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Mining Production Declines
- In 2000, the value of New Brunswick mining production declined 6.8% to $791 million. Although zinc and copper prices were higher, the value of production for the metals sector showed a decline (-12.2%) with the closure of the Heath Steele mine. Production at the Brunswick base metals mine was slightly higher at 9,500 tonnes per day. The mine has about eight years of reserves at the present rate of extraction. Metals account for 66% of the total value of production.
- The value of production in the non-metals sector was up 9.6%. The sector includes peat (+15.9%), potash and salt. Annual capacity at the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan mine near Sussex includes 785,000 tonnes of potash ore and 650,500 tonnes of rock salt. Non-metals represent 26% of total production. Structural materials and coal contribute the remainder.
- The mining, quarrying and oil wells industry represents over 2% of provincial GDP.
- Exploration expenditures in northern New Brunswick were $8.2 million in 2000, up from $7 million last year, and focused on iron, zinc, lead and copper. In southern New Brunswick the focus was on other minerals including platinum-palladium, nickel-cobalt-copper, gold, antimony and base metal sulphide.
- In 2000, a significant gas discovery was made northeast of Sussex and the extent of the reserves will be determined with additional drilling. Another development in the Moncton area involves testing wells for the commercial production of crude oil.
- In order to address the challenges confronting New Brunswick's mining industry, a study containing 27 recommendations for revitalizing the industry was released.


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|Musinguzi, Emmanuel. (2020). Assessing the impact of land markets on land investments. (Unpublished undergraduate dissertation) Makerere University; Kampala, Uganda.
|A research report submitted to the College of Engineering Design and Art in partial fulfillment of the requirement for an award of the degree Bachelor of Land Surveying and Geomatics of Makerere University.
|Agriculture is the major economic activity carried out in Uganda as it employs more than 62% of
her population either directly or indirectly. Basing on this fact, agriculture has been prioritised as
a major sector which would help to elevate her economic status from lower income status to middle
income status by the year 2020 through different programmes for example NAADS, and
infrastructural development. However, despite all this effort by the government her ambitions to
attain middle class income status by 2020 seems to still be a far cry as stated by minister of finance
during the 2019-2020 budget speech. So, this research oughts to find out the role land markets
have played in hindering the goal of attaining middle income status through assessing the impact
of land markets on land investment singling out agriculture. From data obtained from
questionnaires administered, interviews and data from national databases, it is shown that land
markets have had an impact on agricultural investment as approximated by: -
1) Relationship between capital and land markets.
2) Assessing factors in land markets that affect land investments agriculture in particular.
In conclusion, the research discovered that there is still dead capital (underutilisation of land as a
atural resource) on land due to deficiencies' in the land market as observed that ny people
ntend to trigger this capital through mortgaging such that they can invest more in commercial
griculture but the bottle necks in the land market system hinder them.
The government should therefore priorities streamlining the land market before it can call on
vestors to invest in commercial agriculture and industrialisation.
|Assessing the impact of land markets on land investments

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Formal strategic planning, operating environment, size, sector and performance: evidence from the UK's manufacturing SMEs
Ghobadian, A., O'Regan, N., Thomas, H. and Liu, J. (2008) Formal strategic planning, operating environment, size, sector and performance: evidence from the UK's manufacturing SMEs. Journal of General Management, 34 (2). pp. 1-20. ISSN 0306-3070
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The relationship between strategic planning and firm performance has long interested strategic management researchers. In the past decade, this research effort has slowed down, while strategic planning has gained greater popularity among managers. However, some academics dispute the usefulness of strategic planning, particularly in turbulent environments. This paper examines the following key research questions that are relevant to both practice and theory. First, the relationship between the formality of strategic planning (conceptualised by considering whether firms have written strategic plans and the level of correspondence between the written strategic plan and the normative planning process) and a wide range of performance measures. Second, the relationship between three contingency factors - size, sector and environment, in addition to the incidence of formal planning and the level of formality. Of great interest are the effects of munificence and turbulence. The results suggest that the link between strategic planning formality and performance is tenuous. Nevertheless, managers tend to deploy strategic planning widely in difficult market environments. The conclusion is that strategic planning is perceived to enhance a firm's survival chances, but not necessarily its short-term performance.

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During volcanic eruptions, empirical relationships are used to estimate mass eruption rate from plume height. Although simple, such relationships can be inaccurate and can underestimate rates in windy conditions. One-dimensional plume models can incorporate atmospheric conditions and give potentially more accurate estimates. Here I present a 1-D model for plumes in crosswind and simulate 25 historical eruptions where plume height Hobs was well observed and mass eruption rate Mobs could be calculated from mapped deposit mass and observed duration. The simulations considered wind, temperature, and phase changes of water. Atmospheric conditions were obtained from the National Center for Atmospheric Research Reanalysis 2.5° model. Simulations calculate the minimum, maximum, and average values (Mmin, Mmax, and Mavg) that fit the plume height. Eruption rates were also estimated from the empirical formula Mempir = 140Hobs4.14 (Mempir is in kilogram per second, Hobs is in kilometer). For these eruptions, the standard error of the residual in log space is about 0.53 for Mavg and 0.50 for Mempir. Thus, for this data set, the model is slightly less accurate at predicting Mobs than the empirical curve. The inability of this model to improve eruption rate estimates may lie in the limited accuracy of even well-observed plume heights, inaccurate model formulation, or the fact that most eruptions examined were not highly influenced by wind. For the low, wind-blown plume of 14–18 April 2010 at Eyjafjallajökull, where an accurate plume height time series is available, modeled rates do agree better with Mobs than Mempir.
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The social and behavioral characteristics of recreational facilities planning
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The traditional approach to recreational planning and open space rarely, if ever, incorporates the demographic and social factors of a given geographically defined area. This thesis investigates the complex demographic, social and behavioral characteristics of leisure and recreation in the contemporary American industrial society and relates the theory to recreational planning in an applicable fashion. "The Social and Behavioral Characteristics of Recreational Facility Planning" also investigates the more or less accepted recreational planning standards as diverse scales of development and applies these standards to a contemporary case study example of a "new town" of 150,000 people in the Houston Region, presently being planned under the Title VII provision of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970, which guarantees federal assistance in planning and development. In the thesis a new conceptual approach to recreational planning of both facilities and open space areas is formulated and then applied to two hypothetical communities, both of 150,000 population in the Houston Region and to the case study example of the Tide VII "new town." The case study example is then compared to the two hypothetical communities using the formulated theoretical approach and then to the application. of the case study example using the traditional planning approach on the basis of satisfied recreational needs, land allocation, land preservation, economic investment and method validity. The most evident conclusion that has been revealed by my thesis, is that the traditional approach to recreational planning does not allow for the differentiation of recreational facilities on the basis of age, income or ethnic background, which I have found to have a great bearing on the type and number of recreational facilities allocated in a given area. Finally, the thesis concludes by summarizing my findings based on both the traditional planning approach and the formulated theoretical planning approach while making recommendations for future recreational planning and research.


