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Nicol and Schear win best paper award
By Jenny Applequist, Information Trust Institute
July 3, 2008
- Prof. David Nicol and grad student Nabil Schear won the Best Paper Award from the 22nd ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation.
- The paper, entitled "Performance Analysis of Real Traffic Carried with Encrypted Cover Flows," studies the possibility of providing protection to network traffic by tunneling it inside synthetically generated traffic.
- The paper was presented at the PADS workshop in Rome, Italy.
A paper co-authored by ECE Professor David M. Nicol and his student Nabil Schear has brought home the Best Paper award from the 22nd ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2008).
In the winning paper, entitled "Performance Analysis of Real Traffic Carried with Encrypted Cover Flows," the authors explore the possibility of providing protection to network traffic by tunneling it inside synthetically generated traffic. The approach creates additional costs and has the potential to increase delivery time of the traffic so much that it renders the system unusable. Therefore, Schear and Nicol studied ways to analyze the characteristics of real traffic that can be carried by cover traffic without impacting a user's perception of his or her interaction with the Internet. Their work combined simulation and analytical modeling in an innovative way. Simulation was used to generate measurements of traffic behavior, and then the measurements were used to validate the separately developed analytical models that study how much time the traffic will take and whether the scheme can keep up with demand.
"Our paper shows that it's possible to take measurements from real or simulated traffic and use them to estimate parameters for an accurate analytic model of tunneling, without the measurements or simulations having any notion at all of tunneling," the authors explained. "The nature of our problem allows for an interesting and useful decoupling of models."
Nicol is the theme leader for Critical Infrastructures and Homeland Defense research in the Information Trust Institute at Illinois. His main research interests are in high-performance computing, modeling and simulation of large-scale systems, networks, and cyber security. Schear is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois, with a focus on research in systems, networking, and security.
The Best Paper award was presented at the PADS workshop, which was held June 3-6, 2008 in Rome, Italy. The workshop series that became PADS began in 1985 and has since become a leading forum for presentation of research findings in all aspects of simulation technology. The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Simulation, the IEEE's Computer Society Technical Committee on Simulation, and the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS).
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Ithaca, N.Y. — This month, Cornell University released an Economic Impact Report that detailed how much money was spent by Cornell, how it was spent, and where it was spent for the 2013 Fiscal Year.
Although the report shows an overall impact across NYS, the numbers prove what most already knew — Tompkins County's economy is benefited greatly by having the university centrally located in Ithaca.
The report provides a reassurance that Cornell's spending and growth is moving in the right direction, according to Joel Malina, VP of University Relations.
Here are some of the findings in the 22-page report:
1 — Taxes paid at a few locations
Although a majority of Cornell property is exempt from paying taxes as an academic university, it pays taxes on a few locations like East Hill Plaza and the Business & Technology Park (because those locations aren't used for academic purposes). The report states that the university's tax bill is the third largest in Tompkins County.
2 — Lowest unemployment rate
In 2012 Tompkins County had one of the lowest unemployment rates not only among other counties nationwide, but the lowest in the state, at 6 percent. In 2013, that rate declined to 4.1 percent and continued to be the lowest rate in the state.
The study further suggested that Cornell economically impacts households of every income level.
"Such findings suggest that institutions like Cornell can help individuals across all income levels whose fortunes rise with those of the university," reads the report.
"The report attributes the county's low [unemployment] rate in part to the university's stabilizing economic effect for the county as a whole and for individuals at all income levels," wrote Cornell's Media Relations Office in a press release.
3 — Staying in Tompkins County
17% of the 2013 graduating class actually stayed Tompkins County, either to start building roots or to continue onto graduate school. It is unclear whether or not this is an increasing, decreasing or stagnant trend.
4 — Supporting buy local
— Cornell supports a "buy local" policy when purchasing from various vendors. The report disclosed that out of $586 million spent on vendors in 2013, $189.6 million was spent on goods and services located in Tompkins County, Central New York, or counties adjacent to Tompkins.
5 — Benefits of Weill
Weill Cornell Medical Center, located in NYC, brought in $851 million, the second largest source of income for the university, the first being tuition. In turn, WCMC purchased $263 million in goods from Vendors located within NYS.
The report encompasses a significant amount of data. To summarize: "through the base indicators of payroll, purchasing, and construction alone, Cornell University generated over 3.2 billion of economic activity in New York State in fiscal year 2013."

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: Cold Gaian worlds with periodic, or persistent, ice ages More Information Here
- Campian Subtype: Dry Gaian worlds with 25% to 50% ocean cover More Information Here
- Paludial Subtype: Humid Gaian worlds with 25% to 50% ocean cover More Information Here
- Lacustric Subtype:Humid Gaian worlds with low topography and 50-80% ocean coverage; some of these worlds have extensive rainforest-type biomes More Information Here.
- Chlorogaian (Halogenic) type: Gaian worlds with high levels of atmospheric chlorine. More: Chlorine Worlds.
- To'ul'hese Worlds: These worlds are essentially Gaian versions of the Cytherean worlds. Thick and dense atmospheres, as well as a large amount of water, create high surface pressures and high temperatures. Life arises and adapts to these conditions, and can become quite diverse indeed. In one known instance, it has lead to an independent form of sapient life. More: To'ul'hian Worlds.
- Pelagic Subtype Gaian worlds where oceans cover the surface anywhere from 85 to 100%. More Information here
- EuPelagic Subtype Gaian worlds where shallow oceans cover the surface anywhere from 85 to 100%. More information here
- BathyPelagic Subtype: Gaian worlds where deep oceans cover the surface anywhere from 85 to 100%. More information here.
- PelaGelidic Subtype, ice covered ocean worlds More information here.
- TundralPelagic subtype, partially ice covered ocean worlds More information here.
- Xeric subtype Dry worlds with less than 25% ocean cover More information here.
- HyperXeric subtype Very dry worlds with less than 10% ocean cover More information here.
- PostGaian subtype: Old Gaian Worlds that are losing their biosphere and hydrosphere More information here.
SUPER-TERRESTRIAL CLASS: worlds that are moderately massive, intermediate in mass between Terrestrial worlds and Gas Giants More details here.
This class of worlds is both numerous and varied; most types of terrestrial worlds also exist as superterrestial types, but with higher gravity and greater mass which can profoundly affect the conditions on the surface.
Among the most common types of superterrestrial are SuperHermian, SuperCytherian and SuperGaian types, as well as the more unusual types listed below.
- Pyrothalassic Type: Hot superterrestrials More information here
- Pyrohydrothallasic Type - Hot waterworlds More information here
- Panthalassic Type: Giant Waterworlds More information here
- Nebulous Type: Superterrestrials with thick, helium-rich atmospheres. Helium worlds of this kind often have superrotating atmospheres; those which are tidally locked often have wildly assymetric weather patterns.
- Gas Dwarfs. Example Kepler 11b
- Other types of superterrestrial planets include certain hyperbarian and chthonian worlds, some of which have very sparse atmospheres indeed.
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Gas Giants (also known collectively as Jovian worlds) form beyond the snow line, and have very large fluid envelopes compared to their cores. Some rare, and very ancient gas giants formed around the first generation of very low metallicity stars and have almost no rocky or metallic component. Gas giants are classified in two waysby temperature, which affects the composition of the cloud layers of the giant in a number of significant ways, and by mass. Examples of each of the temperature classes can be found in any of the size classes, and vice versa, although some size classes are more common at certain temperatures and vice versa.
A typical gas giant may be classified using both size and temperature types to create a subtype, so the full classification might be Meso-EuJovian Subtype(This is the full classification for Jupiter) or Super-HyperthermalJovian Subtype (the full classification for Behemoth, Hat-P-1B).
Gas Giant Size Classes
Neptunian Class: 0.03 to 0.2 Jupiter masses
- MicroJovian Type Small gas giants, with minimal solid core. More information Here.
- SubJovian Type Medium sized gas giants, 0.08 to 0.2 Jupiter Masses. Many worlds of this type are outer system cryojovian worlds like Neptune and Uranus. More information here.
- Hot Neptunes - a numerous class of world, which may be MicroJovian or Subjovian in mass, and EpiStellar or Hyperthermal in temperature More information here.
Jovian Class: 0.2 to 13.0 Jupiter masses
- Mesojovian Type Major Type of Jovian Class of planet. Masses from 0.21 to 8.0 that of Jupiter More information here
- SuperJovian Type Jovian worlds with masses from 8.1 to 13.0 that of Jupiter, the theoretical upper limit of planets. Objects more massive than this are classed as Brown Dwarfs. More information here.
Gas Giant Temperature Types
- HyperthermalJovian Type: Very hot gas giants, with temperatures above 1400 Kelvin. Includes so=called 'Puffy worlds' and 'Comet worlds'. More Information here.
- EpiStellar Jovian Type: Hot, dark gas giants with temperatures between 900 Kelvin and 1400 Kelvin. More information here
- AzuriJovian Type Warm clarified blue gas giants with temperatures between 350K and 800K. More information here.
- HydroJovian Type: Temperate gas giants with clouds predominantly consisting of water vapour. More information here.
- EuJovian Type: Cool gas giants, with clouds predominantly consisting of ammonia. More information here.
- CryoJovian Type: Cold gas giants in the outer reaches of a planetary system, generally too cold for clouds to form at all. More information here.
Other World Classes
- HyperBarian Class: Very dense planets with cores up to 100 x Earth's mass. More information here.
- Chthonian Class: Gas giant worlds, formerly HyperthermalJovians, which have lost their volatiles through evaporation. More information here.
- Stevensonian Class Planetary mass objects which are found in interstellar space. More information here.
ARTIFICIAL CLASS The artificial worlds found within the Terragen Sphere have almost all been constructed by humans and their mind-children; some, such as the Black Acropolis, are much older. Artificial worlds fall into two broad categoriesthose that rotate to produce artificial gravity, and those that do not.
- Rotating Space Habitats Habitats constructed using conventional materials - includes Paired Habitats, Stanford Tori, O'Neill Cylinders, Bernal Spheres, Bishop Rings. More information Here.
- Banks Orbitals and Ringworlds - Rotating habitats made from exotic materials (see Banks Orbitals).
- Non Rotating Space Habitats - often used by space adapted clades; can be very large, but they are limited by their densityif they are too dense they will undergo self-gravitational collapse. More information here.
- Ederworlds More information here.
- Supermundane Worlds -worlds dynamically suspended above planets and stars. More information here
- Freespheres - microgravity balloons containing atmosphere -can be very large indeed. More information here.
- Dyson Swarms and Spheres Many variants of this type of construct are described here.

