Imbibition
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Imbibition is a special type of diffusion that takes place when water is absorbed by solids-colloids causing an increase in volume. Examples include the absorption of water by seeds[1] and dry wood. If there is no pressure due to imbibition, seedlings would not be able to emerge from soil.[speculation?]
Water surface potential movement takes place along a concentration gradient; some dry materials absorb water. A gradient between the absorbent and the liquid is essential for imbibition. For a substance to imbibe a liquid, there must first be some attraction between them.
Imbibition occurs when a wetting fluid displaces a non-wetting fluid, the opposite of drainage in which a non-wetting phase displaces the wetting fluid. The two processes are governed by different mechanisms.[clarification needed]
Imbibition is also a type of diffusion since water movement is along the concentration gradient. The seeds and other such materials have almost no water hence they absorb water easily. Water potential gradient between the absorbent and liquid imbibed is essential for imbibition
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One example of imbibition in nature is the absorption of water by hydrophilic colloids. Matrix potential contributes significantly to water in such substances. Dry seeds germinate in part by imbibition. Imbibition can also control circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis thaliana and (probably) other plants. The Amott test employs imbibition.
Proteins have high imbibition capacities, so proteinaceous pea seeds swell more than starchy wheat seeds.
Imbibition of water increases imbibant volume, which results in imbibitional pressure (IP). The magnitude of such pressure can be demonstrated by the splitting of rocks by inserting dry wooden stalks in their crevices and soaking them in water, a technique used by early Egyptians to cleave stone blocks.[2][3]
Skin grafts (split thickness and full thickness) receive oxygenation and nutrition via imbibition, maintaining cellular viability until the processes of inosculation and revascularisation have re-established a new blood supply within these tissues.
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References[edit]
 1. ^ "Soybean seed imbibition: water absorption by seed parts". openagricola.nal.usda.gov. Archived from the original on 2016-10-22. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
 2. ^ "Building With Stone". Archived from the original on 2017-01-01. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
 3. ^ "The Pyramid Puzzle - Deccan Herald". Archived from the original on 2007-02-04. Retrieved 2006-12-11.


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If a document uses a Managed Metadata field, is there a way to make the term set browser in Word 2010's Document Information Panel display the term sets in a language other than the default language of the Managed Metadata Service? For instance, even if the document comes from a document library on a site created in French and opened with Word 2010 whose default display language is French, if the default language of the Managed Metadata Service is English, the Document Information Panel will display metadata in English. If you change the default language of the Managed Metadata Service, Word 2010 will follow the new default.
Is there a less drastic way to select this language within the DIP?
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As far as I can test this, the answer is no. I have tried by checking the cache and playing with local language and remote language options and I cannot find a way around this. – Hugh Wood Nov 15 '12 at 13:51
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According to Nick Hobbs, page 10 in the reference below, Managed Meta Data are not "compatible" with the Document Information Panel.
Clearly, there are some obvious stengths in linguistic management within metadata mamagement, and it would be even stronger, if document infromation panel would comprehend this feature.
However, a possible scenario could be to associate the desired field programatically to the regional variations of the selected terms... maybe another too drastic approach?
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Each month TNR Reality Check presents a display on domestic cats and native wildlife and includes information about wildlife rehabilitation, cat predation, TNR, the environment, cat adoption, as well as local and regional nature events.
Most libraries welcome the opportunity to display interesting and educational material. You do not need to be part of an organization to participate - all you need is enthusiasm for and dedication to your cause!
A library display is a great tool for educating the public about important issues. By offering to set up a display, you will reach a wide and diverse audience and provide a useful public service.
Displays should be professional and eye-catching. Offer brochures and handouts if possible.
If you are interested in setting up a library display in your area on these same subjects, consider utilizing some of the resources below.
Regarding TNR, we display the following information:
A reference and comments to the most recent study by Dr. Levy
Cats and Dogs and Birds on the Beach. A Deadly Combination (From the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
Local cat law. (Whenever possible, research the law in the municipality in which the display is appearing. Folks are sometimes unaware of the laws in their own town, city or borough as applied to licensing, roaming, feeding, etc.)
Regarding domestic cat predation, we display information from the American Bird Conservancy and have their materials available for the public to take. They have brochures, posters and flyers on their website, as well as educational material for children.
Never abandon cats outdoors. (Poster from the American Bird Conservancy)
Healthier, safer: indoors. (Poster from the American Bird Conservancy)
Keeping Cats Indoors Isn't Just For The Birds! (From the American Bird Conservancy)
We offer the above brochure for the public as well as a brochure from the CDC for cat owners about toxoplasmosis.
Regarding wildlife rehabilitation, contact your state division of fish, game and wildlife or department of natural resources to find the licensed wildlife rehabilitation facility nearest to the library. Contact the facility and offer to display their newsletters or other information. See if they have any photos or documentation of cat-injured wildlife that is available for public use. Many folks do not realize the impact free-roaming cats have on native wildlife and this is an excellent way to inform the public about the consequences of cat predation and how they can help prevent this, as well as where to go should they find an orphaned or injured wild animal.
If you are also involved in cat rescue, this is an opportunity to showcase some photos of available animals. If you are not involved in cat rescue but know of an animal rescue organization that shares your values, offer to display their information.
Regarding the environment, we display information from the following sources:
The Ocean Conservancy and various other conservation organizations.
We cover topics such as citizen science, sustainable fishing, sustainable forestry, sustainable coffee farming, recycling, the impact of trash on marine life, pesticides and window strikes from migratory birds.
Contact local nature centers or birding clubs and offer to display their rack cards or any upcoming events.
REMEMBER to research the philosophy of any organization you promote! Publicize those organizations whose values and viewpoints are supportive of the preservation of native wildlife and the humane treatment of domestic cats.
Other materials for distribution could include:
Do You Believe She Deserves to Live Inhumanely and Die Tragically Outside Just Because She Acts Wild? (Brochure by TNR Reality Check that presents an overview of the free-roaming cat issue and TNR).
The Real Deal. (Flyer by TNR Reality Check stating the five basic problems of TNR).
Uncover the Deception. (Flyer by TNR Reality Check that addresses information promulgated by Alley Cat Allies in their document, "Discover the truth about feral cats".)
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Reactivity contributions of differences between JEFF-3.1 and ENDF/B-VI.8 were analyzed for six early MASURCA cores of the R-Z program using ERANOS 2.1. These cores were designed such that their neutron spectra would emulate that of an oxide-fueled sodium-cooled fast reactor, some containing enriched uranium and others containing depleted uranium and plutonium. Effects of modeling assumptions and solution methods both in ECCO lattice calculations and in BISTRO Sn flux solutions were first evaluated using JEFF-3.1 cross-section libraries. Comparisons were made between calculated and measured values for reactivity and several spectral indices. Reactivity effects of differences between JEFF-3.1 and ENDF/B-VI.8 were also quantified using perturbation theory analysis. The most important nuclide with respect to reactivity differences between cross-section libraries was 23Na, primarily a result of differences in the angular dependence of elastic scattering, which is more forward peaked in ENDF/B-VI.8 than in JEFF-3.1. Differences in 23Na inelastic scattering cross sections between libraries also generated significant differences in reactivity, more due to the differences in magnitude of the cross sections than to the angular dependence. The nuclide 238U was also found to be important with regard to reactivity differences between the two libraries mostly due to a large effect of inelastic scattering differences and two smaller effects of elastic scattering and fission cross sections. In the cores that contained plutonium, 239Pu fission cross-section differences contributed significantly to the reactivity differences between libraries.

