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Ithaca, N.Y. – U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $1 million in new federal funding for Cornell University. The funding was allocated through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). NIFA grants support research and programs that help specialty crop growers achieve long-term viability, high yield, and labor efficient production of locally grown fruits and vegetables. Cornell University will use the funding to advance research in double cropping and diverse forage crop mixtures to build resilience in the Northeast. Cornell University will also work in collaboration with research stations in Vermont and New Hampshire to increase yield stability and reduce the negative impact of variable weather.
"This grant builds on two of New York's great strengths, world class education and robust local agriculture," said Senator Schumer. "Federal funding through NIFA will ensure research opportunities for our students, better yields for our farms, and give New Yorkers access to fruits and vegetables grown in their own backyards. I am thrilled to announce this grant and will continue to fight for New York's place as a national leader in agriculture technology."
"Cornell University is one of the most innovative institutions in the country and an ideal place for this significant federal investment, which will give Cornell the tools to continue its groundbreaking advanced research to strengthen the nation's food and agricultural industries." said Senator Gillibrand, the first New York Senator to serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee in nearly 40 years. "I will continue to support more federal funding for scientific research at our colleges and universities, so that more young people can be inspired to do research, test their ideas, and help make our communities better places to live."
"Thanks to the support of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, Cornell is able to help organic farmers—who typically don't partake in crop insurance programs—increase resiliency in a time of climate change and extreme weather events," said Kathryn J. Boor, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "This funding advances work in developing 'ecological insurance' techniques, such as intercropping and diversifying crop rotations with drought tolerant forage crops, that will allow the Empire State's organic feed and forage producers to reliably and sustainably supply the state's growing organic milk sector, the third largest in the nation."
The USDA NIFA program aims to strengthen local food systems and support farmers growing fruits, vegetables, and nursery crops through research, agricultural extension activities, and initiatives to increase demand and address the needs of America's specialty crop industry.


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Native diatoms made of amorphous silica are first converted into silicon structures via magnesiothermic process, preserving the original shape: electron force microscopy analysis performed on silicon-converted diatoms demonstrates their semiconductor behavior. Wet surface chemical treatments are then performed in order to enhance the photoluminescence emission from the resulting silicon diatoms and, at the same time, to allow the immobilization of biological probes, namely proteins and antibodies, via silanization. We demonstrate that light emission from semiconductive silicon diatoms can be used for antibody-antigen recognition, endorsing this material as optoelectronic transducer.
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text: In this study, an extended A-V formulation is used to determine the alternating current (AC) losses of a coil made of high temperature superconducting (HTS) tape. The current is the same at each turn by balancing the voltages of each turn. By this modification, this method can be applied in a wide application area. This method also provides the chance to determine the calculations at currents higher than the critical current values in a more stable way. The AC loss characteristics of the pancake coil are examined in detail by changing the current value and frequency. Also, the losses at individual turns (1st, 5th, and 10th) are presented. It was seen that the most outer and inner turns have higher losses than that of the other turns. The AC loss results obtained from the extended A-V formulation used in this study are compared with experimental and H-formulation-based results and are in good agreement. The frequency dependence of the pancake coil's loss is revealed at 5 frequency values. The results show that the loss is frequency and current amplitude dependent as expected. Similarly, the calculated losses for each frequency are in good agreement with that obtained from the H-formulation. The current distributions of a single tape and the entire coil are also presented, and all results are discussed in detail.

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Killing 1.4.1 parent jvm doesn't kill children also
Discussion in 'Java' started by Joel Lindsey, Sep 22, 2003.
 1. Joel Lindsey
 Joel Lindsey Guest
 We have noticed a small behavior change in 1.4.1 vs. 1.3.1. We have a
 java manager process that launches and watches child java processes.
 It uses System.Runtime.exec() to launch the child processes. With the
 1.3.1 JVM, if you kill the manager process (with task manager or a
 ctrl-C) it takes the child processes down with it (this is what we
 want). With the 1.4.1 JVM, if you kill the manager the child
 processes hang around.
 Does anyone know of a way to get the 1.4.1 Windows JVM to behave like
 the 1.3.1 jvm?
 Thanks

