work in tandem with the ship's power stone in order to sustain flight.
- The ship doesn't seem to be directly powered by its power stone. The stone seems to function more like a buffer, momentarily storing large amounts of power gathered from the Center of Power through electrical Towers. It is possible that the suit is then used to control the flow of this energy.
- Flying ships fall fast - as soon as the Centre of Power is disrupted, the operator loses electrical contact with the ship, or a Summoning Tower is short-circuited, they tend to fall out of the sky (although there seems to be a short delay - a grace period, before this happens). This occurs several times, and altogether five known crashes happen - three ships carrying unknown Spellbinders, one with Ashka and Gryvon, and one with Paul and Riana.
- The ships seem to be generally impervious to all sorts of damage, including electrical damage. Power suit's flash bolts seem to disrupt the energy flow, causing the ships to jerk and lose balance momentarily, but otherwise don't seem to pose a significant threat.
- Due to their construction, the flying ship's hull offers a large deal of protection to the passangers.
- Flying ships can locate eyestones and prison bracelets seemingly without the need for signal triangulation.
- A eyestone and a compass are standard equipment on flying ships, however exactly how these can maintain their function in the strong magnetic fields is unclear.
- Flying ships seem to be equipped with some form of rudimentary gyroscopes or similar technology, which is evidenced by their capability for level flight without much input from the pilot.


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The Swedish Institute (SI) is a public agency that promotes interest and confidence in Sweden around the world. SI seeks to establish cooperation and lasting relations with other countries through strategic communication and exchange in the fields of culture, education, science and business. SI also supports Swedish language instruction at foreign universities. SI works closely with Swedish embassies and consulates around the world. Cultural diplomacy is considered an highly effective component in the Swedish approach to public diplomacy.
Few Swedish agencies have such a comprehensive range of activities in pursuit of Sweden's commitments in the world – and in promoting development both in Sweden and in its partner countries – as the Swedish Institute (SI). In 2010, SI undertook or helped finance exchanges in 124 countries, while also engaging in informational activities that reached more than 220 countries. To a great extent, therefore, SI regards itself as Sweden's globalization agency. Not least because SI:
 - promotes Sweden's international position and enhance its prospects by
 1. making the world more aware of our country and inspiring confidence and interest in us,
 2. establishing ties and networks with key figures in a wide range of fields,
 3. paving the way for new partnerships, exchanges and trade with the outside world,
 - fosters creativity, innovation and development both in Sweden and in partner countries by encouraging exchanges of knowledge and know-how, inspiration and talent,
 - facilitates cooperation, democracy and sustainable global development by
 1. encouraging progress towards human rights, freedom of expression and gender equality,
 2. raising awareness and boosting capacity in the fields of sustainability, climate and environment,
 3. supporting partner countries' economic, social and cultural development, as part of Sweden's development cooperation effort,
 - helps to reduce tension and the risk of conflict by encouraging knowledge-sharing, dialogue and understanding between people both in Sweden and in other countries.
The Swedish Institute runs its operations within the framework of public diplomacy – understanding, informing, influencing and developing relations with people in other countries. The intention is to increase awareness about Sweden and create a positive environment through strategic communication and relationship-building activities in order to achieve Swedish economic, political and cultural objectives.
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TLDR; When used inside of a filter context, CALCULATE performs context transition, transforming the current row context into a filter context. We explore how context transition conditions the output of calculated columns in tables, and how measures and relationships interact with it.
So far in our Evaluation Contexts in DAX series we have learned about the row and filter contexts, how these affect the output of our DAX code, and how they interact with different types of relationships between tables in our data model. In this third and final part of this series, we learn about how
CALCULATE performs Context Transition when used inside of a filter context.
What happens when we don't use
Let's revisit once more our example with a data model containing data on the sales of certain products from a store. The two tables we will be using are the Product table, containing details on the products available in the store, and the Sales table, containing details on the sales made.
Let's see what happens when Context Transition doesn't happen.
The following DAX formula will display the sum of all the unit prices in the Product table visible in the current filter context.
Total Unit Price = SUM ( 'Product'[Unit Price] )
One easy mistake to make is to expect the Total Unit Price column to be equal to the Unit Price column. It is true that when we create a calculated column in a table, there is an automatic row context for the product table. However, what
SUM does is aggregate all the values in the current filter context and display their sum. Because the filter context is empty, no filters are being applied to the table The Total Unit Price calculated column returns the sum of all cells in the Unit Price column, showing the same value in all cells of the column.
How CALCULATE introduces Context Transition
CALCULATE performs context transition, meaning it transforms the row context into a filter context.
CALCULATE is used inside of a row context, like in a calculated column, it turns the current row context into a filter context, deleting the current row context. Anything inside of
CALCULATE will be computed in a filter context containing only one row. Let's see how this works.
Let's create a new calculated column like before, except this time we will wrap our
SUM inside of
Total Unit Price CALCULATE = CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'Product'[Unit Price] ) )
Note that the output of our new calculated column using
CALCULATE is identical to the Unit Price column. This is because as the row context iterates through the rows of the table, that row context becomes a filter context. As we have seen before,
SUM aggregates all the values in the current filter context and sums them. This time, the filter context contains only one row at a time, so the sum will be the value itself.