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Title: Zinc and Copper II Sulfate Lab
Purpose: To determine which mole ratio of Zinc and Copper II Sulfate produces the greatest temperature change in degrees celsius.
Background: This experiment will be looking for color change, temperature change, and precipitation change. Some background knowledge I know is how to balance equations. I also know side effect of a chemical change, in this experiment there was a color and temperature change. Other background knowledge is using and applying the mole and mole ratio. This knowledge helped me do my experiments.
Hypothesis: Group 5 – The zinc and copper sulfate were the closet in amount. The distilled water was closer in amount with the copper sulfate as well, so the ratio between zinc, copper sulfate, and distilled water was the most equal and this would lead to the greatest temperature change.
Procedure:
1. We converted our .02 moles of zinc to grams
2. Next, we measured our 80 ml of copper II sulfate and 20 ml of distilled water and combined them in a graduated cylinder. 3. We then weighed out our zinc.
4. Then, we poured the copper II sulfate solution into a double nested Styrofoam cup. 5. Then we poured the zinc into the Styrofoam cups and observed a temperature change. 6. Next, we poured the solution through an insulated foam into a graduated cylinder.
Results:
Qualitative Data:
Zn + CuSo4 mol ratio| Observations|
.01/.09| Clear, light gray zinc|
.02/.08| Clear, medium gray zinc|
.03/.07| Milky, dark gray zinc|
.04/.06| Light blue liquid, black zinc|
.05/.05| Light/medium blue, brown zinc|
.06/.04| Medium blue, dark brown zinc|
.07/.03| Dark blue, brownish black zinc|
.08/.02| Bright darker blue, medium brown zinc|
.09/.01| Bright darker blue, lighter brown zinc|
Quantitative Data:
Group #| Moles Zn| Moles CuSo4| 3rd Hour| 4th hour| 5th hour| Average| 1| 0.09| 0.01| 2.5| 5| 3| 3.8|
2| 0.08| 0.02| 9.5| 5| 9...
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David Mamet and American macho /
David Mamet and American macho / Arthur Holmberg. . - 307 p. ill. . - Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 28 . . - Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 28 . . - B29.779
Pp. 275-301: Bibliography
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Enter the cowboy; 2. Mamet and American macho; 3. Mothers and masculinity; 4. Act like a man: the boy culture; 5. Mamet's pants; Bibliography.
"Why did Americans reject the British gentleman as their dominant model of masculinity? Why is a boy's relationship to his mother a crucial factor in shaping his masculinity? What and how do boys learn about what it means to be a man? Holmberg demonstrates how David Mamet's plays provide insights into these questions, and into the masculine malaise. Through the gangsters, businessmen, soldiers, sailors, athletes, frontiersmen and thugs he created, Mamet celebrates and criticizes American macho. The book provides close readings of Mamet's well-known plays as well as plays which have not previously received the critical attention they deserve, and includes discussions of recent films and unpublished film scripts that shed light on Mamet's attitudes to American macho. Holmberg also presents detailed analysis of Mamet as director of his own plays, which gives fascinating insights into the playwright's intentions through his instructions to actors on how to play a part"--
Mamet, David, 1947- --Criticism and interpretation.
Mamet, David, 1947-
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Masculinity in literature.
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Being farther north in the Atlantic than The Bahamas, Bermuda is much cooler in winter. Springlike temperatures prevail from mid-December to late March, with the average temperature ranging from 60° to 70°F (16°-21°C). Unless it rains, winter is fine for golf and tennis but not for swimming; it can be cool, and you may even need a sweater or a jacket. Water temperatures in winter are somewhat like the air temperature, ranging from about 66°F (19°C) in January to 75°F (24°C) through March. Scuba divers and snorkelers will find Bermuda's waters appreciably cooler than Caribbean waters in winter. From mid-November to mid-December and from late March to April, be prepared for unseasonable spurts of spring or summer weather.
In summer, the temperature rarely rises above 85°F (29°C). There's nearly always a cool breeze in the evening, but some hotels have air-conditioning. And local water temperatures can be as high as 86°F (30°C) during the summer -- warmer than many inshore and offshore Caribbean waters.
As a result, Bermuda's off season is the exact opposite of that in the Caribbean. It begins in December and lasts until about March 1. In general, hotels offer off-season rates, with discounts ranging from 20% to 60%. This is the time to go if you're traveling on a tight budget. During autumn and winter, many hotels also offer discounted package deals. Some smaller inns close for a couple of weeks or months at this period.
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This curse of the Caribbean, The Bahamas, and Bermuda lasts officially from June to November, but fewer tropical storms pound Bermuda than the U.S. mainland. Bermuda is also less frequently hit than islands in the Caribbean. Satellite forecasts are generally able to give adequate warning of any really dangerous weather. If you're concerned, check reports from the National Hurricane Center by visiting _URL_ and to find the current weather conditions in Bermuda To find the current weather conditions in Bermuda, and a 5-day forecast, go to Bermuda Weather at _URL_.
Bermuda observes the following public holidays: New Year's Day (Jan 1), Good Friday, Easter, Bermuda Day (May 24), the Queen's Birthday (first or second Mon in June), Cup Match Days (cricket; Thurs and Fri preceding first Mon in Aug), Labour Day (first Mon in Sept), Christmas Day (Dec 25), and Boxing Day (Dec 26). Public holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday are usually celebrated the following Monday.


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Does Apollo Currency depend on Bitcoin? According to the correlation analysis, BTC and APL have a very strong positive relationship. The correlation coefficient of their values is 0.71, which was measured based on the last 100-days' price fluctuations of both currencies.
This coefficient may vary from -1 to 1, where -1 is the strongest negative correlation, 0 is no correlation at all and 1 is the strongest positive correlation.
The negative coefficient indicates that the prices of the coins are moving in the reversed direction while the positive coefficient indicates that the prices are moving in the identical direction. For example, if Bitcoin and Apollo Currency connection is positively strong, it means that when BTC is growing APL will rise as well. The negative strong relation will show that when BTC is rising APL price will be in contrary lowering.
The knowledge of the correlation coefficient helps to determine in percentage the influence of Bitcoin over Apollo Currency. If we take all the factors affecting the price of APL as 100%, then the share of BTC price among these factors will be 50.41%. The other part which is 49.59% covers all the other aspects, such as news, events or crypto related laws.


