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Chemical Engineering & Technology, Vol.35, No.3, 497-507, 2012
Carbon Stripping - A Critical Process Step in Chemical Looping Combustion of Solid Fuels
In chemical looping combustion of solid fuels the well-mixed solids flow from the fuel reactor consisting of char, ash, and oxygen carrier particles cannot be completely separated into its constituents before it enters the air reactor. The slip of carbon will thus lead to char oxidation in the wrong reactor. Process simulation was applied to investigate the carbon stripping process in chemical looping combustion of solid fuels. Depending on the fuel choice, without carbon stripping CO2 capture rates below 50?% are calculated for 4?min of solids residence time in the fuel reactor. In a process with carbon stripper, however, CO2 capture rates exceeding 90?% can be achieved for both fuels investigated in this work.


What Were The Diseases That Spread Through The Silk Road?
Did the Black Death spread through the Silk Road?
The medieval Silk Road brought a wealth of goods, spices, and new ideas from China and Central Asia to Europe.
In 1346, the trade also likely carried the deadly bubonic plague that killed as many as half of all Europeans within 7 years, in what is known as the Black Death..
What is the major belief that was spread along the Silk Road?
Buddhism. The Silk Road provided a network for the spread of the teachings of the Buddha, enabling Buddhism to become a world religion and to develop into a sophisticated and diverse system of belief and practice.
When was the last major plague?
What are the 3 plagues?
What were common dangers along the Silk Road?
How did Black Death End?
Is the plague back 2020?
What was the worst disease in history?
What was the greatest impact of the Silk Road?
How did the Silk Road affect the economy?
Is a plague?
How long would it take for the black plague to kill you?
The infection takes three–five days to incubate in people before they fall ill, and another three–five days before, in 80 per cent of the cases, the victims die. Thus, from the introduction of plague contagion among rats in a human community it takes, on average, twenty-three days before the first person dies.
How long did the plague last?
How did the Silk Road impact the world?
The effects of exchange One obvious effect of trade along the Silk Road was more goods were available in more places. Silk, owing to its soft texture and appealing shimmer, became so hotly desired that it was used as currency in central Asia.


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temperatures of -4 to 2 °C (25 to 36 °F) in the winter, while the northern part of the country has shorter, cooler summers and longer, colder and snowier winters, with temperatures that often drop below freezing from September through May. The highest temperature ever recorded in Sweden was 38 °C (100 °F) in Målilla in 1947, while the coldest temperature ever recorded was −52.6 °C (−62.7 °F) in Vuoggatjålme in 1966.
On average, most of Sweden receives between 500 and 800 mm (20 and 31 in) of precipitation each year, making it considerably drier than the global average. The southwestern part of the country receives more precipitation, between 1000 and 1200 mm (39 and 47 in), and some mountain areas in the north are estimated to receive up to 2000 mm (79 in). Despite northerly locations, southern and central Sweden may have almost no snow in some winters.
Försvarsmakten (Swedish Armed Forces) is a government agency reporting to the Swedish Ministry of Defence and responsible for the peacetime operation of the armed forces of Sweden. The primary task of the agency is to train and deploy peace support forces abroad, while maintaining the long-term ability to refocus on the defence of Sweden in the event of war. The armed forces are divided into Army, Air Force and Navy. The head of the armed forces is the Supreme Commander (Överbefälhavaren, ÖB), the most senior officer in the country. Up to 1974 the head of state (the King) was pro forma Commander-in-Chief, but in reality it was clearly understood all through the 20th century that the Monarch would have no active role as a military leader.
When King Gustav V asserted his right to decide and bypass the government in military matters just before the First World War ("borggårdskrisen", the Castle Court Crisis) it was seen as a deliberate provocation against established terms of how the country would be ruled. The office of an appointed Supreme Commander was set up in 1939; before that date, from the late 19th century onwards, the leading men of the army and navy would report directly to the cabinet (and the king), and no fully unified command existed in the professional military sphere itself.
Until the end of the Cold War, nearly all males reaching the age of military service were conscripted. In recent years, the number of conscripted males has shrunk dramatically, while the number of female volunteers has increased slightly. Recruitment has generally shifted towards finding the most motivated recruits, rather than solely those otherwise most fit for service. All soldiers serving abroad must by law be volunteers. In 1975 the total number of conscripts was 45,000. By 2003 it was down to 15,000.
On 1 July 2010 Sweden stopped routine conscription, switching to an all volunteer force unless otherwise required for defence readiness. The need to recruit only the soldiers later prepared to volunteer for international service will be emphasized. The total forces gathered would consist of about 60,000 men. This could be compared with the 80s before the fall of the Soviet Union, when Sweden could gather up to 1,000,000 men.
Swedish units have taken part in peacekeeping operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Liberia, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Chad.
Currently, one of the most important tasks for the Swedish Armed Forces has been to form a Swedish-led EU Battle Group to which Norway, Finland, Ireland and Estonia will also contribute. The Nordic Battle Group (NBG) had a 10-day deployment readiness during the first half of 2008 and, although Swedish-led, had its Operational Headquarters (OHQ) in Northwood, outside London.
Sweden is an export-oriented mixed economy. Timber, hydropower and iron ore constitute the resource base of an economy heavily oriented toward foreign trade. Sweden's engineering sector accounts for 50% of output and exports. Telecommunications, the automotive industry and the pharmaceutical industries are also of great importance. Agriculture accounts for 2% of GDP and employment. The country ranks among the highest in telephone and Internet access penetration. In 2010, Sweden had the third lowest income Gini coefficient amongst developed countries, at 0.25, slightly higher than Japan and Denmark, suggesting Sweden had low income inequality. However, Sweden's wealth Gini coefficient at 0.853 was the second highest in developed countries, and above European and North American averages, suggesting high wealth inequality. Even on disposable income basis, the geographical distribution of Gini coefficient of income inequality varies within different regions and municipalities of Sweden. Danderyd, outside Stockholm, has Sweden's highest Gini coefficient of income inequality at 0.55, while Hofors near Gävle has the lowest at 0.25. In and around Stockholm and Scania, two of the more densely populated regions of Sweden, the income Gini coefficient is between 0.35 to 0.55.
In terms of structure, the Swedish economy is characterised by a large, knowledge-intensive and export-oriented manufacturing sector, an increasing, but comparatively small, business service sector, and by international standards, a large public service sector. Large organisations both in manufacturing and services dominate the Swedish economy. High and medium-high technology manufacturing accounts for 9.9% of GDP.
The 20 largest (by turnover in 2007) companies registered in Sweden are Volvo, Ericsson, Vattenfall, Skanska, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget, Electrolux, Volvo Personvagnar, TeliaSonera, Sandvik, Scania, ICA, Hennes & Mauritz, IKEA, Nordea, Preem, Atlas Copco, Securitas, Nordstjernan and SKF. Sweden's industry is overwhelmingly in private control, unlike many other industrialised Western countries and publicly owned enterprises have always been of minor importance.
Some 4.5 million residents are working, out of which around a third has tertiary education. GDP per hour worked is the world's 9th highest at 31 USD in 2006, compared to 22 USD in Spain and 35 USD in United States. GDP per hour worked is growing 2½ per cent per year for the economy as a whole and the trade-terms-balanced productivity growth is 2%. According to OECD, deregulation, globalisation, and technology sector growth have been key productivity drivers. Sweden is a world leader in privatised pensions and pension funding problems are relatively small compared to many other Western European countries.
The typical worker receives 40% of his or her labour costs after the tax wedge. Total tax collected by Sweden as a percentage of its GDP peaked at 52.3% in 1990. The country faced a real estate and banking crisis in _PHONE_, and consequently passed tax reforms of 1991 to implement tax rate cuts and tax base broadening over time. Since 1990, taxes as a percentage of GDP collected by Sweden has been dropping, with total tax rates for the highest income earners dropping the most. In 2010, it collected 45.8% of the country's GDP as taxes, the second highest among OECD countries and still nearly double of that in the United States or South Korea. The share of employment financed via tax income amounts to a third of Swedish workforce, a substantially higher proportion than in most other countries. Overall, GDP growth has been fast since reforms in the early 1990s, especially in manufacturing.
The World Economic Forum 2009–2010 competitiveness index ranks Sweden the 4th most competitive economy in the world. In the World Economic Forum 2010–2011 Global Competitiveness Report, Sweden climbed two positions, and is now ranked 2nd in the world. Sweden is ranked 6th in the IMD Competitiveness Yearbook 2009, scoring high in private sector efficiency. According to the book, The Flight of the Creative Class, by the U.S. economist, Professor Richard Florida of the University of Toronto, Sweden is ranked as having the best creativity in Europe for business and is predicted to become a talent magnet for the world's most purposeful workers. The book compiled an index to measure the kind of creativity it claims is most useful to business—talent, technology and tolerance.
Sweden maintains its own currency, the Swedish krona (SEK), a result of the Swedes having rejected the euro in a referendum. The Swedish Riksbank—founded in 1668 and thus making it the oldest central bank in the world—is currently focusing on price stability with an inflation target of 2%. According to the Economic Survey of Sweden 2007 by the OECD, the average inflation in Sweden has been one of the lowest among European countries since the mid-1990s, largely because of deregulation and quick utilisation of globalisation.
The largest trade flows are with Germany, the United States, Norway, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Finland.
See also: Nordic energy market, Nuclear power phase-out in Sweden, and Oil phase-out in Sweden
Sweden's energy market is largely privatized. The Nordic energy market is one of the first liberalized energy markets in Europe and it is traded in NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe and Nord Pool Spot. In 2006, out of a total electricity production of 139 TWh, electricity from hydropower accounted for 61 TWh (44%), and nuclear power delivered 65 T

