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How to Fix Memory Leaks in Your Android App
If your app is slow on some devices or Android Studio's Instant Run features stop working randomly, then you might be experiencing memory leaks.
When Does A Memory Leak Happen?
One of the great things about Java is the garbage collector (GC). A garbage collector runs periodically to check objects that are not in use and removes them. A memory leak will happen when there are objects that there are not in use by the app but the garbage collector cannot recognize them. Hence, they will remain in memory unused, reducing the amount of memory available for the app, which causes unexpected results.
How To Detect Memory Leaks?
There are several ways to do so. We are going to cover some of them in this article.
But first, let's write some code that could produce a memory leak. We will create an app with two activities. Activity A will have a button that opens Activity B. Alongside this, we will also create a singleton class that holds a static reference of a Context.
We are going to call this singleton from Activity A
Detecting Memory Leaks Using Android Studio's Monitors
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Android Studio provides handy tools for profiling the performance of your app, and one of them is the Memory Monitor. We can use the Memory Monitor to detect memory leaks through the following steps:
 1. Run your app on your mobile device or an emulator.
 2. Open Android Monitor (Press Cmd + 6 in Mac or Alt + 6 in Windows). At the top of Memory Monitor, click on Start Allocation Tracking.
 3. Use the app around the part that you suspect may be experiencing a memory leak. In our example, we will go to another activity.
 4. Click on Initiate GC to force the garbage collector to start collecting objects that are not currently in use and remove them. You should see the memory graph decline a little bit.
 5. Click on Dump Java Heap to let Android Studio generate a .hprof file that contains a heap snapshot. The easiest way to check a memory leak is by using Analyzer Tasks
 6. Open the Analyzer Tasks tab and then click on Run at the top of this tab. You should see the leaked activities in the Analysis Results tab below the Analyzer Tasks tab.
Detecting Memory Leaks Using Leak Canary
Leak Canary is a library made by Square and it's a very fast way to detect memory leaks. Leak Canary allows you to detect memory leaks in longer runs because you don't need to connect your device to the Android Studio and monitor your app for a long period of time. Leak Canary will send you notifications whenever there is a memory leak.
Integration of Leak Canary is really easy. All you need to do is to add the following to your app level build.gradle file:
Then add the following code to your Application class:
And that's it, you're good to go.
Detecting Possible Leaks With Infer
Infer is a static analyzer tool made by Facebook that helps you find possible null pointer exceptions and resource leaks as well as annotation reachability, missing lock guards, and concurrency race conditions. It's a good tool to add to your CI to overcome all possible bugs. It's also open source, so development of the tool is still evolving. You can find more info about Infer in their Quick Start documentation.
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The Grass Cerith
As implied by its vernacular name, the Grass Cerith, Bittiolum varium (Pfeiffer, 1840), lives in seagrass beds. The Grass Cerith is one of the most common species of mollusks in that particular type of ecosystem, where it supposedly grazes on the microalgae that grow on the seagrass blades. Its shell is small, rarely reaching beyond 4 mm (about 0.16 inch). The shell sculpture shows spiral lines and weak axial ribs that intersect forming raised nodules. The last whorl usually has one or two thickened areas called varices. The shell color is extremely variable, usually light-to dark-brown, sometimes with darker mottlings or specklings. The species occurs in broad area of the western Atlantic and is very common locally.
The Grass Cerith, Bittiolum varium, from Sanibel. Photo by José H. Leal.

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8.2. Using Immutable Classes
Immutable classes behave differently from reference classes both in terms of their abstract behaviour (value semantics) and in terms of their implementation.
To begin with, immutable classes cannot suffer from aliasing problems, since they are immutable. You can get the same effect with reference classes by not providing any modifying operations in the interface - any operation that would modify the object, returns a new object instead. For example, take a look at the STR class
Immutable classes may have several efficiency advantages over reference classes in certain circumstances. Since they are usually stored on the stack, they have no heap management overhead and need not be garbage collected. They also don't use space to store a tag, and the absence of aliasing makes more C compiler optimizations possible. For a small class like CPX, all these factors combine to give a significant win over a reference class implementation. On the other hand, copying large immutable objects onto the stack can incur significant overhead. Unfortunately the efficiency of an immutable class appears directly tied to how smart the C compiler is; "gcc" is not very bright in this respect.
Note that when an immutable class is passed as an argument to a function which is expecting an abstract type, the compiler boxes it i.e. it is given a temporary reference class wrapper with a type-tag. Thus, immutable objects behaves exactly like an immutable reference objects in this situation.
Rules of Thumb
So, when should you use an immutable class? Here are a few rules of thumb.


