So Say We All (A Review of Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game)
Everybody look to your left. Now look to your right. One of you is probably a Cylon. It might even be you.
At least, that's the way of things in Fantasy Flight's Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game. Players will take on the roles of characters from the (modern) show as they face dangers, tense political situations, dwindling supplies, and of course the fact that some of the players are secretly Cylons working against them.
How It Plays
Fantasy Flight Games is known for their complex, immersive, and highly thematic games with thick rulebooks, BSG is no exception; however, the rules are actually pretty straightforward and once you get going there isn't a whole lot to remember as long as you have at least 1 experienced player.
Players are tasked with protecting Galactica as her crew prepares for one light speed jump after another, with the goal of traveling enough distance to reach Kobol, which holds the key to finding Earth.
Each turn, a player will draw a few skill cards, move their character anywhere on the ship, perform an action (either from the location they moved to, or from a Skill card or character ability), and finally draw and resolve a Crisis Card.
Actions range from ship repairs, to piloting Vipers (the small fighters), to holding political elections, to throwing someone in the brig.
Each turn, players must deal with a Crisis card which puts forth a challenge that must be dealt with immediately. In some cases these cards send forth a fleet of Cylon ships, but in most cases the conflict is internal. Often these "crises" are resolved by a particular player choosing between two bad outcomes, but most commonly there are "skill checks" required.
Skill checks are where Cylon infiltration comes in. During a skill check, each player passes skill cards secretly into the challenge. Much like the Resistance although less binary, some skill cards help the challenge and some hurt it. The result of the crisis depends entirely on the total skills added in, with certain cards subtracting from the total instead of adding. In addition, random skill cards are added from a "destiny deck," which could throw a wrench into any plan, or hide the evil machinations of a Cylon player.
"These kind of skills?"
Players must survive crisis after crisis, fight off enemies, repair damage, and defend civilian ships as Galactica prepares for "jump," BSG's flavor of faster-than-light space travel. Each time Galactica jumps, it gets closer to Kobol, which holds the key to finding Earth.
Not that it's easy. There are limited resources that will dwindle quickly throughout the game, not to mention Cylon player sabotage.
Oh yes, Cylon players. A number of players are Cylons, working against the fleet, and they win if the humans lose. Cylons when unrevealed are dangerous beasts, but they can reveal themselves at a key moment to do some serious damage to Galactica, and then work the rest of the game openly as a Cylon.
Each player has a character with special abilities and a specific skillset. In addition, two offices – Admiral and President – offer special abilities, but these offices can change hands during the game.
To win the game, human players must travel enough distance to reach Kobol, and then jump one more time. Cylons must destroy Galactica or eliminate at least one resource.
Familiar faces, if you've seen the show.
Are You A Cylon?
This game is one of the most exciting, epic, fun game of cooperation-with-a-traitor that I have ever played. It is brilliant. Does it ride on the theme and popularity of BSG? It certainly does. But it does not skimp on quality. It's not a simple cash-in, that's for sure.
The first few times I played BSG, I had not seen the show. I am a sci-fi geek and had plans to watch it, but the game was still quite enjoyable. There's so much to like about it. Now, admittedly, if you're not into the theme, the game probably will not satisfy. It is heavily thematic and the mechanisms are tightly interwoven with the theme, so the gameplay alone probably wont cut it for you. Liking Sci-Fi and Traitor games should be enough, though.
Not that the gameplay is bad at all. This is not a clunker that gets by because of its rich theme. The mechanisms are great, and even more so because of the thematic context.
The game expertly captures the feeling of desperation and mistrust as you struggle to survive. Every decision that needs to be made is a tough one, and you feel like everyone else is a Cylon and you're all alone in space.
Cylons get special abilities for when they reveal themselves.
The way Skill Challenges (which is pretty much the core of the gameplay experience) are handled is excellent. Since each character has a limited set of skills they draw from, the cards that are played can narrow down who might have tossed in a bad card. But the destiny deck always throws in a level of uncertainty – did a Cylon play that red card, or was it just fate conspiring against everyone? It gives the human players something to work with and the Cylon players something to distract with and it just ramps up the tension.
I like that there are effective ways to deal with Cylon players once they are discovered. Or at least once you feel pretty strongly about your suspicions. Throwing someone in the brig will prevent them from doing any damage when they reveal themselves as a Cylon, but it also severely limits a human player, so you can't just throw everyone into the brig and see who comes out as an evil robot. I also like that, once outed, Cylons still have something to do. It's fun to be an infiltrating Cylon, but it can also be fun to just unleash your big guns. It's even a legit strategy to just play up as a big-time Cylon right off the bat and hope that you can bludgeon the humans to death.
Chief Tyrol, a revealed Cylon, eyes the dwindling Morale resource greedily.
After finally seeing the show, the game got even better. Characters have a lot more context now; powers make sense. The game isn't any easier, since the same characters who were Cylons in the show are not necessarily Cylons in the game, but so many of the mechanisms make brilliant sense after seeing the show. The sleeper phase, the crisis cards, even the destiny deck all fit within the greater scheme of things. Well done, Fantasy Flight. When watching the show for the first time, I whispered to my wife, "wow they did a great job capturing the feel of the board game in this show!" It was a joke, but it just goes to show how thematic the game is.
I like the unique powers each character has; but I also love the positions of power that provide additional abilities can change throughout the game. The president has a special deck of cards that give her unique abilities; but it is possible to elect a new president, or even force the current president to give up their title. The Admiral has a couple nukes to launch at Basestars, but his position too can be changed. This all adds a level of tension and excitement as you really really hope you didn't just elect a Cylon to be the president. Oh, and each character has a "flaw" of some sort – a negative ability they must deal with throughout the course of the game.
The component quality of the game is, not surprisingly, excellent. The board is beautifully designed with ship and Cylon fleet locations clearly marked, and helpful dials to track resources as they dwindle. Cards are on a nice stock. The plastic miniatures are nicely detailed (note: they do not come painted. A friend of mine painted these tiny, tiny miniatures for me and I think he did a great job, but they come in a matte grey plastic out of the box) and fun to play with, and they accurately represent the ships from the show.
I don't know if you guys have noticed, but I love me some minis (note: the minis do not come painted in the box. My friend did these for me).
If there is a con to this game – which honestly, it's difficult to pick one out – it's that there are a few outlying situations that can slow the game down. In one game, we had 4 of 6 people in the brig. Since people in the brig can only add 1 card to a skill check, and a skill check is required to get someone out of the brig, it became very difficult to accomplish anything. We just couldn't get the numbers to get people out, regardless of whether we trusted them or not. But hey, some people really enjoy it when that happens, and it doesn't stop the game.
While the base game does support 3-6 players, you'll get the best game with 5 players. 3 is just too few, and 4 and 6 have a weird "you are a sympathizer" card which comes out at the halfway point and publicly calls you out as a Cylon if the humans are doing too well. Mechanically it is a game balancer but in practice, it's pretty lame for the player who gets dealt that one. Still, that card isn't going


