Given the strategic importance of achieving global integration and worldwide learning for most multinational enterprises (MNEs), this article focuses on "shared vision" as a critical mechanism for realizing both goals. Specifically, this paper investigates the impact of three types of control mechanisms—formal (headquarters imposed rules and decisions), personal (the presence of expatriates), and social (social interaction among subunits) control—on building shared vision in subsidiaries and examines the subsequent impact of having shared vision on subsidiary learning. Overall, data from 99 subsidiaries located in the United States and headquartered either in Europe or Japan show that personal and social mechanisms of control are effective in building shared vision whereas formal control mechanisms have no impact. Results also support a significant relationship between shared vision and subsidiary learning. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


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Noun: hushing húsh-ing
 1. A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
 "the performers could not be heard over the hushing of the audience";
 - hiss, hissing, fizzle, sibilation
Verb: hush húsh
 1. Become quiet or still; fall silent
 "hush my baby!"
 2. Cause to be quiet or not talk
 "Please hush the children in the church!";
 - quieten [Brit], silence, still, shut up, hush up
 3. Become quiet or quieter
 - quieten [Brit], quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down
 4. (mining) wash by removing particles
 5. (mining) run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
Derived forms: hushings
See also: hush up
Type of: change, change intensity, conquer, curb, inhibit, irrigate, lave, noise, stamp down, subdue, suppress, wash, water
Encyclopedia: Hushing
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Configuring PXF Servers
 - Supporting file-based connector and user configuration
 - Providing connector-specific template configuration files
A PXF Server definition is simply a named configuration that provides access to a specific external data store. A PXF server name is the name of a directory residing in $PXF_CONF/servers/. The information that you provide in a server configuration is connector-specific. For example, a PXF JDBC Connector server definition may include settings for the JDBC driver class name, URL, username, and password. You can also configure connection-specific and session-specific properties in a JDBC server definition.
PXF provides a server template file for each connector; this template identifies the typical set of properties that you must configure to use the connector.
You will configure a server definition for each external data store that Greenplum Database users need to access. For example, if you require access to two Hadoop clusters, you will create a PXF Hadoop server configuration for each cluster. If you require access to an Oracle and a MySQL database, you will create one or more PXF JDBC server configurations for each database.
A server configuration may include default settings for user access credentials and other properties for the external data store. You can allow Greenplum Database users to access the external data store using the default settings, or you can configure access and other properties on a per-user basis. This allows you to configure different Greenplum Database users with different external data store access credentials in a single PXF server definition.
About Server Template Files
The configuration information for a PXF server resides in one or more -site.xml files in $PXF_CONF/servers//.
PXF provides a template configuration file for each connector. These server template configuration files are located in the $PXF_CONF/templates/ directory after you initialize PXF:
gpadmin@gpmaster$ ls $PXF_CONF/templates
adl-site.xml hbase-site.xml jdbc-site.xml s3-site.xml
core-site.xml hdfs-site.xml mapred-site.xml wasbs-site.xml
gs-site.xml hive-site.xml minio-site.xml yarn-site.xml
You specify credentials to PXF in clear text in configuration files.
About the Default Server
PXF defines a special server named default. When you initialize PXF, it automatically creates a $PXF_CONF/servers/default/ directory. This directory, initially empty, identifies the default PXF server configuration. You can configure and assign the default PXF server to any external data source. For example, you can assign the PXF default server to a Hadoop cluster, or to a MySQL database that your users frequently access.
Configuring a Server
When you configure a PXF connector to an external data store, you add a named PXF server configuration for the connector. Among the tasks that you perform, you may:
 4. Fill in appropriate default values for the properties in the template file.
 5. Add any additional configuration properties and values required for your environment.
 6. Configure one or more users for the server configuration as described in About Configuring a PXF User.
 7. Synchronize the server and user configuration to the Greenplum Database cluster.
Note: You must re-sync the PXF configuration to the Greenplum Database cluster after you add or update PXF server configuration.
After you configure a PXF server, you publish the server name to Greenplum Database users who need access to the data store. A user only needs to provide the server name when they create an external table that accesses the external data store. PXF obtains the external data source location and access credentials from server and user configuration files residing in the server configuration directory identified by the server name.
To configure a PXF server, refer to the connector configuration topic:
Configuring a PXF User
You can configure access to an external data store on a per-server, per-Greenplum-user basis.
You configure external data store user access credentials and properties for a specific Greenplum Database user by providing a -user.xml user configuration file in the PXF server configuration directory, $PXF_CONF/servers//. For example, you specify the properties for the Greenplum Database user named bill in the file $PXF_CONF/servers//bill-user.xml. You can configure zero, one, or more users in a PXF server configuration.
The properties that you specify in a user configuration file are connector-specific. You can specify any configuration property supported by the PXF connector server in a -user.xml configuration file.
For example, suppose you have configured access to a PostgreSQL database in the PXF JDBC server configuration named pgsrv1. To allow the Greenplum Database user named bill to access this database as the PostgreSQL user named pguser1, password changeme, you create the user configuration file $PXF_CONF/servers/pgsrv1/bill-user.xml with the following properties:
If you want to configure a specific search path and a larger read fetch size for bill, you would also add the following properties to the bill-user.xml user configuration file:
For each PXF user that you want to configure, you will:
 1. Identify the name of the Greenplum Database user.
 2. Identify the PXF server definition for which you want to configure user access.
 3. Identify the name and value of each property that you want to configure for the user.
 4. Create/edit the file $PXF_CONF/servers//-user.xml, and add the outer configuration block:
 5. Add each property/value pair that you identified in Step 3 within the configuration block in the -user.xml file.
 6. If you are adding the PXF user configuration to previously configured PXF server definition, synchronize the user configuration to the Greenplum Database cluster.
About Configuration Property Precedence
A PXF server configuration may include default settings for user access credentials and other properties for accessing an external data store. Some PXF connectors, such as the S3 and JDBC connectors, allow you to directly specify certain server properties via custom options in the CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE command LOCATION clause. A -user.xml file specifies property settings for an external data store that are specific to a Greenplum Database user.
For a given Greenplum Database user, PXF uses the following precedence rules (highest to lowest) to obtain configuration property settings for the user:
 1. A property that you configure in /-user.xml overrides any setting of the property elsewhere.
 2. A property that is specified via custom options in the CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE command LOCATION clause overrides any setting of the property in a PXF server configuration.
 3. Properties that you configure in the PXF server definition identify the default property values.
These precedence rules allow you create a single external table that can be accessed by multiple Greenplum Database users, each with their own unique external data store user credentials.
Using a Server Configuration
For example, the following command accesses an S3 object store using the server configuration defined in the $PXF_CONF/servers/s3srvcfg/s3-site.xml file:
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE pxf_ext_tbl(name text, orders int)
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE pxf_ext_hdfs(location text, miles int)
A Greenplum Database user who queries or writes to an external table accesses the external data store with the credentials configured for the user. If no user-specific credentials are configured for , the Greenplum user accesses the external data store with the default credentials configured for .


