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Splash invites all 4th and 5th grade teachers in Sacramento County to apply for a place in this program, by clicking on the button at the top of the page. This program integrates a 13-lesson, standards-based science curriculum with a field trip to the vernal pools at Mather Field. The curriculum prepares the students for their field trip by teaching them all about vernal pools and the plants and animals that live in them. Classroom preparation is the key difference between Splash field trips and others, because the students arrive prepped with all the knowledge they've learned about the vernal pool ecosystem. This knowledge empowers them and results in an exciting, hands-on interactive field trip in which information is shared among students, guides, and teachers, and then brought home to parents.
These resources and directions, etc., are FANTASTIC! Thank you ever so much for this. Talk about thinking outside the box!!! You and the other SPLASH folks have outdone yourselves. Thank you, thank you.
Beth Conklin, 4th Grade Teacher, Golden Empire Elem., SCUSD
Thank you for giving our class such a lovely experience! It was truly enjoyable to see all the cute critters in 'Critterville.' SPLASH is an amazing program! It is not only great for preserving nature and animals such as vernal pools, but is fun and educational as well. I want to recognize SPLASH for all the hard work put into creating our projects, presentations, materials, workbooks, etc.
Carissa, 5th Grade Student, Arlene Hein Elem., EGUSD
Not only did my class learn a lot, but I did as well. This generation is our future and it is important for them to see different parts of our ecosystem and how it is important to the area. One girl was sad to hear that only 5-10% of the Vernal pools still exist. She wants to grow up and make sure they are taken care of.
Sheila Lauk, 5th Grade Teacher, Empire Oaks Elem., FCUSD
Thank you for our vernal pool field trip. My favorite part was when we got to use the cups and scoop up the critters, because I saw a lot of my animals. I have learned a lot through Splash. I learned about CA voles and copepods. I have also learned how to look through a microscope. Thank you again for the wonderful day.
I will say, the Splash Team has done an incredible job with the curriculum. It is the least of my worries with planning because it is done so well. Thank you so much.
Jasmine Reese, Teacher, Heron Elementary, Natomas USD
About the Field Trip
Every year from January through April, the Splash Education Center at Mather Field welcomes more than 100 classes of 4th and 5th graders on their vernal pool field trips. These field trips allow students the chance to get "up close and personal" with the animals and plants they've been studying in the classroom through the Splash curriculum, Life in Our Watershed: Investigating Vernal Pools (IVP).
The field trip is hands-on, interactive, and provides lots of opportunities for the students to share their vernal pool knowledge with each other, their Splash field guide, and the parent chaperones. This integration of classroom and experiential learning is a unique and exciting aspect of this Program.
The Field Trip at Splash runs from 9:30am – 12:30pm. Half the field trip is spent rotating through the learning stations inside the Splash Center, while the other half of the field trip is spent exploring the spectacular vernal pools scattered throughout the grasslands at Mather Field.
Please be sure to read "Inside the Splash Center" and "Outside in the Field" below to learn more about what your class will see, do, and learn on your field trip. Once your field trip is scheduled, you will want to carefully read the details and use the checklist in this "Preparing for Your Field Trip" document.
Inside the Splash Center
When students enter the Splash Education Center, they enter a world of fun, hands-on science investigation that builds on the knowledge they've acquired in the classroom, through the curriculum materials and activities Splash provided to their teachers. After a brief introduction, the students split into three groups of 8-12 students. Each group follows its guide through the three learning stations in the Center. Afterwards, the students are encouraged to share their knowledge with others to help protect water quality, endangered habitats (such as vernal pools), and the unique animals that depend upon them.
Our curriculum contains strong messages about protecting water quality throughout our watersheds. The concept of a watershed can be difficult to grasp, but we've found the best way to help students understand it is to experiment with a model of an urban area, with streams flowing through it.
The students participate by "polluting" certain parts of the model, learning from their Splash guide why each pollutant is harmful in aquatic ecosystems and what we can do to prevent it from entering our waterways. The students then "make it rain" and observe the runoff "polluting" the streams and rivers as it flows downhill and collects in the low areas of the watershed.
The students come to realize that the critter they studied could die as a result of pollution. More importantly, they come away from this activity with an impressive knowledge of how to prevent water pollution.
At the microscope station, the students get to see things that few kids (or adults, for that matter) ever get a chance to see! They peer through as many of our twelve microscopes as possible to identify each different live specimen of aquatic invertebrates that inhabit the vernal pools at Mather and see incredible details on each tiny animal. The students also answer a question about each animal that is designed to focus their observations, aid in the identification process, and encourage them to use deductive reasoning to come up with an answer.
Critterville is frequently the highlight of a student's time inside the Center. Here, the students get "up close and personal" with larger live animals that are commonly found in and around the vernal pools at Mather. The animals in Critterville are rescued and typically include a few snakes, frogs, salamanders, rabbits, and an owl!
The students spend time visiting each of the animals and then gather for a brief discussion. Several students get the chance to share their knowledge about the critter they studied with the rest of the group. This gives them the opportunity to become the "teacher" and reinforces their understanding of the concepts they learned in the classroom.
Outside, In The Field
The outdoor portion of the field trip is where all of the lessons and activities in the elementary curriculum come together for the students, like putting together an ecological puzzle. They get to experience first-hand the beauty, uniqueness, and fragility of the vernal pool habitats at Mather. Students can actually see the snow-capped Sierra Nevada Mountains, which serve as a visual reminder that they are part of the Sacramento River Watershed. Even more exciting, while they're walking in the field, students eagerly anticipate finding the critter or flower that they studied as part of the curriculum.
The outdoor portion of the field trip varies depending on whether the class visits during the wet phase of the vernal pools or the flower phase. The progression of the phases is dependent on the weather conditions over the course of the late-winter and early-spring. No matter the phase, though, students will be led by their guide through the grasslands and to at least one vernal pool. They will hone their observation skills by looking for signs of coyotes, voles, gophers, and snakes, as well as spotting different species of birds, plants, and lots more. Every visit is different!
Wet Phase Walk
Students that visit between January and mid-March are usually treated to the great diversity of living things in the vernal pool habitat they visit. They kneel on wooden platforms at the water's edge and the moment they've been waiting for arrives: they get to look for and observe the aquatic critters in the vernal pool! They get so excited when they actually find their critter! They discover a multitude of critters and plants and explore the importance of each to the ecosystem.
Flower Phase Walk
When a class visits towards the end of March or in April, the students will see Mather's vernal pools in their colorful glory! On the walk, the students try to find the particular flower that they studied and learn to identify others, as well. Each student is given a 10x magnifying loupe so they can more closely investigate the tiny parts of a flower and understand how flowers enable a plant to make seeds and reproduce. Students discover a multitude of insects visiting the flowers and learn more about and appreciate the important relationships between vernal pool plants and the special insect species' that pollinate them.
Information for Teachers
To be eligible to participate in the Splash Investigating Vernal Pools Program you must teach 4th or 5th grade at a school in Sacramento County.
We also offer private extracurricular activities for Nature Bowl groups, scout groups, and home school groups, tailored to the needs and interests of your group. Additionally, Splash offers five (5) public guided vernal pool critter and flower walks on pre-scheduled weekends. Your students may want to return with their families to learn and observe even more!
This PDF document provides detailed information about how the Splash curriculum aligns to the 4th and 5th grade NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards) and California State Teaching Standards.
What Teachers Receive
Once you are accepted into the program, you