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Rising on the borders of Cornwall and Devon, the rivers Tamar, Tavy and Lynher, form one of the last, unspoilt drowned valley river systems in England.
On their passage to the broad estuary near Plymouth, the rivers flow through a series of deep meanders, steep gorges and wooded valleys. A ribbon of woodland extends along the Estuary margin although it is often no more than a mature hedgerow above a steep earth bank. In the middle valleys where the ridges are wide the high land has an almost plateau character and there is a feeling of remoteness and solitude. The landscape contains a wide variety of wildlife habitats, including many ancient woodlands and wetlands that provide important wintering grounds for wildfowl and wading birds.
People have lived in the Tamar Valley for centuries, and the diverse scenery reflects the impact of their activities in an area rich in natural resources. Field patterns disclose ancient farming practices, disused mine workings reveal intensive mining activity during the 18th century, and old orchards scattered on the warm, south-facing valley slopes are the remnants of market gardens that were widespread in the area at the beginning of the 20th century.


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Here are 10 things every entrepreneur can tweet about, which can allow your clients and prospects to see another side of you:
1. Personal news: Share the big events of your personal life — vacations, weddings, births — the type of info you'd share with close friends. It can help keep your followers feeling like they're "in the loop." You're also more likely to make a connection with followers who have experienced something similar.
2. Mistakes and lessons: Sharing mistakes and what you learned is a sign of growth, not weakness. Try doing a "What I learned this week" tweet and see how your followers respond.
3. Answers to questions: If someone asks a question on Twitter and you know the answer, share it. This can also be a way to develop a FAQ within your industry, which you can later point them to via a link.
4. Links to articles: They key to sharing articles is to also include your unique opinion. Let others know why you liked or didn't like an article.
Just remember that your opinion paints a public image, which means you should be cautious about which opinions you choose to share — ideally only those which are congruent with your market. Keep the rest to yourself.
5. Pictures of unusual things you see: If something catches your attention, it's probably going to catch the attention of others, too. So why not share it? This includes visually impressive products, food and architecture.
6. Wisdom from the book you're reading: When you hit a "golden nugget" of wisdom in a book, share it. It not only shows that you're well read, but that you value wisdom. Those are two things that can only help your reputation.
7. Interesting advertising: When a billboard or any other advertising catches your attention, take a picture and tweet it. Everyone can benefit from seeing smart marketing.
8. Fun purchases: Sharing your recent purchases, such as music, video games or sports equipment can stir up comments and conversations from others that have bought similar items and enjoy the same kind of entertainment.
9. Share wisdom from outside the world of business: Quotes from sports heroes, military leaders and artists can teach us about innovation and leadership, which are essential to business success.
10. Your work: The greatest links you can share are links to your personal work, but don't limit that to what you do professionally only. If you have a hobby or passion for something creative, share it.
What types of tweets would you add to this list? Leave a comment below and let us know.

