text:
"Thank you for showing me that I have options and for helping me put together a plan to stay safe." Carla, SCH Patient
Health care providers are in a unique position to identify and respond to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. Many victims of abuse will present within healthcare settings such as general medicine practices, prenatal clinics and hospital emergency departments due to a direct link between interpersonal violence and overall health. Medical providers may be the only professionals with an excuse to speak with a patient alone that an abuser will accept. They also are privy to highly sensitive information that can provide red flags that a patient is experiencing abuse.
The Violence Prevention Program at Swedish Covenant Hospital was developed in 2015 to strengthen the hospital's capacity to identify and respond to patients who are victims of violence. Medical professionals continue to face barriers to identifying and addressing interpersonal violence including a lack of knowledge regarding subtler signs and symptoms of abuse and the community resources available to support victims. This critical program trains healthcare providers to identify victims through patient screenings, assess their immediate needs and connect them with community-based partner agencies. The program is completely funded through generous gifts to Swedish Covenant Hospital Foundation.
Your philanthropic support of the Violence Prevention Program provides critical resources to help Swedish Covenant Hospital identify and respond to victims of violence. Your charitable gift of:
- $1,000 will provide crisis assessment, options counseling and safety planning in the emergency room for 10 survivors of domestic violence or human trafficking.
- $600 will support the training of 10 staff through workshops to identify, assess safety and refer patients who are current victims of domestic violence or human trafficking with a focus on the emergency room, obstetrics, Women's Health Center, in-patient psychiatric unit, and outpatient practices.
- $250 will help to produce multi-lingual patient education materials to teach at-risk patients about the dynamics of domestic violence and human trafficking, and offer contact information and services provided by our domestic violence partner agencies in our community.
- $100 will provide safe transportation for a victim to emergency shelter and streamlined referrals to north side domestic violence and human trafficking service providers most suited to their language and cultural identities.
- $50 will provide comfort care packages for five victims of violence who present in the emergency department following a traumatic event.
Your secure online donation will make a lasting impact on the lives of others. Thank you.
If you have a question please contact us at _PHONE_ or _EMAIL_.


_word/)
} @words;
# Read the input
my $input = <>;
# Initialize the state
my @candidates = ({ remaining => $input, words => [] });
while (@candidates) {
 # Print matches
 for my $solution (grep { $_->{remaining} eq '' } @candidates) {
 say join " ", @{ $solution->{words} };
 }
 # Generate new solutions
 @candidates = map {
 my $candidate = $_;
 map {
 $candidate->{remaining} =~ $morse_words{$_}
 ? {
 remaining => substr( $candidate->{remaining}, $+[0] ),
 words => [ @{ $candidate->{words} }, $_ ],
 }
 : ()
 } @words
 } @candidates;
}
Modus Operandi:
Morse code symbols are stored by changing "." and "-" into binary digits 0 and 1, prepending a "1" (so that leading dots aren't gobbled up), converting the binary number into decimal, and then encoding the character with the value 61 higher (which gets me all printable chars and nothing that needs backslashing).
I thought of this as a kind of partitioning problem, and built a solution based on that. For each word in the dictionary, it constructs a regex object that will match (and capture) that word's spaceless morse representation at the beginning of a string. Then it begins a breadth-first search by creating a state that has matched no words and has the entire input as "remaining input". Then it expands each state by looking for words that match at the beginning of the remaining input, and creating new states that add the word to the matched words and remove the morse from the remaining input. States that have no remaining input are successful and have their list of words printed. States that can't match any words (including successful ones) generate no child states.
Note that in the ungolfed version the states are hashes for readability; in the golfed version they're arrays (for shorter code and less memory consumption); slot [0] is the remaining input and slot [1] is the matched words.
Commentary
This is ungodly slow. I'm wondering if there's a solution that isn't. I tried to build one using Marpa (an Earley parser with the ability to give multiple parses for a single input string) but ran out of memory just constructing the grammar. Maybe if I used a lower-level API instead of the BNF input...
share|improve this answer

If I add the same requirement as Kevin Reid (no newline in the input) I can save 7 characters by removing chomp(). Should I? – hobbs Aug 25 '14 at 4:53

"Feel free to use any method convenient". – Comintern Aug 25 '14 at 5:23

Shave 2 bytes with ord instead of ord$_. Shave 1 byte saying join$" instead of join" " – Zaid Aug 26 '14 at 6:40

@Zaid thanks for those! – hobbs Aug 26 '14 at 15:04
Haskell - 418
This decoing problem can be solved efficiently by dynamic programming. I know this is a codegolf, but I love fast code.
Say we have the input string s, then we build an array dp, dp[i] is the list of all valid decoding results of substring s[:i]. For each word w in the dictionary, first we encoding it to mw, then we can compute part of dp[i] from dp[i - length(mw)] if s[i - length(mw):i] == mw. The time complexity of building dp is O({count of words} {length of s} {max word length}). Finally, dp[length(s)], the last element, is what we need.
In fact, we don't need to store the whole decoding as the element of each dp[i]. What we need is the last decoded word. This make the implementation a lot faster. It cost less than 2 seconds to finished the "hello world" case on my i3 laptop. For other cases posted in the question, the program will not finish pratically since there are too many to output.
Using the dynamic programming technique, we can compute the number of valid decodings. You can find the code here. Results:
input: ......-...-..---.-----.-..-..-..
count: 403856
input: .--..-.-----..-..-----..-.--..--...---..--...-.......--.-..-.-.----...--.---.-....-.
count: 2889424682038128
input: -.....--.-..-..-.-.-.--....-.---.---...-.----..-.---..---.--....---...-..-.-......-...---..-.---..-----.
count: 4986181473975221635
Ungolfed
import Control.Monad
morseTable :: [(Char, String)]
morseTable = zip ['a'..'z'] $ words ".- -... -.-. -.. . ..-. --. .... .. .--- -.- .-.. -- -. --- .--. --.- .-. ... - ..- ...- .-- -..- -.-- --.."
wordToMorse :: String -> Maybe String
wordToMorse xs = return . concat =<< mapM ('lookup' morseTable) xs
slice :: (Int, Int) -> [a] -> [a]
slice (start, end) = take (end - start) . drop start
decode :: String -> String -> IO ()
decode dict s = trace (length s) [] where
 dict' = [(w, maybe "x" id . wordToMorse $ w) | w <- lines dict]
 dp = flip map [0..length s] $ \i -> [(j, w) |
 (w, mw) <- dict', let j = i - length mw, j >= 0 && mw == slice (j, i) s]
 trace :: Int -> [String] -> IO ()
 trace 0 prefix = putStrLn . unwords $ prefix
 trace i prefix = sequence_ [trace j (w:prefix) | (j, w) <- dp !! i]
main :: IO ()
main = do
 ws <- readFile "wordlist.txt"
 decode ws =<< getLine
Golfed
import Control.Monad
l=length
t=zip['a'..]$words".- -... -.-. -.. . ..-. --. .... .. .--- -.- .-.. -- -. --- .--. --.- .-. ... - ..- ...- .-- -..- -.-- --.."
h s=return.concat=<<mapM('lookup't)s
f d s=g(l s)[]where g 0 p=putStrLn.unwords$p;g i p=sequence_[g j(w:p)|(j,w)<-map(\i->[(j,w)|(w,m)<-[(w,maybe"x"id.h$w)|w<-lines d],let j=i-l m,j>=0&&m==(take(i-j).drop j$s)])[0..l s]!!i]
main=do d<-readFile"d";f d=<<getLine
share|improve this answer

Glad to see a reasonably efficient solution. Now I just have to understand it :) – hobbs Aug 27 '14 at 0:12
Groovy 377 337
r=[:];t={x='',p=''->r[s[0]]=p+x;s=s.substring(1);if(p.size()<3){t('.',p+x);t('-',p+x)}


text:
In statistics, we draw conclusions from data. But to get data, we need to be able to measure the variable(s) that we are interested in. Measuring can be very crude (say, a trait is absent or present) or rather sophisticated (the expression levels of large numbers of genes). In the social sciences or in medicine, in order to reach uniformity in measuring a particular condition and make results more comparable, a standard scale is often developed that everyone is using. But can we measure everything? Here is an unusual example of trying to measure the immeasurable:
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder that leads to abdominal pain and cramping, changes in bowel movements, and other symptoms (PubMed). When trying to develop a drug for combating IBS, one way to measure its success is to look at stool consistency. You think that is immeasurable? In fact, there is a scale for measuring just that, called the Bristol stool scale, which classifies stool into seven categories. The following (graphic) picture explains the scale:
So, it seems, everything is measurable!

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


text:
Introduction: How to Interface With Active Buzzer Sensor Module
This tutorial is going to teach you some basics on using Active Buzzer Sensor Module.
Step 1: Introduction
An active buzzer sensor module has a built-in oscillation circuit, thus the sound frequency is fixed. It is able to generate the sound itself. So, you can simply turn it on and off with an Arduino pin, just like the way of turning on and off a Led which is connected to Arduino board. Besides, this sensor starts beeping when it is being supplied with DC power supply.
- Operating voltage: 3.3V to 5V
- Active low sensor module
- Driver transistor: S8550
- Size: 3.2cm x 1.3cm
Step 2: Pin Definition
Step 3: Sample Hardware Installation
Step 4: Sample Source Code
To get the result, please download the sample source code attached below and upload it into Arduino.
After uploading, listen to the sound that is produced by Buzzer. Have Fun!

