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Average Weather in March in Carpi Centro Italy
Daily high temperatures increase by 9°F, from 52°F to 61°F, rarely falling below 42°F or exceeding 70°F.
Daily low temperatures increase by 7°F, from 37°F to 44°F, rarely falling below 29°F or exceeding 50°F.
For reference, on July 31, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Carpi Centro typically range from 68°F to 87°F, while on January 11, the coldest day of the year, they range from 32°F to 42°F.
Average High and Low Temperature in March
The daily average high (red line) and low (blue line) temperature, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted lines are the corresponding average perceived temperatures.
The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on March. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.
Average Hourly Temperature in March
Average Hourly Temperature in March in Carpi Centro18152229112233445566778899101011111212131314141515161617171818191920202121222223232424252526262727282829293030313112 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMFebAprvery coldcoldcoolcoolcomfortable
The average hourly temperature, color coded into bands: frigid < 15°F < freezing < 32°F < very cold < 45°F < cold < 55°F < cool < 65°F < comfortable < 75°F < warm < 85°F < hot < 95°F < sweltering. The shaded overlays indicate night and civil twilight.
Stanton, Kentucky, United States (4,655 miles away) and Waldorf, Maryland, United States (4,327 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Carpi Centro (view comparison).
Clouds
The month of March in Carpi Centro experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 47% throughout the month. The lowest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 46% on March 4.
The clearest day of the month is March 4, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 54% of the time.
For reference, on December 3, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 54%, while on July 21, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 79%.
Cloud Cover Categories in March
Cloud Cover Categories in March in Carpi Centro1815222911223344556677889910101111121213131414151516161717181819192020212122222323242425252626272728282929303031310%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%FebAprDec 346%Dec 346%Mar 154%Mar 154%Mar 3152%Mar 3152%Mar 1152%Mar 1152%Mar 2153%Mar 2153%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercast
The percentage of time spent in each cloud cover band, categorized by the percentage of the sky covered by clouds: clear < 20% < mostly clear < 40% < partly cloudy < 60% < mostly cloudy < 80% < overcast.
Precipitation
A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Carpi Centro, the chance of a wet day over the course of March is rapidly increasing, starting the month at 18% and ending it at 24%.
For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 29% on May 1, and its lowest chance is 17% on March 8.
Probability of Precipitation in March
The percentage of days in which various types of precipitation are observed, excluding trace quantities: rain alone, snow alone, and mixed (both rain and snow fell in the same day).
Rainfall
To show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.
The average sliding 31-day rainfall during March in Carpi Centro is gradually increasing, starting the month at 1.6 inches, when it rarely exceeds 3.5 inches or falls below 0.3 inches, and ending the month at 2.0 inches, when it rarely exceeds 3.5 inches or falls below 0.6 inches.
Average Monthly Rainfall in March
The average rainfall (solid line) accumulated over the course of a sliding 31-day period centered on the day in question, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted line is the corresponding average liquid-equivalent snowfall.
Sun
Over the course of March in Carpi Centro, the length of the day is rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day increases by 1 hour, 34 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 3 minutes, 7 seconds, and weekly increase of 21 minutes, 52 seconds.
The shortest day of the month is March 1, with 11 hours, 9 minutes of daylight and the longest day is March 31, with 12 hours, 43 minutes of daylight.
Hours of Daylight and Twilight in March
Hours of Daylight and Twilight in March in Carpi Centro1815222911223344556677889910101111121213131414151516161717181819192020212122222323242425252626272728282929303031310 hr24 hr4 hr20 hr8 hr16 hr12 hr12 hr16 hr8 hr20 hr4 hr24 hr0 hrFebAprMar 2012 hr, 9 minMar 2012 hr, 9 minnightnightdaydayMar 111 hr, 9 minMar 111 hr, 9 min
The number of hours during which the Sun is visible (black line). From bottom (most yellow) to top (most gray), the color bands indicate: full daylight, twilight (civil, nautical, and astronomical), and full night.
The earliest sunrise of the month in Carpi Centro is 6:12 AM on March 24 and the latest sunrise is 58 minutes later at 7:10 AM on March 25.
The earliest sunset is 6:03 PM on March 1 and the latest sunset is 1 hour, 39 minutes later at 7:42 PM on March 31.
Daylight saving time (DST) starts at 3:00 AM on March 25, 2018, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour later.
For reference, on June 21, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:30 AM and sets 15 hours, 35 minutes later, at 9:05 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:50 AM and sets 8 hours, 48 minutes later, at 4:38 PM.
Sunrise & Sunset with Twilight and Daylight Saving Time in March
Sunrise & Sunset with Twilight and Daylight Saving Time in March in Carpi Centro1815222911223344556677889910101111121213131414151516161717181819192020212122222323242425252626272728282929303031312 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AMFebApr6:12 AM6:12 AMMar 246:33 PMMar 246:33 PM6:54 AM6:54 AMMar 16:03 PMMar 16:03 PMMar 25DSTMar 25DSTSolarMidnightSolarMidnightSolarNoonSunriseSunset
The solar day over the course of March. From bottom to top, the black lines are the previous solar midnight, sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and the next solar midnight. The day, twilights (civil, nautical, and astronomical), and night are indicated by the color bands from yellow to gray. The transitions to and from daylight saving time are indicated by the 'DST' labels.
Humidity
We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.
The chance that a given day will be muggy in Carpi Centro is essentially constant during March, remaining around 0% throughout.
For reference, on August 5, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 30% of the time, while on November 10, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.
Humidity Comfort Levels in March
The percentage of time spent at various humidity comfort levels, categorized by dew point: dry < 55°F < comfortable < 60°F < humid < 65°F < muggy < 70°F < oppressive < 75°F < miserable.
Wind
This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.
The average hourly wind speed in Carpi Centro is essentially constant during March, remaining within 0.1 miles per hour of 6.5 miles per hour throughout.
For reference, on March 30, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 6.6 miles per hour, while on August 7, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 5.1 miles per hour.
The highest daily average wind speed during March is 6.6 miles per hour on March 31.
Average Wind Speed in March
The average of mean hourly wind speeds (dark gray line), with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands.
The hourly average wind direction in Carpi Centro throughout March is predominantly


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Events in Warbstow, Cornwall, UK - Find out whats going on tonight in the Cornwall area for "Events" of Warbstow. Featuring event, events, hotel, venue and Events in Warbstow, Lewannick, Lezant, Linkinhorne, Liskeard, Little Petherick, and includes local tweets, a map and local events in Warbstow. Are you #in2nite or #out2nite in Warbstow for Events
Warbstow (Cornish: Lannwarburgh) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish has a population of 439 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 520 at the 2011 census.The parish is one of the few left in England to still have an exclave. The main body of the parish includes the villages of Warbstow, Warbstow Cross and Trelash and a number of hamlets, whereas the exclave (from which the main part is separated by about 150m) includes the hamlet of Canworthy Water.
Both the neighbouring parish of Treneglos and Warbstow belonged in the 12th century to the Lords of Cardinham who donated them to the priory of Tywardreath. Warbstow was then a chapelry to Treneglos and the two benefices were later united as a vicarage. According to Charles Henderson, writing in 1925, "The presence ... of St Werburga ... is not easily accounted for (though the parish is famous for geese which figure in her legend)".
At Youlstone an Iron Age bronze bowl was discovered in 1925. At Lower Youlton farm is a Cornish cross in use as a footbridge; it has undergone much wear from foot passengers and its original location is unknown.
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Buddhahood in This Life is a complete translation of the earliest Tibetan commentary on the Dzogchen secret instructions.
Available for the first time in English, Buddhahood in This Life presents the Great Commentary of Vimalamitra—one of the earliest and most influential texts in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It explores the theory and practice of the Great Perfection tradition in detail, shows how Dzogchen meditation relates to the entirety of the Buddhist path, and outlines how we can understand buddhahood—and even achieve it in our lifetime.
This essential text includes topics such as
· how delusion arises
· the pathway of pristine consciousness
· how buddhahood is present in the body
· and more.
Translator Malcolm Smith includes an overview, analysis and clarification for all topics. Buddhahood in This Life covers fine details of Dzogchen meditation, including profound "secret instructions" rarely discussed in most meditation manuals. This text is essential for any serious student of the Great Perfection.