 Joel Lindsey, Sep 22, 2003
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 (Joel Lindsey) wrote:
 >:We have noticed a small behavior change in 1.4.1 vs. 1.3.1. We have a
 >:java manager process that launches and watches child java processes.
 >:It uses System.Runtime.exec() to launch the child processes. With the
 >:1.3.1 JVM, if you kill the manager process (with task manager or a
 >:ctrl-C) it takes the child processes down with it (this is what we
 >:want). With the 1.4.1 JVM, if you kill the manager the child
 >:processes hang around.
 >:
 >:Does anyone know of a way to get the 1.4.1 Windows JVM to behave like
 >:the 1.3.1 jvm?
 >:
 >:Thanks
 If the 1.3.1 JVM behaved this way, then it's an error. Using the exec()
 method spawns a completely separate process, not one that's within the
 same JVM (assuming the command executed is indeed Java) as that exec()
 statement. So unless the OS and/or processes involved need to kill
 spawn child processes when the parent dies, it's got no bearing on the
 JVM at all.
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Nobody seems quite certain of how many saints there actually are, but the Catholic Exchange estimates it at about 810, not counting those currently being considered for sainthood or only got halfway there. If canonized, Mother Mary Lange will be the first African-American saint. Henriette Delille, the African-American female founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans, is also in the process of canonization.
According to Clutch Magazine,
A Baltimore nun who initiated the world's first black Catholic order has begun the process to sainthood. The remains of Mother Mary Lange, who started the order in 1829, have been returned to the Oblate Sisters of Providence. The Haiti-born, Cuban-raised nun was initially buried in Baltimore, but was welcomed to the order's cemetery this week.
The Archdiocese believes Sister Lange is deserving of canonization for her role in spreading Catholicism through love, especially during a time when people of color were enslaved throughout the North and the South.
"She had many, many obstacles–among them racial prejudice and hatred–and her love overcame that in her life," said Baltimore's Archbishop William Lori.
Free education for African-American children didn't exist when Lange immigrated to Maryland in 1868, so opened a school in her home. She and Marie Magdaleine Balas – later known as Sister Frances – owned and operated the school for over 10 years.
Her love for mankind didn't end there. Lange was encouraged by Reverend James Hector Joubert, the former Archbishop of Baltimore, to open a religious convent for the education of girls of color. It would be the first African-American religious order in the history of the Catholic Church and would spread the word of God to communities of color.
On July 2, 1829, Lange – who was born with the first name Elizabeth – and three other founders professed their love for God and became the Oblate Sisters of Providence. She accepted the religious name of Mary and served as the order's superior general until 1832 and then again from 1835 to 1841.
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EaselJS is a free JavaScript library that makes creating interactive web content for HTML5 more straightforward and intuitive. This course transitions web designers, animators, and content creators who may be used to working with Adobe Flash and ActionScript to this new open web standard. Author Ray Villalobos first explains the capabilities of the EaselJS framework and the HTML5 Canvas element, and what they mean for web design. The rest of the course shows how to use EaselJS's helper classes and hierarchal display list to load images, draw, animate, and handle mouse input from visitors.
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Transforming shapes with EaselJS is done through a class called the DisplayObject. However, you don't actually access that class directly. Instead, you work with DisplayObject subclasses, like Text, Bitmap, and Shape. When you use one of these subclasses, you have access to a variety of traditional transformations, like Rotation, Scaling, et cetera. So let's take a look. So I'm starting off with a basic HTML template. If you haven't already, make sure you watch the video on Creating a Template and Installing EaselJS.
If we go to our script file, we notice that I have a canvas object, as well as a stage and a shape. There's already a shape in the canvas, so if you need to review how to draw graphics, make sure you check out the chapter on Drawing Graphics. So after you have a shape, you can apply some additional transformations to that shape by just calling the different DisplayObject methods. So I can do shape.rotation=, and I can use degrees for rotations, so let me type in 30, and I'll Refresh, and you can see that it's rotated; however, it may not be what you expected.
Like with canvas, rotation is done against a registration point, and that registration point is always by default at the top left of the stage. Now we can easily move that registration point with the regX and regY properties of DisplayObjects. Before I do that, though, transformations are more easily seen in an animation, so I'm going to add an animation. If you want to review how that's done, make sure you check out the video on Comparing Canvas versus EaselJS. So I'm going to rotate this object eight times through each tick, and then I'm going to update the stage.
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Tea is one of those beverages that are universal. People explored the world for it, fought wars for it. Some say that the American Revolution was sparked by it, with the dumping of tea in the Boston Harbor.
But tea isn't just tea. In Russia, its pronounced chay, and the Arabic word for tea is shay. So why the difference? Simple, if it came by sea its Tea, and if it came by land its Cha.
Tea came from China, however, there were two major trading ports. "Sinitic" Chinese referred to the plant as cha and primarily exported it through the silk road. Countries, where this ran through, would refer to it as cha or some variant, such as chay, or shay. It even made its way to East Africa and was called chai in Swahili!
Tea, on the other hand, was traded primarily by Dutch traders through the ports of Fujian and Taiwan. The coastal provinces of China referred to their drink as "te", which the Dutch then called "thee". As this spread around Europe, all countries started putting their own spin on the word, from Te, to Tee in South Africa, and Teh in Java. Finally, the English referred to it as Tea, which is most well known.
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On the map, you may have noticed that Portugal has a pink dot. That is because they were the first European explorers in Asia, and traded through Macao whereas you may have guessed, they referred to it as Cha.
By looking at this map you can see interesting views of globalization. On one hand, the Silk Road shows over a millennium of overland trade, while the sea routes show's a smaller, 400-year-old trade route. Both trade routes had significant impacts on the world you see today, as well as thousands of smaller impacts.
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Relationship of Images of Acoustic Refractive Index and Attenuation to Tissue Types within Excised Female Breast
Two-dimensional images of the distribution of values of acoustic attenuation (A) and velocity (V) in coronal planes of excised human female breasts were obtained using computer assisted tomography (CAT) techniques. Projection profiles of amplitude attenuation and of propagation delay of acoustic pulses were obtained by rectilinear transverse scanning of the tissue under study. Over 200 equispaced pulses were obtained along a 15 cm scan for each of about 35 angles of view separated by 5.4°. Focusing acoustic lenses were used to insonify as small a volume as possible in order to minimize the probability of receiving pulses from multiple pathways. The received pulses were digitized at one 8-bit sample every 10 nanoseconds for up to 1,024 samples. Edge detection algorithms were used to determine the arrival time of the pulse within the digitized signal. The amplitude of the arriving pulse was determined by measuring the peak or the area of the earliest arriving pulse.
KeywordsArrival Time Coronal Plane Acoustic Pulse Eritieal Angle Algebraic Reconstruction Technique
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For Novembers Mother Daughter Book Club from Girls Leadership.org, my daughter and I had the pleasure of reading Rickshaw Girl. Rickshaw Girl is a story of a young Bangladeshi girl named Naima who lives with her family in a struggling village. Her father earns the money for the family by driving a rickshaw. One of Naima's greatest pleasures is cleaning her fathers rickshaw and making it look shiny and new for all of her fathers customers. She is also a talented artist and paints the most beautiful alpanas in the village. Naima wants to help her father earn money because he is always tired and works very long hours. However, this was not possible because she is a girl and according to their culture, girls do not work to earn money. They stay at home and fulfill household duties such as cleaning, cooking, taking care of the house, etc. Naima decides one day to drive the rickshaw herself but loses control of it and crashes her fathers beloved vehicle. What will she do now? Feeling sad and hopeless, Naima finds the perfect solution at the end of the story to help her family.
Both my daughter and I enjoyed this book because it helped us both understand the culture of Naima and how their world is different than ours. As a young girl, my daughter and I were able to discuss the financial struggles that Naima experiences with her family and why. Rickshaw Girl also sparked a great conversation about a woman's role in many different societies and how our country differs from others in the world. Growing up in the US, it's hard to understand the perspective of a character named Naima, but I think it's up to us to educate our children about all different cultures and societies to increase awareness and overall acceptance of others and their differences.
Multi-Ethnic Group Of People's Arms Raised Holding Letters ThatLearning Tips:
 1. As you are reading the book, show your child images of a rickshaw and other various vocabulary that may be unfamiliar (e.g. alpana)
 2. Read a few chapters at a time and ask questions throughout the story. If your child doesn't understand a specific concept, stop reading and talk about it.
 3. Inspire your child to create her own alpana by watching an instructional video.
 4. Discuss the differences between Naima's fathers job and other jobs that men and women have.
 5. Compare the different roles of women in Naima's world and our country.
I am thrilled to present this interview with Mitali Perkins, author of Rickshaw Girl. To learn more about Mitali and her other books that she has written, click here.
1. What inspired you to write Rickshaw Girl?
My husband and I went back to live in Bangladesh for three years and I rode in a lot of rickshaws during that time. While we were there, we learned how the lives of girls are changing for the better thanks to microcredit programs that provide money for female entrepreneurs. I wanted to write about that, as that change for the better is coming from within Bangladeshi communities, not as the result of outside aid and intervention from other countries.
2. What would you like young girls to learn most from your book?
I would want them to choose what they learn. A work of fiction leaves a lot of power in the hands of the reader. At the time of reading, the writer is not in the picture any longer and so the takeaway belongs to the reader.
3. What is your background and how did that influence your writing of the book?
Both of my grandmothers and my mother grew up in the villages of Bangladesh. My mother is a talented artist who learned to create alpanas as a girl. I was born in Kolkata and so Bengali culture is my own heritage.
4. If you can write a sequel to the book, what type of future do you see for Naima?
My daughter thinks that Naima will open her own rickshaw shop in her house with her families help.
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On December 22, 1904, Manufacturers Record reported: "Giesey & Faris have prepared plans for [a] 12-story 100 × 127 office building for Henry Schmulbach, to cost $500,000." The Columbus, Ohio, firm of Caldwell and Drake served as the general contractor, and Wheeling's own Riverside Bridge Company supplied structural steel for the frame. The Martin Brick Company of Pittsburgh provided face brick, L. Schrieber and Sons of Cincinnati supplied ornamental iron, and Otis furnished the elevators. The Schmulbach Building was sponsored by and named for Wheeling brewery owner and entrepreneur Henry Schmulbach. When completed, it was regarded as the state's largest office building. After almost a century, it remains the largest office building in Wheeling.
Surprisingly restrained, even a bit boring, the H-shaped high-rise has several horizontal belt courses that attempt to arrest its vertical thrust. The first two stories are faced in granite, those above in cream-colored brick. Several years after the building was completed, the Wheeling Steel Corporation took over its operation, and the building now serves a successor company.
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The Effects of Human Fatigue on Risk at Sea
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The main purpose of this PhD thesis is to improve the current international knowledge pool regarding the circumstances in which human fatigue develops on board a vessel and its effect on the probability of maritime grounding accidents. The work focuses on personnel on the ship's bridge and maritime groundings, however, the methods developed and the techniques shown are relevant to other type of accidents and crews. The thesis reviews the literature on risk modelling, and presents current available methods for developing socio-technical models. The research identifies current challenges for including organisational and human factors in a risk model. In doing so, important fatigue related factors are identified and quantitative links between fatigue and the probability of groundings are shown. The main contributions of this thesis are: - Providing an overview of knowledge gaps and challenges in modelling human fatigue in risk models - Development of four models for assessing human fatigue at sea A Bayesian network model CREAM model Regression model BORA model - Identification of factors that influence human fatigue - Assessment of maritime transport stakeholder views on human fatigue - Identification of ways to improve collection and reporting of data from accident investigation for the purposes of better assessing the contribution of Human and Organizational Factors (HOF) The classical Newtonian view of the world, where the system is understood by dividing it into smaller parts and assigning causal links, does not embody human behaviour adequately. A more systemic view, where the complexity and interaction between dependent variables are recognised, is a preferable approach. This thesis suggests Bayesian Networking (BN) as a convenient tool for modelling socio-technical systems. BN allows one to take into account the many interactions in complex systems. It also allows reasoning in both directions. The BN model developed in this thesis (Article II) indicates that a bridge management team where at least one member of it is fatigued, has a strong negative effect on the probability of grounding. Although Article II does not claim any "true numbers" for probability of grounding or the probability of any of the fatigue related factors included in the model, the BN model still gives valuable information about the relative changes and relations. Fatigue in bridge personnel increased the probability of grounding with 16%. The marginal probability of having a fatigued bridge management team in a random ship is conservatively calculated to be 23%. The stepwise method for building BN introduced in the thesis is transferable to other transport modes. In short, the method uses accident investigation reports to generate Human and Organizational Factor (HOF) data. The HOFs are then structured using a taxonomy (HFACS in our case) and finally a BN is made. The maritime transport sector (MTS) is concerned about high human fatigue levels among seafarers. High human fatigue levels are linked with raised probabilities of less than adequate human performance, of which the consequences may be great, e.g. groundings, collisions and oil spills. It has not been uncommon that accidents occur when officers are in a fatigued state. Proper psychological functioning of seafarers is crucial for the overall safety and reliability of ships. The research in this thesis indicates that the various stakeholders appreciate the importance of having a non-fatigued crew, however, at the same time their perception is that anti-fatigue measures cost more than they generate in benefits. This report of the stakeholders' belief may be an indication of lack of interest and motivation to implement fatigue reducing measures on board. The belief that fatigue measures are non-effective could have an important part to play. The thesis concludes that the most important fatigue related factors are: Efficiency pressure, LTA (Less than adequate) Manning, Shift scheme of 12 hours on duty followed by 12 hours off, assuming adequate manning (12-12), LTA BRM (Bridge Resource Management) application, LTA Quality control and Variable working conditions. The research conducted in this thesis has been limited to large ships having a minimum of seven crew members (except of article I, where the minimum crew members were set to four) on a voyage lasting at least one day or more. The limitation was used because it was assumed that the circumstances in which fatigue occurring in these ships are basically different from that in other types of ships, for instance fishing vessels or supply ships. The conclusions regarding the effects of fatigue on the probability of grounding can therefore not be generalised without constraints. Different taxonomies and structures exist today for structuring the HOFs. Most taxonomies available are developed with the nuclear or aviation industry in mind. The maritime transport system is different and should therefore have its own specially tailored and reviewed taxonomies of HOFs. This is an important work for the future. The research has also limited itself to looking at fatigue's effect on accidents. Human performance in post -accident events, given a fatigued state has not been looked into. Limiting damage is an important part of an overall risk analysis. Further work should also devolve into that phase, i.e., the influence of HOF in postaccident scenarios.