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I was reading the definition of smooth manifold and i am little bit of confused. Informally it says
A smooth manifold is a topological manifold (i.e. a topological space locally homeomorphic to a Euclidean space) equipped with an equivalence class of atlases whose transition maps are all smooth. Here transition maps are from Euclidean space to Euclidean space.
Now what if I replace the word Euclidean space by topological vector space $\mathbb{R}^n$. Still we will get some object as we can talk about smoothness in topological vector space $\mathbb{R}^n$ without using any reference of coordinate system. So how much difference is there if I do the replacement? And my other question is
What are the properties of Euclidean space, we use to study Smooth manifolds, which are not present in $\mathbb{R}^n$ just as a topological vector space.
Till now what I have found that to describe local coordinates in manifold or to describe basis in tangent space one need a coordinate system in $\mathbb{R}^n$ so that you can pull it back to the manifold to define local coordinate there. Apart from these, where do we use the properties of Euclidean space to study smooth manifold?
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Any n-dimensional Euclidean space is isomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^n$, so the terms are used interchangebly. – Nick Alger Jun 20 '13 at 21:54
@ Nick: Of which isomorphism between $\mathbb{R^n}$ and Euclidean space you are talking about.Is it vector space isomorphism you are talking about?Is it true $\mathbb{R^n}$ with $l^1$ norm and Euclidean space are Isomorphic? – timon Jun 21 '13 at 5:42
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Euclidean spaces are, by definition, $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. See if this clears things up for you. If not, come back and I'll try to help you some more.
Also, as the previous comment noted, any open set homeomorphic to an open ball will also be homeomorphic to all of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ since open balls are homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. Hence, in the definition of locally Euclidean, it does not matter if we a priori decided that our spaces should be locally homeomorphic to all of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, an open ball, or an open set.
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This is roughly Exercise 1.1 in Lee's, "Introduction to Smooth Manifolds". – Dylan Yott Jun 20 '13 at 22:58
@ Alex: I think there is a distinction between R^n as just topological vector space and Euclidean Space i.e. R^n with inner product structure. So how locally Euclidean and locally R^n could be same? Although topologically they are same but then why in the definition of manifold it asks to be locally Euclidean? – timon Jun 21 '13 at 5:10
@ Alex: If you don't have a standard co-ordinate in R^n,how you will talk about local coordinate in manifold? – timon Jun 21 '13 at 5:12
@ Yott: You are mistaken.May be I was not able to pose my question properly.But I am not asking the Exercise 1.1 mentioned in Lee's book. I want to know why call it locally Euclidean instead of locally R^n.What property of Euclidean space (where you can talk about angle and distance) we are going to use in future to study smooth manifold. – timon Jun 21 '13 at 5:27
Eventually, when you go deep enough to get to Riemmanian Geometry, you will starting putting inner product structures on your manifolds, but that's not for a while. For now, the words "locally Euclidean" and "locally $\mathbb{R}^{n}$" are synonymous. Also, locally Euclidean sounds better. The book you're reading doesn't make the distinction between $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ as a topological vector space and as an inner product space. The reason we use $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ as opposed to any topological vector space is that we already know how to do calculus on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. – Alex Lapanowski Jun 21 '13 at 15:12
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Hip Size of Mothers Linked To Breast Cancer In Daughters
02/21/11 Portland, Ore.
In a study of the maternity records of more than 6,000 women, David J.P. Barker, M.D., Ph.D.,and Kent Thornburg, Ph.D., of Oregon Health & Science University discovered a strong correlation between the size and shape of a woman's hips and her daughter's risk of breast cancer. Wide, round hips, the researchers postulated, represent markers of high sex hormone concentrations in the mother, which increase her daughter's vulnerability to breast cancer.
A woman's hips are shaped at puberty when the growth of the hip bones is controlled by sex hormones but is also influenced by the level of nutrition. Every woman has a unique sex hormone profile which is established at puberty and persists through her reproductive life. The study's findings show for the first time that the pubertal growth spurt of girls is strongly associated with the risk of breast cancer in their daughters. The study, carried out with colleagues in Finland and the United Kingdom, is described in an article just published online by the peer-reviewed American Journal of Human Biology. The authors followed up on 6,370 women born in Helsinki from 1934 to 1944 whose mothers' pelvic bones were measured during routine prenatal care. The study found that breast cancer rates were more than three times higher among the women in the cohort, born at or after term, whose mothers had wide hips They were more than seven times higher if those mothers had already given birth to one or more children.
A woman's vulnerability to breast cancer, the study found, was greater if her mother's "intercristal diameter" - the widest distance between the wing-like structures at the top of the hip bone - was more than 30 centimeters, or 11.8 inches. The risk also was higher if these wing-like structures were round. The breast cancer risk was 2.5 times higher for the daughters of women in whom the widest distance was more than 3 centimeters greater than the distance at the front.
Barker, professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine) in the OHSU School of Medicine as well as professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Southampton in the U.K., is internationally known for discovering the relationship between low birth weight and the lifetime risk for coronary heart disease and other medical disorders, which the British Medical Journal has named the Barker Hypothesis. He has published more than 200 papers and written or edited five books about the developmental origins of chronic disease. He was honored in 2005 with the prestigious Danone International Prize for Nutrition for his pioneering research.
The OHSU study published today proposes that breast cancer is initiated in the first trimester of a pregnancy by exposure of the embryo's developing breast tissue to the mother's circulating sex hormones. The primary mammary cord, which gives rise to milk-producing breast lobules, develops in the fetus at 10 weeks. The fetal breast is known to be stimulated by circulating hormones; the intensity of the stimulation is such that half of all newborn babies have breast secretions.
"Our findings support the hypothesis that wide round hips reflect high levels of sex hormone production at puberty, which persist after puberty and adversely affect breast development of the daughters in early gestation," the authors commented. They could only speculate, they said, on the exact nature of this adverse effect but pointed out: "Catechol estrogen, a metabolite or estradiol, is thought to cause chromosomal instability by breaking DNA strands. High catechol estrogen concentrations in the maternal circulation could produce genetic instability in differentiating breast epithelial cells, which would make the breast vulnerable to cancer in later life."
"Epidemiological findings of this kind aren't designed to define precise biological or molecular mechanisms," said Grover Bagby, M.D., deputy director of the OHSU Cancer Institute. "However, for those of us involved in identifying the earliest molecular causes of cancer, these fascinating results define the types of questions we need to ask. This is a wake-up call telling us to pay attention to stem cell populations at the time of birth … a good deal earlier than we might have otherwise done. It is important to consider these cell populations because only by understanding the initial cause can we begin to develop rational strategies to prevent this very common cancer."
The daughters who were the subjects of the study were all born during _PHONE_ at either Helsinki University Central Hospital or City Maternity Hospital, the two maternity hospitals in Finland's capital. The occurrence of breast cancer among them was ascertained from national registers of all hospital admissions and deaths in Finland. Three hundred of them had had breast cancer of whom 48 died from the disease. Their mean age when they were diagnosed was 54.
The findings shed new light on the link between breast cancer and nutrition. "Mothers whose daughters developed breast cancer were of similar height to the other mothers," Barker and Thornburg reported. "This suggests that they had similar nutrition through childhood. Our findings do not therefore indicate that good nutrition through childhood is linked to breast cancer in the next generation. But they do show that the pubertal growth spurt of girls, which reflects the level of nutrition, is strongly associated with the risk of breast cancer in their daughters."
The authors of the journal article besides Barker and Thornburg, who is director of the OHSU Heart Research Center and professor of cardiovascular medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine, were Clive Osmond, senior scientist at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Resource Center at the University of Southampton; Eero Kajantie and Tom J. Forsen, both of Finland's National Public Health Institute; and Johan G. Eriksson, who holds positions at both the National Public Health Institute as well as with the University of Helsinki's Department of Public Health. Barker and Osmond have collaborated with Eriksson and his Finnish colleagues for the past 12 years tracing some 20,000 men and women in the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study.
The American Journal of Human Biology is published by Wiley-Liss, Inc., a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The full text of the study, entitled "A possible link between the pubertal growth of girls and breast cancer in their daughters," is available in "Early View" at _URL_ The link to the abstract is: _URL_

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But ocean wallpapers are more than just visually pleasing; they also inspire us to explore and discover. By featuring hidden treasures such as shipwrecks, underwater caves, and mysterious sea creatures, these wallpapers ignite our curiosity and fuel our sense of adventure. They remind us that the ocean is a vast playground waiting to be explored, full of secrets and surprises that are just waiting to be discovered.
The deep blue hue of the ocean is known to have a calming and soothing effect on our minds. It evokes a sense of tranquility and peacefulness that can help us unwind and relax. By adorning our iPhones with ocean wallpapers, we can bask in the beauty of the deep blue and carry a piece of that serenity with us wherever we go. Whether we're stuck in traffic or waiting in line, a quick glance at our ocean wallpaper can transport us to a place of calmness and rejuvenation.
Moreover, ocean wallpapers allow us to indulge in the magic of the ocean. The vibrant colors, the playful dolphins, and the intricate coral reefs create a captivating and whimsical experience that can brighten even the dullest of days. They remind us of the wonders of nature and the joy that comes from exploring the unknown. With an ocean wallpaper on our iPhone, we can tap into our sense of wonder and rekindle our childlike curiosity.
In conclusion, ocean wallpapers for iPhones are a gateway to the majestic depths of the ocean. They bring beauty, tranquility, inspiration, and a touch of magic to our screens. By unveiling the hidden treasures of the ocean, these wallpapers remind us of the wonders that lie beneath the surface and encourage us to explore and discover. So, dive in, explore, and let the breathtaking ocean wallpapers mesmerize you with their splendor.
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rob (someone or something) of (something)
1. To steal something from someone or something. He installed a computer virus that robs the company of tiny amounts of money every single time a bank transaction is carried out. The mugger robbed me of my passport and all my cash, but thankfully he ran off before he got my phone.
2. To deprive something from someone or something. He really robbed me of my dignity with the way he chastised me in front of everyone. The trees' leaves have become so large and numerous that they are actually robbing the vegetation on the jungle floor of precious sunlight.
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rob someone of something
to deprive someone of something, not necessarily by theft. What you have done has robbed me of my dignity! If you do that, you will rob yourself of your future.
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1. To deprive someone of something by stealing it: The thief robbed us of our money. I was robbed of my car.
2. To deprive something or someone of something, to injurious effect: This parasite robs trees of sap. The malicious rumor robbed me of my professional standing.
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The boy had been born in Lockesley town--in the year 1160, stern records say--and was often called Lockesley, or Rob of Lockesley.


