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 There are many devices and tools doctors use to treat their patients. One such device is the Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filter. The IVC filter is used to prevent a potentially fatal condition known as a pulmonary embolism. The purpose of the filter is to catch and prevent any blood clots from traveling towards the lungs, ultimately allowing said clots to dissipate over time.
 While these devices are often used to treat patients to great effect, in some cases they end up causing more damage than was already present, since the prongs of the filter—or the device itself—are known to migrate to other parts of the body. This complication can cause the filter to perforate or tear other bodily organs and can cause serious or even fatal injuries.
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 When an IVC filter is defective and causes serious injury or death to a patient, the injured individual may be able to hold another party liable for their injuries. If they can prove that a doctor, manufacturing company, or other party was responsible for the product's defect, they may be eligible for compensation.
 Manufacturers are responsible for making products, including IVC filters, that are safe for people to use. They also must properly warn patients of any potential issues that may arise from using the device. When they fail to do so, they may be held liable and be responsible for paying compensation for any injuries an individual suffered.
 Filing a lawsuit against large companies can be daunting, as they often have teams of lawyers that may try to discredit patients, as well as plenty of money to keep cases tied up in the court system. An IVC filter lawyer in Carrollton could help fight back and get cases resolved as quickly as possible.
 Filing Claims Against Doctors
 Doctors may also be held liable for defective IVC filters. In 2014, after receiving many complaints about the device, the FDA recommended that doctors remove existing IVC filters in patients after the risk of pulmonary embolism passed. When doctors and other healthcare workers fail to take the necessary care to ensure the safety of their patients, they can be held liable.
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 If you or a loved one were injured by an IVC filter, you want may want to speak to a Carrollton IVC filter lawyer as soon as possible. Filing a lawsuit against both doctors and major manufacturers are some of the most complicated and time-intensive lawsuits to file and negotiate, but a qualified attorney could help make yours as strong as possible.
 If you were injured by an IVC filter, do not hesitate to schedule a consultation today. You may be eligible for compensation and an IVC attorney in Carrollton could work in your interests to help you pursue a fair settlement.


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Morse Lake Pump Plant Project
North Bend, Wash.
Owner: Seattle Public Utilities
Lead Designer: AECOM
General Contractor: Orion Marine Contractors Inc.
Structural Engineer: Reid Middleton Inc.
MEP Engineer: Valley Electric Co.
Specialty Equipment: Whitney Equipment Co.
Chester Morse Lake in the Cascade Mountains is the major reservoir for Seattle's water system, providing the region with more than two-thirds of its drinking water. Seattle Public Utilities' $28.4-million pump plant replaced two 35-year-old pump stations on barges with a single floating station capable of pumping 240 million gallons of water a day.
During dry conditions, Morse Lake's elevation drops below its discharge dike that hydraulically separates the upper lake from the lower pool and downstream outlet to the Cedar River. When this occurs, the utility must pump lake water into the outlet channel to supply water to its 1.4 million customers.
The Morse Lake Pump Plant consists of steel pontoons supporting four submerged pumps with intake screens. When needed, the pump plant is ferried into position and connected to four submerged thermoplastic pipelines so water can be pumped through the dike and into the channel and river. In addition to designing and building the pump plant, the team improved access roads and installed underwater piles and electrical cables.
The project's mountain setting presented challenges, including high winds, freezing rain and heavy ice accumulation on the pump plant. Protecting water quality required a strict screening process for entry into the 90,000-acre Cedar River watershed.
Every truck and piece of equipment was inspected for leaks before use, and all marine-based equipment underwent decontamination before entering the lake. The crew also used drop hammers to install pilings to prevent possible contamination from diesel hammer overspray.
The plant's "space station" docking mechanism allows the pumps to attach to pipelines without any mechanical connections. This approach allows utility workers to quickly mobilize the platform and pump when needed or disengage the platform in case of a severe storm.
To develop this docking station approach, the team designed and ballasted the submerged pipelines to be neutrally buoyant and align with the platform over a range of water elevations and environmental conditions. Four below-platform guide cones allow docking to occur without divers.
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/Tc, /Tp, /TC, /TP (Specify Source File Type)
/Tcfilename
/Tpfilename
/TC
/TP
where:
filename
A C or C++ source file.
Remarks
The /Tc option specifies that filename is a C source file, even if it doesn't have a .c extension. The /Tp option specifies that filename is a C++ source file, even if it doesn't have a .cpp or .cxx extension. A space between the option and filename is optional. Each option specifies one file; to specify additional files, repeat the option.
/TC and /TP are "global" variants of /Tc and /Tp. They specify to the compiler to treat all files named on the command line as C source files (/TC) or C++ source files (/TP), without regard to location on the command line in relation to the option. These global options can be overridden on a single file via /Tc or /Tp.
By default, CL assumes that files with the .c extension are C source files and files with the .cpp or the .cxx extension are C++ source files.
To set this compiler option in the Visual Studio development environment
 1. Open the project's Property Pages dialog box. For details, see Setting Visual C++ Project Properties.
 2. Click the C/C++ folder.
 3. Click the Advanced property page.
 4. Modify the Compile As property.
To set this compiler option programmatically
See CompileAs Property.
Examples
The following CL command line specifies that MAIN.c, TEST.prg, and COLLATE.prg are all C source files. CL will not recognize PRINT.prg.
CL MAIN.C /TcTEST.PRG /TcCOLLATE.PRG PRINT.PRG
The following CL command line specifies that TEST1.c, TEST2.cxx, TEST3.huh, and TEST4.o are compiled as C++ files, and TEST5.z is compiled as a C file.
CL TEST1.C TEST2.CXX TEST3.HUH TEST4.O /Tc TEST5.Z /TP
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Purpose: This paper aims to describe a partnership visual arts project between Richmond Fellowship (a national mental health charity) and the Bluecoat arts centre in Liverpool involving participants with mental health problems.
Design/methodology/approach: The paper details the development of the project since September 2010 and, most importantly, the artistic development of the individuals who are still taking part and the improvements in their mental health and wellbeing. It also describes the development of the group in becoming an independent organisation.
Findings: Evaluation was undertaken at regular intervals through wellbeing questionnaires, one-to-one interviews and observation, which led to the following findings: with support, individuals with mental health problems experience significant benefit in engaging with the arts, to their mental health, their personal development and development as artists. Given time, they require less support and are willing to take on responsibilities, which has enabled them to become an independent organisation.
Social implications: This paper makes the case for the effectiveness of partnership working between mental health and arts organisations to improve mental health and social inclusion.
Originality/value: The paper adds to the body of evidence concerning the use of arts in recovery and of use to mental health organisations who are interested in using the arts in the process of support.
THOMAS Huw Vaughan
...the important contribution that other services can make in supporting and sustaining the independence of older people. Despite some innovative examples of councils supporting older people, the wider preventative services that can help reduce demand for health and social services are undervalued. A lack of data is making it difficult for councils to demonstrate the impact of their services in supporting
An executive summary of a report commissioned by Nottinghamshire County Council to explore recent evidence and identify a set of risk factors to older people's independence. It explores risk factors in three areas: Social and Psychosocial Domain; Long term or Personal Conditions Domain; and Life Events Domain. Risk factors are then further grouped into: modifiable risk factors such as depression...
CLIFFORD Carol, BOWN Helen
An evaluation of the Circles for Independence in Later Life (CFILL) project in Doncaster, from the period April 2017 to July 2018. Based on the Community Circles model, the project focuses on increasing social engagement, independence and resilience of older people, particularly those at risk of hospitalisation or entry into a care home. The model has been adapted to support older people who have
CARE AND REPAIR CYMRU
...them to retain their independence and remain living in their own homes, with an emphasis on joint working across health, social care and the third sector. The guide includes a number of individual case studies and highlights good practice examples from the Managing Better service to provide a resource for all Care and Repair caseworkers
COMMUNITY COUNCIL FOR SOMERSET
An evaluation of the Somerset Village Agents programme, which aims to reduce isolation and help connect excluded and vulnerable people with services that support them to improve their independence, health and wellbeing. It uses locally based staff who act as first point of contact for people needing information and support. The evaluation, undertaken jointly by South West Forum and Clarity CiC
TSA, THINK LOCAL ACT PERSONAL, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES
This publication presents 10 individual stories which show how technology enabled care is transforming people's lives. The stories are told from the individual's perspective, using their experiences and their own unique circumstances to communicate what technology enabled care means to them. It shows how people are using technology from apps to smart sensors to enhance their independence, better
SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
One of the aims of the Care Act 2014 is to promote people's wellbeing and independence. By using a strengths-based approach to the assessment process, people can be supported to understand their needs, realise what they can do, and how to best use their skills and networks, to achieve their outcomes. This film looks at what is meant by a strengths-based approach and how practitioners through
MENTORING AND BEFRIENDING FOUNDATION
...and increased independence. The document also explains how the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation can support commissioners identify effective programmes.
DAYSON Chris, BASHIR Nadia, LEATHER David
...on avoidable hospital admissions, patient experience and independence. It reports that the pilot service provided support to 239 older people who would otherwise have been admitted, offering transport to return home where safe to do so, help and support to settle back in at home and support to access other forms of community based support to enable them to continue to live independently. The findings
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Why are some of Windows environmental variable names in Proper case, while most are in UPPERCASE? What is the reason that windir alone is in lowercase?
Get-ChildItem Env:
Name Value
ALLUSERSPROFILE C:\ProgramData
ComSpec C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
windir C:\Windows
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Windows 3.11 and 3.0 not see windir in lowercase. Windows 3.11 set WINDIR variable auto after start win.com and del after exit at Windows 3.11 to ms-dos, but not del windir. Lowercase windir need to old program in Windows 95-98 when not see Windows 95-98 directory.WINDIR Environment Variable Set When Running Windows Specifically, windir variable looks for tricks for simultaneous operation of Windows 3.11 and Windows 95-98. Windows NT4 Terminal Server this variable looked like WinDir... need test...
MS-DOS COMPSPEC a 16-bits COMMAND.COM and 32-bits command interpreter ComSpec Windows NT, OS/2 history.
Microsoft Windows NT Customization
Understanding the Windows 95 boot Sequence
For the most part well below the hypothesis.
Old UPPERCASE variable - Microsoft QuickBasic problem.
Microsoft QuickBasic Environment Variable Must Be Uppercase in ENVIRON$
New UPPERCASE variable - compatibility with the environment unix. See SKU, SFU tools.
Old ProperCase - MSDOS.SYS Windows 95.
Default environment variable Windows 98, 95:
Environment variable get at AUTOEXEC.BAT, MSDOS.SYS, CONFIF.SYS.
If in AUTOEXEC.BAT write SET DOS16M=2 you see DOS16M=2 in SET command.
Windows 98 environment variable
New Proper case - part link at.Net and powershell style... may bee it error). Need link...
There is a way to learn it is quite accurate, prepaprirovav number of installation folders, where are transferring the corresponding folder number and the path that is then used in different parts of the plant, such as Section winnt.sif:
ProgramFilesDir ="C:\App64"
ProgramFilesDir(x86) ="C:\App32"
CommonProgramFilesDir ="C:\App64\CommonFiles"
CommonProgramFilesDir(x86) ="C:\App32\CommonFiles"
SharedFilesDir ="C:\App64\MSShared"
SharedFilesDir(x86) ="C:\App32\MSShared"
I think if you consider all versions of windows operating systems and the names of variables to make the right conclusions.
MS-DOS v1.10 (1983), MS-DOS v2.11 (1983), MS-DOS v3.20 (1986), MS-DOS v3.30 (1987), MS-DOS v3.30A (1987),MS-DOS v3.30 Plus (1988), MS-DOS v4.01 (1988), MS-DOS v5.00 (1991), MS-DOS v6.00 (1993), MS-DOS v6.20 (1993), MS-DOS v6.21 (1993), MS-DOS v6.22 (1994) - other, part of Windows OS.
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Thank you for a great piece of research. I don't doubt anything you say, just surprised Path is a new variable in.Net. – Guy Thomas Feb 17 '13 at 16:51
_USER_ Imitation of naming classes. Net. Gradually, all refined. – STTR Feb 17 '13 at 16:56
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The stained glass quadrilateral project
IMG_20140527_115328My Math 9 class is studying quadrilaterals, and I wanted them to investigate how quadrilaterals could tile and create other shapes, so I found a project for creating stained-glass window designs from tiled quadrilaterals.
Stained Glass assignment
To the left and below are some examples of student work. Some of the best pieces used quadrilaterals to set a scene or tell a story. As well as making the stained glass the students had to write up how they used quadrilaterals in the piece.