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IFLA ILP: Project 5: Models for regional collaboration for strengthening advocacy and the profession
Year 1 Project Report, 2013
IFLA International Leaders Programme
Project 5 Team Members:
Atarino Helieisar, Federated States of Micronesia
Zola Maddison (Coordinator), USA
Victoria Okojie, Nigeria
Jorge Ruiz Vaca, Mexico
Rosemary Shafack, Cameroon
Irina Trushina (Facilitator), Russia
Dina Youssef, Egypt
Helena Asamoah-Hassan, Ghana
Jacinta Were, Kenya
The Project aims at developing an international model to foster regional collaboration in strengthening advocacy and the Library and Information Science (LIS) profession. It was agreed that developing a toolkit will be an effective instrument that guides potential partners towards building a mutually beneficial relationship as well as helps organizations or individuals create a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to begin a successful collaboration. The toolkit will point potential partners to fundamental information around successful collaboration strategies such as guidelines, communication and advocacy approaches for partnerships and case studies. Case studies will address both the successes and challenges of collaboration.
In addition, the toolkit will strengthen the profession by allowing collaborating organizations to stretch their budgets; engage in more programmes and services than they could have individually; raise the profile of libraries within a region; provide the platform for partnering institutions to build staff skills and widen their professional network; and increase confidence and motivation in library staff.
Programme Associates plan to disseminate the result of their work through IFLA channels such as speaking at meetings and conferences, presenting posters and contributing to IFLA publications. Other channels that will be used include presentations at National and Regional Library Association conferences; meetings of other stakeholders as well as through a written report.
Objectives of the Toolkit are to:
- Foster collaboration and partnership within the LIS community;
- Develop advocacy skills of LIS professionals;
- Strengthen the LIS profession;
- Provide a 'one-stop-shop' for relevant documents on advocacy;
- Provide an instrument, with global relevance, that could be used for advocacy.
During the 2012 IFLA Conference, Project 5 worked together to identify the priorities for the group and responsibilities of the members. Through this process, the Group determined the need to create a Toolkit that would provide resources (templates, case studies, articles, etc.) that strengthen the library community's advocacy skills. This Toolkit would focus particularly on maximizing collaboration to strengthen libraries' advocacy efforts. The group also determined that a multi-country survey was a crucial step to developing the Toolkit. The survey would serve two purposes:
- Understand current advocacy skill gaps in the profession that the Toolkit should address;
- Identify current best practices or specific resources that could be shared on the Toolkit.
Over the course of the year, the Project 5 team worked together to write, distribute, and analyse this survey. Through the survey, the team was able to gather input from approximately 300 library professionals across 26 countries.
A survey was conducted by a working group of IFLA International Leaders Programme on regional collaboration for strengthening advocacy and the profession from March-May 2013 with the use of a questionnaire. The 7 members of the working group from 7 countries took part in conducting the survey. The English-language version of the questionnaire used SurveyMonkey service while the Russian-language version was put on Russian Library Association website. 275 respondents used the English-language version while 25 used Russian-language version. The Russian-language responses were translated into English and added to the responses from English language respondents. The most active respondents were those from the Arab countries (150) who constituted about 52% of the respondents. It is perhaps important to note that Western European countries with their rich tradition of library services were not targeted in this survey, which, therefore, reduces the value in making global generalizations.
The respondents were mostly experts in the field of librarianship. From the responses received, it was observed that most librarians outside Europe and the US were aware of the concept of advocacy and the issues to be addressed, however, their level of knowledge of global LIS advocacy issues and strategies being used to address these were limited. Furthermore, it was observed that advocacy issues were hardly dealt with separately but closely intertwined with other challenges in some developing countries. This could be partly the reason why some of the non-respondents did not complete the questionnaire. These strategies must be taken into account in developing a Toolkit of global relevance because the responses illustrated the diversity of understanding of the concept of advocacy by librarians around the world.
The largest group of respondents were from university libraries. This could be due to the fact that in many developing countries, university libraries are the most "advanced", often performing additional functions, sometimes even as national libraries. Consequently, the staff of these libraries usually drive library community. However, in Russia, public libraries usually take the lead.
The survey shows that only 69.7% of respondents were members of a library association. This has serious implications for membership drive for national library associations which is an important ingredient in strengthening the profession. Promoting the use of the IFLA Building Strong Library Associations Modules would be a good action point for the national library associations.
The survey also shows that only 30.7% of the libraries had a budget for advocacy. For an issue as important as advocacy that can bring about positive changes in the LIS community, it is necessary for more libraries to set aside a specific budget.
In terms of the types of organizations which libraries partnered with for advocacy, most of the respondents indicated that they partnered with other libraries, which confirms the view that the problems of libraries are best understood by librarians. Other organizations that libraries partnered with in order of preference included professional library associations; Non-Governmental Organizations; government agencies and the business community respectively. This makes it apparent that libraries are sadly not as prominent in the world of power and money.
Respondents were also requested to list the best partners in their advocacy efforts. From the responses, it was again obvious they felt their best partners were other libraries. 46 respondents said "other libraries" while, government offices had 29 respondents; the library associations - 24; non-governmental organizations - 12 and business community - 11. Only 4 respondents stated "others" as their response. Thus, the answers to this question are generally consistent with the answers to the previous: indicating that Libraries rely primarily on other libraries in dealing with their interests. Attractive as a partner as the business community should be, it ranked lowest.
65 respondents gave examples of a successful partnership and mentioned the advocacy programs\policies they implemented. The responses gave many different examples of libraries doing advocacy in collaboration with other institutions. An analysis of the questionnaire assisted in classifying these examples from the point of view of what partners were mentioned in the responses. (It should be borne in mind that one answer may be referenced by multiple partners). These were:
Other libraries - 16 respondents
NGOs - 10 respondents
Library Associations - 9 respondents
Government Institutions 6 respondents
Scientific and educational institutions 3 respondents
Media 3 respondents
Society of Friends of the Library 2 respondents
International organizations 2 respondents
Business 1 respondent
Other 16 respondents
- The survey had a character of expert interview. It was a probe survey, to find out the interest to a problem and if there are existing practices to solve the problems.
- The survey showed that there was an interest by librarians from different countries to examine the problems of library advocacy. However, it was evident that there were differences in understanding the cognitive nature of advocacy-related problems. It would be highly desirable to corroborate the research findings using "soft methods of sociology" such as interviewing, focus groups and so on.
- The concept of "advocacy" has not yet become ubiquitous, and what is generally recognized by the library community as advocacy refers to all forms of social partnership and cooperation between libraries
- The most common group of partners in advocacy was between libraries. This coincides with a rating of potential, desirable partners. In second place, with a significant margin was between libraries and government agencies. It is worthy of note also that the role of professional associations was said to be essential, however, their potential value as the main organizer of the library's advocacy work was not clearly disclosed.
- Perhaps, it is pertinent to reiterate that the key issues that libraries would solve through cooperation are not so much to increase funding and other types of financial aid, but rather issues such as improving the image of libraries, attracting new readers, providing new services, capacity-building of staff and providing library-friendly legislation.
Plans for Year 2
Using the survey data, Project 5 Team will continue to discuss and analyse the data presented through the survey. We will use these findings to create a complete Toolkit on regional collaboration for Advocacy by:
1. Identifying the core advocacy needs to be covered within the Toolkit;
2. Identifying existing resources that can fill those needs;
3. Identifying resource gaps;
4. Creating or soliciting resources to fill gaps.
This Toolkit will be available for anyone to access through the IFLA website, and we plan to do a public presentation of the Toolkit at the 2014 IFLA conference.
Last update: 5 December 2017


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If you're a beginner, chances are most of the Spanish sentences you've been using as examples are ones that follow roughly the same word order as we use in English, with the verb following the subject. But Spanish also frequently places the subject after the verb, and that is usually true with gustar. Here are some examples of gustar in action:
- Me gusta el coche. I like the car.
- Nos gustan los coches. We like the cars.
- Le gustan los coches. He/she likes the cars.
As shown in this lesson, the indirect-object pronouns are me, te, le, nos, os and les.
If this seems confusing, here's an approach that might help: Instead of thinking of gustar as meaning "to like," it is both more accurate and makes more sense in this sentence structure to think of it as meaning "to be pleasing." When we say, "I like the car," the meaning is much the same as saying, "the car is pleasing to me." In plural form, it becomes "the cars are pleasing to me," with a plural verb. Note, then, the differences in the common and literal translations below (the common translation is listed first, followed by the literal translation):
- Me gusta el coche. I like the car. The car is pleasing to me.
- Nos gustan los coches. We like the cars. The cars are pleasing to us.
- Le gustan las camionetas. He/she likes the pickups. The pickups are pleasing to him/her.
- A Carlos le gusta el coche. Carlos likes the car.
- A María le gustan las camionetas. María likes the pickups.
- ¿A ustedes les gusta el coche? Do you (plural) like the car?
- Me encantan las fresas. I love strawberries. The strawberries enchant me.
- Le faltan dos dólares. He is two dollars short. Two dollars are lacking to him.
- Me duele la cabeza. My head aches. The head is causing me pain.
- A ella le interesan los deportes. She is interested in sports. Sports interest her.

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In 2019, Emelie Havemo of the University of Linköping conducted a research project on the impact of digitizing boards for daily meetings in organizations working with Lean Management. MEVISIO provided access to associates within a select number of organizations to support Emilie's research project. Emelie has written the report in Swedish and given MEVISIO permission to translate into English to publish on our blog. Over the course of the next couple of weeks, we will be publishing excerpts from the report. You can download the full report here (in Swedish).
Digital transformation can change the role of the lean board – or not.
Digital boards can change the role of traditional whiteboards in daily management. The most significant differentiator is the new way to interact during meetings and access to real-time data on the board. A digital board raises several questions; one being 'is a physical board needed?'. Can managers and teams collaborate without meeting physically? Is everyone required to be in the same room, let alone at the same facility? At the same time, a real value-add when using a board during the daily meeting is that it forms part of a system and a process where individual parts cannot be changed immediately. Digital boards have many shapes and forms.
Digital boards can be configured in different ways, depending on the purpose they serve and what the users want to achieve. This report discusses two different approaches to handling the digital transformation for daily management boards. The report is based on the literature used regarding digitalization. 1) Digitizing the flow of information (making analog boards digital) and 2) Digitalizing the infrastructure used to support daily meetings by using customizability and access to more data. Organizations considering these two options should align their choice with information and co-ordination needs as both approaches have pros and cons.
Tips for implementing and using digital lean boards
By interviewing and researching three organizations, this report identifies tips and success factors for implementing digital lean boards. The tips and recommendations take into account that user needs, interest, knowledge, know-how, and experience have a significant impact on results. The recommendations are for influencers and decision-makers for lean management within an organization. This can be managers, lean specialists, and lean consultants.
Get started with digital lean boards – 6 recommendations and success factors.
- Identify the needs of the organization
- Review the organization's digital competencies
- Conduct a risk analysis and weigh these against expected benefits
- Create a culture of learning and development before, during and after implementation
- Find the 'low-hanging fruits' (quick and easy improvements) to start with
- Start with testing in a smaller environment and use insights gained


