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Intangible capital and productivity: Firm-level evidence from German manufacturing
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No 1/2020, IWH Discussion Papers from Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)
We study the importance of intangible capital (R&D, software, patents) for the measurement of productivity using firm-level panel data from German manufacturing. We first document a number of facts on the evolution of intangible investment over time, and its distribution across firms. Aggregate intangible investment increased over time. However, the distribution of intangible investment, even more so than that of physical investment, is heavily right-skewed, with many firms investing nothing or little, and a few firms having very large intensities. Intangible investment is also lumpy. Firms that invest more intensively in intangibles (per capita or as sales share) also tend to be more productive. In a second step, we estimate production functions with and without intangible capital using recent control function approaches to account for the simultaneity of input choice and unobserved productivity shocks. We find a positive output elasticity for research and development (R&D) and, to a lesser extent, software and patent investment. Moreover, the production function estimates show substantial heterogeneity in the output elasticities across industries and firms. While intangible capital has small effects for firms with low intangible intensity, there are strong positive effects for high-intensity firms. Finally, including intangibles in a gross output production function reduces productivity dispersion (measured by the 90-10 decile range) on average by 3%, in some industries as much as nearly 9%.
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Welcome to the ReThink Eating 2020 Conference
The Food Quality Perception and Society Team at the Aarhus University Department of Food Science warmly welcomes you to our virtual conference.
This is not a traditional conference. We want to invite people from different backgrounds and disciplines to come together and brainstorm the future of eating. Due to the recent COVID crisis, it has been made clearer than before that we need to rethink not just what we eat, but also how we eat, and who we can share a meal with.
You are invited to join us in coming up with daring and creative solutions, and we want to hear your questions around pressing issues. In these increasingly serious times, we welcome the weird, wacky, and wonderful. Maybe even a sprinkling of magic.
We aim to address big questions like:
 - Why do people eat the way they do?
 - How does digital information influence our physical reality?
 - What role can technology play in creating new eating experiences?
 - How can we rethink what it means to eat together?
 - The conference is fully online and free of charge.
 - Registration deadline is November 26
 - The conference is made possible by the Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship project "Virtual and augmented flavours: Extending human flavour perception via novel sensory inputs"


text: Our noses aren't the only parts of our bodies that can pick up the soothing scent of sandalwood. An amazing discovery has been made in regards to the way this specific scent can help cure cancer. When researchers exposed cancer cells to an artificial sandalwood scent, they quickly died because of their ability to smell and respond to scent. Sergio Cortes says cancer cells are not the only kind of cells that can smell scents like this though. We actually have a multitude of smell receptors within our bodies. In fact, there are seven of them that have been discovered in white blood cells alone. White blood cells can pick up on the scent of sandalwood due to a specific olfactory receptor in them called OR2AT4. Scientists are testing out more scents to see if there are others that the body responds to as well as sandalwood. The medical possibilities of this research are profound considering how easily diseases could be cured using this method.

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What is Take5 all about?
Take5 is an fast, user-friendly and affordable
stop motion animation program. Make your own
animations with objects or figures within minutes.
Why don't you give Take5 a try, it's fun and free.
What does a Take5 animation look like?
How is Take5 used?
Capture images from a video camera or webcam
and instantly play them as an animation. Easely
change the order and sequence of the frames.
See the Take5 workflow in detail here [157 KB]
Frame-accurate editing in the xsheet
What is Take5 used for?
Take5 animation software is used to produce
stop motion films with clay, plasticine, lego
figures and puppets. It is also great to make
cut-out, sand, oil paint and paper animations.
Take5 used to make oil paint animation
Who uses Take5?
Take5 is used in schools and animation workshops
as an educational tool and by animation studios
and professional animators as a production tool.
Home enthousiasts use Take5 to make their
favourite objects and figures come alive.
Take5 used in an animation workshop


Task Notes is a feature of TeamworkIQ's Team Essentials and Business Pro plans. People may add and update a note for the tasks to which they have been assigned.
TeamworkIQ Message Streams is more powerful than Task Notes and is a feature of TeamworkIQ's Business Plus plan. Message Streams provides real-time integrated chat, comments, notes, file sharing, _USER_ and message flagging features. Messages with _USER_ or flags become "Actionable Messages" that behave similar to "Actionable Tasks" to make sure important things get seen and things get done.
If you are on a Business Plus plan, you will see and use the Message Streams feature, not the Task Notes feature. If you upgraded to Business Plus, your Task Notes will still be visible in any processes that preceded the release of Message Streams.
What are Task Notes?
Task assignees can use Task Notes to share information with the team as they complete their tasks. While a task is in progress, its Notes remain in draft form and are only visible to the task's assignees. As soon as the task is completed, the finalized Notes become visible to all of the participants in the process.
For example, in an onboarding process, a Hiring Manager may want to add a note which specifies special ergonomic accommodations that should be installed in the new employee's office. This allows the manager to supply detailed information that may be used by the Assignees of in subsequent tasks or referred to as part of an audit. The manager could have distributed the information by email, but Task Notes make the information readily available in the context of the process.
How To Add Task Notes
If you are the assignee of the task and you are working on the task, you can add Task Notes. To do so:
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 2. As shown below, click the "..." icon to the left of the task to open the task action menu. Select "Add notes".
 3. Start typing your note in the Task Notes editor.
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If you are the assignee of the task, then you can delete Task Notes. To do so:
 1. Click on the task.
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 On smaller screens: Click the "add notes" link which appears below the selected task.
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Construction of the Utah State Capitol began December 12, 1912.
The architect was Richard Kletting, whose design was selected from a number of entries in a state competition. The Capitol is a Beaux Arts Classical design.
The building was completed in 1916, at a cost of $2,739,538. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
A major renovation completed in 2008 gave the building a seismic retrofit while maintaining and restoring the original historic fabric of the building.
James W. Shipler founded Shipler Commercial Photographers when he moved to Salt Lake City in 1890. His son Harry joined the firm a few years later. State History acquired the Shiplers' negative collection in 1988, and the studio, then on Main Street near 100 South, closed in 1989.
The Shiplers often documented change over time, as they did during the construction of Utah's State Capitol. More than 150 glass plate negatives, from glass plate negatives, document its construction from groundbreaking to completion.

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The Ringi System at Toyota
The ringi system is a more formal decision-making process used for handling significant decisions. In the ringi process, a small team of people with the necessary expertise is assigned to analyze some specific issues or challenge and recommend a solution. At the conclusion of the analysis process, the team creates a decision document called a Ringi-sho, which outlines the challenges, the countermeasure, and the potential implications, both positive and negative, of adopting the proposal. The team then meets with all managers who will be affected by the proposal and requests their approval. Sign off on the proposal is traditionally done with a manager's hanko, a personal stamp used only by managers at a certain level.
In product development, ringi typically takes place early in the process during the kentou or study phase. Small cross-functional teams are given a limited time period (approximately 30 to 90 days) in which to analyze a challenge, meet with managers, and diffuse the document throughout any effected product development organization.
Using ringi in product development has several advantages. It gathers input from all effected parties and aligns effected groups, reducing decision making to single step during the product development process. In addition, it provides a constructive outlet for nonstandard approaches while simultaneously providing organizational support for standardized designs and processes. The underlying message is to follow standards unless there is a very good reason not to – good enough to go through the ringi process and prove it.


