Assessing pupil size - Sounds simple, but...
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 I have worked at two equally well recognized teaching hospitals in an ICU setting. Most everything is the same, but I've noticed a difference in how pupil size is assessed.
 Hosp#1 - Assess size of pupil as it reacts to pen light so as to eliminate variation in room lighting.
 Hosp#2 - Assess size of pupil upon initial inspection, regardless of room lighting, etc. (and before using pen light).
 I do look at the pt's pupils initially, but I make my measurement based on the size to which they constrict.
 So I am wondering - how does everyone else do it?
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 Your assessment should include both. For example if pupils are constricted or dilated without stimulation - and - do they constrict with stimulation - and - are they equal/unequal in both situations.
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 I check the pupils without the pen light, say they are a 4, they constrict to a 3 with the pen light, so I will say pupils reactive 4->3
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 I assess the size of them in regular lighting, how fast they react to my pen light is the ERRL part.
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 In response to the above replies:
 But how do you standardize on "regular lighting"? Day vs night, different light switches (we have about 8 lighting options in each room - it's ridiculous), if pt's eyes were open or closed prior to exam?
 That's what I'm getting at. If we report the size upon initial inspection that can be incredibly variable based on external factors. Do your units have a standard set for this? I know mine doesn't and the results are all over the place.
 I don't have any issues with the reactivity and regularity... it's just a specific question of timing that pupil size is measured.
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 You adopt a relative know that completely dilated pupils in any light is know if one pupil is larger than the other that's not know what size pupils should be based on what meds the patient is receiving. There's no hard and fast rule.
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 I think you're making it out to be a bit harder than it really is.
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 It should be based on what size they are without a bright light being shined right in them. Yes, it can be a little variable.
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 You are over thinking the issue. If you are checking the pupils at 0800 the "norm" is that it is daylight. YOu look at the pupils in ambient light comparing size and shape. Are the irregular in size? are they unequal? Do they both react equally and at the same time to light?(accommodation). Pupillary response changes can be, and usually is, a late sign of increasing intracranial pressure and there should be other more subtle signs of increasing pressure such as confusion and lethargy or agitation. The checking of pupils is obtaining a baseline and reporting changes. People who have had cataract surgery will not have much of a pupillary response and there is an anomaly the can be normal, anisocoria.
 Get a base line, look for differences.....the subtle changes due to time of day are understood.
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What is it?
The Collective Protection System (CPS) is a full-time air filtration system that is integrated into a ship's HVAC system. It creates pressurization in some areas that will push air outwards in the event of a chemical outbreak. However, the current CPS was not designed for energy efficiency.
How does it work?
The amount of outside supply air delivered to CPS zones varies with filter loading over time and is almost always higher than needed, resulting in an above average HVAC load. Additionally, the filtered and conditioned air is continuously purged through multiple airlocks and decontamination stations. With the recent availability of air flow control components like Variable Speed Drives (VSD), it is possible to reduce the energy burden of CPS by maintaining a constant supply air flow rate and reducing purge flow when it is not needed.
What will it accomplish?
VSDs will be used to control CPS supply fans to optimize supply air flow so that energy savings from fan motors and reduced HVAC loads can be realized.
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Situating Science is a national research cluster geared toward promoting Science and Technology Studies and History and Philosophy of Science (STS/HPS) in Canada. The main goals in clustering Canadian research in STS/HPS are to promote scholarly and public engagement with science and technology by fostering co-ordinated research at the highest levels within the STS/HPS community in Canada and by aiding the communication of the results of this research to the public. Funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the cluster is about bringing together active researchers in STS/HPS in a concerted and strategic effort to exchange skills and knowledge amongst the regions and particular focused themes of STS/HPS in Canada and its partnerships and publics. For more information on the cluster as a whole, see the Situating Science national site.
In the University of Saskatchewan node of the cluster, various faculty in the disciplines of Philosophy, Women and Gender Studies, English and History (including a Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine) are engaged in STS/HPS research. Under the theme of historical epistemology and ontology, researchers at the U of S are engaged in work on the history of early modern science, cell and evolutionary theory, and dark matter physics. Under the theme of scientific communication and its publics, one researcher is investigating Newtonianism and popular culture, another is examining early modern science and theatre, a third is studying democracy and public policy in relation to technology.

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DevExtreme DataSource
DevExtreme Data Layer components can perform two types of data operations: shaping (sorting, filtering, grouping) and modification (creation, update, deletion).
Data Shaping
Data shaping is implemented by the DataSource component and its methods. To call them, get a DataSource instance from your UI component using the getDataSource() method. Alternatively, you can use a standalone instance saved in a constant/component property when you created the DataSource.
The following code obtains a DataSource instance using both approaches and calls one of the data shaping methods—filter(filterExpr). Such methods only set up data shaping settings. To apply them, the load() method is called.
jQuery
index.js
$(function() {
 var dataSource = new DevExpress.data.DataSource({
 // ...
 // DataSource is configured here
 // ...
 });
 // ===== or getting a DataSource from the UI component (DataGrid here) =====
 var dataSource = $("#dataGridContainer").dxDataGrid("getDataSource");
 // ===== applying a filter =====
 dataSource.filter(['age', '>', 18]);
 dataSource.load();
});
Angular
 - Using a standalone DataSource instance
 app.component.ts
 import { Component } from '@angular/core';
 import DataSource from 'devextreme/data/data_source';

 @Component({
 selector: 'app-root',
 templateUrl: './app.component.html',
 styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
 })
 export class AppComponent {
 dataSource: DataSource;
 constructor() {
 this.dataSource = new DataSource({
 // ...
 // DataSource is configured here
 // ...
 });
 }
 filter() {
 this.dataSource.filter(['age', '>', 18]);
 this.dataSource.load();
 }
 }
 - Getting a DataSource instance from the UI component (DataGrid here)
 app.component.ts
 import { Component } from '@angular/core';
 import { DxDataGridComponent } from 'devextreme-angular';

 @Component({
 selector: 'app-root',
 templateUrl: './app.component.html',
 styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
 })
 export class AppComponent {
 @ViewChild(DxDataGridComponent, { static: false }) dataGrid: DxDataGridComponent;
 // Prior to Angular 8
 // @ViewChild(DxDataGridComponent) dataGrid: DxDataGridComponent;
 filter() {
 const dataSource = this.dataGrid.instance.getDataSource();
 dataSource.filter(['age', '>', 18]);
 dataSource.load();
 }
 }
Vue
 - Using a standalone DataSource instance
 App.vue
 <template>
 <!-- ... -->
 </template>
 <script>
 import DataSource from 'devextreme/data/data_source';
 const dataSource = new DataSource({
 // ...
 // DataSource is configured here
 // ...
 });

 export default {
 data() {
 return {
 dataSource
 }
 },
 methods: {
 filter() {
 dataSource.filter(['age', '>', 18]);
 dataSource.load();
 }
 }
 }
 </script>
 - Getting a DataSource instance from the UI component (DataGrid here)
 App.vue
 <template>
 <DxDataGrid ...
 ref="myDataGrid">
 </DxDataGrid>
 </template>

 <script>
 import 'devextreme/dist/css/dx.light.css';
 import DxDataGrid from 'devextreme-vue/data-grid';

 export default {
 components: {
 DxDataGrid
 },
 data() {
 return {
 // ...
 }
 },
 methods: {
 filter() {
 const dataSource = this.$refs['myDataGrid'].instance.getDataSource();
 dataSource.filter(['age', '>', 18]);
 dataSource.load();
 }
 }
 }
 </script>
React
 - Using a standalone DataSource instance
 App.js
 import React from 'react';
 import DataSource from 'devextreme/data/data_source';

 const dataSource = new DataSource({
 // ...
 // DataSource is configured here
 // ...
 });

 class App extends React.Component {
 filter() {
 dataSource.filter(['age', '>', 18]);
 dataSource.load();
 }
 render() {
 return (
 {/* ... */}
 );
 }
 }
 export default App;
 - Getting a DataSource instance from the UI component (DataGrid here)
 App.js
 import React from 'react';
 import 'devextreme/dist/css/dx.light.css';
 import DataGrid from 'devextreme-react/data-grid';

 class App extends React.Component {
 constructor(props) {
 super(props);
 this.dataGridRef = React.createRef();
 }
 filter() {
 const dataSource = this.dataGridRef.current.instance.getDataSource();
 dataSource.filter(['age', '>', 18]);
 dataSource.load();
 }
 render() {
 return (
 <DataGrid ...
 ref={this.dataGridRef}>
 </DataGrid>
 );
 }
 }
 export default App;
Data Modification
Data modification is implemented by the store and its methods. To call them, you need a store instance that you can get using the DataSource's store() method.
Stores provide three data modification methods: insert(values), update(key, values), and remove(key). Use them to edit local and remote data. Call the DataSource's reload() method afterwards to update data in the DataSource.
jQuery
index.js
$(function() {
 var dataSource = new DevExpress.data.DataSource({
 // ...
 });
 var store = dataSource.store();
 store.insert({ id: 1, name: "John Doe" })
 .done(function (dataObj, key) {
 dataSource.reload();
 })
 .fail(function (error) { /* ... */ });
 store.update(1, { name: "John Smith" })
 .done(function (dataObj, key) {
 dataSource.reload();
 })
 .fail(function (error) { /* ... */ });
 store.remove(1)
 .done(function (key) {
 dataSource.reload();
 })
 .fail(function (error) { /* ... */ });
});
Angular
app.component.ts
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import DataSource from 'devextreme/data/data_source';
@Component({
 selector: 'app-root',
 templateUrl: './app.component.html',
 styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
 dataSource: DataSource;
 constructor() {
 this.dataSource = new DataSource({
 // ...
 });
 const store = this.dataSource.store();
 store.insert({ id: 1, name: "John Doe" })
 .then(
 (dataObj) => {
 this.dataSource.reload();
 },
 (error) => { /* ... */ }
 );
 store.update(1, { name: "John Smith" })
 .then(
 (dataObj) => {
 this.dataSource.reload();
 },
 (error) => { /* .