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This test method measures the penetration depth of a rigid ball into the surface of a rubber specimen which is then converted to a hardness scale value (IRHD). On the IRHD scale, "0" represents a material having an elastic modulus of zero and 100 represents a material with an immeasurable elastic modulus.
This standard can measure the hardness of vulcanized or thermoplastic rubber. The standard test specimen should be between 8 and 10mm in thickness. Nonstandard specimens can be measured but should be no thinner than 2mm, whereas a micro test can measure specimens between 1.5mm - 2.5mm in thickness.
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Relational-cultural Therapy
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What is Relational-cultural Therapy?
1. We all have a natural drive toward relationships, and in these relationships we long seth-reese-427931-unsplashfor acceptance.
2. However, we come to believe that there are things about us that are unacceptable or unlovable.
3. Thus, we choose to hide these things; we keep them out of our relationships.
4. In the end, the connections we make with others are not as fulfilling and validating as they otherwise might have been.
Healthy relationship attributes to strive for:
1) a desire to move into more relationships, because of how a good relational experience feels
2) a sense of zest, or energy
3) increased knowledge of oneself and the other person in the relationship
4) a desire to take action both in the growth-fostering relationship and outside of it
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The FBC Guide To Using Dried Fruit | Food Bloggers of Canada
An Allergen Friendly Guide To Dried Fruit | Food Bloggers of Canada
Dried fruit is an ingredient we probably don't think about when we consider allergy risks. After all, it's just fruit that's had the moisture sucked out of it, right?
Not always, unfortunately. In today's column, I'll walk you through some the allergy and health considerations you may want to be mindful of when using dried fruit or cooking for someone with an allergy.
Dried Fruit and Gluten-Intolerance/Celiac Disease
If you're serving food or desserts to people with celiac disease or a gluten intolerance, be aware dried fruits may be contaminated with sources of gluten. Some companies that sell dried fruits coat them with glutenous flours so they don't stick together. You probably won't be able to see the flour with the naked eye, but the presence of flour is enough to trigger a reaction in someone who is gluten intolerant or has celiac disease. It's typically a good bet to ask the grocery store manager or call the company to double check if flours or another glutenous ingredient were used.
Also, if you purchase from bulk bins someone else may have accidentally used a scoop from another bin with a glutenous product and then left it in the dried fruit. So even if the fruit in the bin was initially gluten free, the contaminated scoop tainted the whole thing. Whenever possible, I like to buy from the vertical bins where you have to pull a lever to release the bulk goodies; that way, you don't have scoops coming and going willy-nilly.
Dried Fruit and Mould
Dried fruit can support mould and yeast growth, and this can lead to the production of mycotoxins. Mycotoxins are compounds that can impact our immune health, and potentially cause gastrointestinal distress and influence liver, kidney and carcinogenic diseases. Some moulds may cause respiratory or skin symptoms as well.
Shipping, handling and storing can impact mould growth on foods. Here in Canada, the government monitors our food supply and sets maximum allowable levels for mycotoxins. Once you buy them, ensure you store dried fruits properly in airtight containers and stash in a cool, dark place (you can also check out this post from Well Preserved for more dried fruit storage and handling tips).
Check your dried fruit for any visible signs of mould and note any strange odours, discolouration or a change in texture. When in doubt, just throw it out! Also, don't just scrape off the mouldy bits; if mould is showing up in one part of your dried fruit, it will likely have infiltrated the whole thing.
Dried Fruit and Sulphites
An Allergen Friendly Guide To Dried Fruit | Food Bloggers of Canada
Sulphites are a preservative used on dried fruit — as well as many other foods and beverages — to extend shelf life. The sulphites found on dried fruit are linked to a range of effects, including itchy skin, hives, stomach pain, diarrhea, asthma and even anaphylaxis.
The government requires food companies to list suphites on packaging, so be sure to check labels if you or someone you know is sensitive to them.
Dried Fruit and Blood Sugar
Since most fresh fruit is already naturally sweet, when you remove the water what you're left with are highly concentrated nuggets of sweetness and fibre. While fibre can help to slow down blood sugar, you're still consuming a lot of sugar and it's important to be mindful of how much dried fruit you eat. It's much easier to guzzle a dozen dried apricots than to eat a dozen fresh ones in one sitting, right?
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Some dried fruit manufacturers coat their products with extra sugar, maple syrup or fruit juices to make them even sweeter, or to make them more palable in some cases. Take dried cranberries, for instance. Cranberries are incredibly sour when fresh, while the dried versions are often more sweet than tangy.
You may also want to make a note to drink more water if you've been snacking on dried fruits, or rehydrate dried fruits for a few minutes in warm water before using them so your digestive tract doesn't need to pull additional water to rehydrate them. Remember, dried fruit is high in fibre, and fibre needs water to move through your system efficiently.
How To Use Dried Fruit
Dried fruit can be used in your diet in a multitude of ways, including:
Make Your Own Dried Fruit!
An Allergen Friendly Guide To Dried Fruit | Food Bloggers of Canada
Drying fruits is a great way to preserve them, especially if you've got a large amount on hand and have already made jam and frozen several containers worth in the freezer.
You can use a food dehydrator if you have one, or dry them out in 4 to 8 hours in the oven. My two favourite things to make are fruit leather and apple chips. Fruit leather is super easy: puree your fruit in a food processor or blender, then spread it out to dry in your dehydrator or on parchment in the oven. For apple chips, I slice them thinly and sprinkle with cinnamon (you could also add dried ginger or nutmeg), then bake in the oven until they're dry. Great for fall apple season!
Storing Dried Fruit
Dried fruit should be stored in a cool, dark place in an airtight container and can last for several months like this. You can also store them in airtight glass containers that can look really pretty on your counter or pantry shelves but exposure to light will shorten the shelf life of your dried fruit so be sure to use them up quickly if you do that.
You can also store dried fruit in the freezer if you want to keep it longer. It can last up to a year like this.
How do you like to use dried fruit in your everyday cooking? Please share in the comments!
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Oh wow, didn't know about flour coating and some other interesting facts in the article. Thanks for sharing all this information as I use dry fruit in cooking a lot and also love eating t as a snack
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RAD-172 FINAL EXAM 23 31 34-36 37 39 40
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 1. what is lines per millimeter
 measurement of recorded detail sharpness and resolution; the minimum size and space between objects that can be visualized on the final image
 2. line spread function
 the ability for a film/screen system to accurately measure the boundaries of an image
 3. modulation transfer function
 measures the resolving ability of a film/screen combination
 4. define size and shape distortion
 size distortion is magnification
 5. a decrease in SID would result in
 A decrease in OID would result in
 - an increase in size distortion
 - a decrease in shape distortion
 6. an increase in tube angle from 10-40 deg would result
 an in crease in shape distortion
 7. a misaligned CR would result in
 an increase in kvp would result in
 a change in OID from 2 in to 6 in would result in
 - an increase in shape distortion
 - no change on distortion
 - increase in size distortion
 8. a change in grid ratio from a 12:1 to 6:1 would result in
 a change in focal spot size would result in
 a change in mAs from 60-70 would result in
 - no change in distortion
 - no change
 - no change for distortion
 9. A change in SID from 72-40 would result in
 placing a part so that it is oblique to the IR or CR would ___
 an angle of the image receptor would result in ___
 - increase in size distortion
 - increase in shape distortion
 - in crease in shape distortion
 10. what is the magnification formula
 how do you find SOD if not given
 - SID over SOD
 - SID -OID = SOD
 11. which of the following would cause the most shape distortion
 10 angle
 45 angle
 12. which factor does not affect distortion
 13. the relationship between OID and size distortion is
 directly proportional
 14. what is the best SID and OID for least size distortion
 short OID and long SID
 15. Distortion is caused by ____
 from tube angle and position of the patient
 16. Distortion is the misrepresentation of the _____ or ___ of the structures being examined
 - size or shape
 17. size distortion is also known as
 18. what is one way to reduce size distortion
 getting rid of OID
 19. how do we control size distortion (magnification) as a tech
 20. what is the object size formula
 - IS(image size)/MF (magnification Factor)
 21. shape distortion deals with what two things
 foreshortening and elongation
 22. when does foreshortening occur
 23. what is elongation
 - 40 SID
 - 56 SID
 - 72 SID
 this grid permits wide exposure and centering latitude
 26. how do we see distinct air fluid levels on an ap chest
 27. AEC controls what
 the length of the exposure (time)
 28. List the two types of exposures systems and explain them
 variable kvp system (kvp is changed and manipulated) and fixed kvp systems (kvp does not change mas is changeable)
 29. explain why the art of aec is the art of positioning
 because in order for aec to work effectively the body part must be positioned over that certain cell if it is not your image will under or over exposed
 30. what is the usual range of the radiographic densities
 .25 and 2.5 above base + fog
 31. what would happen if AEC was used on a large patient
 it would take a long time for enough exit radiation to get through the patient and into the photocell to charge the xray timer to the predetermined amt of charge exposure length would be long
 32. what would happen if the center cell was chosen for a pa chest instead of a two cell arrangement
 the image will be over exposed because the body part centered over the cent4er cell will be exposed appropriately (the thoracic vertebrae) and the lung field will be way too black because the outer cell was not selec
 33. what happens to your image a pa chest was centered to low or too high
 - if it was too low the photocell will average the radiation for the abdomen and the chest will be overexposed
 - if it was too high the photocell will average the radiation and thickness for the upper chest (which is thinner) and the lungs will be underexposed
 34. what is minimum response time
 modern scr's may have a minimum reaction tim of less than _____ second
 - shortest amt of time it takes ionization chambers or photocells and tube to turn off exposure
 -.001 seconds
 35. what is the backup time
 what is it used as
 - when aec is used the ordinary timer used for an exposure made without aec is the back up
 - it is use a safety device for the equipment to save the xray tube life
 36. according to us public law 90-602 generators must terminate the exposure at ______ for exposures above ____ kvp and ______ mAs for exposures under ____kvp
 - 600 mAs; 50
 - 2000 mAs;50 kvp
 37. can backup timers exceed tube limit and what is there percentage of the anticiapated manual exposure mAs
 - no
 - 150%
 38. what is a phototimer
 the old method consisting of a fluorescent screen that emitted light when struck by x-rays. These light photons were then counted by a photomultiplier tube (PM tube) and the exposure was terminated at a predetermined level. Chambers are beneath the bucky.
 39. high or increase in ma causes a _____ exposure time
 a lower or decrease in ma causes a _____ exposure time to produce adequate density which is best to pick
 - decrease (faster) shorter
 - increase (slower) longer time
 - high ma = short exposure time to beat pt motion
 40. what is aec and what does it use
 - automatic exposure control stops the exposure at the right time so that a radiograph with good density is produced using photocells
 41. when using aec, if the centering point for a c spine is at c7 instead of c4, how would the radiographic density be affected
 it will be overexposed
 42. if the back up time is set at 0.5 second, what will happen tothe radiograph if the required exposure time is 0.8
 the image will be underexposed because not enough radiation will make it to meet 0.8 it will cut off at 0.5 which is not enough radiation needed to make the image
 43. an ionization device is located between what
 tabletop and the image receptor
 44. if the minimum reaction time is 0.01 second, what will happen to the radiograph if the required exposure is 0.008
 the image will be overexposed because 0.008 is shorter than 0.01 thus the exposure will not stop until it passes 0.008 and reaches 0.01 which is a longer time so more radiation will occur
 45. which of the following changes decrease the length of exposure when using AEC
 decrease mA
 decrease kVp
 change density -1
 change density setting +1
 46. change density setting -1 because it gives you 25 percent less radiation less radiation less length of exposure
 47. when should collimation be avoided
 too close collimation would result in
 not enough collimation would result in
 - when the collimation is close to the activated chambers
 - overexposed image
 - in a light image underexposed
 48. if low ma is selected the automatic exposure control will _____ to the time
 increase or longer
 49. if the primary beam is collimated from an activated field the field will ______
 operate as if the tissue was extremely dense
 50. what is the best way to control motion
 high ma short exposure time
 51. the _____ absorbs light and emits electrons:
 electrostatic lenses
 input phsophor screen
 output phosphor screen
 52. the ____ serves to absorb electrons and emit light
 output phosphor screen
 53. the _____ absorbs xray photons and emits light
 input phosphor screen
 54. the ______ are used to accelerate and focus the electrons in the image intensifier
 electrostatic lenses
 55. the input phosphor screen is composed of a layer of _____
 zinc cadmium sulfide
 cesium iod


