Actor, Prince David Osei has described the President, Nana Akufo-Addo as a deep thinker.
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Actor, Prince David Osei has described the President, NAna Akufo-Addo as a deep thinker.
This description comes on the back of the President's move to build 88 District hospitals across the country in a year.
To Prince David Osei, it's only deep thinkers like Akufo-Addo who will decide to build 88 hospitals because the number 88 is spiritual and representative of enlightenment.
The actor made this known through a post on his social media handles saying "The Intelligence and smartness behind the number 88. The NUMBER 88 is the master NUMBER,it is the powerful,significant NUMBER in the numerology.It has the power to provide analysis of ANY condition that leads to long term benefits.88 is a NUMBER that has repetition of same amount.The presence of the double digits is the sign of an enlightened individual according to numerologist.NUMBER 88,with regards to the environment signs towards business,legal proceedings,financial check,indication of future prosperity"
"88 represent A new world order and these we can all attest to,since the emergence of COVID19 there has been a new world order.How we live as human beings on Mother Earth has changed, no more handshakes,hugs,we practicing social distance,wearing masks etc.For once no part of the world is safe to travel to??A phase of our lives has ended and a new one has begun that will bring prosperity and wealth..NUMBER 88 is also the Universal Spiritual Laws of Cause and Effects.88 equals stability and abundance in our nation.In the Bible 88 plays a major role,Elijah performed 8 miracles in the Bible (1 Kings 17-1,1Kings 17:14-16,1Kings 17:22-23,1Kings 18:25-38,1Kings 18:41-45,2Kings 1:9-10,2Kings 1:11-12,2Kings 2-8)B,Elisha who got a double portion of Elijah's anointing performed 16 miracles 8+8=16,Genesis 6vs 8 Noah had 8people in the Ark during the flood disaster,and after the end of the flood was 8 people who stepped out of the Ark and took responsibility of starting a new era ;Acts 9&Acts 40,God made 8 agreements or covenants with Abraham.. NUMBER 8 if double or tripled is a new birth and a unique NUMBER of Jesus which stands for Resurrection and Regeneration"
"I can go on and on?? will suffice to say that His Excellency President Nana Akuffo Addo is a DEEP THINKER?? Hence 88 hospitals???????.. The President of Ghana says his administration is building 88 hospitals in one year not 70,not 80,not 90 or 100 but 88.?? The Unassuming Philosopher PDO aka Snipperdee"
President Akufo-Addo during his eighth update to the country said the deadly Coronavirus has exposed how weak Ghana's health system has been over the years and therefore there is the need for the country to invest in its health infrastructure.
With that background, the President promised of building 88 District hospitals and 6 regional hospitals in the newly created regions in the country.
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Enhanced multiobjective technique for multidisciplinary design optimization
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In the Kreisselmeier-Steinhauser (K-S) function approach all of the objective functions are already weighted, which eliminates the need for user input in setting up the problem. However, in a realistic design application, it would be advantageous to have a method where a designer could emphasize specific design criteria relative to the others. In the present work, the K-S technique has been enhanced to provide such a capability by using weight factors that enable increased emphasis on specific objectives during the optimization process. The enhanced technique has been demonstrated on a HCST for minimum sonic boom and improved aerodynamic performance.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)828-830
Number of pages3
JournalJournal of Aircraft
Volume35
Issue number5
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Cordula Daus will present her research and the published booklet "The Trujillo-Syndrome" (FantômeVerlag).
Names are powerful tools. They don't need any reason nor sense. With the act of naming a space, a possession or even love is claimed. Names contain the magic side of language itself - the hidden seduction to create a reality by naming. "The Trujillo-Syndrome" tells the intricate story of a tiny Spanish city whose name exists 21 times in the world. During the 16th century Trujillo was the birthplace of up to 600 conquerors and adventurers who left to the New World. Until today the Spanish Trujillo claims to be the "cradle of Latin America". What kind of memory is contained in a name? What happens if a name implodes and turns out to be a nightmare?
Cordula Daus lives and works as a Kulturwissenschaftlerin in Berlin. In 2009 she founded the New Society for Applied Toponymy (NGT).


8 Incredible Facts About Aab-e-Zam Zam That You Should Know!
Pure water is the world's first and foremost medicine. It possess the healing power unlike any natural thing. And when we talk about Aab e Zamzam, there is certainly no comparison. The blessed water, which quenches thirsty Hajjis and they bring it for their family and relatives, has the benefits we never know. The Zamzam is a 35 meter deep well situated in Mecca, in the east of Ka'ba. It is associated with Hazrat Ibrahim a.s, his wife Bibi Hajra a.s and his son Hazrat Ismail a.s.
How Did The Zamzam Well Spring?
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When Bibi Hajra a.s made use of the small amount of food that Ibrahim a.s left for her and her baby, but ran out eventually and was soon thirsty and hungry-her milk dried up, her baby Ismail a.s became hungry and began to cry. Hajra a.s couldn't afford seeing her son in pain so climbed up the hill which was later called As-Safa, to see if there was anyone in the horizon. She saw no one. She then climbed down, and reaching the valley, ran to the other hill, later called Al –Marwa, doing the same again, all this time her son twisting and turning in hunger. She repeated this seven times, and on the 7th time reached the top of the hill and heard a sound. To her amazement she found it coming from beneath the feet of Ismail a.s. At that point Jibra'eel a.s began digging the well of Zam-zam from beneath his feet. Hajra a.s was excited to contain the water, it being a desert and so arid and dry-the water would seep into the ground, and she tried making a pool to contain it.
From 4000 years, the well is supplying water continuously which itself is a miracle.
Medical Benefits Of Zamzam
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Enhances Energy In Human Cells
The German scientist Dr. Knut Pfeiffer, the head of the largest medical center in Munich has studied that Zamzam water amazingly increased the energy levels in the cell systems of the body.
Highest Purity
 It is the purest form of water on the Earth because it contain adequate amount of bicarbonates (366mg/l), which is even higher from the French Alps water (bicarbonates-357mg/l).
Abundant With Calcium And Magnesium
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Zamzam has the healing power. It contains required amount of Ca and Mg. It is germicidal in nature because of its fluorides presence.
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It reduces the impacts of hunger.
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Bibi Aa'ishah (R.A.) reported that she took Zamzam water home with her in bottles, and said, "The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) took some of it away with him, and he used to pour it on the sick and give it to them to drink." (Reported by al-Tirmidhi, 4/37).
Differentiate Between Hypocrite and Believer
The difference between the believers and the hypocrites is drinking one's fill of Zamzam water.(Narrated by Ibn Maajah)
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another RTC module after starting, do not use the -a option You can suppress startup of the servant by specifying it.
-f: Specify setting file
With the -f option, you can give files of arbitrary names to standalone components or rtcd instead of rtc.conf.
 <Application example>
 ConsoleInComp -f consin.conf
-o: Option specification
With the -o option, you can give options that can be specified in rtc.conf from the command line. Options given with the -o option take precedence over those specified in rtc.conf, so if you want to temporarily overwrite the options specified in rtc.conf and change them, It is convenient to use the '-o' option. However, since it is passed as a command line option, blanks are recognized as argument breaks, so you do not need to include spaces or enclose it in single quotes or double quotation marks.
 <Application example>
 ConsoleInComp -o corba.nameservers:localhost,openrtm.org
 ConsoleInComp -o "corba.nameservers:localhost, openrtm.org"
 <Example not recognized correctly>
 ConsoleInComp -o corba.nameservers:localhost, openrtm.org
 '',(Comma)'' followed by a space, so openrtm.org is recognized as another argument.
-p: Port number specification
Using -p, you can specify the port number used by the RTC to be started. You may want to use this option if you want to start with a specific port number when RTC starts up. This option has the same hostname as the corba.endpoints: option and behaves the same as specifying only the port number.
 <Application example>
 ConsoleInComp -p 2810
 Same as below
 ConsoleInComp -o "corba.endpoints: :2810"
-d: Master manager designation
With the -d option you can start the standalone component you started up and rtcd as daemon mode and master manager. The manager has a master and a slave, and the master normally waits for a request with fixed port number 2810 and delegates RTC activation etc. to the slave. When invoked with the -d option, the port number is fixed to 2810 by default, the manager servant is started in master mode, and the manager's reference is registered in the name service.
Manager (basic)
Writing
rtc.conf reference
General settings
config.version
Version of the configuration file.
 - Example:
 config.version: 1.0
openrtm.version
Version of OpenRTM-aist.
 - Example:
 openrtm.version: 1.0.0
Settings related to manager
manger.name
Name of manager. When a manager is registered with a name server, it is registered with the name set here.
 - Designation: Any name that can be registered in a name server etc.
 - Default value: manager
 - Example:
 manager.name: manager
maanger_naming_formats
Specify the format for registering the manager in the name server. below You can use specifiers that begin with % .
Specifier meaning
%n Manager name
%h Host name
%M Manager name
%p Manager process ID
 - Specification:/<name>.<Kind>/<name>.<Kind>/...
 - Default value:% h.host_cxt /%n.mgr
 - Example:
 manager.name: %h.host_cxt/%n.mgr
manager.is_master
Whether or not to make this process master manager? Command line option If you specify - d , even if this value is set to NO, it becomes the master manager.
 - Designation: YES or NO
 - Default value:
 - Example:
 manager.is_master: NO
manager.corba_servant
Setting whether to activate manager 's CORBA servant. If you set YES, the manager's CORBA servant will start, so you can operate the manager remotely. In the case of NO, since the CORBA servant is not activated, it is impossible for the manager to operate via CORBA.
 - Designation: YES or NO
 - Default value: YES
 - Example:
 manager.corba_servant: YES
corba.master_manager
Master manager address and port number. The master manager can access by corbaloc format URL specification, but specifies the port number to be used at that time. In addition, the slave manager interprets the master manager specified here as its own master manager, and accesses and negotiates the master manager at startup.
 - Specification: <host_name>: <port>
 - Default: localhost: 2810
 - Example:
 corba.master_manager: localhost:2810
manager.shutdown_on_nortcs:
When there is no RTC on the process, that is, when the last one of the RTCs on the same process is terminated, it specifies whether to shut down the manager and terminate the process. In the case of YES, the process is terminated when there is no RTC. In the case of NO, both the manager and the process continue to move even when there is no RTC.
 - Designation: YES or NO
 - Default: YES
 - Example:
 manager.shutdown_on_nortcs: YES
manager.shutdown_auto
Check the presence or absence of RTC in the process at regular time intervals, and if there is no RTC, set whether or not to shut down manager and process. If yes, if there is no RTC, the manager and process are automatically shut down. If NO, the manager and processes continue to operate even if there is no RTC.
The difference from manager.shutdown_on_nortcs is that the shutdown trigger, While manager.shutdown_on_nortcs removes RTC, manager.shutdown_auto is a point in time.
 - Designation: YES or NO
 - Default: YES
 - Example:
 manager.shutdown_auto: YES
manager.auto_shutdown_duration
Period to check for the presence or absence of RTC in the process. The unit is seconds. If manager.shutdown_auto above is set to YES, check the presence or absence of RTC at the cycle set by this option.
 - Designation: Numeric value (Unit [s])
 - Default: 10.0
 - Example:
 manager.auto_shutdown_duration: 10.0
manager.cpu_affinity
This option binds manager processes to specific CPUs. Optional arguments must be one or more CPU IDs separated by commas. The CPU ID starts from 0, and the maximum value is the number of CPU cores minus one. If an incorrect CPU ID is specified, this process is set to use all CPUs.
 - Specify: Specify the CPU ID to be bound by a comma
 - Default: None
 - Example:
 manager.cpu_affinity: 0,1
manager.supported_languages
The master manager activates the slave manager and the RTC in response to a request from a remote application or the like. Slave managers may be not only C++ language versions, but also Java and Python versions. This option sets the language supported by the master manager.
 - Designation: Comma separated languages such as C++, Java, Python etc.
 - Default: C++, Java, Python
 - Example:
 manager.supported_languages: C++, Python, Java
manager.modules.<lang>.suffixes
Extension of RTC module for each language.
 - Designation: extension name of shared object
 - Default:
 - Windows: dll
 - Linux, etc.: so
 - Mac OS X: dylib
 - Example
 manager.modules.C++.suffixes: dll
 manager.modules.C++.suffixes: so
 manager.modules.C++.suffixes: dylib
manager.modules.<lang>.manager_cmd
Manager program name by language.
 - Specify: Manager command name
 - Default:
 - C++: rtcd
 - Python: rtcd_python
 - Java: rtc_java
 - Example
 manager.modules.C++.manager_cmd: rtcd
 manager.modules.Python.manager_cmd: rtcd_python
 manager.modules.Java.manager_cmd: rtcd_java
manager.modules.<lang>.profile_cmd
Profile acquisition command name for each language.
 - Specify: Profile acquisition command name
 - Default:
 - C++: rtcprof
 - Python: rtcprof_python
 - Java: rtc_java
 - Example
 manager.modules.C++.profile_cmd: rtcprof
 manager.modules.Python.profile_cmd: rtcprof_python
 manager.modules.Java.profile_cmd: rtcprof_java
manager.modules.<lang>.load_paths
RTC module load path for each language.
 - Specification: RTC module load path.
 - Default:
 - C++: ./
 - Python: ./
 - Java: ./
 - Example
 manager.modules.C++.profile_cmd: ./, /usr/share/OpenRTM-aist/components/cxx
Settings related to CORBA
corba.args
Specify arguments to give to CORBA. CORBA has different command line options for each implementation. Normally the command line argument is given to the ORB_init () function which is the CORBA API, but this option passes the specified character string to this ORB


