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So you saw a pink bird in Florida and are wondering which species it was? You are at the right place.
The Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee (FOSRC) estimates that there are approximately 500 species of birds in Florida, a state well-recognized for its nature. Among them, there are a few which are pink in color.
The American flamingo, roseate spoonbill, scarlet ibis, purple finch, and house finch are a few examples of pink birds found in Florida.
While some, like the roseate spoonbill, are year-round residents of the state, others, like the purple finch, only visit in the winter (nonbreeding season).
Here are some interesting information and photographs of them.
List of Pink Birds in Florida
1. Spoonbill Roseate
- Scientific name: Platalea ajaja
- Lifespan: 10 years
- Size: 24 inches
- Native to: southern Florida, coastal Texas, and southwestern Louisiana
- Beaks typically measure 4-6 inches (10-15 cm) in length.
These big Florida birds have a delicate pink tint that makes them seem beautiful from a distance but strange up close.
They are sometimes mistaken for American flamingos, but their long spoon-shaped beak, white necks, and pink plumage make them easy to spot.
Roseate spoonbills consume crustaceans and other aquatic invertebrates that are rich in the carotenoids that give these birds their pink hue and cause their feathers to change that color.
Along Southern Florida's coastline, from the southern islands of the Florida Keys, Florida Bay, and Everglades up to Tampa, roseate spoonbills may be observed all year round.
Visit the islands of Sandy Key, Tern Key, and Joe Key between November and March for the greatest chance to observe these pink birds in Florida Bay.
"Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge and Venice are two other well-known locations to observe roseate spoonbills in Florida.
If you decide to go looking for them, watch for flocks of pink birds, often with egrets and ibises nearby, feeding in the shallows of fresh and saltwater.
They are predators that consume tiny fish, frogs, newts, crustaceans, and aquatic insects.
In Southern Florida, breeding occurs from November to December; in Central Florida, it takes place around April. They will construct their nests in tall trees or mangroves and deposit two to five pale eggs with brown markings.
As they age, these birds will lose the feathers on the top of their heads, much as people do.
2. American Flamingo
- Scientific name: Phoeniconaias minor
- Length: 90 cm
- Wingspan: 1 m
- Weight: 2-3 Kg
- Beak length on average is 5-7 inches (12.7-17.8 cm).
The American flamingo is a large, pink bird with long legs and a neck. The primary and secondary flight feathers of these wading birds are black, and they have red wing coverts and pink plumage overall. They also have pink legs and pink beaks with black tips.
South Florida and the Florida Keys are home to American flamingos. Despite the fact that certain populations may remain in Florida Bay all year round, the best months to observe them there are from March to May.
The Everglades, Biscayne Bay, Hialeah, and the Florida Keys are among the greatest locations in Florida to watch American flamingos.
They may also be easily distinguished by their cry, which is similar to a goose honking.
American flamingos have a wingspan of up to 5 feet, a height of up to 5 feet, and a weight of up to 8 pounds.
They go by the moniker "rosy flamingos," because the food they consume gives them their pink tint.
The omnivorous American flamingo consumes brine, tiny seeds, aquatic invertebrates including fly larvae, shrimp, and mollusks, as well as algae and algae-like substances.
To flush out their food, they often wade through shallow waters while kicking up muck with their feet and bills.
American flamingos are very social birds and are often seen in flocks of a few couples to a few hundred or thousands. Although they are typically non-migratory, they may travel short distances if their habitat is disturbed or if they need to find additional food.
Florida previously had native American flamingos, but by the turn of the 20th century, they had vanished entirely from the state. Since that time, more and more of these flamingos have returned to the area they once called home and are populating it.
3. Scarlet ibis
- Scientific name: Eudocimus ruber
- Lifespan: 16 years
- Size: 22 to 30 inches
- Native to: Northern South America southward along the coast of Brazil
The scarlet ibis is a huge, distinctive bird with a long neck, long legs, and a long, thin, decurved beak. It has webbed pink legs, a vivid red-pink tint for its plumage, and black wing tips. In general, guys are a little bit bigger than females.
Since being brought to Florida, the scarlet ibis has become a common sight in Southern Florida's marshes, swamps, inland wetlands, lawns, and small ponds.
These birds are often seen wading in shallow water and using their long beaks to probe the mud and plants in search of food.
Scarlet ibises are excellent flyers, extremely migratory, and capable of traveling considerable distances while spending most of their time wading and strolling on the ground.
They may be seen flying in a traditional V formation in groups of thirty or more.
Because they are carnivores, scarlet ibises mostly eat fish, insects, frogs, crabs, mollusks, and tiny snakes.
Scarlet ibises are pink like the other Florida birds on our list because they consume crustaceans, which contain carotene.
Around mangrove woods, they create their colonies of nests using twigs and branches. Both mates will incubate the eggs and feed the chicks after the female lays a clutch of three to five smooth matte eggs.
The scarlet ibis is Trinidad & Tobago's national bird.
4. Purple finches
- Scientific name: Carpodacus
- Lifespan: 5 to 9 years
- Size: 15.2 cm
- Native to: Southern Canada, New England, and west coast regions of the United States
Purple finches are not, despite their name, purple. These little birds have brown wings and short, forked tails.
Male purple finches have striped backs, pink-red breasts, backs, and rumps. Females have a white line over the eye and are light brown above and white below.
Northwest Florida throughout the winter, from October to May, is home to purple finches. They are widespread in several settings with trees.
In northern Canadian coniferous woods, purple finches nest before migrating to the southern US for the winter.
They consume seeds, berries, and insects like omnivores.
They often congregate at bird feeders. Make sure to fill your feeder with thistle, millet, and sunflower seeds if you want to attract purple finches to your garden.
These rosy birds eat the foliage on the ground as well as in trees and shrubs. They construct their nests high in the vegetation of of twigs, weeds, grass, hair, and moss in lowland coniferous and mixed woods.
The female will lay 3-6 light greenish-blue eggs with black and brown markings.
The state bird of New Hampshire is the purple finch.
5. House Finch
- Scientific name: Haemorhous mexicanus
- Lifespan: 11 years
- Size: 14 cm
- Native to: Western North America
Widespread songbirds known as house finches have shallowly notched tails, small wings, and conical beaks.
The breasts, eyebrows, foreheads, and rumps of males are streaky pink-red, whereas those of females are brown above and streaked below; they lack pink.
House finches were brought to Florida and are now common, particularly in Northwestern Florida.
The fundamental distinction between house finches and purple finches is the smaller size, milder coloring, and wider range of the former.
Male house finches sing a lengthy, rambling warble made up of several brief notes. Their "cheep" is loud and distinct.
House finches sing with various "accents" and in a variety of durations with more or fewer syllables depending on where they are.
House finches are sociable and vocal birds that congregate in big groups in urban parks, suburban backyards, farms, and forest margins.
They consume a variety of foods, including seeds, buds, tiny fruits, berries, and small insects on occasion.
You could also witness flocks of house finches gathered around bird feeders during the non-breeding season. Don't forget to provide milo, millet, and black oil sunflower seeds if you want to draw one to your garden.
Females prefer to mate with males that have the brightest faces, which is why the pink-red hue of the males is caused by the berries and fruits they eat. They lay between 3 and 6 tiny, light blue eggs with black specks during their late winter and early spring breeding season.
Final Thoughts on Pinks Birds in Florida
Our list of pink birds in Florida comes to an end here.
There are several of them in the state, including purple finches, roseate spoonbills, and American flamingos.
You should be able to identify each of these birds the next time you see or hear them in person!
And in case you loved it, here are some of our other well-read pieces about birds: In Florida, there are 25 occurrences of songbirds and 15 instances of green-headed birds.
- Types of Blue Birds in Florida
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Oxford Dictionaries Online defines embedded in the meaning I'm interested in as:
Definition of embed
verb (embeds, embedding, embedded)
[with object]
 - (often as adjective embedded) design and build (a microprocessor) as an integral part of a system or device:
 it eliminates the need for an embedded controller on the plotter
Etymonline traces the word back to a geological term, but I doubt system engineers reached to geology in coining this meaning, and while nowadays the use is widespread and common, as I think about it, there are other ways to phrase this kind of relationship/property that must have felt just as, or more intuitive — integral, intristic, bound, inherent, ingrained, nested.
I'm interested in origins of this use of this word. Who, when, in what context used it first in this meaning? Any backstory/motivation?
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Since you've got access to OED, I'd start there. I doubt they've gotten to E on the current pass (it started on M), but it's likely to have something of use, and it may have the actual answer. When's is OED's first citation? What's the context. What other uses of embed were at that time already established in engineering?... That will give you some tentative search terms for stepping the use back on Google Books. – StoneyB Jan 29 '13 at 13:45
_USER_: I don't have access to the full OED, just free oxforddictionaries.com – SF. Jan 29 '13 at 14:05
The content of etymonline is most likely from OED. – Mitch Jan 29 '13 at 14:23
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Etymonline itself says "figurative sense is from 1835".
There's a few things to note here. Firstly, in 19th Century Britain, geology was the gentleman's science par excellence; The Geological Society of London rivalled the Royal Society in respect and membership. It was not unheard of for fossil collecting to be done in top hat and tails (okay, that was just one particularly eccentric fellow, but still). Mary Anning had supported her family by selling sea shells on the sea shore.
As such, anyone who wanted to take pride in being intellectually current, wanted to consider himself reasonably knowledgeable on, and to hold informed opinions about, geology. We could compare it to the buzz around web technologies of the 1990s dot-com era.
As such, it's not at all surprising to find a geological term used figuratively, any more than it was to see nightclub posters telling us when and where they would be @ in the 90s.
The other thing is that embed is a simple word of obvious construction. It would be unusual to see someone use a geological term like quaquaversal used in other contexts (though Thomas Pynchon once used it of a beard), but we can see em- + bed and immediately widen it mentally to the figurative use. A figurative use that arguably is really no longer figurative (do you think of geology when you hear it?).
So, on we go through the centuries, or about century and a half, and the Apollo mission is making use of a computer guidance system to hopefully steer people to and from the moon. What to call this configuration?
Integral. Very bad choice, the "integrated circuits" used in it were still a hot new technology in themselves. They already had a meaning for integral and its variants.
Intristic. Invites the question, "As opposed to what?". What we could call the extrinsic parts of a Saturn V that's in space, are those parts in a control room in Texas.
Bound. Maybe. Maybe a bit too wide though.
Inherent, ingrained, nested. All of these make me wonder "what isn't?" given the context.
On the other hand, one novel feature of this computer, was that the integrated circuits, and the wiring between them was physically covered in epoxy in a way that would bring embedded to the mind of anyone looking for the mot juste to describe it physically, since the end of the 1800s.
So, of course they could have called it something else, any naming decision could have gone differently, but that embedded was chosen is pretty reasonable and understandable.
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As for the "what is opposite", it's "standalone". Computers that are not an intristic part of a bigger device but stand on their own as general-purpose devices. But I must agree immersing everything in Epoxy was standard these days and it totally evokes the geological imagery. – SF. Jan 29 '13 at 16:00
My point was more that nothing was standalone on a Saturn V, unless we count those things left on earth as part of the overall system. – Jon Hanna Jan 29 '13 at 16:17
There was a plenty of "external" control devices and computers tasked with driving various systems. Of course using one in context of a space probe would be utterly stupid design decision, but the "as opposed to what" is not really an issue. "Embedded" is not a half of a dual system, it's a design choice vs "remotely controlled". – SF. Jan 29 '13 at 16:33
I think its not being an issue, is what makes it an issue when it comes to thinking of the name; we tend to name by what is remarkable about something and which makes it stand apart from other things. To people working on that project, something being intrinsic to the design wasn't remarkable, when so many other things were intrinsic by one definition or another. – Jon Hanna Jan 29 '13 at 16:37
I think I understand: Nowadays we contrast embedded vs general-purpose, but at the time that wasn't the case; it's the "embedded in epoxy" that evolved into this modern meaning. - Is that what you mean? – SF. Jan 29 '13 at 17:35
Let's refer back to the Oxford Dictionaries Online definition of embed:
1 fix (an object) firmly and deeply in a surrounding mass: he had an operation to remove a nail embedded in his chest
 - implant (an idea or feeling) so that it becomes ingrained within a particular context:
 the Victorian values embedded in Tennyson's poetry
 - Linguistics place (a phrase or clause) within another clause or sentence:
 (as adjective embedded)
 the embedded sentence has no overt introducer
 - Computing incorporate (a text or code) within the body of a file or document:
 this is the standard way of embedding data in your program
 - (often as adjective embedded) design and build (a microprocessor) as an integral part of a system or device: it eliminates the need for an embedded controller on the plotter
All these examples show a smaller, integral item or part fixed soundly inside a larger item, in much the same way a fossil is embedded in a rock. They don't necessarily all stem directly from the original fossil use, rather it had long since became a general term and was therefore quite a natural choice for computing as well.
There are other computing uses: embedded software runs on things not usually thought of as computers, such as mobile phones and set-top boxes; an embedded system is a special system designed to run as part of a larger computer system.
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Decision Matrix
Event handling and Rules
Every event on a VSCP segment can be seen as an event. To be of any use to anyone a decision has to be taken on what to do as a result of the event. This is done in a decision matrix, which is a standardized way to write the rules that take care of events. To get something done when a specific event is detected some sort of action mechanism is needed.
The event-decision-action model or eda-model is the way we look at the functionality of a VSCP-node. First of all a node can be a level I or level II node. A level I node can perform actions from all level I events. A level II node can handle both level I and level II events. In fact when we define rules we define them at the highest level.
The model
To be able to build a software model that is common for several device/machine/situation types and environments we have to make a model to suit the typical control situation. The model is very simple and is also very easy to implement on different target environments.
Event
Something happens that triggers some kind of input. This could be the elapse of a timer, a delivered temperature reading, a triggered fire alarm etc. Without this state there is nothing to do. We call this state the EVENT - state.
Decision
If an event occurs we may react in some way to this happening. This reaction comes after a decision about if and how the event should be handled. We use a decision matrix to control the logic of our decisions. Every element in the decision matrix handles one event and performs one action. A decision matrix element is also capable of generating events and can in this way perform several actions on the behalf of one event.
Action
The action is the function, thread, procedure, method or other functionality that should be carried out as a result of an event.
The states represented by EVENT + DECISION + ACTION are treated as one transaction. All steps must be handled for the transaction to be marked as completed.
So when you describe the functionality of a VSCP-node you say
 - This node reacts on the following events.
 - This node can perform the following actions.
To make the node a useful piece of equipment it needs a decision matrix. This matrix can be implemented with no possibility for a user to change it or it can be undefined and left for the user to specify.
Decision matrix for Level I nodes.
In resource-limited environments, such as a microprocessor, the previously discussed matrix format takes up to much space and a more resource friendly format is therefore defined. Here the class + type bytes formats the event.
This matrix has no trigger for data values. This has to be done internally by the application using user defined codes.
A matrix row consists of 8 bytes and has the following format
Level I decision matrix
Byte 0 Byte 1 Byte 2 Byte 3 Byte 4 Byte 5 Byte 6 Byte 7
oaddr flags class-mask class-filter type-mask type-filter action action-parameter
oaddr
oaddr is the originating node nickname. We are only interested in events from the specific node given by oaddr if bit 6 of flags is set. For example we may be interested in events only from node 0x00, a segment controller, or 0xFF, a node without a nickname. If bit 6 of flags is not set, oaddr will not be checked and events from all nodes will be accepted iof all other criteria match.
flag
Bit # Description
7 Row is enabled if set to 1
6 oaddr should match nickname of event (=1) or don't care (=0)
5 Indicates (if set to 1) that the originating address should be hard-coded
4 Match Zone to trigger DM entry if set to 1
3 Match sub-zone to trigger DM entry if set to 1.
2 Reserved
1 Class-mask bit 8
0 Class-filter bit 8
The enable bit can be used to disable a decision matrix row while it is edited.
The zone and use sub-zone bits can be activated to have a check on the zone/sub-zone information of an event. That is the zone/sub-zone of the machine must match the one of the event to trigger the DM row. Bits 0/1 are the ninth bit of the filter/mask not enable bits.
class-mask / class-filter
A class that should trigger this decision matrix row is defined in class-mask and class-filter with bit eight for both taken from the flags byte.
The following table illustrates how this works
Truth table for filter/mask
Mask bit n Filter bit n Incoming event class bit n Accept or reject bit n
0 x x Accept
1 0 0 Accept
1 0 1 Reject
1 1 0 Reject
1 1 1 Accept
Think of the mask as having ones at positions that are of interest and the filter telling what the value should be for those bit positions that are of interest.
 - So to only accept one class set all mask bits to one and enter the class in filter.
 - To accept all classes set the mask to 0. In this case filter don't care.
type-mask / type-filter
A type that should trigger this decision matrix row is defined in type-mask and type-filter with bit eight for both taken from the flags byte.
A similar truth table as for the class-mask/filter is used.
action
This is the action or operation that should be performed if the filtering is satisfied. Only action code 0x00 is predefined and means No-Operation. All other codes are application specific and typical application defined codes could do measurement, send predefined event etc.
action-parameter
A numeric action can be set and its meaning is application specific.
General
The number of matrix rows are limited in a micro controller. The control class has an event defined that gets the number of elements in the matrix and the location of the matrix in the register model of the node (Get Decision matrix info, CLASS1.PROTOCOL, Type=33).
The matrix information is read and written with the standard read/write control functions. And is placed in the standard low register range (<0x80) or in an optional page in this area.
Note that there is no demand that a node implements a decision matrix. If not implemented the Get Decision matrix info just returns a zero size.
A special paged feature is available for the decision matrix to save register space. If the offset for the decision matrix is 0x7e the decision matrix is indexed. This means that 0x7e is the index and 0x7f is the data. Read a byte from the matrix by first setting the index to the position you want to read and reading the byte in 0x7f. Set index to the position you want to write and write data into 0x7f.
Method CLASS1.PROTOCOL TYPE=32 is used to fetch decision matrix information for a specific node.
It is important to note that the decision matrix can contain any number of lines for a specific event element. So one incoming event can trigger many actions.
Events are marked as handled when the action thread is started. This can be bad in some situations where the event chain is dependent on the action to complete its task before any new work is done. In this case it is better to continue the event chain by posting an event from the action thread instead of setting the following event as a next event in the decision matrix.
The decision matrix structure gives us the freedom to implement events that perform:
 - Exactly one action.
 - Several actions.
 - Several actions in a sequence.
Decision matrix for Level II nodes.
There is a lot more freedom to set up a decision matrix structures on level II nodes due to less space constraints.One implementation is the decision matrix in the VSCP Daemon which is described here.
A general form is discussed here. To understand how this decision matrix is updated one needs to understand how it is set up. Each line of the matrix is built from a table of entries of the following form:
byte 0-3 byte 4-7 byte 8-11 byte 12-13 byte 14-n
mask filter control action action-parameter
where the action-parameter has device specific length.
Mask (32-bit)
This is a bit mask, which has ones at the bit positions of the event that is interesting. So 0xFFFFFFFF makes all events interesting. Class is in the high word. Type is in the low word. For a truth table see the class-mask for Level I decision matrices.
Filter (32-bit)
This is a bit mask, which tells the value for bits that is of interest. Class is in the high word. Type is in the low word. For a truth table see the class-mask for Level I decision matrices.
Control(32-bit)
Control bits
bit # Description
31 Enabled if set to 1. If disabled the decision matrix element is ignored.
30 Reserved.
29 Marks end of matrix. No more valid entries in the DM after this line. Used to save parsing resources.
28 Reserved.
27 Reserved.
26 Reserved.
25 Reserved.
24 Reserved.
23 Reserved.
22 Reserved.
21 Reserved.
20 Reserved.
19 Reserved.
18 Reserved.
17 Reserved.
16 Reserved.
15 Reserved.
14 Reserved.
13 Reserved.
12 Reserved.
11 Reserved.
10 Reserved.
9 Reserved.
8 Reserved.
7 Reserved.
6 Reserved.
5 Match index of this module to trigger DM entry. Byte 0 of data.
4 Match zone of this module to trigger DM entry. Byte 1 of data.
3 Match sub-zone of this module to trigger DM entry. Byte 2 of data.
2 Reserved.
1 Reserved.
0 Reserved.
Specific node implement ions decide how to interpret bits or not. Just some or none of the bits can be used if


