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Oxford Classical Texts
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Oxford Classical Texts (OCTs), or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, is a series of books published by Oxford University Press. It contains texts of ancient Greek and Latin literature, such as Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid, in the original language with a critical apparatus. Works of science and mathematics, such as Euclid's Elements, are generally not represented. Since the books are meant primarily for serious students of the classics, the prefaces and notes have traditionally been in Latin (so that the books are written in the classical languages from the title page to the index), and no translations or explanatory notes are included. Several recent volumes, beginning with Lloyd-Jones and Wilson's 1990 edition of Sophocles, have broken with tradition and feature introductions written in English (though the critical apparatus is still in Latin).
Oxoniensis is an abbreviation used to denote mainly a single volume of the series (fully: editio Oxoniensis), rarely the whole collection; correspondingly, Teubneriana is used with reference to the Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, a series with the same aim as the OCTs. Those who want some help in reading the classics may prefer the Loeb Classical Library, which includes English translations, or the Collection Budé, which includes French translations.


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Winmail.dat attachment from Outlook. The definitive guide
You use Outlook and send emails with attachments. A recipient of an email tells you that he cannot read the attachment: instead of the attachment there is a file named winmail.dat that he cannot open. The recipient of your email is probably not using Outlook but another email client. It is interesting that if you send an email to another recipient who uses the same email client as the first, same version, he can see and read the attachment correctly.
The first consideration is that the problem "is in you" and not your mail recipients. You need to fix the problem on your Outlook.
Solution 1: send emails as Html
For the first solution you will find hundreds of articles on the internet, we report it here for completeness. You need to set Outlook to send emails in HTML format. In Outlook:
File -> Options
Select "Mail" on the left. You have to make 2 variations.
 1. Under the Compose messages section, change the "Compose messages in this format" dropdown box to HTML
 2. In the "When sending messages in Rich Text format to Internet recipients", ensure you select either Convert to HTML format
Restart Outlook
Outlook from several versions already has these default settings, so you didn't need to make these changes. In fact, if that were the problem, it would not explain how some of your recipients are successfully receiving attachments. You haven't solved the problem.
The definitive solution. The problem of self-completion
If you have correctly configured Outlook as above, here is the definitive solution. The problem is in the auto-completion of the email address. The recipients of your emails who have this problem are surely in memory in the Outlook auto-completion. Auto-completion is that function that is activated while you write the email address in a new email: while you type the recipient's address, a drop-down menu appears showing the last used addresses. If you use the proposed address, your recipient will receive the winmail.dat file.
If, on the other hand, you write the email address without selecting the address proposed by the auto-completion, your recipient will receive the right attachment.
Let's recap. The winmail.dat problem affects only some of your recipients; they are recipients who do not use Outlook and have the e-mail address stored in the Outlook memory which appears with auto-completion.
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Migrate IMAP mailboxes to Microsoft 365 – Office 365 – Exchange online
Here are the steps required in sequence to migrate an IMAP domain to Exchange Online.
 1. Add the domain to your Microsoft 365 tenant. You don't have to complete the mail server setup.
 2. Add domain users to Microsoft 365. Each user must have a Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard, or Premium license
 3. Prepare the csv file for migration, separated by commas. In the first line put EmailAddress, UserName, Password. In the following lines the data: "EmailAddress is the Microsoft account," UserName "is the imap server account and" Password "is the imap server password
example of csv
EmailAddress,UserName,Password
_EMAIL_,contoso\terry.adams,_PHONE_
_EMAIL_,contoso\ann.beebe,_PHONE_
_EMAIL_,contoso\paul.cannon,_PHONE_
 1. Log in as an administrator in Microsoft 365 and go to the Exchange admin center. (Note: this guide is for the "classic" Exchange administration interface. Select "recipients" on the left; select "migration" at the top.
 2. At the center of the page there is a button with three dots: …. Selecting it, the endpoint is inserted, that is the Imap source server. In the next window add the new endpoint (IMAP).
 3. Create a new migration. launch the migration
 4. once the migration is complete, in the tenant, you can finish configuring the domain for what concerns the mail server, following the instructions on the tenant and changing your dns
The Rules of Migration
You can put all users in a migration. When a migration ends in error, you can delete a user from it and put the same user in another migration. You can have multiple migrations at the same time but the same user cannot exist in more than one migration. Migration can exist for up to 60 days.
It is not a migration
In reality, Microsoft does a more sophisticated operation than a "trivial" migration: it makes a sync. Synchronize entire imap mailbox to Exchange mailbox in one direction (from imap to exchange). It is sophisticated but less effective than a normal migration: it is not in real time but after 24/30 hours. So if you want to replace the mail server, users would lose at least 24 hours of email.
Configuring perspectives
On Outlook clients, you can add the new Exchange account online. It will be the same as the old mailbox, but will be managed by Exchange. For a while you will then have 2 mailboxes that manage the same mail but on different servers: one is the old imap server, the other one the new Exchange server. When the migration is finished and you have also moved the mx records on the dns, you can delete the old mailbox. Before doing this, however, you must also memorize the contacts and the calendar from the "old" to the "new":
Contacts: select all contacts, right click, select "move" and then "copy to folder …", Exchange mailbox contacts.
Calendar: To move appointments between 2 calendars: both calendars and drag appointments from old to new.
Problems in migration
If you have any problem you can investigate using PowerShell. First install ExchangeOnlineManagement.
Connect to the tenant:
Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName <your Admin Username>
The password request screen appears.
List of all endpoints in the tenant
get-migrationendpoint|FL
endpoint test
Test-MigrationServerAvailability -Endpoint <Identity of the endpoint from above>
view sync configuration of single user
Get-SyncRequest -Mailbox <user>
esport migration result for a user
Get-MigrationUserStatistics <user> -IncludeSkippedItems -IncludeReport
-DiagnosticInfo "showtimeslots, showtimeline,
verbose" | Export-Clixml C:\temp\MigMyUser.xml
Exchange mailboxes have a 35MB limit. If you have to move something bigger during the migration you have to change this limit.
Set-Mailbox -Identity <user> -MaxReceiveSize 150MB
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Outlook for Exchange online: Change the default address book
Exchange online Outlook accounts has the Global Address List (GAL), as a default address book: the one that contains corporate accounts. To set the user's address book (conatcts) as default, synchronized on Outlook online, you need to:
 1. open Outlook
 2. at the top of the main page there is an icon-button "Address Book".
 3. In the window that appears select "tools – options".
 4. select "Start with contact folder"
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Remove Thunderbird from default email client on Windows
Scenario
Even though Outlook is set as the default email client in Windows, when you use that program's "Send as email" function it brings out a Thunderbird dialog box instead of Outlook.
Solution
Open regedit. ('Start' > Run > type regedit)
Check registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Clients\Mail
right side double click on 'Default' Enter Microsoft Outlook in 'Value Data'
Windows 10 may have some variants
 1. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Clients\Mailto
 2. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command
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Opening a csv file in Excel. How to keep all leading zeros in fields
When you open a csv file in Excel, if you have data that contains zero (0) at the beginning, it will be transformed into numbers losing the leading zero. Let's see how to avoid losing the leading zeros.
Do not open the csv file with Excel. Instead, open Excel with a new sheet. Go to the "Data" tab and press "from text / csv".
Upload your csv file now. A new window appears which performs a data transformation.
Above you have some important choices.
Excel figured out which the csv file delimiter is. Note: use this procedure also when you are importing data saved in a csv file with a different delimiter from your standard.
Excel tries to figure out the data type for each column "based on the first 200 rows"; I recommend that you select "based on the entire dataset". This way Excel should understand that the column with zeros contains text and not numbers. Press "Load" to end the procedure or "Transform Data" to force other choices if necessary.
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Set up an Office 365 account on GMail
This article was born from the difficulties encountered in setting up a Microsoft Office 365 mail account on the Gmail mail client on a smartphone. But
Reading Office 365 in Gmail is not recommended.
In the Gmail add account screen, the most obvious attempt is to add the account using "Exchange and Office 365".
You will see the mailbox added correctly and working but we have encountered problems: in some accounts on Gmail you do not see all the mail folders in the mailbox.
Solution
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text: Hello, I'm here looking for some peer guidance on what electives are more appropriate for a sound (and full-range) background in a physics undergraduate program. My hopes are to attend Graduate school in about two academic years. As of now I'm a junior and just getting into the upper level electro, quantum, thermo, etc, courses. My technical/physics electives as of now include: Solid State Physics, Atomic Physics, Electronics 1 (+ lab), Nuclear/Particle Physics, Complex Analysis, PDE, and a research sequence which includes 3 units of 3 credit hours each (spanning 3 semesters). At this rate in my academic career, these are all the electives I can include but was thinking about switching some; basically this is where I need some advice. The other courses I was thinking about would be Classical Mechanics II (Lagrangian & Hamiltonian Mechanics) and Stellar Astrophysics. I know graduate school should be a research-topic based choice for me but well I don't want to be generally unprepared by not having learned something like basic astrophysical principles or lagrangian mechanics and the like. I've always been interested in astrophysics but can't seem to choose this Stellar Astrophysics junior class over the Atomic Physics senior class or the other ones aforementioned. At this point I can still switch my elective pics but would like to have an idea on what to take. Help? Thanks! Quick Course Descriptions for extra information: Stellar Astrophysics Develops a working knowledge of stellar and extra-stellar galactic astronomy. Includes stellar structure, nucleosynthesis, stellar evolution, and degenerate objects Atomic Physics Course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of atomic physics, the structure of atoms, and their interaction with static and radiation fields. Nuclei,Particles&Fields An introduction to nuclear and subnuclear systems. Topics include nuclear models, radioactive decay, nuclear reactions, quarks, accelerators, reactors, and stellar nucleosynthesis. Classical Mechanics II A continuation of PHYS 3201. Topics include Lagrangians and Hamiltonian techniques, and many body mechanics.