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Solid-phase extraction (SPE) is a sample preparation methodology that involves separating compounds from within solid samples by suspending them in a liquid mixture and promoting agitation. This process allows researchers to isolate desirable analytes from the broader sample matrix. Various application specific SPE methods exist, but the QuEChERS method is the preferred laboratory mixing technique for maximum extraction yields of environmental contaminants from organic samples. Laboratory products that operate on the QuEChERS method are designed to be quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe.
This article will explore the principles of the QuEChERS method in more detail:
What is the QuEChERS Method?
The QuEChERS method of laboratory mixing involves agitating a sample through vigorous mechanical shaking. When the resultant sample is a homogenous consistency, compounds can be partitioned by suspending samples in a specialized solvent or preparation reagent and subjecting them to centrifugal separation. Once an analyte has been effectively separated, it can be analyzed using mass spectrometry equipment.
What is the QuEChERS Method Used For?
Laboratory mixing instruments that operate on the QuEChERS method are accepted for the precise assessment of agrochemical residuals in consumable organic products. The prevalence and comprehensive dispersion of pesticides through sensitive ecological systems remains an intensive area of research. Analysts use multiple evaluation methods to determine the volume and concentration of agrochemicals in the human food chain.
It is possible to assess the concentration of pesticides and environmental contaminants in animal proteins for example, by homogenizing biological samples with solvents through pre-defined mechanical pulses or sustained agitation. Rugged laboratory mixing instruments for the first stage of the QuEChERS method included vortexers, vibration shakers, and probe blenders. Limited mixing periods with this equipment can provide accurate volumetric insights into the presence of pesticides, agrochemicals, and other contaminants in raw food goods.
Vortex shakers are capable of achieving excellent degrees of contaminant extraction from homogenized tissues of fish such as croaker and salmon in just 10 minutes, while vibration laboratory mixing instrumentation could achieve 100% extraction in extended mixing times of up to an hour.
This methodology has been used to ascertain levels of concentrated pesticides and agrochemicals in the food chain, enabling environmental researchers to accurately characterize agrochemical migration and dispersion properties.
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I'm self-studying abstract algebra (slowly but surely), and I have a question about my answer to the following prompt:
Problem statement:
Show that there are $(q-1)(p-1)$ generators of the group $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$, where $p$ and $q$ are distinct primes. (Where $\mathbb{Z}_{n}$ is the additive group of integers modulo $n$)
I can use a theorem from my textbook that says:
The integer $r$ generates the group $\mathbb{Z}_n$ iff $$1\le r\lt n \quad\text{and}\quad \gcd(r, n) = 1$$
My attempt at a proof:
Let $p$ and $q$ be distinct primes and $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$ be the additive group of integers modulo $pq$.
An element $a \in \mathbb{Z}_{pq}$ is a generator of $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$ iff: $$1\le a\lt pq \quad\text{and}\quad \gcd(a, pq) = 1$$ There are $p-1$ positive multiples of $q$ less than $pq$. Also, there are $q-1$ positive multiples of $p$ less than $pq$. These are the only elements of $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$ that are not coprime to $pq$. Finally, $0$ is not a generator of $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$.
There are $pq$ elements in $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$, so the number of generators is: $$\begin{align} pq - (p-1) - (q-1) - 1 &= pq -p -q + 1 \\ &= p(q-1) - (q - 1) \\ &= (q-1)(p-1) \end{align}$$
My questions:
 - Obviously, if there's a flaw in the proof, I'd like to know. :) Aside from that...
 - When I assert "these are the only elements of $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$ that are not coprime to $pq$," do I need to further show that this is true? It is patently obvious to me, but I know that just claiming "this is obvious" is not a valid method of proof.
 - I'd like to have some input on the style/format of my proof. Is there a better (read: more formal/traditional) way to phrase something in this proof, or is there a format that I'm not following? As I'm self-teaching, I don't want to learn bad habits...
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On your second point, the general rule that I like to follow is: If you need to ask whether something has to be justified then it doesn't hurt to actually justify it. People find different things to be obvious and what's obvious to you may not be obvious to me. – EuYu Sep 20 '13 at 1:22
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I don't see anything wrong with your proof.
For your second question, you could expand a bit on that statement, perhaps saying something like "since $1$,$p$, $q$ and $pq$ are the only divisors $pq$, any integer $n$not divisible by $p$ or $a$ must have $\gcd(n,pq)=1$, and be coprime to $pq$", but in situations like this, where a moment's though and writing down a few definitions will give a proof, omitting it is usually safe.
In writing proofs, I have found the following idea helpful: a proof is really intended to convince someone (a reader, a teacher, yourself) that a theorem is true. If, after reading your proof and spending a little time thinking about each step, this person could still doubt that your theorem is true, then you should add more. Otherwise, your safe. This reasoning, however, is very audience-dependant. For some audiences, the following would be an acceptable proof of your theorem:
The generators of $\Bbb{Z}_{pq}$ correspond with integers less than and coprime to $pq$. Since these are counted by Euler's $\phi(n)$, $\phi(n)$ is multiplicative, and, for any prime $p$, $\phi(p) = p-1$, the number of generators of $\Bbb{Z}_{pq}$ is $\phi(pq)=\phi(p)\phi(q) = (p-1)(q-1)$.
For lots of other audiences, it would not be.
Remember, a proof doesn't always have to be written down, finalized, and perfect. It can be more of a conversation.
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I love to use color in my work. I may wear all black every day, but I love color. That's why I decided to try enamelling. There's only so much you can do with gemstones to add color anyway, and enamelling has been used in jewelry to do just that for thousands of years. The type of enamel work I'm talking about is vitreous enamel. It's pretty much colored glass ground up so fine that it's like sand or sugar. You put the glass grains on a backing material – gold, copper or fine silver for jewelry – then put it in a kiln or hit it with a torch. This melts the grains of glass and fuses them together to make a smooth surface. It seems like there's as many different ways to use enamel on jewelry as there are for using paint on a canvas, and just like with paint, it can be simple or complex.
The enamelling technique I decided to try is cloisonné. It invloves the use of thin strips of metal or wire to make cells (cloisons in French) that are then adhered to a backing material and filled in with (usually) different colors of enamel. The cloisons can be used to separate the colors, or be an important design element in and of themselves. Upon reading this article on Ganoksin, I was inspired to make a pendant after the designs on the gold rings from Kouklia in Cyprus, some of the oldest examples of cloisonné enamel ever found. The rings date from around the 13th century, BC.
For my first piece, I decided to use transparent enamel with fine silver. The technique I used to apply the enamel is wet-packing, where the grains of glass are mixed with distilled water and applied with a brush or small spatula. I made a little animated gif of the process, which goes roughly like this:
- The shaped cloisons are stuck in place, fused with a layer of clear enamel
- Wet-packing in the first layer of color. I used a fine sable brush.
- The first layer dry and ready to fire. Note the color change.
- Layer one is fired!
- This is after a few layers. You can see it's quite high, almost to the top of the wires. I also decided to try blending from light to dark blue on the curly bits.
- Fired and looking good. The jewel tones are gorgeous! Almost finished…
- After the final firing. The wires are still a little high, but those will be ground down.
- The metal and glass surfaces have been ground down to be even with one another, and the enamel itself is finished!
- Now it's a pendant and ready to wear.

