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Let $A$ be a non-empty set and consider $S(A)$ the set of all bijective functions from $A$ to itself, with composition as group operation. Fix $a_0 \in A$. Define $H = \{f \in S(A): f(a_0) = a_0\}$. Prove that $H$ is a subgroup of $S(A)$.
does this tell me $a_0$ is an identity or that $f(a_0)$ is an identity? I am assuming I need to use something to do with subgroup theorems but I am having trouble understanding how to use these.
Ok that makes more sense since $f(a_0)$ = $a_0$ and $g(a_0)$ = $a_0$ we can conclude that $f^{-1}$ $f(a_0)$ = $f^{-1}$ $a_0$ so we know $f^{-1}$ is in the set? So $f^{-1}$ $g(a_0) $= $a_0$ and the by the theorem we may conclude $H$ is a subgroup of G?
As a side note would love to know WHERE you guys find the element signs and how to put subscripts on things if you could link me to a list of stuff you can put into here with some instructions.
Someone has pointed me a direction a few times but i have never found something I understood. I am not a programer but if I can find a lost of things I am sure I can figure it out usually I just search until I find a post with what I want click edit and take the symbols I want but if theirs instructions somewhere I would very much appreciate that.
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$H = \{f \in S(A): f(a_0) = a_0\}$ is the set of bijective functions in $S(A)$ such that $f$ maps $a_0$ to $a_0$.
Here, $a_0$ is a fixed element which every bijective function in $S(A)$ that maps $a_0$ to itself is a member. $H$ includes the identity map/function, but not all $f \in H$ are the identity function.
To prove $H$ is a subgroup of $S(A)$:
 - Clearly, $H$ includes as its identity $f_I$, the identity map of $S(A)$, since $f_I(a_0)$ is clearly $a_0$.
 - Now show that for any $f, g \in H$, $f\circ g \in H$: i.e., show that $H$ is closed under the function composition.
 - Show that for any $f \in H, f^{-1} \in H$. Hint: This must be the case, as every $f \in H$ is bijective, and if $f \in H$, then $f^{-1}$ exists, and since $f\in H$, $f(a_0) = a_0$ and $f^{-1}(f(a_0)) = f^{-1}(a_0) = f_I(a_0) = a_0$, since by definition, $f^{-1}\circ f = f_I$, so $f^{-1} \in H$
Then you will have shown $\,H\,$ is a subgroup of $\,S(A)$.
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Hint: To check something is a subgroup, it suffices to show that $H$ is nonempty (this clear since the identity function is an element [why?]), the composition of two functions is an element of the group (also easy to argue since every function fixes $a_0$), and that the inverse of a function is an element of the group (which follows because each element is a bijection).
I leave the details to you, but hopefully with what is given above, you can work through this mostly on your own.
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The standard way to show that something is a subgroup is to show:
 1. It is nonempty
 2. If $f, g \in H$ then $fg^{-1} \in H$
I'll leave (1) to you and give you a hint for (2). If $f, g \in H$ then you know $f(a_0) = a_0$ and $g(a_0) = a_0$. Apply the function $fg^{-1}$ to $a_0$. The result should be $a_0$ and once you've shown this you can conclude that $fg^{-1} \in H$.
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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 297314, 7 pages
Solvability for a Coupled System of Fractional Integrodifferential Equations with -Point Boundary Conditions on the Half-Line
1Department of Mathematics, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez Avenue, P.O. Box 15914, Tehran 15875-4413, Iran
2Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Cankaya University, 06530 Ankara, Turkey
Received 20 May 2014; Accepted 1 July 2014; Published 23 July 2014
Academic Editor: Guo-Cheng Wu
Copyright © 2014 Payam Nasertayoob et al. 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.
The aim of this paper is to study the solvability for a coupled system of fractional integrodifferential equations with multipoint fractional boundary value problems on the half-line. An example is given to demonstrate the validity of our assumptions.
The theory of derivatives and integrals of fractional order has undergone rapid development over the years and played a very important role in modern applied mathematical models of real processes arising in phenomena studied in physics, mechanics, engineering, and so on [1–3]. Recently, the existence of solutions for coupled systems involving fractional differential equations is one of the theoretical fields investigated by many authors [4–13].
Very recently, Wang et al. studied the existence of solutions for the following coupled system of nonlinear fractional differential equations by using Schauder's fixed point theorem: where,, and and denote Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives of order and order, respectively; also, are such that and.
Motivated by, in this paper, we consider a coupled system of nonlinear fractional integrodifferential equations on an unbounded domain and more general boundary conditions: where,,, are real numbers,, and denotes Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative. It is clear that boundary value problem (2) includes problem (1) as special case.
Integrodifferential equations have become important in recent years as mathematical models of phenomena in both the physical and social sciences. In particular, some physical phenomena involving certain type of memory effects are represented by integrodifferential equations [14–18].
However, to the best of our knowledge, no work has been reported on the existence results for coupled system of nonlinear fractional integrodifferential equations on an unbounded domain.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we recall some basic definitions, notations, and preliminary facts. Section 3 is devoted to the existence results for system of nonlinear fractional integrodifferential equations on an unbounded domain. In Section 4, an example is given to demonstrate the applicability of our results.
Definition 1. The Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of order of a function is given by provided that the right-hand side is pointwise defined.
Definition 2. The Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order of a continuous function is given by where, provided that the right-hand side is pointwise defined.
Remark 3. The following properties are well known:
Lemma 4. For, the equation is valid if and only if where is the smallest integer greater than or equal to.
Lemma 5. Assume that ; then, where is the smallest integer greater than or equal to.
For any we can define the space equipped with the norm Clearly, is a Banach space. For we define then, is a Banach space.
3. Main Results
In this section, we prove the existence results for the boundary value problem (2). For convenience we use the following notation: By replacing with, respectively, we can define.
Lemma 6. Let and ; then, the unique solution of is given by where is Green's function given by with
Proof. By Lemma 5, the solution of (12) can be writen as Using the boundary conditions (13), we find that and Now considering the second boundary condition, we have Therefore, the unique solution of the boundary value problem (12)–(14) is where,, and are defined by (16), (17), and (18), respectively. The proof is complete.
Now, we introduce the following function: where
Remark 7. From the definition of and, for any, we have where
Let an operator be defined by From the definition of operator, the problem (2) has a solution if and only if the operator has a fixed point.
Theorem 8. Assume the following. (H1)There exist nonnegative functions such that
where is the beta-function.(H2)There exist nonnegative functions such that
where is the beta-function.
Then, the system (2) has a solution.
and define a ball
