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Courtney, R., Cohen, M., Reece, J., Comparison of the Manual Assessment of Respiratory Motion (MARM) and the Hi Lo Breathing Assessment in determining a simulated breathing pattern, International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine 2009, 12(3) 86-91
Altered breathing pattern is an aspect of dysfunctional breathing but few standardised techniques exist to evaluate it. This study investigates a technique for evaluating and quantifying breathing pattern, called the Manual Assessment of Respiratory Motion (MARM) and compares it to measures performed with Respiratory Induction Plethysmography (RIP). About 12 subjects altered their breathing and posture while 2 examiners assessed their breathing using the MARM. Simultaneous measurements with RIP were taken. Inter-examiner agreement and agreement between MARM and RIP were assessed. The ability of the measurement methods to differentiate between diverse breathing and postural patterns was compared. High levels of agreement between examiners were found with the MARM for measures of the upper rib cage relative to lower rib cage/abdomen motion during breathing but not for measures of volume. The measures of upper rib cage dominance during breathing correlated with similar measures obtained from RIP. Both RIP and MARM measures methods were able to differentiate between abdominal and thoracic breathing patterns, but only MARM was able to differentiate between breathing changes occurring as result of slumped versus erect sitting posture. This study suggests that the MARM is a reliable clinical tool for assessing breathing pattern.


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How many solar panels would it take to charge an electric car? However, since the average driver will travel approximately 37 miles a day – this translates to roughly 12 kWh of electricity. With that in mind, a much more realistic set would require approximately 12 solar panels.
How long would it take to charge an electric car with a solar panel? Solar EV Charging Explained
A 120-volt outlet will only add about 4 miles per hour and take a full 8-16 hours to fully charge.
Why don't electric cars have solar panels? There is currently insufficient technology to make solar or wind energy efficient enough to power an automobile on its own. Although research is being conducted to enhance this technology, it may be some years before major automobile manufacturers begin to include various energy alternatives into their vehicles.
Can rooftop solar panels charge an electric car? The simple answer is, yes, you could charge an EV from onboard solar panels. The real answer is, no, it's not practical yet, because math. It would simply take too long to charge up your camper van or overland truck to the point where it could drive any useful distance.