CALCULATE and Measures
One important thing to understand about measures is that they are automatically surrounded by
CALCULATE. In our previous example this would mean that if we created a calculated column where Total Unit Price is a measure, this column would yield the same result as our Total Unit Price
In order to see this in action, let's first create a measure that calculates the sum of the Unit Price column in the Product table.
Total_Unit_Price = SUM ('Product'[Unit Price] )
This is the same formula as in the Total Unit Price calculated column we had before, only this is a measure now.
Now, we create a calculated column from this measure.
Total Unit Price Measure = 'Product'[Total_Unit_Price]
We see how the new calculated column is identical to the one computed using
CALCULATE (and to the original Unit Price column, for that matter), because
CALCULATE is implied when a measure is used inside of a calculated column.
Context Transition and Table Relationships
In our last post, we explained how different types of relationships between tables in the data model affect the output of our DAX code. So how does context transition interact with relationships? The answer is just as you would expect.
Here's a little reminder of how evaluation contexts propagate through relationships:
- Row contexts never propagate through relationships.
- Filter contexts do propagate through relationships, but only from the one side to the many side of the relationship.
In our data model, the Product table is on the many side of a one-to-many relationship with the Sales table. This means the only the filter context is propagated from the Product to the Sales table.
Our aim is to investigate whether context transition happens between tables.
In the Product table, let's add a column that computes the sum of the Sales Amount in the Sales table.
Total Sales Amount = SUM ( Sales[Sales Amount] )
This will give the sum of all rows in the Sales Amount column visible in the current filter context. We know also that the row context does not propagate through relationships. So, because the filter context is currently empty, all the cells in the new calculated column will display the same value – the sum of all the rows in the Sales Amount column.
Just like we did before, let's surround our formula with
CALCULATE. We now create a new calculated column with the following formula:
Total Sales Amount CALCULATE = CALCULATE ( SUM ( Sales[Sales Amount] ) )
And, yes, you guessed it.
CALCULATE performs context transition between relationships as well. Why is that? Because filter contexts propagate through relationships, from the one side to the many side. Here, every time
CALCULATE iterates through the row context in the Product table, this row context is transformed into a filter context, which is then propagated onto the Sales table. The Sales table is then only going to show the rows corresponding to the one row visible at that point in the Product table. All the cells visible in that filter context in the Sales Amount column are added and the result shows in the Product table.
Context Transition is a powerful feature of
CALCULATE, but it can create confusion sometimes. The two main things to remember are:
- When used inside of a row context,
CALCULATEwill transform that row context into a filter context.
- Measures are automatically surrounded by
After that, knowing the rules about how filter contexts work and propagate through relationships, it becomes easier to understand and predict the result of our DAX code.


Morphology of the epididymal region of turkeys producing abnormal yellow semen.
R. A. Hess, R. J. Thurston, H. V. Biellier
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
Male turkeys producing abnormal yellow-colored semen (YS) had hypertrophied epithelial cells in the ductuli efferentes. The cells were engorged with cytoplasmic, lipid-like (lipoid) droplets, a morphological abnormality found exclusively in this area of the epididymal region. The testes, epididymal region, ductus deferens, and abdominal fat were relatively yellow compared to turkeys producing normal white semen (WS). Adipose tissue within the abdominal cavity and lining the ductus deferens was more abundant in the YS producers. In addition to increased lipoid droplets, nonciliated cells of the ductuli epithelia contained larger and more numerous electron-dense lysosomal bodies than similar nonciliated cells in WS males. Resorption of morphologically normal and abnormal spermatozoa by the epithelia of the ductuli efferentes was prevalent in the YS males but was not observed in the WS turkeys. The seminal fluids in the epididymal region of the YS males contained abnormal spermatids, cellular debris, and increased amounts of electron-dense proteinaceous material.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)531-539
Number of pages9
JournalPoultry science
Issue number3
StatePublished - Mar 1982
Externally publishedYes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
 - Animal Science and Zoology
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The Boise area, also known as the Treasure Valley, is drier and warmer than other parts of southern and central Idaho where summers can seem short, the winters bleak. The average annual precipitation is just 11.7 inches per year. It's also milder than other arid regions of the western US, where summer feels like an oven every other day. The distinct four seasons in the Treasure Valley also offer year-round activities with something for everyone to enjoy.
What's the Winter Weather Like in Boise?
Winter Snow? Of course. The average winter season snowfall, mainly mid-November through early February, is 21 inches. While that can sound like a lot, many locals will tell you most of the snow falls one inch at a time, at night, and melts away the same day. In fact, the coldest days of the season are normally from December 21st to January 6th, but the normal high for those days is 36 degrees, including Christmas and New Year's Day.
December is the wettest month of the year in Boise, with a monthly average of 5½ inches of snow and about an inch of rain (measured as 1.55 inches of total precipitation). If you're dreaming of a white Christmas, you just might find it here. In the last decade, snow was falling and/or on the ground for seven Christmases. Four times there was one inch, the other three of those holidays it was four or more inches of snow.
