Hi all,
I using PHP & MySql. Here's the situation:
1. I have a website which is a meeting place for employees & employers. Employees can sign up for an account & select the skills they have. These skills list will be shown on their resume. I have an array of about 100 skills & I am storing the values directly in DB as comma separated values.
For example, I have skills like PHP, ASP, .NET etc. & they have values of 1, 2, 3 etc. Say employee checks 1,2,4,6,10 skills (out of 100), this will be stored under 'skills' field in 'Resume' table as 1, 2, 4, 6, 10.
When the Employee visits his resume, the corresponding skills will be shown instead of the skill numbers (which is right). i.e on his resume, Employee sees PHP, ASP, C#, Java, Cobol (These are the respective skill names for the skills selected). So I have no problem so far.
2. Now Employers can search for users with specific skill set. Employer can go to a search page which shows all the 100 skills. Employers can tick the appropriate checkboxes & press the submit button to get relevant results. For example, now say an Employer wants to search for all Employees who has PHP, C# and Cobol skills in their resume (Employees may have more skills but PHP & Java skills are mandatory & must exist in Employee resume). So the Employer is going to ticks the corresponding checkboxes that refer to each of those mentioned skills & press the submit button. Now this should show all results of Employees who MUST have those ticked skills in their resume. Here is where the problem starts.
I have written SQL query to get the results but it produces results only for perfect matches i.e if Employer selected PHP, C# and Cobol skills for search, then I get the array values & store them as comma separated values in a string (example: 1, 2, 5) and send it to query. Then only Employees who has selected only 1, 2 and 5 as their skills are shown. But I want to display all users who have even selected 1, 2, 5,10 and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13, 100 and 1, 2, 4, 5, 22, 98. because all these Employees have the skills (1, 2 and 5) that the Employer has originally searched for.
I tried different versions of the same query using AND and OR but of no use. I did come across another way of storing the Employee skills in database & that would be as:
EMPLOYEE ID EMPLOYEE SKILL ID EMPLOYEE SKILL NAME
1 1 PHP
1 2 ASP
1 5 C#
But the above method would mean that if I have 100 skills & if an Employee selects at least 50 skills, this would create 50 rows of information, all for the same person. Additionally, I have the Employee resume as one of the fields in the same table which I would like to procure in 1 shot. So creating multiple rows for the same Employee is useless. And talk about the number of rows for, say, 100 Employees who have selected at least 50 skills, that would be 100 (Employees) x 50 (skills) = 5000 rows of information just for 100 people! A very inefficient way, I feel. So I thought comma separated values might help. So in this way, I can get skills, resume & other fields & I have to just maintain only 1 row for every user ( that would be only 100 rows in case of 100 Employees, think about the time save !)
I hope that I have been clear with my question. I just need to get all the Employees that match at least the skills selected by the Employer & not just Exact matches. I would consider Exact match search at a later stage but right now, the former is top priority.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks very much & look forward to your replies.
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Hey,
Why don't you have an employee table, a skills table and an employee_skill table. Hence:
Employee:
Id | Name | Email | etc...
Skills:
Id | Skill
 1 PHP
 2 MySQL
Employee_skill:
Id | EmployeeId | SkillId
Then when you list all the entries in …
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Using indexes will speed your queries up massively. At my last job, we used tables with over a million entries, and this query took at most 10 seconds to run.
So if you apply an index to the employee table on the ID, and likewise the skills table on …
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SQL really isn't one of my strong skills, so the following may be totally wrong. Anyway, that was what I was getting at:
SELECT *
FROM 'employee' AS 't1'
JOIN (
 SELECT COUNT(*) AS 'skillsMatched', 'employeeId'
 FROM
 SELECT 'employeeId' FROM 'employee_skill' WHERE 'skillId' IN (
 $strSkillsIds
 ) …
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Hey,
Why don't you have an employee table, a skills table and an employee_skill table. Hence:
Employee:
Id | Name | Email | etc...
Skills:
Id | Skill
 1 PHP
 2 MySQL
Employee_skill:
Id | EmployeeId | SkillId
Then when you list all the entries in the skills table for an employee to select, when entering their choices in the DB, you'd just need to create an entry in the employee_skill table. And as it'll be simply 3 numerical values, you could have millions of rows in this table without any issues, so long as you add the correct indexes. E.g. an id index, employee id index and a skill id index, and perhaps an employee id/skill id index.
Then when an employer is searching for people with specific skills, find the skill id values and do a query such as:
SELECT *
FROM 'employee'
WHERE 'id' IN (
[INDENT]SELECT DISTINCT 'employeeId'
FROM 'employee_skill'
WHERE 'skillId' IN (
[INDENT]SELECT 'skillId'
FROM 'employer_skills'
WHERE 'employerId' = '1221'
[/INDENT]
)[/INDENT]
)
I think the above query will work. And to add more complexity, you could count the number of matches each employee gets to the employers skills and order them by relevancy, hence the most suitable employee is listed first.
R.
Thanks to both of you guys pritaeas & robothy for taking time to post your views/findings.
To pritaeas:
I tried using FIND_IN_SET syntax & it did not produce me the right result. I selected 1, 3, 5 options from the skills checkboxes & performed searched but the query returned 0 values, while an Employee exists whose skills are stored as 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. So I think this method did not work. Additionally, it only worked if I selected only the 1st checkbox (value 1) & it returned me the row in DB. But for multiple checkboxes, it did not return me any values. It's not even working if I select the checkbox with value 3 & perform the search nor any other value as to that matter.
I am hoping that there might be some other way to get around this. I will try digging into this more, but please do let me know if you have any more ideas. I will be waiting.
To robothy:
I haven't tried your method yet, but will give it a shot. Additionally, don't you think that since there will be numerous number of rows, the query speed will be much slower? I am thinking about 1000 Employees with about 50 skills roughly, i.e 50,000 rows of information! Is there anything at all which can help us reduce the time taken to execute & retrieve?
Look forward to your reply as well.
Thank you all once again. I will be awaiting further replies.
Using indexes will speed your queries up massively. At my last job, we used tables with over a million entries, and this query took at most 10 seconds to run.
So if you apply an index to the employee table on the ID, and likewise the skills table on the ID and to the fields in the employee_skill table as I said in my last post, that should be enough.
Best,
R.
Hi robothy,
Thank you once again for a fast reply. I will follow likewise for the index. But I am confused here:
SELECT 'skillId' FROM 'employer_skills'WHERE 'employerId' = '1221'
Where is it coming from. I do not have a table called Employer skills (at least for now..maybe later). Right now, all the Employers would just use a simple form, which will have Skills checkboxes & other criteria. When the information is POST'ed from the form, say we capture the info in an array called $skills, how do I search using this array?
Please let me know. Thank you.
Right, sorry. I thought it may be that an employer has registered and saved the skills they desire in an employee.
Selecting the results from a form would work too. Just have the skills id as the value that is submitted if a checkbox is checked. Therefore, you'd have a list of skill id values to pass straight into your query.
R.
Hi,
But I think I might have some problems trying to pass the array values. Could you please give me the query to do that? Much appreciate if you


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Retrieve a query parameter in Power Automate
This simple post describes how a Power Automate flow, being triggered by a HTTP request, can extract a query parameter.