The Spirited, Lively and Ever-Curious Yorkie Pin
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"Yorkie Miniature Pinscher Mix"
The Yorkie Pin or Yorkshire Pin is a designer breed dog resulting from the crossing of a Miniature Pinscher and a Yorkshire terrier. Also known as the Yorkshire Min-Pin or the Yorkshire Min-Pin mix, it is categorized as a toy dog and is known to be a breed that is friendly and full of fun mixed with innocent mischief.
Yorkie Pins are also best-known for their hyperactive nature, particularly when chasing small animals such as mice and rats. This hunting trait was inherited from both Miniature Pinscher and Yorkshire terrier parents, which were separately bred for the purpose of hunting down rats.
The Yorkie Pin originated in the United States, but there is no information on which group of breeders developed and produced the breed.
Breed Origins
The Miniature Pinscher or Min Pin is a small breed type of dog classified under the companion toy dog group. The Min-Pin's origin is unknown, but it is considered an old breed that was recognized to exist just 200 years ago. The Min-Pin was specifically bred for the purpose of hunting and killing vermin and rats in large animal stables and homes. Full of energy and bearing a happy nature, the Min-Pin is a great addition to a dog-loving family.
The Yorkshire terrier is the other parent breed of the Yorkie Pin. The Yorkshire terrier, also known as the Yorkie, originated in the Yorkshire and Lancashire regions of England in the nineteenth century.
Developed for chasing rodents and rats in woolen and cotton mills, the lovable working class breed became a favorite pet among fashionable ladies of the late Victorian era. Affectionate but at the same time alert and noisy due to its Terrier origins, the Yorkie is one lovable guard dog despite its small size and cute looks.
Physical Looks
The Yorkie Pin's being a cross breed between two parent genes with extremely different appearances can reveal a variety of looks and physical traits in puppies belonging to the same litter.
Yorkie Pins, in general, have a small compact size with brown eyes and a fur color that is either black or brown with a sprinkle of white. The similarity ends when it comes to the dog's coats and ear shape.
The Yorkie gene dominates if the pup reveals a long, flowing coat with pointed ears, and the Miniature Pinscher traits appear if the dog reveals a smooth and shorter coat with ears that are long and much more angular in shape. Either way, the dog will still be cute and cuddly whatever dominating looks it would reveal.
A healthy Yorkie Pin will more or less be small at around 7–13 inches in height and would weigh at around 6-10 pounds. Its coat is considered hypoallergenic if the pup inherits the Yorkshire trait.
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Life Expectancy
The Yorkie Min-Pin is expected to live from 12 to 15 years on the condition that adequate care and suitable environment is provided.
Personality and Behavior
The Yorkie Pin exudes confidence, bravery with a dash of eternal curiosity, and a craving to be the center of attention – always. Its hunting trait and alertness to strangers (an occasional but not forceful barking), which was inherited from its parent breeds, makes the Yorkie Pin a good watchdog.
Unfortunately, the inherited traits of hunting ability, curiosity, and fearlessness often lead to innocent mischief. The dog requires constant supervision. It has the habit of escaping out of open doors, which might get your furry friend into trouble.
The yearning for constant attention is also the dog's downside. It has a tendency to follow the owner around the house. If left alone for a long period of time, the dog turns anxious, gets into a panic and an agitated state. It is advised that potential Yorkie Pin owners should not acquire the dog if they cannot guarantee constant companionship.
As much as the Yorkie Pin is loveable, its inherited aggression and fearless attitude might not be appropriate for very young children. Older children, preferably of school-age, might better appreciate the dog's happy and active nature.
Home and Surroundings
The Yorkie Pin, being small in size, can live in any type of dwelling. It can do well in small to large houses, town homes, condominiums or apartments. Like humans, cleanliness and a temperate climate in the home is a must. The home must be cleared of things that the dog can reach, then bite or swallow such as coins, hairpins, keys, shoes, etc.
A newly adopted pup should be exposed to normal household noises to minimize the animal's anxiety and stress. Exposure should be slow and deliberate. Loud noises and heavy or constant foot traffic should be minimized or completely avoided, if possible.
The very active and curious nature of Yorkie Pins exposes them to injuries in the home such as when jumping off furniture. It is best that ramps or doggie steps be attached to sofas or beds to avoid accidents.
A Yorkie Pin puppy is recommended to be fed 3/5 cup dry or commercial food a day, while an adult dog is advised to be fed ½ to 1 cup of dry dog food.
Having inherited its genes from its Yorkie parent, a puppy or adult dog is recommended to be fed at least three times a day to avoid experiencing hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
Activity for Health
The Yorkie Pin, because of its size and heft, does not require much time and vigorous activity in terms of exercise. On the average, the dog requires medium intensity play at no more than 45 minutes each day, and outdoor walks of at most six miles per week.
Being a designer breed, other factors might come into play when considering the Yorkie Pin's activity needs based on its physical appearance. If the predominant trait is from the Yorkshire terrier parent, your pet would require just 30 minutes of play, while if the Mini Pinscher trait is predominant, 60 minutes of activity would be ideal.
In terms of a full exercise, nothing beats getting out of one's home and encouraging the dog to walk at a regular pace. Aside from the health benefits, a leisurely walk allows the animal to have a lot of fresh air and getting familiar with places, people, and other dogs animals.
A less vigorous activity, but still considered healthy for your dog is sleep. A young pup needs an average of 15 hours of sleep a day, while for an adult an average of 13 to 18 hours a day of sleep is necessary.
Keeping the dog as comfortable as possible is a must, and a good quality dog bed with a pee pad is recommended for quality rest.
yorkie pin puppy
Experts recommend that training a Yorkie Pin must start at a young age or during the puppy stage. The owner/trainer must be gentle but assertive when training the dog. Giving rewards in the form of treats every time the dog accomplishes a task is recommended.
A way to relieve dog anxiety when being introduced to a new environment is to give him long-lasting chew toys or treats.
Proper socialization is necessary to allow the dog to get used to the owner's and the rest of the family's presence. This type of familiarization would result in a confident pet that is ready and willing to meet extended members of the family, friends, and other pets.
In situations that a Yorkie Pin has to be left alone for some time, it is advised that an owner should consider putting the pet in a crate. To minimize stress, the pet should be given enough time to explore the surroundings. The dog should be allowed to freely move in and out of the container.
At the same time, fill the crate with hidden treats and chew toys. This training activity would take some time and should end once the dog shows no sign of anxiety or panic when placed in the enclosure.
Being a designer breed, grooming a Yorkie Pin would depend on its inherited appearance. If the dog gets its look from its Miniature Pinscher parent, then its short coat should be groomed once a week with slicker and pin brushes. If the canine presents a Yorkie appearance, then its long coat must be groomed daily with a pin brush and a comb.
Shedding of the coat is minimal and shampooing will keep the coat looking clean and fresh. Yorkie Pins with long hair need to get periodical trimmings.
Constant brushing of their teeth would help maintain a strong and healthy set of teeth.
Nail clipping is best left to the grooming experts. An uncomfortable, inexperienced, or new dog owner should never clip the dog's nails without having the proper training and confidence.
As far as expenses are concerned, it is estimated that an owner will have to spend from 270 to 370 dollars per year on average for pet grooming, and could be more if constant grooming is a must.
Health Issues
The Yorkie Pin can inherit the Miniature Pinscher and Yorkie's health conditions such as eye problems, hypothyroidism, epilepsy, patellar luxation, and hypoglycemia.
Being a toy dog, it can also acquire illnesses such as ectropion, whelping complications, Legg Calve Perthes Disease, tracheal collapse, pancreatitis or Intervertebral Disk Disease.
These health issues can be avoided with proper physical care, constant attention, and proper diet. A medical record should be kept or should be requested if one is not the original owner or breeder.
Preventive health costs, which include vet visits and examinations, deworming, blood tests, vaccinations, flea treatment/prevention, and vaccine shots would cost a yearly average of 435 to 535 dollars.
Consult a veterinarian as soon as