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Ange Meaning in English, Ange Baby Name Origin Gender Meaning Pronunciation
Does Ange Baby Name seem like an intriguing name for your baby? Learn Ange Name Meaning in English, its origin and which gender Ange Baby Name is most suitable for. Check through our list of names that are related to the name Ange, names similar to Ange and sibling names of Ange. Also, read through a detailed numerology report for the name Ange.
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French, Greek
Angel, Heavenly messenger
Related Ange Baby Names
Angie, Anja, Anijah, Anju, Angy, Anija, ANUJA, Anje, Anajah, Anji, Anaijah, Aba, Abba, Abbe, Abbey, Abbie, Abby, Abdel, Abe, Abeer
Similar Ange Baby Names
Angie::Aeneas, Ahimsa, Ahmik, Aims, Amachi, Ames, Amiens, Amish, Amisha, Amissa
Sibling Names
Liam, Aidan, Logan, Nolan, Gavin, Jack, Jackson, Aiden, Owen, Colin, Connor, Finn, Isabella, Fiona, Madison, Maeve, Emma, Ella, Delaney, Olivia, Evelyn, Grace, Charlotte, Avery
Ange as a girl's name (also used as a boy's name), is related to the Greek name Angela. The meaning of Ange is "messenger of God".


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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a life-simulation game in the truest sense of the term. Players can witness all kinds of weather changes in the game, which has led to some very beautiful events. Witnessing shooting stars is one such beautiful event that Animal Crossing: New Horizons players have seen within the game.
But not every Animal Crossing player knows how to find and see these shooting stars in the game. This article details how players can catch shooting stars in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
How to catch shooting stars in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Shooting stars in Animal Crossing: New Horizons can be witnessed at any time of the year, especially during nights with clear skies. They usually appear anytime between 7.00 pm and 4.00 am. Additionally, shooting stars are much more likely to appear during Meteor Showers.
Fortunately, players can learn about Meteor Showers beforehand. Isabella usually announces Meteor Showers during her morning announcements, but in case players miss it, they will interact with other villagers who may talk about or mention the meteor showers.
Now that players know when they can witness shooting stars in the game, they can learn how to make a wish on these shooting stars in New Horizons.
To make a wish on a shooting star in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players must tilt their camera upwards towards the sky using the Right Control Stick. Now, when they spot a shooting star, they simply have to press the A button to make a wish. Players will know that they have successfully wished upon a shooting star in Animal Crossing if the star twinkles a bright yellow.
Wishing on a shooting star in Animal Crossing: New Horizons can yield players star fragments the next day. These fragments will wash up on the sea shore, much like shells.
Catching a shooting star in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is something worth witnessing, so make sure to keep an eye out for the next Meteor Shower!

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A non-Newtonian Fluid is one for which stress is not linearly related to strain-rate. All non-Newtonian fluids are elasticoviscous, that is they combine elastic and viscous properties. When the time-scale of a flow tf is much less than the relaxation time tr of an elasticoviscous material, elastic effects dominate. When on the other hand tf is much greater than tr, elastic effects relax sufficiently for viscous effects to dominate. The ratio tr/tf is a dimensionless number of particular significance in the study of flow of non-Newtonian fluids: depending on the circumstances, this number is called the Weissenberg Number or the Deborah Number. The Weissenberg number Ws is named after Karl Weissenberg, an early worker in the field of non-Newtonian fluids. The definition of Ws depends on that of tf which is given by:
where tr() denotes trace and e denotes strain-rate given in terms of velocity u by:
For a simple shear flow with shear-rate γ:
while for a simple extensional flow with extension rate ε:
Thus for flow at mean velocity U through a pipe of diameter D and length L, and so. By contrast the Deborah number. Thus Ws is larger than De by the ratio L/D.

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Ruby Question
Is it possible to embed a Ruby code into batch-file?
Usually this is useful for "self-calling" scripts like in this notorious example
The good script with embedded code should not use ugly escape sequences , no temp files and redundant output.
Is it possible to be done with Ruby?
Answer
Yes with some hacks.Here's an example ( file should be with .bat extension ):
@break #^
=begin
@echo off
echo BATCH: Hello world!
ruby "%~f0" %*
exit /b 0
=end
puts 'RUBY: Hello world!'
Output will be:
BATCH: Hello world!
RUBY: Hello world!
Here's the explanation.
For Ruby @break #^ will declare an instance variable break and will end the line with a comment.On the next line it will start a multi line comment where the batch code will be placed.
Cmd.exe on the other hand will execute silently the break command (because if the @ symbol) and because break command do nothing (it is and old dos command left only for backward compatibility) it will have no effect.The ending carret (it escapes the special symbols in batch) will escape the new line and first two lines will be taken for one. After the batch part is done we can close the Ruby comment and put the code.
Here can be seen few more examples of embedded code in batch (Python,PHP and so on).


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Pentaho and Hadoop
Visual Development for Hadoop Data Prep and Modeling
Pentaho's visual development tools drastically reduce the time to design, develop and deploy Hadoop analytics solutions by as much as 15x, compared to traditional custom coding and ETL approaches.
- Powerful visual user interface for ingesting and manipulating data within Hadoop, and makes it easy to enrich Hadoop data with reference data from other sources.
- Option of accessing Hadoop data either directly, or through rapid visual extraction into data marts/warehouses optimized for fast response times.
- A visual tool for defining business metadata models helps developers prepare their data for analytics.
Interactive Visualization and Exploration Pentaho enables your IT department to share interactive data visualizations and exploration capabilities, allowing business users to build dashboards and run reports on their own.The Hadoop data integration and business analytics platform enables users to easily review data through:
- Rich visualization – Interactive, web-based interfaces for ad hoc reporting, charting and dashboards.
- Flexible exploration – View data through dimensions such as time, product and geography, and across measures like revenue and quantity.
- Predictive analytics – Use advanced statistical algorithms such as classification, regression, clustering and association rules to spot trends or challenges ahead of time.
Pentaho Visual MapReduce: Scalable in-Hadoop ExecutionPentaho's Java-based data integration engine works with the Hadoop cache for automatic deployment as a MapReduce task across every data node in a Hadoop cluster, making use of the massive parallel processing power of Hadoop.Pentaho can natively connect to Hadoop in the following ways:
- HDFS – Input and output directly to the Hadoop Distributed File System.
- MapReduce – Input and output directly to MapReduce programs.
- HBase – Input and output directly to HBase, a NoSQL database optimized for use with Hadoop.
- Hive – A JDBC driver that enables interaction with Hadoop via the Hadoop Query Language (HQL), a SQL-like query and data description language (DDL).
Multi-Threaded Engine for Faster ExecutionThe Pentaho Data Integration engine is multi-threaded, with each step in a job executing on one or more threads. Multi-core processors running on each data node of the cluster are fully leveraged, eliminating the need for specialized, multi-threaded programming techniques.In addition, the Pentaho Data Integration engine executes as a single MapReduce task, instead of the multiple tasks typical of machine-generated or hand-coded programs and Pig scripts. As a result, Pentaho MapReduce jobs typically execute many times faster than other methods.The table below compares performing common Hadoop tasks using traditional MapReduce programming skills and Pentaho's visual interface:
Intuitive Data Orchestration InterfaceData orchestration is made easy via Pentaho's library of graphical job flow components, which include conditional checking, event waiting, execution and notification.
Together, these components can be combined to enable visual assembly of powerful job flow logic across multiple jobs and data sources. Pentaho provides graphical drag-and-drop components for Hadoop ecosystem projects such as Sqoop and Oozie, drastically reducing the amount of time needed to use these powerful bulk-data load and workflow utilities:
- Sqoop – A tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Hadoop and structured data stores, such as relational databases.
- Oozie – An open-source workflow/coordination service that manages data processing jobs for Hadoop.
Deep Support for HadoopPentaho fully supports the leading Hadoop-based distributions and supports native capabilities, such as MapR's NFS high performance mountable file system. Several distributions of Hadoop are available as open source projects and from commercial providers.


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Áron Márton (28 August 1896 – 29 September 1980), Servant of God, was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Transylvania during World War II and the communist dictatorship in Romania.
How would Áron Márton be described?
Áron Márton would be described as Roman Catholic bishop.
What is Áron Márton subject of?
Áron Márton is subject of Romanian people of Hungarian descent, Romanian people of World War II, Romanian academics, Romanian human rights activists, Romanian prisoners and detainees, People from Harghita County, Romanian Roman Catholic bishops, Romanian theologians, Székely, 1896 births, 1980 deaths, 20th-century venerated Christians, Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I, Hungarian anti-communists, Romanian anti-communist clergy, Hungarian Roman Catholic theologians, Hungarian Roman Catholic bishops, Burials at St. Michael's Cathedral, Alba Iulia, Venerated Catholics, Hungarian Righteous Among the Nations, Romanian Righteous Among the Nations and Romanian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment.
Where was Áron Márton born?
Áron Márton was born in .
What is the gender of Áron Márton?
Áron Márton is male.


