on the draped patient. Sitting or leaning against an unsterile surface is a break in technique.
40 11. Unsterile Persons Avoid Sterile Areas Unsterile persons maintain a distance of at least 1 foot from any area of the sterile field. Unsterile persons face and observe a sterile area when passing to be sure they do not touch it. Unsterile persons never walk between two sterile areas. The circulator restricts to a minimum all activity near the sterile field.
41 12. Destruction of the Integrity of Microbial Barriers Results in Contamination Sterile packages are laid on dry surfaces only. If a sterile package wrapped in absorbent material becomes damp or wet, it is discarded. The package is considered unsterile if any part of it comes in contact with moisture. Drapes are placed on a dry field.
42 Destruction of the Integrity of Microbial Barriers Results in Contamination (Cont) If solutions soak through a sterile drape to an unsterile area, the wet area is covered with impervious sterile drapes or towels. Sterile items are stored in clean, dry areas. Sterile packages are handled with clean, dry hands.
43 Setting Up An Unsterile Table As A Sterile Field The scrub person drapes an unsterile table toward self first to protect the gown. Gloved hands are protected by cuffing a drape over them. The scrub person stands back from the unsterile table when draping it in order avoid leaning over an unsterile are.
44 There Is No Compromise with Sterility Its Considered Sterile or Unsterile.
45 The OR Scrub
46 The Surgical Scrub Definition. The surgical scrub is the process of removing as many microorganisms as possible from the hands and arms by mechanical washing and chemical antisepsis before participating in a surgical procedure. Despite the mechanical action and the chemical antimicrobial component of the scrub process, skin is never sterile.
47 The Methodology of the Scrub
48 The Timed Method All surgical scrubs are 5 minutes in length. All are performed using a surgical scrub brush and an antimicrobial soap solution.
49 Surgical Scrub Procedure 1. Wet the hands and forearms 2. Apply antiseptic agent from the dispenser to the hands. 3. Wash the hands and arms thoroughly to 2 inches above the elbows, several times. Rinse thoroughly under running water with the hands upward, allowing water to drip from the flexed elbows.
50 4. Take a sterile brush or sponge (from a package or dispenser) and apply an antiseptic agent ( if it is not impregnated in the brush). Scrub each individual finger, including the nails, and the hands, a half minute for each hand.
51 5. Hold the brush in one hand and both hands under running water, and clean under the fingernails with a disposable plastic nail cleaner. Discard the cleaner after use. 6. Again scrub each individual finger, including the nails and the hands with the brush, half a minute for each hand.
52 The Final Rinse 1. Be sure to keep both arms in the upright position (careful not to touch the faucet!) so that all water flows off the elbows and not back down to the freshly scrubbed hands. Bring arm through the water once, starting with the fingers, then pull the arm straight out. Do not let water run down to hands, must drip off elbows
53 7. Rinse the hands and brush, and discard the brush. 8. Reapply the antimicrobial agent and wash the hands and arms, applying friction to the elbows, for 3 minutes. Interlace the fingers to clean between them. 9. Rinse the hands and arms as described in the previous slide.
54 Drying the Hands and Arms 1. Reach down to the opened sterile package containing the gown, and pick up the towel. Be careful not to drip water onto the pack. Be sure no one is within arms reach. 2. Open the towel full- length, holding one end away from the nonsterile scrub attire. Bend slightly forward.
55 3. Dry both hands thoroughly but independently. To dry one arm, hold the towel in the opposite hand and, using the oscillating motion of the arm, draw the towel up to the elbow. 4. Carefully reverse the towel, still holding it away from the body. Dry the opposite arm on the unused end of the towel.
56 Gowning and Gloving Techniques 1. Reach down to the sterile package and lift the folded gown directly upward. 2. Step back away from the table into an unobstructed area to provide a wide margin of safety while gowning. 3. Holding the folded gown, carefully locate the neckline.
57 4. Holding the inside front of the gown just below the neckline with both hands, let the gown unfold, keeping the inside of the gown toward the body. Do not touch the outside of the gown with bare hands. 5. Holding the hands at shoulder level, slip both arms into the armholes simultaneously.
58 6. The circulator brings the gown over the shoulders by reaching inside to the shoulder and arm seams. The gown is pulled on, leaving the cuffs of the sleeves extended over the hands. The back of the gown is securely tied or fastened at the neck and waist, touch the outside of the gown at the line of ties or fasteners in the back only.
59 Gloving by the Closed Glove Technique 1. Using the right hand and keeping it within the cuff of the sleeve, pick up the left glove from the inner wrap of the glove package by grasping the folded cuff.
60 2. Extend the left forearm with the palm upward. Place the palm of the glove against the palm of the left hand, grasping in the left hand the top edge of the cuff, above the palm. In correct position, glove fingers are pointing toward you and the thumb of the glove is down
61 3. Grasp the back of the cuff in the left hand and turn it over the end of the left sleeve and hand. The cuff of the glove is now over the stockinette cuff of the gown, with the hand still inside the sleeve.
62 4. Grasp the top of the left glove and underlying gown sleeve with the covered right hand. Pull the glove on over the extended right fingers until it completely covers the stockinette cuff.
63 5. Glove the right hand in the same manner, reversing hands. Use the gloved left hand to pull on the right glove.
64 Gloving the Right Hand
65 Scrubbing, Gowning, and Gloving Complete
66 Group Discussion Now visit your Blackboard Course site and go the discussion board section. Discuss the following questions (on the next slide) with your other class members, be sure to share any previous experiences you may have had using Aseptic Technique along with any insights that you may have related to this topic.
67 Questions for Discussion 1. What would you do if, during your OR experience, you accidentally touched an unsterile object with your sterilely gloved hand? 2. What would you do if, while scrubbing, you accidentally touched the faucet? 3. Is it OK to prepare a sterile field an hour before the scheduled surgical case and leave the room to set up another OR room? Why or why not? 4. What should you do if you notice a break in sterile technique by another member of the OR team that they may/or may not be aware of?
68 I would like to express thanks to Karen Steinke, RN, MN for graciously helping with the photos used in this presentation.
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The Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT/CERTH) and the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) co-organize the «11th International Congress on Transportation Research», which will be held on September 20-22, 2023. The spotlight theme of the 2023 Congress is «Clean and Accessible to All Multimodal Transport».
The ICTR has been a major event in the field of transportation research for the past 21 years. Potential ICTR participants include the research and academic community, as well as the public and private sector involved in the development and implementation of innovative projects in the field of transport
Providing sustainable, safe and inclusive transport solutions is vital for meeting the needs of people and ensuring the efficient transportation of goods both within and between cities. Sustainable Urban Mobility and Logistics Plans are the cornerstones of transport within Europe's towns and cities. At the same time, the current energy crisis affects all transport sectors, while the environmental goals set worldwide to achieve climate-neutral transport make research a priority for formulating proposals about the future of transport.
In this context, the objective of the Conference is to showcase recent top-notch research activities in transportation, merge research findings and policy making tasks, facilitate the exchange of knowledge at the local and international level and draw conclusions and shape recommendations for clean and accessible multimodal transportation in Greece and abroad
The 11th International Congress on Transport Research looks forward to discussing the challenges of clean and accessible multimodal transport systems through its main sessions as well as additional special Workshops with the participation of representatives of the research community, industry and public sector. The proposals for the organization of the special workshops can be formulated based on the template provided at the conference website and sent to the email address of the Organizing Committee until March 15, 2023.
Submissions in the following topics are strongly encouraged (submitted work in other topics relevant to transportation will be considered as well). There is no limitation in the transport modes.
- Sustainable urban mobility, implementation and new synergies
- Climate neutral and energy efficient transport and infrastructure
- Mobility accessible for all
- User-centered design of transport systems
- On-demand freight transport and logistics
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- Transport planning and policy
- Innovative and interconnected mobility services
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- Big data analytics and Artificial Intelligence
- Simulation environments and new modeling tools
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WHAT IS A POINT OF SALE SYSTEM?
Point of sale (POS) or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs. A "checkout" refers to a POS terminal or more generally to the hardware and software used for checkouts, the equivalent of an electronic cash register.
A POS terminal manages the selling process by a salesperson accessible interface. The same system allows the creation and printing of the voucher.