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How have network performance monitoring tools evolved?
Once upon a time, enterprise network engineers had to provide network access and sufficient bandwidth to various connected servers, applications and end devices. From an OSI model perspective, the focus was on Layers 1-4 only. Upper OSI layers were more or less ignored, as all traffic and data flows running across a network shared all bandwidth and queuing resources.
As time went on, network equipment became sophisticated to the point where different data flows could be identified and treated differently on the network. Various quality of service (QoS) and application-level traffic shaping techniques can be used to accomplish this goal. Additionally, the ever-increasing reliance on business-critical applications has forced network engineers to understand upper layers of the OSI model so they can help to identify any inefficiencies or problems related to the network, server OS, virtualization software and applications themselves. But in order to do that, a tool is needed to identify such problems.
So, it's important to understand exactly what your organization needs — and properly gauge the tradeoff between granularity and complexity.
In many cases, network performance monitoring tools evolved from more traditional and less sophisticated network monitoring software. These monitoring tools commonly used ICMP ping and Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (SNMP) polling/traps to verify the health of a network. More modern additions include the ability to monitor, baseline and intelligently analyze possible images all the way to the application itself. Most modern network performance tools have the ability to perform the following five functions:
Depending on the network performance monitoring vendor, these tasks are performed with varying levels of granularity. And the more precise they are, the more complex implementation and management can be. So, it's important to understand exactly what your organization needs — and properly gauge the tradeoff between granularity and complexity. That being said, let's further explore the five functions today's network performance monitoring tools commonly offer.
Network and application monitoring
As mentioned earlier, today's network performance monitoring tools evolved from network monitoring that leveraged ICMP ping and the SNMP protocol. Routine pings from the network monitoring server were sent to various networks, servers and other end devices that required monitoring. If the monitored device stopped responding to the ping requests, the monitoring tool would mark the device as "down" and would alert support staff.
SNMP collects and organizes various types of data from network and server components capable of supporting the protocol.
For network devices, this commonly means monitoring specific device interface states and data throughput rates over time. It can also monitor hardware health, including power supplies, fans and memory utilization, among others.
Some network performance monitoring tools are also capable of collecting and triggering from various syslog messages. Syslog is a common standard for infrastructure device log messages. The messages are sent to the centralized network monitoring tool to be stored, analyzed and used to notify support engineers in the event of a system malfunction.
Network monitoring tools have the beefed-up capability to monitor availability and performance statistics all the way up to the application level. This type of monitoring usually relies on software plug-ins or OS settings configured to send monitoring data back to the centralized monitoring server.
Virtualization and OS problem detection
Issues also can — and do — arise between the network and the application. This includes problems at the virtualization level, server operating system and any middleware the application relies on to operate. Virtualization hypervisors can be individually monitored for performance problems that can cause slowdowns at the application level. The same is also true for monitoring the host OS and middleware that orchestrates communication over distributed systems. Network performance monitoring vendors use differing methods to monitor these types of problems and some support a greater variety of hypervisors, operating systems and middleware software than others.
In addition to providing simple up/down status and utilization information, network performance monitoring products can perform more sophisticated and automated network troubleshooting. This includes routing protocol monitoring and alerting when unscheduled routing protocol changes occur. Additionally, some products possess intelligence to understand how various WAN technologies, virtual overlays and QoS features operate. They, too, can be set to automatically alert when problems occur and even take automated actions to resolve issues.
Application data and flow capture analysis
The most important duties of modern network performance monitoring tools revolve around data and flow capture analysis. There are a few different methods to capture data packets on various parts of the network to be used for automated and/or manual analysis. Among the most common:
Deployment of distributed data collection agents throughout critical parts of the network
The ability to leverage packet capture functionality built into certain router/switch hardware
The ability to examine packets to perform more granular application analysis is a growing need in many enterprise organizations. By using deep packet inspection, network administrators can identify more application-related communication problems that would otherwise go unnoticed.
Network flow collection sweeps up IP network statistics as data enters and exits network interfaces. Once this data is exported to a centralized server and analyzed using network performance monitoring flow analysis tools, network support administrators can identify traffic source and destination information, as well as detail QoS policies the traffic encounters as it traverses the network. Ultimately, the data can be used to identify any configuration issues or congestion along various network paths, between network devices.
Root cause analysis
The ability to combine various events collected and analyzed on a network performance monitoring tool can also be used to form an automated root cause analysis. If an issue occurred on the network that triggered events on multiple components, many network performance monitoring tools use artificial intelligence to correlate the events and determine a likely root cause to the problem. This is one of the trickier functions to configure, since it requires all devices and monitoring systems be configured perfectly. For example, if device times are not synchronized using the Network Time Protocol, event times will be incorrect. This can negatively affect the accuracy of the root cause analysis engine. But once set up and properly maintained, automated root cause analysis tools can save a tremendous amount of time from a troubleshooting perspective.
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Ramsar and wetland values included in Japanese school curricula
[Resolution VII.9 of COP7 adopted "The Convention's Outreach Programme _PHONE_", an extremely important part of which is found in paragraph 44 of the Programme itself, in which Parties are urged to ensure that Ramsar and wetland values are included in the curricula of primary, secondary, and tertiary educational institutions. (See also Recommendation 4.5, Resolution VI.19, and Strategic Plan _PHONE_'s Action 3.2.5 in this regard.) ]
Sixth grade students in the elementary school "Wakasa Shougakkou" in the city of Tokorozawa, Japan, studying an article on the Ramsar site Kushiro-shitsugen. (Photo: Ms Setsuko Suzuki)
Article from a Japanese textbook used for the 6th grade under the subject of environmental protection and humans [translation from the Japanese]
Title: Kushiro-shitsugen (marshland) and Tanchou (Red-crowned Crane)
Author: Reiko Nakamura, Secretary General, Ramsar Center Japan
Tanchou lives only in the eastern part of Hokkaido and is a National Endangered Species. Until the mid-19th century, Tanchou could be seen throughout broader areas of Hokkaido, but it has rapidly decreased its numbers in the late 19th century due to development.
Traditionally, Japan has transformed marshland into paddy field, forming its unique culture based on rice cultivation. People from the mainland developed Hokkaido and successfully raised rice and vegetables despite the cold temperatures.
As a result of the humans prosperity, however, Tanchou was deprived of habitat, and it was believed that it had become extinct. In 1924, some ten to twenty Tanchous were found at Kushiro-shitsugen, in Eastern Hokkaido. People from neighbouring villages tried to feed the Tanchous in an effort to increase the endangered waterfowl, but the cautious birds did not accept the food given by the humans. In February 1952, a blizzard attacked the Kushiro region, and Tanchous almost starved to death. Farmers and schoolchildren gave them corn, and Tanchous finally accepted to eat the food from the humans.
Since then, there has been a recognition of the need to save Tanchous. People fed them out of their scarce food. The cost of the feed has since been appropriated from the national budget. Now, the number of Tanchous is counted at more than 600. The places where more than 100 Tanchous come to be fed have become protected areas. Kushiro-shitsugen was designated as an Internationally Important site of the Ramsar Convention in 1980, and the 28th National Park in 1987.
On the other hand, however, Kushiro-shitsugen has reduced its size by 2/3. Trees are cut down, and water is contaminated. Its ecosystems are not capable to host 600 Tanchous any longer. Under such an environment, Tanchous are able to survive because the humans continue to feed them. If the humans stop feeding them, how many Tanchous will be able to survive? As the humans are deeply involved in Tanchous' survival, feeding cannot be stopped.
By feeding, the humans protect Tanchou in the wild. Nevertheless, the humans have deprived Tanchou of the environment they rely upon. It is like a "zoo without fences."
Our responsibilities as the humans are to protect the environment where Tanchou can survive without human support and to keep working to retrieve the lost marshland area.
The textbook's article is accompanied by illustrations not shown here, and by an additional page showing the Ramsar sites in Japan, with photos and a map and explanatory text about the Convention.
In addition, the students in Wakasa Shougakkou school spent time with the superb bilingual Environment Agency of Japan 36-page brochure entitled "&#@>(^$ *&#$%" in Japanese and "People and Wetlands in Japan" in English, which thoroughly surveys Japan's wetland situation and the legislative and institutional mechanisms for implementing the Convention, and describes all of Japan's Ramsar sites in considerable detail. The brochure also describes Japan's assistance to other countries on a number of Ramsar-related issues.
Students of the Wakasa Shougakkou school examine page 16 of the People and Wetlands in Japan brochure (below). (Photo: Ms Setsuuko Suzuki)


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Fluctuation properties of precipitation. Part V: Distribution of rain rates—theory and observations in clustered rain
Recent studies have led to the statistical characterization of the flux of drops of a particular size as a doubly stochastic Poisson process (Poisson mixture). Moreover, previous papers in this series show that the fluxes at different sizes are correlated among each other both temporally and spatially over many different scales. Thus, in general, rather than being distributed evenly, significant clustering or bunching of the rain occurs. That is, regions richer in drops are interspersed with those where drops are scarcer.
This work applies these recent findings to explore the statistical characteristics of the rainfall rate itself, a triply stochastic random variable resulting from the summation over all the fluxes at different drop sizes. Among the findings, it is shown that clustering of the drops leads to increased frequencies of both smaller and larger rainfall rates. That is, because of clustering, drop rich regions boost the frequency of large rainfall rates, while the likelihood of light rainfall rates increases because of drop poor regions. These results, derived using detailed, physically based Monte Carlo simulations of clustered rain, agree with video-disdrometer observations. Moreover, it is shown that for a given mean rainfall rate, extensive averaging lengthens the tail of the probability density function (pdf) of the rainfall rate, P(R).
While the tail of the P(R) for clustered rain is sometimes reminiscent of that of the oft-used lognormal distribution, it is shown that the lognormal pdf is a poor match to the observations and simulations. It is concluded that the lognormal distribution is inconsistent with the statistical physics of natural, clustered rain.
It is also argued that for clustered rain, the relative dispersion of the rainfall rate is proportional to the relative dispersion in the total number of drops in the volumes sampled. While the constant of proportionality depends upon drop diameter, observations demonstrate that the relative dispersion in the rainfall rate is due much more to the variability in the number of drops in the sampled volumes than to variations in drop sizes. The results in this work are likely relevant to such areas of research as remote sensing and hydrology.
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Fluctuation properties of precipitation. Part V: Distribution of rain rates—theory and observations in clustered rain.
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Hebrew: sumphoniah
a musical instrument mentioned in Dan. 3:5, 15, along with other instruments there named, as sounded before the golden image
It was not a Jewish instrument.
In the margin of the Revised Version, it is styled the "bag-pipe." Luther translated it "lute," and Grotius the "crooked trumpet."
Some Rabbinical commentators render it by "organ," the well-known instrument composed of a series of pipes, others by "lyre." The most probable interpretation is that it was a bag-pipe similar to the zampagna of Southern Europe.