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priority for further collecting due to severe gaps in their ex situ collections. Such gaps are most pronounced in the geographic center of diversity of the wild relatives in Peru. A total of 20 and 18 species were assessed as medium and low priority for further collecting, respectively, with only three species determined to be sufficiently represented currently. Priorities for further collecting include: (i) species completely lacking representation in germplasm collections; (ii) other high priority taxa, with geographic emphasis on the center of species diversity; (iii) medium priority species. Such collecting efforts combined with further emphasis on improving ex situ conservation technologies and methods, performing genotypic and phenotypic characterization of wild relative diversity, monitoring wild populations in situ, and making conserved wild relatives and their associated data accessible to the global research community, represent key steps in ensuring the long-term availability of the wild genetic resources of this important crop.
Keywords: Andes, Lima, Peru, deforestation, dispersal, endemic, songbirds
Householder J, Wittmann F, Tobler M, Janovec J (2015)
Montane bias in lowland Amazonian Peatlands: Plant assembly on heterogeneous landscapes and potential significance to palynological inference
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 423 138-148.
Past temperature changes in tropical mountain regions are commonly inferred from vertical elevational shifts of montane indicator taxa in the palynological record. However temperature is one of several abiotic factors driving the low-elevational limits of species and many montane taxa can occur in warmer lowlands by tracking appropriate habitat types, especially highly flooded wetlands. In this paper we explore ways in which lowland habitat heterogeneity might introduce error into paleo-temperature reconstructions, based on field data of seven modern peatland vegetation communities in the southern Peruvian Amazon (~200masl). Peat-rich substrates are common edaphic transitions in pollen cores and provide detailed records of past vegetation change. The data show that indicators of modern peatlands include genera with montane as well as lowland distributions, while indicators of surrounding forests on mineral substrates have predominantly lowland distributions. Based on family-level analyses we find that modern peatland vegetation communities have taxonomic compositions appearing to be 389m to 1557m (mean=1050±391m) above their actual elevations due to a high abundance and number of families with high elevation optima. We interpret the relatively higher prevalence of montane elements in modern peatlands as habitat tracking of a conserved montane niche on heterogeneous lowland landscapes. We suggest that both high moisture availability and stressful edaphic conditions of peatland habitat may explain the montane bias observed. To the extent that fossilization provides a better record of past vegetation that occurred proximate to the site of deposition, we suggest that habitat tracking of montane elements may introduce a cool bias in lowland paleo-temperature reconstructions based on pollen proxies.
Keywords: Amazon, Andes, Climate history, Gentry, Montane, Peatland, Wetland
Khoury C, Heider B, Castañeda-Álvarez N, Achicanoy H, Sosa C, Miller R et al. (2015)
Distributions, ex situ conservation priorities, and genetic resource potential of crop wild relatives of sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., I. series Batatas].
Frontiers in plant science 6 251.
Crop wild relatives of sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., I. series Batatas] have the potential to contribute to breeding objectives for this important root crop. Uncertainty in regard to species boundaries and their phylogenetic relationships, the limited availability of germplasm with which to perform crosses, and the difficulty of introgression of genes from wild species has constrained their utilization. Here, we compile geographic occurrence data on relevant sweetpotato wild relatives and produce potential distribution models for the species. We then assess the comprehensiveness of ex situ germplasm collections, contextualize these results with research and breeding priorities, and use ecogeographic information to identify species with the potential to contribute desirable agronomic traits. The fourteen species that are considered the closest wild relatives of sweetpotato generally occur from the central United States to Argentina, with richness concentrated in Mesoamerica and in the extreme Southeastern United States. Currently designated species differ among themselves and in comparison to the crop in their adaptations to temperature, precipitation, and edaphic characteristics and most species also show considerable intraspecific variation. With 79% of species identified as high priority for further collecting, we find that these crop genetic resources are highly under-represented in ex situ conservation systems and thus their availability to breeders and researchers is inadequate. We prioritize taxa and specific geographic locations for further collecting in order to improve the completeness of germplasm collections. In concert with enhanced conservation of sweetpotato wild relatives, further taxonomic research, characterization and evaluation of germplasm, and improving the techniques to overcome barriers to introgression with wild species are needed in order to mobilize these genetic resources for crop breeding.
Keywords: Crop Improvement, Crop diversity, Crop wild relatives, Food security, Gap analysis, Plant Genetic Resources
Sevink J, Verstraten JM, Kooijman AM, Loayza-Muro RA, Hoitinga L P (2015)
Rare Moss-Built Microterraces in a High-Altitude, Acid Mine Drainage-Polluted Stream (Cordillera Negra, Peru) - Springer
Water, Air, & Soil Pollution.
The Rio Santiago in the Cordillera Negra of Peru is severely contaminated by acid mine drainage in its headwaters. In a strongly acid stream, at about 3800 m above sea level (masl), microterraces were found with terrace walls built up of dead moss, with encrustations and interstitial fine, creamy sediment. The stream water was turbid due to the presence of similar suspended sediment, which also occurred as a thin basal layer in inter-rim basins. The moss was identified as the rare bryophyte Anomobryum prostratum (Müll. Hal.) Besch. Chemical and mineralogical analyses show that green, living parts of the moss are gradually coated by Al/Fe (hydr)oxides, inducing their senescence and death. The necromass is covered by creamy crusts through precipitation of schwertmannite-type material from the stream water and simultaneous 'capture' of fine sediment. The latter consists of a mixture of precipitate and fine detrital primary minerals. These processes are held responsible for the formation of the microterraces, which regarding their composition and environment seem to be unique. Remarkable is the high As content of the creamy crusts and sediment, attributed to strong sorption of As, whereas its solute concentration is relatively low. This calls for more attention to suspended fine sediment in the assessment of environmental risks of stream water use. Lastly, the results raise serious doubts about the use of aquatic bryophytes as bioindicator for chemical pollution in acid mine drainage-polluted streams.
Keywords: Acid mine drainage, Arsenic, Bryophyte Microterraces, Schwertmannite
Fajardo J, Lessmann J, Bonaccorso E, Devenish C, Muñoz J (2014)
Combined use of systematic conservation planning, species distribution modelling, and connectivity analysis reveals severe conservation gaps in a megadiverse country (peru).
PloS one 9(12) e114367.
Conservation planning is crucial for megadiverse countries where biodiversity is coupled with incomplete reserve systems and limited resources to invest in conservation. Using Peru as an example of a megadiverse country, we asked whether the national system of protected areas satisfies biodiversity conservation needs. Further, to complement the existing reserve system, we identified and prioritized potential conservation areas using a combination of species distribution modeling, conservation planning and connectivity analysis. Based on a set of 2,869 species, including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, butterflies, and plants, we used species distribution models to represent species' geographic ranges to reduce the effect of biased sampling and partial knowledge about species' distributions. A site-selection algorithm then searched for efficient and complementary proposals, based on the above distributions, for a more representative system of protection. Finally, we incorporated connectivity among areas in an innovative post-hoc analysis to prioritize those areas maximizing connectivity within the system. Our results highlight severe conservation gaps in the Coastal and Andean regions, and we propose several areas, which are not currently covered by the existing network of protected areas. Our approach helps to find areas that contribute to creating a more representative, connected and efficient network.
Keywords: Peru, amphibians, biodiversity, birds, conservation scince, endangered species, mammals, reptiles