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I need to generate a verification code and send it to a customer, so that the customer can then provide the code later and I validate it. I want to be able to do this without storing the verification codes in a database, i.e., the codes should be self-containted.
How can I generate the code and prevent the customer from just guessing what a valid code is? Obviously, I can't completely rule out a lucky guess, but I want the probability of such an event to be reasonably small, while keeping the code length small. A code may contain digits and letters.
For example, a very basic verification code would be like this: randomly generate the number 1122. Now, compute the verification code 11226 ( 1122 and append its checksum 6=1+1+2+2). So, if the customer sends back 11226 back I would be able to validate it, but of course this is too easy to tamper with. Is there a method to generate such codes?
EDIT: The problem is that the system which sends the verification code and the system where the verification code is validated are separated, no information is shared between these two systems. There is no way that even the randomly generated number (1122 in the example) is known to the validation system. Let me give you another example: in my country, there is a thing called "Orange Wednesday". You can get 2 movie tickets for the price of one if you have a code received by SMS (you send a SMS and receive a code by SMS if you are Orange customer). However, this code is not tied to anything (phone number or similar): I can give the code to someone else and it is still valid. I would need this kind of verification code.
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This question is very hard to get a definitive answer to, because the definitive answer is unlikely to be helpful. The only "correct" answer here is to "make something sufficiently hard to reverse engineer", whereas if you're asking for concrete examples, there's no end in sight. What other limitations are there? For instance, would a SHA-x or MD5 or similar hash of "something" be good enough? Or do you rely on the user being able to speak the code over a phone or type it in by hand? – Lasse V. Karlsen Sep 1 '11 at 9:05
I need some example of such algorithms (for example IBAN validation uses a MOD 97 algorithm) because I'm not familiar with such and the best I could figure would be something kind of "stupid"... The user would speak the code over the phone. – Alex Sep 1 '11 at 9:10
How about using the customer ID as the seed for a random number generator? If you keep the internals of the generator private, it would take a lot of customers pooling together to reverse engineer it. Of course, every customer would only get one code, ever, but it sounds like you would have that problem with your approaches anyway. – Lasse V. Karlsen Sep 1 '11 at 9:15
The problem is that the system who sends the verification code and the system where the verification code is validated are separated, no information is shared between these two systems. There is no way that even then randomly generated number can be known when the checker validate the code. – Alex Sep 1 '11 at 9:48
If you use the customer ID as the seed to a random number generator, the generator will spit out the same sequence of "random" numbers, so simply use the first one output after seeding the generator as the validation code. This is repeatable. – Lasse V. Karlsen Sep 1 '11 at 12:31
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What you are suggesting is the use of a check digit. The problem is that the system can be "figured out" and new working codes produced fairly easily. Having a database would allow you to keep track of which codes have been sent out and to make sure that the codes coming back to you have actually been sent out. Check out also Luhn's algorithm, from the links section of the above Wikipedia article.
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What you are looking for can be implemented using Message Authentication Codes (MAC):
MAC algorithm
The key observations to make are:
 1. The secret key (which only you know) is required to generate and validate MAC codes.
 2. The MAC code produced is tinkering-proof, i.e. an attacker is not able to tell what impact a given modification to the (message, MAC) tuple may have.
 3. No information needs to be stored outside of the message flow, except for the secret key.
In your scenario, you can use any arbitrary message since your only requirement is to verify that the input you receive from a customer was originally generated by you. You can do this by
 - settling for some kind of pattern, e.g. generate only codes that start with 012345679xxxxxxx, or simply take the date encoded as "dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm:ss" for your 'arbitrary message'.
 - use random numbers that are long enough and store which codes have actually been generated by you. However, you seemed to be looking for a solution that does not depend on databases.
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You could digitally sign the customer's name (for example) using public key cryptography. On your server, you'd store a private signing key, which the customer would send to you for registration. Once there, you could sign it and send it back to customer. Validating the code would boil down to checking a signature against your public key. Of course this would do nothing to deter stuff like spoofing another customer's information but at least it would certify that for any given customer name, whether you did authorize them -- and you wouldn't need to store a huge database of all your customers (though why you don't want to store a database is beyond me, since you'd probably need all that data for legal/financial record keeping purposes at least.)
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What is a CPM machine?
After you have surgery on a joint, your doctor may recommend that you use a continuous passive motion (CPM) machine. This machine can help keep your joint flexible.
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Wyspianski who also created a caroon design for a Casimir the Great stained glass window for Wawel's Royal Cathedral. In 2000, Andrzej Wajda, Poland's distinguished film maker, proposed a realization of that _PHONE_ masterpiece, which in the eyes of Wyspianski's contemporaries was too shocking to deserve a place in Wawel Cathedral - as was his design of for a Saint Stanislaus window featuring the controversial eleventh century bishop murdered by King Boleslaus the Bold. Polonia commissioned for Lwow's Cathedral, proved to be yet another unrealized stained glass window design by Wyspianski.
Casimir the Great
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_PHONE_, Pastel, 436 x 148 cm
National Museum, Cracow
by Stanislaw Wyspianski,
1893-94, Pastel, 436 x 148 cm
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by Stanislaw Wyspianski,
1893-94, Pastel, 298 x 153 cm
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History is less visible in Wyspianski's paintings and pastels than in his dramas and poems, but his representations of the "Polish Acropolis," as Wyspianski called the Wawel Hill, a the most impressive ever produced. He is but one of those artists who created history themselves. Unlike Matejko, Wyspianski was never presented a scepter. As with most great Polish artists, he was misunderstood, unappreciated, and even humiliated by his compatriots. Wronged, but aware of his greatness, he wrote a poem that began with the words:
"Ah, I love Cracow - for not from the stones
did I learn sorrow - but from the living ones."
Jacek Malczewski (_PHONE_) was also one of Matejko's numerous students. He came to Cracow from the Radom area in the Russian partition, but soon became a prominent figure of Cracow's artistic life. Later he was elected the provost of Cracow's famous Academy of Fine Arts. Being undoubtedly one of the greatest painters in the history of Polish art, he was also a highly original visionary and a committed patriot. Let us look at one of his early but best known masterpieces, Melancholy (1890) which bears the subtitle Prologue. Last Century in Poland. Surpassing Matejko's pieces in respect of color and composition, that big, weird painting definitely would not be possible without Matejko's influence.
by Jacel Malczewski,
_PHONE_, 55x95" oil on canvas, National Museum, Poznan
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A seated artist is shown in his studio, facing a blank canvas, with his back to the viewer. A black figure stands by the open window at the other side of the canvas. The title of the painting suggests its meaning. Melancholy symbolizes the artist and hence refers to his duty, which is to provide a vision of history. The subtitle, in turn, describes that artist's vision. There is a crowd of figures swirling in the studio who, let us observe, make up the shape of a cross. At the base of the cross are children symbolizing the beginning of life and at the same time of an unfortunate period in the history of Poland. In the middle are men with scythes (the traditional weapon of Polish insurgents), participants in the 19th century uprisings. The left side of the cross, that nearest to the half opened window, is filled with old men near death, prisoners and deportees to Siberia, victims of successive uprisings.
Without going into Malczewski's complex symbolism, let us point out that the image depicts the history of Poland in the 19th century, a period of struggle for independence, a struggle for independence, a struggle which resulted in the deaths of thousands of people. The figure standing on the right is death as well as future deliverance. In other words, the artist suggests, independence will come in the wake of death. The form of the cross filled with figures is a reference to the sacrifice of Christ who redeemed mankind through his death. Likewise, Poland was to rise from the dead through an offering of blood. Hence the open window is a symbol of hope for the coming century, that in which the nation will be redeemed.
I have already mentioned Margrave Wielopolski, the plenipotentiary of Tsarist government in the Russian partition. Though he introduced reforms polonizing both the administration and schools, his short sighted decision to impress into the tsarist army activist young men led to the tragic events in 1863. No matter what his purposes were, he became a tragic figure, hated and despised by the majority if the Polish people. Malczewski's Polish Hamlet, painted in 1903, represents that aristocrat's dilemma: how to be a savior of the nation rather than its traitor, while remaining an obedient servant of Moscow. Other paintings by Malczewski don't refer to the Polish history as directly. According to some, however, The Poisoned Well which appears in many of his works acts as a symbol of partitioned Poland.
The Polish Hamlet by Jacek Malczewski, oil on canvas, 1903
|Flanked by two images of Poland, one old and bound, the other free, radical and revolutionary, the aristocrat, Aleksander Wielopolski, finds the choice a difficult one.
The painting symbolizes the dilemma faced by those living in partitioned Poland whether to stay with the status quo or to seek freedom by staging one more uprising, even though all the previous ones had brought defeat and repression.
Currently, there is a much acclaimed exhibition of Jacek Malczewski' s works in Paris in such an important place as Musee d'Orsay.
"Melancholy's" window opened in 1918 when Poland became an independent state. That, naturally, created quite a different reference point for artistic culture. Art no longer had to act as the treasury of the national memory or create prophetic visions to sustain the spirit. Modernist references were to satisfy the ambitions of the nascent European and democratic society; local references, often visible as those to folk art, satisfied the need for the national legitimacy of the new state, thus justifying its existence.
There are many good illustrations of the process. Few in the West, i.e Western Europe and North America, realize how rich was the country's artistic life during 1918-39 period, those twenty years of Polish independence. The names of most art movements and artists of that period, as well as their achievements, remain unknown to most people in the West. Often these achievements were precursory to American and West European avant garde ideas, particularly those of the nineteen sixties and the eighties. However, that's not the topic of my lecture. Let me, instead, present to you a very prolific woman viewed by many as a second rate decorative artist, but whose works are very representative of that period: Zofia Stryjenska. Almong her works there are several historical ones.
In Piast, one of these, two angels visit Piast the wheelwright and announce to him that his son is going to be a prince or king. The scene, based on a well known legend, was one also drawn and painted by. Matejko and Wyspianski. Still, what a difference in terms of form, colors, but, above all, the artist's attitude towards the theme. No more solemnity, drama and prophecy. Stryjenska' s is a typically optimistic painting, characteristic for the twenties and thirties, an epoch of the Art Deco style. There were many more artists and trends that dealt in some way Poland's history. (Some Formists, "Frigian Cap", "Horned Heart Tribe" groups, etc.) For obvious reasons I cannot discuss them all. Yet, I would hazard a statement that the heritage of history has been more or less present in most of the art works produced by Polish artists up to now. Even those who were strongly opposed to the traditions of the past, sooner or later come back to them consciously or subconsciously.
Piast by Zofia Stryjenska, oil on canvas, 1932
World War II put a stop to many artistic processes, especially as it caused changes in the institutional structure of the country. The implementation of a new political system, based on one party rule and a non-sovereign government (though relics of a multi-party system and sovereignty were preserved for the sake of appearances, especially during the '40s) most evidently affected the post-war art world. For the Polish nation as a whole and for people individually, the war had been primarily a traumatic experience and as such became an important element of a search for historical identity, conducted by many artists, especially those of the younger generation. Let me mention but a few.
Andrzej Wroblewski (_PHONE_). His art is a penetrating illustration of the peculiar psychological condition when the subject and the object merge in the experience of horror. His series of Executions represents the physical existence of the human body, or the existence of man, at the moment of death. Wroblewski believed that realistic art was the formula which made