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Kids Mystery Parties
Easy for you
FUN for kids!
Break Open the Secret of Creating Your Own Crime Scene Mystery Parties
Crime Scene Buster is organized into Nine Steps. Follow the steps and you end up with a CSI mystery event. Some of the steps have three parts: basic, intermediate and advanced. You only need to do the basic steps. If you are interested in more elaborate mystery parties and/or the mechanics of putting it together, then read the intermediate and advanced sections. The intermediate and advanced sections are not necessary to this book but I feel so passionate and excited about mysteries, that once I start on the topic, I have a hard time stopping!
THE CRIME for children's mystery parties is usually about something being stolen. The stolen item is found at the end of the game. A different crime can be used if you wish. We will use a theft for the crime example but you can just as easily pick a murder for parties with older participants. The format remains the same.
This format is based solely on clues found at the crime scene. Figuring out who had the motives, methods, and opportunity to commit the crime is a more complicated structure and not covered in this book. This book is all about the clues.

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PostgreSQL function call model for PHP
This article describes a simple class that can be used to call PostgreSQL functions. Using the class has a number of advantages:
 1. PostgreSQL functions can be called like they are PHP method functions with no special syntax.
 2. The statements are automatically prepared giving faster execution for multiple calls.
 3. No string escaping is needed for prepared statements.
 4. The prepared statements are automatically deallocated when the object is destructed.
NOTE: PostgreSQL prepared statement support requries PHP 5.1 or later.
First, we create connect to PostgreSQL and create simple test function. The test function simply takes a string and a integer and concatenates a copy of the string the number of times specified by the integer.
$conn = pg_connect("dbname=test user=user1 password=user1");
if(!$conn) {
 echo "Unable to connect to test database\n";
// Here is our test function. Notice the pretty pgEdit SQL syntax coloring in PHP :).
$test_func = << 0 then
 for i in 1.. how_many loop
 result := result || str;
 end loop;
 end if;
 return result;
$$ language plpgsql;
// Create the function.
pg_query($conn, $test_func);
Next, let's test the function, using the typical PHP model with strings. If this was a real application, a lot more parameter checking would be in order.
$res = pg_query($conn, "select repeat_string('ab', 3)");
echo "\n\nTest 1:\n";
echo pg_fetch_result($res, 0);
Test 1:
Now let's create a class for calling PostgreSQL functions. We can create a single global instance of this class and use it throughout our PHP session. We could also create different instances if we are working with multiple connections. The key implementation detail takes advantage of the PHP __call magic method. This method is called whenever an unknown method for the instance is called. We can use this opportunity to call a PostgreSQL function with the same name and parameters.
class PgCall
 private $prepared = array();
 private $conn;
 // The contructor takes an existing connection, or a string to create a connection
 function __construct($connection_or_string) {
 if (is_string($connection_or_string)) $this->conn = pg_connect($c);
 else $this->conn = $connection_or_string;
 // Kill all the prepared statements.
 function __destruct() {
 foreach($this->prepared as $statement) {
 $res = pg_query($this->conn, 'deallocate'. $statement);
 // The __call magic method is called whenever an unknown method for the instance is called.
 function __call($fname, $fargs) {
 $statement = $fname. '__'. count($fargs);
 if (!in_array($statement, $this->prepared)) { // first time, not prepared yet
 $alist = array();
 for($i = 1; $i <= count($fargs); $i++) {
 $alist[$i] = '$'. $i;
 $sql ='select * from '. $fname. '('. implode(',', $alist). ')';
 $prep = pg_prepare($this->conn, $statement, $sql);
 $this->prepared[] = $statement;
 if ($res = pg_execute($this->conn, $statement, $fargs)) {
 $rows = pg_num_rows($res);
 $cols = pg_num_fields($res);
 if ($cols > 1) return $res; // return the cursor if more than 1 col
 else if ($rows == 0) return null;
 else if ($rows == 1) return pg_fetch_result($res, 0); // single result
 else return pg_fetch_all_columns($res, 0); // get column as an array
To use the class, we just create one instance of it and then we can call PostgreSQL functions without any special syntax or string escaping.
// Create an instance of the class using our existing connection.
$pg = new PgCall($conn);
echo "\n\nTest 2:\n";
echo $pg->repeat_string('a_b', 2);
Test 2:
The class returns the full resource if the result has more than one column. It returns an array if there is more than one row and a single column. You could imagine a variety of strategies and perhaps design slightly different classes depending on your needs. The foremost advantage is to remove as much SQL as possible from PHP and take advantage of the security and performance benefits of prepared statements.