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Freeway Traffic Control from Linear Temporal Logic Specifications
S. Coogan, M. Arcak
2014 International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
We propose a methodology for synthesizing ramp metering control strategies for freeway networks from linear temporal logic specifications. Such specifications allow very rich control objectives constructed from temporal operators such as "always" and "eventually" combined with Boolean operators and encompass e.g.
safety, reachability, and liveness conditions. We use the cell transmission model of traffic flow on freeway networks to obtain a piecewise affine model of the traffic network, and we apply recent results on control of such systems from temporal logic specifications to synthesize ramp metering strategies that are correct by construction. We demonstrate our approach on several examples.

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Ebru Tanrıverdi, Ümit Geçgel, Fatih Er, Mehmet Musa Özcan, Nurhan Uslu
Volume 22, Issue 3;
Pages: 127-131; 2016
ISSN: 2069-0053 (print) (former ISSN: _PHONE_), Agroprint;
ISSN (online): 2068-9551
The oil contents of hazelnut samples were found low at the first harvest periods. The oil contents of the first harvest period ranged from 12.3% to 6.51%. The moisture contents of nuts were found low in the same period. The oil contents of hazelnuts harvested at the last harvest period were ranged between 53.40% (sharp) to 66.11 (black). In general, palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic acid were identified as dominant fatty acids. Depending on the cultivar and harvest, the oleic acid have been identified at the highest rate and have been partial differences among the varieties. The oleic acid contents of varieties were determined between 74.79% to 85.58% depending on harvest period. Linoleic acid content was ranged from 5.70 to 15.64 %, palmitic acid content ranged from 4.92% to 7.31%. As other fatty acids was found at the minor level. The highest palmitic, oleic and linoleic acid contents have been identified respectively in Tombul (II.harvest), Black (II.harvest) and Tombul (I.harvest) varieties. The optimum harvesting time as depending on the physico-chemical properties of the all hazelnut varieties is understood to be August and September months.
hazelnut, varieties, harvest periods, proximate, fatty acid composition


Weatherwatch: tornadoes and trailer parks
A tornado touching down in Riverside, California. Those living in well-built houses have less to fear. Photograph: Michael Ritter/AP
Spring might sound appealing, but in trailer parks in the part of the southern US known as Tornado Alley spring is the start of a season of destruction. Twisters cause tremendous damage to trailer parks every year. Popular lore suggests mobile homes act as tornado magnets, and statistics seem to confirm this: almost 40% of tornado fatalities in the US are in mobile homes, although they are only 7% of housing. It has been suggested that this is divine judgment on immoral trailer park residents, but there are more physical reasons. Fragile, temporary structures are far more vulnerable than permanent brick-built homes. They do not have protective storm cellars, and can even be rolled over by a strong wind.
Permanent buildings also benefit from another defence. Tornadoes are fed by an inrush of air at ground level. Trailer parks offer little resistance to this, since they have one-storey buildings with flat roofs. Taller buildings create a significant amount of air friction, slowing the air flow and so choking off the tornado. In these conditions, tornadoes are short-lived and dissipate before they can do much damage.
Built-up urban districts do get hit by tornadoes, but the damage and loss of life is usually minimal. A series of tornadoes struck the Brooklyn and Queens boroughs of New York City in 2010, resulting in a death. This is a very low toll compared to what a single tornado can do in a trailer park.


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Native American Museums
The history and heritage of Maine's Wabanaki people dates back more than 12, 000 years. Collectively known as the People of the Dawnland, the Wabanaki comprise the Penobscot Nation, Passamaquoddy Tribe, Houlton Band of Maliseets, and the Aroostook Band of Micmacs. Although loosely allied for centuries, each has a distinct language and customs drawn from its natural surroundings, which range from the rockbound Down East coast to the deep forests around Mount Katahdin, the fish-rich Penobscot River to Aroostook County's fertile, rolling lands. Many Maine museums have excellent collections, but three larger, fully accessible museums provide the best immersion into Maine's Wabanaki culture.
The Abbe Museum, with locations in downtown Bar Harbor and at Sieur de Monts Spring in Acadia National Park, is dedicated not only to preserving Maine's Native American heritage, but also to sharing contemporary culture. It hosts the annual Native American Festival and Basket Market every July, regularly offers children's programs, and its museum shop has an excellent selection of books and contemporary craftwork.
In Augusta, the Maine State Museum's fascinating "12,000 Years in Maine," a permanent exhibit, details what archeologists have learned about Maine's Native Americans. Rotating exhibits highlighting various aspects of Wabanaki culture often complement it.
The newly renovated Hudson Museum, on the University of Maine's Orono campus, has a permanent Maine Indian Gallery. Exhibits highlight the museum's collection, explaining the creation story, and interpreting contemporary culture through artifacts, including tools, baskets, beadwork, carvings, and canoe, and historic images complemented by audio and video. It hosts the annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstrations.

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Multiple dimensions of creative instruction: The pedagogy of exemplary high school teachers of Naga students in Nagaland, India
The problem of underachievement in schools in Nagaland has resulted in the few studies that have been done examining the problems that have caused and sustains this situation. In an attempt to look at what is being done well in view of building on the strengths of the system this interpretative study explores how highly esteemed high school teachers of students of the Naga tribe in northeast India teach. Through an elaborate process of community nominations parents and educators nominated who they believed were some of their most successful teachers. Four such highly valued exemplary teachers were the informants. Triangulation of data was done using multiple in-depth interviews with the informants, observation of classroom instruction and examination of documents. The interpretation of data was done broadly based on Strauss and Corbin's grounded theory method. The findings of the study indicate that the classroom instructional practice of the exemplary teachers is very complex. In a system that emphasizes high stakes the exemplary teachers are highly creative. They prepare students to take an exam that emphasizes retention and reproduction by developing in them high level skills of understanding and application. In a classroom that is deeply affected by the external and local influences the exemplary teacher is able to achieve high-skilled instructional behavior in students through well organized classroom instruction. They offer differentiated instruction to individual students and creatively open up a prescribed curriculum using culturally harmonious motivational strategies. Looking upon their teaching profession as a "vocation" they strive to "prepare students for life" in a globalized context. The exemplary teachers are actively involved in leadership and service roles in the community to the admiration of parents and others. The exemplary teachers have many years of experience and a proven record of classroom success.
"Multiple dimensions of creative instruction: The pedagogy of exemplary high school teachers of Naga students in Nagaland, India"
(January 1, 2005).
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Thoughtful architectural details grace nearly every angle of Princeton's magnificent campus. From intricate stained glass ceilings to an antique orrery designed to demonstrate our solar system, the "Looking Up at Princeton" video explores settings that inspire contemplation and reflection. A tiger holding a Princeton shield, shown above, can be found perched atop a pillar next to Blair Hall.
Photos by Evelyn Tu
Video Feature: Looking Up at Princeton
Posted July 5, 2012; 12:00 p.m.
Princeton's campus has been thoughtfully designed to balance tradition with the best of modernity. Considered by many to be one of the most magnificent college campuses in the world, its aesthetic qualities are a large part of the experience of living, learning and working in this community.
Play the "Looking Up at Princeton" video.
In the "Looking Up at Princeton" video, glancing sunlight accentuates Princeton's special sense of place. Every adornment, large or small, reminds students and visitors to stop and appreciate what's here now.
Each new discovery inside and outside Princeton's buildings and along its well-groomed walkways inspires contemplation and reflection. No detail has been spared in order to provide endless sources of exploration, from the Rittenhouse orrery, which was built by astronomer David Rittenhouse in 1771 to demonstrate the planets' orbits around the sun and is now displayed in Peyton Hall; to the soaring stained glass ceiling in Victorian-era Chancellor Green; and to the extreme angles of Lewis Library, which opened in 2008.