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Victorians are being told the worst is over for forecasted high-risk conditions for developing a deadly form of asthma.
Thunderstorm asthma is the term used to describe asthma brought on as a result of a high pollen count in the air and windy conditions on stormy days.
Royal Melbourne Hospital allergist and clinical immunologist Kymble Spriggs said the risk of developing thunderstorm asthma on Friday had fallen as the afternoon rain settled in.
However, those who have already been exposed to the high pollen count may still develop symptoms into the afternoon.
Ten people died in 2016 when storms triggered thousands of asthma attacks.
Hospitals were put under tremendous pressure by the spike in asthma admissions and many pharmacies ran out of the medication required to treat it.
Dr Springs said the condition was more likely to occur in people who were sensitive to grass pollen and could impact those with no prior history of asthma.
"On thunderstorm days we think the pollen is fractured into smaller, easier to respire particles which coupled with the high winds associated with storms can be breathed in deeply into the lungs," Dr Spriggs said.
This can lead to potentially severe asthma symptoms, including shortness of breath, tightness of the chest, difficulty breathing and sometimes cough.
Health professionals are particularly concerned this year due to the additional impact of long Covid on respiratory systems.
"It's really troublesome for those people," Dr Spriggs said.
"I suspect those people are probably not as well able to deal with a further insult like asthma and hayfever symptoms."
He said Covid had offered a respite to thunderstorm asthma sufferers, with lockdowns and mask wearing providing limited exposure to pollen.
Dr Spriggs warned that seasonal asthma sufferers might not recognise the symptoms of asthma because they only rarely experiences them.
With more above average rainfall forecast for the southern state for the rest of the year, Dr Spriggs warned that those prone to asthma and hayfever might experience worsened symptoms.
He suggested that seasonal asthma sufferers prepare an asthma management plan with their GP and consider the prescription of an asthma preventer.
They can also keep track of future warnings for high-risk conditions on the VicEmergency app.


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Effective radius of ice partices in cirrus and contrails
Schumann, Ulrich und Mayer, Bernhardt und Gierens, Klaus und Unterstrasser, Simin und Jessberger, Philipp und Petzold, Andreas und Voigt, Christiane und Gayet, Jena-Francois (2011) Effective radius of ice partices in cirrus and contrails. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68 (2), Seiten 300-321. DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3562.1
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This paper discusses the ratio C between the volume mean radius and the effective radius of ice particles in cirrus and contrails. The volume mean radius is proportional to the third root of the ratio between ice water content and number of ice particles, and the effective radius measures the ratio between ice particle volume and projected cross-section area. For given ice water content and number concentration of ice particles, the optical depth scales linearly with C. Hence, C is an important input parameter for radiative forcing estimates. The ratio C in general depends strongly on the particle size distribution (PSD) and on the particle habits. For constant habits, C can be factored into a PSD and a habit factor. The PSD factor is generally less than one, while the habit factor is larger than one for convex or concave ice particles with random orientation. C may get very small for power law PSDs with exponent n between -4 and 0, which is often observed. For such PSDs, most of the particle volume is controlled by a few large particles, while most of the cross-section area is controlled by the many small particles. A new particle habit mix for contrail cirrus including small droxtal-shape particles is suggested. For measured cirrus and contrails, the dependence of C on volume mean particle radius, ambient humidity, and contrail age is determined. For cirrus, C varies typically between 0.4 and 1.1. In contrails, C=0.7 +- 0.3, with uncertainty ranges increasing with the volume radius and contrail age. For the small particles in young contrails, the extinction efficiency in the solar range deviates considerably from the geometric optics limit.
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Titel:Effective radius of ice partices in cirrus and contrails
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Schumann, UlrichNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Mayer, BernhardtNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Gierens, KlausNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Unterstrasser, SiminNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Jessberger, PhilippNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Petzold, AndreasNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Voigt, ChristianeNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Gayet, Jena-FrancoisLMPNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Datum:2011
Erschienen in:Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Referierte Publikation:Ja
In Open Access:Nein
In SCOPUS:Ja
In ISI Web of Science:Ja
Band:68
DOI :10.1175/2010JAS3562.1
Seitenbereich:Seiten 300-321
Status:veröffentlicht
Stichwörter:cirrus, contrails, radius, habit, shape, optical thickness
HGF - Forschungsbereich:Luftfahrt, Raumfahrt und Verkehr
HGF - Programm:Raumfahrt, Luftfahrt, Verkehr
HGF - Programmthema:Erdbeobachtung, ATM und Flugbetrieb (alt), Verkehrssystem
DLR - Schwerpunkt:Raumfahrt, Luftfahrt, Verkehr
DLR - Forschungsgebiet:R EO - Erdbeobachtung, L AO - Luftverkehrsmanagement und Flugbetrieb, V VS - Verkehrssystem
DLR - Teilgebiet (Projekt, Vorhaben):R - Vorhaben Atmosphären- und Klimaforschung, L - Klima, Wetter und Umwelt (alt), V - Verkehrsentwicklung und Umwelt (alt)
Standort: Oberpfaffenhofen
Institute & Einrichtungen:Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre > Fernerkundung der Atmosphäre
Hinterlegt von: Schumann, Prof.Dr.habil. Ulrich
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May 25, 2008 Children with autism and ADHD may soon get anxiety relief from a novel "deep-pressure" vest developed by Brian Mullen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The vest, which can also be used for adults with mental illness, delivers a "portable hug" called deep pressure touch stimulation (DPTS).
"People with developmental disorders and mental illness are often overwhelmed in everyday environments such as school and the workplace, and solutions available to families and mental health professionals are limited," says Mullen, a doctoral student of mechanical engineering. "This is an alternative therapy that can safely and discreetly provide the treatment they need to function in mainstream society."
To market the vest, Mullen has created a concept business called Therapeutic Systems, which recently won the $50,000 grand prize in the UMass Amherst Technology Innovation Challenge, a competition for the best entrepreneurial technology business plan produced by students, recent alumni and faculty advisors on campus.
Occupational therapists working with children suffering from autism, ADHD and sensory processing disorders have observed that DPTS can increase attention to tasks and reduce anxiety and harmful behaviors by providing different sensory stimuli. DPTS is also part of a growing trend to improve the lives of adults with mental illness by using touch, sound and aroma to influence alertness, attention and their ability to adapt to their surroundings.
Eight clinical studies of the effectiveness and safety of existing weighted blankets and vests that deliver DPTS were conducted by Mullen and his advisor Sundar Krishnamurty, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at UMass Amherst. Mullen used that data to design a prototype system for applying DPTS that can be inserted into any commercial vest or jacket with a lining. Initial results of a study with students at UMass Amherst who did not have autism or ADHD showed that participants preferred Mullen's prototype vest, which applies pressure that feels like a firm hug or swaddling, over the current gold standard weighted vest.
Mullen's prototype has several advantages over weighted or elastic garments and toys currently used to apply DPTS in hospitals and schools. "Existing methods provide limited control over the amount of pressure applied and require some oversight by a caregiver," says Mullen. "Their use is also limited because of the lack of literature documenting their safety, and their tendency to make the user stand out in a crowd."
Therapeutic Systems is also starting the initial phase of designing a DPTS blanket to aid with resting and falling asleep. "Falling asleep has been found to be a major problem for many people with mental illness," says Mullen, who adds that an estimated 65 percent of Americans are losing sleep due to stress."
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The Emic Avenue; art through Talanoa
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To Talanoa, you have a personal encounter with another person in conversation. To begin this project, the process of Talanoa is used in a respectful journalistic mode and sensibility for collecting stories of the everyday. This project enacts narratives that have been collected through everyday interactions with people, both within my community and abroad. In reacting to the prevalent issues gathered from minority groups, such as the working class, migrants and religious groups; and by exploring tropes of migration and their subsequent interaction with hegemony; the desire is to bring these overlooked realities of the everyday people into visibility through art. By enacting these stories through performative and material practice the outcome offers a sometimes humorous, and possibly powerful symbolic, emic viewpoint to the Western metanarrative.