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The vermilion box is a hypothetical portable improvised line emulator.
Its function is to spoof not only caller ID but every other aspect of an incoming telephone call, including ringing and DC line voltage. Typically, the user physically disconnects the target line from the telephone network, connects the vermilion box, and then proceeds to create a completely bogus telephone call.
The vermilion box incorporates three more basic phreaking boxes: the magenta box, which generates the AC ringing signal required to make the target telephone ring; the orange box, which generates caller ID (although it is not a proper call-waiting caller ID orange box that is used but a modified orange box that generates on-hook (idle state) caller ID); and the beige box that is used to conduct the actual conversation. In addition, a DC power source is required to power the telephones on the target's line.
This is a very risky and stealth-intensive technique that requires the user to physically connect to the target line, anywhere between the premises of the target and the local exchange. However, properly applied, it will result in an incoming call to the target line that is completely indistinguishable from a genuine call and which cannot possibly be traced.
The vermilion box is named, following the tradition of naming phreaking boxes after colors, for a color (vermilion) that is similar to a combination of the color names of two of the component phreaking boxes from which this box is made: orange and magenta.
See also[edit]
 - Analog telephone adapter, a device which makes a Voice over IP connection appear to be a standard outside line. These boxes generate ringing voltage, DC line voltage, dial tone and caller ID to create one or two virtual telephone lines. In theory, a two-line adapter configured for ringdown (where taking one side off-hook causes the other to ring, displaying a pre-configured caller ID name or number) could serve as a line emulator, requiring only a handset and DC power source.
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Getting your DVR networked can be tricky if you've never done it before. In order to get your system online, we need to pay attention to the router more than the DVR:
In between iPhone and DVR lies the internet and your broadband router which communicates with the DVR. By default the router acts like a giant brick wall stopping all incoming traffic (here the bricks represent ports). So when you are abroad and try logging in to your system, the router will simply bounce back from the brick wall with an "unauthorised access"
In order to get your iphone to connect with your CCTV system, we need to remove a brick from the wall (brick is a metaphor for a port) and create a path to the DVR. This in the industry is known as port forwarding. Generally there are a few steps you need to take when getting your system up online.
1. Connect your DVR to the router using a network cable
2. Get the DVR onto your local network- this is done by:
1.Simply type in "cmd" into your PC
2. A prompt box will come up
3. Type in "ipconfig" and press enter
4. Note the Gateway address (3rd line), this is the address of your router (shown on the diagram above)
5. The Gateway needs to be put into the DVR network settings- you may need to change the ip address also. For example if the Gateway is 192.168.1.254 then put this into the DVR Gateway settings. Change the IP address to 192.168.1.X. The X can be anything between 0-255 but it cannot conflict with any other device. E.g. when you typed in ipconfig, it would have also told you the IP address of that PC, you CANNOT use this in the DVR. The X represents unique devices on the network, so your PC maybe 192.168.1.10 so your DVR could be 192.168.1.11 but it cannot conflict.
Similarly if the Gateway is 192.168.0.1 then this should become the Gateway of the DVR, as the PC and DVR share the same "home" or router. But here the IP adddress would become 192.168.0.X. you can see the first 3 batches must be the same.
6. Now that you have got the DVR to connect locally, we are ready for the final step.
7. Find out the ports the DVR uses, for example AVTECH uses port 80 (TCP). This needs to be forwarded to the DVR. How do I do this? This depends on the router you have, there are thousands of routers, so each setting will be different! (just to make it even more complicated).
8. We recommend a website called _URL_ where you can select your router and it will give you a FREE guide on how to set it up.
9. Find out your IP address by going on _URL_ This is the address of your internet and is unique to your property. (Note anything with 192.168 is a local address, for internal only)
10. Here's a video we have found on youtube (not relevant for our DVRs but gives you an example)
We can do all of the above for you remotely for £39+VAT which takes approximately 15-30mins. Click here to leave your details and we will contact you.

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All agricultural chemicals used in New Zealand including seed applied products are rigorously assessed by the Environment Protection Authority to ensure that when they are used in accordance with label directions, agricultural chemicals present no unacceptable risk to humans, livestock, birdlife or the environment.
Handling treated seed
- Treated seed is not for human or animal consumption.
- Care should be taken to avoid personal contact with treated seed, as an allergic reaction may occur in sensitive individuals.
- Wear protective clothing, gloves and a dust mask when handling treated seed and wash hands and exposed skin prior to meals.
Storing treated seed
- Keep out of reach of children, livestock, birds and unauthorised persons.
- Left over seed bags should be appropriately sealed.
- Do not use empty seed bags for purposes other than storing treated seed.
- Store treated seed in a cool, dry environment away from direct sunlight.
- The storage facility should be secure with restricted access.
Planting treated seed
- Be aware of the presence of bee hives, crops or weeds in the flowering stage, within or adjacent to the field which could attract pollinators during planting.
- Minimise dust movement from treated seeds during planting.
- Avoid adding excess seed dust from the bottom of the seed bag to the planter.
- If using vacuum or pneumatic planters direct seed dust into the soil.
- To protect birds and livestock, treated seed must be incorporated into the soil.
- Ensure any spilled seed is collected up or buried immediately.
- Clean seed planters away from sensitive environmental areas, especially those that are attractive to pollinators.
- Avoid contamination of any water supply with treated seed or empty packaging.
- Treated seed should be planted in the season of purchase.
- Livestock should not graze insecticide treated forage crops and pasture for a period of six weeks after sowing. For grass seed under-sown into an existing pasture sward the withholding period is three weeks after sowing.
For further information refer to the joint AGCARM and NZGSTA publication "Stewardship Guide, Handling and Planting Treated Seed" on the AGCARM website.
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I want to transfer some data from one ASP.NET (WebForms) application to another, edit: where the first application redirects to the second. The two applications run in a load-balanced environment, so don't necessarily execute on the same server machine. We are talking about an XML blob in the size range a few hundred to maybe a thousand bytes, so it's a bit long for encoding and tacking it into the URL query-string. The user must also not be able to muck with this data (it's not security-critical currently, but exposing it to the user still seems like a bad idea).
Any suggestions on how to do it?
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I don't know all the details of your situation, but there are a few ways you could do this.
 1. You could insert the XML blob into a database from one site and retrieve it from the database from the other site.
 2. You could post your XML blob from one application to a receiver page in the other application which would then read the XML from the request.
 3. You could create a webservice in the second application with a method to receive the XML blob from the fist application.
 4. You could write the XML to file in one application and read it from file in the second application.
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#4 is definitely out because of the load balancing as well as usage (way too high risk of race conditions). – Michael Kjörling Mar 9 '12 at 13:22
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Just a quick idea off the top of my head...
If the data is entirely specific to the current user's session, and the two sites are running on the same domain.
 1. Generate a key for the client - something that is going to be reasonably unique, for instance something like md5(some guid + some header from the user's browser)
 2. Store the information in a key value store/database table, with the generated key from 1 as the key.
 3. Set the key as a cookie to the client.
This way you avoid ever sending the data to the client, and the 'key' should be random enough that it will be very hard to guess. If you also store the header and the GUID that you use to generate/salt the hash, you can then validate the key from the user's cookie against the headers sent in the request and deny access if all the details don't match up. This also has the benefit that you can store as much data as you can realistically cope with on the server side.
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You will probably want to look into either or.NET Web Sevices or WCF (Windows Communication Foundation).
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Store it in an encrypted cookie, You'll only add 1Kb to each request/response.
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OP says 'The user must also not be able to muck with this data'. Sticking it in a cookie would allow access to the data using Firebug etc. – mdm Mar 9 '12 at 13:32
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Maybe like a SSO or something like that.
In a database, a table with those columns:
Guid (Guid.NewGuid())
(maybe other columns like the user id...for security log)
The first webapp send the Guid through the URL. The second retrieve the Content in the database.
The date can be used to validate the data: you can only access to the content within X seconds.
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Should be fairly easy using cross site requests.
The first application should just return a page containing a form with the Action parameter pointing to the other application's url. The page should also contain a small javascript to postback the form as soon as the page is loaded. The body of the page contains the data you want to pass between servers.
This way you are using client's browser to do the job for you. Because page's body can be much longer than uri/cookie, this approach should work for you.
Note, that this is completely legal and at least few passive authentication protocols rely on such possibility.
Edit: The integrity of the data is achieved with cryptography. The data can be signed (the simplest approach) or encrypted+signed (which not only prevents users from modyfing the data but also from seeing the content).
Also note that if you don't have to involve client browser, you can use any communication protocol to pass the data directly between servers (TCP, HTTP).
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How would you stop a malicious user from seeing the data, if it is sent to the browser? – mdm Mar 9 '12 at 13:34
You can encrypt it or even sign it to validate at the receiver side. – Wiktor Zychla Mar 9 '12 at 14:22
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Thanks to all who responded! In talking this over with some other people at the office, in the end we decided that, since the data is actually made available by yet another web application, both of the applications that make use of the data will simply make a call to the third to get the data. The downside to that approach is the small amount of time it takes to make that call twice; the upside is that it virtually ensures that the two applications always have up-to-date data, and even a naïve implementation makes it very difficult for the end user to do anything with the data.
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Which city is located at the highest altitude in the world?
Cities with the highest altitudes in the world. The highest city in the world with a population of more than one million is La Paz. The Capital of Bolivia sits 3,869 meters above sea level, and is more than 1,000 meters higher than the second ranked city – Quito.
Is Machu Picchu the highest city in the world?
For reference, that's more than 100 meters higher than the world-famous Inca citadel Machu Picchu in Peru, which sits at a height of 2,430m.
Cities in the Sky.
Rank #1
Urban Center La Paz
Country Bolivia
Region South America
Average Elevation (m) 3,869
Where is the highest altitude?
The most high-altitude point on Earth is Mount Everest, in the Himalayan mountain range on the border of Nepal and the Chinese region of Tibet. Mount Everest is 8,850 meters (29,035 feet) tall. The urban area of El Alto, Bolivia, is the most high-altitude city on Earth.
Which is the lowest city in the world?
1. Baku is the world's lowest lying capital city. Believe it or not, Baku sits 28 metres below sea level, which makes it the world's lowest lying capital city. (In fact, it is one of only two capital cities with an elevation officially below sea level, the other being Amsterdam.)
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Which is the highest capital of the world?
La Paz, administrative and de facto capital of Bolivia, stands at an altitude of 3,631 m (11,913 ft) above sea level.
What is the lowest elevation on Earth?
The world's lowest place on earth is the Dead Sea located in Jordan and Israel, with an elevation amounting to approximately 414 meters below sea level.
Is Kilimanjaro taller than Everest?
Everest (29,035 feet / 8,850 m) in Asia. Aconcagua (22,829 feet / 6,962 m) in South America. Denali (20,320 feet / 6,190 m) in North America. Kilimanjaro (19,340 feet / 5,895 m) in Africa.
Is there anything taller than Mount Everest?
Measuring from the foot of the mountain to the summit, Hawaii's Mauna Kea is the tallest, but most is under the sea. As measured from the Earth's core, Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is the world's highest, standing more than 2,072 metres higher than Everest.
Which city is closest to sea level?
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan and is the lowest national capital in the world, sitting at 92 feet below sea level. Not only is it the lowest national capital by elevation, but it's also the biggest city found at levels this low with a total population of just over 2 million people as of 2016.
What is the lowest country in the world?
Places to go: Maldives is the world's lowest country
Not one of its 1,200 mostly uninhabited coral islands measure more than six feet (1.8 meters) above sea level. The Maldives – made up of a chain of nearly 1,200 mostly uninhabited islands in the Indian Ocean – is the lowest country in the world.
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Which country is below sea level?
10) Salton Trough
Thirty-Three Countries with Land Areas Below Sea Level
Country Below Sea Level Location Elevation
Djibouti Lac Assal shoreline 155 meters below sea level
China Turpan Pendi 154 meters below sea level
Egypt Qattara Depression 133 meters below sea level
Which is highest lake in the world?
Highest: Lake Titicaca, Peru-Bolivia
By volume of water, Lake Titicaca is the largest lake in South America, and due to its surface elevation of 12,507ft above sea level, is the highest navigable lake in the world.
Which city is largest city in the world?
As the world's biggest urban area, Tokyo has a population that accounts for more than a quarter of all of Japan.
Which is world's lowest lying capital city?
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Moving away from coalDiverting from coal burning
We are connecting heating plants to gas as they transition away from coal. Compared to coal, natural gas has only half the CO2 emissions.
- Natural gas has 53% lower CO2 emissions than coal.
- Many harmful and carcinogenic substances are produced when coal is burned.
- 4 million Czechs heat their homes using heat from heating plants.
- 50% of heating plants burn coal and are responsible for 25% of all CO2 emissions in the Czech Republic.


