In the projects which are carried out by businesses in the Infrastructure Building sector, the parties involved communicate constantly.
The Infrastructure Building industry is characterized by changing cooperation relations between the different parties involved. During the entire process - from the first idea until finally the use and operational management - new cooperation relationships are constantly being formed. Some parties stay involved in the project over a longer period of time, while others come and go. Good communication between the parties involved is paramount for the efficiency in the project. The quick agreement on changes by all building partners, and the prompt availability of the last version of a drawing at the building sight, has great influence on the quality, the time span and the costs of a project.
Project partners experience that poor communication is an important bottleneck in the infrastructure building sector. In early 1998 a number of organizations from the infrastructure building sector came up with the plan to formulate agreements about communication between partners in infrastructure building projects. This plan constituted the foundation for what is now known in the sector as 'VISI'.
What does VISI stand for?
VISI stands for 'creating conditions for the establishment of standardization ICT in the infrastructure building sector' and its goals can be defined as follows:
 1. The parties involved agreed on generally applicable agreements about the content and design of communication between them.
 2. With these agreements the parties are able to enter into cooperation relationships and set up communication structures faster and more flexible.
 3. The parties involved communicate better with their environment and thus increase the quality of the product.
 4. With these agreements the tools in the area of information and communication technology (ICT) are better utilized.
It simply comes down that VISI aims to make unambiguous agreements about the (digital) communication at the points of contact or interfaces between parties in infrastructure building projects. These agreements should lead to the ability for the parties to find each other at will.
The Solution
The agreements which have been developed are related to communication which is needed to securely register the formal transactions between the partners in an infrastructure building project. For example for the settlement of alterations or the submittal and approval of a budget.
The agreements that VISI has developed are grouped according to areas of application. A group of agreements is referred to as a VISI-framework. The first area of application for which a VISI-framework is made available is in the communication between the principal and those employed by the principal in an UAV-agreement (UAV is the Dutch acronym for uniform administrative conditions). This framework is simply referred to as VISI-framework UAV.
What are these agreements about? The most important component is a collection of messages, made-up as forms. These messages are ready to be used in practise. Every message has specific data elements, independent of the goal of use. Thus in the VISI framework UAV we find a message for the submittal of a budget; in this message we see data elements to indicate which part of the budget it refers to, and which amounts are applicable.
Aside from the messages there are a number of other matters which are settled in a framework; for example which messages belong together to settle that a certain procedure is fixed. Furthermore the order of messages is dictated. Think about the submittal of a budget. This begins with the message 'budget' which is submitted by the employed party. Subsequently the principal can choose whether to answer with a message'rejection budget' or 'provisional approval budget', etc. The collection of messages for the settlement of such a procedure and their order is called a Transaction in VISI.
Finally, in communication it is important that it is clear from who messages come and to whom they go. In a VISI-framework this is fixed through roles. In a transaction there are always 2 roles involved. If we take again the example of'submitting a budget', then the two roles involved are the principal and those employed by the principal.
The result
Five large government principals in the building industry decided to introduce VISI in phases. The five principals are Rijkswaterstaat, Dienst Vastgoed Defensie, Rijksgebouwendienst, ProRail and Gemeentewerken Rotterdam. They signed for this in December 2006 in an implementation decision. The implementation took place in phases. In 2007 the principals carried out a number of their infrastructure building projects, which were placed in the market based on the UAV89, with VISI. This way the individual organizations and their building partners could get used to this form of communication. From 2008 onwards the use of VISI in all UAV89 projects has been made compulsory. For the B&U 2008 was the introductory year and the obligation to use VISI counts from 2009 onward. It was expected that from mid 2007 the contract model UAVgc would be introduced. The principals had to make a decision about this independently.
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Cosmoislands: A Window to the Universe
Cosmoislas is a window into the vastness of the cosmos, as shown by renowned star photographer Daniel López. It is a dynamic educational project targeted at schoolchildren and their families, and general visitors at large.
Cosmoislas shows the night sky from some of the most amazing spots in the Canary Islands. Using interactive boards, visitors can learn interesting astronomical facts: apparent motion, rotation and stargazing, light pollution and look at the sky at night, etc.
- When: From 14 January to 31 December
- Where: CajaCanarias Cultural Space, Garachico
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Title: Systems and methods for regulating pressure of a filled-in gas
A system for regulating a pressure of a filled-in gas is presented. The system includes a reservoir that stores a reservoir gas adsorbed in a sorbent material at a storage temperature, a gas-filled tube containing the filled-in gas, a controller configured to determine a pressure change required in the filled-in gas based upon signals representative of a pressure of the filled-in gas inside the gas-filled tube and a required pressure threshold, determine an updated temperature of the sorbent material based upon the pressure change required in the filled-in gas, and regulate the pressure of the filled-in gas by controlling the reservoir to change the storage temperature of the sorbent material to reach the updated temperature of the sorbent material.
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OSTI Identifier:
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Report Number(s):
9,330,876
14/072,889
DOE Contract Number:
AR0000298
Resource Type:
Patent
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Patent File Date: 2013 Nov 06
Research Org:
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org:
USDOE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Monroe Province is estimated to have an area of 300,000 square miles. This estimate, however, includes vast stretches of empty, disputed territory that are often held to belong to no province at all. Among these is Maddock Isle which has long been abandoned by civilization.
The following cities lie within Monroe Province:
The population of Monroe Province lives very centralized, with almost three quarters of its circa 1,600,000 inhabitants living in the large city of Gale, a further 200,000 living in Tevrono, and the rest of the people distributed across the smaller towns, villages and farmsteads. Its Nephilim population is almost non-existant due to harsh segregation policies practiced by its government for decades. Few inhabitants of Monroe Province have ever seen one of the Slithzerikai in their lives.
The people of Monroe province spend most of their time mining the lucrative mountains in the center of the province. Various gems and metals have been found, even rivaling some of the mines on Vantanas. In addition, the forests near Tevrono are an important source of lumber for the region, and are even shipped to other continents and islands through the port of Mernia.
Monroe Province was the second to be formally established after Footracer Province, although the original settlement of Gale is believed to predate the Keep of Tinraya (Footracer's capital) by at least a decade.
During the time of the Plagues, Monroe Province was threatened by golems produced in what is termed the Tower of Shifting Floors. These golems are judged to be the most dangerous of the plagues save the six-legged Alien beasts attacking Footracer, and the population and economy of the area was sorely affected.
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PolyDataFilters.delaunay_2d(tol=1e-05, alpha=0.0, offset=1.0, bound=False, inplace=False, edge_source=None, progress_bar=False)
Apply a 2D Delaunay filter along the best fitting plane.
This filter can be used to generate a 2d surface from a set of points on a plane. If you want to create a surface from a point cloud, see pyvista.DataSetFilters.reconstruct_surface().
tolfloat, optional
Specify a tolerance to control discarding of closely spaced points. This tolerance is specified as a fraction of the diagonal length of the bounding box of the points. Defaults to 1e-05.
alphafloat, optional
Specify alpha (or distance) value to control output of this filter. For a non-zero alpha value, only edges or triangles contained within a sphere centered at mesh vertices will be output. Otherwise, only triangles will be output. Defaults to 0.0.
offsetfloat, optional
Specify a multiplier to control the size of the initial, bounding Delaunay triangulation. Defaults to 1.0.
boundbool, optional
Boolean controls whether bounding triangulation points and associated triangles are included in the output. These are introduced as an initial triangulation to begin the triangulation process. This feature is nice for debugging output. Default False.
inplacebool, optional
If True, overwrite this mesh with the triangulated mesh. Default False.
edge_sourcepyvista.PolyData, optional
Specify the source object used to specify constrained edges and loops. If set, and lines/polygons are defined, a constrained triangulation is created. The lines/polygons are assumed to reference points in the input point set (i.e. point ids are identical in the input and source).
progress_barbool, optional
Display a progress bar to indicate progress. Default False.
Mesh from the 2D delaunay filter.
First, generate 30 points on circle and plot them.
>>> import pyvista
>>> points = pyvista.Polygon(n_sides=30).points
>>> circle = pyvista.PolyData(points)
>>> circle.plot(show_edges=True, point_size=15)
Use delaunay_2d() to fill the interior of the circle.
>>> filled_circle = circle.delaunay_2d()
>>> filled_circle.plot(show_edges=True, line_width=5)
See Create Triangulated Surface for more examples using this filter.


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897. Increasing Order Search Tree
Description
Given the root of a binary search tree, rearrange the tree in in-order so that the leftmost node in the tree is now the root of the tree, and every node has no left child and only one right child.