Firstly, the Power Automate flow is configured to extract a query parameter.
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The City's capital projects are funded by a variety of sources including the issuance of debt.
Debt provides the City with affordable financing and matches the repayment term to the economic useful life of the project. Without debt financing, the City may be hindered from taking on large capital projects. Also, present taxpayers would be funding projects that provide long-term benefit to future residents.
An Ontario municipality may issue long-term debt only for capital purposes and cannot borrow for operations. The only exception is issuing promissory notes that must be repaid with the current year's tax levy. Repayment of municipal debt is amortized over the term of the debenture with regular contributions being made to the sinking fund. The city auditor certifies the sinking fund balance annually. If the balance certified is less than the amount required in the year for the repayment of the sinking fund, the City will pay an amount sufficient to make up the deficiency into the sinking fund.
The City of Toronto is a respected participant in the global capital markets. Adherence to the Financing of Capital Works Policy and Goals maintains the City's reputation and affords continued efficient and cost-effective access to capital markets.
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left\langle{F \wedge (1-F)}\right\rangle } \xrightarrow{\text{T}} \bigoplus _{p\in ?} {\mathbb{C}^{\times}} \end{align*} where \(T\) is the tame symbol. We want to compute the regulator \begin{align*} \ker(T) = H_M^2(X, {\mathbb{Z}}(2)) \xrightarrow{R_X} H^2_D(X, {\mathbb{Z}}(2)) \cong H^1(X^{\mathrm{an}}, {\mathbb{C}}/{\mathbb{Z}}(2)) .\end{align*} Beilinson shows that if \(\left\{{f, g}\right\}\in \ker(T)\) and \(\gamma\in \pi_1(X\setminus?, x_0)\) then \begin{align*} {\left\langle {R_X\left\{{f, g}\right\}},~{[\gamma]} \right\rangle} \equiv \int_\gamma \log(f) {dg\over g} - \log g(x_0) \int_\gamma {df\over f} .\end{align*}
Consider \(X \xrightarrow{\pi} S\) a family of smooth curves and \(z\in H_m^2(X, {\mathbb{Z}}(2))\) we can consider their fibers \(z_2\in H_M^2(X_s, {\mathbb{Z}}(2))\). This maps to \begin{align*} R(S) = H^1(X_s, {\mathbb{C}}/{\mathbb{Z}}(2)) \cong \operatorname{Ext} ^1_{\mathrm{MHS}}({\mathbb{Z}}(2), H^1(X_s, {\mathbb{Z}})) .\end{align*} By Griffiths transversality, \(\nabla R = F^1 H^1_{X_{/ {S}} } \otimes\omega_S^1\). If \(z\) lifts to \(\left\{{F, G}\right\}\) (?) then \(\nabla R = {dF\over F}\wedge {dG\over G}\).
13.3 Families of elliptic curves
Let \(\Delta \subseteq {\mathbb{R}}\times [-1, 1]\) be a reflexive polytope, e.g. the polytope for \({\mathbb{P}}^n\), let \(\Delta^\circ\) be is polar dual. Somehow construct an elliptic surface \({\mathcal{E}}\) out of this! The symbol \(\left\{{-x, -y}\right\}\in {\mathsf{K}}_2({\mathbb{C}}({\mathcal{E}}))\) lifting to \(z\in H^2_M(\Sigma\setminus{\mathcal{E}}_\infty, {\mathbb{Z}}(2))\) and take its regulator in \(H^1(E_?, {\mathbb{C}}/{\mathbb{Z}}(2))\).
Idea: regulators of \({\mathsf{K}}_2\) of curves relate to Hori-Vafa models, so we've reduced to relating regulators to quantum curves:


Definition of sky wave in English:
sky wave
 - A radio wave reflected from the ionosphere.
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cholesky()
Usage:
cholesky(x [,pivot:T or force:T , nonposok:T]), x a positive definite
 square REAL matrix with no MISSING values
Keywords: matrix algebra
cholesky(A) returns the Cholesky decomposition of the positive definite
REAL symmetric matrix A. Its value is the REAL upper triangular matrix
r of the same size as A such that r' %*% r = A. It is an error if A is
not positive definite.
cholesky(A, nonposok:T) does the same, except that a non positive
definite A is not considered to be an error, but results a value of NULL
being returned. This makes it possible for a macro to take corrective
action when a matrix is not positive definite. See topics 'macros' and
'NULL'.
cholesky(A,pivot:T [,nonposok:T]) reorders the rows and columns as the
computation proceeds so as to obtain the most stable computation. It
returns a structure with components 'r', a REAL upper triangular matrix,
and 'pivot', a REAL vector of integers describing the reordering. After
result <- cholesky(A,pivot:T), result$r' %*% result$r should equal
A[result$pivot, result$pivot] except for rounding error.
cholesky(A,force:Vec [,nonposok:T]), where Vec is a REAL vector whose
length is nrows(A), enables pivoting, but allows some control on
reordering. The elements of Vec should be 1, -1, or 0, since only the
signs are used. Before factoring, rows and columns of A, if any, with
index j such that Vec[j] > 0 are moved to rows and columns 1, 2, ...,
(initial columns) but are not further moved. All rows and columns with
Vec[j] < 0 are moved to rows and columns nrows(A), nrows(A) - 1, ...,
(final columns) but are not further moved. Rows and columns, if any,
with Vec[j] == 0 (pivoted columns), are free to be reordered, but will
follow the initial columns and precede the final columns. Again the
result is a structure with components 'r' and 'pivot'.
See also qr().
Gary Oehlert 2003-01-15


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The main importance of anti-combined policy (antimonopoly policy) is ideas to prevent industrial concentration or monopolization, to achieve locative efficiency and to promote competition. Even if many economists say that these are the main aims of this policy some of them may argue that anti-combined policies aren't so effective and their goals aren't always achieved.
The main important anti-monopolistic idea is that they produce less output and charge higher prices than firms from competitive market system. In pure competition firms produce output quantity where P=MC. This equation is so important because P represents benefit that society gains from extra unit of output, while MC is the cost that society is ready to pay for that extra unit. When this equation occurs (P=MC) society doesn't gain any higher total benefit by producing one more or one less unit of output. However, a monopolist doesn't maximize profit by equating marginal benefit (not price) with marginal cost. In this case, there is an under allocation of resources to this monopolized products, so that economic well-being of society is less than it would be with greater competition.
It is said that in nineteenth century the market forces in monopolized industries don't provide sufficient control over prices to protect consumers, achieve locative efficiency and get a fair competition. So there were two methods by which a government could control these market forces:
- Regulatory agencies: In the markets where products or producing technology creates a natural monopoly, the government organizes public regulatory agencies that control economic behavior.
- Anti-combined laws: in some kinds of market systems this control took form of anti-combined or anti-monopoly legislation that prevents the growth and development of a monopoly.
Anti-combined legislation depends on corporate size and concentration. That's why it's important to examine all merger types.
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- A horizontal merger represents a merger between competitors that sell similar products in the market.