Here's what to do if you feel unwell before your Covid vaccine
Thursday, 18th March 2021, 2:45 pm
Updated Thursday, 18th March 2021, 2:45 pm
More than 25 million people in the UK have now received a first dose of the Covid vaccine.
The rollout, which began with the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech jabs, is the biggest in the history of the NHS.
As more people become eligible to be given a vaccine, many are asking what they can expect from their appointment.
A common query is whether you can receive the jab if you are already unwell.
So, can you get the coronavirus vaccine if you have a cold or other illness?
Here is everything you need to know.
Can I get the Covid vaccine if I'm not well?
The UK Government has released guidance for people receiving their Covid vaccine.
There is a dedicated frequently asked questions section that includes what people should do if they feel unwell before they receive their jab.
According to the guidance, if you are ill when you have your appointment, you should wait until you have recovered to have your vaccine.
Furthermore, if you are self-isolating or waiting for your coronavirus test result you should also not attend your appointment.
The guidance states: "If you are unwell, it is better to wait until you have recovered to have your vaccine, but you should try to have it as soon as possible.
"You should not attend a vaccine appointment if you are self-isolating, waiting for a COVID-19 test or unsure if you are fit and well."
Meanwhile, the advice in Scotland is similar but dependent on how severe your illness is.
The NHS Inform guidance states: "If you're unwell on the day of your appointment, you should still go for your vaccination if it's a minor illness without fever.
"If you feel very unwell your vaccine may be postponed until you have fully recovered.
"Do not attend your vaccine appointment if you feel unwell with symptoms of coronavirus. Self-isolate and book a test instead."
If you have further questions about your upcoming appointment if you are feeling unwell, contact your GP who will be able to assist you.
Should you still get the vaccine if you've had Covid?
If you have tested positive for coronavirus before, you may have built up some immunity to the virus.
You'll most likely have antibodies - proteins that circulate in the blood and recognise foreign substances like viruses - T cells and B cells.
People who have recovered from the virus have been found to have all of these components.
While scientists still don't know for certain how long immunity from coronavirus lasts, recent studies have provided some answers.
One led by Public Health England showed that most people who have had the virus are protected from catching it again for at least five months.
However, it is likely that this natural immunity won't last as long as the immunity given to you by a vaccine, and you can still be reinfected and pass on the virus to others even if you have no symptoms.
For these reasons, you should still take up the jab even if you have been infected with Covid before.
The NHS Inform guidance states: "Even if you've already had coronavirus, you could still get it again.
"The vaccine will reduce your risk of another infection and the seriousness of your symptoms if you do get it again.
"If you've recently tested positive for coronavirus – even if you have no symptoms – you should wait until 4 weeks after the date you were tested before getting the vaccine.
"The vaccine is your best protection against coronavirus."
Can you catch Covid after having the vaccine?
Both Covid vaccines have been shown to reduce the risk of you suffering from the virus.
It takes your body a week or two to build up some protection from a first dose.
But, like all medicines, no vaccine is completely effective.
It is possible that you may still get coronavirus despite being inoculated, but the illness should be less severe.
The UK Government advises that you should continue to take the recommended precautions to avoid becoming reinfected.


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An Approach to Determination of Curing Time in Stabilization of Swelling Soils with Lime Column
ABSTRACT:Swelling soils which are problematic in terms of geotechnics should be determined in preliminary works a n d appropriate cautions should be taken. The most frequently used method among the cautions to be taken is to stabilize soil with in-situ operations. One of the most widely used stabilization methods is lime column technique. Before stabilizing a swelling soil with lime column technique, it is investigated if the lime column works for the soil. This is done by creating a small-scale model of the land in the laboratory. The created models are left for a specific curing time to ensure the stabilization. Determination of the appropriate curing time is important for the performance of lime column. The aim of this study is to determine the curing time for the laboratory models, which are designed for investigating lime column performance, with an easy a n d economic method. The method is based on measuring the ion migration distance by using phenolphthalein which is an acid base indicator. In the scope of the study, a small scale laboratory model was designed for a Na-bentonite clay. The ion migration distance from the lime column in the model was measured by using phenolphthalein in various curing times a n d the measurements were stopped when the ion migration distance reached a constant value. The time in which the ion migration distance started not to change was taken as the cure time. The results obtained in this study showed that phenolphthalein can be a useful tool for determination of curing time in the laboratory applications of lime column.

source: m-a-p/FineFineWeb


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This paper proposes that "magic strategies" involving multiple scales and multiple systems will be effective in managing complex health and social problems.
AUTHORS: Rodrick Wallace; Deborah Wallace.
PUBLISHED: PeerJ, 2013.
A survey of the cultural psychology and related literatures suggests that Western biomedicine's fascination with atomistic, individual-oriented, interventions is a cultural artifact that may have little consonance with complex, subtle, multiscale, multilevel, social, ecological, or biological realities. Other cultural traditions may, in fact, view atomistic strategies as inherently unreal. A contrary perspective – similar to that of health promotion – implies that the most effective medical or public health interventions must be analogously patterned across scale and level of organization: 'magic strategies' will almost always be synergistically, and often emergently, more effective than 'magic bullets'. The result can be formally derived in a relatively straightforward manner using an adaptation of the Black-Scholes econometric model applied to the metabolic cost of bioregulation under uncertainty. Multifactorial interventions focused at the human 'keystone' ecosystem level of mesoscale social and geographic groupings may be particularly effective.

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


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Researchers at Georgia Tech and Duke University have created a wirelessly powered robot swarm. Their demo robot swarm consists of five robots performing a line following task, each consuming 200mW. The fundamental design looks quite straight-forward, relying on a robot arena surface equipped with a transmit coil and robots with a receiving coil positioned between their wheel base close to the ground.
A circulating current in the transmit coil generates a magnetic flux which transfers power to the robots via inductive-coupling. The technology is great news for people working with swarms of dozens or hundreds of robots which currently require laborous connection and deconnection to charging stations. Details of the setup used, including a detailed description and circuit diagrams, are available online
Links:Surface Based Wireless Power Transmission and Bidirectional Communication for Autonomous Robot Swarms (PDF)Video


