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 Kellie Blair Hardt named one of five National Teachers of the Year
 Kellie Blair Hardt
 It's a story of a struggle and triumph, adversity and inspiration. A local girl who grew up with the odds stacked heavily against her, struggled through school, even got expelled, but persevered, became an educator herself, and has just been named one of five National Teachers of the Year.
 Kellie Blair Hardt, a science teacher at Metz Middle School in Manassas City, is tonight's Harris' Hero.
 Hardt thinks outside the box to get through to her students.
 "I teach learning disability students and attention deficit students," she says.
 "She knows how to make this class fun," says Jordan Young, a 7th grader.
 "And to be honored as one of the top five teachers in the nation is something that is very humbling to me and sometimes I get emotional about it simply because of my own upbringing," Hardt says.
 "My natural mother was absent from my life," she says. "I just don't know her. We struggled with money and there were many times we were homeless."
 "I began acting out, I was one of the students who got in trouble a lot," she says, "And I ended up being suspended multiple times and remember being in front of school board members when I was a young teenager and got expelled and got sent to alternative education."
 Hardt says it was teachers who turned her life around and helped her become a teacher.
 "She is a fantastic teacher. She is fabulous," says Tatiana Sorto, a 7th grader.
 Hardt says the most important lesson she wants her students to learn is that no matter what their disability is they can accomplish anything when they put their minds to it.


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Australian study sheds light on possible climate change impacts
By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY— New studies from Australian researchers show that big reef fish like coral trout, snappers and sweetlips have clear preferences when it comes to choosing places to hang out.
The choices big fish make on where to shelter could have a major influence on their ability to cope with climate change, according to scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.
In research aimed at understanding the process of fish population decline when coral reefs sustain major damage, PhD student James Kerry and Professor David Bellwood have found that big fish show a marked preference for sheltering under large, flat table corals, as opposed to branching corals or massive corals (known as bommies).
"Like human beings, fish have strong preferences on where they like to hang out – and it appears that they much prefer to shelter under overhanging tablecorals. This tells us quite a bit about how important these corals are to the overall structure of the reef and the large reef fish that live there," said Kerry.
The reason for the fishes' preference is not yet clear – but possibilities include hiding from predators such as sharks, shading themselves from ultraviolet sunlight, or lying in ambush for prey, he explained.
The study covered 17 separate locations round Lizard Island in far North Queensland, where researchers videoed the behavior of large reef fish, allowing them to identify the kind of habitat they most preferred and depended on.
"The importance of this finding is that table corals are among the types most vulnerable to climate change," Bellwood said. "In shallow waters and on the tops of reefs, they are often the main source of cover for these big fish.
"If they die back as a result of bleaching or disease, or are destroyed by storm surges, this would strip the reef of one of its main attractions, from a coral trout's viewpoint."
The researchers also proved that it isn't the coral, so much as the shelter that is important to big fish, by deploying artificial shelters made from plastic in the lagoon.
"We made one sort with no roof, one with a translucent roof and one with a roof painted black. Far and away the fish preferred to shelter under the black roof, which suggests they either want to hide or else to avoid direct sunlight," Kerry said.
While the team is planning further experiments to clarify the reasons for the fishes' shelter preferences, their early findings may provide a useful insight to reef managers, about the importance of trying to maintain a range of structures and shelters as climate change bears down on the Great Barrier Reef, including the highly susceptible tabular corals.
Their paper "The effect of coral morphology on shelter selection by coral reef fishes", by J. T. Kerry and D. R. Bellwood appears in the journal Coral Reefs.
Filed under: biodiversity, climate and weather, coral reefs, Environment, global warming, Summit County news Tagged: | ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, climate change, coral reefs, Great Barrier Reef, James Cook University, Lizard Island National Park, reef fish

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NUFinancials: Creating Balance Sheet Journals Training Guide
This article explains the purpose of and how to create balance sheet journals.
Create Balance Sheet Journals
Upon completing this guide, you should be able to:
- Start a Balance Sheet Journal from the NUPortal
- Complete a Balance Sheet Journal as follows:
- Check the journal date
- Specify the purpose and reason
- Enter journal lines
- Attach supporting documentation
- Validate the journal
- Submit the journal to workflow
- Searching for Actuals Journals
- Troubleshooting for Actuals Journals
- Access the NUPortal at northwestern.edu. Click Financials > Accounting.
- Alternate navigation: NUFinancials > Navigator > NU Actuals Journal > Add/Update Actuals Journal > Add a New Value.
- Individuals with Balance Sheet Journal access and approval from Accounting Services via the Central Office Security Access Form.
- Find journal processing guidelines and the monthly closing calendar on the Financial Operations website.
- Receive updates from the Financial Operations Find instructions for joining listservs on the Northwestern IT website.
NUFinancials > Navigator > NU Actuals Journals > Add a New Value
Select Balance Sheet Journal.
1. Click Create Journal.
Result: the journal appears in a new window.
1. Enter the Journal Date.
The Journal Date determines the accounting period in which the journal will post. The default is today's date and the current period.
You may backdate the journal only if the prior period is still open. This may be the case during the first few days of each month. For example, in early September, you may change the Journal Date to August 31. Do so only if the journal truly belongs in the prior month's financial activity.
You may future-date the journal to fall within an accounting period that is not yet open and extend the time to gather approvals. If you do, the journal will not post until the period opens.
Note that the only Journal Purpose is "Balance sheet journal."
The Balance Sheet journal is flexible. It can accomplish many common accounting tasks. It can be used to:
- Transfer from holding accounts
- Correct cash balances
- Defer expenses and revenue
- Accrue expenses and revenue
- Manage inventory and assets
- Explain the reason for the journal in the Reason/Description field.
- Click Next.
- Below the Journal information are Journal Rules that provide guidance for completing the journal.
- At least one line of the journal must have a "Balance sheet account code," that is, an Asset (1xxxx) or Liability (2xxxx) account.
- Workflows include approval levels for projects and departments, as applicable, and a final level for Accounting Services.
- Balance sheet journals containing grant chart strings are also routed to Accounting Services for Research and Sponsored Projects (ASRSP).
- Debits and credits on the journal must balance.
- Rules 4 and 5 make it possible for non-accountants to use the journal successfully.
- Use Rule 4 to increase accounts.
- Use Rule 5 to decrease accounts.
- Appropriate attachments are required for approval.
In this particular example, the journal is used for accrual accounting. With a payroll deduction pending, this journal recognizes revenue and notes the amount of the pending payroll deduction in Accounts Receivable.
- Line 1 records the effect on Accounts Receivable (11356).
- Line 2 records the effect on Revenue (40698) of a designated self-supporting project that runs the (Note: the receivable will be matched at a later date with an incoming payment, the payroll deduction from MyHR.)
- Click Insert (+) to add a blank (Repeat to add as many blank lines as you need.)
- To work with balance sheet accounts, enter the Fund, Account, andamount.
- In this example, you are following Rule 4 "To increase Assets, enter a positive amount (debit)."
- NUFinancials allows only valid values in each ChartField.
- There is no budget chart string validation performed on balance sheet journal lines.
- To work with financial entities (Departments and Projects), enter the full chart string and amount.
- In this example, you are following Rule 4 "To increase Revenue, enter a negative amount (credit)."
- NUFinancials allows only valid values in each ChartField.
- Journal lines with Department or Department and Project ChartFields are subject to chart string combination rules during validation.
Best practice: Attach scanned electronic supporting documents, as required by Approvers, for the transaction. NUFinancials does not require the attachment. You may save, validate, and submit the journal to workflow without an attachment.
- Click Attach. Result: The File Attachment dialog appears.
- Click Browse. Result: A browser appears that enables you to locate the scanned file on your computer.
- Browse to and select the scanned file.
- Click Open > Result: The document is attached and the file name appears (as shown above).
- You may click View to see the document in a new window and verify.
- Click Save & Submit to validate journal.
- A 10-digit Journal ID is assigned to the transaction after the journal is saved.
- NUFinancials confirms that any Department or Project chart strings on the journal have a budget. If so, Budget Status is valid. If not, Budget Status is Error.
- NUFinancials evaluates the journal and chart strings. If the journal is valid and chart strings properly combined, Journals Status is Valid. If not, Journal Status is Error.
- Refer to Troubleshooting for Actuals Journals for help with Error statuses.
Start on the NUPortal by selecting the journal type – Balance Sheet Journal or navigate in NUFinancials in the Navigator > NU Actuals Journals > Add/Update Journals.
Step 1: Confirm or change the Journal Date.
Step 2: Confirm the purpose and enter a description.
Step 3: Explain the Reason
Step 4: Enter the journal lines.
- At least one line must contain a balance sheet account
- Enter as many lines as you need to accomplish the accounting task
Step 5: Attach supporting documentation.
Step 6: Validate the journal.
What happens next?
- Approvers must make a decision about the journal.
- Department and Project approvers see the journal and can make a decision about journal lines that contain chart strings for which they are responsible.
- You may find and view your journal using the Actuals Journal Search.
- Monitor the workflow for progress or feedback.
- Journals must be approved and posted before the accounting period closes, otherwise Accounting Services deletes them.
- If you find yourself without approvals and facing deletion at the end of a period, you may copy the journal to avoid recreating the journal from Give the new journal a date in the next period.