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Audora uses speaker independent recognition, so the picking system requires no individual profile training. This gives you the flexibility so badly needed in current warehouses with rapidly changing staff. Also during a shift change the voice picking clients can be easily exchanged amongst employees. Audora enables the operator to start immediately with voice picking. Think of all the time you are saving when your operators do not have to enter all voice commands before they can actually start voice picking.
Audora will listen to the operator's voice and analyze its characteristics. This analysis is then used to further improve the speech recognition during picking. For example, when your operator comes to work with a cold, or a husky voice, the system will automatically adapt to your operator. This is all done on-the-job.
The voice picking system uses a natural voice output to ensure a pleasant work atmosphere, especially when the operator uses the voice picking system for longer periods. The operator will hear a clear and friendly voice, so Audora feels as natural as having a conversation with a friend. This leads to a higher acceptance from your operators.
Audora is an open picking system. This means that no proprietary components are used and it is compatible with most standard mobile and wearable computers. When you already usewireless equipment, you do not necessarily need to invest in new equipment. The use of standard hardware available on the market, offers you additional price advantages and flexibility. Moreover, our solutions can be easily integrated into your current application with only a minimum amount of effort. Of course, the latest in wireless communication and security is used.
Our voice picking solution is right at the top of the latest developments. It uses the latest techniques in voice recognition technology, like Speaker Independent Recognition (SIR), speaker adaptation, phonetic transcriptions and support for user specific dialects.
Audora is available in various languages. It supports over 35 languages. The picking system also supports additional functionality for heavy accents. If necessary we can create user specific recognitions based on phonetic transcriptions.
A warehouse is often a noisy environment, e.g. loud conveyors, forklifts, etc. The new Audora software ensures that interference from the surroundings is reduced to an absolute minimum. There is no need for the operators to raise their voice, or repeat utterances thanks to Audora's excellent noise cancelling.

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Nucleic acid content in brain, liver, kidney and gonads of the freshwater fish Notopterus notopterus collected from different aquatic bodies were studied during pre-spawning phase of the reproductive cycle. The three different aquatic bodies selected were Saradgi nala, Bennithora River and Bheema River and their physiochemical parameters also studied. The present study of nucleic acid content in brain, liver, kidney and gonads of the fish Notopterus notopterus collected from aquatic body Bennithora River shows normal levels of the nucleic acid as compared to that of fish from other two aquatic bodies. The normal content of nucleic acid content of N.notoptuers in the aquatic body Bennithora may be due to favorable environmental condition for survival, growth, distribution and reproductive activity.
International Letters of Natural Sciences (Volume 28)
K. Ravikiran and R.S. Kulkarni, "Nucleic Acid Content in Tissue of the Fish N. notopterus Collected from Different Aquatic Bodies", International Letters of Natural Sciences, Vol. 28, pp. 17-26, 2015


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A major challenge in high-resolution x-ray free-electron laser-based coherent diffractive imaging is the development of aerosol injectors that can efficiently deliver particles to the peak intensity of the focused X-ray beam. Here, we consider the use of a simple convergent-orifice nozzle for producing tightly focused beams of particles. Through optical imaging we show that 0.5 μm particles can be focused to a full-width at half maximum diameter of 4.2 μm, and we demonstrate the use of such a nozzle for injecting viruses into a micro-focused soft-X-ray FEL beam.
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Describe Formation of Lenticel
On the bark of woody plants, there is some lens-shaped or egg-shaped pores present called lenticel.
i) For the convenience of gaseous exchange cork cambium, in different places, produces thin-walled round parenchymatous cells instead of cork tissue.
ii) Due to the formation of parenchymatous cells, cell division occurs rapidly in them. Thus, a pressure falls on epidermal tissue and the epidermal cells rupture and form lens-shaped pores
iii) The parenchymatos cells below the lens-shaped pores are known as complementary cells. These lens-shaped pores and the area of complementary cells lying below the lens-shaped pores are known as lenticels.
i) The main function of lenticel is to perform gaseous exchange between air and inner tissues.
ii) Often a little transpiration may occur through lenticel.
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Virginia Bill Would Eliminate Unconstitutional 'Free Speech Zones'
January 14, 2014
HB 258 reads:
The language of provisions (b)–(d) tracks the Supreme Court's decision defining "reasonable time, place, or manner restrictions" in Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, 468 US 288, 293 (1984). Lingamfelter's decision to match the Supreme Court verbatim demonstrates his commitment to protecting student and faculty expression to the full extent of the law—a commitment that all administrators and legislators should share.
This strong reminder of the limitations of time, place, and manner restrictions is much-needed in light of recent controversies like the one at Modesto Junior College, where administrators asserted that they could prevent student Robert Van Tuinen from handing out copies of the Constitution on campus because he had not given prior notice and was outside of the school's "free speech zone." Further, as blogger John T. Hill noted on Bearing Drift today, 11 of Virginia's public colleges and universities receive a "red light" or "yellow light" rating in FIRE's Spotlight database, meaning that they maintain speech codes that restrict protected speech or can be easily abused to punish protected speech. Some of these policies would be directly impacted by HB 258.
Virginia—with three "green light" institutions and a law protecting religious pluralism on campus—boasts a better record on students' First Amendment rights than many other states. If passed, this bill would allow the commonwealth to continue setting a positive example for the rest of the country.
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Heat Treatment of High-Alloy White Cast Irons
The high-alloyed white irons are primarily used for abrasion-resistant applications and are readily cast into the parts needed in machinery for crushing, grinding, and handling of abrasive materials. This article discusses three major groups of the high-alloy white cast irons: nickel-chromium white irons, chromium-molybdenum irons, and high-chromium white irons. Mechanical properties for three white irons representing each of these three general groups are presented as bar graphs. The article also describes the various heat treatments of a martensitic microstructure, including austenitization, quenching, tempering, annealing, and stress relieving.


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NEW! CPD Event: An introduction for teachers to Once upon a Time in Lithuania
Shipley Art Gallery
09 Jul 13
Keystage: KS2, KS3, KS4, Subject: History, Self/Other and Wider World, Art, Creativity, Literacy, Local History.
We will discuss ways of using the exhibition and the Gallery's permanent collections to explore themes of remembrance, memory, identity and sense of place, as well as the consequences of prejudice and loss.


Auxiliary constructions that yield spaces that are not CW complexes must be used on occasion. One basic result is that the representable functors on the homotopy category have a simple characterisation (the Brown representability theorem).
 - CW complexes are locally contractible.
 - CW complexes satisfy the Whitehead theorem: a map between CW complexes is a homotopy-equivalence if and only if it induces an isomorphism on all homotopy groups.
 - The product of two CW complexes can be made into a CW complex. Specifically, if X and Y are CW complexes, then one can form a CW complex X×Y in which each cell is a product of a cell in X and a cell in Y, endowed with the weak topology. The underlying set of X×Y is then the Cartesian product of X and Y, as expected. In addition, the weak topology on this set often agrees with the more familiar product topology on X×Y, for example if either X or Y is finite. However, the weak topology can be finer than the product topology if neither X nor Y is locally compact. In this unfavorable case, the product X×Y in the product topology is not a CW complex. On the other hand, the product of X and Y in the category of compactly generated spaces agrees with the weak topology and therefore defines a CW complex.
 - Let X and Y be CW complexes. Then the function spaces Hom(X,Y) (with the compact-open topology) are not CW complexes in general. If X is finite then Hom(X,Y) is homotopy equivalent to a CW complex by a theorem of John Milnor (1959).[6] Note that X and Y are compactly generated Hausdorff spaces, so Hom(X,Y) is often taken with the compactly generated variant of the compact-open topology; the above statements remain true.[7]
 - A covering space of a CW complex is also a CW complex.
 - CW complexes are paracompact. Finite CW complexes are compact. A compact subspace of a CW complex is always contained in a finite subcomplex.[8][9]
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 1. ^ Davis, James F.; Kirk, Paul (2001). Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society.
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 4. ^ Turaev, V. G. (1994), "Quantum invariants of knots and 3-manifolds", De Gruyter Studies in Mathematics (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co.) 18
 5. ^ For example, the opinion "The class of CW complexes (or the class of spaces of the same homotopy type as a CW complex) is the most suitable class of topological spaces in relation to homotopy theory" appears in Baladze, D.O. (2001), "CW-complex", in Hazewinkel, Michiel, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
 6. ^ Milnor, John, "On spaces having the homotopy type of a CW-complex" Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 90 (1959), 272–280.
 7. ^ "Compactly Generated Spaces" (PDF).
 8. ^ Hatcher, Allen, Algebraic topology, Cambridge University Press (2002). ISBN 0-521-79540-0. A free electronic version is available on the author's homepage
 9. ^ Hatcher, Allen, Vector bundles and K-theory, preliminary version available on the authors homepage
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RALEIGH — Someone in North Carolina has tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19), according to state officials. The test, conducted by North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health, is presumptively positive and will be confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab. The patient is doing well and is in isolation at home.
"I know that people are worried about this virus, and I want to assure North Carolinians our state is prepared," said Gov. Roy Cooper during a March 3 press conference announcing the news. "Our task force and state agencies are working closely with local health departments, health care providers and others to quickly identify and respond to cases that might occur."
The person, from Wake County, traveled to the state of Washington and was exposed at a long-term care facility where there is currently a coronavirus outbreak. Local health department officials are identifying close contacts to monitor symptoms and contain the spread.
While awaiting confirmation of results from the CDC, the state Department of Health and Human Services announced they will treat presumptive cases as positive and follow CDC guidelines to protect public health and limit the spread of infection.
The governor's office says the announcement represents an isolated case, and coronavirus is currently not widespread in North Carolina. Because the virus is most commonly spread through respiratory droplets, public health officials say North Carolinians should take the same measures that health care providers recommend annually to prevent the spread of the flu and other viruses, including washing your hands, avoiding touching your face, and covering coughs and sneezes.
At the briefing, Cooper said the state should expect to see more cases of the coronavirus in the coming days and weeks.
Sen. Thom Tillis commented as well, saying, "The health and well-being of North Carolinians is my top priority, and I'm working to make sure Congress comes together on a bipartisan basis to provide billions of dollars in federal assistance to combat the coronavirus and protect North Carolinians. I'm in close communication with Vice President Pence and other federal leaders, and I will do everything I can to continue supporting our state's medical institutions, universities, and health care systems, which are some of the best in the world and have a proven track record in treating infectious diseases."