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USING a giant magnetic field, scientists at the University of Nottingham and the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands have made a frog float in mid-air.
The levitation trick works because giant magnetic fields slightly distort the orbits of electrons in the frog's atoms. The resulting electric current generates a magnetic field in the opposite direction to that of the magnet. A field of 16 teslas created an attractive force strong enough to make the frog floatuntil it made its escape.
The team has also levitated plants, grasshoppers and fish. "If you have a magnet that is big enough, you could levitate a human," says Peter Main, one of the researchers.
He adds that the frog did not seem to suffer any ill effects: "It went back to its fellow frogs looking perfectly happy."
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I'm sure you've heard of the expression "patient zero" in the past.
It's a term used to refer to the first patient linked to a condition.
But did you know that the very first "Patient Zero" was a French Canadian?
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Gaëtan Dugas was a man from Quebec city who worked as a flight attendant for Air Canada, and for years it was believed (this has been refuted) that he was responsible for initially bringing HIV to North America.
In 1984, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that Gaëtan Dugas was at the center of a network of sexual partners who were infected with HIV.
The theory seemed so plausible. After all, Dugas traveled the world because of his job and was apparently extremely sexually active, having had over 25,000 sexual partners.
Dugas was referred to as "Patient o", as in the letter, not the number "zero". The "o" stood for "outside the area" because Dugas was from Quebec, but for some reason people interpreted it as a "zero" so the term "patient zero" was coined.
The rumor that Dugas was the cause of the virus became widespread. There were even books written about it where Dugas was portrayed as a sociopath who was intentionally infecting people.
People believed this fact for decades, which meant that Quebec was technically being held responsible for bringing HIV to America.
And that's probably not something we would want to be famous for.
But finally, in May 2016, a group of researchers conducted a study on blood samples from gay and bisexual men in the 70s and found that Dugas was not the source of the virus. The strain he was infected was present in the US before Dugas's arrival.
And since the study that named Dugas as Patient Zero didn't have any actual scientific data to back it up, after more than 30 years, Gaëtan Dugas's name was finally cleared.
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Workshop focuses on Robotics and Pollution in relation to oil spills
Two maritime Thematic Networks have hosted a 'Workshop on Robotics and Pollution' in the wake of the Prestige oil spill. Topics included new technologies for clearing spills from the surface of the sea and robotic systems for pumping oil out of wrecked vessels.
Prestige breaks up; Image: Guardian Unlimited
Prestige breaks up; Image: Guardian Unlimited
The ERASTAR and ROBMAR Thematic Networks joined forces on 4 March 2004 to organise the Workshop. Participants from around Europe discussed ways to improve prevention and cleanup of catastrophic oils spills through the use of advanced robotics systems.
Presentations by leading maritime robotics experts were followed by a brainstorming session. Each of the participants outlined potential contributions by his or her own group to a consortium submitting a proposal in response to the second call for proposals under FP6 Priority 6.2 'Sustainable surface transport'. A list of possible proposals was also drawn up.
The Workshop was one in a series of events being organised by Thematic Networks funded under FP5, aimed at stimulating proposals in response to upcoming FP6 calls.


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TreeQinetic - Elastometer Measure Strain
The Elastometer measure strain (compression and tension) of the marginal fibers of the tree trunk. The latest version "Elastometer 3i" is capable to measure both strain and inclination at the point of its installation along the trunk. Having both information the bending line and curvature of the trunk can be calculated. This supports the analysis of defects in the trunk that may occur at old grafted trees and at old pruning wounds.
- Resolution: 0,1 µm
- Accuracy: 1 µm
- Measuring range: +/- 2 mm
- Duration of operation (accu): ~ 10 h at 20°C (radio connection to PC)
- Distance between measuring tips: 198 – 202 mm
- Diameter of measuring pins: 2 – 4 mm


Animal Imagery
By Mary Nooter Roberts
University of California, Los Angeles
Nigeria; Benin Kingdom artist
L. 69 cm (27 3/16")
National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria, 52.13.1, 52.13.2
Photo by Dirk Bakker
Animals provide apt metaphors for leadership and power in African thought and expressive culture. The representation of an animal can empower a hunter or evoke the authority of a king. Regalia frequently depict animals in scenes of domination, such as a leopard eating an antelope; these images are intended to declare a king's might. In other cases, animal imagery refers to a state of liminality.


