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A Commitment to Sustainability
For years, Pine Grove has been a leader in promoting sustainable living practices, dedicating itself to reducing its environmental impact. By bringing together a community of like-minded individuals and organizations, Pine Grove has fostered a culture of environmentalism that is evident in every aspect of daily life.
The buildings in Pine Grove are a testament to the community's dedication to sustainable practices. All of the buildings are LEED-certified, meaning they meet rigorous standards of sustainability, energy efficiency, and overall environmental friendliness. Residents and visitors alike can enjoy the benefits of living and working in buildings that are designed to meet the highest standards of environmental performance.
In addition to green building practices, Pine Grove also boasts a thriving renewable energy program. The community is home to a large solar array, which provides electricity for all of the buildings in the community. This renewable energy source not only reduces Pine Grove's reliance on fossil fuels but also helps to minimize the community's overall carbon footprint.
Community-Wide Recycling Program
One of the most significant ways that Pine Grove promotes sustainability is through its community-wide recycling program. This comprehensive program ensures that all residents and businesses have easy access to recycling facilities, reducing the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. By recycling everything from paper products to electronics, Pine Grove is able to divert a significant amount of waste from traditional disposal methods, further reducing the community's environmental impact.
Local Food Sourcing
Pine Grove's commitment to sustainability also extends to its local food sourcing program. By sourcing locally grown and produced food, the community is able to reduce its carbon footprint, while also supporting local businesses and farmers. Residents and visitors can enjoy fresh, nutritious food that is grown and harvested right in their own backyard.
A Model for Sustainable Living
Overall, Pine Grove's commitment to sustainability is an inspiration to all who are interested in living a more environmentally conscious life. By prioritizing green building, renewable energy, recycling, and local food sourcing, Pine Grove has created a model for sustainable living that can be replicated and adapted in communities all around the world. From individuals to entire communities, we can all learn a lot from Pine Grove's commitment to sustainability. Learn even more about pinetree hill in this external resource.
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Dresdene is a temperate mountainous region located in southeastern Yuktobania, northwest of the Bastok Peninsula and due west of the city of Istochnik. The area is the site of an unspecified civilian engineering college.
Dresdene features a scenic, picturesque landscape of snow-capped mountains, rolling hills, and wide verdant valleys. The region is sparsely populated, apart from several rural towns scattered across the area; a civilian engineering college is situated somewhere in Dresdene, but its exact location remains unknown.
On November 2, 2010, at 0600hrs, a convoy of Yuktobanian Air Force transport planes, which were evacuating Yuktobanian forces from the Osean-occupied Bastok Peninsula, flew through Dresdene in an attempt to regroup and strengthen the capital's defenses. Wardog Squadron was consequently dispatched to intercept the transports and halt their withdrawal.
November 2 terror attack
As Operation Hammerblow was underway, Dresdene's civilian engineering college fell victim to an air strike by aircraft bearing OADF markings. During the attack, Second Lieutenant Hans Grimm overheard the perpetrators referring to themselves as the "8492nd Squadron"; however, Wardog, which was the only known OADF unit operating in Dresdene at the time, became the prime suspect and was subsequently summoned to Oured for questioning. The incident ultimately resulted in numerous civilian casualties and further intensified anti-Osean sentiments among the Yuktobanian people.
- A modified version of the mission "Blind Spot" appears in AC5's 2004 holiday demo disc; it features a total of eight transports to shoot down, and the radar jammers are absent.

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Central European Time Zone UTC-04:00
Capital City Amsterdam
National Day 27 April
ON BEING ASKED how he is finding Britain's capital since his appointment, His Excellency Simon Smits responds with Samuel Johnson's famous comment that "when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." Smits first saw the quotation on a poster at his grammar school in the Netherlands in the early 1970s. Since that time, he notes, London has become much more international in its make-up, but the city has lost none of its power to astonish and inspire.
Smits grew up in an internationally oriented environment, a factor that he believes contributed to his eventual career as a diplomat. His father was a German teacher, and he himself taught English. He first seriously considered the diplomatic service while completing a Harting Fellowship at Oxford University. "I got to know a lot of foreign students and was heavily involved in student life – so I thought if I tweak my studies to English and International Law I might have a chance of getting in."
In 1984, Smits was sent to Belgrade, followed by postings to Bangladesh, Geneva, Zagreb, The Hague, South Africa and Brussels at the Permanent Representation to the EU. In 2006, he was appointed senior adviser on government relations to Royal Dutch Shell, a working environment he describes as similar to the foreign service – a large expat community, work around the clock, and a close and loyal workforce. In 2011, Smits was seconded to the newly merged Ministry of Agriculture, Innovation and Economic Affairs, overseeing its international affairs. From here he moved, along with his team of over 100 people, to serve as Director General for Foreign Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Smits says that his first year as Ambassador will largely be defined by the Dutch Presidency of the EU (1 January to 30 June 2016). "We will devote our attention to the competitiveness of Europe, jobs and growth, the internal market, and particularly the services and digital markets." The country is also keen to ensure better regulation and to see more involvement of national parliaments in EU decision-making. "I am sometimes surprised that people talk of Brussels as though it is a distant entity, but we're all part of the same group," he says. But despite what Smits describes as a very Dutch predilection for "agenda setting," he acknowledges that the country's Presidency will be guided by world events, notably the refugee crisis, the war in Syria and Iraq, and international terrorism. The Netherlands is also a UN Security Council Candidate for 2017-18: elections are in June.
The Presidency and Smits' role in London will also be taken up with talks on a possible British exit from the EU. "We will wherever possible, help, facilitate and inform the debate and will also act as an honest broker" he says. Britain is not alone in its scepticism of the European project and Smits sees one of his country's main challenges as helping steer the bloc "through turbulent waters." Set up in the wake of two devastating wars, the EU has largely succeeded in its original aim of keeping the peace, but Smits says that as time has gone on that dividend has worn thin, and countries have begun to take a more "transactional view."
"Everywhere in Europe you see critical voices being raised and these voices should be taken extremely seriously," Smits says. However, he believes that any evaluation of EU membership must extend beyond a simple assessment of how much a country puts in and how much it gets out. "This is a very limited view of Europe because if you look at the responses to ISIL, we are about a set of traditions, norms and values that bind us as Europe." There are no simple answers here, but Smits says that it is vital that the continent does not lose sight of its shared past, both good and bad: "If you don't know your history, I am convinced that you cannot really have a sense of where you are going."
Smits, who is an avid fan of the Rolling Stones, describes his favourite hobby as spending time with his family (his wife Astrid and their four sons). Despite – as he says himself – regularly being outpaced by Astrid, he also enjoys running and playing tennis.


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Wuepper Family History
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The evolution of Wuepper starts with the origins of thefamily name. Even in the early generations of a name there have been changes in that name simply because surnames were infrequently written down that long ago.
It was not unusual for a surname to change as it enters a new country or language. As Wuepper families emigrated between countries, the Wuepper name may have changed with them. Wuepper ancestors have moved around the world all throughout history.
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- Rudolph Wuepper 1895 - 1968
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- Florence J Wuepper 1933 - 2010
- Howard Wuepper 1929 - 1957
- Juanita Wuepper 1909 - 1982
- Earl Wuepper 1908 - 1985
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- Claude W Wuepper 1919 - 2001
- Dixie S Wuepper 1907 - 1990
- Anna P Wuepper 1923 - 1997
- Emma Wuepper 1903 - 1995
- Edna M Wuepper 1894 - 1991
- Minna Wuepper 1891 - 1981
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For the more information about the air resources of the National Park Service, please visit _URL_
Ramsey Canyon is a stream-cut, vertical-sided gorge. Cold air drainage from the upper canyon results in a well-defined microclimatic habitat that supports Mexican flora and fauna and plants that normally occur only at higher elevations. The site is also frequented by more species of hummingbirds than any other area in the United States.
Location: Cochise County, AZ
Year designated: 1965
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Diverter pool valves are pool valves that can direct the flow of water moving through the plumbing system in different directions and to various pool components.
These valves come in two and three-way configurations to suit the needs of other applications.
Two-way valves have a lever that turns 90-degrees, allowing you to divert water to either side or both at once. Three-way valves have a port on each side and one in the center with a lever that turns 180-degrees.
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Although the use of wearable technology to characterize gait disorders in daily life is increasing, there is no consensus on which specific gait bout length should be used to characterize gait. Clinical trialists using daily life gait quality as study outcomes need to understand how gait bout length affects the sensitivity and specificity of measures to discriminate pathological gait as well as the reliability of gait measures across gait bout lengths. We investigated whether Parkinson's disease (PD) affects how gait characteristics change as bout length changes, and how gait bout length affects the reliability and discriminative ability of gait measures to identify gait impairments in people with PD compared to neurotypical Old Adults (OA). We recruited 29 people with PD and 20 neurotypical OA of similar age for this study. Subjects wore 3 inertial sensors, one on each foot and one over the lumbar spine all day, for 7 days. To investigate which gait bout lengths should be included to extract gait measures, we determined the range of gait bout lengths available across all subjects. To investigate if the effect of bout length on each gait measure is similar or not between subjects with PD and OA, we used a growth curve analysis. For reliability and discriminative ability of each gait measure as a function of gait bout length, we used the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and area under the curve (AUC), respectively. Ninety percent of subjects walked with a bout length of less than 53 strides during the week, and the majority (>50%) of gait bouts consisted of less than 12 strides. Although bout length affected all gait measures, the effects depended on the specific measure and sometimes differed for PD versus OA. Specifically, people with PD did not increase/decrease cadence and swing duration with bout length in the same way as OA. ICC and AUC characteristics tended to be larger for shorter than longer gait bouts. Our findings suggest that PD interferes with the scaling of cadence and swing duration with gait bout length. Whereas control subjects gradually increased cadence and decreased swing duration as bout length increased, participants with PD started with higher than normal cadence and shorter than normal stride duration for the smallest bouts, and cadence and stride duration changed little as bout length increased, so differences between PD and OA disappeared for the longer bout lengths. Gait measures extracted from shorter bouts are more common, more reliable, and more discriminative, suggesting that shorter gait bouts should be used to extract potential digital biomarkers for people with PD.
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Ask Marilyn: Is Grade Padding Fair?
Name withheld in Baltimore writes:
Marilyn: I teach at a public high school. Our administrator has been pressuring us to "pad the grades." For example, he says students should be given "50" no matter how low they score on an assignment. His argument is that on the five-point GPA scale, A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, and F=0, so the same ratio should apply to percentage grades. Many teachers at my school would be indebted to you if you could help prove him wrong.
Nice try, Mr. Administrator! First, you can't justify modifying the grading scale at your school unless other schools follow suit. (And if they do, you won't improve your school's standing.)
That said, let's look at the proposal's logic. It implies that percentage grades should be the same as letter grades, as though 90 to 100 percent is an A, 80 to 89 percent is a B, 70 to 79 percent is a C, 60 to 69 percent is a D, and 50 to 59 percent is an F. But an F represents the entire range below the grade of D, which is 0 to 59 percent (or often 0 to 64 percent).
A grade of 65 is a reasonable standard for passing a test. (The student has grasped about two-thirds of the material.) But with this proposal, 50 of those 65 points would be freebies when totaling test scores to determine an overall letter grade.