.03(1g)(c) (c) "Prevention" means action to reduce the instance, delay the onset or lessen the severity of mental disorder, before the disorders may progress to mental illness, by reducing risk factors for, enhancing protections against and promptly treating early warning signs of mental disorder.
51.03(1g)(e) (e) "Stigma" means disqualification from social acceptance, derogation, marginalization and ostracism encountered by persons with mental illness or persons who abuse alcohol or other drugs as the result of societal negative attitudes, feelings, perceptions, representations and acts of discrimination.
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A semiquantitative theory aimed to describe the adhesion kinetics between soft objects, such as living cells or vesicles, has been developed. When rigid bodies are considered, the adhesion kinetics is successfully described by the classical Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, and Overbeek (DLVO) picture, where the energy profile of two approaching bodies is given by a two asymmetrical potential wells separated by a barrier. The transition probability from the long-distance to the short-distance minimum defines the adhesion rate. Conversely, soft bodies might follow a different pathway to reach the short-distance minimum: thermally excited fluctuations give rise to local protrusions connecting the approaching bodies. These transient adhesion sites are stabilized by short-range adhesion forces (e.g., ligand-receptor interactions between membranes brought at contact distance), while they are destabilized both by repulsive forces and by the elastic deformation energy. Above a critical area of the contact site, the adhesion forces prevail: the contact site grows in size until the complete adhesion of the two bodies inside a short-distance minimum is attained. This nucleation mechanism has been developed in the framework of a nonequilibrium Fokker-Planck picture by considering both the adhesive patch growth and dissolution processes. In addition, we also investigated the effect of the ligand-receptor pairing kinetics at the adhesion site in the time course of the patch expansion. The ratio between the ligand-receptor pairing kinetics and the expansion rate of the adhesion site is of paramount relevance in determining the overall nucleation rate. The theory enables one to self-consistently include both thermodynamics (energy barrier height) and dynamic (viscosity) parameters, giving rise in some limiting cases to simple analytical formulas. The model could be employed to rationalize fusion kinetics between vesicles, provided the short-range adhesion transition is the rate-limiting step to the whole adhesion process. Approximate relationships between the experimental fusion rates reported in the literature and parameters such as membrane elastic bending modulus, repulsion strength, temperature, osmotic forces, ligand-receptor binding energy, solvent and membrane viscosities are satisfactory explained by our model. The present results hint a possible role of the initial long-distance -> short-distance transition in determining the whole fusion kinetics.
|Titolo:||Nucleation theory with delayed interactions: An application to the early stages of the receptor-mediated adhesion/fusion kinetics of lipid vesicles|
|Data di pubblicazione:||2010|
|Appare nelle tipologie:||1.1 Articolo in rivista|


Woman's self defense
The art of San Soo teaches you how to manipulate the skeletal structure
with less physical strength and effort
woman's self defense
San Soo is ideal for women. It is an art that is based on physics and applied with an understanding of anatomy. We teach women how the skeletal frame articulates, where the weakness in the musculature is and knowledge of pressure points. All this ties together with the student learning how to strike or kick with a relaxed body and dropping their centerline. Dropping one's centerline is another way of saying that you are lowering your center of gravity. When you learn to do this you are then able to project the full power of your body to whatever vulnerable area of your attacker that is necessary. This is what makes San Soo perfect for women. If a female weighing 100lbs. is attacked by someone who weighs 250lbs. she has the potential to seriously injure her assailant. Size is irrelevant if she knows how to take her 100lbs. and hit strike zones like the eyes, throat, ribs, diaphragm, kidneys, groin, knees, shin, ankle or crown of the foot, to name a few targets. Women have certain advantages over men because of their size and bone structure. A larger person in most situations cannot move as quickly as a smaller person, male or female. An example of an advantage of the female skeletal frame is the way the rib cage moves. If a male is placed in a Full Nelson hold (a hold executed by standing behind the person and the assailant bringing his arms under their arms and clasping behind their neck) and attempts to extricate himself by lifting his arms straight up over the attackers head to drop out of the hold, he will fail. He will fail because the male rib cage holds a wider position at the top and allows the attacker to have a much stronger grip. If a woman raises her arms above her head, the rib cage becomes narrower at the top, so as she drops her weight to the ground the attacker cannot continue to hold her as she slips through his grip.
We also teach women the psychology of an attacker. It is important for the person being attacked to let the assailant think he is in control and that she is defenseless. With proper training she may appear defenseless but will actually be prepared for self-defense. We cover many techniques that can take the attacker off guard and allow the potential victim to escape or possibly injure or even kill her attacker if it becomes necessary.
A critical area of discussion in our classes for men and women is intuition. It is that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you think something is wrong. You can be walking to your car, in your front door or leaving work. Your subconscious picks up something that is so small that most of the time you would dismiss it or you might be too embarrassed to call for help. That alarm is real and is always right! We teach our students to pay attention when this occurs.
Our Women's Self-Defense classes can be implemented in many ways. We can arrange individual classes, or schedule small or large groups. These classes can be designed as six or up to ten week sessions.
They can be scheduled to meet once, twice or more per week depending on the needs of the individual or group. The key to learning any self-defense technique is repetition. The more times the student attends class and practices, the more it becomes a natural part of them much like walking. The optimum way to learn is by enrolling in the general classes at Kung-Fu San Soo LA. Through continuous training you will be able to take advantage of the most comprehensive program available for women.
Please call Kung-Fu San Soo LA for scheduling classes at _PHONE_.


Definition:Divisor (Algebra)/Real Number
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Let $\R$ be the set of real numbers.
Let $x, y \in \R$.
Then $x$ divides $y$ is defined as:
$x \divides y \iff \exists t \in \Z: y = t \times x$
where $\Z$ is the set of integers.
That is, that $y$ is an integer multiple of $x$.
A more old-fashioned term for divisor is part:
In the words of Euclid:
(The Elements: Book $\text{V}$: Definition $1$)
Let $x \divides y$ denote that $x$ divides $y$.
Then the following terminology can be used:
$x$ is a divisor of $y$
$y$ is a multiple of $x$
$y$ is divisible by $x$.
In the field of Euclidean geometry, in particular:
$x$ measures $y$.
To indicate that $x$ does not divide $y$, we write $x \nmid y$.
Also known as
A divisor can also be referred to as a factor.
The conventional notation for $x$ is a divisor of $y$ is "$x \mid y$", but there is a growing trend to follow the notation "$x \divides y$", as espoused by Knuth etc.
From Ronald L. GrahamDonald E. Knuth and Oren Patashnik: Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd ed.):
The notation '$m \mid n$' is actually much more common than '$m \divides n$' in current mathematics literature. But vertical lines are overused -- for absolute values, set delimiters, conditional probabilities, etc. -- and backward slashes are underused. Moreover, '$m \divides n$' gives an impression that $m$ is the denominator of an implied ratio. So we shall boldly let our divisibility symbol lean leftward.
An unfortunate unwelcome side-effect of this notational convention is that to indicate non-divisibility, the conventional technique of implementing $/$ through the notation looks awkward with $\divides$, so $\not \! \backslash$ is eschewed in favour of $\nmid$.
Some sources use $\ \vert \mkern -10mu {\raise 3pt -} \ $ or similar to denote non-divisibility.
Also see
 - Results about divisors can be found here.