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How can I get a pop-up window to collect preliminary user information before they can access a form?
There is a form that, when launched, I would like an initial dialog box to pop up to collect some preliminary information prior to the user gaining access to the entire form. Additionally, I would like the same dialog to be presented when the user closes/saves the document to verify these fields maintain the correct information. Can you help direct me in the best way to do this? I'm sure script is the best way to go, but I'm new to scripting so this is a bit of a challenge for me. And help would be appreciated.
The principle of popups, assuming we are speaking here about a Notes interface, is that information entered in fields in these popups can automatically be inherited into the main form from which the popup was called. This is done by using the @DialogBox function, which is exhaustively described in the Designer Help file. Sometimes it is easier to do these things with LotusScript.
I have attached some example code below, to give you a head start. It is important to remember that when you "dialog" a form using LotusScript, you will need to create a document object as well, to be able to read the values the user enters. If you do not do so and do not use this object in the calling method (see below), you would not be able to read any values entered by the user using LotusScript. The method dialog box of the notesUiworkspace, takes a value for a LotusScript NotesDocument object, which will then take the values entered. This method returns a true or false, related to the equivalent [OK] and [Cancel] button on the dialog box that appears to the end user. This allows you to trap if the user actually pressed the [OK] button and, if so, use the data from the dialog box to fill in or process your current document.
Dim s as New notesSession
Dim w as new notesUiWorkspace
Dim db as notesDatabase
Dim tmpDoc as notesDocument
Set db=s.currentDatabase
Set w=New notesUiworkspace
Set tmpDoc=db.createDocument
'open dialog box to enter details for reversing activities
dlgFlag = w.DialogBox( "dlgReverse", True,True,False,False,False,False, "Reversing Activities",tmpDoc,True,False)
If dlgFlag Then
'do your thing on the calling document
End if
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How to describe animals
Slow worms are not worms, and they are not slow.
Sometimes confusion must come before clarity. And that is never more true than when describing our native UK wildlife.
For example, slow worms are not worms, and they are not slow.
Whales swim in our seas, but the impressive killer whale, which frequents the coast of northwest Scotland, is not a whale at all. That is why many call it an orca.
Bucks roam our countryside: male deer, hares, ferrets and rabbits are all bucks. But interestingly, none actually buck (only horses do). Rabbits give birth to kittens, but kittens can also be baby cats.
It's almost impossible to describe a butterfly that cannot be a moth, and a moth that cannot be a butterfly, while similar is true for frogs and toads.
The common names of animals are nouns. But when describing animal behaviour, the same words are sometimes used as verbs.
 - A perch is a freshwater fish, whereas birds might perch on a branch. It is an accident of language that the same word is used both ways. It is no accident that swifts, those fast flying birds that look similar to swallows, are called swifts. That's because they fly fast.
 - Buck (noun) is a name given to the males of many species. Its origin is thought to be the German word buc, meaning deer. However, the verb 'to buck' can only be applied to a jumping horse.
Verbs can also be turned back into nouns to help describe wildlife.
 - Animals such as moles that burrow become burrowers
 - Whales or barnacles that filter the water for food are filter feeders etc.
Birds perch, while perch swim in our lakes. And those killer whales we mentioned are predatory mammals, that have sharp teeth and eat meat. But they are not carnivores, not strictly speaking. Other iconic black and white creatures, our badgers, are also mammals, though not nearly as predatory. They have sharp teeth, but eat less meat. Yet they are technically carnivores.
You have every reason to be, because much confusion around how we describe wildlife comes from the confusing ways in which we name it.
So when you describe wildlife, it's important to understand which type of name you are using, and why that matters.
For example, wildlife can be described by their common names, i.e. a badger, perch or deer.
Wildlife can also be described by the group of animals to which they belong; badgers are mammals.
By their behaviour; a badger is an omnivore that eats a variety of foods.
Or by their scientific group; technically a badger is a carnivore, not because it eats meat, but because it is related to other weasel-like animals, as well as dogs, cats, bears and seals that share a suite of inherited characteristics, such as sharp carnassial teeth. All these animals belong in the order Carnivora, which is why badgers are technically carnivores.
Common names
Most people know animals by their common names, and there are no hard and fast rules as to what these should be.
Lapwing: BBC Nature A peewit, hornpie or lapwing?
Commonly used descriptions and names for much wildlife have changed with time and vary by location, spelling and capitalisation.
A lapwing, a small wading bird, is variously called a peewit, green plover, teuchit, hornpie or flopwing, depending on its location in the UK. In Gaelic it is a curracag. In Irish a pilibín.
Many names and descriptions have become an integral part of our cultural landscape, influencing the names of drinking establishments, towns, how we speak, and our art.
Think of a pub called The Swan in Shrewsbury. There, a local might ask another to stop badgering them, as they want to read Watership Down, a classic English novel about a group of rabbits given human characteristics.
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End Quote From the best-selling novel Watership Down by Richard Adams
The attributes we assign to wildlife are often co-opted, becoming more widely understood cultural symbols. The thistle of Scotland symbolises nobility and chivalry, an example of floriography.
Because common names vary, they can cause confusion.
But giving a little-known, perhaps new species a common name is also a powerful way to be able to remember it, talk about it, and make people care about it.
Natural England runs an annual competition to name newly discovered British species for this reason. In 2012, it named a rare wasp that lives in southern England as the Cutpurse wasp, due to its habit of feeding exclusively on purse web spiders.
Animal types
Animals or plants can be informally grouped, defined often by their behaviour or where they live; such as flying insects, or forest flowers. These groupings often have no formal scientific basis.
Or they can be formally grouped into scientific categories. Each of these groups is defined by a suite of characteristics that each animal or plant within must share.
Badgers (once known as brock) are mammals, belonging to the scientific grouping Mammalia. Like badgers, all mammals have fur and all female mammals have mammary glands, which they use to provide milk for their young.
Badger: BBC Nature Brock the badgering badger
Swifts are birds, belonging to the scientific group called Aves. All birds have feathers and wings.
There is no single scientific grouping of fish, however. It is a common name used to describe animals that swim, have fins, and look like 'fish'. Scientists group fish into discrete categories. Some fish have bony skeletons, and are known as Osteichthyes. Others, such as sharks, have skeletons made of cartilage and are called Chondrichthyes.
To understand how scientists formally group and name animals it is important to understand how the Linnaean system of nomenclature works, a classification system that is easier to grasp than it sounds.
Animal behaviours
We often describe animals by their behaviour; where they live, when we see them, what they like to eat, and how they go about acquiring their food, for example.
Describing wildlife in this way can be a valuable way to communicate important information about them, to help find or identify them, or study the common challenges they face.
Marsh frog: BBC Nature Marsh frog or pond life?
Nocturnal animals appear at night, for example. All of them, whether they are bats or badgers, have to be able to move around or navigate in the dark. They develop different senses to help them; either evolving big eyes, ways to use sound to navigate, such as bats using echolocation, or perhaps a super sense of touch, used by moles.
Day living animals are described as diurnal.
Wildlife is often described by the habitat it lives in; pond life, for example.
Or by how it eats; hawks are predators because they hunt other animals. Herbivores such as deer are grazers or browsers.
The heritage and origin of animals and plants can determine how we describe them: invasive species are those that have 'invaded' another habitat, territory or country to which they don't naturally belong.
Scientific names and relationships
As described above, scientists use a specific language when naming species, and that language is governed by a set of rules.
All barn owls in the UK are members of the species Tyto alba. They are the same as barn owls flying all around the world, from South America to Africa and Europe, even if many of these birds may look subtly different.
This system underpins many of our efforts to understand wildlife, its evolution and how it should be conserved.
You decide
There's nothing wrong with describing animals in a personal way, or giving them a generic name, if you are unsure. People might variously call a cockchafer beetle a May bug, mitchamador, billy witch, or spang beetle.
White Hart pub sign A White Hart is a pub and white deer
Occasionally this can lead to confusion. Unless you have a good grasp of mediaeval history, or frequent lots of pubs, you might not know that a White Hart is actually a white deer. Or that an Essex skipper is a type of butterfly that lives far beyond Essex.
But what really matters is that you use the description that works best for you.
If you work in science, you will likely describe wildlife using the formal Linnaean naming system. Other scientists will then understand exactly which species you are describing.
If you live in one part of the country, you'll likely do best using the local, common name for wildlife that people will understand in conversation.
The more you discover and celebrate wildlife, the more you will feel comfortable describing what you see, using the appropriate language.
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Using Trusted Auth on Tableau Server
This article describes how you can use Trusted Auth from Metric Insights to Tableau Server. The procedure includes the following steps:
In Tableau Server you will configure Trusted Authentication. The steps for doing this are covered in this article. Trusted authentication simply means that you have set up a trusted relationship between Tableau Server and the Metric Insights. When Tableau Server receives requests from Metric Insights, Tableau assumes the credentials of the Metric Insights user.
For more detailed information on Trusted Authentication in Tableau Server, refer to the Tableau Server Administration Guide.
1. Configure Tableau Server for Trusted Auth
To use Tableau Trusted Auth, each Username created on Metric Insights must have an identical Username in Tableau Server. For example, if you sign in with Username 'Mary Jane' in Metric Insights, then to be able to sign on to Tableau server you must also have the Username 'Mary Jane' in Tableau server.
1.1. Find IP address of Metric Insights instance
You only need to do this for versions of Tableau server 8.0 and prior. For Tableau server 8.1 and beyond, you can use the fully qualified domain name of the Metric Insights instance.
For example, one way to find is from the following:
root@demo:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr inet addr:10.146.246.13
root@sandbox:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr inet addr:10.192.61.233
1.2. Configure Tableau Server for trusted authentication
Starting with Version 2018.2+ Tableau Server on Windows includes Tableau Services Manager (TSM), which replaces the Configuration Utility and the command line tool.
- For more information, refer to Add Trusted IP Addresses or Host Names to Tableau Server
1.2.1. Tableau Version 2018.2+ (via Tableau Services Manager)
Having signed in to Tableau Services Manager:
- Click [User Identity & Access] on the Configuration tab
- Under Trusted Authentication, for each trusted host, enter the hostname or IP address and then click [Add]
- Optionally, specify Token Length value
- Save Pending Changes
- Click [Pending Changes] that appears at the top of the page
- Apply Changes and Restart
Use Tableau Server command line utilities to add Metric Insights IP address (or fully qualified domain name for Tableau server 8.1 and beyond) to the list of trusted sites.
Using Metric Insights IP address:
D:\Tableau\Tableau Server\10.1\bin>.\tabadmin.bat set wgserver.trusted_hosts "10.146.246.13, 10.192.61.233" D:\Tableau\Tableau Server\10.1\bin>.\tabadmin.bat config D:\Tableau\Tableau Server\10.1\bin>.\tabadmin.bat restart
Using Metric Insights fully qualified domain name:
D:\Tableau\Tableau Server\10.1\bin>.\tabadmin.bat set wgserver.trusted_hosts "mi-dev.mycompany.com, mi-prod.mycompany.com" D:\Tableau\Tableau Server\10.1\bin>.\tabadmin.bat config D:\Tableau\Tableau Server\10.1\bin>.\tabadmin.bat restart
1.3. Verify trusted authentication from Metric Insights for the user
From Metric Insights server run a command line utility to confirm trusted authentication to Tableau server. Use a username that exists on Tableau server. For example, 'admin'
curl -k -dusername=admin _URL_ curl -3 -k -dusername=admin _URL_ curl -ssl -k -dusername=admin _URL_
In the curl request, supply the username (e.g., 'admin') and the url of Tableau server (e.g., _URL_ Any of the above curl request arguments should work.
The above curl request returns -1 from Tableau server if not trusted, and returns non-negative ticket value if trusted. For example,
root@sandbox:~# curl -3 -k -dusername=admin _URL_ -1
root@sandbox:~# curl -3 -k -dusername=admin _URL_ Co_GwPDEfUzAuj1mDO2MH-FE
1.4. Enable Variable ALLOW_TRUSTED_SERVER_USERNAME_OVERRIDE
Assign the "Y" Value to the ALLOW_TRUSTED_SERVER_USERNAME_OVERRIDE Variable to let MI Users be mapped to licensed Tableau Users.
1.5. Specify which Username will be used for Trusted Server Sign-on
1.6. Configure Plugin Connection Profile Parameters (Admin > Data Sources)
- Edit Auth Method
- Configure Auth method to be "trusted"
2. Configure Metric Insights for Tableau Trusted Auth
The following steps show how to configure Metric Insights for Trusted Auth
2.1. Add External Report Type for Tableau Trusted Auth (Admin > Advanced > External Report Types)
- In the Report Type field choose Add New Report Type from the drop-down list.
- Then choose Tableau Single-Sign in the Drill-Down Authentication field.
NOTE: If you already have an existing External Report Type defined for Tableau, you can enable authentication for all reports associated with this type by modifying the Drill Down Authentication setting to Tableau Single-Sign.
Alternatively, you can do this while creating a new External Report (the procedure is described Create a new External Report Type)