for a better solution though as this one is a bit heavy.
Edit: WARNING! This doesn't work in IE when selector is a string.
$.isEmptyObject('hello') // FALSE in Chrome and TRUE in IE
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How often do you find yourself calling $() with an empty object as an argument? – nnnnnn Dec 22 at 11:24
_USER_ Actually never (I don't use jQuery anymore). But I guess 3 years ago I had a case of exposing an API that would take a selector and return the number of elements for that selector. If another dev would pass in an empty object, it would incorrectly respond with 1. – Oleg Dec 22 at 15:03
$(selector).length && //Do something
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You could use this:
 exists: function() { return this.length }
if($(selector).exists()){do something}
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I had a case where I wanted to see if an object exists inside of another so I added something to the first answer to check for a selector inside the selector..
// Checks if an object exists.
// Usage:
// $(selector).exists()
// Or:
// $(selector).exists(anotherSelector);
jQuery.fn.exists = function(selector) {
 return selector? this.find(selector).length : this.length;
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You can save a few bytes by writing:
if ($(selector)[0]) {... }
This works because each jQuery object also masquerades as an array, so we can use the array dereferencing operator to get the first item from the array. It returns undefined if there is no item at the specified index.
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How about:
function exists(selector) {
 return $(selector).length;
if (exists(selector)) {
 // do something
It's very minimal and saves you having to enclose the selector with $() every time.
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I like this approach – Akmur Mar 18 at 14:13
if ( $('_TAG_').size() > 0 ) { //do something }
size() counts the number of elements returned by the selector
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_USER_ I don't know where you get your information from, but.size() does nothing more than return.length. There's a reason it's deprecated – Ian Jun 3 '13 at 21:41
You are correct, but calling.length, being a property, requires slightly less overhead than a function call to.size(). My bad. – Furbeenator Jun 5 '13 at 18:30
I'm using this:
 $.fn.ifExists = function(fn) {
 if (this.length) {
Execute the chain only if a jQuery element exist - _URL_
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Is $.contains() what you want?
jQuery.contains( container, contained )
The $.contains() method returns true if the DOM element provided by the second argument is a descendant of the DOM element provided by the first argument, whether it is a direct child or nested more deeply. Otherwise, it returns false. Only element nodes are supported; if the second argument is a text or comment node, $.contains() will return false.
Note: The first argument must be a DOM element, not a jQuery object or plain JavaScript object.
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NOW it is an answer – mplungjan Dec 17 '13 at 8:49
i always use
if ( $(selector)[0] ){}
thats nice and short
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The reason all of the previous answers require the.length parameter is that they are mostly using jquery's $() selector which has querySelectorAll behind the curtains (or they are using it directly). This method is rather slow because it needs to parse the entire DOM tree looking for all matches to that selector and populating an array with them.
The ['length'] parameter is not needed or useful and the code will be a lot faster if you directly use document.querySelector(selector) instead, because it returns the first element it matches or null if not found.
function elementIfExists(selector){ //named this way on purpose, see below
 return document.querySelector(selector);
/* usage: */
var myelement = elementIfExists("_TAG_") || myfallbackelement;
However this method leaves us with the actual object being returned; which is fine if it isn't going to be saved as variable and used repeatedly (thus keeping the reference around if we forget).
var myel=elementIfExists("_TAG_");
// now we are using a reference to the element which will linger after removal
console.log(elementIfExists("_TAG_")); /* null */
console.log(myel); /* giant table lingering around detached from document */
myel=null; /* now it can be garbage collected */
In some cases this may be desired. It can be used in a for loop like this:
/* locally scoped myel gets garbage collected even with the break; */
for (var myel; myel = elementIfExist(sel); myel.getParentNode.removeChild(myel))
 if (myel == myblacklistedel) break;
If you don't actually need the element and want to get/store just a true/false, just double not it!! It works for shoes that come untied, so why knot here?
function elementExists(selector){
 return!!document.querySelector(selector);
/* usage: */
var hastables = elementExists("table"); /* will be true or false */
if (hastables){
 /* insert css style sheet for our pretty tables */
setTimeOut(function (){if (hastables &&!elementExists("_TAG_"))
 alert("bad table layouts");},3000);
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In JavaScript you can do it this way :
if(document.querySelectorAll('*')!=null) { // It exists }
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I stumbled upon this question and i'd like to share a snippet of code i currently use:
$.fn.exists = function(callback) {
 var self = this;
 var wrapper = (function(){
 function notExists () {}
 notExists.prototype.else = function(fallback){
 if (!self.length) {
 return new notExists;
 if(self.length) {
 return wrapper;
And now i can write code like this -
 alert ("it exists");
 alert ("it doesn't exist");
What's more exciting about this stuff is how it's written in CoffeeScript:
$.fn.exists = (callback) ->
 exists = _USER_
 callback.call() if exists
 new class
 else: (fallback) ->
 fallback.call() if not exists
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I find OP's original approach not only to be much more minimal but more elegant than this. Seems like overkill to write this much code when OP's method is shorter, and doesn't involve callbacks. – Lev Aug 5 at 7:31
For simple cases - you're right. But for more complex situations involving a lot of code on both cases i think my approach is better. – Eternal1 Aug 5 at 7:38
else as a property name will fail in some older browsers. – cookie monster Aug 14 at 17:34
protected by Andrew Barber Apr 8 '13 at 3:55
Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead?