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Birao climate guide, Central African Republic
Welcome to the Birao climate guide, which shows average weather for Birao, Central African Republic. Check maximum temperature, the number of days with rainfall and daily hours of sunshine for each month of the year.
Birao climate guide: quick links
Maximum temperature (°C) in Birao
Days with some rain in Birao
Hours of sunshine in Birao
The Birao climate guide is provided by Weather2Travel.com. For more information about the weather in Birao, Central African Republic including monthly rainfall, mininum temperature, UV maximum, heat & humidity and daylight hours visit the Central African Republic climate guide page.

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FREYR's planned manufacturing facilities are an important part of our full-cycle sustainable battery production model.
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FREYR targets emission-free construction sites
FREYR has a long-term target of emission-free construction sites and we are investigating how we can reduce emission from construction activities.
Local climate advantages for reduced energy consumption
All production sites have access to natural cooling water and cold, relatively dry air, allowing for efficient cooling and drying processes in the production line. Additionally, FREYR may export heat from the manufacturing process to the existing local district heating system and further reduce the net overall energy consumption.
Focused on energy efficiency
We design for energy efficiency in our operations. A fully integrated HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) and climate control across all processes, will drive facility energy optimization at all production sites by optimizing heat balance across all process steps and reuse of surplus heat.
FREYR and Siemens are developing a Digital Twin of the battery cell and of the facility which produces the battery cell, creating a virtual model of the entire manufacturing facility. The model enables FREYR to evaluate, in real time and optimize the physical battery cell manufacturing process over time. In addition, we plan to deploy a fully integrated Manufacturing Execution System (MES) across all production processes. Energy-consuming facility elements will provide a digital platform for further reductions to energy consumption during facility operations.


5 Fantastic Health Advantages of Cabbage
The health advantages of cabbage go a lengthy method to enhancing the healthiness of human and animal alike. It's believed by a few that cabbage has couple of equals with regards to healing power.
As you can tell already, cabbage is wonderful. There are lots of health advantages of cabbage, but individuals such as the following are five of the greatest.
 1. Prevent cancer, particularly cancer of the colon. Nowadays, many people are conscious that fruits and vegetable possess the capacity to prevent cancer. With regards to cabbage, our prime fiber content plays a role in good digestive health. What this means is regular journeys towards the loo along with a healthy colon. Large research has also discovered that use of cabbage will mean you get less cases of cancer of the colon.
 2. Slow aging. Cabbage is packed with ascorbic acid and beta-carotene (originates from vit a), making among the health advantages of cabbage a potential to deal with aging. If you would rather look more youthful for extended (that is practically everybody), try to consume more cabbage.
 3. Lower serum cholesterol. The mixture of negative and positive cholesterol within your body is called serum cholesterol. Whenever it's at an advanced, you're understandably in a greater chance of heart-related disease. Fortunately, doctors believe another of the health advantages of cabbage is being able to lower serum cholesterol.
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Blanket bogs are the most celebrated of Ireland's peatlands. The habitat is very well developed in the country. We have two types of blanket bogs – Atlantic Blanket Bog and Mountain Blanket Bog.
Atlantic blanket bogs cover the landscape of the west coast from sea level to an altitude of 200m. Here, rainfall is 1,200mm per year and the acid peat substrate ranges from 2 to 7m deep. Atlantic blanket bog vegetation has a characteristic grassy appearance due to the occurrence of purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea) and black bog rush (Schoenus nigricans). Patterned surfaces of pools, flat and sloped areas, flushes and swallow holes are important features of blanket bogs.
Mountain blanket bogs occur on relatively flat terrain in the mountain ranges above 200m altitude. Here rainfall is high and evaporation is low. Mountain blanket bogs are rain fed and their peat is acidic. The vegetation is characterised by the presence of ericoid shrubs and in particular ling heather (Calluna vulgaris), crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus). Natural drains, lakes and flushes are features of mountain blanket bogs.
Formation of Blanket Bogs
Blanket bog formation in the mountains and lowlands of the west of Ireland started at the end of the last glaciation, 10,000 years ago. Initially peat formation was confined to shallow lakes and wet hollows. Over time an infilling sequence from open water to fen and acid peat occurred to form the blanket bog habitat we find today. Later, acid peat spread out to form a blanket covering huge areas of poorly drained land. While some spread may have taken place as early as 7,000 years ago, many areas were not engulfed until 4,000 years ago when the climate became wetter. Heavy rainfall caused minerals such as iron to be washed out or leached from the surface layers of the soil, a process know as paludifacation. These were deposited lower down where they formed an impermeable layer known as an iron pan. Water cannot move down through such a layer and the soil surface became waterlogged as a result. Under these conditions the accumulation and spread of peat was made possible.
Distribution of Blanket Bogs in Ireland
Atlantic Blanket Bogs are found in low-lying coastal plains and valleys in mountainous areas of western counties, below 200m O.D. They are particularly well developed in counties Donegal, Mayo, Galway, Kerry, Clare and Sligo
Mountain Blanket Bogs occur on relatively flat terrain in the higher Irish mountains above 200m O.D. and are more widely distributed than Atlantic blanket bogs.
Atlantic blanket bogs and mountain blanket bogs are the most extensive of the Irish peatland types and originally covered an area of 774,360ha.
Blanket Bog Structure and Hydrology
Blanket bog occurs on flat or sloping land with poor surface drainage, in cool, wet, oceanic climates. Moore et al. (1984) describe blanket bogs as a "complex unity combining flushed and ombrotrophic peatland types which occupy a variety of geomorphological positions and which become inextricably linked in an interdependent, but floristically and hydrologically diverse, series". If the climate is sufficiently cool and wet, basins, plateaux and gentle slopes come to be swamped by peat, formed from acid vegetation. Peatland formed by the terrestrialisation of basins or the paludification of plateau and gentle slopes at different places in the same landscape, eventually coalesce to form a blanket bog complex. Therefore blanket bogs are complexes which combine several congruent and hydrologically inter-related peatland sites into a continuous peatland system. Within the complex, the underlying peat varies considerably in depth and humification, according especially to the angle of the slope and the degree of waterlogging. Morphologically the blanket bog peat body is diplotelmic in profile as in raised bogs. It is divided into two distinctive hydrological layers, the acrotelm and the catotelm.
Importance of Blanket Bogs
Blanket bogs are valuable wetlands, not wastelands. There are a number of scientific, economic, cultural and moral reasons for conserving blanket bogs.
- Only a small amount of blanket bog exists in the world. Ireland possesses 8% of the world's blanket bog and is the most important country in Europe for this type of habitat.
- Blanket bog landscapes provide a refuge for a rich biodiversity of species including several rare plants, birds and invertebrate species.
- Blanket bogs are commonly used as rough grazing land for sheep and cattle, grouse shooting, deer stalking and fishing.
- Blanket bogs preserve prehistoric farming landscapes beneath the peat as well as a diverse range of artefacts within the peat mass.
- The patterns of pools on the flatter areas of blanket bog is of particular conservation significance. The pools support a specialised range of mosses (especially species of Sphagnum) and plants and they provide essential feeding habitats for wetland birds.
- Within their peat layers, blanket bogs preserve a record of their own growth and development and on a larger scale, they provide insights into regional vegetation change, climate change, atmospheric pollution and act as chronometers for other events such as volcanic eruptions.
- Blanket bogs accumulate and store millions of tonnes of carbon and have a vital function in controlling the green house gases that cause climate change.
- Blanket bogs contain in excess of 90% water and act as vast water reservoirs. They have a vital role to play in the management of water within river catchments.
- Blanket bogs and their utilisation for recreation can have positive benefits on the health of people.
Conservation Status of Irish Blanket Bogs
Under the EU Habitats Directive the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) are obliged to complete a report every 7 years on the condition of designated habitats. The assessments carried out in 2006 and 2013 found that no peatland type of priority importance in Ireland is in good conservation status. Blanket bogs were given a BAD assessment in these reports due to the loss of their area, structure and function. The drivers of the loss of blanket bogs include reclamation, peat extraction, afforestation, over grazing, drainage, burning, erosion and landslides.
Extent and Utilisation of Blanket Bog
Originally 908,117ha of blanket bog covered the island of Ireland. Although blanket bogs originally covered more than 774,367ha of the land surface in the Republic of Ireland (Hammond Peatland Map 1979), hand cutting over 400 years, the introduction of large-scale, mechanised turf extraction, afforestation programmes, intensification of agriculture and land reclamation have seriously depleted the area of blanket bog suitable for conservation. IPCC monitors the status of the resource on an on going basis. Our assessment of 2009 was published in Ireland's Peatland Conservation Action Plan 2020. This found that only 28% (216,599ha) of the blanket peatland resource remains in a relatively intact condition in the Republic of Ireland. Traditional cutting of the bogs for turbary is having a serious impact on blanket bogs. 36% of the blanket bogs have been cutaway by this process. Peat is still being cut privately. Grazing pressure on blanket bogs although particularly severe during the last century mainly by cattle did not result in degradation of this habitat. Sheep replaced cattle as the principal grazing animal with the introduction of EU farming subsidies in the 1980's and have caused severe erosion and complete loss of sites. Overgrazing has led to erosion and habitat loss of 7% of the area of blanket bog since 1980 and in 2000 a further 7% was deemed threatened by this activity. Large-scale afforestation schemes have had a huge impact on blanket bogs with planting on 28% of the original area within the Republic of Ireland. EU and Government incentives introduced since the mid 1990's have resulted in an interest in wind energy developments which seriously degrade the integrity of mountain blanket bogs. Another cause of blanket bog degradation is the colonisation of the habitat by invasive alien species such as Rhododendron ponticum and Pinus contorta.
Blanket Bog Campaign 2016/2017
In 2016 IPCC mounted a two year campaign to shift the national focus to blanket bogs and bridge the significant policy gap that exist in relation to their protection. The campaign aims to engage in lobbying and advocacy to ensure that blanket bogs are highlighted as a national issue. The first step was to set up an online survey to assess what damage and threats currently face blanket bog. This involved a step into citizen science as we asked users to fill in our survey and tell us of their experience while visiting such sites. This allowed us to analyse which issues were causing the most pressure to this precious habitat and allowed us to emphasise these in meetings with key Government officials. Take for example Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC in Co. Donegal which was used as a case study to highlight the variety of uses currently found on blanket bog. The survey provided evidence of a wide range of threats including the use of quad bikes for herding sheep on sensitive bogland habitat, extensive turf cutting and footing using machinery, drainage, peat erosion, grazing by sheep, installation of telecommunication towers, bee keeping and walking. Please follow this link to the blanket