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The complex interconnection among issues affecting rural-regional sustainability requires an equally complex program of research to ensure the attraction and retention of high-quality teachers for rural children. The educational effects of the construction of the rural within a deficit discourse are highlighted. A concept of rural social space is modelled, bringing together social, economic and environmental dimensions of (rural-regional) sustainability. This framework combines quantitative definitional processes with more situated definitions of rural space based on demographic and other social data, across both geographic and cultural formations. The Implications of the model are examined in terms of its importance for teacher education.
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Natural Gas Severance Tax Proposals
Act 46 of 2010, more commonly known as Pennsylvania's 2010-2011 budget bill, contained a commitment by the General Assembly to pass a natural gas severance tax by October 1, 2010, with an effective date of no later than January 1, 2011. This article will provide a brief summary of things to watch for as the General Assembly "makes the sausage" this month.
Severance taxes throughout the United States are generally based on the volume of gas extracted, the value of gas extracted, or a combination of the two. In the case of a tax based on the volume of gas extracted, there is a flat rate in terms of cents per thousand cubic feet (MCF). The gas is simply metered through the well as it is extracted. The problem with the volume method is that it does not take into account the value of the gas being extracted. For instance, when gas prices are very high, the taxing jurisdiction will not share in the increased revenues. Conversely, when gas prices are very low, the tax may be a severe impediment to extracting the gas at all.
The alternative is to tax the value of gas extracted "at the wellhead," which means before any deductions are made for transportation and distribution costs. The downside of this type of tax is that it is difficult to forecast for state budgeting purposes. It is also more difficult to enforce the tax, because sales and prices must be monitored and audited, rather than simply reading a volume meter at the wellhead.
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Vehicle message groups are groups of vehicles, allowing you to send broadcast transmissions to an entire group with one message instead of having to individually send to each vehicle. Coverage groups can be designated as vehicle message groups.
Vehicle message groups use a group message ID number that is assigned by Omnitracs. A company is assigned 10 ID numbers when it receives its account. Additional group numbers can be requested if needed.
- Identify vehicle message groups you need that are not already members of a coverage group.
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- In QTRACS Setup, click Vehicle Message Groups.
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Income-Averaging Annuity for Artists
If you are a person authorized to offer an eligible income-averaging annuity and you pay an amount under such an annuity to a recognized artist, you must withhold income tax equal to 25.75% on the amounts paid and remit the amount to us within 30 days.
If you fail to withhold an amount, or if you withhold less than 25.75% (for example, if you withhold 20% instead of 25.75%), you must pay us the difference yourself. However, you may recover the amount from the beneficiary.
Any amount you pay during the year from an income-averaging annuity must be entered on the artist's RL-2 slip (see courtesy translation RL-2-T) that you file.
Eligible income-averaging annuity
An eligible income-averaging annuity is an income-averaging annuity established by agreement that meets the following requirements:
- The annuity is acquired through a single payment.
- The amounts provided for under the income-averaging annuity are paid in equal annual or more frequent periodic payments of sufficient amounts to ensure full payment of the annuity over no more than seven years from the date of the first payment.
- The first annuity payment is made no later than 10 months after the date of the single payment made to acquire the annuity.
- The artist is entitled to request full or partial commutation of the annuity at any time.
- The annuity can be paid only to the artist or, if that individual dies, to his or her succession or designated beneficiary, as the case may be.
- The artist's interest in the contract cannot be disposed of other than by the surrender or cancellation of the annuity by the authorized person, except in the case of the artist's death.
- The artist's interest in the contract cannot be pledged or transferred as security in any manner whatsoever.
- The contract complies with the standard contract previously approved by us.


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One species of order Dictyoptera (Periplaneta americana) and one species of order Thysanura (Lepisma saccharine) were found through out the study period in the Lawrence garden.
It is useful to mention that Tillyard originally included Triassomantidae in the former order Orthoptera sensu lato as he considered this family related to mantises (now the suborder Mantina in the order Dictyoptera), but Riek (1956) transferred the family to the order Orthoptera sensu stricto (in a recent volume), and Sharov (1962) first put this taxon in the order Protoblattodea (= Eoblattida; Rasnitsyn 2002).


Saint Lazarus Zographos
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Monk at Constantinople. Skilled painter. Opposed the Iconoclasts under emperor Theophilus. He defended sacred images, and restored those that were defaced by Iconoclasts. For his work he was arrested and tortured. When the Iconoclasts fell from power, Lazarus was released and given a prominent place in the new regime, eventually becoming ambassador to Rome.
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Single, childless, female and ageing - the grim future facing some Australian women
ALONE AND VULNERABLE: Single older women without children face unique challenges. Image: Pixabay
Many single women without children are doing it tough in their senior years, according to new Australian research.
Whereas much past research has focused on the'motherhood penalty' faced by older woman who took time off from work to look after children, the new research by Council on the Ageing (COTA) NSW board member Associate Professor Myra Hamilton and colleagues has found that single women without children (SWWC) face particular challenges which can leave them vulnerable to poverty and isolation.
SWWC make up around nine per cent of the surveyed population aged 45 and older in the National HILDA (Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) study which follows 17,000 people throughout their lives.
I did find though that because I was single and had part time work it was assumed (by many people, not just my brother) that I would be the main carer. Of course I wanted to - it was my mum, but my health and energy were not even considered. It was hard, but I wouldnt have had it any other way.
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Myra said the research challenged the misconception that SWWC generally have uninterrupted careers and a healthy superannuation balance, instead finding they often have interrupted career paths from various causes - redundancy, ill heath, and the expectation they were available to care for elderly or disabled family members.
Associate Professor Myra Hamilton.
Associate Professor Myra Hamilton.
Housing was a major issue for many older SWWC who cannot rely on a partner to help get and pay off a mortgage making it more of a struggle to enter and stay in the housing market; and single women were less able to absorb temporary financial shocks than a partnered person; so a redundancy, illness or caring responsibility can result in them losing their home and having to move to rental accommodation.
The historical gender factor plays an enormous impact. The facts that these women have often worked in the workforce in maybe casual jobs, part time works. Lower paid work where either no superannuation was required to be paid or a minimal amount of superannuation was required to be paid. So that absolutely impacts their financial security
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Also while single women were more likely to bear the lion's share of caring for ageing parents, they were the least likely to have someone to provide informal care and support for them in later life, leaving them at risk of needing early entry to residential aged care.
Being single and aging is scary. I look around me and my siblings and friends who have children have a network around them as they get older. Who will be the young people in my life to lift me up and support me? Sure I'll have friends, but they'll all be old like me.
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The report's recommendations include:
 - Address the effect of family care on employment and income
 - Amend anti-discrimination legislation to clarify that discrimination against people without family responsibilities is also unlawful
 - Develop more affordable housing options for older women
 - Provide advocates in the aged care system to help older people without informal support
 - Make financial advice more accessible, affordable and catering to women's needs and communication styles.
Security in old age for older single women without children, presents findings from a collaborative project between the Universities of Sydney, New South Wales and Curtin and was funded by CPA Australia.
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On 17 June 2020, Aboriginal land councils and traditional owner groups from across the nation came together to respond to the cultural heritage crisis highlighted by the tragic destruction of a site of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people with 46,000 years of human occupation by mining company Rio Tinto.
In this submission we highlight the need for more far-reaching reforms as an urgent priority,
informed by the inequities in the current system, the fact that time is running out for many
Community Elders to see land justice in their life times and the obligations imposed on the
Australian Government by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (UNDRIP). Due to capacity constraints and the tight timeframe for submission, we


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Every year, thousands of babies die in their sleep for no obvious reason. This is known as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or 'cot death'.
Now scientists have come up with a special pyjama suit – known as Mamagoose - that can send out a warning if the baby stops breathing. The pyjamas are based on a'smart' suit that was developed to monitor the motion of astronauts in the early 1990's.
The suit includes five sensors that continuously monitor babies while they sleep. Three of them check the infant's heartbeat and two more monitor breathing.
The sensors are built into the cloth and have no direct contact with the body, so there is no discomfort for the baby.
The sensors are linked to a miniaturised computer. At the first sign that the baby has stopped breathing, the computer sounds an alarm to alert the parents.
The pyjamas are made of two parts. The lining, which comes into direct contact with the baby, can be machine-washed. The other part, which contains the sensor system, can be washed by hand. The pyjamas come in three sizes and are made of non-allergic material.
A cheaper version, known as Babyguard, is now being developed in Belgium and will be sold in shops so that parents can rest easy when their babies are asleep.