Armchair + Wardrobe
Armchair + Wardrobe
revisited - adapted and manufactured by me and _USER_
In 1974, the Italian designer Enzo Mari published 19 furniture designs that one could make by oneself in his book 'Autoprogettazione?', thereby creating a milestone in the history of design.
As an alternative to Formalism and intended as a democratisation of design, with the 'Autoprogettazione' programme Enzo Mari created a provocative counter-proposal to the capitalist paradigm of mass consumption.
It is not easy to translate into English the Italian word Autoprogettazione. Literally it means auto = self and progettazione = design. But the term 'self-design' is misleading since the word 'design' to the general public now signifies a series of superficially decorative objects.
By the word autoprogettazione Mari means an exercise to be carried out individually to improve one's personal understanding of the sincerity behind the project. Build furniture yourself, as you need it. That was the idea.
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Resources
SAS/ETS 13.1 User's Guide
Reading Sample Data from a URL
You can use a DATA step to read sample data directly from the URL of a SAS/ETS example. Specify the URL in an INFILE statement; the DATA step reads from the HTML source of that URL. To determine the URL of a SAS/ETS example, select the example from the Example Programs (Sample Library). The following DATA steps read from the Seasonal Model for the Airline Series example for PROC ARIMA, whose URL is _URL_
Writing Data to the SAS Log
The following DATA step writes to the SAS log the HTML lines that start with the line following the
 tag and end with the line prior to the
 tag.
data _null_;
infile '_URL_
device=url;
retain pre 0;
input;
if index(_infile_, '
') then pre = 0;
if pre then put _infile_;
if index(_infile_, '
') then pre = 1;
run;
Submitting the Sample to SAS
The following DATA step writes to a file (junk.junk) the HTML lines that start with the line following the
 tag and end with the line prior to the
 tag. The %INC statement submits the file to SAS.
data _null_;
infile '_URL_
device=url;
file 'junk.junk';
retain pre 0;
input;
if index(_infile_, '
') then pre = 0;
if pre then put _infile_;
if index(_infile_, '
') then pre = 1;
run;
%inc 'junk.junk' / nosource;
Submitting the Sample, Title, and Comment Block to SAS
The following DATA step writes to a file (junk.junk) the initial comment block, the title, and the HTML lines that start with the line following the
 tag and end with a line that contains a single semicolon in the first column. The %INC statement submits the file to SAS.
data _null_;
infile '_URL_
device=url;
file 'junk.junk';
retain pre 0;
input;
if pre then put _infile_;
if _infile_ eq ';' then pre = 0;
if index(_infile_, '
') then pre = 1;
run;
%inc 'junk.junk' / nosource;
Not all samples end their DATA steps with a single semicolon in the first column. Depending on the sample you are reading, you might need to change the statement IF _INFILE_ EQ ';' THEN PRE = 0;. For example, if the semicolon that ends the instream data set in the sample is in the fourth column instead of the first column, replace ';' with ' ;'. That is, insert three spaces before the semicolon but inside the single quotation marks.


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The Governance of Companies in the State Business Sector
There must be well-established rules so that the assets of all Portuguese people, such as TAP, CP or CTT, are not subject to the whims of a minister or, worse, a prime minister.
The actions of the government, which is still in office, in relation to the governance of companies in the state-owned enterprise sector (SEE), mean that there is an urgent need to clarify the roles and limits of action of the supervisory body, the UTAM - Technical Unit for Accompanying and Monitoring the SEE, and the governing bodies of the SEE companies themselves.
According to the Directorate-General for Treasury and Finance, the overall portfolio of state holdings totaled around 53 billion euros in September 2023, in sectors as important as infrastructure management, transport or health. These assets must be supervised and managed in a competent and coherent manner.
However, what we have seen, for example in the case of SIRESP, TAP, CP, and now in the actions in relation to CTT, reveals not only the incompetence of various agents, but also a total lack of governance rules and accountability of the different players. There need to be well-established rules so that these assets belonging to all the Portuguese people are not subject to the whims of some infrastructure minister or, worse, a prime minister.
International recommendations abound, but those issued by the OECD in 2015 are particularly clear. A 2020 review of their (voluntary) implementation by OECD member countries indicates that 30 countries have actively adopted the recommendations and responded to OECD surveys. Portugal is not on that list. This means that, over the last eight years, nothing has been done to create a framework that all players can understand and act in accordance with, within its limits.
This is a task that urgently needs to be carried out in order to properly manage the state business sector assets, both financially and strategically, at the service of Portugal's development.
The recommendations are divided into seven main areas: i) definition of an ownership policy ii) definition of the role of the state as the holder of the companies' capital; iii) definition of the legal framework that guarantees competitive neutrality; iv) definition of policies for the fair treatment of other shareholders and investors; v) relations with stakeholders and corporate responsibility; vi) reporting and transparency; and vii) responsibilities of the boards of directors of the state business sector companies.
However, there will be no professionalization of state business sector governance if whoever emerges as prime minister is used to doing as he pleases.
First published in Jornal Economico, 12 January 2024
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Bipolar Nickel-Metal Hydride Aircraft Battery with Increased Capacity and Improved Low Temperature Performance 2004-01-3178
Electro Energy, Inc. (EEI) has developed a bipolar Ni-MH wafer cell design that has the advantages of reduced weight, with increased capacity, high power and low temperature capabilities over conventional Ni-MH and competing technologies. These advantages make the EEI bipolar Ni-MH the battery of choice to replace the present F16/F18 and other military aircraft batteries. EEI's present F-16 battery has 10% reduced weight in the same volume as the existing lead-acid battery, while having 2½ times the capacity. EEI's design of parallel stacks of thin wafer cells results in increased electrode surface area leading to improved high-rate and low temperature capability. The design has shown to be capable of operating at the Air Force minimum temperature requirement of -40°C. This has been achieved by optimizing each of the following variables: 1) metal-hydride alloy; 2) electrode capacity and surface area relationship; and 3) electrolyte composition. Supported by U.S. Air Force Manufacturing Technology Programs, EEI has focused on improving the performance of this battery, while scaling-up the manufacturing processes to meet the demands of the DoD and provide a cost competitive battery.
Citation: Landi, J., Klein, M., Erbacher, J., and Drerup, R., "Bipolar Nickel-Metal Hydride Aircraft Battery with Increased Capacity and Improved Low Temperature Performance," SAE Technical Paper 2004-01-3178, 2004, _URL_ Download Citation
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Visual multimedia have become an inseparable part of our digital social lives, and they often capture moments tied with deep affections. Automated visual sentiment analysis tools can provide a means of extracting the rich feelings and latent dispositions embedded in these media. In this work, we explore how Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a now de facto computational machine learning tool particularly in the area of Computer Vision, can be specifically applied to the task of visual sentiment prediction. We accomplish this through fine-tuning experiments using a state-of-the-art CNN and via rigorous architecture analysis, we present several modifications that lead to accuracy improvements over prior art on a dataset of images from a popular social media platform. We additionally present visualizations of local patterns that the network learned to associate with image sentiment for insight into how visual positivity (or negativity) is perceived by the model.
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The College has a pioneering heritage, originally serving the educational needs of settlers' children and Indians alike. Albion also is one of the earliest Midwest schools to introduce coeducation.
Thanks to the efforts of Methodists who were early settlers of Michigan Territory, the College was awarded a charter by the Michigan Territorial Legislature in 1835. Early attempts at coeducation were made in 1850 when the legislature approved the founding of the "Albion Female Collegiate Institute." This school for women was controlled by the Wesleyan Seminary corporation until 1857 when the two schools merged under the name of "The Wesleyan Seminary and Female College at Albion."
On February 25, 1861, Albion was fully authorized by the State legislature to confer a full four-year college degree upon both men and women.
From the time the cornerstone was laid for the first permanent building in 1840 until today, Albion College has remained on the same site, the original part of which is now affectionately called "the Quad." In 1861 there were only two classroom buildings. By 1901, Albion had added a chapel, an observatory, a gymnasium, a chemistry building and a library.
Today Albion stands on 225 acres with more than 30 major buildings, and from 500 students in 1901, enrollment has grown to 1,860 students. Full-time faculty today number 126, and the College has over 17,000 living alumni.
Emphasis on excellence in liberal arts education became the Albion College hallmark through the years, and in 1940 Albion was the first private college in Michigan to be awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Today the College remains true to its liberal arts commitment.
The campus itself has also changed dramatically in recent years. Since 1975, Albion has built the Herrick Center for Speech and Theatre, Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium, the Whitehouse Interpretive Center, Dean Aquatic Center, Mudd Learning Center, Olin Hall, Dow Recreation and Wellness Center, Kellogg Center, the Mae Harrison Karro Residential Village, the Ferguson Student, Technology, and Administrative Services Building and Kresge Hall. In addition, many older campus buildings have been thoroughly renovated.
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The PROBE research project has produced results in the areas of data modeling, spatial/temporal query processing, recursive query processing, and database system architecture for nontraditional application areas, many of which involve spatial data and data with complex structure. An overview of PROBE is provided, focusing on the facilities for dealing with spatial and temporal data. It is shown how the PROBE database system and simple application-specific object classes combine to efficiently support PROBE's spatial data model. It is also shown how an image-database application can be supported using PROBE's data model and spatial query processor. The current status of the PROBE project and future plans are discussed.