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Helps readers gain new insight into intriguing questions related to the Bible, its characters, and the Christian faith
When we think of a detective story, we often think of murder mysteries. But the Bible contains some different kinds of detective stories. How is it, for instance, that some of the key personalities in the Bible story slip into the story almost unnoticed—like Judah, for example, an ancestor of King David and Jesus Christ. How did the symbolism of blood in Communion get started? When Cain was warned that the ground would no longer yield for him because he had killed his brother—did that set a precedent for connecting moral behavior with environmental harshness? These themes and many others are investigated in this study, accompanied by a discussion guide.


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How to protect Linux against rogue USB devices using USBGuard
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How to Protect Linux against Rogue USB Devices Using USBGuard
SBGuard is a Linux kernel module that allows you to create policies for USB devices based on their attributes. It can be used to prevent rogue USB devices from being connected to your system, as well as to block certain types of USB devices based on your security needs.
Install USBGaurd Package
To use USBGuard on your Linux system, you will need to install the usbguard package. This package is available in most Linux distributions and can be installed using the package manager. For example, on a Debian-based system, you can install it using the following command:
sudo apt-get install usbguard
Once the package is installed, you can start the USBGuard service by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start usbguard
You can then configure the USBGuard rules by editing the /etc/usbguard/rules.conf file. This file contains a set of rules that define how USBGuard should handle different types of USB devices.
For example, to block all USB storage devices, you can add the following rule to the file:
block with-interface equals {08:*}
This rule will block any USB device that has an interface class of 08, which corresponds to storage devices.
You can also create rules that allow certain types of devices based on their attributes. For example, to allow a specific USB keyboard, you can use a rule like this:
allow with-serial equals "123456"
This rule will allow a USB keyboard with the serial number "123456". You can use similar rules to allow other types of devices, such as printers or mice.
Once you have created your rules, you can reload the USBGuard rules by running the following command:
sudo usbguard reload-rules
This will apply the new rules and block or allow the appropriate devices.
Conclusion
By using USBGuard, you can protect your Linux system from malicious USB devices. USBGuard's access control feature allows you to specify exactly which USB devices can access your system. However, it's important to remember to use other security measures as well.
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text: Blind source separation (BSS) for convolutive mixtures can be performed efficiently in the frequency domain, where independent component analysis (ICA) is applied separately in each frequency bin. To solve the permutation problem of frequency-domain BSS robustly, information regarding the number of sources is very important. This paper presents a method for estimating the number of sources from convolutive mixtures of sources. The new method estimates the power of each source or noise component by using ICA and a scaling technique to distinguish sources and noises. Also, a reverberant component can be identified by calculating the correlation of component envelopes. Experimental results for up to three sources show that the proposed method worked well in a reverberant condition whose reverberation time was 200 ms.


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Use of engineered nanoparticles (NPs) in consumer products is resulting in NPs entering drinking water sources. Subsequent NP breakthrough into treated drinking water is a potential exposure route and human health threat.
Objectives:This study investigated the breakthrough of common NPs, silver, titanium dioxide (TiO2), and zinc oxide (ZnO), into finished drinking water following conventional and advanced treatment.
Methods:NPs were spiked into five experimental waters: groundwater, surface water, synthetic freshwater, synthetic freshwater with natural organic matter, and tertiary wastewater effluent. Bench scale coagulation/flocculation/sedimentation simulated conventional treatment, and microfiltration (MF) and ultrafiltration (UF) simulated advanced treatment.
Breakthrough of NPs into treated water was monitored by turbidity removal and inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).
Results:Conventional treatment resulted in 2-20%, 3-8%, and 48-99% of silver, TiO2, and ZnO NPs or their dissolved ions remaining in finished water, respectively. Breakthrough following MF was 1-45% for silver, 0-44% for TiO2, and 36-83% for ZnO. With UF, NP breakthrough was 0-2%, 0-4%, and 2-96% for silver, TiO2, and ZnO, respectively. Variability was dependent on NP stability with less breakthrough of aggregated NPs compared to stable NPs and dissolved NP ions.
Conclusions:Although a majority of aggregated or stable NPs were removed by simulated conventional and advanced treatment, NP metals were detectable in finished water. As environmental NP concentrations increase, we need to consider NPs as emerging drinking water contaminants, and determine appropriate drinking water treatment processes to fully remove NPs in an effort to reduce their potential harmful health outcomes.
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Here's the latest on grant-winning university teams supported by Fundación Banorte, led by Banorte Chairman Carlos Hank González, Fundación Gruma and the U.S. Department of State as part of the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund.
The fund encourages higher education institutions to adopt new models of academic exchange and workforce development programs throughout the Americas. These cross-cultural research teams are seeking to broaden technical skills, solve real-world problems and stimulate economic prosperity.
Partners: Polk State College in Winter Haven, Fla., and Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida (ITM) in Mérida, Mexico.
Project: Teaching students how to construct business plans to expand the footprint of local businesses on a global scale.
What's new: Students have created a business plan for local businesses to help expand their services or products into the other country. Students researched markets, logistics, taxes and other issues to construct a global business plan. The overall course content has included language and cultural appreciation elements to develop relationships locally and abroad.
To advance their work, the students in Orlando met with Mexico's consul general, his deputy and assistant in charge of business development. That meeting opened the door for continued dialogue which could yield benefits in social and economic areas for both Mexico and the U.S.
Their mission: To open a trade route from the Yucatan Peninsula in North America directly to Central Florida via Port Tampa Bay. If successful, this will benefit communities in Central Florida and Mexico.
Students have received strong support from the Central Florida Development Council and secured commitments from Port Tampa Bay, Porto Progresso in Mexico and the respective consulates in both countries. Students will further their projects by participating in fieldwork in the form of meeting with businesses, logistics companies, lawyers, government agencies and others to gather vital information needed for their business plans.
"The funds from the grant will allow Polk State College to continue developing our international programs through collaboration with local businesses that benefit both students and the community," said Herb Nold, professor of business administration at Polk State College. "We have the opportunity to meet with business leaders, understand their business model and then do the heavy lifting needed to develop a business plan with the help of our experienced professors," he said.
Since receiving the grant, Polk State College has cemented relations with counterparts at ITM and begun building out an extensive curriculum for both groups in anticipation of site visits, solidifying businessplans for each student's project and advancing their Spanish or English language skills and cultural awareness.
What's next: The in-country fieldwork will consist of meetings with companies representing potential business partners and with stakeholders needed for a transaction, such as accountants, attorneys and logistics companies.
For more: Since its inception in 2014 through the end of 2020, the Innovation Fund has awarded 243 grants ($25,000 to $35,000 each) to more than 490 universities and institutions, working in teams in 25 countries and in 49 U.S. states. See 100kstrongamericas.org.