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


text:
Numerical Analysis on Fluid Dynamic Phenomena in a Strip Caster Mold by L.E.S.
Shinji KAJIWARA, Kunihiko ONISHI
This report presents the simulation results of flow patterns of liquid metal in a twin roll strip caster. To analyze the velocity field in liquid pool, the influence of the nozzle flow and free surface were considered. The large eddy simulation-L.E.S.-model was applied to handle the turbulence of flow. The fluctuation of the fluid was measured using the full size water model test apparatus as well. The influence of nozzle flow on the flow pattern was clarified. In the pool the fluctuation of flow depends on casting speed, submerged nozzle type, and so on. The fluctuation of flow changes with the hole type of submerged nozzle.
Readers Who Read This Article Also Read
Tetsu-to-Hagané Vol.85(1999), No.11

source: m-a-p/FineFineWeb


text:
Gammelgården Museum of Scandia
Established in 1972 by Elim Lutheran Church to honor the Swedish immigrants who founded the community, Gammelgården Museum of Scandia celebrates the story of all immigrants to their new land.
Housed in six buildings on the historic gammelgården or old farm where the community of Scandia was first established, Gammelgården offers historical, educational, and cultural activities. The museum invites visitors to step back in time, experience the stories of Swedish immigrants, and relate them to their own family immigration stories.
The Välkommen Hus is built in the style of 1850s Swedish farmhouse and features art exhibits, a classroom/meeting area, Butik (gift shop) and restrooms.
Präst Hus was built in 1868 as the first parsonage for the Elim Lutheran Church congregation. This is the oldest existing parsonage in Minnesota.
The Immigrant Hus features the same Swedish log construction as the Gammelkyrkan and the Präst Hus, and was used as a home until the early 1900s.
Gammelkyrkan is the first sanctuary of Elim Lutheran Church, and was built in 1856. It is the oldest Lutheran church building in Minnesota.
This small home was built in 1930 by architect Gottlieb Magney as a guest/vacation house along the St. Croix River. Modeled after his family's peasant home in Sweden, this is a realistic representation of such a home occupied by a three-generation family.
Ladugård (barn) was constructed in 1879 at the request of Rev. Eric Hedeen. Boards were sawn at the nearby Marine sawmill, the first water-powered sawmill in Minnesota.
Aerial view of the Gammelgården Museum
The Lucia Dagen services are held in December at 6 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., and are followed by a light breakfast.
Gammelgarden has over 5,000 artifacts in its collection.
Gammelgarden has an active adult volunteer corps and Junior Guides program (for 6th grade-college students). Visit the museum's website to volunteer!
Vinterfest is one of many events in which Gammelgarden shows wildlife that would have lived in the 1850s-1880s.
Intergenerational workshops - including needlefelting - are held thoughout the year.
Music is a part of Gammelgarden. From sing-a-longs to bluegrass jam sessions to fiddle festival - music abounds at Gammelgarden.
Seasonal Swedish craft classes are offered throughout the year for people of all ages.
Volunteers built and installed a bluebird trail at Gammelgarden in April and May 2023.
Gammelgarden offers free activity kits during the summer thanks to the Scandia-Marine Lions Club.
In the Valkommen Hus, there are art and cultural exhibits. From May-October 2023, the focus is on Swedish Folk Painting - Tradition and Innovation.
At the May 2023 Open House, Gammelgarden's tour guides shared information about each of the historic buildings. Costumed historic interpreters from The Living History Society of Minnesota also were at the event.
At Gammelgarden's major events, artists do demonstrations as well as sell their artwork.
The Washington County Master Gardeners are undertaking a multi-year project to revitalize Gammelgarden's heirloom, flower, grain, and herb gardens. One of the first projects was to create an upcycled compost bin from pallets.
Backstory and Context
Take a journey back in time as you experience what immigrant life was like in the 1850s as you tour the first Swedish settlement in Minnesota. Our guided tours provide a glimpse into the daily lives of early immigrants. You'll be immersed in history as you visit our historic buildings and see artifacts on display.
Begin in the Välkommen Hus for the history of Gammelgården Museum of Scandia and early Swedish immigration to Minnesota. Next, tour our five historic buildings with your guide. Finally, view the exhibit on display in the Passage Room of the Välkommen Hus and visit the Butik.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES
Gammelgården Museum of Scandia has a range of educational opportunities for youth and adults alike. We offer summer camps for children, ideas for activities at home, and activity kits at the Scandia Farmers Market (and links for the contents if you aren't able to make it to the Market).
At Gammelgården, there are opportunities for people of all ages to learn about heirloom gardening, creating a prairie, and providing homes for bluebirds.
For artists and those who enjoy viewing art, Gammelgården has exhibits that showcase contemporary and historical artwork.


I recently worked on a CTF challenge by CyberSpace Kenya which I ended up winning. This is a writeup on how I solved the challenge. We were provided with an android app to reverse engineer and submit 3 flags.
Flag 3
I haven't done tons of mobile app reverse engineering but as I was learning about the subject in previous challenges I found this 2-step approach to work well:
 - Extracting the apk contents with apktool
 - Reversing the app code with jadx-gui
Using apktool is pretty simple just run this command on the apk:
> apktool d cyberspace-ctf.apk
This generates files in a folder cyberspace-ctf as below:
├── AndroidManifest.xml
├── apktool.yml
├── assets
├── lib
├── original
├── res
├── smali
└── unknown
Checking the AndroidManifest.xml and res/values/strings.xml doesn't reveal any flag. Usually grepping recursively through the apk files for interesting names would hint at something. After a few tries with the words flag, flag1, flag2, flag3 I got some interesting output.
Without much thought I opened jadx to find more mentions of that ValidateFlag3 and found the code.
Reading through the code I was able to figure out that the validate function does the following:
 1. takes our input
 2. xor encrypts it with a key(which is generated by getKey() function)
 3. base64 encodes it
 4. checks if it is equal to the hardcoded flag3.
From previous experience I know that with xor encryption if you have the key and the encrypted data getting the plain text output is simple. Let me illustrate:
encrypted = key ^ plaintext
plaintext = key ^ encrypted
Getting the code to work in java isn't as easy so I decided to use python and script the solution.
import base64
key1 = "hUZAf9gFIARRFTAvKRDs8A=="
key2 = "gp9jPELztMsd51Ih81gO0Q=="
flag3 = "RJ9qOOqa7pAinT19vyuQRHOGSi3FnPW5La0BYb4tnw=="
data1 = base64.b64decode(key1)
data2 = base64.b64decode(key2)
key = []
for i in range(len(data2)):
 key.append(data1[i] ^ data2[i])
decodedflag = []
input = base64.b64decode(flag3)
encryptedFlag = input
for i in range(len(encryptedFlag)):
 decodedflag.append(encryptedFlag[i] ^ key[i % len(key)])
b = [chr(s) for s in decodedflag]
Flag 3: CFI{plz_no_secret_in_java_code}
Since I found flag3 first I must have missed some stuff.
Flag 1
Refering back to my earlier screenshot, after performing the grep there's some base64 encoded data which I should have been more keen to look at!
Flag 1: CS_KE{base64_encoding_is_not_that_secure}
Flag 2
Now flag 2 was the last to find. Since most of the clues we have been finding were in that assets/ file let me have a look at it.
Something I noted was that jadx didn't find this file, that why the approach to use two tools is good IMO. A friend of mine has pointed out that it was actually there under Resources/assets on the jadx ui, nevertheless using two or more tools for analysis is still a good practice IMO. There is a lot of code in this file that is not easily readable, so I just googled what this file is.
I found that this file contains minified-javascript, it is created when an android app is developed using react. We already saw mentions of react when reading the code in jadx.
Reading the code in it's minified form isn't easy so js-beautifier to the rescue. I then opened the readable version in vs code and searched for the validateflag function again.
I landed here and we can clearly see the function that contained the base64 and the the other one that called flag3, due to their order flag 2 is what is left.
I took the same approach to porting the code to python as it is easier for me to work with. I had to do a bit of googling to understand the js flow but came up with this:
def f(n):
 t = 2
 r = 0
 e = []
 for r in range(len(n)):
 if 1 & r:
 t += 13
 t -= len(n) % 9
 u = ord(n[r]) + t
 return e
At the end, the output of the function is checked if it is equal to that list of numbers which is a hex representation of characters. Instead of trying to undo the transformation that was going on in the function where they add 13… which I tried for a few hours and failed, better to bruteforce all possibilities.
I came up with this script for that:
import string
k = [64,80,78,141,124,124,123,151,144,141,134,166,146,158,148,172,158,192,166,197,176,204,190,210,209,201,206,229,204,232,228,246,220,253,234,245,258,268,250,262,282]
all = string.printable
a = "a"*41
flag = [a[i] for i in range(len(a))]
def f(n):
 t = 2
 r = 0
 e = []
 for r in range(len(n)):
 if 1 & r:
 t += 13
 t -= len(n) % 9
 u = ord(n[r]) + t
 return e
for i in range(len(flag)):
 for j in range(len(all)):
 flag[i] = all[j]
 out = f(flag)
 if out[i] == str(k[i]):
Flag 2: CFI{obfuscated_javascript_is_not_secured}
This was a good ctf for practising some code review. I also had never played around with an app made with react so that was something I learnt.
I'd like to thank the CyberSpace Kenya team for putting up the challenge as well as ZuluMeats for the prize.
You can find more challenges on their website:
For any questions you can reach me on Twitter.
Twitter: ikuamike
Github: ikuamike


text:
The Chartered institute of Marketing (CIM) Diploma in Professional Marketing aims to provide the students with the required knowledge, skills and understanding at management level to take a strategic approach to marketing planning.
Upon successful completion of this course, it is expected that graduates will:
- be able to take a strategic approach to planning that achieves a sustainable competitive advan tage.
- be able to understand a range of measurement techniques which enable organisations to achieve marketing insights and strategic decision making.
- be able to take a visionary approach and embed innovation through the lens of entrepreneurial marketing.
- be able to examine how the management of digital channels and the application of key digital measures help to achieve business objectives.
|1||Driving Innovation OR|
Certificate in Professional Marketing or any other equivalent qualification.
Full Time / Part Time
Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK)