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- No limitations are placed on citizenship.
- Fellowships are only tenable at U.S. and Canadian Universities.
- Fellows must be enrolled on a full-time basis for the duration of the award.
Application Evaluation Information
Applications will be evaluated by a panel of experts in the fields of ocean engineering and ocean instrumentation. The main criteria for evaluation include:
- The project – Is it innovative? Is it technically sound?
- The candidate – Important criteria include intellectual ability and achievement, evidence of creativity and initiative, and potential for a career that will impact ocean engineering and instrumentation.
Preference will be given to candidates who have a well-defined thesis direction, but who still have enough remaining time to work toward their Ph.D. such that the receipt of a Link Foundation Fellowship could make a difference.


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|Wanick Park plans|
Over the past three years, the village has acquired two 5-acre wooded parcelsand an additional two acres that will be home to low impact walking trails, new tree plantings, and improved bird habitat.
High Cliff State Park features both shaded and exposed cliff habitats along the Niagara escarpment, talus slopes supporting wet-mesic forest, more than a mile of Lake Winnebago shoreline. At the escarpment summit are vertical cliffs up to 25 feet high that contain fragile fern, bulblet fern, leaf cup, cliff stickseed, and long-beaked sedge. The undisturbed forest on the slope is composed of sugar maple, basswood, white ash, green ash, elm, hackberry, and butternut. Closer to the lake, willows and cottonwood gradually appear. A rich herbaceous layer includes wild ginger, great water-leaf, false rue anemone, squirrel-corn, toothwort, and Canada violet.
In preparation for the annual Arbor Day Tree Planting and Park Clean Up event on Saturday, April 26th, Jansport volunteers dug 500 holes. Our local Fox Valley area chapter of Wild Ones provided a $500 grant to help fund the purchase of the trees.
A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, found that more green space were associated with lower levels of anxiety, depression, and stress. The study combined mental-health data from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) and Landsat 5 satellite data from July 2009 that analyzed how much vegetation was present in each of the SHOW census blocks. They found that across all strata of society, people who lived in a neighborhood with less than 10 percent tree canopy were much more likely to report symptoms of depression, stress and anxiety. The study appears to support the "attention restoration theory," holding that more time in nature restores the ability to concentrate and reduces mental fatigue.

source: m-a-p/FineFineWeb


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FOOD PRIZE: Conservation Home And Abroad
The Des Moines based World Food Prize Organization is known for its work to improve the quality and availability of food throughout the world.
On the home front, the organization completed an eco-friendly project that was ten years in the making.
The good deeds that stem from the World Food Prize Organization are extensive, helping people all across the globe.
President, Dr. Kenneth Quinn knows how preserving and utilizing resources can help save lives in a career that included being a U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Back home on American soil the organization knew it could make better use of their resources.
"It's close to impossible to take a 19th century building like this and make it the highest level of efficiency. There are only about 4 other buildings anywhere in the United States, 19th century, to ever get to that level."
After over 10 years of planning and execution and $30-million later, the building constructed the highest level of an eco-friendly space called Leed Platinum.
"Leadership, energy, efficiency and design and it means 'what are you doing to make your building energy efficient and resource conservation."
They've put 90 solar panels on the roof to soak up the suns energy, placed 130 geothermal wells in the garden to provide heating and cooling for the building, to name a few.
"It's just an architectural treasure."
Ambassador Quinn says the way the organizations helps others around the world is no different than applying it to their own situations, "If we're going to feed the world in the 21st century, we need to have sustainable agriculture. We can use everything up and have nothing left. You also will learn about what you can do to make a building amazingly energy efficient."
It just goes to show you can learn a lot from your own teachings.
The World Food Prize is also creating a new million dollar education exhibit that they plan to open by the end of the summer.