January gets an average of seven inches of snow per year, but the average daily high temperature is about 38 degrees. December's average high is just under 37.5 degrees. But it does get colder. For the last 20 years, the temperature has dipped below 0 degrees 9 times each in December and January. In terms of annual occurrences, that translates to .43 days below 0 per year in each of the two months.
February's average high temperature is 44 degrees, and usually, a little more than four inches of snow will fall. Snowfall can linger into the spring, with the average last measurable snow in any given year on March 24th. November can get about two inches of snow in an average year, March about 1½ inches.
What's the Spring Like in Boise?
Spring Showers? You betcha. March, April, and May each experience between 1¼ and 1½ inches of precipitation in an average year. While this doesn't sound like much, it's quadruple what falls during July or August. Average temperatures rise steadily through the spring, with average highs of 55, 62, and 72 degrees in the three months. The average high on Easter is 61 degrees.
Spring also gets leftover snow and some frost. In the last 20 years, there has been measurable snow in March 16 times, but only 6 times in April, and none in May. There have been traces of snow in May and even June, but not enough to measure. In an average year, the last day of a hard freeze (28 degrees) is April 19th, and the last day for frost (32 degrees) is May 8th.
What's the Summer Like in Boise?
Summer Storms? Not that many. July and August are the driest months of the year, with an average rainfall of just 1/3 inch and ¼ inch, respectively. Thunderstorms do occur, but the monsoon moisture that brings summer showers to states south and east of here avoid Boise.
July and August are also the hottest months of the year, with daily average high temperatures of 91 and 90 degrees. These mid-summer months also experience the most frequent days with 100+ degree temperatures. For the last 20 years, there was an average of 10.3 occurrences of 100+ degrees each year, 64% were in July (6½ times per year) and 24% were in August (2½ per year). On the 4th of July, expect an average high of 89 degrees, with sunset at 9:29 PM.
June, September, and October are also fairly dry, each seeing only ½ to ¾ inch of rain per year. The dry air and light summer rain make the Treasure Valley an ideal place to grow vegetable seeds, such as corn, onions, and carrots.
What's the Fall Like in Boise?
Fun in the Fall? For sure! Fall is a beautiful season in Boise. The least windy time of year and the overall most pleasant weather is from mid-September through October. Temperatures are beginning to drop in October, however. In average years the first day of frost (32 degrees) is October 10th, and the first day of hard freeze is October 23rd.
Although the first frost and hard freeze occur before the end of October, Halloween itself usually has a low of 35 and a high of 56 degrees. The crisp fall air makes the day feel just right.
The average first day of measurable snow in Boise every winter is just in time for Thanksgiving, November 22. Thanksgiving's annual forecast calls for a high of 44 degrees and a low of 27, just right for football. An average November sees 2.6 inches of snow, but there is usually no snow on the ground for Thanksgiving.
Windy City? Not really. The Treasure Valley runs from the northwest at Ontario, Oregon, 90 miles to southeast at Mountain Home, Idaho, and is about 45 miles wide. The Boise Mountains to the northeast and Owyhee Range to the southwest frame the Treasure Valley and each have peaks above 8,000 feet. This creates a regular wind pattern of flows from northwest to southeast – and vice versa. Because Boise and the other towns in the Treasure Valley area also lower than the Boise Foothills, higher winds often stay aloft.
But that doesn't mean there aren't ever any strong winds. On the contrary, especially in Ontario or Mountain Home. As in many locations, spring is the windiest time of year with unsettled air masses moving over the continent. In winter the Treasure Valley can also experience inversions, trapping cold hazy air close to the ground while milder air passes over. The least windy time of year is from mid-September through October.
What Else? We can talk about the weather all day, but you can't find a better four-season climate than right here. Experience it for yourself!


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Authors: Mitchell SA, Fisher CA, Hastings CE, Silverman LB, Wallen GR
Title: A thematic analysis of theoretical models for translational science in nursing: mapping the field.
Journal: Nurs Outlook 58(6):287-300
Date: 2010 Nov-Dec
Abstract: The quantity and diversity of conceptual models in translational science may complicate rather than advance the use of theory. This paper offers a comparative thematic analysis of the models available to inform knowledge development, transfer, and utilization. Literature searches identified 47 models for knowledge translation. Four thematic areas emerged: (1) evidence-based practice and knowledge transformation processes, (2) strategic change to promote adoption of new knowledge, (3) knowledge exchange and synthesis for application and inquiry, and (4) designing and interpreting dissemination research. This analysis distinguishes the contributions made by leaders and researchers at each phase in the process of discovery, development, and service delivery. It also informs the selection of models to guide activities in knowledge translation. A flexible theoretical stance is essential to simultaneously develop new knowledge and accelerate the translation of that knowledge into practice behaviors and programs of care that support optimal patient outcomes.
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Overview
This article contains the Gtmhub best practices for writing insight SQL.
General Points
 - Capitalize all SQL key words to distinguish them from specific tables/columns/aliases
 - SELECT, FROM, WHERE, ON, AS, etc.