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Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, a small autonomous boat is braving wind and waves to demonstrate the power of solar energy. Isaac Penny and Christopher Sam Soon's Solar Voyager embarked from Boston on June 1, and they hope it will land in Portugal in October.
Sam Soon and Penny, both engineers, began the project in 2013, with the goal of building a boat from scratch that could travel the world on its own. They aren't the first to send an autonomous craft to sail the ocean – a 2012 Wave Glider that made the trip was powered by wave energy and financed by the company Liquid Robotics.
The engineers aren't funded by a major company, and they built the boat themselves. Penny and Sam Soon worked on their Solar Voyager in their spare time after work. According to Penny, anyone can build a craft like they did.


How do you cook bbq ribs
How long does it take to cook ribs on the BBQ?
Is it better to cook ribs in the oven or grill?
While BBQ gives ribs a distinct flavor, baking has other benefits to it. Baking gives you more control over how fast and how much the ribs are cooked. Because ovens have controlled temperature you are less likely to overcook or under cook your ribs.
How do you make BBQ ribs?
The best way to pre-cook sideribs Preheat oven to 325F. Remove membrane off ribs. If using a dry rub, rub spice mixture on both sides of ribs. Arrange ribs, meaty-side up, in a shallow roasting pan. Preheat grill to medium.
What temperature do you cook BBQ ribs?
Why do ribs take so long to cook?
Ribs generally cook for several hours because they store a lot of fat and collagen in the meat. But they also cook at vastly reduced temperatures. Like 200–250 degrees, which give the meat time to break down and redistribute all that delicious fat and flavor.
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How do you know when ribs are done?
Should I wrap ribs in foil when grilling?
It also adds moisture and speeds up cooking time. Wrapping should be done about half way through the cooking process or when internal meat temp is 150-160 degrees. Use two layers of heavy duty foil to wrap the meat. We recommend the following process for wrapping ribs, pork shoulder and brisket.
Do ribs get more tender the longer they cook?
When you grill ribs, they won't fall off the bone. They will, however, come off the bone cleanly when you eat them. The longer you cook them, the more tender they will be.
How long does it take to grill ribs at 350 degrees?
Which ribs are best for BBQ?
Louis Cut Ribs are the meatiest and most flavorful ribs. They are spareribs with the tips removed so they form a nice rectangular rack. I sometimes call the "center cut ribs". You can use Baby Back Ribs for this recipe if you prefer.
Is it better to boil ribs before cooking?
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plotGeneSetSignificance: Plot the Significance for the Genes of a Given Gene Set
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View source: R/plotGeneSetSignificance.R
Description
Plot the Significance for the Genes of a Given Gene Set
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plotGeneSetSignificance(geneSet, geneSetIdentifier, geneStatistic,
 annotationPackage, barColors = NULL, descriptionInMainTitle = TRUE)
Arguments
geneSet
object of class 'geneSetMLP' as produced by function getGeneSets
geneSetIdentifier
identifier of the gene set for which a significance plot should be produced; character of length one
geneStatistic
named vector of gene statistics (e.g. p values); the names of the vector are Entrez Gene identifiers
annotationPackage
name of the annotation package to be used (without .db extension); character of length one
barColors
named vector of colors to use for the bars of the barplot; the names of the vector are Entrez Gene identifiers and the vector should be of length equal to the length of the geneStatistic vector defaults to NULL in which case 'grey50' is used
descriptionInMainTitle
Boolean whether or not to use the gene set description in the main title of the plot
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pathExamplePValues <- system.file("exampleFiles", "examplePValues.rda", package = "MLP")
pathExampleGeneSet <- system.file("exampleFiles", "exampleGeneSet.rda", package = "MLP")
pathExampleMLPResult <- system.file("exampleFiles", "exampleMLPResult.rda", package = "MLP")
load(pathExampleGeneSet)
load(pathExamplePValues)
load(pathExampleMLPResult)
# annotationPackage <- if (require(mouse4302mmentrezg.db)) "mouse4302mmentrezg" else "mouse4302"
annotationPackage <- "mouse4302"
geneSetID <- rownames(exampleMLPResult)[1]
dev.new(width = 10, height = 10)
op <- par(mar = c(25, 10, 6, 2))
plotGeneSetSignificance(
 geneSet = exampleGeneSet,
 geneSetIdentifier = geneSetID,
 geneStatistic = examplePValues,
 annotationPackage = annotationPackage
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par(op)
MLP documentation built on May 31, 2017, 3:24 p.m.


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What are grasslands?
Grasslands are areas primarily dominated by vegetation such as grasses, wedge, and rush. These areas of land are used for agricultural farming, often reserved for the growth of crops and feeding livestock. The crop is then typically baled using a number of different harvesting methods.
Clamp silage differs from baling silage in the storage fashion. It is prepared in the same way, by packing tightly together the produce, sealing out the air and then placing it in a clamp, rather than in a round or square bale.
The management and maintaining of your meadows and grasslands require regular mowing agricultural services. The act of mowing grassland allows farmers to remove weeds, replace any damaged turf, improve drainage and irrigate the land, compact the soil and allow for the better application of chemicals and treatments.
The tedding of grassland is an agricultural service that is performed following the mowing process. Tedding turns over and spreads out the grass, straw or hay in order for it to dry. This agricultural service process is typically performed using hay tedders and may need to be performed more than once following a first initial drying process.
Following the mowing and tedding process, the next agricultural service to be completed is raking. Raking is performed once the hay is nearly dry and is performed to ensure that the bottom of the crop pie is also dry. The process turns the hay into a window, which prepares the product to be baled. Ensuring the hay is rolled to be neither too loose or too tight, will ensure that you avoid a roping effect that can result in a clogged baler.
Round and square baling
Baling is the process of forming the dried hay or crop product into either round or square bales read for storage and transportation. Round bales are often easy to handle using a two-spike loader fork, they are also formed in such a way that they are harder for water to penetrate the seal. Due to the nature of round bales, they often require heightened power requirements and weight compaction machinery. Square bales are preferable for horses and for use in mechanical bale feeders. These bales are also more easy to stack and store, however, they must be kept out of the rain as square bales are more susceptible to rain, which can damage the whole product. Square balers are typically more expensive to purchase in comparison to round balers, whoever utilising the agricultural services of professional farming providers, can cut the costs of having to buy your own machinery.
Grass harrowing is carried out as regular pasture management, preferably performed in the spring following grazing. Grass harrowing is performed prior to any fertiliser application and is typically performed using chain harrows. The harrowing process aims to remove dead thatch, whilst lifting vegetation and leveling any discrepancies in the ground. The process allows root aeration, allowing the ground to breathe and water infiltration to improve. This agricultural service should be performed during warm and dry conditions, allowing for the most effective pasture renovation and removal of dead grass.
Rolling is an agricultural service that is typically used to break up large sections of soil following the plowing process or compaction silage for a fine result. The benefits of compacted silage allow for the product to be more easily cut as well as churning out a more stable product.
The slot seeding system was developed to increase the productivity of grassland. It introduces various species of vegetation which include white clover and ryegrass, which is usually performed using a slot seeder and band sprayer. The combination of these two pieces of machinery allows for the seeds to be laid whilst being sprayed with a herbicide to protect them.
Our full range of equipment and skills mean we are able to offer the following services:
- Foraging and clamp silage complete or part operation
- Mowing with a mower conditioner
- Round baling
- Square baling
- Wrapping and stacking
- Grass harrowing
- Flat rolling
- Establishment of new grass leys
- Slot seeding

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We investigate the role of perceptual organization in principal components analysis for vehicle recognition. The principal components analysis is a representative appearance based recognition algorithm that reduces the dimension of search space from the number of pixels to the number of dominant image components. However, its time complexity is high because it performs window operation.
To reduce the search space, we use line junctions with associated quality measures found in perceptual organization methods. Because lines in image or their groupings are inherited from three-dimensional structures, they can form a good initial hypothesis of search process. We define a corner feature as a small image area where the junctions are concentrated, and at the same time, characterize an object. In our application, the corner of the roof inside of the vehicle area is selected, and we name it the corner feature.
By combining principal components analysis and perceptual organization, we could construct an efficient vehicle recognition framework. We also present experimental results using real images of outdoor traffic scenes to demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithm.