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1 Slide 1 EE3J2 Data Mining EE3J2 Data Mining Lecture 10 Statistical Modelling Martin Russell
2 Slide 2 EE3J2 Data Mining Objectives  To review basic statistical modelling  To review the notion of probability distribution  To review the notion of probability density function  To introduce mixture densities  To introduce the multivariate Gaussian density
3 Slide 3 EE3J2 Data Mining Discrete variables  Suppose that Y is a random variable which can take any value in a discrete set X={x 1,x 2,…,x M }  Suppose that y 1,y 2,…,y N are samples of the random variable Y  If c m is the number of times that the y n = x m then an estimate of the probability that y n takes the value x m is given by:
4 Slide 4 EE3J2 Data Mining Discrete Probability Mass Function Symbol 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total Num.Occurrences 120 231 90 87 63 57 156 203 91 1098
5 Slide 5 EE3J2 Data Mining Continuous Random Variables  In most practical applications the data are not restricted to a finite set of values – they can take any value in N-dimensional space  Simply counting the number of occurrences of each value is no longer a viable way of estimating probabilities…  …but there are generalisations of this approach which are applicable to continuous variables – these are referred to as non-parametric methods
6 Slide 6 EE3J2 Data Mining Continuous Random Variables  An alternative is to use a parametric model  In a parametric model, probabilities are defined by a small set of parameters  Simplest example is a normal, or Gaussian model  A Gaussian probability density function (PDF) is defined by two parameters – its mean  and variance 
7 Slide 7 EE3J2 Data Mining Gaussian PDF  'Standard' 1-dimensional Guassian PDF: – mean  =0 –variance  =1
8 Slide 8 EE3J2 Data Mining Gaussian PDF a b P(a  x  b)
9 Slide 9 EE3J2 Data Mining Gaussian PDF  For a 1-dimensional Gaussian PDF p with mean  and variance  : Constant to ensure area under curve is 1 Defines 'bell' shape
10 Slide 10 EE3J2 Data Mining More examples  =0.1  =1.0  =10.0  =5.0
11 Slide 11 EE3J2 Data Mining Fitting a Gaussian PDF to Data  Suppose y = y 1,…,y n,…,y N is a set of N data values  Given a Gaussian PDF p with mean  and variance , define:  How do we choose  and  to maximise this probability?
12 Slide 12 EE3J2 Data Mining Fitting a Gaussian PDF to Data Poor fitGood fit
13 Slide 13 EE3J2 Data Mining Maximum Likelihood Estimation  Define the best fitting Gaussian to be the one such that p(y| ,  ) is maximised.  Terminology: –p(y| ,  ), thought of as a function of y is the probability (density) of y –p(y| ,  ), thought of as a function of ,  is the likelihood of ,   Maximising p(y| ,  ) with respect to ,  is called Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation of , 
14 Slide 14 EE3J2 Data Mining ML estimation of ,   Intuitively: –The maximum likelihood estimate of  should be the average value of y 1,…,y N, (the sample mean) –The maximum likelihood estimate of  should be the variance of y 1,…,y N. (the sample variance)  This turns out to be true: p(y| ,  ) is maximised by setting:
15 Slide 15 EE3J2 Data Mining Multi-modal distributions  In practice the distributions of many naturally occurring phenomena do not follow the simple bell- shaped Gaussian curve  For example, if the data arises from several difference sources, there may be several distinct peaks (e.g. distribution of heights of adults)  These peaks are the modes of the distribution and the distribution is called multi-modal
16 Slide 16 EE3J2 Data Mining Gaussian Mixture PDFs  Gaussian Mixture PDFs, or Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) are commonly used to model multi-modal, or other non-Gaussian distributions.  A GMM is just a weighted average of several Gaussian PDFs, called the component PDFs  For example, if p 1 and p 2 are Gaussiam PDFs, then p(y) = w 1 p 1 (y) + w 2 p 2 (y) defines a 2 component Gaussian mixture PDF
17 Slide 17 EE3J2 Data Mining Gaussian Mixture - Example  2 component mixture model –Component 1:  =0,  =0.1 –Component 2:  =2,  =1 –w 1 = w 2 =0.5
18 Slide 18 EE3J2 Data Mining Example 2  2 component mixture model –Component 1:  =0,  =0.1 –Component 2:  =2,  =1 –w 1 = 0.2 w 2 =0.8
19 Slide 19 EE3J2 Data Mining Example 3  2 component mixture model –Component 1:  =0,  =0.1 –Component 2:  =2,  =1 –w 1 = 0.2 w 2 =0.8
20 Slide 20 EE3J2 Data Mining Example 4  5 component Gaussian mixture PDF
21 Slide 21 EE3J2 Data Mining Gaussian Mixture Model  In general, an M component Gaussian mixture PDF is defined by: where each p m is a Gaussian PDF and
22 Slide 22 EE3J2 Data Mining Estimating the parameters of a Gaussian mixture model  A Gaussian Mixture Model with M components has: –M means:  1,…,  M –M variances  1,…,  M –M mixture weights w 1,…,w M.  Given a set of data y = y 1,…,y N, how can we estimate these parameters?  I.e. how do we find a maximum likelihood estimate of  1,…,  M,  1,…,  M, w 1,…,w M ?
23 Slide 23 EE3J2 Data Mining Parameter Estimation  If we knew which component each sample y t came from, then parameter estimation would be easy: –Set  m to be the average value of the samples which belong to the m th component –Set  m to be the variance of the samples which belong to the m th component –Set w m to be the proportion of samples which belong to the m th component  But we don't know which component each sample belongs to.
24 Slide 24 EE3J2 Data Mining Solution – the E-M algorithm  Guess initial values  For each n calculate the probabilities  Use these probabilities to estimate how much each sample y n 'belongs to' the m th component  Calculate: This is a measure of how much y n 'belongs to' the m th component REPEAT
25 Slide 25 EE3J2 Data Mining The E-M algorithm Parameter set  p(y |  )  (0) …  (i) local optimum
26 Slide 26 EE3J2 Data Mining Multivariate Gaussian PDFs  All PDFs so far have been 1-dimensional  They take scalar values  But most real data will be represented as D- dimensional vectors  The vector equivalent of a Gaussian PDF is called a multivariate Gaussian PDF
27 Slide 27 EE3J2 Data Mining Multivariate Gaussian PDFs Contours of equal probability 1- dimensional Gaussian PDFs
28 Slide 28 EE3J2 Data Mining Multivariate Gaussian PDFs 1- dimensional Gaussian PDFs
29 Slide 29 EE3J2 Data Mining Multivariate Gaussian PDF  The parameters of a multivariate Gaussian PDF are: –The (vector) mean  –The (vector) variance  –The covariance The covariance matrix 
30 Slide 30 EE3J2 Data Mining Multivariate Gaussian PDFs  Multivariate Gaussian PDFs are commonly used in pattern processing and data mining  Vector data is often not unimodal, so we use mixtures of multivariate Gaussian PDFs  The E-M algorithm works for multivariate Gaussian mixture PDFs
31 Slide 31 EE3J2 Data Mining Summary  Basic statistical modelling  Probability distributions  Probability density function  Gaussian PDFs  Gaussian mixture PDFs and the E-M algorithm  Multivariate Gaussian PDFs
32 Slide 32 EE3J2 Data Mining Summary
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The charts below show the Medical research funding amount in millions of Dollars in Someland and also shows the death number for this area.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information in the graphs below.
Write at least 150 words.
Sample Answer 1:
The graphs compare the number of deaths caused by six diseases in Someland in 1990 and the amount of research funding allotted to each of those diseases. It can be clearly seen that the amount of research funding in many cases did not correlate with the seriousness of the disease in terms of numbers of deaths.
In 1990, about 0.2 million people died from AIDS, 0.1 million from leprosy and 0.3 million from tropical diseases. The death count in this year in Someland was 0.5 million from diarrhoea, 0.4 million from malaria and 1.8 million deaths from TB. These figures can be contrasted with the amount of funding allocated for each disease. In 1990, 180 million dollars were used for researching ailments for AIDS, which was the highest amount. This year 80 million was spent for leprosy research, 79 million for tropical diseases, 60 million for diarrhoea. Somelander authority spent 50 million dollars for malaria research and allowed TB research 20 million dollars, the lowest amount in researching diseases.
In summary, it is clear that funding allocation for disease research in Someland is not wholly determined by the number of deaths for which each disease is responsible in a given year.
(This model answer can be followed as an example of a very good answer. However, please note that this is just one example out of many possible approaches.)
Model Answer 2:
The diagrams present data on the medical research funding for six deadly diseases in Someland as well as the deaths caused by those diseases in 1990. A glance at the charts reveals that there was a correlation between the amount spent on researching a disease and the casualties it causedthe higher funding generally produced a better result, at least for AIDS and TB.
According to the illustration, the highest medical research budget was allowed for AIDS, around 175 million and in 1990 the death count in Someland from AIDS was 0.25 million, more than death from Leprosy but fewer than fatalities caused by any other diseases. Again, the lowest research budget was for TB (roughly 25 million) and around 1.75 million people died from this illness, the highest casualties from any disease in Someland in 1990. Medical research reserves for Leprosy and Tropical Diseases were exactly the same, approximately 70 million but deaths from the later disease were noticeably higher. A similar trend could be observed in the cases of Diarrhoea and Malaria, which received around 60 and 50 million respectively for medical research and were responsible for 0.5 and 0.35 million deaths in Someland.


