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As in Benchmark 2b, the Friedman test shows statistical significance at significance level 0.01. Neither the Nemenyi test nor the sign test confirm significance between the performance of Gender API and NamSor at level 0.05. We conclude that none of the tests considered suitable for comparing Gender API and NamSor are able to confirm that Gender API is statistically significantly better in this case.
Benchmark 4: Minimization of the weighted error with w = 0.2
Finally we analyze the case of minimizing the weighted error with w = 0.2, namely the metric that treats all inaccuracies (misclassifications and non-classifications) as errors, but puts five times more weight into the former. This corresponds to an intermediate situation between Benchmarks 1 and 2, and the approach has the flexibility of allowing a continuous range of values for the weight w, depending on the particular needs of each analysis.
Benchmark 4a: entire data set
The best results are achieved by Gender API and NamSor with weighted error values of 0.046 and 0.056, respectively, as shown in Table 11. Since the variance of the two best performers is almost equal, we can apply the t-test, which yields statistical significance at significance level 0.01. Also, Cohen's d-statistic confirms that the difference in performance is practically relevant.
Table 11:
Benchmark 4a: Minimization of the weighted error with weight w = 0.2.
Displayed are the mean and the standard deviation of the values of weightedError for all services, rounded to four decimal figures.
Gender API gender-guesser genderize.io NameAPI NamSor
mean 0.0458 0.0732 0.0630 0.0674 0.0560
std 0.0045 0.0000 0.0017 0.0000 0.0011
DOI: 10.7717/peerjcs.156/table-11
As expected, the parameter tuning procedure on the entire data set leads to optimal parameters between those computed for the previous two benchmarks; for instance, the optimal values for Gender API's accuracy and samples are 75 and 72,003, respectively, while NamSor's scale is tuned to 0.41.
Benchmark 4b: analysis by data source
In Table 12 we present results from minimizing weightedError with weight w = 0.2 for all services and data sources. Gender API is the best performing service on all data sets; NamSor reaches the second best values on four out of five data sources. The Friedman test shows that the performances are statistically significant at significance level of 0.01. Furthermore, the sign test shows that Gender API is significantly better than NamSor at significance level 0.05.
Table 12:
Benchmark 4b: Minimization of the weighted error with weight w = 0.2.
Displayed are the values of weightedError for all services and data sources, rounded to four decimal figures.
Gender API gender-guesser genderize.io NameAPI NamSor
zbmath 0.0039 0.0166 0.0218 0.0293 0.0161
genderize_r_authors 0.013 0.0211 0.0269 0.0337 0.013
genderize_r_titles 0.0176 0.0321 0.0363 0.0251 0.022
pubmed 0.0243 0.0335 0.0273 0.0386 0.0315
wos 0.0791 0.1407 0.1122 0.1132 0.0986
DOI: 10.7717/peerjcs.156/table-12
Name-based gender inference poses numerous challenges. To name a few, the association of a name with gender depends on the cultural and regional context, hence relying on the first name only can be highly error-prone. Transliteration from other alphabets into the Latin one is known to lead to significant losses of information, thereby excluding entire populations from a reliable classification. Incidentally, the gender of some names might depend not only on culture, but also on historical epoch, and so there exist names that were e.g., typically male in the past and are nowadays female or unisex.
Furthermore, first names are per se embedded into the gender binary, hence this approach reinforces a non-inclusive gender concept and further marginalizes individuals that do not identify as women or men. Clearly, the best way to enrich personal data with this type of demographic information is to ask for self-identification. That would not only increase the correctness of the data; it is also to be preferred under ethical considerations, since it avoids the offensiveness of assigning categories to individuals, while allowing for inclusion of identities beyond the gender binary. Self-identification is not feasible though in large-scale studies of historical data that are typical for bibliometric analyses. Thus the usage of automated methods to infer gender from names or from alternative available details is unavoidable. For a thorough discussion of the ethics of gender identification, see Matias (2014) and references therein.
Notwithstanding the above caveats, we have performed a comprehensive comparison of available gender inference tools, testing five services on a manually labeled data set containing 7,076 names, of which 5,779 have a definite gender and are subjected to our analyses. For our evaluations, it would have been desirable to use an open collection of names with labels obtained through self-identification. We are not aware of such a set, thus we have used data based on judgments of third parties. As described in the section 'Assemblage of test data' we have corrected a non-trivial amount of gender assignments, which unfortunately does not preclude potential remaining classification mistakes. Making the test data set public might help to correct them. Furthermore, we have assessed the geographical diversity of our test names, concluding that approximately half of them are of European origin, slightly less than half are Asian, and the remaining 5% are African. Names of persons from the American and Australian continents are considered to descend from these three main regions. We deem this distribution to be appropriate for the task at hand.
We have devised and run various benchmarks to compare all five inference services in several scenarios. In particular, we have computed all performance metrics using the default responses without any further tuning. We have studied the default responses broken down by geographical origin of names and by data source. Additionally, we have performed parameter tuning to search for the optimal values of the confidence indicators that lead to minimization of misclassification or inaccuracy rates, while constraining the maximum error on the other quantity. We have broken down these analyses by data source as well. Finally, we have applied various tests to measure whether the observed differences in performance are statistically significant.
Python package gender-guesser achieves the lowest misclassification rate without parameter tuning for the entire data set, introducing also the smallest gender bias. At the same time it shows poor performance in terms of non-classifications, which is understandable given its comparatively small data base. As the only completely free service with open data and logic, we reckon that it can be useful as a first step of a multi-stage gender inference procedure. Gender API is the best performer in terms of fraction of inaccuracies, and also in proportion of non-classifications.
When breaking down results without parameter tuning by names' origin we find out that all services perform at least one order of magnitude better on names of European origin than on Asian names. In particular, this translates to poorer results on the wos names subset, which is the less Eurocentric collection of all analyzed data sources. This confirms that assessments of errors in gender inference studies should be made with particular care when the cultural makeup of the analyzed names is unknown. For instance, the genderizeR data subsets employed in the analysis of Wais (2016) contain predominantly Western records, which is possibly at the root of the good results produced by a genderize.io service that, as we show, is not particularly well suited for inferring the gender of Asian names. In modern scholarly publications, the share of authors of Asian origin is significant though and thus this caveat needs to be addressed.
Gender API typically achieves the best results after performing parameter tuning to optimize for particular scenarios. It is noteworthy to recall that, in contrast to NamSor and NameAPI, Gender API uses first names only. Using the tuned parameters of Gender API, it is possible to obtain a rate of inaccuracies of 8.7% constrained to not more of 5% of names being misclassified, a result significantly better than that achieved by the second best service NamSor. Likewise, the misclassification error can be made as low as 0.9% while still retaining a classification label for at least 75% of the entire data set. Next in performance is service NamSor, closely followed by genderize.io, both of which achieve a misclassification rate under 2% in that latter scenario. Our results indicate that analyses based on gender predictions by these methods are to be considered as more reliable than regular queries to country censuses or birth name lists.
The addition of further benchmark settings based on supplementary performance metrics might be of interest. For instance, an appropriate measure would be the area under the ROC curve (AUC), which is particularly useful when one of the outcome classes is skewed, as is expected for authorships randomly drawn from databases in STEM disciplines.
A disadvantage of the commercial services though is the lack of transparency regarding their data sources,


