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- View Cambodia's countryside by bicycle
- Meet local families and learn about their traditional livelihoods
- Learn how to make rice paper, rice wine, bamboo rice cake, and other traditional products
- Enjoy fresh fruits and a coconut at a local family's house
- Duration: 4 hours
- Maximum of 5 participants
During this tour I will take you on a journey through Cambodia's countryside and the traditional family businesses in Battambang Province. You will see these family businesses and learn how to make rice paper, rice wine, the famous bamboo rice cakes of Battambang, dried bananas, and fish paste. Many of the families have been running these businesses for decades and learned the skills from aunts, uncles, and grandparents. You will also enjoy fresh fruits and a coconut at a local family's house. The easy cycle ride of approximately 25km will take you via flat paved and dirt roads past rice fields, along the Sangker River, through villages and lively markets, glimpsing daily life along the way.
You will also get insight in how the rice grain is used in the production of paper, cakes, and wine. We will educate you on the two rice growing seasons in Cambodia, about the different types of rice and their use. In many ways, the cycle of planting, growing, and harvesting of rice dictates the rhythm of Cambodian life. Many of the families we meet create their traditional products in the period between planting and harvesting their fields.
Along with viewing the production of and sampling traditional Cambodian products you will also get to know more about the history of Battambang and the period of the Pol Pot regime.
The tour starts at 7:30am and ends between 12am-1pm.
This tour started in 2010 in collaboration with a social enterprise and local college students with the intention of providing vocational training to local college students while also educating tourists about everyday life in Cambodia. With this tour you are directly contributing to the local community in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way that facilitates cross-cultural communication between local communities and travelers.
- Friendly, knowledgeable, local student guides
- One drink at Kinyei Café before tour
- Mountain bikes with helmets
- Snacks and water along the way
- Fresh fruits and coconut
- Tuk Tuk pickup before the tour
- Youth - between 10 and 15 years - $17
- Child - under 10 years - $13
The prices for children can be paid on location. We also have baby seats and a tag-along bicycle for smaller children and babies.


Nanotech in Formula One – Is It Legal?
A bit of digging around in the F1 technical regulations (thanks to Chris Walker at Diamond Hard Surfaces for originally drawing our attention to this) only found the following prohibition on using carbon nanotubes incorporated within carbon fibres, although given the difficulty of making an accurate distinction between nanotubes, nanofibres and carbon fibre. It would be interesting to know which definition the is FIA using.
Carbon fibres manufactured from polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor which have :
a tensile modulus < 550GPa ;
a density < 1.92 g/cm3 ;
unidirectional or planar reinforcement within their pre-impregnated form, not including three dimensional weaves or stitched fabrics (but fibre reinforcement using Z-pinning technology is permitted) ;
no carbon nanotubes incorporated within the fibre or its matrix ;
a permitted matrix, not including a carbon matrix
However, the 2014 regulations bring some new potential prohibitions, tightening up on the use of nanotubes and nanofibres:
Composite Materials – These are materials where a matrix material is reinforced by either a continuous or discontinuous phase. The matrix can be metallic, ceramic, polymeric or glass based. The reinforcement can be present as long fibres (fibre length greater than 10mm) or short fibres, whiskers and particles (discontinuous reinforcement). Nanoscale reinforced materials are to be considered as composites. (a reinforcement is considered to be nanoscale if any dimension of the reinforcement is less than 100nm.)
In terms of nanotechnologies in Formula 1 it is a minor prohibition. As far as we know, plenty of other applications of nanotechnology is used widely in Formula One. Typical examples include;
McLarens KERS system which was using A123's nano phosphate lithium ion batteries as a result of their combination of weight and charge/discharge capacity,
Nanoparticles such as CuO, ZnO and ZrO2 being used in lubricants to reduce friction and wear,
Carbon nano fibres used in brakes and
Nano structured paints and coatings for aerodynamic drag reduction and thermal management.
In the meantime we would be interested to know what has caused the FIA to turn their attention back to nano fibre composites, and in the meantime there are plenty of Montmorillonite clays that will do a similar job for weight reduction.