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MIT's Technology Review featured Professor Catherine Klapperich's SNAP device, co-developed as an IIH project, to purify DNA in the field. SNAP (System for Nucleic Acid Preparation) is able to purify DNA from field samples such as blood and saliva without any electricity or specialized training. This allows samples to be collected in the field, and stabilized without expensive refrigeration. By isolating DNA from the sample, the resulting material remains stable at room temperature for long periods of time.
"Instead of taking blood samples and keeping them cold, with our technology, they would be able to prepare all the samples at the point of care," says Klapperich, an assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Boston University. "They would also have a longer period of time to get a much more preserved sample to a central lab someplace else."
A standard bicycle pump is all that's required to power a DNA purifying kit, designed by Catherine Klapperich and her students at Boston University. The thermos-size device, dubbed SNAP (System for Nucleic Acid Preparation), extracts genetic material from blood and other bodily fluids by pumping fluid through a polymer-lined straw designed to trap DNA. A user can then pop the straw out and mail it to the nearest lab, where the preserved DNA can be analyzed for suspicious bacteria, viruses, and genetic diseases.
More at Technology Review

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Polo is a team sport played outdoors on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Riders score by driving a white wooden or plastic ball (size 3–3.5 inches, weight 4.25–4.75 ounces) into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. Goals are only valid if the scoring rider is mounted. The traditional sport of polo is played outdoors, and each polo team consists of four riders and their mounts.
The modern indoor variant is called arena polo. In arena polo, there are 3 instead of four players on each team and chukkers (periods) are 6 1/2 minutes in length, in outdoor polo the chukkers are 7 1/2 minutes in length. The playing area is 300′ x 150′.
Another modern variant is snow polo, which is played either outdoor or indoor on snow on a frozen ground or ice. Each team generally consists of three players and also the equipment differs from the sport of polo. Other variants include elephant polo, bike polo and Segway polo. These sports are considered as separate sports because of the differences in the composition of teams, equipment, rules, game facilities etc.
A game of Central Asian origin, polo was first played in Persia (Iran) at dates given from the 6th century BC to the 1st century AD. Polo was at first a training game for cavalry units, usually the king's guard or other elite troops. To the warlike tribesmen, who played it with as many as 100 to a side, it was a miniature battle. In time polo became a Persian national sport played extensively by the nobility. Women as well as men played the game, as indicated by references to the queen and her ladies engaging King Khosrow II Parviz and his courtiers in the 6th century AD. Certainly Persian literature and art give us the richest accounts of polo in antiquity. Ferdowsi, the famed Iranian poet-historian, gives a number of accounts of royal polo tournaments in his 9th century epic, Shahnameh (the Epic of Kings). In the earliest account, Ferdowsi romanticizes an international match between Turanian force and the followers of Siyâvash, a legendary Persian prince from the earliest centuries of the Empire; the poet is eloquent in his praise of Siyâvash's skills on the polo field. Ferdowsi also tells of Emperor Shapur II of the Sassanid dynasty of the 4th century who learned to play polo when he was only seven years old.
Valuable for training cavalry, the game was played from Constantinople to Japan by the Middle Ages. Known in the East as the Game of Kings. The name polo is said to have been derived from the Tibetan word "pulu", meaning ball.
The modern game of polo, though formalized and popularized by the British, is derived from Manipur (now a state in India) who played the game known as 'Sagol Kangjei','Kanjai-bazee', or 'Pulu'. It was the anglicised form of the latter, referring to the wooden ball which was used, that was adopted by the sport in its slow spread to the west. The first polo club was established in the town of Silchar in Assam, India, in 1834.
The origins of the game in Manipur are traced to early precursors of Sagol Kangjei. This was one of three forms of hockey in Manipur, the other ones being field hockey (called Khong Kangjei) and wrestling-hockey (called Mukna Kangjei). Local rituals such as those connected to the Marjing, the Winged-Pony God of Polo and the creation-ritual episodes of the Lai Haraoba festival enacting the life of his son, Khori-Phaba, the polo-playing god of sports. These may indicate an origin prior to the historical records of Manipur, which go back to the 1st Century A.D.
In Manipur, polo is traditionally played with seven players to a side. The players are mounted on the indigenous Manipuri pony, which stands less than 13 hands high. There are no goal posts and a player scored simply by hitting the ball out of either end of the field. Players were also permitted to carry the ball, though that allowed opponents to physically tackle players when they do so. The sticks were made of cane and the balls were made from the roots of bamboo. Colorful cloth pom-poms dangle at sensitive and vulnerable spots around the anatomy of the ponies in order to protect them. Players protected their legs by attaching leather shields to their saddles and girths.
In Manipur, the game was not merely a "rich" game but was played even by commoners who owned a pony. The kings of Manipur had a royal polo ground within the ramparts of their Kangla Fort. Here they played Manung Kangjei Bung (literally, "Inner Polo Ground"). Public games were held, as they are still today, at the Mapan Kangjei Bung (literally "Outer Polo Ground"), a polo ground just outside the Kangla. Weekly games called Hapta Kangjei (Weekly Polo) were also played in a polo ground outside the current Palace.
The British are credited with spreading polo worldwide in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Military officers imported the game to Britain in the 1860s. The establishment of polo clubs throughout England and western Europe followed after the formal codification of rules. The 10th Hussars at Aldershot, Hants, introduced polo to England in 1869. The game's governing body in the United Kingdom is the Hurlingham Polo Association, which drew up the first set of formal British rules in 1874, many of which are still in existence.
This version of polo played in the 19th century was different from the faster form that was played in Manipur. The game was slow and methodical, with little passing between players and few set plays that required specific movements by participants without the ball. Neither players nor horses were trained to play a fast, nonstop game. This form of polo lacked the aggressive methods and equestrian skills to play. From the 1800s to the 1910s, a host of teams representing Indian principalities dominated the international polo scene.
Polo found popularity in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico,Pakistan and the United States of America.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. organized the first polo match in the United States at Dickel's Riding Academy at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City. During the early part of the 20th century, under the leadership of Harry Payne Whitney, polo changed to become a high-speed sport in the United States, differing from the game in England, where it involved short passes to move the ball toward the opposition's goal. Whitney and his teammates used the fast break, sending long passes downfield to riders who had broken away from the pack at a full gallop.
The oldest polo ground in the world is the Imphal Polo Ground in Manipur State established by the British in India. The history of this pologround is contained in the royal chronicle "Cheitharol Kumbaba" starting from AD 33. Lieutenant Sherer, the father of modern polo visited the state and played on this polo ground in the 1850s. Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India visited the state in 1901 and measured the pologround as 225 yards long and 110 yards wide. The oldest royal polo square is the 16th century Gilgit Polo Field, Pakistan, while the highest polo ground in the world is on the deosai Plateau Baltistan, Pakistan at 4307 meters (14,000 ft). The oldest polo club in the world still in existence is the Calcutta Polo Club (1862).
Polo is an equestrian sport with its origin embedded in Central Asia dating back to 6th century BC. At first it was a training game for cavalry units for the King's Guards or other Elite troops. To the warlike tribesmen who played polo with as many as 100 players to a side, it was a miniature battle. It became a Persian national game in the 6th century AD. From Persia, the game spread to Arabia, then to Tibet, China and Japan. In China, in the year 910, death of a favourite relative in a game prompted Emperor Apaochi to order beheading of all players.
The game
Field polo requires two teams of 4 players each mounted on horseback to play the game. The field is 300 yards long, and either 200 yards or 160 yards wide if there are side boards—these are generally 6" high. There are lightweight goalposts on each side of the field spread 8 yards apart. The object of the game is to score the most goals by hitting the ball through the goal.
In arena polo, played mainly in the United States in large arenas such as armories and riding academies, the size of the field varies due to the size of the floor space, but 100 yards long by 50 yards wide is ideal. Arena polo requires teams of three riders, and goals are scored by passing the ball into a 10' goal recessed into the sideboards. Arena polo uses a ball between 12.5" and 15" inches in circumference and looks like a miniature soccer ball but is not the same pattern.
In Pakistan Shandur invites visitors to experience a traditional polo tournament