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 - 6) Select the best networks/filter descriptions in the phenotype population (i.e., the combinations with small errors).
 - 7) Repopulate the population of genotypes for the artificial neural networks and the filter descriptions back to a predetermined size using the selected phenotypes.
 - 8) Combine the artificial neural network genotypes and filter description genotypes thereby obtaining artificial neural network/filter combination genotypes.
 - 9) Mate the combination genotypes by exchanging genes or characteristics/features of the network/ filter combinations.
 - 10) If system parameter stopping criteria is not satisfied, return to step 3.
Note that artificial neural network genotypes may be formed by selecting various types of artificial neural network architectures suited to function approximation, such as fast back propagation, as well as characterizing several varieties of candidate transfer/activation functions, such as Tanh, logistic, linear, sigmoid and radial basis. Furthermore, ANNs having complex inputs may be selected (as determined by a filter type in the signal processing subsystem 1220) for the genotypes.
Examples of genetic parameters include: (a) maximum population size (typical default: 300), (b) generation limit (typical default: 50), (c) selection criteria, such as a certain percentage to survive (typical default: 0.5) or roulette wheel, (d) population refilling, such as random or cloning (default), (e) mating criteria, such as tail swapping (default) or two cut swapping, (f) rate for a choice of mutation criterion, such as random exchange (default: 0.25) or section reversal, (g) population size of the concatenated artificial neural network/filter combinations, (h) use of statistical seeding on the initial population to bias the random initialization toward stronger first order relating variables, and (i) neural node influence factors, e.g., input nodes and hidden nodes. Such parameters can be used as weighting factors that influences the degree the system optimizes for accuracy versus network compactness. For example, an input node factor greater than 0 provides a means to reward artificial neural networks constructed that use fewer input variables (nodes). A reasonable default value is 0.1 for both input and hidden node factors.
Examples of neural net/filter description system control parameters include: (a) accuracy of modeling parameters, such as relative accuracy, R-squared, mean squared error, root mean squared error or average absolute error (default), and (b) stopping criteria parameters, such as generations run, elapsed time, best accuracy found and population convergence.
Locating a Mobile Station Using Artificial Neural Networks
When using an artificial neural network for estimating a location of an MS 140, it is important that the artificial neural network be provided with as much accurate RF signal measurement data regarding signal transmissions between the target MS 140 and the base station infrastructure as possible. In particular, assuming ANN inputs as described hereinabove, it is desirable to obtain the detection states of as many surrounding base stations as possible. Thus, whenever the location engine 139 is requested to locate a target MS 140 (and in particular in an emergency context such as an emergency 911 call), the location center 140 automatically transmits a request to the wireless infrastructure to which the target MS is assigned for instructing the MS to raise its transmission power to full power for a short period of time (e.g., 100 milliseconds in a base station infrastructure configuration an optimized for such requests to 2 seconds in a non-optimized configuration). Note that the request for a change in the transmission power level of the target MS has a further advantage for location requests such as emergency 911 that are initiated from the MS itself in that a first ensemble of RF signal measurements can be provided to the location engine 139 at the initial 911 calling power level and then a second ensemble of RF signal measurements can be provided at a second higher transmission power level. Thus, in one embodiment of the present invention, an artificial neural network can be trained not only on the location signature cluster derived from either the initial wireless 911 transmissions or the full power transmissions, but also on the differences between these two transmissions. In particular, the difference in the detection states of the discrete ANN inputs between the two transmission power levels may provide useful additional information for more accurately estimating a location of a target MS.
It is important to note that when gathering RF signal measurements from a wireless base station network for locating MSs, the network should not be overburdened with location related traffic. Accordingly, note that network location data requests for data particularly useful for ANN based FOMs is generally confined to the requests to the base stations in the immediate area of a target MS 140 whose location is desired. For instance, both collections of base stations B′ and b discussed in the context of training an ANN are also the same collections of base stations from which MS location data would be requested. Thus, the wireless network MS location data requests are data driven in that the base stations to queried for location data (i.e., the collections B′ and b) are determined by previous RF signal measurement characteristics recorded. Accordingly, the selection of the collections B′ and b are adaptable to changes in the wireless environmental characteristics of the coverage area 120.
Location Signature Data Base
Before proceeding with a description of other levels of the present invention as described in (24.1) through (24.3) above, in this section further detail is provided regarding the location signature data base 1320. Note that a brief description of the location signature data base was provided above indicating that this data base stores MS location data from verified and/or known locations (optionally with additional known environmental characteristic values) for use in enhancing current target MS location hypotheses and for comparing archived location data with location signal data obtained from a current target MS. However, the data base management system functionality incorporated into the location signature data base 1320 is an important aspect of the present invention, and is therefore described in this section. In particular, the data base management functionality described herein addresses a number of difficulties encountered in maintaining a large archive of signal processing data such as MS signal location data. Some of these difficulties can be described as follows:
 - (a) in many signal processing contexts, in order to effectively utilize archived signal processing data for enhancing the performance of a related signal processing application, there must be an large amount of signal related data in the archive, and this data must be adequately maintained so that as archived signal data becomes less useful to the corresponding signal processing application (item the data becomes "inapplicable") its impact on the application should be correspondingly reduced. Moreover, as archive data becomes substantially inapplicable, it should be filtered from the archive altogether. However, the size of the data in the archive makes it prohibitive for such a process to be performed manually, and there may be no simple or straightforward techniques for automating such impact reduction or filtering processes for inapplicable signal data;
 - (b) it is sometimes difficult to determine the archived data to use in comparing with newly obtained signal processing application data; and
 - (c) it is sometimes difficult to determine a useful technique for comparing archived data with newly obtained signal processing application data.
It is an aspect of the present invention that the data base management functionality of the location signature data base 1320 addresses each of the difficulties mentioned immediately above. For example, regarding (a), the location signature data base is "self cleaning" in that by associating a confidence value with each loc sig in the data base and by reducing or increasing the confidences of archived verified loc sigs according to how well their signal characteristic data compares with newly received verified location signature data, the location signature data base 1320 maintains a consistency with newly verified loc sigs.
The following data base management functional descriptions describe some of the more noteworthy functions of the location signature data base 1320. Note that there are various ways that these functions may be embodied. So as to not overburden the reader here, the details for one embodiment is provided in APPENDIX C FIGS. 16 a through 16 c present a table providing a brief description of the attributes of the location signature data type stored in the location signature data base 1320.
Location Signature Program Descriptions
The following program updates the random loc sigs in the location signature data base 1320. In one embodiment, this program is invoked primarily by the Signal Processing Subsystem.
Update Location signature Database Program
Update_Loc_Sig_DB(new_loc_obj, selection_criteria, loc_sig_pop)
 - /* This program updates loc sigs in the location signature data base 1320. That is, this program updates, for example, at least the location information for verified random loc sigs residing in this data base. The general strategy here is to use information (i.e., "new_loc_obj") received from a newly verified location (that may not yet be entered into the location signature data base) to assist in determining if the previously stored random verified loc sigs are still reasonably valid to use for:
 - (29.1) estimating a location for a given collection (i.e., "bag") of wireless (e.g., CDMA) location related signal characteristics received from an MS,
 - (29.2) training (for example) adaptive location estimators (and location hypothesizing models), and
 - (29.3) comparing with wireless signal characteristics used in generating an MS location hypothesis