alloy, four different Al-Zn alloys(25, 30, 35, 45 wt%Zn) were aged at 160 ℃ for different aging times(0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 120, 360 min) after being solution treated at 400 ℃, and successively drawn at room and cryogenic temperatures(-197 ℃). Discontinuous precipitation was formed during aging in the Al matrix(which contained more than 30 wt%Zn) in Al alloys containing more than 30 wt%Zn. The tensile strength of continuous precipitated Al-35Zn alloy decreased with increasing drawing ratio, however, the tensile strength of discontinuous precipitated Al-35Zn alloy increased with further drawing. The strength and ductility combination, 350 MPa-36%was achieved by drawning discontinuous precipitated Al-Zn alloy at room temperature. The discontinuous precipitated Al-Zn alloy drawn at cryogenic temperature showed a higher value of tensile strength, over 500 MPa, although ductility decreased.
 19. Neurobehavioral approach for evaluation of office workers' productivity: The effects of room temperature
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 Lan, Li; Lian, Zhiwei; Pan, Li [School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240 (China); Ye, Qian [Shanghai Research Institute of Building Science, Shanghai 200041 (China)
 2009-08-15
 Indoor environment quality has great influence on worker's productivity, and how to assess the effect of indoor environment on productivity remains to be the major challenge. A neurobehavioral approach was proposed for evaluation of office workers' productivity in this paper. The distinguishing characteristic of neurobehavioral approach is its emphasis on the identification and measurement of behavioral changes, for the influence of environment on brain functions manifests behaviorally. Therefore worker's productivity can be comprehensively evaluated by testing the neurobehavioral functions. Four neurobehavioral functions, including perception, learning and memory, thinking, and executive functions were measured with nine representative psychometric tests. The effect of room temperature on performance of neurobehavioral tests was investigated in the laboratory. Four temperatures (19 C, 24 C, 27 C, and 32 C) were investigated based on the thermal sensation from cold to hot. Signal detection theory was utilized to analyze response bias. It was found that motivated people could maintain high performance for a short time under adverse (hot or cold) environmental conditions. Room temperature affected task performance differentially, depending on the type of tasks. The proposed neurobehavioral approach could be worked to quantitatively and systematically evaluate office workers' productivity. (author)
 20. Room-temperature near-infrared electroluminescence from boron-diffused silicon pn junction diodes
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 2015-02-01
 Full Text Available Silicon pn junction diodes with different doping concentrations were prepared by boron diffusion into Czochralski (CZ n-type silicon substrate. Their room-temperature near-infrared electroluminescence (EL was measured. In the EL spectra of the heavily boron doped diode, a luminescence peak at ~1.6 m (0.78 eV was observed besides the band-to-band line (~1.1eV under the condition of high current injection, while in that of the lightly boron doped diode only the band-to-band line was observed. The intensity of peak at 0.78 eV increases exponentially with current injection with no observable saturation at room temperature. Furthermore, no dislocations were found in the cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy image, and no dislocation-related luminescence was observed in the low-temperature photoluminescence spectra. We deduce the 0.78 eV emission originates from the irradiative recombination in the strain region of diodes caused by the diffusion of large number of boron atoms into silicon crystal lattice.
 1. Room air temperature affects occupants' physiology, perceptions and mental alertness
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 Tham, Kwok Wai; Willem, Henry Cahyadi [Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566 (Singapore)
 2010-01-15
 Thermal environment that causes thermal discomfort may affect office work performance. However, the mechanisms through which occupants are affected are not well understood. This study explores the plausible mechanism linking room air temperature and mental alertness through perceptual and physiological responses in the tropics. Ninety-six young adults participated as voluntary subjects in a series of experiment conducted in the simulated office settings. Three room air temperatures, i.e. 20.0, 23.0 and 26.0 C were selected as the experimental conditions. Both thermal comfort and thermal sensation changed significantly with time under all exposures (P < 0.0001). Longer exposure at 20.0 C led to cooling sensations due to lower skin temperatures (P < 0.0001) and was perceived as the least comfortable. Nevertheless, this moderate cold exposure induced nervous system activation as demonstrated by the increase of {alpha}-Amylase level (P < 0.0001) and the Tsai-partington test (P < 0.0001). A mechanism linking thermal environment, occupants' responses and performance is proposed. (author)
 2. Fabry-Pérot Oscillation and Room Temperature Lasing in Perovskite Cube-Corner Pyramid Cavities
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 Mi, Yang; Liu, Zhixiong; Shang, Qiuyu; Niu, Xinxiang; Shi, Jia; Zhang, Shuai; Chen, Jie; Du, Wenna; Wu, Zhiyong; Wang, Rui; Qiu, Xiaohui; Hu, Xiaoyong; Zhang, Qing; Wu, Tao; Liu, Xinfeng
 2018-01-01
 Recently, organometal halide perovskite-based optoelectronics, particularly lasers, have attracted intensive attentions because of its outstanding spectral coherence, low threshold, and wideband tunability. In this work, high-quality CH3 NH3 PbBr3 single crystals with a unique shape of cube-corner pyramids are synthesized on mica substrates using chemical vapor deposition method. These micropyramids naturally form cube-corner cavities, which are eminent candidates for small-sized resonators and retroreflectors. The as-grown perovskites show strong emission ≈530 nm in the vertical direction at room temperature. A special Fabry-Pérot (F-P) mode is employed to interpret the light confinement in the cavity. Lasing from the perovskite pyramids is observed from 80 to 200 K, with threshold ranging from ≈92 µJ cm-2 to 2.2 mJ cm-2 , yielding a characteristic temperature of T0 = 35 K. By coating a thin layer of Ag film, the threshold is reduced from ≈92 to 26 µJ cm-2 , which is accompanied by room temperature lasing with a threshold of ≈75 µJ cm-2 . This work advocates the prospect of shape-engineered perovskite crystals toward developing micro-sized optoelectronic devices and potentially investigating light-matter coupling in quantum optics.
 3. Mechanical Properties of Discontinuous Precipitated Al-Zn Alloys after Drawing at Room and Cryogenic Temperatures
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 Kim, Min Soo; Lee, Jehyun; Han, Seung Zeon; Ahn, Jee Hyuk; Lim, Sung Hwan; Kim, Kwang Ho; Kim, Sang sik
 2017-01-01
 In order to study the effect of microstructural change on the tensile properties of discontinuous precipitated Al-Zn binary alloy, four different Al-Zn alloys(25, 30, 35, 45 wt%Zn) were aged at 160 ℃ for different aging times(0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 120, 360 min) after being solution treated at 400 ℃, and successively drawn at room and cryogenic temperatures(-197 ℃). Discontinuous precipitation was formed during aging in the Al matrix(which contained more than 30 wt%Zn) in Al alloys containing more than 30 wt%Zn. The tensile strength of continuous precipitated Al-35Zn alloy decreased with increasing drawing ratio, however, the tensile strength of discontinuous precipitated Al-35Zn alloy increased with further drawing. The strength and ductility combination, 350 MPa-36%was achieved by drawning discontinuous precipitated Al-Zn alloy at room temperature. The discontinuous precipitated Al-Zn alloy drawn at cryogenic temperature showed a higher value of tensile strength, over 500 MPa, although ductility decreased.
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The Banishing Charm is a spell used to send an object away from the caster. The spell with the opposite effect is the Summoning Charm.
 Effects and Limitations
The Banishing Charm is a fairly difficult spell to cast and is not taught until students' fourth year at Hogwarts. The class has to read three extra books in preparation for lessons on the Summoning Charm which they learnt first.
Assuming the spell works in a similar way to the Summing Charm, it requires the caster to concentrate on the object as well as to speak the incantation. If the witch or wizard isn't concentrating enough the spell wont work and objects either wont move at all or will give up partway through.
It takes practice for the spell to send the object in the direction that the user wants it to go.
 Uses in the books
 Fourth Book
Harry Potter was taught the Banishing Charm in Charms Class by Professor Flitwick. They were taught using cushions rather than trying to banish objects around them, as solid objects flying around was something of a safety hazard. Unfortunately Neville Longbottom's aim was so bad that he kept hitting Flitwick with the banishing spells and sent him flying around the classroom, rather than the cushions. Hermione Granger and Harry Potter were both able to cast the spell properly however, and send the cushions into the box they were meant to be aiming at. Ron Weasley was less accurate and knocked Parvati Patil's hat off with one cushion, sent another into a chandelier and yet another out of the window.
 Additional Canon
In the video game Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban the incantation for the Banishing Charm is "Depulso".


