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Module Version: 1.120670 Source Latest Release: Net-CLI-Interact-2.141520
NAME ^
Net::CLI::Interact::Role::Prompt - Command-line prompt management
VERSION ^
version 1.120670
DESCRIPTION ^
This is another core component of Net::CLI::Interact, and its role is to keep track of the current prompt on the connected command line interface. The idea is that most CLI have a prompt where you issue commands, and are returned some output which this module gathers. The prompt is a demarcation between each command and its response data.
Note that although we "keep track" of the prompt, Net::CLI::Interact is not a state machine, and the choice of command issued to the connected device bears no relation to the current (or last matched) prompt.
INTERFACE ^
set_prompt( $prompt_name )
This method will be used most commonly by applications to select and set a prompt from the Phrasebook which matches the current context of the connected CLI session. This allows a sequence of commands to be sent which share the same Prompt.
The name you pass in is looked up in the loaded Phrasebook and the entry's regular expression stored internally. An exception is thrown if the named Prompt is not known.
Typically you would either refer to a Prompt in a Macro, or set the prompt you are expecting once for a sequence of commands in a particular CLI context.
When a Macro completes and it has been defined in the Phrasebook with an explicit named Prompt at the end, we can assume the user is indicating some change of context. Therefore the prompt is automatically updated on such occasions to have the regular expression from that named Prompt.
prompt_re
Returns the current Prompt in the form of a regular expression reference. The Prompt is used as a default to catch the end of command response output, when a Macro has not been set up with explicit Prompt matching.
Typically you would either refer to a Prompt in a Macro, or set the prompt you are expecting once for a sequence of commands in a particular CLI context.
unset_prompt
Use this method to empty the current prompt setting (see above). The effect is that the module will automatically set the Prompt for itself based on the last line of output received from the connected CLI. Do not use this option unless you know what you are doing.
has_set_prompt
Returns True if there is currently a Prompt set, otherwise returns False.
prompt_looks_like( $name )
Returns True if the current prompt matches the given named prompt. This is useful when you wish to make a more specific check on the current prompt.
find_prompt( $wake_up? )
A helper method that consumes output from the connected CLI session until a line matches any one of the named Prompts in the loaded Phrasebook, at which point no more output is consumed. As a consequence the prompt will be set (see above).
This might be used when you're connecting to a device which maintains CLI state between session disconnects (for example a serial console), and you need to discover the current state. However, find_prompt is executed automatically for you if you call a cmd or macro before any interaction with the CLI.
The current device output will be scanned against all known named Prompts. If nothing is found, the default behaviour is then to send the content of our wake_up slot (see below), and try to match again. The idea is that by sending one carriage return, we might be sent a new prompt. If you wish to disable this behaviour, pass a false value into this method.
wake_up
Text sent to a device within the find_prompt method if no output has so far matched any known named Prompt. Default is the value of the output record separator from the Transport (one newline).
last_prompt
Returns the Prompt which most recently was matched and terminated gathering of output from the connected CLI. This is a simple text string.
last_prompt_re
Returns the text which was most recently matched and terminated gathering of output from the connected CLI, as a quote-escaped regular expression with line start and end anchors.
AUTHOR ^
Oliver Gorwits <_EMAIL_>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE ^
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Oliver Gorwits.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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G_banking {lattice}
Calculates banking slope
banking(dx, dy)
dx, dy
vector of consecutive x, y differences.
banking is the banking function used when aspect = "xy" in high level Trellis functions. It is usually not very meaningful except with xyplot. It considers the absolute slopes (based on dx and dy) and returns a value which when adjusted by the panel scale limits will make the median of the above absolute slopes correspond to a 45 degree line.
This function was inspired by the discussion of banking in the documentation for Trellis Graphics available at Bell Labs' website (see Lattice), but is most likely identical to an algorithm described by Cleveland et al (see below). It is not clear (to the author) whether this is the algorithm used in S-PLUS. Alternative banking rules, implemented as a similar function, can be used as a drop-in replacement by suitably modifying lattice.options("banking").
Cleveland, William S. and McGill, Marylyn E. and McGill, Robert (1988) "The Shape Parameter of a Two-variable Graph", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 83, 289--300.
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Lattice, xyplot
## with and without banking
plot <- xyplot(sunspot.year ~ 1700:1988, xlab = "", type = "l",
 scales = list(x = list(alternating = 2)),
 main = "Yearly Sunspots")
print(plot, position = c(0,.3, 1,.9), more = TRUE)
print(update(plot, aspect = "xy", main = "", xlab = "Year"),
 position = c(0, 0, 1,.3))
## cut-and-stack plot (see also xyplot.ts)
xyplot(sunspot.year ~ time(sunspot.year) | equal.count(time(sunspot.year)),
 xlab = "", type = "l", aspect = "xy", strip = FALSE,
 scales = list(x = list(alternating = 2, relation = "sliced")),
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Random Number Generation Challenge (sort of)
Hi All,
I am trying to write a random number generator on my HP41CX such that I use the built-in time module to generate either an initial seed for a sequence of random numbers, or generate random numbers outright. Using the values for the current time (and also date) has the potential of generating unique initial seed values.
I think the solution involves the values of time, date, and possibly some sort of a counter.
The simpler the solution the better. So let's put our math thinking caps, shall we!
PS: I am also trying to solve the same problem with Excel. Of course using VBA code I have a lot of options for more complex/elaborate solutions and more speed.
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From _URL_
01 LBL "RNG4"
04 +
05 E49
06 *
07 PI
08 MOD
09 LN1+X
10 R-D
11 FRC
12 END
That's what I use.
This one will always make a new random number, it does not have the capability of regenerating a given sequence. It is a good starting point for both functions, though, since the routine can be used as a seed, then plugged into another RNG from the same URL that just uses a given seed.
Edited: 13 Feb 2010, 9:57 a.m.
Thank you Vladan!!!
Here is the VBA code for a class (which I call CVirtTime) that performs random number generation using a "virtual clock" that is not affected by the speed of the computer running the code. This virtual clock will advance the virtual time each time you call method NextRand() which generates uniform random numbers between 0 and 1. You must initialize the instance of the class using either InitMyTime or InitTime. The first method allows you to specify any time and date you want (and therefore you can duplicate the sequence of numbers generated). The method InitTime initializes the class instance using the current system date and time. Using this method you cannot replicate the sequence of random numbers. Once you initialize the class instance the virtual clock "ticks" as fast as the number of calls to method NextRand().