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When training for a specific movement in calisthenics, such as planche or front lever, should I be training for both movements at the same time or should I focus on one single movement?
They're both different movements that use a conjunction or muscles for each. Your body will learn to adapt to both just as quick as if you were to do one at a time. Its all about strength, control and balance. All can be improved by doing both exercises.
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A Fresh Look at Glasshouse Design
Celebrated as the most energy-efficient structure of its kind when it opened in 2006, the impressive 60-foot-high, 12,000-square-foot Tropical Forest Conservatory takes visitors from Pittsburgh and beyond on a colorful and inspiring journey through some of the most botanically rich regions of the world. Incorporating impactful ethnobotanic displays, cascading waterfalls and lush greenery, this state-of-the-art facility was intended to raise the bar for glasshouse design and construction, further proving how favoring a fresh approach over past conventions can provide solutions to nearly any sustainability challenge — in this case, eliminating many of the high costs associated with heating and cooling.
In sharp contrast to our 1893 glasshouse, which was designed with the prevailing technology of the time and relied upon limited passive ventilation systems that poorly regulate interior temperature, the resultant Tropical Forest Conservatory quickly revealed the fruits of its unconventional design, using 40 percent less energy than traditional glasshouses as it maintains more consistent temperatures all year round; in fact, there is no greenhouse effect at all in this structure, it is always cooler inside than out in the summer, and it uses practically no electricity — thanks to its unique shape and a number of other energy-saving strategies. Today, 100 percent of the building's energy needs, as well as those of the rest of the Phipps campus, are met with solar power and wind energy generated both onand off site.
Click the sections below for additional details on project features and more.
Vision: Rethinking Convention
- Unlike traditional glasshouses, the Tropical Forest Conservatory features a high south wall and a roof that slopes downwards from south to north, allowing for the use of energy-saving double-pane insulated glass on the roof, while still maintaining proper light levels for growing plants.
- Using the results of a tracking study that monitored the path the sun takes across the sky on winter days, our engineers designed the south-facing wall to be at an optimal height, ensuring that 100 percent of the winter sun permeates the conservatory interior. This wall contains single-pane glass, enabling the full spectrum of light that plants require to enter the structure.
- Since the roof is sloped, the sun never passes through it in winter, making it possible to install energy-saving double-pane glass that could otherwise not be used in a greenhouse due to its ability to block light and solar radiation. In cold weather, this type of glass maximizes heat gain and limits the escape of warm air through the roof. In the summer, solar heat gain is minimized.
- Further contributing to the effectiveness of the design, the Tropical Forest Conservatory also boasts a revolutionary open-roof system that facilitates the release of hot air, virtually eliminating the greenhouse effect and the need for costly exhaust fans often employed in traditional conservatories to manage heat build-up. These vents are controlled by an Argus computer system, which opens and closes them based upon internal and external conditions.
Sensibility: Energy-Saving Strategies
- Enhancing the efficiency of the Tropical Forest Conservatory even more are a number of energy blankets and shade cloths on the roof that provide shade in the summer and thermal insulation in the winter. Like the roof vents, these are controlled by the intelligent Argus Control System.
- Western and northern walls made from concrete are insulated on the outside to achieve thermal mass, collecting heat during the day and releasing it at night as temperatures fall.
- A root zone heating system installed in the plant beds consists of a series of underground tubes that use hot water to deliver radiant heat directly to the roots of plants, effectively promoting their growth and allowing Phipps to save energy by lowering ambient air temperature.
- Six 24-inch-diameter, 300-foot-long concrete earth tubes buried 15 feet below ground, where the temperature remains constant at 55 degrees, also help to eliminate the need for mechanical cooling. When the vents are open, a vacuum suction is created by hot air exiting the roof. The earth tubes then pull fresh air in from the outside, effectively cooling it as it passes through.
- While no longer on site, a solid oxide fuel cell prototype created by Siemens Power Generation to convert natural gas into electricity was the first to ever be used in a public garden.
Advanced Computer Control
- Anticipatory computer controlled weather and temperature reacting system
- Maximum energy efficiency
- Smoother, more uniform growing conditions
- Better plant quality and uniformity
- Precise equipment control and advanced data recording system
- Energy-saving double-pane roof glass insulates while maintaining proper light levels for growing plants.
- Special Events Hall adjacent to the Conservatory features the first commercial installation of Solarban 70 XL solar control low-emissivity glass, the most energy-efficient glass available at the time, designed and manufactured by PPG Industries, Inc.
Radical Roof Design
- Tall south-facing wall allows for insulated double-pane roof glass while still maintaining proper light levels for growing plants
- Half of the 12,000 sf roof opens to eliminate the "greenhouse effect"
- Vents are Argus computer controlled
Symbiotic Heating Systems
- Radiant floor heat for visitors
- Thermal massing interior concrete walls collect solar energy and release the heat at night
- Green roof over support facilities
- Fogging system for evaporative cooling
- Prevent convective and radiant heat loss
- Provide shade in summer and thermal insulation in winter
- Guided electronically by weather station link
- Argus computer controlled
- 100% passive cooling replaces need for HVAC
- Six 24" diameter, 300' long concrete tubes are installed at 15 feet below grade, where the temperature is a steady 55° F (13°C) year round
- Hot outside air cools as it travels through the underground tubes and into the conservatory
- Vacuum created by hot air exiting the roof vents pulls the cooled air into conservatory using no electricity
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The test will be on 12/5. Your goal will be to write a Java application and submit it before the end of class. You will have the entire three hours to complete the test. Here are the things you should be able to do and may be asked on the test:
-Create a random number between a low value and a high value
-Ask the user to enter a number
-Use decision making and loop structures to check to see if the number is within a specified range. Continue to ask the user until he or she gets it right.
-Compare what the user enters to the random number to see if they match.
-Tell the user if the numbers match or not


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ARcade is a collection of AR filters that enhance the experience of the exhibition Play Beyond Play at Tekniska Museet.
Because of the pandemic, most AR and VR experiences are off-limits because of the risk of spreading infection. The filters engage the users by allowing them to interact with the exhibition through their phones and opens up a way to connect with the museum remotely through social media.
My role was to facilitate meetings, customer contact, interviewing, and designing the game and visuals.
I collaborated with four other students.
I contacted Tekniska Museet and they were interested in collaborating with us. We had a meeting where we defined the goals, and asked about the habits of their visitors and their target group.
Create an Augmented Reality guide to a place/person/institution. Each team member was responsible for one concept & filter, but we had the same theme. I suggested the exhibition Play Beyond Play which is what we went with.
Families with children (aged ~2-12).
Combining retro games with new tech. To validate my concept, I pitched the game to other groups, the target audience, and my teacher.
I used both information from the customer, and researched on my own by interviewing the target group.
I interviewed different groups that visited the exhibition. I noticed that the target audience seemed to be families with children, which was later confirmed by the customer. We also saw that many AR and VR games were closed off due to Covid.
I asked the visitors about their habits concerning gaming and museum visits, and their thoughts about filters. All of the visitors mentioned that AR and VR were very interesting and that they find those kinds of games engaging.
The target audience loves interactive experiences, so the filter must be hands-on.
I developed the game in several iterations and tested it with both adults and kids.
The kids were very engaged with the game. They said it was fun, wanted to know other people's scores, and jumped up and down and laughed.
The adults enjoyed sharing the score and competing on social media.
Creating the basic game in Spark AR. I created the characters in Photoshop Illustrator, non-pixeled so that the kids will relate to the characters more easily, while still giving a retro feeling for the adults. I created the sound in an 8-bit sound generator, enhancing the retro feeling.
Test 1 Problems: The user didn't understand how to move the character. The game wasn't that fun to share on social media.
Solutions: Add instructions at the start of the game. Add a transparent game over scene for selfies.
I incorporated the feedback from the tests, and further developed the game logic and cleaning up the scene, like hiding the dots when they get eaten.
Test 2 Problems: The user didn't understand the wording "move" and tried to tilt their head or move the head to move the character. The game was a bit overwhelming with impressions.
Solutions: Change the wording in the instructions, and add the possibility to tilt or rotate the head. Only show elements relevant for that scene of the game, and hide the rest.
To lower the cognitive load, I hid elements that weren't necessary at that time of the game. This meant showing/hiding the ghosts & the character, and switching out the "score" text to an encouraging "beat my score" text at game over for selfies.
I also added both rotate head and tilt head controls, and reset the scene when restarting the game.
Test 3 Problems: Immediately after the start of the game, it's hard to catch the dots due to the position & speed. Moving the character like they wanted it to move was also a bit hard.
Solutions: Fix dot & ghost position & speed, and the character speed.
I created a 3D model of the character in Cinema4D, but after user testing and feedback, I decided not the integrate the 3D character into the filter. A common comment was that it removed the nostalgic feeling.
Instead, I concentrated on fine-tuning the speed and position of the game objects.
Test 4 Problems: The kids wanted to know the name of the game.
Solutions: Create a logo with a name.
I created a game logo and added the logo for Tekniska Museet and its exhibition Play Beyond Play. To not confuse the player, I only show the logos at the beginning and end of the game.
5 filters, inspired by the exhibition. I gathered all the material from the team and sent it to Tekniska Museet. They can use the filters however they want, either on their social media or in the exhibition.
Increase the paying customer base & explore the possibility to incorporate gamification.
Incorporate education about economics, so that their customers can learn in a pain free way.


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This makes perfect sense in an evolutionary context but I think it also makes an amusing statement about the stereotypical gender perspectives of humans. These different gender perspectives are best exemplified by a joke which was the source for coining the term, Coolidge Effect.
… an old joke about Calvin Coolidge when he was President … The President and Mrs. Coolidge were being shown [separately] around an experimental government farm. When [Mrs. Coolidge] came to the chicken yard she noticed that a rooster was mating very frequently. She asked the attendant how often that happened and was told, "Dozens of times each day." Mrs. Coolidge said, "Tell that to the President when he comes by." Upon being told, President asked, "Same hen every time?" The reply was, "Oh, no, Mr. President, a different hen every time." President: "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."

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8 thoughts on " Untroubled "
 1. Untroubled definition is - not given trouble: not made uneasy. How to use untroubled in a sentence.
 2. without trouble, discomfort, or disturbance: an easy, untroubled life; He was untroubled by daily setbacks.
 3. adjective undisturbed, unconcerned, unperturbed, cool, calm, steady, peaceful, composed, serene, tranquil, sedate, placid, unfazed (informal), unflappable (informal), unruffled, unworried, unflustered, unstirred, unagitated She remained untroubled by the reports.
 4. 'an untroubled gaze' 'The lake stretched serene and untroubled to the opposite shore where a hiker can still encounter bears and cougars.' 'She looked so peaceful and untroubled when she slept; it truly accented her beauty in his eyes.' 'The serene and apparently untroubled marriage of the royal pair is.
 5. (comparative more untroubled, superlative most untroubled) Of or pertaining to a lack of worries. Once the exams were over she once more enjoyed untroubled sleep.
 6. They spent half an hour on FaceTime, talking through the options, untroubled by their physical distance. New York Times May 7, And the college kids appear untroubled by anything other than mastering the buzzer and making their school look good - the kind of simple pleasures we look forward to reclaiming. Washington Times Apr 12,
 7. 35 synonyms of untroubled from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, plus 54 related words, definitions, and antonyms. Find another word for untroubled. Untroubled: free from emotional or mental agitation.
 8. Behind them, in the untroubled night, Delphin led Margot home. He sought her with a quiet conscience, untroubled by a fear. Yet in her badness she was frank, natural and untroubled as a child. Then we may possess the untroubled mind, a treasure too rich to be computed.
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From the beginning of 2018, Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg JSC (SP SPb) has allocated more than RUB 31 million for environment protection (+27%, year-on-year).
The Company's investments into modernization and maintenance of environmental facilities have been increased by 21%, year-on-year. This year, the port has automated its sewage network, upgraded certain sections of sewer line and installed metering stations at some wastewater outlets.
SP SPb has increased its expenses for environment protection measures by 24%. In particular, it allocated more resources for monitoring of compliance with air quality standards and increased the frequency of measuring air samples taken at the border of the sanitary protection zone.
Besides, a package of measures has been undertaken to protect the Gulf of Finland waters including regular control of the coastal zone and treatment of wastewater.