short[q 0 ] ← i else if σ ∈ Σf and i + 1 < short[q 0 ] then short[q 0 ] ← i + 1 end if end for end while Qout ← {(q, short[q]) : q ∈ R}
satisfies the following: A
∀σ ∈ Σ ,
X
t ∈ (ΣA )∗ and σ ∈ ΣA , Mpe (tσ) = {θσo : θ ∈ Mpe (t), σo ∈ Mpe (σ)}. With the above extensions characterizing the unreliability of observation information we direct our attention to the properties related to event counting. For instance, the properties of uniform and nonuniform [1, ∞]-diagnosability characterize the capability of counting the selected events indefinitely under reliable observation information. Mainly, we are interested in developing a concept characterizing the quality of event counting under unreliable observation information. Two numbers are important for characterizing the quality of event counting: i) the actual number of special event occurrences and ii) the estimated number of special event occurrences. First we define the special event count function NΣf : L(G) → N where NΣf (t) denotes the number of the special events Σf occurred in trace t ∈ L(G). The special event count estimate function DΣf : (∆A )∗ → N is defined as follows. DΣf (θ) = min{NΣf (t) : t ∈ L(G) ∧ θ ∈ Mpe (t)}. Intuitively, the function DΣf estimates the possible traces associated with observation history (θ) and obtain the minimal special event occurrence number among the estimated traces. We define the detection confidence of trace t as the ratio between the estimated number of special event count and the number of actual occurrence of the special events. That is, ( D (θ) Σf if NΣf (t) 6= 0 ∧ θ ∈ Mpe (t) NΣf (t) CΣf (t, θ) := 1 o.w. Note that DΣf (θ) is the most conservative estimation in the sense that the selected counting value is the minimal within its estimated traces. Because of the conservativeness of DΣf , we have 0 ≤ CΣf (t, θ) ≤ 1. It should be interesting to investigate other measures of confidence by replacing the fault count estimation function DΣf (θ) to more aggressive estimation functions. Let Tn be a random variable of trace of L(A) with length n and On be a random variable of corresponding observation traces with length n (length of traces here counts ² observation). We are interested in computing the following long run expected value: lim E[CΣf (Tn , On )].
pio
= 1.
(σoi ,pio )∈Mp (σ)
To indicate the set of possible observations, we define Mpe (σ) = {σoi : (σoi , pio ) ∈ Mp (σ)}. For instance, consider an unreliable mask function Mp for event a, Mp (a) = {(a1 , 1/2), (a2 , 1/4), (², 1/4)}. This implies that, if event a ∈ ΣA occurs, the outcome of observation is a1 ∈ ∆o with probability 1/2, a2 ∈ ∆o with probability 1/4, and no observation (²) with probability 1/4. Then, the set of possible observations for event a is Mpe (a) = {a1 , a2 , ²}. Inductively, Mpe can be defined over traces as follows: for
n→∞
More rigorous theoretical developments including the computation of the above value are still in progress. One of the tasks is to establish the convergence result and devise a method to compute the above value. For this task, we developed a detection confidence computation algorithm based on output analysis. We conjecture that the long run expected value exists and can be approximated with the algorithm described below when G is described with an irreducible closed automaton (any two states in the automaton are reachable from each other). The main routine Compute-Confidence is described in Algorithm 4. Two subroutines DIJK-UNRELIABLE-M (Algorithm 5) and GET-NEW-PRIORITY-QUEUE (Algorithm 6) are given after the main routine description.
Intuitively, Algorithm 4 simulates the system and the unreliable sensor information until a certain number of fault events is executed, which is given as an input parameter. While a simulation is performed, detection confidence is computed along the simulation path and returned at the end of the simulation. As Ns becomes larger, the computed confidence value is conjectured to converge to the long run expected value. Algorithm 4 Confidence ← Compute-Confidence(A, Mp , Σf , N ∗) 1: Qd ← (q0A , 0), qc ← q0A 2: loop 3: U R ← DIJK-UNRELIABLE-M(A, Qd , Mp , Σf ) 4: loop 5: Generate event σ and the corresponding masked event σo based on available statistical information 6: Set qc ← δ A (qc , σ) 7: if σ ∈ Σf then 8: Ns ← Ns + 1 9: end if 10: if σo 6= ² then 11: break 12: end if 13: end loop 14: Qd ← GET-NEW-PRIORITY-QUEUE(A, U R, Mp , Σf , σm ) 15: if Ns > N ∗ then 16: break 17: end if 18: end loop 19: Confidence ← min(ni : (qi , ni ) ∈ Qd )/Ns
VII. C ONCLUSION An approach for counting fault events in the framework of model-based monitoring of discrete-event systems (DES) under reliable and unreliable observation information was presented. The two key properties, uniform [1, ∞]-diagnosability and nonuniform [1, ∞]-diagnosability, were recalled in order to address fault counting under reliable sensor information. To aid formal evaluation of the properties, we improved and restated the previously reported algorithms verifying uniform [1, ∞]-diagnosability and nonuniform [1, ∞]-diagnosability in [13]. To cope with unreliable observation information, we introduced the concept of detection confidence. An algorithm for computing the detection confidence was conjectured. More complete theoretical developments are under progress. A novel on-line fault counting algorithm assuming reliable sensor information was also developed. This algorithm has lower time and space complexities than those previously reported in [6, 13]. Moreover, a simple modification was performed in order to give an on-line fault counting algorithm under unreliable sensor information.
Algorithm 5 U R ← DIJK-UNRELIABLE-M(A, Qd , Mp , Σf ) 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14: 15: 16:
Set Q ← {q 0 ∈ QA : (∃q ∈ QA )(∃t ∈ (ΣA )∗ )[(q, i) ∈ Qd ∧ ² ∈ Mpe (t) ∧ q 0 = δ A (q, t)]} short[q] ← ∞ for each q ∈ Q If (q, i) ∈ Qd , short[q] ← i D←∅ while Q 6= ∅ do q ← EXTRACT-MIN(Q) D ← D ∪ {q} for each transition σ from q such that ² ∈ Mpe (σ) where q 0 = δ A (q, σ) do if σ ∈ / Σf and short[q] < short[q 0 ] then short[q 0 ] ← short[q] else if σ ∈ Σf and short[q] + 1 < short[q 0 ] then short[q 0 ] ← short[q] + 1 end if end for end while U R ← {(q, short[q]) : q ∈ D}
Algorithm 6 Qd ← GET-NEW-PRIORITY-QUEUE(A, U R, Mp , σo ) 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 13:
Set R ← {q 0 ∈ QA : (∃q ∈ QA )(∃σ ∈ ΣA )[(q, i) ∈ U R ∧ σo ∈ Mpe (σ) ∧ q 0 = δ A (q, t)]} short[q] ← ∞ for each q ∈ R while U R 6= ∅ do pick any (q, i) ∈ U R and set U R ← U R \ (q, i) for each transition σ from q such that σo ∈ Mpe (σ) where q 0 = δ A (q, σ) do if σ ∈ / Σf and i < short[q 0 ] then short[q 0 ] ← i else if σ ∈ Σf and i + 1 < short[q 0 ] then short[q 0 ] ← i + 1 end if end for end while Qd ← {(q, short[q]) : q ∈ R}
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The research reported in this paper was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-31-109Eng-38. R EFERENCES [1] H. E. Garcia and T. Yoo, "Model-based detection of routing events in discrete flow networks," Automatica, accepted. [2] ——,


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Despite the cold weather all out Garden Clubs are still buzzing with activites. Bird feeders have still been popular. Children at Waitaki Valley School had fun mixing the bird seed and dripping and placing the mixture into cookie cutters.
Students also got to practice and learn plaiting for the bird feeders
Hearts, angels and pine cones. Chrissy from the Kurow vet donated some plastic scoops that have been a great mold fro the bird feeders. Thanks Chrissy.
Also Students at Pembroke School had a turn at plaiting and stringing up the bird feeders
A lovely visit from Carol and Hannah
It is so nice to have mums and their children come to help in the school garden
Even wee pre-schoolers who come along to Garden Club get to be involved and try out some of the tasks
Making seed tape has also been a popular winter activity. Students at Kurow made some seed tape of leeks and carrot
Pembroke students also made some seed tape
These Students set up this seed tape station with rocks to stop the wind blowing it away
Pembroke school garden is looking good with recent bok choy and garlic plantings and we noticed some bird damage so the children placed this spinning flower to deter the birds from the new seedlings.


text: Few studies assess the effects of recreational fishing in isolation from commercial fishing. We used meta-analysis to synthesise 4444 samples from 30 years (1987–2017) of fish surveys inside and outside a large network of highly protected reserves in the Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia, where the major fishing activity is recreational. Data were collected by different agencies, using varied survey designs and sampling methods. We contrasted the relative abundance and biomass of target and non-target fish groups between fished and reserve locations. We considered the influence of, and possible interactions between, seven additional variables: age and size of reserve, one of two reserve network configurations, reef habitat type, recreational fishing activity, shore-based fishing regulations and survey method. Taxa responded differently: the abundance and biomass inside reserves relative to outside was higher for targeted lethrinids, while other targeted (and non-targeted) fish groups were indistinguishable. Reef habitat was important for explaining lethrinid response to protection, and this factor interacted with reserve size, such that larger reserves were demonstrably more effective in the back reef and lagoon habitats. There was little evidence of changes in relative abundance and biomass of fishes with reserve age, or after rezoning and expansion of the reserve network. Our study demonstrates the complexities in quantifying fishing effects, highlighting some of the key factors and interactions that likely underlie the varied results in reserve assessments that should be considered in future reserve design and assessment.