Tools
Parameters
Parameters are to way to parameterize circuits - See Parameter for the full class documentation.
Defining Parameters and reading/writing their values
To define a parameter - just do:
>>> alpha = perceval.P("alpha")
When defining the parameter, you can also set its value, and max/min values and periodicity:
>>> alpha = perceval.P("phi", min_v=0, max_v=2*np.pi, periodic=True)
defining boundaries and periodicity is used in particular when optimizing a parameterized circuit.
Using parameters in a circuit
When a parameter is defined, you can use it within a circuit:
>>> c = BS(theta=alpha)
You can use it several times and define other parameters dynamically:
>>> c = BS(theta=alpha) // PS(pcvl.P("phi")) // BS(theta=alpha)
Note
If you declare two parameters with the same name, they are not refering to the same variable, and to avoid confusion you can not use them simultaneously in a same circuit - the following is incorrect:
>>> c = BS(theta=pcvl.P("alpha")) // PS(pcvl.P("phi")) // BS(theta=pcvl.P("alpha"))
You can retrieve the parameters used in a circuit as following:
>>> params = c.get_parameters()
[Parameter(name='alpha_1', value=None, min=0.0, max=6.283185307179586),
 Parameter(name='phi', value=None, min=0.0, max=6.283185307179586),
 Parameter(name='alpha2', value=None, min=0.0, max=6.283185307179586)]
Setting Values
To give a value to a parameter, use set_value:
>>> alpha.set_value(_URL_
The parameter is then defined and its value will be used when calculating circuit unitary:
>>> alpha.defined
True
>>> pcvl.pdisplay(c.compute_unitary(use_symbolic=False))
⎡sqrt(2)/2 sqrt(2)/2 ⎤
⎣sqrt(2)/2 -sqrt(2)/2⎦
To "forget" the value and turn back the parameter into a variable, use 'reset - or reset_parameters for a circuit
>>> c.reset_parameters()
Visualization
In Perceval, to display anything, we use pcvl.pdisplay().
Display a circuit
Any circuit coded in perceval can be displayed. You just need to make the code associated with the desired circuit, let's call it circ, and add pcvl.pdisplay(circ) afterwards in the python cell.
Let's do an example to understand : you want to display the Mach-Zendher Interferometer.
Start by doing the code associated to the circuit.
>>> import perceval.components.unitary_components as comp
>>> mzi = (pcvl.Circuit(m=2, name="mzi")
... .add((0, 1), comp.BS())
... .add(0, comp.PS(pcvl.Parameter("phi1")))
... .add((0, 1), comp.BS())
... .add(0, comp.PS(pcvl.Parameter("phi2"))))
Then, add pcvl.pdisplay() of your circuit.
>>> pcvl.pdisplay(mzi)
_images/mzi.png
Also, you can change the display of the circuit using a different skin which can itself be configured. Indeed, a boolean can be set to obtain a more compact display (if the circuit is too wide for example).
>>> import perceval as pcvl
>>> import perceval.components.unitary_components as comp
>>> from perceval.rendering.circuit import SymbSkin
>>> C = pcvl.Circuit.decomposition(pcvl.Matrix(comp.PERM([3, 1, 0, 2]).U),
>>> comp.BS(R=pcvl.P("R")), phase_shifter_fn=comp.PS)
>>> symbolic_skin = SymbSkin(compact_display=True)
>>> pcvl.pdisplay(C, skin=symbolic_skin)
_images/decomposition_symb_compact.png
>>> symbolic_skin = SymbSkin(compact_display=False)
>>> pcvl.pdisplay(C, skin=symbolic_skin)
_images/decomposition_symb_compact_false.png
Matrices
With Perceval, you can also display the matrix associated to your circuit.
>>> pcvl.pdisplay(mzi.U)
_images/mzi_matrix.png
Analyzer algorithm
With Perceval, we can use Analyzer to analyse the circuit and compute the associated output probabilities.
For example, we call the Naive backend that we store in simulator_backend:
>>> simulator_backend = pcvl.BackendFactory().get_backend('Naive')
We can create an input state that will enter our optical scheme later on. We store it in input_state and use BasicState from the Perceval library.
>>> input_state = pcvl.BasicState("|1,1>")
let's simulate the distribution obtained when we input two photons in a beam-splitter. We will use the Naive backend already stored in simulator_backend.
We will simulate the behaviour of the circuit using the Circuit Analyser which has three arguments:
 - The first one is an instance of a processor containing the circuit to analyse.
 - The second one is the input state (we will use input_state).
 - The third one is the desired output states. To compute all possible output states, one just input "*".
>>> p = Processor("SLOS", comp.BS()) # create a processor running on SLOS backend
>>> ca = pcvl.algorithm.Analyzer(p,
... [input_state],
... "*")
Then, we display the result of Circuit Analyzer via pdisplay.
>>> pcvl.pdisplay(ca)
_images/CircuitAnalyserHOM.png
Random numbers
To achieve a reproducible result, for example in notebook execution, the pcvl.random_seed() function can be used at the beginning of the program. This function ensures that any random numbers in the optimisation or random parameter generation functions will be reproducible from run to run.
Let's do a small example to understand:
>>> pcvl.random_seed(2)
>>> print(random.random())
0.9478274870593494
>>> print(random.random())
0.9560342718892494
>>> pcvl.random_seed(2)
>>> print(random.random())
0.9478274870593494
>>> print(random.random())
0.9560342718892494
Since the seeds of the 2 cells are identical, the randomly generated numbers are also equal. It works the same way with notebook results.
Converters
The perceval.converters package contains useful tools to convert to and from Perceval objects. They act as bridges to other libraries.
Serialization
Perceval provides generic functions to serialize / deserialize data. A lot of Perceval data classes come with their optimized serializer (matrixes, circuits, basic states, state vectors and some other specific containers).
>>> import perceval as pcvl
>>> from perceval.serialization import serialize, deserialize
>>> c = pcvl.Circuit(4, "My circuit") // pcvl.Unitary(pcvl.Matrix.random_unitary(4))
... // PS(phi=pcvl.P("phi_0")) // pcvl.Unitary(pcvl.Matrix.random_unitary(4))
>>> text_repr = serialize(c)
>>> c2 = deserialize(text_repr) # c and c2 are two instances of the same circuit


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 1. "Skinner's Raisin Bran" was the first bran brand on the market, introduced in the United States in 1926 by U.S. Mills.
 2. During his incarceration, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein preferred Raisin Bran cereal for breakfast given by his American prison guards.
 3. The most recognizable today, Kellogg's came out in 1942 and the slogan "Two scoops of raisins in Kellogg's Raisin Bran" with its mascot Sunny reaching the public in 1966.
 5. In 2008, the total breakfast cereal sales were slightly over $13.3 billion in the U.S. alone.
Today's Food History
 - 1660 Asser Levy from Portugal, applied for a license to sell kosher meat. He was the first kosher butcher in New Amsterdam (New York).
 - 1868 James Mayer de Rothschild died (born May 15, 1792). European banker and founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family. In 1868 he acquired the famous Chateau Lafite vineyards in Bordeaux, France.
 - 1882 Felix Frankfurter, U. S. Supreme Court justice, was born.
 - 1952 Jambalaya (On The Bayou)' by Hank Williams was number one on the country music charts.
 - 1964 Bernard Frank died (born March 7, 1902). American forester and conservationist, he was one of the eight co-founders of the Wilderness Society.
 - 1967 Elmer McCollum died. He was a chemist who discovered vitamins A, B and D.
 - 1969 The first color TV commercial in Britain was aired, for Birdseye Peas.
 - 1969 Dave Thomas opened the first Wendy's Hamburger restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.
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Tutorial for using the Calvin C++ persistence library.
-- Calvin Coolidge
Calvin is a C++ persistence library or framework that allows programmers to easily save and load objects using keys. Objects are associated with a user configurable type of key that can be used to name objects specifically and save them or load them by that name.
This feature is the primary distinguishing difference between Calvin and the many other persistent libraries.
A quick snippet shows what this means:
// archives hold named objects like a database
filesys_archive ar( "../data" );
// name of the variable c is "c"
boost::shared_ptr c( new C( "c" ));
// save the object c );
// delete the object c
// load it from the archive
c = ar.load( "c" );
Calvin has most of the features you would expect in a persistence library. It's relatively painless to add persistence to your objects, with the only overhead being the addition of the name member to your objects. The above snippet uses a string, but virtually any value type1 can be used as a key.
This article assumes a working knowledge of C++ and how to use templates. The accompanying code has only been tested on VC 7.1, though I suspect it would work on either the Comeau or GCC 3.3+ compilers. It also requires the Boost libraries 1.31 or greater to be accessible.
There are many persistence libraries available for C++ programmers, so why write another one? The short answer is that no library had the features I needed and to revise any of them would probably have taken more time than rolling my own. Calvin isn't a large library.
That's not to say that I don't owe those other libraries an intellectual debt. Calvin builds on their ideas to enable the features that I needed. Perhaps you might need these features as well.
As you can see in the above snippet, Calvin allows a programmer to name instances and then save and load them. Of what value is this feature? To see the difference, consider what most other persistence frameworks do (or don't do as the case may be).
Other persistence frameworks are little more than serialization of an object into an alternate form. This is good for allowing an object to be sent across the wire or simply dumped to disk. But what if that object contains references to other objects? Usually these contained objects are serialized as well within the original object. Say you have objects A, B and C. B contains a pointer to A, as does C.
Figure 1 A is shared by B and C
You serialize B, it in turn serializes A and both are dumped to their store. You do likewise for C, and all is good with the world.
Figure 2 A is stored with B and C on disk
But what happens when you load B and C from the store? In most libraries, you would end up with two objects of type A that B and C each reference now. How to get around this duplication problem?
Figure 3 A is duplicated when B and C are restored
There are two commonly implemented solutions to this problem.
The first and most common is to require a root object that contains all the objects, such as a document or a 3D scene. This root object is the only object that may start a persistence operation, thereby eliminating the duplicate references outside of a single archive. This really isn't a solution but a constraint to the problem above.
Another solution is to allocate all objects to be persisted from a special pool, and then the pool is what is saved. This really doesn't eliminate the root object, but simply shifts it, making the pool the mandatory root object to be persisted.
Many applications don't find this prohibiting and can operate well within these constraints. Some applications, such as the one I write, share data across documents quite a bit, and if one piece of shared data is updated or changed, that change should be reflected in all the other documents. Calvin's solution is to allow shared instances to be named, and to then save each instance in its own record within an archive.
Therefore, in our scenario above, when B is saved, so is A, but A is stored on its own record and a reference to A is saved with B. Likewise, when C is saved, A is saved and C saves a reference to A. When C is loaded, it loads A. When B is loaded, Calvin notices that A has already been loaded and a reference to A is returned to B, so that B and C once again refer the same object.
Figure 4 A is stored separately from B and C
This type of late binding allows me to write utilities that operate on certain objects, such as a texture, without having to know about which 3d models use it.
Using Calvin
To use Calvin in your own applications, it requires three steps. First you must outfit your classes so that they may be persisted. Second you must name your instances when created. Last, write the code to load and save your objects in the appropriate places in your application. Let's look at how these are done in that order.
A Persistent Class
As nice as it would be to gain persistence with no additional code, C++ just doesn't have the facilities necessary to do it. Some scaffolding is necessary to achieve persistence.
The first question to ask yourself is, if the class must be made persistent in the first place? While lightweight, there is still some overhead involved. If yes, then will it need its own name? If it is an object potentially referenced by more than one object, then yes, it will need a name. Otherwise, it may be persisted inside a containing object (as Figure 2 above).
But what type to use for naming? std::string is my own preferred type, but by the virtue of template parameters, a name may be any value type that may be converted to a string via the << operator. Integers meet these requirements and only add 4 bytes of overhead. And if you keep your integer names as an enum within a single.h file, it is very quick and convenient too. (The test/example program in the accompanying source code gives an example of strings and ints as keys.)
If you're satisfied with your answers to these questions, then comes the relatively painless part of making the class potentially persistent.
// an example persistent class
// 1. include calvin.h
_TAG_ "calvin.h"
// 2. Inherit from calvin::persistent
class A : public calvin::persistent {
 int a;
 float a2;
 double a3;
 struct Aa {
 int a4;
 int a5;
 Aa(void) : a4(4), a5(5) {}
 Aa a6;
 // 3. Default constructor and constructor with the parameter of the key
 A( void ) : a(1), a2(2.0f), a3(3.0), a6(Aa())
 A( const std::string& name ) :
 persistent(name), a(1), a2(2.0f), a3(3.0), a6(Aa())
 virtual ~A( void )
 // 4. serialize method (used for both reading and writing)
 template
 Stream& serialize( Stream& s, const unsigned int version )
 return s ^ a ^ a2 ^ a3 ^ a6.a4 ^ a6.a5;
 // 5. friendship of allow_persistence
 friend calvin::allow_persistence;
 // 6. version of the class
 static const int version_ = 1;
As you can see, making a class persistent is simple. Five alterations and your class is ready to be saved to or loaded from an archive (which we will discuss further below).
 1. calvin.h contains all the code necessary to make a class persistent.
 2. The class itself must then inherit from calvin::persistent with the template parameter being the key type that names the object. Requiring inheritance rather than just using convention does two things; it provides the necessary base variable _name, as well as type information used by the library to know how to handle objects, whether they should be written as part of their containing object or handled as independently named objects.
 3. The class is required to have a default constructor (one with a parameter list of type void ) and one that takes a single parameter of the type used as a key. These are used by the library when restoring objects from persisted state.
 4. The workhorse of persistence is the serialize method. The same method may be used for saving and loading through the use of the overloaded ^ operator. As well, the version parameter allows a class to update and change while maintaining backward compatibility. Order is important in this method.
 5. This friendship works around many issues and provides the Calvin library with necessary access to members even if they are private. It's merely for convenience, but is well worth the one line of code.
 6. The version of the class, persisted with the class so that backward compatibility may be preserved.
There are some additional features of the library that can be used in place of the steps above, usually to solve specific problems that the more general features might not allow.
It is a matter of convenience that the library allows you to use a single method for saving and loading objects. Sometimes this is not practical