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[erlang-questions] leading underscores on variables versus _
Richard A. O'Keefe
Tue Feb 6 23:59:17 CET 2007
Matthias Lang <> wrote:
Changing _x to behave as many (most?) initially expect would break
backwards compatibility, but only for misleading code such as the
Cast your mind back to 1986 and consider someone writing
Quintus Prolog in Japanese. All Japanese characters were
taken to be LOWER case, so that they could be used for
atoms and predicate names.
Japanese programmers would surely like to write Erlang
function names using their own language and script, no?
But that means that a variable name cannot begin with a
Japanese character. That's fine, Japanese Prolog programmers
thought of the convention as "to name a variable, put an
underscore in front of a word or phrase".
Japanese programmers would surely like to name Erlang
variables using their own language and script, not?
So there HAS to be a way of writing a variable name that does not
involve starting it with a Latin capital letter, and that way is
to use an underscore. It is ESSENTIAL that leading underscores
NOT cause any special treatment; in particular it is essential that
they should not cause identifiers to be treated as anonymous
I note that Prolog, Mercury, Clean, and Haskell all use "_" for
anonymous variables, and none of them has rule about other variable
names starting with "_" being unusual, and now you know one reason
why they don't.
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The Cree Board of Health and Social Services would like to recognize and celebrate our medical laboratory technologists in Chisasibi and Mistissini during the week of April 10 - 16, 2022. Their tireless efforts have helped keep Eeeyouch and Eenouch safe by detecting illnesses, uncovering clues to help physicians determine a diagnosis, and providing an essential service in our fight against COVID-19.
What do lab technologists do?
Medical laboratory technologists study and examine samples (from our blood, saliva, etc.) that provide clues about a person's health. They work in different specialties, including:
- microbiology (like detecting strep throat infections)
- biochemistry (like determining glucose dosage in diabetes, detecting heart attacks, etc.)
- hematology (like testing to detect anemia)
- blood bank (testing and preparing blood for safe transfusions)
- virology (testing for COVID-19 or other viruses)
Medical laboratory teams are often invisible to our clients, but they are essential to ensure the well-being of our communities.
The team processed nearly 310,000 tests during 2020 and 2021, which demonstrates their incredible work. We would like to thank the entire team for their dedication and commitment.
As we enter the third year of the pandemic, the laboratory team continues to have a key role in determining if a client is positive or negative for COVID-19. COVID-19 screening tests help us all by giving a clearer picture of if and how the virus is spreading in the community.
The most recent Omicron outbreak was especially demanding. The team adjusted quickly and worked additional hours to process the increase in COVID-19 PCR tests in the region.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has made us realize the importance of these lab heroes and heroines, who work tirelessly behind the scenes to help diagnose, treat, and prevent disease.
The technicians and technical assistants of our laboratories deserve all of our gratitude for all the time, effort, and hard work they have done, are doing, and will continue to do for the well-being and health of our communities. For all of this we say: THANK YOU.
Through their effort and teamwork, they have been able to face the different waves [of COVID-19], demonstrating team values and self-sacrifice, no matter the challenge.
The laboratory teams have always been able to count on the unfailing support of the Assistant Head of Laboratory Services, their managers, and our medical specialists.
Once again, THANK YOU!" - Ida Pedro, Coordinator of Clinical Services