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Blunt Name Meaning
nickname for someone with fair hair or a light complexion, from Anglo-Norman French blunt 'blond' (Old French blund, blond, of Germanic origin). nickname for a stupid person, from Middle English blunt, blont 'dull', 'stupid' (probably from Old English blinnan 'to stop', or Old Norse blundr 'sleep').
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press


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Florida's Slavery Curriculum: Whitewashing History or Highlighting Resilience?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Left-rated voices and Vice President Kamala Harris are criticizing a newly approved Florida school curriculum that includes instruction stating that enslaved people in America "developed skills" that "could be applied for their personal benefit."
Harris: Criticizing the curriculum, Harris stated, "How is it that anyone could suggest that amidst these atrocities [of slavery], there was any benefit to being subjected to this level of dehumanization?" Dr. William Allen, who worked on the curriculum, accused Harris of lying about the curriculum, responding, "What this curriculum is about is having people who lived the experience, who lived the history tell their stories."
"Blatant Distortion": A writer in MSNBC (Left bias) called the curriculum a "blatant distortion of the past" and tied it to a larger effort to "erase the perspectives of Black people in the classroom — and whitewash American history." The piece argues, "we must teach the full, unadulterated truth of the horrors of slavery and the violence of white supremacy, even if it makes some Americans feel uncomfortable."
"Dishonest Smear": The National Review (Right bias) Editorial Board called criticism of the curriculum a "dishonest smear," stating the learning materials include "extensive instruction on the history and economics of the development of slavery, as well as abolitionism, slave revolts, and the Underground Railroad." The piece argues, "Telling black American history truthfully should impart a sense that, while slavery was evil and immoral, period, slaves nonetheless made choices for the benefit of themselves and their families."
Featured Coverage of this Story
From the RightFlorida's History Curriculum Is Better Than the Lies about It
When the government's schools teach the nation's history, politics is unavoidable. In a democracy, it is healthy to have such debates openly. What is not helpful is lying to the public about what is taught in schools. That is what Vice President Kamala Harris and others have been doing about Florida's new curriculum standards for teaching African-American history, including the history of American slavery.
The new standards were approved by the Florida Department of Education last week as part of the state's effort to free itself from the dictates of the College...
From the CenterFlorida Slavery Curriculum Co-Author: This Is About Having People Who Lived The Experience Tell Their Stories
Dr. William Allen, one of the co-authors of Florida's slavery curriculum, fact-checks Vice President Kamala Harris' claims about what students will learn on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'
WILLIAM ALLEN: Permit me not to give you Kamala Harris's motives, they are invisible. We can all have suspicions that there is a dishonest purpose afoot. But what's more important than that dishonest purpose is the truth. This curriculum is devoted to telling the truth, whereas Kamala Harris had retold a lie. It may only have been a falsehood the first time she stated...
From the LeftFlorida pushes its students to think more positively about slavery
The Florida Board of Education approved Wednesday a new set of standards for the teaching of African American history, one that promotes a blatant distortion of the past and is the latest in the state's ongoing effort to gloss over the brutal facts of history to accommodate the feelings of white people desperate to remain in denial.
For example, according to the state's new guidelines, instructors will be expected to teach students that enslaved Black people "developed skills" that "could be applied for their personal benefit." Instructors are also expected...


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Background Escherichia coli asparaginase is an enzyme that depletes serum levels of asparagine. It is used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and related forms of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Polyethylene glycosylated–asparaginase (pegaspargase), obtained by covalently attaching polyethylene glycol to the native enzyme, has been shown to sustain similar reductions in serum asparagine concentrations compared with the native enzyme. In addition, pegaspargase has a decreased immunogenicity and a prolonged half-life. The summary of product characteristics (Oncaspar) indicates that the intravascular infusion should be given over a period of 1–2 h but nothing is known on the long term stability and activity of the enzyme after dilution.
Purpose Evaluation of the biological activity of pegaspargase diluted to 16 UI/mL in NaCl 0.9% and stored up to 48 h at 4°C and at room temperature. A study of drug degradation was also carried out.
Material and methods Samples of pegaspargase solution diluted in NaCl 0.9% were stored refrigerated at 4°C and at room temperature and protected from light. The biological activity of the two solutions was determined by measuring hydrolysis of L-asparagine, and the ammonia released by the enzyme was quantified with Nessler's reagent. The absence of degradation products or aggregates in the two solutions was verified using size exclusion fast protein liquid chromatography (SEC-FPLC) under the following condition: Superdex 200 10/300 column; Tris buffer pH=8.6; 0.5 mL/min flow rate; 280 nm UV detection; 100 µL injection volume.
Results In the samples stored both at 4°C and at room temperature, enzymatic activity was preserved over a period of 48 h. No degradation or aggregation was observed in these samples over the same period.
Conclusion The variation in enzymatic activity of the diluted pegaspargase solutions compared with the fresh solution was less than 5% after 48 h, with no significant differences between storage at 4°C or at room temperature. Preservation of the enzymatic activity and the stability of the solutions evaluated will allow us to store pegaspargase for up to 48 h with costs savings and an improvement in patient compliance. A microbiological study is in progress to validate the aseptic manufacturing process in order to guarantee the sterility of the stored solutions.
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The INdian DIabetes COnsortium (INDICO) is an initiative to build a resource for genetic, epigenetic and clinical studies of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in socioeconomically transiting Indians. The consortium aims to follow selected communities which are undergoing rapid urbanization over a period of years to create a knowledge base for the better understanding of the gene-environment interaction in T2D. These resources can eventually be of value to not just the diabetes research community but would be able to contribute towards an improved understanding, diagnosis and prevention of numerous complex human disorders.
Electronic supplementary material: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s11568-_PHONE_-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Keywords: Biorepository; Consortium; INDICO; Type 2 diabetes.


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First International Workshop on Social Innovation and Social Media (SISoM 2011)
Social innovation refers to new strategies, concepts, ideas and organizations that meet social needs of all kinds – from working conditions and education to community development and health – and that extend and strengthen civil society. [Wikipedia]
Objectives: The workshop seeks to integrate views at the intersection of several fields: computer and computational social science, policy design, social innovation, and technology development. The formal objective of the workshop is the collaborative drafting of a Manifesto on Social Media for Social Innovation, summarizing the challenges and proposals discussed at the workshop.
The workshop will explore two dimensions along which research might help social innovation to take place at a larger scale:
- The conceptual and computational development of new frameworks for public policy modeling and implementation to help public authorities to harness the full potential of Social Media and social innovation;
- The design of new Social Media tools offering better support to social innovators and policy designers.
Overview: There is an obvious interest in using Social Media to achieve greater proximity between administrations and citizens. Nevertheless, in most cases public policies are still developed following a top-down approach, with policy frameworks mainly determined by existing policy and Social Media tools. At the same time, the currently most available Social Media tools are quite limited in their support to the kind of interactions involved in sustained large-scale deliberations and cooperation agreements.
Social innovations, encompassing new forms of private-public partnership, are increasingly seen as necessary to better address a number of pressing social problems. The idea behind it is that new forms of engagement of citizens and private organizations can bring about substantial improvements of productivity in the "social sector" (public services plus charity).
Empirical research has allowed to identify some basic design principles and rules behind successful and sustained bottom-up collaborative arrangements, of which communication is one key ingredient. Therefore, it could be expected that properly applying existing and new Social Media tools to those communication procedures will be a means of achieving the improvements on speed and scale required to extend the reach of social innovation. At the same time, research in the design and modeling of policies taking full account of this potential will also be required.
Research Topics: Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to the following:
- Design of innovative tools for social participation and collaboration;
- Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of social participation;
- Challenges and opportunities regarding the use of Social Media to address public policy problems;
- Case studies of successful applications of Social Media to achieve social innovation (in particular, combined with large-scale Social Media data analysis);
- Policy areas best suited to apply Social Media as an instrument for social innovation (e.g. for inclusive audience: older people or developing countries).
Chairs: Ricard Ruiz de Querol (Barcelona Media, Spain), Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy), Imma Tubella i Casadevall (UOC, Spain), Mario Diani (UPF, Spain)
Local Organization: Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Barcelona Media, Spain), Karolin Kappler (Barcelona Media, Spain), David Laniado (Barcelona Media, Spain), Yana Volkovich (Barcelona Media, Spain)
Important Dates: March 22, 2011: Paper Submission / July 21, 2011: Workshop
Submission: We invite original anonymized position papers up to 4 pages long. Papers should focus more on highlighting agenda issues than on research results. Submissions must be in English, must be formatted according to the AAAI template; and must be made in PDF through EasyChair.
At least one of the authors of a submitted paper would be required to review other submissions, and at least one of the authors of an accepted paper would be required to attend the workshop. For further details on the submission process and the writing of the Manifesto, please check the Workshop's homepage.