Option Explicit
Private m_nSec As Integer
Private m_nMin As Integer
Private m_nHour As Integer
Private m_nDay As Integer
Private m_nMonth As Integer
Private m_nYear As Integer
Private m_fCounter As Double
Private PI As Double
Private Function Log10(ByVal X As Double) As Double
Log10 = Log(X) / Log(10)
End Function
Private Function AbSin(ByVal X As Double) As Double
AbSin = Abs(Sin(X)) + 1
End Function
Private Function AbCos(ByVal X As Double) As Double
AbCos = Abs(Cos(X)) + 1
End Function
Private Sub INC(ByRef N As Integer)
N = N + 1
End Sub
Public Sub InitMyTime(ByVal nSec As Integer, ByVal nMin As Integer, ByVal nHour As Integer, _
ByVal nDay As Integer, ByVal nMonth As Integer, ByVal nYear As Integer)
m_nSec = Abs(nSec)
If m_nSec > 59 Then m_nSec = 0
m_nHour = Abs(nHour)
If m_nHour > 23 Then m_nHour = 0
m_nMin = Abs(nMin)
If m_nMin > 59 Then m_nHour = 0
m_nDay = Abs(nDay)
If m_nDay > 30 Or m_nDay = 0 Then m_nDay = 1
m_nMonth = Abs(nMonth)
If m_nMonth > 12 Or m_nMonth = 0 Then m_nMonth = 1
m_nYear = Abs(nYear)
If m_nYear < 1900 Then m_nYear = 1900
m_fCounter = 0
PI = 4 * Atn(1)
End Sub
Public Sub InitTime()
Dim t As Date
t = Now
m_nSec = Second(t)
m_nHour = Hour(t)
m_nMin = Minute(t)
m_nDay = Day(t)
m_nMonth = Month(t)
m_nYear = Year(t)
m_fCounter = 0
PI = 4 * Atn(1)
End Sub
Public Function NextRand() As Double
Dim X As Double
' manage the virtual time and date
If m_nSec = 60 Then
m_nSec = 0
INC m_nMin
If m_nMin = 60 Then
m_nMin = 0
INC m_nHour
If m_nHour = 24 Then
m_nHour = 0
INC m_nDay
If m_nDay = 30 Then
m_nDay = 1
INC m_nMonth
If m_nMonth = 12 Then
m_nMonth = 1
INC m_nYear
INC m_nMonth
End If
INC m_nDay
End If
INC m_nHour
End If
INC m_nMin
End If
INC m_nSec
End If
X = (5773 * AbSin(137 * m_nSec) * AbCos(173 * m_nMin) * AbSin(137 * m_nHour)) + _
(2377 * AbSin(237 * m_nDay) * AbCos(117 * m_nMonth) * AbCos(m_nYear))
m_fCounter = m_fCounter + 1
If m_fCounter > 1E+99 Then m_fCounter = 0
X = X + Abs(Sin(m_fCounter) + Log(1 + m_fCounter))
NextRand = X - Int(X)
End Function
Calculating the value for variable X is more of an art than a science (at least in my humble opinion). You can develop so many different kinds of expression to calculate X--some better than others. I tried using the modulo operator in a "creative" way, but found that using sin and cos function works rather well.
Edited: 15 Feb 2010, 8:52 a.m. after one or more responses were posted
Hi everyone.
Here is an M-Code function that I wrote to get random numbers.
-"RAND" uses the timer to produce pseudo-random numbers r between 0 and 1 ( 0 < r < 1 ). I don't know if r = 0 may happen.
-The content of register X is saved in L-register
084 "D"
00E "N"
001 "A"
012 "R"
0F8 READ 3(X)
128 WRIT 4(L)
130 LDI S&X
010 010 The user memory must be deselected by selecting
270 RAM SLCT a non-existent RAM ( at 010h )
130 LDI S&X then the Timer
0FB 0FB is
3F0 PRPH SLCT selected
3E8 WRIT 15(e) Set the A/B pointer to A
1BC RCR 11 Rotates C-register 11 digits right
046 C=0 S&X The user memory
270 RAM SLCT is selected again
05E C=0 MS
130 LDI S&X
041 041
04E C=0 ALL
35C PT=12
1D0 LD@PT- 7
210 LD@PT- 8
110 LD@PT- 4
050 LD@PT- 1
090 LD@PT- 2
250 LD@PT- 9
190 LD@PT- 6
1D0 LD@PT- 7
210 LD@PT- 8
1D0 LD@PT- 7
044 CLRF 4 C
070 N=C ALL =
171?NCXQ A
064 195C mod C
261?NCXQ C =
_PHONE_ A/C
0E8 WRIT 3(X)
Best Regards,
Cool........ but it looks Greek to me!!!
Beautiful example Jean-Marc, thanks for sharing it.
There is another implementation on the SandMath module, functions SEEDT and RAND written by Håkan Thörngren "a few years ago" - and published on PPCJ back then. I like it because it uses a memory buffer to store the seed(s). Also the time module is used to obtain an initial seed if the input is zero.
Edited: 15 Feb 2010, 4:30 a.m.
Namir, having read Donald Knuth I have the feeling that you are on the wrong track. From the top of my head, he states that having a complicated function does not make the pseudo random sequence any better. As a result: There are simple workable solutions like the Linear Congruential Method:
(from the pages cited below.)
Useful link: _URL_
(I'll have to check the pages for myself but they look promising.)
Sure the equation you mentioned is very popular and I used it to write typical pseudo-random number generators. My basic approach in this thread is to use the computer's system date and time as an automatic initial seed OR as a way to generate uniform random numbers outright. Since PC's run fast, a system date/time based algorithm risks of generating large arrays of the same random number. This problem prompted me to think of a using a counter to avoid generating the same numbers. Then, I thought of creating a class for a virtual clock that


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I have defined event handlers according to their classnames in the latest project that I'm working on.
for ex. all element with the class name "foo" should respond in a particular way on change event. and all elements with the class name "bar" should respond in some other way.
Now some of my elements fall under both classes i.e. class="foo bar" and they should respond in both ways. Right now, only one of the event handler function is being called.
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Short answer, you can't. One will execute before the other. Simultaneous isn't possible, but, both should be executing in the order in which they were raised. Can you give us some code to look at? – The Internet Oct 2 '12 at 5:16
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It depends on how you are binding the events. If you are binding them via jQuery and not overwriting the handlers via x.onchange = function() {... } - all the bound event handlers will get executed. This is because jQuery queues the event handlers instead of overwriting the previous binding(s).
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What you want is a variation of "behaviors" pattern.
It lets you to automatically process events on elements with given classes or other attributes.
The usual implementation is to listen to events on "document", and then, by event.target, define the action.
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function handle(e.type, elem, cls) {
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 alert("Event type " + e.type + " on elem " + elem.tagName + " with class " + cls);
Here function handle with process all events on elements with classes of your choice. If you wish to add other events or classes, just append them into the "on" list.
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A line search exact penalty method using steering rules
Richard H. Byrd, Gabriel Lopez-Calva, Jorge Nocedal*
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Abstract
Line search algorithms for nonlinear programming must include safeguards to enjoy global convergence properties. This paper describes an exact penalization approach that extends the class of problems that can be solved with line search sequential quadratic programming methods. In the new algorithm, the penalty parameter is adjusted at every iteration to ensure sufficient progress in linear feasibility and to promote acceptance of the step. A trust region is used to assist in the determination of the penalty parameter, but not in the step computation. It is shown that the algorithm enjoys favorable global convergence properties. Numerical experiments illustrate the behavior of the algorithm on various difficult situations.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)39-73
Number of pages35
JournalMathematical Programming
Volume133
Issue number1-2
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StatePublished - Jun 2012
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How to Stop Videos from Automatically Playing in Microsoft Edge?
We all love the Microsoft Edge browser that ships with Windows 11 and Windows 10. But, most people do not like its Autoplay feature. The Autoplay functionality distracts when it automatically start playing audio and video on the website. Everybody doesn't like to listen to audio and watching a video while browsing the web. Edge browser automatically starts playing audio and video when they find any of these on a website. If you also irritate with the auto-playing of audio and video on the Edge browser, this gearupwindows article will guide you through disabling them.
There are at least two options to stop the automatic playing of audio and video in the Edge browser. Either limit the autoplay feature or block autoplay on sites. Let's see how it is possible?
How to Limit Autoplay in Microsoft Edge?
If you don't want to stop the autoplay feature completely, then you can limit this feature. After limiting the autoplay feature, media such as video will still automatically play, but you won't' hear the sound until you make the tab active. To enable the Limit option, perform the following steps:-
Step 1. Open Microsoft Edge and then click three dots on the top right corner.
Step 2. Now, select Settings from the drop-down menu.
Step 3. Click on the Cookies and site permissions from the left sidebar on the Edge settings page.
Step 4. Now, scroll down on the right sidebar and click on the Media autoplay option.
Step 5. Click the drop-down arrow next to "Control if audio and video play automatically on sites" and choose the Limit option.
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It is also possible to block autoplay in Microsoft Edge, but you need to navigate to the Experiments page to block autoplay.
Step 1. Launch the Microsoft Edge browser, and in the address bar, type the following and hit Enter from the keyboard:-
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Step 4. Click the Restart button at the bottom of the page.
Step 5. Now, navigate to the Settings > Cookies and Site Permissions > Media Autoplay.