Example 1:
Input: root = [5,3,6,2,4,null,8,1,null,null,null,7,9]
Output: [1,null,2,null,3,null,4,null,5,null,6,null,7,null,8,null,9]
Example 2:
Input: root = [5,1,7]
Output: [1,null,5,null,7]

Constraints:
 - The number of nodes in the given tree will be in the range [1, 100].
 - 0 <= Node.val <= 1000
Solutions
Solution 1: DFS In-order Traversal
We define a virtual node $dummy$, initially the right child of $dummy$ points to the root node $root$, and a pointer $prev$ points to $dummy$.
We perform an in-order traversal on the binary search tree. During the traversal, each time we visit a node, we point the right child of $prev$ to it, then set the left child of the current node to null, and assign the current node to $prev$ for the next traversal.
After the traversal ends, the original binary search tree is modified into a singly linked list with only right child nodes. We then return the right child of the virtual node $dummy$.
The time complexity is $O(n)$, and the space complexity is $O(n)$. Here, $n$ is the number of nodes in the binary search tree.
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# Definition for a binary tree node.
# class TreeNode:
# def __init__(self, val=0, left=None, right=None):
# self.val = val
# self.left = left
# self.right = right
class Solution:
 def increasingBST(self, root: TreeNode) -> TreeNode:
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/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * public class TreeNode {
 * int val;
 * TreeNode left;
 * TreeNode right;
 * TreeNode() {}
 * TreeNode(int val) { this.val = val; }
 * TreeNode(int val, TreeNode left, TreeNode right) {
 * this.val = val;
 * this.left = left;
 * this.right = right;
 * }
 * }
 */
class Solution {
 private TreeNode prev;
 public TreeNode increasingBST(TreeNode root) {
 TreeNode dummy = new TreeNode(0, null, root);
 prev = dummy;
 dfs(root);
 return dummy.right;
 }
 private void dfs(TreeNode root) {
 if (root == null) {
 return;
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 dfs(root.left);
 prev.right = root;
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 dfs(root.right);
 }
}
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/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * struct TreeNode {
 * int val;
 * TreeNode *left;
 * TreeNode *right;
 * TreeNode() : val(0), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
 * TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
 * TreeNode(int x, TreeNode *left, TreeNode *right) : val(x), left(left), right(right) {}
 * };
 */
class Solution {
public:
 TreeNode* increasingBST(TreeNode* root) {
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 if (!root) {
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 prev = root;
 dfs(root->right);
 };
 dfs(root);
 return dummy->right;
 }
};
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/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * type TreeNode struct {
 * Val int
 * Left *TreeNode
 * Right *TreeNode
 * }
 */
func increasingBST(root *TreeNode) *TreeNode {
 dummy := &TreeNode{Val: 0, Right: root}
 prev := dummy
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 dfs = func(root *TreeNode) {
 if root == nil {
 return
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 dfs(root.Right)
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}
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/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * class TreeNode {
 * val: number
 * left: TreeNode | null
 * right: TreeNode | null
 * constructor(val?: number, left?: TreeNode | null, right?: TreeNode | null) {
 * this.val = (val===undefined ? 0 : val)
 * this.left = (left===undefined ? null : left)
 * this.right = (right===undefined ? null : right)
 * }
 * }
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function increasingBST(root: TreeNode | null): TreeNode | null {
 const dummy = new TreeNode((right = root));
 let prev = dummy;
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 if (!root) {
 return;
 }
 dfs(root.left);
 prev.right = root;
 root.left = null;
 prev = root;
 dfs(root.right);
 };
 dfs(root);
 return dummy.right;
}


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Eden park
primary and nursery
Saving The World!
KS1 pupils enjoy a visit to Living Coasts as part of their learning experience - 'Saving the World.
The children were able to get up close and personal to the Macaroni and African penguins and learnt how to tell them apart before moving on to see the fur seals being fed. After the children were all fed and watered, they took part in an interactive work shop, learning how penguins keep warm in arctic conditions and how to keep their eggs warm. They even had a go at carrying eggs on their feet. Not easy! A fantastic time was had by all and it was all great inspiration for the stories they will be writing and the upcoming show 'Eddie the Penguin Saves the World.'
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The Quebec construction industry has adopted criteria for hiring workers to which construction companies must conform. The fundamental principle is competency, acquired through training and/or on-the-job experience.
To demonstrate this competency and to work in the construction industry falling under the Act Respecting Labour Relations, Vocational Training, and Workforce Management in the Construction Industry (Act R-20), a worker must hold a competency certificate. There are three categories:
- Journeyman, for people who have demonstrated that they are qualified in one or another of the construction trades;
- Occupation, for people working on construction sites as a labourer or specialized labourer.
The Commission de la construction du Québec (CCQ) also recognizes qualification certificates for certain trades issued by the Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale (MTESS).
The construction industry favours access for graduates. However, if there is a labour shortage, the Commission de la construction du Québec (CCQ) must allow access for non-graduates. In these cases, specific conditions must be met.
To encourage access to the construction industry by women and Aboriginals and to increase their numbers on construction sites, special measures have been implemented.


always placed on the uneven terrains and grounds.
Foot plant feature has some functions to manipulate its blend weights. Check out section 4 to find out more about its functions. It is recommended to enable this feature in some states which might have foot skating like locomotion states and disable it in the other states which is not capable of having foot skating like standing Idle. Please check "IdleUpdate.cs" and "LocomotionUpdate.cs" to find out how to disable and enable this feature safely.
 - Forward Vector: This vector should be set to show the character foot initial direction. What you see in the Character foot reference pose or (Mecanim T-Pose) is what you should use here. At many times character initial forward vector is equal to foot forward vector.
 - IK Hint Offset: The IK hint position will be calculated automatically as stated in section 1. The IK Hint Offset is added to this the final calculated IK Hint Position to fine tune the final IK hint position.
 - Up Vector: Up vector shows the character up vector. This should be equal to world up vector (Vector3(0, 1, 0)) if the character is moving on ground. Otherwise for some rare situations like running on walls this should be changed accordingly.
 - Foot Offset Dist: The distance used for raycasting. Figure 1, 3 and 5 show the parameter in action.
 - Foot Length: Foot length is used to find the toe position to set the foot pitch rotation. It should be equal to character's foot length. Figure 3 shows the details.
 - Foot Half Width: This parameter should be equal to half width of the foot. It is used to find foot roll rotation. Figure 5 shows the details.
 - Foot Height: Foot height is used to set the correct heel position on ground. It should be equal to distance of heel center to lower leg joint. Figure 1 and 2 show the details.
 - Foot Rotation Limit: The IK foot rotation will not exceed from this value and this will be its limit for rotation. The value is considered in degrees.
 - Transition Time: When no contact point is detected by the system, it will switch to FK mode smoothly through time. Also when the system is in FK mode and it finds a contact point it will switch to IK mode smoothly through time. The "Transition Time" parameter, is the time length of the smooth transition between FK to IK or IK to FK.
 - Extra Ray Distance Check: This parameter is used to find correct foot, toe or heel corner position on ground. Figure 1, 3 and 5 show the parameter in action. This parameter can be changed dynamically to achieve better visual results. Check out the "IdleUpdate.cs" and "LocomotionUpdate.cs" scripts in the project to find out the details. These scripts are changing the "Extra Ray Distance Check" value based on the foot position in the animations and the current animation state. Both scripts use Unity 5 animator behavior callbacks.
4- Mec Foot Placer Component
The Mec Foot Placer component is responsible for setting the correct rotation and position of feet on the ground and switching between IK and FK for feet automatically.
Mec Foot Placer provides some functions which can be used by user. These functions are stated here:
 - void SetActive(AvatarIKGoal foot_id, bool active): This function will set the system on or off safely for each foot. At some states you don't need the system to be active. For example when character is falling, there is no need to check for foot placement. However the system will work correctly on this state too but the user can disable it to ignore the calculations of the component. Each feet can be activated or deactivated separately.
 - bool IsActive(AvatarIKGoal foot_id): If the current foot is active the function returns true otherwise false.
 - void EnablePlant(AvatarIKGoal foot_id, float blend_speed): This function will set the plant foot weight from its current value to 1 through time based on blend speed parameter. The function is useful to be used for some states which need foot planting like locomotion. By using it, plant foot feature will be activated smoothly through time. To have the plant foot feature effective the plant foot weight value should be higher than 0.
 - void DisablePlant(AvatarIKGoal foot_id, float blend_speed): This function will set the plant foot weight from its current value to 0 through time based on blend speed parameter. The function is useful to be used for some states which doesn't need foot planting like standing idles. By using it plant foot feature will be deactivated smoothly through time.
 - void SetPlantBlendWeight(AvatarIKGoal foot_id, float weight): Sometimes you need to manually change the plant blend values rather than using DisablePlant or EnablePlant functions. This function sets the blend weight between planted foot position and rotation with the non-planted foot position and rotation.
 - float GetPlantBlendWeight(AvatarIKGoal foot_id): This function returns current blend weight for foot planting feature.
5- Quick Setup Guide
To setup the system you have to add a MecFootPlacer component. The foot placement component needs at least one FootPlacementData component otherwise it will not work. If two feet are needed to be considered, two foot placement data components should be set. One for right foot and one for left foot so the system can manipulate both feet.
After setting the components the Mec Foot Placer system should work correctly. Check out the example scenes for more info.
5-1- Important Notes on Setting Up the System
Some important notes should be considered before setting up the system:
 - Exposing Necessary Bones: If you checked "Optimize Game Objects" in the avatar rig, then some bones have to be exposed since the Mec Foot Placer needs them to work correctly. The bones are listed here:
 1- The corresponding bones for left and right feet.
 2- The corresponding bones for left and right lower legs.
 Check out the "Robot Kyle" avatar in the project to find how it can be done.
 - Setting up the data correctly: Don't forget that setting up the data for foot placement needs precision and at some states the data needs to be changed dynamically to achieve the best effects. For example the "Extra Ray Distance Check" parameter should be increased or decreased in different states or animation times to achieve better visual results. Fortunately this can be done easily in Unity 5 by using animator behavior scripts. Check out the "IdleUpdate.cs" and "LocomotionUpdate.cs" in project to find out the details. Both scripts are being called within "SimpleLocomotion" animation controller. As Scripts show, the "Extra Ray Distance Check" parameter is increased while character enters in idle state. Also in the locomotion state, the "Extra Ray Distance Check" parameter increases in the times that character is putting his feet on the ground. This is to make sure that foot touches the ground. It will be decreased while the foot is not on the ground to help the foot move freely while looking for ground contacts as well.
 - Checking IK Pass Check Box: On any layer in which you need IK, you have to check IK pass check box in the animator controller so the IK callbacks can be called by Mecanim. If you don't check this check box, Mec Foot Placer will not work.
 - Mecanim Specific Features: Mecanim humanoid rigs provide a leg stretching feature which can help foot IK to look better. The leg stretching feature can avoid Knee popping while setting foot IK. However the value should be set accurately. High values of this feature makes the character cartoony and low values can increase the chance of knee popping in the character. To setup Leg Stretch feature you have to select your character asset. It should be a humanoid rig. In the rig tab, select configure then select muscles tab. In the "Additional Settings" group, you can find a parameter named "Leg Stretch". Check out "Robot Kyle" avatar in the project to find out more.
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Avoiding High Dimensionality in Animation State Space
By the progression of computer hardware, video games can have plenty of animations. This amount of animations need to be manipulated. Each specific animation or just some frames of it needs to be played at the right moment to fulfill a motion related task. Usually, developers try to keep the animation controller separate from the other modules like AI or control so they can just send some parameters to the animation system and the animation system should return the most suitable animation to respond well to the control or AI modules. This can remove the complexity of manipulating animations from the control or AI as they already have their own complexities.
The animation controller promises to return the most suitable animation based on the input parameters. There exists different rules to select animations based on the input parameters. Usually, the speed, rotation and translation of the current animation bones are considered and based on these, a suitable animation will be selected which has the least difference in speed and translation/rotation with the currently playing animation poses. Also the returned animation has to satisfy the motion related tasks. It has to do what the other modules are expected from it to do. For example a path planner can send input parameters like steering degree and speed value to the animation controller and the animation controller should return the best suited motion out of its existing animations to follow the path correctly.
There exists different animation controllers which have already become a standard in video games. The most famous are the animation state machines. They are in many game engines or


