Smart Meters for Tackling Flow of Electricity : Kapil Mohan, Director, Ministry of Power,Government of INdia, India
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ICT occupies and important role in the distribution sphere. It primarily has two roles to play – to carry out electricity audit and accounting linked with GIS to track electricity fl ow to the distribution grid, and secondly to improve the consumer experience.
Please throw some light on the over
all scenario of the power industry in
The generation of the electricity in
the country is met by the setting up of theUltra Mega Power Projects (UMPP). Even with having a regulatory commission/ statutory authority in each state, the government is unable to plan the clear distribution of the power supply for the citizens because of the unclear picture of the number of consumers in the power sector, in addition to the unannounced load shedding and the poor quality of power.
Electricity audit and accounting is
useful to determine the electricity losses, which account for one-third of our power generation. Power is either wasted due to bad technology and bad state of the distribution grid or most of it is stolen. Electricity audit and accounting helps us determine where the unaccounted power is going. Data collected through the metering and billing module,' which oversees the electricity and cash fl ow, can determine the amount of unaccounted electricity. As far as services for our consumers are concerned, ICThas enabled a host of citizen centric services like knowing the status of their applications, online payment of bills, checking their power consumption, etc.
Government of India has planned
'Power for All by 2012'. How do you see the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
towards achieving this goal?
'Power for All by 2012' is the fl agship programme of Government of India which aims to provide electricity to all the villages in the country by 2012. The programme Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) was launched by Government of India in April 2005, which aims to provide all the rural households the access to electricity along with giving suffi cient amount of electricity.In the 'Power for All' project, the capacity addition project and the RGGVY are the two main programmes which the government is currently working on.
In providing electricity to all the main
focus is on the grid management, whichmeans better power facility for all. The other focus is on equitable distribution of power which ensures the quality of power being supplied to the customers.
How do you see the role of ICT in generation, transmission and distribution of electricity? What is the outlook of the Indian power industry in transmission and distribution?
ICT plays a major role in Transmission and Distribution (T&D). With the help of the use of ICT, the government is able to track the energy fl ow, how much energy is going where and to which all places. It also helps in keeping a track of the point where the energy is being lost, helps in able to identify the lacunae. With the help of the ICT the government is also able to keep a track of which particular areas are consuming more electricity than what is allotted to them. The overconsumption of electricity results in grid collapse. It is important to monitor how much electricity is being drawn and in which areas.
ICT plays a role in maintaining the amount of electricity being used by particular states. The distribution sector has to deal with the losses in the power sector as they are the ones who deal with the consumers directly in the fl ow of the electricity. With the help of ICT the ministry of power can track the fl ow of electricity. All this information can be linked to GIS so that it becomes easy to know the exact situation of what is happening where, how much electricity is being used by whom. Effi ciency which is the core in the distribution sector is ensured.
How would the national grid resolve
the issues of transmission and distribution losses (T&D)?
To resolve the problem of load shedding, ICT plays a major role in the digitisation and the distribution of the grid. It will facilitate setting up of the basic electricity audit and the accounting system on the electricity grid. This will be helpful in giving a clear understanding of the consumption pattern on a real-time basis. With the use of the automated meter reading (AMR) at regular intervals, the data can be maintained and can be checked where the electricity is being lost, so that the measures of tackling the problem of electricity is taken up and worked upon. The automation of the meters is called smart grids or the smart meters which is a symbolic tool. It benefi ts both the consumers and the suppliers as it helps in managing the electricity and reduces the losses. The
consumption of electricity has to be done in a planned way so as to reduce the problem of the shortage or the collapse of the grid. To avoid the collapse in the grid, which can bring the daily life to a halt, real time intelligent grid is required which would shift the load of the peak hours during the non-peak hours and manage the infrastructure. Also with the help of customer relationship management (CRM) system, meter-cash process can be improved.
ICT plays an important role here
too, not only in the monitoring but also in predicting and planning of the operations. The work on energy accounting and distribution management system and the building up of smart meters has begun. Pilot projects in few cities have started. The aim is to reduce the T & D losses from 30% to 15% in the next 5 years.
Can you briefl y tell us about the Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP)? Please name some states which are leading in R-APDRP implementation.
The Restructured Accelerated Power
Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP) focuses on improving fi nancial viability of state utilities and sustained reduction in losses. It seeks to reduce the level of electricity supplied and the monetary loss incurred by the government. R-APDRP intends to intensively use Information and Technology (IT) to enforce power reforms.
The schemes which come under RAPDRP
are renovation and modernisation of substations, transmission lines and distribution transformers, augmentation of feeders and transformers, feeder and consumer meters, high voltage distribution system (HVDS), consumer indexing, Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition/ Distribution Management System (SCADA/ DMS) solution, computerised billing, etc.
SCADA/ DMS solution has been
implemented for real time monitoring and control of the distribution system. With this the remote infrastructure management of the grid can be done, sitting in a substation.The states which
have shown a noticeable success under R-APDRP are Rajasthan, West Bengal,
Gujarat and Bangalore. In other states, the work is in progress.
The Eleventh Five year plan focuses
on 100% electrifi cation in rural India. How close are we in achieving this goal and why is it still a challenge to provide electrifi cation in rural areas?
Currently, the electrifi cation of 76,000 villages have been done out of 1.18 lakh villages in the country. The whole programme will be completed by 2012. The critical focus is on the accessibility of the 'electricity to all' in the entire villages of the country.
The major challenge faced in the electrifi cation of the rural areas is the lack of proper infrastructure, which makes it diffi cult to do the wiring in the remote areas and the interiors of the villages. Also the load in the rural areas is quite low because of which, the major chunk of the village electricity load comes on the government as the villagers have to be charged a nominal price for the electricity. From the rural areas the revenue is very low, hence at the moment the supply of the electricity is very limited.
How signifi cant is the Public
Private Partnership (PPP) in the power sector? How welcome is the privatisation of the Delhi Power Distribution by the Government after a not so good experience in Orissa?
In the generation of the electricity, the private companies have been activelypromoted. In the next fi ve year plan which will be the 12th plan, the private sectors will have much more capacity than the public sector or the government. In transmission, initially, Power Grid Corporation of India was the major PSU in transmitting the electricity. But now the high voltage transmission lines have been given out on bid to the private sector. The Power Grid no more has the monopoly in the transmission of the electricity.
Though in the distribution phase of the electricity Government of India facilitates privatisation but it is not very actively promoted. Input based franchise which is the half privatisation of the government assets is promoted.
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City-Farm Wage Gaps in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Pierre Sicsica1
a1 Centre de Recherche of the Banque de France, 39 rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs, 75001 Paris, France.
Wage gaps between farm and city are used to assess whether industrialization in late nineteenth-century France was choked off by peasants' alleged reluctance to move. If industry suffered due to labor scarcity, wage gaps should have been large and rising. It turns out that the wage gap, when adjusted for costs of living and computed as an average of 20 regional wage gaps, was nil in 1852 and about 25 percent in 1892. Thus wage gaps were rising but were far smaller throughout the late nineteenth century than they were in England during similar stages of industrialization.


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The Venturi assembly is responsible for cycling water through the entire softener, making this an essential part to maintain. We recommend peforming this quick cleaning once a year.
Cleaning the Venturi
1.Take the top cover off your unit by unhooking the 2 clips in back of the cover. Place the cover to the back or side of the unit, being careful not to disconnect any wires.
2.Bypass the water softener by pushing the handle in on the back of your unit. This will stop water from coming in or out of the softener while you work:
3. Locate the Venturi hanging off the left-hand side of softener head. The venturi is a gray plastic base with a white cone cap (pictured below).
4. Unscrew the cone cap and take out all seven (7) internal pieces, so you are left with just the empty gray housing. Make sure to keep these pieces in order!
5. Clean the internal parts with warm, soapy water. Feel free to use a paper clip or similar tool to clear any debris from the two black circular flow plugs, as they both have a small hole in the center.
6. Reassemble the internal parts using the exploded view (pictured below). *Please note that some parts have numbers or letters printed on them – these should face UP when reassembling.
7. Return the top cover to the unit and pull the bypass back out.