At the first step, we prove that the operator transforms the ball into itself. For any we have
In a similar way, we can get
Hence, and this shows that.
Next, we show that is completely continuous. First, Let as in. From (32) we have Then, by the Lebsegue dominated convergence theorem and continuity of, we obtain as. Therefore, by Remark 7, we have as. Similar process can be repeated for ; thus, operator is continuous.
Now, we show that is equicontinuous operator. Let and ; without loss of generality, we may assume that. Since and, for any and, we have In view of (37), by the similar process used in, we can easily prove that operator is equicontinuous. Similar process can be repeated for ; thus, is equicontinuous. On the other hand, is uniformly bounded as. Therefore, is completely continuous operator. Hence, by Schauder fixed point theorem the boundary value problem (2) has at least one solution in.
4. An Example
Consider the following boundary value problem on unbounded domain: Here,,,,,,,,,,,, and. We have For by direct calculation we obtain,,, and Thus all the conditions of Theorem 8 are satisfied and the problem (38) has at least one solution.
In the current paper, we have studied the existence results for a coupled system of nonlinear fractional integrodifferential equations with -point fractional boundary conditions on an unbounded domain. The result obtained in this paper is based on Schauder's fixed point theorem. In order to show the validity of the assumptions made in our result, we also include an illustrative example.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
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don't believe you, lol. That's a rarity on FR, your threads and replies are usually very enjoyable and enformative.
Knack. I'll learn to push that little spellcheck button before posting one of these years.
That's fine. I'm not insulted. I read so much that I can't remember where I read that. If I had to guess, it would have been something that Marvin Harris(bless his soul) wrote. Below is something I found on Wikipedia.
The origins of both the activity of barbecue cooking and the word itself are somewhat obscure. Most etymologists believe that barbecue derives ultimately from the word barabicu found in the language of both the Timucua of Florida and the Taíno people of the Caribbean. The word translates as "sacred fire pit." The word describes a grill for cooking meat, consisting of a wooden platform resting on sticks.
Traditional barbacoa involves digging a hole in the ground and placing some meat (usually a whole goat) with a pot underneath it, so that the juices can make a hearty broth. It is then covered with maguey leaves and coal and set alight. The cooking process takes a few hours.
There is ample evidence that both the word and cooking technique migrated out of the Caribbean and into other languages and cultures, with the word (barbacoa) moving from Caribbean dialects into Spanish, then French and English. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first recorded use of the word in the English language in 1697 by the British buccaneer William Dampier.
While the standard modern English spelling of the word is barbecue, local variations like barbeque and truncations such as bar-b-q or bbq may also be found. In the southeastern United States, the word barbecue is used predominantly as a noun referring to roast pork, while in the southwestern states, cuts of beef are often cooked.
The word barbecue has attracted several inaccurate origins from folk etymology. An often-repeated claim is that the word is derived from the French language. The story goes that French visitors to the Caribbean saw a pig being cooked whole and described the method as barbe à queue, meaning "from beard to tail". The French word for barbecue is also barbecue, and the "beard to tail" explanation is regarded as false by most language experts. The only merit is that it relies on the similar sound of the words, a feature common in folk-etymology explanations. Another claim states that the word BBQ came from the time when roadhouses and beer joints with pool tables advertised "Bar, Beer and Cues". According to this tale, the phrase was shortened over time to BBCue, then BBQ.
The related term buccaneer is derived from the Arawak word buccan, a wooden frame for smoking meat, hence the French word boucane and the name boucanier for hunters who used such frames to smoke meat from feral cattle and pigs on Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). English colonists anglicised the word boucanier to buccaneer.
Exactly. So, logically...
I spent a little time on it last night but ended up going to bed before posting what I'd found. Sounds as if the originally native "indian" word first heard by European ears by Columbus traveled across the ocean to London, and their period fascination with the "noble savages" of NC and VA led to some rather fabulous tales and a false interpretation of the word into French, with root attributed to barbarity.
This got batted around over the intervening centuries, again back and forth across the Atlantic, and became legendarily entangled with language of the slave trade. Any tale of that nature would have incorporated Haiti and their uprising of the late 1700's. Modern, leftist authors have further embellished this, despite the fact that even during the segregation era, the local barbecue pit was one of the few public places where there was no segregation. Black or white or indian, they all loved pit cooked barbecue and we all had a hand in it's evolution.
Thanks for spurring another interesting bout of offbeat research. The things you learn as a result of FR, lol.
Empty beer cans?
"Mayberry" was set in the central part of the state. Culturally, that is a whole different state from Eastern North Carolina, which is where I'm from. Nowadays, it's all Yankees and California hippies—Obamaland. I live here because I teach at one of the big universities, but would rather be home. There's no work for anyone there, though, and never has been.
Sorry guys but if you actually saw all of the sizes and shapes of the stuff then you would realize that it is no ballast nor was it dropped off some canoe 600 years ago.
Although we are no experts on Chert, we are certainly bringing in the experts to qualify the find. These are DEFINITE OUTCROPS....some with fossilized coral growths on them (doubt they got that way in 600 years)
If you do some research there is more and more evidence of a Coastal migration of PRE-CLOVIS peoples that came across Canada and down what was then the East Coast of North America.
Plenty more to come.....just stay tuned :)
I'm of the same opinion. These people at Windover are probably some of those people.
Plus the Topper site in South Carolina, Goodyear has done an excellent job there.
Please keep us involved in your work.
Glad to be here. I will check back with news when available. I will also check out those links, this stuff is really fascinating to me. Hopefully we can get a grant or 2 to keep this project rolling. So far it has been all self funded and we bout out of said funds :)
By the way, I like that yeller BBQ sauce!
Thanks for your post, that answers my "yeah, but" question, too. Interesting stuff!
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In this article, we describe three life-changing patient cases demonstrating high-quality and timely care they received in their communities, thanks to the Show-Me ECHO project. Early autism diagnosis, a potentially deadly tumor manifesting as a benign-looking rash, a recalcitrant case of hepatitis C: rural and underserved Missourians now have access to state-of-the-art care through their local providers receiving interdisciplinary telementoring on evidence based practices.
Becevic M, Wallach E, Sheets LR, et al. Accelerating Care Through ECHO: Case Examples from the Field. Mo Med. 2020;117(3):235-240.