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Since popularity of Linux operating system in industrial environment increase, needs for interoperability between Linux applications and industrial equipment come true. Actually most every Linux scada/HMI project reinvents the wheel for field communication, without interoperability.
Mainly, DPBC (DBus for process control) is a standard abstraction layer between SCADA and field equipment.
DBPC is based on D-Bus which is a message bus and activation system that is set to achieve deep penetration in Linux.
DBPC define a standard set of objects, interfaces and methods for use in process control. It will provide a common standard for industrial communication, especially between HMI, SCADA and field electronic equipement.
If you have ideas you want to suggest but don't want to edit this main document, please go to the brainstorming Page.
Trivial diagrammatic description of DBPC architecture.
- Process control and automation engineer
- Linux user and open source programmer
- HMI and SCADA open source project
- Industrial embedded systems programmer
- Industrial equipment manufacturer
- Industrial computer manufacturer
DBus : D-Bus is an inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism implemented as a software data bus which permits communication between applications. Unless it is not a process field bus as used in factory floor, its core functionality can easily be apprehended in the same way by control engineer. For more detail about DBus and IPC see related IPC specification.
DBPC : DBPC is a layer above DBUS. It define a standard set of objects, interfaces and methods for use in process control, automation and domotic applications, to facilitate interoperability. Primary goal is defining a common communication language for real time communication of plant data between control devices from different manufacturers and SCADA, HMI, process control and open source applications.
DBPC-server : DBPC servers are services which provide common tags access trough DBus. Generally a DBPC server grants real time data access to one or more remote programmable logic controller. Most of time is done by pooling. Typically DBus servers represent a field bus protocol. (For example : ModbusTCP DBPC server, Profibus DBPC server).
DBPC-client : DBPC client are compliant application which access to tags in one or more DBPC-server.
Tags : Each datum made available by a DBPC server is called a tag. Tags correspond (roughly) to physical values, factory state, command signals, etc. A tag's value may be read or written by a DBPC client.
Device : From a DBPC point of view, devices are equipment or objects which may be controlled or monitored through a DBPC server. While the primary target of DBPC are industrial applications, DBPC servers may also be implemented for other types of "industiral" devices : HVAC, heating control, domotic, real time data producers, metéo stations, telescopes, multimedia equipment, IR remote controls, DCF clocks, robotics, USB gadgets, RFID readers, etc.
PLC Programmable logical controller : Programmable logic controllers are digital computers used for automation of electromechanical processes. Unlike general-purpose computers, PLCs are designed for multiple input/output arrangements, extended temperature ranges, immunity to electrical noise, and resistance to vibration and impact. Although the IEC 61131-3 define PLC programming languages, manufacturers typically implement their own programming tools and interfaces. Interoperability is not yet a priority for PLC manufacturers.
Field bus : Fieldbus is an industrial automation network system for real-time distributed control. It offers a protocol for interconnecting instruments actuators and sensors with a controller. The domain of field bus application is typically an industrial plant. Many competing fieldbus technologies exist, merging them with D-Bus is a brave goal followed by DBPC.
Part 1 This part introduce basis usage of D-Bus for process control.
Part 2 This part specify common D-Bus objects, interface and method for DBPC tags.
Part 3 This part specify common D-Bus objects, interface and method for DBPC devices.
Part 4 This part specify common D-Bus objects, interface and method for DBPC server.
Part 5 This part define a common configuration file format which are used by DBPC servers.
OPC-DA was designed to bridge Windows and process control hardware and software applications. Standard defines consistent method of accessing field data from plant floor devices. Actually, OPC-DA is probably the most common interoperability tool used in automation and process control world.
The need for interoperability are often equally applicable in Linux world. However, because OPC-DA is based on the OLE, COM, and DCOM technologies developed by Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows operating system family there are encumbrances preventing wholesale adaptation of these technologies to Linux systems. With this in mind, DBPC was created to present end users with a common cross-platform experience allowing DBPC and OPC-DA "feel" functionally similar.
Nevertheless, DBPC distinguish of OPC-DA in one sens that it target to exploit full advantage and benefit provided by Linux operating system and Open source software development. So we personally expect better performance and reliability.
Although DBPC is open source oriented, DBPC also still to encourage, manufacturer providing there own DBPC compliant software, not necessary open source, in the same way than OPC.
OPC-UA is an evolution of OPC-DA. It has been created to extend some features lacking with OPC-DA.
OPC-UA is more like a communication protocol. DBPC is still an Inter-Process Communication.
- In one hand, OPC-UA will be suitable for automation network and inter-systems interoperability, because it is XML based and include authentication support.
- In the other hand DBPC is rooted in Linux thanks to D-bus which allow deep system integration and eases application development. D-Bus offers low-latency and low-overhead and designed to be small and efficient to minimize round-trips. So very suitable for embedded systems as well as fanless touchscreen HMI. In addition, because the protocol is binary (as opposed to textual), it may remove some serialization overhead. OPC-UA may benefit of DBPC and reciprocally. As a reslut of OPC-UA can be implemented as a upper layer (wrapper) above DBPC, similar to upcoming XMP-RPC, SOAP, CGI and so on.
A first approach may be reading D-Bus FAQ, 9 to 18 which compare D-Bus with several IPC.
When choosing an IPC for process control in Linux, some criteria were decisive :
- Availability : D-Bus has strong integration with the Gnome and KDE desktop environments.
- Portability : D-Bus is portable to many Linux or UNIX flavors -- a port to Windows is in progress.
- Liability : The D-Bus low-level API reference implementation and protocol have been heavily tested in "real world" systems.
- Multi-language support : D-Bus is supported by many programming languages including : C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, etc.
- Scripting : D-Bus may be used from terminal (dbus-send) allowing command line/shell scripting.
- Efficiency : D-Bus may be effectively implemented in low performance hardware and embedded systems.
- Openness : A a side effect, instead of DBPC, HMI applications might benefit by supporting D-Bus connectivity.

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LoadWAND v1
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LoadWAND dialog.
Summary
Loads Event Nexus file, integrates events, sets wavelength, mask, and goniometer, and sets proton charge to monitor counts
Properties
Name
Direction
Type
Default
Description
Filename
Input
list of str lists
Files to Load. Allowed extensions: ['.nxs.h5']
IPTS
Input
number
Optional
IPTS number to load from
RunNumbers
Input
long list
Run numbers to load
ApplyMask
Input
boolean
True
If True standard masking will be applied to the workspace
Grouping
Input
string
None
Group pixels. Allowed values: ['None', '2x2', '4x4']
OutputWorkspace
Output
Workspace
Mandatory
Description
This algorithm uses LoadEventNexus v1 to load a WAND² data file after which it will integrate out the events, apply a standard mask, set the goniometer, and set the proton charge to be the number of monitor counts.