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Pearl River Church was built in 1833 as a school near the Natchez Trace in Madison County and school and church shared the facility. It has been used as a Methodist church throughout its history, although it is no longer used except for special occasions. The building was remodeled in 1889 to its present form. It is noted for its role in the history of the Lambuth family particulary. From this church in 1854 Rev. and Mrs. James William Lambuth went as missionaries to China where their descendants continued to labor long afterward. On a return trip to Mississippi and a stay of two years, daughter Nettie died and is buried in the adjacent cemetery. In honor of the Lambuths, each third Thursday of October there is a memorial service known now as Lambuth Day: The service has been essentially continuous since its beginning 1900. A monument in front of the church memorializing the Lambuths was installed at that time.
Source: The Mississippi Methodist Advocate. December 2, 1959. Supplemented by other sources. (This title is available in the J.B. Cain Archives.)
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Monday Apr 02, 2012
Introduction to ORE Embedded R Script Execution
This Oracle R Enterprise (ORE) tutorial, on embedded R execution, is the third in a series to help users get started using ORE. See these links for the first tutorial on the transparency layer and second tutorial on the statistics engine. Oracle R Enterprise is a component in the Oracle Advanced Analytics Option of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.
Embedded R Execution refers to the ability to execute an R script at the database server, which provides several benefits: spawning multiple R engines in parallel for data-parallel operations, more efficient data transfer between Oracle Database and the R engine, leverage a likely more powerful server with more CPUs and greater RAM, schedule automated jobs, and take advantage of open source R packages at the database server. Data aggregates are computed in parallel, significantly reducing computation time, without requiring sophisticated configuration steps.
ORE provides two interfaces for embedded R execution: one for R and one for SQL. The R interface enables interactive execution at the database server from the client R engine, e.g., your laptop. It also has transparency aspects for passing R objects and returning R objects. In the R interface, the ore.doEval schedules execution of the R code with the database-embedded R engine and returns the results back to the desktop for continued analysis. User-defined R functions can run in parallel, either on each row, sets of rows, or on each group of rows given a grouping column. The first two cases are covered by ore.rowApply, the second by the ore.groupApply function. ore.indexApply provides parallel simulations capability by invoking the script the number of times specified by the user. The R interface returns results to the client as R objects that can be passed as arguments to R functions.
The SQL interface enables interactive execution from any SQL interface, like SQL*Plus or SQL Developer, but it also enables R scripts to be included in production database-based systems. To enable execution of an R script in the SQL interface, ORE provides variants of ore.doEval, ore.groupApply and ore.indexApply in SQL. These functions are rqEval, rqTableEval, rqRowEval and rqGroupEval. The SQL interface allows for storing results directly in the database.
 R Interface Function (ore.*)
 SQL Interface Function (rq*)
 ore.doEval rqEval Invoke stand-alone R script
 ore.tableApply rqTableEval Invoke R script with full table input
 ore.rowApply rqRowEval Invoke R script one row at a time, or multiple rows in "chunks"
 ore.groupApply rqGroupEval Invoke R script on data indexed by grouping column
 Invoke R script N times
In addition, the SQL interface enables R results to be stored in a database table for subsequent use in another invocation (think data mining model building and scoring). It enables returning structured R results in a table. Results can also be returned as XML. The XML interface enables both structured data, such as data frames, R objects, and graphs to be returned. The XML capability allows R graphs and structured results to be displayed in Oracle BI Publisher documents and OBIEE dashboards.
Embedded R Execution: R Interface
The following example uses the function ore.groupApply, one of several embedded R execution functions, to illustrate how R users can achieve data parallelism through the database. This example also illustrates that embedded R execution enables the use of open source packages. Here we see the use of the R package biglm.
We specify a column on which to partition the data. Each partition of the data is provided to the function through the first argument, in this case the function variable dat. There is no need to send data from the database to R - the R function is sent to the database, which processes them in parallel. Output results may be stored directly in the database, or may be downloaded to R. Only when we want to see the results of these models do we need to retrieve them into R memory and perform, for example, the summary function.
modList <- ore.groupApply(
 function(dat) {
modList_local <- ore.pull(modList)
> summary(modList_local$BOS)
Large data regression model: biglm(ARRDELAY ~ DISTANCE + DEPDELAY, dat)
Sample size = 3928
 Coef (95% CI) SE p
(Intercept) 0.0638 -0.7418 0.8693 0.4028 0.8742
DISTANCE -0.0014 -0.0021 -0.0006 0.0004 0.0002
DEPDELAY 1.0552 1.0373 1.0731 0.0090 0.0000
Embedded R Execution: SQL Interface
Whereas the previous example showed how to use embedded R execution from the R environment, we can also invoke R scripts from SQL. This next example illustrates returning a data frame from results computed in Oracle Database. We first create an R script in the database R script repository. The script is defined as a function that creates a vector of 10 elements, and returns a data frame with those elements in one column and those elements divided by 100 in a second column.
Once the script is created, we can invoke it through SQL. One of the SQL embedded R executions table functions available is rqEval. The first argument is NULL since we have no parameters to pass to the function. The second argument describes the structure of the result. Any valid SQL query that captures the name and type of resulting columns will suffice. The third argument is the name of the script to execute.
'function() {
 ID <- 1:10
 res <- data.frame(ID = ID, RES = ID / 100)
select *
 from table(rqEval(NULL,
 'select 1 id, 1 res from dual',
The result is a data frame:
Embedded R scripts may generate any valid R object, including graphs. In addition, embedded R execution enables returning results from an R script as an XML
string. Consider the following example that creates a vector from the integers 1 to 10, plots 100 random normal points in a graph, and then returns the vector. After creating the script in the database R script repository, we invoke the script using rqEval, but instead of specifying the form of the result in a SQL query, we specify XML.
 res <- 1:10
 plot( 1:100, rnorm(100), pch = 21,
 bg = "red", cex = 2 )
select value
from table(rqEval( NULL,'XML','Example6'));
While the actual graph looks like the following, the output from this query will be an XML string.
In the execution results shown below, the VALUE column returned is a string that contains first the structured data in XML format. Notice the numbers 1 through
10 set off by the tags. This is followed by the image in PNG base 64 representation. This type of output can be consumed by Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP) to produce documents with R-generated graphs and structured content. Oracle BIP templates can also be used to expose R-generated content in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) web browser-based dashboards.
You can see additional examples using embedded R execution in action in the Oracle Enterprise Training, session 4, Embedded R Script Execution. These example will run as written in R 2.13.2 after installing Oracle R Enterprise. We'll be posting more examples using embedded R script execution in the coming months. In the meantime, questions are always welcome on the Oracle R Forum.
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AMATEUR WORKSHOP #6, A PERVERTS GUIDE TO DESIGN, BROEHAN MUSEUM, GERMANY, 2016
Amateur Workshop #6 A Perverts Guide to Design
Following the series of Amateur Workshops by Jerszy Seymour, that explores the possibility of an 'Amateur' society (meaning lover, appassionato and non-professional as a way of being) and uses polycapralactone wax both as a libidinal construction material and as a metaphor for connecting things, people and ideas. The Amateur Workshop is a non-utopian way of discussing utopia.
Amateur Workshop #6 A Perverts Guide to Design is set in a blue screen back drop that could be seen as the void or the place to project desires. It is filled with synthetically made raw materials as an explosion of proto tools (like the cambrian explosion of life forms), made from rough cut industrial chipboard painted in a multi-coloured splattered finish as a mediatic surface.
If in pre-history, man's first use of an object as a tool not made to be a tool, such as a stone a bone or a stick, could be seen as the invention of the concept of subjugation and slavery made possible through the human hand, Amateur Workshop #6 A Perverts Guide to Design positions the whole history of design as a form of perversion and as a reaction to dealing with the awareness of our mortality. The awareness of mortality is what sparks our primordial emotional conflict and subsequently the use of tools and representation to deal with this conflict. To pre-historic man, the awareness of mortality and the relationship to death and the animal where quite direct. Man feared death which other than by natural causes came by the animal in the dark night. He also felt guilt of death as he saw the animal, who was not aware of mortality, as more divine than himself but would kill the animal for sustinence. Finally he felt joy of death because by killing the animal he was in control of death.
Today we have drones, few people kill their own animals to eat, but the emotional conflict continues, if so in a much more symbolic form. Amateur Workshop #6 A Perverts Guide to Design exists to position us in the middle of the conflict, to consume or to make, to kill or to watch, to use our hands or simply do nothing. The wax is available for all to construct their desires.
Jerszy Seymour Design Workshop, 2016


