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Friend of the Sea is currently a project of the World Sustainability Organization, an international NGO whose mission is to promote environmental conservation. Friend of the Sea has become the leading certification standard for sustainable seafood products and services which respect and protect the marine environment.
Friend of the Sea works globally with the nation states, seafood and shipping industries, scientists, NGOs and the public and their certification awards sustainable practices in order to maintain the integrity of sustainable seafood. These certification schemes encompass both aquaculture (fish farm) certification to include key farmed fish species eligible for certification and fisheries to promote the sustainable use of the ocean and aquatic habitat and prevent overfishing and the use of fishmeal and Omega 3 Fish Oil.
Friend of the Sea also promotes pilot projects related to restaurants, sustainable shipping, whale and dolphin-watching, aquaria, ornamental fish, UV creams and others.
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Most people think of the Healthcare and Social Assistance (HCSA) industry as providing clean, sterile and safe places to work. In reality, HCSA workers are exposed to many hazards that can affect their health and well-being. Their work exposes them to life threatening infections, such as SARS, HIV and hepatitis. They work with highly toxic cancer treating drugs and various chemical agents. They perform physically demanding tasks, such as lifting patients. In fact, this sector of the economy is highly hazardous and puts workers at a surprising risk for illness and injury.
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Football fouls more likely to be given when play heads left
A simple perceptual bias could influence football referees' judgements about whether a foul occurred or not. That's according to Alexander Kranjec and colleagues, who had 12 football players at the University of Pennsylvania look for half a second each at 268 static images of one player tackling another and decide whether a foul had been committed. Unbeknown to the participants, 134 of the pictures were simply mirror opposites of the other 134.
Kranjec's team said their finding has implications for refereeing. The most popular system, known as the 'left diagonal refereeing system' (see picture), in which the referee runs a diagonal axis between the two left-hand corners of the pitch, results in the referee witnessing tackles in both goal areas primarily from a right-to-left perspective, thus making judgments of fouls in these areas more likely – an advantage to attackers. This is okay because it applies to both teams. What's important, Kranjec and colleagues warn, is that the referee doesn't switch to a 'right diagonal system' half-way through a match, potentially penalising a losing side that needs to attack yet no longer enjoys the benefits of this perceptual bias when playing in offensive areas.
'These results … suggest that the effects of a low-level perceptual mechanisms could alter a decision, change the result of a game and perhaps, the fortunes of nations,' the researchers said.
ResearchBlogging.orgKranjec A, Lehet M, Bromberger B, & Chatterjee A (2010). A sinister bias for calling fouls in soccer. PloS one, 5 (7) PMID: 20628648
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 1. The researchers think this anomaly may have to do with our bias (at least in cultures that read from right to left) for rightward motion.
 I believe you meant to say left to right, right to left would be reading…well left.
 2. This may also help to explain why some fouls are so hotly contested while others are not. Aside from all the obvious reasons why fans object to any foul their side receives, they may truly see a different play than the ref does. If the fans of the team objecting the ref's call on a particular play have the opposite perspective from the referee, they might see it as more or less offensive than the ref (depending, of course, on whether it's their team or the opponents receiving the call.)
 3. I do not know if a sampling of 12 soccer players is an adequate sample size for the results to be valid…
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The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900
The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 (Paperback)
The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually and in collectives, but this history has been silenced over time. Their stories show that the city of Vienna was contradictory and cosmopolitan: despite men-only policies in its main art institutions, it offered a myriad of unexpected ways for women artists to forge successful public careers. Women artists came from the provinces, Russia, and Germany to participate in its vibrant art scene. However, and especially because so many of the artists were Jewish, their contributions were actively obscured beginning in the late 1930s. Many had to flee Austria, losing their studios and lifework in the process. Some were killed in concentration camps.
Along with the stories of individual women artists, the author reconstructs the history of separate women artists' associations and their exhibitions. Chapters covering the careers of Tina Blau, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Bronica Koller, Helene Funke, and Teresa Ries (among others) point to a more integrated and cosmopolitan art world than previously thought; one where women became part of the avant-garde, accepted and even highlighted in major exhibitions at the Secession and with the Klimt group.
"This is an excellent addition to the literature on fin-de-sicle Vienna, well-researched and well-argued. It highlights little-known artists and situates them in a novel interpretation of women's roles in the art world. The author challenges dominant tropes of feminist historiography and thus sheds new light on twentieth-century art history and historiography." —Michael Gubser, James Madison University
The Art Blog [theartblog.org, June 24, 2012, by Andrea Kirsch]
It's remarkable that recent scholarship can force significant reconsideration of an artistic culture as well-studied as that of Vienna around 1900, but that's what Julie M. Johnson's work has done. As such, it will be required reading for anyone interested in Vienna's turn-of-the-century art and art institutions, particularly the schools and the artists' associations and unions – which functioned much as today's artists' collectives and artist-run spaces. It is also an important contribution to women's studies and to the historiography of art, for it documents a group of women artists who were active in Vienna's art world around 1900 but were entirely written out of later historical accounts. Based upon intensive archival research, Johnson demonstrates that, unlike the better-studied situation in Paris, women in Vienna had access to art education, and while they were barred from official membership in the major artists' unions, that didn't keep those same groups from exhibiting their work.... Johnson devotes serious attention to critical discussions about women artists and the problem of their place in the established story of patrilineal artistic development. She is equally interested in the erasure of their history after World War II, and makes use of recent scholarship about memory to analyze how a group of artists so broadly involved with Vienna's artistic life around 1900 could be forgotten.... Purdue University Press is to be congratulated for publishing this book through its series on Central European Studies. It is extensively illustrated with works by the women artists and their male colleagues as well as with many valuable views of exhibition installations, showing the women's work in situ.
The Vienna Review [May 2012 by Kate Ferguson]
In The Memory Factory, Julie Johnson digs into the archives to reveal an astonishing picture of these women artists thriving in fin-de-siècle Vienna.... Johnson writes crisply with none of the pretensions common in academia and progresses neatly between telling the individual stories of five women artists (Chapters 1-5) and examining in greater detail the culture in which they first flourished and were later obscured (Chapters 6-8). llustrations of paintings and sculptures, distributed generously throughout, inject life into the stories behind them.
Woman's Art Journal [Volume 34 #1, by Megan Brandow-Faller
"...rich in documentation as it is in theory, secondary literature, and high-quality black-and-white and color illustrations of both well-known and marginalized works by women artists. Johnson's groundbreaking work raises many new questions not only relevant to studies of Viennese modernism, but to scholars interested in women and modernism more broadly."
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|Abstract:||Ants inhabiting ant-plants can respond to cues of herbivory, such as the presence of herbivores, leaf damage, and plant sap, but experimental attempts to quantify the dynamic nature of biotic defenses have been restricted to a few associations between plants and ants. We studied the relationship between certain features of the ant-shrub Maieta poeppigii Cogn. (Melastomataceae) and the presence or absence of ant patrolling on the leaf surface in plants occupied by the ant Pheidole minutula Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). We also carried out field experiments to examine ant behavior following plant damage, and the potential cues that induce ant recruitment. These experiments included clipping of the leaf apex, as well as the presentation of a potential herbivore (live termite worker) and a foliar extract from Maieta on treatment leaves. The presence of ants patrolling the leaves of M. poeppigii is influenced by the number of domatia on the plant. Ant patrolling on the leaves of M. poeppigii was constant throughout a 24 h cycle, but the mean number of patrolling ants decreased from young to mature leaves, and from leaves with domatia to those without domatia. There was an overall increase in the number of ants on experimental leaves following all treatments, compared to control leaves. Visual and chemical cues associated with herbivory are involved in the induction of ant recruitment in the Maieta-Pheidole system. The continuous patrolling behavior of ants, associated with their ability to respond rapidly to foliar damage, may result in the detection and repellence/capture of most insect herbivores before they can inflict significant damage to the leaves.|
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8:30am Monday 21st June 2010
By Dan Keel
A SCIENCE breakthrough involving an artificial cow which kills deadly flies has been named one of the ten most important university discoveries.
Academics at the University of Greenwich have been working tirelessly over the last 40 years to find ways of controlling the tsetse fly in Africa.
The one centimeter long insect is responsible for spreading the fatal disease, sleeping sickness, which kills 30,000 people every year.
Researchers at the university's Natural Resources Institute (NRI) have invented a novel artificial cow which attracts and kills the fly.
The device has been voted the eighth most important university breakthrough over the last 60 years in a poll of leading UK academics.
Professor Steve Torr is still a member of the research team at the University of Greenwich which completed the breakthrough in the mid-80s.
He said: "I was shocked we made the top ten. Maybe my mum had a word with the organisers.
"Tsetse-transmitted diseases are a dreadful problem in Africa, killing 30,000 people and two million cattle every year.
"I am thrilled that this research, which tackles a really important issue in the developing world, has been recognised."
He added: "Now, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we are working in central and west Africa to develop artificial baits to control tsetse there."
The team also included visiting Professor Glyn Vale, who led the field work in Africa, and Professor David Hall who led the work of chemists.
They developed a blend of odours which tsetse mistake for the smell of a real cow. The flies are drawn to the invention where they are killed by a deadly insecticide.
This new technique is now being used in countries such as Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich, Baroness Blackstone, said: "This is marvellous news and a great tribute to the work of Greenwich scientists over many years.
"This result also honours our Natural Resources Institute, which has an international reputation in the field of sustainable development.
"The research is already helping to save many lives in some of the world's poorest countries."
How the cow works
An artificial cow is placed in a field and covered with a blend of odours that tsetse mistake for the smell of a real cow.
When the flies are lured into the trap, a strong insecticide kills them.
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1. The discovery of the structure of DNA
2. Genetic fingerprinting
3. The birth of the first working computer
4. The invention of the contraceptive pill
5. Pioneering work in cancer research
6. Technology behind CDs, DVDs and the Internet
7. The Gaia hypothesis
8. Tsetse fly cow
9. Stem cell research
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Carl Hagelin Isn't Worried That He Hasn't Scored Yet
In seven games this season, Carl Hagelin is scoreless, is a minus three, six penalty minutes, 16 shots, 12 hits and five giveaways in around 16:30 of ice time.
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Superfluid Fountain
© Peter Taborek, Low Temperature Materials Laboratory, University of California, Irvine.
Superfluid liquid 4He can flow out of uncapped containers. As this flow is without friction, and as liquid helium is not very dense, it can even appear to defy the law of gravity and flow up and out of a container, sometimes in the spectacular manner illustrated here. Although the liquid flows uphill, energy is not created, as the liquid ends up outside the container (on the floor), with a lower gravitational potential energy.