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The Durango Discovery Museum, which is housed in a 120-year-old power plant, intends to make its landmark smokestack the centerpiece of a science park powered by clean energy.
A capital campaign – called Back the Stack – that started the day after Christmas has a minimum goal of $133,000 to develop a series of demonstration projects showcasing leading-edge applications of age-old power sources: sun, wind and water.
"We'd like to have five to 10 interactive projects for visitors of all ages," said Haz Said, who handles marketing and communications for the museum.
"We'll have energy of all kinds in keeping with the theme of the museum – energy past, present and future."
Production of marketable amounts of electricity isn't the goal. But together, museum directors hope, the sources will generate enough power to make the museum and science park a net-zero energy site.
The museum already is into alternative, clean energy. It has solar panels tied to the grid and three geothermal wells that help heat the museum in the winter and cool it in the summer.
The former power plant's grey, weather-scarred smokestack will be the center of attention in the next round of projects.
One proposal involves the application of thermal convection which, put simply, demonstrates that heat rises. One or a pair of turbines will be installed inside the stack, and the exterior surface of the 100-foot tunnel will be painted a dark color.
As sun rays pound the smokestack, its somber color enhances the absorption of solar rays. Heat builds inside the stack and the updraft of hot air will turn the turbines.
Flexible leaf-shaped photovoltaic solar panels, called Solar Ivy after the company that manufactures them and which are evocative of the ivy-covered walls of academia, will be affixed to the exterior of the smokestack.
The Solar Ivy panels do double duty when the sun shines and the wind blows because each has attached a piezoelectric (electromechanical) generator that produces power through the motion of the movable leaves.
An old standby, water, also could contribute to power production. Because the museum is situated on the banks of the Animas River at Camino del Rio and east 14th Street, a 30-foot waterwheel just downstream of the U.S. Geological Survey gauging station would be installed.
This project requires approval from government agencies.
The power plant started operating in 1893 as Durango Light & Power Co. It was acquired by the Western Colorado Power Co., which owned six other generating stations, including one at Tacoma on the Animas River near Rockwood, and in Ouray and Montrose.
A dispatcher in Silverton controlled the operations of the generating plants.
The Durango plant closed in the early 1970s and the site sat abandoned. In 1999, the Colorado Historical Society gave the city of Durango a $310,000 grant to rehabilitate the structure, which eventually resulted in the city awarding the Durango Children's Museum a free 25-year lease contingent on it raising $5 million.
The museum opened in February 2011.
It features interactive exhibits, some long-term, others that rotate every few months; programs for all ages that focus on science themes, particularly energy; and events, including a weekly trivia night.
The Solar Roller is a mobile science laboratory that covers the Four Corners, serving populations that can't visit Durango.
Middle school and high school students interested in science train to become museum docents.
The Back the Stack financing campaign has started well, Said said.
"We know that several big contributions are coming," he said. "We've received a donation from New Zealand as the result of the social networking of our supporters."