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Something long and thin wriggles past you in the countryside. The knee-jerk response may be that you've just seen a snake but how can you be certain that what you've seen isn't a slow worm instead? Let's take a closer look at slow worms and the different species of snake present in the UK to give you a better idea of how to correctly identify and distinguish between snakes and slow worms.
There are a number of factors that can help us to tell the difference between slow worms and snakes. Some are "dead certs" – almost guaranteed to ensure you have the correct identification – whilst others are less certain and in these cases it may be necessary to use a number of different factors in order to be reasonably confident about an identification.
This is especially so if you only had a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of your eye rather than a good long look at the reptile in question. Wherever possible – both to make identification easier and to serve as a reminder in the future – try to take a few photographs of the animal in question.
These don't need to be "award winning" nature photographs – certainly mine aren't – but when a creature could vanish at any second grabbing a few quick pictures that you can analyze at your leisure later on can not only make your identifications more accurate but also more enjoyable as you sit and ponder them at a later date in the comfort of your own home.
Whilst the body of most snakes tends to taper gently from the mid section down to a fine point at the end of the tail the slow worm typically appears far chunkier with the "tail" appearing far blunter and ending far more sharply. In addition, be aware that unlike snakes, slow worms can "drop" their tails like many other lizards and so this can lead to an even "stubbier-looking" tail than normal.
The head shape differs between slow worms and snakes but it can be quite a subtle feature so isn't recommended as the only identification source. In general the species of British snakes tend to have rather flatter-looking heads than the higher, rounder head of the slow worm. Remember that the slow worm is a lizard and not a snake and when you look closely at them it can be quite easy to see that their head is more lizard-like than snake-like.
Grass snakes, smooth snakes and adders all typically have quite clearly-defined patterns to help with camouflage. Spots and stripes are common in these species while the slow worm is typically a reasonably uniform brown in colour. Younger specimens may have stripes of colour but these tend to be longitudinal (from head to tail) rather than the more lateral marking of, for example, an adder.
British snakes feed on a variety of prey including frogs and small mammals but slow worms are rather different in that they prefer small invertebrate prey. Slugs are a perfect example of the type of food they enjoy and so should you see a "slow worm" eating a frog for example, it's almost certainly actually a snake.
Snakes have sealed eyelids through which they see which makes them appear to have no eyelids. As a result they are also incapable of blinking. As lizards however, slow worms do have eye lids and with patience you may even see them blink. Blinking, therefore, is a guaranteed indicator that what you have seen is a slow worm and not a snake.
Of course baby snakes are smaller than adults but overall slow worms are far smaller than most of the British species of snake. Baby slow worms – which are born live rather than in egg form – can be just a few inches long and even the adult rarely exceed more than a foot. Compare this to the size that an adder or a grass snake may achieve and a smaller-sized, serpent-like creature is more likely to be a slow worm than a snake.
Thanks to their preferred prey, slow worms are most likely to be seen after rain and/or in the early evening where they will be searching for small invertebrates to eat. In contrast adders and grass snakes are often seen basking in the heat of the day though a slow worm that has been disturbed from it's hiding place may still be seen at these times of day.
Adders, generally, seem to prefer heathland habitats, grass snakes those with open water in the form of ponds or streams while slow worms can be seen in a variety of habitats though grassland areas is where they are most often observed.
Telling a slow worm from a snake can take a little practise but hopefully you can see there are a number of factors that you can use to help you make a definitive identification.

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EANET Training on Air Quality Monitoring Systems Using Low-Cost Sensors
19 October 2023 – Bangkok, Thailand
The EANET Training on Air Quality Monitoring Systems Using Low-Cost Sensors took place on 6 and 7 September 2023, in Hanoi, Viet Nam, and online. The event was jointly organized by the ADB, the Network Center for the EANET, and the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Climate Change (IMHEN) and gathered 100 participants, online and in person, from the EANET Participating Countries and beyond, to learn about LCS equipment operation, quality assurance, data accuracy, early problem detection, and effective use of monitoring data.
Ms. Karma Yangzom, Principal Environment Specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), delivered Opening Remarks expressing gratitude for joining the Vietnam project with IMHEN. She highlighted the significance of the hybrid method in addressing monitoring resource constraints, emphasizing the need for meticulous use of LCS to ensure sensor functionality and data verification, emphasizing the importance of high-quality, verified data, and underlining the workshop's objective to research proper LCS utilization while expressing appreciation to EANET for hosting the workshop with hopes of providing valuable information to participants.
Dr. Le Ngoc Cau, the Director of the Center of Environmental Research at the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Climate Change (IMHEN), expressed gratitude to the Asia Center for Air Pollution Research, ACAP (the Network Center for the EANET) and ADB for their support in the project to establish an air quality system, highlighting the costliness of such systems in urban areas and the potential of LCS as a more affordable alternative if data accuracy can be ensured. The LCS has been installed in two provinces in Vietnam as part of the project, providing participants with a deeper understanding of its capabilities, and he thanked all the participants and EANET for organizing the workshop.
Introduction to the use of Low-Cost Sensors in Vietnam and in other Asian Countries
Dr. Le Ngoc Cau delivered a presentation on IMHEN's role, its air quality monitoring system, air quality modeling, and EANET activities in Vietnam. He highlighted the installation of a PM2.5 monitor in Hoa Binh station in 2015 and the collaborative installation of LCS at the same station with the Network Center. Dr. Cau emphasized the importance of verifying LCS data for reliability and the need to figure out how to integrate LCS and conventional monitoring data. They expressed interest in further collaboration with international organizations.
Ms. Karma Yangzom shared experiences from Asian countries regarding the use of Air Quality sensors in ADB projects aimed at enhancing awareness and efforts to improve air quality. She highlighted the stability of AQ Mesh sensors, which only require sensor replacements every two years, and emphasized the use of LCS to present air quality information to the public. She highlighted the importance of ensuring the reliability of the data generated from the LCS.
EANET Projects on LCS Technical studies
Dr. Akie Yuba, a Senior Researcher from ACAP, provided a report on LCS technical studies in Vietnam and Myanmar, which were carried out as part of EANET Project Activities. In Hoa Binh, Vietnam, five LCS units were installed, with a specific focus on PM2.5 and other parameters. In Yangon, Myanmar, LCS units, specifically GBiot and Haz Scanner, were utilized for monitoring PM2.5, O3, NO2, and meteorological data during both monsoon and non-monsoon seasons. A good correlation was observed in the data, though different values were displayed in the slopes, emphasizing the need for blackout preparedness to prevent electricity voltage fluctuations.
Dr. Hiroaki Minoura, a Guest Researcher at ACAP demonstrated, along with Dr. Yuba, how to install an LCS, how to initiate it, to connect it to a data server, and how to retrieve LCS data when there are data communication issues.
Dr. Kazuhiro Misaka, Director of Green Blue Corporation, a private company specializing in the inspection, and maintenance of environmental monitoring and measurement equipment, delivered a presentation on data screening and analysis obtained with LCS and the Hybrid Air Quality Monitoring Network (HAQMN), accompanied by Dr. Akie Yuba and Dr. Hiroaki Minoura. Dr. Misaka explained the process of screening raw LCS data and removing noise signals. Dr. Yuba discussed the screening and validation of hourly LCS data, while Dr. Minoura covered topics related to data interpretation, visualization, and trend analysis.
Challenges and Ways Forward
In the last session, Dr. Alison Simcox from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) was invited to share insights on LCS experiences. She clarified that LCS data was not deemed an official guideline, and further studies on its functionality were being considered. Two key questions were introduced: the challenges encountered by LCS and Hybrid Air Quality Monitoring Networks (HAQMN) in Asian countries and potential collaborations for promoting LCS in these regions. Commenting on the wrap-up for the way forward, challenges related to technology and policy in utilizing LCS were emphasized, with a focus on the need for capacity building to address issues such as calibration and data interpretation. Dr. Alison stressed the importance of understanding the purpose of LCS usage, whether it was identifying wildfires, creating smoke maps, or monitoring global changes in PM2.5.
Mr. Kenichiro Fukunaga, Deputy Director General of ACAP, delivered the Closing Remarks and conveyed his gratitude to various organizations and participants for their contributions to the workshop and to the EANET Low-cost sensor project. He expressed expectations for the expansion and enhancement of LCS activities in monitoring, research, and capacity building.
- Read the Panelists' Presentations:
- View the workshop's photos on Flickr.
Find out more about EANET's Project Fund and Project Activities.
Photo credits: cover photo of Vietnam (2021) by Hoach Le Dinh; all other photos: all rights reserved to EANET.