PKCS#12 format key.
phase2-private-key-password-flagsNMSettingSecretFlags (uint32) Flags indicating how to handle the "phase2-private-key-password" property. (see the section called "Secret flag types:" for flag values)
phase2-subject-matchstring Substring to be matched against the subject of the certificate presented by the authentication server during the inner "phase 2" authentication. When unset, no verification of the authentication server certificate's subject is performed. This property provides little security, if any, and its use is deprecated in favor of NMSetting8021x:phase2-domain-suffix-match.
pinstring PIN used for EAP authentication methods.
pin-flagsNMSettingSecretFlags (uint32) Flags indicating how to handle the "pin" property. (see the section called "Secret flag types:" for flag values)
private-keybyte array Contains the private key when the "eap" property is set to "tls". Key data is specified using a "scheme"; two are currently supported: blob and path. When using the blob scheme and private keys, this property should be set to the key's encrypted PEM encoded data. When using private keys with the path scheme, this property should be set to the full UTF-8 encoded path of the key, prefixed with the string "file://" and ending with a terminating NUL byte. When using PKCS#12 format private keys and the blob scheme, this property should be set to the PKCS#12 data and the "private-key-password" property must be set to password used to decrypt the PKCS#12 certificate and key. When using PKCS#12 files and the path scheme, this property should be set to the full UTF-8 encoded path of the key, prefixed with the string "file://" and ending with a terminating NUL byte, and as with the blob scheme the "private-key-password" property must be set to the password used to decode the PKCS#12 private key and certificate. WARNING: "private-key" is not a "secret" property, and thus unencrypted private key data using the BLOB scheme may be readable by unprivileged users. Private keys should always be encrypted with a private key password to prevent unauthorized access to unencrypted private key data.
private-key-passwordstring The password used to decrypt the private key specified in the "private-key" property when the private key either uses the path scheme, or if the private key is a PKCS#12 format key.
private-key-password-flagsNMSettingSecretFlags (uint32) Flags indicating how to handle the "private-key-password" property. (see the section called "Secret flag types:" for flag values)
subject-matchstring Substring to be matched against the subject of the certificate presented by the authentication server. When unset, no verification of the authentication server certificate's subject is performed. This property provides little security, if any, and its use is deprecated in favor of NMSetting8021x:domain-suffix-match.
system-ca-certsbooleanFALSEWhen TRUE, overrides the "ca-path" and "phase2-ca-path" properties using the system CA directory specified at configure time with the --system-ca-path switch. The certificates in this directory are added to the verification chain in addition to any certificates specified by the "ca-cert" and "phase2-ca-cert" properties. If the path provided with --system-ca-path is rather a file name (bundle of trusted CA certificates), it overrides "ca-cert" and "phase2-ca-cert" properties instead (sets ca_cert/ca_cert2 options for wpa_supplicant).
adsl setting
ADSL Settings.
Key NameValue TypeDefault ValueValue Description
encapsulationstring Encapsulation of ADSL connection. Can be "vcmux" or "llc".
passwordstring Password used to authenticate with the ADSL service.
password-flagsNMSettingSecretFlags (uint32) Flags indicating how to handle the "password" property. (see the section called "Secret flag types:" for flag values)
protocolstring ADSL connection protocol. Can be "pppoa", "pppoe" or "ipoatm".
usernamestring Username used to authenticate with the ADSL service.
vciuint320VCI of ADSL connection
vpiuint320VPI of ADSL connection
bluetooth setting
Bluetooth Settings.
Key NameValue TypeDefault ValueValue Description
bdaddrbyte array The Bluetooth address of the device.
typestring Either "dun" for Dial-Up Networking connections or "panu" for Personal Area Networking connections to devices supporting the NAP profile.
bond setting
Bonding Settings.
Key NameValue TypeDefault ValueValue Description
interface-namestring Deprecated in favor of connection.interface-name, but can be used for backward-compatibility with older daemons, to set the bond's interface name.
optionsdict of string to string{'mode': 'balance-rr'}Dictionary of key/value pairs of bonding options. Both keys and values must be strings. Option names must contain only alphanumeric characters (ie, [a-zA-Z0-9]).
bridge setting
Bridging Settings.
Key NameValue TypeDefault ValueValue Description
ageing-timeuint32300The Ethernet MAC address aging time, in seconds.
forward-delayuint3215The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) forwarding delay, in seconds.
group-addressbyte array If specified, The MAC address of the multicast group this bridge uses for STP. The address must be a link-local address in standard Ethernet MAC address format, ie an address of the form 01:80:C2:00:00:0X, with X in [0, 4..F]. If not specified the default value is 01:80:C2:00:00:00.
group-forward-maskuint320A mask of group addresses to forward. Usually, group addresses in the range from 01:80:C2:00:00:00 to 01:80:C2:00:00:0F are not forwarded according to standards. This property is a mask of 16 bits, each corresponding to a group address in that range that must be forwarded. The mask can't have bits 0, 1 or 2 set because they are used for STP, MAC pause frames and LACP.
hello-timeuint322The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) hello time, in seconds.
interface-namestring Deprecated in favor of connection.interface-name, but can be used for backward-compatibility with older daemons, to set the bridge's interface name.
mac-addressbyte array If specified, the MAC address of bridge. When creating a new bridge, this MAC address will be set. If this field is left unspecified, the "ethernet.cloned-mac-address" is referred instead to generate the initial MAC address. Note that setting "ethernet.cloned-mac-address" anyway overwrites the MAC address of the bridge later while activating the bridge. Hence, this property is deprecated. Deprecated: 1
max-ageuint3220The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) maximum message age, in seconds.
multicast-querierbooleanFALSEEnable or disable sending of multicast queries by the bridge. If not specified the option is disabled.
multicast-query-use-ifaddrbooleanFALSEIf enabled the bridge's own IP address is used as the source address for IGMP queries otherwise the default of 0.0.0.0 is used.
multicast-routerstring Sets bridge's multicast router. multicast-snooping must be enabled for this option to work. Supported values are: 'auto', 'disabled', 'enabled'. If not specified the default value is 'auto'.
multicast-snoopingbooleanTRUEControls whether IGMP snooping is enabled for this bridge. Note that if snooping was automatically disabled due to hash collisions, the system may refuse to enable the feature until the collisions are resolved.
priorityuint3232768Sets the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) priority for this bridge. Lower values are "better"; the lowest priority bridge will be elected the root bridge.
stpbooleanTRUEControls whether Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is enabled for this bridge.
vlan-default-pviduint321The default PVID for the ports of the bridge, that is the VLAN id assigned to incoming untagged frames.
vlan-filteringbooleanFALSEControl whether VLAN filtering is enabled on the bridge.
vlan-protocolstring If specified, the protocol used for VLAN