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Petty knives refer to small Japanese utility knives that are used for delicate or intricate work in the kitchen such as peeling or cutting small vegetables, herbs and fruits.
The Petty knife is the Japanese take on the western paring knife. It is also treated as a Japanese utility knife. In Japanese, the Petty knife is simply transliterated as 'Petti Naifu' in a nod to its Western provenance. It is a highly versatile knife that you can put into multiple uses in the kitchen. The Petty knife is generally larger than the western paring knife but it is smaller than the Japanese chef's knife, gyuto, and the western chef's knife.
It is a very convenient utility knife to have in your kitchen. They are small knives with lengths typically varying from 80mm to 180mm. The most common lengths for Petty knives are usually in the range of 120-150mm. As a multi-purpose utility knife, you can put the Petti Naifu into a number of uses. It can be used on vegetables, herbs, fish, chicken, and fruits. Here is a rundown of some of the most common questions that users typically ask about the Petty knife.
What is the Petty Knife?
The Petty Knife or Petti Naifu is a Japanese utility knife or paring knife for handling small and delicate tasks in the kitchen. It is smaller than the Gyuto and the Western chef's knife. In fact, some chefs treat the Petty knife as a smaller Gyuto knife. The knives derive their 'Petty' name from the French word 'petit' which means 'small' or 'little'.
In the kitchen, you can use this versatile multipurpose knife as an all-rounder to do all kinds of small kitchen tasks such as slicing, peeling, dicing, and mincing. You can also use Petty knives for trimming and peeling various small fruits as well as to cut herbs, vegetables, proteins, and garnishes.
Where does the Petty Knife Fit in Your Kitchen?
The Petty Knife is a utility knife so you can put it into a wide variety of small kitchen tasks thanks to its versatility and compact size. If you are looking for a reliable utility knife or a paring knife, you won't go wrong with the Petty knife.
How long is the Petty Knife?
The sizes of the Petty knives vary widely. The lengths of these Japanese utility knives range from 80mm to 180mm. The most common sizes for Petty knives which are suitable for most users lie in the range 120mm to 150mm and 80mm to 90mm clusters. The length of the blade that you choose will depend on what you want to use the knife for. If you are looking for a Petty knife for use in peeling smaller fruits and vegetables in your hand or doing some fine and intricate tip work on your chopping board, then size of 80 to 90mm would suffice.
If you have smaller hands and find the Gyuto knives unwieldy, you can use a larger Petty knife of sizes ranging from 120mm to 150mm as an alternative to the gyuto knife, an all-rounder for cutting everything from fish to boneless meat, vegetables, herbs, and fruits. The 120mm to 150mm Petty knives will also come in handy if you have a smaller workspace in your kitchen.
What is the typical spine width of the Petty Knife?
Like the other Japanese chef's knives, petty knives have thicker spines that taper off towards the edge. Typical spine widths can be 1.5mm which will taper off midway to the tip and is finally thinnest at the tip. Small spine thickness is particularly important in Petty knives as a thicker spine will feel dull when you are using this utility knife in tasks such as peeling fruits since more metal has to be pulled through the fruit being cut or peeled when the spine is thicker. You would want a slim spine width of at most 1.3mm or less to get the most efficient cuts with your Petty knife.
What is the blade profile of the Petty Knife like
The Petty knife shares a similar blade profile to the Gyuto chef's knife. It is no wonder that it is often regarded as a smaller version of the gyuto. The heel is taller and flatter and there is a slight curve towards the front edge of the blade that leads to the knife's pointed tip. The flatter heel of the Petty knife will suit different kinds of chopping styles including thrust-cutting. Their slight belly leading to the blade's tip can be used for fine rock-cutting actions. You can also make delicate cuts with the Petty knife's pointed tip.
What is the Petty Knife Best Suited for/What Does it Cut?
Like other utility knives, Petty knives are better suited for doing the smaller tasks in the kitchen like slicing or dicing your fruits and vegetables as well as herbs. You can also use them to do some light butchery work or to make the delicate and precision cuts.
The particular use-case will depend on the length of the Petty knife. The cluster of shorter Petty knives have lengths ranging from 80mm to 90mm and are perfect for peeling or paring your fruits and vegetables in hand. These shorter utility knives are also suited for off-board cutting as well as for making the fine and precise cuts on your chopping board like slicing herbs, garnishes, or brunoise cuts.
The larger cluster of Petty knives lies in the size range of 120mm to 150mm. It is in these slightly longer blade lengths where these knives are most versatile. Some professional chefs and home cooks regard these Japanese Knives as a miniature Gyuto chef's knives. Like the gyuto knives, the larger knives are multi-use knives that you can apply on different kinds of produce. They come in handy in tasks like filleting small fish, trimming meat, or to cut and dice fruits and vegetables. Petty knives can also be used for light butchery work. You will need Petty knives in a kitchen where there is little space and the knife's small and compact size will take up little space on your board and still provide you with a versatile knife that you can use on a variety of tasks.
What is the Petty Knife Not Suited For?
These are obviously small and delicate knives and are not suited for heavy-duty work in the kitchen. For that, you will need bigger kitchen knives.
What is the Petty Knife's Core Strengths?
The Petty knife is a versatile kitchen workhorse that is preferred by many line cooks working in professional kitchens due to its versatility and its small compact size.
Who Should Use the Petty Knife/Who Does this Knife Match/Does it Suit You?
Petty knives can be used by professional chefs looking for versatile utility knives or paring knives that are compact, sharp, and relatively lightweight. Petty knives take very little space and are generally used by line cooks and chefs in professional kitchens who leverage their versatility to perform various kitchen tasks.
Petty knives will work best for chefs and home cooks who: -
 - Have limited workspace
 - Need a smaller utility knife or paring knife which they can promptly use where the Western chef's knife or a gyuto knife would be unwieldy.
 - Have smaller hands and want a smaller and lightweight alternative to gyuto knives.
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Usage
Usage for simple cases is very similar as with Tastypie. You should read their tutorial first.
The main difference is when you are defining API resource files. There you must use MongoEngineResource instead of ModelResource.
Simple Example
from tastypie import authorization
from tastypie_mongoengine import resources
from test_app import documents
class PersonResource(resources.MongoEngineResource):
 class Meta:
 queryset = documents.Person.objects.all()
 allowed_methods = ('get', 'post', 'put', 'delete')
 authorization = authorization.Authorization()
Defining fields
Most document fields are automatically mapped to corresponding Tastypie fields but some are not. Of course, you can also manually define (override) those automatically mapped fields if, for example, you want to define some read-only.
Warning
When manually defining resource fields be careful to properly map MongoEngine attributes to Tastypie attributes. For example, required and null attributes are inversed in meaning, but both are by default False.
Warning
When manually defining resource fields be careful not to forget to set attribute to document's field name. It is not set automatically and if it is not set it is assumed that you will be processing this field manually (in for example, resource's hydrate method).
Some fields cannot be mapped automatically so you have to define them manually. Like related and embedded fields, but special fields like SequenceField as well:
sequence_field = tastypie_fields.IntegerField(attribute='sequence_field')
EmbeddedDocument
When you are using EmbeddedDocument in your MongoEngine documents, you must define object_class in Meta class of your resource declaration instead of queryset:
class EmbeddedPersonResource(resources.MongoEngineResource):
 class Meta:
 object_class = documents.EmbeddedPerson
 ...
When you are using normal MongoEngine Document you can use queryset or object_class.
Polymorphism
MongoEngine supports document inheritance and you can normally add such inherited documents to your RESTful API. But sometimes it is useful to have only one API endpoint for family of documents so that they are all listed together but that you can still create different variations of the document. To enable this, you have to define mapping between types and resources. For example, if documents are defined as:
class Person(mongoengine.Document):
 meta = {
 'allow_inheritance': True,
 }
 name = mongoengine.StringField(max_length=200, required=True)
 optional = mongoengine.StringField(max_length=200, required=False)
class StrangePerson(Person):
 strange = mongoengine.StringField(max_length=100, required=True)
You might define your resources as:
class StrangePersonResource(resources.MongoEngineResource):
 class Meta:
 queryset = documents.StrangePerson.objects.all()
class PersonResource(resources.MongoEngineResource):
 class Meta:
 queryset = documents.Person.objects.all()
 allowed_methods = ('get', 'post', 'put', 'patch', 'delete')
 authorization = authorization.Authorization()
 polymorphic = {
 'person': 'self',
 'strangeperson': StrangePersonResource,
 }
Use self keyword to refer back to the current (main) resource. Authorization and other similar parameters are still taken from the main resource.
Then, when you want to use some other type than default, you should pass it as an additional parameter type to Content-Type in your payload request:
Content-Type: application/json; type=strangeperson
Alternatively, you can pass a query string parameter.
All this works also for embedded documents in list.
Polymorphic resource_uri
By default, polymorphic resources are exposed through the API with a common resource_uri.
In the previous case, PersonResource and StrangePersonResource are both exposed through the /<api_version>/person/ resource URI.
But in some cases, you may want to expose your resources through the polymorphic resource uri. To use this behaviour, you should set the prefer_polymorphic_resource_uri meta variable to True.
You might define your resources as:
class IndividualResource(resources.MongoEngineResource):
 class Meta:
 queryset = documents.Individual.objects.all()
 allowed_methods = ('get', 'post', 'put', 'patch', 'delete')
 authorization = tastypie_authorization.Authorization()
 paginator_class = paginator.Paginator
class CompanyResource(resources.MongoEngineResource):
 class Meta:
 queryset = documents.Company.objects.all()
 allowed_methods = ('get', 'post', 'put', 'patch', 'delete')
 authorization = tastypie_authorization.Authorization()
 paginator_class = paginator.Paginator
class ContactResource(resources.MongoEngineResource):
 class Meta:
 queryset = documents.Contact.objects.all()
 allowed_methods = ('get', 'post', 'put', 'patch', 'delete')
 authorization = tastypie_authorization.Authorization()
 prefer_polymorphic_resource_uri = True
 polymorphic = {
 'individual': IndividualResource,
 'company': CompanyResource,
 }
You might now reference both resources:
class ContactGroupResource(resources.MongoEngineResource):
 contacts = fields.ReferencedListField(of='test_project.test_app.api.resources.ContactResource', attribute='contacts', null=True)
 class Meta:
 queryset = documents.ContactGroup.objects.all()
 allowed_methods = ('get', 'post', 'put', 'patch', 'delete')
 authorization = tastypie_authorization.Authorization()
And for each contact listed, the:
 - IndividualResource would be dehydrated to /<api_version>/individual/<id>/
 - CompanyResource to /<api_version>/company/<id>/
Warning
The ContactResource could not be registered but be careful to register all the resources present in the polymorphic dict otherwise the dehydrated resource_uri will point to the parent resource.


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Typically covered lagoons are used with flush manure management systems that discharge manure at 0.5 to 2 percent solids. The in-ground, earth or lined lagoon is covered with a flexible or floating gas tight cover. They are not heated and considered ambient temperature digesters. Retention time is usually 30–45 days or longer depending on lagoon size. In climates that have elevated year round temperatures, such as southern and western U.S., these digesters can produce stable, reduced odor, nutrient rich effluent for application on fields and crops; pathogen and weed seed reduction and; produce biogas for farm energy use. Heat recovery from the biogas can be used to heat nurseries on swine farms and warm milking parlors on dairy farms. Very large lagoons in hot climates may produce sufficient quantity, quality and consistency of gas to justify use in an engine generator. In areas with cooler climates, waste digestion, odor control and gas production will be less consistent and the low quality gas may need to be flared off much of the year for odor control and greenhouse gas reduction.
The covered lagoon at Royal Farms in Tulare, CA is a farrow-to-finish swine operation and has been in operation since 1982. The farm has a water flush manure management system with a three cell lagoon. In the beginning only part of the first cell was covered, but in 1987 the entire first cell was covered. The covered lagoon has operated to provide odor reduction, reduce pathogens, produce biogas and provide a stabilized nutrient rich effluent. The biogas produced on Royal Farms is used to make electricity to off-set power costs and any excess is sold. Heat is also recovered from the engine generator and used to supplement the heat in the nursery barns. Some of the effluent from the third lagoon is recycled for use as part of the barn flush water with the remainder irrigated on corn, wheat and silage crops.
For more information on the covered lagoon digester system on Royal Farms please see:
- Methane Recovery From Animal Manures: The Current Opportunities Casebook, Case Study 4.7, Royal Farms pg. 4-23


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The Swedish government is pushing for a meat tax to help curb the environmental impact of meat production, but officials don't want to stop there. They would like to see the meat tax enacted throughout all of the European Union to reduce meat consumption.
The proposal was made by Sweden's Board of Agriculture, according to a report by EurActiv.com.
"Environmental regulations and economics incentives like environmental taxes or subsidies are possible alternatives. Preferably they should be implemented at the EU level rather than the national level," the board's report, Sustainable meat consumption: What is it? How do we get there?, said.
Meat is popular among Swedish – and European – consumers. Last year Swedes consumed 191 pounds of meat, but Marit Paulsen, a Swedish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and vice president of the European Parliament's agriculture committee, said that she would like to see meat consumption in the Scandinavian country drop to 99 to 110 pounds per person annually. Read more from EurActiv here.
In the U.S., the livestock industry is also fighting rumors surrounding meat's environmental impact despite evidence of the contrary. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that animal agriculture accounted for just 2.8 percent of the country's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and Judith Capper, Ph.D., assistant professor of animal sciences at Washington State University, said in a recent "Meat MythCrusher" video report that the livestock industry has been proactive in reducing environmental impact. Watch the Meat MythCrusher video report here.
This isn't the first time that vegetarianism has promoted from Sweden. In August 2012, scientists at the Stockholm International Water Institute announced that a looming water shortage would force the global population to become vegetarian by 2050. Click here to read, "We'll all be vegetarians by 2050, scientists say."


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The different possibilities of dice
The principle of throwing a 88 6 sided Dice often allows to assert assumptions of probabilities. That is to say for example that with the online dice with provisions we can calculate the average of a dice according to its faces. On 100 throws we obtain an approximate result of the average.
The virtual dice are simulated and are subject to the principles of chance. The generation of these 88D6 will therefore help to solve probabilities. This tool will also be very useful, for example in certain board games which will require a certain number of dice.
Example: 10, 20 or 100 maximum. This tool also allows to determine the average of the dice.
So you can easily calculate the average of a die online.


text: Glyphosate isopropylamine and trifluralin are herbicides widely used in Turkish agriculture. The recommended field dose (RFD) (480 g of active ingredient l(-1) for both glyphosate and trifluralin) and 2 x RFD of these herbicides were added to the soil of olive trees (Olea europaea L., Oleaceae) growing on the Cukurova University Campus (Adana) under Mediterranean climate conditions in order to determine their effects on soil microbial activity as measured by carbon mineralization. Carbon mineralization of all samples was determined by the CO2. respiration method over 30 days (28 degrees C, constant moisture). When the RFD and 2 x RFD of glyphosate were compared to a control treatment with no herbicide, they significantly stimulated carbon mineralization at the end of the 30 days (P < 0.001), but the RFD and 2 x RFD of trifluralin were not statistically different from the control (P > 0.05). Based on these results, it is possible to conclude that soil microorganisms are capable of using glyphosate as a carbon source.