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These tiny telemeters shown on the palm of Dr. Bruce Van Vliet's
hand are surgically inserted into mice in order to transmit blood
pressure readings 24 hours a day.
Mice have become the new standard for researchers
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"The mouse is now the Volkswagen of genetic change and has become
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Ten years ago, cardiovascular research was mainly on rats. But around
1990 molecular biologists began to make genetically modified mice. The
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change, perhaps just one deleted gene, could be produced. "It's
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Some researchers use a tail cuff to measure mouse blood pressure, but
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A recent paper by Dr. Van Vliet, to be published in Physiology,
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light period, when most nocturnal animals tend to be quiet, they have
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Dr. Van Vliet was recently awarded a $25,000 grant from Memorial's
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level – with the help of the MRF funding, Alison Leonard is going
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pressure in mice.
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We're already developing a reputation in this area and we're
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on how to measure the blood pressure in a mouse – or to get more
technical about it, how to phenotype the blood pressure of a mouse."
Dr. Van Vliet noted that other than the Faculty of Medicine's
Medical Research Foundation and Dr. A. R. Cox awards, there are no provincial
sources of funding for basic medical research. "There is a tremendous
requirement for seed money in research. You need to find funding to
be able to follow leads and try new approaches. It takes a lot of funding
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Edward Curtis saw his job as that of creating a photographic record of "the vanishing race of the North American Indian." His work therefore became as much a projection of colonial attitudes upon aboriginal peoples as it was an authentic record of their lives.
The Edward Curtis Project began when the Presentation House Theatre commissioned Marie Clements to write a play that would stage the issues raised by Curtis' monumental but controversial achievementto dramatize not only the creation of his twenty-volume photographic and ethnographic epic and the enormous commitment, unwavering vision, sacrifice, poverty and ultimate disappointment it represented for the photographer, but also the devastating legacy that his often misrepresentative and imposed vision had on the lives of the people he touched.
Upon receiving the commission, Marie Clements immediately asked photojournalist Rita Leistner to create a parallel photographic investigation of Curtis' workto question the practice of documentary photography with the very medium under scrutiny. After two years of retracing Curtis' footsteps, travelling to First Nations communities throughout North America, Clements finally felt that between them: "We were making our own pictures out of our own beliefs and they were adding up. We were inside the lies and beauty of history, of gender and class, we were making a case for the future."
This collaborative work of two artists, to take Curtis' photographs to heart and to see who and what might live inside them today, resulted in a profoundly moving new drama by Marie Clements, and a spectacular contemporary photo exhibit by Rita Leistner. Published together here, they illustrate the trauma that the notion of a "vanishing race" has inflicted on an entire people, and celebrate the triumph of a future in which North American First Nations communities "are everywhere and it is beautiful."
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In 2003, as an independent photographer unable to get a military embed, Rita Leistner walked from Turkey to Iraq with Kurdish smugglers. That summer, she brought home some of the first photographs of Iraqi detainees, which would be published world-wide. Rita went on to publish feature stories and photographs on subjects including American Cavalry soldiers, women patients at Baghdad's al Rashad Psychiatric Hospital, gravediggers during the 2004 Siege of Najaf and fighters of the Mahdi Army in magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone and The Walrus. In spite of being captured, threatened, and hit in the head with a brick, Leistner resolutely continues to work with a short lens, creating startling photographs that are strikingly intimate.