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. Although peak current and power/ground noises are
 minimized by signal polarities assignment, an
 assignment without timing information may increase the
 clock skew significantly. As a result, a timing-aware
 signal polarities assigning technique is necessary. In
 this article, we propose a novel signal polarities
 assigning technique which can not only reduce peak
 current and power/ground noises simultaneously but also
 render the clock skew in control. The experimental
 result shows that the clock skew produced by our
 algorithm is 94\% of original clock skew in average
 while the clock skews produced by three algorithms
 (Partition, MST, Matching) in the absence of post clock
 tuning steps in the previous work are 235\%, 272\%, and
 283\%, respectively. Moreover, our algorithm is as
 efficient as the three algorithms of the previous work
 in reducing peak current and power/ground noises.",
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 articleno = "31",
 journal-URL = "_URL_
 keywords = "Clock skew; clock tree; peak current; polarity
 assignment; power/ground noise",
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@Article{Cho:2009:BHR,
 author = "Minsik Cho and Katrina Lu and Kun Yuan and David Z.
 Pan",
 title = "{BoxRouter 2.0}: a hybrid and robust global router
 with layer assignment for routability",
 journal = j-TODAES,
 volume = "14",
 number = "2",
 pages = "32:1--32:??",
 month = mar,
 year = "2009",
 CODEN = "ATASFO",
 DOI = "_URL_
 ISSN = "_PHONE_ (print), _PHONE_ (electronic)",
 bibdate = "Thu Apr 2 15:06:01 MDT 2009",
 bibsource = "_URL_
 _URL_
 abstract = "In this article, we present BoxRouter 2.0, and discuss
 its architecture and implementation. As
 high-performance VLSI design becomes more
 interconnect-dominant, efficient congestion elimination
 in global routing is in greater demand. Hence, we
 propose a global router which has a strong ability to
 improve routability and minimize the number of vias
 with blockages, while minimizing wirelength. BoxRouter
 2.0 is extended from BoxRouter 1.0, but can perform
 multi-layer routing with 2D global routing and layer
 assignment. Our 2D global routing is equipped with two
 ideas: node shifting for congestion-aware Steiner tree
 and robust negotiation-based A* search for routing
 stability. After 2D global routing, 2D-to-3D mapping is
 done by the layer assignment which is powered by
 progressive via/blockage-aware integer linear
 programming. Experimental results show that BoxRouter
 2.0 has better routability with comparable wirelength
 than other routers on ISPD07 benchmark, and it can
 complete (no overflow) the widely used ISPD98 benchmark
 for the first time in the literature with the shortest
 wirelength. We further generate a set of harder ISPD98
 benchmarks to push the limit of BoxRouter 2.0, and
 propose the hardened ISPD98 benchmarks to map
 state-of-the-art solutions for future routing
 research.",
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 articleno = "32",
 journal-URL = "_URL_
 keywords = "congestion; global routing; integer linear
 programming; layer assignment; physical design;
 routability; VLSI",
}
@Article{Gulati:2009:FBH,
 author = "Kanupriya Gulati and Suganth Paul and Sunil P. Khatri
 and Srinivas Patil and Abhijit Jas",
 title = "{FPGA}-based hardware acceleration for {Boolean}
 satisfiability",
 journal = j-TODAES,
 volume = "14",
 number = "2",
 pages = "33:1--33:??",
 month = mar,
 year = "2009",
 CODEN = "ATASFO",
 DOI = "_URL_
 ISSN = "_PHONE_ (print), _PHONE_ (electronic)",
 bibdate = "Thu Apr 2 15:06:01 MDT 2009",
 bibsource = "_URL_
 _URL_
 abstract = "We present an FPGA-based hardware solution to the
 Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem, with the main
 goals of scalability and speedup. In our approach the
 traversal of the implication graph as well as conflict
 clause generation are performed in hardware, in
 parallel. The experimental results and their analysis,
 along with the performance models are discussed. We
 show that an order of magnitude improvement in runtime
 can be obtained over MiniSAT (the best-in-class
 software based approach) by using a Virtex-4
 (XC4VFX140) FPGA device. The resulting system can
 handle instances with as many as 10K variables and 280K
 clauses.",
 acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
 articleno = "33",
 journal-URL = "_URL_
 keywords = "Boolean Constant Propagation (BCP); Boolean
 satisfiabilty (SAT); conflict induced clauses; FPGA;
 non-chronological backtrack",
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WATER FILTER REPLACEMENT
Replacing water filter
If water has not be flushed sufficiently after installing the product or replacing filter, filter has
expired its lifespan or refrigerator dispenser has not been used for a long time, there is a risk
that foreign materials in the form of minuscule particles can be found in the water.
Filter replacement cycle
1st pre-carbon filter: 6 months,
2nd UF membrane filter: 12 months,
3rd post carbon filter: 6 months
☞ After replacing filter, let water run for at least 1.5 liters and flush before use.
To remove the rest of activated carbon, press dispenser button for 3 minutes
each (purified water and cold water) to let water flow and be flushed out before use.
(Activated carbon is non-toxic to human body.)
1. If foreign materials (white particles, dust, etc.) are found even though filter has been replaced
regularly, contact the service center.
2. Pollution can spread through water pipe.
Clean items in the following order: water inlet → water valve → filter → water tank or replace.
※ Contact the service center when foreign materials are found in both dispensed water and ice cube
after replacing filter. If only found in ice cube, remove icemaker and ice bin, clean thoroughly and
put back in place.

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This is a simple html form to make use of the GBIF name parser. The parser is written in java and based on regular expressions to disect name strings into its components. It does only keep name parts required to reconstruct a full 3-parted name with an optional subgenus, but ignores additional infraspecific parts such as the subspecies given for varieties. Please see our API documentation for details.
You can copy paste a list of names, one per row, or upload a text file with a name per line. Uploaded files have to be encoded as utf8!


text: Objectives. We examined the prospective effects of parental education (as a proxy for individual socioeconomic status [SES]) and neighborhood SES on adolescent smoking trajectories and whether the prospective effects of individual SES varied across neighborhood SES. Methods. The study included 3635 randomly recruited adolescents from 5 age cohorts (12-16 years) assessed semiannually for 3 years in the Minnesota Adolescent Community Cohort study. We employed a cohort-sequential latent growth model to examine smoking from age 12 to 18 years with predictors. Results. Lower individual SES predicted increased levels of smoking over time. Whereas neighborhood SES had no direct effect, the interaction between individual and neighborhood SES was significant. Among higher and lower neighborhood SES, lower individual SES predicted increased levels of smoking; however, the magnitude of association between lower individual SES and higher smoking levels was significantly greater for higher neighborhood SES. Conclusions. We found evidence for differential effects of individual SES on adolescent smoking for higher and lower neighborhood SES. The group differences underscore social conditions as fundamental causes of disease and development of interventions and policies to address inequality in the resources.


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A gathering of leaders from Insight Meditation centers and groups
to cultivate the seed of Insight in the West
The InterSangha meeting began in 2009 as a gathering for leaders from California groups, but quickly expanded to include all of North America in 2010. Now the meeting is organized by the Buddhist Insight Network and regularly attracts 60 or more leaders from several dozen groups.
The overarching purpose is to create community and generate collective wisdom around developing our Insight sanghas and the Insight Meditation Movement as a whole. Through these meetings, we are forming a network of support – a "sangha of sanghas."
Participants have the opportunity to:
- Practice and share dialogue with other leaders in the Insight Meditation Movement
- Learn what other groups around North America, and beyond, are doing
- Share what their own group is doing
- Gain practical tools to serve their communities
- Meet people, make friends, and find inspiration
- Help envision the emerging role of the Insight Community in wider society
InterSangha occurs in a field of generosity. The meeting is offered freely. A volunteer cooking team supplies meals each day, and attendees themselves wash dishes and help clean the center. All of this group effort makes for a stronger sense of community, allowing our work together to unfold beautifully. Please see also the pages for individual meetings:


The Printable KISS Workbooks Shakespeare's Plays
Romeo and Juliet
Act Two
Scene One, 43-51: "He jests at scars"
(Includes no verbals, a third-level embedded clause, an appositive, direct address, and "but" used as a coordinating conjunction, as an adverb, and as a preposition.)
AK LittleWords
Scene One, 80-91: "Tis but thy name" (includes "What's in a name." This selection, which includes no verbals other than "belonging," makes a nice assessment quiz of students' ability to identify S/V/C patterns and basic clauses.
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Locus of control, pupil control ideology, occupational stress, and teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education
The educational research literature suggests that teachers experiencing chronic occupational stress develop feelings of powerlessness, express cynical attitudes, and demonstrate resistance to change and innovation. Furthermore, the degree of stress experienced by teachers has been correlated with their locus of control and pupil control orientations. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to examine the differential effects of the predictor variables of teachers' locus of control, pupil control ideology, and perceived occupational stress on the criterion variable of attitudes toward inclusive education.^ General education teachers (N = 117) from a suburban school district in New York volunteered to participate in the study. The teachers anonymously completed the following questionnaires: (a) Attitudes Toward Inclusive Education Scale, (b) Pupil Control Ideology Form, (c) Teacher Locus of Control Scale, (d) Teacher Stress Inventory, and (e) demographic fact sheet.^ Inferential statistical analyses (i.e., t tests, analyses of variance, and Pearson product-moment correlations) were computed on the teacher characteristics and the variables under investigation. Differences were observed between teachers' age levels and perceived occupational stress, as well as between teachers' locus of control and grade level taught. Furthermore, considerable interrelatedness was found among all the research variables.^ Path analyses were conducted to estimate causation from the correlational data obtained from the total sample. Significant direct relationships were found between (a) pupil control ideology and occupational stress and (b) occupational stress and attitudes toward inclusive education. Alternative path models provided more parsimonious fits to the sample data, wherein pupil control ideology and locus of control accounted for most of the variance in attitudes toward inclusive education. These models suggested that teachers' control beliefs (i.e., locus of control and pupil control ideology), independent of occupational stress, significantly affected attitude formation. ^
Education, Educational Psychology|Psychology, Industrial|Education, Curriculum and Instruction
Jean Anne Agoglia,
"Locus of control, pupil control ideology, occupational stress, and teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education"
(January 1, 1997).
ETD Collection for Fordham University.