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Core ADF11: Building Highly Reusable ADF Task Flows
In this old post in the Core ADF11 series, I explained the various options you have in designing the page and taskflow structure. The preferred approach in my opinion that maximizes flexibility and reusability, is to build the application using bounded taskflows with page fragments. You then have various ways to disclose these task flows to the user. You can use a dynamic region or dynamic tabs, or a human workflow task list, or even have the user add the task flow at runtime using Webcenter Composer.
To maximize reuse of individual task flows, there are some simple techniques you can apply:
 - Define a set of input parameters that allows you to configure for the various (re)use cases
 - Define a router activity as the default activity to enable reuse-case-based conditional flows
 - Configure use of dynamic iterator binding to use a task flow both as a master region or detail region
 - Configure display properties of UI components based on task flow input parameters so components can be shown/hidden, editable/readOnly, required/optional, etc based on the specific (re)use case
By applying these techniques, you can dramatically reduce the number of task flows you need to build in your project. In this sample application, you can see how you can reuse the same task flow to support the following reuse cases:
 - Show in read-only mode
 - Enable deeplinking from another page to show one specific row
 - Use as read-only context info in popup
 - Use as master region as well as detail region
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Template:Body Modification A meatotomy is a form of penile modification in which the underside of the glans is split. The procedure may be performed by a doctor to alleviate meatal stenosis or urethral stricture, or by a body modification practitioner for the purpose of sexual pleasure or aesthetics. A meatotomy can also result from a Prince Albert piercing being torn out. Some penises have a naturally split underside of the glans as a result of hypospadias. For some men, a greater sensation may be achieved with exposure of and access to the urethra due to the abundance of nerves.
ProcedureEdit
A variety of techniques may be used to make the cut, but a doctor will generally crush the vernal meatus, urethra, and upper frenulum for 60 seconds with a straight Kelly hemostat and then divide crush line with fine-tipped scissors. Other techniques include cauterisation, cutting with a scalpel (sometimes aided by clamps) or by using existing fistulas from piercings to tie-off the area to be cut. Depending on the anatomy of the individual and the extent of the split, meatotomy performed with a scalpel may involve heavy bleeding, while crush and cauterisation methods are relatively bloodless. Regardless of the procedure used, meatotomies, like other genital modifications and genital piercings, heal quickly. Unlike other genital modifications, the glans tissue does not have a tendency to re-adhere to itself or heal closed.
A meatotomy may be extended to subincision or genital bisection, which are both much more complex and serious modifications.
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Aside from the exposure of previously internal tissues, the newly enlarged urethral opening may hinder the ability to control the direction and shape of one's urine stream. This may result in messy urination and require that the meatotomized individual sit while urinating, however this is not universally true. The larger urethral opening may also reduce the velocity of ejaculate, thereby reducing distance of ejaculation.
Repair of a meatotomy can be painful and difficult, and is similar to hypospadias repair.
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Is there a way to declare default value of some fields when defining a new record type?

Is there a way to declare default value of some fields when defining a new record type?

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You cannot associate default values with a type,
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You cannot associate default values with a type, but you can define as many record values as you like and use them as basis for updating elements.
data Foo = Foo { bar :: Int, baz :: Int, quux :: Int }

fooDefault = Foo { bar = 1, baz = 2, quux = 3 }

newRecord = fooDefault { quux = 42 }
If you only want some of the fields to be defaulted, you can make them undefined in the default record. Unfortunately this won't be statically checked by the compiler.
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Observation well WSA Verlo was constructed in 1964 to observe natural groundwater level fluctuations in a surficial aquifer in the Great Sand Hills area. The well was completed to a depth of 12.80 metres in lacustrine clayey silt overlain by approximately 6 metres of fine grained eolian (wind blown) sand. The well is developed in an interdunal depression. The direction of the groundwater flow is towards the north following the general slope of the topography.
Annual water level minimums typically occur in February or March with maximums in the May-June period. The Saskatchewan Research Council noted that the well shows a diurnal response in the summer that is attributed to evapotranspiration. Annual fluctuations vary from a maximum of about 0.5 to less that 0.01 metres with some years showing little to no recharge. From 1966 until 1972, water levels remained above 733 metres. Following that water levels went into a long term decline with only brief interruptions such as in 1996 and 1997. This resulted in record low water levels of about 730.2 metres in 2009/10, representing a decline of about 3 metres. Since then there have been some increases in the water level which is now around 730.3 metres. The cause of this decline is unknown.
WSA Verlo yields water of the calcium-bicarbonate type with a sum of ions concentration of approximately 419 mg/L.


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The implementation of the IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO) aims to improve safety and cut airline costs by drastically reducing ground accidents and injuries.
ISAGO is modelled on the successful IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) program. The ISAGO program is an audit system conducted in a standardized and consistent manner, using internationally recognized quality auditing principles.
Essential alternative to redundant audits
While airlines have similar operational practices appropriate to one common audit, things are more complex for ground handlers, covering a wide scope of activities as diverse as passenger and baggage handling, load control, cargo handling, etc.
To respond to the diversity of ground services, ISAGO has been built upon a 'backbone' of audit standards applicable to all ground handling companies worldwide, coupled with a uniform set of standards relevant for the specific activities of any ground handler. As a result, the ISAGO audit can be applied consistently to multinational ground handlers, as well as to smaller companies providing services at a single station.
ISAGO is an essential alternative to the redundant audits ground handlers are subject to today.
Benefits to airlines, ground handlers and airports
- Safer ground operations, fewer accidents and injuries
- Elimination of redundant audits from airlines
- Reduced costs: less damage and less audits
- Uniform audit process and harmonized standards
- Improved safety oversight
- Harmonized auditor training and qualifications
- Improved quality standard
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Working with the World Bank, RAND researchers used robust decision methods to provide the first continent-wide evaluation of the potential effects of climate change on such investments. They also examined the potential impacts of climate change on five specific hydropower and irrigation projects.
The RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition was established in 2001 through a generous $5 million pledge from RAND alumnus Frederick S. Pardee. The RAND Pardee Center aims to enhance the overall future quality and condition of human life by aggressively disseminating and applying new methods for long-term policy analysis in a wide variety of policy areas where they are needed most.
The Pardee Center organizes its activities around two main themes: (1) advancing the state-of the-art in conducting long-term policy analysis so organizations can implement better long-range policy; and (2) developing and disseminating approaches that will help make proper stewardship for the future be more commonly practiced.


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In Spain and other countries, open channel distribution networks have been replaced by on demand-pressurized networks to improve the water-use efficiency of the water distribution systems, but at the same time the energy requirements have dramatically risen. Under this scenario, methodologies to reduce the energy consumption are critical such as: irrigation network sectoring, critical hydrant detection, improving the efficiency of the pumping system and the irrigation system, or introducing solar energy for water supply. But once these measures are undertaken, the recovery of the energy inherent in excess pressure in the network should be investigated. Hydropower energy recovery in irrigation is still largely unexplored and requires further investigation and demonstration. All of these methodologies should be considered as useful tools for both, the reduction of energy consumption and the recovery of the excess energy in pressurized irrigation networks. To accomplish this, the REDAWN project (Reducing Energy Dependency in Atlantic Area Water Networks) aims to improve the energy efficiency of water networks through the installation of innovative micro-hydropower (MHP) technology. This technology will recover wasted energy in existing pipe networks across irrigation, public water supply, process industry, and waste-water network settings.
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited


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Overall Research & Development Goals
Improved product performance
BioMar constantly seeks to improve the economics of aquaculture production by improving product performance. For instance, feed costs often account for 50-60 % of the production cost of fish, which is why feed performance is a major competitive parameter for BioMar.
Improved growth ratio and feed conversion ratio
Main performance criteria targeted are growth and feed conversion. The feed conversion ratio, defined as the amount of feed needed to produce a kilo of fish, is also a major aspect of feed performance in relation to environmental issues, e.g. sustainability.
Specialized software balancing nutrition and cost is used in our factories to bring R&D knowledge into real life feed.
BioMar's development programme on sustainability, BioSustain, includes an evaluation on all raw materials. We seek to source raw materials that can demonstrate to have come from sustainable sources or have a clear and defined ambition to be certified as sustainable.


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Mental Health Education, Outreach and Consultation
The Counseling Center provides mental health education, outreach and consultation throughout the year. Here are some typical topics that have been requested in the past:
- Drug and alcohol education.
- Sexual assault awareness.
- Stress management and wellness awareness activities.
- Lectures and presentations to classes and specialized groups.
- Brochures and literature on a variety of mental health topics.
For questions or to request a program, please call the Kean Counseling Center at _PHONE_


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Training, outreach and public engagement are important aspects of the SCNi. To achieve this we aim to:
 1. establish and develop a recruitment database and web-based resources. These can serve as portals for recruitment (and on-line testing) of subjects interested in participating in the research programs, but also for education and information about circadian neuroscience and sleep;
 2. develop and disseminate psychoeducational interventions in these areas, for selfor clinician-facilitated delivery to vulnerable groups and patients;
 3. enhance public engagement and knowledge about sleep and circadian disturbances, their health implications, their treatment and prevention;
 4. provide a centre and focus for clinical training and translation of advances in sleep and circadian neuroscience, with particular regard to psychiatric disorders.
Keep an eye on our news and events section to see what's on and what events are coming up near you!
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Clean CANAL Water is the proposal entry by Margot Krasojevic for the Competition Amsterdam footbridge 2012.
Water management is still the most important function of Amsterdam canals. Without them, the city would drown. Circulating the water is also vital for sanitary reasons. In the days when windmills had to do the job, the stench of the water could become unbearable in periods with little wind or rain.
Three times a week, 14 of the 16 existing waterlocks around the city close up, so clean water can be pumped in from the big lake IJsselmeer. The current that is created pushes the dirty canal water out through the open locks on the other side of the city. Specialized cleaning boats with big scoops and nets patrol frequently clean surface debris. Since 2005, all the houseboats in the city are connected to the sewer system.
The cleaner water has attracted 20 different species of fish and crab that live a healthy life below the surface. Water birds like herons, ducks, coots, gulls and cormorants also feed and live on the canals.
The bridge proposal uses this as a design criteria, the form of the proposed bridge follows a water vortex, which pumps dirty canal water through and round the steel tubes which filter it and create a current which helps with the sanitation of the canals especially when they are flushed 3 times a week. The bridge acts as a pump pushing dirty water out through the open locks on to the other side of the city, where the cleaning boats patrol and clean the debris. The bridge acts as a reservation for birds which in recent years have been attracted to the cleaner water in the canals.
The coffee shop and the steel ribbed frames that wrap around the bridge reflect the constant movement in the city, bicycles are hoisted up into the frames waiting to be repaired. The coffee shop is an orange water tunnel which has inner reinforced etched glass panels that mimic that give the feel of being underwater. The entire scheme is a piece of reclaimed land, a polder which also allows for people to sunbathe and relax, like an reclaimed urban beach.