has to do something to work out which partition the row should go into, and while it does that work it release any pins of buffers it would have been holding from the previous row's insert; in other words, various optimisations relating to array inserts are not taking place.
 - Looking in more detail at the figures for the ref partition insert:
 - The 100,000 "HSC heap Segment Block Changes" equate to the 100,000 rows inserted into the table
 - Add the single row index updates to the primary key and you get 200,000 redo entries.
 - For every individual row inserted Oracle has to do a current mode (db block gets) check against the primary key of the orders table – but when array processing the root block can be pinned.
We can get a closer look at the differences by taking snapshots of v$segstat (or v$segment_statistics), to see the following (pre-created table on the left):
ORD_PK | ORD_PK
 logical reads 199,440 | logical reads 300,432
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ORDER_LINES_2 - P201801 | ORDER_LINES - P201801
 logical reads 2,112 | logical reads 16,960
 db block changes 1,280 | db block changes 16,944
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ORDER_LINES_2 - P201802 | ORDER_LINES - P201802
 logical reads 2,256 | logical reads 16,144
 db block changes 1,248 | db block changes 15,088
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ORDER_LINES_2 - P201803 | ORDER_LINES - P201803
 logical reads 2,288 | logical reads 17,264
 db block changes 1,376 | db block changes 16,560
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ORDER_LINES_2 - P201804 | ORDER_LINES - P201804
 logical reads 2,672 | logical reads 16,768
 db block changes 1,280 | db block changes 16,144
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ORDER_LINES_2 - P201805 | ORDER_LINES - P201805
 logical reads 2,224 | logical reads 17,472
 db block changes 1,264 | db block changes 16,528
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ORDER_LINES_2 - P201806 | ORDER_LINES - P201806
 logical reads 2,624 | logical reads 16,800
 db block changes 1,328 | db block changes 16,160
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ORDER_LINES_2 - P201807 | ORDER_LINES - P201807
 logical reads 1,376 | logical reads 10,368
 db block changes 864 | db block changes 10,752
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ORL2_PK | ORL_PK
 logical reads 10,640 | logical reads 206,352
 db block changes 7,024 | db block changes 104,656
The right hand data set does an extra 100,000 logical reads on the ORD_PK index (top set of lines) which I think are the 100,000 gets on the root block that was pinned for the table on the left – the numbers don't quite add up, so there's some extra complexity that I haven't guessed correctly.
The insert into the ORL[2]_PK index (lines) is single row processed for the right hand table – with, I think, the logical reads recording two current gets per insert.
Every partition of the table, except the last, shows 15,000 db block changes, totalling a difference of about 100,000 db block changes corresponding to the single rows being inserted. Then ORL[2]_PK shows another 100,000 db block changes, giving us the 200,000 we saw as redo entries and 400,000 (when doubled up to allow for the undo) db block changes that we saw in total.
Finally we need to explain the difference of 400,000 db block gets between the two sets of session stats – and I think this is the extra 100,000 for ORD_PK, the 100,000 for the table inserts, and 200,000 for the ORL[2]_PK index, which I think might be explained as 100,000 as a current get that checks for "duplicate key" and 100,000 gets to do the actual insert.
Bottom Line, though – if you use reference partitioning every array insert seems to turn into single row processing with the attendant increase in buffer gets, undo and redo generated, latch activity, and CPU used as Oracle checks for every single row which partition it should go into: and there doesn't seem to be any optimisation that caters for "this row belongs in the same partition as the previous row". You may decide that this extra cost due to reference partitioning is worth it for the benefits that reference partitioning supplies – it's all down to what your application does, especially in terms of aging data perhaps – but it's nice to know that this cost is there so that you can do a better cost/benefit analysis.
Footnote:
Interested readers might like to extend this test to a multi-layered set of ref-partitioned tables to see if the increase in overheads is linear or geometric.
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Nucleate Sentence Examples | Use Nucleate in a sentence
1.the evading genes of virus dna "neutron" is actually a molecule Nucleate reaction.
2.carbon-poor area forms by means of random fluctuation and carbon atom diffusion. bainitic ferrites Nucleate in carbon-poor austenite.
3.in the experiments, onset of the Nucleate boiling ( one), two-phase flow pattern, heat transfer performance, flow instability and critical heat flux were carefully observed and recorded.
4.it is known that surfactant additive has important effect to Nucleate boiling, surfactant additive mainly intensifies the convection of fluid while it changes the attribution of bubbles.
5.thermal cracks Nucleate preferentially in the area of the most stress concentrated in the coating.
6.study of active nucleation site density in subcooled Nucleate pool boiling
7.the departure from Nucleate boiling (dnb) is important concerning about the safety of a pwr.
8.pollen 3-Nucleate, extine tectum finely striate.
9.thereby, the microporous surfaces can realize outstanding heat transfer enhancement by drastically enhancing Nucleate boiling. 3.
10.this experiment clearly showed one basic fact: what virus infection enters is just the Nucleate part of it while the protein shells are kept outside of the cell.
11.the clusters Nucleate exclusively in the hydrocarbon surface contamination.
12.carbamide can be used as Nucleate agent and minish the cellular dimension evidently.
13.the contents mainly include the onset of Nucleate boiling ( onb), two-phase flow pressure drop, heat transfer characteristics and critical heat flux ( chf).
14.basic experimental studies have been made for the enhancements of Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer outside the smooth tube under alternate electric field by using r11 as the working fluid.
15.r113 Nucleate boiling experiment was conducted on a transparent ito glass.
16.effect of β Nucleate agent on the flame retardant pp with red phosphorus
17.mass flux is with little effect on the active nucleation site density of channel, but with effect on the onset of Nucleate boiling.
18.keywords: fractal, Nucleate boiling, floc, biological aggregates.
19.the experimental results show that in the pool Nucleate boiling process the effect of interfacial vaporization heat sink obviously increases with the heat transfer flux.
20.the physical and mathematical models are proposed for the falling film boiling heat transfer, in which the effects of convective flow and Nucleate boiling on film heat transfer coefficients are taken into account and the inhibition of liquid flow to the Nucleate boiling in the film is considered.
21.objective to discuss the clinical curative effect of chronic urticaria treated with combination of bacilli calmette guerin polysaccharide Nucleate ( bcgpn) and mizolastine.
22.in second stage, after 2-Nucleate embryo sac development, most pollen tubes grow radially around ovules.
23.the effect of the content of Nucleate agent on the mechanical properties of soft poly ( vinyl-chloride)( spvc) foamed material was investigated.
24.a r113 Nucleate boiling experiment was conducted on a transparent ito glass.
25.through analyzing the process of wet-steam flow, basis on the classical Nucleate theory, simulated the wet-steam flow in the plane cascade.
26.the influence of Nucleate agent and stress whitening on average cellular diameter were studied.
27.the model assumes that forced convection and Nucleate boiling coexist in the annular flow regime.
28.an experimental study of heat transfer characteristics and steam carrying effects on Nucleate pool boiling for aqueous surfactant solutions
29.the mechanisms of solid particle strengthening single phase convective heat transfer and Nucleate boiling heat transfer have been illustrated on theories.
30.the results show that recrystallization Nucleate near the primary carbides and at dendrite core.
31.the ag atoms Nucleate and grow into nanoparticles.
32.the effect of interfacial vaporization heat sink in pool Nucleate boiling process
33.if a liquid food is cooled with sufficient agitation, ice crystals Nucleate and grow, and a slurry of relatively pure ice crystals in a concentrate can be obtained.
34.the experimental study on Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer for three mechanically fabricated porous surface tubes carried out at 0.1 mpa were presented. water and alcohol were used in the experiments as working medium.
35.application of a genetic neuro-fuzzy logic to departure from Nucleate boiling protection limited estimation.
36.while during the flow boiling, the main ways of heat transfer are Nucleate boiling and forced convection.
37.the method applying the limiting diffusion current technique ( ldct) and heat transfer measurement together is used to separate the effect of interfacial vaporization heat sink in pool Nucleate boiling process.
38.bainitic ferrites Nucleate in carbon-poor austenite.
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Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide
Using the Tabs
There are two tabs, Playback and Record. You can switch between adjusting Playback (Output) and Record (Input) by selecting the corresponding tab (toggles). If you have the Playback tab selected when you check the Application Controls box, the Application control box also displays. Refer to the following illustration for an example of this.
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Book Chapter or Conference Paper Title
Towards reusable personas for everyday design
Institute for Educational Development, East Africa
Publication ( Name of Journal)
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ACM digital library
Personas are artificial character based representations of user goals, attitudes, motivations and abilities which enable designers to focus their design efforts on key, targeted users. The success of personas in design is due to their capacity to enable designers to empathize with users and understand user goals. Persona development is rooted in the rigorous collection and analysis of data specifically related to the design project being undertaken. New design projects thus require the development of new personas. Since redevelopment is not always achievable attention has turned towards reuse of personas and the underlying data. This paper reports on ongoing research into the development of reusable personas for use by non-expert, everyday designers. Such designers are regularly faced with small scale but diverse design challenges for which they cannot carry out user research and modelling. They can, however, make use of general, reusable personas developed independently of their current design project.
(2016). Towards reusable personas for everyday design. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2915-2922.
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One of the most colorful chapters in American Jewish history ended on March 28, with the death, at age 88, of Janet Jagan, former president of the South American country of Guyana. Born Janet Rosenberg in Chicago in 1920, she was one of only three Jewish women ever to lead a modern nation. The other two were Golda Meir of nearby Milwaukee, and Ruth Dreifuss, a former member of the Swiss Federal Council representing the Geneva canton, who held the rotating presidency of the Swiss Confederation from January 1 to December 31, 1999.
Jagan (rhymes with Reagan) is remembered, too, as the first woman — Jewish or otherwise — ever freely elected as president of a South American country (as distinguished from various wives of Argentine dictator Juan Peron). She was the first white person ever elected to lead Guyana, and was the country's longest-serving legislator. And she was probably the only American Jew ever chased out of public office by both the British marines and the American CIA.
Most important, she was a dominant force for six decades in the politics of the former British colony. Together with her husband, Caribbean political legend Cheddi Jagan, she helped found Guyana's independence movement. She was an iron-willed pillar of South American radicalism and a major preoccupation of American foreign policy at the height of the Cold War. Time magazine once called her "the most controversial woman in South American politics."
Jagan grew up in a middle-class Jewish family on Chicago's South Side. "They were very assimilated," said a cousin, New York historian Suzanne Wasserman, who made an award-winning documentary film about Jagan in 2003. "They even had a Christmas tree." According to Wasserman, the Rosenbergs lived in an Irish Catholic neighborhood, far from Chicago's dense Jewish strongholds. "Her parents were conservative Republicans, which was very unusual among Chicago Jews in the 1930s," she said.
During Janet's teenage years, her father changed the family name to Roberts to avoid job discrimination.
Like many Depression-era teens, Janet outraged her parents by taking up communism. Unlike most, she spent her life in the struggle. In 1942, she met and fell in love with Cheddi Jagan, a son of Indian-Guyanese sugar cane workers. Nearly every biographical account dwells on the instant spark between the "beautiful Jewish" student nurse and the "dashingly handsome" foreign dental student.
They were married in August 1943. Her father cut off contact with his daughter, vowed to disown her and threatened to shoot the dark-skinned, non-Jewish Cheddi, Janet would recall. In the fall of that year, the couple moved to what was then British Guiana. Cheddi opened a dental practice, and Janet worked as his assistant. Together they began meeting with other radicals to discuss independence.
Guyana, on the north coast of South America, is one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere. Its English-speaking population is divided between descendants of African slaves who once worked British sugar plantations and descendants of indentured servants brought from India to work the cane fields after Britain freed its slaves in 1834. Cheddi's grandparents had come as indentured servants.
In 1950, the Jagans and Afro-Guyanese activist Forbes Burnham formed the colony's first modern political party, the People's Progressive Party. Janet became party secretary. Cheddi was elected chief minister of the colony in 1953, on a platform of independence for the colony and workers' rights. The same year, Janet was elected deputy speaker of the parliament. But they served only 133 days. That summer, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, fearing Soviet influence, sent warships to disband the legislature. Cheddi and Janet spent five months in prison and two more years under house arrest.