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The usual implementation of AES first computes all the Round Keys sequentially starting from the key, and stores them in RAM for later uses. However, when enciphering a single block with a key that will be used for that purpose only, or when RAM is very sparse, or perhaps in hardware, it is advantageous to use the Round Keys a they are being generated, rather than store them. Quoting the Rijndael submission to NIST:
The key schedule can be implemented without explicit use of the array
W[Nb*(Nr+1)]. For implementations where RAM is scarce, the Round Keys can be computed on-the-fly using a buffer of
Nkwords with almost no computational overhead.
It is said this also works for deciphering:
The key expansion operation that generates
Wis defined in such a way that we can also start with the last
Nkwords of Round Key information and roll back to the original Cipher Key. So, calculation 'on-the-fly' of the Round Keys, starting from an "Inverse Cipher Key", is still possible.
However, the how-to is left as an exercise to the reader. In particular: Can the last Round Key (the first used when deciphering) be computed directly, rather than sequentially?


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Yogurt is produced by the fermentation of lactose in milk by the bacteria of yogurt-ferment. Without those bacteria it is not possible to make yogurt.
But surprisingly, water buffalo milk and lemon juice mixture turns into yogurt without any third ingredient. You may first boil the milk to sterilize it; the result doesn't change. The milk must be water buffalo milk, cow milk or another animal's milk doesn't make yogurt this way. One of my relatives made yogurt this way, so this is not a myth (if you didn't hear this before). Unfortunately I couldn't find an English recipe to share with you here.
Can you please explain to me this chemical phenomenon? Is fermentation involved in this process? Is this resulting "yogurt" actually a yogurt by definition in the perspective of cooking and chemistry?
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This is not yogurt per definition, you are making a fresh cheese. You can actually use other types of milk for such a cheese, but the mouthfeel and taste will be very different and won't be as similar to yogurt.
There is a large class of acid-curdled cheeses, including paneer, tvorog, quark and many others. I don't know if yours has a specific name. I know that there are people who for some reason can't tell the difference in taste betwen quark and yogurt. But it is still cheese, even if it tastes similar to yogurt.
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See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clabber_(food) for more on thick, soured milk. – Kate Gregory Sep 18 '12 at 17:56
_USER_ Interesting. This "clabber" food is still a fermented product, so it falls under the class of yogurts. There is an error in the article; quark is not the spontaneously-soured milk, it is a cheese made by curdling this spontaneously-soured milk with additional acid (but no rennet). The soured milk itself is called simply Sauermilch. – rumtscho Sep 18 '12 at 18:03
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Perl Question
How to pipe the content of a variable as STDIN in a qx{} statement in Perl?
I basically would like to do this:
$_ = "some content that need to be escaped &>|\"$\''\s\\";
qx{echo $_ | foo}
There are two problems here. First the content of
$_
needs to be escaped as it can contain binary data. Second, invoking
echo
might be slightly inefficient.
How can I simply pipe some content as STDIN to a command in Perl?
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You can use open2 from IPC::Open2 to read and write to the same process.
Now you don't need to care about escaping anything.
use IPC::Open2;
use FileHandle;
my $writer = FileHandle->new;
my $reader = FileHandle->new;
my $pid = open2( $reader, $writer, 'wc -c' );
# write to the pipe
print $writer 'some content that need to be escaped &>|\"$\''\s\\';
# tell it you're done
$writer->close;
# read the out of the pipe
my $line = <$reader>;
print $line;
This will print 48.
Note that you can't use double quotes "" for the exact input you showed because the number of backslashes \ is wrong.
See perldoc open and perlipc for more information.


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Rest and Motions Kinematics Obj-1 HC Verma Solutions Vol-1 Chapter-3
Rest and Motions Kinematics Obj-1 (MCQ-1) HC Verma Solutions Ch-3 Vol-1 Concept of Physics for Class-11. Step by Step Solution of Objective -1 (MCQ-1) Questions of Chapter-3 Rest and Motions Kinematics (Concept of Physics).Visit official Website CISCE for detail information about ISC Board Class-11 Physics.
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A motor car is going due north at a speed of 50 km/h. It makes a 90° left turn without changing the speed. The change in the velocity of the car is about
(a) 50 km/h towards west
(b) 70 km/h towards south-west
(c) 70 km/h towards north-west
The option (b) 70 km/h towards south-west. is correct
In figure shows the displacement-time graph of a particle moving on the X-axis.
(a)the particle is continuously going in positive x direction
(b) the particle is at rest
(c) the velocity increases up to a time t0, and them become constant
(d) the particle moves at a constant velocity up to a time t0, and then stops.
The option (d) the particle moves at a constant velocity up to a time t0, and then stops. is correct
The particle moves at a constant velocity up to a time t0 and then stops.
The slope of the x–t graph gives the velocity. In the graph, the slope is constant from t = 0 to t = t0, so the velocity is constant. After t = t0, the displacement is zero; i.e., the particle stops.
A particle has a velocity u towards east at t = 0. Its acceleration is towards west and is constant. Let xA and xB be the magnitude of displacements in the first 10 seconds and the next 10 seconds
(a) xA < xB
(b) xA = xB
(c) xA > xB
(d) the information is insufficient to decide the relation of xA with xB.
The option (d) the information is insufficient to decide the relation of xA with xB. is correct
As velocity and acceleration are in opposite directions, velocity will become zero after some time (t) and the particle will return.
∴0 = u− a t
⇒ t= u/a
Because the value of acceleration is not given, we cannot say that the particle will return after/before 10 seconds.
The option (a) v = (v1+ v2) / 2 is correct
The option (c) is correct
(a) a upward
(b) (g − a) upward
(c) (g − a) downward
(d) g downward
The option (d) g downward is correct
Gravity is the only force acting on the stone when it is released. And, we know that gravity is always in the downward direction
(a) vA > vB
(b) vA < vB
(c) vA = vB
(d) the relation between vA and vB depends on height of the building above the ground.
The option (c) vA = vB is correct
Total energy of any particle =
Both the particles were at the same height and thrown with equal initial velocities, so their initial total energies are equal. By the law of conservation of energy, their final energies are equal.
At the ground, they are at the same height. So, their P.E. are also equal; this implies that their K.E. should also be equal. In other words, their final velocities are equal
(a) is always perpendicular to the acceleration
(b) is never perpendicular to the acceleration
(c) is perpendicular to the acceleration for one instant only
(d) is perpendicular to the acceleration for two instants.
The option (c) is perpendicular to the acceleration for one instant only is correct
Two bullets are fired simultaneously, horizontally and with different speeds from the same place. Which bullet will hit he ground first?
(a) the faster one
(b) the slower one
(c) both will reach simultaneously
(d) depends on the masses.
The option (c) both will reach simultaneously is correct
Because the downward acceleration and the initial velocity in downward direction of the two bullets are the same, they will take the same time to hit the ground and for a half projectile.
(a) 25 m
(b) 37 m
(c) 50 m
(d) 100 m
The option (d) 100 m is correct
Two projectiles A and B are projected with angle of projection 15° for the projectile A and 45° for the projectile B. If RA and RB be the horizontal range for the two projectiles, then
(a) RA < RB
(b) RA > RB
(c) RA = RB
(d) the information is insufficient to decide the relation of RA with RB.
The option (d) the information is insufficient to decide the relation of RA with RB. is correct
Horizontal range for the projectile,
Information of the initial velocity is not given in the question
A river is flowing from west to east at a speed of 5 metres per minute. A man on the south bank of the river, capable of swimming at 10 metres per minute in still water, wants to swim across the river in the shortest time. He should swim in a direction.