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LONGVIEW JUNCTION, TX
LONGVIEW JUNCTION, TEXAS. Longview Junction, in eastern Gregg County, began in 1873 when the International-Great Northern Railroad completed its line from Hearne to Longview and intersected with the rails of the newly built Texas and Pacific. The tracks connected a mile east of the T&P depot in downtown Longview. A second T&P depot and the I-GN depot were located at the junction. Longview businessmen formed the Longview and Junction Railway Company in 1883 to provide transportation between the main T&P depot in downtown Longview and Longview Junction. The street railway began with one car and one mule. In 1896 a larger, two-mule car was inaugurated. An electric trolley replaced the mule-drawn cars in 1912 and continued until the system was discontinued in 1922. By 1877 the Barner brothers were operating a sawmill at the junction with a capacity of 20,000 board feet a day. Longview Junction prospered in the early 1880s as dwellings and businesses for the railroad industry and its workers were built. A Catholic church was constructed in 1883. The brick, two-story, seventy-five-room Mobberly Hotel was completed in 1884. Local businesses in May 1885 included two saloons, a gambling house, a grocery store, a fruit and cigar stand, a drugstore and news stand, and a dressmaker, as well as two boarding houses, two restaurants, the Mobberly Hotel, and the Junction Hotel. Between 1890 and 1896 the number of dwellings in a five-block area of Longview Junction increased 200 percent. A private, two-room school opened in 1896.
In 1904 the city of Longview annexed land on all sides of its corporate limits, including the site of Longview Junction. The additional residents made possible the issuance of bonds for many of Longview's first improvements, including wooden-block pavement for streets, cement sidewalks, and street lights. In 1919 a grade crossing at the junction, one of the longest in Texas, spanned eleven sets of tracks. In 1939 the Texas and Pacific Railroad Company constructed an underpass that eliminated the dangerous crossing. The Texas and Pacific moved its division offices and shops from Longview Junction to Mineola in January 1929, thus removing 700 families and a large payroll from the Longview area.
Marker Files, Texas Historical Commission, Austin. Eugene W. McWhorter, Traditions of the Land: The History of Gregg County (Longview, Texas: Gregg County Historical Foundation, 1989).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Charlotte Allgood, "LONGVIEW JUNCTION, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (_URL_ accessed May 18, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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Sequential Analysis of the Origin of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
This example shows pairwise sequence alignment (PWSA). PWSA has multiple applications in bioinformatics, such as multiple sequence analysis and phylogenetic tree reconstruction. We look at a PWSA that uses a global dynamic programming algorithm to align each pair of sequences, and we then calculate the pairwise distances using the Tajima-Nei metric. This gives us a matrix of distances between sequences that we use for inferring the phylogeny of HIV and SIV viruses. PWSA is a computationally expensive task with complexity O(L*L*N*N), where L is the average length of the sequences and N is the number of sequences [Durbin, et al. Cambridge University Press, 1998].
For details about the computations, view the code for pctdemo_setup_hivview the code for pctdemo_setup_hiv.
Related examples:
Load the Example Settings and the Data
We start by getting the example difficulty level. If you want to use a different example difficulty level, use paralleldemoconfig and then run this example again. See Customizing the Settings for the Examples in the Parallel Computing Toolbox for full details.
difficulty = pctdemo_helper_getDefaults();
The pctdemo_setup_hiv function retrieves the protein sequence information from the NCBI GenBank® database, and the difficulty parameter controls how many protein sequences we retrieve. You can view the code for pctdemo_setup_hivview the code for pctdemo_setup_hiv for full details.
[fig, pol, description] = pctdemo_setup_hiv(difficulty);
numViruses = length(pol);
startTime = clock;
Downloading data from the NCBI GenBank database
Finished downloading
Calculate the Distances
We call seqpdist to align the POL sequences and use the Tajima-Nei metric to measure the distances between them.
pold = seqpdist(pol,'method', 'Tajima-Nei', 'Alphabet', 'NT',...
 'indel', 'pair');
Measure the Elapsed Time
The time used for the sequential computations should be compared against the time it takes to perform the same set of calculations using the Parallel Computing Toolbox in the Distributed Analysis of the Origin of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus example. The elapsed time varies with the underlying hardware.
elapsedTime = etime(clock, startTime);
fprintf('Elapsed time is %2.1f seconds\n', elapsedTime);
Elapsed time is 12.6 seconds
Plot the Results
Now that we have all the distances, we can construct the phylogenetic tree for the POL proteins. You can view the code for pctdemo_plot_hivview the code for pctdemo_plot_hiv for full details.
pctdemo_plot_hiv(fig, pold, description);
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Accelerating geospatial analysis on GPUs using CUDA
Inverse distance weighting (IDW) interpolation and viewshed are two popular algorithms for geospatial analysis. IDW interpolation assigns geographical values to unknown spatial points using values from a usually scattered set of known points, and viewshed identifies the cells in a spatial raster that can be seen by observers. Although the implementations of both algorithms are available for different scales of input data, the computation for a large-scale domain requires a mass amount of cycles, which limits their usage. Due to the growing popularity of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for general purpose applications, we aim to accelerate geospatial analysis via a GPU based parallel computing approach. In this paper, we propose a generic methodological framework for geospatial analysis based on GPU and its programming model Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), and explore how to map the inherent parallelism degrees of IDW interpolation and viewshed to the framework, which gives rise to a high computational throughput. The CUDA-based implementations of IDW interpolation and viewshed indicate that the architecture of GPU is suitable for parallelizing the algorithms of geospatial analysis. Experimental results show that the CUDA-based implementations running on GPU can lead to dataset dependent speedups in the range of 13–33-fold for IDW interpolation and 28–925-fold for viewshed analysis. Their computation time can be reduced by an order of magnitude compared to classical sequential versions, without losing the accuracy of interpolation and visibility judgment.


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Mission to Mars is a full-day, scenario-based program. Students work in teams and use problem-solving skills to successfully complete a geological survey on the Mars surface.
Dressed in specially-designed spacesuits, students depressurise in a simulated airlock before stepping out onto the Mars surface. They collect real soil and rock samples, drill an ice core, conduct a thermal survey and take seismic measurements.
Mission Control officers play an important role in the mission: they are responsible for the safety of the astronauts and the success of the scientific program. From Mission Control, students communicate with the astronauts via radio and direct their scientific investigations. Mission Control officers also monitor the environmental conditions on Mars and the systems of the space station, working together to solve problems as they arise.
After returning to Earth, students analyse their samples and undertake further scientific investigations in the research laboratory.
All students act as astronauts, mission controllers and research scientists during the full-day program. The program is aligned with the requirements of the Australian Curriculum and is supported by a pre-mission training package, including classroom activities, and a debriefing program after the mission concludes.


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(a) From the information given in the text, derive Eq. (25.37) for the square of the solar epicycle frequency.
(b). Show that Eq. (25.38) follows directly from Eq. (25.37).
FIGURE 25.37 The stellar velocity dispersion and rotational velocities of stars near the center of M31, measured along the major axis of the bulge. Given (he distance lo Andromeda of 770 kpc, 1" corresponds to a linear distance from the center of 3.7 pc. (Data from Bender et al., Ap. J., 631, 280, 2005.)


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Japanese swords, £18.00
Weight: 4.410 g
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Coins and Medals
Silver 2 reales coin of Philip V, mutilated for use in Dominica as 2 bitts
Issued in Spain, AD
Mutilated for use in Dominica, about 1770-72
A coin pierced officially for use in a British colony
The island of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean became a colony, firstly of France and then of Great Britain in the eighteenth century. Like other West Indian colonies, Dominica provided the colonial power with the important commodity, sugar. To work the sugar plantations the colonists needed labour, which was provided by the trade in slaves from Africa.
As the colonies had no coinage of their own, mutilated Spanish or Portuguese silver coins were used instead. These were either cut into segments, or a hole was stamped into them, which in the case of Dominica was heart-shaped.
This mutilation of the coins had a dual purpose: it identified the currency for use in the colony, and also reduced the weight of the silver in the coin, thereby discouraging the export of the coin from the island. The metal disks cut out of the coin (known as dumps) were also used as money in their own right.
F. Pridmore, The coins of the British Commo, Part 3: West Indies (London, Spink, 1965)