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


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the data are pseudo-3D.
fid.com is the usual conversion script, but adjusted to take input name, output name, and tau value from the command-line. In the example script here, the tau value is set during conversion. The tau value recorded with a particular spectrum is included in the output of the showhdr command (only non-zero tau values are listed). One can also set or change the recorded tau value of an NMRPipe FID or spectrum with the sethdr command, for example: sethdr ft/test001.dat -tau 8
ft2.com is the usual processing script, but adjusted to take input name, and output name from the command-line. In the example script here, the GM window function is used to make the final lineshapes as close to Gaussian as possible, since the spectrum will later be fit to Gaussian lineshapes (see the section on GM below).
Note: fit.com produces both the nlin.tab (the result of the lineshape fitting program) and the aux.tab (the result of the seriesTab program). The script also produces a simulated spectral series sim/test%03d.ft2 and a residual series dif/test%03d.ft2. The simulated spectra and residual should be inspected carefully to evaluate the success of the lineshape fitting procedure.
How to select GM Gaussian window parameters in NMRDraw
The "nmrpipe -fn GM" command applies a Lorentz-to-Gauss window, which is a combination of an inverse exponential and a Gaussian. The purpose of the window is to replace the exponential decay of the original data with a Gaussian decay, so that the transformed result will have Gaussian-like lineshapes rather than Lorentzian-like ones.
The exponential term -g1 is specified as a line sharpening in Hz. The Gaussian term -g2 is specified as a line broadening in Hz. This line broadening will generally be set much larger than the line sharpening, so that the final result decays close to zero at the last points of the FID. In most cases, the g1 parameter is selected to match the natural exponential decay of the FID. One way to select g1 is to interactively apply several -g1 values to an FID or interferogram in an attempt to get a non-decaying result.
In the case of a 2D or 3D spectrum:
(SP –off 0.5 –end 0.95 –c …)
GM -gl 10 (not enough, signal still decays, Figure 22)
GM -g1 -10 (start over, Figure 23)
GM -g1 20 (too much, signal increases, Figure 24)
GM -g1 -20 (start over, Figure 23)
GM -g1 15 (just right, signal is uniform, Figure 25)
5. You can choose the g2 parameter in a similar way, with the goal of getting an exponentially well-decayed FID after both g1 and g2 are applied together. In practice g2 will be 1.5 to 3.0 times larger than g1 for a good result (Figure 26).


Christianity, Culture, Politics, Social Justice
Some thoughts on intersectionality and "activist science"
I've been doing some reading on intersectionality1 recently, and I came across an article by a feminist psychologist named Stephanie Shields. She argues that intersectionality should be an urgent concern for behavioral scientists and should determine the outcomes of their research. Shields writes:
"Intersectionality is an urgent issue because it is critical to the effective, activist science that feminist psychology should be. The goal of activist science itself is not to create policy, but to inform it. Research undertaken from an intersectionality perspective does originate from a point of view which includes an agenda for positive social change, but the agenda requires data to support it. This approach reflects a belief that science can be beneficial to society and that it is our obligation to study scientifically those problems and issues that bear on real people's lived experience."
-Stephanie A. Shields, "Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective," Sex Roles 59 (2008): 309.
Thomas Kuhn famously said that science is theory-laden. If Shields is correct, intersectional science seems theory-burdened, or theory-predetermined. Shields contends for "activist science." In other words, it's not merely that the scientist has biases that inevitably (though perhaps unintentionally) shape his research. Shields is arguing that the behavioral scientist should have a bias for intersectional theory, and that the theory should function as an agenda in search of facts to support it.
To the degree that behavioral sciences are being conducted in this way and to the degree that they become an apology for intersectional theory, we should not be surprised to find conflict between such "science" and traditional religious perspectives (including Christianity). But it is crucial to note that the conflict is not between real science and Christianity, but between a thinly veiled feminist theory and Christianity. The feminist theory masquerades as "science," but it is not really that at all. It is a religion of first principles predetermining which facts are relevant and which ones need to be suppressed or discarded because they don't support intersectional theory.
This is just a reminder that not all "science" is true science. The discerning reader will understand that there is a difference between facts and evidence and the evaluation of facts and evidence. Sometimes there are agendas at work shaping the way researchers construe the evidence. Oftentimes, it is the evaluation of the facts and evidence that reveals that underlying worldview of the researcher.
For example, in 2013 the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders removed "Gender Identity Disorder" from its list of psychiatric disorders and replaced it with "Gender Dysphoria." Did they remove it because scientists had uncovered some new facts or evidence showing it no longer to be a disorder? No, that is not why they did it. As I have pointed out before in this space, the diagnosis was changed to remove the stigma of transgender identities being labeled as a "disorder." Consider also, for example, how the scientific community has responded to the research of Mark Regnerus and Paul McHugh. Has the negative response been based on facts and evidence? Or has it been based on the fact that these men sometimes reach conclusions that depart from predetermined outcomes?


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Tryon County, as Montgomery County was originally known, was set off from Albany County in 1772 on the petition of Sir William Johnson and named Tryon in honor of his friend, the Colonial Governor William Tryon. Johnstown was set up as the county seat. After the close of the Revolutionary War, the name of the county was changed to Montgomery in honor of General Richard Montgomery. All the land south of Oneida Lake and west of Utica to the present city of Buffalo was named Whitestown, in honor of early pioneer Hugh White, and was added to Montgomery County.
Visit the U.S. Census Website for an array of demographic information.
U.S. Census information
Your link for the official Montgomery County Website.


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Masterwort has a long flowering season, thanks to the long-lasting bracts that surround each umbel of flowers. Add to this the attractive foliage and they make popular herbaceous perennials. Bract colours range from deep red, through pink, to white and green.
10 species exist in the wild, growing in moist meadows and woodland from Europe to Asia, although only half of these are found in gardens.
All varieties are best in fertile, humus-rich soil, in sun or part-shade. They are ideal for naturalistic planting schemes or the mixed border.