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Patterns of molecular genetic variation among African elephant populations
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The highly threatened African elephants have recently been subdivided into two species, Loxodonta africana (savannah or bush elephant) and L. cyclotis (forest elephant) based on morphological and molecular studies. A molecular genetic assessment of 16 microsatellite loci across 20 populations (189 individuals) affirms species level genetic differentiation and provides robust genotypic assessment of species affiliation. Savannah elephant popula-tions show modest levels of phylogeographic subdivision based on composite microsatellite genotype, an indication of recent population isolation and restricted gene flow between locales. The savannah elephants show significantly lower genetic diversity than forest elephants, probably reflecting a founder effect in the recent history of the savannah species.
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panic_on_oom
This enables or disables panic on out-of-memory feature.
If this is set to 0, the kernel will kill some rogue process,
called oom_killer. Usually, oom_killer can kill rogue processes and
system will survive.
If this is set to 1, the kernel panics when out-of-memory happens.
However, if a process limits using nodes by mempolicy/cpusets,
and those nodes become memory exhaustion status, one process
may be killed by oom-killer. No panic occurs in this case.
Because other nodes' memory may be free. This means system total status
may be not fatal yet.
If this is set to 2, the kernel panics compulsorily even on the
above-mentioned.
The default value is 0.
1 and 2 are for failover of clustering. Please select either
according to your policy of failover.
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mmap_min_addr
This file indicates the amount of address space which a user process will
be restricted from mmaping. Since kernel null dereference bugs could
accidentally operate based on the information in the first couple of pages
of memory userspace processes should not be allowed to write to them. By
default this value is set to 0 and no protections will be enforced by the
security module. Setting this value to something like 64k will allow the
vast majority of applications to work correctly and provide defense in depth
against future potential kernel bugs.
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numa_zonelist_order
This sysctl is only for NUMA.
'where the memory is allocated from' is controlled by zonelists.
(This documentation ignores ZONE_HIGHMEM/ZONE_DMA32 for simple explanation.
 you may be able to read ZONE_DMA as ZONE_DMA32...)
In non-NUMA case, a zonelist for GFP_KERNEL is ordered as following.
ZONE_NORMAL -> ZONE_DMA
This means that a memory allocation request for GFP_KERNEL will
get memory from ZONE_DMA only when ZONE_NORMAL is not available.
In NUMA case, you can think of following 2 types of order.
Assume 2 node NUMA and below is zonelist of Node(0)'s GFP_KERNEL
(A) Node(0) ZONE_NORMAL -> Node(0) ZONE_DMA -> Node(1) ZONE_NORMAL
(B) Node(0) ZONE_NORMAL -> Node(1) ZONE_NORMAL -> Node(0) ZONE_DMA.
Type(A) offers the best locality for processes on Node(0), but ZONE_DMA
will be used before ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion. This increases possibility of
out-of-memory(OOM) of ZONE_DMA because ZONE_DMA is tend to be small.
Type(B) cannot offer the best locality but is more robust against OOM of
the DMA zone.
Type(A) is called as "Node" order. Type (B) is "Zone" order.
"Node order" orders the zonelists by node, then by zone within each node.
Specify "[Nn]ode" for zone order
"Zone Order" orders the zonelists by zone type, then by node within each
zone. Specify "[Zz]one"for zode order.
Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration. Autoconfiguration
will select "node" order in following case.
(1) if the DMA zone does not exist or
(2) if the DMA zone comprises greater than 50% of the available memory or
(3) if any node's DMA zone comprises greater than 60% of its local memory and
 the amount of local memory is big enough.
Otherwise, "zone" order will be selected. Default order is recommended unless
this is causing problems for your system/application.