The standard mask includes the top and bottom 2 rows of pixels and the last 6 columns for run numbers up to 26600 or the first and last 2 columns for larger run numbers.
If it's a powder sample it can be reduced with WANDPowderReduction v1.
If you need to do event filtering don't use this algorithm, simply use LoadEventNexus v1 and convert to data manually.
You can specify multiple files in the filename property or set the IPTS and RunNumbers, where RunNumbers can be a range or list of numbers, see Usage example below. If multiple files are loaded they will be named 'OutputWorkspace'+'_runnumber' and be grouped in 'OutputWorkspace'.
There is a grouping option to group pixels by either 2x2 or 4x4 which will help in reducing memory usage and speed up the later reduction steps. In most cases you will not see a difference in reduced data with 4x4 pixel grouping.
Usage
Example - LoadWAND
silicon = LoadWAND('/HFIR/HB2C/IPTS-7776/nexus/HB2C_26506.nxs.h5')
print("Workspace has {0} spectrum and {1} point in units {2}".format(silicon.getNumberHistograms(),
 silicon.blocksize(),
 silicon.getXDimension().name))
Output:
Workspace has _PHONE_ spectrum and 1 point in units Wavelength
Load using Multiple file
silicon = LoadWAND('/HFIR/HB2C/IPTS-7776/nexus/HB2C_26506.nxs.h5,/HFIR/HB2C/IPTS-7776/nexus/HB2C_26507.nxs.h5')
print("Workspace group {0} has {1} workspaces {2} and {3}".format(silicon.name(),
 silicon.getNumberOfEntries(),
 silicon.getNames()[0],
 silicon.getNames()[1]))
Output:
Workspace group silicon has 2 workspaces silicon_26506 and silicon_26507
Load using IPTS and run numbers
# Comma-separated list
silicon = LoadWAND(IPTS=7776,RunNumbers='26506,26507')
# or range
silicon = LoadWAND(IPTS=7776,RunNumbers='26506-26507')
print("Workspace group {0} has {1} workspaces {2} and {3}".format(silicon.name(),
 silicon.getNumberOfEntries(),
 silicon.getNames()[0],
 silicon.getNames()[1]))
Output:
Workspace group silicon has 2 workspaces silicon_26506 and silicon_26507
Categories: AlgorithmIndex | DataHandling\Nexus
Source
Python: LoadWAND.py


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Yogic Living: Yogic Numerology & the 10 Bodies of Light
Yogic Numerology is a simple, elegant tool for self-mastery. It gives us a framework to understand our strengths and weaknesses. The system is simple to learn, quick to apply, and accurate.
This is a good time to learn something new and start a practice that will help you embrace your individual gifts and overcome your personal weaknesses. It is also a time when we can share Yogic Numerology with friends and family—strengthen connections while offering something new, simple, fun and uplifting.
Yogic Numerology provides an effective way to align with your higher Self and excel via the technology of Kundalini Yoga.
The Yogic Numerology System
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The Ten Bodies
Introduction to the Ten Bodies by Shakti Parwha Kaur
Characteristics of the Ten Bodies
Kundalini Yoga and Tantric Numerology by Guruka Singh
Kundalini Yoga Technology
Kriya for Awakening to Your Ten Bodies
A great favorite Kundalini Kriya - 16 exercises take a minimum of 35 minutes.
To Master the 1st Body (Soul):
 1. Recite Japji Sahib by Guru Nanak daily for 1,000 days.
 2. Come from a place of great humility, relax into the flow of God energy and use it to create beauty. Raise the Kundalini and open the heart.
 3. Exercise Set for Balancing Head and Heart
 4. Pulse Meditation
 5. Guidance of the Soul meditation.
 6. Meditation into Being - I Am I Am
To Master the 2nd Body (Negative Mind):
 1. Recite Shabad Hazare by Guru Arjan daily.
 2. Value your discipline; develop conscious relationships of integrity; strengthen the Positive Mind if the Negative Mind is overdeveloped
 3. Chant the mantra Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Jio, out loud, 8 repetitions per breath, for 31 minutes daily.
 4. Meditation for Negating False Identity in The Ten Light Bodies of Consciousness (page 52).
 5. Meditation for the Negative Mind.
 6. Chii-a Kriya
 7. Chant Ang Sang Wahe Guru.
To Master the 3rd Body (Positive Mind):
 1. Read Anand Sahib by Guru Amar Das daily.
 2. Strengthen the Navel Point (Third Chakra); use positive affirmations; strengthen the Negative Mind if the Positive Mind is overdeveloped.
 3. Rebirthing Meditation
 4. Sing or meditate on the mantra Ardas Bhaee.
 5. Meditation for the Positive Mind.
 6. Kirtan Kriya.
To Master the 4th Body (Neutral Mind):
 1. Sing the songs of Guru Ram Das or meditate on Guru Ram Das using the mantra Guru Guru Wahe Guru, Guru Ram Das Guru.
 2. Regular meditation practice.
 3. Meditation for the Neutral Mind.
 4. Meditation for Guidance.
 5. Sodarshan Chakra Kriya.
To Master the 5th Body (Physical Body):
 1. Engage in strong physical exercise daily.
 2. Read Sukhmani Sahib by Guru Arjan every day.
 3. Teach.
 4. Meditation for Protection and Projection from the Heart.
 5. Prosperity Meditation in The Ten Light Bodies of Consciousness (page 135).
 6. Kriya for Healing the Self.
 7. Breath of Fire.
 8. Kundalini Bhakti Mantra.
To Master the 6th Body (Arcline)
 1. Meditate daily for at least 31 minutes with any meditation.
 2. Awaken the pituitary gland.
 3. Chant Mere Man Lochai daily.
 4. Drib Dhristi Lochina Karma Kriya
 5. Ajna Stimulation Kriya
 6. 8 Stroke Breath Meditation in Man to Man on page116.