spatial data modeling; query processing; image database application; PROBE; temporal data; application-specific object classes; data structures; database management systems; query languages
J. Orenstein and F. Manola, "PROBE Spatial Data Modeling and Query Processing in an Image Database Application," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 14, no. , pp. 611-629, 1988.


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"It All Adds Up": Review of Science and an African Logic, by Helen Verran. Reviewed by Margarget Wertheim. CalendarLive on latimes.com, 23 December 2001.
Helen Verran taught mathematics and science to teachers at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ife-Ife, Nigeria, between 1979 and 1986. There "she found that her African pupils would often approach mathematical problems in what, to her Western-trained eyes, seemed highly unorthodox ways. It turns out that the Yoruba language has a particularly flexible way of representing numbers. Although in English and in other Western languages, any given number has a unique verbal representation, in Yoruba there will be many ways of speaking a large number---for the number 19,669, for example, Verran lists no fewer than seven distinct ways. Each variation is a verbal encoding of a different arithmetic pattern: ((20,000 x 1) - 400) + (-1 - 10 + (20 x 4)) = 19,669 or (20,000 - 1,000) + (-100 + (200 x 4)) - (1 + 30) = 19,669." The flexibility is due to the fact that, unlike our system based on the number 10, the Yoruba language recognizes three bases: 10, 5, and 20. Verran's two key insights are that the Yoruba traditionally had no written form for their numbers (numbers were always verbal and never abstract) and that their understanding of numbers is based on the body (reflecting the human arrangement of fingers and toes). The reviewer praises Verran's book Science and an African Logic as "a major contribution to the debate" about how humans think of numbers that "will no doubt keep philosophers arguing for years to come."
--- Annette Emerson


Visual representation of the *horizon* colormap. Statistics of the *horizon* colormap.
The horizon colormap is a visual representation of the horizon, from the green colors of the land to the calm colors of the clouds. It covers the \([20, 100]\) lightness range and has the colors green and blue as its main colors. Similarly to ocean, this colormap is great for representing background information. Also note that, like ocean, horizon does not start at \(0\) lightness.


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Vocational rehabilitation is a process involving timely intervention with appropriate and adequate services based on assessed need, and which is aimed at maintaining injured workers in, or returning them to, safe, suitable and durable employment.
TRS Rehab ensure the following is achieved:
- Facilitate an early return to work
- Identify and design suitable duties for the injured worker to assist employers to provide suitable employment
- Identify and coordinate rehabilitation strategies that ensure workers are able to safely perform their duties
- Forge a link between the insurer, employer and treatment providers to ensure a focus on return to work and providing regular reviews of progress toward outcomes
- Arrange appropriate retraining and placement in alternative employment when the worker is unable to return to pre-injury duties


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What used to be manually operated automobile windows has already evolved into something more convenient and more enjoyable way of opening or closing your car's windows — it was called the power window. Modern automobiles nowadays are equipped with such power windows for comfort and convenience purposes. They old way of lowering or raising the window glass by way of rotating or turning the lever was already replaced by just pushing a button. The manually operated windows require a lot more effort in order to rotate the lever as compared to just using one finger to push a button for the power windows.
The component where you find the buttons and other controls of the power window is called the switch. A window switch like the Land Rover window switch is the component used to control the opening and closing of power windows. Usually, it is on the driver's side where you find the main window switch. It means that the driver can actually control his passengers' windows. Although each window has its own switch, power windows are designed to give the driver the convenience of opening and closing all the windows without the need to activate each window switch. By this, even if the driver is alone, he can have all the windows opened or closed whenever he wishes to without leaving his seat.
Commonly, there are three kinds of window switches available in the market or being used by car manufacturers — the toggle switch, rocker switch and the lever switch. A toggle switch is one that works by flipping a small lever either up and down or from side to side. This switch is the most common type of switch that you will find on automobiles having power windows. However, for safety purposes, using a lever switch would be a good idea. The moment you flip or push this kind of switch, it will neither automatically allow the window glass to be opened all the way down nor be closed all the way up. You need to continuously exert effort until the window glass has been opened or closed in the desired height. Such kind of switch is perfect for drivers who are fond of bringing along with them their kids for a ride.
The rocker switch on the other hand is the exact opposite of the lever switch. The moment you activated it with just a single push, the window glass will move either all the way up or all the way down. Such is very dangerous especially when you have kids in the car as they can accidentally open the windows without your knowledge and allowing them to put their heads or hands outside causing some unwanted incidents. Whether your vehicle is equipped with a toggle window switch, rocker window switch or lever window switch, one thing is for sure, you need to replace it once it got stuck or got totally busted.
If you are looking for window switch replacement products, then you have just found the perfect site. Here at Parts Train, we offer great deals of high quality window switch replacement products including other parts and accessories for all your automotive needs. Simply browse our comprehensive catalogue for more information and accurate specifications regarding our products. You will surely find the perfect window switch and other stuffs that will suit your car. Check them out now!


