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1. The continuing doubt concerning the value of vasoconstrictive therapy for gastrointestinal bleeding may be related to the complexity of clinical trials in such a situation.
2. The effect of SM 201–995, a somatostatin analogue, was investigated in conscious cirrhotic rats before, during and after experimental bleeding from the portal territory.
3. Before haemorrhage, somatostatin analogue (8 μg h−1 kg−1 body weight, intravenously) produced a significant decrease in portal pressure (17%), whereas a placebo (saline) lacked significant effect.
4. The rats were then subjected to spontaneous bleeding, by disconnection of the portal catheter from the pressure gauge, for a 5 min period. At the end of the haemorrhage, haemodynamic parameters did not significantly differ between the group receiving somatostatin analogue and that receiving placebo.
5. Fifteen minutes after the end of the bleeding period, portal pressure was significantly lower in rats receiving somatostatin analogue [8.5 ± 0.5 mmHg (1.13 ± 0.07 kPa), mean ± sem] than in rats receiving placebo [11.0 ± 1.1 mmHg (1.50 ± 0.15 kPa)].
6. The volume of blood lost and mortality were significantly lower in the group treated with somatostatin analogue (2.3 ± 0.1 ml/100 g body weight and 8%, respectively) than in the group receiving placebo (3.0 ± 0.1 ml/100 g body weight and 50%, respectively).
7. These results demonstrate, in an experimental model, the beneficial effect of somatostatin analogue for the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding due to portal hypertension. They suggest that administration of this substance should be started as soon as possible after the beginning of haemorrhage and continued after the cessation of bleeding.


Phuket Pronunciation: How do you pronounce Phuket?
How to pronounce Phuket or Phucket or Puket or Pooket
Here is an unexpected funny question I get often:
How do you pronounce Phuket?
For most of us, it's obvious, so obvious I'm still surprised when someone asks. I thought 2004 tsunami put Phuket and its name on the map once for all. But not… I still hear lots of hesitation, snickering and giggling. Lately some overseas offices called and asked if my residence was in:
"Fooc..." (hesitates)... "Fuuc... " (errrr...) "Faac...kit"? (giggles).
I couldn't help but giggle back at the embarrassed tone, the poor guy wanted to say the 'F' word so bad...
No sir, you just pronounce 'Poo-ket' [pʰuːkɛt] (in Thai: ภูเก็ต), it's that simple! Just like 'Phi Phi' is pronounced 'Pee Pee' and 'Phang Nga' is 'Pang Nga' (and strangely 'Suvarnabhumi' airport is pronounced "Sue-wanna-poom"!)
Phuket or Phucket or Puket or Pooket, you name it...
So where does 'Phuket' come from? It seems to originate from the Malay 'Bukit' (Book it?) which means 'hill', but was previously named 'Thalang' by locals. Thalang is still the name of the north of the island where the original main town was long ago.
In the 17th century when tin mining made Phuket very attractive to the Occident, Europeans called it 'Jungceylon'. Yes that's the origin of the name given to the giant Jungceylon Shopping Mall in Patong, and looking around the shopping center reveals few hints about old Phuket. If you want to know more about Phuket history, you can visit the Tin Mine Museum in Kathu.
All this story is obviously a lame excuse to post these fun photos showing some of Phuket Streets and buildings in the past and how they look like today :-D
Phuket History Photos


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Spanish Point, in Osprey, Florida, is an historic site and museum preserving some of the life and death of indigenous people who lived in the area over five thousand years ago, the pioneer settlers, the early developers, and the native plants, and the coastal landscape. It makes for an interesting mix along the walking tour.
This is the pioneer cemetery for the Webb family who arrived in the 1860's. The land juts into the Gulf of Mexico and is raised by a large burial ground and shell middons that were created by the detritus of daily life from earlier inhabitants thousands of years ago. Graves on top of graves. The fuzzy looking log is covered with resurrection fern. When it rains, the ferns turn a bright green.
A glimpse of the packing house, where the Webb family who farmed this area for many years packed the citrus fruit for shipping:
The dock from the packing house:
Mangroves in the cove:
A gnarly tree near the old boat yard.
Farming must have been fairly good to the Webbs. One of the children built this house with her husband. It has been restored to reflect it 'pioneer' flavor. It was built in 1901 and the couple rented rooms to early snow birds--winter residents.

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Palm Springs, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final rule Wednesday protecting Casey's June beetle as an endangered species and designating 587 acres of critical habitat for it in Riverside County, Calif. Known only from the Palm Canyon area of Palm Springs, the beetle is critically endangered by urban development. The Center for Biological Diversity, entomologist David Wright and the Sierra Club petitioned to protect the beetle in 2004. Wednesday's final rule is the result of a landmark legal settlement between the Center and the Service that will expedite protection for 757 imperiled species across the country.
"We're excited that this unique California beetle now has the Endangered Species Act protection it needs to survive," said Tierra Curry, a biologist with the Center. "Endangered Species Act protection with critical habitat designation is the most effective tool we have for saving species from extinction."
Once thought to occur from Palm Springs to Indian Wells in the Coachella Valley, the species now survives in only two populations in a small area in the southern part of Palm Springs. Remaining habitat consists of just 800 acres scattered in nine isolated fragments, primarily on private lands, and is actively shrinking due to the rapid pace of development.
"Clearly, habitat protection is the most important conservation measure for the Casey's June beetle," said Curry. "This announcement recognizes the dire straits of this scarab beetle, which is found nowhere else in the world, and gives it the habitat protection it needs to continue to exist."
Background on the Species
Casey's June beetles are medium-sized June beetles (June beetles are named after their tendency to fly in late spring evenings), about one to two inches long, and dusty brown or whitish with longitudinal stripes. Their reddish-brown antennae are clubbed, as is common in scarab beetles, with ends consisting of a series of leaf-like plates that can be held together or fanned out to sense scents. Adults emerge from holes in the ground to mate in late March through June. Females have rarely been found, and always on the ground rather than in flight. Males fly swiftly over the ground from about one hour before dusk to shortly after dark to look for females.
Contact Info: Tierra Curry, _PHONE_
Website : Center for Biological Diversity