 - Avoid using COUNT(*). Use COUNT(1) instead
 - Avoid using SELECT * except when testing. Use a specific list of columns you want instead
 - Avoid using SELECT DISTINCT if possible due to efficiency. If possible, use it on smaller tables
 - Avoid using temporary tables using a WITH clause. They should be used as a last resort only
Table Aliases
 - Unless selecting from only one table, alias your table and add the alias to all columns referenced
 - This includes both in the SELECT part of the statement as well as JOIN and WHERE clauses
 - This will avoid confusion about what table columns are coming from
 - Table aliases should be either the full table name or an abbreviation representing the table name
 - If a table is referenced multiple times, use a number on the end of the alias
Column Aliases
 - All columns must include an alias unless you are using the name from the original table and it is not ambiguous as to what it belongs to
 - For example, if joining metrics and goals, you should use goal_name and metric_name instead of simply "name"
 - All columns using aggregation or other function manipulation must be aliased
 - Column aliases should use lower case letters and underscores only. Do not use camel case
 - When converted into a JavaScript object, all column names are converted to lower case. If the SQL aliases them to upper case, it can lead to confusion when trying to reference the column
❌Avoid This
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m.name AS name1,
ms.createdat AS snapshotDate
FROM gtmhubgoals g
INNER JOIN
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SELECT g.name AS objective_name,
m.name AS kr_name,
ms.createdat AS snapshot_date
FROM gtmhubgoals g
INNER JOIN
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ON g.id = m.goalid
INNER JOIN
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ON ms.metricid = m.id
Joins
 - When joining tables together, use INNER JOIN wherever possible instead of LEFT JOIN
 - INNER JOINs are more efficient because they will remove rows, meaning fewer comparisons in later joins
 - When ordering tables in JOINs, start with smaller tables and then move to progressively larger tables
 - I.E. start with objectives, then join to Key Results, then join to Key Result Snapshots
 - This reduces the number of comparisons that need to occur to complete all joins
 - Do not use nested queries if you can avoid it. A simple JOIN is significantly more efficient
 - When ordering a mix of inner and left JOINs, do all inner joins first, then left joins
 - You can get unexpected results when mixing inner and left joins
 - Completing inner joins first means there are fewer rows for comparison on the left joins
 - Do not use RIGHT JOIN, re-order your join order to be able to use a LEFT JOIN instead
 - Mixing RIGHT and LEFT joins can be confusing and difficult to follow. In almost all situations, you should be able to order joins in a way where LEFT is always used
Filtering Results
 - When using only INNER JOIN, there is no need for a WHERE clause. Include your filters that would otherwise be in a WHERE clause in the highest join you can (based on what tables you want to filter)
 - This will help the query perform more efficiently due to needing to compare fewer rows as part of the JOIN statements
 - Avoid use of OR clauses, as they are generally inefficient. Favor using IN as an alternate
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m.name AS kr_name,
ms.createdat AS update_date
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m.name AS kr_name,
ms.createdat AS update_date
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Result Limit
 - If there is any possibility of retrieving more than 5000 rows, include LIMIT 5000 at the end of the query
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See Also
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eConsent facilitates patient engagement and transparency in clinical trials
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eConsent is an important technology that the most advanced countries in the world have adopted at the legislative level. It simplifies the patient's work in a clinical study, protects him or her from various problems and inconsistencies that may arise during the project.
The study of the safety and efficacy of drugs in clinical trials involves active work with patients. One of the main tasks of the project team is to make the study as simple, convenient, and transparent as possible for the participants. In modern trials, these goals are successfully achieved using smart electronic tools.
In this article, we will talk about one of these systems: eConsent or Electronic Informed Consent Forms (eICFs).
What are Informed Consent Forms (ICFs)?
Informed consent forms (ICFs) are what a volunteer will sign before starting any action in a clinical trial. It contains information about all the details of the study, its duration, procedure, etc. ICFs also indicate volunteer rights, obligations, potential risks, exit rules, and other vital points.
This document and its correct preparation are extremely important, as it makes the project transparent and understandable to the volunteer. This protects the person from any unforeseen circumstances, issues, and manipulations. It also helps to make people's participation in the trials more informed and involves them in the project.
Disadvantages of Standard ICFs Signing Approaches
The standard procedure is the reading and signing by the volunteer of the ICF paper form at the medical center, in the presence of the researcher. The volunteer is given as much time as necessary while reading, and he or she can ask questions or make comments. However, this approach has a number of disadvantages. So, it is not always possible to provide information in paper form. In addition, the environment in which the volunteer is located can exert a particular pressure. This makes a person read information faster and leads to a deterioration in perception.
Electronic Systems eConsent
To minimize the shortcomings of paper forms of informed consent, companies are switching to electronic counterparts: eConsent.
This approach has advantages that simplify patient participation in clinical trials and make the project more effective. Consider the main benefits of using eConsent:
 1. Ease of presentation of information for the patient. Before starting a clinical trial, the main task is to explain the specifics of the project to the patient, explain the rules of the test, and convey information about the rights and opportunities of the person. The volume of such information is often large, and if presented linearly on paper, a person may not understand many points. eConsent electronic modules solve this problem, thanks to their ability to present information in an accessible and convenient form. The informed consent form can be accompanied by illustrations, diagrams, a calendar, and even interactive elements. This helps to provide information for patients in the most understandable way and help people become aware and involved in the project.