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Testing pointers
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End to end testing
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Unit testing
Unit testing of animations can range from extending Test when you will manually construct an instance of your object to extending RenderingTest where you can load HTML, enable compositing if necessary, and run assertions about the state.
Ongoing work
Properties And Values API
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Web Animations API
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Animation Worklet
AnimationWorklet is a new primitive for creating high performance procedural animations on the web. It is being incubated as part of the CSS Houdini task force, and if successful will be transferred to that task force for full standardization.
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Scotland will launch a 'Climate Justice Fund' this spring in response to the impact of climate change on the world's poorest communities.In a parliamentary debate on climate justice on Thursday, Minister for Environment and Climate Change Stewart Stevenson, confirmed that the Government would launch the Climate Justice Fund in the coming months.
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'Oxfam Scotland therefore congratulates the Scottish Government on its innovative Climate Justice Fund. We note that the fund will rightly be used to finance projects in developing countries, specifically aimed at supporting poor communities to adapt to the negative effects of climate change and in doing so, complement Scotland's world leading climate legislation.
'Oxfam Scotland looks forward to working with the Scottish Government to ensure that the Climate Justice Fund can be a best exemplar for other countries to follow to deal with climate injustice.'
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Canopy Layer
Canopy Layer
The Canopy Layer is the second highest layer of the rainforest.
This is where most of the trees grow to, at around 30-45 metres high.
As most trees grow to this height in the rainforest, the leaves tend to overlap each other and the branches tend to wind around each other.
As the leaves of the trees in the Canopy Layer are so thick and big, and overlap each other so much, they block a lot of sunlight going down below.
However, these trees themselves get lots of sunlight.
This layer sees lots of fruit and nuts growing on them, which means lots of rainforest animals live her.
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H. H. Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi is the 18th Ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah in a chain of Al Qasimi Rulers since 1600 AD.
How it was named
Sharjah, or the 'rising sun' as it means in Arabic appears as early as the 2nd century AD in a map drawn by the Greek geographer Ptolemy, which indicates the settlement of Sarcoa, where Sharjah can now be found.
Sharjah is lies on the West coast of the UAE. It shares its southern borders with Dubai. It is the only emirate that is distinguished by a coastline along its both sides; the Arabian Gulf Coast and the Gulf of Oman. It is the third largest emirate with an area of 2650 sq. km, equivalent to 3.3 per cent of the UAE's total area, excluding the islands.
Sharjah has a diversified economy and a solid infrastructure. It has 19 industrial areas that contribute to more than 48% of the UAE's gross industrial output. In 2003, Sharjah had the first low cost airline in the Middle East (Air Arabia). It maintains 3 ports with a total area of 49,588,000 square meters. Key contributors of the emirate's economy are: gas, tourism, education, healthcare and logistics.
Sharjah's population is 800,000 as of 2008 estimations i.e 19 per cent of UAE total population.