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Ancient Macedonian grave yields its treasures
Athens New excavations at a rich ancient cemetery in northern Greece have yielded gold jewellery, copper and iron weapons and pottery. Archaeologists digging in part of a vast burial ground near Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia, have unearthed 43 new graves dating from 650-279BC, a Culture Ministry statement said.
The dead included 20 warriors who had been buried in the Archaic period, between 580 and 480 BC, with copper helmets, left, and iron swords, daggers and spearheads. Ornaments of gold foil – especially made for funerary use – covered their mouths, eyes and chests.
A total of 915 graves have been excavated over the past eight years at the site of Arhontiko, about 330 miles (530km) northwest of Athens.
Archaeologists estimate that this represents


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New Project To Place Denmark On The Military Space Technology Map
Space technology and satellites are not only important for monitoring climate change, for navigating ships and airplanes, and for communicating over long distances — they are also essential to the security of Denmark and the EU.
A new project develops a technology that makes it possible to monitor and identify military threats in space and on Earth. The AI-driven technology will contribute to process the vast data streams stemming from satellites and land-based sensors and thereby create the basis for using the space data and intelligence for military purposes.
The project, which goes under the name INTEGRAL and is a part of EU's SSAEW SC2, Space Situational Awareness – Space Command and Control, is supported with funds from the European Defence Fund and is a cooperation between DTU (Technical University of Denmark), the Danish company Space Inventor and the French defence and technology company Thales in Denmark.
The Danish company Space Inventor is going to play a key role in the project by contributing to the development of the prototype for INTEGRAL and finding an algorithm that can trace the orbit of satellites. With the awarded funds follow a significantly increased visibility on the international stage as well as access to knowledge and powerful networks.
A unique cooperation with massive potential The project is one of only 26 projects which have been approved by the EU Commission under the test program European Defence Industrial Development Program (EDIDP) in 2020. Thales sees great potential in the Danish Defence industry looking towards Europe.
"It is a unique project because we unite science and industry on multiple levels. We are, in Thales, a part of the Danish ecosystem within defence and also an international company with deep knowledge about the European defence market. We would like to contribute with this knowledge so that Danish companies can unlock the great potential which the Danish defence industry holds," said Tommy Ayouty, CEO, Thales Danmark, VP Thales Group in the Nordics.
Several Danish companies are participating in EU projects such as project SAURON for SSA Sensors and the space & defence project SSA Early Warning which both have received funds from EDIDP 2020. Along with INTEGRAL, these projects can improve Denmark's visibility within the defence and space sector and are expected to lay the foundation for further cooperation and to gather knowledge in connection with the surveillance of the Arctic in the future. The INTEGRAL project runs until 2023, at which point the parties involved can seek funds to continue the work.
Custom Electronics' New Portable Power System for Military + Defense Industry
Custom Electronics, Inc. (CEI) has introduced their CMP2500 portable battery system.
At the heart of the CMP2500 battery system are LiFePO4 lithium-iron phosphate cells. Each battery has a 2.5kWh capacity while the system provides up to 10 kWh capacity at 24 VDC or up to 5 kWh at 12 VDC.
The batteries are housed in a rugged military-spec case that can be moved by one person, making it ideal for military and defense field and training applications including charging of drones, running simulations, targetry and silent watch. Users can set up in a field or training space without having to run a cable to a generator or back to the military installation. In addition, the quietness of the system when running is a main benefit for these types of applications.
One of the unique features of the CMP2500 solution that distinguishes itself from many of its competitors is its proprietary battery management system (BMS). With a focus on taking a modular integrated systems design approach to generate, store, distribute and utilize electric energy in order to power devices and equipment, the BMS delivers a safe, effective and cost-efficient energy storage solution. The BMS is custom designed to protect cells, equipment and the user. In addition, the system is fully scalable in voltage and capacity, and can replace or supplement generator operations by reducing operating time, fuel consumption and related noise.
The systems charger and inverter capabilities are sourced from high-quality manufacturers and included as system components. In addition, the inverters feature up to 4000W output and chargers up to 40 ADC.
"From start to finish, the CMP2500 battery solution is designed to provide power when and where you need it," said Carol Brower, Vice President of Operations, Custom Electronics, Inc. "Simplicity of design, ease of use and safety are top priorities we focused on when designing all system components. The design allows for continuous, uninterrupted power."
DoD and Partners Release Combined Space Operations Vision 2031
The United States joins Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom in the joint release of the "Combined Space Operations (CSpO) Vision 2031."
CSpO is an initiative to address the overarching need to encourage responsible use of space, recognizing challenges to space sustainability, threats presented by technological advances, and the increasingly comprehensive and aggressive counterspace programs of other nation states.
The "CSpO Vision 2031" outlines the initiative's overarching purpose and highlights its guiding principles, including: freedom of use of space, responsible and sustainable use of space, partnering while recognizing sovereignty, and upholding international law.
These guiding principles steer the initiative's objectives and are supported by several lines of effort, from developing and operating resilient, interoperable architectures to fostering responsible military behaviors in space and sharing intelligence and information, all leading to the pursuit of a safe, secure, and sustainable space domain.
CSpO Principals last met in December of 2021, reaffirming their nations' support to the Vision, including the intent to prevent conflicts extending to or originating in space and to hold accountable those who threaten the safety of the space environment and the space assets of others.
Representatives from the Department of Defense specifically addressed the importance of information sharing, leading to greater cooperation and interoperability, all key CSpO components.
Combined Space Operations Vision 2031
Vision Partners in national security space operations leading as responsible actors and seeking and prepared to protect and defend against hostile space activities in accordance with applicable international law.
Generate and improve cooperation, coordination, and interoperability opportunities to sustain freedom of action in space, optimize resources, enhance mission assurance and resilience, and prevent conflict.
The Importance of Space
Space is integral to modern multi-domain military operations and provides strategic advantage. Space-based capabilities deliver a wide range of effects that underpin daily life, including communications, navigation, remote sensing, Earth observation, weather services, and financial transactions. Maintaining and supporting the availability of these capabilities are in the interest of each nation. Continued delivery of these capabilities requires complete access to and freedom to operate in space.
Space has evolved into a contested and congested operational domain. As space becomes more crowded, the security and stability of this critical domain are endangered. Some nations have developed capabilities designed to deny, degrade, and disrupt access to and utilization of space-based capabilities.
These nations have demonstrated the ability to hold space-based capabilities at risk and to target critical assets in an effort to reduce our military effectiveness in a crisis or conflict. Further, the lack of widely accepted norms of responsible behavior and historical practice The convergence of these factors creates compelling strategic and operational urgency that serves as a call to action. We share a desire to accelerate and improve our ability to conduct combined military space operations, as responsible space actors, in order to maintain security and prevent escalation in space and on Earth. We seek to be prepared to protect our national interests and the peaceful use of space.
Shared Guiding Principles
The following guiding principles are shared broadly among the Participants in the Combined Space Operations (CSpO) Initiative Memorandum of Understanding (MoU):
- Freedom of Use of Space: Militaries have an important role in contributing to international efforts to ensure freedom of access to and use of space. CSpO Participants work to ensure our national security space operations promote a secure, stable, safe, peaceful, and operationally sustainable space domain.
- Responsible and Sustainable Use of Space: The world is reliant on space- based systems —- activities in space have consequences across the spectrum of human activity. CSpO Participants pursue activities that endeavor to minimize the creation of long-lived space debris and contribute to the enduring sustainability of the outer space environment.
- Partnering While Upholding Sovereignty: CSpO Participants recognize and uphold the rights of each Participant to act and communicate independently and in a manner commensurate with their own national policies and interests. National efforts are synchronized, where appropriate, through clear and open dialogue.
- Upholding International Law: Each Participant conducts activities in accordance with applicable international law, including the Outer Space Treaty, the UN Charter, and, in case of armed conflict, with the law of armed conflict.
To realize our vision and mission, CSpO Participants affirm the following objectives to guide our national and collective actions:
- Prevent conflicts – CSpO Participants seek to prevent conflict, including conflict extending to or originating in space. By strengthening coordination, building resiliency, promoting responsible behavior in space, enhancing partnership, and communicating transparently, we improve our national and collective abilities to prevent conflict and to promote security and stability in all domains
- Unity of Effort – CSpO Participants seek to enable combined space operations by sharing information across multiple classification levels – from the strategic to the operational and tactical levels, and at a pace that is operationally relevant – through real-time synchronized networked operations centers operated by a workforce with common training.
- Space Mission Assurance - CSpO Participants seek to establish and maintain a robust, responsive, and interoperable space infrastructure enabling continued space effects in the face of adverse action or changes to the space domain. Ensuring the continued function and resilience of equipment, facilities, networks, information and information systems, personnel, infrastructure, and supply chains, we seek to deny the benefit