Similarities between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin
Topics: Battle, Military strategy, Operation Barbarossa Pages: 2 (413 words) Published: April 12, 2004
Hitler and Stalin: A Comparison
Both Hitler and Stalin were both military geniuses although their evils tend to heavily outweigh their good deeds. They were both expert propogandists and were amoral and willing to do whatever they could to better their country, they were also both quite paranoid and good strategists.
Their expert propoganda skills came into play to allow them to both attain and keep power. Hitler has been described as the world's greatest propogandist saying that he was nearly able to brainwash people with his words. Their propoganda skills were also the reason they were able to commit the atrocious acts they commited without being overthrown. It seems they were very smart to be able to control their people like this.
Another quality they both had in common was their complete and utter lack of morals. Hitler had no grief when he sent millions of Jews to concentration camps, nor did Stain feel any anguish as he killed thousands upon thousands of his fellow countrymen, both of these acts had another thing in common. They were both done for the good of the Mother/Fatherland. This shows that both men had extreme pride in their countries and would do literally anything to make them a stronger country although not necessarily a nicer place to live in.
Another similarity they had between them was their exteme paranoia, with Stalin eradicating most of his commanding officers shortly before WW2. Hitler was plagued with various mental illnesses and temporay spouts of blindness caused by a mustard gas injury he recieved in WW1. This caused Hitler to be quite suspicious of anyone.
While they were both very odd men, no one can say that were not extremely smart in the military operations, both of them running strong, effiecient militaries, which they used to conquer much of Europe, they were both quite found of infantry based warfare, Hitler invented the Blitzkrieg, or "lightning war" which he used to quickly capture a good chunk of Eureope....
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Waves propagate in solids in a very special way. The stiffness properties define the elastic properties in a specific crystal, either isotropic or anisotropic. Having each direction in the crystal differences in the stiffness constant with respect to others, they have also differences in the resistance or facility for flux energy passing. As a result of this the energy flux takes some preferred directions which are not always perpendicular to the source.
The slowness velocity graphs for crystals allows predict energy flux deviations and solve the wave reflection-refraction problems.
In order to generate these slowness velocity graphs, it is necessary to use the wave equations and the material properties of the crystals.
This project allows the user to generate the slowness surfaces in an excel application.
To apply specific course knowledge in a practical application (useful not only for personal learning process but also for any other person who wants to get involved).
To describe the application tool in an open user's manual guide included in this document.
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My great grandfather was apparently an illegitimate child, the oldest of the family, and it has been said that back in the day (1877, Scotland) it was common practice for such children to be raised by their fathers. Is this correct and what would be the reasoning behind it?
Interesting - I've just checked up in my copy of "Scottish Customs: From the Cradle to the Grave", by Margaret Bennett (Birlinn Ltd, 2004).
An interview with someone who emigrated from Scotland in the 1950s referred to what I thought standard practice would be (p.107) - the girl would have to go before the Kirk Session for public criticism. And there would be no public sympathy for her. Now I am sure that the normal position was that the man might also find himself in the same position - however, the interview in question describes the men getting off without any comeback or penalty. This clearly suggests they didn't have to bring the child up.
In the Annie Lennox episode of 'Who Do You Think You Are' (the UK version), an illegitimate child was definitely left with the mother.
But the interesting thing is that in the book, on p109, a 1774 document from Skye refers to the custom of handfasting. In this, it was the (alleged) custom of men of rank to take a year's trial of a wife. If mutual satisfaction followed, the marriage was deemed "good and lawful". But if either party insisted on a separation and a child had been conceived during that year, then the child was to be taken care of by the father and was to be ranked among his lawful children, next after his heirs. The child was not to be considered a bastard as the cohabitation was a custom intended to produce a good marriage.
I am as certain as I can be that the normal case was that the wrath of the Kirk Session would descend on both man and woman, with the man's subsequent contribution being a monetary one only. I am always slightly dubious about descriptions of customs like this handfasting and trial marriages, however, there does appear to be something at the root of this.
I would suggest that the "common" practice of the father raising the child, as described in the question was therefore not common at all, but that wherever and whenever handfasting took place then something very like the suggested practice did take place, giving rise to the suggestion.
In the realm of family history research, you will find a huge array of information that might become evidence for or against a claim. It can often be difficult to decide just how much weight to give to any particular piece.
Although this is a matter about which whole books have been written, there is simple rule of thumb upon which you can generally rely. Be VERY SCEPTICAL about any statement that begins with "It has been said that..." or "Great grandmother always believed that..."
The claims that follow such introductions are not always wrong, but should not be relied upon without locating independent documented corroboration.
In the case of your great grandfather, you seem to be describing the case of a boy in a family made up of his father, stepmother and half-siblings. There is certainly nothing strange in that. The best evidence of how his place in the family was regarded might be found in his father's Will.


Do antihistamines affect menstrual cycle?
Antihistamine does not affect the menstruation period.
What medications affect your menstrual cycle?
Many prescription and nonprescription medicines can affect the menstrual cycle. A few examples are: Aspirin and other medicines (called blood thinners) that prevent blood clots. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen (for example, Advil or Motrin) and naproxen (for example, Aleve).
Can allergies affect menstrual cycle?
May 25, 2005 — Women who suffer from asthma or allergies such as hay fever may be more likely to have irregular menstrual periods, according to a new study. Researchers say it's the first study to show that allergy and asthma are related to irregular periods.25 мая 2005 г.
What can interfere with menstrual cycle?
Certain medications can interfere with your menstrual cycle, including:
 - hormone replacement therapy.
 - blood thinners.
 - thyroid medications.
 - epilepsy drugs.
 - antidepressants.
 - chemotherapy drugs.
 - aspirin and ibuprofen.
Can a change in medication affect your period?
Although there's no conclusive link between your prescribed medication and your period, many medications can affect menstruation, so if you're taking other drugs, they may have had the effect you mention. Medications such as antidepressants, blood pressure pills, and even antibiotics can affect your periods.
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Do TSH levels fluctuate during menstrual cycle?
And stress, your diet, medications, and having your period can all make TSH fluctuate. TSH levels change inversely with how much thyroid hormone is in your body. Think of your pituitary gland as a thyroid thermometer: Abnormally high TSH levels usually mean that your thyroid is underperforming.
Does thyroid medication affect menstrual cycle?
Problems with your menstrual period.
Your thyroid helps control your menstrual cycle. Too much or too little thyroid hormone can make your periods very light, heavy, or irregular. Thyroid disease also can cause your periods to stop for several months or longer, a condition called amenorrhea.
Can menstrual cycle cause hives?
Autoimmune progesterone dermatitis (APD) is a condition in which the menstrual cycle is associated with a number of skin findings such as urticaria, eczema, angioedema, and others. In affected women, it occurs 3–10 days prior to the onset of menstrual flow, and resolves 2 days into menses.
Can Hormonal changes cause hives?
Hives Trigger #2: Hormone Imbalances
Hives are a type of inflammation, and could be a result of menopause nearing. Autoimmune diseases, such as thyroid disease, lupus, and celiac disease, can also cause hormone imbalances that lead to hives. If you suspect you have any of these conditions, speak to your doctor.
Can a man affect a woman menstrual cycle?
Do they have hormonal cycles too? Some hormones researchers say no; men don't cycle. Others say yes, but their cycles are less studied and less dramatic than women's.
Can belly fat cause irregular periods?
Rapid or significant weight changes have been shown to cause irregular periods, according to scientific research . Body fat affects the amount of estrogen your body produces. Women with more fat will produce more estrogen than women with less fat. This increase in estrogen can cause irregular, missed, or heavy periods.
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Does leap year affect menstrual cycle?
She concludes, "It's not generally associated with changes in menstrual cycles, but for women whose cycles happen at precisely the same time every month, an extra day would obviously change the date on which their cycle starts or finishes. That aside, though, 29 Feb is a day of magic."
Why does your period get delayed?
Your period is generally considered late once it's been at least 30 days since the start of your last period. Many things can cause this to happen, from routine lifestyle changes to underlying medical conditions. If your period is regularly late, make an appointment with your healthcare provider to determine the cause.
Can a bacterial infection cause delay in period?
As the infection spreads to the cells of the uterus, it can lead to problems with menstruation. The Office on Women's Health lists irregular menstrual cycles (like late periods) as one of the symptoms of PID. There are other symptoms associated with it too, like pelvic pain, fever, and pain during sex.
Does metformin affect your period?
Researchers concluded that metformin is indeed associated with improvements in menstrual cycle regularity and hormonal patterns in normal weight and overweight women with PCOS placed on metformin drug therapy for 24 months as all four BMI/testosterone subgroups demonstrated similar rates of achieving normal menses …
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This word search contains eighteen vocabulary words from Ch. 6-10 of Judy Blume's Superfudge.
There is no clip art, just a straight forward word search. This activity is always fun for a class competition or partner activity. This is also a great activity for substitute teachers!
There is no key; you get to complete the word search with your students!
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Economic development creates opportunities to grow state, local and metro areas, which are essential for economic growth, improved quality of life and community development. nuclear weapons articles below.
Representing the majority of Maryland's population and economy, six counties will work together with each other and federal and state partners towards regional initiatives and COVID-19 economic recovery.
Located in the heart of Chicago's prestigious northern suburbs, Wheeling is a diverse and dynamic community of 40,000 people, distinguished by its unique balance of industry, commercial development, and residential neighborhoods.
On March 9, 1945 the Georgia Legislature, anticipating the post-World War II economic boom, created the Georgia Ports Authority, with control over the deepwater ports in both Savannah and Brunswick. Today, the Port of Savannah is the fastest-growing and single largest container terminal in the country, accounting for nearly 10% of Georgia's economy.