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Zombie Foreclosures
By adminOn 11-26-2020
With a zombie apocalypse looming (Dawn of the Dead), foreclosures are one situation that you have to be careful about. If you are currently facing a foreclosure, it's best not to move out too soon as you may be "haunted" by a zombie foreclosure.
Zombie foreclosures
What is Zombie Foreclosure?
Zombie foreclosure occurs when homeowners vacate a house immediately after receiving a foreclosure notice from the bank but then along the line, the foreclosing bank doesn't complete the process. What happens next is this, while the house is at that uncompleted foreclosing stage, the title deed, property ownership, and the house itself remains in the name of the homeowner.
This situation then leads to a "zombie foreclosure" which can lead to severe issues for homeowners who have already vacated the home. It is a common occurrence and is often caused by homeowners moving immediately before completing the foreclosing process.
While the homeowner moves out of the house thinking that he/she would lose the home to foreclosure, the uncompleted sale, the canceled foreclosure, and the homeownership isn't transferred to a new company, entity, or person.
In simple and straightforward terms, a zombie foreclosure sometimes called a "zombie property" or "zombie title" occurs when a foreclosure that started was never completed, and the title never officially transferred.
In most cases, zombie foreclosures happen in low-income earning regions where the foreclosing bank doesn't feel the urge to take on the property's upkeep responsibility or wants to save on taxes. In other situations, the foreclosure process may be hindered by service errors, severe disrepair, or if squatters have become the new homeowners.
On rare occasions, the foreclosing bank may not go through the foreclosure process because the foreclosure paperwork may be missing, the foreclosure cost isn't worth the completion, or there are a lot of inventory.
Finding Zombie Foreclosures
Depending on the foreclosure climate and the market you operate in, pursuing zombie foreclosures may prove beneficial for prospective investment properties. As a savvy real estate investor, possessing a zombie property (properties which a foreclosing lender doesn't want to repossess or manage) may become a significant plus for you if you can realign the foreclosing property to make them "hot cakes" in the market.
The significant gain to this is that when the market eventually gets stabilized, housing units become more affordable and available, and everyone comes out of it a winner. But how do you find a zombie foreclosure that has the prospects of being viable? Here's how.
Before the entrance of data solution systems that could accurately locate zombie foreclosures, any investor with interest in possessing a zombie property could try any of the following:
 1. Digging through public records to verify property ownership before contacting the previously known owner.
 2. Calling the property management company.
 3. Calling the loan service provider or the lender.
However, each of these options will get you nowhere. Apart from property data solution systems that can pinpoint zombie properties accurately, you can go for shadow inventory.
Shadow inventory refers to bank-owned (REO) and already foreclosed properties. Now, foreclosed properties are properties that will make it to the market in the future, but at the present moment, they are not. This means that they are in a shadow inventory. The properties are getting ready to be sold or put on the market but are presently resting in the foreclosing banks' balance sheets.
Shadow inventory is a great way to possess zombie foreclosure properties that become an issue to the lender or the market.
Top U.S. States With High Zombie Foreclosure Rates
At a point in the United States, there were over three hundred thousand zombie properties approximately. In the third quarter of 2020, the numbers dropped drastically to just over 7,600, although there are still many zombie homes in some states and zip codes.
The U.S. states with the highest zombie foreclosure rates include New Jersey, South Carolina, Maryland, Illinois, and Delaware. From metro to housing units, Illinois ranked the fourth-highest number of zombie foreclosures in the United States at 868.
Abandoned foreclosed house
How a Zombie Foreclosure Can Affect You
When a foreclosure process falls through, and a zombie foreclosure occurs, the homeowner retains the legal responsibility to settle certain expenses and bills such as property maintenance, HOA dues, and property taxes. The debts accumulated on these obligations may go unpaid for months or years and may adversely bounce back on them as they had no idea of the uncompleted foreclosure process.
This may happen if the homeowners could not be easily found after moving out or when the bank doesn't inform the homeowner about the failed foreclosure. It is important to note that the bank may not be legally required to do so.
If you move off your property and later find out that the foreclosure didn't get completed for months or years, then a zombie foreclosure can affect you or the neighborhood in the following ways:
 1. Unattended and neglected "zombie foreclosed" homes may become a hideout for criminals, squatters, and vandals.
 2. It could lead to lowering of the neighborhood's value.
 3. You might get charged for not abiding with municipal ordinances and housing codes.
 4. Constant payment for property maintenance.
 5. Local government charges for trash removal, repairs, or yard maintenance, among other things.
 6. An HOA could file a lawsuit for the recovery of unpaid assessments.
 7. Property taxes.
The high tendency for zombie foreclosure gives you loads of reasons to remain as long as you can when a foreclosure happens. Staying through the entire process will help you avoid falling victim to zombie foreclosure.
Try as much as possible to get an official notice before you vacate your home. Also, confirm from the foreclosing bank and verify that the title and other responsibilities have been officially transferred away from you. You can also check the website and office of your local county recorder to ensure that there is a record of a new deed.
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Arithmetic Mean Proof
In this post, we show that if $latex a$ and $latex b$ are real numbers and $latex a$ is less than $latex b$, then their arithmetic mean is greater than $latex a$. That is, $latex a < b$ implies
$latex a < \displaystyle \frac{a + b}{2}$.
Proof 1: Direct Proof
We know that $latex a < b$.
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Background: Sotos syndrome is an uncommon condition characterised by rapid growth, large body size and acromegaloid facies.There is limited data on metabolic abnormalities in Sotos syndrome.Aims: We investigated insulin sensitivity and secretion rates in a 22 year old girl with Sotos syndrome, prompted by the observation of a flat glucose response after an oral glucose challenge.Methods: Glucose tolerance was assessed with a 75g 2-h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), ...