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The Mushroom Coral is common and widespread and can occur in dense clusters on reef flats and slopes. The most important known threat for this species is extensive reduction of coral reef habitat due to a combination of threats. Threats of habitat loss, coral bleaching, and the collection of the corals for aquarium and curio trade have made it listed as Near Threatened. Because of ocean acidification and reef degradation it will be important to keep tabs on its survival. Coral disease is a serious threat to coral reefs worldwide and a major cause of reef deterioration. The main predator for the mushroom coral is the crown of thorns starfish. The mushroom coral is found on back reef, flat reef, reaf slopes, and lagoons. This is a solitary, freeliving coral found at depths of 1-20 meters.
Location: Animal Not Currently At Zoo
Indo-west Pacific in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean, and around Australia, South-east Asia, southern Japan and the East China Sea.
This species is found on back reef, flat reef, reef slopes and lagoons. It can occur in very dense clusters on reef flats and multi-species fungiid assemblages on slopes.
fishing, commercial/residential development, invasive species and diseases
The growth of the mushroom coral depends on the reef, nutrients, and predators. Being asexual, there is not an actual gestation time.
It is thought that the mushroom coral lives more than ten years. The maturity of most reef building corals typically is three to eight years and the average generation length is ten years.
It is always attached as a juvenile and free living as an adult, and as a result it is mobile. It is a good competitor and can live on a variety of substrata.
It is a good asexual reproducer and often occurs in clusters as a result. The species is one of the first colonizers to settle in blasted areas and thrives in disturbed environments.
Nutrients found in the water column around the coral.


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Bringing business into the conversation on sustainable development
IIED has launched a new series of blogs and interviews exploring how business and investors are contributing to sustainable development.
IIED's new blog series looks at how businesses and investors are increasingly connecting with the sustainable development agenda. It explores the challenges and opportunities faced by business and investors as they start to look at delivering positive social and environmental impacts alongside financial returns.
The series is part of IIED's work to promote new ways of working and new alliances in order to address global development and environmental challenges.
From impact investing to green bonds
West was previously senior environment adviser at the UK Department for International Development and director of the Shell Foundation. He is a partner in Sumerian Partners, which manages investment capital to deliver measurable and lasting social impact in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He and Kelly talk about the growth of impact investing – investments that aim to generate beneficial social or environmental impacts alongside financial returns.
West also notes that businesses are increasingly reporting on how their activities are contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The next blog looks at the rise of green bonds – investments whose proceeds are specifically earmarked for climate and environmental projects. Pernille Holtedahl, of the firm Blue Maia, reviews the rise of the green bond market and suggests this shift is part of a wider transition – with both businesses and individuals seeking positive impacts for their investments.
Coming next will be an article by the former head of sustainability at leading British retailer Marks & Spencer, Mike Barry, who will look at how to be a sustainable business leader. Based on discussions with more than 100 business people, Barry will set out ten points that businesses need to address during the next decade.
David Croft, global head of sustainability at British multinational Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RB), which manufactures health and hygiene products and employs some 40,000 people worldwide, will also contribute to the series. Croft will make the point that everyone is a global citizen, and everyone has a contribution to make if we are going to achieve the SDGs. Croft will stress that businesses are global citizens as well, and as such have their role to play.
Finding new ways of working
The blog series highlights IIED's work to engage with investors and businesses, to explore how they can contribute to achieving the SDGs, reduce inequalities and shape more sustainable markets.
The issue of unsustainable markets was one of five challenges identified in IIED's new strategy, entitled Make Change Happen.
IIED believes that to address the five challenges – unsustainable markets; increasing inequality; the climate crisis; the assault on the natural world; and increasing urban risk – organisations need to find new ways of working and to forge new alliances between civil society, business and governments.
IIED has also recently launched a new series of 'Insights' publications, aimed primarily at business readers and looking at environment and development challenges and the business community.


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Using Tooltips With Form Validation
The jQuery UI tooltip widget is a good way to describe what's required in a specific form input element. A good way to instruct the user, so that they're less likely to receive validation errors when they submit the form. Even with this help, the user will likely get something wrong, or just forget to supply information altogether. In this case, you can use the same tooltip widget to provide a subtle visual cue that there's something wrong with their input.
For example, here's what the form might look like as they're filling it out - before they make a submission attempt.
And here's what happens when the user tries to submit the form without supplying the first name field.
Note that this form validation also changes the state of the input itself. It also changes the visual state of the tooltip, but it's only displayed if the user hovers over the input, or if the input gains focus. We're not even changing the content of the tooltip when it enters the error state. We usually shouldn't have to because it's going to be something trivial the user got wrong, and the visual cue is enough to set them on the right path. Here's what the tooltip and validation code looks like.
function error( $input ) {
 return $input
 .tooltip( 'option', {
 tooltipClass: 'ui-state-error'
 }).addClass( 'ui-state-error' );
$(function () {
 $( '[title]' ).tooltip().on({
 focusin: function( e ) {
 $( e.currentTarget )
 .addClass( 'ui-state-focus' );
 focusout: function( e ) {
 $( e.currentTarget )
 .removeClass( 'ui-state-focus' );
 $( '[type="submit"]' ).button();
 var params = $( e.currentTarget )
 .reduce( function( result, i ) {
 result[ ] = i.value;
 return result;
 if (!params.firstname ) {
 error( $( '[name="firstname"]' ) );
 if (!params.lastname ) {
 error( $( '[name="lastname"]' ) );
 if (!params.address ) {
 error( $( '[name="address"]' ) );
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Unseen Tears: A Documentary on Boarding School Survivors
Native American families in Western New York continue to feel the impact of Thomas Indian School and Mohawk Institute, also known as the Mush Hole, — Native American boarding schools where "savage-born" children were, in the words of Richard Henry Pratt, trained in "civilized language and habit".
"Unseen Tears", a documentary produced by Native American Community Services, features boarding school survivors, who talk openly about the tragic separation from their families, abuse, and a systematic assault on their language and culture:
"We had all our hair cut off, we were made bald," - says Sally General, a Mohawk Institute survivor. "Kids on the reservation used to call us Mush Hole baldies."
"When we used our language, they would wash our mouths with soap. They would throw us into a cold shower and beat us along the way," notes Elliot Tallchief, who was sent to Thomas Indian School when he was five years old.
The documentary also highlights the efforts made in local communities to heal the wounds and break the cycle of intergenerational trauma resulting from the boarding school experience.


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- Rhys Clement, specialist trainee year 4 in trauma and orthopaedics
- 1Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK
- Correspondence to: R G E Clement
Hippocrates advised that doctors should "be clean in person, well dressed, and anointed with sweet smelling unguents."1 Although this remains sound advice, the concept of acceptable attire for doctors is constantly evolving. Two hundred years ago doctors wore formal attire for all clinical activity, including surgery, because they had no idea that their clothing could transmit infection. The demonstration of micro-organisms by Pasteur revolutionised the way people thought about infection and paved the way for Lister's concept of antisepsis that has shaped our modern approach towards infection control.
However, Lister did not recognise clothing as a source of infection and continued to operate in formal attire. MacEwan, a student under Lister who became professor of surgery in Glasgow, is credited with introducing the sterile surgical gown. White coats made their appearance on wards and in clinics during the 20th century and are an iconic symbol of the medical profession. They were cited as a defining factor in the emerging role of hospital based care and the acceptance of the sick role outside of the home.2
The white coat remained the status quo until 2007, when the Department of Health (DOH) released dress code guidelines that forced doctors to remove their white coats, jackets, ties, and watches and roll up their sleeves.3 These guidelines were based on the findings of two literature reviews known as TVU1 and TVU2,4 5 which were commissioned and funded by the DOH "to inform policy development."
Critics argue that evidence to support the new dress code is lacking, and the conclusions of TVU1 and TVU2 suggest there may be some merit in their argument.6 7 8 TVU1 stated that "the hypothesis that uniforms/clothing could be …


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Fedora users are advised to follow instructions here. Ubuntu and Debian users can install OpenAFS from the repositories for these distributions (you may need to use the PPA version instead of the version in the standard Ubuntu repositories on recent Ubuntu releases). In all cases, you will need to set the ThisCell file in your OpenAFS installation to athena.mit.edu. Once the client is installed you are ready to go. There are some significant differences between running applications this way and running them on a standard Athena machine:
 - Unless you provide the attach and add commands and define the ATHENA_SYS environment variable, functionality depending on these will not work.
 - The /mit directory, needed as the standard mount point for lockers, will not exist. You will need to create it manually and make it world-writable.
 - You'll need to create a symlink for each locker you use, like
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 - Unless you provide the add command, you will need to put the correct locker arch hierarchy bin directory on your path in order to be able to launch applications in the locker.
 - Some locker applications require the MIT-specific athdir, hesinfo and machtype commands; unless you provide these launch scripts requiring them will not work correctly.
 - You will need to separately authenticate to AFS, using the kinit command. In using kinit, you log in with your Athena password which may be different from the one you use to log on to the computer you are using. If you forget this step, you may get confusing error messages when you try to run locker software. You do this as follows:
 $ kinit username (username is your Athena username; enter your Athena password when prompted)
 - After running kinit you need to run the aklog command to get AFS tokens:
 $ aklog
 - If you have a locally installed application that has the same name as one in a locker, it may be launched instead of the one in the locker unless you ensure that the locker version is found first in your path. If you have the add command, using it with the -f option will ensure that this is the case.
 - For applications that store configuration and data files in your home directory, the value of $HOME will generally be used to determine this; it can either be your local home directory on the machine you are working on, or your AFS home directory, but if you want the latter you will need to reset $HOME yourself and attach your AFS home directory locally by using the attach or add command (as you do for attaching other lockers) or by making a mount symlink for this manually. If you use the default home directory it will generally be the (non-AFS) one on the local machine.
 - Because non-Athena Linux machines generally are not in the same, standard configuration as Athena machines, it may happen that some applications in lockers fail to launch over OpenAFS, typically with errors about missing libraries. If this happens to you, note their exact names and contact the Athena consultants. They should be able to determine in most cases what packages you are missing and tell you how to install them.