 2. No pressure on patients. Using eConsent programs, the patient has enough time to read and analyze information in a comfortable environment. So, a person is not required to sign ICFs at a medical center on the day the document is issued. He or she can open eConsent at home on a computer, and read it in a comfortable place. At the same time, the participant is not pressured by the situation and time frame, and he or she can deeply and consciously analyze the information. This makes the person more educated and aware of the rules and details of the project.
 3. Improving the quality of clinical data collected. This item is related to the previous points. Since eConsent helps to increase volunteer awareness, he or she better understands the essence of the study and the sequence of actions. A person can effectively collaborate with a researcher, be more involved in the project, and provide quality data. eConsent modules integrate seamlessly with other electronic systems, such as the Electronic data capture (EDC) system. An example of such an EDC system is OnlineCRF. The integration of the two systems allows you to store all patient data, including signed ICFs and medical information, in one secure location. This way, researchers can have quick access to data, which speeds up research.
eConsent is an important technology that the most advanced countries in the world have adopted at the legislative level. It simplifies the patient's work in a clinical study, protects him or her from various problems and inconsistencies that may arise during the project. Due to its functionality and ease of reporting, the project becomes simple for the volunteer. And this, in turn, increases his or her interest and involvement.
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Mobile Grow Systems (MGS) is a prime example of how innovative companies have entered and grown within the horticulture industry. Here's a brief overview of how MGS developed and made an impact in the industry:
Introduction of Mobile Grow Systems: MGS recognized the potential of mobile and modular growing systems to address the challenges faced by traditional horticulture methods. They introduced a concept where self-contained, fully functional growing environments could be transported and set up anywhere, regardless of the available space or environmental conditions.
Advantages of Mobility and Modularity: MGS highlighted the advantages of mobile grow systems, such as flexibility, scalability, and adaptability. These systems allow growers to maximize space utilization, optimize environmental conditions, and have better control over the growing process. The modularity of the systems enables expansion or reconfiguration as needed, providing growers with greater flexibility and efficiency.
Technological Integration: MGS integrated advanced technologies into their mobile grow systems. They incorporated automated controls for lighting, irrigation, temperature, and humidity, allowing growers to monitor and adjust the growing environment remotely. This integration of technology improved efficiency, reduced labor requirements, and enabled precise control over the growing conditions.
Focus on Sustainability: MGS recognized the growing demand for sustainable and environmentally friendly horticulture practices. They designed their systems to be energy-efficient, utilizing LED grow lights and efficient HVAC systems. Additionally, they incorporated water-saving technologies and implemented recycling and waste management strategies within their systems.
Collaborations and Partnerships: MGS actively sought collaborations and partnerships within the horticulture industry. They worked with universities, research institutions, and experienced growers to gather insights and refine their systems. These collaborations helped MGS refine their products and ensure that their solutions met the specific needs and challenges faced by growers.
Demonstrations and Education: MGS conducted demonstrations and educational programs to showcase the capabilities and benefits of their mobile grow systems. They participated in industry events, trade shows, and workshops to engage with growers and educate them about the advantages of their technology. By sharing knowledge and demonstrating the potential of their systems, they gained traction and built a reputation within the horticulture industry.
Customer Success and Testimonials: MGS focused on customer success and gathered testimonials from satisfied growers who experienced positive results using their mobile grow systems. These testimonials helped build credibility and trust within the industry, attracting more customers and fostering word-of-mouth recommendations.
Continuous Innovation and Adaptation: To stay competitive and relevant, MGS continued to innovate and adapt to the evolving needs of the horticulture industry. They listened to customer feedback, monitored industry trends, and invested in research and development to enhance their products and introduce new features or solutions.
Through their focus on mobility, modularity, sustainability, technological integration, collaborations, education, and customer success, Mobile Grow Systems grew into a reputable player in the horticulture industry. Their innovative approach to addressing the challenges faced by traditional growing methods contributed to their success and positioned them as a leader in the mobile grow system market.


Where Do Dolphins Sleep?
December 23, 2023
Dolphins are fast, playful, and intelligent animals, but where do they sleep? In this article we'll explore the answer to that question and see how these amazing mammals get their rest!
Dolphins and whales do not find caves or other places to rest like humans, so they have developed a unique way of sleeping. They enter a state of sleep called unihemispheric slow wave sleep, or USWS for short. During this time only one half of the brain (and the opposite eye) sleeps while the other remains at a low level of alertness, ready to watch for predators or obstacles, and signal when it's time to rise to the surface for air. This allows dolphins to be able to breathe automatically while still being conscious enough to react to danger, and remain aware of their environment so they can surface when necessary.
When a dolphin is in a state of USWS they will typically lie motionless at the water's surface or swim slowly close to it, but will wake up frequently to breathe. This makes them look a bit like they are sleep walking! Newborn dolphin and whale calves do not enter this state of sleep for the first couple of weeks of life.
In captivity, humpback whales have been observed to lie motionless at the ocean's surface for around 30 minutes, however they cannot rest for much longer or risk losing too much body heat from being inactive. It is also believed that dolphins may sleep in groups, either lying at the surface with their blowhole exposed or drifting slowly together.