Shell Script: Find Files Containing Text
Useful shell script 🙂
Find files that contain a text string:
grep -lir "some text" *
grep -lir "some text" *.php
The -l switch outputs only the names of files in which the text occurs (instead of each line containing the text), the -i switch ignores the case, and the -r descends into subdirectories.
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[Solution]: element access problem when only a single radio button defined
Kor's AvatarKor: When you have a single radio button, the classical reference return, logically, a single element, not a collection. A single element has no length property. For instance, give a textbox a name, than try to find its length property. You will get undefined, logically. Same with a single radio button.
DOM method getElementsByName() returns always a collection, thus this is the reason for DOM method works, classical form's elements reference don't.
once again: getElementsByName() returns always a collection, thus it has always a length property, very much alike an array. Now if you have a single element with a certain name refered by getElementsByName() it is the same as you would have an array with a single element.
This is the reason for you need always an index when using getElementsByName() to refer a certain element.
Classical reference
Code:
document.formname.elementname
is ambiguous. It returns a collection if there are more than one element, but it returns the element itself when there is no other element with the same name.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Radion Test</title>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function radio_test(){
 var str= "1. document.forms['dummy'].elements['single'].length=\n\t"+
 document.forms.dummy.elements.single.length+
 "\n\n2. document.forms['dummy'].elements['single'].type=\n\t"+
 document.forms.dummy.elements.single.type+
 "\n\n3. document.getElementsByName('single').length=\n\t"+
 document.getElementsByName('single').length+
 "\n\n4. document.getElementsByName('single')[0].type=\n\t"+
 document.getElementsByName('single')[0].type;
 alert(str);
 return false;
}
onload=function(){
document.getElementsByName('submit')[0].onclick=radio_test;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="dummy" action="" onsubmit= "return false">
 <fieldset><input type="radio" name="single" >
 <input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit">
 </fieldset>
</form>
</body>
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Saying Goodbye to the overflow: hidden Clearing Hack
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I've been thinking of this for a while now, and it's finally time to part ways with the overflow: hidden (and overflow: auto) clearing hack. Jeff Starr's recent and excellent post – The New Clearfix Method – and the ensuing comments were enough to finally prompt me to write about it here. (And since I started writing this, Jonathan Snook has started a Twitter dialog about overflow vs. clearfix).
While the clearfix method is a tried and true hack, I've always disliked muddying up my HTML markup with crufty "clearfix" classes strewn about. So I ended up using overflow: hidden as much as I could. But overflow: hidden is not without its drawbacks. Although there is no extra class to apply in the HTML (win!), there may be situations when you want to have child elements positioned partially (or entirely) outside of their overflow: hidden wielding parent (or other ancestor) container. In these cases, the container with overflow: hidden will clip the element that you're trying to partially (or entirely) position outside of it. (Case in point: If you use suckerfish dropdowns, try setting overflow: hidden on the outermost list).
So although overflow: hidden is not usable in all situations, I used to prefer it over using the "clearfix" class method. But in reality I ended up with both: I had overflow: hidden where I could get away with it, and "clearfix" classes where I couldn't use overflow: hidden. It bothered me a bit to mix and match two different clearing methods, but I was happy to have fewer "clearfix" classes violating my otherwise semantic markup Kumbaya festival.
Then in his presentation at An Event Apart 2008 in San Francisco, Dan Cederholm suggest using the class name "group" rather than "clearfix" – a suggestion which later made it into his book Handcrafted CSS. It's a minor thing, but I do like the improved semantics (in most cases) of the "group" class name over the "clearfix" class name, so I adopted this approach and felt okay about using it as a fallback when overflow: hidden wasn't feasible.
In his talk and in his book, Cederholm also walks through the "big long list" idea of applying the rules for the clearfix (renamed to "group") class directly to the selectors that need them in the CSS.
Big Long List
This keeps the HTML more pure while avoiding the drawbacks of overflow – a total win-win. But it does mean extra bloat in the CSS. Probably okay for smaller sites, but it can quickly get unruly with larger sites. I tried this approach on a few projects and decided the CSS bloat was indeed too much, so I stuck with the mix of overflow: hidden and the "group" class.
The Catalyst
But I'm now saying goodbye to overflow: hidden and the deciding factor for me is CSS3. Specifically box-shadow. At least in the sense that box-shadow was the first property I noticed being negatively impacted by the use of overflow: hidden. Like the positioned child elements mentioned above, box-shadow can get clipped when the parent (or other ancestor) element has overflow applied.
And there are several other things to consider as we move forward using more CSS3. Text-shadow and transform can also potentially be clipped by overflow: hidden (see the demo).
Example of overflow:hidden clipping a box-shadow
As we rely more and more on CSS3 properties we can rely less and less on overflow as a clearing method. So I'll be abandoning overflow and relying upon clearfix (Jeff Starr edition) via a mix of the ".group" class in the markup and the "big long list" approach.
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18 things up, you did submit table Z2563. Just one
19 question in connection with that diagram. In that
20 diagram, operative groups have been marked. There's
21 the Operative Zone, operative groups, and then
22 lower-level units, including brigades. You know what
23 I'm referring to, I hope, or shall I get the document?
24 JUDGE MAY: Let the witness have the
25 document, 2653.
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1 MR. KOVACIC: [Interpretation]
2 Q. So at the medium level of command, we have
3 the operative groups. Do you have any knowledge as to
4 up to which point in time the HVO was organised in this
5 manner?
6 A. As far as I am aware, the date on the bottom
7 right-hand corner of that document, under, as it were,
8 subpara (6) of the notes, refers to a change in -- that
9 a surrender took place on the 14th of June. So I
10 assume that that document would have been compiled on
11 or after the 14th of June, 1993.
12 Q. With the exception of the operative group
13 numbered as 3, on these two others, the name of the
14 commander is not indicated; obviously you had no
15 contact with these institutions or with this level of
16 command.
17 A. That is correct. That's either because we
18 did not know the names, or the fact that that level of
19 command may well not have existed.
20 Q. We have mentioned the hierarchy between
21 Blaskic and Cerkez; there's no one between them. You
22 would have probably known if there had been someone in
23 between.
24 A. I think so, yes.
25 Q. Thank you.
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1 MR. KOVACIC: [Interpretation] We don't need
2 the document any more.
3 Q. Brigadier, you had no more precise knowledge
4 as to the way in which the individual units were
5 assigned areas of responsibility; the HVO or Blaskic,
6 for instance, never informed you which unit was
7 responsible for which area of responsibility? Is that
8 correct?
9 A. That is correct, but I would not expect -- I
10 did not know -- I was not particularly interested in
11 that level of command. I had my liaison officers who
12 were attached to each brigade, and they, I believe, had
13 a detailed knowledge of where those brigades were.
14 Q. In a part of your testimony, you told us that
15 you had even personally seen some troops of the
16 Croatian army in Tomislavgrad, Gornji Vakuf, mostly in
17 the area of Prozor. We can agree that that area is
18 much farther to the south from the Lasva Valley, and
19 that between the two, there is a considerable mountain
20 range, so that this is quite a separate area,
21 geographically?
22 A. Yes. Could I just confirm whether you said
23 "HVO troops" or "HV troops"?
24 Q. "HV." You mentioned this.
25 A. I can confirm I saw HV soldiers in the area
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1 of Prozor: a truck, I think two soldiers, and a
2 150-odd-millimetre D-30 towed howitzer, I think. That
3 was the only time I personally saw HV soldiers in that
4 area.
5 Q. And that is south of the Lasva Valley, and
6 geographically separate, isn't it?
7 A. Yes, and I think it's certainly in range of
8 BiH troops deployed in the Gornji Vakuf area,
9 certainly, and probably further than that.
10 MR. KOVACIC: [Interpretation] Could I ask the
11 usher for his assistance to distribute this document.
12 Q. Brigadier, in your examination-in-chief
13 yesterday, there was mention made again of certain
14 criminal groups that were operating in the area of the
15 Lasva Valley, but you specifically mentioned that those
16 criminal groups were really a very good excuse for the
17 commanders to claim that there were elements outside
18 their control. Let me show you just three documents as
19 an example from which it is evident.
20 MR. KOVACIC: [Interpretation] Could each
21 document, one document out of each set, be provided to
22 the witness, please.
23 JUDGE MAY: Have they been provided to the
24 interpreters?
25 MR. KOVACIC: [Interpretation] I did not give
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1 a copy to the interpreters, but I hope there are enough
2 copies.
3 JUDGE MAY: Mr. Kovacic, before you go on, in
4 the morning, before you begin a cross-examination --
5 and this applies to all counsel -- when you know you're
6 going to refer to documents, then what you should do is
7 make sure that the interpreters have a copy beforehand,
8 because now the Registrar has got to go around
9 distributing them, and it's much more efficient if it's
10 done at the beginning.
11 MR. KOVACIC: I will, Your Honour,
12 certainly. But we will be very short, and --
13 JUDGE MAY: It doesn't matter. They must
14 have them, because they don't know what reference is
15 going to be made to them.
16 MR. KOVACIC: Thank you, sir. I will,
17 certainly, next time.
18 Q. Brigadier, will you please take the document
19 dated the 24th of May. These are UNPROFOR reports from
20 the region towards the centre, are they?
21 A. Yes, that's from headquarters, UNPROFOR in
22 Kiseljak, to UNPROFOR Zagreb, and various other
23 battalions within the organisation.
24 Q. Very well. Will you please turn to page 4.
25 The page number is indicated in the left-hand corner.
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1 In the middle of the page, under the heading
2 "Vitez/Busovaca," small 1, the second sentence, that
3 begins with the words, "The main problems"; will you
4 please read it yourself.
5 It is clear, isn't it, that those criminal
6 elements do exist, even in your own reports, so that
7 they are not a negligible problem? I assume that such
8 a statement would not figure in your report if these
9 were quite insignificant issues; is that correct?
10 A. That is correct. My concern with these
11 criminal elements, or so-called criminal elements,
12 should I say -- is that if they are living in the Vitez
13 pocket, in the Vitez area, they are clearly consuming
14 food, ammunition, petrol, water, manpower, and
15 communications that would be best put to effect under
16 the military command. If the military command wish to
17 use them effectively, I would have brought them under
18 control or used them for its own ends; but in a pocket
19 such as the Vitez pocket, I find it very unlikely that
20 people, as I say, consuming food, ammunition, petrol,
21 and the rest of it, would be left on their own just
22 doing criminal activity. It would be a complete waste
23 of military assets.
24 Q. Brigadier, both sides claim that there were
25 criminal elements, and your units also recognised the
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1 existence of such criminal elements on both sides.
2 Isn't that correct?
3 A. Yes, but I'm saying that it's quite likely
4 that those criminal elements are being sponsored by
5 somebody.
6 Q. Thank you. Let us look at page 7 of this
7 document, please. The second paragraph from the top,
8 under number 4, speaks about disputes between Croat and
9 Muslim communities that are continuing and mentions
10 groups led by Mafia personalities. So this is
11 consistent with the statement we have just looked at at
12 the beginning. Would you agree that such references
13 would not be included in your reports if these were
14 peripheral problems?
15 A. No, they were -- I entirely agree, they are
16 not peripheral problems; they are mainstream problems
17 for both sides. What I am concerned about -- remain
18 concerned about, is that if both sides are trying to
19 win a war, then it is unlikely they would let large
20 amounts of soldiers or criminals operate with
21 activities such as these Mafia activities, which would
22 be degrading their war-fighting capabilities.
23 Q. Very well. Can we have a look at the second
24 document, please, dated the 31st of May.
25 JUDGE MAY: Let us give a number to the first
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1 one.
2 THE REGISTRAR: The document is marked
3 D46/2.
4 MR. KOVACIC: [Interpretation]
5 Q. On this document, let us look at page 3,
6 please. Here, in the second half of the page, the
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Now that's what we call progress!
The Australian Council for Educational leaders applauds recent commentary on tracking academic progress rather than solely focusing on static achievement data at a single point in time. (Achievement matters but what about tracking learning progress. The Age, 27.01.15)
Tracking student progress data provides insight into student learning and the success of teaching strategies and programs.
Overemphasis on static achievement data misses the opportunity to celebrate the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms across Australia.
Quoting from research that investigated the link between student growth in literacy learning and the teacher's use of classroom strategies, Associate Professor Stephen Humphry from UWA says, "Progress data spanning two or more time points is the best source of information by which to gauge the extent of learning and the impact of specific factors".
The research, titled In Teacher's Hands, conducted by Edith Cowan University and the UWA in over 200 classrooms, provided a clear picture that teachers can make a big difference to student learning.
This difference is not necessarily evident when only static achievement data is used to measure performance.
Many factors impact on achievement at a given point in time. It is virtually impossible to obtain clear evidence of teacher impact based on static achievement data. Although progress is also affected by many factors, progress data can provide a better indication of the impact of a teacher than static achievement data.
Tracking student progress, as suggested in the original article, provides opportunity to recognize and celebrate successful learning and teaching.
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I've got a fixed solution space defined by a minimum and maximum float which has no divisible slice.
You then have 0..N Gaussian distribution probability sets which I need to combine.
In the end I neeed
 1. Method to define probability set with a numeric range (not sliceable) and 0..N Gaussian functions
 2. A function which can generate a random number in the range as defined by the calculated probabilities.
Also I know it is possible that some combinations will generate a zero solution space.
Now I'm thinking the way to do it is take the normalised probability density functions and multiply them to get a new space then normalising the result. I just can't seem to break it down into algorithmic form.
Any ideas?
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You would probably be better off asking this at math.stackexchange.com? – bummzack Aug 15 '10 at 10:59
I thought about that, but I'm mostly concerned with how to do it algorithmically. A pure maths solution would help but not be the answer. – Kimau Aug 15 '10 at 11:05
Then maybe try stackoverflow.com? It looks like a generic programming problem, I don't see the word "game" in your post anywhere (not that it's a requirement but that's a pretty good sign that you might want to look elsewhere) – Ricket Aug 15 '10 at 15:41
I need help with some terms, like no divible slice, zero solution space, normalized probility density. – Jonathan Fischoff Aug 15 '10 at 16:20
Hmm. the top hit for "divisible slice" on google is this question. Then a number of documents where "divisible" and "slice" occur next to each other, but are part of different sentences. You might want to explain that one, as it's obviously not uniform usage. – drxzcl Aug 16 '10 at 7:45
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First let's make sure I understood your question correctly:
 - You have a probability function that is expressed as a sum of N parametrized one-dimensional gaussians, each with different mean and standard deviation.
 - You want to generate stochastic variables according to this distribution.
Is this correct?
If this is the case, I reccommend you use a variation of rejection sampling. The recipe is quite straightforward, but you might have to iterate a bit before you get an answer out of it. This is the basic outline.
 1. You generate a uniformly distributed random number in your desired interval, x.
 2. You calculate the value of your probability distribution, p(x)
 3. You generate another uniformly distributed random number between 0 and 1, q
 4. If q < p(x), return x
 5. If not, start from step 1.
No matter how large the temptation, do not re-use q for different iterations.
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I cannot use this method because as I stated a floating range is non-divisible (not sliceable). So sampling is impossible. I already use this method for enumerations which are possible to sample. Also I've taken advice and moved this question to Math Stack math.stackexchange.com/questions/2584/… – Kimau Aug 21 '10 at 8:13
Ok, let's move there. – drxzcl Aug 21 '10 at 15:53
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Four infants who have red, "bloody" stools
Jill Lowers, Arthur Jaffe, Joseph A. Zenel, Michael D. Cabana, Clement Donahue, Alan Uba
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The "bloody" stool is a common complaint in the primary care setting. Obtaining a history, performing a physical examination, and testing for fecal occult blood should help the practitioner distinguish hematochezia from the red stool due to ingestion of natural and artificial dyes and other substances that produce a red color. Although often benign, hematochezia may indicate significant underlying gastrointestinal pathology.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)146-149
Number of pages4
JournalPediatrics in review
Volume30
Issue number4
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StatePublished - Apr 2009
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This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, (MUP), 2002
Arthur Roland Selby (_PHONE_), army officer, was born on 16 March 1893 at Armidale, New South Wales, third child of native-born parents John Selby, builder, and his wife Elizabeth, née Vaughan. In the mid-1890s the family moved to Leederville, Perth. Arthur attended Scotch College, Claremont, and in June 1911 was among the first intake at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, Federal Capital Territory. When World War I broke out, the senior cadets at R.M.C. graduated early to be available for active service. Lieutenant Selby joined the Australian Imperial Force on 14 August 1914 and sailed for the Middle East with the 11th Battalion in November. At the Garrison Church, Kasr-el-Nil, Cairo, on 24 February 1915 he married with Anglican rites Susanna Gertrude Bryant whom he had met in Perth; they were to have a daughter.
After landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, Selby was severely wounded in the right elbow on 7 May near Lone Pine. Evacuated to Egypt and thence to England, he was repatriated in November. In 1916 he was appointed adjutant of the wartime officers' training school, near Duntroon. For the rest of the war he held staff posts in Western Australia and Tasmania.
Promoted captain and brevet major in early 1920, Selby was sent in 1923 to the Staff College, Quetta, India, where he became a popular officer. He returned to Australia in 1925 and in the following year was invited back to Quetta as an instructor; he took up the four-year post in September 1926, with the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel. Because opportunities for advancement in the Australian Military Forces were limited, he resigned in September 1930 to join a British regiment, the Royal Ulster Rifles. He served in England in 1932-36, attended the 1937 course at the Imperial Defence College, London, and returned to India.
When World War II began, Selby was a temporary brigadier on the British staff in Egypt. In 1940-41 he commanded an infantry brigade around Mersa Matruh and Sidi Barrani. Granted the acting rank of major general in March 1941, he served as an area commander and then as deputy quartermaster general at General Headquarters, Middle East. Following a period in Eritrea, he moved to Persia and Iraq Command where he was acting commander-in-chief (as temporary lieutenant general) in 1943-44. Mentioned six times in dispatches in 1941-43, he was appointed C.B.E. (1941), C.B. (1943), and to the Russian Order of Kutuzov (1944). His final appointment was that of major general, administration, at Headquarters, Western Command, England.
In February 1946 Selby retired and moved to South Africa. He took up a citrus farm at Muden, Natal, but his dreams of a quiet life were disrupted by the election (1948) of a Nationalist government intent on making South Africa a republic. Selby became a prominent member of a militant opposition group, the Torch Commando. In 1953 he helped to found the Union Federal Party which failed to win any seats at provincial council elections.
Never one to change direction, Selby clung to the imperial ideal. He resigned from the U.F.P. in 1955 to devote his efforts to the Anti-Republican League, but failed to stem the nationalist tide which took South Africa out of the British Commonwealth in 1961. Weakened physically and financially by his dedication to a lost cause, Selby retired to New Hanover, Natal. He died on 30 August 1966 at Greytown and was buried in a Pietermaritzburg cemetery.
Peter Londey, 'Selby, Arthur Roland (1893–1966)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, _URL_ published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 29 March 2017.
This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, (MUP), 2002