text:
Mystery Solved: Why Do NASA Space Shuttles Look So Dirty?
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, shuttle Discovery pauses for photos during its move called "rollover" from Orbiter Processing Facility-3 to the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on Sept. 9, 2010.
CREDIT: NASA/Ben Cooper [Full Story]
This story was updated on Wednesday, Feb. 23.
They're big and fast and fly in space, but NASA's space shuttles are far from being shiny white spaceships straight off the factory floor. Case in point: Space shuttle Discovery, which wears its age with pride as it nears retirement.
Discovery is NASA's oldest flying space shuttleand the most-flown of the agency's three-orbiter fleet. It is poised to blast off from Florida on Feb. 24 to make one last delivery to the International Space Station before being retired this year along with the rest of NASA's shuttle program.
But after nearly 27 years of spaceflight (Discovery first launched in August 1984), the shuttle shows its age. Its white and black exterior is marred with black streaks, and some SPACE.com readers have wondered why NASA's shuttles - a longtime symbol of American spaceflight – look old and busted.
It turns out, there's a reason.
"She does look worn, and she is," explained Stephanie Stilson, who oversees work on Discovery for each flight. "She's had a very long history."
Discovery and other shuttles earn their weathering mainly from the searing heat of re-entry through Earth's atmosphere, when they are subjected to scorching hot temperatures of up to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsius).
This upcoming trip to the space station will be Discovery's 39th spaceflight. It's NASA's 133rd shuttle mission. NASA's first two shuttles, Columbia and Challenger, were older than Discovery, but both were lost in spaceflight tragedies.
Not everything is replaced
While NASA engineers routinely inspect each shuttle for dings and damage after each flight, they only replace equipment that really needs it. That means insulation blankets, tiles and other gear – even if they look dirty or worn – stays on the ship if they can still do their job, Stilson told SPACE.com.
"So if the blankets, the white part that you see, look dirty, they've been to space and back for goodness sake," Stilson said. "So they are dirty, but they're still in good shape and in good condition and we're not going to change anything out unless they need to be."
The heat-resistant carbon composite panels along Discovery's wings and the black ceramic tiles on its underbelly are also subject to age.
Older tiles on Discovery look streaked from the plasma environment of re-entry. They stand out in photos because new tiles still appear a pristine dark black.
"So you can definitely tell that she's worked hard over the years, but that's just the nature of the business and what she's been through," Stilson said of Discovery.
NASA has two final shuttle missions scheduled and is hoping for final funding approval from Congress for one extra flight, before retiring its three orbiters this year. The shuttles (Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour) are being retired to make way for a new space plan aimed at sending astronauts to asteroid by 2025 and ultimately onto Mars.
Public's up-close look
Discovery's final mission is called STS-133. It will deliver a storage room and the humanoid robot helper Robonaut 2 to the International Space Station during its 11-day spaceflight.
Endeavour is launch on its final flight on April 19, with the potential extra shuttle flight slated for no earlier than June 28.
Stilson said she was impressed that SPACE.com readers commented on Discovery's worn appearance because it is not something that will be overlooked when the shuttle is ultimately displayed in a museum.
"I'm glad they noticed that because when they see Discovery at the display site, they'll see that as well," she said.
NASA ultimate plans to send its space shuttles to museums for exhibit across the country. The final destinations for the entire shuttle fleet have not yet been decided, NASA officials have said.
SPACE.com is providing complete coverage of the last voyage of space shuttle Discovery. You can follow SPACE.com staff writer Denise Chow on Twitter _USER_ as she covers Discovery's final space voyage from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
MORE FROM SPACE.com


Inobitec DICOM Viewer
2.3. Working with Several Monitors and Split Screen
The DICOM Viewer allows you to split the screen into two parts or work with two monitors connected to the same computer. For details on how to set up your monitor, see Section 15.3.
Let us assume that both displays are used, and each one is split (Fig. 2.3). In this case, the DICOM Viewer will be running in four autonomous windows. To close the DICOM Viewer just close any of its windows.
In the illustration above, the right monitor is the main one, so the Study list tab is open in its left window. To open this tab in any of the three remaining windows, select the File menu and the Study list item in this window. The series panel on the right side displays the window panel (Fig. 2.4).
Each window has a display icon corresponding to it.
 - the first icon corresponds to the left window of the main display;
 - the second icon corresponds to the right window of the main display;
 - the third icon corresponds to the left window of the additional display;
 - the fourth icon corresponds to the right window of the additional display.
The OS settings determine which display is the main one. The icon corresponding to the current window is displayed against a light background. In Fig. 2.5, the Study list tab is open in each window, and you can see the correspondence between the windows and the display icons. The right display is the main one.
To open a series in a certain window:
 1. Load studies in any tab.
 2. Select a study from the study panel.
 3. Hold the left mouse button and drag the series icon from the series panel to the display icon corresponding to the window to open the series in.
 4. Release the left mouse button. The series will open in the window corresponding to the display icon.
If the cursor is not located on the display icon, it will look as follows: PIC . This means that dragging is impossible. As soon as the cursor is over the display icon, it changes to PIC , and you can drag the icon.


text:
What we do
Across Scotland, we support individuals to build their career management, work-based and employability skills, throughout their career journey, from school, into further learning opportunities and employment.
We are able to use skills intelligence to help inform the decisions of people across Scotland, at all stages of their careers, so that they are well-placed to take up the opportunities arising within the economy.
We target delivery of this support to those who need it most, ensuring all individuals are enabled to achieve their full potential. We work with employers and employer groups on a national, sectoral, regional, local and individual basis; supporting them to recognise and articulate their current and future skills needs, and to engage with the skills system to help ensure it better meets those needs in the short, medium and longer term.
At the start of each business year Scottish Ministers issue a Letter of guidance to SDS setting out key targets, objectives and priorities for the year ahead.
Supporting Scotland's Employers
We help employers across Scotland to invest in existing skills, develop new talent using equal and inclusive recruitment, and get the right products to grow their business.
Scotland's Careers Services
Our Careers Information Advice and Guidance (CIAG) services focus on equipping Scotland's current and future workforce with the Career Management Skills (CMS) they require to achieve their potential.
We are committed to developing and growing a worldclass work-based learning system in Scotland.
The Skills Planning Model shows how we aim to improve the response of education, training and careers services to the needs of industry and ensure that people have the best possible chance of succeeding in the world of work.
We support individuals from all communities to increase their work-based and employability skills, enabling them to take their first steps into the labour market, or to make successful career change and progression.
Local Employability Partnership
Skills Development Scotland has created this resource to support our Local Employability Partners (LEPs) when designing bespoke local services to help people into learning and employment.
Research and insight
Skills Development Scotland produces and commissions high quality research on a variety of topics relating to skills and employability which informs policy and practice.


text:
Toward Sustainable Provision of Teaching and Learning Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa: a report by Tony Read
An extract from the foreword by Peter Nicolas Materu, Practice Manager, Education Global Practice, World Bank (GEDDR), is given below.
This study was commissioned as part of the World Bank's effort to support universal availability of textbooks in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It examines the cost and financing barriers to universal textbook provision in the region, and
is a compilation of the author's rich and multifaceted experience, across several decades working in the education sector in Africa. It covers a wide range of education issues including curriculum development and review, teaching and learning materials (TLM) provision, literacy and numeracy, language of instruction policy, procurement systems, distribution challenges, print manufacturing, materials development and design, and TLM management and usage in schools. Recent issues raised by attempts to embed information and communications technology (ICT) and other educational technologies within national education systems are also covered, as is the growing recognition that improved TLM system management is a critical component in achieving affordable and sustainable TLM provision
to all students.
The study will be particularly useful for policy makers, development partners, and other stakeholders attempting to understand the wide range of issues surrounding the complexity of textbook provision in SSA (Sub-Saharan Africa).
The complete report on 'Where Have All the Textbooks Gone? Toward Sustainable Provision of Teaching and Learning Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa' is available at the link below.


HM 230 : Lodging Management
Transcript title
Lodging Management
Grade mode
Standard letter grades
Contact hours total
Lecture hours
Explore current operational practices of lodging operations throughout the world. Study management functions related to front office, housekeeping, marketing, reservations, maintaining customer accounts, laws affecting lodging operations and typical service problems. Go on field trips to learn about different kinds of lodging operations throughout the state.
Learning outcomes
1. Identify the internal and external components of managing lodging operations.
2. Explain the theory of yield management as it relates to lodging operations.
3. Determine guest room availability and how to deal with overbooking situations.
4. Summarize the functional areas of lodging properties.
5. Identify careers in the lodging industry.
Content outline
Travel and Tourism
Hotel Development
Hotel Management and Operations
Food service Management
Beverage Management
Meetings, Conventions, and Special Events
Recreation and Leisure
Global Gaming and Casino Operations
Globalization of Hospitality
Required materials
Required textbook, web simulation code.
Grading methods
Grades will be determined by weekly homework, midterm exam, and final exam; may include discussion, short essays, and in-class presentation.
Outside of


text:
Home Stories A Reflection on the 2022 Season at our Research and Education Seed Farm
A Reflection on the 2022 Season at our Research and Education Seed Farm
Posted on Tuesday, 6 December 2022 under Stories
As with every year of farming, the 2022 season has taught us a lot.
Cool and wet weather in the spring delayed us, along with many other farmers who were unable to work the soil for fear of compaction in the wet conditions. In July, conditions changed, and farmers were hit with a couple of months of heat and drought. Thankfully the soil at our Research and Education Seed Farm is heavy with loam and silt. Coupled with our drip irrigation, we could keep up with watering our crops throughout the summer.
Some seed crops withstand rain better than others. Seeds in the Chicory family, like radicchio, frisée, and endive have tightly packed seeds that can handle rain, while lettuce seed does not tolerate being rained on.
As several of our crops were delayed in planting, we were not confident the seeds would have enough time to dry out in the fall. The season, however, stayed relatively dry throughout September, October was unseasonably dry and hot, and we had a great seed harvest.
Like any big seed harvest season, we have been busy cleaning our seeds this fall. One of the crops we have been cleaning is beans. Since beans are self-pollinated plants, they have a short suggested isolation distance of 15 feet. This meant we could grow three varieties on our farm (check out Seed Savers Exchange's Seed Saving Chart). We grew EZ Pick, Straight & Narrow, and Comtesse de Chambord varieties. The EZ Pick and Straight & Narrow varieties were tested in our 2022 Citizen Seed Trial.
As a dry-seeded crop, we have been cleaning these seeds by first threshing, which involves breaking up the pods from the beans, then winnowing, where we use airflow to blow away the pods from the seeds. Other dry-seeded crops we have cleaned this year include radicchio, rutabaga, broccoli, celosia, sunflower, mustard greens, arugula, onion, and more!
We have also cleaned the seeds of many wet-seeded crops, including tomato, pepper, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, and squash. Recently we cleaned our Costata Romanesco zucchini and North Georgia Candy Roaster squash using a shop vacuum. We took the filter out of the shop vacuum, cut the zucchini and squash in half then sucked out all the seeds. Afterwards, we cleaned any plant remnants using water. We found this method much quicker than scooping the seeds with a spoon.
If you are interested in acquiring some of the seeds we grew, and other seeds grown locally in BC, you can find them for sale at the BC Eco Seed Co-op.
We would like to thank our funders, the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food, BC Gaming, Vancouver Foundation, and Seed Change for supporting our Research and Education Seed Farm.