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The VisioNize® sense add-on works seamlessly with eLabInventory
The VisioNize sense kit includes an environmental monitoring sensor that measures ambient temperature, humidity, pressure & light, and a PT-100 extension that can measure the temperature of any device (including ULT freezers) within the range of +60 to -90 °C. The gateway router routes the collected parameter data to VisioNize Lab Suite and the data is collected in your eLabInventory module.
The VisioNize sense add-on offers a flexible way to visualize temperature data to monitor and protect the integrity of your samples.
Get connected to VisioNize® Lab Suite & go beyond sample safety
The laboratory of today relies on digitization at every step of the experiment workflow. Although digitization offers improved management of data, mistakes cannot always be avoided. Even the smallest change in temperature can affect the quality of a sample; therefore, notification and monitoring systems are necessary not only for sample safety but also to maintain confidence in your lab data.
VisioNize sense captures, records, and transfers any and all changes in your environmental conditions. The easy-to-install sensor system doesn't require special IT skills. Now, with the VisioNize sense add-on, users may retrieve relevant sensor monitoring data without the added step of logging into the VisioNize Lab Suite from Eppendorf.
The VisioNize sense add-on is available free of charge in the eLab Marketplace.


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Thick haze from forest fires in Indonesia is choking neighboring Malaysia's Johor state, where hazardous air quality prompted authorities to temporarily shut some schools in the southern state.
While Malaysia and Singapore are no strangers to haze from raging forest fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island, pollution levels this year have reached new highs and could strain relations between the Southeast Asian countries.
Muar, a town off Malaysia's southwestern coast across the narrow Strait of Malacca, was hit hard by pollution from the fires. The Air Pollutant Index rose to 383 at 11 a.m. local time (0300 GMT), Malaysia's Department of Environment said. The level is well into the hazardous range, which begins at 301, and schools in the town could remain closed until Monday.
Other towns in Johor state were also shrouded in haze. Air quality in Kota Tinggi was in the very unhealthy range Thursday with an API reading of 232 at 11 a.m. local time. Pasir Gudang and Larkin Lama in Johor also reported unhealthy air quality, as did Melaka town and Bukit Rambai in Melaka state. An API reading of 101 to 200 is categorized as unhealthy.
Malaysia's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Thursday said data from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' Specialized Meteorological Centre showed that hotspots on Sumatra remained high at 173 on Wednesday.
The director-general of Malaysia's Department of Environment expressed concerns about the forest fires to her Indonesian counterpart Wednesday and urged Indonesia to take immediate measures to douse the flames, while Singapore's environment minister urged Indonesia to take "definitive action" after pollution levels topped a high last seen in 1997.
Indonesia is the only member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that hasn't ratified a 2002 agreement on reducing haze pollution, and Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Social Welfare Agung Laksono appears to be happy with efforts to extinguish the fires.
"From 850 hectares, we have managed to put out the fire in 650 hectares of peatland" in Riau province, central Sumatra, Mr. Laksano said Thursday.
Smog in neighboring Singapore worsened to the highest on record Thursday, with the city-state's three-hour Pollutant Standards Index rising to a hazardous level of 371. Reduced visibility prompted the city-state's Changi Airport to increase the allotted space between departing and landing aircraft, although flights haven't been disrupted.
Over in Malaysia, afternoon classes at schools in Muar were suspended while students who were already in schools weren't allowed to step out. Schools will remain closed Friday and could reopen Monday if air quality improves, Mohd Nor A Ghani, Johor's director of education, told The Wall Street Journal.
"We've instructed students to remain at the hostels and face masks may be distributed to all teachers and students," an administrative officer at Chung Hwa boarding school in Johor state said. Malacca's state government also urged all schools to reduce outdoor activities.
Although Kuala Lumpur's skies remained clear Thursday and the API reading in the capital's Cheras area was in the moderate range, concerns over the haze prompted the Olympic Council of Malaysia to postpone Sunday's Olympic Day Run, which has attracted 14,600 participants.
"We will now probably have [this event] in September, after the Muslim festival of Hari Raya," said Olympic Council of Malaysia honorary secretary Sieh Kok Chi.
Since the 1980s, the haze has become an annual hazard for Malaysia and Singapore during the dry season of June to September, when monsoon winds carry smoke from burning forests and peat in Sumatra.
–Celine Fernandez contributed to this article.


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Does the shape beams make when they come together make a difference in their strength? Beams in civil engineering have an important role to play in ensuring a building or bridge stands up, supports the weight it should, and doesn't bend or collapse under normal use. In this week's family science project, students and families use popsicle sticks and binder clips to investigate the relationship between the shape of trusses in a building and their strength.
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To promote understanding and awareness of the importance of agriculture. Our educational programs provide a wealth of opportunities for embedding agriculture, food and natural resources education into the K-12 classroom. MAITC seeks to improve student achievement by applying authentic agricultural examples to teach core curriculum concepts in science, social studies, language arts, math and nutrition. These programs cultivate an understanding and appreciation of the food and fiber system that we all rely on every day.
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Why do most basement floor coverings periodically need to be replaced? It's because of the concrete and the moisture. Concrete is porous and damp. Moisture and dampness migrate up through the concrete and get trapped beneath carpet, tile, wood, linoleum and paint, not allowing for normal evaporation to dry things out. This results in mold and mildew forming beneath carpeting, tiles becoming loose, and paint blistering and peeling. Nature Stone is designed to breathe allowing evaporation to take place naturally and eliminating these common problems.


text: The state-of-the-art infrared (IR) photodetectors are either thermal detectors (bolometers) or quantum detectors (photovoltaic and photoconductive detectors). Compared to quantum IR photodetectors, IR bolometers are slower and less sensitive but in turn, they offer lower cost without need for cooling and exotic materials (e.g. HgCdTe). Phonon/photon engineered materials offer interesting routes for enhancing room-temperature IR bolometers. We have recently demonstrated experimentally a nano-thermoelectric bolometer for long-wave IR detection. The technology utilizes efficient thermoelectric transducers based on silicon nanomembranes, which have an enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit arising from the low thermal conductivity stemming from the nano-scale thickness. For the absorption of the IR radiation the nano-thermoelectric bolometer utilizes a nanomembrane based quarter-wave resistive absorber, which is also known as the Salisbury screen. The use of nanomembranes in both the thermoelectric transducer and the absorber results in a very small thermal mass, and thereby high speed for the detector. In this article, we present an analytical model for quarter-wave resistive absorbers (i.e. Salisbury screens). It can be applied both in radio frequency (RF) and optical applications. The results of the analytical model are compared with the ones obtained with the transfer-matrix method using the optical material data available in the literature. We present also a device model of the nano-thermoelectric IR detector and estimate the full performance of this technology.


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What are volunteer plants?
Volunteer plants are those that come up in the garden with no effort on your part. They germinate from seeds dropped by flowers in previous years or seeds can arrive stuck to the fur and skin of small animals.
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Vines can be fragrant, colorful, fruiting, attract hummingbirds and butterflies. They can be ground covers and provide privacy and shade. They are truly multifunctional. Many people don't realize that there are two distinctive types of vines.
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A plant is called a volunteer when it grows in an area it wasn't planted. These can either be desirable or undesirable plants.
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Trees grow independently whereas vines find a host plant, frame, fence, wall and attach themselves with tendrils. I have seen many instances where vines can strangle the host tree by wrapping around the trunk. As the vine grows thicker is squeezes the trunk which eventually strangles in inner layer we call cambium.
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A volunteer plant of any type is a plant that grows somewhere you did not intentionally plant or seed it. … When you see a tomato plant sprout somewhere you didn't plant it, you may be tempted to keep it and let it grow. There are some good reasons to do so, like harvesting more tomatoes later.
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Milwr Tunnel is a mine drainage adit extending 10 miles from Cadole near Loggerheads, Denbighshire to Bagillt on the Dee Estuary in North Wales.
The tunnel outfall is located approximately 100m inland from the banks of the River Dee and water flows to the Dee via a 18m wide 6m deep natural channel.
Erosion had occurred around the existing outfall structure and to the northwest bank in the vicinity of a piped outfall. The effect was to deepen the natural channel and undermine the outfall structure and adjacent public footpaths.
PaSCoE were commissioned by Eric Wright Civil Engineering to provide a permanent solution to stabilise the outfall and to reinstate the channel and surrounding land. The solution comprised a new retaining wall extension to the existing wingwall, a new outfall pipe, and erosion protection in the form of Rip-Rap to the channel.
The work area was within a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and a Special Area of Conservation (SAC). Therefore the proposed scheme had to minimise the effect to the local mud flats and blend with the existing environment. Varying sizes of riprap were designed to channel the flow out into the estuary and the surrounding embankment was re-profiled and reinstated.
It was not possible to divert the flow from the tunnel entrance to undertake the remedial works. Therefore PaSCoE designed a novel temporary works solution which involved the addition of a temporary chute to outfall the water outside the working area; which allowed the void below the tunnel to be grouted and a new concrete apron installed.