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HAMBURGERS and meatballs from Latin America could reveal the deadly secrets of the food poisoning bacterium
British researchers, struggling to control a rising tide of infection with the killer bacterium, are now studying research which reveals that
E. coli O157 may well have originated in South America, says Hugh Pennington of the University of Aberdeen, who headed the official inquiry into the outbreak in Scotland last winter that killed 20 people. "We import Argentinian meat, so there's plenty of scope for bacteria to come across," he says.
But even if the deadly strain emerged elsewhere, the high prevalence of strains related to
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A color ramp uses color to display its numeric value. You configure a color scale that consists of at least two arbitrary markers, each with a numeric value and a corresponding display color. As the input value changes, the color displayed changes to the color that corresponds to that value. Color ramps are useful for visually indicating data ranges, such as a warning range for when a gauge reaches dangerous values. For example, you can use a color ramp to set the color scale for intensity graphs and charts.
Complete the following steps to add and configure a color ramp.
- Right-click a dial, knob, or gauge and select Visible Items»Ramp from the shortcut menu to add a color ramp.
- Right-click the color ramp or a marker and select Marker Spacing»Arbitrary from the shortcut menu to switch the color ramp to arbitrary marker spacing.
- To change the value of an arbitrary marker on a color ramp, use the Operating tool to drag the marker to the value you want or use the Labeling tool to highlight the text of the marker and enter a new value. When you drag a marker, the cursor changes to to indicate the tool is over a marker.
- To add a new marker to the color ramp, right-click the position on the color ramp where you want to add a new marker and select Add Marker from the shortcut menu. LabVIEW adds a new marker to that location. You also can press the key while you drag an existing marker to the location where you want to add a marker.
(Mac OS X) Press the key. (Linux) Press the key.
- Use the Operating or Positioning tools to right-click the marker next to the color ramp and select Marker Color from the shortcut menu to change the color associated with a marker.
- Select the color you want from the color picker that appears.
- Resize the color ramp by moving the Positioning tool over one of the handles that appear on the midpoints of the color ramp. Drag the handle to the width you want.
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TOPICS IN LITERATURE: TRADES AND INDUSTRY
- Program: English
- Course: Topics in Literature: Trades and Industry
- Course #: ENGL2140
- Total Credits: 3
Course DescriptionThis course explores, through literature, the issues relevant to various professions. Topics will be varied and selected by the instructor and may change every term. Examples of topics include but are not limited to: Literature of the Working Class, Garden Literature, Literature of Health Sciences, Literature in Graphic and Visual Arts, Transportation Literature, Literature of the Culinary Arts. Students will engage in understanding multiple viewpoints; and reflect on style, voice, and other elements of critical reading.
Refer to Course Syllabus for detailed information regarding the requirements and evaluation standards for this course. The Course Syllabus will be distributed the first week of the course.
Hennepin Technical College offers reasonable accommodations to qualified students with disabilities. If you have a documented disability that may require accommodations, contact the college's Disability Services Director: Sara Laviolette at Brooklyn Park _PHONE_) or Jean Kreutter at Eden Prairie _PHONE_).
The following goals will be addressed in the course:
Analyze structure in literature
Analyze ideas of literature
Use basic vocabulary to discuss literary works
Critique writing styles
Explain different purposes of literature
Describe trade and industry themes in literature
Analyze the use of trade and industry in published works
Explain the influence of trade and industry in literature
Analyze the meaning of texts
Describe the effects of trade and industry use in literature on audiences
Research trade and industry in literature
Explain rationale for trade and industry in literature
Analyze the influence of literature on trade and industry
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Plack::Middleware::Negotiate - Apply HTTP content negotiation as Plack middleware
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 builder {
 enable 'Negotiate',
 formats => {
 xml => {
 type => 'application/xml',
 charset => 'utf-8',
 html => { type => 'text/html', language => 'en' },
 _ => { size => 0 } # default values for all formats
 parameter => 'format', # e.g. _URL_
 extension =>'strip'; # e.g. _URL_
Plack::Middleware::Negotiate applies HTTP content negotiation to a PSGI request. In addition to normal content negotiation from a list of defined formats one may enable explicit format selection with a path extension or query parameter. In summary, the following methods are tried in this order to negotiate a known format:
HTTP GET format parameter (if enabled with option parameter)
HTTP POST format parameter (if enabled with option paramater)
URL path extension (if enabled with option extension)
HTTP Accept Header (unless disabled with option explicit)
The PSGI environment key negotiate.format is set to the chosen format name after negotiation. The PSGI response is enriched with corresponding HTTP headers Content-Type and Content-Language unless these headers already exist.
If used as pure application, this middleware returns a HTTP status code 406 if no format could be negotiated.
new( formats => {... } [, %options ] )
Creates a new negotiation middleware with a given set of formats.
negotiate( $env )
Chooses a format based on a PSGI request. The request is first checked for explicit format selection via parameter and extension (if configured) and then passed to HTTP::Negotiate. On success the method returns a format name. The method may modify the PSGI request environment keys PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME if format was selected by extension set to strip, and strips the format HTTP GET query parameter from QUERY_STRING if parameter is set to a format. If format was selected by HTTP POST body parameter, the parameter it is not stripped from the request.
known( $format )
Tells whether a format name is known. By default this is the case if the format name exists in the list of formats.
about( $format )
If the format was specified, this method returns a hash with quality, type, encoding, charset, and language. Missing values are set to the default.
Returns a list of content variants to be used in HTTP::Negotiate. The return value is an array reference of array references, each with seven elements: format name, source quality, type, encoding, charset, language, and size. The size is always zero.
add_headers( \_USER_, $format )
Add apropriate HTTP response headers for a format unless the headers are already given.
A list of formats to choose among. Each format can be defined with type, quality (defaults to 1), encoding, charset, and language. The special format name _ (underscore) is reserved to define default values for all formats.
Formats can also be used to directly route the request to a PSGI application:
 my $app = Plack::Middleware::Negotiate->new(
 formats => {
 json => {
 type => 'application/json',
 app => $json_app,
 html => {
 type => 'text/html',
 app => $html_app,
Enables explicit format selection with a query paramater, for instance format. Both HTTP GET and HTTP POST body parameters are supported.
Enables explicit format selection with a virtual file extension. The value strip strips a known format name from the request path. The value keep keeps the format name extension after format selection.
The middleware takes care for rewriting and restoring PATH_INFO if it is configured to detect and strip a format extension.
Disables content negotiation based on HTTP headers.
Plack::Middleware::Negotiate uses Log::Contextual to emit a logging message during content negotiation on logging level trace. Just set:
The Content-Encoding HTTP response header is not automatically set on a response and content negotiation based on size is not supported. Feel free to comment on whether and how this middleware should support both.
Content negotiation in this module is based on HTTP::Negotiate. See HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::ContentNegotiation for an alternative approach. This module has some overlap with Plack::Middleware::SetAccept.
Jakob Voß
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Jakob Voß.
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Development and Application of Grain Distillers Dried Yeast for Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei
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Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures
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In recent years there has been an increasing interest in developing low-cost feeds for the Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. High prices and limited supply are the main factors that have affected primarily feed manufacturing companies. Therefore, animal and plant-based proteins have been evaluated as protein sources in order to reduce commercial shrimp feed costs. Facing this scenario, the idea of replacing fish meal with alternative protein sources, has reduced the dependence on marine ingredients commonly utilized in shrimp formulations. Fish meal has been used in shrimp diets as an excellent protein source due to its high level of nutrients as well as palatability. Nevertheless, the supply of fish meal have become very limited and most importantly, fluctuations in the price has stimulated alternative feed ingredients to be considered. Generally, animal proteins are more expensive than plant ingredients resulting in a considerable interest to evaluate plant by-products as protein sources. Shrimp formulations have included soybean meal, an acceptable protein ingredient with suitable digestibility and steady supply. However, soy products have a lower nutrient content compared to fish meal with regards to protein, essential amino acids, fatty acids, and minerals. Toward this goal, grain distillers dried yeast (GDDY), a co-product obtained from the bioethanol industry, has been evaluated in sunshine bass and rainbow trout with positive results. Therefore, a series of growth trials were conducted to evaluate the substitution of soybean meal with GDDY in clear and green water systems as well as pond conditions for shrimp culture. Results from these studies suggest that formulated diets containing increasing percentages of GDDY (20, and 30% of diet) with or without lysine supplementation can be utilized as a protein source. Positive results were demonstrated using GDDY up to 30% of diet without affecting growth, feed conversion ratio, and survival in clear water tanks. Consequently, GDDY was assessed up to 15% of diet in green water tanks as well as production ponds. Feed response was acceptable for all commercial shrimp feeds and production parameters were at suitable levels. There were no significant differences between any of the GDDY dietary treatments in either ponds or tank growth trials. Overall, results from these studies reveal that GDDY can be utilized as a promising protein source in combination with soybean meal in formulated diets for Pacific white shrimp, as long as dietary nutrients are well-balanced to meet their requirements. In conclusion, diets formulated with GDDY (up to 30% of diet) as the main protein source, did not impair shrimp performance. Furthermore, utilizing GDDY in commercial feeds might reduce feed costs and most importantly, promotes optimum growth.


Custom Pages
Creating Custom Pages
 1. Access the settings module either via the Navigation Panel or the User Data menu located on the masthead , as detailed in the Settings overview .
 2. Click the Configure Tab
 3. From the list of Item Types select Organization
 4. From the Create New list , select Custom Page
 The New Custom Page opens
 5. Give the custom Page a name
 6. Select a custom Icon to associate with the page
 Note:
 For instruction on how to upload icons, see Uploading a Custom Icon
 7. Add an optional description
 8. Define the page's viewing permissions, select to either make the page available for all users or select the Allowed by option to define specific People, or user Groups, you can also define a set of rules and variables to further customize the permission level of who can view the page.
 9. Define when the page is visible
 1. Select Show without conditions to keep the page available at all times
 2. Select Show Under Conditions to define visibility rules.
 3. Set the formula you wish to use
 Click Formula Options to open the Formula Options Window
 4. Test your Syntax by clicking
 10. Set action associated with the page.
 1. To set a variable action:
 1. In the Set Action menu select Set Variable
 2. Select New Variable (to update an existing page with a variable already set, select Update Existing Variable )
 3. Give the action a name
 4. From the Type list, select the type of variable to be used
 5. Enter the required Value or else Click Formula Options to open the Formula Options Window and create a formula to be calculated as the value
 2. To set a conditional action:
 1. In the Set Action menu select Conditional Action List
 2. Set the formula you wish to use
 Click Formula Options to open the Formula Options Window
 3. Test your Syntax by clicking
 3. Define as many actions and sub-action as you require
 11. Define the content of the page:
 1. Select URL and type in the internal or external URL address of the desired content
 2. Select HTML and write the HTML code for your page in the text box.
 You can add formulas as well
 Click Advanced to open the dynamic HTML options:
 1. Add external JavaScript libraries under External Script
 2. Add CSS rules under the Style field
 3. In the Script field enter JavaScript which will run once the page loads
 Warning:
 Clarizen has no way of protecting you when implementing your own JavaScript and cannot guarantee the security level once a user created script is used.
 4. Enter any Data in Json Format, this field can also utilize formulas
 1. Data (JSON Format):
 This field allows you to pass data to your script via a JSON object. JSON is basically a key-value format with support for "nested" objects. For example, the following JSON object describes user details:
 {
 "name": "John Smith",
 "email": "_EMAIL_",
 "age": 15,
 "address": {
 "city": "London",
 "country": "United Kingdom"
 }
 }

 The above JSON object has several attributes: name, email, age and address. Note that "address" is itself a JSON object with the following attributes: city and country.

 To pass data to your script, you can create a JSON object with several keys each containing the relevant data needed by the script. Then, in the script, you can access that data by calling:
 API.Context.getData().
 So, assuming you used the above sample object in the Data section, and you retrieved that object in the script via the following call:
 var user = API.Context.getData();

 alert("hello "+user.name); //will display: Hello John Smith
 if (user.age<18) alert("No entrance!"); //compare numeric attributes
 alert("City: " + user.address.city); //Access nested objects via "." (dot) notation. Will display: City: London

 You may sometime want to include data from Clarizen objects inside the Data section.
 If you want to include the value of a specific field of the current object, you can do the following:
 {
 "projectName": {{$Name}
 }
 The above will generate a JSON object which looks like this:
 {
 "projectName": "Project1"
 }
 You can then access the project name via:
 API.Context.getData().projectName

 If you want to include multiple fields from the same object as a nested object, you can do the following:
 {
 "project": {{JsonObject(CurrentObject(),"Name,StartDate,CreatedBy,Manager.Name")}
 }

 The above will generate a JSON object that looks like this:
 {
 "project": {
 "id": "/Project/68dfcc86-7842-4e08-9084-8c4263c905c5",
 "Name": "Proj1",
 "StartDate": "2008-11-17T06:00:00._PHONE_",
 "CreatedBy": {
 "id": "/User/2ccf83c4-15b6-48e6-a0bf-734813d60e4d"
 },
 "Manager": {
 "id": "/User/2ccf83c4-15b6-48e6-a0bf-734813d60e4d",
 "Name": "_EMAIL_"
 }
 }
 }

 Note that "project" is now a nested JSON object containing the fields you requested. Because the field "CreatedBy" is a reference to a User object, the resulting JSON contains a nested object with the user "id" field.
 Note also, that you can request fields from fields which reference other objects (Like Manager.Name in the example above).
 You can now access the name of the project manager via:
 API.Context.getData().project.Manager.Name;

 To access the StartDate of the project as a normal javascript date, you can do the following:
 var startDate = new Date(API.Context.getData().project.StartDate);

 You can also include data from related object using the JsonObjects function. For example, to add the list of Customers to the Data object you can do something like this:
 {
 "project": {{JsonObject(CurrentObject(),"Name,StartDate,CreatedBy,Manager.Name")},
 "customers": {{JsonObjects("$Customers","Name","TargetObject.AccountStatus='Lead'")}
 }

 The JsonObjects function accepts 3 parameters: The name of a relation, the fields of the target object and an optional Filter. In the example above, we are running on the "Customers" relation and take the "Name" field for each customer.
 We are also filtering this list to return only customers whose AccountStatus is 'Lead'. The format of the filter parameter is a formula which works the same way a filter formula works when using the "Run on related" capability.
 You can use both TargetObject and LinkObject to access the related objects.