4 Ways Cryofacials Can Naturally Improve Your Skin
We all want clear and beautiful skin, but the path to perfect skin isn't always easy. In the past, it wasn't unusual for people to go to extreme measures just to achieve soft, touchable skin. Ancient Chinese women would grind pearls into powder to soothe irritated skin and fight acne. It is still widely believed that Egyptian Queen, Cleopatra, would lounge in baths of milk to retain her skin's youthful glow. Even today, it is not uncommon for people to subject their skin to harsh chemical peels in an effort to achieve healthy skin.
However, not all of us have a bag or pearls lying around or the extra gallons of milk needed to maintain these beauty routines. Nor do we want to continue to abuse our skin with harsh treatments. So what's a person who wants beautiful, healthy skin to do? Get a Cryofacial of course!
The Cryofacial, developed by Dr. Kuehne, is a cryogenic treatment that improves the health and youthful appearance of clients' skin by using a controlled beam of vaporized liquid nitrogen to freeze skin found on the face, scalp, and neck area. This process exfoliates your skin, removing the outer layer of dead skin cells from your face while simultaneously stimulating the growth of new cells underneath.
The advanced technology of Cryofacials allows us to directly target the problem areas you are most concerned with, allowing us to adjust each Cryofacial treatment to your unique skincare needs. Athletes and celebrities alike are raving about Cryofacials and with results this effective, it's hard not to! After your first session you'll immediately notice glowing skin and an overall rested appearance. Keep reading to discover 4 key ways a simple Cryofacial can improve the overall health and appearance of your skin.
1.) Improves Blood Circulation
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Overtime, your blood circulation will improve, making your skin healthier and stronger, especially when it comes to fighting off any bacteria and infections that come your way. In fact, people who suffer from skin conditions like eczema often experience long-lasting positive results with regular Cryofacial treatments. When applied to your scalp, the increased blood flow can actually trigger your scalp into stimulating hair growth.
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When you're young, your body is a collagen producing factory, but as you age your body stops producing as much. The decrease of collagen production is what leads to those dreaded wrinkles. To make matters worse, our modern lifestyle has our skin constantly under attack from pollution, toxins, and stress. All of this can cause a loss of facial elasticity, deepen wrinkles, add bags under your eyes, and speed up other signs of aging.
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3.) Decreases Pore Size
If you frequently suffer from blackheads, your pores may be the reason why. Large pores can make it incredibly easy for dirt, oil, and other gunk to penetrate your skin. All of this can create annoying blackheads. Once created, blackheads are hard to get rid of. However, you don't have to let them control your life any longer. Reclaim your skin and fight back with the power of Cryofacials.
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One of the first things people notice about you are your eyes. Therefore, it makes sense that we want the skin around our eyes to look healthy and attractive too. Sadly, our busy work schedules and stressful lifestyles can make it difficult to give our skin the nutrients and rest that it so desperately needs.
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text: Korean: there are four Chinese characters used for the Yang surname, but only two are common enough to consider here; they have between them eight clans. The founding ancestor of the Ch'ŏngju Yang clan was Chinese and stayed in Korea after escorting Koryŏ, King Kongmin's future queen to Korea. The first historical ancestor of the Cheju Yang clan was a Shilla figure named Yang T'ang, but according to legend, his distant ancestor was one of three men who ascended from a cave on the north side of Cheju Island's Halla Mountain. These three men were the founders of the Yang, Pu, and Ko clans. The legendary founder of the Yang clan was named Yang Ŭl-la. Some days after their emergence, a box washed up on the shore of the island. In the box were three women, horses, cows, and agricultural seed. From these beginnings, the three established Cheju's T'amnaguk kingdom and ruled peacefully for 900 years. Later, descendants of the three men settled throughout Korea, although 40 percent of the Yang clan still live on Cheju island and in Chŏlla province.


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ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — The Wyoming Department of Transportation was awarded the 2022 Environmental Excellence Award by the Federal Highway Administration.
WYDOT won this award in the category of Ecosystems, Habitats, and Wildlife for its efforts in the Snake River Bridge reconstruction and wildlife crossing integration project.
This is one of 14 awards that are given out nationwide in a variety of environmental categories.
The Snake River Bridge project was undertaken by WYDOT in collaboration with Wyoming Game and Fish, Teton County, and other community organizations. The project was designed to replace a bridge on Wyoming Highway 22 and expand it to accommodate local and migrating wildlife within the Greater Yellowstone National Park ecosystem.
The project will extend the bridge in order to accommodate a wildlife underpass and will include three additional wildlife crossings that will facilitate safer wildlife movements, especially for large animals such as moose, elk, and deer.
The Federal Highway Administration cited "WYDOT's exemplary achievement" and "extensive stakeholder collaboration, community engagement, and environmental considerations" in conferring the award.
The Snake River Bridge project will be set to contract this fall and construction could take place as early as spring 2023.


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IADR Mission Statement
Drive dental, oral and craniofacial research for health and well-being worldwide.
IADR Vision Statement
Oral health for the world through discovery and dissemination.
IADR Values Statement
IADR Core Values
Scientific Excellence * Social Responsibility * Scientific Community
Scientific Excellence: IADR values science conducted at the highest possible levels of rigor, innovation and ethics, across disciplines, from discovery science to clinical implementation to global population health.
Social Responsibility: IADR values the pursuit of science to improve health and well-being for all people, to reduce health inequalities and inequities, and proactively takes actions and positions to improve health.
Scientific Community: IADR values a diverse and inclusive scientific workforce, promotes work-life balance, and supports educational activities and mentoring networks to develop the next generation of scientists.