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The Inter-Ministry Co-ordinating Committee (IMCC) co-ordinates national activities amongst relevant ministries and institutions to ensure smooth implementation of national efforts which keep in line with regional directions and objectives.
Role of the IMCC
The IMCC reviews work plans that National Working Groups (NWGs) prepare and provides them with guidance for improvement when necessary.
- Prepare, on behalf of the government, national positions on policy issues for the Interim Commission Council to consider and present the positions to the Council through the IMCC chairperson;
- Nominate regional environmental managers and science and technical experts for inclusion in the Management Advisory Roster;
- Establish the NWGs with leading experts in the country in line with the requirements, focal areas, and activities of the RWGs;
- Appoint the NC and the NWG chairpersons based on nominations by the GEF National Focal Agency (i.e., NFP) and the GEF National Implementing Agency;26
- Review and co-ordinate national activities under the NSAP implementation, that the NWGs propose;
- Provide the NWGs with guidance and suggestions to improve the national activities to meet national and regional environmental concerns and priorities;
- Secure technical and financial resources necessary to implement the national and regional activities;
- Monitor the progress of the national activities and ensure the quality of outputs;
- Facilitate co-operation with relevant national organisations and projects to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the national activities;
- Report to the MSTP through the NC on the progress of the national activities;
- Facilitate the participation of the private sector and NGOs in SAP/NSAP implementation; and
- Disseminate the findings and results of NSAP implementation to broad audiences, nationally, regionally, and internationally.
- Government executive officials at the GEF National Focal Agency (i.e., GEF National Operational Focal Point [NFP]), the GEF National Implementing Agency, and all the other relevant ministries that have responsibilities in marine and coastal issues in the Yellow Sea
- National Working Group (NWG) chairpersons
- Representatives from private sector organisations actively engaged in NSAP implementation
- Representatives of NGOs actively engaged in NSAP implementation
The IMCC chairperson serves as a member of the Council and the IMCC reports to the MSTP through the NC. The National Co-ordinator (NC) serves as a secretary to the IMCC.
Please refer to Architecture of the Interim YSLME Commission for more details.


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The ORBIT project develops an "Open Resource Bank for Interactive Teaching" (ORBIT) (and an associated programme) to promote interactive teaching for primary and secondary schools. ORBIT is aimed at use in formal HE teaching (PGCE), use in training schools and by teacher mentors, as well as continuing professional development for in-service teachers.
ORBIT makes existing higher education expertise on teacher education as widely available as possible to other teacher education providers both within HE and otherwise, through:
- ensuring that relevant and high quality resources from existing and disappearing collections (both produced within HEIs and by practitioners) are made openly available to the teacher education and school teacher communities,
- developing additional materials where these are needed to fill gaps, and
- contributing to broad collaboration and synergy in OER on teacher education, both within the UK, and between the UK and other countries, such as the United States.
The Open Resource Bank on Interactive Teaching (ORBIT) supports teaching and learning in a significant part of an initial teacher education course, such as an HE-based 1-year PGCE course in primary education or secondary mathematics or science (or a school-based training programme), primarily focusing on interactive teaching in these two subject areas. Mathematics and science are key curriculum subjects and a focus in this area fits well with the government's current prioritisation of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). The ORBIT focusses on practical aspects of interactive teaching and enquiry-based learning, illustrating pedagogical principles through concrete lesson plans and ideas. The ORBIT materials are hands-on, presenting actual activities within lessons as the primary building blocks, with theoretical ideas embedded within these blocks. We seek to make this particular approach – a hallmark of effective teacher education – more accessible and tangible. Within ORBIT, there is also a significant focus on the use of ICT within the subject teaching of mathematics and science, which is an important emerging area, and one which is notoriously lacking in effective pedagogical support.
The overarching concern of the ORBIT project is to bring together Open Educational Resources in a particular subject area, and then to increase their use. The first objective is the creation of the ORBIT resource bank itself. We draw on content and technical expertise from a wide range of partners.
The second objective is the creation of an open course book. A collection of materials will be collated into a self-contained open digital course book, which with freedom to duplicate, re-use, and adapt content.
The third objective is to address a number of research questions relating to open content.
Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes
The ORBIT resource bank itself contains lesson ideas and plans, associated with pedagogical principles as well as subject information. Resources are tagged, for instance according to grade, subject, and pedagogical principles, and users can make their own collections. Each resource in the ORBIT includes professional studies and subject-specific elements, together developing pedagogical content knowledge.
Another output is the self-contained 'open course book' itself, which is a collection of ORBIT resources (i.e. a series of lesson ideas, together with subject/pedagogical notes and exercises), together with a number of additional chapters (such as an introductory chapter, and then a brief chapter introducing each pedagogical idea).
Dr Björn Haßler, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, UK, 01223 767 600 _EMAIL_
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This workshops aims to:
- Discuss the state-of-the-art of innovative indirect structural health monitoring (iSHM) based on the vehicle-bridge interaction
- Present innovative SHM methods regarding advanced sensors and technologies, signal processing methods, artificial intelligence.
- Identify and analyse technical, legislative and operational challenges and opportunities (including data issues) for future large-scale implementation of iSHM
- Explore synergies with ongoing R&I projects and other initiatives
- Discuss the integration of SHM approaches to standards and codes of practice
- Provide insights towards the way forward for future research and implementation.