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Lake Assal, located 150 meters below sea level, is the lowest point in Africa. It has extremely high salinity, supposedly higher than the Dead Sea in Israel/Jordan, and is only a few km. from the Red Sea along the opening of the East African Rift. The lake is raked by very strong winds every afternoon as the heat of the Danakil Depression draws cooler air from the sea inland, and the wind and sun combine to produce rapid evaporation. The lake level appears to be dropping as old lake shore levels and associated sediments are visible around the lake, like rings in a bathtub, approximately 70 meters above the current shoreline.
The salt at Lake Assal is still exploited by local Afaris who transport it by camel for human consumption. A large modern salt extraction facility was recently constructed here by an American firm (Salt Investment S.A.), but the facilities have not been completed and are largely abandoned except for a security guard/caretaker.
The animal skull was placed on the lake shore so that it would become coated in salt and sold as a souvenir to visitors who come here from the capital.
- ©2011 George Steinmetz
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Acidity, it is said, is worse than Cancer. It is one of the most common dis-ease people encounter in their daily life. The home remedy for Acidity is Raw Grains of Rice.
1. Take 8 - 10 grains of raw uncooked rice
2. Swallow it with water before having your breakfast or eating anything in the morning
3. Do this for 21 days to see effective results and continuously for 3 months to eliminate acidity from the body
Reduces acid levels in the body and makes you feel better by the day.
CURE FOR CHOLESTEROL:
Cholesterol problem accompanies with Hypertension and Heart Problems. This is also one of the common problems in people who have High Blood Pressure and Diabetes. The home remedy for Cholesterol problem is RAW SUPARI.
1. Take Raw Supari (Betel Nut that is not flavoured) and slice them or make pieces of the same
2. Chew it for about 20 - 40 minutes after every meal
3. Spit it out
When you chew the supari, the saliva takes in the juice that is generated and this acts like a Blood Thinner. Once your blood becomes free flowing, it brings down the pressure in the blood flow, thereby reducing Blood Pressure too.
CURE FOR BLOOD PRESSURE:
One of the simple home remedy cure for Blood Pressure is Methi Seeds or Fenugreek Seeds.
1. Take a pinch of Raw Fenugreek Seeds, about 8 - 10 seeds
2. Swallow it with water before taking your breakfast, every morning
The seeds of Fenugreek are considered good to reduce the blood pressure.
CURE FOR DIABETES:
There are 2 home remedies for Diabetes. One is Ladies Finger and the other is Black Tea.
BLACK TEA: Due to high medication, the organ that is worst affected is the Kidney. It has been observed that Black Tea (tea without milk, sugar or lemon) is good for the Kidney. Hence a cup of black tea every morning is highly advisable.
1. Boil water along with the tea leaves (any tea leaves will do).
2. Drink the concoction without addingmilk, sugar or lemon.
Black Tea will help in enhancing the function of the kidney, thereby not affecting it more.
LADIES FINGER or OKRA:
Ladies finger is considered to be a good home medicine for diabetes.
1. Slit the ladies finger into 2 halves vertically and soak it in water overnight.
2. The next morning, remove the ladies fingers and drink the water, before eating your breakfast.
After the ladies fingers are soaked overnight in the water, you can observe that the water becomes sticky in the morning. This sticky water is considered to be good for people who suffer from Diabetes.
Look how our Indian food habits are good for our health.


This is how you can help homeless people during the coronavirus crisis
Monday, 23rd March 2020, 2:41 pm
Updated Monday, 23rd March 2020, 2:43 pm
The coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on the UK, with cases rising daily, schools closing and many people losing their jobs.
Thousands have rushed to shops to stockpile essentials in order to self-isolate causing food banks donations to plummet. But how do you self-isolate if you are homeless?
It has emerged that homeless people are at high risk from the virus, as they often don't have places to wash their hands, struggle with health problems and are at risk of infection in crowded shelters. Here are a few ways you can support the homeless in your local community.
(Photo: WHO)
Donate to a food bank
Charity bosses are concerned that members of the public have stopped donating to food banks because they are keeping supplies for themselves.
Emma Revie, chief executive of the Trussell Trust, said, "With the spread of coronavirus we all now face an unprecedented challenge and uncertain future."
"It is possible that food banks will face increased demand as people lose income, at the same time as food donations drop or staff and volunteers are unavailable, due to measures rightly put in place to slow the spread of infection."
Check which items your nearby food bank needs - this can be easily accessed online - and donate those if you are able to.
You can find out where your nearest food bank is by putting your postcode into the Trussell Trust map - then visit their website to find out how to donate food.
Support a street vendor
Vendors selling the Big Issue are often homeless, and rely on donations for their livelihood. But, due to the Covid-19 virus outbreak, vendors have been told they cannot sell copies of the magazine on the street.
The Big Issue has issued a desperate plea for help as it struggles to generate income from sales.
You can now buy the publication through their shop or online. Alternatively, subscribe for three months while vendors aren't on the streets, or donate.
Donate essentials to a local shelter
Homeless shelters and hostels have been plunged into uncertainty, and some have had to close due to the spread of infection.
However, many have made the decision to keep their doors open despite the added risk.
Many shelters across the country are pleading for essentials such as hand sanitiser, soap, board games and sleeping bags.
Call a homeless helpline
If you see someone on the streets who urgently needs help, you can call a homeless helpline.
Shelter UK's national helpline is 0808 _PHONE_. You can also get in touch with the Salvation Army on (020) 7367 4500.
Coronavirus: the facts
What is coronavirus?
What caused coronavirus?
How is it spread?
What are the symptoms?
What precautions can be taken?
Government advice
For more information on government advice, please check their website.
Should I avoid public places?
What should I do if I feel unwell?
When to call NHS 111
Sources: World Health Organisation and NHS


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Some strange names (for us) are mentioned in the report below, but it is an interesting concept.
Seventh graders (12-year-olds) from Breidagerdisskóli elementary school in Reykjavík teach senior citizens how to use computers two times a week for up to two hours at a time in the community center Haedargardur. The students take turns in being teachers.
"It takes longer for me to learn than for these youngsters, but I'm getting the hang of it," senior citizen Ólöf Pétursdóttir told Morgunbladid, who bought a computer a year ago but only recently began using it.
"I mainly bought the computer so that I could enter Íslendingabók [an online genealogy database] and make genealogy research. I'm mostly excited about that. And the young people are good teachers," Pétursdóttir added.
One of the student teachers, Andrés Lars Kristjánsson, said teaching the elderly how to use computers is great fun. "I'm teaching them how to read news stories on the internet and how to put websites into favorites and stuff like that. Some want to do other things, like read their emails."
The course is supervised by psychologist Líney Úlfarsdóttir. -- _URL_


Towards missing electric power data imputation for energy management systems
Ming Chang Wang, Chih Fong Tsai, Wei Chao Lin
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
29 Scopus citations
Abstract
Demand for electricity is gradually increasing in many countries. Efforts in related studies have been made for the application of data mining techniques over related electric power data for the development of more effective energy management systems. However, one major challenge is how to compensate for parts of the collected dataset, such as power consumption, voltage, or electric current that may be missing for a specific period of time. In the literature, several methods have been employed for imputation of the missing data, especially single feature value imputation. However, the performance of the different types of imputation methods, i.e. statistical and machine learning methods, for multiple missing features of electric power data has not been fully explored. Moreover, variations in their imputation performance during the summer/non-summer seasons and in the peak/off-peak/semi-peak times have not been investigated. In this paper, the performance of five well-known imputation methods for processing electric power data, two statistical methods, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and linear interpolation (LI) models, and three machine learning methods, k-nearest neighbor (K-NN), multilayer perceptron (MLP), and support vector regression (SVR) is compared. The experimental results, based on electric power data for a two-year period in Taiwan, show that the machine learning methods generally perform better than the statistical ones, with K-NN and SVR performing the best. In particular, all of the imputation methods produced higher error rates during the summer season than the non-summer seasons. Moreover, the machine learning methods (especially K-NN) are better choices for the imputation of missing data during peak times, whereas the statistical methods (especially LI) are better for off-peak and semi-peak times.
Original languageEnglish
Article number114743
JournalExpert Systems with Applications
Volume174
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jul 2021
Keywords
 - Data mining
 - Electric power data
 - Energy management system
 - Machine learning
 - Missing value imputation
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Productivity of Dairy Production in Individual States
Tauer, Loren W.; Lordkipanidze, Nazibrola
In a competitive market dairy production will shift to that region which is the most productive. Thus, this paper reports the measurement of productivity of dairy production in the various states of the U.S using recent Census data and non-parametric Malmquist index techniques. These are total factor productivity measures that do not require the assumption of cost or profit maximization behavior for aggregation. The Malmquist approach utilizes distance functions and can be used to measure technical and efficiency differences over time and between regions at a point in time. Using two output and six input variables, the distance functions were calculated via linear programming methods. The scalar values from those distance functions were used to calculate indexes for efficiency, technical, and productivity changes across the time periods. Individual state estimates of changes in efficiency, technology, and productivity from 1987 to 1992 were computed, divided by 1987 values. Over these states the average increase in productivity was 3.6 percent, or about 0.7 percent per year. Almost all of the productivity increase occurred from technological change, since the average increase in efficiency was only 0.1 percent. Technological change averaged 3.5 percent over the five year period, or about 0.7 percent each year. Ifthere is a significant decrease in the number of farms in a state, it might be expected that the remaining farms are more efficient, under the assumption that the least efficient farms are those that exit the industry. This was tested by regressing the percent change in efficiency on the percent change in farm numbers. The results were statistically insignificant. Likewise, if the output of the average farm increased it might be expected that efficiency might fall. This was tested by regressing the percent change in efficiency on the percent change in output per farm. Again the results were statistically insignificant. It was further expected that states that increased output per farm might have done so by using new technology. This was tested by regressing percent technological change on the percent change in output per farm. These results were also statistically insignificant.
WP 1999-08 April 1999
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University