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This week, Amazon Web Services introduced Macie, a fully managed security service for S3 that uses machine-learning algorithms to automatically identify and protect sensitive data against data leaks and unauthorized access.
Macie uses machine-learning algorithms for natural language processing (NLP) to detect common sources of personally identifying information or intellectual property with high business value such as source code, credentials, and API key formats. Predictive analytics are then used to automatically classify the information and analyze normal access patterns for it. Abnormal behaviors, such as sudden increases in high risk API activity, are flagged as suspicious and automatically generate alerts.
Macie is assisted by leveraging AWS Cloudtrail, a service that assists with compliance, auditing, and governance of AWS accounts, by checking Cloudtrail events for PUT requests and classifying them in an almost instantaneous manner. In doing so, Macie provides a tool for AWS customers to not only protect data, but ensure that it is adhering to certain privacy standards, such as HIPPA or the EU's upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). With Macie, AWS customers who need to adhere to tight restrictions on personally identifying information, such as those stipulated in the GDPR, can easily anonymize data and create logs for auditing purposes.
For data research and reporting, Macie provides administrative configuration for reporting and alerts from 20 different supported alert categories. Alerts are automatically generated for detected risks, such as anomalies in data access or data and account credentials that have left protected zones, as well as changes to security policies and access controls and early indicators of attacks such as lateral movement or persistent mechanisms. Additionally, Macie provides a dashboard where users can view a variety of metrics on the activities that are being monitored and classified.
Macie is now available to AWS customers and supported in the US East and West regions, with customers such as Edmunds, Autodesk, and Netflix. Although it currently supports only S3 services, Amazon has plans to expand machine learning security to include other Amazon storage services later this year.

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Resources for Teaching Languages to Children
5 Activities for World Language Clases with Tangrams and Cuisenaire Rods
HANDS ON ACTIVITIES ARE A FAVORITE, both of mine and more, importantly, of my students. When I found a set of tangrams free for the offering a few years ago I grabbed them, along with free cuisenaire rods a year after thatand I am so happy I did! I use these all the time, especially with my younger students, but find even my fourth graders love to have opportunities to use them. I particularly love that they allow for a lot of individuality and creativity on the part of my students, while also providing language use in context. Below are five ways I use them in class-I would love to hear how you use them, too! Share in the comments below :)
ORGANIZATIONAL NOTEIn a normal year, I divvy up the tangrams or cuisenaire rods in containers that kids share amongst themselves. This year, due to covid restrictions, I have had to give each student their own small amount of materials, which are random, meaning they don't all get the same exact set of tangrams or rods. I then spray those with sanitizer at the end of class.
1) BUILDING CHALLENGES: My students can not get enough of these! The simplest way to do this is to instruct them to stack a particular number of cuisenaire rods on top of one anotherfor ex, stack 5 cuisenaire rods. I usually start easy-stack 2 or 3, then get a little harder. Depending on the cuisenaire rods they have or use, it can get challenging quickly, especially for little hands (which is kinda the point!). You can mix it up by having them stack vertically instead of horizontally, which is much harder! You could also give the prompt 'make the highest structure you can' or 'build the lowest structure you can using all your rods' etc.
You can also instruct them to stack to a particular height, as seen in the photo above where I had them stack 8 inches-they could stack any way they wanted, they just had to reach the height requirement.
2) DRAWING CHALLENGES: I call these "drawing challenges" simply because they need to create a shape with either tangrams or cuisenaire. This is such a fun way to practice listening comprehension! Provide students with a set of tangrams or rods, then tell them a vocabulary word that they then need to form, such as 'make a sun' or 'make an elephant', etc. I learn so much about kids watching them create these shapes! Once a shape is made, I have them pick them up and we start again with a new form. You can also have them make numbers or letters, too!
3) MAKE A ____ : This is a take off of the above, but with the idea that kids will not just make something, but then tell you what it is. So, instead of telling students to make a specific form, give them a category, like 'make a fruit' or 'make an animal'. This provides more choice on their part-once they've finished their creation, they can take a photo and write about it, record themselves telling about it, etc on a 1:1 device, or of course, they can tell you verbally.
4) USE SHAPE TEMPLATES: There are a number of tangram and cuisenaire shape templates available online which are commonly used in math classes in the homeroom which can also be utilized in world language. Some have all the integrated shapes outlined, while others only have the larger form printed. Provide students with a set of these templates for them to complete. I love having these on hand as a fast finisher activity! NOTE: You can find our very own PRINTABLE Tangram Template & Shapes in FOUR languages here! (Spanish, French, Russian, and German)
5) FREE CREATE: This is just as it soundskids are given a set amount of time and can create whatever they want with the materials. This year I have had all my classes at 50 minutes long, which is an eternity for my Kindergarteners in particular. One strategy I found to be very effective was to have the tangrams or cuisenaire rods at their seats when they entered, and they had 2 minutes to create whatever they wanted before we started. It was a good way to transition-I circulate and comment in the target language on their creations, providing bits of input as I go. I might them transition into one of the above activities, or even have them put away the materials and we would move into other activities.
How do you use materials like these in classtell me in the comments!
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University of Chihuahua
Publication date: 2017-03-30
Acta Sci. Pol. Formatio Circumiectus 2017;16(1):223–236
A confluence is defined as a meeting point where two or more rivers merge to become the source for a new river. This river merge adjusts its geometric parameters depending of the characteristics of its confluent rivers, particularly wide and intersection angle. Based on this idea and supported by the availability of satellite images, in this paper we classificated 43 confluences located in Tabasco, Mexico. We considered the geometry (plan view) and the intersection angle as a key elements, and applied multivariate statistical analysys to did the clasification. Results shown three groups: I. Similarity between the width of the three rivers and intersection angle less than 80°; II. Similarity between the width of the three rivers and intersection angle between 80° and 160°; and group III. Similarity between the width of the main river (the largest confluence river) and the river merge, intersection angle less than 100°. Once this classification was done, next step is to do both hydraulic and sedimentological studies, to understand the integral behavior of the confluences and verify that the proposed classification, not only have geometrical similarities, but its hydraulic and sedimentological operation are also similar. Due to difficulty to study many confluences, the best way is to chosee the representative and analyze it. Here we proposed an alternative to do it, that can be useful for scientist, enginnerings and students interested in to study confluences.