In that same summer, the CIA, with British backing, overthrew the elected government of Mohammed Mossadeq in Iran. In Vietnam that fall, the French army began preparing for the final battle that would end in its defeat and expulsion the following May by Ho Chi Minh's communist rebels. A month after that, a CIA coup in Guatemala overthrew the elected government of leftist Jacobo Arbenz. But the Jagans survived.
In 1955, the British colonialists encouraged their party ally, Burnham, to form a breakaway party built on Afro-Guyanese ethnic resentment. The colonial office reorganized the electoral system repeatedly, seeking explicitly to boost Burnham and unseat the Jagans. But they won an election in 1957 and again in 1961.
By then, the British had come to respect the Jagans' resilience and integrity — and to fear Burnham's violent racial provocations. But now, the Jagans found a new enemy in the newly installed Kennedy administration in Washington. Kennedy feared that Jagan would turn British Guiana into a second communist beachhead after Cuba, and he was determined to prevent this. The American press pilloried Cheddi and Janet, the "strident Marxist" who was his "brains and backbone," as Time magazine put it. She was rumored — falsely — to be a relative of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the Jewish New Yorkers executed for alledgedly spying for the Soviet Union in 1953. The rumor circulated for years, even appearing in The Washington Post's obituary for Cheddi in 1997.
In 1961, Cheddi visited Israel, which was then working closely with Third World liberation movements. Foreign Minister Golda Meir argued his case to the British, who were now defending the American position, and Israeli ambassadors in South America lobbied Washington. In the end, the State Department warned that Israel risked being "regarded by the U.S. public as strengthening militarily" a communist regime.
At home, Janet was serving as minister of labor, health and housing, launching major public works and welfare programs and reinforcing her popularity. But the colony was plagued by CIA-funded strikes and riots led by Burnham, according to Stephen Rabe's 2005 book, "U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story," so Janet sent her and Cheddi's two children abroad for safety.
Finally, in 1964, the Jagans were ousted in an election held under new, American-backed rules. The British granted the colony independence in 1966 under Burnham, who spent the next quarter-century lurching from socialism to capitalism and back while the economy collapsed.
Janet's father had died in 1957, while the British still barred Janet from leaving the country. Father and daughter had reconciled after the birth of Janet's first child, Joey, but they never saw each other again. Her father never met her husband, something she often said she regretted. She had kept up with her mother throughout, writing weekly letters and sending pictures of the children.
After Burnham died in 1985 in Moscow — where he was mummified for posterity — international pressure mounted for free elections. In a 1992 election monitored by Jimmy Carter, Cheddi was elected president and Janet took on the unfamiliar role of first lady and national hostess.
In 1997, when Cheddi died, Janet was named prime minister under a new president in an interim government. She was elected president herself later that year, but stepped down two years later after suffering a heart attack.
Janet Jagan never talked much about her Jewish identity, though it came up constantly in her public life. "Jewishness wasn't much of a factor in my life," she told me in a phone interview in 2000. "There's no Jewish community in Guyana."
Wasserman prodded her on the topic when she visited in 1997 to shoot her documentary. They sat for hours, discussing the family and leafing through an old family album. At one point, Wasserman said, Jagan lingered over a photo of her husband reviewing Israeli troops during his 1961 visit. "She was very proud of that," Wasserman said. At length, Jagan conceded that her Jewish background had sparked her "interest in the underdog and in helping out the impoverished of the world," not least because of the antisemitic discrimination her father had suffered.
I had phoned Jagan in June 2000 because of a political battle in Peru. Novice politician Alejandro Toledo was headed for his country's presidency, and his Belgian-Israeli-American wife, Eliane Karp, was primed to become, as I planned to write, South America's second American Jewish first lady. I wanted to talk to Jagan about her experiences as the first of the breed.
She wasn't amused. "I wasn't just the first lady," she growled indignantly, nearly melting the telephone line. "I was the president. I was elected in my own right. I was always my own woman."
An article on the death of former Guyanese president Janet Jagan ("Guyana Leader Was Always Her Own [Jewish] Woman," April 10, 2009) should have noted that in addition to Jagan and Golda Meir, a third Jewish woman has led a modern nation: Ruth Dreifuss, a former member of the Swiss Federal Council representing the Geneva canton, who held the rotating presidency of the Swiss Confederation from January 1 to December 31, 1999.
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While learning to read, write, and perform basic arithmetic are all important educational outcomes, academic success presupposes that a certain baseline for student wellbeing is already met. However, in many of the places where International Rescue Committee educators teach, children do not feel safe, self-confident, and they lack frequent, quality social interactions. In Tanzania, many refugees also suffer from low food rations and over 70% of students are studying outside or in classrooms that cannot shelter them from the elements.
Past exposure to violence and ongoing family separation are also frequent, and despite the difficulty of obtaining representative data, researchers have found that the need for social-emotional support among refugee children is as clear as it is urgent.
One element of IRC's response to this refugee education crisis has been to train refugee teachers in social-emotional learning activities that can provide children with the tools to better focus, build positive relations, and cope with the stress. Over the past two years, the IRC has been gradually demonstrating the positive results of these efforts to promote SEL in resource-constrained settings.
Our current challenge, however, has been to design a cost-effective and scalable alternative to current in-person SEL training workshops. With the aim to design coaching programs that will support more teachers in need, especially those in hard-to-reach areas, Airbel spent several months learning how to best equip teachers in the Mtendeli Refugee Camp in Tanzania with the skills they need to deliver quality SEL to students. Here are five design insights that were instrumental in testing and developing our teacher coaching prototypes.
1. Demo to train, practice to perfect
Meet Felicite, a current teacher and Mtendeli camp resident. While she fully comprehends SEL activities after seeing and experiencing the activities herself, Felicite can only recall a few details about the SEL training session that took place a few years ago and does not remember where she put her PDF packet that summarizes what she learned. Opportunities for teachers like Felicite to see SEL activities "in action" and to practice implementing them in the classroom are non-existent.
After testing several different training models, we settled on video-based coaching and incorporated real classroom examples alongside simplified reenactments of SEL activities from a designated SEL Master Teacher and Coach into the videos. By exposing teachers to both simple demonstrations and realistic classroom depictions, we found that instructive videos made with local teachers and students can be just as instructive as in-person coaching workshops delivered by SEL experts. In fact, after watching these virtual coaching sessions and practicing alongside one another in small groups, the feedback from teachers was largely positive. Through video-based instruction in peer-to-peer settings, we hope to create more exciting and effective learning experiences for educators like Felicite.
2. Build daily habits
We found that although weekly video clubs were helpful, they were not enough to make teachers like Felicite comfortable in bringing SEL into the classroom. Instead, teachers needed weeks of continuous daily practice. Yet when teachers are working long hours and double-shifts, establishing new routines can be challenging. Testing different behavioral nudges and self-practice aids therefore became an important focus in our fieldand design-work.
One way to overcome the implementation challenges is to encourage habit building. By using specific habit building triggers that are relevant to each environment, we can increase the likelihood that SEL becomes an integrated part of Felicite's everyday teaching toolkit. Whether it's through timely in-person support, behavioral nudges using SMS, or incorporating concepts like intention setting into the program design, habit building is essential to improving teachers' confidence, expertise in SEL, and implementation of SEL in the classroom. For this program, we chose to incorporate a school-wide "SEL Bell" every day at the same time, to encourage teachers and students to perform the activities. The school bell not only reminds teachers, but helps hold them accountable to their students and their peers.
To really make these habits stick, however, we are also realizing just how powerful shared accountability and group learning can be. Wherever possible, we are aiming to reduce the burden of individual responsibility by coordinating habit building cues through colleagues and school administration. Peer-to-peer feedback and scheduled allotments in the school timetable are a few such examples.
3. Materials should work for teachers and students
Typically after completing a training, Felicite would be given a packet of information about SEL. But she finds it difficult to navigate these materials, understand the relevance of SEL and — most of all — apply it to her lessons. We observed that many teachers who received booklets of SEL activities with long instructions about how to practice the activity in the classroom did not reference them on a regular basis. Felicite and her peers also need clear reference materials and children need a visual cue to understand and recall new concepts. How might we get a comprehensive and intuitive resource in front of more teachers and have it remain an important part of their lesson planning and reference library?
Mtendeli primary school teachers responded, "Give us something that we can bring home and to class so that we can quickly remember the activities." Culturally adapted, visually appealing SEL cards that summarized each of the 25 activities were winners in this regard. They provide a bite-sized curriculum that can be easily referenced in the classroom, when it matters most. While these cards continue to undergo further refinements, they already provide an innovative adaptation of the robust SEL curriculum materials already in circulation at the IRC.
4. Technology is more than a pathway to scale, it can shape learning experiences
Some of our initial ideas in 2017 involved leveraging mobile phones to directly reach teachers with bite-sized SEL content on their mobile phones. After a few iterations, we quickly moved away from SMS, as teachers like Felicite found phones too constraining and the local networks too unreliable for mobile messaging to be the primary delivery channel for new teaching content. Equally important, mobile messaging also left teachers without visual learning aids. While SMS may help teachers remember to practice the SEL activities, it didn't help them recall how to perform them.
Consequently, we started thinking about technology through a different lens. We're now experimenting with how offline technology can help teachers learn by observing, practicing, and forming collective learning groups. With this in mind, we decided to build an app that would act as a group facilitator, to guide teachers through the SEL content in an intuitive and engaging way. The app is available on a tablet available at each school and shared by all the teachers. They watch SEL videos delivered by a SEL Coach, pause the videos during dedicated practice time, and after watching and practicing, are automatically directed to a short quiz. The quiz helps to prompt reflection and discussion, before closing with a goal-setting activity.
Offline video-based instruction has compensated for some of the limitations we encountered with mobile networks and purely textual instruction using SMS. Without needing connectivity, the video sessions we introduced could provide visual demonstrations of the SEL activities that teachers were highly receptive to. Practicing the activities and completing a quiz together also helps teachers stay better connected to their peers by prompting group discussions about tips and strategies for successfully performing the SEL activities in the classroom.
5. Design modular and adaptive programs for scale
While refugee camps in Tanzania may be similar, we cannot rely on identical school contexts if we're going to scale globally. We believe in designing program components that can effectively work together or separately, and that can be adapted to different contexts depending on the needs of the current school environment.
This is why we're testing these four main building blocks:
- Active Learning: Develop learning opportunities for teachers that are experiential, where they can practice the activities and gain an understanding of how these activities appear when implemented in classrooms like their own.
- Habitual Implementation: Help develop new habits, by reducing the burden on the individual as much as possible. Incorporate daily nudges, encourage intention setting, and find ways to make habit-building a collective process.
- Culturally relevant material support: Incorporate easy-to-use, visual materials that not only remind teachers to practice, but how to practice.
- Digital Coaching: Enable teachers to benefit from high quality, small group coaching by using digital learning aids to overcome the material and political obstacles that prevent teachers from accessing in-person coaching support.
Our next step is testing different building-block combinations and figuring out which have the most potential. In our upcoming pilot study, all teachers will receive the core programming (small group learning with video instruction) and some teachers will receive different habit-building components and implementation strategies. Some teachers will receive timely visits and feedback in their classrooms, while others will receive illustrative curriculum cards. All of this will be piloted for 3 months in 3 schools, with over 100 teachers.
The most promising combinations will be costed to understand their potential to reach teachers across diverse circumstances, from refugees in urban settings and camps, to hard-to-reach underserved rural communities and even regions plagued by civil conflict.