which transforms a vector in $\Vcal$ to a vector in $\Wcal$. Then $\squarebrack{T^\top}_{\gamma^{*}}^{\beta^{*}}=A^\top$.

The matrix of $\squarebrack{T^\top}_{\gamma^{*}}^{\beta^{*}}$ takes in an element of $\Wcal^{*}$ represented in its basis $\gamma^{*}$, and outputs an element in $\Vcal^{*}$ represented in its basis $\beta^{*}$. Therefore, it is sufficient to represent every element in $\curly{T^\top(g_j)}_{j=1}^m$ in the basis $\beta^{*}$ of $\Vcal^{*}$. Since any vector $f$ in $\Vcal^{*}$ can be expressed as a linear combination of the basis vectors $\beta^{*}$ as we proved earlier, we have

 $$ \begin{align} T^\top(g_j) &= \sumi{1}{n}T^\top(g_j)(v_i)f_i\\ &= \sumi{1}{n}g_j(T(v_i))f_i \end{align} $$

Therefore, the $(i,j)$-th element of the matrix $\squarebrack{T^\top}_{\gamma^{*}}^{\beta^{*}}$ is $g_j(T(v_i))$. Now, the elements of the matrix $\squarebrack{T}_{\beta}^{\gamma}$ are the representations of the basis vectors $\beta$ of $\Vcal$, in the basis vectors $\gamma$ of $\Wcal$. Therefore we have,

 $$ \begin{align} T(v_i) &= \sumk{1}{m}A_{ki}w_k\\ \implies g_j(T(v_i)) &= g_j\round{\sumk{1}{m}A_{ki}w_k}\\ &= \sumk{1}{m}A_{ki}g_j(w_k)\qquad(\because g \text{ is a linear functional})\\ &= A_{ji}\qquad(\because g_j(w_k)=\delta_{jk}) \end{align} $$

Which finally gives us

 $$ \begin{align} T^\top(g_j) &= \sumi{1}{n}A_{ji}f_i \end{align} $$

and shows us that the $(i,j)$-th element of the matrix $\squarebrack{T^\top}_{\gamma^{*}}^{\beta^{*}}$ is nothing but the $(j,i)$-th element of $A$, which implies that the matrix $\squarebrack{T^\top}_{\gamma^{*}}^{\beta^{*}} = A^\top$.

Double Dual

If $\Vcal$ is a vector space, then its dual space $\Vcal^{*}$ is also a vector space. We can again define the set of all linear transformations from $\Vcal^{*}$ to $\Field$ as its dual space $\Vcal^{**} = \mathscr{L}(\Vcal^{*},\Field)$, which makes it the double dual space of $\Vcal$. Unlike $\Vcal^{*}$ where we needed to define basis, there is an elegant way to go from $\Vcal$ to $\Vcal^{**}$ via an injective map $\Psi$. If $x\in\Vcal$, and $\hat{x} = \Psi(x)\in\Vcal^{**}$ acts on a linear functional $f\in\Vcal^{*}$ and evaluates $f$ at $x$ returning an element in the field $\Field$, i.e.,

 $$ \begin{align} f & \xrightarrow{\hat{x}\in\Vcal^{**}} & f(x)\\ \Vcal^* & \xrightarrow{\hat{x}\in\Vcal^{**}} & \Field \end{align} $$

Theorem - If $\Vcal$ is a vector space of finite dimension, then $\Psi : \Vcal\to\Vcal^{**}$ is an isomorphism. First, we show that $\Psi$ is linear. If $x,y\in\Vcal$, $f\in\Vcal^{*}$, and $c\in\Field$, then

 $$ \begin{align} \Psi(x+cy)(f) &= f(x+cy)\\ &= f(x)+cf(y)\\ &= (\Psi(x) + c\Psi(y))(f) \end{align} $$

Next, we show that $\Psi$ is one to one. Suppose $\hat{x} = 0$, the zero functional, then $x = 0$. Let $\beta = \curly{v_i}_{i=1}^n$, then $x = \sumi{1}{n}a_iv_i$ for some $\curly{a_i\in\Field}$. Therefore, if $\Psi(x) = \hat{x}=0$, then

 $$ \begin{align} \Psi(x) &= \Psi\round{\sumi{1}{n}a_iv_i}\\ &= \sumi{1}{n}a_i\Psi(v_i)\\ \implies \Psi(x)(f) &= \sumi{1}{n}a_i\Psi(v_i)(f)\qquad \forall\ f \in\Vcal^*\\ &= \sumi{1}{n}a_if(v_i) \end{align} $$

For $f\in\curly{f_i}_{i=1}^n$, we get $a_i = 0\ \forall\ i \in\squarebrack{n}$. This implies that $x = \sumi{1}{n}a_iv_i = 0$. Since $\mathrm{dim}(\Vcal) = \mathrm{dim}(\Vcal^{**})$, we have that $\Psi$ is one to one and therefore an isomorphism. The isomorphism between $\Vcal$ and $\Vcal^{**}$, $\Psi$, allows us to map each element in $\Vcal$ to a unique element in $\Vcal^{**}$.