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Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Boston, MA: Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 2011 Apr; :1-12
More than three million individuals work in Massachusetts in over 200,000 workplaces. These workers drive our economy from the cutting edge sector of biotechnology and health care to the traditional jobs in fishing and construction. While work is fundamental to well being, working conditions can also negatively effect health. This is most obvious in jobs such as construction where many dangers are well recognized, but exposure to chemicals, chronic wear and tear, and stress at work can also take a toll. Each year, thousands of Massachusetts workers are injured on the job or become ill as a result of exposure to health and safety hazards at work. These work-related health conditions result in substantial human and economic costs not only for workers and employers but also for society at large.(1) Workers' compensation claims alone in Massachusetts cost approximately $843 million in 2008(2) and there is increasing evidence that for many individuals with work-related injuries or illnesses, workers' compensation insurance does not pay for their medical care.(3,4) Work-related injuries and illnesses can be prevented. Successful approaches to making the workplace safer begin with having the data necessary to understand the problems. In 2003, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) recommended a set of occupational health indicators for use by the states.(5) These indicators are a set of common public health surveillance measures that allow states to uniformly collect and report available occupational illness, injury and risk data. Computed over time, these indicators allow states to track trends in the occupational health status of the working population and guide efforts to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses. In this brief report, we present a profile of the Massachusetts workforce and fifteen occupational health indicators for the Commonwealth based on the most recent data available for each indicator. Whenever possible, we also present national data and information by race and ethnicity. This year we have added two state specific indicators: numbers and rates of sharps injuries among hospital workers and work-related injuries to teens treated in emergency departments. The information used to generate these indicators is gathered from a variety of existing state data sources - as no single data source is adequate to describe occupational health problems in the state. Combining information from multiple sources into a single document provides a composite picture of the occupational health status of working people in Massachusetts. A more extensive report tracking these indicators over time is in progress. Given the limitations of the data sources currently available to capture work-related health conditions in Massachusetts, most of the indicators in this report are believed to be conservative - i.e. tend to underestimate the extent of the problem. Technical notes and a description of the data sources, including the limitations of each of the data sources used in generating these indicators are included at the end of the report. A detailed description of the methodology for generating these indicators is available in "Occupational Health Indicators: A Guide for Tracking Work-Related Health Effects and their Determinants."
Injuries; Injury-prevention; Health-care; Medical-care; Health-standards; Public-health; Occupational-health; Diseases; Disease-prevention; Surveillance-programs; Data-processing; Risk-factors; Information-processing; Information-systems; Standards; Emergency-care; Emergency-treatment; Needlestick-injuries; Demographic-characteristics; Statistical-analysis; Lost-work-days; Worker-health
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Surveillance Program, 250 Washington Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
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Putting data to work: occupational health indicators for Massachusetts.
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Frequency counter TS1626.1 (Ts16261,Ts 1626 1, Ts-1626-1, Ts-1626.1, Ts 1626.1)
Frequency counter TS1626.1 designed to measure the frequency of AC networks of marine power plants.
Technical characteristics of the instrument frequency meters TS1626.1:
- Ambient temperature from - 1 0 º C to +50 º C;
- Relative humidity up to 98% at 35 º C;
- Ranges device TS1626.1 - 45Hz, 55Hz, 55Hz, 65Hz, 350Hz, 450Hz.
- Nominal voltage controlled network 127V, 220V or 380V;
- Connect to a network - directly;
- Maximum permissible error is - ± 0,5%;
- The limit of additional error TS1626.1 caused by:
- Change in the ambient temperature from the normal 20 º C ± 5 º C and any temperature within the range from - 1 0 º C and +50 º C to 10 º C every temperature change of 50% of the class designation accuracy;
- Changes in the supply voltage to +15% and -10% is the limit of intrinsic error;
- Changes in the working position (tilt) of the device TS1626.1 from normal in any direction up to 45 º, is ± 0,5% of the maximum permissible basic error;
- The limit of additional error and half amplitude of the oscillation index when exposed to a single-component vibration in the frequency range from 1 Hz to 60 Hz with a maximum acceleration of 19.6 m / c 2 are ± 0,5%, while under the influence of vibration in the frequency range from 60Hz to 120Hz - ± 1.0%;
- Dielectric strength between electrical circuits and package - 2 kV;
- The insulation resistance of electrical circuits relative to the housing - 20 MW;
- Response time indication can not exceed 3c;
- The length scale of the device TS1626.1 110mm ± 5mm;
- Dimensions - 120h120h126mm;
- Weight of the device TS1626.1 - no more than 1.5 kg;
- Dimensions of additional devices R1826 .1 / 7 - 112h170h95mm;
- Weight of additional devices R1826 .1 / 7 - no more than 1.7 kg.