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Field resistance of transgenic plantain to nematodes has potential for future African food security
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Plant parasitic nematodes impose losses of up to 70% on plantains and cooking bananas in Africa. Application of nematicides is inappropriate and resistant cultivars are unavailable. Where grown, demand for plantain is more than for other staple crops. Confined field testing demonstrated that transgenic expression of a biosafe, anti-feedant cysteine proteinase inhibitor and an anti-root invasion, non-lethal synthetic peptide confers resistance to plantain against the key nematode pests Radopholus similis and Helicotylenchus multicinctus. The best peptide transgenic line showed improved agronomic performance relative to non-transgenic controls and provided about 99% nematode resistance at harvest of the mother crop. Its yield was about 186% in comparison with the nematode challenged control non-transgenic plants based on larger bunches and diminished plant toppling in storms, due to less root damage. This is strong evidence for utilizing this resistance to support the future food security of 70 million, mainly poor Africans that depend upon plantain as a staple food.
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According to the study "Global Stationary Lithium-Ion Battery Market," the global stationary lithium-ion battery market size will see a 12.7% CAGR through 2028. In this outlook, as the market sizzles due to the increasing demand for electric vehicles, other markets emerge. In Europe, one, in particular, is bound to a prime position: Spain.
News have just broken that the largest lithium mine in Europe will be in Spain. Lithium Iberia has submitted to the Junta de Extremadura an exploitation project for the lithium deposit located in the Cañaveral municipality of Cáceres.
If approved, Spain would have the largest mine in Europe by 2025, due to its size and extraction volume.
Based on the project presented by the company, the necessary investment to carry out the operation will be 340 million euros. Lithium Iberia has gone to foresee an extraction that could last for between 19 and 30 years, of which the first six would be in the open pit and the rest underground.
By the time the location is fully operational, it will directly employ 430 people including workers from the mine and the adjacent plant, while the indirect impact is expected to be around 1,100 more workers.
In terms of production volume, the Las Navas mine —as the area where the extraction is planned is known— will be capable of extracting 1.2 million tons annually, which could rise to 30,000 tons of lithium sulfate usable for electric car batteries.
If the review of the project is approved, the Las Navas mine could start supplying lithium to manufacturers by 2025, a date that perfectly coincides with the PERTE materialization for the development of Volkswagen Group electric vehicles in Spain, with batteries from the confirmed Sagunto factory —work is scheduled to begin in 2026.
As in any mining operation, there are ecological constraints and conditions that affect the way in which the operation will be carried out.
To begin with, the mine will be powered by photovoltaic energy from a plant that is intended to be in the municipality of Holguera, approximately 16 kilometers from where the extraction is planned.
Restoration of the land in phases throughout the life of the project is also planned. Already in the first year of extraction, the first restoration work will begin, while in the third year the restoration of the open-pit mine will start.
According to campaign group Transport & Environment, there is enough lithium to manufacture 21 million electric cars by 2025, while there is enough localized lithium to produce batteries for 14 million vehicles by 2023.
Lithium is the most important component in an electric car battery, and its availability and supply will mark the future of the automobile industry in the coming years.
There are various entities and media that point out that there will not be enough lithium to support the paradigm shift that the mobility industry is undergoing, but Transport & Environment —which has based its study on Bloomberg data— says that there is currently 55% more lithium than estimated, which does not mean that its supply is guaranteed.
Currently, and only in Europe, there are 27 large localized lithium deposits that are considered as potential mines of this precious material, and they are distributed mainly in nine countries; Czech Republic, Serbia, Ukraine, Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, Austria, and Finland.
In total, it is estimated that all these deposits add up to 8,839,750 tons of lithium oxide. Even with enough lithium and nickel located and available in the short term, the main obstacle for manufacturers of batteries is to have access to it.
With the disclosure of Las Navas in Spain, the market is only bound to get hotter at a critical stage in the electric mobility transition.
This article was submitted by an external contributor and may not represent the views and opinions of Benzinga.


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Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 18130, 13 pages
On changes of measure in stochastic volatility models
1Mathematical Sciences Institute, The Australian National University, Canberra 0200, ACT, Australia
2School of Actuarial Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2152, NSW, Australia
3Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York 10027, NY, USA
Received 12 July 2006; Accepted 5 October 2006
Copyright © 2006 Bernard Wong and C. C. Heyde. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Pricing in mathematical finance often involves taking expected values under
different equivalent measures. Fundamentally, one needs to first ensure the
existence of ELMM, which in turn requires that the stochastic exponential of
the market price of risk process be a true martingale. In general, however,
this condition can be hard to validate, especially in stochastic volatility
models. This had led many researchers to "assume the condition away," even though the condition is not innocuous, and nonsensical results can occur if it is in fact not satisfied. We provide an applicable theorem to check the conditions for a general class of Markovian stochastic volatility models. As an example we will also provide a detailed analysis of the Stein and Stein and Heston stochastic volatility models.


Villanella, work in progress, 35mm slides, colour.
In music, a Villanella (Italian pronunciation: [villaˈnɛlla]; is a form of light Italian secular vocal music which originated in Italy just before the middle of the 16th century. It first appeared in Naples, and influenced the later canzonetta, and from there also influenced the madrigal.
The subject matter is generally rustic, comic, and often satirical; frequently the mannerisms of art music, such as the madrigal, are a subject of parody. The rhyme scheme of the verse in the earlier Neapolitan forms of the villanelle is usually abR abR abR ccR. The villanelle became one of the most popular forms of song in Italy around mid-century.
The music of the early Villanella (known as the canzone villanesca) is invariably for three unaccompanied voices.
I collected a series of found 35mm film slides from disparate repositories and private collections, to further process them with Hydrogen Peroxide (Mordançage).
The collection initially included 20 slides, and has now grown to circa 100 slides, projected on a loop via an old slide projector.


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Q: I have two two-year old 'Yoshino' cherry trees in full sun planted thirty feet apart. They were both thriving but over the past month one tree's leaves are drooping, turning yellow, and falling off. The other tree looks great. The sick tree has less drainage than the other and has been in some standing water. Is this root rot and will the tree survive?
A: Flowering cherry trees are famous for their dislike of poorly drained soil. Their roots demand constant gas exchange. In other words, the roots have to breathe.
Cherries installed in un-amended clay soil or planted too deeply or in spots where water accumulates usually die after a few years.
I'm doubtful your sick tree will survive. Remove it, mix a bag of soil conditioner in a six-foot wide planting area and put another in its place.
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Chambon P, Blin A, Bronk Ramsey C, Kromer B, Bayliss A, Beavan N, Healy F & Whittle A (2018) Collecting the dead: temporality and disposal in the Neolithic hypogée of Les Mournouards II (Marne, France) [Zusammenfassung: Die Toten vereinen: Temporalität und Organisation des neolithi-schen Hypogäums von Les Mournouards II (Marne, France)]. Germania, 95, pp. 93-143. _URL_
Why were large collectivities of the dead a widespread feature of the later fourth millennium cal BC in western Europe? The hypogée or artificial cave of Les Mournouards II in the Marne region, northern France, where remains of 79 people were deposited in two chambers, is used to address this and related questions. Bayesian modelling of 29 newly obtained radiocarbon dates places the construction of the tomb in the 34th or 33rd centuries cal BC, with a use-life which could be as little as 100 years. The results indicate that the two chambers were used concurrently, distinctions between them being attributable to their use by different social groupings, as hypothesised by the excavator, André Leroi-Gourhan. The probably short life of this tomb suggests that clusters of hypogées in general could reflect the use of successive tombs by the same groups. The character of the tomb is discussed in general terms of anxieties about territory and numbers of people, threats of dispersal and the maintenance of community. Diversity within collective burial practices in the Paris basin is examined, and a series of specific differences between hypogées and allées sépulcrales are explored.
Late Neolithic; Paris basin; collective burial; hypogea; radiocarbon dating; Bayesianchronological modelling
Germania: Volume 95
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|Date accepted by journal||19/03/2018|
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Desert land reclamation project. Land-reclamation specialist carrying out sand-fixing work in the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan. The roots of the grid of plants will anchor the substrate and encourage the formation of soil and hence more plants. This is aimed at preventing or reversing the process of desertification, where an arid climate causes land to become denuded of vegetation, and the soil breaking down and drying out to form sand dunes. The Karakum Desert of Central Asia covers an area of some 350,000 square kilometres, covering over two-thirds of Turkmenistan. Photographed in 1990.
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A cavity quantum electrohydrodynamic (CQED) method for intracavity field was developed. The method used a single-three level atom driven by a longitudnal mode of a high-Q cavity to implement two-qubit quantum phase gates (QPG) for the intracavity field. It was found that QPG realizations with fidelities above 0.99 could be achieved. The results show that gate times of around 0.1 ms for the microwave regime and a few microseconds for the optical regime can be attained which lie below achievable photon lifetimes in high-Q cavities.
|Journal||Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics|
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Mar 28, 2012 / ENERGY GLOBE Award
Project presentation - "Onshore power supply"
The Port of Gothenburg was one of the first ports in the world to offer onshore power supply with high voltage to commercial vessels (year 2000), a technology that reduces local air pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions and noise to a minimum when using environmentally labeled energy.
In total, one in every three vessels that calls at the Port of Gothenburg can now turn off its diesel engines at the quayside and use onshore power supply instead.
The power is supplied by environmentally labeled electricity like wind power. Today the Port is involved in several global collaborative networks for example World Ports Climate Initiative and Clean North Sea Shipping, which are aimed at spreading this technology to other ports around the world.
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The aim of this WOP is to operate and maintain the wastewater treatment and interceptor sewer system.
This WOP addresses the wastewater treatment and management limitations including optimizing and upgrading existing mechanical/biological treatment processes and laboratory operations
The aim of this WOP is to improve and develop the existing water production and distribution system of Hua Hin Municipality
The WOP aim is to identified priority areas for improvement of BIWASE operations and trained BIWASE personnel
The aim of this WOP is to improve drinking water supply by increasing availability and reducing climate change effects