- A vertical merger is a merger between some firms at different stages of production process. An example can be a merger between a firm that produces glass and another that produces plastic so that they may create windows that are sound-proof. Another example is that Pepsi, which is a supplier of soft drinks, and Pizza Hut, so that they supply food and drinks for these fast-food firms.
- A conglomerate merger may be defined as any merger that isn't horizontal or vertical; it is a combination of firms in different industries or firms that operate in different geographical areas. This type of merger can extent the line of goods sold or combines some unrelated companies. An example of conglomerate merger is a union between Pizza Hut and some vehicle producing firms.

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text: Being able to produce fine embroidery was a sign of female accomplishment and education in the 19th century. Martha "Patty" Phelps came to Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in May 1804, only one month after her mother died. She spent the summer stitching this silk-on-silk embroidery recording her mother's and her young brother's deaths. Mourning pictures like these were a way of expressing a family's grief and sense of loss. The weeping willows and neoclassical funerary urns Patty Phelps painstaking sewed were traditional symbols of mourning in the 19th century.


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KUCHING: The 2,400MW Bakun Hydroelectric Plant (HEP) plays a major role in mitigating the severity of flooding along the Rejang River, especially downstream.
It balances the water level at the reservoir upstream with the water level downstream, especially during periods of heavy rainfall, by releasing water at a controlled minimal level from the Bakun spillway.
When it was raining heavily at the upstream and downstream areas recently, the Bakun HEP held back a large volume of rain water, which greatly reduced and mitigated the impact of flooding in Kanowit and Sibu.
The current high water level situation downstream is due to a combination of prevailing conditions, including heavy rainfall downstream of the Bakun HEP and the king tide.
Sarawak Energy Bhd has a dedicated team that vigilantly monitors water levels at the Bakun reservoir and downstream rivers on a daily basis.
The water level at Murum HEP, which is also located upstream, is also monitored daily by the team.
The team works closely with the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Sarawak to control the volume of water released from the Bakun HEP spillway according to the water level further downstream to ensure the safety of the Punan Ba community.
The current seasonal release of water through the spillway began on 8 September 2021 and is scheduled to last for five weeks, until the water level in the reservoir normalises.
According to SEB's statement yesterday, this controlled procedure is conducted on a seasonal basis after consulting local councils and stakeholders, and the communities staying at the immediate vicinities and along the Rejang River are notified at least two days ahead of any scheduled release.
Controlled release of water inflow from dams is a standard practice for hydropower operators worldwide and it has been undertaken by the operator of Bakun HEP since it was commissioned in 2010. – TVS
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The Path of the Bogong: Land & People
My name is Patrick Bailey. This is the final of three posts that I've prepared as an intern at the National Museum of Australia (and as part of the Australian National Internship Program), which explores how the interaction between human and non-human forces in Southern NSW and the ACT combine to form continual and changing expressions of community identity. This last post will explore how the land has been influenced by people and formed ongoing relationships which resonate with inhabitants today.
One of the more common stereotypes of alpine Australia involves the presence of brumbies and cattle, and their impact on the environment. However, these two animals are only a recent addition to the region. Until Europeans arrived, no such animals existed here. These new species, along with rabbits, dogs and sheep, and plants such as wheat and barley, changed the landscape forever. It was not until the 1850s however, that pastoralism really morphed the environment. From the 1850s, pastoralists developed new and innovative ways to cultivate the land. One technique was the use of the alpine zone during summer. This opened up a great swath of fertile land for cattle, sheep and horses which had not previously been used for animal husbandry. Horses allowed people to traverse the landscape unlike they had ever been able to do. The implementation of snow leases in 1884 under the Land Act further transformed the landscape into one more controlled by people. With the introduction of new species and the rigorous grazing of the high country, the land underwent significant changes which included severe soil erosion, loss of biodiversity and the spread of animal 'pests'.
Despite being divided over this issue, many local communities believe these animals represent the heritage of pastoralism in the region and are an example of living heritage, where their presence is a constant reminder of how the environment has given life to new forms of identity and human/non-human interaction.
Gold Mining
Perhaps the most significant immediate impact on alpine Australia was the discovery of gold in the 1850s at Kiandra. This led to a gold rush in the region, with estimates of over 10 000 people converging on the area. Only lasting approximately two years (_PHONE_) the impact of this sudden wave of (and equally sudden exodus of) people profoundly changed the environment and human interaction with it forever.
Of these 10 000 immigrants, over 700 Chinese migrants settled in Kiandra as mining labourers, graziers and shop owners. One family in particular, the Yen family, is notable for being a focal point of the Old Adaminaby community. The CJ Yen collection at the NMA contains many artefacts ranging from sophisticated women's apparel to food products and skiing equipment. These artefacts represent a general trend amongst Chinese immigrants, with a large assortment of imported goods such as tea. Other artefacts included women's crochet gloves, tailored towards a middle class patron. The diversity in the collection also represents the diversity of Old Adaminaby and other alpine districts, where a varied range of people would live together.
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CJ Yen's general goods store in Old Adaminaby, courtesy Odette Yen,
National Museum of Australia
A phenomenon, whilst not iconic to Kiandra alone, was the seasonal basis of mining. During the summer months when the land was vibrant and the soil fertile, the 'miners' would become the 'farmers' or 'pastoralists' in order to best be accommodated with the land. During the winter months or those less equitable for farming, these groups would become 'miners' once again. This seasonal rotation was singularly influenced by the environment and directed the occupations of the people whom relied on the seasons. It is the connection to land and community established by groups of people, such as the Yen family, which transformed the alpine environment into a diverse landscape. The result was the establishment of communities which gained their connectivity and identity through their direct connection to the surrounding environment. In this way, non-human forces directed a means of subsistence and community which became iconic of its own region.
Water Harvesting
Possibly the most significant long term impact on the alpine environment was the manipulation of water throughout the region. In particular the construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme unequivocally transformed the environment. Hitherto the construction of hydro-electric power programs, human interaction with the land was directed by the natural contours of the environment: the flow of the rivers, the curve of the hills and the sheer faces of the mountains. Hydro-electric power programs changed the relationship humans had to the non-human environment. Humans were now directing environmental activities at an unprecedented scale. Constructed between 1949 and 1974, the Scheme required the services of over 100 000 people from over 30 different countries. It contains 16 dams, 12 tunnels totalling 140 kilmetres and 7 power stations (the largest of which, Tumut 3, provides 1.5 million kilowatts of electricity per year). The impact of this scheme is best summarized as: 'The Snowy Mountains Scheme altered the countryside to such a vast degree that it formed its own landscape' (Snowy Mountains Scheme, Office Of Environment And Heritage).