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Can a solid inner core of Mars be detected from observations of polar motion and nutation of Mars?
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THE PROTECTIVE STYLE QUESTIONNAIRE: SELFPROTECTIVE MECHANISMS AMONG STIGMATIZED ADOLESCENTS
Crocker and Major (1989) hypothesized three mechanisms by which members of stigmatized groups may protect self-esteem. The mechanisms are: a) ingroup social comparisons, b) valuing/devaluing performance selectively, and c) racial prejudice. We provide a test of Crocker and Major's hypothesized mechanisms with the development of the Protective Style Questionnaire which was administered to a sample of 78 African-American adolescents. Evidence of high internal consistency reliability (about.86) and factor loadings support the orthogonality of the three mechanisms. Results showed varying levels of endorsement of each mechanism.
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 1. Digital Earth is a concept of an interactive digital replica of the entire planet that can facilitate a shared understanding of the multiple relationships between the physical and natural environments and society. To do so, it needs to be accessible globally from multiple platforms (mobiles, tablets, computers); be able to display information in ways that are easily understood by multiple audiences (the public, decision-makers, scientists); and be constantly updated with data coming from sensors (space-based, airborne, in-situ), citizens, and both public and private sectors.
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Switching Purcell effect with nonlinear epsilon-near-zero media
Saman Jahani, Hangqi Zhao, and Zubin Jacob. 7/12/2018.
Switching Purcell effect with nonlinear epsilon-near-zero media
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An optical topological transition is defined as the change in the photonic iso-frequency surface around epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) frequencies which can considerably change the spontaneous emission of a quantum emitter placed near a metamaterial slab. Here, we show that due to the strong Kerr nonlinearity at ENZ frequencies, a high-power pulse can induce a sudden transition in the topology of the iso-frequency dispersion curve, leading to a significant change in the transmission of propagating as well as evanescent waves through the metamaterial slab. This evanescent wave switch effect allows for the control of spontaneous emission through modulation of the Purcell effect. We develop a theory of the enhanced nonlinear response of ENZ media to s and p polarized inputs and show that this nonlinear effect is stronger for p polarization and is almost independent of the incident angle. We perform finite-difference time-domain simulations to demonstrate the transient response of the metamaterial slab to an ultrafast pulse and fast switching of the Purcell effect at the sub-picosecond scale. The Purcell factor changes at ENZ by almost a factor of three which is an order of magnitude stronger than that away from ENZ. We also show that due to the inhomogeneous spatial field distribution inside the multilayer metal-dielectric super-lattice, a unique spatial topological transition metamaterial can be achieved by the control pulse induced nonlinearity. Our work can lead to ultra-fast control of quantum phenomena in ENZ metamaterials.
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Students in Finland used virtual reality to walk inside the double helix of a DNA molecule. Pasi Vilpas, a biology teacher at the The Sotunki Distance Learning Centre in Vantaa, invited his pupils to enter the three-dimensional online virtual world of Second Life and walk and fly inside the crucial molecule.
In real life, DNA is threaded so finely that it can only be seen with an electron microscope. By using avatars, the digital players or characters of Second Life, students can explore the human genome by 'flying' into an apparently vast DNA molecule and 'walking' along a human gene. Pasi's latest online virtual biological world will be showcased at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2011.
Noting that the study of genetics gets too abstract for many secondary school students, Pasi Vilpas deployed his own quirky sense of humour to create an astonishing learning environment for his students, offering them flying avatars, magic carpets, songs, dances and sound effects.
The concept of the avatar is already well-known to the 20 million worldwide users of Second Life, a notably collaborative virtual world that was developed in 2001 by Philip Rosedale's Linden Lab, as a place where users, known as 'residents', interact with each other through their avatars.
At the heart of the game is a vast DNA double helix, apparently 200 meters high and 500 meters in diameter. The students make their own avatars sit, walk and fly around the spiral structure to learn how the gene makes proteins, step by step.
They learn how the transfer RNAs, depicted in Second Life as cartoon character chauffeurs, deliver amino acids to the ribosome to make proteins that will be joined in the correct sequence. Information boxes offer explanatory text and sound files.
"These boxes form a learning pathway through the basics of genetics," says Pasi Vilpas.
"My test students have been very enthusiastic. The environment delivers information in an attractive manner without any need for the teacher to be present."
There is even a dance floor in Pasi's virtual universe. The students make their avatars dance as they themselves sing along with a quirky tune that helps remind them of the different phases of the genetic process.
To encourage participation, engagement and pure fun, the students use virtual iPads to share what they have learned with each other and with "the world outside".
Pasi's innovative model activates numerous 'learning channels' to teach genetics by 'touching', watching, listening, dancing, singing and reading.
When Pasi tested the virtual environment with a number of groups of ten students he was delighted to discover that "they even gather in this virtual environment in their leisure time."
He will reveal more details in his presentation "Teaching Genetics in The Second Life with a Large-Scale 3D-Model of DNA" at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2011.


Water Resistance Guide
In this guide
Demistifying Water Resistance
As I'm sure you can imagine, water is a wrist watch's worst nightmare. The words 'water-resistance' are thrown around a lot when you're looking for a prospective shiny new wrist watch! But, we're here to tell you that you don't have to be a keen diver to understand the difference in levels of water-resistance, and how best to care for watches when they do come into contact with water.
For some watch brands, even the tiniest drop of H20 in the wrong place can cause catastrophic damage. So, we've demystified the different scales you'll often see describing a watch's water resistance, and also given tips on how to protect and maintain your watch to ensure it keeps ticking!
What Does Water-Resistance Actually Mean?
Here's the definition of water resistance; water resistance is the measure of how much pressure a watch can withstand underwater. Often denoted in units of bar, atm, or depth (m), the number given to a watch is the unit of pressure a watch can withstand in a static pressure test under laboratory conditions that simulates water pressure.
What is the difference between 'bar' and 'atm'?
The atm unit corresponds to pressure at sea level which is known internationally as an average because the pressure at sea level changes. A bar is another unit of measurement belonging to the metric system. All you need to remember is that: 1 bar = 0.98 atm = 10m
One of these water-resistance units will usually be stamped on the back of your watch case or written on the face. To help make reading these units simpler, we've outlined the different levels you'll see below, and what activities each one is most suitable for.
Watch water resistance table
Water resistance ratingAccidental splashing from washing hands, rain etc.Showering or swimmingSwimming or snorkellingSwimming, snorkelling, skin divingScuba diving
'Water Resistant' or 30m (3bar)
50m (5 bar)
100m (10 bar)
300m (30 bar)
500m (50 bar)
Wearing a watch will affect its resistance
When being worn, a watch will almost always be in motion on your wrist. Believe it or not, this contributes to the pressure exerted on a watch so bear this in mind if you're serious about the amount of pressure your watch needs to withstand.
For example, a typical watch could be marked with a water resistance depth of 30 metres. So, naturally you might assume that jumping off the middle or top plank of an average diving board would be fine. However, there's quite a high chance that the pressure change that the watch would be subject to when you hit the water would push the capabilities of the gaskets to their limits, and cause the watch to start leaking.
How is a watch made waterproof?
To protect the inner workings of a watch from the outside elements, a rubber or silicon hoop, called a 'gasket' is used as a seal. The gaskets sit inside the case and crystal, and around the stem, crown, pushers and correctors (all the pieces that are exposed), forming a seal around the important mechanisms within.
Over time, and after repeated exposure to water, the gaskets will begin to dry out and lose their elasticity, which is when the water-resistance will begin to decrease - this is why regular testing is crucial to your watch maintenance, as gaskets can be checked and replaced easily before the damage is done.
What's The Difference Between Waterproof and Water-resistant?
You will rarely see a watch described as 'waterproof', as this implies that under no circumstance will water be able to permeate. Modern technology can mean that watches can withstand more and more pressure while still operating, however there will always be a limit to its resistance, and even the tiniest gap in the gasket seal can cause damage. All watches are therefore technically only water-resistant, never truly waterproof.
Maintaining a water-resistant watch
Before you submerge your watch in water, you must ensure the crown is fully pushed in or screwed down - this is where the gasket seals, and so if not properly closed, water will be able to enter the watch mechanism. You should also never adjust the bezel, twist the crown, or press the pushers whilst underwater, as this will break the gasket seal.
When it comes time for the watch battery to be replaced, the watch case should only be opened by a specialist, who will have the correct tools - you should never attempt to open it yourself, as one wrong slip of a tool could result in the delicate components being damaged, and, the water resistance being affected.
To keep your water-resistant watch ticking, regular maintenance is essential. It's advisable to take your watch to a specialist at least once a year to re-test the water resistance level, and ensure all the gaskets are sealed. Over time these will need to be replaced and lubricated to ensure the water-resistance, and so regular testing will ensure the delicate mechanisms within your watch will not become damaged.
Salt water can corrode these important elements more quickly, and so after swimming or diving in sea water, it's advisable to rinse your watch in fresh water and dried thoroughly to ensure no salt crystals remain.
If you wear your watch frequently in sea water, it's important to get it tested and re-sealed a few times a year, to ensure no parts have been corroded which could cause permanent damage.
Leather is an organic material, and therefore much more susceptible to moisture and temperature changes. If your watch has a leather strap, you should never submerge it in water, and if it does come into contact with any moisture (such as rain splashes, sweat, or perfume), the strap should be dried immediately with a soft absorbent cloth to prevent any further damage.
Watches designed to be worn in water will always have straps made of metal or rubber, which can withstand these changes in environment. If you notice any damage to the strap, it's important to take it to a specialist as soon as possible.
Perfumes, soaps, cosmetics and cleaning products can all be corrosive to the delicate elements within a watch, and therefore it's important to remove your watch when it could be exposed to these - for example showering, washing up, or applying make-up. If your watch does come into contact with these, it should immediately be rinsed off with fresh water and dried as quickly as possible with a soft cloth.
Dramatic changes in temperature, for example going into a sauna, skiing, or just visiting a much warmer or colder climate can cause the gasket seals to expand or contract and create an opening, which will affect the water-resistance. Avoid wearing your watch in extreme conditions if possible, and avoid adjusting the watch crown/bezel if you do need to wear it to ensure no water droplets manage to get inside.
Even the smallest amount of water can cause major damage to a watch mechanism. If any water does accidentally find its way into the watch, you should try to dry it out as quickly as possible - on a radiator or above a lamp. It is important to take it to a specialist as soon as possible, who will have the right tools to open, clean, and replace any components damaged by the water.
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INVESTIGATING THE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL INTERVENTIONS FOR YOUTH MARIJUANA PREVENTION BY COMMUNITY COALITIONS IN WASHINGTON STATE
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Despite documented harm associated with marijuana use, several states, including Washington State, have legalized the use of medical and recreational marijuana for adults over 21. These changes have potential harmful consequences for rates and patterns in adolescent use. Compared to adult users, adolescent marijuana users are at greater risk for more severe and negative health, legal, and educational outcomes. For a variety of reasons, commonly used prevention strategies for addressing adolescent and young adult marijuana use, like school-based approaches, may not fully support the needs of an entire population. Environmental interventions are another group of approaches to consider in targeting youth and adolescent marijuana use. Environmental interventions change the context of use rather than focusing on changing individual behavior and can reach a broad population to reduce overall risk by supporting an environment of nonuse and normative shifts. Looking to the literature on environmental interventions for tobacco and alcohol use, the present study examined environmental interventions in 52 communities across Washington State. Each community received funding from the Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative (CPWI), a partnership of Washington agencies, counties, schools and community members to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate prevention services in communities. Results indicate that communities receiving CPWI funding implement an average of 14 high-quality environmental interventions for youth marijuana use. Several community characteristics, including population density and length of coalition implementation, may also relate to increased probability of communities implementing high-quality environmental interventions. These results contribute toward a growing body of knowledge addressing a critical need to inform policies on marijuana legalization and advance the field's understanding of how coalitions and environmental interventions can lay groundwork for preventing and reducing youth marijuana use, especially by state and local health administrations such as DBHR.