Tutorial 11: Random Numbers
Random Numbers...
HOME >> Tutorials >> Tutorial 11: Random Numbers
Introduction:
In this tutorial we will learn our last command, randInt(. This really has nothing to do with the rest of the commands that I have taught you. In fact it isn't even a PRGM command, but a MATH command. I just had to insert this last tutorial because you need the command for the game in the next tutorial. The command is fairly easy to grasp, because all it does is pick a random number (an integer) between the range that you set.
New Commands:
randInt( Generates and displays a random integer within a range
randInt(lower,upper[,numtrials])
The Codes:
There are going to be two separate codes: one shows you the basic way of using randInt in a program and the second is a fun little program that I like to put on people's calculator. However, before even getting to the codes, I want you to really grasp how randInt works. Before entering the program editor, I want you to go to the home screen and enter the randInt command. I want your calculator to display a random number between 1 and 50, so it should look like this randInt(1,50). I don't want any trials. Okay, press ENTER and you should see a number that's between 1 and 50. Now press ENTER again, and a new number between 1 and 50 should appear. If it so happened that the same number appeared, then the 1 in 50 chance happened and the randInt command pick the same number again. Just press enter again and there should be a new number. Now keep on pressing Í until you see the same number twice. I just want you to really see how the randInt command works. Now on to the codes:
: For AShell, SOS, and TI-Explorer
Lbl 1
0STOREB Stores 0 into X
Repeat A=19 Repeat everything until the random number is 19
ClrHome Clears the home screen
B+1STOREB Add one to X every time it repeats
randInt(1,20)STOREA Picks a random integer between 1 and 20
Output(4,8,A) Displays that random number on line 4
For(X,1,100) This construction is used so that we will be able
End to see the random number for a short while
End End Repeat Loop
Output(8,8,B) Displays the number of times it took to get to 19
An example of a final output:
This program just keeps on displaying random numbers between 1 and 20 until the random number is 19. If it so happens (it happened to me when I was testing the program) that the first random number is 19, just run the program again. User variable B in this program is the number of times it took for the random number to be 19. So if the number at the bottom (B) was 23, that means that 19 appeared on the 23rd try. You better study that because you'll need it in the next tutorial. The next program is a fun little program:
: For AShell, SOS, and TI-Explorer
Lbl 1
ClrHome Clears the home screen
randInt(1,8)STOREA Picks a random integer between 1 and 8
randInt(1,12)STOREB Picks a random integer between 1 and 12
Output(A,B,"HELLO") Displays "HELLO" in a random spot
For(X,1,100) This construction is used so that we will be able
End to see the random number for a short while
Goto 1 Go to Label 1
A possible output:
As you have probably noticed, the program doesn't stop. This is an endless loop (I did this on purpose) and it only stops unless you press ON and then ENTER or press 2ND and ON [OFF]. I was thinking of putting in a For statement that would let it display "HELLO" in a random spot for a certain number of times, but I decided to do it this way just so you would learn how to break a program. However, when I make this program I use a command called getKey, so it'll stop displaying "HELLO" if I either: press ON and then ENTER, press 2ND and ON [OFF], or I press a particular key. To take a look at how this is done, you can go to Tutorial 21.
Version 2.0 Update:
After the first output of BASIC 83 Guru, I thought of another way to use randInt. This way of using randInt is if you want more than one choice to happen randomly after a certain situation occurs. randInt is accompanied by Goto & Lbl and If statements in this code. What if you wanted to make a "Magic 8 Ball" game, which had four different replies. You would want those replies to be randomly chosen, right? Well this is how you'd make such a game:
The Code:
: For AShell, SOS, and TI-Explorer
Lbl A
ClrHome Clears the home screen
Output(4,3,"MAGIC 8 BALL") Displays text at row 4 and column 3
For(X,1,500) This line and the next line are used to delay
End the program for a couple of seconds
Lbl D
ClrHome Clears the home screen
Output(3,2,"THINK OF YOUR") Displays "THINK OF YOUR"
Output(4,3,"QUESTION AND") Outputs text at row 3 and column 3
Output(5,1,"PRESS ENTER FOR") Displays "PRESS ENTER FOR"
Output(6,4,"AN ANSWER.") Outputs text at row 6 and column 4
Pause Suspends program and waits for user to press ENTER
ClrHome Clears the home screen
Output(4,5,"THINKING") Displays "THINKING" on the screen for
For(X,1,500) screen for a few seconds
End
randInt(1,4)STOREC Picks a random integer between 1 and 4
ClrHome Clears the home screen
If C=1:Goto 1 If C equals 1, go to Label 1
If C=2:Goto 2 If C equals 2, go to Label 2
If C=3:Goto 3 If C equals 3, go to Label 3
If C=4:Goto 4 If C equals 4, go to Label 4
Lbl 1
Output(4,2,"DEFINITELY YES") Displays "DEFINITELY YES"
Goto B Goto Label B
Lbl 2
Output(4,2,"DEFINITELY NOT") Displays "DEFINITELY NOT"
Goto B Goto Label B
Lbl 3
Output(4,5,"MAYBE SO") Displays "MAYBE SO"
Goto B Goto Label B
Lbl 4
Output(4,1,"TRY AGAIN LATER") Displays "TRY AGAIN LATER"
Goto B Goto Label B
Lbl B
Pause Suspends program and waits for user to press ENTER
Menu("AGAIN?","YES",D,"NO",C) Ask if you want to play again
Lbl C
Possible output:
then
AND
and
Further Explanation:
If you've run the program you can see that the opening screen comes up displaying "MAGIC 8 BALL" and it waits a few seconds and then asks you to think of the question that you want to ask the "Magic 8 Ball." When you press ENTER it displays "THINKING" for a while and then gives you the answer. I added that "THINKING" part, just so it gives the effect that the game is actually thinking. If I didn't put that part there, it would almost immediately give me the answer, which isn't very realistic. All of the answers have a 1 in 4 (equal) chance of appearing. Now what happens if you wanted "MAYBE SO" to have a better chance of occurring than all the other answers? What if you wanted it to be weighted? This is really easy. All you have to do is change two lines. Change the line that reads randInt(1,4)STOREC to randInt(1,5)STOREC and change the line that reads If C=3:Goto 3 to If C=3 or C=5:Goto 3. This makes the chance that "MAYBE SO" is displayed 2 out of 5 and the others 1 out of 5. You may be wondering what the command or does. Will it's pretty simple actually. If either one of the statements are true, it'll go to label 3. You can find or by pressing 2ND, MATH, and then RIGHT. Scroll down to 2:or. This construction of randInt is used a lot in "text only" games or RPGs (role playing games). It makes the games better because different outcomes can occur randomly. If a certain outcome was fixed, the program would be boring after the first couple of times playing it.
Conclusion:
Well, this is the last command that you'll learn before our big game. If you want to quickly review all the lessons up to this point, just click on the "Tutorials" link in either navigation bar. If you feel confident that you completely understand everything that I have taught you, then go on to The Big Game.
If you do not understand a particular part in this lesson, have suggestions, or find any problems please contact me.
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Optical beam transport from the FELs to the user laboratories
The beamline has been designed to transport infrared light with a wavelength between 3 and 150 μm. Accepting losses up to 60% the wavelength can be extended to 300 μm. The average radiation power is limited to 300W. The beamline conserves the linear polarization.
The laser light is guided from the outcoupling holes in one of the FEL resonators (right side of the figure below) to a diagnostic station and then distributed to various user laboratories including the magnetic high-field laboratory (HLD).
Fig.1: Schematic view of the beam transport system from the FEL resonators U27 and U100 (right hand side, room 114) to the optical tables in the user laboratories 113a/b-g.
The beam is transported in 10 cm pipes. to avoid light absorption by air components (e.g. water vapour). Taking into account the broad tuning range and the short pulse duration (0.5 - 10 ps rms) broadband metal mirrors are used to refocus the beam. In dependence on the location of the user laboratory the beam has to be transported over distances of up to 50 m.
First the beams are guided to a diagnostic station. Here it is analyzed (wavelength, intensity, pulse duration). Moreover it can be attenuated, the polarization can be rotated and the repetition rate can be reduced up to 1 Hz.
Behind the diagnostic table (DT) the beam is distributed into the various laboratories using a common beampipe. One branch guides the beam into the neighboring magnetic high-field laboratory (HLD) via a tunnel
beamline to HLD (top view)
beamline to HLD (side view)
Fig.2: Design of the beamline from the ELBE building to the Magnetic High-Field Laboratory (HLD).
Upper figure: Top view. Lower figure: Side view.
The arrangement of mirrors generates a narrow beam profile with a waist on each optical table independently of the wavelength.
The beamsize calculated along the beamline is shown here.


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Completed in 2010, this Permittee Responsible Mitigation (PRM) Site was developed for Southampton County Industrial Development Authority (IDA) as a component of a larger environmental and industrial development Land Plan. Historically utilized for no till soybean and cotton production, the PRM Site was developed to provide onsite compensatory wetland mitigation for the development of the adjacent industrial park.
- 8.6+ acres of combined forested and emergent wetlands restoration/creation
- Provides replacement of low quality, fragmented, and agriculturally impacted wetlands with a highly functional wetland complex
- Completed as a Master Planning exercise which included the Industrial Park, Onsite Wetland Mitigation, and the adjacent Cheroenhaka Stream and Wetland Mitigation Bank
- Designed in conjunction with innovative stormwater control and treatment measures from the adjacent land development improvement areas


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IROS 2013 Workshop on AI-based Robotics
The workshop on "AI-based Robotics" at IROS 2013, co-organized by Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, will discuss recent advances in applying AI technology to robotics. In the past years, there has been a strong trend towards using semantic information in robotics, for instance in form of semantic maps, and we believe that having access to AI methods will be crucial for robots to become intelligent co-workers and skilled household assistants.
This topic is also at the core of the RoboHow project, in which mobile manipulation robots are equipped with AI techniques like knowledge representation, plan-based control, learning and reasoning to enable them to learn novel tasks more easily.
More information, including the Call for Papers, can be found on the workshop page.


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Featuring unpublished period photographs, plus artwork from Ford designers, Ford Total Performance covers all of Ford's classic race and street cars, including Cobras and Shelby Mustangs, from 1961 to 1971.
From 1938 to 1944, American Aviation, Inc. built over 40,000 aircraft. Warbird Factory tells this important war-effort story though over 200 archival photographs directly from the NAA/Boeing archive.
The Tractor Factor is a richly illustrated book that reveals what makes a tractor collectible, showcases the rarest models, gives a history of the marque, and details specific finds.
Ride along as author Ryan Brutt, the "automotive archaeologist," travels the United States documenting lost and abandoned automotive gems through hundreds of photos of lost cars.


Question: Is A Correlation Of.5 Strong?
Is.6 a strong correlation?
Correlation Coefficient = 0.8: A fairly strong positive relationship.
Correlation Coefficient = 0.6: A moderate positive relationship.
Correlation Coefficient = -0.8: A fairly strong negative relationship.
Correlation Coefficient = -0.6: A moderate negative relationship..
Is 0.3 A strong correlation?
Correlation coefficient values below 0.3 are considered to be weak; 0.3-0.7 are moderate; >0.7 are strong. You also have to compute the statistical significance of the correlation.
How do you interpret a weak negative correlation?
Negative correlation or inverse correlation is a relationship between two variables whereby they move in opposite directions. If variables X and Y have a negative correlation (or are negatively correlated), as X increases in value, Y will decrease; similarly, if X decreases in value, Y will increase.
How do you know if a correlation is strong or weak?
What does a correlation of 0.1 mean?
If the correlation coefficient of two variables is zero, it signifies that there is no linear relationship between the variables. … When the value of ρ is close to zero, generally between -0.1 and +0.1, the variables are said to have no linear relationship (or a very weak linear relationship).
Is 0.2 A weak correlation?
The correlation coefficient of 0.2 before excluding outliers is considered as negligible correlation while 0.3 after excluding outliers may be interpreted as weak positive correlation (Table 1).
What does a correlation of 0.5 mean?
The strength of the relationship between X and Y is sometimes expressed by squaring the correlation coefficient and multiplying by 100. The resulting statistic is known as variance explained (or R2). Example: a correlation of 0.5 means 0.52×100 = 25% of the variance in Y is "explained" or predicted by the X variable.
Is 0.5 A weak correlation?
Correlation coefficients whose magnitude are between 0.5 and 0.7 indicate variables which can be considered moderately correlated. Correlation coefficients whose magnitude are between 0.3 and 0.5 indicate variables which have a low correlation.
Is 0.4 A strong correlation?
Generally, a value of r greater than 0.7 is considered a strong correlation. Anything between 0.5 and 0.7 is a moderate correlation, and anything less than 0.4 is considered a weak or no correlation.
Is 0.25 A strong correlation?
The correlation between two variables is considered to be strong if the absolute value of r is greater than 0.75….What is Considered to Be a "Strong" Correlation?Absolute value of rStrength of relationship0.25 < r < 0.5Weak relationship0.5 < r < 0.75Moderate relationshipr > 0.75Strong relationship1 more row•Jan 22, 2020
Is 0.2 A strong correlation?
The magnitude of the correlation coefficient indicates the strength of the association. For example, a correlation of r = 0.9 suggests a strong, positive association between two variables, whereas a correlation of r = -0.2 suggest a weak, negative association.
What R value is a weak correlation?
r > 0 indicates a positive association. r < 0 indicates a negative association. Values of r near 0 indicate a very weak linear relationship. The strength of the linear relationship increases as r moves away from 0 toward -1 or 1.