Creating a Website
Creating a Website
To minimize your efforts when creating a website, Presence Builder offers you a set of predefined website topics. When you start creating a website, choose a topic that is most appropriate for you, and Presence Builder will generate a website with the content relevant to this topic. For example, it will include a price list template for a retail store or an image gallery for an artist's site. If you cannot find a suitable topic, you can contact your service provider to ask them to create the corresponding template and add it to the list of available topics.
When you start creating a website, Presence Builder also prompts you to provide information about yourself or your company. Presence Builder will automatically add this information to certain pages as appropriate, for example, to the About Us and Contact Us pages.
Note: Presence Builder will not store or use the information you provide anywhere except for your website pages. You can change or remove this information later.
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Economic Display in tombstone and Life Expectancy Pattern
We tested the life expectancy between two categories of tombstone displays. One category was a flat tombstone, parallel to the ground and the other was a non-flat tombstone that would stand a minimum of 50 cm off the ground. We conducted this test to check for a significant difference between life expectancies of people of different economic status. To do this we used tombstones as economic indicators. Data was collected at a local cemetery. Ages of the deceased were obtained by subtracting the birth year from the death year. We did not find a significant difference in the life expectancy. A T-test revealed a 0.22 P-value.
Life expectancy, economic status
Our hypothesis is that the life expectancy of people of high economic status will be greater than those of lower economic status. People who have low economic status are usually not very well educated and may be more likely to have jobs that may require physical labor. On top of this, a study on socioeconomic position lead to show that people who live in poor areas have poor individual health (Robert 1999). As a result they endure more physical stress than people who are well educated. Worries about money can cause psychological stress. Physical and mental stress has been identified as predictors of illness (Custer 1985). People with low income often do not have access to healthcare or the resources to prevent illness. There two factors result in a lower life expectancy (Mirowsky and Ross 2000).
experiment was designed to test whether the tombstone of an individual,
the last displays of economic status and capability, would reveal a
in life expectancy. If the hypothesis is supported than the results
that those individuals with a non-flat tombstone have longer life
than those who had flat tombstones as they are less expensive than the
non-flats. The less expensive, flat tombstones would represent the
economic status and the non-flats would represent the higher economic
Methods and Materials
28, 2007 we collected data from
The life expectancies between the two groups of tombstones showed no significant difference. The one-tailed, type one T-test revealed a P-value of 0.22.
Fig. 1. Life expectancy at ages 0-105 between graves marked with a flat tombstone and a non-flat tombstone. A non-significant difference with a P-value of 0.22.
The T-test showed that there was not a significant difference between the life expectancy of people with flat and non-flat tombstones (p =.22). This data does not support our hypothesis that people with larger tombstones would have a higher life expectancy. There are a few studies that challenge the idea that socioeconomic status affects life expectancy. One of the opposing theories is that optimism and self-confidence can counterbalance the stress and health problems caused by low socioeconomic status (Mirowsky 2000).
Multiple studies have been done that show socioeconomic status does affect health, stress and life expectancy (Robert 1999). This suggests that our methods were flawed and tombstone size is not a good indicator of socioeconomic status. Size is not the only thing that is considered in the pricing of tombstones. The material it's made from and the amount of engraving change the price. Also, factors besides socioeconomic status could affect tombstone choice, such as religious beliefs, vanity, or whether the tombstone was chosen by the deceased or a relative. Many of the larger tombstones were actually family plots, so even if the tombstones were expensive the cost per person may be low.
Further research on the topic could include examining differences in life expectancies at different cemeteries. There might also be a difference between life expectancies of people who are cremated and people who are buried.
Custer, M. 1985. Stress, life events, and the epidemiology of wellness. Journal of Community Heath Nursing. 2:4; 215-222. Retrieved on 10.29.07 from JSTOR database.
Mirowsky, J., Ross, C. E. 2000. Socioeconomic status and subjective life expectancy. Social Psychology Quarterly. 63:2; 133-151. Retrieved 10.02.07 from JSTOR database.
Robert, S. A. 1999. Socioeconomic position and health: The independent contribution of community socioeconomic context. Annual review of Sociology. 25; 489-516. Retrieved on 10.02.07 from JSTOR database.