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Canadian Language Benchmarks (version 2000)
The Canadian Language Benchmarks 2000: English as a second language for adults provides a set of descriptors of what learners can do with English at various levels, expressed as 12 benchmarks for each of the four skill areas: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
The purpose of the CLB is to describe accurately where the learner's ability to use English places him or her within the national descriptive framework of communicative language.
The CLB describe a personís ability to use the English language to accomplish a set of tasks at 12 Benchmark levels, in four language skill areas:
Each Benchmark contains:
- A global performance, or a short Benchmark performance profile
- Four selected competencies in social interaction, instructions, suasion and information
- Examples of communication tasks that may be used to demonstrate the required standard of proficiency
CLB 2000: Chart Overview
The following table illustrates how similar competencies require increasing complexity of performance across the three stages of proficiency.
Competency: Reading Instructional Texts
Follow very simple short everyday
instructions in a predictable context.
|Follow short common instructions and instructional texts.||Follow extensive, very complex|
and/or specialized instructions
and instructional texts.
Follow one-step instructions in educational materials in a classroom situation (e.g., print, copy, circle and underline, fill in, check and draw).
Explain/convey to someone health and safety warnings and instructions for use that are printed on chemical product labels (e.g., on dishwasher detergent containers).
Read selected personnel policy regulations and instructions, and apply the information to a specific case study situation.
|Competency: Writing Recording Information||Copy words and phrases to record short information for personal use.|
Reproduce and record simple to medium complexity information for various purposes (e.g., notes, summaries, main points and other formats).
Select and reproduce very complex information from multiple sources in a variety of appropriate formats.
Copy information from an appointment note into a calendar (e.g., name, address, time).
|Take point-form notes from onepage written text or from a 10- to 15-minute oral presentation on a practical topic.|
Write an article or paper for a public forum, presenting a synthesis or overview of an area of knowledge, based on multiple pieces of research or other publications.
Note: Competencies and tasks are only samples indicative of the range of a personís language ability at a particular Benchmark level.


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The first and last logical blocks on a track can not be determined because of the physical to logical mapping. However, the first and last logical blocks of a cylinder can be determined. The good physical blocks on a cylinder are mapped, in order, to the logical blocks. Therefore the rotational latency between two adjacent logical blocks is minimal, even if they are not adjacent physical blocks.
One would readily see that the average rotational latency is equal to half the revolution period of the disk. The average seek time is also about the same as average rotational latency. Therefore to optimize the data throughput of the disks, the read commands to the disk must request data of the size of one or several tracks.


Definitions for "Chance"
an opportunity for success
Keywords: perchance
By chance; perchance.
Something that occurs randomly. Clearly, if everything has a cause and effect then there can be no such thing as chance! However, in statistics it refers to the likelihood that any numerical difference observed between two conditions is NOT the result of the IV on the DV but has been caused by something else that hasn't been measured.
A choreographic process in which elements are specifically chosen and defined but randomly structured to create a dance or movement phrase. This process demands high levels of concentration in performance to deal effectively with free-association and surprise structures that appear spontaneously.
Keywords: maclay, slayer, benson, buffy, debut
Chance is the directing debut of actress Amber Benson (best known from her role as Tara Maclay in Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
a great tale that effortlessly combines elements of chick lit, buddy tales, paranormal, and amateur sleuth with a contemporary romance in such a manner that cross-subgenre fans will welcome a new talent onto their bookshelves
Keywords: specter, reckoned
a specter to be reckoned with
Keywords: mercenary, marvel, mutant, vol, fallen
Chance is the name of two unrelated fictional characters in the Marvel Universe. The first is a mercenary and enemy of Spider-Man, the second a mutant who originally appeared in Fallen Angels vol. 1 #1.
Keywords: anthem, philanthropic, mom, sung, began
a anthem still sung all over the world today
a non-profit, and still establishing their tax-exempt philanthropic organization that began as a mom and son saw the need for more personal attention to those who seek help
Keywords: mann, manfred, album, band, released
Chance is an album released in 1980 by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
an independent,indigenous,non political, non govermental organization whose main mission is to address issues of Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, civil peace and child protection
a Canadian registered fundraising initiative devoted to the education of women and girls who face obstacles to education
Keywords: gambling, venture, hope, take, outcome
The operation or activity of such agent.
The causality of agents resulting in effects not intended by the agents under these particular circumstances.
Keywords: diluted, pretty, message
a pretty diluted message
Random variation; an explanation of the distribution of variables; an alternative explanation for an apparent treatment effect.
Keywords: magic, better, getting, item
5-15% better chance of getting magic item
Keywords: probability
Keywords: friend, street, old, meet, case


The Pitt-Addington Marsh WMA (Wildlife Management Area) supports over 200 bird and 29 mammal species. This WMA is generally a flat, alluvial floodplain made up of dyked and undyked areas.
Pitt Lake is the largest tidal freshwater lake in the world. There is a rare reverse delta at the mouth of the Pitt River, a result of deposition which occurs when rapidly flooding tides dam and reverse the main Fraser River outflow back up into Pitt Lake. The WMA also contains Pitt Polder Ecological Reserve, an area of sedge bog and two forested granitic outcrops rising 114 metres above the floodplain.
Parts of the WMA accommodate wildlife viewing and limited seasonal hunting.