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DBCC CHECKDB can also fail because it is not able to create the database snapshot it works from and this is a real failure, since this does not answer the question whether your database is corrupt or not. I have not investigated how DBCC CHECKDB behaves in this case.
Alternatives for Error Handling
As we have seen, with this type of commands, TRY-CATCH does not work well. What alternatives are there?
 1. After all, use TRY-CATCH. I don't recommend this if you are on SQL 2005 and SQL 2008, because your error diagnostics will be poor. When things go wrong, you will be left in the dark without understanding of what happened. As for TRY-CATCH on SQL 2012 and later, see the discussion below.
 2. SET XACT_ABORT ON without TRY-CATCH. This works if:
 1. You want to abort on the first error.
 2. Your script is a single batch (if there are multiple batches, execution will continue with the next batch).
 3. After invocations of dynamic SQL you also check @@error, since syntax errors in dynamic SQL do not abort the batch, even when XACT_ABORT is on.
 But as noted above, in many cases you want to run this type of commands in a loop and continue with the next guy in case of an error. So it is more likely you want XACT_ABORT to be OFF, so that you at least can survive some errors.
 3. Use old-style error handling with @@error. This would be the main alternative, and I cover it in a little more detail below.
 4. Use any of the approaches – which all qualify as kludges – that I present in the last two sections in this chapter.
 5. Give up the idea of writing everything in T‑SQL, but write a controlling program in PowerShell or C#. This is likely to be the best alternative, but this is outside the comfort zone of more than one DBA.
If you are on SQL 2012 or later, your prospects with TRY-CATCH may at first glance look at lot better, because you can use ;THROW:
SET XACT_ABORT OFF
go
BEGIN TRY
 BACKUP DATABASE msdb TO DISK = 'K:\NoSuch\msdb.bak'
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
 ;THROW
END CATCH
PRINT 'This does not print'
When you use ;THROW to reraise the error, you get all error messages:
Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Cannot open backup device 'K:\NoSuch\msdb.bak'. Operating system error 3(The system cannot find the path specified.).
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
So far, so good, but to what benefit? As testified by the PRINT statement, execution is aborted. ;THROW always aborts the batch, even if the original error is not batch-aborting and XACT_ABORT is OFF. So in practice, using ;THROW is only an alternative to using SET XACT_ABORT ON. Admittedly a better alternative, since you also trap syntax errors in dynamic SQL. But if you want to continue with the next item on your list, you need to have an outer CATCH handler that traps the reraised error. In that CATCH handler you can log and decline to reraise. But you can only log the single error returned by error_message(), and you will lose the full error information. That is, your situation is just as dire as on SQL 2005 and SQL 2008.
Thus, in practice when you work with many administrative commands, you will have to resort to check @@error. For instance:
BACKUP DATABASE msdb TO DISK = 'K:\NoSuch\msdb.bak'
SELECT @err = @@error IF @err <> 0 GOTO ErrorExit
Or something like this.
BACKUP DATABASE msdb TO DISK = 'K:\NoSuch\msdb.bak'
SELECT @err = @@error
IF @err = 0
BEGIN
 -- Next command goes here
 SELECT @err = @@error
END
Recall that @@error is very volatile and set after each statement (with some odd exceptions). That is, if you splice in a new statement between the one you want to check and where you look at @@error, your error handling will break. To avoid this, always copy @@error to a local variable in a SELECT (or SET) statement that is glued to the statement you want to check. No blank lines in between!
If you nest stored procedures with this type of error handling, you should be careful to return a non-zero number in case of an error. For instance:
ErrorExit:
 RETURN 1
When you call stored procedures, you need to check both the return value and @@error:
EXEC @ret = some_sp
SELECT @err = coalesce(nullif(@ret, 0), @@error) IF @err <> 0 GOTO ErrorExit
The use of both coalesce and nullif may perplex some readers. The main idea is that if @ret is zero, we also look at @@error. But there are also situations where @ret can be NULL, as I discuss in the section on the RETURN statement in Part Two.
In this example, I did not check @@trancount, since BACKUP cannot run inside a transaction. But if you work with transactions with some other commands, your error exit should read:
ErrorExit:
 IF @@trancount > 0 ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
 RETURN 1
Introducing the CMD Catch Handler
I wanted to improve this story, and I figured that the CLR could be used for this. There were two things I wanted to achieve:
 1. Be able to catch and reraise all errors when multiple errors are raised.
 2. Be able to log all errors.
Or put differently: I wanted to be able to use SqlEventLog and catchhandler_sp for commands with multiple error messages without any loss of information.
This resulted in the CMD Catch Handler, which is an add-on to SqlEventLog. The CMD Catch Handler is included in the download file for SqlEventLog. Since it is more experimental in nature and adds one column, cmdtext, to the sqleventlog table, there is a separate install file, build_cmd_catchhandler.bat. You configure this file in the same way as you configure build_sqleventlog.bat. You need to first install SqlEventLog as such with build_sqleventlog.bat before you run build_cmd_catchhandler.bat. The CMD Catch Handler includes an assembly, and like the loopback assembly for SqlEventLog, this assembly requires EXTERNAL_ACCESS permission. The assembly is signed with the same key that is used for the loopback assembly.
Here, I only discuss how to use the CMD Catch Handler. If you want to learn how it works on the inside, I cover this in Appendix 2, which covers error handling with the CLR.
The basic idea is that the CMD Catch Handler accepts a command (which can be a batch of commands or a call to a stored procedure, but I recommend that you stick to single statements), which it runs on the context connection. If the command produces errors, the error messages are sent to the client, almost as if you had run the command directly. The errors are also logged to the sqleventlog table. (The logging is performed on a loopback connection, whence the need for EXTERNAL_ACCESS permission.) Here is an example:
The basic usage pattern of the CMD Catch Handler is like in this example:
EXEC slog.cmd_catchhandler_sp
 'BACKUP DATABASE msdb TO DISK=''K:\NoSuch\msdb.bak'''
SELECT TOP 2 logid, errno, msgtext
FROM slog.sqleventlog
ORDER BY logid DESC
SELECT TOP 2 logid, errno, cmdtext
FROM slog.sqleventlog
ORDER BY logid DESC
The output (somewhat truncated for space):
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
{3201} Cannot open backup device 'K:\NoSuch\msdb.bak'. Operating system error 3(The system cannot find the path specified.).
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
{3013} BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
logid errno msgtext
----- ----- -------------------------------------------------
8 3013 BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
7 3201 Cannot open backup device 'K:\NoSuch\msdb.bak'. Operating system...

(2 row(s) affected)

logid errno cmdtext
----- ----- ------------------------------------------------
8 3013 BACKUP DATABASE msdb


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The Emigrant Register was established in 1989 as a service for genealogists
and the descendants of Finnish emigrants.The foundation of the Register was a
part of the Delaware 350 Anniversary, to commemorate the beginning of Finnish
Emigration to North America. Sources include passport records (from the year
1890 up to 1920), passenger records of the Finnish Steamship Company (from the
year 1892 up to 1950) and information on Finns deceased abroad (from 1918 up to
1950). The Register receives a large number of enquiries from
abroad as well as from Finland.


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The focus of the production Mathinna is the social disruptions that occurred as British settlers relocated the Aboriginal people from their tribal lands and intervened in their cultural practices.
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Mutton Bird is a contemporary dance representation of the mutton birds (shearwaters) that inhabit the coastal areas of Tasmania, and their significance as the totem to the clan to which Mathinna belonged.
Bringing Mutton Bird to the Stage: The Creative Process
The creating of Bangarra's production of Mathinna, of which Mutton Bird is a part, began with extensive research of historical records, as well as literary and visual interpretations. The artistic elements of Mutton Bird are created by the choreographer in close collaboration with the dancers, the composer of the music, and the costumeset and lighting designers.
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The story of the Puyallup Valley started with its geological formation far back in the mists of eons past. Its development is told in the story of pioneers who settled it, cleared the land and built its small cities in the last half of the 19th century.
In the early 1830's the first European settler of the Puyallup region, Dr. Tolmie, in the company of an Indian guide and several other natives, passed through what he called in his journal the "Poyallipa" valley, the indigenous people who lived here for thousands of years numbered about 2,000 and were closely related to the more populous race of Indians living in the Nisqually River valley. It was their hospitable spirit that gave this tribe the name "Puyallup" which translates to "generous people." The Puyallup Indians had permanent dwelling places along the river bank. The Puyallup River was a broad meandering river chocked with massive log jams and prone to frequent floods. The valley floor was a maze of creeks, old growth forest and exotic ferns.
This is a scenic town that emerged among hops, succulent berries, and the beautiful flowers of the local bulb farmers. Pioneer hop king and champion of the Oregon Trail, Ezra Meeker, planned the city in 1877, giving it and the river flowing through the fertile valley its unique name. The livelihood for many local residents during the early years was primarily agriculture. Through many years of development, Puyallup has transformed to a booming scenic community with an interesting and profound history.
The City of Puyallup, Pierce County and the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation commissed The Puyallup Historic Survey Report - Puyallup, Washington in August of 2007. The report was written and compiled by BOLA Architecture + Planning of Seattle.
The report contains a wealth of information on the history of Puyallup, particularly its historic architecture. Download the report.


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Velocity Profile Measurement Equipment
KEI™ flow loop facility is located in Sugar Land, TX. The main test section consists of a rapidly reconfigurable test section piping, a 7,500-gallon reservoir, a 180 HP diesel engine-driven variable speed centrifugal pump, and all associated piping for the actual test sections. The flow loop can deliver 2,700 gpm and pressures up to 270 psig. This flow rate corresponds to a flow velocity of 30 feet per second in a 6-inch pipe. Additional pump equipment can be connected to the system to achieve higher flow rates.
To facilitate specific project needs, KEI designed and assembled a two-axis, pitot-static tube rake (see Figure 1). The design of the rake holder also allows on rake to be replaced with a 3D pitot tube probe (Figure 2).
The pitot static tube rake assembly comprises four rakes, each rake having five pitot static tubes for a total of twenty pitot static tubes. Each of the pitot tubes is connected to a DP meter. The DP meters have a range of 0 psi to 5 psi. The DP meters have a measurement uncertainty of ±0.25% full scale.
The pitot-static tube rake allows the velocity profile along two axes to be measured simultaneously. Example velocity profile data is provided as Figure 3.