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Budget satellite drag sail shows space junk how to gracefully exit orbit
Students prove $30 device could help declutter Earth's backyard
A prototype satellite built to test a deployable drag sail to de-orbit satellites appears to have fulfilled its purpose, burning up on re-entry earlier this month after spending just 445 days in orbit.
SBUDNIC, an acronym chosen to be a play on "Sputnik," was put together by students at Brown University, Rhode Island, using low-cost off-the-shelf commercial components. The CubeSat design featured a drag sail made from Kapton polyimide film, and with structural supports of thin aluminum tubing, which deployed once the satellite was in orbit.
The project was intended to demonstrate a potential solution to the problem of low Earth orbit becoming a graveyard for more and more defunct satellites that have reached the end of their life, as The Register detailed previously. If proved successful, the idea is that future satellites could incorporate a similar mechanism to help de-orbit them at the end of their life span.
SBUDNIC was sent up aboard the SpaceX Transporter 5 launch in May last year as part of a payload comprising a number of other small satellites. Its sail "popped open like an umbrella" at a height of about 520 kilometers above the Earth's surface, according to the project team, to create drag and cause its orbit to decay.
The project appears to have been successful in this respect, according to tracking data the team obtained from US Space Command. It indicated that SBUDNIC was about 470 kilometers (292 miles) above the Earth in early March, while other comparably sized satellites deployed to a similar orbit as part of the same mission were still at altitudes of 500 kilometers (310 miles) or more.
The decay of the CubeSat's orbit accelerated as it dropped lower, such that its last known altitude was just 146 kilometers (90 miles) on August 8, shortly after which it is assumed to have been destroyed by burning up in the atmosphere.
- Farewell, Aeolus: Doomed ESA weather sat reenters atmosphere over Antarctica
- Astroscale wants to be the world's friendly neighborhood space garbage collector
- NASA solar satellite burns up over the Sahara desert
- Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware
Previous predictions had suggested that the drag device would reduce the orbital lifetime of SBUDNIC from over 20 years to as few as 6.5 years, but in reality it was brought down in about a year and a quarter.
"We were trying to prove that there are ways of de-orbiting space junk after mission life has ended that are not super costly," said Selia Jindal, one of the project leads who graduated from Brown University this year. "This showed that we can do that. We were successfully able to de-orbit our satellite so that it's no longer taking up space in Earth's orbit."
The sail concept is orders of magnitude less costly than rival ideas for tackling orbital junk such as space tow trucks or nets to capture the junk and pull it out of orbit, according to Dheraj Ganjikunta, SBUDNIC's lead program manager who graduated last year.
"Rather than taking junk out of space after it becomes a problem, we have this $30 drag device you can just throw onto satellites and radically reduce how long they're in space," Ganjikunta said.
Of course, this requires future satellites to be designed to have a similar mechanism built in, and so does not help to address existing space junk, but every little presumably helps.
SBUDNIC was a 3U CubeSat, meaning it was effectively the size of three 10cm cubes combined. It was based around a $10 Arduino system plus 65 AA lithium batteries and included a variety of 3D-printed parts produced with consumer-grade printers. ®


year if self.year is not None else other.year), month=(self.month if self.month is not None else other.month), day=(self.day if self.day is not None else other.day), weekday=(self.weekday if self.weekday is not None else other.weekday), hour=(self.hour if self.hour is not None else other.hour), minute=(self.minute if self.minute is not None else other.minute), second=(self.second if self.second is not None else other.second), microsecond=(self.microsecond if self.microsecond is not None else other.microsecond)) def __abs__(self): return self.__class__(years=abs(self.years), months=abs(self.months), days=abs(self.days), hours=abs(self.hours), minutes=abs(self.minutes), seconds=abs(self.seconds), microseconds=abs(self.microseconds), leapdays=self.leapdays, year=self.year, month=self.month, day=self.day, weekday=self.weekday, hour=self.hour, minute=self.minute, second=self.second, microsecond=self.microsecond) def __neg__(self): return self.__class__(years=-self.years, months=-self.months, days=-self.days, hours=-self.hours, minutes=-self.minutes, seconds=-self.seconds, microseconds=-self.microseconds, leapdays=self.leapdays, year=self.year, month=self.month, day=self.day, weekday=self.weekday, hour=self.hour, minute=self.minute, second=self.second, microsecond=self.microsecond) def __bool__(self): return not (not self.years and not self.months and not self.days and not self.hours and not self.minutes and not self.seconds and not self.microseconds and not self.leapdays and self.year is None and self.month is None and self.day is None and self.weekday is None and self.hour is None and self.minute is None and self.second is None and self.microsecond is None) # Compatibility with Python 2.x __nonzero__ = __bool__ def __mul__(self, other): try: f = float(other) except TypeError: return NotImplemented return self.__class__(years=int(self.years * f), months=int(self.months * f), days=int(self.days * f), hours=int(self.hours * f), minutes=int(self.minutes * f), seconds=int(self.seconds * f), microseconds=int(self.microseconds * f), leapdays=self.leapdays, year=self.year, month=self.month, day=self.day, weekday=self.weekday, hour=self.hour, minute=self.minute, second=self.second, microsecond=self.microsecond) __rmul__ = __mul__ def __eq__(self, other): if not isinstance(other, relativedelta): return NotImplemented if self.weekday or other.weekday: if not self.weekday or not other.weekday: return False if self.weekday.weekday != other.weekday.weekday: return False n1, n2 = self.weekday.n, other.weekday.n if n1 != n2 and not ((not n1 or n1 == 1) and (not n2 or n2 == 1)): return False return (self.years == other.years and self.months == other.months and self.days == other.days and self.hours == other.hours and self.minutes == other.minutes and self.seconds == other.seconds and self.microseconds == other.microseconds and self.leapdays == other.leapdays and self.year == other.year and self.month == other.month and self.day == other.day and self.hour == other.hour and self.minute == other.minute and self.second == other.second and self.microsecond == other.microsecond) def __hash__(self): return hash(( self.weekday, self.years, self.months, self.days, self.hours, self.minutes, self.seconds, self.microseconds, self.leapdays, self.year, self.month, self.day, self.hour, self.minute, self.second, self.microsecond, )) def __ne__(self, other): return not self.__eq__(other) def __div__(self, other): try: reciprocal = 1 / float(other) except TypeError: return NotImplemented return self.__mul__(reciprocal) __truediv__ = __div__ def __repr__(self): l = [] for attr in ["years", "months", "days", "leapdays", "hours", "minutes", "seconds", "microseconds"]: value = getattr(self, attr) if value: l.append("{attr}={value:+g}".format(attr=attr, value=value)) for attr in ["year", "month", "day", "weekday", "hour", "minute", "second", "microsecond"]: value = getattr(self, attr) if value is not None: l.append("{attr}={value}".format(attr=attr, value=repr(value))) return "{classname}({attrs})".format(classname=self.__class__.__name__, attrs=", ".join(l))
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noun (plural drachmas or drachmae /-mē/)
1The basic monetary unit of Greece (until the introduction of the euro), notionally equal to 100 lepta.
More example sentences
- Although we were told that the price of living here had become much more expensive since the euro replaced the drachma, it still seemed pretty cheap to us - especially eating out.
- The drachma disappeared, replaced by the euro when Greece joined the single European currency.
- The euro, which replaces the old francs, marks, guilders, pesetas, escudos, drachmas, and lire of the European Union, is not yet five years old.
Definition of drachma in:
- The British & World English dictionary


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Fabric Defect Detection Using Adaptive Wavelet Transform
【摘要】：正A method of woven fabric defect detection using the wavelet transform adaptive to the fabric has been developed. With reference to the orthogonality constrains of Daubechies wavelet, by taking the minimization of the energy or the gray level of the pixels hi the output sub-images as the additional conditions and using the random algorithm method, two sets of wavelet filters adapted to the fabric texture were formed. The original images of normal fabric texture and the fabric texture with defects were decomposed into horizontal and vertical sub-images by using these filters and the feature indices of these sub-images were also extracted. By comparing the feature indices of the normal texture with that of the defective texture, the fabric defects can be successfully detected and located.