Sign the petition against nuclear reactors | Greenpeace Romania
Sign the petition against nuclear reactors
Pagină - martie 3, 2011
Romania has currently one nuclear power plant with two functional reactors in Cernavoda (South-East of Romania). Cernavoda is situated in an area with high earthquake risk. The Romanian Government plans to build two more nuclear reactors (Cernavoda 3 and 4 ). These reactors are of an outdated Canadian design, the CANDU 6.
Greenpeace protest action at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, Romania
Greenpeace-tüntetés a romániai cernavodă-i atomerőműnél.
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The design of CANDU 6 is under critique because of several key flaws:
- It has a positive reactivity coefficient – one of the design factors leading to the Chernobyl catastrophe. Because of this, CANDU reactors are not allowed inthe USA, Germany or France;
- Because it uses heavy water, it leaks more of the radioactive substance tritium into the environment than other designs. This could be dangerous for vulnerable people like pregnant women and children under four years old living in the nearby town of Cernavoda;
- It is relatively easy to divert spent fuel from the reactor. India used a similar design to obtain plutonium for its nuclear bomb in 1974. We don't want Cernavoda to become a model for other countries who may be interested in nuclear weapon production.
Romania has no proper solution for the nuclear waste produced by the Cernavoda nuclear reactors.
The Romanian government proposes yet another nuclear power plant in the North of the country, in Transilvania. It announced that it chose three sites on the Somes River, but keeps the information secret because of fear for protests.
Greenpeace privacy policy: Greenpeace does not give your personal data to other organisations, keeps them confidential and uses them only in the mentioned purpose, that of supporting the petition. On the basis of 677/2001 law, and on the governmental law 36/2007, Greenpeace Romania is an official operator of personal data registered under the number 14429.
Atenție, dacă ești român și vrei ca semnătura ta să conteze, te rugăm, semnează pe pagina petiției în română:


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These Forward Planning sheets are an easy and effective way to forward plan for the upcoming school weeks. These sheets can be placed in your planning file and ideas jotted down to ensure you don't miss a single moment!
This resources is available in 4 different formats and 2 colour options.
If you like this resource, check out our other planning resources available in the store:
- Relief Teacher Communication Sheet
- Weekly Lesson Overview
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text: Marian is a suburban town located in the local government area of the Mackay Regional Council in the state of Queensland. The town's name was taken from the non-operational Marian railway station, which was thought to be derived from the name of a local property known as Mary Ann. Among the oldest structures in the suburb include the Marian Mill Post Office that has been open since January 1, 1909. Its name was later changed to Marian in 1910. A museum that features the historic Melba House and the Pioneer Valley Visitor Information Centre are also found in Marian. The Marian sugar refinery plant, which is one of the biggest sugar refineries in Australia, is also located in the suburb.


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- Who invented tarred roads?
- Is Tar toxic to humans?
- Is road tar toxic?
- What is the black stuff on roads?
- Can you do your own asphalt?
- Is tar used to make roads?
- Is tar and asphalt the same thing?
- What is road tar made of?
- Is asphalt cheaper than concrete?
- What causes white tar?
- Why are roads made tar?
- What are the three types of bitumen?
- Is road tar flammable?
- Is tar a carcinogen?
- Is Breathing asphalt bad?
- Can you make tar?
- Are roads made of cement?
Who invented tarred roads?
Edgar Purnell HooleyTarmacadam is a road surfacing material made by combining macadam surfaces, tar, and sand, patented by Welsh inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1902.
The terms "tarmacadam" and tarmac are also used for a variety of other materials, including tar-grouted macadam, bituminous surface treatments, and modern asphalt concrete..
Is Tar toxic to humans?
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that coal tar is carcinogenic to humans and that creosote is probably carcinogenic to humans. EPA has also determined that coal tar creosote is a probable human carcinogen.
Is road tar toxic?
When hot asphalt is applied in a molten state, it generates toxic fumes. Workers exposed to asphalt fumes are at risk of developing headaches, rashes, cough, and possibly cancer. There is no OSHA standard for asphalt fumes.
What is the black stuff on roads?
According to Wikipedia, bitumen is defined as a black viscous mixture of hydrocarbons obtained naturally or as a residue from petroleum distillation. It is used for road surfacing and roofing. An asphalt concrete mix actually contains aggregate as well as a bituminous mixture.
Can you do your own asphalt?
Making your own asphalt driveway is hard work, and not a job for one person. If you have friends who will help you, it is possible to save a lot of money by doing your own driveway, even after the cost of rental equipment is factored in.
Is tar used to make roads?
During the early and mid-20th century, when town gas was produced, coal tar was a readily available byproduct and extensively used as the binder for road aggregates. The addition of coal tar to macadam roads led to the word "tarmac", which is now used in common parlance to refer to road-making materials.
Is tar and asphalt the same thing?
The main difference between Tar and Asphalt is that the Tar is a substance and Asphalt is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum; bitumen variety. … Tar-like products can also be produced from other forms of organic matter, such as peat.
What is road tar made of?
Tar is refined natural resin or 'pitch', usually from the wood and roots of pine trees, but these are rarely found in our pavements. In fact, most of the 'tar' in tarmac is bitumen, which can be found in nature as a semi-solid form of petrol; but it is more commonly a bi-product of crude oil production by distillation.
Is asphalt cheaper than concrete?
Cost. Ignoring any maintenance costs, asphalt is generally much cheaper to install than concrete. On average, the cost per square foot for asphalt will run between $2.50 to $4.00. … It's not unheard of to have a stained concrete driveway with a smooth finish cost over $15.00 per square foot.
What causes white tar?
Naphthalene (also called white tar and tar camphor) is a white solid that evaporates easily. Its present in fuels such as petroleum and coal and has been used in mothballs and moth flakes. Burning tobacco or wood produces naphthalene.
Why are roads made tar?
The chip seal treatment is a cost efficient method of pavement preservation that helps prevent water from seeping into and softening the base of the road. … The tar-like substance is actually an emulsion of water and liquid asphalt which penetrates and seals small cracks in the existing pavement.
What are the three types of bitumen?
Three types of bituminous emulsions are available, which are Rapid setting (RS), Medium setting (MS), and Slow setting (SC). Bitumen emulsions are ideal binders for hill road construction. Where heating of bitumen or aggregates are difficult. Rapid setting emulsions are used for surface dressing work.
Is road tar flammable?
First, it must be recognized that all asphalt products, when heated enough, are flammable. That means that if you heat any asphalt hot enough, whether it is a cut back, an asphalt cement, or an emulsion, hazardous vapors will be produced.
Is tar a carcinogen?
A few carcinogens commonly found in tar include benzene, acrylamide and acrylonitrile. Smoking exposes delicate cells inside the lungs directly to these compounds. This causes mutations in the DNA of the cells, which leads to cancer.
Is Breathing asphalt bad?
Asphalt doesn't exactly scream danger or potential workplace illness, however, the fumes emitted from it can be very dangerous. Asphalt is a petroleum product which, if not settled properly, can catch fire. It can cause skin irritation, lung irritation and burns.
Can you make tar?
Tar can be produced from coal, wood, petroleum, or peat. Mineral products resembling tar can be produced from fossil hydrocarbons, such as petroleum.
Are roads made of cement?
Concrete is made using aggregate (like crushed rock and sand), along with cement and water. … When roads, parking lots or driveways are built using asphalt construction, hot asphalt (bitumen mixed with fine aggregate) is poured onto a bed of heavier aggregate and then pressed into it with a steamroller.


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Imperial Oil, majority owned by ExxonMobil Corp., produces an average of more than 140,000 b/d of bitumen from the Cold Lake deposit via cyclic steam stimulation.
ExxonMobil Upstream Research said the steam injection technology, developed by Imperial at Cold Lake, improves regulation and distribution of steam in long horizontal wells, reducing the number of wells required, lowering operating costs by cutting steam consumption, and improving bitumen recovery.
The system has two key components. One is an externally mounted screen section that facilitates contact between the well and reservoir. The other is one or more small flow orifices beneath the screen section that create the desired level of flow restriction between the inside of the pipe and the reservoir.
The technology allows control of steam into the formation over the full length of a horizontal well. In steam-assisted gravity drainage developments, it can be used in injector and producer wells to manage steam distribution.
Eddie Lui, Imperial vice-president, oil sands development and research, said the company has seen reductions of up to 10% in carbon dioxide emissions because of improved efficiency of injected steam and improvement in ultimate recovery.


text: Based on the panel data of 28 provinces (cities and autonomous regions) from 1997 to 2018, the regional differences of farmers' income have been analyzed by using Gini coefficient, Theil index and MLD. By using Shapley value decomposition method, the factors affecting the regional differences of farmers' income under the distortion of factor market have been decomposed and the contribution degrees of them have been measured. The study has shown that the regional difference of farmers' income is increasing year by year. Although fluctuating, the overall value tends to reach the warning line of international income gap. The distortion of factor market in different regions has a significant negative impact on the growth of farmers' income. The rural human capital, the scale of rural financial development, the openness of agricultural trade, the level of agricultural scale management, the level of regional industrialization and the adjustment of agricultural related policies have a significant positive impact on the growth of farmers' income. The distortion of factor market is the first factor that causes the expansion of regional differences in farmers' income, and the adjustment of agricultural related policies is the only factor that reduces the regional differences in farmers' income, while the other factors have expanded the regional differences in farmers' income to a certain extent.