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A NATIVE AMERICAN MEDICINE MAN'S THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT
The Wonder Bracelet™ is a sterling silver and copper bracelet used by Native Americans since the 1700s as a therapeutic treatment to cure human illness and speed the healing of injuries.
The Wonder Bracelet™ has helped speed recovery from many kinds of human ailments such as:
- Back Problems
- Sore and Injured Legs
- Carpal Tunnel
- Irregular Heartbeat
- Sports Injuries
- And Many More
What is the Difference between the Wonder Bracelet™ and other copper bracelets?
Native Americans believe that copper was introduced to them by the Spirit World of Medicine through songs, fibers, herbs and ceremonies. It was used to treat many human illnesses before the advent of modern medicine. The makers of the Wonder Bracelet™ understand the theory and uses of copper and sterling silver. Only they know the right (and wrong) ways to combine these metals to conjure the greatest healing powers. It is common knowledge that copper helps arthritis but the American Indian Medicine Men know that, if used properly, it can do so much more.
All of our bracelets are hand made by skilled Native American artisans from the Dene Navajo tribe. Therefore, each bracelet is unique but every bracelet works the same.


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To add a math channel, just click select
MATH in the modules and you will see the Math configuration panel. You can quickly select one of the built-in functions, such as inversion or addition. All the standard arithmetic functions are supported along with more complex functions like demodulation and instant frequency of the signal.
With HScope currently you have available only 1 math channel.
|Basic functions:||- A (invert)|
A + B (sum)
A - B (difference)
A x B (multiply)
A : B (divide)
|Advanced functions:||demod (demodulation)|
freq (instant frequency)
For some signals (for example from vibrations sensors), the information is carried by the amplitude (or envelope) of the signal. The
demod() function allow to do this operation. Following is the equivalent circuit of this operation.
Visualize the instant frequency variation of the signal along time. The
freq() function is useful for signal where frequency variation bring the useful information.
Sample application of this function to detect missfire with Automotive Module (detected 1 missfire event during long period recording):

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In order to effectively solve the problems of low prediction accuracy and calculation efficiency of existing methods for estimating economic loss in a subway station engineering project due to rainstorm flooding, a new intelligent prediction model is developed using the sparrow search algorithm (SSA), the least-squares support vector machine (LSSVM) and the mean impact value (MIV) method. First, in this study, 11 input variables are determined from the disaster loss rate and asset value, and a complete method is provided for acquiring and processing data of all variables. Then, the SSA method, with strong optimization ability, fast convergence and few parameters, is used to optimize the kernel function and the penalty factor parameters of the LSSVM. Finally, the MIV is used to identify the important input variables, so as to reduce the predicted input variables and achieve higher calculation accuracy. In addition, 45 station projects in China were selected for empirical analysis. The empirical results revealed that the linear correlation between the 11 input variables and output variables was weak, which demonstrated the necessity of adopting nonlinear analysis methods such as the LSSVM. Compared with other forecasting methods, such as the multiple regression analysis, the backpropagation neural network (BPNN), the BPNN optimized by the particle swarm optimization, the BPNN optimized by the SSA, the LSSVM, the LSSVM optimized by the genetic algorithm, the PSO-LSSVM and the LSSVM optimized by the Grey Wolf Optimizer, the model proposed in this paper had higher accuracy and stability and was effectively used for forecasting economic loss in subway station engineering projects due to rainstorms.
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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This story is especially for my students. We use two types of cameras, the red Kodaks, and the black Olympus ones. Both have strengths and weaknesses. The red Kodak cameras do not have earphone jacks, and the internal microphone is quite poor. The black Olympus camera instead has both a mic and earphone jacks, and has excellent stereo microphones.
Red Kodak cameras: Through the year, someone will forget to do a sound check, and record their speaking test with the microphone either switched off or pointed away from the speakers.
Black Olympus cameras: The video does not play with sound on Windows Media Player. WMP is a cheap simple player, and so it lacks some important codecs, including the one used by the Olympus cameras. Consequently, you'll need to download and use either:
If you still have problems, please ask.


Phobic and anxiety disorders in Hispanic and Caucasian youth
Golda S. Ginsburg, Wendy K. Silverman
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
Knowledge about phobic and anxiety disorders in Hispanic youth is sparse. This study compared 99 Hispanic and 143 Caucasian youth, aged 6-17, on various sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Results indicated that Hispanics and Caucasians were remarkably similar on the majority of indices examined, including age at intake, gender, patterns of primary diagnoses, clinician interference rating, percentage with school refusal, and percentage with more than one diagnosis. Hispanic children were more likely to present with a primary diagnosis of separation anxiety disorder and were more likely to come from families with lower incomes compared to Caucasians. Hispanic parents also rated their children as more fearful than did Caucasian parents. The study's findings are viewed as an initial step in extending the existing literature on childhood anxiety disorders and Hispanic mental health.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)517-528
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Anxiety Disorders
Issue number6
StatePublished - Nov 1996
Externally publishedYes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
 - Psychiatry and Mental health
 - Clinical Psychology
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Rene LaRose, director of the the NATO Science and Coordination Office, visited ICT along with John Tangney from the Office of Naval Research and Paul Chatelier from the Naval Postgraduate School. The purpose of the visit was to learn about the institute's modeling, simulation and virtual reality work. The tour included demonstrations of ICT's virtual human prototypes INOTS, SimCoach, SimSensei and Gunslinger. The guests also visited the ICT Graphics Lab to see the group's advances in creating digital doubles and holographic projections.
ICT Hosts Visitors from NATO and ONR
Published: October 23, 2013