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Published in Proceedings of the 44th International Symposium on Microelectronics: Long Beach, CA, October 9, 2011.
Copyright © 2011 International Microelectronics and Packaging Society.
One of the challenges in an experimental study of solder joint reliability is to determine when cracks occur in a solder joint or when a solder joint fails. Cracks in a real solder joint are difficult to identify using an X-Ray system. Cross-sectioning and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is a destructive method. A common non-destructive test method is to monitor resistance increase in a solder joint or a daisy-chain. However, no scientific research has been done in establishing the relationship between the crack area of an interconnection and the change in resistance of the interconnection. This paper proposes a method of defining failure criteria as the resistance increase in a solder joint exceeding a threshold. The threshold is determined by k times the range over the natural variation in resistance measured by a measurement system. The natural variation by random cause is judged using X-bar and R charts. The principles of defining failure criteria are to be able to detect failure of solder joints as early as possible with minimum false detection due of measurement system error/variation. An experimental study confirmed that a full crack of an interconnection occurs when the increase of resistance in the interconnection is 10 times the natural variation of resistance change. The results of this study could be used to narrow the definition of failure in consensus standards IPC 9701A, JESD22-B111, and IPC/JEDEC-9702.
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Aker (also known as Akeru) was an ancient Egyptian earth god and the deification of the horizon. He guarded the eastern and western borders of the netherworld and protected the sun god Ra when he first entered the netherworld at sunset and again when he returned to the world of the living at sunrise and bore the sun on his back through the underworld. He also welcomed the dead Pharaoh into the underworld. He defended the sun god from the serpent Apep (Apophis) and was considered to be able to neutralize a snake bite. In his role as a protective deity, twin lion statues representing Aker were placed at the doors of palaces and tombs to protect against evil spirits, a practice adopted by both the Greeks and Romans.
Aker double line king
However, Aker in his plural form (Akeru) was more aggressive and dangerous. The Akeru are very ancient, possibly even older than Geb. The Pyramid Texts express the wish that each person will escape the clutches of the earth gods and specifically state that the Akeru will not attack the king (strongly implying that they could attack others).
The name Aker means "(one) who bends" but he was also known as "Ruti" ("two lions"). During the late period the two lions were given specific names - Tuau (today) and Sef (yesterday). Initially Aker was depicted as a narrow strip of land with a human or lion head at each end, but later the strip of land was replaced by the hieroglyphic sign meaning "horizon". The lions are often covered with leopard-like spots, possibly echoing the now extinct Barbary lion.
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Likelihood of a white Christmas in Northwest Colorado high
There are many reasons that people enjoy living on the Western Slope. Researchers at Colorado State University (CSU) just discovered another one the probability of a white Christmas is higher than anywhere else in the state.
Researchers claim that the La Nieather phenomena that is affecting most weather patterns around the country has little impact on Northwestern Colorado.
Nolan Doesken, assistant state climatologist and research associate with CSU's Department of Atmospheric Science, has found there is little correlation between La Nind the likelihood of fresh snow in the mountains and on the Western Slope. He based his prediction on weather records dating back to 1949.
"The current weather pattern is favorable for northern and central mountain snows a few days before Christmas so that there will be a good cover of white," said Doesken.
The La Nihenomenon makes it somewhat less probable that snow will cover parts of Colorado this year as it did in 1997, said Doesken. Therefore snow for Christmas 1999 is less likely on the Eastern Slope due to prevailing La Nionditions that have been in place since early summer 1998.
Doesken compiled a chart analyzing snow on the ground and fresh snow for Dec. 24 and 25 for 19 test locations. The chart is based on a long-term history of the areas under all conditions, from 1949 to 1998.
The closest test site to Craig was Steamboat Springs. Doesken believes that there is a 96 percent chance that Steamboat Springs will have at least an inch of fresh snow on the ground for Christmas. He also predicts a 44 percent chance of having at least half inch of snowfall on Dec. 24 or 25.
In the last two days, Craig has had 5 inches of snowfall, according to the National Weather Service.
Emergency personnel responded to a motorcycle crash that sent a rider to the hospital Tuesday.


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Scilab Help >> Elementary Functions > Matrix - shaping > circshift
circshift
circularly shifts elements or subarrays of an array (regular, of structures, cells, custom)
Syntax
B = circshift(A, shift)
B = circshift(A, shift, 0)
B = circshift(A, shifts)
B = circshift(A, shifts, dims)
Arguments
A, B
row, column, matrix or 2D array, hypermatrix or ND-array of any number of dimensions and of any sizes. B has the shape, sizes and type of A. Custom types are accepted provided that size(), insertion, and extraction operators are defined for A's type.
shift
unique positive or negative integer: the shift to apply to indices along the first non-singleton dimension, or to linear indices of A components if 0 is used as third input argument.
shifts
vector of positive or negative integers: shifts to apply on ranges along directions specified in dims (or 1:length(shifts) by default).
dims
Vector of integers in [1, ndims(A)]: indices of A dimensions along which the respective shifts must be performed.
Description
circshift(A, shift) shifts along the first dimension of A of size > 1.
circshift(A, shift, 0) circularly shifts A components by shift positions.
circshift(A, shifts) circularly shifts indices of A rows by shifts(1), indices of A columns by shifts(2), indices of A layers by shifts(3), etc.
circshift(A, shifts, dims) circularly shifts A by shifts(1) along its dimension #dims(1), by shifts(2) along its dimension #dims(2), etc.
Examples
circshift(1:7, 2)
circshift(1:7, -1)
--> circshift(1:7, 2)
 ans =
 6. 7. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
--> circshift(1:7, -1)
 ans =
 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 1.
M = matrix(1:12, 3, 4)
circshift(M, 1)
circshift(M, 1, 2)
circshift(M, [-1 1])
circshift(M, [-2 1], [2 1])
--> M = matrix(1:12, 3, 4)
 M =
 1. 4. 7. 10.
 2. 5. 8. 11.
 3. 6. 9. 12.
--> circshift(M, 1)
 ans =
 3. 6. 9. 12.
 1. 4. 7. 10.
 2. 5. 8. 11.
--> circshift(M, 1, 2)
 ans =
 10. 1. 4. 7.
 11. 2. 5. 8.
 12. 3. 6. 9.
--> circshift(M, [-1 1])
 ans =
 11. 2. 5. 8.
 12. 3. 6. 9.
 10. 1. 4. 7.
--> circshift(M, [-2 1], [2 1])
 ans =
 9. 12. 3. 6.
 7. 10. 1. 4.
 8. 11. 2. 5.
M = matrix(1:12, 3, 4)
circshift(M, 5, 0)
--> circshift(M, 5, 0)
 ans =
 8. 11. 2. 5.
 9. 12. 3. 6.
 10. 1. 4. 7.
With an hypermatrix of texts:
t = matrix([string(1:12) strsplit("a":"l")' strsplit("A":"L")'],3,4,3)
circshift(t, 1, 0)
circshift(t, 1)
circshift(t, 1, 3)
circshift(t, [1 -1], [2 3])
--> t = matrix([string(1:12) strsplit("a":"l")' strsplit("A":"L")'],3,4,3)
 t =
(:,:,1)
!1 4 7 10 !
!2 5 8 11 !
!3 6 9 12 !
(:,:,2)
!a d g j !
!b e h k !
!c f i l !
(:,:,3)
!A D G J !
!B E H K !
!C F I L !
--> circshift(t, 1, 0)
 ans =
(:,:,1)
!L 3 6 9 !
!1 4 7 10 !
!2 5 8 11 !
(:,:,2)
!12 c f i !
!a d g j !
!b e h k !
(:,:,3)
!l C F I !
!A D G J !
!B E H K !
--> circshift(t, 1)
 ans =
(:,:,1)
!3 6 9 12 !
!1 4 7 10 !
!2 5 8 11 !
(:,:,2)
!c f i l !
!a d g j !
!b e h k !
(:,:,3)
!C F I L !
!A D G J !
!B E H K !
--> circshift(t, 1, 3)
 ans =
(:,:,1)
!A D G J !
!B E H K !
!C F I L !
(:,:,2)
!1 4 7 10 !
!2 5 8 11 !
!3 6 9 12 !
(:,:,3)
!a d g j !
!b e h k !
!c f i l !
--> circshift(t, [1 -1], [2 3])
 ans =
(:,:,1)
!j a d g !
!k b e h !
!l c f i !
(:,:,2)
!J A D G !
!K B E H !
!L C F I !
(:,:,3)
!10 1 4 7 !
!11 2 5 8 !
!12 3 6 9 !
With an array of cells:
L = list(1,%t);
C = {%f "a" %i %z
 %t "b" %e %s
 0 "c" %pi L }
circshift(C, 1, 0)
circshift(C, 1)
circshift(C, 1, 2)
circshift(C, [1 -1])
See also
 - flipdim — reverses the order of (blocks of) rows, columns, pages.. of an array
 - fftshift — rearranges the fft output, moving the zero frequency to the center of the spectrum
History
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6.1 circshift() introduced.
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3 "lat" see below latitude (degrees)
4.693100 field 4 "lon" see below longitude (degrees)
20.0 field 5 "gpsalt" see below altitude (meters)
14.0 field 2 "temp" see below temperature (degrees Celcius)
3.88 field 1 "vcc" see below battery voltage (volts)
For Cayenne encoding, the UKHAS sentence starts with the node name, sequence number and time. The fields following after that are simply all fields as they appear in the Cayenne message. I recommend to put the GPS position *first* in the cayenne message. Typically you would put in the Cayenne message: GPS position (latitude/longitude/altitude), temperature, battery voltage.
The field 1C8A is the CCITT-CRC16 over the characters between $$ and *, interpreted as bytes using US-ASCII encoding
Listener cache
The cache keeps track of when listener information / telemetry was sent last. This makes it possible to avoid sending the listener information / telemetry with each payload telemetry document, reducing the load on the server.
Listener information / telemetry is sent only:
 - when this is the first time we are sending something for this listener
 - when it has been more than X minutes ago that we sent listener information / telemetry for this listener, where X is typically 10 minutes or so.
Helpful links
From a conversation on _TAG_:
20:24 < adamgreig> there's a) a python library that's a lot easier to read
20:24 < adamgreig> but b) basically the gist is you just PUT to with some stuff
20:24 < adamgreig>
20:24 < adamgreig> so you have a new string, you take the sha256 hex digest of the base64 encoded raw data
20:25 < adamgreig> you PUT to that URL with that ID
20:25 < adamgreig> and you include that JSON struture with your callsign/details
C implementation of the interface between the client and the habitat server
list of habitat JSON schemas
JSON examples
MQTT data
Over MQTT, it looks like this:
 "app_id": "ttnmapper",
 "dev_id": "mapper2",
 "hardware_serial": "0004A30B001ADBC5",
 "port": 1,
 "counter": 587,
 "payload_raw": "g3ybWXkTef8BH1EOzAK1\/wEA5wQT",
 "metadata": {
 "time": "2017-08-22T00:36:18.674804288Z",
 "frequency": 868.1,
 "modulation": "LORA",
 "data_rate": "SF7BW125",
 "coding_rate": "4\/5",
 "gateways": [
 "gtw_id": "eui-008000000000b8b6",
 "timestamp": _PHONE_,
 "time": "2017-08-22T00:36:18.345616Z",
 "channel": 0,
 "rssi": -120,
 "snr": -7,
 "rf_chain": 1,
 "latitude": 52.0182,
 "longitude": 4.70844,
 "altitude": 27
Tracker configuration for the TTN-HAB bridge software
 - setup your LoRaWAN device for use with TheThingsNetwork
 - create a payload configuration document on the webpage
 - download, configure and run the ttnhabbridge software
Setting up the tracker for TTN
Find out the LoRaWAN EUI of your tracker:
 - specifically for the SodaqOne, the EUI (LoRaWAN hardware address) is shown at startup of the tracker
 - perhaps just make up your own, if you don't use an RN2483?
Make up your mind about which binary payload format you are going to use: I recommend the 'cayenne' payload format. It's relatively flexible and is an actual standard. It is supported by ttnhabbridge without needing customisation. You need to put in at least the GPS coordinate in your cayenne message. If you have it available, I would also put in the battery voltage and temperature in it.
Create the TTN application and register your tracker with TTN:
 - Create an account on TTN,
 - Go to the TTN console and create a new application, or select an existing application you want to add the device to.
 - create a new node/device, the name needs to be equal to the habhub payload name (but cannot use uppercase characters)
 - In the device settings screen:
 - under 'Device EUI', fill in the EUI of your LoraWAN tracker
 - under 'Activation method' choose ABP
 - disable option 'Frame Counter Checks'
 - click Save
Copy the network credentials back to your LoRaWAN tracker:
 - this means the "device address", "network key" and "application key"
 - in case you use a SodaqOne serial debug console, type the following:
 - copy the Network Session Key from the TTN console and type in the SodaqOne serial debug console 'key='
 - copy the App Session Key from the TTN console and type in the SodaqOne serial debug console 'app='
 - copy the device id from the TTN console and type in the SodaqOne serial debug console 'dev=' (is this right?)
 - configure the following additional settings in the SodaqOne:
 - enable GPS: 'gps=1'
 - set GPS fix interval: 'fi=1'
 - set GPS fix timeout: 'gft=30'
 - set num coords to upload: 'num=1'
 - set min GPS satellite count:'sat=1'
 - enable ABP mode (disable OTAA): 'otaa=0'
 - disable ADR: 'adr=0'
 - set spreading factor 7:'sf=7'
Creating a payload configuration document
The payload configuration document allows habhub to decode the UKHAS sentence back into meaningful data items, like which fields contain latitude, longitude, altitude, etc.
 - Go to the habhub habitat website and create new payload document
 - under 'payload name' fill in the callsign (e.g. 'ttntest1'), this has to match exactly with the TTN node name
 - add a parser configuration, using the new format wizard
 - enter the following example string: $$ttntest1,64,20:41:10,52.022100,4.693100,20.0,14.0,3.88*1C8A
 - the fields are the following:
 - sentence id
 - time
 - all of the Cayenne fields in the order they appear in the Cayenne message.
 - click save
So, this contains the basic position information, plus two fields for temperature and battery level.
Configuring the TTN-HAB bridge software
 - get the release zip/tar file and unzip it in some place
 - make sure you have Java 8 installed
 - In the bridge configuration properties file (, fill in the following
 - with the name of your TTN application
 - with the key of your TTN application (you can find this in the TTN console), typically starts with "ttn-account-v2."
 - ttn.payload.encoding with the type of payload encoding you use
 - you can probably leave the other settings at their default value
 - start the bridge software from the command line, either using the.bat file (for windows) or the.sh file (for Linux)
 - if you use Linux with systemd, you can use the ttnhabbridge.service file to run it as a service, see instructions inside this file