Strong Coupling Between Quantum Systems over Longer Distance
Scientists have used a novel method to create, for the first time, strong coupling between quantum systems over a long distance. The method involves using a laser loop to connect the systems, which enables an almost lossless exchange of strong interaction and information between them.
A loop of laser light connects the oscillations of a nanomechanical membrane (back) and the spin of a cloud of atoms (front). Image Credit: The University of Basel, Department of Physics.
Physicists at the University of Basel and University of Hanover have described in the Science journal that the new method paves way for new prospects in quantum sensor technology and quantum networks.
At present, quantum technology is one of the most active fields of studies across the globe. It leverages the unique properties of quantum mechanical states of atoms, nanostructures, or light to create, for instance, innovative sensors for navigation and medicine, robust simulators for materials sciences, and networks for information processing.
To produce such quantum states, the prerequisite is usually a strong interaction between the systems involved, for example, between multiple atoms or nanostructures.
However, to date, adequately strong interactions were restricted to shorter distances. Two systems had to be essentially placed close to one other in the same vacuum chamber or at low temperatures on the same chip. Here, they interact through magnetostatic or electrostatic forces. But it is essential to couple them over larger distances for several applications like quantum networks or sensors of specific types.
Led by Professor Philipp Treutlein from the Department of Physics at the University of Basel and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI), a group of physicists has now successfully created, for the first time, strong coupling between two systems over a larger distance in an ambient temperature environment.
As part of the experiment, laser light was used by the researchers to couple the vibrations of a 100-nm thin membrane to the motion of the atomic spin over a 1-m distance. Thus, the spin of the atoms is set in motion by each vibration of the membrane and vice versa.
A Loop of Light Acts as a Mechanical Spring
The basis for the experiment is a concept developed by the research team in collaboration with the theoretical physicist Professor Klemens Hammerer from the University of Hanover. In the concept, a beam of laser light is sent forward and backward between the systems.
The light then behaves like a mechanical spring stretched between the atoms and the membrane, and transmits forces between the two.
Dr Thomas Karg, Department of Physics, University of Basel
Dr Karg performed the experiments as part of his doctoral thesis at the University of Basel.
The properties of the light in this laser loop can be manipulated such that no information related to the motion of the two systems is lost to the environment. This ensures that the quantum mechanical interaction stays unperturbed.
Now, for the first time, the physicists have successfully performed experimental implementation of this concept and used it in a series of experiments.
The coupling of quantum systems with light is very flexible and versatile. We can control the laser beam between the systems, which allows us to generate different types of interactions that are useful for quantum sensors, for example.
Philipp Treutlein, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Basel
A New Tool for Quantum Technologies
Besides coupling atoms with nanomechanical membranes, the new technique could also be used in various other systems; for instance, while coupling solid-state spin systems or superconducting quantum bits used in quantum computing studies.
It would be possible to use the new method for light-mediated coupling to interconnect such systems, thus developing quantum networks for information processing and simulations.
This is a new, highly useful tool for our quantum technology toolbox.
Philipp Treutlein, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Basel
The experiments performed by the physicists in Basel were financially supported by the European Research Council as part of the project MODULAR, and by the SNI PhD School.
Journal Reference:
Karg, T. M., et al. (2020) Light-mediated strong coupling between a mechanical oscillator and atomic spins 1 meter apart. Science.
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[OPTICAL REVIEW Vol. 7, No. 6 (2000) 576-578]
Throughput Measurement of a Multilayer-Coated Schwarzschild Objective Using Synchrotron Radiation
Takanori KIYOKURA,1 Fumihiko MAEDA,1 Yoshio WATANABE,1 Yoshinori IKETAKI,2 Koumei NAGAI,2Yoshiaki HORIKAWA,2 Masaharu OSHIMA,3 Eiji SHIGEMASA4 and Akira YAGISHITA4
1NTT Basic Research Laboratories, 3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa _PHONE_ Japan, 2Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., 2-3 Kuboyamacho, Hachioji, Tokyo, _PHONE_ Japan, 3Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, _PHONE_ Japan, 4High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, _PHONE_ Japan
(Received June 13, 2000; Accepted June 30, 2000)
The throughput of a Schwarzschild objective using undulator synchrotron radiation was measured. Conventionally, the throughput was estimated from the squared reflectivity of one multilayer mirror and from the obstruction ratio. However, we evaluated the transmission ratio from the input and output photon flux using a precisely calibrated monochromatic beam from an undulator light source. It was found that the objective has a maximum throughput of 8.5% at a wavelength of 13.9 nm.
Key words : Schwarzschild objective multilayer, synchrotron radiation, throughput, soft X-ray, monochromator