Getting started with Action Mailer in Ruby on Rails
Sending emails is one of those aspects of building web applications that is totally necessary, but nevertheless, a pain in the arse.
There is so much value in sending emails that you can't just not do it, yet there's nothing fun about doing it.
As you could probably guess, sending email is such a core component of a web application that Rails has already got you covered.
Action Mailer is Rails' abstraction for sending emails. This includes generating the markup, queuing the job, and sending the email.
In today's tutorial we will be looking at using Action Mailer in Ruby on Rails.
How does Action Mailer work?
A good way of thinking about how Action Mailer works is that it is similar to Controllers and Views in a normal web request.
The Mailer is similar to the Controller in that it accepts the request, sets things up and then ultimately returns the response.
You also have a View that is where you will write the markup for your email.
And of course you have tests for your mailers as it's just as important to test them as it is to test Controllers.
Action Mailer is also an abstraction over the actual functionality of sending the email. This means you can switch providers without disrupting the code you have written by simply making a configuration change.
Creating a Mailer
So the first thing we need to do is to create a new Mailer. To do this we can use the Rails generator:
bin/rails generate mailer UserMailer
create app/mailers/user_mailer.rb
create app/mailers/application_mailer.rb
invoke erb
create app/views/user_mailer
create app/views/layouts/mailer.text.erb
create app/views/layouts/mailer.html.erb
invoke test_unit
create test/mailers/user_mailer_test.rb
create test/mailers/previews/user_mailer_preview.rb
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As you can see from the output above, this will create a number of files for you.
First we have the 'ApplicationMailer' class:
'''ruby
class ApplicationMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default from: "_EMAIL_"
layout "mailer"
end
This class sets some default values and it will be used to as a parent class to extend each child Mailer class.
Next we have the UserMailer itself:
class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer
end
This is like your Controller, so it's here where you define the methods that accept the request to send an email.
Finally we have the various view and test files we will need but aren't that important right now.
Setting up the first email
Firstly, we can create the first email method on the UserMailer class:
class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer
def sign_up_confirmation(user)
@user = user
@url = # generate confirmation url
mail(to: @user.email, subject: "Confirm your Culttt Membership!")
end
end
The first email I have defined is for sending a sign up confirmation when a new user registers with Culttt.
As you can see I'm passing in the User from the code that is calling this method. Typically this will be part of the user on-boarding flow, just after the User object was created by Active Record.
I'm also setting the User and the generated url to be instance variables on the Mailer. In just the same way that instance variables from Controllers are available in Views, these instances variables will be available in my Mailer Views.
And finally I'm calling the mail method and specifying the to and subject.
Now if you tried to run this Mailer you would get an error. Rails is expecting that the View is available, but we haven't created it yet.
By default, Rails will expect that there is a sign_up_confirmation.html.erb and a sign_up_confirmation.text.erb file under the app/views/user_mailer directory.
So in order to make it work we need to create those files and add the body of the email.
Now if you were to try to send the email again, it should work (well only if you have set up the configuration details too)
UserMailer.sign_up_confirmation(user).deliver_later
Configuring Action Mailer to send email
The final step to setting up Action Mailer is to configure your sending options. This will depend on how you want to send the email in your web application.
I usually go for a hosted email provider such as Mandrill or SendGrid, but the choice is up to you.
To set the Action Mailer configuration options, simply open up the files under config/environments and add the appropriate configuration details for each environment.
For specific details to include I would look at your provider's documentation.
And don't store sensitive details in here, use environment variables instead!
Conclusion
The ability to send emails is something that just about every web application will require.
It doesn't really matter if you are building a consumer or business application, you're going to need to send emails to your users as some point.
Rails is a framework that aims to deal with this kind of foundational functionality for you so you can get on with doing the work that is important to your application.
Instead of dealing with the headache of sending emails yourself, Rails relieves you of the burden with a set of tools to make it easy.
Getting started with Action Mailer in Ruby on Rails
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How to Freeze Tomatillos. When you have a glut of tomatillos, it's good to know that they can be frozen for use later on. If you are harvesting your own, it is important to get them at the right time, just before the fruit drops.
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Beyond backup and recovery – PoPI Act compliance requires understanding of how data is managed
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The Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act, which came into force on 1 July this year, has compelled organisations to take a closer look at their data management in terms of how it is stored, what data is stored and for how long this data must be stored.
Essentially, this is the impact that the PoPI Act has had on businesses from an information management perspective. While local organisations have been aware of PoPI Act compliance requirements for a number of years, it has not really been a major talking point within organisations until now, purely because it has now become enforceable
The Act has also pushed organisations towards more effective data backup and recovery, with businesses putting controls in place to manage the content and time period for which they must or can keep their data.
In the past, organisations often deemed all their data to be important and would thus keep all this information indefinitely, but the Act stipulates that specific data must be kept for a defined period of time, specifically in terms of data that falls within the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) component of the Act.
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However, PoPI Act compliance extends beyond just data backup and recovery. Organisations need to conduct a business impact assessment to ensure that, in the event of data loss, they are able to restore the required data or face financial penalties and loss of reputation.. It would be fair to describe data backup and recovery as a company's insurance policy on their data.
What the PII component of the PoPI Act has brought to light is that not only is it important to be aware of what data organisations are backing up, but that they also need to know what data they are creating, generating and protecting in their environment.
So from this perspective, it goes beyond backup and recovery, because we will eventually reach a point where companies will have to prove that they can report on sensitive data, as well as destroy this data in their various environments.
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Of course, a business can be negatively impacted if customer information is not properly protected during a backup. If the data is not protected and is destroyed, the company has no way of proving to a customer – in terms of the POPI Act – that their data has been appropriately disposed of. So, although the data isn't there, there would be no evidence of its destruction and that would be a breach of the Act.
At the same time, it is quite a challenging task for any organisation to gain an effective understanding of their organisational data, or to report on what data is sensitive from a PoPI Act perspective. An organisation would either need to understand the nuts and bolts of every single IT application that generates data, or they would need a tool to scour their environment and do data discovery for PII.
Fortunately, tools are being released that give organisations the ability to discover data and draw up a dashboard to see where geographically their data is located if the organisation has geographic points. These tools can highlight any sensitive data or PII they find and inform the company what should be done with it.
PoPI Act compliance can be a very daunting task, but at least we have the advantage of learning lessons from other countries that have been through the process to comply with the requirements of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Furthermore, a data management solution can significantly simplify the complexities that go hand-in-hand with the onerous exercise of compliance.


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Scholarships play a pivotal role in enabling students to pursue their dreams and aspirations in higher education. In today's fast-paced digital world, information and technology scholarships are in high demand, providing opportunities for aspiring tech professionals to gain the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in the industry. Ryerson University in Canada stands out as a beacon of educational excellence, offering a range of scholarships tailored to support students pursuing information and technology-related fields. In this article, we will explore the Information and Technology scholarships at Ryerson University, highlighting their significance, eligibility criteria, and the impact they have on students and the tech industry.
1. The Significance of Information and Technology Scholarships
Information and technology scholarships serve as a bridge between the academic world and the tech industry. They empower talented individuals to access quality education and develop expertise in areas such as computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. These scholarships are not only a means of financial support but also a recognition of the potential of students to contribute significantly to the rapidly evolving technology sector.
2. Ryerson University: A Hub for Technology Education
Ryerson University, located in the heart of Toronto, is renowned for its commitment to innovation and technology. The university's Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science offer a wide range of programs related to information and technology. The university's strong ties to industry partners and a vibrant tech ecosystem make it an ideal choice for students seeking to excel in the tech field.
3. Information and Technology Scholarships at Ryerson University
Ryerson University offers several scholarships aimed at supporting students pursuing information and technology programs. Some of the notable scholarships include:
a. The Ted Rogers School of Information Technology (TRSM) Scholarships
The Ted Rogers School of Information Technology at Ryerson University offers various scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students. These scholarships are based on academic merit and are available to students in computer science, information technology management, data science, and related programs.
b. Women in Technology Scholarship
Recognizing the importance of diversity in the tech industry, Ryerson University offers scholarships specifically aimed at women pursuing information and technology degrees. These scholarships encourage and empower female students to excel in traditionally male-dominated fields.
c. Financial Aid for Underrepresented Communities
Ryerson University is committed to providing opportunities to underrepresented communities in the tech industry. Scholarships and financial aid are available to students from diverse backgrounds, including Indigenous students and individuals with disabilities.
4. Impact on Students
The impact of information and technology scholarships at Ryerson University extends beyond financial support. These scholarships provide students with the means to access quality education, gain valuable experience through internships and co-op programs, and build a network of industry connections. Graduates of Ryerson's information and technology programs are well-prepared for successful careers in the tech sector, thanks in part to the scholarships that supported their educational journey.
5. The Broader Impact on the Tech Industry
By investing in scholarships for information and technology education, Ryerson University contributes to the growth and innovation of the tech industry. Graduates who benefit from these scholarships become the skilled professionals and entrepreneurs who drive technological advancements, startups, and research initiatives that have a positive impact on society.
Information and technology scholarships at Ryerson University are not just financial aids; they are catalysts for empowering the next generation of tech innovators. These scholarships recognize talent, promote diversity, and have a lasting impact on students' lives and the tech industry as a whole. Ryerson's commitment to supporting students pursuing careers in information and technology demonstrates the university's dedication to fostering excellence and innovation in the ever-evolving digital landscape. As the tech industry continues to shape the world, Ryerson University's scholarships play a pivotal role in shaping the future of technology professionals in Canada and beyond.