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Christening gowns came about during the Victorian era (which was around 1837 until the 1900's). History says that baptisms were occasions that were greatly celebrated as a child was accepted into the Christian world. The Church then insisted that babies during baptism wear white as a symbol of innocence and purity.
After the christening, Victorian families would carefully store the gown to be passed down to the next child. Thus the tradition of turning christening dresses into family heirlooms began.
|Ivory Angelic Organza Float Christening Dress|
Fast-forward to almost a hundred years later, and white is still the preferred color. Also, many families still keep the baptismal garment as a remembrance of a beautiful celebration. While that remains the same, there are differences that have been brought about by changing times.
|Satin with Embroidered Organza Christening Gown|
First, we add beige and off-white to the repertoire of colors that can be worn by a child during baptism. Add to this the many designs, style additions, and dress lengths than can be chosen from. Second, this generation has smaller families, and so passing down a christening gown might mean having a child wear it once every few years. That's why parents opt to just keep the original dress and purchase a new one for the next child.
|Traditional Christening Gown with Capsleeves|
But despite changing times, the essence of an heirloom remains the same. Being an heirloom no longer means passing it down from one generation to another. You can call a dress your family's heirloom because your most precious treasure (your child) wore it on her special day.
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Spins is an interactive computer program that simulates Stern-Gerlach measurements on spin 1/2 and spin 1 particles. This software is used as part of the "Paradigms in Physics" curriculum. This can be used as an example to study general problems in quantum measurement and time dependence.
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Is Required By PH425: Spin and Quantum Measurement
The SPINS Java software is the foundation of the PH425 course.relation by Bruce Mason
Is Based On A computer-simulated Stern–Gerlach laboratory
The SPINS Java software is based on an earlier application written for the Macintosh computer.relation by Bruce Mason
Is the Basis For QM Spins Program
The SPINS program is the basis for the QM Spins program.relation by Mario Belloni
References The Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 - Otto Stern
The SPINS Java software can be used to build virtual experiments based on the work initially done by Stern and Gerlach.relation by Bruce Mason
Covers the Same Topic As Quantum Physics Online: Spin 1/2
"Spin 1/2" explores the dynamics of a single spin in static and time-dependent magnetic fields.relation by Bruce Mason
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Anyone excavating land – from a small area for a house site all the way through to a quarry operator – needs to be aware that there may be a requirement to obtain an Archaeological Authority under the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 (the Act).
If you haven't considered this issue before commencing your activity you may be in breach of the obligation to obtain an Archaeological Authority under the Act. Failure to comply with the Act can result in a maximum fine of $300,000 if an archaeological site is destroyed.
An Archaeological Authority acts as sign off for activities to occur at an archaeological site. It sets out how any discovery is to be dealt with, as well as sometimes permitting modification or destruction of a site.
The definition of an 'archaeological site' is incredibly broad, encompassing all places that were associated with human activity that occurred before the 1900s, and which may provide evidence relating to the history of New Zealand. This definition captures large swathes of the country.
Although district plans identify areas of particular historical significance, these do not limit the areas where an authority would be required. There will be many areas that meet the definition of an archaeological site that have not been identified by district councils.
If there is a chance that an archaeological site could be modified or destroyed – for example by quarry operations, building developments or other earthworks – an Archaeological Authority is required. This is particularly relevant given the current Christchurch environment, with many older buildings being demolished (which may be archaeological sites themselves), and earthworks taking place for new buildings to be constructed.
We recommend you contact a member of our Resource Management team if you are undertaking works which may have the potential to destroy or damage an archaeological site.


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DEM is an investor in important development projects
European and Slovenian energy policies have been oriented towards an increase in the production of electricity from renewable energy sources. Dravske elektrarne Maribor, as the leading producer of electricity from renewable energy sources in Slovenia, is especially committed to implementing and executing these policies. Our fundamental objective is to find a suitable compromise between energy economics and the environment and to follow this basic guideline while designing and implementing our development projects.
One of the cornerstones for ensuring the existence and development of contemporary society is secure energy supply, including electrical energy, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment.
How can we thus guarantee the supply of electric power to consumers?
Slovenia is not rich in energy resources. Coal is slowly becoming scarce, and there are no oil or gas fields, leaving only alternative energy sources (solar and wind energy), which are modest. The greatest domestic energy reserve source is hydroelectric energy. The share of hydroelectric energy in Slovenia represents approximately 1/3 of the total electricity production. Simultaneously, less than 50 % of the hydroelectric power potential in Slovenia is being used. It is exactly the increased exploitation of hydro-energy potential in which we at DEM see our greatest development potential, thus, we have directed our development activities at the following areas:
- Refurbishment of older generating units to achieve greater power and production capacities;
- Preparations for the construction of a hydroelectric power plants on the Mura River;
- Financial and personnel engagement in the construction of hydroelectric power plants on the Sava River;
- Preparations for construction of the Kozjak pumped storage power plant;
- Construction of small hydroelectric power plants on Drava River and its tributaries.
The implementation of such an ambitious development plan would guarantee Slovenia important quantities of reliable, safe and price-competitive electric power from renewable (and the most ecologically clean) energy sources.
In order to maintain the position of the leading producer of electricity from renewable energy sources in Slovenia, we have expanded our electricity production activities to other areas of renewable energy sources, such as solar energy, geothermal and wind energy, and at the same time, the production of electrical and thermal energy.


Duck TrueMotion 1
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Duck TrueMotion 1 (TM1) is the first video codec developed by The Duck Corporation. It uses differential pulse code modulation and interframe differencing. The primary application for which Duck TrueMotion 1 was developed is gaming software, typically on PC or Sega Saturn titles.
Underlying Concepts
TM1 operates on bidirectional delta quantization. The mathematical premise of delta coding is simple addition. For example, take the following sequence of numbers:
 82 84 81 80 86 88 85
All of the numbers are reasonably large (on a scale of 0..255 in this example). However, they are quite similar to each other. Using delta coding, only the differences between successive numbers are stored:
 82 +2 -3 -1 +6 +2 -3
The first number is still large but since the remaining numbers are clustered close to each other, the deltas are relatively small. Thus, the deltas require less information to encode.
TM1 takes this concept and extends it to 2 dimensions. A particular pixel is assumed to have a pixel directly above it and a pixel directly to the left (if neither of these pixels exist in the frame, e.g., for the top-left corner pixel, 0 is used in place of the non-existant pixels). The current pixel is decoded as the sum of the up and left pixels, plus a delta from the encoded video bitstream.
 encoded video bitstream:...D5 D6 D7 D8...
 decoded video frame:
 A B C D
 E F G H
In this example, the encoded video bitstream is sitting at delta D5 when it is time to decode pixel E. A is the pixel above E. There is no pixel to the left of E, so 0 is used as the left value. Thus:
 E = A + 0 + D5
In the case of pixel F, both the up and left pixel values (called the vertical and horizontal predictors, respectively) are available:
 F = B + E + D6
That is the general idea behind decoding TM1 data. The actual decoding algorithm is more involved. The TM1 bytestream actually contains a series of indices that point into tables with the delta values to be applied to the vertical and horizontal predictor pixels. These tables only specify small deltas to be added to pixel predictors. When a larger delta is needed because the delta between 2 numbers is too large, then a special bytestream code indicates that the next delta is to be multiplied by 5 before it is applied.
TM1 operates on 4x4 macroblocks of pixels. Each block in a frame can be broken into 4 2x2 blocks, 2 halves (either 4x2 or 2x4), or encoded as a 4x4 block. The block type is encoded in the frame header.
While the TM1 algorithm operates on RGB colorspace data at the input and output level, it borrows some ideas from YUV colorspaces. For more information of RGB and YUV colorspaces, see the References section.
TM1 uses a modified colorspace that embodies luminance (Y) and chrominance (C) information encoded as RGB deltas. Since Y information is more important to the human eye than C information, the Y data must be updated more frequently than the C data (i.e., more Y predictors than C predictors are applied to the image). For a every pixel within a given block in a macroblock, a Y predictor must be applied. However, only one C predictor is applied for each block in the macroblock.
TrueMotion v1 Frame Format and Header
All multi-byte numbers are stored in little endian format.
An encoded intraframe (keyframe) of TM1 data is laid out as:
 header | predictor indices
An encoded interframe is laid out as:
 header | block change bits | predictor indices
The difference between the 2 types of frames is that an interframe has a section of bits that specify which blocks in the frame are unchanged from the previous frame.
A TM1 header is quasi-encrypted with a logical XOR operation. This is probably done to provide some obfuscation of the header and thwart casual inspection of the data format.
An encoded TM1 frame begins with the one byte that indicates the length of the decrypted header, only with a dummy high bit and rotated left by 5. To obtain the actual length from byte B:
 L = ((B >> 5) | (B << 3)) & 0x7F
Then, decrypt the header by starting with byte 1 in the encoded frame (indexing from 0) and XORing each byte with its successive byte. Assuming the header is of length L bytes as computed above, and that the encoded header starts at buffer[1] (buffer[0] had the rotated length), the decode process is:
 for (i = 1; i < L; i++)
 decoded_header[i - 1] = buffer[i] ^ buffer[i + 1];
The decoded header data structure is laid out as follows:
 byte 0 compression method
 byte 1 delta set
 byte 2 vector set
 bytes 3-4 frame height
 bytes 5-6 frame width
 bytes 7-8 checksum
 byte 9 version
 byte 10 header type
 byte 11 flags
 byte 12 control
 bytes 13-14 x offset
 bytes 15-16 y offset
 bytes 17-18 width
 bytes 19-20 height
The compression method field indicates the type of compression used to encode this frame. There are 2 general types: 16-bit and 24-bit. Further, each has 4 block sizes to select from. The valid compression types are
 0, 9, 11, 13, 15: NOP frames; frame is unchanged from previous frame
 1: 16-bit 4x4 (V)
 2: 16-bit 4x4 (H)
 3: 16-bit 4x2 (V)
 4: 16-bit 4x2 (H)
 5: 16-bit 2x4 (V)
 6: 16-bit 2x4 (H)
 7: 16-bit 2x2 (V)
 8: 16-bit 2x2 (H)
 10: 24-bit 4x4 (H)
 12: 24-bit 4x2 (H)
 14: 24-bit 2x4 (H)
 16: 24-bit 2x2 (H)
>16: invalid compression type
The (H) and (V) designations come from the original Duck source code. It is unclear what they mean, except for the common horizontal and vertical designations common in video terminology.
The delta set and vector set fields are used to generate the set of predictor tables that will be used to decode this frame.
The height and width fields should be the same as those specified in the AVI file that contains the data.
The checksum field appears to contain the frame's sequence number modulo 512. The first frame is 0x0000 and the next frame is 0x0001. Frame #511 has a checksum of 0x01FF while frame #512 wraps around to 0x0000.
If the version field is less than 2, then the frame is intracoded (this may indicate that early versions of the coding method was purely intracoded). If the version field is greater than or equal to 2, then if the header type field is 2 or 3, the flags field has bit 4 set (flags & 0x10) to indicate an intraframe; else if the header type field is greater than 3, then the header is invalid; else the frame is intracoded.
The purpose of the control field is unclear.
The x & y offset, width, and height fields apparently pertain to a sprite mode that is not covered in this document.
16-bit Data
Decoding a 16-bit frame requires 2 tables. The tables can change from one frame to the next and must be rebuilt if the header specified a new table. One table contains the C predictors while the other contains the Y predictors.
Each table consists of 1024 32-bit entries. Each group of 4 entries corresponds to a byte index from 0..255. Each entry contains a double pixel predictor shifted left by one. If the very last bit (bit 0) in the 32-bit entry is 0, then there is another predictor for that index. If the last bit is 1, then this predictor is the last one for this list.
For example...
 A B C D...
 E F G H...
 I J K L...
 M N O P...
24-bit Data
The process of decoding a 24-bit frame is similar to that of decoding a 16-bit frame. However, the frame is decoded into 2 separate planes, a Y plane and a C plane, and recombined into a final RGB map at render time.
Duck TrueMotion v1 Tables
Games Using Duck TrueMotion 1
These software titles are known to use the Duck TrueMotion 1 video codec to encode full motion video:


Acrylic plexiglass products also have four production options
Date:Feb 20, 2019
1 Paste method:
After cutting the plexiglass into various shapes, paste them together with glue.
2 Machining method:
 It can be processed into a wide variety of products with different functional mechanical equipment.
3 printing method:
The plexiglass surface can be screen printed, heat transferred, and printed in a variety of different patterns.
4 hot pressing method:
After the plexiglass plate is heated to a certain temperature, the plexiglass begins to soften, and the mold is fixed and cooled to produce various fine acrylic products.
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In conventional systems, the sensors and detection loops are installed in the top asphalt layer. This means that the sensors are installed in grooves cut or ground into the asphalt after the asphalt is laid. Due to wear and rutting of the asphalt, the sensors must be replaced or adjusted on average every 1.5 years. Moreover, the sensors must be replaced during major maintenance of the road surface. Major maintenance is also necessary more often because installing the sensors affects the structure of the asphalt.
Temperature variations in the summer and winter cause the sensors to separate from the asphalt, requiring the repair of both the sensor and the road surface. This is very expensive.


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The electric and magnetic far fields are computed at every node on the far field sphere. These fields are then used to compute all of the antenna results and patterns, as well as the power flux density. You can view any of these fields with a standard field annotation, although you will have to zoom out to be able to see them. While the electric and magnetic far fields are computed at all frequencies, you can only view the fields indicated by the Antenna Far Fields > Output Frequency setting in the simulation setup dialog box.
You can also view the power flux density in the far field, again with a standard field annotation. The power flux density annotation uses the shaped far field meshes, so that power flux annotations show the 3D unscaled antenna pattern.


text: A water leak can often be a warning of imminent catastrophic failure with many appliances such as a washing machine or dishwasher. With this simple water detection system not only could you quickly detect appliance faults, but you could also set the system up to notify you if it is raining and you have left washing on the line. The possibilities are endless. This project uses a Particle Photon, although it could work with any microcontroller, and exploits the conducting properties of water to easily detect when water is present somewhere it shouldn't be! To get started with this project check out the following link.


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Introduction to Sights
A sight is a device used to line up the muzzle with the shooter's eye so that he or she can hit the target. Sights are more critical on a firearm that fires a single projectile (rifle and handgun) than on a firearm that shoots a pattern of shot (shotgun). Shotguns usually have a simple pointing bead. Rifles typically have an open, aperture (peep), or telescopic sight. Most handguns have an open sight, although some specialized handguns have a dot or a telescopic sight.


Generating a workflow execution Process - 6.1
Talend Data Fabric Studio User Guide
EnrichVersion
6.1
EnrichProdName
Talend Data Fabric
task
Data Governance
Data Quality and Preparation
Design and Development
EnrichPlatform
Talend Studio
Talend Studio enables you to automatically generate Processes based on the workflows listed under the Workflow node in the MDM Repository tree view.
Once this Process is generated, you can attach it to a Trigger. When the Trigger is kicked off, it launches the Process that will initiate the workflow itself. This will list any required intervention on data records in the Web User Interface in the form of workflow tasks.
For more information on creating and managing Triggers, see Triggers. For more information on workflow tasks, see Talend MDM Web User Interface User Guide.
Prerequisite(s): You have already connected to the MDM server from Talend Studio. At least one workflow has been created and deployed on the MDM server.
To generate a Process based on a workflow:
 1. In the MDM Repository tree view, expand the Workflow node.
 2. Right-click the workflow for which you want to generate a Process and select Generate Workflow Caller Process.
 A dialog box is displayed.
 3. From the Data Models list, select the data model to which you want to attach the workflow.
 4. Select a business entity from the list, Product in this example.
 The name of the selected business entity is displayed in the Xpath field.
 5. Click Add to close the dialog box.
 The generated Process is listed under the Process node in the MDM Repository tree view.
 Note
 You must deploy your changes to the server for them to be taken into account at runtime.
 6. Double-click the generated Process to open an editor in the workspace that lists the Process parameters.
 One step is automatically defined and listed in the process Steps Sequence area. The step passes the item to the workflow engine using the workflowcontexttrigger plugin. For further information on Processes, see Processes.
 7. Select the Invoke the workflow step to display the step detail and parameters.
The Parameters area gives you access to two different views Source and Sheet. The Source view lists the detail of the automatically generated XML document with all the variables used in the workflow. This document is used to map the MDM attributes values and xpaths to the workflow variables.
Note
Here, you can modify any of the parameters/variables according to your needs and according to what you have defined in the workflow.
The Sheet view displays a tabular list of all the variables used in the workflow. You can use the and buttons below the table to modify these values.
Note
The Use built-in variables check box is selected by default. If your workflow does not need to connect to the MDM server, you can clear this check box.
From this view, it is also possible to invoke any of the workflows deployed on your MDM server. To do this, do the following:
 1. Click the Select workflows... bar to display a list of all the workflows already deployed on your MDM server.
 2. Select the workflow you want to invoke and then click OK to close the dialog box.
 The name of the selected workflow displays in the ID field of the Parameters area.
 3. In the Variables area, use the and buttons below the table to modify the variable names and xpath values according to the workflow you selected.
 4. Save your modifications.
What you must do now is to define a trigger in order to call this process. When the Trigger is kicked off, it will launches the Process that will initiate the workflow itself. This will list any required intervention on data records in the Web User Interface in the form of workflow tasks. For further information, see Triggers.


Toyger Cat
Toyger Cat Care
Toyger cat care, 8 things to consider. Before getting a toyger cat, make sure you know what you are letting yourself in for. Despite, their perceived independence, toyger cats do need care and looking after. And, as with any pet there are expenses.
Your areas of responsibility include: diet, environment, exercise and protection from dangerous substances and accidents. Such as, communicable diseases that could be prevented by vaccination or by isolation from other cats. Other cats are potential sources of infections.
Toyger Cat Care Points to Consider
1. Your Toyger Cat can live for up to 20 years. Can you offer continued care, love and attention for that period of time? Remember, as your toyger cat gets older, so do you. They need care as they age, just like we do. So owning a toyger cat or any cat requires some thought not just an emotional reaction right now.
2. Where will you be in 5, 10 or 15 years time? Will there be room in your life to care for your toyger cat?
3. Can you afford the care and the veterinary fees if your toyger cat gets ill? Yearly check-ups are the minimum for your toyger cat. Your toyger will need regular vaccinations and should, ideally, be neutered.
4. You will need to rid it of fleas, worms and other routine health care maintenance. These all cost time and money.
toyger cat care5. Who will care for it when you go on holidays or visiting friends? Catteries cost money and there may not always be friends that can care for your pet.
6. Toyger cat care includes feeding which is another expense. Allow a minimum of $10 per week. Can you afford this expense throughout the life of your cat?
7. Additional care items may be needed: litter tray, bedding, bowls, collars, cat toys and special treats. Have you got the room and the money to provide these?
8. Other toyger cat care additional needs are treatments. For example: a long haired cat may need regular grooming. Is this a commitment you are prepared to provide when caring for a toyger cat? Have you considered the vet bills. These can be considerable.
Toyger cat care is a lifelong job. We all want cats to have a good home and a good life. However, make sure that you can care for your toyger cat, before you buy.


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Department of Pure and Applied Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UNITED KINGDOM.
A natural population of Pleuroptya ruralis has been studied for three years with the following aims: (1) to elucidate its life history; (2) to study the variations in the larval and adult densities; (3) to identify the mortality factors acting upon them; (4) to investigate possible relationships between the intensity of the mortality factors and the spatial distribution (horizontal and vertical) of P. ruralis; (5) to describe the role of the major mortality factors in determining the size of the population studied; (6) to assess the potential of the system for further studies about the mechanism of population regulation.
P. ruralis caterpillars were individually labelled and followed throughout their development on a natural growth of their food plant, Urtica dioica (the nettle), near Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Parasitism and predation as well as the distribution and movements of the larvae on the host plant were assessed.
Caterpillars were also collected and reared in the laboratory for identification of the parasitoid species and to provide support for the field results.
Adults were studied in the field by the mark- release- recapture method. Potential female fertility was investigated in the laboratory.
The population suffered a dramatic decline in numbers during the period of this study. The main factors determining the observed population levels were the interactions between the weather, time spent in development, deviations in the sex ratio, bird predation towards the completion of pre-adult development and parasitization by a braconid (Macrocentrus grandii). Other parasitoids also had some effect, notably Diadegma sp. Predation also had a strong impact on the population of M. grandii. Birds appear to concentrate their attack in the part of the plant in which they are more likely to find the prey.
Weather also influenced adult activity and availability of nectar sources in the field, and starvation of females reduced fecundity in the laboratory. Thus, egg shortfall may also have been important in the decrease of population size.
The field method used with the caterpillars provided detailed and valuable information about individual and spatial variation and it is suggested that the system 'nettles / P. ruralis / natural enemies' can be a powerful tool for studies on the mechanisms of population regulation.