 {
 "project": {
 "id": "/Project/68dfcc86-7842-4e08-9084-8c4263c905c5",
 "Name": "Proj1",
 "StartDate": "2008-11-17T06:00:00._PHONE_",
 "CreatedBy": {
 "id": "/User/2ccf83c4-15b6-48e6-a0bf-734813d60e4d"
 },
 "Manager": {
 "id": "/User/2ccf83c4-15b6-48e6-a0bf-734813d60e4d",
 "Name": "_EMAIL_"
 }
 },
 "customers": [
 {
 "id": "/Customer/b9e3bfa4-abb9-43a2-9ad9-80251480c289",
 "Name": "Acme Inc."
 },
 {
 "id": "/Customer/0889a83b-a92e-433e-a6f7-60cccaee5330",
 "Name": "InVisible Inc."
 }
 ]
 }

 When using the JsonObject function, the resulting nested object is an array of objects. As you can see above, the "customers" attribute is now an array where each value is a JSON object container the customer details.
 You can get the name of the first customer like this:
 var customer1Name = API.Context.getData().customers[0].Name;

 To loop over all customers, you can do something like this:
 var customer;
 for (var i=0; i<API.Context.getData().customers.length;i++)
 {
 customer = API.Context.getData().customers[i];
 //Use the customer object
 }

 12. Click or to save your page.
 13. In the Configuration tab


text: Arctic journey was an experiential exhibition series that was realized as a part of HumanSee research project at the University of Lapland in 2016. The exhibition series seeked to experiment the multisensory ways of presenting personal experiences in the Arctic and to invite exhibition visitors into the co-creation of the installations. By exploring the exhibition formats, this article asks what is the role of co-design process in the construction of an arctic experience. Two of the exhibition cases included co-creation sessions, where the creation of the arctic experience was taken into a closer experimentation through the co-design process. Through qualitative content analysis and discourse analysis, the research findings suggest that arctic experience, even when not connected to personal experiences in the actual arctic region, is a reflection of the personal understanding of the marginal context that brings the stories of an individual into the core of the experience.


Spinal Cord Stimulation
What is Spinal Cord Stimulation?
It is a therapy that uses electrical impulses to block pain from being perceived in the brain. Instead of pain, the patient feels a more pleasant tingling sensation.
Who is a good candidate for a Spinal Cord Stimulator?
Doctors will generally consider the following:
- Conservative treatments have been tried and failed.
- Treatment is most effective when pain is in one or both arms or legs, or for low back pain
that persists after surgery.
- Further surgery is not likely to help.
- The patient has no untreated drug addictions.
- The patient has had a psychological evaluation.
- The patient does not have a pacemaker or other contraindications.
- The patient has had a successful SCS trial.
- The patient is willing to play an active role in establishing and maintaining increased quality of life.
The Trial
After you and your physician discuss the SCS and determine that you would like to proceed, a trial will be arranged to learn if it will be effective in treating your pain. The trial involves a surgical procedure to implant a temporary stimulator to determine if the area of your pain will be covered by stimulation. The trial may last a minimum of 24 hours or as long as several weeks. You will want to be certain that you have satisfactory pain control and that you are comfortable with the sensations of stimulation. If the trial is successful, the permanent stimulator implantation will be scheduled.
Implantation: The Surgical Procedure
The procedure will take place in a sterile environment or in the operating room. You will be given a local anesthetic so that you can be awake during the procedure (with minimal discomfort) in order to give feedback to the physician regarding effective lead placement.
After the local anesthetic has time to numb the area where the lead will be placed, the lead is inserted near your spinal cord through a needle or through an incision. Once the lead is in place, your physician will activate the system. You will help the physician determine how well the stimulation pattern covers your pain pattern. You will also get a sense of how stimulation feels to help determine if it is right for you.
Before Implantation
Do not eat or drink for 8 hours before the surgery. Specific instructions will be given by the person who schedules the procedure.
After Implantation
As with any surgery, you will have some discomfort at the incision sites, and there will be some swelling which usually lasts for several days. There will be some discomfort over the area where the receiver is implanted. This is normal. Your doctor may prescribe an analgesic until this subsides.
Immediately following implantation, you should avoid lifting, bending, stretching, and twisting. Light exercise, such as walking is important to build strength and to help relieve pain.
Long Term Care
Leads can remain permanently in place. However, if you engage in extreme bending, stretching, twisting, or strenuous activity such as jumping exercises and diving, etc., the leads may move or become damaged and require surgical repositioning or removal. Moving or lifting heavy objects can move or break the leads. Sometimes leads will move as a result of normal bending, stretching, or twisting, or due to your unique physical structure. Check with your doctor before performing any strenuous activity.
Things to Keep in Mind
Do not drive a motor vehicle or heavy equipment while using the stimulator. You may use it if you are a passenger.
The stimulator will set off metal detectors (such as at airports). You will want to be sure you have your SCS identification card in order to pass through.
Department store theft detectors may cause an increase or decrease in stimulation as you pass through. This is temporary and will not harm you or the stimulator, however, you may wish to turn the stimulator off before passing through.
Anything with magnets can affect your stimulator, in addition to theft detectors and metal detectors, be mindful of large stereo speakers with magnets, high voltage power lines, electric arc welding equipment, electric sub-stations and power generators. Magnets can turn an internally powered generator (IPG) on or off. You will want to avoid MRIs as they can damage the stimulator.
Normal household equipment will not harm or interfere with the stimulator. This includes cellular or portable phones, microwaves, computers, TVs, appliances, electric blankets, and heating pads.
The stimulator control magnet may cause damage to certain items or erase information on items with magnetic strips (bank or credit cards), Magnetic media (video cassette tapes, computer diskettes, cassette tapes), home electronic items (computer, VCR, television, camera). The magnet will stop watches and clocks, so you will want to store the magnet at least two inches away.
Life of batteries depends upon stimulation settings and usage. External batteries last anywhere from several hours to several days. When the battery of an implanted pulse generator is depleted, you may need surgery to replace the IPG.
Report to your doctor's nurse changes in stimulation patterns, increase in pain, or unexplained increased / decreased stimulation.
Will I be pain free?
There will be residual discomfort. Most patients report that 50%- 70% decrease in pain. The goal is to lower the level of pain and make it more manageable.
How will a spinal cord stimulator help me?
Depending upon your work, you should be able to resume work at home or job that does not require strenuous physical activity.
- You can resume sexual activity.
- You can travel, keeping in mind that sitting for long periods of time is best avoided.
- You will be able to participate in recreational activities such as walking, fishing, and gardening.
- You will feel more in control of your attitude, and should notice a positive effect upon relationships.


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-Michael A. Healy was born on 22 September 1839 in Georgia. His father, Michael Morris Healy, was a white planter and his mother, Eliza Clark, was variously reported as a slave or a former slave.
-His father sent him and his nine siblings north to be educated and escape slavery.
-Michael A. Healy ran repeatedly ran away from any of the schools he was sent to and finally "ran away to sea" in 1855 as a mate on board the clipper ship Jumna, bound for Calcutta from Boston. He sailed on merchant vessels for the next ten years until he applied for an appointment as an officer in the U.S. Revenue Marine in 1864.
-He was commissioned as a Third Lieutenant in the U.S. Revenue Marine by President Abraham Lincoln on 4 March 1865.
-Healy was promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1866. He served as a junior officer on board the cutters Reliance, Vigilant, Moccasin, and Active and was promoted to First Lieutenant on 20 July 1870.
-He became the second officer on the cutter Rush in 1874.
-Healy obtained his first command, the cutter Chandler, in 1877.
-He was ordered to take command of the Thomas Corwin in 1882, a post he held until 1886.
-The Revenue Cutter Service promoted Healy to the rank of Captain on 3 March 1883.
-In 1884 he and the Corwin participated in an attack and bombardment of the Alaskan-native village of Angoon at the request of an officer of the U.S. Navy.
-The Revenue Cutter Service acquired the ship Bear and ordered Healy to take command in February 1886. The Bear was designated as the flagship of the Bering Sea Force. He commanded the cutter through 1895.
-In 1888 the Bearís crew rescued 160 sailors from whaling vessels trapped near Point Barrow, Alaska.
-In 1890 he was investigated by a Board of Investigation for charges of drunkenness and cruelty to some merchant sailors. The Board cleared Healy of the charges.
-From 1892 through 1895, Healy transported reindeer to Alaska, establishing a plentiful food source for the native population.
-On 8 June 1896 a court-martial found Healy guilty of seven charges. The Treasury Secretary ordered him dropped to the bottom of the Captainís list and placed out of the Service for a period of four years without pay. The charges he was found guilty of were:
-Healy was given temporary command of the cutter McCulloch in 1900. He was then given command of the cutters Golden Gate and Hartley.
-In January 1902 Healy was restored to his original position on the Captainsí list and given command of the cutter Thetis.
-He retired from the service on 22 September 1903 after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 64 as the third most senior captain in the service. He died on 30 August 1904 in San Francisco of a heart attack.
His career may best be summed up in his own words, spoken by Healy during his court-martial in 1896:
"When I am in charge of a vessel, I always command; nobody commands but me. I take all the responsibility, all the risks, all the hardships that my office would call upon me to take. I do not steer by any manís compass but my own."