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ISRO Scientists Develop World'S Lightest Material Silica Aerogel [ Current News (Concise) ]
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have developed world's lightest synthetic material named 'silica aerogel' or 'blue air'. ISRO's scientist from Thiruvananthapuram developed it. Silica Aerogel is the lightest artificial material which was never before made.
Properties of Silica Aerogel:
- Light in weight
- It can be carefully placed on a flower head.
- Excellent thermal resistance.
- Acts as a good insulator.
- The surrounding substance of aerogel is made up of 99 % air.
- At its present development, it is still breakable and very hard.
Uses or applications of Silica Aerogel:
- It can be used both in space and on Earth, so used to protect rocket engines as.
- Used as filler in soldiers' uniforms to save lives of soldiers at the Siachen glacier.
- It can be also used to develop light weight clothing.
- It can be used as paint on windows to keep buildings cool or warm.
- It will be used on moon rover in Chandryaan-2 by ISRO's mission of India.
- ISRO stands for Indian Space Research Organization.
- It is space agency of Indian Government and it's headquarter is at Bangalore, India.
- It was formed in 1969 with name Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR).
- First satellite named 'Aryabhata' was built by ISRO and launched by Soviet Union in 1975.
- Rohini was the first satellite which was placed in orbit by SLV-3 in 1980.
- Published/Last Modified on: April 25, 2016


Emancipation Statue Portraying Bussa With His Hands Unshackled, Barbados Pocket Guide
Emancipation Statue
Not much is known of Bussa as slave owners were never really concerned about keeping detailed records about the lives of their slaves who essentially were considered their property. We do know however, that Bussa was born a free man in Africa but captured and brought to Barbados to work as a slave on Bayleys Plantation in St Philip.
While on the plantation Bussa worked as a domestic slave and a ranger. This was considered a privileged position as it meant he didn't have to endure the hardships that the other slaves endured. Slaves who held the position Bussa held often time felt they were better than field slaves and would even go as far as exposing any plans field slaves had so as to gain favour with their masters. Bussa's position allowed him greater freedom of movement and therefore allowed him to plan, coordinate and execute the rebellion.
In 1985, the Emancipation Statue (commonly referred to by all Barbadians as Bussa Statue) located at the St. Barnabas Roundabout, was unveiled to honor the 150th anniversary of emancipation and to symbolize the broken chains of slavery. The bronze statue was created by one of Barbados' most revered sculptors, Karl Broodhagen, who died at the age of 93 in 2002.
Bussa was officially declared a National Hero in 1998. "Emancipation Day" is a national holiday in Barbados, is celebrated to commemorate the emancipation of slaves who were still in captivity on plantations at the time.
Emancipation was officially granted in 1834. This was abolished four years later but still didn't improve the slaves as they became tied to the plantations as tenants without rights.
The Bussa Rebellion
The "Bussa Rebellion" got on the way on Sunday April 14th, 1816 after final preparations were made on the night of Good Friday April 12th of that same year. The rebellion began at Bayley's Plantation but strategic planning was undertaken at numerous sugar estates throughout the island. Preparation for the rebellion began soon after the House of Assembly discussed and rejected the Imperial Registry Bill in November 1815. By February 1816, the decision had been taken that the revolt should take place in April, at Easter. Bussa led approximately 400 slaves into battle at Bayley's on Tuesday, 16 April into what was considered Barbados' longest slave revolt.
The rebellion proved to be quite an element of surprise for the white plantation owners who were caught off guard. Slaves fought courageously against the troops of the First West India regiment and it was reported that the rebellion spread from plantation to plantation until about half of the island was caught up in the revolt. It took four days for the authorities to regain control.
It was this very battle that Bussa and his accomplice Washington Franklin so strategically pioneered that Bussa was killed in. His troops continued the fight until they were defeated by superior firepower. Despite the failure of the rebellion, its impact was quite significant to the future of Barbados.
Emancipation Day
Every year on August 1st, a march takes place through the streets towards the Emancipation statue, located on the ABC Highway. This march is in recognition of the abolition of slavery and the recognition of Bussa's heavy contribution towards leading the Slave Revolt.
The march culminates with a ceremony which is held on location with performances, parades, educational displays and speeches. Bussa's statue is viewed by millions annually.
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A root chicory MADS box sequence and the Arabidopsis flowering repressor FLC share common features that suggest conserved function in vernalization and de-vernalization responses
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Root chicory (Cichorium intybus var. sativum) is a biennial crop, but is harvested to obtain root inulin at the end of the first growing season before flowering. However, cold temperatures may vernalize seeds or plantlets, leading to incidental early flowering, and hence understanding the molecular basis of vernalization is important. A MADS box sequence was isolated by RT-PCR and named FLC-LIKE1 (CiFL1) because of its phylogenetic positioning within the same clade as the floral repressor Arabidopsis FLOWERING LOCUS C (AtFLC). Moreover, over-expression of CiFL1 in Arabidopsis caused late flowering and prevented up-regulation of the AtFLC target FLOWERING LOCUS T by photoperiod, suggesting functional conservation between root chicory and Arabidopsis. Like AtFLC in Arabidopsis, CiFL1 was repressed during vernalization of seeds or plantlets of chicory, but repression of CiFL1 was unstable when the post-vernalization temperature was favorable to flowering and when it de-vernalized the plants. This instability of CiFL1 repression may be linked to the bienniality of root chicory compared with the annual lifecycle of Arabidopsis. However, re-activation of AtFLC was also observed in Arabidopsis when a high temperature treatment was used straight after seed vernalization, eliminating the promotive effect of cold on flowering. Cold-induced down-regulation of a MADS box floral repressor and its re-activation by high temperature thus appear to be conserved features of the vernalization and de-vernalization responses in distant species.
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20) Two recent cases, both dealing with the common hobby loss
from horse-related activities, illustrate the court's methods for assessing the taxpayer's QuickBooks records and how the use to which those records are put can produce opposite results.
If the activity is not engaged in for profit, it is subject to the hobby loss
rules in Sec.
Not surprisingly, the primary use of the hobby loss
Conversely, the hobby loss
rules act to prevent the expensing of what otherwise would be personal expenses disguised as "valid" business expenses, thereby causing significant losses of revenue to the Treasury.
The test instrument was based on the facts found in a 1988 Tax Court case (Kimbrough, 55 TCM 730) focusing on the hobby loss
Aggregating activities to avoid the hobby loss
Equinomics 101 instructs horse owners how to minimalize hobby loss
The Tax Court disallowed an IRS auditor's deductions for breeding greyhounds as a hobby loss
The court held that they were an integrated activity, given their organizational and economic interrelationships, and that the horse activity was therefore not a hobby loss
unearned income, hobby loss
rules, preferential rates for capital gains, and the antiquated and punitive $3,000a-year capital loss limitation.
Proper grouping may help a taxpayer avoid the application of the hobby loss
In one recent case, however, the Tax Court accepted that two seemingly dissimilar undertakings could be treated as a single activity for purposes of the section 183 hobby loss


Communication Assistance when Making a Formal Complaint
An individual with a communication disability may request communication assistance to make a complaint to the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, the National Judicial Council, Human Rights Tribunal, Regulatory Healthcare bodies and other groups.
In these situations, a person with a communication disability may need assistance from an individual who is familiar with how they communicate, such as a family member, friend, or a support worker.
In situations where a familiar person is not available or appropriate, a qualified professional with expertise in communication may be required to assist. This can be a Speech-Language Pathologist, or an Augmentative Communication Clinician. The person requiring this assistance can request that the investigating organization pay for these services as an accessibility accommodation.
Documenting a Complaint:
Communication support may be required to assist the person to:
 - Formulate their complaint
 - Write and submit their complaint
Interview/ Hearing:
If the complaint proceeds to an interview or a hearing, and depending on the nature of the complaint, the investigating organization or the complainant may want to request a Communication Intermediary to provide independent, neutral communication assistance.
A Communication Intermediary is a Speech-Language Pathologist who has attended trainings by CDAC on how to work within a justice and legal setting.


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Random ferns is a very simple yet powerful classification method originally introduced for specific computer vision tasks. In this paper, I show that this algorithm may be considered as a constrained decision tree ensemble and use this interpretation to introduce a series of modifications which enable the use of random ferns in general machine learning problems. Moreover, I extend the method with an internal error approximation and an attribute importance measure based on corresponding features of the random forest algorithm. I also present the R package rFerns containing an efficient implementation of this modified version of random ferns.


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"What holds up the sky holds each one of us, too—" says the poem "Indwelling," by Scott Edward Anderson. Then we go on to impact the sky, "causing little inversions."
A poem about searching for sea glass and celebrating a love that lasts.
Climate breakdown has implications at every level of life. This poem chronicles the effects on polar bears, through the lens of one sorrowful discovery.