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There are total 6 letters in Ketone, Starting with K and ending with E.
Ketone is a scrabble word? Yes (10 Points) Ketone has worth 10 Scrabble points. Each letter point as below.
Definition of the word Ketone, Meaning of Ketone word :
n. - One of a large class of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids and consisting of carbonyl (CO) united with two hydrocarbon radicals. In general the ketones are colorless volatile liquids having a pungent ethereal odor.
An Anagram is collection of word or phrase made out by rearranging the letters of the word. All Anagram words must be valid and actual words.
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In Ketone K is 11th, E is 5th, T is 20th, O is 15th, N is 14th letters in Alphabet Series.
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Localités and Early Modern Britain
This article was originally published in the journal Research and Review Series, no. 7.
In early modem England local identity often was more important than national identity, and "country" as often meant one's native shire as one's nation state. In 1710, a young German gentleman visited London and kept a diary in which he noted unique British customs. He wrote at length about a cockfight he witnessed. He learned that "cocks from the same neighbourhood or county do not willingly attack each other." English cocks had a county identity or mentalite. While the sociobiological truth of this animal behavior might be doubted, the English believed it to be true. Cockfights took place mainly between the prize cocks of country squires from neighboring shires. A 1685 advertisement gave advance notice of "a great Match of Cocking, between Leicestershire and Oxfordshire Gentlemen..., in Leicester." In 1710, Surrey and Hampshire gentlemen fought a cock match after May horse races, while, after a Peterborough horse race in July,there were to be several days of cock-fighting pitting "the Gentlemen of the Counties of Northampton and Lincolnshire against the Gentlemen of the County of Huntington, and Isle of Ely and Cambridge." Cocking and horse racing were part of a gentry "theatre of honour" and of provincial reciprocity and exchange networks. And cocking, at least, reinforced county not national identity.
Key, Newton E. "Localités and Early Modern Britain." Research and Review Series 7 (2000): 71-78. Available at: _URL_

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Lesson 2: Project planning
The planning phase happens immediately before commencing your data collection. During this phase, you should revise your work plan with the most recent information and expand it to include more details. For example, under the main task of "collect primary data" you might want to add activities and dates to include:
- Design sample selection according to inclusion and exclusion criteria
- Recruit participants
- Staff and train filed assistants / translators
- Translate research protocols into local language
Often for each major activity in the high level plan you created during the initiation phase, there are a series of sub-tasks that may need to be completed in support of the main activity. Be sure to think about the supporting tasks needed to complete all high level activities. Consult your thesis supervisor for assistance.
During this phase, you should also review your budget and revise with any new information. Often the initial budget reflects an informed estimate and actual figures for labour and research materials will differ from this early version as details emerge when your data collection period approaches. If traveling out of your county of study to collect data, be sure to check that exchange rates haven't changed significantly since you first created a budget for your thesis research.
Learn how to make a data management plan in the following


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Recently while I was playing a CD, my system cut out and the word PROTECT was displayed on the digtal panel, the CD won't play and there is no sound coming out from the speakers. However, the tape deck plays but again there is no sound. I have tried most things suggested, but everytime I turn the system on the word PROTECT appears and won't allow any of the functions on the system to work. Can this be fixed?
The word PROTECT appears because there is a short. It can be in your speakers, try running it without the speakers plugged, or look if the wires arent shorting. If it stil ldoes that, its cause there is a short in it, from the output section. The system does that to prevent from damaging the electronic components inside.
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If protect is coming up on the display, it means the system is detecting a short somewhere on one of the speakers and so is turning the amp off to avoid damage. Check all the connections at the back of the amp to ensure they are not shorting, and at the back of each speaker, if nothing is found there, check each wire for damage (like squashed or rodent damage).
Kenwood head units show "protect" when there's a problem with the speaker outputs. This might mean a shorted speaker wire, a blown speaker, or an internal defect in the head unit. Once the condition that's causing the "protect" mode is fixed, the CD player should be back in normal mode the next time you turn it on.
If it's staying in "protect", then you'll definitely have to remove the stereo and do some troubleshooting to fix it. Many car audio stores will do system troubleshooting, for a fee. If you want to do it yourself, here's what you need to do:
Pull the Kenwood unit from the dash and disconnect all the speaker wires. Turn it on and see if the "protect" message displays. If it does, the stereo has an internal defect and will need to be serviced. If it doesn't, then turn it off, and re-connect one speaker. Turn it on again and see if it displays "protect".
If it works with a single speaker connected, keep re-connecting the others until you identify the speaker that's causing the problem. There may be a wiring problem or defective speaker in that location.
If it displays "protect" with a single speaker connected, then disconnect that one and try a different one. If all the speakers cause a "protect" mode, then you're probably back to a defective head unit, unless your friend managed to blow all your speakers at once.
Stereo sytems have a protection circuit that alerts you by displaying "protect" when there is a electrical short circuit detected in the system, the most common short happens in a speaker, try disconnectig the speaker wires of both speakers(all speakers) at the back of the system, then play the CD or cassette player(although you will not hear anything with the speakers disconnected) and see if the unit goes into "protect" mode if the problem is still present then you have an internal short circuit and the system will need to be sent in for service or replaced(depending on age,repair costs). I would not recommend investing more than $80 into repairs. Now, if the unit does not go into "protect mode" then one of the speakers or speaker wires is shorted,be sure you check the conndition of the speaker wires before you replace the speakers, then you can replace the speakers(in a pair) and you should be back up and listening! Good luck and Merry Christmas!
The protect light comes on when the amp cuts off the speakers to protect them from damage if something's wrong in the amp, or to protect the amp from speaker or wiring problems. If the amp plays for a while before cutting off, it's probably a thermal problem in the output stages. One of the output devices may be acting up as it heats up, or it could be bad connections that open up because of the heat. The trouble might also be caused by components in the power supply as well. Without having the unit on the service bench to check it, it's not possible to suggest specific things to look at. The manual wouldn't help you other than to say check your speaker connections and then have it serviced. The best thing to do if you want to keep this is to find a servicer in your area and get an estimate for the repair. Or if you or a friend is technically inclined, look into purchasing a service manual and see if you can do-it-yourself.