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Stuart Johnson, Deseret News
Utah had a problem in 1903.
The St. Louis World's Fair had invited the state to participate in a parade of states. The parade was only few months away, and Utah was unprepared: It had no state flag.
Utah's first governor, Heber M. Wells, needed a flag fast, so he asked for help from Julia P.M. Farnsworth, regent of the Utah State Society of the Daughters of the Revolution.
The Daughters of the Revolution — a who's who of turn-of-the-19th-century Utah women — raised money by $1 donations and contracted with the ZCMI art department to make the flag. Agnes Teudt Fernelius, an immigrant from Goteborg, Sweden, embroidered the state seal with white thread on blue homespun Utah silk.
On May 1, 1903, in St. Louis, the delegation from the Union's youngest state marched proudly with the flag in the parade of states. The delegation, which included President Joseph F. Smith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sen. Reed Smoot, Gov. Wells and others, had met earlier where the World's Fair, officially known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, would take place the next year. A photograph was taken of the delegation standing around the flag where the Utah pavilion would be built.
More than a century later, in 2008, Ronald Fox found the photograph of the flag. Fox is a history buff and an indefatigable artifact hunter. Like a pit bull, he latched onto the idea of finding the flag.
The Utah State History department didn't have a record of the flag. Fox looked everywhere: The Daughters of Utah Pioneers, the LDS Church's collections, Fort Douglas Museum and the museum at the former state Capitol in Fillmore.
As Fox researched, he learned that it wasn't until March 9, 1911 — 99 years ago Tuesday — that the 1903 flag was declared by the Legislature as the official state flag of Utah.
Fox met flag expert John Hartvigsen in December 2009. Hartvigsen remembered seeing a beautifully embroidered 1922 Utah flag in the Utah State Historical Society Museum's collection. Fox knew that the 1922 flag wasn't listed in the museum's index of cataloged items. "That led me to believe that (the 1903) flag was there," Fox said.
Fox decided to go back to the beginning of his search and called Philip F. Notarianni, Utah State history director. Notarianni agreed to make a thorough search.
A few days later, in early February, Fox received a call from Michele Elnicky, a curator at the museum. Her team had found the flag. It had been inside a box that had been placed inside another box long before their cataloging system had been implemented.
The 1903 blue-and-white flag's reign as Utah's official flag was short-lived. After President Theodore Roosevelt announced plans for the USS Utah, a full-color flag was created for the battleship. That design, with minor changes, became the new Utah state flag by legislative decree in 1913.
The 1903 flag continued to be used as a "governor's flag" for about a decade. It was eventually retired to a box in the state archives, donated to the historical society, misplaced inside another box and lost to memory.
When Fox ended his two-year search, he could see that the flag's blue homespun Utah silk was torn in many places and in need of conservation and restoration work. Agnes Teudt Fernelius' intricate 107-year-old embroidery, however, was still in perfect condition.
Utah's first flag will be shown to the public for the first time in decades today from 1 to 3 p.m. at the state Capitol during the announcement of an exhibit titled "Utah in the Union: The Story of the 45th State."
Utah state flag facts:
1896: State seal designed by Harry E. Edmunds and C. M. Jackson.
1903: First Utah flag is embroidered with white thread on Utah homespun blue silk.
1913: Wm. H. Horstmann Co. makes a Utah flag for the USS Utah battleship — and adds, without instructions, a gold circle around the state seal.
1922: Emma W. "Dolly" McMonegal creates beautiful multicolored embroidered flag of Utah. She forgets to put the year 1847 on the flag and has to add it later below the shield. All current Utah flags are based on this version of the flag — even though state law requires 1847 to be on the shield, not below it.
2010: Paul Swenson of Colonial Flag donates funds to have the 1903 Utah flag conserved and restored.
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Investigating Neurodegenerative Conditions in a Microgravity Environment
Jul 20 2023
AMSBIO, a leading supplier of human cell lines and research tools, announces its partnership with WARR Space Labs, a student group from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Together, they embark on an exciting project aimed at advancing our understanding of neurodegenerative disorders, particularly Alzheimer's disease, through spaceborne experiments. This collaboration represents a remarkable opportunity to explore the effects of microgravity on these conditions, potentially unlocking new insights that could lead to innovative therapeutic approaches in the future.
The ADDONISS (Ageing and Degenerative Diseases of Neurons on the ISS) project's primary objective is to conduct pioneering research on neuronal cell cultures within the microgravity setting of the International Space Station (ISS). AMSBIO plays a crucial role in this endeavour by providing the SH-SY5Y/GFP stable cell line and contributing €1000 in support of the team's funding costs during their research at NASA laboratories.
Selina Kanamüller, a member of WARR Space Labs student team at TUM, said: "The experience of getting to conduct research in NASA laboratories has been unforgettable. Thanks to the help of AMSBIO and our extensive preparations for more than a year, everything went well."
On 15th March the experiment was successfully transported to the ISS via the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. At present, the WARR Space Labs team is currently analysing the data collected from the experiment. As they await the results of the ADDONISS project, there is considerable anticipation surrounding the potential breakthroughs it could offer to Alzheimer's research and the wider domain of neurodegenerative disease research. The promising findings could pave the way for significant advancements in our understanding and treatment of these challenging conditions.
AMSBIO stands as a prominent global supplier, offering a comprehensive range of ready-to-use human cell lines, encompassing receptor, ion channel, cell signalling, phosphodiesterase, and CRE recombinase lines. Rigorous validation processes are employed by the company to ensure that these cell lines deliver the highest quality products, empowering researchers with the utmost support for their scientific investigations.
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Representative Plants Used as Natural Dye in Okinawa
The vegetation nurtured by the soil of Okinawa provides its power to create natural dyes to give our threads various shades of Okinawan colors.
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- Hues of Blue:
Ryukyu Ai (Ryukyu Indigo)
The stems and leaves of the plant are clipped between summer and autumn, and indigo paste, or mud-indigo known as doro-ai, is produced and used as dye. In the past, the Ryukyu indigo plants were cultivated in various regions throughout Okinawa, but presently, these native species of plants are mostly grown in the northern region of Okinawa Island, in the Izumi area of Motobu town. Okinawa's own distilled spirit, awamori, as well as starch syrup and alkaline agents are naturally fermented with the Ryukyu indigo in special bottles.
- Hues of Yellow:
Fukugi (Garcinias)
Fukugi plants are planted as protective hedges, to shield seaside homes from the salty winds and tides. Its bark, branches and leaves are used to produce the dyes.
- Hues of Reddish-Brown:
Okinawa Saru-tori-ibara (Smilax china var. kuru)
The name derives from the thorns on the stems of the plant, where monkeys (saru) get caught. The round fruit is approximately 1cm in diameter and ripens to a bright red color. Auburn dye is made from the extracts from the plant's underground stems.
Sharinbai (Yeddo Hawthorn; Rhaphiolepis indica var. umbellate)
The tips of the branches of this fragrant plant are full of blooming white flowers and the fruit ripens to a blackish-purple color. The bark, stem and roots have high tannin content.
- Other:
Getto (Pink Porcelain Lilies, Shell Ginger, Shell Flowers; Alpinia zerumbet)
In Okinawa, the leaves are used to wrap mochi, or sticky rice cakes, for the traditional event called Muchi which is held on December 8th of the lunar calendar. Muchi is an event where locals pray for the well-being of their children and other family members. The plant, with its distinctive fragrance, is also used to produce essential oils.
From the collection and processing of natural fibers which are extracted from plants to make the dyes, to the weaving itself, every step of the creation of Chibana-Hanaori is done completely by hand.
◆ The Dyeing Process
- Ryukyu indigo and awamori are combined,mixed
 and naturally fermented.
- The threads are dyed numerous times.
- Ryukyu indigo in the fermentation stage.
The plants that are used to make the dyes for Chibana-Hanaori are collected in the woods in the area, including those in the Chibana Gusuku castle ruins, which still remains in this district.


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Celse K. Amedin
G.A.U.S., Mech. Eng. Dept., Univ. de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
A new concept of a transmission technique for the characterization of porous material is presented. It is based on the accurate modeling of the sound field above the layer of material that rests on an horizontal infinite baffle. The sound field is generated by a waveguide mounted vertically under the baffle with its termination flush to the baffle. The waveguide is assumed to create a uniform distribution of particle velocity at the termination. The field in the material is expressed using a Green's function that accounts for the multiple reflections on the baffle and at the upper surface of the material. The field above the material is formulated in terms of the pressure gradient distribution over the upper surface. Starting with the boundary conditions at the upper surface (continuity of the sound pressure and normal particle velocity), the collocation method is used to solve for the pressure gradient at a mesh on this surface. This, in turn, allows one to calculate the sound pressure above the material and the transfer function between the volume velocity of the source and this sound pressure. Numerical results are presented, and the potential of this technique for the characterization of porous material is discussed.


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Desmond Samson is a Peer Counsellor with the South Fly TB program, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. His role includes providing education, and psychological support to patients and their families, facilitating patient referrals and working collaboratively with other clinical staff to ensure patient needs are met.
Prior to joining Burnet, Desmond worked with Tingim Laip as a Field Officer supporting MSM and transgender populations.
Desmond was also at Save the Children as a Data Entry Officer in charge of key populations.
- 2019: SASA – Examining Power, Root Cause, types of Violence Against Women Training – Daru, PNG
- 2019: Certificate in Standard Patient Education Counselling Sessions Training (theory)
- 2019: Child Protection Training; 2014: Child Rights Training
- 2014: HIV and Law Training
- 2014: Sexual and Reproductive Health; 2014: First Aid Training; 2013: Monitoring and Evaluation Training
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- An antigenic substance that stimulates the formation of specific agglutinin, which can cause agglutination of cells that contain the antigen or particles coated with the antigen. SYN: agglutogen. [agglutinin + G. -gen, production]- T a. obsolete term for an a. formed from a latent receptor on human red cells by the action of an enzyme in cultures of certain bacteria.
* * *ag·glu·ti·no·gen ə-'glüt-ən-ə-jən n an antigen whose presence results in the formation of an agglutininag·glu·ti·no·gen·ic -.glüt-ən-ə-'jen-ik adj
* * *n.any antigen that provokes formation of an agglutinin in the serum and is therefore likely to be involved in agglutination.
* * *ag·glu·tin·o·gen (ag″loo-tinґo-jen) 1. any substance which, acting as an antigen, stimulates the production of agglutinin. 2. the particulate antigen used in conducting agglutination tests.
Medical dictionary. 2011.