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Apr 15, 2021 · A Macro-Environmental Analysis of the Wine Industry in Turkey. A factor that influence a company's or product's development but that is outside of the company's control is known as macro environment.In this paper, all dimensions that affect that wine industry in Turkey are investigated.
The environmental impact of a Sardinian wine by partial Jun 01, 2013 · The analysis is limited to a single wine, a typical Sardinia white wine Vermentino di SardegnaLa Cala mark which is exported around the world, which is sold to the consumer for around 7.00 /bottle. The Goal of the study is to build up the environmental profile of this wine, in order to identify the hot spots of the system. 4.1.
wine production, measurement is critical, knowing what to measure and when, and also having the skill and experience to appropriately use the information to make fine adjustments to the chemical composition of the grape must, which will ultimately impact on the quality of the finished wine. Continuous analysis needs to be made at all stages


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ʿAqra is a diocese of the Chaldean Church. The diocese was founded in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Before the fourteenth century the ʿAqra or Aqrah region was part of the diocese of Marga, one of the suffragan dioceses in the metropolitan province of Adiabene. This diocese, frequently mentioned in Thomas of Marga's Book of Governors, included the districts of Sapsapa (the Navkur plain south of ʿAqra, on the east bank of the Khazir river), Talana and Nahla d'Malka (two valleys around the upper course of the Khazir river), Beth Rustaqa (the Gomel valley) and probably also several villages in the Zibar district. The diocese is first mentioned in the eighth century (the region was probably in the diocese of Beth Nuhadra previously), and several of its bishops are mentioned between the eighth century and the first half of the thirteenth century. By the second half of the thirteenth century the names of two villages in the Gomel valley, Tella and Barbelli (Billan), were also included in the title of the diocese. Two bishops of Tella and Barbelli are known from the second half of the thirteenth century and a third, Ishoʿyahb, was present at the synod of Timothy II in 1318. The diocese is not mentioned thereafter, and no other bishops are known from the ʿAqra region until the nineteenth century.
The Chaldean diocese of Aqra
As far as is known, neither the Mosul nor the Qudshanis patriarchate had a bishop for the ʿAqra region until the nineteenth century. The colophons of the surviving manuscripts from the ʿAqra region invariably mention the Mosul patriarchs of the Eliya line, and there is no evidence that the Qudshanis patriarchs took any interest in the region before the 1830s. Most of the villages in the ʿAqra region were still traditionalist at the beginning of the nineteenth century (though the Zibar villages of Arena and Barzane had Catholic communities before the end of the eighteenth century), and determined efforts by the Chaldean church to convert them to Catholicism in the 1830s shook their traditional loyalty, enabling the Qudshanis patriarchate to exercise some influence in the region for a short period.
The ʿAqra region had a number of Catholic communities by the end of the eighteenth century, which were included in the Chaldean diocese of ʿAmadiya. Two unsuccessful attempts were made by the patriarch Yohannan VIII Hormizd to give the region its own Chaldean bishop in the 1830s. In 1834, in an attempt to preserve the patriarchal succession in his own family, he sent his nephew Eliya Sefaro to Urmi, where he was consecrated bishop of ʿAqra by the Qudshanis patriarch Shemʿon XVII Abraham. Shortly afterwards Eliya made a Catholic profession of faith and 'was received into the bosom of the Chaldean church'. His consecration was not recognised by the Vatican, and he was suspended. In 1835 he was absolved and sent to Tel Isqof as a priest. The incident was notorious, and Badger's contemporary account is to be preferred to an alternative tradition preserved by Tfinkdji, who stated that Eliya was consecrated at Qudshanis in 1829, and that the patriarch's motive was to harass his old enemy, the metropolitan of ʿAmadiya Joseph Audo.
Soon afterwards Yohnnan VIII Hormizd consecrated a metropolitan named Abraham for the ʿAqra region, who went over to the Qudshanis patriarch Shemʿon XVII Abraham in 1847. In 1850 he was residing in the monastery of Mar ʿAbdishoʿ near Nerem, and was in charge of a diocese of fifteen villages in the ʿAqra region. He is not mentioned again, and as ʿAqra was not included in the dioceses of the Qudshanis patriarchate in 1877 by Cutts, it seems likely that the region had by then returned to its traditional allegiance. In 1852 Eliya Sefaro was again consecrated for ʿAqra, by the patriarch Joseph VI Audo, and a stable Chaldean diocese in the region was finally established. According to a contemporary note in a manuscript from the ʿAqra region, Eliya Sefaro died in Herpa two years after his consecration, on 22 September 1854, and was buried in the village. This date is probably to be preferred to Tfkinkdji's statement (followed by Fiey) that he died in 1863.
Eliya Sefaro was succeeded by Yohannan Eliya Mellus, who was consecrated on 5 June 1864 by Joseph VI Audo. In 1874 Mellus was sent to India during the Malabar schism, and did not return to Kurdistan until 1882. He remained nominally bishop of ʿAqra during this period, but was under suspension until 1889, and for several years after his return lived in Mosul. In 1889 he made his submission to pope Leo XIII, and in 1890 was transferred to the diocese of Mardin by the patriarch Eliya XII ʿAbulyonan. He was succeeded as bishop of ʿAqra by Yaʿqob Yohannan Sahhar, patriarchal vicar of Basra since 1887, who was consecrated for ʿAqra on 25 March 1893.
At the synod of Alqosh in 1894 the newly-elected patriarch ʿAbdishoʿ V Khayyat asked to retain Eliya Joseph Khayyat, bishop-designate of ʿAmadiya, as his patriarchal vicar, and the dioceses of ʿAmadiya and ʿAqra were temporarily united under Yaʿqob Yohannan Sahhar, who was responsible for the united diocese from 23 April 1895 until his death in 1909.
In 1910 the two dioceses were again divided, and between 1910 and 1945 the diocese of ʿAqra was administered by a patriarchal vicar. In 1945 the future patriarch Paul Cheiko was appointed bishop of ʿAqra. In 1957 he was replaced by Andrew Sana, who died in 1977. In 1980 the diocese was placed under the care of ʿAbdalahad Rabban, apostolic administrator of Suleimaniya.
ʿAbdalahad Rabban died on 25 July 1999. The diocese of ʿAqra has remained vacant since his death, and the few remaining Chaldeans in the ʿAqra district are now under the care of an apostolic administrator, Father Youhanna Issa.
Population statistics
In 1850 the traditionalist diocese of ʿAqra included eleven villages in the ʿAqra region and four villages in the Gomel valley, and contained 249 families, 9 priests and 13 churches (Badger). The large villages of Khardes and Herpa and several smaller villages were not included in Badger's list, probably because the majority of their inhabitants were Catholics.
The Chaldean diocese of ʿAqra had a population of 2,718 Chaldeans, with 17 priests, in 1867 (Martin); 1,000 Chaldeans, with 8 priests and 12 churches, in 1896 (Chabot); and 2,390 Chaldeans, with 16 priests and 10 churches, in 1913 (Tfinkdji). All of the villages listed in the traditionalist diocese in 1850 (apart from the Zibar villages of Erdil and Beth Kola) had Catholic communities in 1913, but the process of conversion was far from complete. Eleven villages in the diocese of ʿAqra in 1896, and the last nine villages listed by Tfinkdji in 1913, were'semi-Nestorian'. A recently-published book by Youel Baaba has supplied the Syriac names of the villages in the diocese of ʿAqra.
Chaldean communities in the diocese of ʿAqra, 1913
|Name of Village||Name in Syriac||Number of Believers||Number of Priests||Number of Churches||Name of Village||Name in Syriac||Number of Believers||Number of Priests||Number of Churches|
- Badger, Nestorians, i. 167–8
- Baaba, The Assyrian Homeland, 69 (Syriac section)
- Baaba, Youel A., The Assyrian Homeland before World War I (Alamo, California, 2009


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Traffic Signal Warrants
Traffic signals are valuable devices for the control of vehicle and pedestrian traffic. However, because they assign the right-of-way to the various traffic movements, signals exert a profound influence on traffic flow. Properly located and operated control signals may provide for the orderly movement of traffic, increase the traffic-handling capacity of an intersection, and reduce the frequency of certain types of accidents. After extensive study and analysis, the Federal Highway Administration developed the 8 traffic signal warrants contained within the Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).
Eight Warrants from the Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
These 8 warrants define minimum conditions under which signal installations may be justified. The Manual suggests that traffic control signals should not be installed unless one or more of the signal warrants are met. However, the satisfaction of a warrant or warrants is not in itself justification for a signal. Every situation is unique and warrant guidelines must be supplemented by the effects of specific site conditions and the application of good engineering judgment. Installation of a traffic signal should improve the overall safety and/or operation of an intersection and should be considered only when deemed necessary by careful traffic analysis and after less restrictive solutions have been attempted.
Warrant 1 - Eight-hour vehicular volume - at a location where a large volume of intersecting traffic exist for each of any 8 hours of an average day, is the principal reason to consider installing a traffic control signal.
Warrant 2 - Four-hour vehicular volume - at a location where traffic conditions are such that for a minimum of 1 hour of an average day, the minor street suffers undue delay when entering a major street.
Warrant 3 - Peak hour vehicular volume - at a location where traffic conditions are such that for a minimum of 1 hour of an average day, the minor street traffic suffers undue delay when entering or crossing the major street.
Warrant 4 - Pedestrian volume - at a location where the traffic volume on a major street is so heavy that pedestrians experience excessive delay in crossing the major street.
Warrant 5 - School crossing - at a location where school children cross the major street, is the principal reason to consider installing a traffic control signal.
Warrant 6 - Coordinated signal system - progressive movement in a coordinated signal system sometimes necessitates installing traffic control signals at intersections where they would not otherwise be needed in order to maintain proper platooning of vehicles.
Warrant 7 - Crash experience - at location where the severity and frequency of crashes are the principal reasons to consider installing a traffic signal.
Warrant 8 - Roadway network - at location where it might be justified to encourage concentration and organization of traffic flow on a roadway network.
Listed below are general characteristics of traffic signals:
Traffic control signals that are properly located, operated and maintained may have one or more of the following advantages:
- Signals may provide for the orderly movement of traffic by assigning right-of-way to conflicting movements of traffic.
- Signals may increase the traffic-handling capacity of an intersection by permitting conflicting streams of traffic to share the same intersection.
- Signals may reduce the frequency of certain types of accidents, especially right-angle (broadside) collisions.
- Signals may provide for continuous movement and progression of traffic through coordination with surrounding traffic signals.
- Signals may interrupt heavy traffic to allow both vehicular and pedestrian traffic to cross.
Traffic control signals may have one or more of the following disadvantages:
- Signals may increase delay - both overall intersection delay and/or specific movement delay.
- Signals may encourage the use of alternate and/or less adequate routes by drivers wishing to avoid the signal.
- Signals may encourage increased volumes of traffic on the minor street by drivers wishing to use the signal.
- Signals may encourage disobedience and disregard of traffic control devices. (During periods of lesser volume on the main street, drivers on the minor street may have sufficient gaps to cross and/or enter traffic, but be prohibited from doing so by the signal.)
- Signals may cause an increase in the frequency of certain types of accidents, especially rear-end collisions.