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Identifying Theme Through Close Reading
Kelly Johnson helps her students determine the theme of the book they have been reading—Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat—by supporting them with a close reading strategy.
Teacher: Kelly Johnson
School: Health Sciences High and Middle College, San Diego, CA
Lesson Topic: Close Reading of Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Lesson Month: February
Number of Students: 38
Other: Health Sciences High and Middle Colleges is a health-focused charter school.
Featured Lesson's Student Goals:
- Content objectives – Determine the theme in the opening chapters of the novel Breath, Eyes, Memory
- Literacy/language objectives – Use text evidence and sentence frames to write and talk about the theme of the opening chapters
- Engagement/interaction objectives – Work respectfully with peers in pairs and at tables
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
The focus of this 25-day unit was the overall school essential question: Is freedom ever free? The unit was taught in the third quarter of the year, and the close reading lesson on Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat occurred at the beginning of the unit.
Before the Video
Ms. Johnson's class read and discussed the first two chapters from Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory as a read-aloud. Ms. Johnson focused on the Haitian culture in order to give students some background information about life in Haiti. They also watched some short video clips about Haitian cultures, food, and traditions. For Chapters 1 and 2, students responded in journals, noting what they were learning about the characters, life in Haiti, etc. Since this was the beginning of the unit, the class was building foundational knowledge and getting a feel for the text and topic they were going to examine closely: Is freedom ever free?
During the Video
Ms. Johnson started the class by reviewing the previous two chapters of Breath, Eyes, Memory and then engaged students in partner and table talk. Students reviewed their written notes from previous days. As a refresher, Ms. Johnson passed out small plastic bags to each table that contained character descriptions and phrases. Students worked in small groups and matched the descriptions and phrases to the characters in the book. Ms. Johnson then asked her students what theme was beginning to emerge from the book, and they shared out as a class.
For the next part of her class, Ms. Johnson did a close reading lesson. Students first read independently the selected excerpt from Breath, Eyes, Memory. They annotated the passage for text evidence that helped them understand or question the text. Students read with the purpose of determining the theme of the passage. After their initial reading, Ms. Johnson asked her students text-dependent questions: What is this passage about? What evidence from the text tells you this? What might be the theme of this passage? Students returned to the text and engaged in partner and whole-class discussions.
During the second reading, Ms. Johnson asked students to pay attention to certain words or phrases the author used to help the reader understand the theme or message. Ms. Johnson asked more text-dependent questions to push students back into the text to uncover the meaning of the passage. Students then wrote paragraphs about the theme and meaning of the book from the perspective of one of the novel's characters.
After the Video
Ms. Johnson continued to talk more about understanding theme and had students share some of their writing. Students also continued reading the novel chapter by chapter, chunk by chunk, in order to make sense of the essential question: Is freedom ever free? As they examined each section of the text, students took notes, discussed them in pairs and at tables, read additional articles, and wrote an essay answering the essential question.
Ms. Johnson created the word sort slips that included the characters' names and characteristics, copied the close reading text on legal-sized paper (in order to give students room in the margins to annotate), and formed deliberate groups (attending to language and literacy proficiencies) for intentional conversations.
Students needed to be familiar with the accountability and expectations of talking in pairs and in groups and then sharing ideas with the whole class. They also needed to be familiar with reading complex text and digging deeper in their analysis of text.
Ms. Johnson began her lesson with a tangible, hands-on activity where students matched characters with vocabulary words on slips of paper that characterized them. This gave her students the language they ultimately needed to provide evidence from the book and for their writing assignment on theme and characters. Ms. Johnson had a range of readers in her classroom, and many of her students were not fluent readers. During the read-aloud, Ms. Johnson modeled fluent reading and paused to ask questions to check for understanding. She scaffolded and broke down vocabulary words during close reading. She also provided a language frame for support.
Students worked in small groups with the word-sort activity and close reading.
Resources and Tools
- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
- Breath, Eyes, Memory passage and highlight handouts
- Document camera
During close reading, Ms. Johnson walked around the room and noticed what students were highlighting and annotating. She also noted if students were using academic language, the accuracy of their understanding, and any misconceptions they had. She directed the rest of the lesson based on what she saw and heard. She also checked in occasionally to ask students what they were thinking. She looked at their close reading papers to see what students had written to get a sense of how much they understood the theme and if they had the evidence to back up what they wrote. Ms. Johnson did an error analysis on their paragraphs to determine what students understood well and what needed to be retaught, and to whom.
Students read each other's paragraphs to get a more complete understanding of the theme of the text from different characters' points of view. Students also wrote their reflections on their participation in groups and pairs for the day, reflections on their thinking about the text, and plans on how they can be more collaborative during conversations in the future.
Students wrote a formal typed argumentative essay answering the essential question—Is freedom ever free?—that included claim, evidence, warrant, and counterclaim.


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The tallit katan ("small tallit") is a fringed garment traditionally worn either under or over one's clothing by Jewish males. It is a poncho-like garment with a hole for the head and special twined and knotted fringes known as tzitzit attached to its four corners. The requirements regarding the fabric and fringes of a tallit katan are the same as that of a tallit gadol. Generally a tallit katan is made of wool or cotton.
While all four cornered garments are required to have tzitzit, the custom of specially wearing a tallit katan is based on a verse in Numbers 15:38-39 which exhorts Jews to "remember[ance of] all the commandments of the Lord." Wearing a tallit kattan is not mandated in Biblical law, but in Rabbinic law the practice is strongly encouraged for men, and often considered obligatory or a binding custom.
The tallit katan is also known as arba kanfot (Yiddish/Ashkenazic Hebrew: arba kanfos), literally "four corners" or tzitzit.


Windows 10 Tips! Set Low Battery Warnings
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How to Set Low Battery Warnings on Windows 10 Laptops
In this article we will teach you how to Set Low Battery Warnings on Windows 10 Laptops. There are two warning levels in Laptop which are as follows: (Set Low Battery Warnings)
1. Low Battery and
2. Critical Battery.
Set Low Battery Warnings
Step by Step Guide to Set Low Battery Warnings on Windows 10 Laptops
Step 1:
Open the Control Panel.
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Press the Win+X keyboard shortcut and choose the Control Panel item from the super secret menu.
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Choose Hardware and Sound.
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Choose Power Options.
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You see the laptop's power plans. The battery warning levels are set for a specific plan.
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Next to the active power plan, click the link Change Plan Settings.
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In the Edit Plan Settings window, click the Change Advanced Power Settings link.
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Finally, the Power Options dialog box shows up. It's the happening place for all things having to do with power management in Windows.
Step 9: (Set Low Battery Warnings)
Scroll the list, and locate the item labeled Battery.
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As you would expect, it's the last item in the list.
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Click the plus sign (+) by Battery to display various battery notification and action options.
Each item has two subitems — one for settings when the laptop is on battery power and a second for when the laptop is plugged in.
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Set the battery-level warnings. In chronological order, here are the items you can set:
* Low-battery notification:
Sets a warning for a low battery level, before the situation becomes critical. Values are set to On to set the low warning and Off to ignore it.
* Low battery level:
Determines the battery percentage for the low-battery-level warning. This value should be generous, well above the critical level.
* Low battery action:
Directs the laptop in what to do when the battery charge reaches the low-battery level. Other options are Sleep, Hibernate, and Shut Down.
* Critical battery level:
Sets the battery power level (percentage) for the crucial battery-level action.
* Critical battery action:
Directs the laptop to sleep, hibernate, or shut down when the critical battery level is reached.
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Click OK to confirm the settings. You can close any remaining dialog boxes and windows. (Set Low Battery Warnings)


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New Possibilities of the Laboratory
State-of-the-Art equipment for the analysis of the steel grade and chemical composition was purchased for the Plant NDT Laboratory.
Non-Destructive Test Laboratory of Omsk Electromechanical Plant is attested by the Siberian Centre of Research and Engineering Support of Industrial, Environmental and Energy Safety and has equipment for steel structure tests with ultrasound, visual and measurement methods. Currently the list of measuring devices including ultrasonic flaw-detection device and caliper, photometer, tensile-testing machine and visual measurement devices was extended due to the purchase of the modern spectrometer.
"MCA emission spectrometer is designed for the analysis of metals and alloys during the input control of the materials and for holding quick analysis of steel chemical composition", – says the manager of QC Dept. Ms. Tatyana Sitnikova. – "In the future, when hot-dip galvanizing shop is commissioned, the spectrometer will also enable performing incoming zinc quality control".
Omsk EMP Laboratory performs quality control at each stage of the production cycle – from the rolled steel and components' input control to finished product acceptance, check of its package and loading.
"We monitor the processes of cutting, assembly, bending, cleaning, labeling, check the continuity of the rolled sheets, quality of the weld connections and anticorrosion coating", – comments Ms. Tatyana Sitnikova. – We plan to get the laboratory attested, particularly, for holding quick analysis of the steel chemical. Besides, we plan pass the accreditation for the test of not only construction elements but also pipelines".
Today Omsk Electromechanical Plant is capable of manufacturing max. 15,000 tons steel structures per year. The Company core activity area is the manufacture of steel supports of the overhead power transmission lines, including joist-web steel supports and narrow-base supports on the Company's own designs.