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Learn about the fascinating art and science of baroque pipe organs with chemist Catherine Oertel on Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Hudson Library & Historical Society.
Pipe organs of the Baroque era are the "endangered species" of the musical world and are noted for their ties to significant composers and pre-industrial technologies. Centuries-old organs stand as valuable documents not only of musical history but also of technological history. Today, the natural atmospheric corrosion of organ pipes threatens the ability of these historic pipe organs to produce sound. Oertel will discuss the historical and environmental causes of corrosion, the chemistry involved in restoration and the importance of preserving these historical instruments. Anyone interested in history, science or music will enjoy this captivating talk.
Oertel is an associate professor of chemistry at Oberlin College. She teaches introductory and inorganic chemistry as well as an interdisciplinary course on the chemistry of materials used in artwork. Her research in synthesis and detailed structural characterization of oxide-based materials, including those that form as corrosion products on lead-rich objects, is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Oertel was a postdoctoral fellow at the Cornell Center for Materials Research and the Chalmers University of Technology in Gteborg, Sweden.
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How To: Configure the Spatiotemporal Big Data Store with the GeoEvent Extension
The Spatiotemporal Big Data Store is a special type of database used for storing feature service data, and is only available when using the ArcGIS Data Store product. It is used primarily with the GeoEvent Extension of ArcGIS Server starting at the 10.4 version, and can store and query many more data records than a traditional RDBMS.
Installing and configuring a Spatiotemporal Big Data Store implementation requires a minimum of three (3) server machines. This does not include any machines for redundancy and backup of the Spatiotemporal Big Data Store itself.
- The Web GIS Server (machine 1), consists of the following software: Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Web Adaptor (IIIS), ArcGIS Data Store
- The Real Time Server (machine 2), consists of the following software: ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS GeoEvent Extension for Server
- The Big Data Server (machine 3) consists of the ArcGIS Data Store product configured as the Spatiotemporal Big Data Store
For data to be written to the Spatiotemporal Big Data Store, the software must be configured in a specific order:
- Install and configure the Portal for ArcGIS.
- Install and configure the ArcGIS Web Adaptor (IIS) to use with Portal for ArcGIS.
- Install and configure the ArcGIS Server.
- Install and configure the ArcGIS Data Store on machine 1 to be used by the ArcGIS Server. This should be the ArcGIS Server's Managed Geodatabase when viewed within ArcGIS Server Manager.
- Federate Portal for ArcGIS with ArcGIS Server, selecting the ArcGIS Server as the "Hosting Server".
- Install any Domain or other CA SSL certificates within the Portal for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Server key stores. If no SSL certificates are required, proceed to step 7.
- Install the ArcGIS GeoEvent Extension for Server. Verify that the default connection is set to "PORTAL".
- Install the ArcGIS Data Store on machine 3 (Big Data Server). Close the web page that pops up when the installation is complete.
- Within a command prompt on the machine, change the directory to C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\DataStore\tools. Run the "configuredatastore" file using the following parameters:
configuredatastore --stores spatiotemporal
- After the program executes with a success message, a new Spatiotemporal Big Data Store output can be created with the ArcGIS GeoEvent Extension.


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Meet Joey, the winemaker nuclear engineering. In his research, he tracks the winemaking process by analyzing the elements in each stage, from the soil, to the grape, to the wine. In order to figure out what elements are in each phase, he takes samples and then bombards them with neutrons, thus making the samples radioactive. The gamma rays from the samples are then measured and since each radioactive isotope has a unique gamma signature, you can then figure out what elements are in that sample. Learn more about Joey and his research in the video below.
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Youkai Drifter
Youkai drifters are sensitive to the happenings of the spirit world, as well as the mysterious youkai who flit between it and the mortal realm. Compared to other rangers, youkai drifters come about their trade not by choice, but by happenstance or inheritance. The gift of spiritual sensitivity is fleetingly rare, after all, and most youkai drifters are inspired to take up their trade after a childhood of fleeing from terrible spirits that only they ever seemed to be able to see. Such rangers are usually found in places where the divide between the world of spirits and the world of mortals is dangerously thin, but they travel anywhere that the fates of mortals and youkai are intertwined.
Ranger Level Feature
3rd Ritual Casting, Spirit Sense
7th Rites of Banishment
11th Rites of the Shikigami
15th Rites of the Sealed Name
Ritual Casting
Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to cast purify food and drink and speak with animals, but only as rituals. You gain the ability to cast additional spells as rituals at the levels specified on the following table. If a spell doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.
Ranger Level Spells
3rd purify food and drink, speak with animals
7th beast sense, locate animals or plants
15th speak with plants, water breathing
18th banishment, locate creature
20th seeming, scrying
Spirit Sense
Starting at 3rd level, you become sensitive to the presence and goings-on of youkai. You have a special sense that allows you to perceive youkai that are normally imperceptible, as well as objects and structures related to them. Most aberrations, beasts with magical abilities, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, and monstrosities are considered youkai, as well as most non-humanoid creatures with the shapechanger tag. This sense doesn't foil magic that renders such creatures invisible, such as invisibility, but it does negate invisibility gained from special traits, such as that of an invisible stalker. You also gain proficiency in the Insight and Perception skills. If you are already proficient in these skills, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with them when used against a youkai.
The GM decides which creatures qualify as youkai for the purpose of this feature, with oni and rakshasa being the most common examples.
Rites of Banishment
Starting at 7th level, you learn secrets that allow you to banish or seal away youkai. You gain the ability to cast banishment and imprisonment, but only as rituals. You can only target youkai, as defined by the spirit sense feature, whose challenge rating or level is equal to or less than your level with these spells. Since the GM has the final say over what creatures qualify as youkai, they also have the final say over what creatures you can banish or imprison with these spells.
When you cast banishment or imprisonment as a ritual, you can choose to target a 10-foot-radius area instead of a creature. If you do, the first youkai to enter that area within the next 10 minutes becomes the target of the spell.
Rites of the Shikigami
At 11th level, you can conduit a ritual that binds a youkai to your service. Choose a youkai that is no larger than Medium and that has a challenge rating of 1/4 or lower. That creature becomes a shikigami companion that accompanies you on your adventures. Add your proficiency bonus to the shikigami's AC, attack rolls, and damage rolls, as well as to any saving throws and skills it is proficient in. Its hit point maximum equals the hit point number in its stat block or four times your ranger level, whichever is higher. Like any creature, it can spend Hit Dice during a short rest oo regain hit points.
The shikigami obeys your commands as best as it can. It takes its turn on your initiative, though it doesn't take an action unless you command it to. On your turn, you can verbally command the shikigami where to move (no action required by you). You can use your action to verbally command it to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help action. Once you have the Extra Action feature, you can make one weapon attack yourself when you command the shikigami to take the Attack action. If you are incapacitated or absent, the shikigami acts on its own, focused on protecting you and itself. The shikigami never requires your command to use its reaction, such as when making an opportunity attack.
While traveling through your favored terrain with only the shikigami, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.
If the shikigami dies, you can obtain a new shikigami by spending 8 hours magically bonding with a willing youkai that isn't hostile to you and that meets the requirements.
Rites of the Sealed Name
At 15th level, you are able to perform a ritual that grants you possession over a youkai's name, binding them to your service.
You gain the ability to cast planar binding as a 9th-level, but only as a ritual. You can bind any youkai with this ritual rather than being restricted to celestials, elementals, fey, and fiends only.
Section 15: Copyright Notice
5e Files: Kitsune © 2020, Everybody Games; Authors: Alexander Augunas.


Learn about the safe disposal of hazardous substances from your household. These include BBQ gas bottles, helium bottles, car batteries, fire extinguishers, butane gas canisters, most chemicals, paint and solvents.
LPG gas bottles, Helium bottles and car batteries
You need to dispose of these items safely. Take them to any of our EcoDrop recycling centres for free.
Please keep hazardous waste out of the kerbside collection bins or drains.
The EcoDrop Recycling Centres accept the following items:
 - LPG gas bottles, helium gas bottles and butane camping gas canisters
 - Car batteries
 - Fire extinguishers
 - Used engine oil
 - Household batteries
 - Liquid chemicals
 - Dry chemicals
 - Household cleaners
 - Paints and associated painting solvents
 - Fireworks
 - Refrigerators and freezers
 - Garden pesticides
 - Cooking oil
Open 7 days, 7am to 4.30pm:
Domestic quantities only.
For more information go to the EcoCentral website(external link).
Batteries contain numerous components that are bad for the environment. If put in wheelie bins, batteries can potentially harm staff and members of the public.
Collecting batteries before they deteriorate means they can be recycled appropriately, saving valuable components for reuse and reducing the risk to people and the environment.
Find a battery recycling station by visiting battery recycling
 1. Soak - Completely submerge fireworks in a bucket of water. Allow to soak overnight.
 2. Wrap - Double wrap soaked fireworks in plastic wrap or plastic bags so they do not dry out.
 3. Dispose - Place wrapped bags in the red bin.
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* If your Samsung Galaxy Note9 is connected to a mobile network, you can share internet with other devices using the mobile hotspot feature.
* Follow these steps to learn how set up and configure a mobile hotspot.
* Go to the Start screen.
* To open the menu, swipe up or down on the screen.
* Choose *Mobile Hotspot and Tethering*.
* Choose *Mobile Hotspot*.
* If this screen appears, choose an option, in this case, *Cancel*.
* If this screen does not appear, go to the next step.
* Choose the options symbol.
* Choose *Configure Mobile Hotspot*.
* Under *Network name*, enter a name.
* Under *Security*, choose a security option, in this case, *WPA2 PSK*.
* Under *Password*, enter a password (at least 8 characters).
* Enable *Mobile Hotspot*.
* The Samsung Galaxy Note9 has now been configured for use as a Wi-Fi hotspot.
* Return to the Start screen.
* Other devices will now be able to connect to your mobile hotspot.
* *Note:* There may be a limit to the number of devices that can connect to the mobile hotspot.