The infinite sequence of dual spaces

We can continue thinking about the dual of the parent space and there always will exist an isomorphism between alternate dual spaces. Formally, Let us denote $\Vcal^{(i+1)*} = \round{\Vcal^{(i)*}}^{*}$ for all $i\in\Natural$ where $\Vcal^{(0)*} = \Vcal$ is a finite dimensional vector space. Let $\Psi_i$ be the isomorphism between $\Vcal^{(i-1)*}$ and $\Vcal^{(i+1)*}$


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How Do Elves Breath?
Generally glittering dust that emanates from mystical creatures is a sign of enchanted magics at work. The most famous is of course Fairy Dust. Something Fairies produce when flying, or utilizing their powers. Elves hard at work, or utilizing magics may produce Elf Dust from their hands. Walking can cause the dust to sparkle from their feet leaving a clear trail behind them. These are in essence enchanted waste products caused by metaphysical energies being exerted in our physical world as metaphysical matter. If this was a perfect paranormal planet made of enchanted energies then dandy dusts of the supernatural sort wouldn't exist!
Most often Elf Dust is a by-product of their respiration process. When exhaled it's invisible most of time. However it accumulates in the surrounding environment. At North Pole City much of the glitter in the snow is actually Elf Dust. The majority of Elves, including Santa Claus's Enchanted Elves, only breath the Helium in our atmosphere. This partly explains their comical low pitched voices. Helium composes a mere 0.000524% of our air as opposed to the Oxygen we breath which makes up 20.946%. Elfin cells paranormally process the Helium, and manufacture an Argon-Neon compound of Ar²Ne³ that is exhaled from their lungs. Scientifically such a compound could never exist but this is the world of the supernatural we're talking about here. That being said the second this rare gas hits the air it immediately breaks down to Argon, and Neon. These gases, famous for causing the glow of Neon lamps, emit a brief glow from the Elves nose, and mouth if viewed in complete darkness. In addition the exhaled Elf Dust will visibly shimmer in that moment as well.
Elf Dust, like Fairy Dust, is a prime ingredient in several magical spells. Elf Dust is used in powerful spells due to it being harder to come by
than the Fairy variety. Elf Dust on it's own can be manipulated to provide temporary powers. In some cases breathing it in, or eating it directly can cause supernatural side effects. Simply carrying it around is thought to bring good luck. Tossing it at an entity of evil often causes some measure of repellent properties. Elf Dust can come in a variety of colors that can produce a plethora of paranormal properties. Santa's Elves produce a multi-colored dust with emphasis on the red, gold, and green glitter. Genuine Elf or Fairy dust always emits it's own luminosity. However the metaphysical energy powering it dissipates over the centuries, and most varieties will dull after 1000 years. If you should come across Elf Dust then use it sparingly because you may never find any again!


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For this thesis a new concept, the Passive Remote Electromechanical Dynamic Absorber (RDA) is investigated. The current design utilizes piezoelectric elements to convert the mechanical strain energy of a parent system into electrical energy, which is fed into the RDA. The RDA similarly uses piezoelectric elements to convert the applied electrical energy into mechanical self-excitation. A lumped-system model of the coupled system is developed, accounting for the stiffness and mass of both the parent and RDA systems, along with a coupling stiffness term. Additionally, a coupled-system finite element model, developed in Ansys/multiphysics to include a three dimensional representation of the coupled system, is considered. Experimental work is conducted to validate the concept of the lumped system model and to validate the finite element modeling technique. A reasonable correlation between the experimental results and the analytical predictions validate the qualitative analysis. FEA such as was developed for this thesis in ANSYS/Multiphysics can reasonably predict the actual performance of an RDA. Furthermore, analytical predictions of the RDA show successful reduction of the parent response by up to -30 db, in a narrow frequency band around its uncoupled resonant frequency. The overall qualitative agreement between the analytical and the experiment confirm the validity and potential of the proposed Remote Electromechanical Dynamic Absorber for vibration suppression of dynamic systems.
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Humidity Indicator Cards and Plugs provide external monitoring of humidity levels inside containers. When used in conjunction with desiccant and breather valves as part of an environmental control system, humidity indicator plugs and cards help to safeguard cargo from the deleterious effects of moisture, which can build up inside of a container.
No two situations are the same in the environmental control industry and, as a result, questions concerning everything from the basic installation of plugs and cards, to developing customized environmental control systems are common.
As Design Engineering Manager, Pat Lane is responsible for supervising AGM's engineering design department, conducting product research and development, as well as collaborating with the Vice President of Engineering on new product designs. In addition, Lane serves as AGM's primary contact to customers seeking answers to difficult environmental control questions.
No, you need a humidity measuring instrument (such as a hygrometer), not a humidity indicator. That said, we [AGM] do provide a moisture analysis service, the Hydra20, which is capable of determining the environmental control materials and processes required to maintain a sealed environment at a specific humidity level for any duration.
Standard rectangular cards are available as low as 5% and 8%. Humidity Indicator Plug cards are only as low as 10%. This is because establishing the color of the card in the plug is more difficult than reading a card that is in your hand. The lower 5% and 8% values are difficult to read due to the small amount of chemical present, which results in a very low density coloration. Think of a particular color that has had much more white added to it.
The reversible ones (which is most of them) are, and the irreversible ones (the Maximum Humidity Indicator cards) are not. This is because Maximum Humidity Indicator cards need to warn of dangerous humidity levels, and therefore serve to indicate the need for desiccant replacement regardless of when they are checked.
Again, some are and some are not. In general, they are but for most of them, we shift the part number series by one when they are supplied without mounting hardware. So, a TA356-123P supplied without the nut and nut gasket is a TA357-123P.
Yes, but you will need the mounting nut version to do this.
Most units are rated to 10 psig (Pounds-per Square Inch Gage) in the pressure relief direction. This means the higher pressure is behind the window trying to push the window out of the container. The few vacuum direction tests we have run have shown that they TA356 series at least will also hold 10 psig in the vacuum relief direction.
Both the flange and the mounting nut are 1-3/8" hex shapes. So any suitable hand tool that is capable of engaging a 1-3/8" hex will work. We recommend tightening the mounting nut to 30-40 in-lbs.
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A Cross-Section of the Calabi-Yau Quintic
Hidden deep inside the dimensions of string theory are the microscopic Calabi-Yau spaces.
According to string theory, space-time is not four-dimensional as you might expect, but actually 10-dimensional. The extra six dimensions are believed to be compactified or rolled up into such a small space that they are unobservable at human scales of sight. Their size and six dimensions make Calabi-Yau spaces difficult to draw. But, this model shows a three-dimensional cross-section of this likely space to reveal its structure and shape.
This 3" cube and the surface within is a wildly self-intersecting ride through space. Cement your place in string theory history by adding this highly intriguing crystal to your collection. It includes clear rubber feet for scratch-free display. And, if you want to learn more about the mathematics of this wondrous cube, read on...This particular space is one of the most appealing candidates, because there's a series of Calabi-Yau spaces embedded in CPN (N-dimensional complex projective space) described by homogeneous polynomials of degree (N+1).
These spaces have real dimension 2(N-1), so the hypothesis that there are six hidden dimensions in string theory means that there is a unique choice within this series of Calabi-Yau spaces, namely N=4, and the polynomial must be this quintic (degree N+1=5): z15 + z25 + z35 + z45 + z55 = 0.
The 2-D surface is computed by dividing by z5 and setting z3/z5 and z4/z5 to be constant. This defines a 2-manifold slice of the 6-manifold; we then normalize the resulting inhomogeneous equations to simplify them, yielding the complex equation that is actually solved for the surface, z15 + z25 = 1. The resulting surface is embedded in 4D and projected to ordinary 3D space for display
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- What is the Percent Employed?
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- What is the Median Earnings?
- What is the GDP per capita?
- What is the Annual Personal Income?
- What is the cost of living index?
- What is the Population Rate of Change?
- What is the High School Graduation Rate?
- What is the Median Female Earnings?
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Students are taken to the greenhouses and asked to explore them looking for a plant to adopt. The students have to explain why they have adopted that plant: food, water, camouflage, to protect, for protection, or to pollinate.
Materials Needed: Students, Greenhouses
- Docent leads students to the greenhouses.
- Docent explains activity and prompts students to think why a plant-insect relationship could be important.
- Students are told they have to 1)have a good reason why they want to adopt that plant: food, protection, shelter, etc. and 2) tell 3 people why they chose that plant. One person has to be a teacher or Docent.
- Students are told they have seven minutes to explore the greenhouses and choose a plant.
- Students are then sent into the greenhouses to explore.
Alabama Course of Study for Science
This activity meets goals specified for grades:
- K–_TAG_ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 19
- 1st–_TAG_ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27
- 2nd–_TAG_ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 20, 23, 25, 26
- 3rd–_TAG_ 1, 2, 3, 4, 32, 37
- 4th–_TAG_ 1, 2, 3, 4, 43, 46
- 5th–_TAG_ 1, 2, 3, 4, 30, 31, 39
Students will look at plant-insect relationships from a different perspective, from the perspective of the insect they have become and understand better why plants could be important to them as an insect and as a human.
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Natural Water Storage on the East Fork of Divide Creek
The Big Hole Watershed Committee (BHWC) is reversing a trend of stream downcutting along the East Fork of Divide Creek by installing beaver mimicry structures along 3 reaches (8,000 feet) of the upper-most privately-owned section of the creek. The project is linked to the installation of 16 structures in breached beaver dams in a meadow on national forest land immediately upstream. Both projects used nearby conifer material to reduce conifer encroachment and promote aspen stands. BHWC is using drone surveys, piezometers, and pressure transducers to estimate changes in water availability.