Here in a study is made on the motion response of a ship moored in a rectangular harbour excited by long waves within the framework of linear potential theory. The ship is assumed slender and moored in the harbour with constant depth and straight coastline. The matched asymptotic expansion technique is applied. To employ it, the fluid domain is divided into the ocean and the harbour regions. The latter is further subdivided into a field near the ship and the rest. Numerical results show that the ship motion is significantly amplified, when the harbour is resonated by incident waves. At resonant frequencies, the heave added mass becomes negative and the wave damping changes abruptly. The mode and magnitude of ship motion depend strongly on the incident wave frequency and on the position of ships inside the harbour. Experiments. are performed for a moored ship model in a shallow basin for wave periods ranging from 2 to 3 seconds. Wave responses and ship motions are measured and compared with computations. It is found that the theory developed in this paper predicts them qualitatively well.
1. Introduction
As the sea transportation is being ever intensified in recent years, ships often have to wait in a harbour for a long time until they are allowed to load or offload at piers due to the limited cargo-handling capacity. It is well known that harbour oscillations can be excited by long waves such as swell and tsunami. The harbour response has long been investigated in the area of coastal engineering and there are ample sources of literature, for example, see Miles & Munk(1961) and Lee(1972). Ships moored in a harbour also are excited and they undergo motions of six-degrees of freedom.
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Fred Pearce describes the role of "honey-suckers" in recycling human waste as fertiliser in contemporary India (16 February, p 48). Less than a hundred years ago, this was a not-uncommon practice in the urban UK. Houses built in central Gateshead in the 1890s, and still standing, typically have two hatches in the wall separating them from the back lane. The upper was for deliveries of coal, the lower for taking out human faeces, to which ash from the coal fire had been added.
Those doing the removal were called "honey-pot men"; the euphemism has clearly travelled and lasted. In the mining town of Ashington, Northumberland, a narrow-gauge railway ran down the back lanes between rows of houses, to take the closet contents for use as fertiliser on the mine company's farm.
Pearce does not mention pharmaceuticals and the risks they pose when using human effluent as fertiliser. There are,...
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Death of a Salesman: From Page to Stage
AbstractConsidering the original dramatic text Death of a Salesman, the objective of the present research is to study and analyze different modes of adaptation carried out advancing from Persian page translations toward its considered stage performance. Using Ladoucer's (1995) model for the translation of drama texts, the Persian (audiovisual) stage performance and the two published Persian page translations involved, were analyzed so that the cases of alteration were identified and compared with/to one another. The results of the study revealed that in the case of page translation, alterations were carried out mostly due to linguistic and cultural mismatches and for the sake of the target readership. On the other hand, in the theatrical system, the alterations could be observed at a higher level in the form of freer adaptations, where not only the linguistic and cultural mismatches, but also the style and creativity of the theatre members, especially those of the director are involved. Thus, in the context of the theatrical production, different modes of adaptation are carried out when the authority of the theatre producer along with the value, taste, and interest of the theatre goers are to be taken into account.
How to Cite
Arjomandi, N., & Mollanazar, H. (2017). Death of a Salesman: From Page to Stage. Translation Studies Quarterly, 14(55). Retrieved from _URL_
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Remote, Rugged & Natural; that's North Harris
"There are some large areas of Scotland, particularly in the north and west, whose largely semi-natural landscapes show minimal signs of human influence. These can be mountains and moorland, stretches of undeveloped coast or large areas of peat bog. These wild and remote areas have a distinct and special character, which is increasingly rare to find. A key component of Scotland's identity, they bring significant economic benefits, attracting visitors and tourists. Many people derive psychological and spiritual benefit from their existence, and they provide increasingly important havens for Scotland's wildlife." – from the Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) website.
An exercise is now underway to map Scotland's wildness and wild land. SNH is analysing Scottish land, and reporting on its:
- Percieved naturalness
- Absence of modern artifacts
The preliminary findings have been published at the link below for discussion. No suprises – North Harris is marked highly in all categories.


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Waiting for an update on the conservation and restoration of our Horten H IX V3 "Bat-wing Ship?" Here's the latest! Our conservation staff, in collaboration with curator Russ Lee, is working with the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute (MCI) to figure out the materials and technologies used to craft the Horten H IX V3. For example, the transparent canopy was analyzed with a portable Raman spectrometer and determined to be a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plastic. PMMA was developed by Rohm and Haas in the mid-1930s in Germany and the United States, and the material is reputed to have been incorporated quickly into aircraft canopies, gun turrets, and transparent noses. It is lightweight, impact resistant, relatively easy to form, and transmits light even better than glass. In this instance, identifying the canopy as PMMA confirms what we already expected from our research of trade literature from that period. It also shows how studying our collection, visually and with analytical tools like MCIs Raman spectrometer, provides direct physical evidence of an aircraft's manufacture, which enriches our understanding of the history of early plastics in aviation.
Raman spectroscopy identifies materials by shining a laser beam at a surface and measuring the energy distribution of inelastically scattered light. It is potentially non-destructive and does not require removing a sample from the aircraft. MCIs spectrometer weighs only 6 lbs. and fits in a convenient "carry on" sized suitcase for trips out to the Udvar-Hazy Center and other Smithsonian museums.
Lauren Horelick is a objects conservator in the Collections Department of the National Air and Space Museum.


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One of the most exciting improvements in Windows 8.1 Preview is opening the floodgates for device access. While Windows 8 supported certain device scenarios like print, sensors, and geolocation, access to arbitrary devices was limited to dedicated device apps. This changes dramatically in Windows 8.1 Preview. We support several new and innovative APIs like Point of Sale (POS), 3D printing, and scanning, and—through device protocol APIs–open up access to a huge landscape of other devices.
Device protocol APIs, new to Windows 8.1, allow a Windows Store app to talk to a device over industry standard protocols like USB, HID, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Smart, and Wi-Fi Direct. As a developer, all you need to do is simply identify the device (leveraging metadata) and then open a communication channel to the device. Opening a channel prompts for user consent. This is a critical step to help prevent apps from accidentally or maliciously communicating with one or more devices without the user's awareness. Once access is granted, the app can communicate with a device, including starting long data transfers, which can continue even if the user swipes to another app.
Enabling new scenarios
Access to devices via device protocol APIs enables multiple new scenarios in Windows 8.1 Preview:
- IHV Device Access: Hardware vendors can create apps to accompany their innovative devices (without the need for custom drivers).
- Ecosystem of Apps: Manufacturers can create a standard for communicating with their hardware device. This empowers an ecosystem of software developers to create novel apps that can all communicate with that device.
- Enthusiast Community: Home developers can create their own apps to communicate with non-standard devices. For example, a high school student could build an app for a science project so that hardware could be controlled from a Surface running Windows 8.1 Preview.
Resources for building apps that connect to devices
At Build, my colleague Deen and I gave a talk on how to develop apps that work with our ecosystem of Windows devices. The talk details how to author, test, and deploy great Windows Store apps that expose the unique functionality of devices.
There's a lot more on communicating between apps and specific devices and buses in the talks listed below:
- Using Geolocation and Geofencing in Windows Store pps [3-9034]
- 3D Printing with Windows [3-9027]
- Building Windows Apps That Use Scanners [3-025]
- How to Use Point-of-Sale Devices in Your App [3-029]
- Apps for Bluetooth, HID, and USB Devices (focusing on Bluetooth RFCOMM) [3-026]
- Apps for Bluetooth Smart Devices [3-9028]
- Apps for USB Devices [3-924a]
- Apps for HID Devices [2-924b]
Windows 8.1 Preview provides rich support for apps to communicate with devices. By integrating standard devices (e.g. printers, sensors) or even custom devices seamlessly into your apps, users can enjoy a fast and fluid way of interacting with their favorite devices.
–George Roussos, Senior Program Manager
Updated November 7, 2014 11:46 pm


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EnerGuide is the official Government of Canada mark for rating and labelling the energy consumption or energy efficiency of products including new vehicles, appliances, heating and cooling equipment, and houses that have had an energy efficiency evaluation. For more information, visit EnerGuide in Canada.
The EnerGuide Label for Vehicles provides model-specific fuel consumption information for new light-duty vehicles available for retail sale in Canada, including passenger cars, vans, pickup trucks and SUVs. Use the EnerGuide label to compare new vehicle fuel consumption information and identify the most fuel-efficient new vehicle that meets your everyday needs.
EnerGuide labels should remain on new vehicles until they are sold. If a new vehicle has no label, ask the dealer for the manufacturer's fuel consumption information for the vehicle.
New EnerGuide label
A redesigned EnerGuide label was introduced with model year 2016 vehicles. The new label reflects the improved testing and provides you with more comprehensive fuel consumption and environmental information. The sample label is for a gasoline vehicle. Use the links below to see the sample labels for vehicles that use other types of fuel.
1. Vehicle technology and fuel - text and related icon identifying the type of fuel used by the vehicle
2. Fuel consumption - a prominent combined fuel consumption rating and separate city and highway fuel consumption ratings in litres per 100 kilometres (L/100 km). The combined rating reflects 55 percent city and 45 percent highway driving.
3. Fuel economy - the combined rating expressed in miles per imperial gallon (mi/gal)
4. Annual fuel cost - an estimate based on the combined fuel consumption rating, 20,000 km driven and the fuel price indicated
5. Vehicle class range - the best and worst combined fuel consumption ratings of vehicles in the same class
6. CO2 and smog ratings - the vehicle's tailpipe emissions of CO2 and smog-forming pollutants rated on a scale from 1 (worst) to 10 (best). The CO2 emissions, in grams per kilometre driven, are shown on the CO2 bar
7. QR code - a Quick Response code that links smartphone users to Natural Resources Canada's Fuel Consumption Ratings Search Tool
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Why Video Compression Is Necessary
When students create a video on an iPad for assessment purposes there should be no issues when submitting this to your teacher.
- A raw 2 minute video captured initially using your iPad camera = 218Mb
- This raw video edited in iMovie and exported to the camera roll at HD 720p = 155Mb
- Uploading your HD 720p video to YouTube = 38.3Mb
If you are using SEQTA, TEAMS or OneDrive for your video submission, it is strongly recommended that you use the Compress App to reduce file size before submitting.
Make sure you have access to the following Apps on your iPad.
Video Submission Summary