 7. Meditation for the Arcline and to Clear the Karmas.
To Master the 7th (Auric) Body:
 1. Sing out loud, often and joyfully. Elevate others with your singing.
 2. Wear white clothing made of natural fibers.
 3. Balancing the Aura.
 4. Meditation for the Divine Shield.
 5. Strengthening the Aura.
 6. The Seventh Body Meditation.
 7. Grace of God Meditation.
To Master the 8th (Pranic) Body:
 1. All pranayama.
 2. Narayan Kriya on p. 96, Man to Man.
 4. Do any or all of the Ra Ma Da Sa, Sa Say So Hung Healing Meditations.
 5. Master the technique of Long Deep Breathing.
 6. Develop Your Pranic Energy.
 7. Meditation for a Stable Self.
To Master the 9th (Subtle) Body:
 1. Any meditation that you do consistently for 1,000 days will work on the ninth body.
 2. Breath Meditation Series for Glandular Balance in Kundalini Yoga Sadhana Guidelines.
 3. Meditation for Conquering Death in The Ten Light Bodies of Consciousness (pages 196 & 197).
 4. Meditation to Clarify the Subtle Body.
 5. Laya Yoga Chant
 6. Chant Gobinday Mukunday.
To Master the 10th (Radiant) Body:
 1. Keep your hair long and uncut.
 2. Recite Jaap Sahib by Guru Gobind Singh daily.
 3. Guru Gobind Singh Shakti Mantra Meditation.
 4. Archer Pose for 11 minutes (each side) every day.
 5. Varuyas Kriya in Kundalini Yoga Sadhana Guidelines.
 6. Gobinda Meditation in The Ten Light Bodies of Consciousness (page 223).
 7. Meditation to Develop the Radiant Body.
 8. The Radiant Body Meditation for Women.
 9. Chattra Chakkra Vartee.
To Master the Number Eleven:
 1. Read from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib every day for 1,000 days.
 2. Chant Long Ek Ong Kars
 3. Chant the mantra Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad Sat Gur Prasad Ek Ong Kar for 31 minutes daily.
 4. Ra Ma Meditation
 5. Chant the Aquarian Sadhana Mantras.
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3. Aids in proper digestion:
Caraway essential oil has been in use since the prehistoric period for its pitta-enhancing properties that stimulates the Agni or digestive fire, secretion of gastric and digestive juices. This attribute is responsible for the carminative, digestive and stomachic properties of Caraway oil. Its flavonoids, fatty acids and triacylglycerols help in reducing inflammation in the intestines and relieving smooth muscle contractions induced by spasmogens.
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Carvone which owes the credit of the anti-inflammatory attribute of Caraway essential oil actively reduces the production of prostaglandin and increases the production of leukotriene thus helping in alleviating colic for which reason Caraway seeds boiled in hot water was used in treating infants with colic. As an effective antimicrobial agent, Caraway oil destroys the harmful microbes in the stomach and inhibits the growth of intestinal pathogens.
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Common cold and certain other respiratory problems are often known as the most annoying ailments of mankind of all ages.
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Between 1979 and 1993, Seychelles was governed under a single-party socialist system. President René, who had assumed power in a military coup d'état in 1977, had been the sole candidate in the presidential elections of 1979, 1984, and 1989, each time winning an affirmative vote of more than 90 percent.
The SPPF agreed to relinquish its monopoly of power in December 1991 when a party congress approved René's proposal to allow other political groups to be registered. Groups receiving sufficient popular support were permitted to take part in revising the constitution. A first effort to produce a new constitution failed in a referendum in November 1992, but after further negotiations constitutional changes were approved the following June. Multiparty elections followed in July 1993 in which René and the SPPF were again victorious.
For more information about the government, see Facts about Seychelles.
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Part 5—Explore in ICE the Relationship of AOT and CO
Step 1 – Load Two Datasets into NEO/ICE
We will use the Image Composite Explorer (ICE) of NEO to compare the Aerosol Optical Thickness Data to the Carbon Monoxide Data. It requires Java to run on your computer.
Select datasets for use with this tool from the Atmosphere tab where we downloaded datasets for Parts 2 - 4. A maximum of three datasets may be analyzed in the ICE tool at one time. We will choose to look at a specific date in time, September 2005, for the two datasets AOT and CO.
- Go to the NASA Earth Observations (NEO) homepage.
- Find the September 2005 Aerosol Optical Thickness data in the NEO by using Next at the bottom of the page. Select it for analysis by clicking (+) to expand it and then by choosing Analyze this image.
- Find the Carbon Monoxide (MOPITT) dataset in NEO and select it for analysis.
- Choose September 2005, as you did for AOT dataset. Use (+) to expand the options and then click Analyze this image. There should now be two datasets on the right-hand section of the screen. Then click on configure/launch analysis.
Step 2 – Launch and Configure for ICE by Choosing an Area of High CO and AOT Values
- When the analysis configuration launches a new page, it will display your selected dataset(s) on the left side of this window. Datasets can be added or removed.
- Some actions you can take on this page are to select a subset of the image (Select Area), choose an analysis mode, adjust the file size, or download the dataset and the analysis tool for offline analysis.
- On this new page, click on the Select Area tab to choose a subset of the world which will decrease the image's file size for purposes of the ICE tool. This is very helpful if your Internet connection is slower. Using the cursor on the map, you can click and drag a box around your area of interest or you can type in the latitude and longitude limits.
- Drag a box around the South American area of high CO, which also seems to have high Aerosol Optical Thickness values. Be sure to click the Select button in the Select Area frame. This will cause the tool to load only the data for your area of interest, such as South America, instead of the worldwide dataset.
- Click on Launch Analysis.
Step 3 – Use Basic ICE Tools to Explore the Data
In ICE, explore the selected Aerosol Optical Thickness dataset using the Zoom and Pan, Probe, Plot Transect, Distance, Select and Outline Region tools.
- Select Probe and then move the cursor over the image to see what the optical depth values for each of the selected (at most 3) ICE datasets are for the pixel and the location of that pixel. Note that "no data" pixels are represented by "---". No data can occur because of continuous coverage by clouds of that area or the inability of the algorithm to compute a data value with the information available. Select the Probe again to turn the data value display off.
- To use the zoom and pan feature, click Zoom & Roam and then click in the image to zoom in. Continue to click within the image to zoom in further. You can right click (or command-click on the Mac) to zoom out.
- The Plot transect tool is used to graph the data for a select line. Select Plot transect and hold down the mouse and drag a line across an area of interest, releasing the mouse button at the line's end.
- To measure the distance on the image for the length of the line, select Distance and hold down the mouse and drag across the image. The measurement is in units of kilometers.
- To outline (trace) a non-rectangular area in the image, select Outline region.. Do this by holding down the mouse as you move the cursor around the desired area. As with Select region, the area inside the outline and the average optical thickness are displayed on the map.
Next, select Select region. Notice the display of the average optical depth value for a selected area.
Once you have made a selection of an area you wish to further analyze, you can use the Histogram feature which will plot values versus their frequency.
Step 4 – Compare Histograms and Scatter Plots
- Launch Analysis from the configuration page. A new page will display with your images at the top. The analysis tools are along the right as buttons and check boxes.