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We will produce and test a flight-type transpiration cooled combustion chamber for high performance, reusable, liquid rocket engines utilizing a novel uniform pore material. The Sierra Engineering design produces a durable, low cost, flight-weighttranspiration cooled liner with integral fluid distribution and structural support hardware. The design will be based upon the rigorous analysis procedure and associated methodology developed under the Phase I project. The Phase I effort also fabricateda transporation cooled combustion chamber barrel segment and applied the design methodology and fabrication technique to a chamber concept for an NK-33 class hydrocarbon booster engine. The Phase II SBIR program shall: l)generate the data necessary toevaluate and improve the design methodology for a wide range of transpiration coolants, 2) demonstrate scale-up of the fabrication techniques from a heavy-weight research scale to a relevant flight-type booster class engine, and 3) produce a commerciallyviable 40 Klbf-class combustion chamber. Transpiration cooled combustion chamber technology has been demonstrated by others at a concept level, but flight weight hardware has never been developed.
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Given, object distance, u = -15 cm and focal length, f = 20 cm
Let image distance be 'v'.
We know, 1f=1v−1u
⇒ v = -60 cm.
Four characteristics of the image formed by the lens are:
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Maurice and Jane O'Keeffe of Irish Life and Lore are pleased to announce the publication of the third and final part of the '_PHONE_: A Century of Change' oral history collection.
This significant and wide-ranging oral history project, comprising 287 recordings and conducted over three years, commemorates the centenary of the of the formation of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann).
The interviewees include leaders in business and finance, in the arts and culture arenas, in media, agriculture, education, politics, engineering and architecture, health, the defence forces, and sport. These men and women, or their immediate family members, have all made a significant contribution to life in Ireland since the foundation of the state.
Hard Copy Illustrated Catalogue
The 135 page illustrated catalogue, detailing all of the recordings in parts 1, 2 and 3 the _PHONE_: A Century of Change can now be purchased for €60.
The catalogue is organised thematically and gives details of the 287 individual recordings as follows:
– Name, date of birth and image of the person recorded
– Date, Location and Length of the recording
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- Outlet works energy dissipators 2010 ch.4 pp. 84-89
- basins, energy flow, stream flow, water reservoirs
- An outlet works is a combination of structures and equipment required for the safe operation and control of water released from a reservoir to serve various purposes like regulating stream flow and water quality; releasing floodwater; and/or providing irrigation, municipal, or industrial water. Outlet works may include an intake structure, conduit, control house-gates, regulating gate or valve, gate chamber, and/or an energy dissipation structure. An energy dissipation structure slows the velocity and dissipates the energy of the flow released from an outlet works. A plunge basin is a deep pool energy dissipater into which a free jet of water can fall. The natural shape of a plunge basin is elliptical with a greater length parallel to the jet flow. Riprap and/or concrete are common materials used to line a plunge basin, but the plunge basin may be unlined to allow the scour to result from the hydraulic action of a free falling jet. This chapter discusses the types of plunge basins, jet trajectory of the discharge jet into a plunge basin, a description of the scour process for plunge basins, plunge basin design, and the use of slide gates with plunge basins.


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Three student authors, Gauthier Guerin, Paul Alberto Jarrin Tamayo and Solvi Thrastarson, have jointly won the 2022 Geophysical Journal International student author prizes. The
winning authors each received a cash prize and a certificate of recognition.
Gauthier Guerin's paper, "Quantifying microseismic noise generation from coastal reflection of gravity waves recorded by seafloor DAS", where DAS is distributed acoustic sensing, paves the way for the use of DAS data to monitor ocean-solid Earth interactions. The authors take advantage of a 41 km long submarine optical fibre cable off the coast of Toulon, France, to record both the amplitude and frequency of seafloor strains induced by ocean surface gravity waves, as well as secondary microseisms caused by the interaction of gravity waves incident and reflected from the coast. Read about their findings at _URL_
Paul Jarrin's paper is entitled "Current motion and deformation of the Nazca Plate: new constraints from GPS measurements". Using continuous GPS monitoring from six sites, the authors determine relative movement along the plate boundaries, as well as consider the non-closure of the Pacific-Cocos-Nazca Plate circuit. Read more at _URL_
Solvi Thrastarson's paper, "Data-adaptive global full-waveform inversion", presents a novel approach to global-scale full-waveform inversion (FWI) that, the authors say, can reduce computational cost by over an order of magnitude, compared to previously published methods, without sacrificing physical and mathematical rigour. The authors present the LOng-Wavelength Earth model (LOWE) as the first global FWI constructed entirely from a spherically symmetric initial mantle structure as a showcase for the method. Read more at _URL_


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The controller is what handles the roaming, Since they are one two separate controllers and no way to sync them, there will either be no roaming or it will have to disconnect to be able to connect between them. It would be better to not have them named the same since they will most likely want to flag them as malicious.
This is actually incorrect. The decision to roam is made by the client not the AP or the Controller. This is a large part of why roaming is so difficult and unreliable. Some new WIFI standards do include better roaming, but it usually isn't enabled and requires all devices on a wifi network to support it (which is why it usually isn't enabled) or you run into wifi issues.
You can configure settings like a min RSSI to assist the client in making up its mind (in this case by disassociating it) forcing it to re-evaluate and reconnect to what the client decides is the best choice.
There will always be a brief disruption as an client roams. Usually amounting to 1 or 2 pings, that an end user won't notice unless they are doing something like a voice call. you can easily test this by running a continuous ping on a device like a laptop and walking around with it.
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a1 University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, 7000 Fannin *2658, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Background Although many school-based diet and physical activity interventions have been designed and evaluated, relatively few have been tested for the after-school setting. After-school day-care programmes at either elementary schools or private locations provide a ready-made opportunity for health programmes that may be difficult to incorporate into an already-full school day. The purpose of this paper is to report on a pilot study of an after-school adaptation of the CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health) elementary school programme called the CATCH Kids Club (CKC).
Methods The CKC was pilot-tested and formatively evaluated in 16 Texas after-school programmes: eight in El Paso and eight in Austin (four intervention and four reference sites each). Evaluation consisted of direct observation of moderate to vigorous physical activity during play time, self-reported food intake and physical activity, and focus group interviews with after-school programme staff.
Results Students responded well to the physical activity and snack components and were less interested in the five-module education component. Routine staff training was a key variable in achieving proper implementation; the ideal would be a full day with repeated follow-up model teaching visits. Staff turnover was a logistic issue, as was programme leader readiness and interest in conducting the programme. Strong and significant effects were observed for the physical activity but not for the education component. The results of the physical education component suggest it is feasible, effective and ready for larger-scale evaluation or dissemination.
(Received December 17 2003)
(Accepted September 22 2004)