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Student Emergency Medical Forms
Allen East will be using FinalForms for digital forms. Students in grade 5-12 are required to provide a digital signature as well for a few of the forms. Once Parents have completed the forms the student will receive an email to their GMAIL account. The username is exactly the same as what they use to log into the Chromebooks. Make sure students have _USER_.alleneastschools.org on the end of their email address.


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Flora & Fauna Areas
Fr. Polynesia Flora
|Want to travel to French Polynesia?
Most travelers enter French Polynesia via the international airport in Tahiti, from which they can fly east to the Marquesas or the Tuamotus, or west to the other Society Islands such as Moorea and Bora Bora. Sailboats can be charted in the major islands (Tahiti and Raiatea) allowing access to smaller islands without airports. Cars can be rented on most of the Society Islands (Tahiti to Bora Bora). Bicycles are a good option on all but the largest islands. Hiking is a great way to get into the forests of the Marquesas.
This section highlights some of the interesting flora and fauna -- plants, animals and birds -- of the islands of French Polynesia. This includes the island groups of the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, and the Society Islands which include Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora.
Located approximately 3,500 miles from the South American continent, and about the same distance from the Australian continent, the French Polynesian islands almost define the word "isolation." After the astounding wildlife of the Galapagos, French Polynesia seemed somewhat sterile in terms of birds and land animals. The plants, however, are as varied and magnificent as those of the Eastern Caribbean, and the underwater life is bountiful and exciting.
Binoculars and camera in hand, we spend many hours exploring our environment. On board, we use several valuable reference books to terrestrial flora and fauna:
A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific by Pratt, Burner, and Berrett, 520 pages.
Seabirds: An Identification Guide by Peter Harrison is a superb guide to seabirds of the world that should be in every serious bird-watchers library.
A Naturalist's Guide to the Tropics by Marco Lambertini, 338 pages.
Collins Guide to Tropical Plants by Lotschert and Beese - A Descriptive Guide to 323 Ornamental and Economic Plants.
And, less technical, but easy reading and full of anecdotes is the Lonely Planet guide to Tahiti & French Polynesia which helps put each country into perspective geologically, environmentally, and culturally.
The largest land animals are the small yellow geckos that inhabit the trees and eaves of the island homes. Large, nocturnal coconut crabs leave evidence of their existence by their 8‑12" (20‑30 cm) holes in the sand. More obvious are the hermit crabs which scuttle about on the sandy shores scavenging for food and new and better shells to inhabit. There are no dangerous land animals and no snakes in French Polynesia.
|While hiking over the top of Moorea with friends Karen and Jon, we suddenly heard Jon yelp. A 3" brown spider had launched itself onto his collar from one of the Tahitian chestnut trees. He didn't let it sit on his shoulder long enough to prove that "there are no poisonous spiders in French Polynesia."|
|While driving around Huahine (in the Society Islands) we came upon a stream in which live the islander's sacred blue‑eyed eels. We thought we would be lucky to find an eel. To our surprise, about a dozen of the 2‑3 foot brown eels emerged from behind a retaining wall to check out the bread crumbs we tossed on the water. Fresh water eels (and crabs) can be found in most of the Society Islands streams.|
BIRDS of French Polynesia
The tiny, blue-faced Zebra Dove
The bird life in French Polynesia is scant compared to the Americas, or Australia, with introduced species slowly pushing out the endemic land birds. In 1903 the aggressive Indian myna was imported to help wipe out a beetle. It has also wiped out several endemic birds by robbing their nests. The island of Maupiti (the western-most inhabited island in the Society Islands) brags more native birds than elsewhere due to the lack of mynas. In addition to the mynas a few song birds can be seen flitting from branch to branch such as the red-vented bulbul, common waxbill, chestnut-breasted mannikin, and silvereye. A very common companion along trails and roadsides was the tiny blue faced zebra dove, not endemic, but introduced from Australia to Tahiti in 1950. It is also known as the barred or peaceful dove.
More than 27 species of sea birds migrate to and from the islands, though a few do nest here. Commonly seen over the anchorages are magnificent frigate birds, the all-white fairy terns, great terns, and black and brown noddies with a distinctive white patch on the head. Other avian friends of ours from the Galapagos are the red-footed boobies and masked boobies.
For bird identification in French Polynesia we generally used two books:
Seabirds: An Identification Guide by Peter Harrison (a superb guide), and
A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific by Pratt, Burner, and Berrett.
|The wandering tattler is a commonly seen migratory shorebird, arriving in the northern winter from Alaska and NW Canada. It feeds on rocky shores by running and probing, while characteristically bobbing its tail. One took a long break from feeding to rest on the bow rail of Ocelot one afternoon in Raiatea.||The Pacific reef heron is occasionally seen standing very still on the water's edge. Similar to the Little blue heron, the Pacific reef heron has a more crouched stance and yellow-greenish legs. It is often solitary, but nests ashore in small groups on rocky ledges or trees. It occurs throughout French Polynesia.|
|Boobies and frigate birds soar and circle above the
sea in the late afternoon. This shot was taken on the day we left Maupiti
to sail to the Kingdom of Tonga.
We occasionally saw sea birds hundreds of miles from land. Most were petrels or shearwaters. They are very difficult to positively identify while on the wing, at sea.
|A red-footed boobie rests on the ocean between acrobatic flights and dives to capture a meal just outside the reef in Bora Bora. Despite their name which implies a clown-like appearance and demeanor, we find the boobies to be graceful and strikingly beautiful with their blue faces, clearly delineated feather colors, and bright red feet. Also common in the islands are the brown boobies with their brown heads, back and wings, and white breast. They, too, have light blue on their bills, but less than the red-footed boobies.|
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Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)
Trent Severn Waterway
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A national historic site since 1844.
The Government of Canada is investing approximately $1 billion to upgrade Canadian infrastructure, with a significant portion allotted to the restoration and preservation of the Trent-Severn Waterway. The goal is to improve accessibility, ensure overall safety, and perform extensive restorations to address the waterway's older features while preserving the integrity of the original infrastructure.
The restoration of the Trent-Severn Waterway faces a unique set of challenges due to its heritage status and environmental and seasonal concerns. The government wants to retain the integrity of the heritage status, which introduces limitations to the restoration work as well as material selection. As an added challenge, construction activities are restricted from May to October due to the navigation season, fish spawning periods, and intense flooding.
For this large body of work, our team worked to support the Public Services and Procurement Canada team throughout restoration/ rehabilitation efforts. The heritage status of the waterway provided our team with the unique opportunity to modernize the waterway's infrastructure without disrupting the historic features. Additionally, our extensive knowledge of environmental complexities and our experience with scheduling delays meant we could ensure the schedule was uninterrupted and that the project's standards of quality were met.
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This class provides a Jabber-based transport backend for SOAP::Lite.
This class uses the Net::Jabber classes to abstract the Jabber protocol away from the direct notice of the application. Besides maintaining any needed objects internally, the package also uses a separate class as a proxy between communication layers, SOAP::Transport::JABBER::Query. The Jabber support provides both client and server classes.
Inherits from: SOAP::Client, Net::Jabber::Client. This class provides localized implementations for both the new and send_receive methods, neither of which are changed in terms of interface. The only difference is that the send_receive method doesn't directly use the action hash key on the input it receives. In addition to these two basic methods, the server class overrides the endpoint method it would otherwise inherit from SOAP::Client:
In the general sense, this still acts as a basic accessor method, with the same get value/set value behavior used consistently through the SOAP::Lite module. The difference between this version and most others is that when the endpoint is initially set or is changed, the client object makes the connection to the Jabber endpoint, sending the proper authentication credentials and setting up the conversation mechanism using the SOAP::Transport::JABBER::Query class as a delegate. It then calls the superclass endpoint method to ensure that all other related elements are taken care of.
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This 1,303-acre preserve located in the towns of Sullivan, Nelson, and Stoddard, provides vital habitat for several endangered natural communities.
Abutting more than 13,000 acres of protected lands (including the Andorra Forest), Otter Brook Preserve provides critical wetland and riparian habitat for wildlife. The preserve protects significant portions of the headwaters of Otter Brook, as well as parts of the watershed for Sullivan's largest and most productive aquifer.
The Nature Conservancy of New Hampshire established the Otter Brook Preserve in 1999. Located in Nelson, Stoddard, and Sullivan, the preserve offers excellent landscape scale conservation value due to its extensive core forest, adjoining conservation land, wetlands, and wildlife habitat. The preserve supports exemplary natural communities, including pristine ponds and acidic fens, and has excellent recreational and scenic value.
At nearly 15,000 acres, the Andorra Forest/Otter Brook conservation area is one of the largest contiguous forest blocks in Southwestern New Hampshire. It is this type of landscape scale conservation that will make a significant impact on the preservation of New Hampshire's most special places.
The Conservancy and its hardworking volunteers have established a 4.8-mile trail system at this relatively new preserve. The trail winds through diverse forest types to bring visitors to Bolster Pond and Brook, Otter Brook, Ellis Reservoir, and several other cultural features on the preserve.
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Babri Mosque facts for kids
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The Babri Mosque (Urdu: بابری مسجد, Hindi: बाबरी मस्जिद), or Mosque of Babur was a mosque in Ayodhya, India. It was constructed by order of the first Mughal emperor of India, Babur, in Ayodhya in the 16th century.
The mosque was built on top of a Hindu Temple, the Ram Janmabhoomi, birthplace of Lord Rama. Babri mosque was destroyed in 1992 when a Rally of Hindus entered to the Ayodhya. After the demolition of the Babri Mosque there was violence between Muslims and Hindus. On 27 September 2010 an Indian High Court (Allahabad High Court) decided that the Mosque was built on the Shri Ramlala Temple which was destroyed by Babar. Allahabad High Court decided to split the site into three parts.
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The paper presents the calculations for the failure conditions of the ORC (organic Rankine cycle) cycle in the electrical power system. It analyses the possible reasons of breakdown, such as the electrical power loss or the automatic safety valve failure. The micro-CHP (combined heat and power) system should have maintenance-free configuration, which means that the user does not have to be acquainted with all the details of the ORC system operation. However, the system should always be equipped with the safety control systems allowing for the immediate turn off of the ORC cycle in case of any failure. In case of emergency, the control system should take over the safety tasks and protect the micro-CHP system from damaging. Although, the control systems are able to respond quickly to the CHP system equipped with the inertial systems, the negative effects of failure are unavoidable and always remain for some time. Moreover, the paper presents the results of calculations determining the inertia for the micro-CHP system of the circulating ORC pump, heat removal pump (cooling condenser) and the heat supply pump in failure conditions.
 Matysko R.: The Transient model of ideal refrigeration cycle with control cystem for heat receiving and intermediary cycle in cooling chamber. In: HEAT 2011, Proc. 6th Int. Conf. on Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems, June 28 - July 2, Ryn 2011.
 Mikielewicz J.: Modelling of thermal-hydraulic processes. Maszyny Przepływowe, Vol. 17, Ossolineum, Wrocław 1995 (in Polish).
 Quoilin S., Aumann R., Grill A., Schuster A., Lemort V., Spliethoff H.: Dynamic modeling and optimal control strategy of waste heat recovery. Appl. Energ. 88(2011), 2183-2190.
 Manente G., Toffolo A., Lazzaretto A.,Paci M.: An organic Rankine cycle off-design model for the search of the optimal control strategy. Energy 58(2013), 97-106.
 He Y-L, Mei D-H., Tao W-Q., Yang W-W., Liu H-L.: Simulation of the parabolic trough solar energy generation system with organic Rankine cycle. Appl. Energ. 97(2012), 630-641.
 Wei D., Lu X., Lu Z., Gu J.: Dynamic modeling and simulation of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system for waste heat recovery. Appl. Therm. Eng. 28(2008), 10, _PHONE_.
 Zhang J.a, Zhang W., Hou G., Fang F.: Dynamic modeling and multivariable control of organic Rankine cycles in waste heat utilizing processes. Comput. Math. Appl. 64(2012), 5, 908-921.
 Matysko R., Mikielewicz J.: Transient model of the combined microcogeneration and heat pump cycle. In: Proc. 1st Int. Cong. on Thermodynamics, Poznań 4-7 September, 2011.
 Pei G., Li J., Li Y., Wang D., Ji J.: Construction and dynamic test of a smallscale organic Rankine cycle. Energy 36(2011), 3215-3223.