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Penalties for Inaccuracies: Calculating the penalty: Potential Lost Revenue: Example of allocating overstatements to PLR
You must check the date from which these rules apply for the tax or duty you are dealing with. See You must check the date from which these rules apply for the tax or duty you are dealing with. See for full details.
This example shows how to allocate overstatements against understatements using the stepped approach set out in CH82270.
As a result of a compliance check you establish
- understatements of tax totalling £80,000
- overstatements of the same tax in the same tax period totalling £50,000 (Step 1).
The overstatements are allocated in the following order.
|Nature of inaccuracy*||Amount (Step 2)||Overstatement allocated (Step 3)|
|Inaccuracy despite taking reasonable care||£10,000||(£10,000)|
|Deliberate and concealed||£35,000||(£ 5,000)|
So the net understatement on the return is £30,000.
This order leaves £5,000 of the overstatement to be set against the 'deliberate and concealed' understatement of £35,000, resulting in a penalty for an inaccuracy that is deliberate and concealed to be calculated on PLR of £30,000 (£35,000 - £5000).
*These could be single inaccuracies or grouped inaccuracies, see CH82200.


text: In this paper we propose two solution methods that can effectively handle the multifunction worker assignment problem in U-shaped production lines under the strategy of man-hour reduction applied by Lean Production Systems. This particular man-machine assignment problem aims at minimizing the number of workers within a certain cycle time. The two procedures proposed utilize the spacefilling curve technique as a means to visit all machines without violating the zone constraint minus; machines must be allocated in such a way that the walking routes of any two workers are not crossed. Computational experiments show that both algorithms perform well at determining the minimal workforce required to run a production line under certain parameters -walking times, machine operating times and cycle time. The model is deterministic, i.e., all parameters are assumed to be known with certainty.


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This study is based on monthly Be deposition data at 29 of the stations of Romania's National Environmental Radioactivity Surveillance Network (NERSN), with different geographical and climatological conditions, extending over periods up to 17 years (_PHONE_). The Be activity in each monthly sample from each station was determined using high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometry performed at the Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory, Bucharest-Afumati. The annual dynamics of atmospheric deposition of Be at each NERSN station showed a strong seasonal trend, very similar to the precipitation regime, with the highest values being observed in spring/summer and the lowest in winter. Read More


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Introducing Static Driver Verifier
Static Driver Verifier (SDV) is a static verification tool that runs at compile time. It explores paths in the driver code by symbolically executing the source code, making the fewest possible assumptions about the state of the operating system and the initial state of the driver. As a result, SDV can exercise code in paths that are missed in traditional testing.
SDV includes a set of rules that define proper interaction between a driver and the operating system kernel. During verification, SDV examines every applicable branch of the driver code and the library code that it uses, and tries to prove that the driver violates the rules. If SDV fails to prove a violation, it reports that the driver complies with the rules and passes the verification.
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How do I delete a road in InfraWorks?
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- Checkmark any proposals or resources that you want to publish with the model.
How do I delete a model in InfraWorks?
From InfraWorks Home: Hover over the model's tile to display , the icon for deleting the model. Click .
Deleting from Manage Online Models:
- Click to display a horizontal menu.
- Click to open Manage Online Models and Scenarios dialog.
- Select the model and Click Delete .
How do I import 3D models into InfraWorks?
Do one of the following: Drag and drop the model file onto the InfraWorks window. Click Manage Content .
To import 3D models
- Click (Add File Data Source).
- Click 3D Model.
- Open the model file. InfraWorks supports FBX, IMX, 3DS, OBJ, DAE, and DXF files.
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To add Autodesk Civil 3D data to an InfraWorks Model
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BACKGROUND: The developmental relationships between executive functions (EF) and early language skills are unclear. This study explores the longitudinal relationships between children's early EF and language skills in a sample of children with a wide range of language abilities including children at risk of dyslexia. In addition, we investigated whether these skills independently predict children's attention/behaviour skills. METHOD: Data are presented from 243 children at four time points. Children were selected for being at risk of reading difficulties either because of a family history of dyslexia (FR; N = 90) or because of concerns regarding their language development (LI; N = 79) or as typically developing controls (TD; N = 74). The children completed tasks to assess their executive function and language skills at ages 4, 5 and 6 years. At 6 (T4) and 7 years (T5) parents and teachers rated the children's attention/behaviour skills. RESULTS: There was a strong concurrent relationship between language and EF at each assessment. Longitudinal analyses indicated a considerable degree of stability in children's language and EF skills: the influence of language on later EF skills (and vice versa) was weak and not significant in the current sample. Children's EF, but not language, skills at T3 predicted attention/behaviour ratings at T4/T5. CONCLUSIONS: There is a strong concurrent association between language and EF skills during the preschool and early school years, when children with language impairment show persistent EF deficits. Latent variables measuring language and EF show high longitudinal stability with little evidence of significant or strong reciprocal influences between these constructs. EF, but not language, skills predict later ratings of children's attention and behaviour.
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Executive function, development, family risk of dyslexia, language impairment, language skills, longitudinal, Attention, Child, Child Behavior, Child, Preschool, Executive Function, Female, Humans, Language Development, Male, Schools


Scottish Ghillie Brogues by Thistle Shoes
Shoemaker Thistle Scottish Brogues
The origins of Ghillie Brogues stretch back through Scottish history. A'Ghillie' was an indispensable assistant to a Highland chief – carrying hunting rifles or fishing rods. On occasion, he even carried his employer.
Ghillies walked and walked….through the bogs, rivers, bracken, and heather. They scaled the highlands or scrambled through the lowlands. If walking was hard on a man, it was worse for his footwear.
Ghillie Brogues were designed for the work of a Ghillie. A patterned network of fine holes punched in the shoe leather called 'brogueing' allowed any water to drain while walking. Originally, the laces were above the ankle so the shoes wouldn't get stuck in the mud. Thistle Shoes of Scotland makes Ghillie Brogues as they have always been made. Tough as nails – but with a heart of gold. Not unlike the people for whom they're named.
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Why call the company "Thistle Shoes? In the Middle Ages, the Scots and the Norsemen were at war. King Haakon of Norway and his men landed at the Coast of Largs at night intent on surprising their Scottish foe. Removing their boots, they crept on bare feet towards the Scottish army. Then one of the attackers stepped on the sharp spines of a Scots thistle. The yell he made at this unwelcome assault on his feet alerted the Scots who drove the attackers from their shore.


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Mobility, muscular strength and endurance in the cervical spine in Swedish air force pilots
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Author list: Alricsson, Marie;Schüldt, Kristina
Publication year: 2001
Start page: 336
End page: 342
Number of pages: 7
ISSN: 0095-6562
PURPOSE: Muscle strength, endurance and range of movement of the cervical spine in a group of Swedish Air Force jet pilots (AF) and in a reference group of conscripts doing their military service (RG) were compared. METHODS: We tested 30 (AF) 24-42 yr and 33 (RG) 19-22 yr. A questionnaire was used to document complaints. Maximum voluntary isometric muscle strength of the flexor and extensor muscles of the cervical spine and sub-maximum isometric endurance in the flexor and extensor muscles were measured. RESULTS: Eleven AF (37%) and four RG (12%) had experienced discomfort in the neck within the previous year. The pilots flexor and extensor muscle strength (47 Nm and 65 Nm) was superior to that of the conscripts (36 Nm and 59 Nm) (p = 0.0001, p = < 0.05, respectively). However, the RG group had greater isometric endurance in the flexor muscles than AF (p = < 0.05) and greater neck rotation (p = <0.005). There was no difference between the two groups in the other variables. CONCLUSION: Differences between the groups with regard to muscle strength and endurance might depend on variations in work-related physical muscle strain, and/or differences in fiber composition in the muscles, which might be reflected by pilot selection procedures.
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Executive: Chuang-lin Fang
This project takes the Hexi Corridor in the arid area of northwest China as a case and the water resources restriction as the precondition, aiming at the coupling mechanism of the urbanization process and the eco-environment change process which follows the laws of human and nature respectively. As the basic research on the threat mechanism between them is weak, this project takes it as an important task. By the system integration method and the RS & GIS technology, the forcing factors of the threat between the water resources change process and the urbanization process were decided. The threat mechanism and laws which the water resources change gives the urbanization process were found out. The ecological effects which are caused by the urbanization process and are related to water resources were analyzed. Based on the above, the urbanization processes restricted by different water resources constraint intensity were dynamically simulated, and the ecological costs of different urbanization mode were forecasted. This can be taken as the scientific decision base which gives directions to the choice of urbanization mode and the construction of urban system in arid area. Therefore, this project has an important theoretic meaning to choose the urban development mode, accelerate the urbanization process, improve the eco-environment, and realize the comparatively well-off living standard in the arid area of northwest China.