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Accumulated base: 50 F degree days and departure from normal-May 1 through July 29, 2007.
The third week of July produced slightly above average temperatures in the northwest two-thirds of Iowa, with southeast Iowa right on average. We are now entering the second part of the traditional dog days of summer, a period from July 3 to about August 11. It is named for the astronomical pairing of the sun with the dog star, Sirius, the brightest star in the northern hemisphere. Ancients thought the dog star added to the heat of the sun and attributed the star with oppressive summer heat.
Crops are progressing, but particularly in dry areas, soybeans have been slow to fill rows (if they have) and corn has now pollinated for the most part. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, any rain would be welcome nearly anywhere in the Iowa.
Rich Pope is an extension program specialist working with the Iowa State University Corn and Soybean Initiative.
This article originally appeared on page 246 of the IC-498(21) -- July 30, 2007 issue.


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Musical Selections from the mini-course "Musical Nationalism in Times of Crisis: A Greek Case Study"
Welcome to the class blog for the University of Michigan mini-course "Musical Nationalism in Times of Crisis: A Greek Case Study."
This course invites students to explore the socio-political repercussions of the current global economic crisis through the framework of music. Our case study is Greece, a nation situated on the margins of the European Union but at the focal point of the current financial and cultural crisis. Drawing from various types of musical expression, we examine how music shapes and reflects contemporary cultural and economic realities in Greece including: political and cultural globalization; the economic crisis; the balancing of regional and national governance policies and the creation of a contemporary Greek national identity.
This blog contains selected listening examples examined in this course.
examines the phenomenon of musical nationalism. Which musical styles are promoted on local and national levels to represent the nation? Which styles are avoided and why? How does the style in which a song is performed affect its reception?
introduces students to various Greek composers who composed "national Greek music." In what ways did these composers musically identify their works as Greek? Do their compositions sound "Greek" to you?
examines various musical reactions to the contemporary socio-economic crisis in Greece. It focuses a) on the songs and chants of the Indignant movement and b) on the phenomenon of musical parody as a means of resistance. How can we characterize the differences between musical mockery and musical parody?
focuses on various mainstream pop songs whose lyrics discuss the injustices of the contemporary Greek crisis on the Greek people. What is strange about the use of mass music production and distribution technology in an effort to resist the injustices of the Greek economic system?
examines the phenomenon of contemporary rebetika performance as a means of protesting the social, political and economic Europeanization of Greece. It focuses on the performances of rebetiko musician Pavlos Vassiliou and his music tavern "Rebetiki Istoria" [Rebetika History] in Athens, Greece. Why is rebetika a particularly appropriate genre for this musical resistance?


Definition - What does UNIX 03 mean?
UNIX 03 is an Open Group Specification first appearing in 2002, which was later approved in 2003. It is comprised of the IEEE portable operating system interface for Unix (POSIX) and Single UNIX Specification, version 3. UNIX 03 is the most recent update to the UNIX product standard family since 1997.
Techopedia explains UNIX 03
UNIX is an OS formulated in 1969 at Bell Labs as an interactive time-sharing system. It was never a proprietary OS and is not owned by either of the leading computer companies. UNIX also is written in a standard language and is comprised of many popular ideas, which led UNIX to become the primary available open standard OS.
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The Aerospace in Class project is about testing the STEM resources of Airbus Foundation Discovery Space (AFDS), a digital portal for aerospace exploration. This portal acted as the beginning of what will be A GREAT PROJECT that we will incorporate into the activities and actions map of the STEM Discovery campaign.
How did we start?
- We immersed ourselves in the training of EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET ACADEMY.
- We made the AEROESPACIAL EN CLASS training coincide with our Health and well-being project.
- We already had it prepared. You only need the packaging and the Perseverance arrived.
- WE WILL BUILD OUR OWN SPACE MISSION. Before travelling to distant planets, humans have to better understand Space and how to survive in it. We asked ourselves: How can we cope with extreme temperatures, lack of air, and meteorites? We realised we can find it out by creating a lunar community. We will design our own rocket, our moon base and a rover to move us.
- We learned from the Airbus Foundation videos, we designed our 3D prototypes with Tinkercad and finally, we built our lunar rover with Lego WeDo 2.0 and showed our progress.


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MEF for Beginner (Catalogs) - part 10 - Bnaya Eshet
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MEF for Beginner (Catalogs) - part 10
MEF for Beginner (Catalogs) - part 10
this is the 10th post of the MEF for Beginner series, the series TOC is available here.
this post will focus on Catalogs.
 MEF, export, import, importmany, extention, ioc, catalogs, composition
What is MEF Catalogs?
MEF container is using catalogs as its search area definition.
the catalog have instructions about where can MEF look for
the compose-able parts (import and export definitions).
in short catalogs are actually a discovery instruction.

Out of the box catalogs
MEF is shipping with the following out of the box catalogs:
Code Snippet
 1. var typeCat = new TypeCatalog(typeof(IFoo));
 2. var asmCat = new AssemblyCatalog(typeof(Program).Assembly);
 3. var dirCat = new DirectoryCatalog("US", "*.dll");
 4. var aggCat = new AggregateCatalog(typeCat, asmCat, dirCat);
 5. var container = new CompositionContainer(aggCat);
 6. container.Compose(...);
 - TypeCatalog (line 1) define that specific types should includes in the discovery process.
 - DirectoryCatalog (line 2) instruct the discovery process to search for compose-able pars
 within specific assembly.
 - DirectoryCatalog (line 3) is the most common used catalog, which instruct MEF to
 search for compose-able parts within assemblies under specific directory using search pattern ("*.dll").
 - AggregateCatalog (line 4) is aggregation of different catalogs instances.
 this catalog enable to add and remove catalogs at runtime.

UPDATE
Silverlight (CTP 9) introduce new catalog named DeploymentCatalog which should replace the PackageCatalog.
my next post will discuss more on this topic (soon).
Silverlight is adding the PackageCatalog which is searching within assemblies which include
in the package.
the following snippet demonstrate the Silverlight PackageCatalog:
Code Snippet
 1. var catalogs = new PackageCatalog();
 2. catalogs.AddPackage(Package.Current);
 3. var container = new CompositionContainer(catalogs);
 4. container.Compose(...);
as you can see the PackageCatalog can include multiple packages.

Summary
The catalogs use to define the search boundary of the composition container discovery process.
different catalogs can be use for different boundary ranges.

Samples
each of the previous parts of this series contains samples which is using catalogs
you can explore the previous parts from the TOC.

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Rising 600 feet above the western shore of the Hudson River, just north of New York City, are the majestic rock cliffs called the Palisades. Formed about 200 million years ago, these nearly vertical columns of rock stretch for 30 miles. The Palisades owe their name to Verrazano and his fellow explorers, who thought the cliffs resembled a "fence of stakes" when they came across them in 1524.


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INTRODUCTION: The stratum corneum is the biggest obstacle in cosmetics with respect to skin moisturisation. Many approaches have been taken to overcome the barrier, one of which is incorporating natural cosmeceuticals into cosmetic products to enhance moisturisation effects. Here, a commercial facemask formulation was electrospun to develop dry facemasks capable of hosting cosmeceuticals within the pores of incorporated mesoporous silica. METHODS: Ethanolic solutions containing 40% w/w of the marketed facemask (7th Heaven Dead Sea peel-off facemask) and mesoporous silica were prepared and electrically processed at 30 μL min-1 at an applied voltage of 12 ± 2 kV. In vitro characterisation and release studies using fluorescein dye as a model probe were carried out. RESULTS: SEM images confirmed the fibrous nature of the resulting matrix; showing an average fiber diameter of 298.32 nm. The electrospun mask was found to be advantageous due to this fibrous nature providing high active loading capacity whilst demonstrating 100% probe release within 60 min. Contact Angle hysteresis, thermal analysis and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) presented evidence of compatibility and stability of and within the formulation. CONCLUSION: Adapting the formulation of a commercial polymeric facemask into an electrospun facemask has shown the versatility of the electrospinning process; now successfully crossing over into the cosmetic industry.
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Impacts of the pulp and paper sector on forests
Some proposed new pulpwood plantations and mills threaten natural habitats in many places with high conservation values.
For example, the remaining natural forests in Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea, Russian Far East, Southern Chile and the Atlantic forest region in Brazil are endangered because of growing demand for pulpwood, among other threats.
Forests also maintain the world's abundant biodiversity, essential for life on Earth. The activities of the pulp and paper sector in these places threaten the habitats of several rare wildlife species such as Asian big cats (including tigers), Asian elephant, Asian rhinos, and orangutans.


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The history trails series looks at a particular place that you can visit now. Images by the author. Darwen has some hidden gems as well as the new market square,
Category: UK History
The 1826 riots were a turning point in 19th-century history. 1826 was a year of depression and unrest as low cloth prices and increasing food prices drove weavers to desperate
The Lancashire Witch – Stephenson's pre-Rocket locomotive.The Lancashire Witch – Stephenson's pre-Rocket locomotive.
Introduction The Lancashire witch locomotive was a precursor of Stephenson's Rocket. Above all, the first locomotive-driven railways started appearing in the mid-1820s. As a result, locomotive design progressed rapidly. Robert
Introduction The origins of Roman Manchester go back almost to the beginnings of Roman rule in Britain. For example, the first wooden fort was built in 79AD. This was in