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1. Extracted ion chromatograms for protein chromatography based on peptide elution were generated.
2. Results Saponins in 80 % ethanol elution was the highest and over %.
3. Results Saponins in 80 % ethanol elution was the highest and over 36 %.
4. Different elution fractions from pummelo peel extract exhibit different antioxidative activity.
5. Gradient elution chromatography was applied to determine the ginsenoside contents in Shengmai injections.


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Glossary of Korean Cooking Terms and Ingredients
Definition and translation of Namul
Translation of the Korean word "cha" into English
Translation of Pojangmacha
Definition of Pojangmacha in Korean
Definition and translation of Hwe in Korean food
Definition and translation of Daenjang in Korean food
Definition and translation of Gogi
Definition of Anju in Korean food
Definition of Jun in Korean food
Definition and translation of banchan, Korean side dishes.
Definition and translation of Korean kimchi, one of the most important parts of Korean cuisine.
Definition and Translation of Dubu in Korean food, a soft beancurd which is also known as Tofu in the West
Definition and Description of Korean kaenipperilla leaves, also used in Japanese (shiso) and Vietnamese cooking.
Translation and Definition of Namul.
Translation of Gui as used in Korean cooking.
Bap or Bop
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Method to Calculate InterConnect System Reliability Failure Rate Using Statistical Software Packages.
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A method utilizing any statistical software package to calculate interconnect system reliability failure rate is described.
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Method to Calculate InterConnect System Reliability Failure Rate Using Statistical Software Packages.
Abstract:
A method utilizing any statistical software package to calculate interconnect system reliability failure rate is described.
Introduction:
Currently there are other methods to calculate failure rate, they tend to fit or transform data into one preselected distribution. That result in much larger sample size needed, a minimum of 1000 datapoints is considered in the current methods, and that preselected distribution may not be the best fit for every set of data.
This method utilizes any statistical analysis software package to identify the best fit distribution to the data set, that best fit distribution is then used to estimate the probability of data above a limit specs. The estimate probability is then fitted into the failure rate formula to calculate failure rate.
Since there is no transform data, smaller sample size, minimum of 400 is considered reasonable for the calculation. And in addition, since the best fit is used, the result found to be represents the characteristic data set better.
Failure Rate Calculation:
1. Failure Rate Formula:
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10^6 x IFR: Probability of failure per million. Or the numbers of data points estimated greater than upper specs limit per one million data points
Field Life: Ten Years = 10 x 365 x 24 / 1000 = 87.60
Seven Years = 7 x 365 x 24 / 1000 = 61.32
Five Years = 5 x 365 x 24 / 1000 = 43.80
2. Collect test data, normally maximum delta LLCR's from the environment test sequence is obtained.
3. Use Minitab or other statistical software packages to find the best fit distribution. For this particular example, Minitab16 is used. Minitab16 can idendity up to 16 different distributions depend on data type, review normal charts and/or look for minimum AD...