Michelle Jones, Shake Shack
Retail Food Safety Forum
Simple Food Safety Training Combats Turnover
By Michelle Jones
Michelle Jones, Shake Shack
Restaurants must maintain a culture that continuously promotes food safety to empower employees to protect both their customers and their brand.
Retail food establishments face many challenges, and employee retention is one of the major concerns. Employee retention affects scheduling, hiring, and the overall effectiveness of training. Food safety training usually suffers when turnover occurs.
The safety of customers is dependent on an employee's knowledge and execution of the food safety standards that are in place.
The biggest challenge in training in the retail/hospitality industry is the risk that the employee may leave within the first year (or less) of employment. According to Restaurant.org, the average turnover rate for the restaurant/hospitality sector was 66.3% in 2014.1 This turnover rate creates a challenge for maintaining a solid food safety culture.
Restaurants can take proactive steps to create and maintain a food safety culture that is always visible to new and current employees by adopting various techniques.
Signage Is Your Friend
Signage throughout your restaurant is a great way to continuously relay a food safety message without confining employees to a computer or module-based system. This signage should be simple, sometimes playful and right to the point. An employee or manager takes roughly 30 seconds, on average, to read a message, so the shorter the better.
Visual signage is always a great tool to use in the back of house to relay food safety standards (e.g., proper cooking temperatures, order of storing food in coolers, etc.). Signage (photos specifically) may also assist employees who may not communicate in English proficiently. A picture is worth a thousand words, so utilize photos, cartoons or captions in order to relay the message.
Target the Leader
A quality assurance/food safety team should focus its training on the leaders of a region and/or district. Managers have more incentive to stay with companies longer; therefore, food safety training will be retained for a longer period. They may also visit their locations more frequently than the food safety professional, which gives them additional contact with the restaurant-level staff.
To assist these managers in their communication and verification of standards, compose a customized checklist for them to complete during a restaurant visit. The checklist should fulfill the following:
 1. Highlight the top opportunities they seek out (hand washing, sanitizer concentration, etc.)
 2. Provide the proper corrective action to eliminate the opportunities
 3. Considers their time. A manager does not have the ability to complete a five-page checklist. Keep it simple—just the facts!
If these managers are well versed on food safety and sanitation and procedures, they will be able to hold their restaurants to a higher level of compliance. So provide them with all of the tools they need to communicate to their employees.
Informed Employees Are Powerful Employees
Creating newsletters or publications serve as a great tool to keep employees informed of food safety policies. These articles can highlight trends in your company and new products available for use (i.e., chemicals, thermometers, etc.).
By law, every restaurant must have an area where employee information is listed (minimum wage, disability rights, etc.). This board is the perfect place to post your publication.
In conclusion, keeping employees trained on proper food safety standards is the best way to ensure your customers are safe and your brand is protected. Implementing various forms of communication of these standards will create a strong foundation for an excellent food safety culture to exist.
 1. National Restaurant Association. Hospitality employee turnover rose in 2014. March 11, 2015.
 1. Ken Ward
 Nice job Michelle. You make a fellow K-Stater proud. Hope you are doing well. I'm on my glide path to retirement, another 14 months if everything goes well.
 2. Geraldo
 Good suggestion. We meet recently Michelle when you visit food plant facility in the Boston area. The turnover does affect food safety culture.
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[MUSIC] Modality is an important technique for
the expression of argument and opinion in academic writing. Modality can take various forms and
be expressed in different ways. For example, bi-modal verbs such as
must and may, or marginals like need to. Or, semi-modals, like have to. And lexical words, for example, nouns,
adjectives, adverbs, verbs and quantity. The main forms of model
auxiliary verbs are can, could, may, would, might, will,
must, should and ought to. Each of these forms has a variety of
functions and meanings, such as ability, reassurance, requesting,
controlling, certainty and so on. This table illustrates
some examples of forms and functions in the use of modal verbs. It is evident that modality is to
be used very carefully in academic communication because it has
similar meanings and functions. Very few ideas in academia
can be stated as fact. So using modality allows
academic writers to express, with various degree of certainty,
ideas that are not facts. Let's consider this example. Climate change threatens
the health of millions of people. Definitely, this is a fact, because the
verb is expressed by present simple tense whose main function is to state facts. Climate change might threaten
the health of millions of people. In this case,
modality expresses low certainty. A moderate, low modality
statement of opinion allows for a more tentative conclusion to be drawn. It also appears to present a reason and
objective argument because it allows for the possibility of avenues
contrary to your own claims. In comparison, a high modality
opinion can appeal to the emotions, and so, can be perceived as persuasive and
subjective. However, if there is ample evidence to
support the argument being presented, then high modality is appropriate. High modality language is also used in
specific genres for specific purposes, such as to make recommendations on
future research of problem solutions. Each of these forms has
a variety of functions and meanings, such as ability,
reassurance or request. Let's consider this
statement one more time. Climate change threatens
the health of millions of people. It is unlikely that this
statement is always true. There is always likely to be someone who doesn't follow the rule
expressed by this statement. These kinds of statements
are called overgeneralisations, and they are too general to be true. In academic English, it's important
to avoid overgeneralisations because they could weaken your argument. Here are two more examples showing how
overgeneralisation can be avoided. Climate change may threaten
the health of millions of people. It appears likely that climate
change often threaten the health of millions people. Expressions, such as may and appears,
likely are examples of modality. Modality includes any
expressions that show how certain someone is, not just modal verbs. Using modality in this way
is sometimes called hedging. Hedging is quite common in academic
English, because in academia, people have to be very careful not to make something
sound like a fact when it is not as fact. In greater detail,
hedging will be discussed in the second course of this
specialization, scholarly communication. Apart from modal verbs, useful grammatical
forms that express modality include adverbs of certainty and of frequency. Verbs indicating lack of certainty. Expressions with "it" + passive voice,
adjective or adverb. Construction, there is or
there are + noun phrase + that. Expressions of quantity. The use of high modality
language in academic writing depends on the amount of evidence
supporting your argument. However, factors such as the genre
of the writing, its purpose, and the conventions,
as well as the discipline being studied also influence the use of
high modality writing. Look at the different ways high modality
language has been used to answer a specific purpose in
the following examples. The following excerpt is taken from a
scientific article where the authors make a strong recommendation for
the direction of future research. The results of the author's
investigation provides support for this high modality stance. Ultimately, your opinion
in academic writing must be based on the evidence
you have collected. The level of modality used
to express your opinion must match the level of certainty
provided by your evidence. It might be appropriate to make a high
modality claim because evidence for multiple sources makes up your opinion. Therefore, adjust the certainty of
modality used to present your argument according to the quality and
amount of evidence supporting it. Be careful not to accidentally
state something that is true, unless you have very strong
evidence that it really is true.
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List of distinct cell types in the adult human body
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There are nerve cells, also known as neurons, present in our human body. They are branched out. These cells make up nervous tissue. A neuron consists of a cell body with a nucleus and cytoplasm, from which long thin hair-like parts arise.
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Speaking from the technology perspective, naming is specific depending on the device characteristics, two main categories being landline and mobile.
Landline is a device receiving signal through a fixed phone line (which is not always a circuit; sometimes the device is a pretty large phone with a SIM making it quite mobile, sometimes handheld, still it's considered a landline phone).
Mobile phones have a couple different technology-dependent types:
- cellular (or cell for short) are called the devices utilizing signal received through a "cellular network"
- satellite devices are powered by the satellite network
These terms describe your device in respect to differences implied by phone networks, but the total of non-landline phones are mobile.
Also there are smartphones. This term distinguishes the device in a bit different dimension; it describes the capabilities as opposed to older handheld devices (smartphones are the devices that combine a microcomputer and a telephone).
So, strictly speaking, if you want to be specific to different types of devies you should use different terms in different cases. That would make a lot of difference if you wanted, per se, sell software for a particular kind of devices.


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Messaging
Retrieving lists of unread messages
Use the channel query syntax to return a list of Channel information objects.
query {
 channelQuery(org: Uuid!, query: String!): ChannelInfoList!
}
Channel kinds
 - self - per org inbox of system messages
 - direct - one to one channel with another user
 - org: ad-hoc, org, group - group channels
 - dispatch - channels attached to a dispatch
 - inbox - Inbox notifications
Direct channels are not connected to a specific org. The channel id is an XOR of the user ids. The self channel is an XOR of the user id and the Org id. The inbox is available through the channel query but the data is accessed via a different API.
Ad-hoc group channels can be created and managed by users while other types of group channels are created at the org level.
Reading channels
Channel data is available via the packets interface. This will return a paged packet list that includes an opaque cursor allowing movement to the next and prior pages.
query {
 packets(channel: Uuid!, first: Int, after: String, status: String): PacketList!
}
Updating unread position
Directily update a channel using the org id and the channel id. The return value is either "ok" or "fail".
mutation {
 updateChannelLastRead(org: Uuid!, id: Uuid!): String!
}
Update a batch of channels using a channel query. The return value is a mutation result.
mutation {
 updateChannelPosWithQuery(org: Uuid!, query: String!): MutationResult!
}
Managing org local direct channel list
Add and remove user ids to the local org list of direct channels.
mutation {
 modifyChannelSettings(org: Uuid!, add:[Uuid!]!, remove:[Uuid!]!){
 result
 error
 records
 }
}
Getting the list of the local connections can be done most simply with the channel query interface described above. To get some additional detail (such as whether the user belongs to the local org or not) use the following api.
query {
 channelSettings(org: Uuid!){
 channelId
 kind
 settings
 updatedAt
 createdAt
 lastWrite
 lastMessage
 membership
 }
}
Read only channels
Channels can be read only.
Creating and managing ad-hoc channels
Users are able to create ad-hoc channels via the API. All other channel types are managed via the admin interface.
Managed channels
Managed channels are used for support