- When you click on the Probe button and move your cursor across the image, the values of both datasets and a location are displayed.
- You can display either image, AOT or CO. Click on the thumbnail to switch between them.
- Next, choose Select region and trace the area of highest AOT (or CO) values.
- Click back and forth between the two images to see how well the outline fits high values in both datasets.
- Choose the Select region or Outline region tool.
- Select Histogram. The plot (y values) are the number of pixel values which fall in a range of limits on the two color-coded x axes labeled for each dataset.
- Choose the Scatter button which plots the AOT on one axis and the CO on the other axis.
Step 5 - Reflect on the Data RelationshipsHere are some things to notice about the scatter and histogram plots of this area for September 2005.
- The values in the scatter plot seem to cluster in the upper right quadrant, which means that when one of these parameters is high, so is the other. They vary directly. If you select a region that has a range of color, you can see at a glance on the scatter plot the range of values for each dataset quickly.
- The histogram shows that the two datasets AOT and CO generally agree that the highest number of pixels within the outline drawn on the image have the highest values of aerosol particulates and highest carbon monoxide (in ppb).
- Since you looked at the animation stack files for AOT and CO, you should compare some monthly data on fires globally to them. Here is a MODIS Fire Data stack (TIFF 8.9MB Jun30 10) for 2008 you can animate in ImageJ. This stack is called fire2008.tif. Load it into ImageJ and combine with each of the stacks to notice any patterns.
Where and When are the Fires Happening?There are several possibilities to explain the occurrence, location and severity of the fires:
- land being cleared for agriculture
- natural weather patterns that bring electrical storms that start fires in remote forests where it is hard to reach with fire crews
- strong winds that come seasonally and spread fires quickly


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However, this is my thought of using a t test on difference of population means
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critital value $t_{0.05}(df=14)$= 1.76131
$1.2829 < 1.76131$
therefore no difference between the mean daily sales from the two stores. Why am I getting a different conclusion? Is it reasonable to think about it this way?
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I suppose $s_1^2$ is the sample variance of $\bar{x}_1$ and $s_2^2$ is the sample variance of $\bar{x}_2$. In that case, the sample variance of $\bar{x}_{1}-\bar{x}_{2}$ is not equal to the sum of variance unless covariance is equal to zero. Hence, the denominator of your statistics does not seem to be correct. Moreover, the degrees of freedom are 7 because you only lose 1 observation when computing the var of the difference of the means. – Cristian Oct 3 '12 at 19:03
Sorry I didn't look at the formula used for the two sample t test. I assumed it was correct. Maybe that is another mistake but the key point is that it is the sample variance of the paired difference that needs to be used. If you like my answer so much why not give me an upvote. It seems to be awfully difficult on this site to get upvotes. – Michael Chernick Oct 4 '12 at 1:40
_USER_ yes, thank you for answering, but it looks like you have discussed the topic in CV, but Im wondering what is CV... – user133466 Oct 4 '12 at 15:35
_USER_ why do you think using the formula for 2 sample t test is incorrect in this scenario? I think we can use it because has been used to determine difference of population means. my thoughts are, if anything, this and the paired t test should come to the same conclusion... – user133466 Oct 4 '12 at 17:59
_USER_ If you have a big seasonal effect the variance of the two sample t test can be much higher than the paired test and that will hold even though one has more dfs than the other. Also you are using the unequal variance assumption for the two sample test. So it does not have a t distribution under the null hypothesis. It becomes the Behrens-Fisher problem and has Welch's distribution which is approximated by a t test. I thought Cristian was implying that you were using the wrong formula for the test because there was an algebraic eror in the formula you used. – Michael Chernick Oct 4 '12 at 18:55
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You are using the formula for the unpaired two sample t test. The paired t test is like a one-sample test of the null hypothesis that the paired difference is 0 vs alternative that it is different from 0. The test statistic and the degrees of freedom are different. It is a more appropriate and more powerful test when the pairs are positively correlated. I have discussed this in posts on CV.
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thanks for answering michael, what exactly is a CV? – user133466 Oct 4 '12 at 0:10
Yes! an answer!!! Michael you're AWSOME!!!! – user133466 Oct 4 '12 at 0:28
CV is short for Cross Validation. It is an SE site where statisticians, machine learning/data mining expert – Michael Chernick Oct 4 '12 at 17:41
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Can a Regulatory Budget Trim Red Tape?
| Aug 28, 2013 | Opinion
The idea of a regulatory budget has been around for decades. Unfortunately, given the current political environment, the idea of placing a budgetary cap on the overall costs of regulation will likely remain for some time just an idea that regulatory scholars will continue to debate without any practical results. However, a more achievable goal would be to adopt a modified regulatory budget that targets government paperwork requirements. Such a paperwork budget could reduce red tape while leaving current health protections unchanged, thereby generating bipartisan support.
Unlike total regulatory costs and benefits in our economy, we already have a tally of the active collections of information and the total amount of time it takes annually to complete federal paperwork. Although the figure changes daily, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) reports approximately 9,100 collections of information (essentially government forms) and more than 10.3 billion hours of paperwork.
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If trimming this large burden seems impossible, it isn't. While the overall trend has been toward more paperwork throughout the years, the accompanying graph does show that there have been deceases at times. (Because Treasury is 75 percent of all paperwork, any single tax collection can drastically affect total numbers; the graph therefore displays collections of information without Treasury, better demonstrating the growth rate of typical regulatory agencies – and the possibility of reductions.)
A paperwork budget could be set up to function much like the United Kingdom's "one-in, one-out" system for regulation, which recently expanded to "one-in, two-out." A U.S. version of "one-in, one-out" for paperwork would cap the overall number of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) paperwork approvals and the overall number of hours associated with them.
The budget would operate by agency. For instance, if the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wanted to require an additional form, it would have to consolidate or eliminate one of its nearly 1,200 existing forms and ensure the resulting swap would not increase its current 644 million hour paperwork burden.
HHS provides an example of the explosive growth of paperwork—but it also illustrates the feasibility of restraining paperwork. The agency's total paperwork burdens grew fourfold since 1995. But in 2008 and 2011, the agency did reduce its total burden. In 2012, HHS also finalized a rule to save hospitals $940 million annually by cutting paperwork requirements.
A paperwork budget, of course, would not solve every perceived regulatory problem, but it would reduce the red tape that most citizens and businesses encounter. It would also achieve cost-savings without reducing current health and safety protections. Assuming an hour of regulatory paperwork time is worth $31.23 (the median wage for a regulatory compliance officer), a 100 million hour reduction could save $3.1 billion.
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If 100 million hours sounds fanciful, the Department of Transportation (DOT) just proposed to eliminate 46.7 million hours of compliance time, roughly 15 percent of its overall budget. That's just one rule from one agency. Last year the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed to merge several existing collections to eliminate 8.4 million hours of paperwork, or 21 percent of the Bureau's total.