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The purpose of the NOAA Grants Online project is to provide a fast, coherent, flexible, and robust application to support the Grants evaluation, award, and long-term management and operations process. Grants Online will deliver a standardized set of capabilities for viewing, retrieving, modifying, and deleting applicationand award-related information, including (but not limited to) applications, awards, amendments, audits, proposal scoring and commentary, budget and finance information, and technical and panel reviewer information.
The equivalent of the System Specification portion of the project in project management practices
This award was for the equivalent of the System Specification portion of the project. The contractor for the System Specification portion of the contract produced the following deliverables:
- A complete set of business and system use cases
- An architecture road map, which provided an overview of the key architectural attributes and decisions that would be made to develop the system
- An initial draft of the project's Configuration Management Plan
- A Development Case, illustrating which artifacts should be created and developed from the Rational Unified Process
- A draft of the Requirements Management Plan
- A Reference Architecture document, containing a proposed reference architecture for the Grants Online system
- A Unified Modeling Language (UML) model
- A list of key project risks with suggested mitigation steps
- A Supplementary Requirements Specification
- A Vision document explaining why the system is needed, who the stakeholders are, the environment, and other key information
It is far easier to produce a proposal (with a realistic schedule and budget estimates) with this accompanying information. Accordingly, RFPs with this accompanying information are more likely to receive accurate bids, and they have a better chance of concluding successfully.
Organizations that are considering implementing a two-stage acquisition model (with one contract for Inception/Elaboration and another for Construction/Transition) should consult Appendix B, "Implementing a Two-Stage Procurement Process." It discusses the artifacts that should be produced by the system specification contract and included in the RFP for the System Realization Contract.


Size: 24cm./9.4inch.
Weight: 450gr./15.8oz.
Porcelain KVP plate from 1955.
The Kasernierte Volkspolizei (German for Barracked People's Police) was the precursor to the National People's Army (NVA) in East Germany. Their original headquarters was in Adlershof locality in Berlin, and from 1954 in Strausberg in modern-day Brandenburg. They ceased to exist after 1956, having been transformed into the NVA.
In October 1948 the Soviet Military Administration in Germany formed the Alert Police (Bereitschaftspolizei), a force of armed units housed in barracks and trained in military fashion. The force consisted of forty units with 100–250 men each, the units being subordinated to provincial authorities. Many of the officers and men were recruited from among German POWs held in the Soviet Union.
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bio-0.4.7: A bioinformatics library
Bio.Sequence.TwoBit
Description
This module implements the 2bit format for sequences.
Based on: _URL_ Note! the description is not accurate, it is missing a reserved word in each sequence record.
There are also other, completely different ideas of the 2bit format, e.g. _URL_
Synopsis
Documentation
decode2Bit :: ByteString -> [Sequence Unknown]Source
Parse a (lazy) ByteString as sequences in the 2bit format.
read2Bit :: FilePath -> IO [Sequence Unknown]Source
Read sequences from a file in 2bit format and | unmarshall/deserialize into Sequence format.
hRead2Bit :: Handle -> IO [Sequence Unknown]Source
Read sequences from a file handle in the 2bit format and | unmarshall/deserialze into Sequence format.
encode2Bit :: [Sequence a] -> ByteStringSource
Marshall from neutral representation to the 2Bit ByteString rep
write2Bit :: FilePath -> [Sequence a] -> IO ()Source
Marshall/serialize [Sequence] into 2Bit format and write to a file.
hWrite2Bit :: Handle -> [Sequence a] -> IO ()Source
Marshall/serialize [Sequence] into 2Bit format and write to a file using handle.