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- Download and install ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server (ESHP)
- Manage ESHP using ESET Security Management Center
ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server (ESHP) must be installed manually on each Web Server in your SharePoint farm, and cannot be installed remotely using ESET Remote Administrator or ESET Security Management Center. Before you begin the installation process, make sure that you have the following items available:
- Your ESET-issued product license file (emailed to you following your purchase of ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server)
- The Administrator username and password used to access your Microsoft SharePoint Site(s)
Ensure that your SharePoint administrator account has the following:
- SharePoint Farm Administrators privileges
- Access to website collections
- 'Log on as service' privileges
- Your SharePoint account is member of the SQL SysAdmin role on the database server (if SharePoint is configured to connect to the database using Windows authentication)
For more information on configuring a SharePoint administrator account, see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: _URL_
- Click the appropriate link below to download the ESHP installer file. Save the installer (.msi) file to your Desktop:
- When the download is complete, double-click the installer file to launch the ESET Security Setup Wizard.
- Select your language and click Next.
- Read the End-User License Agreemeent. Select I accept the terms in the License Agreement and click Next.
- In the Installation mode window, select Complete and click Next to continue.
- Verify and update the install location for the ESET Security Product, Module or Data folders if necessary. Click Install.
- Click Finish. ESET Security will open automatically.
- When the installation is finished, select an activation option. In this example, Enter a License Key is selected.
- In the Product activation screen, type the License Key included in the email you received following your purchase of ESET Security and click Activate. If you do not have this info, click here to have it resent.
- Following activation, you may be prompted to set your preferences for ESET Live Grid and detection of potentially unwanted applications. Be sure to complete these steps to receive the most effective protection from ESET Security.
ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server can be managed using ESET Remote Administrator as soon as it is installed. See the ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server User Guide for more information.
KB Solution ID: KB7019 |Document ID: 26305|Last Revised: September 18, 2018


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Configuring Cisco IOS to forward events
You can configure a Cisco IOS-based device to forward events.
About this task
- Log in to your Cisco IOS Server, switch, or router.
Type the following command to log in to the router in privileged-exec:
Type the following command to switch to configuration mode:
Type the following commands:
logging <IP address>
logging source-interface <interface>
<IP address> is the IP address of the IBM® QRadar® host and the SIM components.
<interface> is the name of the interface, for example, dmz, lan, ethernet0, or ethernet1.
Type the following to configure the priority level:
logging trap warning
logging console warning
Where warning is the priority setting for the logs.
Configure the syslog facility:
logging facility syslog
- Save and exit the file.
Copy the running-config to startup-config by typing
the following command:
copy running-config startup-config
You are now ready to configure the log source in QRadar.
The configuration is complete. The log source is added to QRadar as Cisco IOS events are automatically discovered. Events that are forwarded to QRadar by Cisco IOS-based devices are displayed on the Log Activity tab of QRadar.


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Comparing Colony countries vs Netocratic countries
When we are comparing Colony countries vs Netocratic countries, it is essential to know whether these countries are the places where these government forms have originated. Colony has originated in Rome and the place/s where Netocracy has originated is Not Applicable. When a country adopts a government form, it means that the ideology of that government form becomes the key principle in running the country. Comparing Colony vs Netocracy Definition will help you in grasping the meaning of these ideologies. We give you a gist about the presence of Colony and Netocracy. Colony countries vs Netocratic countries comparison can be found by its presence in different continents of the world. A list of the Colony and Netocratic countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, American and other continents is given below:
- Colony countries in Asia are Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. Netocratic countries in Asia include NA.
- The list of European Colony countries comprises of Malta. List of European countries that have adopted Netocracy include NA.
- In North America, countries that have accepted Colony as form of government are Barbados, Canada and Jamaica. Netocratic countries in North America are NA.
- Argentina, Brazil and NA are the countries with Colony as a government form. NA are the Netocratic countries present in South America.
- The list of Colony countries in Africa includes Angola, Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mozambique, Somalia and South Africa. Netocratic countries in Africa are NA.
- Colony has been applied in other continents in Australia and NA. Netocracy is also present in countries like NA.


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Rationale Behind Whidbey C++ Breaking Changes
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The explanations, workarounds, scenarios and the rationale behind the decisions to change the Whidbey C++ compiler.
Introduction
Microsoft have made over 20 breaking changes to the C++ compiler for Whidbey. The Microsoft development team would love to get feedback on these changes and so have provided the following explanations, workarounds, scenarios and rationales behind their decision to change the compiler.
Note this is preliminary information and is subject to change.

1. Pointer-to-members now require qualified name and &.
Affected User Scenario:
Code written for previous versions of the compiler that just use the method name will give an error
Description:
This is Standard C++. Conformance demands that in order to create a pointer to a member function, the address of operator (&) is used with the fully qualified name of the method.
Customer Workaround:
Customer should fully qualify his method name and use the address of operator (&) in order to create a pointer to a member function. It's a common cause for bugs when we can't tell if the customer just forgot a parenthesis in a function call versus he wants to create a pointer to a member function.
Rationale:
Our rationale for making this enforcement other than conform to the C++ Standard, is that in many cases it lead customers to logical bugs in their code due missing parenthesis in function calls. Using the function's name without an argument list results in a function pointer which is convertible to several types, thus the code would have compiled leading to unexpected behavior at runtime.
2. __asm int 3 now generates native code
Affected User Scenario:
Customers that want their code to generate MSIL and use the __asm int 3 instruction to generate a break point will need to modify their code.
Description:
Before __asm int 3 was translated by the compiler to a CLR break instruction and did not cause native code to be generated when compiled with /clr.
Customer Workaround:
Customer must now use __debugbreak so that the function may be compiled to MSIL and still act as a break point.
Rationale:
We want to be more deterministic about when we generate native code or managed code instead of special casing inline assembly code when targeting the CLR. Inline assembly code should generate native code.
3. Explicit specialization not allowed as a copy constructor/copy assignment operator
Affected User Scenario:
Users that depended on an explicit template specialization for a copy constructor or copy assignment operator in their code will now get compiler error C2299.
Description:
Standard C++ prohibits this and as so we changed it to be conformant. Users will need to update their code.
Customer Workaround:
Customer workaround is to stop making the copy constructor/copy asignment operator a template function and just make it a regular function that takes a class type with the desired template arguments. Any code that calls the copy contructor/copy assignment operator by explicitly specifying the template arguments needs to remove the template arguments.
Rationale:
C++ Standard conformance is always on our list of priorities; users expect their code to be portable. We made this change to be conformant.
4. Unspecialized class template can't be used as a template argument in a base class list
Affected User Scenario:
Users that use an unspecialized template class name in the base class list for a the class' definition will see a compiler error.
Description:
It is illegal to use an unspecialized template class name as a template parameter in a base class list. Elsewhere inside the class, the compiler injects the unspecialized type parameter
Customer Workaround:
User needs to explicitly add the template type parameters to the template class name when using it as a template parameter in a base class list.
Rationale:
C++ Standard conformance is always on our list of priorities; users expect their code to be portable. We made this change to be conformant.
5. A using declaration of nested type is now illegal
Affected User Scenario:
Customers that have a using declaration with a nested type will now get C2885.
Description:
Before users where allowed to bring in a nested type's declaration to global scope by a using declaration. This is not allowed in Standard C++.
Customer Workaround:
Customer workaround is to fully qualify his nested type whenever he wants to use it. A typedef can also be used to bypass using the scope resolution operator everywhere.
Rationale:
The using declaration cannot be used with nested classes, the C++ Standard specifies that it can be used to bring a class into the scope that is contained in a namespace, not a class.
6. Compiler no longer allows const_cast to down cast in the old syntax.
Affected User Scenario:
Users were incorrectly allowed to use const_cast to down cast (cast down the hierarchy to a more derived class type) with our 7.0 and 7.1 compilers. User code like this will now hit compiler error C2440.
Description:
This is incorrect code. By definition const_cast can only be used to remove/add a cv qualifier. Any other use of it is incorrect.
Customer Workaround:
Customer workaround it to concatenate use of const_cast with one of our other casts that can down cast (dynamic_cast, static_cast or __try_cast).
Rationale:
The C++ Standard indicates that const_cast should be used to add or remove a const volatile qualifier; to allow it to behave differently special case on managed types was wrong.
7. Compiler disallows forward declaration of a managed enum
Affected User Scenario:
Declaring and not defining a managed enum (/clr or /clr:oldSyntax) will give a compiler error. Code written for the VC7.0 and VC7.1 compilers will break.
Description:
This used to compile in VC7.0 and VC7.1, but was not guaranteed to work correctly. The problem is the compiler can't correctly identify the underlying type of the enum.
Customer Workaround:
Customer should always define his managed enums at declaration
Rationale:
Managed enums can have different underlying types. We have no syntax for specifying an underlying type in an enum declaration; also the C++ Standard does not allow enum declarations.
8. Switch removal: /YX
Affected User Scenario:
Users used this switch to generate automatic pre-compiled headers support for their code. It was used by default from the IDE.
Description:
We have other switches that the user can use to add pre-compiled headers support that are better.
Customer Workaround:
Customer can use /Yc and /Yu for pre compiled headers support.
Rationale:
This switch sometimes behaved incorrectly. We prefer customers use /Yc and /Yu which give the user more control.
9. Switch removal: Optimizations /Oa, /Op and /Ow
Affected User Scenario:
Users will need to remove these from their projects.
Description:
These switches are both replaced by others or not needed anymore
Customer Workaround:
Customer can use the /fp switches for floating point optimizations.
Rationale:
Compiler options /Oa and /Ow usually led people to generate bad code and /Op was replaced by the better /fp switches; these provide the user with better control.
10. Switch removal: /ML and /MLd
Affected User Scenario:
Users that depended on statically linking to the single threaded CRT.
Description:
There is no single threaded CRT anymore
Customer Workaround:
Customer can just use /MT and /MTd respectively
Rationale:
We stopped making a single threaded C Runtime Library (CRT) and thus we do not need this compiler option anymore.
11. Switch removal: /G3 - /G7, /GB, /Gf, /GD, /GM
Affected User Scenario:
Users will need to remove these from their projects.
Description:
The processor specific optimization switches can be replaced by our /OX family of switches.
Customer Workaround:
Customer can achieve the same functionality using our /OX family of optimization switches.
Rationale:
Compiler options /G3 - /G7 targeted specific processors, most of which are no longer mass marketed. The user can achieve the same optimizations with our Ox compiler options. For 64 bit development, we added a new optimization switch: /Favor:[ALL|AMD64|EM64T]. Compiler option /Gf enabled string pooling but used writeable memory which is dangerous, /GF achieves the same functionality in safer readonly memory. Compiler option /GD's functionality can be achieved with our other optimizaton options; we do not need specific DLL optimizations. Compiler options /GM and /GB are not needed anymore.
12. Switch conflict: /clr and /MT
Affected User Scenario:
Users will need to replace /MT with /MD for their code targeting .NET
Description:
There is no support in the CRT for statically linking managed applications.
Customer Workaround:
Customer needs to change /MT to /MD and link dynamically to the CRT.
Rationale:
There is no support in the C Runtime Library to statically link to a managed application. All managed applications have to