Cloud Integration with Apache Camel and Amazon Web Services (AWS): S3, SQS and SNS
The integration framework Apache Camel already supports several important cloud services (see my overview article at _URL_ for more details). This article describes the combination of Apache Camel and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) interfaces of Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Simple Notification Service (SNS). Thus, The concept of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is used to access messaging systems and data storage without any need for configuration.
Registration to AWS and Setup of Camel
First, you have to register to the Amazon Web Services (for free). Most AWS services include a free monthly quota, which is absolutely sufficient to play around and develop some simple applications. As its name states, AWS uses technology-independent web services. Besides, APIs for several different programming languages are available to ease development. By the way, Camel uses the AWS SDK for Java (_URL_ of course. The documentation is detailed and easy to understand, including tutorials, screenshots and code examples .
Hint 1:
You should read the introductions to S3, SQS and SNS (go to _URL_ and click on „products") and play around with the AWS Management Console (_URL_ before you continue. This step is very easy and takes less than one hour. Then, you will have a much better understanding about AWS and where Camel can help you!
Hint 2:
It really helps to look at the source code of the camel-aws component, It helps you to understand how Camel uses the AWS Java API internally. If you want to write tests, you can do it the same way. In the past, I was afraid of looking at „complex" source code of open source frameworks. But there is no need to be scared! The camel-aws component (and most other camel components) contain only of a few classes. Everything is easy to understand. It helps you to understand Camel internals, the AWS API, and to spot and solve errors due to exceptions in your code.
In the meanwhile, the current Camel version 2.8 supports three AWS services: S3, SQS and SNS. All of them use similar concepts. Therefore, they are included in one single camel component: „camel-aws". You have to add the libraries to your existing Camel project. As always, the simplest way is to use Maven and add the following dependency to the pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-aws</artifactId>
<version>${camel-version}</version>
</dependency>
Configuration of the Camel Endpoint
The implementation and configuration of all three services is very similar. The URI looks like this (the code shows the SQS service):
aws-sqs://queue-name[?options]
There are two alternatives to configure your endpoint.
Using Parameters
The easy way is to use two paramters in the URI of your endpoint: „accessKey" and „secretKey" (you receive both after your AWS registration).
"aws-sqs://unique-queue-name?accessKey="INSERT_ME"&secretKey=INSERT_ME"
Be aware of the following problem, which can result in a strange, non-speaking exception (thanks to Brendan Long):
You'll need to URL encode any +'s in your secret key (otherwise, they'll
be treated as spaces). + = %2B, so if your secretkey was
"my+secret\key", your Camel URL should have "secretKey=my%2Bsecret\key".
"Within the query string, the plus sign is reserved as shorthand
notation for a space. Therefore, real plus signs must be encoded. This
method was used to make query URIs easier to pass in systems which did
not allow spaces."
Source: WC3 URI Recommendations
<_URL_
Adding a configured AmazonClient to the Registry
If you need to do more configuration (e.g. because your system is behind a firewall), you have to add an AmazonClient object to your registry. The following code shows an example using SQS, but SNS and S3 use exactly the same concept.
@Override
protected JndiRegistry createRegistry() throws Exception {
JndiRegistry registry = super.createRegistry();
AWSCredentials awsCredentials = new BasicAWSCredentials("INSERT_ME", "INSERT_ME");
ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration = new ClientConfiguration();
clientConfiguration.setProxyHost("http://myProxyHost");
clientConfiguration.setProxyPort(8080);
AmazonSQSClient client = new AmazonSQSClient(awsCredentials, clientConfiguration);
registry.bind("amazonSQSClient", client);
return registry;
}
This example overwrites the createRegistry() method of a JUnit test (extending CamelTestSupport). You can also add this information to your runtime Camel application, of course.
Apache Camel and the Simple Storage Service (S3)
Simple Storage Service (S3) is a key-value-store. You can store small to very large data. The usage is very easy. You create buckets and put key-value data into these buckets. You can also create folders within buckets to organize your data. That's it. You can monitor your buckets using the AWS Management Console – an intuitive GUI supporting most AWS services.
The following example shows both alternatives for accessing the Amazon services (as described above): Paramenters and the AmazonClient.
// Transfer data from your file inbox to the AWS S3 service
from("file:files/inbox")
// This is the key of your key-value data
.setHeader(S3Constants.KEY, simple("This is a static key"))
// Using parameters for accessing the AWS service
.to("aws-s3://camel-integration-bucket-mwea-kw?accessKey=INSERT_ME&secretKey=INSERT_ME&region=eu-west-1");
// Transfer data from the AWS S3 service to your file outbox
from("aws-s3://camel-integration-bucket-mwea-kw?amazonS3Client=#amazonS3Client&region=eu-wes")
.to("file:files/outbox");
There are some additional parameters, for instance you can submit the desired AWS region or delete data after receiving it (see _URL_ and the corresponding SQS and SNS sites for more details about parameters and message headers).
As you see in the code, you can use the AWS-S3 endpoint for producing and for consuming messages. Each bucket must be unique, thus you have to add some specific information such as your company to its name.
Hint:
If a bucket does not exist, Camel is creating it automatically (as the AWS API does). This concept is also used for SQS queues and SNS topics.
Apache Camel and the Simple Queue Service (SQS)
The Simple Queue Service (SQS) is similar to a JMS provider such as WebSphere MQ or ActiveMQ (but with some differences). You create queues and send messages to them. Consumers receive the messages. Contrary to most other AWS services, you cannot monitor queues by using the AWS management console directly. You have to use the service „Cloudwatch" (_URL_ and start an EC2 instance to monitor queues and its content.
As you can see in the following code example, the syntax and concepts are almost the same as for the S3 service:
from("file:inbox")
.to("aws-sqs://camel-integration-queue-mwea-kw?accessKey=INSERT_ME&secretKey=INSERT_ME");
from("aws-sqs://camel-integration-queue-mwea-kw?amazonSQSClient=#amazonSQSClient")
.to("file:outbox?fileName=sqs-${date:now:yyyy.MM.dd-hh:mm:ss:SS}");
Again, you can use the AWS-SQS endpoint for producing and for consuming messages. Each queue name must be unique.
There exist two important differences to JMS (copy & paste from the AWS documentation):
Q: How many times will I receive each message?
Amazon SQS is engineered to provide "at least once" delivery of all messages in its queues. Although most of the time each message will be delivered to your application exactly once, you should design your system so that processing a message more than once does not create any errors or inconsistencies.
Q: Why are there separate ReceiveMessage and DeleteMessa


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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT NEWS RELEASE
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument
|Release Date: 08/16/10|
Pallid Sturgeon: Our Living Missouri River Dinosaur – A Struggle for Survival
Imagine if all people born in 1968 grew to adulthood and never had children; ever. What would happen to our population? This is the same situation faced by the remaining pallid sturgeon in the Upper Missouri River today.
It's a perplexing scenario and on Thursday, August 26, at 7:00 p.m. the Bureau of Land Management's Missouri Breaks Interpretive Center (701 7th Street in Fort Benton, MT) will host an entertaining program about the pallid sturgeon's status in the Upper Missouri River.
Mr. Bill Gardner, a fisheries biologist with the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP), will present an informative 30-40 minute program about pallid sturgeon and will answer questions following the presentation.
Admission for the program is free.
Biologists think there are about 125 wild pallid sturgeon remaining in Montana. Today the pallid sturgeon is a Montana Species of Concern and it was federally listed as an endangered species in 1990. Biologists say no wild juvenile fish have joined the existing population in the past 30 to 50 years largely due to changes in the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers that have altered pallid sturgeon habitat and obstructed their reproductive processes.
The pallid sturgeon has plied the waters of the Upper Missouri River for 70 million years and can live to be 50 - 60 years old, grow to six feet in length and weigh up to 80 pounds. Biologists have been studying and learning about this little-known fish, searching for ways to keep it from going the way of the dinosaurs – total extinction.
Bill Gardner has studied the pallid sturgeon for 20 years with MFWP and has been on the Pallid Sturgeon Recovery Team for more than 10 years, working with other scientists to learn more about our unique population of this ancient fish.
Once again, all interested are encouraged to attend a free program about the pallid sturgeon, featuring Bill Gardner, on Thursday, August 26, at 7:00 p.m. at the Missouri Breaks Interpretive Center in Fort Benton.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument 920 NE Main Lewistown, MT 59457
|Last updated: 06-28-2012|
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Apparel manufacturers inspect the fabric stock upon arrival, so that any fabric irregularities are caught early in the production process. Textile producers also generally inspect fabrics before sending them to manufacturers.
General Inspection Procedures
- Fabric inspection is done in suitable and safe environment with enough ventilation and proper lighting.
- Fabric passing through the frame must be between 45-60 degree angles to inspector and must be done on appropriate Cool White light 2 F96 fluorescent bulbs above viewing area. Back light can be used as and when needed.
- Fabric speed on inspection machine must not be more than 15 yards per minute.
- All fabric inspection must be done when 80% of good or lot is received.
- Standard approved bulk dye lot standards for all approved lots must be available prior to inspection.
- Approved standard of bulk dye lot must be available before starting inspection for assessing colour, hand, weight, construction, finish and visual appearance.
- Shade continuity within a roll by checking shade variation between centre and selvage and the beginning, middle and end of each roll must be evaluated and documented.
- Textiles like knits must be evaluated for weight against standard approved weight.
- Fabric width must be checked from selvage to selvage against standard.
- All defects must be flagged during inspection
- The length of each roll inspected must be compared to length as mentioned on supplier ticketed tag and any deviation must be documented and reported to mill for additional replacement to avoid shortage.
- If yard dyed or printed fabrics are being inspected the repeat measurement must be done from beginning, middle and end of selected rolls.
Why is fabric inspection important?
Fabric Inspection is an important aspect followed prior to garment manufacturing to avoid rejects due to fabric quality and facing with unexpected loss in manufacturing. Fabric inspection is done for fault/defect rate, fabric construction, fabric weight, shrinkage, end to end or edge to edge shading, colour, hand feel, length/width, print defect and appearance. Fabric inspection ensures to minimize the rejection of cut panels or rejected garments due to fabric faults. Cutting inspected and approved fabric ensures not only finished garment quality but also reduce rejects, improves efficiency and timely deliveries.