text: As small-scale fading is a spatial phenomenon, the movement of objects in the environment around static sensor nodes can induce significant fades. However, there have not been many works characterizing small-scale fading due to environmental factors for ground-surface wireless communications. We first measure the temporal fading characteristics experienced by antennas located just 1.5 cm above the surface of the ground due to wind-blown foliage or human movement in the environment for a narrowband channel in the 400-MHz frequency band. We then compare the extracted data to existing distributions and show that fading due to wind-blown foliage can be modeled as a Nakagami-m distribution, with wind speed and excess path-loss-dependent m shape factors. The alpha-mu distribution best characterizes the small-scale fading of a single human pedestrian, which is shown to have a repeatable pattern and can be up to 40 dB below the no-fading mean, whereas the Rician distribution, with an excess path-loss-dependent K-factor, can be used to characterize fading from multiple human pedestrians. We also report the second-order statistics of the average fade duration and the level crossing rate for fading caused by wind-blown foliage and multiple human pedestrians. Finally, we discuss the significance of the results on wireless sensor network protocol design and applications.


A single dose of diclofenac potassium is more effective for postoperative pain than the more commonly used diclofenac sodium
This Cochrane systematic review found that the same single dose of fast-acting diclofenac potassium tablets is more effective for moderate to severe short-term postoperative pain relief than coated diclofenac sodium tablets. Both versions were compared with a placebo, rather than each other. On average, only two people need to be treated with a single dose of the fast acting pill instead of the dummy pill for one to experience adequate pain relief. The rate of adverse effects after a single dose was low and there was no difference between the two drugs. Across all uses, diclofenac sodium is much more commonly prescribed in the NHS. Because this is usually in a coated formulation its absorption is slowed and blood levels are lower than with the uncoated diclofenac potassium. This evidence suggests diclofenac potassium (50mg) is the better option for acute postoperative pain relief in adults.
Why was this study needed?
Diclofenac, a widely used pain-killer, belongs to the group of drugs called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). It is available in two tablet forms: fast-acting diclofenac potassium and slower-acting (enteric coated) diclofenac sodium. In 2013 diclofenac sodium accounted for 98% of diclofenac prescriptions in England. Diclofenac potassium used to be available without prescription but was withdrawn after concerns over long term use and risks to the heart and vascular system. A 2009 Cochrane systematic review identified 15 trials comparing the two forms of diclofenac for the treatment of postoperative pain. The current review (2015) is an update and includes three new trials on top of the original 15.
What did this study do?
A total of 3,714 adults were included in this review of 18 randomised controlled trials in which a single dose of diclofenac taken by mouth was compared with a placebo in the relief of moderate to severe postoperative pain. The main measure of success was participants self-reporting at least 50% relief from postoperative pain over four to six hours after taking a single dose of diclofenac or placebo. Trials used standard pain scoring systems, such as visual analogue pain scales (see definitions). Most of the evidence available was for a single dose of 50mg diclofenac potassium.
What did it find?
 - The pooled results of seven trials showed that about two people would need to be treated with a single 50mg dose of diclofenac potassium in order for one person to achieve at least 50% pain relief compared with a placebo. There was gradual improvement in the effectiveness of diclofenac potassium as the dose increased from 25mg to 50mg to 100mg.
 - By comparison, three studies examining single dose 50mg diclofenac sodium found that around seven people would need to be treated for one person to achieve at least 50% pain relief compared with inactive placebo. These trials of the slower-acting preparation were conducted in similar populations to the trials of the fast-acting version.
 - The rate of adverse effects with either type of diclofenac was low and no different from placebo. No serious side effects were reported. However, few trials reported on adverse effects – seven studies for diclofenac potassium and only one for diclofenac sodium. Therefore we can have less confidence in this finding.
What does current guidance say on this issue?
There is no guidance on the broad issue of postoperative pain relief. NICE does issue advice on the well-recognised potential adverse effects in continued use of all NSAIDs on the digestive system (for example, irritation and bleeding) and kidney function. NICE also highlights the possible risks of several NSAIDs, including diclofenac, on the heart and vascular system, for example increased risk of blood clots. However, these risks are more likely to be linked to long-term use rather than the short-term use which was the focus of this review.
What are the implications?
This review found that fast-acting diclofenac potassium provided more effective relief from postoperative pain than placebo. While the studies didn't directly compare fast-release diclofenac potassium with slow-release diclofenac sodium, comparing both against a placebo suggested the fast-acting preparation was more effective. We know diclofenac sodium is currently much more commonly prescribed in the NHS as a whole. The review findings suggest that diclofenac is more effective for severe to moderate short-term postoperative pain.
Most of the evidence was for 50mg diclofenac potassium, far fewer trials looked at 25mg and 100mg resulting in a weaker evidence base around these doses.
Doctors may be reluctant to prescribe diclofenac for postoperative pain because of historical concerns over the potential risk of harms to the digestive system, kidneys or heart and vascular system. The limited evidence on adverse effects available in this review suggests that a single dose of diclofenac is very safe for the relief of postoperative pain. This high quality review may encourage more use of fast-acting diclofenac potassium.
Derry S, Wiffen PJ, Moore RA. Single dose oral diclofenac for acute postoperative pain in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015;(7):CD004768.
NICE. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Key Therapeutic Topic 13. London: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; 2015.
Visual analogue pain scale (VAS) is an example of a standardised pain measure to help people show the level of pain they are experiencing. The scale, a 10cm line, has a "no pain" labelled on the far left and "extreme pain" on the right. The person is asked to mark the line at a position corresponding to the amount of pain they feel.
Expert commentary
This updated review on single dose oral diclofenac for acute postoperative pain in adults includes significantly more patients and has allowed stronger conclusions to be made with regard to formulation. Fast acting formulations, predominantly diclofenac potassium, had clear advantages over diclofenac sodium (enteric coated).
Diclofenac potassium 50 mg has a number needed to treat (NNT) for at least 50% maximum pain relief of about 2 with a low rate of adverse events no different from placebo.
This evidence strongly supports the routine use of diclofenac potassium 50mg for acute postoperative pain in adults, unless there are strong contraindications.
Dr John Goddard, Consultant in paediatric anaesthesia and pain medicine, Sheffield Children's Hospital