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This European Standard (EN511) Cold protection defines the levels of protection against cold hazards, when there is a risk of exposure. The tests needed to determine the resistance varies for cold and heat are very different and often cause confusion. Unlike the EN407 standard for heat resistance, it does not relate to any particular temperature.
EN511:2006 applies to any glove that is used in the protection of hands against convective and contact of temperatures down to as low as -50°C.
Example: A glove with a contact cold level 2 is much warmer than a glove that is only a contact cold level 1. (Contact resistance is measured on a 0-4 scale, 0 the glove has no protection and 4 being the best possible protection)
This is due to the material properties of the gloves, the better the thermal resistance the more protection you will have when exposed to contact with a cold object. A more detailed explanation of the actual tests is detailed below for reference.
The physical tests are very difficult to understand and for most people are unable to directly relate it to real-world situations.
A – Convective cold performance is tested using a model of a hand that is heated to around body temperature. The outside temperature is then reduced to around 20°C below the hand temperature, with a carefully regulated airflow. The amount of electrical energy that is needed to maintain the temperature gradient. Simply, to keep the hand warm it is measured to give an indication to the insulation properties of the gloves. The more power needed to maintain the temperature, the worse the glove's thermal insulation (ITR) properties.


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- Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available.
Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
- The Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Fuel Flowmeter is located in the duct between the low and high pressure fuel turbopumps. In the flowmeter the rotation rate of a 4-blade rotor positioned downstream of two flow straighteners is employed to measure the engine fuel flow rate and thereby control the engine mixture ratio via the engine controller. Hence, inaccurate operation of the flowmeter could have serious consequences for SSME engine operation and performance, forcing, for example, tanking of extra fuel to allow for inaccurate flowmeter measurement. Since the current flight flowmeter configuration was incorporated into the SSME in the early eighties, some anomalies in flowmeter behavior have been observed. The initial flowmeter incorporated an "egg crate" design for the two flow straighteners which turn the duct flow to make it more uniform and parallel after it has come out of the 90 degree bend just upstream of the flowmeter.
- Other Subject(s):
- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Document ID: _PHONE_.
Jun. 1999; Los Angeles, CA; United States.
- No Copyright.
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In most parts of the country, spring rains are a gift. To take greatest advantage of that precipitation and to ensure the runoff isn't wasted—or worse, left to erode siding or undermine foundations—we need to properly channel all this beneficence. Rain chains have been used in Asia for centuries to gracefully control the downward path of water. They use surface tension to efficiently steer water with a minimum of splash and splatter. Ours is pretty adorable, like jewelry for your house. It's also inexpensive and a lot of fun to make.
1. We used 10 2-inch aluminum funnels spaced about every 8 to 10 inches on an 8-foot length of galvanized chain. Drill 2 holes in opposite sides of the funnel rim to take the cross-bar bolt. Center the holes so the funnel hangs straight. Trace your funnel and find the center points on paper, then use that to mark the proper places to drill on the funnel.
2. For this rain chain, we used 2 1/2-inch #6 bolts and nuts and chain small enough to fit through the funnel hole but big enough for the bolt to go through its links. One bolt and 3 nuts create the crossbar. Thread the bolt through the hole in the right edge of the funnel, then screw on a nut.
3. Thread the bolt through a link in the chain and add another nut.
4. Finally, thread the bolt through the left hole in the funnel rim and tighten a nut on the end. Use the 2 center bolts to hold the chain in the center of the crossbar.


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Luxembourg's Ministry for Digitalisation has announced the launch of the Luxchat4Gov application, a real-time communications tool for fast exchange between professional contacts within the civil service, made available to around 25,000 State agents.
During the official presentation of the application on Tuesday 23 May 2023, Marc Hansen, Luxembourg's Minister Delegate for Digitalisation, pointed out one of the main strengths of Luxchat4Gov, namely that of being operated entirely within Luxembourg-based data centres. In addition, the communications exchanged in the application are end-to-end encrypted. The application's properties allow the public sector to have a secure means of communication, without the use of users' personal data. No one other than the sender of a message and the people with whom that person has communicated can read those messages or access any attached files.
According to the Ministry for Digitalisation, the national sovereignty in terms of data management that Luxchat4Gov gives it an advantage over the messaging systems owned by private companies, often located on other continents, and which may exploit their users' data, modify the rules at their convenience and send advertisements to users in order to fund their product.
Luxchat4Gov users will find all the usual communications features: text and voice messages, audio and video calls, sending files (documents, photos, videos...), etc. There is also the possibility of editing messages already sent, of creating polls or of sharing one's position with one's interlocutors thanks to Geoportail.lu. The application is available on Android, iOS, macOS and Windows.
Since Luxchat4Gov is built on the Matrix protocol, which is based on open standards as well as free software, it is compatible with any other Matrix-based system.
The public sector application will also be made available to the general public and businesses in a few months' time, once private operators launch the "Luxchat" application.


First of all the certificate is delivered in DER format. This defines the binary encoding used to transfer the signed certificate and that we see in the dump. A standard ASN.1 definition for a signed certificate is compiled into DER. The format defined for these certificates is x509 which is defined in RFC 5280. You may also need information contained in RFC 5246 which is the latest for TLSv1.2.
Okay so that is a lot of work and if you have to read all of that then forget it, right? Let me try to gloss over it and drive to doing something meaningful with this binary certificate stuff.
I have started to pull together an Asn1 class which will help us work with the DER encoded binary data. It was apparent from the CERTMGR dump that there is some structure to it. I'll try to vaguely describe that from the top down.
First notice that the whole signed certificate as obtained from the connection is enclosed in a SEQUENCE. That is an ASN.1 object which in DER has a tag (ASN_SEQUENCE), a length, and data or content. From the RFCs we expect the following structure.
Certificate ::= SEQUENCE {
 tbsCertificate TBSCertificate,
 signatureAlgorithm AlgorithmIdentifier,
 signatureValue BIT STRING }
So the top SEQUENCE contains three objects. Here "TBS" stands for To Be Signed. So the tbsCertificate is the Certificate to be signed or that has been signed. It is information that by itself is a SEQUENCE of objects. The signatureAlgorithm defines the procedure used in the signing. That is a SEQUENCE too with some objects within. And, the signatureValue turns out to be some tacked on bit data in a BITSTRING. That we will see is the actual signature.
So let's modify our little program that gets the target host's certificate to use my prototype Asn1 class. We will first confirm that the initial SEQUENCE covers all of the signed certificate and then itemize its content.
package jtest;

import com.integpg.system.Debug;
import java.net.Socket;

public class Main {

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

 // Establish a Secure Socket, get streams, and set a timeout
 Socket dataSocket = new Socket("50.197.34.75", 443);
 dataSocket.setSecure(true);

 // Obtain the certificate
 byte[] cert;
 while ((cert = dataSocket.getCertificate()).length == 0)
 System.sleep(100);
 dataSocket.close();

 // analyze
 Asn1 asn = new Asn1(cert);

 // details about the object
 System.out.println("Overall Signed Certificate Length: " + cert.length);
 System.out.println("ASN.1 Object tag: " + asn.getTag());
 System.out.printf("ASN.1 Object flags: 0x%02x\n", asn.getFlags());
 System.out.println("ASN.1 Object content size: " + asn.getLength());

 // skip the object and check for more data (should be only 1 object)
 asn.skip();
 if (!asn.hasMoreData())
 System.out.println("Signed Certificate is a sigle object as expected");
 else
 System.out.println("Something is wrong!");
 }