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Several case studies conducted by the IMI-GetReal project planned to use registry data to inform their data analysis. For example, by using individual participant data (IPD) from a patient registry in a network meta-analysis to establish the relative effectiveness of medicines in situations where no head-to-head RCT data is available. For some case studies, the registries seemed very willing to engage with the case study teams and provide access to registry data. However, for other case studies, registry data access was declined, despite compliance with the registry holders' procedures for access.
To apply for data access, each case study team had to comply with the general procedures required by each registry. This generally included filling out an application form and submitting a research proposal. These documents were subsequently reviewed by the scientific advice committee, general advisory committee, or both. Afterwards a final decision was made.
Each proposal needed to be tailored to the specific registry holder. For example, case study teams were encouraged by registry advisors to involve academic groups, which conventionally perform all statistical analyses for the registry, as a means of increasing the chance of access approval. In some cases, this meant that clearance was required from GetReal (as well as funding) to involve other academic groups affiliated with the registry to participate.
Issues with access to registries
The following list outlines some of the common issues that were experienced when applying for access to registry data. We recommend that these should be considered before approaching registry holders for access to data:
- Timelines too short: timelines were sometimes unrealistic and difficult to maintain because of the time needed for the application procedure, difficulties in engaging the registry steering committees, expected timelines for approval used by steering committees, and cleaned registry data being unavailable within the case study time frame.
- Difficulty submitting a data access application: in some instances it was difficult to submit an application for data access to the steering committee. For example, sometimes little information was known about when the registry steering committee would consider the application.
- Access affected by registry type: accessibility to disease-specific registries was particularly difficult compared with product registries.
- Access affected by the disease area of the registry: access to registry data on chronic diseases may be easier than for oncologic indications. For example, the case study team of the IMI-GetReal rheumatoid arthritis case study were actively approached by the registry to inform them of the availability of a new update of the data.
- Clean data: once IPD from a registry is made available, cleaning the data is often a lengthy process.
- Ongoing academic research: in some instances, data access was declined because of a conflict of interest, for example, when academic work (such as a PhD thesis) was performed by parties involved in the registry. In other instances, data access was granted under the provision that analysis conducted would not interfere with the academic work being done by registry affiliates.
- Legal aspects: guaranteeing patient consent may be cumbersome and current European legislation on privacy of health data are also restrictive.
- Collaboration: working together with researchers directly involved with the approached registry can be constructive in gaining access to registry data. Alternatively, it may be possible to outsource the analysis to the research team directly associated with the registry.
- Purchasing registry data: some registries provide the possibility to purchase their data. Although this may be an option, it can be very costly and require substantial funding.
- Network: having a connection with one or more individuals involved in a registry is crucial to gain data access, since they can help initiate the dialogue on applications for data access.
Issues with the registry data provided
When access to registry data was granted, most often summary or aggregate data were provided, rather than access to IPD. This could present several obstacles, depending on planned analyses, since aggregate data does not conventionally include detailed information on covariates. As a result, it becomes difficult for research teams to examine the effects of covariates on observed outcomes. This may be a strong limitation when patient characteristics and treatment patterns, for example, have a considerable effect on the outcome measure (for example, overall survival).
Amr Makady and Rachel Kalf, Zorginstituut Nederlands (ZIN)


Creating and managing blocks on your Vineyard
Blocks in Platfarm let you define management zones, and create jobs quickly.
Blocks contain attributes of:
 1. a name
 2. a Vineyard
 3. a Variety
 4. Vine rows
Vinerows are the most important geographical element of your Vineyard and blocks. You do not need to define the geographical area of your block boundaries, the system will automatically identify them based on the vine
You can use block colours to help create visual separation of your vineyard maps. For example give all Shiraz blocks the colour blue, and Grenache the colour orange.


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Research suggests that cybercrime is the most lucrative crime globally; more profitable than all global drug trade put together! This has resulted in several regulations and compliance standards being established by local, national and international authorities across the globe. Fortifying data security and protecting the privacy of users is not just about fulfilling the requirements of these regulation and compliance standards, but about user (customer/ employee/ other stakeholder) trust. So, a data breach is a gross violation of their trust, even when data is collected and used with permissions from individuals as mandated by law.
According to an IBM Study, the global average cost of a data breach is USD 3.92 million as of 2019 which includes not just financial costs (post-incidence response cost, escalation costs, penalties, etc.) but also reputational costs (as the business will face immense erosion of brand image, reputation and goodwill). This has made data privacy and data protection are the most challenging and critical business concerns of today.
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Liquid hydrogen is being used to fuel expelling practices.
Credit: Bill Bowles
In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a vent flowing cryogenic fuel and T/C Rake are mounted on a 1/10 scale model Centaur in the l0 x l0 Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel in September, 1963. The fuel being used is liquid hydrogen.
The point of the test is to determine how far to expel venting fuel from the rocket body to prevent explosion at the base of the vehicle. This vent is used as a safety valve for the fumes created when loading the fuel tanks during launch preparation. Liquid hydrogen has to be kept at a very low temperature. As it heats, it turns to gas and increases pressure in the tank. It therefore has to be vented overboard while the rocket sits on the pad. The test is being run at the Lewis Research Center, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center, Lewis Field.
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Feminist and Queer Theory Faculty Research Group
Jean Dangler (Spanish and Portuguese) and Michele White (Communication) had spent many afternoons discussing their shared interests in feminist and queer theory and their belief that a reading group addressing these issues would contribute to intellectual life at Tulane. When they saw the Newcomb College Institute call for grants, they decided to realize their vision.
The Reading Feminist and Queer Theory group has enabled an interdisciplinary cohort of faculty members to discuss their shared interests in feminism, queer theory, and critical thinking. Dangler and White have been meeting with Felicia McCarren (French and Italian), Supriya Nair (English), Mimi Schippers (Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies) and Allison Truitt (Anthropology) since the beginning of the spring 2010 semester. The diverse backgrounds of this group have allowed participants to expand their understandings of how feminist and queer theory is used in and between disciplines.
The group is particularly interested in thinking about how feminist and queer researchers look to resistant and unconventional practices as ways of subverting normative identities, rigid cultural and corporate structures, and inequitable societies and governments. They have also been considering the persistence of traditional identities and the malleable ways these roles and beliefs persist despite internal conflicts and academic and activist critiques. Thus, they look at recent writings that advance feminist and queer resistance and consider texts that examine the limits and failures of these models. They also consider the application of these theories to previous feminist histories and nonmodern periods, recognizing the body's historical construction.
They have read texts by such key gender and sexuality thinkers as Gayle Rubin and Peter A. Jackson. The literature has enabled them to think about the "waves" metaphor that is still used in talking about the women's movement and how queer theory relates to the sometimes-insensate experiences of intersexuals.
A public talk and visit with Elizabeth Freeman allowed the group to discuss her in-process work and develop an expanded dialogue with a contemporary theorist. The group is looking forward to their continued conversations and bringing other feminists and queer theorists to talk at Tulane.