University of Helsinki: Volatile biomarkers as identifiers for pathogenic oral bacteria
Volatile biomarkers are compounds that exist in gaseous form or easily change phase from liquid to gas. In the human body, they exchange between blood and the lungs, and consequently, can be detected from the exhaled breath. Examples of volatile compounds are malodorous sulfur compounds present in the morning breath or ethanol, which has been traditionally measured from the exhaled breath with a breathalyzer.
The aim of the research is finding new volatile biomarkers for pathogenic oral bacteria. Bacterial species responsible for periodontitis and other serious infections, such as abscesses, are the main subject of interest.
Oral infections are prevalent both in Finland and globally. Approximately 74 percent of Finnish adults have inflammation of the gum tissue, known as gingivitis, and 21 percent have already developed periodontitis, a disease destroying the supportive tissues around teeth. Oral infections can also cause sepsis, if pathogenic bacteria are able to enter the bloodstream in large amounts, for example, through an abscess. Furthermore, oral infectious diseases have been linked to increased cardiovascular risk diabetes. Early diagnosis and treatment significantly decrease the risk for developing a serious oral infection. The detection and identification of pathogens via volatile compounds, whether from human exhaled breath or a culture, would be a quick and cost-effective diagnostics method for oral infections.
In the recent Nature
Scientific Reports
publication, the focus is identifying the volatile compounds produced by the selected oral bacteria and measuring the capacity in which these bacteria are able to produce certain compounds. The analysis was done with a combination of two mass spectrometric methods, which provide sensitive, real-time information about the concentrations of the volatiles, as well as their concrete identification.
According to the results, the studied oral bacteria can be distinguished based on the volatiles produced. In addition, the real-time measurements suggest that bacteria produce distinct compounds in different phases of their lifecycle. Certain compounds are connected to the active growth of the bacterial cells and others to cell death. This knowledge could be used, for example, to evaluate the progress of antibiotic treatment, if the volatiles connected to bacterial cell death are increased in the exhaled breath of the patient.
Next, the bacterial findings reported in the recent publication are combined with human breath measurements. The final goal is to develop a breath test for detecting and monitoring oral infections. In the future, analysis of volatile biomarkers could be a quick complimentary method for basic microbiological laboratory tests, such as bacterial culturing. Furthermore, infections could be detected non-invasively in the future by measuring volatile biomarkers from the human exhaled breath. Reliable methods based on the analysis of volatile compounds could also be further develop for viral and fungal infections as well.
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Litter Size
How many babies does a Pallas's long-tongued bat have at once? (litter size)
How many baby Pallas's long-tongued bats are in a litter?
A Pallas's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 108 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 180 kg (396.83 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Glossophaga). An adult Pallas's long-tongued bat grows up to a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The average litter size of a Pallas's long-tongued bat is 1
Pallas's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) is a South and Central American bat with a fast metabolism that feeds on nectar.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Pallas's long-tongued bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
Animals that share a litter size with Pallas's long-tongued bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
Animals that get as old as a Pallas's long-tongued bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
Animals with the same weight as a Pallas's long-tongued bat
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
Animals with the same size as a Pallas's long-tongued bat
Also reaching around 4.8 cm (0′ 2″) in size do these animals:


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Nursing Home Residents Bill of Rights
What is the Nursing Home Residents' Bill of Rights?
Florida Law provides that residents of nursing homes have specific legal rights that must be provided by the facility and its care takers. Violations of these rights can result in civil and criminal prosecution as nursing home abuse. It is important that you know your rights as a resident or as the family member of a resident in a nursing home.
In Florida Nursing Home Residents have the following legal rights:
- Civil and religious liberties.
- Private and uncensored communication.
- Visitation by any individual providing health, social, legal, or other services and the right to deny or withdraw consent at any time.
- Present grievances and recommend changes in policies and services free from restraint, interference, coercion, discrimination, or reprisal. Includes the right to have access to the ombudsmen and other advocacy groups.
- Organize and participate in resident groups.
- Participate in social, religious, and community activities that do not interfere with the rights of others.
- Examine results of recent facility inspections by federal and state agencies including the plan of correction if applicable.
- Manage his/her own financial affairs. A quarterly accounting will be furnished to resident or legal representative.
- Be fully informed, in writing and orally, of services available at the facility and of related charges for such services.
- Refuse medication and treatment and to know the consequences.
- Receive adequate and appropriate health care, protective and support services within established and recognized standards.
- Privacy in treatment and in caring for personal needs.
- Be informed of medical condition and proposed treatment and be allowed participation in planning.
- Be treated courteously, fairly, and with the fullest measure of dignity.
- Be free from mental and physical abuse, corporal punishment, extended involuntary seclusion, and from physical and chemical restraints except those ordered by resident's physician.
- Be transferred or discharged only for medical reasons, the welfare of other residents or nonpayment of a bill.
- Receive a thirty (30) day written notice of discharge or relocation, and challenge such notice.
- Choose physician and pharmacy.
- Retain and use personal clothing and possessions.
- Have copies of rules and regulations of the facility.
- Notification prior to room change.
- Information concerning bed-hold policy for hospitalization.
Also, federal law prevents nursing homes from discharging (removing) or transferring (moving to another facility) a resident except for the following reasons:
- The resident's welfare cannot be met at the facility.
- The resident's health has improved sufficiently so the resident no longer needs the services provided by the facility.
- The health or safety of individuals is endangered.
- The resident has failed, after reasonable and appropriate notice, to pay or have paid under Medicare or Medicaid for residence at the facility.
- The facility closes.
A nursing home must give residents 30 days written notice prior to discharge or transfer.
If you believe that you or a family member has been denied any of the rights outlined above then please contact one of the experienced trial attorneys at Burnett Law, P.A. today by simply filling out the free case evaluation form or by calling our office at _PHONE_ for a free, no commitment consultation.