, more manageable chunks makes the DTD easier to analyze. Many of the examples in the last chapter were unnecessarily large because an entire document and its complete DTD were stored in a single file. Both the document and its DTD become much easier to understand when split into separate files.
 13. 13. 259 Chapter 9 ✦ Entities and External DTD Subsets Furthermore, using smaller, modular DTDs that only describe one set of elements makes it easier to mix and match DTDs created by different people or organizations. For instance, if you're writing a technical article about high temperature superconductivity, you can use a molecular sciences DTD to describe the molecules involved, a math DTD to write down your equations, a vector graphics DTD for the figures, and a basic HTML DTD to handle the explanatory text. In particular, you can use the mol.dtd DTD from Peter Murray-Rust's Chemical Note Markup Language, the MathML DTD from the W3C's Mathematical Markup Language, the SVG DTD for the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics, and the W3C's HTML-in-XML DTD. You can probably think of more examples where you need to mix and match concepts (and therefore tags) from different fields. Human thought doesn't restrict itself to narrowly defined categories. It tends to wander all over the map. The documents you write will reflect this. Let's see how to organize the baseball statistics DTD as a combination of several different DTDs. This example is extremely hierarchical. One possible division is to write separate DTDs for PLAYER, TEAM, and SEASON. This is far from the only way to divide the DTD into more manageable chunks, but it will serve as a reasonable example. Listing 9-5 shows a DTD solely for a player that can be stored in a file named player.dtd: Listing 9-5: A DTD for the PLAYER element and its children (player.dtd) <!— Player Info —> <!ELEMENT PLAYER (GIVEN_NAME, SURNAME, P, G, GS, AB?, R?, H?, D?, T?, HR?, RBI?, SB?, CS?, SH?, SF?, E?, BB?, S?, HBP?, W?, L?, SV?, CG?, SO?, ERA?, IP?, HRA?, RA?, ER?, HB?, WP?, B?, WB?, K?) > <!— Player's last name —> <!ELEMENT SURNAME (#PCDATA)> <!— Player's first name —> <!ELEMENT GIVEN_NAME (#PCDATA)> <!— Position —> <!ELEMENT P (#PCDATA)> <!—Games Played —> <!ELEMENT G (#PCDATA)> Continued
 14. 14. 260 Part II ✦ Document Type Definition Listing 9-5 (continued) <!—Games Started —> <!ELEMENT GS (#PCDATA)> <!— ======================= —> <!— Batting Statistics —> <!— At Bats —> <!ELEMENT AB (#PCDATA)> <!— Runs —> <!ELEMENT R (#PCDATA)> <!— Hits —> <!ELEMENT H (#PCDATA)> <!— Doubles —> <!ELEMENT D (#PCDATA)> <!— Triples —> <!ELEMENT T (#PCDATA)> <!— Home Runs —> <!ELEMENT HR (#PCDATA)> <!— Runs Batted In —> <!ELEMENT RBI (#PCDATA)> <!— Stolen Bases —> <!ELEMENT SB (#PCDATA)> <!— Caught Stealing —> <!ELEMENT CS (#PCDATA)> <!— Sacrifice Hits —> <!ELEMENT SH (#PCDATA)> <!— Sacrifice Flies —> <!ELEMENT SF (#PCDATA)> <!— Errors —> <!ELEMENT E (#PCDATA)> <!— Walks (Base on Balls) —> <!ELEMENT BB (#PCDATA)> <!— Struck Out —> <!ELEMENT S (#PCDATA)> <!— Hit By Pitch —> <!ELEMENT HBP (#PCDATA)>
 15. 15. 261 Chapter 9 ✦ Entities and External DTD Subsets <!— ======================= —> <!— Pitching Statistics —> <!— Complete Games —> <!ELEMENT CG (#PCDATA)> <!— Wins —> <!ELEMENT W (#PCDATA)> <!— Losses —> <!ELEMENT L (#PCDATA)> <!— Saves —> <!ELEMENT SV (#PCDATA)> <!— Shutouts —> <!ELEMENT SO (#PCDATA)> <!— ERA —> <!ELEMENT ERA (#PCDATA)> <!— Innings Pitched —> <!ELEMENT IP (#PCDATA)> <!— Home Runs hit Against —> <!ELEMENT HRA (#PCDATA)> <!— Runs hit Against —> <!ELEMENT RA (#PCDATA)> <!— Earned Runs —> <!ELEMENT ER (#PCDATA)> <!— Hit Batter —> <!ELEMENT HB (#PCDATA)> <!— Wild Pitches —> <!ELEMENT WP (#PCDATA)> <!— Balk —> <!ELEMENT B (#PCDATA)> <!— Walked Batter —> <!ELEMENT WB (#PCDATA)> <!— Struck Out Batter —> <!ELEMENT K (#PCDATA)> <!— ======================= —> <!— Fielding Statistics —> <!— Not yet supported —>
 16. 16. 262 Part II ✦ Document Type Definition By itself, this DTD doesn't enable you to create very interesting documents. Listing 9-6 shows a simple valid file that only uses the PLAYER DTD in Listing 9-5. By itself, this simple file is not important; however, you can build other, more complicated files out of these small parts. Listing 9-6: A valid document using the PLAYER DTD <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE PLAYER SYSTEM "player.dtd"> <PLAYER> <GIVEN_NAME>Chris</GIVEN_NAME> <SURNAME>Hoiles</SURNAME>
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 17. 17. 263 Chapter 9 ✦ Entities and External DTD Subsets On closer inspection, however, you should notice that something is missing: the definition of the PLAYER element. The definition is in the separate file player.dtd and needs to be connected to this DTD. You connect DTDs with external parameter entity references. For a private DTD, this connection takes the following form: <!ENTITY % name SYSTEM "URI"> %name; For example: <!ENTITY % player SYSTEM "player.dtd"> %player; This example uses a relative URL (player.dtd) and assumes that the file player.dtd will be found in the same place as the linking DTD. If that's not the case, you can use a full URL as follows: <!ENTITY % player SYSTEM "_URL_ %player; Listing 9-7 shows a completed TEAM DTD that includes a reference to the PLAYER DTD: Listing 9-7: The TEAM DTD (team.dtd) <!ELEMENT TEAM (TEAM_CITY, TEAM_NAME, PLAYER*)> <!ELEMENT TEAM_CITY (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT TEAM_NAME (#PCDATA)> <!ENTITY % player SYSTEM "player.dtd"> %player; A SEASON contains LEAGUE, DIVISION, and TEAM elements. Although LEAGUE and DIVISION could each have their own DT


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Fossil and recent shallow water corals from the Atlantic Islands off Western Africa CANCAP-contribution no. 56
Zoologische Mededelingen , Volume 62 - Issue 8 p. 99- 112
Miocene hermatypic corals are listed from Madeira and Porto Santo. Pleistocene and recent shallow water corals are described from the Cape Verde archipelago. The Miocene fauna was part of the Western Tethyan reef association, which went nearly completely extinct by the development of a cool water current in late Miocene times. The Cape Verde fauna immigrated from the Carribean, presumably by way of a compressed subtropical gyre during a mid Pleistocene glacial phase. The fauna was found in a beach terrace, formerly considered Tertiary, on the island of São Tiago. A lava flow directly above this deposit was radiometrically dated 700.000 ± 200.000 years B.P.
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Opinion Article - Journal of Molecular Oncology Research (2022) Volume 6, Issue 6
Strong pseudopapillary tumors of the pancreas in youthful ladies.
Strong pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas (SPTP) could be a uncommon tumor of the exocrine pancreas, with undetermined etiopathogeny, which most regularly influences youthful ladies. The clinical and physical signs are non-specific and in spite of the advance of complementary examinations, Affirmation is as a rule anatomopathological. Surgical resection is the as it were corrective treatment.Author(s): Abdessamad Elazhary


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Originally known as Northern Berkshire Township Number 2 and
including all of Hinsdale and part of Middlefield, the town
was first settled in 1767 and was officially incorporated as
Partridgefield on July 4, 1771. It was originally named
for Oliver Partridge, one of the three purchasers of the town
(along with Governor Francis Bernard). On March 12, 1783, a
part of Partridgefield was included in the new town of Middlefield.
Then, on June 21, 1804, a part of Partridgefield was established
as Hinsdale. And finally on June 19, 1806, the name of Partridgefield
changed to Peru., the name was officially changed to Peru in
1805, possibly because of its high altitude.
is a mountainous and sparsely settled farming town near the middle
of the eastern side of Berkshire County, 140 miles west of Boston,
and about 5 miles east of the Boston and Albany Railroad station
in Hinsdale bounding this town on the west. On the north
the boundary is Windsor; on the east, Cummington and Worthington;
and on the south, Middlefield and Washington. The area is about
27 square miles, of which 16,019 acres are assessed. Of these,
3,328 acres are forests of beech, maple and spruce. The land is
elevated, rough and rocky. French's Mountain rises near the centre
of the township to a height of 2,239 feet: The church on Peru
Hill, near the western border, is so situated that water falling
from one side of the roof finds its way into the Westfield River,
and from the other side into the Housatonic. The largest watercourse
is Fuller's Stream, draining the central portion of the town..
Some excellent limestone has been quarried here. There is much
rock of a flinty, and some of granitic character. The soil is
a sandy loam. The usual farm crops are raised; and the aggregate
product of the 104 farms was valued in 1885 at $60,161. There
are several large dairies. The manufactories consisted of 4 saw
mills, two of which are quite important. The population was 368,
of whom 116 were legal voters. The valuation in 1888 was $l22,616,
with a tax-rate of $15.75. There were 81 dwelling-houses. The
six public school-houses were valued at some $1,200. There is
one church, which is Congregationalist.
Township "No.Two " was sold at auction in Boston in
1762; and coming into the hands of Oliver Partridge and Elisha
Jones, it acquired the necessary number of inhabitants, and was
incorporated as the town of Partridgefield, July 4, 1771. On June
21, 1804, the western part of the township was set off to form
Hinsdale. On June 19, 1806, the name of the town was changed to
Peru. Among the early settlers were Joseph Badger, Captain Nathan
Watkins and Nathaniel Stowell, who came here in 1766. These, with
others from the town, were at the battle of Bunker Hill. The Rev.
Stephen Tracy, ordained in April, 1772, was the first minister.
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text: Casablanca translates to White House in Spanish got its international name in the 18th century. Casablanca is Morocco's largest city and its original name was 'Anfa' in Berber language. When Portuguese occupied parts of Morocco in the 15th century, the city was named 'Casa Branca' (Casa =House and Branca=white). Subsequently, the Spanish altered branca to blanca and under the French protectorate, the name 'Casablanca' was retained. In Arabic, the city is called 'A-ddar Al Baidaa' (House of the White princess).