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Taking a fresh look at water quality management, a University of Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) research team is studying how the replacement of urban lawns with more diverse vegetation can help protect the environment and make our landscapes more sustainable.
The researchers have been awarded a $595,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and will be working at the Winterthur Gardens on their project.
Shreeram Inamdar, CANR associate professor of plant and soil sciences, is the principal investigator and the research team includes Doug Tallamy, chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology; Susan Barton, associate professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and a Cooperative Extension specialist; Jules Bruck, assistant professor of landscape horticulture and design; and Joshua Duke, professor in the Department of Food and Resource Economics.
One of the main goals of the three-year study, funded through the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) National Integrated Water Quality program, is to try to curb water pollution at its source — preventing pollution in the first place rather than waiting to treat contaminated water before it enters waterways.
"In the past, standard water quality management has focused on intercepting dirty water before it gets into water systems," explained Tallamy. "We're doing the opposite — we're trying to keep the water clean from the start."
The researchers believe this can be accomplished by shrinking the lawn and replacing it with more diverse vegetation, thus reducing fertilizer and herbicide inputs and enabling water filtration, which will lead to less storm water runoff and cleaner water.
Diverse vegetation also is expected to provide other natural ecosystem services — such as carbon sequestration, preserving biodiversity and natural pest control — that are associated with mixed vegetation landscapes.
Inamdar noted that the ability to look at both of these aspects is a unique opportunity for the researchers. "One of the great things on this proposal is that we get to look at water quality as well as ecosystem services," he said. "Not many projects take that view, so I think that's a very novel approach."
To conduct the study, the group will be comparing watersheds with different vegetation types at Winterthur.
Barton explained that the group will look at runoff from different types of watersheds at Winterthur — one site will be a mown turf field that will be managed in the manner of a residential lawn and the other will be primarily forest and meadow.
By doing this, Barton explained, "We can directly compare these two streams, which are very close to each other, under the same weather conditions. One gets the residential lawn runoff and one gets the diverse landscape runoff."
The team has also secured a local homeowner's landscape for the research. Bruck said the property will be "used as a test garden, and will become a demonstration garden to show these different sustainable principles and practices."
Barton noted that public tours of the sites will eventually be offered.
Planting will begin next spring and as soon as the team gathers enough information and data, it will provide educational courses at Winterthur to disseminate key information to the public.
Tallamy said that making this information readily available is an effort to "change the status symbol. Right now, the status symbol is a big lawn and we're trying to make it more diverse."
This is also one of the main focuses of the Center for Managed Ecosystems, of which Tallamy is the director.
Duke's role will be to determine how much it would cost a homeowner to manage their property in a more diverse manner, as opposed to how much it costs to simply manage a big lawn. Said Duke, "We suspect that it might not be that lawn is actually the cheapest way to manage things. It may be that it's cheaper for an owner to manage in a more sustainable manner; they might just not realize it because it's not the status quo."
Undergraduate and graduate students will be involved in many aspects of the research, from helping the group gather information on water quality, ecosystem services and the economic implications to helping in the design of the more sustainable garden.
Bruck explained that students in her Basic Landscape Design course will "work through the design process to come up with demonstration plans that will be presented to the University of Delaware Botanical Gardens (UDBG) and then we'll post the plans on our website, for educational purposes for other homeowners."
For now, the team is gearing up for the spring and ready to get the study under way, hoping to improve water quality and change the status quo from large lawns to diverse, more sustainable ecosystems.
Article by Adam Thomas
Photo by Danielle Quigley
Graphic courtesy Jules Bruck
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, which have different meanings based on their required type attribute:
Type of limit to define - one of registered_user_concurrent_jobs, anonymous_user_concurrent_jobs, destination_user_concurrent_jobs, destination_total_concurrent_jobs, walltime, and output_size.
Optional destination on which to apply limit (for destination_user_concurrent_jobs and destination_total_concurrent_jobs types only) (e.g. id="galaxy_cluster").
Optional destinations on which to apply limit (for destination_user_concurrent_jobs and destination_total_concurrent_jobs types only).
If a limit tag is defined, its value must be set. If the limit tag is not defined, the default for each type is unlimited. The syntax for the available types are:
Limit on the number of jobs a user with a registered Galaxy account can have active across all destinations.
Limit on the number of jobs an unregistered/anonymous user can have active across all destinations.
The number of jobs a user can have active in the specified destination, or across all destinations identified by the specified tag.
The number of jobs that can be active in the specified destination (or across all destinations identified by the specified tag) by any/all users.
Amount of time a job can run (in any destination) before it will be terminated by Galaxy.
Total walltime that jobs may not exceed during a set period. If total walltime of finished jobs exceeds this value, any new jobs are paused. This limit should include a window attribute that is the number in days representing the period.
Size that any defined tool output can grow to before the job will be terminated. This does not include temporary files created by the job (e.g. 53687091200 for 50 GB).
The concept of "across all destinations" is used because Galaxy allows users to run jobs across any number of local or remote (cluster) resources. A user may always queue an unlimited number of jobs in Galaxy's internal job queue. The concurrency limits apply to jobs that have been dispatched and are in the queued or running states. These limits prevent users from monopolizing the resources Galaxy runs on by, for example, preventing a single user from submitting more long-running jobs than Galaxy has cluster slots to run and subsequently blocking all Galaxy jobs from running for any other user.


the binary expansion of xx (we make the convention that binary expansions do not end in sequences of 11s). Let a(a n k)a \coloneqq (a_{n_k}) be a subsequence and define p aIp_a \in I by the binary expansion that has a 00 in the n kn_kth position if kk is even and a 11 if kk is odd (and, for definiteness and to ensure that this fits with our convention, define it to be 00 elsewhere). Then the projection of (a n k)(a_{n_k}) at the p ap_ath coordinate is 1,0,1,0,...1, 0, 1,0,... which is not convergent. Hence (a n k)(a_{n_k}) is not convergent.
(Basically that's the diagonal trick of Cantor's theorem).
However, as {0,1} I\{0,1\}^I is compact, aa has a convergent subnet. An explicit construction of a convergent subset, given a cluster point aa, is as follows. A function a:I{0,1}a \colon I \to \{0,1\} is a cluster point of (a n)(a_n) if, for any p 1,,p nIp_1, \dots, p_n \in I the set
A(p 1,,p n){k:a k(p i)=a(p i)i} A(p_1,\dots,p_n) \coloneqq \{k \in \mathbb{R} : a_k(p_i) = a(p_i) \forall i\}
is infinite. We index our subnet by the family of finite subsets of II and define the subnet function (I)\mathcal{F}(I) \to \mathbb{N} to be
{p 1,,p n}minA(p 1,,p n) \{p_1,\dots,p_n\} \mapsto \min A(p_1,\dots,p_n)
This is a convergent sub-net.
In synthetic topology
In synthetic topology, where 'space' means simply 'set' (or type, i.e. the basic objects of our foundational system), one natural notion of "compact space" is a covert set, i.e. a set whose discrete topology is covert. This includes the expected examples in various gros toposes.
Compact spaces and proper maps
A space XX is compact if and only if the unique map X1X\to 1 is proper. Thus, properness is a "relativized" version of compactness.
For topological spaces, this is either a definition of "proper map" (closed with compact fibers) or follows from the above characterization of compactness in terms of projections being closed maps (if proper maps are defined to be those that are universally closed). For locales, it follows from the definition of proper map (a closed map such that f *f_* preserves directed joins) and the fact that compact locales are automatically covert (see covert space for a proof).
References
Examples of compact spaces that are not sequentially compact are in
 - Lynn Steen, J. Arthur Seebach, Counterexamples in Topology, Springer-Verlag, New York (1970) 2nd edition, (1978), Reprinted by Dover Publications, New York, 1995
On compact metric spaces:
 - Roland Speicher, Compact metric spaces (pdf)
 - Alan Sokal, Compactness of metric spaces (pdf)
For proper base change theorem e.g.
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Condensate Overflow Switch and HVAC Sensor Solutions
elobau offers a range of float sensors and single point sensors for the HVAC industry. Condensate overflow switches are a cost-effective way to create an environmentally sustainable HVAC system for industrial and commercial buildings. Our HVAC float sensors have multiple set points, including high and low, which offer increased reliability.
Float Switches and Liquid SensorsFeatures of our overflow switches include temperature measurement that can be integrated into specific models of our single point sensors. Our single-point sensors and float switches feature a variety of materials including stainless steel, PVC, and PVDF. Liquid float switches will automatically shut HVAC systems off when the sensor detects an issue like clogged drains.
Benefits of Side Mount Single-Point SensorsSide Mount Single Point Sensors are designed for single point tank monitoring and mount from the side. These single-point sensors can be mounted inside or outside of the tank depending on need and application.
- Rugged design
- Option of threaded grommets
- Hinged or connected by a Teflon® flap based on your custom requirements
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- Available in different materials
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- Can prevent significant damage by identifying leaks before they occur
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PRESENT-VALUE Function
The PRESENT-VALUE function returns a value that approximates the present value of a series of future period-end amounts specified by argument-2 at a discount rate specified by argument-1.
Usage
FUNCTION PRESENT-VALUE (argument-1 {argument-2} ... )
Parameters
argument-1 Must be of the class numeric. The value of argument-1 must be greater than -1.
argument-2 Must be of the class numeric.
Returned Value
The returned value is an approximation of the summation of a series of calculations with each term in the following form:
argument-2 / (1 + argument-1) ** n
There is one term for each occurrence of argument-2. The exponent, n, is incremented increased from one by in increments of one for each term in the series.
Example
COMPUTE RSULT = FUNCTION PRESENT-VALUE (DISCOUNT-RATE, 2000).
Note: In this example, DISCOUNT-RATE and RSULT are numeric data items. If DISCOUNT-RATE has the value 0.08, the value returned and stored in RSULT is approximately 1851.85.