At one point I wanted to add this feature to my slides but I later remove it as some of the pages needed to have horizontal scrolling and this code did not work well together with that. Maybe the only thing I need is to adjust some of the parameters. So check it out maybe by the time you read this, the swiping on my slides might work.
Anyway, if you have some HTML pages you might want to allow your users to move between pages, using JavaScript, but you don't want to rely any of the JavaScript libraries.
(function() {
 var min_horizontal_move = 30;
 var max_vertical_move = 30;
 var within_ms = 1000;
 var start_xPos;
 var start_yPos;
 var start_time;
 function touch_start(event) {
 start_xPos = event.touches[0].pageX;
 start_yPos = event.touches[0].pageY;
 start_time = new Date();
 function touch_end(event) {
 var end_xPos = event.changedTouches[0].pageX;
 var end_yPos = event.changedTouches[0].pageY;
 var end_time = new Date();
 let move_x = end_xPos - start_xPos;
 let move_y = end_yPos - start_yPos;
 let elapsed_time = end_time - start_time;
 if (Math.abs(move_x) > min_horizontal_move && Math.abs(move_y) < max_vertical_move && elapsed_time < within_ms) {
 if (move_x < 0) {
 } else {
 var content = document.getElementById("content");
 content.addEventListener('touchstart', touch_start);
 content.addEventListener('touchend', touch_end);
 1. Wrap the whole area where you'd like the swipe to work in a div with an ID=content.
 2. Replace the two commented-out alert calls by function calls implementing the left-swipe and the right swipe actions.
 3. Adjust the 3 numbers to your liking.
 4. Done.
 var min_horizontal_move = 30;
 var max_vertical_move = 30;
 var within_ms = 1000;


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National Scientist Cites DDT Conference in Article
Suzanne Snedecker, a scientist at Cornell University, has written an
article about her participation in the Eugene Kenaga International DDT
Conference at Alma College last March.
The article, titled "View from the Pine River and Beyond: The Legacy of DDT Use and Health Effects," appears in The Ribbon, the newsletter of the Sprecher Institute for Comparative Cancer Research at Cornell University, Spring 2008 (Vol. 13, No. 2).
Click here to access the article.
Dr. Snedeker writes, "The conference allowed me not only to interact with scientists in other disciplines who are investigating and interpreting new data on health risks associated with DDT, but also to talk with members of the Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force and hear the stories of their dedication, accomplishments and frustrations. The conference they and Alma College organized was excellent. Speakers included historians, federal agency personal, and academics in various human and wildlife health areas from the U.S. and South Africa."
Snedecker is associate director for translational research for the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors at the Sprecher Institute.
The March 14 conference attracted international experts in the areas of public health and the environment. The scholars are drafting a consensus statement urging global policymakers to reconsider the future use of the synthetic pesticide DDT.
Posted: Wed, July 2nd, 2008 at 8:40AM


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Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky
The Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky (DENIS) was a deep astronomical survey of the southern sky in the near-infrared and optical wavelengths, using a one meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory. The survey operated from 1996 to 2001.
- DENIS-P J1058.7-1548
- DENIS-P J1228.2-1547
- DENIS-P J020529.0-115925
- DENIS-P J082303.1-491201 b
- DENIS-P J101807.5-285931
|This astronomy-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.|