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Friday, August 9, 2019
Calibration metrics added to ENMTools R package
Given our recent paper on how badly discrimination accuracy performs at selecting models that estimate ecological phenomena, the obvious next question is whether there are existing alternatives that do a better job. The answer is an emphatic YES; calibration seems to be a much more useful method of selecting models for most purposes.
This is obviously not the first time that calibration has been recommended for species distribution models; Continuous Boyce Index (CBI) was developed for this purpose (Boyce et al. 2002, Hirzel et al. 2006), Phillips and Elith (2010) demonstrated the utility of POC plots for assessing and recalibrating models, and Jiménez-Valverde et al. (2013) argued convincingly that calibration was more useful for model selection than discrimination for many purposes. However, discrimination accuracy still seems to be the primary method people use for evaluating species distribution models.
A forthcoming simulation study by myself, Marianna Simões, Russell Dinnage, Linda Beaumont, and John Baumgartner is demonstrating exactly how stark the difference between discrimination and calibration is when it comes to model selection; calibration metrics are largely performing fairly well, while discrimination accuracy is actively misleading for many aspects of model performance. The differences we're seeing are sufficiently stark that I would go so far as to recommend against using discrimination accuracy for model selection for most practical purposes.
We're writing this study up right now, and in the interests of moving things forward as quickly as possible we'll be submitting it to biorXiv ASAP - likely within the next week or two. As part of that study, though, I've implemented a number of calibration metrics for ENMTools models, including expected calibration error (ECE), maximum calibration error (MCE), and CBI. We did not implement Hosmer-Lemeshow largely because ECE is calculated in a very similar way as HL and can be used in statistical tests in much the same way, but scales more naturally (a perfect model has an ECE of 0). In our simulation study we found that ECE was the best performing metric for model selection by far, so for now that's what I personally will be using.
Fairly soon we'll integrate the calibration metrics into all of the model construction functions (e.g., enmtools.glm, enmtools.maxent, etc.). For now though, you can get calibration metrics and plots just by using the enmtools.calibrate function.
That will give you two different flavors of ECE and MCE as well as CBI and some diagnostic plots. ECE and MCE calculations are done using the CalibratR package (Schwarz and Heider 2018), and CBI is calculated using functions from ecospat (DiCola et al. 2017).
Boyce, M.S., Vernier, P.R., Nielsen, S.E., and Schmiegelow, F.K.A. 2002. Evaluating resource selection functions. Ecological Modeling 157:281-300)
Hirzel, A.H., Le Lay, G., Helfer, V., Randon, C., and Guisan, A. 2006. Evaluating the ability of habitat suitability models to predict species presences. Ecological Modeling 199:142-152.
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 1. Hi Dan, this is all fantastic work and I cannot wait for the next paper to come by. I would like to ask, though, how does the selection criterias fit into all this? Are AICc or BIC still relevant in today's context of model selection (for example during the tuning of MaxEnt parameters)? Especially seeing how a couple of papers have recently raised a few issues with using AICc (Peterson et al., 2018; Velasco & González-Salazar, 2019).
 TL:DR what are your thoughts on AICc?
 Thank you!
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 2. Hi there! Sorry for the slow reply; I was on holiday.
 My feelings about information criterion-based model selection for Maxent are a bit complicated, as we know that it's wrong at some level because of the disconnect between the number of parameters and the effective degrees of freedom, and yet simulation studies show that it can work better than Maxent's default behavior at selecting optimal model complexity. Obviously these concerns don't apply so much to GLM/GAM models though, so AICc in general I think is still pretty solid despite those concerns.
 It's worth noting that many of the other studies in this area (including the Velasco & González-Salazar one, but I can't recall about the Peterson et al. one) are evaluating how well the selected models predict binary presence/absence, while Seifert and I were looking at how well selected models predicted the continuous suitability scores. The fact that we get different answers on the performance of AICc at model selection may be entirely due to how we're evaluating what a "good" model is based on our simulations; as my recent paper with Matzke and Iglesias reinforces, there may be little connection between a model that makes good distributions predictions and one that actually predicts the relative suitability of habitat well.
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 1. Thank you so much for your reply!
 This question may be answered in your paper to come, but I really want to hear your general thoughts as well. With how your thoughts on AICc is mixed, given the disconnect with certain parameters of MaxEnt, would you simple outs AICc and simply stick to using ECE when building SDM models for ecological studies? Or would you have a sort of consider all metrics method, like how some papers now try to balance AUC AICc and OR for when selecting a model.
 There is just so much going on in the methods and I am unsure on what the best approach should be. Just any general advice would be great! I just really wanted a peak into your outlook on SDMs.
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 2. Actually in the new round of sims ECE isn't coming out so well either, at least on raw model outputs. We're tweaking our approach there, though, and it might get a lot better once we get that sorted. What we were thinking was going to be one paper is now looking like two at the very least.
 At the moment we're finding that continuous Boyce index is the most reliable calibration metric, and some of our new env space discrimination metrics are working way better than geographic space discrimination metrics as well. When your goal is to estimate the niche, that is. Even if nothing else comes out of this, the message "choose your metrics to suit your model's application" is a big take-home.
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 3. Oh wow, that sounds tough and great at the same time. Thank so much for your input! Really looking forward for those papers, really inspired by your work. Good luck with ECE!
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 3. Hi Dan, very interesting post!
 I have a couple questions.
 The getMCE function of the CalibratR library asks for two arguments: actual (vector of observed class labels (0/1)) and predicted (vector of uncalibrated predictions).
 How do I get the vector of observed class labels (0/1)?
 How do I vector of uncalibrated predictions?
 Best regards,
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the Cache Server. Because of this, you might get different results when importing with and without the Cache Server.
Don't modify materials that already exist on disk from an Asset postprocessor because if you download an fbx file through the cache server, then there is no import process running for it. So if you rely on resetting the generated materials to some generated defaults every time the model importer runs, then this Asset postprocessor will not be run when importing a cached fbx file.
Are there any Asset types which are not cached by the server?
There are a few kinds of Asset data which the server doesn't cache. There isn't really anything to be gained by caching script files, so the server ignores them. Also, native files used by 3D modeling software (Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, etc) are converted to FBX using the application itself. The Asset server does not cache the native file nor the intermediate FBX file generated in the import process. However, it is possible to benefit from the server, by exporting files as FBX from the modeling software and then adding those to the Unity project.
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2011 Wastewater Reuse Survey Results
In 2011, the Center for the Management, Utilization and Protection of Water Resources and the Tennessee Department of Enviroment and Conservation (TDEC) distributed the sixth annual survey of Tennessee wastewater treatment utilities (only those that are legally allowed to handle 0.1 million of gallons or more of water per day [mgd]) to find out which ones were using water conservation and water reuse practices. A survey like this is important to Tennessee as it faces strong pressures on its water resources from human use, and the 2011 results are below.
You may also view the results from TDEC's website at _URL_ The wastewater reuse survey is found in the "Helpful Links" box in the bottom right corner.
This table shows the number of facilities that reuse water in each TDEC Environmental Field Office District. It also shows how the treated wastewater was used within each district (how many golf courses, schools and parks were irrigated with it, etc.). Note: None of the facilities used the treated wastewater for residence irrigation, park irrigation, school irrigation, public access irrigation, edible crops, or groundwater recharge and indirect reuse.
|TDEC Environ. Field Office||No. of Reuse Systems||Area of Golf Courses Irrigated||Area of Grass, Pasture, Other Crops Irrigated|
|2011 Total||3||154 acres||10 acres|
The following table summarizes the way reuse water was used among the systems that practiced the technique. It also includes the number of reuse systems, flow and area for each reuse type. The facilities did not report their capacities in this section.
|Reuse Type||Number of Systems||
| Area Acres
Public Access Areas &
|Golf Course Irrigation||1||1.5||0.50||154|
|Other Public Access Areas||0|
Ground Water Recharge
|Rapid Infiltration Basins||0|
|Surface Water Augmentation||0|
|At Treatment Plant||0|
|At Other Facilities||0|
|Other Uses (Effluent Land Application)||0||0.4||N/A|
a drainfield, including the applicaton/distribution system, intended for the reuse of reclaimed water.
Indirect Potable Reuse
for these purposes, the planned discharge of reclaimed water to surface waters to augment the supply of water available for drinking and other uses.
Contact information for the systems that practice water reuse is below.
|Reuse System Name||County||Contact Person/Title||Address|
|Cartwright CreekArrington Retreat||Williamson||Bruce Meyer||1551 Thompsons Station Rd. W., Thompsons
Station, TN 37179
|King's Creek Golf Course||Maury||Travis Massey||
3893 Mahlon Moore Rd.
|Sewanee Utility District||Franklin||Ben Beavers||150 Sherwood Rd., P.O. Box 3211
Sewanee, TN 37375


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Vietnamese Pond Turtle Mauremys annamensis refound in wild by scientists after 65 years
20 December 2006 | News story
Efforts to find the Vietnamese pond turtle, Mauremys annamensis, last officially recorded in the wild in 1941, yielded a major success last week when a young female turtle was successfully trapped by biologists in central Vietnam. Although specimens have occasionally been observed in wildlife trade, it had not been seen in the wild by scientists for 65 years.
In April of 2006 the Asian Turtle Program, a conservation partnership that includes the IUCN SSC Turtle Survival Alliance, carried out its fourth major survey in central Vietnam aimed at identifying a site where a wild population of Vietnamese pond turtles might survive. During the April survey, local residents in a small community not too far from historic Hoi An (Quang Nam province) produced several live specimens that they had reportedly caught locally. Subsequent interviews with other residents in the community and a local turtle hunter suggested that the pond turtles could still be found seasonally in local streams and a small lake complex.
In late November, a field team led by Tim McCormack and Nguyen Xuan Thuan revisited the community to complete a project feasibility assessment, in preparation for a site-based project planned by the Asian Turtle Program that would include active conservation measures aimed at protecting turtles at the site, and establishment of a monitored release and head-start initiative at an appropriate site in the area utilizing turtles born at the Cuc Phuong Turtle Conservation Center. During the assessment, several traps were tested in the local lake complex, and after three days of trapping, a single specimen was recovered from one of the traps.
Although specimens have been observed in the trade and being kept in local communities, such observations have become less frequent in recent years, which is most likely an indication of reduced numbers in the wild. The Vietnamese pond turtle's lowland habitat is also under tremendous pressure from agricultural expansion, aquaculture, and development.
While hunters have clearly had little difficulty finding Vietnamese pond turtles in the wild, the field team's finding clearly is the first known documented record for Mauremys annamensis, captured within its habitat, since 1941.
The Asian Turtle Program wishes to thank the Human Society International and the German Ministry of Environment for their generous support.
IUCN SSC Turtle Survival Alliance
For further information please contact:
Asian Turtle Program, Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel. 84 (0)4-_PHONE_ Email: _EMAIL_
Visit the Asian Turtle Conservation Network website: _URL_