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OPEN cursor_name OPEN cursor_name USING value [,... ] OPEN cursor_name USING SQL DESCRIPTOR descriptor_name
OPEN opens a cursor and optionally binds actual values to the placeholders in the cursor's declaration. The cursor must previously have been declared with the DECLARE command. The execution of OPEN causes the query to start executing on the server.
The name of the cursor to be opened. This can be an SQL identifier or a host variable.
A value to be bound to a placeholder in the cursor. This can be an SQL constant, a host variable, or a host variable with indicator.
The name of a descriptor containing values to be bound to the placeholders in the cursor. This can be an SQL identifier or a host variable.
EXEC SQL OPEN a; EXEC SQL OPEN d USING 1, 'test'; EXEC SQL OPEN c1 USING SQL DESCRIPTOR mydesc; EXEC SQL OPEN :curname1;
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Blackhead Disease - Turkey vet - Avain vet
Blackhead disease, or histomoniasis,
causes intermittent but severe disease in turkeys. Losses can also occur in chickens and peafowl and certain other gallinaceous birds. Chickens are more resistant to the effects of the infection but may act as carriers of the disease-causing organism. Blackhead disease, is primarily a disease of young turkeys. Histomoniasis is caused by a microscopic protozoan called Histomonas Meleagridis. The name blackhead is a poor descriptive term because the heads of the birds the bird vets see infected with this parasite are not black!. At melbourne bird vet the the protozoan causes considerable pathological damage to the liver and ceca of infected turkeys, and the untreated birds usually die.
the life cycle of Histomonas meleagridis - pet turkey
Usually by eating infected Ascarid eggs from the species Heterakis. It was believed that infections in turkey flocks arose only from the ingestion of embryonated eggs of the caecal worm Heterakis gallinarum, or ingestion of earthworms that were carrying larvae of the caecal worm. (turkeys eat infected earthworms, the cecal worm larvae containing the blackhead parasites are released and a blackhead infection may result.)
This mechanism did not explain the phenomenon of rapid spread of blackhead through a flock of turkeys, and led some to question whether other intermediate hosts might be involved.
Spread in a flock also occurs by intake of liquid faeces in a process known as "cloacal drinking" – via the cloaca or vent. The implication is that separation of sick birds becomes a primary part of stopping the spread.
Where do turkeys get infections from?
It is common that veterinarians at bird vet Melbourne are unable to find Heterakis worms associated with outbreaks in turkeys.
Ringneck pheasant was the best host for caecal worms, followed by chickens and then guinea fowl.
Caecal worm (Heterakis gallinarum) eggs, which are the only known biological vector of the blackhead organism. (Earthworms can harbour caecal worms until they are eaten by chickens or turkeys, but this is only an 'extra' reservoir of infection and not a necessary part of the life cycle).
Where did blackhead disease come from?
the pheasant re far better hosts for Heterakis than even chickens, and suffer little from the effects of histomoniasis, making them ideal as reservoirs of the disease.
Clinical Signs( Turkey vet)- Avain vets
A decrease in feed consumption and loss of weight may be the first signs observed. Sick birds appear dull and depressed, and often stand by themselves with dropping trails, ruffled feathers, and a sleepy appearance.
Sulphur colored yellow droppings may be observed. Birds dying of histomoniasis have characteristic enlarged livers with circular depressed areas and enlarged ceca containing a rather dry cheesy material Recovered birds may show swollen hard and scarred livers.
How is blackhead controlled by management?
Prevention of blackhead in turkeys by management is two-fold:
1. Nitro-imadazole antibiotics like metranidazole or ronidazole or Dimetradiazole
2. Prevention of exposure by quarantine or isolation, especially avoiding any contact with chickens or game birds,
3. The protozoa-causing blackhead may remain infective within the in the soil for nearly three years;
4. Young turkeys should never be reared with older turkeys or with chickens that may carry the infection. Chickens, various wild birds such as pheasant and grouse may serve as reservoirs of infection for domestic turkeys.
Also, farm owners should be aware of workers keeping of backyard chickens, pheasants, chukars or fighting cocks.- a source.
Could a vaccination against histomoniasis be developed? - Vet for Turkeys
Previous investigators considered immunization an impractical approach to control of blackhead disease. Repeated infection and treatment with dimetridazole produced turkeys that were resistant to re-infection after three infection/treatment cycles.
Recent experiments were successful in demonstrating some protection when turkey poults were given two or more inoculations with an antigen consisting of freeze/thawed cultured H. meleagridis. A single inoculation failed to offer protection when birds were challenged within a few weeks.
More work is needed to identify the best vaccination regime, the amount of antigen needed, and the possible contribution of bacteria to the host immune response.
Does Histomonas respond to anticoccidials or antibiotics?
The answer to this is essentially no. Like some of its common relatives Trichomonas and Giardia, it is anaerobic and lacks mitochondria. These organisms make energy by an anaerobic process involving special organelles called hydrogenomes,
Antibiotics normally have little beneficial effects on turkeys during a blackhead outbreak. Early and frequent preventive use of wormers can be of benefit in chickens because worms are the primary source of infection. In turkeys, where the infection spreads easily from bird to bird, this is probably not of value after outbreaks start.
Discussion and Conclusions
Even though losses from blackhead disease continue to be highly significant, some progress has been made in recommendations for control by management. Chickens and game birds are likely the most important source of infection for turkeys and other birds, as they are prolific in generation of infective cecal worm ova.
The life cycle of Histomonas has been reconsidered, after the discovery that turkeys could become infected from direct contact with other birds or contaminated faeces.
The unique structure and metabolism of Histomonas makes these organisms immune to treatment with anticoccidials and antibiotics, but antibiotics are usually considered beneficial to treat secondary bacterial infections.