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Alumna Michele Karnash Mandell '69 discusses how scholarships played an important role in her education at Cal U and the financial challenges that students face today and Alexandra Brooks talks about the hardships she faced as a teenager and how a Cal U scholarship broke her cycle of life.
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Marines from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron (VMU) 2, located at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina, will use its small UAS, RQ-21A Blackjack, for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ground missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
"Blackjack will bring new capabilities to the warfighter and provide them greater target acquisition capability with multiple plug-and-play sensors allowing them to stay ahead of the threat," said Col. Jim Rector, Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems program manager who oversees the RQ-21A program. "It is a tremendous accomplishment for the Marines, government and industry team to see it deploy for its first operational mission."
RQ-21A has a significantly larger payload, mass, volume and power than other small UAS used by Marines in theater today, he said.
The system can carry multi-intelligence payloads including day and night full-motion video cameras, an infrared marker, a laser range finder, a communications relay package and automatic identification system receivers.
The RQ-21A Blackjack system, produced by Insitu, Inc., is comprised of five air vehicles, two ground control systems, and launch and recovery support equipment. It will provide the Navy and Marine Corps warfighter with immediate situational awareness via visual, voice communication and other multi-intelligence data collection capabilities.
The expeditionary nature of the RQ-21A, which does not require a runway for launch and recovery, makes it possible to deploy a multi-intelligence-capable UAS with minimal footprint from ships. This is critical for amphibious operations that Marine Expeditionary Units conduct in in access-denied environments, Rector said.
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What is highway in civil engineering?
What is highway in civil engineering?
Highway engineering is an engineering discipline branching from civil engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods.
What are the types of highway engineering?
Design
 - Geometric design. Highway and transportation engineers must meet many safety, service, and performance standards when designing highways for certain site topography.
 - Materials.
 - Flexible pavement design.
 - Rigid pavement design.
 - Flexible pavement overlay design.
 - Rigid pavement overlay design.
 - Drainage system design.
What is the importance of highway engineering?
Importance of Highway engineering :- (1) Roads can be constructed to penetrate the interior of any region and to connect in remote villages specially in hilly region where provision of railway lines become uneconomical. (2) Roads can be constructed at comparatively lower initial cost than any other mode of transport.
What is the primary objective of highway engineers?
Highway engineers are responsible for ensuring that highways are designed to be safe and efficient, while also staying under budget. Highway engineers are responsible for every aspect of highway design, but must make safety their first priority.
What is highway engineering?
Lastly, it should be noted that highway engineering is a branch of civil engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people goods and services.
What are the components of highway?
The basic components of the highway are the road width, cross slope, pavement, road margins, traffic separators, and curbs. These geometric elements are designed and influenced by the psychology of the driver, the characteristics of the vehicle and the traffic of the region.
What is MDR and ODR?
Major District Highways (MDR) Other District Roads (ODR) Village Roads (VR)
What are the characteristics of a highway?
Highways have two or more lanes in each intersections. They have double solid lines to separate high-speed traffic. It is illegal to cross double yellow lines except to turn on left. Passing in legal only if the lines on side of the center lane.
What are three major branches of highway engineering?
There are three major branches of highway engineering: planning, research, and construction. Most highway engineers specialize in one of these areas. Planning engineers work with city and regional planners.
What are the characteristics of highways?
Characteristics of Roads or Highway Engineering :
 - It can be used by all types of vehicles including cycles, rickshaws, automobiles, passenger cars, buses, trucks, etc.
 - It is nearest mode of transport for people or public.
 - It offers flexibility of changes in direction of travel as per need, comfort and convenience.
What is road margin?
Road margins are the various cross sectional elements of the road except the carriageway or pavement width. Various road margins are shoulders, foot-paths, cycle-tracks, frontage paths, driveways, lay byes, side slopes and guide rails.
What is NH full form?
The Full form of NH is National Highways, or NH stands for National Highways, or the full name of given abbreviation is National Highways.
What are the main components of highway?
What is the principle of highway planning?
(i) Planning a highway network for safe, efficient and fast movement of people and goods. (ii) Keeping the overall cost of construction and maintenance of the roads in the network to a minimum. (iii) Planning for future development and anticipated traffic needs for a specific design period.
How do you design a highway?
The design standards and criteria for these two types are different). Future traffic volume for that road. Calculation of the economic benefits arising from the road's construction….Highway Link Design
 1. Capacity of road.
 2. Design speed.
 3. Stopping sight distance.
 4. Vertical alignments and horizontal alignment.
What are the 3 types of civil engineering?
5 Types of Civil Engineering Projects
 - Construction and Management Engineering. Construction and management engineering is about creating things like bridges, buildings, roads, and railways.
 - Geotechnical Engineering.
 - Structural Engineering.
 - Transport Engineering.
 - Water Engineering.
What is width of road?
Road width means the distance between the boundaries of a road including footpath and drains measured at right angles to the centre of the plot. In case of roads having service roads in addition to the main roads, the width of road shall be the aggregate width of service roads and main roads for determining FAR.
What is kerb in road?
The kerb is the raised edge of a pavement which separates it from the road.
What is highway density?
Road density is the ratio of the length of the country's total road network to the country's land area. The road network includes all roads in the country: motorways, highways, main or national roads, secondary or regional roads, and other urban and rural roads. 166 sq. Km.
What is MDR full form?
Multiple Drug Resistant is the full form of MDR.
What are the current standards of highway engineering?
Standards of highway engineering are continuously being improved. Highway engineers must take into account future traffic flows, design of highway intersections/interchanges, geometric alignment and design, highway pavement materials and design, structural design of pavement thickness, and pavement maintenance.
Highway Engineering is an engineering discipline branching from civil engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods.
What is the importance or necessity of highway transportation?
In fact, roads are the life lines of nation's economy. The importance or necessity of highway transportation can be easily judged from the following purposes or advantages of roads:- They facilitate conveyance of people, goods, raw-materials, manufactured articles, etc. speedily and easily in the different parts of a country. 1.
What are the common defects in the construction of roads?
However, defects are likely to occur due to ingress of water, especially through ill-maintained joints and cracks, inadequate pavement thickness and poor workmanship. Cracks: Appearance of cracks, which may be shrinkage cracks or warping cracks due to temperature changes.


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UNSW Canberra Space advances satellite image processing with SiC telescopes
CC Series telescopes from Aperture Optical Sciences provide the primary optical payload for the M2 satellite mission.
IMAGE: An artist's rendering shows the M2 satellite in orbit. (Image credit: University New South Wales, Canberra Space)
University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra Space (Canberra, NSW, Australia), a research team at a leading Australian University located at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), has ordered multiple CC Series telescopes from Aperture Optical Sciences (AOS; Meriden, CT). These telescopes provide the primary optical payload for the M2 satellite mission and support its role in developing world-class space capability in Australia.
The M2 mission is part of a research and development program supported by the Royal Australian Air Force which consists of a constellation of two advanced 6U Cubesats. The spacecraft have a suite of optical and RF remote sensing payloads to carry out a broad range of technology demonstration roles.
The novel approach to onboard data processing on the spacecraft aims to reduce the timeline between image acquisition and the ultimate delivery of information to decision makers.
"One of the primary goals of M2 is to develop a high-performance small spacecraft with imaging capability. We explored multiple options for the optical payload and found that the silicon carbide (SiC) telescopes from AOS provide us with the optimal combination of programmatic agility, coupled with low mass, thermal stability, and imaging quality," said professor Russell Boyce, director of UNSW Canberra Space. "We're impressed with their in-house capabilities for both design and manufacture of customized SiC optical payloads."
The CC Series is a new generation of high-performance telescopes for Cubesat and Small Satellite imaging and laser communication applications. Extensive use of SiC provides a telescope that is inherently athermal and low mass, providing consistent image quality and lowering launch costs.
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i am having trouble with functions
write a program that outputs inflation rates for two successive years and determines whether the inflation is increasing or decreasing.
Ask the user to input the current price of an item (currPrice), its price one year ago (oneYearPrice) and two years ago (twoYearPrice).
To calculate the inflation rate for a year, subtract the price of the item (for that year) from the price of the item one year ago and then divide the result by the price a year ago.
For example, the current inflation (currInf) would be oneYearPrice subtracted from currPrice and then divided by oneYearPrice. Similarly, last years inflation (prevInf) would be twoYearPrice subtracted from oneYearPrice and than divided by twoYearPrice.
Your program must contain at least the following functions: a function to calculate the results, and a functions to output the results. Use appropriate parameters (function arguments) to pass the information in and out of the functions. (Do not use global variables).
The point of the exercise is to learn more about information passing between functions. Notice that the point assignment for this exercise is purely on function declaration and data exchange among functions.
I have some hints for you:
Your input is the price of an item (let's say the price of a gallon of gas) for the last three years. For example, user will enter the current price of a gallon of regular gas today (currentyear), last year today (lastyear), and two years ago today(twoyearsago).
Once you collect all the input you need in the main() function, you will need to compute the inflation.
Notice that, you will need to compute inflation twice. Inflation from last year to today, and inflation from two years ago to last year. I would write a function called (computeInflation()) that takes two prices of an item as input and computes and returns the inflation. I would need to call computeInflation() function twice, for the first call I send current year and the last year price as input and get last years inflation. The second call I would send the lat year's and two year ago price as input and get the inflation of two years ago. At this point you have two inflation rates in the main() function.
You should have a second function that prints out a nice output. You will need to send the two inflation rates you computed as input. The function would output the inflation rates and also tell us if inflation is on the rise or declining.
need some guidance in fixing up my code.
using namespace std;
int computeInflation(int oneYearPrice, int twoYearPrice);
double computeInflation(double oneYearPrice, double twoYearPrice);
double computeInflation(double oneYearPrice, int twoYearPrice);
double computeInflation(int oneYearPrice, double twoYearPrice);
if ( currInf > prevInf )
cout << "The inflation rate is increasing" << endl;
else if (currInf < prevInf)
cout << "The inflation rate is decreasing" << endl;
cout << "There is no change in the inflation rate" << endl;
cout << "what is the current price" << endl;
cin >> currPrice;
cout << "what is the price of one year ago" << endl;
cin >> oneYearPrice;
cout << "what is the price of two years ago" << endl;
cin >> twoYearPrice;
currInf = (currPrice-oneYearPrice) / (oneYearPrice);
currInf = (currPrice-twoYearPrice) / (twoYearPrice);
cout << "your total tax is $" << currInf << " per month" << endl;


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When an adult gets a hold of Sophie The Giraffe, the first comment is usually "Oh! It is so soft! What is that texture? Amazing!", and when we mention that it is natural rubber straight from the trees, he or she immediately starts smelling Sophie. Some love the smell because it reminds them of their childhood. Others like it less. Some would love to taste it but refrain themselves, due to the fact that they are adults.
But what do babies think of Sophie? Actions speaking louder than words, it seems that they all agree: Sophie The Giraffe is fun to hold, but it is also the greatest object to gnaw and chew on.
The counter-pressure from biting on Sophie's nubs, ears, and feet helps relieve the pressure from under the gums when a baby teethes.
For parents the best thing about Sophie ( handmade in France) is that she is made out of a natural flexible rubber, and non-toxic paint and that she has no harmful chemicals (such as Parabens, PVC, Phtalates, BPA (Bisphenol-A) and Nitrosamines). She is a safe alternative to a plastic teether and helps minimize a baby's chance of being exposed to chemicals.
In the first year, babies put everything in their mouths, and in doing so, they can absorb large amounts of toxic chemicals that we aren't always aware of. Some of those chemicals have not been around long enough for us to know what the long-term consequences might be, but why take a chance when our babies can have Sophie? ^__^