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The current extended range temperature forecast, shown to the right, indicates a 40% chance of below-average temperatures in Washington for the second week of January. If similar conditions prevail for the Inauguration a week later, what would that imply for temperatures?
The chart of January 20 high temperatures from _PHONE_ shows that, on average, the most likely temperature range is 35-39° (22%), followed by 40-44° (21%). This is the case even though the average is 41.8° because the distribution is skewed toward higher temperatures.
The overall maximum was 70° in 1951 (not an Inauguration year). This is also the all-time high for the date. The next highest value, however, is 60° (1952, 1954, and 2006). Altogether, these are the only 4 instances in the last 78 years in which the high exceeded 59°.
The lowest maximum was 18° in 1994, also an all-time record, but not an Inauguration year. The coldest Inauguration Day was January 21, 1985, which had a record low maximum of 17° and a record low minimum of -4°. (January 20 fell on a Sunday that year.)
Images (click to enlarge): 8-14 day temperature outlook from Climate Prediction Center/National Weather Service/NOAA, CapitalClimate January 20 temperature chart from NWS data (chart image © Kevin Ambrose)
Click here for previous Inauguration weather posts, including a year-by-year chart of high and low temperatures and precipitation.
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"How efficient are the horses?"
Translation:Quanto sono efficaci i cavalli?
July 27, 2013
Why not "Quanti efficaci sono i cavalli?"
In this case "quanto" doesn't have to agree in gender and number with the noun, since it's not an adjective referring to it. "Quanto + adj" is equivalent to "how + adj" in the English construction. However, when translating "how much/many", you'd have literally "quanto tanto/a/i/e" which becomes just "quanto/a/i/e". That's the only case you have a declensed form of "quanto".
2020-01-16 As Duolessio said, but also the verb should come directly after quanto, not after the adjective.
Quanto efficaci sono i cavalli also accepted. BUT it is usual to put the verb after quanto. Quanto è lungo il ponte. Quanto è grande il cavallo. Quanto sono grande le case.
It was accepted on 28 July 2020.
I believe "efficace" and "efficiente" have different meanings in the same way that "effective" and "efficient" mean different things. I think "How effective are the horses?" would be a more accurate translation.
I think we are looking at subtly different meanings in the two languages.
In English, confusing efficient and effective is a classic schoolchild's error, of which English teachers are heartily fed up. "Being effective is about doing the right things, while being efficient is about doing things right". Effective is whether something produces a desired effect. Efficient is how well the effect is produced, and in theory can be calculated as units output per unit input.
I think Italian has a different logic, which I find hard to figure out. Dictionary examples suggest that efficiente applied to a person (or a horse or a machine) translates to "efficient", but to non-actors (e.g. a process, a method, a remedy) it translates to "effective". Duo doesn't follow this logic.
There's another Italian phrase for the English "efficient": di buon rendimento. The noun means yield, performance, efficiency or duty according to context. Unfortunately I don't think there's a related adjective.
Speaking as an English teacher (just one, I know) I was much more fed up about "could of ", "them ones" and failure to distinguish between "their", "there" and "they are". :)
I confirm this. Efficiente is more like productive, like a horse which doesn't eat too much but still runs for a long time before getting tired. "cavalli" is also a commonly used short form of "cavalli vapore", which would fit better than my example with horses in terms of an engine efficiency.
An 'efficace' summary; thank you.
That's what I'm lead to believe from peeking too
"How efficiente are the horses!" could be translate also as "Come sono efficaci i cavalli!", or not??
Think of 'how much' and 'how many' as 'quanto'; and 'how, in what way' as 'come'.
Come is not accepted in this sentence?
'Come' is 'in quale modo' how, but 'quanto' is 'in che misura' how: 'in what way' versus 'to what degree'. Here the sentence is, in effect, 'To what degree are the horses efficient', so quanto is used.
Oh yes. Thanks for your explanation.
John I am sure that you are right but I thought "come" was more appropriate because the sentence is about the efficiency of horses and not motors. With motors the response would be perhaps, that the motor is 70% efficient, in which case quanto is clearly the correct interrogative. Whereas, with horse when talking about their efficiency we would not describe it's efficiency in numerical terms but rather in the general attributes of the horse? What do you think?
How about quanto is for countable quantities and come is for non countable quality?
A short explanation that is easy to remember....thank you!
Thanks for a simple answer that I can remember.
Can you not use Come for "how" in this instance? I wrote Come efficaci sono i cavalli.
"How" = come for most things, but not for quantities. "How much/many" = quanto/i, obviously. Less obvious but logical is when the "much" is replaced by an adjective of degree like "long", or "effective" as here. [If Duo means "efficient" the answer should be efficiente. English speakers often get them mixed up too.]
There's one context in which come / quanto are interchangeable, and that's as an intensifier in an exclamation: "How effective the horses are!". In Duo's example there is no exclamation mark and the English word order is wrong. Even if these were present and correct, your Italian word order is wrong: it should have been Come sono efficaci i cavalli!.
I also used "come" because it was the only option suggested when I hovered over the word "how"! And then it was marked wrong!
my translation was: quanto efficaci sono i cavalli. It was correct, but how would an Italian prefer to say it?
It's ok but I think it's more natural with the verb before the adjective.
I also put "Quanto efficaci sono i cavalli" ; it was not accepted. I'm assuming the word order is the issue, but i would be grateful to be directed to any relevant grammar lesson, as I don't have any on DL.
Italian word order is pretty fluid, but here quanto is an (interrogative) adverb, and you don't really want to separate it from the verb or adjective that it modifies. It's a general 'rule'.
References in grammar to quanto è specifically seem to be rare, but the Treccani dictionary says "Come avv[erbio]:... modificando un agg[ettivo]: quant'è lungo il cammino?. This order makes for easy additions, such as... più lungo..., and compound tenses. If you think of the noun first, it's perfectly OK to say I cavalli, quanto sono efficaci? I'm not sure about... sono quanto efficaci?.
Quanto efficaci sono i cavalli was accepted Feb 2018
Is DL certain that "Quanto efficaci sono i cavalli" is not also acceptable?
Look at my previous entry. This was also my translation and it was accepted.
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 Duolingo said it was wrong when I said it that way.
 Here's my question: How on earth would anyone answer this question, either in Italian or in English? What does "how efficient are the horses" mean anyway? Sorry; it's a ridiculous question.
 On Earth we would answer it variously, such as "very, fairly, not very, not at all, 40% (meaning power output divided by power input)", etc. How about your planet? :-) If you ignore Duo's literal translation by dropping "the", you have "How efficient are horses?" - a genuine question of biophysics or agriculture.
 FYI: Quanto sono efficienti i cavalli? was also accepted.
 Che efficaci sono i cavalli?
 Nope, you have to use "quanto".
 Got it, Johnrush. Thanks.
 Could somebody please explain to me why Come efficaci sono i cavalli? is incorrect? I interpret this question of efficiency as to what extent the horses are of use, not an inquiry into how strong they are.
 It is accepted now.
 In addition to all valid questions about where'sono' should go in the sentence, as discussed here, I would kindly point out to DL that, just like 'efficient' and 'effective' have significantly different meanings in English, I frivolously assume the same semantic distinction applies to 'efficiente' and 'efficace'.
 So, DL, please, respect the correspondence.
 Does anyone have an actual clue as to how to pick the order of words in this sentence?
 I'm coming to the conclusion that the answer is to start again, be born in Italy, grow to your present age, and it will all become clear.
 Why is it "quanto" and not "quanti" here when we are talking about horses (plural)?
 And why is "efficaci" AFTER "sono"? I put "quanti efficaci sono i cavalli" (thinking it literally translates to "how efficient are the horses" and was marked wrong, but I will try to just change "quanti" to "quanto" next time and see if where I put the adjective will be accepted that way too or not.
 Quanto can be an adjective or an adverb, here it is an interrogative adverb. Adverbs are fixed words that do not change, just as the interrogative adverbs perché, dove, and quando do not change.
 nstallaert2 - "And why is "efficaci" AFTER "sono"?"
 See malcolmissimo's comment from 2 years ago.
 As a language teacher, language is alive, it changes meaning with acceptance. Just because something is right grammatically according to the Grammar Book doesn't mean that one has to use it that way. Dialects account for so many differences, y'all. For me, efficient means


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Background The Dade Behring Syva(R) EMIT (enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique) method for the measurement of tacrolimus in whole blood was evaluated against the Abbott IMx(R) microparticle enzyme immunoassay (MEIA) method. EMIT measures tacrolimus colorimetrically, whereas MEIA measures the analyte using fluorimetry. Both methods incorporate a protein precipitation step prior to measurement.
Method Whole blood specimens were treated by two types of precipitation technique followed by analysis for tacrolimus by either MEIA or EMIT on the Bayer Advia 1650. Linearity and precision were assessed and correlation analysis performed to evaluate the EMIT assay on the Bayer Advia 1650.
Results The EMIT tacrolimus assay was linear over the concentration range 0.0-22.0 mug/L; the limit of detection was 1.2 mug/L. Correlation between the Syva EMIT and IMx tacrolimus assays was excellent (r=0.959) and no significant bias existed between the two methods (mean difference, delta = 0.221 mug/L). Calibration data for the EMIT assay was stable for a period of 24-48 h on the Advia between runs.
Conclusion The Syva EMIT assay for the measurement of tacrolimus in whole blood is suited for daily routine use on the Bayer Advia 1650.