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radiometer, instrument for detecting or measuring radiant energy. The term is applied in particular to devices used to measure infrared radiation. Radiometers are of various types that differ in their method of measurement or detection. Those that function by means of an increase in the temperature of the device, such as Herschel's thermometer, are called thermal detectors. Commonly used thermal detectors include the thermocouple, which produces a voltage when heated, and the bolometer, which undergoes a change in electrical resistance when heated. Devices that can, in principle, detect a singular quantum of radiant energy, such as Becquerel's photographic plate, are called quantum detectors. The photoelectric cell is the basis of many current quantum detectors.
The term radiometer is often used to refer specifically to a type of detector invented by Sir William Crookes in the late 1800s. It is rarely used as a scientific instrument, because it was found to be insensitive and not easily calibrated, but it paved the way for the more exact instruments in use today. A Crookes radiometer consists of a glass bulb from which most of the air has been removed, thereby creating a partial vacuum, and a rotor that is mounted on a vertical support inside the bulb. The rotor bears four light, horizontal arms mounted at right angles to one another on a central pivot; the rotor can turn freely in the horizontal plane. At the outer end of each arm is mounted a vertical metal vane. Each vane has one side polished and the other side blackened; the vanes are arranged so that the polished side of one faces the blackened side of the next. When radiant energy strikes the polished surfaces, most of it is reflected away, but when it strikes the blackened surface, most of it is absorbed, raising the temperature of those surfaces. The air near a blackened surface is thus heated and exerts a pressure on the blackened surface, causing the rotor to turn.
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Spatial variation in model predicted mitochondrial reaction rates and O2 profiles for cross section 1.
All the figures were generated by using same colour spectrum range. (A): Steady state O2 profiles showing steep O2 gradients in the vicinity of the sarcolemma. In the hypoxic case, it also leads to the formation of an anoxic core with negligible O2 level (B): The reduction of oxygen at complex IV is inhibited in hypoxia, while it is uniform across the section in normoxia. (C): Hypoxia leads to a steep gradient in the model predictions for mitochondrial membrane potential (D): Under normoxia Complex V (F1-F0 ATP synthase) reaction rate is nearly uniform across the cell with slight variation near the larger mitochondrial clusters. However, ATP synthesis at Complex V is inhibited in the anoxic core under hypoxia.


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Integration Competency Center. An ICC is typically a shared, centralized resource that defines uniform approaches to integration with reusable assets. There are a variety of ways to set up an ICC—from simply defining a series of best practices to specifying specific tools or architectures that must be used, to providing centralized developers and architects that can actually create and manage integrations. What's right for your company depends on such things as the corporate structure (centralized or decentralized), frequency of projects, your level of standardization, and your IT infrastructure.
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BACKSTORY: The case of the unlikely Holocaust scholar
Robert Jan Van Pelt
Robert Jan Van Pelt
How did a secular Jew, who didn't even know he was Jewish until he was 11, become the world's authority on Auschwitz?
Living in Holland with his family, the boy came home one day during the Six Day War and found his mother in tears. She feared that she was living the nightmare of World War II all over again, and confided in her son that they were Jewish. She had been hidden during the war and wanted to spare him her fate.
That boy, Robert Jan Van Pelt, grew up to become a historian at the University of Waterloo's school of architecture. He became a renowned scholar on the architecture of Auschwitz and was called as a witness in the David Irving Holocaust denial trial in England. He prepared a documentary on Auschwitz for BBC News. His entire professional career has been devoted to expose the lie of Holocaust denial and to teach the truth of what happened
during the war years.
The life story of this journey toward Holocaust scholarship is remarkable. As a young boy, he was unable to attend high school due to grave illness and was home-schooled instead. But still he passed the university entrance exams and was admitted. He considers himself a kind of survivor to this day and identifies with his mother and all those who have overcome the most serious obstacles to testify to the value of life.
The real moment of epiphany, however, came during his PhD defence. His thesis was on the Cosmic Speculation of King Solomon's Temple. One of the professors asked him if there is any building in our time that rivaled the Temple of Solomon in importance. Unprepared for the question and before really having a chance to think, he said, "Yes. Auschwitz."
Thus a career was launched.
That career has led to a realization that both Rome and Jerusalem have shaped the history of Western civilization. Van Pelt's research has attempted to find the balance, to retain the belief that we can enjoy the accomplishments of Western civilization and not lose the spiritual life offered by the Judeo-Christian faith
As a historian of architecture, van Pelt feared that the architectural legacy had morphed from creations such as the Parthenon and the Pantheon into the concentration camps and the crematoria. What, indeed, had happened to what we consider "civilization" in order for such a transition to have taken place? Reflecting on the meaning and implication of the camps, forces consideration of what it means to be civilized. For that reason, van Pelt's work is not morbid but rather a necessary corrective in the quest to understand what it is to be human.
What is unique and important about his research is the emphasis on physical evidence. Other scholars examine historical forces, events that occurred and effects on people and their lives, which are all valid approaches. Van Pelt's rigorous and focused attention on the construction of the camps, and methods of mass murder, constitute irrefutable evidence of historical truth and a wakeup call to the conscience of humanity.
His current project is called The Evidence Room. It will be exhibited at the 2016 Architecture Biennale in Venice, attended by well over 200,000 visitors and attracting worldwide media attention. The project is an example of a new discipline: architectural forensics. The exhibit will consist of life-size casts of key pieces of evidence – for example, gas columns, blueprints, contractors' bills – that demonstrate conclusively that the camp was purposely designed as a factory of death. After Venice, the exhibit will travel to a number of cities.
With each passing year, there are fewer and fewer Holocaust survivors to bear witness. They embody the memory of a tragedy so unspeakable that some would like to see it erased. Fortunately, there are scholars like Van Pelt who are dedicated to making that malignant objective virtually impossible.


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On top of hunting and farming, the Natives also helped us create this beloved cliché. To "bury the hatchet" means to create peace. The thought is that when hostilities are no longer needed, weapons, like the hatchet, can be disposed of as well.
When negotiating peace, the North American Indians would actually practice what we preach. They buried all of their weapons-their scalping knives, clubs, tomahawks-into the ground.
Apart of just showing good faith, this would also make it impossible for the fighting to continue. Thus came the popular expression; burying the hatchet. However nowadays, the idea of "burying" the hatchet seems counter-intuitive to most people, they would rather dig up the old ones.