Stop celebrating racist icons like Scouts Founder Baden Powell
As a diversity trainer, I am often asked what kind of work I do at schools. For context — unless you have had direct experiences of racism at schools, it is difficult for some people to imagine schools as places where racism thrives. However, as we live in a racist world system and schools are microcosms of society, there is sadly a lot of ways in which schools are racist, both as institutions and places where people (principals, teachers, parents, students) who hold racist ideas and ideals are accommodated, allowed and sometimes even encouraged. In South Africa, learners began detailing accounts of racism faced at schools on the back of the _TAG_ social media protests across the world. Learners started the _TAG_ page on Instagram with many school specific accounts also established to lay bare the horrific experiences of racism, Islamaphobia, sexism, homophobia and other isms experienced by black learners, girl learners, Muslim and LGBTQI learners.
One of the ways in which school's institutional racism shows up is in the selection of calendar days chosen for celebrations. Schools across the world have set days that they celebrate and even though movements like _TAG_ and _TAG_ forced society to question and re-think our relationship with colonialism, most schools have not reviewed their calendar days. Part of my diversity consulting with schools has been on what approaches to take towards days chosen and icons chosen to celebrate because this communicates specific messages about how far the school is or isn't in understanding what it means to be part of a diverse society.
One of the days that are often celebrated uncritically is Baden Powell Day, in celebration of the founder of the Scouts. A brief history of Baden Powell shows that he is no different to Cecil John Rhodes and many other colonisers that we continue to celebrate in society. We need to stop celebrating racist colonial figures in a diverse country with a painful history.
Baden Powell's history also questions the base values of Scouts clubs who use his training as their base foundational theory. Powell was a military man who "trained his men using competitions and games and taught them how to track and live in wild country." His book "Aids to Scouting" about his methods of Army Training is used as a foundational book for Scout clubs across the world. I would like to unpack this violent history and the sexism still rampant in the Scouts at another time but for now want to focus on the racism of the man and his ideology as written about most recently.
Powell has a history of violence against black people, in South Africa, Kenya and the other parts of the world. Various articles have been written about his legacy and relationship with Hitler.
Tarik Ata writes: "Baden-Powell aligned his ideology to that of fascists like Mussolini (who he admired) and Hitler. He read Mein Kampf and claimed the book was wonderful and had good ideas (Jeal, Baden-Powell, 1989). In 1937 Baden-Powell even held talks with the Hitler Youth Movement and was even invited to meet Hitler (BBC, 2020). He was also a military man, committing crimes in British Kenya, serving out the atrocities of British imperialism."
In South Africa's SA history website, his legacy in South Africa specifically is laid bare in the following paragraphs.
"In 1887 he was sent to South Africa where he took part in a campaign against an African chief called Dinzulu. In 1899 Colonel Baden Powell returned to South Africa because there was the possibility of war between the Dutch settlers (Boers) and the British Settlers. War was declared and Baden Powell and 1000 men were left to defend the town of Mafikeng, which was the supply center for the British, He thought up all sorts of schemes to make it look like the town was heavily guarded. When reinforcements arrived the siege had lasted for 7 months. Baden Powell took part in a number of other conflicts and in 1903 was appointed Inspector-General of Cavalry."
A reminder to South Africans in particular that he is a hero of the same Anglo Boer War where black people were held in concentration camps, starved and tortured, their leaders (chiefs) killed, villages pillaged and entire families killed or captured. Blacks were also forced to pick a side between one coloniser and another, namely the British (who brought imperialism and colonialism) or the Boers (who also participated in imperialism and colonialism and later led Apartheid).
Should our schools be celebrating a man with such a violent and racist history and legacy?
Do we need to now start a _TAG_ movement to be heard?
The media has handled Steinhoff corruption with kid gloves, transformation expert says
Ngoasheng says the media has a history of reporting with racial bias towards white people and treating black people in the harshest possible terms for the same crimes.
The Steinhoff matter has been reported on very differently from how corruption in the public sector is reported on generally. It has also been reported on differently from how corruption by black businessmen in the private sector is reported.
Ramaphosa appoints South Africa's new cabinet
She added that she "was really disappointed with the cabinet announcement not so much with individuals per se but it seems it's like the class of 1996, a class reunion bringing in old ministers. Ramaphosa really had an opportunity to bring a lot of new young people. We will have to wait and see how people will perform"
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Analysts speculate on President Ramaphosa's priorities in taking office
A lot of our problems emanate from the fact that we have very weak chapter nine institutions. Once he starts that journey of strengthening the chapter nine institutions, then it becomes easy to hold people accountable particularly people who are running the SOEs.
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Its time multiple perspectives are reflected in our history curriculum
One of the biggest issues is that there is this tendency where people are focused a lot on the impact of colonialism on colonised subjects. And we need to focus both on the impact of colonialism on colonised subjects as well as colonisers themselves. Because colonialism is a very violent system both the oppressor and the oppressed. — Asanda Ngoasheng, Academic and transformation expert
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This scorecard is created to track performance, therefore the demonstration of data within color markers identifies the boundaries of what we define as success. In some instances, a trend may be moving in the wrong direction, but still may be within our 'Target for Success' area. The use of Color Bands and Color Arrows help to define the Target for Success and Current Progress.
Green, Black and Red arrows are used to reflect our 'Current Progress' status.
- GREEN Arrow = We're getting better!
- BLACK Arrow = We're maintaining our position.
- RED Arrow = We're going in the wrong direction.
Green, Yellow or Red color bands are used to reflect our 'Target for Success' zones.
- GREEN Color Band = We've reached our Target for Success!
- YELLOW Color Band = We're making progress, but not quite there yet.
- RED Color Band = We're below our Target for Success.
Data is described with the Time Period, Actual Value, Target Value, Current Trend and Baseline Change %. These mean:
- Time Period - The most current time period for which the data were available.
- Actual Value - The actual level of achievement, the most current data point for the indicator; also shown in a Color Band to reflect if that value is or is not within our Target for Success zone.
- Target Value - The desired level of achievement for the data indicator.
- Current Trend - The direction of progress is shown by a Color Arrow to reflect our Current Progress status, and also noting for how many data points the direction been occurring.
- Baseline Change % - The percentage of change between the baseline data point and the current data point (actual value); also shown with a Color Arrow to describe Current Progress status.


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"Be not afraid of going slowly. Be only afraid of standing still."
Assistance Animals Consulting was created with the guided focus for veterinarians to help bridge the gap of education and understanding for doctors prescribing working animals, patients and organizations using working animals and the public at large interacting with working animals. These working animals are service dogs, emotional support animals as well as therapy animals. We will keep moving forward one step at a time, bridging this gap of education and understanding no matter how slow. Slow forward movement is better than no movement at all. Assistance Animals Consulting is an organization of veterinarians, recognized experts uniquely qualified to serve the community by providing resources for education, behavioral understanding, and guidance regarding working animals. Our veterinarians are here to support you. We are here to help you make it happen!


Disciplinary Mosaic: The Case of Canadian Sociology
Michael Burawoy
The absence of any dynamic quality to the Canadian political system could probably in a large measure be attributed to its separation from the world of higher learning. The association of the intellectuals with the bureaucracy of government is clear enough. However expert they may be, or however many insights they may have into the historical processes, however well they might uncover the evolution of Canadian self-government, they remain aloof and objective. The dynamic dialogue so essential to social change and development can come only from scholarly intellectuals. The intellectuals of the mass media world have no disciplined training, and are unlikely to provide the dialogue. Far from contributing to the dialogue, intellectuals of the higher learning have done their best to mute it.
John Porter, The Vertical Mosaic (1965)
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A volatile mixture of liquid hydrocarbons boiling in the range 80°C to 180°C, used as a solvent. Naphtha is obtained by distilling coal tar (yielding aromatic products) or shale oil, or from the refining and cracking of petroleum. Several types of products are now called naphtha, including coal-tar naphtha and petroleum naphtha. Petroleum naphtha contains aliphatic compounds and boils at higher temperatures than petrol and at lower temperatures than kerosene.
In the 1st century AD, "naphtha" was mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Alchemists used the word for various liquids of low boiling point.
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In this work, we propose a novel ${\bf K}$ernelized ${\bf S}$tein Discrepancy-based Posterior Sampling for ${\bf RL}$ algorithm (named $\texttt{KSRL}$) which extends model-based RL based upon posterior sampling (PSRL) in several ways: we (i) relax the need for any smoothness or Gaussian assumptions, allowing for complex mixture models; (ii) ensure it is applicable to large-scale training by incorporating a compression step such that the posterior consists of a \emph{Bayesian coreset} of only statistically significant past state-action pairs; and (iii) develop a novel regret analysis of PSRL based upon integral probability metrics, which, under a smoothness condition on the constructed posterior, can be evaluated in closed form as the kernelized Stein discrepancy (KSD). Consequently, we are able to improve the $\mathcal{O}(H^{3/2}d\sqrt{T})$ {regret} of PSRL to $\mathcal{O}(H^{3/2}\sqrt{T})$, where $d$ is the input dimension, $H$ is the episode length, and $T$ is the total number of episodes experienced, alleviating a linear dependence on $d$ . Moreover, we theoretically establish a trade-off between regret rate with posterior representational complexity via introducing a compression budget parameter $\epsilon$ based on KSD, and establish a lower bound on the required complexity for consistency of the model. Experimentally, we observe that this approach is competitive with several state of the art RL methodologies, with substantive improvements in computation time. Experimentally, we observe that this approach is competitive with several state of the art RL methodologies, and can achieve up-to $50\%$ reduction in wall clock time in some continuous control environments.
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# 腱核ノルムとCasorati Matrix核ノルムの併用による動的心内MRI画像再構成
Dynamic Cardiac MRI Reconstruction Using Combined Tensor Nuclear Norm and Casorati Matrix Nuclear Norm Regularizations ( _URL_ )
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Yinghao Zhang, Yue Hu(参考訳) 低ランクテンソルモデルが動的磁気共鳴イメージング(dMRI)に応用されている。 近年, t-SVDに基づく新しいテンソル核ノルムが提案され, テンソル完備化に応用されている。 テンソル核ノルム(TNN)とカソラティマトリックス核ノルム(MNN)の異なる性質に着想を得て,我々は,TMNNと呼ばれるdMRIを再構成するためのTNNとカソラティMNNの規則化フレームワークを導入した。 提案手法は動的MRデータの空間構造と時間相関を同時に利用する。 乗算器の交互方向法(ADMM)により最適化問題を効率的に解くことができる。 計算効率をさらに向上するために,カルテシアンサンプリングのシナリオ下で高速なアルゴリズムを開発する。 心臓血管MRIおよび灌流MRIデータに基づく数値実験により,従来のカソーラティ核標準法の性能改善が示された。
Low-rank tensor models have been applied in accelerating dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). Recently, a new tensor nuclear norm based on t-SVD has been proposed and applied to tensor completion. Inspired by the different properties of the tensor nuclear norm (TNN) and the Casorati matrix nuclear norm (MNN), we introduce a combined TNN and Casorati MNN regularizations framework to reconstruct dMRI, which we term as TMNN. The proposed method simultaneously exploits the spatial structure and the temporal correlation of the dynamic MR data. The optimization problem can be efficiently solved by the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). In order to further improve the computational efficiency, we develop a fast algorithm under the Cartesian sampling scenario. Numerical experiments based on cardiac cine MRI and perfusion MRI data demonstrate the performance improvement over the traditional Casorati nuclear norm regularization method.
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# (参考訳) ニューラルマシン翻訳における低リソース領域適応に適したレシピの探索
Finding the Right Recipe for Low Resource Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation ( _URL_ )
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Virginia Adams, Sandeep Subramanian, Mike Chrzanowski, Oleksii Hrinchuk, and Oleksii Kuchaiev(参考訳) 一般的な翻訳モデルは、しばしば特別なドメインで正確な翻訳を生成するのに苦労する。 機械翻訳の実践者を指導し、異なるデータ可用性シナリオ下でのドメイン適応手法の有効性を特徴付けるため、アーキテクチャ変更が不可能な環境で、事前訓練されたサードパーティNMTモデルのドメイン適応に対する単言語および並列データアプローチの詳細な実験を行った。 我々はデータ中心適応法を分離と組み合わせで比較する。 超低資源(8k並列実例)および適度低資源(46k並列実例)条件における手法の有効性について検討し、元のドメイン翻訳品質の低減を緩和するためのアンサンブルアプローチを提案する。 我々の研究は、消費者電子、臨床、バイオメディカルの3つの領域を含み、Zh-En、Ja-En、Es-En、Ru-Enの4つの言語対にまたがる。 また、高いドメイン内パフォーマンスを達成するための具体的な推奨を行い、すべての言語用のコンシューマ電子および医療ドメインデータセットをリリースし、コードを公開できるようにしています。
General translation models often still struggle to generate accurate translations in specialized domains. To guide machine translation practitioners and characterize the effectiveness of domain adaptation methods under different data availability scenarios, we conduct an in-depth empirical exploration of monolingual and parallel data approaches to domain adaptation of pre-trained, third-party, NMT models in settings where architecture change is impractical. We compare data centric adaptation methods in isolation and combination. We study method effectiveness in very low resource (8k parallel examples) and moderately low resource (46k parallel examples) conditions and propose an ensemble approach to alleviate reductions in original domain translation quality. Our work includes three domains: consumer electronic, clinical, and biomedical and spans four language pairs - Zh-En, Ja-En, Es-En, and Ru-En. We also make concrete recommendations for achieving high in-domain performance and release our consumer electronic and medical domain datasets for all languages and make our code publicly available.
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# ニューラルネットワークアンサンブルのための特徴空間粒子推定
Feature Space Particle Inference for Neural Network Ensembles ( _URL_ )
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Shingo Yashima, Teppei Suzuki, Kohta Ishikawa, Ikuro Sato, Rei Kawakami(参考訳) ディープニューラルネットワークのアンサンブルは、単一モデルに対するパフォーマンスの向上を示しています。 性能を維持しながらアンサンブルメンバーの多様性を高めるために、粒子ベースの推論手法はベイズの観点から有望なアプローチを提供する。 しかし、これらの手法をニューラルネットワークに適用する最善の方法は、まだ不明である:重み空間後部からのサンプルの探索は、過度なパラメータ化の問題によって非効率に苦しむ一方で、関数空間後部から直接の