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Map of Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. Source: Wikipedia
The alpine region of Australia encapsulates a dynamic interplay between human and non-human forces over hundreds of years. It is the bond formed between human interactions with the environment that has made the relationship an ongoing syncretic dialogue. This communion was first established by the Aboriginal people of southern NSW and the ACT over 21 000 years ago and, while some of their traditions and ceremonies have been lost, the influence of the land and the traditions and identities gained from it are long lasting. Whether it is through alpine skiing, bushwalking or conservation movements, this relationship is maintained. People such as Tom and Jean Moppett and Myles and Milo Dunphy are just some of the many people who have gained a sense of identity and belonging from their connection to alpine land. Other ventures, including pastoralism, mining and water harvesting have changed the environment to suit more human desires, yet the relationship with the land is similarly iconic of the region, and has formed many communities' identities, such as at Adaminaby and Kiandra. It is through our connection to land that we are able to connect to the wonders of the land and enjoy the beauty which makes alpine Australia and its communities unique in the world.
For me this research has driven me to really think about my impact on the land and how the land has impacted me. I look at the collections held within the NMA and other artefacts of the alpine region and think to myself: this land has driven people together, has manifested identities and engaged core human values, particularly wonderment. What can we learn from our interaction with the environment? What can it teach us if we actively engage with it and respond to it?
Top image: Snowy Mountains, December 2012, Flickr Creative Commons.
[1] KHA – Dicky Cooper Hut, Kosciuszko Huts Association. Available from:
[2] Deirdre Slattery, Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks, CSIRO Publishing, 2015.
[3] Josephine Flood, The Moth Hunters: Aboriginal Prehistory of the Australian Alps.
[4] Andrew Denning, Skiing into Modernity: A Cultural and Environmental History, Oakland, University of California Press, 2014.
[5] Daniel George Moye, Historic Kiandra: a guide to the history of the district, Cooma, Australia.
[6] World Heritage Encyclopedia, Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club, Project Gutenberg. Available from:
[7] Elyne Mitchell. A Vision of the Snowy Mountains, South Melbourne, Macmillan of Australia, 1988.


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- This name was not part of the original IAU nomenclature. It was introduced in the System of Lunar Craters.
Harold Hill. 1991. A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings pages 166, 167 (the Baade-Inghirami-Bouvard valleys).


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Difference between Adaptor and Scaffold protein
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Difference between Adaptor and Scaffold proteins
Both of these types of proteins are involved in the signaling pathway.
Signaling pathway itself is the mechanism, or the process (name it however you like) in which a signal comes to the cell and triggers some ordered series of events (signaling pathway) which results in some changes in the cell. These changes are usually related to the gene expression or solute concentration (solute uptake, e.g.) which allows the cell to respond to the signal and adjust its metabolism to the current conditions in the environment.
Signaling pathway usually starts with the signal itself which binds to the receptor on the cell membrane which then transmits the signal inside through a number of different proteins. Basically, both adaptor and scaffold proteins are "located" in this group of proteins responsible for transmitting the signal from the receptor further down into the cell.
The main difference between them is in their function. They also differ in the structure, of course, but then again this is the case for any two different proteins so it is not worth mentioning. The role of scaffold proteins is to coordinate the signal transduction by "attracting" a number of different proteins needed in the signaling pathway. They basically form a complex of proteins by tethering other actors in the pathway, thus localizing them to a specific place, making the signal transduction more effective. Having this role, they can also regulate the signaling pathway (through positive and negative feedback signals) and they can isolate specific proteins (the right ones needed in the current active pathway) from other competitive proteins that are not wanted during that time.
Adaptor proteins, on the other hand, are smaller and they too help in the formation of protein complexes, but they do so by usually binding only two proteins. They accomplish this through specific domains (usually SH2 and SH3) which recognize specific amino acid sequences in the target protein.
One of the best examples for scaffold protein is MEKK1, which is present in the MAPK pathway (mitogen-activated protein kinase). This pathway is responsible for sending the signal further into the nucleus, regulating specific transcription factors responsible for the expression of proteins which affect the cell-cycle and cell differentiation.
Good example of adaptor protein is GRB2 (growth factor receptor-bound protein 2). It sends the signal further down by binding to the EGF receptor (epidermal growth factor receptor) with SH2 domain, and it attracts the next protein in the pathway (Sos protein in this case) with SH3 domains.
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Beattyville, the seat of Lee county, is on the forks of the Kentucky River. The site was originally known as Taylors Landing (the source of the name is not known). In 1850 it was renamed Beatty for Samuel Beatty, an early settler and landowner, and in 1872 was incorporated as Beattyville. The county seat was moved to Beattyville in 1872 from nearby Proctor. The population in 1990 was 1,131.
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of 4.4% of the mean annual flow. This allocation takes into account seasonal fluctuations but not long-term climatic variability and change. This paper examines the decadal-scale variability in river discharge in the Athabasca River Basin (ARB) with (i) a generalized least-squares (GLS) regression analysis of the trend and variability in gauged flow and (ii) a 900-y tree-ring reconstruction of the water-year flow of the Athabasca River at Athabasca, Alberta. The GLS analysis removes confounding transient trends related to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and Pacific North American mode (PNA). It shows long-term declining flows throughout the ARB. The tree-ring record reveals a larger range of flows and severity of hydrologic deficits than those captured by the instrumental records that are the basis for surface water allocation. It includes periods of sustained low flow of multiple decades in duration, suggesting the influence of the PDO and PNA teleconnections. These results together demonstrate that low-frequency variability must be considered in ARB water allocation, which has not been the case. We show that the current and projected surface water allocations from the Athabasca River for the exploitation of the Alberta oil sands are based on an untenable assumption of the representativeness of the short instrumental record. PMID:26392554
 9. Long-term reliability of the Athabasca River (Alberta, Canada) as the water source for oil sands mining.
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 Sauchyn, David J; St-Jacques, Jeannine-Marie; Luckman, Brian H
 2015-10-13
 Exploitation of the Alberta oil sands, the world's third-largest crude oil reserve, requires fresh water from the Athabasca River, an allocation of 4.4% of the mean annual flow. This allocation takes into account seasonal fluctuations but not long-term climatic variability and change. This paper examines the decadal-scale variability in river discharge in the Athabasca River Basin (ARB) with (i) a generalized least-squares (GLS) regression analysis of the trend and variability in gauged flow and (ii) a 900-y tree-ring reconstruction of the water-year flow of the Athabasca River at Athabasca, Alberta. The GLS analysis removes confounding transient trends related to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and Pacific North American mode (PNA). It shows long-term declining flows throughout the ARB. The tree-ring record reveals a larger range of flows and severity of hydrologic deficits than those captured by the instrumental records that are the basis for surface water allocation. It includes periods of sustained low flow of multiple decades in duration, suggesting the influence of the PDO and PNA teleconnections. These results together demonstrate that low-frequency variability must be considered in ARB water allocation, which has not been the case. We show that the current and projected surface water allocations from the Athabasca River for the exploitation of the Alberta oil sands are based on an untenable assumption of the representativeness of the short instrumental record.
 10. An annotated list of the mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies of the Sand Creek basin, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, 2004 and 2005
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 Zuellig, Robert E.; Kondratieff, Boris C.; Ruiter, David E.; Thorp, Richard A.