Pope Benedict XVI calls astronauts
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL--Pope Benedict XVI called the combined crews of the shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station Saturday, wishing commander Mark Kelly's gravely wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, a steady recovery and asking station flight engineer Paolo Nespoli how he endured news of his mother's death in the isolation of space.
Pope Benedict XVI speaks to the combined shuttle-station crews form the Vatican. (Credit: NASA TV)
Speaking from a desk at the Vatican, the pope focused on the role of science and technology in solving problems on Earth and inspiring young people.
The International Space Station crew, in blue shirts, and the Endeavour astronauts, in black shirts, chat with Pope Benedict. (Credit: NASA TV)
"From the space station, you have a very different view of the Earth, you fly over different continents and nations several times a day," he said, reading prepared remarks. "I think it must be obvious to you how we all live together on one Earth and how absurd it is that we fight and kill each (other).
"I know that Mark Kelly's wife was a victim of a serious attack and I hope her health continues to improve. When you're contemplating the Earth from up there, do you ever wonder about the way nations and people live together down here, about how science can contribute to the cause of peace?"
"Thank you for the kind words, your holiness, and thank you for mentioning my wife, Gabby," Kelly replied. "It's a very good question. We fly over most of the world and you don't see borders, but at the same time we realize that people fight with each other and there's a lot of violence in this world and it's really an unfortunate thing."
Kelly said people frequently fight over resources, pointing out that "the science and technology that we put into the space station to develop a solar power capability gives us pretty much an unlimited amount of energy. And if those technologies could be adapted more on Earth, we could possibly reduce some of that violence."
Pope Benedict asked the astronauts about their impression of the environment from the vantage point of space, wondering if "you see signs of phenomena to which we need to be more attentive?"
"It really is an extraordinary vantage point we have up here," station flight engineer Ronald Garan said. "On the one hand, we can see how indescribably beautiful the planet we have been given is. But on the other hand, we can really clearly see how fragile it is. The atmosphere when viewed from space is paper thin. And to think that this paper thin layer is all that separates every living thing from the vacuum of space is really a sobering thought."
The pope spoke in Italian to station flight engineer Paolo Nespoli, who's mother died in Italy May 2.
"Dear Paolo. I know that a few days ago your mom left you and in a few days you will come back home and you will not find her waiting for you," the pope said in translated remarks. "We're all close to you. Me too, I have prayed for her. How have you been living through this time of pain on the International Space Station? Do you feel isolated and alone? Or do you feel united amongst ourselves in a community that follows you with attention and affection?"
"Holy father, I felt your prayers and everyone's prayers arriving up here," Nespoli replied. "My colleagues on board the station were very close to me at this important time for me, a very intense moment, as well as my brothers and sisters, my uncles, my aunts, my relatives were close to my mom in her last moments. I'm very grateful for this. I felt very far, but also very close. And the thought of feeling all of you near me at this time has been a great relief. I also want to thank the Italian and American space agencies that had given me the opportunity so that I was able to speak with her in her last moments."