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Cowboy Action Shooting
Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) is a shooting sport which involves shooting at targets with a variety of guns that were typical of the late 19th century. The sport originated in the United States and is currently practiced in a few other countries as well.
In competitions, matches consist of several stages, with each stage presenting a different scenario that are typical of the old west. Shooters have to carry four guns for a mach (two revolvers, one shotgun, and one rifle). Each stage requires up to 10 revolver rounds, up to 10 rifle rounds, or up to eight shotgun rounds. Some stages will restrict the use of only one or two types of guns. Targets used are usually steel plates that get knocked down when hit.
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Most matches are time based, where each shooter completes the stages individually against a clock. In each stage, targets have to be shot in a specific order. For each missed target 5 seconds, and for targets shot out-of-order 10 seconds, are added to the shooters final time as a penalty. After all deductions, the competitor with the fastest time for all stages combined is declared as the winner.
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Lunar regolith is capable of growing greenery, but plants grown in younger lunar soil are less stressed than plants grown in more mature soil. These experiments are the first attempts to grow plants in actual lunar regolith rather than soil simulant. The results, which were published in Communications Biology on 12 May, are a critical step in understanding how future long-term residents of the Moon may be able to produce their own food and oxygen through lunar agriculture.
"It's really good news that plants can grow in the lunar soils," said coauthor Robert Ferl, a space biologist at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, during an 11 May press briefing. The challenges that the plants experienced show that "there is some very interesting biology, lunar biology, lunar biological chemistry, that's yet to be learned. But the bottom line is that until it was actually done, nobody knew whether plants, especially plant roots, would be able to interact with a very sharp, very antagonistic soils that the lunar regolith presents."
The Moon Is Stressful
The researchers sowed Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) seeds in small quantities of regolith preserved from Apollo 11, Apollo 12, and Apollo 17 landing sites, as well as in lunar soil simulant. Arabidopsis plants, which are related to mustards, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, and turnips, have been grown in a wide variety of soils and environments, including in space.
"It is edible, but it's not especially tasty," said lead author and plant biologist Anna-Lisa Paul of UF. "We learn a lot that can be translated into crop plants from looking at Arabidopsis." Moreover, Arabidopsis plants are small and have a growth cycle of about a month, which is ideal when trying to grow them in about a teaspoon's worth of lunar regolith.
The researchers found that all three lunar soils were capable of growing plants, but with some difficulty. Compared with the control samples grown in lunar simulant soil, plants grown in actual lunar regolith had more stunted root systems, slower growth, and less extensive leaf canopies and also exhibited stress responses like deeper green or purple leaf pigmentation. Although all of the plants grown in lunar soil were stressed, some were more stressed than others. The plants grown in Apollo 11 regolith were the most stressed, and the plants in the Apollo 17 regolith were the least stressed.
Although Apollo 11, Apollo 12, and Apollo 17 all landed in basaltic mare regions of the Moon, the sites exhibited some key differences. Regolith at the Apollo 11 site is considered to be the most mature soil of the three. The site has been exposed to the lunar surface the longest, which has led to the soil being weathered by the solar wind, cosmic rays, and micrometeorite impacts. These maturation processes can alter the chemistry, granularity, and glass content of the regolith. The other two sites have also been "matured" by these processes but to lesser extents, Apollo 17 least of all.
The team performed gene analysis on the plants after 20 days of growth and found that the regolith-grown plants showed stress responses related to salt, metals, and reactive oxygen species. Those results suggested that much of the plants' difficulty was related to the chemical differences between lunar regolith and lunar soil simulant, such as the oxidation state of iron—lunar iron tends to be in an ionized metallic state, whereas the simulant and Earth soils tend to contain iron oxides that are easier for plants to access. Ionized iron results from interactions with the solar wind, which explains why the most mature soil, that from Apollo 11, grew the most stressed plants.
"The simulants are incredibly useful for, say, engineering purposes.…They're wonderful for determining whether or not your rover is going to get stopped in the soil or not," said coauthor Stephen Elardo, a planetary geochemist at UF. "But when you get down to the chemistry that's accessed by plants, they're not really one to one. The devil is in the details, and in the end the plants are concerned about the details."
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These results show that lunar regolith is capable of supporting the growth of plants, which will be an integral component of any long-term lunar habitat. Plants will be able to support key functions like water recycling; carbon dioxide removal; and oxygen, food, and nutrient production.
"It's a well-organized and thought-out experiment to test growing plants on actual lunar regolith returned from the Apollo 11, 12, and 17 missions," said Edward Guinan, an astronomer at Villanova University in Pennsylvania who has conducted plant experiments in Moon and Mars soil simulants. "As the authors point out, the test plants are stressed and don't grow well. The plants have characteristics of plants grown in salty or metal-rich soils. Maybe trying different terrestrial plants that do well in poor or salty soils might be an interesting follow-up." Guinan was not involved in this research.
This study also shows that although plants can be grown using in situ lunar resources, where those resources come from will be important for the plants' growth success.
Regardless of where future lunar explorers build a habitat, "we can choose where we mine materials to use as a substrate for growth habitats," Paul said. "It's where the materials are mined from makes that a difference, not where the habitat exists."
—Kimberly M. S. Cartier (@AstroKimCartier), Staff Writer
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Some phytochemicals with the characteristics of cytotoxicity and anti-metastasis has generated intense interest among the invasive cancer study. Curcumin, one of these anti-cancer phytochemicals, has been reported to induce the cytoprotective enzyme heme oxygenase-1 expression. Since heme oxygenase-1 has been suggested to enhance cancer cell invasion, we investigated the anti-invasive effect of curcumin when heme oxygenase-1 was knocked down in vitro, and the heme oxygenase-1 expression after curcumin treatment in vivo. Curcumin inhibited cell viability and the MMP-2/9 activities of human bladder cancer cells. At 10μM, curcumin inhibited cell viability and cell invasive activity by 15% and 40%, respectively. Ten micrometer curcumin increased the intracellular reactive oxygen species concentration and heme oxygenase-1 protein and mRNA expression in bladder cancer cells. The anti-invasive activity of curcumin was elevated when heme oxygenase-1 was knocked down by siRNA or inhibited by pharmacological inhibitor. In vivo, curcumin induced heme oxygenase-1 protein expression in the lung tissue of murine lung metastasis tumor model and in the bladder tissue of murine orthotopic bladder tumor model. Taken together, our data suggest that curcumin-induced heme oxygenase-1 attenuates the anti-invasive effect of curcumin in cancer therapy, and co-treatment by heme oxygenase-1 inhibitor enhances the anti-invasive activity of curcumin.
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The below piece worked for me:
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>>>fp, pathname, description = imp.find_module("/home/test_module");
>>>test_module = imp.load_module("test_module", fp, pathname, description);
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import sys, glob
fl = glob.glob('modus/*.py')
modulist = []
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 This is bad not just because it's bad python, but also it's just generally bad code. What is fl? The for loop definition is overly complex. The path is hard coded (and for an example, irrelevant). It's using discouraged python (__import__), what's all that fl[i] stuff for? This is basically unreadable, and is unnecessarily complex for something that is not all that hard - see the top voted answer with its one-liner.
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- MKF 240 Climate Testing Chamber from BINDER Used to Test the Latest Adhesive Technology