 2006-01-01
 The U.S. Geological Survey, in conjunction with the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve and its cooperators, did an extensive inventory of certain targeted aquatic-insect groups in the Sand Creek Basin, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, to establish a species list for future monitoring efforts. Study sites were established to monitor these groups following disturbance events. Such potential disturbances may include, but are not limited to, chemical treatment of perennial stream reaches to remove nonnative fishes and the subsequent reintroduction of native fish species, increased public use of backcountry habitat (such as hiking and fishing), and natural disturbances such as fire. This report is an annotated list of the mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies found in the Sand Creek Basin, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, 2004 and 2005. The primary objective of the study was to qualitatively inventory target aquatic-insect groups in perennial streams, and selected unique standing-water habitats, such as springs, and wetlands associated with the Sand Creek Basin. Efforts focused on documenting the presence of aquatic-insect species within the following taxonomic groups: Ephemeroptera (mayflies), Plecoptera (stoneflies), and Trichoptera (caddisflies). These insect orders were chosen because published species accounts, geographic distribution, and identification keys exist for many Colorado species. Given the extent of available information for these groups, there existed a potential for identifying new species and documenting range extensions of known species.
 11. Do peat amendments to oil sands wet sediments affect Carex aquatilis biomass for reclamation success?
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 Roy, Marie-Claude; Mollard, Federico P O; Foote, A Lee
 2014-06-15
 The oil sands industries of Alberta (Canada) have reclamation objectives to return the mined landscape to equivalent pre-disturbance land capability. Industrial operators are charged with reclaiming a vast landscape of newly exposed sediments on saline-sodic marine-shales sediments. Incorporated in these sediments are by-products resulting from bitumen extraction (consolidated tailings (CT), tailings-sand (TS), and oil sands processed water (OSPW)). A sedge community dominated by Carex aquatilis was identified as a desirable and representative late-succession community for wet-meadow zones of oil sands-created marshes. However, the physical and chemical conditions, including high salinity and low nutrient content of CT and TS sediments suppress plant growth and performance. We experimentally tested the response of C. aquatilis to amendments with peat-mineral-mix (PM) on oil sand sediments (CT and TS). In a two factorial design experiment, we also tested the effects of OSPW on C. aquatilis. We assessed survival, below- and aboveground biomass, and physiology (chlorophyll a fluorescence). We demonstrated that PM amendments to oil sands sediments significantly increased C. aquatilis survival as well as below and aboveground biomass. The use of OSPW significantly reduced C. aquatilis belowground biomass and affected its physiological performance. Due to its tolerance and performance, we verified that C. aquatilis was a good candidate for use in reclaiming the wet-meadow zones of oil sands-created marshes. Ultimately, amending CT and TS with PM expedited the reclamation of the wetland to a C. aquatilis-community which was similar in gross structure to undisturbed wetlands of the region.
 12. Oil shale, tar sand, coal research, advanced exploratory process technology jointly sponsored research. Quarterly technical progress report, April--June 1992
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 Accomplishments for the quarter are presented for the following areas of research: oil shale, tar sand, coal, advanced exploratory process technology, and jointly sponsored research. Oil shale research includes; oil shale process studies, environmental base studies for oil shale, and miscellaneous basic concept studies. Tar sand research covers process development. Coal research includes; underground coal gasification, coal combustion, integrated coal processing concepts, and solid waste management. Advanced exploratory process technology includes; advanced process concepts, advanced mitigation concepts, and oil and gas technology. Jointly sponsored research includes: organic and inorganic hazardous waste stabilization; development and validation of a standard test method for sequential batch extraction fluid; operation and evaluation of the CO{sub 2} HUFF-N-PUFF Process; fly ash binder for unsurfaced road aggregates; solid state NMR analysis of Mesa Verde Group, Greater Green River Basin, tight gas sands; flow-loop testing of double-wall pipe for thermal applications; characterization of petroleum residue; shallow oil production using horizontal wells with enhanced recovery techniques; and menu driven access to the WDEQ Hydrologic Data Management Systems.
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 NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
 Zheng, Limin
 The high degree of variability of oil sands ores can be attributed to a mixture of different geological end members, i.e., estuarine sand, estuarine clay, marine sand and marine clay. This study focused on the mineralogy, especially of clay minerals, and toluene insoluble organic matter, referred to as kerogen, in different oil sands end members. Clays and kerogens will likely have a significant impact on solvent recovery from the gangue following non-aqueous bitumen extraction. The bitumen-free solids were subjected to mineralogical and geochemical analysis. Kerogens were isolated and analyzed by various characterization methods. The types of clays were identified in oriented samples by X-ray diffraction analysis. The nitrogen to carbon ratio in the isolated kerogens is found to be higher than in bitumen. There are more type III kerogens in estuarine samples and more type II kerogens in marine samples.
 14. Hydrogeology and effects of tailings basins on the hydrology of Sands Plain, Marquette County, Michigan
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 1984-01-01
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How to scan a network device
Apart from scanning Linux, Unix, Mac and Windows computers, as well as VMware servers, Lansweeper is also capable of scanning network devices. Some examples of network devices are: cameras, firewalls, mail servers, music systems, NAS devices, printers, routers, switches, UPS devices, VOIP phones and web servers. The exact data returned depends on the protocols enabled on the device, as well as the device type.
Below are two sample device pages, one of a printer and one of a switch. Scanned printer data includes device description, network interfaces, manufacturer, model, printed pages, printer status, toner levels, serial number, uptime and more. Scanned switch data includes device description, manufacturer, model, port mapping information, serial number, uptime and more.
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To scan a network device, do the following:
 1. Make sure you meet the network device scanning requirements.
 2. Submit your device's IP range for scanning by hitting the Add Scanning Target button in the Scanning\Scanning Targets section of the web console. If you have multiple scanning servers, there will be a separate configuration tab for each server. When submitting your range, you will be asked to specify a scanning schedule. If your device uses a custom SIP or SSH port, make sure to submit the correct port number as well.
 submitting an IP range for scanning
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 3. If your device supports SNMP or SSH, submit your SNMP/SSH credential in the Scanning\Scanning Credentials section of the web console. You can use the same credential for all SNMP/SSH enabled devices by editing the Global SNMP/SSH credential or submit a non-global credential with the Add new Credential button. SNMPv1, SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 are supported.
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PIAB Vacuum Conveyors, located in Hingham, Mass., offers advanced testing at its vacuum conveyor laboratory. The state-of-the-art testing facility allows users to test the process in which they will move their powder, granule, or fluid samples.
The vacuum conveyor testing facility is especially designed for engineers in the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries — who deal with materials that are often health impairing and/or sensitive to humidity and contamination. Testing in the laboratory ensures that their material can be conveyed safely, hygienically, quietly, and efficiently.
PIAB engineers assess conveying characteristics over various vertical and horizontal distances and provide users with a computer-generated analysis of volume conveyed per hour or minute over a given distance. This detailed report allows users to be certain that vacuum cycle time and energy consumption are effective.
Based on the user's specifications, PIAB guarantees the testing results. If the user chooses to attend the testing, all charges are waived; otherwise a $250 fee is assessed. Examples of materials that are tested include aluminum oxide, soya flour, nickel powder, manganese dioxide, coffee beans, peas, and penicillin.


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When you set the axes Position to [0 0 1 1] so that it fills the entire figure, the aspect ratio is not preserved when you print because MATLAB® printing software adjusts the figure size when printing according to the figure's PaperPosition property. To preserve the image aspect ratio when printing, set the figure's PaperPositionMode to 'auto' from the command line.