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An Early British Sailor''s Woolwork Picture of the Royal Yacht, HMY Victoria and Albert II, Circa 1855-70 Dimensions: 27 inches x 20 inches HMY Victoria and Albert II (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) HMY Victoria and Albert, a 360 foot steamer launched 16 January 1855, was a Royal Yacht of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom until 1900, owned and operated by the Royal Navy. She displaced 2,470 tons, and could make 15 knots on her paddles. There were 240 crew. Victoria and Albert II was scrapped in about 1904. The El Horria was built to the same specifications for Isma''il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt in 1865 and is the oldest steamship afloat. Below: HMY Victoria and Albert II by William Frederick Mitchell orginaly published in The Royal Navy in a series of illustrations.
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text: Black People Called "Mixed-Race" Seen As More Beautiful Eric Ferreri Science & Medicine Just the suggestion that an African-American person is of mixed-race heritage makes that person more attractive to others, research shows. This holds true even if the people in question aren't actually of multiracial heritage, according to a new study published in the journal Review of Black Political Economy. The simple perception of exoticism sways people to see multiracial blacks as better-looking, says study author Robert L. Reece, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Duke. "Being exotic is a compelling idea," says Reece. "So people are attracted to a certain type of difference. It's also partially just racism—the notion that black people are less attractive, so being partially not-black makes you more attractive." Reece used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, examining the results of in-person interviews of 3,200 black people conducted by people of varying races. The interviewees were asked a series of questions that included their racial backgrounds. The questioners then ranked each person's attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the least attractive and 5 being the most attractive. The interviewees who identified as mixed race were given an average attractiveness rating of 3.74; those who identified as black were given a 3.47 score, a statistically significant difference that points to the power of perception. The study controlled for a number of factors such as gender, age, skin tone, hair color, and eye color. "Race is more than we think it is," Reese says. "It's more than physical characteristics and ancestry and social class. The idea that you're a certain race shapes how people view you." Further, attractiveness matters. Previous research has drawn correlations between physical beauty and professional success. The findings bolster a viewpoint that lighter-skinned blacks are considered more physically striking than their darker-skinned counterparts. But the research also found that blacks with darker skin who identified as mixed-race were considered better looking than those with lighter skin who identified simply as black. "This further emphasizes the power of suggestion: Being told a person is of mixed race—regardless of what that person looks like—makes them appear more attractive. "It's a loaded cognitive suggestion when you say 'I'm not just black, I'm also Native American,' for example," Reece says. "It changes the entire dynamic." Reece says he conducted the study to examine the connection between multiraciality and "color." "People tend to assume that historical multiraciality is at least partially responsible for the broad range of color among black people. I've even noticed some people in black communities casually using the terms "mixed" and "light skinned" interchangeably. "So I wanted to begin an empirical investigation into the contemporary links between the two and how they combine to shape people's life experiences. Attractiveness is one part of that." This article originally appeared at Futurity and is reprinted here by Creative Commons license. Featured image courtesy of Pixabay.


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Analyze product reviews and generate a shopping guide
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If you've ever been shopping for a product and sifting through myriad reviews, you know how time-consuming it can be. You just want to know, overall, what do most people think of this item vs. that one? IBM Watson™ can help you make that final decision on your shopping cart. In this pattern, we will create a Watson Second Opinion app that asks for the link of the product you want, takes the reviews it finds, and stores them in a database. The app then analyzes the reviews with Watson Natural Language Understanding for you to reveal insights across reviews.
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text: Dynamic changes in higher order chromatin structure modulate the accessibility of DNA toward transcription, DNA repair and replication. The spatiotemporal scale upon which these dynamics occur however, render them 'invisible' to live cell imaging. Here we present a novel method to measure the real time accessibility of chromatin that is based on pair correlation analysis of EGFP (an inert tracer) molecular flow throughout the chromatin network1. From detected changes in the arrival time of EGFP molecules into and out of the chromatin, this method detects millisecond changes in protein access to condensed chromatin with sub-micron resolution. Using this method we have probed the naturally occurring changes in chromatin compaction during the cell cycle and in combination with laser micro-irradiation, monitored for the first time the in vivo structural rearrangements of chromatin during repair2,3. The pair correlation method thus offers a unique opportunity to probe the directionality of intra-nuclear traffic, by measuring the accessibility of the nuclear landscape and the role it plays in determining the diffusive routes adopted by molecules. Given that pair correlation analysis can be combined with other optical information4, more recently we have employed this method with a brightness analysis to look at how the diffusive route of the STAT3 transcription factor is modulated by oligomeric state. Given that homo-oligomerisation is critical to the function of many transcription factors we envisage this multiplexed method of analysis will enable advancements in our understanding of how gene expression is regulated at the single molecule level.


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Előadó: Gábor Vattay (ELTE Dept. Complex. Sys.)
Absztrakt: Why life persists at the edge of chaos is a question at the very heart of evolution. Here we show that molecules taking part in biochemical processes from small molecules to proteins are critical quantum mechanically. Electronic Hamiltonians of biomolecules are tuned exactly to the critical point of the metal-insulator transition separating the Anderson localized insulator phase from the conducting disordered metal phase. Using tools from Random Matrix Theory we conrm that the energy level statistics of these biomolecules show the universal transitional distribution of the metal-insulator critical point and the wave functions are multifractals in accordance with the theory of Anderson transitions. The ndings point to the existence of a universal mechanism of charge transport in living matter. The revealed bio-conductor material is neither a metal nor an insulator but a new quantum critical material which can exist only in highly evolved systems and has unique material properties.