The goal of a paperwork budget would be to give teeth to the "Paperwork Reduction Act." Instead of just tracking paperwork, agencies would be compelled to keep their burdens neutral. The returns could be tremendous. In FY 2011, the government added 355 million hours of paperwork burdens. An effective budget would have prevented this expansion and saved $11.8 billion (again assuming a cost of $31.23 an hour). To put that in perspective, OIRA has reported high-end costs of $12 billion in FY 2010 for all the major rules it reviewed.
Although a comprehensive regulatory budget is likely a non-starter politically, a paperwork budget could garner bipartisan support because it will save time and money while doing nothing to alter fundamental health and safety protections. Of course, if in the end Congress cannot pass such a reform, the President could still issue an executive order implementing a paperwork budget for cabinet-level agencies.
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Your Risk of Tumor Disease is Linked to Your Blood Type
Tumor diseases are a threat to health and human life.
In this article, you will find out which blood groups are most resistant to different types of tumor diseases.
Stomach Tumor Disease
People with 0 blood type, regardless of whether the Rh factor is negative or positive, are less likely to develop the disease.
For example, people with blood group 0 have a significantly lower risk of developing gastric cancer, but people with blood group A have an increased chance of developing this type of disease.
Stomach ulcer
Having a blood type A or AB means you're less likely to develop a stomach ulcer than people with blood type 0.
The reason is still unclear, but researchers speculate that this is due to changes in the immune response to infections.
Heart disease
People with a zero blood group have a lower risk of coronary heart disease by up to 23 percent compared to all other blood groups, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study.
Those at higher risk are with blood groups AB and B. Except for genetic pre-dispositions, the exact reason for this is not clear.
Problems with the Pancreas
Another win for blood group zero, as people who have it, are at a lower risk of developing pancreatic disease.
A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that people with blood group A had a 32 percent higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer, while those with blood group B had up to 72 percent more risk.
The study's findings state that further research is needed to determine the exact reason why people with a zero blood group are more genetically sensitive.
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17 Jul 2016
BA English Modern essay'Are Doctor Men of Science'by G.B Shaw
 George Bernard Shaw
G.B. Shaw, a famous Irish novelist, writer, reformer and critic, was born in Dublin. He was
called as a modern writer. He was awarded with Nobel Prize in literature in 1925. He was
also a famous journalist and had Witten many books-reviews and critical essays including
long prefaces of his own pay.
'Are Doctors Men of Science?' is an extract from Shaw s' preface to the 'Doctor Dilemma'. In
this essay Shaw is of the view that some men have God like powers over others. He satirizes
the doctors and laughs at the false pretentions of the medical profession. It is a famous that
the doctors are the men of science, but Shaw denies it.
Shaw proves logically that doctors are not the men of science. Doctors only cure the
diseases and nothing more. The business of the scientists is quite different that of the
doctors. The scientists invent and discover the things they also invent some new theories
while the doctors are quite impotent in this regards. He furthers his point of view by saying
that just as every captain of the ship is not Galileo; every draftsman is not Shakespeare and
every locomotive is not a miracle and its driver is not Stephenson, in the same way every
doctor is not scientist.
Doctoring is an art and not a science and it is not even the art of keeping the people healthy.
It is simply the art of curing diseases. In this regard their knowledge about science is no
more e than that of a lay man. The doctors practice their profession only to earn money and
they never make any contribution to science. The work of a scientist is creative one
whereas a doctor only follows the direction.
The writer justifies his point of view that even the quack and herbalists are doing the same
thing and they are making more money that a qualified doctor. Shaw say that the only
difference between a quack and qualified one is that the doctor has the authority to sign the
death certificate of the patient while a quack has no authority to do so. A doctor tells the
patient about what to eat and what not to eat. This same job is being done by the
grandmothers who also tell their sons about what to eat and what not to eat.
Important Points:
2. It is a wrong concept in the society that the people think that doctors are scientists
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CPU branching and parallelization
Antão Almada
8 min readJun 28, 2021
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EDIT: Updated to .NET 8 and improved contents.
Introduction
Performance depends not only on the logic of our own code but also, what the compiler does with it and how the CPU executes it.
Modern CPUs try to maximize its throughput by executing instructions simultaneously, while waiting for the result of logic tests. They try their best to guess the behavior of our code but, many times, the code has to be adjusted to maximize that potential. These optimizations are CPU dependent, and results may vary.
I want to acknowledge that this post is mostly based on knowledge shared by Bartosz Adamczewski.
Logical Branch Removal
"A branch is an instruction in a computer program that can cause a computer to begin executing a different instruction sequence and thus deviate from its default behavior of executing instructions in order." — Wikipedia
Code execution on a CPU is not always linear. When it has to evaluate a condition to then decide what next instruction to execute, the CPU may try to guess the most probable branch to follow and execute ahead of time. When the condition is finally evaluated, if it took the correct path, time was saved. Otherwise, it has to go back and take the correct branch, loosing valuable time. The more it predicts correctly, the better is the performance. Performance can be maximized when this decision making can be avoided.
For example, lets now implement an overload for Sum() that only sums the items to which the given predicate returns true:
public static int Sum(int[] source, Func<int, bool> predicate)
{
var sum = 0;
foreach (var item in source)
{
if (predicate(item))
sum += item;
}
return sum;
}
In this case, the CPU will try to guess if it should add the value or not, but it has no knowledge of the data in source or the logical condition in predicate. This makes it almost impossible for the CPU to infer a heuristic.
One possible way of removing the logical condition is to convert the boolean to a number. It can be done very efficiently by using Unsafe.As<bool, byte>(). It converts, without copies or logic branches, the values false to 0 and true to 1.
NOTE: This assumes a bool is internally represented as a byte. This may not be true for all implementations of .NET.
This number can now be multiplied by the item. This results in 0 being added to the sum when predicate is false; otherwise, the item is added.
Sum() can now look like this:
public static int Sum(int[] source, Func<int, bool> predicate)
{
var sum = 0;
foreach (var item in source)
{
var predicateValue = predicate(item);
sum += item * Unsafe.As<bool, byte>(ref predicateValue);
}
return sum;
}
NOTE: Not all logic branches were removed as foreach still generates an end condition which returns true for each item until it reaches the end. In this case, the CPU will be able to predict the branch most of the time. It should only fail at the end of the collection.
Let's use BenchmarkDotNet to run the following benchmarks:
using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
using System;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
public class BranchingBenchmarks
{
const int Seed = 0;
protected int[]? array;
[Params(20, 2_000)]
public int Count { get; set; }
[GlobalSetup]
public void GlobalSetup()
{
array = GC.AllocateUninitializedArray<int>(Count);
var random = new Random(Seed);
foreach (ref var item in array.AsSpan())
item = random.Next(Count);
}
[Benchmark(Baseline = true)]
public int If()
{
var sum = 0;
foreach (var item in array!)