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Quality Indices and Decision Support Tools for Managing Rail Grinding Programs
is a common, costly and effective method for assuring safety and extending the
life of wheel, rail and track fastening system.
Because of the cost (both for the grinding itself and many secondary
costs such as track access, safety assurance, firefighting, etc.) there is an
ongoing push to assure its best possible effectiveness. The transit agency needs to balance
productivity and having the work completed in an efficient manner while
ensuring the finished product provides value particularly in terms of improved
wheel rail interaction. But how is that measured? Quality indices are key to assuring that
grinding is achieving the objectives of removing surface damage, installing
optimal rail profiles, and ultimately improving the wheel-rail performance and
reducing long term costs through more effective grinding practices and extended
Common current grinding quality
indices refer to the shape only and relies on the assumption the target rail
profile is optimal from a wheel rail interaction standpoint. Quality indices need to be improved in order
to assure proper treatment of rail corrugation, surface fatigue and shape
provide value to the transit agency. This RNS proposes to support ongoing
efforts to rectify this deficiency.
support the development of rail grinding quality indices that will enable
railroads to objectively manage rail shape, rail corrugation, and rail surface
damage to improve wheel rail interaction.
agencies invest considerable money into rail grinding in order to improve
safety and wheel/rail performance. The
current methods to quantify work quality could be improved to assure the work
is achieving these goals. This research
will provide railroads with an approach for objectively assessing the
effectiveness of the rail grinding program.
several ongoing efforts to establish improved metrics for rail grinding as part
· Commercial grinding programs at BART, Sound
Transit, New York City Transit and Vancouver Skytrain.
· A new rail grinding initiative at the CSX railroad.
Additionally, a research effort
was recently started at the University of Manitoba to look specifically at
measurements of rail corrugation and the impact of corrugation on track and
Next, this general topic has also
been identified by the International Collaborative Research Initiative on RCF
and Wear of Rails and Wheels (ICRI-RCF) as a candidate for international
collaboration. This means that in-kind
contributions from its many international participants could be available.
Lastly, the FRA is currently
sponsoring a research project to compare visible surface damage with the
"actual" depth of damage as measured using eddy current systems and destructive
sectioning. This work will inform and
contribute to the development of a surface damage index.
In support of
the initiatives listed above, specific research funding is need to coral those
efforts and arrive at an industry applicable set of guidelines and processes
for assuring the quality of a rail grinding program.
Since there have been recent literature reviews,
it remains only to check for even more recent contributions on this issue.
Engage the ICRI-RCF and its international
community to identify potential experts for contribution to the work.
Engage the support of at least two transit
agencies to participate in a program of measurement and reporting that allows
evolving quality indices to be trialed and implemented in the field.
Collection of pre- and post-grind rail profile
data, along with wheel profile data for use in wheel-rail interaction analysis
to assess with respect to performance impacts of rail grinding, and from there
to a rail shape index.
Collection of pre- and post-grind surface
condition data (both visible surface damage and eddy current measurement) for
use in developing the rail surface quality index.
Collection of pre- and post-grind rail
corrugation data for use by the University of Manitoba and other participants
in models of vibration, noise and fastener damage.
Specific analyses to be performed include
· Determining allowable deviations of rail
profiles from the prescribed shape, based on the impact to wheel-rail
performance (based on contact stress, steering performance, stability,
shakedown and wear energy).
· Developing and comparing more appropriate shape
indices or measures, including running band radius/position, conformality,
conicity and PQI through the use of static, quasi-static and dynamic analyses.
· Correlating rail deterioration rates (profile,
surface damage and corrugation) with track curvature, wheel profile shapes,
train speeds and steel types.
- General evaluation of the cost impacts of noise,
vibration, RCF and poor wheel/rail performance (rail wheel life, ride quality)
and the impact of rail grinding on those.
expectation is that this research will be incorporated into both APTA and AREMA
standards and so readily available to all.
Its guidelines and approaches will be implemented by rail grinding
companies, wheel-rail and rail grinding specialist organizations.
While there has always been scrutiny on budgets, the increasing profile of noise and vibration especially, but also safety and ride quality, has raised the profile of rail grinding and current practices are being questioned. There is an immediate need for objective means of measuring the effectiveness of rail grinding in achieving its objectives.
|Sponsoring Committee:||AR050, Railroad Infrastructure Design and Maintenance
|Research Period:||12 - 24 months|
|RNS Developer:||Eric E. Magel, Principal Engineer, Rolling Contact Fatigue, National Research Council, Canada, _EMAIL_, _PHONE_ Mark Reimer, Director of Projects, Advanced Rail Management Corporation, Indialantic, Florida, _EMAIL_, _PHONE_|
|Index Terms:||Decision support systems, Rail grinding, Maintenance of way, Rail profiles, Rolling contact, Service life, |
Administration and Management
Maintenance and Preservation


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Actress and television personality Mini Mathur loves a healthy meal. The 46-year-old has shared glimpses of her breakfast smoothies and fruits she's in love with. In a now-defunct Instagram story, Mini had revealed that she is "obsessed with passion fruit". The actress also revealed that her day starts and ends with two passion fruits. Mini's passion fruit obsession is certainly healthy.
Passion fruit is the fruit of the Passiflora vine, a type of passion flower with a tough outer skin and a juicy, seed-filled center. Passion fruits come in different varieties and vary in size and color. Some of the most common are purple and yellow varieties. This tropical fruit is grown all over the world and crops can be found in Asia, Europe, Australia, and South and North America.
So why should you also add passion fruit to your diet?
According to Healthline, passion fruit is a good source of nutrients, especially fiber, vitamin C, antioxidants and provitamin A. The fruit is also rich in beneficial plant compounds, including carotenoids and polyphenols. Passion fruit is richer in polyphenols than many other tropical fruits, including lychee, mango, banana, papaya and pineapple. Passion fruit provides a small amount of iron. Passion fruit is a good source of antioxidants and also protects your body from free radicals, unstable molecules that can damage your cells if present in large numbers.
In addition to passion fruit, Mini also enjoys nutrient-rich smoothies. The actress enjoys a tall glass of dragon fruit, coconut milk, banana and watermelon over a chia and sunflower seed smoothie, as her Instagram story suggests. Dragon fruit is another source of high amounts of fiber and magnesium, as well as an extremely low calorie content. Dragon fruit is considered a very nutritious fruit.
Another smoothie that Mini enjoys consists of apple, beetroot, carrot, celery, kale, soaked Sabja seeds and marine collagen powder.
How will you include passion fruit in your diet?
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On the Clock: A Pocket Guide to Timeclock Rounding
Back in the day when handling payroll was pretty much a pen-and-paper process, employers would use rounding to account for odd minutes and seconds outside the regular work schedule. Time clock rounding helped streamline calculating wages and save chunks of time in the process.
But does it still make sense today?
What Is Time Clock Rounding?
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), all employers are required to track and store employee time records completely and accurately. This can be done either by asking employees to write their hours down, using regular time clocks or through time-tracking software.
"So, what does time clock rounding mean?"
In a nutshell, time clock rounding means that the actual work hours of your nonexempt employees are rounded up or down by set increments. Depending on the type of your business and general industry practices, you can round work hours in 5-minute and 15-minute increments or to 1/10th of an hour (more on that in a moment).
These days, thanks to GPS-enabled time tracking and payroll automation, fishing for small deviations from regular clock-ins and clock-outs has become much easier. And yet, some small-business owners still use rounding to calculate their employees' wages.
Is Time Clock Rounding Legal?
The short answer is: Yes. The Department of Labor (DOL) allows employers to round time up or down within 15-minute increments, but there's a catch. This method can't be used as a means of cutting labor costs or favor the employer in any way.
Here are a few things to keep in mind when rounding work hours:
 - If you choose to round to 15-minute increments, you need to observe the 7-minute rule; for every 1 to 7 minutes that are rounded down, there is a corresponding timeframe of 8 to 14 minutes that are rounded up to the nearest quarter-hour and counted towards total work time
 - Time clock rounding should be performed in a way that doesn't favor the employer but rather "averages out so that the employees are fully compensated for all the time they actually work". If it's impossible to ensure a "neutral" outcome, rounding should favor the employee
 - The maximum rounding increment allowed by FLSA is 15 minutes so anything greater than that exposes your business to potential legal trouble
 - Regardless of the rounding method, you must still observe the minimum wage and overtime requirements to stay compliant. You can read more here
 - When you round employee work hours, it's key to maintain accurate and complete records. Some of the information you need to store include total employees' time worked each day and week, overtime earnings and wages paid each pay period
 - Finally, although rounding is legal under the FLSA, you may want to refer to state regulations first and see if they don't overrule the federal law
3 Common Rounding Rules
There are several rounding methods that are generally compliant with the FLSA and DOL requirements. While they all work in a similar way, each may be suitable for a different type of business.
15-Minute Rounding (1/4th of an hour)
Rounding to 15 minutes (or 1/4 hour) observes two thresholds that indicate whether the clock-ins and clock-outs are rounded up or down; The first 7.5 minutes is always rounded down while the second-half 7.5 minutes are rounded up to a full quarter of an hour
Here's an example:
5-Minute Rounding
Similarly to the previous method, 5-minute rounding splits every 5 minutes into two parts of 2.5 minutes. Whenever your employee clocks-in or out in the first 2.5 minutes of that timeframe, time is rounded down. If an employee punches their card in the other half, the time is rounded up to the nearest 5 minutes.
Rounding to 1/10th of an Hour (6 minutes)
Finally, rounding to 1/10th of an hour uses 6-minute increments (6×10), each split into 3-minute intervals. For every three minutes after each the 6-minute increment, time is rounded down. Conversely, the second half of the interval rounds up to the nearest 6 minutes. It's that simple.
3 Risks of Time Clock Rounding
Now that you know how time clock rounding works, the big question that remains is: "should I do it?" Would your current payroll process really benefit from this approach?
If you still want to give it a try, you should be aware of some of the risks that come with the package.Employer-Employee Friction
It's no secret that employees are not particularly fond of time clock rounding. Sometimes, business owners are not transparent enough about it or don't educate the workforce on how it affects wages. In more grim scenarios, employers use rounding as an easy way to pocket some extra cash, which is considered wage theft.
If the grievance builds up over time, a dissatisfied employee may take legal action. Considering that DOL is rather strict about the "fairness" of recording work hours, the dispute can turn into a full-blown lawsuit and lead to further investigation into your payroll practices.
Before you implement time clock rounding at your small business, it's important that you first discuss it with your employees. Want to keep them from clocking in late or clocking out early? Can't enforce signing time cards? Try voicing your concerns and mediate the issue before it escalates.
Inaccuracies in Employee Records
The popular argument for using rounding is that it makes handling payroll a tad easier. But does it really? Shaving down a minute here and there can lead to small anomalies popping up all over. And once they stack up, it's impossible to keep your records accurate.
For some business owners, work hours are also one of the KPIs that help measure the performance of their business. With these numbers askew, you won't be able to see the big picture and plan strategically because of the flawed data.
Remember that tracking hours and calculating wages don't have to be that difficult. You just need the right set of tools to do so quickly and accurately.
Overpaying or Underpaying Employees
In the ideal world, time clock rounding balances out (as required by DOL and FLSA) for the employer and employee. But this is rarely the case.
Most of the time, it's either the employer OR the employee that reaps the benefits. If it's the latter, you're most likely miscalculating wages and overpaying your workers. If the former, your risk running into grievance complaints and costly legal trouble.
Regardless of which is true for your small business, the potential benefits of rounding are simply not worth it. When you "adjust" work hours to save time and money, the risk of underpaying or overpaying your workforce defeats the purpose of rounding at the onset.
Let's Wrap It Up
Many small-business owners still use rounding to reclaim a portion of the time and money that escapes due to inaccurate time-tracking methods. Is it justifiable? With the potential risks and questionable gains on the scale, it may be better to look for an alternative solution.
This article was contributed by Dawid Bednarski and originally posted on