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- Create or edit a settings file (*.set), containing:
- Logging session, device name, data storage options, and notes
- Analog, digital, and counter input channel parameters
- Acquisition count and trigger parameters
- Event logging parameters
- Deploy a settings file to SD memory card (included with MCC DAQ Logger hardware) or via logger device
- Convert logged data files (*.dat)
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows® 7/Vista®/XP SP2, 32-bit or 64-bit
DAQLog is used to configure data acquisition (DAQ) settings for logging data with LGR-5320 Series devices. Device settings are saved and stored on a Secure Digital (SD) or Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) memory card. Settings files can be used with multiple devices as long as the device supports common features.
- Is DAQlog software compatible with 64-bit Windows 10?
While not officially tested, it does install and function properly. It will be specifically tested on Win10 32/64 in a future version.
- If DAQLog does not do data acquisition, does the LGR-5320 series comes with some software for data acquisition?
The only software used with the LGR-532x series loggers is DAQLog. To clarify, DAQLog is used to set up the logging operation, but it is not used during the logging operation. Later it is used to convert the log files from binary to CSV/text, but it is not used to graph or analyze the data (Excel can be used for that).
- Does this software is able to acquire data from all channels separately?
DAQLog sets up the LGR series logger hardware for later A/D sampling. Thus the DAQLog package itself does not collect the A/D data. The logger hardware has one A/D converter shared across all the AI channels. You specify which AI channels to enable (to be part of the scan). All enabled AI channels are scanned together, and all disabled AI channels are not scanned at all.


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One of my more recent co-authored research articles has been selected as 'Editor's Choice' in The Applied Ecologist's Blog. The paper, Maintaining ecosystem properties after loss of ash in Great Britain by Louise Hill et al, focusses on the importance of using plant functional traits to predict potential changes to an ecosystem, following the loss of a key species.
"With an impressive data set at hand across whole of Great Britain, Hill et al. developed and applied an innovative analytic approach, Analytical Hierarchy Process (a tool borrowed from the social sciences), and used plant functional traits, which allowed them to predict changes in ecosystem properties due to ash loss (the ecology part), optimized by a hierarchy of traits' importance. From this they could offer recommendations to managers and decision makers about how to avoid the disappearance of ash and the ecosystem services it provides. Here, plant functional traits are essential in the link between biodiversity and ecosystem properties."
The Editor's Choice for issue 56:2 is written by Associate Editor, Alex Fajardo.
Read the full article at Editor's Choice 56:2 – A trait-based approach for forest ecosystem management


desafuero in French
1. (general) excès (m)
2. (ofensa) outrage (m)
Example Sentences
And the conversation went way beyond what he called, tongue in cheek, the "small matter" of the desafuero.
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As Narco News reported yesterday, Mexican public opinion has turned, sharply, against the desafuero, in favor of López Obrador, and against Fox's heir apparent Santiago Creel.
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Fox and Creel and the other desafuero-plotters are now, stuck with a "poster boy" for "respect for institutions" that is anything but one.
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Ryan Anderson, co-author of What Is Marriage? is possibly the most clear and well-reasoned spokesman for man/woman marriage out there. His recent speech at Stanford (given amidst much controversy) covered three questions:
 1. What is marriage?
 2. Why does marriage matter?
 3. What are the consequences of redefining it?
Here's how he opened his remarks:
I'm not going to say anything about morality, anything about theology, or anything about tradition…. I'll be making a philosophical argument, with some appeal to social science, largely to get at a public policy purpose of marriage. The question that I want to ask and then answer is, what is marriage from a policy perspective? What is the state's interest in marriage? How does the state define marriage? How should the state define marriage, and why?
Below is the full speech, followed by a Q&A that was both challenging and refreshingly respectful. If you know someone who doesn't understand the reasons for opposing a change in the definition of marriage, this is the lecture to share.
A summary from Anderson's response to the second question on why this matters:
What we know is that marriage is the institution that, when it's stable, it protects children from poverty, it increases the likelihood [that] those children will experience social mobility, it protects children from committing crime, and it prevents the state from having to pick up the pieces in the form of a welfare program or a police program.
So more or less everything that you could care about (if you care about social justice and you care about limited government, if you care about the poor and you care about freedom) is better served by having a healthy marriage culture—a civil society institution that takes care of raising that next generation—than by having the government try to pick up the pieces of a broken marriage culture.
That's why marriage matters.
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The context of this verse is that Judah, at that time King Hezekiah, was surrounded by the Assyrians. Just imagine being surrounded by a vast army, running out of food and water, low in morale. Feels like covid? I think it was easily 100 times worse!
But check out the promise in the midst of that dark time. That you will eat "what grows of itself". Meaning there will be divine provision.
But notice what happens in the 2nd and 3rd years.
In the 2nd year, they eat what springs from the same. Meaning, there will be some surplus, perhaps not intentionally sown (or saved and invested) because there isn't much left over. Perhaps it was seeds dropped during harvest. The focus is still provision.
In the 3rd year, they are supposed to eat what is sown. Meaning, whilst there is room for provision, at some point, they are supposed to set aside some of the harvest, and start sowing and reaping.
In the initial stages, it is ok to depend on some provisions. But at some point, you will need to start getting disciplined, save and invest the surplus. And at the same time depend on the Lord for the harvest.
Take small steps, but start.


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'Pinocchio' by Jane Spamer
 More about Jane Spamer
Period and Geography
Location: a fictitious country. Time Period: Timeless
Settings and Set Complexity
Number of Sets: 5
Setting: Forest, Wilderness, Village, Shop/Store, Ship and 'Other Location'
Set Requirements: Backdrops/simple flats
Unspecified ages
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A list of the required properties
A list of the required sound effects
A lighting plot
Costume notes
British pantomime. (There are positions for songs and dances in the script, but no specific suggestions for music.)
The classic children's tale given a panto twist, with Gepetto replaced by Dame Gepetto and a new love story woven into the narrative.
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Phase unwrapping (PU) is a process to obtain the absolute value of a phase field from the wrapped one. Ideally, without phase noise, singularity, and aliasing problems, the phase information can be unwrapped easily. However, the phase data are always contaminated by noise and discontinuities, making the PU process more complicated. Hence, a suitable PU algorithm is required to address the problems appropriately. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Energy Minimization is usually used to partially remove phase noise. In this letter, the MCMC energy minimization that yields the unwrapped phase is shown. Furthermore, the capability of the proposed method to unwrap simulated and actual InSAR phase images is also demonstrated (Fujiyama Mount).


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Can You Drink Tap Water in Lome?
No, tap water is not drinkable.
Tap Safe includes data from many publicly available sources, including the WHO (World Health Organization), CDC (Center for Disease Control), and user submitted databases, but unfortunately there's not enough data about Lome.
To see user submitted ratings of the water quality for Togo, see the "User Submitted Ratings" box on this page.
The city of Lome, Togo, located on the west coast of Africa has one of the best tap water quality in the world. It''s clean, fresh and contains very few impurities. Togo is well known for its fertile soil, which is the result of volcanic activity. The volcanic ash and mineral soil combine to make a wonderful tap water. Most of the tap water in Lome is chlorinated but some regions have used lead pipes which were discovered in pipes throughout the city.
Tap Water in Lome is safe to drink and most manufacturers ensure that it meets the required standards. There are also regulations for how contaminants like lead can be treated. In order to enjoy clean, pure, tap drinking water all you need to do is buy a tap that has been approved by the local government. This way you know that you are getting what you pay for.
Tap Water Quality When you tap water in Lome, Togo, you don''t get excellent quality. The tap water has impurities in it like lead, which has bee
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The above data is comprised of subjective, user submitted opinions about the water quality and pollution in Lome, measured on a scale from 0% (lowest) to 100% (highest).
Always take extra precautions, the water may be safe to drink when it leaves the sewage treatment plant but it may pick up pollutants during its way to your tap. We advise that you ask locals or hotel staff about the water quality. Also, note that different cities have different water mineral contents.


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To coincide with World Space Week and our current topic 'On the Move', we were delighted to welcome Richard Farrimond to school this morning. In 1984, the then Major and soon to be Lieutenant Colonel, was selected to join the Space Shuttle programme and underwent NASA astronaut training in the USA. Following the Challenger disaster in early 1986, the programme of regular Shuttle flights was cancelled before Richard had the opportunity to go into space.
He kindly gave his time today to talk about his training and the Shuttle programme, as well as the upcoming Principia mission that will see Britain's first European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake spend six months on board the International Space Station. The children watched a film and presentation, and a fortunate few got to try on a genuine NASA space suit for size.
Thank go to Richard, and his kind hosts in the village, for making this fascinating visit possible.
Further information on the Principia mission and Major Tim Peake can be found here


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As we mentioned before, habitual smoking and learning styles go hand in hand. One of the greatest predictors of whether a person will become a smoker is their preference in the Intake and Tactile elements of the LSA Pyramid (Learning Style Analysis Pyramid).
However, Malcolm Gladwell mentions other elements in his bestselling book, "The Tipping Point". Backed by British psychology research, he identifies the following traits of quintessential hard-core smokers:
- is sociable, likes parties (and therefore probably has a Learning Style with a preference for learning within a group)
- needs to have people to talk to (probably has a Learning Style with a preference for External Auditory Input)
- takes chances and acts on the spur of the moment (a preference for Impulsive Thinking)
- prefers to keep moving (a preference for Mobility)
- and doing things (a preference for Kinesthetic Input)
- not always a reliable person (a non-preference for Reliability).