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An Irish god of love, he was one of the offspring of the promiscuous Dagda, and there are various tales told about his exploits in Irish mythology.
One of the most famed is Aislinge Oenguso (The dream of Angus) from the eighth century. It tells how he had a dream, in which he saw a maiden from the otherworld called Caer Ibormeith. He fell in love with her, and enlisted the help of Bodb to help him find her. The maiden spent one year in human form, and one year in the form of a swan, and it was in this form that he found her at Loch Bel Dracon on Samhain (Halloween), with a group of 149 other maidens also in the guise of swans. Angus shape-shifted into the form of swan, and they circled the lake three times singing enchanting music - so that all the people in the area fell asleep for a period of three days and nights. After this he returned with her to his palace.
He is often seen as a god of youth and beauty.


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Do foreign keys have "back-pointers"?
Let's discuss the question in the context of this schema:
create table P( p_id int not null primary key, x int ); create table F( f_id int not null primary key, p_id int default null references P, y int );
Table F has a foreign key to table P, via the column F.p_id.
I take the term "back-pointer" to mean a reference or pointer in the other direction, which is certainly not explicit in the schema. I.e., in the declarations above, there is nothing inside P that refers to F.
Why are we talking about back-pointers at all?
Why might you want one?
A back-pointer is definitely not needed to be able to "go the other way" in a query. To repeat a comment from the Jan. 30 lecture, foreign keys have a direction, but joins do not. So the concept of "going the other way" doesn't really make sense. You might need to join F and P for various kinds of queries, and then you have access, in the joined table, to all the columns of both tables. The fact that the join goes from F to P instead of P to F is not that important, and only affects the SQL syntax for expressing the join. (In fact, the relational algebra expression isn't affected, assuming the columns have been named so that the join columns involve only the FK and PK columns.)
In other words, a back-pointer is logically unnecessary. At the logical level -- at the level of table definitions -- a back-pointer is useless.
Actually, a back-pointer is worse than useless. There are two cases to consider: 1) The FK represents a 1:1 relationship; and 2) the FK represents a 1:many relationship.
Suppose the FK represents a 1:1 relationship
Let's add a back-pointer and see what happens. Here is the modified schema:
create table P2( p_id int not null primary key, f_id int default null references F2, x int ); create table F2( f_id int not null primary key, p_id int default null references P2, y int );
(Ignore the fact that the highlighted code is illegal, as it refers to table F2 which has not yet been created. That is easily fixable, but using syntax not yet covered in class.)
We could maintain P2.f_id and F2.p_id so that they represent inverses of each other. This doesn't actually benefit you at all. You can join P2 and F2 using F2.p_id and P2.p_id, as before. (In relational algebra, you would need to use rename to avoid having both columns in each table considered as join columns.)
Or, you could join using P2.f_id and F2.f_id. If the back-pointer (P2.f_id) is being maintained correctly, then the join is the same either way.
Which brings us to the next point: Your applications have to be careful to maintain P2.f_id and F2.p_id to truly be inverses of one another. The update costs something, and applications have to be careful to update the two columns consistently.
To summarize, this back-pointer is a lot of trouble for no benefit at all.
Suppose the FK represents a 1:many relationship
Now suppose that we have 1:many relationship, in which P is the parent, and F is the child, (referring to the original schema). Here is some possible data:
P
p_id x
1 100
F
f_id p_id y
11 1 800
12 1 900
If we add the back-pointer as before (using the second version of the schema, with tables P2 and F2), what does P2 look like? Table P has one row, with p_id = 1. It is associated with two rows in F, also with p_id = 1, but with different values of f_id. So would P2 look like this?
P2
p_id f_id x
1 11 100
1 12 100
That can't be right, because P2.p_id is a primary key, and we now have two rows with the same p_id value.
We are heading down the wrong path, so I'm not going to pursue this idea further. The back-pointer is not logically necessary, (i.e., if it appears in the schema), and in the case of a 1:many relationship, simply unworkable.
So why are we still talking about back-pointers?
The preceding discussion points out that back-pointers are either unnecessary or unworkable at the logical layer. However the idea of back-pointers makes a lot of sense at the physical layer.
By physical layer, I mean the set of data structures that implement tables in such a way that commonly used queries can be executed as quickly as possible.
The most important data structures used for improving database performance are indexes. An index is a mapping from some column values to a row address. The mapping is typically implemented as a search tree (similar to a binary tree), or as a hash table.
The row address is something that identifies a row, and enables retrieval of the row quickly. Consider the data of the F table from before, with rows (11, 1, 800) and (12, 1 900). When stored on disk, each row has a physical address. That could be a disk page address combined with an offset within the page. If the table is small enough, and kept in main memory, the physical address would simply be a virtual memory address. Suppose F is in main memory and looks like this:
F (in main memory)
row address f_id p_id y
0x1000 11 1 800
0x100c 12 1 900
Then an index on F.y would be:
F.y index (hash table, keyed by y)
y row address
800 0x1000
900 0x100c
The key is a y value, and a lookup yields a row address. We use the row address to locate the full F row.
Primary keys, foreign keys, and indexes
When you declare a primary key, you automatically get an index keyed by the columns of the primary key. This is true in every kind of relational database system. The reason for this is that a PK guarantees uniqueness. Every time a new row is inserted to the table, we need to check if the PK in that row is unique. Without an index, each check would require a scan of the table. If a table has n rows, then a scan takes O(n) time. And the time for all inserts would be O(n2). Not good. But with an index, (let's assume a hash index), the time to insert n rows is O(n), because each uniqueness check is just a hash lookup, which costs O(1). (Yes, I know the worst case of a hash lookup is O(n), but in practice, averaging over many keys, O(1) is a safe assumption.)
What about foreign keys? Does creating a foreign key result in the creation of an index? No, and I'm not sure why. It should at least be default behavior, because so many operations involving the FK are unacceptably slow without the index.
Consider this query: What F.y values associated with P.x = 1? which can be answered by the this relational algebra expression:
project( join( select(P, x = 1), F), [y])
Evaluation proceeds as follows:
 1. Find rows in P with x = 1. (This will be faster if we have an index on P.x.)
 2. From each qualifying P row, take the p_id value.
 3. Use the p_id value to find rows of F with matching p_id values.
 4. From each qualifying F row, take the y value.
Focus on step 3. If F has an index on p_id, then that step is going to run quickly, otherwise a scan is required. And remember, we're already in a loop from step 1. So it is really important for the speed of this query to have an index on F.p_id.
Finally, here is the point: Think about the index on F.p_id. It maps p_id values to F row addresses. Hey! That sounds like a back-pointer!
Conclusion
So do foreign keys have back-pointers? Yes, if you want them to, (and you usually do). They exist at the physical level of the database, in the form of an index on the foreign key columns. Here is the original schema, with an additional statement to create the FK index:
create table P( p_id int not null primary key, x int ); create table F( f_id int not null primary key, p_id int default null references P, y int ); create index fp_index on F(p_id); -- fp_index is the name of the index
Note that create table and create index are both part of the DDL (Data Definition Language) part of SQL. However, they are quite different conceptually. create table statements contribute to the logical layer of your database. create index