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6 Tips to Use HipChat While Still Getting Things Done
Stefan Kleineikenscheidt
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On April 11, 2017 about teamwork hipchat
We started using HipChat a few years ago and it has been working like a charm – no wonder chat apps like Slack and HipChat are experiencing tremendous growth. While live chat helps us keep pace in an environment of fast-moving projects and teams, it can also be a source of constant distraction: detrimental when you need to get things done. Jason Fried of Basecamp sums it up nicely: "Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda."
I'll gladly share a few habits I've developed that help me and the K15t Software team stay focused and get things done.
 This blog post is based on a lightning talk I gave at K15t Software to share best practices about how to work with HipChat. That is why the following tips feature HipChat-specific examples. Of course, the basic principles behind these examples also apply to other chat apps.
Chatting doesn't replace talking
They may appear to be the digital equivalent to having a conversation by the water cooler, but chat apps shouldn't replace real-life discussions.
Compared to real conversations,
 - your attention isn't completely fixed on the person you are talking to
 - you spend time typing what you want to communicate, which is slower than talking
 - you don't hang around until you get a response, unless it's within a couple of seconds
 - you receive message notifications
 - it's completely realistic to follow three or four (maybe even more) conversations simultaneously
 - you can follow discussions you are not really a part of
when using HipChat. Chat communication doesn't flow: it starts and stops suddenly, is interrupted, and can be picked up again hours later. That is why chats have the potential to continuously disrupt our work and break our concentration.
In order to avoid distracting noise you need to use HipChat to send and receive quick, brief, and informal information – not to have conversations or discussions.
Sending with others in mind
Even if you use HipChat to send quick, brief, and informal information, sending always carries the risk of potentially distracting people. Perhaps you've used HipChat to quickly jot down a question and immediately sent it to a colleague instead of waiting because you wanted to make sure you don't forget – I certainly have. Or maybe colleagues have complained about receiving too many distracting messages and you thought "just ignore them until there is time to respond." In principle this is true but the following also applies:
The more information you produce, the harder it gets to identify what is relevant.
These tips can help you send only relevant information in order to keep everyone's productivity-groove going.
Tip #1: Think twice before sending
Do you really need to send that comment, opinion, or question? Is your contribution really that important, relevant, or helpful? No? Then just don't do it.
Tip #2: Choose the right audience
Think about exactly what you want to convey, and whom your message is for. This will help you choose the correct room to post your message in. Being selective helps reduce the volume of distracting messages in rooms that lots of people are monitoring. And don't shy away from creating temporary, private rooms to talk to two or three specific people – or actually speak face-to-face during your coffee break. Delivering concise messages to the right people ensures others aren't unnecessarily distracted.
At K15t Software we use three kinds of HipChat rooms that help us choose the right audience: project, service, and team rooms.
 - Team rooms allow people to exchange information that concerns their fellow team members (e.g. all teams, customer service, marketing, etc.)
 - Service rooms such as internal systems give people a place where they can request help or other services ('Internet is down, please help') from experts
 - Topic rooms are temporary and collect specific project-related information targeting involved team members.
Tip #3: Don't author content in HipChat
Chats are meant for quick, informal communication. If you find yourself writing more than four lines of copy, perhaps HipChat isn't the right channel. This is especially true if you are communicating really important information, such as product or company announcements. Chats move quickly, and as soon as messages move up the app window and out of sight, it is safe to assume people won't see them. If you are using Atlassian Confluence maybe a blog post or wiki page would be more appropriate.
Tip #4: Make room for fun
Obviously, we can't stay focused all the time and need distractions (we all love cat videos, right?) to replenish our mental energy. However, HipChat messages that are meant to distract should live in a designated room.
Receiving without breaking concentration
Remember that you are the boss and can make your chat program obey your commands (enjoy this moment of power). You control the way you receive information in your chat app, and can therefore make sure it doesn't break your concentration.
Tip #5: Don't let HipChat catch your attention
There are a couple of things you can do to minimize your chat program's attention-grabbing features.
HipChat settings that won't catch your attention
 1. Change your HipChat settings so that the notification icon only bounces once instead of until clicked.
 2. Change your profile status to 'Do not disturb' to disable all notifications.
 3. Adjust your settings so that notifications only appear when someone @- mentions you directly.
 4. Quit HipChat if you really need to batten down the hatches and get things done.
Tip #6: Leave that room if you aren't contributing
Other people's chatter is distracting, especially if it isn't relevant to you. Leave conversations (organized into rooms in HipChat) you are not continuously contributing to. (How relevant can a conversation be to you if you have nothing to say? Spying excluded (wink)).
Of course, sometimes you need to join a specific topic room to ask a question or get information. No problem, just leave the room again after you got what you came for.
Conversation example that merits leaving the room after it's done
Example of quick exchange, that doesn't require constant monitoring
It depends on how
Whether your group chat turns out to be helpful instead of getting in your way depends on how you use it. I hope the aforementioned tips will assist you in your use of live chats, but perhaps you have additional thoughts or tips? I'm looking forward to discussing with you in the comments below.
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(Megan Kennelly, KSU Plant Pathology)
Irises are a popular plant, often grown in large groups. Iris leaf spot is a fungus that can cause mild spotting to severe dieback.The fungus spreads by spores that are dispersed in wet weather.
Red-brown spots with yellow halo:
A closer view – the black bumps are spore-producing structures:
Spots can coalesce to cover a large area
More significant dieback:
Where does that fungus spend the winter? In old infected leaves. Get those outta there to reduce your risk of infection in the new year. Clearing out old infected plant tissue breaks the life cycle.
More information about managing iris leaf spot is available in a recent article by Ward Upham in the KSU Horticulture News

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Elysium is set over a century in the future, but you can test its physics today. All you need is a carnival ticket and a bucket of water.
The latest sci-fi thriller from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp, Elysium tells the story of the haves and the have-nots in the 22nd century (quite literally). Those with the means have fled to a beautiful Halo-style ringworld orbiting Earth, while the rest scrape by on the over-populated and polluted surface. This dystopian milieu is filled with technology that might in fact take 100 years to create—miraculously mending "medpods," flesh-shredding railguns and shurikens, and superhero-making exosuits—but we could start building Elysium itself today. In fact, we have been theorizing about space stations with their own gravity for almost 40 years.
According to an interview on io9, Elysium's visual effects producer based the design of the space station on the Stanford Torus, first conceived by NASA in 1975. Originally, the design specified a wheel a mile in diameter that housed 10,000 people. To avoid the serious bone loss and other problems associated with micro-gravity, a torus station spins at a certain rate in order to simulate gravity. Creating gravity sounds like another futuristic technology, but if you've ever been to a county fair, you've likely experienced it. The "Round-Up" and "Gravitron" rides simulate gravity by fighting inertia. When riding, your body wants to fly out from the center in a straight line, but there is the wall of the ride in the way. The force pressing you up against the wall of the ride—the "centripetal force"—is a consequence of this battle between inertia and the ride's structure.
But unlike the Gravitron, which can exert "hypergravity" allowing you to do less than intelligent things, a spinning space station like Elysium has to be comfortable and not vomit inducing. "Comfortable" means a few things. First, the simulated gravity should be near Earth's gravity, meaning that you should be accelerating into the wall at 9.8 meters per second per second, or 1G. Second, the spin rate of the wheel that simulates the pull of gravity shouldn't make you sick. Based on the tests we subject our astronauts to, a rate below two revolutions per minute is livable. Any faster than that and you start to notice—nausea, dizziness, and trouble walking occur at seven revolutions per minute and above.
To meet these criteria for suitable simulated gravity, a spinning space station has to be a certain radius. The wider the radius the slower the whole station has to spin to reach 1G. Accordingly, the original Stanford torus specified a half-mile radius. The producers of Elysium admirably wanted to make sure their concept was scientifically sound, so they made their station's radius 20 kilometers—a little more than 12 and a half miles. So, according to the equations you learn in any introductory physics course, Elysium could spin at much slower one revolution per minute and still generate the gravity humans are adapted to, which is why the station looks like it hardly spins at all in the film.
Of course, actually building such a station is the bigger challenge. If 22nd century humanity were up to the task, the Elysium station would have to be hauled into space—millions of tons of material—and assembled piece by piece in orbit like the International Space Station. It would also need a power source, as frictional forces would sap its spin, and the whole station would need to be strong enough to prevent it from flying apart under the constant rotation. It's a plausible plan, and if beating cancer 100 years from now is as simple as laying under a beam of light for 10 seconds, putting a station in orbit might be as commonplace as building a skyscraper.
Artificial gravity is a comfort, but an atmosphere is essential. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the station Elysium was that—unlike an airplane cabin—its atmosphere wasn't canned up in some hollow tube. A landing spacecraft could enter its air like it would on Earth. Like the idea of a rotating space station, holding in an atmosphere without a roof isn't science fiction, and you can prove it to yourself.
All you need is a bucket of water to see how Elysium's atmosphere could work. Fill the bucket half way and hold it upside down, the water of course falls out. But spin the bucket of water around in a circle and the water stays pressed to the bottom of the bucket; even when the bucket is directly above your head (as I do for your entertainment in this Vine video).
Just like the carnival ride, the water is pressed up against the bucket in a fight with inertia. Both air and water behave like fluids, so what works for one can work for the other. If the residents of Earth built a sealed version of Elysium, filled it with air, started it spinning, and then removed the roof, most of the air would stay pressed to the surface just like the water in the bucket!
The atmosphere wouldn't stay forever. Even if the sidewalls were high enough, the random motion of air particles means that the air would eventually escape into space through the top. But who knows what kind of capturing technology we will have in 100 years? Perhaps the air would be prevented from escaping with a badass force field as in this clip.
We are already closer than one might think to having exosuits like the ones grafted onto Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley, we already have UAVs and drones, and you can simulate a space station atmosphere with a bucket of water. Elysium did a decent enough job following physics that the most unbelievable thing about the film might be Jodi Foster's accent.