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MMN-4340
Solvability of a third-order system of nonlinear difference equations via a generalized Fibonacci sequence
Hamida Hamioud; Imane Dekkar; Nouressadat Touafek;
Abstract
In this paper, we solve in closed-form the following third-order system of nonlinear difference equations \begin{align*} x_{n+1}=\dfrac{y_ny_{n-1}x^p_{n-1}}{x_{n}(a_n y^q_{n-2}+b_n y_n y_{n-1})},\quad y_{n+1}=\dfrac{x_nx_{n-1}y^q_{n-1}}{y_{n}(c_n x^p_{n-2}+d_n x_n x_{n-1})}, \quad p, q \in \mathbb{N}, n \in \mathbb{N}_0 \end{align*} where the initial values $x_{-i}, y_{-i}, i = 0, 1,2\,$ and the parameters $(a_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}_0}, (b_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}_0}, (c_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}_0},$ $ (d_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}_0}$ are non-zero real numbers. The form of the solutions of the one dimensional case of our system and a more general System defined by one to one functions are also presented.
Vol. 25 (2024), No. 1, pp. 271-285
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The Most Delicious Day Of The Year!
Saturday, July 29 is National Lasagna Day! To celebrate, we wanted to take a look at the history of this delicious, traditional Italian dish. However, it's origins might surprise you! Before you come into Lake of the Ozarks' best Italian restaurant to satisfy your cravings for lasagna, let's look into the history of it. Not So Traditional Italian Although lasagna can be found at nearly every Italian restaurant, it technically didn't originate in Italy as you may have thought. Its history can be traced way back to Ancient Greece. The name Lasagna, or "Lasagne" is derived from the Greek word 'Laganon,' which is the first known form of pasta. However, Laganon was not a traditional lasagna as we know it today with traditional Italian ingredients, but it was composed of layers of pasta and sauce. It was named for the method in which it was made, not for the ingredients. Modern Day Lasagna While Italy may not have been the inventors of this layere
The Italian History of Amaretto
The importation of Amaretto to the United States didn't occur until the 1960s, however, once it came to the States, it quickly became a hit! Whether as a mixer in cocktails or in food preparation, people couldn't get enough of this almond flavored liqueur. While you may be able to guess it came from Italy from the Italian sounding name, Amaretto has a very old and interesting history. What is Amaretto? The word Amaretto is actually Italian for "a little bitter." It's a unique liqueur with an almond flavor, however, it doesn't always contain almonds. When Amaretto is made, the standard base of the liqueur is made from either apricot pits or almonds or both. Like many other spirits, it may contain a number of added spices or flavorings. If almonds are not used, the flavor is achieved through apricot kernel oil, burnt sugar and a variety of spices. Its Italian Origins Amaretto is the liqueur of love that was first produced in Saronno, Italy. While this
5 Reasons You NEED To Visit Li'l Rizzo's
Li'l Rizzo's has been a staple at the Lake of the Ozarks for over 20 years, and we're well known for having the best Italian food. However, if you haven't had a chance to try our Lake of the Ozarks Italian restaurant (or if you just need a reminder), here are 5 reasons to come visit us soon! 1. Homemade Italian Food We know there are a lot of places that serve pizza and pasta, that's why our mission is to become your favorite restaurant. How do we do that exactly? With gourmet pizza, pasta, world famous salad, and of course, legendary service. When we say gourmet, we mean the fresh ingredients, the secret hand-crafted recipes and the love we put into every dish. You will really be able to tell the difference! 2. Tasty Specialty Cocktails In addition to our homemade food, we also have a fully stocked bar, which allows our bartenders to serve up almost anything you can think of. However, if you're not feeling creative, no worries! We have a full menu
10 Things You May Not Have Known About Pasta!
At Li'l Rizzo's, there is no denying that we LOVE pasta, whether it's being twirled on a fork or baked in lasagna. On average, Americans eat about 19 pounds of pasta per person per year according to the National Pasta Association. However, Italians consume about 56 pounds of pasta per year. Despite our love of these noodles, how much do we know about them? Li'l Rizzo's has 10 interesting facts about pasta you may not have known about. 1. Al dente keeps you full longer. When pasta is cooked al dente, which means "to the tooth" or "to the bite," it takes longer to digest. Not only will this keep you fuller longer, it also helps the pasta keep your blood sugar levels more stable. 2. There is a method to pasta shapes and sauces. The reasons why there are so many shapes of pasta is that the weight, texture, and shape all contribute to the way that it holds onto sauce. Basically, certain pasta shapes are better with certain sauces than others.


Scientists nose out clue to preserving books: their smell
The complex perfume of ageing books has been broken down into its component chemicals by research that could assist conservators
Dusty books
A little heavy on the vanilla, maybe?... Dusty books on a shell. Photograph: Getty
The dusty smell of old books is one of the joys of visiting secondhand bookshops, and now scientists, who have identified it as combining "grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness", hope it can be used to help preserve valuable ageing titles.
Researcher Matija Strlic, from University College London's Centre for Sustainable Heritage, decided to investigate the smell of old books after spotting a book expert sniffing a title to assess its age. "I noticed a conservator once who was smelling paper to assess its quality – and having seen that and knowing that the analysis of food aroma is a routine analytical problem, I decided to look for correlations between paper composition and its smell. And it worked," he said.
His team investigated 72 books from the 19th and 20th centuries, pinning the smell down to the several hundred volatile organic compounds (VOCs) "off-gassing" from the paper as it ages. "The aroma of an old book is familiar to every user of a traditional library," they wrote. "A combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness, this unmistakable smell is as much part of the book as its contents."
Working in collaboration with curators from the National Archive in the Netherlands, they then identified the 15 most abundant VOCs, and used these to identify degradation markers which can be used to monitor the condition of ageing books by analysing the gasses they produce, without damaging the books themselves.
They hope the research will be used to help libraries and museums preserve their libraries. "There is more work needed to develop an application which would work outside the laboratory. However, we are optimistic," said Strlic.
The research, a joint project with partners from the UK, the Netherlands and Slovenia, was announced in the journal Analytical Chemistry.
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Tree diameter growth is sensitive to environmental fluctuations and tropical dry forests experience high seasonal and inter-annual environmental variation. Tree growth rates in a large permanent plot at Mudumalai, southern India, were examined for the influences of rainfall and three intrinsic factors (size, species and growth form) during three 4-year intervals over the period 1988–2000.
Most trees had lowest growth during the second interval when rainfall was lowest, and skewness and kurtosis of growth distributions were reduced during this interval. Tree diameter generally explained <10% of growth variation and had less influence on growth than species identity or time interval. Intraspecific variation was high, yet species identity accounted for up to 16% of growth variation in the community. There were no consistent differences between canopy and understory tree growth rates; however, a few subgroups of species may potentially represent canopy and understory growth guilds. Environmentally-induced temporal variations in growth generally did not reduce the odds of subsequent survival.
Growth rates appear to be strongly influenced by species identity and environmental variability in the Mudumalai dry forest. Understanding and predicting vegetation dynamics in the dry tropics thus also requires information on temporal variability in local climate.
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Ningbo Zhenhai Haide Biochem Co., Ltd目前只在以下作出标识的区域展示其产品资料:
Cystine is the amino acid formed by the oxidation of two cysteine molecules that covalently link via a disulfide bond. Cystine is used as a dough softener to make the dough into a more workable, more machinable substance for industrial uses such as in making bread products.
Ningbo Zhenhai Haide Biochem Co., Ltd is a developer and manufacturer of amino acid products used in the Food, Beverage and Nutrition industry. This company works closely with research institutions to create a broad range of products that include L-Arginine, L-Cysteine, L-Glutamic Acid, L-Isoleucine, and more. Most of these products are widely used in beverages and nutritional supplements.
- Amino Acids, Phytochemicals, Nucleotides & Nutrients ~ Amino Acids ~ Non-Essential Amino Acids ~ L-cystine
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This post explains how to calibrate two 2Touch screens to work with an extended desktop configuration – where the desktop spans across two display screens, with the Windows task bar in the left-hand screen and an extended working area in the right-hand screen.
Implementing interactive touch for the above configuration requires two units both of which are equipped with both serial and USB communications.
(Note: The other common multiple-screen configuration is the Stretched Desktop.)
Extending the desktop across two monitors is simply achieved in Windows "Display Properties" dialog. Note: both monitors must have the same Screen Resolution settings.
The two touch screens are calibrated separately, one using USB communications and the other using serial communications. We will call the two 2Touch screens "Touch Panel 1" and "Touch Panel 2" respectively.
Calibrating Touch Panel 1
1. Connect the power supply to Touch Panel 1 and then connect the USB cable.
2. Carry out the simple four-point Calibration procedure.
Calibrating Touch Panel 2
1. Install NextWindow's Touch+ Software, making sure you select "Run serial runtime on Windows startup."
2. Locate the Serial Runtime directory.
The default is here:
C:\Program Files\NextWindow\Touch+ #.#.#\Serial Runtime
3. Create a text file called SerialRuntime.ini and enter the following lines:
Note the parameter OffsetX=32767 in the [Main] Section. This pushes the calibration points for the serial connection over to the extended screen.
4. Connect the serial cable from Touch Panel 2 to the computer.
5. Run the SerialConfig program, select [Port Detect] and then click the [Calibration] button to start the Calibration sequence for Touch Panel 2.
This completes the calibration procedure. Now both monitors are touch enabled.


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Walking around most neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon you may notice street names, dates, and contractor's names stamped into the concrete sidewalk. Most of these date to the early 20th century, at a time when the city's streetscape was solidifying through the use of asphalt and concrete.
Sidewalk stamping in the U.S. became popular toward the end of the 1800's, when brick and board walkways were gradually being replaced by concrete sidewalks and curbs. Today, signs with street names are designed for drivers. Though they acknowledge the existence of pedestrians and other users by minimum clearance heights and other standard dimensional requirements, these and other geographical markers are predominantly focused on directing vehicular traffic. Concrete stamping however, is a specific marker designed for the pedestrian. As pedestrians move through the streets, stamps provide an easy, natural way to identify their location. Having recently moved to a new neighborhood, I personally appreciate these 100+ year old stamps as I walk down my new streets.
The photo above was taken in my neighborhood at a new ADA-compliant pedestrian ramp which was cut into an older portion of sidewalk. In these confluence areas of old and new, Portland has often impressed the construction dates of old and new sidewalk into the new concrete. This is a trend fairly typical of many cities besides Portland, and one which reflects respect for our historical infrastructure.
As the photo above shows, some contractors stamped their company name in the fresh concrete. This simple advertising was also a mark of craftsmanship. This pride in craft is admirable, and shows true confidence in quality workmanship – especially given the nature of sidewalks which are meant to last for decades. It's impossible to know how long these contractors thought their work would endure, but it is a testament to their superior skill that so much of this older sidewalk is in exceptional shape.
A portion of the public art for the new Portland-Milwaukie light rail project will be used to incorporate phrases and poetry in the form of stamps in sidewalk panels. Read about the proposed impressed concrete here: _URL_ This project recognizes that concrete stamping is not only valuable for navigation, it also offers a great aesthetic opportunity.
Concrete stamping is a relatively simple process, though it does require attention to some key details. The stamp should be designed for the reality of concrete sidewalk and the concrete mix design used. For example, a small-lettered stamp will not be suitable for sidewalk with a larger aggregate mix, as it will be difficult for the letters to fit with the aggregate (and for the finished stamp to be structurally strong enough to last a significant amount of time). Timing is also a crucial element, as stamps must be impressed into relatively wet concrete, though the surface must be stiff enough to hold the pattern of the lettering. Likewise, the force used to stamp concrete will have a significant effect on the impression that is made – too hard and the impression will be too shallow, too soft and the letters will smear together. Oil or powder on the stamp helps to release it from the concrete and create a more consistent finished product.
Given the relative ease of concrete stamping and its durability, it is not surprising that this municipal streetscape element is still popular today.