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Background: Malaria causes a reduction in haemoglobin that is compounded by primaquine, particularly in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. The aim of this study was to determine the relative contributions to red cell loss of malaria and primaquine in patients with uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax.
Methods: A systematic review identified P. vivax efficacy studies of chloroquine with or without primaquine published between January 2000 and March 2017. Individual patient data were pooled using standardised methodology, and the haematological response versus time was quantified using a multivariable linear mixed effects model with non-linear terms for time. Mean differences in haemoglobin between treatment groups at day of nadir and day 42 were estimated from this model.
Results: In total, 3421 patients from 29 studies were included: 1692 (49.5%) with normal G6PD status, 1701 (49.7%) with unknown status and 28 (0.8%) deficient or borderline individuals. Of 1975 patients treated with chloroquine alone, the mean haemoglobin fell from 12.22 g/dL [95% CI 11.93, 12.50] on day 0 to a nadir of 11.64 g/dL [11.36, 11.93] on day 2, before rising to 12.88 g/dL [12.60, 13.17] on day 42. In comparison to chloroquine alone, the mean haemoglobin in 1446 patients treated with chloroquine plus primaquine was - 0.13 g/dL [- 0.27, 0.01] lower at day of nadir (p = 0.072), but 0.49 g/dL [0.28, 0.69] higher by day 42 (p < 0.001). On day 42, patients with recurrent parasitaemia had a mean haemoglobin concentration - 0.72 g/dL [- 0.90, - 0.54] lower than patients without recurrence (p < 0.001). Seven days after starting primaquine, G6PD normal patients had a 0.3% (1/389) risk of clinically significant haemolysis (fall in haemoglobin > 25% to < 7 g/dL) and a 1% (4/389) risk of a fall in haemoglobin > 5 g/dL.
Conclusions: Primaquine has the potential to reduce malaria-related anaemia at day 42 and beyond by preventing recurrent parasitaemia. Its widespread implementation will require accurate diagnosis of G6PD deficiency to reduce the risk of drug-induced haemolysis in vulnerable individuals.
Trial Registration: This trial was registered with PROSPERO: CRD42016053312. The date of the first registration was 23 December 2016.


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Format: Hands-on workshop
Test-Driven development is a combination of many micro-skills and a fluency that allows you to solve problems while focusing on the problem instead of the micro-skills.
This workshop will endeavor to learn the individual skills as well as build the fluency to use these skills with the additional burden of everyday work.
Note: this is a very active hands-on workshop. Please be well-rested the night before
Llewellyn Falco is an independent agile coach. He discovered strong-style pair programming. He is creator of the open source testing tool ApprovalTests( _URL_ ). He spends most of his time programming in Java and C# specializing in improving legacy code.He is the co-founder of TeachingKidsProgramming.org & co-author of Mob Programming Guidebook
If you would like to get a sample of him, check out his Practical Refactoring talk ( _URL_ )


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The Warnabi, Warnavi, Warnahi, Wranovi, Wranefzi, Wrani, Varnes, or Warnower were a West Slavic tribe of the Obotrite confederation in the ninth through eleventh centuries. They were one of the minor tribes of the confederation living in the Billung Mark on the eastern frontier of the Holy Roman Empire. They were first mentioned by Adam of Bremen.
Etymologically their name is related to the river, the Warnow (also Warnof, Wrana, or Wranava), along which they settled in the region of Mecklenburg. It may have meant "crow river" or "black river" in their Slavic language, or been derived from the name of the Warni (from earlier warjan), a Germanic people who had previously lived in the same area. The name Warnabi may be a combination of Warni and Abodriti.
In the second half of the ninth century the chief town of the Warnabi was on an island in Lake Sternberg at the site of the castle of Gross Raden. The centre of their culture was near the present towns Sternberg and Malchow. From 1171, 1185, and 1186 there are references to the land of the Warnabi: the Warnowe. In 1189 it is called the Warnonwe and by 1222 this was called the Wornawe.
- Howorth, H. H. "The Spread of the Slaves. Part III. The Northern Serbs or Sorabians and the Obodriti." The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 9. (1880), pp 181–232.
- WARNOWER at Lexikon des Mittelaters.