Product News: MKF 240 Climate Testing Chamber from BINDER Used to Test the Latest Adhesive TechnologyCollano Adhesives develops and distributes specialty adhesives for use in construction, labels, tapes, packaging, protective adhesive systems, textiles and foams. In application technology, countless tests are performed on adhesive bonds to increase the quality, productivity and safety of the adhesives. Customer-specific adhesive bonds are tested both on original materials, standard testing with standardized materials, as well as the behavior of adhesives under various environmental conditions. The BINDER climate chamber has the responsibility of testing the setting behavior of the adhesive under different climate conditions. In particular, the adhesive bonds are stored at high temperatures or climate change testing is performed.
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However, the range of application is quite varied. Among other things, the adhesive bonds of the chip modules for smart cards are tested under the different climate conditions. In addition, expansion joints, insulation bonds and bonds to building materials of various types such as wood, stone, metal, etc. are tested. All adhesives are exposed to a specific environmental situation and their behavior precisely tested. To ensure comparable, verifiable test results, the test must be carried out under comparable conditions. The BINDER MKF 240 meets these requirements and Collano employee Thomas Frey also notes "that the climate chamber quickly produces and consistently maintains the specific climate." User-friendly programming via PC
Among other things, the advantage of BINDER climate chambers lies in their flexible programming. The user has the option of inputting the program into the unit directly or conveniently from a PC. This allows temperature and humidity to be controlled simultaneously or independently as required and allows several cycles to be programmed if necessary. In addition, Collano employees note that it is possible to set tolerance limits to achieve high accuracy, reproducibility and consistency. And the access port on the side of the chamber and the viewing window on the unit with interior lighting ensure optimal test setup that can be controlled and observed at all times.
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Using biomass power replaces the need to burn use coal to generate electricity. Additionally, the use of biomass power also reduces the need for oil to mine and deliver coal to far off power stations, thereby significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Most surprisingly, using wood waste as fuel is actually more beneficial to the environment than allowing it to decompose naturally, because of the elimination of methane during combustion.
As wood starts to decompose it releases roughly equal amounts of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Both of these gases belong to the group that is commonly referred to as "greenhouse gases." What is surprising about this is that, while we normally hear greenhouse gases expressed in terms of carbon dioxide, methane is a much more powerful gas that causes roughly 25 times the greenhouse impact of CO2. The gasification process used by Phoenix Energy virtually eliminates the amount of methane released into the air, relative to decomposition in a landfill or forest. According to the EPA, 250lbs of methane are released per thousand tons of wood while making biomass power v. 430,000lbs per thousand tons as wood rots in a landfill.
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Reduce Toxic Pollutants
In addition to producing significant volumes of greenhouse gases, conventional power generation using fossil fuels also emits a significant number of harmful pollutants that are either not present or insignificant in wood. For instance, Mercury is a highly poisonous substance that is emitted during the combustion of most fossil fuels. While power plants release an average of 0.02 kg of mercury per giga watt of electricity, wood fueled plants release 0. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) are also vastly lower in biomass power than in a coal power plant. More importantly, however, these naturally occurring pollutants would be released either way as wood decomposed. Using biomass generated power leaves coal and other fossil fuels and their toxic components in the ground!
Save Landfill Space & Reduce Landfill Damage to Watersheds
Landfill space is precious. But the fact remains that humans make waste and it has to go somewhere. The more we can do to reduce, reuse and recycle the less we have to worry about where our garbage goes. The more we can do to divert waste away from the landfill the less of our landscape will be taken up by landfills. In fact, most of our big cities now have run out of space and pay to have their garbage hauled out into the heartland adding insult to injury. If you live in southern California there's a good chance that your garbage ends up in Arizona. If you live in New York it probably ends up in western Pennsylvania.
According to the Department of Energy, wood waste typically makes up about 15% by weight and 20% by volume of the material that enters a landfill. So diverting to use in generating biomass power can make a real difference.
Like any other organic mater, decomposing wood waste is a source of leachates that pollute the water table.
"Landfill burial of biomass residues accelerates the depletion of landfill capacity and leads to much higher emissions of greenhouse gases compared to [use] of the material in power plants (Dept of Energy)."
Improve Energy Security & Energy Diversity
From California style brownouts to New York style blackouts to hurricanes, accidents or acts of terrorism using a PHX-1000 wood waste power plant adds a layer of energy security to make sure that your business is always with power. Because our system is normally installed in parallel to the grid you always have a reliable back-up – as long as you have waste wood, you have power.
Also important is that grid parallel operation works both ways. If someone drives a truck into your PHX-1000 and knocks it out, the grid takes over seamlessly with no interruption. If a production spike causes you to need more power than the PHX-1000 produces you take the additional power you need from the grid. Because of the parallel interconnection, neither you nor your equipment ever need know where the power is coming from.
Finally, using the PHX-1000 helps promote energy independence by reducing demand for foreign sources of energy as well as promoting diversity among sources of energy. All of this means that should there be some supply crisis in fuel oil or coal, natural gas or other, you have a backup to see you through any price spikes or interruptions.
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New plant discovered in Fiji
19 January 2012 | News story
A new flowering plant belonging to the Medinilla plant group has been discovered in the highlands of Matasawalevu village, on the island of Kadavu in Fiji. The plant was found during a biodiversity assessment of the Nakasaleka district carried out as part of IUCN's Water and Nature Initiative (WANI).
There are around 193 known species of Medinilla, occurring in Madagascar, Africa, South Asia and the Pacific Islands. Of the 193 species, 11 can only be found in Fiji. One of them is the Tagimoucia flower, Medinilla waterhousei, the floral emblem of Fiji.
IUCN's WANI works with local communities to help them better manage water resources on Kadavu island. The team was monitoring the degradation of the river basin in the area when the new plant was discovered.
"The discovery of this previously unknown species of plant gives us a sense of just how fragile nature can be," says Dr Milika Sobey, Water and Wetlands Programme Coordinator at IUCN's Oceania Regional Office. "The fact that it was found during work on a watershed management project is one more lesson in how important it is that nature is included in the priorities for water management."
"Through the Water and Nature Initiative IUCN has shown in more than 30 countries worldwide that by working with local people and partners, it is possible to put in place sustainable solutions that meet the water needs of both people and nature," says Dr Mark Smith, Director of the IUCN Global Water Programme.
The species was found on the border of grassland and primary forest. This location makes it highly vulnerable to bush fires that are common in the area.
"We only managed to find one plant of this kind," says Mr Marika Tuiwawa, of the University of the South Pacific's Institute of Applied Science, IUCN member and partner in the WANI project, who discovered the species. "Commercial agricultural activities and uncontrolled bush fires are the main threats to this species. A simple fire could destroy it in a matter of minutes."
The plant's common name has not been confirmed yet but the name Medinilla matasawalevu has been suggested to illustrate its location.
"The fact that only one plant of this kind was found so far and that it occurs in such a vulnerable place should set alarm bells ringing," says Dr Jane Smart, Global Director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group. "The challenge now is to protect the new species and raise awareness of its importance among local communities, to secure its long term future."
Work is currently underway to confirm the exact classification of the new species, for which DNA research may be carried out.
For more information please contact:
Ewa Magiera, IUCN Media Relations, m +41 79 856 76 26, _EMAIL_
Claire Warmenbol, IUCN Water Programme Communications, m +41 79 _PHONE_, _EMAIL_