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About the research
Accelerated bridge construction (ABC) has grown significantly in the last decade as an efficient method to rebuild bridges in the highway network. This method uses modern approaches in design, construction, and materials to reduce disruptions to traffic due to bridge construction.
In some cases, it is required to construct a new substructure beneath/within an existing bridge. There are various approaches to construct new foundations during ABC projects. The methods include spread footings, driven piles, drilled shafts, continuous flight augurs, and micropiles. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, which should be assessed for each ABC project.
For this research, each foundation method was reviewed by considering the specific features of the method that can be favorable to implement. To investigate new probable foundation construction approaches, a survey was distributed to state departments of transportation (DOTs). The survey included questions about the common bridge foundation approaches. According to the results, micropiles are the most commonly used piling approach, and there is no new method experienced by DOTs to establish foundations during ABC projects.


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Adad was the god of weather in the Babylonian and Assyrian cultures of Mesopotamia * in the ancient Near East. Other cultures in the region called the god Ishkur, Rimmon, Addu, Hadad, or Baal-Hadad.
The son of the sky god Anu, Adad was believed to control storms and rain. He was often portrayed as a warrior holding a forked lightning bolt or a club, and his animal was the bull, whose bellowing and roar were like the sound of thunder.
Like the weather itself, Adad had two sides—one beneficial and the other destructive. As the bringer of rain, Adad was hailed as the Lord of Abundance whose gift made the land fertile and nourished crops. People in many arid Mesopotamian lands worshiped him for this reason. As the bringer of drought or fearful storms, however, Adad could strike his enemies with famine, flood, darkness, and death.


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Philipp Cohen (Publisher)
The company was originally founded in 1866 under the Cohen and Risch company in Stuttgart . A few years later, the then sole owner, Philipp Cohen, relocated the publishing house to Hanover in 1870 - now under his own name . The address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden from 1872 was recorded by the publishing bookstore Cohen & Risch , with the sole owner Philipp Cohen in Hanover and Otto Risch in Stuttgart, based on the first floor of Große Packhofstrasse 25 .
At the beginning of the 1880s, all Cohen articles were delivered on commission to R. Hoffmann in Leipzig .
- R. Hartmann : History of Hanover from the oldest times to the present. With special consideration for the development of the royal seat of Hanover. Hanover: Ernst Kniep, 1880, p. 737; limited preview in Google Book search
- Adolph Russell, Johannes Basch: Gesammt-Verlag catalog of the German book trade. A picture of German intellectual work and culture. Complete by the end of 1880. Book and Art Catalog , Vol. 5: Habelschwerdt - Husum in Schleswig-Holstein , Hamburg, main export warehouse of the German book trade (1881), p. 619; limited preview in Google Book search
- Compare the address and apartment gazette, p. 260 as a digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library


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A zettabyte describes a unit of data or information that is equal to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. The term is equal to a billion terabytes and the symbol ZB represents it. Zebibyte (ZiB) describes a measurement of data using the power of 1024. A single zettabyte is equivalent to 1,024 exabytes and is used prior to the yottabyte unit of measure. Due to the zettabyte's large size, it is rarely used in industry to describe data storage or network throughput capacity.
Examples of Zettabyte Use
Over the past year, the total amount of global data stored exceeds a single zettabyte of information. To put the size of the term in perspective, the conversations of all human speech ever stored would be approximately 42 zettabytes in size if digitized at 16 khz and 16 bit audio. Another way to look at the sheer volume of a zettabyte would be to examine the amount of data sent on Twitter. If the past year's worth of twitter data is added up, it would take approximately 100 years of this same data rate to equal a zettabyte of data. With the exponential growth rate of network throughput capacity and data storage technology, however, how consumers perceive a zettabyte today may be similar to how the gigabyte was perceived just 15 years ago.
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Teacher, Speak My Language
Research from high-income countries shows that teaching kids to read first in their mother tongue helps them become literate sooner and pick up a second language faster than teaching them to read in a language other than the one they speak at home.
To measure the effectiveness of mother tongue instruction versus official language instruction in low-income countries, RTI will conduct a nationally representative study in up to four African countries—Kenya, Mali, Senegal, and Uganda—with a grant from the Quality Education in Developing Countries (QEDC) initiative of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
"In principle, these countries are all experimenting with some form of 'mother-tongue first' language instruction in their schools," said Amber Gove, RTI senior education research analyst.
RTI will use classroom observation to document the actual language of instruction and materials in roughly 50 schools per country. RTI will then conduct Early Grade Reading Assessments (EGRAs) to evaluate basic reading skills in the language of instruction among third-grade students. "Our surveys will inform the design of remedial interventions supported by the Hewlett Foundation to improve literacy instruction and will also serve as the baseline assessments for those interventions," said Gove.
The EGRA—a 15-minute oral assessment conducted one-on-one with the pupil to measure proficiency in reading fluency, comprehension, phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, and other foundation skills—was developed by RTI and has been applied in several African countries in both English and French, the two official languages in the study sample.
However, for this study, RTI will work with local language specialists to adapt the instrument into mother tongues: Kiswahili in Kenya; Bambara, Bomu, Fulfulde, and Songhoi in Mali; Wolof and Pulaar in Senegal; and Ganda in Uganda.
In each country, RTI will also partner with a local nongovernmental organization (NGO) to carry out EGRA adaptation, data collection, and data analysis, so at project end the NGO will be able to conduct subsequent assessments with minimal technical support.
RTI will present its findings to the respective Ministries of Education and civil society at analytical workshops that will inform the countries' decisions around mother-tongue-first instruction as it impacts early reading outcomes.