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James Earle Fraser
|Born||November 4, 1876|
Winona, Minnesota, U.S.
|Died||October 11, 1953 (aged 76)|
Westport, Connecticut, U.S.
|Education||The School of The Art Institute of Chicago;|
École des Beaux-Arts
James Earle Fraser (November 4, 1876 – October 11, 1953) was an American sculptor during the first half of the 20th century. His work is integral to many of Washington, D.C.'s most iconic structures.
Life and career
Fraser was born in Winona, Minnesota. James' wife Laura's genealogy could be traced back to Protestant Huguenots. His mother Caroline's genealogy could be traced back to the Plymouth Pilgrims. His father, Thomas Fraser, was an engineer who worked for railroad companies as they expanded across the American West. A few months before his son was born, Thomas Fraser was one of a group of men sent to recover the remains of the 7th Cavalry Regiment following George Armstrong Custer's disastrous engagement with the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
As a child, James Fraser was exposed to frontier life and the experience of Native Americans, who were being pushed ever further west or confined to Indian reservations. These early memories were expressed in many of his works, from his earlier trials, such as the bust Indian Princess, to his most famous projects, such as End of the Trail and the Indian Head (Buffalo) nickel.
Fraser began carving figures from pieces of limestone scavenged from a stone quarry close to his home near Mitchell, South Dakota in early life. He attended classes at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1890 and studied at the École des Beaux Arts and the Académie Julian in Paris in the late 19th century. Early in his career, Fraser served as an assistant to Richard Bock and Augustus Saint-Gaudens; he formed his own studio in 1902. He also taught at the Art Students League in New York City beginning in 1906, and later became its director. His work was also part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Among his earliest works were sculptural pieces at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and, for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, one of his most famous pieces, End of the Trail. Also for the San Francisco Exposition, Fraser created a "mate" to "End of the Trail," called "The Pioneer". While both were meant to be cast in bronze, material shortages due to World War I prevented this. After the Exposition, the original plaster statues were moved to Mooney's Grove Park in Visalia, CA. Exposed to the elements, they slowly deteriorated. "The Pioneer" was destroyed in an earthquake, while "End of the Trail" was obtained by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1968 and restored. The restored statue is currently on display in the entryway of the Oklahoma City museum, and the original that sat in Visalia, CA, was replaced with a bronze replica. The original bronze replica is located in Shaler Park, in Waupun, Wisconsin. The statue was commissioned by inventor and sculptor Clarence Addison Shaler and donated to the City of Waupun on June 23, 1929.
Fraser's work in Washington includes The Authority of Law and The Contemplation of Justice at the U.S. Supreme Court; the south pediment and statues at the National Archives; Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin at the U.S. Treasury; and the Second Division Monument, completed with the firm of architect John Russell Pope. His commissions also include coins and medals, such as the World War I Victory Medal, the Navy Cross, and the Indian Head (Buffalo) nickel. This coin was discontinued after 1938, but has since been reprised in 2001 on a US commemorative coin, and more recently on a gold buffalo one ounce gold bullion coin.
Fraser's major works include two heroic bronze equestrian statues titled The Arts of Peace, designed for the entrance to the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, behind the Lincoln Memorial. The pair was a companion to sculptor Leo Friedlander's The Arts of War, installed immediately to the south at the east end of Arlington Memorial Bridge. The groups had been designed in the 1930s but were not cast until the 1950s, because of a shortage of metals during World War II.
Fraser was a member of the National Academy of Design, the National Sculpture Society, and the Architectural League of New York. His numerous awards and honors include election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters and gold medal from the Architectural League in 1925. He served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C., from 1920 to 1925.
Muralist Barry Faulkner, a friend of Fraser's from their days in Paris together described Fraser like this: "His character was like a good piece of Scotch tweed, handsome, durable and warm." [see Wilkonson, References] Fraser's papers and those of his wife, sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser, are held at the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
- _PHONE_ Benjamin Franklin sculpture, Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (Memorial dedicated 1938)
- 1908 Recumbent figure of Bishop Potter, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, Manhattan
- 1911 Frederick Keep Monument, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
- 1916 John Hay Memorial, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
- 1920 Canadian Officer, Bank of Montreal, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- 1920 Symbolic figures, Elks National Veterans Memorial, Chicago, Illinois
- 1923 Alexander Hamilton, Treasury Building, Washington, D.C.
- 1926 John Ericsson National Memorial, East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
- 1926 Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark, Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, Missouri
- 1930 Abraham Lincoln Memorial (Jersey City, New Jersey, and Syracuse, New York, 1930)
- 1936 Second Division Memorial, The Ellipse, Washington, D.C.
- 1940 Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, Manhattan, New York (In 2022 it was removed from the American Museum of Natural History of New York to be transferred to the Roosevelt National Library that will open in 2026 in North Dakota)
- 1947 Albert Gallatin, Treasury Building, Washington, D.C.
- 1948 Benjamin Franklin Statue, Franklin Insurance Company, Springfield, Illinois
- 1949 Thomas A. Edison Statue, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
- 1950 Harvey S. Firestone Memorial, Akron, Ohio
- 1951 General George S. Patton, Jr., United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, and Hatch Shell, Boston, Massachusetts
- 1951 Music and Harvest, The Arts of Peace, Washington, D.C.
- 1951 Aspiration and Literature, The Arts of Peace, Washington, D.C.
Selected architectural sculpture
- 1928 Discoverers and Pioneers, Michigan Avenue Bridge, Chicago
- 1929 Robert Todd Lincoln Sarcophagus, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
- 1932 William Howard Taft Monument, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
- 1934 Pediments for the Department of Commerce Building, Washington, D.C.
- 1935 Recorder of the Archive (pediment), National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.
- 1935 Heritage and Guardianship, National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.
- 1935 Contemplation of Justice and Authority of Law, United States Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C.
- 1940 Attic figures of Meriwether Lewis, George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone and John James Audubon, American Museum of Natural History, New York City
- 1913 Design of the Buffalo nickel
- 1919 Design of the World War I Victory Medal (United States)
- 1925, Norse-American medal
- Thomas E. Luebke, ed., Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, 2013): Appendix B, p. 544.
- "Meadowlark Gallery: The Artist Biographies".
- "Meadowlark Gallery: The Artist Biographies".
- "James Earle Fraser". Fine Art May 2007. Rago Arts and Auction Center. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011.
- "James Earle Fraser". Olympedia. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- "Waupun Sculptures". Waupun-wisconsin.com. June 23, 1929. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
- James Earle and Laura Gardin Fraser Papers
- "FRASER". Nationalcowboymuseum.org. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
- James Earle Fraser in: Dakota Discovery Museum Archived March 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved March 21, 2014.
- Obituary in The New York Times, CAPTAIN WYNN BAGNALL, Canadian War Hero Buried Here With Military Honors, MARCH 12, 1931, p. 8
- Cooke, Dana (December 21, 2009). "A different Lincoln From the Maxwell Perspective". Maxwell Perspective/Inside SU. Syracuse University. Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
- Buckley, Madeleine (April 24, 2016). "Explore the SU campus through these 6 historic statues". The Daily Orange. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
- Haley, Kathleen (July 18, 2016). "Iconic Lincoln Statue on Campus Gets an Upgrade". SU News. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
- "Arts of War and Peace". JGWA Architects. September 26, 1951. Retrieved March 21

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text: Paper by Anna Boldina, Paul H. P. Hanel & Koen Steemers: "Inactivity is one of the major health risks in technologically developed countries. This paper explores the potential of a series of urban landscape interventions to engage people in physical activity. Online surveys were conducted with 595 participants living in the UK by inviting them to choose between conventional pavement or challenging routes (steppingstones, balancing beams, and high steps) using photorealistic images. Across four experiments, we discovered that 80% of walkers claim they would pick a challenging route in at least one of the scenarios, depending on perceived level of difficulty and design characteristics. Where a challenging option was shorter than a conventional route, this increased the likelihood of being chosen by 10%, and the presence of handrails by 12%. This suggests that people can get nudged into physical activities through minor changes to the urban landscape. We discuss implications for policy makers and urban designers…(More)".


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The majority of passenger vehicles use separate hydraulic circuits to drive and control high-power components such as the braking and steering systems. While this approach is acceptable, it is possible for significant improvements in efficiency to be achieved using a centralized system. In order to establish the advantages and disadvantages of the distributed and centralized approaches, a simulation-based feasibility study of the pressure, flow and power requirements of the individual engine cooling, anti-lock braking system (ABS), semi-automatic transmission, active roll control and power assisted steering subsystems was carried out. Using a realistic drive and load cycle together with simulation models accounting for component non-linearities and dynamics, the flow requirements of an integrated hydraulic system were established. It was shown that the steering and roll control suspension requirements were complementary. The steering system requires high flow at low forward speeds, while the suspension requires high flow during conditions of high speed. In addition it was shown that, although the peak flow requirements of an integrated system were high, the mean flow was moderate and the high demands could be met using small accumulator units, suggesting that the system would be feasible for use in passenger cars. Finally, an energy efficient integrated hydraulic circuit including some degree of safety back-up is proposed.
|Number of pages||10|
|Journal||Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering|
|Publication status||Published - 1 May 1999|
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering


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Tim Gallant was the first author to write a book-length defense of paedo-communion in over a century (at least that we're aware of). Then, he self-published his book (Feed My Lambs) under the publishing name of Pactum Reformanda (Latin: "covenant or pact," & "reforming.") Tim now hopes to produce a line of works which are both scholarly and accessible to the layman. As the definitions above suggest, he is interested in promoting a rigorously biblical covenant theology.
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Cervical vaccines have demonstrated high effectiveness against preventing cervical cancer and routinely given to children in US, However, in countries like India, most young children do not get vaccine due to lack of awareness and high cost. We are organizing a vaccination camp to help children and would appreciate your support.
Sharing a common vision to help young girls in India, YouthTogether's goal is to spread awareness via education about cervical cancer vaccine and provide free vaccinations to eligible population.
$80 can provide both doses of the cervical cancer (HPV) vaccine for one person. Please help us set up free vaccination camps in India by sponsoring one or more child today:


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This unique training programme examines concepts, field-tested techniques and procedures and technical information concerning crime scene investigation.
Other topics covered include:
Crime scene health and safety issues.
In this outstanding programme you are taught how to lift evidence, especially blood from an object or person and prepare it for submission to a laboratory.
You will learn how to approach a crime scene so as to preserve evidence and not contaminate the scene.
This course tells you what a criminalist actually does and how samples of a suspect's hair can be microscopically compared with hair found on the victim.
Lesson 1 Crime Investigation
Lesson 2 First Officer at the Crime Scene
Lesson 3 Specialised Personnel at the Crime Scene
Lesson 4 Fingerprints and Palm Prints
Lesson 5 Trace Evidence and Miscellaneous Material
Lesson 6 Blood and Other Biological Evidence
Lesson 7 The Criminal Mind
Lesson 8 Firearms Examination
Lesson 9 Arson and Explosives
Lesson 10 Illicit Drugs and Toxicology
Lesson 11 Investigating Sexual Assault and domestic Abuse Crimes
Lesson 12 Burglary Investigation
Upon completion of this course you may take a final online examination. Full details of this examination are automatically sent to you at the end of the course. The examination costs €65 and is taken at home at your convenience. If you receive 70% or more in this examination you will receive an ITEC – Irish Training and Educational Centre Diploma.