3 Ways to Automatically Share Google Photos With Family Members
Sharing photos with your friends and family is something we often tend to do. However, it's quite a lengthy process since the albums usually take a long time to be shared individually. But did you know, you can automatically share photos with your Family members using Google services? It's easy and convenient and here are some ways to do so. Alternatively, you can also refer to our article to hide the Google Photos Memory of a Specific Person.
Automatically Share Photos With Family Members Using Google
There are three easy and quick ways you can use to automatically share photos and videos with your family members using Google services. Let's have a detailed look at each of them.
Use Partner Sharing on Google Photos
Apple invented a technology that allowed sharing photos with your friends and family automatically based on facial recognition data. It sent out photos to the respective people recognizing their faces and pulling out their details from your Contacts.
Google lately brought in a similar feature to their Google Photos and here is how you can use it.
1. Open the Google Photos app (Android/iOS) on your phone.
2. Tap your profile picture and click on Google Photo Settings.
automatically share google photos
3. Under settings, scroll, and tap on Partner Sharing.
4. Now, tap on Get Started button.
automatically share google photos
5. Select your partner by adding their email ID.
6. Choose the photos and videos you would wish to share with the person.
7. Now, tap on Next from the top right corner.
automatically share google photos
8. On the next screen, tap on Send Invitation.
Now depending on the setting you chose, any photo that you click will also be shared with your partner provided you have turned on the backup.
Use Shared Albums to Automatically Share Google Photos
Google Photos allows you to share an album with your friends and family. Any picture or video you add to this album would be visible to all the participants of the album. Here is how you can enable and use it.
1. Go to Google Photos.
2. Switch to the Photos tab from the bottom navigation bar.
automatically share google photos
3. Tap and hold to select the photos or videos you'd like to share.
4. Now, tap the Add to (+) icon from the pop-up menu.
automatically share google photos
5. Now, choose Shared Album from the list.
automatically share google photos
6. Choose the people you're wishing to share the album with, and tap on Send Invitation. Now, the album will the shared with the chosen people.
automatically share google photos
Use Shared Drive to Automatically Share Photos on Google Drive
Google Photos works great, but if you have some files or documents that are incompatible with Google Photos, or you're wishing to upload the pictures in their original quality, Google Drive is the way to go. Here's how you can share photos using Google Drive.
1. Go to Google Drive for the web or use the Google Drive app (Android/iOS).
2. Create a folder by clicking on the (+) button or upload an existing folder from your device by clicking on the upload button.
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3. Select the folder on your Google Drive.
4. Right-click or tap on the three-dotted icon present in the top right corner of the screen, and choose Share from the list.
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5. Enter the email ID you're wishing to share the files or photos with. Now, the folder, and all its contents like photos, and videos will be shared with the selected people, and any future additions to this folder will be automatically shared with them.
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Wrapping Up
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November 22, 2008
How To Give Directions and Way Find
How Far to Wall Drug?
This post came about after reading about a study out of the Illinois State University that tested different methods of giving directions; either by "birds-eye" perspective with cardinal directions (go north 2 kilometers, turn east) or by route perspective (Mettent deux blocs à la Rue Voltaire, tournez à gauche). There is also a post here full of comments and suggestions for giving directions.
In the days before mobile telephones, it was necessary to give better directions, since communication was impossible en route (I'm at the east entrance, where are you?). Back when I threw (delivered) the LA Times, the route perspective was used. This got me to think of an ideal way to give directions, and a couple of issues that aren't fully addressed in either link. One has to do with the syntax of direction giving, and the other has to do with the details of the circumstances.
When thinking about the syntax, I'm assuming that the way finder has a starting location that runs the gamut from familiar (home, work) to unfamiliar (a hotel, airport) and an unknown destination. The two points can be rural to urban and involve movements on foot, in a car, or public transportation. In almost all circumstances, directions will break into two parts that I'm calling The Funnel and The Route.
The Funnel
The funnel would move the person from their starting location to a densely traveled feeder route like a highway or train. The syntax would be:
Take (highway, train) (designation) (direction and distance if necessary) to (exit, stop).
In the case where it's necessary to give more than one highway or train, the last exit or stop would be replaced by a transfer or highway change, with each leg of the directions on a separate line. Some examples:
- Take the A train to 72nd Street/Central Park West
- Take the 405 north about 20 miles to Roscoe Boulevard
- Take the 435 south about 11 miles to the 70 West,
take the 70 west about 225 miles to Russell
- Take the Narita Express to Tokyo Station
These directions assume that airports have signs pointing out rail or highway access, hotel clerks can point the way to the highway, or a person knows how to get from their home to a highway or train. It's helpful to remember that highways have signage with number designations, so "Take the 5 south to the 710 south," would be preferable to, "Take the Sadao Munemori Memorial Interchange to the Rosa Parks Freeway."
For the most part, the less that is said, the better, then ad in qualifiers if necessary. In most cities, once a person is in a subway (or freeway) system, there are maps and signs that will help them find their stop or exit. By looking about (rather than at a piece of paper) one will more easily become familiar with landmarks and signs, thus build a better sense of direction. The same holds true for distances. Going "about 20 miles" will keep the way finder's eyes peeled for the exit sign, not glued to the odometer and miss the exit. So an example of a paired down set of directions might be, "From the airport, take the subway to the Zócalo." Yes, there may be better, more efficient routes than others, but nobody like a control freak.
The Nexus
The nexus between The Funnel and The Route, is probably the most justifiable place to include idiosyncratic landmarks. It may be cloudy, nighttime, or streets may run at odd angles, so cardinal directions may confuse more than help. Coming out of a subway (with multiple exits that are blocks apart and facing many possible directions) calls for a bit of landmark orientation. "When you get out of the subway, walk towards the big cathedral on the plaza with the huge Mexican flag." Highways may have multiple exits for each direction on the surface street, "Take the second Anaheim Street exit going east.
The Route
Once the way finder is on surface streets either by car or on foot, directions should follow a similar syntax using streets, distance and direction:
Go (distance in miles or blocks) (direction if necessary) to (cross street or intersection); (course change).
Take (street name) (direction if necessary) (distance) to (cross street or intersection)
[line break] (course change)(next street).
Some examples:
- Take Wilshire Boulevard east about a mile to Westwood; turn left
- Walk on the right side of Avenida Armendariz until it curves left;
take the first footpath on the right
- Go 2 blocks;
turn left on 11th Avenue
Directions are easier to follow if the same syntax is maintained; by separating course changes on a different line, it makes it easier for a driver to keep their place on the paper while navigating traffic.
Descriptive qualifiers may be necessary when encountering roundabouts, "T" intersections, or streets that bifurcate at odd angles. Some examples:
 - Take PCH south to the traffic circle; take the second exit Los Coyotes Diagonal
 - Counting blocks on the right side, go 2 blocks to Minerva Park; turn right
 - Keeping in the left lane, drive about 2 kilometers to Rue Danton; veer left
 - Go about 2 miles to Walnut Avenue which has a traffic light; turn right
There are those cities with inconsistent or hard-to-read signage and streets that run at odd angles. Tokyo, Venice, and the medina quarter in north African cities come to mind. In these instances, landmarks become more necessary.
It's best to leave out relative or ambiguous terms like up or down, and stick to left, right, and straight (or gaily forward). If you find it necessary to give cardinal directions (Lakewood Boulevard exit east) it's better to not capitalize them, so as not to confuse streets with cardinal directions in the names (go right on East 1st Street might be misread as go right (east) on 1st Street).
Mitigating Circumstances
There are situations when other systems of way finding are relied upon. If the person is in possession of and uses paper maps or GPS technologies, then information that relates to their tools—such as map coordinates, destination address with postal code, etc.—can be provided.
When approached by lost folks asking for directions, it's probably better not to overwhelm them with detailed directions, but rather help them get a little closer—or back to some familiar landmarks. Too many changes of direction can be easily misremembered (was it left-left-right-left-right-left, or left-left-left-right-right-left?).
If you're unable to find your destination, it may be better to first ask for more general directions to a neighborhood (Can you point me to Colonia Centro?), then a street (Where is Calle Allende?), and finally a specific location (Donde estas Café Tacuba?).
Opportunities like the next may only happen one in a lifetime, so it's best to be prepared. While out walking my dog in Westwood, a car—presumably full of UCLA music students and their instruments—pulled over and asked how to get to Royce Hall. What could I say but, "Practice, practice?"
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 1. I was just going to write something about routes being the more natural way of way finding until is struck me that I don't even ask for directions to places anymore, I just ask for addresses and find maps online.
 Though when I give directions the detail of the route tends to get a sharp upsweep toward the end: "it's the white house on the right side of the street, and there's a big maple tree in the front yard, and the house entrance is on the right" etc. etc.
 2. you should look aqt the Financial Times weekend magazine for this weekend. It discusses GPS navigation and how it can get people lost/almost killed.


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Force-Sensing Linear Potentiometer: 1.4″×0.4″ Strip
This force-sensing linear potentiometer (FSLP) from Interlink Electronics is a passive component with resistances that depend on the magnitude and location of the force applied at some point along the 1.4″ (3.6 cm) active length of the strip, making it easy to add novel touch interfaces or tactile sensors to your project. An external resistor (typically 4.7 kΩ to 10 kΩ) is required but not included.
This force-sensing linear potentiometer (FSLP) from Interlink Electronics is a passive component with internal resistances that independently change in response to the location and magnitude of an applied force. This allows a microcontroller with an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), such as an Arduino or A-Star, to easily determine where and how hard the strip is being pressed, enabling advanced touch-control user interfaces (like menu navigation) or sophisticated tactile sensors. The FSLP is effectively a force-sensing resistor (FSR) that can also simultaneously sense position. The video above shows a sample project with the similar 4″ FSLP strip being used to control an LED strip: position determines the number of lit LEDs and pressure determines the LED color. This shorter 1.4″ FSLP strip could easily be substituted for the one in the video. The Arduino code used in the example is available on github, and it has functions for reading pressure and position that could be helpful in getting started using this sensor. More information about the demo is available in our FSLP blog post.
The 1.5″ × 0.53″ strip is light (0.5 g) and extremely thin (0.025″), with an active sensing area of 1.4″ × 0.39″ and a flexible 0.55″ × 0.2″ sensor tail for accessing its three terminals (the fourth terminal is not used). It does not appreciably compress when pressure is applied, and while it is flexible, it is intended to be used on smooth, flat surfaces since bending can adversely affect its performance. The FSLP has a masked adhesive backing for easy mounting.
Note: The sensor's tail does not include a connector, and soldering directly to the exposed copper pads is probably not practical for most applications given its relatively fine 1 mm pitch. We do not carry any connectors that work with this sensor, but JST makes a line of compatible 1.0 mm pitch FCC (flat flexible) connectors. Section 4.4 of the FSLP integration guide describes the sensor tail in detail.
For a similar FSLP that includes a solderable connector, see our 4″ FSLP strip. It is possible to cut the 4″ FSLP strip to shorter lengths, such as 1″, which would give it a similar size to this 1.4″ version.
Note that this FSLP is not a load cell or strain gauge, and it is not suitable for precision force or pressure measurements. While it can be used for high-resolution dynamic measurements, only qualitative force readings are generally attainable.
Using the sensor
The FSLP is a three-terminal device (the fourth terminal of the sensor tail is not used), and when pressure is applied, its internal circuit is equivalent to three resistors. Reading the magnitude of the pressure requires an external resistor be added to the circuit, so a total of four microcontroller lines are required, two of which must be capable of reading analog voltages. Detailed information about this FSLP, including theory of operation, dimensions, and measurement procedures, is available in the FSLP integration guide (513k pdf). The rest of this section briefly summarizes some of the key points of the measurement procedures listed in the integration guide.
Measuring pressure
The resistance Rp depends directly on the magnitude of the applied pressure, changing from around 300 kΩ at very light touches to around 1 kΩ when pressing very hard. If the pin connected to D1 is driven high and pin connected to the bottom of resistor Ro is driven low, the SL pin becomes the output of a resistive voltage divider with Rp on top and the external resistor Ro on the bottom. Measuring the voltage at terminal D2 gives the input voltage to this pressure-dependent voltage divider and allows the pressure measurement to be made independent of R1 and R2, which change depending on where the strip is being touched. Once you have measured the voltage divider input (D2 voltage) and output (SL voltage), you have everything you need to compute Rp, which is directly related to the pressure.
The optimal value for Ro depends on the specific application, but a value between 4.7 kΩ and 10 kΩ should work fine for most projects.
Note that when no pressure is applied to the strip, Rp should be many megaohms and the voltage at SL will be pulled almost completely to zero through Ro. You can use this to determine when the strip is not being touched.
Measuring position
The strip also functions as a linear potentiometer, with the applied pressure (e.g. your finger) acting as the wiper. As the point of applied pressure moves from one side of the strip to the other, R1 will get smaller and R2 will get bigger, or vice versa (the sum of R1 and R2 is typically around 10 kΩ). If the pin connected to D1 is driven high and the pin connected to D2 is driven low, the SL pin becomes the output of this linear potentiometer (the pin connected to the bottom of Ro should be set as a high-impedance input to effectively remove Ro from the circuit). The voltage on the SL pin should range from 0 to Vcc (logic low to logic high) as the pressure application point moves from one extreme to the other.
Note that when no pressure is applied to the strip, the SL pin is essentially floating and will provide no meaningful position measurement. As described in the previous section, you can use the pressure reading to determine when the strip is not being touched so that you know when to ignore the position measurement.
This sensor has high-impedance outputs, which can be difficult to accurately measure using a microcontroller's ADC. The full measurement procedures in section 5 of the FSLP integration guide (513k pdf) have some helpful techniques for reducing noise and improving accuracy. FSLP/FSR versions
Interlink refers to this product as their standard FSLP. We also carry their longer 10 cm (4″×0.4″) FSLP, which can be optionally be shortened to lengths of 1″, 2″, or 3″.
The two force-sensing linear potentiometers (FSLPs).
If the position of the force is not important for your application, we carry six versions of force-sensing resistors (FSRs) that can be used to measure the amount of applied force but not its location:
A variety of force-sensing resistors (FSRs).
 - 0.2″-diameter circle (FSR 400)
 - 0.25″-diameter circle, short tail (FSR 400 Short)
 - 0.6″-diameter circle (FSR 402)
 - 0.6″-diameter circle, short tail (FSR 402 Short)
 - 1.5″×1.5″ square (FSR 406)
 - 24″×0.4″ strip (FSR 408)