Hackers are on the hunt for Oracle servers weak to potent exploit
Johannes Ullrich, dean of research at the SANS Technology Institute, said his organization's honeypots had detected Internetwide scans that probe for vulnerable servers. CVE-2020-14882, as the vulnerability is tracked, has a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale. Oracle's October advisory accompanying a patch said exploits are low in complexity and require low privileges and no user interaction.
"At this point, we are seeing the scans slow down a bit," Ullrich wrote in a post. "But they have reached 'saturation' meaning that all IPv4 addresses have been scanned for this vulnerability. If you find a vulnerable server in your network: Assume it has been compromised."
Honeypots are servers that are deliberately left exposed or unpatched. They're meant to act as a barometer for tracking Internet attack activity. When hackers scan or exploit them, researchers know that specific vulnerabilities are under threat of attack.
Ullrich said in an interview that SANS honeypots have received GET Web requests that attempt to query whether a server is running a vulnerable version of WebLogic. The honeypots weren't set up to respond that they were vulnerable, so he doesn't yet know if the attackers are simply compiling a list of vulnerable machines or are actively exploiting them once they're found. Advertisement
In the past few hours, he configured the servers to indicate they're vulnerable, but so far he has yet to see active exploits. He also said it's possible that some of the scans are coming from people doing benign research.
The scans come amid warnings that Russian ransomware hackers are targeting hundreds of US hospitals and healthcare providers. Exploits as potent as those against CVE-2020-14882 would likely provide everything needed to initiate such an attack.
Vulnerable versions of WebLogic include,,, and Oracle credited voidfyoo of Chaitin Security Research Lab with its discovery.
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Right Data, Wrong Conclusion: Traffic Analytics and the Distribution Problem
Web traffic data is a veritable goldmine of information for online businesses. From small-time blogs to e-commerce giants, companies rely on traffic data analytics to increase efficiency, attract new customers, and grow revenue streams. But there's a catch. Most statistical tests, especially the types of tests most familiar to business leaders, rely on a set of assumptions about the data they analyze. Arguably the most important of these assumptions is the expectation that the data follow a normal distribution. The problem is that many important web traffic metrics are, by their very nature, unlikely to meet this condition. Applying the usual standard issue statistical tests to this kind of data can produce extremely misleading--and potentially disastrous--results.
The Normal Distribution and Parametric Statistics
In statistics, a variable's distribution is a measure of how often each possible value of the variable is observed in a dataset. A normal, or Gaussian, distribution follows the familiar shape of the bell curve: most observations are clustered in the middle around the mean, and few observations have extreme values below or above the mean. If college students' scores on an economics exam follow a normal
distribution with an average of 80 (and a standard deviation of 5), then about two-thirds of students would have scores between 75 and 85. Less than 5% of students would have scores higher than 90 or lower than 70.
Many common web traffic metrics can be expected to follow a normal distribution. This is particularly true for metrics denominated in units of time, like page views per day. Over the last 100 days, a website that averages 5,000 page views per day has probably attracted between 4,000 and 6,000 views on most observed days in the dataset. But there would probably be a few bad days with fewer than 2,500 views and some good days with more than 7,500 views mixed into the data. Other metrics like page views per week or unique visitors per day are likely to follow the same shape, even though observed values will differ.
Most statistical tools, including the T-test, the F-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, all assume that the data adhere to a standard distribution. These are called parametric tests, and they're excellent tools for analyzing the web traffic metrics discussed above. In practice, of course, data is always at least slightly abnormal, but statistical tests are robust to slight deviations. The problems start when analysts apply parametric tests to data that are not normally distributed.
Traffic Data Violates the Normality Assumption
The difficulty for data analysts is that many important web traffic metrics are unlikely to follow normal distributions. In fact, it is impossible for some metrics to be "normal." Using parametric tests to analyze these types of variables is a recipe for disaster.
First, many variables of interest to marketers, blogs, and e-commerce websites follow a binomial distribution, meaning there are only two possible values of the variable. These are usually "yes or no" variables. A classic example is click through rate: either the user clicks on the link, or the user does not click on the link. Another example is bounce rate: either the user immediately exits the page or not. There's no way for this type of variable to be normally distributed since there are only two possible values.
Other significant traffic metrics, specifically those that count the number of times an event occurs, are likely to follow a Poisson distribution. Businesses that generate revenue from ads, for example, are likely to be interested in how many different pages their users access on each visit. Most visitors are likely to view one or two pages. A smaller number will visit view three or four pages, and a still smaller number will view five or more. The same pattern holds for many important e-commerce metrics, like the number of items each customer buys: most customers will purchase one item, some will purchase two or three, and a few will buy lots of things.
Attempting to analyze these types of variables with parametric statistics can introduce all sorts of problems. These tests lose statistical power when data is not normally distributed, meaning that they are less able to detect meaningful statistical relationships. In an A/B test assessing the click through rate for two different ads, for example, a T-test may indicate no significant difference between the ads even when a large difference exists.
Parametric tests can also become highly sensitive to outliers when normality is violated. The outliers can fool parametric tests, for example, if items per customer follow a Poisson distribution with most customers purchasing one or two items, but one customer buys 100 items. The test will tend to overvalue the information provided by the outlier. In essence, the presence of that single observation of 100 items purchased tricks the test into thinking that many other customers bought 40, 50, or 60 items.
Dealing with the Non-Normal Data Problem
Parametric tests are vulnerable to failure when dealing with non-normal data, but that doesn't mean the data are useless. Clever analysts can still extract valuable information from traffic metrics like click-through rate and page-view counts by employing two techniques.
First, researchers have created analysis tools that can substitute for parametric statistics in most circumstances. These non-parametric tests can often provide the same information as parametric tests without relying on the assumption of normality. The commonly used parametric T-test, for instance, can be replaced with the Mann-Whitney test. Whereas the T-test estimates the probability that two populations have different means, the Mann-Whitney test assesses the chance that random observation from one sample is less than or greater than a random observation from a second sample. Choosing the correct non-parametric test can be complicated because the appropriate test can depend on the type of data and the underlying distribution. When used appropriately, however, these tests provide reliable and valuable information.
The second technique available to analysts is data transformation. This method is particularly useful when a variable's distribution is relatively close to normal but is positively or negatively skewed. A good example is engaged minutes: most visitors might spend two or three minutes on a site, but some are likely to spend 20 or 30 minutes, which creates a positively skewed distribution, characterized by a long tail extending to the right-hand side of the histogram. This variable could be transformed to give it a more normal distribution by taking the square root. The bulk of the observations, those in the two-to-three-minute range, would change only slightly, but the observations responsible for the skew would shrink quite a bit. An observation of 25 minutes would be reduced to five minutes, for instance.
Transforming data can seem like cheating, but power transformations retain 100% of the information contained in the original variable. In fact, this type of change is analogous to converting units, like changing degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius. The transformation won't help with any kind of web traffic data, however. Variables with binomial distributions can't be transformed usefully, for example. Additionally, it can be difficult to interpret the results of tests performed with modified data because the units are unfamiliar.
Despite their shortcomings, both non-parametric tests and data transformation are vastly superior to using parametric tests on non-normal data. The application of statistical tests to data that substantially violate the normality assumption is never appropriate. Such applications can often give "correct" answers, but this is the result of coincidence, not reliable data analytics practices.


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What does BB mean in FBI Files?
This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand BB in the Governmental field in general and in the FBI Files terminology in particular.
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What does BB mean?
- BB, BB shot(noun)
- a small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun


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Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Prevention and Safety
Sudbury Women's Centre (SWC) helps in cases of sexual abuse and human trafficking prevention and safety; however, we are seeing in increased need for safe intervention strategies where girls and women are concerned.
Victims and/or survivors are at-risk due to a number of factors, including gender, ethnicity, age, low income, addictions and mental health concerns, and physical health. From the Government of Canada's National Consultations Discussion Paper – The Way Forward to End Human Trafficking: "The populations at greatest risk of trafficking are those exposed to a number of overlapping risk factors in their lives and those who are among more disadvantaged or marginalized groups. Children, adolescent girls, and women tend to be most at risk of sexual trafficking and exploitation."
From the statistics identified by the HTNCC, the latest Juristat on Trafficking in Persons in Canada (July 2017, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics) indicates that between 2009 and 2016, 95% of human trafficking victims in Canada were female, 70% were women under the age of 25, and one quarter were under 18 (25%).
COVID-19 has highlighted a need for intervention in situations that are happening amidst the pandemic. When home is the safest place for many, that is not always the case for these women. We are here to help. If you or someone you know may be in trouble, please reach out to one of our Client Support Workers to plan for your safety.


Display pupils on a layout plot
You can easily show the Entrance and Exit Pupils in both the Lens Data Editor (LDE) and Layout Plots by using dummy surfaces and pickups to show the location of the pupils without affecting the other surfaces in your sequential system. This article walks through how to use ZPL Macro and Chief Ray Height thickness solves in the LDE as well as hiding dummy surfaces in a layout plot.
Authored By Michael Humphreys
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Introduction
It is often useful to be able to visualize the location of the Entrance and Exit Pupil in order to properly calibrate your optical design. This can be easily done in OpticStudio.
In this article, we walk through setting up dummy surfaces that are representative of the Entrance and Exit Pupils for easy visualization of the full system.
Pupil information
In order to show the Entrance Pupil (EP) and Exit Pupil (XP) in the Lens Date Editor and as surfaces in a layout plot, we will insert dummy surfaces in the Lens Data Editor to simulate the pupil locations. Attached to this article is the result of this work-through. If you would like to follow along, please note that this article will be referencing the Double Gauss 28 degree field lens located in the {Zemax}\Samples\Sequential\Objectives folder.
For sequential systems, you can find the location of the pupils in the Analyze...Reports...Prescription Data report.

For this system, the pupils are as follows:
 - Entrance Pupil Diameter: 33.33 mm
 - Entrance Pupil Position: 58.93976 mm
 - Exit Pupil Diameter: 36.25844 mm
 - Exit Pupil Position: -_PHONE_ mm
In OpticStudio, the EP location is always referenced to Surface 1 and the XP location is always referenced to the Image Surface. In order to reduce the modifications to your LDE order, it is a good idea to place the dummy surfaces immediately before the first lens and before the image surface.
By definition, a pupil is where the chief ray crosses the optical axis or where the chief ray has 0 height. OpticStudio conveniently has a built-in thickness solve that will automatically determine where the paraxial chief ray height is 0 for a given surface: Chief Ray Height. The only caveat is that this ray based solve, along with any other ray based solve, has to come after the Stop surface. Therefore, we can only use the Chief Ray Height solve for the XP location. For the EP location, we can use a ZPL Macro solve. Note that OpticStudio has a Pupil Position built-in solve that uses real, differential rays rather than paraxial rays for the XP which might be useful for non-axial systems or systems where the pupil cannot accurately be determined with paraxial rays, but we will use the Chief Ray Height method in this article since the difference between the paraxial (fewer computational cycles) and real (more computationally intensive) is out to the 6th decimal place.

Insert dummy surfaces
To get started, we will need to insert four dummy surfaces - two before Surface 1 for the EP and two before the Image Surface for XP. The article will refer to these dummy surfaces as D1-D4.

Before performing the actual calculations, we will set up the pair of surfaces. Set a Pickup solve on the thickness of D2 & D4 to be a scale factor of -1 from D1 & D3 respectively. A"P" will appear next to the surface with a Thickness Pickup solve.

Then, we need to set the Surface Properties of these 4 surfaces, along with the surface immediately following D2 (labeled D2+1 in the table below), so OpticStudio does not actually draw rays to them. These can be found in the Draw Tab of the Surface Properties.
You need to set the following check boxes for each of the surfaces:

 D1 D2 D2 + 1 D3 D4
Hide Rays To This Surface X X
Skip Rays To This Surface X X X
Do Not Draw This Surface X

Exit Pupil
Now, let's do the easier XP location first. Simply click on the Thickness Solve for D3, select Chief Ray Height and keep the Height equal to 0. A "C" will be placed in the solve box to the right of the value. All wavefront calculations are performed in the XP with respect to a reference sphere. The chief ray reference sphere curvature is just the thickness to the XP itself, so you can also set a pickup on the Radius of D4 and reference D3 Thickness with a -1 factor.