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The royal string band at the English Court had its origins in a six-man consort from Italy, brought to England by Henry VIII in the spring of 1540. Peter Holman's book charts the history of this institution from its beginnings to the time of Purcell. He considers the previous history of instrumentalists at court, the role of the court band in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and its influence on the dance music of the period. The establishment of the band at the English court is set in the context of the violin's place in Europe in the sixteenth century, as the author considers the origins of the instrument and discusses contemporary references to violin bands in court, town, and church. The development of the violin band is traced by reference to an immense amount of documentary information, much of it new. The first thorough treatment of this subject, Peter Holman's book will be welcomed for the new light it sheds on large areas of musical history.
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The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measures the speed and direction of ocean currents using the principle of "Doppler shift". Anyone who has ever heard a train whistle is familiar with the Doppler effect. When the train is traveling towards you, the whistle's pitch is higher. When it is moving away from you, the pitch is lower. The change in pitch is proportional to the speed of the train. The ADCP exploits the Doppler effect by emitting a sequence of high frequency pulses of sound that scatter off of moving particles in the water. Depending on whether the particles are moving toward or away from the sound source, the frequency, or pitch, of the return signal bounced back to the ADCP is either higher or lower. Particles moving away from the instrument produce a lower frequency return and vice versa. Since the particles move at the same speed as the water that carries them, the frequency shift is proportional to the speed of the water, or current. The ADCP has 4 acoustic transducers that emit and receive acoustical pulses from 4 different directions. Current direction is computed by using trigonometric relations to convert the return signal from the 4 transducers to 'earth' coordinates (north-south, east-west and up-down). Because the emitted sound extends from the ship down to the bottom of the ocean, the ADCP measures the current at many different depths simultaneously. This way, it is possible to determine the speed and direction of the current from the surface of the ocean to the bottom.
A diver deploying a bottom-mounted acoustic doppler current profiler to investigate the hydrodynamics of coral reef systems. Click image for larger view.
Measuring currents is a fundamental practice of physical oceanographers. By determining how ocean waters move, scientists can determine how organisms, nutrients and other biological and chemical constituents are transported throughout the ocean. Ocean waters have varied temperatures and in places like the warm Gulf Stream the movement of water means the movement of heat. Heat transport in the ocean is a critical component of the global heat budget and, therefore, it contributes to global climate change. Because of its high-resolution and ability to sample deep within the ocean interior, the ADCP is an efficient tool for sampling a large section of the ocean in a limited amount of time.
On large research vessels the ADCP is permanently mounted on the bottom of the ship's outer hull. A typical unit (75 kHz) is powerful enough to sample waters as deep as 700 m (2275 ft). During operation, the ADCP is sending out and receiving several acoustic pulses every second. An on-board computer processes the returned signal and a real-time display of the magnitude and direction of the current throughout the water column is produced on the computer monitor. This way, scientists can observe the changing ocean current structure nearly continuously while the ship is in motion. The data are stored on CDs so that scientists can conduct a thorough analysis when they return to their laboratory after the cruise. ADCP technology is very robust and the system requires little technical support or training to operate.
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You can create
and mount shadow sets using the $MOUNT system service in a user-written
program. Program calls to $MOUNT that create, mount, or add devices
to shadow sets use the same syntax. To direct the system to perform
any mount operation, you construct a $MOUNT item list. The item list
specifies the virtual unit that represents the shadow set and the
members (physical devices) that the shadow set contains.
The call to the $MOUNT system service has the
Example 5-1 illustrates MACRO-32 statements that produce
a $MOUNT system service item list to create and mount a shadow set.
Example 5-1 Item List to Create and Mount a Shadow Set
The following list describes the elements in Example 5-1:
Notice that the virtual unit item descriptor occurs
first. This item descriptor specifies DSA23 as the name of the virtual
unit. See "Creating a Shadow Set " for the proper naming syntax for the virtual unit and shadow set
The virtual unit item descriptor is followed by two
member-unit item descriptors. Because Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS
automatically determines the type of operation (copy or merge) necessary
before disks can join a shadow set, all of the devices are mounted
with MNT$_SHAMEM item descriptors. These item descriptors specify
that the physical devices, $4$DUA9 and $4$DUA5, are to join the shadow
set represented by DSA23.
The member item descriptors are followed by an item
descriptor that specifies MYVOLUME as the volume label for the shadow
The last item descriptor specifies DISK$MYVOLUME as
the logical name for the shadow set.
Later, if you want to add another device to the
shadow set, you make another call to $MOUNT that specifies an item
list that contains the name of the virtual unit and the name of the
device you want to add to the shadow set. Example 5-2 shows how
to add the physical device $4$DUA10: to the shadow set created in Example 5-1.
Example 5-2 Item List to Add a Member to a Shadow Set
"$MOUNT Shadow Set Item Codes" briefly describes the $MOUNT shadow
set item codes and discusses how to construct a valid $MOUNT item
list. For a complete description of the $MOUNT service and all its
item codes, see the HP OpenVMS System Services Reference