When PaperPositionMode is set to 'auto', the width and height of the printed figure are determined by the figure's dimensions on the screen, and the figure position is adjusted to center the figure on the page. If you want the default value of PaperPositionMode to be 'auto', enter this line in your startup.m file.
Printed images may not always be the same size as they are on your monitor. The size depends on accurately specifying the numbers of pixels per inch that you monitor is displaying.
To specify the pixels-per-inch on your display, do the following (in Microsoft® Windows®):
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Three main phases can be identified in the history of lifestyles studies:
Lifestyles and social position
Earlier studies on lifestyles focus on the analysis of social structure and of the individuals' relative positions inside it. Thorstein Veblen, with his 'emulation' concept, opens this perspective by asserting that people adopt specific 'schemes of life', and in particular specific patterns of 'conspicuous consumption', depending on a desire for distinction from social strata they identify as inferior and a desire for emulation of the ones identified as superior. Max Weber intends lifestyles as distinctive elements of status groups strictly connected with a dialectic of recognition of prestige: the lifestyle is the most visible manifestation of social differentiation, even within the same social class, and in particular it shows the prestige which the individuals believe they enjoy or to which they aspire. Georg Simmel carries out formal analysis of lifestyles, at the heart of which can be found processes of individualisation, identification, differentiation, and recognition, understood both as generating processes of, and effects generated by, lifestyles, operating "vertically" as well as "horizontally". Finally, Pierre Bourdieu renews this approach within a more complex model in which lifestyles, made up mainly of social practices and closely tied to individual tastes, represent the basic point of intersection between the structure of the field and processes connected with the habitus.


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Feb 19 · 9 min read
By Gernot Poetsch
In the first part of this article, we covered the basics of Core Haptics, the Apple Framework for custom haptic events on the iPhone. In this article, we will dig deeper and discuss creating custom haptic content, exporting it as an AHAP file (Apple Haptic and Audio Pattern), and integrating that content into an application.
An AHAP file is the most convenient way to specify complex haptic patterns — in this form, haptic events and sounds are specified together in the same place. Getting started with the AHAP file format is easy: treat it like a normal file, as you would with an MP3, and "play" it.
There are currently two ways to generate an AHAP file: manually write the code, or, use one of several visual tools.
Creating AHAP content
It is possible to write code for a complete AHAP file in your favorite text or JSON editor. However, this method is hardly comfortable, and, we recommend a visual tool to provide a better way to create and preview the haptic effect and then generate the AHAP file. Here is an overview of three currently available AHAP creation tools:
Captain AHAP
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This is the first AHAP editor available to the public, a web-based application, found at _URL_. It has a companion app on Github, very fittingly called Moby. Captain AHAP and Moby are free and Moby is open source(1).
Using Captain AHAP, you can place events, parameters and parameter curves on a visual timeline and generate an AHAP file. It's a great tool to experiment with if you want to place and modify events manually and have a clear understanding of the outcome.
(1)The great folks at Fancy Pixel, who made Captain AHAP are also part of the team that built Lofelt Composer. Thanks!
Haptrix
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This is the youngest of the three tools, and similar to Captain AHAP in functionality. It also lets you place events, parameters and parameter curves, but with a native Mac App and a companion iOS app for playback. Both are available in the App Store, and the Mac app costs around $10. While it requires deep knowledge about the building blocks of an AHAP file, it provides precise numeric control over all aspects of the pattern, and does a good job at visualizing all events and parameters.
Lofelt Composer
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Lofelt Composer is a web-based tool with an iOS-based companion app, and is the impetus for writing this article. It has a different approach than the other two options: it doesn't require the user to place events manually. Rather, the user can simply drop an audio file onto Composer and it generates a complex series of events and parameter curves automatically. As can be seen in the screenshot above, these event and parameter curves are presented to the user as a single haptic envelope that can be fine-tuned as needed. This audio-driven approach is very useful for games and any other application development where you already have an audio component, or if you try to make the haptics mimic real-world examples for which you have created an audio file.
All three tools have editors and companion apps, so when experimenting and composing a pattern, the feedback loop of trial-and-error is especially important. Lofelt Composer makes setting this up very easy: open the tool in the browser and with the companion app on your iPhone; then, scan the displayed QR code. For the rest of the session, your phone is in sync with the browser, and you can immediately feel the pattern changes you make in real time. Once you are happy with the result, copy the AHAP file to the clipboard and integrate it into your app.
Integration
Having created your AHAP file content using one of the tools, you can easily copy the file into your existing workflow to integrate into your app.
How to Play an AHAP file
A simple AHAP player can be written in Swift with very little code:
let patternURL = ... //URL to the AHAP, preferably a local file
let engine = try CHHapticEngine()
try engine.start()
try engine.playPattern(from: patternURL)
That is the easiest way to play a pattern, sufficient for experimenting. In a production project, you should check if the haptic engine is available and do proper error handling. Also, the engine has handler blocks for stopping, resetting and finishing, which should be provided in a production app.
If you need more control over the playback, instead of using .playPattern(from:) on the engine, you can instantiate a CHHapticPatternPlayer and have that play a CHHapticPattern.
If you want to pause, seek and continue, set playback speed, or loop a pattern, use CHHapticAdvancedPatternPlayer instead. For example, with dynamic parameter injection at runtime (more on that later), a looping advanced pattern player can be used for continuous real-time feedback in games.
One unusual aspect of CHHapticPatternPlayer and CHHapticAdvancedPatternPlayer is that they are protocols, not classes. The actual types that implement the protocols are not exposed to the developer. The advanced player protocol inherits from its regular variant - the implication of this protocol-based approach is that the underlying types that implement them don't have to mirror that inheritance. This represents a rare example of Apple conforming to their pattern of "Protocol Based Programming in Swift" in a system framework. Apple claims that haptic players are extremely lightweight and fast to create - this design choice might have had a role in achieving that
The AHAP file format
Here is an example of a simple AHAP file structure:
{ "Version": 1.0, "Metadata": { "Project": "My Sample }, "Pattern": [ { "Event": {...} }, { "ParameterCurve": {...} } ]
If you take a closer look into it, however, it is a JSON file with a dictionary at its root that has three keys: version is currently set to 1.0; an optional Metadata dictionary that might contain a creation date and the project name; and, a Pattern key that includes the actual haptic events. As any JSON file, it can be edited or modified with a text editor — as long as it is valid JSON and follows the AHAP specification.
The most interesting part of the file is the Pattern section: it contains an array of dictionaries, each of which can have the keys: Event, Parameter or ParameterCurve. Let's look at them more closely.
Events
Events are, in type and structure, what we have already discussed in the previous article: transient and continuous haptic events and their audio counterparts. To play audio in sync with the haptic events, the waveform needs to be referenced from the pattern. But as complex and potentially large binary data, they can't be included in the JSON file but instead, need to be referred to as an external source. The path to the waveform has to be absolute or relative to the bundle where the AHAP file resides, which is usually the app's main bundle. If you want to add waveform audio in code, use .registerAudioResource(…) and related methods on CHHapticEngine. This generates a CHHapticAudioResourceID that can be used to create a haptic audio event for this waveform.