text:
Monday, April 30, 2007
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol
A new paper, Mergers when Firms Compete by Choosing both Price and Promotion, by Luke Froeb of Owen Graduate School of Management of Vanderbilt University, Steven Tenn of the Federal Trade Commission and Steven Tschantz of the Department of Mathematics of Vanderbilt University analyzes the merger effects in the 2003 merger between Häagen-Dazs and Dreyer that the FTC challenged.
ABSTRACT: Enforcement agencies have a relatively good understanding of how to measure the loss of price competition caused by merger. However, when firms compete in multiple dimensions, merger effects are not well understood. In this paper, we study mergers in industries where firms compete by setting both price and promotion, and ask what happens if we mistakenly assume that price is the only dimension of competition. To answer the question, we build a structural model of the super-premium ice cream industry, where a 2003 merger between Häagen-Dazs and Dreyer's was challenged by the Federal Trade Commission. A structural merger model that ignores promotional competition under-predicts the price effects of a merger in this industry (5% instead of 12%). About three-fourths of the difference can be attributed to estimation bias (estimated demand is too elastic), with the remainder due to extrapolation bias from assuming post-merger promotional activity stays constant (instead it declines by 31%).


CYTOLOGY RESULT TYPE
The classification, by their results, of cytology samples analysed in Pathology Laboratories.
Classification:
a. Inadequate sample (cat. 1)
b. Negative (cat. 2)
c. Borderline changes (cat. 8)
d. Mild dyskaryosis (cat. 3)
e. Moderate dyskaryosis (cat. 7), including abnormal, unclassifiable and ungraded smears
f. Severe dyskaryosis (cat. 4)
g. Severe dyskaryosis/?invasive carcinoma (cat. 5)
h. ?Glandular neoplasia (cat. 6), including adenocarcinoma
i. Other
References:
HMR 101/5 Request/Report for Cervical or Vaginal Cytology (a. to h.) KC65 - Colposcopy Clinics, Referrals, Treatments and Outcomes
KC61: Pathology Laboratories - Cervical Cytology and Outcome of Gynaecological Referrals
This attribute is also known by these names:
Context Alias
plural CYTOLOGY RESULT TYPES


People's Power Assemblies
The purpose of the Tear Down the Walls National Gathering is to create spaces for cross-movement strategies and networking. We want this to be an action oriented conference that will create substantial progress toward building a stronger, more unified movement for transformational change in the US. To that end we are incorporating six 2 and a 1/2 hour People's Power Assemblies throughout the weekend which are designed to produce cross-movement strategies and at least one [inter]nationally coordinated day of local action that all the groups involved agree to build together.
Topics for People's Power Assemblies
 1. US Imperialism and Anti-Militarism
 2. Drug War and Drug War Prisoners
 3. Immigration and Border Militarization
 4. Economic Justice
 5. Ecology and Empire
 6. Anti-Repression and Prison-Industrial Complex
*We recognize that there is substantial overlap even among these six issues. Capitalism with its need to create mechanisms for criminalization and social control is an even deeper root than these six cross-movement issues.


text:
Here's a little trick to help make sure wood doesn't split or crack when you're nailing it. This trick doesn't need special nails or equipment, and seems to work well with big nails or small nails.
Ready? Here we go.
- Step 1: Take a nail, turn it upside down
- Step 2: Tap the nail's pointy end with your hammer
That's it… Exciting, hey? You might, however, be pretty surprised at the difference that little trick makes.
Why does it work so well? With the slightly flattened end, the nail tears through the wood's fibers rather then forcing them apart.
You can flatten each nail as you use them or, if you have kids, give them a whole box and a little hammer — hours of endless fun. Really.


text:
- Brand new surgical instruments must be cleaned before the first sterilization.
- Hemostats Forceps must be cleaned in the open state.
- Before sterilization, when compiling the operation baskets the grid lock/ratchet should be closed only in first gear. This will avoid that the instruments during sterilization (temperature increases to 134 °C) are under tension and stress fractures occur in the conclusion.
- Handover of instruments during operation will be improved.
- Sterilization is not a substitute for cleanliness!
Results of improper treatment
Internal corrosive stress crack
Perforating corrosion caused by chlorides


text:
The History of Golf(1)
Golf as we all know it was invented in Scotland, but its roots stretches back to Flanders. The first record of "Chloe" is from 1353 and portrays something that could possibly be described as a mix between hockey and golf played in Flanders (Belgium) with ping g15 irons. The game was preferably played on ice and the players used sticks curved at the bottom to move balls from starting point to finish point. Since Scottish and Dutch merchants traveled a lot between the two regions and traded together with each other, the game played in Flanders with taylorMade r9 forged irons quickly spread to Scotland where it developed on the grassy Scottish fields and very soon ceased to be a winter game. It was the Scots that began to dig holes in the ground instead of simply selecting a finishing point with callaway diablo octane tour driver. Digging a hole in the Dutch ice had normally not seen a good idea. Although the game changed a great deal after being introduced in Scotland, the balls where still generally imported from Flanders. The more patriotic Scots claim that golf instead evolved from different stick-and-ball games that we understand were played all over the British Isles as early as the middle Ages. These games were inspired by a stick-and-ball game and introduced to the British Isles by the Romans. The first record of the term golf is from 1457 when King James II of Scotland outlawed golf and even soccer, given that the games were so popular with the clubs of taylormade r11 fairway wood that they made the king's archers skip their practice and play golf and soccer instead. James III re-issued this law in 1471 and James IV followed in his footsteps with all new bans in 1491. Golf did however keep on its development in Scotland in spite of the ban. Even during these early days, almost all the essential parts of golf such as Callaway RAZR Hawk Fairway Wood had already been invented. The players used a club to swing a ball into a hole in the ground. The player who managed to get the ball into the hole using the least amount of strokes won. The word gold is derived from the Old Scots words "Goff" or "glove", and these words in turn derive from "kolf" or "kolve", medieval Dutch words which simply meant club such as cheap golf clubs. When the words kolf and kolve were imported to Scotland, the old Scottish dialect transformed the letter K into G, and the game was named Goff, Glove, Glove and Growl.


Integrating Inbound and Outbound Correspondence
In the previous session, we heard a lot about the ISIS Papyrus correspondence generation capabilities, but it's important to look at response management, that is, closing the loop with inbound and outbound mail. This has to be considered in two different scenarios: an inbound customer interaction (paper, email, telephone, social media) triggers an internal process that results in a response interaction; or an outbound document solicits a response from a customer that must be matched to the outbound request. Response processes can be fully automated, manual, or automated with user intervention, depending on the degree of classification and content extraction that can be done on an inbound document. Not only does it handle the entire response management process, it provides analytics, such as campaign responses.
Their capture components include classification based on layout, keywords and/or barcodes; and data extraction from fixed forms or freeform documents. I'm not sure if this is their own recognition software or if they OEM in someone else's (I suspect the former, since they seem to be doing a lot of innovation in-house), or how the accuracy and throughput compare with market leaders such as Kofax and IBM Datacap.
Once the document is captured, classified and the content extracted, a response letter type can be selected automatically based on business rules or manually by a user, then completed either automatically based on the content of the inbound letter, or with user assistance.
There are specific social media capture functions, such as the ability to track a Twitter hashtag, then analyze the sentiment and open a case directly from a tweet. If the user is identifiable, it can cross-reference to customer information in a CRM system, then present all of the information to a user to follow up on the request or complaint. This is exactly the sort of scenario that I imagined happening internally at Zipcar during the interaction that I described when talking about linking external social presence to core business processes.
If you consider the business scenario, it's a real winner for handling inbound customer correspondence. First, an inbound document is received, analyzed and routed based on the content, including things such as looking up or extracting customer information from other systems of record. If some manual intervention is required for the response letter, a CSR is presented with the inbound letter, the generated outbound letter, customer information from other systems for context, and instructions for completing the letter. Inbound correspondence can be anything from a paper letter to a tweet, while the outbound can be the channel of choice for that customer, whether paper, fax, email or others.
Leave a Reply


text:
From the Huffington Post:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger typically attaches a message to bills he signs or vetoes telling lawmakers why he took the action.
A Democratic assemblyman who heckled the governor during a recent event in San Francisco actually received two messages: the veto letter itself and a not-so-subtle rebuke creatively hidden within it.
Like a find-the-word puzzle, the second message was visible by stringing together the first letter of each line down the left-hand margin. It consisted of a common four-letter vulgarity followed by the letters "y-o-u."
Wow. So what's the verdict, people?
Hilarious coincidence or deliberate insult?


text:
This past week, more than 180 major wildfires have destroyed areas of rain-starved Texas, destroying more than 1000 homes and resulting in several deaths. Members of the Houston Fire Department are also feeling the impact of the drought conditions, with more than 100 fires since the beginning of September, compared to less than 10 during the same time period last year.
Although we are experiencing such a drastic increase of grass and woodland fires, our firefighters continue to act with courage, commitment and compassion to ensure that the homes and lives of Houstonians are protected.
Woods and timber areas are very difficult to obtain access to, and require a large number of personnel on foot to fight such fires. HFD also utilizes "Boosters" or 'grass trucks', to give us the ability to reach remote areas.
In addition to protecting the citizens of Houston, the HFD has provided mutual aid to various departments surrounding the city, responding to at least 8 incidents this past holiday weekend.
Eight members of the Houston Fire Department are being deployed through Texas Task Force 1(TX-TF 1) to assist with the fires in Bastrop County. TX-TF 1 is one of 28 National Urban Search and Rescue teams in the nation which FEMA coordinates. Additional information about TX-TF1 and media contact may be found at _URL_
The Houston Fire Department encourages all citizens to be very cautious when around grass and woodland areas, this includes any area with grass, trees and other vegetation to help us insure that no Houstonians lose their homes or lives to grass or woodland fires.