Here's some good news: if you've been arrested, your driver's license might not necessarily be suspended. Only certain kinds of offences will result in losing your license. However, that suspension might be permanent, depending on what you've done.
When Can Your License Be Suspended?
According to the paralegal firm Traffic Services, there are a number of reasons your license could be suspended. You might have neglected to pay traffic or parking tickets. It might be due to a medical reason. You could have exceeded your limit of demerit points. Or, your license could be suspended due to an alcohol related offence.
How Long Does a Driver's License Suspension Last?
The length of your driver's license suspension depends on the offence. Traffic Services notes that the first time you're caught driving with a suspended license, you'll receive a mandatory six month suspension above and beyond the original penalty. Driving without insurance might lead to a year long license suspension.
A first time impaired driving offence could lead to a prohibition on getting behind the wheel for a year, and if you're caught doing it again, you'll lose your license for three years. Refusing to provide a blood or breath sample can result in criminal charges. The charges are the same for an impaired driving offence, with an automatic one year suspension of your license.
Dangerous driving can also lead to losing your license, temporarily. Under the Canadian Criminal Code, "dangerous driving" is defined as driving over 80 kmh over the speed limit and/or in a fashion that puts other people's lives in danger. A dangerous driving conviction will lead to an automatic one year suspension. If someone sustains injuries as a result of your dangerous driving, that's referred to as "dangerous driving causing bodily harm" under the Criminal Code. You can lose your license for a year, and you might be imprisoned.
How Can I Get My License Back?
Each Canadian province or territory has different policy for driver's license reinstatement. You'll need to check with your province or territory's Ministry of Transportation to determine the exact process you need to undergo, as well as the fees you need to pay, in order to get your license back.
Doesn't a Record Suspension Mean My License is Reinstated?
Canadian Legal Resource Centre Inc., a paralegal firm, has some bad news for you on this front: a record suspension does not mean you can drive legally. A record suspension means your criminal offence no longer counts against you. It does not have the power to reinstate driver's licenses. Also, just because you've received a record suspension, your provincial or territorial MTO might not reinstate your license.
Will My License Suspension Affect Obtaining a Record Suspension?
There's some good news on this count: Canadian Legal Resource Centre explains that if your license was suspended as a result of the offence for which you're seeking a record suspension, it doesn't affect the waiting period to receive a record suspension. However, if your license is suspended during the waiting period, your record suspension could be denied.
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SHRM Assurance of Learning
Assurance of Learning Assessment for Graduating HR Students:
The Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM) Assurance of Learning Assessment for graduating HR students is the new universal benchmark for students who are completing an HR degree and who have little to no work experience in HR. It benefits students by showing employers the student has acquired the minimum knowledge required to be a successful HR professional, and it gives recent graduates an important advantage over other entry-level candidates by showing the student has achieved the Certificate of Learning upon passing an exit exam. The assessment helps universities meet their accrediting body's assurance of learning requirements because it helps show the HR degree program teaches what it states it will teach. And, it helps employers know that the student has taken an additional step to ensure their degree, complemented by the Certificate of Learning achievement, adequately prepares them for their career in HR. As part of SHRM's broader academic initiative, the Assessment represents an important step along an HR professional's career development path. It complements both formal classroom knowledge acquired through a degree program and experiential learning gained through internships. To learn more, visit the Assurance of Learning page on the SHRM website.


NH hospital calls 8 over brain disease chances
Eight patients who may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease at a New Hampshire hospital have been contacted by the hospital's president, who said Thursday the patients aren't panicking.
Dr. Joseph Pepe called the Catholic Medical Center patients a day after health officials announced that they may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - a brain disease characterized by rapidly progressive dementia which can cause death within months after symptoms first appearing. It has no treatment or cure.
Officials believe the extremely rare disease caused the August death of a patient who had brain surgery at the hospital in May, although the cause of death won't be certain until more tests are completed. If that patient had Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, there's a remote chance it was transmitted to other brain surgery patients because the abnormal proteins that cause the disease can survive standard sterilization practices.
In addition to the eight Catholic Medical Center patients, health officials in Massachusetts said five patients there may have also been exposed because a specialized instrument used on the New Hampshire patient had been rented and reused at Cape Cod Hospital.
The Massachusetts patients have also been notified but are believed to be at low risk because they had spinal procedures, not brain surgery, the state health department said.
About 200 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are recorded annually in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health, with the vast majority occurring spontaneously. In fewer than 1 percent of cases, the disease is transmitted by exposure to brain or nervous system tissue, and there have been only four reported cases of transmission via surgical instruments. None of those were in the United States, and the most recent case was in 1976, Pepe said.
Some hospitals might opt not to tell patients because of the low risk involved and the anxiety it could create for them, Pepe said, but it was important to keep them informed.
"We felt the risk of that anxiety did not outweigh the ethical principle of letting them know and also preventing them from possibly contaminating or exposing others should they have another brain operation," Pepe said.
The only definitive way to diagnose the disease is through a brain biopsy or autopsy. There are no screening tests, and tests that would point toward a diagnosis of the disease are only effective once symptoms such as memory loss and impaired coordination appear, Pepe said.
But he said the patients he spoke to are responding to their predicament calmly. One expressed more concern the hospital or its surgeons would be harmed by the publicity over the incident, Pepe said.
"They are all fine at this point, but I let them know that they can not only call my chief medical officer and the patient advocate... but also myself, and we will stay with them as long as they need us," he said, adding that he apologized for causing them any anxiety.
The hospital will arrange counseling sessions if any of the patients request them, he said.
"Some may get angry later on, they may have anxiety, and then there are others who do not think anything of it," he said. "One person said, 'You know, I have really many other things more concerning than this.'"


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December 4 is a very special day for the mining industry. This is the feast day of Barbara, Patron Saint for Miners and Blasters, and globally for all the professions that relate to fire (firemen, fireworks specialists, etc.)
From her tragic story, which appeared later to be a legend, "the belief became widespread that Barbara could control lightning and other manifestations of flame and fire. (...) Miners later developed the use of gunpowder for disintegrating rock, involving manifestations similar to thunder claps and lightning flashes. This led to their need for special protection against accidents from the use of explosives (...)" (Source: The Legend of Saint Barbara, Patron Saint of Mines in Infomine.com)
Saint Barbara remains a vivid part of mining traditions and heritage. In Europe, a statue of Saint Barbara always stands at the entrance of a tunnel construction site. A lot of mining countries still honor Saint Barbara, from Latin America to Asia. Many extraction sites have been named after Saint Barbara (Compania Minera Santa Barbara S.A. in Chile, Complejo Minero Santa Bárbara in Mexico, Barbara Experimental Coal Mine in Poland, St Barbara's Southern Cross in Australia, etc.), thereby keeping alive the reputation of Saint Barbara as our patron saint.


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How to Boot Virtual Machine in the Recovery Mode
Many are the ways through which you can boot a virtual machine in the recovery mode. Here, we are going to focus on of the most effective ways of achieving the same. We will inform you of a method that geeks and other computer experts use to go around the task. Every step below is critical therefore; there is need for you to pay close attention to each one of them.
What are the steps to take?
In this method, the buttons from F1, F2… etc. are very important so there is need to ensure that all of them are functional before beginning the process. Below are the steps to take:
 1. 1. Opening of the OS X System preferences
The first step involves opening of the OS X system preferences using your keyboard. Enable all the keys that will serve as standard functional keys.
 1. 2. Open the configuration pane
The next step involves opening of the virtual machine configuration pane. You should follow the steps from hardware to boot order where you will get various options. Click on the "select boot device on startup" option. You should then start your virtual machine and make its window active be clicking on it.
 1. 3. Press F8
Depending on the type of operating system that you are using, press the F8 button before anything appears on the screen your computer. For some types of OSs like Windows 8.1, you will have to press Shift and F8 to achieve the same effect as the other types.
It is important to note that this stage requires patience. We recommend that after booting your virtual machine; continue pressing on F8 multiple times until the advanced boot option appears on your screen. If you do not achieve this on the first attempt, shut down the computer and redo the procedure.
 1. 4. Choose repair your computer option
When the advanced boot option appears on your screen, use the arrow keys to select the "repair your computer option". Windows will then ask you to choose your language and from here, you can enter your credentials and continue. If you are using Windows 8.1, choose the troubleshoot option.
 1. 5. Select boot device on startup option
After the repair or the troubleshooting process is over, the next step is to select the boot device on startup option.It is important to note that you might not be able to boot your machine into recovery mode if you do not have a system recovery partition. However, you can go about that by booting the virtual machine from the installation media. Booting a virtual machine in the recovery mode is not as hard a task. All you need to do is follow the steps above.