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Postprint version. Published in Biological Conservation, Volume 112, Issue 3, August 1, 2003, pages 435-445.
NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Sean C. Lema was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.
The definitive version is available at _URL_
The goal of habitat restoration is to provide environmental conditions that promote the maintenance and growth of target populations. But rarely is it considered how the allocation of resources influences the diversity of phenotypes in these populations. Here we present a framework for considering how habitat restoration can shape the development and expression of phenotypes. We call this approach phenotype management as it entails restoring the resources in a habitat to manage phenotypic diversity. Phenotype management is achieved by manipulating the spatial and temporal distribution of resources to alter the degree of competition among individuals. Differences in competition, in turn, lead to changes in phenotypic and life history expression that affect population parameters including demography and effective population size (Ne). To illustrate how phenotype management can be applied, we explore how resource distributions shape variation in phenotypes in two imperiled fishes, Pacific salmon and desert pupfish. In both examples, modulating male reproductive phenotypes changes the allocation of reproductive success among population members to subsequently affect Ne. These examples further demonstrate that whether to increase or decrease phenotypic diversity depends on the primary conservation pressures faced by the species.


Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Authentication from a Xamarin.Forms app using WebAuthenticator
The OAuth 2.0 for Native Apps spec represents the best practices for OAuth 2.0 authentication flows from mobile apps. These include:
 - Authentication requests should only be made through external user agents, such as the browser. This results in better security, and enables use of the user's current authentication state, making single sign-on possible. Conversely, this means that authentication requests should never be made through a WebView. WebView controls are unsafe for third parties, as they leave the authorization grant and user's credentials vulnerable to recording or malicious use. In addition, WebView controls don't share authentication state, meaning single sign-on isn't possible.
 - Native apps must request user authorization by creating a URI with the appropriate grant types. The app then redirects the user to this request URI. A redirect URI that the native app can receive and parse must also be supplied.
 - Native apps must use the Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) protocol, to defend against apps on the same device potentially intercepting the authorization code.
 - Native apps should use the authorization code grant flow with PKCE. Conversely, native apps shouldn't use the implicit grant flow.
 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks should be migitated by using the state parameter to link requests and responses.
Ultimately, the OAuth 2.0 authentication flow for native apps becomes:
 1. The native app opens a browser tab with the authorisation request.
 2. The authorisation endpoint receives the authorisation request, authenticates the user, and obtains authorisation.
 3. The authorisation server issues an authoration code to the redirect URI.
 4. The native app receives the authorisation code from the redirect URI.
 5. The native app presents the authorisation code at the token endpoint.
 6. The token endpoint validates the authorization code and issues the requested tokens.
I'd previously written a Xamarin.Forms sample to do this without any additional libraries, and one with the IdentityModel.OidcClient2 library, which is OpenID certified. Both samples consume endpoints on a publically available IdentityServer site, and use platform code to invoke native browsers.
Enter Xamarin.Essentials
Xamarin.Essentials recently introduced a WebAuthenticator class, which is a web navigation API that can be used for authentication with web services. The class contains a single method, AuthenticateAsync, which starts an authentication flow by navigating to a specified URI, and then waits for a callback/redirect to the redirect URI scheme. The whole point of the class is that it avoids having to write platform code to invoke native browsers. For more information, see the WebAuthenticator doc.
I decided to test drive WebAuthenticator by using it to initate an authentication flow with IdentityServer. However, an authentication flow from a mobile app should include a web backend between the mobile app and the authentication provider. This is to avoid including client secrets in your mobile app, which is considered to be insecure. However, I've avoided a web backend as middleware here, as I just want to see what's involved in authenticating with IdentityServer using the WebAuthenticator class.
However, before you can use WebAuthenticator to authenticate with IdentityServer, you first have to perform some platform specific setup.
Platform setup
On Android, you require an IntentFilter to handle your redirect URI. This can be accomplished by subclassing the Xamarin.Essentials WebAuthenticatorCallbackActivity class:
[Activity(NoHistory = true, LaunchMode = LaunchMode.SingleTop)]
[IntentFilter(new[] { Intent.ActionView},
 Categories = new[] { Intent.CategoryDefault, Intent.CategoryBrowsable},
 DataScheme = "io.identitymodel.native",
 DataHost = "callback")]
public class WebAuthenticationCallbackActivity : WebAuthenticatorCallbackActivity
You'll also need to overide the OnResume method in your MainActivity class, to call back into Xamarin.Essentials:
protected override void OnResume()
On iOS, you'll need to add your app's redirect URI to your Info.plist file:
You'll also need to overide the OpenUrl method in your AppDelegate class, to call back into Xamarin.Essentials:
 if (Xamarin.Essentials.Platform.OpenUrl(app, url, options))
 return true;
 return base.OpenUrl(app, url, options);
On UWP, you need to declare your redirect URI in your Package.appxmanifest file:

Start an authentication flow with WebAuthenticator
An authentication flow with IdentityServer can be started by creating the start URI, and passing it to the AuthenticateAsync method along with the redirect URI:
string url = identityService.CreateAuthorizationRequest();
var authResult = await WebAuthenticator.AuthenticateAsync(new Uri(url), new Uri(Constants.RedirectUri));
If you aren't familiar with the process of building an authorization request to IdentityServer, I recommend you look at the IdentityService class in the sample. It involves creating a long query string that contains data that indicates to IdentityServer what kind of authentication flow to kick off.
The AuthenticateAsync method returns a WebAuthenticatorResult object, which contains a number of properties, such as AccessToken, and RefreshToken. More importantly, it has a Properties dictionary that contains all of the query string or URI fragment properties, that can then be accessed by their key. Therefore, the Properties dictionary can be parsed to build the raw response sent by IdentityServer:
string raw = ParseAuthenticatorResult(authResult);
authorizeResponse = new AuthorizeResponse(raw);
string ParseAuthenticatorResult(WebAuthenticatorResult result)
 string code = result?.Properties["code"];
 string idToken = result?.IdToken;
 string scope = result?.Properties["scope"];
 string state = result?.Properties["state"];
 string sessionState = result?.Properties["session_state"];
 return $"{Constants.RedirectUri}_TAG_={code}&id_token={idToken}&scope={scope}&state={state}&session_state={sessionState}";
The result of a successful authentication flow is that the AuthorizeResponse object contains an authorization code, that can then be exchanged for the requested tokens:
UserToken userToken = await identityService.GetTokenAsync(authorizeResponse.Code);
If the UserToken object contains an access token, it can be used when making API calls to IdentityServer:
var content = await identityService.GetAsync($"{Constants.ApiUri}test", userToken.AccessToken);
Wrapping up
Although there's a lot going on here, in terms of generating the start URI, and processing the response from the redirect URI, using the WebAuthenticator class has avoided having to write platform code to invoke native browsers. This can be a considerable amount of work, depending on the platform, and it can also be confusing if you aren't familiar with the intricacies of each platform.
I've deliberately left out a lot of code from this blog post, which generates the queries to send to IdentityServer. This is because my aim wasn't to cover the intricacies of IdentityServer, but instead how to initiate an authentication flow with WebAuthenticator, and how to process its response. I also said that all of this is simple, but it's only simple if you have a good understanding of the OAuth 2.0 spec. If you don't, it can be overwhelming. Therefore, in my next blog post I'll look at simplifying all of this by using the IdentityModel.OidcClient library.
The sample this code comes from can be found on GitHub.
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American willow
American black willow is a Southern States species, usually associated with water and is just one of many willow species.
Latin Name
Salix nigra
Other Common Names
black willow, swamp willow
American black willow trees grow naturally in the Central and Southern States mainly along the Mississippi river and beside lakes. The best trees of willow can grow very tall and straight but with relatively small diameter and may be multi-stemmed.
FIA data shows U.S. willow growing stock is 56.7 million m3, 0.4% of total U.S. hardwood growing stock. American willow is growing 1.15 million m3 per year while the harvest is 0.31 million m3 per year. The net volume (after harvest) is increasing 0.84 million m3 each year. Willow growth exceeds harvest in most U.S. states that are host to the species