}
bruce_dev /> jtest
Overall Signed Certificate Length: 753
ASN.1 Object tag: 16
ASN.1 Object flags: 0x20
ASN.1 Object content size: 749
Signed Certificate is a sigle object as expected
bruce_dev />
This demonstrates that the SEQUENCE object contains the entire signed certificate. 753 bytes were delivered and aside from the 4-byte header (tag and length) the content covers the rest of the data. The tag of 16 tells us it is a SEQUENCE and the flag 0x20 tells us it is a CONSTRUCT.
Here are tags and flags that I have defined in the Asn1 class.
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 static public final int ASN_BOOLEAN = 1;
 static public final int ASN_INTEGER = 2;
 static public final int ASN_BITSTRING = 3;
 static public final int ASN_OCTETSTRING = 4;
 static public final int ASN_NULL = 5;
 static public final int ASN_OBJECTID = 6;
 static public final int ASN_OBJECTDESC = 7;
 static public final int ASN_INSTANCEOF = 8;
 static public final int ASN_REAL = 9;
 static public final int ASN_ENUM = 10;
 static public final int ASN_EMBEDDED = 11;
 static public final int ASN_UTF8STRING = 12;
 static public final int ASN_RELATIVEOID = 13;
 static public final int ASN_SEQUENCE = 16;
 static public final int ASN_SET = 17;
 static public final int ASN_NUMERIC = 18;
 static public final int ASN_PRINTABLE = 19;
 static public final int ASN_T61 = 20;
 static public final int ASN_VIDEOTEX = 21;
 static public final int ASN_IA5STRING = 22;
 static public final int ASN_UTCTIME = 23;
 static public final int ASN_GENTIME = 24;
 static public final int ASN_GRAPHIC = 25;
 static public final int ASN_VISIBLESTR = 26;
 static public final int ASN_GENSTRING = 27;
 static public final int ASN_UNIVSTRING = 28;
 static public final int ASN_CHARSTR = 29;
 static public final int ASN_BMPSTR = 30;
 static public final int ASN_HIGHFORM = 31;
 static public final int ASN_CONSTRUCT = 0x20;
 static public final int ASN_APPLICATION = 0x40;
 static public final int ASN_CONTEXT = 0x80;
 static public final int ASN_PRIVATE = 0xC0;
So let's look into the overall SEQUENCE and see that those three objects are to be found. We'll just list the tags for the objects we find. Her are the changes to our test program.
 // analyze
 Asn1 asn = new Asn1(cert);

 // descend into the SEQUENCE object and itemize the objects it contains.
 asn.descend();

 while (asn.hasMoreData()) {
 System.out.println("ASN.1 Object tag: " + asn.getTag());
 System.out.println("ASN.1 Object length: " + asn.getLength());
 System.out.println("");
 asn.skip();
 }
bruce_dev /> jtest
ASN.1 Object tag: 16
ASN.1 Object length: 598
ASN.1 Object tag: 16
ASN.1 Object length: 13
ASN.1 Object tag: 3
ASN.1 Object length: 129
bruce_dev />
So there are three parts. Two SEQUENCEs and a BITSTRING. Those correspond to tbsCertificate, signatureAlgorithm and signatureVauerespectively which is what is expected.
Certificate ::= SEQUENCE {
 tbsCertificate TBSCertificate,
 signatureAlgorithm AlgorithmIdentifier,
 signatureValue BIT STRING }
Let's extract the key parts of this signed certificate and dump the signatureValue.
 // analyze
 Asn1 asn = new Asn1(cert);
 asn.descend();

 // obtain the certificate
 Asn1 tbsCertificate = new Asn1(asn.getData());
 asn.skip();
 Asn1 signatureAlgorithm = new Asn1(asn.getData());
 asn.skip();
 byte[] bitstring = asn.getData();

 // remove leading unused bit count supplied with BITSTRING
 byte[] signatureValue = new byte[bitstring.length - 1];
 ArrayUtils.arraycopy(bitstring, 1, signatureValue, 0, signatureValue.length);

 // dump the signature
 Debug.dump(signatureValue);
bruce_dev /> jtest
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 f5 55 d7 26 05 f6 ec ab-67 d8 60 32 4a 7c 50 56 .U.&.... g.'2J|PV
 14 c5 20 33 37 a9 8c 21-57 d8 5c 57 a7 36 b8 2d ...37..! W.\W.6.-
 da 88 47 5e 93 a6 c9 fc-2c 59 83 67 8c 8d 46 1a ..G^.... ,Y.g..F.
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One of the many goals of wetland restoration is to promote the long-term storage of carbon (C) in the terrestrial biosphere. Unfortunately, soil C reservoirs in restored wetlands are slow to accumulate even after hydrology and plant communities are reestablished. Oftentimes wetland restoration changes the soil matrix and thus can dramatically alter how soil C is stored and processed. Our research investigated whether soil organic matter (SOM) preservation theories derived from studies in non-wetland soil systems can be extended to wetland soils. We examined C associated with water-stable soil aggregates, minerals, and metal oxides within habitats of one natu-ral and one restored tidal freshwater wetland. This study revealed that a majority of the soil C in the natural site was associated with large macroag-gregates (>2000um), and soils from the restored site stored more C in small macroaggregates (≥250 to <2000 um). Despite these different associations, the chemical composition of SOM followed similar patterns across each aggregate-size class. Results from the sequential extraction procedure suggest organo-metal oxide complexes do not contribute to C stabilization in these habitats. This research is one of the few studies that have examined C stabilization related to soil structure in wetland soils. Our results suggest soil aggregate formation may be an important mechanism driving C stabilization, and that disruption to macroaggregates may limit C accumulation in restored wetlands. Additional empirical research and long-term field monitoring are needed to confirm linkages between aggregate-C stabilization and accumulation in wetland soils.
Aggregation but not organo-metal complexes contributed to c storage in tidal freshwater wetland soils
Soil Science Society of America Journal
Article published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry


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Metal Nanoclusters in Catalysis and Materials Science: the Issue of Size Control Hardback
Edited by Benedetto Corain, G. Schmid, Naoki Toshima
Metal Nanoclusters in Catalysis and Materials Science: The Issue of Size Control deals with the synthesis of metal nanoclusters along all known methodologies.
Physical and chemical properties of metal nanoclusters relevant to their applications in chemical processing and materials science are covered thoroughly.
Special attention is given to the role of metal nanoclusters size and shape in catalytic processes and catalytic applications relevant to industrial chemical processing. An excellent text for expanding the knowledge on the chemistry and physics of metal nanoclusters.
Divided in two parts; Part I deals with general aspects of the matter and Part II has to be considered a useful handbook dealing with the production of metal nanoclusters, especially from their size-control point of view.
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 470 pages
- Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
- Publication Date: 21/11/2007
- Category: Biochemical engineering
- ISBN: 9780444530578


Close method
Class: BatchClosePlatform: AppiumLanguage: C# SDK:
Close the batches whose batch Ids were passed to BatchClose.SetBatchId.
The Test Manager displays test results in batches. The article Grouping tests into batches with the SDK explains how tests are associated with batches based on a batch ID, and how you can use the SDK to control which tests will be part of a particular batch.
Here, we will focus on understanding the notions of an active batch and closing a batch.
A batch is created and becomes active when a test is started with a batch ID that does not match an existing active batch. As long as a batch is active, new tests that have a matching batch ID will be added to the batch.
The Eyes server closes an active batch if it has not been used for several hours, or if it has been in continuous use for more than a few days.
When a batch is closed, the Eyes server sends a batch completion notification, if this feature is enabled. New tests that start will be added to a new batch and not to the closed batch.
You can manage batch closure by manually closing the batch. This is recommended if the user wants to get a batch completion notification as soon as the tests complete and not when the batch is closed automatically by the server.
This method does not take any parameters.
Return value
Type: void
The example below illustates how to close a batch programmatically:
Note that the batch id of the batch being closed needs to be passed to BatchClose.SetBatchId. In this example, we assume that a batch id was set for all the batches by assigning a unique ID to the environment variable APPLITOOLS_BATCH_ID. This is used as a default by the method Configuration.SetBatch which is setup in the suite Configuration object which is then assigned to each Eyes instance.
 * Setup a common batch for all tests
BatchInfo batchInfo = new BatchInfo(batchName);
batchInfo.Id = MyGetUniqueBatchID(); // User defined
suiteConfig = (Configuration) new Configuration()
 /*... other configurations */;
 * Assign the configuration to all newly created Eyes instances
eyes = new Eyes();
 * After all the tests have completed, in all the runners
BatchClose batchClose = new BatchClose();