How to load parquet file in Power BI?
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Parquet file is a popular file format used for storing large, complex data. It is an open-source file format that is available in a project in the Hadoop ecosystem. Data is stored in the flat columnar format which is considered to be more efficient than row-based files such as CSV.
Previously, We have to use ADLS (Azure Data Lake) for loading parqueting files in Power BI. So before, in order to connect to any parquet file, it was important to store the file in the Azure Data Lake.
How to load Parquet File in Power BI? In the Power BI February 2021 Update, the Parquet file connector has been provided to the Power BI Desktop. Earlier there were two options, one was to store the file in the Azure Data Lake and then connect Data Lake to the Power BI using the Azure Data Lake Connector. The second option is to use Power BI Dataflow as the Parquet file connector is available in the Power BI Dataflow.
Why to use Parquet File Format?
Parquet file format has become popular in recent days mainly in the Hadoop ecosystem where big data and complex data need to be processed. It's important to why we should use parquet file format and what is the advantage of using parquet file over other formats such as CSV, TSV, Avro, etc.
Some of the benefits of Parquet file format are:
 1. Columnar format
 2. Language-Independent
 3. Self Describing
Difference between Parquet and CSV?
The major difference between Parquet and CSV file format is that data in Parquet is stored in the columnar format while data in CSV is stored in Record based format.
Let's see the difference between CSV and Parquet with the help of an Example. When a CSV file converted to Parquet in Amazon S3, See the details below in the table.
Dataset Size on Amazon S3 Query Runtime Data Scanned Cost
Data stored as CSV file
236 seconds
Data Stored in Apache Parquet format
6.78 Seconds
87% less when using Parquet
34x faster
99% less data scanned
99.7% savings
You can see in the above table that there is a great advantage of using parquet file format while handling big data. Size has been reduced by 87% in comparison to the CSV file. Query runtime is 34x faster than the CSV file. 99 % less data has been scanned, that's amazing. and 99.7% savings in cost.
What is the difference between Avro and Parquet file format?
Both Avro and Parquet file is the file format which is widely used in Hadoop ecosystem. Avro file format is a row-based storage format for Hadoop while Parquet is a column-based file format for Hadoop.
If there is a scenario all the fields need to be scanned in a row then using Avro is the best choice. Please find below points related to Avro file format:
 1. Since it's a row-based file format so it's better to use it when all the fields are being accessed.
 2. File support block compression and are splittable.
 3. can be used with streaming data.
 4. suitable for write-intensive operation.
If there is a scenario where there are various columns but your use case requires the use of a subset of that column then storing data in the parquet file is the best choice.
 1. Since it's a column-based format, it's better to use when you only need to access specific fields
 2. Each data file contains the values for a set of rows
 3. Can't be written from streaming data since it needs to wait for blocks to get finished. However, this will work using micro-batch (eg Apache Spark).
 4. Suitable for data exploration — read-intensive, complex or analytical querying, low latency data.
While going through the article you must have understood the importance of parquet file format in the Hadoop ecosystem. Also, earlier we have to use Power BI Dataflow for connecting the parquet file with Power BI which requires a premium subscription or we need to store the parquet file in Azure Data lake and then connect ADLS for accessing the parquet file in Power BI. Now with the recent update, we can connect to the parquet file directly using the Parquet file connector available in Power BI Desktop.
I believe you must have found this article informative. Please let me know your views in the comment box below.
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Options for Ordinal Fits
The following options are available in the Ordinal Logistic Fit red triangle menu:
Save
Contains the following Save options:
Save Probability Formula
Creates columns in the current data table that contain formulas for linear combinations of the response levels, prediction formulas for the response levels, and a prediction formula giving the most likely response.
For an ordinal response model with r levels, JMP creates the following columns:
a column called Linear that contains the formula for a linear combination of the regressors without an intercept term
columns called Cum[j] that each contain a formula for the cumulative probability that the response is less than or equal to level j, for levels j = 1, 2, ... r - 1. There is no Cum[j = 1, 2, ... r - 1] that is 1 for all rows
columns called Prob[j = 1, 2, ... r - 1], for 1 < j < r that each contain the formula for the probability that the response is level j. Prob[j] is the difference between Cum[j] and Cum[j – 1]. Prob[1] is Cum[1], and Prob[r] is 1 – Cum[r – 1].
a column called Most Likely response name that selects the most likely level of each row based on the computed probabilities.
Publish Probability Formulas
Creates probability formulas and saves them as formula column scripts in the Formula Depot platform. If a Formula Depot report is not open, this option creates a Formula Depot report. See Formula Depot in Predictive and Specialized Modeling.
Save Quantiles
(Available only when the response is numeric and has the ordinal modeling type.) Creates columns in the current data table named OrdQ.05, OrdQ.50, and OrdQ.95 that fit the quantiles for these three probabilities.
Save Expected Value
(Available only when the response is numeric and has the ordinal modeling type.) Creates a column in the current data table called Ord Expected. This column contains the linear combination of the response values with the fitted response probabilities for each row and gives the expected value.
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Let's say that my GUI has two fields to configure: input and output. Both fields are implemented with comboboxes that may have the following values:
 - Input Values: A, B, C, D, E, F
 - Output Values: 1, 2, 3, 4
It happens that not every input value is compatible with all the output values. Let's say that it is only possible to have the following combinations:
 - Combinations: A1, A2, B1, B2, C3, C4, D4, E4, F4
So whenever a user chooses a value in the input combobox, the output combobox changes displaying only the compatible output values. According to Nielsen, this should be avoided.
Interacting menus, wherein the options in one menu change when users select something in another menu on the same page. Users get very confused when options come and go, and it is often hard to make a desired option visible when it depends on a selection in a different widget.
My question is: what is the best way to deal with this? Is it a good practice to combine these two comboboxes into a single one (like in the picture bellow)? What aspects should be considered when deciding to combine comboboxes or to split them? Is there a better approach for this?
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I have also seen that Adobe has an interesting solution for this:
Note that this is an interface for a web application to be displayed both in desktop and in tablets.
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Long lists or where unavailable options don't matter
When you have long lists, or where unavailable options don't matter, you can simply leave them out.
Airline flight booking is an example of this. If I chose a starting point, I only care what my possible destinations are, and so this is far better than a list of all possible destinations with everything but two options greyed out.
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If you were to show a full list, it would look something like this:
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Short lists or where unavailable options do matter
In situations where the other options do matter (i.e. where knowing that you can't select them is important), or the list is very small, it is best to simply disable the options that are unavailable.
You can see examples of this in option menus in most apps.
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Grey out the invalid/not-available options in the output field.
It is similar to the contextual menus we are so used to. Just make sure the user is aware of the relation between the two combo-boxes.
Inthe mockup, C is selected for input and correspondingly, 1 and 4 are disabled in output.
When you grey out the options, they are still visible, but, the user is informed that under the current state (of input selection) these options are not available.
It is a standard practice for contextual menus in all softwares. Here is a screen shot of an illustrator 'Object' menu with most of the options greyed out since there are no objects on which the actions can be performed.
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There is no such thing as "one solution to fit em all" for this case (as probably there is no such thing as universal solution for many other problems in UX design). My advice is never to combine comboboxes though - it is messy and misleading.
You need to think about what do you want your user to achieve. Next try think about what you try to achieve.
Lets talk real examples:
Take a look at Apple On-line Store. You have an endless possibility of different product combinations (HDD, RAM, hardware, software etc). Instead of choosing from number of comboboxes that are cross dependent, user is guided step by step through screens where he can create the product he wants (by combining options) and when it matters he receives a radio button list of finishing possibilities such as amount of RAM of HDD size.
apple store (Here I've already selected form my product type (i.e.. iMac, Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, Pro with retina,..), it's basic configuration (CPU type and basic HDD size) and I am finishing my order)
As a next example lets talk about changing profile on a site. We want our user to fill out a form which contains a country of residence and a gender. You know that your site is only available in USA and Canada. So instead of creating two cross dependent combo boxes you can fit it all in a single one (in this case it will be easier for user to fill out one combined combobox instead if two cross dependent):
This is not a silver bullet either - once your system evolves and lets say you expand your market to 100 more countries this solution will be useless (you will end up with 200 item combobox which is a mess).
Now lets look at list with a huge amount of different well known (the fact that they are well known is important) possibilities. Lets say you have a huge list of countries, then you have huge list of cities and then you have huge list of hotels options in each depends on previous selection. Guys from solved this by combining all three lists into single flat one:
You can start by typing first letter of a country, a city or a hotel and system will bring all the possible combinations. This solution is kinda useless though if you have large lists of items which are not known to user (for example your user is selecting from a list of engine spare parts where parts are named with a serial numbers like AJ-789-HG, AJ-790-HG,... - in this case you will need to introduce a way to distinguish items from each other).
If you have two lists, first one is huge and the second one contains only few options, you can represent first one as a combobox and the second one as a set of buttons, disabling the ones that are inactive for the current selection. Lets say you have a transcoding software in which you chose a codec and a resolution; your lists could look like following:
As you can see there are limitless number of possibilities how to solve the issue you are facing (and as you can see there is no need in such blunt solution as combining comboboxes); the few I listed here as an example are not even the tip of the iceberg. Answering few simple questions like what problem are you trying to solve and what problem is your user trying to solve will help you find the right path.
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You can disable one of the combo-box until a selection is made and you can populate the second combo-box.
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Combining comboboxes is only a good solution if there is a very limited, static set of items. Say you had three options: Print -> To File, Print -> To Printer, Don't Print. Two comboboxes (print/no, file/printer) is a bit of a waste there. But if there is a large number of possible options a single combobox largely becomes unweildy as you have to list all possible combinations (N2 instead of N), less any invalid combinations. This adds up fast.
I recently put together a "power user" version of this sort of interface; a little uglier but more powerful with a large set of options:
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Selecting an item in the first column narrows down the options in the second and third columns:
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We opted for this checklist solution over combo boxes because:
 - The user can quickly pick individual items from each column
 - Multiple selections per column are possible (important in our use case, possibly not yours)
 - There are a LOT of options under the Ledge column and the checklist allows us to visually narrow the options down as the user picks items on the left columns. Invalid items are actually removed from the Ledge and Products listing because there are so many even greying them out wasn't enough. LocationIDs are greyed out because there are only a few and they're the "top level" of the selection process.
The problem with combo boxes is, unless your user already knows exactly which combinations are valid, they might not know how box 2 is populated based on box 1. The checkbox solution solves this by visually greying out or removing invalid options, which is more useful in tasks where users don't know what combinations are valid, like a search task.
If at all possible, selecting the input/output should disable invalid options for the output/input. You can asynchronously load the form elements this way to reduce loading times; not useful in the example, but imagine if you had to load a whole second form based on the first input; the larger your possible options, the more impactful an async option can be.
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if its a form, my opinion would be to show compatible values in the 2nd/output drop down.. just imagine if there are 20-25 values in the 1st dropdown and 40-45 values in the 2nd/output dropdown..
you can see one good example here:, you can consider this option too.
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11,000 nm, about 17,000 nm, or about 25,000 nm or more in its largest dimension. For example, the ceramic proppant can have an average pore size from about 3 nm to about 30,000 nm, about 30 nm to about 18,000 nm, about 200 nm to about 9,000 nm, about 350 nm to about 4,500 nm, or about 850 nm to about 1,800 nm in its largest dimension.
Suitable sintered, substantially round and spherical particles can also include proppants manufactured according to vibration-induced dripping methods, herein called "drip casting." Suitable drip casting methods and proppants made therefrom are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 8,865,631, 8,883,693, and 9,175,210 and U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 14/502,483 and 14/802,761, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. Proppants produced from the drip cast methods can have a specific gravity of at least about 2.5, at least about 2.7, at least about 3, at least about 3.3, or at least about 3.5. Proppants produced from the drip cast methods can have a specific gravity of about 5 or less, about 4.5 or less, or about 4 or less. The drip cast proppants can also have a surface roughness of less than 5 μm, less than 4 μm, less than 3 μm, less than 2.5 μm, less than 2 μm, less than 1.5 μm, or less than 1 μm. In one or more exemplary embodiments, the drip cast proppants have an average largest pore size of less than about 25 μm, less than about 20 μm, less than about 18 μm, less than about 16 μm, less than about 14 μm, or less than about 12 μm and/or a standard deviation in pore size of less than 6 μm, less than 4 μm, less than 3 μm, less than 2.5 μm, less than 2 μm, less than 1.5 μm, or less than 1 μm. In one or more exemplary embodiments, the drip cast proppants have less than 5,000, less than 4,500, less than 4,000, less than 3,500, less than 3,000, less than 2,500, or less than 2,200 visible pores at a magnification of 500× per square millimeter of proppant particle.
The proppants, produced by the drip casting methods or the conventional methods, can have any suitable composition. The proppants can be or include silica and/or alumina in any suitable amounts. According to one or more embodiments, the proppants include less than 80 wt %, less than 60 wt %, less than 40 wt %, less than 30 wt %, less than 20 wt %, less than 10 wt %, or less than 5 wt % silica based on the total weight of the proppants. According to one or more embodiments, the proppants include from about 0.1 wt % to about 70 wt % silica, from about 1 wt % to about 60 wt % silica, from about 2.5 wt % to about 50 wt % silica, from about 5 wt % to about 40 wt % silica, or from about 10 wt % to about 30 wt % silica. According to one or more embodiments, the proppants include at least about 30 wt %, at least about 50 wt %, at least about 60 wt %, at least about 70 wt %, at least about 80 wt %, at least about 90 wt %, or at least about 95 wt % alumina based on the total weight of the proppants. According to one or more embodiments, the proppants include from about 30 wt % to about 99.9 wt % alumina, from about 40 wt % to about 99 wt % alumina, from about 50 wt % to about 97 wt % alumina, from about 60 wt % to about 95 wt % alumina, or from about 70 wt % to about 90 wt % alumina. In one or more embodiments, the proppants produced by the processes disclosed herein can include alumina, bauxite, or kaolin, or any mixture thereof. For example, the proppants can be composed entirely of or composed essentially of alumina, bauxite, or kaolin, or any mixture thereof. The term "kaolin" is well known in the art and can include a raw material having an alumina content of at least about 40 wt % on a calcined basis and a silica content of at least about 40 wt % on a calcined basis. The term "bauxite" is well known in the art and can be or include a raw material having an alumina content of at least about 55 wt % on a calcined basis.
The proppants can also have any suitable size. According to one or more exemplary embodiments, the proppants can have a size of at least about 100 mesh, at least about 80 mesh, at least about 60 mesh, at least about 50 mesh, or at least about 40 mesh. For example, the proppants can have a size from about 115 mesh to about 2 mesh, about 100 mesh to about 3 mesh, about 80 mesh to about 5 mesh, about 80 mesh to about 10 mesh, about 60 mesh to about 12 mesh, about 50 mesh to about 14 mesh, about 40 mesh to about 16 mesh, or about 35 mesh to about 18 mesh. In a particular embodiment, the proppants have a size of from about 20 to about 40 U.S. Mesh.
According to certain embodiments described herein, the proppants are made in a continuous process, while in other embodiments, the proppants are made in a batch process.
An electrically conductive material such as a metal, a conductive polymer, or a conductive particle may be added at any suitable stage in the manufacturing process of any one of these proppants to result in an electrically conductive proppant suitable for use according to certain embodiments of the present invention. The electrically conductive material can also be added to any one of these proppants after manufacturing of the proppants. In one or more exemplary embodiments, the proppant can be a porous proppant, such that the electrically conductive material can be impregnated or infused into the pores of the proppant to provide the electrically conductive proppant. The porous proppant can be impregnated or infused with the electrically conductive material in any suitable amounts, such as from about 1% to 15% by weight. Water soluble coatings such as polylactic acid can be used to coat these particles to allow for delayed/timed release of conducting particles.
The electrically conductive material can be or include any suitable electrically conductive metal. For example, the metal can be or include iron, silver, gold, copper, aluminum, calcium, tungsten, zinc, nickel, lithium, platinum, palladium, rhodium, tin, carbon steel, or any combination or oxide thereof. In one or more exemplary embodiments, the electrically conductive material can be selected from one or more of aluminum, copper, nickel, and phosphorus and any alloy or mixture thereof. The electrically conductive proppant can have an electrically conductive metal concentration of about 0.01 wt %, about 0.05 wt %, about 0.1 wt %, about 0.5 wt %, about 1 wt %, about 2 wt %, or about 5 wt % to about 6 wt %, about 8 wt %, about 10 wt %, about 12 wt %, or about 14 wt %. In one or more exemplary embodiments, the metals can include aluminum, copper and nickel and can be added to result in a proppant having a metal content of from about 5% to about 10% by weight.
The electrically conductive material can be or include any suitable electrically conductive polymer. Suitable conductive polymers include poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), polyanilines (PANI), and polypyrroles (PPY) and can be added to result in a proppant having any suitable conductive polymer content, such as from about 0.1% to about 10% by weight. In one or more exemplary embodiments, the electrically conductive proppant can have a conductive polymer concentration of about 0.01 wt %, about 0.05 wt %, about 0.1 wt %, about 0.5 wt %, about 1 wt %, about 2 wt %, or about 5 wt % to about 6 wt %, about 8 wt %, about 10 wt %, about 12 wt %, or about 14 wt %. Suitable PEDOT:PSS, PANI and PYY conductive polymers are commercially available