Step 6. Select Block option from the dropdown menu next to "Control if audio and video play automatically on sites."
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Fast Centrifugal Partition Chromatography
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This system functions on the principle of liquid/liquid partition chromatography where two incompatible liquid phases are mixed and separated numerous times. The relative proportions of solute (substances dissolved in solution) passing into each of the two phases are determined by the individual partition factors. One of the solutions provides the stationary phase, while the other solution contains the molecules of interest to be separated. The instrumentation contains multiple cells where the interactions between the two phases occurs, each cell being used in succession.
Isolating active components from natural products is often complicated by the chemical complexity of plant extracts, however, advances in separation sciences, like the FCPC, have better enabled these separations.
The advantages of FCPC include high purities (up to 99.9%) and quantities, no costs involved for packing material, no losses of samples and 100% recovery, no degradation of fragile/labile molecules, and low solvent use (10-25% less). The natural product industry has used the Safe-by-Design (SbD) method for many years to decrease product toxicity, especially since natural products and their chemistries are a key component in the discovery of new drugs and medication. SbD principles seek to address safety issues during R&D and design phases of novel technologies.
It has been reported that irreversible adsorption on solid support could result in severe losses of valuable materials, chemical reaction of the substrates with solid-phase adsorbents, and isolation of artifacts. For example, solutes binding to alumina and silica supports can limit recoveries to 70-90%. FCPC, by comparison, can result in 90+% recoveries.
FCPC enhances phase separation and can provide a new tool in the field of separation science. FCPC is based on liquid/liquid partitioning and is a scalable alternative to avoid problems associated with solid-phase adsorbents while preserving the chemical integrity of mixtures that have been separated.
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Explorations in Natural Sciences
Behind Birding: Birds in the City
Now - February 20, 2013
Wednesday | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
- Scott Davies
Birds are extraordinary creatures, not only because they look and sound beautiful but because they behave in such varied and fascinating ways. In this new series instructed by ornithologist Scott Davies, we will study the biology behind many of these behaviors, giving you a new appreciation for the birds you see in the Garden, at home and in your travels.
Birds in the City
The urbanized areas of the world are expected to increase dramatically over the next 50 years, making them one of the fastest-growing ecosystems on earth. As a relatively new city, Phoenix provides an excellent opportunity to study the radical environmental changes urbanization causes. This class will investigate how the lives of birds are changed by expanding cities. We will discuss subjects such as breeding, behavior, anatomy and species distribution.
- Class enrollment limit: 24
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LMS Spaces - How to add an LMS Course/Space
Specify an association between a CSIS program and LMS space(s).
When you create an association between a CSIS program and an LMS space, that means each new registrant in this CSIS program will automatically be invited by e-mail to access this LMS space (or these spaces), immediately after their successful registration.
See Lifelong Learners (L3) - Enrollment Process for a public description of the registrant's experience of that process.
screenshot showing where the LMS Spaces tab appears on the program detail page
 1. Click the "Add LMS Course/Space" button.
 screenshot of the Select your server question after clicking Add LMS Course/Space
 2. "Select your server" asks you to select which LMS will hold this LMS space. As of early 2018, both "Canvas" and "UW_MOODLE_SPECIAL" are options. By mid-2018, Moodle will no longer be available as an option. Other UW-Madison learning platforms could be added in the future with a technical project.
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 3. "Select your LMS Course/Space" gives you the option of either "Create New LMS Space" or selecting any of the LMS Spaces you have previously created using CSIS for any other program in your academic unit.
 screenshot after selecting Canvas as the server, with expanded dropdown with list of existing spaces
 - If you select "Create New LMS Space" you now have a one time, irrevocable opportunity to edit the name of this LMS space from the CSIS perspective. Two cautions:
 1. You cannot later edit the name of the space as it appears in CSIS, but you may certainly later edit the LMS space name using LMS-internal tools that affect only what appears in the LMS (e.g., to your learners). But then you set up potential confusion for your staff looking between CSIS and the LMS, because the space names will no longer match.
 2. Before you submit this name, consider the long-term implications of how you'll sort through all of your entire unit's past LMS space names in this dropdown list. For example, if you plan on creating a new LMS space for each offering of this course, you should probably add a date or term-specific label at the end of the LMS space name.
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 The instant you click "Submit" here, CSIS will reach out to the LMS and create a new, empty LMS space that is given the initial display title that you selected here. You should go to the LMS right away to make sure you know how to locate the space you just created. You will find the LMS space placed in the LMS category that your IT administrator initially defined for your academic unit (in collaboration with the LMS administrators) when you first began using CSIS for LMS student access management.
 - If you select an existing LMS space, then the relationship within CSIS between this program and that LMS space will be immediately created - in addition to whatever other CSIS programs are also associated with that LMS space.
 If you already have registered participants in this program, those existing participants are not immediately granted access to this space, so that you have some hours to optionally adjust individual access rights first. See the on-screen instructions for next steps.
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Frequently asked questions
Why would I want more than one LMS space associated with a program?
 Each "program" (course) defined in CSIS may have one or more (unlimited) numbers of LMS spaces associated with it. This can allow you to, for example:
 - Share certain LMS content or communication tools across multiple courses within a shared LMS space, while also giving students in individual courses access to an LMS space exclusive to their course or cohort.
 - Schedule staggered access dates for particular course content, such as giving short-term access to the content in one LMS space and long-term access to the content in a different LMS space.
Why would I reuse an existing LMS space from a different program?
For example:
 - Self-paced courses that are open across multiple fiscal years need to keep each new fiscal year's CSIS program for this course pointing at the same LMS space over the long term, instead of creating a new LMS space for each fiscal year.
 - When you re-offer a particular course under a new CSIS program, considerations of instructional design work within the LMS may mean it's easier for your staff to clear out student-specific traces and then reuse the LMS space you previously set up, rather than moving all of the LMS content from the old LMS space to the new LMS space.
 - Certificate offerings may prefer to use a single, shared LMS space across all of the courses with that certificate.
How can I change which CSIS program is associated with a particular Canvas space or vice versa, which Canvas spaces are associated with a CSIS program? Generally the best approach is to use this CSIS tool to simply remove the "wrong" space and add the "right" space. If desired, you can then use Canvas tools to copy content from one Canvas space to another.
When necessary, such as when many active students are in a particular space and you need to revise which CSIS programs point to that space, it is possible to contact a campus Canvas administrator who can manually change the "SIS ID" for a Canvas space.
How can I look up in Moodle which CSIS program is associated with a particular Moodle space? Once you are logged into Moodle as a course administrator, navigate to the Moodle space in question, and then view the CSIS association using the menu option:
Course administration -> Users -> Enrollment Methods
Click the magnifying glass next to "UW lifelong learning" to see the details.
How do I change which Moodle space a program is associated with? Generally the best approach is to use this CSIS tool to simply remove the "wrong" space and add the "right" space. But if you have a situation such as multiple Moodle spaces with the same name, changing over time, then it may make more sense to adjust Moodle's understanding of which precise Moodle space you want to mean under the currently displayed Space name as shown in CSIS.
In that case, follow the instructions above for reviewing CSIS-Moodle associations. If you see that the wrong course is linked, remove the "UW Lifelong learning" method from the incorrect course, and then add a new "UW Lifelong learning" method to the class it should go to. Note that changing things on the Moodle end does not inform CSIS of the change - no visible difference will appear in CSIS.
Note: If you (presumably accidentally) remove a CSIS space from a Moodle course and don't associate it to a different Moodle course right away, then UW Moodle will automatically create a new Moodle course for the space. This will happen within 24 hours during a nightly automated clean-up task within UW Moodle.
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The W hite-winged guan ( Penelope albipennis ) was thought to be extinct for 100 years. The story of the White-winged Guan , in some ways resembles the re-discovery of some species thought to be extinct. The Guan was declared extinct. The decades of storage in a museum came after it was regarded as an extinct species. These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape.