text:
Two-dimensional analysis of proteinase activity.J Biochem Biophys Methods. 2006 Jun 30; 67(2-3):173-9.JB
A method was developed to separate proteinases in a complex mixture in two dimensions followed by activity detection using class specific substrates. Using this method, serine proteinase activity was evaluated in gut extracts from a stored-product pest, Plodia interpunctella. With the substrate n-alpha-benzoyl-l-arginine rho-nitroanilide, three major groups of at least six trypsin-like activities were identified, consisting of proteinases with estimated molecular masses of 25-27, 40-41, and 289 kDa, and all with an acidic pI of 4.7-5.5. With the substrate, n-succinyl-ala-ala-pro-phenylalanine rho-nitroanilide, two groups of at least five chymotrypsin-like activities were detected, with estimated molecular masses of 28 and 192 kDa and pI values ranging from 6.1 to 7.3. Using the 2-DE activity blot method, information was obtained on the relative number and physical properties of serine proteinases in a mixture of insect gut proteinases without prior fractionation.


text:
This week, researchers from Norway have reported that people who take part in or attend 'cultural' activities tend to have better physical and mental health. And cultural activities are defined as creative – such as playing music or drawing; and they're defined as receptive – such as going to the theatre, a museum and watching sport.
Publishing in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Koenraad Cuypers and his team sent surveys to tens of thousands of people in a rural region of Norway asking questions about their activities, happiness and perceived health. The researchers then took the results, ran some statistical tests and found this association between cultural activities and health.
Cuypers, who's from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, found that it was especially men in whom this relationship was most apparent. More than females, males reported higher levels of satisfaction, happiness and better perceived health if they took part in the receptive activities such as watching sport or going to a museum.
They also found that people in lower socioeconomic groups were less likely to attend either type of cultural activity, and that women were especially happy if they took part in more creative forms of culture. In addition, people tended to take part in more cultural activities the older they became up until they reached their forties, when it started to decline again.
The researchers stress they can't identify a causative relationship; they don't know if a bit of culture makes you happier or if happier/healthier people tend to involve more culture in their lives.


The Habeas Citebook: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel (2nd Edition)
The Habeas Citebook by Brandon Sample
Paperback, 275 pages. Written by Brandon Sample and Alissa Hull
Prison Legal News Publishing (2016). ISBN 978-0-_PHONE_-4-7
The Habeas Citebook: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel is a neatly-organized resource designed to assist litigants in advancing claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, the most common claim presented in post-conviction, habeas corpus proceedings. Citing cases from the United States Courts of Appeals and United States District Courts, both published and unpublished, The Habeas Citebook breaks down ineffective assistance of counsel cases into 40 categories. From cases describing lawyers failing to investigate a defense, to conflicts of interests and misadvise on appeal, The Habeas Citebook is an essential resource for those examining former counsel's performance, as well as for the formulation of well-supported claims of ineffective assistance.
The Habeas Citebook also contains extensive resource information for the prisoner putting together a habeas petition or other collateral attack on their conviction, including various rules and procedural codes in their entirety, sample briefs, and informed advice on procedural matters.
As one would expect from a text published by Prison Legal News, The Habeas Citebook is a quality, well-researched resource for both prisoners and attorneys alike.
Buy The Habeas Citebook on Amazon.
Pardons and Commutations of Sentences: The Complete Guidebook to Applying for Clemency
Paperback, 259 pages. Written by David L. Mathis and Brandon Sample, Esq.
Pardons and Commutations of Sentences by Brandon Sample
Prisology Press (2019). ISBN 978-_PHONE_
The President of the United States and the Governor of each state are empowered to grant pardons and commutations. A pardon can eliminate the collateral consequences of a conviction. A commutation can reduce the length of a sentence. In general, a pardon is sought after release from prison. A commutation, on the other hand, is used by prisoners to lessen their sentence. This easy-to-read guidebook is designed to assist individuals who want to apply for a pardon or commutation of sentence. The guidebook gives practical information about the process for applying for clemency, what to include in your petition, and provides answers about executive clemency in general. The guidebook is a "must have" for any individual who wants to navigate the complex process of applying for a pardon or commutation of sentence.
Buy Pardons and Commutations on Amazon.


text:
A group of Georgia Tech students are converting a school bus into a hydraulic hybrid, a technology that works best with large vehicles used in stop-and-go driving conditions, like delivery trucks and, of course, buses.
The hydraulic hybrid bus uses a diesel engine to power a pump that charges an accumulator. When the bus is accelerating, the accumulator then powers the hydraulic motors with built-up pressure, but when it's braking, the pump motors reverse and recapture that energy. UPS introduced delivery trucks with this technology just a few years ago, but what makes this school bus stand out is that it will also run on recycled biodiesel from used cooking oil.
The converted bus, destined for Atlanta's Mary Lin Elementary School, will result in a 20 percent fuel savings over a traditional bus. The team estimates the cost of one conversion at $20,000, but if an entire fleet were converted, the cost would go down to more like $8,000 - $10,000 per bus. With the steady rise of diesel prices, the return on investment could be as little as five years.
This particular project was funded through a $50,000 grant from Ford to prove the cost and energy saving benefits of this technology to public schools.via Wired Autopia
written by John Spade, May 19, 2011
written by Eugene, May 21, 2011
written by Martin, May 23, 2011
written by Poly Endrasik, May 26, 2011
written by Nick Gencarelle, May 26, 2011
|< Prev||Next >|


Take the 2-minute tour ×
is it possible to use hillshade function in ArcMap to calculate shadow areas of buildings or simulate shadows of buildings, using DSM of the buildings and the sun angle and azimuth?
share|improve this question
Please edit your first question if you need to change something. If you just want to add the tags, don't worry because I have done that for you. – Nathan W Nov 10 '10 at 12:52
Also possible duplicate of math.stackexchange.com/questions/9683/… – Gareth Rees Nov 10 '10 at 12:59
And possible duplicate of programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/18086/… – Jaime Soto Nov 10 '10 at 14:13
6 Answers 6
ArcGIS claims to be able to do this at 10 with new 3D Analyst tools: Virtual City Template Enables 3D City Modeling. I say claims because I haven't personally used these tools yet. Here's the documentation for the tool discussed in that article: How Skyline Barrier (3D Analyst) works
share|improve this answer
hi how about trying to use sketchup?
i did not do it so if you do let us know how it went
share|improve this answer
What you are trying to do is usually called'solar envelope computation'. This paper present a method to compute it:
Eugenio Morello, Carlo Ratti, Sunscapes: 'Solar envelopes' and the analysis of urban DEMs, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 33, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 26-34, ISSN 0198-9715, DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2008.09.005.
Solar envelope computation seems far more complex and different than hill shading. Hill shading usually only uses the orientation, and do not fully model light rays propagation.
share|improve this answer
Sketchup works great. You can define all kinds of settings and create time-lapse animations. Using ArcGIS, you can convert DSM to TIN then TIN to Multipatch and COLLADA and load into SketchUp.
In fact back in 2006 even ESRI was acknowledging the SketchUp was the tools for this: Quoting "Users can rapidly develop three-dimensional models that are georeferenced, animate scenes, and produce shadow casting studies for proposed building."
Take a look at the article: _URL_ It only applies to ArcGIS version 9.3.1 and older as this is the last version where the SketchUp6 plugin can be installed. In fact, for your purposes (DSM) it would probably be easier to use the plugin to convert the TIN surface to SketchUp then the new way which requires a few more steps. (The benefit of using the older version is that you can also export vector features (polylines, polygons, points) from ArcGIS to SketchUp whereas in version 10 this is not possible)
As was already mentioned in the previous similar post, ESRI claims to have similar functionality but I have not tried the tools personally.
share|improve this answer
Hello swingley,eliavs and jukub thanks for your suggestions, but i think none of your suggestions will get me the right results. perhaps you didn't get the question so i refer you to this article:a-a-r-s.org/acrs/proceeding/ACRS2002/Papers/VHR02-2.pdf. for you to get the picture. At page 3, section 3.2 Shadow simulation: this not so much to read, only a few sentence and figure 5. "Shadow simulation image" depicts exactly what i intended to achieve. perhaps, if anyone has experience solving such a task would be grateful if you could explain a little bit for me. thanks in advance. – Yudine Nov 11 '10 at 13:37
The actual answer to your initial question is no. You cannot use the hillshade function to obtain the shadows. Personally I don't have a very high option of the paper you mention; Aside from the numerous items that just don't make sense, the purpose is to recover information hidden in the shadow areas? Why not use an image taken from a different angle, time of day, etc. I disagree that none of our suggestions will give you the results depicted in figure 5. I will add another answer with some quick sketchup screen captures. – Jakub Nov 11 '10 at 14:56
"but i think none of your suggestions will get me the right results."
I still think you should consider the new ESRI tools or Sketchup. As for Sketchup, you can customize what object cast shadows on what objects. If you just want the shadows themselves -> view model in plan view and un-check perspective -> then paint model white on white background and in Style dialog turn off edges. See below for 2 examples of this; 1: buildings, 2: terrain. You can export this to tiff, import into ArcGIS or other GIS, georeference, classify, convert to polygons if need be.
alt text
alt text
share|improve this answer
Hello jukub, i really did not mean that... I just want to thank you....you've made my day. – Yudine Nov 11 '10 at 17:20
Not in Arcgis, but the free SAGA GIS can calculate the shade of objects in a digital surface model: _URL_ Use the analytical hillshading method with the ray-tracing option. All values >90 degrees (>1.56 radians) are shadows (black in the sample figure below). alt text
share|improve this answer
Your Answer