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Kurdish Female Migrants Meet Isolation In Istanbul
Life isn't easy for the female migrants continually flowing into Istanbul from Turkey's Kurdish region. Those who are illiterate or unable to speak Turkish can face particularly intense isolation from basic services.
Sosin and her family moved from rural Turkey to Istanbul, the country's largest city, and for four years she did not leave the house, not even to buy food for her children.
"I was afraid to be lost. I never saw any place outside the house. We would be starving with the children until evening when my husband would come home," she told researchers with the Istanbul-based Basak Culture and Art Foundation. Its findings were published last year in the book, "What Has Changed? Kurdish Women's Experiences with Forced Migration."
"Women are generally more active in their villages, where they work in fields, walk around and have a social life," Nese Erdilek, administrative director of the Center for Migration Research at Istanbul's Bilgi University, told Women's eNews. "In the city, the whole family is under pressure and fearful of the outside world. Social pressure [on women] is a kind of defense for the family."
Erdilek said women are often not part of the decision to move and have less experience in surroundings other than their rural or small-town homes.
Agricultural upheavals, lack of economic opportunity and, more recently, violence and political pressure in Turkey's largely Kurdish eastern and southeastern regions -- where Sosin comes from -- have driven repeated waves of internal migration since the late 1940s. Many families find their way to Istanbul, home to a fifth of the country's population and accounting for nearly half of its wealth. In the process, Turkey has been completely transformed, from 25 percent urban in 1950 to 75 percent urban today.
For women caught up in this migration, the uprooting can be particularly harsh.
A Greater Dependency
Some women from the Kurdish ethnic minority group, such as Sosin, don't speak Turkish when they arrive. This leaves them more dependent on male family members, since state policies prohibit the official use of the Kurdish language.
"Since they do not know the language, they are imprisoned in a way in their houses," Erdilek said. "Their only contact with the outside world is through their husbands and children."
Rural women are often particularly ill-equipped for city life due to conservative cultural norms that can limit their access to education and employment. Illiteracy rates throughout the country's eastern regions are double the national average of 11 percent, hitting 29 percent in southeast Turkey, according to a 2010 report by the Center for Economic and Social Research (BETAM) at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul. Women account for the vast majority, around 80 percent, of illiterate people in nearly all regions of Turkey, BETAM noted.
"Many women say they wanted to work outside the home but their families wouldn't allow them to go to school, so they have no occupational skills," Zozan Ozgokce of the Van Women's Association, a nongovernmental organization working in eastern Turkey, told Women's eNews at the 12th International Forum on Women's Rights and Development, held here in late April.
"Women are seen as supposed to be good wives and mothers, not lawyers or engineers," Ozgokce added. "And many men won't marry a woman who has worked outside the home -- she is seen as having lost her honor."
More Opportunities, Freedom
Some women do find greater opportunities and freedom in the urban setting, despite Turkey's overall low level of female employment. But often those women who are able to join the work force are limited by their lack of marketable skills -- and, sometimes, by anti-Kurdish prejudice -- and commonly work in dangerous and easily exploitable occupations in domestic work, seasonal labor, textile and food-processing factories in addition to the informal economy.
In 2010, 51 women died, more than 400 were raped or assaulted and more than 1,000 were occupationally injured while employed as domestic workers, according to Muazzez Onuk Ozder, the deputy head of the Social Services Department in the southeastern city of DiyarbakÄ±r.
Language barriers and an alien environment often leave women, in particular, unable to seek recourse when they suffer abuses, or even receive basic health care and other social services. As a result, many migrant women say "they had better conditions when living on their farms with their livestock," Ayten Tekes, from the Research Center for Women's Affairs in the southeastern city of DiyarbakÄ±r, said at the Istanbul forum.
"Women had agricultural know-how in their villages that is lost," Tekes said, when they move to cities. "Gender discrimination against them increases due to their loss of skills, confidence and community ties."
Jennifer Hattam is a freelance journalist based in Istanbul, where she writes about environmental, social and urban issues, as well as the arts, culture and travel.
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This paper introduces the process of land consolidation and current use of geographic information systems (GIS) in the Czech Republic. Contemporary land consolidation in the Central European region, unlike Western Europe, has been implemented relatively recently, hence there is no contingency or previous experience to build upon. This brings about an opportunity for a modern design of GIS‐based land consolidation. Although the design of land consolidation projects in the Czech Republic is mainly conducted in CAD software, this paper focuses on the utilisation of GIS and stresses the importance of standardisation of land consolidation data. Standardisation allows automatic processing of data as well as effortless publishing. The author proposes a new object‐oriented data model of the landscape plan (Common Facilities Plan), which allows for the storing of such plans in a central spatial database and adding attribute information to each object, thus providing analysis of the data in a GIS. The data model alongside data standardisation lays the groundwork for the architectural proposal of a new GIS (geoportal) of Common Facilities Plans.
Key words: geographic information system, GIS, land consolidation, common facilities plan, standardisation, geoportal, geospatial data


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The laws governing the National Park were laid down in 1980, and define the purpose of the Park's existence as follows:
«The Swiss National Park is a reserve in which nature is protected from any human interference, and in particular the entire fauna and flora are left to develop naturally.»
The law provides the framework for the protection of the National Park. Detailed regulations covering the aims of protection, paths, prohibitions and penalties are laid down within the cantonal ordinance.
Download (in German): Nationalparkgesetz
Download (in German): Nationalparkordnung


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Based on the technological progress in recent years (especially in the field of automation, sensor technology, digitalisation, data communication and decision-making algorithms), the introduction of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) is becoming increasingly realistic.
But even if an increasing number of functions are taken over or supported by automation, the human operator retains an important role.
Such a change in the function of the operators means that the MASS operators will need to acquire different competences and will have to be trained in line with the requirements of the upcoming tasks.
The primary focus of the study lies in investigating tasks, functions and required competences of future MASS Operators.
This publication comprise 1 report and 7 appendixes.