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News Release: Research
Dec. 21, 2009
Care Management Improves Physical Health of Patients with Mental Illness
Connecting mental health patients with care managers responsible for coordinating their health care significantly improves their overall health and wellbeing, according to a study by Emory University public health researchers.
The study, the first of its kind, tested a population-based medical care management intervention aimed at improving medical care in community mental health settings. Recent studies show that people with severe mental illness die 25 years younger than the general population largely due to medical causes such as heart attacks.
"There is a growing concern about the epidemic of premature morbidity and mortality among persons with serious mental illnesses," says lead study author Benjamin Druss, MD, MPH, professor of health policy and management and the Rosalynn Carter Chair in Mental Health at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health. "This model provides one of the first evidence-based approaches for addressing that problem by helping patients access high-quality medical care."
A total of 407 people with severe mental illness at an urban community mental health center were randomly assigned to either the medical care management intervention or usual care. The patients were all ages 18 and older, considered economically disadvantaged, and experienced serious and persistent mental illness.
For individuals in the intervention group, care managers provided communication and advocacy with medical providers, health education and support in overcoming system-level fragmentation and barriers to primary medical care. Patients in the usual care group were given a list with contact information for local primary care medical clinics and were permitted to obtain any type of medical care or other medical services without the assistance of a care manager.
At a 12-month follow-up evaluation, researchers found that medical care management was associated with significant improvements in the quality and outcomes of primary care. The intervention group received an average of 58.7 percent of recommended preventive services compared with a rate of 21.8 percent in the usual care group.
In addition, patients in the intervention group received a significantly higher proportion of evidence-based services for cardiometabolic conditions (34.9 percent versus 27.7 percent) and were more likely to have a primary care provider (71.2 percent versus 51.9 percent). The group showed significant improvement in mental health functioning, and at one-year follow-up, had a substantially lower risk for heart disease than those in the usual care group.
These findings suggest that care management is a promising approach for improving quality and outcomes of medical care for patients with serious mental illnesses, says Druss.
The study titled, "A randomized trial of medical care management for community mental health settings: The Primary Care Access, Referral, and Evaluation (PCARE) study," was published in the Dec. 15 online edition of The American Journal of Psychiatry. It was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health.
In addition to Druss, study authors were: Silke Von Esenwein, PhD, director of research projects, Kimberly Rask, MD, PhD, associate professor of health policy and management, and Liping Zhao, MSPH, senior biostatistician, of the Rollins School of Public Health; and Michael Compton, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry and Ruth Parker, MD, professor of medicine, of the Emory School of Medicine.


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City of Alexandria, VA
History of the Alexandria's Human Rights Code
On March 25, 1975, Alexandria City Council passed one of the first human rights ordinances in Virginia.
The Code, which became effective April 21, 1975, prohibited discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodation, credit, health and social services, education and city contracts on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, or physical handicap.
Throughout the years, a number of changes have expanded the reach of the Code. In 1988, the Code was amended to include sexual orientation as a protected class; in 1991, the Code was amended to include fair housing protection for families with children, and the protection for the "physically handicapped" was expanded to cover all disabilities. Last, amendments to the Code in 1996 prohibited discriminatory practices in commercial real estate.


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If your instruments have differential outputs, by all means use the differential input connection. Note that some DAQ devices require bias resistors on differential inputs if the data source cannot provide the small but necessary bias current. Check the manual for your device.
Thank you for the help. When connected the open (unused) terminals being scanned to COM all the gauges still responded to one voltage input. However, when I supplied a second voltage to another input each gauge worked independent. Thanks so much!


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A steel bridge designed to be shipped in parts and assembled rapidly.
In military engineering, a portable bridge consisting of a series of prefabricated steel sections in the form of lattices.
Other Word Forms
Origin of bailey-bridge
- After Sir Donald Bailey (1901–1985), British engineer
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition


Today we will try to understand how to get out of the "VC"on the computer and not only. The social network "VKontakte" is used by many modern users. But sometimes there is a need to log out of your account. For example, when you change it. How to do it? What advice and recommendations will help to translate the idea into reality?
how to exit PC on your computer
A computer
To begin with, an important role is played by the device,with which the user works. Thinking about how to get out of the "VC" on the computer, it is important to realize that the process will be slightly different from the operation performed when the account is changed on mobile devices. This is due to the difference in the interfaces between the computer and mobile versions of VK.
So, to leave the profile in "VKontakte" on the PC, you will need:
 1. Open Vk.com.
 2. In the upper right corner of the page, click on the user name.
 3. Select "Exit" in the function menu.
That's all. From now on, the user will exit his profile. Now you can re-login or log in with other data.
mobile version
It is clear how to get out of the "VC" on the computer. And the following advice will help to realize the idea if a mobile version of the service is used. It does not matter on a computer or on a mobile device.
In this situation, the guide to exit the profile in "VKontakte" will look like this:
 1. Log in to the social network using m.vk.com.
 2. Scroll through the menu to the very end.
 3. Click the "Exit" button. This is usually a gray line.
Fast, easy, convenient. It is important to understand that the user will exit the profile only on a specific device. On the one with which he worked.
From the program
It's no secret that VK has specialprograms with which you can work with the social network directly from mobile devices. Such applications make life much easier. But the way out of the questionnaire will have to be implemented in similar circumstances a little differently.
output from all devices
How to get out of the "VC"? On the computer, the actions are already clear to us. If the user is working with a special application for VK, you will need:
 1. Log in to the program under your profile.
 2. Open the main menu of the questionnaire.
 3. Go to "Settings".
 4. Scroll the page and click on "Exit".
Nothing incomprehensible or special. Such an instruction will help you to leave the VK account on any mobile device using the same applications. What other tips and recommendations are there for this?
At once and everywhere
It's hard to believe, but with certain actions, the user will be able to log out of the profile at once on all devices. Such an operation may be required if a person suspects the hacking of an account.
The output from the "VC" on all devices is as follows:
 1. Click on the username in the upper-right corner of the vk.com website.
 2. Select "Settings".
 3. Open the "Security" section.
 4. Click on the "End all sessions" line.
In this case, all current sessions with the profile are interrupted. Now it only remains to change the login data.
Change Password
How to exit the "VK" on the computer? The answer to this question will no longer give you any trouble, just like leaving the profile on any other devices.
The last thing that users recommend is changing their password. This trick allows you to leave the account on all devices except for the one with which the person is currently working.
To change the password for entering the "VC", you need:
 1. Open "Settings" - "General".
 2. Click the "Change" button next to "Password".
 3. Enter the new password 2 times. Also, you have to write an old password once.
 4. Click on "Edit".
Enter the confirmation code for the operation. He will come to the mobile device of the user, tied to the questionnaire, or by e-mail.
Now, to enter the VK profile, you will need to use the new profile data. When changing the password, the device automatically exits from all devices on which the questionnaire was used.
link to the exit from VK
Cookies and cache
Some people are interested in the link to the exit from the "VC". It is important to understand that it simply does not exist. But you can leave your profile on the computer in a rather interesting way.
It's about clearing the cache and cookies. If you delete the listed data in the browser, then there will be an automatic exit from the social network. You can do this either through the settings of the application for accessing the Internet (in the "Settings" - "History"), or by working with Ccleaner.
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Feature request: Perhaps at the start of a run, LAMMPS could scan through the list of bonded pairs of atoms and print out an error message if any pair of atoms exceeds the comm distance threshold? (And indicate what the distance was between the offending pair of atoms.)
Although this is mentioned in the documentation, and has come up in past discussions on the mailing list. It's happened to me 3 times over the years, just infrequently enough that I forget what the problem is.
Meanwhile, I'm posting a short rant here to increase the odds a google search will take people quickly to the solution:
If you are running a simulation and pairs of atoms straddling the periodic boundaries behave as if their bonds are stretched across the simulation box (and are attached to the wrong periodic image), this means you need to use the "comm_modify cutoff" (or "comm_modify multi/cutoff") command to increase the communication distance. It must exceed the maximum length of the bonds in your system. In the image below, one of the pairs of bonded atoms was initially slightly longer than the other, exceeding the default comm distance, and the result was:
(two identical bonds shown, including their periodic images, after equilibration)
This is only one of the kinds of mayhem that can result from failing to increase the comm cutoff. It's not always so obvious visually. (In some cases, I have to step through the code with a debugger to figure out what went wrong.)
If LAMMPS can halt and print out a message indicating how large to set the comm distance cutoff, it would be extremely helpful.
Thanks for your time, and please forgive the rant.
P.S. I admit this tends to happen more often to people running coarse grained simulations. All-atom simulations might not run into this problem since the bond lengths are less than the largest heavy atom diameters which determine the default comm distance.