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Finding More Efficient Ways to Treat Cancer Patients
Human carbonyl reductase (HCBR) is known to catalyze the NADPH-dependent reduction of a wide variety of carbonyl compounds. Anthracyclines, used to treat cancer, are reduced by HCBR and the resulting metabolites are implicated in the cardiotoxicity associated with anthracycline therapy. Many compounds have been discovered to bind and thus inhibit HCBR. These compounds have similar structures to the nitriles: 3-Phenoxyphalonitrile, 4-Phenoxyphalonitrile, and 4-Phenoxybenzonitrile. The nitriles are different to recently discovered inhibitors of HCBR because they have cyano groups bonded to different locations on the benzene rings. Kenetic studies were used to determine whether the nitriles were effective as inhibitors. The nearly identical kcat values show that the studied nitriles that we tested are ineffective at inhibiting HCBR.
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text: In this research, we have used a combination of hyperspectral imaging and mathematical processing techniques to isolate a fluorescence signal from autofluorescence background. We have designed a hyperspectral excitation-scanning imager that has been used to image multiple fluorescence signals in mouse models in the presence of high autofluorescence background. Visualization, analysis, and classification software has also been designed to allow separation of fluorescence signal from autofluorescence background and discrimination amongst multiple fluorescence signals of interest. This presentation will include a summary of the current hyperspectral imager design, optimization and construction as well as a description of the visualization, analysis, and classification methods implemented. Finally, a discussion of current applications and possibilities for translation of hyperspectral technology to the clinical imaging arena will be presented.


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Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead, 20th-century anthropologist and author
This session introduces the intangible gift of community. It lifts up the rural, 19th-century American tradition of barn-raising as a demonstration of what a community can achieve together, and the barn dance as an expression of celebration for a shared accomplishment. The activity of building a model for a community playground mimics the communal barn-raising. Consider doing the Faith in Action activity to make the children's playground plan a reality.
As you lead this session, help the children understand how they have given and received the gift of community every day they have been together in Wonderful Welcome.
Large cardboard boxes, empty rolls from gift wrap, empty coffee cans, pipe cleaners, and plastic food storage containers may be useful for children to construct a model of their dream community playground in Activity 4. As you gather items, keep in mind the number of children in the group, the type and size of the meeting space, and the amount of time you will have for building a model playground. If this is not the final session of Wonderful Welcome, you may choose to spend more time on Activity 4, Community Playground, and save the Welcome Celebration (Activity 5) for another meeting.
Plan ahead if you need a volunteer to lead Alternate Activity 2, Square Dance.
This session will:
- Introduce the intangible gift of community
- Offer participants opportunities to build something together for their whole community and celebrate their shared accomplishment
- Engage participants in the spiritual practices of opening and closing rituals.
- Learn about the rural American tradition of community barn-raising
- Learn about the modern practice of building community playgrounds
- Experience shared work for a common goal and shared celebration
- Understand that they have given and received the gift of community each time they have been part of Wonderful Welcome.


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NEPAL: New computer learning brings girls empowerment and education
PUNITA RIMAL / Asia Pacific correspondent – WNN Features
KATHMANDU: Nepal has always been classed as a developing country. In the U.S. it is often called a "third world" country. And it may well remain that way unless Nepal can break out of the vicious cycle of exploiting its people, particularly its women. One strategy that could break the cycle is a dynamic evolution in the role of Nepali women and the use of new technology.
Since 1980, almost 30 yrs ago, Nepalese women have been included in numerous plans, policies and programs inside the country. Paradoxically, though, the impact of broad inclusion has been very discouraging. But something new is coming. The innovations of computer learning in rural schools will definitely level the field for many girls who will now finally be able to climb the ladder.
For years, Nepal "enlightened policy" for girls education has provided incentives for increasing girls rights in school enrollment, with a push toward "basic education" completion, but efforts have fallen short. Why?
"Educational exclusion is most pronounced among the poorest children, and especially poor girls," says Dr Máiréad Dunne in her 2009 report for the University of Sussex (UK), Centre for International Education.
Education with career, leadership and political opportunity is key to advancing the role of women's educational rights in Nepal. It is crucial for Nepal to focus on efforts using increased awareness. But will Nepalese society make any real improvements? These and other questions are part of a revolutionary new approach with Nepal girls, and other global education programs. For the first time, rural and poor girls, have a chance to learn through "hands on" techniques in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) with the use of laptops and desktop computers.
If we see the total picture of enrollment in school, it is nearly equal for both boys and girls in grade one, with the same dropout rate. After this, the dropout rate for girls begins to outnumber the boys. In high school, the rate of dropouts for teen girls rises remarkably over boys. It is due mainly to a girl's household workload, which grows as she gets older. The obligation for teenage girls to manage household duties is twice as much as teen boys in Nepal.
"I do not send my daughter to school," said Santi, a rural woman from the Tharu community in the Northwest region of Nepal. "She helps me in domestic work. She needs to know the household chores before marriage."
The overall picture of education for girls in Nepal is often one of ongoing limitation. Many girls are sent to Nepali government schools which are poorly funded, are lacking facilities and often over crowed. Numerous boys, in great contrast, are often sent to private English-based schools.
One handicap for girls is that they are generally asked to leave school at the young age of 12, just after completing grade five, leaving them with only a rudimentary understanding of literacy.
"Investing in adolescent girls is precisely the catalyst poor countries need to break intergenerational poverty and to create a better distribution of income. Investing in them is not only fair, it is a smart economic move," said Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank in a 2009 report, "Because I am a Girl," by the UN Girls Education Initiative.
Locked out of opportunities, girls from the lowest castes, known as "dalits," are sometimes sold by desperate parents to middle-men who promise to find work, along with training and education, for their daughters. One girl selling as a domestic worker currently goes for 4,000 – 6,000 Nepali rupees ($53.00-$80.00 USD). These dalit domestic workers, called "Kamlaris" in Nepal, often live with dashed hopes, mounting limitation, degradation and complete educational exclusion. Although selling and hiring Kamlaris is considered illegal in Nepal, the practice is still in motion.
Most Kamlari girls start out happy with the promise of work and education when they leave home. As they begin to work, though, they soon realize with regret that all the promises made to them were lies.
Girls and women in Nepal are often steered toward gender identified occupations. The Nepal Ministry of Education statistics show only 15 percent of women in 2006 entered the field of engineering, and less than 20 percent began careers in agriculture, forestry, law, science and technology combined. Basic nursing education, on the other hand, welcomes the majority of Nepalese women. In 2007, only fifty people nationwide held a Ph.D. degree in Nepal. Of those fifty, only four were women who had doctorates in science.
"Although participation in their capacity as nurses is quite encouraging, the number of woman doctors is still very small," said a 2007 report by Nepal advocacy group, Sancharika Samuha.
Nepal is a strip of land stretched between China to the north and India to the south. It is in the highest part of the Himalayas, crowned by Mount Everest, known as Sagarmatha, the head in the skies. The country is divided into five development regions, 14 zones and 75 districts. Nepal's total population is 28,563,377 (July 2008 CIA World Factbook). Approx 32 percent or 8,812,675 of the population are women aged 15-64. The median age for women is 21.7. Life expectancy for women is 66.7 years.
About 76 percent of the active population is currently engaged in the agriculture sector, which contributes 32.5 percent of the country's GDP. The percentage of women engaged in agriculture, including crop and food production, is higher than that of men. A survey shows that rural women work about 11 hours a day while men work only seven hours a day (UNESCO 2006). Nepal's unemployment rate is very high. Currently, it stands at approx 46 percent unemployment (CIA World Factbook).
The total adult literacy rate in Nepal is 56.5 percent (2007 UNDP). Of this total, only 26 percent of Nepali women are literate (World Bank Country Overview 2009).
"When I came to America (US) I was 18. That's when I started knowing what career and work is," said Angela Shrestha, a 23 year old Nepali biology and business major living near Denver, Colorado (U.S.).