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Free-space optical interconnects (FSOIs) are widely seen as a potential solution to current and future bandwidth bottlenecks for parallel processors. In this paper, an FSOI system called optical highway (OH) is proposed. The OH uses polarizing beam splitter-liquid crystal plate (PBS/LC) assemblies to perform reconfigurable beam combination functions. The properties of the OH make it suitable for embedding complex network topologies such as completed connected mesh or hypercube. This paper proposes the use of rapid prototyping technology for implementing an optomechanical system suitable for studying the reconfigurable characteristics of a free-space optical channel. Additionally, it reports how the limited contrast ratio of the optical components can affect the attenuation of the optical signal and the crosstalk caused by misdirected signals. Different techniques are also proposed in order to increase the optical modulation amplitude (OMA) of the system.
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The objective of the training school is to address one of the key challenges of the Action: to facilitate a broader, multidisciplinary understanding of the fundamental science underpinning cell and plant development and to translate this knowledge into new developments in plant biology and materials sciences.
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- The possibility of using yeast from alcohol distilleries as a source of nutrients in soil was investigated. The following treatments were used: no fertilization (control), 0.5% (w/w) yeast, 1% (w/w) yeast, and NPK. The decomposition of yeast was monitored for 90 days in two soils. The CO, production and the microbial biomass were increased by art average of 1- to 3-fold by yeast incorporation compared to control. Protease activity also was enhanced 3- to 8-fold in the soils supplemented with yeast compared to control. The phosphatase activities were higher than control only during the first days. While nitrate contents increased in all treatments compared to control, available P only increased in the soils amended with 1%, yeast or NPK by 45-119% and 309-489%, respectively. These results indicate that there exists an excellent potential for the use of yeast in the soil as a source of nitrate and available P for plant nutrition. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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The Living Office won a Silver-Gilt Medal in the Continuous Learning Awards category at Chelsea Flower Show in 2010. The award winning interior garden scheme demonstrates the benefits and the effects of integrating plants into an office to facilitate a healthier and sustainable environment.
HENRY VIII: Man and Monarch
This major exhibition at the British Library, London was in celebration of the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the throne. With a vast collection of historically important objects the challenge was to create an experience that guided visitors through Henry's life, presenting the characters he engaged with and inturn changing the mood of the spaces to illustrate Henry's emotions.
The Cyling Machine
The Cycling Machine is a multi-media project that delivers an experiential narrative 'powered' by the user. The objective of the Cycling Machine is to encourage cycling as a sustainable form of transport, ignite an interest in the undiscovered regions of the city and to encourage communities to explore their neighbourhood, participate in sport and mainly to have some fun!
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Introduction to Large-Scale Java Platforms
This chapter defines three categories of large-scale Java platforms:
- Category 1: Large number of Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) (100s–1000s of JVMs)
- Category 2: Smaller number of JVMs with large heap sizes
- Category 3: A combination of category 1 consuming data from category 2
In addition, the chapter discusses various trends and outlines technical considerations to help you understand the range of technical issues associated with designing large-scale Java platforms.
Large-Scale Java Platform Categories
Based on field interactions with customers, large-scale Java platforms typically fall into three main categories, as follows:
- Category 1: This category is distinguished by its large number of Java Virtual Machines (JVMs). In this category, hundreds to thousands of JVMs are deployed on the Java platform, and these are typically JVMs that function within a system that might be servicing millions of users. I have seen some customers with as many as 15,000 JVMs. Whenever you are dealing with thousands of JVM instances, you must consider the manageability cost and whether opportunities exist to consolidate the JVM instances.
- Category 2: This category is distinguished by a smaller number of JVMs (usually 1 to 20) but with large heap size (8GB to 256GB or higher). These JVMs usually have in-memory databases deployed on them. In this category, garbage collection (GC) tuning becomes critical, as discussed in later chapters.
- Category 3: The third category is a combination of the first two categories, where perhaps thousands of JVMs run enterprise applications that are consuming data from category 2 types of large JVMs in the back end.
With regard to virtualizing and tuning large-scale Java platforms, four key requirement trends hold true across these three categories:
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Abu Dhabi-based GMS recently secured approval for an innovative concept it has developed with Dwellop for vessel-based well intervention services. The innovative cantilever system has been installed on the self-elevating support vessel GMS Evolution, and is a cost-effective industry first.
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The club activity conducted on 25.1.18 commenced with a PPT screening through which the students were made aware of different types of leaves and their uses.
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The activity organised on 21.12.17 was initiated with a brief discussion on different types of herbs used in day to day cooking and how herbs are an integral part of our food. The club masters identified and listed some common herbs found in our kitchens through an interactive discussion with the students. The students keenly participated in the discussion.
In the follow up activity - 'Healthy Platter', the students made a healthy salad using different ingredients like chopped vegetables & fruits, sprouts, corn etc and seasoned it with herbs like oregano, basil, mint and parsley. The activity was thoroughly enjoyed by all the students who participated enthusiastically and creatively presented their salad platter.
My Bird Feeder
The aim of the activity organised on 23.11.17 was to bring the children closer to nature. They worked in groups under the supervision of the teacher and made their own bird feeders using material like cardboard roll, honey and grains like bajra, rice etc. The bird feeders made by the students were hanged in open and attracted squirrels and birds. It was a delightful experience for all the students to see the birds feeding on them.
Floral Patterns
The activity organised on 27.10.17 focused on the different types of flowers. The students were shown a PPT highlighting the uses of different flowers in our day-to-day life. The discussion was followed by a 'Rangoli Making Activity' wherein the students showcased their creative skills and made attractive rangoli on A3 size pastel sheet using petals of different flowers and glue stick.
Fun with Veggies
In the activity held on 21.09.17, the students tried their hands on 'Vegetable Printing' using vegetables like ladyfinger, bitter gourd etc. They used water colours and made beautiful greeting cards using vegetable printing technique.
Jazzing up the School Garden - Placard Making Activity
The activity began with an interactive session on the importance of plants in our lives. The students made attractive placards with slogans highlighting the need and importance of trees for saving Mother Earth. The placards will be used to decorate and beautify the school garden.
My Planter
The students worked in groups under the supervision of the club masters and decorated painted old pot, soda cans and used plastic bottles to make a planter.
Earth Day Celebration
The students explored the variety of plants in the school garden area through a nature walk and participated in a plantation drive.They also made posters with a pledge to save and protect the Earth.


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Governors general began travelling internationally in 1927, when Lord Willingdon was invited by President Calvin Coolidge to visit the United States. The first full State visit occurred 10 years later, in 1937, when John Buchan, the Lord Tweedsmuir, was received at the White House by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, where he addressed the United States Senate.
In 1948, Viscount Alexander made the first Canadian State visit to Latin America when he visited Brazil. After visiting a number of Caribbean countries in 1969, Roland Michener travelled outside of the Americas. He was the first Governor General of Canada to be received on State visits to Europe, specifically the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, in 1971.