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I know very little about the Pfaffian or how it works, and I'm new at Riemannian geometry in general. But I was wondering if there is some way to make this "intuitive" argument for the fact that a fiber bundle satisfies $\chi(\text{bundle}) = \chi(\text{fiber})\chi(\text{base})$ rigorous.
 1. Say you've got a surjective smooth submersion $\widetilde{M} \rightarrow M$ that's also a (smooth?) fiber bundle. (Assume all the manifolds are compact... though I wish there were some weaker condition than that for the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to apply. It'd be nice if one could make sense of it whenever the manifold had finitely generated cohomology).
 2. EDIT: See update below. Slap Riemannian metrics on $\widetilde{M}$ and $M$ so that the submersion is a Riemannian submersion. (I just feel like one would need this in step 4. The other thing that would make sense is if we could somehow put a Riemannian metric on $\widetilde{M}$ that would be the 'twisted product' of Riemannian metrics on $F$ and $M$- whatever that means).
 3. By the Generalized Gauss-Bonnet Theorem, $\int_{\widetilde{M}}Pf(\Omega_{\widetilde{M}}) = (2\pi)^n \chi(\widetilde{M})$.
 4. And here's the thing that seems the hardest to make rigorous (though who knows, I may have already been wrong at step 2): I want to say that $\int_{\widetilde{M}}Pf(\Omega_{\widetilde{M}}) = \int_M\int_F Pf(\Omega_F)Pf(\Omega_M) = (2\pi)^k(2\pi^{n-k})\chi(F)\chi(M)$.
In order for this to even start making sense there would have to be some sense in which an analog of Fubini's theorem works for twisted products. I'd also need the Pfaffian to satisfy the identity that I want it to satisfy in this case (which I think follows from the fact that if we have a direct sum of matrices, $A \oplus B$, then $Pf(A \oplus B) = Pf(A)Pf(B)$.) So: is there any way to actually make this argument stand? (I think that it would work for a trivial fibration, but that's no fun.)
So far I only know how to prove this product formula using a spectral sequence, so it'd be cool if this were a legitimate way of visualizing it in this special case.
Updates: First of all, it turns out that there is a Fubini's theorem for local products (see Generlized Curvature by Jean-Marie Morvan). Instead of Step 2 I think what we want is to put a metric on $M$, and then put metrics $h_x$ on $F_x$ (the fiber over $x$) that somehow 'varies smoothly with $x$' (hopefully that's possible) and then define a metric on $\widetilde{M}$ by breaking every vector into its horizontal and vertical pieces and applying the metric on $M$ and $F$ separately. Pretty much by definition this should make $\Omega_{\widetilde{M}}$ be the matrix $\Omega_M \oplus \Omega_F$ (I think?) and then the result should follow.
So I still have details to work outand I'll keep thinking about it, but in the meantime if any of you have seen this before, then a reference would be really helpful! I'm afraid I've done something silly, or I'm assuming something I can't...
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I vote for the theorem to be called "Chern-Gauss-Bonnet" instead of "Generalized Gauss-Bonnet" in the text of the question! – Q.Q.J. Mar 4 '11 at 10:54
Not related to this approach, but there's a very nice little subcase/generalization of this fact called the Riemann-Hurwitz formula: – Aaron Mazel-Gee Mar 4 '11 at 18:33
_USER_: Neat! _USER_: You're probably right, but I feel bad bumping up this question for the minor edit. – Dylan Wilson Mar 6 '11 at 9:27
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I understand you're trying to prove using the Pfaffian but what's wrong with the triangulation proof of what you want? Fibre bundles $F\to E\to B$ are locally trivial and triangulate your base and the fibres then it should be clear that $\chi(E)=\chi(F)\chi(B)$.
More precisely, assume that you have triangulated finely enough so that the simplices in your base are already in local charts. For simplicity, let $B$ be a $k$-dimensional manifold. If $\Delta_k\subset B$ then the number of vertices in $\pi^{-1}(\Delta_k)$ is the product of the number of vertices of $\Delta_k$ and the number of vertices $v(F)$ of $F$. The number of edges of $\pi^{-1}(\Delta_k)$ equals $e(\Delta_k)v(F)+v(\Delta_k)e(F)$. You continue in this way and an alternate sum tells you that $\chi(\pi^{-1}(\Delta_k))=\chi(\Delta_k)\chi(F)=\chi(F)$. When you glue fibres over charts (in this case faces of $\Delta_k$) then the Euler characteristic formula $\chi(X_1\cup X_2)=\chi(X_1)+\chi(_2)-\chi(X_1\cap X_2)$ tells you that $\chi(\pi^{-1}(\Delta_k\cup\Delta_k'))=\chi(\Delta_k)\chi(F)+ \chi(\Delta_k')\chi(F)-\chi(\Delta_{k-1})\chi(F)$. Then another alternating sum tells you that you should ultimately sum $1$'s (with signs) over the simplices of your base and finally multiply $\chi(F)$ which gives you the formula you want.
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Thank youbut I really did want to see if this Pfaffian thing would work. I recently saw the triangulation proof in a paper of Mostowit's very nice and it does give a bit more intuition than the spectral sequence proof. – Dylan Wilson Mar 3 '11 at 23:18
This might be totally stupid, but isn't it not known whether all manifolds are triangulable? I read in an (admittedly old-ish) book that this wasn't known, but maybe it's been proven since then. – Aaron Mazel-Gee Mar 4 '11 at 18:33
_USER_ - You're right in saying that not all manifolds are triangulable (the Kirby-Siebenmann class of $M$ has to vanish if $M$ has to have piecewise linear structure) but in this question the manifolds under consideration are all smooth and hence admit triangulations. – Somnath Basu Mar 4 '11 at 19:48
The Gauss-Bonnet theorem has, in my opinion, two parts. The first part is how to associate to a smooth oriented vector bundle $V \to X$ on a manifold a differential form representing the Euler class. For that, one needs a metric on $V$ and a metric connection. Take the curvature und plug it into the Pfaffian - that gives a closed differential form, the Euler form, whose de Rham class only depends on $V$ and its orientation. If $V=TM$ and $M$ is Riemannian, you can pick the Levi-civita connection, but that is not really relevant here.
The second step is that $\int_M e (TM)= \chi(M)$, and this is algeraic topology, involving Poincare duality.
Let $f:E \to B$ be a smooth fiber bundle with $d$-dimensional compact fibres (=proper submersion) and assume that $B$ is closed and oriented. Let $T_v E := ker (df)$ be the vertical tangent bundle. There is a short exact sequence of vector bundles $0 \to T_v E \to TE \to f^{\ast} TB \to 0$ and a splitting is given e.g. by a Riemann metric on $E$.
The Euler class $e$ of vector bundles satisfies $e(V \oplus W) = e(V) e(W)$, which follows for examples from direct sum formula for the Pfaffians (in fact, the above identity holds even for the differential form representatives). There is an integration over the fibre
$$\int_{E/B} \omega,$$
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In this session, we wish to place under scrutiny the contested values which undergird heritage and landscape inventorising and conservation in the postcolonial city. Our specific focus is upon cities whose histories are inextricably wound up with imperial projects, past and present. This could include cities in colonial or metropolitan heartlands whose affluence, landscapes, and built heritage were shaped by colonialism and cities in colonial peripheries caught up in colonisation and bearing the stamp of colonial power, anti-colonial struggles, and decolonisation. In part, we wish to examine how colonial heritages are valued in these city landscapes in the context of neoliberal mega-development projects and place branding. Cultural and historical critiques of city marketing have questioned the ways in which local histories are often appropriated, silenced, and sanitised as part of an attempt to rebrand and repackage cities for new 'consumers'. With specific respect to the marketing of the postcolonial city and to neoliberal mega-development projects therein, we are keen to explore which stories are told, which not, who gets to decide, and what this all means for landscape preservation and heritage management.
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Making your own fruit butters and jam from organic dried fruit is easy and less expensive than store bought version. Makes about 32-40 ounces of Fig Jam.
1 pound organic dried figs
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1. Snip of the hard stem, if any, off of each fig.
2. Place figs in a 3.5 quart saucepan and add 3 cups water to the fruit. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and continue to cook until fruit is soft, about 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
2. Remove from heat and puree fruit with a hand blender, food processor or blender. Be careful not to splatter, the fruit is hot. The hand blender is convenient because you can leave the fruit in the pot. The mixture should be very thick. If you prefer a thinner consistency blend in more water.
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SCP is a network protocol for the encrypted transfer of data between two computers. This article explains how to set it up for use with HiDrive.
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A 92-year-old retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and West Hyannisport resident has "a personal interest" in the old North Truro Air Force Station.
WEST HYANNISPORT — A 92-year-old retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and West Hyannisport resident has "a personal interest" in the old North Truro Air Force Station.
William Waechter was the operations officer at the Air Force Station for three years in the late 1950s during the Cold War. His job was to manage the men using radar to monitor any unknown planes along the East Coast. At the North Truro station, the goal was to detect any Russian bombers off the coast, notify authorities to send Air Force planes in response and then guide the Air Force response.
"They would fly over and go down to Cuba, and so rather than let them do it we let them know we knew they were there," Waechter said. "We'd send one fighter plane up alongside of them, to get his numbers and everything off of the airplane. The other one I'd hold back enough distance where he was safe. If the (Russian pilot) ever decided to shoot or anything, we'd just blow them out of the sky."
After flying P-47 airplanes during the first part of his career in the Air Force, Waechter was trained as a weapons controller and help set up and run radar stations in Tripoli, Libya, and Saratoga Springs, New York, before his assignment at the North Truro station.
The North Truro station typically detected a Russian bomber about once a month, with the help of Navy ships and a radar structure off the Cape coast called a Texas Tower, Waechter said. He said he was not aware of any Russian bomber being downed off the North Truro coast.
"I'd be sitting at the battle commander's position, watching the board, or I'd be in my office taking care of business," he said. "Anything they couldn't identify I was called. I came into the ops room. It was all dark. We had radar scopes, I would get on a radar scope where I could control a fighter myself."
The North Truro Air Force station closed in 1985, and by 1994 most of the land and buildings were transferred to the National Park Service. In the last decade, the Cape Cod National Seashore has been working to develop the 110 acres into an arts, science and educational center called the Highlands Center. The Seashore recently announced it has received more than $1 million to demolish up to a dozen empty and contaminated buildings on the land.
"If I could, I'd buy it and I'd develop it," Waechter said. "I would make a nursing home for people with multiple sclerosis, or I would get all these homeless vets off the street and put them in a home out there."
He also has a romantic attachment to the North Truro base. He met his future wife, Diane, while stationed there. She worked at the airport in Provincetown, and they often spoke when an Air Force general flew in and needed transportation to the North Truro station. The couple had eight children, and Diane Waechter died in 2010.
"I took note of her voice," Waechter said of their phone conversations. Then later on they were at a party in Wellfleet at the same time. "I saw her for the first time when she came in," Waechter said. "I tell you. I was sunk."
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What type of energy does a parked car have?
Answer: Potential
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A parked car has potential energy due to its position. This type of energy is stored based on the object's position relative to other objects, using gravitational force as a factor. For a car parked on a hill, the higher it is up the hill, the greater its potential gravitational energy. The energy could be converted into kinetic energy (the energy of motion) if the car starts to move downhill. Therefore, potential energy is the most accurate description for a stationary car in a specific context like being on an incline.
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Which form of energy is possessed by a flying bird?
Answer: Kinetic
Explanation:
A flying bird primarily possesses kinetic energy because this form of energy is associated with motion. As the bird flies, its velocity converts the potential energy stored in its muscles into kinetic energy. The faster the bird flies, the more kinetic energy it generates. This energy enables the bird to continue moving and maneuver in the air, overcoming air resistance and gravitational pull through the expenditure of energy in the form of movement.
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What energy transformation occurs when a bow is drawn?
Answer: Potential to Kinetic
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When a bow is drawn, potential energy is stored in the stretched limbs of the bow. The mechanical energy exerted by pulling the bowstring back is converted into potential energy as the bow is held in tension. Once the bowstring is released, this potential energy is rapidly converted back into kinetic energy as the bow returns to its original shape and the arrow is propelled forward with significant force. This demonstrates the transformation of energy from potential to kinetic within the mechanics of archery.
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Where is potential energy highest in a swung pendulum?
Answer: At the top
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In a swinging pendulum, potential energy is highest at the top of the swing, where the pendulum's speed is at its lowest. At this point, the pendulum has maximum potential energy due to its elevated position against gravity. As the pendulum begins its descent, this potential energy is converted into kinetic energy, which increases as the pendulum speeds up reaching the lowest point. Thus, the maximum potential energy at the top is a result of its height and gravitational potential.
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What type of energy does a compressed spring hold?
Answer: Potential
Explanation:
A compressed spring holds potential energy, which is stored due to its position. When the spring is compressed, mechanical work is done against the spring's natural force, which stores energy in the form of elastic potential energy. This energy is retained until the force compressing the spring is removed, at which point the stored energy is converted back to kinetic energy as the spring returns to its original shape, pushing against whatever compressed it.