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or
['multimedia/gmplayer'](_URL_
package to play the mpeg files stored on the CD.
## Using audio CDs with NetBSD
There are two ways to handle audio CDs:
 1. Tell the CD drive to play to the headphone or to a soundcard, to which
 CDROMs are usually connected internally. Use programs like
 [cdplay(1)](_URL_
 ['audio/xmcd'](_URL_
 "kscd" from the
 ['multimedia/kdemultimedia3'](_URL_
 package, mixer programs like
 [mixerctl(1)](_URL_
 ['audio/xmix'](_URL_
 ['audio/xmmix'](_URL_
 the Curses based
 ['audio/cam'](_URL_
 or kmix, which is part of
 ['multimedia/kdemultimedia3'](_URL_
 This usually works well on both SCSI and IDE (ATAPI) CDROMs, CDRW and DVD
 drives.
 2. To read ("rip") audio tracks in binary form without going through
 digital-\>analog conversion and back. There are several programs available
 to do this:
 * For most ATAPI, SCSI and several proprietary CDROM drives, the
 ['audio/cdparanoia'](_URL_
 package can be used. With cdparanoia the data can be saved to a file or
 directed to standard output in WAV, AIFF, AIFF-C or raw format. Currently
 the -g option is required by the NetBSD version of cdparanoia. A
 hypothetical example of how to save track 2 as a WAV file is as follows:
 $ cdparanoia -g /dev/rcd0d 2 track-02.wav
 If you want to grab all files from a CD, cdparanoia's batch mode is useful:
 $ cdparanoia -g /dev/rcd0d -B
 * For ATAPI or SCSI CD-ROMs the
 ['audio/cdd'](_URL_
 package can be used. To extract track 2 with cdd, type:
 # cdd -t 2 'pwd'
 This will put a file called 'track-02.cda' in the current directory.
 * For SCSI CD-ROMS the
 ['audio/tosha'](_URL_
 package can be used. To extract track 2 with tosha, you should be able to
 type:
 # tosha -d CD-ROM-device -t 2 -o track-02.cda
 The data can then be post-processed e.g. by encoding it into MP3 streams
 (see [[Creating an MP3 (MPEG layer 3) file from an audio
 CD|guide/rmmedia#create-mpeg3]]) or by writing them to CD-Rs (see [[Using a
 CD-R writer to create audio CDs|guide/rmmedia#cdr-audio]]).
## Creating an MP3 (MPEG layer 3) file from an audio CD
The basic steps in creating an MPEG layer 3 (MP3) file from an audio CD (using
software from the [NetBSD packages
collection](_URL_ are:
 1. Extract (*rip*) the audio data of the CD as shown in
 [[Using audio CDs with NetBSD|guide/rmmedia#cdrom-audio]].
 2. Convert the CD audio format file to WAV format. You only need to perform
 this job if your ripping program (e.g. tosha, cdd) didn't already do the job
 for you!
 * Using the ['audio/sox'](_URL_ package, type:
 $ sox -s -w -c 2 -r 44100 -t cdr track-02.cda track-02.wav
 This will convert 'track-02.cda' in raw CD format to 'track-02.wav' in
 WAV format, using **s**igned 16-bit **w**ords with 2 **c**hannels at a
 sampling **r**ate of 44100kHz.
 3. Encode the WAV file into MP3 format.
 * Using the ['audio/bladeenc'](_URL_ package, type:
 $ bladeenc -128 -QUIT track-02.wav
 This will encode 'track-02.wav' into 'track-02.mp3' in MP3 format, using
 a bit rate if **128**kBit/sec. The documentation for bladeenc describes
 bit-rates in more detail.
 * Using the
 ['audio/lame'](_URL_
 package, type:
 $ lame -p -o -v -V 5 -h track-02.wav track-02.mp3
 You may wish to use a lower quality, depending on your taste and
 hardware.
The resultant MP3 file can be played with any of the
['audio/gqmpeg'](_URL_
['audio/maplay'](_URL_
['audio/mpg123'](_URL_
or
['audio/splay'](_URL_
packages.
## Using a CD-R writer with data CDs
The process of writing a CD consists of two steps: First, a "image" of the data
must be generated, which can then be written to CD-R in a second step.
 1. Reading a pre-existing ISO image
 # dd if=/dev/rcd0a of=filename.iso bs=2k
 Alternatively, you can create a new ISO image yourself:
 2. 2. 2.ating the ISO image
 Put all the data you want to put on CD into one directory. Next you need to
 generate a disk-like ISO image of your data. The image stores the data in
 the same form as they're later put on CD, using the ISO 9660 format. The
 basic ISO9660 format only understands 8+3 filenames (max. eight letters for
 filename, plus three more for an extension). As this is not practical for
 Unix filenames, a so-called "Rockridge Extension" needs to be employed to
 get longer filenames. (A different set of such extension exists in the
 Microsoft world, to get their long filenames right; that's what's known as
 Joliet filesystem).
 The ISO image is created using the mkisofs command, which is part of the
 ['sysutils/cdrtools'](_URL_
 package.
 Example: if you have your data in /usr/tmp/data, you can generate a ISO
 image file in /usr/tmp/data.iso with the following command:
 $ cd /usr/tmp
 $ mkisofs -o data.iso -r data
 Using NETBS000.GZ;1 for data/binary/kernel/netbsd.INSTALL.gz (netbsd.INSTALL_TINY.gz)
 Using NETBS001.GZ;1 for data/binary/kernel/netbsd.GENERIC.gz (netbsd.GENERIC_TINY.gz)
 5.92% done, estimate finish Wed Sep 13 21:28:11 2000
 11.83% done, estimate finish Wed Sep 13 21:28:03 2000
 17.74% done, estimate finish Wed Sep 13 21:28:00 2000
 23.64% done, estimate finish Wed Sep 13 21:28:03 2000
 ...
 88.64% done, estimate finish Wed Sep 13 21:27:55 2000
 94.53% done, estimate finish Wed Sep 13 21:27:55 2000
 Total translation table size: 0
 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 5395
 Total directory bytes: 16384
 Path table size(bytes): 110
 Max brk space used 153c4
 84625 extents written (165 Mb)
 Please see the mkisofs(8) man page for other options like noting publisher
 and preparer. The [Bootable CD ROM
 How-To](_URL_ explains how to generate a
 bootable CD.
 3. Writing the ISO image to CD-R
 When you have the ISO image file, you just need to write it on a CD. This is
 done with the "cdrecord" command from the
 ['sysutils/cdrtools'](_URL_
 package. Insert a blank CD-R, and off we go:
 # cdrecord -v dev=/dev/rcd0d data.iso
 ...
 After starting the command, 'cdrecord' shows you a lot of information about
 your drive, the disk and the image you're about to write. It then does a 10
 seconds countdown, which is your last chance to stop things - type \^C if
 you want to abort. If you don't abort, the process will write the whole
 image to the CD and return with a shell prompt.
 Note that cdrecord(8) works on both SCSI and IDE (ATAPI) drives.
 4. Test
 Mount the just-written CD and test it as you would do with any "normal" CD,
 see [[Reading data CDs with NetBSD