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Make EML with R and share on GitHub
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The Ecological Metadata Language standard (EML) has been developed by the ecological community to communicate essential information about how a dataset was created and what the dataset contains. It is written in the Extensible Markup Language (XML), which is machine and human readable, modular, and capable of storing detailed information. The modular nature of EML accommodates the diverse datasets encountered in the ecological and environmental sciences and the extensible character facilitates evolution of the standard as best practices and new data types develop. In summary, EML provides a strong basis for discoverability and reuse of data long after the primary goals of a data generating research project have been fulfilled.Here we demonstrate how you can use R to write custom scripts for your data documentation workflow. We'll also introduce you to some file versioning basics with Git and how to access these in RStudio. Finally, at the end of today's session we'll show you how to share this script in the collaborative environment of GitHub.


[puhn] /pʌn/
the word or phrase used in this way.
verb (used without object), punned, punning.
to make puns.
verb puns, punning, punned
(intransitive) to make puns
verb puns, punning, punned
A humorous substitution of words that are alike in sound but different in meaning (see double-entendre), as in this passage from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll:
"What a curious plan!" exclaimed Alice.
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 [poon-tah-re-nahs] /ˌpun tɑˈrɛ nɑs/ noun 1. a seaport in W Costa Rica.


DIY AVR Function Generator
DIY AVR Function Generator

The Big OneÂ built this DIY AVR Function Generator, it is housed in a nice lookingÂ Hickory enclosure, has some buttons for adjustments and a 16×2 text LCD as a display. He is also working on a power supply that will be housed in the same enclosure type.Â
"What this function generator can do:Â
 - Generate square waves at up to 10MHz, either directly output from an AVR's pin, or buffered via an op amp (the slew rate of the op amp will determine the upper limit of the square wave output). The square wave output is in the range 0 – 5v.
 - Generate a number of sampled waveforms from between 2.56kHz and 10Hz (in 10Hz increments). Sampled waveforms include Sine, Triangle, Sawtooth (up and down), Staircase (up and down), and Square. These waveforms are output in (user selectable) 0 – 5v or -5 – 5v range.
 - Generate a PWM signal appropriate for controlling hobby servos. The user selects a PWM phase between 500us and 2540us., with a set period of 20000us."
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October 10th - 4 PM - Penn Pavilion
Online at: _URL_
Dr. Beronda Montgomery presents
Lessons From Plants: Insights For Human Thriving
How can plants teach us to be better humans?
Come listen to Dr. Beronda Montgomery explain how insights gathered from plant physiology can help us improve our lives and our society.
This talk is public and open to all. Masks are required in all Duke indoor environments.
In her new book, Lessons From Plants (2021, Harvard University Press), Dr. Montgomery explores the lessons we can learn from plants about life, success and building diverse communities.
Far from being the static organisms most of us think they are, plants are masters of adaptation.
They distinguish kin, friend, and foe, and are able to respond to ecological competition despite lacking the capacity of fight-or-flight. Plants are even capable of transformative behaviors that allow them to maximize their chances of survival in a dynamic and sometimes unfriendly environment.
Lessons from Plants shows how we might improve human society by better appreciating not just what plants give us but also how they achieve their own purposes. What would it mean to learn from these organisms, to become more aware of our environments and to adapt to our own worlds by calling on perception and awareness? A simple question can help reframe the way we live:
What would a plant do?
Dr. Beronda Montgomery is a writer, science communicator and a Michigan State University Foundation Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics. She is a passionate advocate for the role of effective mentoring and leadership to promote success, especially with regards to underrepresented and underserved communities. She works actively to develop evidence-based strategies to foster and promote equity and inclusion in academia. Her research focuses on the responses of photosynthetic organisms (i.e., plants and cyanobacteria) to external light cues.
(content adapted from Harvard University Press)
Here are some of Dr. Montgomery's media appearances:
- Listen to Beronda Montgomery discuss plant behavior, adaptation, and communication on Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness: Are Plants Literal Geniuses?
- Watch their "garden-side chat" on Instagram Live
- On his podcast Science Clear + Vivid, listen to Beronda L. Montgomery discuss with actor Alan Alda the surprising ways plants connect, communicate, and collaborate
- Listen to Dr. Montgomery discuss plant memory, senses, and communication with UK gardening columnist Jane Perrone on Perrone's podcast On the Ledge
- At Stylist, read an excerpt from Lessons from Plants on how the common counsel "bloom where you're planted" ignores how plants, in their attempts to flourish, actively participate in and transform their environments
- At Elle, read Dr. Montgomery on how plants acted as a "beacon of hope" during the long months of 2020
- At Nature, read Dr. Montgomery on how plants provide lessons for success in the scientific academic world
- Read a Bustle Q&A with Dr. Montgomery
- In an early June 2020 episode of Youth Mentoring Action Network's Reimagining Youth Work, watch Dr. Montgomery explain the parallels between caring for plants and caring for young people


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分类： 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间： 2016-09-13
摘要：An overview of neutrino electromagnetic properties, which open a door to the new physics beyond the Standard Model, is given. The effects of neutrino electromagnetic interactions both in terrestrial experiments and in astrophysical environments are discussed. The experimental bounds on neutrino electromagnetic characteristics are summarized. Future astrophysical probes of electromagnetic neutrinos are outlined.