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Which energy is primarily used by a cyclist climbing a hill?
Answer: Kinetic
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When a cyclist climbs a hill, they are primarily using kinetic energy to propel the bicycle forward; however, as they reach higher elevation, the energy usage shifts towards gaining potential energy due to increased altitude. The kinetic energy from pedaling is converted into potential energy, which could potentially be converted back into kinetic energy on a downhill path. Therefore, the cyclist's effort in climbing a hill translates directly into potential energy accumulation in relation to gravity.
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What kind of energy does water behind a dam possess?
Answer: Potential
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The water stored behind a dam possesses potential energy due to its elevated position relative to the base of the dam. This gravitational potential energy is significant because of the large volume of water and the height from which it can potentially fall. When the water is released, this potential energy is converted into kinetic energy as the water moves downward through the dam's turbines, generating electricity as a result of this energy transformation.
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Which form of energy is demonstrated by a stretched rubber band?
Answer: Potential
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A stretched rubber band exhibits potential energy. When the rubber band is stretched, it stores elastic potential energy based on how much it is deformed from its natural state. This stored energy is a result of the work done in stretching it, and this energy can be released as kinetic energy when the band snaps back to its original shape, propelling any attached objects or itself forward.
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What kind of energy transformation occurs when brakes are applied to a moving car?
Answer: Kinetic to Thermal
Explanation:
When brakes are applied to a moving car, the kinetic energy of the car (due to its motion) is transformed into thermal energy. This transformation occurs through friction between the car's brake pads and the wheel or drum. This friction generates heat, effectively converting the motion energy of the car into heat energy, which dissipates into the environment. This process is an example of the conservation of energy where kinetic energy is not lost but converted into another form.
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Which type of energy does a fruit hanging from a tree exhibit?
Answer: Potential
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A fruit hanging from a tree exhibits potential energy due to its position relative to the ground. This gravitational potential energy is calculated based on the fruit's mass, the acceleration due to gravity, and its height from the ground. Should the fruit fall, this potential energy would convert into kinetic energy as the fruit accelerates towards the Earth under the influence of gravity.
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and re-write to using the bulk collect and FORALL features. As we emphasized, using BULK COLLECT and FORALL can make PL/SQL run faster, often by an order of magnitude. Procedure In our example, we create a table called title_caps, which will store the uppercase title for all titles in the book table. Run this definition on your system: drop table title_caps; create table title_caps (uppercase_title varchar2(80)); The PL/SQL program below is a simple routine that: 1 – Defines a PL/SQL table (an array) to hold the titles DECLARE type t_name is table of book.book_title%type index by binary_integer; title_rec t_name; i binary_integer := 1; 2 – Declares a cursor, and fetches the rows into the array DECLARE cursor c1 is select book_title from book; BEGIN open c1; loop --***************************************** -- Load the PL/SQL table, one row at a time --***************************************** fetch c1 into title_rec(i); exit when c1%NOTFOUND; i := i + 1; end loop; 3 – Inserts into the new table from the array, one row at a time for i in 1..title_rec.COUNT loop --****************************************************
-- Add rows to the new title_caps table, one at a time --**************************************************** insert into title_caps values (upper(title_rec(i))); end loop; Here is the whole code snippet. Your challenge is to rewrite this code using the BULK COLLECT and FORALL operators. Copy this code to your server as slow_collect.sql in your c:\Burleson directory delete from title_caps; DECLARE type t_name is table of book.book_title%type index by binary_integer; title_rec t_name; i binary_integer := 1; cursor c1 is select book_title from book; BEGIN open c1; loop --***************************************** -- Load the PL/SQL table, one row at a time --***************************************** fetch c1 into title_rec(i); exit when c1%NOTFOUND; i := i + 1; end loop; close c1; dbms_output.Put_line('Old Book Titles:'); for i in 1..title_rec.COUNT loop --**************************************************** -- Add rows to the new title_caps table, one at a time --**************************************************** insert into title_caps values (upper(title_rec(i))); end loop; end; / select * from title_caps; Your new code will be called bulk_collect.sql, and it will have the following features:
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We present a fully automated laser system with low-intensity noise for coherent Raman scattering microscopy. The robust two-color system is pumped by a solid-state oscillator, which provides Stokes pulses fixed at 1043 nm. The tunable pump pulses of 750 to 950 nm are generated by a frequency-doubled fiber-feedback femtosecond optical parametric oscillator. The resulting pulse duration of 1.2 ps provides a viable compromise between optimal coherent Raman scattering signal and the necessary spectral resolution. Thus a spectral range of 1015 to 3695 cm − 1 with spectral resolution of <13 cm − 1 can be addressed.
We present an ultra‐low noise, near to mid infrared light source for a variety of multiphoton imaging and spectroscopy techniques. The system is based on an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) pumped by a femtosecond Ytterbium solid state oscillator with tens of megahertz repetition rate. This light source supplies three intrinsically synchronized light beams at wavelengths: 1040 nm, _PHONE_ nm (tunable) and 2200-4200 nm (tunable). Without active stabilization, the OPO preserves the shot-noise limited performance of the Yb-oscillator, along with a high long-term stability and a TEM00 beam profile. While this tuning range is already suitable for two- and three-photon microscopy, it now becomes possible to address vibrational modes and thus molecular specificity by employing further frequency conversion stages. Tailored frequency doubling provides either a narrow linewidth (0.5-1.2 nm) or a broadband (>40 nm) beam, tunable from 750-950 nm.
The fixed Stokes beam of the Yb-oscillator can directly be used as a pump source for coherent Raman scattering such as SRS or CARS spectroscopy/microscopy. To this end, we will demonstrate the capability of our system for both SRS imaging at video rate with a spectral precision of 13 cm-1 as well as SRS spectroscopy with more than 400 cm-1 bandwidth in a single shot. By further mixing the two output beams of the OPO, we are able to additionally produce mid-infrared light that is tunable from 4-16 µm. With the help of vibrational sum frequency generation, our system will allow us to cover a spectral range of _PHONE_ cm-1.
Magnesium (Mg) has been widely investigated for solid-state hydrogen storage. It is able to absorb up to 7.6 wt % of hydrogen gas, making it one of the most promising candidates for hydrogen storage and also a model system for other energy storage materials. Upon hydrogenation the metallic Mg forms non-metallic magnesium hydride (MgH2), thus its electronic and thereby optical properties are drastically altered. This allows for monitoring the kinetics of the hydrogenation process by easily accessible optical measurements. This technique, termed hydrogenography, has been used to observe the nucleation and growth of MgH2 domains in Mg films. Like all far-field optical methods, however, these investigations suffer from the diffraction limit and thus possess only limited spatial resolution, therefore preventing the direct observation of the hydrogenation process on the nanoscale. Here, we overcome this limitation by employing scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy and atomic force microscopy. This technique enables us to map the local dielectric properties at different stages of hydrogenation and dehydrogenation, probing thus the electronic properties and hence the local material composition with a spatial resolution on the order of 10 nm. Upon monitoring the kinetics of hydrogen absorption and desorption in such polycrystalline nanoparticles we reveal that the nucleation of this process progresses within individual crystallites. Our combined measurement techniques additionally corroborate a correlation between structural and electronic properties during this dynamic process. To validate this novel technique we additionally monitor in parallel the far-field scattering spectra of individual nanoparticles, which exhibit plasmonic resonances in the visible spectral range.
Providing optical feedback by a resonator enhances the efficiency of nonlinear optical effects, e.g. frequency
conversion. The bow-tie cavity is known to be a very successful scheme and it has made its way into the
commercial world of second harmonic generation and parametric oscillation. We demonstrate a continuouswave
optical parametric oscillator based on a bow-tie cavity converting monochromatic pump light at 1.03 μm
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We observe a signal power of up to 7 W, an idler power up to 3 W, and a mode-hop free operation over 10 h
without any active stabilization. Furthermore, we have extended the tuning range of the parametric oscillator to
the terahertz region: Our system converts near-infrared pump light to a monochromatic wave with a frequency of
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system offers unequaled opportunities because of its low loss leading to a high finesse. We discuss the challenges
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There are two aspects to a batch job script:
- A set of PBS directives describing the resources required and other information about the job for Torque
- The script itself, comprised of commands to setup and perform the computations without additional user interaction
A simple example
A typical batch script on an NYU HPC cluster looks something like these:
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We'll work through them more closely in a moment.
You submit the job with qsub:
And monitor its progress (as is discussed further in here) with:
What just happened? Here's an annotated version of the first script:
The second script has the same PBS directives, but this time we are using code we compiled ourselves. Starting after the PBS directives:
Submitting a job
Jobs are submitted with the The options tell Torque information about the job, such as what resources will be needed. These can be specified in the job-script as PBS directives, or on the command line as options, or both (in which case the command line options take precedence should the two contradict each other). For each option there is a corresponding PBS directive with the syntax: For example, you can specify that a job needs 2 nodes and 8 cores on each node by adding to the script the directive: or as a command-line option to Options to manage job output: Options to set the job environment:
qsub when you submit the job:
Give the job a name. The default is the filename of the job script. Within the job,
$PBS_JOBNAME expands to the job name
stderr into the
path/for/stdout. Can be a filename or an existing directory. The default filename is
myjob.o12345, in the directory from which the job was submitted
path/for/stderr. Same usage as for
Send email to _EMAIL_ when certain events occur. By default an email is sent only if the job is killed by the batch system.
-m b -m e -m a -m abe
Send email when the job begins (
b), ends (
e) and/or is aborted (
Use the shell at
/path/to/shell to interpret the script. Default is your login shell, which at NYU HPC is normally
-v VAR1,VAR2="some value",VAR3
Pass variables to the job, either with a specific value (the
VAR= form) or from the submitting environment (without "
Pass the full environment the job was submitted from
Jobs are submitted with the
The options tell Torque information about the job, such as what resources will be needed. These can be specified in the job-script as PBS directives, or on the command line as options, or both (in which case the command line options take precedence should the two contradict each other). For each option there is a corresponding PBS directive with the syntax:
For example, you can specify that a job needs 2 nodes and 8 cores on each node by adding to the script the directive:
or as a command-line option to
Options to manage job output:
Options to set the job environment:
Options to request compute resources:
Maximum wallclock time the job will need. Default is 1 hour. Walltime is specified in seconds or as
Maximum memory per node the job will need. Default depends on queue, normally 2GB for serial jobs and the full node for parallel jobs. Memory should be specified with units, eg
Number of nodes and number of processors per node required. Default is 1 node and 1 processor per node. The
:ppn=numcan be omitted, in which case (at NYU HPC) you will get full nodes. When using multiple nodes the job script will be executed on the first allocated node.
Submit to a specific queue. If not specified, Torque will choose a queue based on the resources requested.
A job submitted without requesting a specific queue or resources will go to the default serial queue (s48 on Mercer) with the default resource limits for that queue
Requesting the resources you need, as accurately as possible, allows your job to be started at the earliest opportunity as well as helping the system to schedule work efficiently to everyone's benefit.
Options for running interactively on the compute nodes:
Don't just submit the job, but also wait for it to start and connect
stdinto the current terminal.
Enable X forwarding, so programs using a GUI can be used during the session (provided you have X forwarding to your workstation set up)
Pass the current environment to the interactive batch job
- To leave an interactive batch session, type
exitat the command prompt.
Options for delaying starting a job:
Delay starting this job until
jobidhas completed successfully.
Delay starting this job until after the specified date and time. Month (
MM) and day-of-month (
DD) are optional, hour and minute are required.
Options for many similar jobs (array jobs and pbsdsh):
Submit an array of jobs with array ids as specified. Array ids can be specified as a numerical range, a comma-separated list of numbers, or as some combination of the two. Each job instance will have an environment variable
As above, but the appended '
%n' specifies the maximum number of array items (in this case, 5) which should be running at one time
- Submit a single "shepherd" job requesting multiple processes and from it start individual jobs with