(in bytes) can be estimated using the following formula:
1.3 * key_storage
key_storage = (number_of_rows) *
 ( 10 + sum_of_column_sizes + number_of_columns )
The columns included in this formula are the columns in the index. There is one length byte per column, and 10 bytes per row are used for a ROWID and additional overhead.
The constant 1.3 reflects the average amount of extra space needed for sorting. This value is appropriate for most randomly ordered data. If the data arrives in exactly opposite order, twice the key-storage space is required for sorting, and the value of this constant would be 2.0. That is the worst case.
If the data is fully sorted, only enough space to store the index entries is required, and the value of this constant reduces to 1.0. See Pre-sorting Data for Faster Indexing for more information.
Indexes Left in Index Unusable State
SQL*Loader will leave indexes in Index Unusable state when the data segment being loaded becomes more up-to-date than the index segments that index it.
Any SQL statement that tries to use an index that is in Index Unusable state returns an error. The following conditions cause the direct path option to leave an index or a partition of a partitioned index in Index Unusable state:
To determine if an index is in Index Unusable state, you can execute a simple query:
 WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'tablename';
To determine if an index partition is in unusable state,
If you are not the owner of the table, then search ALL_INDEXES or DBA_INDEXES instead of USER_INDEXES. For partitioned indexes, search ALL_IND_PARTITIONS and DBA_IND_PARTITIONS instead of USER_IND_PARTITIONS.
Data Saves
You can use data saves to protect against loss of data due to instance failure. All data loaded up to the last data save is protected against instance failure To continue the load after an instance failure, determine how many rows from the input file were processed before the failure, then use the SKIP option to skip those processed rows.
If there were any indexes on the table, drop them before continuing the load, then recreate them after the load. See Recovery for more information on media and instance failure.
Note: Indexes are not protected by a data save, because SQL*Loader does not build indexes until after data loading completes. (The only time indexes are built during the load is when pre-sorted data is loaded into an empty table -- but these indexes are also unprotected.)
Using the ROWS Parameter
The parameter ROWS determines when data saves occur during a direct path load. The value you specify for ROWS is the number of rows you want SQL*Loader to read from the input file before saving inserts in the database.
The number of rows you specify for a data save is an approximate number. Direct loads always act on full data buffers that match the format of Oracle database blocks. So, the actual number of data rows saved is rounded up to a multiple of the number of rows in a database block.
SQL*Loader always reads the number of rows needed to fill a database block. Discarded and rejected records are then removed, and the remaining records are inserted into the database. So the actual number of rows inserted before a save is the value you specify, rounded up to the number of rows in a database block, minus the number of discarded and rejected records.
A data save is an expensive operation. The value for ROWS should be set high enough so that a data save occurs once every 15 minutes or longer. The intent is to provide an upper bound on the amount of work which is lost when an instance failure occurs during a long running direct path load. Setting the value of ROWS to a small number will have an adverse affect on performance.
Data Save Versus Commit
In a conventional load, ROWS is the number of rows to read before a commit. A direct load data save is similar to a conventional load commit, but it is not identical.
The similarities are:
The major difference is that the indexes will be unusable (in Index Unusable state) until the load completes.
SQL *Loader provides full support for data recovery when using the direct path option. There are two main types of recovery:
Media Recover
Recovery from the loss of a database file. You must be operating in ARCHIVELOG mode to recover after you lose a database file.
Instance Recovery
Recover from a system failure in which in-memory data was changed but lost due to the failure before it was written to disk. Oracle can always recover from instance failures, even when redo logs are not archived.
See Oracle8i Administrator's Guide for more information about recovery.
Instance Recovery and Direct Path Loads
Because SQL*Loader writes directly to the database files, all rows inserted up to the last data save will automatically be present in the database files if the instance is restarted. Changes do not need to be recorded in the redo log file to make instance recovery possible.
If an instance failure occurs, the indexes being built may be left in Index Unusable state. Indexes which are Unusable must be re-built before using the table or partition. See Indexes Left in Index Unusable State for more information on how to determine if an index has been left in Index Unusable state.
Media Recovery and Direct Path Loads
If redo log file archiving is enabled (you are operating in ARCHIVELOG mode), SQL*Loader logs loaded data when using the direct path, making media recovery possible. If redo log archiving is not enabled (you are operating in NOARCHIVELOG mode), then media recovery is not possible.
To recover a database file that was lost while it was being loaded, use the same method that you use to recover data loaded with the conventional path:
 1. Restore the most recent backup of the affected database file.
 2. Recover the tablespace using the RECOVER command. (See Oracle8i Backup and Recovery Guide for more information on the RECOVER command.)
Loading LONG Data Fields
Data that is longer than SQL*Loader's maximum buffer size can be loaded on the direct path with either the PIECED option or by specifying the number of READBUFFERS. This section describes those two options.
Loading Data as PIECED
The data can be loaded in sections with the pieced option if it is the last column of the logical record. The syntax for this specification is given High-Level Syntax Diagrams.
Declaring a column as PIECED informs the direct path loader that the field may be processed in pieces, one buffer at once.
The following restrictions apply when declaring a column as PIECED:
Using the READBUFFERS Keyword
For data that is not divided into separate sections, or not in the last column, READBUFFERS can be specified. With READBUFFERS a buffer transfer area can be allocated that is large enough to hold the entire logical record at one time.
READBUFFERS specifies the number of buffers to use during a direct path load. (A LONG can span multiple buffers.) The default value is four buffers. If the number of read buffers is too small, the following error results:
ORA-02374... No more slots for read buffer queue
Note: Do not specify a value for READBUFFERS unless it becomes necessary, as indicated by ORA-2374. Values of READBUFFERS that are larger than necessary do not enhance performance. Instead, higher values unnecessarily increase system overhead.
Maximizing Performance of Direct Path Loads
You can control the time and temporary storage used during direct path loads.
To minimize time:
To minimize space:
Pre-allocating Storage for Faster Loading
SQL*Loader automatically adds extents to the table if necessary, but this process takes time. For faster loads into a new table, allocate the required extents when the table is created.
To calculate the space required by a table, see the chapter(s) describing managing database files in the Oracle8i Administrator's Guide. Then use the INITIAL or MINEXTENTS clause in the SQL command CREATE TABLE to allocate the required space.
Another approach is to size extents large enough so that extent allocation is infrequent.
Pre-sorting Data for Faster Indexing
You can improve the performance of direct path loads by pre-sorting your data on indexed columns. Pre-sorting minimizes temporary storage requirements during the load. Pre-sorting also allows you to take advantage of high-performance sorting routines that are optimized for your operating system or application.
If the data is pre-sorted and the existing index is not empty, then pre-sorting minimizes the amount of temporary segment space needed for the new keys. The sort routine appends each new key to the key list.
Instead of requiring extra space for sorting, only space for the keys is needed. To calculate the amount of storage needed, use a sort factor of 1.0 instead of 1.3. For more information on estimating storage requirements, see Temporary Segment Storage Requirements.
If pre-sorting is specified and the existing index is empty, then maximum efficiency is achieved. The sort routines are completely bypassed, with the merge phase of index creation. The new keys are simply inserted into the index. Instead of having a temporary segment and new index existing simultaneously with the empty, old index, only the new index exists. So, temporary storage is not required, and time is saved.
The SORTED INDEXES statement identifies the indexes on which the data is presorted. This statement is allowed only for direct path loads. See Chapter 5, "SQL*Loader Control File Reference" for the syntax, and seeCase 6: Loading Using the Direct Path Load Method for an example.
Generally, you specify only one index in the SORTED INDEXES statement because data that is sorted for one index is not usually in the right order