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FOLKLORE PROJECTIONS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FEAST
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Abstract: In the ecclesiastical Christian calendar, Holy Trinity or Holy Ghost is a moveable feast and is celebrated on the Monday after Pentecost, in May or June. In the folk calendar, this holiday marks the beginning of the so-called Whitsuntide or Midsummer Week (in Bulgarian Rusalska nedelya). It is believed to be the period of wood nymphs' special activity – during the week those supernatural creatures, who personify vegetation and greenery in the fields and the woods, provide the fertility of crops and vineyards. The analysis focuses on those notions and the respective practices, outlining that to a great degree Whitsuntide corresponds to the Dirty or Pagan days in the winter – the period between Christmas and Epiphany. As this is one of the most important periods in the agricultural calendar, it is bound with people's efforts to ensure fertility and water balance in their inhabited territory by offering sacrifices and propitiating the supernatural powers who are owners and hosts of vegetation and water resources.
Keywords: Whitsuntide, Wood Nymphs, Kurban, Water Source, Water Host


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(1) If an opt-in source provided monthly data under rule 3745-103-33 of the Administrative Code, the opt-in source's opt-in permit may become effective at the beginning of a calendar quarter as of January first, April first, July first, or October first.
(B) Prorating by calendar quarter. Where a combustion source's opt-in permit becomes effective on April first, July first, or October first of a given year, the USEPA will prorate the allowance allocation for that first year by the calendar quarters remaining in the year as follows:
Allowances for the first year
(1) For combustion sources that commenced operations before January 1, 1985,
(2) For combustion sources that commenced operations after January 1, 1985,
(3) Under paragraphs (B)(1) and (B)(2) of this rule,
(a) "Remaining calendar quarters" shall be the calendar quarters in the first year for which the opt-in permit will be effective.
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Where unit conversion = 2 for coal
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For other fuels, the combustion source must specify unit conversion;
And where starting month = April, if effective date is April first;
= July, if effective date is July first
= October, if effective date is October first


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Kaisar Structured Proof Language
Proof assistants hold great promise for giving us certainty where certainty is needed, but their drawback has always been the difficulty of learning and using them, reducing productivity even for experienced users. One way to address this is by targeting an interface between the user and prover, such as the proof scripting language. The Isar structured proof language for higher-order logics, part of Isabelle, struck on a style of proof that significantly improves the readability and maintainability of proofs in higher-order logic.
However, not all logics are higher-order logics. In particular, we use a dynamic logic called differential dynamic logic to verify hybrid systems in KeYmaera X. Thus, the goal of Kaisar is to take the gains made by Isar and extend them with new insights specific to dynamic logic in order to provide the same convenience for dynamic logics that Isar provides for higher-order logics.
An early proposed design and theory for Kaisar are available on arXiv. Using the insights gained from this work, a ground-up redesign is underway as part of my thesis work.
Example Proof in Experimental Kaisar Syntax
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Brandon Bohrer and André Platzer.
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I can't help noticing how the term airgapped has morphed over time, and it's implied security and isolation has been eroded.
In my past life doing process control and SCADA, airgapped meant exactly what it sounds like: a physical space between two devices separated by air or another physical barrier. This wasn't a security consideration like it is in IT—or at least, not primarily—it was usually the result of two devices or cables being physically or electrically incompatible, or to prevent serious problems with equipment if inadvertently connected. I'm talking about electrical fundamentals like connecting two discrete AC sources, or real-time networks with different protocols.
In IT we mostly discuss airgapped devices and networks as a security feature. A sensitive device deliberately not connected to the Internet would be a classic—and dare I say, increasingly and disturbingly rare—example. The term loses some of its literal meaning when we start talking about wireless networks, and there have been academic examples of using speakers to take control of airgapped devices. But it still ultimately refers to deliberately-isolated gear.
But now I'm starting to see the term employed in the industry for logically separated, as opposed to physical. I've seen devices connected over a VLAN, or a VPN, or a separate port on the same NIC, as being described as airgapped in proposals and architecture diagrams. This doesn't pass mustard for me; a deliberate conflation of two English idioms because that's exactly what these pseudo-airgapped devices are doing.
While I concede physical separation is no panacea, that airgapped devices can still be attacked in other ways, and VPNs/VLANs/etc are robust and proven, I think we're losing the meaning of the term using it more broadly like this.


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Dear all:
I'm trying to compute the curvature of a Schwarzschild metric using differential forms (Cartan formalism),
sage: reset()
sage: var('t,r,theta,phi')
sage: coords = [t,r,theta, phi]
sage: U = CoordinatePatch((t,r,theta, phi))
sage: Omega = DifferentialForms(U)
sage: X = function('X', r, latex_name=r"\Xi")
sage: f = exp(X)
sage: vi =[]
sage: for i in xrange(len(coords)):
... vi.append(DifferentialForm(Omega,1))
sage: vi[0][0] = f
sage: vi[1][1] = 1/f
sage: vi[2][2] = r
sage: vi[3][3] = r*sin(theta)
sage: dvi=[]
... dvi.append(diff(vi[i]))
sage: dvi
[-e^X(r)*D[0](X)(r)*dt/\dr, 0, dr/\dtheta, sin(theta)*dr/\dphi + r*cos(theta)*dtheta/\dphi]
I'd like to know if it's possible to manipulate the result in a way that:
 - the term D[0](X)(r) in the last line could be written as X'(r) or just X'.
 - the dvi is expressed in terms of the vi-forms instead of the Omega-basis.
Any help is thanked.