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LICHTENFELS | bayern-bavaria - International Jewish Cemetery Project
LICHTENFELS, Bayr: 96215 Bavaria, Upper Franconia (Gerz, Peters).
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: An der Friedenslinde (Detail).
IN USE: From November 1840 until January 1940.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: Only 3 remaining gravestones.
Numerous individual gravestone photographs and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
Jüdische Friedhöfe in Bayern publ. Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte, Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst - click on Friedhöfe A-Z and Lichtenfels.
From the mid 17th century onwards and up to the acquisition their own burial ground in 1840, this community buried their Dead in the Burgkunstadt cemetery. The Lichtenfels cemetery was originally surrounded by a stone wall.
The cemetery was desecrated in March 1930 and completely destroyed during the Nazi era. By 1940 the newest section of the cemetery had been confiscated by the local authority, upon whose insistence all earthly remains of those Jews, who had previously been buried there, had to be exhumed and reburied in the cemetery of Burgkunstadt. Practically all gravestones and the old stone wall were stolen and used in local road construction purposes.
This cemetery is well maintained and is surrounded by a beech wood and wire mesh fencing, with a small wrought iron gate. In September 1952 a memorial stone was dedicated in honour of the 25 named Lichtenfels Jews, who were murdered by the Nazis.
SOURCE: Alemannia Judaica and Schwierz, pages 227/228 (Schwierz LBI).
(Researched and translated from German April 2010).
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(1859 - 1939)
George Elbert Burr (1859–1939) was an American printmaker and painter best known for his etchings and drypoints of the desert and mountain regions of the American West.
Burr was born in 1859 in Monroe Falls, Ohio. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago for one winter, his only formal artistic training. Nevertheless, he enjoyed early success as a commercial artist, providing illustrations for Harper's, Scribner's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Weekly, and The Cosmopolitan. In 1892, he began a four-year project illustrating a catalog of Heber R. Bishop's collection of jade antiquities for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. This project, which involved producing etchings of over a thousand artifacts, paid well enough for Burr to embark on an extended tour of Europe with his wife upon its completion. Over the next five years, as they traveled in Italy, Germany, and the British Isles, Burr amassed sketches and watercolors that would provide the source material for his copperplate etchings of European scenes.
A few years after his return to the United States, an attack of the flu prompted Burr to move to Denver for the benefit of his health. It was there, during summers spent in a cabin studio in a steep wooded canyon with panoramic views of the Rocky Mountains, that Burr began to concentrate on the work that made him famous. In 1924 the artist settled in Phoenix, Arizona, where he would remain for the rest of his life. This change of scenery gave him the opportunity to round out his oevure of Western landscapes with expansive views of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts.
Today George Elbert Burr is widely considered to be one of the finest of the early 20th century American etchers. His prints are in a number of prominent collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the British Museum, the French National Print Collection, Luxembourg Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, the New York Public Library and the Congressional Library in Washington, D.C.
Seeber, Louise Combes (1971). George Elbert Burr, _PHONE_; catalogue raisonné and guide to the etched works with biographical and critical notes. Flagstaff, Ariz: Northland Press. ISBN 0-87358-067-2.
External links
George Elbert Burr on Artnet
George Elbert Burr at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
George Elbert Burr Papers at the Denver Public Library
Works by George Elbert Burr at Davidson Galleries
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Sun Glint
Both direct Sun glint and background sky reﬂectance are included in the radiative transfer calculations. However, the Sun glint contribution is removed from the look-up-tables (LUTs) so as to allow the historical approach of Gordon and Wang (1994a) to be used. The current Rayleigh LUTs are wind-speed dependent, but the aerosol LUTs assume a ﬂat ocean. Thus the LUTs include diﬀuse sky reﬂectance but not specular reﬂection. There is thus an explicit correction for Sun glint, but not for diﬀuse sky reﬂectance, which is accounted for as part of the Rayleigh correction.
Even for sensors (such as SeaWiFS) that are designed with tilt capabilities allowing them to be oriented so that they do not look at the Sun's glitter pattern, there can still be signiﬁcant residual glint radiance reaching the sensor, especially near the edges of the obvious glint area. This is corrected as follows.
Recall Eq. (3) of the Problem Formulation page:
Lt = LR + [La + LRa] + TLg + tLwc + tLw,
where Lg is the direct Sun glint radiance. Lg is computed using the analytical Cox-Munk wind speed-wave slope distribution and the Sun and viewing geometry. (Wang and Bailey(2001) (Eq. 2) write the Sun glint radiance Lg in terms of a normalized Sun glint LGN, which is deﬁned by
Lg(λ) Fo(λ)T(𝜃s,λ)LGN.
LGN is computed using an azimuthally symmetric analytical form of the Cox-Munk wind speed–wave slope distribution for the given Sun and viewing directions, and an incident irradiance of magnitude Fo(λ) = 1Wm2nm1. LGN thus has the angular distribution of the surface-reﬂected radiance, but its units are 1/steradian. Note that LGN is independent of wavelength.
During image processing, pixels with a value of LGN > 0.005sr1 are masked out as having too much glint to be useful. Pixels with LGN 0.005sr1 have a glint correction applied before use.
For the glint correction, atmospheric attenuation occurs ﬁrst along the path of the Sun's direct solar beam as the Sun's beam travels from the TOA to the sea surface; the associated transmittance is T(𝜃s,λ). Attenuation then occurs along the viewing direction from the sea surface back to the TOA; this transmittance is T(𝜃v,λ). These are both direct beam transmittances because only one particular path connects the Sun with a point on the sea surface that reﬂects the direct beam into the sensor (recall the left panel of Fig. 1 of the Atmospheric Transmittances page). The total "two-path" transmittance is the product of the transmittances. The glint radiance correction, which is subtracted from Lt, is then (Wang and Bailey(2001), Eqs. 4 and 5)
T(𝜃v,λ)Lg(𝜃v,λ) = Fo(λ)T(𝜃s,λ)T(𝜃v,λ)LGN,
T(𝜃s,λ)T(𝜃v,λ) = exp [τR(λ) + τa(λ)] 1 cos 𝜃s + 1 cos 𝜃v, (1)
and where τR(λ) and τa(λ) are the Rayleigh and aerosol optical thicknesses, respectively.
Wang and Bailey(2001) comment (page 4792, left column) that the eﬀects of ozone absorption have already been accounted for before this state of processing. This is now also true for NO2 absorption.
Note that the glint correction cannot be computed unless the aerosol optical thickness (AOT) τa is known. The AOT is obtained in a two-step process. First, the measured Lt(λ) and the wind speed W are used to get a ﬁrst estimate τa(1)(λ) of the AOT. This estimate is obtained using the algorithms described on the Aerosols page. This estimate is then used in Eq. (1), and the glint-corrected TOA radiance is then computed as
Lt (λ) = Lt(λ) Fo(λ)T(𝜃s,λ)T(𝜃v,λ)LGN. (2)
This gives the initial estimate Lt(1)(λ) of Lt(λ). This value is then used again in the AOT algorithm to obtain the second estimate τa(2)(λ) for the AOT. The second AOT estimate is then used again in Eqs. (1) and (2) to obtain an improved estimate Lt(2)(λ). In practice, only two iterations give a satisfactory ﬁnal estimate for the AOT, τa(λ) = τa(2)(λ), and thus for the glint-corrected TOA radiance. This ﬁnal τa(λ) is then used to compute the aerosol contribution to the TOA radiance, as described on the aerosol page.
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Rowland Tappan Berthoff (September 20, 1921 – March 25, 2001) was an American historian, working in the fields of immigration and social life in the USA. He is best known for his 1971 book An Unsettled People: Order and Disorder in American Life.
He was born in
Toledo, Ohio, attended Oberlin College, did graduate work at Harvard University where he received a doctorate in 1952, as a student of Oscar Handlin. Berthoff was an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University from 1953, and then a Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis, from 1962. He was made chairman of Washington University's history department and named William Elliott Smith Professor of History in 1971.
social history and ethnic history. His 1960 article on "The American Social Order: A Conservative Hypothesis," called for a conservative interpretation of American history.
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STRENGTHS Protocol Workshop
The LSHTM Centre for Evaluation invites you to the following Protocol Workshop:
PI: Bayard Roberts
Date: March 27th, 2017
Time: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Jerry Morris A, Tavistock Place
Background: Recent crises in the Middle East, most notably in Syria, have resulted in an unprecedented increase in the number of refugees seeking asylum in neighbouring countries as well as in Europe. The refugee crisis imposes highly challenging demands on health systems in Europe and the Middle East. The STRENGTHS (Syrian REfuGees MeNTal HealTH Care Systems) project a 5-year research project funded by the European Commission focusing on implementation of a trans-diagnostic mental health intervention related to the current Syrian refugee crisis. STRENGTHS will take place in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. It is led by the Free University of Amsterdam and involves a consortium of academic and operational agencies, including LSHTM.
The overall aim of STRENGTHS is to provide effective community-based health care implementation strategies to scale-up the delivery and uptake of effective mental health interventions in different country contexts. STRENGTHS seeks to:
- Outline necessary steps needed to integrate evidence based low-intensity psychological interventions for common mental disorders (the PM+ programmes) into the health systems. These include key preparatory steps in the local political, regulatory and governance processes for uptake and scaling-up of the intervention and key contextual and system-related factors for its integration. These steps will be validated for the real-life impact on the responsiveness of the system.
- Adapt the PM+ programmes and training materials to the recipients of care within the specific health systems and co-create the necessary local conditions for implementation and up-scaling, e.g. training a workforce and develop internet-delivery modality and supporting tools.
- Scale-up the PM+ programmes successfully in terms of health-system performance, effectiveness, affordability and sustainability and identify barriers and facilitators to this end.
- Determine the invested cost and effort in terms of organisational, resource and political-economic requirements relative to the reduction of economic burden of the large-scale implementation of the specific PM+ programmes into the health systems in the different contexts.
- Disseminate the evidence-base for PM+ programmes as well as the validated implementation strategies and step-guides to maintain its sustainability and engage with new stakeholders and health systems to further scaling up across Europe and beyond.
LSHTM, through ECOHOST, will be leading one of the project work packages (and contributing to others). The work package led by LSHTM seeks to analyse the responsiveness of health systems to the scaling-up of PM+ across European host countries and LAMIC bordering Syria in addressing the mental health needs of refugees. Further technical input will be provided from KIT in Amsterdam. The objectives of the LSHTM-led work package are to:
- Analyse the responsiveness of health systems across European host countries and LAMIC bordering Syria in addressing the mental health care needs of refugees.
- Examine how contextual factors such as socio-economic, cultural, and political-economy factors influence the responsiveness of health systems to the mental health care needs of refugees in the project countries.
- Explore how the scaling-up of the low-intensity PM+ programmes can support health system responsiveness to the mental health care needs of refugees in the project countries
- Compare the responsiveness before and after implementation of the PM+ programmes of the health systems of European and LAMI countries bordering Syria.
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EVALUATION OF A FIBER‐OPTIC SENSOR FOR STRAIN MEASUREMENT AND AN APPLICATION TO CONTACT MECHANICS
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A surface attached fiber‐optic sensor has been evaluated for maximum strain measurement capability in simple tension experiments to better understand the basic mechanisms of fiber‐optic sensor failure. A fiber‐optic sensor was then evaluated for its applicability to measure strains under more complex loading conditions, for example, contact strains. Experimental work has shown that while the surface attached fiber sensor fails at much lower strain levels than that achievable by conventional strain gages, unlike conventional strain gages, the fiber‐optic sensor shows linearity up until the failure point. This failure point is well within the parameters for typical experiments in our laboratory. Fiber‐optic sensors also showed their applicability to contact mechanics. Copyright © 1994, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
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Sienkiewicz, F., and A. Shukla. "EVALUATION OF A FIBER‐OPTIC SENSOR FOR STRAIN MEASUREMENT AND AN APPLICATION TO CONTACT MECHANICS." Experimental Techniques 18, 4 (1994): 28-33. doi: 10.1111/j._PHONE_.1994.tb00286.x.