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The film forms part of pudovkins revolutionary trilogy, alongside mother 1926 and storm over asia aka the heir to genghis khan 1928. Petersburg was the second of pudovkins three silent masterpieces mother 1926 and storm over asia 1928 being the other two. The incident occurred in the 2200 block of 36th street south in st. Still, despite the future difficulties that pudovkin would encounter both personally and professionally, his trio of silent masterworks mat mother, 1926 the end of st. Petersburg is a political film, explaining why and how the bolsheviks came to power in 1917. Usually, after finishing the rehearsal, we invited eisenstein to the moment of the recording music on the film. Petersburg 1928 a russian peasant unwittingly becomes a scab, putting him at odds with a relative leading the strike. Petersburg in pinellas county, florida, united states. A century ago, the radical bolshevik party captured petrograd now st. Petersburg is one of glittering achievement and untold suffering. Founded by peter the great in 1703 to be a showcase for his obsession for westernization, the city was built at. One of the owners said the park had been losing money for a long time and residents knew a demolition was coming.
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CFWI Projects Taking Shape Throughout Region
Drilling more than half a mile below ground to find new sources of water in the Lower Florida aquifer (LFA).
Finding new ways to reuse reclaimed water.
Combining stormwater and reclaimed water to build a sustainable supply.
These are some of the innovative projects the Central Florida Water Initiative (CFWI) is developing to meet the growing water needs of the five-county Central Florida region while also protecting the region's water resources. Water experts project the region will need an additional 300 million gallons of water per day by 2035. Only about 50 mgd will be available from traditional sources without harming the water and related natural resources like wetlands and lakes.
"We have to be creative and collaborative if we want to ensure that our citizens have the water they need and that our natural resources, which define our quality of life, are protected," said Brian Armstrong, Southwest Florida Water Management District executive director.
"By working together on alternative water supply projects that benefit the CFWI region we help extend our future water supply," said St. Johns River Water Management Executive Director Dr. Ann Shortelle. "It's through this type of collaboration we can ensure residents and our natural resources have the water needed to thrive in the years to come."
"It is very encouraging to see this region's water supply planning now being implemented in projects underway and on the horizon," said Dan O'Keefe, South Florida Water Management District Governing Board chairman.