Moving Charges and Magnetism: Lorentz Force, Cyclone Frequency (For CBSE, ICSE, IAS, NET, NRA 2022)
Lorentz Force
The Lorentz Force
 - When the total force on a charge c which is moving with a velocity v in the presence of electric field E and magnetic field B is termed as the lorentz force.
 - The Lorentz Force is the force on a charged particle due to electric and magnetic fields.
 - A charged particle in an electric field will always feel a force due to this field.
 - A charged particle in a magnetic field will only feel a force due to the magnetic field if it is moving relative to this field.
The Cyclone Frequency
F =force
q =electric charge
E =external electric field
v =velocity
B =magnetic field
Cyclone Frequency
 - A charge c completes a circular orbit on a plane normal to B which is the uniform magnetic field.
 - Uniform circular motion frequency is known as cyclone frequency. This frequency is unaffected by the radius and speed of the particle.
 - It can be determined with the help of a machine known as cyclotron which is used to accelerate the particles which are charged.
Biot-Savart Law
Biot-Savart Law
In this law magnetic field dB due to the presence of an element dl which is carrying a continuous flow of current I at the point P at a distance r from the current element is to obtain a total field at P and integration of this vector expression over the entire length of the conductor.
Ampere՚s Circuital Law
Ampere՚s Circuital Law
 - According to this law, an open surface S if bounded by a loop C, then the current I passing through S
 - The sign of I is determined by the right-hand rule.
 - Non-parallel currents repel and parallel currents attract each other.
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How often will Revolut provide me with a Statement of Fees?
From 2021, Revolut Ltd and Revolut Bank UAB Personal customers will be able to access a Statement of Fees in relation to their account each year they hold an account with us. It's a yearly statement that can be downloaded from the app itself. The report of last year becomes available at the beginning of a consecutive year. It can be found in the 'Documents' section under your profile.
Managing my account
Budgeting and Analytics
- How can I control my spending with the budgeting feature?
- How can I create a budget?
- How can I edit a budget?
- How can I delete a budget?
- What is 'Safe to Spend' on my budget?
- How does the budgeting feature work?
- How does the Analytics feature work?
- How does the Analytics graph work?
- Setting your analytics cycle
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- Managing Analytics categories
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Exterior Building Cleaning In Maryland, Virginia And DC.
Professional exterior building cleaning companies use bio-gradable soaps and detergents with warm water and low pressure cleaning equipment for power washing building exteriors.
Exterior Building Cleanup
Our Exterior Building Cleaning Services
Exterior Building Cleanup
Depending on the buildings exterior different varieties of cleaners and the water pressure and the temperature of the water will vary, especially on Limestone, painted surfaces, aluminum, wood siding and EIFS. Building exteriors made from these types of materials require special cleaners to remove surface dirt and an Algae called Gloeocaspa Magma from the surface.
Exterior Building Cleaning Maintenance Schedules
Typically exterior building cleaning should be performed every 3-4 years to properly maintain the structure. By creating a maintenance schedule for exterior building cleaning the building will not only have a more appealing look, it will also prevent heavy biological growths which hold moisture and slowly deteriorate the buildings structure.
Identifying And Removing Stains Commonly Found On Buildings
White run stains on building exteriors are usually lime run or Carbonate Staining. When biological growths form on sealants they can break the bond of the material and allow water to enter. Two things happen once water enters the exterior walls of the building. Mildew begins to grow inside the walls which is unhealthy for the occupants, and as the water penetrates back out to the exterior of the building, it brings mineral deposits with it, leaving staining behind on the exterior of the building as the moisture dries.
This photo shows Lime Run, otherwise named Carbonate Staining. It is a hard white or gray surface crust concentrated along a mortar joint or running down from a hole or separation crack between bricks and mortar joints.
Black Stains On Buildings Are Usually Gloeocapsa magma
One of the most common problems we remove during facade cleaning jobs are black stains like the ones in this particular photo. These black stains are usually triggered by Hydrocarbons from vehicles and Fuel, or from a Bacterial based algae called Gloeocaspa Magma. Gloeocapsa magma is a species of cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria are an ancient line of photosynthesizing bacteria, which photolyze water generating oxygen gas. Ancient cyanobacteria were ancestral to the chloroplasts of all plants in the world. Gloeocapsa magma has gained notoriety in the Southeastern United States, but, it is also spreading throughout the Midwest. This particular type of cyanobacteria is responsible for creating black stains and streaks on roofs. The bacteria accumulate with time as it feeds upon moisture and calcium carbonate. This accumulation begins to show the black stains as the cyanobacteria develop their dark and hard UV-protective outer coating.
Yellow or gold stains on mortar joins and brick faces are usually Acid Burns If you see uneven yellow or gold stains on the brick faces and in mortar joints like in this photo, it is probably Acid Burn This is caused by cleaning the surface with Muriatic acid. The impurities in the acid are rapidly absorbed by porous masonry and when they are not properly rinsed, the acid attacks the mortar and bricks.
White Stains around the brick face near mortar lines are usually White Scum. Uneven white or gray stain on brick face or mortar joints. Cause: Inadequate rinsing or prewetting when cleaning with muriatic acid or other acidic solutions. by the acid is absorbed by the dry wall surface to produce insoluble silicate salts commonly described as white scum.
Tan, brown or gray stains along mortar joins of brown or tan bricks is usually Brown Managanese.
Tan, gray or brown staining concentrated along mortar joints of brown, gray or other manganese-colored brick. Cause: Manganese dioxide dissolved in rainwater, construction water or Muriatic acid. As water evaporates, manganese reacts with the alkaline mortar joint to create an insoluble brown stain.
Yellow, green or green/brown stains in the heart of light-colored brick units common in new or water-saturated construction. Cause: Water-soluble vanadium salts dissolve in.
rainwater, construction water or muriatic acid. As water evaporates, salts form on masonry surface to create unsightly stains.
Loose, powdery surface deposit that disappears when wet and may reappear as drying continues. Cause: Water-soluble salts dissolved in rainwater, construction water or groundwater. As water evaporates from wet bricks, it leaves the crystallized salts on the surface.
Our Exterior Building Cleaning Process.
After inspecting the building as closely as possible, we will use man lifts, hot water pressure washers and professional grade environmentally friendly soaps and detergents to clean the exterior of the building using our proven low pressure cleaning system to remove Gloeocaspa magma, mold, mildew, hydrocarbons, pollen and surface dirt using a special exterior building cleaning process that we designed over the last 230 years to ensure the best results.Locate exterior water sources on the building to replenish our tanks.
Caution tape off the work area as needed.
Wet down the building exterior and all adjacent areas with water and cover plants as needed with water proof tarps.
Pre-treat stained areas with bio-degradable cleaners at 20 PSI 25 PSI.
Clean stained areas using 400PSI to 600PSI, 120 degree water at 8GPM with a stainless steel, 40 degree fan spray nozzles.
Apply specialty stone, wood, siding, EIFIS, Stucco, brick or concrete cleaners to surfaces as needed.
Apply bio-degradable soaps and detergents on the rest of the surfaces to be cleaned.
Clean all surfaces using 400PSI 600PSI, 120 degree water at 8GPM with a stainless steel, 40 degree fan spray nozzles.
Apply our Polymer Wet Wax solution to add a light luster to the siding, and reduce mildew growth.
Final rinse of the buildings with our SoSoft water conditioner and water softener to reduce streaks on the windows.
Remove tarps, rinse down plants and surfaces adjacent to work area.
Inspect the building for quality assurance and perform a final clean up of the area.
Our system for exterior building cleaning is extremely detailed and will remove all surface dirt, mildew and mold. Regardless of the methods we use for exterior building cleaning, some stains may have penetrated the surface and they may not come completely clean or they might leave a shadow behind. Of course we will always attempt to remove all staining, and in 99% of our projects the building owner is amazed at what we are able to accomplish.
Our Company Policies For Exterior Building Cleaning.
We will not risk using strong acids, hazardous chemicals or high pressure methods that may damage or stain the surfaces being cleaned. This is what we consider responsible building cleaning practices which we created in order to protect the structure of the buildings that we clean.
All of our exterior building cleaning services will be done in compliance with Federal and Local Clean Water Act regulations by using our specially designed water reclamation pumps and vacuum systems as needed to stop water runoff from exterior building cleaning from entering the storm drains. All runoff will be directed into grassy areas for bio-remediation, pumped into water storage tanks or pumped into sanitary sewer systems for treatment according to the Clean Water Act.
All work will be completed in a professional manner by uniformed employees. Areas that are being cleaned will be roped off with caution tape as needed during the process for the safety of pedestrians, our employees and our pressure washing equipment.
we will bring water to the job and use water from the buildings or from Fire Hydrants (with our permit) to replenish our tanks during exterior building cleaning jobs. If we are unable to access water from the building, we can bring in a water tanker if necessary at an additional charge.
Call PowerWashCompany.com today at _PHONE_ for exterior building cleaning services you can count on!


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Spark Weaponry is a special form of fire arm that uses an unusual form of projectiles as ammunition. It is incredibly rare, being used almost exclusivly by the Derkallen. These weapons form the Dekallen's standard weapons.
Spark weaponry are unusual pieces of technology. Imperial scientists alond with the Tau are still trying to figure out how they work. Sparkguns utilise an unconventional form of projectile as ammunition. These proctiles are solid slugs much like any bullet, though they glow blue. However, once the slug comes in contact with any other solid matter it changes into energy.
What Imperial scientist have been able to figure out so far is that Sparkguns use a form of energy cell as a magazine, and it is rechargable much like a Lasgun. The energy stored is entirly different and is a form of energy that the Imperium is entirly unfamiliar with. By some eldritch science the Sparkgun takes the energy and actually converts it into a solid. This is then fired out through the barrel of the gun. When the Spark slug hits solid matter it reverts to energy, creating a tiny explosion that looks like a spark to an observer. Due to this appearance Imperial Guard have often used the slang term "Fire Crackers" in reference to these weapons.


text: The curing of thermoset resins is a critical step in the manufacturing of thermoset polymer matrix composites, determining the ultimate mechanical properties of the material, and accounting for a significant fraction of the cost of manufacturing. The use of in-situ cure monitors will permit adaptive control of the cure process, thereby lowering energy costs, reducing scrap rate, and optimizing mechanical properties. We describe here the design and demonstration of an embeddable fiber optic sensor to measure the degree of cure of thermoset resins through characterization of the changing viscoelasticity of a curing resin. By coupling a miniature actuator to a fiber optic strain sensor, the assembly can be made to vibrate while immersed in a curing resin. Comparison of the phase of the electrical actuation to the phase of the resulting strain in the sensor permits a measure of the loss tangent of the resin, where the loss tangent is the ratio of the loss modulus to the storage modulus. As the crosslinking of the resin proceeds, the loss tangent also changes, reflecting the changing rheology of the resin. The loss tangent is found to attain a maximum at the gel point of the resin, when a polymer network is formed. Further crosslinking may be tracked as the loss tangent decreases following gelation. After complete cure of the epoxy, the fiber optic sensor functions as a conventional optical strain sensor, permitting in-service strains in the composite part to be measured. Preliminary experimental results are presented here, which demonstrate that by combining a magnetostrictive actuator with a fiber optic strain sensor, the rheology of a curing thermoset resin may be monitored by measuring the changing loss tangent of the resin.


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AquaSnap Water ATP Tests
$255.00 – $475.00
AquaSnap™ Total measures both free ATP in solution and microbial ATP. The device contains a detergent to release ATP that is bound to microbial or organic matter and inside microbes. AquaSnap is easy to use, economical, and gives real time results. The specifically designed dipper tip collects 100 µl of water ensuring consistent sample collection.
AquaSnap™ Free measures ATP that is free in solution. The difference between Total and Free ATP provides a measure of microbial contamination in the sample.
Choose your AquaSnap solution below:
Better design gives better results.
The honeycomb shaped dipper tip used with AquaSnap collects exactly 100µl of sample, making sure you are collecting the same amount every time. Other ATP water tests use a swab designed for surface sample collection which causes large sample variation. Surface swabs are pre-moistened with an extractant, so the absorption rate will vary based on how much sample can be absorbed. In addition, extractant will be lost when first dipped into sample. AquaSnap's honey dipper collection tip eliminates these issues providing more accurate results.
AquaSnap contains liquid-stable chemistry in the patented Snap-Valve™ bulb. The unique chemistry and design eliminate the need to reconstitute lyophilized pellets, enabling consistent results. The chemistry in AquaSnap is a high power, ultra-sensitive formulation to deliver precise results for low levels of ATP. AquaSnap's chemistry is robust and resistant to harsh samples or sanitizer effects.
- Ready-to-use out of box
- Easy-to-use and reduces user variation
- Patented design produces repeatable and accurate results
- Tolerant to temperature abuse and sanitizers
- All-in-one test device with collection dipper tip
- Consistent sample collection (100 µl) over swab or sponge tip test
- Liquid-stable chemistry eliminates the need to reconstitute a pellet, giving more accurate results with less variation
- True and accurate results at low RLU levels
- Reliable trending at low ATP and low RLU levels
- Low carbon footprint - Recyclable #7
- Shelf life:
- 15 months at refrigerated temperatures (2-8ºC)
- 4 weeks room temperature (21-25ºC)
- Compatible Luminometers
|12 × 10 × 8 in
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