text: With the convergence of IP based multimedia and communications, multipoint multimedia conferencing is becoming an important form of communication. There are two major problems that have plagued multimedia conferencing. The first is a form of control needed over the conference to maintain order and data integrity. The second is to optimise the bandwidth requirement as network bandwidth generally increase proportionally to the number of participants within the conference. Both the above problems place a serious limitation on the number of conference participants. The control criteria proposed within this thesis was designed to overcome both the above problems. Based on creating a virtual meeting room, the control criteria was formulated using these two fundamental principles: • The need for a control mechanism to coordinate the conference. • Only one site may broadcast or make changes (collaborative document conferencing) at any one time.


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With an LCMS-2, inertial profiler, Ladybug 5+ 360° camera, the IrisPRO Pave provides a tightly coupled dataset. The data easily applies to linear reference and GIS systems through the DMI, DGPS, and Inertial Navigation (INS), supporting a range of data collection needs.
It's important to RIDOT to ensure construction quality through rideability verification, making sure maintenance activities meet expected specifications, supporting long-term pavement performance and better user experiences. With a focus on these goals, combined with the IrisPRO Pave and Connect processing software capabilities, RIDOT can process, review and report test data more efficiently. The ability to introduce enhanced data, such as cross slope, to the test data and rideability requirements, allows for more informed decision-making and maintenance planning.
For example, the additional data will allow RIDOT to develop data-driven crack seal programs from quantitative, spatially referenced cracking data, enabling planning based on locations, expected amounts, and with the assurance of the appropriate existing conditions to make the selected sections the right candidates.
BETTER DATA, BETTER DECISIONS, BETTER ROADS!


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Construction can significantly disrupt the environment in which it takes place. It may produce excessive noise and dust, but can also result in stability issues caused by vibrations or groundwater drainage. This often delays the completion of a construction project and, in a worstcase scenario, may lead to sky-high damage claims. Extensive monitoring can help Schiphol maintain its maximum operational capacity during the five-year expansion process. The impact of the construction work on the surrounding buildings and the air traffic control tower has to be kept to a minimum and any complications during construction can be avoided.
The director of 'The Capital Programme Landside' at Schiphol is Peter Dijk. He was previously in charge of the construction of Amsterdam's North-South metro line and the Betuweroute freight railway. Both projects allowed him to experience first-hand the advantages of an integral monitoring system in combination with risk management and a vigilant team of construction supervisors. These aspects are going to be all the more important seeing as Schiphol is built on relatively unstable ground on land reclaimed from the Haarlemmermeer lake, which significantly increases the risk factor of large-scale infrastructure projects.


"Moku Shoku" Implemented in Fukuoka City
silent eating in Japan
A restaurant sign asking for cooperation from customers using the newly invented word, moku-shoku. Image sourced from _URL_
As a new measure to combat Coronavirus, Japan has begun implementing silent eating, also known as 黙食 or moku-shoku, in various restaurants. The measure requests that customers refrain from talking while eating. The new word was first used by a curry restaurant in Fukuoka city by the name of Masala Chicken. The restaurant already had numerous prevention measures in place such as a mask requirement, washing hands upon entering the restaurant, and allowing only 1 person at a time at the register. However, among rising corona cases across Fukuoka and all of Japan, the restaurant made the decision to take even further measures.
A restaurant poster states that talking while eating increases the risk of infection spreading. Image sourced from _URL_
According to the restaurant's manager, Mr. Mitsuji, despite the restaurant having requests in place to wear masks, he wanted to give a more straightforward message to encourage customers dining in to help prevent the spread of Corona. When asked about how he came up with the word, which consists of both the characters to be silent and to eat, Mr. Mitsuji responded, "I thought the characters were too straightforward at first. Some people told me to go with a milder expression, such as the characters for quiet and eat, but I ultimately decided that the meaning and goal of the word was most important."
How Silent Eating Will Affect the Japanese Dining Experience
While the thought of eating in complete silence may be off-putting to some, the concept itself is not foreign to Japan. As some online users have explained, many of their children have similar "no talking while eating" rules at school. Instead of conversation, some schools put on a movie for the children to watch while they eat their bento.
Although the newly created word "moku-shoku" may come off as quite strong in Japanese, the idea behind it is quickly spreading. The rule has been mostly well-received online, and many Japanese Twitter users have pointed out that talking quietly if at all while eating is typically considered polite. One use below states that they, "thought remaining silent and eating were supposed to be good manners."
The user below made a popular Tweet discussing silent eating by saying the following:
"well, silent eating has become a trend, and it is recommended to eat silently alone. This is really wonderful. I want this to be recommended more and more.
At the same time, I would like people to stop recommending it as if it were absolutely the only correct answer."
As silent eating makes its way across more and more restaurants in Japan, hopefully more effective and innovative ways for safely eating out will also surface.
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We Consume More Chemicals than USA – 11th July 2018
As per the Chancellor of Chankaya National Law University, Justice Mrudul Mishra, Indians consume more chemical infested food due to lack of education among farmers.
There was a lecture held at the university on the topic of "Organic Farming & the Desi Cow" where Justice Mishra explained that due to the heavy use of pesticides, cow's milk has now become laden with pesticides.
"Due to the heave use of pesticides to sustain the green and white revolution, we lost more than what we gained." As per Justice Mishra.
Member of Parliament, Shri RK Sinha explained that due to the heavy use of pesticides, we are losing our health across board and due to the low quality of milk from western breed cows, children's health is getting affected.
A chair in the honor of Shri RK Sinha was announced at the end of the program. This chair will focus on organic farming research and development.
Focus on Organic Farming to Save Us from Harmful Chemicals – 11th July 2018
At AN College, Patna, on the occasion of Shri Satyendra Narayan Sinha memorial lecture, Talks were delivered on topics related to organic farming, harmful pesticides, desi cows vs. western breeds etc.
Member of Parliament, Shri RK Sinha said that "In ancient India, we used to farm organically for our needs, but we didn't use chemicals and pesticide but today we use pesticides and chemicals heavily".
As per Shri RK Sinha "we must go back to our ancestral methods and to using desi cows for a healthier future".
Hon'ble Justice Shri Mrudul Mishra added that "we have fallen into a trap of using harmful chemicals and pesticides which helped us usher in green and white revolution but now we have to move away from chemicals and towards organic farming".