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JACKSON, SOLOMON HENRY
JACKSON, SOLOMON HENRY (d. 1847), first Jewish printer in New York City. His printing shop had both English and Hebrew type fonts, and he was thus able to print material in both languages, which he did for the various congregations of the city. His most important works were The Form of Daily Prayers, According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1826), a translation of the Sephardi prayer book into English, and his editorship and publication of The Jew (1823–25), a monthly, the first Jewish periodical in the United States. In 1827 he was active in the Ḥevrat Ḥinnukh Ne'arim, a society to promote Jewish education, and in 1837 he led a movement to settle Jews on the land.
H.B. Grinstein, Rise of the Jewish Community of New York 1654–1860 (1945), index.
[Hyman B. Grinstein]
Source: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2008 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved.


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A joint inspection of services for children and young people at risk of harm in Highland
The Chief Executives of Highland Council and NHS Highland, the Commander for Police Scotland, Highlands and Islands, and the Chair of the Child Protection Committee, welcome the Care Inspectorate's findings.
Collectively, they wish to highlight the key strengths in relation to the partnerships prompt and effective responses when children were at risk of harm.
The Care Inspectorate also found that the partnerships response remained a strength throughout the pandemic.
The Care Inspectorate noted that the partnerships were robustly sharing information and working together in making decisions that ultimately ensured that children at risk of harm were safe.
The inspectors also identified a number of key areas for improvement, which are fully accepted to ensure continuous improvement of services across Highland.
The improvement journey commenced prior to inspection. The findings of the inspection will enable the partnership to continue its journey relentlessly focusing on the best possible outcomes for children and families across the Highlands.
The full report can be read here.


Baruch Dayan Emet: Former PM Yitzchak Shamir, 96
Yitzchak Shamir
Former Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir
Israel's former Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir has died at the age of 96. He led a full, action-packed life and was one of the founding fathers of the State of Israel.
Shamir fought in radical pre-state undergrounds to oust the British from Palestine, served in the Mossad, was a Knesset member and Knesset Speaker, held several ministerial positions and ultimately served as prime minister.
He oversaw a major immigration of Jews from Ethiopia, reluctantly attended the Madrid peace conference, and memorably kept Israel out of the first Gulf War even after it was attacked by more than three dozen Scud missiles fired by Saddam Hussein.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised him as "one of the founders of the state" and a man of profound loyalty "to his people and to the land."
Shamir was born Icchak Jeziernicky in Belarus in 1915. A member of the Betar Revisionist Zionist youth movement, he moved to pre-state Palestine in 1935, and was active in the militant Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang pre-state undergrounds, causing him to be singled out and hunted by the British.
Captured and jailed by the British authorities in 1941, he escaped the following year and became a leader of the Lehi — the renamed Stern Gang.
During the War of Independence, Shamir was one of those who approved the assassination of the United Nations representative in the Middle East, Count Bernadotte — one of the actions that led the mainstream nascent Israeli leadership to enforce the dismantling of the Lehi and the establishment of a single Israeli military force.
Shamir was recruited into the Mossad intelligence service in the mid-1950s, where he oversaw the killings of several former Nazi scientists who were working on an Egyptian rocket program.
He entered politics late in the 1960s, joining Herut, the precursor to the Likud, under Menachem Begin. Winning election to the Knesset in 1973, he became Speaker four years later — in which capacity he hosted Egyptian president Anwar Sadat on his first visit to Israel. He was later foreign minister, and then succeeded Begin, who resigned as prime minister in 1983, in the wake of Israel's controversial invasion of Lebanon the previous year.
his failure to quickly draw Israel out of Lebanon was a factor in his failure to win the 1984 elections outright. Instead he entered a "rotation" agreement with Labor's Shimon Peres under which Peres and he held the prime ministership for two years each.
He formed another coalition with Peres in 1988, but after Peres tried and failed to unseat him and then left the government, Shamir headed a right-wing coalition from 1990.
It was during this period that he kept Israel out of the Gulf War, to the relief of the Americans leading the coalition to oust Saddam.
In May 1991, he approved a weekend airlift of 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel, rescuing them from a country in the midst of civil war.
Under heavy American pressure, he attended that October's Madrid peace conference, but said later he did not intend to move toward statehood for the Palestinians.
Although Shamir's politics were often controversial, he was widely praised across the political spectrum for his loyalty and devotion to the State of Israel:
"Yitzhak Shamir was a brave warrior for Israel, before and after its inception. He was a great patriot and his enormous contribution will be forever etched in our chronicles," President Shimon Peres said in a statement.
"He was loyal to his beliefs and he served his country with the utmost dedication for decades. May he rest in peace."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded the former leader, saying that "He was a paragon of loyalty to the Land of Israel and the eternal values of the Jewish people."
"Yitzhak Shamir belongs to a generation of giants, who founded the State of Israel and fought for the freedom of the Jewish people in its land," Netanyahu said. "He led Israel with deep loyalty to both the people and the land."
Opposition Leader Shelly Yachimovich offered her condolences over Shamir's death: "He was a determined prime minister who dedicated his life to the state. He followed his ideological path honestly and humbly, as a leader should," she said.
"The citizens of Israel will always remember the wisdom he demonstrated during the First Gulf War. He showed restraint and saved Israel from undue entanglement in the Iraq War. This decision proved to be a brave and wise act of leadership."
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Shamir "Contributed greatly to the foundation of the state, which he served his entire life with loyalty and unwavering dedication.
"He set an example in each position that he held," the foreign minister added. "I had the privilege to be personally acquainted with Shamir, and I will always remember him and his great contribution to the state."
Defense Minister Ehud Barak added: "His whole life, Shamir was as stable as granite and maintained focus without compromises. He always strived to ensure Israel's freedom.
"His devotion knew no bounds," Barak said, adding that the former leader "always sought what's right for the people of Israel and for the country's security."
Gilada Diamant, Shamir's daughter, said that her father "belonged to a different generation of leaders, people with values and beliefs. I hope that we have more people like him in the future. His political doing has undoubtedly left its mark on the State of Israel.
"Dad was an amazing man, a family man in the fullest sense of the word, a man who dedicated himself to the State of Israel but never forgot his family, not even for a moment. He was a special man," she added.
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 Baruch Dayan Emet. He was a true soldier fro Israel & a real Zionist & he was proud of it. We need more people like him but unfortunately in this generation we fail to produce them. Nowadays people feel the need to apologise for zionist tendencies. If only we could bring back the proud feeling of belonging to & in Israel again
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Print the stencil and use it to trace the ostrich beak and feet onto yellow foam sheet. Use scissors to cut out the beak and feet. Press the foam ball onto the end of the duster. Glue googly eyes onto the front of the foam ball.
With an adult's help, use scissors to cut a groove into the foam ball just below the eyes. Put a bit of glue into the groove and press the wide edge of the beak into the groove. Wrap one end of the yellow chenille stem to the top of both legs and use the other end to attach it to the bottom of the duster.
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A U.S. government official is blaming Filipino immigrants for a Northern California county's high incidence of tuberculosis cases.
Solano County's Vallejo, home to many Fil Ams, is one of the nation's top 20 hot spots for TB.
Ron Chapman, the county's public health officer, said to a newspaper that one of the chief reasons for Vallejo's high ranking is due to its large number of Filipino immigrants.
Per Contra Costa Times: "He noted that the Philippines has the sixth-highest number of TB cases in the world. He added that the Filipino government works closely with the local health department to identify arrivals who suffer from the illness."
Tuberculosis cases statewide dropped to their lowest point since 1985. But from 2005 to 2006, there were more cases in 20 counties.
California has 10 of the nation's top big cities with TB cases, including San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Los Angeles, Stockton, Oakland, Sacramento, Ventura and Fresno.
The number of TB cases in California is at an all-time low but some drug-resistant strains have health officials worried.
The falling national TB rates is alarming cities with high immigrant population because they fear funding cuts.