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Using roof coverboard to reduce outside sound transmission
Learn about tested roof assemblies to meet indoor environmental quality needs
Whether it's the roar of an airplane taking off or the rumble of heavy traffic, outside noise pollution can be distracting and stress inducing for building occupants. Studies have shown that long-term exposure to noise pollution can contribute to high blood pressure, loss of productivity and stress-related illnesses.
While local planning departments may try to avoid residential zoning in areas near elevated highways and airports, people working in commercially zoned buildings in these areas can still be affected by persistent transportation noise pollution. Designing roofs that reduce the transmission of airborne sound is one part of creating buildings that provide quality indoor environments that promote health and productivity.
What are the sources of outdoor noise pollution?
Noise pollution is defined as any noise that negatively affects the health and wellbeing of people living and working in a location. You don't have to live in a city to be exposed to outdoor noise pollution. It takes many forms, including:
- Transportation noise from planes, traffic and railroads
- Industrial operations
What is the difference between outside noise and inside noise?
Controlling sound from the outside is inherently different from controlling sound transmission between walls inside a building. Inside frequencies tend to be in the higher range from things such as televisions, radios and voices. Outside noises live lower on the frequency range — think the rumbling of heavy trucks passing on an elevated highway and airplane engine acceleration during takeoff.
How are roof assemblies tested for acoustical performance?
Acoustical assemblies, whether roofs, ceilings, walls or floors, are tested using the ASTM E90 Standard Test Method for Laboratory Measurement of Airborne Sound Transmission Loss of Building Partitions and Elements. This test is used to calculate Sound Transmission Class and Outdoor-Indoor Transmission Class ratings.
The ASTM E90 test procedure includes the following steps:
- The test includes a source chamber and a reverberation chamber.
- The assembly is installed in between the two chambers to ensure it provides the only sound transmission pathway.
- A loud, persistent noise is produced in the source room.
- Testers calculate the difference in sound levels between the source and receiving chambers.
What is the difference between Sound Transmission Class and Outdoor-Indoor Transmission Class ratings?
The two acoustic rating systems, Sound Transmission Class and Outdoor-Indoor Transmission Class, measure different frequency ranges:
- STC: Quantifies the ability of the material to resist the transmission of sound, using decibel levels between frequencies of 125 Hz and 4,000 Hz. Higher STC numbers indicate better resistance to sound transmission.
- OITC: Measures sound transfer between outdoor and indoor spaces, using decibel levels between a wider range of frequencies from 80 Hz to 4,000 Hz. Including the lower frequencies means it's a better measure of low sound frequencies produced by transportation sources.
How does DEXcell® roof cover board help reduce sound transmission from external sources?
Roof assemblies with more high-density materials do a better job of preventing low, rumbling transportation noises from coming inside. Dense materials slow down soundwaves, and DEXcell cement and gypsum roof cover boards rank among the densest materials that can be incorporated into roof assemblies.
National Gypsum Company tested full-scale commercial roof assemblies at NGC Testing Services in Buffalo, New York, to provide the industry with practical and cost-effective solutions. Assemblies ranged from those with open joists and a variety of hat channel and suspended ceiling types. The testing results are below.
Architects and contractors can choose from these pre-tested assemblies to create comfortable indoor environments. For assembly details, you can reference pages 111–112 of The SoundBook®, the industry's leading resource for technical details and sound-rated assembly drawings all in one place.
DEXcell products used in the tested roof assemblies include:
- DEXcell® Glass Mat Roof Board: Features coated fiberglass facers and enhanced mold-resistant gypsum core.
- DEXcell FA™ Glass Mat Roof Board: Includes heavy-duty, coated fiberglass facers and enhanced mold-resistant gypsum core.
- DEXcell FA VSH™ Glass Mat Roof Board: Has a reinforced gypsum panel with an enhanced moisture-resistant gypsum core and heavy-duty glass mat facers. Approved for use in adhered and mechanically attached single-ply and multi-ply assemblies meeting FM Very Severe Hail Classification.
- DEXcell® Cement Roof Board: Combines Portland cement and aggregate for a lightweight, and mold- and moisture-resistant panel with an exceptionally hard and durable surface.
DEXcell roof coverboards also provide weather and resiliency benefits, including:
- Improved wind uplift rating of the system
- Improved fire resistance
- Reduced impact of foot traffic on the roof
- Smooth surface to install a new roof system in a retrofit application
- Decreased amount of noise entering the building
Download the technical guide to learn more about the benefits of DEXcell Roof Board.
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by JJ Connolly, ES Svendsen, DR Fisher, LK Campbell
Landscape and Urban Planning 109:76-84
As a way of understanding the complexity and importance of the network of stewardship groups involved in protecting and advocating for the local urban environment, the authors investigated 2,767 non-profit and informal community environmental advocacy groups in New York City. These organizations were surveyed, and "bridge organizations," i.e., mid-level groups that "started out engaged in local organizing and eventually began to centralize the work of many small organizations while connecting resources across scales and sectors," were identified. The 13 bridge organizations were approached for open-ended semi-structured interviews to determine their specific activities and how their bridging role evolved. The authors found that the importance of these bridge groups is growing, that most have a simultaneously collaborative and antagonistic relationship with government agencies, and that an earlier heterarchic (non-hierarchical) atmosphere around stewardship in New York City was essential to their development.
Region: New York, New York
Publication Type: Journal article
Keywords: ecosystem services, governance, New York, non-profits, policy, stewardship, surveys and interviews, and urban forestry


Thermal Expansion of Solids
It is a basic fact that gases expand when heated. The volume of an ideal gas is proportional to the absolute temperate according to the the kinetic theory of gases. In fact, substances in general expand when they are heated, whether the substance be a gas, solid or liquid.
In a solid, unlike a gas or liquid, the atoms are not free to move. The atoms vibrate about fixed positions. When a substance is heated, the atoms vibrate more vigorously and occupy slightly more space.
The change in length,of an object that is warmed or cooled depends on the change in temperatureit's original lengthand the material of which it is made. Each material has a different coefficient of thermal expansionThe equation describing thermal expansion is
The coefficient of thermal expansion is not constant. It varies slowly with temperature, but can be assumed to be constant ifis small.
Long structures such as railway tracks and pipelines can fail from buckling. In the summer a long single piece of railway track can increase in length significantly. If the ends are not free to move, if they are welded for example, the thermal expansion, introduces a compressive stress along its length. When this stress becomes too large, the rail cannot maintain its original shape and it buckles sideways as shown.