{
if (IsEven(item))
sum += item;
}
return sum;
}
[Benchmark]
public int Multiply()
{
var sum = 0;
foreach (var item in array!)
{
var predicateValue = IsEven(item);
sum += item * Unsafe.As<bool, byte>(ref predicateValue);
}
return sum;
}
static bool IsEven(int item)
=> (item & 1) is 0;
}
This benchmark tests the performance of each method using an array of random integers. It uses two lengths for the array: 20 and 2,000 items. Both methods sum only the values that are even.
NOTE: You can see in SharpLab that using item % 2 is 0 or (item & 1) is 0 generates exactly the same assembly on the latest .NET versions but not for the older versions. I'm using (item & 1) is 0 to guarantee equality in the benchmarks.
NOTE: The results for this benchmark depend on how well the CPU can predict the branch to follow. This depends on the data used which, in this case, depends on the seed value.
For the given seed and given CPU, the Multiply() method is slightly slower for a short collection but 30% to 90% faster on a large collection. Please note that this means adding around 1 ns on a short collection but saving around 1,000 ns on a large collection.
You can find in this video other cases where you can apply this same logic:
Parallelization
I explain in my other article that CPUs can parallelize instruction execution by using SIMD, but it can also parallelize automatically in some other cases. These optimizations may not achieve the performance of SIMD but can be used when SIMD is not available or on the remaining items that don't fill up a Vector<T>.
Let's look into the simpler implementation of Sum():
public static int Sum(int[] source)
{
var sum = 0;
foreach (var item in source)
sum += item;
return sum;
}
It adds all the items sequentially into a sum local variable. What if we use more than one local variable?
public static int Sum(int[] source)
{
var sum0 = 0;
var sum1 = 0;
for (var index = 0; index < source.Length - 1; index += 2)
{
sum0 += source[index];
sum1 += source[index + 1];
}
var isOddLength = (source.Length & 1) is not 0;
return sum0 + sum1 + (Unsafe.As<bool, byte>(ref isOddLength) * source[^1]);
}
This version iterates the array every two items, adding each item to two separate local variables. It then returns the addition of the two local variables and the last item if the length is an odd number.
NOTE: You can see in SharpLab that the JIT compiler is still smart enough to understand that bounds checking can be removed. I explain and benchmark this in my other article "Array iteration performance in C#".
Let's use BenchmarkDotNet again to run the following benchmarks:
using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
public class ParallelizationBenchmarks
{
protected int[]? array;
[Params(10, 1_000)]
public int Count { get; set; }
[GlobalSetup]
public void GlobalSetup()
{
array = Enumerable.Range(0, Count).ToArray();
}
[Benchmark(Baseline = true)]
public int ForEach()
{
var sum = 0;
foreach (var item in array!)
sum += item;
return sum;
}
[Benchmark]
public int ForParallel()
{
var source = array!;
var sum0 = 0;
var sum1 = 0;
for (var index = 0; index < source.Length - 1; index += 2)
{
sum0 += source[index];
sum1 += source[index + 1];
}
var isOddLength = (source.Length & 1) is not 0;
return sum0 + sum1 + (Unsafe.As<bool, byte>(ref isOddLength) * source[^1]);
}
}
This benchmark tests the performance of each method using an array of integers. It uses two lengths for the array: 10 and 1,000 items.
The parallelized method is 20% to 40% faster for both short and large collections.
All together now!
Let's now implement Sum() with a predicate, using SIMD, logical branch reduction and parallelization:
static int Sum2(int[] source, Func<int, bool> predicate, Func<Vector<int>, Vector<int>> predicate2)
{
var sum0 = 0;
var sum1 = 0;
var start = 0;
// check if hardware acceleration can be used
if (Vector.IsHardwareAccelerated && source.Length > Vector<int>.Count)
{
var sumVector = Vector<int>.Zero;
// cast the array of int to an array of Vector<int>
var vectors = MemoryMarshal.Cast


Using load cell to make stepping motor turn.
Hi there,
I am using a HX711 load cell and 17HS4401 stepping motor in order to create a hedgehog feeder. The hedgehog will be weighed and then if it falls into the weight range specified, it will turn the stepping motor.
I am very new to coding and would take any advise or recommendations.
I have a calibrated load cell that outputs weight to the serial monitor but am struggling code the stepping motor. How would you start this code and in what structure?
Unless you want your hedgehogs to starve, this may be too complex a project for someone who is "new to coding".
Unless your stepper motor is very small, it cannot and should not be driven directly from your Arduino. You will need to get a stepper motor shield, and it will come with a library that you can use to drive the stepper motor.
Start small. You should have a small program that reads the load cell and displays the correct weight. SEPARATELY, you should have a small program that drives the stepper motor appropriately. SEPARATELY, you should have a small program that is given a weight and displays whether the weight is in range or not. It would not hurt to understand some of the example programs that come with the Arduino IDE.
Then, and only then, you may try to code the program that you described. Test it thoroughly before using it with your hedgies.


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DOI: 10.1002/pen.760322209
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Abstract: Abstract T1ρH′ the proton spin‐lattice relaxation time in the rotating frame, can be used as a probe for polymer blend miscibility in the same way the glass transition temperature (Tg) is used. T1ρH has some advantages over Tg. It is indicative of the separate phases at a level of a few nanometers, below what Tg can distinguish. Also, T1ρH is the only parameter related to the local proton density in a sample. This paper shows a few examples of T1ρH investigations, including thermally reversible blends, phase …
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Meets ASTM D-422 and AASHTO T-88 specifications.
Plain form hydrometer has an approximate length of 280 mm.
The ASTM 151H is graduated with a range of 0.0995 to 1.038 in 0.001 divisions at 68° F for specific gravity.
The ASTM 152H has a range of -5 to +60 grams in 1 gram divisions at 68° F for grams of soil colloids per liter.
Hydrometer jars are used to suspend soil hydrometers in sodium hexametaphosphate solution for determining the amount of soil particles in a dispersed suspension. Jar is 18" high x 2.5" diameter marked for a volume of 1000 ml.


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Table of Contents
This chapter explains some concepts of the KCachegrind, and introduces terms used in the interface.
Cost counts of event types (like L2 Misses) are attributed to cost entities, which are items with relationship to source code or data structures of a given program. Cost entities not only can be simple code or data positions, but also position tuples. For example, a call has a source and a target, or a data address can have a data type and a code position where its allocation happened.