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the most important location in the grave. Bread deposits often coincide in the Birka graves with Thor's hammer rings also made of iron, sometimes with metal pendants. These are usually associated with ideas of fertility and resurrection. Prehistoric bread probably had a similar symbolic function following a very widely established tradition (Eliade 1958 ; Camporesi 1993).
19Bread was consumed in many parts of the prehistoric /early medieval world (Währen 1963,1967,1978 ; Fechner 1992, 1996 ; Samuel 1994). Turning to the future, let us hope for continued bread findings and with them the possibility to perform an increasing variety of analyses which will enable us to better interprete the important role of bread, both as an everyday food and as a vital symbol-bearer within society.
Fig. 1 : Map showing the locality of Sweden's two most lucrative sites of ancient bread : Birka and Helgö, situated on islands in Lake Mälaren, east central Sweden. CAD drawing Kjell Persson, ARL, Stockholm University.


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Coastal wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes are vital habitats for biota of ecological and economic importance. These habitats are susceptible to water quality impairments driven by runoff from the landscape due to their location along the shoreline. Monitoring of the overall status of biotic and abiotic conditions of coastal wetlands within the Great Lakes has been ongoing for over a decade. Here, we utilize measurements of aquatic physicochemical and land cover variables from 877 vegetation zones in 511 coastal wetland sites spanning the US and Canadian shorelines of the entire Great Lakes basin. Our objective is to develop water quality indices based on physicochemical measures (Chem-Rank), land use/land cover (LULC-Rank), and their combined effects (Sum-Rank and Simplified Sum-Rank), for both vegetation zones and wetland sites. We found that water quality differed among wetland vegetation types and among Great Lakes regions, corroborating previous findings that human land use alters coastal wetland water quality. Future monitoring can use these straightforward, easy-to-calculate indices to assess the abiotic condition of aquatic habitats. Our data support the need for management efforts focused on reducing nutrient and pollution loads that stem from human activities, particularly in the developed southern portions of the Great Lakes basin.
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Flaws And Flaws In The United States Legal System
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Sometimes in the United States legal system there are flaws that are glossed over in favor of convenience. This system has been supported by the fact that the legal system is recognized for quantity of cases that it solves rather than the quality of the cases. The average American citizen is actually the main cause for these flaws due to their lack of understanding of the legal system as a whole. Unless a case is particularly devastating the average citizen won't even hear about it, but will instead continue to praise the legal system because they feel that is working well without any first-hand knowledge of whether this information is true or not. This practice almost encourages the United States legal system to quickly spit out cases that may not be carried out well, but encourage that sense of safety, thus creating flaws in the system. …show more content…
A famous example of a flaw in the United States legal system is the situation regarding, and surrounding Kalief Browder. He was incarcerated in 2010, for three years at Rikers Island in New York without a trial. Sadly, more often than not flaws like this are undetected, because they aren't large enough to raise any red flags in the people involved in the case or even the person creating the flaw. Another prime example of the conservation of efficiency over morality is conviction of Adnan Masud Syed for the first degree murder of Hae Min Lee. While he may not be a victim of extreme circumstances such as the tampering of evidence he is still a victim of a faulty law system. The most glaring flaw in the case against Adnan is the complete and utter lack of any factual evidence. The only actual evidence that the state can supply in the case is a couple of fingerprints in Hae's car that were a byproduct of when Adnan and Hae were dating (Episode 6). Because of this fact the state decided to use other evidence which was primarily focused around Jay Wilds and cellphone records from Adnan's phone. If these were
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As if deadly sinkholes and Burmese pythons weren't enough, now Florida may find itself contending with another summer of giant mosquitoes that pack a ferocious bite, LiveScience reports. Dubbed gallinippers, the quarter-sized mosquitoes hatch after a flood or rainstorm, and saw a bumper crop after Tropical Storm Debby struck Florida last summer. Now another rainy season could produce even more: "I wouldn't be surprised, given the numbers we saw last year," says an entomologist.
A gallinipper is 20 times the size of a typical mosquito, "and it's mean, and it goes after people, and it bites, and it hurts," says Anthony Pelaez of Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry. A gallinipper bite "feels like you're being stabbed." What's more, they may be resistant to bug repellent (the Orlando Sentinel recommends a DEET-containing repellent all the same) and like to strike fish, wild animals, and pets. Neat factoid: Entomologists don't always recognize the term "gallinipper," which arose in Southern folk culture. But the insect's first mention dates back to 1897, when a writer called it "the shyest, slyest, meanest and most venomous of them all." (Read more mosquito stories.)


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Towards a conceptual framework for improved monitoring and evaluation of SEA outcomes: a discussion note
This paper tries to answer the question how can standard Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) process be modified to incorporate robust long term monitoring frameworks which facilitate outcome mapping and impact assessment.
Theoretically, any SEA intervention should lead to an outcome that improves policies, plans and programmes (PPP) relative to the counterfactual – how things would be without SEA. However, it is important to stress that every SEA should develop its own theory of change (ToC).
The paper figures that an important point to note on comparing the effect of SEAs at different times is that ultimate impact is very likely to depend on decision takers, organisations and institutions beyond the control of those commissioning the SEA. Furthermore, the "influencing environment" is very important. So when it comes to identifying the outcomes and impact of an SEA, the role of the SEA needs to be distinguished in the bigger picture.
The author suggests that:
- a conceptual framework for comparing similar SEAs should be used so that those synthesising evidence from one type of SEAs have to explain why lessons will apply to other SEAs
- SEA practitioners should be allowed to deviate from recognised good practice if it can be shown why an alternative approach makes more sense
- while SEA process evaluation is still valuable, the biggest gap is in impact assessment
The paper also underscores that it should be fairly straightforward to develop an Institutional Capacity Assessment Matrix (ICAM) and Organisational Capacity Assessment Matrix (OCAM) for SEA.


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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of number sense based instruction on sixth grade students' self efficacies and performances. Self efficacies consist of self efficacy towards mathematics and self efficacy towards number sense. Students' mathematics performances consist of their number sense, problem solving achievement, mathematics achievement and perceiving of daily life mathematics. In this study pre-test-posttest control group design which is a quantitative research designs was used. The study was conducted in two sixth grade classes from a public school in Çankaya, Ankara in the 2012-2013 academic year, lasting total fifteen weeks including 13 weeks implementation of lesson plans and 2 weeks implementation of scales. In this process, while the students in the experimental group were passing through a number sense based instruction, the students in the control group continued with the intruction which is composed with the guidance of the text book. In the study "Numeracy Test" was used in order to determine the number sense of students. In order to measure self-efficacy towards mathematics "Self-Efficacy Perception Scale", to measure self-efficacy towards number sense "Self-Efficacy Towards Number Sense Scale", to measure awareness of daily life mathematics Mathematics in Daily Life Scale", to measure problem solving achievement "Problem Solving Test" and mathematics course final grade in order to determine mathematical achievements were used. The data were analyzed by MANOVA analysis using the SPSS 15.0 package program. The results revealed that number sense-based instruction had a significant effect on students' number sense, awareness of daily life mathematics and, problem solving achievement compared to the instruction that not based on number sense. There was no significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of their self efficacies towards mathematics and number sense and the mathematics achievement.