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Scrape Java Table Using Find All Children Activity
javaexample
To be able to run this example you need to install UiPath.Excel.Activities. See more details on how to install packages here.
Task
Extract FirstName and Sport columns from a table inside a Java App.
Solution
 1. Create a datatable to store the results, using "Build DataTable".
 2. Find all children for the FirstName column in datatable. Set the Filter property. Filter="<java role='label' tableCol='0' />"
 3. Add a "ForEachChild" activity. Inside of it add a new row in our datatable and the corresponding data scraped.
 4. Find all children for the Sport colum in the datatable. Filter="<java role='label' tableCol='2' />"
 5. Add a "ForEachChild" activity. Write in our datatable the scraped data.
 6. Output the results in a csv.


process at initial conditions, the initial reaction rates vary with the rate constants. r c /r 0 = k c /k 0 r en /r 0 = k en /k 0 Slide 22 Using Arrhenius Equations yields, r c /r 0 = k c /k 0 = (A*exp(-Ea,c/R*T))/(A*exp(-Ea,o/R*T)) r en /r 0 = k en /k 0 = (A*exp(-Ea,en/R*T))/(A*exp(-Ea,o/R*T)) Where Ea,o, Ea,c and Ea,en are activation energy for uncatalyzed reaction, chemically catalyzed and enzymatically catalyzed reactions, respectively. A is a constant and remains same for the specific system, the rate ratios could be simplified to: r c /r 0 = (exp(-Ea,c/R*T))/(exp(-Ea,o/R*T)) r en /r 0 = (exp(-Ea,en/R*T))/(exp(-Ea,o/R*T)) Slide 23 When T= 20 o C = 273+20 (K) = 293 K, Ea,o = 18 kcal/mol, Ea,c = 13 kcal/mol (Ea,c) and Ea, en =7 kcal/mol, respectively. R = 8.314 J mol -1 K -1, 1 cal = 4.18 J. Then substituting the parameters in the rate ratio eqns. with these values, yields, r c /r 0 = (exp(-Ea,c/R*T))/(exp(-Ea,o/R*T)) = (exp(-13000*4.18/8.314*293))/(exp(-18000*4.18/8.314*293)) =? r en /r 0 = (exp(-Ea,en/R*T))/(exp(-Ea,o/R*T)) =(exp(-7000*4.18/8.314*293))/(exp(-18000*4.18/8.314*293) =? Slide 24 When T= 20 o C = 273+20 (K) = 293 K, Ea,o = 18 kcal/mol, Ea,c = 13 kcal/mol (Ea,c) and Ea, en =7 kcal/mol, respectively. R = 8.314 J mol -1 K -1, 1 cal = 4.18 J. Then substituting the parameters in the rate ratio eqns. with these values, yields, r c /r 0 = (exp(-Ea,c/R*T))/(exp(-Ea,o/R*T)) = (exp(-13000*4.18/8.314*293))/(exp(-18000*4.18/8.314*293)) =5.1X10 3 r en /r 0 = (exp(-Ea,en/R*T))/(exp(-Ea,o/R*T)) =(exp(-7000*4.18/8.314*293))/(exp(-18000*4.18/8.314*293) =1.4X10 8 Slide 25 Enzyme catalysis is efficient! - If it takes 1 hr to complete the reaction with enzyme - it needs to take 1.4X10 8 hrs = _PHONE_ days = 15981years to complete the same reaction without enzyme catalysis. Slide 26 Specificity of Enzyme Catalysis Much of the catalytic power of enzymes comes from their bringing substrates together in favorable orientations to promote the formation of the transition states in enzyme- substrate (ES) complexes. The substrates are bound to a specific region of the enzyme called the active site. Most enzymes are highly selective in the substrates that the
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Can you hear your baby's heartbeat with an app?
There's an App for That. The Shell app from Bellabeat lets you hear your baby's heartbeat whenever you want. Here's how the amazing technology works. If you've ever found yourself going about your daily routine and desperately wishing you could hear your baby's heartbeat, you'll want to download this app.
Can you really hear baby's heartbeat with app?
It's called Shell, and it was developed by Bellabeat. The free app, available now on Apple's App store, uses the microphone on your cellphone to listen to the baby's heart. It allows parents to listen to the baby's heart, record it and share on social media or email.
Can you use your phone as a fetal Doppler?
My baby heartbeat monitor free app uses your smart phone camera as a fetal doppler heart rate monitor, save and share your baby's heartbeat. This application has a fun and non-medical purpose. You can put the camera phone on the belly of the pregnant mother to see the pulse of the baby's.
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Is there a way to hear your baby's heartbeat at home?
It's possible to hear the heartbeat at home using a stethoscope. Unfortunately, you can't hear it as early as you can with an ultrasound or fetal Doppler. With a stethoscope, a baby's heartbeat is often detectable between the 18th and 20th week. Stethoscopes are designed to amplify small sounds.
Can Apple Watch pick up fetal heartbeat?
No, a fetal monitor on your Apple Watch is not God's gift to women, or to the digital health movement. This week's Apple event has business analysts and digital health enthusiasts hailing Airstrip, a remote cardiac monitoring device that can be used to track the fetal heart rate and uterine contractions.
Why do I feel a pulse in my stomach?
When you eat, your heart pumps extra blood to your stomach and small intestine through your aorta. This helps with digesting food and absorbing its nutrients. That temporary surge can create a more pronounced pulse in your stomach. You might also feel it if you lie down and raise your knees.
How do you self check your stomach for pregnancy?
Walk your fingers up the side of her abdomen (Figure 10.1) until you feel the top of her abdomen under the skin. It will feel like a hard ball. You can feel the top by curving your fingers gently into the abdomen. Figure 10.1 With the woman lying on her back, begin by finding the top of the uterus with your fingers.
Can home Doppler hurt the baby?
Using it for a few minutes once a week shouldn't cause any harm to your baby. At-home fetal dopplers can also be potentially harmful because they can give you a false sense of reassurance, according to the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
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How do you know if your fetus is still alive?
Signs that a baby has died during pregnancy. No foetal movements. A mother's sense that something "isn't right" or not "feeling" pregnant anymore. Vaginal bleeding or uterine cramping.
Can we feel baby's heartbeat by touching stomach?
While this might feel like your baby's heartbeat, it's actually just the pulse in your abdominal aorta. When you're pregnant, the amount of blood circulating around your body dramatically increases.
When can I hear my baby's heartbeat?
A fetal heartbeat may first be detected by a vaginal ultrasound as early as 5 1/2 to 6 weeks after gestation. That's when a fetal pole, the first visible sign of a developing embryo, can sometimes be seen. But between 6 1/2 to 7 weeks after gestation, a heartbeat can be better assessed.
Where can you hear the baby's heartbeat with a stethoscope?
A good quality stethoscope will be able to help you hear the foetal heartbeat around 18 to 20 weeks. Around this time your baby's heartbeat will be strong enough for you to hear with a stethoscope. All you need to do is place the stethoscope on your belly and move it gently until you hear a strong heartbeat.
What do early baby kicks feel like?
Others describe first baby kicks to feel like flutters, gas bubbles, tumbling, a light tickle, a painless "zapping" feeling, a light flicking, or a gentle thud or tap. As baby grows, movements will become much more pronounced and you will feel them more frequently.
Can you hear baby heartbeat underwater?
When you're pregnant and you lie down in the bath tub, with your ears under water, can you hear the baby's heartbeat? No, just like you can't hear another person's heartbeat if you're in a hot tub or pool together.
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Can Apple Watch tell if you are pregnant?
There is no specific setting within watchOS for logging that you are pregnant. Activity-related estimations made by Apple Watch depend, in part, on your personal information. For the most accurate results from the Activity app and Workout during pregnancy, be sure to keep your weight information up to date.
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The Abilify long-acting injection is an option for adults with schizophrenia who have difficulty staying on oral medications. Lack of treatment adherence can lead to a relapse, making a long-acting injection an ideal treatment option for these patients.
Abilify Long-Acting Injection – What Is It?
The Abilify Maintena (aripiprazole) long-acting injection is a long-acting treatment for adults with schizophrenia. Like the oral medication, it works by helping to balance certain chemicals in the brain. Patients receive the injection in the buttock or arm muscle. This medication is normally given every month.
FAQ
How long does the Abilify injection last?
It will depend on the dosage. They typically last anywhere from one to two months. (normally the medication is dosed monthly)
How often is Abilify injection given?
It is injected into the buttock or arm muscle anywhere between one month to two months apart.
What are long-acting injectable antipsychotics?
Long-acting injectable antipsychotics are stabilizing medications, usually for those with schizophrenia. They offer a solution for individuals that have a hard time following daily oral drug therapy. Besides Abilify, other long-acting injectable antipsychotics include fluphenazine (Prolixin) and paliperidone (Invega).
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where can I find in Videoscribe some basic colored perimeters in different shapes (ie. squares or rectangles)?
I don't want solid shapes, just want to be able to highlight part of the content on the screen by using these shapes in different colors, but I can only find these in black. Could you please advise? Thank you.
There's the Shapes folder:
Check out the 'Searching the image library' for tips on finding images
You can also Import your own images, and there's a tutorial/article on how to Create your own images.