SQLServerCentral.com / SQL Server 2005 / SQL Server 2005 Integration Services / no matter how large the destination column eg. nvarchar(max), excel source choke on column / Latest PostsInstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentral.comhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/_EMAIL_, 27 May 2016 12:37:38 GMT20RE: no matter how large the destination column eg. nvarchar(max), excel source choke on columnhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1453679-148-1.aspx[quote][b]Tab Alleman (6/7/2013)[/b][hr]I am dealing with a similar issue, and found this exerpt in the article referenced below. Check and see if it applies to you:•Truncated text. When the driver determines that an Excel column contains text data, the driver selects the data type (string or memo) based on the longest value that it samples. If the driver does not discover any values longer than 255 characters in the rows that it samples, it treats the column as a 255-character string column instead of a memo column. Therefore, values longer than 255 characters may be truncated. To import data from a memo column without truncation, you must make sure that the memo column in at least one of the sampled rows contains a value longer than 255 characters, or you must increase the number of rows sampled by the driver to include such a row. You can increase the number of rows sampled by increasing the value of TypeGuessRows under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Excel registry key. For more information, see PRB: Transfer of Data from Jet 4.0 OLEDB Source Fails w/ Error.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141683(v=sql.90).aspx[/quote]That's pretty much what the blog post we've been discussing says, except in much more practical terms than the TechNet documentation.[quote][b]opc.three (5/16/2013)[/b][hr]The whole post is a good read, but section "The solution part III" pertains to your issue specifically:[u][url=_URL_ 07 Jun 2013 09:25:46 GMTOrlando ColamatteoRE: no matter how large the destination column eg. nvarchar(max), excel source choke on columnhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1453679-148-1.aspxI am dealing with a similar issue, and found this exerpt in the article referenced below. Check and see if it applies to you:•Truncated text. When the driver determines that an Excel column contains text data, the driver selects the data type (string or memo) based on the longest value that it samples. If the driver does not discover any values longer than 255 characters in the rows that it samples, it treats the column as a 255-character string column instead of a memo column. Therefore, values longer than 255 characters may be truncated. To import data from a memo column without truncation, you must make sure that the memo column in at least one of the sampled rows contains a value longer than 255 characters, or you must increase the number of rows sampled by the driver to include such a row. You can increase the number of rows sampled by increasing the value of TypeGuessRows under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Excel registry key. For more information, see PRB: Transfer of Data from Jet 4.0 OLEDB Source Fails w/ Error.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141683(v=sql.90).aspxFri, 07 Jun 2013 09:14:18 GMTTab AllemanRE: no matter how large the destination column eg. nvarchar(max), excel source choke on columnhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1453679-148-1.aspx[quote][b]KoldCoffee (5/21/2013)[/b][hr]Careful thought before I ask the following:Would it be ok with you not to post to my topics for about 6 months? There are so many people on the forums to help and I am not posting every day or every week, but every time I do you are on there! Even Celko does not get on me every single time about my DDL not being fully normalized and datatypes correctly defined. You know, DDL is often created to be adequate for illustrating the problem...etc. and Celko, while he *has a point* is heavy handed with it at time where it is clear the person posting is not addressing normalization. [/quote]I have never gone off on anyone for posting table definitions that were not normalized or did not have PK defined, or weren't using proper data types in the manner of Mr. Celko. I may mention that dates should not be stored as integer or character values, but I also realize that you sometimes are stuck with the decisions of others. I do recommend trying to change those but again realize that may not be possible.Depending on the problem, we may suggestion that data may need to be normalized as well, but we try to work with what is provided because that is what you have to work with. As for not answering any of your posts for 6 months, you will probably get that wish not because I pay attention to who is posting (as I told you in a PM, I rarely look at the who when responding) but because I may simply not be able to answer as many questions as my internet connections may not be a fast and/or reliable while I am in Afghanistan. Until I leave, however, if I answer your question(s) I answer your question(s).Tue, 21 May 2013 09:11:13 GMTLynn PettisRE: no matter how large the destination column eg. nvarchar(max), excel source choke on columnhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1453679-148-1.aspxCareful thought before I ask the following:Would it be ok with you not to post to my topics for about 6 months? There are so many people on the forums to help and I am not posting every day or every week, but every time I do you are on there! Even Celko does not get on me every single time about my DDL not being fully normalized and datatypes correctly defined. You know, DDL is often created to be adequate for illustrating the problem...etc. and Celko, while he *has a point* is heavy handed with it at time where it is clear the person posting is not addressing normalization. Tue, 21 May 2013 08:59:07 GMTKoldCoffeeRE: no matter how large the destination column eg. nvarchar(max), excel source choke on columnhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1453679-148-1.aspxWell, i'm not going to say anymore, other than, thank you all for your time.Tue, 21 May 2013 04:40:52 GMTKoldCoffeeRE: no matter how large the destination column eg. nvarchar(max), excel source choke on columnhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1453679-148-1.aspx[quote][b]KoldCoffee (5/20/2013)[/b][hr]In that case I was trying to learn cursors, and there was no better way. I even prefaced and said something like, I don't want to be talked out of a cursor because I am aware of pros and cons...in the hopes of avoiding getting derailed.Otherwise, I always agree with platitudes.[/quote]Okay, here is my opinion about learning cursors, should be done as a last resort or in an effort to figure out what someone else has done using cursors in an effort to replace with a set-based solution.The problem I have seen is that once someone has figured out how to use a cursor, every problem after that is solved with a cursor. And things work great when run against 10 to 100 records, but then you find people nesting cursors and running those nested cursors against tables with 1,000's to 10'000's of records and wondering why the process is extremely slow.One of the things we try to do here on SSC is pass on our knowledge and experience in an effort to make others better at their chosen craft without necessarily having to make the same mistakes we made in learning when resources like this weren't available. I had worked with SQL Server for


text:
For this first title of the Endangered Music Project, Mickey Hart explored the vast repositories of the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center, sorting through hundreds of hours of tapes representing rainforest cultures of the New World. The album, originally released in 1993, represents musics of seven tribal cultures: the Garifune of Belize; the Choco Indians of Panama and Colombia; the Shipibo and the Ashaninka, both of Peru; the Aluku of French Guiana; the Wayana of Suriname, and the Maroons of Jamaica. The music is integrally connected to settings where healing, spiritual forces, and practical knowledge of the forest converge. The Spirit Cries: Music from the Rainforests of South America & the Caribbean was issued in 1993 as part of "THE WORLD" series (now part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways).
Visit mickeyhart.net for additional photos and videos from this album
Click to enlarge


text:
DooBlockPatterns Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Create custom block patterns. The patterns can be designed just like you design a blog post or a page with the block editor.
You can assign any category or keywords.
- Create custom patterns from one or more blocks in the post editor
- Group your patterns in categories
- Optionally add any keywords or aliases that help users discover it while searching in the inserter
- Create custom pattern categories
- Set a viewport width to optimize the scaled width of the preview in the block inserter
- Add an optional hidden text if the title does not fully describe what the pattern does.
- Locate and click on the 'Doo Block Patterns' menu item in the sidebar admin menu.
- Click on the 'Add New' button.
- Give your pattern a name.
- Start writing or choose any blocks you want to be part of your pattern.
- Publish the pattern.
- Go to a test post or page and locate your pattern in the Block Inserter under the pattern tab and click on it.
- The block pattern will now be added to your page. All contained blocks are now independent of the original pattern and can be edited as any regular block.


text:
Impatiens macroptera is a more or less erect, perennial herb that can grow 20 - 40cm tall, occasionally to 50cm. The stems can be simple or branched about the base[
The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine.
West tropical Africa - eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon.
Humid shaded rain-forest, forest margins; at elevations from 200 - 1,350 metres[
Leaves - cooked and eaten as a vegetable[
The leaves are used to produce a vegetable salt[
The leaves are eaten as a cure for heart troubles and illnesses caused by evil spirits[
The leaves are used to make poultices and dressings to treat wounds and sores and to alleviate all kinds of painful conditions[
The flavonoids procyanidin and prodelphidin have been isolated from the sepals and petals[
If you have any useful information about this plant, please leave a comment. Comments have to be approved before they are shown here.


text:
The family plays an important role in uniting people into cooperative groups. Communication is crucial in family relations and knowledge of appropriate discourse norms starts in the family domaiin. This book focusses on talk in families: talk between mothers and children, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law; grandchildren and elderly grandparents, and talk among adolescents within families. Based on detailed micro-analysis of home-based interactions in Malaysia, Language Choices and Discourse of Malaysian Families: Case Studies of Families in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia provides a qualitative analysis of authentic talk between members of families and reveals how through conversations, relationships are maintained and strengthened.
This book is for anyone interested in the discourse of Malaysian families and is aimed especially at students working on discourse analysis. It uses multiple frameworks of analysis which include the Theory of Accommodation, Second Language Acquisition, Speech Acts, Communicative Strategies and Critical Discourse Analysis.
This product was added to our catalog on Monday 01 January, 2007.