openxava / documentation / EJB3 JPA
Table of contents
Configure your application to work with EJB3
Using JPA in your code
Using JPA from a validator or a callback method
OpenXava supports EJB3 JPA since the version 2.1.
Configure your application to work with EJB3
Since v3.0 JPA is the default persistence engine, so you have to do nothing. But if you are using a v2.1 or v2.2 and you want to use JPA then edit the file properties/ of your project, and leave it in this way:
# EJB3 Java Persistence API
From now on, your application will use EJB3 JPA instead of Hibernate to manage object persistence.
Using JPA in your code
You can use the standard Java Persistence API in any part of an OpenXava application, that is, inside calculators, validators, actions, filters, etc.
In order to facilitate the use of JPA OpenXava provides the XPersistence class. For example, if you wish to store an object in a database using the JPA, the normal way would be:
EntityManagerFactory f = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("default");
EntityManager manager = f.createEntityManager();
Customer customer =... ;
But, inside OpenXava and using XPersistence class you can write this:
Customer customer =... ;
No more.
The first time that you call to XPersistence.getManager() a manager is created and assigned to the current thread and a transaction is created too; the next time that you call it, the same manager is used. At the end of the complete cycle of action execution, OpenXava commits automatically the transaction and closes the manager.
You can optionally commit the transaction in any moment calling to XPersistence.commit(), if after this you use XPersistence.getManager() an new manager and a new transaction are created for you.
You can learn more seeing the API doc of org.openxava.jpa.XPersistence class.
Using JPA from a validator or a callback method
Both validators and callback methods can be executed in flush time, so if you use XPersistence.getManager() from them it can produce problems. If you need to use JPA in your validator or callback method, you will need to open a separate entity manager by means of XPersistence.createManager() (so that JPA does not flush your ongoing create or update). Use code like the following to obtain and use a new EntityManager instance:
EntityManager em = XPersistence.createManager();
//... query logic
em.close(); // You have to close the manager
Also be aware of possible troubles with isolation levels and record locking when using this technique.


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Nature published the Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars – identyfing ascendant performers in the research world. The University of Warsaw was ranked among the world's top 100 institutions.
The Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars uses the power of the Nature Index, which tracks the high-quality research of more than 8 000 global institutions. Applying WFC (weighted fractional count) the Nature summed up scientific achievements of institutions over the last four years (2012-2015). The index metric used to assess a country's contribution to 68 high impact natural science journals. Poland was mentioned as a one of the examples of countries that improved their research performance more than most. In the top 100 institutions the UW was ranked 96th. However, in the 25 institutions of South East Europe the UW was placed 3rd. Read more >>
Our University is present in more than 20 countries in 5 continents through archaeological excavations, ethnography and cultural studies research.
Some sites have been the subject of our research even for several decades. The archaeologists who investigate the ancient Egypt have at their disposal the University's Research Station in Cairo, established in 1959. Polish telescopes operate at the Las Campanas Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile, where UW astronomers perform large-scale sky surveys.


In the opening to the popular anime Fairy tale, they say this:
魔法は 普通に売り買いされ 人々の生活に根づいていた。
This is translated in the subtitles as:
Magic is traded like common goods. It has become a part of daily life, And there are people who use magic to make a living.
I can understand most of this, but what I'm having trouble with is the 根づいていた part at the end. As far as I can find, the only reading of 根 that would make sense would be ね; as in the root of something. So 人々の生活に根づいていた might somehow mean that magic had become the root of the people's livelihood.
I could be completely off base. What confuses me most though, is what づいていた might be since I have no idea what it is and can't seem to dig up any results for a verb that looks like this.
What does it mean?
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 "Magic has taken root in the people's livelihood". The づいて part is likely rendaku on ついて. – nhahtdh Nov 27 '14 at 16:52
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 You'll find this compound verb in most dictionaries with kanji: 根付く. つく is used for (one of) its literal meaning(s), "attach" etc. So 根付く -> ""take root". Here it is used figuratively, similar like in English, "ingrained in", "become an important part of" etc. Perhaps you know thi 付く from phrases such as 血のついた服 - "bloodstained clothes; clothes stained with blood". – blutorange Nov 27 '14 at 18:15
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 There is a verb [根]{ね}づく (also written 根付く), and that subtitle seems to be an almost best translation. You are right in that this verb is derived from two morphemes 根 and つく, but you shouldn't take them separately (I remember being taught "Don't break down the word 'understand' into two" when I first learned English :) ). – isayamag Nov 27 '14 at 18:37
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 Anyway, a boundary between kanji and kana doesn't necessarily mean a boundary of words. Getting used to this would be helpful. – isayamag Nov 27 '14 at 18:37
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 _USER_ Judging by your comment, it appears you'll have to learn about 〜ている as well. – snailplane Nov 27 '14 at 22:16
根付いていた。In this case, 根 means tree's root. If tree's root grew deep into the ground, the tree can bear against strong wind.
根付いていた means two thing are tightly coupled.
It means pine tree has deep root under the ground. therefore it has good resistance against strong wind. (It also the pint tree and the ground are tightly coupled.)
In general meaning
Magic and peoples daily life are tightly coupled. (because magic is widely used in that world.)
 - don't know why someone voted this down.. this is a good explanation. It's metaphorical in the OP's question "things are rooted together" or "entwined" – sova Mar 8 '15 at 21:01
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Welcome to the Division of Fine Arts and Communication
Quincy University's Division of Fine Arts and Communication guides students of music, art, graphic design, theatre, and communication to grow and develop their talents, both as creative individuals and as team members. Our programs emphasize hands-on experiences:
- Communication students hone their skills in our multimedia labs and television studio, and student newspaper.
- Music students practice in our performance facilities and recording studio and participate in Concert Choir, Symphonic Band, and more.
- Our Art/Graphic Design students use the Coleman-Hughes Graphic Design complex, complete with everything they need, from a darkroom to ceramics studio.
- Theatre students perform in MacHugh Theatre, stage a Madrigal Dinner, and create a traveling children's production.
These experiences plus courses taught by faculty members who are talented artists and communicators themselves will help our students succeed in a variety of careers.


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Divergent thinking is related to creativity and is related to the generation of different alternatives or solutions for a given task. The usual way to measure it is to invent the different uses that a current object can have for a limited time. And they've done it just to compare the divergent thinking of three artificial intelligence text creators (chatbots) with 256 volunteers. The result is that chatka boots are better than humans. However, the best volunteers were better than the best chats.
The researchers delivered four objects to the three chatrooms (ChatGPT3, ChatGPT4 and Copy.Ai) and the 256 volunteers to invent the uses: a rope, a box, a pencil and a candle. To measure the originality of the responses, researchers have taken into account creativity (1 to 5) and the semantic distance between the response given and the original use (0 to 2). On average, the responses of chatbots have been better than those of humans in both parameters: creativity 2.91, human 2.47, and semantic distance 0.95 and 0.91, respectively.
The difference between the highest and lowest scores of volunteers was much greater than that of the chatrooms. And the results of the best humans were pretty much better than the chotoads.
The work has been attended by researchers from Finland and Norway and has been published in the journal Scientific Reports. Within the limits, the homogeneity of the volunteer group (all young or middle-aged adults from western culture) and the inability to compare the processes (among other things, because chats are "black boxes") are mentioned. However, they propose to investigate how to integrate chatbots into future creativity processes.