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Pregnant Teens Have Higher Rates of Depression & Substance Use
Researchers from Lawson Health Research Institute and Brescia University College found that teenage pregnant women are more likely to live in poverty, have poorer mental health and have higher rates of substance use.
There are limited Canadian studies on teenage pregnancies, in particular looking at risk factors and birth outcomes compared to women who became pregnant during adulthood. London researchers were able to take advantage of a large sample of pregnant women from Southwestern Ontario by accessing data from patients at London Health Sciences Centre. Of the 25,363 pregnant women making up the total sample of the retrospective cohort study, 4.3 per cent (1080) were 19 years old or younger.
Teenage pregnant women were much more likely than older pregnant women to live in poor, disadvantaged neighborhoods across Southwestern Ontario. They were also more likely to have a history of depression and had higher rates of depression during pregnancy, with 10 per cent on medication while pregnant. Looking at substance use, 41 per cent of teenage women smoked cigarettes, 13 per cent used cannabis and 7 per cent drank alcohol during pregnancy, which was significantly higher than rates for older pregnant women.
Once adjusted for other medical, behavioral and economic factors, teenage pregnancy was not associated with a higher risk for preterm birth or low birth weight compared to pregnancy for women ages 20-34 years. However, the infants had a higher risk of low Apgar scores.
An Apgar score, a test given to newborns soon after birth, indicates how well the baby is doing outside of the womb. Babies with very low Apgar scores are more likely to need assistance with breathing. However, Apgar scores have little correlation with the long-term health of the baby.
Contrary to findings in the United States, where teenage pregnancy is associated with a higher risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, these recent results suggest that geographical context, differences in social inequality and type of health care system are important. It's possible that Canada's universal health care system provides a stronger safety net.
"There are so many factors associated with poor birth outcomes, and the advantage of our sample size and statistical modeling was that we were able to include key medical and behavioral factors which play a larger role than age," says Dr. Jasna Twynstra, Associate Professor at Brescia University College.
"Although our study adds to the limited research on teenage pregnancy and birth outcomes, the findings are only from Southwestern Ontario," adds Dr. Seabrook. "We are currently working on a systematic review and meta-analysis of all studies conducted in Canada on the relationship between teenage pregnancies and adverse birth outcomes to determine whether our findings here are consistent with what's happening across the country."
He hopes the study reopens discussion on this important issue so that work can be done to improve the overall health of teenage pregnant women and their children. "We need to target teenage mental illness, as well as their high substance use during pregnancy, to minimize the impact on their overall health and wellbeing."
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We report a case of portal hypertension and oesophageal varices arising in an 18-year-old female renal transplant recipient with juvenile nephropathic cystinosis diagnosed at 6 years of age. The patient had a history of poor compliance with her prescribed cysteamine therapy. Routine examination revealed normal liver function without hepatomegaly but asymptomatic splenomegaly. An abdominal ultrasound suggested mild oesophageal varices, confirmed later on endoscopy. A liver biopsy revealed an abundance of cystine crystals within the hepatic Kupffer cells, with preserved hepatic architecture. Although the pathophysiology of this rare complication is unclear, in the absence of other aetiologies the likely cause is the patient's poorly controlled cystinosis. As cystinotic patients live longer with improved renal transplant management and cysteamine therapy, it is of interest to characterize the long-term course of the illness after renal transplantation. An understanding of the pathophysiology of hepatic dysfunction will be required to manage this potential late complication of the disease.
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What Did Ancient Egyptians Really Eat?
(ISNS) — Did the ancient Egyptians eat like us? If you're a vegetarian, tucking in along the Nile thousands of years ago would have felt just like home.
In fact, eating lots of meat is a recent phenomenon. In ancient cultures vegetarianism was much more common, except in nomadic populations. Most sedentary populations ate fruit and vegetables.
Although previous sources found the ancient Egyptians to be pretty much vegetarians, until this new research it wasn't possible to find out the relative amounts of the different foods they ate. Was their daily bread really daily? Did they binge on eggplants and garlic? Why didn't someone spear a fish?
A French research team figured out that by looking at the carbon atoms in mummies that had lived in Egypt between 3500 B.C. and 600 A.D. you could find out what they ate.
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Uses a regular expression (RE) to search a string for a pattern. The search is case sensitive. For more information on regular expressions, including escape sequences, anchors, and modifiers, see Using Regular Expressions in Functions in the Developing ColdFusion Applications.
Returns
Depends on the value of the returnsubexpressions__parameter:
 - If returnsubexpressions = "False":
 - The position in the string where the match begins
 - 0, if the regular expression is not matched in the string
 - If returnsubexpressions = "True": a structure that contains two arrays, len and pos. The array elements are as follows:
 - If the regular expression is found in the string, the first element of the len and pos arrays contains the length and position, respectively, of the first match of the entire regular expression.
 - If the regular expression contains parentheses that group subexpressions, each subsequent array element contains the length and position, respectively, of the first occurrence of each group.
 - If the regular expression is not found in the string, the first element of the len and pos arrays contains 0.
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 - ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 5: Added the flag useJavaAsRegexEngine to Application.cfc. Enable this flag to use Java Regex as the default regex engine. For more information, see Application variables. For information on using Regular Expression using the flag, see Using Regular Expressions.
 - ColdFusion (2016 release): Added the scope parameter.
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REFind(reg_expression, string [, start, returnsubexpressions, scope ] )
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Parameter
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reg_expression
Regular expression for which to search. Case sensitive.
string
A string, or a variable that contains one, in which to search.
start
Optional. A positive integer, or a variable that contains one. Position in the string at which to start search. The default value is 1.
returnsubexpressions
Optional. Boolean. Whether to return substrings of reg_expression, in arrays named len and pos:
 - True: if the regular expression is found, the first array element contains the length and position, respectively, of the first match. If the regular expression contains parentheses that group subexpressions, each subsequent array element contains the length and position, respectively, of the first occurrence of each group. If the regular expression is not found, the arrays each contain one element with the value 0.
 - False: the function returns the position in the string where the match begins. Default.
scope
Optional
 - one: returns the first value that matches the regex.
 - all: returns all values that matches the regex.
Usage
This function finds the first occurrence of a regular expression in a string. To find the second and subsequent instances of the expression or of subexpressions in it, you call this function more than once, each time with a different start position. To determine the next start position, use the returnsubexpressions__parameter, and add the value returned in the first element of the length array to the value in the first element of the position array.
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Examples using the scope parameter
<cfscript>
 // when start=1, returnSubexpressions=true, and scope="one"
 writeDump(REFind("[A-Z]+", "ColdFusion 123!",1,true,"one"));
</cfscript>
Output
<cfscript>
 // when start=1, returnSubexpressions=true, and scope="all"
 writeDump(REFind("[A-Z]+", "ColdFusion 123!",1,true,"all"));
</cfscript>
Output
<cfscript>
 // when start=1, returnSubexpressions=true, and scope="one"
 writeDump(REFind("[a-z]+", "ColdFusion 123!",1,true,"one"));
</cfscript>
Output
<cfscript>
 // when start=1, returnSubexpressions=true, and scope="all"
 writeDump(REFind("[a-z]+", "ColdFusion 123!",1,true,"all"));
</cfscript>
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Colistin is an antibiotic that was first used in medicine in 1959. Although the drug fell from favor in the 1970s due to the potential for serious side effects, physicians at the beginning of the 21st century brought the drug back into use to combat infections caused by organisms resistant to more modern drugs. Inhaled colistin is primarily used as a treatment for lung infections of people with cystic fibrosis, but it may also be used to treat lung infections in other people which do not respond to other antibiotics.
Antibiotic resistance is a significant problem facing medicine. The term "resistance" describes a situation where a bacterial species used to be killed by a particular antibiotic, but now is immune. This poses problems when a person is infected with bacteria and the regular treatments do not work. To combat this, doctors need to have other antibiotics in reserve, which can cure the infection.
Inhaled colistin is an example of an antibiotic that a doctor may have to use instead of regular treatments to cure an infection. Colistin is effective in killing bacteria that are part of the Gram negative group. This group of bacteria contains some of the most important of infectious organisms. One example is Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can be lethal to people with cystic fibrosis.
The main reason colistin was rejected in favor of other drugs was for safety concerns. It can cause damage to the kidneys and to the nervous system. People suffering from dangerous infections of the lungs, however, may, on balance, prefer to take the risk of side effects against the potentially lethal effects of the infection. The advantage of inhaled colistin over intravenous colistin for lung infections is that the aerosolized drug can get to the affected tissues directly, but a doctor may also administer antibiotic as an injection so the drug gets into the entire body.
Generally, the main use of inhaled colistin, as of 2011, is for people with drug resistant lung infections who also suffer from cystic fibrosis. Sometimes, though, the drug may also be used in people who do not have cystic fibrosis, but who have life-threatening lung infections such as pneumonias. In these cases, inhaled colistin may be used as a last resort, due to the risk of serious side effects. Another potential use of inhaled colistin, as of 2011, is in the preparation of lung transplant patients for surgery. Theoretically, colistin may kill off existing strains of bacteria that are resistant to many antibiotics, so that when the patient receives the new lung, the likelihood of infection with drug-resistant bacteria is lowered.
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Flood Risk Assessment and Protection Guidelines for Infrastructure Planning in Qatar
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This paper presents key features of "Flood Assessment and Protection Guidelines" (FAPG) prepared by the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME), Qatar. It is intended that the FAPG will provide guidance and assistance to a wide range of entities including government agencies, developers, engineers, planners and policy makers for locating flood prone areas across Qatar, assessing potential flood hazard and subsequent mitigation. A flood modelling was carried out using two-dimensional rain on grid (RoG) hydraulic modelling approach. A series of flood risk maps covering both rural and urban areas of Qatar were then prepared as per the degree of flood risk to people, property and infrastructure. These maps have been provided as digital flood inundation layers in an interactive GIS web-based flood mapping portal.