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The treasure in St. James Episcopal Church isn't just spiritual, but artistic as well, with works by America's greatest stained-glass artist.
Six Tiffany stained-glass windows installed at the Fordham church from 1889 to 1929 will be on display at an open house and tour from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 19. The open house is part of the New York Landmarks Conservancy Sacred Sites Program.
The church is at 2500 Jerome Ave. at E. 190th Street.
The six windows that span almost the entire career of Louis Comfort Tiffany's glass making include depictions of The Last Supper, Lilies and Apple Blossoms, Wheat and Vine – known as The True Vine, The Resurrection Morning – depicting Jesus, the Resurrection Angel, and Saint Augustine and his Mother Monica, said Reverend Tobias Haller, the vicar of St. James for the past 13 years.
There has not been an official open house featuring the Tiffany windows, or the church's royal Bavarian stained glass windows, in the past decade or more, Haller said.
However, the church did receive a good deal of attention when it was featured in a Tokyo TV documentary in 2010 on the work of Tiffany.
He made stained-glass art that pioneered the use of implanting the pigment of the color into the body of the glass – a technique that had not been used since the middle ages.
"We have one of the first Tiffany windows and you can see Tiffany's experimenting with different techniques," Haller said. "The oldest, a representation of DaVinci's Last Supper, is tentative and frankly, a little crude."
The Tiffany works that adorn the church range from more secular pastoral scenes, to the ecclesiastical work that Tiffany stained-glass windows are primarily known for, Haller said.
One of the windows has already been restored with help from a grant from the New York Landmarks Conservancy Sacred Sites Program, and the church's roof has also received restoration, Haller said.
In the coming years, the church hopes to restore most of the stained glass windows to their original splendor, removing plexiglas backs installed a half-century ago and other structural repairs, Haller said.
For more information on Saturday's open house, please call the church at _PHONE_. The church's website is saintjamesfordham.org.


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A group of Texas farmers is suing a Maryland-based company, which also produces biosolids in Canada, over claims their farms were damaged by a biosolids-based fertilizer contaminated with PFAS.
In a February 27 court filing, the farmers allege that Synagro Technologies and its Texas subsidiary are responsible for a range of health issues experienced by the farmers and their animals since they began using the fertilizer in 2022.
The civil lawsuit claims that the biosolids-based fertilizer tested positive for 27 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS. Eight of the compounds were found to have "extremely high" concentrations of PFAS, according to contracted soil and water tests taken from the five plaintiff's properties.
"Synagro knew, or reasonably should have known, of the foreseeable risks and defects of its biosolids fertilizer," the lawsuit argues. "Synagro nonetheless failed to provide adequate warnings of the known and foreseeable risk or hazard related to the way the Synagro Granulite was designed, including pollution of properties and water supplies with PFAS. Synagro also failed to provide adequate instructions regarding the use and disposal of its biosolids fertilizer to prevent pollution of properties and water supplies with PFAS."
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The farmers are seeking compensation and punitive damages in an amount greater than $75,000.
Some of the human health issues raised in the lawsuit include high blood pressure, respiratory and cardiac problems, skin irritations and growths. There are also claims of livestock fatalities and irreparable damage to farmland.
Synagro works with a number of Canadian municipalities, including Hamilton and Windsor, Ontario, according to the company's website. It is the majority owner of the residuals treatment facility located at the Hartland Landfill for the Capital Regional District (CRD) about 14 kilometres northwest of Victoria, B.C..
In British Columbia, the CRD is still finalizing its biosolids plan, but has gone on record to note that its generated biosolids have not been utilized for agricultural purposes, and the majority are currently landfilled. The CRD had planned to rely on incineration at a cement production facility in Richmond, but faced operational difficulties at the cement kiln over the last two years.
Public consultation on the biosolids plan has been ongoing in 2024, however, the British Columbia government requires the CRD to submit a Long-Term Biosolids Management Plan by June.
On the CRD website, it states that, "CRD biosolids have been analyzed for contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, and PFAS, and results show that concentrations are low, and that the potential for risk to human health and the environment is small."
The CRD further notes that its biosolids were tested for 38 of the most common PFAS compounds, and detected 14 types of PFAS in the parts-per-billion range. The rest were not found.
Lastly, the CRD notes that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is proposing to adopt a standard of less than 50 parts per billion of perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, as an indicator of PFAS contamination, to protect agricultural land. The concentration of PFOS in CRD biosolids is approximately 6 ppb, its website states.
Neither Synagro nor the CRD have publicly commented on the pending legal action.


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The archives of the Museum of English Rural Life are the leading resource for anyone studying the history of British agriculture, the countryside and rural society.
Caring for millions of individual documents, photographs and volumes, we are an Accredited Archive Service and a Place of Deposit for Public Records. The MERL Collections as a whole are Designated as outstanding by Arts Council England.
These include substantial archives of agricultural engineering firms such as Ransomes, seed producers such as Suttons, and trade literature. The records of many landscape architecture businesses are also in our collections.
Records of organisations / societies
Our records of hundreds of individual farms across the UK, recording day to day farming routine, date back to the 17th century. There are particular strengths in smaller farms, the southern parts of England and the period after 1850. We hold the records of some larger estates such as the Wellington Estate in Hampshire.
In addition to the above, we hold collections of documents – large and small – relating to rural crafts, research and innovation, and individuals from authors to collectors. Examples include the memoirs of children evacuated to the countryside during the Second World War; research papers of scientists Hugh Macdonald Sinclair and R.G. Stapledon, and the historian W.E. Tate; and documents from the author H.E. Bates and the poultry expert David Scrivener.
Photographic and film collections
With more than a million images and hundreds of motion picture films, we are one of Britain's largest specialist sources for images and footage of farming and rural life.
- Search the collection via the catalogue
- This collection for consultation via the Reading Room
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text: Working memory neural networks, called Sustained Temporal Order REcurrent (STORE) models, encode the invariant temporal order of sequential events in short-term memory (STM). Inputs to the networks may be presented with widely differing growth rates, amplitudes, durations, and interstimulus intervals without altering the stored STM representation. The STORE temporal order code is designed to enable groupings of the stored events to be stably learned and remembered in real time, even as new events perturb the system. Such invariance and stability properties are needed in neural architectures which self-organize learned codes for variable-rate speech perception, sensorimotor planning, or three-dimensional (3-D) visual object recognition. Using such a working memory, a self-organizing architecture for invariant 3-D visual object recognition is described. The new model is based on the model of Seibert and Waxman (1990a), which builds a 3-D representation of an object from a temporally ordered sequence of its two-dimensional (2-D) aspect graphs. The new model, called an ARTSTORE model, consists of the following cascade of processing modules: Invariant Preprocessor → ART 2 → STORE Model → ART 2 → Outstar Network.


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Devices like the Amazon Echo are capable of doing a lot of great things, ranging from controlling your music, reminding you of important things, setting timers, and much more. One nice feature of Alexa devices like the Amazon Echo is the ability to control your television, and it works with several brands. One of these brands is DirecTV. But how do you get Alexa set up to control DirecTV?
To set up your Alexa device with DirecTV, you need to enable the DirecTV skill in your Alexa app by searching in the Skills section of the app for DirecTV. Select it, and choose to enable the skill. Select Finish Setup and let Alexa search for DirecTV. Finally, pick the DirecTV device you want to use.
But are there other ways to set up an Echo device with a DirecTV device? And what do you do if one or both of the websites are not working properly?
How to Use Alexa to Control DirecTV
There are multiple things you need to have before you can use Alexa with your DirecTV. For one, you need to have DirecTV already so you have something to control. Also, you need to have a device that is capable of connecting to DirecTV and using Alexa through it. The compatible devices are limited to Echo devices like the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, and other Echo devices. You cannot, unfortunately, use Alexa through a computer or mobile phone to control DirecTV. You also need to sign up for an Amazon.com account to use your Alexa device, much less use it to control DirecTV.
An additional consideration is to make sure that DirecTV and your Alexa device are both connected to the same Wi-Fi connection.
Enable the DirecTV skill by searching in the Alexa app
The best way to get Alexa connected to your DirecTV is to use the Alexa app. You can find the Alexa app on various app stores for both phones and tablets, such as the Google Play Store for many Android devices or App Store for Apple iOS devices. Once it's downloaded and set up with at least one Echo, you can then get to work on downloading the DirecTV skill.
Open the Alexa app, tap the Menu icon, and then select the Skills section. Once here, select the Search option, and then enter DirecTV. Select the DirecTV skill, and then enable it. Once enabled, you will be made to follow certain prompts, until you are given the option to Finish Setup. Allow your Alexa app to search for DirecTV devices (make sure that the device you want to connect to is powered on and connected to your Wi-Fi router). This will take upwards of 20 seconds.
Once the Alexa app has discovered one or more DirecTV devices, select the DirecTV device you want to set up with Alexa, and then choose which Alexa device you would like to control your DirecTV device with.
Enable the DirecTV skill in the Music, Movies & Books section
Another method to find the DirecTV skill is to simply navigate to the Music, Movies & Books section. You can find this by clicking the Menu icon, and then selecting that section. Once you are there, you will be able to find the DirecTV skill. Enable it, and follow the same steps as discussed in the above paragraph.
Enable the DirecTV skill through the Alexa website
While the Alexa app is the typical method to connect Alexa to your DirecTV account, it is not the only method you can use to do it. You can access the Alexa website on your desktop or laptop computer, which works essentially the same as the Alexa app. Once you have enabled the DirecTV skill through the Alexa website, follow the same instructions and prompts that come up after the first method. You can also download the DirecTV skill through Amazon.com's website.
Enable a different Alexa device to work with DirecTV
If you want to use a separate Alexa device to control DirecTV, your Alexa app can set that up for you. You can either set up multiple Echoes at the same time during either of the above-mentioned setup methods, or you can select Set up a DIRECTV Device to set up more Alexa devices with your DirecTV device(s).
Why isn't Alexa connecting to DirecTV?
There are a variety of reasons why Alexa is not able to connect to DirecTV. One of the most common reasons is due to your Internet connection experiencing difficulties. For example, if your Internet is completely down for the count, your Echo will not be able to do anything with your DirecTV. This is because Alexa can only function when she has access to the Internet, even with simple commands that seem like they would not require an Internet connection. If you try to use Alexa while the Internet is down, she will say something like "I'm having trouble connecting right now."
The next thing to do would be to check if the issue is with your Alexa device, or if your Internet is the problem. This can be done by testing the Internet on other devices. So, for instance, if your phone or computer is doing fine with the Internet connection, for example, the problem is likely with the Echo itself. However, if the problem appears consistent with these devices, you'll have to troubleshoot your Wi-Fi router.
The first thing you should try with the troubleshooting process is to unplug the Wi-Fi router from the power source. Wait about 15 seconds, and then plug the router back in. This has the possibility of making the router reset and begin to work properly again. However, another issue is if you recently changed the name of the router or its password. If you did, you need to also update that information on your Echo, using the same method you used to connect it to the Internet.