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Container Class Evaluation
Lex shows the hierarchy of the current connected LDAP directory in the tree view panel on the left side in the LEX main window, so that a fast and easy navigation is possible. To show this hierarchy, LEX reads all the container objects from the server, so that these objects can be used to build up the navigation tree.
The probem is: LDAP allows all types of objects to have child objects. So if you want to build up the current LDAP tree, normall you have to check literally all LDAP objects for children. This would lead to a sluggish application performance when you want to browse through a large tree hierarchy. Or if you would first pre-cache the tree structure, it would last very long to achieve this.
Therefore LEX has a list for each type of directory server with the names of the typical container object classes. There are different lists for the following environments:
 - OpenLDAP
 - Microsoft Active Directory (this includes AD LDS and ADAM)
 - Novell eDirectory
 - Sun iPlanet (this includes SUN Directory Servers and NetScape Directory Servers)
 - Siemens DirX
 - Generic LDAP (all other LDAP servers)
This classification was made to reflect the fact that all types of directories tend to have their typical structural elements. In all these lists, the object class 'organizationalUnit' will be in the list for sure. Other classes are not so obvious to be potential container classes with child objects.
If LEX loads the directory tree hierarchy, the list of container classes will be converted to the appropriate LDAP filter. This filter is used then to retrieve all the object from the server which are needed to built up the tree view.
The list of the container classes can be configured with the menu option Tools - Options - Container Classes. You see here different buttons for the regarding LDAP server environments where you can configure the appropriate list of container classes:
Configuring the container classes
Normally you do not have to work hard on these lists because a lot of the classes usually used as container classes are predefined as default values here.
Maybe you have to configure new classes to this lists if you encounter the following problem: You don't see an object in the tree view hierarchy as a container, even if it is shown in the object list when you look at the parent container:
Domain Controllers don't appaear in the tree
If you change the object list scope to 'deeptree', so that you see the entire subtree under the parent object, you may notice that this object have child objects - although it was not shown as a container.
Child objects visible in deeptree scope
Then you have to check what object class the regarding object has. Add this object class to the appropriate container class list under Tools - Options - Container Classes. If you don't know to which type of directory your current LDAP server belongs, you can check this in the option Connection - Connection Info.
Pseudo Container Classes
There might be object classes in a directory environment which have a large number of real objects existing for this class, whereas these objects have very seldom child objects below them. An example of such an object class are the 'computer' objects in an Active Directory environment.
In order to be able to show all hierarchical structures in the tree view panel in a very fast way, LEX works with so-called Pseudo Container Classes. These container classes are handles as follows:
 - Container Class objects are shown in the tree view panel ONLY if they have actually child objects:
 Pseudo Container Classes
 - If the entire tree hierarchy has to be cached (first connection or reload operation on the entire tree), LEX does not search for Pseudo Container Class objects. This is because there may be a huge count of these objects in the current directory - so this would last far too long for building up a tree with these information included. Even if we would search for all these - this would result potentially in a very large number of container objects in the tree view - although most of such objects doesn't have child objects.
 So for the caching of the entire tree hierarchy, no Pseudo Container Classes are used. Only the normal container class objects are evaluated.
 - If you just reload the 'tree environment' of the currently selected node, then only the node's parent, siblings and child nodes are refeshed. This is done by just pressing F5 or using the ViewRefresh option. Because this is probably a smaller amount of container objects to read from the server, LEX requests the normal container classes together with the Pseudo Container Classes.
The list of the pseudo container classes can be configured with the menu option Tools - Options - Container Classes. You see here different buttons for te regarding LDAP server environments where you can configure the approprate list of pseudo container classes:
Configuring the container classes


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A five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), will allow investigators from more than 50 laboratories at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to join forces in the fight against musculoskeletal disorders.
The grant funds a Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine. Its goal is to better understand causes and potential treatments for muscle and bone disorders, including osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and muscular dystrophy. The center also is designed to aid in the development of new and better ways to regenerate bone, cartilage, tendons and muscle tissue.
"Musculoskeletal disorders affect most Americans over 50 years old, as well as many younger, very active individuals," says center director Linda J. Sandell, Ph.D., the Mildred B. Simon Research Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. "Although Washington University has a long record of excellence in musculoskeletal research and clinical care, much of that research has occurred in individual laboratories that may, or may not, regularly communicate with colleagues in other departments. This effort was developed to unify and expand research in basic and translational studies that will improve the quality of life in our aging population."
In addition to Sandell, the center's co-directors will be Steven Teitelbaum, M.D., the Messing Professor of Pathology and Immunology, and Matthew Silva, Ph.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery. All of the investigators who will work as part of the center have grant support from the National Institutes of Health for their bone and muscle studies.


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Hierarchical action learning by instruction through interactive grounding of body parts and proto-actions
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Title: Hierarchical action learning by instruction through interactive grounding of body parts and proto-actions
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Abstract: Learning by instruction allows humans programming a robot to achieve a task using spoken language, without the requirement of being able to do the task themselves, which can be problematic for users with motor impairments. We provide a developmental framework to program the humanoid robot iCub without any hand-coded a-priori knowledge about any motor skills. Inspired by child development theories, the system involves hierarchical learning, starting with the human verbally labelling robot body parts. The robot can then focus its attention on a precise body part during robot motor babbling, and link the on-the-fly spoken descriptions of proto-actions to angle values of a specific joint. The direct grounding of proto-actions is possible through the use of a linear model which calculates the effects on the joint of the proto-action and the body part used, allowing a generalisation of the proto-action if the joint has never been used before. Eventually, transferring the grounding is allowed via learning by instructions where humans can combine the newly acquired proto-actions to build primitives and more complex actions by scaffolding them. The framework has been validated using a humanoid robot iCub, which is able to learn without any prior knowledge: 1) the name of its fingers and the corresponding joint number, 2) how to fold and unfold them and 3) how to close or open its hand and how to show numbers with its fingers.
Publication Date: 16-May-2016
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I serve as the School Director of San Lorenzo School in the City of San Pedro in Laguna Province, PR. Our school offers basic education from preschool to Grade 12, and was invited in 2019 to become a member of the Global Schools Program. This helped strengthen my resolve to educate the youth and get them involved in conserving the environment and contributing to the achievement of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The students have embraced the call to become leaders, adding their energy and vision to the habitat restoration work which is picking up momentum in our region.
The San Lorenzo School students have joined a growing collaboration between local governments and community stakeholders including Rotarians. I have served as President, Youth Service Co-Chair, and Vocational Service Chair for the Rotary Club of Metro San Pedro, and have been working with regional watershed restoration efforts since 2015, when I was invited to help reactivate the San Pedro River Basin Council as part of the efforts of the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) to improve the water quality of the Laguna Lake. The lake is fed by 24 sub-basins including that of our San Pedro River. We formed a new council with the help of the city councilors and stakeholders in San Pedro. I was elected the Council President at the time, serving for two years. We worked with the Laguna Lake Development Authority to form the San Pedro Sub-basin Water Quality Management Area group with six other jurisdictions that the river passes through before draining out into the Laguna Lake.
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