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The Centre for Cross Border Studies, based in Armagh and Dublin, researches and develops cooperation across the Irish border in a wide range of practical areas, notably education, health, the economy, ICT and citizens' information, and works with similar cross-border regional research bodies in other parts of Europe. Its purpose is to:
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Japanese people have two names, a surname and a given name. The surname is usually inherited from the father, and women usually change their surname upon marriage. In Japanese, the surname comes before the given name. Thus, a person with surname Yamamoto and given name Sanae is referred to as Yamamoto Sanae. In the name order of English, this would be "Sanae Yamamoto".
Japanese names are usually written in kanji (Chinese characters, see 1.2. Kanji). Surnames are almost always in kanji. Given names are usually in kanji. Some given names are in hiragana or katakana (see 1.1. Hiragana and katakana).
Japanese people do not have middle names, and middle names are not recognized in Japan, except for foreigners.
There are a great number of possible surnames in Japan. The enamdict electronic dictionary of Japanese names contains more than 138,500 surnames.
Japanese surnames are written in kanji (Chinese characters). A typical Japanese surname consists of two characters, such as Suzuki (鈴木) or Yamamoto (山本). They may also have one kanji, like Hara (原) or Tokoro (所), or more than two.
Most surnames are relatively easy to read, but there may be more than one way to read the same kanji spelling. For example 中田 may be read either as Nakata or Nakada. Some are very difficult, such as 八月一日, which appears to read hachigatsu tsuitachi, "the first of August", but is read Hozumi. Many Japanese also insist on using traditional forms of characters in their surnames rather than the modern simplified forms (see 1.2.12. Why do some kanji have alternative forms?).
Many surnames are also place names, and the rules for forming names follow similar patterns.
Some of the typical kanji used in surnames are
|yoko||横||side||Yokoyama (横山), the tyre manufacturer|
|kita||北||north||Kitano (北野), the surname of film director and comedian "Beat Takeshi".|
|kuro||黒||black||Kurosawa (黒澤), the film director's surname, meaning "black swamp"|
|ishi||石||stone||Ishibashi (石橋) "stone bridge", the name of the founder of the "Bridgestone" company.|
|yone||米||rice||Yonekura (米倉) "rice store", the surname of model and celebrity Ryoko Yonekura.|
|hayashi, bayashi||林||woods||Kobayashi (小林), "small woods", the name of a famous Japanese physicist, Nobel prizewinner in 2008.|
|ue, kami||上||upper||Murakami (村上), the surname of novelists Haruki Murakami and Ryu Murakami.|
|shita, shimo||下||lower||Matsushita (松下), "under the pine tree", the common surname and name of the big electronics company.|
|hashi, bashi||橋||bridge||Hashimoto (橋本), "near the bridge", the surname of the ex-prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto.|
|mori||森||forest||Morita (森田) "forest rice field", the surname of Akio Morita, founder of Sony.|
|tsuka||塚||mound||Tezuka (手塚), "hand mound", the surname of comics artist Osamu Tezuka.|
|mizu||水||water||Mizutani (水谷), the husband and wife authors of Japanese textbooks.|
|moto||本, 元||near||Morimoto (森本), "near the forest"|
|naka||中||in||Nakata (中田), "in the rice field", the surname of the professional footballer|
|yama||山||mountain||Yamamoto (山本), "near the mountain"|
|oka||丘, 岡||hill||Okada (岡田)|
|saka||坂||slope||Sakamoto (坂本), the surname of Ryuichi Sakamoto, the musician|
|no||野||plain||Noguchi (野口), the surname of Hideo Noguchi, the scientist featured on 1,000 yen banknotes.|
|ike||池||pond||Koike (小池), "small pond", the surname of celebrity Eiko Koike.|
|kawa||川||river||Kawabata (川端), "river edge", the surname of novelist Yasunari Kawabata, who wrote "Snow Country".|
|tani||谷||valley||Tanizaki (谷崎), "valley edge", the surname of novelist Junichiro Tanizaki.|
|sawa, zawa||沢 (澤)||creek||Ozawa (小澤), "small creek", the surname of conductor Seiji Ozawa.|
|ta, da||田||ricefield||Honda (本田), the car manufacturer (named after its founder).|
|shima, jima||島 (嶋)||island||Matsushima (松島), the surname of Japanese actress Nanako Matsushima, star of "The Ring"|
|saki, zaki||埼||cape/edge||Kawasaki (川崎), the company famous for motorcycles|
The character 藤, meaning "wisteria", is often used, pronounced either as fuji, as in Fujiwara (藤原), the surname of actress Norika Fujiwara, or as tō/dō as in Kondō (近藤) and Satō (佐藤).
In Japan, the given name is used very rarely except for children. Most of the time, people are referred to using their surname only.
Japanese personal names are usually written in kanji, although some people, usually women, may have all or part of their name in hiragana or katakana. Some name kanji are ateji chosen to match the syllables of the child's name. (See 1.2.6. Why do some gairaigo words have kanji? for more about ateji.)
Many Japanese personal names are difficult to read or ambiguous. Forms which require filling in of a name usually also require a phonetic guide to be written, called furigana (see 1.3.3. What is furigana?). Japanese politicians often use hiragana versions of their names, rather than kanji ones.
The kanji which may be used in personal names are regulated. The Jinmeiyō and Jōyō kanji lists are the basis of characters which are permitted (see 1.2.4. What are the jōyō kanji?). Registration of some names has been refused, for example one family was refused when they tried to name their son Akuma (悪魔), meaning "demon". However, there is no regulation on what pronunciation may be given to the kanji names.
Names ending in hiko, such as Katsuhiko (勝彦), suke, such as Keisuke (慶介) or hei, such as Junpei (淳平), are usually male. Male names also often end in o, written in kanji as 夫, 雄, or 男, as in Teruo (輝夫) or Akio (昭雄), or shi, as in Atsushi (敦). Male names tend to contain characters such as 勇, meaning "brave", 勝, meaning "win", or 正, meaning "correct".
Boys may be named by a numbering system, with the Chinese character for "one" appearing in the name of the first son, the character for "two" appearing in the second son's name, and so on. Novelist Kenzaburo Oe (Oe Kenzaburō (大江健三郎) is the "third son".
|1||一 (one)||ichi, kazu||Ichiro (一郎), Tomokazu (友一)|
|2||次 (next), ニ (two)||ji||Jirō (次郎), Kōji (浩二), forename of soccer player Koji Nakata.|
|3||三||zabu, zō||Kenzaburō (健三郎), Zenzō (善三)|
Eichi, Gen-ichi, Jun-ichi, Ju-ichi, Ken-ichi, Koichi, Kyoichi, Ryoichi, Ryuichi, Seiichi, Sen-ichi, Shin-ichi, Shoichi, Shuichi, Shun-ichi, Yoichi, Yu-ichi, Akikazu, Hidekazu, Hirokazu, Masakazu, Nobukazu, Shigekazu, Takakazu, Tomokazu, Toshikazu, Yasukazu, Yoshikazu
Sometimes succeeding sons are named using the same kanji characters plus the numbering.
Other Japanese male names include
Akihiko, Akihiro, Akihito, Akira, Fumio, Fumihiko, Hideaki, Hidek