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SUBLIST 1, Card 7
The word 'involve' dates back to the 14th century. It originally meant 'to roll into' or to 'mix together.' Today the meaning is similar ; it means to include something or be a result of something.
Example of today's usage:
- My new job involves a lot of travel.
- She is involved in a long and nasty court case.
Collocations: When you learn new vocab, make sure that you note collocations too. For this group of words some collocations are:
indication of, indicative of
interpretation of, misinterpretation of
involvement of, involvement with
issue of, issue with
Check the meanings of the words if you don't already know them. Check the meanings of the different forms if they seem to be different. You can check them at Time4english by clicking the words (_URL_
Complete the sentences below with the correct word and the correct form of the word.
1.These days glasses are _______________ checked for hidden cameras as part of the test security. (indicate, individual)
2.Have you had any ______________ yet of whether you were accepted into the program? (indicate, issue)
3.It is believed that the company managers were _______________ in fraudulent activities. (interpret, involve)
4.New driver licences are ______________ for 10 years. (issue, individual)
5.I must have _______________ that because I don't understand. (interpret, involve)
Answers (in the wrong order)
4. issued 2. indication 1. individually 3. involved 5. misinterpreted


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Strain-Displacement/Rotation Relation
The axial strain depends on the rotation derivative and axial displacement derivative defined by the shape function and the transversal coordinate in the beam. For the 3D case it becomes
The coordinates from the beam center line in the local transversal directions are denoted zl and yl respectively. In the 2D case, the second term is omitted, and the local z direction is always directed out of the plane.
The total strain ε consists of thermal (εth), initial (εi), and elastic strains(εel)


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Evaluation Of Two Phase Flow Characteristics In A Pipeline Homogenous Model ApproachJournal: International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research (Vol.5, No. 7)
Publication Date: 2016-07-15
Authors : Okoye Obuora A.;
Page : 319-326
Keywords : Pipeline; Two-phase flow; Homogenous model; Pressure drop; Laminar; Turbulent;
The motion of a multi-fluid flow is of interest in the oil and gas industry. The flow characteristics aid or impede production rate. This study analyses two phase fluid flow characteristics consisting of crude oil and natural gas in straight pipes of the same internal diameter using homogenous model. Flow values were obtained from a Niger Delta flow station and predetermined experimental flow equations were used to determine the pressure drop in order to comprehend the flow characteristics in the pipeline. An average total pressure loss 268710PT of 0.075 MPa was obtained in the laminar flow category at 0.006228 MPam and an average total pressure 268710PT of 27.896 MPa in turbulent flow category at 2.325 MPam in a pipe length of 12 metres. Graphs were plotted to show the influence of the calculated flow parameters on the fluid flow. The graphs aided in depicting the flow regimes in the pipeline. These are universally dominant parameters in the oil and gas industry as they significantly impact on the transportation of crude oil from oil wells or reservoirs to the process plants. These results may be used as a baseline and guide to compare realistic measurements in similar flows.
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Established: 14 June 1948 through a 1650 acre transfer from the New York Department
of Conservation (NYSDEC) in exchange for the College's Salamanca Forest in Cattaraugus
SVEND O. HEIBERG MEMORIAL FOREST
Current Area: 3900 acres in Cortland and Onondaga Counties; Towns of Truxton, Preble,
Fabius, and Tully.
Purpose: To provide a field laboratory setting within which students, faculty,
and staff of SUNY-ESF can conduct educational, reasearch and demonstration
activities as chartered under the State Education Law.
- ClassroomsFour with capacities of 30 to 100.
- Research Structures- 9
- Support Structures- 11
- Road System- 18.9 miles
- Trail System-12.6 miles
- Allegheny Hardwoods-1395 acres
- Conifer Plantations- 1640 acres
- Open and Brushy Areas- 590 acres
- Miscellaneous- 245 acres
- Water- 30 acres
Genetic election and improvement
Christmas tree production
- Ruffed grouse habitat management
- Beaver population dynamics
- Pond fishery dynamics
- Watershed Management
94 species of birds reside or visit annually
32 species of mammals have been ID'd
6 species of fish are in the forest
- The forest sustains an estimated 19.5 cubic million feet of wood
with an estimated value of six million dollars.
- This forest is actively managed for the perpetual production of
quality forest products.
Public Sercive and DemonstrationRevised June 1994
- self-guided nature trail
- permit fishing program
- cross-county skiing program
- birding and hiking
- maple syrup production
- Christams Tree Production
- hunting in season


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1946 Liberian constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Liberia on 7 May 1946. The change to the constitution was approved in the Legislature in December 1945, and would grant women the right to vote. It was approved by voters and came into force on 10 December 1946.
The proposed change would be to Chapter I, article 11, section one.
|Original text||New text|
|All elections shall be by ballot and every male citizen, of twenty-one years of age, possessing real estate, shall have the right of suffrage||All elections shall be by ballot and every citizen (male and female), of twenty-one years of age, possessing real estate, shall have the right of suffrage|
A two-thirds majority in the vote was necessary for the changes to be approved.
- Liberia, 7 May 1946: Women's suffrage Direct Democracy (in German)


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Summary: The Stakeholder Workshop Series
Connect with others. Synthesize Knowledge. Solidify relationships.
Workshop 3- Salmon
What is the Stakeholder Workshop Series?
The Stakeholder Workshop Series is creating a safe space to explore, build, and maintain links
among management issues associated with: fisheries, forestry, mining and agriculture. The three
themes for the workshop series: 1) Water, 2) Climate Change, and 3) Salmon are not mutually
exclusive; each theme overlaps, with previous discussions lending insight to the next. During
each workshop, participants will work to identify barriers to collaboration and knowledge
exchange and consider innovative ways to overcome these barriers. All stakeholders will benefit
from learning about how others understand patterns of ecological, social, and economic
processes. Due to the cultural differences between people, these workshops aim to address
aspects of natural resource management while uncovering how different stakeholders understand
the same information in different ways. For the purpose of this discussion, stakeholders are
defined as people within society that share specific concerns (recognising that individuals may
simultaneously belong to several stakeholder groups).
Although we will be building bridges between different ways of understanding the world, this
workshop series does not aim to create a new committee. Rather, we will work to synthesise