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Sound travels at 344 metres per second in air at 20 °C. This is slow enough for noises to be noticeably delayed when heard from even quite a short distance. You can use this effect to measure the speed of sound.
Ask your helper to a hit a wall or a piece of metal repeatedly with the hammer, about twice every second. The exact frequency of the beat doesn't matter; it can be measured later. But the beat should be regular.
Now start walking away, looking back from time to time to watch your helper pounding away as you listen to the sound of their hammering. As the distance increases, the delay after each beat before the sound arrives will become longer and longer.
Eventually the delay...
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
One of the best email messages I received last month informed me that the university earned aSTARS gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) in recognition of our sustainability achievements. This, after receiving a silver rating in each of the past six years. STARS, which stands for AASHE's Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System, measures and encourages many aspects of sustainability, not just environmental, but also in the economic, and social realms. For example, UW-River Falls scored well in terms of public engagement thanks to programs like our KinniConsortium which supports sustainable economic development through coordination of research and conservation initiatives that benefit our local watershed. Our progress is a testament to the work of many faculty, staff and students on campus – although I want to specifically recognize our Sustainability and Custodial Supervisor Mark Klapatch for his leadership in this area.
Over 890 universities in nearly 40 countries have submitted information for the STARS rating system to assess their progress with respect to sustainability. Of those, around 100 received the gold rating this year – an important global benchmark that UWRF can be proud of attaining. While this achievement gives us a key moment to celebrate, we must also remember one of the most important aspects of all sustainability efforts: long-term thinking. Having a perspective which takes into account the impacts of our decisions on future generations seems to be less common in much of American society compared to in other parts of the world. In fact, this is not just my opinion, rather there is research to support this view.
Last fall I taught an Honors Seminar course which includes themes of global engagement and sustainability to a group of primarily freshmen. In preparing to teach the course, a fellow Honors Seminar instructor, Kelsey McLean, pointed me to research by Dutch psychologist and former IBM employee Geert Hofstede. Hofstede's research led to a comparison of some key cultural characteristics, including a 0-100 ranking for various countries based on their culture's degree of "short-term orientation" vs. "long-term orientation." That is, in general, do people in a certain culture think more short-term or long-term?
Let's try a quiz related to the work of Hofstede. On a scale of 0-100, how would you score short-term vs. long-term orientation in the cultures of the following countries, where 0 = very short-term orientation and 100= very long-term orientation (give each country a score from 0-100):
The country with the most long-term orientation, with a score of 100 is…South Korea. There, people think about multi-generational impacts much more than short-term outcomes. China comes in at 87, Germany at 83, and the U.S. at 26. While there is certainly a range of thinking by individuals in all of these countries, these numbers suggest that "U.S. culture" tends to focus on the short-term, with less regard for future consequences.
Circling back to the university and sustainability, there is much good that comes from our campus' sustainability efforts, and we are proud of our gold rating. However, the most important aspect of this may be in the way it helps our students think more critically, and carefully, about the impact of individual and collective decisions we make today on future generations.


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Evaluating Hydro Project Benefits with the POWRSYM Production Cost Modelby Richard L. Mittelstadt, Corps of Engineers, Portland, United States,
Document Type: Proceeding Paper
Part of: Waterpower '91: A New View of Hydro Resources
Abstract: The contribution that a hydro peaking project or pumped-storage project makes to reducing system operating costs can be determined only by modeling the project's operation in the power system. This paper describes POWRSYM, a chronological hourly production cost model that is well-suited to the evaluation of peaking projects. Several different ways of simulating hydro projects are described, as well as a number of studies where POWRSYM was used.
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Mother nature is an essential component of free play. Trees represent the importance of each season and what that season has to offer to the child.
 It is no surprise that children understand and follow nature intuitively as it sets the rhythm and repetition in our lives. Children learn the importance of nature and make trees and other natural elements a part of their play.
Whether you choose natural or hand-painted, forest trees are simple with a minimal outline that helps the child connect with different colours and shades of green or with natural colours where the child can explore their imagination on colours the trees could have. Each tree is designed keeping in mind the different shapes, sizes and seasons that we witness around us at home and while traveling.
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The Altair's launch would be on the Ares V's test flight, Ares V-Y, already targeted for June 2018. Once Altair is in its 242km (150 miles) low Earth orbit, to which the Ares V's Earth departure stage (EDS) is designed to push the lander, it would separate from the EDS.
Above: NASA's Altair Lunar Lander concept floats in space
Revealed in the NASA Ares project office's Ares V's pre-phase study, its report says: "Further study will be conducted to determine the feasibility of including a production Altair as a flight-test article and adding test objectives [of separation and propulsion]."
However, the assumption of NASA's Ares V mission concept review is that the Ares V-Y payload will be "a structural analogue" of Altair. NASA's schedule has the first operational Altair lunar mission in December 2019.
CORRECTION: The last time NASA conducted an unmanned LEO lunar lander test flight was Apollo 5 in January 1968. The first and last manned LEO lander test flight was Apollo 9. Launched from Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A on a Saturn V on 3 March 1969 at 11:00 local time into a 190km orbit, the 10-day mission saw its crew of three dock the command module to the lunar module, which was still attached to the Saturn V's S-IVB third stage.
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Have taller women evolved to have more babies?
Behind the Headlines
Monday April 29 2013
Researchers looked into women's fertility rates, height and BMI
"Taller, skinnier women have evolved to have more babies than their shorter counterparts," the Mail Online website has claimed.
It reports on research examining the characteristics of women in two villages in the west African nation of The Gambia over more than 50 years.
Researchers were interested in whether recent trends for decreased mortality and fertility rates in human populations over time may influence natural selection on other traits. They analysed records of just under 3,000 women between 1956 and 2010 to find their body mass index (BMI) and number of births.
Initially, women who were shorter and with higher BMIs were more likely to reproduce successfully, but over time the reverse became true. The study did not investigate the reasons for this, but the researchers suggest that improvements in healthcare are changing the relationship between height, BMI and health in The Gambia.
Other factors could also play a role, including cultural changes (such as men's changing preferences for sexual partners). Due to the highly specific sample population in the study, we can't say whether these trends in height, BMI and adult fertility would be found in UK women.
The wider implications of the study are that it suggests that evolution, driven by natural selection, is not just something that happened to our ancestors. It can still have a significant influence on the human population.
However, due to the highly specific sample population in the study, it is difficult to assess whether the findings would relate to women in the UK. Analysis of similar data would be required to determine whether this was the case.
Natural selection
Natural selection is key to evolutionary theory. It means that traits that increase the probability of organisms (including humans) living in a particular environment reproducing, will, over time, become more common in the population in that environment.
For example, if you grow up in a culture where having blue eyes is seen as being sexually attractive, over time, the amount of people with blue eyes in that environment will tend to increase.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from various research centres in Germany, the UK, The Gambia, and the US.
The collection of the data analysed in the study was funded by the UK Medical Research Council, and the researchers were funded by various bodies, including the Wellcome Trust and the European Research Council.
The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Current Biology.
Despite this being a study conducted in The Gambia, the Mail Online illustrated the story with a picture of German model Heidi Klum (who has four children).
And the Mail Online's headline, "taller, skinnier women have evolved to have more babies than their shorter counterparts", is not strictly correct. The study did not find that being taller and having a lower body mass index are evolutionary adaptations that enable women to have more children. The fact that over time taller women with lower BMIs in the Gambia had a reproductive advantage over shorter women with higher BMIs is likely to relate to other factors such as what women's height and BMI say about their health.
What kind of research was this?
This was a longitudinal study looking at the evolutionary consequences of changes in the characteristics in a population over time, in this case in The Gambia.
The researchers say that human populations have recently shown declines in both mortality (death) and fertility rates and that the evolutionary consequences of this have not been extensively investigated. In particular, they looked specifically at how the changes influenced variation in the population in 'relative fitness' in evolutionary terms (essentially how able individuals are to reproduce successfully).
The researchers looked at how height and BMI might have influenced this ability to reproduce successfully.
What did the research involve?
The researchers used data that had been collected from women in two rural villages in one district in The Gambia between 1956 and 2010. They collected data for 2,818 women, who together provided a total of 51,909 years of follow-up in total.
The women's heights and weights had been recorded, and their BMIs calculated. Researchers used methods in their analyses that allowed them to take into account the fact that women's measurements had not all been taken at the same age, and some women provided more than one measurement at different ages.
Births and deaths were also recorded.
The researchers used an annual measure of 'fitness' in the population that assessed how many babies the women had each year. They also assessed how BMI and height related to 'fitness', and whether this relationship changed over time.
What were the basic results?
The researchers found that over time, variation in 'relative fitness' in the population declined. This was largely as a result of reduction in the variation in survival in early life – with a reduction in deaths among girls before they reached adulthood and had a chance to reproduce. As with most developing countries, child mortality was very high in The Gambia for much of the 20th century – a trend that gradually improved over time.
Survival among girls aged under 15 increased over time and variation in relative adult fertility increased at the same time.
There was a change in how height and BMI related to adult fertility in the Gambian population. Taller women initially had lower adult fertility, but over time they showed higher adult fertility. Women with a higher BMI initially had higher adult fertility, but by the end of the study period they showed lower adult fertility. So initially, up to 1974, women who were shorter and with higher BMIs (height less than 157cm and BMI greater than 21) reproduced more, after 1975 women who were taller and with lower BMIs (height greater than 158cm and BMI less than 21) reproduced more. The researchers' analyses suggested that the relationship may have been influenced by healthcare improvements that affected how health related to height and BMI.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers concluded that their findings show the changes in selective pressures on humans over time. They say that the findings suggest that changes in the characteristics of human populations and social, culture, medical and economic environment are likely to modify but not remove natural selection in humans. They say that this is likely to be increasingly driven by changes in culture – particularly in medical practice and public health measures.
This study provides insight into changes in how height and BMI have related to female reproductive fitness in The Gambia over a long period of time. While the general evolutionary principles identified in this study may apply to populations worldwide, the specific findings as they relate to height, BMI and reproductive fitness may not. Analysis of similar data from other populations would help to determine whether this was the case.
A key limitation of this research is that the women's heights and BMIs were not all measured at the same age or on a regular basis. The researchers note that if they had annual measurements of the women's heights and BMIs this would have allowed a more detailed look at the relationship between these factors and reproductive fitness.
Overall, the study provides interesting insight into how selection in humans changes as population characteristics and our complex social, culture, medical and economic environment changes. However, these findings are likely to be of more interest from an evolutionary perspective than a medical one. Shorter women with higher BMI should not be unduly alarmed by this news.
However, being underweight or overweight can affect your chances if you are trying to conceive.
Find out more about how to protect your fertility.
Analysis by Bazian
Edited by NHS Choices
Links to the headlines
Taller, skinnier women have evolved to have more babies than their shorter counterparts. Mail Online, April 26 2013
Links to the science
Courtiol A, Rickard IJ, Lummaa V, et al. The Demographic Transition Influences Variance in Fitness and Selection on Height and BMI in Rural Gambia. Current Biology. Published online April 25 2013
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A teapoy is an item of furniture. The word is of Indian origin, and was originally used to describe a three-legged table.[1]
By erroneous association with the word "tea",[1] it is also used to describe a table with a container for tea, or a table for holding a tea service.
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 1. ^ a b OED, teapoy, etymology: from Hindi tīn three + Persian. pāï foot.