Shrestha had a unique experience. She received strong support from her parents and a (male) principal at school in Kathmandu to press forward with her education. She was encouraged to reach her dream. Because of this, she has managed to study in the U.S. She has jumped ahead as she now returns to Nepal to finish a higher education in medicine and administration.
"My dad graduated from college in Nepal, but my mom had more limited schooling," continued Shrestha. "It completely depends on a family how they want to treat their daughter. I was very blessed with my mom and dad because they never differentiated between me and my brother," she admitted. "In Nepal, I was captain of my class and later school captain. There are families in Nepal who will not let their daughters go to school, though."
As in neighboring India, many girls are expected to leave their home upon marriage and join the home of their husband. Because of this, some women are valued in marriage only, or worse as domestic laborers only. A surprising 40 percent of rural Nepali women still marry as young as 15, even though 18 is the legally approved age. Pre-arranged marriages, at the age of ten to twelve years of age for girls, are also, especially in rural areas, not uncommon.
"If Nepal treated boys and girls equally it would be beautiful," said Anjela Shrestha.
In 1999, U.S. American philanthropist, John Wood, returned to Nepal from a previous eye-opening trip where he realized that 70 percent of all women and 35 percent men in the country were illiterate. He came with eight donkeys loaded to the top with books ready to deliver to schools in rural villages. This was the beginning of an educational initiative called "Room to Read." Room to Read does not contact villages to build its libraries and schools; villages contact Room to Read.
The work is not easy. Those who are part of the program must be highly motivated. Hundreds of villages have become involved in Room to Read projects by donating labor, land, materials and their own funds. To date, Room to Read has built over 2127 libraries, with an additional 439 projected for 2009. 388 schools have also been built, with 278 scheduled set as additional school building projects for 2009.
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When you do the exact same boring tasks at your job every single day, this is an example of monotony.
- sameness of tone or pitch, or continuance of the same tone without variation
- lack of variation or variety
- tiresome sameness or uniformity
Origin of monotonyFrench monotonie ; from Classical Greek monotonia: see monotonous
- Uniformity or lack of variation in pitch, intonation, or inflection.
- Tedious sameness or repetitiousness: the monotony of daily routine.
Origin of monotonyGreek monotoni&amacron;, from monotonos, monotonous; see monotonous.


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To get started recording magic wand gestures:
- Upload the Magic Wand Capture sketch to an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense board
- Connect to the board using the Bluetooth button below.
- Wave the wand to make gestures. They'll be recorded and displayed on the right.
- Review the gestures, add labels by clicking on the '?', and remove mistakes.
- Download the gestures as a JSON data file, ready for model training.


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WIELICZKA, a mining town in Galicia, Austria, 220 m. by rail W. of Lemberg and 9 m. S.E. of Cracow. Pop. (1900) 6012. It is built on the slopes of a hill which half encircles the place, and over the celebrated salt-mines of the same name. These mines are the richest in Austria, and among the most remarkable in the world. They consist of seven different levels, one above the other, and have eleven shafts, two of which are in the town. The levels are connected by flights of steps, and are composed of a labyrinth of chambers and passages, whose length aggregates over 65 m. The length of the mines from E. to W. is 21 m., the breadth from N. to S. is 1050 yds. and the depth reaches 980 ft. Many of the old chambers, some of which are of enormous size, are embellished with portals, candelabra, statues, &c., all hewn in rock-salt. There are also two large chapels, containing altars, ornaments, &c., in rock-salt, a room called the dancing saloon (Tanzsaal), where the objects of interest found in the mines are kept; the Kronleuchtersaal, and the chamber Michatovice are also worth mention. In the interior of the mines are sixteen ponds, of which the large lake of Przykos is 195 ft. long, iio ft. broad, and 10-26 ft. deep. The mines employ over loon workers, and yield about 60,000 tons annually. The salt of Wieliczka is well known for its purity and solidity, but has generally a grey or blackish colour. The date of the discovery of the mines is unknown, but they were already worked in the 11th century. Since 1814 they have belonged entirely to the Austrian government. The mines suffered greatly from inundations in 1868 and 1879, and the soil on which the town is built shows signs of subsidence.
See E. Windakiewicz, Das Steinsalzbergwerk in Wieliczka (Freiberg, 1896).
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Air boats (sometimes spelled airboats) are watercraft powered by large propellers mounted on the rear. Early air boats used aircraft engines to spin their props, but most modern air boats use standard automotive V-8 engines for power. The gas-powered engine turns a crankshaft, which in turn spins the propeller up to 3000 rpms or more. The propeller draws air from the front and pushes it through the back to create forward momentum.
Because air boats do not need underwater rudders or blades, their bottoms can be very flat. This means that air boats can reach areas usually inaccessible to traditional boats, such as very shallow water, swamps and stump-filled inlets. Air boats can also travel over most land surfaces, as long as the propeller can produce enough power to overcome the added friction. The bottom and sides of many air boats are covered with a thick layer of polymer plastic to absorb the damage of gravel and concrete surfaces.
Air boats are generally used for recreation and fishing, but many coastal cities also employ them for rescue operations. In places like the Florida Everglades, air boats are much more practical than traditional boat designs. Weeds and grasses slip below the flat bottom of the air boat and the propeller never contacts the water. Pilots of air boats control direction through the use of a handheld rudder and 'brake' by cutting power to the engine with a throttle control.
Some say that Alexander Graham Bell actually designed the first air boats in 1905, although countless numbers of amateur boat builders also attached aircraft engines and propellers to flat-bottomed boats. Most air boats built before the 1980s still employed aircraft engines, but proper maintenance proved to be difficult. With the switch to standard automotive engines like a Chevy 350 V-8 or 454, most mechanics can easily make repairs to air boats with readily available parts.
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Financial Consumption and the Cost of Finance: Measuring Financial Efficiency in Europe (_PHONE_)
This paper proposes to assess financial intermediation efficiency in Germany, France, the UK, and Europe more broadly, over the past 60 years. I rely on Philippon's (2012) methodology, which calculates the unit cost of financial intermediation through the ratio of 'financial consumption' | measured by financial income | to 'financial output' | approximated by the sum of outstanding assets intermediated. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, because financial industry VA ignores banks' capital income (capital gains, dividends and interest on securities) it is an imperfect measure of the consumption of financial intermediation. So long as capital income generates wages and profits to financial intermediaries, it is akin to an implicit consumption of financial services. Using banking income instead of banking VA to measure the consumption of banking services, I show that the GDP share of finance has increased continuously in Germany, France, the UK and Europe as a whole. Second, the unit cost of financial intermediation increased over the past 40 years, except in France where, overall, it stagnated. In addition, the European unit cost matches the US unit cost calculated by Philippon (2012). Finally, because financial intermediaries deal with nominal stocks and ows, and because the unit cost increases during periods of monetary troubles, I focus here on nominal rates of interest to explain the evolution of unit cost. I show that a rise in nominal rates of interest increases the spread of bank interest, so that 1970s and 1980s high unit costs are statistically explained by increases in short-term interest rates. On the other hand, post-1990s high unit cost seems to coincide with the development of new market-based activities.
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Saturday, November 05, 2005
Brit of the Day: Colin Leakey
They've been a staple in student diets and English fry-ups for years, but beans have always had one big drawback - their dramatic effect on human wind production.
Now a Cambridge boffin has developed fart-free varieties to the relief of baked bean fans and their families everywhere.
Dr Colin Leakey - that is his real name - has just produced his first six-tonne harvest of a new strain of South American manteca beans.
The original manteca beans were famed for their gas-less qualities and prized by the upper-classes because they could be served up at stench-free dinner parties.
Dr Leakey, 71, has even developed his own 'fart-ometer' to measure the amount of flatulence produced by manteca beans compared to other varieties.
"In physiological and replicated tests, the manteca beans produced no more flatulence than muesli or any other normal (non-bean) grain crop," he said.
The agricultural consultant now hopes an organic food company will use his beans in their frozen food products.