Entrance Pupil
For the EP location, we will need to use a ZPL Solve. Create a new ZPL Macro by navigating to the Programming tab:

Save the new macro as LDE_EP.ZPL. Copy and paste the following code into the macro:

SOLVEBEFORESTOP
SOLVERETURN OPEV(OCOD("ENPP"),0,0,0,0,0,0)

The SOLVEBEFORESTOP keyword is required as the first line in a ZPL Macro solve that uses ray trace data. It specifies that the solve will be placed before the Stop. Certain calculations are not valid when tracing rays are required and the Help System outlines when you can and cannot use the SOLVEBEFORESTOP. The OPEV(OCOD()) combination is a useful way of getting the same value that you would from a given Merit Function Operand without having to insert that operand into the Merit Function Editor.
Then click on the solve box for D1, select ZPL Macro and type in "LDE_EP" without the quotes (note that the name is not case sensitive).

Your layout will now have 2 new dummy surfaces at the pupils.

There are systems, such as an object space telecentric lens, where this technique might not be useful since the EP would be located at negative infinity.
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- Summarize the key points of both structural family therapy and strategic family therapy.
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NXP has developed a CAN FD transceiver with cyber security features. This includes an ID whitelist and a bus-load measuring capability.
At the 16th international CAN Conference (iCC), Bernd Elend presented the secure CAN transceiver functions in detail. The products protect against spoofing attacks. The node capture by a software attack doesn't send CAN-IDs, which have not been hardware-configured in a safe area by the OEM or Tier1. There is also such a hardware-configured whitelist for received messages owned by the receiver. Detecting such a CAN-ID causes the transmission of an active Error Flag, which destroys the spoof-message. This helps also against tampering the message data. Of course, this leads to multiple error conditions. But at the end, the attacked and captured node goes bus-off.
In order to avoid flooding by a compromised node, the transceiver has hardware-configured bus-load limit (e.g. 6 %). The secure transceivers are pin-compatible to generic products. There is no need to update the application software or to exchange keys. "It is complementary to other security measures," summarized Elend. Engineering samples are already available. NXP presented at the iCC a demonstrator.
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A different approach to carrier development
Traditionally, carrier development has aimed for larger protected surface area, but has allowed for a more or less uncontrolled growth of the biofilm.
This lack of control of biofilm thickness is a major uncertainty for process design based on carrier surface area, and also limits the applications for which the MBBR can be a competitive solution.
Z-MBBR - The new dimension
The new carrier design is covered with a grid of defined height, allowing the biofilm to grow on the outside of the carrier in a protected environ-ment.
Due to scouring from other carriers, the biofilm cannot grow higher than the grid height, and so biofilm thickness is controlled.
Applications of Z-MBBR
As all process limitations related to uncontrolled growth of biofilm and clogging of carriers are eliminated with the Z-carriers, they are especially useful in applications where the biofilm tends to grow thick, such as nitrification at higher organic loads.
Z-carriers with different biofilm thicknesses have been evaluated for different applications, with very interesting results. As for example, extremely thin biofilms have shown to open for a new, more efficient application of mainstream ANITA Mox.


What are you worth?
What are you worth?
New graduates often bring fresh ideas and enthusiasm to practice. Good patient care and scheduling can make them valuable hospital team members
Nov 01, 2007
Most veterinary medical graduates care more about the chance to diagnose and treat patients than the size of their paycheck. Still, salaries matter, especially when today's former students are saddled with an educational debt load of $100,000 or more.
Yet the way new graduates view salary is often quite different from practice owners. For owners, it is not about how much money associates need to retire their educational lo ans. From their perspective, salary decisions are a function of practice finances. Medicine and money have to support each other in practice. Trying to find the middle ground between the salaries new graduates want and what a practice owner can afford often causes misunderstanding and frustration on both sides.
Balance sheet
Here is a financial reality that practice owners must juggle: Close to 50 cents of every dollar collected in a veterinary hospital goes to staff and doctor compensation.
On the flip side, healthcare services that you and the other doctors provide are the primary source of practice revenue. This revenue needs to cover your salary and benefits and that of the team members who support you. There needs to be enough revenue left to buy supplies, pay the utility bills, cover maintenance and replacement costs, retire practice debt, pay the rent, provide a return on investment and build a reserve fund for emergencies.
Veterinary hospitals have different cost structures, but in general, most practices can afford to pay an associate doctor between 18 percent and 21 percent of the gross production. That means if an associate veterinarian generates $200,000 in annual revenue, the owner can afford to pay that person between $36,000 and $42,000 a year.
American Veterinary Medical Association statistics show 2006 starting salaries range from $45,546 to $55,031, substantially more than what most new associate doctors are worth in terms of the revenue they generate during their first practice year. This means that practice owners end up subsidizing new associates while they gain clinical competency on the job. Put yourself in a practice owner's shoes. How would you feel about hiring a new associate at a premium?
Practice owners offer competitive salaries to attract and keep good doctors. They are willing to take an initial loss on their investment and recognize that an associate's first year amounts to a clinical residency. They know that associates need this time to gain experience and increase their medical mastery. Practice owners count on the fact that their associates will grow and develop and soon be able to generate sufficient revenue to make the numbers work. The sooner that happens, the more relieved they will be.
Bringing in money
What factors impact doctor revenue? The answer depends on three things:
 - Number of patients
 - Services performed for each patient
 - Fees charged
A veterinarian can generate increased revenue by seeing more patients, providing them with comprehensive care and charging appropriately for all services rendered.
Know standards of care
More than 80 percent of patient visits in a companion-animal practice involve wellness care. Therefore, one of the easiest things a new associate can do to get up to speed and increase his or her value to a practice is to take the time to learn what preventive healthcare services the medical team believes is best for patients. Ask what vaccinations the medical team recommends for dogs, cats and other species. What preventive tests (fecals/heartworm tests/senior wellness screens) do they provide? What parasite protection products do they recommend? At what oral health grade do they recommend dental prophies? What body-condition scores trigger medical interventions?
Just taking the time to find out what the standards of care are and following them allows associates to use their exam rooms more productively to benefit their patients and the practice. Providing good preventive care gives associates a way to impact the health of more animals than anything else they do, and it is an area that allows most new veterinarians to shine.
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text: During the past ∼50 years, the number and area of lakes have declined in several regions in boreal forests. However, there has been substantial finer-scale heterogeneity; some lakes decreased in area, some showed no trend, and others increased. The objective of this study was to identify the primary mechanisms underlying heterogeneous trends in closed-basin lake area. Eight lake characteristics (δ18O, electrical conductivity, surface : volume index, bank slope, floating mat width, peat depth, thaw depth at shoreline, and thaw depth at the forest boundary) were compared for 15 lake pairs in Alaskan boreal forest where one lake had decreased in area since ∼1950, and the other had not. Mean differences in characteristics between paired lakes were used to identify the most likely of nine mechanistic scenarios that combined three potential mechanisms for decreasing lake area (talik drainage, surface water evaporation, and terrestrialization) with three potential mechanisms for nondecreasing lake area (subpermafrost groundwater recharge through an open talik, stable permafrost, and thermokarst). A prioriexpectations of the direction of mean differences between decreasing and nondecreasing paired lakes were generated for each scenario. Decreasing lakes had significantly greater electrical conductivity, greater surface : volume indices, shallower bank slopes, wider floating mats, greater peat depths, and shallower thaw depths at the forest boundary. These results indicated that the most likely scenario was terrestrialization as the mechanism for lake area reduction combined with thermokarst as the mechanism for nondecreasing lake area. Terrestrialization and thermokarst may have been enhanced by recent warming which has both accelerated permafrost thawing and lengthened the growing season, thereby increasing plant growth, floating mat encroachment, transpiration rates, and the accumulation of organic matter in lake basins. The transition to peatlands associated with terrestrialization may provide a transient increase in carbon storage enhancing the role of northern ecosystems as major stores of global carbon.