MySQL scalability: diagnostic for beginners
This past week I have been working with 2 Web2.0 startups - members of Sun Startup Essentials, they get the support for free - that are looking at improving the response time of their web site.
We've been working at understanding how they servers behave today and what could prevent their application to scale, which led me to show how to run a quick diagnostic on an existing system and to restate some key fundamentals in terms of scalability.
Let's start by the fundamentals.
Any piece of software is nothing else than a set of instructions that need 2 things: computing units to execute on, and a fast access to data.
Computing units are available in the form of a hardware threads located on a processor. The number of threads that a server makes available to the application depends on the number of processors on the server, the number of core per processor, and of threads per core. The only thing we have to keep in mind is that the industry has moved heavily to processors that provide many hardware threads (up to 64 on a CMT chip), so taking advantage of multiple threads is definitely the right way to scale as far as computing power is concerned.
As per the fast access to data, the rule of thumb I always used is that good performance can only be achieved if the data is located in physical memory - in RAM. As soon as disks are involved the penalty is in an order of magnitude - if not more.
How do I take advantage of multiple threads with MySQL or memcached? The good news is that both support multithreading which means they both have the ability to create many software threads that are mapped to HW-threads to execute many instruction sets in parallel (with memcached you may have to recompile the code according to this page).
Now how do I check what's really happening on my system?
First, let's check how many HW threads are available on my server. On Solaris or OpenSolaris I run psrinfo:
root@pelvoux:~# psrinfo
0 on-line since 11/15/2009 17:09:45
1 on-line since 11/15/2009 17:09:49
The command reports me that I have 2 HW threads on line (I have a dual-core X86 processor on my laptop).
Then I can check how many software threads each application is actually using. To do so I run the prstat command. On the following example prstat 5 tells me that MySQL is using 10 software threads. The number is displayed on the right-hand side column NLWP. Note that with 10 software threads MySQL can not take advantage of a server that has 64 HW-threads, but for my 2 core laptop this is already more than needed.
Next, are the software threads leveraging the HW-threads? Are they keeping the CPU busy? The fastest way to check if the CPU is loaded is to run vmstat 5:
In this example my CPU spends 98 to 99% of its time idle, and 0 or 1% executing code from an application - column us, or from the system - column sy. If MySQL was running on all CPU cylinders, I would see most of the load reported in column us, and possibly a few percent points in column sy. In my case MySQL does not receive any request.
But there might be other cases where I see both slow or hanging requests and a CPU partially loaded with applications. If my CPU is not fully loaded, and if I have enough software threads, why do I see slow requests? Well, in that case it's likely that requests are competing for resources - such as tables - that can not be shared. This is a situation that impedes scalability. Only a few requests are executed at a time keeping only a few threads busy. Though outside of the scope of this article note that if you are using MyISAM, moving to InnoDB can help you to address table-lock issues, hence improve the scalability of your application.
So with psrinfo, prstat, and vmstat I can have a quick overview of how my server is doing in terms of CPU power an load.
Now, how can I check if I am running out of physical memory?
The diagnostic above assumes that the limiting factor is the computing power and not the access to data, not the amount of physical memory. But how can I be sure I have enough RAM and what happens in the face of a shortage?
When running out of RAM, a system starts to page. It tries to free some space in RAM by transferring some content from RAM - available as pages - to disk. The OS kernel scans the RAM to locate the last recently used pages and put them on disk, with the hope that they won't be used anytime soon (in which case they would have to be brought back into RAM).
A peak in paging activity is nothing wrong. Cleaning up the RAM a little bit does not mean I am facing a shortage. It's when my system keeps on paging that I know I do not have enough RAM. Once again vmstat 5 helps me monitor the rate at which the kernel scans the RAM looking for pages to be moved away: the sr column reports the scaning rate. If it never goes back to zero it's time to add some more RAM to my server.
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How to Raise a Dishwasher off the Floor
Cabinets and dishwashers use standardized measurements to coordinate the top of the dishwasher with your countertop. Dishwashers that are designed to be built-in are sometimes manufactured 3 1/2 inches shorter than the top of the cabinets -- which is the same height as the cabinet toe-kick. The toe-kick is the wooden base that supports the base cabinets. If you're remodeling, or adding a shorter dishwasher to your kitchen, you need to build a toe-kick similar to the existing toe-kick to raise it off the floor.
Measure the height of the existing toe-kick on the base cabinets. Measure from the floor to the bottom of the lip where the cabinet is cantilevered out at the base. This is where your toes fit under the cabinet when you are working at the countertop. It will likely be 3 or 3 1/2-inches.
Set a table saw fence and rip the 1-by-4-by-96-inch piece of poplar to that measurement.
Measure the width of the dishwasher. Subtract 3 inches and cut two pieces of the poplar at that measurement. Measure the depth of the dishwasher. Subtract 3 inches and cut two pieces of poplar at that measurement.
Tilt a table saw blade to 45 degrees. Using the miter gauge, cut miters on the ends of all four pieces of poplar. Do not lose more than 1/16 inch of the length when mitering.
Smear wood glue on the mitered ends of all four pieces with your fingertip. Place the pieces on their edges. Bring the miters together to create a toe-kick frame. Wrap the frame with a nylon strap clamp and tighten. Shoot four pin nails through each corner of the frame from both directions. Let the glue dry for 1 hour.
Remove the clamp. Place the frame against the wall in the desired location. If there are hoses or pipes, place the frame over them. Place the dishwasher on top of the toe-kick frame. You should have a 3-inch toe-kick reveal at the front of the dishwasher. You should have 1 1/2-inch reveal or lip on each side.


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Write down a unit vector in XYplane, making an angle of 30∘ in anticlockwise direction with the positive direction of X-axis.
Let OP make 30∘ with X-aixs, 60∘ with Y-axis and 90∘ with Z-axis and it lies in XY-plane.
∴ Direction cosines of OP are cos 30∘, cos 60∘ and co 90∘ i.e.,√2,12,0. Thus,OP is √2 ^i+12 ^j,
which is required unit vector in XY-plane.


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By María González de Asis & Barak D. Hoffman
Participatory development is a growing focus of donor development policies. Over the past decade, the World Bank alone has allocated approximately $75 billion for these types of initiatives (Mansuri and Rao 2011) and other development partners are also allocating large sums of money in this area. Interest in participatory development derives in part from understanding that poor development outcomes often result from bad governance and lack of citizen empowerment. Participatory development seeks to remedy these weaknesses by having people take an active role in community development and by creating demand for good governance (DFGG). The World Bank defines DFGG as the capacity of "citizens to hold the state accountable and make it responsive to their needs" (World Bank 2011: 3). Participatory development seeks to reduce poverty directly through engaging citizens in the design and implementation of development projects, and indirectly through encouraging improved governance at the national and local level.A large body of research exists on the outcomes of participatory development projects. Their impact is mixed. In general, programs appear more successful at developing citizen awareness and empowerment than at influencing development outcomes, either directly or indirectly. At the same time, we are gaining a better idea of what works and what does not, and how to design more effective strategies. This paper provides an overview of the theory, practice, and outcome of donor efforts to support participatory development.
Read the full paper here [PDF].