Events have an EventParameters array which modifies the properties of the complete event in which they're specified. Those parameters are specified in an array in the event and have a type and a value.
Parameters
In addition to the EventParameters, which were discussed in the previous article, there are "dynamic" parameters that can be modified during playback of a haptic event at runtime. To make things even more confusing, those dynamic parameters are only called Parameter in the AHAP file and are at the same level as the events. They affect all events at the same time and have slightly different names than their non-dynamic event-based counterparts: instead of HapticIntensity, there is HapticIntensityControl; AudioVolume is AudioVolumeControl; and, the ADSR parameters (the standard Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release envelope stages), like AttackTime, become HapticAttackTimeControl. Audio can also be modified with ADSR envelopes, in this case, use AudioAttackTimeControl and so on. In addition to Type (called ParameterID) and value, they have a time, which determines their position in the pattern, because they can change during an event.
Also, to be specified in a pattern, dynamic parameters can be added to an already-playing pattern at runtime:
func sendParameters([CHHapticDynamicParameter], atTime: TimeInterval)
This command, sent to a CHHapticPlayer or CHHapticAdvancedPlayer, causes the parameters to be applied immediately (by specifying time as 0) on an already-playing haptic, or at a specified time. The change is applied abruptly without the value slowly ramping up or down.
ParameterCurve
If you want dynamic parameters to change linearly over time, use a ParameterCurve. In


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On the occasion of the 6th follow-up meeting of the initiative, the mySMARTLife project, with CARTIF at the helm, has organized a 'technological breakfast' on Friday, September 20, 2019 in the Finnish city of Helsinki, where the research teams of the three cities Lighthouse, Nantes, Hamburg and Helsinki, will present their participation and impact on the project. The speakers will share knowledge and experiences related to the central theme of the event: "logistics with electric vehicles".
Rubén García, CARTIF researcher and project coordinator, will offer an overview of this international initiative, which, in addition to mobility, develops energy efficiency and renewable energy actions that are being implemented in rehabilitated and newly constructed buildings within the framework of the draft. All interventions will be monitored and evaluated to achieve a significant amount of data and services of interest to citizens, which will be integrated into the ICT platforms of the three lighthouse cities.
The mySMARTLife project has as its main objectives to reduce the CO2 emissions in cities, increasing the use of renewable energy sources and making populations more environmentally friendly. Under the coordination of the CARTIF Technology Centre, 28 partners from 7 countries work together to achieve sustainable cities through the concepts of 'smart economy' and 'smart citizens'.
The action plan of this European initiative includes the renovation of buildings, the use of renewable energy, the use of clean transport and the implementation of ICT solutions. mySMARTLife seeks to design an integrated urban planning process that will lead to an integrated urban transformation strategy that can be easily transferred to other cities.


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The earliest lamps were used by Greek and Roman civilizations, where light primarily served the purpose of security, both to protect the wanderer from tripping over something on the path as well as keeping the potential robbers at bay. At that time oil lamps were used predominantly as they provided a long-lasting and moderate flame. The Romans had a word 'laternarius', which was a term for a slave responsible for lighting up the oil lamps in front of their villas. This task continued to be kept for a special person as far as up to Middle Ages where the so-called 'link boys' escorted people from one place to another through the murky winding streets of medieval towns.
Before incandescent lamps, candle lighting was employed in cities. The earliest lamps required that a lamplighter tour the town at dusk, lighting each of the lamps, but later designs employed ignition devices that would automatically strike the flame when the gas supply was activated. The earliest of such street lamps wer


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Florida Bog Frog: Lithobates okaloosae
Genus/Species: Lithobates okaloosae Common Name: Florida bog frog
Federal Status: Not listed
FL Status:State Species of Special Concern
FNAI Ranks: G2/S2 (Imperiled)
IUCN Status: VU (Vulnerable)
The Florida bog frog is a small and rare amphibian that can reach a snout-to-vent length of 1.9 inches (4.9 centimeters) (Moler 1992). This species has a yellowish-brown upper body, a yellow belly, brown eardrum, yellow throat, a narrow ridge that runs laterally down the back, and smaller webbed feet with larger toes (Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2001).
The diet of the Florida bog frog primarily consists of small invertebrates (insects, etc).
There is limited information available about the reproduction of the Florida bog frog. Florida bog frogs breed between the months of April and August. During the breeding season, bog frogs will let out loud "chucks" to attract a mate. Their calls consist of 3-21 guttural (sound developed in the back of the oral cavity) calls continuously done at five notes per second. Females lay a few hundred eggs at a time on the surface of the water. Bog frog tadpoles metamorphose (transform) into frogs during the following spring months (University of Florida Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, n.d., Moler 1992, Bishop 2005).
Habitat and Distribution
Florida bog frogs inhabit many areas including shallow, acidic spring seeps; boggy overflows of larger seepage streams; sluggish bends in streams; and pond edges (Moler 1992, Bishop 2005). The dominant vegetation in these habitats includes black titi (Cliftonia monophylla), sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana), Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), swamp titi (Cyrilla racemiflora), and blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica) (Moler 1992, Gorman 2009). The Florida bog frog is found in Walton, Okaloosa, and Santa Rosa counties in Florida (Moler 1992).
The main threat to the Florida bog frog is the degradation of its habitat. Bog frogs thrive best in early succession vegetation. Suppression of fire will cause woody plants (i.e. oak trees) to invade their bog habitat causing increased evapotranspiration (evaporation of water from land to the atmosphere), which reduces seepage from the soil. Invasive vegetation also degrades its habitat; with Chinese tallow trees (Sapium sebiferum) being the main invasive threat (Jackson 2004). Invasive vegetation degrades habitats by out-competing endemic species for resources needed for survival. Feral hogs also threaten the Florida bog frog's habitat by digging around in seepage areas which causes destruction to the habitat (Printiss and Hipes 1999). Road construction can increase silt and pollution in streams, and can also cause habitat fragmentation (Jackson 2004). Increased predation on Florida bog frogs is also a threat because their habitat is shared by the southern watersnake, cottonmouth, and wading birds. Other threats include pathogens and parasites, and the effects of global warming (increased sea level, drought, and intense storms).
Conservation and Management
The Florida bog frog is protected as a State Species of Special Concern by Florida's Endangered and Threatened Species Rule.
-Biological Status Review (BSR)
-Supplemental Information for the BSR
Other Informative Links
Florida Natural Areas Inventory
International Union for Conservation of Nature
University of Florida Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Printable version of this page
Bishop, D. C. 2005. Ecology and distribution of the Florida bog frog and flatwoods salamander on Eglin Air Force Base. Ph.D. dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. 175 pp.
Florida Natural Areas Inventory. 2001. Field guide to the rare animals of Florida. _URL_
Gorman, T. A. 2009. Ecology of two rare amphibians of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Ph.D. dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. 178 pp.
Jackson, D. R. 2004. Florida bog frog: management guidelines for species at risk on Department of Defense Installations. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. p. 164.