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Compare Wolverine vs Polar Bear
By | August 10, 2014
Who will win the fight between Wolverine and Polar Bear?
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Want to see wolverine vs Polar bear, Black bear, Kodiak bear and grizzly bear (brown bear). Many people are looking for fight between wolverine vs bear but most of them are still confused, who win the match between them. It is better to start from comparison and difference between them.
Polar bear facts
Polar bear comes under carnivorous category and it is found in arctic circle areas, belonging arctic ocean with seas and other masses. It is almost of same size of Kodiak bear and consider among the largest bears.
Polar bear weight around 350-700 kilogram and it is sister species of Brown bear and it hold a narrow niche with many characteristics which is suited for cold temperatures areas like ice, snow and open water. The diet of polar bear includes seals and other land animals, if any.
They used to spend most of the time in sea, although, they born in land. It comes under vulnerable species because of large scale hunting activities and global warming effect. It has unique animal of arctic life with large furry feet, sharps and strong claws.
Polar bear are found in Newfoundland island, James bay in Canada, kuril islands of sea of Okhotsk. Also, they are found in Norway, Denmark, Russia, Canada and United states( Alaska). They are arctic zoo animal and also known as marine mammal because they love to spend most of the time at sea.
Wolverine facts
Wolverines are largest land species of mustelidae family. They are muscular carnivore animal which looks like a small bear. They are solitary, fearless and very strength animals. They can even kill the largest preys as well.
Wolverines are found in northern hemisphere, Alaska, Europe, Siberia and Canada. The population of wolverine is decreasing at rapid rate due to loss of habitat. They have short legs, rounded heard, very small eyes and ears but do not underestimate them as they can even kill the larger preys.
Adult wolverine size is same as medium dog. Wolverine measures length of 65-107 cm, tail of 17-26 cm, height around 30-45 cm and weight of 9-25 kg. The males are larger and heavier than females. They are dark oily fur, which act as resistant material for wolverine.
It has upper molar in mouth which is rotated 90 degrees in the mouth, allowing wolverine to tear off larger prays. Wolverine diet includes shrews, deer, porcupines, squirrels, mule, sheep, elk, weasels, coyote, wolf pups, birds, eggs, seeds, roots, rabbits etc. The powerful jaws and claws are their strength and they can kill anyone.
Compare Wolverine vs Polar Bear
We already written on Polar bear and wolverine facts but we have not covered about black bear, grizzly bear and Kodiak bear. They all are almost of same strength but there are few minor comparison and difference between them.
The comparison I am going to do is for topicWolverine vs polar Bear but same results would come, if we compare wolverine vs grizzly bear, black bear vs wolverine, Kodiak bear vs wolverine. Stay tuned to know comparison between them.
Wolverine vs Polar Bear Comparison
Wolverine vs Polar Bear Comparison
Coming to "compare Wolverine vs Polar Bear" topic, the detailed comparison is given below:
AnimalsPolar BearWolverine
Average Length 7 ft 10 inch- 9 ft to 10 inch65-107 cm
Average Tail7-13 cm17-26 cm
Average Height133 cm30-45 cm
AreaArctic, Newfoundland island, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Russia, United statesNorthern hemisphere, Europe, US, Canada, Siberia, Russia
HabitatArctic circle, sub, arctic, humid continentalWintry habitat in northern rocky area
TeethCanines are larger, sharper and more jaggedStrong teeth and claws
Weight350-7009-25 kg
Average Life SpanBeyond 25 years5-13 years
Who will win the Fight? Many people are curious to know who would win the fight between Wolverine vs bear. I have read a report of Alaska University in which Wolverine killed a polar bear and also seen a video in which wolverine taking on black bear. Wolverine is fearless species and if we believe the report of Alaska university then yes wolverine has capability to kill a polar bear.
I personally think that wolverine can kill polar bear or any other bear because wolverine has fearless, muscular, strong jaws and claws. I hope you like reading about Wolverine vs bear comparison.
47 thoughts on "Compare Wolverine vs Polar Bear
 1. james taggert
 yeah, Your opinion is based on wild
 redicilous fantasy! oh so u have read a "report" well…. i have also read a "report that aliens landed on Earth, or the are still dinosaurs on Earth. a Wolverine can never win against polar or any bears for that matter.
 2. Janindu galaxy
 A fearless Wolverine can destroy a polar bear. But I don't think a wolverine can kill a polar bear. Polar bear will always win in a fight to the death with a wolverine.
 3. Sydney Russel
 Wolverines have driven bears off of their kill, because they confused the bear by not backing down. A hungry bear will swat a fearless wolverine. Pound for pound wolverines are kings, but the sheer size and strength of bears are the big difference in this battle. Now if there was a 900 lb wolverine or a 10 lb bear, the wolverine wins.
 4. Daniel Weis
 Wolverines kill almost exclusively by grabbing the larger prey by our Animal by the throat and suffocating this was done at the Alaska University Zoo accidentally I'm assuming they put the Wolverine in the cage with the polar bear Wolverine just ran directly for its throat grabbed it and didn't let go until it was suffocated that is a documented fact that can be looked up anywhere
 1. Mehul bhatt
 only one time wolverine has defeat. Hahaha if the bear fight again with wolverine, you know the result. Bear will win easily. And this also can happen that bear has fight to another bear, and he was beaten by the another bear and than wolverine and that bear fight and wolverine beat that bear. If a angry bear come to fight with wolverine, bear will win easily.
 2. Michael J Hawkins
 Are you high? OK put it this way. A healthy 200lb grown ass man would be torn up but against a wolverine it would be a fight to the death. That same man against a polar bear is no fkin fight. IT IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER DESTRUCTION!! Bear hits man with paw and takes his head off, or breaks his fkin back, or rips 20lbs of flesh off, or just grabs him by his leg and rips that $hit straight from his body lol. Are y'all fkin serious?
 5. Mehul bhatt
 1. Puppies Are The Best
 I'm no Polar Bear fanboy, but I'm even skeptical when it comes down to something like Smildon (better known as the saber-toothed cat) beating out a Polar Bear when it's prehistoric vs modern fights.
 Frankly, Wolverines are one of my favorite animals of all time (and I back them with ferocity against Honey Badger voters when it comes down to a match between the two)
 But still, we are talking a full grown polar bear.
 One of the largest mammalian predators to walk the earth.
 I'm pretty sure even a tough-as-steel Wolverine wouldn't quite get past something like that.
 1. amritpal manhas
 yeah a polar would usually win, but wolverines have killed polar bears in the wild before, by just biting on their neck.
 1. Wayne
 This is not true show me one documented account where a wolverine is killed a full-sized bear? Bears are killing machines in the early 1800s they would match various animals together in the wild West There was a bear that killed a bI'll and then died. When the beer was skinned they found a bullet hole in his heart. Someone had shot the bear before the match had even began
 What surprised me was the match between the lion and a tiger A Tiger is much bigger than the lion; logic dictates the tiger would win and I don't always read that However they had actual matches in the 1800s The main on the lien prevents the tiger from grasping the back of the neck or the throat So the lion can kill the tiger However a bear which could be much bigger will kill a lion easily. The lion is the king of the beasts except the lion had never encountered a bear in North America
 1. Mr. Logic
 The truth is it depends on the animals, but in the wild the wolverine will lose unless the polar bear is seriously handicapped by environment or physical condition. If you have a large male polar bear, it's just a fact that its neck will literally be two feet wide. That's going to be hard for anything to squeeze shut. A wolverine has a strong enough jaw to