Using Galapagos with Zombie Solver
Hi all,
I'm working on a project that involves optimizing a NURBS curve 'barrier' that prevents particles generated using kangaroo from passing through. However, when connecting the sphere collide, load and curvepointcollide components to zombie solver, the solver becomes unresponsive and freezes the grasshopper application.
I have also attempted to recreate this setup using Flexhopper, but the plugin doesn't seem to have a solver similar that only outputs the results after every iteration, and can not be integrated with Galapagos.
I have two specific questions:
 1. Can the zombie solver be used in conjunction with Galapagos to optimize the NURBS curve in response to every iteration of particles generated by kangaroo?
 2. Could there by any other methods, such as using other plugins such as Flexhopper to simulate fluids, alongside an evolutionary solver such as Galapagos?
Many Thanks!
kangaroo 2d mesh (1).gh (23.1 KB) Kangaroo 2D Wave sim test (1).3dm (48.4 KB)
Hi Fergalt, I am recently having the same issue of using Kangaroo with Galapagos together, I wonder if there is any working example of it…
Hi _USER_
The file 'Catenary_Galapagos' here shows how to combine Kangaroo and Galapagos:


General English
General Science
 - adjective side by side and having the same distance between them at every point
 - noun a line representing a parallel on a map or chart
Cars & Driving
 - noun two or more electrical components each receiving the same voltage
 - adjective used to describe a computer system in which two or more processors operate simultaneously on one or more items of data
 - adjective used to describe two or more bits of a word transmitted over separate lines at the same time
 - The condition in which two lines or planes are an equal distance apart at all points.
 - Electric blasting caps arranged so that the firing current passes through all of them at the same time.
 - A state or condition in which there is an equal distance at all points. For example, two infinitely long straight lines which do not intersect, or two curves or surfaces which are equidistant from each other at all points. Also, pertaining to that maintains this relationship.
 - characteristic of, or pertaining to a parallel circuit or parallel connection.
 - Acted upon, performed, functioning, or occurring simultaneously. For instance, parallel processors working together.
 - The simultaneous processing, storing, transfer, transmission, reception, or the like, of multiple bits, characters, or data units. This contrasts with serial (3), where each is handled one after the other.
 - Any of the great lines which circle the earth, and which are parallel (1) to the plane of the equator.
 - noun a sign (||) used as a reference mark for footnotes
 - see rostrum.
 - noun an imaginary line running round the earth, linking points at an equal distance from the equator
Origin & History of "parallel"
Etymologically, parallel simply means 'beside each other'. It comes via French parallèle and Latin parallēlus from Greek parállēlos. this was a compound formed from pará 'beside' and allḗlōn 'each other', a derivative of állos 'other' (to which English else is distantly related).


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Perfume is used in order to make something have a fragrant odor. It is a fragrant liquid which is typically made from oil extracts of flowers or spices. In today's time, the most popular type of perfume has the fragrance of the rose. However, rose oils are quite expensive to have since its production or extraction process is a hard task. You have to do most of the things manually like when harvesting, you have to do it by hand before sunrise. Also, the harvested petals should be extracted at the same day since rose petals might be withered and lose its oil extracts. In addition, it takes many pounds of rose petals to make just one ounce of oil.
In order to understand how laborious the extraction process is, here are the three methods which are mainly used for getting the oil out of the rose petals. First is the solvent extraction method. In this process, a kind of solvent like hexane is used as a mixing component with the rose petals. Hexane is the preferable to choose since it is the type of solvent that draws out the aroma of the rose as well as some wax and pigments.
After drawing out the aroma of the rose, the hexane is removed by a vacuum process leaving a thick wax-like or commonly called as Concrete in the perfume industry. The Concrete is then applied with alcohol to draw out the scent. In order to remove the alcohol mixture, it is evaporated under low pressure, leaving the pure scent extract behind with an amber yellow to deep red in color. Such extract is identified as Rose Absolute. Among the three methods, this one is the least expensive one.
Second is the extraction of oil by steam distilling. This process involves large stills filled with rose petals and water. Obviously, the still is heated for a period of time. After that the water is drained off, leaving only the concentrated oil from the rose petal. Then, red is still the drained off water in order to extract water-soluble oils. The water-soluble constituents produced from the drained off the water are then mixed with the original concentrated oil to produce Rose Otto or Attar which has a pale yellow to olive green color that could possibly crystallize at room temperature. Rose Otto is made up of around 20% of the concentrated oil and 80% of the water-soluble products.
And the last is extraction via superficial carbon dioxide. Among the three methods, this one is the most expensive one because of the use of superficial carbon dioxide. Liquefied carbon dioxide is mixed with the rose petals and heated at very low temperatures. The rest of the process is similar to the solvent extraction method. The only difference is that this method uses carbon dioxide rather than hexane.


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George Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
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|George Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach|
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|Father||John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach|
|Mother||Joanna Elisabeth of Baden-Durlach|
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|Died||29 March 1703
George Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (3 May 1678 – 29 March 1703), known as George Frederick the Younger, the third son of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach by his first wife the Margravine Joanna Elisabeth of Baden-Durlach (and thus a half-brother of Queen Caroline of Great Britain), succeeded his elder brother as Margrave of Ansbach in 1692.
In the War of the Palatinian Succession he fought from 1695 to 1697 as a volunteer in the Imperial Army. During the Spanish War of Succession in 1702 he succeeded in taking the fortress Bersello Modena. He was killed at the Battle of Kittensee in 1703, and as he was unmarried, Ansbach passed to his younger half-brother William Frederick.
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An assessment for attitudes consistent with sexual offending for use with offenders with intellectual disabilities
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Background: Over the past 10 years, the focus of assessment and treatment for sex offenders has changed from the assessment of skills and deviant sexual preferences to the assessment and treatment of cognitions that might be considered to encourage or justify inappropriate sexual behaviour. There have been a few assessment measures of deviant sexual cognitions developed for adults in mainstream sex offender populations but none in less able populations. The present study describes an assessment questionnaire consisting of 7 scales for cognitions associated with rape, voyeurism, exhibitionism, dating abuse, stalking, homosexual assault and offences against children, designed to be used by sex offenders with intellectual disabilities. Method: Four groups of subjects were employed in this study - sex offenders, non-sexual offenders, non-offenders all with mild intellectual disabilities or borderline intelligence and a further group of normal men. All subjects completed the questionnaire and 86 subjects provided reliability data. Results: Each item was subjected to 3 tests of reliability. Retained items were required to achieve an item-to-total correlation of at least 0.4. Of the 7 scales, 5 achieved an internal consistency coefficient of 0.8 or greater. All scales successfully discriminated between groups even when the normal controls were eliminated because their scores were so low. Conclusions: It is possible to develop scales to assess cognitions related to types of offences which discriminate between sex offenders and other groups with intellectual disabilities. The final scales have robust statistical properties and can be used for clinical and research purposes. Some caution was noted in the use of attitudinal assessments for sex offenders.
Lindsay, W.R, Whitefield, E. and Carson, D. 2007. Legal and Criminological Psychology. 12(1): pp.55-68


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They have taken delivery of the main body of the satellite donated by Loughborough-based engineering company Magna Parva. The project will result in the satellite going into orbit in mid 2009.
20 students in the renowned Department of Physics and Astronomy are involved in the mission to detect space dust.
Laura Evans, one of the programme leaders said: "Students from the department of Physics and Astronomy are involved in a project to design, build and launch a student satellite which will conform to the CubeSat standard developed by California Polytechnic. This is a major undertaking with Leicester undergraduates responsible for everything from inception to launch on a real space mission which will provide new, innovative science.
"The University of Leicester's CubeSat project, named PLUME, started in January 2007 and aims to place an active nano-meteoroid dust detector into orbit by mid-2009. This detector will be capable of characterising the near Earth dust environment an order of magnitude better than any previously flown active detector, allowing significant science to be accomplished.
"The project team is comprised of approximately 20 undergraduates who both run and manage the project. The mission has the full support of the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre and of Magna Parva. The team are also under consideration for financial support from the East Midlands Space Academy.
"Provided the mission schedule is maintained the satellite is likely to be the first English CubeSat in orbit.
"The nanometeoriod detector on PLUME will allow us to analyse dust particles that are smaller than ever before. Our satellite will be looking at the near-Earth environment so the results will be very relevant and of interest to theoreticians as well as experimentalists."
Philip Peterson, 2nd year undergraduate working on the ADCS subsystem said:"I'm an undergraduate, and I'm building a satellite. It's just incredible. There aren't many universities in the country where I could get to do something like this."Professor George Fraser, Director of the University's Space Research Centre, said :
"It's great to see Magna Parva's generous support helping turn our students' ambitious plans into real hardware"
Andrew Bowyer, Director, Magna Parva Ltd said: ""We at Magna Parva are excited to be helping Leicester's undergraduates fly a very innovative instrument, and in doing so have been impressed by the professionalism of all concerned at the Space Research Centre.
"Our intention is not just to contribute financially, but to be involved in the project up to launch. Through this integrated approach, the undergraduates will gain some experience of industry to add to their list of new skills."
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Astronomers from Bonn and Tautenburg in Thuringia (Germany) used the 100-m radio telescope at Effelsberg to observe several galaxy clusters. At the edges of these large accumulations of dark matter, stellar systems (galaxies), hot gas, and charged particles, they found magnetic fields that are exceptionally ordered over distances of many million light years. This makes them the most extended magnetic fields in the universe known so far.
The results will be published on March 22 in the journal „Astronomy & Astrophysics".
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Researchers at the Goethe University Frankfurt, together with partners from the University of Tübingen in Germany and Queen Mary University as well as Francis Crick Institute from London (UK) have developed a novel technology to decipher the secret ubiquitin code.
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Silicon nanosheets are thin, two-dimensional layers with exceptional optoelectronic properties very similar to those of graphene. Albeit, the nanosheets are less stable. Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have, for the first time ever, produced a composite material combining silicon nanosheets and a polymer that is both UV-resistant and easy to process. This brings the scientists a significant step closer to industrial applications like flexible displays and photosensors.
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