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A guided-mode resonance (GMR) filter with the same material (Ta2O5) for both the grating layer and the waveguide layer is designed and fabricated. This simple structure is easy to fabricate and can avoid the defects at the grating/waveguide interface using different materials. The spectral response measured with a Lambda 900 spectrophotometer under normal incidence for TE waves exhibits a peak reflectance exceeding 80% at the wavelength of 1040 nm with a full-width half-maximum (FWHM) linewidth of 23 nm. We evaluate the deviations of the fabricated structure from the designed parameters.
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LeetCode 373. Find K Pairs with Smallest Sums
LeetCode 373. Find K Pairs with Smallest Sums
Description
You are given two integer arrays nums1 and nums2 sorted in ascending order and an integer k.
Define a pair (u,v) which consists of one element from the first array and one element from the second array.
Find the k pairs (u1,v1),(u2,v2) …(uk,vk) with the smallest sums.
Example 1:
Input: nums1 = [1,7,11], nums2 = [2,4,6], k = 3
Output: [[1,2],[1,4],[1,6]]
Explanation: The first 3 pairs are returned from the sequence:
 [1,2],[1,4],[1,6],[7,2],[7,4],[11,2],[7,6],[11,4],[11,6]
Example 2:
Input: nums1 = [1,1,2], nums2 = [1,2,3], k = 2
Output: [1,1],[1,1]
Explanation: The first 2 pairs are returned from the sequence:
 [1,1],[1,1],[1,2],[2,1],[1,2],[2,2],[1,3],[1,3],[2,3]
Example 3:
Input: nums1 = [1,2], nums2 = [3], k = 3
Output: [1,3],[2,3]
Explanation: All possible pairs are returned from the sequence: [1,3],[2,3]
描述
给定两个以升序排列的整形数组 nums1 和 nums2, 以及一个整数 k。
定义一对值 (u,v)，其中第一个元素来自 nums1，第二个元素来自 nums2。
找到和最小的 k 对数字 (u1,v1), (u2,v2) … (uk,vk)。
示例 1:
输入: nums1 = [1,7,11], nums2 = [2,4,6], k = 3
输出: [1,2],[1,4],[1,6]
解释: 返回序列中的前 3 对数：
 [1,2],[1,4],[1,6],[7,2],[7,4],[11,2],[7,6],[11,4],[11,6]
示例 2:
输入: nums1 = [1,1,2], nums2 = [1,2,3], k = 2
输出: [1,1],[1,1]
解释: 返回序列中的前 2 对数：
 [1,1],[1,1],[1,2],[2,1],[1,2],[2,2],[1,3],[1,3],[2,3]
示例 3:
输入: nums1 = [1,2], nums2 = [3], k = 3
输出: [1,3],[2,3]
解释: 也可能序列中所有的数对都被返回:[1,3],[2,3]
思路
 - 使用小顶堆。
 - 首先将 nums1 的第一个数和 nums2 的前 k 个数组合，并存入索引，构成（nums1[0]+nums[i],0,i）结构，存入堆中。
 - 每次从堆中取出最小元素对，假定此时的最小元素对由 nums1[i] 和 nums2[j] 构成；由于我们已经 nums2 中的前 k 个元素压入了堆中， 那么在 nums1 和 nums2 剩下的元素中，大于元素对 （nums1[i] + nums2[j]，i，j） 的最小元素对就是 （nums1[i+1] + nums2[j]，i+1，j），我们将此压入堆中。
 - 重复上面的步骤直到取出了 k 个元素对（或者堆空）。
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# @Author: 何睿
# @Create Date: 2019-06-28 10:56:10
# @Last Modified by: 何睿
# @Last Modified time: 2019-06-28 11:40:14
from heapq import heappop, heappush
class Solution:
 def kSmallestPairs(self, nums1: List[int], nums2: List[int], k: int):
 # 处理异常情况
 if not nums1 or not nums2:return []
 heap = list()
 len1, len2 = len(nums1), len(nums2)
 # k 对最小数对的和，所有的数一定都落在 nums1 和 nums2 的前 k 个数中
 num = k if len2 > k else len2
 # 将第一个数组的第一个数与第二个数组的前 k 个数组合
 for i in range(num):
 heappush(heap, (nums1[0]+nums2[i], 0, i))
 count = 0
 res = list()
 # 取 k 个有效数对
 while heap and count < k:

 # 最小数对是 (nums1[i], nums2[j])
 _sum, i, j = heappop(heap)
 res.append([nums1[i], nums2[j]])
 count += 1
 if i + 1 < len1:
 # 取到了最小数对 (nums1[i], nums2[j])
 # 我们将比最小数对大的最小数对 (nums1[i+1], nums2[j]) 压入堆中
 heappush(heap, (nums1[i + 1] + nums2[j], i + 1, j))
 del heap
 return res
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Fuel Injection and EGR Adjustments on The Renault R17 TS 720518
Because of low nitrogen oxide emissions, a version of the Renault R17 TS equipped with a high-performance engine was selected for the American market. This paper discusses problems encountered in adapting a Bosch electronic fuel injection system to a 1600 cm3 engine to meet American standards up to 1974. The principal problems solved were those posed by intermediary operating speeds. This study also gives an idea of the pollution limits which can be obtained with an injection system which incorporates various important adjustment factors.
Engine specifications are presented, as are decriptions of the electric regulation, electric and pneumatic cold-start, and fuel feeding circuits. The various modifications to the engine are also described.


text: This study was to determine the genetic polymorphism in terms of the DGAT1 gene among Holstein and Jersey and indigenous Native Black, East Anatolian Red and Grey Steppe in Turkey. The frequencies of K allele for the DGAT1 gene were calculated as 0.59, 0.54, 0.53, 0.62, 0.52, and 0.54 for Jersey, Holstein (Black Sea Region), Holstein (Marmara Region), and Grey Steppe, East Anatolian Red, and Native Black breeds, respectively. The F-IS values of the populations for the DGAT1 gene were detected all negative values. In overall population, F-IS value was found as 76%. The expected deviations from the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium in terms of the DGAT1 locus were found significant in these six different populations (P<0.01). The genetic distance values among the populations were calculated between 0.0001 and 0.0089. Based on the cluster analysis, Holstein, Native Black and East Anatolian Red were located in close cluster; however, Jersey and Grey Steppe were grouped in different cluster.


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Enabling natural resource managers to self-assess their adaptive capacity
AbstractWe describe the development of a low cost, repeatable self-assessment process enabling community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) groups to set priorities for building their capacity to adopt sustainable farming practices and adapt to global change. Regional measures of adaptive capacity derived from rural livelihoods analysis were populated with secondary data and used to communicate the multiple dimensions of adaptive capacity to groups of landowners. This conceptual framework was then used to derive locally relevant measures of adaptive capacity via focus groups drawn from pre-existing networks of land managers. The key issue discussed at the workshop was what constrained or enabled private land managers to effectively manage natural resources. This self-assessment process was designed to support dialogue between CBNRM groups, industry and governments to prioritise collective action for building adaptive capacity. The approach was piloted with CBNRM groups across New South Wales, Australia.
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Cosmopolitanism and patriotism in Ghanaian hiplife lyrics
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Ghanaian Hiplife is a musical style that emerged in the early 1990's, and has steadily gained popularity since. The music is a combination of Ghanaian Highlife--an early 20th century mix of both European and local traditions-- and American Hip Hop. As a musical hybrid, Hiplife often blurs the lines between the global and the local. Its recontextualization of Western synthesized beats with local languages and music traditions has created a music that in many ways represents the cosmopolitan. However, it often simultaneously symbolizes a sense of patriotism for the relatively young country, emphasizing local significance of ethnicity and location. Through the use of various languages--Akan languages, Pidgin English, and Hip-Hop Vernacular English--current Hiplife artists demonstrate a complex give and take between the cosmopolitan and the patriot


text: This article presents silhouette–attraction (Sil–Att), a simple and effective method for text clustering, which is based on two main concepts: the silhouette coefficient and the idea of attraction. The combination of both principles allows us to obtain a general technique that can be used either as a boosting method, which improves results of other clustering algorithms, or as an independent clustering algorithm. The experimental work shows that Sil–Att is able to obtain high-quality results on text corpora with very different characteristics. Furthermore, its stable performance on all the considered corpora is indicative that it is a very robust method. This is a very interesting positive aspect of Sil–Att with respect to the other algorithms used in the experiments, whose performances heavily depend on specific characteristics of the corpora being considered.


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Plants that Come From Unusual Seeds (12 pictures)
Most plants grow from seeds. This is why the seeds are so important.
There is many seedbanks worldwide. They stores seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere are destroyed. It is a type ofgene bank. The seeds stored may be food crops, or those of rare species to protect biodiversity. The reasons for storing seeds may be varied. In the case of food crops, many useful plants that were developed over centuries are now no longer used for commercial agricultural production and are becoming rare. Storing seeds also guards against catastrophic events like natural disasters, outbreaks of disease, or war. Unlike seed libraries or seed swaps that encourage frequent reuse and sharing of seeds, seedbanks are not typically open to the public. [via]
Some seeds are well know but some look amazing and unusual. In out opinion the Sequoia is the most impressive of all. Such a tiny seed and yet it turns into such a huge tree.