Peaches Geldof has signed up to Aleister Crowley's sex cult OTO
The celebrity tweeted a picture of one of the cult's books, and has inked the initials on her body too. But what do we know about OTO?
Peaches Geldof: believes in a thing called Thelema.
Peaches Geldof: believes in a thing called Thelema. Photograph: Michael Bowles/Rex Features
Age: Founded in Germany in 1904. So 109.
Appearance: Daft tattoos on daft people.
What does OTO stand for? Ordo Templi Orientis.
Meaning? The Order of the Oriental Templars.
And what does the Order of the Oriental Templars stand for? The "wisdom and knowledge" of, among many others, the Gnostic Catholic Church; the Rite of Memphis; the Order of the Sat Bhai; the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light; and the Illuminati.
So why is it in the news? Why are stupid cults ever in the news?
Ah. Because of a famous stupid cultist? Bingo. In this case, Peaches Geldof.
Daughter of Bob? Yes, that Peaches Geldof, former dabbler in Scientology and present owner-operator of a heart-shaped "OTO" tattoo.
What has she done? Tweeted a picture from one of the cult's books to her 148,000 followers with the message: "#93 _TAG_ _TAG_.t.o for all my fellow Thelemites on instagram!"
And what exactly is a Thelemite? A believer in Thelema.
Which is? The religion created by occultist, practitioner of "sex magic", "wickedest man in the world" and former head of the Order of the Oriental Templars, Aleister Crowley, based on the central tenet: "Do what thou wilt."
Meaning? Meaning, in practice, rituals based around sexual exhaustion and, for the highest level members of the Order of the Oriental Templars, instruction in secret techniques for masturbation, heterosexual and homosexual sex. Crowley wrote the religion's founding text, The Book of the Law, in 1904, after an angel and messenger of the Egyptian gods named Aiwass appeared to him while he was on holiday in Cairo with his wife. Although obviously that didn't happen.
I think she may have been better off with the Scientologists. Now there's a sad state of affairs.
Do say: "Why does anyone follow this utter charlatan?"
Don't say: "Her tweets aren't even good."


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IRDA identified microbial indicators based on data collected at 64 sampling points in 16 production zones in Québec from 2013 to 2015 as part of the project IRDA-901098 (IA116102). The microbial indicators are used to calculate a biological productivity score for soils in potato fields.
The current project is designed to check the predictability of the biological productivity score using these microbial indicators for rotation crop years and potato crop years.
Partners in the industry will help evaluate 240 new sampling points in 60 production zones. An economic analysis will be conducted to assess the farm-scale profitability of a management approach based on a combination of the validated biological score and the optimum-nitrogen-dose model.
From 2017 to 2019
IRDA offers a wide range of metagenomic analyses for the identification and characterization of soil populations.
Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation de l'Université Laval | Groupe Dolbec | Pro-Champs 2001 | Emballage Saint-Ambroise | Pommes de terre Laurentiennes
The aim of the project was to measure the performance and water requirements of eight potato cultivars under commercial production conditions.
Researcher: Carl Boivin
Managing potato residues is therefore a big challenge, which will only increase with the enforcement of the Québec Residual Materials Waste Management Policy.
Researcher: Christine Landry
The fungal pathogen Helminthosporium solani causes silver scurf, a disease that is hard to detect, both in the soil and on harvested potatoes.
Researcher: Richard Hogue


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I'm currently struggling with an issue regarding PhysicsNodes. I'm modelling a solar system, and I've created a class for my planets etc (see _URL_ that builds two spheres and a physics node for the planet. The physics node is attached directly to the bulletAppState in Main. The two spheres are attached to a Node within my planet class.
I initialise these objects within another class called SolarSystem. This has a method which creates a planet at a specific location, and a sun. These objects are then attached to a node internal to the SolarSystem object. Lastly the solar system node object is attached to my rootNode in Main.
So the basic node chain is:
Planet/Sun > Node in Planet object > Node in SolarSystem object > rootNode
To get my specific locations for planets/sun, I specify setLocalTranslation on the "Node in Planet Object". The node in my SolarSystem object gets attach at Vector3f.ZERO.
The problem I am running into now is that whilst my objects are showing up correctly. Only one of my Physics nodes is. I.e. I've created a solar system with 1 sun and 1 planet. They both show up fine, but only the physics node around my sun (at Vector3f.ZERO) is working. I can fly straight through my planet.
My questions would be:
- Am I doing things the right way with regard to my node chaining? Or should I be attaching everything directly to the rootNode?
- How can I debug my physics nodes? I've tried using .attachDebugShape() on them, but that doesn't show up.
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What's the harm in eating a bit of pork or bacon? Well it triggers the immune system to some serious action. Read on to find out more.
This is a very heated subject. I am sure I will not be making any friends by writing this article about bacon. But, I wanted to shed some light on why this food might be best left in the supermarket.
Pork Stimulates The Immune System
Pigs, like most animals make high amounts of certain molecules (antibodies and carbohydrates). These molecule are for the pig's own immune health. One of these carbohydrates (galactose alpha- (1-3) galactose let's just call it 'Alpha Gal') is not found in the human body.So, when we consume bacon this foreign substance stimulates your immune system and proceeds down the pathway of disease.
This is much the same process that happens when you catch a cold or a virus. Your body recognizes the virus as bad and seeks a way to remove it. Your body then starts to activate its own immune system, and after a certain point you would start to get a runny nose, cough, sinus congestion, etc.
While I am not stating that you will get cold like symptoms from eating bacon, it would simply act as one more stone that you throw into a bucket of water before it overflows. Most of the time people do not realize how sick they are until it's too late. This is when and how chronic diseases occur.
Alpha Gal And Uncle PHiL
Some people will not even recognize they are sick until it's too late. A good example of this process can happen when bacon or pork is consumed. You can actually get a delayed anaphylactic attack 3-6 hours post ingestion because certain antibodies can cause your throat to close up when you come in contact with 'alpha gal'.
We have developed this response to protect ourselves. An interesting note is that 'alpha gal' very closely resembles your ABO blood type so your immune system will mount an intense reaction to remove it.
The other main player when you eat bacon or pork is a certain lectin called 'Porcine Heart Lectin', let's just call this Uncle PHiL.
Uncle PHiL is not a nice house guest. When he visits, he always makes a mess. This is via a specific process called agglutination, which simply means Uncle PHiL likes to attach to red blood cells much like velcro on tennis balls. When agglutination occurs, your body seeks to kick Uncle PHiL out of the house.
In short, when bacon or pork is consumed 'Alpha-Gal' and Uncle PHiL are welcomed as guests into our house. They then proceed to make themselves at home. They become too comfortable and overstay their welcome. You the host, then have to ask them to leave.
While I don't eat bacon or pork, I know a fair amount of people who do. I would say this is fine if done sparingly. After all, one of the tools I use in the treatment of my patients is dietary change. Since I understand that food is very important to people for certain reasons (energy, emotional, spiritually), I usually don't act like a religious group and ask you to give up something 100% of the time.
I work with you to get to know the individual and understand what makes you tick. I work with diet and lifestyle modification along with natural supplements and epigenetic modification to help fix the underlying reason of a complaint in a holistic format.
If you are interested in reading a testimonial of a patient of mine who decided to eat pork after avoiding it for a few months please read below:
"I feel the diet (new lifestyle habits) has made a HUGE impact. I weigh 121 pounds (10 pounds lost healthily – naturally eating 3 – 4 times a day, what I've been advised to eat) and my energy has gone through the roof (minus this weekend, which I will explain in depth below), and I have been waking up (until this weekend), with minimal to no discomfort – stiffness and arthritis has almost completely disappeared. It is seriously remarkable. I have been feeling like a different person (up until this weekend).
This Weekend: I had an event (Fri, Sat, and Sunday) where Chefs compete with organic – farm raised – no hormone pigs (which I am not supposed to eat). These famous chefs prepare 5 dishes with pig. There's also fine cheeses, paired with alcohol, etc and desserts.
It is quite the extravaganza. This weekend – I completely came off my diet for the purpose of fully enjoying what the chefs had to offer (plus it is insulting not to eat what the chefs have prepared, etc). However, I certainly paid a price. Monday I couldn't get out of bed and had a fever – stiffness and arthritis was through the roof.
And I feel that is attributed to the food. Which didn't only include pig, but wheat, and dairy, etc – things that I have entirely cut out since my initial appointment. I felt this was important to share because it clearly makes a difference what I eat.
Thank you for what you do. In this short time I can't even begin to explain how after 10 years of severe lethargy, pain, and arthritis daily I've had glimpses of my old self. I am so grateful for you and your work… it really does help change lives.
Eternally Grateful,
S.L."
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Dr. Peter D'Adamo is a naturopathic physician and the author of the NY Times best seller, Eat Right 4 Your Type, which advanced the idea that blood types play a vital role in optimal health and well-being. Dr. D'Adamo is the founder of the Center of Excellence in Generative Medicine at the University of Bridgeport in CT, and he serves as a Distinguished Professor of Clinical Studies at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine.
Peter D'Adamo ND
Dr. Peter D'Adamo is a naturopathic physician and the author of the NY Times best seller, Eat Right 4 Your Type, which advanced the idea that blood types play a vital role in optimal health and well-being. Dr. D'Adamo is the founder of the Center of Excellence in Generative Medicine at the University of Bridgeport in CT, and he serves as a Distinguished Professor of Clinical Studies at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine.
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