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LAHORE: Six power turbines of Tarbela dam were closed due to decrease in water level in the dam, creating serious situation for electricity supply.
According to the management, fourteen turbines generate electricity out of which six have been closed. The remaining eight units generate 650 MW electricity and if the situation persisted, it is feared that the remaining turbines could also break down.
The management told that the water level is at 1,378 feet in the dam.
It was expected that further decrease in water level would affect the power generation resulting in worsening of the power crisis.


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The first annual Cancer Nurse Coordinator Initiative (CNCI) evaluation report has drawn on a number of data sources, including:
- a specific Cancer Nurse Coordinator (CNC) database that provides information about the activity and function of the nurses
- a CNC online survey which profiles CNCs and their activities, contribution and perceived effect on patient experience
- a provider online survey to assess understanding and perceived effects on patient experience
- a patient survey to assess patient experience of the new role and its contribution
- qualitiative interviews.
The data collected to inform the 2014 annual report provides high level insight into implementation of the CNCI and shows that:
- the CNCI is implemented across 20 DHBs using four delivery models that reflect DHBs' existing cancer care structures and population profile
- CNCs have an important role in the treatment team and contribute to improving communication between health professionals about patient care
- CNCs are seen to be contributing to a more coordinated patient journey and making a difference to patients and their family/whanau.
The evaluation provider is looking at enhancing the data collection tools to further improve data quality for the 2015 annual report.


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In this tutorial, I will teach you how using Adobe Photoshop you can create balloons to decorate your site web page for a special event.
Step1: Setting up workspace.
Create a new image using the dimension 800 x 600. Set the background color to white, or whatever background you are planning to put the image on. Create a new layer, Layer>New> Layer… (Shift+Ctrl+N) and name it balloon.
Step2: Creating the balloon.
Still on the "balloon" layer click on the "Ellipse Tool"
Change the foreground color to #164b8a this will be the color of the balloon. Now draw the shape shown below.
We need to add a "Blending Option" to the ellipse. Right click on the layer, select blending options, and add the settings below.
Step3: Creating the balloon knot.
Create a new layer, Layer>New> Layer… (Shift+Ctrl+N) and name it "Knot". Move the knot layer below the "Balloon" layer. Now select the "Knot" layer and click on the "Custom Shape Tool" from the shape window select the custom shape shown below.
Using the same foreground color #164b8a draw the shape below.
Now re position the shape above to the bottom of the balloon as shown below.
Hold down Ctrl and click on the "balloon" and "knot" layer to select it as shown below.
Press Ctrl+E to merge the layers after you select them. At this point, you should have one layer.
Step4: Adding shadows/reflections to the balloon.
Hold Ctrl and click on the layer to select it, this will put a selection around the balloon as shown below.
Now click on the "Elliptical Marquee Tool" when you click on the Elliptical Marquee Tool the menu below will come up in the task bar.
Make sure that "Subtract from selection" is selected. With the "Elliptical Marquee Tool" still selected, draw a selecting as shown below.
With that, you should have the selection below.
Create a new layer, Layer>New> Layer… (Shift+Ctrl+N) and name it "reflection". Change the foreground color to white, using the paint bucket fill the selection with that color. Because the background is white, your image will look something like mine below.
Still on the "reflection" layer, change the opacity to 2% as shown below.
Click on the layer with the Balloon on it, select the Brush Tool set your brush up using the settings below.
Change the foreground color to #8badc8, using the brush the balloon in a "C" motion ash depicted below. To get the effect below you have to repeat the brush action about 6 times. If you get it in the first try good, but it takes some practice to get it.
Step4: Drawing the balloon string.
Create a new layer, Layer>New> Layer… (Shift+Ctrl+N) and name it "string". Change the foreground color to black. Click on the Brush Tool set your brush up using the settings below
Now select the Pen Tool and draw the line shown below.
Now right click on the line you drew and click "Stroke Path"
When you do that the window below will come up, here is where you will select the brush tool, and click ok.
Now you should see the string with the path still on it, right click on the line using the pen tool and click Delete Path as shown below.
Well that is it. If you want to change the balloon color, you can recreate the tutorial using different colors or you can click on Image> Adjustments> Hue/Saturation and play around with the settings. Hope it came out to what you expected. I also created a video tutorial for this example.


Manual uploads
When testing your preview feed, if you are using the push method for uploading your data, you can test various feed elements by manually uploading data files. This is particularly useful as you prepare to automate your data delivery.
To manually upload data files:
 1. Access the Transit Partner Dashboard.
 2. Select your feed.
 3. Click Realtime Feeds.
 4. Scroll down to Manual Feed Upload.
 5. Click Select File.
 6. Choose the file(s) you want to manually upload
 7. Click Upload.
Manual upload is a tool used during the review and testing phase. If you don't have the resources to create a realtime feed but want to provide us with service alerts, use our Service Alerts Editor.
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You may get the sealant on the tile very hard to remove with your hands. Avoid soaking the tile or the pad to prevent moisture damage.
Apply selleys silicone remover on the old silicone layering it about 3mm high (ensure you apply to a small area to test first).
How to remove silicone caulk from tile. Chemical caulk removers can cause damage to the surrounding tile and countertop surfaces. Then use the knife or scraper to eliminate the silicone caulk afterward completely. Read on for more information on the steps to observe when attempting to remove silicone from tiles.
Clean around the old caulk to let. First, cut off any sealant residue from tile as much as possible. Ensure the surfaces are completely dry.
Well, the process is much the same as how to remove silicone from tiles. Step 2 put in your hand gloves: My experience is that silicone isn't too difficult to remove.
Even if the tile surface you want to clean up is not on a quartz or granite countertop, you can still use a chemical caulk remover to remove the sealant. Mark the area and take out all the things from the place. Learn how to easily remove silicone caulk with our video.
How to remove silicone sealant from plastic. How do you clean silicone residue? Clean the area where you will be removing the sealant from of any other residue and dirt.
Loosen the silicone sealant free with a knife. Cut away the worst of the sealant using a sharp blade. Hold and pull the exposed edge of the silicone sealant.
How to remove silicone sealant from plastic can be a little trickier. Resume pulling the silicone until it has been fully removed. Removing silicone sealant from some surfaces is easier than others.
There are also specialized caulk removal tools. Apply acetone, white vinegar, isopropyl rubbing alcohol, toluene, or xylene to the silicone caulking. Swipe over the tile, scrubbing as necessary, to clean any remaining residue.
If it easily lifts off. Loosen the silicone sealant free with a knife. If these materials are available at home, then take advantage of using the combinations of them to wipe out silicone caulk from your tile instantly.
Vinegar and isopropyl alcohol will also do this. Cut away the worst of the sealant using a sharp blade. Then rub the cloth in the remains of silicone white spirit / gasoline.
What dissolves silicone caulk residue? How to remove silicone caulk from tile step 1 clean the tile area: When you've physically scraped, rubbed, and rem.
Make a vertical cut in the silicone caulk with a putty knife and pry up an end of silicone caulk from the porcelain by hand, if possible. Spray or rub one of the solvents on the silicone caulking to dissolve it and scrape the area with a putty knife or scraper. This will soften the sealant, it should look like jelly and will be easier to remove.
Use a razor blade or box cutter to cut along the old silicone caulk. Ensure the surfaces are completely dry. Grasp the silicone and peel it off your surface.
Make an environment to work in the place. You can use it to heat the silicone caulk and wait for it to loosen the grip. Scrub the tiles to remove silicone residue.
This should be done very carefully, so as not to damage the tile. Grasp the silicone and peel it off your surface. Apply selleys silicone remover on the surface of the old silicone layering it about 3mm high (ensure you apply to a small area to test first).
You can also use silica sand with water and abrasively remove it with a scrub pad. Once clean, ensure the area is dry. Put in your hand gloves.
Unlike a banana the silicone should bring with it silicone. For example, you might find it easy to peel away from smooth tiles. Its always best to clean the area before commencing any diy job.
White vinegar can remove residue after silicone has been scraped off. How to remove silicone caulk from tile. Cutting from both sides will break the seal with a porcelain fixture or the wall.
Here's how you can remove silicone from tiles: Dampen a scouring pad or similar gently abrasive tool with acetone, mineral spirits or rubbing alcohol. Slide a razor down the caulk seam.
Definitely use a razor to cut away as much as possible. Removing silicone sealant without damaging the plastic is sometimes an issue because the. You can use a utility knife or putty knife, slicing through the caulk and peeling it away.
As a result, you may have to use several things. How to remove silicone sealant from tiles? When removing silicone from metal surfaces, scrape the silicone off with a sharp blade, making sure you are cutting away from you.