A Novel Rounding and Truncation based Approximate Multiplier for Reducing the Number of Partial Products
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A Novel Rounding and Truncation based
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M.Sudheer Kumar Reddy
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JNTU Kakinada
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Abstract— In this paper, we present an approximate multiplier in which operands are scaled with truncation and rounding parameters and multiplication is performed by shift, add, and small fixed-width multiplication operations ensuring large improvements in the energy consumption and area occupation related to those of the original multiplier approach. The scalability depends on the truncation and rounding parameters which can be varied as per the requirement. By implementing the truncation and rounding parameters the levels in obtaining final result can be reduced compared to that of exact multiplier schemes. Enhancement of this work is done by improving the accuracy of the proposed multiplier and implemented in range of 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit by comparing the terms like delay, power and absolute error analysis. The proposed work is designed using VHDL, simulated with Modelsim and synthesized using Xilinx ISE design suite 14.2 tool
Keywords— Truncation, rounding, approximate, VHDL, partial products, accuracy, absolute error, energy, scalable
In considering the deep submicron technology, power has become a main concern due to increase in transistor count, higher speed of operation and greater device leakage currents. Scaling in nanometer technologies created problems in reliability and testing. So deep submicron technology has much leaned towards power. Commercial success of products depends on size, speed, weight, cost, computing power and battery life. Many DSP applications involve complex probabilistic mathematical models and are designed to process information that typically contains noise. So, for some computational error, they exhibit elegant degradation instead of catastrophic failure. Multipliers are one of the data path operators which occupy major share in a digital system. So, hence a multiplier is one of the deciding factor for system's performance. In addition, these multipliers consume most of the area. Hence, optimization of area and speed of a multiplier is a major design issue.
Approximate computing is a paradigm where we can reduce energy consumption or boost up the speed at times both. By using the approximation techniques in multiplier techniques one can have the advantage of low energy consumption or high speed. As these computations results in approximate results which are very near with the exact computation, these are best choice for the applications which are error resilient. Most of the recent trending technologies like machine learning, computer vision and image processing are some of
E. Venkata Narayana
Electronics & Communication Engineering
JNTU Kakinada
Kakinada, India
the areas where applications are designed to deal with noisy inputs and generate satisfactory results as shown in fig 1.
Fig 1. Hardware stack in exact and approximate computing [1] In several cases the best useable algorithms cannot acquire exact results every time, occasionally it is besides expense to produce optimal results when dealing meta-heuristics and probabilistic algorithms. Insofar, the designers have largely adopted a notion of exact numerical or Boolean equivalence between the implementation and specification at different layers in the hardware and software stacks. Approximate computing focuses at multiple layers of the hardware/software stacks to trade-off computation accuracy with performance, power, and/or area.The table 1 presents the types of approximations where in the schemes can be applied to various levels of the stack to achieve desired outcomes. In this work we mainly rely on the data approximation as the input data will be truncated to small widths and the shift unit logic is altered with logic 1 to observe reduced absolute error.
The multiplier is used mainly in respective DSP applications and contributes in intensifying the performance of the practical application. This work includes the implementing both truncation and rounding schemes on input operands and produce the approximate results in minimum number of steps in which they are very near to the exact multiplication approach, additionally calculating the absolute error for the 8bit, 16-bit and 32-bit of the proposed multiplier scheme in accordance with exact result and enhance the absolute error by modifying the least significant part of the multiplication process.
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Selective Approximation Analysis of software code or instructions to suggest a certain accuracy mode for a part of code
Timing Relaxation Relaxing of synchronization, timing and handshaking constraints to reduce control overhead
Functional Approximation An approximate alternative of an algorithm that improves area/power performance
Domain Specific Approximation Leveraging the domain specific knowledge for approximations in applications and their algorithms
Data Approximations Use of unreliable memories, load value approximation, data truncation, data decimation, etc.
Table 1. Categorization for the types of approximation
In general, the process of multiplication involves partial products generation from the acquired operands and cumulate those partial products to a level till two rows are persisted. Now by employing an adder the remained rows adds up to generate final result. The process of approximation can be carried out in any levels of the multiplication process. One can use approximation in the beginning of the process i.e. on the operands to reduce the partial products number for a multiplier. The process of approximation can be applied at cumulation of partial product to reduce the power consumption. By employing an approximate adder at the ultimate step of adding we can achieve betterment in power consumed by a multiplier.
In this paper, we introduce an approximation method for reduced number of partial products by considering truncation and rounding parameters which are denoted by t and r respectively. Previous methods of approximation techniques involves employing either truncation or rounding parameters. In this work, by considering both the parameters we can achieve better outcomes than former methods. Let A and B be two 16 bit operands, multiplication of A and B results 256 partial products. Hence by processing all the 256 partial products we get the result and it occupies large area. So to reduce the partial products we employ scalable truncation and rounding parameters as per the requirement. Let us consider the truncation parameter t = 7 and rounding parameter r = 3 as illustrated in the figure shown below.
The green square represents the "1" in the equation (5) and the orange circles denotes the partial products of approximation and the blue triangles denotes the truncation of bits of input operands. The remaining grey triangles of the operands and the grey circles of the partial products can be neglected. With truncation and rounding parameters mentioned in fig.2 only 31 partial products are required to produce approximate result which is very close with exact. Around 87.8% of the partial products were reduced. This reduction of partial products will increase with increase in bit length of operands.
Block diagram implementation of the proposed signed approximate multiplier is shown in fig.3 which comprises of following units: Approximate Absolute Unit (AAU), which produces inverted results if the input is negative and is not changed if input is positive. For unsigned multipliers this AAU can be eliminated. Leading One Detector Unit (LOD) will provide the leading 1-bit position in the most significant part of the operands. The position of the LOD can be obtained by using
K[i] =
^ I[i] for 0 ≤ i ≤ n-2 (1) Only one bit of the signal K is '1' which says about the
position of the leading bit. For both operands A and B there exists leading bits kA and kB respectively. Truncation Unit (TU) deals with truncating the approximation inputs based on leading one position and converts into fixed width operands. Arithmetic Unit (AU) will implement the addition of truncated fixed width operand along with product of approximated input with unity which can be expressed as TU = 1+(YA)t+ (YB)t+ (YA)APX × (YB)APX (2)
Shift unit (SU) shifts the resultant of arithmetic unit with ka+kb times leftwards to generate the result. Sign And Zero Detector Unit (SZD) produces the sign of the output based on the input operands of the multiplier. SZD will produce zero if any of the input is zero. In case of unsigned multiplication this unit is replaced by zero detector unit.
Fig. 3. Block diagram of proposed signed approximate multiplier
Fig 2. Dot diagram of multiplier
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Numerical Example of Proposed Multiplier:
Fig 4. Example for 16-bit approximate multiplier
The approximate result [(A × B)APX] = 28901376. Whereas the exact multiplication result [(A × B)Exact] = 29190802. The approximate results are very close to the actual results.
To measure the accuracy of the proposed approximate multiplier we use a parameter named absolute error which is specified as shown below
Absolute error (AE) = (Papp – P)/p (3)
Papp denotes approximate value and P denotes exact value.
Percentage of absolute error can be calculated as
Percentage of AE = [ |(Papp – P)|/ P ] *100 (4)
In considering the calculation of 16-bit multiplier in above section the percentage of absolute error is


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Py Filestore
This is a simple package meant to create a static data structure similar to a dictionary that exists as a group of files.
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When data is added to the filestore, the class hashes the key with a naive, non-cryptographic hashing algorithm called FNV-1a in 32 bits. This hash becomes the name of the file. I have no proof that collisions are completely handled yet.
The actual data gets serialized with python's pickle and then encoded into base64 before being written to the disk. If your data is not compatible with pickle, you can write and assign your own serializer/deserializer using store.set_serializer(my_serializer_function) and store.set_deserializer(my_deserializer_function) prior to inserting or removing data.
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