Scientific Research
Homeopathy – How It Works and How It Is Done – 4
smith apr image
Homeopathy – How It Works and How It Is Done – 4
Chapter 4 Theory
4.1 The Descent from Orthodoxy into CAM
It is first necessary to establish some sort of ordering for my application of physics to CAM. In the 1970's, my laboratory in Salford University was concerned with measurements of the dielectric properties of liquids. This was mostly on such substances as transformer insulation oils and related chemicals, but I also had a medical electronics activity in which we were applying dielectrics techniques to biomolecules. In an abstract for a conference in 1975, I wrote that I would discuss the effects of electric and magnetic fields on the dielectric properties of enzymes. Shortly before the conference, my student reminded me that we had not done any of the magnetic measurements which I had included in the Abstract for completeness. I replied that it would not take long because biomolecules were non-magnetic and there should not be any magnetic effects but, we had better make certain. To our surprise, we found a reduction of about 40% in the permittivity and loss for humid enzymes in strong magnetic fields. Thus began the fall from orthodoxy.
This result was of immediate interest to Professor Herbert Froehlich at nearby Liverpool University. He told me that the crucial experiment would be to measure the magnetic susceptibility. We did this and found a diamagnetic susceptibility which was 104 times higher than it should have been but which disappeared at a critical magnetic field strength. Diamagnetism can only arise from the equivalent of a short-circuited loop carrying a current which does not decay. This implied the occurrence of some sort of superconductivity effect which must be concentrated in small superconductive regions associated with the lysozyme [1] .
This was our first evidence that we were dealing with coherence and long-range order. Froehlich was always careful to point out that superconductivity is a phenomenon of coherence and not directly of low-temperature. If the enzyme-water system could acquire the necessary coherence, it could have some of the properties of a low-temperature superconductor although not necessarily the zero electrical resistance because the superconductivity might be restricted to isolated domains. A low-temperature analogy for this would be droplets of superconducting mercury dispersed in liquid helium rather than some zero resistance mercury metal.
This result suggested the possibility of observing Josephson effects which would give rise to the emission of coherent electrical oscillations or to frequency-voltage interactions determined by 2e/h (twice the electronic charge Ã• Planck's Constant {twice because paired-electrons are involved}) ~ 500 MHz/µV.
It is fundamental for any field effect that a certain volume of field is required to have enough field energy to overcome thermal disordering. We first assumed that this was solely associated with the lysozyme molecules although with hindsight, there were small but consistent magnetic field variations in the susceptibility of our pure water if the results for the quartz cells used are taken as an index of the experimental accuracy being achieved. At this time, there was no theoretical reason to expect coherence domains in water. This came with the quantum electrodynamics theory of Preparata and Del Giudice twenty years later (see Section 4.5).
4.2 Coherence
The "Classical Electromagnetic Field" describes physical states for which the phase is well defined but the number of particles (quanta) is undefined.
For a "Quantum Field" the uncertainty of the phase (DF) and the number of particles (DN) is determined by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Relation (? = h/2?)
(DF) (DN) > ? /2
Within a coherence domain the phase coherence increases as the number of particles in the domain is allowed to fluctuate. The more the uncertainty is taken up by fluctuation of the number of particles comprising a domain the more perfect is the coherence.
Figure 1
Coherence in frequency and phase.

In Figure 1, the phase coherence would be "Classical" if a very large number of clocks were involved, the actual number not being specified. It would be "Quantum" if the uncertainty in the phase and the number of clocks involved was determined by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Relation.
For a wave, the velocity with which it propagates equals its frequency multiplied by its wavelength as shown in Figure 9 of Chapter 3.
Within a coherent system, the range of the coherence (coherence length) becomes the constant quantity instead of the velocity. This makes frequency proportional to velocity apparently without restriction, so long as one remains within the coherence length. There can be many velocities each with a proportionate frequency; there can be as many frequencies as there are possible velocities. Frequency no longer has an absolute value, the system has become fractal in frequency.
As a consequence, effects can occur in many different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum all originating from the same source which might be chemical, biological or electromagnetic. It is this which links effects of frequencies characteristic of chemicals to technological frequencies and through to the frequencies of biological systems. It is also the reason why environmental frequencies can mimic a chemical exposure for hypersensitive patients carrying a toxic body-load of a matching chemical. Table 1 shows the fractal frequencies generated by imprinting the optical spectrum from a mercury discharge lamp into water.
Table 1
Within a coherent system, external radiation will interact with an entire coherence domain or, not interact at all. It is the interaction and scattering of light by individual molecules which gives matter its refractive index. If radiation does not interact, it travels with the free-space velocity of light. If it does interact with an entire massive coherence domain, the velocity is greatly reduced. Coherence propagates by diffusion (like heat along the handle of a saucepan) and the soliton is a particular case of a metastable state which is described by a non-linear diffusion equation. Coherence in water and metals appears to propagate by a diffusion process so solitons might be involved in this as well.
4.3 Lysozyme and Cells
We concentrated on lysozyme because its structure had recently been worked out by Professor D.C. Philips group at Oxford University. They advised us on experimental techniques for handling this material.
The reaction with lysozyme with the substrate Micrococcus lysodeikticus was shown to be affected by specific radio-frequencies [2] and its onset determined by a threshold magnetic field strength which corresponded to a single quantum of magnetic flux linking the cell as shown in Figure 2. This result distinguishes the enzyme chemistry of the sterile substrates from that in living cells which is of course the milieu within which homeopathy operates. Note that the lysozyme still had a constant activity as measured with sterile substrates, it is just that with live substrates the activity becomes magnetic flux quantum dependent. In general, with higher magnetic fields the effects did not increase continuously, instead they became periodic in respect of the number of magnetic flux quanta linking the cells.
Figure 2

This work on lysozyme continued over the next few years [3] , [4] . We did find voltage steps in conductivity measurements on thin films of lysozyme which interacted with the appropriate Josephson Effect frequency (~500 MHz/µV).
Meanwhile, I was gradually acquiring the facilities for doing some basic cell biology in an electrical engineering laboratory where I had the necessary electrical measurement facilities. I also had set up a degree program in biomedical electronics from which I had graduate students skilled in both electrical and biological experimentation.
In one such case, dielectrophoretic techniques were used to make measurements on yeast cells exposed to a magnetic field strength and frequency which together satisfied the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) condition, an effect which arises from the quantised nature of nuclear angular momentum. Resonances for the 1H, 31P, 23Na, 37Cl, 39K isotopes and for electron spin resonance were detected. Interactions in which live biological cells reacted to NMR conditions occurred in six different sets of experiments: dielectrophoresis; dielectric permittivity and loss; cell mean generation time; cell cycle modification (reduced cell size and increased cell number with no change in total cell mass); lysozyme-substrate reaction (stopped by proton-NMR conditions); microwave induced cataracts in vitro in bovine eye lenses [5] , [6] .
This work involving quantum effects was in general not well received. It went against the paradigm that all biological effects of electromagnetic fields could be accounted for by "classical" physics. The NMR work gave rise to a cyclotron resonance theory which kept things within the "classical physics" paradigm. It was not until 1997 that I was invited to present the evidence for living systems being macroscopic quantum systems [7] in a lecture at the Frontier Sciences Department of Temple University, Philadelphia.
Work on the effects of low-frequency magnetic fields using over 1000 cultures of Escherichia coli under carefully controlled conditions showed that the onset of effects on the mean generation time corresponded to a single quantum of magnetic flux linking the cross sectional area of the cell. Following on, very precise strengths of magnetic field were then found to affect the lac operon system of E. coli and again corresponded to magnetic flux quantum linkage with the cells. This took magnetic flux quantum effects right down to the level of a repress


text:
Temporary Works General Awareness
The course prioritises allowing a transferable knowledge base between employers, thus avoiding unnecessary supplementary training. It aims to raise awareness of the roles and responsibilities involved in the temporary works process, and raise standards and improve knowledge which can be applied across industry and accepted with confidence.
Attendance does not confer competency as a Temporary Works Co-ordinator or Supervisor but does contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and provides a good foundation to progress in temporary works roles.
This training course starts at 09:00 and finishes at 17:30 with refreshment breaks mid-morning and afternoon, plus lunch. All timings, except the start time, are approximate and may be adjusted to suit natural breaks in the lesson.
- Session 1 - Introduction
- Session 2 - Overview of Temporary Works; why Temporary Works is important – safety, legal and business requirements
- Session 3 - Key concerns and continuing issues; B.BS5975:2019 +A1:2011 overview and other relevant codes
- Session 4 - Roles, responsibilities, training and competencies
- Session 5 - When do temporary works need to be designed and who is competent to carry out designs and design checking?
- Session 6 - Designers risk assessments and residual risks
- Session 7 - Tutorial to identify temporary works and classify risk
- Session 8 - Update on latest industry guidance and sources of further information
- Session 9 - Specific examples of the use and management of temporary works relating to target audience
- Session 10 - Assessment
- Session 11 - Course Review
The method of assessment will be by multiple-choice questions at the end of the course, as well as the delegate being expected to be interactive during the course.
The pass mark for the multiple-choice test is 72%.
CEng FICE FCIHT MIED
Chris is a chartered civil engineer with experience spanning 45 years in the Temporary Works sector that encompasses design, site co-ordination, management and training. He has headed engineering teams for several leading building and civil engineering contractors. Having been involved with the aftermath of numerous temporary works related accidents and incidents over the years, he is passionately committed to safety. He believes this starts with the application of risk management principles, undertaken by competent people adhering to a robust process. Chris is an active member of the Temporary Works Forum.
Andrew is a Chartered Engineer with forty years' experience within the construction industry. Experience includes design, site supervision, demolition and health & safety consultancy. He has site experience where temporary works were a significant element in the construction process. This included construction of reinforced concrete bridges, road construction, infrastructure maintenance and demolition of a power station.
At the end of this course, delegates will understand:
- What constitutes temporary works, how they are used, their safety critical importance, common temporary works issues and the temporary works management process
- The latest publications and issues relating to temporary works
This course is an alternative to the Temporary Works Co-ordinator and Temporary Works Supervisor training courses and is designed to provide training for those involved in the temporary works process but who are not undertaking the role of Temporary Works Co-ordinator or Supervisor as defined in BS5975:2019 + A1:2011.
The course assumes limited or no detailed previous knowledge of temporary works and is suitable for:
- Those new to temporary works design and temporary works
- People who have previously worked on temporary sites but want to revise these skills


text: In physics class, s'mores were made to calculate the speed of light. They also served as my lunch today. By measuring the distance between the peaks of the marshmallows, it is possible to determine the wavelength of the microwave used to heat them up. By knowing the frequency of the microwave (found on back with serial number), it is actually quite easy to calculate the speed of light. And usually the calculation is off by less than 5%. Pretty yummy, I mean, cool!