They have already been grown in industrial-scale trials abroad and are sold in French supermarkets as 'Haricots non-flatulent'.
"I call the beans 'social beans' and am confident that they are relatively wind-free," he said.
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See also Assessing Measures of Energy Efficiency Performance and Their Application in Industry - Executive Summary - Russian Version
Energy efficiency improvement is a basic, yet significant, way of addressing both energy security and environment concerns. There are various measures of industrial energy efficiency performance, with different purposes and applications. This paper explores different measures of energy efficiency performance (hereafter referred to as "MEEP"): absolute energy consumption, energy intensity, diffusion of specific energy-saving technology and thermal efficiency. It discusses their advantages and disadvantages and their roles within policy frameworks.


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The difference between a stepping stone and a stumbling block is how it's used.
Be careful what you listen to, we tend to repeat the words that we hear most often. We also attract people by our words – positive people with positive words, negative people with negative words.
I cannot overemphasize the importance of surrounding yourself with positive people.
Success is a process that takes work and practice. Begin now to eliminate the stumbling block words from your vocabulary and build stepping-stones to your success.
Eliminate the stumbling blocks
- Can't is a four-letter word that stops you cold in your tracks.
- Every time you use this word, put a quarter in the cuss jar.
- Once you tell yourself that you can't do something, your subconscious obeys you and makes it impossible to do.
- Once you decide that you can't do something, you will stop seeking opportunities to grow and learn in this area.
- Can't puts an impenetrable wall between you and success.
It won't work
- Another quarter in the cuss jar when you use this phrase.
- It won't work changes your attitude from seeking success to focusing on failure.
- You will begin to list the reasons why it won't work and find no reasons why it can work.
- This is only part of this sentence. The other part of the sentence is – but I won't.
- This phrase also deserves a quarter in the cuss jar.
- You recognize the problem but you have no intention of changing.
I quit, I stop, no more
- We use this phrase to stop bad habits and behaviors.
- The problem with using this sentiment is that you leave a hole. You have nothing to replace the old behavior with.
- If you want to correct a bad habit, you must replace it with something better or you will soon return to the old behavior.
- All behavioral holes will be filled.
- This is negative goal-setting.
- Your subconscious mind has dignity and does not like to be forced to do things. It will fight back.
Do this, or else
- This is another example of negative-goal setting.
- You are creating a subconscious ultimatum and your subconscious will fight back.
It was nothing
- You subconsciously minimize accomplishments AND maximize failures.
- If you accomplish something, wallow in it.
- Turn up the emotional intensity of your successes.
- Fear is a natural reaction to the unknown.
- To progress in life, we must move out of our comfort zone.
- Focus on happily arriving at your destination.
- The fear will dissipate after you take the first few steps toward your goal.
There's always tomorrow
- Our friend procrastination.
- Your subconscious will always fight to keep you in your comfort zone.
- Procrastination is a trick it uses.
- Fight back by doing something NOW.
- When you have a goal, HOW will become apparent, although not immediately.
- Never ask how you will do it, just move toward your goal, the path will become clear as you begin your journey.
- This stumbling block leads to victimization and depression.
- Everyone has challenges in life and your challenge is not unique.
- Why me is an indication of self-absorption.
- You will never be successful if you believe that you are somehow the center of the universe.
- Challenges are the free weights of life; they build the muscles of our character.
- Instead of asking why me, ask what can I learn from this and how can I help others?
Keep the stepping-stones
The next time I will…
- Use this phrase when you make a mistake.
- Give yourself a new behavior to replace the old one with.
I want to
- Makes tasks desirable to the subconscious rather than forcing yourself to do something.
Wow, I did a great job on that
- Recognizing your accomplishments will build self-esteem.
- Self-esteem is the beginning of success.
- Changes your focus to the positive.
- You will not move enthusiastically toward any goal that is not your idea.
- You cannot thrive if you live someone else's dream for your life.
- Removes procrastination.
I can hardly wait
- Gives you emotional excitement to work on your goals.
How can I use this setback
- Puts control back in your hands.
- Empowers rather than victimizes.
Your old way of speaking was a habit. To change your habit, you must practice your new way of speaking every day.
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Asiatic Wild Dog Skull Replica measures 7.4 inches. Asiatic Wild Dog Male Skull Replica is museum quality polyurethane cast. 2-part skull (separate cranium and jaw). Made in USA. Cast from original specimen.
Our precise skull can be used as a teaching tool, museum skull exhibit, home decor skull, or office decor skull.
The Dhole or Asiatic Wild Dog typically weighs 26 to 44 pounds and measures 35 inches in body length and 20 inches shoulder height. The tail measures 16 to 18 inches in length. The Dhole has a broad, domed skull and a short, broad muzzle.
The bones of the forehead and upper jaw are swollen, producing a dish-faced profile. The hooded eyes have amber or light brown irises, and the ears are large and rounded.
It's skull is convex rather than concave in profile, it lacks a third lower molar and the upper molars sport only a single cusp as opposed to between two and four.
Adult females can weigh from 22 to 37 lb., while the slightly larger male may weigh from 33 to 46 lb. The mean weight of adults from three small samples was 33 lb.
Occasionally, Dholes may be sympatric with the Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes), which is one of the smallest races of the gray wolf, but is still approximately 25% heavier on average.
The general tone of the Asiatic Wild Dog fur is reddish, with the brightest hues occurring in winter.
In the winter coat, the back is clothed in a saturated rusty-red to reddish color with brownish highlights along the top of the head, neck and shoulders.
The throat, chest, flanks, and belly and the upper parts of the limbs are less brightly colored, and are more yellowish in tone. The lower parts of the limbs are whitish, with dark brownish bands on the anterior sides of the forelimbs.
The muzzle and forehead are greyish-reddish. The tail is very luxuriant and fluffy, and is mainly of a reddish-ocherous color, with a dark brown tip.
The Asiatic Wild Dog's summer coat is shorter, coarser and darker. The dorsal and lateral guard hairs in adults measure 0.79–1.18 in. in length. Dholes in the Moscow Zoo moult once a year from March to May.


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Hoi Ha Wan
Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park is among the first batch of marine parks in Hong Kong. Home to more than 60 coral and 120 fish species, WWF's The Jockey Club HSBC WWF Hong Kong Hoi Ha Marine Life Centre offers students and the community opportunities to appreciate our valuable marine resources.
WWF's education activities and school exhibition panels provide interesting and interactive programmes for students to enhance their understanding of issues related to marine environment and fisheries. All education programmes at Hoi Ha Wan include a coral-observation trip aboard a glass-bottom boat. Students and corporate members can also take part in clean-up efforts and other conservation activities.
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1. fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
2. The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.
3. cover with flour
flour fish or meat before frying it
4. convert grain into flour
5. To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.


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Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR)
Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) or electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is a technique for studying chemical species that have one or more unpaired electrons, such as organic and inorganic free radicals or inorganic complexes possessing a transition metal ion.
How does it work?The basic physical concepts of EPR are analogous to those of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), but it is electron spins that are excited instead of spins of atomic nuclei. Because most stable molecules have all their electrons paired, the EPR technique is less widely used than NMR. However, this limitation to paramagnetic species also means that the EPR technique is one of great specificity, since ordinary chemical solvents and matrices do not give rise to EPR spectra.
EPR spectroscopy is used in various branches of science, such as chemistry and physics, for the detection and identification of free-radicals and paramagnetic centres such as F centres. EPR is a sensitive, specific method for studying both radicals formed in chemical reactions and the reactions themselves. Medical and biological applications of EPR also exist.
Although radicals are very reactive, and so do not normally occur in high concentrations in biology, special reagents have been developed to spin-label molecules of interest. These reagents are particularly useful in biological systems. Specially-designed nonreactive radical molecules can attach to specific sites in a biological cell, and EPR spectra can then give information on the environment of these so-called spin-label or spin-probes.