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white el·e·phant [noun] a possession that is useless or troublesome, especially one that is expensive to maintain or difficult to dispose of.
Gifts are typically inexpensive, humorous items or used items from home. The term white elephant refers to a gift whose maintenance costs exceed its usefulness. While the first use of this term remains a matter of contention among historians, one theory suggests that Ezra Cornell brought the term into the popular lexicon through his frequent social gatherings as early as 1828.
Quite simple, bring something to re-gift, is a gag, or might be coveted and useful. It is nice to have a variety of gifts to steal from. Make sure it is wrapped. Don't hint as to what it is, and there is no high or low limit to worth for the exchange – whatever works.
In its most basic form, the game is as follows:
- Each participant supplies one wrapped gift. The gifts are placed in a central location, and everyone takes a random number to determine to order of gift choosing.
- The first person opens a wrapped gift, and the turn ends.
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- The gift cannot be stolen once the third participant touches the gift (i.e. – it is stolen for the 2nd time). When a person's gift is stolen, that person can either choose another wrapped gift to open or can steal from another player.
- The game is over when the last person goes and the first person goes again (BUT see variations below).
- Only two steals of a gift can happen and it becomes frozen.
- No gift may be stolen more than once per turn, so NO STEAL BACKS per turn – a new item must be stolen or unwrapped.
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(a) Criterion function C(V) for the plane (solid line) and spherical (dotted line) wave front approximations. (b) 2D function C(α, V) for the plane wave front model; thin horizontal line mark cross section of C(α, V) corresponding to the dependence C(V) for the plane wave form shown in panel (a). Maximum value C(α, V)max of about 0.8 (marked by cross) corresponds the values of velocity V = 560 m/s and azimuth α = 160° of the wave front propagation.
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The loci of circle intersections trace the boundaries of three Dirichlet regions, each containing one of the points A, B, C. The Dirichlet region containing A, for example, is the set of points P which are closer to A than to any of the other points B or C. It follows that the boundary between two Dirichlet regions is the set where distances to two of the points A, B, C are equal and less than the third distance. Finally, the corner or vertex is the point where the 3 distances to A, B, and C are equal. We recognize this as the circumcenter of triangle ABC. Since the circles have the same radius. The points on the circles have the same distances to the corresponding centers, so the intersection points of two circles are equidistant from two of the three points A, B, C.
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Caloptilia betulicola
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Very similar to C. elongella, both species being quite variable. It is possible to identify either species from the foodplant if the moth is reared from the larva, but adults located in mixed habitat should be treated with more caution and may need to be dissected.
As suggested by the scientific name, the foodplant of the present species is birch (Betula), the larva mining the leaves initially and then living inside a rolled leaf in later instars.
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Kinloch, Missouri
Kinloch Park
Kinloch Park
St. Louis County Missouri Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Kinloch Highlighted.svg
Country United States
State Missouri
County St. Louis
Founded Nov 17th 1890
 - Total 0.73 sq mi (1.89 km2)
 - Land 0.73 sq mi (1.89 km2)
 - Water 0 sq mi (0 km2)
607 ft (185 m)
 - Total 1,000
 - Estimate
 - Density 408.2/sq mi (157.6/km2)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 - Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
FIPS code 29-38972
GNIS feature ID _PHONE_
Kinloch is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 299 as of the 2010 census.
The current city of Kinloch grew up around Kinloch Park, a commuter suburb first developed in the 1890s.
A Mrs. "B" and her husband are thought to be the first black family to purchase a home in Kinloch Park. As soon as the neighbors discovered the new owners were black they sold their properties, and new sales to permanent white residents of south Kinloch Park ceased. In a few years, more than 30 black families had bought into a six-block area that became called South Kinloch Park.
Kinloch, as an African American community, developed out of a land purchase model similar to the Brooklyn, Illinois model. Since it was not legal to sell directly to blacks, the Olive Street Terrace Realty Corporation sold the parcels to whites for an average price of $150. The new owners then sold the plots to blacks for an average of $350. This allowed the company to use the white people's loans as collateral for further bank notes. To get white investors, the company circulated testimonials of investors who paid in $50 towards a parcel and received returns of $500 to $1000 on the investment. In an advertisement to the Argus, Olive Street Terrace Realty said, "The good colored people of South Kinloch Park have built themselves a little city of which they have a right to be proud. More than a hundred homes, three churches and a splendid public school have been built in a few years."
The Kinloch Park development had a horse-racing facility called Kinloch Track. When Missouri outlawed the sport, the grounds were taken over by Kinloch Airfield, which saw some historic flights. The Aero Club of Saint Louis hosted the first international air meet in October 1910, where Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. Pilot Arch Hoxsey flew the president around for over three minutes in one of the Wright Brothers' six planes they had brought in.
The Kinloch Airfield saw the first control tower, the first meal served on a flight, the first airmail shipped, the first parachute jump, the first aerial photo and the first animal airlifted. Albert Bond Lambert, the first person in the Saint Louis area to receive a pilot's license, and fellow members of the Aero Club leased the field in 1920 and renamed it the Lambert-St. Louis Flying Field in 1923. Two years later, Lambert purchased the field outright; on February 7, 1928, he sold it to the city of Saint Louis at cost, allowing it to become the first city-operated airport and the precursor of today's Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
Kinloch was home to the 198th chapter of the Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA, which fostered black-owned businesses in the area. The chapter chairman was Elijah Woodson.
In 1902, the white residents of Kinloch Park decided to withdraw from the neighboring Ferguson school district and built the Nuroad school for whites. Their two-room school was given to black students, who were using the 1885 Vernon schoolhouse built for the children of the servants to the whites in Kinloch. In 1913, the Dunbar Elementary school, named after Paul Lawrence Dunbar, was established for the black children of South Kinloch. Still segregated when it closed in 1975, it holds the record as the longest-operated school for blacks only.
In 1924, Kinloch became the first community in Missouri to elect a black man to its school board: the Reverend Walter Johnson, who later became a vocal critic of Kinloch's refusal to build a high school for its black students.
In 1925, on Christmas Day, Holy Angels Parish was opened.
Another Vernon School opened in 1927 to educate the black students of Kinloch and west Ferguson. Although the U.S. Supreme Court had ordered desegregation in 1954, the school remained segregated until it closed in 1967. Even though the Kinloch schools remained segregated, the Kinloch students took part in a court-ordered busing program to desegregate other school districts.
In 1931, Holy Angels Parish opened Our Lady of the Angels Elementary School. Both the church and school were open until 2002, making it the oldest continuing black parish in the St. Louis Archdiocese.
In 1938, South Kinloch was poised to elect a second black board member, with a district that was 543 black students to 349 whites. This was when the white north put on the ballot an attempt to split the school district. This third attempt to divide the district by the protesting and minority whites who attended Nuroad School ended in failure, with 415 unanimous votes against in the black south and 215 unanimous votes for in the white north. This led to the foundation of a new municipality called Berkeley, which included all of North Kinloch Park plus land to the northwest and which formed a new school district. South Kinloch Park became Kinloch.
One all-but-forgotten element in Kinloch's success was the electric streetcar line which ran through it to Florissant. Later the line was cut back to just north of Airport Road in Berkeley. At Kinloch, near the beginning of the 1900s, a branch had been constructed to downtown Ferguson, connecting at what was known as various times as Ramona Junction and Ferguson Junction. This clean, economic and efficient transportation gave Kinloch residents the ability to travel with ease to jobs both in the City of St. Louis and the northwestern suburbs. At the Wellston Loop, the line connected with numerous other streetcar and bus lines, giving Kinloch residents a reliable way to get to downtown St. Louis, the suburbs of University City, Clayton, Brentwood, Kirkwood, Webster Groves all the communities along St. Charles Rock Road west to St. Charles, Missouri. Many white people became acquainted with Kinloch as they passed through the area on their streetcar journeys. The substation at the junction of the Berkeley and Ferguson branches still sits on the east side of Hanley Road opposite Suburban Avenue, which had been the streetcar right-of-way into Ferguson. Interestingly, in a heavy segregated culture, black and white rode the streetcars as equals. Anyone could sit wherever anyone wanted and it was not unusual for blacks and whites who otherwise would never have known each other to strike up conversations. In summer streetcar riders always commented on the tantalizing smoky breeze of barbecuing at the Kinloch stop, where the trolleys to Ferguson paused on a graceful, wide curve.
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Kinloch, Missouri
Kinloch, Missouri in 2017.
In the 1980s, the City of St. Louis began to buy out property in Kinloch as part of a noise-abatement program for Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Eventually, the airport took the vast majority of private homes in Kinloch. Between 1990 and 2000, Kinloch lost more than 75 percent of its population. The social and economic effects of this buyout were disastrous for the community.
Kinloch became an increasingly violent and dangerous place to live, infested with drugs and crime. The police department faced numerous investigations, and over a 20-year period a number of officers were arrested on corruption charges. In September 2002, St. Louis County police chief Ron Battelle directed his department to take control of law enforcement in Kinloch. The city's population had dwindled to 449, and there was talk of disincorporation, which was renewed in 2011, when Mayor Keith Conway faced federal charges for using city funds to pay for personal expenses, including a vacation home in Florida.
In recent years, there have been efforts to rebuild the city. Faith Beyond Walls, a community service organization, has been instrumental in mobilizing volunteers to assist with these efforts. The county police presence remains, though Kinloch continues to operate its own police department, and city officials say it is nearly ready to stand on its own.
The City of St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kinloch, Berkeley and Ferguson reached agreement on a redevelopment plan for 600 acres (2.4 km2) of land on the northeast corner of I-70 and I-170, along the eastern edge of the airport. Years ago, this land was part of the airport buyout. The redevelopment will offer office,