- transport infrastructure
- Ispra, Italy
- Hybrid, online and physical presenceVia Enrico Fermi, 2749, 21017 Ispra VA, Italy
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- Scientists with background in the vehicle-bridge interaction, regarding advanced sensors and technologies, signal processing methods, artificial intelligence, connected and automated vehicles.
- Съвместен изследователски център – Испра
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The existing European urban and infrastructural network is prone to ageing and subject to natural events (e.g., climate change) and hazards (e.g., earthquakes), necessitating immediate actions for its maintenance and safety. Within this context, the structural health monitoring (SHM) framework offers a quantitative assessment of the structural integrity, serviceability, and performance, facilitating better-informed decisions for the management of the existing infrastructure.
In this framework, the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) established the exploratory research project MITICA (Monitoring Transport Infrastructures with Connected and Automated vehicles) to investigate the opportunities of novel methods of infrastructures motoring for the efficient maintenance of the European aging road infrastructure. MITICA addressed the future advantages of connected vehicles and the measurements from vehicles on-board sensors to infer bridges conditions possibly offering an alternative low cost method of structural assessment. The present workshop comes as a conclusion to the MITICA project that was carried out in the period 2020-2022.
Considering the EU priority "A Europe fit for the digital age", this workshop aims to showcase recent technological advances and developments in SHM and their application to civil infrastructure. Special focus is given to innovative indirect structural health monitoring (iSHM) approaches that rely on the vehicle-bridge interaction and the deployment of sensor-equipped vehicles for the monitoring of the existing bridge infrastructure, including results from the MITICA Project. The pros and cons of iSHM methods will be compared against direct SHM approaches with a special emphasis on the challenges and lessons learned from real-life SHM implementations. Further, this workshop aims to present the relevant European research and discuss the current state towards the SHM integration in technical standards at a European level.
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Sweeperis an interactive program that lets the user generate interesting surfaces by specifying a profile curve and a sweep curve (trajectory). The profile curve is swept along the path of the sweep curve to produce a surface.
First, you should check out an example solution by clicking here or running the program in
/cse/courses/cse457/bin/sweeper. The program has three
panes: the top pane is for the surface, the lower left pane is for the
profile curve, and the lower right pane is for the sweep path. Click
four points in the profile pane to start with. Then click four points
in the sweep pane. You should now see some sort of surface appearing
in the surface pane on top.
You can move around in the 3D windows when in viewing mode by using the left and middle mouse buttons in different combinations, as described below. The menu brought up by the right mouse button has a few other useful features. Selecting "home" under the "Functions" menu will reset the 3D view. Selecting "hidden line" under the "Draw Style" menu will show you the wireframe representation of the model. Select "as is" to go back to the shaded model.
Here is a summary of the controls for the windows:
The control points you enter can be edited when not in viewing mode by clicking with the left mouse button and dragging. Clicking on a control point with the middle mouse button will delete a control point. Currently, there is no way to insert control points except at the end of the sequence.
The file menus above the lower two panes let you load and save
control polygons. There are some sample control polygons in
/cse/courses/cse457/bin/sweeper/curves. Try loading
diamond.crv into the profile pane and
spiral.crv into the sweep path pane. Another cool one to
james.crv for the path and
jamesprofile.crv for the profile. The Curve Type menus
let you select the kind of curve generated in each window. The
Transport Type menu at the top of the surface pane selects how the
profile curve will be swept along the sweep path. Finally, the Copy
button copies the 3D surface onto the clipboard. You can paste it
into another application such as
To install the project, click
here OR make a copy of the files located in
/cse/courses/cse457/sweeper. Then type
make to create the project starting point.
The only files you must modify for the required extensions are
sweeper.C (to add menu items) and computecurve.C.
The project starting point has all the same features as the finished program except that the only curve type is piecewise-linear, and the only transport type is the static frame.
The following extensions are required:
for each additional:
New Spline Types
Add new spline types to the array of those available. Good choices are: C2 interpolating cubic splines, beta-splines, and Catmull-Rom splines with a tension parameter.
for each additional:
Four control points are needed to generate a B-spline or Catmull-Rom spline. This means that the user will not see a curve until they have clicked four control points on the screen. There are several ways to avoid this. One way is to duplicate the first and last control points of the spline. Using this doubly-anchored end condition, the user will see a spline as soon as they enter two control points. Another useful option is the periodic end condition where the curve closes itself automatically. A third option is to use phantom vertices, where the second control point is reflected through the first. Implement doubly-anchored, phantom and periodic versions of B-splines and Catmull-Rom splines as new curve types.
Implement adaptive subdivision for the spline curves. Add a slider to control the epsilon parameter.
Surfaces of revolution
Surfaces of revolution are swept surfaces where the sweep path is a perfect circle and the Frenet frame is used to orient the profile curve. Perfect circles cannot be modeled using either B-splines or Catmull-Rom curves, so add a new circle curve type to allow you to make really spiffy surfaces of revolution. Check out
revo in the directory
/cse/courses/cse457/bin. It is an Inventor sample
program for making surfaces of revolution. Its source code is in
It is possible to generate surfaces that look like seashells by scaling the profile curve as you move along the sweep path (the helico-spiral primitive below is especially good for this). One way to determine the scaling is to use the "velocity" of the sweep path -- that is, length of its first derivative vector. Another possibility is to compute the scaling from the curvature of the sweep path.