Characterisation of metallo-proteins; examining structure and electronic parameters; examining structure-function relationships; in-vivo detection of free-radical intermediates; effects of complex metal additions on biological materials; high sensitivity measurements on the effects of operating environment (pH, molecular motion, charge).
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Solids, liquid, gases, metals, ceramics, polymers, biological
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text: The case-cohort design is most useful in analyzing time to failure in a large cohort in which failure is rare. Covariate information is collected from all failures and a representative sample of censored observations. Sampling is done without respect to time or disease status, and, therefore, the design is more flexible than a nested case-control design. Despite the efficiency of the methods, case-cohort designs are not often used because of perceived analytic complexity. In this article, we illustrate computation of a simple variance estimator and discuss model fitting techniques in SAS. Three different weighting methods are considered. Model fitting is demonstrated in an occupational exposure study of nickel refinery workers. The design is compared to a nested case-control design with respect to analysis and efficiency in a small simulation. In this example, case-cohort sampling from the full cohort was more efficient than using a comparable nested case-control design.


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- Southern Africa
- Investment - Health
Swaziland: Soon to become a no man's country
40% of population unemployed, a quarter affected by HIV/AIDS
A quarter of Swaziland's workforce is absent from work because of HIV/AIDS, says a report by the International Monetary Fund. The disease in Swaziland, which has the world's highest HIV/AIDS prevalence and is also one of the poorest, has shaved about 1.3 percent from its annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth, the IMF said.
About 40 percent of the country's one million people are thought to be unemployed; Swaziland would require annual growth of 3.6 percent to prevent worsening poverty, but currently struggles to achieve 2 percent, the IMF said.
"Over any 30-day period, at least 25 percent of workers in a survey did not go to work," said the IMF's annual assessment survey of the state of the nation's economy, and the effects of HIV/AIDS.
The IMF attributed job absenteeism to people suffering from HIV/AIDS as well as those staying home to care for people sick with the disease. According to UNAIDS, about 26 percent of Swaziland's sexually active population are infected.
"The impact on Swaziland's businesses is significantly larger than in comparative countries that also suffer from HIV/AIDS," the IMF report noted.
While 25 percent of Swazi workers said they had missed work for varying lengths of time during a one-month period, less than 20 percent of workers in Botswana (23.9 percent HIV/AIDS prevalence) and Namibia (15.3 percent), named HIV/AIDS as the reason for job absenteeism.
"According to a World Bank investment climate assessment survey [of Swaziland], over 50 percent of company managers reported much higher worker absenteeism due to sickness than other countries in Southern Africa," the IMF said.
The cost of replacing ill or deceased workers is expected to increase as the disease progresses from HIV to AIDS. Citing projections compiled by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the IMF report said by 2016, eight percent of Swaziland's GDP would be devoted to training workers to replace those who have died from AIDS.
"For a country that is struggling to achieve a two percent GDP growth rate annually, AIDS has made the difference between prosperity and economic regression," said Samuel Fakudze, a Swaziland-based economist.
HIV/AIDS makes investors think twice
The IMF calculated that the cost of replacing teachers alone would be R2.3 billion (US$230 million) in the next seven years. The Swaziland National Teachers Association acknowledged there was a rise in teachers' deaths, but was unable to provide statistics on how many were HIV/AIDS related.
"In Swaziland, denial about AIDS is one factor that has made it almost taboo for families to admit their loved ones passed away from an AIDS-related illness. You won't find AIDS listed as the cause of death on death certificates, and so we have no official number to work with," a union official, who declined to be identified, declared.
Swaziland's HIV/AIDS prevalence is an unspoken but real concern for foreign investors. "With the global economy reducing investments everywhere, any detrimental factor will harm a potential investment destination," said Emmanuel Myeni, an operations manager at a trucking firm located in Matsapha, near the country's commercial hub of Manzini.
"One of the unstudied areas of public health is to what extent unemployment contributes to AIDS in Swaziland. People without jobs have more time to engage in sex, and don't have money for health care or proper nutrition." Myeni said his company lost an average of six truck drivers each year to the disease - a third of the drivers.
Fakudze said, "It's a chicken and egg situation: Which is needed first – a healthy workforce to attract FDI [foreign direct investment], or new job creation to boost the health of workers by giving them an occupation and income?"
Along with basic fiscal and structural reforms, the IMF recommended that government place a greater emphasis on combating HIV/AIDS. The local media reported that King Mswati III, the last absolute monarch in sub-Saharan Africa, made no mention of the disease when he opened parliament earlier this year.
In a press statement, Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini, who was appointed by Mswati, said the king's speech reflected general policy and was not specific about government programmes.


12 Types of Children in Ancient India
In Ancient India, 12 types of children were considered to be legal heir of his father. All of them need not be biological children of their legal father.
Manu Smriti and other dharma sastras describe 12 different ways a child can become legal heir of someone.
12 Types of Children in Manu Smriti
When a husband dies childless or is husband is either incapable of fatherhood, wife can opt for a method called 'Niyoga'.
She can request for appointment of a person for helping her bear a child. The man who was appointed must be or would most likely be a revered person. There were various clauses associated with this process, as follows:
1. The woman would agree to this only for the sake of rightfully having a child and not for pleasure.
2. The child, thus born would be considered the child of the husband-wife and not that of the appointed man.
3. The appointed man would not seek any paternal relationship or attachment to this child in the future.
4. To avoid misuse, a man was allowed a maximum of three times in his lifetime to be appointed in such a way.
5. The act will be seen as that of Dharma and while doing so, the man and the wife will have only Dharma in their mind and not passion nor lust. The man will do it as a help to the woman in the name of God, whereas the woman will accept it only to bear the child for herself and her husband.
In niyoga, the bodies were to be covered with ghee (so that lust may not take root in the minds of the participants but the actual act may take place for conception).
In Mahabharata, queen Satyavati compels her first son and sage Vyasa to perform niyoga with the widows of her third son Vichitravirya. The widows Ambika and Ambalika and one of their maids bear Dhritarashtra, Pandu and Vidura respectively.
Manu Smriti describes the child born by niyoga as a kshetraja child of the husband-wife.
12 Types of Children (Legal Heir) in Ancient India
 - Aurasa : Biological son through wife in a normal marriage, where son carries father's Y-Chromosome.
 - Putrikaputra : When there is no son, girl is treated as son and her son becomes legal heir (ex : Babruvahana, born to Arjuna and Chitrangada, but became legal heir of his maternal-grandfather.)
 - Kshetraja : Wife's womb but husband is not biological father. (ex: Kunti, Madri giving birth to pandavas). This can happen even after husband's death and still the children born will be treated as deceased father's heir
 - Dattaka : Adopted through legal method or vedic ritual.
 - Kritima : A child is nourished and brough up as a son, but no adoption rituals performed. Child grows up and assumes you as parent.
 - Gudhaja : Wife's secret son, without husband's knowledge. This child also is heir of father. Only difference with Kshetraja is, husband's approval or knowledge.
 - Apaviddha : Rejected child of some parent, but grew up with others. This child can claim property of person who nourished him, but cannot do pind-daan or death rituals to ancestors of that family (example : Karna did not or could not do pind-daan to ancestors of the adhirtha-radha)
 - Kanina : Son born to a lady before her marriage. But he becomes legal heir of his mother's future husband. (ex : Karna would have inherited the throne of Hastinapur after the death of Pandu being his eldest son as per this law, but birth of Karna was kept secret by Kunti and she revealed the truth only after the death of Karna. )
 - Sahodha : A son is brought along with the marriage. If a woman was pregnant at the time of her marriage, the son born to her after her marriage was deemed to be the son of the man who married her, even though the biological father was a different man.
 - Krita : He is a purchased son.
 - Paunarbhava : The son of a virgin widow. She after her marriage became a 'Punarbhu' ( married second time). Such marriages happened when husband dies during or immediately after marriage and wife is still a virgin. She can re-marry a person of her choice, but a son born from that marriage belongs to the family of 1st deceased husband. She can claim rights only from 2nd kid and so on..