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The following is an example of threading time sequence that could expose this problem:
A thread T1 executes lines 1, 2, and 3, decrements m_cRef to 1, and is preempted.
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Metamorphosis In Gregor's Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka's twentieth-century classic, Metamorphosis, shows the changes of the Samsa family after their son, Gregor, turns into a vile insect. Even though Gregor has turned into the most disgusting of creatures, this "metamorphosis" is ironic compared to the transformation that his family endures. While Gregor still sustains his humanity, the lack of any compassion and mercy from his family is what makes them the disgusting creatures rather than Gregor. The changes of Gregor's father, mother, and sister prove that the theme of metamorphosis is not exclusively present within Gregor.
Kafka's timeless novella, Metamorphosis, first shows, the physical and mental change of Gregor Samsa. As Gregor wakes up for work, he realizes that his body is
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This can be seen when Gregor enters the living room, and involuntary starts snapping his jaws at some coffee spilling form an overturned pot (Sweeny 67). This shows that even though Gregor does not want to scare his family, his natural instincts as an insect overpower his body and he scares them unwillingly. "Aside from a new acknowledgements of their existence, Gregor's new insectile attitudes and dispositions remain outside his consciousness (Sweeny 69). Gregor's consciousness refers to the mind of the human Gregor in the past, while Gregor the insect refers to his present physical …show more content…
When Gregor first reveals his newly transformed self and tries to speak, his father is the first to take action by hissing, stamping his foot, and forcing Gregor back into the room using a cane. Kevin Sweeny helps explain that, " Rational persuasion is deemed inappropriate. No plea of Gregor's helped, no plea was even understood; however humbly he might turn his head, his father merely stamped his feet more forcefully" (Sweeny 66). This shows the immediate metamorphosis of Gregor's father because he shows no sympathy and consideration for his son. The hissing noise that the father makes is also insect-like and atrocious, which is ironic due to the fact that it is Gregor who has undergone a physical transformation into a bug, not the father. Gregor's father, who seems to only care about the family's financial burn, now refers to his son as a monster. "By believing Gregor to be ill, Gregor's father reconciles the opposing beliefs that Gregor still survives and that the monster in the bedroom is something less than a person" (Sweeny 66). Throughout the novella, Gregor's father morphs into an insensitive parent that mercilessly beats Gregor multiple times and feels relieved and rejuvenated after his death.
The metamorphosis of Gregor's mother is the least apparent of the transformations in the Samsa family. When Gregor changes into an insect she faints when she first sees him. She realizes the lack of sympathy within
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Creating detailed mortgage scenarios requires a powerful mortgage calculator. RateSpy's advanced amortization tester is built on Microsoft Excel for maximum flexibility.
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Giant spider discovered in Laos17/10/2012 15:29:21 Leg span of more than 33 cms
October 2012. A scientist has discovered a harvestman (spider) with a leg span of more than 33 centimetres during a research trip to Laos; this is one of the largest representatives of the entire order of spiders anywhere in the world. The scientist, from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, has so far failed to identify it to species level.
The reason Dr. Peter Jäger from the Senckenberg Research Institute went to Laos was to film a major TV production. "In between takes I collected spiders from the caves in the southern province of Khammouan", the Frankfurt arachnologist explains. In doing so, he made a sensational discovery. "In one of the caves I discovered a harvestman that was absolutely huge." The leg span of the gigantic male harvestman was more than 33 centimetres and therefore one of the world's largest. The current record is just over 34 centimetres leg span for a species from South America.
Initially the discovery lay hidden among other organisms and was only recognised as unique when sorted and labelled. "In attempting to categorise the creature properly, however, and give it a scientific name, I soon reached my limits", says Jäger. The Frankfurt scientist deals mainly with huntsman spiders - harvestmen are not his particular field. Even the specialist he consulted, Ana Lucia Tourinho from the National Institute for Research of the Amazon (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil, who is currently a visiting academic at the Senckenberg Arachnology lab, could only conclude that it is probably the genus Gagrella in the Sclerosomatidae family.
"It's a shame we can't identify such an exceptional discovery correctly, i.e. its species", says Jäger, "we haven't dealt with these and related genera from China and neighbouring South East Asia before. Specialists are also unavailable due to the fact that descriptive taxonomy is no longer the main focus of research funding"
As such, the harvestmen of the Sclerosomatidae family have invaluable potential. Specimens can be found in virtually every habitat and they constitute an ecologically very important predator group in the natural food chain.


Statement by the Vice President: Pipeline Safety (11/3/00)
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I am very pleased that the Administration is taking important steps today
to improve the safety of our Nation's oil and gas pipelines. The
Department of Transportation is issuing new, strong requirements for large
hazardous liquid pipeline operators to regularly inspect and promptly
repair their pipelines in populated and environmentally sensitive areas, as
well as to employ measures to detect and prevent leaks. In addition,
President Clinton is directing the Department to take actions that will
further strengthen pipeline safety standards, improve enforcement, form
strong federal-state partnerships, increase public access to information,
and enhance technology using existing authorities to their fullest extent.
Americans deserve to have the safest pipeline system possible. Despite
significant bipartisan efforts, Congress has not passed a comprehensive
pipeline safety law this year. The actions that are being taken today will
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possible without a change in law. Tragedies such as the recent pipeline
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By aggregating the flexibility (flex) of hundreds of consumer appliances different demand-side management (DSM) strategies can be carried out, such as demand response, energy trading or ancillary services. However, this means that users must share their available local flex with the aggregator while being fairly rewarded for their commitment. Unfortunately, not everyone is willing to expose their energy data, which makes privacy a major obstacle to broaden the use of household flex in demand control.
Nevertheless, flex will not be possible without data. Users demand is highly linked to their behavior, which introduces many uncertainties in the available flex. Moreover, local flex can also be achieved from heterogeneous sources, increasing the complexity of the problem. In this way, although data must stay private, we must at least be able to capture uncertainties.
The PrivateFlex project aims to tackle these issues by making use of cryptographic algorithms such as computation over encrypted data (COED) to keep flex data local and private, while at the same time allowing the flex to be traded at an aggregated level. In addition, the second objective is to better characterize flex by means of machine learning (ML) techniques both at a local and at an aggregate level.
Impact of the project: Cost-effective solutions that address privacy issues and deal with uncertainty are important to ensure that demand response is implemented in residential buildings. The whole value chain is represented in the consortium by leading industrial partners active in Flanders.
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GCP CI/CD Pipeline: Build Docker images after commits to a repo branch (Google Cloud Source Repositories)
In this article we will learn how to connect GCP's code versioning service (Cloud Source Repositories) to Cloud Build to automate building Docker images and pushing them to GCP Container Registry.
Cloud and containers have truly revolutionized deployment and management of web infrastructure. Ability to build docker images triggered by a push or a pull request allows developers focus more on code and less on infrastructure.
The process of setting up this pipeline will follow these steps:
 1. Create a repository in Cloud Source Repositories
 2. Push source code files to our repo
 3. Create a trigger in Cloud Build service
 4. Set trigger to build a Docker image when there is a new commit to the specified branch

1. Creating a repository in Cloud Source Repositories
Navigate to Cloud Source Repositories using sidebar or a search bar at the top.
Verify that you are creating your repository in the correct project and then click Add repository button in the top right corner:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Creating a Cloud Source Repository pt1
Since we will be using GCP's version control we need to select Create new repository option and click Continue:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Creating a Cloud Source Repository pt2
Next we will need to enter the name of our repo and select the project. Click Create button after you are done:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Creating a Cloud Source Repository pt3
For the final step we will clone our newly created repository to our local machine using the instructions provided:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Creating a Cloud Source Repository pt4
You can upload your code to the repo using either SSH (1st option) or using gcloud CLI. I will let reader decide which option to use.

2. Source files
For this project we will have 2 sources files:
Dockerfile:
FROM python:3.7-slim
RUN pip install flask
WORKDIR /myapp
COPY main.py /myapp/main.py
CMD ["python", "/myapp/main.py"]
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main.py:
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def index():
 return 'CI/CD pipeline with GCP Cloud Source Repositories and Docker'
if __name__ == '__main__':
 app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8080)
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Following the instructions push these files to the repo and verify that they are uploaded:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Setting up repository

3. Creating a Cloud Build trigger
If you are using Cloud Build for the first time you will be asked to enable the API first. Click Enable to activate this API. It might take a minute, it is normal.
Click on Triggers in the sidebar:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Creating a build trigger pt1
To create a new trigger click on the Create new trigger button at the bottom of the page:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Creating a build trigger pt2
On the trigger creation page we will need to pay attention to 4 important parts:
 1. Trigger name
 2. Event that will trigger the action (I left it as default Push to a branch)
 3. Source repository (click on the dropdown and select your repo and the branch that this trigger will monitor)
 4. Configuration type (select Dockerfile)
After you are done click Create to finish setting up the trigger.
To test our trigger we will first invoke it manually by clicking RUN button:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Running the trigger manually pt1
A popup will appear asking for confirmation. Click Run trigger:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Running the trigger manually pt2
If we click the History option in the sidebar on the left we can see the build history:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Running the trigger manually pt3
My build has succeeded:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Running the trigger manually pt4