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Santa Clara : Santa Clara University, 2021.
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering
A new irrigation and drainage system was designed and implemented for the non-profit organization Valley Verde located in downtown San Jose. The design incorporated an existing irrigation piping system installed by Valley Verde in winter 2020 and included new structural and electrical components to make the system automated and recirculating. The new structural components were easily replicable Douglas fir tables with reflective film that mitigate heat transfer to plants situated on top. The recirculating component consisted of a submersible pump, PVC tubing, a reservoir, and an underhanging attached PVC pipe that redirects water to reservoirs. The electrical components included humidity sensors that would allow for automated irrigating when plant soil achieved a specified dryness. A rainwater catchment system was planned and analyzed to incorporate recycled rainwater for this irrigation and drainage system. The new irrigation and drainage system will allow for reduced water waste in Valley Verde's irrigation, a reduction in Valley Verde's operating costs, and elimination of flooding in their current irrigation system.
Dao, Sarah; Ferguson, Sally; and Laborin, Hope, "Seedling Irrigation Design for Valley Verde" (2021). Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses. 86.


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Posted on July 23, 2015 filed under Project Wadi Attir
As Project Wadi Attir moves through its seventh year in existence, things are coming together on the project site.
The main structures of our Phase I Visitor's Center are now in place, and the team is already using the space for staff meetings, and as a starting point for tours onsite:
Our Visitor Center Director, Nizar Egbaria, has already begun welcoming student volunteers to the site:
Students are given a tour of the site's many functions, and told of their greater relevance to the concept of sustainability and its principles as defined by The Lab. Then, students assist in a number of onsite activities depending on where there visit falls in the season. Here, you can see students planting and cleaning the plots:
The goat herd is now living onsite, and Awad al Atrash, son of Ibrahim al Atrash, traditional Bedouin herder and founding member of Project Wadi Attir, works to tend to both sheep and goats:
Ali Alhawashla, Director of the Medicinal Plants Initiative, and Safia Morgan, Director of the Indigenous Vegetables Initiative, are both hard at work tending to their crop, which is flourishing onsite (vegetables, top; medicinal plants, bottom):
Ali poses with his dried harvest (top), and Safia poses with a desert-hardy squash (bottom):
Meanwhile, Dr. Stefan Leu's Ecosystem Restoration efforts continue to transform the site:
As we move through the Ramadan period, the staff continues to make headway on their individual projects. We will share more updates soon!


Design and Analysis of Hydraulic Bolt Tensioners
What is a Hydraulic Bolt Tensioner?
A hydraulic Bolt Tensioner is a Power Tool that is used to stretch a bolt or stud in order to allow for the tightening of the nut against the flange or joint on which it is placed. This tool must apply a controlled amount of tensioning force on the fastener to ensure that sufficient tightening of the joint occurs and yet does not exceed the yield strength of the bolt.
 Bolt Tensioner
Working Principle of a Hydraulic Bolt Tensioner:
A Bolt Tensioner has the following components apart from using a Hydraulic power pack
 - A Reaction bridge
 - A Load Cell
 - A Puller bar
 - Couplers and ports for hydraulic hoses
 - A Nut Rotator
 - A Gear Drive or a Tommy Bar to rotate the Nut
A Hydraulic Bolt tensioner works with a pump
A Hydraulic Bolt tensioner works with a pump (pneumatic or electric) to do the following:
 - The Bolt or stud is measured and the appropriate tensioning force and size of the bolt tensioner are derived.
 - The Nut rotator is mounted on the Nut and the bridge is mounted on the stud and it is ensured that the reaction is levied on the flange or surrounding uniformly
 - The load cell is placed on the bridge and the hoses are connected to the ports.
 - The puller bar is rotated on the threaded portion of the stud or bolt and the pressurization begins.
 - The fluid fills and pressurizes the load cell, which is a cylinder with a ram.
 - The ram exerts pressure on the puller bar, which in return pulls the stud.
 - The stud is now stretched and a gap is created between the nut and its resting point.
 - This is used to rotate the nut and tighten it.
Hydraulic bolt tensioners are widely used in various industries, including oil and gas, power generation, and aerospace, to provide accurate and consistent tensioning of bolts in critical applications. In this article, we will discuss the design and analysis of hydraulic bolt tensioners
The General Working a Hydraulic Bolt Tensioner
The General Working a Hydraulic Bolt Tensioner
Design of Hydraulic Bolt Tensioners:
The design of a hydraulic bolt tensioner encompasses several key components, including a hydraulic cylinder, a piston, a load cell, a hydraulic pump, and a hydraulic hose.
The hydraulic cylinder is the main component responsible for generating the tensile force required to tension the bolt. The piston is typically located within the cylinder and is used to transmit the force generated by the hydraulic fluid to the bolt as seen earlier.
Factors that guide the design process for this particular tool:
 - One critical factor in the design of hydraulic bolt tensioners is ensuring that the system can apply the required tensioning force without exceeding the yield strength of the bolt. This requires careful selection of the hydraulic cylinder's size and stroke length to ensure that the maximum applied force does not exceed the bolt's yield strength.
 - Other areas such as leakage from seal rings and other annular surfaces that are vulnerable are another important factor. The seal design shall affect the performance of the tool in this regard.
 - These factors make sure that safety is ensured for the operator against sudden tool failure or high-pressure leakages, bolt or stud breakage, etc.
 - Additionally, the size of the Nut and pitch of the thread of the bolt on which the puller bar is tightened is to be considered along with the internut distance, and height restrictions above the nut to ensure that the geometry of the bolt tensioner can not only fit but also sustain the reaction forces as well.
 - These factors lead to customized designs as per applications according to the space available and the tensioning forces required.
Pipe Flange Tensioning Application
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Pipe Flange Tensioning Application
Analysis of Hydraulic Bolt Tensioners:
The analysis of hydraulic bolt tensioners involves evaluating the system's performance and ensuring that it can meet the required specifications. This analysis typically includes evaluating the tensioner's accuracy, repeatability, and reliability.
Accuracy:
The accuracy of a hydraulic bolt tensioner refers to its ability to apply the desired tension to the bolt accurately. This requires careful calibration of the load cell and hydraulic pump to ensure that the system can deliver the desired tension accurately. Measuring the Tensioning carried out in a bolt can be measured using an Ultrasonic Bolt Tension Monitor that uses ultrasound to measure change in length.
Ultrasonic Bolt Tension Monitor
Ultrasonic Bolt Tension Monitor
Repeatability:
The repeatability of a hydraulic bolt tensioner refers to its ability to apply the desired tension consistently. This requires evaluating the tensioner's ability to maintain the same tension level when used multiple times. The repeatability of the tensioner is typically evaluated by measuring the tension applied to the bolt multiple times and calculating the standard deviation in a large sample of bolts.
Reliability:
The reliability of a hydraulic bolt tensioner refers to its ability to operate consistently over time without failure. This requires careful selection of materials, components, and design features to ensure that the tensioner can withstand the operating conditions and loads. The reliability of the tensioner is typically evaluated by performing various tests, including endurance testing and stress testing.
Multi stage Tensioners
Multi stage Tensioners
Spring Return Tensioner
Spring Return Tensioner
 Sub Sea Tensioners
 Sub Sea Tensioners
Top Side Bolt Tensioners
Top Side Bolt Tensioners
Conclusion:
In conclusion, hydraulic bolt tensioners are critical components in many industries, providing accurate and consistent tensioning of bolts in critical applications. The design and analysis of these tensioners require careful consideration of various factors, including the size and stroke length of the hydraulic cylinder, the accuracy and repeatability of the load cell and hydraulic pump, and the system's overall reliability. By carefully designing and analyzing hydraulic bolt tensioners, engineers can ensure that they provide reliable and accurate performance in critical applications.
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