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Association between life stress during pregnancy and infant crying in the first six months postpartum : a prospective longitudinal study
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pregnancy, life stress, negative life events, infant fussing and crying, behavior regulation, infancy
OBJECTIVE: To examine prospectively the relationship between prenatal life stress and infant crying/fussing during the first 6 months of postnatal life, taking into account an array of confounders suggested in the literature. DESIGN: Prospective longitudinal study of a convenient sample, with data points in pregnancy and at about 6 weeks, 3, and 6 months postpartum. METHODS: The study included 86 pregnant women who completed a standardized, validated and widely used questionnaire on negative life changes experienced in the preceding 12 months. Women were grouped by median split on the impact score of negative life changes. Demographic, obstetric and lifestyle variables were obtained from preand postnatal interviews and from medical records in order to be taken into account as possible confounders. At all three postnatal data points, mothers kept a validated 5-day 24-h behavior diary to assess durations of infant crying/fussing. RESULTS: Infants of mothers with high scores of negative life changes exhibited more crying/fussing than infants born to mothers with low negative change scores, throughout the first half year postpartum, but particularly at ages 3 and 6 months. These results do not seem to be spurious due to the confounders considered in this report or to recording bias. CONCLUSION: Prenatal life stress is associated with infant crying/fussing in the first half year after delivery. To prevent or reduce infant crying and to foster a well-adapted parent-infant relationship, professionals attending expectant mothers should consider their emotional condition. If required, support should be provided already in pregnancy.


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The Arthur A. Smith Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Colrain, Massachusetts. The 100-foot long bridge carries Lyonsville Road across the North River. It is the only Burr truss bridge in the state, having been erected in 1869. The sweeping segmented timber arches that sandwich the braced posts strain the ten braced king posts. It's one of the state's few 19th-century covered bridges.
The area where the bridge first stood was prone to flooding. The bridge was destroyed by a flood in 1878, and it was then abandoned until 1896. The community elected in 1896 to restore it and relocate it to its current location, where it served as part of the major road to Heath. The area was dubbed "Arthur A. Smith Flats" after a famous local person who lived in the region It was decommissioned in 1982 and relocated to nearby property. In 1983, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
A reconstruction of the Arthur A Smith was erected back across the river in 2007 after a $2.1 million rebuilding. However, it was not open to automobile traffic. During Hurricane Irene's record flooding in 2011, the bridge was only marginally damaged. This is owing to the fact that it was built on abutments that raise it above the adjacent floodplain.
Pedestrians and cyclists are welcome to cross the bridge, which is not open to automobile traffic. The Arthur A. Smith Covered Bridge has become a popular spot for photographers in recent years.
Looking for more great spots to explore nearby? Check out the GoXplr Massachusetts Map at goxplr.com/map/massachusetts!
Covered Bridge Specs
- Constructed: 1870 (rebuilt 2006)
- Design/Style: Burr truss bridge
- Total length: 100 feet
- Total width: 17 feet
- Carries: Lyonsville Road
- Crosses: North River
- Usage: Open to vehicles
- World Guide Number: 21-06-03
- NRHP: 83000592
- Address: Lyonsville Road
- Town: Colrain
- State: Massachusetts
- GPS: Lat 42.66989 Lng -72.71885
- Parking notes: There is no official parking area for the bridge. Most visitors park on the side of the road on either side of the bridge. If you are looking for an official parking area, you can park at the Branch Cemetery and walk to the bridge.
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