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Topics we will explore in the workshop include:
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I would definitely go with serial-over-USB for all cameras for this. You will need a USB hub that can power all the cameras, so that means it needs to have strong external power. For example, we use these with success here:
You want to make sure the hub has enough power for what you need. For example, the one above states it has a 12V/2.5A power supply so that is 30 Watts going in. Each camera could use up to 3.8 Watts, say 4 Watts to allow for some margin. Also we should derate the 30 Watts a bit to account for 12V to 5V conversion, so say 24 Watts available to the USB ports, enough for 6 JeVois cameras (should be ok with 7 as the derating used here is quite severe).
Then use USB cables with 24AWG or lower power lines (see _URL_ for details).
Finally, each camera will appear on the Pi as a USB-to-Serial adapter. This will create devices /dev/ttyACM0, /dev/ttyACM1, etc on your Pi.You should configure each camera to run in headless mode, see _URL_
You can open each device in your application code running on the Pi, and read the data from it. Something similar to this: _URL_ but you need to change the code so that it is non-blocking. That is, you just check if some new bytes are available on each port and accumulate the bytes into a buffer until you get a \n that indicates end of line. Once you have a complete line, you can parse that message. If you are programming in C++ see function readSome() here: _URL_
Note for completeness that by default each JeVois camera requests the full USB video bandwidth for video streaming. This is to optimize latency of video. Video bandwidth is separate from serial bandwidth, so this does not affect the serial-over-USB ports. But if you wanted to stream video from several cameras simultaneously (as opposed to just serial messages like you want here), see _URL_
Finally, the USB hub may enumerate the different cameras in random order. So you need a way to figure out which one is which. We have a parameter called "nickname" which you can set to a specific value on each camera, in your initscript.cfg, eg:
setpar nickname front
in the initscript.cfg of the microSD card that goes in your front camera.
Then your pi would first run a "getpar nickname" on each serial port to figure out which port is for the front camera vs rear camera, etc. Or you could also have this in your initscript.cfg:
setmapping2 .........(mode you need)
setpar serout USB
serout HELLO front
and on your Pi just look for messages that start with "HELLO". The serout command just sends its args to the serial output port.


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The mass-metallicity relation at z 1.4 revealed with Subaru/FMOS
We present a stellar mass-metallicity relation at z ~ 1.4 with an unprecedentedly large sample of ~340 star-forming galaxies obtained with FibreMulti-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) on the Subaru Telescope. We observed K-band...
NIR spectroscopy of star-forming galaxies at z similar to 1.4 with Subaru/FMOS : The mass-metallicity relation.
We present near-infrared spectroscopic observations of star-forming galaxies at z similar to 1.4 with FMOS on the Subaru Telescope. We observed K-band selected galaxies in the SXDS/UDS fields with K <= 23.9 mag, 1.2 <=...
Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) for the Subaru Telescope
Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) is the first near-infrared instrument with a wide field of view capable of acquiring spectra simultaneously from up to 400 objects. It has been developed as a common-use instrument...


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Cloudflare is pushing for better quality internet encryption and they have recently announced the rollout of three new encryption features: TLS 1.3, Automatic HTTPS Rewrites, and Opportunistic Encryption. Cloudflare Releases New Encryption Features
Leading the announcement is TLS 1.3 which eliminates some problematic features with the cryptographic algorithms present in TLS 1.2. TLS 1.2 has been around since 2008 and while fairly secure, it's often not configured properly and can be more vulnerable to attacks. With TLS 1.3, the new protocol makes it easier for server administrators to deploy secure-by-default HTTPS configurations. HTTPS (HTTP Secure) is a mix between HTTP and TLS and improves the handshake process speed between a browser and a web server and essentially cuts the time in half, especially on cellular networks. All Cloudflare users will now have the option to turn on TLS 1.3 support in the Crypto tab of their CloudFlare dashboard. While the TLS 1.3 is now available, it is still under development and a final version is expected soon.
Automatic HTTP Rewrites is Cloudflare's push for users to move their entire content and site to use HTTPS. Back in 2014, Cloudflare started to offer Universal SSL, or the ability to have unrestricted SSL. Despite the availability, some websites were still unable to go secure because of 'mixed content' problems where content is loaded using unencrypted HTTP on an HTTPS site. When this occurs, users are indicated with warnings for passive content (i.e. images), and blocking insecure active content (i.e. scripts, stylesheets) from loading, causing most administrators to prefer using HTTP. Cloudflare claims that Automatic HTTPS Rewrites eliminates the mixed content problem by automatically replacing "http" with "https" in the page source for all sub-resources available over HTTPS.
In some cases, several websites have sub-sources that cannot support HTTPS content at all (i.e. ads), so they avoid using HTTPS. Cloudflare's solution is Opportunistic Encryption, a web feature that allows HTTP websites that have yet to upgrade to SSL to be accessed over an encrypted HTTP/2 connection, so that they can have access to significant speed improvements of HTTP/2. As of now, the opportunistic encryption feature is only supported by Mozilla Firefox.


text: Block copolymers are increasingly being applied in areas such as transfection, membrane sealing, site-specific targeting, and bionanoengineering yet there is a relative paucity of assays available for simple, stable and reproducible colorimetric determination of copolymer concentration in solution. We have focused on improving the accuracy and reproducibility of a modified version of the Stewart biphasic colorimetric assay for quantitative determination of Pluronic (poloxamer) and Tetronic (poloxamine) macromolecules. The optimized assay achieved linear response ranges in chloroform for commonly used copolymers such as poloxamine 904 (20–300 μg/ml), poloxamine 908 (10–400 μg/ml), poloxamer 402 (20–400 μg/ml), and poloxamer 407 (10–400 μg/ml). Variation in the type of chlorinated solvent used significantly increased assay sensitivity, presumably through macromolecular reorientation, affording increased access for copolymer–ferrothiocyanate complexation. This was found to be optimally favored by the planar geometry of the solvent cis 1,2-dichloroethylene. For application to biological systems copolymer–protein interactions were for the first time determined and were found to be dependent on the fraction of hydrophobic constituents of the block copolymers and protein type. For instance serum albumin was found to interact with copolymers of low hydrophilic–lipophilic balance values and poly(propylene oxide) contaminants, whereas this interaction was not significant with the relatively hydrophilic IgG. In such systems the colorimetric assay directly determines the fraction of unbound (free) copolymer in the presence of proteins.


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Posted 14 September 2010 - 02:49 PM
We know that a six base pair sequence AGAATA occurs 1 time in 4096 nucleotides [ (1/4)^6 = 4096 ] correct?
Let's say we have a DNA library that is 50,000 base pairs in total (small library of 50 clones to keep numbers small) it should occur roughly ~12 times [ 50000/4096 = 12.2 ] with 100% probability?
1. What is the probability that it would occur twice? How about 5 times?
2. What is the probability it would occur once in a single clone from this library if the clone is 500 bp long? What about twice?
3. And finally, let's say AGAATA occurs 3 times in one 500 bp clone. Is this significant? What is the equation? I wanted to know basically, "This six base pair sequence has an X-percent probability of occurring within the clone, and an x-percent probability of occurring in the whole library. Thanks.
Posted 14 September 2010 - 06:49 PM
Posted 14 September 2010 - 07:41 PM
Let's assume it's 25% each. And I can replace this sequence with any sequence. I'm just looking on how to do the math.