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A lot of people can think that navy beans are unimpressive and ordinary beans but they have many health benefits that are vital for our health such as lower diabetes risk, stimulate growth, reduce cancer risk, promote healthy circulation, optimize digestion, protect your heart and have ability to boost memory and cognition. Navy beans are also known as pea bean and haricot bean. They can be added in salads or soups. The scientific name of navy beans is Phaseolus vulgaris. This is one of the most common beans that are found in America. They are ease for growth and also they have rich nutritive value. They are popular all around the world.
Circulatory system: It is very important to keep our blood flow in normal levels. This means that you will have normal function of your body and also the oxygenation of our organ systems will be normal. We know that the iron is one of the most important elements for the red blood cells. When we get enough amounts of iron in our bodies, then we have decreased chances to have poor circulation, fatigue, bone mineral loss, weakness and anemia. One of the most important components for the synthesis of hemoglobin is the copper which also can be found in the navy beans. This means that you should add navy beans in your diet because it has iron and copper in high amounts.
Growth and repair: Navy beans are rich with protein. We know that the protein content is very important for our bodies because it is building block of all our lives. This means that we can have normal growth of new cells, bones, muscles, blood vessels, tissues and any other part of our bodies. We should consume enough amounts of protein because it can help us to have normal development. Also this element can speed up the healing process and it can help us to repair the damaged areas of our bodies. People who are vegetarians should add navy beans in their diets because as we have said previously it is rich with protein. In one single cup of navy beans there are more than 15 grams of protein.
Antioxidant activity: The most important key cofactor for many antioxidant enzymes is the manganese. This element can help you to stop the spreading process of the free radicals in your body. This can help you to lower the risk of chronic illness and cancer. Also these beans have copper which can stimulate the joint mobility, blood flow and overall flexibility because it can reduce the oxidative stress in the mentioned areas.
Digestive issues: Navy beans are rich with fiber. This is the key factor to have normal gastrointestinal health. This element can bulk up the stool and also it can prevent the symptoms of diarrhea and constipation. Also when you add fiber in your diet you will have normal bowel movement because this component is stimulating the peristaltic motion. When you have normal fiber diet, then this can clean your intestines and also this element can prevent you from gastric ulcers and colon cancer which are serious gastrointestinal issues.
Heart health: Navy beans are rich with a folate and magnesium which can keep your heart protected and strong. The hymocysteine is a dangerous precursor to heart disease and when we add navy beans in our diets, then the folate content can decrease the levels of hymocysteine. Also these beans have magnesium as their component which has the same function as the potassium. This element reduces the stress and tension in your blood vessels which can lower the blood pressure and lessen exertion. Also this can help you to have decreased chances for getting strokes and heart attacks.
Memory and cognition: Navy beans are rich with a folate. This is one of the most important elements for preventing anemia and neural tube defects. Also this element can help your nervous system to function properly. When you have decreased levels of folate in your body, then this leads to increased levels of homocysteine. Then, this can lead to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Also navy beans have B vitamins which can improve your memory and cognition.