Combining Manually-Tracked Data with Play-by-Play Data
This post assumes beginner knowledge of R.
The NHL records only certain events, and there are some game seconds that have multiple events. For example, starting at row seven above, there was a faceoff to start the game, followed by 18 seconds of game play and then a stop, a change, and another faceoff.
Since the NHL only records certain events, many people track games by hand in order to capture other events of interest. Most famously, Corey Sznajder tracks zone entries. Those data might look like this:
(While the base NHL event data are real, these zone entry data are not and are used for example purposes only.)
Whether you're working with zone entry data or any other kind of manually-tracked data, you'll probably want to join it into the play-by-play data eventually to take advantage of all the detail that's provided by the NHL. For example, you might want to know who was on the ice during those zone entries or what the locations were for shots taken shortly after zone entries.
The obvious problem is that the game seconds (the variable we'd want to use to join the data together) don't match up. The NHL data only contains certain game seconds: — those that indicate the time of tracked events — and those likely aren't the same as the game seconds in your manually-tracked data. But thankfully, there's an R package called padr that handles this problem really nicely.
The main function of padr is to adjust the desired granularity of date-time data, whether by thickening the data (aggregating it to a higher level) or padding it (inserting missing observations). And luckily for us, it works for integers, too, so we can use it for our game seconds.
The pad_int function shown above will increase the granularity of our play-by-play data so that we'll have one row per second. The arguments to that function are, in order, the variable to be padded (game seconds), any grouping variables (the game id), and the values of the target variable where the padding should start and end. For this example, we'll only pad the first 20 seconds. And the second function fill will, unsurprisingly, fill in certain variables.
After using pad_int, that is how our data looks for one of the games. The original rows are all preserved, and there have been new observations added so that we have one row per second. We can pick out the "padded" rows since they have NA values for both the event index and the event type fields (i.e., variables that we did not include as arguments to the fill function).
Now that we have at least one observation for every game second, we can use a simple join to bring in the manually-tracked data from our previous sample data.
Now those zone entries, shown here for one of the games only, are attached to the appropriate game second and are associated with the other play-by-play data.
Different start and end values
One of the constraints of this method is that the arguments for where the padding starts and ends must be values. So what if your values aren't consistent? For example, I often work with power play data and would only want to pad my data from the start of each power play to the end, and those values would vary within and among games. In this sample data shown below, I have a variable called PP_count that uniquely identifies each power play. I also have values for minimum and maximum seconds within the power play that identify the start and the end seconds of each power play.
We can solve this problem with a function. The code below is specific to this power play example, but the method should be adaptable to any situation in which you want to pad out your data to variable start and end values.
This function, which I called php_pad_fn, filters my data down to a single power play, saves the minimum seconds and maximum seconds as values, pads out the game seconds to and from those values, and then repeats that process for each unique power play.
Here's a sampling of what that data will now look like:
Now we have an observation for each second on the power play and can join in other data as needed.
Multiple observations
Since we're referencing game second here, what if you have multiple observations at the same second? If, for example, we also had a zone entry observation for game second 18 of our initial data, we'd run into a problem here because if you recall, there were three separate NHL events all recorded at that same second. If you used the code from above to join in that zone entry data, you would find this:
That one zone entry is now shown three times, so if you tried to sum up the number of zone entries, for example, your data would be incorrect. The ideal way to solve this problem depends a lot on your data and what kind of information you're looking to track. But one very simple way to handle this, if you just want to match the zone entry observation to the first play-by-play observation at that second, is to do the following:
This will create a running count for each event associated with a particular game second, and you can join on that variable in addition to the game id and game seconds. That way only one zone entry observation will be added to the play-by-play data.
Hopefully the functions in this package are helpful if you want to add context to your manually-tracked data by incorporating the NHL's play-by-play data. Data cleaning is not sexy but an essential part of the analysis process, so look for more articles on this topic coming soon from the HG team!
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NAME Text::Hunspell::FFI - Perl FFI interface to the Hunspell library VERSION version 0.04 SYNOPSIS use Text::Hunspell::FFI; # You can use relative or absolute paths. my $speller = Text::Hunspell::FFI->new( "/usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff", # Hunspell affix file "/usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic" # Hunspell dictionary file ); die unless $speller; # Check a word against the dictionary my $word = 'opera'; print $speller->check($word)? "'$word' found in the dictionary\n" : "'$word' not found in the dictionary!\n"; # Spell check suggestions my $misspelled = 'programmng'; my _USER_ = $speller->suggest($misspelled); print "\n", "You typed '$misspelled'. Did you mean?\n"; for (_USER_) { print " - $_\n"; } # Add dictionaries later $speller->add_dic('dictionary_file.dic'); DESCRIPTION NOTE: This module is a reimplementation of Text::Hunspell using FFI::Platypus instead of XS. The documentation has largely be cribbed from that module. The main advantage to this module is that it does not require a compiler. The man disadvantage is that it is experimental and may break. This module provides a Perl interface to the Hunspell library. This module is to meet the need of looking up many words, one at a time, in a single session, such as spell-checking a document in memory. The example code describes the interface on METHODS The following methods are available: new my $spell = Text::Hunspell::FFI->new($full_path_to_affix, $full_path_to_dic); Creates a new speller object. Parameters are: full path of affix (.aff) file full path of dictionary (.dic) file Returns undef if the object could not be created, which is unlikely. add_dic $spell->add_dic($path_to_dic); Adds a new dictionary to the current Text::Hunspell::FFI object. This dictionary will use the same affix file as the original dictionary, so this is like using a personal word list in a given language. To check spellings in several different languages, use multiple Text::Hunspell::FFI objects. check my $bool = $spell->check($word); Check the word. Returns 1 if the word is found, 0 otherwise. suggest my _USER_ = $spell->suggest($misspelled_word); Returns the list of suggestions for the misspelled word. The following methods are used for morphological analysis, which is looking at the structure of words; parts of speech, inflectional suffixes and so on. However, most of the dictionaries that Hunspell can use are missing this information and only contain affix flags which allow, for example, 'cat' to turn into 'cats' but not 'catability'. (Users of the French and Hungarian dictionaries will find that they have more information available.) analyze my _USER_ = $spell->analyze($word); Returns the analysis list for the word. This will be a list of strings that contain a stem word and the morphological information about the changes that have taken place from the stem. This will most likely be 'fl:X' strings that indicate that affix flag 'X' was applied to the stem. Words may have more than one stem, and each one will be returned as a different item in the list. However, with a French dictionary loaded, analyze('chanson') will return st:chanson po:nom is:fem is:sg to tell you that "chanson" is a feminine singular noun, and analyze('chansons') will return st:chanson po:nom is:fem is:pl to tell you that you've analyzed the plural of the same noun. stem my _USER_ = $spell->stem($word); Returns the stem list for the word. This is a simpler version of the results from analyze(). generate2 my _USER_ = $spell->generate2($stem, \_USER_) Returns a morphologically modified stem as defined in _USER_ (got by analysis). With a French dictionary: $feminine_form = 'chanteuse'; _USER_ = $speller->analyze($feminine_form); $ana[0] =~ s/is:fem/is:mas/; print $speller->generate2($feminine_form, \_USER_) will print 'chanteur'. generate my _USER_ = generate($stem, $word) Returns morphologically modified stem like $word. $french_speller->generate('danseuse', 'chanteur'); tells us that the masculine form of 'danseuse' is 'danseur'. SEE ALSO Text::Hunspell FFI::Platypus CAVEATS Please see: For the dictionaries: for Hungarian dictionary AUTHOR Graham Ollis COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2015-2021 by Graham Ollis. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.


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Why female fertility specialists are a better choice than male gynecologists?
Almost all women want their check up to be done by female gynecologists. It is because one feels more comfortable when he or she is diagnosed with a doctor of the same sex. That is the reason why an IVF Centre in Punjab takes into consideration the aspect of getting the patient treated with a doctor of the same sex. But when it comes to male infertility, even male candidates sometimes prefer undergoing check-up from female candidates. It is because of the tender nature of females that patients want to get treated from them.
Subsequent are the major points of why patients prefer going to female fertility specialists.
 - Comfort Zone
It is like females that they feel more comfortable deliberating about their reproductive health to another woman. This is because the session with the gynecologists does not only involve the dialogue about the problem. It may take place that the gynecologists or obstetricians may need to physically or manually examine your reproductive parts. The females are generally uncomfortable in exposing their intimate parts to a male gynecologist or obstetrician.
The deliberation session also includes the dialogue bout sex and sex-positions. The female may feel shy or embarrassed while discussing so. Consequently, she will not be able to deliver the required information to the doctor
 - Understanding Level
It is quite obvious being a female, a female gynecologist will be able to address the problem of female patients by understanding its impact on the physical as well as the mental health of the woman. Once in a while, it takes place that the female is not able to tell the problem in a precise way. If a female gynecologist is inspecting that patient then she would be able to guess the problem because of the same-sex understanding characteristic. Moreover, it is relevant to mention here that no matter the patient is taking consultation from a same-sex doctor or an opposite-sex doctor, it takes at least 2 to 3 visits for the patient to open completely and build up an understanding level.
What are the main factors which make one consider that choice of a female gynecologist for reproductive problems is the best?
 - Refer to specialists
Once in a while, patients do consider this fact while choosing a gynecologist. Patients are likely to pick the choice of female gynecologists because they tend to refer the case of the patient to a specialized doctor as compared to the male gynecologist.
 - Miscarriage and Abortion
Female doctors are more likely to handle the cases of miscarriages and abortion with tenderness. These are the most critical times in the lives of women. It's quite obvious that female candidates are more likely to be better handled by female specialists.
 - Prescription of Medications
Female fertility experts tend not to prescribe the medication at the early stage than male gynecologists.
Final Thoughts
Not every time, a woman feels comfortable with the female specialist. Once in a while, it happens that female patients feel more comfortable with a particular male fertility specialist.


MONTPELIER (AP) - It's Bennington Battle Day in Vermont.
The celebration marks the anniversary of the Battle of Bennington that was fought in 1777 just over the border in New York when soldiers fighting for the British marched toward Bennington in an attempt to seize weapons stored there.
On Saturday, admission to the eight historic sites owned by the state of Vermont will be free.
A celebration at the Bennington Battle Monument in Bennington will include a living history encampment, Revolutionary War cannons and other activities.
There will also be special events at Mount Independence in Orwell and the Hubbardton Battlefield - the only Vermont location where a Revolutionary War battle was fought.


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The US-based Agricultural Research Services has devised a method of detecting fecal bacteria in fresh produce, which it claimed could reduce the chances of contamination to zero.
Yud-Ren Chen, an agricultural engineer with the Agricultural Research Service's Instrumentation and Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, is leading a group to develop "machine-vision" systems to detect contaminationthe human eye cannot see. The system is aimed at preventing Escherichia coli O157:H7 from tainting apple cider and juices made from apples and other fruits. This particular strain of E. coli infects people who drink contaminated, unpasteurised cider or juices.
Chen is starting with apples, but he expects the system to work with all fruits and fresh produce. His on-line system will eventually direct a camera to take three spectral images of each apple through different colour filters. A computer would then analyse the spectral images to detect the telltale signatures of fecal contamination or fly specks, as well as of fungi, rot or other diseases.
One of Chen's team members, biophysicist Moon Kim, brought his expertise in remote sensing of vegetation to ARS from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. To detect fecal contamination, he is sensing photosynthetic pigments from plants, a turnaround from sensors aboard airplanes or satellites.
Apple packinghouses currently have automated ways of sorting for sizes and colours. When Chen's system is commercialised, it would likely be merged withthose sorting systems, as well as with others in the pipeline.
ARS is the US Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research agency.


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A sandy mole rat (Spalax arenarius) is an Endangered small mammals with very small restricted species distribution. It is a fossorial species and very rarely it may be seen above the ground. With the help of MBZ we make a survey of the species recording dozens of active localities,found many isolated previosly unknown populations. At the other hand we found that vast areas in the speciesextant of occurence is not inhabitat by mole rats.
Project 160513635 location - Ukraine, Europe


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Hydrolysis, chemical decomposition of a substance by water. The hydrogen and oxygen atoms of water combine with the atoms or groups of atoms of the hydrolyzed substance to form new compounds. Hydrolysis is speeded by heat and pressure or by mixing an acid or base with the water. Hydrolysis is important in the manufacture of many substances. Corn syrup is produced by acid hydrolysis of corn starch. Soap is made by alkaline hydrolysis of fats. Other substances made by hydrolysis are fatty acids, alcohols, and glucose.
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