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|The Fourth Industrial Revolution has seen a boom in breakthrough technologies and affected every sector, including agriculture. The changes require Viet Nam's traditionally strong agricultural sector to implement smart agriculture solutions if it does not want to lose its markets.— Photo danviet.vn
HÀ NỘI — The Fourth Industrial Revolution has seen a boom in breakthrough technologies and affected every sector, including agriculture. The changes require Việt Nam's traditionally strong agricultural sector to implement smart agriculture solutions if it does not want to lose its markets.
Hoàng Quang Phòng, vice chairman of the Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) emphasised the importance of applying Internet of Things (IoT) devices in agriculture at a conference on hi-tech agriculture held in Hà Nội on Tuesday.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has witnessed the development of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, IoT, bio-tech and nano-tech.
He said the active operation of the IoT Open Community of Việt Nam (IOCV) has produced evidences showing how Vietnamese firms might apply smart agriculture. Businesses in the community have built hi-tech agricultural models to control products' quality, save resources and improve the sector's competitiveness.
IOCV was initiated by VCCI's Institute of Business Informatics in March. It includes 21 information and technology companies with the goal of building IoT software solutions for agricultural production models.
For example, Wala Company under VNPT Technology has applied Delco smart farm demo model to make automatise all processes of monitoring, operating plantations and breeding. The company previously needed 20 to 30 workers to do what requires only five workers after the application of IoT.
Bùi Ngọc Sơn, head of the company's marketing division, said they are applying IoT technology in melon plantations and chicken farms. They use sensors for monitoring to ensure products' quality.
Nguyễn Hồng Quang, chairman of Việt Nam Free and Open Source Software Association (VFOSSA) said they expected to provide solutions suitable with scale of farmer households with affordable investment.
Quang added Việt Nam should also study IoT models from the US and Israel to develop more advanced technology products.
Đào Văn Chiến, deputy director of the Hi-tech Department under the Ministry of Science and Technology, said they would closely co-operate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to further promote the application of IoT in agriculture. — VNS


text: We perform capacitance-voltage and admittance spectroscopy to investigate the effect of incorporating an InAlAs layer before an InGaAs cap layer on electron emission in self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs). We show that this incorporation of a high potential barrier increases the emission time of the electrons thermally activated from the QD ground to the first excited state. The energy separation between the ground and first excited states in the conduction band increases from 57.2 to 79.1, to 89.2, and to 95.6 meV with increasing the thickness of the InAlAs layer from 0 to 10, to 14, and to 20 Å. Combining with photoluminescence (PL) data, the ratios of the energy separation between the ground and first excited states in the conduction band and valence band are determined to be 7.3:2.7 and 7.8:2.2 for 0 and 10 Å InAlAs, respectively. In addition, this incorporation is shown to blueshift the PL first excited state much larger than the ground state.


text: This paper partitioned five major coal mining areas respectively in central, southern and eastern Jilin Province for case study based on current situation of exploitation and distribution of coal resources through artificial neural network(ANN) and the 3S technology to gain soil erosion loss mass. On the basis of RUSLE equation, BP neural network is fused to gain the rainfall erosion index of higher precision than those of traditional method. By extracting of indices and raster calculation on the platform of ERDAS and ArcGIS software, we made predication of soil erosion loss of the coal mining areas. After verification, the precision of rainfall erosion index is high, and thus improved the predicting accuracy of soil erosion. Comparative analysis shows that the soil erosion in central section of Jilin Province has much lower intensity, and high degree erosion occurred in the east and south mostly.


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Humming or Crackling Noise on an Induction Cooktop
Humming or Crackling Noises on your Jenn-Air Cooktop
A low humming sound may occur during cooking. The cause of this is the amount of energy which is transmitted from the appliance to the cookware. This sound will quiet or go away when the power is turned down.
A crackling sound may also occur when cookware consisting of different materials are used. The noise is caused by vibrations in the joint faces between the different layers. It may change depending on the amount and type of food being cooked. If desired, try a different power setting or cookware.
NOTE: People with a pacemaker or similar medical device should use care when standing near this induction cooktop while it is on. The
electromagnetic field may affect the pacemaker or similar device. Consult your doctor, or the manufacturer of the pacemaker or similar
medical device for additional information about its effects with electromagnetic fields of the induction cooktop.
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ACOMA POLYCHROME OLLA circa 1915
The hatched design on this early 20th century jar has a geometric rigidity that most Acoma jars of the period ignored in favor of more flowing naturalistic motifs. If the jars of the period didn't have parrot or rainbows, they usually had flowers, leaves and flowing swirls. This straight-lines-only black and white design strikes us as unusual for the times. It rings like an unbroken pot, but it's been broken, reglued and restored. If it had never been broken, its price would be much higher. It's on page 53 of our revised Second Edition of Southwestern Pottery, Anasazi to Zuni.
The inside of this jar is something else again. We saw the mysterious cross design in black on the bottom of the bowl and the even more mysterious thin-washed orange circle and cross over it, and we worried that we'd stumbled on something ceremonial that shouldn't have left the Pueblo. We took it to a show in Pasadena and showed it to Acoma potter Carmen Lewis, fully expecting that we'd have to give it to her so she could return it to the Pueblo. Instead, she laughed and explained it all. The black design inside transfered during firing when the potter saved space in her pit and put a smaller pot inside it. The red pinwheel happened when her orange slip inside the rim dripped while she was painting it. She wiped her rag through the drip and swooshed the paint on the rag around the inside to create the circle and cross. So much for dark Pueblo mysteries.
8-1/2" diameter x 5-1/2" high
Condition very good after repair and restoration


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Khuzestan is the wealthiest and fastest growing province of Iran. Technical support of water resource projects and provincial water industries urged the government to establish the School of Water Science and Engineering at the Shahid Chamran University in the year 2000. In 2004, the school was recognized as the best in water science and engineering by The Ministry of Higher Education of Iran and was entitled for a special yearly grant for water related research. The aim of the School of Water Science and Engineering is to train students and skilled professionals for the fast-paced and growing water industries. The school emphasizes training and skilling graduate students in M.Sc. and Ph.D. level though it also has a strong undergrad program with more than 250 students training in the general area of water science and engineering. There are four academic departments in charge of supervising researches and graduate students. The departments are Hydraulic Structure, Irrigation and Drainage, Hydrology, and Environment. In collaboration with SCU administration and The Ministry of Higher Education of Iran, the school overviews the undergraduate and graduate programs in order to achieve and maintain the highest possible standard of academic excellence. Furthermore, effort is placed into determining what actions would further enhance the quality in the program considering local and regional water resource problems. Graduate researches are supervised by the faculty members in all area of water resources including hydraulics of open channel and closed conduits, unsteady and transient pipe flow, hydraulic structures, river and natural waterways, sediment transport, irrigation systems, drainage techniques, arid soil and water related issues, surface and underground hydrology, and environmental issues. All the graduate researches and projects are supported by Shahid Chamran University, Ministry of Power and Energy of Iran, Ministry of Agriculture of Iran, local water agencies and consulting engineering corporations. The school welcomes prospective students from Iran and all other countries. This is an opportunity in particular for students from the Middle East to take advantage of the school research and training in water resource problems for arid and semiarid zones.
Office of the Dean of the Faculty:
Department of Irrigation & Drainage
Department of Hydrology & Water Resources
Department of Civil Engineering-Environmental Engineering
Department of Hydraulic Structures


Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to rename files in bulk.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Matt Tisdale is back today with another solution to a situation at work…
I received a call from a gentleman named Cristofer this afternoon. He had a business need and he heard from someone that Windows PowerShell could help. I told him that I am sure Windows PowerShell can help—and that was before I even heard the question.
His immediate need was to rename almost 250 files that are located in various folders on the file system. He needed to find all files with a specific character string in the name and replace this character string with a new character string. For example purposes, let's say he needed to find all files with "current" in the name and replace "current" with "old".
I have never attempted this specific task, but by using Get-Command and Get-Help,we were able to find exactly how to do this in a couple of minutes. Assuming we need to find all files located under C:\temp (including all subfolders) with "current" in the name and rename them using "old" in place of "current", here are the steps.
 1. Open Windows PowerShell.
 2. Navigate to C:\temp.
 3. Run the following Windows PowerShell command:
Get-ChildItem -Filter "*current*" -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.name -replace 'current','old' }
 4. Sit back and let Windows PowerShell do all of the work for you.
Anyone who has access to modify the files and is running Windows 7 can follow these steps. No special tools or elevated rights are required.
Let's pick the command apart and explain each piece.
 - Get-ChildItem -Filter "*current*"
Finds all files with the string "current" anywhere in the name.
 - -Recurse
Instructs Get-ChildItem to search recursively through all subfolders under the start point (the current directory where the command is run from).
 - | (the pipe character)
Instructs Windows PowerShell to take each item (object) found with the first command (Get-ChildItem) and pass it to the second command (Rename-Item)
 - Rename-Item
Renames files and other objects
 - {$_.name -replace 'current','old' }
Tells Rename-Item to find the string "current" in the file name and replace it with "old".
For an added bonus, I also recommended that Cristofer use the -WhatIf parameter with this command on his first run to get an output that shows what the command will do before he actually pulls the trigger. Using -WhatIf will tell Windows PowerShell to run the Rename-Item portion of this command in Report Only mode. It will not actually rename anything—it will simply show what files were found that match the filter criteria and what each new name would be. Here is the command with the -WhatIf parameter added.
Get-ChildItem -Filter "*current*" -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.name -replace 'current','old' } -whatif
Unfortunately, when we use –WhatIf, we cannot send our output to a text log file. If you need a log file that shows the results of using -WhatIf, you can follow these steps:
 1. Open Windows PowerShell.
 2. Run Start-Transcript.
 3. Run your command (including the -WhatIf parameter).
 4. After the command completes, run Stop-Transcript.
 5. Note the location and file name of the transcript file, and open this file to see the results.
It is always fun to solve business challenges with Windows PowerShell commands. Cristofer said he will probably need to use these commands for renaming 1000+ files in the near future, and he will share this process with other members of his team. Imagine how much "fun" it would be to rename all of these files manually or with some clunky old batch file. No thank you. I will stick with Windows PowerShell.
Keep the requests coming in. I always enjoy helping fellow employees find ways to be more efficient and save time and money.
~Matt
Thanks again, Matt, for sharing your time and knowledge. This is awesome.
I invite you to follow me on Twitter and Facebook. If you have any questions, send email to me at _EMAIL_, or post your questions on the Official Scripting Guys Forum. See you tomorrow. Until then, peace.
Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy


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Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
Sharon R. Krause
Must we put passions aside when we deliberate about justice? Can we do so? The dominant views of deliberation rightly emphasize the importance of impartiality as a cornerstone of fair decision making, but they wrongly assume that impartiality means being disengaged and passionless. In Civil Passions, Sharon Krause argues that moral and political deliberation must incorporate passions, even as she insists on the value of impartiality. Drawing on resources ranging from Hume's theory of moral sentiment to recent findings in neuroscience, Civil Passions breaks new ground by providing a systematic account of how passions can generate an impartial standpoint that yields binding and compelling conclusions in politics. Krause shows that the path to genuinely impartial justice in the public sphere--and ultimately to social change and political reform--runs through moral sentiment properly construed. This new account of affective but impartial judgment calls for a politics of liberal rights and democratic contestation, and it requires us to reconceive the meaning of public reason, the nature of sound deliberation, and the authority of law. By illuminating how impartiality feels, Civil Passions offers not only a truer account of how we deliberate about justice, but one that promises to engage citizens more effectively in acting for justice.
Sharon R. Krause is associate professor of political science at Brown University. She is the author of Liberalism with Honor.


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Location Naval Surface Warfare Center, West Bethesda, Maryland
Scope Of Work Design/Build Wavemaker Paddles and Support Structure, 3D Modeling, Laser Cutting, Bending, Welding, Assembly, Finishing, Machining, Outsourcing
The Naval Surface Warfare Center is a government owned facility that conducts tests on large-scale naval model ships. The Maneuvering and Seakeeping basin at the Naval Surface Warfare Center is a large rectangular basin, measuring 240 feet by 360 feet. Two adjacent walls are equipped with very large pneumatic and mechanical paddles which move back and forth either simultaneously or individually to create infinite different types of wave scenarios, while the other two walls are equipped with wave absorbing beaches. Recent work on advanced hull-form concepts, illustrates the need for increased study of ships in extreme wave conditions. Testing must be performed if the physics is to be understood. Maloya was supplied with 2D drawings that needed to be converted to 3D models in order to efficiently address the complex geometry of the structure. The 3D modeling insured that the fabrication process would proceed without any costly time consuming delays. Due to the large scale of these structures a detailed workflow system was designed to move the material in process through the various production stages. Maloya used their exten sive in house capabilities to construct these very large assemblies as well as coordinating a demanding delivery schedule as required by the Wavemaker design team located in Scotland.


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Clean Diesel Initiative in MichiganContact: Environmental Assistance Center (800) 662-9278Agency: Environmental Quality
What is the Michigan Clean Diesel Initiative (MiCDI)?
The MiCDI is a group of government, industry, and nonprofit organizations working together to address diesel engine pollution in Michigan. The objectives of the MiCDI are to help the state of Michigan achieve improvements in the federal air quality standards for particulate matter and ozone by:
- Working with specific geographic areas and industry sectors of Michigan to identify where environmental improvements can be made through diesel emission reductions, including reasons for the emission reductions and major sources in the affected areas.
- Encouraging the development and expansion of innovative technologies that can be used by these industry sectors as well as ways to implement diesel emission reductions at the local level.
- Acting as a conduit to help identify funding opportunities and resources that can be used to implement diesel reduction technologies and strategies, and to provide resources for the application process.
Funding for Clean Diesel Projects
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is issuing a competitive Request for Proposals for projects that qualify for funding under the Michigan Clean Diesel Initiative.
Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) - State Clean Diesel Grant
- FY14 RFP Coming Fall 2014
If you need additional information please contact the Environmental Assistance Center at1-_PHONE_.
The DEQ defines eligible partners as cities, townships, and villages; county government agencies; port authorities; public school districts; private schools; other non-profit organizations or institutions that promote transportation or air quality as their focus; metropolitan planning organizations and private business industry.
Types of Projects Eligible for Grant Awards
Grant projects must include the application of a diesel emissions reduction solution that is an emission control technology that has been verified by either the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) or California Air Resources Board (CARB). Examples of USEPA or CARB-verified emission control technologies include:
- Retrofit Technologies (i.e. oxidation catalysts, aerodynamic hoods and particulate matter filters)
- Idle Reduction Technologies (i.e. auxilary power units and generator sets).
- Engine Repowers (i.e. replacement with new or cleaner engine and scrappage of old engine).
- Vehicle and Equipment Replacements (covering between 25-50% of cost).
- Aerodynamic technologies (i.e. long haul truck side skirts, hoods, etc).
Eligible Vehicles and Equipment
- Medium to heavy duty diesel vehicles, engines and ground installations used for either on-road or non-road applications (i.e. trucks, buses and other diesel equipment used for construction, handling cargo, farming, mining and energy production).
- Marine engines (i.e. tugboats and pushboats, ferries, excursion vessels, dredging equipment, container ships, tanker ships, bulk carrier ships and cruise ships).
- On-road or non-road applications that provide heat, air conditioning or electricity service to vehicles and equipment that is stationary or temporarily parked (i.e. generator sets).
|Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision (SDEV) was awarded $261,459 in federal funding from the 2013 Michigan Clean Diesel Grant Program. The goal is to replace older vehicles with new models that meet or exceed the current highest EPA emissions standards. This project will significantly reduce diesel emissions occurring in this area, which not only bears disproportionate environmental and public health burdens, but is also an impoverished urban area.
To implement this project, SDEV will partner with:
Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision is a community-based environmental organization operating in and focused on Southwest Detroit.
The DEQ has also awarded Lenawee Intermediate School District (LISD) $52,950 in federal funds and partnered with the Marathon Oil Company to help replace three diesel powered school buses.
To implement this project, LISD will:


A little mind candy for the middle of your day
Students Call for Salt Water Taffy to Become NJ's Official Candy
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 Students from Samsel Elementary school in Sayreville, N.J. will do their part in an effort to make salt water taffy the state's offical candy. (Published Thursday, June 5, 2014)
 New Jersey has an official state bird (the goldfinch), flower (the common violet), tree (the red oak), fish (the brook trout), folk dance (the square dance), bug (the honeybee) and even a dinosaur (Hadrosaurus foulkii). One lawmaker reckons that what New Jersey needs now is an official state candy.
 Assemblyman John Wisniewski is pushing a bill to honor salt water taffy with the designation. He introduced it after meeting with students at Sayreville's Samsel Upper Elementary School for a lesson on how a bill becomes law. The measure cleared an Assembly committee on Thursday.
 Wisniewski had asked the students to come up with something that deserved to become a law. They wanted to name an official state candy and chose salt water taffy, which was invented in Atlantic City as a popular souvenir of a trip to the shore in the late 19th century. (The sugar-laden confection does not actually contain any salt water.)
 Testifying Thursday before the Assembly tourism committee in Trenton, fifth-grader Tyler Graham said designating an official state candy can help boost tourism at the Jersey shore in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
 "Wouldn't it be nice to give citizens a reason to come to the shore and purchase the official state candy?" he asked.
 Atlantic City became the epicenter of the salt water taffy world, with confectioners Enoch James, Joseph Fralinger and William Shriver founding taffy and candy companies bearing their names.
 The bill now goes to the full Assembly.
 Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle commended the students and thanked them for the samples they passed out.
 "My favorite flavor is banana and chocolate," she said. "I already had one."
 Assemblyman Ralph Caputo said, "The lesson is that when you become a legislator, you get to have candy before lunch."