Depth and Deblurring from a Spectrally-varying Depth-of-Field
Ayan Chakrabarti; Todd Zickler
We propose modifying the aperture of a conventional color camera so that the effective aperture size for one color channel is smaller than that for the other two. This produces an image where different color channels have different depths-of-field, and from this we can computationally recover scene depth, reconstruct an all-focus image and achieve synthetic re-focusing, all from a single shot. These capabilities are enabled by a spatio-spectral image model that encodes the statistical relationship between gradient profiles across color channels. This approach substantially improves depth accuracy over alternative single-shot coded-aperture designs, and since it avoids introducing additional spatial distortions and is light efficient, it allows high-quality deblurring and lower exposure times. We demonstrate these benefits with comparisons on synthetic data, as well as results on images captured with a prototype lens.
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BibTex entry
_USER_ { 329, title = {Depth and Deblurring from a Spectrally-varying Depth-of-Field}, year = {2012}, month = {07/10/2012}, address = {Firenze, Italy}, author = {Ayan Chakrabarti and Todd Zickler} }


HMRC internal manual
Construction Industry Scheme Reform Manual
Compliance: Overview & 'Reasonable excuse': Establishing the facts
Statute does not otherwise define what is a 'reasonable excuse'. You should consider all claims on their merits. Honesty of purpose is a preliminary condition that a customer always needs to fulfil. HMRC's view is that a 'reasonable excuse' can only exist where an unusual event that is either unforeseeable or beyond the customer's control prevented them from meeting their tax obligations during the period the 'reasonable excuse' existed and that the customer put right the failure(s) without undue delay after the 'reasonable excuse' came to an end. You need to establish all of the relevant facts, including
 - the circumstances which led to the failure to submit the payment or return on time
 - the extent to which appropriate preliminary work had been put in hand before the excuse prevented further progress
 - at what date did the 'reasonable excuse' start and end and what bearing do these dates have with the due dates of the obligations that have been missed, or the dates that the return(s) was due to be filed
 - when the necessary steps were taken to remedy the failure after the excuse had ended.
You will have to establish how a failure occurred in order to decide whether the circumstances surrounding the failure provide the person with a reasonable excuse for the failure.
There are many different circumstances that may represent a reasonable excuse. Each case must be considered on its own merits and you need to take into account a person's abilities, circumstances and experience.
The onus is on the person to satisfy you that they have a reasonable excuse. They must tell you the reason and you must consider the explanation carefully taking into account all the circumstances and available information.
In some cases it may be reasonable to seek evidence to support some or all of the person's arguments. The circumstances of each individual case will determine whether you need supporting evidence and, if so, what that will be. You must ensure that any request for evidence you make is reasonable and proportionate.
When you have established all of the facts you will be able to compare this with the TTQT failures identified during the 'Qualifying period', or the CIS Monthly returns that have been submitted late to see whether the period of the 'reasonable excuse' coincides with the dates of the failures to make payments or send returns in on time and whether the claim of a 'reasonable excuse' may be accepted or not (see CISR81050).


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To investigate the effect of Hemidesmus indicus
extract on activities of human peripheral blood lymphocytes in vitro
Materials and Methods:
The total extract of the raw herb was obtained by methanol: isopropyl alcohol: acetone extraction and used at different concentrations. Human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) were isolated, stimulated to proliferate using phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS), with and without different concentration of herbal extracts. Adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity and immunoglobulin (IgG) secretion from cultured PBLs were studied with the herbal extracts and appropriate controls.
Results: Hemidesmus indicus
extract stimulated the cell proliferation at 1 mg/ml concentration significantly, after 72 h in culture. Viability of extract-treated PBLs was also maintained after culture. The extract increased the IgG production from cultured PBLs, when used at 1 mg/ml concentration. It also increased the ADA activity of PBLs after 72 h in culture.
An immunomodulatory activity of H.indicus,
related to IgG secretion and ADA activity, is revealed during the study. The herbal extract has shown to promote the release of IgG by lymphocytes and also the ADA activity after 72 h of culture.


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Our paper titled "Hierarchical data models improve the accuracy of feature level predictions for additively manufactured parts" has been published on Additive Manufacturing. The paper was co-authored by Yuhang Yang and Prof. Chenhui Shao.
Industrial-scale production applications of additive manufacturing (AM) are growing rapidly, and scalable AM production requires quality systems that monitor and control part geometric accuracy across multiple machines that operate within a factory. This research develops a hybrid hierarchical modeling (HHM) approach to characterize the geometric accuracy of parts produced across multiple identical AM machines. Our approach organizes the geometric accuracy data into a hierarchy that represents data from individual parts, the positions of parts within the builds, and the machines that produced those parts. By leveraging data from different printers, the performance of the part-level geometric accuracy modeling is substantially improved compared with competing methods. The modeling approach is extensible to other types of AM and could be used as part of a quality system within AM factory.
Read the full paper here.


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The multi-agent resource allocation problem corresponds to the negotiation of m resources among n autonomous agents, in order to maximize a social welfare function. Contrary to some former studies, the purpose is neither here to simply determine a socially optimal resource allocation nor to prove the existence of a transaction sequence leading to this optimum, but to find a practical transaction sequence among agents, for any type of contact networks. With this intention, we study various agent behaviors in order to identify which one leads the most often to an optimal resource allocation. The allocation that is reached, can be viewed as an emergent phenomenon that comes out from local interactions among the agents.
After a study of different transaction types, we show that, among the set of studied transactions, the so called "social gift" transaction, is the most efficient one for solving the resource allocation problem associated with the utilitarian social welfare.
Paru en juin 2008, 20 pages


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Effect of Different Media and pH on Mycelial Growth of Sclerotium oryzae Causing Sheath Rot of Rice
Keywords:Sclerotiumoryzae, Carbon source, Nitrogen source, pH, Different media
Sclerotium oryzae causing sheath rot of rice, is one of the most important pathogen causing heavy crop losses in all the major rice growing areas of the world, including Bangladesh. The growth and reproduction of this soil borne pathogen depends on growing media and abiotic factors. Therefore, to evaluate the effect of different culture media and pH on mycelial radial growth of S. oryzae, the experiment was conducted in the Plant Pathology Laboratory of Agrotechnology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh. Performance of different media, carbon source and nitrogen source on radial mycelial growth was differed significantly. The maximum mycelial radial growth was observed on rice stem agar medium (70.40 mm) and minimum mycelial radial growth was recorded on cornmeal agar medium (50.60 mm). Considering carbon source, the maximum radial mycelial growth was found in glucose (66.40 mm) amended medium and no statistical differences were observed among sucrose, starch and Czapek dox agar containing medium. Based on nitrogen source, maximum radial mycelial growth was found in peptone medium (69.40 mm) but no statistical differences were exposed between Potassium nitrate (KNO3) and Sodium nitrate (NaNO3). pH- 6 played a vital role in radial mycelial growth (73.75 mm) of S. oryzae.
South Asian J. Agric., 7(1&2): 67-72
How to Cite
Copyright (c) 2019 South Asian Journal of Agriculture
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.


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24 February 2016
UTokyo: Dr. Shimozono, Dr. Acierto, Masahiro Kambara, Shin Yonehara
YTU: Chit Bo Bo Win, Ye Thu Aung (Master's Student)
This day was dedicated to collecting the pressure sensors and camera recording installed on the first day of field survey. Pictures below show the collection of pressure sensors at the three sites, which are Thilawa port site (Figure 18), Excel River View Hotel site (Figure 19 – left image), and Yangon Port site (Figure 19 – right image). Figure 19 center image shows the camera installed at Excel River View Hotel site. All the observations were collected except for the Thilawa port site pressure sensor. Unfortunately, the pressure sensor deployed at Thilawa Port site was lost.
Figure 18. Thilawa port site showing the area where pressure sensor was initially deployed
Figure 19. Collection of pressure sensor and camera observations at Excel River View Hotel (left and center images) and pressure sensor at Yangon port site (left image).
After the collection of the observations from pressure sensors and camera, an introduction and brief tutorial of usage of pressure and camera for collecting data of tidal observations by Dr. Shimozono and Mr. Kambala to YTU counterparts was done. The YTU counterpart who had the brief introduction were Dr. Zin Marlar Tint San and three Master's students Suwai Mai Thin, Chit Bo Bo Win, and Ye Thu Aung.
Figure 20. Brief introduction and tutorial on usage of pressure sensor and camera observations to YTU counterparts by Dr. Shimozono and Mr. Kambara