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Behavioral Interactions Between Children and Cats
1. Introduction: Children and Cats
At the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis we are launching a project to understand more about the interactions between cats and children from 3 to 12 years of age. If you have at least one cat of 1 year of age or older, and a child between the ages of 3 and 12, currently residing in the home with the cat, we would greatly appreciate your taking about 10-15 minutes to complete this anonymous survey. The results will help us to counsel people about cats and children.
The survey first goes into information about the household followed by questions about the cat's behavior. If you have more than one cat, please fill out the survey for the cat that is at least 1 year of age and which interacts with children the most. This cat will be referred to as the SPECIFIED CAT.
You must be 18 years of age or older to submit this survey.
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17.2.4.3 memcached Item Statistics
To get the items statistics, use the stats items command, or the API equivalent.
The items statistics give information about the individual items allocated within a given slab class.
STAT items:2:number 1
STAT items:2:age 452
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STAT items:2:evicted_nonzero 0
STAT items:2:evicted_time 2
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STAT items:27:number 1
STAT items:27:age 452
STAT items:27:evicted 0
STAT items:27:evicted_nonzero 0
STAT items:27:evicted_time 2
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The prefix number against each statistics relates to the corresponding chunk size, as returned by the stats slabs statistics. The result is a display of the number of items stored within each chunk within each slab size, and specific statistics about their age, eviction counts, and out of memory counts. A summary of the statistics is given in the following table.
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numberThe number of items currently stored in this slab class.
ageThe age of the oldest item within the slab class, in seconds.
evictedThe number of items evicted to make way for new entries.
evicted_timeThe time of the last evicted entry
evicted_nonzeroThe time of the last evicted non-zero entry1.4.0
outofmemoryThe number of items for this slab class that have triggered an out of memory error (only value when the -M command line option is in effect).
tailrepairsNumber of times the entries for a particular ID need repairing
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Wielokulturowa przyszłość Polski wobec krytyki polityki wielokulturowości
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Poland's Multicultural Future vis-à-vis Criticism of the Policy of Multiculturalism
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The article characterizes seven sources of the criticism of the policy of multiculturalism in the context of the recently voiced opinions of the western European political leaders. The described sources of criticism are: the financial crisis and the need to reduce the social spending, the pessimistic visions of the future of the European culture, the globalization, the increasing number of the immigrants and their descendants, understanding the multiculturalism as an unification rather than co-existence of different cultures, the decreasing impact of the historical and political events that were an inspiration to the politics of multiculturalism and finally the still high unemployment rate among the immigrants and their descendants.
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text: Optically reconfigurable gate arrays (ORGAs) have been developed as a type of multi-context field programmable gate array. An ORGA's programmable gate array with more than 100 reconfiguration contexts can be reconfigured in nanosecond-order. In addition to that beneficial feature, ORGAs can be reconfigured with invalid configuration data that have been damaged by high-energy charged particles in a radiation-rich space environment. Even if 35 % or 5,915 pixels of holographic memory data are damaged by high-energy charged particles, the ORGA can execute configuration operations correctly. Therefore, ORGAs are sufficiently robust devices for use in space-radiation environments. This paper presents a proposal of a more advanced dependability-increasing technique on a multi-context ORGA. This technique can raise the ORGA's level of configuration dependability even further by exploiting multi-context implementation.


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Note: My program works, I am just looking for an explanation as to why.
I have a java program that reads a file, counts the words in said file, and outputs the words and counts to another file. In the first part of my I use a regular expression to replace any character not a letter and replace it with an empty string.
freq.add(in.next().replaceAll("[^A-Za-z]", ""));
This however does not account for hyphenated words so I changed the regEx to:
freq.add(in.next().replaceAll("[^A-Za-z_-]", ""));
My question is, why does adding the underscore and hyphen work? What is the meaning behind the underscore character?
While I'm asking questions, are regex the same for all languages?
Also, if this is answered somewhere else I apologize, I did numerous searches with no luck.
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 The underscore is a literal underscore character, simply put.
 – hwnd
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 - @hwnd Do I even need it in my code then?
 – user3961615
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 - It isn't catching your hyphenated text because of _- but rather simply due to -. Try [^A-Za-z-] and see. Also, there are variants of regex, but mostly mutually intelligible. Check out regex101 for some nifty help and explanation. take your example there and explore. Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 2:33
 - Note: - in regular expression character classes is special. When it's not the final character in the class (initial might be legal too), it's the range character (that makes something like a-z mean all lowercase ASCII letters) unless escaped. Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 2:34
 - @Shawn Mehan It works both with and without the underscore.
 – user3961615
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There's nothing special about an underscore in a regular expression, it's just a normal character like A. A hyphen at the end of a character class isn't special either, although it is when between two other characters, as you've used it to match all letters by saying A-Z for example.
Regular expressions are similar between most languages, but some of the more esoteric features can be different or missing from a language.
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 - A clue please why this was voted down? Is it wrong? If so, I'd love a correction.
 – blm
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 - Your answer is not more substantial than the comments. If you're going to put in an answer, at least make it substantial. Perhaps you could reference the differences and flavors of regex. Perhaps you list the alternate forms of character classes and underscore and hyphen. Something that doesn't basically regurgitate the comments. Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 2:56
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 I was posting my answer as the comments were being posted (note they're within a minute or two of each other), when I started there weren't any comments. In the future I'll refresh after I've entered my answer and before posting it to check for this situation. Thanks.
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Definitions for scale insect
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any of numerous small plant-sucking insects of the superfamily Coccoidea, the females of which are often covered by a waxy secretion resembling scales.
small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering
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Meaning of (सनेमि) sanemi in english - (सनेमि) Sanemi meaning
Meaning of (सनेमि) sanemi in english
Suggested : complete or total free from imperfection complete perfect of, pertaining to, or belonging as a part of the whole constituent or component stained or covered with blood to give audible expression to speak or pronounce
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Usage of सनेमि: 1. concrete Terme term for quality taken as a subject and integral with it 2. It is mainly used in the plural and is sometimes used to denote the absolute Sea, river, etc 3. The radical of a word, the invariable part of a word as opposed to different endings or endings that this word is likely to receive 4. Having a sense of the relative 5., a clear style 6. Transfer the body of a dead 7. In terms Fencing Lunge thoroughly 8. The room is filling begins to fill with people, it is filled in a moment 9. Speak in plain terms, Employ suitable terms the thing spoken of 10. A treaty of positive theology
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This is the cheapest and easiest way to make a two-dimensional laser show projector.
It uses just one pivoting mirror, powered by the focusing mechanism from a CD or other optical drive.
They said it couldn't be done, but Ljudmila's skunkworks GRL research facility delivers anyway! ;) This design was first discovered in 2006 and sucessfuly made by several beginners at the Laser Tags workshop in 2007.
I hope this Instructable, my first, will help to spread it around and let all of you make, test and improve it!
Here shown using an Arduino for control, but you could hook some other signal into it easily, from a music player, a soundcard or some other electronic circuit.
Step 1: Gather materials and tools
- a broken CD-ROM, DVD or other optical drive (you only need the lens focusing mechanism, so you get lots of other cool parts left over)
- a LASER pointer of your choice (those small chinese ones will do fine too)
- the smallest and thinnest mirror you can find. we used small round mirrors meant for making mosaics. (bill buxton recommended trying mylar.) you can also use the very small mirror found inside the optical assembly of a CD drive (under the lens, sitting on an angle)
- a short piece of stiff wire (cut off leg of LEDs work for this)
- some soft wire for signals
- a stable housing - some kind of plastic box. bonus if it's transparent
- signal source - I recommend an Arduino as it's easy to use and program
- cross head screwdrivers, small and very small
- soldering iron for electronics
- wire cutters
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A Description of the energy levels and electric quadrupole transitions of the 92Nb and 92Mo nuclei using nuclear shell model
In current study,92Nb and 92Mo isotopes have been determined for calculating energy levels and electric quadrupole transition probabilities. These isotopes have different model spaces (1g9/2,1g7/2) for one proton and (2d5/2, 1g7/2, 3s1/2, 2d3/2 and 1h11/2 ) for one neutron of 92Nb nucleus while (1g9/2, 1g7/2) orbits for two protons of 92Mo nucleus.Two interaction have been applied in this study which are surface delta and modified surface delta interactions. The calculations have been achieved by using appropriate effective charges for proton and neutron as well as parameter length of harmonic potential. Computed results have been compared with the experimental values. After this comparison, the energy values and the transition probabilities have shown good agreement with the experimental values, it has also found that the values of the total angular momentum and parity are determined and confirmed for some of the experimental energies, undetermined and unconfirmed experimentally. Theoretically, new values of quadrupole electric transition probabilities have been explored which have not been known in the experimental data.


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Given the following data set from a table xyz with a field name field1 :
and a sequel :
WHERE SUBSTR(field1,4,3)=' '
Normally I would expect to see both the
rows returned. But, It appears like we need to include in the quotes the length of the string that we have used, as in this example'' as opposed to'', which is what one would use when a SUBSTR is not used.
Is there any reason why SUBSTR behaves like this?
Any information would be appreciated.


Difference Between Scalar and Vector
Difference Between Scalar and Vector
Usually, both these terms sound the same, but there is difference between scalar and vector quantities. Both these quantities are used to represent motion of an object.
Difference Between Scalar and Vector
A scalar quantity is different from a vector quantity in terms of direction. Scalar don't have direction whereas vector has. Due to this the scalar quantity can be said to be represented in one dimensional whereas a vector quantity can be multi dimensional.
Difference Between Scalar and Vector
Scalar Vector
It has only magnitude It has direction and magnitude
Only one dimensional It is multi dimensional
This quantity changes with the change in magnitude This changes with magnitude and direction
Normal rules of algebra are applicable here There is different set of rules known as vector algebra
One scalar quantity can divide another scalar One vector cannot divide another vector
In example of speed, time etc, the distance between the points is scalar quantity not the direction Velocity could be an example because it is measurement of the rate of change of an object's position
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Consider that a lily pons starts with a single leaf and every day the leaves are doubled.
Also suppose that the leaves in the pond on 30th day is fully covered the pond.
As the leaves are doubled every day, therefore the leaves on one day before must be half of the leaves present today. So the pond is half filled on as it is completely filled on 30th day.
Also as the leaves on 29th day half-filled the pond, therefore one day before 29th day the pond will be one quarter covered with leaves. So the pond will be one quarter covered with leaves on