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DescendantsLines is an in-development addon for Gramps which generates a graphical descendants tree using orthogonal edges and routing ("square edges").
- 1 Characteristics
- 2 History
- 3 Libraries
- 4 Current limitations
- 5 Installation
- 6 Usage
- 7 Tree compression and or modification
- 8 Development
- 9 Command Line Interface
- 10 See also
DescendantsLines presents an orthogonal family tree, currently in vertical mode only. In DescendantsLines, vertical mode, children in a family are ordered from left to right following the Gramps child order; and families are ordered right to left, top to bottom, following the Gramps family order.
2010: this script needs some updates for avoiding minor issues.
A modified script is available on the addons repository.
The program DescendantsLines, as the script in which it is based, is written in Python, using PyCairo and the Python XML library. Many Gramps modules are also used.
- Partial quoting of xml-syntax-like data. Data which resembles xml syntax (tags, etc) may cause error.
- Script ignores role on event (was added in 2007)
- Script ignores localized date handlers (using ISO date format, date quality in english)
- Memory limitation with a large database (DOM parsing)
- The last pixel column of each secondary line of each entry is wrong coloured (red instead black)
- The addon DescendantsLines does not use the Gramps document interface. (perhaps the Gramps document interface options should be hidden)
- DestinationOption does not have the usual error handling and user checking (e.g. for overwriting files)
- Size limit: Cairo surface size limit. (32767 for height and 32767 for width )
- Some PDF output size limit (currently crossing this limit will result in an empty PDF file)
Gramps 3.3 version
The Gramps 3.3 version of DescendantsLines can be installed through the Gramps Plugin Manager.
Gramps 3.4 version
To use the Gramps 3.4 version of DescendantsLines, on Gramps Trunk, now gramps34:
- Create the directory $GRAMPSHOME/gramps/gramps34/plugins/DescendantsLines/.
- Copy the files DescendantsLines.py and DescendantsLines.gpr.py from Gramps-addons trunk svn to the directory $GRAMPSHOME/gramps/gramps34/plugins/DescendantsLines/.
- Open Gramps and generate the report -- Reports -> Graphical Reports -> Descendants Lines. Choose the output path on "Destination" (default $GRAMPSHOME/DescendantsLines.png). The "Filename" option will contain an empty file after the report is run.
- The script currently runs in "debug mode" so it generates copious terminal output such as "Unknown event type:..." or "Unknown spouse:...". These warnings are harmless.
The options for the addon DescendantsLines are:
- S_DOWN - The length of the vertical edges from descendant to spouse-bar
- S_UP - The length of the vertical edges from spouse-bar to spouse
- S_VPAD - Length of vertical padding spacing between spouse and spouse-bar (?)
- FL_PAD - Length of padding spacing between S_UP edges (vertical edges from spouse-bar to spouse) and O_DOWN edges (vertical edges from spouse-bar to child-bar)
- OL_PAD -
- O_DOWN - The length of the vertical edges from spouse-bar to child-bar
- C_PAD - Length of padding spacing between children
- F_PAD - Length of padding spacing between families (?)
- C_UP - The length of the vertical edges from child to child-bar
- SP_PAD - Length of padding spacing between spouses
- MIN_C_WIDTH - Minimal width of child cells
- TEXT_PAD - Length of text padding
- TEXT_LINE_PAD - Length of text line padding
- output_fmt - The output format (PNG, SVG, PDF or PS)
- output_fn - The output filename
- max_gen - Maximum number of generations to include. (0 for unlimited)
- use_colors - Whether to use colored names indicating person gender in the output.
- name_format - The name format
- inc_places - Whether to include event places in the output
- inc_marriages - Whether to include marriage information in the output
- inc_dnum - Whether to use d'Aboville descendant numbering system
- style - The predefined output style
There are option and tree combinations which may generate overlapping edges and nodes. If using the inc_marriages option the S_DOWN - S_UP difference may need to be increased by 5-15 units depending on the tree.
- File:DescendantsLines-m-ep.pdf -- DescendantsLines, example Gramps data, inc_marriages and inc_places, PDF output.
- File:DescendantsLines-left.pdf -- DescendantsLines, Left-aligned text style, example Gramps data, use_colors, inc_marriages and inc_places, PDF output.
- File:Charlemagne-DescendantsLines.pdf -- DescendantsLines addon, inc_marriages and inc_places, PDF output, presenting a family tree of Charlemagne starting from Chloderic King of Cologne.
- File:PepinOfHerstal-DescendantsLines-left-dnum.pdf --DescendantsLines Gramps addon, Left-aligned text style, d'Aboville numbering (inc_dnum), descendants of Pepin of Herstal or Pepin II, PDF output. Data from _URL_
Tree compression and or modification
SVG format trees can be compressed and or modified manually using the program Inkscape, using the select and path tools; or using other SVG manipulating program. PNG format trees can be compressed manually by manipulating the image.
There is an in-development migration of this Gtk/cairo code to a draw plugin working into Gramps (font, style, path, canvas, output formats). This migration, DescendantsLines, does not use the Document interface of Gramps.
The idea is keeping Gramps XML parsing, but with a copy of the active database and use of current report environment (output formats, style, path).
- Add option to include event places. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add option to include marriage information. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Using the library get_event_or_fallback() methods from gen.utils. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add optional generation limit. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Make the XML export smaller. Use filter. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add option for output format. (PNG, SVG, PDF or PS) (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add boolean option use_colors. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Use gen.display.name.displayer. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add option for name display format. (done in Gramps-addons trunk)
- Add style variables and option, ref. text alignment, etc. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Use Gramps family order. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add option to use d'Aboville descendants numbering system. (done in Gramps-addons trunk)
- Think of optional tree compression algorithms.
- Add option to include divorces.
- Add option to include spouse parents.
- Add option to include spouse ancestries.
- Add option to include arbitrary spouse ancestries.
- Add option to include arbitrary ancestries.
- Add option to include notes.
- Add option to include sources.
- Add option to include images.
- Add horizontal mode.
- Add optional text wrap width.
- Add optional text width with use of ellipses.
- Cairo provides hyperlink support. Names could be hyperlinks to html complete individual reports or to web report pages.
- This addon may with time become a general orthogonal family tree drawing resource for Gramps, for a View, etc., and outside Gramps as well. The PyCairo code can be connected to a view.
The hardcoded number option limits can be altered by users, by altering the code.
Pass 1: generate a tmp XML with only data needed for the report, to load it as input
- Enable Person selection (Gramps ID) - done
- Generate a temp Gramps XML database matching 'IsDescendantFamilyOf' filter rule - done
- Input path - done (need to set _USER_@: path_to_SVN/src on const.py)
- Clean-up - done
- simple Gramps XML template with events, persons, families objects (only export primary event role reference).
- 'localized' dates (does not follow last DTD, which uses english and ISO format).
FINISHED - it works fine!
Pass 2: use draw report environment
- Generate a plugins/docgen/PNGDrawDoc.py file
- Move Gtk code to draw report (if possible)
- Move cairo code to draw report (if possible)
- Output path
- Clean-up, pylint, etc...
Pass 2 (Alternate): use of user-defined (mega)-widgets
- Have a look at mega-widget request and implementation
- Output path through mega-widget
- Clean-up, pylint, etc...
Pass 2 (Alternate): use a DestinationOption
- Use a DestinationOption
- Ignore standard Filename option
Command Line Interface
Gramps provides a cli support for running reports and tools Gramps 3.4 Wiki Manual - Command Line.
- 4114: Would like to use stdin and stdout for command line import/export.
Feel free to contribute or improve it.


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Given the significant size and complexity of the organisation, responsibility for areas of speciality are distributed across the team. The areas of speciality are identified through a combination of portfolio(s) and strategic foci.
A portfolio is an area of interest relevant to a common industry speciality or domain. At CSU, these portfolios include areas such as Application Architecture and Information Architecture. Identifying an individual team member for each of these areas allows a deep understanding of these domains and provides continuity in service provision over time. Responsibilities for portfolios are typically ongoing and seldom change.
Strategic Foci are specific areas of interest that require dedicated attention but are not specific to a single portfolio area or domain. For example: the Identity Management strategic foci requires consideration of infrastructure, information, security and more.
Additionally, strategic foci can sometimes have shorter periods of relevance and as such allocations of foci to individual Architects can change over time. For example: the transition from four to three faculties is a significant change requiring dedicated attention for a period of time, however, once complete, the foci will withdraw from primacy.
The Senior Enterprise Architect (Digital) is responsible for coordinating Enterprise Architecture activities across the team.
|Applications||Strategy and Planning|
|Information||Learning and Teaching|
|Infrastructure||Three Faculty Transition|
|Business Intelligence and Analytics|
|Initiatives and Projects|
|Identity and Access Management|


Documentation
Cat::AbelianMonoid
Category of Abelian monoids
Description
Cat::AbelianMonoid represents an Abelian monoid.
An Cat::AbelianMonoid is an Abelian semi-group with a neutral element dom::zero according to the operation + (_plus).
Use the axiom Ax::normalRep to state that zero is always represented in a unique way (i.e. canonically).
If an Abelian monoid has not the axion Ax::normalRep then dom::zero is only one possible representation of the neutral element. An Abelian semi-group must at least have the method "iszero" to test for zero in such a case.
Axioms
If the domain has Ax::canonicalRep, then Ax::normalRep.
Entries
"zero"
Must hold the neutral element according to the operation +.
Methods
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How does the sunlight affect the height of a plant
How does sunlight affect the color of a plant?
Certified GKH Gardening Expert
It also affects the height because sunlight is needed by the plant to produce energy. A plant uses that energy to build new cells, which are like building blocks. Without those building block like cells, the plant can not grow taller.
Sunlight affects the height of a plant because if it doesn't have any sunlight it will die because it only have water


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Scientists have been trying to determine the characteristics of the so-called "Last Universal Common Ancestor," or LUCA. How can they do this? A professor at the University of Montreal says they "identify common genetic traits between animals, plants, and bacteria" and use them to create a "tree of life." In other words, any characteristics that are similar must go back to the original common ancestor of life.
Researchers have decided that this early ancestor was sensitive to heat and could not survive in the heat that supposedly characterized the earth at its beginning. So they conclude that LUCA must have found a little "mini-climate" area that was cooler so it could develop and evolve.
Doesn't this all sound a little far-fetched? Scientists insist that common characteristics among organisms mean a common ancestor. Creationists, however, have long taught that this shows a Common Designer. God made animals and people with some similar characteristics. But humans and animals and plants are also very unique. Trying to build "LUCA" by looking at the world today is, of course, not science. True science requires hypotheses, experiments, and repeatable results. Evolution is not science—it is guesswork and imagination. If you were to make up a LUCA, what would it look like? You would have as much chance of being right as anyone else. And no one can ever prove who was right! We have faith in what God says about creation, or we have faith in what scientists make up about the beginning. I think it is safer to believe in what God has told us!


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