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- Journal of analytical and applied pyrolysis 2015 v.116 pp. 263-271
- Raman spectroscopy; aromatic compounds; aromatization; cellulose; dehydrogenation; glycosidic linkages; hydrogen bonding; moieties; olefin; oligosaccharides; pyrolysis; temperature
- ... The formation and evolution of chemical structure of char during cellulose (ash-free) pyrolysis were investigated using two-dimensional infrared correlation spectroscopy combined with Raman spectroscopy. The initial temperature at which water evolved chemically from cellulose pyrolysis is around 200°C. The cleavage of intra- and inter-molecular hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) and the subsequent dehydrati ...


Leave no Trace: Learning to Reset for Safe and Autonomous Reinforcement LearningDownload PDF
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Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning algorithms can learn complex behavioral skills, but real-world application of these methods requires a considerable amount of experience to be collected by the agent. In practical settings, such as robotics, this involves repeatedly attempting a task, resetting the environment between each attempt. However, not all tasks are easily or automatically reversible. In practice, this learning process requires considerable human intervention. In this work, we propose an autonomous method for safe and efficient reinforcement learning that simultaneously learns a forward and backward policy, with the backward policy resetting the environment for a subsequent attempt. By learning a value function for the backward policy, we can automatically determine when the forward policy is about to enter a non-reversible state, providing for uncertainty-aware safety aborts. Our experiments illustrate that proper use of the backward policy can greatly reduce the number of manual resets required to learn a task and can reduce the number of unsafe actions that lead to non-reversible states.
TL;DR: We propose an autonomous method for safe and efficient reinforcement learning that simultaneously learns a forward and backward policy, with the backward policy resetting the environment for a subsequent attempt.
Keywords: manual reset, continual learning, reinforcement learning, safety
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Map a Folder to a Drive Letter for Quick and Easy Access
With the size of hard drives these days reaching 3 or 4 Terabytes, it becomes very important that while organizing your data on any large drives, the directory structure is well laid out and easy for you to navigate. This can lead to its own problems though of folders you might use quite often being buried several layers down and it's frustrating searching through loads of sub folders to get access to them.
As you probably know, Windows has 26 drive letters available to the system from A – Z, but most of the time a lot of computers use maybe 4 or 5 of these at the most. Windows has a built in option that allows you to quickly map a network folder to a drive letter for easy access in just a few clicks, but it doesn't have a similar option to map a local folder to a drive letter in the same quick and easy way.
The good news is the function is there but has been rather hidden away in the form of a DOS command. Windows will allow you to define any drive letter that is not currently in use to represent a physical drive as a virtual drive. Here's how to map local directories on your system to drive letter.
Using a DOS Command
There is a very old DOS command SUBST, which is short for substitute that allows you to substitute a folder on your computer for a currently unused drive letter. SUBST has surprisingly been available since MS-DOS 3.1 and it's even still present and works the same way in the latest versions of Windows including Windows 8.
Using the tool is actually very easy. Let's say for example you frequently need to access a folder called Data in the path C:\apps\files\raymond\cc\blog\ and you want to map it to the X: drive letter which is free. The command to use in Command Prompt is SUBST [drive] [folder].
SUBST X: C:\apps\files\raymond\cc\blog\data
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If you want to find out what drive letters are currently assigned to folders, just type SUBST on a line by itself. If you want to remove the association just enter the drive letter to remove and the /D command:
SUBST X: /D
Alternatively restarting your computer will remove the association, which in itself is a drawback of using the SUBST tool because it can't by itself make the substitute command permanent across reboots. There are however, ways to get around this and keep the drive and folder associated after a reboot. The first is to create a small batch file with the SUBST command and place it in your start folder.
Another way is to use a small batch file created for the purpose of making the virtual drive persistent across reboots. psubst also has an advantage of making the assignment on reboot earlier than when the Run or RunOnce entries are processed which means if the system needs it to run services etc, the letter is already available and assigned.
Because it uses the Windows SUBST command, usage is the same apart from the addition of another argument. Appending /P to the command line will make it persistent and will remain after a reboot.
PSUBST X: C:\apps\files\raymond\cc\blog\data /P
PSUBST [drive] /D /P will remove the drive from the registry and PSUBST /P will show a list of assigned persistent drive letters. You must reboot for the changes to take effect and make sure to run the psubst batch file as Administrator. To make the virtual drive available now, you need to also run the same command again but without the /P argument.
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Assign a Drive Letter Using a GUI Interface
If you're not a lover of using the Command Prompt, here's an even easier method and it's all pretty much point and click. Just download the free, small and portable Virtual Subst utility that allows you to associate the most accessed directories with virtual drives all from the comfort of a nice user interface.
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Just select the drive letter you want it to map from the drop down, then click the magnifying glass icon on the right to browse for the folder that you want to map and then click the plus icon. The list of what is associated will show in the main area, and to delete the drive letter simply click on an entry and press the red X.
Something we mentioned above is the SUBST command cannot by itself keep the drive letter associated after a reboot, Visual Subst can help with that and ticking the box in the window will run the program on boot and reassign the drive letters that have been saved into the program. To make sure this works, either install the Visual Subst program or keep the portable files in a static location. Works on Windows 2000 and above.
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Another tool to perform a drive letter to folder association is the tiny (20KB) and portable vSubst. This tool is more of a front end to the Windows SUBST command and operates in the same way using the same command line arguments.
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Usage is again very easy, click on a drive letter and then Add to bring up a window where you can browse for the folder you want tied to the drive letter. It will then show up in the window and be associated. Highlight a substituted folder and press the Persistent button to place an entry in the Users Run startup key in the registry, vSubst will need to be placed in the Windows path. Another useful option in the persistent dialog window is the ability to disable Autorun for all drives so you don't get a possible popup when associating any drive letters.
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text: The bulk viscosity of interacting strange quark matter in a strong external magnetic field B_m with a real equation of state is investigated. It is found that interquark interactions can significantly increase the bulk viscosity,and the magnetic field B_m can cause irregular oscillations in both components of the bulk viscosity, ■(parallel to B_m) and ■(perpendicular to B_m). A comparison with non-interacting strange quark matter reveals that when B_m is sufficiently large, ■is more affected by interactions than ■. Additionally, the quasi-oscillation of the bulk viscosity with changes in density may facilitate the formation of magnetic domains. Moreover, the resulting rmode instability windows are in good agreement with observational data for compact stars in low-mass X-ray binaries. Specifically, the r-mode instability window for interacting strange quark matter in high magnetic fields has a minimum rotation frequency exceeding 1050 Hz, which may explain the observed very high spin frequency of a pulsar with m=1122 Hz.