Robotic Right Upper Lobe Posterior Segmentectomy With ICG Guidance DunningJoel TrevisJason 2018 This video demonstrates a robotic right upper lobe segmentectomy using indocyanine green (ICG) guidance. The patient was a 73-year-old woman who had a previous left lower lobectomy for squamous cell cancer and removal of a malignant station L8 lymph node. She presented with a new nodule in the posterior segment of her right upper lobe, which was thought to be a new primary cancer. Segmentectomy was therefore the procedure of choice in order to conserve as much pulmonary function as possible.
ICG was used in order to aid and confirm decision making when a posterior ascending artery with an early bifurcation was encountered, helping to determine whether both of the branches provided vascularization to the posterior segment in question.


About Events in iOS
Users manipulate their iOS devices in a number of ways, such as touching the screen or shaking the device. iOS interprets when and how a user is manipulating the hardware and passes this information to your app. The more your app responds to actions in natural and intuitive ways, the more compelling the experience is for the user.
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At a Glance
Events are objects sent to an app to inform it of user actions. In iOS, events can take many forms: Multi-Touch events, motion events, and events for controlling multimedia. This last type of event is known as a remote control event because it can originate from an external accessory.
UIKit Makes It Easy for Your App to Detect Gestures
iOS apps recognize combinations of touches and respond to them in ways that are intuitive to users, such as zooming in on content in response to a pinching gesture and scrolling through content in response to a flicking gesture. In fact, some gestures are so common that they are built in to UIKit. For example, UIControl subclasses, such as UIButton and UISlider, respond to specific gestures—a tap for a button and a drag for a slider. When you configure these controls, they send an action message to a target object when that touch occurs. You can also employ the target-action mechanism on views by using gesture recognizers. When you attach a gesture recognizer to a view, the entire view acts like a control—responding to whatever gesture you specify.
Gesture recognizers provide a higher-level abstraction for complex event handling logic. Gesture recognizers are the preferred way to implement touch-event handling in your app because gesture recognizers are powerful, reusable, and adaptable. You can use one of the built-in gesture recognizers and customize its behavior. Or you can create your own gesture recognizer to recognize a new gesture.
An Event Travels Along a Specific Path Looking for an Object to Handle It
When iOS recognizes an event, it passes the event to the initial object that seems most relevant for handling that event, such as the view where a touch occurred. If the initial object cannot handle the event, iOS continues to pass the event to objects with greater scope until it finds an object with enough context to handle the event. This sequence of objects is known as a responder chain, and as iOS passes events along the chain, it also transfers the responsibility of responding to the event. This design pattern makes event handling cooperative and dynamic.
A UIEvent Encapsulates a Touch, Shake-Motion, or Remote-Control Event
Many events are instances of the UIKit UIEvent class. A UIEvent object contains information about the event that your app uses to decide how to respond to the event. As a user action occurs—for example, as fingers touch the screen and move across its surface—iOS continually sends event objects to an app for handling. Each event object has a type—touch, "shaking" motion, or remote control—and a subtype.
An App Receives Multitouch Events When Users Touch Its Views
Depending on your app, UIKit controls and gesture recognizers might be sufficient for all of your app's touch event handling. Even if your app has custom views, you can use gesture recognizers. As a rule of thumb, you write your own custom touch-event handling when your app's response to touch is tightly coupled with the view itself, such as drawing under a touch. In these cases, you are responsible for the low-level event handling. You implement the touch methods, and within these methods, you analyze raw touch events and respond appropriately.
An App Receives Motion Events When Users Move Their Devices
Motion events provide information about the device's location, orientation, and movement. By reacting to motion events, you can add subtle, yet powerful features to your app. Accelerometer and gyroscope data allow you to detect tilting, rotating, and shaking.
Motion events come in different forms, and you can handle them using different frameworks. When users shake the device, UIKit delivers a UIEvent object to an app. If you want your app to receive high-rate, continuous accelerometer and gyroscope data, use the Core Motion framework.
An App Receives Remote Control Events When Users Manipulate Multimedia Controls
iOS controls and external accessories send remote control events to an app. These events allow users to control audio and video, such as adjusting the volume through a headset. Handle multimedia remote control events to make your app responsive to these types of commands.
Prerequisites
This document assumes that you are familiar with:
If you are not familiar with those concepts, start by reading Start Developing iOS Apps Today. Then, be sure to read either View Programming Guide for iOS or View Controller Programming Guide for iOS, or both.
See Also
In the same way that iOS devices provide touch and device motion data, most iOS devices have GPS and compass hardware that generates low-level data that your app might be interested in. Location Awareness Programming Guide discusses how to receive and handle location data.
For advanced gesture recognizer techniques such as curve smoothing and applying a low-pass filter, see WWDC 2012: Building Advanced Gesture Recognizers.
Many sample code projects in the iOS Reference Library have code that uses gesture recognizers and handles events. Among these are the following projects:
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.}\) Assume that the triangle formed is a right triangle.
 1. What is the measured length \(L\) of the wall?
 2. What is the propagated error?
 3. What is the percent error?
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The length \(L\) of a long wall is to be calculated by measuring the angle \(\theta\) shown in the diagram (not to scale). Assume the formed triangle is an isosceles triangle. The measured angle is \(143^\circ\text{,}\) accurate to \(1^\circ\text{.}\)
 1. What is the measured length \(L\) of the wall?
 2. What is the propagated error?
 3. What is the percent error?
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The length of the walls in Exercises – are essentially the same. Which setup gives the most accurate result?
 - Right triangle at 25 feet
 - Right triangle at 100 feet
 - Isosceles triangle at 50 feet
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Consider the setup in Exercise 4.4.37. This time, assume the angle measurement of \(143^\circ\) is exact but the measured \(50'\) from the wall is accurate to \(6''\text{.}\)
What is the approximate percent error?