Moler, P. E. 1992. Florida bog frog. Pages 30-33inP. E. Moler, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida, vol. III: Amphibians and Reptiles. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 291pp.
Printiss, D., and D. Hipes. 1999. Rare amphibian and reptile survey of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Final Report, Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 57 pp.
University of Florida Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. (n.d.). Florida's Frogs. Retrieved April 15, 2011, from UF Wildlife-Johnson Lab: _URL_
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Analysis of Algorithms
V. Adamchik CSCI 570
Lecture 3 University of Southern California
Heaps
Reading: chapter 3
Amortized Analysis
In a sequence of operations the worst case does not necessarily occur in each operation …
Therefore, a traditional worst-case per operation analysis can give overly pessimistic bound.
When same operation takes different times, how can we accurately calculate the runtime complexity?
The Aggregate Method
The aggregate method computes the upper bound T(n) on the total cost of n operations.
The amortized cost of an operation is given by 𝑇(𝑛) 𝑛
In this method each operation will get the same amortized cost, even if there are several types of operations in the sequence.
Review Questions
Review: Exercise 2
The Accounting Method
The accounting method (or the banker's method) computes the individual cost of each operation.
We assign different charges to each operation; some operations may charge more or less than they actually cost.
The amount we charge an operation is called its amortized cost.
Discussion Problem
You have a stack data type, and you need to implement a FIFO queue. The stack has the usual POP and PUSH operations, and the cost of each operation is 1. The FIFO has two operations: ENQUEUE and DEQUEUE.
We can implement a FIFO queue using two stacks. What is the amortized cost of ENQUEUE and DEQUEUE operations?
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Solving Optimization Problems
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE06-07
to Conduct Aerial Survey of Deer in Kensico Basin
Commissioner Emily Lloyd of the New York City Department
of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced today that within the
next two weeks the DEP is going to conduct an aerial survey of
the deer population in the area surrounding the Kensico Reservoir
The survey will use an infrared camera mounted on
a single engine Cessna airplane, and will be conducted at night
from an altitude of approximately 1000 feet. The study will
map the deer population within a 4-mile by 6-mile area of Westchester
covering the Kensico drainage basin.
"Deer can have a detrimental effect on watershed
areas by reducing or eliminating forest regeneration," said
Commissioner Lloyd. "Damage to the forests can lead
to loose or unstable soil, which then increases the amount of soil
that runs off into the water system during and after a rainfall
or snow melt. More data are needed if officials are to develop
an effective strategy for managing the deer herd in the county."
A healthy, vigorously growing forest consumes more
nutrients, reducing the amount of nutrients in watercourses and
reservoirs and thereby aiding in water quality protection. A
resilient forest with various sizes of trees is also able to recover
faster from various events, such as damage from weather.
DEP has worked extensively with Westchester County
and Pace University on the effects of whitetail deer. A conference
on deer management was held at Pace in November 2005, which led
to the decision by DEP to conduct the deer survey.
Survey work will be done by Vision Air Research
of Boise, Idaho, using a red and white Cessna. The flight
will be coordinated with the Federal Aviation Administration so
as to not interfere with operations at Westchester County Airport.


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Madina Mahmoud '12, '18 Receives Prestigious Award from Italy for 'A New Future for Water' Research
Congratulations to Madina Mahmoud '12, '18 for receiving the 2019 Eni Young African Talents Award for her research on "a new future for water" — in energy, sustainability and environmental protection solutions. The award offers a PhD scholarship, with which she will complete her studies at an Italian university or research institute.
Eni's international competition for applied energy research launched in 2007 to find the best studies into efficiency, sustainability and environmental protection. Every year, it involves the most important scientific institutions in the world and Eni's own laboratories. Mahmoud's research offers advanced desalination of saltwater that makes it reusable for irrigation or livestock purposes. In Italy, she will build on her Master of Science research at AUC on novel nanocomposite membranes for water filtration applications, supervised by Chemistry Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies Adham Ramadan '91 and Mechanical Engineering Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Sciences and Engineering Amal Esawi '89, '90.
"It goes without saying that without the efforts of Adham Ramadan, dean of graduate studies, and Amal Esawi, associate dean of graduate studies, I wouldn't be where I am today," Mahmoud said.
"As the world is growing more concerned about the scarcity of freshwater resources and the rising awareness of the need to save these water resources, particularly in Egypt, academia and research provide us with membrane technology that can help countries around the world save more freshwater," Mahmoud said.
Mahmoud uses membrane technology to desalinate saltwater. The implementation of her research would be to use desalinated water for livestock watering and/or irrigation while saving scarce freshwater resources for drinking. Her method, using CA/GO membranes, showed an improved performance as well as promising results concerning the purification of high salinity water. The application of such technology on a wide scale can be highly useful for communities in dire need of finding alternative ways to preserve their water resources and can have positive impacts on the environment in the long term.
"I will never forget the role that AUC played in making this achievement possible, and I hope one day I return to AUC and give back knowledge just as I received it."


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Welcome to Bay Church's Online Giving
Online giving is a safe, easy, and secure way to support the ministries of Bay Church. This system enables you to support the church by making a one-time contribution or establishing a recurring contribution. Thank you for supporting the ministries of Bay Church!
For Clover account users: We have switched over to Planning Center for our online and text to give services to save on fees and for administrative reasons. Anybody who setup an account with Clover will have to create a new account with Planning Center if you want to setup recurring contributions. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for understanding.
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2. Provide bank or credit card information.
3. Indicate the amount, frequency (one-time or recurring) and designation for your gift.
We are also offering the option to Text-to-Give. Text 84321 to give. Below is a video and step by step directions to Text-to-Give.
- Send an amount (example: $5 or $1.00) to the short code 84321.
- If the number isn't set up for text-to-give, a setup link will be sent back. Tap the setup link be guided to the next step.
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- Enter the payment method you'd like to use for text-to-give. If you're already a donor and you've added a payment method before (say, a bank account for ACH or a credit card) then you can optionally log in to access your saved payment methods.
- Complete your initial setup donation. The initial donation, in most cases, will go to the default fund (usually the "General" fund). However, donations can be directed to more specific funds.
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Introduction to Ice Fishing
Don't let the winter doldrums keep you cooped up inside – Ice Fishing is a great way to spend time outdoors with family and friends, while getting some fresh air and exercise!
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection - Connecticut Aquatic Resources Education (CARE) program is offering FREE ice fishing classes.
The CARE programs introductory ice fishing classes are held around the state and will teach you everything you need to know to start ice fishing. Topics discussed include – how to dress for the cold, ice safety, ice fishing equipment, what baits to use, what fish you will catch, how to drill a hole in the ice and use a tip-up and jig rod, and much more!
This event is jointly sponsored by the Connecticut Forest & Park Association (CFPA), Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) Division of Parks, and Friends of Goodwin Forest.
The James L. Goodwin Forest and Conservation Center were gifts to the people of Connecticut from James L. Goodwin, one of America's first professional foresters and a long-time CFPA Board Member. The Center is jointly managed by the Connecticut Forest & Park Association (CFPA) and the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) Division of Parks. For more information, select here.