text:
Moving to the Next Phase of How We Work
As states and DC start their phased reopening, AU is planning a phased return of faculty and staff to campus for the spring semester that takes steps to support the university's teaching, research, and service missions in a way that ensures the health and safety of our community members. Although the university will begin phased physical return, the way we work will differ significantly from the pre-COVID-19 period to protect the health and safety of faculty, staff, and students—in terms of where, how, and when we work.
Below you'll find information about what we're doing, community care expectations, and the new COVID-19 accommodations and work adjustments.
- All AU community members and visitors entering our buildings asked to self-monitor for COVID-19 symptoms and possible exposure.
- The level and frequency of cleaning for all buildings will be increased. Cleaning supplies will be available, and faculty and staff are encouraged to clean and disinfect their workspaces throughout the workday.
- Hand sanitizer is provided in AU buildings.
- Posters are displayed with reminders on how to prevent the spread of germs.
- Staff whose physical presence is required on campus will be permitted staggered work shifts to reduce the number of people in the building at one time.
- Group and one-on-one meetings will be held virtually.
- Instructional spaces and common areas will have reduced seating capacity.
- Stay home if you are sick. Go home if you become sick while on campus.
- Promptly contact _EMAIL_ if you have COVID-19 symptoms or diagnosis.
- Maintain physical distancing practices in the workplace.
- Follow cleaning product instructions when cleaning your work areas.
- Wash your hands frequently or use hand sanitizer.
- Cover your nose and mouth when sneezing or coughing.
- Avoid touching your face.
- Wear a face covering in common areas at work.
- Replace handshakes with head nods and waves.
- Avoid using other employees' phones, desks, offices, or other work tools and equipment.
- Follow all policies and practices.
- Be kind. Understand that this is a stressful time for everyone, and an extra bit of kindness right now can go a long way.
- Faculty and Staff may request a COVID-19 accommodation or work adjustment to telework/teach remotely.
- A reasonable accommodation due to a disability/medical condition; or
- A request to work/teach remotely due to age (65 or older) or household member that is immunocompromised.
- This process was made available to faculty on May 28, 2020, so that the fall classes could be planned, and the process will be made available to staff starting June 17, 2020, via an electronic form.
- The requests will be reviewed by HR Employee Relations, and the employee and supervisor will be notified of the outcome of the request.
- If requesting a reasonable accommodation due to a disability or medical condition, employees will be asked to provide medical documentation.
- Any request for a reasonable accommodation due to a disability or medical condition will be kept in the strictest of confidence. Any related information will be maintained in a separate file and will only be available to designated Employee Relations staff in HR.
- Supervisors may be informed of necessary restrictions on work or duties, and any necessary accommodations.


Oracle® Solaris Studio 12.4: Performance Analyzer
Exit Print View
Updated: January 2015

Labeling Experiments
The er_label command enables you to define part of an experiment and assign a name or label to it. The label captures the profiling events that occur during one or more periods of time in the experiment that you define with start time and stop time markers.
You can specify time markers as the current time, the current time plus or minus a time offset, or as an offset relative to the start time of the experiment. Any number of time intervals can specified in a label, and additional intervals can be added to a label after it is created.
The er_label utility expects that intervals are specified with pairs of markers: a start time followed by a stop time. The utility ignores markers that occur out of sequence, such as a stop marker specified before any start marker, a start marker that follows a previous start marker with no intervening stop marker, or a stop marker that follows a previous stop marker with no intervening start marker.
You can assign labels to experiments by running the er_label command at the command line or by executing it in scripts. Once you have added labels to an experiment, you can use the labels for filtering. For example, you might filter the experiment to include or exclude the profiling events in the time periods defined by the label as described in Using Labels for Filtering.
Note - You should not create a label name that is the same as any other keyword that can be used in filtering because it might create conflicts and unexpected results. You can use the er_print -describe command to see the keywords for an experiment.


text:
Yifu Deng of QUT's School of Public Health studied the interplay between genetics, smoking and the development of Parkinson's disease with 400 people who had Parkinson's disease and 400 people without it.
Dr Deng looked at the genetic background of individuals in each group for the presence of the CYP2D6 gene, which had previously been suggested to metabolise the chemical compounds found in cigarette smoke, in both groups.
He found that smokers with the gene who metabolised the cigarette smoke compounds quickly were less likely to be protected than those who metabolised the chemical compounds more slowly.
"It seems that if the chemical compounds stay in the body longer they are more likely to have a preventative effect," Dr Deng said.
"It also seems that if you have the gene but you are not a smoker the gene may have no use in preventing Parkinson's."
Dr Deng said it was not known how the cigarette smoke compounds protected against Parkinson's.
He warned that there were still many smokers who suffered from Parkinson's. Additionally, smoking was notorious for causing cancers.
Parkinson's disease is a common degenerative neurological disease in the elderly, affecting up to 4.9 percent Australians aged 55 and over.
"Our study findings aid in further understanding of the causes of Parkinson's disease and may help identify people who are at higher risk of the disease," he said.
The study is the first to look at the genetic epidemiology of Parkinson's disease by addressing individual genetic types in relation to cigarette smoke metabolism.
Dr Deng's study may provide the potential to reveal new targets for strategies of altering Parkinson's disease risk.
Media contact: Niki Widdowson, QUT media officer, +61 7 3864 1841 or _EMAIL_.
**High res pic of Dr Deng available.
Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009
Published on PsychCentral.com. All rights reserved.


text:
Introduction to Web Conferencing
View as a PDF
What is Web Conferencing?
While Skype provides audio and video conferencing and a chat tool, web conferencing software provides a broader set of synchronous communication tools. Some of these additional features include:
- Multi-point audio and video - You can have several people in different locations using cameras and microphones.
- Desktop sharing - You can give live demonstrations of software, go over an assignment in real-time with a student, or even control a participant's application remotely.
- Whiteboard - Participants in multiple locations can work together on the same whiteboard
- Import presentation - You can import a PowerPoint file right into the tool, which is useful for giving presentations to remote audiences.
- Classroom management - You can control the privileges of participants in a session.
- Ability to record sessions - You can record part or all of a session for later reference.
There are several web conferencing tools available on the market, including Elluminate, Centra, Interwise, and WebEx. At NMU we have licenses for a product called Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional.
When is Web Conferencing Useful?
Educational uses of web conferencing range from one-on-one meetings with students to full class sessions. Some specific applications where it can be an appropriate tool include:
- Blended online courses where some aspects are conducted asynchronously on EduCat (e.g., assignments, assessments) and others, such as student presentations, are conducted live via web conferencing.
- Bringing in a guest speaker
- Virtual office hours with students in an asynchronous online class.
- Live distance learning courses that utilize a high level of interaction among students.
- Live distance learning courses where remote students don't have access to ITV tools.
The "7 things you should know about Virtual Meetings" handout from ELI outlines some specific applications and scenarios for web conferencing use.
Who can Use Acrobat Connect? (Licensing)
Most commercial software used at NMU has either a site license, meaning anyone on campus can use it (examples include Microsoft Office and WebCT) or individual licenses, meaning that NMU must have a license assigned to anyone who uses it (examples include Camtasia and Adobe Photoshop).
Acrobat Connect is a little different. NMU has a limited number of "named host" licenses for Acrobat Connect, which are only assigned to faculty. Named hosts have the ability to create virtual meetings and invite other participants to them. Participants (such as students) in meetings do not get a license. There can be up to 100 people in any meeting session. The named host can create as many meetings as he or she wants, but only one can be in session at a given time.
Adobe Connect is web-based and cross platform; it runs through a web browser and the Flash plug-in, which are both standard on NMU laptops. A free add-in is needed to do some functions, but to install it you just need to click "yes" when prompted to install it. It will then install in just a few seconds - no trip to the Help Desk needed.
Signing up for a Free Trial of Acrobat Connect
Because each named host account costs NMU a licensing fee, we only assign them to faculty members who have definite plans to use web conferencing.
Adobe offers a free, 30 day trial of Acrobat Connect Pro that allows faculty to "test drive" the software before requesting a named host account. For the purposes of the workshop, each of you will sign up for the trial. If, after becoming familiar with Acrobat Connect, you decide that want to use it with your classes in the fall, contact the CITE to request a named host account.
Here is the URL for signing up for the free trial:
Follow the steps on-screen. Your account will be active within a few minutes. A representative from Adobe may contact you within a few days of your registering to see if you have questions or if you want to buy a license. Just explain to them that your university has a limited number of licenses and that you are evaluating the software before deciding whether to request one.
Adobe has a nice set of tutorials, documentation (some of which is provided in your handouts), and tips in their Acrobat Connect Pro Resource Center, at _URL_
Please be aware that in addition to Acrobat Connect Pro information, there are some references to companion products (e.g., Adobe Presenter, audio teleconferencing) to which NMU does not subscribe.
You can also reach the Resource Center through the Help menu of any Acrobat Connect meeting.


text:
Alexander V. Nebylov
State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
St. Petersburg, Russia
9.1 Sensor systems
9.1.1 The sensor system concept
If there is only one sensor for obtaining information on the value of any measured parameter onboard a vehicle, opportunities for determining the accuracy and reliability of this measurement are essentially limited. For example, measurement of noise can be partially suppressed only along with some of the spectral components of the useful signal, and optimal one-dimensional filtration of a signal mixed with noise defines the limit of measurement accuracy. Also, the failure of a single sensor obviously leads to the complete loss of the desired measurement....


IAS-Research Talk by Charles Wolfe (Ghent University): "Philosophy of biology before biology": a methodological provocation
18/12/2018 @ 11:30 – 12:30
Centro Santamaria (B14)
Date and time: December 18, Tuesday, 11:30 a.m.
Location: Carlos Santamaría Building, Room B14.
Speaker: Charles Wolfe (Ghent University)
Title: "Philosophy of biology before biology": a methodological provocation
Basing myself on work forthcoming in a volume entitled Philosophy of Biology before Biology (coedited w. C. Bognon-Küss), I argue for a conception I term 'philosophy of biology before biology', focusing on the theoretical 'world' or 'context' out of which the science ultimately called 'biology' emerged. This historico-philosophical approach to biology's genesis is neither internalist study of biological doctrines, nor a reconstruction of the role philosophical concepts might have played in the constitution of biology as science; it looks more at the interplay between metaphysical and empirical issues. This study does not just have implications for understanding the relations between philosophy and biology in the midto late 18th century; it should also have an impact on our present understanding of philosophy of biology, given that it is necessarily conditioned by a very specific history and historiography (particularly evolution-centred). Further, 'philosophy of biology before biology' sheds a different light on our understanding of how biology as a science of life became unified.