text: With the increasing demands of energy efficiency and environment protection, composite materials have become an important alternative for traditional materials. Composite materials offer many advantages over traditional materials including: low density, high strength, high stiffness to weight ratio, excellent durability, and design flexibility. Despite all these advantages, composite materials have not been as widely used as expected because of the complexity and cost of the manufacturing process. One of the main causes is associated with poor dimensional control. General curved composite parts are often used as the structural components in the composite industry. Due to the anisotropic material nature, process-induced dimensional variations make it difficult for tighttolerance control and limit the use of composites. This research aims to develop a practical approach for the design of general curved composite parts and assembly. First, the closed-form solution for the process-induced dimensional variations, which is commonly called spring-in, was derived. For a general curved composite part, a Structural Tree Method (STM) was developed to divide the curve into a number of pieces and calculate the dimensional variations sequentially. This method can be also applied to an assembly of composite parts. The approach was validated through a case study. The method presented in this paper provides a convenient and practical tool for the dimensional and tolerance analysis in the early design stage of general curved composite parts and assembly, which is extremely useful for the realization of affordable tight tolerance composites. It also provides the foundation of Integrated Product/Process Development (IPPD) and Design for Manufacturing/Assembly (DFM/DFA) for composites.


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Migration patterns, population trends and morphometrics of the Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres passing Ottenby in south-eastern Sweden
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Ornis Svecica
Förlag: Swedish Ornithological Society / Sveriges ornitologiska förening
We analysed 57 years' uninterrupted trapping data of autumn migrating Ruddy Turnstones Arenaria interpres at Ottenby, south-eastern Sweden (1593 full-grown birds in 1947–2003; of them 574 birds with standardised trapping in 1976–2003). Numbers trapped decreased significantly for both adult and juvenile birds in the total dataset (–0.34 and –0.57 ringed birds per year), and for juveniles in the 1976–2003 dataset (–0.51 per year). Median date for adults was 27 July and for juveniles 6 August. Adult females passed on average three days earlier than adult males (females 27 July, males 30 July). The mean body masses (juveniles 108.0 g, adults 108.4 g) correspond to a fuel load of 21–22% in relation to lean body mass (89 g). Length of stay of retrapped birds was only 3.6 days. Thus, they continued the migration with small to moderate fat loads, comparable to reported fat loads elsewhere. Forty-four recoveries illustrate a narrow migration route along the western coasts of Europe, south to the wintering areas in tropical West Africa.
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Are you what your actions make you
Shaka Senghor is a man who spent a lot of time in prison for killing a man. He was a smart kid, an honor roll student. Then, at age 17, he was shot on his street. From that moment on, he made many bad decisions and did illegal things. He was a drug dealer and he ran black markets. In prison, he went through a transformation. He started to become a better man, and did things to make him a better person, like reading literature, writing, and learned from other inmates a better way than the way he was going. He talks about how his actions don't make him a bad person nor shape his future. Now, he helps others go through the transformation he did. He helps others live better lives than what they have been living.
This relates to 12 Angry Men because Shaka grew up in a way similar to the boy who was accused of murdering his father. The difference is, Shaka did commit the crime he was accused of, but the boy in 12 Angry Men did not. The court originally blamed the boy's past for the potential murder. They thought because of his past actions, he was a bad man. Shaka's experience proves otherwise.


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Mga likas na yaman sa timog asya?
Filipino translated to English: Natural resources in South Asia
The natural resources of South Asia include iron ore, bauxite, copper ore and coal. Also present are natural resources like forests that can be used for timber, paper and firewood as well as water used for hydroelectric power and irrigation.
According to the United Nations, Southern Asia is defined as being comprised of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. This definition may change depending on the source. For example, Rutgers University also recognizes Myanmar and Tibet as belonging to Southern Asia.


Question: Creating and plotting the results of a do loop
Am calculating using the binomial function, and want to plot the output values. So, need to create a vector and plot the values.
Here is the loop,
x := RandomVariable(Binomial(45, 0.9));
for i from 0 to 45 do
 ProbabilityFunction(x, i);
end do;
Cannot seem to find a way to get the output into a list or vector, and then implement the dataplot function .
Many thanks in advance....
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Yes, federal law enforcement agencies should avoid using younger informants in drug cases because of safety concerns. In many cases, agents pressure young people into serving as informants when they have been picked up for very minor offenses. The agents use fear to coerce them into working as informants of dangerous cartels, and the practice should be prohibited.
Due to the violent nature of the drug trafficking world, young student informants are too much at risk to be used by federal agencies. The immature naive nature of young people means that they are not prepared for the high stakes of the drug world. It would be better to de-criminalize some of the minor drug crimes.
Children should not have their lives put at risk by the Federal government to gather evidence. The government should have to find alternative means to gather evidence for use against potential criminals. Jeopardizing the lives of children for the sake of prosecution is unethical, and will lead to ill-will against the government and police in the long run.
Unfortunately, as long as drugs are being sold to and by students the need for young informants will continue. These young informants are aware of the risks of the situation they are in. In many cases being an informant helps them to get out of an even riskier situation. While tragic, this is not an epidemic.


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What was the population of old Rome?
roughly 450,000 inhabitants
That peoples the city of ancient Rome with roughly 450,000 inhabitants, within the known population and density range of pre-industrial and modern urban centres.
What was the highest population of ancient Rome?
During the 1st and 2nd centuries, the Roman Empire had a population estimated in the range of 59 to 76 million. The population likely peaked just before the Antonine Plague. Harper provides an estimate of a population of 75 million and a population density of about 20 people per square kilometre during its peak.
Who made up 1/3 of the population of Rome?
As many as 1 in 3 of the population in Italy or 1 in 5 across the empire were slaves and upon this foundation of forced labour was built the entire edifice of the Roman state.
Did ancient Rome have a large population?
By these estimates the entire population of the Roman Empire — and not just its male population — was somewhere around 4 million to 5 million people by the end of the first century B.C.
What was the population of Rome in 79 AD?
The population of the city at that time was 460,000. If the death-rate given by Jerome continued for seven days in Rome in A.D. 79, more fatalities would have occurred than the total for the whole year in the London plague.
What was the population of Rome in 100 AD?
In 100 A.D., Rome boasted a population of over 1,000,000 permanent residents; Alexandria was perhaps between 500,000 and 750,000. The cities of Antioch, Ephesus and Carthage had populations on the order of 350,000 to 500,000 residents. There were many more cities in the eastern provinces boasting large populations.
What was Rome's population at its peak?
It was, at the time, the largest city in the world. Estimates of its peak population range from 450,000 to over 3.5 million people with estimates of 1 to 2 million being most popular with historians.
How big was old Rome?
Ancient Rome was the largest city in antiquity between the first century BC and second century AD, perhaps reaching 1,000,000 inhabitants. No city was as large until the Industrial Revolution, and we get a sense of the size of the city with the Aurelianic wall circuit, twelve miles long, encircling 3000 acres.
What was the population of Rome at its peak?
How much of Rome is original?
Many people assume that most of ancient Rome has been excavated, but in fact, experts estimate that the actual number is closer to 10 percent.
Who was the oldest Roman to live?
Tiberius was born in Rome in 42 BC. His father was the politician Tiberius Claudius Nero and his mother was Livia Drusilla, who would eventually divorce his father, and marry the future-emperor Augustus in 38 BC.
How crowded was ancient Rome?
At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and Asia and was home to more than 45 million people. At the Empire's center was Rome. Rome was one of the largest and most carefully planned cities in the ancient world. It had gleaming white marble temples and palaces.
When did Rome reach 1million?
The FIRST city to reach a population of 1 million people – Rome, Italy in 133 B.C.
Are there any Roman people left?
There are undoubtedly many Italians alive today who are directly descended from people who lived in Italy during the Roman era, but most (if not all) of them will have at least some admixture from other European peoples too.