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ERIS, an enterprise resource information solution, provides a real-time information integration platform for law enforcement, facility managers, and emergency responders providing users with broad situational awareness and tactical information about critical assets including buildings, technical environments, and infrastructure. ERIS uses an innovative approach to safety and security by applying robust Enterprise GIS technology to sensors with both spatial and non-spatial data. ERIS supports the decision-making process before, during, and after incidents and serves the need of public safety organizations in their effort to safeguard human lives by providing real-time data that enhances an organization's ability to make critical decisions when faced with time sensitive conditions. ERIS is the single solution for security management, emergency response, and domain awareness. Additionally, ERIS can be configured to support facility operations & maintenance, energy management, and compliance management..
To provide users with an ability to react more quickly and efficiently to events, ERIS displays a real-time Common Operating Picture (COP) for Enterprise (facility) information in a 2-Dimensional (2D) and a 3-Dimensional (3D) display. With this approach role-based operators are equipped with simple and effective situational awareness decision-making tools that enhance communication during an incident. Critical data from these events are filtered to users through a single web-enabled interface, presenting a clear, geospatially-based picture of monitored events. The information disseminated using ERIS can integrate directly with mass notification systems, relaying specific and direct details to responders for immediate action. A key advantage ERIS provides is that it employs an "open platform" with a "pluggable provider architecture" which reduces the complexity and variety of legacy systems, eliminating the inherent problems associated with integrating proprietary systems, thus enabling quick and efficient situational response.


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During the last year, representatives of the American Association of State Counseling Boards (AASCB), the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA), and the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) worked together to create a Portability Task Force with one goal: a safe, clear, reasonable portability process for all current and future counselors. The task force agreed upon five (5) key tenets which informed each decision by the taskforce.
Specifically, a uniform licensure endorsement process must:
I. Significantly increase public access to qualified care;
II. Establish minimum standards for safe practice;
III. Reduce administrative burdens for both state regulatory boards and licensees;
IV. Create consistency in licensure standards across state lines; and
V. Ensure protection of the public and the continued development of the profession.
The Portability Task Force agreed on the importance of honoring the work and practices already adopted by state regulatory boards while developing a portability process. Consequently, the task force conducted a thorough analysis of all state regulatory practices related to reciprocity, portability, and licensure endorsement.
This state-by-state analysis revealed the need for a more refined goal for portability – that of achieving a balance between establishing minimum licensure endorsement standards for public protection and moving the profession toward the future goal of unified education standards, examination requirements, and years of post-graduate experience.
Throughout our research, analysis, and collaborative efforts, the Portability Task Force prioritized public protection and the future of the counseling profession over any one organization's previously established portability policy or organizational agenda. This deep commitment to unity is reflected in a portability process that represents meaningful compromises by AASCB, ACES, AMHCA, and NBCC.
By capitalizing on the historical knowledge of all organizations involved in the Portability Task Force and the history of state regulatory standards, AASCB, ACES, AMHCA, and NBCC agreed upon a unified portability process that is as much a recognition of our shared past as it is a step forward into our shared future.
In an era of a mobile workforce, which is increasingly receptive to innovative service delivery such as tele-mental health services and military-friendly licensure processes, a national portability process is more vital than ever. To be a counselor must hold the same meaning to a citizen as it does to a policy maker from state to state. After 30+ years of wrangling with the issue of portability, the time has come to pave a path forward for highly qualified current and future counselors to improve client access to services.
We recognize that no portability process is a "silver bullet" that resolves all concerns related to portability. However, we strongly believe that our portability process will significantly benefit mental health consumers by increasing access to needed care and services and helping create a vibrant workforce of licensed counselors both in terms of changing regulatory standards and the increasing need for united advocacy efforts.
In addition, for a secure counselor portability licensure process with ensured consumer protections to be in place, a careful vetting of counselors seeking portability should include background checks to strengthen public protection. Enhancing the ability of states to share investigative and disciplinary information will help assure the public that key protections are in place.
AASCB, ACES, AMHCA, and NBCC present the counseling profession's historic united, collaborative portability process for all counselors licensed at the highest level of licensure for independent practice. The Portability Task Force asks each state regulatory board to consider adopting the National Counselor Licensure Endorsement Process.
We understand and appreciate that such a change will require rule –and possibly even – statutory changes for many state regulatory boards.
We are asking each state regulatory board to embrace this opportunity to facilitate increased access to care by mobilizing a more nimble workforce of counselors in order to be part of a shared future in which true licensure portability is a reality.
National Counselor Licensure Endorsement Process
Any counselor licensed at the highest level of licensure for independent practice available in his or her state may obtain licensure in any other state or territory of the United States if all of the following criteria are met:
- The licensee has engaged in ethical practice, with no disciplinary sanctions, for at least 5 years from the date of application for licensure endorsement.
- The licensee has possessed the highest level of counselor licensure for independent practice for at least 3 years from the date of application for licensure endorsement.
- The licensee has completed a jurisprudence or equivalent exam if required by the state regulatory body.
- The licensee complies with ONE of the following:
a. Meets all academic, exam, and post-graduate supervised experience standards as adopted by the state counseling licensure board.
b. Holds the National Certified Counselor (NCC) credential, in good standing, as issued by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC).
c. Holds a graduate-level degree from a program accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs (CACREP).


Consideration for centrifugal tension, Mechanical Engineering
Consideration:
1. From above equation, it is clear that centrifugal tension is not dependent of T1 and T2. It depends upon velocity of the belt. For lower belt speed (that is, Belt speed less than 10m/s) the centrifugal tension is very small and can be neglected.
2. When centrifugal tension is to be taken into consideration then the total tension on tight side and slack side of belt can be given by
For tight side = T1 + Tc
For slack side = T2 + Tc
3. Maximum tension(Tm) in belt is equal to maximum safe stress in belt multiplied by cross sectional area of the belt.
Tm = σ (b.t)
Where
σ = Maximum safe stress in belt
b = Width of belt and
t = Thickness of belt
Tm = T1 + Tc ---- if centrifugal tension is considered = T1 ------- if centrifugal tension is neglected

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System# is a.NET library intended for the description of real-time embedded systems. It comes with a built-in simulator kernel and a code transformation engine that converts a design into synthesizable VHDL. The main focus is currently the development of FPGA designs. System# not only supports register-transfer-level (RTL) descriptions whose translation to VHDL is straightforward, but is also capable of converting clocked threads with wait statements to a synthesizable VHDL state machine. Furthermore, System# introduces synthesizable transaction-level modeling features. From a technological point of view, it uses reflection and assembly code (CIL) decompilation to reconstruct an abstract syntax tree (AST) from the system design. The AST conforms to SysDOM, a document object model for describing component-based reactive systems. An unparsing stage converts the AST to VHDL. The decompilation process can be instrumented in various ways by attribute-based programming. Furthermore, transformations of the AST itself are possible. This enables implementation of advanced features such as converting clocked threads to finite state machines.
BlueSense SDK is a software development kit for communicating with BlueSense equipment. It allows you to read out sensors or control actuators. A user-space USB driver for all platforms is included. Examples for all modules are also included. For Java and Mono/C#, there is an object-oriented interface, and for C, there is a function based interface.