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B-MCM-41 AS NANO-STRUCTURED CATALYST FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF BECKMANN REACTION CONDITIONS
The Beckmann rearrangement of Cyclohexanone oxime at 300-380 °C and W/F = 20-60 gh/mol over a B-MCM-41 catalyst was studied at atmospheric pressure. The e-Caprolactam (precursor for nylon-6) was the major product on the whole temperature range studied and Cyclohexanone appeared as the main by-product and was generated probably due to the moderate acidity of these materials. The stability and the possibility of recycling of the catalyst were also analyzed. So, the catalyst could be used during 3600 min and then recovered and reused without significant changes in the active species. A reaction pathway was proposed in order to explain the results obtained. Finally, the better catalytic performance was observed at 320 °C and W/F = 40 gh/mol. Such conditions allowed us to achieve a Cyclohexanone oxime conversion of 54% with an e-Caprolactam selectivity of around 83%. Thus, under this soft reaction condition it could be achieved a high yield to e-Caprolactam with a low proportion of Cyclohexanone. This product mixture (e-Caprolactam and Cyclohexanone) may be separated by vacuum distillation; then the Cyclohexanone could be recycled by reaction with hydroxylamine to form again Cyclohexanone oxime (raw material for e-Caprolactam), marketed for the production of adipic acid, as adhesive in sealing PVC objects or as solvent in several industries.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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Mathematisches Seminar der Universität Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany
Abstract: Let $V$ be a finite dimensional vector space over a field $K$ with a non-degenerate symmetric, alternating, or hermitian scalar product. We characterize the orbits of $m$-tuples of vectors of $V$ under the group of isometries of $V$ by the Gram matrix and an additional subspace of $K^m$. This characterization will then be applied to determine all $m$-point invariants of real euclidean, spherical, hyperbolic, and de-Sitter geometries.
Classification (MSC91): 15A63, 51M10, 83A05
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For over a decade now, corrective exercise has mostly consisted of a similar set of special exercises. However, with access to new information about how the body and brain works, is it possible that we may be able to add some new strategies? Examine the power of creating rhythmical motion and how rhythm can help produce intelligent motion that unlocks a neurophysiological cascade of self-correction. See how you can take any exercise and make it corrective.
By Rodney Corn, MA
- Define corrective exercise.
- Define rhythm and timing.
- Explain how these terms can be expanded to encompass a more holistic approach.
- Describe how different rhythms of the body can contribute to risk of injury or recovery.
- Demonstrate a few ways to enhance corrective strategies.
- Describe a proven system for gathering and applying all the information discussed.
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Why choose Norco Therapeutic Edema Control Gloves?
- Soothes pain and reduces swelling in arthritic hands
- Therapeutic gloves provide warmth and compression for soothing soft tissue edema and arthritic joint pain
- Open fingertips provide users with complete freedom to feel, touch, and grip, so, daily tasks can be performed hassle-free.
- Made of soft, silky nylon and spandex blend, with seams on the outside for smooth edema control
- Norco compression gloves provide 15 to 25 mm Hg of soft, gentle, even compression to edematous tissue.
- The Wrist Length measures 3" (7.6cm) proximal to the wrist crease.
- Note: To size, measure palm circumference
How does the compression glove work?
The compression glove works by applying gentle pressure to the hand and wrist. The compression helps improve circulation and reduce swelling in the affected area. By providing support and compression, the glove can help alleviate pain, increase joint stability, and promote healing.
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When to use Norco Tipless Finger Glove?
Therapeutic compression gloves are used in a lot of treatments. The 2 most common treatments for which compression gloves are used are listed below:-
Hand edema is inflammation, swelling, or fluid collection in the hand. Edema is the body's response to healing itself, but, large amounts and/or long-term swelling can cause permanent impairment and affect one's ability to perform daily activities.
Signs of acute edema are - Redness, warmth, throbbing, swelling, decreased mobility and use, tingling numbness, and pain.
Chronic hand edema can be hard or soft and, typically is not warm, red, or throbbing; however, it can be painful and cause scarring and/or decreased function.
How do Norco Compression Gloves help cure Edema?
Therapeutic gloves apply pressure to the user's hands and fingers which deters the collection of excess fluids in the infected areas helps relieve pain and promotes healing, allowing the user to freely use their hand.
Arthritis is an informal way of referring to joint pain or joint disease. People of all ages and sexes can have arthritis. It occurs more frequently as people get older.
Common arthritis joint symptoms include swelling, pain, stiffness, and decreased range of motion. They may stay about the same for years but may progress or get worse over time.
Severe arthritis can result in chronic pain and inability to do daily activities. Arthritis can cause permanent joint changes. These changes may be visible, such as knobby finger joints, but often the damage can only be seen on an X-ray.
How do Therapeutic Compression Gloves help cure Arthritis?
Norco compression gloves are designed to help relieve aches, pains, and stiffness associated with arthritis of the hands. The unique design provides mild compression for warmth and helps increase circulation, which ultimately reduces pain and promotes healing.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How should I use the Norco Therapeutic Compression Glove?
To use, simply slide it onto your hand, ensuring that the glove covers your hand and extends over your wrist. The tipless finger design allows your fingertips to remain exposed for tasks that require tactile sensitivity. The glove should fit snugly but not be overly tight or constrictive. It can be worn throughout the day or as recommended by your healthcare provider.
2. Can the compression glove be worn on either hand?
Yes, it is designed to be worn on either hand. It is not specific to the left or right hand, allowing for flexibility and convenience.
3. Is the Norco Compression Glove adjustable?
Available in different sizes to accommodate various hand sizes. However, it may not have adjustable straps or closures. It relies on the elasticity and snug fit of the fabric to provide compression and support.
4. Can this glove be washed?
These gloves can be hand-washed using mild soap and water and then air-dried. Avoid using harsh chemicals, bleach, or machine washing and drying, as these can damage the fabric and affect the compression properties of the glove.
5. Can this compression glove be used during activities or exercise?
Yes, this can generally be used during light activities or exercises. However, it is recommended to consult with a healthcare professional or occupational therapist for specific guidance. They can provide recommendations on the appropriate use of the glove based on your condition and activity level.
6. Is this suitable for everyone?
The Norco Compression Glove can be beneficial for individuals with hand and wrist conditions or injuries. However, it is always recommended to consult with a healthcare professional or occupational therapist before using any compression garment


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The 2DECOMP&FFT library is a software framework in Fortran to build large-scale parallel applications. It is designed for applications using three-dimensional structured mesh and spatially implicit numerical algorithms. At the foundation, it implements a general-purpose 2D pencil decomposition for data distribution on distributed-memory platforms. On top, it provides a highly scalable and efficient interface to perform three-dimensional distributed FFTs.
Elemental is a C++ framework for distributed-memory dense linear algebra that strives to be fast, portable, and programmable. It can be thought of as a generalization of PLAPACK to element-by-element distributions that also makes use of recent algorithmic advances from the FLAME project. Elemental usually outperforms both PLAPACK and ScaLAPACK, however, it heavily relies on MPI collectives so a good MPI implementation is crucial. Both pure MPI and hybrid OpenMP-MPI configurations are supported.


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Light that thinks for itself
The indoor light series from STEINEL combines state-of-the-art sensor technology with sleek design. Cutting-edge high-frequency sensors (HF) invisibly concealed inside these lights instantly respond to the tiniest movement regardless of temperature and automatically switch 'ON' light.
STEINEL HF-SensorLights are designed specifically for indoor spaces, such as stairwells, corridors or bathrooms. The innovative lights come as wall and ceiling lights. HF-SensorLights provide efficient, money-saving light management as well as added convenience and safety in the home, commercial premises, administration centres and other buildings.
Another reason to make investors and homeowners decide in favour of STEINEL HF-SensorLights: the intelligent light is just as easy and quick to install as conventional lamps - and there's no need for separate switches or motion detectors.
All benefits at a glance:
One example illustrates the efficiency of HFSensorLights: When you enter the stairwell of a multistorey building, for example, the sensors integrated in the lights only switch the light 'ON' when it's really needed – and 'OFF' again after the time you set.Floors that are not used stay unlit.
Light 'ON' and 'OFF' ...automatically
High-frequency sensors respond faster
Wherever there are people, there is movement. This fact makes motion sensors the ideal cornerstone for intelligent lighting. STEINEL high-frequency (HF) sensors identify movement instantly without any restriction to "sensitivity" through ambient temperature and direction in which the object being detected moves.
High-frequency sensors actively scan the detection zone. To do this, they emit signals and receive the echo reflected off walls and surrounding objects a moment later. Any movement is immediately detected and the light is switched 'ON'. And there's no more forgetting to switch the light 'OFF'; it does that all by itself. Saving energy.
STEINEL high-frequency sensors operate at 5.8 GHz. As glass and thin walls do not get in the way of these signals, the sensors can be fitted inside the light, making them invisible from the outside. This way, nothing detracts from the design of STEINEL SensorLights.
These qualities make the STEINEL HF-sensor the perfect solution for automatic indoor lighting. An innovation from STEINEL – the original.
Convenience, safety, lower costs
Employing state-of-the-art high-frequency sensors to control interior lights as and when they're needed, STEINEL has heralded in a new era of lighting automation. STEINEL HF-SensorLights are specifically designed for indoors and can be mounted to walls and ceilings.
STEINEL HF-SensorLights can detect movements across a diameter of 1 to 8 m.You can infinitely vary the reach you require using the system's electronics.
STEINEL HF-SensorLights are equipped with a timer that makes sure the light stays switched 'ON' for a selectable period of time even after a temporary movement in the detection zone. You can infinitely vary how long you want the light to stay 'ON' for.
Setting the response threshold to between 2 and 2000 lux, you can determine the level of ambient brightness at which you want the SensorLight to come 'ON'. While it's still light, at dusk or when it gets dark.
STEINEL HF-SensorLights are just as easy to install as conventional light fittings: Fix light to wall or ceiling and connect phase and neutral conductor to the screw terminals – that's all there is to it. It's just that now, with integrated sensor system, there's no need to do any switching by hand.
Connecting other loads
Most of the HF-SensorLights are provided with a separate terminal that can be used for connecting other devices. On entering a guest WC, an addition light or extractor fan can, for example, be switched 'ON' in addition to the main light.