 - Swayamdatta :Self Offered son' – When an orphaned boy went to some person and offered himself to be his son and the latter accepted his offer, the boy in such a case was called Swayamdatta.
Out of above 12, only 3 : Aurasa, Putrikaputra, Paunarbhava were entitled for full property of father and also his family's property (inherited from ancestors).
2 more : Kanina and Sahodha were also given rights to ancestral property, only if their biological father married their mother at a later stage.
Other 7 : Kshetraja, Dattaka, Kritima, Gudhaja, Apaviddha, Krita, Swayamdatta were entitled to claim only what was earned by their (social) father or his part of ancestral property, but not the entire family property. However, they can carry the surname, gotra etc.
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1.1 The primary fiduciary responsibility of the University Trustees in investing and managing the University's endowment securities is to maximize the financial return on those resources, taking into account the amount of risk appropriate for University investment policy. However, when the Trustees determine that corporate policies or practices cause substantial social injury or substantial environment harm1, they, as responsible and ethical investors, shall give independent weight to this factor in their investment policies and in voting proxies on corporate securities.
1.2 The authority to take ethical factors into account when settling investment policies and voting proxies on endowment securities derives primarily from the stewardship responsibilities which attend the ownership of endowment securities.
2. POLICY GUIDELINES
2.1 Exercise of Shareholder Rights
a) Voting: The Trustees normally do not vote on any shareholder resolution involving social issues unless they conclude that a company's activities cause substantial social injury or substantial environmental harm. Where the Trustees conclude that a company's activities cause substantial social injury or substantial environmental harm and such activities are the subject of a shareholder proposal which would eliminate or materially reduce the substantial social injury or environmental harm, the Trustees may vote for the proposal and may vote against a proposal that would prevent or materially retard such elimination or reduction, provided such action is not inconsistent with the Trustees' fiduciary obligations. In cases where the proposed remedy is deemed unreasonable, the Trustees may abstain.
b) Representations: When the Trustees conclude that the company's activities cause substantial social injury or substantial environmental harm, they may make formal or informal representations to corporate management to explain or reinforce their position on proxy issues and on issues where no proxy is presented.
If the Trustees conclude that a specific Trustee action otherwise indicated under these Guidelines is likely to impair the capacity of the University to carry out its educational mission (for example, by causing significant adverse action on the part of governmental or other external agencies or groups, or by causing deep divisions within the University community), then the Trustees need not take such action.
3. ADVICE FROM THE PENN COMMUNITY
3.1 The President of the University shall establish an advisory committee to provide advice and make recommendations to the Trustee Subcommittee on Proxy Voting. This committee, called the Penn Social Responsibility Advisory Committee ("Penn SRAC") will be comprised of twelve voting members including: four faculty members nominated by the Faculty; four students (two undergraduates, two graduates) nominated by the Undergraduate Assembly, NEC, GSAC and GAPSA; two alumni representatives appointed by the President; two staff members appointed by the President. Members shall be appointed for at least one year and may be reappointed.
3.2 Upon reasonable request, the Office of the Secretary will provide to the community advisory committee, to be treated as confidential by that committee, a copy of the memorandum prepared by the Office of Investments, incorporating the reports of the Investor Research Responsibility Center (IRRC). This memorandum will also be provided to the Trustee Subcommittee on Proxy Voting. The memorandum will include:
1. the social and environmental issues that have been identified by the IRRC as possible issues of concern;
2. a confidential list of companies in the Endowment's portfolio that have upcoming proposed shareholder resolutions related to those issues, and required response dates; and
3. a copy of the IRRC's analysis of the impact of each shareholder resolution on the company.
3.3 Within the Guidelines established under Section 2, Penn SRAC may examine proxy voting issues involving the University's endowment securities and make appropriate recommendations for action by the Trustee Proxy Voting Subcommittee. Such recommendations shall take into consideration the following factors: (1) the facts and information the community committee has gathered in its study of the issues; (2) the opinions expressed within the Penn community regarding the issues; and (3) the legal and financial impact of the recommended action.
3.4 The recommendations shall be in writing and provided to the Office of the Secretary, for consideration by the Trustee Proxy Voting Subcommittee. The recommendations should be clear and concise and accompanied by factual findings and an analysis of the question involved.
3.5 The Trustee Proxy Voting Subcommittee will consider Penn SRAC recommendations and will then make decisions for action under this policy. The Subcommittee will inform Penn SRAC through the Office of the Secretary of the actions taken by the Subcommittee.
4. OTHER MATTERS
4.1 Nothing in this Statement shall be deemed to delegate the Trustees' proxy voting responsibilities, or any part of them, to any other person or body.
4.2 The Trustee Proxy Voting Subcommittee may amend this Statement from time to time.
4.3 Penn SRAC may, from time to time, submit recommendations to the Trustees for amendments to this Statement.
 Substantial Social Injury: With regard to corporate behavior, substantial social injury is defined as the excessive or deliberate injurious impact on employees, consumers, and/or other individuals, or groups resulting directly from specific actions or inactions by a company. Included in this category are actions that violate, subvert, or frustrate the enforcement of rules of domestic or international law intended to protect individuals and/or groups against deprivation of health, safety, basic freedoms or human rights.
Substantial Environmental Harm: Substantial environment harm is defined as conduct that violates, subverts, or frustrates the enforcement of rules of domestic or international law intended to protect the environment. Only actions or inactions by companies that are proximate to and directly responsible for identifiable social injury will be regarded as falling within these guidelines.
For the purposes of these Guidelines corporate activity that creates a potential for social injury or environmental harm to occur shall not itself be construed as socially injurious. Similarly, for the purposes of these guidelines, social injury or environmental harm shall only in unusual circumstances include the act of doing business with other companies which are themselves engaged in socially or environmentally injurious activities.
Under this policy, allegations of substantial social injury or substantial environmental harm will be examined on a case-by-case basis using the best available evidence and allowing parties to the allegation reasonable time to develop and disseminate that evidence.


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We present a new formula which models the rate of decline of supernovae (SN) as given by the light curve in various bands. The physical basis is the conversion of the flux of kinetic energy into radiation. The two main components of the model are a power law dependence for the radius–time relation and a decreasing density with increasing distance from the central point. The new formula is applied to SN 1993J, SN 2005cf, SN 1999ac, and SN 2001el in different bands.
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Heritage Water Tanks are one of Australia's largest manufacturers of quality steel liner rainwater tanks, with an industry-leading 1mm wall profile and heavy-duty industrial-grade liner. Their comprehensive range includes tanks ranging in size from 17,000L to 375,000L.
In recent years, water storage and water security have been front of mind for many people in Australia, with more and more experiencing some of the worst drought conditions in history. A commonly held assumption in Australia is that rainwater tanks don't provide significant water savings during drought, however, research has shown that yields from rainwater tanks are more resilient to droughts and climate change than runoff into dams supplying communities with water. Less water is also lost to evaporation using a closed tank system.
Rainwater tanks have the potential to provide additional water supply to help supplement water collected via dams and other sources during droughts. Rainwater tanks also provide during wetter periods, thereby offsetting demands from other sources during more plentiful times and allowing greater carryover storage in dams for use in droughts. This has the potential to improve overall reliability and to help drought proof your water supply.
Heritage Water Tanks is an innovation leader in rainwater harvesting technology who have developed their own revolutionary patented water collecting Eva Rain Circular Tank Gutter System, enabling customers to collect additional water from the roof of their rainwater tank.
Harvested rainwater enables homes and businesses to save on water bills and secure a reservoir of water for their homes, pools, irrigation, stock, fire fighting and spray water for farms and in commercial operations.
Heritage Water Tanks Company Director, Murray Tognela said that the Company is committed to offering access to high-quality water storage and distribution systems for the Irrigation and Agricultural Industries in Australia. "We understand the importance of having secure and reliable access to water and are very proud to be in a position to be able to offer high-quality products and services to the local community." He said.