Spot these five common insurance fraud scams
Insurance fraud scams are crimes that cost Canadians well over $1 billion a year in added insurance premiums, and strains our already burdened health care, emergency services and court systems. When someone makes a false or exaggerated claim, it's the honest policyholders that pay for it.
The Insurance Bureau of Canada wants to help consumers avoid falling victim to insurance fraud, so the more people report fraud, the more fraudsters can brought to justice.
Here are five common ways criminals manipulate Canadians and the insurance system:
Five common types of insurance fraud
 1. Inflated Tow, Store & Dent: Dishonest towing companies and auto repair shops intentionally overbill insurers, driving up insurance premium costs.
 2. The Blank Form: Disreputable medical clinic staff ask claimants to sign blank accident benefit forms and then bill insurers for services that were not provided. Or, the clinics might forge the signatures of medical practitioners on forms to bill insurers for services never rendered.
 3. Staged Collision: In a staged collision, a driver intentionally causes an accident with an unsuspecting driver and makes it look as if the innocent driver is at fault.
 4. Fake News: With policy misrepresentation, an individual misleads an auto insurance company by providing misinformation, such as a false address, or make or model of his or her vehicle. The individual carefully chooses this false information because of its reduced risk profile, which reduces the amount he or she should pay for auto insurance.
 5. Hot Cars: Stolen, un-repairable and often dangerous vehicles are given a false vehicle identification number and then sold to unsuspecting consumers.
The IBC has a national investigative team that partners with law enforcement, government agencies and insurance companies across the country to identify insurance crime, investigate fraudsters and scam artists, and bring criminals to justice. The IBC team focuses on all aspects of insurance fraud, including organized crime rings involved in auto theft and fraudulent injury and accident benefit claims.
Five tips for avoiding fraud after a collision
 1. Contact your insurance company if a stranger tries to steer you to an unknown body shop, doctor, chiropractor or legal representative.
 2. See only medical and legal professionals you know and trust, or who are recommended by people you trust.
 1. Contact medical and legal licensing regulators in your province to ensure that your service providers are licensed and that no complaints have been lodged against them.
 2. Know what your medical benefits are; for example, what is and isn't covered.
 3. Keep detailed records of your medical appointments, including the dates, locations, names of practitioners, diagnoses and services. As well, record the medicine, supplies and/or equipment that were prescribed.
 3. Be involved in your claim. Compare your records against the statements you receive from your insurance company to make sure the bills are accurate and don't include goods or services you didn't receive.
 4. Never sign a blank insurance claim form.
 5. Know what your full and final settlement includes.
It's easy to report a suspected exaggerated claim, staged auto collision or other insurance crime. Call IBC's anonymous, toll-free TIPS Line at 1-877-IBC-TIPS (_PHONE_) or submit a tip online at
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My Friend Is Talking About Running Away: What Should I Do?
Many people who decide to run away think they'll find a life that's free of the troubles they have at home, only to discover they're faced with different, bigger problems. Life for runaway teens is hard. They often end up homeless, stealing, or even selling drugs or sex in an effort to make money. Every year in the United States, lots of runaway teens die, often because they are attacked, become ill, or take their own lives.
People tend to run away for a lot of reasons: abuse (whether it's physical, emotional, or sexual), family troubles, or problems with school, bullying, or friends. Some teens run away because of alcohol or drug problems — their own or a family member's. Others run away to be with someone.
If a friend is thinking about running away, talk about why. Try to work together to help your friend find solutions to his or her problems. At the same time, speak with an adult you trust as soon as possible. Tell that adult that your friend is talking seriously about running away. If you don't feel comfortable telling your parents, ask another relative, a teacher, coach, school counselor, your family doctor, or a religious leader for help.
A trusted adult might be able to help your friend understand that there are better alternatives to running away. If your friend is still serious, though, make sure he or she has the number of the National Runaway Safeline: (800) RUNAWAY, or _PHONE_. This service for teens in need is open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. The safeline can help teens find food, shelter, and medical care, as well as provide counseling for homeless teens in crisis. The service will even help runaway teens contact people back home by providing a message service and setting up conference phone calls. Your friend doesn't need to be a runaway to call and ask their advice: Many of the teens who contact the safeline call from home or a friend's house before running away.
If your friend does run away, or if you haven't seen him or her in a few days and you think that's what's happened, take action immediately. Talk to a trusted adult and explain that you believe your friend ran away. Don't be shy about sharing any information about where your friend might be going, and don't wait in hopes that he or she might come back after a few days. Your friend's life could depend on it — the sooner it is reported, the more likely your friend will be found safe.


Question:The United States has a lot of helpful databases to identify Environmental Justice communities, are there similar tools being used in Canada?
by amocorro | May 27, 2021 19:50 | #26728
Examples of some helpful (though not perfect) databases that illuminate common markers and metrics used to identify Environmental Justice communities in the United States are (not exhaustive list):
[Federal] US Environmental Protection Agency's EJSCREEN and Mapping Tools _URL_
[Federal] US Census Bureau _URL_
[State level]
WASHINGTON _URL_
CALIFORNIA _URL_
MINNESOTA _URL_
QUESTION CONTINUED: Once we go international, these markers and metrics shift based on the country, their place-based concerns, and their governance structures. What environmental justice databases exist for Canada?
A note about governance terminology: In Canadian English, the term government is used to refer both to the whole set of institutions (executive, legislative and judicial powers) that govern the country (just as in American English, whereas in British English, the term used is state) and to the executive branch (just as in British English, whereas the term in American English would be administration). When the word is capitalized, as in "Government of Canada", it always refers to the executive branch.
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"Sniffing Out" Lymphoma Genes by Turning Dogs into Humans
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Release Date: 04.08.2011
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Humans and dogs don't just share companionship and living space, they also share a similar genetic makeup. Additionally, they share the same types of cancer, including lymphoma. Dr. Matthew Breen, professor of genomics at NC State, uses canines as a genetic model for studying lymphoma because purebred dogs of the same breed have less genetic variation among them than humans do, making it easier to pinpoint areas on canine chromosomes that may be involved with cancer.
In a paper published in the journal Leukemia and Lymphoma, Breen's team took the genetic information from dogs with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and then rearranged or "recoded" the genomes of the dogs so that, genomically speaking, they were human. The researchers then compared the recoded canine genomes with those of humans with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, to see which chromosomes were involved with the cancer in both humans and canines.
"This is the first time that we were able to compare this information from dogs with lymphoma directly with existing data from human patients diagnosed with the equivalent cancer and using the same technique," says Dr. Rachael Thomas, research assistant professor of molecular biomedical sciences at NC State and lead author of the paper.
The data revealed that there were only a few genes involved with lymphoma that were shared by dogs and humans. This is in contrast to current research into human lymphoma, where numerous genes have been identified as possibly having a relationship to the cancer. Breen and his colleagues hope that this data will point researchers toward the most likely genetic culprits.
"In essence, we stripped the background noise from the human data," Breen says. "Lymphoma genomics is a lot more complex in human patients than in dog patients. This study tells us that while both humans? and dogs? have comparable disease at the clinical and cellular level, the genetic changes associated with the same cancers are much less complex in the dog. This suggests that maybe there is a lot of genetic noise in the human cancers that are not essential components of the process. While human studies have been looking in numerous places in the genome, the dog data indicate we need to focus on what's shared, and these are very few regions."
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation. The Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences is part of NC State's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Note to editors: Abstract of the paper follows.
Authors: Rachael Thomas, Alison Motsinger-Reif, Matthew Breen, et al, NC State University
Leukemia & Lymphoma, 2011
Identification of the genomic regions most intimately associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) pathogenesis is confounded by the genetic heterogeneity of human populations. We hypothesize that the restricted genetic variation of purebred dogs, combined with the contrasting architecture of the human and canine karyotypes, will increase the penetrance of fundamental NHL-associated chromosomal aberrations in both species. We surveyed non-random aneuploidy in 150 canine NHL cases, revealing limited genomic instability compared to their human counterparts and no evidence for CDKN2A/B deletion in canine B-cell NHL. 'Genomic recoding' of canine NHL data into a 'virtual human' chromosome format showed remarkably few regions of copy number aberration (CNA) shared between both species, restricted to regions of dog chromosomes 13 and 31, and human chromosomes 8 and 21. Our data suggest that gene discovery in NHL may be enhanced through comparative studies exploiting the less complex association between CNAs and tumor pathogenesis in canine patients.