4. Verifying that Dockerimage is built automatically
GCP has a service for storing container image called Container Registry.
Navigate to Contianer Registry and you should see your image there:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Docker image from manual trigger
And finally, lets do a test with a test push. Let's modify our main.py file and push changes to the repository. I modified the text a little and added v2.0:
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def index():
 return 'CI/CD pipeline with GCP Cloud Source Repositories and Docker v2.0'
if __name__ == '__main__':
 app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8080)
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Commit and push new changes to the repo. It should run the trigger automatically. You should see a running process in the History tab (mine completed really fast):
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Docker image from automated trigger pt1
Let's go to the container registry and verify that the new image there:
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Docker image from automated trigger pt2
There will be two images, one from running the trigger manually and the second one from pushing code to the tracked branch.
And yes, as we can see the new image is there!
GCP CI/CD Pipeline for Docker images with Cloud Source Repositories. Docker image from automated trigger pt3

That's it. You have created a CI/CD pipeline that builds a Docker image when new code is committed to the tracked branch!
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
The TTLG 2011 Picture Book Celebration - Book Sixty-Five
Today's picture book tells the story of young witch whose curiosity gets the better of her. She gets into trouble, and then she has to find someone to help her get out of trouble.
Lieve Baeten
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 7
NorthSouth, 2010, 978-0-7358-2305-1
 It is a clear moonlit night, and Lizzy the witch and her cat are flying around on their broomstick. Lizzie sees that there are lights shining in the windows of one house. Being a curious young witch, Lizzie flies over to the house and she peeks through the open window on the top floor. Suddenly Lizzie's cat sees some mice and it jumps into the room. Lizzie comes flying through the window and her broomstick is broken as she falls to the floor.
 Now what is Lizzie going to do? She can't fly home on a broken broomstick. Then Lizzie hears the sound of music coming from downstairs, so she creeps down the ladder to see what is going on. On the floor below, Lizzie meets Music Witch, who makes beautiful magical music, but she cannot help Lizzie fix her broomstick.
 Smelling something delicious on the air, Lizzie follows her nose to the floor below, where she meets Kitchen Witch. Kitchen Witch makes Lizzie a deliciously magical meal, but she does not know anything about fixing broomsticks. Is there anyone around who is going to be able to help Lizzie?
 Packed with wonderfully detailed illustrations that are full of surprises, this picture book will charm readers who have a fondness for magic. Children will love the way Lizzie goes down through the house, visiting one witch after another as she tries to find someone to help her.
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July 2nd, 2020
On May 3, Chengdu, Sichuan Province ushered in the earliest high temperature day in nearly 60 years, with daily extreme maximum temperature ≥35 ℃. The continuous high temperature for many days may cause a great blow to citrus growers. The leaves of citrus trees may wilt due to long-term high temperature and drought, and the fruits will also suffer from physiological disorder due to high temperature, which will lead to sunburn and fruit drop.
Fig. 1: leaf wilting and curling caused by high temperature and drought
Visited the villages and towns to understand the impact of recent high temperature weather on local citrus farmers. After visiting, it was found that most of Aiyuan lost more than 80% of their fruits and burned, and many fruit farmers suffered heavy losses.
Fig. 2: serious fruit drop in the garden, almost no harvest
Later, we visited the Hemei demonstration garden of fertilization. The results showed that the effect of Fubon yeast biological water-soluble fertilizer combined with high-quality calcium fertilizer was obvious.
On June 3, when we came to master Luo's orchard again in Shouling village. In the past years, the turf in the orchard was also dried up due to high temperature and drought. Fortunately, master Luo used the Hemei formula fertilization scheme, and cooperated with the complete nozzle facilities, the garden's Aiyuan trees were strong, the leaves were extended, and the fruits were beautiful.
Fig. 3: the trees in the demonstration garden are vigorous, the leaves are spreading and the fruits are beautiful
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The yeast source organic fertilizer has the advantages of being nutritional, efficient, environmental friendly, soil-improving, etc., and it is suitable for the application of high added value agricultural products, animal husbandry and economic crops. Angel is the founder of yeast source organic fertilizer, and the products all have passed through the EU Organic Certification and China Organic Certification.
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Angel Yeast Company is a high-tech listed company specializing in yeast and biotech. Product business covers Yeast and Baking, Yeast Extract-Savoury, Nutrition & Health and Biotechnology fields. It is one of the world's leading companies in the yeast industry. Angel has 12 holding subsidiaries and provides products and services for more than 150 countries and regions.


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محل انتشار: اولین کنفرانس ملی دانش پژوهان کامپیوتر و فناوری اطلاعات
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abdolsattar vakili – Aq Qala Center, Islamic Azad University
mohammad abdollahi azgomi – Iran University of Science and Technology, School of Computer Engineering
eshagh jorjani – Aq Qala Center, Islamic Azad University, Department of Finance and Accounting,
In this paper, we present a new approach to model the computer system security based on GeneralizedStochastic Petri Nets (GSPN) and Game Theory. Attack against a system is dependent on attacker's maliciousehavior. An attack at least has two essential elements. First, the attacker must decide to choose which attack action is carried out. Second, he tries to accomplish the chosen attack action. Using GSPN, we can model the attackers' decisions. Henceforth, we calculate attacker's decision probabilities using Game Theory, especially, Zero-Sum StaticGame model. By application of the decision probabilities on GSPN model that are calculated by game model, we can carry out quantitative security evaluation of the model using tools such as Mobius and calculate operational measures like Mean Time to Availability Compromise and Mean Time to Integrity Compromise. Finally, a case study has been modeled and evaluated using the method proposed in this paper.


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A broad introduction to the complex issue of suicide and approaches to suicide prevention for a range of students and professional groups.
|Paper title||Introduction to Suicidology and Suicide Prevention|
|Teaching period||Second Semester|
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|International Tuition Fees (NZD)||$9,869.50|
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- This paper includes two on-campus residential periods.
- Teaching staff
Convenors: Sarah McKenzie and Sunny Collings
A variety of general texts and journals relevant to the paper will be available via the library.
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- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Communication, Critical thinking,
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On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the phenomena of suicide and suicidal behaviours as they relate to individual, community and population levels.
- Demonstrate an understanding of theoretical, cultural, ethnic, gender and life course issues as they relate to suicide and suicidal behaviours in specific population groups.
- Describe and be familiar with research approaches relating to suicide.
- Demonstrate an appreciation of the nature of politics, discourses and contemporary issues within suicide prevention.
- Critically evaluate suicide prevention initiatives/activities as they relate to individuals, communities and population groups.
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Lafayette Escadrille (läˌfēĕtˈ, lăfˌēĕtˈ ĕskədrĭlˈ) [key], small group of American volunteer aviators in World War I, created (Apr., 1916) as Escadrille Américaine in the French air service. It was renamed the Lafayette Escadrille in December of the same year in honor of the French hero's service in the American Revolution, and the outfit saw much frontline action and suffered heavy casualties. In Jan., 1918, the Lafayette Escadrille was reorganized in the U.S. army as the 103d Pursuit Squadron.
See E. C. Parson's The Great Adventure (1937, repr. 1972 under the title I Flew with the Lafayette Escadrille); study by H. M. Mason (1964).
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We present the photometry and spectropolarimetry of the pre‐main‐sequence star HD 106506. A photometric rotational period of ∼1.416 ± 0.133 d has been derived using observations at Mount Kent Observatory (MKO). Spectropolarimetric data obtained with the 3.9‐m Anglo‐Australian Telescope (AAT) were used to derive spot occupancy and magnetic maps of the star through the technique of Zeeman Doppler imaging (ZDI). The resulting brightness maps indicate that HD 106506 displays photospheric spots at all latitudes including a predominant polar spot. Azimuthal and radial magnetic images of this star have been derived, and a significant azimuthal magnetic field is indicated, in line with other active young stars. A solar‐like differential rotation law was incorporated into the imaging process. Using Stokes I information the equatorial rotation rate, Ωeq, was found to be 4.54 ± 0.01 rad d−1, with a photospheric shear δΩ of 0.21+0.02−0.03 rad d−1. This equates to an equatorial rotation period of ∼1.39 ± 0.01 d, with the equatorial region lapping the poles every ∼ 30+5−3 d. Using the magnetic features, the equatorial rotation rate, Ωeq, was found to be 4.51 ± 0.01 rad d−1, with a photospheric shear δΩ of 0.24 ± 0.03 rad d−1. This differential rotation is approximately four times that observed on the Sun.
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text: (GRB) out on both polar areas of its rotational axis. Calculations show that the deposited energy of such a GRB impacting the Earths atmosphere would be equivalent to one kiloton of TNT per square kilometer over the entire hemisphere facing the star with ionizing radiation depositing ten times the lethal whole body dose to the surface. This catastrophic burst would probably not hit Earth, though, because the rotation axis does not currently point at us. If Eta Carinae is a binary system, this may affect the future intensity and orientation of the supernova explosion that it produces, depending on the circumstances.


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I've been making garlic butter for years, storing it for months at a time. When I read that garlic-in-oil can grow dangerous amounts of botulinum toxins after similar lengths of time, I wondered how safe garlic butter is and why.
Evidently, the safety warnings specifically target storage in oil. I couldn't find a satisfactory explanation for butter not being mentioned with a preliminary search. The first Google result turns up a grossly unhelpful Yahoo! Answers page whose sources do not mention butter at all.
To the point: is garlic butter safer than garlic-in-oil, and why? Is butter not also an anaerobic environment, so that the same precautions should apply as with oil?