The helico-spiral primitive is defined by the formulae:
theta = t r = a * b^t z = c * d^twhere a, b, c and d are user-supplied parameters. Add the helico-spiral primitive, and velocity or curvature scaling to generate pretty seashells.
If you are daring, explore Inventor and try to improve the user interface of
example, there is currently no way to insert a control point in the
middle of a control polygon. Add code to allow the user to do this.
You may want to check out
revo for user interface ideas.
With complicated curves, it is often hard to tell which segment of curve corresponds to which control point. It would be helpful to faintly draw the control polygon along with the refined curve. Add an option to turn on this feature.
Add the ability for users to add texture maps to their surfaces.
Often, it is unintuitive to manipulate a curve by dragging control points. It would be nicer to be able to grab ahold of the curve and directly alter its shape. Add the capability for direct manipulation, as described in the help session, to the program.
Implement tensor-product surfaces. This will involve a fair amount of work to come up with a reasonable interface for editing these surfaces.
Include the ability to low-pass filter the curve to remove wiggles.
Add the capability to edit the curve at multiple levels of detail, as described in "Multiresolution Curves", Salesin and Finkelstein, Proceedings of Siggraph '94.
Sweepermakes use of the Inventor library. Inventor is an object-oriented application development library that lets you create interactive 3D applications with much less effort than using raw OpenGL. Although you will not need to learn Inventor for this assignment, you will probably want to make use of its extensive linear algebra library. Open the man pages under the help menu in the desktop window, and under "Sections", find the entry "(3) Subroutines (Inventor)". Of particular use will be the
SbVec3f(3D vector) type, and possibly the
SbRotation(3D rotation), and
SbMatrix(3D transformation matrix) types.
Also available on-line is The Inventor Mentor under
Help, On-Line Books in the desktop window. This book is a fairly good
tutorial on Inventor but is very poor as a reference manual. Finally,
the Inventor header files are in
SbLinear.h contains the definitions for the linear
algebra types you will likely need.
sweeperto generate models, and
showcase(an SGI program) to combine these models into an interesting scene. For a more in-depth explanation of this process, see the project 3 help session.


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Psychology professor co-authors study on tennis grunting effectsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Posted: Oct 1, 2010
You've heard them at tennis matches – a loud, emphatic grunt with each player's stroke. A University of Hawai'i at Mānoa researcher has studied the impact of these grunts and come up with some surprising findings.
Scott Sinnett, assistant psychology professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, has co-authored a study on the potential detrimental effect that noise has on shot perception during a tennis match.
Sinnett's work was published today in an online issue of Public Library of Science ONE. He co-authored the study with Alan Kingstone, psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, to determine if it is reasonable to conclude that a tennis grunt interferes with an opponent's performance.
As part of the study, thirty-three undergraduate students from the University of British Columbia viewed videos of a tennis player hitting a ball to either side of a tennis court; the shot either did or did not contain a brief sound that occurred at the same time as contact.
Participants were required to respond as quickly and accurately as possible, indicating the direction of the shot in each video clip on a keyboard. The extraneous sound resulted in significantly slower response times, and significantly more decision errors, confirming that both response time and accuracy are negatively affected.
"This is the first study to look at the issue of grunting in tennis. Our current work is also looking at how advanced and professional tennis players perform, to determine if they have developed any strategies to limit the negative effects of a grunting opponent," said Sinnett.
While these findings must still be validated on the tennis court, Sinnett and Kingstone noted that these consequences on faster tennis surfaces, such as the grass courts of Wimbledon or hard courts of the Australian and U.S. Open, are likely to be profound.
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Government expenditure and economic growth in Kenya: An empirical analysis (_PHONE_)
Njuguna, Joyce N
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This research was triggered by the need to analyze the effects of Government Expenditure on economic growth. This was informed by the fact that, since 1963, economic growth has experienced upswings and downswings. On average, the economy grew at an annual average rate of 6.71 percent between 1963 and 1973. The years that followed saw a recess in economic growth hitting a nadir of -0.3 in the fiscal year 2000/2001. This saw a revival of the economy in the fiscal year 2003/2004 accelerating to 6.1 percent in the fiscal year 2006/2007. The above scenario was beside the fact that expenditure allocations in the various sectors of the Government exhibited an upward slope since 1963 except in the fiscal year 1969/1970 when there was a sharp drop in the expenditure allocations. Thus, there is a cause of concern to policy makers on the implications of the expenditure levels to economic growth. A methodology adopted from Abedian and Standish (1984) is used to analyze the trends and composition of Government expenditure and the contribution of such expenditure components to economic growth. The results of the analysis show that there is need for the Government to prioritize expenditure allocations in the productive sectors of the economy for example, agriculture, health, infrastructure and education and streamline others. These sectors would help to improve the investment environment to the private sector which is the engine of growth. Moreover, it would improve the welfare of the citizens by increasing employment levels and per capital income.