The cost entities known to KCachegrind are given in the following. Simple Positions:
An assembler instruction at a specified address.
- Source Line of a Function
All instructions that the compiler (via debug information) maps to a given source line specified by source file name and line number, and which are executed in the context of some function. The latter is needed because a source line inside of an inlined function can appear in the context of multiple functions. Instructions without any mapping to an actual source line are mapped to line number 0 in file
All source lines of a given function make up the function itself. A function is specified by its name and its location in some binary object if available. The latter is needed because binary objects of a single program each can hold functions with the same name (these can be accessed e.g. with
dlsym; the runtime linker resolves functions in a given search order of binary objects used). If a profiling tool cannot detect the symbol name of a function, e.g. because debug information is not available, either the address of the first executed instruction typically is used, or
- Binary Object
All functions whose code is inside the range of a given binary object, either the main executable or a shared library.
- Source File
All functions whose first instruction is mapped to a line of the given source file.
Symbol names of functions typically are hierarchically ordered in name spaces, e.g. C++ namespaces, or classes of object-oriented languages; thus, a class can hold functions of the class or embedded classes itself.
- Profile Part
Some time section of a profile run, with a given thread ID, process ID, and command line executed.
As can be seen from the list, a set of cost entities often defines another cost entity; thus, there is a inclusion hierarchy of cost entities.
Call from instruction address to target function.
Call from source line to target function.
Call from source function to target function.
(Un)conditional jump from source to target instruction.
(Un)conditional jump from source to target line.
Jumps between functions are not allowed, as this makes no sense in a call graph; thus, constructs like exception handling and long jumps in C have to be translated to popping the call stack as needed.
Arbitrary event types can be specified in the profile data by giving them a name. Their cost related to a cost entity is a 64-bit integer.
Event types whose costs are specified in a profile data file are called real events. Additionally, one can specify formulas for event types calculated from real events, which are called inherited events.


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Looking back on any significant event always gives us greater awareness and appreciation for the past experience. The same is true with your child's celebration of Eucharist. Through reflection on the experience and the rituals in the liturgy, we are able to clarify and extend the meaning of the celebration of the sacrament. Therefore, following the celebration of first communion, take some time together to discuss your recollections.
- What do you remember about the celebration of the sacrament?
- When you picture the celebration in your mind, what was most special to you?
- How did you feel?
- What does this experience tell you about God?
- What does this experience tell you about Jesus?
- What does this experience tell you about the Holy Spirit?
- Now that you have celebrated first communion, how will you act differently?
- Parents: How was your faith affirmed as you prepared for and celebrated this sacrament with your child?


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by Lisa Chamoff
, Contributing Reporter | November 29, 2016
Three years after its acquisition of ZONARE Medical Systems, Mindray has developed a new premium ultrasound system that harnesses ZONARE's patented ZONE Sonography Technology (ZST).
Called the Resona 7, the new platform, which the company says acquires high-quality images much faster than conventional ultrasound, was introduced at RSNA 2016.
"We are now able to merge and leverage these technologies to come up with a really unique ultrasound imaging platform in the industry," Jim Baun, clinical marketing manager for ultrasound at Mindray, told HCB News — and the company believes it's ZST that really differentiates it from everything else.
Baun explained that with ZST, the image is built pixel by pixel instead of line by line, as with the beam forming technology used in traditional ultrasound, making image acquisition 10 times faster.
"With ZONE Sonography, we flash a strobe light of ultrasound, capture the returning data and then using proprietary, high-speed, high-capacity digital signal processing methods, we take that data and then we build the image dot by dot," Baun said.
According to Baun, this approach to image creation yields other benefits too.
"The competition can only focus at one, or two, or three, or four given depths, depending on how the operator adjusts it," Baun said. "But if you can focus at five levels, that leaves 495 levels that you're not focusing at, because each image is about 500 pixels deep. ZST is focusing every pixel, every frame, every time, as opposed to conventional beam forming, which has limitations on the levels that they focus at. So, our images are always in perfect focus."
All of this gives the system potential to perform complex analysis on the acoustic data set.
"Say a woman has a lump in her breast," Baun said. "Now, you have a mammogram, you find a lump, then you have an ultrasound and see if it's a cyst or solid. If it's solid, then the woman has to have a biopsy. It kind of helps narrow it down. But the potential with this is to take that acoustic data set and analyze the characteristics of that lump and to be able to tell if it's benign or malignant."
Other features of the Resona 7 include a 12.1-inch touch screen and adjustable control panel.
The Resona 7 received 510(k) clearance a year ago and the company has been selling the system overseas, but decided to refine it before releasing it to the North American market.


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Salome, Yohanna (2004) Topic shifts and topic shift markers used by the male and female characters in Dawson's Creek tv series. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.Full text not available from this repository.
Conversation is very important in our daily lives. It is a routine activity which occurs in formal and informal situation. In a conversation, there always a topic to be talked about. The topic of conversation usually develops from one topic to other topics. The problem comes when the participants do not realize that the topic has already changed, so that it can cause misunderstanding and miscommunication in conversation. In order to avoid misunderstanding and miscommunication, it is important to study topic shifts and topic shift markers. The writer also adds gender aspects in this study. As we know, male and female speakers have some differences in conversation, especially in applying topic shifts and topic shift markers. Male speakers tend to jump from one topic to another topic while female speakers tend to shift the topic gradually. Therefore the writer is interested in studying topic shifts and topic shift markers based on gender differences, especially in Dawson's Creek TV Series episode "All Good Things" and "?Come to an Ends". In order to study topic shifts and topic shift markers, the writer uses some theories. The first theory is Stenstrom's theory about kind of topic shift, which is classified into five kinds of topic shift. The second theory is McCarthy's theory on topic shift markers. Through these theories, the writer tries to find out the similarities and differences between male and female speakers in applying topic shifts and topic shift markers. As a result of this research, the writer finds out that topic change is mostly used by male and female speakers in male-female conversation. Another finding is that the female speakers tend to use "well" as the opening, changing, closing marker while male speakers tend to use "you know" as changing marker and "allright" and "ok" as the closing marker.
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Webel Parsing Analysis: Q: "Instead of using a Snippet, can't I just use a Requirement and Trace to achieve the same thing?" A: No! The Snippet is far more powerful and fit for purpose.
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The Snippet used in the Webel Parsing Analysis recipe for SysML® is far more flexible and powerful than just trying to use the text of a SysML Requirement and the SysML Trace relationship:
 - A Snippet is part of a powerful meta-analysis layer that typically comes before formal treatments of the Requirements (and helps elicit them).
 - Not every text extract from a domain source document is a Requirement.
 - Con: A Requirement element can't appear as narrative commentary in every kind of diagram!
 - Con: The text of Requirement element is not always the same as its name.
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